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It seems fitting that Rose Hui was a young (and very pregnant) soon-to-be mother when she and her husband, Dennis, took over ownership of Hui's Cantonese and American Restaurant in 1994. (Hui's was originally opened in 1969 by Dennis' brother, Yue Kwong Hui, and his wife, Cindy.) It's Rose's maternal instinct that has made this neighborhood spot a favorite for Chinese cuisine.
The first thing to know about Rose Hui is that she loves her customers. If you place a takeout order or dine at Hui's more than once, Rose will eventually get to know you and your family.
"We are a family-style business," Rose explained. "We care about our customers. We follow what they need. They're not really my customers - they're more like part of my family."
Beyond the friendly reception you'll get at Hui's, you'll also find a wide-range of tasty Chinese dishes. Some of the favorites are crab rangoon ($5.50), sesame chicken ($9/$11) and beef with broccoli ($9/$11). I will add that the egg rolls ($1.50) and Hui's Fried Rice ($7.30/$7.90) are a nice complement to any entree.
There is a little-known "secret" about Hui's - you can go in and ask Rose for a Family Special Dish, which will be a homemade recipe based on ingredients available in the restaurant that day.
"I think of them as surprise dishes, Rose said. "I don't know what they are ahead of time, I just make up my mind."
Customers grow up eating Hui's food and bring their children and grandchildren back to enjoy this local institution.
"I become close to customers and know them for four or five generations," Rose said. "Even when they move away, they come back and see family and want to come to Hui's. It's fun to see families grow up. I really have too much fun working with customers."
Therein lies the secret behind Hui's success - family run and family focused - since 1969.
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NAME: Hui's Cantonese and American Restaurant
ADDRESS: 8818 W. North Ave., Wauwatosa
FARE: Chinese
HOURS: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday
PRICE RANGE: about $6 to $18
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HANDICAPPED ACCESS: yes
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Saints will be 5-8 after this week as well. Don't pin our record all on Tannehill
Saints will be 5-8 after this week as well. Don't pin our record all on Tannehill
Looks like Miami will finish last after all. lol behind the Jets and tied with the Browns.
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Tannehill may not be the main part of the problem but he isn't being part of the solution either.
I hate always having to think about April's draft in December!! I do still love this team tho.. Isn't that veird?
10: Number of Dolphins Points....OVER
2: Number of Nate Garner holding calls...Under
2: Number of sacks Jonathan Martin yields...PUSH
2: Number of turnovers the Fins create...Under
1: Number of PI calls on Nolan Carroll...Under
More carries: Bush or Thomas...Bush
2: Number of times Dierdorf gushes about Tom Brady...Under
I am starting to feel "better" about the Fins loss last week to the Niners after watching them kick the Pats around on Sunday night. The Fins played physical with the Niners and stayed within a score until the end of the game.
No the Fins did not win and there are no moral victories. However, perhaps it is a sign of progress that the Fins hung with both these times.
**** it. I take it back. I hate the Pats.

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The phone rings. You answer it and hear the voice of a friend. Your friend's voice began as sound waves, but they traveled to your phone as electrical signals. How does your phone turn the signals back to sound waves that you can hear? It seems almost magical.
The Back Story
- The telephone contains an electromagnet that is responsible for the magic. An electromagnetic is a magnet created by electric current flowing through a coil of wire that is wrapped around a bar of iron.
- For an overview of how a telephone works, including the role of the electromagnet, watch this very brief video:
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Learn more about how a telephone works at the links below. Then answer the questions that follow.
- http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/education/ask/?quid=1197
- http://www.antiquetelephonehistory.com/telworks.php
- Describe the basic parts of a telephone.
- A telephone has two diaphragms. What are they, and where are they located? What human body structure does each diaphragm resemble in terms of function?
- Sound waves are mechanical waves. These are waves that travel through matter. When you speak, sound waves travel through the air by making air molecules vibrate. How are these vibrations changed into electrical signals by the telephone?
- Where do the electrical signals go after they leave your telephone?
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June 22, 2010 at 5:38pmSubject: This SundayHey P.S. Kensington fans,
As you may have heard, the street closure permit has been cancelled for our June 27th Pedestrian Sunday. This means that cars will be allowed into the market, however, there will still be a festive atmosphere that day… music, dance, food and fun are no strangers to the streets of Kensington and a bunch of world leaders meeting in a fortified downtown core can't stop us from having a good time.
Merchants, residents and anyone who is so inclined, feel free to take a parking spot and do what you will – don't forget to feed the meter! There's no law against selling street food if you are already a food vendor and follow board of health guidelines. Musicians welcome, take care not to block traffic or create dangerous situations for pedestrians. Creative interventions with urban space are part of everyday life in the market and Sunday will be no exception.
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By Sam Mamudi
As we all know, the Federal Reserve's policy of easy money is doing some funny things to the market, not least the fact that Treasury yields are falling at the same time that stock prices are rising.
But as WSJ MoneyBeat reports today, even though this incongruity has been going on for a while, it's getting to a point where, even by recent standards, it's pretty unusual.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which falls as prices rise, dropped to its lowest level in 2013, finishing at 1.667% after changing hands at a low of 1.651% during the day, according to Tradeweb. That suggests continued investor interest for the perceived safety of the U.S. government, at a time when the tech stock-heavy Nasdaq Composite is at a 12-year high…
"In a normal world, it wouldn't make sense," says Russ Koesterich, chief investment strategist for BlackRock. "The difference is that the marginal buyer keeping it afloat is not the market, it's public institutions. You can have this huge divergence go on for a while."
The big question, of course, is how this will all end. For what it's worth, the two experts in MoneyBeat's report both predict a happier ending for stocks:
Koesterich thinks that the stock-market bulls will ultimately win out, with investors in bonds on the losing end. "There's no law of nature to say the 10-year can't go back to 1.50%, but if you have a time horizon beyond the next few weeks, this is really bad value," he says. "Even without the bond Armageddon scenarios, this is still a bad buy for most investors."
As for Lefeuvre, he expects the S&P 500 to finish the year at 1700, suggesting more stock gains ahead, while he expects Treasury yields to eventually reverse course and finish the year around the 2% level. But he acknowledges the difficulty of trying to make such predictions in the face of the central banks' aggressive actions.
Difficulty is indeed one word for it. So far, for all the teeth-gnashing and wailing, the Fed is successfully managing to help boost demand for both stocks and bonds.


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CFC HRCH Gunner, Flight Interceptor SH QAA
Chocolate Male, sire to my female chocolate !
Much love to Gunner !
CFC HRCH Gunner, Flight Interceptor SH QAA
Chocolate Male, sire to my female chocolate !
Much love to Gunner !
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"EIC clear or carrier means your dog is not affected and will not show EIC symptoms."
I dont know about males. However Lyn Yelton of Delbay Retriever club has an FC AFC. She is out of Elkton Md.
Sorry to drag this one up again, but I thought that I'd take this oppertunity to ask this chocolate loving crowd a "if you were in my shoes question"? I own a well bred Chocolate female (Jazz Rascal/Itsy Bitsy x Candlewood cash/Foxy lady) all clearances CNM EIC clear who is a NMH GMH Misty Marsh's Minnesota Maggie QFTR MH WCX . Good looking, talented, and 90% on the "hot" scale who adds to the gene pool. I bred her to "Ticket" a couple of years ago with good results, but was wondering what male would really peak your interest in a breeding? I like the cross with Frank Price's "Roux" but the whole carrier thing concerns me with saleability.
misty marsh we need some chocolate females breed to top black dogs. For example shaq, emmitt, booboo, carbon sons to get larger breeding pool. pirate is being breed alot to chocolate females because he throws chocolate and very nice pups. pirate has been breed alot. westwind bold tiger is chocolate factor and was nice marking dog. Nice breed chocolate female was breed to nick of time lone ranger. Pinehurst all that Jazz is FC-AFC female. New male is FC_AFC fRebel Ridge Cosmic Rise 'n Fall .
Chad Costa has young male out of aces high. don't Know if he is chocolate factor or eic clear. But if he is would make nice stud dog to chocolate.
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"Hunting is a skill to be learned whether you do it early or late it still needs to be learned"
GMRH-I HRCH Quick MH (most importantly Duck/Upland Enthusiast) Rip. July-2014
GMHR HRCH Lakota MH (most importantly Upland/Duck Enthusiast)
MHR HR Storm SH (Beginning Upland & Waterfowl Enthusiast)
Being lucky enough to own a Roux pup, I can tell you the talent that is passed on is worth the carrier status risk. Roux has proven to pass on incredible marking talent in his pups.
I proudly own a carrier pup out of Roux & Tyra and have never owned a more talented dog in 20+ years.
SHR Diggs, Soul, Mooney and always HRCH Cinn SH 500 pt club (06/92 to 01/98), HR Rocks (09/99 to 05/04), HRCH UH Schooner SH 1000 pt club (11/95 to 11/07) and HRCH UH Wagars MH 1500 pt club (12/01 to 09/13).


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Mozart's interest in the flute and its players Most sleeve notes about Mozart's music for the flute begin with a quotation from one of Mozart's letters to his father, written on the 14th of February 1778, in which he says he 'could not abide' the flute. Other letters from that same period tell us that he should have said that his mind was on other things: his beloved Aloyia Weber to be precise. How else could it be that Mozart wrote four flute quartets, two flute concerti, a flute and harp concerto, an Andante for flute and orchestra, the original version of the Sinfonia Concertante, and several solos, such as the flute part in the aria 'Se it padre perdei' from the opera Idomeneo. There were in fact three flute players in Mozart's life who inspired him to write for the instrument, each in his own way - Ferdinand Dejean, a wealthy Dutch amateur flute player who commissioned him to compose 'three small, light and short concerti and two quartets for the flute'. - Duc de Guines, for whom he wrote the flute and harp concerto, probably knowing that the man played a flute with more than the usual one key, since Mozart asks for a low dflat and c more than once. - Johann Baptiste Wendling, a friend of Mozart and, judging by Mozart's letters to his father, an excellent flute player, whose playing he held in high esteem. Mozart wrote the now lost flute part in the original version of the Sinfonia Concertante for four winds and orchestra and the flute part in the above mentioned aria from Idomeneo for him....
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 12:16 PM GMT on August 03, 2010
Tropical Storm Colin has made its debut over the Atlantic, but does not appear to be a threat to any land areas over the next five days. Satellite imagery shows that Colin is intensifying, as both the intensity and areal extent of heavy thunderstorms has increased over the past few hours. A respectable low-level spiral band is developing to the north of the center, and upper-level outflow is beginning to appear on all sides of the storm. Colin is a very small storm, and its tropical storm force winds extend out just 30 miles from the center. Colin passed about 50 miles south of Buoy 41041 early this morning, and generated top sustained winds of 27 mph at the buoy. There is some dry air associated with the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) to the northwest of Colin, but this dry air is not getting entrained into Colin at present. Wind shear is a low 5 - 10 knots and sea surface temperatures are a very warm 28 - 29°C, so continued development is likely today. The main negative for development appears to be the storm's small size, which makes it vulnerable to modest increases in wind shear or dry air entrainment. The first flight of the Hurricane Hunters into Colin is scheduled for Wednesday morning.
Figure 1. Morning satellite image of Tropical Storm Colin.
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The latest 6Z (2am EDT) models are fairly unified taking Colin to the west-northwest at 20 - 25 mph for the next three days. This would bring squalls from the storm's outer rainbands to the northern Lesser Antilles Islands, such as Antigua and Barbuda, by Wednesday afternoon. The center of Colin should pass to the northeast of the islands, and the storm is small enough that the islands are unlikely to experience tropical storm force winds. As Colin makes its closest approach to the Lesser Antilles on Wednesday night, the storm will begin to encounter strong upper-level westerly winds associated with the counter-clockwise flow of air around an upper-level low pressure system centered between Bermuda and Puerto Rico. The latest SHIPS model forecast predicts that these winds will cause wind shear to rise to the moderate level, 10 - 20 knots, by Wednesday morning, and to the high level, 20 - 30 knots, by Thursday. There is considerable dry air associated with the upper level low that should cause problems for Colin, as well. The high wind shear and dry air should weaken Colin. NHC is giving Colin a 25% chance of attaining hurricane status this week.
A trough of low pressure is expected to move off the U.S. East Coast on Friday, and this trough will pull Colin to the northwest and cause it to slow down on Wednesday. By Friday, Colin will be moving at half of its current speed. It is unclear if the trough of low pressure will be strong enough to fully recurve Colin out to sea late this week. Some of the models predict Colin will not recurve out to sea, and that high pressure will build back in this weekend, forcing Colin towards the U.S. East Coast. A second trough of low pressure is predicted to move off the U.S. East Coast next Monday, so Colin will have a second opportunity to recurve out to sea then. It is possible that Colin could make landfall along the U.S. East Coast or in the Canadian Maritime provinces 7 - 10 days from now, though it is still too early to assess the risk of this happening, nor how strong Colin might be.
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On August 1, Ukraine tied its record for hottest temperature in its history when the mercury hit 41.3°C (106.3°F) at Lukhansk. The Ukraine also reached 41.3°C on July 20 and 21, 2007, at Voznesensk. Sixteen of 225 nations on Earth have set extreme highest temperature in history records this year, the most of any year. The year 2007 is in second place, with fifteen such records.
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July 2010 was the warmest month in history for five U.S. cities:
Las Vegas, NV: 96.2°F (old record: 95.3°F, July 2005).
Atlantic City, NJ: 79.8°F (old record: 78.7°F, July 1983)
Washington, D.C.: 83.1°F (tied with July 1993)
Baltimore, MD: 81.5°F (tied with July 1995)
Trenton, NJ: 80.5°F (tied with July 1955)
Also, in June, Miami, FL recorded its warmest month in history: 85.6°F (old record: 85.4°F in June 1998.)
None of the 303 major U.S. cities listed in the records section of Chris Burt's book Extreme Weather has set a coldest month in history record since 1994 (these 303 cites were selected to represent a broad spectrum of U.S. climate zones, are not all big cities, have a good range of elevations, and in most cases have data going back to the 1880s.) There were just three such records (1% of the 303 major U.S. cities) set in the past twenty years, 1991 - 2010. In contrast, 97 out of 303 major U.S. cities (32%) set records for their warmest month in history during the past twenty years. It is much harder to set a coldest month in history record than a coldest day in history record in a warming climate, since it requires cold for an extended period of time--not just a sudden extreme cold snap.
Are the pattern of U.S. temperature records due to the Urban Heat Island effect?
Is the huge disparity between extreme heat records and extreme cold records in the U.S. due to global warming, or the Urban Heat Island effect? The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect occurs when development of former natural areas into pavement and buildings allows more heat to be trapped in cities, particularly at night. During the day, the UHI effect often leads to a slight cooling, since it can increase the amount of turbulence, allowing cooler air to get mixed down to the surface. For example, Moreno-Garcia (1994) found that Barcelona, Spain was 0.2°C cooler for daily maxima and 2.9°C warmer for minima than a nearby rural station.
However, temperature records are typically taken in parks and airports removed from the main heat-trapping areas of cities, and are not as strongly affected as one might expect. There are several reasons for this. One is that when tall buildings are present, they tend to block the view to the sky, meaning that not as much heat can escape upwards. In addition, the presence of moist vegetation keeps the atmosphere moister in park-like areas (which include the grassy fields near airports where temperature measurements are taken). This extra moisture helps cool the atmosphere on a local scale of tens of meters, due to latent heat effects (the energy required to convert liquid water to water vapor). Peterson (2003) found that "Contrary to generally accepted wisdom, no statistically significant impact of urbanization could be found in annual temperatures." The study used satellite-based night-light detection to identify urban areas. Recent research by Spronken-Smith and Oke (1998) concluded that there was a marked park cool island effect within the Urban Heat Island. They found that parks in typical cities in the U.S. have temperatures 1 - 2°C cooler than the surrounding city--and sometimes more than 5°C cooler. While the Urban Heat Island effect probably has contributed to some of the reduction in record low temperatures in the U.S. in the past decade, research by Parker (2004, 2006) and Peterson (2003) theorizes that Urban Heat Island effect is a factor ten or more less important than rising temperatures due to global warming.
Chris Burt wrote me yesterday about Las Vegas' all-time warmest month record set in July. He noted that none of the sites nearby Las Vegas' McCarran Airport (where the official obs are kept) came close to setting a warmest month in history record. McCarran Airport has set new warmest month in history records in 2003, 2005, and now 2010. These two facts make us suspect that in the case of Las Vegas, an urban heat island effect may be contributing to the spate of recent warmest month in history records there. The heat records for Atlantic City, Washington D.C., Baltimore, and Trenton do not appear to have as much of a UHI influence, since record highs were set over such a large area of the mid-Atlantic in July.
Is the Urban Heat Island effect partially responsible for global warming?
Global warming is affecting the entire Earth, including rural areas far from cities, and the 70% of the world covered by ocean. Thus, the Urban Heat Island effect--if not corrected for--can cause only a small impact on the global temperature figures. Since the Urban Heat Island is corrected for, the impact on the observed global warming signal should be negligible. For instance, NASA uses satellite-derived night light observations to classify stations as rural and urban and corrects the urban stations so that they match the trends from the rural stations before gridding the data. Other techniques (such as correcting for population growth) have also been used. Despite these corrections, and the fact that the Urban Heat Island effect impacts only a relatively small portion of the globe, global warming skeptics have persistently used the Urban Heat Island effect to attack the validity of global warming. There are no published peer-reviewed scientific studies that support these attacks.
Parker, D.E., 2004, "Large-Scale Warming is not Urban", Nature 432, 290, doi:10.1038/432290a, 2004.
Parker, D.E., 2006, "A Demonstration that Large-Scale Warming is not Urban", J. Climate 19, pp2882-2986, 2006.
Peterson, T.C., "Assessment of urban versus rural in situ surface temperatures in the contiguous United States: No difference found", Journal of Climate, 16, 2941-2959, 2003.
Spronken-Smith, R. A., and T. R. Oke, 1998: "The thermal regime of urban parks in two cities with different summer climates. Int. J. Remote Sens., 19, 20852104.
The surface temperature record and the urban heat island, realclimate.org post, 2004.
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SITTING under the mulberry tree and looking over the old letters which have been preciously laid aside from year to year, I come upon many memories which may interest the younger world, and of which death and time have made it possible to speak. Among these are certain written relics of Mary Howitt, whom I well knew in the middle of her long career, and whose saintly death in Rome five years ago, vividly recalled her sweet and gracious personality in the hearts of her innumerable English friends, and especially of the surviving contemporaries of her own children. Since then two thick volumes of memoirs have been published by her daughter, and the changes of opinion undergone by Mary Howitt, and in a lesser degree by her husband, are matter of public record. Together they lie in the leafy Protestant cemetery of Rome; not page: 79 far from the heart of Shelley (Cor Cordium), and from where reposes one who bears the sole epitaph of "Filius Goethe." Although she had lived during her last years as a devout Catholic, and passed as we believe "in Paradiso," her tender love clung faithfully to the husband of her youth, and special permission was given that she should be reunited to him in death. On the white marble of the beautiful tomb the English stranger in Rome reads the familiar words "William and Mary Howitt."
When I first saw the home of the Howitts they had left that old house at Clapton to which such tender reference is made in the autobiography. Claude Howitt had been dead about four years, and the pathetic page of Mary Howitt's writing, in which she tells her sister of the death of her boy, lay buried in a private letter. It can be illustrated by a reference to her daily habit of unflagging work. For many years the Howitts had so arranged their life as to be wholly dependent on their own literary labour. The opportunities of modern authorship were then undeveloped, but William Howitt's talent and steady industry, and his wife's genius and page: 80 equally steadfast labour, met every claim. It was at all times beautiful to see the delicate method, the perfection with which Mrs. Howitt managed her household, her dress, her persistent work with the pen. It was the result of the old Quaker training, though she no longer wore the costume of a "Woman Friend," and expressed a rare high quality of character.
I once had a youthful discussion with her as to how much writing could be done in a day. She smiled, and fixed the limit, saying, "My dear, it is—such a number of—pages of manuscript; it is practically impossible to overpass my average." And this explains the letter written after Claude's death, which occurred in March, 1844, and was the result of a sad accident at school caused by the practical joke of a foolish boy. A month elapsed before his mother wrote to her sister the letter which will be found on page fifteen of the second volume of the memoirs. She begins, "Thy letter, my dearest sister (they always used together the Quaker phraseology), was indeed like the voice of the truest and sweetest affection. I have turned to it again and again, and I feel that, page: 81 among the many blessings which I enjoy—and I enjoy a great many—is that of having a sister like thee." She then speaks at great length and with a wonderful chastened peace about Claude, a letter full of resigned prayer; and ends thus:—
"To‐morrow I intend again to commence my regular avocation. Poor dear Claude! At this very moment I see the unfinished translation lying before me which was broken off by his death. Alas! I could have shed burning tears over this. How often did he beg and pray of me to put aside my translation just for that one day, that I might sit by him and talk or read to him? I, never thinking how near his end was—(the boy had been a tenderly nursed invalid for a year, and while, on the one hand, the numerous doctors seemed to have hoped against hope, the mother's labour could not stop)—said, 'Oh, no! I must go on yet a page or two.' How little did I think that in a short time I should have leisure enough and to spare! Oh, Anna! of all the agonizing feelings which I know, none is so bitter as that longing for the dead. Just one day, one hour of their lives, that one might pour out the whole page: 82 soul of one's inextinguishable love before them, and let them feel how dear, inexpressibly dear, they are. My very heart at times dies within me from this deep, agonizing longing. But, dearest, when we have angels in heaven, does not death seem robbed of its terrors?
"I wonder how it is with families in heaven? for there must be different degrees of worthiness in the different members. Some must have lower places than others. I would be content to sit on the lowest footstool might I only be permitted to behold the glory and the bliss of my beloved ones, and to make compensation to them in some way for my shortcomings on earth."
It is well worth while to extract this wonderfully touching and humble letter from the mass of printed matter in which it lies embedded. It is a revelation of the writer's spiritual life.
In the next year, 1845, the Howitts went to Hastings, and formed a close intimacy with a family with which my parents and I were also shortly to be tenderly and gratefully associated: that of Mr. Benjamin Smith, the member for Norwich. A great domestic affliction caused page: 83 us to take up our residence in Hastings—where, indeed, we were Mr. Smith's tenants—and until July, 1850, we were almost as one family, sheltered under the magnificent rock of the Castle Hill. Hastings was not then what it is now; the old town was widely separated from St. Leonards, and the lanes leading up to Ore Church were lanes of deep country seclusion. It was here, in 1846‐7, that I first heard of the Howitts as a family. Mrs. Howitt's tales and poems had, of course, been familiar to me from early childhood, more especially the exquisite "Sketches from Natural History," containing that ballad beginning "Will you walk into my parlour, said the Spider to the Fly," which has become so much a classic phrase that I have seen it quoted in prose in a political leader, without any reference to the authoress, or to the fact that the quotation formed part of a verse.
If on the one hand we were all full of the distinguished authoress, and her charming eldest daughter Anna Mary, on the other hand here is Mrs. Howitt's allusion to the Leigh Smiths, which will explain a reference in one of page: 84 her future letters to me. She describes the group of five, of whom the eldest was then eighteen, and the youngest twelve; speaks of their carriages and horses, and outdoor life, and of how "Every year their father takes them a journey. He has a large carriage built like an omnibus, in which they and their servants can travel and in it, with four horses, they make long journeys. This year they were in Ireland,¹ and next year I expect they will go into Italy. Their father dotes on them. They take with them books and sketching materials; and they have every advantage which can be obtained them, whether at home or abroad. Such were and are our friends the Leigh Smiths, and thou canst imagine how much pleasure we were likely to derive from such a family."
The Howitts presently left Clapton, and settled near the Regent's Park, and here it was that I first saw them, being taken to the house by Miss Leigh Smith—the Barbara of the letters. A vivid memory remains to me of an
¹ In Connemara, where from a mountain‐top it was jestingly said that they surveyed their father's Irish land through a telescope; the country being impassable and impossible.
page: 85 evening party, a sort of eminent gathering of art and literature, and of Mary Howitt seated in a corner of the room, her two younger children at her knee. She was then about fifty, and in the very zenith of her life and literary fame. Tennyson and Mrs. Gaskell, Talfourd and Joanna Baillie, Hans Christian Andersen and the Pre‐Raphaelite Brethren, such are the first half‐dozen names which suggest themselves to me in connection with the circle of the Howitts' lives in that early time.
In May, 1851, came a never‐to‐be‐forgotten day at Cambridge, when "Mr. Smith, of Jesus" (Leigh Smith, the Arctic Explorer), welcomed his father, his sisters, and their friends, including the two Pulskys, Professor Kinkel, and a good number of bearded and moustachioed Hungarian exiles to the old University. Beards and moustaches were quite uncommon in 1851. We all started at seven in the morning from the Shoreditch station, and got back at eight in the evening, after a splendid banquet offered by the father of Mr. Smith, of Jesus; and after forty years that brilliant day is fresh in the memory of one grateful survivor. Mrs. Howitt tells the page: 86 story at length in her bright language, where he who runs may read.
The next home of the Howitt family was at the Hermitage, on the West Hill at Highgate; the premises consisted of a small three‐storeyed house and a lesser tenement—the Hermitage proper. In this extraordinary appendage, with an upper chamber reached by an outside staircase, the whole thatched and buried in an exuberant growth of ancient ivy, poets and painters had their natural home. I find in an old book some verses which describe the strange room wherein once Dante Gabriel Rossetti had painted, and where Anna Mary Howitt now covered her canvas with some of the most delicate, beautiful drawings ever done by a woman's hand.
She became a pupil of Kaulbach, and recorded her experiences in a book which was warmly welcomed and has been lately reprinted. It was entitled "The Art Student in Munich." Her companion during that student year was Jane Benham Hay, whose pictures were admitted to the line on the wall of the Royal Academy. The career of this admirable artist suffered eclipse, or she would now be recognized as a page: 87 worthy predecessor of Lady Butler. She had a devoted and honourable friend in the late Mr. Edward Pigott. Her life passed in Italy, and I do not know if she be yet living to read this short record of her early triumphs.
In the second volume of the autobiography, at page 108, will be found an engraving of the Hermitage, with William and Mary Howitt in the foreground. I think, however, that it is of the house and not of the appendage, though the one is apparently as heavy with ivy as the other.
The hand of the spoiler was soon to be laid on the delightful Hermitage. The American traveller who may care to travel up Highgate Hill in search of poets and painters will find it no more, and the Howitts moved up to a house with a large garden just opposite to Holly Lodge, with whose kind mistress they enjoyed a long intimacy.
In 1855 "Anna Mary and Barbara" go off to Hastings, and get lodged in Clive Vale Farm, the place where Holman Hunt had painted his famous picture of the sheep upon the downs. He had made a great mess with his oils upon a page: 88 certain table, which gave pleasure to the artists who were following in his footsteps!
The first letter which I find I have preserved of Mary Howitt's is dated from this residence, on the West Hill, where they remained many years. It is of December, 1858, and is addressed to my mother, at a moment when I was lying in imminent danger of death. It is too personal for quotation, and I pass on to Good Friday of the year 1865, when Mrs. Howitt writes from West Hill Lodge about a Sussex Guide of mine which she had in her possession. She is about to go to Switzerland, but "that is only perhaps." The note ends thus:—"How the budding leaves and all the amenity of this lovely springtime recall Scalands and those pleasant woods to my mind." She refers to a time which really gave me my last living memory of dear Mary Howitt, though our intimacy may truly be said to have lasted unbroken to the weeks immediately preceding her death, five and twenty years afterwards. I shall ever remain grateful for those spring weeks of 1864, when William and Mary Howitt were living at Scalands Cottage, the English home of page: 89 Miss Leigh Smith, who had become Madame Bodichon. It was in the April of that year, and very shortly after the death in New Zealand of poor Charlton Howitt, whom I had known so well as a young boy, and of my own familiar friend Adelaide Procter, who had died on Candlemas Day, that I met Mrs. Howitt on the platform of the Robertsbridge station. I was going to a kind friend at an old farmhouse known as Brown's, and the Howitts were at Scalands, of which she writes:—"Barbara has built her cottage upon the plan of the old Sussex houses, in a style which must have prevailed at the time of the Conquest. It is very quaint, and very comfortable at the same time." And she gives lovely pictures in her letters of those "purple woods of Sussex," then blue with the wild hyacinth, in all the inexpressible tender beauty of the spring. It was there that I was privileged to enjoy my last conversations with Mary Howitt. I was on the very eve of submitting to the Catholic Church, though I feel sure that I said nothing of it to her; and she at that time was deeply impressed with Spiritualism, and her whole nature quiver‐ page: 90 ing quivering with grief at Charlton's death. The young man of twenty‐five had been drowned in a New Zealand lake. His knotted blanket, with its home letters and the scant baggage of a young surveying engineer, had been washed ashore; but of the manner and moment of his perishing there was no earthly record, nor was his body ever washed ashore. I well remember Mrs. Howitt's unwonted pallor as she spoke of him to me, and that for the first and only time I felt her strong nature to be shaken from its perfect equilibrium. She believed she had communications from Charlton, and said so to me with the utmost plainness, and many were the conversations we had together.
It was in the spring of 1856 that, as she herself tells, she and her husband first paid attention to the phenomena of spiritualism. At a séance at Professor de Morgan's she "was much astonished and affected by communications purporting to come from my dear son Claude." Just as at the later epoch she asserted that she had been told of the manner in which Charlton went down, unwitnessed, in the waters of the New Zealand lake. For certainly more page: 91 than ten years the mind of both the husband and the wife were extraordinarily impressed by the extraordinary meetings which took place in every part of London. Those were days when Mr. Hume was credibly asserted (I believe, by the Master of Lindsay) to have floated out of one window and through another of a flat in Victoria Street upon the sixth floor; when, as Mrs. S.C. Hall described to me, a band of musical instruments flew madly about her room, to the imminent danger of her mirrors; and Mr. Hall told me that he had seen Hume stretched to the abnormal length of seven feet upon the floor, and afterwards contract to his natural size. It was impossible then, it is equally impossible now, to decide what part in these things was played by imposture and what by occult agencies, with which Catholics are forbidden to tamper, but do not deny. In her later years Mrs. Howitt shrank from the subject, and her daughter has touched upon it lightly. She herself, however, alludes to it in the first of the two letters which I shall now give. The first sentence I believe to refer to the granting of a pension on the Civil List to William Howitt. After page: 92 his death, in 1879, Lord Beaconsfield granted a similar pension to Mary Howitt.
"Egerton House, Beckenham,
"July 13th ('65).
"DEAREST BESSIE,—Thank you for your loving little note of congratulation and sympathy. Everybody seems pleased with what has been done; though it is but small, still it is a recognition, and in itself a benefit.
"I am here only for a few days on our way to join Maggie in France, where she has been since April, whilst we have been ruralizing among the pleasant Cotswolds.
"I am afraid I shall not be able to see you whilst in town, as I have now only to‐morrow remaining; still, I shall try to call on dear Barbara, as I must be in her neighbourhood, and by some good chance you may be there. If I should not see her, will you take charge of my dear love to her? I hear that she is bright and beautiful as usual. Can she be otherwise? Dear Barbara! she is one of my grand and lovely women.
"Annie and I have been reading the Lamp and other Catholic books in Gloucestershire, as page: 93 we were located with Catholics. We found much mental and spiritual food, which was very accordant with our tastes and feelings. It was a pleasure also to find your name amongst the writers. We are half Catholics, our spiritualism makes us so, though you perhaps will not admit it.
"Give my kind regards to your mother, and with much love to yourself,
"I remain, dearest Bessie,
"Your true old friend,
This was her last English letter, and indeed, it is very sad to me now to remember that I never saw her again. My marriage caused me to live much in France, and on their side the Howitts left England, and went to live in Italy and in Tyrol. Letters must have passed, and messages through our many mutual friends. I never assuredly forgot the happy intercourse of former years, nor they a kindly interest in the vicissitudes of my lot. But the war of 1870 swept away all my correspondence of the immediately preceding years, and I was page: 94 shortly absorbed in responsibilities which left me scant leisure for anything beyond the duties of every hour. At last when many days, and many deaths, and the slow blossoming of time had entirely changed my life, I received the following letter from Mary Howitt, then eighty years of age. It is dated from Tyrol, and from her own house of Mariensruhe ("Mary's Rest"):—
"Mariensruhe, Obernais,
"Meran, March 17, 1884.
"MY DEAR BESSIE,—I write to you, as I used to address you, passing over but not forgetting all that has happened since we knew each other personally, because I am willing to believe that you, as I know to be the case with myself, are very much the same as regards an old friend as in the old days; therefore I address you familiarly as I did then.
"From time to time tidings of you have reached us, and the impulse has been, both with Margaret and myself, that a salutation of love should pass from us to you, and that we should seek for tidings about you and your children; in short, that the friendship which was alive page: 95 formerly should not be allowed to die. Therefore, I now write, and I feel sure that you will give us in return what we ask from you in love, news of yourself and your children. Tell us all about them like a fond mother—what are their ages, what are their names, and what is the direction of their minds—which is the poet and which is the philosopher, for I believe there are two of them—and what are their tastes and especial talents. In short, let it be a loving mother's letter to an aunt and grandmother, to whom they are strangers, but who loved their mother of old. Nor is that the only subject on which you would find us sympathetic. You are a Catholic, one of the great flock of Christ, and your heart and your intellect have found nourishment and life in the loving and in the sublime teaching of the Church—all that you aspired after and hungered and thirsted for in the most exalted dreams of your young poetical imagination has been given to you there. I do not think it was any surprise to us to learn that you had joined that great fellowship of saints and martyrs, for you and Adelaide Procter were kindred in so many ways.page: 96
"Perhaps you know that Margaret, the little girl to whom your mother was so kind, and who was, from her childhood upwards, a seeker of true discipleship, found from deep thought and constant, earnest prayer during our life in Rome, that nowhere was it to be found except in the Church of St. Peter. But it was not in Rome that she entered the Church, but in Meran, the second year after our leaving Rome; and then truly did she understand what all the long, long years of study had led her to—for in spirit she had been a Catholic almost from her youth.
"Nor was the blessing alone confined to her, for the dear Lord in His mercy opened my mind also to the same grand imperishable truth, and I too was received into the Catholic Church, and that by baptism; I, having been born a Friend. And after all my later seeking for the Truth and for peace with God, which I did not find with any of the sects, I was, two years ago this coming Whitsuntide, baptized, as I have said, into the Church. I thank the blessed Lord for so great a mercy. But it is not generally known in England, and as my dear husband page: 97 was known to be adverse to the Church of Rome—though, during the latter years of his life his best and most valued friends were of the Faith, still his outward profession was Protestant—I am not desirous of making my own faith more public than needful.
"I have spoken, dear Bessie, of our best and dearest Roman friends being Catholic. They lived at that time (and still own) in the beautiful villa of Alimontana, just by those remarkable historical churches of St. Gregory and St. John and Paul, with the Fountain of Egeria and the walks in which St. Philip Neri discoursed with his disciples on the things of God, in their grounds. Of course you know the place. But I mention it particularly, because they were so proud of and so pleased with your beautiful poems on that locality and others, that they bought the whole set of Longfellow's volumes on the 'Poetry of Places' that they might possess yours, and there it was that we saw them first.
"Now this is a long letter, dear Bessie, but I hope it will not be uninteresting to you; and, page: 98 with the kindest and best wishes for you and yours, and love from us both,
"I remain,
"Your faithful and affectionate old friend,
Such was the long and lovely letter in which she told me of her reception into the Fold. I trust I may be forgiven for having given it in its entirety, in spite of its references to myself and my forgotten verses. One other long letter I received from the same dear and venerated hand; it was written about three months before her death, and being dated from Meran, spoke of her approaching journey to Rome for the Jubilee, where she greatly wished me to join her. I was unable to go at Christmas, but fully purposed to do so at Easter, and thus see her once more; for nothing in the letter indicated feebleness, or warned me of an approaching end,
But it was not to be. On January the 10th, 1888, Mary Howitt, the first of the English pilgrims, was led up to Leo the Thirteenth on the occasion of his Jubilee. Mr. Clifford presented her, and the Duke of Norfolk brought her away. page: 99 The Pope laid his right hand upon her aged head, and blessed her, telling her he would meet her again "in Paradiso." On the 30th of January she passed away in her sleep. When I came to Rome in October, 1889, that Holy City of the most sacred memories of my life contained also the grave of Mary Howitt.


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Obama and the Shadows of Things that Might Be
But it's not going to start today. Several things caught my attention. First, a comment by Magnus. Actually, all of his comments catch my attention, but this is the most recent one. In response to the back-and-forth yesterday about my ghastly tendency to mix religion and politics, he wrote the following:
'Yes, perhaps the day to day politics are to those "further along the path" as a shadow play on a surface, and they can see the far more "concrete" (or real) things that cast these shadows. And perhaps they don't really react to what is happening right now, but to what will be happening deep into the future. Changing what happens today would take an immense energy, but the further ahead you see, the more it is within your power to change with a small push at precisely the right time and the right place.'
What a provocative thought. Furthermore, it has the virtue of being true, for we do indeed see the shadows of deeper principles in the realm of mundane politics. This is no doubt what Paul had in mind when he made that wise crack about not struggling against flesh and blood, but anti-divine powers and principalities of darkness and all-around naughtiness. (While looking up the Biblical passage I stumbled upon this piece by Gil Bailie. I haven't read it yet, but it looks relevant, and he is always worth reading, cf. Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads.)
Next, I skimmed this article on The Trouble With Obama, which makes the point that his precipitous decline is not due just to the usual predictable factors, but because so much illusion and outright fantasy had been projected into him to begin with. A commenter remarked that "The trouble with Obama is that he is doing exactly what the conservatives said he would do and the people that voted for him hate to admit that the conservatives were right. What did they expect from someone whose book was ghostwritten by Bill Ayers and sat in Rev. Wright's church for all those years?"
In other words, independents and relatively sane Democrats are only now seeing with their own two eyes what you and I saw last year with our own three eyes. As Magnus suggests, we were visited by the Ghosts of Presidents Past and Future, and shown both the things that were and those that "might be" should we fail to adjust course. Which is why for us, this is deja vu all over again. It's just a matter of reading the signs and posters of the times.
The following post from a year ago touches on these themes, and gives me an opportunity to expand and deepen where necessary:
Just as it is possible for a person to lose the grace, so too can a nation; in other words -- or symbols -- no (↑), no (↓). With an Obama presidency, we will find out what this will be like. It may well turn out to be as his spiritual mentor, Reverend Wright says: God damn America!
And why not? If we abandon any pretense of spiritual ideals, it is not God who will damn America. Rather, we'll do it ourselves. I'm pretty sure we'll discover what it felt like to be a Christian living in Rome, as the barbarian hordes were about to put an end to that world (which at the time was "the" world).
I am especially concerned about the catastrophe of Obama potentially nominating three Supreme Court justices before a filibuster-proof senate. This will have the effect of radically remaking America for good (which is to say, bad). There will be no turning back. For generations to come, we will live under a judicial tyranny in which a few leftist ideologues get to decide what they want the Constitution to mean. The rule of men all over again, just as the left likes it.
The redefinition of marriage will be a done deal. The ludicrous Roe v. Wade will not only stand, but be extended. State mandated racial discrimination will certainly become further entrenched. More civil rights for terrorists. More restrictions on religion, weakening of the second amendment, more attacks on the Boy Scouts, the return of the Fairness Doctrine (it's latest iteration talks about imposing subjective "community standards" in order to rid the airwaves of national programs such as Rush Limbaugh), and with it, the end of meaningful free speech, at least as far as conservatives are concerned. No Rush Limbaugh unless Randi Rhodes gets equal time. Can you imagine? I am sure that our judicial masters would find a way to make school vouchers unconstitutional, meaning that there is no hope for real reform of the educational establishment, especially for urban blacks and others condemned to being ground up in the liberal education machine.
I suppose that this is the one eventuality that could finally convince me of the truth of the traditionalists' belief in a cyclically winding down cosmos. It's difficult to see how we could turn things around and return to the liberal ideals of the Founders.
Because we've recently been talking about it, I've got my copy of Meditations on the Tarot handy. Perhaps I can thumb through it and look for some kind of guidance. Hmm, let's see, which card should we examine -- The Emperor? The World? The Tower of Destruction? The Hanged Man? Death?
Yes, probably in that order. Also the Hermit card, because that is what the Raccoon will be reduced to -- just a part of the spiritual remnant of a bygone time. We'll keep the light on for the last remaining few.
I'm looking at the Emperor card, and right at the outset you see what a disaster Obama is, for UF reminds us that a person is endowed with genuine authority as a result of knowledge, action, or being. In short, one must know something, be something, or be capable of something. The latter reduces to knowledge-in-action, while genuine knowledge reduces to being, so ultimately genuine authority resides in the realm of Being -- or is an extension of it. We know real authority when we see it, because it radiates from the person. A spiritually normal person would be "convicted" merely by being in the presence of such a one.
Now, what of Obama? Having been the victim of the finest education the left has to offer, he obviously knows nothing. To put it another way, he knows a great deal, all of it kooky at best. And he has accomplished nothing, unless you consider his work with the child sex-slave front-group, ACORN, to have been an achievement. Therefore, his support appears very much to reside in the dimension of being. He is the One. He will Heal the Nation. He will Change things. He gives us Hope. He's just.... special.
So right away we see that Obama represents the projection and embodiment of deeply religious impulses, only deeply irrational (as opposed to transrational). To put it another way, anyone with a speck of spiritual discernment is not only immune to Obama's attraction, but is repelled by such a man. He is full of phony authority on every level, but it's not just an "absence," but the positive presence of a negation. In other words, Obama does not just embody the emptiness of ignorance, but the fullness of lies, i.e., (-k). Worse yet, in his luciferic spirituality, he embodies a (-¶) that makes him a kind of counterfeit holy man in the cheesy mold of Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, and other "divine salesmen" from whom Bob Dobbs -- who is thesis to their antithesis -- saves the elect --->
Unfortunately, "satanic" has become a loaded word, but I have a precise definition in mind. That is, it represents the inversion of spiritual values as opposed to their mere opposition, which would be luciferic. For example, to redefine marriage is explicitly satanic, for it is to overturn the very order of the cosmos in its vertical sense.
Here, I'll tell you a little story. We recently lost a couple more dear friend of 25 years because we are not leftists. It came as a shock, because we rarely even discussed politics with these two. Now interestingly, not only are these people irreligious, but they are overtly hostile to religion. Furthermore, they are intensely pro-Obama, to such an extent that they are actually more worried about him losing the election than I am of him winning it.
It is a truism that the irreligious person merely displaces his religious impulses onto another plane. We all know that. The danger arises because the religious impulse is then detached from tradition, which is to say, the accumulated wisdom and authorized channels of the divine-human partnership, and proceeds to run wild. It tends to merge with either the id (the vital being) or the primitive superego (the punitive conscience), which, one way or the other, results in destruction: destruction of truth, of discernment, of morality, and even of the higher planes themselves. To be precise, these planes don't go anywhere, as they are permanent features of the cosmos. It is just that human beings can no longer recognize them, and are proud of the fact. But again, they will still have the underlying "spiritual impulse," only now fully secularized. It will go anywhere but "up."
Now, this couple to whom I refer are quite rational and sophisticated. Among other things, they raised their children to believe that there is no distinction between men and women, homosexual and heterosexual. They did not inculcate them with proper gender roles, or give them any expectations of what and who they are in terms of gender. Rather, the opposite: you may be straight. You may be gay. You'll find out later in life. And we don't care anyway.
In my opinion, this represents spiritual child abuse, pure and simple. For one thing, you are cementing a kind of primitive sexual confusion in your child's mind, when they desperately need guidance and boundaries in this area. Jewish tradition probably has the most wisdom in these matters, as it is very aware of the issue of order emerging from chaos, which is the primary divine act that we are all called upon to imitate. Like the primordial chaos out of which God forms the creation, sexuality is a kind of chaotic swamp that human beings are called upon to spiritualize, divinize, and sanctify. And the prerequisite for this is honoring the distinctions between the sexes. This is why, for example, it is a sin for a Jewish person to cross dress. It has nothing whatsoever to do with prudery. To the contrary, if anything, it heightens erotic awareness. I know I don't want to live in the creepy leftist world of feminized men and masculinized women.
So anyway, this couple's daughter just went away to college, and guess what? She's "gay." Yes, she announced to her parents that she is now a lesbian. Like good liberals, they believe that sexuality is simultaneously fixed and yet "just anything." As far as I know, there's not a shred of reliable scientific evidence that lesbianism is genetically determined, and I am quite sure that this girl isn't a "lesbian." But more to the point, this poor girl is just living out the implications of her confused psychosexual programming. Probably, like most adolescents, she just has a lot of anxiety around sexuality, only heightened in her case, because her parents -- and now the culture as well -- imbued her with no guidance and no gender role. This may make the parents less anxious, but only makes the children more so.
One more point. These friends are unconsciously depressed and disappointed by their daughter's announcement, as any normal person would be. But one of the dreadful things about political correctness is that one must pretend not to feel what one feels in order be something other than who one is (which is not being at all). Therefore, they must consciously "support" or even "celebrate" their daughter's announcement, while unconsciously being deeply disappointed. So guess what? They are the victims of a rabid case of Palin Hysteria. In fact, the deal breaker with Leslie was that she admires Sarah Palin: "What? How could you? How could you support a person who hates gays? I don't think we can be friends anymore."
First project your unconscious impulses; then run away from your projections. That's all it is.
But again, I want to make a wider point, and that is the dreadful effect of the narcissistic boomer (m)ethos on subsequent generations. It is bad enough what the boomers have already done to this country, but worse yet that they have infiltrated virtually all the nation's institutions, so that their pathological memes will survive them for generations, in the Supreme Court, the educational establishment, the media, etc.
Back to the Emperor. UF makes the point that the Emperor rules as a result of his intrinsic authority. Here again, the left has successfully eroded the concept of intrinsic spiritual authority, which is one of the reasons they cannot be humbled or shamed by a superior person. Or, to turn it around, one can only be shamed if one acknowledges people and standards superior to oneself. For example I always feel humbled when Magnus strides into this place.
UF writes that "God governs the world by authority, and not by force." As a result, as God loses his authority, that vertical authority must be displaced to the horizontal. In other words, when people stop being good because they wish to live their lives in conformity to a divine ideal, that is the end of progressive freedom. Freedom is only useful to the extent that we are free to know truth and act with virtue.
But again, to abolish the divine planes is to do away with the sufficient reason for freedom,which then becomes mere license. More to the point, it lines up with what the existentialists said, that man's freedom becomes indistinguishable from "nothingness," being that we have no spiritual essence with which to conform.
Therefore, the state must literally come in to fill that void and replace God. And thereby abolish man. And slack.
No soup for you, grandma!!!


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In Wal-Mart tonight, they had the 80's animated series "final chapters" with Rodimus Prime on DVD for $20.
I don't think I'm going to pick this up, but Ultra Magnus, Springer, Arcee, Cyclonus, Scourge, and more Astrotrain and Soundwave is cool.
However. there are these guys Rodimus Prime and Galvatron that kind of wreck it for me.
I don't know. Maybe I'll bite. I'm not sure yet.


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Paul "Semtex" Daley Returns to Kickboxing at GLORY 5 London
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According to the folks over at MMAWeekly.com, MMA bad boy Paul Daley will be making his return to the kickboxing ring March 23 at GLORY 5 in London. We've been hearing rumors of Daley coming to GLORY for a while, but they haven't been confirmed until now.
Daley was initially scheduled to make his debut in the Bellator welterweight tournament early this year, but visa troubles prevented this from happening.
Paul Daley is well known for his time in the UFC and Strikeforce, amassing a collection of highlight reel knockout finishes and becoming one of the most controversial figures of mma in the process. With a 14-3 record in kickboxing and professional muay thai, Semtex comes into GLORY with a sizable amount of stand-up experience.
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Lainie Capshaw has been servicing injured cowboys long enough to know that a charming Western drawl combined with a fine physical form doesn't mean you should fall for a man. As a sports therapist, she travels the rodeo circuits patching up riders - and fending off their sweet-talking, swaggering advances.
So no one is more surprised than Lainie when she finds herself involved with not one, but two men on different circuits: Hank Lawson, a bullfighter, and Kyle Gilchrist, a bull rider trying to stage a comeback. Lainie feels guilty about her two-timing, but it doesn't keep her from doubling her fun - until Hank catches her with Kyle. She's shocked that Hank isn't mad. She's more shocked to learn that Hank and Kyle are hometown buddies. But when the men offer to share her - in every way - she knows that both of them are going to try to win her, body and soul. Now it's up to Lainie to choose the one man who can give her the ride of her life.
©2010 Lorelei James (P)2012 Tantor
"Corralled is titillating to say the least and definitely best read in private.... The author has written a very sweet and charming romance in which the lucky protagonist experiences real growth and gets to live out her every fantasy." (Romantic Times)
"If you love James' style..."
As a fan of the Rough Rider series, I knew the writing style. I have waited for an audio version of James' books. Although the narrator did take a little getting comfortable with, the story was a great mix of the erotic scenes I have come to expect (great Alpha-cowboy with a surprising gentlemen side) and a story of a self-discovery.
Due to being on the road hours most days, I'm an avid Audible fan! I live vicariously through the stories as the miles pass.
"Sex, sex, more sex, then some more....."
Note to self: Always read reviews and CLOSELY before purchasing. lol
Love cowboys, love romances, like steamy cowboy romances. lol
I think for the style of book it is, it must be very good ... so I was generous with my ratings. But, really, you need to understand it's all about sex. lol I personally prefer a little more plot, a little more romance and while I do like steamy, I'm not into the hardcore books ... which in my little naive world, this is. lol But, hey! Thank goodness there's a style for all of us, so enjoy some good cowboy sex scenes. lol!!!
I love being swept away by a new romance and thankfully Audible's ever growing Library means I get to indulge myself over and over again
"Ouch...... it was hot hot hot."
I loved this book, it had a good plot with 2 hunky Rodeo riders sharing one woman and you just didn't quite know how it was going to end. There were graphic multi-partner sexual encounters and I do think that this should have been put under the Erotica category - so if you don't like a heavy dose of sex with your romance then don't get this book.
I have already downloaded the rest available so far in this series and will check out any of her other books.
Worth the credit? Yes definitely, I am so happy I found this series.
Love Lorelei James books. This series is hot and steamy. If you like the Rodeo, these are the best, Would like to see Rough Rider Series brought to Audible.
Please bring more Lorelei James series to audible..
"I love Lorelei James books"
Lorelei is great at telling a story. You have to like this type of writing to love her books. Her Rough Rider Seies were great books also. I have been waiting for audio to get her books.
"Two Hot Cowboys"
The story was great, the performance was very good ~ I usually have a hard time getting used to different the different voices the narrator gives to characters but Scarlet Chase did a great job. The story was great and at times I found myself hoping Lannie would never make a decision.
Kyle was my favorite character, he had an open bad boy attitued that made me fall in love with him.
Too many to be specific!
I had a reaction - one I should not tell you about.
The romance scenes qualify this as erotic!
Great Books Don't Promote Violence
"2 Cowboys are better than 1"
I liked this story about Lanie, who was dating 2 cowboys on the rodeo circuit and didn't apologize for it. When the guys met and realized they were childhood friends, Lanie refused to choose between the 2 friends, leaving the men to decide between sharing and leaving. It was mostly a light-hearted, sexy story - slightly kinky but not abusive.
I've always been a avid reader so now I'm a avid listener. I prefer the paranormal genre but I do like to switch things up. It's boring if you don't have variety. Of course I do love the romance and the hotter the better. Also, you can't beat a good thriller filled with suspense and a ending you can't even guess at until the very end.
Yes, what woman wouldn't love two sexy cowboys fighting for her.
She did a good job on all the different voices.
I think I would get it if it was on sale. It was a good listen.
"Plenty of eroticism, but also full-bodied story"
A great storyline with a rare, refreshingly accurate depiction of the rodeo world. A real rarity among this genre. Such great depth of characters and story. Some of the love fest seems somewhat outlandish to me, but I guess that's to be expected.
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I am not one to just promote something for the sake of promotion.. and since I don't get paid to do this Scouting stuff when I do promote something, it is because I believe in it and think it is worth while and worth passing on.
I received an email from Alvin Townley, the author of "Legacy of Honor". You will notice that it is on by bookshelf. Great book and worth the read. If you have not read it… please do. Again, I have no dog in the fight, just read the book.
Alvin has a new book coming out in 2009. I can't wait to get my hands on it. But the email prompted me to check out his website again. I had not been in a long time. As I perused the site I came upon a section called the "Eagle Reserve Initiative".
Basically he is call all Eagle Scouts to give back. Great idea.
He writes on the web site;
"In my travels across the country, I've heard again and again that Eagle Scouts of my generation want to give back to Scouting, but serving as a traditional weekly leader often doesn't suit our situation in life. I've also seen that many troops lack the outdoor skill and leadership to provide their Scouts with the high adventure so crucial to a good experience.
So, we attacked both problems and developed a program where a group of Eagle Scouts can help chaperon a local troop on a camping trip, once a year.
The pilot took place outside Atlanta in Fall 2008 and the Eagle Reserve program is being rolled out nationwide. We just need Eagles to volunteer to get back into their element and go camping with their friends…and take along a group of Scouts.
This is our generation's chance to give back and create this Movement's future."
Learn more about this great program at the Legacy of Honor website.
I think Alvin Townely has truly grasped the concept and true spirit of being an Eagle Scout.
Less about ink on a resume, more about giving back and demonstrating Scout Spirit throughout your life time.
Thanks Alvin, I appreciate what you do.
Have a Great Scouting day!


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The Uzumaki Clan (うずまき一族, Uzumaki Ichizoku) was a prominent clan in Uzushiogakure. Since its disbandment, most of its known members reside in Konohagakure, with the Fifth and Seventh Hokage being descendants of the clan.[1]
Overview Edit
The Uzumaki, being descendants of Asura Ōtsutsuki, also shared distant blood relation with the Senju clan.[2] Through the years, the Uzumaki and Senju kept close ties, with members at times marrying between clans, as with Hashirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki.[3] Following the founding of Konohagakure at the end of the Warring States Period, the Senju chose to symoblise their clans' friendship by adding the Uzumaki's emblem to Konoha's flak jackets. Konoha and the Uzumaki's own Uzushiogakure remained close allies over the following decades, with the Uzumaki providing fūinjutsu (among other things) to Konoha whenever there was a need.[4] In time, the Uzumaki Clan's Mask Storage Temple was even constructed on Konoha's outskirts.[5]
The Uzumaki's skill with fūinjutsu earned them both respect and fear throughout the ninja world. At some point after Kushina Uzumaki immigrated to Konoha, some of the world's nations banded together to destroy Uzushiogakure, believing the village was too powerful to be allowed to continue. The survivors of Uzushio's destruction went into hiding and spread throughout the world:[3] Of the known members, Nagato was raised in the outskirts of Amegakure, Karin apparently lived in Kusagakure for a time, Kushina in Konoha, who had a son, Naruto. Naruto would years later officially re-establish the clan officially in Konoha, having children of his own with his wife Hinata Hyūga: Boruto and Himawari. As a result, this has strengthened the Uzumaki clan's ties to the Hyūga clan (the descendants of Asura's uncle, Hamura Ōtsutsuki).
Abilities Edit
Uzumaki naturally possess incredibly strong life forces, granting them very long lifespans;[6] Mito Uzumaki was born before the founding of Konoha yet lived well into the reign of the Third Hokage. This also enables them to recover from injuries and exhaustion in short periods of time, enough to survive the removal of tailed beasts, although they are still left near death afterwards.[7] Uzumaki also have the ability to heal and rejuvenate allies by having their allies bite them and suck their chakra.[8] It is dangerous however to use this ability too regularly. At least one member has displayed a unique sensory ability.
The Uzumaki were most famed for their fūinjutsu, the seal of which typically appears as a spiral crest reminiscent of the Uzumaki's symbol. They can also produce the Adamantine Sealing Chains made from their own chakra,[9][10] but it is unknown if this technique is common amongst the Uzumaki, as only Kushina and Karin have been shown to use it.
Known Leaders Edit
- Ashina Uzumaki: Deceased
Trivia Edit
- The name "Uzumaki" can either mean "whirlpool" or "maelstrom".
- Uzumaki commonly have red hair.[11]
- Tsunade and Nawaki are descendants of the Uzumaki clan through their grandmother.
- Due to Naruto Uzumaki's marriage to Hinata Hyūga, his descendants have the potential to awaken the Byakugan.[12]
- The anime character Honoka is hinted to be an Uzumaki, as she has red hair and fūinjutsu talents. A book found by Aoba in the same episode mentions finding a survivor of a "certain clan of ninja".[13]
- Menma Namikaze, another Genjutsu World counterpart of Naruto Uzumaki, is a descendant of the Uzumaki clan by his mother.
References Edit
- ↑ Naruto chapter 700
- ↑ Naruto chapter 500, pages 2-3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Naruto chapter 500, pages 3-4
- ↑ Fourth Databook
- ↑ Naruto chapter 618, page 1
- ↑ Naruto chapter 579, page 12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 661, pages 1, 12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 412, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 498, pages 6-7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 663, page 11
- ↑ Naruto chapter 510, page 17
- ↑ "The Day Naruto Became Hokage"
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 227


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Thread: Fertile Day/s
19th August 2012 01:18 PM #1
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Fertile Day/s
I just want to understand what is the use of fertile days while you can possibly get pregnant during ovulation day only?
20th August 2012 03:04 AM #2
Because determining precise time of ovulation is an estimate. Also, sperm can survive inside of the body for a few days so the window of time for pregnancy is closer to three or four days, with one day being the most likely.
27th August 2012 09:25 AM #3
If you're trying to conceive, the benefit of having a fertile window (5 days when having sex would result in pregnancy) is that you can increase your odds of conceiving if you make love multiple times when you are producing fertile fluid. This means more sperm would be alive and waiting for the egg when it is released and would have a better chance of fertilizing the egg during it's 12-24 hours of life.
Does this answer your question?
Warm regards,
1st September 2012 06:47 PM #4
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Yes Kate. This make sense. It is more on keeping the sperms alive during the fertility period due to fertile fluid.
Thanks Kate and mom2many!
2nd September 2012 09:02 AM #5
You're welcome - please post back if you have any specific questions about trying to conceive or avoiding pregnancy naturally by watching your body's personal fertility signs.
Warm Regards,