tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14623605770608527972024-03-05T14:24:49.154-08:00The New Babbage Cog 2007 ArchivesEggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-78555736795112256532009-02-25T13:00:00.000-08:002009-04-16T11:43:02.990-07:00Front Page<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXnJqsxGEj9rzdIGV4i7ELAnmP2_NDQBqe7FEVv7B7KVasurZkhDueHBsJSHNSnuoXq0sqlE5DBeWae8AspNal_iJDwIvz2UkWCcuZgbcokE7JeE3WZNv_Pz8SNWTNXpx0OqhRqCCs88/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 147px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXnJqsxGEj9rzdIGV4i7ELAnmP2_NDQBqe7FEVv7B7KVasurZkhDueHBsJSHNSnuoXq0sqlE5DBeWae8AspNal_iJDwIvz2UkWCcuZgbcokE7JeE3WZNv_Pz8SNWTNXpx0OqhRqCCs88/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325306057195881074" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Relive New Babbage's first year, through the 2007 New Babbage Cog Archives. 22 issues in total were published, starting in Feb 2007 to Dec 2007. From February 2007 to April 02 2007, issues were published only in SL, on note cards and distributed via newspaper boxes set up at the telehubs, and also delivered to members of the New Babbage Cog SL group. April 11, 2007 was the first issue to be published online at the Wordpress Blog site, whilst the in world newspaper was still being published on the note cards. After May 21, 2007, Mrs.Ginsburg retired, and handed over her role as Editor in chief to her Assistant, Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></span><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6tnCPT82XiDqrhKF49OmEEosJC05cETUrcUCH_300xeYg0hsmxeB5M6m85tPRMPaU12ZB3FlezI_C-evhyphenhyphenvBNfkPqOIfdSDf9af3KdAEbEKJH7p0_VO4piX0CMEf94eAdlx-uz-QDo78/s1600-h/extra!.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 354px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6tnCPT82XiDqrhKF49OmEEosJC05cETUrcUCH_300xeYg0hsmxeB5M6m85tPRMPaU12ZB3FlezI_C-evhyphenhyphenvBNfkPqOIfdSDf9af3KdAEbEKJH7p0_VO4piX0CMEf94eAdlx-uz-QDo78/s400/extra!.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325305975495508514" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="">The May 21st issue, was the last issue to be solely published on a news paper note card, as Miss Echegaray found it easier to just publish "Headline Teasers" on the note c</span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="">ard, followed by a URL link which directed readers to the then Word press New Babbage Cog Aethernet Newspaper blog site. The last published issue of The New Babbage Cog was on December 24th, 2007. Many months after that last issue, Miss Echegaray unfortunately decided to deactivate the Wordpress Blog site, and the contents of that site, became no longer available. </span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPwCtYnIiKguyA37hIPudasSVPfXxDM_POBhm5GCxmy0bOj_o3fbLZjkje0hzMjCHm3kaWdFghHLwXqjiWabD5ywa5wZ0fTeVXxR95hNOwRqeZEH4k9LUBTXJx_GP-M9jZJ6BMgREwA1c/s1600-h/newsboys.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPwCtYnIiKguyA37hIPudasSVPfXxDM_POBhm5GCxmy0bOj_o3fbLZjkje0hzMjCHm3kaWdFghHLwXqjiWabD5ywa5wZ0fTeVXxR95hNOwRqeZEH4k9LUBTXJx_GP-M9jZJ6BMgREwA1c/s400/newsboys.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325308181973577218" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >As of February 2009, Miss Echegaray began to resurrect all 22 issues of The New Babbage Cog, and has compiled all of them here on this archival blog site. Being some of the later issues had to be re-created again from scratch, only using information from the "Headline Teasers" on the note cards, if there are any errors of information, please let me know. In closing, as I used to formally say after my "Letter from the Editor" in the Cog,<br /><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >In your Service,</span></span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Eggberta Echegaray<br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog Archivist</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj64BBIg91HJAAxahNODgKLUB52wzzp_Fh5cm0gEHZwGQEpuIQVX6ODxbII_Tp52lqUTcmAkVrB-n1kbsCTou52YixHqFh_adr6tVhB_tzUWbGns0a_K9nv9s9SakqPdnIQGRi4LahNfqg/s1600-h/newspaper1A+copy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305063937731835810" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Copyright 2007 of the Common Era</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style=";font-family:';font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:times new roman;">~~ Relata Refero </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">~~</span></p>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-43750109768592494662009-02-24T14:30:00.000-08:002009-04-16T05:05:52.309-07:0012 February 2007<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1UlHLcfoTbnLJQmdXerz2d4MNFSUmuonwh1pEHLHXA_9lGkZdW7Sx9l2774g2PcT_uD6eJLrecLcWsWP8UVAz66tqevsKVWgzYUAeXnO92ds_-riOefWmVwQd3YZu8teSB_4QLUuVe4/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303534924564292306" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 395px; cursor: pointer; height: 133px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1UlHLcfoTbnLJQmdXerz2d4MNFSUmuonwh1pEHLHXA_9lGkZdW7Sx9l2774g2PcT_uD6eJLrecLcWsWP8UVAz66tqevsKVWgzYUAeXnO92ds_-riOefWmVwQd3YZu8teSB_4QLUuVe4/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span>Vol I Issu</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span>e i ~ 12 Febru</span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">ary 2007</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><strong>***<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" align="center"><div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >CONTENTS:</span></div><ol style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Letter from the Editor </span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">From Town Hall</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Wanton Criminal Act Tarnishes Opening Day!</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage's First Town Meeting</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Undershaw Society Finds Home in New Babbage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">The Plot Register: Who's Who in NB? </span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage Real-estate </span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Mayor Creates New Steampunk Group!</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Wayward Children Flood Into New Babbage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Events & Announcements </span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Classified Advertisements</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Contact, Circulation, and other</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Essential Information for the Reader</span></li></ol><p align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;">_______________________________________________________________<br /><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">My dear fellow citizens of the young city of New Babbage, I introduce t</span><span style="font-size:100%;">o you now a humble endeavor to exchange news and communications easily among ou</span><span style="font-size:100%;">r members. The New Babbage Cog endeavors to be a weekly periodical, but depending on the availability of news to report, it could be published irregularly fo</span><span style="font-size:100%;">r some time. A group has been crea</span><span style="font-size:100%;">ted for the automatic distribution of this periodical, or it can be obtained from a paper box in <st1:place><st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:place></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, <st1:street><st1:address>#5 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, at the South-East corner of the island. In addition, a reading copy of the current issue will always be available at the newspaper office. As New Babbage is launched by our esteemed Mayor, Mr. Shaunathan Sprocket, it is my fondest wish, as a fellow stake-holder, that its citizens may establish a sense of community.Our shared pursuit of discovery,experimentation, invention, science,and industry unites us.T</span><span style="font-size:100%;">he New Babbage</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> Cog, named for our beloved emblem, seeks t</span><span style="font-size:100%;">o aid in this cause.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In your service,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Mrs. Junie Ginsburg</span></p><p face="times new roman" align="center"><span style="font-style: italic;">__________________________________________________</span><span style="font-style: italic;">_____________</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">FROM TOWN HALL</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;">"Industria Proficiscor In"<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVkDnMsO-J9c98pRyRnzciUkwhpm1sTCmX3rgnWCd-K5ErkgMQfAk17CUqrYXFu_dIQ0RBCqB80f0VRwNgh5172hruQu6yMM9gRVnX8rN2JNeYIpR7wywa7sQ0BqNYNrQO0G-FRmOSmmw/s1600-h/FirstTownHallMidday15Mar20071.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVkDnMsO-J9c98pRyRnzciUkwhpm1sTCmX3rgnWCd-K5ErkgMQfAk17CUqrYXFu_dIQ0RBCqB80f0VRwNgh5172hruQu6yMM9gRVnX8rN2JNeYIpR7wywa7sQ0BqNYNrQO0G-FRmOSmmw/s400/FirstTownHallMidday15Mar20071.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308241897396040242" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Rulebook for Visitors:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Here is the short list of rules for people just visiting the sim who do not own lan</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >d.</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >No one likes to pour over tons of text so this is the short version for everyone:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><ol style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">This is an urban Victorian Steampunk Sim.</span></li></ol><ol style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Victorian dress and role play are OPTIONAL. Many of our members fade in and out of role play so no one will think anything about you if you wear modern clothes and talk normally.</span></li></ol><ol style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Please be open-minded and respect the right of everyone here to enjoy the sim. Trying to disrupt what is going on here by rezzing a modern weapon or vehicle, shooting everyone, pushing, talking to people for the sole purpose of trying to piss them off because you like to make fun of people who like Victorian things will not be tolerated and you may find yourself with a ban or worse.</span></li></ol><ol style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Asking questions is always allowed! The Steampunks are a group of builders, scripters, and texture artists and those wishing to learn these skills. We are always happy to share knowledge we have.</span></li></ol><ol style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Participation is always allowed even if you don't have any property here.You are more than welcome to "live" in our City even if you don't own land.We're available to claim for role play reasons, or if you just like to hang out and participate in the community. All are welcome and this isn't an exclusive group of landholders.</span></li></ol><ol style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">weapons are allowed on a "common sense" basis. Role play does occur here, consensual weapon discharges are fine.However if anything gets out of hand you'll be asked to tone it down or stop.</span></li></ol><ol style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Enjoy shopping and exploring our City.</span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Junie Ginsburg</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">WANTON CRIMINAL ACT TARNISHES </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">OPENING DAY!</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">On <st1:date year="2007" day="4" month="2">February 4, 2007</st1:date>, <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> enjoyed its grand opening to the public. All builds, even those technically unfinished, were quite presentable credits to our collective effort to create an aesthetically Steampunk island.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCieizOy0O7LAe14BeZFsWtz8IYCAh7ZhMBwdD3o17lGaSXPeAmmoKJP0oHraUSSXKWUowhFh125BFJFgNQ3q8lp-dq6SIx1b0YQw90nyfJshAqwqK70Eip5PYeAnH7aJC71fdA2Fz8Vk/s1600-h/babbageday.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303542162213789458" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 200px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCieizOy0O7LAe14BeZFsWtz8IYCAh7ZhMBwdD3o17lGaSXPeAmmoKJP0oHraUSSXKWUowhFh125BFJFgNQ3q8lp-dq6SIx1b0YQw90nyfJshAqwqK70Eip5PYeAnH7aJC71fdA2Fz8Vk/s400/babbageday.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >This idyllic opening was marred, however by the mugging of one Mr.Oolon Sputnik, who reports that he was accosted and approached in the alley between The Old Imperial Steampunk Theatre and Old Gravy by two children wearing leather gas masks. One assailant bore a rusty knife, and the other held a bottle as a weapon. The oldest, Mr. Sputnik reports, could not have been older than twelve. Thus confronted, Mr. Sputnik secured his safety by relinquishing the sum of 20 </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:city style="font-family: times new roman;"><st1:place>Linden</st1:place></st1:city></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" > to the urchins. Mr. Intolerable Ginsburg reports also that two as-mask wearing youngsters arrived in his workshop earlier in the day, but were apparently older than the two who surprised Mr. Sputnik in the alleyway. Seeing no valuables in the workshop, the two seemed to lose interest and wandered away. Mr. Ginsburg reports no losses. Events of the opening day were, otherwise, without incident.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303688175708444738" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 200px; text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKJ5BviLLF9yFSXR18WHINZ5V9FKq-YvloihE2XLXIUI_d_qn_9wxzzeZMh_8L-rSxG_otPJHsUkIekMCNnv9vY5pJEYBeKUv2H7DVplAjJBui77tb1_fjCiw_dDh9jXNhNRAv0WsO2Bs/s400/babbagenight.jpg" border="0" /><br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Early in the day an impromptu walking tour of </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:street style="font-family: times new roman;"><st1:address>Babbage Square </st1:address></st1:street></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >was given by Mayor Sprocket.</span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >At </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:time style="font-family: times new roman;" minute="0" hour="13">1pm</st1:time></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made a presentation about the Underwood Preservation Society, with a reception following. An afternoon tea was held in the I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store salon. From </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:time style="font-family: times new roman;" minute="0" hour="22">10pm - 12:30pm</st1:time></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >, a group of intrepid tourists (residents and visitors alike) walked the island with Mayor Sprocket and were introduced to its singular sights. Special thanks must be extended to Miss Eggberta Egecheray for assisting Mayor Sprocket in leading the evening tour, which, thankfully, was not interrupted by unseemly activity by the criminal element. New Babbagers are urged to report any further malicious acts which take place on our island, and should note that we have a private detective among our number. Please contact Mr. Creeggan if you find yourself in need of an investigator.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Junie Ginsburg</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE'S FIRST TOWN MEE</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TIN</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">G</span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Mayor Sprocket, was, unfortunately, unable to attend New Babbage's first town meeting on <st1:date year="2007" day="21" month="1">Sunday, January 21, 2007</st1:date>, at <st1:time minute="0" hour="13">1pm</st1:time>, for reasons that he assures us were most "noble and steampunk." At the appointed time, the following four residents met near the telehub and engaged in an informal meeting: Mr. Salazar Jack, Mr. Quine Mondrian, Mr. Intolerable Ginsburg, and Mrs. Junie Ginsburg. The small group discussed, during a friendly hour-and-a-half engagement, matters related to the texture library as proposed by Mayor Sprocket, and shared resources for obtaining free textures for building. It was agreed that a texture library would be an excellent addition for purposes of reducing lag (our common enemy!); the more unique textures that must be loaded across an entire island, the more performance is reduced. If New Babbage residents use common textures whenever possible, an improved experience can be achieved. The small group also undertook a tour of Mr. Mondrian's conservatory in the North-West corner of the sim, as well as <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, in the far opposite corner. Citizens of New Babbage wishing to contribute textures to be considered for the library should send them to Mayor Sprocket.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Junie Ginsburg</span><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span>***</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">UNDERSHAW SOCIETY FINDS HOME IN NEW BABBAGE</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEjEhUOSLYscriHjttyT7m2zFWmmKoBlTlzqrffZjqIrNFGP37ZQIUmjCYbJSEZaP5NplOfhywXOA9ygXsrCDKVSqYmur0QYD9st7qudI1puMmRZOAxHS489Xrs6OsTFMUFljPgX9DZfw/s1600-h/UndershawSpeech.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303552738382173362" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 467px; cursor: pointer; height: 361px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEjEhUOSLYscriHjttyT7m2zFWmmKoBlTlzqrffZjqIrNFGP37ZQIUmjCYbJSEZaP5NplOfhywXOA9ygXsrCDKVSqYmur0QYD9st7qudI1puMmRZOAxHS489Xrs6OsTFMUFljPgX9DZfw/s400/UndershawSpeech.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is fortunate to count among its populace a writer of great renown: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. On </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:date style="font-weight: normal;" year="2007" day="3" month="2">3 February, 2007</st1:date></span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >, during the NB Opening Day festivities, Sir Doyle held a talk at the newly-opened Undershaw Restoration Society about the organization's aims. "I propose to establish 'The Undershaw Restoration Society,' a not-for-profit foundation in Second Life," Sir Doyle announced during his speech. "This foundation will oversee the fund raising necessary to build Undershaw," the home built in the 1890's by Doyle for his wife, Touie, who had contracted tuberculosis.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" align="left"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVkQkNspZdUTW-FGM1PS079gsRXupgyyss3Uo3SG3BGNQlRQAsXnCJYFEDds7ZbuJdSVqJZ1d3ze_tmdlvulemFUrnIvruKe9uR5GByMaCRhZRzgwJaN3qRB3GK5XbitgYH9xUCj71Z8/s1600-h/undershaw.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303555353389112322" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 431px; cursor: pointer; height: 229px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVkQkNspZdUTW-FGM1PS079gsRXupgyyss3Uo3SG3BGNQlRQAsXnCJYFEDds7ZbuJdSVqJZ1d3ze_tmdlvulemFUrnIvruKe9uR5GByMaCRhZRzgwJaN3qRB3GK5XbitgYH9xUCj71Z8/s400/undershaw.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Ultimately, Doyle would like "to reproduce Undershaw and its grounds in Second Life as soon as possible and as accurately as possible." To those ends, he says that he will seek board members, corporate and private donors, and an army of volunteers to make this dream a reality." The Undershaw Restoration Society building and grounds, including a manicured croquet lawn, is available for community events.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;">***<br /><br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE PLOT REGISTER: WHO'S WHO IN NB?</span><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In an effort to document the growth of New Babbage, we begin with an initial register of <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. Following is a list of residents who have established builds upon their parcels as of the date of publication. As New Babbage grows and islands are added, The New Babbage Cog will endeavor to keep residents informed of new parcel developments. The parcel numbers which follow correspond with the lot numbers on the rental board in Town Hall.</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Parcel No. New Owner/Business:</span></strong><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">#1 - Mr. Intolerable Ginsburg - Workshop<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#2 - Mr. Jules Whittlesea -Wratchett and Clank's Shops<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#3 - Miss Moss Weyland -Weyland's Smithy<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#4 - Mr. Ambiant Kukulcan - Gremminger and Kukulcan Foundry<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#5 - Mrs. Junie Ginsburg - <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#6 - Miss Ordinal Malaprop -Ordinal Industries New Babbage Plant<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#7 - Mr. Khashai Steinbeck - Steinbeck & Company<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#8 - Mr. Desmond Shang - West Trade Imports LTD<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#9 - Mr. Edward Pearse - Pearse on Babbage<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#10- Master Loki Eliot - The Old Imperial Steampunk Theater of New Babbage<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#11- (Unoccupied)<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#12- Mr. Malkov Trescothick- Old Gravy<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#13- Mr. Salazar Jack - Kahruvel Steamworks<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#14- Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#15- Mr. Paul Churchill - Churchill Industries<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#16- Mr. Paul Churchill - Churchill Industries<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#17- Mr. Nym Eponym - SteamTravel<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#18- (Unoccupied)<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#19- Mr. Quine Mondrian - New Babbage Conservatoire<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#20- Miss Eggberta Echegaray - The Willow Tea Room<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#21- Mr. Lazlo Wombat - Xone Toys<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#22- St. Bartholomew's Creeggan Detective Agency<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#23- Miss Carricre Wind - The Shambles<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#24- Mr. Solivar Scarborough - Second Thoughts in New Babbage<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#25- Mr. Jules Whittlesea - <st1:place><st1:placename>Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Square</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype>Hospital</st1:placetype></st1:place><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#26- Mr. Solivar Scarborough - Second Thoughts in New Babbage<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">#27- Miss Carricre Wind - Consortium of Stupendous Women<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">#28- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Undershaw Restoration Society<br /></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Curious readers may also wish to view Miss Ordinal Malaprop's map of </span><st1:street style="font-weight: bold;"><st1:address>Babbage Square </st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-weight: bold;">at the following address:<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://ordinalmalaprop.com/simmap/babbage_square/"><span style="font-size:100%;">http://ordinalmalaprop.com/simmap/babbage_square/</span><br /></a></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Please bear in mind, however, that the numbering scheme used on the map does not correspond with the numbering used on the rental board. Tip for the Reader: You might not be aware that you can customize the description for your parcel in the rental board inside of the Town Hall. Just click on your square and follow the prompts to insert the name and description of your build. This will present visitors and New Babbagers alike with information about your property when they click on your address.<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Junie Ginsburg</span><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE REAL-ESTATE LIS</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TINGS</span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Factory zone:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <st1:street><st1:address>Plot #18 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >If you are interested in acquiring a plot, please contact<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket.</span><br /></p><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MAYOR STARTS NEW STEAMPUNK </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">GR</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">OUP!</span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">On <st1:date year="2007" day="3" month="2">Saturday, 3 February 2007</st1:date>, Mayor Sprocket created a new group called "Steampunks of New Babbage", which exists mainly for the benefit of out-of-towners who would like to keep apprised of New Babbage happenings. (Ed.: Non-residents are, of course, also welcome to read The New Babbage Cog.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span>***</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WAYWARD CHILDREN FLOOD INTO NEW BABBAGE</span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">It has been observed by several New Babbagers that many homeless children appear to have migrated into our fine city. While the exact location of their refuge remains undisclosed, some children have hinted that they have come under the good graces and protection of a mysterious benefactor. Even having found a guardian, the children find themselves in harsh conditions, not enough food and toiling at occupations undesirable to most adults.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUvwsWKV_UlrEpSQL3nTV2pulXPjs4tIYy0vYISwEGU6tsJw7tKaN9BrBiaqgKWPi_WeEnTWUuSKrNZhuqgIwj2W7lJuMJQQTakaPeguhrcc6zONk-Bv6Oad3QDFXLJtXoA-l7OiH-xf0/s1600-h/streetchildren.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305036189929260962" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 312px; cursor: pointer; height: 305px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUvwsWKV_UlrEpSQL3nTV2pulXPjs4tIYy0vYISwEGU6tsJw7tKaN9BrBiaqgKWPi_WeEnTWUuSKrNZhuqgIwj2W7lJuMJQQTakaPeguhrcc6zONk-Bv6Oad3QDFXLJtXoA-l7OiH-xf0/s400/streetchildren.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">One child confided in this reporter that some of them are exploited as chimney sweeps, being of smaller frame than grown men and more suited to the task. Among them, at least some of the children suffer maltreatment, illness, and poverty, though it has been rumored that certain of their number have chosen life on the street merely to defy social expectations. It remains to be seen the influence such a population of underage vagrants will have on New Babbage. A call for charity is possibly in order.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Junie Ginsburg</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="center">_____________________________________________________________<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Mrs. Ginsburg wishes to alert readers that mod/copy steam grates (2 prim) and street lamps (10 prim) are available free of charge to all New Babbage residents. They can be located on the first floor of I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store. In order to receive a free item, please set your active group to Engineers of New Babbage and click the vendor.</span><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span></span><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Healthy young people of strong constitution are sought to bear sandwich boards which promote The New Babbage Cog. Please contact Mrs. Junie Ginsburg to inquire.<br /><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>***<br /></strong><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Your advertisement can be placed here!</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />***<br /></span><br />_________________________________________________________________</div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OT</span><span style="font-size:130%;">HER<br />ESSENTIAL INFORMATION FOR THE READER:</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"></div><p style="font-family: times new roman;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305009654355755698" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 116px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm4Roec4ollu4LNiehJLSvnp167mLgw48Zy5V-cihDpCCghSGNe4nb3av5j9nCVwxnLsg2-K0zNA8_UT2e7Fi2uuJKaNX_3qll9hMW-yNuLVj3mYJshcrTRakH70MPk3XFGPYsiLt-cqk/s400/junie.jpg" border="0" /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" align="center"><strong>Editor in Chief: Mrs. Junie Ginsburg</strong> </p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" align="center"><strong>Asst Editor: Miss Eggberta Echegaray</strong> </p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog office is located at the end of the block in <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, #5 <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. Note card communications can be dropped in the postbox there, or sent directly to the editor, Mrs. Junie Ginsburg.<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Circulation:</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in two ways. Firstly, new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the free New Babbage Cog group. Second, issues are available from a paper box in <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, <st1:street><st1:address>#5 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, outside of I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> A reading copy of the current issue is always available at the newspaper office.</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Back Issues:</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the archive on the first floor of the newspaper office.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> A volunteer archivist position is available.</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Submissions:</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Advertising:</span> </div><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is free to New Babbage stakeholders. Out-of-towners may advertise at a rate of L$100 per ad placement per issue.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per advertisement. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Errata:</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">There are no errors that are in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Copyright Disclaimer:</span><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <span style="font-size:100%;"> </span> The Second Life in world note card publication date, of this issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper.<br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd055FWsNzCQhKmbhmW5AP2-QGsL7pnYUcvchA6zRniosqsTcYqH8Y9tG0dTF0QUkSpzADMexjJ4CTuCHw4SLL4uIdMsb_SRP3AZhW8OaUPgpVGNnugU3RwK6Ugf8DZwNVrm5JFaun9hU/s1600-h/babbage_cog_building.1jpg.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305033224041788786" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 236px; cursor: pointer; height: 177px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd055FWsNzCQhKmbhmW5AP2-QGsL7pnYUcvchA6zRniosqsTcYqH8Y9tG0dTF0QUkSpzADMexjJ4CTuCHw4SLL4uIdMsb_SRP3AZhW8OaUPgpVGNnugU3RwK6Ugf8DZwNVrm5JFaun9hU/s400/babbage_cog_building.1jpg.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:times new roman;" >The New Babbage Cog</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span></p>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-32034852783179471142009-02-23T17:12:00.000-08:002009-04-16T05:06:16.248-07:0020 February 2007<div align="left"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303534924564292306" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 395px; cursor: pointer; height: 133px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1UlHLcfoTbnLJQmdXerz2d4MNFSUmuonwh1pEHLHXA_9lGkZdW7Sx9l2774g2PcT_uD6eJLrecLcWsWP8UVAz66tqevsKVWgzYUAeXnO92ds_-riOefWmVwQd3YZu8teSB_4QLUuVe4/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" border="0" /><div align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Vol I Issue ii <st1:date month="2" day="20" year="2007">~ 20 February 2007</st1:date></strong></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><br />*** </div><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTENTS:</span> </span></div><ol><li><div class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Letter from the Editor</span> </div></li><li><div class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >The New Babbage Cog - Full Steam Ahead!</span></div></li><li><div class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Mayor Announces Elevator Contest</span></div></li><li><div class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Now Showing: Steam-powered Cinema</span></div></li><li><div class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Featured Invention: Differen</span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >ce Engine</span></div></li><li><div class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Literary Corner</span></div></li><li><div class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Easy Steam Script</span></div></li><li><div class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage Register</span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Events & Announcements</span></div></li><li><div class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Classified Advertisements</span></div></li><li><div class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Resources</span></div></li><li><div class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Contact, Circulation, and other Essential Information for the Reader</span></div></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">_________________________________________________________</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">___________________________</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >LETTER FROM THE EDITOR<br /><br /></span></strong></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Given the prevalence of the Aethernet (o</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">r, as it is commonly known in non-St</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">eampunk society, the "Internet") in our modern world, it is perhaps an expected and most natural decision to have begun</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> a site for New Babbage under the auspices of The New Babbage Cog. Miss Eggberta Echegaray is the production editor for the New Babbage blog, but we will be collaborating on content and other related</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> tasks. Presenting a useful and handsome portal for New Babbage residents and out-of-towners alike is something,we ho</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">pe, that will do credit to our dear island. We invite discussion, ideas, suggestions, announcements, advertisements, and all manner of involvement from the New Babbage community.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>Kindly communicate your thoughts to us at newbabbagecog@gmail.com, send an instant message to M</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">iss Echegaray or me, or drop a note card in the letterbox at the New Babbage Cog office in <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">In your service,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Mrs. Junie Ginsburg</span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">___________________________</span></em><em><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">___________________________________</span></em><em><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">___________________</span></em></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><strong>THE NEW BABBAGE COG - FULL STEAM</strong></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><strong> AHEAD! </strong></span><br /><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The New Babbage Cog launched its first issue into the urban wilds of New Babbage on February 12, 2007, and one week later, has distributed more than 70 copies of the periodical. C</span></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">ertainly this is due to the proximity of a paper box near the telehub, but additional paper boxes have reported a large number of deliveries al</span></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">so.<br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmF8PjAZcfICfVELPFabWaKYflzQblc6HgLif7ba-EbP5_QS3xKY-DMO6XPOv-wQ9KjwCQZjTDQ2wqRD01PdhuV4P3HkpPYpfVYUvYENvx7VibfnSgzesWb6rE6Ji0V5DiqLUtKuXsBXg/s1600-h/newspaper1A+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmF8PjAZcfICfVELPFabWaKYflzQblc6HgLif7ba-EbP5_QS3xKY-DMO6XPOv-wQ9KjwCQZjTDQ2wqRD01PdhuV4P3HkpPYpfVYUvYENvx7VibfnSgzesWb6rE6Ji0V5DiqLUtKuXsBXg/s400/newspaper1A+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305233799990983954" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">These numbers are greater than hoped for the first issue, and the paper anticipates</span></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> e</span></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">xceeding these numbers as the production process and delivery methods are stabilized. Any comments, suggestions, questions, announcements, advertisements or other feedback is welcome, and may be directed to Mrs. </span></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Junie Ginsburg or Miss Eggberta Echegary.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;" align="left">Junie Ginsburg</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >***</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><strong><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >MAYOR ANNOUNCES ELEVATOR CON</span></strong><strong><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >TEST</span></strong> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket has announced a building contest for residents of New Babbage! Design and create a steam powered elevator, for the two ends of the steel walkway! Mayor Sprocket is allowing builders of the contest, to build on site and use the walkways as a guide. Conditions with using the</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> walkway as a guide to build, is one must clean up after themselves, until the time of the individual judging. If one does not clean up their on site creation, the contestant will immediately be disqualified. Mayor Sprocket's decision day for the winning design will be held on March 15th, 2007.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixlGDlupx0J0hrgeyJe5uOe7nPKOo3a2fS5MWr-7QHVdh6OopZo1m6VeyzDAYQMV4gsL9HwnmmCkMVmuVVmbXbdspxUir8DHqmaiaxRQy19Vj4-KWBwfYaJRWyWxeKT7jQV0v7AjvhoGw/s1600-h/steelwalkway_001.jpg"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305071832806633410" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 278px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixlGDlupx0J0hrgeyJe5uOe7nPKOo3a2fS5MWr-7QHVdh6OopZo1m6VeyzDAYQMV4gsL9HwnmmCkMVmuVVmbXbdspxUir8DHqmaiaxRQy19Vj4-KWBwfYaJRWyWxeKT7jQV0v7AjvhoGw/s400/steelwalkway_001.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7KiUgxgL0TYo1CYqux7RfU9U21BVzf03TaBmZj0QckumKCRcR12NppLWpC7Ljt01D9IheNow0Z4R4179TtEWGE8mZwI2QwvFK0UJQ-aPMpy9QxZsG-BuV4bFGujQLdo5ehVHiHYEt2Q/s1600-h/steelwalkway_002.jpg"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305072170277256082" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 283px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7KiUgxgL0TYo1CYqux7RfU9U21BVzf03TaBmZj0QckumKCRcR12NppLWpC7Ljt01D9IheNow0Z4R4179TtEWGE8mZwI2QwvFK0UJQ-aPMpy9QxZsG-BuV4bFGujQLdo5ehVHiHYEt2Q/s400/steelwalkway_002.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9SBYiVjv3D_LTHS_qVptukAm3uUZq4GRGnhm2bSedbaKjYwYcCawAcJPItVdquuemmQwfDfsFz4mRA_VVDDftNfE1soL2Ak2fIJ5n_uvs5p5JP-LzlRDIAyJOeTwZKyApXZeibiK7jc/s1600-h/steelwalkway_003.jpg"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305072600848971426" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 255px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9SBYiVjv3D_LTHS_qVptukAm3uUZq4GRGnhm2bSedbaKjYwYcCawAcJPItVdquuemmQwfDfsFz4mRA_VVDDftNfE1soL2Ak2fIJ5n_uvs5p5JP-LzlRDIAyJOeTwZKyApXZeibiK7jc/s400/steelwalkway_003.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Good Luck to All! </span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"Industria Proficiscor In!"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">***</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >NOW SHOWING: STEAM POWERED CINEMA</span></strong><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">New Babbage enjoys the presence of not one,but two theaters in which residents may pass leisure time viewing classic pieces of cinema and Victorian imagery. Both theaters boast ample seating fo</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">r a sizable party.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmDS3O_qDzTUG9c23ydqK87J60ZqNyXKFKaMrBEBGNg4D6GEGMXpDr5zXl5RTJ9Ww1u9GB-1aaCtI5Hq34DsUQaBQu3UnVIm-I8bq7fvtGqieMquawgxaIr-FPiTbp36CQaSKLGBRi1zE/s1600-h/vogagedanslamoon.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 219px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmDS3O_qDzTUG9c23ydqK87J60ZqNyXKFKaMrBEBGNg4D6GEGMXpDr5zXl5RTJ9Ww1u9GB-1aaCtI5Hq34DsUQaBQu3UnVIm-I8bq7fvtGqieMquawgxaIr-FPiTbp36CQaSKLGBRi1zE/s400/vogagedanslamoon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305228414093944978" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">La Vogage Dans La Lune Pic At The Old Imperial Steampunk Theater of New Babbage, <st1:street><st1:address>#10 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, audiences are treated to a showing of "A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune)," a 1902 piece by Georges Méliès based on two novels: "From the Earth to the Moon,"by Jules Verne, and "The</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> First Men in the Moon," by H. G. Wells.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFKtzej2WbE4Qu0n3IU3If2B2dS7FjSqV8rSF_MHtow1rOnoP3hiOY3fP-rbXRnroPqqymE8qIwGhfx5JZQcyqPc9giSpGVafusoopw7NmRvY0y5HILemc1LAl7H6EGFDcPQtKoYiZH_U/s1600-h/phantasmagorium.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 197px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFKtzej2WbE4Qu0n3IU3If2B2dS7FjSqV8rSF_MHtow1rOnoP3hiOY3fP-rbXRnroPqqymE8qIwGhfx5JZQcyqPc9giSpGVafusoopw7NmRvY0y5HILemc1LAl7H6EGFDcPQtKoYiZH_U/s400/phantasmagorium.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305229228909785826" border="0" /></a></p> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">Phantasmagorium, the Magic Lantern theater at <st1:street><st1:address>#24 Babbage Squ</st1:address></st1:street></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><st1:street><st1:address>are</st1:address></st1:street>, plays a delightful "<st1:city><st1:place>Alice</st1:place></st1:city> in Wonderland" picture slide show, in full color! Please lend your support to these New Babbage purveyors of wholesome entertainment.</span><br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Junie Ginsburg<br /><br /></span></em><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span></p><div align="center"><strong><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >FEATURED INVENTION: THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE</span></strong><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"Making a Difference in New Babbage"</span></em><br /></div><em></em></div><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></span></em></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Teleporting into New Babbage, one will find many imaginative Steampunk creati</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">ons done by the residents. Our head resident and Mayor, Mr. Shaunathan Sprocket, has created Mr. Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine, which is housed at New Babbage’s </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Town Hall. After Mr. Babbage’s death in 1871, Mr.Sprocket was determined to virtually create Babbage’s Difference engine, in-world.</span><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnXI5ge8yZqxPNb3-1z-TjQknV8qKm7vX90ARTzkZDtzS7jEUqhAiiMlYqKahO202Y459LjiH2qSaM5Oujpwu0VMeajhN7jyCE98lDL1DR6YeD59RAwQbsqhGcbp6n5BMbZ9l8VqM5_rc/s1600-h/difference+engine+b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 333px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnXI5ge8yZqxPNb3-1z-TjQknV8qKm7vX90ARTzkZDtzS7jEUqhAiiMlYqKahO202Y459LjiH2qSaM5Oujpwu0VMeajhN7jyCE98lDL1DR6YeD59RAwQbsqhGcbp6n5BMbZ9l8VqM5_rc/s400/difference+engine+b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305229883852187970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">When interviewing Mr.Sprocket, I asked the question, “What indeed is a Difference Engine?” Mayor Sprocket simply replied “Why It is a special-purpose mechanical calculator, which was designed to tabulate polynominal functions.”<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>Interesting indeed. When one looks upon the massive mechanical cogs, it’s hard to believe, that these iron monsters, are actually set up to calculate complex mathematics. Mayor Sprocket continues, “Mr. Babbage realized that a machine could do</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> the work better and more reliable than a human being, thus removing sources of human error when calculating mathematics.” When investigating further, Mr.Sprocket provided more background into Babbage's engines, “They were among the first mechanical computers. His engines were not actually completed, largely because of funding problems and personality issues, which is why I took it upon myself, to create his life’s work here in New Babbage.” Although New Babbage’s Difference Engine, is not quite yet fully functional, one can drop by the Town Hall, and gander in the glory of the amazing mechanical cog architecture! Well done Mr. Mayor! </span><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Eggberta Echegaray</em></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>LITERARY CORNER</strong> </span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">In 1889 Oscar Wilde and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were invited to dinner with Joseph Stoddart, the editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, who wanted some stories. It was decided that Sir Doyle would write "The Sign of the Four" and Mr. Wilde would write "The Picture of Dorian Gray". Fortunate as we are to have Sir Doyle in residence on our island, he has agreed to provide "The Sign of the Four" for publication in The New Babbage Cog as a 12-issue serial piece. We at the Cog hope our readers will appreciate this period piece straight from the heart of the Victorian period.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >THE SIGN OF FOUR</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;">by Sir ArthurConan Doyle</span></em><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Chapter 1 ~ THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><strong></strong><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjorvgm3eJ4zIMg6n8ZIZ9Wc0MQj_57fxn57-V8X4AkC5xFyRuP8HZ5zTnHKgfssdSTTVaptsmrlNf0nxK9_zbxFOkPCP-hqowqTD5u3e7pqcKCKsXsPWajkUN3F0RsghPJIvkjhIeyS9g/s1600-h/01a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 193px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjorvgm3eJ4zIMg6n8ZIZ9Wc0MQj_57fxn57-V8X4AkC5xFyRuP8HZ5zTnHKgfssdSTTVaptsmrlNf0nxK9_zbxFOkPCP-hqowqTD5u3e7pqcKCKsXsPWajkUN3F0RsghPJIvkjhIeyS9g/s400/01a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305230677031053410" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">SHERLOCK HOLMES took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">needle and rolled back his left shirtcuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction. Three times a day for many months I had witnessed this performance, but custom had not reconciled my mind to it. On the contrary, from day to day I had become more irritable at the sight, and my conscience swelled nightly within me at the thought that I had lacked the courage to protest. Again and again I had registered a vow that I should deliver my soul upon the subject; but there was that in the cool, nonchalant air of my companion which made him the la</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">st man with whom one would care to take anything approaching to a liberty. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">His great powers, his masterly manner, and the experience which I had had of his many extraordinary qualities, all made me diffident and backward in crossing him. Yet upon that afternoon, whether it was the Beaune which I had taken with my lunch or the additional exasperation produced by the extreme deliberation of his manner, I suddenly felt that I could hold out no longer. "Which is it to-day," I asked, "morphine or cocaine?" He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. "It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?" "No, indeed," I answered brusquely. "My constitution has not got over the Afghan campaign yet. I cannot afford to throw any extra strain upon it." He smiled at my vehemence. "Perhaps you are right, Watson," he said. "I suppose that its influence is physically a bad one. I find it, however, so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment." "But consider!" I said earnestly. "Count the cost! Your brain may, as you say, be roused and excited, but it is a pathological and morbid process which involves increased tissue-change and may at leas</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">t leave a permanent weakness. You know, too, what a black reaction comes upon you. Surely the game is hardly worth the candle. Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed? Remember that I speak not only as one comrade to another but as a medical man to one for whose constitution he is to some extent answerable." </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">He did not seem offended. On the contrary, he put his finger-tips together, and leaned his elbows on the arms of his chair, like one who has a relish for conversation. "My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world." "The only unofficial detective?" I said, raising my eyebrows. "The only unofficial consulting detective," he answered. "I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection. When Gregson, or Lestrade, or Athelney Jones are out of their depths--which, by the way, is their normal state--the matter is laid before me. I examine the data, as an expert, and pronounce a specialist's opinion. I claim no credit in such cases. My name figures in no newspaper. The work itself, the pleasure of finding a field for my peculiar powers, is my highest reward. But you have yourself had some experience of my methods of work in the Jefferson Hope case." "Yes, in</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">deed," said I cordially. "I was never so struck by anything in my life. I even embodied it in a small brochure, with the somewhat fantastic title of 'A Study in Scarlet.'" He shook his head sadly. "I glanced over it," said he. "Honestly, I cannot congratulate you upon it. Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of <st1:city><st1:place>Euclid</st1:place></st1:city>." "But the romance was there," I remonstrated. "I could not tamper with the facts." "Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it." I was annoyed at this criticism of a work which had been specially designed to please him. I confess, too, that I was irritated by the egotism which seemed to demand that every line of my pamphlet should be devoted to his own special doings. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">More than once during the years that I had lived with him in <st1:street><st1:address>Baker Street</st1:address></st1:street> I had observed that a small vanity underlay my companion's quiet and didactic manner. I made no remark, however, but sat nursing my wounded leg. I had had a Jezail bullet through it some time before, and though it did not prevent me fro</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">m walking it ached wearily at every change of the weather. "My practice has extended recently to the Continent," said Holmes after a while, filling up his old brier-root pipe. "I was consulted last week by Francois le Villard, who, as you probably know, has come rather to the front lately in the French detective service. He has all the Celtic power of quick intuition, but he is deficient in the wide range of exact knowledge which is essential to the higher developments of his art. The case was concerned with a will and possessed some features of interest. I was able to refer him to two parallel cases, the one at <st1:city><st1:place>Riga</st1:place></st1:city> in 1857, and the other at <st1:city><st1:place>St. Louis</st1:place></st1:city> in 1871, which have suggested to him the true solution. Here is the letter which I had this morning acknowledging my assistance." He tossed over, as he spoke, a crumpled sheet of foreign notepaper. I glanced my eyes down it, catching a profusion of notes of admiration, with stray magnifiques, coup-de-maitres and tours-de-force, all testifying to the ardent admiration of the Frenchman. "He speaks as a pupil to his master," said I. "Oh, he rates my assistance too highly," said Sherlock Holmes lightly. "He has considerable gifts himself. He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge, and that may come in time. He is now translating </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKNsLYL7jj5tiLPeJoYZReeBM9TMPy99f53GCUpkm73goTTAc0oUDeLw6PVnZxFEjN7MWtzGtUZki2qCo8z6Mm-5CNRvgrunxS9YLelLtUdiW7wezNv97eoeEsgCmyrYo6x2_LkdkkgxI/s1600-h/01b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 209px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKNsLYL7jj5tiLPeJoYZReeBM9TMPy99f53GCUpkm73goTTAc0oUDeLw6PVnZxFEjN7MWtzGtUZki2qCo8z6Mm-5CNRvgrunxS9YLelLtUdiW7wezNv97eoeEsgCmyrYo6x2_LkdkkgxI/s400/01b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305231050849189010" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">my small works into French." "Your works?" "Oh, didn't you know?" he cried, laughing. </span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"Yes, I have been guilty of several monographs. They are all upon technical subjects. Here, for example, is one 'Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos.' In it I enumerate a hundred and forty forms of cigar, cigarette, and pipe tobacco, with coloured plates illustrating the difference in the ash. It is a point which is continually turning up in criminal trials, and which is sometimes of supreme importance as a clue. If you can say definitely, for example, that some murder had been done by a man who was smoking an Indian lunkah, it obviously narrows your field of search. To the trained eye there is as much difference between the black ash of a Trichinopoly and the white fluff of bird's-eye as there is between a cabbage and a potato." "You have an extraordinary genius for minutiae," I remarked. "I appreciate their importance. Here is my monograph upon the tracing of footsteps, with some remarks upon the uses of plaster of Paris as a preserver of impresses. Here, too, is a curious little work upon the influence of a trade upon the form of the hand, with lithotypes of the hands of slaters, sailors, cork-cutters, compositors, weavers, and diamond-polishers. That is a matter of great practical interest to the scientific detective--especially in cases of unclaimed bodies, or in discovering the antecedents of criminals. But I weary you with my hobby." "Not at all," I answered earnestly. "It is of the greatest interest to me, especially since I have had the opportunity of observing your practical application of it. But you spoke just now of observation and deduction. Surely the one to some extent implies the other." "Why, hardly," he answered, leaning back luxuriously in his armchair and sending up thick blue wreaths from his pipe. "For example, observation shows me that you have been to the Wigmore Street Post-Office this morning, but deduction lets me know that when there you dispatched a telegram." "Right!" said <st1:place>I.</st1:place> "Right on both points! But I confess that I don't see how you arrived at it. It was a sudden impulse upon my part, and I have mentioned it to no one."<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"It is simplicity itself," he remarked, chuckling at my surprise"so absurdly simple that an explanation is superfluous; and yet it may serve to define the limits of observation and of deduction. Observation tells me that you have a little reddish mould adhering to your instep. Just opposite the Wigmore Street Office they have taken up the pavement and thrown up some earth, which lies in such a way that it is difficult to avoid treading in it in entering. The earth is of this peculiar reddish tint which is found, as far as I know, nowhere else in the neighborhood. So much is observation. The rest is deduction." "How, then, did you deduce the telegram?" "Why, of course I knew that you had not written a letter, since I sat opposite to you all morning. I see also in your open desk there that you have a sheet of stamps and a thick bundle of postcards. What could you go into the post-office for, then, but to send a wire? Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth." "In this case it certainly is so," I replied after a little thought. "The thing, however, is, as you say, of the simplest. Would you think me impertinent if I were to put your theories to a more severe test?" "On the contrary," he answered, "it would prevent me from taking a second dose of cocaine. I should be delighted to look into any problem which you might submit to me." </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"I have heard you say it is difficult for a man to have any object in daily use without leaving the impress of his individuality upon it in such a way that a trained observer might read it. Now, I have here a watch which has recently come into my possession. Would you have the kindness to let me have an opinion upon the character or habits of the late owner?" I handed him over the watch with some slight feeling of amusement in my heart, for the test was, as I thought, an impossible one, and I intended it as a lesson against the somewhat dogmatic tone which he occasionally assumed. He glanced the watch in his hand, gazed hard at the dial, opened the back, and examined the works, first with his naked eyes and then with a powerful convex lens. I could hardly keep from smiling at his crestfallen face when he finally snapped the case to and handed it back. "There are hardly any data," he remarked.<br /><br />"The watch has been recently cleaned, which robs me of my most suggestive facts." "You are right," I answered. "It was cleaned before being sent to me." In my heart I accused my companion of putting forward a most lame and impotent excuse to cover his failure. What data could he expect from an uncleaned watch? "Though unsatisfactory, my research has not been entirely barren," he observed, staring up at the ceiling with dreamy, lack-lustre eyes. </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"Subject to your correction, I should judge that the watch belonged to your elder brother, who inherited it from your father." "That you gather, no doubt, from the H. W. upon the back?" "Quite so. The W. suggests your own name. The date of the watch is nearly fifty years back, and the initials are as old as the watch: so it was made for the last generation. Jewellery usually descends to the eldest son, and he is most likely to have the same name as the father. Your father has, if I remember right, been dead many years. It has, therefore, been in the hands of your eldest brother." "Right, so far," said <st1:place>I.</st1:place> "Anything else?" "He was a man of untidy habits--very untidy and careless. He was left with good prospects, but he threw away his chances, lived for some time in poverty with occasional short intervals of prosperity, and finally, taking to drink, he died. That is all I can gather." I sprang from my chair and limped impatiently about the room with considerable bitterness in my heart. "This is unworthy of you, Holmes," I said. "I could not have believed that you would have descended to this. You have made inquiries into the history of my unhappy brother, and you now pretend to deduce this knowledge in some fanciful way. You cannot expect me to believe that you have read all this from his old watch! It is unkind and, to speak plainly, has a touch of charlatanism in it."<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"My dear doctor," said he kindly, "pray accept my apologies. Viewing the matter as an abstract problem, I had forgotten how personal and painful a thing it might be to you. I assure you, however, that I never even knew that you had a brother until you handed me the watch." "Then how in the name of all that is wonderful did you get these facts? They are absolutely correct in every particular." "Ah, that is good luck. I could only say what was the balance of probability. I did not at all expect to be so accurate." "But it was not mere guesswork?" "No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit--destructive to the logical faculty. What seems strange to you is only so because you do not follow my train of thought or observe the small facts upon which large inferences may depend. For example, I began by stating that your brother was careless. When you observe the lower part of that watch-case you notice that it is not only dinted in two places but it is cut and marked all over from the habit of keeping other hard objects, such as coins or keys, in the same pocket. Surely it is no great feat to assume that a man who treats a fifty-guinea watch so cavalierly must be a careless man. Neither is it a very far-fetched inference that a man who inherits one article of such value is pretty well provided for in other respects.</span><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">" I nodded to show that I followed his reasoning. "It is very customary for pawnbrokers in <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>, when they take a watch, to scratch the numbers of the ticket with a pin-point upon the inside of the case. It is more handy than a label as there is no risk of the number being lost or transposed. There are no less than four such numbers visible to my lens on the inside of this case. Inference--that your brother was often at low water. Secondary inference--that he had occasional bursts of prosperity, or he could not have redeemed the pledge. Finally, I ask you to look at the inner plate, which contains the keyhole. Look at the thousands of scratches all round the hole--marks where the key has slipped. What sober man's key could have scored those grooves? But you will never see a drunkard's watch without them. He winds it at night, and he leaves these traces of his unsteady hand. Where is the mystery in all this?" "It is as clear as daylight," I answered. "I regret the injustice which I did you. I should have had more faith in your marvellous faculty. May I ask whether you have any professional inquiry on foot at present?" "None. Hence the cocaine. I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth." I had opened my mouth to reply to this tirade when, with a crisp knock, our landlady entered, bearing a card upon the brass salver. "A young lady for you, sir," she said, addressing my companion. "Miss Mary Morstan," he read. "Hum! I have no recollection of the name. Ask the young lady to step up, Mrs. Hudson. Don't go, Doctor. I should prefer that you remain."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;">(Special thanks to Sir ArthurConan Doyle for his assistance in placing the story in context, and for providing the text.)</span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >EASY STEAM SCRIPT</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">For new scripters, here's a useful tip for creating the ubiquitous vapor so beloved by the residents of New Babbage: steam. The secret is to find your resources in unlikely places. In this case, the waterfall mist script that comes default in everyone's inventory library has been edited to produce a more steam-like effect. To produce steam, simply create a script in the object you'd like to eminate the vapor, and copy and paste the contents into the script file.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>Save, and voila! The steam age has come!<br /></span></p><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Easy Steam Script:</strong></span></em><br /><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>--Start of script --</strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">// Particle System 1.0</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">StartSteam()</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">{</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">// MASK FLAGS: set<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>to "TRUE" to enable</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">integer glow = TRUE;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Makes the particles glow</span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">integer bounce = FALSE;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Make particles bounce on Z plane of objects</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">integer interpColor = TRUE;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Color - from start value to end value</span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">integer interpSize = TRUE;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Size - from start value to end value</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">integer wind = TRUE;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Particles effected by wind</span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">integer followSource = FALSE;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Particles follow the source</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">integer followVel = TRUE;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Particles turn to velocity direction</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">// Choose a pattern from the following:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">// PSYS_SRC_PATTERN_EXPLODE </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">//PSYS_SRC_PATTERN_DROP</span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">// PSYS_SRC_PATTERN_ANGLE_CONE_EMPTY</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">// PSYS_SRC_PATTERN_ANGLE_CONE</span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">// PSYS_SRC_PATTERN_ANGLE<br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">integer pattern = PSYS_SRC_PATTERN_EXPLODE;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">// Select a target for particles to go towards</span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">// "" for no target, "owner" will follow object owner<br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">//<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>and "self" will target this object</span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">//<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>or put the key of an object for particles to go to </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">key target;</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">// Particle paramaters</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:0;" ></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">float age = 5;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span><span style="font-size:0;"></span>// Life of each particle</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">float maxSpeed = 0.10;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Max speed each particle is spit out at</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">float minSpeed = 0.0;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Min speed each particle is spit out at</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">string texture = "Water Particle - Mist";<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Texture used for particles, default used if blank</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">float startAlpha = .25;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Start alpha (transparency) value</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">float endAlpha = 0.0;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// End alpha (transparency) value</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">vector startColor = <0.9,0.9,1>;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Start color of particles <r,g,b></r,g,b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">vector endColor = <1,1,1>;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// End color of particles <r,g,b>(if interpColor == TRUE)</r,g,b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">vector startSize = <.25,.25,.25>;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span><span style="font-size:0;"></span>// Start size of particles </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">vector endSize = <3,3,3>;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// End size of particles (if interpSize == TRUE)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">vector push = <0,0,0.5>;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Force pushed on particles</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">// System paramaters</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">float rate = .2;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// How fast (rate) to emit particles</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">float radius = 1.0;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Radius to emit particles for BURST pattern</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">integer count = 64;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span><span style="font-size:0;"></span>// How many particles to emit per BURST </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">float outerAngle = 0.1;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Outer angle for all ANGLE patterns</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">float innerAngle = 0.65;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Inner angle for all ANGLE patterns</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">vector omega = <0,0,0>;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Rotation of ANGLE patterns around the source</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">float life = 0;<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>// Life in seconds for the system to make particles</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">// Script variables</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">integer flags; </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">flags = 0;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">if (target == "owner") target = llGetOwner();</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">if (target == "self") target = llGetKey();</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">if (glow) flags = flags PSYS_PART_EMISSIVE_MASK;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">if (bounce) flags = flags PSYS_PART_BOUNCE_MASK;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">if (interpColor) flags = flags PSYS_PART_INTERP_COLOR_MASK;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">if (interpSize) flags = flags PSYS_PART_INTERP_SCALE_MASK;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">if (wind) flags = flags PSYS_PART_WIND_MASK;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">if (followSource) flags = flags PSYS_PART_FOLLOW_SRC_MASK;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">if (followVel) flags = flags PSYS_PART_FOLLOW_VELOCITY_MASK;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">if (target != "") flags = flags PSYS_PART_TARGET_POS_MASK;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">llParticleSystem([<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>PSYS_PART_MAX_AGE,age,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_PART_FLAGS,flags,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_PART_START_COLOR, startColor,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_PART_END_COLOR, endColor,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_PART_START_SCALE,startSize,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_PART_END_SCALE,endSize, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_SRC_PATTERN, pattern,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_SRC_BURST_RATE,rate,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_SRC_ACCEL, push,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_SRC_BURST_PART_COUNT,count,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_SRC_BURST_RADIUS,radius,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_SRC_BURST_SPEED_MIN,minSpeed,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_SRC_BURST_SPEED_MAX,maxSpeed,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_SRC_TARGET_KEY,target,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_SRC_INNERANGLE,innerAngle, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_SRC_OUTERANGLE,outerAngle,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_SRC_OMEGA, omega,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_SRC_MAX_AGE, life,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_SRC_TEXTURE, texture,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_PART_START_ALPHA, startAlpha,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PSYS_PART_END_ALPHA, endAlpha</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">]);</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">}</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">StartSpray ()</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">{</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">}</span><br /></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">StopSpray()</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">{</span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">lParticleSystem([]);<span style="font-size:0;"> </span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">}</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">default</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">{</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">state_entry()</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">{</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">StartSteam();</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">}</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">{</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">if (0 == llSubStringIndex(message, "spray on"))</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">{</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">StartSteam();</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">}</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">else if (0 == llSubStringIndex(message, "spray off"))</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">{</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">StopSpray();</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">}</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">}</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">}</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>--end of script--</strong></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><em>Script by</em> <em>Junie Ginsburg</em></span><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></em></p><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">***</span></strong><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">NEW BABBAGE REGISTER</span></strong></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">New Babbage is a city undergoing constant change!<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>The following parcels have come under new ownership in the last week <em>(or in one case, were reported incorrectly in our last issue):</em></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Parcel No.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>New Owner/Business:</span></strong></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">#4. Mrs. Junie Ginsburg - The New Babbage Cog</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">#11. Miguel Pinion</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">#12. Remington Pennyfeather - Remmy's Moving Castle</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">#14. <st1:street><st1:address>Loner Lane - </st1:address></st1:street>Loner's Lane: Gadgetry Galore</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">#17. Arthur Conan Doyle</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">#18. Salazar Jack</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">#26. <st1:city><st1:place>Sparks</st1:place></st1:city> Keynes - The Rusty Cog</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">#27. Solivar Scarborough - Daeskins - Salon de Vapeur & Steampunk <st1:place><st1:placename>Information</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Center</st1:placetype></st1:place></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><st1:place><st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:place></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><st1:place><st1:placetype>____________________________________________________________________________________</st1:placetype></st1:place></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span></strong></span><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The New Babbage Cog office is moving! We will be relocating soon from #5 Babbage Square to #4. A further announcement will be posted when our new construction and move is complete.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">* * *</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS:</span></strong><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Healthy young people of strong constitution are sought to bear sandwich boards which promote The New Babbage Cog. Please contact Mrs. Junie Ginsburg to inquire.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">* * *</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><em><strong>Your advertisement can be placed here!</strong></em></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">* * *</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">RESOURCES:</span></strong></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The following SL lists are available for those interested in the steampunk theme:</span></em><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Steampunk, founded by Vapxk Lament</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Steampunk Girls, founded by Nikki Tanner</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">SteamPunk Kids, founded by Loki Eliot</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Steampunks of New Babbage, founded by Shaunathan Sprocket</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Victorian Retrotech Society, founded by Merry Calliope</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">(The New Babbage Cog cannot endorse any of these groups, save for Steampunks of New Babbage, and provides these listings merely as a convenience for readers.)</span></strong><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Gathered and compiled by Eggberta Echegaray</span></em><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">________________________________________________________________________________</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL</span></strong><br /><strong><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >INFORMATION FOR THE READER:</span></strong><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;" ><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305009654355755698" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 116px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm4Roec4ollu4LNiehJLSvnp167mLgw48Zy5V-cihDpCCghSGNe4nb3av5j9nCVwxnLsg2-K0zNA8_UT2e7Fi2uuJKaNX_3qll9hMW-yNuLVj3mYJshcrTRakH70MPk3XFGPYsiLt-cqk/s400/junie.jpg" border="0" /></span></strong></p><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Mrs. Junie Ginsburg </strong><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Asst Editor: Miss Eggberta Echegaray </strong><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Ethics Statement:</span></strong><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Contact:</span></strong><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The New Babbage Cog office is located at the end of the block in <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, #5 <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. Notecard communications can be dropped in the postbox there, or sent directly to the editor, Mrs. Junie Ginsburg.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Circulation:</span></strong><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in two ways. Firstly, new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the free New Babbage Cog group. Second, issues are available from a paperbox in <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, <st1:street><st1:address>#5 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, outside of I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>A reading copy of the current issue is always available at the newspaper office.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Back Issues:</span></strong><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the archive on the first floor of the newspaper office.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>A volunteer archivist position is available.</span></p><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Submissions:</span></strong><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Advertising:</span></strong><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Advertising should be germaine to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Advertising is free to New Babbage citizens.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>Out-of-towners may advertise at a rate of L$100 per ad placement per issue.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per advertisement. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.</span><br /></p><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Errata:</span></strong><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">In our last issue, we incorrectly reported that <st1:street><st1:address>#26 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> was owned by Mr. Solivar Scarborough (Second Thoughts in New Babbage). In fact, Mr. Scarborough's second property is #27. Currently #26 is occupied by Sparks Keynes (The Rusty Cog). [The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Copyright Disclaimer:</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> The Second Life in world note card publication date, on this issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper. </span><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305203045586783314" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 336px; height: 230px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsaSmeeK64V6hv9PN0bQfWv0rXXwkJnw2Llyu7weR2d9fm6iE8iDTCMklPzRHieMFDQIVgv_koVczzsAxCtCfqrr-nDNBAwl3n0IuFDbOcgnm0Z3qIxHhpPTfDS7cDXvzXLwFFIq5znfE/s400/babbage_cog_building_1jpg.jpg" border="0" /><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era</span></strong></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The New Babbage Cog</span></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong></strong></span><em><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span><o:p></o:p></span></strong></em></p></div>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-2450649532384673382009-02-22T05:31:00.000-08:002009-04-16T05:06:33.997-07:0028 February 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig0A9MjoBDWRJdgTQX02DRbKgQ6VM57ONszPP6GR64gp0Dx3rXdHH9Oqz3kzW6icwS6owUsTkNtODe7cMToUbROuvge9f941VwZobg4jurvXiHm9PvOsKl0sv6ZHV1glqkzKDLBQU8INY/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig0A9MjoBDWRJdgTQX02DRbKgQ6VM57ONszPP6GR64gp0Dx3rXdHH9Oqz3kzW6icwS6owUsTkNtODe7cMToUbROuvge9f941VwZobg4jurvXiHm9PvOsKl0sv6ZHV1glqkzKDLBQU8INY/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305244576663798546" border="0" /></a><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="time"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">CONTENTS:</span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <ol style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Letter from the Editor<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage Rallies Against Invaders!<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">L$10,000 Award For Best Elevator!<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Featured Invention: Kahruvel Steamworks<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Flag & Motto<o:p></o:p><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Literary Musings<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage Register<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Events & Announcements<o:p></o:p><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Classified Advertisements<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Resources<o:p></o:p><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Postcards!<o:p></o:p><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Contact, Circulation, and Other Essential Information for the Reader</span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">_____________________________________________________________</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p style="font-family: times new roman;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LETTER FROM THE ED</span><span style="font-size:130%;">I</span><span style="font-size:130%;">TOR</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal">During the last three weeks, New Babbage has seen a great deal of parcel turnover.While it seems unfortunate that some of the original supporters of a steampunk sim have sold their stakes, the influx of new residents appears to be an invigorating and diversifying influence.Second Life moves quickly. When I first stepped onto the mainland, the common lament was that creativity was waning in the world.Although a newcomer, I was convinced that what was needed was merely an infusion of fresh ideas. And so it is with a sim devoted to the principles of invention and ingenuity, that the spirit of progress is kept alive by the continual introduction of dissimilar but compatible views.As the excitement of an empty slate wears off, the emergence of a robust community bears the promise of magnificent tomorrows. I, for one, look forward to experiencing the unplanned, un-orchestrated, and thoroughly unique that New Babbage has to offer.</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">In your service,</p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">Mrs. Junie Ginsburg</span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">_________________________________________________________________________________</p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >NEW BABBAGE RALLIES AGAINST INVADERS!<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVgEv6ZjVkSMH1fv59vSVPewXwODc9qYEp5eX030mQ7RJSEjjEIN-JOMjQGiVXpf4bFhQBVU96L1Norm-Ivw22dWTf_xdcx6RjpkiHitjxOgj6RbvG0dtu44IyDoem8x6MKDRIAHucE5M/s1600-h/alien1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 418px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVgEv6ZjVkSMH1fv59vSVPewXwODc9qYEp5eX030mQ7RJSEjjEIN-JOMjQGiVXpf4bFhQBVU96L1Norm-Ivw22dWTf_xdcx6RjpkiHitjxOgj6RbvG0dtu44IyDoem8x6MKDRIAHucE5M/s400/alien1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305403209620105074" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">On the evening of Sunday, February the 25th, a great company of New Babbagers filled the street on the West side of the canal to confront an otherworldly visitor. The metallic tripod, bearing a single gold, glowing eye and a similar orb hanging from an appendage upon its top, scrambled up the thoroughfare between the Old Imperial Steampunk Theatre and The Factory of Questionable Steampunkery (Steinbeck & Co.). Confronted by such a mob of New Babbagers bearing arms, the machine, driven by a hitherto unknown occupant, shuddered and circled, shooting randomly its death-ray in apparent confusion.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ReDQPT9PQNRstDa5hGIsG9pjMa59fNndmYDceSY4GFHV8u_fJEFVuiaWnbQpdyp9AzgJZ8bxdJ-f-sDJASyWaV8-uS_PusF342fDvIdt774DqinQVffefk8P9A34aTTA8uETIVUe23s/s1600-h/alien2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 430px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ReDQPT9PQNRstDa5hGIsG9pjMa59fNndmYDceSY4GFHV8u_fJEFVuiaWnbQpdyp9AzgJZ8bxdJ-f-sDJASyWaV8-uS_PusF342fDvIdt774DqinQVffefk8P9A34aTTA8uETIVUe23s/s400/alien2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305403977306584994" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">New Babbage Cog reporters were on the scene, making a photographic records of the event. The gentlemen of New Babbage mustered a stunning arsenal at a moment's notice, launching assorted missiles ranging in deadliness from the explosive to the simply annoying. Should our dear island ever come under attack, we may depend on these brave men and gnomes to repel danger. After suffering through a barrage of fire, the alien at some point put off his metal exoskeleton and appeared before the mob in his natural form; a hideously mis-figured chimera of man and alien. Upon seeing the creature thus humbled, the crowd of New Babbagers detected no further threat and allowed the creature to mount his retreat to places unknown.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Junie Ginsburg</p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">L$10,000 AWARD FOR BEST ELEVATOR!</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">In our last issue we conveyed the Mayor's announcement of an elevator contest. This week, we have learned more details, which follow. The object of the contest is to create a working Victorian steampunk elevator that will go to three floors and be suitable for outdoor use. Entrants may construct their builds at the elevator areas at the ends of the steel walkways, but must clean up after themselves or be automatically disqualified.The deadline for entering a build is March 15th,2007 which is also the date when the winner will be announced. The winner will be paid a sum of L$10,000. Please contact Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket with any questions about the contest.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /><br /></div> <p style="font-weight: bold;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >FEATURED INVENTION: KAHRUVEL STEAMWORKS</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD9ofi1RLSc9EsXbkpgcC4-o9TJvV_Z8XC7uTVv-tgtzW1ZEqfV9jhY-iClaZT5C_juxZJFUqb6Ha7MT4CH8V0flCgBYwx1YA2P_-KV02f3Lrqr3VGWfgQSh4ZK64fHRMzAuE9Spga7eY/s1600-h/Steamworks1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD9ofi1RLSc9EsXbkpgcC4-o9TJvV_Z8XC7uTVv-tgtzW1ZEqfV9jhY-iClaZT5C_juxZJFUqb6Ha7MT4CH8V0flCgBYwx1YA2P_-KV02f3Lrqr3VGWfgQSh4ZK64fHRMzAuE9Spga7eY/s400/Steamworks1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305405457360677122" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">Upon hearing the phrase "well-oiled machine," it is difficult to imagine anything different was intended than Mr. Salazar Jack's magnificent Kahruvel Steamworks. A multipurpose facility, the steamworks marries several grand ideas with the intent of improving the New Babbage community.First and foremost, the factory generates steam, the necessary commodity by which New Babbage operates, and for which the facility is named. Although the steamworks is not yet finished, Mr. Jack says that one of his primary intentions is to pipe steam out to New Babbage residents not able to produce enough to power their parcels.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidCnjvJ8XyaBGl9oo_amglPuSO7cAQqd-5NiH0cMd_Eso9-Mx1j-r5OuwLM5eJz5fqo3YB4IJZw4pEAm3xba-BcR2d7Stx4aAQafFTAb7z2rsqjDGupq1DAGMDslKRTBS6N4Nv1DYGHWk/s1600-h/Steamworks2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 397px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidCnjvJ8XyaBGl9oo_amglPuSO7cAQqd-5NiH0cMd_Eso9-Mx1j-r5OuwLM5eJz5fqo3YB4IJZw4pEAm3xba-BcR2d7Stx4aAQafFTAb7z2rsqjDGupq1DAGMDslKRTBS6N4Nv1DYGHWk/s400/Steamworks2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305407442094808898" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Given the amount of water necessary to generate such quantities of vapor, the steamworks is uniquely suited to perform another important function, namely, the desalination of seawater to produce fresh water. A gigantic tank in the facility is already filled almost to capacity. In addition to these public services, Mr.Jack hopes to eventually offer an array of products for purchase at the steamworks, including pre-fab steampunk structures and assorted gadgetry. He explained during the New Babbage Cog interview that his family has a long heritage of developing gadget technology, and he hopes to refine some devices long in use by his people.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitPob1iDBr5ZFXwxSGq5gP-X95gCQ0rNMAe03b-jfnP2oCCIKDV-oYtTTXI5mM40zrpzRS_O39mddn-6V-3X22gs-9ykxCDz6d02A4h9Nxf9r0xGPAWWZBCWW2v1wDV_XD8Q1VxyYPJF8/s1600-h/Steamworks3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 389px; height: 323px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitPob1iDBr5ZFXwxSGq5gP-X95gCQ0rNMAe03b-jfnP2oCCIKDV-oYtTTXI5mM40zrpzRS_O39mddn-6V-3X22gs-9ykxCDz6d02A4h9Nxf9r0xGPAWWZBCWW2v1wDV_XD8Q1VxyYPJF8/s400/Steamworks3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305408746229636594" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Mr. Jack himself is a talented builder. He is responsible not only for numerous builds elsewhere in the world and the Kahruvel Steamworks in New Babbage, but served also as the engineer for Sir ArthurConan Doyle's Undershaw Restoration Society building. Mr. Jack and Sir Doyle have recently purchased adjoining parcels in the industrial district where he says they hope to construct a community stockyard. The yard will be a place where various building projects may be undertaken by residents. To learn more about Mr. Salazar Jack and his many projects, please visit his log on the Aethernet at:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><a href="http://homepage.mac.com/salazarjack/default.html">http://homepage.mac.com/salazarjack/default.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Junie Ginsburg</p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">THE NEW BABBAGE FLAG & MOTTO</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Because education in the Latin language has fallen out of favor, the New Babbage motto might be a bit of a mystery for visitors and residents alike. For any curious reader, the motto, "Industria Profisicor In" means "Industry <st1:state><st1:place>Marches</st1:place></st1:state> On."</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip95WNps_lGHlZxCREPOhSg7QDLvrD-uY9lbaHxqC8xWvYLpkJV3HIugxmUFFowiUF9VT82dsR9ZzAElaU8TjLjOxJZqC4dzhjguzuMW8uX7009gAi1Y9iYJxVKvsxdjkKZCCUl-4H5A0/s1600-h/flag_sketch.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 325px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip95WNps_lGHlZxCREPOhSg7QDLvrD-uY9lbaHxqC8xWvYLpkJV3HIugxmUFFowiUF9VT82dsR9ZzAElaU8TjLjOxJZqC4dzhjguzuMW8uX7009gAi1Y9iYJxVKvsxdjkKZCCUl-4H5A0/s400/flag_sketch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305410644060678098" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">The New Babbage flag, designed by Miss Eggberta Echegaray and finalized by Mr. Solivar <st1:place>Scarborough</st1:place>, is layered with symbolism. The factory emitting flames and steam represents the idea of "steampunk," while the hammer and wrench symbolize "industry." The cog rising above all is colored in black and white to indicate that the period of time and society from which we draw our inspiration on this island was one of extremes; the cog represents the positive and negative influence of the industrial revolution.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBeAhHoDugKhhNpUdp_cD2rJLq_9fMzeS8VbyGfX6bOzt_Nm7q69JLbsluPHfV5ijY9_5_c2nfFxsbH1wNcQ3T4WjhOhIaf_4GmAK6kHqvjQcLDfdmdYShtcVOo02zkeuS5eBTUxyIPIQ/s1600-h/flag_final.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 244px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBeAhHoDugKhhNpUdp_cD2rJLq_9fMzeS8VbyGfX6bOzt_Nm7q69JLbsluPHfV5ijY9_5_c2nfFxsbH1wNcQ3T4WjhOhIaf_4GmAK6kHqvjQcLDfdmdYShtcVOo02zkeuS5eBTUxyIPIQ/s400/flag_final.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305411190429306610" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Anyone wishing to fly the New Babbage colors may obtain a flag by right-clicking on one and selecting More, Take a copy. For Miss Echegaray's personal thoughts on the creation of the flag, please visit her blog at:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"> <a href="http://eggberta.blogspot.com/">http://eggberta.blogspot.com/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Junie Ginsburg</p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LITERARY MUSINGS</span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">In this issue, The New Babbage Cog is proud to present Chapter 2 of Sir ArthurConan Doyle's "The Sign of The Four."<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Chapter 2 </span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >- </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >THE STATEMENT OF THE CASE</span><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9WFaosRjTxzqg3fMJIe1pazMVSnYtgcloj2ue8JvDDgr5P5Gs3kNQwSzrC0s7uR2Wx1gcY6OeMJzCxy0AU810zdXY6EO92v82FxjlqfsWfpZaG4dWY4QsEQ4lPzWSgzf28GtnQ-WDuic/s1600-h/02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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She was a blonde young lady, small, dainty, well gloved, and dressed in the most perfect taste. There was, however, a plainness and simplicity about her costume which bore with it a suggestion of limited means. The dress was a sombre grayish beige, untrimmed and unbraided, and she wore a small turban of the same dull hue, relieved only by a suspicion of white feather in the side. Her face had neither regularity of feature nor beauty of complexion, but her expression was sweet and amiable, and her large blue eyes were singularly spiritual and sympathetic. In an experience of women which extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature. I could not but observe that as she took the seat which Sherlock Holmes placed for her, her lip trembled, her hand quivered, and she showed every sign of intense inward agitation. "I have come to you, Mr. Holmes," she said, "because you once enabled my employer, Mrs. Cecil Forrester, to unravel a little domestic complication. She was much impressed by your kindness and skill." "Mrs. Cecil Forrester," he repeated thoughtfully. "I believe that I was of some slight service to her. The case, however, as I remember it, was a very simple one." "She did not think so. But at least you cannot say the same of mine. I can hardly imagine anything more strange, more utterly inexplicable, than the situation in which I find myself." Holmes rubbed his hands, and his eyes glistened. He leaned forward in his chair with an expression of extraordinary concentration upon his clear-cut, hawk like features. "State your case," said he in brisk business tones. I felt that my position was an embarrassing one. "You will, I am sure, excuse me," I said, rising from my chair. To my surprise, the young lady held up her gloved hand to detain me.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">"If your friend," she said, "would be good enough to stop, he might be of inestimable service to me." I relapsed into my chair. "Briefly," she continued, "the facts are these. My father was an officer in an Indian regiment, who sent me home when I was quite a child. My mother was dead, and I had no relative in <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>. I was placed, however, in a comfortable boarding establishment at <st1:city><st1:place>Edinburgh</st1:place></st1:city>, and there I remained until I was seventeen years of age. In the year 1878 my father, who was senior captain of his regiment, obtained twelve months' leave and came home. He telegraphed to me from <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> that he had arrived all safe and directed me to come down at once, giving the Langham Hotel as his address. His message, as I remember, was full of kindness and love. On reaching <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> I drove to the Langham and was informed that Captain Morstan was staying there, but that he had gone out the night before and had not returned. I waited all day without news of him. That night, on the advice of the manager of the hotel, I communicated with the police, and next morning we advertised in all the papers. Our inquiries led to no result; and from that day to this no word has ever been heard of my unfortunate father. He came home with his heart full of hope to find some peace, some comfort, and instead" She put her hand to her throat, and a choking sob cut short the sentence. "The date?" asked Holmes, opening his notebook. "He disappeared upon <st1:date year="1878" day="3" month="12">the third of December, 1878</st1:date>--nearly ten years ago." "His luggage?" "Remained at the hotel. There was nothing in it to suggest a clue--some clothes, some books, and a considerable number of curiosities from the <st1:place>Anda</st1:place><st1:place>man Islands</st1:place>. He had been one of the officers in charge of the convict-guard there.""Had he any friends in town?"</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"> "Only one that we know of--Major Sholto, of his own regiment, the Thirty-fourth Bombay Infantry. The major had retired some little time before and lived at <st1:place>Upper</st1:place><st1:place> Norwood</st1:place>. We communicated with him, of course, but he did not even know that his brother officer was in <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>." "A singular case," remarked Holmes. "I have not yet described to you the most singular part. About six years ago--to be exact, upon the fourth of May, 1882--an advertisement appeared in the Times asking for the address of Miss Mary Morstan, and stating that it would be to her advantage to come forward. There was no name or address appended. I had at that time just entered the family of Mrs. Cecil Forrester in the capacity of governess. By her advice I published my address in the advertisement column. The same day there arrived through the post a small cardboard box addressed to me, which I found to contain a very large and lustrous pearl. No word of writing was enclosed. Since then every year upon the same date there has always appeared a similar box, containing a similar pearl, without any clue as to the sender. They have been pronounced by an expert to be of a rare variety and of considerable value. You can see for yourself that they are very handsome." She opened a flat box as she spoke and showed me six of the finest pearls that I had ever seen."Your statement is most interesting," said Sherlock Holmes. "Has anything else occurred to you?" "Yes, and no later than to-day. That is why I have come to you. This morning I received this letter, which you will perhaps read for yourself." "Thank you," said Holmes.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">"The envelope, too, please. Post-mark, <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city>, S. W. Date, July 7. Hum! Man's thumb-mark on corner--probably postman. Best quality paper. Envelopes at sixpence a packet. Particular man in his stationery. No address. "Be at the third pillar from the left outside the Lyceum Theater to-night at <st1:time minute="0" hour="19">seven o'clock</st1:time>. If you are distrustful bring two friends. You are a wronged woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police. If you do, all will be in vain. Your unknown friend." Well, really, this is a very pretty little mystery! What do you intend to do, Miss Morstan?" "That is exactly what I want to ask you." "Then we shall most certainly go--you and I and--yes, why Dr. Watson is the very man. Your correspondent says two friends. He and I have worked together before." "But would he come?" she asked with something appealing in her voice and expression. "I shall be proud and happy," said I fervently, "if I can be of any service.""You are both very kind," she answered. "I have led a retired life and have no friends whom I could appeal to. If I am here at six it will do, I suppose?" "You must not be later," said Holmes. "There is one other point, however. Is this handwriting the same as that upon the pearl-box addresses?" "I have them here," she answered, producing half a dozen pieces of paper. "You are certainly a model client. You have the correct intuition. Let us see, now." He spread out the papers upon the table and gave little darting glances from one to the other.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">"They are disguised hands, except the letter," he said presently; "but there can be no question as to the authorship. See how the irrepressible Greek e will break out, and see the twirl of the final s. They are undoubtedly by the same person. I should not like to suggest false hopes, Miss Morstan, but is there any resemblance between this hand and that of your father?" "Nothing could be more unlike." "I expected to hear you say so. We shall look out for you, then, at six. Pray allow me to keep the papers. I may look into the matter before then. It is only half-past three. Au revoir, then." "Au revoir," said our visitor; and with a bright, kindly glance from one to the other of us, she replaced her pearl-box in her bosom and hurried away. Standing at the window, I watched her walking briskly down the street until the gray turban and white feather were but a speck in the somber crowd. "What a very attractive woman!" I exclaimed, turning to my companion. He had lit his pipe again and was leaning back with drooping eyelids. "Is she?" he said languidly; "I did not observe." "You really are an automaton--a calculating machine," I cried. "There is something positively inhuman in you at times."He smiled gently."It is of the first importance," he cried, "not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor." "In this case, however-- --" "I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule. Have you ever had occasion to study character in handwriting? What do you make of this fellow's scribble?" "It is legible and regular," I answered. "A man of business habits and some force of character." Holmes shook his head. "Look at his long letters," he said. "They hardly rise above the common herd. That d might be an a, and that l an e. Men of character always differentiate their long letters, however illegibly they may write. There is vacillation in his k's and self-esteem in his capitals. I am going out now. I have some few references to make. Let me recommend this book--one of the most remarkable ever penned. It is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man. I shall be back in an hour."</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">I sat in the window with the volume in my hand, but my thoughts were far from the daring speculations of the writer. My mind ran upon our late visitor --her smiles, the deep rich tones of her voice, the strange mystery which overhung her life. If she were seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now--a sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience. So I sat and mused until such dangerous thoughts came into my head that I hurried away to my desk and plunged furiously into the latest treatise upon pathology. What was I, an army surgeon with a weak leg and a weaker banking account, that I should dare to think of such things? She was a unit, a factor--nothing more. If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW BABBAGE REGISTER</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">The following plots have changed hands since our last issue was distributed:</p><p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Parcel No.<span style=""> </span>New Owner/Business</p><p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> #2 - Gonzo's Gadgets<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">___________________________________________________________________________<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS:</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>* * *</p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Your announcement here!</p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>* * *</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS:</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">* * *</p> <div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Your advertisement can be placed here!</p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>* * *</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">RESOURCES:</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">The following groups have been created under the name of New Babbage:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">New Babbage Adventurers' Society</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Founded by: Miss <st1:city><st1:place>Sparks</st1:place></st1:city> Keynes</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Public:</span> No<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Description:</span> All Members of the Society shall endeavor, with courage and bravery, to add to the Scientific Knowledge of the Known World, to Shed Light on the Darkest Mysteries, and to Make Known the Secret Corners of the Earth. The Society's gathering place is the Rusty Cog, in the <st1:street><st1:address>town of Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>.<span style=""> </span>Upon Completing an Invention, Returning from <st1:place><st1:placename>unknown</st1:placename></st1:place><st1:place><st1:placename></st1:placename> <st1:placetype>lands</st1:placetype></st1:place> or Making a Death-Defying Escape from Danger, a member is entitled -- and indeed, encouraged -- to come and Speak of their Gallant Exploits to all.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">New Babbage Conservatoire</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Founded by: Mr. Quine Mondrian</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Public:</span> Yes</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Description:</span> Actively promoting the musical arts of New Babbage.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">New Babbage Medical League</span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Founded by: Mr. Jules Whittlesea</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Public: </span>Yes</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Description:</span> We are the most gifted, most skilled doctors and nurses is all of New Babbage, come to think of it, we are the only doctors and nurses in New Babbage. We hold our sketchy reputations of being creative surgeons<span style=""> </span>with pride<span style=""> </span>Any member found giving real medical advice under the title of office he/she holds in the New Babbage Medical League will be shot out of a cannon.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">The New Babbage Cog</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Founded by: Mrs. Junie Ginsburg </span></p><p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Public: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yes</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Description:</span><span style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span> </span>Members of this group will automatically receive the newest issues of The New Babbage Cog, a newspaper serving the New Babbage steampunk sims.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; 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font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><strong></strong><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;" ><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305009654355755698" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 116px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm4Roec4ollu4LNiehJLSvnp167mLgw48Zy5V-cihDpCCghSGNe4nb3av5j9nCVwxnLsg2-K0zNA8_UT2e7Fi2uuJKaNX_3qll9hMW-yNuLVj3mYJshcrTRakH70MPk3XFGPYsiLt-cqk/s400/junie.jpg" border="0" /></span></strong></p><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Mrs. Junie Ginsburg </strong><br /><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Asst Editor: Miss Eggberta Echegaray </strong><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span></div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Ethics Statement:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Contact:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">The New Babbage Cog office is located at the end of the block in <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, #5 Babbage Square. Note card communications can be dropped in the postbox there, or sent directly to the editor, Mrs. Junie Ginsburg.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Circulation:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in two ways. Firstly, new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the free New Babbage Cog group. Second, issues are available from a paper box in <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, #5 Babbage Square, outside of I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store.<span style=""> </span>A reading copy of the current issue is always available at the newspaper office.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Back Issues:</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the archive on the first floor of the newspaper office.<span style=""> </span>A volunteer archivist position is available.</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Submissions:</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Advertising:</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Advertising should be germaine to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Advertising is free to New Babbage citizens. Out-of-towners may advertise at a rate of L$100 per ad placement per issue.<span style=""> </span>For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per advertisement. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Errata:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">[There are no errors that are in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Copyright Disclaimer:</span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> The Second Life in world note card publication date, of this issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper. </span></div> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwLznBX3AORLC39aoEnoQdapMewrxGQ7VZR1sviW8GvGIsXI-H7vlAEfwT7_WwGwq8iE3F3mLKJ-HLKJ8Ric3yKTzzbgfOhyphenhyphennx9HTAQe6JmebwlZonpNcsMoZjZHVb2k7qM9n2GtUtXD8/s1600-h/New+Babbage+Cog+Building_002a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span></p>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-32714787094678040942009-02-21T18:54:00.000-08:002009-04-16T05:06:51.708-07:007 March 2007<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfQmwy_V8kTujasmj6OSbhUbCEkiTNNfAK-Eq2ZNzXYEmH1AShuzhaI5Net6Khx0XRK1QRSmem4yPKrNdxUlpG__6lvJmo1QyuWCUG4p20mgXKaDDR-TgUJDm1rmjOOKSCRFI46WlAhdo/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfQmwy_V8kTujasmj6OSbhUbCEkiTNNfAK-Eq2ZNzXYEmH1AShuzhaI5Net6Khx0XRK1QRSmem4yPKrNdxUlpG__6lvJmo1QyuWCUG4p20mgXKaDDR-TgUJDm1rmjOOKSCRFI46WlAhdo/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305821287677485314" border="0" /></a> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Vol I Issue iv ~ </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><st1:date year="2007" day="7" month="3"><span style=""><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> 7 March</span></span></st1:date></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><st1:date year="2007" day="7" month="3"><span style=""><span style="font-family:times new roman;">, 2007</span></span></st1:date></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; 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margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >CONTENTS:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <ol style="font-family: times new roman;"><li>Town Hall Scheduled for 10th of March<o:p></o:p></li><li>New Babbage Mentioned by Reuters!<o:p></o:p></li><li>The New Babbage Conservatoire<o:p></o:p></li><li>Film Review: The Prestige<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>Notable Personalities<o:p></o:p></li><li>Literary Corner<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>New Babbage Register <o:p></o:p></li><li>Resources: Late Victorian Costume </li><li>Events & Announcements<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>Classified Advertisements<o:p></o:p></li><li>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ</li><li>Contact, Circulation, and Other Essential Information for the Rea der</li></ol><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;">_____________________________________________________________<br /> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">TOWN HALL SCHEDULED FOR </span><span style="font-size:130%;">10th of </span><span style="font-size:130%;">MARCH</span><span style="font-size:130%;">, 2007<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKuTxRt-XZ1uriAbTIY-j3agu-i8f2rmWUyrYIU7mL3SlPWGGu7OUVwJNnO7NMZ-A6SztXjPCdrfIrIL7HVhFE9NdXAZB0Vfk3FYL6sJlxhnVdySMGYdXzcCFPgzMlEzlsM6p2YMvaIU/s1600-h/FirstTownHallMidday15Mar20071.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKuTxRt-XZ1uriAbTIY-j3agu-i8f2rmWUyrYIU7mL3SlPWGGu7OUVwJNnO7NMZ-A6SztXjPCdrfIrIL7HVhFE9NdXAZB0Vfk3FYL6sJlxhnVdySMGYdXzcCFPgzMlEzlsM6p2YMvaIU/s400/FirstTownHallMidday15Mar20071.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308245669512411874" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Mayor Sprocket announced that our next town hall meeting will be held on Saturday, March 10th, at <st1:time minute="0" hour="13">1pm</st1:time> SLT.<span style=""> </span>According to the official notice, the agenda will include "the location of the telehub, a preview of the canal district, brainstorming community get-togethers, and other items as they come up."<span style=""> </span>The meeting will likely take place in the new Town Hall building, on the <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> green. </p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW BABBAGE MENTIONED BY REUTERS!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">New Babbage has received a mention in the Reuters Second Life blog, in an article by Warren Ellis entitled "Second Life Sketches: Let’s Put The Future Behind Us."<span style=""> </span>In this piece, Ellis discusses Second Life as a medium for bringing to life cyberpunk visions of the world as envisioned by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson. Toward the end, an honorable mention occurs for the steampunk phenomenon: "As Gibson and <st1:city><st1:place>Sterling</st1:place></st1:city> wrote The Difference Engine, so too did Stephenson write The Diamond Age, his own take on the antique-styled future subgenre called steampunk." Ellis goes on to mention Babbage, which must have been quite new at the time of the article's writing, as a region under construction in the same Neo-Victorian style as <st1:city><st1:place>Caledon</st1:place></st1:city>.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">To Read the article visit: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/29o4v2">http://tinyurl.com/29o4v2</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-style: italic;">Junie Ginsburg</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Did you know that Advertisements and Announcements in The New Babbage Cog are FREE to all New Babbage citizens? Please contact Mrs. Junie Ginsburg or Miss Eggberta Echegaray to place yours!</p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">THE NEW BABBAGE CONSERVATOIRE</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Nestled in the cultural <st1:street><st1:address>district of Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> lies a quiet building, soon to be filled with music. Mr.Quine Mondrian is New Babbage's resident musician, and his contribution of a musical conservatory to our island is one that he hopes will rouse interest.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixdZ7f7ljbgn4KRs5QVhyphenhyphenytMXWUIibQ9EiQS__2-U19g5_n7zDRUPf5z59IAgirZo1Q4CfVIJKENkXY0QOtMSGBawryj1nNQBZySvwHTMsSS0qTctmpMAs2K-eMTmfYxIMUrEk8gCfHg8/s1600-h/quine_mondrian.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixdZ7f7ljbgn4KRs5QVhyphenhyphenytMXWUIibQ9EiQS__2-U19g5_n7zDRUPf5z59IAgirZo1Q4CfVIJKENkXY0QOtMSGBawryj1nNQBZySvwHTMsSS0qTctmpMAs2K-eMTmfYxIMUrEk8gCfHg8/s400/quine_mondrian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305821688559596738" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Migrating to <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> from a <st1:place><st1:placename>Mainland</st1:placename> <st1:placename>First</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Land</st1:placetype></st1:place> plot, Mr. Mondrian wanted to create something exceeding the cultural value of just another house. As a musician, the notion of a Victorian conservatory seemed a natural choice. Currently, he is working to secure some experimental steampunk instruments that will add an interactive element to the build, in addition to scouting for musicians interested in performing concerts in the hall.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2PF2DrF851-BG_3aub5_uKhxonc7nuHH3AdTKrb15hinTsNNEoBumpEaFxNwM3L00Y5xkuJqQAJgd27R4ol9bH9sRlkUD_-sgkx0Ar_hAh8MSWwpNjt35NKgsSxehu8mQTI-oS_1FiMw/s1600-h/nb_conservatoire2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2PF2DrF851-BG_3aub5_uKhxonc7nuHH3AdTKrb15hinTsNNEoBumpEaFxNwM3L00Y5xkuJqQAJgd27R4ol9bH9sRlkUD_-sgkx0Ar_hAh8MSWwpNjt35NKgsSxehu8mQTI-oS_1FiMw/s400/nb_conservatoire2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305821449192704978" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFr9EpSC-efy7ukLdUrV06f5XvU7Wpr5WsxSPx2Yk8BUo_38u8xqwefCT67Z94p0HML4NV560U2OpsEyemp8QZBrQtsNNKkR6XJ3XqdOuG5fsNDhTZL0iVNS6ZB2mxQVTHL14xgxUlqQ8/s1600-h/nb_conservatoire.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFr9EpSC-efy7ukLdUrV06f5XvU7Wpr5WsxSPx2Yk8BUo_38u8xqwefCT67Z94p0HML4NV560U2OpsEyemp8QZBrQtsNNKkR6XJ3XqdOuG5fsNDhTZL0iVNS6ZB2mxQVTHL14xgxUlqQ8/s400/nb_conservatoire.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305821508131337474" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">The conservatory itself is a grand structure, with acoustics certain to be favorable to any presentation. Over the main entrance visitors will find a balcony that gives access to an enormous pipe organ. A piano sits at the ready on the main stage, which incorporates, in classic New Babbage style, the shapes of machine cogs.The decor is clean and polished, a well-constructed and beautifully-textured Victorian build. [Please see Mr. Mondrian's advert in the classifieds section below!]</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-style: italic;">Junie Ginsburg</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">FILM REVIEW: THE PRESTIGE</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Set in the our late 19th century, The Prestige is the story of two rival magicians eager to make names for themselves in the very competitive world of prestidigitation. Although they began their careers as friends,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">an unfortunate event sets them against one another, leading to many years of bad blood. At the center of their rivalry is one trick in particular, created and performed by one of the magicians. His rival spends years and untold dollars attempting to learn the secret of the "prestige," or the final segment of the illusion that leaves the audience filled with wonder. It is this obsession that leads him to visit Nikola Tesla in <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>, to commission a great machine with which to accomplish REAL magic.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdaG3NUBkfnDA_KJkHtFCYPNk6HLPhikSI-tqG5fOfFlPg9VaV6CNOlYh9mbdmybZr-gZJ1bFchc1riswYW6PrXizxbKvvlSc7Cex5-KP14dsKUuj5GCczyrnOn6Dl2bDLqEjw1ZIvxJA/s1600-h/prestige.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdaG3NUBkfnDA_KJkHtFCYPNk6HLPhikSI-tqG5fOfFlPg9VaV6CNOlYh9mbdmybZr-gZJ1bFchc1riswYW6PrXizxbKvvlSc7Cex5-KP14dsKUuj5GCczyrnOn6Dl2bDLqEjw1ZIvxJA/s400/prestige.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305821555405904898" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Save for Tesla's presence in the film, there was not much here to qualify it as "steampunk." There is, certainly, a difference between "steampunk" and "Victorian," a fine line that is lost on some, perhaps. However, the scenes in which Nikola Tesla appears are quite well imagined and enjoyable, and will certainly be an inspiration for anyone interested in speculative science. And the secret to "The Prestige?"<span style=""> </span>You will need to wait until the final scene to learn how the trick was performed. Let's just say, however, that the Tesla version was, far and away, more innovative.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-style: italic;">Junie Ginsburg</span><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">* * *</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE DAY</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">In this issue of The New Babbage Cog, we are proud to present a new column by our eminent citizen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.<span style=""> </span>In this space, Sir Doyle will profile persons from our era, so that we all might be better informed about those who have shaped the world in which we live.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">SUSAN B. ANTHONY</p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOW8dYLbVeDX01U3NG0nq8B8unH99E7fe83fRkOQpfYG2azHfZk6vuMe67N9Ysjiytb-vbHhfV_wQ-kdPm25RJyKpa9o4Y7aOS6usc8nqobtmxtz40Jn7XnT1t4QzcUTlXgTgEGdHoEb0/s1600-h/susan_b_anthony.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 127px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOW8dYLbVeDX01U3NG0nq8B8unH99E7fe83fRkOQpfYG2azHfZk6vuMe67N9Ysjiytb-vbHhfV_wQ-kdPm25RJyKpa9o4Y7aOS6usc8nqobtmxtz40Jn7XnT1t4QzcUTlXgTgEGdHoEb0/s400/susan_b_anthony.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305821630081277554" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">Of all the little band of men and women who have gained respect from their bitterest enemies by taking and holding a very positive opinion on the rights of women to vote, and the expediency of conceding that right in the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>, Susan B. Anthony is perhaps the most prominent. Her birthplace was the little <st1:place><st1:placetype>village</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>South Adams</st1:placename></st1:place>, in the western part of the state of <st1:state><st1:place>Massachusetts</st1:place></st1:state>, and almost under the shadow of the Hoosac mountains. After reaching womanhood, Miss Anthony became a school teacher, and at the end of fifteen years of hard work, this lady found herself with three hundred dollars in her pocket and determination in her heart to do something to right the wrongs which women had to suffer and which she had herself experienced. conventions were called, societies were organized, and Miss Anthony became a fairly well-known figure among radical agitators in every field of social development. With Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison, she was very actively identified in the movement for the abolition of slavery. The movement in favor of stopping the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors has also received her warmest support.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</p><p style="font-style: italic; text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">* * *</p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LITERARY CORNER</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">In this issue, The New Babbage Cog presents Chapter 3 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Sign of The Four."</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">THE SIGN OF FOUR</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Chapter 3</span> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">IN QUEST OF A SOLUTION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8YfPGkAu5L4AzVwkTKI4P7VlJZwULKHyBvvnUKIYpFfjTParKwzh4uRFK60oHOdaaLM3v0QJP9PcCswYRiBXtaHyu8T4WWn1C3FbglF6uDWOWG0s9hUaBK5vZarwp7nS5IsboWR9X9wY/s1600-h/03.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 111px; height: 203px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8YfPGkAu5L4AzVwkTKI4P7VlJZwULKHyBvvnUKIYpFfjTParKwzh4uRFK60oHOdaaLM3v0QJP9PcCswYRiBXtaHyu8T4WWn1C3FbglF6uDWOWG0s9hUaBK5vZarwp7nS5IsboWR9X9wY/s400/03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305821396839884930" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">IT WAS half-past five before Holmes returned. He was bright, eager, and in excellent spirits, a mood which in his case alternated with fits of the blackest depression. "There is no great mystery in this matter," he said, taking the cup of tea which I had poured out for him; "the facts appear to admit of only one explanation." "What! you have solved it already?" "Well, that would be too much to say. I have discovered a suggestive fact, that is all. It is, however, very suggestive. The details are still to be added. I have just found, on consulting the back files of the Times, that Major Sholto, of <st1:place>Upper Norwood</st1:place>, late of the Thirty-fourth Bombay Infantry, died upon <st1:date year="1882" day="28" month="4">the twenty-eighth of April, 1882</st1:date>." "I may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this suggests." "No? You surprise me. Look at it in this way, then. Captain Morstan disappears. The only person in <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> whom he could have visited is Major Sholto. Major Sholto denies having heard that he was in <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city>. Four years later Sholto dies. Within a week of his death Captain Morstan's daughter receives a valuable present, which is repeated from year to year and now culminates in a letter which describes her as a wronged woman. What wrong can it refer to except this deprivation of her father? And why should the presents begin immediately after Sholto's death unless it is that Sholto's heir knows something of the mystery and desires to make compensation? Have you any alternative theory which will meet the facts?" "But what a strange compensation! And how strangely made! Why, too, should he write a letter now, rather than six years ago? Again, the letter speaks of giving her justice. What justice can she have? It is too much to suppose that her father is still alive. There is no other injustice in her case that you know of." "There are difficulties; there are certainly difficulties," said Sherlock Holmes pensively; "but our expedition of to-night will solve them all. Ah, here is a four-wheeler, and Miss Morstan is inside. Are you all ready? Then we had better go down, for it is a little past the hour."<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">I picked up my hat and my heaviest stick, but I observed that Holmes took his revolver from his drawer and slipped it into his pocket. It was clear that he thought that our night's work might be a serious one. Miss Morstan was muffled in a dark cloak, and her sensitive face was composed but pale. She must have been more than woman if she did not feel some uneasiness at the strange enterprise upon which we were embarking, yet her self-control was perfect, and she readily answered the few additional questions which Sherlock Holmes put to her. "Major Sholto was a very particular friend of Papa's," she said. "His letters were full of allusions to the major. He and Papa were in command of the troops at the <st1:place>Andaman Islands</st1:place>, so they were thrown a great deal together. By the way, a curious paper was found in Papa's desk which no one could understand. I don't suppose that it is of the slightest importance, but I thought you might care to see it, so I brought it with me. It is here." Holmes unfolded the paper carefully and smoothed it out upon his knee. He then very methodically examined it all over with his double lens. "It is paper of native Indian manufacture," he remarked. "It has at some time been pinned to a board. The diagram upon it appears to be a plan of part of a large building with numerous halls, corridors, and passages. At one point is a small cross done in red ink, and above it is '3.37 from left,' in faded pencil-writing. In the left-hand corner is a curious hieroglyphic like four crosses in a line with their arms touching. Beside it is written, in very rough and coarse characters, 'The sign of the four--Jonathan Small, Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan, Dost Akbar.' No, I confess that I do not see how this bears upon the matter. Yet it is evidently a document of importance. It has been kept carefully in a pocketbook, for the one side is as clean as the other." "It was in his pocketbook that we found it."<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">"Preserve it carefully, then, Miss Morstan, for it may prove to be of use to us. I begin to suspect that this matter may turn out to be much deeper and more subtle than I at first supposed. I must reconsider my ideas." He leaned back in the cab, and I could see by his drawn brow and his vacant eye that he was thinking intently. Miss Morstan and I chatted in an undertone about our present expedition and its possible outcome, but our companion maintained his impenetrable reserve until the end of our journey. It was a September evening and not yet <st1:time minute="0" hour="19">seven o'clock</st1:time>, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city. Mud-coloured clouds drooped sadly over the muddy streets. Down the <st1:place>Strand</st1:place> the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement. The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare. There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghostlike in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light-sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all humankind, they flitted from the gloom into the light and so back into the gloom once more. I am not subject to impressions, but the dull, heavy evening, with the strange business upon which we were engaged, combined to make me nervous and depressed. I could see from Miss Morstan's manner that she was suffering from the same feeling. Holmes alone could rise superior to petty influences. He held his open notebook upon his knee, and from time to time he jotted down figures and memoranda in the light of his pocket-lantern. At the Lyceum Theatre the crowds were already thick at the side-entrances. In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">We had hardly reached the third pillar, which was our rendezvous, before a small, dark, brisk man in the dress of a coachman accosted us. "Are you the parties who come with Miss Morstan?" he asked. "I am Miss Morstan, and these two gentlemen are my friends," said she. He bent a pair of wonderfully penetrating and questioning eyes upon us. "You will excuse me, miss," he said with a certain dogged manner, "but I was to ask you to give me your word that neither of your companions is a police-officer." "I give you my word on that," she answered. He gave a shrill whistle, on which a street Arab led across a four-wheeler and opened the door. The man who had addressed us mounted to the box, while we took our places inside. We had hardly done so before the driver whipped up his horse, and we plunged away at a furious pace through the foggy streets. The situation was a curious one. We were driving to an unknown place, on an unknown errand. Yet our invitation was either a complete hoax--which was an inconceivable hypothesis--or else we had good reason to think that important issues might hang upon our journey. Miss Morstan's demeanour was as resolute and collected as ever.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">I endeavoured to cheer and amuse her by reminiscences of my adventures in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>; but, to tell the truth, I was myself so excited at our situation and so curious as to our destination that my stories were slightly involved. To this day she declares that I told her one moving anecdote as to how a musket looked into my tent at the dead of night, and how I fired a double-barrelled tiger cub at it. At first I had some idea as to the direction in which we were driving; but soon, what with our pace, the fog, and my own limited knowledge of <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city>, I lost my bearings and knew nothing save that we seemed to be going a very long way. Sherlock Holmes was never at fault, however, and he muttered the names as the cab rattled through squares and in and out by tortuous by-streets. "Rochester Row," said he. "Now <st1:street><st1:address>Vincent Square</st1:address></st1:street>. Now we come out on the <st1:street><st1:address>Vauxhall Bridge Road</st1:address></st1:street>. We are making for the <st1:place>Surrey</st1:place> side apparently. Yes, I thought so. Now we are on the bridge. You can catch glimpses of the river." We did indeed get a fleeting view of a stretch of the <st1:place>Thames</st1:place>, with the lamps shining upon the broad, silent water; but our cab dashed on and was soon involved in a labyrinth of streets upon the other side. "<st1:street><st1:address>Wordsworth Road</st1:address></st1:street>," said my companion. "<st1:street><st1:address>Priory Road</st1:address></st1:street>. <st1:street><st1:address>Lark Hall Lane</st1:address></st1:street>. <st1:street><st1:address>Stockwell Place</st1:address></st1:street>. <st1:street><st1:address>Robert Street</st1:address></st1:street>. <st1:street><st1:address>Cold Harbour Lane</st1:address></st1:street>. Our quest does not appear to take us to very fashionable regions."</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">We had indeed reached a questionable and forbidding neighbourhood. Long lines of dull brick houses were only relieved by the coarse glare and tawdry brilliancy of public-houses at the corner. Then came rows of two-storied villas, each with a fronting of miniature garden, and then again interminable lines of new, staring brick buildings the monster tentacles which the giant city was throwing out into the country. At last the cab drew up at the third house in a new terrace. None of the other houses were inhabited, and that at which we stopped was as dark as its neighbours, save for a single glimmer in the kitchen-window. On our knocking, however, the door was instantly thrown open by a Hindoo servant, clad in a yellow turban, white loose-fitting clothes, and a yellow sash. There was something strangely incongruous in this Oriental figure framed in the commonplace doorway of a third-rate suburban dwelling-house. "The sahib awaits you," said he, and even as he spoke, there came a high, piping voice from some inner room."Show them in to me, khitmutgar," it said. "Show them straight in to me."</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">* * *</p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW BABBAGE REGISTER</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">The following plots have changed hands since our last issue was distributed:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Resident / Name of Parcel No.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Property or Business:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">#20 Pumpkin Tripsa</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">#23 Eggberta Echegaray - The Willow Tea Room</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">#28 Chance Takashi</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">RESOURCES</span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">The following Aethernet locations are excellent resources for the late Victorian costumer:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Gentleman's Emporium:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><a href="http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/index.php?from=topnav">http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/index.php?from=topnav</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Aether Emporium | Clothing & Costuming (costuming links page):</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><a href="http://etheremporium.pbwiki.com/Clothing%20and%20Costuming">http://etheremporium.pbwiki.com/Clothing%20and%20Costuming</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Steampunk Fashion (Livejournal):</span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><a href="http://community.livejournal.com/steamfashion/">http://community.livejournal.com/steamfashion/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Victorian Clothing:</span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><a href="http://www.victoriana.com/Victorian-Fashion/">http://www.victoriana.com/Victorian-Fashion/</a></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Corsets and Crinolines (see Victoriana):</span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><a href="http://www.corsetsandcrinolines.com/">http://www.corsetsandcrinolines.com/</a></p><br /><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">__________________________________________________________</p><br /><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal">The New Babbage Cog has officially moved its office to a new location! Please visit us now at <st1:street><st1:address>#4 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, just across the street from <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, where we were previously located.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">INVENTORS! As executive director of the, New Babbage Conservatoire, <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> (83, 204, 21)<o:p></o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">I am in search of musical instruments that are at once fantastical, musical and functional. Mechanical harps, steam-powered horn sections, elaborate orchestrations with brass pipe s and fittings... whatever your fevered coal-driven imagination can devise. Please contact me either in world or by aetheric-mail at quinemondrian@gmail.com to discuss commissions and terms.</p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>* * *</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">STEAM CLOCK, by Mr. Intolerable Ginsburg, now available at <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> (219, 29, 25).<span style=""> </span>Chimes on the hour, vents steam at regular intervals. Modeled after the famous Gastown Steam Clock in <st1:place><st1:city>Vancouver</st1:city>, <st1:state>British Columbia</st1:state></st1:place>.<span style=""> </span>Copy / Mod.<span style=""> </span>Available in 38 prim (L$200) and 63 prim (L$300) versions.</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">_________________________________________________________________________</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Q.<span style=""> </span>What is New Babbage?</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">A.<span style=""> </span>New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</p> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">------------------------</span> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Q.<span style=""> </span>What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">A.<span style=""> </span>The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</p> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">------------------------</span> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Q.<span style=""> </span>What is "steampunk?"</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed usingonly the tools at theirdisposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span><br /></p> <p style="font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk"><br /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">------------------------<br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Q.<span style=""> </span>Is New Babbage for role-players?</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">A.<span style=""> </span>New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________________________________________<br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL </span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;" ><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305009654355755698" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 116px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm4Roec4ollu4LNiehJLSvnp167mLgw48Zy5V-cihDpCCghSGNe4nb3av5j9nCVwxnLsg2-K0zNA8_UT2e7Fi2uuJKaNX_3qll9hMW-yNuLVj3mYJshcrTRakH70MPk3XFGPYsiLt-cqk/s400/junie.jpg" border="0" /></span></strong></p><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Mrs. Junie Ginsburg </strong><br /><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Asst Editor: Miss Eggberta Echegaray </strong><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">***<br /><br /></span></div> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Ethics Statement:</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.</p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Contact:</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">The New Babbage Cog office is located at <st1:street><st1:address>#4 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, across the street from I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store (<st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>). Notecard communications can be dropped in the postbox there, or sent directly to the editor, Mrs. Junie Ginsburg.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Circulation:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in two ways. Firstly, new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the free New Babbage Cog group.Second, issues are available from a paperbox in <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, #5 Babbage Square, outside of I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store.<span style=""> </span>A reading copy of the current issue is always available at the newspaper office.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Back Issues:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the archive on the first floor of the newspaper office.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Submissions:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Advertising:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Advertising is free to New Babbage citizens.<span style=""> </span>Out-of-towners may advertise at a rate of L$100 per ad placement per issue.<span style=""> </span>For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per advertisement. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Errata:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Copyright Disclaimer:</span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> The Second Life in world note card publication date, of this issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper. </span><br /></div><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzCYHPioGjuISl86PXKdK3C_HxfH5p8C-z0AI8MaTGfYg6loeGd-cJtnsiqDSYRCSVas3uVMlbxslVYB9GEoJXKIZkbjz0KOjPZK-H7mOVaa2AO1WA0JCKVTPznY0_pbw0xm6X_bRok0E/s1600-h/New+Babbage+Cog+Building_002a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>The New Babbage Cog</p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span><br /></p>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-50320162237386185622009-02-20T15:27:00.000-08:002009-04-16T11:50:46.926-07:0013 March 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwptoCHxeV4ZhJk7JxI0QF8dsLCYn0jIEqT39J_nQ-CFA7KRnVR37JEdV2TCDNGH8S_y9jKzB5-yZsfvHY0Y5XXtmmievvhjxCAt_ejpClWVeAZdEkp3pGuZXCq8UCpbflxomUd4sSPRc/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Vol I Issue v ~ </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><st1:date year="2007" day="13" month="3">13 March 2007</st1:date></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><st1:date style="font-weight: bold;" year="2007" day="13" month="3"></st1:date></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:date style="font-weight: bold;" year="2007" day="13" month="3">***</st1:date><st1:date style="font-weight: bold;" year="2007" day="13" month="3"></st1:date></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">CONTENTS:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <ol style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Letter from the Editor</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Town Hall Meeting News</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Who Will Win L$10,000? Elevator Contest Ends Soon<o:p><br /></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">St. Patrick's Day in New Babbage<o:p>!<br /></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Film Review: The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello<o:p><br /></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Notable Personalities<o:p><br /></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Literary Corner<o:p><br /></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage Register</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Events & Announcements</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Classified Advertisements</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Resources<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Contact, Circulation, and other</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Essential Information for the Reader</span><br /></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">__________________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p></span> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog has been in business for one month! In that time, we've interviewed some residents of New Babbage, have developed new features, and have attempted to cover the major news in the sim. Our circulation has far exceeded expectations, and we're happy to say that many visitors pick up a copy as they explore New Babbage.<o:p> </o:p>One of the more recent developments in New Babbage has led us to reconsider our ad fee policy. The original goal was to give ad space free to all New Babbagers. However, since more and more non-landholding residents move in, we anticipate that more listings will be coming along, requiring more effort to compile.<o:p> </o:p>In order to defer some of the costs of running the paper, we've decided to ask L$50 for ad placements by New Babbagers and L$100 for out-of-towners. To place a New Babbager listing, residents will need to activate their Engineer of New Babbage group and then deposit the fee in the cash box at the Cog office (soon to come).<o:p> </o:p>We hope that New Babbagers will find this a fair and reasonable request, and that ads will continue to be listed! As always, please feel free to contact Miss Eggberta Echegaray or me with any comments, questions, or concerns.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In your service,<o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Mrs. Junie Ginsburg</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">_______________________________________________________________<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">TOWN HALL MEETING NEWS</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyZ0odk2xx3z91b8Pc8boX27XxCU8L-Ee3Hg8Ee0ybyHK6mPfAcXiV7TeI8QHRYhYvyxmNCdLQQZnkHYaAU-7Vwmp6JiqYm1jSXOLFepRstfkxuQcRUBcnH6ZDxbGy6S6cbP4xjXJlz3k/s1600-h/FirstTownHallMidday15Mar20071.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 295px; height: 228px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyZ0odk2xx3z91b8Pc8boX27XxCU8L-Ee3Hg8Ee0ybyHK6mPfAcXiV7TeI8QHRYhYvyxmNCdLQQZnkHYaAU-7Vwmp6JiqYm1jSXOLFepRstfkxuQcRUBcnH6ZDxbGy6S6cbP4xjXJlz3k/s400/FirstTownHallMidday15Mar20071.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308246356469241218" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">On Saturday, March 10th 2007, a town meeting took place in the town hall building. Over 30 residents and non-residents attended. Taking place over the space of one hour and forty-two minutes, the agenda covered several topics of import. The full meeting minutes are attached, but included below is a convenient list of the discussion points for reference:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">The imminent arrival of a new canal district sim</span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage will now have constables</span> </li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Instead of maintaining a texture library, new residents will rec</span><span style="font-size:100%;">eive a welcome package</span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">The town hall building will be demolished and reconstr</span><span style="font-size:100%;">ucted</span> </li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">A central telehub will remain, with better placement </span> <span style="font-size:100%;">relative to t</span><span style="font-size:100%;">he town hall</span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Questions / Answers</span></li></ul><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="time"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> </p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">New <st1:place><st1:placename>Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Town Hall</st1:placetype></st1:place> Meeting Minutes</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Date:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <st1:date month="3" day="10" year="2007">Saturday, March 10, 20</st1:date><st1:date month="3" day="10" year="2007">07</st1:date></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Chair:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Meeting start:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <st1:time hour="13" minute="0">1:00 pm</st1:time> SLT</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Meeting end: </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:time hour="14" minute="42">2:42 pm</st1:time> SLT</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >In attendance: </span><span style="font-size:100%;">DAK Amat, Rachael Breaker, Nux Chaplin, Natacha Chernov, ArthurConan Doyle, Eggberta Echegaray, Loki Eliot, Elysia Everidge, Kaylee Frye, Sara Galbraith, Intolerable Ginsburg, Junie Ginsburg, Nikmi Hax, Ken Irvine, Salazar Jack, Reitsuki Kojima, Maximillian013 Leonard, Ordinal Malaprop, Quine Mondrian, neccro Peccable, Miguel Pinion, Neo Rebus, Shaunathan Sprocket, Devon Streeter, Chance Takashi, Pumpkin Tripsa, Spencer Upshaw, Moss Weyland, claris Yoshikawa</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The Mayor announced that <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is on solid financial ground, with our debts to the Lindens and private investors being paid. He said that 6 people are currently on the waiting list for the upcoming canal district sim, which shall have a look much like <st1:city><st1:place>Venice</st1:place></st1:city> combined with Victorian England. It will be south of <st1:street><st1:address>Babba</st1:address></st1:street><st1:street><st1:address>ge Square</st1:address></st1:street>, behind the Old Imperial Steampunk Theatre.<o:p> </o:p>He announced that Miss Ordinal Malaprop has agreed to be the engineer for autonomous barge freight traffic construction. In addition to working barges, the canal district will extend our current freight rail, which means we'll be getting our own Crampton 2-0-4 from <st1:city><st1:place>Paris</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p> </o:p>Miss Weyland asked if a chart or map of the canal district would be available. The Mayor answered that one should be done by Monday, March 12, and will be posted at the town hall.<o:p> </o:p>The Mayor mentioned that Mr. William Withnail's School for Wayward Girls would be located in the canal district. Discussion about the activities that take place in Mr. Withnail's school took place, and there were no direct objections to the School entering New Babbage. The Mayor will announce to Mr. Withnail that he has a green light to move forward with his build in the canal district.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The Mayor announced that Mr. Heinrich Albrecht has volunteered to run a New Babbage constabulary, and that the constables will be for role-play purposes only. They will not be sim administrators.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">3.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Instead of maintaining a texture library, Mayor Sprocket announced that new residents of New Babbage will receive "welcome packages."</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The packages will contain textures and objects, such as the newly acquired street lamps and man hole covers. Mrs. Junie Ginsburg will be donating her services to the project by branding said objects with the New Babbage name.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">4.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Mayor Sprocket requested discussion on the current town hall build, and whether residents found it suitable, given its prim count and quality. After some discussion, it was agreed that a new town hall should be constructed. The primary concern of residents was the location of the door relative to the telehub, and that visitors shouldn't teleport into the sim right next to a wall.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The new town hall will include the new constabulary.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">5.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The Mayor opened the floor for discussion of the telehub, namely, whether or not we should have a central hub or use point-to-point teleporting. Positives for keeping a central hub included the maintaining of a sense of community, that visitors would necessarily see more of the sim if entering at a central location. Negatives were primarily that business owners can easily be missed if following a landmark, particularly by new SL users who aren't familiar with beacons. A random telehub point was suggested and rejected. Discussion took place on the benefits of a parcel directory near the telehub, and it was agreed that this would help mitigate the concerns of those objecting to a central hub.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Without a formal vote, the consensus was for a stationary telehub at or near the current location, with a parcel directory for visitors. The Mayor mentioned that that directory will have advertising space that will follow the strictest rules.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">6.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Miss Weyland asked if a sandbox would be built. The Mayor answered that Mr. Salazar Jack and Sir ArthurConan Doyle have acquired property in the <st1:state><st1:place>North West</st1:place></st1:state> corner of the sim to build a sandbox with a stock yard theme.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">7.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Mrs. Junie Ginsburg asked about the rules regarding subletting, such as office or wall space. The Mayor answered that subletting is fine because he can maintain a cap on the economy. He noted also that it is the landholder's responsibility to be sure all tenants abide by New Babbage rules. He also wants to be informed of any subletting that occurs, along with terms.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">8.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Mr. Intolerable Ginsburg asked about the ETA on the new canal district sim. The Mayor answered that it is being fast-tracked due to interest, that the map would be done by Monday, March 12th, and that reservations might be taken as early as Tuesday, March 13th. Mr. Nux Chaplin asked how the new sim would be zoned. The Mayor answered that it would be residential and commercial.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">9.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Master Neo Rebus asked if there was a way for homeless children to be considered residents. The Mayor advised Master Loki Eliot to provide a list of those who are officially in the SteamKids group, and that they would be made full residents. He said that they would be considered sub-renters on Master Eliot's property.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">10.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Mr. Miguel Pinion suggested that the canals should be built sufficiently large to allow submergibles to traverse them. The Mayor answered that the canals will be of a depth suitable for small submersibles. He said also that the next project after the canal sim will be a port and four void sims.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">11.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The Mayor asked if there was any interest in a combat system since Mr. Fizz is selling the rights to his with the demise of our sister sim, Sigil.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">After some general discussion, most of which was favorable, Mayor Sprocket tabled the topic until next month.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">12.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Miss Moss Weyland and Mr. Reitsuki Kojima asked if our sim would be enabled for voice chat.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">After a great deal of open discussion, Mayor Sprocket put the subject to a vote. The results were 3 for, 13 against, and 2 abstaining. The motion to enable voice support was therefore not carried. Mayor Sprocket decided to cite role-play ing reasons for the lack of voice support in New Babbage if asked by voice-supporters.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- end --</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Compiled by Mrs. Junie Ginsburg.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> ***<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span></div> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">WHO WILL WIN L$10,000?<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">ELEVATOR CONTEST ENDS SOON</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">As of Saturday, March 10, Mayor Sprocket had received no requests for contest entry judging. Elevator inventors have until Thursday, March 15th 2007 to request judging for their elevator, and the winner will be announced the same day. <o:p></o:p>The contest prize of L$10,000 will go forfeit if no entries are received by the 15th.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN NEW BAB</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >BAG</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >E</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >!</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This tale, although not Victorian in nature, is relative to the up and coming St.Patrick’s day festivities to be held this Saturday March 17th.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjafzbMoL81K-z-3mWp2IpslG1ZWKsBvqsFSkAUcDFTzgR1yEZQULAveJcT9t3G0KS0WphLwstpeVPPyEHD_rmwTr9luos2NMvI0NEZPPrjraCfWhW5bHy-EWr0F8d3Yhwg6XGvarMOOo/s1600-h/st16.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 321px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjafzbMoL81K-z-3mWp2IpslG1ZWKsBvqsFSkAUcDFTzgR1yEZQULAveJcT9t3G0KS0WphLwstpeVPPyEHD_rmwTr9luos2NMvI0NEZPPrjraCfWhW5bHy-EWr0F8d3Yhwg6XGvarMOOo/s400/st16.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306538928484493666" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This real life tale, was told to me by my father and two aunts, minus one now, who still swear to this day of its truth. They year is 1941 in <st1:city><st1:place>Glasgow </st1:place></st1:city><st1:country-region><st1:place>Scotland</st1:place></st1:country-region>. There had been many air attacks on the Clydeside District by the Nazi’s, known as the Clydeside Blitz. Many Glaswegian residents, including my Father’s family, had to be re-located to other areas of the city because their flats had been destroyed. My Father and my two Aunt’s, were made to share one bed in a tiny room in their new over cramped flat.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Next to nothing survived the bombing, but some my family’s possessions, did miraculously survive. Among some of these items that survived, was a pendulum clock. This clock was brought over to <st1:city><st1:place>Glasgow</st1:place></st1:city>, by my Great Grandfather, Charles Kelly, who came from <st1:city><st1:place>Glenties</st1:place></st1:city>, in <st1:place><st1:city>Donegal County</st1:city>, <st1:country-region>Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiShdN0kXOhPALKdM3P1V2WAr0_KAUg_IdlpHxMc5cjhwakMgBXUjORNWa8YPcc9Tu9rKqjRfpXq_vd1qk-Klp2ecLYxa00lBYtQ708sAPH5GQuTO1MiECj-uJ2JkieKrwj-HznEV1kDVQ/s1600-h/st5.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 347px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiShdN0kXOhPALKdM3P1V2WAr0_KAUg_IdlpHxMc5cjhwakMgBXUjORNWa8YPcc9Tu9rKqjRfpXq_vd1qk-Klp2ecLYxa00lBYtQ708sAPH5GQuTO1MiECj-uJ2JkieKrwj-HznEV1kDVQ/s400/st5.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306538871178554562" border="0" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:100%;">The pendulum clock was placed on the fireplace mantle in my Father and two Aunt’s shared room. One night, when the moon was at its fullest, the three of them witnessed something magical. After my Grandmother tucked them into bed, their small room would fill up with the moon’s light, and they would rise up out of</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">bed to watch three little leprechauns come out of the</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Pendulum clock and dance around in the moonlight. They witnessed this many times throughout their childhood, and have told their tale over and over to others, including me. A lot of people think they are just full of the <st1:place>Blarney</st1:place>, while others believe that the three of them were in shock from the events of</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">the blitz, and that they made up the story up to distract themselves from the destruction that they endured. <o:p></o:p>Well into their senior years, the three of them, minus one, still swear by their story. Are they full of <st1:place>Blarney</st1:place>? Did the three of them make a childhood pact, to tell the same story which has never differentiated from one another's?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ62Pnu0kIg-eW8WnmYcxXzlTvzU4gJwaiQ5FdeEyyHaLIhrslTRan1PHsz67XiCifnS3uze9QcDjsRbpvbvfbEp6rQzE9yS5kHqu5LljHtM4pftJIbcg8nZuriXokJwZuNTgrYnBNwIw/s1600-h/MRST14.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ62Pnu0kIg-eW8WnmYcxXzlTvzU4gJwaiQ5FdeEyyHaLIhrslTRan1PHsz67XiCifnS3uze9QcDjsRbpvbvfbEp6rQzE9yS5kHqu5LljHtM4pftJIbcg8nZuriXokJwZuNTgrYnBNwIw/s400/MRST14.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306538985702571266" border="0" /></a></span></p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Do you believe them? I do! Come to “The <st1:city><st1:place>Willow </st1:place></st1:city>Tea Room” , on Saturday March 17th, starting at <st1:time minute="0" hour="15">3pm</st1:time><st1:time minute="0" hour="18">6pm est</st1:time>/<st1:time minute="0" hour="23">11pm gmt</st1:time>). Drinksome green tea, or a Guinness a nd share a“blarney” story! SL time(</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Eggberta Echegaray</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">FILM REVIEW: THE MYSTERIOUS GEOGRAPHIC<br /></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">EXPLORATIONS OF JASPER MORELLO</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In the universe of cinematic animation, there is the ordinary, the exceptional, and Jasper Morello. Created in a "silohette" style, much of the story is told by black shadow figures enhanced by the textures of found objects and CGI. All of this is baked into an extraordinary vision of a mechanical paradise beset by the tragedy of plague and the heartbreak of failure.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrqkPfaHD66SdIkPy6Krm0OkgSymRC8yGaU2wiGK8ReZ6I480-K3tgG4wRbzbFcfBRkohXnKdSli8KlhXtiQzOcMrkW-9TUBcTQy6eHTB58ZeFn1XhiLIeA9CmeeIC9wxU9Lql3OI96k/s1600-h/morello1.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 382px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrqkPfaHD66SdIkPy6Krm0OkgSymRC8yGaU2wiGK8ReZ6I480-K3tgG4wRbzbFcfBRkohXnKdSli8KlhXtiQzOcMrkW-9TUBcTQy6eHTB58ZeFn1XhiLIeA9CmeeIC9wxU9Lql3OI96k/s400/morello1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306529330191849394" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Nominated for an Academy Award, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">was created in association with the Australian Film Commission in 2005, and is the first episode in a series of stories revolving around the main character. Jasper Morello himself is a royal navigator of steam-powered airships, ubiquitous in the steampunk world that the developers of the film have created. In this episode, "Jasper Morello and the Lost Airship,"</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Mr.Morello is still grieving a death caused by an error in his calculations on a voyage past, and is begrudgingly recruited for another mission.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span></span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Leaving his wife at home in a city sinking into disease, he promises himself that this will be his last excursion away from her.</span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaoSKkS-b6cYQFdiNo6_3aXPumyZG0Muo8eX2r4hrHcEsgE9lFQULMrByp5N3Agj8_8vn-buHHIt-SJGEJFYWy9gNZfijAjm5mBH5283OHdUz-BMZTcrj2yjQ0b-u5PmVvspBjrGjafmw/s1600-h/morello2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 244px; height: 322px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaoSKkS-b6cYQFdiNo6_3aXPumyZG0Muo8eX2r4hrHcEsgE9lFQULMrByp5N3Agj8_8vn-buHHIt-SJGEJFYWy9gNZfijAjm5mBH5283OHdUz-BMZTcrj2yjQ0b-u5PmVvspBjrGjafmw/s400/morello2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306529269421172818" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Along their journey, the crew of the airship *Resolution* encounter a grave storm which knocks them off-course. They commandeer a ghost ship into which they crash during the storm, and steer it back on-course. Mr. Morello's expertise and dead reckoning brings them to their destination: a mysterious island floating high in the air. Here they discover a creature that holds a cure for the plague back home, but returning with it on board becomes a dangerous and maddening proposition.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdikg4IN8QTYzg9_Y186_4CggZArGmMyMoAAz7Ae2oEmq0EW1MLJKwoaOr5ryq_p0JEu258GDneC5i4OscROWpi9LIXDem_tyeApRQ1jOEeGqLQuC-kEFVhEFWEoiSJ5yYw7PjmceFN_s/s1600-h/morello3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 377px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdikg4IN8QTYzg9_Y186_4CggZArGmMyMoAAz7Ae2oEmq0EW1MLJKwoaOr5ryq_p0JEu258GDneC5i4OscROWpi9LIXDem_tyeApRQ1jOEeGqLQuC-kEFVhEFWEoiSJ5yYw7PjmceFN_s/s400/morello3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306528766492612034" border="0" /></a><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This animated film, although only a short 20 minutes, is heavy with plot, character, and atmosphere. Highly recommended - not to be missed by anyone involved in steampunk culture!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Junie Ginsburg</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***<br /><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"> OF THE DAY</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Jack Burke</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvAAwodP9Tp58TgR6XoHsWv3vJW7nQKxeMCa3kMSToaVq0d57Gz-0eSxBwTcb8XbLeylZPCeThEe01sVvFfFUbh-guGl4_sMjHIilMeqKxyCFTmAejCxSQTKajq3JXAPLVdLoqdfKmfdQ/s1600-h/300px-Burke.Jack.Card.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 146px; height: 228px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvAAwodP9Tp58TgR6XoHsWv3vJW7nQKxeMCa3kMSToaVq0d57Gz-0eSxBwTcb8XbLeylZPCeThEe01sVvFfFUbh-guGl4_sMjHIilMeqKxyCFTmAejCxSQTKajq3JXAPLVdLoqdfKmfdQ/s400/300px-Burke.Jack.Card.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306528110978738978" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The pugilist, Jack Burke, who has picked up the American gauntlet thrown to him by some of our national and naturalized pugilistic countrymen, is a very popular personage among the sporting fraternity, having figured in numerous prize-fights with more or less success since his debut in the ring, and has acquired a celebrity that is world-wide.<o:p> </o:p>Jack Burke is a native of the <st1:place>British Isles</st1:place>, and a true son of John Bull, and has been a resident of many of <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s large and small cities, but made the city of <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> his chief abode, until he went to <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>, when he located himself at <st1:city><st1:place>Chicago</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p> </o:p>He is a skillful and scientific boxer, having been long in training in <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region> and also here in this country, and the sporting fraternity have looked upon him as invincible, although he has met with several unsuccessful encounters having been removed from the ring in a completely knocked-out condition, from which he at one time barely escaped with his life, after a severe and lengthy period of pain and suffering.<o:p> </o:p>His successes have been numerous, and the match which was arranged in 1886, to come off between himself and Mr. Dempsey at <st1:city><st1:place>San Francisco</st1:place></st1:city>, was considered by his backers one of certain success; and although Dempsey was the general favorite, there were many sportsmen who favored the idea that Burke would win on account of his being the heavier and more systematic boxer than his opponent.<o:p> </o:p>The steadfast opinion that Burke would win, however, soon lost ground, but at the conclusion of the fight, the referees being unable to agree, the match was called a draw, and Dempsey received the cheers of the audience, as he observed to be in the better condition of the two.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LITERARY CORNER</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;">I<span style="font-size:100%;">n this issue, The New Babbage Cog presents Chapter 4 of Sir ArthurConan Doyle's "The Sign of The Four."</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 187px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx2fdRtfzaqCP5f-_loyA2IOgVzgKgp4i5WfgRnnja7ZtAF2JV0kKoa33zF4r2G4kY3fB9jzXQdVc12I1lCp6A65E2aOGQtYcYIdWlWAfPxwFpIzcAu_oZVWNZsLYe77DcuWwJTNAHxTM/s400/04.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306525978161780402" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">WE FOLLOWED the Indian down a sordid and common passage, ill-lit and worse furnished, until he came to a door upon the right, which he threw open. A blaze of yellow light streamed out upon us, and in the centre of the glare there stood a small man with a very high head, a bristle of red hair all round the fringe of it, and a bald, shining scalp which shot out from among it like a mountain-peak from fir-trees. He writhed his hands together as he stood, and his features were in a perpetual jerk--now smiling, now scowling, but never for an instant in repose. Nature had given him a pendulous lip, and a too visible line of yellow and irregular teeth, which he strove feebly to conceal by constantly passing his hand over the lower part of his face. In spite of his obtrusive baldness he gave the impression of youth. In point of fact, he had just turned his thirtieth year.<o:p> </o:p>"Your servant, Miss Morstan," he kept repeating in a thin, high voice. "Your servant, gentlemen. Pray step into my little sanctum. A small place, miss, but furnished to my own liking. An oasis of art in the howling <st1:place><st1:placetype>desert</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>South London</st1:placename></st1:place>." We were all astonished by the appearance of the apartment into which he invited us. In that sorry house it looked as out of place as a diamond of the first water in a setting of brass. The richest and glossiest of curtains and tapestries draped the walls, looped back here and there to expose some richly mounted painting or Oriental vase. The carpet was of amber and black, so soft and so thick that the foot sank pleasantly into it, as into a bed of moss. Two great tiger-skins thrown athwart it increased the suggestion of Eastern luxury, as did a huge hookah which stood upon a mat in the corner. A lamp in the fashion of a silver dove was hung from an almost invisible golden wire in the centre of the room. As it burned it filled the air with a subtle and aromatic odour.<o:p> </o:p>"Mr. Thaddeus Sholto," said the little man, still jerking and smiling. "That is my name. You are Miss Morstan, of course. And these gentlemen"<o:p> </o:p>"This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and this Dr. Watson."<o:p> </o:p>"A doctor, eh?" cried he, much excited. "Have you your stethoscope? Might I ask you--would you have the kindness? I have grave doubts as to my mitral valve, if you would be so very good. The aortic I may rely upon, but I should value your opinion upon the mitral."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I listened to his heart, as requested, but was unable to find anything amiss, save, indeed, that he was in an ecstasy of fear, for he shivered from head to foot.<o:p> </o:p>"It appears to be normal," I said. "You have no cause for uneasiness."<o:p> </o:p>"You will excuse my anxiety, Miss Morstan," he remarked airily. "I am a great sufferer, and I have long had suspicions as to that valve. I am delighted to hear that they are unwarranted. Had your father, Miss Morstan, refrained from throwing a strain upon his heart, he might have been alive now."<o:p> </o:p>I could have struck the man across the face, so hot was I at this callous and offhand reference to so delicate a matter. Miss Morstan sat down, and her face grew white to the lips. <o:p></o:p>I knew in my heart that he was dead," said she.<o:p> </o:p>"I can give you every information," said he; "and, what is more, I can do you justice; and I will, too, whatever Brother Bartholomew may say. I am so glad to have your friends here not only as an escort to you but also as witnesses to what I am about to do and say. The three of us can show a bold front to Brother Bartholomew. But let us have no outsiders--no police or officials. We can settle everything satisfactorily among ourselves without any interference. Nothing would annoy Brother Bartholomew more than any publicity."<o:p></o:p>He sat down upon a low settee and blinked at us inquiringly with his weak, watery blue eyes.<o:p> </o:p>"For my part," said Holmes, "whatever you may choose to say will go no further."<o:p></o:p>I nodded to show my agreement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"That is well! That is well!" said he. "May I offer you a glass of Chianti, Miss Morstan? Or of Tokay? I keep no other wines. Shall I open a flask? No? Well, then, I trust that you have no objection to tobacco-smoke, to the balsamic odour of the Eastern tobacco. I am a little nervous, and I find my hookah an invaluable sedative."<o:p> </o:p>He applied a taper to the great bowl, and the smoke bubbled merrily through the rose-water. We sat all three in a semicircle, with our heads advanced and our chins upon our hands, while the strange, jerky little fellow, with his high, shining head, puffed uneasily in the centre.<o:p> </o:p>"When I first determined to make this communication to you," said he, "I might have given you my address; but I feared that you might disregard my request and bring unpleasant people with you. I took the liberty, therefore, of making an appointment in such a way that my man Williams might be able to see you first. I have complete confidence in his discretion, and he had orders, if he were dissatisfied, to proceed no further in the matter. You will excuse these precautions, but I am a man of somewhat retiring, and I might even say refined, tastes, and there is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman. I have a natural shrinking from all forms of rough materialism. I seldom come in contact with the rough crowd. I live, as you see, with some little atmosphere of elegance around me. I may call myself a patron of the arts. It is my weakness. The landscape is a genuine Corot, and though a connoisseur might perhaps throw a doubt upon that Salvator Rosa, there cannot be the least question about the Bouguereau. I am partial to the modern French school."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"You will excuse me, Mr. Sholto," said Miss Morstan, "but I am here at your request to learn something which you desire to tell me. It is very late, and I should desire the interview to be as short as possible."<o:p> </o:p>"At the best it must take some time," he answered; "for we shall certainly have to go to <st1:city><st1:place>Norwood</st1:place></st1:city> and see Brother Bartholomew. We shall all go and try if we can get the better of Brother Bartholomew. He is very angry with me for taking the course which has seemed right to me. I had quite high words with him last night. You cannot imagine what a terrible fellow he is when he is angry."<o:p> </o:p>"If we are to go to <st1:city><st1:place>Norwood</st1:place></st1:city>, it would perhaps be as well to start at once," I ventured to remark.<o:p> </o:p>He laughed until his ears were quite red.<o:p> </o:p>"That would hardly do," he cried. "I don't know what he would say if I brought you in that sudden way. No, I must prepare you by showing you how we all stand to each other. In the first place, I must tell you that there are several points in the story of which I am myself ignorant. I can only lay the facts before you as far as I know them myself.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"My father was, as you may have guessed, Major John Sholto, once of the Indian Army. He retired some eleven years ago and came to live at Pondicherry Lodge in <st1:place>Upper Norwood</st1:place>. He had prospered in <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> and brought back with him a considerable sum of money, a large collection of valuable curiosities, and a staff of native servants. With these advantages he bought himself a house, and lived in great luxury. My twin-brother Bartholomew and I were the only children.<o:p> </o:p>"I very well remember the sensation which was caused by the disappearance of Captain Morstan. We read the details in the papers, and knowing that he had been a friend of our father's we discussed the case freely in his presence. He used to join in our speculations as to what could have happened. Never for an instant did we suspect that he had the whole secret hidden in his own breast, that of all men he alone knew the fate of Arthur Morstan.<o:p> </o:p>"We did know, however, that some mystery, some positive danger, overhung our father. He was very fearful of going out alone, and he always employed two prize-fighters to act as porters at Pondicherry Lodge. Williams, who drove you to-night, was one of them. He was once lightweight champion of <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs. On one occasion he actually fired his revolver at a wooden-legged man, who proved to be a harmless tradesman canvassing for orders. We had to pay a large sum to hush the matter up. My brother and I used to think this a mere whim of my father's, but events have since led us to change our opinion.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"Early in 1882 my father received a letter from <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> which was a great shock to him. He nearly fainted at the breakfast-table when he opened it, and from that day he sickened to his death. What was in the letter we could never discover, but I could see as he held it that it was short and written in a scrawling hand. He had suffered for years from an enlarged spleen, but he now became rapidly worse, and towards the end of April we were informed that he was beyond all hope, and that he wished to make a last communication to us.<o:p> </o:p>"When we entered his room he was propped up with pillows and breathing heavily. He besought us to lock the door and to come upon either side of the bed. Then grasping our hands he made a remarkable statement to us in a voice which was broken as much by emotion as by pain. I shall try and give it to you in his own very words.<o:p> </o:p>"'I have only one thing,' he said, 'which weighs upon my mind at this supreme moment. It is my treatment of poor Morstan's orphan. The cursed greed which has been my besetting sin through life has withheld from her the treasure, half at least of which should have been hers. And yet I have made no use of it myself, so blind and foolish a thing is avarice. The mere feeling of possession has been so dear to me that I could not bear to share it with another. See that chaplet tipped with pearls beside the quinine-bottle. Even that I could not bear to part with, although I had got it out with the design of sending it to her. You, my sons, will give her a fair share of the <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city> treasure. But send her nothing--not even the chaplet--until I am gone. After all, men have been as bad as this and have recovered.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"'I will tell you how Morstan died,' he continued. 'He had suffered for years from a weak heart, but he concealed it from every one. I alone knew it. When in <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>, he and I, through a remarkable chain of circumstances, came into possession of a considerable treasure. I brought it over to <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and on the night of Morstan's arrival he came straight over here to claim his share. He walked over from the station and was admitted by my faithful old Lal Chowdar, who is now dead. Morstan and I had a difference of opinion as to the division of the treasure, and we came to heated words. Morstan had sprung out of his chair in a paroxysm of anger, when he suddenly pressed his hand to his side, his face turned a dusky hue, and he fell backward, cutting his head against the corner of the treasure-chest. When I stooped over him I found, to my horror, that he was dead.<o:p> </o:p>"'For a long time I sat half distracted, wondering what I should do. My first impulse was, of course, to call for assistance; but I could not but recognize that there was every chance that I would be accused of his murder.<o:p> </o:p>His death at the moment of a quarrel, and the gash in his head, would be black against me. Again, an official inquiry could not be made without bringing out some facts about the treasure, which I was particularly anxious to keep secret. He had told me that no soul upon earth knew where he had gone. There seemed to be no necessity why any soul ever should know.<o:p> </o:p>"'I was still pondering over the matter, when, looking up, I saw my servant, Lal Chowdar, in the doorway. He stole in and bolted the door behind him. "Do not fear, sahib," he said; "no one need know that you have killed him. Let us hide him away, and who is the wiser?" "I did not kill him," said I.<o:p> </o:p>Lal Chowdar shook his head and smiled. "I heard it all, sahib," said he; "I heard you quarrel, and I heard the blow. But my lips are sealed. All are asleep in the house. Let us put him away together." That was enough to decide me. If my own servant could not believe my innocence, how could I hope to make it good before twelve foolish tradesmen in a jury-box? Lal Chowdar and I disposed of the body that night, and within a few days the <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> papers were full of the mysterious disappearance of Captain Morstan. You will see from what I say that I can hardly be blamed in the matter. My fault lies in the fact that we concealed not only the body but also the treasure and that I have clung to Morstan's share as well as to my own. I wish you, therefore, to make restitution. Put your ears down to my mouth. The treasure is hidden in-- --'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"At this instant a horrible change came over his expression; his eyes stared wildly, his jaw dropped, and he yelled in a voice which I can never forget, 'Keep him out! For Christ's sake keep him out!' We both stared round at the window behind us upon which his gaze was fixed. A face was looking in at us out of the darkness. We could see the whitening of the nose where it was pressed against the glass. It was a bearded, hairy face, with wild cruel eyes and an expression of concentrated malevolence. My brother and I rushed towards the window, but the man was gone. When we returned to my father his head had dropped and his pulse had ceased to beat.<o:p> </o:p>"We searched the garden that night but found no sign of the intruder save that just under the window a single footmark was visible in the flower-bed. But for that one trace, we might have thought that our imaginations had conjured up that wild, fierce face. We soon, however, had another and a more striking proof that there were secret agencies at work all round us. The window of my father's room was found open in the morning, his cupboards and boxes had been rifled, and upon his chest was fixed a torn piece of paper with the words 'The sign of the four' scrawled across it. What the phrase meant or who our secret visitor may have been, we never knew. As far as we can judge, none of my father's property had been actually stolen, though everything had been turned out. My brother and I naturally associated this peculiar incident with the fear which haunted my father during his life, but it is still a complete mystery to us."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The little man stopped to relight his hookah and puffed thoughtfully for a few moments. We had all sat absorbed, listening to his extraordinary narrative. At the short account of her father's death Miss Morstan had turned deadly white, and for a moment I feared that she was about to faint. She rallied, however, on drinking a glass of water which I quietly poured out for her from a Venetian carafe upon the side-table. Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair with an abstracted expression and the lids drawn low over his glittering eyes. As I glanced at him I could not but think how on that very day he had complained bitterly of the commonplaceness of life. Here at least was a problem which would tax his sagacity to the utmost. Mr. Thaddeus Sholto looked from one to the other of us with an obvious pride at the effect which his story had produced and then continued between the puffs of his overgrown pipe.<o:p> </o:p>"My brother and I," said he, "were, as you may imagine, much excited as to the treasure which my father had spoken of. For weeks and for months we dug and delved in every part of the garden without discovering its whereabouts. It was maddening to think that the hiding-place was on his very lips at the moment that he died. We could judge the splendour of the missing riches by the chaplet which he had taken out. Over this chaplet my brother Bartholomew and I had some little discussion. The pearls were evidently of great value, and he was averse to part with them, for, between friends, my brother was himself a little inclined to my father's fault. He thought, too, that if we parted with the chaplet it might give rise to gossip and finally bring us into trouble. It was all that I could do to persuade him to let me find out Miss Morstan's address and send her a detached pearl at fixed intervals so that at least she might never feel destitute."<o:p> </o:p>"It was a kindly thought," said our companion earnestly; "it was extremely good of you."<o:p> </o:p>The little man waved his hand deprecatingly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"We were your trustees," he said; "that was the view which I took of it, though Brother Bartholomew could not altogether see it in that light. We had plenty of money ourselves. I desired no more. Besides, it would have been such bad taste to have treated a young lady in so scurvy a fashion. 'Le mauvais gout mene au crime.' The French have a very neat way of putting these things. Our difference of opinion on this subject went so far that I thought it best to set up rooms for myself; so I left Pondicherry Lodge, taking the old khitmutgar and Williams with me. Yesterday, however, I learned that an event of extreme importance has occurred. The treasure has been discovered. I instantly communicated with Miss Morstan, and it only remains for us to drive out to <st1:city><st1:place>Norwood</st1:place></st1:city> and demand our share. I explained my views last night to Brother Bartholomew, so we shall be expected, if not welcome, visitors."<o:p> </o:p>Mr. Thaddeus Sholto ceased and sat twitching on his luxurious settee. We all remained silent, with our thoughts upon the new development which the mysterious business had taken. Holmes was the first to spring to his feet.<o:p> </o:p>"You have done well, sir, from first to last," said he. "It is possible that we may be able to make you some small return by throwing some light upon that which is still dark to you. But, as Miss Morstan remarked just now, it is late, and we had best put the matter through without delay."<o:p> </o:p>Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with astrakhan collar and cuffs. This he buttoned tightly up in spite of the extreme closeness of the night and finished his attire by putting on a rabbit-skin cap with hanging lappets which covered the ears, so that no part of him was visible save his mobile and peaky face.<o:p> </o:p>"My health is somewhat fragile," he remarked as he led the way down the passage. "I am compelled to be a valetudinarian."<o:p> </o:p>Our cab was awaiting us outside, and our programme was evidently prearranged, for the driver started off at once at a rapid pace. Thaddeus Sholto talked incessantly in a voice which rose high above the rattle of the wheels.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"Bartholomew is a clever fellow," said he. "How do you think he found out where the treasure was? He had come to the conclusion that it was somewhere indoors, so he worked out all the cubic space of the house and made measurements everywhere so that not one inch should be unaccounted for. Among other things, he found that the height of the building was seventy-four feet, but on adding together the heights of all the separate rooms and making every allowance for the space between, which he ascertained by borings, he could not bring the total to more than seventy feet. There were four feet unaccounted for. These could only be at the top of the building. He knocked a hole, therefore, in the lath and plaster ceiling of the highest room, and there, sure enough, he came upon another little garret above it, which had been sealed up and was known to no one. In the centre stood the treasure-chest resting upon two rafters. He lowered it through the hole, and there it lies. He computes the value of the jewels at not less than half a million sterling."<o:p> </o:p>At the mention of this gigantic sum we all stared at one another open-eyed. Miss Morstan, could we secure her rights, would change from a needy governess to the richest heiress in <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Surely it was the place of a loyal friend to rejoice at such news, yet I am ashamed to say that selfishness took me by the soul and that my heart turned as heavy as lead within me. I stammered out some few halting words of congratulation and then sat downcast, with my head drooped, deaf to the babble of our new acquaintance. He was clearly a confirmed hypochondriac, and I was dreamily conscious that he was pouring forth interminable trains of symptoms, and imploring information as to the composition and action of innumerable quack nostrums, some of which he bore about in a leather case in his pocket. I trust that he may not remember any of the answers which I gave him that night. Holmes declares that he overheard me caution him against the great danger of taking more than two drops of castor-oil, while I recommended strychnine in large doses as a sedative. However that may be, I was certainly relieved when our cab pulled up with a jerk and the coachman sprang down to open the door.<o:p> </o:p>"This, Miss Morstan, is Pondicherry Lodge," said Mr. Thaddeus Sholto as he handed her out.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">____________________________________________________________<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p style="font-weight: bold;"></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Oolon is going to be 400 (RL 40) on March the 15th.<o:p> </o:p><st1:time minute="0" hour="16">4pm to 9pm</st1:time> SL (12am to 5am GMT).<o:p> </o:p>Please join Oolon and his assorted friends at Caledon Carntaigh for a eclectic musical rave-up provided by Duchess Garielle Riel and her inexhaustable phonograph. A Victoria Science Fiction theme will be evident and one is asked to dress sympathetically. Please bring along people that you know are nice.<o:p> </o:p>Duchy of Carntaigh, <st1:city><st1:place>Caledon</st1:place></st1:city> Carntaigh (191, 128, 22)<o:p> </o:p>Cocktails will be served beforehand, from <st1:time minute="0" hour="13">1pm</st1:time> SL (<st1:time minute="0" hour="21">9pm GMT</st1:time>)</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">in the Oolons Etheric Travel Cabinet. Many of his RL friends will be visiting SL for the first time during this time. Please make them welcome :-)<o:p> </o:p>Oolons TARDIS, Fantasieland (87, 40, 538) We look forward to seeing you.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please IM Oolon, Terry Lightfoot, Fuschia Begonia or Emilly Ladybird should you wish to know more.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span><br /><br /></span> </div><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">INVENTORS! As executive director of the New Babbage Conservatoire, <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> (83, 204, 21), </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I am in search of musical instruments that are at once fantastical, musical and functional. Mechanical harps, steam-powered horn sections, elaborate orchestrions with brass pipes and fittings... whatever your fevered coal-driven imagination can devise. Please contact me either in world or by aetheric-mail at quinemondrian@gmail.com to discuss commissions and terms.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">SMALL OBSERVATORY TELESCOPE now available at <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> (219, 29, 25) Built by Mr. Intolerable Ginsburg, the I.J. Ginsburg Telescope #1 is inspired by the 1877 meridian telescope of the Paris Observatory. Perfect for large homes, small astronomical observatories, or outdoor use. Custom pose and camera view of the man in the moon. Copy/mod,</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">58 prims, and very affordable at L$200.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >* * *</span></p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">RESOURCES</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbager Aethernet Journals</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-weight: bold;">:<br /></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://eggberta.blogspot.com/">http://eggberta.blogspot.com/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Master Loki Eliot:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://lokiboy.blogspot.com/">http://lokiboy.blogspot.com/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Mr. and Mrs. Intolerable Ginsburg:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://intolerable.org/sl/?cat=7&paged=3">http://intolerable.org/sl/?cat=7&paged=3</a><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Mr. Salazar Jack:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://homepage.mac.com/salazarjack/default.html">http://homepage.mac.com/salazarjack/default.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Miss Ordinal Malaprop:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://ordinalmalaprop.com/">http://ordinalmalaprop.com/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Chance Takashi:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.chancetakashi.com/">http://www.chancetakashi.com/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >------------------------</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >------------------------</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed usingonly the tools at theirdisposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk"><br /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305009654355755698" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 116px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm4Roec4ollu4LNiehJLSvnp167mLgw48Zy5V-cihDpCCghSGNe4nb3av5j9nCVwxnLsg2-K0zNA8_UT2e7Fi2uuJKaNX_3qll9hMW-yNuLVj3mYJshcrTRakH70MPk3XFGPYsiLt-cqk/s400/junie.jpg" border="0" /></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Mrs. Junie Ginsburg </strong><br /></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Asst Editor: Miss Eggberta Echegaray </strong></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Visit us:</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog office is located at <st1:street><st1:address>#4 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, across the street from I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store (<st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>).<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Drop a notecard:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Notecard communications can be dropped in the postbox outside the Cog office at the address above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- IM:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">You may contact Mrs. Junie Ginsburg or Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Aethernet mail:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Messages sent to <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by Miss Eggberta Echegaray.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Circulation:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paperboxes at the following locations:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, outside of I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">3. A reading copy of the current issue is always available at the </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">newspaper office at <st1:street><st1:address>#4 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Back Issues:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the archive on the first floor of the newspaper office.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Submissions:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.<o:p></o:p><br /></span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Errata:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Copyright Disclaimer:</span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" > The Second Life in world note card publication date, of this issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper. </span><br /></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; 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font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >~~ Relata Refero ~~</span></div>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-78413776369897465232009-02-19T08:07:00.000-08:002009-04-16T07:21:32.504-07:0026 March 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1ZIhiGUylERMoiAkknBGOVYtQbbQTImNhhyphenhyphenP7Mb1p8yQWYt9crOjjZiXlvgjrdcZzUrHD-oBCZGq9Bn4LB0Gb68rWdWPD0WCVe0rOkaMii7K03bV0tL_khi_4Dn10lydwp_vtXcFVVk/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 135px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1ZIhiGUylERMoiAkknBGOVYtQbbQTImNhhyphenhyphenP7Mb1p8yQWYt9crOjjZiXlvgjrdcZzUrHD-oBCZGq9Bn4LB0Gb68rWdWPD0WCVe0rOkaMii7K03bV0tL_khi_4Dn10lydwp_vtXcFVVk/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308391060235179394" border="0" /></a><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Vol I Issue vi<span style=""> ~ </span><st1:date year="2007" day="26" month="3">26th March 2007</st1:date></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:date year="2007" day="26" month="3"></st1:date></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:date year="2007" day="26" month="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></st1:date></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:date year="2007" day="26" month="3"></st1:date></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"></o:smarttagtype></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><ol style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Letter from the Editor</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Two L$10,000 Winners in Elevator Contest!</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Air Kraken Attack in New Babbage!</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Town Hall Reconstruction B</span><span style="font-size:100%;">egins</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Cogs, Cogs, Everywhere Are Cogs</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Pro</span><span style="font-size:100%;">minent Men & Women of the Day</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Literary Corner</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Events & Announcements</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Classified Advertisements</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Resources</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Babbage and Steampunk FAQ</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Contact, Circulation, and other </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Essential Information for the Rea</span><span style="font-size:100%;">der</span></li></ol><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;" >___________________________________________________</span><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;" >_______</span><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;" >______________<br /></span><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LET</span><span style="font-size:130%;">TER FROM THE EDITOR</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">It was bound to happen sooner or later.<span style=""> </span>This issue of the Cog didn't go out anywhere close to a week after the previous issue. There were a variety of intervening factors, the least of which wasn't that </span><span style="font-size:100%;">your dear editor has several other projects cooking. Please forgive the delay!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">In your service,</span></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Mrs. Junie Ginsburg</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;">__________________________________________________________________<br /></div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">TWO L$10,000 WINNERS IN ELEVATOR CONTEST!</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">On Thursday, March 15, the final judging took place in New Babbage's elevator invention contest. There were only two entrants. The grand prize winner was Mr. Pumpkin Tripsa, for his unique design wherein two giant metal hands acted as the lifts. Mr. Tripsa receive</span><span style="font-size:100%;">d a $10,000 award. Unknown to entrants, the Mayor had intended to split an additiona</span><span style="font-size:100%;">l L$10,0</span><span style="font-size:100%;">00 b</span><span style="font-size:100%;">etween the runners up. However, given that there were only </span><span style="font-size:100%;">two submissions in the contest, the secon</span><span style="font-size:100%;">d-place elevator invento</span><span style="font-size:100%;">r, Miss Kaylee Frye, won the entire consolation pot of L$10,000. In his announcement of the winning design, the Mayor declared </span><span style="font-size:100%;">that the final elevators to be placed on the walkways would be hybrids of the winning designs. However, shortly after construction began, the project was completed instead by Reitsuki Kojima, whose design is </span><span style="font-size:100%;">now in use in New Babbage.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP8Ht6c6JtLayhMXBxjxRBUPRSE3203HywsH_oz_tnFI0yHpS1GnIuE6pHdKr2qF6BZ2EyBi5Kn4OjKBbNsE05I1NQ1SZeSY8CUYpmyZM_p2izmfxJg1I_tgrdR8tWpWaDBbyzQ7wNTKo/s1600-h/rei+on+elevator_002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 292px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP8Ht6c6JtLayhMXBxjxRBUPRSE3203HywsH_oz_tnFI0yHpS1GnIuE6pHdKr2qF6BZ2EyBi5Kn4OjKBbNsE05I1NQ1SZeSY8CUYpmyZM_p2izmfxJg1I_tgrdR8tWpWaDBbyzQ7wNTKo/s400/rei+on+elevator_002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308403877944271810" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_bz_CzZu0eNp7liUemKxNiEeaQJgEkCXcBP87My2lCb-c46cPk_HYGYjasQn4zSmnXEDb2lWV6cqc85FyxIuS0GhZ-b_7cWQDDrZdRWLP64fReGj6UwR8FFcOP_Ax6vh97bEN9kC7I0/s1600-h/final_elevator_nighttime.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 359px; height: 343px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_bz_CzZu0eNp7liUemKxNiEeaQJgEkCXcBP87My2lCb-c46cPk_HYGYjasQn4zSmnXEDb2lWV6cqc85FyxIuS0GhZ-b_7cWQDDrZdRWLP64fReGj6UwR8FFcOP_Ax6vh97bEN9kC7I0/s400/final_elevator_nighttime.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308403612598332290" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQc_3hLO1-4g8H5VMxN5MUaM4nIKpCB-HoCag1W6OCNL7xSqJfS2guPRb5PrHrnCstypGj0GhbgZWCescYO3eHFvvS0dmrELla-jfkKSno3pMfgBuiwJTHxQReiNr3zfOhLF2ZfRpUg_A/s1600-h/cog_002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQc_3hLO1-4g8H5VMxN5MUaM4nIKpCB-HoCag1W6OCNL7xSqJfS2guPRb5PrHrnCstypGj0GhbgZWCescYO3eHFvvS0dmrELla-jfkKSno3pMfgBuiwJTHxQReiNr3zfOhLF2ZfRpUg_A/s400/cog_002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308403479819513394" border="0" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Mr. Tripsa's winning "hand lift" design was a testament to the innovatio</span><span style="font-size:100%;">n and creativity inherent in New Babbage. The entire project was textured with rusted metal, and the script was a cooperative effort between Mr. Tripsa and Miss Frye, whose design, unfortunately, has not yet been photographed for the Cog.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_zGCWCRaL7UueZru-oyKoanxCIW0iTXOebbkWoWOrDCYjcM5ByuhDXux8_0CBid6KsR2hhVAYRFlVLj_oOlJZB51750rbh3NRNL6SfV0kDxI2bWSD3aLRfWp1qPUCt9d9usglpzJhbUQ/s1600-h/mr_pumpkin_tripsa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 331px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_zGCWCRaL7UueZru-oyKoanxCIW0iTXOebbkWoWOrDCYjcM5ByuhDXux8_0CBid6KsR2hhVAYRFlVLj_oOlJZB51750rbh3NRNL6SfV0kDxI2bWSD3aLRfWp1qPUCt9d9usglpzJhbUQ/s400/mr_pumpkin_tripsa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308403825763871794" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGKZmp_IUNx0_uuxEDRgB99FvNT7CSYdT2T-DLPrwghjDzBPnlo3oYUhEFbOCp0GCp6UOuaW66lCxrzXMD2Z4pNR4bEAz5OgLJv-_42nvv3lkvpjkVhGZeWYNvU6GTDoZ5OjEpb_j0O3I/s1600-h/tripsa_elevator1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGKZmp_IUNx0_uuxEDRgB99FvNT7CSYdT2T-DLPrwghjDzBPnlo3oYUhEFbOCp0GCp6UOuaW66lCxrzXMD2Z4pNR4bEAz5OgLJv-_42nvv3lkvpjkVhGZeWYNvU6GTDoZ5OjEpb_j0O3I/s400/tripsa_elevator1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308403994279141586" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA8wFNqX4rEbptqzj62qIQyVNEGF-nwTki23lfg92rUyJJuf2JaUdd5D5xgA_X_bQBVsrRN8kQFQW310ZPr3L2ZLTCDXdmpAaA0_AQCo6YYEgRFtVk9F1M8y3DIJpqPSgiAhcZCZgJlLc/s1600-h/tripsa_elevator2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA8wFNqX4rEbptqzj62qIQyVNEGF-nwTki23lfg92rUyJJuf2JaUdd5D5xgA_X_bQBVsrRN8kQFQW310ZPr3L2ZLTCDXdmpAaA0_AQCo6YYEgRFtVk9F1M8y3DIJpqPSgiAhcZCZgJlLc/s400/tripsa_elevator2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308404051480200210" border="0" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">When asked how it felt to win L$10,000 in the contest, Mr. Tripsa replied that as a relatively new resident in SL and in New Babbage, it was overwhelming but ultimately e</span><span style="font-size:100%;">ncourages him to do more building. In hi</span><span style="font-size:100%;">s interview with the Cog, he was modest and praised Miss Frye's skills as a builder and scripter.<span style=""> </span>Mr. Tripsa's long-term plans in New Babbage include a steampunk art and fashions shop much in the same spirit as his elevator design, as well as a digital taxidermy. Here at the Cog, we are confident tha</span><span style="font-size:100%;">t New Babbage will see great things to come from Mr. Tripsa.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Junie Ginsburg</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;">***<br /></div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">AIR KRAKEN ATTACK IN NEW BABBAG</span><span style="font-size:130%;">E!</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"> </p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">This humble reporter was out and about in our fine City of <st1:city><st1:place>New </st1:place></st1:city>Babbage, taking a leisurely Sunday morning flyby. Whilst out and </span><span style="font-size:100%;">about in the Cultural District</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">, I approached Mr. Pumpkin Tripsa’s, Steamed Palate Art and Fashion Store. All of a sudden, I started to feel uneasy, and sensed that something was watching me. Wanting to quickly get to my destination, I continued to fly by his store, but before I knew it, something had grabbed me!</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx5FI_ux-U85IK8LnbtqR-xhU_WxoWOJbhsvWf7EawKQOZ6OywCMdQxMmMJIN0FzR6mBLfsHfhVUr6XcmVrtjuokvd_VCsNSpVc3bLQcgV0cs_HEyd_pHCqCtZ5K7HHrRFm9cZSH4P7jA/s1600-h/air+kraken_006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx5FI_ux-U85IK8LnbtqR-xhU_WxoWOJbhsvWf7EawKQOZ6OywCMdQxMmMJIN0FzR6mBLfsHfhVUr6XcmVrtjuokvd_VCsNSpVc3bLQcgV0cs_HEyd_pHCqCtZ5K7HHrRFm9cZSH4P7jA/s400/air+kraken_006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308403412945212930" border="0" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I couldn’t let out a scream, for I was in shear shock! When I managed to collect myself, I found myself in the grips of a horrible, gargantuan Air Kraken’s tentacles! I didn’t un</span><span style="font-size:100%;">derstand why this beast was resti</span><span style="font-size:100%;">ng on top of Mr.Tripsa’s roof, for I thought Krakens were only sea dwelling creatures</span><span style="font-size:100%;">!</span></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTWwr6wdeLqbFWzhn9UZG3pb1dAu_j5jHyN2U7orLTnZhTiRZgSdjjgak_OQnOG_eByvA9mN-V66AnznolrhoSWqL4Z_eXhYRjF8-xtqvLgIRb-UOWn3srmb3zRT1csEcisdsMOgQ5Tn8/s1600-h/Colossal_octopus_by_Pierre_Denys_de_Montfort.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 346px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTWwr6wdeLqbFWzhn9UZG3pb1dAu_j5jHyN2U7orLTnZhTiRZgSdjjgak_OQnOG_eByvA9mN-V66AnznolrhoSWqL4Z_eXhYRjF8-xtqvLgIRb-UOWn3srmb3zRT1csEcisdsMOgQ5Tn8/s400/Colossal_octopus_by_Pierre_Denys_de_Montfort.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308403540895984338" border="0" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I started to squirm around, to see if I could break free from its sticky, ice cold grip. Its tentacles were wrapped too tightly around my body, and my struggle was beginning to fade. I had no weapons on me, for I surely would have shot or stabbed the</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> beast to break myself free. The Kraken’s sheer size and fearsome appearance was indeed frightening me, I began to sob, pleading for my life, fearing that I was about to become its morning breakfast.</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_H8HCfWZahAKaAE5FaBlXvnC7Iuir_AMQhivXQa47_ofH7s9313N_pGP_NyOcdzDkdbQ_wVgjvyMMBE44x56Ik5fPpQLz5mq6wIeYrJLVgc2R75dxALfHVdrToYR06tQqA9730mGbyrY/s1600-h/kraken_005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_H8HCfWZahAKaAE5FaBlXvnC7Iuir_AMQhivXQa47_ofH7s9313N_pGP_NyOcdzDkdbQ_wVgjvyMMBE44x56Ik5fPpQLz5mq6wIeYrJLVgc2R75dxALfHVdrToYR06tQqA9730mGbyrY/s400/kraken_005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308403698003368946" border="0" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I believe it was at this point, that the Kraken may have took pity on me, for I then fo</span><span style="font-size:100%;">und myself, dropped down onto the ground, </span><span style="font-size:100%;">wiping slimy residue off my clothing. As I stood there, stunned and bewildered, the Kraken’s tentacles wavered loosely arou</span><span style="font-size:100%;">nd me. My realization kicked in, tha</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">t I was lucky to be alive!</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I composed myself, and high tailed it out of the area, fast!</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtPd8N0J8s4R7BC5ffWMMr0QSXZ1DJSyvIku4muRf3nNVUh4olZS76ywXv1FTUT1xQ94WSIgYFP6WBy8sY37kFpPZP1yYExc6cj5z7aX_Lde4SUOVXV2e1R6xW8jekJE4O4BJcPqrODM/s1600-h/kraken_009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtPd8N0J8s4R7BC5ffWMMr0QSXZ1DJSyvIku4muRf3nNVUh4olZS76ywXv1FTUT1xQ94WSIgYFP6WBy8sY37kFpPZP1yYExc6cj5z7aX_Lde4SUOVXV2e1R6xW8jekJE4O4BJcPqrODM/s400/kraken_009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308403767150034002" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Here all this time, I thought Krakens to be of sailor’s legends, but with what I had just experienced, this reporter now knows, that Krakens, especially airborne ones, are indeed, REAL!<span style=""> </span>There was only the one, but, there could be others, so my fellow New Babbagers, ye be warned! An Air Kraken has been awoken, and is amidst in our city!<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">TOWN HALL RECONSTRUCTION BEGINS</span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">On the parcel where our town hall once stood, once will find now only empty space and a small seed of a new structure. The old town hall was demolished last week in accordance with the decision made at the Town Meeting of Saturday, March 10th. Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket has begun reconstruction. At this </span><span style="font-size:100%;">time, to our knowledge, there is no estimated time of completion.</span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Tired of checking the newspaper box for a new issue of the Cog?<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Join the New Babbage Cog group and receive new issues as soon as they come o</span><span style="font-size:100%;">ut!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>* * *</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">COGS, COGS, EVERYWHERE ARE COGS</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Yes, it's true, dear readers. New Babbagers love their cogs. Steampunks love their cogs. And apparently, everyone else likes them as well. Much like the phenomenon of purchasing an item of value (suc</span><span style="font-size:100%;">h as a horseless carriage) and then noticing many of them on the road simply because one is more aware, this writer has become much more aware of the popularity of the cog motif. In our world as in the outside wo</span><span style="font-size:100%;">rld, the cog appears to be a universal symbol for industry, work, and the abstract concept o</span><span style="font-size:100%;">f "mechanism." The cog is also becoming increasingly known as the symbol under which those of us interested in all matters steampunk have gathered. In a roomful of strangers, is it not true that steampunks will gra</span><span style="font-size:100%;">vitate toward anyone wearing the cog motif? As in all subcultures, those involved have developed manners of recognizing their own, and if dress alone is not sufficient, the presence of a cog would certainly speak volumes in our community.</span></p><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx28FsFJyLXoI2yWalP4TZIx8WueoMaEmx-KVii1Rz8R_o_ho2_z_dVEpIW_DUwqJVHVBloQ-BbBQ03oIkQEtCkaLA31gPid3KLIL-TgsnZwXNnhl8PIsvOsrAB1KLfrfsQIYFs8oPOac/s1600-h/textures_unlimited_cogs.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx28FsFJyLXoI2yWalP4TZIx8WueoMaEmx-KVii1Rz8R_o_ho2_z_dVEpIW_DUwqJVHVBloQ-BbBQ03oIkQEtCkaLA31gPid3KLIL-TgsnZwXNnhl8PIsvOsrAB1KLfrfsQIYFs8oPOac/s400/textures_unlimited_cogs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308403935602347106" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">In New Babbage, our de facto symbol is the cog. In addition to this newspaper, The New Babbage Cog, <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> also bo</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">asts the presence of</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> a public house by the name of "The Rusty Cog." Our telehub is shaped like a cog. Some buildings display cogs on their exteriors. Outside of New Babbage, however, it is perhaps more unusual and engaging to encounter the cog where one doesn't expect it. Textures Unlimited - Lily Pad Lo, <st1:place>Clyde</st1:place> (66, 186, 31), a store in <st1:place>Clyde</st1:place>, appears to be a build by a steampunk, or at the very least </span><span style="font-size:100%;">a person of industrial inclination.Not only is the building itself quite industrial in appearance, but </span><span style="font-size:100%;">the walkway outside features a cog fountain sculpture. </span><span style="font-size:100%;">"Calendar Cogs" are a new gadget made available by Alidar Moxie. This is a to</span><span style="font-size:100%;">ol that will coordinate one's Google Calendar with in-world events in order to keep one apprised, in-world and out, of obligations listed in personal calendars.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Be a cog watcher!</span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Junie Ginsburg</span><br /></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=""> </span>* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">ODE TO THE PRIM<br /></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Oh! Mad'ning and praiseworthy prim,</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Who is sought out upon every sim,</span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>You're more precious than gold,</span></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>Begged, borrowed, and sold,</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Taunting builders who suffer from whim.</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">What we would give that you </span><span style="font-size:100%;">could be mined,</span></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Or grown i</span><span style="font-size:100%;">n lush vineyards on vines,</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>Perhaps dredged from the sea,</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>Or stolen from bees,</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">But the primless can do naught but opine.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Anonymous<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=""> </span>* * *<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE DAY</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Albert Edward Prince of Wales</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrU5pfVSN2ytz4XsPdupszDxSwfRX57XeVtUXbliiIWOJ3haPrKxPK9wg8lbPGddiV309htvRCaoqmmdOSb74p4rlcT21CtzmleMVdSMrze0ZQhTRD7b83TupoXhe64irjksFqF759v0/s1600-h/Albert+Edward+image.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 101px; height: 141px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrU5pfVSN2ytz4XsPdupszDxSwfRX57XeVtUXbliiIWOJ3haPrKxPK9wg8lbPGddiV309htvRCaoqmmdOSb74p4rlcT21CtzmleMVdSMrze0ZQhTRD7b83TupoXhe64irjksFqF759v0/s400/Albert+Edward+image.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308403284266467234" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The h</span><span style="font-size:100%;">eir-apparent to the throne of <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>, Albert Edward, Prince of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Wales</st1:place></st1:country-region>, has been at all times regarded as the first subject of the realm. His education has indeed been thorough; in the languages, classics, natural philosophy mathematics, jurisprudence and other branches of study he has been assisted by tutors of great ability. In 1860 he visited <st1:country-region><st1:place>Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and was received with great enthusiasm everywher</span><span style="font-size:100%;">e.; In 1862 he visited <st1:country-region><st1:place>Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the <st1:place>Holy Land</st1:place>, and other countries in the East, being accompanied in his travels by learned men, whose instructions to the young prince gives the exception to the well known rule that "There is no royal road to learning." In 1863 he was married to Princess; Alexandra of Denmark, a beautiful and loving wife and; mother, by whom he has two sons and three daughters. The; future king of <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region> is a practical agriculturist of much ability, and rarely fails to carry </span><span style="font-size:100%;">off several of the chief prizes at the <st1:city><st1:place>Smithfield</st1:place></st1:city> cattle show. He is very popular with his tenantry.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</span><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div face="lucida grande" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;">***<br /></div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LITERARY CORNER</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">In this issue, The New Babbage Cog presents Chapter 5 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Sign of The Four."</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="time"></o:smarttagtype></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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We had left the damp fog of the great city behind us, and the night was fairly fine. A warm wind blew from the westward, and heavy clouds moved slowly across the sky, with half a moon peeping occasionally through the rifts. It was clear enough to see for some distance, but Thaddeus Sholto took down one of the side-lamps from the carriage to give us a better light upon our way. Pondicherry Lodge stood in its own grounds and was girt round with a very high stone wall topped with broken glass. A single narrow iron-clamped door formed the only means of entrance. On this our guide knocked with a peculiar postman-like rat-tat. "Who is there?" cried a gruff voice from within. "It is I, McMurdo. You surely know my knock by this time." There was a grumbling sound and a clanking and jarring of keys. The door swung heavily back, and a short, deep-chested man stood in the opening, with the yellow light of the lantern shining upon his protruded face and twinkling, distrustful eyes. "That you, Mr. Thaddeus? But who are the others? I had no orders about them from the master." "No, McMurdo? You surprise me! I told my brother last night that I should bring some friends." "He hain't been out o' his rooms to-day, Mr. Thaddeus, and I have no orders. You know very well that I must stick to regulations. I can let you in, but your friends they must just stop where they are." This was an unexpected obstacle. Thaddeus Sholto looked about him in a perplexed and helpless manner. "This is too bad of you, McMurdo!" he said. "If I guarantee them, that is enough for you. There is the young lady, too. She cannot wait on the public road at this hour." "Very sorry, Mr. Thaddeus," said the porter inexorably. "Folk may be friends o' yours, and yet no friend o' the master's. He pays me well to do my duty, and my duty I'll do. I don't know none o' your friends." "Oh, yes you do, McMurdo," cried Sherlock Holmes genially. "I don't think you can have forgotten me. Don't you remember that amateur who fought three rounds with you at Alison's rooms on the night of your benefit four years back?"<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"Not Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" roared the prize-fighter. "God's truth! how could I have mistook you? If instead o' standin' there so quiet you had just stepped up and given me that cross-hit of yours under the jaw, I'd ha' known you without a question. Ah, you're one that has wasted your gifts, you have! You might have aimed high, if you had joined the fancy." "You see, Watson, if all else fails me, I have still one of the scientific professions open to me," said Holmes, laughing. "Our friend won't keep us out in the cold now, I am sure." "In you come, sir, in you come--you and your friends," he answered. "Very sorry, Mr. Thaddeus, but orders are very strict. Had to be certain of your friends before I let them in." Inside, a gravel path wound through desolate grounds to a huge clump of a house, square and prosaic, all plunged in shadow save where a moonbeam struck one corner and glimmered in a garret window. The vast size of the building, with its gloom and its deathly silence, struck a chill to the heart. Even Thaddeus Sholto seemed ill at ease, and the lantern quivered and rattled in his hand. "I cannot understand it," he said. "There must be some mistake. I distinctly told Bartholomew that we should be here, and yet there is no light in his window. I do not know what to make of it." "Does he always guard the premises in this way?" asked Holmes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"Yes; he has followed my father's custom. He was the favourite son you know, and I sometimes think that my father may have told him more than he ever told me. That is Bartholomew's window up there where the moonshine strikes. It is quite bright, but there is no light from within, I think." "None," said Holmes. "But I see the glint of a light in that little window beside the door." "Ah, that is the housekeeper's room. That is where old Mrs. Bernstone sits. She can tell us all about it. But perhaps you would not mind waiting here for a minute or two, for if we all go in together, and she has had no word of our coming, she may be alarmed. But, hush! what is that?" He held up the lantern, and his hand shook until the circles of light flickered and wavered all round us. Miss Morstan seized my wrist, and we all stood, with thumping hearts, straining our ears. From the great black house there sounded through the silent night the saddest and most pitiful of sounds-the shrill, broken whimpering of a frightened woman. "It is Mrs. Bernstone," said Sholto. "She is the only woman in the house. Wait here. I shall be back in a moment." He hurried for the door and knocked in his peculiar way. We could see a tall old woman admit him and sway with pleasure at the very sight of him. "Oh, Mr. Thaddeus, sir, I am so glad you have come! I am so glad you have come, Mr. Thaddeus, sir!" We heard her reiterated rejoicings until the door was closed and her voice died away into a muffled monotone. Our guide had left us the lantern. Holmes swung it slowly round and peered keenly at the house and at the great rubbish-heaps which cumbered the grounds.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other. I have marvelled at it since, but at the time it seemed the most natural thing that I should go out to her so, and, as she has often told me, there was in her also the instinct to turn to me for comfort and protection. So we stood hand in hand like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us. "What a strange place!" she said, looking round. "It looks as though all the moles in <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region> had been let loose in it. I have seen something of the sort on the side of a hill near Ballarat, where the prospectors had been at work." "And from the same cause," said Holmes. "These are the traces of the treasure-seekers. You must remember that they were six years looking for it. No wonder that the grounds look like a gravel-pit." At that moment the door of the house burst open, and Thaddeus Sholto came running out, with his hands thrown forward and terror in his eyes. "There is something amiss with Bartholomew!" he cried. "I am frightened! My nerves cannot stand it." He was, indeed, half blubbering with fear, and his twitching, feeble face peeping out from the great astrakhan collar had the helpless, appealing expression of a terrified child.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"Come into the house," said Holmes in his crisp, firm way. "Yes, do!" pleaded Thaddeus Sholto. "I really do not feel equal to giving directions." We all followed him into the housekeeper's room, which stood upon the left-hand side of the passage. The old woman was pacing up and down with a scared look and restless, picking fingers, but the sight of Miss Morstan appeared to have a soothing effect upon her. "God bless your sweet, calm face!" she cried with a hysterical sob. "It does me good to see you. Oh, but I have been sorely tried this day!" Our companion patted her thin, work-worn hand and murmured some few words of kindly, womanly comfort which brought the colour back into the other's bloodless cheeks. "Master has locked himself in and will not answer me," she explained. "All day I have waited to hear from him, for he often likes to be alone; but an hour ago I feared that something was amiss, so I went up and peeped through the keyhole. You must go up, Mr. Thaddeus--you must go up and look for yourself. I have seen Mr. Bartholomew Sholto in joy and in sorrow for ten long years, but I never saw him with such a face on him as that." Sherlock Holmes took the lamp and led the way, for Thaddeus Sholto's teeth were chattering in his head. So shaken was he that I had to pass my hand under his arm as we went up the stairs, for his knees were trembling under him. Twice as we ascended, Holmes whipped his lens out of his pocket and carefully examined marks which appeared to me to be mere shapeless smudges of dust upon the cocoanut-matting which served as a stair-carpet. He walked slowly from step to step, holding the lamp low, and shooting keen glances to right and left. Miss Morstan had remained behind with the frightened housekeeper. The third flight of stairs ended in a straight passage of some length, with a great picture in Indian tapestry upon the right of it and three doors upon the left. Holmes advanced along it in the same slow and methodical way, while we kept close at his heels, with our long black shadows streaming backward down the corridor. The third door was that which we were seeking. Holmes knocked without receiving any answer, and then tried to turn the handle and force it open. It was locked on the inside, however, and by a broad and powerful bolt, as we could see when we set our lamp up against it. The key being turned, however, the hole was not entirely closed. Sherlock Holmes bent down to it and instantly rose again with a sharp intaking of the breath. "There is something devilish in this, Watson," said he, more moved than I had ever before seen him. "What do you make of it?" I stooped to the hole and recoiled in horror. Moonlight was streaming into the room, and it was bright with a vague and shifty radiance. Looking straight at me and suspended, as it were, in the air, for all beneath was in shadow, there hung a face--the very face of our companion Thaddeus.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">There was the same high, shining head, the same circular bristle of red hair, the same bloodless countenance. The features were set, however, in a horrible smile, a fixed and unnatural grin, which in that still and moonlit room was more jarring to the nerves than any scowl or contortion. So like was the face to that of our little friend that I looked round at him to make sure that he was indeed with us. Then I recalled to mind that he had mentioned to us that his brother and he were twins. "This is terrible!" I said to Holmes. "What is to be done?" "The door must come down," he answered, and springing against it, he put all his weight upon the lock. It creaked and groaned but did not yield. Together we flung ourselves upon it once more, and this time it gave way with a sudden snap, and we found ourselves within Bartholomew Sholto's chamber. It appeared to have been fitted up as a chemical laboratory. A double line of glass-stoppered bottles was drawn up upon the wall opposite the door, and the table was littered over with Bunsen burners, test-tubes, and retorts. In the corners stood carboys of acid in wicker baskets. One of these appeared to leak or to have been broken, for a stream of dark-coloured liquid had trickled out from it, and the air was heavy with a peculiarly pungent, tarlike odour. A set of steps stood at one side of the room in the midst of a litter of lath and plaster, and above them there was an opening in the ceiling large enough for a man to pass through. At the foot of the steps a long coil of rope was thrown carelessly together.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">By the table in a wooden armchair the master of the house was seated all in a heap, with his head sunk upon his left shoulder and that ghastly, inscrutable smile upon his face. He was stiff and cold and had clearly been dead many hours. It seemed to me that not only his features but all his limbs were twisted and turned in the most fantastic fashion. By his hand upon the table there lay a peculiar instrument--a brown, close-grained stick, with a stone head like a hammer, rudely lashed on with coarse twine. Beside it was a torn sheet of note-paper with some words scrawled upon it. Holmes glanced at it and then handed it to me. "You see," he said with a significant raising of the eyebrows. In the light of the lantern I read with a thrill of horror, "The sign of the four." "In God's name, what does it all mean?" I asked. "It means murder," said he, stooping over the dead man. "Ah! I expected it. Look here!" He pointed to what looked like a long dark thorn stuck in the skin just above the ear. "It looks like a thorn," said I. "It is a thorn. You may pick it out. But be careful, for it is poisoned." I took it up between my finger and thumb. It came away from the skin so readily that hardly any mark was left behind. One tiny speck of blood showed where the puncture had been. "This is all an insoluble mystery to me," said <st1:place>I.</st1:place> "It grows darker instead of clearer." "On the contrary," he answered, "it clears every instant. I only require a few missing links to have an entirely connected case." We had almost forgotten our companion's presence since we entered the chamber.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">He was still standing in the doorway, the very picture of terror, wringing his hands and moaning to himself. Suddenly, however, he broke out into a sharp, querulous cry. "The treasure is gone!" he said. "They have robbed him of the treasure! There is the hole through which we lowered it. I helped him to do it! I was the last person who saw him! I left him here last night, and I heard him lock the door as I came downstairs." "What time was that?" "It was <st1:time hour="10" minute="0">ten o'clock</st1:time>. And now he is dead, and the police will be called in, and I shall be suspected of having had a hand in it. Oh, yes, I am sure I shall. But you don't think so, gentlemen? Surely you don't think that it was I? Is it likely that I would have brought you here if it were I? Oh, dear! oh, dear! I know that I shall go mad!" He jerked his arms and stamped his feet in a kind of convulsive frenzy. "You have no reason for fear, Mr. Sholto," said Holmes kindly, putting his hand upon his shoulder; "take my advice and drive down to the station to report the matter to the police. Offer to assist them in every way. We shall wait here until your return." The little man obeyed in a half-stupefied fashion, and we heard him stumbling down the stairs in the dark.</span></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><div face="lucida grande" style="text-align: center;">_____________________________________________________________<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-family: lucida grande; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: lucida grande; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: lucida grande; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=""> </span>* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-family: lucida grande; text-align: center; font-style: italic;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: lucida grande; text-align: center; font-style: italic;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >Your announcement could appear here!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="font-family: lucida grande; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: lucida grande; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: lucida grande; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>* * *</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">INVENTORS! As executive director of the New Babbage Conservatoire, <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> (83, 204, 21), I am in search of musical instruments that are at once fantastical, musical and functional. Mechanical harps, steam-powered horn sections, elaborate orchestrions with brass pipes and fittings... whatever your fevered coal-driven imagination can devise. Please contact me either in</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">world or by aetheric-mail at quinemondrian@gmail.com to discuss commissions and terms.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">STEAMPUNK LAMPS, in four styles, are now available at I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store. Built by Mr. Intolerable Ginsburg, the four lamps are inspired by designs of Frank Buchwald. Lamps contain touch on/off scripts, and are sufficient to illuminate a desk in a darkened room. Prim count varies, please see vendors. Copy/mod. Available for L$100 each or all four for L$350.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>* * *<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">RESOURCES</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">For anyone investigating air kraken, the following resource will be useful:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Brass Goggles: Air-Kraken Day - March 17th</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/200703/air-kraken-day-march-17th">http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/?p=424</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >------------------------</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >------------------------</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed usingonly the tools at theirdisposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk"><br /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=""> </span></span><br /></p><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL<br /></span></p><p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305009654355755698" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 116px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm4Roec4ollu4LNiehJLSvnp167mLgw48Zy5V-cihDpCCghSGNe4nb3av5j9nCVwxnLsg2-K0zNA8_UT2e7Fi2uuJKaNX_3qll9hMW-yNuLVj3mYJshcrTRakH70MPk3XFGPYsiLt-cqk/s400/junie.jpg" border="0" /></strong></span></p><div face="lucida grande" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Mrs. Junie Ginsburg </strong><br /></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div face="lucida grande" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Asst Editor: Miss Eggberta Echegaray </strong></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div> <p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Visit us:</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog office is located at <st1:street><st1:address>#4 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, across the street from I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store (<st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>).<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Drop a notecard:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Notecard communications can be dropped in the postbox outside the Cog office at the address above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- IM:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">You may contact Mrs. Junie Ginsburg or Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Aethernet mail:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Messages sent to <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p face="lucida grande" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Circulation:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paperboxes at the following locations:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, outside of I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">3. A reading copy of the current issue is always available at the newspaper office at <st1:street><st1:address>#4 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Back Issues:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the archive on the first floor of the newspaper office.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Submissions:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="lucida grande"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="lucida grande"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="lucida grande"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.<o:p></o:p><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Errata:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Copyright Disclaimer:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;" > The Second Life in world note card publication date, of this issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper. </span><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzCYHPioGjuISl86PXKdK3C_HxfH5p8C-z0AI8MaTGfYg6loeGd-cJtnsiqDSYRCSVas3uVMlbxslVYB9GEoJXKIZkbjz0KOjPZK-H7mOVaa2AO1WA0JCKVTPznY0_pbw0xm6X_bRok0E/s1600-h/New+Babbage+Cog+Building_002a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era</span></p> <div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;" > </span><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >~~ Relata Refero ~~</span></div>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-36026385089700653062009-02-18T08:36:00.000-08:002009-04-16T07:23:14.120-07:0002 April 2007<div style="text-align: center;"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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display: block; width: 395px; cursor: pointer; height: 133px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1UlHLcfoTbnLJQmdXerz2d4MNFSUmuonwh1pEHLHXA_9lGkZdW7Sx9l2774g2PcT_uD6eJLrecLcWsWP8UVAz66tqevsKVWgzYUAeXnO92ds_-riOefWmVwQd3YZu8teSB_4QLUuVe4/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;font-family:";font-size:130%;" >Vol I Issue vii</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:";font-size:130%;" ><span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><st1:date month="4" day="2" year="2007" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style=""><span style="">~ </span></span></st1:date></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><st1:date month="4" day="2" year="2007" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style=""><span style="">02 April 2007</span></span></st1:date></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">***</span><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:date style="font-family: times new roman;" month="4" day="2" year="2007"></st1:date><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">CANAL DISTRICT PARCELS AVAILABLE NOW!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket has announced that the Canal District sim order is imminent, an</span><span style="font-size:100%;">d that parcels are available.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">All</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> those who have reserve</span><span style="font-size:100%;">d plots or who are seeking to relocate to the New B</span><span style="font-size:100%;">abb</span><span style="font-size:100%;">age Canal District are encouraged to contact the Mayor as soon as possible. A map of the Canal District is av</span><span style="font-size:100%;">ailable beneath the town square.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Follow our existing canal Northward, and enter the tunnel beneath the square.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Immediately </span><span style="font-size:100%;">be</span><span style="font-size:100%;">neath the telehub, descend to the lowest elevation possible under the surface of the water.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">There you will find the map.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >(Ed. note: Please see the story following for Mr. Mondrian's adventure in said waters...)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Junie Ginsburg<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><st1:street><st1:address>A JOURNEY UNDERNEATH BABBAGE SQU</st1:address></st1:street></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><st1:street><st1:address>ARE</st1:address></st1:street></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:street><st1:address><br /></st1:address></st1:street></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">We sometimes think that bizarre and astounding experiences require a journey into the wildernesses of the Mainland, or the deepest unknown reaches of some remote island. But today I explored a most amazing and unusual place, right under our very feet here in New Babbage! I had recently purchased an </span><span style="font-size:100%;">amphibious vehicle, the Second Skies SSA-1871 Steamray, and was eager to try it out.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPhh0PsTfsKnJaRevQmtDRy4hcLuQM1xZhHjpxIq5QWKFTtr4iKrFbIIQA2XJ-W2Y1EFnBAsbJD3NJFpYSuJVNvuI5p8B2Vt_nUBWkYPjZjFjSl93Z8D3GAXufT9IuC70nrzEHbawLYQ/s1600-h/steamray.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPhh0PsTfsKnJaRevQmtDRy4hcLuQM1xZhHjpxIq5QWKFTtr4iKrFbIIQA2XJ-W2Y1EFnBAsbJD3NJFpYSuJVNvuI5p8B2Vt_nUBWkYPjZjFjSl93Z8D3GAXufT9IuC70nrzEHbawLYQ/s400/steamray.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308944709505312210" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> After testing its flyi</span><span style="font-size:100%;">ng capabilities over the skies of New Babbage, I found myself landed on the surface of our canal, facing</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> the tunnel which ran underneath our former Town Hall. Applying the throttle, I ea</span><span style="font-size:100%;">sed through the tunnel archway to find a massive underground chamber filled with water, its stone walls obviously providing the foundations for </span><span style="font-size:100%;">the world above!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhupvhermR5M3zPiGvyNc6-_Ba5biUyMgyT3xf8EflFEcT_2AWFqn6xbmd-2-k27Ms6CQ4euiIWFEwYKccsHpQ4MCMhDw07C0x861G9nJrlZ6xNynHh5oNGPw6pj6Y5Q2f44f10ptw6vus/s1600-h/on+the+surface+of+our+canal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 365px; height: 331px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhupvhermR5M3zPiGvyNc6-_Ba5biUyMgyT3xf8EflFEcT_2AWFqn6xbmd-2-k27Ms6CQ4euiIWFEwYKccsHpQ4MCMhDw07C0x861G9nJrlZ6xNynHh5oNGPw6pj6Y5Q2f44f10ptw6vus/s400/on+the+surface+of+our+canal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308945683316043314" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> Intrigued, I converted the Steamray to submersible mode and dove beneath the surface. The water here was deep, much deeper than the canal that led me inside. At the bottom I found an unusual series of decorations, consisting of colorful squares and rectangles and what appeared to be markings within each shape. Parking my craft on the sea floor, I donned on an Aethernaut Suit and got out to investigate.On closer inspection it became clear that the colorful grid was no less than </span><span style="font-size:100%;">a scale map of New</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> Babbage</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, complete with numbers indicating each area's dimensions and allotted building material.<br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5IWwuL69bPLs8szUUS6OOKoXRTMGlf9dw8CFEC7TA0Z7txOj4dHd6tl_u1D89tTHpzyKfY5f1zysUuA_iCwILw_8v0eSbyLGdNpSILsvqGuGwSjrGyDTujaWqtX0bbqs2vjgAhFnqGSM/s1600-h/scale+map+of+New+Babbage.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5IWwuL69bPLs8szUUS6OOKoXRTMGlf9dw8CFEC7TA0Z7txOj4dHd6tl_u1D89tTHpzyKfY5f1zysUuA_iCwILw_8v0eSbyLGdNpSILsvqGuGwSjrGyDTujaWqtX0bbqs2vjgAhFnqGSM/s400/scale+map+of+New+Babbage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308946375019927250" border="0" /></a></span></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I had seen this same map months </span><span style="font-size:100%;">ago during the planning stages of our fair city, in the offices of our now-Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket. Why was it now sunken beneath such deep waters </span><span style="font-size:100%;">flowing underneath the city square? Exploring the map further, I noticed an adjoining section, that has no current counterpart above ground. This must be the new Canal District I had heard about! So far much of it looks empty... I would suggest any readers with ambitions of owning land here should</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">stake out their claim with Mayor Sprocket post-haste.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDdB4b6BsXezMgdlPcSHURVX925Am1Xkj_8IjmHhyphenhyphenrsUA5UupMaVNFUkBbUNVAP8IsTPoGapH2lsiilvaFpiH1k5-F3oSD_BKGSl_3d2ducpYk6kW1h20k345kOwwBVFMRSUH9_i8Cw8w/s1600-h/a+smalle+flag+pic.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 360px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDdB4b6BsXezMgdlPcSHURVX925Am1Xkj_8IjmHhyphenhyphenrsUA5UupMaVNFUkBbUNVAP8IsTPoGapH2lsiilvaFpiH1k5-F3oSD_BKGSl_3d2ducpYk6kW1h20k345kOwwBVFMRSUH9_i8Cw8w/s400/a+smalle+flag+pic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308946906356926002" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">And speaking of staking out claims, it was clear I was not the first explorer to reach these watery depths. A small flag emblazoned with the word "GOONIES" was planted next to the map. My air-tanks were almost empty, though, so I could not linger to discover what a "Goony" is, or what it might think of such strange artif</span><span style="font-size:100%;">acts. This much I do know</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> now, though: that there are wonders to be found ev</span><span style="font-size:100%;">erywhere, and that all that is required to discover them is an open mind and an adventurer's heart.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Quine Mondrian</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Tired of checking the newspaper box for a new issue of the Cog?</span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Join the New Babbage Cog group and receive new issues as soon as they come out!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">* * *</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW BABBAGE HAS A SISTER SIM!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A memorial has been erected in <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> near the telehub to commemorate the establishment of sister sim status between New Babbage and Neualtenburg.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">We hope to present more details regarding this partnership in our next issue.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">AIR KRAKEN HUNT<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy-9IfJIp6_UC5Hd2tPz0f0ffzQLIsGUKBR6cjovrvSx0pCcXWQ-FTaLxrOngmYCz0CDjvsyPrEtyD2B3PE9msUGoLhdGxh_xyilt4HHn_szB0LWE6mJjLLecMoSI8oLbNUs1yyhWtUzs/s1600-h/Kalmer+Hunt_01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 348px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy-9IfJIp6_UC5Hd2tPz0f0ffzQLIsGUKBR6cjovrvSx0pCcXWQ-FTaLxrOngmYCz0CDjvsyPrEtyD2B3PE9msUGoLhdGxh_xyilt4HHn_szB0LWE6mJjLLecMoSI8oLbNUs1yyhWtUzs/s400/Kalmer+Hunt_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308941896535312130" border="0" /></a></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Upon reading the excellent reaport about Air Krakens by Miss Eggberta Echegaray I have recalled a similar creature that I stumbled upon during one of my journeys to the Continent.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>According to Scriptum Mysticorum (octavo size, printed in Krakow around 1560) by Nicolaus Boruta Horostiensis, fairly a</span><span style="font-size:100%;">ccurate source of late medieval beasts and magick, the air kraken is nothing more but a mere servant (or even a spawn) to a being known as Cyaghea, a tentacled creature with one gargantuan eye believed to reside somewhere in Hesse (Germany) and worshipped by cultists of that region. Records of human sacrifice and blood orgies, as the scourge of west <st1:place>Hesse</st1:place>, seem to occur since early Middle Ages and therefore we might assume this being has inhabited Hes</span><span style="font-size:100%;">sian soil for a longer period. As for its nature and habits- Cyaghea, in some mysterious ways, is trapped deep in the mines and desperately seeks liberation. Its lust for freedom is only satiated when fed raw human flesh. </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Various works including Nameless Cults by Friedrich Wilhelm von Juntz and annonymus Monsters and Their Kynde (c. 16 century) mention beings called Cyaghea spawn or simply Cyaghea's children as "10-feet-long, squid-like creatures that swim aimlessly in lakes". Von Juntz takes note of an old Hessian Chronicle which speaks of Luftkalmar ("air squid") attacking goats and ... erm... "faecing the wells". Some locals claimed even they have seen them floating above rooftops. During one of my journeys to the Continent I have found news of recent maldoings of such creatures. Therefore I decided to investigate and possibly study and/or perish the beast. Armed with knowledge of von Juntz, Boruta Horostiensis as well as my trusty old Pearse Pneumatic Rifle I have arrived in Zwiebelndorf, deep in the Hessian countryside. Upon arriving I produced a te</span><span style="font-size:100%;">te-a-tete with the Burgomeister who, mightily stunned when having heard my plans, assigned two villagers to acompany me into the wild. Willi and Fritz, for that were the names they went by, had a firm reputation in Zwiebelndorf- they were the village idiots.I have realised that even before Willifelt down from th</span><span style="font-size:100%;">e chimney (hopefully only on his head therefore nothing grave happened to him) and Fritz ate my rifle oil along with a part of its wooden box (“crunchy” he must’ve said).<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIotMY4QMK_jYsGbkL7K9pA7fAxhHowaVzjEh-cU9eRpoLIf1hOmvZZ_eymYf5ibl4ZWfujcoPoQDbnizTowqzMZuTjd5WODzBn13t2UZalcmFzmkxZ-SgOTtwcDp6SeNGfcn3QXzVxuY/s1600-h/Kalmer+Hunt_02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 383px; height: 293px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIotMY4QMK_jYsGbkL7K9pA7fAxhHowaVzjEh-cU9eRpoLIf1hOmvZZ_eymYf5ibl4ZWfujcoPoQDbnizTowqzMZuTjd5WODzBn13t2UZalcmFzmkxZ-SgOTtwcDp6SeNGfcn3QXzVxuY/s400/Kalmer+Hunt_02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308942700399100098" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">That did not slow me down and just after a hearty meal in the local tavern (“onion” seems to be a crown jewel in every Hessian cook’s recipe) I embarked on the crusade with a tip to head towards the caves. Both of my guides got lost (or perished) in the corn fields right after we left the village, therefore I invaded the woods utterly alone. A few hours of walk lead me to the vicinity of the caves. And there I saw a huge squid-like body with ten tentacles “wrestling” with a pine tree. At least that is what I thought- later on I was told it was only scratching itself. Having not been seen I carefully lowered my rifle and sat by the stone in order to study its habits. I swear it was the most boring afternoon</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> I have ever spent. Five hours of “tree wrestling” and about a 5 seconds of action, since the horrid thing had spotted me and I had to shoot it. Unfortunatelly I did not have the chance to properly examine the body because the Pearse Rifle exploding bullets tore it apart- the squid pieces were everywhere (me including) but the ground. Covered in slime, tree bark and other substances I returned to Zwiebelndorf and, strangly, became a hero of the day. The Burgomeister was so amazed seeing me come back alive he offered a reward (in his eyes I presume… an old pistol, brok</span><span style="font-size:100%;">en pocketwatch and two tons of onion is hardly a reward for a civilised hunter) to seek and kill other Luftkalmar specimens. That is how I spent anther two days in Hessian countryside, sitting in various highly uncomfortable places exploding the squids. Due to the actions described in the story you have just read, my dear reader, I advise yo</span><span style="font-size:100%;">u- wear a raincoat and shoot the bloody thing in the eye.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Sigal Rau</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">FILM REVIEW:<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfF8_D7UjqpM8UhmebPlyR6dmSx0vchgTDSABXvfiwgKtCmgc4TyGkZGoohmPDXHiYO-zk9J2Ba3erBQLQsBAxjIbboX0_VJwtTosCRkv0_cA9BcnEyjYCM5GpbTChLuMp1qM9WSQPagI/s1600-h/Lemony+Sniket.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 436px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfF8_D7UjqpM8UhmebPlyR6dmSx0vchgTDSABXvfiwgKtCmgc4TyGkZGoohmPDXHiYO-zk9J2Ba3erBQLQsBAxjIbboX0_VJwtTosCRkv0_cA9BcnEyjYCM5GpbTChLuMp1qM9WSQPagI/s400/Lemony+Sniket.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308917183549315458" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Named for the first in what was originally a childrens' book series, "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" w</span><span style="font-size:100%;">as produced in 2004, directed by Brad Silberling, and features well-known actors such as Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, and Billy Connolly. Following the death of their parents, three siblings are thrust into the care of others who are inept, uncaring, and worse yet, dangerous. Chief among these is an uncle, Count Olaf. So bent on capturing control of the fortune to be inhereted by the eldest of the three, Olaf resorts to wearing</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> disguises to remain close to the trio as they are tossed to and fro between guardians. The children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, each have a particular talent. Violet, the eldest, has a peculiar ability to invent and build, and can often create a device that will resolve sticky situations. Her younger brother, Klaus, is the idea man. With an encyclopedic intellect and the ability to perform deep research, his quick thinking is often paired with Violet's handiwork. Finally, there is the toddler, Sunny, whose ordinary power is actually quite extraordinary: her teeth are so strong that she can bite just about anything in two. The film version of this story is delightfully dark without being morbid, and is graced throughout by steampunk elements, inventions, and backdrops. Even the animations at the beginning and end of the film are done so artfully that they inspired me to watch the usually-dreadful end credits. Although my initial interest in the film was </span><span style="font-size:100%;">due to the aesthetic, I found myself quite engaged in the story by the end, pulling for the children as they encountered one obstacle after another. This is an experience that might have been produced for children, but it was certainly developed with an adult audience in mind as well. Highly recommended!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Junie Ginsburg</span></p><p style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE DAY</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lillie Langtry</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvcE6TV19tADiD3V_Hbwkn0i3UHOzkTuLRfrJxpcMf62YFUTh5r_-qF9qiK4ejrYx0cHdMXY38y4y-t_pJZgogYu9DaVrHCBA85xRaSL4PS_a3XrBnCEC660roOqEA-UBUQOrCnSq0dnw/s1600-h/lillielangtry.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 177px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvcE6TV19tADiD3V_Hbwkn0i3UHOzkTuLRfrJxpcMf62YFUTh5r_-qF9qiK4ejrYx0cHdMXY38y4y-t_pJZgogYu9DaVrHCBA85xRaSL4PS_a3XrBnCEC660roOqEA-UBUQOrCnSq0dnw/s400/lillielangtry.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308916371078728530" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This noted beauty,</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> Lillie Langtry, is the daughter of a clergyman and a native of the little Isle of Jersey. She made her debut as Lady Clara in "A Fair Encounter," soon afterward appearing at the noted London Haymarket theatre. After a provincial tour, during which she assayed new</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> characters, she again appeared in <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> in Sept</span><span style="font-size:100%;">ember, 1882, in "As You Like It." In the fall of the same year she came to the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and played in <st1:state><st1:place>New York</st1:place></st1:state> and <st1:city><st1:place>Boston</st1:place></st1:city> to large audiences, which, like the English public, manifested at first a qualified approval. As she improved rapidly in her acting, she gained the praise of critics and popular </span><span style="font-size:100%;">applause. Returning to <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> she leased a theatre and played to large audiences, winning great applause as Pauline in the "Lady of Lyons." In 1886 she again visited the <st1:country-region><st1:place>Un</st1:place></st1:country-region></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:country-region><st1:place>ited States</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and repeated her successes in this country, where she has invested most of her earnings. In July, 1887, while in <st1:city><st1:place>San Francisco</st1:place></st1:city>, Lillie Langtry renounced British allegiance, and applied for naturalization as a citizen of the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. When in <st1:city><st1:place>Chicago</st1:place></st1:city>, a correspondent visited her, and found the "Jersey Lily" in the reception room of her parlor-car, in which she always rides when traveling in this country. The beauty, in a loose Turkish robe, sat among her rugs, her silks, and her books. There were books of all kinds: Swinburne and Owen Meredith, Shelley and Shakespeare, <st1:city><st1:place>Irving</st1:place></st1:city> on the "Art of Acting," and an abstruse treatise on botany. "Even when I was only fourteen years of age," she said, "a sighing swain had proposed for my hand. He was a lieutenant in the forty-third foot, and I was a tomboy, playing cricket and football and saddling my own mare. He was the son of a former archbishop of <st1:city><st1:place>Canterbury</st1:place></st1:city>, and my father, who, you know, was dean of <st1:place>Jersey</st1:place>, thought it would be delightful to marry me to the son of an archbishop. But you can't think how I hated the man. He was very nice, no doubt; but I had a girlish dislike of him, and much preferred the society of my seven big brothers and my lesson books. For, do you know, I was quite studious when I was simply Miss Le Breton of <st1:place>Jersey</st1:place>. "At that time I studied Latin and Greek. Even mathematics. I could translate Virgil and dabble in Xenophon. I was pretty good, took in algebra and trigonometry. But this learning seems to have vanished like a dream, and I sometimes feel, like Roger Tichborne, that a good education </span><span style="font-size:100%;">has been wasted on me. "A great many people have said that I had an early training for the stage. But I had none. I never trod the boards, even at home, till I appeared at Twickenham town hall in 'A Fair Encounter.' And all I knew of the stage I learned from the boxes of the little theater of my native town."<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">She married Mr. Langtry when but nineteen years of age. When asked about him she was silent. And the actress traveled back in memory to a day when she was neither famous nor thought of fame--to a day when she only thought of love, and a Viking came over the seas to win her. "Though only twenty-five, he was a widower," she said, after a pause. "His first wife was a Miss Price. The Prices were Irish people living in <st1:place>Jersey</st1:place>; and Mr. Langtry was Irish,</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> too, his people being among the chief land-owners of <st1:city><st1:place>Belfast</st1:place></st1:city>. One of my brothers married his sister, and so our families contracted their intimacy. "My father thought he was richer than he was. He was nearly at the end of his fortune, and I knew nothing of what was in store for me. His money lasted only three years after I married him. When we went to <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> we were miserably poor. "I was an artists' success. The paintings made me famous. My face belonged to the Greek type, which was popular in <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city>. <st1:place>Watts</st1:place> used to measure my face when I sat for him. He would say, 'Good God! Not a hair's breadth out.' Then my pictures were exhibited at the Academy, and that made everybody talk of me. My poverty did even more than the painters popularity. I had recently lost one of my brothers, and I went to parties in a plain black dress that I possessed, and I wore it everywhere. The women sneered at first, but the men commended. 'Notice her simplicity,' they said. 'She always appears in a plain black dress. She wears no jewelry, no ornaments of any kind.' And in this way they thought me to be lovelier, perhaps, than I really was. But after all it is </span><span style="font-size:100%;">luck&emdash;blind luck. There are so many pretty women in <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> that there was no reason why I should be singled out. "All my best successes have been in dramas of society. I love to play the part of a wronged wife. Perhaps I feel the character more than others do. "In 'A Wife's Peril,' she is not a wronged wife; she is a naughty wife. I don't like the type myself; but the public seem to like it. "In 'As in a Looking Glass' the heroine is an adventuress. She is a woman of society. I have seen many such women in society. So has everybody else. And I doubt if the type had ever been presented on the English-speaking stage."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Sir ArthurConan Doyle</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LITERARY CORNER</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In this issue, The New Babbage Cog presents Chapter 6 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Sign of The Four."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"></o:smarttagtype></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJcq5MN0lNq_rL7X4DzTpGTDO096WUM8Mtk3OZ22hLNwNU4fK5M1bYrrRbhm8h3_FBr-L4EAm20x5qLALlz26GS4Oeya2gtXyafBtXKIvlIUcYTECMZWhY3jrp6SzpEViHYdBk9T7d-Y/s1600-h/06a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJcq5MN0lNq_rL7X4DzTpGTDO096WUM8Mtk3OZ22hLNwNU4fK5M1bYrrRbhm8h3_FBr-L4EAm20x5qLALlz26GS4Oeya2gtXyafBtXKIvlIUcYTECMZWhY3jrp6SzpEViHYdBk9T7d-Y/s400/06a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308911478644787522" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"Now, Watson," said Holmes, rubbing his hands, "we have half an hour to ourselves. Let us make good use of it. My case is, as I have told you, almost com</span><span style="font-size:100%;">plete; but we must not err on the side of overconfidence. Simple as the case seems now, there may be something deeper underlying it." "Simple!" I ejaculated. "Surely," said he with something of the air of a clinical professor expounding to his class. "Just sit in the corner there, that your footprints may not complicate matters. Now to work! In the first place, how did these folk com</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">e and how did they go? The door has not been opened since last night. How of the window?" He carried the lamp across to it, muttering his observations aloud the while but addressing them to himself rather than to me. "Window is snibbed on the inner side. Frame-work is solid. No hinges at the side. Let us open it. No water-pipe near. Roof quite out of reach. Yet a man has mounted by the window. It rained a little last night. Here is the print of a foot in mould upon the sill. And here is a circular muddy mark, and here again upon the floor, and here again by the table. See here, Watson! This is really a very pretty demonstration." I looked at the round, well-defined muddy discs. "That is not a foot-mark," said I. "It is something much more valuable to us. It is the impression of a wooden stump. You see here on the sill is the boot-mark, a heavy boot with a broad metal heel, and b</span><span style="font-size:100%;">eside it is the mark of the timber-toe." "It is the wooden-legged man." "Quite so. But there has been someone else--a very able and efficient ally. Could you scale that wall, Doctor?" I looked out of the open window. The moon still shone brightly on that angle of the house. We were a good sixty feet from the ground, and, look where I would, I could see no foothold, nor as much as a crevice in the brickwork. "It is absolutely impossible," I answered. "Without aid it is so. But suppose you had a friend up here who lowered you this good stout rope which I see in the corner, securing one end of it to this great hook in the wall. Then, I think, if you were an active man, you might swarm up, wooden leg and all. You would depart, of course, in the same fashion, and your ally would draw up the rope, untie it from the hook, shut the window, snib it on the inside, and get away in the way that he originally came. As a minor point, it may be noted," he continued, fingering the rope, "that our wooden-legged friend, though a fair climber, was not a professional sailor. His hands were far from horny. My lens discloses more than one blood-mark, especially towards the end of the rope, from which I gather that he slipped down with such velocity that he took the skin off his hands." "This is all very well," said I; "but the thing becomes more unintelligible than ever. How about this mysterious ally? How came he into the room?" "Yes, the ally!" repeated Holmes pensively.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"There are features of interest about this ally. He lifts the case from the regions of the commonplace. I fancy that this ally breaks fresh ground in the annals of crime in this country--though parallel cases suggest themselves from <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> and, if my me</span><span style="font-size:100%;">mory serves me, from <st1:place>Senegambia</st1:place>." "How came he, then?" I reiterated. "The door is locked; the window is inaccessible. Was it through the chimney?" "The grate is much too small," he answered. "I had already considered that possibility." "How, then?" I persisted. "You will not apply my precept," he said, shaking his head. "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? We know that he did not come through the door, the window, or the chimney. We also know that he could not have been concealed in the room, as there is no concealment possible. When, then, did he come?" "He came through the hole in the roof!" I cried. "Of course he did. He must have done so. If you will have the kindness to hold the lamp for me, we shall now extend our researches to the room above--the secret room in which the treasure was found." He mounted the steps, and, seizing a rafter with either hand, he swung himself up into the garret. Then, lying on his face, he reached down for the lamp and held it while I followed him. The chamber in which we found ourselves was about ten feet one way and six the other. The floor was formed by the rafters, with thin lath and plaster between, so that in walking one had to step from beam to beam. The roof ran up to an apex and was evidently the inner shell of the true roof of the house. There was no furniture of any sort, and the accumulated dust of years lay thick upon the floor. "Here you are, you see," said Sherlock Holmes, putting his hand agains</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">t the sloping wall. "This is a trapdoor which leads out on to the roof. I can press it back, and here is the roof itself, sloping at a gentle angle. This, then, is the way by which Number One entered. Let us see if we can find some other traces of his individ</span><span style="font-size:100%;">uality?" He held down the lamp to the floor, and as he did so I saw for the second time that night a startled, surprised look come over his face. For myself, as I followed his gaze, my skin was cold under my clothes. The floor was covered thickly with the prints of a naked foot--clear, well-defined, perfectly formed, but scarce half the size of those of an ordinary man.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"Holmes," I said in a whisper, "a child has done this horrid thing." He had recovered his self-possession in an instant. "I was staggered for the moment," he said, "but the thing is quite natural. My memory failed me, or I should have been able to foretell it. There is nothing more to be learned here. Let us go down." "What is your theory, then, as to those footmarks?" I asked eagerly when we had regained the lower room once more. "My dear Watson, try a little analysis yourself," said he with a touch of impatience. "You know my methods. Apply them, and it will be instructive to compare results." "I cannot conceive anything which will cover the facts," I answered. "It will be clear enough to you soon," he said, in an offhand way. "I think that there is nothing else of importance here, but I will look." He whipped out his lens and a tape measure and hurried about the room on his knees, measuring, comparing, examining, with his long thin nose only a few inches from the planks and his beady eyes gleaming and deep-set like those of a bird. So swift, silent, and furtive were his movements, like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defence. As he hunted about, he kept muttering to himself, and finally he broke out into a loud crowof delight. "We are certainly in luck," said he. "We ought to have very little trouble now. Number One has had the misfortune to tread in the creosote. You can see the outline of the edge of his small foot here at the side of this evil-smelling mess. The carboy has been cracked, you see, and the stuff has leaked out." "What then?" I asked. "Why, we have got him, th</span><span style="font-size:100%;">at's all," said he. "I know a dog that would follow that scent to the world's end. If a pack can track a trailed herring across a shire, how far can a specially trained hound follow so pungent a smell as this? It sounds like a sum in the rule of three.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The answer should give us the-- -- But hallo! here are the accredited representatives of the law." Heavy steps and the clamour of loud voices were audible from below, and the hall door shut with a loud crash. "Before they come," said Holmes, "just put your hand here on this poor fellow's arm, and here on his leg. What do you feel?" "The muscles are as hard as a board," I answered. "Quite so. They are in a state of extreme contraction, far exceeding the usual rigor mortis. Coupled with this distortion of the face, this Hippocratic smile, or 'risus sardonicus,' as the old writers called it, what conclusion would it suggest to your mind?" "Death from some powerful vegetable alkaloid," I answered, "some strychnine-like substance which would produce tetanus." "That was the idea which occurred to me the instant I saw the drawn muscles of the face. On getting into the room I at once looked for the means by which the poison had entered the system. As you saw, I discovered a thorn which had been driven or shot with no great force into the scalp. You observe that the part struck was that which would be turned towards the hole in the ceiling if the man were erect in his chair. Now examine this thorn." I took it up gingerly and held it in the light of the lantern. It was long, sharp, and black, with a glazed look near the point as though</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> some gummy substance had dried upon it. The blunt end had been trimmed and rounded off with a knife. "Is that an English thorn?" he asked. "No, it certainly is not." "With all these data you should be able to draw some just inference. But here are the regulars, so the auxiliary forces may beat a retreat."<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">As he spoke, the steps which had been coming nearer sounded loudly on the passage, and a very stout, portly man in a gray suit strode heavily into the room. He was red-faced, burly, and plethoric, with a pair of very small twinkling eyes which looked keenly out from between swollen and puffy pouches. He was closely followed by an inspector in uniform and by the still palpitating Thaddeus Sholto. "Here's a business!" he cried in a muffled, husky voice. "Here's a pretty business! But who are all these? Why, the house seems to be as full as a rabbit-warren!" "I think you must recollect me, Mr. Athelney Jones," said Holmes quietly. "Why, of course I do!" he wheezed. "It's Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the theorist. Remember you! I'll never forget how you lectured us all on causes and inferences and effects in the Bishopgate jewel case. It's true you set us on the right track; but you'll own now that it was more by good luck than good guidance." "It was a piece of very simple reasoning." "Oh, come, now, come! Never be ashamed to own up. But what is all this? Bad business! Bad business! Stern facts here--no room for theories. How lucky that I happened to be out at <st1:city><st1:place>Norwood</st1:place></st1:city> over another case! I was at the station when the message arrived. What d'you think the man died of?" "Oh, this is hardly a case for me to theorize over," said Holmes dryly. "No, no. Still, we can't deny that you hit the nail on the head sometimes. Dear me! Door locked, I understand. Jewels worth half a million missing. How was the window?" "Fastened; but there are steps on the sill." "Well, well, if it was fastened the steps could have nothing to do with the matter. That's common sense. Man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing. Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times.--Just step outside, Sergeant, and you, Mr. Sholto. Your friend can remain.-What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off with the treasure? How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside." "Hum! There's a flaw there. Let us apply common sense to the matter.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This Thaddeus Sholto was with his brother; there was a quarrel: so much we know. The brother is dead and the jewels are gone. So much also we know. No one saw the brother from the time Thaddeus left him. His bed had not been slept in. Thaddeus is evidently in a most disturbed state of mind. His appearance is --well, not attractive. You see that I am weaving my web round Thaddeus. The net begins to close upon him." "You are not quite in possession of the facts yet," said Holmes. "This splinter of wood, which I have every reason to believe to be poisoned, was in the man's scalp where you still see the mark; this card, inscribed as you see it, was on the table, and beside it lay this rather curious stone-headed instrument. How does all that fit into your theory?" "Confirms it in every respect," said the fat detective pompously. "House is full of Indian curiosities. Thaddeus brought this up, and if this splinter be poisonous Thaddeus may as well have made murderous use of it as any other man. The card is some hocus-pocus--a blind, as like as not. The only question is, how did he depart? Ah, of course, here is a hole in the roof." With great activity, considering his bulk, he sprang up the steps and squeezed through into the garret, and immediately afterwards we heard his exulting voice proclaiming that he had found the trapdoor. "He can find something," remarked Holmes, shrugging his shoulders; "he has occasional glimmerings of reason. Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit!" "You see!" said Athelney Jones, reappearing down the steps again; "facts are better than theories, after all. My view of the case is confirmed.There is a trapdoor communicating with the roof, and it is partly open." "It was I who opened it." "Oh, indeed! You did notice it, then?" He seemed a little crestfallen at the discovery. "Well, whoever noticed it, it shows how our gentleman got away. Inspector!" "Yes, sir," from the passage. "Ask Mr. Sholto to step this way.--Mr. Sholto, it is my duty to inform you that anything which you may say will be used against you. I arrest you in the Queen's name as being concerned in the death of your brother." "There, now! Didn't I tell you!" cried the poor little man, throwing out his hands and looking from one to the other of us. "Don't trouble yourself about it, Mr. Sholto," said Holmes; "I think that I can engage to clear you of the charge." "Don't promise too much, Mr. Theorist, don't promise too much!" snapped the detective. "You may find it a harder matter than you think." "Not only will I clear him, Mr. Jones, but I will make you a free present of the name and description of one of the two people who were in this room last night. His name, I have every reason to believe, is Jonathan Small. He is a poorly educated man, small, active, with his right leg off, and wearing a wooden stump which is worn away upon the inner side. His left boot has a coarse, square-toed sole, with an iron band round the heel. He is a middle-aged man, much sunburned, and has been a convict. These few indications may be of some assistance to you, coupled with the fact that there is a good deal of skin missing from the palm of his hand. The other man-- --" "Ah! the other man?" asked Athelney Jones in a sneering voice, but impressed none the less, as I could easily see, by the precision of the other's manner. "Is a rather curious person," said Sherlock Holmes, turning upon his heel. "I hope before very long to be able to introduce you to the pair of them. A word with you, Watson."<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfYzP9jJH_6_BnJP0bzUULNabUtyyqfgaSXKkvnzlxEvAF4Ben8q-1D3GTR-uYElOMURpXvrz98szb137Drn1-LtIOB4w88XyYccecUw8TwsENyvquhr3Gfh_OD0BUkKnQpUn8iI2LAo/s1600-h/06b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfYzP9jJH_6_BnJP0bzUULNabUtyyqfgaSXKkvnzlxEvAF4Ben8q-1D3GTR-uYElOMURpXvrz98szb137Drn1-LtIOB4w88XyYccecUw8TwsENyvquhr3Gfh_OD0BUkKnQpUn8iI2LAo/s400/06b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308914391410610498" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">He led me out to the head of the stair. "This unexpected occurrence," he said, "has caused us rather to lose sight of the original purpose of our journey." "I have just been thinking so," I answered; "it is not right that Miss Morstan should remain in this stricken house." "No. You must escort her home. She lives with Mrs. Cecil Forrester in <st1:place>Lower Camberwell</st1:place>, so it is not very far. I willwait for you here if you will drive out again. Or perhaps you are too tired?" "By no means. I don't think I could rest until I know more of this fantastic business. I have seen something of the rough side of life, but I give you my word that this quick succession of strange surprises to-night has shaken my nerve completely. I should like, however, to see the matter through with you, now that I have got so far." "Your presence will be of great service to me," he answered. "We shall work the case out independently and leave this fellow Jones to exult over any mare's-nest which he may choose to construct. When you have dropped Miss Morstan, I wish you to go on to <st1:street><st1:address>No. 3 Pinchin Lane</st1:address></st1:street>, down near the water's edge at Lambeth. The third house on the right-hand side is a bird-stuffer's; <st1:city><st1:place>Sherman</st1:place></st1:city> is the name. You will see a weasel holding a young rabbit in the window. Knock old <st1:city><st1:place>Sherman</st1:place></st1:city> up and tell him, with my compliments, that I want Toby at once. You will bring Toby back in the cab with you." "A dog, I suppose." "Yes, a queer mongrel with a most amazing power of scent. I would rather have Toby's help than that of the whole detective force of <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city>." "I shall bring him then," said <st1:place>I.</st1:place> "It is one now. I ought to be back before three if I can get a fresh horse." "And I," said Holmes, "shall see what I can learn from Mrs. Bernstone and from the Indian servant, who, Mr. Thaddeus tells me, sleeps in the next garret. Then I shall study the great Jones's methods and listen to his not too delicate sarcasms. "'Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhohnen was sie nicht verstehen.' 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New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >------------------------</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed usingonly the tools at theirdisposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk"><br /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305009654355755698" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 116px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm4Roec4ollu4LNiehJLSvnp167mLgw48Zy5V-cihDpCCghSGNe4nb3av5j9nCVwxnLsg2-K0zNA8_UT2e7Fi2uuJKaNX_3qll9hMW-yNuLVj3mYJshcrTRakH70MPk3XFGPYsiLt-cqk/s400/junie.jpg" border="0" /></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Mrs. Junie Ginsburg </strong><br /></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Asst Editor: Miss Eggberta Echegaray </strong></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Visit us:</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog office is located at <st1:street><st1:address>#4 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, across the street from I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store (<st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>).<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Drop a notecard:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Notecard communications can be dropped in the postbox outside the Cog office at the address above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- IM:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">You may contact Mrs. Junie Ginsburg or Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Aethernet mail:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Messages sent to <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Circulation:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paperboxes at the following locations:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, outside of I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">3. A reading copy of the current issue is always available at the newspaper office at <st1:street><st1:address>#4 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Back Issues:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the archive on the first floor of the newspaper office.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Submissions:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.<o:p></o:p><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Errata:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Copyright Disclaimer:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> The Second Life in world note card publication date, of this issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper.<br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; 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font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era</span></p> <div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog</span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" > </span><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >~~ Relata Refero ~~</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-76537327600325797252009-02-17T18:47:00.000-08:002009-04-16T07:23:31.315-07:0011 April 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1UlHLcfoTbnLJQmdXerz2d4MNFSUmuonwh1pEHLHXA_9lGkZdW7Sx9l2774g2PcT_uD6eJLrecLcWsWP8UVAz66tqevsKVWgzYUAeXnO92ds_-riOefWmVwQd3YZu8teSB_4QLUuVe4/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303534924564292306" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 395px; cursor: pointer; height: 133px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1UlHLcfoTbnLJQmdXerz2d4MNFSUmuonwh1pEHLHXA_9lGkZdW7Sx9l2774g2PcT_uD6eJLrecLcWsWP8UVAz66tqevsKVWgzYUAeXnO92ds_-riOefWmVwQd3YZu8teSB_4QLUuVe4/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="time"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Wingdings; 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font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">CONTENTS:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <ol style="font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">April Town Meeting Minutes</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage's New Town Hall</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">What Kind of Music is Steampunk?</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage Estate Managers<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Literary Corner</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Victorian Trifle Recipe</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Events and Announcements<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Classified Advertisements</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Resources</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Contact, Circulation, and other</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Essential Information for the Reader</span></li></ol><br /> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">__________________________________________________________<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">APRIL TOWN MEETING</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">On Saturday, April 10th, a town meeting took place in the town hall building. Sixteen attended. Taking place over the space of one hour, the agenda covered several topics of import. The full meeting minutes are attached, but included below is a convenient list of the discussion points for reference:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">-- The new Town Hall building</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">-- New Babbage's neutrality in the war</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">-- New Babbage's participation in SL Relay for Life</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">-- Canal District</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: left;"><!--[if !supportLists]--></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja01J-BnmqUqXi1HP1b303dqYMxxvYelbUWzXLBUilzFQde7aJgOrmbNpC4v8sHl69aguu_DRe2WOyBMjuVYkLN1V3PnbeXlIuSLA4US5VdCE70n_GwEoT5kH8K0iG6fISH9zBRqHPfEU/s1600-h/meetingapril_013.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309122183626599698" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 344px; cursor: pointer; height: 270px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja01J-BnmqUqXi1HP1b303dqYMxxvYelbUWzXLBUilzFQde7aJgOrmbNpC4v8sHl69aguu_DRe2WOyBMjuVYkLN1V3PnbeXlIuSLA4US5VdCE70n_GwEoT5kH8K0iG6fISH9zBRqHPfEU/s400/meetingapril_013.jpg" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">New <st1:place><st1:placename>Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Town Hal</st1:placetype></st1:place><st1:place><st1:placetype>l</st1:placetype></st1:place> Meeting Minutes</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;">Date: <st1:date month="4" day="10" year="2007">Saturday, April 10, 2007</st1:date></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Chair: Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket</p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Meeting start: <st1:time hour="13" minute="0">1:00 pm</st1:time> SLT</p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Meeting end: <st1:time hour="14" minute="0">2:00 pm</st1:time> SLT</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In attendance: </span>Natacha Chernov, ArthurConan Doyle, Eggberta Echegaray, Intolerable Ginsburg, Junie Ginsburg, Kamilah Hauptmann, Salazar Jack, Ordinal Malaprop, Pers Merlin, Quine Mondrian, Suhpen Paravane, Miguel Pinion, Sigal Rau, Khashai Steinbeck, Pumpkin Tripsa, Moss Weyland</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">1.<span style=""> </span>The Mayor announced the imminent completion of the new Town Hall.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">2.<span style=""> </span>The Mayor announced that in the SL Relay for Life "war" between <st1:city><st1:place>Caled</st1:place></st1:city><st1:city><st1:place>o</st1:place></st1:city><st1:city><st1:place>n</st1:place></st1:city> and Neualtenburg, that New Babbage will remain neutral for trade purposes and that our industrialists may sell to either side equally.<span style=""> </span>Mr. Pinion asked if New Babbage's "sister city" status with Neualtenburg was an indication that we had chosen sides.<span style=""> </span>The Mayor assured us that New Babbage has secu</p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">red treaties with both <st1:city><st1:place>Caledon</st1:place></st1:city> and Neualtenburg and that neither side will bring our city into the conflict.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">3.<span style=""> </span>There will be one SL Relay for Life donation kiosk placed in the Town Hall, and no others are to be rezzed in New Babbage because they violate our theme.<span style=""> </span>Residents are free to use SLRFL vendors indoors to contribute funds via sales.<span style=""> </span>In addition, anyone caught wearing a <st1:city><st1:place>Caledon</st1:place></st1:city> or Neualtenburg military uniform in New Babbage will be fined L$200, which will be payable to the SLRFL kiosk in the Town Hall.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">4.<span style=""> </span>The Mayor solicited volunteers to represent New Babbage in the SL Relay for Life.<span style=""> </span>Miss Malaprop volunteered to do any necessary scripting.<span style=""> </span>Mr. Ginsburg volunteered to act as representative if no one else was interested.<span style=""> </span>The Mayor said he would solicit volunteers in the "makeup" Town Meeting to see if anyone who was not in attendance would come forward.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">5.<span style=""> </span>The canal district sim order is pending payments from those who are buying parcels.<span style=""> </span>Once the money has been raised, the sim will be purchased.<span style=""> </span>Mr. Paravane inquired about parcel rates. The Mayor responded that like <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, the price is L$8 per meter plus 4 weeks rent in advance to purchase a plot.<span style=""> </span>He also said that the canal district will be surrounded on three sides by void ocean sims.<span style=""> </span>Beaches will not be allowed for permanent waterfront plots, but seawalls will be constructed.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">The Mayor announced that the canal district will have a roundhouse and train station, that our train will provide service to the stockyard here in <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, and that every sim will have a train station.<span style=""> </span>Miss Malaprop suggested that a new contractor be secured for work on the transporation system. The canals in the canal district will occupy a great deal of space and hence public roads will be kept to a minimum.<span style=""> </span>The Mayor requested that neighbors work together to provide street space for passage.<span style=""> </span>Miss Hauptman asked about a ferryboat system, and the Mayor responded that the canals will provide ample opportunity for private travel and that a public water transport system will not be constructed. Mr. Pinion commented that he would like to see a small map of the new sim.<span style=""> </span>The Mayor said he would work to make one available by next weekend, but that in the meantime, the large map under the Town Hall is available.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">6.<span style=""> </span>The Mayor welcomed Miss Kamilah Hauptman to New Babbage.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">7.<span style=""> </span>Mr. Ginsburg asked about the patches of uneven ground that have be</p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">en showing up in <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>.<span style=""> </span>The Mayor said he is looking into it and t</p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">hat it possibly is the result of some resurfacing work that occured on the upper level.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">8.<span style=""> </span>Mr. Pinion requested light rain and pigeons.<span style=""> </span>Several other residents expressed an interest, and the Mayor said that he would work on it.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">-- end --<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Compiled by Mrs. Junie Ginsburg</p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;">***<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW BABBAGE'S NEW TOWN HALL</span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">New Babbage residents and visitors who attended Saturday’s monthly community meeting were surprised and delighted to have had it conducted in the new Town Hall building!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><st1:place><st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:place><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAsa9Y3qIwNPB7AAX20k6B6kBPphlDlDaonR5yU-20jndKJVpR3Jg8IiTFFq7teYPiq6CVqY7ALFJ1NtYBIYhNnaaSuqdfeU0y68KkgHY3LC3ZQdOlwXJWfhyphenhyphenbnTOlG99hHP3RZS0qOCk/s1600-h/trifle.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309120754441910690" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 378px; cursor: pointer; height: 270px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgENbdTh3RMDQfsQpok0Iq_D7xcky5BnE83fghHKe_XN43SP7bi_RPel7I5zvQ5JgjCdJHs1iD3FGN5-wnYB27XRx0_BfsWs4Gn126sx7LEuNHlbeEHiYh76pZfWeMgsflw1LLWPqE_CAM/s400/ExteriorTownHall.jpg" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">Since the destruction of the old Town Hall, residents and regular visitors to New Babbage have been eagerly anticipating when the new building would be completed, and finally, it is here!<span style=""> </span>Upon asking the Mayor where he got the inspiration for the design for the new building, he commented that it was a mixture of concepts. The great <st1:place><st1:placename>Crystal</st1:placename> <st1:placename>Palace</st1:placename></st1:place> building which was made for <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city>’s 1851 Worlds Fair, the <st1:place><st1:placetype>Tower</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Lo</st1:placename></st1:place><st1:place><st1:placename>ndon</st1:placename></st1:place>, and a hint of Jules Verne’s fictional Steampunk vision all had a part with creating the new look.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><st1:place><st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:place></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309120819753738946" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 363px; cursor: pointer; height: 270px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigHt4XDqaEq07CB9nsX3YjSujCS51MtPd8SlFp6i-80sxWraiVl5ub3VXVvxHhITWWBwcEBi6qj9ecnErRGgdQhF9sZ4G6BcSyKq1B8GYlfbZQeBC44ZCuJygvA3sIts3lBzxT2bIrZaE/s400/ExteriorTownHallAbove.jpg" border="0" /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">Although the new building is a lot smaller than the old town hall, its open concept design is most exhilarating. When standing in the center of the building where the speaking podium is hosted, facing north, three open platforms have been erected, which accommodate comfortable seating. Steam hoists will be added later, to transport folks up or down to each level.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAsa9Y3qIwNPB7AAX20k6B6kBPphlDlDaonR5yU-20jndKJVpR3Jg8IiTFFq7teYPiq6CVqY7ALFJ1NtYBIYhNnaaSuqdfeU0y68KkgHY3LC3ZQdOlwXJWfhyphenhyphenbnTOlG99hHP3RZS0qOCk/s1600-h/trifle.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309120991310630770" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 361px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlYOcaOdVcPnjWw8zfCFSFPtz0zWxf6RgJzlu8g6Aw4hDG3rEDJzENZOShhyphenhyphenskASxUBVWfhEM1TumJ_1niDt9fnA5xlNBkMJm2TdinaS-YTabhQVnMm88pwbbWhk_3B3cfBhwxK1870SM/s400/newtownhallinterior1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAsa9Y3qIwNPB7AAX20k6B6kBPphlDlDaonR5yU-20jndKJVpR3Jg8IiTFFq7teYPiq6CVqY7ALFJ1NtYBIYhNnaaSuqdfeU0y68KkgHY3LC3ZQdOlwXJWfhyphenhyphenbnTOlG99hHP3RZS0qOCk/s1600-h/trifle.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309121041500963634" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 270px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7ZIsDu7ImEYpkdfZSUHtkOp0r6I9WN-AW5Lma2sChAUWqzck4Vkl1ZFhjXWWg8QpYuLqCEkfJaXYJv4fc7vALbFTsDEgw433ulxd58FTuArUfo6if1BMyJrr_m2mhNz26JCRtoT5TtE/s400/rafters2.jpg" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">Looking South, New Babbage residents will find that the rental payment board has been placed out. Greenish blue hued factory glass is predominantly featured throughout the building from the rooftop to the east and west doorway entrances to --by Jove!-- a glass floor!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAsa9Y3qIwNPB7AAX20k6B6kBPphlDlDaonR5yU-20jndKJVpR3Jg8IiTFFq7teYPiq6CVqY7ALFJ1NtYBIYhNnaaSuqdfeU0y68KkgHY3LC3ZQdOlwXJWfhyphenhyphenbnTOlG99hHP3RZS0qOCk/s1600-h/trifle.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309120935130488466" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 270px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVYOVOfGoW2OErv_q2j0exnW8GmLS2LqJQr58bFAK4wpNElz6T84TuOdx0ZBQVA6sEewm2apXV_niQon96dhcw8gGY1dfOCHQzaf8Ia4XXjRylwUM_OXwFk3o-EI442WRTv2XP4RsNRcA/s400/glassfloor.jpg" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309120637214199842" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 270px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXLk2xI_gKBMZj7NaW37RBGmljWr3Ab2llBBn_tKecmkLnuYI_W9xkWH_PGejWR1eg5y6p_h1P_hIsG09TnuSseqtxbxJCZ5eu0zPCSwj1ETEAPZAteb3oSVrW7oVCJc4QALEmVrHyP90/s400/closeupglassfloor.jpg" border="0" /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Timidly walking across the glass floor, I wanted to brace myself in case I would fall through! Mayor Sprocket assured me that the glass is tempered, thick and very strong. Once getting over my fear from thinking I may fall through, gingerly looking down,<span style=""> </span>I couldn’t help but notice that the city’s underground lair is exposed, and was delighted to see the return of Babbage’s Difference Engine!<br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309120699217575362" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 288px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Hm9ff1cglZkUi6nzJ-61JcWwhfhh05ZjQNpLsBux3DmSvXY6M30LG9Q3KZFtF36Ecju3ToTY3g2SkwQ4w49S-qJenwiK9vP40QXNpn5BzrZ092yV9cPqmI8Xxd17Dsi47mUL5iijKX0/s400/differenceenginecogs.jpg" border="0" /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Mayor Sprocket mentioned that access to view the engine more up close and personal, can be made through the canal entrance in the Commercial District, which runs directly underneath the Town Hall.</p><br /><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAsa9Y3qIwNPB7AAX20k6B6kBPphlDlDaonR5yU-20jndKJVpR3Jg8IiTFFq7teYPiq6CVqY7ALFJ1NtYBIYhNnaaSuqdfeU0y68KkgHY3LC3ZQdOlwXJWfhyphenhyphenbnTOlG99hHP3RZS0qOCk/s1600-h/trifle.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309121092301233570" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 333px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwDzpZnyCbeK4mTOoFLvb4wyDgchFqYh2Gl1tg3bsLqb1ml41C6tJceKmhmAPdeBb7tBhlMxM-19NAPSn6rwBxu-NQHodtc18x4tmLD9wJSGQVS4DD_YIMpn-GkPVzUwX6xVBCp6Lbe64/s400/TownHallCanalShot.jpg" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">For the time being, the engine is lying dormant, but according to the Mayor, it is just a matter of time before the engine will be roused up and it will then be certain that steam surely does power the grid!</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Eggberta Echegaray</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Tired of checking the newspaper box for a new issue of the Cog? Join the New Babbage Cog group and receive new issues as soon as they come out!</p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>* * *</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">WHAT KIND OF MUSIC IS "STEAMPUNK?"</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"Sometimes progress means turning around when you have been on the wrong path and going back to the point where you made a wrong turn."<span style=""> </span>-- C.S. Lewis</p><p face="times new roman" style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDyXrkW8fhtlg_3YyITL4Zt6RItXAUKjd_yqagENXrBMPX7lOxQI6mS4LQhjrULiELFVUo48Uqxtj7CoPEMXfVC1ig2rWDWuJtna36WK8K9vuUKeEOdYw3eo9yOmetlXcg-xrDSCdzq3Y/s1600-h/gallery-vict-500a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDyXrkW8fhtlg_3YyITL4Zt6RItXAUKjd_yqagENXrBMPX7lOxQI6mS4LQhjrULiELFVUo48Uqxtj7CoPEMXfVC1ig2rWDWuJtna36WK8K9vuUKeEOdYw3eo9yOmetlXcg-xrDSCdzq3Y/s400/gallery-vict-500a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324159400198416338" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Since setting up my parcels in <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, this reporter has struggled to determine what kind of music would be most fittingly "steampunk" for parcel streaming media. Classical music is wonderful, and is at least appropriate for the Victorian aspect of steampunk, but it doesn't quite capture the grittness of the Industrial Revolution. Modern music by artists who seem to have a steampunk bent doesn't really seem to capture it for me either. Is it music that has been associated with steampunk-themed films?<span style=""> </span>Is it music created during the late 19th century? Is it music produced on strange and wonderful mechanical instruments? What kind of music could really be considered "steampunk?" I spoke to a few New Babbage residents to solicit their opinions on the subject. " I think that any time you embrace older and fogotten technology you are acting in the spirit of Steampunk," said resident, Mr. Miguel Pinion. "Even if it doesn't go all the way back to 1888." I recognized in Mr. Pinion's statement the fact that turning back to the primitive --but remarkable-- machines on which music was preserved and played back, could have a powerful impact on listeners. <st1:place>Edison</st1:place>'s phonograph made it possible to record some of the music that could be considered "authentically" steampunk.<span style=""> </span>His invention was announced at the end of 1877, placing it squarely within the Victorian era. Mr. Pinion agreed.<span style=""> </span>"It seems to be all about invention, and the edges of technology....a time when electricity was tantamount to wizardry." </p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEPL0aH0CCVrph6Avu9WFw9ksWZi1OmS7mrc-SlX15vCeCpuPaEF3zcA56gaHc0UIq17FUDTM759FckPzV6P32GDrd7zBMz8xoB1pc85QVCXbA-9__uJv893SStCkXkIrsPaHShRASCng/s1600-h/rocknrollswindle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEPL0aH0CCVrph6Avu9WFw9ksWZi1OmS7mrc-SlX15vCeCpuPaEF3zcA56gaHc0UIq17FUDTM759FckPzV6P32GDrd7zBMz8xoB1pc85QVCXbA-9__uJv893SStCkXkIrsPaHShRASCng/s400/rocknrollswindle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324160361557432130" border="0" /></a><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">The Mayor of New Babbage, Mr. Shaunathan Sprocket, shared his opinion on the subject as well.<span style=""> </span>His perspective was a bit different, emphasizing the musical element of the modern steampunk movement. To him, steampunk music is about a confluence of forms, combining the new with the old.<span style=""> </span>Musical artists and groups such as Emilie Autumn, <st1:place><st1:placename>Abney</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, and Vernian Process project a non-formulaic incoporation of ideas along with a visual aesthetic that conveys "steampunk." For Mr. Pinion as well, the visual aspect of musical performance was a contributing factor. Ultimately, however, Mr. Sprocket stressed that perspective plays an enormous role in what listeners could consider "steampunk."<span style=""> </span>When referring to <st1:place><st1:placename>Abney</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, he said, "It's not like they talk about airships and the like...but rather circumstances appreciated by a steampunk." In addition to the context in which music is placed by the listener, there is an absolute quality embedded in the music itself:<span style=""> </span>"I'm a steampunk," says Mr. Sprocket. "I make music.<span style=""> </span>Ergo my music is steampunk because it came from me." Does any of this bring us closer to an answer? From this writer's perspective, it seems that as all art, music ("steampunk " in particular)<span style=""> </span>is appreciated based on the intent of the artist, the context in which it is conveyed and the perspective of the audience.<span style=""> </span>As such, the answer is not satisfying.<span style=""> </span>Steampunk music is music that you appreciate as steampunk.<span style=""> </span>A quick look at some steampunk forums on the Aethernet will support this sentiment, with everything from <st1:place><st1:placename>Abney</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place> to Peter Gabriel to Meat Loaf being cited as music appreciated by steampunks. I continue to ponder the music that will be streamed from my parcel.</p><p face="times new roman" style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p></span> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Junie Ginsburg</span><span style=""><br /></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">* * *</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW BABBAGE ESTATE MANAGERS</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">A griefer is at your doorstep. There is a pot-hole the size of <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the middle of the street. The Mayor is not online. Who do you contact? For your convenience, The New Babbage Cog has compiled a list of the New Babbage estate managers who can assist with sim administration in Mayor Sprocket's absence:</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Charlene Trudeau</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Eggberta Echegaray</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Ferran Brodsky</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Khashai Steinbeck</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Ordinal Malaprop</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Reitsuki Kojima</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Please contact one of these kind folks if there is an urgent need for assistance in New Babbage.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LITERARY CORNER</span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">In this issue, The New Babbage Cog presents Chapter 7 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Sign of The Four."</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">THE SIGN OF FOUR</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">by Sir ArthurConan Doyle</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Chapter 7</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">THE EPISODE OF THE BARREL</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevdm4pAc8iKtZRd2_wKeDGE1xu_gKSSkG9SpwPAD6tj22KK8v6nVe0cdcWux6ogeaH_HngVYRzwZQcTZc1P9ch1VIr4We5P_c3Pedq2XXGe4TcgdtwNhJjjdZSYFpobtR5TGMJjzczH0/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 118px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevdm4pAc8iKtZRd2_wKeDGE1xu_gKSSkG9SpwPAD6tj22KK8v6nVe0cdcWux6ogeaH_HngVYRzwZQcTZc1P9ch1VIr4We5P_c3Pedq2XXGe4TcgdtwNhJjjdZSYFpobtR5TGMJjzczH0/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309459734270833490" border="0" /></a><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">THE police had brought a cab with them, and in this I escorted Miss Morstan back to her home. After the angelic fashion of women, she had borne trouble with a calm face as long as there was someone weaker than herself to support, and I had found her bright and placid by the side of the frightened housekeeper. In the cab, however, she first turned faint and then burst into a passion of weeping--so sorely had she been tried by the adventures of the night. She has told me since that she thought me cold and distant upon that journey. She little guessed the struggle within my breast, or the effort of self-restraint which held me back. My sympathies and my love went out to her, even as my hand had in the garden. I felt that years of the conventionalities of life could not teach me to know her sweet, brave nature as had this one day of strange experiences. Yet there were two thoughts which sealed the words of affection upon my lips. She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. Worse still, she was rich. If Holmes's researches were successful, she would be an heiress. Was it fair, was it honourable, that a half-pay surgeon should take such advantage of an intimacy which chance had brought about? Might she not look upon me as a mere vulgar fortune-seeker? I could not bear to risk that such a thought should cross her mind. This <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city> treasure intervened like an impassable barrier between us. It was nearly <st1:time hour="14" minute="0">two o'clock</st1:time> when we reached Mrs. Cecil Forrester's. The servants had retired hours ago, but Mrs. Forrester had been so interested by the strange message which Miss Morstan had received that she had sat up in the hope of her return. She opened the door herself, a middle-aged, graceful woman, and it gave me joy to see how tenderly her arm stole round the other's waist and how motherly was the voice in which she greeted her. She was clearly no mere paid dependant but an honoured friend. </p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">I was introduced, and Mrs. Forrester earnestly begged me to step in and tell her our adventures. I explained, however, the importance of my errand and promised faithfully to call and report any progress which we might make with the case. As we drove away I stole a glance back, and I still seem to see that little group on the step--the two graceful, clinging figures, the half-opened door, the hall-light shining through stained glass, the barometer, and the bright stair-rods. It was soothing to catch even that passing glimpse of a tranquil English home in the midst of the wild, dark business which had absorbed us. And the more I thought of what had happened, the wilder and darker it grew. I reviewed the whole extraordinary sequence of events as I rattled on through the silent, gas-lit streets. There was the original problem: that at least was pretty clear now. The death of Captain Morstan, the sending of the pearls, the advertisement, the letter--we had had light upon all those events. They had only led us, however, to a deeper and far more tragic mystery. The Indian treasure, the curious plan found among Morstan's baggage, the strange scene at Major Sholto's death, the rediscovery of the treasure immediately followed by the murder of the discoverer, the very singular accompaniments to the crime, the footsteps, the remarkable weapons, the words upon the card, corresponding with those upon Captain Morstan's chart--here was indeed a labyrinth in which a man less singularly endowed than my fellow-lodger might well despair of ever finding the clue.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Pinchin Lane was a row of shabby, two-storied brick houses in the lower quarter of Lambeth. I had to knock for some time at No. 3 before I could make any impression. At last, however, there was the glint of a candle behind the blind, and a face looked out at the upper window. "Go on, you drunken vagabond," said the face. "If you kick up any more row, I'll open the kennels and let out forty-three dogs upon you." "If you'll let one out, it's just what I have come for," said I. "Go on!" yelled the voice. "So help me gracious, I have a wiper in this bag, and I'll drop it on your 'ead if you don't hook it!" "But I want a dog," I cried. "I won't be argued with!" shouted Mr. Sherman. "Now stand clear; for when I say 'three,' down goes the wiper." "Mr. Sherlock Holmes-- --" I began; but the words had a most magical effect, for the window instantly slammed down, and within a minute the door was unbarred and open. Mr. Sherman was a lanky, lean old man, with stooping shoulders, a stringy neck, and blue-tinted glasses. "A friend of Mr. Sherlock is always welcome," said he. "Step in, sir. Keep clear of the badger, for he bites. Ah, naughty, naughty; would you take a nip at the gentleman?" </p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">This to a stoat which thrust its wicked head and red eyes between the bars of its cage. "Don't mind that, sir; it's only a slowworm. It hain't got no fangs, so I gives it the run o' the room, for it keeps the beetles down. You must not mind my bein' just a little short wi' you at first, for I'm guyed at by the children, and there's many a one just comes down this lane to knock me up. What was it that Mr. Sherlock Holmes wanted, sir?" "He wanted a dog of yours." "Ah! that would be Toby." "Yes, Toby was the name." "Toby lives at No. 7 on the left here." He moved slowly forward with his candle among the queer animal family which he had gathered round him. In the uncertain, shadowy light I could see dimly that there were glancing, glimmering eyes peeping down at us from every cranny and corner. Even the rafters above our heads were lined by solemn fowls, who lazily shifted their weight from one leg to the other as our voices disturbed their slumbers. Toby proved to be an ugly, long-haired, lop-eared creature, half spaniel and half lurcher, brown and white in colour, with a very clumsy, waddling gait. It accepted, after some hesitation, a lump of sugar which the old naturalist handed to me, and, having thus sealed an alliance, it followed me to the cab and made no difficulties about accompanying me. It had just struck three on the Palace clock when I found myself back once more at Pondicherry Lodge. The ex-prize-fighter McMurdo had, I found, been arrested as an accessory, and both he and Mr. Sholto had been marched off to the station. Two constables guarded the narrow gate, but they allowed me to pass with the dog on my mentioning the detective's name. Holmes was standing on the doorstep with his hands in his pockets, smoking his pipe. "Ah, you have him there!" said he. "Good dog, then! Athelney Jones has gone. We have had an immense display of energy since you left. He has arrested not only friend Thaddeus but the gatekeeper, the housekeeper, and the Indian servant. We have the place to ourselves but for a sergeant upstairs. Leave the dog here and come up."</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">We tied Toby to the hall table and reascended the stairs. The room was as we had left it, save that a sheet had been draped over the central figure. A weary-looking police-sergeant reclined in the corner.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"Lend me your bull's eye, Sergeant," said my companion. "Now tie this bit of card round my neck, so as to hang it in front of me. Thank you. Now I must kick off my boots and stockings. Just you carry them down with you, Watson. I am going to do a little climbing. And dip my handkerchief into the creosote. That will do. Now come up into the garret with me for a moment." We clambered up through the hole. Holmes turned his light once more upon the footsteps in the dust. "I wish you particularly to notice these footmarks," he said. "Do you observe anything noteworthy about them?" "They belong," I said, "to a child or a small woman." "Apart from their size, though. Is there nothing else?" "They appear to be much as other footmarks." "Not at all. Look here! This is the print of a right foot in the dust. Now I make one with my naked foot beside it. What is the chief difference?" "Your toes are all cramped together. The other print has each toe distinctly divided." "Quite so. That is the point. Bear that in mind. Now, would you kindly step over to that flap-window and smell the edge of the woodwork? I shall stay over here, as I have this handkerchief in my hand." I did as he directed and was instantly conscious of a strong tarry smell. "That is where he put his foot in getting out. If you can trace him, I should think that Toby will have no difficulty. Now run downstairs, loose the dog, and look out for Blondin." By the time that I got out into the grounds Sherlock Holmes was on the roof, and I could see him like an enormous glow-worm crawling very slowly along the ridge. I lost sight of him behind a stack of chimneys, but he presently reappeared and then vanished once more upon the opposite side. When I made my way round there I found him seated at one of the corner eaves.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"That you, Watson?" he cried. "Yes." "This is the place. What is that black thing down there?"<br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"A water-barrel." "Top on it?" "Yes." "No sign of a ladder?" "No." "Confound the fellow! It's a most breakneck place. I ought to be able to come down where he could climb up. The water-pipe feels pretty firm. Here goes, anyhow." There was a scuffling of feet, and the lantern began to come steadily down the side of the wall. Then with a light spring he came on to the barrel, and from there to the earth.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"It was easy to follow him," he said, drawing on his stockings and boots. "Tiles were loosened the whole way along, and in his hurry he had dropped this. It confirms my diagnosis, as you doctors express it." The object which he held up to me was a small pocket or pouch woven out of coloured grasses and with a few tawdry beads strung round it. In shape and size it was not unlike a cigarette-case. Inside were half a dozen spines of dark wood, sharp at one end and rounded at the other, like that which had struck Bartholomew Sholto. "They are hellish things," said he. "Look out that you don't prick yourself. I'm delighted to have them, for the chances are that they are all he has. There is the less fear of you or me finding one in our skin before long. I would sooner face a Martini bullet, myself. Are you game for a six-mile trudge, Watson?" "Certainly," I answered. "Your leg will stand it?" "Oh, yes." "Here you are, doggy! Good old Toby! Smell it, Toby, smell it!" He pushed the creosote handkerchief under the dog's nose, while the creature stood with its fluffy legs separated, and with a most comical cock to its head, like a connoisseur sniffing the bouquet of a famous vintage. Holmes then threw the handkerchief to a distance, fastened a stout cord to the mongrel's collar, and led him to the foot of the water-barrel.<br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">The creature instantly broke into a succession of high, tremulous yelps and, with his nose on the ground and his tail in the air, pattered off upon the trail at a pace which strained his leash and kept us at the top of our speed. The east had been gradually whitening, and we could now see some distance in the cold gray light. The square, massive house, with its black, empty windows and high, bare walls, towered up, sad and forlorn, behind us. Our course led right across the grounds, in and out among the trenches and pits with which they were scarred and intersected. The whole place, with its scattered dirt-heaps and ill-grown shrubs, had a blighted, ill-omened look which harmonized with the black tragedy which hung over it. On reaching the boundary wall Toby ran along, whining eagerly, underneath its shadow, and stopped finally in a corner screened by a young beech. Where the two walls joined, several bricks had been loosened, and the crevices left were worn down and rounded upon the lower side, as though they had frequently been used as a ladder. Holmes clambered up, and taking the dog from me he dropped it over upon the other side. "There's the print of Wooden-leg's hand," he remarked as I mounted up beside him. "You see the slight smudge of blood upon the white plaster. What a lucky thing it is that we have had no very heavy rain since yesterday! The scent will lie upon the road in spite of their eight-and-twenty hours' start." I confess that I had my doubts myself when I reflected upon the great traffic which had passed along the <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> road in the interval. My fears were soon appeased, however. Toby never hesitated or swerved but waddled on in his peculiar rolling fashion. Clearly the pungent smell of the creosote rose high above all other contending scents.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"Do not imagine," said Holmes, "that I depend for my success in this case upon the mere chance of one of these fellows having put his foot in the chemical. I have knowledge now which would enable me to trace them in many different ways. This, however, is the readiest, and, since fortune has put it into our hands, I should be culpable if I neglected it. It has, however, prevented the case from becoming the pretty little intellectual problem which it at one time promised to be. There might have been some credit to be gained out of it but for this too palpable clue." "There is credit, and to spare," said I. "I assure you, Holmes, that I marvel at the means by which you obtain your results in this case even more than I did in the Jefferson Hope murder. The thing seems to me to be deeper and more inexplicable. How, for example, could you describe with such confidence the wooden-legged man?" "Pshaw, my dear boy! it was simplicity itself. I don't wish to be theatrical. It is all patent and above-board. Two officers who are in command of a convict-guard learn an important secret as to buried treasure. A map is drawn for them by an Englishman named Jonathan Small. You remember that we saw the name upon the chart in Captain Morstan's possession. He had signed it in behalf of himself and his associates--the sign of the four, as he somewhat dramatically called it. Aided by this chart, the officers--or one of them--gets the treasure and brings it to <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>, leaving, we will suppose, some condition under which he received it unfulfilled. Now, then, why did not Jonathan Small get the treasure himself? The answer is obvious. The chart is dated at a time when Morstan was brought into close association with convicts. Jonathan Small did not get the treasure because he and his associates were themselves convicts and could not get away." "But this is mere speculation," said I. "It is more than that. It is the only hypothesis w</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">hich covers the facts. Let us see how it fits in with the sequel. Major Sholto remains at peace for some years, happy in the possession of his treasure. Then he receives a letter from <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> which gives him a great fright. What was that?"</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"A letter to say that the men whom he had wronged had been set free." "Or had escaped. That is much more likely, for he would have known what their term of imprisonment was. It would not have been a surprise to him. What does he do then? He guards himself against a wooden-legged man--a white man, mark you, for he mistakes a white tradesman for him and actually fires a pistol at him. Now, only one white man's name is on the chart. The others are Hindoos or Mohammedans. There is no other white man. Therefore we may say with confidence that the wooden-legged man is identical with Jonathan Small. Does the reasoning strike you as being faulty?" "No: it is clear and concise." "Well, now, let us put ourselves in the place of Jonathan Small. Let us look at it from his point of view. He comes to <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region> with the double idea of regaining what he would consider to be his rights and of having his revenge upon the man who had wronged him. He found out where Sholto lived, and very possibly he established communications with someone inside the house. There is this butler, Lal Rao, whom we have not seen. Mrs. Bernstone gives him far from a good character. Small could not find out, however, where the treasure was hid, for no one ever knew save the major and one faithful servant who had died. Suddenly Small learns that the major is on his deathbed. In a frenzy lest the secret of the treasure die with him, he runs the gauntlet of the guards, makes his way to the dying man's window, and is only deterred from entering by the presence of his two sons. Mad with hate, however, against the dead man, he enters the room that night, searches his private papers in the hope of discovering some memorandum relating to the treasure, and finally leaves a memento of his visit in the short inscription upon the card.<br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">He had doubtless planned beforehand that, should he slay the major, he would leave some such record upon the body as a sign that it was not a common murder but, from the point of view of the four associates, something in the nature of an act of justice. Whimsical and bizarre conceits of this kind are common enough in the annals of crime and usually afford valuable indications as to the criminal. Do you follow all this?" "Very clearly." "Now what could Jonathan small do? He could only continue to keep a secret watch upon the efforts made to find the treasure. Possibly he leaves <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region> and only comes back at intervals. Then comes the discovery of the garret, and he is instantly informed of it. We again trace the presence of some confederate in the household. Jonathan, with his wooden leg, is utterly unable to reach the lofty room of Bartholomew Sholto. He takes with him, however, a rather curious associate, who gets over this difficulty but dips his naked foot into creosote, whence come Toby, and a six-mile limp for a half-pay officer with a damaged tendo Achillis." "But it was the associate and not Jonathan who committed the crime." "Quite so. And rather to Jonathan's disgust, to judge by the way he stamped about when he got into the room. He bore no grudge against Bartholomew Sholto and would have preferred if he could have been simply bound and gagged. He did not wish to put his head in a halter. There was no help for it, however: the savage instincts of his companion had broken out, and the poison had done its work: so Jonathan Small left his record, lowered the treasure-box to the ground, and followed it himself. That was the train of events as far as I can decipher them. Of course, as to his personal appearance, he must be middle-aged and must be sunburned after serving his time in such an oven as the Andamans. His height is readily calculated from the length of his stride, and we know that he was bearded. His hairiness was the one point which impressed itself upon Thaddeus Sholto when he saw him at the window. I don't know that there is anything else."</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"> "The associate?" "Ah, well, there is no great mystery in that. But you will know all about it soon enough. How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! Are you well up in your Jean Paul?""Fairly so. I worked back to him through Carlyle." "That was like following the brook to the parent lake. He makes one curious but profound remark. It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. It argues, you see, a power of comparison and of appreciation which is in itself a proof of nobility. There is much food for thought in Richter. You have not a pistol, have you?" "I have my stick." "It is just possible that we may need something of the sort if we get to their lair. Jonathan I shall leave to you, but if the other turns nasty I shall shoot him dead." He took out his revolver as he spoke, and, having loaded two of the chambers, he put it back into the right-hand pocket of his jacket. We had during this time been following the guidance of Toby down the half-rural villa-lined roads which lead to the metropolis. Now, however, we were beginning to come among continuous streets, where labourers and dockmen were already astir, and slatternly women were taking down shutters and brushing door-steps. At the square-topped corner public-houses business was just beginning, and rough-looking men were emerging, rubbing their sleeves across their beards after their morning wet. Strange dogs sauntered up and stared wonderingly at us as we passed, but our inimitable Toby looked neither to the right nor to the left but trotted onward with his nose to the ground and an occasional eager whine which spoke of a hot scent. We had traversed Streatham, Brixton, Camberwell, and now found ourselves in <st1:street><st1:address>Kennington Lane</st1:address></st1:street>, having borne away through the side streets to the east of the Oval.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">The men whom we pursued seemed to have taken a curiously zigzag road, with the idea probably of escaping observation. They had never kept to the main road if a parallel side street would serve their turn. At the foot of <st1:street><st1:address>Kennington Lane</st1:address></st1:street> they had edged away to the left through <st1:street><st1:address>Bond Street</st1:address></st1:street> and <st1:street><st1:address>Miles Street</st1:address></st1:street>. Where the latter street turns into Knight's Place, Toby ceased to advance but began to run backward and forward with one ear cocked and the other drooping, the very picture of canine indecision. Then he waddled round in circles, looking up to us from time to time, as if to ask for sympathy in his embarrassment. "What the deuce is the matter with the dog?" growled Holmes. "They surely would not take a cab or go off in a balloon." "Perhaps they stood here for some time," I suggested. "Ah! it's all right. He's off again," said my companion in a tone of relief. 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Our course now ran down Nine Elms until we came to Broderick and Nelson's large timber-yard just past the White Eagle tavern. Here the dog, frantic with excitement, turned down through the side gate into the enclosure, where the sawyers were already at work. On the dog raced through sawdust and shavings, down an alley, round a passage, between two wood-piles, and finally, with a triumphant yelp, sprang upon a large barrel which still stood upon the hand-trolley on which it had been brought. With lolling tongue and blinking eyes Toby stood upon the cask, looking from one to the other of us for some sign of appreciation. The staves of the barrel and the wheels of the trolley were smeared with a dark liquid, and the whole air was heavy with the smell of creosote. 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Only 30 prims, for an affordable L$250.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">* * *</span></p><br /><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">RESOURCES</span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">For anyone interested in exploring some of the steampunk musical references made in this issue of The Cog, please visit the following Aethernet sites:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:place><st1:placename>Abney</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.abneypark.com/">http://www.abneypark.com/</a></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Emilie Autumn:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.emilieautumn.com/">http://www.emilieautumn.com/</a></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Vernian Process:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.post-punk.com/vernianprocess.html">http://www.post-punk.com/vernianprocess.html</a></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Antique Phonograph Music Program:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://wfmu.org/playlists/AP">http://wfmu.org/playlists/AP</a></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Thomas Edison's Attic:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://wfmu.org/playlists/te">http://wfmu.org/playlists/te</a></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/">http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/</a></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">***</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >------------------------</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >------------------------</span> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed usingonly the tools at theirdisposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p face="times new roman" style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk"><br /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=""> </span></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305009654355755698" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 116px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm4Roec4ollu4LNiehJLSvnp167mLgw48Zy5V-cihDpCCghSGNe4nb3av5j9nCVwxnLsg2-K0zNA8_UT2e7Fi2uuJKaNX_3qll9hMW-yNuLVj3mYJshcrTRakH70MPk3XFGPYsiLt-cqk/s400/junie.jpg" border="0" /></span></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Mrs. Junie Ginsburg </strong><br /></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Asst Editor: Miss Eggberta Echegaray </strong></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Visit us:</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog office is located at <st1:street><st1:address>#4 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, across the street from I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store (<st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>).<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Drop a notecard:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Notecard communications can be dropped in the postbox outside the Cog office at the address above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- IM:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">You may contact Mrs. Junie Ginsburg or Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Aethernet mail:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Messages sent to <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Circulation:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paperboxes at the following locations:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, outside of I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">3. A reading copy of the current issue is always available at the newspaper office at <st1:street><st1:address>#4 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Back Issues:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the archive on the first floor of the newspaper office.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Submissions:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.<o:p></o:p><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Errata:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. 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font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">We're a full week behind, but not gone forever! In the interest of preventing readers from checking and rechecking the paper boxes for new issues, we've decided to make use of the much-to-be-dreaded, lag-inducing hover text to display the issue date above each paper box. This way, readers will know whether a new issue is ready to be read. Please also consider joining The New Babbage Cog group, where the most recent issues will be delivered to you automatically!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">In your service,</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Mrs. Junie Ginsburg</p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;">________________________________________________________________<br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW BABBAGE CANAL DISTRICT FILLING FAST!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">If you are considering a place for yourself or your business in New Babbage, this is the perfect time to shop for a plot in the upcoming canal district sim.<span style=""> </span>Only eight plots are remaining, and four row </p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">houses. Please inquire with Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket if you're interested in a parcel in the new sim!<span style=""> </span>Permanent waterfront properties are available, as well as some along the canal passage between void sea sims.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">AIR KRAKEN ATTACKS ON THE RISE IN NEW BABBAGE!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">Since my last report about the singular Air Kraken attack that happened to me at Mr. Tripsa’s Steampunk Art and Fashion Shoppe, “The Steamed Palette”, for the past two weeks, I too have unfortunately found an Air Kraken harboring on top of my Tea Shoppe! I thought this Kraken might have been the same one that has been loitering around Mr.Tripsa’s shoppe, but alas, there are two. Frightened that these Krakens could be “mates” and possibly breed, I hired some exterminators to get rid the creature, but alas, nothing that the exterminators used seemed to have banished the beast.<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQcma0gJ2LPg-zjleDQSm0Cyvdyka8EBTge2sEQE1vTyelV72cQYWML8MX-vOSKh47bWUCC6o5G0qWXXHEfztGsBf6yFtJg5Gai9F51fDGtdmEbZ2iANOwzpn7CBahaEoPr9qw5-OStGE/s1600-h/teashoppekraken.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 377px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQcma0gJ2LPg-zjleDQSm0Cyvdyka8EBTge2sEQE1vTyelV72cQYWML8MX-vOSKh47bWUCC6o5G0qWXXHEfztGsBf6yFtJg5Gai9F51fDGtdmEbZ2iANOwzpn7CBahaEoPr9qw5-OStGE/s400/teashoppekraken.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309693666537415122" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">Since the termination failed, the Air Krakens have just casually resorted back to their loafer lifestyle, just growling and swapping their tentacles at a couple of passer bys. If anything, they have just been pesky nuisances. Or so I thought! Last evening whilst leisurely chatting to Ms. Kaylee Frye and Mr. Pizzini Mayo, out of nowhere, Air Krakens, big and small…came from out of the sky and started to attack us!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxlQkEWCJ335-tytH9D7XgKV_wElL8Rh4_7cswwhK0VhwQv2Ly7bA8Hjg5RgdvegSWmOkrEac-ECR7mJA3Z3hRlt3wdxIgiIeCAtPMjajHO9rWedKV_6mHK3IIdhiG_Idgh2_gj-zG65E/s1600-h/airkrakenattack.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxlQkEWCJ335-tytH9D7XgKV_wElL8Rh4_7cswwhK0VhwQv2Ly7bA8Hjg5RgdvegSWmOkrEac-ECR7mJA3Z3hRlt3wdxIgiIeCAtPMjajHO9rWedKV_6mHK3IIdhiG_Idgh2_gj-zG65E/s400/airkrakenattack.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309693711789397298" border="0" /></a><br />My assumption all along has been correct. These two krakens that have been frittering on top of Mr.Trispa’s and my shoppes, have indeed been breeding! Ms. Frye, Mr. Mayo and I ran away from them, trying to find a safe place from the attacks. Ms. Frye and I found refuge inside Mr. Wombat’s toy shoppe, but poor Mr.Mayo was unfortunately attacked!<br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGX8Ygm-nG-uWyeW1mndaN31hMc-bk1ZAgxAaVDe_l-AEtoE4JxzfEUxEsU-P5p0EuG5TwPMFZ3re_vvyUQIq-g4F-pno3bUW9jjZ-K7WcbSItn9-GdOpSprzdwYk63dLn4GCUI7_VXq8/s1600-h/krakenhead.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 359px; height: 359px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGX8Ygm-nG-uWyeW1mndaN31hMc-bk1ZAgxAaVDe_l-AEtoE4JxzfEUxEsU-P5p0EuG5TwPMFZ3re_vvyUQIq-g4F-pno3bUW9jjZ-K7WcbSItn9-GdOpSprzdwYk63dLn4GCUI7_VXq8/s400/krakenhead.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309693601887503602" border="0" /></a></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">A medium sized Kraken, which I believe to be an adolescent, engulfed Mr.Mayo’s head, and disabled him from fleeing. All the while, smaller krakens floated nearby.<span style=""> </span>After about 30 minutes or so, the medium sized kraken disengaged it’s self from Mr.Mayo’s head, it and the pack of surrounding Kraken’s, quickly departed the area.Ms. Frye and I quickly attended to Mr.Mayo to see if he was all right. He was physically unharmed, but appeared to be mentally scared from the assailment. Mr. Mayo jibber-jabbered incoherently for a couple of minutes, finally found his tongue, and scantily mentioned something about mind control? Is it viable that the Kraken’s have a different ulterior motive, as opposed to them possibly only wanting to just digest New Babbage residents? For now, Mr.Mayo is resting, as he is experiencing post-traumatic shock from the attack. We hope to readily ask him more questions when he is able, to find out what indeed happened to him! New Babbagers and visitors, please do be careful, for the Kraken’s populace has grown. Until we find another way to rid the beasts, I suggest to all Babbagers to wear a protective lead-plated helmet.</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Eggberta Echegaray</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">***</p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">ANNIE <st1:place>LONDONDERRY</st1:place> EXHIBIT AT U.R.S</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Annie Londonderry</span><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKotJQV04igySDNaMZjdpemM0eogrL4ujMpGo_vHQj3asNv0JZkvzd8gGW9X2JEPvO-se9LaFWVeYzlccqpXQkMYmK2BsUd08aKW0JrMqd2YKGR9URnk3MFn1EZpmJ74uDJP5gfEUMpDo/s1600-h/anniebike.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 199px; height: 275px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKotJQV04igySDNaMZjdpemM0eogrL4ujMpGo_vHQj3asNv0JZkvzd8gGW9X2JEPvO-se9LaFWVeYzlccqpXQkMYmK2BsUd08aKW0JrMqd2YKGR9URnk3MFn1EZpmJ74uDJP5gfEUMpDo/s400/anniebike.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309690874579383186" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Much to the benefit of New Babbage, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has erected a free exhibit to honor the achievement of Mrs. Annie "Londonderry" Kopchovsky, the first woman to ride a bicycle around the world. A wager against a woman riding around the world, to the tune of ten times the average annual income or more, was enough to spur Mrs. Kopchovsky into motion.<span style=""> </span>The mother of three young children, she set off to accomplish what had, in 1895, previously been accomplished only by a man.<span style=""> </span>Part adventurer, part myth-maker, <st1:place>Londonderry</st1:place> reveled in the spectacle and went on to write tales of her marvelous journey after returning to her home. The Undershaw Restoration Society exhibit features a well-written account of Annie's story, as well as a colorful map to plot out the points along her trip. Also featured are several contemporary images that appeared in the media as they followed her progress.<br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The exhibit runs through April 28th, 2007.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Please visit the Undershaw Restoration Society at Babbage Square 228, 118, 31</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Tired of checking the newspaper box for a new issue of the Cog?</p><div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;"> </div> <p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Join the New Babbage Cog group and receive new issues as soon as they come out!</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">* * *</span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">PANTHERS OF THE <st1:place>NORTHERN FOREST</st1:place></span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:place><br /></st1:place></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">In the cold north of Gor lies a harsh and unfriendly world that yields to nobody, even its inhabitants- the Panthers. This barbaric tribe lives according to the ways of nature and suffers no-one to interfere with its primal ways. Matriarchal structure and brutal upbringing allows only the fittest and strongest to survive. Little is known of their habits- they seem to be ruled by autocratic Dominas, who are counseled by Shamans and Warriors of both genders. We cannot firmly state whether a Council of Elders is also present. Their leaders are often accompanied by a group of slaves of merely animal like status- they can be beaten, starved and even killed. They have no voice and can not speak to their masters.</p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNaubRzBAnf-t8PPGSzNrtKSKcjjJBsn4lngd6KlqVjiveS_R9QcIxU88J0-Qf5tKHrxJ9rgr3Y4YjXBJsgoZfWV4_VehjPccZ1BBTxycmmsU_g3XCRuwyGeGImpQBpbSRudlXJYbMIlA/s1600-h/UncivilizedBeauty.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 370px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNaubRzBAnf-t8PPGSzNrtKSKcjjJBsn4lngd6KlqVjiveS_R9QcIxU88J0-Qf5tKHrxJ9rgr3Y4YjXBJsgoZfWV4_VehjPccZ1BBTxycmmsU_g3XCRuwyGeGImpQBpbSRudlXJYbMIlA/s400/UncivilizedBeauty.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309687763085474370" border="0" /></a><br /><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">This harsh code is brought upon them for their own good- cold, sweat and blood empower the mind and body. After they become true Warriors the skills they have learned through constant training will come most valuable. Upon my first visit to the Northern Forests I did not know anything about their inhabitants. A weak and thirsty traveler trying to make his way through the wood, I found myself in a deep ridge richly decorated with bones (both human and animal). After a few hours of walking I encountered a small plateau with a hide tent and a campfire burning. Later on I was informed this is where any trade between the Panthers and outside world takes place.<br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR3ZlxTQ7hpCr3Tj7_fWKZSV1Jww6BZbTJt-zDwUILtsPZLlYhstvqsCSe4vZ-b8IgzapEKtEzfkb8VOi0o-gN8Tng9RyHO42cVWdYAULJMaxF11FPZeeYVpvX-deeAfMEjPw-96MPA2g/s1600-h/plateau.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 367px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR3ZlxTQ7hpCr3Tj7_fWKZSV1Jww6BZbTJt-zDwUILtsPZLlYhstvqsCSe4vZ-b8IgzapEKtEzfkb8VOi0o-gN8Tng9RyHO42cVWdYAULJMaxF11FPZeeYVpvX-deeAfMEjPw-96MPA2g/s400/plateau.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309687677976165378" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">I sat upon a fallen tree and rested for a while. An eerie feeling of being followed that haunted me all the way through the ridgeturned into a sting like pain at my spine. I decided to move along and with the use of my machete I found a path to the small wooden bridge across the river furiously roaring on the nearby waterfall. I marveled for a second at this view and that was my mistake. The Panthers were watching me closely and upon crossing the bridge I was captured in a sphere like net made of some strong material I wasn’t able to identify. Being turned around like a rag doll in this cage, I dropped my trusty Pearse Rifle and was left to their mercy.</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheN-3OwgMB8zvsodOtg77Gvux4kq7gh_9WC8jp5ElTYQlEYSHOFHJTfK33W7X3RaJoaYNwc1KH5gukhTp50DOL5gsnX5kHO6KJ-9rUuTLLmEuQ59pUm-gGRiJw5X-Ex4P588hfad6iCiI/s1600-h/cage.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 347px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheN-3OwgMB8zvsodOtg77Gvux4kq7gh_9WC8jp5ElTYQlEYSHOFHJTfK33W7X3RaJoaYNwc1KH5gukhTp50DOL5gsnX5kHO6KJ-9rUuTLLmEuQ59pUm-gGRiJw5X-Ex4P588hfad6iCiI/s400/cage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309687619215437778" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">What amazed me is that in a matter of seconds I was surrounded by ten Panthers that came out of nowhere. They were silent and only their eyes seemed to move.<span style=""> </span>One of them approached me and transported to the other bank advising to withdraw in a hasty manner. I was forced to leave the machete and rifle behind.</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0kiLUASqEF0JDp1VsK4rgdQB8AmEvDtuyeZXqtRjExST6-j0S-WoXkJxFPAmCCHpeyOgAVcGoQTrZBD0QaZIvBUTu3EwfVlRe53Cx1qv-xnTQGVjeun9YIVGbG3BKnf61fK4HsB9bk20/s1600-h/oneofthem.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 342px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0kiLUASqEF0JDp1VsK4rgdQB8AmEvDtuyeZXqtRjExST6-j0S-WoXkJxFPAmCCHpeyOgAVcGoQTrZBD0QaZIvBUTu3EwfVlRe53Cx1qv-xnTQGVjeun9YIVGbG3BKnf61fK4HsB9bk20/s400/oneofthem.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309685993814485842" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"> Scared but furious I vowed revenge. My next arrival was carefully planned . I had constructed a zeppelin and armed myself to the teeth with all sorts of efficient contraptions- steel plates, heavy industrial glass, enhanced sail cloth as well as a saw off and a on board web gun. "I could not be outmatched with spears and arrows this time", I thought. And thus I entered the skies of the wretched forest. What immediately caught my attention was a sphere like spying pod hovering above the trees. "Not so crude, are we?" I whispered and examined the machine. Unfortunately I was not able to break it for good. I left the spy bearing a proud mark "Babbage Was Here" and flew on.</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHne5gzAYbw8sXidKBv84ovYdfuS8ZBYEqdzqPpdwlXRbdIBqmQCikitUhDR11RBYKdxeChWMdfonMH4-KdGD4V0JrSWtiXlaQ4a7lxpuhv1tl5CrDVbWjfvZmrmH1hUuAMXT20i27Aec/s1600-h/spying+pod.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 358px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHne5gzAYbw8sXidKBv84ovYdfuS8ZBYEqdzqPpdwlXRbdIBqmQCikitUhDR11RBYKdxeChWMdfonMH4-KdGD4V0JrSWtiXlaQ4a7lxpuhv1tl5CrDVbWjfvZmrmH1hUuAMXT20i27Aec/s400/spying+pod.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309683384867388850" border="0" /></a></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJezq259PY2jxUhv_vEmh8EefrgyY_sqtelncBHYMi7dDTW7xZo9krUxVwsSIP4loSIaXf4WYXz8TpkaNMEwrJxvzEtsjnyXoVY4YBBoo7KyG2U6rHU726Rg5MTajJFdxZyB-0WD1qhi0/s1600-h/Babbage+Was+Here.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 363px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJezq259PY2jxUhv_vEmh8EefrgyY_sqtelncBHYMi7dDTW7xZo9krUxVwsSIP4loSIaXf4WYXz8TpkaNMEwrJxvzEtsjnyXoVY4YBBoo7KyG2U6rHU726Rg5MTajJFdxZyB-0WD1qhi0/s400/Babbage+Was+Here.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309683050830882834" border="0" /></a><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">I crossed the bloody bridge that was an ultimate border on my last visit- "It is a triumph of the Mind" I thought. The village seemed deserted therefore I could concentrate on studying its architecture. My hypothesis on the general view were correct- wooden huts covered with reed and moss constructed on thick beams- floodings might be quite often here. A pallisade that encircled the village was smeared with blood and "encrusted" with skulls - a universal sign in savages’ esperanto -- "Stay off our land!"</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfllKq0OnForUwq7tt4u7w0c1yOOl8nMcqYDtVqK3P9A4zKhRGUmuvMShcIryGZqoiIr4zuveAi3YKhdaIZKPg7Xc2LzQqpVEB0i2aUbZXc1TYWzEzdounAoBigYMnOYPpB00aXw6VtaU/s1600-h/skulls.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfllKq0OnForUwq7tt4u7w0c1yOOl8nMcqYDtVqK3P9A4zKhRGUmuvMShcIryGZqoiIr4zuveAi3YKhdaIZKPg7Xc2LzQqpVEB0i2aUbZXc1TYWzEzdounAoBigYMnOYPpB00aXw6VtaU/s400/skulls.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309682114505104066" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">I marveled for a little while at the striking and uncivilized beauty of this place- somehow it brought a bit of peace to my soul. And suddenly I saw a Warrior standing and gazing at me I felt shivers. Even being 60 meters above, in a steel cage with unbreakable glass I could feel his silent anger. I realized the explorer’s passion is nothing when compared to his ancient way of life. I bowed my head and withdrew from the Panthers’ territory. This time with understanding and admiration</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Sigal Rau</span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;">***<br /></div><br /><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">HISTORICAL AVATARS</span><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Thinking about a second avatar in Second Life? Perhaps you should consider the name of a person who actually lived in the Victorian Era. Of course last names are limited by Linden Labs, but some interesting combination are possible from the current <st1:city><st1:place>Linden</st1:place></st1:city> list.<br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">How about:</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDkEszOzLH3dhZgFmBjyGhsiiYwiBNz_aDHxzF0ptLpwEAHuJePzeYcUazXuSabaNs5wYOrsAYF7ngiOoOzmn8dyg1jaLE3sppDqOjZPZb4q5cG-7gMoGkG1imc14koLK4lpMupv2QswA/s1600-h/Lord_Charles_Beresford00.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDkEszOzLH3dhZgFmBjyGhsiiYwiBNz_aDHxzF0ptLpwEAHuJePzeYcUazXuSabaNs5wYOrsAYF7ngiOoOzmn8dyg1jaLE3sppDqOjZPZb4q5cG-7gMoGkG1imc14koLK4lpMupv2QswA/s400/Lord_Charles_Beresford00.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309651368362856498" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lord Charles Beresford</span> was the second son of the 4th Marquess of Waterford, a rear admiral in the British Navy and a member or Parliament.</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAiLcZCrb8pwpiE65DPp7vzDmzLwXWYZcN-j2WG1iGwSccg_0PugAHiitsZdLKrsfVuRqiSpoJBwG_waD-1JnytQPq2WOKE-oRJpCRJxiz_xA_0MKIAqy3fDsysyJq4mDsufqVXKOuouA/s1600-h/clara36.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 182px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAiLcZCrb8pwpiE65DPp7vzDmzLwXWYZcN-j2WG1iGwSccg_0PugAHiitsZdLKrsfVuRqiSpoJBwG_waD-1JnytQPq2WOKE-oRJpCRJxiz_xA_0MKIAqy3fDsysyJq4mDsufqVXKOuouA/s400/clara36.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309651272350849842" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Clara Wieck Schumann </span>was the Premier Female Musician of the 19th Century</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8X3UL0mpiKufS7KIffliv42BknHaUE4Epn6yJWJs22VgXyTW6GevhFhNbR2WlN6m4vaS7N5U6dRcoYvqqwmSPvC-jmOJlWtCutuizbNwcKn5fKdak70_crmLcYNr5HJ0jNWgsHiqg0FY/s1600-h/slade_henry1.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 153px; height: 203px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8X3UL0mpiKufS7KIffliv42BknHaUE4Epn6yJWJs22VgXyTW6GevhFhNbR2WlN6m4vaS7N5U6dRcoYvqqwmSPvC-jmOJlWtCutuizbNwcKn5fKdak70_crmLcYNr5HJ0jNWgsHiqg0FY/s400/slade_henry1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309651653335983378" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Henry Slade</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>was a famous American medium</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjow9p2h55crnPB3EyMm-RP43KcAserDb2JB6q16tlBzw0vUS52ePPZcgotcuBWCn5omk8F2ENN0BOlRSWp7bUhDjXNfgD7r88MsdmNxGNqG5UXuUf_f22WcpBIzMK4IzOSydrlUcF_hp4/s1600-h/Spitteler+Photo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 153px; height: 217px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjow9p2h55crnPB3EyMm-RP43KcAserDb2JB6q16tlBzw0vUS52ePPZcgotcuBWCn5omk8F2ENN0BOlRSWp7bUhDjXNfgD7r88MsdmNxGNqG5UXuUf_f22WcpBIzMK4IzOSydrlUcF_hp4/s400/Spitteler+Photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309651797732082194" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler </span>was a Swiss poet of visionary imagination and<span style=""> </span>was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919.</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><br /><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhizTy9TiUeA4X2KLkIOuaObvxxpvz2GBYAnzfRMyY2EPgBcuk1dRVnqqkPAMhdl4E5_nTJAjLL7uj8hvMcW3eSE5FTwKr7mtaUJvrWAcPw7CWHCYTbrzefLacqTRYKdKRRi1p6QK416p4/s1600-h/whitfield_f.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 201px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhizTy9TiUeA4X2KLkIOuaObvxxpvz2GBYAnzfRMyY2EPgBcuk1dRVnqqkPAMhdl4E5_nTJAjLL7uj8hvMcW3eSE5FTwKr7mtaUJvrWAcPw7CWHCYTbrzefLacqTRYKdKRRi1p6QK416p4/s400/whitfield_f.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309651730499767666" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Frederick Whitfield </span>was a Vicar and author of many hymns</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPs1leVg_739YGFQS9JLh4yN5yiMMdfYglDcA44H6gQlsjcr4CX3Ryuu8eOetDssBMZxG9lg5UGXfTqXdItTLtYdQNCHb0MRsF6p3n1VF5CCXITp4rNd82ohtUdwt33eF4tqvbmA-AC7U/s1600-h/Woodger.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPs1leVg_739YGFQS9JLh4yN5yiMMdfYglDcA44H6gQlsjcr4CX3Ryuu8eOetDssBMZxG9lg5UGXfTqXdItTLtYdQNCHb0MRsF6p3n1VF5CCXITp4rNd82ohtUdwt33eF4tqvbmA-AC7U/s400/Woodger.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309654583033913602" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Richard Woodget </span>was the captain of Cutty Sark, the famous Clipper ship</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Linden Labs also restricts common first names so a little creativity is in order. Our own Babbage resident Thomas Swindlehurst (Silver Medalist in the 1908 Olympics and Liverpool Police Officer) had to add his middle Initial "M" to his first name - ThomasM Swindlehurst. Of course, if you do take the name of a historical character you will want to portray the person with dignity and respect. For further information on historical avatars or on the Re-Creationist League of New Babbage, contact Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.<br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br />***<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW BABBAGE REGISTER</span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">The landscape is ever-changing here in New Babbage.<span style=""> </span>Since our last register, the following plots have changed hands.<span style=""> </span>Please welcome our newest residents!</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Parcel No. New Owner/Business:</span></strong></span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">#8 - Miss Kamilah Hauptman - <st1:city><st1:place>Caledon</st1:place></st1:city> Viceregal New Babbage Residence<span style=""></span><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">#14 - Mr. Aleister Russell - Historical Weapon Designs Factory and Laboratories</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"># 25 - Miss Lapin Paris - The Transformed Woman</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">In addition to the above, if any owners of plots wish to find a private buyer for their property, please contact Mr. Nikmi Hax.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;">***<br /></div><br /><br /><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE DAY</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Arthur Sullivan</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIpdImKcwDuu_VcJ3Qxs0yJaGER3MMCqh2ZzkiEzaXLzp6yyWIXRAQKbFHJqqJYLsjpGYpmOZXb7455zX12WZJOuy3EYvq10NqL1KSuL5wOpcdzUHnLMqVuP4RPG1cqPSoLRaIqxhQlno/s1600-h/Arthur+Sullivan.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 154px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIpdImKcwDuu_VcJ3Qxs0yJaGER3MMCqh2ZzkiEzaXLzp6yyWIXRAQKbFHJqqJYLsjpGYpmOZXb7455zX12WZJOuy3EYvq10NqL1KSuL5wOpcdzUHnLMqVuP4RPG1cqPSoLRaIqxhQlno/s400/Arthur+Sullivan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309638401981777698" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Everybody has heard of Arthur Sullivan, whose music is as popular in this country as in <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>. "Pinafore" was probably the greatest success of the age, as nobody, who has ever witnessed a stage performance at all, has probably failed to see and hear this most delightful of comic operas. "Trial by Jury," and "Pirates of Penzance," though less widely known, have all secured exceptional successes. That the author of these popular compositions, and greatest of English musicians, should have received the honor of knighthood is not surprising. It is royalty's tardy recognition of eminent merit, and gives Sir Arthur Sullivan special prominence at this time.Arthur L. Sullivan is the son of a professional musician, and was born in the city of <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city>. In 1885 he became a choir boy, and two years later gained the Mendelssohn scholarship at the royal academy of music. He afterwards continued his studies at Leipsic; and on returning to <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>, entered upon the career in which he was to win such eminence and distinction. "The Prodigal Son" and "The Light of the World" at once became popular, while his music to Shakespeare's "Tempest" obtained a great success. His songs and sacred music placed him among the leading composers of the day. But "Pinafore," after all, is the basis of his fame. No other piece, within a like period, has ever been played so many times or in so many different places. When first brought out in <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>, it failed to gain that extraordinary, though necessarily ephemeral, success it obtained when reproduced in <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region> toward the end of 1878. At that time Mr. Sullivan, with Mr. W. S. Gilbert, came to <st1:state><st1:place>New York</st1:place></st1:state>, to superintend the production of "Pinafore" under his personal leadership, and the success of the enterprise was beyond the most sanguine expectations. <st1:city><st1:place>Cambridge</st1:place></st1:city> university conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Music in 1876, and at the <st1:city><st1:place>Paris</st1:place></st1:city> exposition in 1878 was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Mr. Sullivan has for a number of years worked in conjunction with Mr. W. S. Gilbert, who wrote the words of "Pinafore" and "The Pirates of Penzance." Mr. Sullivan is a genial, companionable man, and during his visit to this country gained many friends.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Sir ArthurConan Doyle</span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">***<br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">LITERARY CORNER</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">In this issue, The New Babbage Cog presents Chapter 8 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Sign of The Four."</p> <p 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style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"WHAT now?"I asked. "Toby has lost his character for infallibility." "He acted according to his lights," said Holmes, lifting him down from the barrel and walking him out of the timber-yard. "If you consider how much creosote is carted about <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> in one day, it is no great wonder that our trail should have been crossed. It is much used now, especially for the seasoning of wood. Poor Toby is not to blame." "We must get on the main scent again, I suppose." "Yes. And, fortunately, we have no distance to go. Evidently what puzzled the dog at the corner of Knight's Place was that there were two different trails running in opposite directions. We took the wrong one. It only remains to follow the other." There was no difficulty about this. On leading Toby to the place where he had committed his fault, he cast about in a wide circle and finally dashed off in a fresh direction. "We must take care that he does not now bring us to the place where the creosote-barrel came from," I observed. "I had thought of that. But you notice that he keeps on the pavement, whereas the barrel passed down the roadway. No, we are on the true scent now." It tended down towards the riverside, running through <st1:street><st1:address>Belmont Place</st1:address></st1:street> and Prince's Street. At the end of <st1:street><st1:address>Broad Street</st1:address></st1:street> it ran right down to the water's edge, where there was a small wooden wharf. Toby led us to the very edge of this and there stood whining, looking out on the dark current beyond. "We are out of luck," said Holmes. "They have taken to a boat here." Several small punts and skiffs were lying about in the water and on the edge of the wharf. We took Toby round to each in turn, but though he sniffed earnestly he made no sign. Close to the rude landing-stage was a small brick house, with a wooden placard slung out through the second window. "Mordecai Smith" was printed across it in large letters, and, underneath, "Boats to hire by the hour or day." A second inscription above the door informed us that a steam launch was kept--a statement which was confirmed by a great pile of coke upon the jetty. Sherlock Holmes looked slowly round, and his face assumed an ominous expression. "This looks bad," said he. "These fellows are sharper than I expected. They seem to have covered their tracks.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">There has, I fear, been preconcerted management here." He was approaching the door of the house, when it opened, and a little curly-headed lad of six came running out, followed by a stoutish, red-faced woman with a large sponge in her hand. "You come back and be washed, Jack," she shouted. "Come back, you young imp; for if your father comes home and finds you like that he'll let us hear of it." "Dear little chap!" said Holmes strategically. "What a rosy-cheeked young rascal! Now, Jack, is there anything you would like?" The youth pondered for a moment. "I'd like a shillin'," said he. "Nothing you would like better?" "I'd like two shillin' better," the prodigy answered after some thought. "Here you are, then! Catch!--A fine child, Mrs. Smith!" "Lor' bless you, sir, he is that, and forward. He gets a'most too much for me to manage, 'specially when my man is away days at a time." "Away, is he?" said Holmes in a disappointed voice. "I am sorry for that, for I wanted to speak to Mr. Smith." "He's been away since yesterday mornin', sir, and, truth to tell, I am beginnin' to feel frightened about him. But if it was about a boat, sir, maybe I could serve as well." "I wanted to hire his steam launch." "Why, bless you, sir, it is in the steam launch that he has gone. That's what puzzles me; for I know there ain't more coals in her than would take her to about Woolwich and back. If he's been away in the barge I'd ha' thought nothin'; for many a time a job has taken him as far as Gravesend, and then if there was much doin' there he might ha' stayed over. But what good is a steam launch without coals?" "He might have bought some at a wharf down the river."<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"He might, sir, but it weren't his way. Many a time I've heard him call out at the prices they charge for a few odd bags. Besides, I don't like that wooden-legged man, wi' his ugly face and outlandish talk. What did he want always knockin' about here for?" "A wooden-legged man?" said Holmes with bland surprise. "Yes, sir, a brown, monkey-faced chap that's called more'n once for my old man. It was him that roused him up yesternight, and, what's more, my man knew he was comin', for he had steam up in the launch. I tell you straight, sir, I don't feel easy in my mind about it." "But, my dear Mrs. Smith," said Holmes, shrugging his shoulders, "you are frightening yourself about nothing. How could you possibly tell that it was the wooden-legged man who came in the night? I don't quite understand how you can be so sure." "His voice, sir. I knew his voice, which is kind o' thick and foggy. He tapped at the winder--about three it would be. 'Show a leg, matey,' says he: 'time to turn out guard.' My old man woke up Jim--that's my eldest--and away they went without so much as a word to me. I could hear the wooden leg clackin' on the stones." "And was this wooden-legged man alone?" "Couldn't say, I am sure, sir. I didn't hear no one else." "I am sorry, Mrs. Smith, for I wanted a steam launch, and I have heard good reports of the-- -- Let me see, what is her name?" "The Aurora, sir." "Ah! She's not that old green launch with a yellow line, very broad in the beam?" "No, indeed. She's as trim a little thing as any on the river. She's been fresh painted, black with two red streaks." "Thanks. I hope that you will hear soon from Mr. Smith. I am going down the river, and if I should see anything of the <st1:city><st1:place>Aurora</st1:place></st1:city> I shall let him know that you are uneasy. A black funnel, you say?" "No, sir. Black with a white band." "Ah, of course. It was the sides which were black. Good-morning, Mrs. Smith. There is a boatman here with a wherry, Watson. We shall take it and cross the river."<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"The main thing with people of that sort," said Holmes as we sat in the sheets of the wherry, "is never to let them think that their information can be of the slightest importance to you. If you do they will instantly shut up like an oyster. If you listen to them under protest, as it were, you are very likely to get what you want." "Our course now seems pretty clear," said I. "What would you do, then?" "I would engage a launch and go down the river on the track of the <st1:city><st1:place>Aurora</st1:place></st1:city>." "My dear fellow, it would be a colossal task. She may have touched at any wharf on either side of the stream between here and <st1:city><st1:place>Greenwich</st1:place></st1:city>. Below the bridge there is a perfect labyrinth of landing-places for miles. It would take you days and days to exhaust them if you set about it alone." "Employ the police, then." "No. I shall probably call Athelney Jones in at the last moment. He is not a bad fellow, and I should not like to do anything which would injure him professionally. But I have a fancy for working it out myself, now that we have gone so far." "Could we advertise, then, asking for information from wharfingers?" "Worse and worse! Our men would know that the chase was hot at their heels, and they would be off out of the country. As it is, they are likely enough to leave, but as long as they think they are perfectly safe they will be in no hurry. Jones's energy will be of use to us there, for his view of the case is sure to push itself into the daily press, and the runaways will think that everyone is off on the wrong scent." "What are we to do, then?" I asked as we landed near Millbank Penitentiary. "Take this hansom, drive home, have some breakfast, and get an hour's sleep. It is quite on the cards that we may be afoot to-night again. Stop at a telegraph office, cabby! We will keep Toby, for he may be of use to us yet." We pulled up at the Great Peter Street Post-Office, and Holmes dispatched his wire. "Whom do you think that is to?" he asked as we resumed our journey. "I am sure I don't know." "You remember the <st1:street><st1:address>Baker Street</st1:address></st1:street> division of the detective police force whom I employed in the Jefferson Hope case?" "Well," said I, laughing.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"This is just the case where they might be invaluable. If they fail I have other resources, but I shall try them first. That wire was to my dirty little lieutenant, Wiggins, and I expect that he and his gang will be with us before we have finished our breakfast." It was between eight and <st1:time minute="0" hour="9">nine o'clock</st1:time> now, and I was conscious of a strong reaction after the successive excitements of the night. I was limp and weary, befogged in mind and fatigued in body. I had not the professional enthusiasm which carried my companion on, nor could I look at the matter as a mere abstract intellectual problem. As far as the death of Bartholomew Sholto went, I had heard little good of him and could feel no intense antipathy to his murderers. The treasure, however, was a different matter. That, or part of it, belonged rightfully to Miss Morstan. While there was a chance of recovering it I was ready to devote my life to the one object. True, if I found it, it would probably put her forever beyond my reach. Yet it would be a petty and selfish love which would be influenced by such a thought as that. If Holmes could work to find the criminals, I had a tenfold stronger reason to urge me on to find the treasure. A bath at <st1:street><st1:address>Baker Street</st1:address></st1:street> and a complete change freshened me up wonderfully. When I came down to our room I found the breakfast laid and Holmes pouring out the coffee. "Here it is," said he, laughing and pointing to an open newspaper. "The energetic Jones and the ubiquitous reporter have fixed it up between them. But you have had enough of the case. Better have your ham and eggs first." I took the paper from him and read the short notice, which was headed "Mysterious Business at <st1:place>Upper Norwood</st1:place>." About twelve o'clock last night [said the Standard] Mr. Bartholomew Sholto, of Pondicherry Lodge, Upper Norwood, was found dead in his room under circumstances which point to foul play. As far as we can learn, no actual traces of violence were found upon Mr. Sholto's person, but a valuable collection of Indian gems which the deceased gentleman had inherited from his father has been carried off.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">The discovery was first made by Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who had called at the house with Mr. Thaddeus Sholto, brother of the deceased. By a singular piece of good fortune, Mr. Athelney Jones, the well-known member of the detective police force, happened to be at the <st1:city><st1:place>Norwood</st1:place></st1:city> police station and was on the ground within half an hour of the first alarm. His trained and experienced faculties were at once directed towards the detection of the criminals, with the gratifying result that the brother, Thaddeus Sholto, has already been arrested, together with the housekeeper, Mrs. Bernstone, an Indian butler named Lal Rao, and a porter, or gatekeeper, named McMurdo. It is quite certain that the thief or thieves were well acquainted with the house, for Mr. Jones's well-known technical knowledge and his powers of minute observation have enabled him to prove conclusively that the miscreants could not have entered by the door or by the window but must have made their way across the roof of the building, and so through a trapdoor into a room which communicated with that in which the body was found. This fact, which has been very clearly made out, proves conclusively that it was no mere haphazard burglary. The prompt and energetic action of the officers of the law shows the great advantage of the presence on such occasions of a single vigorous and masterful mind. We cannot but think that it supplies an argument to those who would wish to see our detectives more de-centralized, and so brought into closer and more effective touch with the cases which it is their duty to investigate. "Isn't it gorgeous!" said Holmes, grinning over his coffee cup.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"What do you think of it?" "I think that we have had a close shave ourselves of being arrested for the crime." "So do I. I wouldn't answer for our safety now if he should happen to have another of his attacks of energy." At this moment there was a loud ring at the bell, and I could hear Mrs. Hudson, our landlady, raising her voice in a wail of expostulation and dismay. "By heavens, Holmes," I said, half rising, "I believe that they are really after us." "No, it's not quite so bad as that. It is the unofficial force--the <st1:street><st1:address>Baker Street</st1:address></st1:street> irregulars." As he spoke, there came a swift pattering of naked feet upon the stairs, a clatter of high voices, and in rushed a dozen dirty and ragged little street Arabs. There was some show of discipline among them, despite their tumultuous entry, for they instantly drew up in line and stood facing us with expectant faces. One of their number, taller and older than the others, stood forward with an air of lounging superiority which was very funny in such a disreputable little scarecrow. "Got your message, sir," said he, "and brought 'em on sharp. Three bob and a tanner for tickets." "Here you are," said Holmes, producing some silver. "In future they can report to you, Wiggins, and you to me. I cannot have the house invaded in this way. However, it is just as well that you should all hear the instructions. I want to find the whereabouts of a steam launch called the Aurora, owner Mordecai Smith, black with two red streaks, funnel black with a white band. She is down the river somewhere. I want one boy to be at Mordecai Smith's landing-stage opposite Millbank to say if the boat comes back. You must divide it out among yourselves and do both banks thoroughly. Let me know the moment you have news. Is that all clear?" "Yes, guv'nor," said Wiggins. "The old scale of pay, and a guinea to the boy who finds the boat. Here's a day in advance. Now off you go!" He handed them a shilling each, and away they buzzed down the stairs, and I saw them a moment later streaming down the street.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"If the launch is above water they will find her," said Holmes as he rose from the table and lit his pipe. "They can go everywhere, see everything, overhear everyone. I expect to hear before evening that they have spotted her. In the meanwhile, we can do nothing but await results. We cannot pick up the broken trail until we find either the Aurora or Mr. Mordecai Smith." "Toby could eat these scraps, I dare say. Are you going to bed, Holmes?" "No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. I am going to smoke and to think over this queer business to which my fair client has introduced us. If ever man had an easy task, this of ours ought to be. Wooden-legged men are not so common, but the other man must, I should think, be absolutely unique." "That other man again!" "I have no wish to make a mystery of him to you, anyway. But you must have formed your own opinion. Now, do consider the data. Diminutive footmarks, toes never fettered by boots, naked feet, stone-headed wooden mace, great agility, small poisoned darts. What do you make of all this?" "A savage!" I exclaimed. "Perhaps one of those Indians who were the associates of Jonathan Small." "Hardly that," said he. "When first I saw signs of strange weapons I was inclined to think so, but the remarkable character of the footmarks caused me to reconsider my views. Some of the inhabitants of the <st1:place><st1:placename>Indian</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Peninsula</st1:placetype></st1:place> are small men, but none could have left such marks as that. The Hindoo proper has long and thin feet. The sandal-wearing Mohammedan has the great toe well separated from the others because the thong is commonly passed between. These little darts, too, could only be shot in one way. They are from a blow-pipe. Now, then, where are we to find our savage?" "<st1:place>South America</st1:place>,"<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">I hazarded. He stretched his hand up and took down a bulky volume from the shelf. "This is the first volume of a gazetteer which is now being published. It may be looked upon as the very latest authority. What have we here? "<st1:place>Andaman Islands</st1:place>, situated 340 miles to the north of <st1:place>Sumatra</st1:place>, in the <st1:place>Bay of Bengal</st1:place>. Hum! hum! What's all this? Moist climate, coral reefs, sharks, Port Blair, convict barracks, Rutland Island, cottonwoods-- -- Ah, here we are! "The aborigines of the <st1:place>Andaman Islands</st1:place> may perhaps claim the distinction of being the smallest race upon this earth, though some anthropologists prefer the Bushmen of Africa, the Digger Indians of America, and the Terra del Fuegians. The average height is rather below four feet, although many full-grown adults may be found who are very much smaller than this. They are a fierce, morose, and intractable people, though capable of forming most devoted friendships when their confidence has once been gained. Mark that, Watson. Now, then listen to this. "They are naturally hideous, having large, misshapen heads, small fierce eyes, and distorted features. Their feet and hands, however, are remarkably small. So intractable and fierce are they, that all the efforts of the British officials have failed to win them over in any degree. They have always been a terror to shipwrecked crews, braining the survivors with their stone-headed clubs or shooting them with their poisoned arrows. These massacres are invariably concluded by a cannibal feast. Nice, amiable people, Watson! If this fellow had been left to his own unaided devices, this affair might have taken an even more ghastly turn. I fancy that, even as it is, Jonathan Small would give a good deal not to have employed him." "But how came he to have so singular a companion?"<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuQFX69h-oteVofnysPAGBI9_Z4cMWYPslR6ay-Bfy57KCJcN1H0rexKN8cEbpiZmmaxwDzpjSsUrTmzBvaEy6_bvCpOhKvMMJx8wtUishFbJr7PhOO-eHUNmO-6t5leFiLksQE2KbnZI/s1600-h/08b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 192px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuQFX69h-oteVofnysPAGBI9_Z4cMWYPslR6ay-Bfy57KCJcN1H0rexKN8cEbpiZmmaxwDzpjSsUrTmzBvaEy6_bvCpOhKvMMJx8wtUishFbJr7PhOO-eHUNmO-6t5leFiLksQE2KbnZI/s400/08b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309633035707891554" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"> "Ah, that is more than I can tell. Since, however, we had already determined that Small had come from the Andamans, it is not so very wonderful that this islander should be with him. No doubt we shall know all about it in time. Look here, Watson; you look regularly done. Lie down there on the sofa and see if I can put you to sleep." He took up his violin from the corner, and as I stretched myself out he began to play some low, dreamy, melodious air--his own, no doubt, for he had a remarkable gift for improvisation. I have a vague remembrance of his gaunt limbs, his earnest face and the rise and fall of his bow. Then I seemed to be floated peacefully away upon a soft sea of sound until I found myself in dreamland, with the sweet face of Mary Morstan looking down upon me.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;">***<br /></div><br /><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">COMIC - MARRIED TO THE SEA</span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXSPmXu99ojxgslzQVrSnnPGmfLQ4qgW17ZfKIAHe1Kemik2u_WBH9Jy6B_C8kMBWGBbAsc7I7GIE0MlC8ugP-vVQEQpl8vuGs1MVdgRvSnnZq2lLhhiwi68AqL9OBOSE2-mpUNwi8smg/s1600-h/bloggers.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 505px; height: 412px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXSPmXu99ojxgslzQVrSnnPGmfLQ4qgW17ZfKIAHe1Kemik2u_WBH9Jy6B_C8kMBWGBbAsc7I7GIE0MlC8ugP-vVQEQpl8vuGs1MVdgRvSnnZq2lLhhiwi68AqL9OBOSE2-mpUNwi8smg/s400/bloggers.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309621518235349826" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.marriedtothesea.com/">http://www.marriedtothesea.com/</a><br /></div><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">***<br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">THE MAYOR WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE that all persons using the stockyard / sandbox area in the North-Western corner of <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> should pick up their building materials when they leave. This frees up prims for others to use in their projects and keeps the area tidy.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><div style="text-align: center;">***<br /><br /></div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</p><br /><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">WANTED - Sculptor to create a statue of Charles Babbage for <st1:place><st1:placename>Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place> in the new Canal District. Contact Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to apply.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>* * *</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">KEROSENE LAMPS now available at I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store. Lovely gas lamps available in tin and brass finishes, both with frosted glass chimneys into which a subtle design has been etched. Scripted on/off by touch, these lamps cast a warm, comfortable glow at <st1:time minute="0" hour="0">midnight</st1:time>.<span style=""> </span>Copy / Mod. 12 prims. L$100 each.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>* * *</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >------------------------</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >------------------------</span> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed usingonly the tools at theirdisposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk"><br /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=""> </span></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305009654355755698" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 116px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm4Roec4ollu4LNiehJLSvnp167mLgw48Zy5V-cihDpCCghSGNe4nb3av5j9nCVwxnLsg2-K0zNA8_UT2e7Fi2uuJKaNX_3qll9hMW-yNuLVj3mYJshcrTRakH70MPk3XFGPYsiLt-cqk/s400/junie.jpg" border="0" /></span></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Mrs. Junie Ginsburg </strong><br /></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Asst Editor: Miss Eggberta Echegaray </strong></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Visit us:</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog office is located at <st1:street><st1:address>#4 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, across the street from I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store (<st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>).<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Drop a notecard:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Notecard communications can be dropped in the postbox outside the Cog office at the address above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- IM:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">You may contact Mrs. Junie Ginsburg or Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Aethernet mail:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Messages sent to <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Circulation:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paperboxes at the following locations:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- <st1:place><st1:placename>Sanger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, outside of I.J. Ginsburg Dept. Store</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">3. A reading copy of the current issue is always available at the newspaper office at <st1:street><st1:address>#4 Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Back Issues:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the archive on the first floor of the newspaper office.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Submissions:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.<o:p></o:p><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Errata:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Copyright Disclaimer:</span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">The Second Life in world note card publication date, of this issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper. </span></span><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzCYHPioGjuISl86PXKdK3C_HxfH5p8C-z0AI8MaTGfYg6loeGd-cJtnsiqDSYRCSVas3uVMlbxslVYB9GEoJXKIZkbjz0KOjPZK-H7mOVaa2AO1WA0JCKVTPznY0_pbw0xm6X_bRok0E/s1600-h/New+Babbage+Cog+Building_002a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">CONTENTS:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <ol style="font-family: times new roman;"><li>Statement by Mrs.Junie Ginsburg</li><li> Letter from the Editor</li><li>May Town Hall Meeting Minutes<o:p></o:p></li><li><st1:place><st1:placename>Babbage-Lovelace</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place><o:p></o:p></li><li>New <st1:place><st1:placename>Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Canal</st1:placetype></st1:place> Steam Boat Race!<o:p></o:p></li><li>Prominent Men & Women Of The Day<o:p></o:p></li><li>Literary Corner<o:p></o:p></li><li>Events & Announcements<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>Classified Advertisements</li><li>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ<o:p></o:p></li><li>Contact, Circulation, and other Essential Information for the Reader </li></ol> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">___________________________________________________________________________<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">STATEMENT BY MRS. JUNIE GINSBURG</p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">New Babbage is growing in new directions, and so is this paper. Effective as of this issue, The New Babbage Cog is now the property of New Babbage. Personally, getting the paper up and running was a fantastic challenge, and reader response was overwhelmingly positive. As gratifying as it is to work on a successful project, however, there are several others to which I'd like to direct my attention, primarily growing the business that I run with my husband. And so I leave the readership of the Cog in the capable hands of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket, as the new owner of the paper, and Miss Eggberta Echegaray as it's new Editor In Chief. I have full confidence in their ability to deliver an informative and entertaining read to the New Babbage community. All my best wishes and thanks to all of the readers who helped get The New Babbage Cog off the ground!<span style=""> </span>Please continue to give your support to the paper as it continues to grow and evolve along with New Babbage.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMuK6Ok9rXTUaBRXMyiaU_HVqPWwNbpN5cRoJDNDLkyWEHrY19LjsDmS24UdTtvbXJ0J_x0q9-ApJCc8MQKnYHh8jqDp7k4Pf4vFS20We3eXXuXMxuTtruzHLGrYVyRlIEfx3wJaBtQDU/s1600-h/junie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 123px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMuK6Ok9rXTUaBRXMyiaU_HVqPWwNbpN5cRoJDNDLkyWEHrY19LjsDmS24UdTtvbXJ0J_x0q9-ApJCc8MQKnYHh8jqDp7k4Pf4vFS20We3eXXuXMxuTtruzHLGrYVyRlIEfx3wJaBtQDU/s400/junie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310210500265276578" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal">In your service,<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Mrs. Junie Ginsburg</p><p face="times new roman" style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">___________________________________________________________________________</p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Dear Fellow New Babbagers,</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">On behalf of Mayor Sprocket and myself, we would like to graciously thank Mrs.Ginsburg, for starting The New Babbage Cog from the ground up, and for her service as Editor in Chief. As the newspaper falls onto public domain, Mrs.Ginsburg has provided us with an excellent platform to continue on from. We bid Mrs.Ginsburg a fond farewell from her role, and wish her and Mr.Ginsburg the best of luck with </p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">their business endeavors. As for myself, it is with a humble honour, that I publicly take over the role of Editor in Chief for The New Babbage Cog. With my former tenure with assisting Mrs.Ginsburg, I have gained excellent publishing experience, and it is my hope, that I will be able to undertake the role as Editor in Chief, as ambivalent as Mrs.Ginsburg has proven. A new location for the The New Babbage Cog building is in the works, but you can find the temporary location at “The Willow Tea Room. For now, the newspaper will be published on a monthly basis, until the roles of an Editorial Assistant, and volunteer freelance writers/photographers are filled. Then the issues will progress back to being distributed bi-weekly or weekly, depending on how much information is collected.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFcScN-0ScOGRmlwflNSaVK1z-tIpRs3GW75MylP9oR-_rqJk3__gOnrD3GtXgqoos5UtNlI0naezwXTdRyVO_jRLxVUJzylLblDr7ImQS5VdGkiHQQlAgXgo_iBYFvMS3TZ_Q1o7ki7U/s1600-h/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 103px; height: 146px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFcScN-0ScOGRmlwflNSaVK1z-tIpRs3GW75MylP9oR-_rqJk3__gOnrD3GtXgqoos5UtNlI0naezwXTdRyVO_jRLxVUJzylLblDr7ImQS5VdGkiHQQlAgXgo_iBYFvMS3TZ_Q1o7ki7U/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310214793996460914" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">At your service,<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Miss Eggberta Echegaray</p><p face="times new roman" style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">__________________________________________________________________</p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">May Town Hall Meeting Minutes</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSm8z3lX6CxBE1RFKTR2QsoEYQ6wusVq1b9xfEEZPAiqXZp3y2JC-PPL6EPdMguckuge0H8mpKDiA8XxSKWrLs3d37yGN8LmHjJLxG91UEo3GTXsnqx3aZzA4DJx_CrEPeDF44p0KxCQM/s1600-h/meeting+in+may_001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 359px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSm8z3lX6CxBE1RFKTR2QsoEYQ6wusVq1b9xfEEZPAiqXZp3y2JC-PPL6EPdMguckuge0H8mpKDiA8XxSKWrLs3d37yGN8LmHjJLxG91UEo3GTXsnqx3aZzA4DJx_CrEPeDF44p0KxCQM/s400/meeting+in+may_001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310228036465959730" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><b style=""><u><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></u></b></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:date year="2007" day="5" month="5">May 5, 2007-</st1:date> <st1:time minute="0" hour="13">1pm - 2:30pm</st1:time> SL time</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Attendees:</span> Intolerable Ginsburg, Pumpkin Tripsa, Daequix Scarborough,Solivar Scarbough,<span style=""> </span>Reitsuki Kojima, Suhpen Paravane, Pizzini Mayo, Arthur Conan Doyle, Salazar Jack, Primate Champollion, Arabella Steadham, Cyn Peccable, Pizzini Mayo, Erehwon Yoshikawa, Ordinal Malaprop, Khashai Steinbeck, Eggberta Echegaray.<b style=""><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u>The Canal District Sim</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCWm7VMEI4z7ibgbueTMGzqM5J9rWart99YT0jvBpJcADc-D1yB1XIHk9l6X6QLGkIAOFOLaf3dCs2h2fWuJByEMiiQYOHElF5hZq7eZGzkk_nZeT3_Y1OkZISiHPXjd5lk2-8-W-8Qwo/s1600-h/canal+district+map.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCWm7VMEI4z7ibgbueTMGzqM5J9rWart99YT0jvBpJcADc-D1yB1XIHk9l6X6QLGkIAOFOLaf3dCs2h2fWuJByEMiiQYOHElF5hZq7eZGzkk_nZeT3_Y1OkZISiHPXjd5lk2-8-W-8Qwo/s400/canal+district+map.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310227913256323202" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><b style=""><u><o:p></o:p></u></b> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">The canal district sim has been ordered and should be delivered by Linden Labs, either Monday May 7<sup>th</sup> or Tuesday May 8<sup>th</sup>. Once the sim arrives, it will be locked down and available only to an access list for about 24-48 hours, so that Mayor Sprocket can do the terraforming. The row houses for the Sim are 90% complete and should be ready on time.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></u></b></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u>New Babbage Train</u></b><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><b style=""><u><br /></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgytAMwGJOVL6gbARK9ogzGTOXGj5rstVE2D9tj54d4X8K0_GxaIj2nAWH4ljYVVQCJ6o0E_9h0X1Av1EuF1BmOvxIECH99gmj6THpjjgR5TTs4vcdm2MokRrP1ICsb4Ns1VJbRcv_g2Pg/s1600-h/train1.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 287px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgytAMwGJOVL6gbARK9ogzGTOXGj5rstVE2D9tj54d4X8K0_GxaIj2nAWH4ljYVVQCJ6o0E_9h0X1Av1EuF1BmOvxIECH99gmj6THpjjgR5TTs4vcdm2MokRrP1ICsb4Ns1VJbRcv_g2Pg/s400/train1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310229873066943666" border="0" /></a><br /><b style=""><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">Mr. Kojima has been in charge of making New Babbage’s train for the industrial district. Once the train is complete, it will get scripted, and the first rail line will run from the canal district to the stockyard. The train should run twice an hour, more or less. Mr Kojima states that there will be only one passenger car, however...with envisioning the seating, perhaps a half dozen to a dozen passengers will be able to ride it.<span style=""> </span>Mayor Sprocket added, that cars should be dependant on lag, prims available, and scripting limitations and the train will have a derez function. The goal is to have each sim accessible by train but travelers may need to transfer over to another train, depending on where you're going. The Mayor is hoping in the future, that a train will eventually be able to travel by an underwater tunnel, to an undersea complex which will be the next planned sim.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u>Advertising Program</u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /><b style=""><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">A few shop keepers have been asking about open advertising in New Babbage.<span style=""> </span>The Mayor states that no advertisement will be placed out in New Babbage without his consent. However, he does recognize the need for advertising both for a fun and theme factor as well as a necessary part of business. The first advertisement to be publicly hosted in the Sim was awarded pro bono to Mr. Doyle's group, as they were hosting an event for charity.<span style=""> </span>The normal policy is as follows, there is a lot of wall space in the sim for bills, so any advertisement should be given to Mayor Sprocket, as a poster style texture with full permission.<span style=""> </span>Then the poster will then be plastered at traffic points throughout the Sim, keeping in theme and adding to atmosphere. <span style=""> </span>The Mayor stressed, that he reserves the right to keep the poster up after it's time has expired and plaster more bills over it, to eventually make his own textures out of them, to add to the Sim’s atmosphere. Cost for this service will be set at the next town hall meeting but is currently negotiable. To cost to post an advertisement billing will be once per week. If an advertiser wishes to protect the ad from being plastered over, after the time has expired, Mayor Sprocket reserves the right to put a new bill up over it. The Mayor also pointed out, that New Babbage residents are free to advertise on their own plot of land, within reason and also allowed to make deals with other residents, within reason. The Mayor stressed, that he reserves the right with oversight, to make sure that all advertisement billings are viable to the theme of the Sim.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u>Relay for life</u></b><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><b style=""><u><br /></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizwqiIDopD6d239crQI_doqlInf_woxHmm24m1AU3qTlD7vM2dX7qYhZx_C0-ynIcK09kdsjyCHKE1f6YaGrs6kY6IzgMCkiZnoLvQCyQXOAfx4WjO4DwU3fqt7vXuouP7mmxXaR57Sgw/s1600-h/kiosk.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 323px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizwqiIDopD6d239crQI_doqlInf_woxHmm24m1AU3qTlD7vM2dX7qYhZx_C0-ynIcK09kdsjyCHKE1f6YaGrs6kY6IzgMCkiZnoLvQCyQXOAfx4WjO4DwU3fqt7vXuouP7mmxXaR57Sgw/s400/kiosk.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310227970230741698" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><b style=""><u><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><b style=""><u><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">There is a Relay for Life kiosk set up for donations in the Town Hall. The official walk-a-thon event will be held over the weekend of July 27<sup>th</sup>, July 28<sup>th</sup> and July 29<sup>th</sup>.The SLRFL organizers have granted half a sim to New Babbage, to help design a build, which will be place out alongside the track. The theme for this year’s walkathon event is “Quest for a Cure”. During the weekend event, a camp site will be set up, where New Babbage participants can rest, and a booth will be set up to raise money. Pumpkin Trispa will be in charge of the build design alongside the walkathon track, so please contact him if you wish to contribute to the build.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">For more information about SLRFL copy and past the link for the website:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"> <a href="http://www.cancer.org/docroot/GI/content/GI_1_8_Second_Life_Relay.asp">http://www.cancer.org/docroot/GI/content/GI_1_8_Second_Life_Relay.asp</a></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.cancer.org/docroot/GI/content/GI_1_8_Second_Life_Relay.asp"><br /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /><o:p></o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u>Texture Library</u></b></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /><b style=""><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></u></b></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">There will be a separate meeting to discuss the texture and object library. Mayor Sprocket will put out a notice.</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u>New Babbage Stock Yard</u></b></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><br /></u></b></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCYmD-wp41nIwcyfu52obHYxYYa3b14alslcuzyQuyNLbcCuamRMwe5ZFmM5OeB0V8HMLaQi7ArqpCnOabroalh1ue97XkBtgvRuv2NSQrvuXQ88rf5i_yBr10ZSVEqgGCa4Oe5XJgTrM/s1600-h/stockyard_001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 321px; height: 244px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCYmD-wp41nIwcyfu52obHYxYYa3b14alslcuzyQuyNLbcCuamRMwe5ZFmM5OeB0V8HMLaQi7ArqpCnOabroalh1ue97XkBtgvRuv2NSQrvuXQ88rf5i_yBr10ZSVEqgGCa4Oe5XJgTrM/s400/stockyard_001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310230970245594098" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /><b style=""><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></u></b></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">The New Babbage Community Stockyard (The Stockyard) has re-opened. To build in the Stockyard, one must contact Mr.Jack, to join the group “New Babbage Community Stockyard”. All New Babbage residents may enjoy instant membership. Non-residents must be sponsored by a New Babbage resident to join. The Stockyard is a Victorian-era industrial sandbox for the purposes of building and testing various steampunk-inspired gadgets, vehicles and structures and will be managed by Mr. Salazar Jack.<span style=""> </span>Please direct all inquiries to him only. Future purposes may include using the Stockyard as a teaching and apprenticeship venue and are subject to revision.<span style=""> </span>The Stockyard is comprised of two separate lots, owned by Mr. Thomas M Swindlehurst and Mr. Salazar Jack. These lots help support the pool of primitives available at the Undershaw Restoration Society Headquarters and the Kahruvel Steamworks.<span style=""> </span>The spare prims at the Stockyard will be available for use by group members on a temporary basis. The number of prims available on any given day, may fluctuate between 200 and 900, depending on the number in use at the aforementioned parcels.<span style=""> </span>Financial contributions are appreciated and go to support theUndershawRestoration Society in New Babbage and the <st1:place><st1:placetype>Forest</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Kahruvel</st1:placename></st1:place> on the Mainland. A donation box will be set up near the Stockyard gate.<br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">---- end ----<br /></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">Compiled and summarized by Eggberta Echegaray<br /></span></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">***</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><st1:place><st1:placename>BABBAGE-LOVELACE</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>PARK</st1:placetype></st1:place></span></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" > </span><br /><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">The day started off wonderful, not a cloud in the sky, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle welcomed residents of New Babbage, to the Grand Opening of The Babbage-Lovelace Park in the Canal District, statue unveiling and to celebrate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 148th birthday.</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Rc0vtjkFq9Vy_k-AggV05LhZfYelhyjfjtxiKvrBd9q9-fTjEbGx9ZilXnBIkcblequpUTr1gMF9oDvWb27CE1md8-Acrgb413KAD0J2oYwWJGjlpetJLWeD7EaLCJ7zeIxpwzLr1Yo/s1600-h/commencement+of+event.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 445px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Rc0vtjkFq9Vy_k-AggV05LhZfYelhyjfjtxiKvrBd9q9-fTjEbGx9ZilXnBIkcblequpUTr1gMF9oDvWb27CE1md8-Acrgb413KAD0J2oYwWJGjlpetJLWeD7EaLCJ7zeIxpwzLr1Yo/s400/commencement+of+event.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310223316873559570" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Below, is a transcript of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s speech:</span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">"Welcome everyone. Thank you for coming. When I first heard about the Babbage Canal District, I went to my friend Ruby Flannagan and talked to he r about opening an Irish Pub.<span style=""> </span>Although I was born in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Scotland</st1:place></st1:country-region>, my parents where from <st1:country-region><st1:place>Ireland</st1:place></st1:country-region>, so I got the best of both worlds. I learned what a proper pub was all about - lots of blarney, lots of Guinness, and lots of crack (humour). I knew that we were going to need a great deal of prims for all of that. My friend Salazar Jack taught me that one way to solve the prim problem was with a second property with little or nothing on it. Or with activity that was not at the same time as the Pub activity. So I bought a second plot. I did not want it to be another sandbox like the Stockyard, so I thought what we needed was a <st1:place><st1:placename>Public</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>. There are two kinds of things that are being built here in Babbage. One is all those wonderful buildings and gadgets and gizmos and vehicles and furniture and clothing that you are all so good at. But another thing being built here is a sense of belonging -- a sense of community. As you all know, I can't build a box, but I thought I could help build a sense of community. This park is my little box of community.<span style=""> </span>That means that this is your park. It's true that I pay the rent and make the rules, but it's very much your park as much as mine. Yes, there is going to be a donation box at the entrance, but it is not to make Lindens. It is to allow YOU to have a place for a conversation, a wedding, a birthday party, a snooze, a concert, an art show, a big roll out of that new line of steam powered submarines that can't all fit in your store at the same time. If you want to host an event here, contact me and I will put your event on the calendar. It is also going to be the home of the Babbage Croquet Club. This park is not a sandbox. No building. Sure, rez out your 5 story steam powered mouse catcher to show your friends. But, no building.<span style=""> </span>Go to the Stockyard for that.<span style=""> </span>So, this park needed a name. How about <st1:place><st1:placename>Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>?<span style=""> </span>And what is a park without a statue. Who of? I did an exhaustive search to find the best sculptor in all of Second Life. I'd like you to meet her. Meleni Fairymeadow. Let's show them what you created. "<br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqd-Y3esuB1yFGE5g7fLbCJ7kSUINwn_AsWjURGVNahjygChk9iC_krvCISJ2iaF_MT4YvV54trBLYUhgnJpRGk3zVgH0atpoafTlrwxJfr-ljqZaQ2TXkRmGUAhVEv9cvCJS-eIo7ls/s1600-h/statues.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 495px; height: 375px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqd-Y3esuB1yFGE5g7fLbCJ7kSUINwn_AsWjURGVNahjygChk9iC_krvCISJ2iaF_MT4YvV54trBLYUhgnJpRGk3zVgH0atpoafTlrwxJfr-ljqZaQ2TXkRmGUAhVEv9cvCJS-eIo7ls/s400/statues.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310225604515329698" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">"Charles Babbage, the creator of the first computer. You are probably asking yourself, what is that other statue?<span style=""> </span>Of course it has to be the person who made the "difference engine" famous.<span style=""> </span>The world's first computer programmer...Ada Lovelace Welcome to the <st1:place><st1:placename>Babbage-Lovelace</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>."</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSPAlU7bhAp3-IGWtxjpnDdm1kFRYGhOHi0OQIC5F8b9axo5ofufeC5cbKrnTlYH6-h2ALB4AbcF9BYYfq6FjNCY3pSIidaWSpry321Wt0e2uZ4GOUWo5hIj9QMfxnaFonCz-zNByRcUc/s1600-h/Public+Funded+Art.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 488px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSPAlU7bhAp3-IGWtxjpnDdm1kFRYGhOHi0OQIC5F8b9axo5ofufeC5cbKrnTlYH6-h2ALB4AbcF9BYYfq6FjNCY3pSIidaWSpry321Wt0e2uZ4GOUWo5hIj9QMfxnaFonCz-zNByRcUc/s400/Public+Funded+Art.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310223069582235698" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></span></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">"These statues are, what I hope to be the first in a series of Public Supported Art in New Babbage. When you donate in appreciation of your favorite statue, all proceeds will go to the next piece of public art in New Babbage."</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">-- End of Speech by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</span> --<br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" ><br /></span><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVcLBU6OOEXML9w89Eqm9rxVbh4xsycSnsmy5PyaIup68DlEarLsuFGf3qL8POD-3eRmfmBa4xyc0B8_ibsXdmY5P0vnOT-Tdxmmj2Q03cCUCza8URN3RTmCuGecojonIhDl6PF4gogUc/s1600-h/fireworks.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 490px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVcLBU6OOEXML9w89Eqm9rxVbh4xsycSnsmy5PyaIup68DlEarLsuFGf3qL8POD-3eRmfmBa4xyc0B8_ibsXdmY5P0vnOT-Tdxmmj2Q03cCUCza8URN3RTmCuGecojonIhDl6PF4gogUc/s400/fireworks.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310223262360702834" border="0" /></a></p><br /><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Food, refreshments and a late night burst of fireworks ended the day’s event.Three cheers to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for his event efforts and providing the Babbage-Lovelace public park to our community. Donation boxes for the statues can be found inside the park, and a donation box for the park it’s self, can be found just outside the main gate. As of yesterday, Mr.Doyle reports that the donation to the public art statues in the park, honouring Charles Babbage is $L2019 and donations honouring the Ada Lovelace statue is $L1019. Grand Total $L3038. Thank you to everyone who donated!</p><br /><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Eggberta Echegaray</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW <st1:place><st1:placename>BABBAGE</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>CANAL</st1:placetype></st1:place> STEAM BOAT RACE!</span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0wG0fqDQAY8VNTVKsL_JhO7PtzKYfLsVuOudOv3-0TMODgUpEu4ONsevTypFyFS3AQAUtulGLL2bfZd7U7J5WB6f4PAWgXIdy49Bmcp-3zkmqjfazWEV83HpGlgkPYCarY3M991s8pNc/s1600-h/steamboatsign.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 493px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0wG0fqDQAY8VNTVKsL_JhO7PtzKYfLsVuOudOv3-0TMODgUpEu4ONsevTypFyFS3AQAUtulGLL2bfZd7U7J5WB6f4PAWgXIdy49Bmcp-3zkmqjfazWEV83HpGlgkPYCarY3M991s8pNc/s400/steamboatsign.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310220487244952802" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">During a break from the day’s events in the newly opened <st1:place><st1:placename>Babbage-Lovelace</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Miss Kaylee Frye organized The Canal District’s first steam boat race!</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmR4D2VwhbK0L9SQHqg9aoql6vYEHIfqKV7Ezz35WxHGjgTmwtSkOS7Sh-FhiiGOB-nIZTjT8JAOHpSONEqaYys14sAmWmpqVP1fMJAIc7UIC-HW8L1Gowh2e2xZVx1memKIQ16HoLvbw/s1600-h/starting+line.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 492px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmR4D2VwhbK0L9SQHqg9aoql6vYEHIfqKV7Ezz35WxHGjgTmwtSkOS7Sh-FhiiGOB-nIZTjT8JAOHpSONEqaYys14sAmWmpqVP1fMJAIc7UIC-HW8L1Gowh2e2xZVx1memKIQ16HoLvbw/s400/starting+line.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310220410552112722" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">At the starting line, Mrs.Frye gave the commands, “Start your engines.” The smell of coal burning from the boats, and the emitting steam concentrated the air. The roar of the collective boat’s engines could be loudly heard all throughout New Babbage. Participants of the race waited eagerly at the starting line, to be sent off throughout the canals. Miss Frye yelled out, “Go!” and off we all went, charging the watery path to the finish line! There were some minor casualties, I being one when my boat launched it’s self up into the air, crashed and skidded along the ground! A couple of scraps and bruises manifested on my person, but only to honour the event.</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi4tDeAdC4659jEEZrxCEwA2YFh0PdpAUCfNxnNFsHmD57DZUC3K-CT8jq89uVbKxApndazGlBLjkD4P7Sxrx7voqwEtTe48G-FS1uQyNh8Uk8idgeEGq8yvH64yeRWlXEvAhR2yt2UYk/s1600-h/skidding.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 471px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi4tDeAdC4659jEEZrxCEwA2YFh0PdpAUCfNxnNFsHmD57DZUC3K-CT8jq89uVbKxApndazGlBLjkD4P7Sxrx7voqwEtTe48G-FS1uQyNh8Uk8idgeEGq8yvH64yeRWlXEvAhR2yt2UYk/s400/skidding.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310220350249236386" border="0" /></a></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">At the finish line, a battle ensued, but there could only be one winner. First place went to Nux Chaplin, second place went to Garth Goode, and third place went to Salzar Jack.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSJI3Kg4RH3epHc2B2gcevcUyDu8dC6w9CnRPUtnW61SIivwd0t1ZhZCz_9Y_y-LcuRkjWf4QPY9T8xaOp3-XvRoXOTiWS9Iq-UqZ4E5KE9c5TFv8iw0tbLjZWGo2La7pCRln7FPLH_q8/s1600-h/winners.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 460px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSJI3Kg4RH3epHc2B2gcevcUyDu8dC6w9CnRPUtnW61SIivwd0t1ZhZCz_9Y_y-LcuRkjWf4QPY9T8xaOp3-XvRoXOTiWS9Iq-UqZ4E5KE9c5TFv8iw0tbLjZWGo2La7pCRln7FPLH_q8/s400/winners.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310219113997336594" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Congratulations to you all who won and participated! Miss Frye did an outstanding job with the creation of the boats, and for organizing the event! Hopefully this event won’t be the last of kind!<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Eggberta Echegaray</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE DAY</span><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">John L. Sullivan</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXTZ0wQlxVyMW7AX4LbHZeB4mvahnsJNKMCAYiGuQEmFtjZGiBP3A8Hst57BY5FrnwZuwU2hkq6KxJtfBFwNDGz9satRT7L8HZEFFALkct7oCJPsWCdR5jQzoRBU_jhhRviODVruJfdb8/s1600-h/JohnLSullivan.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 109px; height: 164px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXTZ0wQlxVyMW7AX4LbHZeB4mvahnsJNKMCAYiGuQEmFtjZGiBP3A8Hst57BY5FrnwZuwU2hkq6KxJtfBFwNDGz9satRT7L8HZEFFALkct7oCJPsWCdR5jQzoRBU_jhhRviODVruJfdb8/s400/JohnLSullivan.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310219589456647794" border="0" /></a></div> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Men may admire the manly art of self-defense as a means for protection against insolence or injury, but when two men meet, with smiles and hand-shaking, and then proceed to pummel each other's features beyond recognition, the science of pugilism becomes interesting only to those whose lower natures are strongly predominant.<span style=""><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>John L. Sullivan has a magnificent physique. He is as lithe and graceful as a tiger, and as merciless in his punishments.<span style=""> </span><st1:city><st1:place>Boston</st1:place></st1:city> claims the honor of Mr. Sullivan's citizenship, and <st1:city><st1:place>Boston</st1:place></st1:city> liberally swelled his banking account by patronizing liberally the elegant saloon of which he is the presiding genius.<span style=""> </span>In 1888 he was presented to the Prince of Wales and other royal personages who had expressed a desire to meet this great pugilist. The prince took away the frigid air of newness form the acquaintance by saying that he felt as if he had known Sullivan for years; and John L. reciprocated by remarking that, next to Jem Smith [the English champion pugilist] Albert Edward was the man he had most wanted to see on coming to <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Then the prince looked Sullivan over carefully. Sullivan did ditto, and they again shook a shake of mutual satisfaction.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>* * *</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Tired of checking the newspaper box for a new issue of the Cog?<span style=""> </span>Join the New Babbage Cog,<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">and/or Babbage Blog group and receive new issues as soon as they come out!</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>* * *</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LITERARY CORNER</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">In this issue, The New Babbage Cog presents Chapter 9 of Sir ArthurConan Doyle's "The Sign of The Four."</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">THE SIGN OF FOUR</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Chapter 9</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">A BREAK IN THE CHAIN<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEietqWAF-Wo8DGKcCf75XtMHre-DCuPlliLQyZJ4jJvMS6ipCeICHbwtxlXoc521-25AwEx2Dla5S34XMB9mT7mfb-bLroGaYTQo4ljsD5Yxs5DXbuuJ5PmGZsYAwYzEqHv85rU_M1y-PE/s1600-h/chisw_i.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 47px; height: 51px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEietqWAF-Wo8DGKcCf75XtMHre-DCuPlliLQyZJ4jJvMS6ipCeICHbwtxlXoc521-25AwEx2Dla5S34XMB9mT7mfb-bLroGaYTQo4ljsD5Yxs5DXbuuJ5PmGZsYAwYzEqHv85rU_M1y-PE/s400/chisw_i.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310207111805848770" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">t</span> </span>was late in the afternoon before I woke, strengthened and refreshed. Sherlock Holmes still sat exactly as I had left him, save that he had laid aside his violin and was deep in a book. He looked across at me, as I stirred, and I noticed that his face was dark and troubled. "You have slept soundly," he said. "I feared that our talk would wake you." "I heard nothing," I answered. "Have you had fresh news, then?" "Unfortunately, no. I confess that I am surprised and disappointed. I expected something definite by this time. Wiggins has just been up to report. He says that no trace can be found of the launch. It is a provoking check, for every hour is of importance." "Can I do anything? I am perfectly fresh now, and quite ready for another night's outing." "No, we can do nothing. We can only wait. If we go ourselves, the message might come in our absence, and delay be caused. You can do what you will, but I must remain on guard." "Then I shall run over to Camberwell and call upon Mrs. Cecil Forrester. She asked me to, yesterday." "On Mrs. Cecil Forrester?" asked Holmes, with the twinkle of a smile in his eyes. "Well, of course Miss Morstan too. They were anxious to hear what happened." "I would not tell them too much," said Holmes.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"Women are never to be entirely trusted,--not the best of them." I did not pause to argue over this atrocious sentiment. "I shall be back in an hour or two," I remarked. "All right! Good luck! But, I say, if you are crossing the river you may as well return Toby, for I don't think it is at all likely that we shall have any use for him now." I took our mongrel accordingly, and left him, together with a half-sovereign, at the old naturalist's in <st1:street><st1:address>Pinchin Lane</st1:address></st1:street>. At Camberwell I found Miss Morstan a little weary after her night's adventures, but very eager to hear the news. Mrs. Forrester, too, was full of curiosity. I told them all that we had done, suppressing, however, the more dreadful parts of the tragedy. Thus, although I spoke of Mr. Sholto's death, I said nothing of the exact manner and method of it. With all my omissions, however, there was enough to startle and amaze them. "It is a romance!" cried Mrs. Forrester. "An injured lady, half a million in treasure, a black cannibal, and a wooden-legged ruffian. They take the place of the conventional dragon or wicked earl." "And two knight-errants to the rescue," added Miss Morstan, with a bright glance at me.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"Why, Mary, your fortune depends upon the issue of this search. I don't think that you are nearly excited enough. Just imagine what it must be to be so rich, and to have the world at your feet!"</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">It sent a little thrill of joy to my heart to notice that she showed no sign of elation at the prospect. On the contrary, she gave a toss of her proud head, as though the matter were one in which she took small interest. "It is for Mr. Thaddeus Sholto that I am anxious," she said. "Nothing else is of any consequence; but I think that he has behaved most kindly and honorably throughout. It is our duty to clear him of this dreadful and unfounded charge." It was evening before I left Camberwell, and quite dark by the time I reached home. My companion's book and pipe lay by his chair, but he had disappeared. I looked about in the hope of seeing a note, but there was none. "I suppose that Mr. Sherlock Holmes has gone out," I said to Mrs. Hudson as she came up to lower the blinds. "No, sir. He has gone to his room, sir. Do you know, sir," sinking her voice into an impressive whisper, "I am afraid for his health?" "Why so, Mrs. Hudson?" "Well, he's that strange, sir. After you was gone he walked and he walked, up and down, and up and down, until I was weary of the sound of his footstep. Then I heard him talking to himself and muttering, and every time the bell rang out he came on the stair head, with 'What is that, Mrs. Hudson?' And now he has slammed off to his room, but I can hear him walking away the same as ever. I hope he's not going to be ill, sir. I ventured to say something to him about cooling medicine, but he turned on me, sir, with such a look that I don't know how ever I got out of the room."</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"I don't think that you have any cause to be uneasy, Mrs. Hudson," I answered. "I have seen him like this before. He has some small matter upon his mind which makes him restless." I tried to speak lightly to our worthy landlady, but I was myself somewhat uneasy when through the long night I still from time to time heard the dull sound of his tread, and knew how his keen spirit was chafing against this involuntary inaction. At breakfast-time he looked worn and haggard, with a little fleck of feverish color upon either cheek. "You are knocking yourself up, old man," I remarked. "I heard you marching about in the night." "No, I could not sleep," he answered. "This infernal problem is consuming me. It is too much to be balked by so petty an obstacle, when all else had been overcome. I know the men, the launch, everything; and yet I can get no news. I have set other agencies at work, and used every means at my disposal. The whole river has been searched on either side, but there is no news, nor has Mrs. Smith heard of her husband. I shall come to the conclusion soon that they have scuttled the craft. But there are objections to that." "Or that Mrs. Smith has put us on a wrong scent." "No, I think that may be dismissed. I had inquiries made, and there is a launch of that description." "Could it have gone up the river?"</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"I have considered that possibility too, and there is a search- party who will work up as far as <st1:city><st1:place>Richmond</st1:place></st1:city>. If no news comes to- day, I shall start off myself to-morrow, and go for the men rather than the boat. But surely, surely, we shall hear something." We did not, however. Not a word came to us either from Wiggins or from the other agencies. There were articles in most of the papers upon the <st1:city><st1:place>Norwood</st1:place></st1:city> tragedy. They all appeared to be rather hostile to the unfortunate Thaddeus Sholto. No fresh details were to be found, however, in any of them, save that an inquest was to be held upon the following day. I walked over to Camberwell in the evening to report our ill success to the ladies, and on my return I found Holmes dejected and somewhat morose. He would hardly reply to my questions, and busied himself all evening in an abstruse chemical analysis which involved much heating of retorts and distilling of vapors, ending at last in a smell which fairly drove me out of the apartment.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Up to the small hours of the morning I could hear the clinking of his test-tubes which told me that he was still engaged in his malodorous experiment.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">In the early dawn I woke with a start, and was surprised to find him standing by my bedside, clad in a rude sailor dress with a pea-jacket, and a coarse red scarf round his neck. "I am off down the river, Watson," said he. "I have been turning it over in my mind, and I can see only one way out of it. It is worth trying, at all events." "Surely I can come with you, then?" said I. "No; you can be much more useful if you will remain here as my representative. I am loath to go, for it is quite on the cards that some message may come during the day, though Wiggins was despondent about it last night. I want you to open all notes and telegrams, and to act on your own judgment if any news should come. Can I rely upon you?" "Most certainly." "I am afraid that you will not be able to wire to me, for I can hardly tell yet where I may find myself. If I am in luck, however, I may not be gone so very long. I shall have news of some sort or other before I get back." I had heard nothing of him by breakfast-time. On opening the Standard, however, I found that there was a fresh allusion to the business. "With reference to the <st1:place>Upper Norwood</st1:place> tragedy," it remarked, "we have reason to believe that the matter promises to be even more complex and mysterious than was originally supposed. Fresh evidence has shown that it is quite impossible that Mr. Thaddeus Sholto could have been in any way concerned in the matter. He and the housekeeper, Mrs. Bernstone, were both released yesterday evening. It is believed, however, that the police have a clue as to the real culprits, and that it is being prosecuted by Mr. Athelney Jones, of Scotland Yard, with all his well-known energy and sagacity. Further arrests may be expected at any moment."</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"That is satisfactory so far as it goes," thought <st1:place>I.</st1:place> "Friend Sholto is safe, at any rate. I wonder what the fresh clue may be; though it seems to be a stereotyped form whenever the police have made a blunder." I tossed the paper down upon the table, but at that moment my eye caught an advertisement in the agony column. It ran in this way: "Lost.--Whereas Mordecai Smith, boatman, and his son, Jim, left Smith's Wharf at or about three o'clock last Tuesday morning in the steam launch Aurora, black with two red stripes, funnel black with a white band, the sum of five pounds will be paid to any one who can give information to Mrs. Smith, at Smith's Wharf, or at 221b Baker Street, as to the whereabouts of the said Mordecai Smith and the launch Aurora." This was clearly Holmes's doing. The <st1:street><st1:address>Baker Street</st1:address></st1:street> address was enough to prove that. It struck me as rather ingenious, because it might be read by the fugitives without their seeing in it more than the natural anxiety of a wife for her missing husband. It was a long day. Every time that a knock came to the door, or a sharp step passed in the street, I imagined that it was either Holmes returning or an answer to his advertisement. I tried to read, but my thoughts would wander off to our strange quest and to the ill-assorted and villainous pair whom we were pursuing. Could there be, I wondered, some radical flaw in my companion's reasoning. Might he be suffering from some huge self-deception? Was it not possible that his nimble and speculative mind had built up this wild theory upon faulty premises? I had never known him to be wrong; and yet the keenest reasoner may occasionally be deceived. He was likely, I thought, to fall into error through the over-refinement of his logic,--his preference for a subtle and bizarre explanation when a plainer and more commonplace one lay ready to his hand.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Yet, on the other hand, I had myself seen the evidence, and I had heard the reasons for his deductions. When I looked back on the long chain of curious circumstances, many of them trivial in themselves, but all tending in the same direction, I could not disguise from myself that even if Holmes's explanation were incorrect the true theory must be equally outre and startling. At <st1:time minute="0" hour="15">three o'clock</st1:time> in the afternoon there was a loud peal at the bell, an authoritative voice in the hall, and, to my surprise, no less a person than Mr. Athelney Jones was shown up to me. Very different was he, however, from the brusque and masterful professor of common sense who had taken over the case so confidently at <st1:place>Upper Norwood</st1:place>. His expression was downcast, and his bearing meek and even apologetic. "Good-day, sir; good-day," said he. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes is out, I understand." "Yes, and I cannot be sure when he will be back. But perhaps you would care to wait. Take that chair and try one of these cigars." "Thank you; I don't mind if I do," said he, mopping his face with a red bandanna handkerchief. "And a whiskey-and-soda?"</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"Well, half a glass. It is very hot for the time of year; and I have had a good deal to worry and try me. You know my theory about this <st1:city><st1:place>Norwood</st1:place></st1:city> case?" "I remember that you expressed one." "Well, I have been obliged to reconsider it. I had my net drawn tightly round Mr. Sholto, sir, when pop he went through a hole in the middle of it. He was able to prove an alibi which could not be shaken. From the time that he left his brother's room he was never out of sight of some one or other. So it could not be he who climbed over roofs and through trap-doors. It's a very dark case, and my professional credit is at stake. I should be very glad of a little assistance."</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"We all need help sometimes," said I. "Your friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes is a wonderful man, sir," said he, in a husky and confidential voice. "He's a man who is not to be beat. I have known that young man go into a good many cases, but I never saw the case yet that he could not throw a light upon. He is irregular in his methods, and a little quick perhaps in jumping at theories, but, on the whole, I think he would have made a most promising officer, and I don't care who knows it. I have had a wire from him this morning, by which I understand that he has got some clue to this Sholto business. Here is the message." He took the telegram out of his pocket, and handed it to me. It was dated from Poplar at <st1:time minute="0" hour="12">twelve o'clock</st1:time>. "Go to <st1:street><st1:address>Baker Street</st1:address></st1:street> at once," it said. "If I have not returned, wait for me. I am close on the track of the Sholto gang. You can come with us to- night if you want to be in at the finish."</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"This sounds well. He has evidently picked up the scent again," said I."Ah, then he has been at fault too," exclaimed Jones, with evident satisfaction. "Even the best of us are thrown off sometimes. Of course this may prove to be a false alarm; but it is my duty as an officer of the law to allow no chance to slip. But there is some one at the door. Perhaps this is he."A heavy step was heard ascending the stair, with a great wheezing and rattling as from a man who was sorely put to it for breath. Once or twice he stopped, as though the climb were too much for him, but at last he made his way to our door and entered. His appearance corresponded to the sounds which we had heard. He was an aged man, clad in seafaring garb, with an old pea-jacket buttoned up to his throat. His back was bowed, his knees were shaky, and his breathing was painfully asthmatic. As he leaned upon a thick oaken cudgel his shoulders heaved in the effort to draw the air into his lungs. He had a colored scarf round his chin, and I could see little of his face save a pair of keen dark eyes, overhung by bushy white brows, and long gray side-whiskers. Altogether he gave me the impression of a respectable master mariner who had fallen into years and poverty.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"What is it, my man?" I asked. He looked about him in the slow methodical fashion of old age. "Is Mr. Sherlock Holmes here?" said he. "No; but I am acting for him. You can tell me any message you have for him." "It was to him himself I was to tell it," said he. "But I tell you that I am acting for him. Was it about Mordecai Smith's boat?" "Yes. I knows well where it is. An' I knows where the men he is after are. An' I knows where the treasure is. I knows all about it." "Then tell me, and I shall let him know."</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"It was to him I was to tell it," he repeated, with the petulant obstinacy of a very old man. "Well, you must wait for him." "No, no; I ain't goin' to lose a whole day to please no one. If Mr. Holmes ain't here, then Mr. Holmes must find it all out for himself. I don't care about the look of either of you, and I won't tell a word." He shuffled towards the door, but Athelney Jones got in front of him. "Wait a bit, my friend," said he. "You have important information, and you must not walk off. We shall keep you, whether you like or not, until our friend returns." The old man made a little run towards the door, but, as Athelney Jones put his broad back up against it, he recognized the uselessness of resistance.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"Pretty sort o' treatment this!" he cried, stamping his stick. "I come here to see a gentleman, and you two, who I never saw in my life, seize me and treat me in this fashion!"</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"You will be none the worse," I said. "We shall recompense you for the loss of your time. Sit over here on the sofa, and you will not have long to wait." He came across sullenly enough, and seated himself with his face resting on his hands. Jones and I resumed our cigars and our talk. Suddenly, however, Holmes's voice broke in upon us. "I think that you might offer me a cigar too," he said. We both started in our chairs. There was Holmes sitting close to us with an air of quiet amusement. "Holmes!" I exclaimed. "You here! But where is the old man?" "Here is the old man," said he, holding out a heap of white hair. "Here he is,--wig, whiskers, eyebrows, and all. I thought my disguise was pretty good, but I hardly expected that it would stand that test." "Ah, You rogue!" cried Jones, highly delighted. "You would have made an actor, and a rare one. You had the proper workhouse cough, and those weak legs of yours are worth ten pound a week. I thought I knew the glint of your eye, though. You didn't get away from us so easily, You see.""I have been working in that get-up all day," said he, lighting his cigar. "You see, a good many of the criminal classes begin to know me,--especially since our friend here took to publishing some of my cases: so I can only go on the war-path under some simple disguise like this. You got my wire?""Yes; that was what brought me here." "How has your case prospered?" "It has all come to nothing. I have had to release two of my prisoners, and there is no evidence against the other two." "Never mind. We shall give you two others in the place of them. But you must put yourself under my orders. You are welcome to all the official credit, but you must act on the line that I point out. Is that agreed?"<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"Entirely, if you will help me to the men." "Well, then, in the first place I shall want a fast police-boat-- a steam launch--to be at the Westminster Stairs at <st1:time minute="0" hour="19">seven o'clock</st1:time>." "That is easily managed. There is always one about there; but I can step across the road and telephone to make sure." "Then I shall want two stanch men, in case of resistance." "There will be two or three in the boat. What else?" "When we secure the men we shall get the treasure. I think that it would be a pleasure to my friend here to take the box round to the young lady to whom half of it rightfully belongs. Let her be the first to open it.--Eh, Watson?" "It would be a great pleasure to me." "Rather an irregular proceeding," said Jones, shaking his head. "However, the whole thing is irregular, and I suppose we must wink at it. The treasure must afterwards be handed over to the authorities until after the official investigation." "Certainly. That is easily managed. One other point. I should much like to have a few details about this matter from the lips of Jonathan Small himself. You know I like to work the detail of my cases out. There is no objection to my having an unofficial interview with him, either here in my rooms or elsewhere, as long as he is efficiently guarded?" "Well, you are master of the situation. I have had no proof yet of the existence of this Jonathan Small. However, if you can catch him I don't see how I can refuse you an interview with him." "That is understood, then?" "Perfectly. Is there anything else?" "Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. 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font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">HELP WANTED: EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR THE NEW BABBAGE COG</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">The chosen E.A candidate will gain experience with all aspects of publishing by assisting the Editor in Chief, with the administration of planning and production of The New Babbage Cog.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Typical work activities will include:</span> </p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">•<span style=""> </span>Support and assist the Editor in Chief with all activities leading to the monthly publication.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">•<span style=""> </span>Liaison with freelance writers, and photographers. </p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">•<span style=""> </span>Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">•<span style=""> </span>Contribution of ideas and stories</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">•<span style=""> </span>Help to organize, copy and paste text and images to the out of world Babbage Blog Payment of the role will depend on Advertising revenues submitted to The New Babbage Cog.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">VOLUNTEER FREELANCE REPORTERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Reporters/Photographers are needed to cover stories for the New Babbage Cog. Need steampunk stories directly related to the New Babbage sims, her residents and aethernet steampunk websites of interest.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Typical work activities will include:</span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">•<span style=""> </span>Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">•<span style=""> </span>Contribution of ideas and stories</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">•<span style=""> </span>Most photographs are in sepia, please keep that in mind when submitting snapshots</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Content ideas: </p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Architecture of New Babbage</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Business Owner’s Spotlight</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Inventors Corner</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Special New Babbage Event coverage</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">New Babbage stories</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Aethernet Steampunk culture: Steampunk movie, music, book, clubs reviews, websites of interest.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Please write a short email summary, explaining your affiliation and knowledge about the Steampunk culture and the New Babbage Sims. Submit your email to<span style=""> </span>Miss Eggberta Echegaray at <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname>. I will review your emails, and conduct in world interviews, on Saturday’s and Sunday’s at my tea shoppe, until the roles are filled.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">* * *</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >------------------------</span> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >------------------------</span> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed usingonly the tools at theirdisposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk"><br /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=""> </span></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><br /></span></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Miss Eggberta Echegaray </strong></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- Visit us:</span><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Temporary location: The Willow Tea Room Lot # 20 New Babbage Cultural District<br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">-- Drop a notecard:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Notecard communications can be sent to Miss Eggberta Echegaray</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">-- IM:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">You may contact Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">-- Aethernet mail:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Messages sent to </span><st1:personname style="font-weight: normal;">newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Circulation:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paper boxes at the following locations:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Back Issues:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the Willow Tea Room on the first floor.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Submissions:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.<o:p></o:p><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Errata:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Copyright Disclaimer:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span>As of <img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Elaine/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.jpg" alt="" />the 21st of May, 2007, The Second Life in world note card publication date, of this issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper and will also be publicly owned by the City-State of New Babbage, which at the time of it's printing, was under the care of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket. The in world newspaper operations will now be handled and maintained by Miss Eggberta Echegaray, who exercises editorial control. Opinions and content published in the Cog do not necessarily reflect those of the former New Babbage Mayor's Office. <span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzCYHPioGjuISl86PXKdK3C_HxfH5p8C-z0AI8MaTGfYg6loeGd-cJtnsiqDSYRCSVas3uVMlbxslVYB9GEoJXKIZkbjz0KOjPZK-H7mOVaa2AO1WA0JCKVTPznY0_pbw0xm6X_bRok0E/s1600-h/New+Babbage+Cog+Building_002a.jpg"><br /></a></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era</span></p> <div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">The New Babbage Cog</span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >~~ Relata Refero ~~</span><br /></div>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-12507182217954648492009-02-14T18:24:00.000-08:002009-04-16T05:10:26.442-07:0002 June 2007<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibudWAckCiINs0NM4nSPfqJdNfxGWHQ0-13JHC5AtwOCVOqn9O_2SG8Vdgz84nn6YyaFN99d9cDr575UDzZPdzUu4SqVTf2hkQt1uI0ogHBlBUkg1hEp8CQ6JVoDMh6L_9BSgObRsCWJo/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 154px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibudWAckCiINs0NM4nSPfqJdNfxGWHQ0-13JHC5AtwOCVOqn9O_2SG8Vdgz84nn6YyaFN99d9cDr575UDzZPdzUu4SqVTf2hkQt1uI0ogHBlBUkg1hEp8CQ6JVoDMh6L_9BSgObRsCWJo/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319857598998413410" border="0" /></a> <o:smarttagtype style="font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vol I Issue XI ~</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><st1:date style="font-weight: bold;" month="5" day="21" year="2007">02 June, 2</st1:date></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><st1:date style="font-weight: bold;" month="5" day="21" year="2007">007<br /><br /></st1:date><st1:date style="font-weight: bold;" month="5" day="21" year="2007">***</st1:date></span></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">CONTENTS:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><ol style="font-family: times new roman;"><li> Letter from the Editor</li><li>June Town Hall Meeting Minutes<o:p></o:p></li><li>Literary Corner<o:p></o:p></li><li>Events & Announcements<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>Classified Advertisements</li><li>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ<o:p></o:p></li><li>Contact, Circulation, and other Essential Information for the Reader<br /></li></ol><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>_________________________________________________________________________________</p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LETTER FROM THE EDITOR<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">Starting this issue, the Cog will be released on a monthly basis. Due to RL time constraints, this issue mainly consists of June's Town Hall Meeting Minutes and continues on with Mr.Doyle's story "The Sign of Four."<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">In your Service,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">Editor in Chief</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">Eggberta Echegaray</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">_________________________________________________________________________________</p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW BABBAGE TOWN HALL MEETING</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Tx0NfOtbrTSh87tYsxT3f_F6pqMRCs4Z-nHesmW5pxsjl_p7WC00SXMzG4iR-oOXL2G0lEtMfugdJgczevRcpgtyOb4JAp4-nhgzfiIpSrkjaLe6lJyFOZpDFxO7l_FfTmE6Lem1NCs/s1600-h/ExteriorTownHall.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 348px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Tx0NfOtbrTSh87tYsxT3f_F6pqMRCs4Z-nHesmW5pxsjl_p7WC00SXMzG4iR-oOXL2G0lEtMfugdJgczevRcpgtyOb4JAp4-nhgzfiIpSrkjaLe6lJyFOZpDFxO7l_FfTmE6Lem1NCs/s400/ExteriorTownHall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319878175592413090" border="0" /></a></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">2nd of June 2007 - 13:09 SL</p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">Attendants: Salazar Jack, Nikmi Hax, Arthur Conan Doyle, Feldane Klees, Shaunathan Sprocket, Eggberta Echegaray, Reitsuki Kojima, Ordinal Malaprop, Erehwon Yoshikawa,<span style=""> </span>Dante Moreau, Natacha Chernov, Miguel Pinion, Angel Talaj.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">Mayor Sprocket started the meeting off raising the issue of the large influx of digging that has been going on in New Babbage as of late, which is causing the land to have un- even lumpy ground. This is mainly due to the amount of land per parcel to properly flatten. When a resident flattens his or hers own parcel, it is unfortunately affects neighboring parcels.<span style=""> </span>Mayor Sprocket feels the only solution to this problem is to have himself, Charlene Trudeau, or Ordinal Malaprop assist the resident, who wishes to dig on their land, during low population times. Mr. Arthur Conan Doyle asked the Mayor if there would be a charge for this service, the Mayor responded back stating that it is done free of charge. Mayor Sprocket also announced that some new administration clauses will be put into the already existing Covenant, to make it compliant with the new Terms of Service that Linden Labs will be releasing. He mentioned that everyone is doing a great job already following them, and he doesn’t foresee anyone impacting Linden Lab’s new terms which are in reference to the hard line that are taking towards sexual/violent activity.<span style=""> </span>The new Covenant will state that Mayor Sprocket has to approve any land changes, such as digging holes, also, there will be some clauses to prevent open sexual activity in public places considering this could have serious issues with Linden Labs and other Second Life residents.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">The Mayor asked if there where any objections to what he had just raised, Mr. Salazar Jack asked the Mayor if New Babbage residents will now need to get a permit before any terraforming is performed on properties. Mayor Sprocket said nothing so formal, but to just let him or the assigned Estate Managers know ahead of time, so the impact of the digging can be judged. The Mayor hopes none of this will be an inconvenience. <span style=""> </span>Mayor Sprocket mentioned that he would like to re-cut all the Southern Canal District underground garages to fix the uneven lumpy land there.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">The next order of business brought up by the Mayor, was Relay for Life event to be held at the end of July. Mayor Sprocket stated that New Babbage has made commitments to incorporate a build for the walking track and the fund raising team. With regards to the actual fund raising, New Babbage is doing rather well, we have raised $6,948 Lindens so far and he considers that proof, that every resident doesn’t need to have a personal kiosk to make a group effort. Mayor Sprocket pointed out, the RFL design team, has graciously gave New Babbage half a Sim to design on for the relay track. The theme is "quest for a cure" and he pointed out, that there are many quest related themes in Steampunk, and that we could pretty much do whatever we like, but the problem comes with man power.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Currently the design team for New Babbage is just the Mayor and Pumpkin Tripsa. Both of them feel, that this project is just too big for them alone to handle.<span style=""> </span>Mayor Sprocket stated, that he has requested for some volunteers to assist them over the past month, but no one has stepped up, so he is now considering taking New Babbage out of designing a build for the track, and to just focus on fund raising.<span style=""> </span>Mr.Jack asked Mayor Sprocket, when the build has to be ready and/or installed. Mayor Sprocket said that the track opens in late July to the public, so there is some time.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Mr.Jack suggested using the already built train and the tracks as the build for the RFL track, but Mayor Sprocket stated that the train is probably going to take until late July to complete, as they are still pondering ways to get it scripted. The Mayor also pointed out, that RFL participants must walk the track, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t have a train ride, but it can’t be an official way to raise money for the cause. Mr.Jack suggested another idea, such as a canal for our segment RFL track, with a walking path along side it, showcasing the steamboats that where recently used for the Babbage Park Race.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Mr. Reitsuki Kojima suggested that we could make a "city" theme, by using the row houses that out in the Canal District. Mr.Kojima pointed out, that they look great, and are fairly low on prim, and easy to stick together.<span style=""> </span>Mayor Sprocket suggested he was pondering a 20,000 leagues under the sea, or a journey to the center of the earth theme. Mr Salazar Jack raised another idea, which could be a factory walkthrough, with lots of mechanical things going on along the way, with steam blowing onto walkers, as they pass by.<span style=""> </span>Another idea put forth by Mayor Sprocket was an ocean theme, and the walkway can run under the water.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Mr.Kojima suggested making underwater tunnels, with the nautilus floating on the outside.<span style=""> </span>Mayor Sprocket replied back, that we can have a beautiful unmanned nautilus, just for show, swimming through the ocean, past the viewers on the walkway would be a great idea.<span style=""> </span>Angel Talaj asked, if there could be scripted animals involved, and Mayor Sprocket stated that, yes there can, and fish and wild life should be swimming in the water as well.<span style=""> </span>Mr. Erehwon Yoshikawa stated that perhaps a tableau of the Nautilus be attacked by a krakken? The Mayor nodded and mentioned that the krakken will certainly be featured.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">With all the ideas floating around for the Relay for Life build, Mayor Sprocket mentioned that all of these underwater ideas for the RFL track, also helps aid our own design for the new up and coming under water sim, but in the end, we are helping relay for life with the design.<span style=""> </span>Mayor Sprocket said he will come up with a task list for the project by next week, as we have a month and a half to make a build. Mayor Sprocket also pointed out that casual New Babbage residents can be involved in the build as well.<span style=""> </span>The Mayor asked if there was any more concerns, issues, and/or business to bring up, no one replied. The meeting was adjourned at 13:56sl. Thank you all who attended.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman">Meeting Minutes complied by<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">***<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LITERARY CORNER</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">In this issue, The New Babbage Cog presents Chapter 10 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Sign of The Four."</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">THE SIGN OF FOUR</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">Chapter 10</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="time"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} h3 {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-outline-level:3; font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-weight:bold;} p {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> </p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">THE END OF THE ISLANDER</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl6KcfPzq-a15FwtnvnLa025F5zvwXTo2cP7rHCfUqFAWbuPR8iiHBK_d4yjYecxKVGi1_APudZ0vtXDYfUcI01agmma3-wj1H8wc1VbKbX2hJ54hUm7YH4yPUGzf1hKI36yJou7amYx8/s1600-h/sign-10a.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl6KcfPzq-a15FwtnvnLa025F5zvwXTo2cP7rHCfUqFAWbuPR8iiHBK_d4yjYecxKVGi1_APudZ0vtXDYfUcI01agmma3-wj1H8wc1VbKbX2hJ54hUm7YH4yPUGzf1hKI36yJou7amYx8/s400/sign-10a.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319876377993738514" border="0" /></a></p> <p>Our meal was a merry one. Holmes could talk exceedingly well when he chose, and that night he did choose. He appeared to be in a state of nervous exaltation. I have never known him so brilliant. He spoke on a quick succession of subjects,--on miracle-plays, on medieval pottery, on Stradivarius violins, on the Buddhism of Ceylon, and on the war-ships of the future,--handling each as though he had made a special study of it. His bright humor marked the reaction from his black depression of the preceding days. Athelney Jones proved to be a sociable soul in his hours of relaxation, and faced his dinner with the air of a bon vivant. For myself, I felt elated at the thought that we were nearing the end of our task, and I caught something of Holmes's gaiety. None of us alluded during dinner to the cause which had brought us together. When the cloth was cleared, Holmes glanced at his watch, and filled up three glasses with port. "One bumper," said he, "to the success of our little expedition. And now it is high time we were off. Have you a pistol, Watson?" "I have my old service-revolver in my desk." "You had best take it, then. It is well to be prepared. I see that the cab is at the door. I ordered it for half-past six."</p><p><br /></p> <p>It was a little past seven before we reached the <st1:city><st1:place>Westminster</st1:place></st1:city> wharf, and found our launch awaiting us. Holmes eyed it critically. "Is there anything to mark it as a police-boat?" "Yes,--that green lamp at the side." "Then take it off." The small change was made, we stepped on board, and the ropes were cast off. Jones, Holmes, and I sat in the stern. There was one man at the rudder, one to tend the engines, and two burly police-inspectors forward. "Where to?" asked Jones. "To the Tower. Tell them to stop opposite Jacobson's Yard." Our craft was evidently a very fast one. We shot past the long lines of loaded barges as though they were stationary. Holmes smiled with satisfaction as we overhauled a river steamer and left her behind us. "We ought to be able to catch anything on the river," he said. "Well, hardly that. But there are not many launches to beat us." "We shall have to catch the <st1:city><st1:place><i>Aurora</i></st1:place></st1:city>, and she has a name for being a clipper. I will tell you how the land lies, Watson. You recollect how annoyed I was at being balked by so small a thing?" "Yes." "Well, I gave my mind a thorough rest by plunging into a chemical analysis. One of our greatest statesmen has said that a change of work is the best rest. So it is. When I had succeeded in dissolving the hydrocarbon which I was at work at, I came back to our problem of the Sholtos, and thought the whole matter out again. My boys had been up the river and down the river without result. The launch was not at any landing-stage or wharf, nor had it returned. Yet it could hardly have been scuttled to hide their traces,--though that always remained as a possible hypothesis if all else failed. I knew this man Small had a certain degree of low cunning, but I did not think him capable of anything in the nature of delicate finesse. That is usually a product of higher education. I then reflected that since he had certainly been in <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> some time--as we had evidence that he maintained a continual watch over Pondicherry Lodge--he could hardly leave at a moment's notice, but would need some little time, if it were only a day, to arrange his affairs. That was the balance of probability, at any rate."</p><p><br /></p> <p>"It seems to me to be a little weak," said <st1:place>I.</st1:place> "It is more probable that he had arranged his affairs before ever he set out upon his expedition." "No, I hardly think so. This lair of his would be too valuable a retreat in case of need for him to give it up until he was sure that he could do without it. But a second consideration struck me. Jonathan Small must have felt that the peculiar appearance of his companion, however much he may have top-coated him, would give rise to gossip, and possibly be associated with this <st1:city><st1:place>Norwood</st1:place></st1:city> tragedy. He was quite sharp enough to see that. They had started from their head-quarters under cover of darkness, and he would wish to get back before it was broad light. Now, it was past <st1:time hour="15" minute="0">three o'clock</st1:time>, according to Mrs. Smith, when they got the boat. It would be quite bright, and people would be about in an hour or so. Therefore, I argued, they did not go very far. They paid Smith well to hold his tongue, reserved his launch for the final escape, and hurried to their lodgings with the treasure-box. In a couple of nights, when they had time to see what view the papers took, and whether there was any suspicion, they would make their way under cover of darkness to some ship at Gravesend or in the Downs, where no doubt they had already arranged for passages to America or the Colonies." "But the launch? They could not have taken that to their lodgings." "Quite so. I argued that the launch must be no great way off, in spite of its invisibility. I then put myself in the place of Small, and looked at it as a man of his capacity would. He would probably consider that to send back the launch or to keep it at a wharf would make pursuit easy if the police did happen to get on his track. How, then, could he conceal the launch and yet have her at hand when wanted? I wondered what I should do myself if I were in his shoes. I could only think of one way of doing it. I might land the launch over to some boat-builder or repairer, with directions to make a trifling change in her. She would then be removed to his shed or yard, and so be effectually concealed, while at the same time I could have her at a few hours' notice."</p><p><br /></p> <p>"That seems simple enough." "It is just these very simple things which are extremely liable to be overlooked. However, I determined to act on the idea. I started at once in this harmless seaman's rig and inquired at all the yards down the river. I drew blank at fifteen, but at the sixteenth--Jacobson's--I learned that the <st1:city><st1:place><i>Aurora</i></st1:place></st1:city> had been handed over to them two days ago by a wooden-legged man,</p> <p> with some trivial directions as to her rudder. 'There ain't naught amiss with her rudder,' said the foreman. 'There she lies, with the red streaks.' At that moment who should come down but Mordecai Smith, the missing owner? He was rather the worse for liquor. I should not, of course, have known him, but he bellowed out his name and the name of his launch. 'I want her to-night at <st1:time hour="8" minute="0">eight o'clock</st1:time>,' said he,--'<st1:time hour="8" minute="0">eight o'clock</st1:time> sharp, mind, for I have two gentlemen who won't be kept waiting.' They had evidently paid him well, for he was very flush of money, chucking shillings about to the men. I followed him some distance, but he subsided into an ale-house: so I went back to the yard, and, happening to pick up one of my boys on the way, I stationed him as a sentry over the launch. He is to stand at water's edge and wave his handkerchief to us when they start. We shall be lying off in the stream, and it will be a strange thing if we do not take men, treasure, and all."</p><p><br /></p> <p>"You have planned it all very neatly, whether they are the right men or not," said Jones; "but if the affair were in my hands I should have had a body of police in Jacobson's Yard, and arrested them when they came down." "Which would have been never. This man Small is a pretty shrewd fellow. He would send a scout on ahead, and if anything made him suspicious lie snug for another week." "But you might have stuck to Mordecai Smith, and so been led to their hiding-place," said I. "In that case I should have wasted my day. I think that it is a hundred to one against Smith knowing where they live. As long as he has liquor and good pay, why should he ask questions? They send him messages what to do. No, I thought over every possible course, and this is the best." While this conversation had been proceeding, we had been shooting the long series of bridges which span the <st1:place>Thames</st1:place>. As we passed the City the last rays of the sun were gilding the cross upon the summit of <st1:city><st1:place>St. Paul</st1:place></st1:city>'s. It was twilight before we reached the Tower. "That is Jacobson's Yard," said Holmes, pointing to a bristle of masts and rigging on the <st1:place>Surrey</st1:place> side. "Cruise gently up and down here under cover of this string of lighters." He took a pair of night-glasses from his pocket and gazed some time at the shore. "I see my sentry at his post," he remarked, "but no sign of a handkerchief." "Suppose we go down-stream a short way and lie in wait for them," said Jones, eagerly. We were all eager by this time, even the policemen and stokers, who had a very vague idea of what was going forward.</p><p><br /></p> <p>"We have no right to take anything for granted," Holmes answered. "It is certainly ten to one that they go down-stream, but we cannot be certain. From this point we can see the entrance of the yard, and they can hardly see us. It will be a clear night and plenty of light. We must stay where we are. See how the folk swarm over yonder in the gaslight." "They are coming from work in the yard." "Dirty-looking rascals, but I suppose every one has some little immortal spark concealed about him. You </p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuP98Gw65S-WYU5AlopYvJtg1v_3TwJwQfV1BFocn_9oh8KTCJq7qZvR2tDkGDvgO7FGrG0Mn_goe8FBJUgnZVQgjl9OHNsDtCcJTw_c9WHNcJwhkHyHtHCz2JTLwr_fE2KU8i4_qaQa4/s1600-h/sign-10b.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuP98Gw65S-WYU5AlopYvJtg1v_3TwJwQfV1BFocn_9oh8KTCJq7qZvR2tDkGDvgO7FGrG0Mn_goe8FBJUgnZVQgjl9OHNsDtCcJTw_c9WHNcJwhkHyHtHCz2JTLwr_fE2KU8i4_qaQa4/s400/sign-10b.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319876701127550562" border="0" /></a></p> <p>would not think it, to look at them. There is no <i>a priori</i> probability about it. A strange enigma is man!" "Some one calls him a soul concealed in an animal," I suggested. "Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. But do I see a handkerchief? Surely there is a white flutter over yonder." "Yes, it is your boy," I cried. "I can see him plainly." "And there is the <st1:city><st1:place><i>Aurora</i></st1:place></st1:city>," exclaimed Holmes, "and going like the devil! Full speed ahead, engineer. Make after that launch with the yellow light. By heaven, I shall never forgive myself if she proves to have the heels of us!" She had slipped unseen through the yard-entrance and passed behind two or three small craft, so that she had fairly got her speed up before we saw her. Now she was flying down the stream, near in to the shore, going at a tremendous rate. Jones looked gravely at her and shook his head. "She is very fast," he said. "I doubt if we shall catch her." "We <i>must</i> catch her!" cried Holmes, between his teeth. "Heap it on, stokers! Make her do all she can! If we burn the boat we must have them!"</p><p><br /></p> <p>We were fairly after her now. The furnaces roared, and the powerful engines whizzed and clanked, like a great metallic heart. Her sharp, steep prow cut through the river-water and sent two rolling waves to right and to left of us. With every throb of the engines we sprang and quivered like a living thing. One great yellow lantern in our bows threw a long, flickering funnel of light in front of us. Right ahead a dark blur upon the water showed where the <st1:city><st1:place><i>Aurora</i></st1:place></st1:city> lay, and the swirl of white foam behind her spoke of the pace at which she was going. We flashed past barges, steamers, merchant-vessels, in and out, behind this one and round the other. Voices hailed us out of the darkness, but still the <st1:city><st1:place><i>Aurora</i></st1:place></st1:city> thundered on, and still we followed close upon her track. "Pile it on, men, pile it on!" cried Holmes, looking down into the engine-room, while the fierce glow from below beat upon his eager, aquiline face. "Get every pound of steam you can." "I think we gain a little," said Jones, with his eyes on the <st1:city><st1:place><i>Aurora</i></st1:place></st1:city>. "I am sure of it," said <st1:place>I.</st1:place> "We shall be up with her in a very few minutes." At that moment, however, as our evil fate would have it, a tug with three barges in tow blundered in between us. It was only by putting our helm hard down that we avoided a collision, and before we could round them and recover our way the <st1:city><st1:place><i>Aurora</i></st1:place></st1:city> had gained a good two hundred yards. She was still, however, well in view, and the murky uncertain twilight was setting into a clear starlit night. Our boilers were strained to their utmost, and the frail shell vibrated and creaked with the fierce energy which was driving us along. We had shot through the Pool, past the West India Docks, down the long Deptford Reach, and up again after rounding the Isle of Dogs. The dull blur in front of us resolved itself now clearly enough into the dainty <st1:city><st1:place><i>Aurora</i></st1:place></st1:city>. Jones turned our search-light upon her, so that we could plainly see the figures upon her deck. One man sat by the stern, with something black between his knees over which he stooped. Beside him lay a dark mass which looked like a <st1:state><st1:place>Newfoundland</st1:place></st1:state> dog. The boy held the tiller, while against the red glare of the furnace I could see old Smith, stripped to the waist, and shovelling coals for dear life. They may have had some doubt at first as to whether we were really pursuing them, but now as we followed every winding and turning which they took there could no longer be any question about it. At <st1:city><st1:place>Greenwich</st1:place></st1:city> we were about three hundred paces behind them.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>At Blackwall we could not have been more than two hundred and fifty. I have coursed many creatures in many countries during my checkered career, but never did sport give me such a wild thrill as this mad, flying man-hunt down the <st1:place>Thames</st1:place>. Steadily we drew in upon them, yard by yard. In the silence of the night we could hear the panting and clanking of their machinery. The man in the stern still crouched upon the deck, and his arms were moving as though he were busy, while every now and then he would look up and measure with a glance the distance which still separated us. Nearer we came and nearer. Jones yelled to them to stop. We were not more than four boat's lengths behind them, both boats flying at a tremendous pace. It was a clear reach of the river, with Barking Level upon one side and the melancholy Plumstead Marshes upon the other. At our hail the man in the stern sprang up from the deck and shook his two clinched fists at us, cursing the while in a high, cracked voice. He was a good-sized, powerful man, and as he stood poising himself with legs astride I could see that from the thigh downwards there was but a wooden stump upon the right side. At the sound of his strident, angry cries there was movement in the huddled bundle upon the deck. It straightened itself into a little black man--the smallest I have ever seen--with a great, misshapen head and a shock of tangled, dishevelled hair. Holmes had already drawn his revolver, and I whipped out mine at the sight of this savage, distorted creature. He was wrapped in some sort of dark ulster or blanket, which left only his face exposed; but that face was enough to give a man a sleepless night. Never have I seen features so deeply marked with all bestiality and cruelty. His small eyes glowed and burned with a sombre light, and his thick lips were writhed back from his teeth, which grinned and chattered at us with a half animal fury.</p><p><br /></p> <p>"Fire if he raises his hand," said Holmes, quietly. We were within a boat's-length by this time, and almost within touch of our quarry. I can see the two of them now as they stood, the white man with his legs far apart, shrieking out curses, and the unhallowed dwarf with his hideous face, and his strong yellow teeth gnashing at us in the light of our lantern. It was well that we had so clear a view of him. Even as we looked he plucked out from under his covering a short, round piece of wood, like a school-ruler, and clapped it to his lips. Our pistols rang out together. He whirled round, threw up his arms, and with a kind of choking cough fell sideways into the stream. I caught one glimpse of his venomous, menacing eyes amid the white swirl of the waters. At the same moment the wooden-legged man threw himself upon the rudder and put it hard down, so that his boat made straight in for the southern bank, while we shot past her stern, only clearing her by a few feet. We were round after her in an instant, but she was already nearly at the bank. It was a wild and desolate place, where the moon glimmered upon a wide expanse of marsh-land, with pools of stagnant water and beds of decaying vegetation. The launch with a dull thud ran up upon the mud-bank, with her bow in the air and her stern flush with the water. The fugitive sprang out, but his stump instantly sank its whole length into the sodden soil. In vain he struggled and writhed. Not one step could he possibly take either forwards or backwards. He yelled in impotent rage, and kicked frantically into the mud with his other foot, but his struggles only bored his wooden pin the deeper into the sticky bank. When we brought our launch alongside he was so firmly anchored that it was only by throwing the end of a rope over his shoulders that we were able to haul him out, and to drag him, like some evil fish, over our side.<br /></p><p><br /></p> <p>The two Smiths, father and son, sat sullenly in their launch, but came aboard meekly enough when commanded. The <i>Aurora</i> herself we hauled off and made fast to our stern. A solid iron chest of Indian workmanship stood upon the deck. This, there could be no question, was the same that had contained the ill-omened treasure of the Sholtos. There was no key, but it was of considerable weight, so we transferred it carefully to our own little cabin. As we steamed slowly up-stream again, we flashed our search-light in every direction, but there was no sign of the Islander. Somewhere in the dark ooze at the bottom of the <st1:place>Thames</st1:place> lie the bones of that strange visitor to our shores. "See here," said Holmes, pointing to the wooden hatchway. "We were hardly quick enough with our pistols." There, sure enough, just behind where we had been standing, stuck one of those murderous darts which we knew so well. It must have whizzed between us at the instant that we fired. Holmes smiled at it and shrugged his shoulders in his easy fashion, but I confess that it turned me sick to think of the horrible death which had passed so close to us that night.</p><p>________________________________________________________________________________</p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">***</span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; 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font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style=""> </span> </p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">HELP WANTED: EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR THE NEW BABBAGE COG</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">The chosen E.A candidate will gain experience with all aspects of publishing by assisting the Editor in Chief, with the administration of planning and production of The New Babbage Cog.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Typical work activities will include:</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">•<span style=""> </span>Support and assist the Editor in Chief with all activities leading to the monthly publication.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">•<span style=""> </span>Liaison with freelance writers, and photographers. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">•<span style=""> </span>Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">•<span style=""> </span>Contribution of ideas and stories</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">•<span style=""> </span>Help to organize, copy and paste text and images to the out of world Babbage Blog Payment of the role will depend on Advertising revenues submitted to The New Babbage Cog.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">VOLUNTEER FREELANCE REPORTERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style=""> </span>Reporters/Photographers are needed to cover stories for the New Babbage Cog. Need steampunk stories directly related to the New Babbage sims, her residents and aethernet steampunk websites of interest.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Typical work activities will include:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">•<span style=""> </span>Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">•<span style=""> </span>Contribution of ideas and stories</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;">•<span style=""> </span>Most photographs are in sepia, please keep that in mind when submitting snapshots</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Content ideas: </p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Architecture of New Babbage</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Business Owner’s Spotlight</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Inventors Corner</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Special New Babbage Event coverage</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">New Babbage stories</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Aethernet Steampunk culture: Steampunk movie, music, book, clubs reviews, websites of interest.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Please write a short email summary, explaining your affiliation and knowledge about the Steampunk culture and the New Babbage Sims. Submit your email to<span style=""> </span>Miss Eggberta Echegaray at <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname>. I will review your emails, and conduct in world interviews, on Saturday’s and Sunday’s at my tea shoppe, until the roles are filled.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">* * *</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >------------------------</span> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >------------------------</span> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed usingonly the tools at theirdisposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk"><br /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=""> </span></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><br /></span></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Miss Eggberta Echegaray </strong></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:<br /></span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- Visit us:</span><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Temporary location: The Willow Tea Room Lot # 20 New Babbage Cultural District<br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">-- Drop a notecard:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Notecard communications can be sent to Miss Eggberta Echegaray</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">-- IM:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">You may contact Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">-- Aethernet mail:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Messages sent to </span><st1:personname style="font-weight: normal;">newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Circulation:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paper boxes at the following locations:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Back Issues:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the Willow Tea Room on the first floor.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Submissions:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.<o:p></o:p><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Errata:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Copyright Disclaimer:</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span>This issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper and is also publicly owned by the City-State of New Babbage, which at the time of it's printing, was under the care of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket. <span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzCYHPioGjuISl86PXKdK3C_HxfH5p8C-z0AI8MaTGfYg6loeGd-cJtnsiqDSYRCSVas3uVMlbxslVYB9GEoJXKIZkbjz0KOjPZK-H7mOVaa2AO1WA0JCKVTPznY0_pbw0xm6X_bRok0E/s1600-h/New+Babbage+Cog+Building_002a.jpg"><br /></a></span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era</span></p> <div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">The New Babbage Cog</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >~~ Relata Refero ~~</span></div> <p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-76219166214236418572009-02-13T18:24:00.000-08:002009-04-16T05:10:46.938-07:0027 July 2007<div style="text-align: center;" align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV2pUPnBooc4oXYnz3fq8rB2cFzHZD-hkqVNyQaA2jEFgjLrh0-q2o5dC-YKPOyJXDez7pl0P9-9CMbtWE6cPvJ8T5u-aZ5RsGNLtdOv7Qc-PhMdKTYm3M5dVWCbP3xMHXO04Am_hYXP8/s1600-h/masthead_babbage_cog3.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320403335081640098" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 148px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV2pUPnBooc4oXYnz3fq8rB2cFzHZD-hkqVNyQaA2jEFgjLrh0-q2o5dC-YKPOyJXDez7pl0P9-9CMbtWE6cPvJ8T5u-aZ5RsGNLtdOv7Qc-PhMdKTYm3M5dVWCbP3xMHXO04Am_hYXP8/s400/masthead_babbage_cog3.JPG" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Vol I Issue XII ~ 27 July, 2007</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">***</span><br /><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;">CONTENTS:</span></p><ol><li><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;">SL Relay for Life photogram album</span></div></li><li><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;">July Town Hall Meeting Minutes</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">The Show Must Go On! </span></li><li><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;">Literary Corner </span></div></li><li><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;">Events & Announcements </span></div></li><li><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;">Classified Advertisements </span></div></li><li><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ </span></div></li><li><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;">Contact, Circulation, and other Essential Information for the Reader </span></div></li></ol><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;">_________________________________________________________________________________</p><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >This issue of the Cog consists of July 14th's Town Hall Meeting Minutes, coverage and the press release for "The Show Must Go On!" and 2007's Relay for Life New B</span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >abbage Campsite photgram Album. Also continuing Mr.Doyle's story "The Sign of Four". The Next Issue of the New Babbage Cog, will be out in August.<br /><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In your Service, Editor in Chief</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span>_________________________________________________________________________________</p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW BABBAGE'S 2007 RELAY FOR LIFE </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">CAMPSITE PHOTOGRAM ALBUM</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" align="center"><br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwB8a0Ld0YKtH_GoOwSxrirr-L2T92Ew2DUAyQmTmQ25UJUm_bHofTPjqgNQy-V_B2oOrXlLsviKiRtRTanbCXgULZp2a0sEOSp9qjuOVr92FRmmaNBUnepQAthkVdyM5f9H_i6whskXA/s1600-h/relay4life.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 172px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwB8a0Ld0YKtH_GoOwSxrirr-L2T92Ew2DUAyQmTmQ25UJUm_bHofTPjqgNQy-V_B2oOrXlLsviKiRtRTanbCXgULZp2a0sEOSp9qjuOVr92FRmmaNBUnepQAthkVdyM5f9H_i6whskXA/s400/relay4life.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320804155900437170" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" align="left"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://newbabbage2007relayforlife.blogspot.com/">http://newbabbage2007relayforlife.blogspot.com/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" align="left"><br />On the weekend of July 21-22nd, 2007, New Babbage participated with setting up a campsite in this year's Relay for Life. The theme for this year's event was "Hope." The Steampunk city campsite build contributors were Charlene Trudeau, Jessica Ortiz, Salazar Jack, Loki Eliot, Reitsuki Kojima, Pizzini Mayo, and of course, our Mayor, Shaunathan Sprocket. A warm heartfelt thank you goes out to the builders who participated in this year's campsite construction, to those who walked the track, and lastly, to those who donated funds to help raise money for the cause, through the kiosks placed out in and around New Babbage. Hazzah to you all! </p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" align="left">The link above, is the photogram journal of New Babbage's build contributions for this year's walk a thon, and the link below, is my photogram journey with walking the track to raise money for the American Cancer Society. </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://newbabbage2007relayforlife.blogspot.com/2009/04/2007relay-for-life-2007.html">http://newbabbage2007relayforlife.blogspot.com/2009/04/2007relay-for-life-2007.html</a><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;" align="center"><br /></p><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE TOWN HALL MEETING</span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Dd8hBdKtTJO4ZYxLycpxhWTyutZd6v0tyMZ0saPTucAPmvWfWg70ou35R5MmGvZVwVXAc9bdjQZ1kZ1PejJxYlMNPNcW_YfLG9yzeWBki7Kzq3uKUwo1r7DYZ_oM0fG_Z7rTgSYh1B0/s1600-h/ExteriorTownHall.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320218095086535186" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 271px; cursor: pointer; height: 213px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Dd8hBdKtTJO4ZYxLycpxhWTyutZd6v0tyMZ0saPTucAPmvWfWg70ou35R5MmGvZVwVXAc9bdjQZ1kZ1PejJxYlMNPNcW_YfLG9yzeWBki7Kzq3uKUwo1r7DYZ_oM0fG_Z7rTgSYh1B0/s400/ExteriorTownHall.jpg" border="0" /></a></p> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />14th of July 2007 - 13:10 SL</span><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;" face="times new roman">Attendants:<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Reitsuki Kojima, Jeremy Ondricek, Nefu3 Klaar, Neo Rebus, Elda Luna, Elysia Everidge, Rod Zeddmore, Gabriel Canning, Salazar Jack, Loki Eliot, Uladzimir Kupferberg, Cyn Peccable, Phineas Rang, Nareth Nishi, Noble Ebbage, Tinsel Silvera, Rod Zeddmore, StackerLee Beaumont, Vincente Shepherd,</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Artemisia Paine, Snicket Barthelmess, Artemisia Paine, StackerLee Beaumont, Autom Ballinger, Neo Rebus, Holman Tibbett, Gabriel Canning, Eggberta Echegaray, Shaunathan Sprocket, Zoe Connelly.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">This month’s meeting had the best turn out of all the Town Hall meetings in the past 7 months. Over 30 Attendants! Mayor Sprocket started the meeting off at 13:10 SL time, by announcing that the Relay for Life Teams will be getting sims delivered, as early as Sunday July 15th. New Babbage’s RFL design team, has chosen to model an ocean sim, where the RFL walking path will run through. The New Babbage design team consists of our Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket, Reitsuki Kojima, Salazar Jack, Jessica Ornitz and Loki Eliot. The team is currently working on underwater scenery, which will also serve as the testing prototype for the up and coming New Babbage underwater sim.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">The New Babbage RFL community team has also been given a campsite, which will be a rest stop for the walkers along side the walking path. Ms Jessica Ornitz, co-owner of the Silent Sparrow sim, has volunteered to assist with the building of the campsite, as well as Mr.Reitsuki Kojima. Mr.Reitsuki Kojima brought up an idea for the campsite, which would combine an airship dock/steampunk diner rest stop for the walkers. Below the rest stop, there could be an info-kiosk/ tower-like structure. Mr.Salazar Jack suggested having a copy of a portion of New Babagge's urban area, which could be re-created for the campsite, have a square where folks can rest, relax and grab a pint, before they continue on with their walk. Mr.Rod Zeddmore asked the question, “woill dere bee a plas fer de urchins?” Mayor Sprocket replied, that yes, there will indeed be space for Urchins at New Babbage’s RFL rest stop. Mr.Reitsuki Kojima mentioned, that the RFL design team may want to set up a design team meeting, in the next couple of days to hash out more ideas. The agreed date and time for the RFL design team meeting, will be held next Saturday July 21st at 12pm SL time, and will be open to anyone who wishes to participate.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">Mayor Sprocket reminded everyone at the meeting, that as soon as the RFL organization gets the sims, he will have access to New Babbage’s RFL underwater sim. He also mentioned, that the underwater sim is pretty much done, so the New Babbage design team, will mainly be focusing on the campsite build, which can be accessed in 5 days. Mayor Sprocket announced that the total money donated for the RFL cause to date, is over $15,000 Lindens. The RFL kiosk can be found on the first floor in New Babbage’s Town Hall. The Relay for Life Cancer Cure Walk will be held on Saturday July 28th.<br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><a href="http://www.cancer.org/docroot/GI/content/GI_1_8_Second_Life_Relay.asp">http://www.cancer.org/docroot/GI/content/GI_1_8_Second_Life_Relay.asp</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Next order of business was about Loki Elliot’s little dock build. Mayor Sprocket pointed out, residents who live along side the canals, are permitted to take a free copy. The Mayor reminded residents who take a free copy of the dock, to anchor it to your parcel, so it's on your property.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:0;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxXg-MDn6eGA7ZfOgFlvgg6_4g5uTsbhSQrtxqbLl3NISjmngHj8KivIqpQe9-zlUn_kSjUPbr8hkb3b8GR5hpGGschh6TQQQH_gmx8nciSiI3bJTOt5pBdnUHSOeWRaKnWcvVI-nDrW0/s1600-h/Canal+Docka.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320230656196912146" style="width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 270px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxXg-MDn6eGA7ZfOgFlvgg6_4g5uTsbhSQrtxqbLl3NISjmngHj8KivIqpQe9-zlUn_kSjUPbr8hkb3b8GR5hpGGschh6TQQQH_gmx8nciSiI3bJTOt5pBdnUHSOeWRaKnWcvVI-nDrW0/s400/Canal+Docka.jpg" border="0" /></a></span></p> <o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Near the end of the meeting, Loki Eliot had a closing statement about his new Absinthe Bar and Distillery build, which will be open sometime next week. Part of the building, will have room for an art gallery, and Loki asked if any residents would like to contribute to a grand opening exhibition.</span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" > The art must be inspired by absinthe, its myth and/or the green fairy and the art will be on display for sale in the gallery.<br /><br /></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUda0lOuqw6Mpb8A_uBV8UBka0-qEkXBuo-Sn3nGFq4uVnVha_eARQ2VDO1-peJjcSsIn0G0Dy738Jx-xrdmTceTD6z0i9GAaMJWR3BDSzTakETwFgDHto3tCAETgjK4nZCtv9gz8vDxw/s1600-h/Absinthe+Parloura.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320230607249148498" style="width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 270px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUda0lOuqw6Mpb8A_uBV8UBka0-qEkXBuo-Sn3nGFq4uVnVha_eARQ2VDO1-peJjcSsIn0G0Dy738Jx-xrdmTceTD6z0i9GAaMJWR3BDSzTakETwFgDHto3tCAETgjK4nZCtv9gz8vDxw/s400/Absinthe+Parloura.jpg" border="0" /></a> <o:p></o:p></div><p><o:p></o:p><br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Mayor Sprocket thanked all the attendants who came, and adjourned the meeting at 13:50 SL time. In closing, the Mayor reminded everyone of the New Babbage Square Premiere of “The Show Must Go On” stage production, which was starting in 10 minutes over in the stockyard. Thank you all who attended.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p>Meeting Minutes complied by Miss Eggberta Echegaray</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;">*** </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" align="center"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" align="left"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;" align="center"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >THE SHOW MUST GO ON!</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTukJEBwhdlHiGp1mVIleeq3o9CuUvaQYp6Bfyaqp3JZLeQFtlQz-7pGtxu-RpqTgRNPGm1FTbgl80W5qmCBS6SA5Dgpw5RgtP0MS88iQNvZd98Myso4hiIlSdtu55-TM7Nl1q6FTO-dA/s1600-h/The+Show+Must+Go+On%21+Banner.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320229707910750434" style="width: 554px; cursor: pointer; height: 100px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTukJEBwhdlHiGp1mVIleeq3o9CuUvaQYp6Bfyaqp3JZLeQFtlQz-7pGtxu-RpqTgRNPGm1FTbgl80W5qmCBS6SA5Dgpw5RgtP0MS88iQNvZd98Myso4hiIlSdtu55-TM7Nl1q6FTO-dA/s400/The+Show+Must+Go+On%21+Banner.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >"The Show Must Go On," a whimsical and eclectic compilation of vaudeville and variety show style acts, made it's Babbage Square debut, at the New Babbage Community Stockyard in the city of New Babbage on Saturday, July 14th, at 2:00pm.<br /></span><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;" align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8d_3PM9QmrcnR0Gt4YhkenMLVtvnfGuPV02lrVzcvvPc_DQvy-P16D8isw4zEelWArT_idJYvpNKEwMuHst2GJHZHuaYv7VFRJ_HTR4ikbdr_YxUA1J3DFvhGj6KB8uo3m9Y6HNrY8N0/s1600-h/Stage+and+Audience.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320229985964394818" style="width: 478px; cursor: pointer; height: 291px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8d_3PM9QmrcnR0Gt4YhkenMLVtvnfGuPV02lrVzcvvPc_DQvy-P16D8isw4zEelWArT_idJYvpNKEwMuHst2GJHZHuaYv7VFRJ_HTR4ikbdr_YxUA1J3DFvhGj6KB8uo3m9Y6HNrY8N0/s400/Stage+and+Audience.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"></p><o:p></o:p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >The Show Must Go On delivers a (mostly) live creative and inspired performance that harkens back to the days of the variety hour as well as old vaudeville entertainment. The show is 1/2 hour to an hour long and is made up of various short acts that run the gamut from dance and acrobatics to trained animals, comedy routines and sketch narratives. The lineup is ever-changing as new acts get introduced and older ones get put away to play again after a suitable period of rest.</span><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;" align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg35EOaLLP9H-SlO6O0h_S8plE73o79-1PsLFp-hwBE7Rb6eGCVYjocRgHQaiAChP0OMuy19QABw4_dz9EwDBWndw9JLGfW85ROt7Cl4haJiS7162Uw3Ll3KUZIPEIUxNMIEGiK7UpxPz4/s1600-h/The+Show+Must+Go+On+Players+copy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320229785309576194" style="width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg35EOaLLP9H-SlO6O0h_S8plE73o79-1PsLFp-hwBE7Rb6eGCVYjocRgHQaiAChP0OMuy19QABw4_dz9EwDBWndw9JLGfW85ROt7Cl4haJiS7162Uw3Ll3KUZIPEIUxNMIEGiK7UpxPz4/s400/The+Show+Must+Go+On+Players+copy.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;" align="center"></p><span style="font-size:100%;">Many different talents and skills are combined to produce a rich and immersive theatrical experience such as; original writing, costume, prop and set design, streaming audio & text chat and carefully selected choreography. The next show is set for Saturday, July 14th, 2007, at the New Babbage Community Stockyard in Babbage Square, New Babbage. The starting time is 2:00pm SL TIme. Audiences have found the energetic and, sometimes, chaotic performances refreshing and a lot of fun, "a wonderful way to spend some time in SL."</span><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;" align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_RWSyh1bvYb7WHnNFvtHYUk8WSF1-k7HUH2NuRVdYkATBAMzF70kmUX59uYd5_4drY96zRlj461jHPIiN4_DXkeCPFaQ-myn9MEOGDKd1jCNoFZIAdx0F5cBuOiqNAC6OkL5dPNnhl-c/s1600-h/hippo.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320229866224738418" style="width: 290px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_RWSyh1bvYb7WHnNFvtHYUk8WSF1-k7HUH2NuRVdYkATBAMzF70kmUX59uYd5_4drY96zRlj461jHPIiN4_DXkeCPFaQ-myn9MEOGDKd1jCNoFZIAdx0F5cBuOiqNAC6OkL5dPNnhl-c/s400/hippo.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"></p><o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:100%;">The cast currently includes; Theodore Polonsky, Ida Keen, Vlad Bjornson, Lucy Tornado, Enjah Mysterio, Maxie Schneider, Salazar Jack, Osprey Therian, Young Geoffrion, Salamander Maroon, Hotspur Otoole, Autopilotpatty Poppy and Caitlin McLaglen.</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk6Jse6c-4Tk6QMYESJGGS3KRR03zHmZ3hUn9N5YGz83vsyknTTGl-US9mLhtDWO5F7yeyJDwRmWc7U7UONsGn-or9Hx5pKYiy5tQAtDFn_s0AMncPXLm3FrP5cx4XuyzDJXV82vU-J3Q/s1600-h/Mr.Jack+Performing.JPG"><span id="formatbar_Buttons" style="display: block;"><span onmouseup="" class="on down" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 11);ButtonMouseDown(this);" id="formatbar_JustifyCenter" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" title="Align Center" style="display: block;" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);"><img class="gl_align_center" alt="Align Center" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" border="0" /></span></span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320229927854204210" style="width: 296px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk6Jse6c-4Tk6QMYESJGGS3KRR03zHmZ3hUn9N5YGz83vsyknTTGl-US9mLhtDWO5F7yeyJDwRmWc7U7UONsGn-or9Hx5pKYiy5tQAtDFn_s0AMncPXLm3FrP5cx4XuyzDJXV82vU-J3Q/s400/Mr.Jack+Performing.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"></p><o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:100%;">The Show Must Go On is scheduled through to the end of August and will go on hiatus sometime in September, 2007. Please visit the Show Office in world at - Cowell Village Amphitheatre - Cowell 159, 135, 43 (PG). Contact Producer/Direcotor, Osprey Therian (<a href="mailto:osprey.therian@gmail.com">osprey.therian@gmail.com</a>) or Stage Manager, Salazar Jack</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> (<a href="mailto:salazarjack@mac.com">salazarjack@mac.com</a>), for more information, or visit their website at: </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://googoogoggles.dreamhosters.com/TSMGO/">http://googoogoggles.dreamhosters.com/TSMGO/</a><br /></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;">***<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;">LITERARY CORNER</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE SIGN OF FOUR</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">by Sir ArthurConan Doyle</span><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Chapter 11<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >THE GREAT ARGA TREASURE</span><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeS7ITGZZnea2ZcD1rQjvu5Osffq9f_gP0l-cXdvD0n02yN1lTrF-v-OdlXGc9Us1DjzqIKNdxgVfU8GzrsaHElgSYt5UL26LTm7KeIKgqj0p0YtocPgZMTjZIcYBiRrqy71ITjiQZPZE/s1600-h/sign-11a.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320219490460284370" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 183px; cursor: pointer; height: 261px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeS7ITGZZnea2ZcD1rQjvu5Osffq9f_gP0l-cXdvD0n02yN1lTrF-v-OdlXGc9Us1DjzqIKNdxgVfU8GzrsaHElgSYt5UL26LTm7KeIKgqj0p0YtocPgZMTjZIcYBiRrqy71ITjiQZPZE/s400/sign-11a.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><o:p></o:p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Our captive sat in the cabin opposite to the iron box which he had done so much and waited so long to gain. He was a sunburned, reckless-eyed fellow, with a net-work of lines and wrinkles all over his mahogany features, which told of a hard, open-air life. There was a singular prominence about his bearded chin which marked a man who was not to be easily turned from his purpose. His age may have been fifty or thereabouts, for his black, curly hair was thickly shot with gray. His face in repose was not an unpleasing one, though his heavy brows and aggressive chin gave him, as I had lately seen, a terrible expression when moved to anger. He sat now with his handcuffed hands upon his lap, and his head sunk upon his breast, while he looked with his keen, twinkling eyes at the box which had been the cause of his ill- doings. It seemed to me that there was more sorrow than anger in his rigid and contained countenance. Once he looked up at me with a gleam of something like humor in his eyes. "Well, Jonathan Small," said Holmes, lighting a cigar, "I am sorry that it has come to this." "And so am I, sir," he answered, frankly. "I don't believe that I can swing over the job. I give you my word on the book that I never raised hand against Mr. Sholto. It was that little hell- hound <st1:country-region><st1:place>Tonga</st1:place></st1:country-region>who shot one of his cursed darts into him. I had no part in it, sir. I was as grieved as if it had been my blood- relation. I welted the little devil with the slack end of the rope for it, but it was done, and I could not undo it again."<br /><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;">"Have a cigar," said Holmes; "and you had best take a pull out of my flask, for you are very wet. How could you expect so small and weak a man as this black fellow to overpower Mr. Sholto and hold him while you were climbing the rope?" "You seem to know as much about it as if you were there, sir. The truth is that I hoped to find the room clear. I knew the habits of the house pretty well, and it was the time when Mr. Sholto usually went down to his supper. I shall make no secret of the business. The best defence that I can make is just the simple truth. Now, if it had been the old major I would have swung for him with a light heart. I would have thought no more of knifing him than of smoking this cigar. But it's cursed hard that I should be lagged over this young Sholto, with whom I had no quarrel whatever." "You are under the charge of Mr. Athelney Jones, of Scotland Yard. He is going to bring you up to my rooms, and I shall ask you for a true account of the matter. You must make a clean breast of it, for if you do I hope that I may be of use to you. I think I can prove that the poison acts so quickly that the man was dead before ever you reached the room." "That he was, sir. I never got such a turn in my life as when I saw him grinning at me with his head on his shoulder as I climbed through the window. It fairly shook me, sir. I'd have half killed <st1:country-region><st1:place>Tonga</st1:place></st1:country-region> for it if he had not scrambled off. That was how he came to leave his club, and some of his darts too, as he tells me, which I dare say helped to put you on our track; though how you kept on it is more than I can tell. I don't feel no malice against you for it. But it does seem a queer thing," he added, with a bitter smile, "that I who have a fair claim to nigh upon half a million of money should spend the first half of my life building a breakwater in the Andamans, and am like to spend the other half digging drains at Dartmoor. It was an evil day for me when first I clapped eyes upon the merchant Achmet and had to do with the <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city> treasure, which never brought anything but a curse yet upon the man who owned it. To him it brought murder, to Major Sholto it brought fear and guilt, to me it has meant slavery for life."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p>At this moment Athelney Jones thrust his broad face and heavy shoulders into the tiny cabin. "Quite a family party," he remarked. "I think I shall have a pull at that flask, Holmes. Well, I think we may all congratulate each other. Pity we didn't take the other alive; but there was no choice. I say, Holmes, you must confess that you cut it rather fine. It was all we could do to overhaul her." "All is well that ends well," said Holmes. "But I certainly did not know that the <st1:city><st1:place>Aurora</st1:place></st1:city> was such a clipper." "Smith says she is one of the fastest launches on the river, and that if he had had another man to help him with the engines we should never have caught her. He swears he knew nothing of this <st1:city><st1:place>Norwood</st1:place></st1:city><st1:place>Gravesend</st1:place>, outward bound for the <st1:country-region><st1:place>Brazils</st1:place></st1:country-region>." "Well, if he has done no wrong we shall see that no wrong comes to him. If we are pretty quick in catching our men, we are not so quick in condemning them." It was amusing to notice how the consequential Jones was already beginning to give himself airs on the strength of the capture. From the slight smile which played over Sherlock Holmes's face, I could see that the speech had not been lost upon him. "We will be at <st1:place><st1:placename>Vauxhall</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Bridge</st1:placetype></st1:place> presently," said Jones, "and shall land you, Dr. Watson, with the treasure-box. I need hardly tell you that I am taking a very grave responsibility upon myself in doing this. It is most irregular; but of course an agreement is an agreement. I must, however, as a matter of duty, send an inspector with you, since you have so valuable a charge. You will drive, no doubt?" "Yes,I shall drive." "It is a pity there is no key, that we may make an inventory first. You will have to break it open. Where is the key, my man?"</span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"At the bottom of the river," said Small, shortly. "Hum! There was no use your giving this unnecessary trouble. We have had work enough already through you. However, doctor, I need not warn you to be careful. Bring the box back with you to the </span><st1:street style="font-family: times new roman;"><st1:address>Baker Street</st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> rooms. You will find us there, on our way to the station." They landed me at Vauxhall, with my heavy iron box, and with a bluff, genial inspector as my companion. A quarter of an hour's drive brought us to Mrs. Cecil Forrester's.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: times new roman;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYb0HvAxveg0VEC1aenCbZqscrjBLzME7GJZZZjcuL-Mh_ExwtxsLp4kprasVQfCJuV9kWd7Hu7xx7fwmkol3RD6cmHGFCa5qWJKSlCESqReYv-k-AKW4V6jaYISWFPOVpP0PxOe6t5f4/s1600-h/sign-11b.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320220016071965842" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; width: 202px; cursor: pointer; height: 334px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYb0HvAxveg0VEC1aenCbZqscrjBLzME7GJZZZjcuL-Mh_ExwtxsLp4kprasVQfCJuV9kWd7Hu7xx7fwmkol3RD6cmHGFCa5qWJKSlCESqReYv-k-AKW4V6jaYISWFPOVpP0PxOe6t5f4/s400/sign-11b.JPG" border="0" /></a></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >The servant seemed surprised</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">at so late a visitor. Mrs. Cecil Forrester was out for the </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">eve</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">n</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">ing, </span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >she explained, and likely to be very late. Miss Morstan, however, was in the drawing-room: so to the drawing- room I went, box in hand, leaving the obliging inspector in the cab. She was seated by the open window, dressed in some sort of white diaphanous material, with a little touch of scarlet at the neck and waist. The soft light of a shaded lamp fell upon her as she leaned back in the basket chair, playing over her sweet, grave face, and tinting with a dull, metallic sparkle the rich coils of her luxuriant hair. One white arm and hand drooped over the side of the chair, and her whole pose and figure spoke of an absorbing melancholy. At the sound of my foot-fall she sprang to her feet, however, and a bright flush of surprise and of pleasure colored her pale cheeks. "I heard a cab drive up," she said. "I thought that Mrs. Forrester had come back very early, but I never dreamed that it might be you. What news have you brought me?" </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><o:p style="font-family: times new roman;"></o:p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"</span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >I have brought something better than news," said I, putting down the box upon the table and speaking jovially and boisterously, though my heart was heavy within me. "I have brought you something which is worth all the news in the world. I have brought you a fortune." She glanced at iron box. "Is that the treasure, then?" she asked, coolly enough. "Yes, this is the great <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city> treasure. Half of it is yours and half is Thaddeus Sholto's. You will have a couple of hundred thousand each. Think of that! An annuity of ten thousand pounds. There will be few richer young ladies in <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Is it not glorious?"I think that I must have been rather overacting my delight, and that she detected a hollow ring in my congratulations, for I saw her eyebrows rise a little, and she glanced at me curiously. "If I have it," said she, "I owe it to you." "No, no," I answered, "not to me, but to my friend Sherlock Holmes. With all the will in the world, I could never have followed up a clue which has taxed even his analytical genius.<br /><br />As it was, we very nearly lost it at the last moment." "Pray sit down and tell me all about it, Dr. Watson," said she. I narrated briefly what had occurred since I had seen her last,--Holmes's new method of search, the discovery of the <st1:city><st1:place>Aurora</st1:place></st1:city>, the appearance of Athelney Jones, our expedition in the evening, and the wild chase down the <st1:place>Thames</st1:place>. She listened with parted lips and shining eyes to my recital of our adventures. When I spoke of the dart which had so narrowly missed us, she turned so white that I feared that she was about to faint. "It is nothing," she said, as I hastened to pour her out some water. "I am all right again. It was a shock to me to hear that I had placed my friends in such horrible peril." "That is all over," I answered. "It was nothing. I will tell you no more gloomy details. Let us turn to something brighter. There is the treasure. What could be brighter than that? I got leave to bring it with me, thinking that it would interest you to be the first to see it." "It would be of the greatest interest to me," she said. There was no eagerness in her voice, however. It had struck her, doubtless, that it might seem ungracious upon her part to be indifferent to a prize which had cost so much to win. "What a pretty box!" she said, stooping over it. This is Indian work, I suppose?" "Yes; it is <st1:place>Benares</st1:place> metal-work." And so heavy!" she exclaimed, trying to raise it. "The box alone must be of some value. Where is the key?" "Small threw it into the <st1:place>Thames</st1:place>," I answered. "I must borrow Mrs. Forrester's poker."<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">There was in the front a thick and broad hasp, wrought in the image of a sitting Buddha. Under this I thrust the end of the poker and twisted it outward as a lever. The hasp sprang open with a loud snap. With trembling fingers I flung back the lid. We both stood gazing in astonishment. The box was empty! No wonder that it was heavy. The iron-work was two-thirds of an inch thick all round. It was massive, well made, and solid, like a chest constructed to carry things of great price, but not one shred or crumb of metal or jewelry lay within it. It was absolutely and completely empty. "The treasure is lost," said Miss Morstan, calmly. As I listened to the words and realized what they meant, a great shadow seemed to pass from my soul. I did not know how this </span><st1:city style="font-family: times new roman;"><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> treasure had weighed me down, until now that it was finally removed. It was selfish, no doubt, disloyal, wrong, but I could realize nothing save that the golden barrier was gone from between us. "Thank God!" I ejaculated from my very heart. She looked at me with a quick, questioning smile. "Why do you say that?"</span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" > she asked. </span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p>"Because you are within my reach again," I said, taking her hand. She did not withdraw it. "Because I love you, Mary, as truly as ever a man loved a woman. Because this treasure, these riches, sealed my lips. Now that they are gone I can tell you how I love you. That is why I said, 'Thank God." "Then I say, 'Thank God,' too," she whispered, as I drew her to my side. Whoever had lost a treasure, I knew that night that I had gained one.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;">***<br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Put your event and/or announcement here!</span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">HELP WANTED: EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR THE NEW BABBAGE COG</span></p><div style="text-align: left;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The chosen E.A candidate will gain experience with all aspects of publishing by assisting the Editor in Chief, with the administration of planning and production of The New Babbage Cog.<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:</span> </p><div style="text-align: left;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">•</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Support and assist the Editor in Chief with all activities leading to the monthly publication.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">•</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Liaison with freelance writers, and photographers. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">•</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></p><div style="text-align: left;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">•</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></p><div style="text-align: left;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">•</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Help to organize, copy and paste text and images to the out of world Babbage Blog Payment of the role will depend on Advertising revenues submitted to The New Babbage Cog.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">VOLUNTEER FREELANCE REPORTERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Reporters/Photographers are needed to cover stories for the New Babbage Cog. Need steampunk stories directly related to the New Babbage sims, her residents and aethernet steampunk websites of interest.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">•</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">•</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">•</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Most photographs are in sepia, please keep that in mind when submitting snapshots</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Content ideas: </span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Architecture of New Babbage</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Business Owner’s Spotlight</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Inventors Corner</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Special New Babbage Event coverage</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage stories</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Aethernet Steampunk culture: Steampunk movie, music, book, clubs reviews, websites of interest.<br /></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please write a short email summary, explaining your affiliation and knowledge about the Steampunk culture and the New Babbage Sims. Submit your email to</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray at <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname>. I will review your emails, and conduct in world interviews, on Saturday’s and Sunday’s at my tea shoppe, until the roles are filled.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">* * *</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span><br /></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;" face="times new roman"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed usingonly the tools at theirdisposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><br /></span></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Miss Eggberta Echegaray </strong></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:<br /></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.<br /></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- Visit us:</span><br /></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Temporary location: The Willow Tea Room Lot # 20 New Babbage Cultural District<br /></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- Drop a notecard:</p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Notecard communications can be sent to Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- IM:</p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;">You may contact Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.<br /></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">-- Aethernet mail:</p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Messages sent to </span><st1:personname style="font-weight: normal;">newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Circulation:</span><br /></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paper boxes at the following locations:<br /></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span><br /></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Back Issues:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the Willow Tea Room on the first floor.<span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Submissions:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Advertising:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Errata:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Disclaimer:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span>This issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper and is also publicly owned by the City-State of New Babbage, which at the time of it's printing, was under the care of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket. <span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The New Babbage Cog</span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" face="times new roman"></div><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" face="times new roman"></div><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;" ></span><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" face="times new roman"></p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-5259684832388665962009-02-12T18:25:00.000-08:002009-04-16T07:26:31.708-07:0013 August 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizNYNhRe1GPmWqBtvefqZO49OZ3MZDUmXisTUcUS5C0YcFj9y9UjjGNUdQVyqUt2LbjtuZDwn3Uji0aKb09xAkptnsJzWLqmZ0txqNtjo_q8vr-5QfGgSqWnnwVi9OmTGpqrhNKy-aY8I/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 336px; height: 122px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizNYNhRe1GPmWqBtvefqZO49OZ3MZDUmXisTUcUS5C0YcFj9y9UjjGNUdQVyqUt2LbjtuZDwn3Uji0aKb09xAkptnsJzWLqmZ0txqNtjo_q8vr-5QfGgSqWnnwVi9OmTGpqrhNKy-aY8I/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323226066982042802" border="0" /></a><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 9.0pt 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> </p><div style="text-align: center;">***<br /><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >Vol I / Issue </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style="font-family: times new roman;">XIII</b></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" > ~ </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >13th of Augu</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >st, 2007</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style=""> </span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style=""> </span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">CONTENTS:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <ol style="font-family: times new roman;"><li>Letter from the Editor<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><br /></li><li><st1:date year="2007" day="11" month="8">11th of August, 2007</st1:date> Town Hall Meeting<span style=""> </span>Minutes<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>Events & Announcements<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>Classified Advertisements<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>Contact, Circulation, and other Essential Information for the Reader<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ</li></ol><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;">_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">Dear Fellow New Babbagers,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">The following issue covers 11th of August's town hall meeting and the final chapter of "The Sign of Four. I apologize for lack of coverage in this issue, but promise next issue will be full of surprises! Last July's distribution of the Cog totaled over 125 copies!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">In your service,</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Editor in Chief, The New Babbage Cog</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Miss Eggberta Echegaray</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________________________________________________</div><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE TOWN HALL MEETING</span></span><st1:date year="2007" day="11" month="8"></st1:date></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><st1:date year="2007" day="11" month="8"></st1:date></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4urjbiOTh6RK9xGd_UzcfkI_ZPGsnT8vSPgRr8lkoug4mfrgTgmei7Bs06cPxyijKMoHyIwOGB4VmHHTG_bcpsx6dDEyhLBWxyZucNpoxssSZmxrqSeBPkz4rCxFhlItTpepfSGrhsdU/s1600-h/ExteriorTownHall.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 287px; height: 217px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4urjbiOTh6RK9xGd_UzcfkI_ZPGsnT8vSPgRr8lkoug4mfrgTgmei7Bs06cPxyijKMoHyIwOGB4VmHHTG_bcpsx6dDEyhLBWxyZucNpoxssSZmxrqSeBPkz4rCxFhlItTpepfSGrhsdU/s400/ExteriorTownHall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323347091251705618" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><st1:date year="2007" day="11" month="8">Saturday August 11th, 2007</st1:date></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Attendants: </span><br /></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Shaunathan Sprocket, Pizzini Mayo, Salazar Jack, Diogen Blackadder, Solivar Scarborough, Loki Eliot, Khashai Steinbeck, Ricky Geesink, Anakin Merlin, Myrtil Igaly, Thelonious Messmer, Woolybully Bade, Ordinal Malaprop, Nareth Nishi,<span style=""> </span>Cessadia Thetan, Artemisia Paine, Clear Straaf, Luciean Commodore, Diogen Blackadder, Miguel Pinion,<span style=""> </span>Zoe Connolly, Ricky Geesink, Vincente Shepherd, Eggberta Echegaray, Thelonious Messmer, Spencer Upshaw, Reitsuki Kojima, Nareth Nishi, Natacha Chernov, Pizzini Mayo, Cornell Mondrian, Molly Underwood, Reitsuki Kojima, Noddeh Slade, Spencer Upshaw, Lisbeth DeCuir, TJ Tenk, Cyn Peccable, Trilliam Dyrssen.</p><br /><br /><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Mayor Sprocket opened the meeting up at <st1:time minute="10" hour="13">13:10</st1:time> SL time, with reminding everyone that the community collectively agreed back in March, to not enable voice chat in New Babbage’s public areas, and the agreement still presently sits. Individual New Babbage residents are however, allowed to enable voice chat on their own parcels if they so desire, as voice chat is spatially contained and doesn’t interfere with the public areas. Mayor Sprocket also pointed out, those who discriminate others, who don’t wish to participate in voice chat in private areas of New Babbage, will be dealt with for New Babbage’s primary form of communication will be text.</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Next order up for discussion was the Relay for Life event. New Babbage’s fund raising kiosk made over $16,000 Lindens for the cause, and independent donations which where added to that amount, totaled over $32,000 Lindens. Mayor Sprocket congratulated everyone for their donations, efforts and achievements with volunteering to build the Relay Campsite Track, and publicly thanked Reitsuki Kojima, for his amazing job on the underwater tunnel build, inspired by 20,000 leagues under the sea. Ms. Ordinal Malaprop proposed a toast to all those involved. Mayor Sprocket also pointed out, that a lot of the Relay for Life builds where a sneak preview of what to expect with the up and coming new underwater sim, and Loki Elliot’s skyscraper tower build, will be added New Babbage’s Town hall.<span style=""> </span>Ms. Malaprop and Mr. Kojima both mentioned that they recorded some Cinematographic Reels of the event a</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">nd the New Babbage builds, but both haven’t had time yet to edit them. Among the builders for the event where, Shaunathan Sprocket: Charlene Trudeau, Jessica Ornitz, Salazar Jack, Loki Elliot, Rei Kojima and Pizzini Mayo’s firehall.</p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">There will be a murder mystery Role play that will take place in New Bababge for the remainder of the month. For the event, Mayor Sprocket has created an official investigation unit, known as the Bow Street Police Service, Special Investigations Bureau, which will be located on the third floor of the canal district’s train station.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">At the meeting’s closing, Solivar Scarbourgh, Reisuki Kojima and Loki Elliot had some final words. Mr.Scarbourgh announced that he will soon,<span style=""> </span>finish creating New Babbage’s Museum, and apologized for it’s delay, for other out of worldly circumstances have prevented him to finish the contents.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Reitsuki Kojima mentioned, since a lot of New Babbage’s residents role-play, he proposed to create a<span style=""> </span>New Babbage role-playing directory. He said he could create a book-shaped object, which would be a portal, probably placed out near the telehubs. Mr.Kojima hasn’t worked out the mechanics for it yet, and is still deciding weather it use note cards or direct people to an off-world server. People could submit a "character description sheet" for their avatars, which would be completely voluntary, and supply only the information they wanted. The idea is for other’s to interact with your avatar on a more "in character" level, and also, this can be used as a way to get to know each other a bit better.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Loki Eliot was the last resident to speak and he mentioned how since he fully enjoys being in New Babbage, he would like to invite more people from SL to come here, to check the place out an</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">d see what we all do, so he is always trying to think of new ways to bring more people here. Having said that, Loki mentioned that he will be opening up an art gallery in his Absinthe bar, which anyone can freely submit work to be placed up to sell. There will be a grand opening at the Absinthe Bar soon and Loki will send out a notice as soon as he’s figured out when to have it. Mayor Sprocket thanked all the attendants for coming, and concluded the meeting at <st1:time minute="14" hour="14">14:14</st1:time> SL time.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Meeting Minutes compiled by Eggberta Echegaray.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">* * *</p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Tired of checking the newspaper box for a new issue of the Cog?<span style=""> </span>Join the New Babbage Cog, and/or Babbage Blog group and receive notices as to when the new issues will be out!</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>* * *</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LITERARY CORNER</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p> <o:smarttagtype style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-weight: bold; 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margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">THE SIGN OF FOUR</p> <p style="font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Chapter 12</p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">THE STRANGE STORY OF JONATHAN SMALL</p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhO9fXH9Szm1MHMjH7TVXZQyNo4CejWVrIXk_jZQxTn64OdkSvZ-fT5T5LaOS9EDFOmPVFYcNrPgk_6WfBOpOBA_ZDNvtuVvhU-xM3tYOvVZDCzjZcsq3omvlIP2jTXQGif4-2N4kbwLg/s1600-h/sign-12a.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 339px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhO9fXH9Szm1MHMjH7TVXZQyNo4CejWVrIXk_jZQxTn64OdkSvZ-fT5T5LaOS9EDFOmPVFYcNrPgk_6WfBOpOBA_ZDNvtuVvhU-xM3tYOvVZDCzjZcsq3omvlIP2jTXQGif4-2N4kbwLg/s400/sign-12a.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323548144868900498" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div style="font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: right; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><div style="text-align: right;"> </div> </div><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"> </div> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">A very patient man was that inspector in the cab, for it was a weary time before I rejoined him. His face clouded over when I showed him the empty box. "There goes the reward!" said he, gloomily. "Where there is no money there is no pay. This night's work would have been worth a tenner each to Sam Brown and me if the treasure had been there." "Mr. Thaddeus Sholto is a rich man," I said. "He will see that you are rewarded, treasure or no." The inspector shook his head despondently, however. "It's a bad job," he repeated; "and so Mr. Athelney Jones will think." His forecast proved to be correct, for the detective looked blank enough when I got to <st1:street><st1:address>Baker Street</st1:address></st1:street> and showed him the empty box. They had only just arrived, Holmes, the prisoner, and he, for they had changed their plans so far as to report themselves at a station upon the way. My companion lounged in his arm-chair with his usual listless expression, while Small sat stolidly opposite to him with his wooden leg cocked over his sound one. As I exhibited the empty box he leaned back in his chair and laughed aloud. "This is your doing, Small," said Athelney Jones, angrily. "Yes, I have put it away where you shall never lay hand upon it," he cried, exultantly. "It is my treasure; and if I can't have the loot I'll take darned good care that no one else does. I tell you that no living man has any right to it, unless it is three men who are in the Andaman convict-barracks and myself. I know now that I cannot have the use of it, and I know that they cannot. I have acted all through for them as much as for myself. It's been the sign of four with us always. Well I know that they would have had me do just what I have done, and throw the treasure into the <st1:place>Thames</st1:place> rather than let it go to kith or kin of Sholto or of Morstan. It was not to make them rich that we did for Achmet. You'll find the treasure where the key is, and where little <st1:country-region><st1:place>Tonga</st1:place></st1:country-region> is. When I saw that your launch must catch us, I put the loot away in a safe place. There are no rupees for you this journey." "You are deceiving us, Small," said Athelney Jones, sternly. "If you had wished to throw the treasure into the <st1:place>Thames</st1:place> it would have been easier for you to have thrown box and all." "Easier for me to throw, and easier for you to recover," he answered, with a shrewd, sidelong look. "The man that was clever enough to hunt me down is clever enough to pick an iron box from the bottom of a river. Now that they are scattered over five miles or so, it may be a harder job. It went to my heart to do it, though. I was half mad when you came up with us. However, there's no good grieving over it. I've had ups in my life, and I've had downs, but I've learned not to cry over spilled milk." "This is a very serious matter, Small," said the detective. "If you had helped justice, instead of thwarting it in this way, you would have had a better chance at your trial." "Justice!" snarled the ex-convict. "A pretty justice! Whose loot is this, if it is not ours? Where is the justice that I should give it up to those who have never earned it? Look how I have earned it! Twenty long years in that fever-ridden swamp, all day at work under the mangrove-tree, all night chained up in the filthy convict-huts, bitten by mosquitoes, racked with ague, bullied by every cursed black-faced policeman who loved to take it out of a white man. That was how I earned the <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city> treasure; and you talk to me of justice because I cannot bear to feel that I have paid this price only that another may enjoy it! I would rather swing a score of times, or have one of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Tonga</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s darts in my hide, than live in a convict's cell and feel that another man is at his ease in a palace with the money that should be mine." Small had dropped his mask of stoicism, and all this came out in a wild whirl of words, while his eyes blazed, and the handcuffs clanked together with the impassioned movement of his hands.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">I could understand, as I saw the fury and the passion of the man, that it was no groundless or </p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">unnatural terror which had possessed Major Sholto when he first learned that the injured convict was upon his track. 'You forget that we know nothing of all this," said Holmes quietly. "We have not heard your story, and we cannot tell how far justice may originally have been on your side." "Well, sir, you have been very fair-spoken to me, though I can see that I have you to thank that I have these bracelets upon my wrists. Still, I bear no grudge for that. It is all fair and above-board. If you want to hear my story I have no wish to hold it back. What I say to you is God's truth, every word of it. Thank you; you can put the glass beside me here, and I'll put my lips to it if I am dry. "I am a Worcestershire man myself,--born near Pershore. I dare say you would find a heap of Smalls living there now if you were to look. I have often thought of taking a look round there, but the truth is that I was never much of a credit to the family, and I doubt if they would be so very glad to see me. They were all steady, chapel-going folk, small farmers, well known and respected over the country-side, while I was always a bit of a rover. At last, however, when I was about eighteen, I gave them no more trouble, for I got into a mess over a girl, and could only get out of it again by taking the queen's shilling and joining the 3d Buffs, which was just starting for India. "I wasn't destined to do much soldiering, however. I had just got past the goose-step, and learned to handle my musket, when I was fool enough to go swimming in the <st1:place>Ganges</st1:place>. Luckily for me, my company sergeant, John Holder, was in the water at the same time, and he was one of the finest swimmers in the service. A crocodile took me, just as I was half-way across, and nipped off my right leg as clean as a surgeon could have done it, just above the knee. What with the shock and the loss of blood, I fainted, and should have drowned if Holder had not caught hold of me and paddled for the bank. I was five months in hospital over it, and when at last I was able to limp out of it with this timber toe strapped to my stump I found myself invalided out of the army and unfitted for any active occupation. "I was, as you can imagine, pretty down on my luck at this time, for I was a useless cripple though not yet in my twentieth year. However, my misfortune soon proved to be a blessing in disguise. A man named Abelwhite, who had come out there as an indigo- planter, wanted an overseer to look after his coolies and keep them up to their work. He happened to be a friend of our colonel's, who had taken an interest in me since the accident. To make a long story short, the colonel recommended me strongly for the post and, as the work was mostly to be done on horseback, my leg was no great obstacle, for I had enough knee left to keep good grip on the saddle. What I had to do was to ride over the plantation, to keep an eye on the men as they worked, and to report the idlers. The pay was fair, I had comfortable quarters, and altogether I was content to spend the remainder of my life in indigo-planting. Mr.Abelwhite was a kind man, and he would often drop into my little shanty and smoke a pipe with me, for white folk out there feel their hearts warm to each other as they never do here at home. "Well, I was never in luck's way long. Suddenly, without a note of warning, the great mutiny broke upon us.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">One month <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> lay as still and peaceful, to all appearance, as <st1:place>Surrey</st1:place> or <st1:country-region><st1:place>Kent</st1:place></st1:country-region>; the next there were two hundred thousand black devils let loose, and the country was a perfect hell. Of course you know all about it, gentlemen,--a deal more than I do, very like, since reading is not in my line. I only know what I saw with my own eyes. Our plantation was at a place called <st1:place>Muttra</st1:place>, near the border of the Northwest Provinces. Night after night the whole sky was alight with the burning bungalows, and day after day we had small companies of Europeans passing through our estate with their wives and children, on their way to Agra, where were the nearest troops. Mr. Abelwhite was an obstinate man. He had it in his head that the affair had been exaggerated, and that it would blow over as suddenly as it had sprung up. There he sat on his veranda, drinking whiskey-pegs and smoking cheroots, while the country was in a blaze about him. Of course we stuck by him, I and Dawson, who, with his wife, used to do the book-work and the managing. Well, one fine day the crash came. I had been away on a distant plantation, and was riding slowly home in the evening, when my eye fell upon something all huddled together at the bottom of a steep nullah. I rode down to see what it was, and the cold struck through my heart when I found it was <st1:city><st1:place>Dawson</st1:place></st1:city>'s wife, all cut into ribbons, and half eaten by jackals and native dogs. A little further up the road Dawson himself was lying on his face, quite dead, with an empty revolver in his hand and four Sepoys lying across each other in front of him. I reined up my horse, wondering which way I should turn, but at that moment I saw thick smoke curling up from Abelwhite's bungalow and the flames beginning to burst through the roof. I knew then that I could do my employer no good, but would only throw my own life away if I meddled in the matter. From where I stood I could see hundreds of the black fiends, with their red coats still on their backs, dancing and howling round the burning house. Some of them pointed at me, and a couple of bullets sang past my head; so I broke away across the paddy-fields, and found myself late at night safe within the walls at <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city>. "As it proved, however, there was no great safety there, either. The whole country was up like a swarm of bees. Wherever the English could collect in little bands they held just the ground that their guns commanded. Everywhere else they were helpless fugitives. It was a fight of the millions against the hundreds; and the cruelest part of it was that these men that we fought against, foot, horse, and gunners, were our own picked troops, whom we had taught and trained</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">, handling our own weapons, and blowing our own bugle-calls. At <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city> there were the 3d Bengal Fusiliers, some Sikhs, two troops of horse, and a battery of artillery. A volunteer corps of clerks and merchants had been formed, and this I joined, wooden leg and all. We went out to meet the rebels at Shahgunge early in July, and we beat them back for a time, but our powder gave out, and we had to fall back upon the city. Nothing but the worst news came to us from every side,--which is not to be wondered at, for if you look at the map you will see that we were right in the heart of it. <st1:city><st1:place>Luc</st1:place></st1:city><st1:city><st1:place>know</st1:place></st1:city> is rather better than a hundred miles to the east, and <st1:place>Cawn pore</st1:place> about as far to the south. From every point on the compass there was nothing but torture and murder and outrage.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"The city of <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city> is a great place, swarming with fanatics and fierce devil-worshippers of all sorts. Our handful of men were lost among the narrow, winding streets. Our leader moved across the river, therefore, and took up his position in the old fort at <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city>. I don't know if any of you gentlemen have ever read or heard anything of that old fort. It is a very queer place,--the queerest that ever I was in, and I have been in some rum corners, too. First of all, it is enormous in size. I should think that the enclosure must be acres and acres. There is a modern part, which took all our garrison, women, children, stores, and everything else, with plenty of room over. But the modern part is nothing like the size of the old quarter, where nobody goes, and which is given over to the scorpions and the centipedes. It is all full of great deserted halls, and winding passages, and long corridors twisting in and out, so that it is easy enough for folk to get lost in it. For this reason it was seldom that any one went into it, though now and again a party with torches might go exploring. "The river washes along the front of the old fort, and so protects it, but on the sides and behind there are many doors, and these had to be guarded, of course, in the old quarter as well as in that which was actually held by our troops. We were short-handed, with hardly men enough to man the angles of the building and to serve the guns. It was impossible for us, therefore, to station a strong guard at every one of the innumerable gates. What we did was to organize a central guard- house in the middle of the fort, and to leave each gate under the charge of one white man and two or three natives. I was selected to take charge during certain hours of the night of a small isolated door upon the southwest side of the building. Two Sikh troopers were placed under my command, and I was instructed if anything went wrong to fire my musket, when I might rely upon help coming at once from the central guard. As the guard was a good two hundred paces away, however, and as the space between was cut up into a labyrinth of passages and corridors, I had great doubts as to whether they could arrive in time to be of any use in case of an actual attack. "Well, I was pretty proud at having this small command given me, since I was a raw recruit, and a game-legged one at that.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyICCuPNbIzeJnsnKQ3w7fjh9Z3MsHhVUWyB2cbbnQArlNXUEwMNC85nAqTLi78EFM3yqkkJfk-1_HBvakLVzWPnxPi9SOwgJTYm2QWTPn0JEeDLy4hAVFoclvlM5lE78uL5Extl0c8mw/s1600-h/sign-12b.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 379px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyICCuPNbIzeJnsnKQ3w7fjh9Z3MsHhVUWyB2cbbnQArlNXUEwMNC85nAqTLi78EFM3yqkkJfk-1_HBvakLVzWPnxPi9SOwgJTYm2QWTPn0JEeDLy4hAVFoclvlM5lE78uL5Extl0c8mw/s400/sign-12b.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323547758564874754" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">For two nights I kept the watch with my Punjaubees.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">They were tall, fierce-looking chaps, Mahomet Singh and Abdullah Khan by name, both old fighting-men who had borne arms against us at Chilian- wallah. They could talk English pretty well, but I could get little out of them. They preferred to stand together and jabber all night in their queer Sikh lingo. For myself, I used to stand outside the gate-way, looking down on the broad, winding river and on the twinkling lights of the great city. The beating of drums, the rattle of tomtoms, and the yells and howls of the rebels, drunk with opium and with bang, were enough to remind us all night of our dangerous neighbors across the stream. Every two hours the officer of the night used to come round to all the posts, to make sure that all was well. "The third night of my watch was dark and dirty, with a small, driving rain. It was dreary work standing in the gate-way hour after hour in such weather. I tried again and again to make my Sikhs talk, but without much success. At two in the morning the rounds passed, and broke for a moment the weariness of the night. Finding that my companions would not be led into conversation, I took out my pipe, and laid down my musket to strike the match. In an instant the two Sikhs were upon me. One of them snatched my firelock up and levelled it at my head, while the other held a great knife to my throat and swore between his teeth that he would plunge it into me if I moved a step. "My first thought was that these fellows were in league with the rebels, and that this was the beginning of an assault. If our door were in the hands of the Sepoys the place must fall,and the women and children be treated as they were in <st1:place>Cawnpore</st1:place>. Maybe you gentlemen think that I am just making out a case for myself, but I give you my word that when I thought of that, though I felt the point of the knife at my throat, I opened my mouth with the intention of giving a scream, if it was my last one, which might alarm the main guard. The man who held me seemed to know my thoughts; for, even as I braced myself to it, he whispered, 'Don't make a noise. The fort is safe enough. There are no rebel dogs on this side of the river.' There was the ring of truth in what he said, and I knew that if I raised my voice I was a dead man. I could read it in the fellow's brown eyes. I waited, therefore, in silence, to see what it was that they wanted from me. "'Listen to me, Sahib,' said the taller and fiercer of the pair, the one whom they called Abdullah Khan. 'You must either be with us now or you must be silenced forever. The thing is too great a one for us to hesitate. Either you are heart and soul with us on your oath on the cross of the Christians, or your body this night shall be thrown into the ditch and we shall pass over to our brothers in the rebel army. There is no middle way. Which is it to be, death or life? We can only give you three minutes to decide, for the time is passing, and all must be done before the rounds come again.' "'How can I decide?' said <st1:place>I.</st1:place> 'You have not told me what you want of me. But I tell you know that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome.' "'It is nothing against the fort,' said he. 'We only ask you to do that which your countrymen come to this land for. We ask you to be rich. If you will be one of us this night, we will swear to you upon the naked knife, and by the threefold oath which no Sikh was ever known to break, that you shall have your fair share of the loot. A quarter of the treasure shall be yours.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">We can say no fairer.' "'But what is the treasure, then?' I asked. 'I am as ready to be rich as you can be, if you will but show me how it can be done.' "'You will swear, then,' said he, 'by the bones of your father, by the honor of your mother, by the cross of your faith, to raise no hand and speak no word against us, either now or after wards?' "'I will swear it,' I answered, 'provided that the fort is not endangered.' "'Then my comrade and I will swear that you shall have a quarter of the treasure which shall be equally divided among the four of us.' "'There are but three,' said I."'No; Dost Akbar must have his share. We can tell the tale to you while we await them. Do you stand at the gate, Mahomet Singh, and give notice of their coming. The thing stands thus, Sahib, and I tell it to you because I know that an oath is binding upon a Feringhee, and that we may trust you. Had you been a lying Hindoo, though you had sworn by all the gods in their false temples, your blood would have been upon the knife, and your body in the water. But the Sikh knows the Englishman, and the Englishman knows the Sikh. Hearken, then, to what I have to say. "'There is a rajah in the <st1:state><st1:place>northern provinces</st1:place></st1:state> who has much wealth, though his lands are small. Much has come to him from his father, and more still he has set by himself, for he is of a low nature and hoards his gold rather than spend it. When the troubles broke out he would be friends both with the lion and the tiger,--with the Sepoy and with the Company's Raj. Soon, however, it seemed to him that the white mens day was come, for through all the land he could hear of nothing but of their death and their overthrow. Yet, being a careful man, he made such plans that, come what might, half at least of his treasure should be left to him. That which was in gold and silver he kept by him in the vaults of his palace, but the most precious stones and the choicest pearls that he had he put in an iron box, and sent it by a trusty servant who, under the guise of a merchant, should take it to the fort at Agra, there to lie until the land is at peace. Thus, if the rebels won he would have his money, but if the Company conquered his jewels would be saved to him. Having thus divided his hoard, he threw himself into the cause of the Sepoys, since they were strong upon his borders. By doing this, mark you, Sahib, his property becomes the due of those who have been true to their salt." 'This pretended merchant, who travels under the name of Achmet, is now in the city of Agra, and desires to gain his way into the fort. He has with him as travelling-companion my foster-brother Dost Akbar, who knows his secret. Dost Akbar has promised this night to lead him to a side-postern of the fort, and has chosen this one for his purpose. Here he will come presently, and here he will find Mahomet Singh and myself awaiting him.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">The place is lonely, and none shall know of his coming. The world shall know of the merchant Achmet no more, but the great treasure of the rajah shall be divided among us. What say you to it, Sahib?' "In Worcestershire the life of a man seems a great and a sacred thing; but it is very different when there is fire and blood all round you and you have been used to meeting death at every turn. Whether Achmet the merchant lived or died was a thing as light as air to me, but at the talk about the treasure my heart turned to it, and I thought of what I might do in the old country with it, and how my folk would stare when they saw their ne'er-do-well coming back with his pockets full of gold moidores. I had, therefore, already made up my mind. Abdullah Khan, however, thinking that I hesitated, pressed the matter more closely. "'Consider, Sahib,' said he, 'that if this man is taken by the commandant he will be hung or shot, and his jewels taken by the government, so that no man will be a rupee the better for them. Now, since we do the taking of him, why should we not do the rest as well? The jewels will be as well with us as in the Company's coffers. There will be enough to make every one of us rich men and great chiefs. No one can know about the matter, for here we are cut off from all men. What could be better for the purpose? Say again, then, Sahib, whether you are with us, or if we must look upon you as an enemy.' "'I am with you heart and soul,' said I. "'It is well,' he answered, handing me back my fire lock. 'You see that we trust you, for your word, like ours, is not to be broken. We have now only to wait for my brother and the merchant.' "'Does your brother know, then, of what you will do?' I asked. "'The plan is his. He has devised it. We will go to the gate and share the watch with Mahomet Singh.' "The rain was still falling steadily, for it was just the beginning of the wet season. Brown, heavy clouds were drifting across the sky, and it was hard to see more than a stone-cast. A deep moat lay in front of our door, but the water was in places nearly dried up, and it could easily be crossed. It was strange to me to be standing there with those two wild Punjaubees waiting for the man who was coming to his death. "Suddenly my eye caught the glint of a shaded lantern at the other side of the moat. It vanished among the mound-heaps, and then appeared again coming slowly in our direction. "'Here they are!' I exclaimed. "'You will challenge him, Sahib, as usual,' whispered Abdullah. 'Give him no cause for fear. Send us in with him, and we shall do the rest while you stay here on guard. Have the lantern ready to uncover, that we may be sure that it is indeed the man.' "The light had flickered onwards, now stopping and now advancing, until I could see two dark figures upon the other side of the moat. I let them scramble down the sloping bank, splash through the mire, and climb half-way up to the gate, before I challenged them. "'Who goes there?' said I, in a subdued voice. "'Friends,' came the answer. </p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">I uncovered my lantern and threw a flood of light upon them. The first was an enormous Sikh, with a black beard which swept nearly down to his cummerbund. Outside of a show I have never seen so tall a man. The other was a little, fat, round fellow, with a great yellow turban, and a bundle in his hand, done up in a shawl. He seemed to be all in a quiver with fear, for his hands twitched as if he had the ague, and his head kept turning to left and right with two bright little twinkling eyes, like a mouse when he ventures out from his hole. It gave me the chills to think of killing him, but I thought of the treasure, and my heart set as hard as a flint within me. When he saw my white face he gave a little chirrup of joy and came running up towards me. "'Your protection, Sahib,' he panted,--'your protection for the unhappy merchant Achmet. I have traveled across Rajpootana that I might seek the shelter of the fort at Agra. I have been robbed and beaten and abused because I have been the friend of the Company. It is a blessed night this when I am once more in safety,--I and my poor possessions.' "'What have you in the bundle?' I asked. "'An iron box,' he answered, 'which contains one or two little family matters which are of no value to others, but which I should be sorry to lose. Yet I am not a beggar; and I shall reward you, young Sahib, and your governor also, if he will give me the shelter I ask.' "I could not trust myself to speak longer with the man. The more I looked at his fat, frightened face, the harder did it seem that we should slay him in cold blood. It was best to get it over. "'Take him to the main guard,' said I. The two Sikhs closed in upon him on each side, and the giant walked behind, while they marched in through the dark gate-way. Never was a man so compassed round with death. I remained at the gate-way with the lantern. "I could hear the measured tramp of their footsteps sounding through the lonely corridors. Suddenly it ceased, and I heard voices, and a scuffle, with the sound of blows. A moment later there came, to my horror, a rush of footsteps coming in my direction, with the loud breathing of a running man.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_goEOFBxDHktIj0u-bdEYXDNFslQrxS2ZrsirvonH7CiWmfqt1jGBou8MB8hnkwGf0VQJrW9br_EJ-kt6Vlug3D7vfzdOe126yZEAeO4EFrfTzx1N97_7sGiSrcSrzCONfcGwTBogJR8/s1600-h/sign-12c.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 371px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_goEOFBxDHktIj0u-bdEYXDNFslQrxS2ZrsirvonH7CiWmfqt1jGBou8MB8hnkwGf0VQJrW9br_EJ-kt6Vlug3D7vfzdOe126yZEAeO4EFrfTzx1N97_7sGiSrcSrzCONfcGwTBogJR8/s400/sign-12c.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323545230674165618" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">I turned my lantern down the long, straight passage, and there was the fat man, running like the wind, with a smear of blood across his face, and close at his heels, bounding like a tiger, the great black-bearded Sikh, with a knife flashing in his hand. I have never seen a man run so fast as that little merchant. He was gaining on the Sikh, and I could see that if he once passed me and got to the open air he would save himself yet. My heart softened to him, but again the thought of his treasure turned me hard and bitter. I cast my firelock between his legs as he raced past, and he rolled twice over like a shot rabbit. Ere he could stagger to his feet the Sikh was upon him, and buried his knife twice in</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"> his side. The man never uttered moan nor moved muscle, but lay were he had fallen. I think myself that he may have broken his neck with the fall. You see, gentlemen, that I am keeping my promise. I am telling you every work of the business just exactly as it happened, whether it is in my favor or not." He stopped, and held out his manacled hands for the whiskey-and- water which Holmes had brewed for him. For myself, I confess that I had now conceived the utmost horror of the man, not only for this cold-blooded business in which he had been concerned, but even more for the somewhat flippant and careless way in which he narrated it. Whatever punishment was in store for him, I felt that he might expect no sympathy from me. Sherlock Holmes and Jones sat with their hands upon their knees, deeply interested in the story, but with the same disgust written upon their faces. He may have observed it, for there was a touch of defiance in his voice and manner as he proceeded. "It was all very bad, no doubt," said he. "I should like to know how many fellows in my shoes would have refused a share of this loot when they knew that they would have their throats cut for their pains. Besides, it was my life or his when once he was in the fort. If he had got out, the whole business would come to light, and I should have been court-martialled and shot as likely as not; for people were not very lenient at a time like that." "Go on with your story," said Holmes, shortly. "Well, we carried him in, Abdullah, Akbar, and I. A fine weight he was, too, for all that he was so short. Mahomet Singh was left to guard the door. We took him to a place which the Sikhs had already prepared. It was some distance off, where a winding passage leads to a great empty hall, the brick walls of which were all crumbling to pieces. The earth floor had sunk in at one place, making a natural grave, so we left Achmet the merchant there, having first covered him over with loose bricks. This done, we all went back to the treasure. "It lay where he had dropped it when he was first attacked. The box was the same which now lies open upon your table. A key was hung by a silken cord to that carved handle upon the top. We opened it, and the light of the lantern gleamed upon a collection of gems such as I have read of and thought about when I was a little lad at Pershore. It was blinding to look upon them.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">When we had feasted our eyes we took them all out and made a list of them. There were one hundred and forty-three diamonds of the first water, including one which has been called, I believe, 'the Great Mogul' and is said to be the second largest stone in existence. Then there were ninety-seven very fine emeralds, and one hundred and seventy rubies, some of which, however, were small. There were forty carbuncles, two hundred and ten sapphires, sixty-one agates, and a great quantity of beryls, onyxes, cats'-eyes, turquoises, and other stones, the very names of which I did not know at the time, though I have become more familiar with them since. Besides this, there were nearly three hundred very fine pearls, twelve of which were set in a gold coronet. By the way, these last had been taken out of the chest and were not there when I recovered it. "After we had counted our treasures we put them back into the chest and carried them to the gate-way to show them to Mahomet Singh. Then we solemnly renewed our oath to stand by each other and be true to our secret. We agreed to conceal our loot in a safe place until the country should be at peace again, and then to divide it equally among ourselves. There was no use dividing it at present, for if gems of such value were found upon us it would cause suspicion, and there was no privacy in the fort nor any place where we could keep them. We carried the box,therefore, into the same hall where we had buried the body, and there, under certain bricks in the best-preserved wall, we made a hollow and put our treasure. We made careful note of the place, and next day I drew four plans, one for each of us, and put the sign of the four of us at the bottom, for we had sworn that we should each always act for all, so that none might take advantage. That is an oath that I can put my hand to my heart and swear that I have never broken. "Well, there's no use my telling you gentlemen what came of the Indian mutiny. After <st1:city><st1:place>Wilson</st1:place></st1:city> took <st1:city><st1:place>Delhi</st1:place></st1:city> and Sir Colin relieved <st1:city><st1:place>Lucknow</st1:place></st1:city> the back of the business was broken. Fresh troops came pouring in, and Nana Sahib made himself scarce over the frontier. A flying column under Colonel Greathed came round to <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city> and cleared the Pandies away from it. Peace seemed to be settling upon the country, and we four were beginning to hope that the time was at hand when we might safely go off with our shares of the plunder. In a moment, however, our hopes were shattered by our being arrested as the murderers of Achmet.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"It came about in this way. When the rajah put his jewels into the hands of Achmet he did it because he knew that he was a trusty man. They are suspicious folk in the East, however: so what does this rajah do but take a second even more trusty servant and set him to play the spy upon the first? This second man was ordered never to let Achmet out of his sight, and he followed him like his shadow. He went after him that night and saw him pass through the doorway. Of course he thought he had taken refuge in the fort, and applied for admission there himself next day, but could find no trace of Achmet. This seemed to him so strange that he spoke about it to a sergeant of guides, who brought it to the ears of the commandant. A thorough search was quickly made, and the body was discovered. Thus at the very moment that we thought that all was safe we were all four seized and brought to trial on a charge of murder,--three of us because we had held the gate that night, and the fourth because he was known to have been in the company of the murdered man. Not a word about the jewels came out at the trial, for the rajah had been deposed and driven out of <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>: so no one had any particular interest in them. The murder, however, was clearly made out, and it was certain that we must all have been concerned in it. The three Sikhs got penal servitude for life, and I was condemned to death, though my sentence was afterwards commuted into the same as the others. "It was rather a queer position that we found ourselves in then. There we were all four tied by the leg and with precious little chance of ever getting out again, while we each held a secret which might have put each of us in a palace if we could only have made use of it. It was enough to make a man eat his heart out to have to stand the kick and the cuff of every petty jack-in- office, to have rice to eat and water to drink, when that gorgeous fortune was ready for him outside, just waiting to be picked up. It might have driven me mad; but I was always a pretty stubborn one, so I just held on and bided my time. "At last it seemed to me to have come. I was changed from <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city> to <st1:city><st1:place>Madras</st1:place></st1:city>, and from there to <st1:place><st1:placename>Blair</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Island</st1:placetype></st1:place> in the Andamans. There are very few white convicts at this settlement, and, as I had behaved well from the first, I soon found myself a sort of privileged person. I was given a hut in Hope Town, which is a small place on the slopes of <st1:place><st1:placetype>Mount</st1:placetype> <st1:placename>Harriet</st1:placename></st1:place>, and I was left pretty much to myself. It is a dreary, fever-stricken place, and all beyond our little clearings was infested with wild cannibal natives, who were ready enough to blow a poisoned dart at us if they saw a chance. There was digging, and ditching, and yam- planting, and a dozen other things to be done, so we were busy enough all day; though in the evening we had a little time to ourselves. Among other things, I learned to dispense drugs for the surgeon, and picked up a smattering of his knowledge. All the time I was on the lookout for a chance of escape; but it is hundreds of miles from any other land, and there is little or no wind in those seas: so it was a terribly difficult job to get away. "The surgeon, Dr. Somerton, was a fast, sporting young chap, and the other young officers would meet in his rooms of an evening and play cards. The surgery, where I used to make up my drugs, was next to his sitting-room, with a small window between us.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Often, if I felt lonesome, I used to turn out the lamp in the surgery, and then, standing there, I could hear their talk and watch their play. I am fond of a hand at cards myself, and it was almost as good as having one to watch the others. There was Major Sholto, Captain Morstan, and Lieutenant Bromley Brown, who were in command of the native troops, and there was the surgeon himself, and two or three prison-officials, crafty old hands who played a nice sly safe game.A very snug little party they used to make. "Well, there was one thing which very soon struck me, and that was that the soldiers used always to lose and the civilians to win. Mind, I don't say that there was anything unfair, but so it was. These prison-chaps had done little else than play cards ever since they had been at the Andamans, and they knew each other's game to a point, while the others just played to pass the time and threw their cards down anyhow. Night after night the soldiers got up poorer men, and the poorer they got the more keen they were to play. Major Sholto was the hardest hit. He used to pay in notes and gold at first, but soon it came to notes of hand and for big sums. He sometimes would win for a few deals, just to give him heart, and then the luck would set in against him worse than ever. All day he would wander about as black as thunder, and he took to drinking a deal more than was good for him. "One night he lost even more heavily than usual. I was sitting in my hut when he and Captain Morstan came stumbling along on the way to their quarters. They were bosom friends, those two, and never far apart. The major was raving about his losses. "'It's all up, Morstan,' he was saying, as they passed my hut. 'I shall have to send in my papers. 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'I've had a nasty facer myself, but--' That was all I could hear, but it was enough to set me thinking. A couple of days later Major Sholto was strolling on the beach: so I took the chance of speaking to him. "'I wish to have your advice, major,' said I. "'Well, Small, what is it?' he asked, taking his cheroot from his lips. "'I wanted to ask you, sir,' said I, 'who is the proper person to whom hidden treasure should be handed over. I know where half a million worth lies, and, as I cannot use it myself, I thought perhaps the best thing that I could do would be to hand it over to the proper authorities, and then perhaps they would get my sentence shortened for me.' "'Half a million, Small?' he gasped, looking hard at me to see if I was in earnest. "'Quite that, sir,--in jewels and pearls. It lies there ready for any one. And the queer thing about it is that the real owner is outlawed and cannot hold property, so that it belongs to the first comer.' 'To government, Small,' he stammered,--'to government.' But he said it in a halting fashion, and I knew in my heart that I had got him. "'You think, then, sir, that I should give the information to the Governor-General?' said I, quietly. "'Well, well, you must not do anything rash, or that you might repent. Let me hear all about it, Small. Give me the facts.' "I told him the whole story, with small changes so that he could not identify the places. When I had finished he stood stock still and full of thought. I could see by the twitch of his lip that there was a struggle going on within him." 'This is a very important matter, Small,' he said, at last. 'You must not say a word to any one about it, and I shall see you again soon.' "Two nights later he and his friend Captain Morstan came to my hut in the dead of the night with a lantern. "'I want you just to let Captain Morstan hear that story from your own lips, Small,' said he.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"I repeated it as I had told it before. "'It rings true, eh?' said he. 'It's good enough to act upon?' "Captain Morstan nodded. "'Look here, Small,' said the major. 'We have been talking it over, my friend here and I, and we have come to the conclusion that this secret of yours is hardly a government matter, after all, but is a private concern of your own, which of course you have the power of disposing of as you think best. Now, the question is, what price would you ask for it? We might be inclined to take it up, and at least look into it, if we could agree as to terms.' He tried to speak in a cool, careless way, but his eyes were shining with excitement and greed. "'Why, as to that, gentlemen,' I answered, trying also to be cool, but feeling as excited as he did, 'there is only one bargain which a man in my position can make.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"> I shall want yo to help me to my freedom, and to help my three companions to theirs. We shall then take yo into partnership, and give you a fifth share to divide between you.' "'Hum!' said he. 'A fifth share! That is not very tempting.' "'It would come to fifty thousand apiece,' said I. "'But how can we gain your freedom? You know very well that you ask an impossibility.' "'Nothing of the sort,' I answered. 'I have thought it all out to the last detail. The only bar to our escape is that we can get no boat fit for the voyage, and no provisions to last us for so long a time. There are plenty of little yachts and yawls at <st1:city><st1:place>Calcutta</st1:place></st1:city> or <st1:city><st1:place>Madras</st1:place></st1:city> which would serve our turn well. Do you bring one over. We shall engage to get aboard her by night, and if you will drop us on any part of the Indian coast you will have done your part of the bargain.' "'If there were only one,' he said. "'None or all,' I answered. 'We have sworn it. The four of us must always act together.' "'You see, Morstan,' said he, 'Small is a man of his word. He does not flinch from his friend. I think we may very well trust him.' "'It's a dirty business,' the other answered. 'Yet, as you say, the money would save our commissions handsomely.' "'Well, Small,' said the major, 'we must, I suppose, try and meet you. We must first, of course, test the truth of your story. Tell me where the box is hid, and I shall get leave of absence and go back to <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the monthly relief-boat to inquire into the affair.' "'Not so fast,' said I, growing colder as he got hot. 'I must have the consent of my three comrades. I tell you that it is four or none with us.' "'Nonsense!' he broke in. 'What have three black fellows to do with our agreement?' "'Black or blue,' said I, 'they are in with me, and we all go together.' "Well, the matter ended by a second meeting, at which Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan, and Dost Akbar were all present. We talked the matter over again, and at last we came to an arrangement. We were to provide both the officers with charts of the part of the <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city> fort and mark the place in the wall where the treasure was hid. Major Sholto was to go to <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> to test our story. If he found the box he was to leave it there, to send out a small yacht provisioned for a voyage, which was to lie off <st1:place><st1:placename>Rutland</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Island</st1:placetype></st1:place>, and to which we were to make our way, and finally to return to his duties. Captain Morstan was then to apply for leave of absence, to meet us at <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city>, and there we were to have a final division of the treasure, he taking the major's share as well as his own. All this we sealed by the most solemn oaths that the mind could think or the lips utter. I sat up all night with paper and ink, and by the morning I had the two charts all ready, signed with the sign of four,--that is, of Abdullah, Akbar, Mahomet, and myself. "Well, gentlemen, I weary you with my long story, and I know that my friend Mr. Jones is impatient to get me safely stowed in chokey. I'll make it as short as I can. The villain Sholto went off to <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>, but he never came back again. Captain Morstan showed me his name among a list of passengers in one of the mail- boats very shortly afterwards. His uncle had died, leaving him a fortune, and he had left the army, yet he could stoop to treat five men as he had treated us. Morstan went over to <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city> shortly afterwards, and found, as we expected, that the treasure was indeed gone. The scoundrel had stolen it all, without carrying out one of the conditions on which we had sold him the secret. From that day I lived only for vengeance. I thought of it by day and I nursed it by night. It became an overpowering, absorbing passion with me. I cared nothing for the law,--nothing for the gallows. To escape, to track down Sholto, to have my hand upon his throat,--that was my one thought.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Even the <st1:city><st1:place>Agra</st1:place></st1:city> treasure had come to be a smaller thing in my mind than the slaying of Sholto.</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">"Well, I have set my mind on many things in this life, and never one which I did not carry out. But it was weary years before my time came. I have told you that I had picked up something of medicine. One day when Dr. Somerton was down with a fever a little Andaman Islander was picked up by a convict-gang in the woods. He was sick to death, and had gone to a lonely place to die. I took him in hand, though he was as venomous as a young snake, and after a couple of months I got him all right and able to walk. He took a kind of fancy to me then, and would hardly go back to his woods, but was always hanging about my hut. I learned a little of his lingo from him, and this made him all the fonder of me. "Tonga--for that was his name--was a fine boatman, and owned a big, roomy canoe of his own. When I found that he was devoted to me and would do anything to serve me, I saw my chance of escape. I talked it over with him. He was to bring his boat round on a certain night to an old wharf which was never guarded, and there he was to pick me up. I gave him directions to have several gourds of water and a lot of yams, cocoa-nuts, and sweet potatoes. "He was stanch and true, was little Tonga. No man ever had a more faithful mate. At the night named he had his boat at the wharf. As it chanced, however, there was one of the convict- guard down there,--a vile Pathan who had never missed a chance of insulting and injuring me. I had always vowed vengeance, and now I had my chance. It was as if fate had placed him in my way that I might pay my debt before I left the island. He stood on the bank with his back to me, and his carbine on his shoulder. I looked abut for a stone to beat out his brains with, but none could I see. Then a queer thought came into my head and showed me where I could lay my hand on a weapon. I sat down in the darkness and unstrapped my wooden leg. With three long hops I was on him. He put his carbine to his shoulder, but I struck him full, and knocked the whole front of his skull in. You can see the split in the wood now where I hit him. We both went down together, for I could not keep my balance, but when I got up I found him still lying quiet enough. I made for the boat, and in an hour we were well out at sea. Tonga had brought all his earthly possessions with him, his arms and his gods. Among other things, he had a long bamboo spear, and some Andaman cocoa-nut matting, with which I make a sort of sail. For ten days we were beating about, trusting to luck, and on the eleventh we were picked up by a trader which was going from Singapore to Jiddah with a cargo of Malay pilgrims.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeSGsPl3NtdV-3xEUJJ_yS1gCAJPo5o1V1zGb2qI3fSq2v8BI3XqWpxNYV69NH2BDwr7wvIe0tbpEd0EUHKU_u9v43MLB3bj-V83ft0dwqS0v4G-MTMaPqF6XlwVyulRTQGHIKkVz9DFA/s1600-h/sign-12d.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeSGsPl3NtdV-3xEUJJ_yS1gCAJPo5o1V1zGb2qI3fSq2v8BI3XqWpxNYV69NH2BDwr7wvIe0tbpEd0EUHKU_u9v43MLB3bj-V83ft0dwqS0v4G-MTMaPqF6XlwVyulRTQGHIKkVz9DFA/s400/sign-12d.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323541456054546322" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div style="text-align: right; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">They were a rum crowd, and Tonga and I soon managed to settle down among them. They had one very good quality: they let you alone and asked no questions. "Well, if I were to tell you all the adventures that my little chum and I went through, you would not thank me, for I would have you here until the sun was shining. Here and there we drifted about the world, something always turning up to keep us from London. All the time, however, I never lost sight of my purpose. I would dream of Sholto at night. A hundred times I have killed him in my sleep. At last, however, some three or four years ago, we found ourselves in England. I had no great difficulty in finding where Sholto lived, and I set to work to discover whether he had realized the treasure, or if he still had it. I made friends with someone who could help me,--I name no names, for I don't want to get any one else in a hole,--and I soon found that he still had the jewels. Then I tried to get at him in many ways; but he was pretty sly, and had always two prize-fighters, besides his sons and his khitmutgar, on guard over him. "One day, however, I got word that he was dying. I hurried at once to the garden, mad that he should slip out of my clutches like that, and, looking through the window, I saw him lying in his bed, with his sons on each side of him. I'd have come through and taken my chance with the three of them, only even as I looked at him his jaw dropped, and I knew that he was gone. I got into his room that same night, though, and I searched his papers to see if there was any record of where he had hidden our jewels. There was not a line, however: so I came away, bitter and savage as a man could be. Before I left I bethought me that if I ever met my Sikh friends again it would be a satisfaction to know that I had left some mark of our hatred: so I scrawled down the sign of the four of us, as it had been on the chart, and I pinned it on his bosom. It was too much that he should be taken to the grave without some token from the men whom he had robbed and befooled. "We earned a living at this time by my exhibiting poor Tonga at fairs and other such places as the black cannibal. He would eat raw meat and dance his war-dance: so we always had a hatful of pennies after a day's work. I still heard all the news from Pondicherry Lodge, and for some years there was no news to hear, except that they were hunting for the treasure. At last, however, came what we had waited for so long. The treasure had been found. It was up at the top of the house, in Mr. Bartholomew Sholto's chemical laboratory. I came at once and had a look at the place, but I could not see how with my wooden leg I was to make my way up to it. I learned, however, about a trap- door in the roof, and also about Mr. Sholto's supper-hour. It seemed to me that I could manage the thing easily through Tonga. I brought him out with me with a long rope wound round his waist. He could climb like a cat, and he soon made his way through the roof, but, as ill luck would have it, Bartholomew Sholto was still in the room, to his cost. Tonga thought he had done something very clever in killing him, for when I came up by the rope I found him strutting about as proud as a peacock. Very much surprised was he when I made at him with the rope's end and cursed him for a little blood-thirsty imp. I took the treasure- box and let it down, and then slid down myself, having first left the sign of the four upon the table, to show that the jewels had come back at last to those who had most right to them. Tonga then pulled up the rope, closed the window, and made off the way that he had come. "I don't know that I have anything else to tell you. I had heard a waterman speak of the speed of Smith's launch the Aurora, so I thought she would be a handy craft for our escape. I engaged with old Smith, and was to give him a big sum if he got us safe to our ship. He knew, no doubt, that there was some screw loose, but he was not in our secrets. </p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">All this is the truth, and if I tell it to you, gentlemen, it is not to amuse you,--for you have not done me a very good turn,--but it is because I believe the best defense I can make is just to hold back nothing, but let all the wold know how badly I have myself been served by Major Sholto, and how innocent I am of the death of his son." "A very remarkable account," said Sherlock Holmes. "A fitting wind-up to an extremely interesting case. There is nothing at all new to me in the latter part of your narrative, except that you brought your own rope. That I did not know. By the way, I had hoped that Tonga had lost all his darts; yet he managed to shoot one at us in the boat." "He had lost them all, sir, except the one which was in his blow- pipe at the time." "Ah, of course," said Holmes. "I had not thought of that." "Is there any other point which you would like to ask about?" asked the convict, affably. "I think not, thank you," my companion answered. "Well, Holmes," said Athelney Jones, "You are a man to be humored, and we all know that you are a connoisseur of crime, but duty is duty, and I have gone rather far in doing what you and your friend asked me. I shall feel more at ease when we have our story-teller here safe under lock and key. The cab still waits, and there are two inspectors down-stairs. I am much obliged to you both for your assistance. Of course you will be wanted at the trial. Good-night to you.""Good-night, gentlemen both," said Jonathan Small. "You first, Small," remarked the wary Jones as they left the room. "I'll take particular care that you don't club me with your wooden leg, whatever you may have done to the gentleman at the Andaman Isles." "Well, and there is the end of our little drama," I remarked, after we had set some time smoking in silence. "I fear that it may be the last investigation in which I shall have the chance of studying your methods. Miss Morstan has done me the honor to accept me as a husband in prospective." He gave a most dismal groan. "I feared as much," said he. "I really cannot congratulate you." I was a little hurt. "Have you any reason to be dissatisfied with my choice?" I asked. "Not at all. I think she is one of the most charming young ladies I ever met, and might have been most useful in such work as we have been doing. She had a decided genius that way: witness the way in which she preserved that Agra plan from all the other papers of her father. But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. I should never marry myself, lest I bias my judgment.""I trust," said I, laughing, "that my judgment may survive the ordeal. But you look weary.""Yes, the reaction is already upon me. I shall be as limp as a rag for a week." S<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgedx5uRzwQzuNlttQ8_-yjaRo8Dem8cwLm8BCpjl1NePzO5GRBf5CIQPYjOZC6VisVjz_INul6Sgw4AvvT9VzHK181efk9w2_QdP5H1PSf7rkBX_omKC1QnbnYGVhr1mJiDpgUF-GNnU/s1600-h/sign-12e.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 291px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgedx5uRzwQzuNlttQ8_-yjaRo8Dem8cwLm8BCpjl1NePzO5GRBf5CIQPYjOZC6VisVjz_INul6Sgw4AvvT9VzHK181efk9w2_QdP5H1PSf7rkBX_omKC1QnbnYGVhr1mJiDpgUF-GNnU/s400/sign-12e.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323540484306964546" border="0" /></a>trange,"said I, "how terms of what in another man I should call laziness alternate with your fits of splendid energy and vigor." "Yes," he answered, "there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe,--Schade dass die Natur nur EINEN Mensch aus Dir schuf, Denn zum wuerdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff. By the way, a propos of this <st1:city><st1:place>Norwood</st1:place></st1:city> business, you see that they had, as I surmised, a confederate in the house, who could be none other than Lal Rao, the butler: so Jones actually has the undivided honor of having caught one fish in his great haul." "The division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine-bottle." And he stretched his long white hand up for it.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;">***</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">HELP WANTED: EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR THE NEW BABBAGE COG</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The chosen E.A candidate will gain experience with all aspects of publishing by assisting the Editor in Chief, with the administration of planning and production of The New Babbage Cog.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Support and assist the Editor in Chief with all activities leading to the monthly publication.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Liaison with freelance writers, and photographers. </span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Help to organize, copy and paste text and images to the out of world Babbage Blog Payment of the role will depend on Advertising revenues submitted to The New Babbage Cog.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">VOLUNTEER FREELANCE REPORTERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Reporters/Photographers are needed to cover stories for the New Babbage Cog. Need steampunk stories directly related to the New Babbage sims, her residents and aethernet steampunk websites of interest.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Most photographs are in sepia, please keep that in mind when submitting snapshots</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Content ideas:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Architecture of New Babbage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Business Owner’s Spotlight</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Inventors Corner</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Special New Babbage Event coverage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Aethernet Steampunk culture: Steampunk movie, music, book, clubs reviews, websites of interest.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please write a short email summary, explaining your affiliation and knowledge about the Steampunk culture and the New Babbage Sims. Submit your email to</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray at <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname>. I will review your emails, and conduct in world interviews, on Saturday’s and Sunday’s at my tea shoppe, until the roles are filled.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">* * *</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed using only the tools at their disposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><strong><br /></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></strong></span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- Visit us:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">Temporary location: The Willow Tea Room Lot # 20 New Babbage Cultural District<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">-- Drop a notecard:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">Notecard communications can be sent to Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">-- IM:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">You may contact Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">-- Aethernet mail:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Messages sent to </span><st1:personname style="font-weight: normal;">newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- </span>Ms.Echegaray's SL Office Hours: Mon – Fri<span style=""> </span><st1:time minute="0" hour="15">3pm – 4pm</st1:time> SLT</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Circulation:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paper boxes at the following locations:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Back Issues:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the Willow Tea Room on the first floor.<span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Submissions:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Advertising:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Errata:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Disclaimer:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">This issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper and is also publicly owned by the City-State of New Babbage, which at the time of it's printing, was under the care of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket. </p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The New Babbage Cog</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span></div></div> <p></p>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-75468646388818220522009-02-11T22:02:00.000-08:002009-04-16T07:27:06.633-07:0016 August 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghGFgb9SVJBx41bRbLKKtQC0xkMerHKA6-exyQlEDRGH3qTWG2RJBoOfI-yWe7zZJCpEU9Zrk5_RESCkSRI_BFNj4Qj6c8zI0y532u66t3AYnVaBvLXB28j-ppYw1Pt_E3GsF6DGCSeZ4/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 376px; height: 136px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghGFgb9SVJBx41bRbLKKtQC0xkMerHKA6-exyQlEDRGH3qTWG2RJBoOfI-yWe7zZJCpEU9Zrk5_RESCkSRI_BFNj4Qj6c8zI0y532u66t3AYnVaBvLXB28j-ppYw1Pt_E3GsF6DGCSeZ4/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323559513164484290" border="0" /></a><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >***<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >Vol I / Issue </span><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><b>XIV</b></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" > ~ </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >16th o</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >f Augu</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >st, 2</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >007</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">***<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >~ Special Report ~</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">CONTENTS:</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <ol style="font-family: times new roman;"><li>Letter from the Editor<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></li><li><st1:date year="2007" day="11" month="8">Murder in New Babbage!</st1:date><br /></li><li>Events & Announcements<o:p></o:p></li><li>Classified Advertisements<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>Contact, Circulation, and other Essential Information for the Reader<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ</li></ol><div style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________________________________________________</div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Dear Fellow New Babbagers,</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Along with being the Editor-In-Chief to the Cog, and a humble reporter, I will also be carrying out the duties of a Special Investigations Unit officer with the Bow Street Police. Mayor Sprocket has permitted me to report on the current murder investigations here in the Cog, and will publish my findings, as time permits.<br /></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">In your service,</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal">Editor in Chief, The New Babbage Cog</p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">_________________________________________________________________________________</p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MURDER IN NEW BABBAGE!</span></span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Last week, Loki Elliot’s Grandfather, Alexander Eliot,<span style=""> </span>was found brutally murdered here in New Babbage, whilst at his desk!<span style=""> </span>Mayor Sprocket has put out a request for residents to report any news, clues, tips, or threats, and asked citizens to be on alert for anything out of the ordinary.<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7HYaB4pjm2Z79f-KclvIG42yoAT1KSqx30BNoL2IBwCcrsf3Nw3z-KQdUBbFX96tWe4iCeqf19-M9RjejT1uvWobsCTX0lwzlsgxx9Vhdhs9yoese6GoEF4avMZG79sABiE4nojh4UEA/s1600-h/Observing+the+corpsea.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7HYaB4pjm2Z79f-KclvIG42yoAT1KSqx30BNoL2IBwCcrsf3Nw3z-KQdUBbFX96tWe4iCeqf19-M9RjejT1uvWobsCTX0lwzlsgxx9Vhdhs9yoese6GoEF4avMZG79sABiE4nojh4UEA/s400/Observing+the+corpsea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323557963732028018" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The upper level of Loki Elliot’s Absinthe Bar has been currently closed off, as the Bow Street Police Service’s, Special Investigations Unit gathers evidence.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8G_jkrlQsuJGWR_bik9_dvXCbhlFyRYWKcnhZFodgtir3_Q2ztkUAAlMUdVljlDb_uKCwz64id6OW4PBxTRkYrouPDdAGJ7PrzrBxirGyt7LLNX0X679vesBzFTvOZyrUUifvCFviYLM/s1600-h/Bloodied+Lettersa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8G_jkrlQsuJGWR_bik9_dvXCbhlFyRYWKcnhZFodgtir3_Q2ztkUAAlMUdVljlDb_uKCwz64id6OW4PBxTRkYrouPDdAGJ7PrzrBxirGyt7LLNX0X679vesBzFTvOZyrUUifvCFviYLM/s400/Bloodied+Lettersa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323558851768642098" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The SIU has recovered what appears to be very important papers, which where left bloodied. These papers have been brought into evidence, which are possible leads as to why Mr.Loki was murdered.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ofl7-LLlzDMTvna5ATE2fQbEQ5DPPPZr9IlWW0IZgecHFPEG7JS-Luc-2ij8wDqI7UJgZ8pD-cqoXJL1WhBBZDOGeBS8wQfl2cZrExFr-GfoXEXk6M90YQ4GLjOg0sLLsC17PXS8RCM/s1600-h/ripped+bloodied+lettera.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ofl7-LLlzDMTvna5ATE2fQbEQ5DPPPZr9IlWW0IZgecHFPEG7JS-Luc-2ij8wDqI7UJgZ8pD-cqoXJL1WhBBZDOGeBS8wQfl2cZrExFr-GfoXEXk6M90YQ4GLjOg0sLLsC17PXS8RCM/s400/ripped+bloodied+lettera.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323558363088570546" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Further details will be announced as they are discovered, and the Bow Street SIU, will be conducting individual citizen interviews, which will help to further investigations.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;">***<br /></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Put your event and/or announcement here!<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">HELP WANTED: EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR THE NEW BABBAGE COG<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The chosen E.A candidate will gain experience with all aspects of publishing by assisting the Editor in Chief, with the administration of planning and production of The New Babbage Cog.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:<br /></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Support and assist the Editor in Chief with all activities leading to the monthly publication.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Liaison with freelance writers, and photographers. </span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Help to organize, copy and paste text and images to the out of world Babbage Blog Payment of the role will depend on Advertising revenues submitted to The New Babbage Cog.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">VOLUNTEER FREELANCE REPORTERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Reporters/Photographers are needed to cover stories for the New Babbage Cog. Need steampunk stories directly related to the New Babbage sims, her residents and aethernet steampunk websites of interest.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Most photographs are in sepia, please keep that in mind when submitting snapshots</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Content ideas:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Architecture of New Babbage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Business Owner’s Spotlight</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Inventors Corner</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Special New Babbage Event coverage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Aethernet Steampunk culture: Steampunk movie, music, book, clubs reviews, websites of interest.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please write a short email summary, explaining your affiliation and knowledge about the Steampunk culture and the New Babbage Sims. Submit your email to</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray at <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname>. I will review your emails, and conduct in world interviews, on Saturday’s and Sunday’s at my tea shoppe, until the roles are filled.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">* * *<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed using only the tools at their disposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><strong><br /></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></strong></span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- Visit us:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Temporary location: The Willow Tea Room Lot # 20 New Babbage Cultural District<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- Drop a notecard:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">Notecard communications can be sent to Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">-- IM:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">You may contact Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">-- Aethernet mail:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Messages sent to </span><st1:personname style="font-weight: normal;">newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- </span>Ms.Echegaray's SL Office Hours: Mon – Fri<span style=""> </span><st1:time minute="0" hour="15">3pm – 4pm</st1:time> SLT</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Circulation:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paper boxes at the following locations:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Back Issues:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the Willow Tea Room on the first floor.<span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Submissions:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Advertising:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Errata:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Disclaimer:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">This issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper and is also publicly owned by the City-State of New Babbage, which at the time of it's printing, was under the care of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The New Babbage Cog</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span><br /></div></div>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-12244771495212842902009-02-10T21:33:00.000-08:002009-04-16T07:27:49.763-07:0018 August 2007<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb5X4K_pA10DP078jHsCAzWDF2KcewJAj-eyBMZE9HzVr0rQNw-n0QaX3fIZ4kMJkpTKnMnCebz6Pvg1WFYd36iqk2UQzURIyrEDDZW9bTY8mUeIjEQ4_ry5lLCQ6E4vGiGtXl05qx1yw/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 112px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb5X4K_pA10DP078jHsCAzWDF2KcewJAj-eyBMZE9HzVr0rQNw-n0QaX3fIZ4kMJkpTKnMnCebz6Pvg1WFYd36iqk2UQzURIyrEDDZW9bTY8mUeIjEQ4_ry5lLCQ6E4vGiGtXl05qx1yw/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323583519021015314" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Vol I / Issue </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="font-family: times new roman;">xv</b></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" > ~ </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >18th o</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >f Augu</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >st, 2</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >007</span><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">***</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">CONTENTS:</p> <p face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <ol style="font-family: times new roman;"><li>Letter from the Editor<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></li><li><st1:date year="2007" day="11" month="8">2nd Murder in New Babbage!</st1:date><br /></li><li>Events & Announcements<o:p></o:p></li><li>Classified Advertisements<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>Contact, Circulation, and other Essential Information for the Reader<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ</li></ol><div style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Dear New Babbagers,<br /><br />Given the circumstances as of late, with my role as an active SUI officer, plus attending to my duties with the Babbage Cog, I am trying my best to keep abreast with all the happenings in our community, especially in light of these gruesome murders. I will continue to publish information related to the case, as clearance from Bow Street allows, and as time permits.<br /><br />In your service,<br />Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________________________________________________</div></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">ANOTHER MURDER IN NEW BABBAGE!<br /></div><br />In the span of two days, yet another victim, Mr. Giles Canning, has been murdered in what appears to be in broad daylight!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFSD-RsmqaZ8oNPDd-jaPa_riF0MJ7a6LHwGKBu-bSReRbWxaP4cCT6q9TDBOb736FrlGl1jCQUKb8YByo8uLQtx_T-09cj6NkLd7kBeGMMK7i6CFZvqAqyJ_dWGA3XArC__Eeccoo8Ok/s1600-h/crime+scenea.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFSD-RsmqaZ8oNPDd-jaPa_riF0MJ7a6LHwGKBu-bSReRbWxaP4cCT6q9TDBOb736FrlGl1jCQUKb8YByo8uLQtx_T-09cj6NkLd7kBeGMMK7i6CFZvqAqyJ_dWGA3XArC__Eeccoo8Ok/s400/crime+scenea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323563978757518754" border="0" /></a><br />The body was found next to Ms.Ordinal Malaprop's factory, with a knife pierced deeply into the victims back, along with a curious letter attached to it. Upon further investigation, a small note was found lying next to the body, along with a copper phonograph cylinder. All of these artifacts are now being held as evidence, at the Bow Street Station and are being analyzed.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhmvGrNuVrvnhT5oHs8wJsJCrAfcS3Udrz1GQ68rpFp8qrJzpfN4rneQQ9ipGcXoYgUxXeuNjA7f34C2osl-lB3Q1G62nSUlnCSQjoVcuh4L8M8j3bgk0YIOESMwCgABskoMClYFbC2g/s1600-h/overheadshotofbodya.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhmvGrNuVrvnhT5oHs8wJsJCrAfcS3Udrz1GQ68rpFp8qrJzpfN4rneQQ9ipGcXoYgUxXeuNjA7f34C2osl-lB3Q1G62nSUlnCSQjoVcuh4L8M8j3bgk0YIOESMwCgABskoMClYFbC2g/s400/overheadshotofbodya.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323564091693255458" border="0" /></a>The SUI have begun Investigations into the collected crime scene artifacts, and have fully read the letter, which was attached to Mr.Canning's person, mentions that our very own Mayor, Shaunathan Sprocket, may have something to do with these murders. Upon questioning our own Mayor, who denies to have any involvement with these murders, states that this group of people, who call themselves "The Thirteen" are trying to set him.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyYny_4uq-EmpLnsuT4ifJy8BFvoXkgNxeuoXv1WTgpKyoQi63Ao2MviXitbnz1tisNL9ntv0IKlNpCa0rDX4M1NBKk-QJdfCdClUa7HIUeoUbDKFWP2tYcQnM7ZypZOAHqj2zWyntZGA/s1600-h/canningletter.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyYny_4uq-EmpLnsuT4ifJy8BFvoXkgNxeuoXv1WTgpKyoQi63Ao2MviXitbnz1tisNL9ntv0IKlNpCa0rDX4M1NBKk-QJdfCdClUa7HIUeoUbDKFWP2tYcQnM7ZypZOAHqj2zWyntZGA/s400/canningletter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323564473555626114" border="0" /></a><br />Upon further investigation into the artifacts, the sunrise photogram cylinder, has a mysterious recorded voice detailing a working experiment. According to the person on the recording, the experiment was a success, but then soon after wards, the voice starts to mention a problem, a huge explosion is heard, and the recording abruptly ends. The SUI believe, this is the experiment that blew up Prof.Eliot's secret island laboratory, but are still at a loss as to what the device in the experiment is.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.demonkid.com/secondlifeassets/The_Sunrise_cylinder.mp3"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.demonkid.com/secondlifeassets/The_Sunrise_cylinder.mp3">http://www.demonkid.com/secondlifeassets/The_Sunrise_cylinder.mp3</a><br /><br /></div>As briefly mentioned earlier in this report, the small note which was found lying next to the body, lists some of New Babbage's residents. The SUI are currently in the process of questioning these said people, and as well as, providing them protection.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibSpCqVWILi87YGt5p43n84hXXNX-5vd6LBb0cnMfqD3Mioy2UTbPeyFi8MrbLoPXkfXeLhvtToogzprQjKEIPMq8pO86VroJirWu21hCKUPRtvRwK_EVbaUn_a6Y9H_VY6vB6txUsWjw/s1600-h/note.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibSpCqVWILi87YGt5p43n84hXXNX-5vd6LBb0cnMfqD3Mioy2UTbPeyFi8MrbLoPXkfXeLhvtToogzprQjKEIPMq8pO86VroJirWu21hCKUPRtvRwK_EVbaUn_a6Y9H_VY6vB6txUsWjw/s400/note.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323565470639965506" border="0" /></a><br />A person, who will go un-named, brought forth to the Bow Street Station, what looks like plans for a mechanical device. The schematics are titled “Porta Terranum Device" and upon further investigation, the SUI believe that these plans could be a link to the murder of Prof.Eliot.<br /><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Ro9uMbJ8DrHIOd4sRGsmpQDSHdyBk5ACFAtOSWmXXiz48n-azcI06qB_EY07hstSovJRm4xubSFU932kyxGBVeYkRIk8sdPYaJ1yM8DD0dTv6m4MMa4m38yh3exWks0JGqEFj4f5ZUM/s1600-h/plans.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Ro9uMbJ8DrHIOd4sRGsmpQDSHdyBk5ACFAtOSWmXXiz48n-azcI06qB_EY07hstSovJRm4xubSFU932kyxGBVeYkRIk8sdPYaJ1yM8DD0dTv6m4MMa4m38yh3exWks0JGqEFj4f5ZUM/s400/plans.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323564877809164258" border="0" /></a></p><br />The SUI are making a formal request to our fine citizens, to bring forth any leads, with what they believe to be evidence in this ongoing investigation. For further reading on this ongoing investigation, please read Ms. Natacha Chernov's exemplary investigative coverage, of these murders:<br /><a href="http://natachachernov.blogspot.com/2007/08/murder-in-babbage.html"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">http://natachachernov.blogspot.com/2007/08/murder-in-babbage.html</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;">***<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Put your event and/or announcement here!<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">HELP WANTED: EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR THE NEW BABBAGE COG<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The chosen E.A candidate will gain experience with all aspects of publishing by assisting the Editor in Chief, with the administration of planning and production of The New Babbage Cog.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:<br /></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Support and assist the Editor in Chief with all activities leading to the monthly publication.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Liaison with freelance writers, and photographers. </span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Help to organize, copy and paste text and images to the out of world Babbage Blog Payment of the role will depend on Advertising revenues submitted to The New Babbage Cog.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">VOLUNTEER FREELANCE REPORTERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Reporters/Photographers are needed to cover stories for the New Babbage Cog. Need steampunk stories directly related to the New Babbage sims, her residents and aethernet steampunk websites of interest.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Most photographs are in sepia, please keep that in mind when submitting snapshots</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Content ideas:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Architecture of New Babbage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Business Owner’s Spotlight</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Inventors Corner</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Special New Babbage Event coverage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Aethernet Steampunk culture: Steampunk movie, music, book, clubs reviews, websites of interest.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please write a short email summary, explaining your affiliation and knowledge about the Steampunk culture and the New Babbage Sims. Submit your email to</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray at <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname>. I will review your emails, and conduct in world interviews, on Saturday’s and Sunday’s at my tea shoppe, until the roles are filled.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">* * *<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed using only the tools at their disposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span>CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><strong><br /></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></strong></span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- Visit us:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Temporary location: The Willow Tea Room Lot # 20 New Babbage Cultural District<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- Drop a notecard:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Notecard communications can be sent to Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">-- IM:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">You may contact Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">-- Aethernet mail:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Messages sent to </span><st1:personname style="font-weight: normal;">newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- </span>Ms.Echegaray's SL Office Hours: Mon – Fri<span style=""> </span><st1:time minute="0" hour="15">3pm – 4pm</st1:time> SLT</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Circulation:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paper boxes at the following locations:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Back Issues:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the Willow Tea Room on the first floor.<span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Submissions:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Advertising:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Errata:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Disclaimer:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">This issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper and is also publicly owned by the City-State of New Babbage, which at the time of it's printing, was under the care of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The New Babbage Cog</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span><br /></div>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-45375281767695134282009-02-09T15:36:00.000-08:002009-04-16T07:28:57.524-07:0003 September 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ6R_s4rw2igh1j9sYiGh6LxbOUfISgRxaFXhBomlvhDY9HfQpdKWdePRdv-YYHfXhrQH_UOYZMYZcvz_uOSpLkpoFGAwb7MWTXNnx4KPTQznABV3o53Lw6hyfM1v9R6ein54Krftgj-U/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 339px; height: 122px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ6R_s4rw2igh1j9sYiGh6LxbOUfISgRxaFXhBomlvhDY9HfQpdKWdePRdv-YYHfXhrQH_UOYZMYZcvz_uOSpLkpoFGAwb7MWTXNnx4KPTQznABV3o53Lw6hyfM1v9R6ein54Krftgj-U/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323702205173759490" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Vol I / Issue </span><b style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">XVI</span></b><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" > ~ </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >3rd o</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >f September</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >, 2</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >007</span><br /><br />***<br /><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">CONTENTS:</p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><ol style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"><li>Letter from the Editor<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></li><li><st1:date year="2007" day="11" month="8">3rd Murder in New Babbage!</st1:date><br /></li><li>Events & Announcements<o:p></o:p></li><li>Classified Advertisements<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>Contact, Circulation, and other Essential Information for the Reader<o:p></o:p><br /></li><li>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ</li></ol>_________________________________________________________________________________</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</span><br /><br /></div>First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to publicly apologize to Ms. Natacha Chernov. Her personal sleuthing and chronicles about the New Babbage murder cases, has no affiliations with the Bow Street Police investigations and/or The New Babbage Cog.<br /><br />In your Service,<br />Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________________________________________________</div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">THIRD MURDERED BODY FOUND IN NEW BABBAGE<br /></div><br />As I was busy examining the collected evidence from the past Babbage murders, I was informed that yet another murdered body was found at the Old Imperial Theatre. By the time I had reached the crime scene, the body of Edler Reifsnider, had been taken down by our Mayor, but the naked noose still hung from the rafters. I was told by one of my SUI colleagues, who examined Mr.Reifsnider body, that a knife had also been stabbed into his back. In my opinion, it looks as though the murderer had made doubly sure, that the old man was indeed dead.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcBSWaasNvP7DoUs1qxVEc6VxepOqSS3Nqm-FV6WbpWQ2lxtURek1f6tfgqx2IBcAA-dVzs8TQPh9Ps4XRp9KtQbt-AoiFiOTi8DSyv3GIurD1H9YmUtHKFcAtoNfSMdMzIjlHudRurUs/s1600-h/noose.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcBSWaasNvP7DoUs1qxVEc6VxepOqSS3Nqm-FV6WbpWQ2lxtURek1f6tfgqx2IBcAA-dVzs8TQPh9Ps4XRp9KtQbt-AoiFiOTi8DSyv3GIurD1H9YmUtHKFcAtoNfSMdMzIjlHudRurUs/s400/noose.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323586823097051618" border="0" /></a>Exploring the crime scene, I came across 2 letters which were scattered in the main hallway, and also found one handwriten note, which was found next to the pool of Mr. Reifsnider's blood.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDgV7u4OKekxywtmrCx_j6xN33lKSyKOifb7pY8CY51JmWcB7lFxuJPGmFQF5P4UhzVPleuMq_nVRbjm-mzKgqVnksC8TEQGIvHalTJJrN7hs-ucpvqp78NsT8bb-sRKiMpbYD_4Wjmgc/s1600-h/porta.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDgV7u4OKekxywtmrCx_j6xN33lKSyKOifb7pY8CY51JmWcB7lFxuJPGmFQF5P4UhzVPleuMq_nVRbjm-mzKgqVnksC8TEQGIvHalTJJrN7hs-ucpvqp78NsT8bb-sRKiMpbYD_4Wjmgc/s400/porta.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323587734323051122" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUyy0oe9ZVA-GPQNZ425ARzN_aXNxxcwdIA-WacnG8XXiCp-ZUDHjWk0WwwKs2wVo3fO-HkxUrJbvrDE-KjOtBRCP14naD6iCVq4EggIT6cI2fsoQe9Xd1Ag_uJw0ar3zzYAKYcMYC5oY/s1600-h/masonletter.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUyy0oe9ZVA-GPQNZ425ARzN_aXNxxcwdIA-WacnG8XXiCp-ZUDHjWk0WwwKs2wVo3fO-HkxUrJbvrDE-KjOtBRCP14naD6iCVq4EggIT6cI2fsoQe9Xd1Ag_uJw0ar3zzYAKYcMYC5oY/s400/masonletter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323587599214100754" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinlHVfRDvW9J18SBwZDKh4AcPkeRQcgjbjs2slYcCy0wRLZAko1XNo23S8FO9YLusNzOCe7C_8xOJalyVoEXRxYPxWZcGkMHaqMsMRu62leYL_hSsrFOWWLxriMtaGZjdSGKMWA6QIfNY/s1600-h/elderletter.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinlHVfRDvW9J18SBwZDKh4AcPkeRQcgjbjs2slYcCy0wRLZAko1XNo23S8FO9YLusNzOCe7C_8xOJalyVoEXRxYPxWZcGkMHaqMsMRu62leYL_hSsrFOWWLxriMtaGZjdSGKMWA6QIfNY/s400/elderletter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323587475636168114" border="0" /></a><br />It looks as though, Mr.Reifsnider was indeed a Masonic Agent, who was assigned to New Babbage to not only hunt for this elusive Porta Terrarum Device, but to also take over the Old Imperial Theatre for reasons unknown at this time, sway our Mayor, and make a request for someone to deal with Prof Nishi. An un-named person, turned in a business card to the SUI that belonged to Mr.Reifsnider, which further proved he was working for the Masons as an Agent. As a resident of New Babbage, I am some what relieved that Mr. Reifsnider was "disposed of" now knowing this information.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-6SCzqmhmCzbZNPYO7Rf-okIjiqV5Hklivo5GYJC9YWKe2HbkAD-YUFkN28B56flYiaaYqvpB8wDoHiC_eLBmNSx0i3RPVO-HGkFwkLVb2M7ovQSamlydiOeZpPU0_4NYb5J4oL63N8/s1600-h/masonic+card.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-6SCzqmhmCzbZNPYO7Rf-okIjiqV5Hklivo5GYJC9YWKe2HbkAD-YUFkN28B56flYiaaYqvpB8wDoHiC_eLBmNSx0i3RPVO-HGkFwkLVb2M7ovQSamlydiOeZpPU0_4NYb5J4oL63N8/s400/masonic+card.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323587540642528978" border="0" /></a><br />Going on the information from the evidence letters, I felt I should investigate the urchins hide out in the Old Imperial Theatre. The hideout entrance was hard to find, but I finally came across a plank which lead me to the orphans secret room.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7qNifr4xrTL_ZmIYMSOij7XlAI3qMaiurc58w_sN_fHqRWI19AjDl6oEdHf2MDj1X6DWpc-x9mw824OV-kzYILmk1m8aRR-IKg7PJNqhhyNMLyz_nurF-pciL6fIXCuOo267I1FObRCI/s1600-h/steampunkkids.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7qNifr4xrTL_ZmIYMSOij7XlAI3qMaiurc58w_sN_fHqRWI19AjDl6oEdHf2MDj1X6DWpc-x9mw824OV-kzYILmk1m8aRR-IKg7PJNqhhyNMLyz_nurF-pciL6fIXCuOo267I1FObRCI/s400/steampunkkids.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323587115534103474" border="0" /></a><br />Inside the urchins' dark, gloomy residence, which was full of cobwebs and had little mice running all around. It made me sad to see the state in which these children lived in, but I had to ignore my emotions, and press on with the investigation.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipoiIxwsoqVjWH-u3uwHvsYyqj7lCgRH4QTvXd9IGWBqjhyphenhyphennoHbenTl2B69n23UI3cuOujYxJGBcsaVuVBF0Kx7gl1Q1a2cIOWAhlqxnffT9xXwWLpksNft8v8sB0EEdCGlCcyUp0qjio/s1600-h/insideroomweb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipoiIxwsoqVjWH-u3uwHvsYyqj7lCgRH4QTvXd9IGWBqjhyphenhyphennoHbenTl2B69n23UI3cuOujYxJGBcsaVuVBF0Kx7gl1Q1a2cIOWAhlqxnffT9xXwWLpksNft8v8sB0EEdCGlCcyUp0qjio/s400/insideroomweb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323586959593409730" border="0" /></a>Going further into the room, I came across what look like a secret passway. I held up my lantern and saw what looked like, some sketches on the brick wall. When I got closer up to the wall, I held my lantern up and was spooked out with seeing such strange drawings on the wall, which seemed like pagan pictograms. I took out my camera and took a couple of photograms to enter into the already building evidence surrounding the murders.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJIGNo_aZzKxiOZhtOqrY0njmDRGKf6gek7Z5rO-LLFPyo1ClrOID-CXKcV6DPHZQL4DOG1OFOp8827IkMBaHS3Pc8zDzBHuZIG0W7eAwSVBP4a7Lun4Di9Vf2IBMvCcL6Ll-Td0vNd-A/s1600-h/onthewall.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJIGNo_aZzKxiOZhtOqrY0njmDRGKf6gek7Z5rO-LLFPyo1ClrOID-CXKcV6DPHZQL4DOG1OFOp8827IkMBaHS3Pc8zDzBHuZIG0W7eAwSVBP4a7Lun4Di9Vf2IBMvCcL6Ll-Td0vNd-A/s400/onthewall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323587062728603570" border="0" /></a><br />When I got back to the station, I went to the evidence room to drop off my photograms, and noticed this glass dome with some object inside of it. I walked up closer to this object, and noticed that is was the elusive "device" that people where getting killed over. I was told by Mayor Sprocket, that the Porta Terrarum Device was found and taken from Professor Nishi's laboratory earlier that same day.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5c_jqoj2t13iG87XKsQSf2iAQ1swEYD8-yoWsA5Zx88hURAo4NirBR2nN2uQJrE8t0BSM1ts67P4egOo-oUqWrkSDEEIDHSkdDjaoVe2imK8GJm98pEdvDI84br7sbgeilAVAEmeaQ9U/s1600-h/threepieces.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5c_jqoj2t13iG87XKsQSf2iAQ1swEYD8-yoWsA5Zx88hURAo4NirBR2nN2uQJrE8t0BSM1ts67P4egOo-oUqWrkSDEEIDHSkdDjaoVe2imK8GJm98pEdvDI84br7sbgeilAVAEmeaQ9U/s400/threepieces.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323587399061118322" border="0" /></a>As of now, the device is securely locked up under the glass dome, and will remain in SUI custody for the time being.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">***<br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Put your event and/or announcement here!<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">HELP WANTED: EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR THE NEW BABBAGE COG<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The chosen E.A candidate will gain experience with all aspects of publishing by assisting the Editor in Chief, with the administration of planning and production of The New Babbage Cog.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:<br /></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Support and assist the Editor in Chief with all activities leading to the monthly publication.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Liaison with freelance writers, and photographers. </span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Help to organize, copy and paste text and images to the out of world Babbage Blog Payment of the role will depend on Advertising revenues submitted to The New Babbage Cog.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">VOLUNTEER FREELANCE REPORTERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Reporters/Photographers are needed to cover stories for the New Babbage Cog. Need steampunk stories directly related to the New Babbage sims, her residents and aethernet steampunk websites of interest.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Most photographs are in sepia, please keep that in mind when submitting snapshots</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Content ideas:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Architecture of New Babbage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Business Owner’s Spotlight</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Inventors Corner</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Special New Babbage Event coverage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Aethernet Steampunk culture: Steampunk movie, music, book, clubs reviews, websites of interest.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please write a short email summary, explaining your affiliation and knowledge about the Steampunk culture and the New Babbage Sims. Submit your email to</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray at <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname>. I will review your emails, and conduct in world interviews, on Saturday’s and Sunday’s at my tea shoppe, until the roles are filled.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">* * *<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed using only the tools at their disposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><strong><br /></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></strong></span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- Visit us:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Temporary location: The Willow Tea Room Lot # 20 New Babbage Cultural District<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- Drop a notecard:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;">Notecard communications can be sent to Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- IM:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">You may contact Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">-- Aethernet mail:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Messages sent to </span><st1:personname style="font-weight: normal;">newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- </span>Ms.Echegaray's SL Office Hours: Mon – Fri<span style=""> </span><st1:time minute="0" hour="15">3pm – 4pm</st1:time> SLT</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Circulation:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paper boxes at the following locations:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Back Issues:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the Willow Tea Room on the first floor.<span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Submissions:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Advertising:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Errata:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Disclaimer:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">This issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper and is also publicly owned by the City-State of New Babbage, which at the time of it's printing, was under the care of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The New Babbage Cog</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span><br /></div>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-21170747840671482392009-02-08T18:25:00.000-08:002009-04-16T07:30:04.087-07:0029 September 2007<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI5D-gNJIOgZEb2GnABrrVQy1i8684kbq5JmaJs1bMppQc6utMnK_gIJHFSMQuYGj-Jqbku4dGRdPgFkdtKS6Zvk7ZmH3u5i9YNDlNAcMbu9AgrxwP6j3cRFk1FbmWxS5Kwd0QrXIR5Ys/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI5D-gNJIOgZEb2GnABrrVQy1i8684kbq5JmaJs1bMppQc6utMnK_gIJHFSMQuYGj-Jqbku4dGRdPgFkdtKS6Zvk7ZmH3u5i9YNDlNAcMbu9AgrxwP6j3cRFk1FbmWxS5Kwd0QrXIR5Ys/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323721569262630466" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br />Vol I / Issue </span><b style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">XVII</span></b><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" > ~ </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >29th o</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >f September</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >, 2</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >007</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />***<br /><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">CONTENTS:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;" face="times new roman" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><ol style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: left;"><li>Letter from the Editor<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></li><li><st1:date year="2007" day="11" month="8">New Babbage Murderer Dead!</st1:date></li><li>Vortex Film Footage</li><li><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">September 8<sup>th</sup>, 2007 Town Hall Meeting Minutes<br /></p> </li><li>Events & Announcements<o:p></o:p></li><li>Classified Advertisements<o:p></o:p></li><li>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ</li><li>Contact, Circulation, and other Essential Information for the Reader<o:p></o:p><br /></li></ol>_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Dear Fellow New Babbagers,<br /><br />The murder streak that plagued New Babbage is finally over, and this humble reporter has come back to fully take control of her journalistic duties for the Cog. This past month had a lot of New Babbage's residents on edge during the investigations of the murders and the mystery involving the Porta Terrarum device. With out further adieu, here is September's issue of the Cog.<br /></div><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">In your Service,<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________________________________________________<p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE MURDERER DEAD!</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">During the monthly Town Hall Meeting, a strange but spectacular event happened in which New Babbagers who were present on the day in question, will never forget. Hiding out in the attic of the Old Imperial Theatre, Jason Moriarty who eluded Police, was in possession of the real Porta Terrarum Device. The device that was obtained from Prof Nishi's Laboratory, and is being held down at the Bow Street Station, is in fact, a fake. It is now known, with the events that followed, on the day in question, that Professor Eliot's invention of the device, along with designing the machinery in the attic, when the two merged together, opened up a portal into another world and evil was afoot.<br /><br /><br />The pieces of the murderous rampage now fit together. It is now understandable, as to why Mr.Reifsnider and The Masonic Lodge, wished to tear down the old theater and obtain the device. It now makes sense, as to the reasons why Jason murdered all three men. We now know that the elusive "Thirteen" is a group of scientists, who too, were after Prof.Eliot's device, if only to keep it out of the hands of Jason Moriarty.<br /><br /><br />As to why Jason was determined to power up the device and let out those horrible tentacled monsters from the vortex, will always be in question. Again, since I was unfortunately detained from the events that unfolded on the given day, I am told that Professor Nishi ran into the theatre, her and young Jason had a heated argument. All of a sudden, a huge explosion erupted from within the theatre, the vortex and the monster then soon disappeared out of the sky, and Jason died in the blast.<br /><br /><br />Seeing how I wasn't present during these events, I feel I am not able to make a full personal report, with what really happened on this day. Ms. Natacha Chernov and Professor Nishi however, where present, and their personal journals chronicling the event, can be obtained by the following links. Again, Ms.Chernov, and Professor Nishi, have no affiliations with the Bow Street Police investigations and/or reporting for the New Babbage Cog.<br /><br /><a href="http://natachachernov.blogspot.com/2007/09/murder-in-babbage-grande-finale.html"><br />http://natachachernov.blogspot.com/2007/09/murder-in-babbage-grande-finale.html</a><br /><a href="http://narethenishi.blogspot.com/2007/09/shutting-door-part-three.html"><br />http://narethenishi.blogspot.com/2007/09/shutting-door-part-three.html</a><br /><br /><br />In conclusion, as a resident of New Babbage, I am relieved that this event is over. It is sad, that four lives have been lost, due to the device and the evil it summons, but I am glad of it's destruction.<br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">VORTEX FILM FOOTAGE</span><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TkZCW3_b17g&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TkZCW3_b17g&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><object width="425" height="344"></object><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">***<br /><br />TOWN HALL MEETING MINUTES<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj801ob8P12FxMhnr6vfZ_Czr1ezuw3QKdZGLlltazWBp4IK3pktpqVJHuy-dCY-V54Q9Rot-Xv0UeXUU3bg40kSEZ1sEhaAhoVb3PldznSPBnerC_6gc_GV3lhy1g_6o58TraJ-NvFzH4/s1600-h/ExteriorTownHall.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p>Start: 13:04</o:p></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p>End: 14:04<br /></o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Attendees:</span><br /></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Khashai Steinbeck, Shaunathan Sprocket, Eggberta Echegaray, Drake Moyer, Elda Luna, Leendert Meriman, Vincente Shepherd, McKay Beck, Shay mcDowwll, Gloriana Maertens, Leon Susenko, Nareth Nishi, Rod Zeddmore, Cornell Mondrian, Indigo Li, Loki Eliot, Taterbug Rossini, Myrtil Igaly, Leon Susenko, Zero Qi, Miguel Pinion, Arteer Oliva, Cornell Mondrian, Rod Zeddmore, Artemisia Paine, Gloriana Maertens, Cessadia Thetan, Salazar Jack, Ordinal Malaprop, Spencer Upshaw, Nareth Nishi, Pizzini Mayo, Wolfram Gustafson, Jesper Toll, Bakerstreet Writer,<span style=""> </span>Natacha Chernov, Cessadia Thetan, Leendert Meriman, Titanas Vella, Jesper Toll</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">The meeting started off at 13:04SL time with the Mayor announcing that New Babbage is doubling in size. The Mayor then went on to mention how the new sims would affect the already current sims. First, Mayor Sprocket started to talk about Port Babbage which will be a double prim sim for the Shop Keepers and this sim will have no telehub as so visitors to New Babbage can directly teleport to the business. Mayor Sprocket mentioned to his<span style=""> </span>knowledge, Port Babbage will be the only, or at least one of the very few Victorian sims, that one can directly teleport customers to their place of business. Mayor Sprocket mentioned that the blue and purple plots in Port Babbage will be a bit small, 512, 234 prims, but that he is open to merging them to make a 1024. Mayor Sprocket continued to say that the Port Babbage sim will feature a skyscaper district, similar to what appears in the golden compass, also known as the northern lights in the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>. skyscrapers will have a strict building code, to make sure the vision is preserved. It will be outlined to anyone wishing to own one. Mayor Sprocket pointed out that shipping lanes will be open and should be able to have train service from the Port to <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrTXc6z3QTWtyPJQ8N_R63nIjVHDtJQP-0_VmFBHkJhPIdszTx2TZ16OIdmVM4ULtBd7ZR-ydUdPVCU0ymWxfKvOUbFS9lozg-aRFX6iRA0RlBTFqGThcmMZrDIc2mRQ1mFzR0Nqh8YnU/s1600-h/NewSim_002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrTXc6z3QTWtyPJQ8N_R63nIjVHDtJQP-0_VmFBHkJhPIdszTx2TZ16OIdmVM4ULtBd7ZR-ydUdPVCU0ymWxfKvOUbFS9lozg-aRFX6iRA0RlBTFqGThcmMZrDIc2mRQ1mFzR0Nqh8YnU/s400/NewSim_002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324282903190993266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ></span><br /></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Continuing on about the new sims, Mayor Sprocket also mentioned that he is now taking pre-orders is the Vernian sea sim, also known as the underwater sim. Leendert Meriman, yelled out,<span style=""> </span>“Pirates!” and Mayor Sprocket nodded with a smile. Mayor Sprocket continued to mention that Penny Patton already owns the only above water parcel as she will be constructing an island for the air pirate community. The rest of the parcels will be under the ocean, encased in a glass structure.<span style=""> </span>The Vernian sea will be a residential only sim, though security and privacy are not guaranteed in New Babbage. This sim will be off the beaten path by design and it will have a telehub.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Right about 13:10SL time, Mayor Sprocket vanished into thin air. The attendees at the meeting where aghast, with his disappearance, but no sooner did the Mayor vanish, he came back to continue on with the meeting at 13:21SL time. He asked the attendees if anyone had any questions regarding the two new sims. No one had any questions, so the Mayor continued to speak about the next item on the meeting agenda with a quick note about the Trains. Again, Mayor Sprocket vanished into thin air around 13:25SL time. <span style=""> </span>Mr. Salazar Jack cracked a joke stating that wasn't a very quick note... and the attendees talked amongst themselves. Mayor Sprocket returned back, at around 13:38SL Time. Everyone applauded at his arrival. No sooner did Mayor Sprocket return, only to disappear again at 13:41SL Time. Seeing how something was going on, at the Old Imperial Theatre, we believe it was affecting the Mayor’s energy field. Unfortunately, the Mayor couldn’t quite make it back, so I, Eggberta Echegaray began to channel the Mayor’s words to the crowd.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">I told the attendees on behalf of Mayor Sprocket, in his own words, that he would like to thank Ordinal for working on the scripting for the trains, and we are waiting for Rei to finish the cars. Once that is done, the trains will be operational. The canal district may undergo a small re-design to make it cheaper for renting purposes, which will be cheaper by the prim. I continued on to speak and mentioned that there would be some changes to the Babbage Cog in world newspaper. Instead of publishing the entire stories on the in world note cards, I will just be providing “teaser” headlines, and will direct people to read the newspaper via the Babbage Cog blog site.</p><p style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://newbabbage.wordpress.com/">http://newbabbage.wordpress.com/</a><br /></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Mayor Sprocket finally came back at around 13:46SL time, and I, Eggberta Echegaray handed the floor over to him. Mayor Sprocket started to mention about Roleplaying in New Babbage. Seeing how it is free form, he mentioned how we've had some great responses to the current murder mystery, however, he felt that he needs to lay down some ground rules. Again, Mayor Sprocket disappeared around 13:49SL time, and I picked back up, to speak for him, on his behalf. Mayor Sprocket wanted me to relay that since New Babbage has a free form role play, which is effective for any one to participate in, <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>anybody who decides to run a role play event in New Babbage, should make it clear to people, how they can participate. He also wanted to point out to residents, to please refrain from having major role play event during another major New Babbage event, such as town hall meetings.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style=""> </span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Mayor Sprocket continued on, and asked people to make sure, they people speak to role play organizers with regards to participating, and <span style=""> </span>if everyone follows these 3 rules, then all should be fine. With regards to basic information about Babbage Role play, there has been some confusion. Mayor Sprocket wanted to point out to potential role play organizers, that New Babbage is run by a Mayor and it is a city-state. There is an entity known as the Bow Street Police department, similar to Tinkerton and the secret service that investigate crime. One note regarding the current role play, is that the Eliot Device was being held down by the boiler room...but for the sake of the role play, it was moved to the police department. <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Bow street</st1:address></st1:street> has had the device in their possession for the past three weeks.<span style=""> </span>Mr. Wolfram Gustafson then asked to please explain what the Eliot Device was, <span style=""> </span>In which I replied, <span style=""> </span>it is the key element to this mystery. If somebody in character needs to steal the device, or work with it, to contact the Mayor. Back to the reason why the police department is controlling the Eliot device, is because everyone who is moving this plot line of the murder mystery, needs to move out of character, to discuss what they want to do within the role play. The Mayor then told me to wrap up the meeting, for his transmission was getting very weak, so I, Eggberta Echegaray adjourned the meeting at 14:04SL Time. Mayor Sprocket never did make it back that day.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></p><br /><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Put your event and/or announcement here!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">HELP WANTED: EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR THE NEW BABBAGE COG<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The chosen E.A candidate will gain experience with all aspects of publishing by assisting the Editor in Chief, with the administration of planning and production of The New Babbage Cog.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:<br /></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Support and assist the Editor in Chief with all activities leading to the monthly publication.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Liaison with freelance writers, and photographers. </span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Help to organize, copy and paste text and images to the out of world Babbage Blog Payment of the role will depend on Advertising revenues submitted to The New Babbage Cog.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">VOLUNTEER FREELANCE REPORTERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Reporters/Photographers are needed to cover stories for the New Babbage Cog. Need steampunk stories directly related to the New Babbage sims, her residents and aethernet steampunk websites of interest.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Most photographs are in sepia, please keep that in mind when submitting snapshots</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Content ideas:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Architecture of New Babbage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Business Owner’s Spotlight</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Inventors Corner</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Special New Babbage Event coverage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Aethernet Steampunk culture: Steampunk movie, music, book, clubs reviews, websites of interest.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please write a short email summary, explaining your affiliation and knowledge about the Steampunk culture and the New Babbage Sims. Submit your email to</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray at <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname>. I will review your emails, and conduct in world interviews, on Saturday’s and Sunday’s at my tea shoppe, until the roles are filled.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">* * *<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed using only the tools at their disposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><strong><br /></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></strong></span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- Visit us:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Temporary location: The Willow Tea Room Lot # 20 New Babbage Cultural District<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- Drop a notecard:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">Notecard communications can be sent to Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">-- IM:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">You may contact Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">-- Aethernet mail:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Messages sent to </span><st1:personname style="font-weight: normal;">newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- </span>Ms.Echegaray's SL Office Hours: Mon – Fri<span style=""> </span><st1:time minute="0" hour="15">3pm – 4pm</st1:time> SLT</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Circulation:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paper boxes at the following locations:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Back Issues:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the Willow Tea Room on the first floor.<span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Submissions:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Advertising:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Errata:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Disclaimer:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">This issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper and is also publicly owned by the City-State of New Babbage, which at the time of it's printing, was under the care of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The New Babbage Cog</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--></div></div></div></div></div><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 328px; height: 121px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg5lJe6mbyQorNB18mUrWFIhUq372qgYgNDXv9KWeroaX62jDC1_84wXoJ1ZNeGt4NlqJKRI3Gvxviv7AgI_Ks5LuZnGmz69OLJ2aTSW4rPi3w5TRuRmoDfX2T1sTCfNCBe4mYE1JplLM/s400/masthead_babbage_cog3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324062477825065794" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><br /><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">CONTENT</span><span style="font-size:100%;">S:</span></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <ol style="font-family: times new roman;"><li>Letter from the Editor</li><li>New Babbage Self Guided Ghost <st1:city><st1:place>Tours</st1:place></st1:city> Starts!<o:p></o:p></li><li>The Grand Hallowe’en Parade Coverage!</li><li>New Babbage Podcast!</li><li>Events & Announcements</li><li>Classified Advertisements</li><li>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></li><li>Contact and other Essential Information for the Reader<span style=""> </span></li></ol> <div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;">_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Dear Fellow New Babbagers,<br /><br />Given the hype with last month's murder roleplay event, the momentum to keep the dramatic events going, was warmly welcomed by New Babbager's with arrival of this year's Hallowe'en celebrations! The New Babbage Ghost Tours launched today, and last wee</span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >kend w</span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >e saw the city streets alive, with floats as people stood to the side and watch Mr.Greegan's Grand Hallowe'en P</span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >arade! Lastly, it was brought to the attention of the Cog, that New Babbage was featured in a Podcast done by an in world radio program called "SL Under The Radar." The podcast link can be found after the gala parade coverage...enjoy!<br /><br /></span><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In your Service,</span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Miss Eggberta Echegaray</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;">_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /></div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">NEW BABBAGE SELF GUIDED GHO</span><span style="font-size:130%;">ST TOUR ST</span><span style="font-size:130%;">ART TODAY!</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; 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font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">The Willow Tea Room</span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj361h2aIJGVqzeeR8jBY_LWR5YBkQQk6Wv74E24BGbPMm3_z2691IzDZ0FcPtiekAtmGe2HttU-ypp8EQgeu80XDDMGqVUb8w_KAzXsQyTQ_3NLQH-PTd-2AQ4UAVAVM7gGIyEptiYIE0/s1600-h/witchburn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 335px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj361h2aIJGVqzeeR8jBY_LWR5YBkQQk6Wv74E24BGbPMm3_z2691IzDZ0FcPtiekAtmGe2HttU-ypp8EQgeu80XDDMGqVUb8w_KAzXsQyTQ_3NLQH-PTd-2AQ4UAVAVM7gGIyEptiYIE0/s400/witchburn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324148369961574722" border="0" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p style="text-align: left; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">The Willow Tea Room and Courtyard, <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> (211, 214, 105)</p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"> </div> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"> </div> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Previous owner of the Willow Tea Room, Miss Mary Bird, apparently made a “special tea mixture” that provoked many of the men folk of New Babbage, to inhabit the spirit of the devil. In 1855, the town’s folk condemned Miss Bird as a witch, erected a wooden pole in front of her tea room, and burned her alive at the stake.<span style=""> </span>Today, Willow Tea Room Tea Toddlers have reported seeing a ghostly image of woman on fire, letting out a shrilling scream, whilst they sip on their tea.</p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">The Willow Tea Room and Courtyard, <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> (211, 214, 105)</p> <div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"> </div> <p style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;"></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;"></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Abney</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place> Laboratory</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Abney</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> (113, 214, 105)</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal">During the aftermath of the Eliot murder, Professor Nishi conducted her own experiments in time travel on this site.<span style=""> </span>At <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">one point Bow Street</st1:address></st1:street> even boarded up the lab for investigation.<span style=""> </span>Due to various temporal disturbances, Professor Nishi decided to board up, and then tear down the lab herself. Shortly after the resolution of the events surrounding the discovery of the Eliot device, Professor Nishi vanished. She contacted her assistant, Artemisia Paine, to assure her that she was merely out researching the elusive cuttlefish, and to please proceed with building the new Laboratory as planned. The laboratory you see there now is a completely new building, from foundation to roof.<span style=""> </span>Nonetheless, temporal anomolies persist, sometimes mistaken by laymen for hauntings. This said, please do proceed with<span style=""> </span>utmost caution when touring this building!</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Abney</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>, <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> (113, 214, 105)<st1:place st="on"></st1:place></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on"><br /></st1:placename></st1:place></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;"></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="border-style: none none dotted; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 3pt; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman;"></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;"></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Abney</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place> Cemetery, <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street></span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on"><br /></st1:address></st1:street></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> (174, 168, 110)</p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal">Here lies many of<span style=""> </span>New Babbage's former residents whom have passed on. Some bodies are still present, but alas, other dearly departed's remains, have been stolen by Grave Robbers, looking to make a quick quid from a traineee medical student requiring a cadaver. It is known, those who had their peaceful rest<span style=""> </span>interrupted, have came back to haunt the park in search of these Grave Robbers. Some New Babbage residents who have taken a stroll through the park at night, have reported<span style=""> </span>celestial attacks, with what they can only guess is by the ghosts who's bodies had been<span style=""> </span>stolen.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:street style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"><st1:address st="on">Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><st1:street style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"><st1:address st="on">Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (174, 168, 110)</span><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on"><br /></st1:placename></st1:place></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on"><br /></st1:placename></st1:place></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;"></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="border-style: none none dotted; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 3pt; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; text-align: left; font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;"></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;"></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >The Old Imperial Theater</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" ></span></div><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" ><br /></span><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipWmtoO_NvJYAwrYan8H3W1BKwzHv_WeOIOObiosJudzP6yHnHC0A0k6FxD2BitqKo3RIW2Ep4vz8kCegYANcrpotSj0LnLIVFGQ8snMm5HYpovl5mleejxJWkTMmEjBYzzY6bkQ2wUi0/s1600-h/theatre_003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipWmtoO_NvJYAwrYan8H3W1BKwzHv_WeOIOObiosJudzP6yHnHC0A0k6FxD2BitqKo3RIW2Ep4vz8kCegYANcrpotSj0LnLIVFGQ8snMm5HYpovl5mleejxJWkTMmEjBYzzY6bkQ2wUi0/s400/theatre_003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324058713823915346" border="0" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">The Old Imperial Steampunk Theatre, <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> (171, 26, 106)</p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal">Here you will find a Hallow's Eve Story from the streets of New Babbage about a<span style=""> </span>boy called Tommy Todd and Angry Jenkins. Go inside and take a spooky ride! </p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiznAqvVT-dVVSUxwZCWFlOSWpXgD9CNVHAN2rlFa3j8jc3ueeOG-sXwc1FFy4Ciz9ZwxpX3BxbkZrwlZm_uUVocXJYapPBH4WPa2q8-dSrujy_D6CrFXLcOagZUDhry0SV56tploXJBEQ/s1600-h/theatre_005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiznAqvVT-dVVSUxwZCWFlOSWpXgD9CNVHAN2rlFa3j8jc3ueeOG-sXwc1FFy4Ciz9ZwxpX3BxbkZrwlZm_uUVocXJYapPBH4WPa2q8-dSrujy_D6CrFXLcOagZUDhry0SV56tploXJBEQ/s400/theatre_005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324058785858917330" border="0" /></a></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGvIWIq_Um_VO923XAiYDjXnNqa3gB5i_bMUTA5jFeJ9Pzux6CbmrO3zTc9JwWh4esP1lxM8yKxH7S7idFONuVPzaF5YLxdDDhUE0VahaymhNR7W_6V4o8bMfamXPjpoqe2MJ5ise6zDM/s1600-h/theatre_015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGvIWIq_Um_VO923XAiYDjXnNqa3gB5i_bMUTA5jFeJ9Pzux6CbmrO3zTc9JwWh4esP1lxM8yKxH7S7idFONuVPzaF5YLxdDDhUE0VahaymhNR7W_6V4o8bMfamXPjpoqe2MJ5ise6zDM/s400/theatre_015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324058969337088642" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Also, this old Theater is known to house the street urchins of New Babbage, as well as,<span style=""> </span>inhabit the ghost of Professor Eliot,who was murdered this past August for creating his "Porta Terrtrum Device." The ghost of Edler Reifsnider, has also been sighted in the Theater, who had ordered that the old Theater be demolished, but before that could happen, he was was found hanging in the theater's balcony with a<span style=""> </span>knife stabbed in his back.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi57UAu6bg_P3mkrMg53ImT3kJcpH-u-ccZJ-DavlIeW1JSDZoQjmfNKnA20El5aSSuEFHxF09h6kVtmaSGscX8lFRD7za0oLgXQ3hEb5Hp8CnncOb355Ntzo9T0xqU2abB4vYS2gIl04I/s1600-h/theatre_014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi57UAu6bg_P3mkrMg53ImT3kJcpH-u-ccZJ-DavlIeW1JSDZoQjmfNKnA20El5aSSuEFHxF09h6kVtmaSGscX8lFRD7za0oLgXQ3hEb5Hp8CnncOb355Ntzo9T0xqU2abB4vYS2gIl04I/s400/theatre_014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324058903602748434" border="0" /></a></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF6H3xyP4zGCUI8J2OWf2kZSaHcHa3T33kOkd488KDvUn_rktMkarHCaiJ5btOClBf11SW59bCJgMyqACslKGF0eSMiBm7Y0O-PrlU-K-Ssax-xCwrNlWe11do92VUf_rY3VYx_YLWGoc/s1600-h/theatre_012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF6H3xyP4zGCUI8J2OWf2kZSaHcHa3T33kOkd488KDvUn_rktMkarHCaiJ5btOClBf11SW59bCJgMyqACslKGF0eSMiBm7Y0O-PrlU-K-Ssax-xCwrNlWe11do92VUf_rY3VYx_YLWGoc/s400/theatre_012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324058846998878338" border="0" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;"> </div> <p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Old Imperial Steampunk Theatre, </span><st1:street style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"><st1:address st="on">Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (171, 26, 106)</span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;"></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="border-style: none none dotted; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 3pt; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman;"></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;"></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Maison Horta - Ghosts of Art Nouveau<br /></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">La Maison Horta, </span><st1:place style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Canals</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (55, 197, 105)</span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Maison Horta was the home of the celebrated architect Victor Horta and it is said that it is haunted by the ghost of his wife who lingers in the stairwell, while Victor, now long dead, still can be seen warming himself by the fire in the dining room.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">La Maison Horta, </span><st1:place style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Canals</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (55, 197, 105)</span><br /></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;"></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="border-style: none none dotted; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 3pt; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman;"></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;"></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Ogdred Weary House</span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6F6cFz-Fy-SXcB1cxc9gbnDPY1ssV20D8KDSXM5vw4NJBGczM1qNAwJmsU2DqyjdTnH7TzMihBTQ4F-WKedIRVY0xdHC81MgYNcRcsW2EGM3fGJTzydKlRZ9gkBJFyK18KuyXm5GQZz0/s1600-h/balloon_002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6F6cFz-Fy-SXcB1cxc9gbnDPY1ssV20D8KDSXM5vw4NJBGczM1qNAwJmsU2DqyjdTnH7TzMihBTQ4F-WKedIRVY0xdHC81MgYNcRcsW2EGM3fGJTzydKlRZ9gkBJFyK18KuyXm5GQZz0/s400/balloon_002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324060539845233378" border="0" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"> </div><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Ogdred Weary House, <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Canals</st1:placetype></st1:place> (121, 61, 105)<br /></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Guarded by a friendly brown bat named Sophie, Ogdred Weary house is home to more than one ghostly being. From the prune-headed spectre circling the roof, to the woman with the knife, there are quite a few surprises to be found in this 3 story building.<br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"> </div><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ogdred Weary House, </span><st1:place style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Canals</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (121, 61, 105)</span><st1:place st="on"></st1:place></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;"></p><div style="text-align: left; 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font-family: times new roman;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:placename st="on">Babbage-Lovelace</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Park</st1:placetype>, <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Canals</st1:placetype></st1:place> (213, 50, 106)</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">A spectral tableau awaits in the park.</p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">It is quite best seen, when in the dark.</p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">We know not from whence they came.</p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">We have no clue, nor any name.</p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Within the crypt - a place for two.</p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">And a third behind, not in plain view.</p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Could this have been a lover's tryst?</p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Three spectres haunt within the mist.</p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">If ye spies, upon the ground,</p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">a skull - don't touch, they'll chase you 'round.</p><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:placename style="font-weight: bold;" st="on">Babbage-Lovelace</st1:placename><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><st1:placetype style="font-weight: bold;" st="on">Park</st1:placetype><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><st1:place style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Canals</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (213, 50, 106)</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: left; 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The winner for this year's best float was awarded to <span style=";font-family:";font-size:12;" ><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >MadCow Cosmos.</span></span><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p>All the participants did a wonderful job with their creations, and they where a delight to the viewers on the sidelines watching the parade go by. Thank you Mr.Greegan for pulling this together, hopefully it won't be New Babbage's last Hallowe'en Parade!</p><p style="text-align: left; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Here are the following photograms taken of the floats, at the grand Hallowe'en Parade!</p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; 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font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Turn on your radiograms and listen to Radar Masukami's "SL Under The Radar" podcast show " Do you feel lucky, Steampunk?" Episode 16. Originally the Podcast was broadcasted on Tuesday, 25 September 2007, but was just recently brought to my attention.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/1955715">http://cdn4.libsyn.com/slundertheradar/SLutR16_Babbage_070925.mp3?nvb=20090413073859&nva=20090414074859&t=0c83805c2de660095555f</a></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">Radar's original website, with the podcast can also be found here:</p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://slundertheradar.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=259587">http://slundertheradar.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=259587</a></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">***</p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Put your event and/or announcement here!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">HELP WANTED: EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR THE NEW BABBAGE COG<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The chosen E.A candidate will gain experience with all aspects of publishing by assisting the Editor in Chief, with the administration of planning and production of The New Babbage Cog.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:<br /></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Support and assist the Editor in Chief with all activities leading to the monthly publication.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Liaison with freelance writers, and photographers. </span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Help to organize, copy and paste text and images to the out of world Babbage Blog Payment of the role will depend on Advertising revenues submitted to The New Babbage Cog.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">VOLUNTEER FREELANCE REPORTERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Reporters/Photographers are needed to cover stories for the New Babbage Cog. Need steampunk stories directly related to the New Babbage sims, her residents and aethernet steampunk websites of interest.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Typical work activities will include:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Research, organize, write own articles adhering to deadlines</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Contribution of ideas and stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Most photographs are in sepia, please keep that in mind when submitting snapshots</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Content ideas:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Architecture of New Babbage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Business Owner’s Spotlight</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Inventors Corner</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Special New Babbage Event coverage</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage stories</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Aethernet Steampunk culture: Steampunk movie, music, book, clubs reviews, websites of interest.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please write a short email summary, explaining your affiliation and knowledge about the Steampunk culture and the New Babbage Sims. Submit your email to</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray at <st1:personname>newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname>. I will review your emails, and conduct in world interviews, on Saturday’s and Sunday’s at my tea shoppe, until the roles are filled.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">* * *<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed using only the tools at their disposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><strong><br /></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></strong></span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- Visit us:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Temporary location: The Willow Tea Room Lot # 20 New Babbage Cultural District<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- Drop a notecard:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Notecard communications can be sent to Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- IM:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">You may contact Miss Eggberta Echegaray by IM with any newspaper business.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">-- Aethernet mail:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Messages sent to </span><st1:personname style="font-weight: normal;">newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- </span>Ms.Echegaray's SL Office Hours: Mon – Fri<span style=""> </span><st1:time minute="0" hour="15">3pm – 4pm</st1:time> SLT</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Circulation:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paper boxes at the following locations:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Back Issues:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the Willow Tea Room on the first floor.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Submissions:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Advertising:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Errata:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Disclaimer:</span><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;">This issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper and is also publicly owned by the City-State of New Babbage, which at the time of it's printing, was under the care of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The New Babbage Cog</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-82550583316706067942009-02-06T18:26:00.000-08:002009-04-16T07:31:48.709-07:0027 November 2007<div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 395px; height: 143px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg5lJe6mbyQorNB18mUrWFIhUq372qgYgNDXv9KWeroaX62jDC1_84wXoJ1ZNeGt4NlqJKRI3Gvxviv7AgI_Ks5LuZnGmz69OLJ2aTSW4rPi3w5TRuRmoDfX2T1sTCfNCBe4mYE1JplLM/s1600/masthead_babbage_cog3.JPG" alt="[masthead_babbage_cog3.JPG]" border="0" /><br /></div><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br />Vol I / Issue </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style="font-family: times new roman;">XIX</b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" > ~ </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >27th o</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >f November</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >, 2</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >007</span><br /><br /><st1:date month="11" day="27" year="2007"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /></st1:date></div><p class="MsoNormal"><st1:date month="11" day="27" year="2007"><br /></st1:date></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTENTS:</span><br /></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <ol><li>Letter from the Editor</li><li>The <st1:place><st1:placename>Vernian</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Sea</st1:placetype></st1:place> Sim Arrives!!</li><li>New Golden Compass Town Hall is erected</li><li>New Babbage Advertisement in M2 SL Newspaper!</li><li>Guy Fawkes Day Celebrations</li><li>November 3rd 2007 Town Hall Meeting Minutes</li><li>Babbage Barrel Burning Races!</li><li>Events & Announcements</li><li>Classified Advertisements</li><li>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></li><li>Contact and other Essential Information for the Reader<br /></li></ol> ________________________________________________________________<br /><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Since the last issue of the Cog was published on October 28th, and Loki Eliot's Burning Barrel Race Event wasn't held until October 31st, I unfortunately didn't find the time to publish the event in the Hallowe'en issue. However, I have made it a point to include the coverage in this issue of the Cog. I would like to welcome Mr.Tinsel Silvera to the Cog, who has taken up the role as Assistant Editor. Mr. Silvera is a very welcome addition and I look forward to working along side him. Not only has there been additions to the Cog, but also to our Community. New Babbage now has four full sims, and our community population keeps growing larger by the day. Mr.Silvera and I will do our out most best to collect and provide the New Babbage community with important stories and information, here in the Cog.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">In your service,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">____________________________________________________________________________________</p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >VERNIAN SEA SIM ARRIVES!</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMJJ9OcZWOrbHv13Jxd2CdAwJ-Ni6n4GxwVq6PJJoSO7E96Jtmf2wbUnimkRJeeLuiS_5diRxhNwqq9ah_FJ7KOIdnFXGbmEo1nu_07uyrFtqyIe403L5bYg3wGJWsfdPjzT9q4GuShl8/s1600-h/verian+map.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMJJ9OcZWOrbHv13Jxd2CdAwJ-Ni6n4GxwVq6PJJoSO7E96Jtmf2wbUnimkRJeeLuiS_5diRxhNwqq9ah_FJ7KOIdnFXGbmEo1nu_07uyrFtqyIe403L5bYg3wGJWsfdPjzT9q4GuShl8/s400/verian+map.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324344505611462546" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> </p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal">As expected, the long awaited Vernian Sea sim arrived last week. Mayor Sprocket has started to set up the plots in the underwater sim, and build the boat slips, which will be up for rent at a low cost. For inquires about renting one of the underwater plots, please contact the Mayor.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><b style=""><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="">THE GOLDEN COMPASS TOWN HALL</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg90ba6DR0nv_AYxds0IP1W6F-Ehw6zaDvMCeb91rBzWModAjQJSAYzV-8zuNxmg6RxfQ7NsWj5kegw32r3fkR8rN-2ttaLlkW7KQ4BsfWVh6THDfJlYBcSGUfc0GOSYx4vbe6LXq_jd4/s1600-h/townhall1a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 361px; height: 361px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg90ba6DR0nv_AYxds0IP1W6F-Ehw6zaDvMCeb91rBzWModAjQJSAYzV-8zuNxmg6RxfQ7NsWj5kegw32r3fkR8rN-2ttaLlkW7KQ4BsfWVh6THDfJlYBcSGUfc0GOSYx4vbe6LXq_jd4/s400/townhall1a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324344447290673554" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><b style=""><o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">With the anticipation of the film release of The Golden Compass, New Babbage’s Town Hall has come to commemorate the skyscraper build in film. The building, designed and constructed by Master Loki Eliot, made it’s first appearance at New Babbage's campsite in the 2007 Relay for Life event. The town hall shines like a beacon, and will hopefully become a notable landmark within Second Life.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">***<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="time"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><o:p> </o:p></b></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="">NEW BABBAGE ADVERTISEMENT IN M2 SL NEWSPAPER!</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><b style=""><o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">On his own initiative, Mr.Salazar Jack the owner of Kahruvel Steamworks in <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>, took it upon his self, to take out a half page advertisement promoting New Babbage in Second Life’s Metaverse Messenger newspaper, or known in world, as M2! The first ad ran in M2’s November 13<sup>th</sup> edition, is currently seen in the November 27<sup>th</sup> edition, and is scheduled for two more insertions. Mr.Jack said the total cost to run all four, half page advertisements is $11,220, and the ad is currently is displayed on<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">page 30.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.metaversemessenger.com/">http://www.metaversemessenger.com/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.metaversemessenger.com/"><br /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.metaversemessenger.com/"><br /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">When one clicks on M2’s Aethernet Url link, you will be prompted to click on another link, to download a current PDF file to access the online newspaper. When looking upon the Ad, if the advertisement is clicked upon, you will then be automatically directed to a SLurl, which provides a direct teleport link to New Babbage’s location in Second Life’s grid.Mr.Jack mentioned that he created and produced the ad, with his own photography, copywriting, layout and ad placement. When asked why he took it upon on his own “steam” to advertise New Babbage in M2, Mr. Jack replied, “I wanted to do something splashy to promote New Babbage, the new <st1:place><st1:placename>Vernian</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Sea</st1:placetype></st1:place> sim, and general steampunkery to a wider audience that might not know of such things. Something that would, hopefully, get a little buzz going about Steampunk, and its association with the city of <st1:city><st1:place>New Babbage</st1:place></st1:city>.”Mr.Jack said that the New Babbage Ad was just the ticket to get his creative juices flowing to inspire him to make and take out another future ad, to help and promote the Phyneas Jack Memorial Trust, for the <st1:place><st1:placetype>Forest</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Kahruvel</st1:placename></st1:place>. On behalf of the New Babbage community, we applaud Mr.Jack for onward and upward effort, and graciously Thank him for taking the time to help promote New Babbage! Industry <st1:state><st1:place>Marches</st1:place></st1:state> On!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><style><!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">***</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">GUY FAWKES NIGHT CELEBRATIONS</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJm3UMEQdrE7qPwqZh9tjeAKvr_0HGg4qdNevkb6B1PGlW81bLsCGB3XnXcteUWetIeRjEAwt43vlsqozWsu2qyFaY2ln0DF3E05E37TP1GH50qzic-qlfEoKO3ajPZJuX4MZDSycf8M/s1600-h/guyfawkes.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJm3UMEQdrE7qPwqZh9tjeAKvr_0HGg4qdNevkb6B1PGlW81bLsCGB3XnXcteUWetIeRjEAwt43vlsqozWsu2qyFaY2ln0DF3E05E37TP1GH50qzic-qlfEoKO3ajPZJuX4MZDSycf8M/s400/guyfawkes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324804998620820082" border="0" /></a><br />New Babbage residents celebrated Guy Fawkes Night, by burning an effigy on massive bon fires. Some effigy's where burned on the water in the Canal District, whilst others gathered around a bon fire in Port Babbage by the Babbage Navy building.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhecNYYwbRG4TleCVxO3HCipgCR7TKZ_9soXQnzVpcKq_gi44wTQlRstvBayTtTXanAOt1NStxXhwNHtbunlEd2zPv-c330PTezWm0_7dHbd9rxAb0EBQk8B8IFoCHjQNYqG730SAWz4XE/s1600-h/bonfire.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhecNYYwbRG4TleCVxO3HCipgCR7TKZ_9soXQnzVpcKq_gi44wTQlRstvBayTtTXanAOt1NStxXhwNHtbunlEd2zPv-c330PTezWm0_7dHbd9rxAb0EBQk8B8IFoCHjQNYqG730SAWz4XE/s400/bonfire.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324804900085735458" border="0" /></a><br />The infamous rhyme:<br /><br /><i>Remember, remember the Fifth of November, </i><i>The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,<br /></i><i>I know of no reason </i><i>why the Gunpowder Treason </i><i>Should ever be forgot. </i><i><br />Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent </i><i>To blow up the</i><i> King and Parli'ment. </i><i><br />Three-score barrels of powder below </i><i>To prove old England's overthrow; </i><i><br />By God's providence he was catch'd</i>. <i>With a dark lantern and burning match. </i><i><br />Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.</i> <i><br />Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!</i></div><div style="margin-right: 20px;"> </div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtFjHX02nZ5EEgq5QpJYmbC0MjOjFECd4RXpN69Og0i0TCqKnUQ5yI_5SQvQMnPY1db8BqtVhXCbtOvvfGWIlytFtvAalQsyhEhdGxEARQ4wIbsx7eGgCqyELuixZOZYz20Gm2lHGUBuU/s1600-h/zombie+kids_037.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtFjHX02nZ5EEgq5QpJYmbC0MjOjFECd4RXpN69Og0i0TCqKnUQ5yI_5SQvQMnPY1db8BqtVhXCbtOvvfGWIlytFtvAalQsyhEhdGxEARQ4wIbsx7eGgCqyELuixZOZYz20Gm2lHGUBuU/s400/zombie+kids_037.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324805116751617394" border="0" /></a>A grand fireworks display at the bridges in the Babbage Canals ended the celebrations for the evening.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidT4bTeKYQ0DIswseIVUAfpzbw_a73VT2BDRn-ASgScD4DqFkJ1oXl3rL94Thv0Tm9QPC-BA4wgT3c-8h4VfX8OTXYKFANFlRTSNRcCCviBptqBiLw1hG4Ia11wejAbIMRn-ZVm8B77nE/s1600-h/guyfawkes2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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Since then, New Babbage’s population has greatly increased, as three new sims have been added.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">New Babbage finally has a Texture Library which will be housed in the Town Hall on the second floor. As for news about the train, Mayor Sprocket asked the meeting attendees if anyone knows where to get the sound of a rollercoaster when it goes up a hill. If someone can provide this, Mayor Sprocket asked if they could it to Rei, so that the train will be completed. As for the scripting for the train, Mayor Sprocket asked Ms.Ordinal Malaprop if there was any updates. Ms. Malaprop readily replied that the train and carriages run, however it needs some reconciliation for it to work properly upon crossing sim boundaries, otherwise it is at the mercy of the grid.<span style=""> </span>Mayor Sprocket made mention about an option for the owner to stop and start the train, so that we wouldn’t have to bother Ms.Malaprop should the sim crash with regards to maintenance, and she said that it can be done. As for the new Town Hall, Mayor Sprocket mentioned that the building is complete, and it’s design commemorates the building that appears in the film “The Golden Compass.” However, the building still needs to be furnished, and the elevator has to be added, as so people can properly access the floors without having to fly up or down.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The next item up for discussion was that Mayor Sprocket mentioned that the focus of the meetings are for residents to offer feedback about the New Babbage sims,<span style=""> </span>be them positive or negative, with regards to what residents like or dislike about New Babbage. As for future developments, Mayor Sprocket pointed out, that there will be a meeting in January, to discuss the future of New Babbage.<span style=""> </span>One of the main issues presented was by Loki Eliot who suggested to get rid of the Telehubs in <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> and the <st1:place><st1:placename>Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Canals</st1:placetype></st1:place>, as so customers could easily access a businesses and private residences, instead of having to fly or walk from the telehub locations. A vote was cast, the majority of attendees at the first meeting voted against the Telehubs and according to Mayor Sprocket, at the second meeting held at 18:00 SL, again, the vote to get rid of the telehubs was in favour.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Lastly, the Mayor brought up the need for Citizens to ban together when organizing future New Babbage events and to be proactive by mentioning them on the forum board. Loki Eliot mentioned that he plans to organize a small get together for people who have a Deamon familiar next weekend. The Mayor mentioned a snowman competition, to contact Kaylee Frye, or talk about it on the forum board. It was then brought up by Ms.Kaylee Frye, some people don’t even know about New Babbage’s forum board, and Mayor Sprocket stated to spread the word about it, and to just mention it to visitors through word of mouth. Ms.Myrtil Igaly suggested the idea to help promote the forum board, by mentioning it’s existence in New Babbage’s description, when people look up our sims in the search engine. The Mayor adjourned the meeting at <st1:time minute="0" hour="14">14:00</st1:time> SL time and thanked everyone for attending.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">Meeting Minutes taken by Tinsel Silvera</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">Meeting Minutes Compiled by Eggberta Echegaray</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">***</p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">BABBAGE BARREL BURNING RACES!</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFL70jeSYLgj_Umcb3qEBOlv7uYnV6oUIrIbAEffd4JSDw-f8L2dvOyLV2fZej3RMlJfniV_VC8IFVwIiTepBZ1p-InFv_X9WwmTkMtSjJYFIwnahaJ6B7f38GRT2nkLnot7CR9bME_gA/s1600-h/barrelburning_006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFcpLOdsBx1t1fhuihwy8MJH8MbNnvTmEMxyIyUWwNpmAaxJ1ozH2CT1iZBJTdSrMlNCleVzr3cGjABMZGzWy7Cfr2fzDaFTNpRDR1JK8sGzWwps6mVjXX38cSD8VEUElypV5SyqpS92I/s400/barrelburning_026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324804467746987426" border="0" /></a>With the finish line ending up in Port Babbage, eveyone who particpated in the race was warmly welcomed by a nice roasting fire and a grand fireworks display to commemorate the event.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDEZMdGHnREwk6bmzqIMWws8vQ_SU6n8VJ_abv_vre5MNniwf0CVcqnkbr44zbpW3_UOIS91OrmaR8KEXl6rgxxcWPD5dz6T_rNfs27CerRqhu0VRnBXSH-rUQBNNGwVveUaVdY1Qvcbc/s1600-h/barrelburning_043.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDEZMdGHnREwk6bmzqIMWws8vQ_SU6n8VJ_abv_vre5MNniwf0CVcqnkbr44zbpW3_UOIS91OrmaR8KEXl6rgxxcWPD5dz6T_rNfs27CerRqhu0VRnBXSH-rUQBNNGwVveUaVdY1Qvcbc/s400/barrelburning_043.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324804698298460082" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhah8P-8WoticQOwXhhOMXxUz-1R9w8KBUYDR99S7-616C6a9V4yHiximvlHFXy8HSU4uoaOKDb8df5beEneJH_WnW66yKpDOUk6-KmOucMF8VAbylRSq3ZvOSualfEjhQ4n5Y8DZGNMSg/s1600-h/barrelburning_046.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhah8P-8WoticQOwXhhOMXxUz-1R9w8KBUYDR99S7-616C6a9V4yHiximvlHFXy8HSU4uoaOKDb8df5beEneJH_WnW66yKpDOUk6-KmOucMF8VAbylRSq3ZvOSualfEjhQ4n5Y8DZGNMSg/s400/barrelburning_046.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324804794883593922" border="0" /></a>It wouldn't of been Hallowe'en night without a fleeting visit from Angry Jenkins. His presence gave the kids a fright, until an adult shooed' him away.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP6X-VzHOz3GJpIlzLJfLN-Mrsvze-hQv3UhYw33ojccB_ZE7_dxHzYmYbCvhqQDEVyFVrLw3xL6rQvtjacecJW5qwG0PX5WBcY6LjclHQxEpl6vWi4UuP52fYw2RcFQd-zW-pyZZurHU/s1600-h/barrelburning_031.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP6X-VzHOz3GJpIlzLJfLN-Mrsvze-hQv3UhYw33ojccB_ZE7_dxHzYmYbCvhqQDEVyFVrLw3xL6rQvtjacecJW5qwG0PX5WBcY6LjclHQxEpl6vWi4UuP52fYw2RcFQd-zW-pyZZurHU/s400/barrelburning_031.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324804543903410418" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p>I would like to Thank Loki Eliot for launching this year's first annual Babbage Burning Barrel race and for his brilliant work involving his Tommy Todd carousel at his Old Imperial Theatre. Master Eliot has does New Babbage proud!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">***</p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Put your event and/or announcement here!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">put your classified ad here!</span></span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">* * *</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed using only the tools at their disposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><strong><br /></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /><br /><br /></strong></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrltnqPMxECnHQK3BoNnuqiGsSaAixpWvMKo4dQYyNh1S2ZRzWlpAsmoSrBnHbAcIiNmAIc9Ie7HUtuGXQjCXJdrhjwirZ_OgPMVbW2EO-MoENLWHeL38Vj3tQzPTQl7yCvlkzPfZYEAg/s1600-h/headshottin.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 123px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrltnqPMxECnHQK3BoNnuqiGsSaAixpWvMKo4dQYyNh1S2ZRzWlpAsmoSrBnHbAcIiNmAIc9Ie7HUtuGXQjCXJdrhjwirZ_OgPMVbW2EO-MoENLWHeL38Vj3tQzPTQl7yCvlkzPfZYEAg/s400/headshottin.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325055664501463906" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><br />Assistant Editor: Tinsel Silvera<br /></strong></span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- Visit us:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Temporary location: The Willow Tea Room Lot # 20 New Babbage Cultural District<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- Drop a notecard:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Notecard communications can be sent to Miss Eggberta Echegaray and/or Mr.Tinsel Silvera<span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- IM:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">You may contact Miss Eggberta Echegaray and/or Mr.Tinsel Silvera by IM with any newspaper business.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;">-- Aethernet mail:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Messages sent to </span><st1:personname style="font-weight: normal;">newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- </span>Ms.Echegaray's SL Office Hours: Mon – Fri<span style=""> </span><st1:time minute="0" hour="15">3pm – 4pm</st1:time> SLT</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Circulation:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paper boxes at the following locations:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Back Issues:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the Willow Tea Room on the first floor.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Submissions:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Advertising:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Errata:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Disclaimer:</span><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;">This issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper and is also publicly owned by the City-State of New Babbage, which at the time of it's printing, was under the care of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The New Babbage Cog</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-36816772353919972402009-02-05T17:58:00.000-08:002009-04-16T07:32:12.446-07:0010 December 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQcGPfYGnrr25qPcDwGSr7hCEMaM_xjUmI3JY6WD5vO4KAAfOVnaT7PBcaD2Q8ej3cl3ETTDgYzkx2GTpX_EZ3ptD8LWXjQw0SWayqRVRYiAfeWblt5IKwoQR2VBwn9mEwn8h_f5tCcfI/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; 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margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /><st1:date month="12" day="9" year="2007"></st1:date></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Vol I / Issue XX</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > ~ 10</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >th o</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >f December</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >, 2</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >007</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>***<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">CONTENTS:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p><ol style="font-family: times new roman;"><li>Letter from the Editor</li><li>No more Telehubs!</li><li>Photogram Contestants!</li><li>Events & Announcements</li><li>Classified Advertisements</li><li>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ</li><li>Contact and other Essential Information for the Reader</li></ol>_____________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">This issue of the Cog will mainly be concentrating on The New Babbage Cog sponsored Photogram contest event. Mayor Sprocket has placed an ad in the Classified section of this issue, announcing that boat slips in the Vernian Sea Sim are still available for rent, please visit the Classified section to find out more information about these parcels, if interested.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">In Your Service,</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /><br />______________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="">NO MORE TELEHUBS!</b></span></div> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><b style=""><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Since the overall majority who voted at November's Town Hall meeting said "Aye" to getting rid of Telehubs in New Babbage, Mayor Sprocket has finally has eliminated direct teleporting to old Telehubs locations in <st1:street><st1:address>New Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> and the <st1:place><st1:placename>Babbage</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Canal</st1:placetype></st1:place> districts. Visitors and/or Residents, can now directly teleport to a private parcel, and/or business location in the two sims, provided that the parcel owner has set up their landing spot co-ordinates appropriately. The old telehub locations will still be active, but will only work when someone randomly clicks on an infrastructure on the map.</span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" >Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /></p><br /><div style="text-align: center;">***<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">PHOTOGRAM CONTESTANTS!</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Last week, The New Babbage Cog announced in the Babbage Forum Boards, that it would be sponsoring a photogram contest, for New Babbage residents to take photograms of the newly erected Town Hall with the accompanying airship, and to submit up to four photograms. The deadline for submissions was Sunday December 9th, and the following is the collection of the entrants work.<br /><br />Voting ballot cards have been attached to the in world copy of the note card newspaper, which are available at any New Babbage Cog Newspaper box, which are placed out at all four Telehubs. Please fill out a ballot, and vote for the entrant you feel has the best set of photgrams, and kindly submit the note card to me, Eggberta Echegaray. Voting for the best photogram will close on Sunday December 16th, 2007 at 23:59, so please have your ballot dropped off before that deadline. I will tally up the ballots, and will announce the winner in Monday December 17th's issue of the Cog. </span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >The lucky winner will be awarded 10,000L! </span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >Thank you to all who participated and good luck!<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">***<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">PHOTOGRAM ENTRANTS<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Names of the entrant are above their photogram submissions:</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">***</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Arteer Oliva</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi9SajrSAhoar7NadjnNXYFdyXC6pbfpnjhGU5JDAb_xvFWKOXaZqOVHnfRp36cid-_qbFx2lQey7jaJa17FgmWP-bTHTjeth7SIgOxswtjwpnjYRlaPPes4IEl9QAN9-JDVjHkLV-dig/s1600-h/new+babbage+square+by+night+one.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5SRPonJ6XX5KCVf89cMGFhKs7_R8Hb1oS4ILfk0OmBiRsBu0jqJPihV6R6Ypj2b7CpP_P2qRfjhsejAxiFAifrIxul1L_75Xg0nWINkaSsZ9N2_wEyKkXchiEOpDpr-eIu7bjCjmQFrQ/s400/003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325246250826996738" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />***</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Darian Llewellyn</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqNBdSPzquQ6TDLvTl7GEy_S8GGZy1vwa9Nzz6cEQkjJ4iv7zdHUP26hBlyhfNTYsLmgrvLvyftsEtqIvFpZwCgMTi_TLEOVSHFuGAarfFVNgBJxz4oS2FWWdCClpjDgmKlj0uq-H8tas/s1600-h/BabbageBlimp001.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqNBdSPzquQ6TDLvTl7GEy_S8GGZy1vwa9Nzz6cEQkjJ4iv7zdHUP26hBlyhfNTYsLmgrvLvyftsEtqIvFpZwCgMTi_TLEOVSHFuGAarfFVNgBJxz4oS2FWWdCClpjDgmKlj0uq-H8tas/s400/BabbageBlimp001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325245895969382386" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihvPi4tzTEQrECPu1ALKHW9zY3x07T5XyvDefoVEVU8RYVGeaUUR11FWfTy8A94Cz1LZgv4Uh0UqHJula8U6kUvka8o2puj_sCSDakIcS81WcGhFqZlIF22-l4mFWt1Zr0jeIYE20LAj0/s1600-h/BabbageBlimp002.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZSourOTDb_1PZvzqXkaDgRqCO7723vDT4lUxXoR6T3PWJzMwrJkwtb4q5QHe-D1hqftcTfMtp6w9hyphenhyphenL_tk0NaYJTcDsYzZLT54w_eQRLY7xi7roLIL-LvBJTX2ViRsBtLDKJsHKflvAk/s400/BabbageBlimp004.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325245738140393698" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />***</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Hatris Panacek</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Y68JgibIr0K49pb06ON7I5mJe_eGxBGt4GHw4b4wAVyBSA7n0OVlVVnuO5byygXz93SxwNmhc_2r9Y4mZQuWNxp9SroA2B4CyXDRXL7Bmek1YJMbdyuj2ad79xy60gz4wReIEBDuxr8/s1600-h/001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Y68JgibIr0K49pb06ON7I5mJe_eGxBGt4GHw4b4wAVyBSA7n0OVlVVnuO5byygXz93SxwNmhc_2r9Y4mZQuWNxp9SroA2B4CyXDRXL7Bmek1YJMbdyuj2ad79xy60gz4wReIEBDuxr8/s400/001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325245541400457298" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9clGaBPbEbyNp6fjXaek-Dta7CKmJBrOCidXegiDuRdJbKqKJGMIEcthhoz9HQOynRZH-M3g3sW1V5gf-uTLNByuLRhWXQHtKOOjzOBhOx-YwbPWp2JiQb4sDBPDK8RkfPGg2Vm8O3-Q/s1600-h/002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyOzVkbhgfPVMuLd_8o29QDiizE0w5nJwRlP_QIjuRYbK0etzcRdLuuh_mV8_JJabw4aI-3NS0iGclcsHPU8WCzb-ybaFC347nCQoldojD_42mKNwWGv-dNGckFn_T1SMZ9PEJTKKVKxU/s400/005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325245399723229410" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br />***</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meadow McBride</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmA4MhLWZyXQzdNXbUWdgGRnYt4CbJ2dOkwke1kMb_wNljuhlj3zyUt32QX5mUIRcymGhUZCIEBI5_wSVF5tzuoZ-ZSoKri1Ps2ONXC_Y4v_WGxUw-LerociM5OPM00naXEVaNrXrXyto/s1600-h/townhall+poster+MM.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmA4MhLWZyXQzdNXbUWdgGRnYt4CbJ2dOkwke1kMb_wNljuhlj3zyUt32QX5mUIRcymGhUZCIEBI5_wSVF5tzuoZ-ZSoKri1Ps2ONXC_Y4v_WGxUw-LerociM5OPM00naXEVaNrXrXyto/s400/townhall+poster+MM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325244578743044978" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhABNwqsrgj7Rqv_NywGr9zLxeb84cyaSATItVf5u-qmqRebvo8swAgpY_Od1R93aIk6wdQX-sz-DSaJYXpthK9NZVTxHSibP3wijZRglvx3EEvYPcIyKIRtBJo60SWFO_Hklp1mJu7eGg/s1600-h/townhall&airship+1mm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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font-weight: bold;">***</div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Put your event and/or announcement here!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold;">BOAT SLIPS ARE AVAILABLE FOR RENT IN THE VERNIAN SEA SIM!</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">On behalf of Mayor Sprocket, he wished for me to mention in the Cog that a couple of boat slips are still available for rent in the Vernian Sea Sim. Each boat slip has <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size:100%;">234 prims available and there is 512 sq m. The cost to rent one of the boat slips works out to being $7.50 USD per month/$2000L per month. </span>If anyone is interested in renting a boat slip, to contact Mayor Shanathan Sprocket.<br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">* * *</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed using only the tools at their disposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><strong><br /></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /><br /><br /></strong></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrltnqPMxECnHQK3BoNnuqiGsSaAixpWvMKo4dQYyNh1S2ZRzWlpAsmoSrBnHbAcIiNmAIc9Ie7HUtuGXQjCXJdrhjwirZ_OgPMVbW2EO-MoENLWHeL38Vj3tQzPTQl7yCvlkzPfZYEAg/s1600-h/headshottin.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 123px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrltnqPMxECnHQK3BoNnuqiGsSaAixpWvMKo4dQYyNh1S2ZRzWlpAsmoSrBnHbAcIiNmAIc9Ie7HUtuGXQjCXJdrhjwirZ_OgPMVbW2EO-MoENLWHeL38Vj3tQzPTQl7yCvlkzPfZYEAg/s400/headshottin.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325055664501463906" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><br />Assistant Editor: Tinsel Silvera<br /></strong></span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- Visit us:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Temporary location: The Willow Tea Room Lot # 20 New Babbage Cultural District<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- Drop a notecard:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Notecard communications can be sent to Miss Eggberta Echegaray and/or Mr.Tinsel Silvera<span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- IM:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">You may contact Miss Eggberta Echegaray and/or Mr.Tinsel Silvera by IM with any newspaper business.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;">-- Aethernet mail:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Messages sent to </span><st1:personname style="font-weight: normal;">newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- </span>Ms.Echegaray's SL Office Hours: Mon – Fri<span style=""> </span><st1:time minute="0" hour="15">3pm – 4pm</st1:time> SLT</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Circulation:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paper boxes at the following locations:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Back Issues:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the Willow Tea Room on the first floor.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Submissions:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Advertising:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Errata:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Disclaimer:</span><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;">This issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper and is also publicly owned by the City-State of New Babbage, which at the time of it's printing, was under the care of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The New Babbage Cog</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span></div>Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462360577060852797.post-72441846714570825332009-02-04T18:02:00.000-08:002009-04-16T07:32:33.436-07:0017 December 2007<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3> <div class="post-body entry-content"> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQcGPfYGnrr25qPcDwGSr7hCEMaM_xjUmI3JY6WD5vO4KAAfOVnaT7PBcaD2Q8ej3cl3ETTDgYzkx2GTpX_EZ3ptD8LWXjQw0SWayqRVRYiAfeWblt5IKwoQR2VBwn9mEwn8h_f5tCcfI/s1600-h/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 132px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQcGPfYGnrr25qPcDwGSr7hCEMaM_xjUmI3JY6WD5vO4KAAfOVnaT7PBcaD2Q8ej3cl3ETTDgYzkx2GTpX_EZ3ptD8LWXjQw0SWayqRVRYiAfeWblt5IKwoQR2VBwn9mEwn8h_f5tCcfI/s400/masthead+babbage+cog3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325247184428011026" border="0" /></a><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /><st1:date month="12" day="9" year="2007"></st1:date></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Vol I / Issue </span><b style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">XI</span></b><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > ~ </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >17th o</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >f December</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >, 2</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >007</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>***<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal">CONTENTS:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><o:p> </o:p></p><ol style="font-family: times new roman;"><li>Letter from the Editor</li><li>Photogram Contestant Winner!</li><li>Events & Announcements</li><li>Classified Advertisements</li><li>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ</li><li>Contact and other Essential Information for the Reader</li></ol>_____________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">This issue of the Cog is to just provide an update to announce the winner of the Photogram Contest. I am busily preparing the holiday issue of the Cog, which will be released on Christmas Eve night. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">In Your Service,</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /><br />______________________________________________________________________________________<br /></div></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PHOTOGRAM CONTEST WINNER!</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">And the winner of the New Babbage Cog Photogram Contest goes to...<br /><br />Ms. Natacha Chernov!<br /></div></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6qdbYftaf67cEwfqC29HslxpCGJ4HEHaDn2GPTfvEmRvY9fdypGOaeCzuL3bKyCh2St4WdiTRmgUIZTaqnL_mHqJhcbHEjf2Nvmj-C2xgEB4SudX2NGtr-nJJ9J8rqbLANTq3buEy2fw/s1600-h/Townhall01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 287px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6qdbYftaf67cEwfqC29HslxpCGJ4HEHaDn2GPTfvEmRvY9fdypGOaeCzuL3bKyCh2St4WdiTRmgUIZTaqnL_mHqJhcbHEjf2Nvmj-C2xgEB4SudX2NGtr-nJJ9J8rqbLANTq3buEy2fw/s400/Townhall01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325250131938695922" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH60Xaih7kqbqcJ89OXdTstEA9OpNWiB3HYknO1WRxUYWUAlhaqh3VIk2FchWH4CxTeKvY-mUhyr0ybuHDOx2w7E9ddvJhspx24MKWKvzclxIC2LOIGyNNVGdKR-24CzHTdIUfL7JK9s8/s1600-h/Townhall02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH60Xaih7kqbqcJ89OXdTstEA9OpNWiB3HYknO1WRxUYWUAlhaqh3VIk2FchWH4CxTeKvY-mUhyr0ybuHDOx2w7E9ddvJhspx24MKWKvzclxIC2LOIGyNNVGdKR-24CzHTdIUfL7JK9s8/s400/Townhall02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325250087927339378" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">After all the ballots where tallied up, the entrant with most votes went to Ms.Chernov's submissions and she was awarded the 10,000L grand prize. Again, I would like to thank everyone who submitted their work and participated in the contest. I'm sure the people who voted, had a hard time with picking just one winner, for all submissions were excellent. Again, Congratulations go out to Ms.Chernov, for her exquisite winning photograms!<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">***</div><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Put your event and/or announcement here!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold;">BOAT SLIPS ARE AVAILABLE FOR RENT IN THE VERNIAN SEA SIM!</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">On behalf of Mayor Sprocket, he wished for me to mention in the Cog that a couple of boat slips are still available for rent in the Vernian Sea Sim. Each boat slip has<!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <span style="font-size:100%;">234 prims available and there is 512 sq m. The cost to rent one of the boat slips works out to being $7.50 USD per month/$2000L per month. </span>If anyone is interested in renting a boat slip, to contact Mayor Shanathan Sprocket.<br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span><br /></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">* * *</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW BABBAGE AND STEAMPUNK FAQ</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is New Babbage?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">New Babbage is a planned group of themed sims designed to promote a steampunk aesthetic.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The first, and to date the only, of the planned New Babbage sims is <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street>. New Babbage can be thought of as the "city," while <st1:street><st1:address>Babbage Square</st1:address></st1:street> is its first "region."</span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------</span> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What is "steampunk?"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Steampunk is a genre of speculative fiction, usually science fiction, that explores the question of how past eras, particularly the Victorian period, would have looked if more modern technology had existed using only the tools at their disposal. Thus the steampunk aesthetic often makes use of wood, brass, iron, and steam-powered engines to construct fantastic machines that never were.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Please see the steampunk Wikipedia entry:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">------------------------<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Q.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Is New Babbage for role-players?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >A.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >New Babbage is for anyone interested in steampunk ideas. Although many residents dress and role-play the part, all are welcome to participate in the activities here (period attire not required), and are encouraged to explore the technology made available to us in SL New Babbagers are builders, scripters, and texture artists, curious and experimental by nature, come together to invent, create, and commune.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p>____________________________________________________________</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span><strong><br /></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305010216724325522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 92px; cursor: pointer; height: 121px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3JoOCwJs-nzlu3lUoZzAchE6106AHr95l7u1hhCg_PYLKn-alfUFBiMbzvv51whJI8Vvp2KyPMoDvIdF-AhInnaiNJ164WrQU5ggoWEuSJgzKRUNvwTYmfdEbmgl2rzQH_w2tEXINBQ/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" border="0" /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Editor in Chief: Miss Eggberta Echegaray<br /><br /><br /></strong></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrltnqPMxECnHQK3BoNnuqiGsSaAixpWvMKo4dQYyNh1S2ZRzWlpAsmoSrBnHbAcIiNmAIc9Ie7HUtuGXQjCXJdrhjwirZ_OgPMVbW2EO-MoENLWHeL38Vj3tQzPTQl7yCvlkzPfZYEAg/s1600-h/headshottin.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 123px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrltnqPMxECnHQK3BoNnuqiGsSaAixpWvMKo4dQYyNh1S2ZRzWlpAsmoSrBnHbAcIiNmAIc9Ie7HUtuGXQjCXJdrhjwirZ_OgPMVbW2EO-MoENLWHeL38Vj3tQzPTQl7yCvlkzPfZYEAg/s400/headshottin.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325055664501463906" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><br />Assistant Editor: Tinsel Silvera<br /></strong></span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ethics Statement:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THIS IS A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER, NOT A VEHICLE FOR EXPOSE. All reporters for The New Babbage Cog are obligated to inform potential interviewees when they are gathering data for a report on our behalf, or clearly identify themselves as a TNBC journalist. This is a community paper, not a vehicle for expose; all investigative reporting must be above-the-board. Deception is against the intended spirit of community embraced by this paper and will not be tolerated. If a citizen encounters an aggressive reporter claiming to work on behalf of The New Babbage Cog, they are urged to report same to the Editor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Contact:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- Visit us:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Temporary location: The Willow Tea Room Lot # 20 New Babbage Cultural District<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- Drop a notecard:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">Notecard communications can be sent to Miss Eggberta Echegaray and/or Mr.Tinsel Silvera<span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">-- IM:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;">You may contact Miss Eggberta Echegaray and/or Mr.Tinsel Silvera by IM with any newspaper business.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;">-- Aethernet mail:</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Messages sent to </span><st1:personname style="font-weight: normal;">newbabbage@gmail.com</st1:personname><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will be fielded or redirected as necessary by<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Miss Eggberta Echegaray.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >-- </span>Ms.Echegaray's SL Office Hours: Mon – Fri<span style=""> </span><st1:time minute="0" hour="15">3pm – 4pm</st1:time> SLT</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Circulation:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The New Babbage Cog is circulated in three ways:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. new issues are sent automatically to subscribers of the New Babbage Cog group.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Issues are available from a paper boxes at the following locations:<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Babbage Square telehub</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Willow Tea Room</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-- Undershaw Restoration Society</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Back Issues:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;">All back issues of The New Babbage Cog will be available free of charge. They can be found in the Willow Tea Room on the first floor.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Submissions:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Volunteer freelance and column writers are welcome to propose stories. The New Babbage Cog also welcomes news tips, reports, and story ideas from interested parties. Please see our contact information above.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Advertising:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising should be germane to subjects of greatest import to residents of New Babbage. Although our sensibilities are quite modern and liberal, The New Babbage Cog reserves the right to determine an ad's fitness for inclusion based on its pertinence to steampunk, Victoriana, retrotech, industry, anachronism, and other related concepts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advertising is L$50 to New Babbage citizens and L$100 for out-of-towners, per listing, per issue.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">For both residents and non-residents, space is limited to 500 characters per listing. Each ad may include one embedded texture and one landmark. File attachments must be delivered at the time of ad reservation. Please see our contact information above to inquire.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Errata:</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">[There are no errors known to be in need of correction at this time. The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Disclaimer:</span><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;">This issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper and is also publicly owned by the City-State of New Babbage, which at the time of it's printing, was under the care of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The New Babbage Cog</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; 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margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vol I / Issue XII</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> ~ </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">24th o</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">f December</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">, 2</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">007</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >***</span><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span></p> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >2007 <st1:place>Holiday</st1:place> Issue</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><st1:date month="12" day="24" year="2007"><br /></st1:date></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> </div><br /><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >***</span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">CONTENTS:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><ol><li>Final Letter from the Editor</li><li>“Twas The Night Before Christmas…” Steampunk Style!</li><li>New Babbage Has Trains!</li><li>Christmas in New Babbage</li><li>Events & Announcements</li><li>Classified Advertisements</li><li>New Babbage and Steampunk FAQ</li><li>Contact and other Essential Information for the Reader<br /></li></ol>_____________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" >FINAL LETTER FROM THE EDITOR</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Not only is this a special holiday issue of the Cog, but alas, it unfortunately will be the last publication as well. I have to retire my position of Editor in Chief, for other things have popped up that I must give my full and out most attention. Going back and starting off as Mrs.Junie Ginsburg's assistant back in February of 2007, and taking over for her as Editor In Chief, back in May of 2007, has been quite the challenge and learning experience for me. The one thing I have undoubtedly noticed with my said role, is that New Babbage's community spirit is very strong. It was my hope, that someone else would have taken up the role as Editor in Chief from me, as I did for Mrs.Ginsburg, but alas, no one has stepped up to the plate, so I feel I have no choice but to end the publication. On a lighter note, residents and visitor's to our fine city-state, can still keep abreast with New Babbage community events and goings on, at the New Bab</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">bage Forum Boards, which is alive with communications. On a parting note, I would like to thank all the readers of The New Babbage Cog, and the members of the SL in world Babbage Cog group. If it wasn't for the loyal readership, I would not have got this far. It has been an interesting challenging with my role as Editor in Chief for the Cog, I have learned with regards to collecting and publishing events in our community's first published newspaper.<br /><br />In your service,<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVmGtTtrF93-tQXhtbzYVKt94lTykyIdWHmqsfwDvaATCyxLMpRAM0SS9Q6Db2vlcK7XmZmlmGYB2u-RIRhZVNoXRH7x6rzj_d59X-nWjrljEJiiOFIfDG7g6wiRb90hvlJmOGFfXeRVM/s1600-h/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 94px; height: 123px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVmGtTtrF93-tQXhtbzYVKt94lTykyIdWHmqsfwDvaATCyxLMpRAM0SS9Q6Db2vlcK7XmZmlmGYB2u-RIRhZVNoXRH7x6rzj_d59X-nWjrljEJiiOFIfDG7g6wiRb90hvlJmOGFfXeRVM/s400/eggyheadshotsepia.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325271911106720898" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <div style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Former Editor in Chief: Miss Eggberta Echegaray</strong></span></span></div> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span>______________________________________________________________________________________<br /></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">“TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS..." STEAMPUNK STYLE!</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFw3tO4Z2J04-qdz94u0qH0jSax6fF8p7fYtpUtKUVBEmYzP16awT-T_lIx8x1Fluk2vuaf_ugmm7vpKU0U5Tw08dWwiyjKvvsXwQSzOYu05FX4lHP1c8Fz0EuABHKH7PNJYjfrl19mHQ/s1600-h/blackandwhite.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 287px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFw3tO4Z2J04-qdz94u0qH0jSax6fF8p7fYtpUtKUVBEmYzP16awT-T_lIx8x1Fluk2vuaf_ugmm7vpKU0U5Tw08dWwiyjKvvsXwQSzOYu05FX4lHP1c8Fz0EuABHKH7PNJYjfrl19mHQ/s400/blackandwhite.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325272977065265986" border="0" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: center;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgbwrqFGBehwjG6N05cskZJ4Wr7ToEzctkqUWsj4QSUHqToP5wMGiNlwgG1lj6usVHc14YpiaNQmi85WSwjhE8xOei8X4ApXaRhCXp6HA9s1-PR1JrSBlK3JmfCqgyPi4OgcHkcmkPyUE/s400/The-Kindly-Robin-Victorian-Christmas-Card-Giclee-Print-C12558283.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325273682771220498" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">When out in the yard there arose such a clatter,<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">I sprang from the slag to see what was the matter.<br /><o:p></o:p></p><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Away to the window I flew like a flash,<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">The moon on the breast of the soot-stained snow<o:p>, </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Gave the luster of industry to objects below,<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">When what to my wondering eyes should appear,<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">But a bright-copper sleigh, and eight mechanical reindeer,<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">With a little old tinker, so lively and quick,<o:p><br /></o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.</p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNc1rf8Ju0iMWBe3cp7QeUdGxqs0GUiQkNL7GCrXt6XLrZ5ghrmZPA_t8cr8R39Y627Ib4UM2T6mJE_pRQ_UiHdHu4xdoCcwzo8uY3A_yxu1CY2dtaI9nwMC9AijivZVYG4Fkx7iSp8A/s1600-h/fatherchristmas2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNc1rf8Ju0iMWBe3cp7QeUdGxqs0GUiQkNL7GCrXt6XLrZ5ghrmZPA_t8cr8R39Y627Ib4UM2T6mJE_pRQ_UiHdHu4xdoCcwzo8uY3A_yxu1CY2dtaI9nwMC9AijivZVYG4Fkx7iSp8A/s400/fatherchristmas2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325273033280846978" border="0" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">More rapid than airships his coursers they came,<o:p></o:p><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">And he hole punched, and carded, and programed them by name;<o:p> </o:p><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!<o:p><br /></o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>On, Comet! on Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">To the top of the smokestack! to the top of the wall!<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">As hot embers that before the wild furnace fly,<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">When they meet with a crucible, mount to the sky,</p><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">So up to the sky-light the coursers they flew,<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">With the sleigh full of inventions, and St. Nicholas too.<o:p><br /></o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">The prancing and pawing of each metal hoof.<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">As I drew in my hand, and was turning around,<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Down the smoke stack St. Nicholas came with a bound.<o:p> </o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrZotEmV9QQJePD98LS5UHD1XjVLZ0cFyrCUBTPYbqQQw1HpDJ5rqZqmDd1Lsd2kTvBjl7crZEovATYShiBrwxT2SW0s7OoB-4OO1umlliQN7QfXWowlN_RQ23kdASV-RF0ZjEsnZBZpA/s1600-h/steam_punk_xmas-786636.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 438px; height: 164px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrZotEmV9QQJePD98LS5UHD1XjVLZ0cFyrCUBTPYbqQQw1HpDJ5rqZqmDd1Lsd2kTvBjl7crZEovATYShiBrwxT2SW0s7OoB-4OO1umlliQN7QfXWowlN_RQ23kdASV-RF0ZjEsnZBZpA/s400/steam_punk_xmas-786636.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325275608436992370" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">He was dressed all in frock, from his head to his foot,<o:p><br /></o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">A bundle of tools he had flung on his back,<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">His eyes -- how they twinkled! his whiskers how grizzled!<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">His cheeks were like boilers, his nose like a Whistle!<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">His droll little mouth was drawn up like a rivet,<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">And the beard of his chin was starting to fidget;<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,<o:p><br /></o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;<o:p><br /></o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>He had a broad face and a little round belly,<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">That shook, when he laughed like a cog at the ready.<o:p> </o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old spirit,<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">I emptied my glass of absinthe, as it has courage in it;<o:p><br /></o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,<o:p></o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Soon he gave me the know, I had nothing to dread;</p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB4iuvx7XUdZSbYy8ta54cG18I1o0gd8jNkIjR6SfaiuwugkiBDgIwCwaE-FoywvMK_XzlAnuaoyMomx1BbN0-9Ny1T_c5o9jud6dvjxyFmw0MVg_jVV6KNu_JqOZ-sFyrPJPPXdVakOk/s1600-h/steampunkchristmas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB4iuvx7XUdZSbYy8ta54cG18I1o0gd8jNkIjR6SfaiuwugkiBDgIwCwaE-FoywvMK_XzlAnuaoyMomx1BbN0-9Ny1T_c5o9jud6dvjxyFmw0MVg_jVV6KNu_JqOZ-sFyrPJPPXdVakOk/s400/steampunkchristmas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325273234193827986" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,<o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">And milled thousands of cogs;<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">used all of my pig-iron, the jerk!<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">And with a bag full of cogs, he stole my last hose,<o:p><br /></o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>And giving a shout, up the chimney he rose;<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">He sprang to his sleigh, blew the brass belching whistle,<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.<o:p> </o:p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">But I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight,<o:p><br /></o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p>"</o:p>Industry marches on, and to all a good-night."<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">Parody Poem by Eggberta Echegaray</span></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >***</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >NEW BABBAGE HAS TRAINS!</span></span><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Just in time for Christmas, our train lines are 90 percent open! </p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj3USoL6-sERs6JvsUnkssGfgpgkp83zOF0hUp9RnEyGBaGet9upphdWaPqi9TZb3EMgGumdWwGNnCe3b6wmcZIbLmYzME3yBqEpHvnQcJ3VUkqQduEGIbe__xAgsxW2RBR3dqeJAu-aw/s1600-h/trains_005a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj3USoL6-sERs6JvsUnkssGfgpgkp83zOF0hUp9RnEyGBaGet9upphdWaPqi9TZb3EMgGumdWwGNnCe3b6wmcZIbLmYzME3yBqEpHvnQcJ3VUkqQduEGIbe__xAgsxW2RBR3dqeJAu-aw/s400/trains_005a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325274184846054594" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Last night I did a test run on the line, and I can recommend the Babbage square to canals route, as it is the most complete. Currently the route from the port to the square is not quite up to par as the other line, as it is a little buggy around the turn, but I am told, this will be fixed soon.<span style=""> </span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu56yuJQVdYWj409g4caZin2NZpt1NGQrwuTC-kB3nnqUQKkyMNAo2OLLJfBrAAQ4m8NmPBt-Mf8gSudPR5X3J1XUF1BMM1NNiofRhXI2udxegHWMGBy9T4pdEsFYgGP2UoHcFUAdJInQ/s1600-h/train_004a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu56yuJQVdYWj409g4caZin2NZpt1NGQrwuTC-kB3nnqUQKkyMNAo2OLLJfBrAAQ4m8NmPBt-Mf8gSudPR5X3J1XUF1BMM1NNiofRhXI2udxegHWMGBy9T4pdEsFYgGP2UoHcFUAdJInQ/s400/train_004a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325274139728757586" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO2LeTPjRl0ILeLzGCO_pVyQCHsHIWYDhS7a2VLyVumxg5D0rKdkW3ovz5KIErRgBfBwgrV2JL2n7tkXzZvnTCMumY0jouPoV_dtIGgV6mrkfK91p-f17E5W-6defp8yVnf150gBEuBj4/s1600-h/train_001a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO2LeTPjRl0ILeLzGCO_pVyQCHsHIWYDhS7a2VLyVumxg5D0rKdkW3ovz5KIErRgBfBwgrV2JL2n7tkXzZvnTCMumY0jouPoV_dtIGgV6mrkfK91p-f17E5W-6defp8yVnf150gBEuBj4/s400/train_001a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325274083455562898" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">As you cross over the sim borders, you may see some jerkiness, and possible ghosting of the train, but this appears to be a linden lab issue and Mayor Sprocket insists, this he and the train crew will be working on this to minimize the glitches.<br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eggberta Echegaray</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">***<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Elaine/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-5.jpg" alt="" /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">CHRISTMAS TIME IN NEW BABBAGE</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">I have to admit, walking around </span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:times new roman;" >New Babbage at Christmas time</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:times new roman;" >is most magical and fun.</span><br /></div><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3S74259xWn5NKaAOoU2LaInvzTVgtBJlS1pc2IOMVQyEECDG8ulvYxBUC4NuegTBlAR9E7FwuZr88Ym8lLswsu9iysd4KIzR0l4xElC8UBBeX5i9P9eLEE5wVzCsd-Hg3DG-20ur24Y/s1600-h/snowglobe1.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 328px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3S74259xWn5NKaAOoU2LaInvzTVgtBJlS1pc2IOMVQyEECDG8ulvYxBUC4NuegTBlAR9E7FwuZr88Ym8lLswsu9iysd4KIzR0l4xElC8UBBeX5i9P9eLEE5wVzCsd-Hg3DG-20ur24Y/s400/snowglobe1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325273183700364802" border="0" /><span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"><span class="" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_JustifyCenter" title="Align Center" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 11);ButtonMouseDown(this);"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Align Center" class="gl_align_center" border="0" /></span></span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">What's Christmas without candies! Ms.Ordinal Malaprops Humbugs are quite popular amongst our residents, as they give off quite a bang!<br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWJG2Qcaql8J-DPYZJ4fORjYeQINTNWvpkK4uKnfOqB2sar_trjE5c44jaLJfvhe-uRs74lnlOijdSUZbVCsSuLeJEv8xY1JsbDGe8TQZydZhRsq414VnHyT1XyjkxTF7JCmhCY8l9C8k/s1600-h/humbugs_001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWJG2Qcaql8J-DPYZJ4fORjYeQINTNWvpkK4uKnfOqB2sar_trjE5c44jaLJfvhe-uRs74lnlOijdSUZbVCsSuLeJEv8xY1JsbDGe8TQZydZhRsq414VnHyT1XyjkxTF7JCmhCY8l9C8k/s400/humbugs_001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325273133000750146" border="0" /></a></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Some of New Babbage's residents have really "decked the halls" this year, as the exterior decorations are quite lovely. Just goes to show that our community is in fine holiday cheer with their Christmas creations. </span><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjds72_NH1w1PZJO1TgFTXSrkan5-g1ia8WUW0LhOYmAzxnSh1Pgt5NR6dI1lKebSN0nj7JbwZdSOIJQk7pznkNG7Clq2laYxocOLMvM3hVkHIJqroYWqJ9nFo5OwgURDjWukjcal-gQvg/s1600-h/trees.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjds72_NH1w1PZJO1TgFTXSrkan5-g1ia8WUW0LhOYmAzxnSh1Pgt5NR6dI1lKebSN0nj7JbwZdSOIJQk7pznkNG7Clq2laYxocOLMvM3hVkHIJqroYWqJ9nFo5OwgURDjWukjcal-gQvg/s400/trees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325274253093549906" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">A walk around New Babbage this time of year, is not have been complete until going past Kaylee Frye's fun Snowman Exhibition</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifOAXks7yRnVFlXUUTBuD5wD0i0_QiB3uYNU1b_ytoi3uXKA7e-pq4dERAHEBOK7s3fal_bqb_FBm-B_xZ_v8UR3RiYMSrTIqC-DMvr7z6ruy8xCvVzWftPeu4tJbEpxt2_UtvRjsh-DQ/s1600-h/steampunksnowmen_010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh00yfpwpk2DjGPB1yUExhYQCIOZMTPUyo9w4Y9spDb-KSDyYOuEd5h-YFJPxUkIyKz12N7nLyplHcGxjwZxv2WLmiok-9UVC5eB1JV_hb8FeWbkEa15dLjE8gWn-xdU-3zszNCSAV2awE/s1600-h/steampunksnowmen_005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh00yfpwpk2DjGPB1yUExhYQCIOZMTPUyo9w4Y9spDb-KSDyYOuEd5h-YFJPxUkIyKz12N7nLyplHcGxjwZxv2WLmiok-9UVC5eB1JV_hb8FeWbkEa15dLjE8gWn-xdU-3zszNCSAV2awE/s400/steampunksnowmen_005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325273394816896914" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNqONfjVxG6RDaxdYyYtdz47b_rkUbOLViXhBIRPzXt6Q86x5HuYA1yjOHy2L18LMPmYx1Jss4n6hEaZdfTtpdjxysTYbgBr8dS8odrZzKEOo5afviPLtqSKoxFdWpQM5uvwgPW5D7d7E/s1600-h/steampunksnowmen_003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And, finally, it wouldn't be Christmas time in New Babbage without any holiday cheers from our community of street urchins</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggDxeLQi2pruwn7QBxz7OEX2bXv03rm8X4xIt4EMbkFFNZajbfmpX2NiRD233mhW1MHacyINtij4jxr6MkRVyOK6mYF_2-uqjwxXPPCdeSqasC-yT5fU8YXRzeyT70KdFIsEzgeFVJzwc/s1600-h/urchinschristmas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggDxeLQi2pruwn7QBxz7OEX2bXv03rm8X4xIt4EMbkFFNZajbfmpX2NiRD233mhW1MHacyINtij4jxr6MkRVyOK6mYF_2-uqjwxXPPCdeSqasC-yT5fU8YXRzeyT70KdFIsEzgeFVJzwc/s400/urchinschristmas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325274291751802018" border="0" /></a></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">On behalf of The New Babbage Cog, Merry Christmas Everyone!</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">***<br /></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTACT, CIRCULATION, AND OTHER ESSENTIAL</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">INFORMATION FOR THE READER</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >***</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></o:p></span><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; 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The New Babbage Cog is obliged to anyone who sends notification of a mistake, so that rectifications might be swiftly published.]</span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Disclaimer:</span><br /></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;">This issue of The New Babbage Cog, and it's intellectual property, are owned by the contributors to the newspaper and is also publicly owned by the City-State of New Babbage, which at the time of it's printing, was under the care of Mayor Shaunathan Sprocket.</p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2007 of the Common Era<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The New Babbage Cog</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">~~ Relata Refero ~~</span><br /></div> <o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]-->Eggberta Echegarayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347297432920393272noreply@blogger.com