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The early Sydney Spring Carnival meeting on August 23 featuring the Group 2 WFA $175,000 Warwick Stakes (1400m) has been transferred from Warwick Farm to the recently renovated Randwick racecourse.
The future of Group racing at the western suburbs major track now looks uncertain although the Group 1 $350,000 Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) meeting in the Autumn is still scheduled to be run at Warwick Farm.
The Warwick Farm track came under major criticism after the running of the Chipping Norton Stakes during this year's Sydney Autumn Carnival with prominent Randwick trainer Gai Waterhouse leading the call to have major races directed away from the track.
Waterhouse saddled up two runners in the Chipping Norton Stakes with Order Of The Sun and Glencadam Gold finishing second last and last in the eight horse field.
Tommy Berry, who rode Order Of The Sun that day, reported to Waterhouse that the track was not one of the best racing surfaces in Australia.
"No Group races should be there, and Tommy Berry told me he's never ridden at a more inconsistent track in Australia. The track isn't good enough,'' Waterhouse told The Daily Telegraph after the running of the 1600m weight for age feature.
Waterhouse supports the Australian Jockey Club's decision to transfer the Warwick Stakes meeting which will now be run at Sydney's number one showcase racecourse.
"They've spent a fortune on Randwick, they have to use it, so this is a good idea. Warwick Farm is a substandard track,'' Waterhouse said.
The other feature races on Warwick Stakes Day are the Group 2 $175,000 Silver Shadow Stakes (1200m) for the three year old fillies, the Group 3 $125,000 Show County Quality (1200m), the Group 3 $125,000 Toy Show Quality (1300m) for the fillies and mares and the Group 3 $125,000 Up and Coming Stakes (1300m) for the three year olds.
But not all trainers are happy with the decision with locals feeling cheated on missing out on a major Spring Carnival meeting.
"It's disappointing to lose a feature race day, every trainer at other metropolitan tracks get the advantage of racing at their home track, and now we're missing out,'' said Joe Pride who has just doubled his numbers at Warwick Farm after taking over the stables of the late Guy Walter who recently passed away suddenly.
"One of us might not win the Warwick Stakes every year, but there are good races on the program, it's a big day out, and it's a good chance to entertain our clients out west.''
Gary Portelli also prepares his team at Warwick Farm and can see the business sense about the move but will also miss the annual feature meeting.
"I can see both sides of the coin, so I'm not that perturbed by it,'' Portelli said.
"As far as us local trainers go, it's a kick in the guts because you do have some advantage at your home track, just like the Randwick trainers get an advantage when they run meetings there.
"But the game has to survive, they (the ATC) have to make business decisions to keep the crowds involved and people going to the races.
"You have a multi-million dollar grandstand sitting there (at Randwick) and they have to use it.''
The Warwick Stakes was first run in 1923 at Warwick Farm and while the majority of the runnings were held in the west, a handful were decided at other Sydney venues including Canterbury in 2000 and Randwick also hosted the weight for age contest on several other occasions.
The Jason Coyle trained Trusting won the 2009 Warwick Stakes when it was run at Randwick while the New Zealand war horse Veyron took out last year's version at Warwick Farm for Cambridge trainer Linda Laing.


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Black Caviar Not the Only Odds-on 2011 Cox Plate Day Favourite
Black Caviar may be stealing the Cox Plate Day 2011 spotlight, the Peter Moody-trained megastar set to start the shortest-priced favourite in an Australian Group race feature for half a century, but there is a another champion racing at Moonee Valley this Saturday that is also set to jump odds-on in a diminutive field – Manawanui.
Manawanui Faces Field of Five in Mitchelton Wines Vase 2011
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Doctor Doom has won the first Group 1 feature of Epsom Handicap Day today with a thrilling lead all-the-way ride from jockey Rod Quinn in the 2011 Spring Champion Stakes.
The three-year-old gelding finished second to Strike The Stars last start in the Group 2 Gloaming Stakes but proved too ...
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Last-start Rosehill winner Darci Be Good continues to get support from the punters ahead of tomorrow's Chelmsford Stakes Day meeting where the promising Bede Murray-trained colt will jump favourite in the $100,000 Listed Ming Dynasty Quality Handicap (1400m).
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Popular Sydney trainer Gai Waterhouse may have uncovered a genuine Golden Rose 2011 contender in Just The Tonic and is considering paying the hefty late entry fee to get the gelding into the million dollar Sydney Spring Racing Carnival showdown after their victory at Rosehill on the weekend.
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Peter Snowden has confidence that his improving Commands colt Ambidexter, a full-brother to Group one winner Skilled, can reach elite level this prep and contest the 2011 Spring Champion Stakes during the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival after they claimed an impressive win at Warwick Farm on Tuesday.
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London Welsh's first match after the death of their great former No 8 Mervyn Davies will be at Bristol's Memorial Stadium this afternoon. Davies won his first 19 Wales caps while playing for the Exiles, whom he joined when he was a PE teacher in Surrey in 1968, and the second 19 with his home-town side, Swansea.
Both clubs had regular fixtures with Bristol. "Merv the Swerve" was amazingly self-effacing. Of his initial selection for London Welsh's first team, a few weeks before Wales capped him, he said: "Someone knew there was this lanky streak of rubbish playing for the seconds who could win the ball in the line-out." The entire rugby world including Lions opponents in New Zealand and South Africa soon got the message that TM Davies could do everything else expected of a No 8, brilliantly and consistently.
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The England flanker Tom Wood is wearing specially stiffened boots to cope with the foot injury that denied him the chance to captain his country in the Six Nations.
Wood was Stuart Lancaster's first choice as national skipper but was laid low in January and missedeight weeks before returning for Northampton at Saracens on 4 February, complete with the reinforced boot he will wear in today's LV Cup final against Leicester Tigers at Worcester, where qualification for next season's Heineken Cup will be at stake.
"The boots are as stiff as hell and stop my foot getting into certain positions which would put pressure on the area around my big toe," said Wood, 25. "Unfortunately, I have bird feet with a massive high arch and really flexible toes, so you can imagine all the pressure that is going through to my toes when I run and try to push off the ground.
"With the usual flexible boots I just didn't have the strength in my toes to do what I needed on a pitch. But the new boots help to stop me getting into that exposed position. The medics and everyone else took the decision to make sure I got some rest. It was a tough decision but it had to be done and, hopefully, it might add some time to the end of my career. It was desperately disappointing to miss all those big games for Saints and England. Now I want to put myself back in the frame by doing well for Northampton. It's frustrating sitting on the sofa watching."
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A theory advanced by several academic researchers suggests parents in newer U.S. states are more apt to give their children nontraditional names than parents in more established regions.
According to a report on the LiveScience website, it supposedly has something to do with a lingering frontier spirit. Thanks to John Lodge for bringing this to my attention.
Washington and Idaho, by the way, are considered new states in this context. Home of "distinctive" names, as the story put it.
Maybe this explains a lot. Or not.
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This week, NewsBusters and other sides noticed that after the death of Otto Warmbier, The Huffington Post edited, but did not take down a controversial article entitled "North Korea Proves Your White Male Privilege Is Not Universal."
Washington Post media blogger Eric Wemple also grew interested in why the HuffPost would keep the Warmbier-bashing piece, when it unpublished a contributor arguing President Trump was right about the negatives of immigration in Sweden...as if that was more offensive. Here's what he found: the Huffington Post is terrible at returning phone calls from other media outlets.
With all the hostile rhetoric against Donald Trump going around these days, it's not surprising that people in the entertainment industry have made the Republican president one of their favorite targets. The most recent example of this trend is an animated video released by a musician called "Moby" -- though his real name is Richard Melville Hall -- who displayed his hatred of Trump by depicting him as "a Nazi-esque leader" who dies in an explosion while in the form of a swastika and then a dollar sign.
On Monday, a 2016 Huffington Post article titled "North Korea Proves Your White Male Privilege Is Not Universal" was updated following the death of its subject, Otto Warmbier. Although some bold wording is no longer seen in the article, the article has kept all of the controversial parts that led many to blast its insensitivity when it was first published.
Tragic news broke Monday evening when the family of Otto Warmbier, the American college student taken by North Korea and returned in a coma, put out a statement that their son passed had away earlier that afternoon. "Unfortunately, the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today," the statement said. When Otto was first detained by the Communist regime, multiple outlets mocked his arrest and impending doom.
HuffPost — previously known as the Huffington Post, the far-left entity whose cashed-out original owners made themselves millionaires on the backs of thousands of unpaid bloggers — "laid off 39 staffers on Wednesday, a move that follows parent company AOL's acquisition by telecom giant Verizon." On Thursday, Sam Stein, the website's senior politics editor, demonstrated such tone-deafness that one has to wonder how he escaped being among those who were let go.
In the aftermath of the shooting targeting Republican congressmen in Alexandria, VA, the media has called for both sides to cool down their rhetoric. As if the vitriol and hate were equal on both sides. The truth is it isn't. Huffington Post writer Jesse Benn is case and point. The Huffington Post has long been a place for the fringe left to spew their venom.
The Huffington Post -- home of some notably hateful rants, like the ex-Washington Post writer who said unlike George W. Bush, "You could argue that even the world's worst fascist dictators at least meant well" -- has a line contributors can cross. On Sunday night, it was the notion of executing President Trump for treason...and a cast of accessories including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, the Vice President, the Senate Majority Leader, and the Speaker of the House! The unhinged HuffPost contributor was Jason Fuller.
Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh dedicated time on his Friday program to mocking a deranged Huffington Post column by Thomas Jefferson School of Law professor Marjorie Cohn that President Trump's withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris climate deal "constitutes an impeachable offense" and crime against humanity.
The Trump administration has given late night TV new life. But for all their digs at the president, Stephen Colbert and his ilk aren't doing much better than POTUS at bringing the country together.
It's amazing what we can learn from literature. The Lost Boys didn't stay in Neverland with Peter. Sure, they never grew up. They just became liberals in the midst of a perpetual tantrum. The Lost Girls, too, apparently. Even the most recent presidential candidate Hillary Clinton loudly proclaims she is, "part of the resistance."
It's April, but to liberals it's March. They've had the March for Science. Now we get the March for Climate, which is virtually identical to its predecessor. The alt-left, which apparently has a problem with word meanings, believes science is dogma, not provable fact. To question their beliefs lands you in the internet version of the inquisition. So first, let's discuss the Scientific Method. (Insert your own important theme music here.) The idea behind it is that scientists/researchers come up with their results, show you the work and then you get to point out problems. But hey, don't take my word for, let's try a sciency site.
Climate Progress founding editor Joe Romm is furious with The New York Times for hiring a person he claims is an "extreme climate science denier."
Romm was referring to Pulitzer Prize winner Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal. His rant on Think Progress against the paper included Holocaust denialism and the KKK.


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The first area that must be addressed by Tech is filling the void left by Danny Amendola, who had a tremendous season in 2007 with over 100 catches and 1,000 yards.
Many will say that Amendola, while a competent return man and steady receiver, could be easily replaced by anyone of the talented players on the Raiders' roster. However, what they will struggle to replace is the ability to make a clutch catch at an important time.
Amendola's career started with a bang in 2004 as he had several long punt returns against TCU and looked to be the next Wes Welker, though that comparison would be a shadow he would have difficultly climbing out of.
Starting only half of the games at H in the 2005 season and under-achieving in 2006, Amendola stepped up in a huge way in 2007 to become a dangerous 1-2 punch with Michael Crabtree.
Amendola was (and still is) a tremendous route-runner and had a knack for finding an opening when quarterback Graham Harrell needed it most. In addition to his route-running, he was also a ferocious blocker down the field and a force to be reckoned with on punt returns.
Filling his shoes will not be easy but there are several options to fill this void. The most popular would shift sophomore Detron Lewis to the Y slot position from the H side of the formation. Lewis has similar size and quickness to Amendola, while possibly being shiftier in the open field.
However, Lewis would be playing at the position that has caught 192 passes for 2,048 yards the last two seasons and is the one place that Harrell looks when in trouble. The question becomes do the coaches trust Lewis with this important role.
Lewis would most likely be capable as a replacement but there are also other options. Redshirt freshman Tramain Swindall spent fall practice working at both H and Y inside positions before making the move to Y full time. It is possible that he could see time at Y and fits the mold of Robert Johnson/Mickey Peters better than Detron Lewis.
His size and speed would make him a more formidable target to bring down once he has caught a pass and allow him to catch some of those that a smaller receiver might lose due to a bone-jarring tackle.
The issue that Swindall would present is that he has not caught a single pass or even taken a single snap in a game at the Division 1 level. While performing in practice is one thing, it is entirely different in a game against an opponent who will do all they can to prevent a reception.
Luckily for the Red Raiders they return Mr. All-Everything Michael Crabtree along with Edward Britton, who showed flashes down the stretch, and Eric "Don't Mess With Me" Morris.
This is certainly one of the things that RaiderPower will be watching during Spring Practice but it currently seems as though Detron Lewis would be the most viable option to start the first game at the Y inside-receiver position.
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CARACAS Feb 17 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday devalued the currency and raised heavily subsidized fuel prices in an effort to stem a widening economic crisis, though critics of the socialist leader quickly dismissed the moves as insufficient.
The measures are meant to help shore up the OPEC nation's finances as plummeting oil prices and a collapsing state-led economic model have left the country with a severe recession, triple-digit inflation and chronic product shortages.
"This is a necessary measure, a necessary action to balance things, I take responsibility for it," Maduro said, in reference to the fuel hike during a combative four-hour speech in which he insulted opposition leaders and occasionally used foul language.
The reforms risk fueling triple-digit inflation at a time when millions are struggling to make ends meet, and comes two months after the ruling Socialist Party suffered a blistering defeat in parliamentary elections due to anger over the crisis.
The package will likely be seen by Wall St. investors, who are increasingly concerned about a potential default, as mildly positive but still vastly insufficient to help Venezuela make some $10 billion in debt payments amid a major cash crunch.
"Bottom line is no change to cashflow for this year and hefty year end debt payments," wrote Siobhan Morden of Nomura in an email.
The measures devalue the strongest official exchange rate by 37 percent to 10 bolivars per dollar from 6.3, and streamline the previous three-tiered system into a dual exchange rate mechanism. The weaker of the two rates will be a free float based on an existing system that currently sells dollars at around 200 bolivars, Maduro said. Continuación...


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A/N: We are short of Natsume fics, dear fandom. I'd like to fix this problem, so please accept my first Natsume Yuujinchou fanfiction!
Rating: T (for now)
Pairing: Nyanko x Natsume (Nyanatsu)
Warning: If you don't like male x male, don't read it. Please.
/Happy 18th birthday to little me.../
''Natsumeeee!!'' Nyanko exclaimed excitedly. Then he repeated for the third time, when he reached the boy, who squatted and welcomed him with a wide smile, and stroked his fluffy fur.
''I really missed you, Nyanko-sensei.'' He admitted. ''But where have you been? I was really worried – ''
''Oh, yeah?'' The spirit retorted, offended. ''It sure didn't seem like to me when you held that other cat.''
''Other cat?''
Nyanko turned up his nose. ''You know... that slim one.''
The blonde laughed. ''Oh, it's staying at our place only for a couple of days. Now, don't be so hostile.''
''You! Don't you dare sugarcoat it...''
Natsume just laughed it off, and hugged the spirit close to him.
''I really did miss you, Sensei. It's hard to say, but I felt truly lonely when you were gone.''
''Nnnn... don't-you-dare-sugarcoat-it..." Nyanko purred.
But the spirit couldn't say anything else as he sank into the warmth of the embrace. His anger evaporated all at once, and he didn't want to let go. Not anymore.
He couldn't help but purr on account of the comfort he felt.
''I-idiot! Let me go already. Let me GO!'' He shouted, really embarrassed of himself.
After the boy obeyed, Nyanko hurried away on his soft paws.
''Hn. I'm not a mere cat, human.'' He added offhandedly, not looking back.
Natsume just smiled at that, and looked after him. Nyanko-sensei, his cat, his guardian, his... friend?
He wondered whether he could call the spirit his friend. He was sure that if he asked his sensei, he would say he was with him only because of the Book of Friends. But, on the other hand, he knew that the spirit cared for him and protected him on several occasions.
There was one thing he knew for sure – he didn't want Nyanko to disappear again.
Natsume was leaning against the wall, fixing the window. The little, fluffy cat was sleeping in the corner on a soft pillow. Sensei's pillow. – The boy would have thought, if he had been paying attention to the unfamiliar cat. But no, he was waiting for somebody else.
Although it was better than the day before, because he now knew the spirit would come back, he was still a bit uneasy.
That Nyanko-sensei! He must be drunk by now... He thought to himself and intently continued staring into space.
Standing motionlessly, he realized it was twilight too late. He let out a heavy sigh. I can't believe I'm this worried... Why do I even care about his being late? He can come and go freely, for all I care.
Even still, he didn't move an inch, but waited.
The kitty now woke up and lazily yawned. It went up to the tense boy, and clinged to one of his legs. Natsume shivered at the unexpected contact.
''Oh, it's just you...''
He took the kitty in his lap and let it lick his face. ''You are really cute, aren't you?'' He laughed.
Natsume felt as if his tensness has subsided a bit. He stroked the cat's white fur and felt content hearing him purr.
He wanted to say something really badly, maybe because he was used to listening to Nyanko's rants, and no the surroundings were too solitary to his liking. It was only him and the kitty in the room now, the kitty, that won't say anything to him. At least not in a language he can understand.
That's right. Cats don't usually say anything to their owner. They express their feelings and mediate their needs through touches and cries. They don't speak. Cats don't speak. Nobody would take a talking cat seriously, that's fur sure. Look, cats' bodies weren't invented so that they could speak. Nature didn't want them to speak, so they don't.
Nevertheless, there's at least one cat that can communicate with him like a real human. And that one cat just means more to him than any other cat, or all the cats in the world all together. So yes, Natsume takes this certain talking cat more seriously than normal ones.
My dear mother in heaven... My thoughts are becoming more and more confused because of a speaking cat.
Natsume sighed.
''Let's go eat, shall we?''
He ended his stupid thoughts with this one little sentence, and he wasn't surprised at all when he didn't receive an answer.
He entered the kitchen holding the fragile kitten close to his heart, so he could even hear its heartbeats.
''Takashi-kun" The landlady greeted him smiling, looking up from her cooking. ''I see you two get along well.''
Natsume just nodded, almost reluctantly.
''Oh, you don't look too happy."
The boy smiled. ''I'm fine, sorry to worry you. It's just that... I'm a bit worried about my cat, Nyanko."
She looked at him as if she understood him a little. ''I'm sure he will come back. He always looked as if he had a great time with you, Takashi-kun. Maybe he just needed some time alone."
''Some time... alone?''
''Oh dear, look what I'm saying!'' She laughed, a little embarrassed. ''Cats don't usually need some time alone, now do they?''
''No, I think you are right." He said. ''Even cats need some time alone sometimes, I'm quite sure. Thank you for pointing this out."
She just laughed again, confused.
''I'm home!'' Came a cheerful voice from the entrance, cutting off the conversation. They could here some noise from that direction through the noises of cooking, then, after some time the man entered the room.
''Dinner's ready in a minute, dear.'' The lady turned to her husband.
''Thank you.''
He sat down next to the boy, and let out a content sigh. ''It's always a relief sitting down to the dinner table.'' He smiled, then turned to the boy. ''Still no news about your cat?''
He just shook his head, but thought otherwise inwardly. I wonder if I could call our little encounter 'news'. He has yet to make his appearance here, to be honest.
The dinner was nice, as usual, but he felt as if something was missing. His guardians seemed happy with him around, but this time he couldn't smile whole-heartedly. Yes, he did miss his gluttonous cat, because he was the first friend he had made here.
He left the table early and went back to his room. The door closed smoothly behind him.
The boy leaned against the cool wall again, and closed his eyes. He left the foreign cat behind, in the kitchen, so he could have a chance to be completely alone. Though he was sure it was having fun with the adults.
He didn't even bother to switch on the light, just stood there, thinking.
He shuddered at the unexpected whisper.
A pair of glowing eyes pierced through the darkness of the room.
''Sensei!'' He let out a sigh of relief. ''Where have you been all this time? I thought you'd come back at last!''
''I'm here, aren't I? So don't you dare complain now!'' He sounded cheeky and impatient.
''You're drunk.'' Natsume stated dryly.
''I'm whaaat?''
The scorching eyes came closer. Nyanko jumped into his arms and snuggled up to him.
''You are drunk.'' Natsume repeated.
''No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not, I'm not, I'm telling you, you human!''
''Then why are you repeating it over and over?''
The cat drew even closer. ''Caress me,'' He ordered.
''I think you should really turn in now, Sensei...''
''Fool. A mere human can never command a great spirit such as me. Instead, it's you, who should obey me...''
Natsume decided to ignore his blabbering completely, and walked to the cat's pillow in the corner, without a word.
He squatted and tried to put him down, but Nyanko thought otherwise.
''You'd rather be with him now, right? You haven't even missed me, but played with him instead, right? Don't you dare deny it, I could see you two getting on all too well!''
The boy blinked in surprise. ''Sensei, I seriously don't get what you're trying to - ''
He stopped when the cat, his spirit cat, licked his face for the first time. Ever.
He was now out of words.
Nyanko repeated the affectionate process. ''Don't say a word.'' He added in a low, serious voice. He transformed into his human male self, his voice now husky and full of lust in Natsume's ear.
The boy was suddenly pressed to the floor by the tall man.
Natsume moaned painfully at the sudden weight.
''I thought I told you not to say anything.''
Madara leaned even closer and looked into honey-coloured, perplexed eyes. Wet lips neared to the boy. Madara licked his face again... now in his human form. His disciple still couldn't say anything.
A rough tongue trailed down his cheek, moving closer to his lips.
''Sen – ''
...but he was cut off, when their lips met. It was obvious that Madara was determined enough to have his way with him, even if the boy didn't want anything from him at all.
Madara's hands tugged his honey-coloured hair, and pressed himself to the smaller body, almost painfully. He is rough. Natsume thought randomly, but he soon realized this wasn't the time to think about things like this.
A hot, hungry tongue licked the seam of his closed lips, waiting for some kind of permission to enter. Or rather, some way to enter.
The man pulled on Natsume's hair. The boy painfully groaned, and quickly decided to grant his wish on account of the pain.
The two tongues collided in wet hotness, and Natsume submitted himself to the greedy tongue exploring in his mouth. He gave in the sensation and just let his mind be blown away. He let go of his remaining intelligent thoughts, and the heat soon became unbearable.
Madara groaned into the kiss, or rather, he almost purred, forgetting he was in his human male form. When the two bruised lips separated at last, and only a string of saliva connected them, the boy averted his eyes, cheeks pink with embaressment.
The man tensed. He stood up, and started for the window. His hands now gripped the curtain. Everything happened so fast, so unbelievably fast that Natsume could only blink in surprise and pant painfully.
The man froze for a moment.
''I'm sorry, Natsume.''
''Wait!'' The boy stopped him from disappearing into the now bottomless darkness of the night. His shout resonated the whole environment, slowly fading away, leaving a painful gap behind.
''I..." Cheeks still pink.
Madara stood there, showing his back to him, still not daring to face him. He wouldn't dare hope anything. It was obvious he had done something unforgivable, something that could never be forgiven. Something, that will change their relationship, something, that could, no, will lead to problems.
Natsume finally caught his breath. He clenched his fists.
''You...'' But he still couldn't voice his thoughts.
''It's okay, Natsume.'' He shook his head.
''You don't have to say anything. Just... forget it, okay? Let's pretend, that..."
His sentence was cut off by the angry shout of the shuddering boy.
''No! You can't decide everything by yourself! And what's that 'let's pretend'? What if I don't want to pretend?"
He kept talking, his bravery growing by word. He stepped closer to the man's back.
''You were gone for days, leaving me worried. You don't know what it feels like to be left behind and bearing all the burden left to you! I was so afraid I would... that I would..."
''I would lose you!" He exclaimed.
The spirit turned to him, eyes glowing with disbelief. ''Na-Natsume?''
''Would you just shut up for once? It's my turn to speak now!''
He paused to catch his breath nevertheless.
''Please, continue." Madara asked him politely, positively shocked about how Natsume just spoke to him.
The boy's cheeks flushed again. He looked away.
''You say you will come home, and then you leave me worried again... While you most likely drink cheerfully with your spirit friends, not even thinking about me. About how I feel. You come home when you feel like it, you even skip dinner, and when you return at last, you are drunk and you even a-attack me..."
He stopped to give an accusing look.
Madara tried to apologize again, but Natsume stopped him with a glare.
''You jump onto me – '' He looked straight into Sensei's eyes. ''Only to leave me hanging again, not even asking for my opinion. Don't you think you should ask me what I think from time to time?''
They stood silent for a bit, staring at each other.
Before the pause became too awkward, Nyanko break the silence.
''So...'' He cleared his throat. ''Would you tell me what you think now, Natsume?''
The boy looked away, cheeks flushed again.
''D-don't drink from now on.''
The man looked puzzled.
''Your kiss tasted like alcohol..."
Sensei finally understood. He grinned madly.
''...and I don't like alcohol... Besides, I'm still a minor." Natsume explained.
That being said, he considered the conversation over.
A/N: First of all, thank you for reading! I decided to write this fic because I find Natsume's character really intriguing: I can't decide whether he's straight, homo, or bi (canonically!). That's because he's quite comfortable with some female and male characters around, too. (You know I'm right.) If you ask me, I'd say he's bi, and when I say this, I mean canonically.
As for the pairing: I can hardly imagine Natsume with anybody else, but Nyanko, or rather, Madara. I know a lot of people say that Natsume will most likely end up with Nyanko's female form, but that's just not right in my opinion, and I'm pretty sure it will never happen. You might ask why. Well, first of all, Nyanko is a guy. Even if he transformed into his female form, he would still be ''just" a guy in a girl's body. I believe that Nyanko's transformation into a girl in the story serves as a humorous element only, and nothing more.
Phew, sorry about ranting so much, but I wanted to make this clear. I'm writing this fanfiction because I do believe Nyanko x Natsume has some basis.
Once again, thank you for reading, and read the next chapter too, if you have some time. Until next time. ~ Z


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Sail Date: May 13, 2012
Reviewed: 5 years ago
Traveled As: Couple
Room Type: Balcony
Pros: The Excursions off the ship
Cons: The cruise was very boring and did not offer enough variety of things to do for all ages compared to other cruises we have been on.
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The Leica he bought in 1932 to help his art studies is stored in a strongbox. He dismisses photography as "un truc mécanique" - a mechanical thing - and says he is more interested in painting and drawing.
He was one of the founders of the legendary Magnum photographic agency, along with Robert Capa, David Seymour and George Rodger, and the pictures in the national library show his astonishing ability to be in the right place at the right time. They include troubled periods in prewar Spain and Mexico,and events such as Mahatma Gandhi's funeral and the arrival of communism in China.
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A/N: Before I begin this story, I must note that the nature of this tale made it necessary for me to settle on one of the many conflicting histories of Galadriel and Celeborn. I've done something with their family rarely explored within the fandom, but I decided that six pages of pre-story author's notes explaining myself was insane. If you are interested in canonical justification, please see my essay "A Wandering History," kindly hosted by Marnie at www. elfringham. dsl. pipex. com/ lotrfic / wandering. html
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Summary: From the second age of Middle Earth to the third, few of the elders of the elves remain to guide the young. Still, relics of an ancient world exist, for good and ill. Divine banes return in a blaze of revolution, betrayal, war, balrog, death, and the cruel indifference of the Valar. Yet there may be tempering strength in a refiner's fire. Featuring Galadriel, Celeborn, and Amroth -- their son.
Deific Flame
By Bejai
"[A]t length [Sauron] persuaded them to revolt against Galadriel and Celeborn and to seize power in Eregion . . . Galadriel thereupon left Eregion and passed through Khazad-dûm to Lórinand, taking with her Amroth and Celebrían; but Celeborn . . . remained behind in Eregion, disregarded by Celebrimbor."
--The Unfinished Tales
Chapter 1: Eregion
A hooded elf pushed his way into the crowded pavilion, in from the pouring rain that had forced the crowd behind closed doors. There were too many people for the space, and they filled the room with steam that misted off their wet bodies, billowing in the torchlight before disappearing, adding to the sheen of sweat and fear and passion that glittered upon upraised brows. It condensed on collars and hems, pooled damply on backs and chests, and did nothing to cool the heat of the Eldar inflamed. Men and mortals would not have recognized them, but would have crept away fearing, thinking that some howling force had possessed their gentle souls. They would have been right.
Despite the humid heat, the newcomer did not lower his hood, but murmured soft apologies until he had flattened himself against the back wall. The elf he stopped beside turned his eyes fractionally toward him. "It goes ill," he murmured to his cloaked friend. "Be prepared for anything this night."
At the front of the room, a tall elf paced back and forth, his face flushed with the effort of persuasion. His voice rasped; he had been speaking too long, but had no power to stop. Fervent, proud, gifted -- he did not know that in voice and gesture he much resembled his grandfather, Fëanor the Great, Fëanor the Cursed. It might have given him pause, had he stopped to think on it, but Celebrimbor would not have been swayed from his cause. He raised one hand, calming the uproar.
"Friends!" he called out. "Friends! Friends! Hear me! We must ask them to step aside!"
"Treason!" a heckler called from the crowd.
"No!" Celebrimbor answered, and before he could continue, "Kinslaying!" another called.
"No!" Celebrimbor roared. "No! Not kinslaying! We will convince them, if they will hear us, or we will force them, if we must, but no one shall be hurt! Yet Celeborn and Galadriel must step aside!" He plowed through the murmur that swept the crowd.
"It is our duty to do this; are we not free? Do they not rule by our consent? We have suffered their burdens on our freedom. We have borne with patience their unreasonableness. We have allowed them to be the puppets of a distant king, to dangle us upon the whims of Lindon. They are relics of a time long past, foisting their fear and paranoid upon our bright futures! It is a new age, and we no longer consent! It is our right, our duty to throw off these chains, and to provide a new order for our reborn world! Such has been our patience, but no more!"
Shouts echoed from the walls, of yea, and nay, of grievances, of anger, and few people entirely agreed with one another. For a moment, pandemonium ruled, and some few pockets of younger elves scuffled, dodging gesturing hands and stabbing fingers.
"Friends!" Celebrimbor cried again, and raised his voice, the veins in his neck and face straining in his effort. "Do you need proof? You have seen it, but I will give it to you! They put burdens on our friends, the dwarves, tariffs on trade, infringe passage between our realms. They demand, in these times of peace, that our sons and our daughters learn the ways of war. They breathe lies about Annatar, our dear ally, who has ever sought nothing but knowledge and friendship! They mock our craft! This morning I received this edict from Celeborn: we are not to finish the rings! He has said that he will withhold the wood for our forges and the tools of our craft. We uphold this realm by our sweat and toil, and they DARE to constrain us! It is beyond our tolerance!"
"Yes!" someone cried, and Celebrimbor smiled faintly.
"It is beyond our patience!"
"Yes!" more joined.
"My friends, we do not have to bear this!" he thundered, finding his cadence. "Must we bear this?"
"Must we bow?"
"We NEED NOT submit! We NEED NOT surrender! We NEED NOT bow to their tyranny!"
From the back of the room, a powerful voice cried out over the din. "Fools!" The speaker was an ancient elf, his fair face marred by the scars of battle and suffering. He was a Sindar of Doriath, one of few remaining, and one who had walked the world before the sun, one of few in the room.
Many of the faces that turned to him in surprise were terribly young. They were the world of elves rebuilt, the children of the survivors of wrath, the progeny of the few who had refused the call of the Valar. The elves prospered again in Middle Earth, but there were too few elders -- fearful indeed that Gil-galad and Elrond, who lived only after Doriath had died -- were now called aged.
"There are none yet living who fought evil in the depths of time as they have fought!" the ancient one continued. Ancient, though he himself was much younger than the rulers of the realm. "Celeborn is the last of the generals before the moon, the very fist of Elu Thingol. He stood against orc and dragon and flame, and yet stands! And Galadriel is the student of Melian; where she decrees the way is shut, none can pass but by her will! We shall wish they were our friends when the darkness descends again."
Celebrimbor began to answer, but Annatar, who had thus far been sitting placidly behind Celebrimbor, leapt to his feet, his eyes blazing in the amber violence of the first sunrise. "Have you so little faith?" he cried, his fair, godly face drawn in righteous grief. He looked about him, and there were tears on his cheeks. "What need have you for war-lords and kings? The Valar, aye, the very Valar themselves condescended to this world and cleansed it! Did not they destroy evil? Did not they come? And why? For the love of Iluvatar's children, ungrateful though you are! Have you so little faith?"
He fell silent, and no one dared to stir, to murmur, so great was Annatar's sorrow. He sat suddenly and passed his hands before his eyes. "You have heard Celeborn speak against the Valar," he whispered into the silence, not looking up from behind his hand. "You have heard his disdain. 'Where were the Valar when the Sindar were dying?' he has asked, and 'little good they did us, sinking our world to the sea,' he has said. And Galadriel! Galadriel! The Valar have long wept for her. Heresy falls from both their lips." He looked up and caught many eyes; it seemed he opened himself to the roots of his soul.
"You have heard them speak against me," he continued, more quietly still, and all in the room were caught in his whispered breaths. "The very servant of our gods. I have allowed it; I am not greater than the Valar, and it is my joy to suffer injustices in their name. But I can stand by no longer."
He stood again, shakily, as one who rises from his deathbed for some desperate purpose. Celebrimbor reached out to steady him, and murmured in his ear.
"Nay, Celebrimbor, I am fine," he said weakly, and brushed him off with a frail gesture. Then he straightened his shoulders and lifted his chin, his eyes agonized. "I cannot stand by because of what they take from you. They rob you of the gift of the Valar. The Valar desire you balm your hearts and live in peace; Galadriel and Celeborn tear your hearts open with words of war. The Valar gave you the freedom to choose your destiny; at every turn Galadriel and Celeborn impose their will. The Valar instilled the poetic joy of creation in your hands! Galadriel and Celeborn . . ." Annatar bowed his head mournfully. "What do they know of the beauty of creation? For they have never made anything beautiful; all they touch turns to ash."
From the front row, one elf shook his head, dazed. " . . . children," he said hoarsely, and cleared his throat. Then the elf narrowed his eyes and summoned the strength to overcome the spell of Annatar's performance. "Their children are the fruits of their love. The value and beauty of what they have created together has rarely been matched in all of Arda."
Annatar pinned the elf with a disdainful stare, then shook his head in disbelief. "Mark me well," he said slowly, as one invoking the weight of foresight. "Fair the children might be, but flawed. Their hearts will fail them both before the end. I have declared it, and it will be."
At the back of the room, the cloaked stranger stiffened. "Steady on, lad," his friend said, catching his wrist. "You've heard enough. Come." And they pushed out of the room as Celebrimbor began pacing and calling again. There were no naysayers now to interrupt him.
Once outside, the cloaked elf swept back his hood and lifted his face to the heavens. The rain cascaded across his brow, washing away his sweat, but not his tension.
Amroth he would be called in later days. The Up-climber, the Tree-dweller, King of Lórien of the East, a lover, a dreamer -- but ultimately a shadowy legend preserved with sorrow in elven hymn. As yet, however, he was none of these. Rather, he bore the name given him at his birth: Galadaran, to honor his mother and shape the destiny his parents hoped for him.
He was a young lord, not yet into his first millennium, fair and valiant and fey. In form he took more after his mother, the gold of the Vanyar rather than the silver of the Teleri. But though his eyes reflected her coloring, they did not burn with the same light. In that he was like his father, for, though not lit with divinity, they were both possessed by the intractable, discordant spirit of the land. That howling force was older, far older than a reflection of departed light, and on some days, more difficult to control.
"You were right, Calandil," he said, his voice shaking. "What do we do?"
But before his companion could answer, the din in the pavilion behind them crested, unhinged, and broke free. Elves poured from the cramped room, a roaring wave of anger, swords drawn and glittering in the night. Heading toward the great hall at Ost-in-Edhil, where the lord and lady presided.
"Run, Galadaran!" Calandil cried, before himself dashing into the darkness.
He crashed into the room, soaked from the rain, his chest heaving. "Stay here, Celebrían!" he roared, his hands unsteady as he threw back the lid of his trunk and fumbled for the weapons inside. He ignored the armor; there was no time. A sword, a knife. Bow? No, for any blood drawn this night would be from within an arm's reach of death. He strapped his sword to his side and clenched his fists, unsuccessfully questing for calm. He released a breath and pulled Gal-narthan from its sheath. Light's Beacon it was, firm and strong in his palm, and he breathed a prayer over it that they would not need to spill elven blood this day. Then he prayed again that if need was dire, that it -- that he -- would hold true.
"Galadaran!" his sister cried, fearing now as she sprang to her feet. "What has happened?"
"The inevitable," he answered shortly. "Celebrimbor is leading a revolt."
Her eyes widened as her face paled. Then she straightened her shoulders and reached for her own blade.
"Nay, tithen thêl," her brother said, catching her hand. "Stay here, do you understand? Yes? Tell me that you do."
She grimaced and looked at him, beseeching. He was unmoved, and she nodded. "I understand." He held her gaze a moment longer, his grim countenance reflecting their collective fear. Then he nodded firmly and disappeared into the night.
After a moment of hesitation, Celebrían collected her sword and followed. She was, after all, also the child of Celeborn and Galadriel.
A commotion at the back of the room started Celebrimbor, and he turned as the ornate door splintered inward into the crowd of armed smiths.
"Back traitors!" a voice cried. "Back, in the name of your oaths!" Before Celebrimbor could call out, one of his supporters heaved forward, sword glittering in the light of torch and flame. The cry of blade on blade startled the unruly crowd into silence, and in some eyes he saw indecision, for the sound of warring swords in their peaceful land is not what they wanted. They were not above menace and threats, but they wished no death this night. While few had participated in the kinslaying atrocities of the last age, many remembered the haunted lives of their fathers.
Some stepped back from the intruder for that reason, and others upon seeing a second blade at the door-- Calandil of Doriath. And a third -- the Lady Celebrían.
"I will not do this in front of the children," one of the smiths murmured. But others stepped forward, intent, menacing.
"Hold!" Celebrimbor cried out.
"Nay," said a musical voice beside him. "Let them see this. They should see this."
"Annatar," Celebrimbor chastised, his voice low and surprised. "No!" he said, raising his voice. "Keep the Lady Celebrían out. She is not to see this; she is not to be harmed." He was grateful to see two elves step forward and take her bodily in hand. They escorted her out of the room with as much care as they could, despite her vigorous protests.
But with a growl of anger Galadaran shoved forward through the crowd, and it reluctantly gave way to him until his broke free of it at the base of a dais where his parents stood, Annatar and Celebrimbor before them.
"Celebrimbor," he said, voice ugly with anger, "what in all of Arda are you doing?"
Celebrimbor coolly drew his sword and took a step -- not forward toward the boy who had once worshipped him, but back, toward the dais.
"Drop your sword, Galadaran," he said mildly. But Galadaran grasped it more tightly and moved to step forward. Celebrimbor swiftly brought his blade to bear against the Lord of Eregion, the point even with Celeborn's heart.
"Drop it," he said sharply. "Forgive me, lady," he continued quietly, shifting his attention to the fair being at Celeborn's side, "but I will do it." And he raised his eyes to meet Galadriel's. Betrayal he had expected. Disgust, even fear. But though her hands were clenched and every line of her body vibrated in rage, in her eyes held only resigned weariness, as if he had done at last what she always had expected him to do. It unsettled him, and his sword-hand trembled for a moment, unsure. But beside him Annatar nodded in almost imperceptible approval, and Celebrimbor snapped his eyes to the lord at the end of his sword. "I will do it," he said again, firmly.
"Peace, Celebrimbor," Celeborn said, and raised his hands, placating, diplomatic. Coldly in control, as if a glittering blade had not already drawn a thin line of blood where it pressed against his chest. "Galadaran, I thank you, but lower your sword."
Galadaran grimaced, his face reflecting the pride of his youth and his heritage. But he was the son of the Wise and bowed to his father, the last who would do so in Eregion. "As you wish," he said, and, after slipping the weapon back into its scabbard with a crisp hiss, folded his hands behind his back, his fair face as still as stone.
Celeborn inhaled deeply, invoking the calm wrought by uncounted hours of meditation. It was his only sign of internal turmoil, but in the quite corners of his mind, Celebrimbor regretted the necessity of what he had inflicted. For the ever-unflappable Celeborn to show even this smallest sign of agitation was significant indeed. The source of his dread only served to deepen Celebrimbor's dismay, for he knew that Celeborn did not fear for himself, but for Galadriel, for Galadaran, for Celebrían.
"There is no need to do this," Celeborn continued quietly, and, though he did not so much as glance at it wife or his son, it was clear that his words were not entirely for his enemies. The anger suddenly went out of Galadriel, and she stepped forward to place her hand on Celebrimbor's.
"We will step aside," she said, her voice low and humiliated as she held his gaze. Celebrimbor lifted his chin and narrowed his eyes, searching for the truth, for this was not a Galadriel he had expected. If not for the rightness of his cause, he would have wept for what he had done. He dropped his eyes first, his face lined with sudden sorrow.
"Thank you," he said, and abruptly lowered the sword. Galadriel closed her eyes and breathed out a silent note of relief -- a prayer of gratitude to Elbereth. There was more love for Celeborn in that soft sigh than the fondest gaze she had ever gifted Celebrimbor, and he felt as if a sword's thrust could not have pierced him deeper.
"Well," Annatar intoned smoothly, "I am so glad we were able to avoid any … unpleasantness."
Celebrimbor glanced at his friend. "Indeed," he said, recovering himself, but not swiftly enough to drown out the echo of insincerity that rolled through Annatar's pronouncement. He shook his head once, dismissing what he had heard as a figment of the tension in the room, for surely Annatar had not wished the Lord and Lady dead.
Annatar delicately threaded his fingers and brought them to his lips. "Well, then …" he began, but Galadriel turned away. The would-be rebels who had backed Celebrimbor parted in guilty respect has she passed through. If any had hoped to catch her eye, he was disappointed, for she walked as if the wide room was empty. Galadaran passed likewise, but Celeborn held each gaze until it dropped.
continuing . . .
Next chapter: Galadaran gets a new name, Eregion falls, Elrond isn't very helpful, the refugees are trapped, and, much to his dismay, the dwarves come to Celeborn's rescue.
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While none of the characters belong to me, Calandil, doesn't belong to Tolkien either. He is entirely the creation of Marnie, who graciously let me borrow him. He was with Celeborn in the first age, as explained in Marnie's "Oak and Willow," and meets his end defending Lothlorien in the third age in a particularly moving section of "Battle of the Golden Wood." His presence here is my bow to Marnie. Her stories define my perception of both Celeborn and Galadriel, her friendship inspired this story, and her prodding made it so.
Though you will not find the name "Galadaran" anywhere in canon, he does belong to Tolkien. Just in case I've been too obtuse: Galadaran is Amroth, and for purposes of this story, I have adopted Tolkien's theory of his parentage that makes him the son and oldest child of Celeborn and Galadriel.
I've done two things in this story that are potentially offensive. First, I've invoked the name of religion for evil purposes. I am myself quite a devout member of my own faith, and respect the power of all religion for good. Nevertheless, I recognize that it can be and has been used for evil purposes, and am exploring that here. I should also note that I loosely based Celebrimbor's speech on the United States' Declaration of Independence. It seemed an appropriate model for a revolution, but as a citizen of the United States and a student of its laws, I must hasten to say that my use of that document here does nothing to diminish my respect for it.


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Moderate cruise experience: Eurodam Cruise Review by jeroenk
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Moderate cruise experience
Destination: Baltic Sea
Embarkation: Copenhagen
Unfortunately most of the extras that Maasdam had in those days were not on this Eurodam cruise. A few examples are:
- There was no Captains Toast, or a show were the captain and officers were introduced.
- No farewell dinner (Master Chefs Dinner)
- On the formal night there was hardly anything to do in the evening. Instead of a show there was a movie in the theatre.
- The evening show were actually very bad. Every day the same group of singers and dancers, that performed a production show that Dutch in general do not like.
- No chocolate extravaganza
- On Maasdam 2002 we had high tea every day. On this Eurodam voyage only once.
- The ship looked like a ghost ship in the evening hours. At about 10pm, the public areas in the ship were empty.
- Waiters were very hurried during More the Open Seating, serving the different courses very quickly, to make people leave very early. Dining should be a relaxing event.
- Public areas are very dark and almost empty in the evening. We are missing the cosy atmosphere that was on the Maasdam.
We sailed with HAL a few times more. Most of the points mentioned above were solved on the other ships. The entertainment however, on HAL ships is of very poor quality. Less
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