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Oh I can read. I try to stay away from insults, something hard to do at times. The time frame of the article covers the period of 1980-2013(at times1978-2013), a relatively short period of time. So when YOU make the statement that the melt is SIGNIFICANTLY BELOW AVERAGE, such a statement only has meaning when you specify the time frame. THAT was the point I was trying to make. Not only must one be able to read, sometimes it is important that one MUST BE ABLE TO READ WITH COMPREHENSION! You might try it sometime, if you are capable.
You can read!! Congratulations. As for insults, why do conservatives think they are the only ones to get away with it on this forum?
Here is 60 years of data:
Now before your undies bunch up is just indicates the Artic is getting warmer. Man made? Maybe.
I don't want to feed an ugly dog!
Here's a thought. The earth and its climate is supposed to be 5 - 6 billion years old according to some scientists. Well lets say they are off and it is only 5 milion years old. It has gone thru an ice age and other fairly extreme conditions. The industrial revolution started about 250 years ago.
I am not arguing that some things man has done hasn't affected the earth or the climate but I happen to think that what man has done in 250 years pales in comparison to what scientists tells us has happened previously. We have only been able to measure certain things in real time, like temperature and rainfall fall for a little over 100 years. Statistically I find it very difficult to think anyone can make predictions about how bad man has or hasn't influenced the earth and its climate when looking at 100 years vs millions.
Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
What if all we have today is what we gave thanks for yesterday?
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Sometime when you dont have a THING to do,, search Chem Trails and Evergreen program!!
That'll get ya going!!!
F'n government!
I previously missed the statement of Obama about having detailed plans for the fossil fuel workers that would lose their jobs. Wonder when those detailed plans will be available.A peer-reviewed climate change study released Wednesday by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change finds the threat of man-made global warming to be not only greatly exaggerated but so small as to be "embedded within the background variability of the natural climate system" and not dangerous.
Armed with the new findings, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee grilled administration environmental policy officials about the economic consequences of its aggressive regulatory crackdown on the fossil fuel industry.
The 1,000 page study was the work of 47 scientists and scholars examining many of the same journals and studies that the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (UNIPCC) examined, producing entirely different conclusions.
"This volume provides the scientific balance that is missing from the overly alarmist reports from the IPCC, which are highly selective in their review of climate science," the authors write.
The study was done under the auspices of the Heartland Institute, which claims it "has no formal attachment to or sponsorship from any government or governmental agency."
The Heartland Institute's president, Joseph Bast, said of the study, "The big issue in the global warming debate is how large is the human impact on climate. And this report shows that it is very small, that natural variability, the variability that's caused by natural cycles of the sun and other factors, way outweigh anything the human impact could have."
The report comes in advance of the expected release later this month of a new U.N. report on climate change. Leaked drafts of that report show surface temperature increases have been statistically insignificant for the last 15 years, and that Antarctic sea ice is increasing, not decreasing.
In addition, new satellite measurements of Arctic sea ice show it has increased this year.
At the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday, Republicans particularly wanted to know what President Obama planned to do to address those fossil fuel workers who've lost their jobs as a result of administration policy.
In a major address at Georgetown University last June, Obama promised there would be a special plan for those workers.
"So I would ask either one of you what are the special plans in the president's action plan to help address these people who are losing their jobs, " Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) asked EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.
"I'm not familiar with the details of those plans, but I am familiar from reading the climate action plan that the president sees this as both a challenge and an economic opportunity," McCarthy replied.
That exchange led to a testy retort by Ralph Hall (R-Tex.). "You got a better answer than I received from Mrs. McCarthy about a year ago before the science committee," Hall told McCarthy. "I may have asked you a question you didn't like and your answer was, 'I'm not in the business of creating jobs.'"
Committee Democrats, along with McCarthy and Moniz, set out to counter Republican skepticism about the impact of climate change.
"The evidence is overwhelming and the science is clear," said Moniz. "The threat from climate change is real and urgent. The basic science behind climate change is simple. Carbon dioxide makes the earth warmer, and we are admitting more and more of it into the atmosphere."
Moniz added that any stabilization of surface temperatures in recent years was an indication of a "hiatus" of global warming, not an end to global warming.
Told of Moniz's remarks, astrophysicist Willy Soon, one of the NIPCC's leading scientists, reacted incredulously. "So tell us when is it going to rise again?" he asked. "This is a question that not only me, as a scientist, is asking , but all the lay persons should begin asking."
The Heartland Institute's Bast told Fox News that there are no climate models used by proponents of global warming that predict a lull in warming.
"Point to the model that predicted this hiatus," he said. "No increase in violent weather , no increase in hurricanes. All of this and we're still supposed to believe the models... models they picked because they supported their political interests, not because they represented good science."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...#ixzz2fRd9ktkp
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Follow the money.. The Heartland Institute - look it up.
A nice objective "think tank"
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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:28 PM GMT on July 01, 2009
Hurricane track forecasts have improved by about 50% over the past twenty years, which has undoubtedly saved many lives and billions of dollars. These forecast improvements have primarily resulted from the investment made in hurricane research, which has been funded at approximately $50 million per year over that period. To me, it is unfathomable that our nation spends so little on scientific research that provides such an incredible value. The President's National Science Board, which makes budget recommendations for the National Science Foundation (NSF), agrees, and recommended a six-fold increase in hurricane research spending to $300 million per year in a 2007 report. But exactly how much "bang for the buck" are we getting from hurricane research? The answer is murky, making it difficult to excite the kind of attention and political appeal needed to give hurricane research funding the big shot in the arm it deserves. However, recent moves by the Obama administration show that they are taking notice of the need to spend more money on hurricane research. But, a recent proposal by Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Florida, to build a new $50 million hurricane research center in Orlando, is the wrong way to boost hurricane research.
Figure 1. A science team led by NOAA's Hurricane Research Division (HRD) prepares for a mission into Hurricane Gustav in 2008. Image credit: NOAA/HRD.
How current hurricane research is funded
In 2008, about $50 million was spent by the U.S. government on hurricane research, with about 25% of this total going to maintain the facilities that do the research. The $50 million funded 228 person-years of research. About 35% of this was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with the rest of the money coming from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), and NASA. An additional $4 million was earmarked by Congress in 2008 to fund NOAA's promising new effort to improve hurricane intensity forecasts--the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP).
Where future funding increases should go: HFIP and JHT
The President's proposed FY 2010 budget continues the roughly $50 million dollars the hurricane research community traditionally gets, but adds $13 million in funding for the HFIP effort. To me, this is a great way to channel new hurricane research funding, as the HFIP effort is heavily focused on improving hurricane intensity forecasts, which have not improved at all over the past twenty years. Specific advancements outlined in the HFIP plan include:
1) Improving hurricane track forecast accuracy by 50% out to 5 days by 2018.
2) Improving hurricane intensity forecast accuracy by 50% out to 5 days by 2018.
3) Extending the lead time for hurricane forecasts out to 7 days.
4) Reducing the false alarm rate for rapid intensity forecasts.
5) Increasing the probability of detection of rapid intensification.
Another great way to boost hurricane research funding would be to put more money into NOAA's Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT) project. This $1 million per year program has funded 50 separate hurricane research efforts over since 2001, 30 of which have been adopted operationally by the National Hurricane Center. Examples of successful JHT projects include the successful integration of the Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) surface wind measurement instrument into NHC operations; improvements to the GFDL and HWRF computer models; and improving techniques to make a "consensus" forecast based on the output of our four best computer models. However, no new money for JHT has been proposed in the FY 2010 budget, though some of the money earmarked for HFIP may flow into JHT.
A new $50 million hurricane research center proposed
Instead, a new proposal for hurricane research funding has been championed by Representative Alan Grayson, D-Florida. According to an article in the Orlando Sentinel, Grayson is pushing for a new $50 million hurricane research center to be built in Orlando. He demanded that such a hurricane research center be built in exchange for his vote for the controversial climate change bill passed Friday by the U.S. House, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. There is no language in the actual bill authorizing funds for such a center--Grayson merely has the word of democratic lawmakers, including President Obama, that such a center would be built. "I think it's a very worthwhile project. I look forward to working on it and making it a priority as the legislative process moves along," said U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who sponsored the bill, in the Orlando Sentinel article. The center could be constructed with funds aimed at helping states "study and adapt to climate change," money that would not be available until 2012 at the earliest. The hurricane center is "among the type of activities that would be eligible to receive funding," Waxman said. "We've never had anything [like this] come into this district before, ever," said Grayson, a freshman lawmaker. "This will be the world-leading facility for hurricane research. This will draw people from all over the world."
Well, I have championed efforts to give more funding to hurricane research over the years, and I think the $300 million per year in funding for the National Hurricane Research Initiative proposed in 2007 by the President's National Science Board is what is needed. However, I think Grayson's proposed new hurricane center is a bad idea. Florida already has a world-leading facility for hurricane research, NOAA's Hurricane Research Division on Virginia Key, and does not need another. The U.S. hurricane research community has an infrastructure in place that works, and the best way to foster hurricane research is to pump money into this existing infrastructure. I talked with a number of senior hurricane research scientists about the idea of a new hurricane research center, and none of them supported it. It's great that Rep. Grayson's wants to put new much-needed funding into hurricane research, but he didn't consult with the experts to see if a new research center was a good way to do this. It isn't. Where are all of the scientists needed to staff such a center going to come from? Presumably, they will be drawn from existing successful research teams, leading to the disruption of these proven research efforts. Adding a new national research center with a new bureaucracy with new management needing on-the-job training will dilute and distract from current hurricane research efforts, and is not a good way to spend $50 million. Several senior hurricane research scientists are going to be reaching out to Rep. Grayson over the next few months to make him more aware of the abilities and needs of the hurricane research community. Hopefully, these efforts will result in a more productive way for the Congressman to boost hurricane research. If you live in Rep. Grayson's district, I recommend you contact him to express your desire to see him champion a more effective way to boost hurricane research than with his proposed $50 million hurricane research center. Putting the $50 million into the National Hurricane Research Initiative (HFIP) effort would be a better use of the funds. To his credit, Rep. Grayson is a co-sponsor of the National Hurricane Research Initiative of 2009 (H.R. 327), a bill introduced into the House of Representatives on January 8, 2009. This bill is a lesser ($150 million per year) version of the $300 million per year National Hurricane Research Initiative proposed in 2007 by the President's National Science Board.
Good links for HFIP information are at:
http://www.dtcenter.org/plots/hrh_test/workshop20 09/presentations/1_Gall_HRH%20HFIP%20presentation. pdf
Some summaries of recent HFIP activities in the last year are at:
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/research/tropical _cyclones/hfip/workshop_2009/
My next post will be Friday, when I'll have the first half of July hurricane outlook.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather

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Females should be spayed or neutered by 6 months of age. (before first heat is best, or 1 month after the heat is complete). Males can be done between 6-12 months. Currently some clinics are performing surgeries on animals as young as 12 weeks of age. Older animals can be done as long as they are in good health. All sterilization surgery is performed under general anesthesia by a licensed veterinarian. Spaying before having a first litter or heat cycle is usually a simpler procedure, However you can do this almost any time and at any age. The cost is usually around $175.00 for this surgery. Some states are higher, and sometimes you can find reduced rates during certain special clinic events.


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Jiminez succumbs to cancer
Posted September 5, 2001; 05:17 p.m.
Funeral services were held on Sept. 5 for Michael Francis Jiminez, a distinguished scholar of Latin America who specialized in the history of Colombia. Known for his inspiring classroom lectures as well as for his scholarly articles and dedicated community service, Jiminez had been battling kidney cancer for nearly a year and died on Sept. 1.
Most recently a member of the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh, Jiminez taught at Princeton University from 1985 to 1993 and was a Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York in the early 1990s. Widely known for his interpretations of 19th and 20th century Colombian history, Jiminez also published several influential essays on the history of Latin American generally. His major work, a book entitled "Struggles on an Interior Shore," will be published posthumously by Duke University Press.
Considered an extraordinary teacher by students and peers alike, Jiminez won the Presidential Teaching Award at Princeton and always attracted hundreds of his students to his popular course on Latin America.
Jiminez was actively involved in national debates on the teaching of history, serving as an advisor for the National History Standards. While at Princeton, he also formed close ties with the local community, and worked in particular to promote better race relations as the chair of the Princeton Borough Civil Rights Commission.
Born in 1948 in Merced, Calif., he spent most of his childhood in Bogota, Colombia. He was a graduate of Blair Academy in Blairstown, N.J., Trinity College in Connecticut, Stanford University, and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1985. Jiminez was also the recipient of several honors including New Jersey Governors Fellowship, the David Rike Preceptorship at Princeton, a Whiting Fellowship, a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, a Social Science Research Council Fellowship, a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Fellowship.
His survivors include his wife, Lynn Marie Sanborne, and his three children, Christina, 24, of Brooklyn, N.Y., David, 8, and Eliza Rose, 5, of Pittsburgh. A memorial service at Princeton University is expected to take place in June, 2002.
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Alamelu Vairavan, a Whitefish Bay resident, is an author and culinary instructor. Alamelu has a passion for educating the public about the use of spices and legumes in preparing healthy and tasty foods. She is also interested in educating the public about the growing research that points to the enormous health benefits of spices in preventing many diseases. Her mission is to enrich people's culinary experience and to inspire them to discover that cooking and sharing healthful foods can be an especially joyful experience.
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Magical Experience In A Farmer's Market
Farmer's Market is my playground during summer and fall weekends. I love the vibrant fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers that farmers so enthusiastically bring to us in their trucks for bargain prices. I feel so happy to talk to the farmers and enjoy buying farm fresh vegetables, herbs, and flowers. To me, farmers look like so divine when they bring the nutrient-rich, fresh produce harvested from their farms.
I was invited to do cooking presentations in two open air farmer's markets in Milwaukee this summer and fall. In both places, it was a beautiful sight to see people so relaxed, talking to each other and asking farmers, what is this, what is that, and how do you cook this vegetable and so on.
In one of these markets, I remember several visitors taking a variety of eggplants and asking what each was? I was standing next to them and told them to come to my "Chef Demo" tent and to see these vegetables being cooked. They got excited and many came to see me cook eggplant and zucchini (green and yellow).
While I was cooking, many volunteered to wash, cut the vegetables and were eager to be my assistants. So, I put them to work and it was fun. It was a great bonding experience with the community. Many came to me and said, they had enjoyed my cooking TV programs on MPTV. I was thrilled to hear some say that they cook a lot these vegetables after watching my shows.
After the cooking presentations, my assistant, Sharron Jewell and I packed everything, then bought a lot of vegetables, fruits, and herbs and came home. My husband, KV asked me how everything went and I showed him all the fresh chilies, tomatoes, vegetables that I bought at the market. He was happy to see me so energized by the "treasures" that I brought back home.
After about an hour, my doorbell rang. I went to answer and there was this young woman standing with two bowls of vegetable dishes. I immediately recalled that she had attended my cooking demonstration at the farmer's market. I was surprised and invited her into my home. She said, "What you cooked in the market was amazing, I am glad I bought your cookbook and your start-up spice package after your demonstration. I went home and cooked what you showed us in the market. I brought these dishes for you to taste and to tell me if this is what they should look and taste like".
I said, "Oh, wow, let us see what you cooked". This young woman had cooked the same Eggplant Masala and Seasoned Zucchini Poriyal that I had just demonstrated in the market.
I could not believe my eyes and it was like I made it. She followed our recipe and there it was. I tasted it and it was delicious. I was amazed that I could motivate someone to do what I did in the market within a very short time. It was truly a magical and memorable experience for me!
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Photo of the Day Part Deux: Fedor Emelianenko Training With Ernesto Hoost
- Written by Dave Walsh
Fedor Emelianenko is known to be one of the greatest fighters of all time, if not the GOAT of MMA. There are a few out there who would argue against that, but two losses after ten years of dominance does not prove any sort of point as much as it shows degradation happens over the years in any high level athlete and unless they switch up their entire training things won't go according to plan. It looks like Fedor has decided to switch up his training and approach to MMA altogether as he is not handling his training on his own like he usually did in seclusion in Russia. It has been reported that Fedor has been training in the Netherlands, and now it comes out that he is training with none other than Mr. Perfect himself, Ernesto Hoost.
It looks like Fedor and a few friends called upon Ernesto Hoost to set up a training camp of sorts and MixFight.ru has the photos to prove it. For more photos, head over to MixFight. [source]


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WTF are you talking about? I have not insulted anyone on these boards. I commented on the post...not the poster. If you don't know the difference...Kettle meet pot.
WTF are you talking about? I have not insulted anyone on these boards. I commented on the post...not the poster. If you don't know the difference...Kettle meet pot.
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Funny that this was the same story out of Minn last year. After the season started, Percy said the press made it all up and he never said anything like that. Now it's started again this year and both sides are still saying this isn't true. So even if you believe these "reports" then the point comes up that he wants a new contract, which means bigger $$. So say we trade for him (lose picks) and then sign him to a new contract at a pretty penny. Do we then have enough to spend on a big name #1 FA at that point? No. Is Percy a true outside speed threat WR? No, as Minn has been looking for one to line up opposite PH for a couple years now. Is Hartline or anyone else on the roster able to fill that role? No. So that means we look at drafting one. So we are back to then saying our FA move was Harvin and we had to give up ??? picks and $$ to get him. And all that is if any of this is true and none of the "problems" are true. I see more potential issues with this than reward. I don't see it happening.
AP going to bat for percy
Trade speculation surrounding Percy Harvin is rampant with the new league year set to begin March 12, but Minnesota Vikings teammate Adrian Peterson said Tuesday there's no way he'd trade the wide receiver if it was his call to make.
Peterson made his comments Tuesday in an interview with KFAN-FM in Minneapolis when he was asked whether he thought the Vikings would deal Harvin this offseason.
"To be honest with you, I don't know if we will or not. But me, individually, and giving you my opinion, I wouldn't trade him for nothing," Peterson saidHarvin badly sprained his left ankle on Nov. 4 at Seattle last season and didn't play again. The Vikings placed him on season-ending injured reserve a month later. He started playing like a Most Valuable Player award candidate, leading the league in total yards (receiving, rushing and returning) through nine games in 2012 until he was hurt.
Peterson, who won the MVP award after his 2,097-yard season, said Harvin is too special a talent to trade away.
"To do the the things that hes able to do, I dont think there will be a player able to do it better than him. Ever," he said.Despite his season ending in early November, Harvin still led the Vikings in receptions (62) and yards receiving (677) despite playing barely half of a season, and he had a kickoff return for a touchdown as well as 96 yards rushing and one score on the ground.
The 24-year-old Harvin has 7,168 all-purpose yards in his four-season career with 29 touchdowns (20 receiving, five return, four rushing). He also has 280 receptions in 54 career games.
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3 days of vetting, I want to know about guns and hunting, anything?
3 days of vetting, I want to know about guns and hunting, anything?
"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold
"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin
She ain't a big supporter of the 2nd Amendment:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...tive-backlash/
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Effectively, the referenced opinion is consistent with established law in that it does not assume a limitation on State government that has never been ruled on by the Supreme Court. A ruling that the Second Amendment does in fact limit State action, in the absence of a Supreme Court decision to that effect, would have been judicial activism in that it would mean over-ruling the Legislature without established legal foundation.
Seems to me it is stare decisis that the 14th Amendment made the Bill of Rights applicable to the states. As I recall it was a case about the Exclusionary Rule that did it.
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Lerner stepping down as architecture dean
Posted June 12, 2001; 05:01 p.m.
Ralph Lerner, dean of the School of Architecture, has announced that he is stepping down as dean effective July 1, 2002, following an academic leave of absence that he has been granted during the the 2001-02 academic year. Architecture Professor Mario Gandelsonas will serve as acting dean while Lerner is on leave.
Lerner, the George Dutton 27 Professor of Architecture, has been dean since 1989. He came to Princeton in 1984 as a lecturer and was named an associate professor in 1987. After his leave, he will continue as a full-time member of the faculty.
Gandelsonas joined the Princeton faculty as professor of architecture in 1991 and previously served as a visiting critic. He also has taught at Yale, Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Illinois and other institutions.
Known as a leading urban designer, Gandelsonas work includes projects in the U.S. and abroad, including a prize-winning design of a parkway in Marseilles, France, and designs for several community centers in New York. Gandelsonas has lectured on urbanism and urban design around the world.
He received a diploma from the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires in 1960 and a certificate from the Centre de Recherche dUrbanisme, Paris, in 1969.
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Dale Armstrong from Halifax get's a secret session with the Notion Store at The Works in Leeds.
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About Lee Roy Parnell
Part of a long line of Texas roots-music eclectics, Lee Roy Parnell's music was a blend of hardcore honky tonk, barroom rock & roll, blues, boogie, Western swing, blue-eyed soul, and occasional gospel. Unlike many other hard-to-pigeonhole artists, Parnell actually enjoyed a run of success on the country charts in the early '90s. He was born in Abilene, TX, on December 21, 1956, and grew up on his parents' ranch; his father had toured with a teenage Bob Wills in traveling medicine shows, and his first public performance came on Wills' radio show at age six. As a teenager, he played drums in a local band and soon picked up guitar as well, eventually concentrating on slide playing. He joined Kinky Friedman's Texas Jewboys in his late teens and moved to Austin in 1974 to join the city's budding music scene.
Parnell spent over a decade playing clubs in Austin, Houston, and Dallas/Fort Worth, honing his style and songwriting; he also married and held down a day job in radio. He moved to Nashville in 1987 and quickly landed a publishing contract and a regular spot at the famed Bluebird Café. He signed to Arista's Nashville division in 1989 and the next year released his self-titled debut album, a collection of horn-driven country-soul. It received good reviews but didn't break him commercially; that would happen with 1992's Love Without Mercy, which mostly dispensed with the horns and emphasized Parnell's slide guitar. "What Kind of Fool Do You Think I Am" and "Tender Moment" both went to number two on the country charts, and the title track also made the Top Ten. 1993's On the Road produced two more Top Tens in its title track and "I'm Holding My Own," and his duet with Ronnie Dunn (of Brooks & Dunn) on Hank Williams' "Take These Chains From My Heart" made the Top 20. 1995's We All Get Lucky Sometimes found Parnell tailoring his sound to country radio a bit more and featured duets with Trisha Yearwood, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Tex-Mex accordionist Flaco Jimenez. It also spawned two Top Five hits in "A Little Bit of You" and "Heart's Desire." However, 1997's commercially disappointing Every Night's a Saturday Night proved to be Parnell's last new album for Arista, which issued the compilation Hits and Highways Ahead in 1999 to coincide with his departure. Parnell next wound up on the rootsy Vanguard label, debuting for them with 2001's Tell the Truth. He returned to the studio in 2006 with Back to the Well. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi
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Memorial Day is Monday, May 27 – the unofficial start of the summer. You're going to find some of the best sales since the start of the year. This Memorial Day weekend actually started in March, when Amazon kicked off its Memorial Day sale by taking 60% off shoes and accessories.
Memorial Day celebrates the brave men and women who died serving our country. Does bargain shopping diminish their gift to us? Absolutely not. In fact, it's a fine tribute. Enjoying the freedoms provided for us by those who fell is a reminder of our blessings.
"We're encouraged to see that such a high percentage of consumers plan to take advantage of Memorial Day weekend sales as May is a great time to get deep discounts on apparel, home goods and gym memberships," says Mike Spankie, senior merchandising manager of Deals2Buy.com.
Keep the memories of the fallen in your heart, teach your children why Memorial Day matters, and honor our heroes by living your American Dream. If your American Dream means getting the most out of your hard-earned dollars, this is the article for you.
Clothing Sales
"Memorial Day is a great time to stock up on spring apparel, since we typically see deep discounts that qualify for an additional price cuts via a stacking coupon; combined, this can yield some big savings," says Dealnews.com.
"Last year, for example, we saw promotions that slashed an additional 20% to 40% off sale items at stores like MLB.com, Original Penguin, Anne Klein, Perry Ellis, Macy's, and Speedo, oftentimes with items already marked 30% to 70% off. Additional retailers that offered some of the best clothing sales last year included ShopEcko, Old Navy, Betsey Johnson, and Backcountry." Look for savings of up to 50% off select sunglasses and get free second-day shipping at SunglassHut.com. Or save up to 50% off sunglasses for him or her and get free shipping at eBay.
Home Furnishings
Home goods are the second most discounted shopping category in May. Look for Memorial Day deals from retailers such as Brylane Home, Pottery Barn, West Elm, and eSaleRugs. Discounts will range from 15% to 50% off.
Conventional wisdom says seasonal items – such as outdoor furniture – are at a premium in season. But there are still deals to be had. You can also save 23% off the Crosley Griffith 2 Metal Outdoor Seating Set in White, now $159.99 with free shipping at Cymax Stores.
Laptops and Electronics
"Laptop deals are still going strong, and we can expect to see Memorial Day sales from Fry's Electronics, Dell Home, and MacMall – as we did last year." However, Dealnews.com goes on to recommend holding off until later in the summer when you can take advantage of back-to-school laptop sales and save a few extra bucks, or snag a laptop bundle.
On the other hand, the folks at Deals2Buy.com feel differently. According to a recent survey, consumers are in the market for good deals on technology. The survey found that 50% of consumers would be willing to pay less for an older laptop once a new one is released."I would caution that May is not typically when we see the deepest discounts on new electronics, but if you're willing to buy an older model, you'll always get a cost benefit," says Spankie. You can save up to 66% off computers, TV's, Blu-Ray players, cameras, appliances and much more at BestBuy. Offers are changing daily between now and June 1, so check back often.
Summer Travel
One in five Americans will book summer travel during Memorial Day weekend, and they'll find good deals when they do. Orbitz is offering up to 50% off on summer hotel stays. You can save up to $500 off flights and hotel packages and an extra $100 off with a code. There are deals on flights from $125 with a $50 savings on group travel at One Travel. And European Roundtrip Flights start at $705 with an extra $15 off at Cheap O Air.
Backyard Fun
This month you can save $120 off a Propel Trampolines 15ft Trampoline with Enclosure and Anchor Kit. It's now $299.99 with free in-store pick up at Sears. If you're nervous about the kids jumping on a trampoline after getting hopped up on Smores, there are more traditional outdoor recreation items. You can save 15% on Franklin Sports Outdoor and Indoor Hockey, Basketball, Baseball, Volleyball Games including free shipping at BuyDig.
While you're having fun, you can also score big on practical items, such as saving 82% off an i-Zoom 11 LED 20 Lumens LED Mini Lantern for camping and emergencies. It's now only $8.99 with free shipping at eBay.
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If you or someone you love is a patient at Salinas Valley Memorial and facing a serious illness, palliative care can help. Our palliative care team uses a variety of approaches and therapies to control symptoms, manage pain, reduce stress and make you more comfortable. This specialized area of medicine has been shown to enhance quality of life for patients and their family members.
Palliative Care is not the same as hospice care. While hospice is only for people in the final months of life, palliative care can help at any stage and with all types of illness. It can take place at the same time as other hospital treatments and those designed to cure your illness. At Salinas Valley Memorial, our palliative care team includes board-certified physicians, pharmacists, nurses, social workers, and practitioners of healing arts such as music, art and pet therapies, spiritual care, aromatherapy, massage and healing touch. Together, we make sure that you receive: • Expert treatment of your symptoms including pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, constipation, nausea, loss of appetite, and problems with sleep. • Care that helps improve your ability to tolerate medical treatments. • Close communication about your illness and treatment choices. • Coordination of your care among all your healthcare providers. • Emotional and spiritual support for you and your family. • Practical information for day-to-day living.• Referral and coordination of home care services. Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare is partnered with VNA for Palliative Home Care.Many insurance plans, including Medicare and Medi-Cal, cover palliative care services. It is handled similarly to the coverage for other medical care such as for heart disease, cancer or an injury. For more information about Palliative Medicine at SVMHS email email@example.com or call (831) 759-3097. We welcome questions from both you and your family.
With a generous grant of $40,000 from the Hospice Giving Foundation, the palliative medicine team at SVMHS will be able to greatly enhance the spiritual care services already provided for hospitalized patients and their families. Since its inception in 1997, Hospice Giving Foundation has granted over $22 million dollars to programs in San Benito and Monterey Counties. The Hospice Giving Foundation is dedicated to strengthening and improving palliative, hospice and end of life services.


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Painting, installation artist to discuss her work, March 30
Posted March 25, 2005; 02:16 p.m.
Painter and installation artist Denyse Thomasos will talk about her work during a slide lecture at noon Wednesday, March 30, in Room 219, 185 Nassau St.
A faculty member at Rutgers University-Newark, Thomasos currently is a lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Program in Visual Arts, which is sponsoring the talk.
She recently spent two years traveling the world collecting references for her work, which she documented in her 2004 installation exhibitions, "Tracking: 30 Years in Canada, 30 Years in Trinidad" at the Gallery of Bishop's University in Quebec and "Tracking: A Journey Through the East" at the St. Vincent University Gallery in Halifax. Born in Trinidad and raised in Canada, Thomasos creates enormous site-specific paintings that cover the walls and ceiling of the galleries in which they are installed.


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grunt_doc got things started with his "how not to pattern" post in the Photo Gallery section, so I had to follow up with this. As some of you requested, this section can be used for everything that doesn't fit anywhere else.
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Celebrate once more the joy of decorating your Christmas tree and take inspiration from the winners of our Tree Classics Joy to the Tree Photo Contest.
Before you put away your Christmas décor and store your beloved tree back into the box this spring, take one more look back at the holiday's most memorable trees from the winners of our Tree Classics Joy to the Tree Photo Contest.
On our Facebook page, Tree Classics proudly shared with everyone the Christmas tree masterpieces that showcased family tradition as well as cherished memories of the past season. The winners of the contest captured on camera the delight that only a Tree Classics Christmas tree can bring.
Love for Tree Classics
"The tree surpassed my expectations," says Christine Young, this year's top winner. The photo of her 12-foot fir garnered 39 votes from Facebook fans.
Christine was amazed at how her holiday centerpiece turned out. "I absolutely love our new tree this year." The stunner was "the fullest, [most] beautiful, most lifelike tree" she had ever seen.
But Christine wasn't the only one expressing love for her evergreen. Mindy Johnston, whose entry garnered 20 votes, shared her passion for decorating this classic work of art.
Mindy dedicated her Michigan Pine masterpiece to "Marine" who was home for Christmas for the first time in three years. A classic example of how a Tree Classics Christmas tree brings the family together.
A Different Kind of Ornament
Tree Classics Christmas trees have sturdy branches that can easily hold your Christmas tree decorations firmly in place. Diane Auger, whose entry bagged 13 votes, says her Scarlet Fir was "just the right size."
Diane needed an evergreen that could house about 340 of her ornaments. Each detail added to the uniqueness of her Christmas tree, thus every ornament had to be tucked safely between the branches in order to bring out the vibrancy of the evergreen. Diane's Tree Classics stunner delivered on its promise.
While traditional holiday trimmings may add character to a tree, a different kind of ornament took center stage in Lori Magelky's entry.
"Just lights, no ornaments," Lori says of Our Christmas tree, whose photo garnered eight votes. "We learned last year, after our cat climbed the tree, that we shouldn't put ornaments," Lori adds.
What makes this winning entry extra special?
The only ornament it did have: "The cat who likes to sleep in the branches."
Each winner will receive a Sedona Fir Christmas Wreath. Tree Classics thanks everyone who participated in the Joy to the Tree Photo Contest.


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Mount Teide is an active volcano on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. This view of Teide was taken looking north from the rim of the caldera above the town of Vilaflor. The view encompasses Teide, Pico Viejo, the floor of the western part of the caldera, Los Roques de Garcia - which are the plumbing system of the ancient Las Cañadas volcano, hydrothermally altered green rocks called Los Azulejos on the edge of the caldera floor and the caldera wall itself. The floor of the caldera was once over a kilometer below the level of the caldera rim, but that has been partially filled by material from the caldera wall and volcanic material from Teide and Pico Viejo. These volcanic, alluvial and scree deposits can be seen in the image, along with individual lava flows on Teide and the sparse vegetation characteristic of the caldera floor. Take a look at a 360 degree interactive panorama taken at the same place at: www.360cities.net/image/teide-from-las-ca-adas-caldera-edge and the Google Map showing the route of the walk, with panoramas linked from many of the place marker descriptions at: maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=215191929034509997158.0004d57861b08bd0fc676&msa=0


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DetailsThis is an amazing machine. An upright bike that delivers fitness results faster for any environment and for any user. For those who have never ridden a bike before and those preparing for the Olympics, one bike does it all.
- PEDAL DESIGN: Extra wide double sided pedal design accommodates any size foot. The easy to adjust pull strap buckle closure gives users the comfort they seek.
- RESISTANCE RANGE: The 625C's wide range of resistance (from 20 to 900 watts) can create a challenging or modest exercise experience. 20 Watts is much lower than most other bikes on the market and is important for de-conditioned users. 900 watts "can make a grown man cry" - quote from a veteran cyclist.
- HANDLEBARS: Multi-position handlebars allow users to sit in a more upright position or be comfortable in a more aero position with dual contact heart rate grips conveniently located for either position.
- CUSTOM COLORS: Why stick with silver grey when you can choose from any of our five standard colors (white, black, platinum sparkle, metaltone gold, black chrome)? Or ... select from over 180 custom colors to match any decor. Only Cybex offers color customization in cardiovascular and strength equipment.
- SEAT ENGINEERING: A Cybex proprietary seat was designed by cyclists to provide comfort for the long ride. You need three things: as much surface area as possible for support in the proper areas - while allowing full range of leg motion - while being kind to between the legs.
- FRONT WHEELS: Because bikes are more mobile than many other exercise machines, they don't stay in the same place all the time. The 625 cycles have wheels on the front for easy rolling so they can be moved around.
- SINGLE STAGE DRIVE: The self-tensioning single-stage drive and hybrid eddy-current self-generating brake provides high torque capabilities with exceptionally low drag to provide an exceptionally broad resistance range of 20 to 900 watts with superbly smooth operation.
- Resistance Range: Minimum - 20 Watts; Maximum - 900 Watts
- Modes of Operation: Modes of operation include Constant Power and Bike Mode
- Resistance Type: hybrid eddy current brake with brushless internal generator for low drag and high power capability
- Dimensions: (L x W x H): 48 x 22.5 x 64 in; 122 x 57 x 162.5 cm
- Machine Weight: 142 lb. (64.5 kg)
- Power: Self-powered, optional AC adapter for full time display
- Max User Weight: 400 lbs. (181 kg)
- Compliance: FCC Class B, ETL listed to UL 1647, ASTM, CSA, EN 957, CE - Low Voltage, EMC and RoHS Directives
- Display: 8x15 amber LED bar graph matrix, seven segment LED modules, and LED enunciator bar
- Connectivity: Heart Rate Monitoring: Includes Contact and Wireless capability (chest strap not included). Multi-color heart shaped LED provides color coded feedback of heart rate.
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School for Professional Studies Home > Current Students > E-Mail / Staying Connected
One of the most important benefits of becoming a SPS student is obtaining a SLU Google e-mail account. SLU Google e-mail is the official communication tool of the university; all of your official SLU correspondence will be sent to your SLU Google e-mail address.
However, your e-mail account gives you access to more than just e-mail! Your SLU NET ID (the part before the @ symbol in your e-mail address) is used to log you into mySLU, the online gateway that lets you register for classes or pay tuition through Banner Self-Service, take classes online with Blackboard, and participate in online chats and project collaboration through Google Apps.
To access all of these services, you must first go to password.slu.edu to change your SLU NET Password. After you have done this, learn more about managing your SLU Google e-mail.
Every student can access the university's wireless Internet system as an authenticated user. Simply follow the configuration instructions for your specific operating system. When you are asked for a user name and password, use your SLU e-mail username and password.
Visit the SLU ITS page for configuration instructions for your current operating system.
For any other questions about campus network access, call the ITS Customer Service Center at (314) 977-4000.


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A couple of examples...
Tax Credit vs. business expense
Devestating cuts vs. slowing the rate of increase
Until our representatives can agree on what words mean and are consistent in their use when debating and campaigning, the public will have a hard time determing what the truth is. People are too busy to look into the facts surrounding every claim made by the candidates so they rely on their own understanding of what words mean. We end up with three groups trying to communicate using distinctly different vocabularies.


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With four children and three dogs under one roof, Jeff and Nikki LaBelle's waterfront home on Casey Key, Florida, had to be one thing: easygoing. "I wanted it to be the kind of place where people could put their feet up on the furniture," says Nikki. "I didn't want to have to worry about everything always looking perfect." So she purposely outfitted the house with vintage pieces that feature worn, chipped parts in order to ensure that nothing was too delicate for her active crew. She also extended her anything-goes mentality to the home's brand new floors, letting the kids loose on the wooden planks with their skateboards and tricycles to achieve an aged, well-worn aesthetic. "They're low maintenance now and look great," says Nikki. "I don't have to obsess when a little sand gets dragged in."
Here, how to forgo constant upkeep and score a house with laid-back charm.


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Can you imagine what would be said about Paul Ryan if he had treated joe the same way joe treated him?
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Barack Obama's presidency has now coincided with four straight $1 trillion-plus annual budget deficits — the first in history and an issue in an election campaign that ends in Nov. 6.
Obama's Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, contends that Obama failed to achieve a pledge to halve the deficit he inherited by the end of his first term.
When Obama took office in January 2009, the Congressional Budget Office forecast that the deficit for that year would total $1.2 trillion. It ended up at a record $1.41 trillion.


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Bonifacio "Boni" Niño Gonzalez, 55 entered into rest on January 30th, 2013 at his home in Sun Prairie, WI surrounded by his family.
He was born in Sombrereta Zacatecas, Mexico on May 14th, 1957 to Cipriano Niño and Amelia Gonzalez. "Boni "as he was often called was the third of 10 brothers and sisters, most of whom live in Texas and Mexico. He was married and had 5 children; Yesenia, Alejandro, Priscilla, Liliana and Monserrat Niño. After he moved to the United States he split his time between Chicago, IL and Madison, WI where he met his life partner Daphne "Colleen" Moody.
They decided to settle and make their lives in Sun Prairie, WI where "Boni" worked for Maunesha River Dairy. He enjoyed different hobbies, the Sun Prairie Corn Festival, and having family over for barbecues. He was known by the family as "Capi", "Biscocho" or "Sweetie Pie" and to Daphne's grandchildren he was known as "Umpa Boni".
"Boni" was a tall man with a big heart and a gentle voice, in the end his heart was just too big and too pure for this world. His family in Chicago, Texas, Mexico and Wisconsin will all miss you. He was preceded in death by his mother Amelia and his brother Jorge Luis.
A funeral service will be held at CRESS FUNERAL HOME, 1310 Emerald Terrace, Sun Prairie, on Sunday, February 3, 2013, at 1:00 p.m. with Pastor Juan Arevalo officiating. A visitation will be held at the funeral home on Sunday from 12:00 noon until the time of service.
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I HAVE not yet spoken of Morton Cavanagh, for all that he had been for a long time my best and dearest friend. I became acquainted with him during the second year of my life in London, and we made friends on the spot. There was just this little strangeness in our sudden friendship, in that it was made as it were in spite of ourselves. We had been mutually prejudiced against each other by excessive praise. His friends had vaunted him to me so extravagantly that I had made myself sure he was nothing but an overrated and conceited puppy—a jack- jackdaw page: 271 daw pranked in peacock's feathers, and by no means the phœnix they had painted him. He on his side had come to an analogous conclusion about me. I was a pedant, a bookworm, a dusty, fusty, old-young prig; and my diligence was a red rag to him as violent and aggressive as was his brilliancy to me.
Hence, when we met, we met as secret enemies determined to hate each other to the death; and when we parted, we parted as mutual friends who knew that they would love each other for life. It was an odd little drama; but all life is full of these queer contradictions of intent and deed.
Cavanagh was one of the handsomest young fellows I have ever seen. He was bright, energetic, gallant; a creature whom all women loved, to whom all men wished well, and of whom there were as many hopes as there are stars in the sky. And he seemed certain to justify the brilliant pro- prophecies page: 272 phecies made in his favour. He had the ball at his foot, and the world's oyster was already half opened. He was an artist, and, so far as he had gone, a successful one. He had taken the Gold Medal, been publicly praised by Sir Charles Eastlake, and he had sold his first exhibited picture. All that was wanting now was diligence in work and industry in self-improvement.
For the first few years his sun shone in a cloudless sky. While I was making but a very moderate income by hard work, Cavanagh was coining money by labour as light as play. His gains were princely, all things considered; and he ought to have saved considerably. But no matter what he earned, he kept nothing. Generous, careless, pleasure-loving, extravagant, he had every quality which leads to expenditure and the melting-pot; and with all his gains he never had sixpence before him. Or, if he had, it was taken from him by some- someone page: 273 one who said he wanted it more than did he himself. Cavanagh had not yet learned how to refuse. 'No' was the hardest word in the language to him, and he would have borne any burden on his own shoulders rather than have given pain to another. As for his openhandedness, it did not matter, he used to say with a laugh. He had a reserve fund where that came from, and his bank was not broken. While he had health and strength he would float on the top of the waves; when he felt himself beginning to sink it would then be time enough to put together a raft and hang on to a buoy.
Although we were more like brothers than merely friends, Cavanagh and I had little mental life in common. He did not care a straw for politics; social questions were dry chaff to him; he never troubled his head about religion. He went to church when he visited his people in the country, because it was the proper thing to do and page: 274 they would have been hurt had he not gone; but he dropped the habit in London. Not because he did not believe what he heard from reading-desk or pulpit; but because it took up his time and bored him. He liked the sunshine and long rambles in the woods and fields and by the sea-shore better than the dim religious light; and, if remonstrated with, he used to say that Nature was his temple, and a lark singing in the sky was a more devout choir than one made up of any number of nice little boys in nice white stoles, singing antiphonies through their noses. But what was wanting in mental sympathy of the deepest kind was filled in by sympathy of a more generalized sort. We both loved art and nature, music, poetry and beauty. We both loathed vulgarity, and never confounded unconventionality with coarseness nor freedom with vice. And we both profited by the devotion, sincerity and affectionateness which inter- interpenetrated page: 275 penetrated and coloured the character of each.
For my own part, I had reason enough to both love and admire Morton Cavanagh. He was a charming companion; always ready to enjoy; bright, good-humoured; at once receptive and expansive, playful and sincere. He was entirely natural too—one of the least artificial or self-conscious of men. He was conscious enough of the splendour of life and of his own divine enjoyment therein—conscious of power and pleasure, of what he could do and what he could feel—but he was not conscious of his outer self. He scarcely knew that he was handsome—he, who was as beautiful as Antinous!—and he never calculated on the effect of his personality on others. Perfectly truthful, he did not offend the most susceptible, because what he said was said without either callousness or insolence. It was said simply because such page: 276 and such things were. Is it an offence to call the hedge wound-wort fetid? or flattery to say that the rose is sweet? This truthfulness was part of Cavanagh's very being. Subterfuge, lying, hypocrisy, all false seeming everywhere, were as far from him as was cruelty or vulgarity; and part of his very manliness was in his sincerity.
In person he was tall, slender, long-limbed. He had dark hair and dark eyes; his skin was dead white, and his whole appearance was un-English. But his beauty was neither French nor Italian, nor yet Spanish, nor again that of any nation with which I am acquainted. It was sui generis. He himself used to declare that he was half a Red Indian, because descended through his mother from the hapless Queen Pocohontas; and he certainly had a curiously long swift stride, and bore himself with a certain savage ease and grace as well as dignity and freedom, which justified his be- belief page: 277 lief. Only, one learns to be somewhat sceptical of these descendants of Pocohontas; they are a little too numerous. Be that, however, as it may, I have never seen anyone like Cavanagh—never one with so much native kingliness of manner mingled with the gallant gay good-humour of an artist and a Bohemian. For he was a Bohemian to his finger-tips—but not of the vicious type.
Such as he was, he was supreme in beauty, in talent, in nobleness, in brilliancy and power; and not the proudest of us all felt that he doffed his cap too low, or gave up his own rightful pretensions, when he made Morton Cavanagh the king of the circle whom all agreed to honour and none could fail to love.
When I went over to Paris, I naturally lost personal touch of my friend. We corresponded, of course; but letters are poor substitutes for daily intercourse, and when lives are apart interests diverge. Then page: 278 there comes of necessity a certain mildew about the intimacy—not in the affections, but in the mutual knowledge of events. And all events more or less mould and modify the character, until it finally sets in its inalterable shape; when it fossilizes and grows no more.
One day while I was in Paris I received a letter from Cavanagh telling me abruptly that he was married. He had married, he said, the daughter of a lodging-house keeper down at some place in Cornwall—I think it was Bude or Boscastle—where he had been spending the summer. He made no attempt to conceal the real position of his wife, nor to gild the homely russet of her circumstances. She was simply plain Mary, the daughter of a woman who took in lodgers for the summer season in a simple little Cornish village. But she was a good girl, he said, and as beautiful as an artist's wife should be. He was as happy as a king, he page: 279 went on to say, and he wanted only his dear Chris—his fidus Achates—to be as happy as an emperor.
It was a letter written in the wildest, maddest strain; and I was glad that he was so content. As for a lodging-house keeper's daughter—well! the name does not go for much; for there are daughters and daughters, as well as there are lodging-house keepers and lodging-house keepers. We sometimes find irreproachable ladies of good education and small means who pay their rent by letting their rooms. There is nothing necessarily degrading in this. A woman left poorly provided for, and with children to bring up, must do something to stretch that narrow margin. Why not this as well as anything else? Mary's mother was surely a lady of this kind; and Mary herself was none the worse for the fact that the drawing-rooms had to pay the rent, and that a six months' letting had to secure a page: 280 twelvemonths' tenement. She must be refined and well brought up. Morton Cavanagh could not have married anything else than a real, true, genuine, unapocryphal gentlewoman. With his fastidious tastes, how could he do otherwise? The only thing to disturb me in the matter was that he had not told me of his engagement, and that he had sprung his marriage on me so unexpectedly. But I loved my friend and respected freedom of action too much to allow this to rankle in my mind; and I made no stumbling-block where Cavanagh had placed none.
When I returned from Paris, Cavanagh came to meet me at the station. I saw him striding up the platform with his old swift silent step, his handsome face alight with pleasure, his bright eyes shining in the gas-light as in an instant he had, as he said, 'spotted' me. But when I stood face to face with him, at a glance I saw a certain change. page: 281 I could not explain it. I could not say where it was, nor in what special tract nor trait. But it was there. It was the same picture varnished with another colour; and the man I met was not the man I had left. He was stouter than when I had seen him last. The clear white of his skin was obscured and yellowed. His jet-black hair was longer, and the gloss had gone out of it. His dress was shabby, and he had a certain self-neglected look—a certain dash of raffishness which he had never had before; and as he spoke and laughed his welcome in more vociferous fashion than had been usual with him, his hot breath was heavy with the deadly reek of gin.
When I went to his lodgings I understood matters yet more clearly. A tawdry, ill-appointed young woman, with a by no means appetizing infant in her arms—a young woman with a face like a wax-doll, pink and blue and gold, round and page: 282 mindless, with nothing in it save youth and colour, and from which maternity had already taken the first bloom—a young woman, fine and slipshod, under-bred and pretentious, ill at ease and affected—this was the landlady's daughter whom my friend had made his wife, and vaunted as his fitting match and willing choice.
My poor Cavanagh! What had blinded him so fatally? Ah! it was the old old story whereby so many young men have been destroyed—a moment's weakness, and a life's sad ruin for expiation! That was the whole thing. When the momentary craze passed, my friend woke to find himself tied for life to an animated log, in no single particular admirable nor worthy of him. I do not mean to say she was actively bad, poor soul!—she was not that; but she was utterly common—not vicious, but unimprovable—not a savage, nor a fiend, nor yet even a mere animal, but just a human page: 283 doll, mindless, brainless, conscienceless, and worked by curious internal machinery. And she was the millstone round her husband's neck which sank him to the depths.
The sequel is soon told. Disgusted with himself, and not strong enough to bear with patient dignity the consequences of his own mistake nor yet able to remedy that mistake, Cavanagh took to drink, as many a poor fellow has done before him. Neither the claims of his wife and children nor the religion of honour and self-respect, touched him for more than a few days at a time. He had spasmodic fits of repentance, of self-loathing, of good resolve, of refuge in religion, but to no good. The demon of drink had him too tightly in his grasp; and, struggle as he would, my unhappy friend could never set himself free. His wife did not know how to take him. How should she, poor woman? Such a character and such conditions as his required nicer handling page: 284 than hers. She bullied him, rated, threatened, and publicly disgraced him yet more than he had already disgraced himself. She made his wretched squalid home more wretched by her not unnatural temper, and more squalid by her bad management and unthrift; and he left both her and it for that bitter forgetfulness which only made everything worse.
He grew quarrelsome, too, and suspicious; and it was as much as I or any of his friends could do to keep on fair terms with him, so madly determined was he to find us in the wrong. Poor Cavanagh! Having so much to condemn in himself, it would have been such a relief if he could have found that he was not the only one to blame, and that his griefs against others excused his high-treason against himself! But I never let him quarrel with me. And, painful as it was to go to that sordid home and see the wreck of all that I had once so loved, admired and be- believed page: 285 lieved in, I used to go continually—to at least ease my own conscience if I could not lighten his.
Suddenly the whole family disappeared out of London, and I lost sight of them. Cavanagh did not write to me, and his own people refused to give me his address. He had gone like a faded aurora—something that had been so glorious and that now had passed into the mists of night. No one of our common friends knew more than I; and I knew nothing. So it continued for some time, and of this man who had been to me more like a brother than a friend I knew absolutely nothing—not even whether he were living or dead, sane or mad. And I could not find out.
One night I had a singular dream. I thought that I was walking on the road which led to our old rectory when I stumbled over the body of Morton Cavanagh, lying half-dead and covered with mud by the way- wayside page: 286 side. I stopped, lifted him up in my arms, and cleansed him; then I led him home, hand-in-hand, to my father's house—waking as I passed through the garden gate.
This dream made a deep impression on me, for all that I am absolutely free from superstitious belief in, or reverence for, dreams. Still, it brought my dear friend's image so vividly before me that I could not free my mind from the thought of him. And I resolved at all costs to find out where he was, and in what condition of mind, body and estate.
After infinite trouble and queer, mole-like workings, I succeeded. I found him in a small four-roomed cottage, in a remote village in Essex—separated from his wife and children, and living with a policeman and his wife. His family had taken him in hand, and, as he was now an absolute pauper, they were masters of the situation. The wife and children were cared for se- separately page: 287 parately; and Cavanagh was, as I say, put under the charge of a policeman, with strict orders that he should be kept from drink. He had had delirium tremens more than once, and his brain was by now decidedly deteriorated.
When I knew his address, I went down that same day. I wanted to take him unawares, and thus to be able to judge more accurately than if he had time to prepare himself.
I shall never forget the sickening sensation of the moment when I first saw him in that wretched cottage, amid those gross and mean surroundings that made the reality to which his brilliant prospects had declined. Bloated, blotched—his once bright eyes lustreless, bloodshot, staring—his manner a strange mixture of swagger and shame—his manhood degraded—his whole being debased—and yet flashes of his old purer self traversing this deadly darkness—he was page: 288 more awful than a galvanized corpse, more pitiful than a ghost lingering mournfully among the living. What a change! what an awful fall it was!
At the first moment he did not seem to recognise me. Then, when he did, he laughed aloud with that false mirth which is more sad than tears. Then he became insolent, and challenged my motives for coming, and threatened me with tragic, half-insane and impotent bluster; and finally he broke down into hysterical weeping, which was a kind of waymark of his degradation. And then he was conquered; and a little of that deep crust of moral dirt was washed away, at least for the moment. I stayed with him the whole day, and we went out for a walk in the fields, where he got to be somewhat more like his old self. We talked of flowers and art, of pictures and people; but his brain was weak, and he could not take in much at a time, and I had to page: 289 treat him morally and intellectually as the famished are treated physically—with small spells of talk and long lapses of silence. But my presence seemed to soothe if not to strengthen him; and when I left he pressed me to go again, and often, and very soon; saying, as he stood on the platform, the policeman by his side:
'You have done me good, Chris! God bless you, old fellow!'
I often went after this—generally once a week; but always by appointment. On the days when I was there he was at least safe from degradation; and, indeed, the woman of the house said they reckoned three good days for every visit. He was happy in my company. I recalled him to something of his former brightness, and for sake of the old times he made these pathetic little efforts to rise out of his ruin. But he could not. His brain had deteriorated, his will had been eaten page: 290 into, and his morale was paralyzed all through. The second day after I had been to see him, he broke out as bad as ever, and so he continued till the day before my next visit was to come off. Then he kept sober, for love's sake and mine.
How he got the means, or how he managed to get the drink at all, was a mystery. The only sure thing about it was, he did manage, and he did get it. He, once so honourable, so upright, so straight-forward and fearless in the truth, now condescended to the meanest falsehoods and subterfuges for that accursed poison which had ruined him.
At last the end came. He died quite suddenly, in a moment, as he sat there by the table. And when he died he was a mere shell—a mass of used and worn-out organs, all of which were diseased and destroyed. His death was a release from sorrow, shame, and suffering all round; and page: 291 I felt that I had gained him again, not lost him, through the purification of the grave. My poor Cavanagh! I never loved any man, save Edwin, so much as I loved him; but my dream was a lying vision:—I did not cleanse nor save him, nor did I lead him home to the Father's House!
I lost more than Morton Cavanagh about this time—the exact dates and precise order do not signify. My dear old father-friend Walter Savage Landor made the second great blunder of his life, and had to pay the penalty. The law is no respecter of persons; and those who vault unbidden into the seat of justice have to suffer by the sword they have wielded without authority.
Into the merits of this painful case I will not enter. All I know is the fatal result; and the only defence I make—and to my mind it is all-powerful—is, that age obscures the clearness of the mental vision as it does that of the physical, and that if to those page: 292 who love much much may be forgiven, those whose vigorous youth has been pure and flawless may hope for the reverent veiling of oblivion when they make an octogenarian mistake.
Mr. Landor left Bath, and went back to his own family and the old home he once loved so well at beautiful Florence; and I never saw him again.
But the lives which had been discordant in the years gone by were not likely to be harmonious now; and the love which had been too weak to keep the marriage soldered in the days of youth and maturity could scarcely bring together the jagged edges in old age, when habits had diverged as much as feelings were estranged. After a miserable spell of dissatisfaction, the fire, which had long been burning low, finally burnt itself out, and the old lion lay down never more to rise. There, under the blue sky of Italy, turned to his rest one of the grandest page: 293 literary figures and noblest men of his generation—one who, though his own worst enemy, was the friend and panegyrist of all things lofty, beautiful and good.
Too absolutely free from the faintest taint of vulgarity to be appreciated by the vulgar, the inner beauty of Landor's nature was not all men's possession—just as his literary work itself is only for the chosen few, and has never been what is called popular. Sonorous in its melody, but not laboured nor artificial; suggestive, but not sketchy; giving the impression of a reserve-fund unexhausted and of latent force unused, but never of want of finish nor of neglected opportunity; never cloying, but never disappointing, his works are among the best of our literature and language. Nowhere else do we find such a mixture of grace and strength, of tenderness and power, of artistic skill and natural simplicity. The figures page: 294 which leave his hands are like the purest Greek statues. There is no violence in their tragedy, no affectation in their elegance, no simper in their beauty, no self-consciousness in their grace. Beneath the smooth surface of the marble the living man lies hidden. His Aphrodites wring the salt wave from their dripping tresses, and know that they have risen to life in the upper air and are the beloved of gods and mortals; but they are large and free and noble, and art but reproduces what nature created. His Apollos stand secure in their strength, masters of the Chariot of the Sun, lords of life and beauty, who command and are obeyed. There is no posturizing, no effort; and it is this chastened self-restraint in the midst of his creative activity—this grand command, both over his own thoughts and his material, while infusing life into his dead symbols, which makes Landor so Greek. He sees all beauty page: 295 and manipulates it to his will; but he never exaggerates and never loses control of his idea. He is the Pygmalion of literature, but his Galateas have always the grave beauty of statues, even while they move and speak. In his intensest love he is free from all trace of licentiousness or coarseness. His Dionysos never changes attributes with Silenus; and his Aphrodite is the Sea-born but never the Pandemos.
For himself, time has dissolved away all the little surface weaknesses—all the thin crust and pellicles of temper which once grew about the outer man, and has left the pure core like shining gold, free from stain and rust. We judge him by what he did and was—by that Ideal which rises from the grave of the dead and is the true man—truer than was he whose brain was influenced by his blood, and his blood by all material things, and whose best self got sometimes lost, clouded and mislaid, like page: 296 diamonds fallen from their setting, or pearls discoloured by age.
Things had happened in my own history which made it impossible for me to go to my dear old friend in the beginning of this last sad drama at Bath. Had I been able, I knew that I should have prevented much that took place. My influence over Mr. Landor had grown of late years. It was that of a respectful son who has on his side the clearer vision and brisker energies of youth, while always absolutely deferential and obedient.
It was of no use, however, to lament over the inevitable. I could not go to him; and so those miserable Dry Sticks were Faggoted, and the brave life went out without my hand on the one or my love around the other.
I had one satisfaction in the years that came after. When Forster wrote his mean and unsatisfactory 'Life of Landor,' I page: 297 reviewed it. Two days after the review appeared, I was at a dinner given by dear Shirley Brooks. Lord Houghton was there.
'Have you seen Kirkland's review of "Landor's Life" by Forster?' he asked Lord Houghton. 'It is the neatest thing I know. He has taken the skin off him so—so,' he added, making a movement as if tearing strips along his arm.
Of Forster—'de mortuis' notwithstanding—I can never speak in sufficiently strong terms of contempt. He was bully and toady in excelsis; and the way in which he harnessed himself to the chariot of every manifest conqueror who drove into the literary arena was as degrading as it was loathsome. More loathsome still was his want of loyalty to the man, dead, whose feet he had kissed while living. Landor had been his friend and benefactor—had given him the copyright of his works, and had trusted page: 298 him with that most sacred deposit, the story of his life. Forster repaid his munificence by emphasizing the weaknesses and faintly depicting the grand qualities of his friend from whom no more was to be expected, and whose last act of generosity had been performed. In like manner his 'Life of Dickens' is simply a vehicle for his own self-laudation—dwarfing all other friendships to aggrandize and augment his own. All through his career his one ruling principle of action was egotism and self-advantage; and of the finer strains of honour he had not the faintest echo.
Another notable man died about this time—Dr. Elliotson—with whom also I had been brought into personal relations. I first knew him through the Maconochies, at the time when his income—so they told me—had dropped plumb from twelve to two thousand a year, as the tax levied on his belief in mesmerism. During his last page: 299 illness my own dear father had been brought up to London, and placed under Dr. Elliotson, whose prophylactic then was tar-water. Nothing, however, did or could arrest the progress of the deadly disease which was eating away my father's life; but the friendship which had then been begun, and had afterwards fallen into abeyance, was renewed in later years, between Dr. Elliotson and myself. He was then a Freethinker, so far as Christianity was concerned—a devout believer in God and the spiritual nature of man but not an orthodox Christian; and we had many long and interesting talks together, after the prescription had been written out and the state of the dear patient upstairs discussed between us in the room below. Years passed after my father's death before I met my friend again. When I did, he was old, broken, penniless and out of practice. A friend— page: 300 good be with him and all such!—had taken this wreck of former power and brilliancy, and cared for him as a son would care for a father. Among other changes which the years had worked was the old man's conversion to Christianity by spiritualism. I met him one night at Mrs. Milner Gibson's, and he came up to me as soon as he saw me enter the room. We talked together for some time, the burden of his speech being lamentations that he had ever said anything to strengthen my own want of orthodoxy, and beseechings to reconsider the question, and—as he had done—come over to Christianity by the way of spiritualism and messages from the dead. He died not very long after this; but his true self had died long before.
George Cruikshank too, was among the labourers on the ungrateful field of my mind. One evening we had been to Westland Marston's, and we walked home to- together page: 301 gether. On the way we passed a group of rowdy drunken men and women. Suddenly George stopped, and, taking hold of my arm, said solemnly:
'You are responsible for those poor wretches.'
I answered that I did not exactly see this and disclaimed any share in their degradation. But he insisted on it; and hung those ruined souls like infernal bells about my neck, tinkling out my own damnation because at supper I had drunk a glass of champagne from which he had vainly tried to dissuade me.
He got heated and excited when I would not have what he called enough grace of conscience to recognise my responsibility in the drunkenness of these poor sinners. But we did not quarrel. Sincerity is far too valuable a quality to be resented, even when unduly aggressive; and the good old fellow had so many fine and sterling moral beau- beauties page: 302 ties, one could easily pardon a certain want of proportion in some and want of taste in others. If he had a horror of drunkenness, so had I; for, though never near to being under the curse myself, had I not seen the misery it had worked with one I had loved so well?
BILLING AND SONS PRINTERS, GUILDFORD. G., C. & Co.


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Here is how it is supposed to work.
You earn, let's say, 75K a year. 6,250 a month. your household bills are 6,000. You therefore 250 left over(duck lease, shotgun shells...lol)! You have a surplus! Ok. you have the same income and your bills are 6,450 a month. You are now short 200 a month. You have to cut back. Simple. If you don't, you will likely put your wife, kids or your lifestyle in jeopardy. Most people I know, liberal or conservative would not want to do this. Now , you can blame anything or anyone you want, but the fact is you need more money. Choices: Anothe job or credit, or cut back until the storm is over. Remember, you can't deposit blame in the bank, they only accept cash! If you over extend your credit then you have to face the facts associated with that.
I know this is simple and my question is "Why doesn't our Gov. understand this? Fiscal responsibility. Very simple concept. With this stimulas package, our gov. is over extending itself to a point where it might just break. This is not good for us, our children or our grandchildren. It is time That we stand as a group, a group of Americans and tell by our voting, e-mails, phone call and the sort that we as Americans are not going to stand for this.
Can we stop bickering about leftwing vs. right wind stuff and gain our country BACK! Call or write your congressmen and senators and tell them to bring fiscal responsibility back. If we don't, who ever is footing the bill will own us!
God Bless you all!