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Paul McCartney Offering 'Complete Kisses' For The Holidays
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Out today (November 27th) is the new Paul McCartney collection -- Kisses On The Bottom - Complete Kisses. The set features McCartney's recent Top 10 standards album, Kisses On The Bottom, alongside the entire 13 songs as featured in his Live From Capitol Studios' concert performance -- along with four bonus tracks, including the Kisses sessions outtake, "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)." Other bonus tracks include a previously unreleased version of "My Valentine" arranged by Johnny Mandel alongside the evergreen "My One And Only Love" and a cover of McCartney's 1979 Wings favorite "Baby's Request" -- which he had originally written with the Mills Brothers in mind.
McCartney says that Kisses On The Bottom is in a way, a love letter to his extended family back in Liverpool: "The idea started because on of my fondest memories from when I was a kid was the New Year's Eve sing-along. Y'know, in Liverpool, that was really big in our family. My dad was the guy that played the piano at the New Year's Eve do's. You'd roll the carpet back and you'd get the nice kick-back of the linoleum, and the girls would all sit around, the ladies, all the aunts and that, with their 'gin and it' 'rum and black' and they'd all sit around slowly getting well-oiled and they'd sing all night."
The tracklisting for McCartney's Live From Capitol Studios bonus disc is: "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter," "Home (When Shadows Fall)," "It's Only A Paper Moon," "More I Cannot Wish You," "The Glory Of Love," "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow And Me)," "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive," "My Valentine," "Always," "My Very Good Friend The Milkman," "Bye Bye Blackbird," "Get Yourself Another Fool," and "My One And Only Love."
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It really doesn't seem fair: Hearing loss, a troublesome fact of life for more than 26 million people over 50, may increase the risk of cognitive problems and even dementia.
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"The general perception is that hearing loss is a relatively inconsequential part of aging," says Frank Lin, M.D., an otologist and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University. But recent findings, he says, suggest that it may play a much more important role in brain health than we've previously thought.
Fortunately, there's a potential upside. If this connection — shown in several recent and well-regarded studies — holds up, it raises the possibility that treating hearing loss more aggressively could help stave off cognitive decline and dementia. Lin and other researchers have several theories about the possible cause of the link between hearing and dementia, although they aren't yet sure which of them — if any — will hold true.
Lin is the author of several recent studies pointing to a link between hearing and cognitive problems ranging from mild impairment all the way to dementia.
In a 2013 study, he and his colleagues tracked the overall cognitive abilities (including concentration, memory and planning skills) of nearly 2,000 older adults whose average age was 77. After six years, those who began the study with hearing loss severe enough to interfere with conversation were 24 percent more likely than those with normal hearing to have seen their cognitive abilities diminish. Essentially, the researchers say, hearing loss seemed to speed up age-related cognitive decline.
In a 2011 study focusing on dementia, Lin and his colleagues monitored the cognitive health of 639 people who were mentally sharp when the study began. The researchers tested the volunteers' mental abilities regularly, following most for about 12 years, and some for as long as 18 years. The results were striking: The worse the initial hearing loss, the more likely the person was to develop dementia. Compared with people of normal hearing, those with moderate hearing loss had triple the risk.
Lin is quick to point out that simply being at increased risk does not mean a person is certain to develop dementia.
"I have a [90-year-old] grandmother who's had a moderately severe [hearing] loss for many years now," says Lin. "She's sharp as a tack. I was talking to her about [my] research and she looks at me and says, 'Are you telling me I'm definitely going to get dementia?' "
"I said, '[Not by] any means.' "
What's more, while the link between hearing loss and milder cognitive problems is becoming increasingly accepted, some researchers aren't convinced that hearing loss raises a person's chances of developing dementia.
"Everyone in the field agrees that hearing loss is a risk for cognitive problems," says P. Murali Doraiswamy, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Duke University and author of The Alzheimer's Action Plan. "But I don't think the field takes mild hearing loss as a cause of Alzheimer's seriously yet." Nor, he says, do most researchers agree that hearing loss is related to other common types of dementia.
Still, he adds, "There are plausible reasons for why hearing loss might lead to dementia — the brain's hearing centers are very close to the regions where Alzheimer's first starts."
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On Cheesesteaks, Chicken Wings and a Japanese-Made Eating Machine
Last week many of you might have noticed that Steiny ran the show for a few days, while I was conspicuously absent. Anyone who might have cross-checked that with my Twitter feed might have noticed random pictures of places in Philadelphia, photos of competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi at Wing Bowl or me holding a giant check. What did that have to do with TheJetsBlog.com?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing at all.
But I wanted to take the time to explain something that's been rattling around in my head for some time and is starting to seep out of me creatively. I love this site, and I intend to keep on doing it for a long time, but I hoped to share another passion I have because I know you have it too and because I'm going to need your help. Bear with me and I'll explain below.
So where does this story even begin?
For years, I've been lucky enough to take some time from my real job to get up close and personal with athletes. Even today whenever I get the chance to talk with Jim Leonhard by phone, or scribble down notes at Dustin Keller's locker, I realize what an insane dream world I get to live in. It was always fascinating to interact with these people, and in some way it's become quite addictive. It's also something that I feel honor-bound to share with you, hoping that readers get to vicariously live through me during something like Draft weekend, or inside the ropes at training camp … so that in some way you own the experience just as much as I do. No bullshit, there's a responsibility there for me, one that I take seriously and I hope comes across to readers.
Still, with all that, I get that I'm still an interloper. I'm not there doing this every day of the year. So time and time again, while the hordes of reporters would swarm one way, I'd try to skirt another. For example, back in 2008 right after the slim victory to the Chiefs in the Meadowlands, I remember approaching Calvin Pace. Pace was alone and changing at his locker, I asked if he'd talk. He said sure, I asked him about why it was such a close game … the Jets were the better team? Why was the win so hard to come by? Pace took a deep breath, arched backwards, looked up at the ceiling and exhaled. I knew this was going to be good.
Pace started talking about how the Jets were making it hard on themselves, and in seconds the bee swarm of reporters enveloped us. It was really that quick. While he never backed down off what he said, his demeanor was already changing as the crowd attracted a greater crowd. More cameras, more pens and pads. I felt self-conscious, and jostled my way out of the crowd. Just like that, our little moment of genuine personal exchange was gone. Discarded on the floor like so much athletic tape.
No for real. If you've never been there, the floor of the locker room after a game is like walking on flypaper. It's crazy tacky.
The problem of course is that when athletes have a camera and microphone shoved in their face that is tethered at the other end to news outlets with millions of viewers, then amplified by a three day ESPN echo chamber of sports analysts, their guard goes up … way up. This holds true for most athletes, maybe with the exception of Bart Scott.
The Jets season of Hard Knocks was the turning point for me. My interview with HBO Sports' Ross Greenburg planted a seed in my brain. Seeing what the lives of athletes are like behind the scenes was revelatory. Sure, I'd seen Hard Knocks before, but it made all the difference in the world because I cared about the Jets. Even if I didn't care, I realize how powerful telling these stories are to people who are less attached. There's a reason the Olympics does those magazine pieces on the down-on-his-luck member of the US Curling team. I wanted to know more about athletes, and I started thinking about ways to become part of that process beyond my writing. There had to be some way for that to link up …
Fast forward a year and a half.
The Jets season is a smoldering heap, and I'm starting to talk to people trying to feel out a concept I've been thinking about since last October. How about a documentary style web-based series on the lives of athletes following them during an interesting day? I started lobbing calls to my Blogs With Balls / Hugging Harold Reynolds pal Don Povia since he's a walking rolodex. I wanted to stretch myself and get away from the Jets. How far could I get? I tell Don my idea, he thinks about it and asks …
"Hey, why don't you come up to Philly and follow Takeru Kobayashi around during Wing Bowl?"
Wing Bowl? Competitve eating's version of the Convention of the Juggaloes? With Takeru Kobayashi? The non-native English-speaking Nathan's hot dog vacuum? That's certainly about as far away from the Jets as possible … what could possibly go wrong?!?
Two weeks ago, I had no camera crew. I had no video production expertise. I know nothing about competitive eating. I've got no idea what I'm doing … how do you plan for something like this? How stupid is this idea for someone like me to try and make happen?
After a few panic attacks and many phone calls to people much smarter than I who told me they liked the idea of the project, followed by some mad scrambling, I got a few awesome camera people to help. Frank, David and Rich were all eager, and rose to the challenge. We meet in Philly, linked up with Takeru Kobayashi and the rest of Team Kobi on his way to destroying the Wing Bowl record. We followed him around for more than a day, accumulating tons of footage as he readied himself for Wing Bowl: meeting fans, getting weighed in before the event (he weighed 138 pounds, less than half of many of his opponents), discussing business with his manager, and hanging with pals like owner of the East Village's Crif Dogs, and one of Philly's proudest sons, Tony Luke.
One of my favorite moments was when I asked Kobi what his proudest record was. He told me during a competition he once gained about 26 pounds. I'm thinking he did it in days, and followed up.
Over how long a period?
"45 minutes"
Of course there were challenges, but in the end, we had a great time, and now we're in editing to come up with the pilot for this series. I honestly can't wait to share it with you. Even if you don't care about competitive eating (I didn't) it's going to be good. I just know it. Once editing it down is done, the next step is going to be getting this "out there" … see what the response is and then of course doing this again and again and again with other athletes in other sports, in other cities (New York?). This could be really, really fun.
So this is where you all come in. I'm going to need all the support you can muster. I am personally asking you if you are reading this to help me with this process.
It would be good it if you will watch the final product, but I would love it if you can help me get this out there on Facebook or Twitter once we drop the video. It would be otherworldly if you know a story I should know. It would be intergalactic if you can connect me to your childhood best friend who now happens to play for the Chicago Blackhawks and might be up to being the subject of another episode. You guys are my network, and I'm going to need all the help I can get. Trust me, every little bit will help, every tweet, Facebook link share and we are going to succeed with this project together.
If you have any suggestions, let me know. Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you can think of a way to help. No idea is too small, we're going to need all the help we can get, and my hope is that you will be a big part of it.
So that's it for now.
More very soon and I'll try and keep from tainting TJB too much with this project, but I didn't want this to be a big secret or anything like that either.
I want you to be part of the adventure with me, just like all our other adventures together. I really hope you'll come along for this ride … it's going to be a lot of freaking fun and I can't think of anyone better to share it with.
Bargnani should get less minutes. He's needs to be another big coming off the bench who can score. We need Chandler, Stat and Kenyon in heavy rotation with Tyler/Bargnani playing 10/15 min. a game.
You can feature Melo, Stat and Bargani on offense via Pops and Rolls, plus Melo + Amare mixing it up low-post. Chandler can pick and roll and Chandler/Kenyon/Tyler can play weak side.
Knicks need to sustain an aggressive offense, three guards on the perimeter ready to shoot, drive or pass.
Defense. You have to want it, it can't be taught, if don't stay in front of your man, if you lose your man, you don't stay on the floor.
Make meaningful adjustment and exploit the other team's weaknesses. Be prepared to mitigate yours during the game. If the Coach can't motivate the team, then they are not the coach.
Our DA coach stated that he don`t know if he is ready to play. Hey jerk, you have lost 21 games, you have the third worst record in the NBA (and could be the worst after Texas) and you don`t know if your going to play him. Why not, don`t know all the switches that you claim you don`t use? Rooks gotta sit and learn? Aint learning nothin from you, you can`t coach. Knight and Brown gotta be dying that you are associated with them. You are a dysfunctional idiot that has been faking the whole deal, and now its coming down on your head. I knew when I first saw your inability to even defend the pick and roll. There are 5 or 6 ways to defend it, and the best methodology is to change up to keep the offense off balance. Your guys do the 1 5 switch constantly. Don`t try and lie your way out of that I watched you in ATla, and for almost 2 years here. I don`t care how Doldrums media guys tried to get you out of it, I have watched. If you had balls, you would at least man up instead of throwing your players under the bus, as you have done since you have been here. And you expect them to listen to you? I learned from Wooden that players win games and coaches lose them. He I respect, he was a gentleman and a scholar more then a coach, you I have no respect for, maybe that is all Doldrum deserves.
Jeremy Tyler's Back...
Hopefully they signed him to play him, i'd like to see him get legit minutes and see if he can help the team, not just rot on the bench.
Great. Now they only have about fifty other things they need to do to make things right.
Please tell me we signed him with a team option for next year . . . I'm about tired of losing guys like Lin and Copeland to short sighted contracts.
Hopefully the Chris Smith curse will be lifted - LOL
Hey Biggie, metta said amare had the blood spinning procedure over the summer. I remember you saying that he prob had something like that done. I believe metta lol. He told us before the rest of the knicks staff did that: metta would play a little that one game, shump would play on his bruised thigh, jr had the flu, and melo would miss 3 games. Lol
In related news...
Jeremy Tyler breaks finger while signing contract. Out 2 - 4 weeks.
In about 11 hours or less, Biggie will be telling how our Knicks are undefeated in 2014.
This is great news. If I'm remembering things correctly, signing Chris Smith rather than Tyler cost the Knicks exclusive rights to Tyler - any team could've picked up Tyler in the past couple months. Great to see that (needless) gamble didn't rob the Knicks of a young big with upside.
I think JR is going tank somewhat in some juvenile tantrum over his bro. The Knicks need to get rid of him if he does that.
Woody better not try his John Amos (father from Good Times) act on him. He does not do well with that kind of coaching.
That's a ridiculous statement, Lin and Cope were both scrubs nearly cut. Knicks had plenty of time and opportunity to re-sign both...
Great point!
@NYKnickerBocker lmfao....classic Knicks.
@NYKnickerBocker chill lol
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@DolanitisDr here's to more luck in 2014!
@Kojo Brown as compared to his current all star level performance?
Technically he can't traded as of today given the CBA.
In three weeks you will be first in line to "slurp" him!
@moneyball The Knicks cannot afford to trade any player that's even half azz good. They don't have much leverage.
It would be just our luck!
@OLD_KNICK @xmenreturn One of the many reasons this place isn't what it used to be. Apparently, people aren't entitked to their own opinions without getting called out by those who differ...
@lennynyk @Kojo Brown I actually want them to trade him now but you know how the front office keeps giving him chances.
@lennynyk Sure, no doubt, but it's not the point. It's about being able to have healthy discussion and disagreements.
It's about having the maturity to discuss like adults even though you see the game in opposite ways.
@VerySilentJay@OLD_KNICK@xmenreturn listen when u post your opinion online, u best be prepared to defend it haha . its the way of the world
@DolanitisDr We really don't know whether players have asked for guidance or not. to say "they do" or "they do not" is pure conjecture.
That said, Clyde did say last season that he had talked to Shump during his recovery. He just didn't go into detail.
@xmenreturn@DolanitisDr i think woody/s biggest problem is he was a scoring pg when he played so he only respects players like jr haha.
@DolanitisDrSo True. I've been saying this for years. They can also just review the MSG rewind of the games and listen to Clyde breaks down the game and how a player should be playing against an opposing players.
It seems so many of these players are not students of the game.
@xmenreturn @lennynyk @lobcity You'd think dudes like Shump would just, you know, walk over and ask for some advice now and then .... can't believe we don't hear more about this with the team's guards. The man is just a few seats away.
@lennynyk@xmenreturn@lobcityMaybe but he sure knows what is ailing our team and what the players should be doing on the floor.
That's 100% more than Woody knows.
Besides he knows about winning rings in NYC.
@xmenreturn@lennynyk@lobcity lolll he's gonna be like you guys need to move the ball. move and groove more. come on clyde can't coach loll
@lobcity can we hire that report analyst guy from the nets? whats his name? something frank
@moneyball @knicks50 And a new coach.
@DolanitisDr@Kojo Brown@lennynyk yeah dolantis, its ridiculous. On top of that when he was on atlanta, he had one of the youngest and most athletic squads in the game and yet his team played the slowest pace in the nba. Guess what it was... half court ISO...
@Kojo Brown@lennynyk@DolanitisDr haha really. i love how read "Coaching For Dummies" about a week ago, right after the game when he didn't call the timeout against the wizards, and started making offense/defense subs in the 4th quarter lol.
@Kojo Brown @lennynyk @DolanitisDr
The funniest was Woodson's claim that he didn't endorse switching - um, so why has EVERY team you have coached switched screens more frequently than most NBA teams?!? Either Woody is flat-out lying or his teams have NEVER listened to him.
@lennynyk @DolanitisDr Woody does not have NBA coaching skills. He's been stubbornly guessing all this time--faking it really.
@DolanitisDr i feel like woody wouldn't know what to do with an all star pg either. He'd just be like ok chris paul, if you're not gonna be scoring off of isolation plays, give the ball to JR
@lennynyk It all depends on the team. As constructed, THIS Knicks team does need an all-star PG. Some teams, due to their roster construction and offensive philosophy, do not.
@moneyball@lennynyk@knicks50 the heat do, so do the pacers. those pg's ain't above average . the bulls did it last year. The knicks did it last year. You don't need an all star PG.
@moneyball@knicks50 and by pg you mean coach.


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Kingston, Jamaica, 23 September 2011: The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) has announced the appointment of Ms. Margareta Skold as PAHO/WHO Representative for Jamaica, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, with effect from 6 October 2011.
Ms. Skold, a national of Sweden, obtained a Diploma in General Nursing from the Samariterhemmet School of Nursing (Sweden) in 1973. In 1977, she received a Diploma in General Development Assistance and Disaster Relief from the Swedish Development Assistance Training Authority, and a diploma in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Landstingets Vardhogskola) in 1980. She obtained a Master's degree in Health Planning and Financing from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/London School of Economics, United Kingdom, in 1997.
Ms. Skold began her professional career in Nursing and Midwifery positions in 1975. From 1980 to 1983 she worked as Community Health Advisor in the Igreja Evangelica Luterana do Brasil supported by Church of Swedish Mission, Uppsala, Sweden. From 1987 to 1989 she held the position of Social Assistant and Evaluator at the Swedish Church in Paris, France, and from 1989 to 1996 she served as the Executive Secretary for health at the CMC Churches Action for Health, World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland.
In 1997 Ms. Skold joined the World Health Organization (WHO/HQs) as Technical Officer in the Department of Intensified Cooperation with Countries and Peoples in greatest Need (ICO). In 2001 she took up the position of External Relations Officer in the Civil Society Initiative Department. From 2003 to 2006 she served as Technical Officer in the Department of Country Focus (CCO) during which time, from November 2005 until July 2006, she was on loan to the WHO Office in Indonesia as the Senior Planning Officer Ad Interim.
Ms. Skold has served as Public Health Administrator at the WHO Country Office in Myanmar since 2006, a position that she held until the date of this new appointment.
Ms. Skold replaces Dr. Ernest Pate who now serves in Barbados as the PAHO/WHO Caribbean Program Coordinator.
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Rocketry Launch – April 2014
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UB-SEDS's hosted our annual Yuri's Night Banquet on Saturday April 19th at the Lafayette Hotel. During this, members came together to celebrate all of their achievements over the past year with good food, great company, and spacey music.
April 15, 2014 in High-Altitude Weather Balloon, News by Andrew Tennenbaum
On Monday, March 31, 2014, many months of hard work and planning came to fruition when the Nanosat/SEDS Joint Experimental Balloon (NS-JEB) launched over the Buffalo/Niagara region.
Background noise radiation from household devices like WiFi routers and cell phones has a big impact on communication systems in cubesats. The purpose of this balloon was to determine the levels of this radiation above western New York. The payload contained an array of instruments, including a camera, GPS, barometer, magnetometer, an independent APRS tracking beacon, a redundant SPOT tracking beacon, temperature sensors, heaters, and two radios for measuring noise levels. An Arduino was used to gather data from the sensors, log it to flash memory, and maintain temperature control.


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Mary Ann "Sunshine" Billingsley-Moore passed Jan. 14, 2013 at the age of 56 at the Hospice of Kitsap from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). She loved all who came to visit her in her last days and hours.
Mary Ann was born on July 3, 1956 to Colonel (Cricket) and Martha Billingsley of Chico. The family later moved to Chalfant.
Mary Ann loved the outdoors and always looked forward to her next adventure, wherever it took her. She was active in raising money for those in need, especially the motorcycle community. She was a member of North Kitsap ABATE and Auxiliary in the American Legion Post 149.
She was a carpenter by trade, and owned the first all-women roofing company in Washington state.
Mary Ann and her husband, Gary Moore, celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary Jan. 3, 2013.
She is survived by her three sons, Gabrial Noonan, Jarib Sourman and Joshua Stedman; husband, Gary Moore; siblings, Charles Billingsley and family of Utah, Raymond James Billingsley and family of Colorado and Kathleen Brennan and family of California; and other relatives, including Gene and Jackie Billingsley of Bishop, their two daughters, Genie Chiatovich and family and Debra VanDeWeerd and family. She loved her family very much.
Services were held Jan. 28, 2013 with an escort from Lewis Funeral Home, 5303 Kitsap Way Bremerton, WA 98312 leaving at 11:15 a.m. to Tahoma National Cemetery, 18600 Southeast 240th Street Kent, WA 98042, where she was laid to rest at 1:15 p.m.
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See Elf songwriters Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin share their experiences creating the merry musical and its score. It's sparklejollytwinklejingley fun!
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As Broadway prepares to salute stage icon Chita Rivera at A Legendary Celebration on October 7 at the August Wilson Theatre, the star stops by Show People to talk about her extraordinary career.September 26, 2013
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This handcrafted mahogany executive display model of the B-29 Enola Gay bomber is a high quality replica of the "Superfortress" whose payload of nuclear bombs helped end World War II. The plaque on the wooden display stand of the B-29 Enola Gay Executive Display Model is cosigned by the Enola Gay navigator Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk and its assistant weaponeer Morris Richard Jeppson. While serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Van Kirk navigated fifty-eight B-17 "Flying Fortress" World War II combat missions over occupied France and Germany and a secret mission led by General Mark to negotiate with the Algerian Free French. Van Kirk also navigated the aircraft that flew General Dwight Eisenhower to the North Africa invasion site where Operation Torch was launched. Van Kirk completed his Air Corps service as a major and was awarded the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross and 15 Air Medals. Army Air Corps Second Lieutenant Jeppson, along with Rear Admiral William Sterling Parsons, was responsible for arming the atomic bomb during the flight of the Enola Gay from Tinian to Japan. His role was to remove the safety plugs from the weapon just before reaching the target area. He was awarded the Silver Star. An exceptional gift for CEOs, senior managers, pilots or aviation enthusiasts. Scale 1:72. Ages 14 and up. 16.25"l. x 23.25"w. x 10.25"h.
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Boeing's B-29 "Superfortress" was the most sophisticated propeller-driven bomber to fly during World War II, and the first bomber to house its crew in pressurized compartments. The first B-29 bombers were delivered in April 1944 and were used exclusively in the Pacific theater. The most famous B-29 is the Enola Gay, which dropped the first nuclear weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. The Enola Gay is on view in the Boeing Aviation Hangar of the National Air and Space Museum's Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center. One of the world's finest collections of model aircraft and spacecraft is housed in the National Air and Space Museum.
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Hey, you can have the answer
I raise my hand so much it cramps up
And when I get 100s, get your camera
You could see I keep it 100 since the kinder
And that I am that young runt just peakin'
My math class plays "24" to compete and
I could play a one-dot card with the cretin
But I wanna stack the deck with three-dots for beatin'
I memorize cards during silent reading
Sit in at lunch where you're eatin'
We'll review pre-algebra, age of reason
Post-extracurricular meals sterno heating
Text me back for homework help in the evening
P-play with X&Y, Chris Martin-tin
Sub in a number odd or even
I guess that count odd or even
I guess that count odd or even
I guess that count odd or even
I guess that count odd or even
1 plus 1 is 2, 1, 2
S.M.H., shake my head, you don't know prime numbers, do you?
WordMasters made ya
I'm a gifted talent, what are you made up of?
I'm a red pen, mark a slew
Two, three, five, seven, not a one or eight, in my prime, you?
Give me scholar bucks, break even, bet ya do want to chuck
You're a woozy head case like a Yale alum
Your half-done diorama in my 2D view
Clock-a-ticking to the deadline by the nails you chewed
Caught the wet glue on your due project, huh?
Striver, I'm a straight-A dude
Plus the extra credit, wonder who gave you rubric one-two
To your poo-poo brood... Five Chinese Brothers, hon?
Racist books are ding-dong-done
You could argue against that if you do want to
Put pencils up, tell your friend time's up
I'mma breeze through worksheets, you know you could too once
Geez, I'm 'bout to phew--come-to!
Number one today, I'm the valedictory. You, young runt? Dunzo!
Who are you, snitch, new lunch?
I'mma eat you up, crunch
I'mma eat you up, crunch
I'mma eat you up, crunch
I'mma eat you up, crunch
Ayo (ayo), I heard we're graded on the same four-point scale
Givin' you straight As, son (As, son)
Sayin' you're grindin' but you ain't going nowhere
Why you procrastinate, girl? (-nate girl)
You're really smart, but you just waste all yourself
They'll forget your name soon (honor roll)
And won't nobody be to blame but yourself, yeah
What you gon' do in this school year?
W-when-when I am here
I'm the end of your school career
This class been mine, mine
What you gon' do when I appear?
W-when-when I premiere
This year the end of your line is near
This grade been mine, mine
Whole grade in the 212
With the Bronx class field trip, it's the bus to zoo
What will Miss do, when baboons pair up?
Pet, your teach won't tell you, bet she won't do much
See, even if you do want to cuss
Your teach'll Calde-cut you, give your recess up, pup
You're playing with scrap metal like you won Newbur'
Schlock with puns, too -- what do you read new?
I finna stan you, Binet IQ
What's your Myers-Briggs typie, are you I-N-T-J or P, dude?
When do you wake up? Tell your friend 5 a.m., I'm the new one, too, huh?
See, I remember you when you were
Smartest kid there, but you do like to skip grades, don't you?
And that's gravy, roux
But I'mma ruin you, lunt
Blunt, brunt, bunt, grunt, hunt, punt
Vocab word, ends in "-unt"
Any word but that one


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Hello all,
There is a major GPU upgrade in these new Symbian devices.
Dedicated graphics memory is upgraded from 32 MB (N8, E7 etc) to 128 MB. As it's dedicated GPU separated from the main ARM CPU you still need to be aware of some tricks to keep the GPU hungry and not to upload any textures in the main rendering etc.
Graphics memory upgrade will definitely give more space for textures and augmented reality should be much easier now.
Graphics performance is also boosted from 200 MPixels/s to 1000 MPixels/s! As the screen resolution is still the same NHD this will give a lot of per pixel performance for heavy shader effects.
It does not hurt that the CPU is also 1 GHz now and there is 512 MB's of RAM in these devices


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Most impressive.
Perhaps in a couple of years, I shouldn't be embarrased anymore for being a PHP-developer.
Phoronix: Facebook's HipHop 2.0 Virtual Machine Is Very Fast
Released last month by Facebook was their open-source HipHOp "HHVM" 2.0 virtual machine. Benchmarks of HHVM at Phoronix show that the code does live up to Facebook's performance claims...
Most impressive.
Perhaps in a couple of years, I shouldn't be embarrased anymore for being a PHP-developer.
awesome. want to try this out and see how it functions in apache / nginx with wordpress sites
Before you can run HHVM you have to play Farmville on it and share with a *related friend*
Will it run faster if I pay to 'Promote'?
This is really a great accomplishment, and I can guess more than one will be looking into installing this on their servers.
A few things do trouble me however. It is weird that facebook doesn't even try to contribute this back to the PHP developers, surely there is much that can be merged and benefited from.
Also why develop their own bytecode interpreter / JIT compiler when they could just use LLVM for this?
I'm guessing that Facebook tries to remain in control of their stack, but duplication of effort on something that's open-source anyway is just puzzling.
I wonder what the LIST_AVAILABLE_SUITES code is doing PHP 5.5 took only 1 second more than hiphop.
It would be interesting to see a performance test of facebook hiphop vs php 5 + opcode cache.
By the way there seem to be a lot of PHP haters out there but it is running about 70% of all websites on the wild so it seems to have something good


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7. Uneasy Peace
When we had finished with the towels, Fíriel placed a basket's worth in my arms and told me to bring them to the south ward and the surgery corridor, and that after that I should go and rest.
The south ward was full, as it had been for the past several days, the Gondorian soldiers and the Rohirric cavalrymen perched and propped on the low, narrow beds. After the battle, the uninjured men would come to visit their friends. They trailed in and out of the wards between their shifts at feeding the funeral fires, and at all the other duties that had to be attended to in our half-crumbled City. The Houses were by far some of the cleanest places left in Minas Tirith, and there were women there, and the air within them was not nearly so foul as the air without. Therefore certain corners of the south ward had become unofficial gathering places for some of the companies. It was not unusual to pass loose clusters of soldiers, conversing and sharing their bread and meat, occasionally passing around a small flask. I liked the sound their talk made within the walls, their low voices mingling together like the constant noise of a fountain or a running stream.
I counted out stacks of towels to place on the small, squat wooden tables that stood among the beds at intervals. I exchanged the occasional greeting with this Rider or that Guardsman, for all of the healers had made the acquaintance of a great many men over this past week.
"Thank you, Miss," a man in ranger's garb said. His face was kindly and weather-worn.
"You're most welcome…Mablung, is it?"
"Aye. You see, Damrod?" He put a gentle elbow to the ribs of his friend, who was sitting beside him. "She remembers me."
"'Tis most likely because you're the greatest oaf she's ever met," said Damrod, without looking up.
* * *
Before, I had never imagined that I could envy a soldier, but now at times I would watch them together like this and feel a strange longing. There was something about the way they spoke with one another, their movements as they clapped their friends on the back or clasped hands in salutation. Even the ones who would often quarrel, the ones who were not the fastest of friends within their unit, still seemed to carry that sort of easy, knowing closeness between them. I had always loved to sit and talk with the other girls in the Houses when we had time to spare, but it did not seem the same; I decided there must be a different sort of blessing conferred to those who had drawn and shed blood on the same field.
I was thinking of this when I came to the surgery corridor. I set a few towels outside of each room. When I came to the last in the row, I knocked on the door.
Valacar opened it and looked at me, one hand on the wooden frame. "Well, come in," he said.
I stepped inside and he looked quickly around before shutting the door behind me. The small room looked as it always did when Valacar was not at work on a patient; it was clean and orderly, all the edges of the tables squared to one another.
"I brought you some towels."
"As I can see. Thank you."
I gave the basket a small toss upwards, then caught it.
"But now they've all come unfolded." I sat down on a chair against the wall and placed the basket in front of me. "So I need to make them tidy again."
He stared at me for a moment. The first few ties at the neck of his coat had come undone. He snorted, then smiled. "As you wish."
I pulled out one of the white cloth squares and put it into my lap. It was a few minutes before I decided what I should say. For his part, Valacar was silent as well. He leaned against the opposite wall, arms folded over his chest.
"I'm not entirely sure what he wanted," I finally said. I remembered the endless stacks of papers, the books against the wall of the office, Aradîr's low whisper in my ear. "He was not forward with me. He wished to know if I had done any work in the surgery corridor, if I had ever aided you. And he said that it went against Canon for a woman to do surgery work."
Valacar raised his eyebrows. "Oh?"
"Though I don't think he is angry with me for that."
"No, I doubt he would be, in truth."
"And he kept going on about the Canon, and all of the laws. He said that the smaller violations could lead to the larger. I don't understand why he did not just ask me about…if he wanted, I mean…" I trailed off.
"And what do you think?" Valacar asked softly.
"Of what?"
"Do you think that it was the right thing for me to do?"
I looked down and ran my hands over the coarse cloth in my lap. I liked neither the question, nor the way in which he had asked it.
"Of course it was," I said quickly. I had never spoken of it with anyone—I had only played timidly about its edges. "It had to be. I—I mean, I saw him. I saw that man." I threw a glance towards the high surgery table. "'Tis a cursed thing, to let a man linger in such pain, is it not? Especially when his end is already certain." I closed my eyes. "I didn't like it," I continued, and my voice rose slightly. "I hated it. It made me ill to think of it, even after everything else. But it had to be done." I opened my eyes to look at Valacar. "It needed to be done, did it not?"
He shook his head slowly. "I don't know."
My stomach turned.
"What do you mean? You cannot do such a thing and not be sure of it." Valacar was one of our best surgeons; he had always seemed to know what to do. When the surgeons stood in the corridor to argue or debate some matter, they always heeded his words, even when his voice was the quietest. There was no sense in him asking me such a thing. I pulled the towel from my lap, tossed it back into the basket.
"And besides that," I went on, my tone softer now, "what can it mean, one more body? When there are yet so many lying on the field?"
"I suppose it means that one body carries the same weight as any other, and that we cannot always find a gentle way around things, and that those in our place must not make presumptions."
"What are you saying, then? What will you do?"
"I do not know. It was wrong of me to undertake such a thing while you were aiding at the surgery. It was thoughtless, and I wish no ill to come to you for it."
"'Twas but a brief talk I was called for, in the end." I paused, knotting and twisting my fingers into the loose folds of my smock. "But I still do not understand, Valacar; how could Lord Aradîr know of all this? It was during the fighting, was it not? Everyone was hard at work—and you were behind a closed door. And I—" I stopped in a panic of memory. Then I took a deep breath. "No. I said nothing," I finished, fairly sure of myself.
"But I sent you for the herbs."
"Oh." And then I remembered: Elloth's perfect records. Was it the job of the herbalists to record denials as well, now that the rationing was underway? "And I asked for them in your name."
Valacar nodded. "And soon after there was a corpse borne away from my part of the corridor."
A pause.
"But I still do not understand. Who would watch those things so well, especially when there is a battle at our doorstep?"
Valacar moved away from the wall and leaned over the table that stood between us, resting his weight on his elbows. "You seem like a good girl. You pay little heed to wagging tongues, I suppose?"
"Well… I…" The truth of the matter was that I enjoyed a good morsel of harmless gossip as much as any young lady, and there were often plenty to be had in the close space of the Houses. The reason that I was not of ill repute in this sense was that I did not simper and giggle like many of the other girls.
Valacar gave a weary smile. "That is well. I would have you know that grown men partake in their fair share of rumor as well."
Suddenly I recalled the barest shred of something—a few words, perhaps, that I had overheard nearly one year ago.
"You would be the next Warden, would you not?"
He nodded. "There has been talk, although I am not the only one under such consideration." He smiled again. "And our own Warden is yet quite hale, and I do not know if I should even like to inherit his position if ever it comes to that. I am no great lover of bureaucracy." His smile faded as he went on. "Such a thing does seem to mean that some men can nonetheless be watched more closely than others. That some cases can be handled less forwardly than others."
"Even in times of war?"
"Even in times of war. Perhaps even more than in the uneasy peace in which the City has dwelt for all these years."
"And what would become of you, Valacar? If…"
"Most likely I would be removed from the Houses. And perhaps there would be other consequences brought to bear; the ones for the taking of a life, outside of war."
I shook my head. "No."
His face softened. "But it may not come to that. I do not wish you to trouble yourself with this."
"I will, whether you wish it or not."
He crossed to the other side of the table to stand directly before me. "Take heart at this, then: the tides have turned, and Ioreth tells me that the King has come back to us."
I stared at him.
"'Tis often true that Ioreth prates more than is becoming," he went on, "but never in my memory has she spoken false."
"And what thinks the Lord Denethor of this?" I asked when my voice had returned.
It was his turn to stare.
"You do not know, then?"
"The Steward is dead. There was a fire."
I bent my head and took a slow breath. Surely that could not be.
"The Lord Faramir will be Steward, now," Valacar continued. "And by all accounts he is a wise man."
"And a just man, as well?"
"Aye. A fair man."
"Then that is well, I suppose," I said, and any strength that was in my voice had long fled. I glanced up at Valacar once more. He looked tired and calm, as he always did. I could not see how he could be so serene. Before, speaking with him had never failed to settle my mind, if only just a little; now, our talk had hopelessly roiled my thoughts.
"Valacar, Laeron wants to go and fight!" I blurted suddenly. The memory of the apprentice in the kitchens had sprung to my mind unbidden.
"I know," Valacar sighed. "I believe that many of the young men in the Houses had such a desire. It was well for us all that the battle was ended before any had fully resolved to go."
"'Twould be folly."
"It might well be, but I can understand why Laeron and the others would wish to go. Though Laeron's parents sent him to be apprenticed to the Houses so that they would not have to send their son to war."
"And much good it did him. We have all been sent to war, in the end." I remembered Aradîr's words. 'Twas good of her to spare one of her children, then.
"We chose to stay, did we not?"
"Aye, that is true," I conceded. I paused once more, and then resumed: "And he's in love with Elloth, Valacar!"
"Oh." He considered this new revelation for a moment. "And is there anything you would like me to do about that?"
"I don't know, it's just—it's Elloth!"
"Well, she is very pretty." He must have noted the look on my face, for he quickly added, "You're very pretty, too, of course." He paused, and stared at me. "Youdon't fancy him, do you?"
"What? Laeron? Valar, no."
"Well, then. You would do well not to add to your own troubles, my good lady."
I nodded quickly, embarrassed. Even at the end of it all I was still a rather silly girl, it seemed. "I should be going."
"One last thing: you should not tell anyone of the manner of the lord Steward's death. The Warden says that the news must not reach the lord Faramir's ears at the present time."
"Why not?"
"I assume it is because he has been gravely ill, and because he has more than enough to fill his thoughts in these days, even without word of his father's demise."
"I'll not tell anyone."
"I suppose you must keep secrets well enough—when it matters."
"I do."
Valacar nodded, satisfied. "You seem so. Quiet girls usually do. I believe I could tell that the first time I saw you, in fact."
"And when was that?"
"It must have been…nigh on twenty years ago, I suppose."
I folded my arms. "Don't tease me, Valacar. I would have been naught but a babe."
"So you were. I had just arrived in the City for my surgical apprenticeship, and your mother came with you to visit the others in the Houses. I remember she said that you were a very good and sweet child, though you did not smile as much as you might have. You sat in her arms very quietly and took in everything around you. I fancied that you looked like a wise little owl."
"That was a long time ago. Why would you recall a thing like that?"
He shrugged. "I don't know. Why do we remember some things and forget others?"
"A wise little owl," I repeated. "That is good to know, I suppose."
He smiled. "I am glad of it."
I stood up and made ready to leave. "Goodbye, Valacar. And thank you."
"Thanks to you, as well," he replied. "And do try to be at ease with this, if you can. You young ones must keep the hope for us all." He shut the door behind me and I left, clutching the empty basket.
* * *
As I moved down the corridor that led to a wing of private rooms, the men seated with their backs against the wall threw me several longing looks. Or rather, they threw longing looks at the tray of food I was balancing in both hands. It was a good meal, to be sure; not an extravagant repast, but certainly much better than the plain bread and tough dried meat on which most of the men had been living for the past few weeks. As soon as the sons and daughters of nobles had come to the Houses, stuffed roasted game hen, good cheese, cured olives, and even a few delicately-crusted pastries had miraculously appeared in the kitchens.
"How nice of her, boys! She's brought us a proper supper."
"'Tis very sweet of you, missy, to remember the lowly warriors."
"This," I said, without breaking my stride, "is for the Lady Éowyn."
A chorus of groans and mock exhortations went up. It did smell good.
"Ah, too good for the likes of us, I see!"
"Aye…playing lady's-maid to the Wraithbane, she is."
Lady's-maid, indeed, I thought.
"You will take the Lady her midday meal, and you will sit with her and wait on her until she is finished or dismisses you," the Warden had said to me earlier. I immediately opened my mouth to protest: I was a healer, after all, and not a maidservant—this was a distinction that the girls of the Houses took quite seriously. But the Warden did not look as though he was in any mood to debate this matter, and besides that, I realized that I was intrigued at the prospect of finally seeing the storied woman up close. So I had swallowed my objections and gone to fetch the food.
Now I tapped at the door with the toe of my shoe. The voice from within bade me enter, and I shouldered the door open and went inside.
"My lady," I said, and dropped a curtsey.
The tales that had been going around the Houses were numerous, and some were more fanciful than others. So perhaps I had expected to see some wild-woman with beads and feathers woven through straw-colored hair; or perhaps I fancied I would see some dark-eyed lady of death, swathed in robes of crimson and black.
I saw neither, however. The woman by the window stood slender and tall in a tidy white gown. Her fair hair hung loose down her back, shining dully in the muted slats of light that streamed through the glass. When she turned around I saw that her face was pale, and very, very pretty. I was reminded for a moment of the statue of the solemn young maiden I had seen in the gardens.
I carefully set the tray on the small table beside the bed. The fine covers looked barely disturbed. I cleared my throat nervously.
"With all respect, my lady, the Warden has said that you are to be abed as much as possible," I ventured.
She nodded slowly, but did not move. "I doubt not that that is what he said." Her accent was not so pronounced as those of many of the other Rohirrim, but there was yet a low, insistent thread of it running through her voice. No matter what else each of the different tales had said, they had all agreed that she was formidable.
I looked at her, and then I looked at the bed and at the food. I lifted the tray from the small bedside stand and placed it upon the regular table towards the center of the room. I pulled out the chair.
She nodded to me. "Thank you."
* * *
Even today, people still ask me now and then what it was like to attend to the Lady of Rohan, and so soon after the Battle of the Pelennor. I always begin by telling them that she was a very poor eater in those days, and they swiftly lose interest.
It was true, nonetheless: I would watch her as she picked at her meals in disinterested silence, and marveled at how one with such a bad appetite could possibly have had the strength to ride to battle, let alone perform any great deeds upon arrival there. And then in all fairness I would remember that there had been many hours in these past days in which my own stomach had been empty, and yet I would sooner have died than made myself take a bite of food. In those hours it would be all torn skin, cracked bones, the warm iron flavor of blood.
I like to think that we were perhaps companionable. I was sent to her room with her meals many times over the next several days; while I was certain that while she had not requested my return, at the very least she did not find me objectionable. I believe that we were all little more than shadows to her at that time. She did not speak to me much, nor I to her. Sometimes she would ask me a question about the Houses or the City, and I would reply as best I could. Though she was nothing if not mirthless, she still seemed to possess an odd sort of humor, which occasionally bared itself in sharp, dry splinters.
Once she asked me if there were a great many ladies working here.
There were a fair few, I replied. Though not so many as before the Siege.
"I suppose I have met several of them," she said. Then there was a long pause. "You do not say a great deal," she told me.
"I could speak more, if my lady wishes."
She gazed out the window for a moment before looking back at me. "'Twas a compliment."
* * *
On that first day with Éowyn, I returned the supper tray to the kitchens and walked back through the north ward. Beren was standing near a corner, talking to two other soldiers who wore the same dark livery as he did. Their faces were quite different from one another, save that they shared that peculiar sternness of countenance that seemed to attach itself to all of our menfolk from the age of fifteen or so; and yet at the same time they seemed to me as alike as three brothers. Beren saw me staring at him, and I looked away reflexively.
But a moment later he was at my side. "Hello again," he said.
"Hello. Are those your friends?"
"And how do they fare?"
"Well enough, I think. 'Tis good of you to ask."
"It is my business to ask." I inclined my head slightly to one side. He watched me with raised eyebrows.
"Then I will not praise you so if 'tis merely your job. After all," he went on lightly, "my uncle oft says that to feed a woman too much praise is like feeding a mare too many oats—it makes her spoiled and useless, you see." He smiled at me. I opened my mouth, but then he continued: "I think that you should take a walk with me."
"Why don't you find a mare? Perhaps she would be better company for you."
It took him a moment to recover. "I looked for one," he finally said, smiling once more, "but the stables were empty."
"Well, that's a terrible pity. She would have found your conversation far more charming."
He laughed, put his hands up to signal a truce. "Very well, then. You need not forgive me if you do not wish to. But you should come and take a walk with me."
I considered him for a moment, then nodded curtly. "A short one."
"Aye, and not in the gardens, since you insist you dislike them so."
"I never said that."
"Of course not."
We left the Houses and walked slowly round the Sixth Circle. I kept my arms folded across my chest. Our dragging feet were in marked contrast to the men and women who moved about briskly on some piece of business or other. We stayed close to the inside edge of the Circle, but here and there my gaze was drawn briefly outward and downward and a glimpse of the ruined Pelennor filled the corner of my eye. Perhaps it had been a mistake to go out, I thought, for the lightness of our previous talk seemed to drain from us with each step.
"May I ask you something, Beren?"
"Have you ever killed a man?"
He nodded, and his face was blank. "Aye, some. I once kept a sure count of all the foes I had felled, but I no longer care to do so. To slay a man is far more loathsome than slaying orcs, I think, but such was the way of the battles." He paused and looked at me. "Does that trouble you?"
"I don't know. It should not, I suppose." I cleared my throat. "For I am scarce more a virgin than you, when it comes to it."
I watched as his expression turned to one of utter shock, and he stared at me for a moment. Then he laughed, for he understood: I was not speaking of love and maidenhood, but of carnage and blood. When the men talked of being a virgin, they spoke not of lying with women, but of the difference between those who had not yet been to battle and kept company with death, and those who had.
"True that may be," he murmured, still smiling. "True that may be. The folk of the Houses keep a grim station, indeed." Then he grew grave. "A woeful day it is for our City, when our women speak as if they too are at war."
"We are," I said. "But unlike to you, our lives have not yet been in close peril, for our men have done well in keeping our foes at bay."
"Rohan has done well, you mean," he sighed. "And the men of the North, and the dead oathbreakers. Woeful, too, is the day when Gondor cannot defend herself by her own hand alone."
"But joyful is the day that she finds her friends in her greatest hour of need, Beren!" I said. "You speak as though any fault lies with you. None of this is your doing."
"I know," he said, and stopped walking: we had come to the eastern side of the Circle. We both fell silent as we gazed at the shadow that yet glowered in the distance, blurring the line of the horizon. Still far off, and yet so near. On an impulse, I stepped away from Beren and moved forward to the battlements. I stood there and gripped the railing with both hands, and the white stone was smooth and cool beneath my fingers. Another moment, and Beren was beside me once more. We were silent for a time, both of us staring East.
"I hate it," he finally said. "To look upon it is to hate it, and yet it has always been there, as long as I can remember." He shook his head.
"Ioreth once told me," I said quietly, "that those people who have lived all their lives in the City, those who have been children here, are a peculiar sort. That it comes from growing up beneath the Shadow, so that we are like animals whose eyes are shaped to the darkness, and that we cannot abide too much light at once."
"Think you that that is the truth?" Beren asked.
"I cannot say." I looked at him and smiled. "I do not think that I am peculiar, of course. And 'tis true that Ioreth is different—she is from Lossarnach—but it could be that she is different from all the folk there, as well, for Ioreth is Ioreth. And Lady Éowyn and the Rohirrim are different from us, too, but they are simply from another land with other ways, and no better and no worse, I think. And Valacar…" I trailed off for a moment, and found myself staring in the direction of Mordor again.
"Who is Valacar?" Beren asked.
"He's a surgeon. From Amroth. And he is different, too. He looks at things in a different way." I sighed and braced my weight against the railing. Beren was watching me. "And he does not hold the City very close to his heart, I think."
"Nor should he, if Minas Tirith be not his home."
"No. He should not have to, I suppose."
I turned and leaned back against the stone so that I could face Beren. He was standing straight-backed and silent, this young soldier. He stared out to the East, as if trying to fathom the distance between himself and the Black Lands. I remembered what Valacar had said to me, about the young ones keeping up the hope. For a moment I was sorely tempted to tell Beren everything: about Valacar and Aradîr, and Laeron, and the dead man, and the wounded soldier with his eerie little wooden figures, and the way in which the only Steward we had ever known had passed away, taken by the flames. Things I might not have even told to my mother, had she been here.
Instead I held my tongue.
"I think that Ioreth is right," Beren said.
"But only part of the way," he continued. "We may have grown so that our eyes are shaped to darkness, but this has only made us to seek light more fervently." He smiled. "So we are peculiar, after all."
His eyes were kind, but for some reason I looked away from them and turned back towards Mordor and the depthless murk that lay there. None of this is your doing, I had said to him. Nor was it mine, nor any of ours.
"It is out of our hands," I said, and shook my head. I did not know whether I was speaking more to Beren or to myself. "I need—"
"I know," he finished for me. "You need to go back to work."
I nodded and left it at that.
"Very well," he sighed. "So do I." He turned to go, and I followed after.
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