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Andrew: Because MuggleCast has hit the road, this is MuggleCast Episode 102 for July 28th, 2007, live from Tulsa, Oklahoma and St. Louis, Missouri.
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Andrew: How's everyone doing today?
[Crowd cheers]
Andrew: Welcome to MuggleCast live here in Tulsa. This is a huge crowd, thank you everyone for coming out. Round of applause for yourselves.
Ben: A bit of a spoiler - whoa.
Andrew: Whoa!
Ben: Bit of a spoiler warning, if you haven't read the book, that's what we're going to talk about, and yesterday in Santa Fe, we made some guy really mad. So...
Andrew: He stormed out. He was mumbling something. He was like... [grumbling noise]
Mikey: So, yeah.
Jamie: If you don't want to get spoiled, leave now.
Andrew: Anyway, yeah. Actually, we have one. Sorry.
Mikey: We're sorry. We're talking about Book Seven; it came
Ben: Yeah, so, Dumbledore made all those Horcruxes.
Mikey: Definitely come back for Alex here, and The Remus Lupins, because they're pretty awesome.
Andrew: But there's a few things we want to talk about today. Anyone been catching up on the news lately? There's been a lot of Book 7 developments in the news. I check MuggleNet when I want my news. That's where I go.
Mikey: That's where I go.
Andrew: But, a couple big things. First of all we found out the character who got - who was saved. The reprieve.
Ben: The reprieve.
Mikey: The reprieve.
Andrew: The reprieve, Arthur Weasley. Arthur Weasley.
Mikey: He didn't die. He lived, which was good.
Andrew: Was slated to die...
Jamie: But even more so , he was supposed to be killed in Book 5 wasn't he?
Andrew: Right. Yeah.
Jamie: Rather than Book 7, which is interesting.
Andrew: And I think Jo said that she decided not to kill him off because Harry had already lost a father figure.
Ben: Like ten of them.
[Crowd laughs]
Andrew: Sirius.
Jamie: Yeah.
Andrew: Yeah. Well, quite a few of them.
Mikey: Yeah.
Andrew: So, that was a big deal. Then, then we found out the two characters who weren't slated to die, but then died. Tonks and our buddy...
Mikey: Remus, over there. Remus and Tonks.
Andrew: Remus Lupin had...
Jamie: Two of the most pointless deaths in the history of the books probably, completely.
Ben and Mikey: They didn't even have a death scene.
Mikey: They didn't even have a scene where it was, like, they died.
Andrew: Yeah, does anyone have an idea for why Jo would've done that?
Jamie: Because she's...
Andrew: Go ahead. Wow!
Jamie: I was going to say mean, but thought better of it.
Ben: Yeah, because I think things had to look a little more balanced because it's like, all the bad guys died. So you got to throw in a few good guys.
Jamie: But they didn't even get a death scene, it was just - they just said, she just said that they died, that was it.
Ben: There weren't enough pages. I don't know.
Jamie: Yeah, she ran out.
Ben: She couldn't be bothered to think of a way to...
Mikey: Even Hedwig got a death scene, and...
Jamie: Yeah.
[Andrew laughs]
Mikey: I guess Hedwig is a little bit more important than Remus, huh Alex?
Jamie: Yeah, she must...
Mikey: He's not even in here for me to make fun of him.
Andrew: Was everyone very surprised with the Hedwig death? That was...
Mikey: I was sad.
Andrew: That was a very - that was the very first one. Everyone was like, "What? It's so innocent." So, it's sad.
Jamie: But I think , it's a bit weird to call it the Hedwig death, because, I mean, I care about animals and I have pets, but it isn't really on the same scale as Tonks and Lupin and all those people. Well, I'm sorry. I guess I'm cold-hearted then, that must be it completely. But, you know.
Ben: What about your cat, Jamie? What if your cat died?
Jamie: If my cat died, I don't think I'd leave my room for months. I'd be so upset.
Mikey: So...
Jamie: That's no joke, but it is just an owl in a book.
Andrew: Yeah.
Jamie: Ok. I'm alone here, I know, so I'm just going to be quiet.
Mikey: Well, moving on.
Andrew: Ben, any other deaths that you were surprised by or you were happy with? Dobby was probably - sorry, I do have to say, Dobby was probably the saddest death.
Mikey: It was. A tear-jerker, definitely a tear-jerker.
Ben: What about Voldemort? Poor Voldemort.
Andrew: Poor Voldemort. [laughs]
Ben: No, think about it, though. I mean, for seven - for all these years, he has all this, these elaborate plots to kill Harry and then he overlooks one, tiny little thing whereas Harry just always shows up on the spot, throws up an Expelliarmus and lucks out.
Jamie: We keep having this talk and Ben comes out with all these reason why Voldemort should be forgiven, because he isn't really mean, and he just planned all these things, you know, for 13 years. And, you know, for every year he's been planning these things, he's been in hiding, and then Harry, as you say, thwarts him with an Expelliarmus, or with Hermione clutching his hand at the last minute. But then, I always point out that, Ben, he did - he has murdered hundreds of thousands of people, which kind of puts a downer on his good side.
Ben: No, I'm not saying he's good. I'm just saying that he deserves a lot more credit than he's given.
Ben: So, but, okay, in the book, and I think Mikey would agree with me, we got to give it up for Molly Weasley. I mean seriously, give it up for Molly Weasley.
Mikey: I know, seriously. It's like we just had Ginny up here, and it's like Bellatrix throws this curse at Ginny and she's - Molly Weasley, just comes charging, you know the cloak goes flying off and she's like, "GET AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER, YOU..." witch. It's still a children's podcast, so we replace the 'b' with 'w.'
Andrew: Try to keep it PG.
[Andrew and Mikey laugh]
Andrew: There's some other things we found out. J.K. Rowling did this interview with The Today Show, with what's-her-name. I was going to say Katie Couric, now I'm forgetting the new - Meredith Viera - formerly of The View. Anyway, she said - J.K. Rowling revealed some of the jobs that the trio are now involved in. Harry and Ron...
Mikey: Aurors.
Andrew: Aurors.
Mikey: They redefine the Auror Department.
Ben: No, they utterly revolutionize the Auror Department.
Andrew: They utterly revolutionized the department.
Mikey: They're the hotshots. They're the "to go" team.
Andrew: Then - Jamie?
Jamie: I was just going to say, I can't see Ron as an Auror, really.
Andrew: No, me neither. Everyone...
Jamie: Is that just my opinion or is anyone else agreed on that?
Andrew: Yeah, everyone was predicting just Harry.
Jamie: He would be fighting security trolls or something like that, whereas Harry would be the one to be on the front line.
Andrew: Yeah, and then Hermione, pretty high up in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. So, they're all working in the Ministry now.
Mikey: It's a new Ministry.
Jamie: Yeah, definitely not.
Mikey: Not the old one with corruption and bad stuff.
Andrew: So, I guess we're going to see all this explained in more detail in the epilogue - sorry, the encyclopedia.
Mikey: That's coming out, yeah.
Andrew: Jo also confirmed what happens.
Mikey: Harry Potter 8: The Encyclopedia.
Andrew: She wouldn't give a time frame, but Jo said she would probably take her time on it. She says she has it all laid out because she has all these notes...huh?
Jamie: A few years? 2010? Maybe 2011?
Andrew: Well, I think that's a...
Mikey: Well that way, she can just give it out to us at the theme park, you know? We all just walk in and it's like, "Here's your encyclopedia." It would be kind of fun.
Ben: But what about...
Mikey: Let's go hunt for stuff and find the Horcruxes.
Ben: The real question is, you know, say she waits five years, how many of you would be lined up at a bookstore to get it?
Andrew: Do you think there's going to be a midnight release for the encyclopedia? I guess...
Mikey: That'd be really cool.
Ben: Why not?
Mikey: That would be crazy.
Andrew: I don't know, I just always pictured Book 7 as being the last one.
Jamie: People still call it Book Eight, you know, the one afterwards.
Andrew: I guess so.
Jamie: I don't know, I think so.
Andrew: And then Neville got a job at Hogwarts. He's the Herbology teacher.
Andrew: Professor of Herbology. So, everyone's happy. These are all the predictions that everyone had sort of assumed, at least for Harry and Neville, and J.K. Rowling confirmed it. Also, let's just run through a couple more, quickly. Luna Lovegood, she, hold on, I think that Luna, she said...
Ben: She basically realized that her dad isn't all he seems to be, I don't know, something like that.
Andrew: Rowling calls her a "naturalist." Whatever the Wizarding equivalent of that is.
Jamie: A naturalist?
Mikey: She would travel the world, and, you know, finding different plants...
Jamie: With no shoes on, and just walk around in one of those...
Mikey: Yeah. And she'd come up and be like, "They're called Threstrals."
Mikey: And no - hold on, I'm not done yet - she'll have no shoes on and throw meat to them. And, it works.
Ben: Yeah.
Mikey: I'm sorry, I apologize. That was really bad.
Andrew: One thing we also wanted to discuss today was Dumbledore. We wanted to have a little main discussion on Dumbledore.
Andrew: And Jamie...
Jamie: Well, we've been talking about him. We've been driving a long way. Every day we've done sort of, six hour stints, and four hour stints, and three hour stints, and they claim that I should be complaining less than them.
Ben: You should.
Jamie: Because I don't drive, because apparently I can't drive. I can drive on a British driving license, but they don't trust me to drive on the wrong side of the road.
Andrew: No, no, no.
Jamie: Can't do that.
Mikey: One night we'll see headlights coming straight at us, Jamie. Not safe.
Jamie: Mikey, that only happened once.
Ben: Let's get it straight, he's been asleep 90 percent of the time.
Jamie: I sleep like tean minutes, and then Mikey will be like, "Dude, you've slept all day while we've been driving." And, you know, and all this kind of thing.
Mikey: Ten minutes in Jamie time - ten minutes in Jamie time is like five hours.
Mikey: No, really. It's like all day, Jamie. It really is.
Jamie: Well, whatever. It doesn't matter.
Mikey: Speaking of sleeping.
Jamie: What was I talking about now? Dumbledore. So, yeah, we were talking about Dumbledore. We've been talking about Dumbledore a lot because he's a character that's intrigued all of us, really. And we were pointing out that in Book 1, he was sort of a, you know, mentor figure, and he's been a mentor figure. He's also acted as a father figure, sort of, benevolent old man. You know, the kind of stuff that fairytales are made of. And then, in Book 7, we get a complete turnaround and we find out he's had a, you know, a worrying past. He hasn't been brought up like we thought he had to come into such - to be such a perfect man. And we were wondering whether this has changed everyone's perceptions of Dumbledore, and whether they still like him or not at all. Okay, well, that solves that one.
Andrew: Wow, what a quick discussion.
Jamie: Okay, let's move on.
Ben: There are a lot of people who don't, you know, because they look to his past, say, okay, he was friends with Grindelwald. But you have to look at the circumstances in which he grew up, because he was given - he wasn't really given much of a choice, because there were the three muggles that did those horrible, horrendous things to his little sister, and I think the fact that he actually turned his life around despite the fact that those bad things did happen to his family because of muggles, and he's still able to, now, stand up for Muggles and do all these great things, I think is indicative of his true character.
Mikey: Definitely. So, what would you say reallu makes that...
Ben: [as Dumbledore] "It is our choices, Harry, far more than our abilities..."
Mikey: He was waiting for that, if you guys couldn't tell.
Andrew: Every show. While I was reading that back story, I started seeing Dumbledore in a different light. I was like, wow, Dumbledore's not all, you know, all that he's been cracked up to be.
Ben: All that?
Andrew: All that.
Mikey: It made him kind of human, because, you know, you make choices, but not always the good.
Jamie: Yeah, and even more human considering that all this bad stuff has happened and he's talking with Harry and he concentrated on Harry's deal and what Harry had to do, and Harry's problems. So, I had more respect for him after that.
Mikey: It also taught him something early on in life, that he wasn't good with power. That's why he was the headmaster and not Minister of Magic. If you look back at the King's Cross scene at the end of the book, he talks about - Harry's a better man than him because when he was young, he learned that power was not good on him. So, I think it was important that he went through those troubled times as a youth.
Jamie: Yeah, he faltered through slightly.
Ben: It made him all the wiser.
Jamie: Yeah, it did. Anyone have any points about Dumbledore?
Andrew: Yeah, you want to come up and bring up - here - come up.
Mikey: Come on up.
Andrew: It's an audio podcast so we have to hear you.
Mikey: So we need to have you talk in the microphone.
Ben: We might actually record this one. The last two we had a malfunction.
Andrew: Yeah, we've had some bad luck recording our shows. Let's not think about that right now.
Mikey: Say you're name and where you're from, and your question.
Ben: Your social security number, frequent flier number...
Mikey: Credit card number.
Andrew: MySpace URL.
Mikey: Facebook.
Stephanie: I'm Stephanie. I'm from Tulsa. And, you know, you're talking about Dumbledore, and, you know, how people see him in a different light. I definitely do, just because of the fact that - look what he made Snape do. I mean, I'm a Slytherin, obviously, but [laughs] you know, just the fact that, you know, he made Snape kill him. I mean, that's what made me see Dumbledore in a different light. Snape wasn't the one...
Ben: In what kind of light did that like - how did that alter your perception?
Stephanie: Well, like you said, Dumbledore is - you think of him as he's never done anything wrong. He's never, you know... But then I'm like, you know, it's not Snape coming to Dumbledore with all these ideas, it's Dumbledore telling Snape, you do this, you do this, because we're trying stop Voldemort and...
Mikey: Is he a puppet master? Pulling the strings.
Stephanie: Yes, exactly. Exactly. That's what I think. I might be alone in that.
[Crowd applauds]
Ben: Right, but I think...
Mikey: No, no.
Ben: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Andrew: [laughs] Oh no.
Ben: You've got to give Dumbledore some credit here.
Ben: I think that, I think the fact that - okay, that one moment in time when Snape approaches Dumbledore, of course Snape has already done the Unbreakable Vow, because, you know, either he does that or it's going to be obvious to Narcissa and Bellatrix that, you know, something's up with Snape, that he's not necessarily all with Voldemort's side of things. And, so that one crucial moment in time where Snape approaches Dumbledore when Dumbledore's there with Draco at the top of the tower, if Snape doesn't kill Dumbledore he's going to drop dead. And was proven by Book 7. It's obvious that Snape's position in the Order of the Phoenix was that much more crucial than Dumbledore's. So, and the hero must go it alone, so I think the fact that Dumbledore made Snape kill him...
Jamie: It was a huge sacrifice.
Ben: It was a great sacrifice. And I think if anything, it should make us see Dumbledore in more of a positive light rather than thinking he's some cruel person for making Snape kill him.
Andrew: Mikey?
Mikey: Okay, I'm not going to argue. Not now.
Jamie: But saying that...
Mikey: In the car, in the car ride.
Ben: That's all we do in the car ride, is constant bickering from the front to the back.
Jamie: About everything you could possibly think of as well. Just, oh.
Mikey: Just throwing chips at each other, like, "No, you're wrong."
Jamie: Yeah. No, you're wrong.
Andrew: And the music's a problem too, but anyway...
Jamie: Yeah, the music.
Andrew: Do we have - someone around here...
Jamie: No, yeah. Sorry. Can I say one thing?
Jamie: I know what you mean, because when I was reading that, The Prince's Tale, you know, Dumbledore just says matter-of-factly, well, you know, if you come over here and do this stuff, and then go and see someone else, oh, and kill me. So, he acts like it isn't a big deal, and then Snape wonders about his soul and what's going to happen to his soul, and Dumbledore doesn't seem to care, but I think he does care, really. So, that's why - I don't know. I don't personally hate him.
Ben: There was one point in the book where I felt, basically when - you know, Harry felt this way too - was when Snape, in the Pensieve scene, where he finds out that Harry is going to have to die at the hands of Voldemort. And at that one point in time he thinks Voldemort - Dumbledore never really cared about my life, you know, he kept all this information from me. And, I don't know, I think it makes sense that Dumbledore didn't tell Harry he was a Horcrux before he died, because, as he said, Harry's not very rational and tends to, you know, charge head on rather than actually thinking things through, which is another reason why Voldemort should've won. But...
Jamie: Can we ask - Andrew, can we just ask a quick question? What would've happened if Dumbledore had told Harry that he was a Horcrux before he died?
Andrew: We had this debate somewhere.
Jamie: Did we?
Andrew: And I think we said - I think it was at Enlightening?
Jamie: Probably in the car, actually.
Andrew: Someone - who?
Audience Member: Enlightening.
Andrew: Enlightening. Thank you, sir. Episode 99. He's a listener. He's a good listener. Yeah, we discussed that. We said that if Harry is a Horcrux, if Dumbledore told Harry that he was a Horcrux, Harry would most likely kill himself to defeat Voldemort.
Jamie: But Harry, even then, understood that after all the Horcruxes were gone, Voldemort would still be a mortal man, but with extraordinary magical power, so it would still take him to kill him, but that would be rash. I'm glad Dumbledore didn't tell him.
Jamie: He'd just try to Expelliarmus it out of him or something like that, something stupid.
Ben: That's all he does, anyways.
Mikey: Expelliarmus is like the magical, you know, spell.
Jamie: It is.
Mikey: Everything. It's like, open doors, Expelliarmus.
Andrew: That, and Alohamora was used once in the book, wasn't it?
Andrew: And it seems like such an easy thing to do. Like, what's the point of locks?
Mikey: Yeah, it's like, the first years can do that.
Andrew: Why even have locks? It's like 7-11's, why do they have locks? They're open 24 hours.
Ben: Raise your hand if you read a book called MuggleNet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter Book 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love, and How the Adventure Finally Ends. Okay, I just - you can ask these guys, usually, I don't like to boast...
Mikey: Oh, no.
Ben: ...but we called it. Harry's a Horcrux, folks. Just thought I'd get that out there. Thank you.
Mikey: Ben Schoen called it, everybody. He knew Harry was, indeed, a Horcrux.
Andrew: When we see Emerson in Chicago, Emerson was - Emerson fought for the Harry is a Horcrux theory tooth and nail. He deserves a lot of credit, too, when we see him in Chicago. Not to say you don't, either. But, I mean...
Mikey: You know, Emerson Spartz from MuggleNet.com probably deserves some credit, too.
Andrew: Yeah. [laughs]
Mikey: Anyway.
Jamie: Any other thoughts on Dumbledore?
Mikey: Dumbledore.
Andrew: Yeah, right here. We'll take a couple. Yeah, yeah, you in the pink.
Mikey: Here's the microphone.
Shelby: You know how he said Vol - sorry. Dumbledore said - oh, hi. My name is Shelby. I'm 14. Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Mikey: Credit card number?
Shelby: Okay. You know how Dumbledore said that he wouldn't be Minister of Magic because of the power thing? Well, he's Headmaster of Hogwarts. He has influence over thousands of impressionable teenagers and pre-teens. How is that not power?
Ben: That's a good question. But, I think when Dumbledore says power, he's referring to too much power, because at Hogwarts he has power over thousands of teens and preteens, whereas, if he was to be Minister of Magic, he'd have influence over the whole magical community, which obviously is a lot more people.
Jamie: And he can change laws as well, which is something he knows he must not get, he must not do because of his background.
Mikey: He also admitted that he loved teaching, even at an early age, and so, by him taking place as a teacher, overseeing all that, it definitely took away from the draw of power because he was teaching, doing something he loved.
Andrew: Yeah. And there's no doubt Dumbledore loved being Headmaster of Hogwarts. So...let's see, anyone else?
Mikey: Dumbledore?
Andrew: One more. There was someone else who had their hand raised originally. Are they - yeah. Go ahead, come on up. Come on up. Sure. Then you next.
Mikey: Why don't you make your way up right now so you can make your way through.
Andrew: Yes. Be prepared, here.
Ben: On deck.
Teddy: My name's Teddy, I'm from Oklahoma City, and...
[Someone cheers]
Andrew: Whoo, Oklahoma City.
Teddy: Thank you. I just wanted to say the thing about, like, how Dumbledore didn't tell Harry that he was a Horcrux before he died. Probably because that would just scare Harry for a year, however long he had to think about it, because when he had the hour he had before he had to go die, he didn't really have to think about it that much, he just thought, that's what I have to do. But if he had more time, then he probably would've thought, "but what about all the people I'm going to miss and all that." So...
Ben: Agreed.
Mikey: Maybe Hermione would've talked him out of killing himself or something because she thinks way too much about everything.
Ben: She points out that final scene when Harry knows, when Harry thinks that he's going to have to be the one who dies, the way he approached that was the most mature we have seen him throughout all seven books, because, in that one moment of time, he realized that his is what he had to do, and his own life became second nature to those around him. It was a great moment.
Andrew: Yeah. And then, lastly?
Julie: Hi, my name's Julie. I'm from Edmond, Oklahoma. And, back to if it changed our perspective of Dumbledore, knowing what he was like when he was younger. Hermione and Ron and a bunch of other people kept saying, well, he was young, he was young, and Harry kept saying, well, he was the same age as we are. And I think that's the point, because Harry has his prejudices and Harry also makes mistakes, and I think that Dumbledore turned out to be like Harry in the end. And, you know, growing up and realizing what mattered most and it didn't change Harry's perspective of Dumbledore, and it certainly didn't change mine either.
Andrew: Fair enough.
Ben: I think that has to be, you know, when Dumbledore says choices, I don't think choices alone really shape who you are. I mean, even though I like to do the [impersonates Dumbledore] "choices, Harry" quote a lot.
Ben: I really don't think that - I think that, given any environment, if any of us were born into any certain environment, we'd be the exact same way that Dumbledore was.
Jamie: Yeah, and if you notice, even Harry displays some of the characteristics that Dumbledore is ashamed of. You know, like, in Book 5, in Grimmuald Place, he starts shouting and saying, you know, I've done more than you two together. So, there's a certain degree of arrogance in both of them, which could be because of their background.
Mikey: He has done more than both of them together. So...
Jamie: He has.
Ben: Right, but you still - you don't say things like that.
Jamie: You probably wouldn't say something like that. Well, you might, Mikey, I don't know.
Mikey: I would never say such a thing.
Ben: Oooh.
Mikey: Ouch.
Jamie: It's just a joke.
Mikey: It hurts. Quit being so mean.
Ben: I mean, who - does anybody here feel a little bit of sympathy for Tom Riddle? I mean, look at the circumstances he grew up in. Was it really his fault that he turned out to be who he was?
Mikey: He was never loved. He was never loved. No, I agree. Voldemort was bad, I'm not "Ben Schoen" here, but he was never loved. It's kind of sad.
Ben: But can we blame Voldemort for the way...
Mikey: It's sad.
Andrew: Harry was loved. Not orginally. Not at first, but...
Ben: Can we blame, can we actually blame Voldemort for who he became? Whereas, can we blame Harry for who he became? I mean, when you're born into circumstances outside of your control, could anybody really be at fault for what's happened in their lives?
Andrew: You're going to make me cry, Ben. This is very emotional.
[Crowd laughs]
Andrew: I agree, you have a good point.
[Crowd member says something]
Jamie: Yeah.
Andrew: Yeah. You have to give Harry credit, the listener said.
Ben: But - I don't give Harry credit, though.
[Crowd applauds]
Mikey: I like Harry, not Voldemort.
Ben: I...
Andrew: You want to move on now to a debate, Ben?
Ben: I would love to.
Andrew: Ben's been itching for a debate because...
Ben: School's out.
Andrew: ...he's out of school now.
Mikey: He wants to go back to school.
Ben: Okay, disregarding the ending of the series, should - huh?
Jamie: Explain the debate first.
Ben: Oh, I don't know. Okay, there's - on one side, it's going to be Jamie and I, and on the other side, it's going to be Andrew and Mikey, and we're going to win, but...
Ben: ...we'll let you decide that, actually.
Andrew: They thought up this debate to begin with. I didn't even read the title.
Ben: Okay, disregarding the end of the series...
Andrew: Yes.
Ben: Okay. Should the wizarding world have surrendered Harry Potter for the greater good? You know that part where, "You have an hour, Harry, blah blah blah"?
Jamie: Yeah, and take into account that we don't specifically believe in what we're going to be arguing in, but we're just arguing because that's what we have, because this could get...
Mikey: That's what we like to do, really.
Jamie: Yeah, yeah, we like to argue.
Mikey: In the car rides, that's all we do.
Jamie: I'm not sure which side I believe, but we're going to argue furiously, aren't we, Ben?
Ben: So, Jamie and I are going to say that yes, they should have surrendered him. I think.
Jamie: Okay, yeah.
Andrew: Okay.
Ben: You guys are going to say no, they shouldn't. Disregard the end of the series and disregard the fact that - you've got to look at it from the perspective of one of the people in the wizarding community who did not know all of the insider stuff that we do.
Mikey: No.
Andrew: Inside Hogwarts? Fighting at Hogwarts?
Mikey: Or someone outside?
Ben: Like a Molly Weasley. Give it up for Molly Weasley, everyone!
Andrew: Molly was fighting...
Mikey: Molly would never give up Harry, because he's as good as one of her sons.
Andrew: Molly was fighting at Hogwarts, though, so...
Ben: So...
Jamie: Have we started? Sorry.
Ben: No, no.
Andrew: I'm just trying to figure out what's going on.
Ben: No.
Mikey: It's an early blow, sorry.
Ben: You don't get it, you don't get it. I'm saying should...
Mikey: Okay.
Ben: ...should....
Mikey: Okay, okay.
Ben: Should not, will not, will not, what, did, happen, no, should. Okay?
Andrew: [laughs] Okay.
Ben: You follow?
Andrew: I get it.
Mikey: Okay.
Ben: Okay.
Mikey: We're starting.
Ben: So, so who starts?
Mikey: I'll go first.
Ben: Jamie - you two start, you two start.
Mikey: I can go first.
Mikey: I think I got something here.
Andrew: Okay.
Mikey: Personally, I don't think the wizarding world should have given up Harry Potter. The reason why is, you can't give into the demands of one sadistic, crazy murderer. You can't.
Mikey: Because if you do, how do you know it's going to end there? If they give up Harry Potter, who are they going to take next? Ginny, Ron, Hermione, everyone else that we cared about in the series.
Mikey: So, I really don't think they would, you know, in any means, it would be smart to give him up, because he's never kept to, you know, any type of, you know, deal.
Ben: Okay, we have a response from Mr. Lawrence here.
Jamie: Moral choices are all well and good, Mikey, but you have to take into account the here and now, what was happening at that time. That one person there, and all these children in Hogwarts. You have to - you know, all these children could die if Voldemort comes in, and I know you can think with hindsight, you know, "Well, I'm so glad we didn't," because he happened to vanquish the Dark Lord, but don't forget that we're reading these books and we know good is going to win over evil. But in terms of being there, good and evil, it doesn't really matter, because you think, "I have 500 lives here and I have one life here." Of course you can think that, you know, this could not be the end of it if Voldemort wins, but you could also think that if Harry doesn't succeed, there's - and if you're standing there, and you think, "We have this Dark Lord who has been so powerful all these years. He's one of the most powerful wizards ever to have lived, and Harry Potter." You have to have one slight concern that he isn't going to win, and his wrath is going to be terrible. Voldemort's wrath is going to be terrible if they didn't give Harry up, and - sorry, yeah, if they give Harry up. Yeah, there'd be a lot of bloodshed. So, I think you have to think the greater good there, and if you hand over Harry Potter, all the children in Hogwarts could survive, and that should bring you through.
Andrew: Most of the children at Hogwarts did survive anyway, but...
Ben: We're not talking about did.
Jamie: We're not talking did, Andrew.
Andrew: Most people were...
Jamie: Andrew.
Andrew: All right, fair enough. Everyone was behind Harry, though. Once everyone realized that the Ministry was wrong, that the Ministry was lying about Voldemort being back, that's when everyone realized, "Okay, we should fight with Harry because Harry's right and we should defeat Voldemort." Everyone hates Voldemort anyway. You can't say, "Oh, let's give him over to Harry," because then everyone is losing.
Mikey: Everyone who did not join Voldemort as a Death Eater were living in fear. Giving into someone that's a dictator like that, living in fear.
Andrew: Yeah, they wanted to stop Voldemort.
Jamie: It isn't a case of giving up...
Mikey: Will it end by giving up one life? Is that one life, you know?
Ben: We're not talking about the concept of giving up one life and the concept of fear. We're saying...
Mikey: No, you're saying that they're giving up Harry, or not to give up Harry.
Ben: No, no. Did I interrupt you, Mikey?
Mikey: I'm sorry, Ben Schoen, I really am.
[Andrew and crowd laugh]
Mikey: I'm sorry.
Ben: What I'm saying is...
Mikey: Anyway. Okay.
Ben: You're given the choice. Okay, say there - I love using real world analogies. So, say there was a plane that was hijacked, and we knew that Osama Bin Laden was on board and that he was going to crash this plane into the Sears Tower, okay? Do we shoot the plane down and save the people on the ground, or do we say, "You know, we can't give into fear. We can't give into terror..."
Jamie: It's realism, yeah.
Ben: "...and let this plane crash and kill 8,000 people." More than that, even.
Mikey: I think I heard it in the crowd. "What? Really, what?"
Andrew: You can't really compare...
Jamie: No, no, no.
Ben: No, I'm right. I'm absolutely right.
Jamie: But it comes down to realism. Not giving into evil is very, very good if you can stand it, but then you have to think that there are lives at stake. I have to make the decision that saves the most amount of lives and destroys the least amount of lives, and handing Harry at that situation would have saved the most amount of lives because all you can think about is the short term, and in the short term you're going to save all these lives. The long term you can't be sure about, and even if you didn't hand over Harry, the long term could still be bleak, and worse, because you haven't handed over Harry.
Ben: So, what we're saying is that you guys are looking at it from like - you ignored the first part of what I said. Ignoring the end of the series. You guys keep going on about...
Andrew: No.
Ben: ...how, you know, "Well, they lived anyways, blah blah blah."
Mikey: No, I didn't say that.
Andrew: I didn't say that.
Ben: Well, then go ahead.
Andrew: I was talking to...
Ben: Go ahead, go ahead.
[Crowd laughs]
Ben: Humor me.
Mikey: I'm just saying, one life versus one hundred lives. Okay, I personally don't think giving up any life, for any reason, would be a rational decision, especially when you don't know what's going to happen. It's - basically it comes down to your favorite line: "It's your choices you decide to make."
Andrew: Yeah.
Mikey: And giving up Harry to believe that Voldemort would hold up his end and have no more bloodshed? I just don't think that would make any sense at all for any people in the wizarding world who are already living in fear, who - there's been so much bloodshed, so much, you know, Muggle-born killings. It just, it wouldn't make any sense whatsoever for anyone who was not already a Death Eater to give Harry over.
Andrew: Yeah, they weren't just...
Mikey: Be...
Andrew: Sorry.
Mikey: I just have one more point. And also, at this point in time, even though Harry - you know, giving over Harry would stop all this, apparently, Harry was considered the Chosen One by everyone at that time. Voldemort wanted him. Why give up your one chance to end something? I think that, right there, would make the biggest - you know, it's like, why give up your lifeline, really?
Andrew: They weren't just fighting for Harry, they were fighting for the wizarding community as a whole.
Mikey: As a whole. Even the kids. Even the kids there...
Andrew: We're running out of time.
Mikey: We're almost out of time, but even the kids in the castle understood what was going on. You know, the little Creeveys wanted to fight. They knew what was going on.
Audience: Awww.
Jamie: And we think...
Mikey: I know, it's sad, but they wanted to fight. They knew what was going on. They stood up...
Ben: Okay.
Mikey: ...to a bad man.
Ben: But knowing that if you do not give up this one person, that absolutely everybody there is going to be...
Jamie: Will die.
Ben: Obliterated and killed, you give up that one person because...
Jamie: You - yeah.
Ben: That is going to give you a chance at life, whereas if you don't give up that one person, you're going to - everybody's going to be killed.
Jamie: And you have to take the majority amount of people. You know, the Creevey brothers wanting to fight is all well and good, but the Creevey brothers are not going to stand any chance against Bellatrix or any of those Death Eaters.
Andrew: Well, would you have predicted Molly Weasley?
Jamie: They will die unnecessarily.
Andrew: Would you have predicted Molly Weasley would stand a chance against Bellatrix?
Jamie: No, I think that's very cool , but apart from that...
Mikey: I think the only way to solve this is to ask the audience.
Jamie: Well, can we finish our point?
Ben: No, actually, you guys got to speak a lot more than we did, so...
Andrew: We got...
[Audience laughs]
Jamie: Let's just finish this point.
Andrew: No, no, no. It was fairly split. You guys - well, okay, anyway, let's take a poll here. How are we going to do this?
Jamie: Well, can we finish our point?
Andrew: Hands, or...
Ben: Wait, so, I mean, you guys just get to cut us off when we're trying - right in the middle of a point?
Andrew: Go ahead, finish. Finish, we're running out of time.
Mikey: Finish your argument, finish your argument. I want have Alex play, but finish your argument.
Jamie: Okay, so in these situations, you have to take into account the most amount of people, and the Creevey brothers, as I said, it's very cool that they want to fight, but they're not going to survive something like this, so Harry Potter, you know, such a brave boy, would understand that all these lives have to be spared. He - all of his decisions are to be made to save lives. He himself allows him to be killed to save the people in the there and then, and you know, I think that you two are going against everything that Harry Potter stands for, and I don't think you can call yourselves fans...
Jamie: To be honest.
Andrew: All right.
Ben: So basically...
Jamie: The door's over there.
Ben: In summary, Jamie and I are looking at this argument through a big picture perspective, whereas Andrew and Mikey are looking at it from a...
Andrew: Ben knows he's going to lose. [laughs]
Ben: ...narrow - through a pipe. So...
Mikey: We're wrong, so you want to make sure you vote for Ben Schoen. Remember that, basically.
Andrew: All right, a show of hands, who agrees with Mikey and I that the wizarding community should have...
Mikey: Kept Harry...
Andrew: Should have kept Harry.
Mikey: And fought, yeah.
Andrew: All right. Oh, jeez. Okay. That looks like a majority amount.
Ben: So you've got to remember, it's not whether you agree with them personally. He didn't phrase that very well.
Andrew: No, they understand.
Ben: It's whether you - no, no. It's not whether you agree with Mikey...
Female Audience Member: Ben lost.
Ben: No, I don't lose. Ben Schoen does not lose! You do not understand. Okay, Ben Schoen doesn't lose.
Mikey: For people listening, someone just said, "Ben lost."
Jamie: Ben, been. How many hands went up just now? 15% of the people in here, maybe? Something like that, yeah.
[Crowd groans]
Andrew: Fine, fine, we'll hear it, then. Who agrees with Mike and I? Make noise.
Mikey: Make noise if you agree with us.
[Crowd yells]
Andrew: Okay. Who agrees - whoever agrees with Ben and Jamie, make noise.
Ben: By the way, that was digitally altered. By the way.
[Andrew laughs]
Andrew: All right, we got one guy over here.
Mikey: [laughs] One guy.
Andrew: You're invited to the MuggleCast after party.
Mikey: With Ben.
Andrew: I'm sure Ben and Jamie will be extending an invitation.
Andrew: Anyway, let's just take a couple of quick questions. We're almost out of time, we have two more...
Jamie: Wait, who won?
Mikey: I don't know who won. We'll let people listening decide.
Andrew: Let's take a couple of questions real quick about the Book Seven. Just real quick.
Ben: Three.
Andrew: Magic number.
Katiry: Okay.
Ben: There's no doubt about it.
Andrew: What's your name, where are you from?
Katiry: I'm Katiry and I'm from Miami, Oklahoma. I'm 19. I was just wondering if you guys think it's a big slap in Laura Mallory's face because Harry goes and dies for everyone and then comes back to life kind of like Jesus?
Jamie: Yeah, but she'll try again.
Mikey: Yeah.
Jamie: She's tried like, five or six times now and she keeps losing. It's like, one of those birds who flies against the glass window and carries on and carries on and carries on.
Mikey: Which is - I feel for it.
Jamie: And she'll keep trying and she'll keep trying, and then perhaps one day she'll read the books, maybe.
Andrew: Good point. All right. Next question.
Kelsey: I'm Kelsey from Stillwater. I wanted to ask if - since the part of Voldemort's soul that was in Harry is now destroyed, do you think that he still can talk to snakes?
Mikey: Oooh.
Ben: I don't think so. Probably not, since...
Ben: ...the power resided within the Horcrux itself, so probably not.
Andrew: Right here, yeah. You're desperate. Oh, my gosh, you're like holding your breath until you get picked.
Mikey: Breathe!
Ashley: Okay.
Ben: Name?
Ashley: My name's Ashley.
Ben: From?
Ashley: From Cleveland.
Ben: How old are you?
Ashley: 14. Okay, so, house elves can Apparate in or out wherever they want, basically, as they've Appparated around Hogwarts. Why couldn't, in Half-Blood Prince, why couldn't Draco have Apparated with house elves to bring the Death Eaters in?
Ben: She's saying, basically, it would be a lot easier to take a house elf and Apparate in rather than bringing...
Jamie: Perhaps they can't bring people along with them.
Andrew: Right.
Jamie: Or there's something against humans coming into Hogwarts, you know, rather than the method of coming in.
Mikey: Oh, I think I can answer that.
Jamie: I'm not sure. Go on.
Mikey: If he was able to take a house elf, then we would've never saw where the other Horcrux was in that room, and it wouldn't have worked as a story.
[Crowd laughs and applauds]
Andrew: This guy right here, and then one final question.
Anderson: I'm Anderson Daniel from Tahlequah. I'm 17. I was wondering if you guys were disappointed that Fawkes didn't show up anywhere in the book.
Andrew: Yeah, we were.
Jamie: Yeah, very.
Andrew: Yeah, we talked about this a few times.
Jamie: In the car mostly, yeah.
Andrew: What was missing? The Veil, Fawkes, you know, it was a disappoint, but - encyclopedia, I hope.
Jamie: Hope she'll explain it more, yeah.
Andrew: Yeah. One last question. This guy right here, doesn't even have his hand raised.
Mikey: Alex Carpenter.
Andrew: Alex Carpenter of The Remus Lupins, round of applause!
Mikey: He's so dreamy.
[Andrew and crowd laugh]
Alex: Stop!
Mikey: A wizard rock heartthrob?
Alex: You guys are dorks.
Alex: You guys all like Harry Potter. You guys are dorks.
Andrew: [in dorky voice] Alex, thanks. Yeah, what's up? Let's talk. [in normal voice] Alex, were you happy with the book?
Alex: Yeah, I was. Well, I mean, sort of.
Alex: There were parts...
Andrew: What bothered you?
Alex: I don't know, my corpse?
Alex: That always gets me. Yeah. Basically when I read that ending, Lupin and Tonks were in there, dead, I was like, "Aw, aw, aw."
Jamie: Alex, do people ask you questions like that? Sort of, what was your reaction to your death? Like, "Yeah, well, it was a bit annoying to me because I died, and then, you know..."
Alex: It was stunning, really. Shocking. I didn't expect it as I thought that I was going to be alive, but I'm dead, so that's good.
Andrew: So, are you going to get a name change, or are you just sticking with it?
Alex: Yeah, I was thinking of changing my name to Harry and the Potters, but I heard it's taken.
Andrew: [laughs] That'd be pretty original.
Alex: Yeah, yeah, maybe.
Andrew: All right, well, Alex, you're going to come up here with your band and start performing music in just a second.
Alex: Yeah.
Andrew: Thank you, everyone, for coming out today.
Mikey: Thank you guys very much.
[Crowd cheers]
Alex: Thank you all very much.
Mikey: Stick around. Everyone outside, come on in and take a look at The Remus Lupins.
Andrew: Don't forget, there's plenty of merchandise over there.
Ben: Oh, one second, one second, ladies and gentlemen. A few thanks yous first. Thank you to Adam Bromberg for driving us everywhere and running our table over there, he's been great.
Jamie: Thank you, Adam.
Ben: Give him a round of applause.
Mikey: He's got MuggleCast shirts like the one Ben's wearing. It's snazzy.
Ben: By the way, I don't have any luggage with me, so I've just been grabbing t-shirts out of the back.
Andrew: Ben's suitcase is a plastic bag.
Mikey: From Target.
Andrew: Thanks, everyone.
Jamie: Thanks very much.
Mikey: Bye!
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The found footage genre shows no sign of slowing down and seems to really have found its foothold in the horror industry. There are a few that really work, but of course plenty more that don't. The latest Do You Like My Basment, sports an insanely great title and leaves so much to the imagination but does it deliver the goods?
Do You Like My Basement follows one man whose creative frustration bore a need to make the perfect horror film. His frustration provoked a darker side and soon cunning, guile, devilish charm and a sociopath's streak compelled him to produce a home-made magnum opus. A film that blurs the lines between reality and fiction, that demands the attention of the very world that spurned him. At first this film felt like it was just going to be another rehash of the same old thing, but as it slowly moves forward it takes some really creepy turns. There are so many things here that will have you first thinking these people are just stupid and this would never happen, but the more you think about it you realize this is the exact simplistic non-thinking attitudes that get people into these situations. The film is never overly gory, which is usually needed for a story like this to work, but instead it relies on the sheer disturbing nature of it all and ends up delivering a good film. In addition the main 'killer' sports a look that is creepy and intelligently underused as well as the perfect voice to make it all work.
Sure this film is obviously low budget, but thanks to some clever storytelling and a unique direction it not only makes sense for the camera work throughout the whole film, but it looks and feel exactly the way it should to make it feel real. This film may not be breaking any new ground, but it sure did dust it up enough to stand out on its own as a good entry into the genre.

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"Mr. Selfridge" (PBS) can be seen each Sunday evening at 9/8 p.m. Last night's episode on April 6, 2014 was called "2.2" which means Season two, Episode two. This highly rated period drama has been picked up by PBS for a third TV season.
"Mr. Selfridge" has an 18 character ensemble cast. Here are five & they include, Ron Cook (Mr. Crabb), Frances O'Connor (Rose Selfridge), Katherine Kelly (Lady Mae), Jeremy Piven (Harry Selfridge) & Amanda Abbington (Miss Mardle).
"2.2" opens with the streets of London filled with employees of companies urging others to join unions. "Selfridge" employees are worried about their jobs as rumors circulate that Harry Selfridge is moving back to America. He quashes the idea because he takes care of all his employees. Rose Selfridge goes to see Delphine Day & asks to consider her as a partner in Day's nightclub aptly titled "Delphine's."
Harry has an account for all his young lady friends with whom he sees on the side. He tells his secretary to cancel all of those accounts. Rose knows about these side lovers, but plays her role of devoted wife in public. She also gets the address of Henri Leclair who used to work for "Selfridges" two years ago. She thought she saw him at "Delphine's" the other night. It was not the artist.
Rose tells Harry that she is thinking of investing in Delphine's nightclub. She asks him if "Selfridges" would hold its' staff party at "Delphine's." Rose then goes to the poor section of London to seek out LeClair who has fallen on hard times after excepting a job in New York. He is back in London, but he tells Rose that he doesn't want to see Harry.
Lord Loxley is an abusive man toward Lady Mae Loxley. He pushes people around because he has a lot of money. He threatens to take his money away from her too if he doesn't get what he wants. He tries to force Lady Mae to ask Harry Selfridge if he would open several departments in his store to hold supplies if there happens to be a world war.
Harry goes to see Delphine Day & talks to her about Rose. He is worried about involving his store with the nightclub. Plus, he thinks Rose might jump into a partnership with Delphine if the nightclub goes under.
Does the union workers have influence on the employees of "Selfridges"? How does Lady Mae handle her angry husband? Will Rose still want to invest in Delphine's nightclub? You can watch the full episode of "2.2" at the official website of "Mr. Selfridge."


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The Red & White Calgary Comic & Toy Expo offers comics, toys, manga, original artwork, role-playing games and much, much more! There will be an artist alley, costume contest and silent auction!
Our next show is on Sunday, March 6, 2016. Doors open at 10:00 am. Show runs until 5 pm.
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After being featured on the same page in the August 2008 issue of UK Vogue, Peter Pilotto and design partner Christopher van Dos met up with shoe designer Jerome Rousseau in Paris. The trio found an immediate synergy, resulting in a bespoke shoe collection that caused quite a stir at this past London Fashion Week.
Working together for six months, the three designers collaborated on a unique shoe offering to pair with Pilotto's autumn/winter '09 creations. Inspired by the contrast of the feminine and the animal, the short and the long, the patterned and the plain, Rousseau's collection of shoes highlighted the luxurious, yet rough mohair of the Pilotto line, adding exquisitely soft black calf, grey suede and pewter metallic trims into the mix.
Short booties reminiscent of horse hooves grounded the runway with a visceral look, while over-the-knee patchwork boots made a major impact on the silhouette, providing a deeply textured foundation for Pilotto's refined floral prints, delicate beading and sensuous draping. Buyers clamored for the unique looks, so look out for this gutsy footwear in forward thinking venues come fall.
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The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division (Oregon OSHA), in conjunction
with construction industry partners, is introducing a training program
designed to reduce the amount of muscle sprains and strains that occur
during construction. The training course provides an on-the-job training
approach to reducing ergonomic injuries. Students will learn about industry-tested
techniques for solving problems, including muscle warm-ups at the
start of a shift.
"Construction is like playing a professional sport such as basketball,"
says Penny Wolf-McCormick, health enforcement manager for Oregon OSHA's
Portland field office. "It is very physically demanding work, and
the better shape a worker is in, the less likely they will be to ache
at the end of the week. Much like an athlete, it's important to warm up
your muscles before you launch into construction work for the day."
The "Ergonomics in Construction" training workshops are scheduled
in the following cities:
Portland on October 8
Sheet Metal Workers Training Center - Room 221
2379 NE 178th Avenue
8:00 a.m. to Noon
Salem on November 18
Labor and Industries Building - Training Room C
350 Winter Street NE
8:00 a.m. to Noon
Eugene on December 4
OR-OSHA Eugene Field Office Conference Room
1140 Willagillespie Road #42
8:00 a.m. to Noon
Beaverton on December 11
Portland Community College Capital Center
18624 NW Walker Road
8:00 a.m. to Noon
Salem on January 20, 2004
Labor and Industries Building - Training Room C
350 Winter Street NE
1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Portland on February 3, 2004
Sheet Metal Workers Training Center - Room 221
2379 NE 178th Avenue
1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Beaverton on March 11, 2004
Portland Community College Capital Center
18624 NW Walker Road
1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
There is no cost for the training workshop.
To register for the workshop, fax your request on company letterhead to
(503) 947-7462 or register on the Oregon OSHA Web site, www.orosha.org
under "Education." For questions about Oregon OSHA training,
call (503) 947-7443 or toll-free within Oregon, (888) 292-5247, Option
The training class is a service of the Joint
Emphasis Program (JEP) partnership created by Oregon OSHA to reduce
construction injuries and fatalities through education. The partnership
includes representatives of management, labor and government.
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So by now, the whole world will have seen the video of Beyonce's sister beating two kinds of crap out of Jay Z as he stood there (looking totally confused if you ask me!) in the lift. My 11yo has seen it and she, like the rest of us, can't believe the amazing Bey & Jay have 'crazy' issues in their relationship, even if it does seem to be all Solange based.
I was sat in the restaurant of our local gym centre waiting for my eldest to come out of trampolining when I spotted the story on twitter, and considering how many people I follow, it was amazing how many of them were tweeting the same thing:
"What did he do?!"
I have to admit, it did cross my mind too, BUT! – If we were watching a video of Jay Z hitting Solange, would the first thought be, "what did she do?" You can guarantee a million percent it wouldn't! Why do we automatically think, whatever is happening, that it must be the blokes fault?
Obviously we don't have a clue what happened before they got in the lift, and I doubt we will ever know (even though we all secretly want to, because it's Beyonce and Jay Z) but it's so easy to start rumours & assume you know what must be happening, even if you haven't got the foggiest about what's going on. SO many people are quick to judge and take 'sides' when there is no need for sides, or even if they don't have all sides of the story. There have been loads of comments along the lines of "family comes first" meaning whatever happened, Beyonce should be taking her sisters side, but surely is Jay Z her family too.
So, all I have to say on the matter is, I would *love* to know what went down before they got in the lift, I would *love* to hear the conversation that happened in the limo after, and I would *love* to know how she managed to look so calm and collected when she got out of the lift, but I don't assume I know who did what or who's fault it is, and I don't assume that it's any of my business.
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Best Buy refreshed its game deals for the week of Sunday, March 2 with a $20 discount on Call of Duty: Ghosts for the PS4, Xbox One, PS3 and Xbox 360 plus a gift card offer for the Nintendo 3DS XL. Prices for The Last of Us, Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX, WWE 2K14 and other games have also been slashed.
Call of Duty: Ghosts is available for $39.99 on all platforms including the PS4 and Xbox One which matches the lowest price available yet on the next-gen consoles. WWE 2K14 for the PS3 and Xbox 360 also received the same price cut while Batman: Arkham Origins and LEGO Marvel Super Heroes see their prices dropped to $39.99 as well.
Meanwhile, the Nintendo 3DS XL comes with a $25 gift card for those willing to drop $199.99 on the black, red or blue flavors of the console.
Best Buy Gamers Club members can also get PS3 exclusives Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX for $19.99 and The Last of Us for $39.99. Plus there's the Turtle Beach Ear Force N11 headset for the Wii U and 3DS available for $24.99.
Finally, those waiting on South Park: The Stick of Truth this week will still have to pay $59.99 for the PS3 and Xbox 360 RPG spin on the TV show. However, they can get the fifteenth or sixteenth seasons for $9.99 with purchase of the game.
Free shipping is available from Best Buy along with in-store pickup. Sales tax is applicable though.
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This Saturday is the Abu Dhabi Pro Trials in San Diego and It looks like my division is shaping up to be the toughest and most exciting of the entire event!!
I'm competing in the 163 and below Brown and Black Belt division among some of the best competitors in the world including Kron Gracie, Zak Maxwell, Mike Fowler, Marcos Torregrosa and Ryan Beauregard. Also in the division are some of my rivals in Tim Peterson, Ryan Sosa, Beneil Dariush and Tanner Rice, any of which I would love to have a rematch against.


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The Solar Industry Applauds EPA's Clean Power Plan
Calling President Obama's signature climate change policy both "historic" and "critically needed," the solar industry issued its strong support for the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, scheduled to be released on Monday, urging states to consider solar as a clean, affordable, reliable and carbon-free solution.
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MAGNETIZATION STUDY OF TWO DIMENSIONAL HELIUM THREE by Lei Guo A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHYSICS) August 2010 Copyright 2010 Lei Guo
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Prices increased for 39 consecutive days, before stabilizing last week. Lackluster demand numbers are starting to weigh-in the market after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cut its global oil demand outlook.
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In honor of the newly released movie The Hobbit, I thought it would be timely to display visually inspiring images of storybook cottages and hobbit homes. It's also the middle of December here in Seattle and the winter has set in. All I want to do is get cozy and daydream by a warm fire. With the holidays upon us, I thought it fit to emphasize that the HOME is where the heart is.
This Hobbit House looks like its straight out of a faerie tale and one would expect little gnomes to be wondering around picking berries. I've been watching the television series Once Upon a Time and this little house would fit in perfectly. It represents an imaginative place where elves come alive to assist you on your sojourn through the magical forest.
Stumbling upon this storybook cottage in the woods is when Snow White discovers the feeling of being home for the first time. Home is where we rest our heads at night and dream. It is the ultimate refuge from the hustle and bustle of the real world. It is our soft place to land.
If I could imagine the perfect woodland cottage, it would have to be the one painted above nestled in the woods by a flowing creek. It would be surrounded by forests and trees and have fresh flowers hanging in window baskets and the smell of wood burning in the fireplace. It would have big arched windows and hand crafted wood molding. The walls would be painted in a nice Tuscany shade with amber beaded lamps glowing within. It would house all of my vintage treasures and tell a story upon every turn.
The light would shine brightly opening the morning rays.
allow your plants to hang wherever they may
warm blankets and books and musical instruments could fall array
let dream catchers dangle in your windows and capture the new day
grow grass on your rooftop
and paint your front door bright blue
listen to the silence
and breath in the cool, crisp air
use bold colors like purple and red
peer out your windows into the magical forest right outside your front door
and allow the vines to crawl and be free
nestling into the Earth's ground
carving out a stone
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listening to your inner voice
This is what Hobbits do
This dreamy cottage is a perfect size for two
a woodland hideaway to rest and regroup
a place to quiet the mind
a place to remind you of your purpose in life
build a home with your bare hands
adding all of your personal charm to your domain
allow your inner elf to come alive
own your own creativity
and listen when your inner child speaks
grow a garden
plant tulips and daffodils and gladiolas in your front yard
dream your home into being
let it grow with you
plant your hearts desire and watch the seeds grow
color your world in the simplest ways
your home is a reflection of you no matter who you are
live your life to the fullest
keep it simple
paint your wood shutters red
a forgotten pastoral dreamland
within a Thomas Kinkade painting
enveloped in the Emerald Valley
explore the textures of your vast being
and perch yourself inside your heart
and dare to dream
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Michael Johnson Pyle
Position: C
Height: 6-3 Weight: 250 lbs.
Born: July 18, 1939 in Keokuk, IA
Died: July 29, 2015 in Highland Park, IL
High School: New Trier Twp.
College: Yale (school history)
Drafted by the Chicago Bears in the 7th round (89th overall) of the 1961 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 47 (1690th overall since 1950)
Relatives: Brother of Palmer Pyle and Uncle of Eric Kumerow
1-time Pro Bowler (fine print)
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This four-week series discusses the ways the terms shaman and shamanism are misused in publishing, broadcasting, and conversation, and the problems that misuse causes for trying to understand what shamanism is and how to do it. The topics are as follows:
Part 1: Appropriation of a Technical Term for Popular Use
Part 2, Careless or Sloppy Translation
Part 3, How to Tell When the Terms Are Misused
Parr 4, How TV, Books, and Movies Often Misrepresent Shamans and Spiritual Practices
Until 1980, when anthropologist Michael Harner popularized the words shaman and shamanism with his best-selling book, The Way of the Shaman, most English speakers had never seen or heard those terms.
Until then, shaman and shamanism were technical terms used by anthropologists to describe a particular type of healer and spiritual practitioner in animist cultures.
The term shamanism was formed from a Siberian word, shaman, by the Russian anthropologists who first described the practices of certain spiritual practitioners in a particular Siberian tribe they were studying.
All the tribes had different words for shamans. So the fact that this particular word was chosen was just a matter of chance, of which tribe happened to be studied first.
That specific set of practices was so distinctive that, once their reports were published in professional journals, other anthropologists began to recognize similar sets of practices in other indigenous cultures.
It became a sort of professional shorthand to write something like "they practice a form of shamanism," ;and then describe the way a particular cultural group's practices differed from those of the classic description. That worked within the field of anthropology because cultural anthropologists were familiar with the original research.
The general audience success of The Way of the Shaman changed all that. The lay people who read the book had nothing else to compare it to.
The terms became popular among people who had not even read the book. Soon shaman replaced medicine man in the public mind as meaning an indigenous spiritual practitioner or healer.
All kinds of posers now claimed to be shamans, hoping to get money or notoriety. And all kinds of people decided that if it was a cool thing to be, then they must be one, too.
As if that wasn't bad enough, lazy translators began translating indigenous terms for any and every kind of healer, sorcerer or spiritual practitioner as shaman. Is it any wonder that the public became confused?
With so much misuse of the term, and so many people (who didn't even know what it meant) trying to cash in on the best-selling success of The Way of the Shaman, it became impossible to use the term with a general audience and have people understand what you were saying.
How can you carry on a reasonable conversation when most of the participants are using the same terms to mean totally different things----and don't even know it?
For more about the problems of translation, read Part 2, Careless or Sloppy Translation, coming soon.


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1985 and 1995, the annual death rate from HIV infection increased at
a steady, albeit slowing, rate. In 1996 and again in 1997, however,
there were large declines in the death rate, both for the total population
and persons aged 25 through 44 years. This reversal in the trend is
probably primarily due to the new medical treatments available to persons
with AIDS/HIV infection, which have extended survival for some. It may
also reflect the decline in incidence noted in Table C1. The year 2000
target was met by both groups in 1997.
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