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Does it make you angry when someone of faith tells you they'll pray for you? I find it insulting. Some others do not, though, as some see this as an expression of gratitude.
What do you think?
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It just means they will be thinking of you and wishing you well. Effectively nothing but ultimately, what else can they do?
@ matt - tell them that you would prefer to hear that they will be thinking of you and wishing you well.
I treat it the same as when someone says, "I'll drink to your health". I say thank you, the more people on the case, the better. Seriously, why let it bother you? The underlying message is simply, "I care". Does it matter if they say it differently?.
When they're like, "Oh, you're gay? I'll pray for you." Yeah, I find that insulting. Even when it's meant in a genuine and kind way, it's like, "Whatever, talk to yourself all you want."
"Oh, you're gay? I'll pray for you."
"Wow, you're going to pray me up a lesbian? Fantastic! Can I get one with short hair if its not too much trouble?"
New smash hit song "Pray me up a lesbian". I heard the people from the Greek island of Lesbos are peeved at Sappho already.
But what would your wife think?
She understands my sarcasm :)
praying makes things worse for the person you pray for.
So yeah i would be pretty offended if they wished ill willed against yahweh.
I'm not easily offended to begin with. Even though, I know it doesn'y do anything, I usually ignore it. I think it's something theists like to say, but I believe very few actually do it. Either way it has no affect on me. Too many people these days are too easily offended. If it doesn't affect me, why should I let it bother me.
Just tell them you'd rather have money, if they're insistent (obviously they didn't get the point) then say "OK then, (sigh) I'll take the blow-job."
That should take you off their pray list. :D


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Los Angeles County is home to more than a quarter of California's population, and nearly 60 percent of its residents are Latino.
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After the 2010 census confirmed that Latinos are a strong majority of the county's residents, Molina and the board's only black member, Mark Ridley-Thomas, pressed their colleagues to create another Latino seat.
That, however, would have disrupted the board's ethnopolitical status quo – one Latino seat, one black seat, one white Jewish seat and two white Republican seats, and none of the other three was willing to make the change.
Ultimately, therefore, the board adopted a plan that only slightly changed the existing boundaries, much to the dismay of Latino-rights activists who argued that by the numbers, they should have another slot on the powerful board.
Ever since, they have been pressing the Justice Department to intervene again, but curiously, it has stalled. The 1991 intervention came from a Republican administration, but the Obama administration has been less willing to challenge Los Angeles County – even though it has brought high-profile Voting Rights Act cases against redistricting plans and voting laws enacted in red states such as Texas.
The latest wrinkle in the saga comes from Bill Boyarsky, Los Angeles' most experienced political journalist. Writing in LA Observed, a local website, Boyarsky reveals that Ridley-Thomas is supporting efforts to persuade the Justice Department to intervene.
"I know the Latino community will once again have to look to the courts for protection of their voting rights," Ridley-Thomas wrote.
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
Sweet Tweets!!
I posted the whole lesson earlier in the week HERE and HERE.
One little disclaimer. Attaching the wire was WAY too hard for my classes (25ish in a group) to do on their own and have them not wobble. Fortunately, I discovered this before we started, so guess who spent an evening in front of the TV twisting wires and applying a bit of masking tape to cover the sharp end?!! Not really as bad as it sounds:))
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These birds are adorable; I am looking for ideas to use wire for sculptural projects.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing
They really are cute, though, despite the challenges. I'll bet the kids are thrilled with them! I would be!ReplyDelete
I love this lesson and I will be trying it at some point for sure! Thanks so much!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 2, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Would it work to just tape the wire to the inside of the folded cardboard? I'd like to try this project too!ReplyDeleteReplies
I don't think that just tape would work, although I didn't try that. Even with twisting the wire tightly, I still had to tape the wire on the underside of some of them for added stability so they wouldn't wobble from side to side. I was just using masking tape, though, maybe something like duct tape would work. Good luck with it:)Delete
- AnonymousApril 3, 2012 at 9:01 AM
thanks for your response. i'll have to play with it before i decide to do it with a class. i'm also wondering if a pipe cleaner neck would work or be too heavy? we shall see!Delete
These are so stinking cute!!!ReplyDelete
Doin' this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe before the end of the year!!! LOVE 'EM!ReplyDelete


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Today while running errands I stopped at a grocery store we have locally called Martin's, (they're owned by Giant Foods, I believe.)
At the self-checkout I glanced at the impulse items and saw the word "Valentina" but this confused me since I knew I was staring at a bag of popcorn. That's when I realized, it was Valentina-flavored popcorn.
That's right. Act II Valentina (Salsa Picante Style) popcorn. I grabbed two bags and tried not to get too excited. I love Valentina but I assumed they would just put some regular chili powder on the popcorn, (and I already put jalapeño powder on my popcorn, so this wouldn't impress me.)
When I finally got home, I couldn't wait to check it out.
First you pop the popcorn as usual. When it comes out of the bag, it already has an orange color, but when I tasted it, it tasted plain – You need to add the packet of Valentina-flavored powder that comes with it.
Thankfully, it does not taste like regular chili powder – it really tastes like Valentina. Your fingers will turn reddish-orange, pero vale la pena. Good luck finding it at a store near you!
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More impressive was the recent street sighting of an honest-to-god Audi sport quattro SWB in white. Not the earlier standard car, but the shorter homologation special for group B that was never sold in the US. These were originally made in response to the Lancia 037 and Delta S4 rally success in the mid eighties. 84 or 85 I suppose complete with the original weird proportions. Older guy driving it, and must have recently imported it now that it falls outside the 25 year rule. Genuinely impressed; I rarely do double takes on cars but this was special.0
Almost always driven by women
Really? Given the cost I would expect executive men to own them. The one I saw had a male behind the wheel, 2 kids inside.0
I've seen numerous Model S in the showy eastside Seattle suburb where I live, too. There's even a dealer in my local mall.
This morning saw a new unplated C63, rental Altima and Malibu, and the dentist across the street is driving an A8 loaner car.
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Spotted this morning, looked like a Touring model, White (Good Color btw). Also a few new Accord Coupes and new 2014 RAV4 in Silver.
My neighbor has a new Avalon in his driveway this week. This guy had a pair of current Gen Impalas, a Caddy SRX and an Aveo (2 person household btw). Now he's down to the one Impy and the other 2.
Also noticed a new Explorer sporting quad exhaust tips yesterday. I don't think this is a stock addon so must've been aftermarket. Looked neat tho.
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Another Tesla S tonight, and an ILX - not really new, but reminded me I saw a commercial for some wacky lease deal on one, like $239.0
Add Katskins leather to a Civic Si lease for less.0
boomchek Vancouver, BC, CanadaPosts: 5,440I saw a red Tesla S with a dealer plate in a very industrial area a few weeks ago. I didn't know they were out already.
Speaking of electric cars, I see a lot more on the road lately, especially ones used by municipalities. Yesterday saw a Nissan Leaf being charged at City Hall when I went to pay my property taxes and on the road saw one of those tall narrow Mitsubishi iMievs. Quite a few Volts around too in Vancouver, I see one almost every day somewhere.
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the new civic did not seem as bad as the prior generation (in terms of seats), but that is a huge issue for me on many cars, looking at the "cheap" version vs. the "premium" version.
8 way power seats are so much better in most case than the cheap manual ones you see now (with the single lever ratchet the basically dumps you forward as you raise it) that I have eliminated a bunch of cars (Civic, Mazda3) in the past simply because I could not get the seats adjusted at a comfortable angle.
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did that 2 weeks ago. Love to do it. Your need for for a pano roof does narrow down the choices though.
I did find that Honda has rebounded from losing their way recently. the new civic was nice, and the Accord a big improvement.
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No Hatches...well the Fit, but tiny gas tank and dated trans.0
so just a hatch? I feel you there. IN a small car, I want one of those too.
they should make a new integra. Considering how small it is, the moonroof seems like a pano (it is a pretty big panel, but seems huge in relation to how small the roof is!)
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Speaking of Lexus, many weeks ago on facebook they hinted at an IS Sportcross, with an announcement scheduled for Jan 14th (I think). Today, still nothing. Sad, one of the few worthwhile models they have made, and they botch it.
Saw a Tesla roadster last night.0
Are we surprised to hear tomb-like silence from Lexus?0
And numb lifeless response, too - some users called them out on it, with no reply. I suspect that model would actually lure over some new customers.0
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Also an odd event this morning, It was like Noahs Ark at one of the stoplights near work. A pair of Corollas, a Pair of Escapes, a pair of Accords, a Pair of Fiat 500's, and a Pair of Tacomas all leaving the stop light. Then 2 pairs of Civics at a light further down my commute...
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At least she's being cautious. Who wants to ding up their new car?0
She'd be better off to back in - seems most good drivers I know do it that way. There's cautious, and there's overdoing it. I can back my car in without hitting the brake or even turning my head, I just use mirrors.
But I will excuse her as the tall wagon is relatively new, and probably has visibility issues relative to a normal car.0
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"Teddy was the spirit and voice of his times. No voice better expressed the aspirations of late '70's Harlem."
--Gary Harris.
Twitter, 14 Jan 2010
Twenty-ten has roared up the on ramp of our lives like a ghostly metallic hearse, looking for the last exit to oblivion. The first psychic toll booth flashed a horrifically blinking snapshot of the Apocalypse; where a 7.0 tectonic plate shift in Port au Prince, Haiti, may have cut down hundreds of thousands of lives.
Both world shattering events took place on Wednesday, 13 January 2010. GOD Help us.
These are days that make some want to pray, and I been prayin' a lot (no offense to Senator Reid, but grievous situations sometimes brings out the Negro dialect in me). Praying to GOD for HIS Mercy on the dear folks of Haiti, praying for the grieving Pendergrass family, friends, and fans, and even praying for the discordant chattering class of the Posse Comment-Haters. Maledictorians like Crackhead Rush Limbaugh, a.k.a., Pookie; the white, Republican crackhead with a multi-million-dollar microphone.
Limbaugh (who, after being divinely spared from his own Kierkergaardian personal earthquake, a heart scare, which sounds like a non sequitur, because we all know Rush doesn't have a heart), both discouraged his listeners from donating to Haiti's Relief Fund, and venomously opined that President Obama's instantaneous response to the Haitian disaster was an attempt to validate his Black man passport in the African-African American community. Hmmm: I wonder if a self-professed Christian like Rush Limbaugh, ever came across this passage in Proverbs 18:7 "A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul."
And then there's Pat "Elmer Gantry" Robertson, a man of the soiled cloth, who pathetically assumed that Haiti's present woes are the wages for a demonic deal signed to expedite their liberation from French colonialism. Wow; really Pat? What part of the Bible did you glean that from? Old or New Testament?
Mr. Robertson's neighborhood is populated with right wing Pharisees choking on hypocritical dogma; men who seem to be very familiar with Faustian deals, because they see the same Mephistophelesian partner grinning over their shoulders, and staring back at them in the mirror.
Unlike these two wolves in sheep's clothing, the Bible instructs believers in Romans 12:15 to "rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep" and right now, teardrops are exploding all over the world, like wet, silent bombs of immeasurable mourning.
Teddy Pendergrass--like his musically ideological twin Marvin Gaye--was a socio-cultural avatar for African American men in the '70s. Not that Teddy's songs were scripted with lyrics of violent revolt: Wake Up Everybody--produced by the prolific team of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, the men who created the Philadelphia International powerhouse--was a socially conscious anthem about racial unity and responsibility in the face of an increasingly apathetic Great Society.
Like Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass was a church boy who carried the fervor of the ecclesiastical into the secular.
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Burton, David M. History of Mathematics: An introduction, 4th ed. USA: WCB/ McGraw-Hill, 1999.
Cannon, James W., William J. Floyd, Richard Kenyon, and Walter R. Parry. "Hyperbolic Geometry," in No. 31 of Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, Flavors of Geometry, edited by Silvio Levy, 59-115. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Conway, J.H. and S. Torquato, "Packing, Tiling, and Covering with Tetrahedra" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, vol. 103, no. 28. (July 2006).
Coxeter, H.S.M. Non-Euclidean Geometry, 6th ed. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, 1998.
Delman, Charles and Gregory Galperin. "A Tale of Three Circles," Mathematics Magazine, vol. 76, no.1 (February 2003).
Deza, Michel and Mikhail Shtogrin. "Uniform Partitions of 3-Space, Their Relatives and Embedding," European Journal of Combinatorics, vol. 21, no. 6 (August 2000).
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One Direction Can't Stop the Giggles in Behind-the-Scenes Mockumentary Footage
Try as they might, the members of One Direction can't stop the giggles in the behind-the-scenes footage from their That Moment fragrance mockumentary. The boys break character throughout and erupt into fits of giggles as the faux French photographer tickles their funny bones with his idiocy.
The mockumentary from the fragrance shoot was done in the behind-the-scenes style to begin with. This two-minute video is a BTS look at the BTS mockumentary. It's all so very BTS, isn't it?
Niall Horan is the one who bursts into laughter the most and appears to be having the most fun on set. But how can you not when you are dealing with a hairy, cod piece-wearing photographer with lots of exposed chest hair?
Harry Styles desperately tries to keep his you-know-what together when up close with the photog, but the grin quickly spreads across that handsome face and he can barely contain himself. Zayn Malik cackles when told he is the photog's favorite and leave it to Louis Tomlinson to reference the abundance of chest hairs that are protruding from the snapper's vest. Oh, and Liam Payne tries to keep a straight face but can't. Neither can the photog.
It's such a goofy BTS clip of the BTS mockumentary.The boys clearly had a lot of fun while promoting their latest ladies perfume. We sure had a good time watching it.


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August 2009
Taking Uranium Down a Notch
International research team makes important discovery about how to clean up uranium in groundwater
The key foci of this project are rates and mechanisms of biogenic uraninite corrosion, the primary mechanism for uranium re-release to the subsurface from this material. Biogenic uraninite emplaced and retrieved from Rifle wells is being characterized using a suite of structure and reactivity measurement techniques to quantify these reactions and better understand processes that are essential to geochemical uranium transport models. Credit: John Bargar. May 1, 2009. Enlarge Image
Results: Across the country, hundreds of billions of gallons of groundwater are contaminated with uranium from early weapons development efforts and other activities. Scientists have been trying for more than two decades to find ways to safely and cost-effectively prevent that uranium from flowing toward nearby communities.
One promising technology is to use naturally occurring bacteria to change the widely spread dissolved uranium into a nanoparticulate solid called biogenic uraninite that is less likely to move with the groundwater. Unfortunately, the approach is riddled with challenges. Now an interdisciplinary, international team of researchers is applying advanced material science techniques to characterize the key properties of this biogenic uraninite that will control its stability in groundwater.
Why it matters: Scientists understand how uranium behaves under certain controlled conditions. They are less confident in predicting how it will behave in complex environmental systems, including when it interacts with bacteria or other innovative treatment approaches.
"By looking at the structure and key properties of uranium, we take it from something exotic to something familiar, with behavior that can be reliably predicted," said Dr. Eugene Ilton, a Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who was chosen for the team because of his extensive experience using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to study the geochemistry of uranium. These properties include its structure down to the nano-scale level, dissolution rate, and solubility.
Ilton's work on the team, which is led by Dr. John Bargar at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, also suggested something surprising: that what was believed to be a rare form of uranium called pentavalent uranium may actually be more prevalent in nature. Although previous chemical studies showed that this form of uranium is associated with the corrosion of spent nuclear fuel, this investigation is the first to demonstrate that it is also naturally formed on the surface of tiny particles of uraninite suspended in water.
"This shows that oxidizing uranium to a more soluble form isn't the single-step process previously thought," said Ilton. "There's an intermediate step that must be taken into consideration for cleanup techniques to be effective."
Methods: The team, which also included experts in environmental engineering, materials sciences, and nuclear research from Washington University in St. Louis and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, compared two types of uraninite. One type was chemically synthesized uraninite; the other was biogenic uraninite produced by bacteria.
Using advanced x-ray techniques, the team looked at the structure and chemistry of each type of the mineral, its dissolution rate both in the presence of oxygen and without, and its solubility. Combining structural and chemical investigations with studies on dissolution is crucial because understanding the structure and composition at both the molecular and nano-scales provides the necessary insight to build reaction models. These models in turn allow rates to be applied to simulate and predict how uranium will move with the groundwater.
Their studies showed that both types of uraninite, the chemically synthesized coarse-grained pure uranium oxide and the biogenic form, had similar solubility and comparable dissolution rates when oxygen was present and when it wasn't, consistent with their similar crystal core structures. Based on this information, the team developed a conceptual mechanistic model for how uraninite would react in groundwater.
What's next: The team's work provides a baseline study of how stable some forms of uranium can be in groundwater. The scientists plan to look at how adding other chemicals, such as manganese, might improve stability and prevent the mineral from dissolving in groundwater. The team is also using the results of this laboratory-based work to test the rates and mechanisms of biogenic uraninite dissolution in groundwater at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Integrated Field Research Challenge site at Old Rifle, Colorado.
Acknowledgments: This work was done by Kai-Uwe Ulrich and Daniel Giammar of Washington University St. Louis, Eugene Ilton of PNNL; Harish Veeramani, Jonathan Sharp, and Rizlan Bernier-Latmani of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland; and Eleanor Schofiel and John Bargar of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Part of the research was conducted at the Synchronton Radiation Lightsource at Stanford University, and work carried out in Switzerland was partially funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Sponsor: DOE Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research's Environmental Remediation Science Program through the SLAC Science Focus Area.
Reference: Ulrich K-U, ES Ilton, H Veeramani, JO Sharp, R Bernier-Latmani, EJ Schofield, JR Bargar, and DE Giammar. 2009. "Comparative dissolution kinetics of biogenic and chemogenic uraninite under oxidizing conditions in the presence of carbonate." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. In press. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.07.012.


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Buccaneers host the Bisons in first home game of the conference season
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (October 1, 2011) – The No. 24/22 ETSU men's soccer team continues conference play on Sunday afternoon, when they play host to Lipscomb inside Summers-Taylor Stadium at 1 p.m.
ETSU (6-2-1, 0-1-0 A-Sun) traveled to Nashville for its conference opener on Friday against Belmont, but could not come away with the result in a, 3-1, loss. The Bruins took advantage of a red card issued to Alesi Osorio (Austin, Texas) in the 48th minute, using the man up to the likes of three second half goals. The card came when Osorio fouled a Bruin defender in Belmont's box that the referee deemed too flagrant.
The loss was ETSU's first in an A-Sun opener since 2008, when it dropped the conference opener to North Florida, 2-1, in double overtime.
A bright spot for the Buccaneers on Friday was the play of senior Aaron Schoenfeld (Knoxville, Tenn.) The captain caused many problems for the Bruin defense through the first half, taking five shots and scoring his team-leading fourth goal of the season in a half which ETSU dominated, 11-3, in shots.
The Bucs now look to get back on track with their first home contest of the conference season, and will need their defense to keep Lipscomb off the scoreboard. In ETSU's six wins and one draw, it has allowed just 0.29 goals per game, while the Bucs have fallen apart defensively in their two losses, giving up an average of 3.5 goals per contest.
Six of the seven goals scored against ETSU in its two losses have come in the second half, as redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Ryan Coulter (Dublin, Ireland) has fallen victim to those scores. The reigning A-Sun Defensive Player of the Week has recorded six shutouts with the help of a 0.22 goals against average through the first half of matches this year. The second half has not been as friendly to the Irish native, as Coulter's GAA reads 0.77 through the second frame.
Lipscomb (1-8-2, 0-1-0 A-Sun) is also searching for its first A-Sun victory, as the Bisons dropped their conference opener to USC Upstate on Friday. The Spartans scored twice in the first half before Lipscomb responded with Andrew Chamberlain's first goal of the season in the 67th minute. The game remained that way until Upstate sealed the win via a goal by Hakeem King with six minutes remaining.
The Bisons' attack is led by Garret Pettis, who has scored three goals to tally six points, leading the team in both categories. Nick Bibb trails Pettis by one for the team lead in goals, with both of Bibb's scores coming through a two-minute span in the second half against SIU Edwardsville.
The Bucs lead the all-time series over Lipscomb 4-1-0, with ETSU's only loss coming on October 10, 2008 in the first meeting between the two squads. Since then, the Bucs have defeated Lipscomb four-straight times, including twice in the A-Sun tournament.
One of those tournament meetings came in last year's A-Sun semifinals, when Theo Yang (Lilburn, Ga.) scored with seven seconds remaining in double overtime, sending ETSU to the conference final.
The Bucs will be without Osorio, Frank Doumbe (Silver Spring, Md.) and David Geno (Kingsport, Tenn.) on Sunday afternoon, as all three were red carded against Belmont on Friday and will have to sit out a game.
ETSU has won 15-consecutive games against unranked opponents at Summers-Taylor Stadium, beginning the streak against Lipscomb back on October 30, 2009.
Live stats will be available for Sunday afternoon's contest courtesy of ETSUBucs.com, and live video will be provided courtesy of ASun.TV.
For more information on ETSU men's soccer please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's soccer links. Fans can also follow the ETSU men's soccer team by viewing its Facebook page.


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Illinois HSR trackwork moves on to Bloomington-Normal areaWritten by Spencer Malmad
The Illinois Department of Transportation and Union Pacific are performing another phase of upgrades to Illinois' high-speed route from Chicago-St. Louis for future 110-mph operation of Amtrak Lincoln Service trains.
The construction work includes the installation of new premium rail with concrete ties and ballast; upgrades to bridges, culverts and drainage; signal and wayside equipment installations and upgrades and grade crossing improvements.For eight days starting August 16, bridge and culvert upgrades north of Bloomington-Normal will commence.
These infrastructure improvements will allow Union Pacific crews to enable Amtrak to operate service at speeds up to 110 mph, an increase from the current maximum of 79 mph in effect over most of the route. Starting last Thanksgiving, the Dwight to Pontiac segment became the first part of the corridor to regularly experience trains traveling at speeds up to 110 mph.
In the nine months since October 2012, ridership on the Chicago-St. Louis corridor has increased by nearly 23,000 when compared with the same period a year ago, totaling more than 551,000 passengers, an increase of four percent that sets the stage for another record-breaking year.


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To celebrate a fantastic year, the Gulf County Chamber of Commerce will hold its 78th awards dinner on Thursday, Feb. 27 at the Centennial Building in Port St. Joe.
To celebrate a fantastic year, the Gulf County Chamber of Commerce will hold its 78th awards dinner on Thursday, Feb. 27 at the Centennial Building in Port St. Joe.
Chamber President Aaron Farnsley will give the annual address focusing on the successes of the past year. Judge Tim McFarland will preside over the induction of the board�s three newest members.
New this year will be the award given to recognize the volunteer organization of the year.
�While in past year the Chamber has awarded an individual with this recognition, we felt there were many organizations that have worked tirelessly for our community,� said Chamber director Paula Pickett. �We wanted to recognize their efforts and say thank you.�
Additional awards will include Business of the Year for 2013 to recognize a company that�s celebrated a standout year.
This year�s guest speaker will be Lewis Jordan, CEO of GratitudeAmerica, Inc., a nonprofit organization with the mission of assisting communities in building local programs to support U.S. veterans, their families and the families of fallen soldiers.
Jordan enjoyed a 50-year career in commercial aviation prior to devoting himself to GratitudeAmerica. Career highlights include serving as president and chief operating officer for Flying Tigers, the world�s largest international cargo and military transport, as well as Continental Airlines during its major growth and acquisition period.
In 1993 Jordan co-founded ValuJet Airlines and served as its president and later its successor, AirTran Airways where he served as chairman until his retirement from management in 1997. He remained an active member of the AirTran board until it was acquired by Southwest Airlines in May of 2011.
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Being the Contents of an Unsigned Letter Sent to the Author
There are so many things which are impossible to explain! Why should certain chords in music make me think of the brown and golden tints of autumn foliage? Why should the Mass of Sainte Cýýcile send my thoughts wandering among caverns whose walls blaze with ragged masses of virgin silver? What was it in the roar and turmoil of Broadway at six oýýclock that flashed before my eyes the picture of a still Breton forest where sunlight filtered through spring foliage and Silvia bent, half curiously, half tenderly, over a small green lizard, murmuring: ýýTo think that this also is a little ward of God!ýý
When I first saw the watchman his back was toward me. I looked at him indifferently until he went into the church. I paid no more attention to him than I had to any other man who lounged through Washington Square that morning, and when I shut my window and turned back into my studio I had forgotten him. Late in the afternoon, the day being warm, I raised the window again and leaned out to get a sniff of air. A man was standing in the courtyard of the church, and I noticed him again with as little interest as I had that morning. I looked across the square to where the fountain was playing and then, with my mind filled with vague impressions of trees, asphalt drives, and the moving groups of nursemaids and holidaymakers, I started to walk back to my easel. As I turned, my listless glance included the man below in the churchyard. His face was toward me now, and with a perfectly involuntary movement I bent to see it. At the same moment he raised his head and looked at me. Instantly I thought of a coffin-worm. Whatever it was about the man that repelled me I did not know, but the impression of a plump white grave-worm was so intense and nauseating that I must have shown it in my expression, for he turned his puffy face away with a movement which made me think of a disturbed grub in a chestnut.
I went back to my easel and motioned the model to resume her pose. After working awhile I was satisfied that I was spoiling what I had done as rapidly as possible, and I took up a palette knife and scraped the color out again. The flesh tones were sallow and unhealthy, and I did not understand how I could have painted such sickly color into a study which before that had glowed with healthy tones.
I looked at Tessie. She had not changed, and the clear flush of health dyed her neck and cheeks as I frowned.
ýýIs it something Iýýve done?ýý she said.
ýýNo ýý Iýýve made a mess of this arm, and for the life of me I canýýt see how I came to paint such mud as that into the canvas,ýý I replied.
ýýDonýýt I pose well?ýý she insisted.
ýýOf course, perfectly.ýý
ýýThen itýýs not my fault?ýý
ýýNo. Itýýs my own.ýý
ýýIýým very sorry,ýý she said.
I told her she could rest while I applied rag and turpentine to the plague spot on my canvas, and she went off to smoke a cigarette and look over the illustrations in the Courier Fran?ais.
I did not know whether it was something in the turpentine or a defect in the canvas, but the more I scrubbed the more that gangrene seemed to spread. I worked like a beaver to get it out, and yet the disease appeared to creep from limb to limb of the study before me. Alarmed I strove to arrest it, but now the color on the breast changed and the whole figure seemed to absorb the infection as a
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ýýWhat have you been doing to it?ýý she exclaimed.
ýýNothing,ýý I growled, ýýit must be this turpentine!ýý
ýýWhat a horrible color it is now,ýý she continued. ýýDo you think my flesh resembles green cheese?ýý
ýýNo, I donýýt,ýý I said angrily, ýýdid you ever know me to paint like that before?ýý
ýýNo, indeed!ýý
ýýWell, then!ýý
ýýIt must be the turpentine, or something,ýý she admitted. She slipped on a Japanese robe and walked to the window. I scraped and rubbed until I was tired and finally picked up my brushes and hurled them through the canvas with a forcible expression, the tone alone of which reached Tessieýýs ears.
Nevertheless she promptly began: ýýThatýýs it! Swear and act silly and ruin your brushes! You have been three weeks on that study, and now look! Whatýýs the good of ripping the canvas? What creatures artists are!ýý
I felt about as much ashamed as I usually did after such an outbreak, and I turned the ruined canvas to the wall. Tessie helped me clean my brushes, and then danced away to dress. From the screen she regaled me with bits of advice concerning whole or partial loss of temper, until, thinking, perhaps, I had been tormented sufficiently, she came out to implore me to button her waist where she could not reach it on the shoulder.
ýýEverything went wrong from the time you came back from the window and talked about that horrid-looking man you saw in the churchyard,ýý she announced.
ýýYes, he probably bewitched the picture,ýý I said, yawning. I looked at my watch.
ýýItýýs after six, I know,ýý said Tessie, adjusting her hat before the mirror.
ýýYes,ýý I replied, ýýI didnýýt mean to keep you so long.ýý I leaned out of the window but recoiled with disgust, for the young man with the pasty face stood below in the churchyard. Tessie saw my gesture of disapproval and leaned from the window.
ýýIs that the man you donýýt like?ýý she whispered.
I nodded.
ýýI canýýt see his face, but he does look fat and soft. Someway or other,ýý she continued, turning to look at me, ýýhe reminds me of a dream ýý an awful dream I once had. Or,ýý she mused, looking down at her shapely shoes, ýýwas it a dream after all?ýý
ýýHow should I know?ýý I smiled.
Tessie smiled in reply.
ýýYou were in it,ýý she said, ýýso perhaps you might know something about it.ýý
ýýTessie! Tessie!ýý I protested, ýýdonýýt you dare flatter by saying you dream about me!ýý
ýýBut I did,ýý she insisted; ýýshall I tell you about it?ýý
ýýGo ahead,ýý I replied, lighting a cigarette.
Tessie leaned back on the open window-sill and began very seriously.
ýýOne night last winter I was lying in bed thinking about nothing at all in particular. I had been posing for you and I was tired out, yet it seemed impossible for me to sleep. I heard the bells in the city ring ten, eleven, and midnight. I must have fallen asleep about midnight because I donýýt remember hearing the bells after that. It seemed to me that I had scarcely closed my eyes when I dreamed that something impelled me to go to the window. I rose, and raising the sash, leaned out. Twenty-fifth Street was deserted as far as I could see. I began to be afraid; everything outside seemed so ýý so black and uncomfortable. Then the sound of wheels in the distance came to my ears, and it seemed to me as though that was what I must wait for. Very slowly the wheels approached, and, finally, I could make out a vehicle moving along the street. It came nearer and nearer, and when it passed beneath my window I saw it was a hearse. Then, as I trembled with fear, the driver turned and looked straight at me. When I awoke I was standing by the open window shivering with cold, but the black-plumed hearse and the driver were gone. I dreamed this dream again in March last, and again awoke beside the open window. Last night the dream came again. You remember how it was raining; when I awoke, standing at the open window, my nightdress was soaked.ýý
ýýBut where did I come into the dream?ýý I asked.
ýýYou ýý you were in the coffin; but you were not dead.ýý
ýýIn the coffin?ýý
ýýHow did you know? Could you see me?ýý
ýýNo; I only knew you were there.ýý
ýýHad you been eating Welsh rarebits, or lobster salad?ýý I began laughing, but the girl interrupted me with a frightened cry.
ýýHello! Whatýýs up?ýý I said, as she shrank into the embrasure by the window.
ýýThe ýý the man below in the churchyard; ýý he drove the hearse.ýý
ýýNonsense,ýý I said, but Tessieýýs eyes were wide with terror. I went to the window and looked out. The man was gone. ýýCome, Tessie,ýý I urged, ýýdonýýt be foolish. You have posed too long; you are nervous.ýý
ýýDo you think I could forget that face?ýý she murmured. ýýThree times I saw the hearse pass below my window, and every time the driver turned and looked up at me. Oh, his face was so white and ýý and soft? It looked dead ýý it looked as if it had been dead a long time.ýý
I induced the girl to sit down and swallow a glass of Marsala. Then I sat down beside her, and tried to give her some advice.
ýýLook here, Tessie,ýý I said, ýýyou go to the country for a week or two, and youýýll have no more dreams about hearses. You pose all day, and when night comes your nerves are upset. You canýýt keep this up. Then again, instead of going to bed when your dayýýs work is done, you run off to picnics at Sulzerýýs Park, or go to the Eldorado or Coney Island, and when you come down here next morning you are fagged out. There was no real hearse. That was a soft-shell-crab dream.ýý
She smiled faintly.
ýýWhat about the man in the churchyard?ýý
ýýOh, heýýs only an ordinary unhealthy, everyday creature.ýý
ýýAs true as my name is Tessie Reardon, I swear to you, Mr. Scott, that the face of the man below in the churchyard is the face of the man who drove the hearse!ýý
ýýWhat of it?ýý I said. ýýItýýs an honest trade.ýý
ýýThen you think I did see the hearse?ýý
ýýOh,ýý I said, diplomatically, ýýif you really did, it might not be unlikely that the man below drove it. There is nothing in that.ýý
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II The next morning, Thomas, the bellboy, brought me the Herald and a bit of news. The church next door had been sold. I thanked Heaven for it, not that being a Catholic I had any repugnance for the congregation next door, but because my nerves were shattered by a blatant exhorter, whose every word echoed through the aisle of the church as if it had been my own rooms, and who insisted on his rýýs with a nasal persistence which revolted my every instinct. Then, too, there was a fiend in human shape, an organist, who reeled off some of the grand old hymns with an interpretation of his own, and I longed for the blood of a creature who could play the doxology with an amendment of minor chords which one hears only in a quartet of very young undergraduates. I believe the minister was a good man, but when he bellowed: ýýAnd the Lorrrrd said unto Moses, the Lorrrd is a man of war; the Lorrrd is his name. My wrath shall wax hot and I will kill you with the sworrrd!ýý I wondered how many centuries of purgatory it would take to atone for such a sin.
ýýWho bought the property?ýý I asked Thomas.
ýýNobody that I knows, sir. They do say the gent wot owns this ýýere ýýAmilton flats was lookinýý at it. ýýE might be a bildinýý more studios.ýý
I walked to the window. The young man with the unhealthy face stood by the churchyard gate, and at the mere sight of him the same overwhelming repugnance took possession of me.
ýýBy the way, Thomas,ýý I said, ýýwho is that fellow down there?ýý
Thomas sniffed. ýýThat there worm, sir? ýýEýýs night-watchman of the church, sir. ýýE maikes me tired a-sittinýý out all night on them steps and lookinýý at you insultinýý like. Iýýd a punched ýýis ýýed, sir ýý beg pardon, sir ýýýý
ýýGo on, Thomas.ýý
ýýOne night a cominýý ýýome with ýýArry, the other English boy, I sees ýýim a sittinýý there on them steps. We ýýad Molly and Jen with us, sir, the two girls on the tray service, anýý ýýe looks so insultinýý at us that I up and sez: ýýWat you looking hat, you fat slug?ýýýý beg pardon, sir, but thatýýs ýýow I sez, sir. Then ýýe donýýt say nothinýý and I sez; ýýCome out and Iýýll punch that puddinýý ýýed.ýý Then I hopens the gate anýý goes in, but ýýe donýýt say nothinýý, only looks insultinýý like. Then I ýýits ýýim one, but, ugh! ýýis ýýed was that cold and mushy it ud sicken you to touch ýýim.ýý
ýýWhat did he do then?ýý I asked, curiously.
ýýýýIm? Nawthinýý.ýý
ýýAnd you, Thomas?ýý
The young fellow flushed with embarrassment and smiled uneasily.
ýýMr. Scott, sir, I ainýýt no coward anýý I canýýt make it out at all why I run. I was in the 5th Lawncers, sir, bugler at Tel-el-Kebir, anýý was shot by the wells.ýý
ýýYou donýýt mean to say you ran away?ýý
ýýYes, sir; I run.ýý
ýýThatýýs just what I want to know, sir. I grabbed Molly anýý run, anýý the rest was as frightened as I.ýý
ýýBut what were they frightened at?ýý
Thomas refused to answer for a while, but now my curiosity was aroused about the repulsive young man below and I pressed him. Three yearsýý sojourn in America had not only modified Thomasýý *****ney dialect but had given him the Americanýýs fear of ridicule.
ýýYou wonýýt believe me, Mr. Scott, sir?ýý
ýýYes, I will.ýý
ýýYou will lawf at me, sir?ýý
He hesitated. ýýWell, sir, itýýs Godýýs truth that when I ýýit ýýim ýýe grabbed me wrists, sir, and when I twisted ýýis soft, mushy fist one of ýýis fingers come off in me ýýand.ýý
The utter loathing and horror of Thomasýý face must have been reflected in my own for he added: ýýItýýs orful, anýý now when I see ýýim I just go away. ýýE maikes me hill.ýý
When Thomas had gone I went to the window. The man stood beside the church-railing with both hands on the gate, but I hastily retreated to my easel again, sickened and horrified, for I saw that the middle finger of his right hand was missing.
At nine oýýclock Tessie appeared and vanished behind the screen with a merry ýýGood-morning, Mr. Scott.ýý While she had reappeared and taken her pose upon the model-stand I started a new canvas much to her delight. She remained silent as long as I was on the drawing, but as soon as the scrape of the charcoal ceased and I took up my fixative she began to chatter.
ýýOh, I had such a lovely time last night. We went to Tony Pastorýýs.ýý
ýýWho are ýýweýý?ýý I demanded.
ýýOh, Maggie, you know, Mr. Whyteýýs model, and Pinkie McCormick ýý we call her Pinkie because sheýýs got that beautiful red hair you artists like so much ýý and Lizzie Burke.ýý
I sent a shower of spray from the fixative over the canvas and said: ýýWell, go on.ýý
ýýWe saw Kelly and Baby Barnes the skirt-dancer and ýý and all the rest. I made a mash.ýý
ýýThen you have gone back on me, Tessie?ýý
She laughed and shook her head.
ýýHeýýs Lizzie Burkeýýs brother, Ed. Heýýs a perfect genýýlýýman.ýý
I felt constrained to give her some parental advice concerning mashing, which she took with a bright smile.
ýýOh, I can take care of a strange mash,ýý she said, ## examining her chewing gum, ýýbut Ed is different. Lizzie is my best friend.ýý
Then she related how Ed had come back from the stocking mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, to find her and Lizzie grown up, and what an accomplished young man he was, and how he thought nothing of squandering half a dollar for ice-cream and oysters to celebrate his entry as clerk into the woolen department of Macyýýs. Before she finished I began to paint, and she resumed the pose, smiling and chattering like a sparrow. By noon I had the study fairly well rubbed in and Tessie came to look at it.
ýýThatýýs better,ýý she said.
I thought so too, and ate my lunch with a satisfied feeling that all was going well. Tessie spread her lunch on a drawing table opposite me and we drank our claret from the same bottle and lighted our cigarettes from the same match. I was very much attached to Tessie. I had watched her shoot up into a slender but exquisitely formed woman from a frail, awkward child.
She had posed for me during the last three years, and among all my models she was my favorite.
It would have troubled me very much indeed had she become ýýtoughýý or ýýfly,ýý as the phrase goes, but I never noticed any deterioration of her manner, and felt at heart that she was all right.
She and I never discussed morals at all, and I had no intention of doing so, partly because I had none myself, and partly because I knew she would do what she liked in spite of me. Still I did hope she would steer clear of complications, because I wished her well, and then also I had a selfish desire to retain the best model I had. I knew that mashing, as she termed it, had no significance with girls like Tessie, and that such things in America did not resemble in the least the same things in Paris. Yet, having lived with my eyes open, I also knew that somebody would take Tessie away some day, in one manner or another, and though I professed to myself that marriage was nonsense, I sincerely hoped that, in this case, there would be a priest at the end of the vista. I am a Catholic. When I listen to high mass, when I sign myself, I feel that everything, including myself, is more cheerful, and when I confess, it does me good. A man who lives as much alone as I do, must confess to somebody. Then, again, Sylvia was Catholic, and it was reason enough for me. But I was speaking of Tessie, which is very different. Tessie also was Catholic and much more devout than I, so, taking it all in all, I had little fear for my pretty model until she should fall in love. But then I knew that fate alone would decide her future for her, and I prayed inwardly that fate would keep her away from men like me and throw into her path nothing but Ed Burkes and Jimmy McCormicks, bless her sweet face!
Tessie sat blowing rings of smoke up to the ceiling and tinkling the ice in her tumbler.
ýýDo you know, Kid, that I also had a dream last night?ýý I observed. I sometimes called her ýýthe Kid.ýý
ýýNot about that man,ýý she laughed.
ýýExactly. A dream similar to yours, only much worse.ýý
It was foolish and thoughtless of me to say this, but you know how little tact the average painter has.
ýýI must have fallen asleep about 10 oýýclock,ýý I continued, ýýand after awhile I dreamt that I awoke. So plainly did I hear the midnight bells, the wind in the tree-branches, and the whistle of steamers from the bay, that even now I can scarcely believe I was not awake. I seemed to be lying in a box which had a glass cover. Dimly I saw the street lamps as I passed, for I must tell you, Tessie, the box in which I reclined appeared to lie in a cushioned wagon which jolted me over a stony pavement. After a while I became impatient and tried to move but the box was too narrow. My hands were crossed on my breast so I could not raise them to help myself. I listened and then tried to call. My voice was gone. I could hear the trample of the horses attached to the wagon and even the breathing of the driver. Then another sound broke upon my ears like the raising of a window sash. I managed to turn my head a little, and found I could look, not only through the glass cover of my box, but also through the glass panes in the side of the covered vehicle. I saw houses, empty and silent, with neither light nor life about any of them excepting one. In that house a window was open on the first floor and a figure all in white stood looking down into the street. It was you.ýý
Tessie had turned her face away from me and leaned on the table with her elbow.
ýýI could see your face,ýý I resumed, ýýand it seemed to me to be very sorrowful. Then we passed on and turned into a narrow black lane. Presently the horses stopped. I waited and waited, closing my eyes with fear and impatience, but all was silent as the grave. After what seemed to me hours, I began to feel uncomfortable. A
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A sob from Tessie interrupted me. She was trembling like a leaf. I saw I had made an ass of myself and attempted to repair the damage.
ýýWhy, Tess,ýý I said, ýýI only told you this to show you what influence your story might have on another personýýs dreams. You donýýt suppose I really lay in a coffin, do you? What are you trembling for? Donýýt you see that your dream and my unreasonable dislike for that inoffensive watchman of the church simply set my brain working as soon as I fell asleep?ýý She laid her head between her arms and sobbed as if her heart would break. What a precious triple donkey I had made of myself! But I was about to break my record. I went over and put my arm about her.
ýýTessie dear, forgive me,ýý I said; ýýI had no business to frighten you with such nonsense. You are too sensible a girl, too good a Catholic to believe in dreams.ýý
Her hand tightened on mine and her head fell back upon my shoulder, but she still trembled and I petted her and comforted her.
ýýCome, Tess, open your eyes and smile.ýý
Her eyes opened with a slow languid movement and met mine, but their expression was so queer that I hastened to reassure her again.
ýýItýýs all humbug, Tessie, you surely are not afraid that any harm will come to you because of that.ýý
ýýNo,ýý she said, but her scarlet lips quivered.
ýýThen whatýýs the matter? Are you afraid?ýý
ýýYes. Not for myself.ýý
ýýFor me, then?ýý I demanded gayly.
ýýFor you,ýý she murmured in a voice almost inaudible, ýýIýý I care ýý for you.ýý
At first I started to laugh, but when I understood her, a shock passed through me and I sat like one turned to stone. This was the crowning bit of idiocy I had committed. During the moment which elapsed between her reply and my answer I thought of a thousand responses to that innocent confession. I could pass it by with a laugh, I could misunderstand her and reassure her as to my health, I could simply point out that it was impossible she could love me. But my reply was quicker than my thoughts, and I might think and think now when it was too late, for I had kissed her on the mouth.
That evening I took my usual walk in Washington Park, pondering over the occurrences of the day. I was thoroughly committed. There was no backing out now, and I stared the future straight in the face. I was not good, not even scrupulous, but I had no idea of deceiving either myself or Tessie. The one passion of my life lay buried in the sunlit forests of Brittany. Was it buried forever? Hope cried ýýNo!ýý For three years I had been listening to the voice of Hope, and for three years I had waited for a footstep on my threshold. Had Sylvia forgotten? ýýNo!ýý cried Hope.
I said that I was not good. That is true, but still I was not exactly a comic opera villain. I had led an easy-going reckless life, taking what invited me of pleasure, deploring and sometimes bitterly regretting consequences. In one thing alone, except my painting, was I serious, and that was something which lay hidden if not lost in the Breton forests.
It was too late now for me to regret what had occurred during the day. Whatever it had been, pity, a sudden tenderness for sorrow, or the more brutal instinct of gratified vanity, it was all the same now, and unless I wished to bruise an innocent heart my path lay marked before me. The fire and strength, the depth of passion of a love which I had never even suspected, with all my imagined experience in the world, left me no alternative but to respond or send her away.
Whether because I am so cowardly about giving pain to others, or whether it was that I have little of the gloomy Puritan in me, I do not know, but I shrank from disclaiming responsibility for that thoughtless kiss, and in fact had no time to do so before the gates of her heart opened and the flood poured forth. Others who habitually do their duty and find a sullen satisfaction in making themselves and everybody else unhappy, might have withstood it. I did not. I dared not. After the storm had abated I did tell her that she might better have loved Ed Burke and worn a plain gold ring, but she would not hear of it, and I thought perhaps that as long as she had decided to love somebody she could not marry, it had better be me. I, at least, could treat her with an intelligent affection, and whenever she became tired of her infatuation she could go none the worse for it.
For I was decided on that point although I knew how hard it would be. I remembered the usual termination of Platonic liaisons and thought how disgusted I had been whenever I heard of one. I knew I was undertaking a great deal for so unscrupulous a man as I was, and I dreaded the future, but never for one moment did I doubt that she was safe with me. Had it been anybody but Tessie I should not
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I took supper that night, or rather we took supper, Miss Carmichel and I, at Solariýýs and the dawn was just beginning to gild the cross on the Memorial Church as I entered Washington Square after leaving Edith at the Brunswick. There was not a soul in the park as I passed among the trees and took the walk which leads from the Garibaldi statue to the Hamilton Apartment House, but as I passed the churchyard I saw a figure sitting on the stone steps. In spite of myself a chill crept over me at the sight of the white puffy face, and I hastened to pass. Then he said something which might have been addressed to me or might merely have been a mutter to himself, but a sudden furious anger flamed up within me that such a creature should address me.
For an instant I felt like wheeling about and smashing my stick over his head, but I walked on, and entering the Hamilton went to my apartment. For some time I tossed about the bed trying to get the sound of his voice out of my ears, but could not. It filled my head, that muttering sound, like thick oily smoke from a fat-rendering vat or an odor of noisome decay. And as I lay and tossed about, the voice in my ears seemed more distinct, and I began to understand the words he had muttered. They came to me slowly as if I had forgotten them, and at last I could make some sense out of the sounds. It was this:
ýýHave you found the Yellow Sign?ýý
ýýHave you found the Yellow Sign?ýý
ýýHave you found the Yellow Sign?ýý
I was furious. What did he mean by that? Then with a curse upon him and his I rolled over and went to sleep, but when I awoke later I looked pale and haggard, for I had dreamed the dream of the night before and it troubled me more than I cared to think.
I dressed and went down into my studio. Tessie sat by the window, but as I came in she rose and put both arms around my neck for an innocent kiss. She looked so sweet and dainty that I kissed her again and then sat down before the easel.
ýýHello! Whereýýs the study I began yesterday?ýý I asked.
Tessie looked conscious, but did not answer. I began to hunt among the piles of canvases, saying, ýýHurry up, Tess, and get ready; we must take advantage of the morning light.ýý
When at last I gave up the search among the other canvases and turned to look around the room for the missing study I noticed Tessie standing by the screen with her clothes still on.
ýýWhatýýs the matter,ýý I asked, ýýdonýýt you feel well?ýý
ýýThen hurry.ýý
ýýDo you want me to pose as ýý as I have always posed?ýý
Then I understood. Here was a new complication. I had lost, of course, the best nude model I had ever seen. I looked at Tessie. Her face was scarlet. Alas! Alas! We had eaten of the tree of knowledge, and Eden and native innocence were dreams of the past ýý I mean ýý for her.
I suppose she noticed the disappointment on my face, for she said: ýýI will pose if you wish. The study is behind the screen here where I put it.ýý
ýýNo,ýý I said, ýýwe will begin something new;ýý and I went into my wardrobe and picked out a Moorish costume which fairly blazed with tinsel. It was a genuine costume, and Tessie retired to the screen with it enchanted. When she came forth again I was astonished. Her long black hair was bound above her forehead with a circlet of turquoises, and the ends curled about her glittering girdle. Her feet were encased in the embroidered pointed slippers and the skirt of her costume, curiously wrought with arabesques in silver, fell to her ankles. The deep metallic blue vest embroidered with silver and the short Mauresque jacket spangled and sewn with turquoises became her wonderfully. She came up to me
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ýýItýýs yours, Tessie.ýý
ýýMine?ýý she faltered.
ýýYours. Now go and pose.ýý Then with a radiant smile she ran behind the screen and presently reappeared with a little box on which was written my name.
ýýI had intended to give it to you when I went home tonight,ýý she said, ýýbut I canýýt wait now.ýý
I opened the box. On the pink cotton inside lay a clasp of black onyx, on which was inlaid a curious symbol or letter in gold. It was neither Arabic nor Chinese, nor as I found afterwards did it belong to any human script.
ýýItýýs all I had to give you for a keepsake,ýý she said, timidly.
I was annoyed, but I told her how much I should prize it, and promised to wear it always. She fastened it on my coat beneath the lapel.
ýýHow foolish, Tess, to go and buy me such a beautiful thing as this,ýý I said.
ýýI did not buy it,ýý she laughed.
ýýWhere did you get it?ýý
Then she told me how she had found it one day while coming from the Aquarium in the Battery, how she had advertised it and watched the papers, but at last gave up all hopes of finding the owner.
ýýThat was last winter,ýý she said, ýýthe very day I had the first horrid dream about the hearse.ýý
I remembered my dream of the previous night but said nothing, and presently my charcoal was flying over a new canvas, and Tessie stood motionless on the model-stand.
III The day following was a disastrous one for me. While moving a framed canvas from one easel to another my foot slipped on the polished floor and I fell heavily on both wrists. They were so badly sprained that it was useless to attempt to hold a brush, and I was obliged to wander about the studio, glaring at unfinished drawings and sketches until despair seized me and I sat down to smoke and twiddle my thumbs with rage. The rain blew against the windows and rattled on the roof of the church, driving me into a nervous fit with its interminable patter. Tessie sat sewing by the window, and every now and then raised her head and looked at me with such innocent compassion that I began to feel ashamed of my irritation and looked about for something to occupy me. I had read all the papers and all the books in the library, but for the sake of something to do I went to the bookcases and shoved them open with my elbow. I knew every volume by its color and examined them all, passing slowly around the library and whistling to keep up my spirits. I was turning to go into the dining-room when my eye fell upon a book bound in yellow, standing in a corner of the top shelf of the last bookcase. I did not remember it and from the floor could not decipher the pale lettering on the back, so I went to the smoking-room and called Tessie. She came in from the studio and climbed up to reach the book.
ýýWhat is it?ýý I asked.
ýýThe King in Yellow.ýý
I was dumbfounded. Who had placed it there? How came it in my rooms? I had long ago decided that I should never open that book, and nothing on earth could have persuaded me to buy it. Fearful lest curiosity might tempt me to open it, I had never even looked at it in book-stores. If I ever had had any curiosity to read it, the awful tragedy of young Castaigne, whom I knew, prevented me from exploring its wicked pages. I had always refused to listen to any description of it, and indeed, nobody ever ventured to discuss the second part aloud, so I had absolutely no knowledge of what those leaves might reveal. I stared at the poisonous yellow binding as I would at a snake.
ýýDonýýt touch it, Tessie,ýý I said, ýýcome down.ýý
Of course my admonition was enough to arouse her curiosity, and before I could prevent it she took the book and, laughing, danced away into the studio with it. I called to her but she slipped away with a tormenting smile at my helpless hands, and I followed her with some impatience.
ýýTessie!ýý I cried, entering the library, ýýlisten, I am serious. Put that book away. I do not wish you to open it!ýý The library was empty. I went into both drawing-rooms, then into the bedrooms, laundry, kitchen, and finally returned to the library and began a systematic search. She had hidden herself so well that it was half an hour later when I discovered her crouching white and silent by the latticed window in the store-room above. At the first glance I saw she had been punished for her foolishness. The King in Yellow lay at her feet, but the book was open at the second part. I looked at Tessie and saw it was too late. She had opened The King in Yellow. Then I took her by the hand and led her into the studio. She seemed dazed, and when I told her to lie down on the sofa she obeyed me without a word. After a while she closed her eyes and her breathing became regular and deep, but I could not determine whether or not she slept. For a email@example.com long while I sat silently beside her, but she neither stirred nor spoke, and at last I rose and entering the unused store-room took the yellow book in my least injured hand. It seemed heavy as lead, but I carried it into the studio again, and sitting down on the rug beside the sofa, opened it and read it through from beginning to end.
When, faint with the excess of my emotions, I dropped the volume and leaned wearily back against the sofa, Tessie opened her eyes and looked at me.
We had been speaking for some time in a dull monotonous strain before I realized that we were discussing The King in Yellow. Oh the sin of writing such words ýý words which are clear as crystal, limpid and musical as bubbling springs, words which sparkle and glow like the poisoned diamonds of the Medicis! Oh the wickedness, the hopeless damnation of a soul who could fascinate and paralyze human creatures with such words ýý words understood by the ignorant and wise alike, words which are more precious than jewels, more soothing than Heavenly music, more awful than death itself.
We talked on, unmindful of the gathering shadows, and she was begging me to throw away the clasp of black onyx quaintly inlaid with what we now knew to be the Yellow Sign. I never shall know why I refused, though even at this hour, here in my bedroom as I write this confession, I should be glad to know what it was that prevented me from tearing the Yellow Sign from my breast and casting it into the fire. I am sure I wished to do so, but Tessie pleaded with me in vain.
Night fell and the hours dragged on, but still we murmured to each other of the King and the Pallid Mask, and midnight sounded from the misty spires in the fog-wrapped city. We spoke of Hastur and of Cassilda, while outside the fog rolled against the blank window-panes as the cloud waves roll and break on the shores of Hali.
The house was very silent now and not a sound from the misty streets broke the silence. Tessie lay among the cushions, her face a gray blot in the gloom, but her hands were clasped in mine and I knew that she knew and read my thoughts as I read hers, for we had understood the mystery of the Hyades and the Phantom of Truth was laid. Then as we answered each other, swiftly, silently, thought on thought, the shadows stirred in the gloom about us, and far in the distant streets we heard a sound. Nearer and nearer it came, the dull crunching of wheels, nearer and yet nearer, and now, outside before the door it ceased, and I dragged myself to the window and saw a black-plumed hearse. The gate below opened and shut, and I crept shaking to my door and bolted it, but I knew no bolts, no locks, could keep that creature out who was coming for the Yellow Sign. And now I heard him moving very softly along the hall. Now he was at the door, and the bolts rotted at his touch. Now he had entered. With eyes starting from my head I peered into the darkness, but when he came into the room I did not see him. It was only when I felt him envelop me in his cold soft grasp that I cried out and struggled with deadly fury, but my hands were useless and he tore the onyx clasp from my coat and struck me full in the face. Then, as I fell, I heard Tessieýýs soft cry and her spirit fled to God, and even while falling I longed to follow her, for I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only Christ to cry to now.
I could tell more, but I cannot see what help it will be to the world. As for me I am past human help or hope. As I lie here, writing, careless even whether or not I die before I finish, I can see the doctor gathering up his powders and phials with a vague gesture to the good priest beside me, which I understand.
They will be very curious to know the tragedy ýý they of the outside world who write books and print millions of newspapers, but I shall write no more, and the father confessor will seal my last words with the seal of sanctity when his holy office is done. They of the outside world may send their creatures into wrecked homes and death-smitten firesides, and their newspapers will batten on blood and tears, but with me their spies must halt before the confessional. They know that Tessie is dead and that I am dying. They know how the people in the house, aroused by an infernal scream, rushed into my room and found one living and two dead, but they do not know what I shall tell them now; they do not know that the doctor said as he pointed to a horrible decomposed heap on the floor ýý the livid corpse of the watchman from the church: ýýI have no theory, no explanation. That man must have been dead for months!ýý
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