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5. Red and gold. This look screams "Anthropologie model" to me, and I always feel ultra-chic in it. The girl in the photo has it nailed perfectly, and the pop of red from her earrings really completes the her outfit!
While I have gone through phases where I try to look cool in all black, the lure of mixing and matching colors always draws me away. The right hue combination can make a massive fashion statement, and playing matchmaker with items in my closet is always fun.
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Years ago my husband and I decided that two children was enough for us, and we gave away most of our baby gear. Now we're expecting a third child -- a welcome surprise. Most of our friends don't think it's appropriate to have a baby shower for a second or third child because they feel the old gear should have been saved. But not only do we want to celebrate this baby, we need help getting equipped for his or her arrival. Help!
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I just had a shower for my 3rd child. I didn't know if I should or not, but I was not the one throwing the party. Lots of people came and I do not think they had a problem with it, otherwise, they would not have shown up. Enjoy every child!posted 04/17/2006 by bjschulin
I am having my second girl in a couple of months (my first child is 20 mos old) and my best friend wants to throw a shower. "Every baby deserves a shower, what would you put in her babybook?" she said. Well, I said fine, but I wanted it to be a shower for books only and to request a donation of new or lightly used 0-6 mos items to donate to a service that provides free items to moms in need. I have everything I need, but I do agree that every baby is special, plus its so fun just to get together with your girlfriends (without your children and husbands!!).posted 04/14/2006 by Cathsea
Funny how all the people who think it's not tacky are either on shower 2, 3 or 4 or from the midwest?!posted 04/06/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
Having a shower after the first child or worse yet throwing one for yourself is just about the tackiest, low class move I have heard of. People who love you will celebrate and buy you a gift when the baby is born anyway - asking for gifts is just ridiculous! I actually got an announcement in the mail with a registry card for someone's 2nd child but there isn't even a shower! I don't think anything is more ridiculous then that! Of course we would have gotten them a gift anyway but to send us a "buy me a gift" card - no that's the only thing I can think of that's more classless then throwing yourself a shower!posted 04/06/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
I feel you!! We are expecting our 4th in 5 years, but this baby was unexpected. We had lent out our baby clothes (which I had done before and gotten back in wonderful condition) to my SIL, half of which I never saw again and the other half was destroyed. She destroyed our stroller and a few other things also. We did get rid of our crib/dresser/changing table, but they were not in the best of shape after going through 3 children. My other SIL (this baby's Godmother) is planning on throwing me a shower...her mother and sister (the one who ruined my stuff) think it is ridiculous because I already had everything....Key word: HAD!! I say every baby is one to celebrate. Just because a shower is being thrown does not mean you HAVE to bring a gift or that you even have to attend!! So those that think it is dumb or tacky, they can just stay home. I know DH and I plan on buying all of our stuff, and do not expect gifts...would rather just have a luncheon with all the special ladies in my life...if we get gifts then that is just a perk, if not there will be no disappointment. Heck I would rather have them all make a cassarole I can freeze and reheat...4 kids and I will have NO time to cook the first few weeks!! LOL.posted 04/03/2006 by DNJA Mommy
My friends are hosting a shower for my second baby who is due in early June. I struggled with whether or not it was ok to have a second shower. My husband thinks we shouldn't... but I've recently realized that a shower isn't just about the parents getting what they need for the baby. It's also about the people in that baby's life getting the opportunity to celebrate, love, and give (if they want to). I think that people are so quick to disregard the second baby as the 'second' baby - and then that baby is treated as less special or less important. Maybe you don't need as many things for a second baby, but that baby still deserves to be treated as special. . . and still deserves NEW things that are HIS - and not just passed down from his big brother. I'm also just looking forward to spending time with the women in my life... taking time to just relax, laugh, and celebrate before the stress of having two kids!posted 03/17/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
My very good friends are throwing a baby shower for me. We are having our 5th boy and there is 6yrs. between this one and the last. We have some things and have purchased others. I don't think we really "need" much. I think it is going to be big. I'm not sure but I think the idea behind this is to celebrate a life given to us by God and to celebrate our friendships. These people are invited and may decline if they choose. I will be thankful for the time together and the thought, effort and love in each gift we receive. I'm not sure what is "right", but I am thankful for the kindness and love of my friends.posted 02/26/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
I thought Baby Showers were about friends and family celebrating the coming of a new baby. It's not about need, it's about the celebration. If someone has a problem with it, it's their problem.posted 02/20/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
My sister is having her second child after 7 years and 2 miscarriages. So we must celebrate. We are going to throw a shower for my brother-in-law. It will be a Poker Pampers Party. Where in order to play poker, you must bring in a package of diapers. Nothing too elaborate as their first shower. Just close family & friends.posted 02/19/2006 by kmanzy1
I had my first child and had no baby shower and now expecting my second and dont believe I will be having a baby shower either. I wish I had not moved from friends and my family so I could have atleast experienced my first baby shower. my sister has already had 4 baby showers and I feel she was being greedy due to putting gift registery cards in all her baby shower invites,posted 02/16/2006 by PurpleGoddess
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Horsing Around the Masai Mara
Gonzo riding outfit treks across Kenya's epic game reserve.
article and photos by Richard Powell
The welcoming committee on touchdown in the Mara,
offering jewelry and blankets for sale.
"It's like the Garden of Eden," our guide says, "just beautiful..." and we draw up our reins to marvel in silent reverence at the vast landscape, dotted with every wild animal we could have hoped to see.
Across this lush, buzzing vista, buffalo herd around impala, eagles soar above wildebeest and elephants charge fruit trees while lions wait patiently in the tall savannah grass, deciding which to eat for dinner.
Getting here is not easy. It takes days of hard riding to earn a seat at this show.
Our journey begins in the capital, Nairobi, where we transfer through gridlock traffic to a domestic airport and board a 12-seat Cessna, heading southwest over the Loita Plains, above the Kikuyu Highlands and past the volcano-studded Great Rift Valley.
Breakfast is served!
The camp's cook finds and feeds us out on the plains.
An hour later we're bumping down on a dirt-strip that doubles as a gateway to the reserve and a social hotspot for colorfully-dressed Masai warriors. With no phone signal and no electricity from here on in, it also represents the eye of a needle through which few First-World foibles may pass.
From here, a Land Rover bumps us along remote red dirt roads to a campsite set in a grove of acacia trees. This would be the first of three such sites, and traversing between them for up to six hours a day on horseback will require every inch of riding skill I have.
There's barely time for a cold Kenyan Tusker beer before we're heading out on our first ride when the sun hangs low enough to bring the wildlife out to feed. Here the Offbeat Safari guides quietly make their assessments about our riding abilities and how closely they need to stick to us, and whether we've been paired with the right horse.
The group gallops, hell-for-leather across the plains,
trying to keep up with a tower of giraffe.
The guides are an international bunch;
a half-Argentinian, half-Austrian lifer
(he started working with Offbeat at 18,
and he's still there aged 33), an
Australian polo player from Dubai,
a British safari guide from
Botswana, and a student
volunteer and hunter from England. The guests were from the UK, US, Germany, Italy and Australia.
The horses are Abyssinian, Thoroughbred and Thoroughbred-crosses, reared on the owner's farm, and brought into the reserve via a seven-hour horsebox slog. Mine was a pristinely-turned-out, polo-playing gelding named Blondie, looking decidedly bling with his dash of gold flecks and bright yellow mane. After half an hour of sizing each other up at the beginning, we knew we'd get on fine.
Being confident on your horse could be the most important part of this adventure. Over the next week, we would inch – day-by-day – ever closer to prides of snarling lions, square up to scrappy elephants and push back short-tempered bison... any of which could outrun us if they wanted to.
After over a decade on the job, lead guide
Jakob Von Plessen can still wow himself... and us, with his daredevilry.
Being comfortable riding in english tack is important, too. I noticed the countryside Californians in our group had a hard time adjusting to the bolt-upright British saddles at odds with the Western-style "armchairs" they use back home.
The most accomplished riders tail the lead guide as he opts to take the most daring routes, jumping over felled trees left by head-charging pachyderm and playing chicken with lions which may or may not have eaten that day.
Every two to three days, camp packs up and shifts by truck; with its canvas dining tent, shower, sleeping and toilet tents resembling a well-appointed commune when pitched at each of the three stunning oases.
The Mara is heavily populated by Zebra,
but horses are imported as none are native to Kenya.
On every "moving" day, there is an epic ride to reach the next site, which can be up to 50 kilometres away. That's a lot of riding – at high altitude – across challenging terrain, galloping across plains pockmarked with aardvark holes and rocks, and cantering through stone-bed rivers with vertigo-inducing banks.
Along the way, animal burrows are a constant hazard. But if you're lucky enough for the person in front of you to spot one through the dust clouds, avoid it and shout "hole!" in time, you might not fall down it.
Organizers encourage guests to take out medical insurance prior to arrival, but they also have their own public liability insurance and membership to the Flying Doctors organization, in case of serious injury requiring evacuation.
Nevertheless, there's a lot that can go wrong in the middle of nowhere. The riding sections will undoubtedly push you to your limits of self-preservation, whether you opt to take the easy option and stay back, or throw caution to the wind and try to keep up with the lead guide.
Approaching a big cat in the open on horseback
for the first time tests your every nerve.
Bullwhips protect guests from animal attacks, with guides normally carrying little else. The Land Rover variant of the trip, for non-riders, encourages guests to get out and walk on the reserve, and here they are accompanied by a guard carrying a rifle.
The one occasion we went out armed was to a mountain we climbed first by car, then by foot to reach its spectacular peak. Its nooks host several families of cheetah and leopard, which we were warned to be on our guard against, although we didn't see any as we clambered about on its slopes.
We did not have to wait much longer before we did, though...
On our first night at the third campsite, while drinking beers around the fire on the banks of the Mara River, our lead Masai guard, Nati, came over saying he'd spotted a cheetah and asked if we wanted to see it. Several seconds later we were careering around the site in the Land Rover, shining a spotlight until suddenly we caught a flash of markings bolting into a bush.
Nati picked out an impala with the light, leading the cheetah out into the open to its quarry. The kill was artistic and eloquent in its execution and despite the graphic scene; we drove over, clutching our beers on the roof of the car, and sat transfixed to watch it feed.
Elephants were quick to charge at us,
even if there was a river in the way!
Other night-time highlights included Masai warriors demonstrating their mating dance around the fire (a hit with the ladies); driving out to party on the plains after dark with James Brown booming from the stereo, and running semi-clothed out of
my tent at 4 a.m. as an elephant pushed down a nearby tree.
The camp's 15-strong domestic staff of men from various local tribes went above and beyond to give the safari an extravagant feel.
Returning to my tent after dinner each evening, I would without fail find my riding boots cleaned and polished to perfection and my laundry scrubbed, pressed and folded as if at a top-notch hotel.
The food and drink was impressive too, an array of cuisine cooked up from fresh, imported and locally-produced ingredients. "Would you like your steak rare or well-done? With a nice Malbec or a Bloody Mary?" And, "Breakfast eggs fried, scrambled or poached?"
Riding for hours from the crack of dawn to emerge over a hill and find the camp's chef cooking breakfast for you and baking fresh bread – in the middle of the plains – also ranks, for me, as a new definition of decadence.
And our midday siestas in shady glades after picnic lunches were another thing to savor, like falling asleep on the classroom rug after having your fill of milk and biscuits at kindergarten.
At the end of the week, it was with some sadness that I watched my fellow guests leave, while I moved on to see the company's guest lodge, another hour's flight west.
A Tamer Option
The lodge at Sosian, the Samburu word for 'Wild Date Palm,' combines the tame with the wild. It's certainly a stark contrast to Masai camping; with its solid stone guest houses, swimming pool and main house that harks back to colonial days with a snooker table, grand piano and library.
Where the riding trip guests were in their 20s and 30s, the game lodge guests were mainly parents in their 40s and 50s with young children.
I immediately missed the unashamedly gonzo set-up of the anarchic riding outfit, with its unpredictable, scruffy lead guide riding in flip-flops, nights spent dancing around the camp fire and rock-hunting by moonlight on the plains to shore up the Land Rover's wheels after we'd hit a hole… (Cue the Australian guide: "Let's have a party, then fix the car!")
For many visitors, Sosian will perhaps be the better-fitting choice; offering a quieter, safer and more luxurious bush experience on its 24,000-acre private working ranch, set on the Laikipia plateau.
It's a beautiful area that offers more than 250 species of birdlife and an abundance of game species with four of the big five species being found there, plus other rarities such as wild dogs, Jackson's hartebeest and Grevy's zebra.
Nonetheless, I'd be back on the mad travelling horseback safari circus any day... at least for another few years.
Cross the Masai Mara with Offbeat Safaris on horseback over seven-nights from $5,550 or 10 nights from $7,700 per person (Jan-Mar, Jun-Oct & Dec), excluding international flights. Non-riders can take a Land Rover safari from $6,500. Or stay at Sosian Lodge from $4,500 per week, per person. (25% discount for teenagers, 50% for children). Visit: www.offbeatsafaris.com.
Author Richard Powell is a freelance journalist who also works for the Press Release Distribution, Media Monitoring and Public Relations firm, Presswire, but does not work with or for any of the parties mentioned in this article.


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Celebrate anyway, Bulls fans — Derrick Rose is back!
BY RICK TELANDER Sports Columnist October 29, 2013 11:19PM
- VIDEO: Derrick Rose on poor shooting, moving past loss to Heat
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Updated: October 30, 2013 10:18AM
MIAMI — Praise the Lord, there he was!
Oh, it was good to see Derrick Rose playing basketball for the Bulls again.
Was the 2011 Most Valuable Player in the NBA a tad underwhelming and rusty and a bit shot-challenged in this 107-95 blowout loss to the Miami Heat? Well, yes.
Was he less impressive than All-Universe Heat point-forward-center LeBron James?
Did the Bulls get smoked at American Airlines Arena like a thin Cuban cigar? Absolutely.
But let's remember a few things.
We never knew when and how Rose would return to action after his injury at the start of the 2012 playoffs, and what he did Tuesday night showed he has the potential to be what he was once upon a time.
And he was in uniform again! For one night, at least, that was enough.
Then, too, this was ''ring ceremony'' night for the Heat, and the energy from that noisy, self-indulgent pregame event — in which Heat members received their 2012-13 NBA championship rings and the Larry O'Brien Trophy was gloriously unveiled like the Lost Ark at midcourt — had to trickle into James and Co. Once Shane Battier, Ray Allen and Chris ''the Velociraptor'' Bosh started to light it up for the Heat, you knew this game was a goner.
Home games are like that in the NBA, anyway.
So keep perspective here, hard as it may be. No, the Bulls did not look like the second-best team in the NBA. They did not look like the 10th-best team. They did not look like a team that could contend with the Heat in any seven-game series. Not even close.
But Bulls center Joakim Noah seemed to be injured and sluggish, which he likely was. And forward Luol Deng — well, if he could play worse, you wouldn't want to see it.
It was also opening day, and the Bulls have hardly played together as a team since Rose went down with his knee injury so long ago.
So those are the excuses. But taking too much from one loss in this endless season is wrong. Plus, the Bulls did make a comeback to keep a 25-point Heat lead from becoming ridiculous.
Rose's stats weren't MVP-worthy, barely starter-worthy — 12 points, four assists, one rebound, five turnovers — but he made some drives that were super-charged, and his body control was excellent. (We won't mention the Norris Cole crossover for a basket that almost broke Rose's ankles.)
''I'm back to playing the game that I love, against a great team,'' Rose said beforehand. ''What other way to have it than playing against the champs?''
Four-time league MVP James was thrilled, too.
''I'm just happy he's back, man,'' LeBron said. ''It's great for the league.''
Yes, it is. As long as Rose and the Bulls improve so they can actually challenge this Heat dynasty-in-the-making.
The pregame video on the center court Jumbotron in the riotous stadium was telling. Working in someplace resembling a steel foundry or the innards of a volcano, shirtless Heat players swung sledgehammers, did squats with barbells, pushed massive truck tires, dragged chains and, overall, in their glistening, muscle-pumped virility, looked like ''World's Strongest Man'' contestants. Medicine-ball tosses, curls with dumbbells, on and on it went, while real flames shot from machines placed on the court.
You could feel the heat — so to speak — on the second level of the arena.
Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau had said he wouldn't have his team watch the histrionics. And he didn't.
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It didn't make much difference.
So maybe we just write this game off as a teeny step toward normalcy for the Bulls. Let's hope the bad play wasn't an indication of aging or anything else. We can, I suppose, wonder if new acquisition Mike Dunleavy can make some plays and shots early in games when those games are starting to spin out of control.
But it was the Heat's night. And, in a way, Derrick Rose's night, too.
Ugly for Rose, yes. But he is back, and that has to count for something.
''It's not the end of the world,'' he said of the bad play. So you ask him if his repaired knee was a problem at all.
''Oh, no, my knee's good,'' he replies with a laugh. ''You don't have to worry about that at all.''
Now it's on to the next step — Rose, and the Bulls, playing the way they should.


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LONDON — Just when it seemed Chelsea's reputation couldn't sink any lower after a controversy-ridden 2012, along came "Ballboygate."
The Football Association's disciplinary body is set to open a fresh file on the English club Thursday after winger Eden Hazard was sent off for kicking a 17-year-old ball boy while attempting to retrieve the ball toward the end of a League Cup semi-final match against Swansea.
The Belgium winger has apologized to the ball boy — and will not face criminal charges — but will be handed a minimum three-match ban for violent conduct, depriving Chelsea of one of its top players.
Worse for the European champions, however, is having face up to further accusations that its millionaire players are out of control, soon after the racism scandals involving John Terry, Ashley Cole and John Obi Mikel that blighted 2012.
"It is an extraordinary incident," former referee Dermot Gallagher said. "There's no defence for that. Someone said it was borne out of frustration but you have to accept it. It was an extreme but you can't have that at a football match."
The incident sparked a flurry of activity on social networking sites and induced imaginative headlines in British newspapers, such as "Ed Case," "Occupational Hazard" and "Boots of Hazard." BBC radio has already been referring to it as "Ballboygate."
There's no defence for that. Someone said it was borne out of frustration but you have to accept it . it was an extreme but you can't have that at a football match
Many ex-professionals have reacted with sympathy for Hazard, who was attempting to get the ball back into play as quickly as possible with Chelsea needing two late goals to force extra time in the second leg. The match finished 0-0, with Swansea progressing to the final 2-0 on aggregate.
"I'm not saying its the correct thing 2 do but when in the heat of the moment u just want the ball," Everton midfielder Steven Pienaar wrote on Twitter.
It is another saga that Chelsea could do without, with controversy seemingly hovering over the club on a permanent basis.
"I do not know what you expect from me," Chelsea manager Rafa Benitez said. "Do you think we are not disappointed with the situation, that we do not regret what happened?
On the club's official Twitter feed, Chelsea said football had "gone mad."
"Hazard is sent off for kicking the ball under a ball boy attempting to smother the ball rather than return it," Chelsea's tweet read. It has now been deleted.
"Do you want to change things? We cannot."
Chelsea probably wishes it could change a lot of things over the past 12 months, save its unexpected Champions League title in May.
The club was at the centre of a major racism incident that gripped English football last year when Terry was banned for four matches for hurling a racial slur at an opponent during a league game. The case, which also involved Cole, took a year to be resolved.
In November, a complaint by Chelsea that one of its black players — Mikel — had been subjected to racist abuse by a referee during a game was dismissed by the FA. Mark Clattenburg, the referee in question, was removed from duty by the Premier League for four straight weekends and received unwanted media scrutiny.
At least Chelsea responded quickly to this latest incident, quickly putting up on its website an apology from Hazard. There are also reports the ball boy was welcomed into the changing room and treated well by Terry and Frank Lampard, Chelsea's two most senior players.
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All work must under sterile conditions.
Use only healthy, Mycoplasma free, growing cells to make banks. Do not use 'old' cultures or cultures which show signs of poor growth.
- Label vials with cell line name (full name), passage number at time of handling, # of cells/vial, thaw to T... (insert size of flask to thaw to), the date, your initials. If the bank is for R&D purposes, additional information such as a notebook reference may be desired. Printed labels are very handy as they are easier to read. Be sure to use labels that will withstand LN2 temperatures.
- To freeze cells, you must have a suspension. Therefore, trypsinize adherent cells. Be sure to add adequate media with serum to stop the Trypsin as the cells will remain in this solution for a time prior to freezing.
- Remove a sample and count the cells.
- Calculate the needed volume of cell suspension as follows:
desired # of cells per vial = 2.5 x10^6 cells
Y = # of vials needed +1 (for viability testing) + 1 (so you don't come up short)
Z = total number of cells needed = Y x 2.5x106
Z / # of cells /mL in stock = volume of suspension needed to make bank.
- Remove the calculated volume to a sterile conical tube and spin cells at ~1000 rpm for 5 minutes. Remove the supernatant. Send 10ml of supernatant for Mycoplasma testing.
- Add 90% of the desired final volume of serum to the tube (Y x 1mL x 0.90).
- Add 10% of the desired final volume of sterile DMSO to the tube (Y x 1mL x 0.10). Resuspend the cells.
- Put 1mL in each labeled vial. Discard any excess.
- Put the vials in the -80°C freezer.
- After the bank is in the freezer, seed the vessels that were harvested at a normal split ratio.
- Record the making of a bank and the number of vials made on the culture sheet. Include an exact copy of what the vials were labeled.
- The next day, get one vial and thaw it. (See thawing protocol)
- Observe daily for sterility, viability, normal morphology, and normal growth.
- It is not uncommon for the cells to require a feed prior to confluence being attained. Cells should be fed two or three times a week if required. If the cells take more than twice the usual time between splits to reach confluence post thaw, consider making a fresh bank.
- If freeze is not sterile, is of poor viability or is otherwise of undesirable quality, discard it and make a new one.
- Once freeze is confirmed 'good', transfer the cells to the LN2 freezer and log them in.
- Do not let cells stay at -80°C any longer than is absolutely necessary. A week is a good rule of thumb.
- Record all information on culture sheet, include mycoplasma results.
- Carry the original culture vessels as backups until the freeze is confirmed 'good'.
Other numbers of cells may be frozen in a vial, but make sure it is listed on the vial. Do not exceed 10^7 cells/mL, they do not survive well beyond that density.
Additional cells may be put in a vial by increasing the volume of suspension in the vial. Be sure to label the vials accurately, ie '1x10^7 cells/ml, 2 ml/vial' would be a vial with 2x10^7 cells in 2 ml in the vial. It could also be expressed as '2x10^7 cells/vial at 1x10^7 cells/ml'.
Do not overfill vials as they may burst as they freeze.
Cells may also be frozen in 90% growth media + 10% DMSO. Or 80% growth media + 10% serum + 10% DMSO. Other combinations are possible.
Always add the DMSO last.
After the addition of DMSO, it is important to freeze the cells as soon as possible as DMSO is toxic.
The purpose of the DMSO is to prevent the formation of ice crystals which will rupture the cells as they thaw.
Freeze the lowest possible passage.
It is important to have current mycoplasma results for your cells. The easiest way to do this is to test at the time of banking.
You can also make a bank using the following calculation:
Total # of cells available / 2.5x10^6 = # of vials you can make.
This will usually yield a whole number with a fraction, so take the whole # and run the calculation again, use the remaining cells to seed your backup.


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Summary: Someone has been manipulating the Scoobies love lives all along
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Why do you Hate Him?
A/N This is just a little something I wrote a long time ago. I was always bothered by Xander's stupendously bad luck at love and came up with a reason why. All of the major events are in canon, however there are several instances that are alluded to that were not in the show, but they could very easily have been. I honestly do not consider this to be some sort of Bash Fic, but I will admit that it is not kind to Angel. The reason I do not consider it bashing is because I believe that every action attributed to him is well within his character. Also there is mention of slashy feelings, do not read if such things offend you. As always, I have no proprietary claim on BTVS. Commentary is always welcome, even criticism, so long as it is constructive. All flames will be consigned to the returns counter of the local Walmart, where they will rot for eternity.
"Why do you hate him?"
It took Angel a moment to realize that someone had spoken, and yet another to realize that they had spoken to him. Looking up from his desk at Wolfram and Hart to see who had said something, he saw Dawn Summers standing in his doorway. Her expression was unusual, a strange blend of anger, disgust, caring and curiosity. "What did you ask Dawn?"
"I asked you why you hate him."
"Him, who," Angel replied, A feeling of apprehension was working its way through his guts, but he couldn't figure out why he should be scared of the teenager.
Dawn's only reply was a withering glare that came straight from the Cordelia Chase collection. Idly Angel wondered if she had learned if from Cordy, despite the fact that the two of them had never actually met.
"I honestly have no idea what you're talking about," Angel said. He was surprised to find that his tone was a bit defensive and whiny.
Dawn held her glare for a moment longer and then said one word, "Xander."
Angel kept standing for a moment, then he simply dropped unceremoniously back into his chair. It was safe to say he had never expected to have this conversation. "I don't hate Xander," he replied; but his response sounded like BS, even to him.
"Sure you do," Dawn fired back, "that's not even a question, my question is why."
"What makes you think I hate him," Angel asked, wondering just how much she had put together.
"Because you take away any chance he has at happiness," was her cold response. "I never really thought about it before," she continued. "I mean no one ever thinks about Xander like that. He's just this happy go lucky guy that does everything he can to make the lives of everyone around him better. Yeah, every now and again someone will mention Xander's bad luck with women; or something like that, but everyone just shrugs it off and life goes on. Then yesterday I saw something and it got me thinking about Xander's past and his relationship to you and suddenly the domino's started falling, and now I'm here."
"So because of something you saw in the building I work at, you've come to this conclusion," Angel asked with a bit of incredulity. "That's one hell of a leap."
"What, you don't think I can back up my claim?"
"Something like that," Angel said with a smirk.
"Fine, we'll start with my sister and work from there," Dawn said as the smirk left Angel's face.
"Buffy made up her own mind," Angel said.
"Sure she did," Dawn said sarcastically, "with a little help from you."
"What are you saying?"
"That she had feelings for the guy and you hung around long enough, and did just enough to make sure that nothing ever came of them."
"And just how could I have known that she had any feelings for him?"
"Your senses, Nosferatu; you could tell if her heart rate increased around him, you could smell the pheromones, read the body language. There is no way that after 250 years you would miss something like that. Tell me Angel, did you ever tell her about the hospital, when you were Angelus, or about how Xander had to force you to take him to the Master's cave?" Dawn gave a harsh laugh, "of course not, that would mean admitting to someone else that he's a better man than you, something you would never do. It could also have possibly stirred her interest in him, something else you'd never do. You did come back twice, and saw her in LA once the year after you left, and I'd be willing to bet that you dropped Xander's name in conversation each time to Gague her response. And once you realized that your mission was complete, and she would never see him as he saw her, you left her alone. You know, Drusilla could do all that hypnosis crap, I wonder if you can do the same. Most vampires are supposed to be able to do that. Tell me Angel, did you ever do that to Buffy?"
"If that's all you've got, then you're grasping at straws," Angel said, not answering the question.
"More then," Dawn said. "Let's move on to Faith. You didn't really see her at first, but he did, and after the sisterhood incident, he saw her even better. That's when you took notice. You could tell Xander's feelings for Buffy had faded and he had broken up with Cordelia, so suddenly Faith was a potential source of happiness. Xander realized that her biggest problem was her feelings of low self worth; she thought she was trash, human debris; so he came up with a way to prove to her beyond any doubt that she was a good person. He went to see her and pushed her buttons to the point she would attack him. He knew that she wouldn't kill him, but he knew that she needed to realize this. So in the middle of this, you come in to 'save' him and knock Faith out. In doing so you re-enforced her belief that she is just a killer, and at the same time, placed Xander in the category of someone who was just out for another roll in the sack. Hey, it also made you and not him the go-to-guy for redemption. Do you know she's never apologized to him, I asked her about it once and she said she didn't think it was necessary. So, you've removed both slayers as a possible source of happiness, well done Angel," Dawn finished in a sarcastic tone.
"And the others," Angel asked, his voice a bit shaky.
"Cordelia was almost too easy for you, as blunt and open as she was. You knew that she could be interested in you from the way she acted around you that one Halloween. But then you got distracted by the need to keep Xander and Buffy apart and before you knew it, Cordy and Xander were a couple. Now you knew that they were pretty volatile, with the fighting and making up that they did; so you created a situation that would hurt Cordy and then count on her pride to keep them apart."
"Exactly how did I do that," Angel asked with a bit of a smirk.
"Do you have any idea how easy lust spells are," Dawn asked parenthetically. "They're way easier than love spells and don't require very much power at all; heck, I'm sure that someone with a bit of demonic energy to tap could manage it," Dawn finished with a piercing look. "It always surprised me that Xander and Willow were all over each other for six weeks and then never looked at each other that way before or since; any ideas as to why that is Angel?"
When no comment was forthcoming from the vampire, Dawn continued. "After that it was just a word here, an observation there and you were keeping them apart; just little reminders when either one seemed to be considering reconciliation. Then after graduation you moved here, and lo and behold, so did Cordy. Any idea as to why she picked LA Angel," Dawn asked rhetorically. "So once she's here, you can keep a closer eye on her because you realized that the two of them were practically soul mates. Shocking isn't it how just when Cordy is at her lowest, and really thinking about going back to Sunnydale, you step into her life again; what a coincidence. All those things that happened to her, and you never once told Xander what was going on, the coma, the visions, the times she was in the hospital; you never once told him what was happening. And why; because you were afraid of course; afraid that they'd start seeing each other again, and that Xander might just be happy."
"So I cast a lust spell and kept an eye on Cordy, just to be sure that she never saw that clown again; that's what you're saying?"
"Oh, you did more than that Angel," Dawn replied with some heat. "And if you call him a clown again, this branch of Evil Inc. will need someone new in charge because I'll barbecue your ass."
"What else did I do then, Sherlock" Angel asked with a bit of a growl, ignoring the girl's threat.
"Xander waited six months," Dawn began, "just to let her get settled in; and then he wrote her letters, one a day for a month. He wanted to try again with her, or baring that, just clear the air and be friends again. But she never replied, and later they were all returned, unopened. Xander still kept them; I found them when I was helping him clean his apartment once. He said that he supposed that she just didn't want anything to do with him for the rest of her life, so he stopped trying. But do you know what was funny about the whole thing," Dawn asked.
"That when I had them tested, Xander's finger prints were there and mine and even Anya's, but Cordy's weren't and yours were. She never knew that he had written to her, because you wouldn't let her know. Because she might realize just how sorry he was and consider taking him back. And that was something you wouldn't allow, so you intercepted them all to make sure they never spoke again. You took her choice away from her, and if she had known she would have dusted your sorry ass in a second."
"Is that all," Angel asked, paler than usual.
"No," Dawn replied. "Cordy was your lowest, but what you did to separate Xander and Willow, that was your masterpiece."
"Oh, and what exactly am I supposed to have done?"
Dawn just smirked for a second and said, "Tara."
"You know I always wondered how an abused girl from New Mexico with no money or family support ended up getting a full scholarship to a school that she didn't even apply to. So I did some checking. Imagine my surprise when I discovered exactly where Tara's scholarship came from," Dawn said, with heavy sarcasm.
"Even if I did that, so what," Angel replied.
"You trapped her," Dawn replied. "Willow I mean, you set a trap for her. You knew that she was gay or at least bi from that vampire double of hers, so you set out the bait and let her walk right in. A very cute, very shy, wiccan lesbian; put her in danger and there's no way Willow would walk away from her. All you had to do was break up Willow and Oz, and having the Bronze invite a band with a female werewolf as the lead singer took care of that." At Angel's jerk of surprise she smiled and said, "I did manage to find a former member of Shy and he told me that the call from the Bronze came out of the blue, one week before the full moon; imagine that. You checked on Willow that Thanksgiving and saw how poorly she was coping with Oz leaving and dropped a message to Tara to make her move. The rest, as they say, is history. I've got to tell you Angel, that whole sequence was just pure genius. Subtle, indirect and with a minimum of involvement; I wonder if Buffy realizes what a calculating dirt bag you are?"
"And Anya," Angel asked through gritted teeth, ignoring the girl's observations.
"I have no doubt that Anya threw you for a loop at first. I mean what are the odds that a thousand year old demon that specializes in scorned women would fall for Xander. But I'm willing to bet that once you found out about it, you went looking for a way to cross it; and with a thousand years of vengeance in her wake, I bet it didn't take long. Once Willow told you about the engagement, which she probably dropped when she was here in the aftermath of Glory, you got your play together and just waited for the wedding. Actually that was the first domino that fell. After 1000 years of vengeance, there must have been hundreds of beings out there just baying for Anya's blood, but the only one that does anything about it goes after Xander and not her. That just wasn't logical; I realized that something was off then, but I just shuttled it to the back of my mind at the time. It wasn't until the other day that I started putting everything together, but that was definitely the first piece of the puzzle."
"So what was it that started this particular train to nowhere," Angel asked.
"When I saw a demon exactly like the one that gave Xander those visions leave your office," Dawn replied. "And don't try to deny it either, maybe it's a Key thing, but I can see auras and powers just by looking at someone, and I have a perfect memory for that kind of thing. So I know it was the exact same type of demon."
Angel slumped back in his chair, "so is there anything else?"
"Yeah, my original question, why do you hate him?"
"You mean you don't want me to validate this pack of coincidence and hallucinations you've put together?"
"I don't need you to do that, I know I'm right. No all I need you to do is answer the question."
"Why are you pressing, why do you need to know now," Angel asked resignedly.
"Because I know you, and you know that I care about Xander. I wouldn't be surprised if you haven't already started something in motion that will separate the two of us. My best guess is that you'll convince Buffy to put me in a private school somewhere that she would want to be, Paris or Sydney or somewhere like that. So I don't have the luxury of waiting. So are you going to tell me, or do I spill the whole thing to Giles while I'm under a truth spell," the girl asked.
Angel looked down at his desk for a moment. Right in the middle was a memo about an upcoming hearing that partially obscured a list of private schools in Rome that allowed English speaking students; but he paid no attention to it. "What exactly is it that you want to know," he asked without looking up.
"Why do you hate Xander," Dawn yelled, her anger overcoming her fear of the vampire.
Eyes blazing yellow, Angel looked up and roared, "I DON'T HATE XANDER." He expected the girl to flinch, or run at his display of anger; what he didn't expect was what occurred. Dawn wore a puzzled look for a moment or two, but then a knowing smile blossomed on her face; it was a smile that didn't reach her eyes.
"I see, yes that does make sense doesn't it," she muttered to herself. Then looking at Angel she said more firmly, "so that's your master plan, keep removing anyone that cares for him in the hopes that he'll finally turn to you. Despite the fact that you're a creature that he loathes above all others, despite the pain and humiliation that you've put him through, you still hope that one day it will be you that he looks at with that selfless love he gives." Dawn gave a harsh laugh, "I guess Xander was right all those years ago."
"About what," Angel asked tiredly, his secret now revealed.
"That in the end you're just a vampire, just a parasite living off of someone else's life." Her question now answered and not wanting to spend any more time in the presence of such an evil creature the brunette teen turned and walked away without a backwards glance. She only hoped that she would have a week or two with Xander before Angel's plans for her were put in motion.
As for Angel, he just sat in his chair and gazed out the window at the bright June afternoon and wondered how long it would take for the sun to kill him, and whether or not it would hurt more than he did now.
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It has nothing to do with Arthur's fate -- yes, there's plenty of bitter sorrow after Arthur's last battle against Mordred, but that's not what I'm talking about. There's another, different bitterness here that belongs to the anonymous maker of this poem, which appeared long before Thomas Malory ever celebrated the legendary warrior-king in his prose "Le Morte D'Arthur."
of the heroes of history and their awesome adventures
who were loyal to the law and loved Almighty God,
come closer and heed me; hold yourselves quiet
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of the royal ranks of the Round Table
Appearing around 1400, "The Death of King Arthur" -- referred to in scholarly circles as AMA, the "Alliterative Morte Arthure" -- presents Arthur and his knights on a military campaign against Lucius Iberius, emperor of Rome, who offends Arthur by demanding revenues from Britain as part of his empire. "If this summons is snubbed, he sends you this warning," explains the Roman emissary visiting Arthur's court. "He shall see you overseas with sixteen kings/ and burn Britain to oblivion "
You can just imagine what Arthur and his knights think. Angered, the king declares his sovereign right to rule Britain and refers to his own Roman roots (Geoffrey of Monmouth tells us Arthur is descended from the Trojans) before deciding to march on Rome.
Armitage, who produced a celebrated translation of "Gawain and the Green Knight" in 2006, acknowledges a political dimension to his own poetry and that certainly applies to his translations. You can read "The Death of King Arthur" with a strong sense of irony informed by recent world events. When Arthur crosses the channel to meet Lucius' forces, which seem like a multinational coalition, it's hard not to think of military alliances today, of occupiers and invasions:
From Crete and Cappadocia many noble kings
came and came quickly, minding his command
From Babylon and Baghdad came the boldest men,
knights and their knaves, waiting no more.
From Persia and Pamphilia and the lands of Prester John
every Prince who held power prepared a force .
But instead of drawing parallels between that world and ours, there's another historical context worth considering: the one of the poet who wrote this epic. That's where the unmistakable notes of bitterness enter. I hear them as the imperial emissary, returned to Rome to report Arthur's defiant response to the emperor, describes the English king as:
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