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This book explores the impact, both immediate and in its longer historical perspective, of the First World War upon Ireland across the broadest range of experience - nationalist, unionist, Catholic, Protestant - and in civilian social, economic and cultural terms, as well as purely military. Underscoring the work is a belief that the Great War is the single most central experience in twentieth-century Ireland and that the events of the war years, whether at home in Dublin during the Easter Rising or at the European battlefront, constitute a 'seamless robe' of Irish experience. The book also explores cultural responses to the war and its commemoration since 1918, up to the dedication of the Irish 'Peace Tower' in Belgium in November 1998. It argues that identifying and exploring the Irish Great War experience can contribute to the contemporary Irish peace process.
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Review of the hardback: '... a wise and beautifully researched study into the most sombre period in Ireland's history of the last century. It is an essential guide which steers a careful political and military path'. Kevin Myers, Irish Times Review of the hardback: 'Modern Irish history has been graced by wonderful books which are adaptations of lecture series ... This elegant work belongs in that tradition.' Adrian Gregory, The English Historical Review Review of the hardback: ' ... a scholarly contribution ... a must read for lovers of Irish history'. Irish Times Review of the hardback: 'Keith Jeffery's pioneering and splendid attempt to resurrect the war as a social and historical phenomenon in Ireland.' British Army Review Review of the hardback: 'These elegant essays bring a sense of gentle closure to an era both tragic and heroic. Ireland and the Great War will occupy a prominent place on the shelf of Irish historical literature.' Stand To Review of the hardback: 'Keith Jeffery's work is attractively produced and reasonably priced, and is sure to remain the standard work on Ireland and the Great War for many years to come.' War in History Review of the hardback: '... important new book ... It is the first book on Ireland and the Great War which can meaningfully serve as an undergraduate textbook or a guide to Ireland's experience of the war for the interested general reader ... sure to remain the standard work on Ireland and the Great War for many years to come.' War in History
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Introduction; 1. Obligation: 'Irishmen remember Belgium'; 2. Participation: Suvla Bay, the Somme and the Easter Rising: the military experience of the war, abroad and at home; 3. Imagination: onlookers in France: Irish cultural responses to the war; 4. Commemoration: 'Turning the 11th November into the 12th July': Irish politics and the collective memory of war; Bibliographical essay.


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Nice and quiet, five minute walk to the beach. Small enough to get to know the staff who were all so nice and helpful. Not for party animals!
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Anthology of the Hot Tub, a Brief History of the SPA
The medicinal uses of heated water baths have an impressive lineage. This paper attempts to provide a brief overview of the history of the spa.
By Any Other Name...?
Spa comes from the Walloon[1] word "espa" meaning spring fountain. This, in turn, came from the name of the Belgian town Spa, a famed site of healing hot springs, Spa has been frequented as a watering-place since as early as the 14th century. Though other sources of healing hot mineral springs have become famous throughout the world, it is the town of Spa which has become eponymous with any place having a natural water source that is believed to possess special health-giving properties, as a spa. The word spa is still used, although in some regions of Europe the term "thermal waters" is preferred. The concept of submerging in heated water for therapeutic purposes has many names, e.g., balneotherapy, spa therapy, hydrotherapy, but for this articles purposes, spa shall do just fine.[2]
Ancient Egypt
It is thought that the Egyptians used baths for therapeutic purposes as early as 2000 B.C. (not to be confused with "Before Chlorine") . Evidence of actual spa construction also exists from Phraortes, King of Media, in 600 B.C. The earliest forms of hot tubs were simply a caldera in which sizzling stones had been placed to heat the water.
Ancient Greece
The ancient Greeks believed in the therapeutic benefits of hot bath and mineral waters. They even indulged in the practice in bathing in the ocean for medicinal uses. Although largely reserved for the wealthy class, the concept soon came out to the public in the form of public baths whereupon they rapidly became worship centers for resident deities.
In Homeric times, bathing was primarily used for cleansing and hygienic purposes. By the time of Hippocrates (460-370 BC), bathing was considered more than a simple hygienic measure; it was healthy and beneficial for most diseases.3 Hippocrates proposed the hypothesis that the cause of all diseases lay in an imbalance of the bodily fluids. To regain the balance a change of habits and environment was advised, which included bathing, perspiration, walking, and massages.[3] The baths were often combined with gymnastics and education, the precursors of the gymnasium.
Today there are vestiges that still remain of Greek hydrotherapy, The Ancient Spa of Therma in Ikaria: The island of Ikaria has an abundance of the highly therapeutic radio- energized springs. They are regarded as the best in the world. Historically Therma in Ikaria has been a very popular place particularly for hydrotherapy ever since the 4th century BC.
There are basically 3 main therapeutic springs in Therma. The hot springs have curative properties and can heal a variety of illness like rheumatism, arthrology, arthritis, neuralgia as well as infertility.
Therma derives its name from the pre-historic town of Thermae. In the past, the residents of Thermae were popularly referred to as "Asclipians" after the name of "Asclipios" who happened to be the god of medicine. There is the"Xalasmena Therma" which is located in close proximity to the Therma town where even today one can see the vestiges of the ancient spa. [4]
In the past, it used to be a seaside town innovatively built on a small cape and was one of the most popular spas. The remains of wrecked marble bathtubs along with a pre-historic aqueduct that have been unearthed from this area bear ample testimony of the place's popularity in the ancient times.
Ancient Everywhere
Distinct spa traditions grew out of different cultures worldwide. In 737 A.D., Japan's first "onsen" (hot spring) opened near Izumo, and centuries later the first "ryoken" (inns) were built, offering fine food, accommodations, Zen gardens, outdoor baths and indoor soaking tubs called cypress ofuro. Saunas began appearing along the Baltic in Finland as early as 1000 A.D., inaugurating a rich Finnish spa-going tradition - including a prescription of sauna-induced sweating, icy lake plunges, and plenty of beer or vodka - that continues to this day in a nation that offers one sauna per every two Finns. And of course the Ottomans were famous for their domed and beautifully mosaic hammam, the crowning example being the Baths of Roxelana (built in 1556), with its massive towering steam rooms, private washing quarters, and sprawling massage platforms. Typical of hammam throughout the Empire, Roxelana became an important social center, particularly for Muslim women.
When In Rome...
Well, unless you live under a rock, you've heard of the proverbial "Roman Bath Tub", basically, a large tub in the newer and more expensive homes. Though, this term is not without its history.
Taking the lead from the Greeks, Romans embraced bathing as a regular regiment for health. However, Romans considered the baths more important than the gymnastics alone. Besides cleansing, exercises, socializing, relaxation, and worship, medical treatment was also applied extensively. Now as opposed to the Greeks who used Spas as a practice following intense Gymnastics, the Roman Spas also had a medicinal emphasis and were used largely as recuperation centers for the wounded military soldiers. However, recuperative also included therapeutic centers for the healthy soldiers as well. Water applications to the ailing body were a general practice among the physicians in the ancient world. Spa treatment consisted of application of water to afflicted parts of the body, immersion of the whole body in the water (especially for rheumatic and urogenital diseases), and drinking excessive quantities of water.
In Rome, there were primarily three types of baths. There were baths at home (balnea), private baths (balnea privata), and public baths (balnea publica) that were run by the state. With the advent of the aqueducts, the concept of the "public bath" exploded to glorious edifices (thermae) with a capacity for thousands of people. The consumption of water leaped during this period, from roughly 12 litres to 1400 litres of water per person per day, mainly for bathing. The practice was so engrained that the Roman legions, during their long occupations in foreign lands, built their own baths at mineral and thermal springs in the newly conquered lands. Examples are found all over Europe. [5]
Although as everyone knows, the therapeutic and hygienic practices of the Roman public bath slowly lost ground to the social and gatherings of ill repute as the Roman morality went on the decline in the later years.
The Dark Ages, Indeed...
The research on the common views of bathing are conflicting at best during this period. However, with the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 and the rise of Christianity, it's widely believed that among the common polulation, the cleanliness regiment went to the wayside, for the Church viewed that the practice of bathing was a prelude to forbidden behavior;
Georges Duby, in an article in A History of Private Life, suggests:
Bathing and grooming were regarded with suspicion by moralists, however, because they unveiled the attractsions of the body. Bathing was said to be a prelude to sin, and in the penitential of Burchard of Worms we find a full catalog of the sins that ensued when men and women bathed together... Lambert of Ardres, the historian of the counts of Guines, describes the young wife of the ancestor of his hero swimming before the eyes of her household in a pond below the castle, but he is careful to indicate that she is wearing a modest white gown. ... [Public baths] were suspect because they were too public; it was better wash one's body in the privacy of one's own home. Scrupulous, highly restrictive precautions were taken in . . . monasteries. At Cluny the custom required the monks to take a full bath twice a year, at the holidays of renewal, Christmas and Easter; but they were exhorted not to uncover their pudenda." (p. 525)[6]
Bernard Rudofsky, in a speech reprinted in Interior Design, gives a more cheerful picture:
"In the Middle Ages, bathing scenes woven into Gothic tapestries leave no doubt that bathing was indulged with equal gusto by prince and pauper. In the morning, the opening of the public baths was announced by the sound of trumpets and drums, whereupon the good burghers proceeded to them naked--a precaution against theft. For the stay-at-home a wooden tub was brought to the bed-chamber and filled with hot water. If the chronicles are to be believed, the wealthy had elaborate installations with pipes made of gold and silver, and one Heinrich von Veldecke, an epic poet, sang the praises of a golden tub. In the spring, bathing parties would move to outdoor pools and ornate basins, amid statuary and flowering trees. Dark ages indeed! "
The early Irish considered baths a major part of hospitality, and to not offer a guest the opportunity to bathe, or at least wash hands and feet, was an insult. Irish baths were filled with cold water and then heated by dropping rocks, heated in a fire, into the water. There are some suggestions that such heated rocks may have been used to heat saunas.
Bathing in tubs was done in private homes, in monasteries, and in communal bath-houses, which were very common in cities. In the late 13th century, bathhouses in Paris employed criers to announce when the water was hot. In Gasawa Poland, Duke Henryk the Bearded and Duke Leszek Bialy were attacked in the baths in 1227. By the 15th and 16th centuries, bath-houses in Western Europe had mixed clientele, and by the end of our period of study, the 'stews' had the unsavory reputation as houses of ill-repute we remember. [7]
Couple bathing as a prelude to intimacy is depicted in 14th through 16th century illustrations. Legal history suggests that ordinary public bath-houses were often segregated by gender, or different times or days were restricted for each gender. Private bath-rooms in castles, such as the one at Leeds, could often accommodate multiple bathers as well. There are many illustrations depicting groups or individuals (such as Bathsheba or Judith) bathing in fountains or spring-pools. It is hard to tell whether these are artistic fantasies, or interpretations of a common practice. [Similar illustrations show such water sources being used to wash clothes and cool wine, among other domestic chores.] Examples of such illustrations can be found in Frank Crisp's Medieval Gardens ( New York, Hacker Art Books, 1966).[8]
Regardless, from the 13th century onwards, baths gradually came into re-use, particularly in southern Europe under the influence of the Moors. Public baths were rebuilt and the entrance was usually free. The baths were often crowded and people bathed for hours, sometimes days in the same bath. Blood letting, enemas, and drinking cures (up to 10 litres a day) were prescribed, although relaxation and pleasure were most often the reasons for bathing. [9]
(Illustration "The baths at Louèche," by Hans Bock the Elder 1597)
In the early 16th century the image of the public bath was still on the decline, for they were perceived as sources of contagion, such as syphilis, plague, and leprosy, and the baths became dangerous meeting places for political and religious dissidents. The economy did not help either, for not only was there a shortage of firewood, but the general upkeep of a public bath was too extensive to be supported in such an economic environment. Nevertheless, the gentry continued to visit the baths, although they preferred to go to baths from natural sources with warm, mineral water instead of the public baths. [10]
However, as with everything in the Renaissance, the tide toward Spas change back to medicinal purposes. Several famous Italian doctors recovered lost texts on medical treatment from the ancient world, and the value of balneology as a therapeutic modality was reconsidered. By this time, the first attempts to analyse the waters for their mineral components were made, although the results were often controversial. It was equally important to recognise the quality of each mineral and its effect on the body, as to know which parts of the body might be influenced by taking the waters
In 1571, Bacci published De thermis, in which taking the waters was not a matter of empiricism, but a sound discipline. According to Bacci, essential to the cure was a quiet orderly life in pleasant surroundings with good food and wine, and a maximum of comfort. Therefore, he argued, the baths would do no good to the poor. Other, practical obstacles also restrained the poor from attending the baths: they had no time for leisure and the baths and mud were usually not free. [11]
Minardo published in 1594 a compendium on the two baths of Caldiero in Verona. The first bath was used for drinking and bathing, the second was used by bathers with skin conditions, for bathing of animals, and for washing off therapeutic mud. Seventy eight conditions that might benefit from these baths were listed. The treatments consisted of drinking cures, bathing, purging, and application of mud. It was advised to follow this type of treatment for 15 days, and repeat it every year. [12]
The new bathing culture that had developed in Italy gradually spread over other parts of Europe, and was particularly popular with the elite. The development of spa treatment north of the Alps and by the turn of the 17th century, many spas were rediscovered in France. Two types of spas existed: hot springs for drinking and bathing, and cold springs for drinking cures only. Taking the waters in French spas was a serious activity and quite sober. Doctors created centres for treatment, not for leisure. Much attention was paid to purging, drinking cures, eating well balanced diets, and bathing. In the afternoons some indoor leisure activities were provided. Late in the afternoon, people walked about on the promenade, and went to bed early in the evening. This was in contrast with many other European countries, where in the evenings diverse leisure activities were offered such as theatre and dance.
Around 1800 interest in the bathing began to be in vogue again, and attempts to further analyse the mineral benefits. However, the motivation was largely medicinal again. Doctors were convinced that for each disease there was an appropriate medicinal spring, which could be discovered through chemical analysis of the waters. Two main protagonists of the methodical application of hydrotherapy are Vincent Priessnitz, a peasant farmer in Gräfenberg, a German speaking town that is now part of the Czech Republic, who, in around 1829, revived it, poplularizing it once more and Fr. Sebastian Kneipp, a Bavarian priest, further developed the principles of balneotherapy (medicinal use of thermal water) and hydrotherapy (immersion of the body in thermal water for therapeutic purposes). Individual treatments were prescribed, based on the composition and temperature of the water. Also, combinations of treatments were developed consisting of hot and cold baths, herbal baths, mud packs, active physical exercises, massages, and diets. Kneipp advocated a holistic approach to the treatment of a disease. In contrast with the spa resorts, which aimed at the elite, Kneipp directed his attentions to the common man.[13]
Throughout Europe and the Americas the public Spas were on the rise. The were integral parts of gentilian life. Every spa resort had its own theatre, casino, and promenades besides the bathing buildings. In Germany, Austria, and Belgium much importance was attached to ostentation. Grand hotels arose with casinos and dancing establishments surrounding the spa resorts. The spa resorts became not only a meeting centre for the elite but also a place of creativity for painters, writers, and composers. The baths were again crowded. Baden Baden (Germany) became the most glamorous resort in continental Europe. It was the place to see and to be seen."
However, in Britain use of the spa declined. The English spa resorts were run by amateurs, and the medical hydrology was poorly organised. The resorts aimed more at pleasure, rather than medical treatment, and were exploited by estate developers with commercial interests. Competition from seaside and foreign resorts, and an economic depression in the 1930s led to a further decline. Eventually, spa therapy was excluded from the National Health Service, which meant that many spa resorts in Britain closed down. [14]
The American Experience...
The 1950s the first home hot tubs began to appear, mostly in California, USA. Inspired by the Japanese ofuru, these early prototypes were still made from used oak barrels, wine tanks and olive vats from nearby wineries. Redwood hot tubs then began to appear, but often leaked and were difficult to keep clean. These tubs lacked effervescence and bubbles. By 1965, free sprits, "hippies" began flooding the coast of California with little money, and lots of free time on their hands and they started the proliferation of wooden hot tubs. Most of these tubs were homemade with smoke-belching wood fired heaters. Water circulation, filtration, and sanitation were a little hit and miss.
In 1956, an idea was born. Why not treat a family member's arthritis symptoms with a hydrotherapy pump. The Jacuzzi brothers invented a pump and a small niche business was born. The J-300, a portable pump, was sold to hospitals and schools.
This innovative spirit was captured by Roy Jacuzzi, a third-generation family member who had begun learning the business as a teenager. Sensing the American consumer's interest in health, fitness and leisure activities, Roy invented and marketed the first self-contained, fully integrated whirlpool bath in 1968. By incorporating jets into the sides of the tub, it became the bath that almost single-handedly created an industry.
When the shortcomings of wooden hot tubs became apparent, the first fiberglass shell hot tubs began to appear on the market around 1970. The gel-coat fiberglass construction had its own drawbacks, and was soon replaced by cast acrylic shells and, for the first time, it was easy for the owner to achieve water cleanliness. Manufacturers installed pumps, filters, control systems and, of course, jets, although the first hot tubs had very few of them.
When the shortcomings of wooden hot tubs became apparent, the first fibreglass shell hot tubs began to appear on the market around 1970. The gel-coat fibreglass construction had its own drawbacks, and was soon replaced by cast acrylic shells and, for the first time, it was easy for the owner to achieve water cleanliness. Manufacturers installed pumps, filters, control systems and, of course, jets, although the first hot tubs had very few of them.
As larger units were designed to accommodate several people, Jacuzzi incorporated heating and filtration systems to keep the water warm and clean, thus creating the first spa in 1970. In 1979, the family sold to New York-based Kidde Inc. All the family members left the business or retired, except for Roy, who stayed on to run the Jacuzzi operations.
Modern Day Hot Tubs Spas
Today, there is almost no limit to the luxurious features you can get on a hot tub. Some of the upgrades availalbe to include hi-definition waterproof LDC TV's, built in stereos with CD players, MP3 inputs and sub woofers for dramatic sound, DVD players that play on the TV, waterproof floating remoe controls, water features such as fountain jets and water falls, countoured loungers molded into the shell, and color changing LED lighting packages that will beautifully highlight your spa.
Whether you want a basic hot tub with just a few jets, or a top of the line featured spa, with all of the bells and whistles, theres is a model out there for you.
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2. Calin A. Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath. A 250th birthday party [editorial]. J Rheumatol1988;15:733-4.
3. Croutier AL. Taking the waters: spirit, art, sensuality. New York: Abbeville Publishing Group, 1992.
4. Jackson R. Waters and spas in the classical world. Med Hist Suppl1990;10:1-13.
5. Schadewalt H. The history of Roman bathing culture [in Dutch]. Integraal1989;4:25-35
6. Greeka.com. Ikaria: The Ancient Spa of Therma in Ikaria Greece, Eastern Aegean, http://www.greeka.com/eastern_aegean/ikaria/ikaria-excursions/ikaria-ancient-spa.htm
7. Braunstein, Philippe, "Toward Intimacy: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries," in A History of Private Life: Volume 2: Revelations of the Medieval World. Georges Duby, ed. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1988), p. 535-632.
8. Palmer R. "In this our lightye and learned tyme": Italian baths in the era of the Renaissance. Med Hist Suppl1990;10:14-22.
9. A Short History of Bathing before 1601: Washing, Baths, and Hygeine in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, with sidelights on other customs
[1] (Walloon (Walon) is a Romance language spoken as a second language by some in Walloon region (or Wallonia), Belgium)
[2] A van Tubergen, S van der Linden A brief history of spa therapy (Ann Rheum Dis 2002;61:273-275 doi:10.1136/ard.61.3.273)
[3] A van Tubergen, S van der Linden A brief history of spa therapy (Ann Rheum Dis 2002;61:273-275 doi:10.1136/ard.61.3.273
[4] Greeka.com. Ikaria: The Ancient Spa of Therma in Ikaria Greece, Eastern Aegean, http://www.greeka.com/eastern_aegean/ikaria/ikaria-excursions/ikaria-ancient-spa.htm
[5] Schadewalt H. The history of Roman bathing culture [in Dutch]. Integraal1989;4:25-35
[6] Braunstein, Philippe, "Toward Intimacy: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries," in A History of Private Life: Volume 2: Revelations of the Medieval World. Georges Duby, ed. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1988), p. 535-632.
[7] Jackson R. Waters and spas in the classical world. Med Hist Suppl1990;10:1-13.
[8] Braunstein, Philippe, "Toward Intimacy: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries," in A History of Private Life: Volume 2: Revelations of the Medieval World. Georges Duby, ed. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1988), p. 535-632.
[9] A Short History of Bathing before 1601: Washing, Baths, and Hygeine in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, with sidelights on other customs
[10] Jackson R. Waters and spas in the classical world. Med Hist Suppl1990;10:1-13.
[11] Palmer R. "In this our lightye and learned tyme": Italian baths in the era of the Renaissance. Med Hist Suppl1990;10:14-22.
[12] Palmer R. "In this our lightye and learned tyme": Italian baths in the era of the Renaissance. Med Hist Suppl1990;10:14-22.
[13] Calin A. Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath. A 250th birthday party [editorial]. J Rheumatol1988;15:733-4.
[14] A Short History of Bathing before 1601: Washing, Baths, and Hygeine in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, with sidelights on other customs
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| Guest chapter 26 . 5/25
[SPOILER] Well, I would like to congratulate you for implementing Draco fighting with a sword without it being lame and actually held onto the context of the plot and his background.
I just wanted to specifically point that out, but there were many other parts of the stories I highly appreciated. Like the complex secrecy of becoming a spy and the usage of little details that you could find in the HP series such as the portraits and the Black family portraits.
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| Guest chapter 26 . 3/27
Well, the debt's been paid, hasn't it?
Are they married?
Why are they still at Hogwarts?
How did Snape get to her?
| Guest chapter 25 . 3/27
It's the Manticore blood.
Get with it, girl.
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| Guest chapter 24 . 3/27
Did Snape fake his death?
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How were Draco and Ron able to see each other despite their use of invisibility cloaks?
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| roxy05 chapter 2 . 11/19/2014
Very nice plot.
| roni2010 chapter 26 . 10/17/2014
Happy that voldie is dead.. D/h are still together and have their happy ending..
| roni2010 chapter 4 . 10/17/2014
Love the story!
| fanatic05 chapter 18 . 8/11/2014
Betrayal is not something I take lightly. If it was for me when I saw Draco come to the scene, I would have tied him up and worry about him later. That was not even a good deal Voldermort offered and everybody knows if Draco would have stayed in the cell, Voldy would have killed him and give no fucks about Granger. Smh she gave in too quickly for my taste
| Slythindor Complex chapter 26 . 6/1/2014
Just finished reading your story. While I enjoyed the plotline, I felt like the connection between Draco and Hermione was a bit rushed and unrealistic. They used to hate each other and within the first few chapters, they were already feeling differently towards one another. That was the one thing that didn't quite sit well with me, but I really liked the ending (final battle). It was a nice alternative to some of the others I've seen on this site. Overall, I'd say it was a job well done.
| xxDMHGxx chapter 26 . 5/18/2014
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It's been a while since I first read your fanfiction, but now I remembered it again and decided to write some reviews. I'm not sure, if I'll review every chapter, but well... I'll start with this first one.
First thing: I love the perspective. I really enjoy it, when I'm able to identify with a character and that's just so much easier for me, if it's "I..." instead of "he/she". And as Hermione is one of my favourite characters it's perfect.
I also like the beginning because it somehow "pulls" the reader directly in the story, without already telling him everything.
I'm a litle confused about how the lumos is working here. I always thougth it would just lighten the tip of the wand...
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And all the time this scene between Draco und Hermione seems so unreal to me, as there's a battle going on around them and they actually have the time for a nice, smalltalk ;)
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The ex-general who lost Indonesia's presidential election to Joko Widodo will challenge the result in court, his campaign team has said.
The move by Prabowo Subianto, announced on Wednesday, could spell weeks of uncertainty for the country.
Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, is seen as a break from the autocratic era of President Suharto. He was named the winner of the election on Tuesday, with results showing he had defeated his rival by about 8.4 million votes.
Before the result was announced in the world's third biggest democracy, Prabowo, who had also claimed victory in the July 9 vote, announced he was withdrawing from the election race.
He claimed Widodo's side had tampered with the votes during the long counting process.
Members of his campaign team indicated on Tuesday that he would not challenge the result in the Constitutional Court, as he had been widely expected to do.
On Wednesday, however, a spokesman for Prabowo, a top general in the Suharto era who has been dogged by allegations of human rights abuses, said he would contest the result.
"We are in the process of preparing our challenge to the Constitutional Court," said spokesman Tantowi Yahya.
Prabowo's brother Hashim Djojohadikusumo added: "We are looking for justice... We are expecting some fairness."
He also urged foreign leaders not to congratulate Widodo, as "the legal process has not ended yet".
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US Secretary of State John Kerry and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott are among those who have already sent congratulations.
A spokesman for Widodo's team, Anies Baswedan, suggested the court may not accept the challenge."The court has always been selective in accepting cases," he told AFP news agency.
"Only cases that have merit and the possibility of changing results will be welcome".
Widodo's victory capped a meteoric rise for the former furniture exporter who was born in a riverbank slum, and won fans with his common touch during his time as Jakarta governor
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- The NEXEN takeover by China National Offshore Oil Corp has been given a 30 day extension and may be extended again as opposition continues to grow from all factions with the exception of investors and the energy sector.
The China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), one of three companies controlled by the Chinese government, is putting pressure on the Government of Canada to approve the purchase of NEXEN, an oil and gas company based in Calgary. NEXEN has worldwide operations located in Alberta's Athabasca oilsands region, the North Sea, Columbia, and the Gulf of Mexico. If this deal gets approved, Alberta and British Columbia (BC) will lose more provincial powers and environmental rights than is being revealed.
Although investors have already approved the deal, it now has to be ratified by the Government of Canada which might be a challenge considering there is growing opposition not only from Canadians and our federal political opposition parties, but also from powerful political forces in the U.S. citing "security risks" supported in the article
U.S. Deems Chinese Canadian Energy Purchase National Security Risk
Private shareholders and China will benefit most from this deal, as it will boost China's presence in Canada's energy markets increasing Chinese investment by a whopping 49 billion compared to their current 3.5 billion in U.S. acquisitions. Although China is urging Canada not to turn this business deal into a "political" issue, there is concern and a warning from our own intelligence agency CSIS about security risks this deal might impose. In The Canadian Press report
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, it is assumed the risk will be greater if approved.
China and Canada have very different political and economic systems as well as environmental standards that could potentially be problematic. This is most likely why the environmental laws have been either deleted or changed to the point of being unrecognizable, lax, and regressive, indicated by the quick passing of Bill C38.
Canada's largest citizens' organization The Council of Canadians, strongly urges that Canadians demand parliamentary hearings regarding the Canada-China investment pact. In the
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, Canadians are encouraged to become more proactive. The Canada-China treaty between the Government of Canada and the Government of the People's Republic of China for the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments is defined as a "bilateral investment treaty". This means that corporate rights will allow companies to sue governments when it is perceived that their investments or profits have been "undermined by public policies, including public health or environmental measures or by delays to energy and resource projects."
Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, explains, "It's up to private arbitrators outside of Canadian courts and with very little accountability to decide if the investor's rights have been upset. These treaties say nothing about democratic rights, human rights or Indigenous rights. A government cannot sue a company under the treaties if that company has done wrong, or is failing to meet its promises. They are one-sided corporate rights pacts where the outcome is decided by lawyers and judges with a perverse vested interest in deciding in favour of the companies, since it guarantees there will always be more work down the road, more work suing governments that is."
Once established in Canada, Chinese energy companies will "threaten the federal, provincial or territorial governments against imposing environmental rules on tar sands production, pipeline construction and other projects. Delays or denials on energy and mining investments could result in costly lawsuits outside Canada's courts, which will be settled by unaccountable private arbitrators with a vested interest in the outcome." Considering this unfavorable result may soon be a reality, there is a need for greater public scrutiny prior to the deal approval.
Barlow warns that Canada's Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (FIPPA) will not be good for Canada especially since the
Canada-China investment treaty invites multi-million dollar lawsuits against environmental measures
. "The FIPPA won't wipe-out Indigenous rights or other protections, and there are supposed to be exclusions in the treaty for environmental or resource conservation measures. But these are very weak exclusions and Chinese firms will be able to claim millions if not billions in compensation from the federal government in disputes against delays or cancellations of their projects, or against what those firms consider too onerous environmental, resource conservation or public health measures. Around the world resource companies are using investment protections in agreements like this FIPPA to frustrate government attempts to better control energy and mining projects. It's a matter of when, not if, a Chinese firm uses their investor rights to challenge any future Canadian policies that interfere with their tar sands and pipelines ambitions," continues Barlow.
Additionally, it's questionable whether Canadian entrepreneurs doing business in China will have the same rights there as the Chinese have here due to China's different political and economic structure.
Once the NEXEN deal is approved,
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. Furthermore, the bilateral treaty will protect the rights of investors for the next 31 years, stopping any future governments that want to fight for the rights of Canadians. The controversial state arbitration clause (Article 28) in FIPPA allows for a three-person tribunal to judge cases of the investor-host country but transparency, especially for the public and provinces of Canada, won't be allowed in favor of China's national profits.
Barlow adds, "Canada negotiates all its trade agreements and foreign investment protection agreements in secret, and there is never any real possibility to comment or change the treaties before they become law. In this case, where the consequences for tar sands and energy development are so severe, we demand that the treaty be debated, changed and ideally thrown out. We don't need these treaties to attack investment to Canada. All they do is get in the way of proper regulation and control of energy and resources. They remove barriers to corporate profit and put them up to the public good."
Any government with an interest in the well being of its people and the environment would not ratify this deal hastily if at all without the input of its citizens, the 99%. Consultation from the provinces, territories, and First Nations should be part of the democratic process before it is approved otherwise, the NEXXEN-CNOOC deal will be nothing more than a blatant "sell-out" of Canada's natural resources and major economic source. As Canadians, we definitely have democratic rights worth fighting for before this deal becomes a reality.
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Rays manager Joe Maddon watched that simulated game and agreed that Moore looked ready to go.
That would mean no minor league rehab start for the 24-year-old left-hander, who has been out since July 28 with left elbow discomfort. "I feel comfortable enough with where I'm at to think a bullpen is going to get me ready for a game in four days," Moore told Mooney after his workout on Saturday.
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Barbara Preston and her parents bought four adjoining cemetery plots two decades ago intending to spend eternity together at Fairview Memorial Gardens in Stockbridge.
That's not going to happen.
Someone else — a complete stranger — already occupies one of the family's four grave sites, and that unknown person's spouse has dibs on another of the plots they bought. It's a cautionary tale of how even the most carefully laid plans can go awry.
The revelation that the family's plots had been resold without their knowledge has broadsided them, creating a stressful decision they had hoped to avoid by buying years in advance. Jessica McDunn, a spokeswoman for Houston-based Service Corporation International, which owns Fairview Memorial, declined to discuss details of the case but said the matter has been resolved.
Situations such as the Covington family's are rare and typically caused by mistake rather than graft, said officials with Georgia and national organizations that oversee cemetery matters.
"We don't see these things very often, and when they do (happen), they're honest mistakes and the cemetery usually makes good," said Bob Fells, executive director and legal counsel for the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association, a Sterling, Va.-based group with 7,200 members worldwide. "It's extremely rare for a cemetery to deliberately resell a plot. It usually happens when a cemetery hasn't updated its records and doesn't realize it's selling a space already sold."
Though she reached a resolution with the cemetery, it is little comfort to Preston who made the discovery last month and had to struggle to work it out while making funeral preparations for her 84-year-old mother, Bernice McGee, who is in the final stages of kidney failure. It was at McGee's urging that Preston decided to check on the cemetery plots, purchased in 1992. Preston pulled up to the site near an area chosen because it would make visiting the cemetery easier. Seeing the occupied graves initially stumped Preston and had her questioning herself.
"I couldn't believe it. I was in shock," said Preston, a 63-year-old hairdresser. "Maybe I'd made a mistake."
Cemetery officials initially assured her no one was buried in her family plots. But hours later, they awkwardly acknowledged that "someone had dropped the ball." Perhaps, they suggested, Preston and her family might be interested in space in the back of the cemetery. That wasn't going to work. Neither was exhuming the bodies of the people already in their space.
Preston spent the next week or so in a tug of war over space and price. She and her parents had paid $1,360 for the four plots. But now it was going to take $10,600 — the going rate for the four plots — to relocate.
"I just wanted them to pay for the lots," Preston said. "I didn't even want to be in the transaction. Just buy lots at another cemetery. They wouldn't do that."
The two sides finally worked it out when Preston got the money she needed to buy plots elsewhere.
Clayton County resident Mimi Holland faced a similar problem a decade ago. A record-keeping error led to some of her family's eight plots being sold. Instead of being together, Holland's family is now scattered throughout the cemetery. After learning of Preston's case, Holland says she plans to check on her new grave plots to make sure they're still intact.
"We haven't checked … in several years. This has made us want to go back," Holland said. "We thought it was a rare instance."
More extreme cases of resold plots have garnered national attention for their macabre nature.
In July 2009, a historic cemetery outside Chicago called Burr Oak became a crime scene after the Cook County Sheriff's Office alleged that workers dug up more than 200 graves, dumped the bodies into unmarked mass graves and resold the plots. Among the cemetery's occupants: blues singer Dinah Washington and Emmett Till, the teenager brutally murdered in Mississippi in the 1950s for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Fells, who has been in the industry 30 years, called the Burr Oak case "unprecedented."
"That was a criminal act," Fells said, noting the manager was given 12 years in prison.
Like other industries, the funeral service business has undergone tremendous changes in recent years as larger conglomerates buy up smaller mom-and-pop operations. That in turn has led to, in some instances, policy and management changes, staff turnover and records being shuffled. Fells says the change in the industry has actually helped prevent the type of problems that Preston's family faced because of better record-keeping and greater government oversight.
In Georgia, the state only steps into a dispute when the two sides are unable to reach an agreement. A check of records with the Georgia Secretary of State's Office, which oversees funeral homes and cemetery matters, found no case of disciplinary actions involving the resale of cemetery plots within the past 10 years. The Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs has had only a few cases of cemetery-related complaints, including one involving the resale of a burial plot.
Meanwhile, Preston found four plots together at East Lawn Cemetery in McDonough. The new plots overlook a waterfall-style fountain adorned with a large angel.
"It's beautiful," Preston said. But the recent ordeal robbed her of precious time with her mother.
"I can never get that (time) back."
What to do if your burial plot has been resold
While the resale of burial plots is rare, it does happen. Here's how to protect yourself and what to do if your plot is sold:
- If you've made pre-arrangements and bought burial plots, let family members know where the deeds or contracts to the plots are located.
- The best way to prove ownership is with the proper documentation, whether that's a contract or deed. Keep those records in an easily accessible place.
- If you own cemetery spaces, especially those purchased a while back or ones you inherited, contact the cemetery to confirm the lot locations and see whether the plots still show you as the owner. If necessary, physically look at the plot to make sure it is still yours and is not occupied.
- If you inherited plots, contact the cemetery to let it know about the change in ownership.
- If you move, give the cemetery your new address so you can be notified in case there is a change in ownership at the cemetery or new procedures and policies are put in place.
- Make sure the cemetery has updated records of who owns the burial rights and how they can be contacted.
- Ask the cemetery how it will rectify the problem. The usual solution is to offer similar spaces, without any cost to you.
- If you're unable to work out a solution, you should be able to get proper compensation. Most cemeteries have their own liability insurance to cover such situations.
- If you're unable to work out an agreement with the cemetery or its insurer, contact the state agency that oversees cemetery matters. In Georgia, it's the Georgia Board of Cemeterians, which oversees such complaints, or the Georgia Secretary of State's Office, which oversees all matters related to cemeteries and funeral homes. Contact the cemeterian board's Professional Licensing Division in Macon at 478-207-2440 or the Secretary of State's Office at 404-656-2881 or log on to www.sos.ga.gov.
- If that doesn't work, call Bob Fells at the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association at 1-800 645-7700.
- As a last resort, you may have to hire an attorney.
Source: The International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association