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[Audience cheers]
Andrew: Oh, hey. Wow! Geez! Hello everyone, welcome to MuggleCast live in - oh gosh, where are we now? Detroit.
[Audience yells "Novi"]
Novi. Novi. Sorry. It says, "Detroit," on the website. I checked the website first. How's everyone doing today?
Ben: Hello.
Mikey: Yeah.
Andrew: Thank you for coming out. We've got a good crowd here. How's the panel doing?
Jamie: Well, I'd just like to take a moment to apologize for our bad appearances, because we just left Emerson's about four hours ago after no showers. We just woke up and jumped into the car.
Emerson: That's what this line is here. You guys have to keep back a little bit so we don't all suffocate you.
Ben: I had a shower. I had a shower.
[Andrew laughs]
Emerson: I love how you guys are cheering for the fact that Ben had a shower.
Andrew: Yeah.
Jamie: There's a first for everything.
Andrew: Anyway, so at all these live shows we've been doing a little - well, first of all, let me ask, everyone happy with the book? Deathly Hallows?
[Audience cheers]
Mikey: Has... [Microphone cuts out] What? Okay.
Andrew: Has everyone read the book?
[Audience says, "Yes"]
Mikey: Okay, good. Because if you haven't, we're going to be talking about it, and we don't want to spoil it for you. So it would be very, very sad.
Andrew: So leave.
Jamie: Leave.
Andrew: Leave now, or forever hold your peace, or risk being spoiled.
Jamie: Leave quickly.
Andrew: Mikey, I think you need a new mic, buddy.
Mikey: Oh, I saw someone in the back leave.
Emerson: We wouldn't have a lot to talk about if we didn't talk about what happened in the book.
Emerson: We could make more predictions about what's going to happen, I guess.
[Everyone laughs]
Mikey: We could always talk about Emerson's personal life.
Andrew: Oooh.
Emerson: Whatever.
Ben: Spy on Spartz.
Mikey: Well, he's sitting right next to us, you know?
Andrew: So at every live show we've been doing a main discussion, a character discussion, because quite a few characters have developed in this book, and today we're going to talk about Hermione. Jamie?
Jamie: We are. So far we've talked about Snape, Dumbledore, and - have we talked about anyone else? Voldemort. It's been really, really interesting to get everyone's views and their thoughts about the characters' change with the release of the seventh book. All through the first six they could have had a really, really strong opinion of this character, and then in the seventh, everything's just been thrown upside down with the new information we've got. So with Hermione, we've been thinking, she has always been clever, always been very - she's always wanted to help her friends. There's always been a bit of controversy over why she was in Gryffindor and not Ravenclaw, and often people have wondered that. And then in the seventh book, she was a big help to Harry. In fact, Ben and I think that without Hermione, Harry would probably not be alive today. Because, and we keep saying this, Harry just keeps waking up, doesn't know where he is, and Hermione's there, looking all bushy-haired and covered in ash saying, "Oh that was a close one again, Harry."
[Audience laughs]
So she always seems to save the day, Hermione.
Emerson: It does seem like the seventh book, it was just - every like, two pages they'd have another near-death experience, and then through luck or whatever, miraculously they'd pull through somehow.
Jamie: A camping trip.
Ben: Or Harry would just throw some Expelliarmus, because that's how he wins everything.
Andrew: Please hold for a microphone change.
Mikey: Does it work? It works. Yay.
Emerson: All right, cool.
Jamie: So what did you guys think of Hermione in the first six books?
Andrew: Well, I mean, in Book 7, it's basically exactly how Hermione's been throughout all six books. But now, Hermione - all this help she's been providing Harry from like Sorcerer's Stone to Half-Blood Prince, has all come together in Deathly Hallows, and just the whole book is just her helping Harry. Like, that's all she's doing.
Emerson: What I love about Hermione is the fact that Harry has this task, obviously, and the odds of successfully tracking down all the Horcruxes and destroying them, and then defeating Voldemort, his odds aren't good, and yet he spends all his time just kind of going with the flow, whatever happens to him, happens. But Hermione is taking all this time that she has to learn as much as she can about magic, and to improve herself as much as she possibly can. So in the seventh book, you see every time they're in a tight situation, you see Hermione always knows the right spell to use, because her knowledge of magic is so superior to Harry's, even though he may be a powerful wizard, just because it's just in him. But Hermione makes the most of what she has, and that's what I really am most impressed with, because she's very bookish, and I really like that about her.
Andrew: Yeah. Mikey?
Ben: That's his biggest turn-on, by the way.
Mikey: If you can read books. No, I totally agree with both of you guys. Hermione has definitely stepped up, and I think she showed a lot more courage in this book than previous books. Normally, she's kind of the one that doesn't want to break the rules, doesn't want to go underneath the Invisibility Cloak, and stuff like that.
Mikey: But now, she's like, "We need to do this." She realizes that it's either them or losing to Voldemort, so they have to - she uses all her books, you know? I remember reading the scene where she's packing up books, like which books to take and which ones not to take, and I just started laughing, going - I could totally picture, you know, Emma Watson or my Hermione in my head, doing this. Just going, "I really want to take this book, but it's about nargles," or something, something absolutely, completely irrelevant.
And she's like, "We never know, we might run into it," and puts it in the pack. I could just see the stacks being totally lopsided, where it's just like, a hundred books I need to take, and one book about, you know, Mugglenet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7, not needing to be taken.
Emerson: You can't leave the house without that one, Mikey.
Jamie: Because - no, you can't.
Mikey: I don't know, she's living it, so she might not need to take it, but it's like, everything she's taking, her knowledge is just beyond Harry's.
Ben: She should have taken it with her, because we were pretty darn right.
Mikey: Who knows. But yeah, I can just imagine, Hermione - without Hermione, Harry would have been lost.
Jamie: He was, yeah.
Mikey: You know, especially every time he wakes up and is like, "Thank you, Hermione, you saved me again."
Emerson: He seems like he's usually mad at her, like when she broke his wand. I mean yes, he has the right to be mad at her, but she also did save his life.
Jamie: Yeah.
Emerson: That;s a little more important than his wand.
Ben: Yeah.
Emerson: And I couldn't help but think, Harry, come on, dude, priorities here. Priorities.
Mikey: Yeah, it's like, face Voldemort without a wand, or have Hermione save you again.
Jamie: There were so many instances where she just did stuff that she didn't even think of, like she cast protective spells around their campsite, which, you know, they were camping a great deal, so she did all that, and then she told him stuff he didn't know, like at Grimmauld Place, after they got back from the Ministry, Yaxley got his arm round her just as they Disapparated.
[Audience laughs at his pronunciation]
And so like�Disapparated, sorry...
Mikey: Disappeared, disapparated, same thing.
Jamie: It's been a long drive.
Mikey: Long drive.
Jamie: Long drive, yeah. So, yeah, she just did stuff that he had no idea how to do.
Mikey: One thing I also - I kind of got upset with Hermione about, was she's too logical at certain times. Like when Harry had figured everything out, he's like, "This is what we've got to do," and she's like, "No, it's just a story, it's just a fairy tale." It's like, "No, it's the Deathly Hallows, it's the three things we need to get." "No, no, it's a fairy tale, Lovegood is just totally out of his mind." "No, it's true." Harry was like positive, and she was completely wrong, and I liked that Harry kind of proved her wrong a little bit.
Andrew: Yeah.
Mikey: I like Harry.
Emerson: See, as somebody who normally prides rational decision-making, and that's why Hermione is one of my favorite characters, I actually thought that what happened when they had that divergence where Harry had to go with his gut and Hermione was wrong, I think her logic actually failed her at that point, because logically we could all see from Harry's perspective that the Deathly Hallows were obviously the reason that the Invisibility Cloak existed, and all these other - the pieces were fitting together. Harry was actually being more logical than Hermione, and it was a gut feeling. It was a combination. So Hermione...
Mikey: Well...
Ben: I think Hermione just had a hard time believing in like a three - a story about three kids, or whatever.
Mikey: Well, I think the biggest thing for us, as readers, was that's the title of the book.
Mikey: So maybe it's important. I don't know.
Andrew: Yeah. It's interesting. One of the other titles, I don't know if you guys have heard, but one of the other titles that Jo was considering was Harry Potter and the Elder Wand, which I think would have been more fitting, especially with the U.S. cover, because apparently the cover is depicting them reaching for the Elder Wand, Harry and Voldemort.
Mikey: After they shot spells at each other, and Harry's the Master of Death, and the wand goes, "Whee!" up in the air.
Andrew: Right, right. What other character are you really proud of, Mikey?
Mikey: Oh, give it up for Molly Weasley, everybody. Come on.
How awesome was that? Really, like, can you imagine, at that final battle, like Molly Weasley just like, "Stay away from my daughter, you... witch!" And just like, she goes after Bellatrix, you know, imagine the movie, she's going to be running, her cloak flies off her, she's like, "Come on, no." Now, you guys have to remember, she doesn't necessarily kill Bellatrix. It's just a curse. So Molly Weasley probably uses like a Stupefy, because she's not a mean person, but she still takes out Bellatrix. Well, no, no, because it says Harry knew exactly what was going to happen before it even happened, just like what happened to Sirius. Sirius was hit by a stunning spell and fell through the Veil.
Andrew: Straight in the chest.
Mikey: Straight in the chest, right below the heart. So who knows what it was? I really can't picture Molly Weasley using Avada Kedavra. Probably she could if she really wanted to, but I can't see it. Come on, she's always making food and come on, you know, really? It would be a stunning spell, I think, or it could be Expelliarmus, because that's the spell of the book.
Ben: The solution to everything.
Emerson: And that's Harry's.
Mikey: Open a door. Expelliarmus.
Ben: I thought it was cool that Harry used Unforgivable Curses. That was awesome. He was just like telling people what to do. Yeah.
Mikey: Yeah. Imperio.
Jamie: Does anyone have any thoughts on Hermione? So like, how she's changed with the seventh book, how she's developed?
Andrew: Get in the audience here.
Mikey: If you have a thought, why don't you come on up and we'll give you a microphone and you can tell us, and we can respond. Is anybody brave enough to get up?
Andrew: Anyone?
Mikey: I know the floor's pretty comfortable.
Jamie: It's pretty exciting, hearing the responses so far.
Emerson: One thing I've really been itching for a debate about is, having read the book, a lot of people told me that in the book, Mugglenet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7, we predicted that Harry would live, and I've been getting a lot of my friends calling and saying, "Ah! Harry died, you were wrong. Well, you were half right, but you were wrong because he died." But I don't think he died.
Jamie: No.
Mikey: No.
Andrew: No.
Emerson: Because I think it's pretty clear that Harry wasn't dead. Dumbledore actually says, when Harry asks him, "Am I dead?" and Dumbledore says, "On the whole, I think not." Clearly you can't be--you're either dead or you're not. Like, there's--and Harry's clearly in like a transitional, kind of between life and death, but there's - J.K. Rowling has been very clear in the past that you can't come back from the dead.
Andrew: Right.
Emerson: So he wasn't dead. So if anybody wants to debate that, I'm spoiling for a fight right now.
Mikey: He's very angry.
Jamie: Yeah.
Andrew: This guy back here wants to say something.
Emerson: All right, no challengers.
Mikey: Why don't you come on up here and use the microphone, because it is an audio podcast. We want to hear your voice on the podcast. So you can go download it yourself, and be like, "That's me everybody, listen."
That's what I do. Every time I'm on the show, I'm like, oh, it's me. What's your name? Where are you from?
Steve: My name's Steve, I'm from Jackson, Michigan. Prison city.
Steve: Anyway, I was just kind of curious. I don't think he was really dead or alive. He was the Master of Death, I think that's why he was given the choice kind of in that purgatory of the train station, and Dumbledore said, "Well, you can either go," because as you know, his scar was gone, he no longer needed his glasses, so in a way I think he was kind of dead.
Emerson: Well, no, I agree with you. I think that train station was probably - someone mentioned at an event in Valparaiso, Indiana, that maybe the reason he was in a train station for the purgatory was because it's very symbolic of having to choose. Which train do you get on?
Andrew: [sings] Should I stay or should I go?
Emerson: Well played.
Steve: Thanks, guys.
Emerson: But either way, we're in agreement, he wasn't dead. He didn't decide to get on that train.
Jamie: No, it was all in his head.
Mikey: It was all in his head, that's what Dumbledore says.
Ben: And as Dumbledore explained that he still had the anchor to life because of the whole blood thing with Voldemort's blood.
Andrew: Yeah, but I think the point about, what Jo has said multiple times - once you're dead, you cannot come back even in the magical world.
Jamie: Exactly.
Andrew: Jo was very clear about that.
Mikey: Except as Inferi. As zombies.
Jamie: Well, you can come back. You just can't come back as yourself.
Jamie: You can come back as your...
Andrew: Right, but Harry is himself.
Jamie: Huh? Yeah, he is. Yeah.
Andrew: So...
Mikey: Actually, hold on, I have a question about the dead. Did anyone think that Inferi were going to play a role because they had been talked about. I was expecting Harry Potter and the Zombies.
But there was no Inferi. It was a big part in Book 6 as the ring - or the locket, and that was it.
Jamie: That was awesome if it was a kind of Sixth Sense thing where we think Harry came back from the dead, but he didn't really. He's actually dead.
Jamie: And nobody talks to him now. He wonders why for so long. And the he realizes - and then Ginny just takes off her ring and throws it down and everything fades to black.
Mikey: Awww, I like Ginny.
Jamie: What a fitting end.
Emerson: I think the thing that surprised me the most is that we never saw the Veil again.
[Audience says, "Yeah"]
Emerson: I thought the Veil...
Ben: Or the Department of Mysteries, in general.
Emerson: Yeah, the mysterious locked door. I thought that was going to be almost central.
Emerson: I thought that might even be where the end of the book is or that would just be crucial to the final - the final plot.
Jamie: Well, I read a spoiler online that I though was a spoiler originally where Voldermort and Harry go to the Ministry of Magic and they are in that circular room where the Love Door is, and they were fighting and I can't remember how they were fighting, but Harry opens this door to the Love Room and this huge burst of light comes out and it completely destroys Voldemort. But it heals him because he is pure at heart. And I believed it. And I have been told off for believing this because it doesn't sound realistic, but if you'd have read it, you would have believed it too.
Mikey: But you know what? Jamie, I think I read the same thing, but this time Harry sent him a Valentine's Day card and killed him that way.
Jamie: I believed that one too.
Emerson: Well, while we're making random observations, I thought one of the coolest scenes in the whole movie, was when Kreacher rallied the House-Elves to come fight in the battle.
Emerson: And...
Andrew: Kreacher really made a full 180 in this book.
Emerson: He really did. We did not see the Kreacher storyline. We saw the first part with Regulus Black and the Horcrux, but we didn't think a little bit of kindness towards Kreacher would turn him into this cool, little House-Elf. But I thought one thing that surprised me a little bit is these House-Elves are supposed to be capable of some really, really powerful magic, so why do they come out...
Jamie: With knives, yeah.
Emerson: Why are they banging on their knees with spatulas and eag beaters and stuff.
Jamie: That is very true, yeah.
Emerson: I thought they would be really laying the smackdown with some seriously powerful magic, but...frying pans.
Jamie: It reminded me of - have you seen The Mummy, the film? Anyone see The Mummy?
Jamie: It reminded me of those beetles that come over and devour you in one second. I can just imagine all these House-Elves crawling on top of Voldemort and him just going down and seeing a hand disappear.
Or at the end like that.
Emerson: That is a really weird mental image.
Jamie: As I said, it was a late night.
Mikey: For the House-Elves, I kind of saw them as Ewoks, you know? They just come up and they're taking - they're swinging from the rafters.
Emerson: Oh yeah, Ewoks!
Mikey: With cleavers and be like "Ahhh!" It would be cool.
Emerson: Oh yeah, straight out of the third Star Wars movie.
Mikey: Exactly. Sixth, technically. But anyway.
Andrew: Am I the only one who has never seen Star Wars.
[Audience member responds]
Mikey: Yeah...
Andrew: Thank you, thank you.
Mikey: Pretty much.
Ben: I've seen it.
Andrew: Sorry.
Mikey: It's all right, Andrew. We still care about you.
Andrew: I just don't get of these references you make. Or Lord of the Rings, never saw it.
Jamie: Oh, no.
Ben: Pokemon.
Andrew: I've seen Pokemon.
Jamie: That is the biggest crime, I tell you.
Mikey: The Pokemon one.
Emerson: Jamie likes to draw parallels to Pokemon all the time.
Jamie: I do, I do.
Andrew: I do. There are a lot of them.
Jamie: There are, the are several.
Jamie: I like them.
Andrew: Can't come up with them right now.
Mikey: Okay, anyway.
Jamie: Anyone have any more thoughts on Hermione?
Mikey: Come on up here. Yep, yep. Come up here. You got to come up here. You got to be on the microphone.
Andrew: Kreacher? Kreacher? Fine. Fine. Come on up.
Mikey: Kreacher, Hermione - they are kind of like the same character.
Jamie: Hermione, Kreacher.
Mikey: Not really, but...
Andrew: Here, use this mic.
Mikey: Exactly.
Andrew: What? Whoa! Where you going?
Mikey: She wants Jamie's microphone.
Andrew: Fine, you don't want to talk to me? It's cool.
Arianna: I still love you guys.
Andrew: No, we're over it really.
Arianna: All right. My name?
Andrew: Yeah, your name.
Mikey: Name, where you're from.
Andrew: MySpace url.
Arianna: My name is Arianna Beemer. I am from [cough] New Baltimore, Michigan.
Arianna: That's my friends.
Arianna: About Kreacher, what I thought was - about how he changed after Harry showed kindess to him, is another example of how love plays such an important role in the books. Like, all Kreacher really wanted was for somebody to love him and that's why he felt connected to Mrs. Black and Narcissa and Bellatrix because they showed care - they cared for him or they pretended to at least. So, when Harry started to care for him, he really started to come around and be more good t
han he was.
Emerson: I thought it was a really almost like a sweet story.
Emerson: Like, you think about how -I might turn into a puddle of tears in a minute, but...
Andrew: Awww.
Emerson: All it took was a little bit of kindness and I wonder, you know, if there is someone in each of your lives, or in my life that I maybe haven't treated kindly and some people you just really, really dislike and you...
Emerson: And maybe if I showed him a little bit of kindness, you know, at some point...
[Audience says, "Awww"]
Emerson: Maybe he would - maybe Mikey would, maybe love me back.
Mikey: Awww, I do Emerson. I do.
Andrew: Speaking about love and kindness, how about Dudley showing some love right for Harry.
[Cheers from audience]
Ben: That was lame.
Andrew: I mean...
Mikey: [Dudley impersonation] "I'm Big D."
Ben: I didn't know he was capable of being so romantic.
Jamie: Me too.
Mikey: [Dudley impersonation]: "Put it down, Harry Potter! I'm Big D."
Emerson: "I don't think you're a waste of space."
Andrew: That was just one of those things you were its just, no...
Jamie: No, that's just me.
Andrew: It's so out of place. It doesn't make sense. Maybe if we had some more explanation, but there was none.
Jamie: Can I just check? Is your name the same as Dumbledore's...?
Arianna: Yes, it is.
Jamie: I hope you're life is better than her's.
Arianna: I got texted from people saying, "Oh my god. You're in a book!"
Jamie: Really?
[Everyone laughs[
Andrew: What's your name?
Mikey: But you're alive.
Ben: Arianna.
Jamie: Yeah, you're a live, that's the difference.
Mikey: That's the difference there.
Emerson: And not crazy.
Emerson: Okay.
Mikey: She wasn't always crazy.
Jamie: And not kept...
[Something said from audience]
Jamie: Oh, all right.
Emerson: You're out in public, though. Clearly you're safe.
Mikey: Are you a witch?
Mikey: Anyway, moving on.
Jamie: Any other points?
Andrew: And then we'll open up the floor. We'll just have an open discussion about the book. Anything that's been bugging you. Or anything that hasn't been bugging you.
Mikey: Has anyone seen the fifth movie yet?
Andrew: First, this girl.
Jamie: Yet? Yet?
Mikey: You guys saw Kreecher in that, right?
[Most in audience say, "Yeah"]
Mikey: Now, now, now, remember after Harry's nice to him, he got all nice and clean with puss of white. It's going to be amazing to see. He's just going to be a really goofy looking House-Elf.
Mikey: So, I'm exciting for that, too.
Andrew: This whole time I was reading the book, I couldn't help, but think about what they're going to do for the movie because we just came out of the movie so, I couldn't help, but have it on my mind and they're going to have to cut so much. It's going to be disgusting, some of the things that they're going to do.
Mikey: It's going to be an eight-hour movie.
Andrew: Yeah, there you go.
Mikey: That's what I've been saying. Peter Jackson doing an eight-hour movie.
[Murmuring from audience]
Mikey: Peter Jackson: The Harry Potter Story.
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Looks like Liam Hemsworth wants to marry Miley Cyrus so badly, he accidentally said they already tied the knot!
The slip of the tongue came at Wednesday's Australians in Film event, which as Gossip Cop previously reported, Hemsworth took a break from filming Empire State in New Orleans in order to attend.
While accepting his Breakthrough Award with Cyrus sitting in the audience, the actor brought up his big break: co-starring with the singer-actress in 2009's The Last Song.
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"I was fortunate enough to get called back in to read with my now-fiancée, who I recently got engaged to," Hemsworth told the crowd.
He continued, "And we read together and fell in love and now we're married," before quickly adding, "Well, not married yet but we will be."
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Some 3,500 years ago on the mainland of Greece, the Mycenaeans began building one of the most powerful state-level societies in the Aegean region. With their rich warrior aristocracy and wide-ranging trade routes, their impact was such that several hundred years after their decline, they became the subjects of Homer's great epic poems. However, little is known about how this sophisticated civilization rose in power and why it abruptly fell. The discovery of the first positively identified Mycenaean harbor and port town by Thomas Tartaron, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, and his colleagues promises valuable answers to some of these mysteries.
In 2001, Tartaron and Daniel J. Pullen of Florida State University, as part of the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey project , combed hundreds of miles of shoreline looking for signs of ancient harbors — key to understanding Mycenaean expansion and trade.
"One of the things we don't understand about the Mycenaeans is where the harbors were that goods were moving in and out of," Tartaron says. "This is because Greece is very tectonically active and so much of the coastline has changed."
Located on the Saronic Gulf along an isolated stretch of Greece's eastern shoreline, Tartaron and Pullen discovered ruins of a settlement they named Korphos-Kalamianos. In this rare instance, soil erosion and tectonic activity worked for rather than against the researchers and actually helped reveal the site. Although a portion of Kalamianos is now submerged in the Gulf, remains of about 20 acres of closely built structures are plainly visible. Tartaron says, "It has all collapsed, but by carefully looking, you can still make out the lines of the walls."
Located on the Saronic Gulf along an isolated stretch of Greece's eastern shoreline, Tartaron and Pullen discovered ruins of a settlement they named Korphos-Kalamianos. In this rare instance, soil erosion and tectonic activity worked for rather than against the researchers and actually helped reveal the site. Although a portion of Kalamianos is now submerged in the Gulf, remains of about 20 acres of closely built structures are plainly visible. Tartaron says, "It has all collapsed, but by carefully looking, you can still make out the lines of the walls."
Research on Kalamianos is part of Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP), led by Tartaron and Pullen. The interdisciplinary team works with a permit from Greece's Ministry of Culture and operates under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Last summer, Tartaron, Pullen, and a research team including Penn graduate and undergraduate students, returned to Kalamianos and produce a detailed map of all the buildings on the site using differential global positioning system technology. They also analyzed the layout and construction techniques of the buildings and surveyed for artifacts on the site and in the surrounding countryside. This May, Tartaron will return with another team for fieldwork primarily focused on completing the intensive exploration of the territory around Kalamianos, and working out details of the coastline's configuration in Mycenaean times.
SHARP's work has already revealed details about Kalamianos that provide important clues to the beginnings of the Mycenaean expansion. For example, approximately 100 to 200 meters off the shoreline, the shallow and rocky underwater surface drops off into a deep area rich with marine life that locals call "the chasm." Tartaron conjectures that when Kalamianos was established, the shoreline may have abutted this area, making for an ideal harbor that was both resource rich and allowed for a deep-water approach by ships.
Kalamianos may have been the product of political motives as well. The researchers discovered that the settlement's structures were built on a grid-like pattern, and they found remains of a fortification wall around its landward side. Over the Gulf, Kalamianos directly faced the island of Aegina, on which another influential settlement, Kolonna, was located. This evidence suggests that Kalamianos was planned and possibly built with a military or naval purpose.
Evidence collected by Tartaron and his colleagues dates the settlement between 1,400 and 1,200 B.C., a time when Mycenae, the greatest Mycenaean city, was rapidly expanding eastward toward Kalamianos and the Saronic Gulf. Also around 1,400 B.C., Tartaron explains, imports from Kolonna start diminishing at sites all around the region, and Mycenaean imports from Mycenae and surrounding areas start increasing.
"The territory between Mycenae and Kolonna may have been a contested periphery," Tartaron says. "Kalamianos may have served as a kind of a symbolic gesture that said, 'We are Mycenae, we're here, and now we're in charge.' "
The shifting nature of political states — how they expand, compete and consolidate — has always been integral to human society, and the universal nature of this issue inspires Tartaron to explore its earliest incarnations. "I've tried to use archaeology and other fields like geology and geomorphology to figure out how political settlements work," Tartaron says. "In other words, how are people and societies connected?"
Tartaron's research on Kalamianos also allowed him to make an unexpectedly local connection. "One of the things that has been really rewarding and that I didn't anticipate is how excited the local community is about this," he says. "In a way this work has transformed from what is my research agenda to something totally new – and that is helping the communities there recover their Mycenaean heritage."
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How to Keep Your Job Secure – 8 Tips for Getting Ahead at Work
How do you keep your job secure in an unstable economy? If you're worried about losing your job, these long-term career tips for getting ahead at work may help.
"In the face of rising unemployment, the best thing workers can do is be financially and professionally prepared for possible job loss," says Ethan Ewing, president of Bills.com.
If you're struggling to achieve your career goals, read The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back: Overcoming the Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead.
And, check out Ewing's eight tips for getting ahead at work…
How to Keep Your Job Secure – 8 Tips for Getting Ahead at Work
1. Appreciate the work you have. "If you still have a job, start by being grateful that you are employed," Ewing says. Avoid complaining about your job description, duties, or difficult coworkers. Instead, adopt an attitude of gratitude — and focus on solving your problems at work (such as developing people skills that improve your job performance).
2. Be indispensable on the job. Come in early, stay late, volunteer for extra projects, and get the rest, nutrition, exercise or whatever you need to come up with good ideas and do good work. "No need to 'brown-nose,' but every day, ask yourself, 'How can I be the best employee in this place today?'" Ewing suggests. "Watch for needs and meet them before you are asked to do so." If you're worried about your job, it may be a good time to start setting new career goals.
3. Be aware of possible layoffs, future job opportunities, etc. Without parking yourself by the water cooler, pay attention to the rumor mill. If clients are fading into the woodwork, plant closings are rumored, the top managers are sending out signs or the word "bankruptcy" is uttered, your company could be in trouble. Keep your ear to the ground for possible future work opportunities, so you don't panic if you do lose your job.
4. Polish your resume. Dust off your resume and review it. Does it reflect your current experience? Add recent achievements and professional involvement. If you see gaping holes, take a class, join a group or otherwise fill in the gaps so you are ready to pursue opportunities. This can help you get ahead at work by increasing your self-confidence and awareness of how valuable you are at work!
5. Volunteer at or outside of work. Join a committee in your company, attend events hosted by the local chamber of commerce, become active in a professional organization or donate time to the community. Be professional at all times. If opportunities arise to mention your skills, do so; you never know who will be in a position to help you (or for you to return the favor) one day. If networking doesn't keep your job secure, it'll help you get new work in the future.
6. Conserve cash in case of job loss. If your income is at risk because you think you might lose your job, then pay your mortgage, student loans, car payment and other bills as scheduled. Build an emergency financial fund to prepare for a rainy day. Pay down as much debt as possible, but make sure the emergency fund takes priority once your base debt payments are made.
7. Live plainly and simply until your job security returns. Pare down at home. Instead of shopping for fun, sprucing up your wardrobe or redecorating your home, learn to stay in, spend time with friends and family, and spend less money while you wait to see how things pan out in the future.
8. Have a "Plan B" to help you cope with possible unemployment. Make a list of your bills and the priority in which they must be paid. For instance, if you don't pay a credit card bill, you will face hassles and credit report problems. But, if you don't pay the mortgage, you could lose your home. Figure out what you would do about medical care and unemployment benefits if you lost your job. Make a list of resources that could be useful in an emergency.
"With luck, your job will be secure throughout the downturn," Ewing says. "But now is the perfect time to prepare for the future so you can recover as quickly as possible from a distressing job loss or other emergency."
For more tips on keeping your job secure, read 5 Tips for Achieving Your Career Goals – From Confusion to Clarity.
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Being a suck up (I think that's a syncophant!)could backfire, so I like your advice, Imee!
When it comes to letting the boss know why he/she hired me, I tend towards overdoing it. I make triple sure that my staying late or doing extra work is notice. I know that's bad and could also backfire, but I just want to be recognized! And of course, I want to keep my job.
I guess like anything, a tip for job loss prevention can backfire. Too much of a good thing, sort of.
I too, am glad that I'm still employed. My best advice would probably be do your best–don't be a suck-up, but don't forget to show you're boss why he/she hired you. Still be the best you can be, or be even better–that's a surefire way of keeping your job even during the financial crisis.


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Gloria Jean Wilson Everhart, 69, of Della Wilson Road, died Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, at Wake Forest Baptist Health — Lexington Medical Center from declining health of five years.
Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Freedom Baptist Church in Green Needles by Preacher Clyde Akers.
She was born May 28, 1943, in Lexington to Geneva Fay Williams Wilson and William Philmore Wilson, who both preceded her in death.
She is survived by daughter Tamara Cecil of Lexington; grandchildren Brandon Motsinger and Cody Motsinger of Lexington and Justin Sinnot of Charlotte; niece Leigh Ann Easter of Lexington; and sister Shirley Wilson Easter of Lexington.
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The Atlantic 10 coaches don't seem to love the current format of the league's conference tournament, which starts next week, but a better format with a 14-team field remained elusive. Read about in the Daily Hampshire Gazette: Atlantic 10 men's hoop tourney format could be stronger
Atlantic 10 men's hoop tourney format could be stronger
The Atlantic 10 coaches don't seem to love the current format of the league's conference tournament, which starts next week, but a better format with a 14-team field remained elusive.
As it stands now, 12 of the league's 14 teams make the four-round tournament. The top four earn first-round byes. The next four get to host first round games, which are played on campus sites on March 8. The rest of the tournament is held March 11-13 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J.
This will be the third season (not consecutive) that the league has played first-round games at home sites. It was done once in 2003 when Linda Bruno was still the commissioner. Because of poor attendance it was deemed a failure and all the games were moved back to a neutral site.
Under new commissioner Bernadette McGlade, they tried it again last year and are doing so again this year.
Duquesne coach Ron Everhart hoped the league would eventually bring all its members to one site for the event.
"I've always been a proponent of bringing everybody to the tournament at one site," Everhart said. "Other leagues can do it, I don't know why we can't."
The easiest way to add the last two teams to the field would be to take away the byes from the No. 3 and 4 teams and pair them against No. 13 and 14. If the whole tournament was played at one site, that would be difficult to schedule because it would require six first round games in one day in the same building.
But with the first round at home sites, it's not building logistics that's preventing No. 3 from hosting No. 14 and No. 4 hosting No. 13.
In most years, Atlantic 10's third and/or fourth best teams are on the NCAA Tournament bubble, while its No. 13 and 14 teams usually have poor rankings in the Ratings Percentage Index. If third-place Richmond, which has a bubble-worthy RPI of 62, had to play Fordham (RPI 250), the Spiders' RPI would go down even if it won the game.
First-year Fordham coach Tom Pecora supported leaving out the bottom two teams even though it meant his team wouldn't be in the tournament this year.
"I do understand the structure of it because it protects the teams that might have an opportunity for at-large bids," he said. "You don't want them to lose that opportunity. In a perfect world we'd all coach in leagues that didn't play unbalanced schedules and had a number of teams that fit perfectly into tournaments and so on and so on, but that's not the world we live in, so you have to deal."
Saint Joseph's coach Phil Martelli, whose team needs at least one more win to clinch a postseason bid, hoped the format would keep being examined.
"I think it has to really be studied," he said. "Protecting the upper seeds is important. I don't have a problem with 13 and 14 (being left out). I do understand the challenges that would go into everybody being in," he said. "Like every coach, I would want for all these kids to play in one more game, but I do understand and I accept that it's the way that it's laid out at this time. As a fan of the league I hope some of the road teams can get some wins because it puts a stamp that says this is all right."
ATLANTIC 10 GAME OF THE WEEK - Saint Joseph's at Charlotte, 2 p.m., Saturday - Unless St. Joe's upsets Richmond on Wednesday, the winner of this game will be the No. 12 seed in the A-10 Tournament and the loser will be out.
BRACKET POOL QUESTIONS - NCAA Tournament office pool managers will have a decision to make shortly. In previous years, most people could turn their brackets in by Thursday morning prior to the first round of games. The fact that the 64 vs. 65 game was played on Tuesday didn't really affect anything because nobody ever picked the winner of that game to beat the No. 1 seed later in the week.
But the advent of the four first-round games spread out over Tuesday and Wednesday creates other questions. In addition to four lower conference automatic bid teams playing for two No. 16 seeds, there will also be two games featuring at-large bid teams. One winner will get a No. 11 seed and the other a 12. One of those games will likely be played Tuesday and the other Wednesday.
Using Joe Lunardi's ESPN bracketology as an example, one of those games could feature Richmond vs. Alabama for a No. 11 seed. The winner would face No. 6 Texas A&M. It's not unrealistic to think that either of those teams might upset the Aggies. But will pool entrants get to know who won before entering their brackets? If the answer is yes, then everyone in the pool would have to enter late Wednesday night or Thursday morning before noon start times.
If no, everybody would have to enter between Sunday night and Tuesday evening. Both are small windows.
MILESTONE - Former UMass coach John Calipari won his 500th career game in Saturday's win over Florida. Of those 500, 193 came in eight seasons at UMass, 252 were in nine seasons at Memphis and 55 have come in two years at Kentucky.


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WINNEPEG, Manitoba -- University of Iowa men's golfer Brian Bullington finished in a tie for 13th place on Thursday at the Canadian Amateur Championships, carding a four-round score of 281 (66, 71, 69, 75; -1). Bullington birdied eight holes in his first round, and added five more in his three subsequent rounds. The tournament was held at Elmhurst Golf and Country Club.
The senior from Frankfort, Illinois, earned second-team All-Big Ten and PING All-Region honors in his 2014 campaign, posting his career-best finish at the Arizona State Thunderbird Classic where he tied for third with a 206 (-7). Following his performance, he was named the Big Ten Player of the Week for the first time in his career. He tied for fourth place at the 2014 Hawkeye-Great River Entertainment Classic, carding a 215 (-1). Bullington tied for the second-most top-10 finishes on the team (2), and held the second-best scoring average (73.14) of all Hawkeye golfers.
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Bucknell's Tom Barr
Dec. 5, 2011
Patriot League Indoor Track and Field Weekly Release (12.5.11)
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. -- The indoor track and field season opened over the weekend with Bucknell and Navy qualifying several student-athletes for the IC4A and ECAC Championships.
Bucknell had four student-athletes -- Dave Brown, Tom Barr, Christian Lupica and Jessica Matsinger -- win weekly awards, while Navy and Lehigh each had one.
Lehigh junior E'Lana Lemon posted an ECAC-qualifying mark in the weight throw with a first-place finish of 57-7 to be named the Female Field Athlete of the Week for the fifth time in her career.
Navy's Brigid Byrne also was an ECAC qualifier in the 5,000-meter run, finishing first at the Navy Lidlifter with a time of 17:06.17. She helped the Mids finish first out of six teams in the first event of the season. Byrne was named the Female Track Athlete of the Week.
Bucknell hosted the Bison Opener on Saturday with Brown and Barr each meeting IC4A-qualifying marks. Brown finished first in the 5,000 with a time of 14:36.62, winning the Male Track Athlete of the Week award.
Barr was first in two events, both with IC4A-qualifying distances of 59-6¼ in the weight throw and 52-5½ in the shot put. He was named the Male Field Athlete of the Week.
A pair of Bucknell freshmen swept the Rookie of the Week awards as Lupica was the Male Rookie of the Week and Matsinger was the Female Rookie of the Week.
Leonard Joseph also picked up an IC4A-qualifying mark for the Bison, finishing behind Barr in the weight throw (58-3¼).
Byrne wasn't the only Navy Midshipmen to qualify for the postseason over the weekend as her teammate Katie Taylor finished second in the 5,000 with a time of 17:28.90, meeting an ECAC-qualifying mark. Jess Palacio did the same in the 3,000 with a time of 9:50.69 and Amanda Phelps qualified in the weight throw with a toss of 54-1.
On the men's side, Lucas Connelly and Matthew Evers both hit IC4A marks in the 800. Connelly finished in 1:53.45 placing fourth and Evers was fifth (1:54.48). Senior Michael Sheehan placed third in the mile run with an IC4A-qualifying time of 4:14.34.
Colgate also had a qualifier over the weekend as the individual cross country champion Chris Johnson led the Raiders at the Jay Carisella Track & Field Invitational Saturday, finishing second in the 5,000 with an ECAC-qualifying time of 14:41.49.
Holy Cross and Lafayette are slated to compete this weekend, while the rest of the League will be off until January 2012.
Patriot League Notebook
2011-12 Preseason Poll
The men's indoor track and field season came to a dramatic end at the Patriot League Championships last season and the preseason poll suggests that a similar exciting finish is on tap for the 2011-12 Patriot League season.
The Army men, who were narrowly defeated by Navy at the Patriot League Indoor Championships last season, edged out the Mids in the 2011-12 Patriot League Indoor Track and Field Preseason Poll announced by the League Monday. The Navy women, who had an easier time winning the 2010-11 title, were picked to finish first in the preseason poll that is voted on by Patriot League coaches and sports information directors.
The Navy women garnered 11 first-place votes and 95 points to finish as the preseason favorites to win the 2011-12 title, which will be competed for on Feb. 17-19 at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa.
Bucknell, last season's outdoor champion, finished second in the women's poll with 88 points and five first-place votes. Army edged out Lehigh 69-68 for third, while Lafayette (39), Colgate (38) and Holy Cross (36) were separated by three points. American was eighth with 15 points.
On the men's side, Army scored 90 points with eight first-place votes to finish just ahead of Navy, which had 88 points and four first-place votes. Bucknell was third with 78 points and four first-place votes. Lehigh came in fourth (62), while American was three points ahead of Lafayette with 46. Colgate (26) was seventh and Holy Cross (15) was eighth.
The Navy women return several individual indoor champions from last season, including Track Athlete of the Meet Jess Palacio, who was a double winner on the final day of the championship, collecting titles in the mile and the 800. In all, Navy won nine events to score 157 team points to beat second-place Bucknell (117 points).
The Navy men had a tougher time winning last year, rallying in the final two relays to surpass Army for the title. The Mids trailed by 32 points with four events left, but Cody Rome won the 3,000 and Ryan Kochert won the pole vault prior to Navy's sweep of the DMR and 1,600 relay. The wins in those four events gave Navy the 171-165 win over Army, which had won two straight titles prior to last season. Army returns the indoor long jump champion in Michael Hutchins.
Navy's Rome returns for senior year
Navy senior Cody Rome won 2011 Capital One Academic All-America Second-Team honors for men's track and field/cross country, the College Sports Information Directors of American (CoSIDA) announced June 21, 2011, after his junior season.
Rome, the 2010-11 Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year in indoor track and field, helped the Navy cross country and indoor track and field teams capture Patriot League Championships this past year.
During the 2010-11 indoor track and field season, Rome set a new Patriot League Championship Meet record with a first-place time of 8:07.51 in the 3,000-meter run. Rome also broke Navy's school record in the 3,000 with a season-best time of 7:55.12. Rome also was on the distance medley relay that captured a Patriot League title, helping the Mids claim the indoor team championship.
During outdoor track and field competition, Rome placed second in the 1,500 at the Patriot League Championship and also advanced to the NCAA East Regional, where he competed in the 5,000. Also in the outdoor season, Rome posted a 5,000 time of 14:01.81, which places him third on Navy's all-time performance list in the event behind Ron Harris (`87) and Andrew Hanko (`11).
Rome helped the Navy men's cross country team capture its fourth straight Patriot League team title in the fall. Rome was a second-team All-League runner this season.
The distance standout earned a spot on the national ballot after earning All-Academic District II First Team honors earlier in June. Rome carries a 3.55 cumulative GPA in applied mathematics and has been named to the Commandant's List five times, the Superintendent's List once and the Dean's List four times.
Rome becomes the sixth member of the Navy men's track and field/cross country program to earn Academic All-America honors. His selection also marks the third straight year that the program has produced an Academic All-American, as 2010 graduate Mark Van Orden earned back-to-back accolades in 2009 and 2010.
Rome is the only Patriot League athlete to earn 2011 Academic All-American honors in men's track and field/cross country.
Colgate's DeRoo vying for No. 6
Colgate senior Elise DeRoo was selected as the Patriot League Women's Cross Country Female Scholar-Athlete for the second time in her collegiate career, giving her five Patriot League Scholar-Athlete awards. She also has won twice in indoor track and field and once in outdoor track and field.
She also was the Patriot League's Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2010-11.
The Newtown, Conn., native had a cumulative GPA of 3.97 in molecular biology after the 2011 cross country season. She recorded a 4.15 GPA last season and was one of seven student-athletes honored with a GPA higher than 4.0. DeRoo finished third at this year's Patriot League Cross Country Championships after winning two straight individual titles in 2009 and 2010.
She will have a chance to finish her career with seven Patriot League Scholar-Athlete awards and to become the League's fourth two-time Female Patriot League Scholar Athlete of the Year award-winner.
2011 NCAA Cross Country Recap
The two individual champions in the Patriot League competed at the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships Nov. 21 in Terre Haute, Ind., at Indiana State University.
Colgate junior Chris Johnson and Navy senior Jess Palacio were competing at the NCAA Championships for the first time in their careers. Johnson finished 115th out of 252 runners in the 10K men's race with a time of 30:55.2. Palacio finished 164th out of 254 runners in the women's 6K with a time of 21:28.8.
Palacio was the second runner from Navy to represent the Patriot League at the NCAA Championships. Amy Watson was the first in 2008. Navy has had four other runners in its history compete at the NCAA Championships, but it was prior to Navy joining the Patriot League in cross country in 2003.
Palacio, a Sun Valley, Nev., native, was the first three-time First-Team All-Patriot League runner in Navy history. She won four races this season and has won a total of 11 in her career. American's Keira Carlstrom holds the League's cross country record for appearances at the NCAAs (3) and has the League's best finish on the women's side. She placed 16th in 2003.
Johnson is the fourth men's runner from Colgate to represent the Patriot League and the first since Michael Hanlon did it in 2005. Xavier de Boissezon ran at the 2003 Championships, and Ray Appenheimer was a two-time qualifier for Colgate in 1992-93, and his performance in 1993 when he placed seventh was a League-best.
Patriot League Indoor Track and Field Weekly Awards
DAVE BROWN, BUCKNELL Sr., Westborough, Mass.
Brown finished first in the 5,000-meter run at the Bison Opener, completing the race in 14:36.62, which bested an IC4A-qualifying mark.
BRIGID BYRNE, NAVY Jr., Vienna, Va.
Byrne placed first in the 5,000-meter run at the Navy Lidlifter, finishing with an ECAC-qualifying time of 17:06.17. It was a new personal record for Byrne.
TOM BARR, BUCKNELL Sr., Ambler, Pa.
Barr collected a pair of IC4A-qualifying marks in the weight throw (59-6¼) and the shot put (52-5½). Barr finished first in both of the events at the Bison Opener.
E'LANA LEMON, LEHIGH Jr., West Orange, N.J.
Lemon finished first in the weight throw at the Lehigh Season Opener with an ECAC-qualifying distance of 57-7. She has won five Field Athlete of the Week awards in her career.
CHRISTIAN LUPICA, BUCKNELL Fr., Newtown, Pa.
Lupica placed fifth in the 60-meter hurdles (8.38) and 23rd in the 400 (53.28) at the Bison Opener to lead the Bucknell freshmen. He also helped the 1,600 relay team place ninth (3:28.24).
JESSICA MATSINGER, BUCKNELL Fr., Frazer, Pa.
Matsinger placed second in the triple jump at the Bison Opener with a distance of 36-7½.
DOMINIC DELLA PELLE, NAVY Sr., Kennett Square, Pa.
Della Pelle placed first in the 3,000-meter run at the Navy Invitational with a time of 8:22.25, qualifying for the IC4A Championships. He edged out three runners from Georgetown in the unscored invitational.
CHRISTOPHER RICKS, NAVY Sr., Reynoldsburg, Ohio
Ricks collected an IC4A-qualifying distance of 58-4½ in his first-place weight throw at the Navy Invitational.
STEPHEN TUTUNJIAN, LEHIGH Sr., Shrewsbury, Mass.
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Yesterday I wrote about how to identify wild elderberries, one of nature's best immune system boosters. Picking the berries and stripping them from the stems are jobs for the whole family, and children enjoy helping.
Once you've filled your foraging basket with the berry clusters and brought them home, it's time to begin.
Note: This is part of a series of Elderberry articles I've written.. The others are Finding the elusive elderberry and 11 Must-try ways to preserve elderberries.
Ripe elderberries
When the berries are fully ripe (dark purple and plump), pick them and bring them home. As always when foraging, make sure you're positive of your identification.
Elderberries in the basket
Your foraging baskets will fill up quickly, but most of the "fill" is stems and air. Don't push it down to pack it -- you'll break stems and smash berries, leading to a lot of clean up time later.
Separating the berries from the stem
Stripping the berries from the stem is easy as long as you have the secret utensil: a fork. The tines are the perfect distance apart. Simply start at the bottom of the cluster and lightly pull the fork towards the ends, dropping the berries into a bowl.
Avoid and small, green berries. They will make you sick if you eat them.
Helping my helper
Sometimes your helpers may need a little help stripping the berries. If it's done too hard, the berries may rupture or larger pieces of stem will be collected (and will have to be removed later). Don't be afraid to help out.
The final product!
A beautiful jar of elderberries, ready for use. They make a delicious pie, syrup, or immune system booster, and can be preserved by freezing them, drying them in an oven or in the air, by juicing and canning then, or by making an elderberry-honey syrup.
Note: Preserving them for later may be the better option. Wildman Steve Brill says:
"Even raw ripe elderberries make some people nauseous. Cooking or drying dispels the offending substance, and greatly improves the flavor."
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Five for Friday – Stone's Soul
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Five for Friday time. Today's first five pages come from Stone's Soul, my first ever Ellora's Cave release. Ready?
Kilauea, Hawaii Island, 1542 A.D.
Kale stared at the woman before him. Her glare, sharper than his blade, cut his skin. Or at least it felt that way. He'd known rejecting a goddess was dangerous—more than dangerous—but he wasn't anyone's play-toy.
His heart had shattered the night his sweet Lani and their baby girl died during childbirth. He'd lost his past, his present and his future and his heart had not recovered. Pele had come to him, promising that which only the gods could—to ease his pain and soothe his grief. And only fools refused gods. Or so he'd thought. Now here he was, Alii, High Chief of his tribe, no man's fool, telling the volcano goddess it was over.
Kale studied Pele as he stood naked before her. She had taken from him, milking his body of orgasm after terrible orgasm. She had ignored his protests, insisting she was helping him recover from the emptiness Lani and their pepe's death had caused in his soul. She'd used his body in every way she saw fit. And still his heart ached for a spiritual and emotional connection once had, but now denied him.
He'd had enough.
Pele narrowed her midnight-black eyes and rammed her fists to her curvaceous hips. "You scorn me, human?" Her lips–lips that had caressed his body with ravenous greed more than once—curled. "You reject me?"
Infinity swirled in Her black stare. "Then I was foolish to take Lani."
Kale's heart thumped hard and his breath caught in his throat. "What do you mean, 'take Lani'?"
Pele laughed, the sound cold and cruel. "I took her life force from her as she squeezed out your spawn. I had been watching you for many moons, my Alii, and my appetite for what I saw could no longer be suppressed. I removed the mortal obstacle and her offspring."
Icy numbness spread through Kale. "Why? Why would you do that?"
The goddess curled her lip again, disdain flashing across her impossibly beautiful face. "I share with no one."
Kale stared at her, his blood roaring in his ears. Fury burned through his being. Fury and murderous rage.
"But now I see I was mistaken. Your body may be divine, but your heart…" She cocked a sharp eyebrow. "Unless you beg for my love, I must reject you."
Fury clenched Kale's jaw. "You murdered my wife, you murdered my unborn child and you expect me to love you? I will never love you, Pele! My days of worshipping you, of being your play-toy, are over."
Pele's ink-black eyes glowered. "You will not love me? I am Pele! The Volcano Goddess. The Goddess of fire. Your Goddess! If you will not love me then you are incapable of love."
Kale shook his head, his chest a twisted knot of rage and grief. "No, Pele. I have loved more deeply than you would ever, could ever understand. My heart is capable of love, it is just not yours."
The goddess laughed. "Ha! Your heart is cold. Hard. You are like a precious stone, just as beautiful and just as cold." Her eyes shimmered, swirled with the life of a million stars. "Let it be as I say, then. Until you know love again, until your heart is hot with passion once more, a precious stone you will be."
A chilling smile stretched Her lips. She lifted Her hands toward Kale. "A stone the color of your eyes."
True and unending agony flooded through Kale. Every molecule in his body began to burn, a frozen heat of inescapable pressure. He threw back his head, his scream tearing from his throat.
And then, everything became still.
And was gone.
Chapter One
Present day
The Discovery
Jordynn Harrison looked at the small, dirt-encrusted stone in her hand. Something about it puzzled her. It didn't look right. About the size of a walnut, its rough surface seemed somehow unnatural. Too concise in formation. She raised it close to her face, rolling it between her thumb and fingers, searching for clues in its texture. Hmmm. Definitely not igneous. Maybe evaporitic, possibly metamorphic…
A soft warmth spread through her fingers. A tingling heat.
Jordynn frowned. She brought the stone closer still, studying it intently. No naturally formed stone she knew of conducted heat without a heat source, and despite the humid mid-summer morning, she didn't think the dormant Hawaiian Mauna Kea volcano constituted as a heat source. Nor, for that matter, did her fingers.
She cocked an eyebrow. "Odd."
Without warning, a blistering heat singed her fingers, like she'd closed them around the molten tip of a fire poker. With a sharp and totally undignified yelp, Jordynn dropped the stone. "Ow!" She studied her stinging fingers. Long, slightly calloused and ingrained with dirt. Typical geologist's fingers. Yet, despite the pain radiating from their tips, free of any blisters or reddening burn marks.
Jordynn frowned, turning her inspection to the hastily dropped stone at her feet. Gingerly, she picked it up. Small, dull and cold. Hardly anything to make her cry out like a little girl. She turned it over and over, gnawing on her bottom lip as she did so. Something about it looked…wrong.
She spat on the stone's grimy surface and smeared away some of its crusted dirt.
A chill rippled up her arm, lifting the fine hairs on her skin and making her nipples pinch into tight peaks. Jordynn blinked, staring at the now dullish-green stone in her hand. What the…?
Another chill shot up her arm, followed by a wave of pulsating heat.
Her pussy clenched in response, as though replying to an unknown question.
Do you want to be filled?
Oh yes, please!
"What the hell?" Her mutter echoed softly through the silence and she blinked.
Unease crashed over her and she swallowed a sudden lump in her throat. Silence? In the forest? She tore her stare from the strange stone to look out at the lush Hawaiian rainforest.
And saw a man standing on Mauna Kea's rim.
A naked man, with long, glossy-black hair and deeply bronzed skin stretched over hard, sculpted muscles.
A naked man staring at her through thick, black lashes with piercing eyes the color of wild limes.
Jordynn started, dropping the stone again.
The man disappeared. Just like that. One second there, the next, gone.
Jordynn's throat squeezed tight. "What the hell?"
She spun about, searching the landscape surrounding her. Nothing. Just towering koa, choking vines, spreading 'Ama'u ferns, a cloudless blue sky and the volcano's rim.
Jordynn shook her head. Okay, so she was seeing things. Maybe it was time to head back to the cabin and take a break. She shot a look at her watch. She'd been collecting stone and mineral samples on Mauna Kea's rim for the last five hours. Removing her cap, she dragged her fingers through her hair, grimacing at the grimy sweat slicking her scalp. Okay, she definitely needed a break—and a shower—after which she'd lay out what she'd collected today and begin to make notes.
She flicked her gaze to the unusual stone lying beside her right foot, frowning at the faint hint of green glinting through the dirt-encrusted surface. Green the same hue as the man's eyes.
"Oh for Pete's sake," Jordynn growled before squatting down and scooping up the stone. "There was no man. Idiot."
Slight, gentle heat licked at her fingers, tingling her palm, and she frowned again, stuffing the stone into her canvas specimen bag. A soft beat throbbed between her thighs—wet and insistent—but she ignored it. She needed a break. Really. She was on the verge of losing her mind!
* * * * *
His tongue lashed at her clit. Laved it with furious fervor. She arched her back, forcing her sex harder to his talented mouth as she fisted the sheets below her. God, what was she doing?
Getting tongue-fucked by a complete stranger.
Jordynn's heart leapt into frantic flight. Yes, that's exactly what she was doing. The best tongue-fucking of her life, in fact. She stared at the ceiling through heavy-lidded eyes, her body hot and slicked with sweat, her pulse a triphammer in her neck.
Fuck. The anonymity of the situation was intoxicating. Why had she never done this before?
Because you've never let anyone this close before?
Because you're asleep?
Before she could digest the questions, the tongue in her sex moved to her ass and she bucked, a cry of rapturous surprise bursting from her. It echoed around the small confines of the cabin, bounced off the crude wooden walls and came back to her, mingling with the soft moans now slipping past her lips. This was not how she'd planned to spend the afternoon.
She shouldn't be doing this. She shouldn't be letting him…
His hands, large and strong and masterful, claimed her breasts, cupping each with steady pressure. She writhed beneath him, pleasure rolling through her like a velvet fog, clouding rational thought. Oh God, what was happening?
The hands on her breasts grew fiercer, long fingers finding her taut nipples with a pinch. She gasped and arched again, bucking her hips higher. "Yes."
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Silver ring, the square beze set with a cabochon amethyst with fluting at the sides and enamelled black spotted with white, the hoop enamelled black on the shoulders which end in a skull and crossed bones
17.12 mm internal ring diameter; 6.93 g weight
Bought in Paris
Presented by Dr C.D.E. Fortnum in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897; WA1897.CDEF.F563
Mortality rates were high in the sixteenth and seventeenth century due to war, plague and famine and Memento Mori rings such as this example were intended to remind the wearer of their mortal state.
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I am a wedding & event planner and was so excited when a past bride asked me to help style her daughter's first birthday. The Very Hungry Butterfly theme was chosen along with a popular children's bookstore where the party was hosted. The Very Hungry Caterpillar book has been around forever, so it is always fun to add a twist to a classic.
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Each child received a Very Hungry Caterpillar coloring book, crayons and lacing cards as a party favor the party girl's mom purchased from Etsy. Themed floor mats were purchased as colorful/functional play area. I added two trio glass bud vases that were transformed into caterpillars by adding green peas, eyes and pipe cleaner ears.
The dessert table consisted of two cakes, including one gluten free mini cake for the birthday girl and a larger more elaborate cake for guests. Each cake was trimmed in large, colorful gumballs. The baker was a friend of the family. The cake's detail was unbelievable right down to the caterpillar's teeth marks. A friend created a caterpillar cupcake caterpillar with legs and was a big fit with the kids because you can never have enough sweets. A personal chef - Chef Rosecleer Marie created finger food tuna/chicken sandwiches and grape kebobs shaped as caterpillar along with all of the other finger foods for the kids.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Seven UCLA women's rowers have earned Pac-12 All-Academic Team accolades, and an additional 12 rowers have secured honorable mention All-Academic Team acclaim.
Juniors Victoria Babson and Carolina Paini and sophomores Chloe Kojima and Kendal Mitchell were selected first-team All-Academic selections. Senior Tamar Schaap, junior Erin Wenzel and sophomore Victoria Vander Poel were named second-team honorees.
Babson and Paini were both honored as first-team selections for the second consecutive year (student-athletes cannot earn All-Academic Team honors as a freshman). In addition, Schaap and Wenzel were named second-team selections for the second straight season.
Seniors Hillary Caldwell, Mia Hamano, Kirstin Snook and Britta Syverson captured honorable mention All-Academic honors, along with juniors Nicole Sung-Jereczek and Samantha Upton and sophomores Maddie Alden, Alex Caniglia, Sarah Dierksen, Kate Miller, Molly Schoenfeld and Cathy Stolitzka.
Hamano was named an honorable mention selection for the third consecutive season, while Snook, Sung-Jereczek and Syverson secured honorable mention accolades for the second straight year.
Student-athletes must maintain a cumulative 3.0 grade-point average and be a significant contributor to be eligible for Pac-12 All-Academic Team honors.
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The War from the Protoss outerspace perspective
The Protoss's fleet weakness had been discovered, it was time to change Strategy. The Protoss fleet Executer, who was surprised that such a primitive race and technology could cause him trouble, had started to get things back in order:
"En Taro Adun to you Carrier Executer"
"En Taro Adun Executer, what is thy biding?"
"Proceed to Defensive code sen5 and attack code hesen6. For Adun!"
"For Adun!"
The Carrier executor orders all carriers to turn their ships in specified directions so that the generators can be the most out of reach from the Imperial fighters as possible. He then proceeded in ordering, for the first time in this battle, to the launching of Scouts, Fast Attack Fighters, leaving the Interceptors that were so far the only ones out their with VERY big help.
"To Scout Executor and squadrons Sam, Sa and Shib you have permission to take part in the battle. For Adun!"
"This is Scout Executor and leader of Shib squadron, permission received. For Adun!"
The mighty Scouts fly into battle and in less than a minute after the first undescriptable unknow "lasers" were fired 9 imperial fighters had already been destroyed.
"This is too easy! I pity this race and their ridiculous technology. I gain no Honour in battling against them!"
The word Ridiculous was perfect to discribe Imperial fighters compared to the Protoss Scouts
"Scout Squadron Sam, insure that the Carriers do not receive anymore projectiles that can harm them. Ignore the Lasers, they have no effects on our Plasma Shields. Squadron Sa Head for those Destroyers, but Only those that are tagged in Red on your Screen, those are the ones who have not been boarded or that have already been unboarded. My Squadron, Take out all fighters! And watch out for those missiles and tropedoes, they are the only thing that can harm our shields, even if they do not cause much harm they can still be dangerous. For Adun!"
Squadron Sa had quiclky destroyed their first destroyer but this was because that destroyed was already almost a part because of their lasers that had previously bounced back on them. Sa Squadron were heading towards a second one.
The imperial fighters were left hopeless against these Sam squadron scouts that seemed like Death that wanted to reap their souls. The Carriers were all safe and left alone because all Imperial forces had already their hands full with these Scouts that seemed to be everywere in the same time. The imperial fighters were quickly awar that laser had no effect and alas their only hopes, the missiles and torpedos were too slow and not enough. Against the Protoss, the Imperial striking force had only battled against Weaponless Carriers and mere Robotic Interceptors BUT NOW they had met what seemed to be their ultimate doom: The Scouts.
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Revive... Sosei [October 27, 1999]
Magical Drop Pocket [December 5, 1999]
Doraemon: Nobita to Fukkatsu no Hoshi [February 16, 1996]
Magical Drop F: Daibouken Mo Rakujyanai! [October 21, 1999]
Doraemon: Nobita to Fukkatsu no Hoshi [March 15, 1996]
Chibi Maruko-Chan: Harikiri 365-Nichi no Maki [December 13, 1991]
Donald Duck no Mahou no Boushi [August 11, 1995]
Doraemon 2: Nobita no Toizurando Daibouken [December 17, 1993]
Doraemon: Nobita to Yousei no Kuni [February 19, 1993]
Lupin III: Densetsu no Hihou o Oe! [December 27, 1994]
Sanrio Shanghai [August 31, 1994]
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Scholarship Information
Limited scholarships are available for youth who need financial support to attend Harbor Discoveries. Financial aid is awarded to campers based on financial need and an application reviewed for completeness and the child's expressed level of interest via the application assignment. Please note that booking a reservation as a full-paying individual precludes you from applying for a scholarship.
Scholarship application deadline extended! Applications accepted on a rolling basis until spaces are filled. Don't delay!
2016 Scholarship application (English)
2016 Scholarship application (Spanish)
How to Support the Scholarship Program
For information on how you can support this and other Aquarium programs, visit our donations page.
Co-Pay Structure
Recipients of a scholarship will be required to pay a copay for the program's tuition, dependent on your household's Gross Adjusted Income (typically line 37 from IRS form 1040, or equivalent).
|Annual Household Income
|Junior/Senior Programs Co-Pay
|Advanced 1-Week Programs Co-Pay
|Advanced 2-Week Programs Co-Pay
|$40,000 – $80,000
|Not eligible
|Not eligible
|Not eligible
Stay engaged at the Aquarium even outside of the summer! Financial aid is also available for some other Aquarium programs, such as our school-year Marine Biologist in Training.
We would like to thank the following major donors to the Harbor Discoveries Program
Additional support has been provided by
Summer Fund
Roy A. Hunt Foundation
Eaton Vance
Cabot Corporation
Arthur J Gallagher
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About Us
Originally operating as k&w Pattens Metal Express, located at 11000 Burgess Ave, Denahm Springs, we have been in business since 2003. Since then we have been custom cutting metal panels to meet your roofing and siding needs. Whether you need an energy saving metal roof or metal siding and roofing for your personal workship, or a pre-engineered metal building, we are here to provide you with your metal needs.
No matter the job, we cut our panels to meet your specific requirements. We roll form steel from 36 inches to 40 feet and everything in between. But you dont just get high-grade metal when you call the helpful folks at Walker Metals. You get fast, friendly service.
k & w Pattens Metal Express is Now Walker Metals
In October 2011, we moved from 11000 Burgess Avenue, Denham Springs location to a brand new facility in the Walker Industrial Park. Our operating facility covers over 14,000 square feet, and its proximity to I-12 allows us to better serve our customers in the surrounding areas. The new facility has easy access off of Florida Blvd (Hwy 190), Walker North (Hwy 447), just a few miles from I-12 and a couple of hundred yards from Hwy 449 at Florida Blvd.
No matter the job, we custom cut our panels to your specific requirements. We roll form metal panels as small as 36 inches to over 40 feet and everything in between. And all the trim to complete your job.
k & w Pattens Metal Express is now called Walker Metals.
Dont let the name change fool you - were the same friendly folks with the same quality materials youve come expect. We treat everyone right, because customer satisfaction is the key to our success.
Orders placed before 2:00 pm one day will be available at 7:30 am the next business morning.
We have a trim shop; if you can draw it, we can usually bend it while you wait.
That's the Walker Metals Promise!
Cut to length custom orders, next day availability if ordered by 2pm and a variety of accessories to finish the job!
Click here to view color options for your project. We offer many colors, most available for next-day orders!