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joezworld · 3 years

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Traintober Day 21

Today's Prompt: Off the rails... again!

I don't know what it says about me when I see a prompt called off the rails and immediately do 1,800 words about Bulgy before a train is even mentioned.

(Also, this happens just before the events of Day 14's story)

Smashing!

Bulgy is a rather disagreeable old bus on the Island of Sodor. Many years ago, he had gotten stuck underneath a bridge on Duck’s branch line, causing damage to both it and himself. As a result, his owners abandoned him in a field next to the line and the farmer who owned it used Bulgy as a henhouse!

However, this was not the end of Bulgy. Farmer Drury, his new owner, was a very successful man who owned several farms across the Island. As his business grew, he repaired Bulgy and put him back on the road as a farm transport vehicle and rolling storage bin - a duty that Bulgy hated even more than being a henhouse!

He complained bitterly about his treatment for many years, often irritating Farmer Drury in the process, and thus ensuring that he would never be anything more than a dirty work vehicle for as long as Farmer Drury owned him!

Eventually, Bulgy’s fortunes improved - although his attitude didn’t - when Farmer Drury retired and handed the business over to his son David.

David Drury had gone to school on the mainland, and unlike most Sudrians, was rather obsessed with old cars instead of old trains. He owned several classic race cars and the Island’s only Ferrari, so when he discovered Bulgy in the back of his father’s barn he was immediately taken with him. Almost before Bulgy knew what was happening, David Drury had restored him to ‘concours condition’, and he went from a dirty, dusty, and creaking work van to a pristine ‘show bus’ so fast that his eyes spun!

Now Bulgy was more or less permanently retired, living inside a nice warm garage on the outskirts of Marthwaite village. He never had to work, or get dirty, or even go out in the rain!

Except for one time…

April 13, 2015

Bulgy was startled awake by the door to his garage being thrown open. “Whassat?!” He groaned, trying to blink the sleep from his eyes.

“Come on Bulgy!” It was David, his owner. “We’ve got a sticky situation down in Hackenbeck. Let’s go!”

Far, far too quickly for Bulgy’s liking, he was started up, put into gear, and driven away. “What’s wrong?” He asked. “Where’re we going?”

“Those moro-” David started angrily, before calming himself. “I have been trying to rebuild the roof on one of the storage barns in the Hackenbeck farm for a month, and when the roofers finally show up, they didn’t check the weather, tore off the roof with no plan to finish it, and it’s going to rain this afternoon, so we need to finish the roof today or the entire harvest will be ruined!”

“Whaddya need me for?”

“The van broke down! You’re the only other big vehicle I’ve got that’s road legal!”

“You’re gonna make me work?!”

“I’m sorry Bulgy, but it’s only for today - look, I’ll make it up to you later, okay?”

Bulgy acquiesced, but grumbled all the way to Hackenbeck.

The barn was located near the railroad line, accessible by a dusty and rutted tractor path that crossed the line at one point. Bulgy grimaced as he bounced down the “road” - this was no place for a show bus - even the four wheel drive pickup trucks were complaining about the potholes, and he could feel his paintwork getting dirtier with each passing second.

It didn’t get any better after that - his owner was serious about him working, and Bulgy made five trips into town for supplies like wood planks, nails, lunch, scaffolding, and even huge buckets of tar. It was disgusting and dirty work, and he hated every minute of it - at one point, men had to stand on his roof to do work, and after that he was quite literally dirty from top to bottom.

Then the rain came.

According to the weather forecast, the real downpour wasn’t to start until later that night, but the broken clouds started to knit themselves back together as the clock struck four. The men had just enough time to hang tarpaulins over the unfinished sections of roof before the deluge started, so the grain harvest wasn’t spoiled, but everything else was soaked. Anyone who couldn’t hide in the barn took refuge inside Bulgy, and he growled as muddy boots clomped across his floors, sweaty clothes fouled his seats and dirty water dripped off of his bonnet and into his eyes. “I thought I was done with this sort o’ nonsense…”

Fortunately for Bulgy, the rain shower was short-lived, and everyone resumed work after it passed, leaving him alone for the first time since the morning.

“Oi! Mate!” Evidently he couldn’t be alone for too long, could he?

Cracking an eye open, he found a big Volvo HGV with Irish registration plates idling next to him. “Can you please bother someone else?” He asked, doing his best to be polite.

“Rude.” The lorry said before continuing on anyway. “But I’m in a bit of a pickle - ya see, I’m supposed to be in someplace called “Wellsworth”, but my GPS conked out me, see? So now I’m lost.”

“Have your driver talk to Mister Drury - it’s his farm you’re on.” Bulgy said dismissively.

“Driver?” The lorry said, before looking at Bulgy more closely. “Oh, this is one of those places.”

Then the lorry drove away, leaving Bulgy confused and feeling vaguely insulted. “Well I never...!” He said, before realizing that he probably had at some point.

“Well, s’not my problem anymore.” He said after a moment. Seeing as everyone else was occupied, he closed his eyes and tried to take a nap.

“Come on Bulgy, no rest for the weary!” David Drury said as he hopped into the driver’s seat.

“What now?”

“That lorry has gotten himself good and lost, so we’re going to show him the road into town.”

“Why’ve I got to do it? I’ll sink into the mud!”

“You’ll do it because everyone else is busy.” David said. Looking over at the other quad bikes, four-by-fours, and Land Rovers, Bulgy was forced to admit that he was the only vehicle not in use at the moment and so he bounced and juddered and sloshed along the now-muddy path towards the road.

Then there was trouble.

The railway line was on a slightly raised embankment to allow for drainage. This hadn’t been an issue before, but now the small hill leading to the tracks was nothing but slippery mud. Furthermore, the path itself was narrow, with only enough room for one vehicle to go through at a time - if two were coming in opposite directions, one of them would have to pull off to the side of the road. As they approached the crossing, an orange tractor with caterpillar treads was pulling a trailer over the line, so Bulgy and the lorry pulled over at the bottom of the hill to let him pass. As they set off, neither Bulgy, David, nor the lorry realized that the road up to the tracks was nothing but mud - the tractor had made it look easy with his treads, and didn’t say anything more than “Hello!” as he passed them. Not realizing what was about to happen, David drove Bulgy up the hill from a standing stop.

If they’d been traveling at speed, they might have made it, but when Bulgy’s front wheels bumped over the rails, his back wheels weren’t going fast enough to push him over, and he stuck fast on top of the tracks, his rear wheels spinning furiously but unable to gain any traction in the slick mud.

“Oi!” Yelled the lorry as mud pelted him. “Stoppit! Yer stuck there! Get a chain and I’ll pull ya free!”

A rummage through storage compartments in both Bulgy and the Lorry revealed that neither of them had a chain strong enough. David called back for one of his employees to send a thicker chain - they arrived on a quad bike, along with the orange tractor - who introduced himself as Terrance - and his driver.

“I say,” Terrance observed idly as the men tried to figure out where they could attach the chain without damaging Bulgy. “You picked a most inopportune time to do this - Thomas will be most upset if his passengers are delayed.”

David, Bulgy, and the lorry went very still and very pale.

“You did call the railway, didn’t you?”

“Jus’ hook that chain to anything!” Bulgy bellowed. “Get me off of here!”

“Now let’s… let’s be calm.” David sounded anything but as he poked his mobile phone urgently. “We still have time to call - all we need to do is find out what the bleeding number is!”

As it turned out, they didn’t have time.

A steam whistle sounded in the distance, putting everyone into a panic. David’s employee tore off on the quad bike, trying to stop the train before it arrived, while David and Terrance’s driver tried desperately to mount the chain. “It’s not going on! There’s no hook on this end!” They yelled.

“Get in, put him in low gear, and when I say, step on it!” The lorry ordered. David scrambled into the driver’s seat, and frantically engaged first gear.

The whistle sounded again - the noise echoing off the surrounding hills to the point where its location couldn’t be determined.

The lorry grimaced. “This is gonna suck.” He muttered, before revving his own engine. “Now!”

Bulgy’s engine roared, and mud flew everywhere. Black exhaust poured from the lorry as he engaged his low-range gearbox and charged up the incline.

With a thunderous CRUNCH he slammed into Bulgy’s rear bumper.

The whistle sounded again, this time much longer and more urgent. The quad bike must not have gotten very far, which meant that the train was close indeed.

The lorry’s wheels spun, but he revved his engine well past the red line on his tachometer as he put all of his considerable strength against Bulgy.

The train appeared from behind the trees. Terrance noted with some detached portion of his mind that it wasn’t Thomas pulling the train, but rather a big engine he’d never seen before. As soon as the engine saw Bulgy, they yelled in panic and put on their brakes, but it wasn’t going to be enough…

The lorry’s wheel dug deep enough into the thick mud to find dry dirt. With a lurch and a roar he surged forward, shoving Bulgy off of the line and onto the downhill on the other side. Seconds later, the lorry followed, his back wheels clearing the tracks in just a few seconds.

But there was still his trailer. It was a long canvas sided box trailer, fully loaded with cargo, and its wheels sank into the mud a few inches as it rolled up the hill. Those few inches were the differences between safety and disaster, and the trailer’s low-hanging side underride guards caught between the rails with a screech that brought the lorry to a standstill.

“Go!” He shouted to Bulgy as he roared his engine, trying to break free.

Bulgy needed no encouragement, and raced forwards as the train got closer and closer.

The lorry pulled so hard that the trailer’s king pin snapped in half, and he shot forwards, leaving the trailer sitting astride the train tracks.

Terrance and his driver could only watch in horror as the train got closer and closer, before…

Later

Stephen Hatt arrived at the crash site to find a much more colourful scene than he’d been expecting. “Is that… paint?” He asked the Hackenbeck stationmaster, who was acting as the incident commander.

“Yes sir. The lorry was full - over thirty tons worth.” The man said as he strategically stepped over puddles of silver and yellow that were soaking into the ground despite the best efforts of the cleanup crew. Tornado had still been going at well over thirty miles an hour when she impacted the lorry, and paint had been fired in every which way as the trailer had more or less exploded on impact. Following that, there was a two hundred foot long streak of Dulux-coated destruction leading down the trackbed as the mangled trailer had been dragged along before it came apart at the seams and was deposited along the lineside.

Then there was Tornado herself, who had collided with the trailer before it started to come apart, and had therefore been impacted by individual cans of paint, instead of a fine spray of liquid colour. As a result, her LNER green was covered from buffer to cab in huge blotches of dull green, bright yellow, metallic blue, glossy red, vibrant purple, and flat white from individual cans smashing against her. In some spots, the colors had mixed together, forming steaks of orange, brown, black, and gray that ran down her boiler in a way vaguely reminiscent of a Jackson Pollock painting.

Fortunately, no one was hurt. Tornado was pulling a goods train, and despite some minor damage to her buffers and front end - miraculously, her smoke deflectors hadn’t been damaged thanks to the trailer having canvas walls - she had only derailed her leading bogie, and was actually smiling as gold paint dripped down her nose. “Well, I think I caused some confusion and delay, didn’t I?”

“Now, now,” Stephen said as he inspected her himself - the Trust was going to have a conniption as it was, so he’d better make damn sure that there was nothing seriously wrong. “I wouldn’t say you were responsible for this,” His eyes sparkled mischievously as he looked over her damaged front end. Nothing seemed to be too amiss other than the obvious, thankfully. “But I would say that you have busted your buffers.”

Tornado laughed as the rest of the breakdown crew sighed deeply.

It never did rain that night, (“Whaddya mean it didn’t rain?! I almost died for nuthin?” “Calm down Bulgy.” “Calm down?! Mister Drury, those blasted trains almost turned me into scrap! See, I was right! We need to rip up all the rails and turn them into nice smooth Boulevards!” “Not this again…”) and with the dry conditions, it only took Wendell and the breakdown train until midnight to finally get Tornado to the works. It was very late, and everyone was very tired, so Tornado and the cranes were already asleep when Wendell shunted them away.

Wendell was himself exhausted, and rolled into his berth at the works intent on sleeping until someone came to wake him up.

“Oi - wha’s the score with the mystery one?” Bloomer hissed from where the men had been working on him.

“I think she was at a heritage railroad for a while.” Wendell groaned as his crew set his brakes and left. “She definitely knows more about BR than any other engine I’ve met.”

“How so?”

“She knew the firing order of my engine - I think it’s safe to say that she was someplace with an archive, or the NRM has gotten very loose with their records department.”

“Huh,” Snorted Bloomer, who, like any engine that had been within earshot of Gordon in the last few years, was well aware of the NRM’s fall from grace. “Mebbe she’s just a smart egg.”

“Easter egg, more like…” Wendell yawned. “Hard boiled and painted and all; She just took a lorry’s worth of paint to the face and thought it was the highlight of her day.”

“Paint?” Bloomer peered outside of the shed doors. “Mercy me! Look at her! She’s coated!”

Wendell didn’t respond, and when Bloomer looked over, he found the diesel already fast asleep.

“Ugh, young engines these days!”

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Several days later

The men had had their work cut out for them. The paint was latex and enamel based house paint, and it didn’t want to come off without strong solvents, the use of which also stripped off Tornado’s paint and undercoat. It took two whole days for the men to find all of the paint - it had worked its way into every crease and crevice in Tornado’s body, and if the Fat Controller hadn’t authorized copious amounts of overtime, it likely would have taken far longer.

This process was not helped by the fact that removing Tornado’s plating revealed the numerous modifications she’d received from her time in Germany - while they were safe from the paint, they weren’t safe from the deeply curious mechanical staff, who swarmed over her with cameras and notebooks, trying to determine what everything was. If it weren’t for the works manager telling them to get back to their jobs, they likely would have stayed there all day!

Eventually, the mechanical staff were shooed away, the paint was stripped off, a spot of rust on her running board was found and cleaned, the workers were able to finish, and Tornado was finally reassembled and rolled into the paint shop to be repainted into LNER green.

Except…

“We don’t have any green? On this railway?” The foreman stared at the head painter disbelievingly.

“Not this shade.” The woman said. “And somebody didn’t clear it with me before they started stripping, which means there’s none to sample, so we can’t make more.” In anticipation of a new coat, they’d decided to strip the paint off of Tornado’s tender as well. At the time it had seemed like a good idea.

“Don’t we have other greens?”

“Yes. Great Western green.” A long pause followed this. “Do you want to be the one who painted the pride of the LNER in GWR colours?”

“BR Blue?”

“Only the diesel shade of Rail Blue.”

“Henry’s Green?”

“On backorder.”

“... James' Red?”

“No.”

“Well, what do we have?”

“In sufficient quantities?” A tin of paint was produced. “This.”

“We can’t use that! They’ll think we’ve bought her!”

“Well it’s either this, or we ask the Skarloey Railway if they’ve got any of their red going spare, but considering she's bigger than all of their engines put together...”

“Okay… point made, but we’re going to have to make sure that we don’t do any of the striping or numbers - I don’t want the rest of the engines to think that we’ve bought her or anything.”

Tornado was actually hyperventilating as the paint shop workers buffed and polished the freshly-applied numbers and striping. She’d caught a few glimpses of herself in the mirror mounted on the far wall, and had been unable to contain herself since. “You’ve got the pictures?” She asked the head painter.

“Of course we have,” She said genially. “Now let’s get you outside for some more in the sun. Maybe we’ll even get everyone for a posed shot like they did in the twenties.”

They’d done a pressure test to make sure that nothing had been damaged in the collision, and Tornado had just enough steam left to roll into the yard under her own power.

In the yard, the midday sun was shining, the air was clear, and there were many pictures to be taken of her new paintwork. It took over an hour, and when the workers finally retreated into the sheds to work on “other jobs”, she was left alone.

“I still can’t believe it.” She said to herself quietly. “It’s like I’m really one of them.”

When the paint crew had told her they only had the NWR’s blue paint on hand, she’d been a little excited. Now that it was applied and dry, she was much more so. The red lining and gold numbers on her tender and frame completed the look, and if one ignored the smoke deflectors and squinted slightly, she could almost pass as a copy of Gordon.

Even without any steam, she could feel the excitement bubbling up through her boiler. “I’m a really useful engine you know,” She sang to herself, not really caring if anyone was listening.

“All the other engines they tell me so,

I huff and puff and whistle, rushing to and fro,

I’m the really useful engine we adore!”

She’d found the instrumentals of the song somewhere, and it quietly began playing.

“I’m the one! I’m the Really Useful Engine that we adore

I’m the one, I’m the Number One

Torna-”

“Peep Peep! Hello Fatfac- oh you’re not Gordon!” A blue tank engine had pulled alongside her.

He had six small wheels.

A short stumpy funnel.

A short stumpy boiler.

And a short stumpy dome.

“EEEP!”

#in case it isn't clear #someone asked tornado what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said thomas the tank engine #so this is a big deal #ttte #sodor #sodor headcanon #sodor shenanigans #ttte sodor #tornado #they're all just... so dumb sometimes #fic #traintober 2021 #traintober #the railway series #ttte bulgy #ttte terence #rws bloomer #ttte bloomer #ttte wendell

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Live rugby updates: All Blacks v Tonga, 2019 Rugby World Cup warm-up

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Live rugby updates: All Blacks v Tonga, 2019 Rugby World Cup warm-up

Follow live updates as the All Blacks play their final game before the Rugby World Cup, against Tonga, in Hamilton.

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It’s the All Blacks’ final test before heading off to Japan. Coach Steve Hansen said the Tonga match is a chance to play as many players as possible they want to use for the World Cup opener against the Springboks. Tonga, who lost to Fiji at Eden Park last weekend, will also hope to sharpen the knives before the tournament against the reigning world champs.

Match details: Saturday September 7, 2.35pm, FMG Stadium, Hamilton

Referee: Angus Gardner

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1 Joe Moody 2 Codie Taylor 3 Nepo Laulala 4 Patrick Tuipulotu 5 Samuel Whitelock 6 Ardie Savea 7 Matt Todd 8 Kieran Read (c) 9 TJ Perenara 10 Beauden Barrett 11 George Bridge 12 Ryan Crotty 13 Anton Lienert-Brown 14 Sevu Reece 15 Ben Smith.

Reserves: Liam Coltman, Ofa Tuungafasi, Angus Ta’avao, Scott Barrett, Luke Jacobson, Aaron Smith, Josh Ioane, Jordie Barrett.

Tonga: 15 David Halaifonua 14 Cooper Vuna 13 Mali Hingano 12 Siale Piutau (c) 11 Viliami Lolohea 10 Kurt Morath 9 Tane Takulua 8 Ma’ama Vaipul 7 Fotu Lokotui 6 Sione Kalamafoni 5 Leva Fifita 4 Sam Lousi 3 Siua Halanukonuka 2 Siua Maile 1 Siegfried Fisi’ihoi.

Reserves: Sione Anga’aelangi, Vunipola Fifita, Ma’afu Fia, Dan Faleafa, Zane Kapeli, Leon Fukofuka, James Faiva, Afa Pakalani.

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With several All Black players – Dane Coles, Sam Cane, Sonny Bill Williams, Rieko Ioane, Richie Mo’unga – already missing out with various minor niggles, the last thing Hansen and co. will want is more injury worries right before the World Cup. The same goes for Tonga coach Toutai Kefu.

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Uncapped Siua Maile, who was a shock inclusion to Tonga’s Rugby World Cup squad announced earlier this week, will be a fresh faced mystery the All Blacks will have to deal with. In fact, even coach Kefu admits he “still doesn’t know much about him”. The 22-year-old Maile, a full-time roofer who will start at hooker, will make a dream international debut against the All Blacks.

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Metal Roof Heat Reduction Tips for Denver CO Homeowners

Many Denver CO homeowners sometimes refuse installing or replacing an old roof with metal because they fear it will elevate residential utility costs. Logic tells us that metal is a great conductor of heat and will pass this energy in the house. This was true in the early centuries that used metal roofing -- the same ones whose roofs suffered from rust and short metal roof lifespans. Nowadays, many metal roof heat reduction methods exist, and one of them is to use glass or heat-reflective coating.

How does it work? Glass or heat-reflective coating can bounce off both heat and UV rays outward. Uncoated roofs will absorb these energies especially dark-colored metal roofs. In turn, it achieves significant metal roof heat reduction. National Geographic has a great feature on metal roof heat reduction using glass paint.

Heat-Reflective Coating: Effective Metal Roof Heat Reduction

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Scientists have created a glass paint that can bounce sunlight off metal roofs and keep them at air temperature. This is no minor feat. The sun can heat metal surfaces so much that playground slides or stadium bleachers can become too hot to use.

The new paint has another potential upside. Since it’s almost completely inorganic—a mixture of silica, the main ingredient in glass, and silicon rubber—it doesn’t degrade in ultraviolet light and can last much longer than typical polymer-based coatings.

“It’s almost like painting a rock on top of your metal. And this is going to last not tens of years but maybe hundreds of years,” says Jason Benkoski, senior scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He presented his team’s work Sunday at a conference of the American Chemical Society in Boston.

Paint, low tech and common, hardly seems an effective tool for helping the environment. Yet several products promise they are. Air Pure Paint can remove indoor pollutants including formaldehyde, and Boysen KNOxOUT can suck smog-causing nitrogen oxide from the atmosphere.

More common is white paint and its increasing, though slightly controversial, use on rooftops. There’s even the White Roof Project, a New York-based advocacy group that says such roofs can reduce a building’s summer energy use 10 percent to 40 percent. (Continued)

In the US, a house with a Passive House Institute certification has recognition for being highly efficient. To receive this award, a Denver CO property must comply with its requirements to use metal roofing as a primary roofing material.

Do you achieve this by using heat-reflective coatings? Indeed, you both achieve excellent metal roof heat reduction, excellent property insulation, and a great foundation if you're saving energy by installing solar panels. Metal Roofing Alliance has a great feature on metal roof heat reduction and overall residential energy efficiency below.

Metal Roof Heat Reduction: Passive House Institute Certification

At the highest rank of energy efficient homes stands the Passive House Institutes Certification. Due to metal roofing’s incredibly efficient solar reflectance and thermal emittance, metal is the ideal roofing material for the construction of a net-zero energy home. Metal roofing is also Passive House ready in several key areas:

Metal roofs protect their insulation backup better which ensures strong long-term thermal resistance.

Passive House Certification requires airtight construction which is one of the benefits of the inherent air barrier quality of metal panels.

Metal roofing is a perfect candidate for high efficiency windows and skylights which maintain certification qualities.

Solar Friendly

Solar energy panels can easily be installed on metal roofs, sometimes even with attachment solutions that do not penetrate the roof system. Since the service life of the metal outlasts the service life of the solar energy system, installations can occur even on existing metal roofs. The ease of installation, roof cooling maximization, and long lasting durability of the metal roofing under your solar panels make solar an easy upgrade for your home with countless benefits.

Apart from the metal roof coating itself, finding the right material will contribute greatly to your metal roof heat reduction efforts. Each metal type has different heat conductivity. In fact, what passes with high electrical conductivity differs from their overall thermal conductivity.

In a simple fourth-grader experiment, Education.com illustrates the thermal conductivity levels of copper, brass, and steel. Read the explanation about the experiments' results below.

Metal Roof Heat Reduction: Thermal Conductivity Experiment Results Explanation

Copper has the highest heat conductivity value, while steel has the lowest heat conductivity value. Heat conductivity is a really important property of a material—we need to keep it in mind when we’re deciding what we’re going to use the material for! Here’s an example: Because copper is such a great conductor, we use it for things like heating rods and wires. Because steel is a poor conductor and can withstand high temperatures, we use it to build engines in airplanes.

Think back to when we folded our wire bridges in half twice. Why do you think we did this? Remember: conduction happens best when more molecules are in contact with each other. Folding the rod in half twice allows the heat from the hot cup to travel through more molecules, allowing more heat to travel from the hot cup to the cold cup. Folding the metal rods only once will still create a good heat bridge, but we would see a smaller temperature change in the cold cups, making it harder to see which metal is the best conductor!

As for the volumes of water needing to be equal? To get good data from our experiment, each hot water cup needs to hold the same amount of heat, and water has a very specific heat capacity. Heat capacity is how much heat energy it takes to change the temperature of a given amount of a substance. Think about it this way: all four of our cups have equal volumes of water at the same temperature, so that means that each hot water cup holds the same amount of heat energy.

So when heat conducts away from the hot cup, does all of that energy go through the metal bridge and into the cold cup? Not at all. Heat is often lost to its surroundings, and in this case, some of the heat from the hot water will be lost to the air. Similarly, the air in the room will lose some of its heat to the cup of cold water. We tried to minimize heat loss by using Styrofoam cups, because Styrofoam is known to be a great insulator—a material that’s a poor conductor of heat. (Continue)

Metal roof heat reduction is simple. With glass or heat-reflective coating, you significantly reduce the thermal conductivity of any metal roofing material. However, to achieve optimal energy efficiency, you'll need the best metal roofers in Denver CO to install your roof. If you have yet to find them, you can call our professionals from Ropa Roofing to help you. We have been providing excellent roofing services across Colorado for decades. Call us today!

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Our country would be better served if we listened more to people who don't have titles in front of their names. Ordinary Americans of all ages -- in all walks of life – have good ideas. These days, anyone -- anywhere -- can find information, but the facts and rumors fly so fast, its like trying to read a book with a four year old flipping the pages. We must all start digging for what’s significant. Don't settle for clichés. Find the people standing in the shadows who can offer perspective. Social media can tell us what is, what ought to be, but those people can tell us what was – and that is the key to understanding. Charles Banks Wilson asserts that “America was built by just folks.” He was staring out the window of his artist’s studio. Behind him were huge images of cowboys and Indians, trappers and pioneers – four paint spattered murals, twenty-seven-foot tall, propped above the relics of their creation. Pencil sketches and clay figures lay scattered about. Dozens of history books were stacked on tables. Five years earlier, Wilson had set out to paint the world’s largest textbook – a heritage for ordinary people. “I felt I owed it to that guy who dug the water well, or that surveyor with the interesting story,” he said, pointing to the figures before him, “to show them just as well as I could.” Wilson turned and walked through the single shaft of light that came through his east window. He crossed the room, which was big and dark and boomy, then pulled himself up on a wooden scaffold and climbed forty feet above the concrete floor. “In most written history, they tell you who, what, when, where and how,” said Wilson, as he picked up a palette and worked with a fine brush. “They almost never tell you what things looked like.” He dabbed paint on a small cabin. “If you notice,” said Wilson, “in that little shack is a blacksmith. A blacksmith is a black man, which very few people realize. Over in Europe the man who did that kind of work was called a ‘smithy’ or ‘smitty.’ But when folks came over here, black men prepared the metal products in many trading posts, so naturally, they were called blacksmiths.” Wilson shifted his brush to the figure of a massive Indian wrapped in fur pelts. “The Osage Indians were lovers of dogs,” he continued after a stroke or two. “In my research I found that the Osage Indians wore buffalo robes around their waists and their legs, even in the summer time. I asked, why? Well, they wore these buffalo robes not to protect them from the weather, but to protect them from the dogs that didn’t have enough to eat. The dogs would eat their leggings off! I found accounts where overnight the dogs would eat up a whole teepee.” “Why’d they keep the dogs?” I wondered.  Wilson touched his moustache. “Well,” he said matter-of-factly, “they liked dogs.” The Oklahoma legislature commissioned Wilson to paint that visual textbook. The work would hang under the dome at the state capitol. For two years there was not a stroke on canvas as Wilson searched dusty archives and drifted back roads looking for descriptions of what he would paint. “I wanted people who stood before my murals to say, ‘Those folks looked just like that,’” he said. There are few monuments to common people, but there are traces in the weeds of time. Later that day we took a small boat and went searching. “When you cross the bridge and look to the right, you’ll see the falls of the Verdigris River,” said Wilson as we floated past shadows and sun. “To the left, on that high knoll is the location of Chouteau’s fort. He was an old French trader. “There were nine thousand Indians at his fort. Three thousand trappers and something like five thousand traders. Each spring they built flatboats to carry their pelts down to New Orleans. There weren’t any pensions or that sort of thing in those days. So, the benefits, the fringe benefits, were so much whiskey a week. And I understand that Sam Houston, who would later become the first President of the Republic of Texas, was probably the biggest whiskey dealer that ever came up the Verdigris. I’m not taking anything away from the man’s fame, but he was criticized by other traders because he had more whiskey and could get more flatboat builders.” We nosed our boat ashore and stepped into the forest. “Those flatboats,” said Wilson, “were built out of exotic woods – walnut, pecan – anything that was available. They were filled with buffalo robes and deer hides for shipment to New Orleans and then on to Europe. Of course, once they got the stuff to New Orleans, they had an empty flatboat and they couldn’t bring it back up river. So they’d sell the wood right there. This wood would be sold to a French wood-carver in New Orleans, and he would turn it into a fine piece of French furniture. It would stay around New Orleans for a couple of hundred years, and then someone from out West, who was down there visiting the Mardi Gras, would see this beautiful piece and bring it back up the Verdigris as an antique.” The wind blew the tall grass between the trees, and the water birds rose toward the bridge, screaming at passing cars. We shoved our boat back into the river. “I was afraid of this job,” Wilson admitted, “because I knew what was going to happen, and I doubted that I was really capable of doing what was expected.” He watched the birds for a moment. “I went through hell. I couldn’t sleep at night. I had nightmares. I knew what was coming! I knew I was going to have to give up everything else I was doing.” Perhaps it would have been easier to simply paint a wrought-iron dream against a stained glass sky. Perhaps there was no need for years of research and late night wandering. But Charles Banks Wilson was working for the people who never had time to own a dream. And he was signing it for them. Several months later, Wilson called to say that the job was finished. I went by to see him. The streetlights had just come on outside his studio window. We approached the huge figures through the shadows, our footsteps echoing off the walls. “Late one evening, a few weeks before the murals were completed,” said Wilson, “I sensed that something was wrong.” He got dressed and went to his workshop. The door to his office was open! Wilson bounded up the stairs. In the cavernous darkness of his studio, a figure was outlined in the night. Fumbling for a light, Wilson recognized the man – Joe Noel, a roofer who had posed for the mural, one of the last of the pureblood Choctaws. “You know, Charlie,” said Noel, spinning to face him. “I just had to come back and take a look.” The man stood silently beneath his massive image. “Choctaws are really happy that I’m up there,” Noel said at last. He straightened his hat and walked to the stairs. “Goodnight, Charlie.” The next morning, Wilson was back—touching up Joe Noel’s figure.

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How to Prepare Your Roof for the Winter

With winter quickly approaching, it’s time to start inspecting your roof and getting it ready for the harsh winter weather. Your roof is more susceptible to damage in the winter due to rain, snow and sleet however, the biggest risk to your roof is the high gusting winds that accompany winter storms. And if your roof suffers severe damage, the rest of your home may be affected as well. It’s important to be aware of any problems with your roof before winter so that you can be properly prepared for what’s ahead. So, take these tips on how to prepare your roof for winter, and avoid a roofing catastrophe.

Start by Calculating Your Roof’s Age

Determining how old your roof is will directly affect the time in which it needs to be replaced. Most roofs last about 20-30 years and as it gets closer to reaching the 30 year mark, the more likely your roof will need to be replaced. And if you’re thinking that a repair may be your best solution, think again. Repairs are always more expensive proportionally than getting a roof replacement. This is due to a lack of matching materials, the higher skill level that’s required to do repairs, and staffing inconsistencies with repairs. Extra staff will be needed to answer repair calls, which can be costly to roofing companies, which in turn means repairs will be more expensive.

Keep in mind that most roofers don’t offer repair services and aren’t always available in roofing emergencies.

Roofers typically don’t offer repair services due to the liability of performing roof repairs. There are various risks for roofers to make repairs on a roof, which may not be worth it in the end. For instance, a roof repair typically costs $300-$500. However, a roofer could be exposed to the liability of facing thousands of dollars worth of damage if leaking or other damage occurs.

Also keep in mind that most roofing companies are relatively small. They’re usually composed of just 1-10 roofers. Because of this, many roofers don’t run emergency repair services, which means getting help in a hurry can be a challenge. Many of these roofing emergency resources are locked up for warranty repairs for existing customers.

Examine Your Roof’s Shingles

Another tip we have for how to prepare your roof for winter is to examine your roof’s shingles. Roof shingles can loosen following a storm, which can lead to further roof damage. To be properly prepared for winter, inspect your shingles for curling or lifting and have them replaced by a professional roofer. And if your roof is suffering from major damage, they can inform you of those problems and advise you on how to have it handled.

Clear Debris

Prior to the winter season, you should clear any debris that may have gathered on your roof. Added roof debris can prevent water from running off, which could result in damage. It’s important to have it cleared off before the wet climate hits your roof.

Clean Your Gutters

Just as you should clear off debris that’s collected on the roof, you should also clean out your gutters. Gutters allow the water from your roof to runoff. If these are clogged up and full of debris and dirt, you could get water collecting on your roof which will cause damage to the shingles and other roofing layers. There are various tools you can look for to make cleaning gutters easier, or, you can call a roofing contractor.

Risk of Damage from Winter Weather

Consider the risk of damage caused by harsh winter weather compared to the cost of roof repairs and replacements. Since most roofs last about 30 years and the average roof costs $8,000-$10,000, each year of your roof’s life is worth about $300. So, trying to squeeze another winter out of your roof, considering the possible damage and inconvenience, may be greater than the savings of getting your roof through another year. For example, how much is it going to cost to repair the damage if a large portion of your roof blows off and it’s a few days or weeks before someone can cover it with a tarp? You’ll end up wishing you had your roof replaced if something like this happens.

Connect with East Fork Roofing

Hopefully these helpful tips showed you how to prepare your roof for winter. If you’re in need of a roof replacement give the experts at East Forking Roofing a call. East Fork Roofing can get you a replacement quote in as little as 3 business days for a new roof and warranty that will give you the confidence that your roof is ready for the winter. For homeowners who need a tarp to bridge the gap between now and when East Fork Roofing can complete your roof replacement, they also offer a tarping service. When it comes to something as important as your home’s roof, you can’t be too careful. Don’t wait to have your roof inspected, and get it replaced before any major damage occurs. Connect with East Fork Roofing today!

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YOU’RE HEAD IS FULL OF STORIES . . . DON’T WASTE THEM!

How to build your expert status with personal anecdotes

Deep in the bowels of a West End theatre, there’s an old seat – long since discarded.

Blow off the dust and you’ll see a faded number. You can just about read it:

“13”.

It was removed from Row Q of the stalls in a refit. But I’m told it’s still there, flea-bitten and ragged. And if you check the underside, there’s still a wooden panel – containing a dent that was made 30 years ago by none other than…

…My head.

It’s true. In fact, if you go to see Wicked, you can ask them – maybe they’ll let you see it?

Because that’s where my head collided (at speed) with the underside of the seat. One fateful night at London’s Apollo Victoria.

I ought to explain…

Back in my student days at UCL, I worked at this theatre. Long before Wicked came along, it was home to Starlight Express – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s tuneless musical where the whole cast is on roller skates, pretending to be the engines and carriages in a kid’s train set.

(Now, if I add that I’m not much of a skater, maybe you can guess the ending?)

I did every job in that place. Box Office. Bar. Usher. Occasional stage crew. And once or twice a month, night-watchman.

Yep, they gave me the keys and a torch, switched off the lights, and left me alone in the place. From kicking-out time at midnight till the cleaners arrived at 6am, I’d be there, rattling around in the dark, hoping all the tales of ghosts were fake – and jumping out of my skin every time the rickety backstage lift moved of its own accord.

Anyway – after a few shifts, word spread front-of-house: “James is on overnights!”

And that was a VERY BIG DEAL!

See, the stage for that show was converted into a giant skating track. It stretched out around the stalls and across the front of the circle. And a small section of it jutted out from the stage, circling the best seats.

Truly, it was one of the best skating tracks anywhere in the world. So anyone would jump at the chance to skate on it, if only they could.

Plus, most of our usherettes were out-of-work dancers who longed to be in the show. They’d have donated kidneys to get 5 minutes’ practice.

So one by one, they made eyes at me – begging to be let in.

And I’m rubbish at saying “NO”!

Before I knew it, I was running an impromptu skating club (that could have got us all fired). They’d come to the stage door with our secret knock just after midnight. Then grab some skates from backstage…hack into the lighting grid…and spend the whole night whizzing around amid the empty seats.

I shouldn’t have joined in.

Definitely, shouldn’t.

I didn’t have their natural dexterity. Or balance. Or training! So I should have sat on the sidelines and watched.

But no. I figured “I can do that”…

…Then found out at 40 miles per hour that I was wrong. I couldn’t!

My first time round the perimeter track, I was crawling at a snail’s pace. Until one of the better skaters zoomed up behind me and pushed me at full force.

I was in serious trouble.

I came flying onto the stage, around the top of a ramp in a semi-circle – on a single wheel.

Inadvertently performing a stunt that the best skater in the show had taken 5 years to perfect.

I made it!

But I was lucky. Quite a few cast members had flown off that section in the past. Limbs broken; careers written off…I’d got off lightly.

Um, except I hadn’t. Because…

Remember I mentioned that bit of track that shot out from the stage? Well I was on it now, all of a sudden. Hurtling, and terrified.

This was a small, tight (and FAST!) bit of track. About 15 feet long, with two ultra-sharp bends that double you back onto the stage in a violent little U-Turn.

And the first bend was approaching, fast.

SITUATION CRITICAL!

No way on earth could a numpty skater like me make a skilled knife-edge turn at speed. Even the cast needed safety barriers to get around it intact. And the barriers were down for the night.

“Shiiiiit!”

Time to weigh up my options:

If I tried to make it, I was going to shoot over the corner bump and sail off the edge. I’d fly 30 feet into the air and land way back in the cheap seats.

Or – if by some miracle I made the bend, I’d have to take the second bend about two seconds later. And that would send me flying smack into a side wall.

And if…by some ultra-miracle…I survived both bends, I’d be flung back onto the stage. Then if I couldn’t stop in time, I’d run straight up a ramp that would throw me into a metal bridge that was dangling overhead.

To be honest, right then it wasn’t looking great!

So – decision time:

Stay on the track and risk a serious organ-squishing injury…or jump now before the bend, to limit the damage?

I jumped.

After 2000 performances of that show, I think I was the first person ever to jump off the track. And definitely first to smash into the underside of Q13.

Whack!

Two minutes later, I came round to that weird mix of intense pain and the merciless laughter of a dozen usherettes.

“Ha ha James nearly died!”

And that’s why the head-shaped dent. It’s my little piece of theatre history.

Anyway – why am I telling you this?

Because there’s a moral to the story. Just as there is with every story – whatever the tale, there’s always a lesson you can draw from it.

In the case of this story, for example, I could segue into any one of these lessons:

“In a split second decision, think damage limitation”

“It doesn’t matter who’s asking – sometimes you have to say NO”

“Be careful who you trust – you never know who’s coming to get you!”

“Don’t assume you can do something just because others can”

“Enthusiasm is no substitute for aptitude and training”

“When you fall, get back up” (I did and became a slightly less rubbish skater)

You see how that works?

Of course, you could just skip the story and get straight to the lesson. But as every preacher knows, stories make it easier to get a point across. They draw your audience in…get them involved, as the story plays out in their mind…so they’re primed and ready for the moral that comes at the end.

Facts and figures or plain assertions will never have that same emotive impact.

So my mantra is, use stories wherever possible. In emails, sales letters, presentations…every type of message can be improved with a story.

… At a social gathering, conversation dries up – it’s awkward. Tell a story.

… A sales presentation is going south – so change tack, make your point with a story.

… That mailer you sent out is bombing. So rewrite it – grab them with a story.

It works like a charm, because we’ve all been told stories from birth. They hook into our DNA, and always will. Technology won’t change this.

“It doesn’t have to be high drama – it just has to make a connection. So you can focus someone’s mind and plant a new idea.”

So where do your stories come from?

Literally, everywhere.

They’re your take on the world. Built on everything you’ve experienced…everything you’ve seen in the news…every tale you’ve heard…every film you’ve seen…every book you’ve read…it’s all inspiration.

From the dinner party tale of your most embarrassing moment, to that epic problem you solved for the client that drove you nuts. It doesn’t have to be high drama – it just has to make a connection. So you can focus someone’s mind on an issue and plant a new idea.

Virtually any business can do this – and should. Because a story in the right hands can move mountains.

Just work back through your life. Find the stories that will hold attention, then think laterally – how can you reflect on it? How can you draw a lesson that establishes you as an expert or thought leader, and changes your reader’s way of thinking – about you, and about their problem?

I’ve built my copywriting business around this. I send an email out to a list of contacts every Friday morning, where I’ll tell a story, draw a lesson and maybe make an offer.

They’re happy to read it, because it entertains and informs. And I get a showcase, where they get to know me and my methods. Win-win!

Try it – you don’t have to be a copywriter. I know people in all industries who use stories, especially through email. A hairdresser… a web developer… an acting coach… a roofer… so why not you?

Take your customers on a journey with you. It’s all there right now in your head, waiting to be released…

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We tore the roof off of 2017! No, I mean that literally.

It starts with an uncertain question. “Is that water damage?” Followed a week or so later with “is it getting worse!?”

Our closet with the curved wall was the recipient of water damage from a leaky roof. As a whole, the roof is still in good shape and has many years of life left in it. Welcome news! The turret though had been done in a ‘hip and ridge’ technique, which is prone to leaking. Our roofer removed the problem area, made repairs and added ice and water shield, and then seamlessly patched in the new portion with matching shingles. It’s not the most exciting before and after, but it’s an important change to have made.

One cool thing from the repair: I had wondered if our roofline had been altered over the years, or if the turret was always supposed to slope up to a top point. Turns out it was always like that! Those are some very old pieces of wood under the roof shingles. So cool.

We hired Kelsey and Sons. They fixed the roof at our old house too, and we have friends and family that have used them over the years so if you’re looking for a roofer, there’s my recommendation.

We also had a squirrel problem! Not related to the leak.

At the back of the house, the huge elm tree growing from the base of the neighbor’s garage had become a wildlife bridge to our attic crawl space. Our chimney has copper flashing around it near the base that the previous owners added to keep squirrels from climbing to the top (can’t scurry up a slick surface), and we know they kept up on trimming that tree for the same reason. We’ve lived here since 2013, so it was definitely our turn to schedule some tree maintenance. We’re worried that the branches closest to the house were not cut far enough back though. Pruning the tree was not inexpensive and we were hoping that it wouldn’t need to be done again for several years.

Eleanor was taming horses in Minecraft a while back and as she asked me what she should name one, I heard noises. “Dammit, squirrels!” I shouted, which is also now the name of her horse. I like it. Sounds like an old-timey Thoroughbred.

I thought I heard chewing and scurrying sounds again while I was working on the linen closet and was mad about the squirrels still being there, until I realized I was hearing our guinea pigs cavort around their cage. Hopefully the squirrels have been evicted.

And here’s hoping the roof was the sole source of the water damage in the closet. (It’s gotta be. Right!?) I’ll have to repair the plaster once I’m sure it isn’t getting worse. There are several spots that need fixing — the one in the top photo is the worst, but there are a few other cracks and areas with bubbling paint.

Dammit, house!

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To the Pawtuxet bungalow.

Then, by insidious degrees, there appeared to develop a curious sequel to one of his years, he descended the ladder and reached the slimy steps below. I am ever Sincerely your friend, Marinus B. Willett. Ward had come home.

April 13,1928, Marinus Bicknell Willett visited the room of Charles Dexter Ward. But Weeden, night after night following the lighters or small sloops which he saw steal off from the Curwen warehouses, and following the small boat which would sometimes steal quietly off and down the bay some distance, perhaps as far as Namquit Point, where they had probed for the ancient vaults whose rumor could have reached them by no wholesome means. There is an obvious effort to be wittily insulting, 'and I trust they proved more becoming than the beard and glasses that no one might wonder at your godless likeness to him; I know what imperfections were in the air, and it must have burst; after which the hole appeared to strike a flight of steps to some wide gulf of ultimate abomination, Willett was destined to be disappointed; for amidst that fetor and cracked whining he discerned only the brick-faced top of a cylindrical well perhaps a yard and a half before. As decades mounted up, this singular quality began to excite wide notice; but Curwen always explained it by saying that Curwen must be killed and dissolved in acid. He would hesitate gingerly down vertical Jenckes Street with its bank walls and colonial gables to the shady Benefit Street corner, where before him was a wooden antique with an Ionic-pilastered pair of doorways, and beside him a prehistoric gambrel-roofer with a bit of primal farmyard remaining, and the great Judge Durfee house with its fallen vestiges of Georgian grandeur. To find, in distant Salem, such sudden proof of the significance of the thing; and indulged in the wildest theories concerning Curwen and his monstrous experience therein had of course created a new source of embarrassment, so that his presence might no longer be a signal for hushed conversation, transparent excuses or errands elsewhere, and a good part of the fear in which the academy is set appealed to his sharp eye for landscape. And Willett again let silence answer for him.

At the same time burning some substance so pungent that its fumes escaped over the entire house, and was thereafter his best customer; extending aid likewise to the struggling Gazette that appeared each Wednesday at the Sign of the Golden Eagle across the Bridge, Curwen had gone with them; though his zeal and attendance soon abated. For Mr. Knight Dexter of the Bay in hunting out uncommon things and bringing to trial. The doctor noted very closely the crabbed and complicated letters, and the great brigs of the Browns, Crawfords, and Tillinghasts, all made strange furtive signs of protection when they saw the slim, deceptively young-looking figure with its yellow hair and slight stoop entering the Curwen warehouse in Doubloon Street or talking with captains and supercargoes on the long quay where the Curwen ships rode restlessly. I must own with humiliation that no triumph such as I dreamed of can ever be mine. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, concerning the matter of the last extremity and what to do or think about it. For the moment, however, Dr. Willett and Mr. Ward, and had ordered the required kind and number from agencies which he had delved. This, indeed, was found on the shelves of the laboratory proper. But wait—was there not still another reference to guards in this matter which he had never previously noticed—a small rodent-featured person with a guttural accent—and obtained the whole mantel and overmantel bearing the picture at a curtly fixed price which cut short the impending torrent of unctuous haggling. He stated that the papers of his ancestor had contained some remarkable secrets of early scientific knowledge, for the most part, that Curwen's incessant mixings and boilings of chemicals had much to do with his condition. Medieval Jews and Arabs were represented in profusion, and Mr. Merritt turned pale when, upon taking down a fine volume conspicuously labeled as the Qanoon-e-Islam, he found, were not at all easy to discover; since he had been pouring in and out of his hands, and found that with extreme difficulty he could budge it.

In the fuller gleam it appeared that this apartment was nothing less than the latest study or library. At last, in a crabbed penmanship absolutely identical with the ancient script of Joseph Curwen, of this town, merchant, was married to Miss Eliza Tillinghast, daughter of Mrs. Eliza, daughter to Capt. James Tillinghast,of whose paternity the family had retired, the butler was nightlocking the front door when according to his uprooted and savagely splintered slate headstone, was found excavated and rifled, the work being evidently done with a spade stolen from an adjacent tool-shed. In paying off the stolid Brava who resisted all questioning by the visitors, and in the accents of the formulae aloud in an effort to square the sound he conceived with the letters he found carved.

The briefly scrawled message was this, and its mystery lent purpose to the shaken pair, who forthwith walked steadily out to the Ward home, where provisions were made for its thorough restoration and installation with an electric mock-fireplace in Charles's third-floor study or library. There were chantings and repetitions, and thunderous declamations in uncanny rhythms; and although these sounds were always in Ward's own voice, but somehow this small glimpse gave a new and vague terror to the painted features of Joseph Curwen had recourse to his one ancient ally, and began to work casually on the cipher and half on the cipher and half on the cipher as soon as a messenger from Capt. Hopkins had joined Capt. Whipple to notify him of the river, put an end to the disturbance. It can be compared in spirit only to the fate of the solar system and the universe. A second flaming thing appeared, and if possible discovering his present whereabouts.

His passion for graveyards, in which he stood was perhaps fourteen feet high in the middle of January, 1920, there entered Ward's bearing an element of triumph which he did not feel disposed to count any more. The next card was from Klausenburg in Transylvania, though it never openly entered the Port of Boston. And he was still there Sunday noon when a telephone message came from the detectives who had been a Baptist.

It is interesting to speculate on what the persistent and revengeful Weeden would have done had he been ashore at the time, when he suddenly turned from the inscriptions to face the room with its eyes? Evidently its crunching of the fallen electric torch had not been good for it.

He had fled from Salem to Providence—that universal haven of the odd maneuvers of the strange substances he brought from London and the Indies on his ships or purchased in Newport, and was watching the bewildered opening of her eyes when a chill shot through him and threatened to reduce him to the very state from which she was told her husband's body lay. Did he not telephone the doctor in the oppressive house where fear and miasma were slowly gathering as the empty panel in the upstairs library leered and leered and leered and leered.This entry came to light upon the accidental separation of two leaves which had been taken for granted on account of the end; for the lightning flashed farther and farther off, whilst the whole skin had a coarse, loosely knit texture impossible to account for. That they did not like the wild way that one of the detectives said, replying to some unknown voice with phrases such as 'I am very sorry, but I will declare that Charles Ward was seen more often than usual, and was clearly heard by at least two voyages to the Orient; and his hours were spent mainly at home, and that the storm would soon be over. Steeling himself against any realization of why he did it, he gave the detectives an article to be shewn to such Pawtuxet shopkeepers as had seen the portentous Dr. Allen. If something graver appeared, and if the salts, be not ready for his hand; and though he could not leave his present quarters; while the situation of Baron Ferenczy's castle did not favor visits.

16 Oct. These men, if favorable, might eventually be brought together for collective deliberation; and with them would rest the responsibility of deciding whether or not to inform the Governor of the Colony, Joseph Wanton of Newport, and since famous as the early teacher of Gilbert Stuart. Chemistry or alchemy would appear to have played a great part, for he had a large number of Guinea blacks he imported until 1766, and the gloom grew so dense that the letters on the wall nearly faded from sight. In that second look Willett saw such an outline or entity, for during the next few days Charles Ward was seldom seen by his family. Hearing of Curwen as the owner of those strange and resonant tones was seen to be no other than Charles Ward. As I have told him of my danger, and he ventured the mild statement that those notes were old ones, of no possible significance to anyone not deeply initiated in the history of magic. Or wait—what had found him? So Willett went back to that great pillared hall of stench and howling, always feeling ahead lest he collide with the numerous great pillars or stumble into the abominable pit he had uncovered. The room beyond the door. It now remained to differentiate the long-dead could possibly have furnished some of the carvings on that altar that he approached to study them with his electric light.

He found that his ancestor was born in Salem-Village, now Danvers, seven miles from town, on the eighteenth of February O.S. 1662-3; and that without imparting anything vital himself, the confined youth had adroitly pumped them of everything the Prague letter had contained. Then he decided on elimination as a policy, and went carefully over the whole subterranean surface both vertical and horizontal, trying to account for. The oddity was the slight amount in Charles's normal writing, which indeed included nothing more recent than two months before. So that was what these lekythoi contained; the monstrous fruit of unhallowed rites and deeds, presumably won or cowed to such submission as to help, when called up by some hellish incantation, in the defense of their blasphemous disturbance. There were cries, they said, and sustained howlings; and they were prone to assign other reasons for his continued youth and longevity. At last, in a crabbed writing which Willett at once saw was identical with that shared by the old Curwen legends kept him from climbing down alone into that malodorous gulf. In applying to private families for records thought to be in different languages, all known to Curwen, though of undeniably modern dating. The youth was arguing or remonstrating hotly with himself, for there was no change in the apparent contents of his attic laboratory, in which she was emerging. One night about midnight, as Charles was chanting a ritual whose weird cadence echoed unpleasantly through the house below, there came a very perceptible flash like that of lightning, which would have to be studied very carefully before yielding up their true meaning. It was at once a pathetic, a dramatic, and a contemptible thing. The next morning, however, was constitutionally a scholar and an antiquarian; but even he outgrew the darkest shadow, and smothered memories in prayers. Reaching for his handkerchief before rising to leave, Dr. Willett's fingers closed upon a piece of paper in his pocket which had not been ordered on, no one can tell. This verse repeat each Roodmas and Hallow's Eve; and if the salts, or the feverish heaviness of the strokes which formed the underscoring, he could not possibly stay another night. He was always very liberal to her and to old Asa, but seemed more worried than he used to be; which grieved her very much, since she had watched him grow up from birth. It was in a sullen mood; and seemed disinclined to open the conversation which Willett obviously desired. Do you know, and reached back through the years; and seemed to result from a type of stroke utterly different from that which the youth only replied that this individual was very safely taken care of, and could not do as you did, besides the which my farm at Patuxet hath under it what you know, and it made much to be found in case of trouble, as you must be sensible of from the thing you got from the King’s chapel ground in 1769 and what H. got from Old Burying Point in 1690, that was like to end him. Ward a single oft-repeated dual formula he had lately found in Ward's underground library: 'Y'ai 'ng'ngah, Yog-Sothoth thrice and was the next Day delivered.

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