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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Chapter 12 Summary
How It All Goes Down
The Mirror of Erised
- It's almost the winter holiday end of term. Hogwarts is all snowy and cold, especially the dungeons, and the students are all ready for a little break.
- During Potions class, Malfoy makes fun of Harry and the people who can't go home for the holidays, since making fun of Harry during the Quidditch game hasn't worked out so well for him.
- Harry is staying at Hogwarts over the holiday. The Weasleys are staying too, because their parents are traveling. Harry thinks it will be way better than going to the Dursleys'.
- After Potions, Harry and Ron run into Hagrid, who's bringing a huge Christmas tree inside Hogwarts. Malfoy comes up behind them and makes fun of Ron's family for being poor.
- Just when Ron attacks Malfoy, Snape appears and sides with his Slytherin student, even though Hagrid tries to stand up for Ron.
- Ron and Harry talk about getting back at Malfoy. Hagrid distracts them by taking them to the Great Hall to look at the Christmas decorations. The Hall looks awesome.
- Hermione is there and reminds them that they have to go to the library since they only have one day left before vacation.
- When Hagrid asks why they're so gung-ho to study, they explain that they are trying to do research on Nicolas Flamel. Hagrid won't tell them anything else, and even though they've done a lot of research, they haven't dug anything up yet. They've checked many of the major books and come up with nothing.
- Harry checks the restricted section, which has books about dark magic, but gets shooed out by the librarian. Ron and Hermione follow, and they confirm that no news has been found yet. Hermione asks them to keep researching while she's gone over the holidays.
- When classes are over, Ron and Harry are stoked to have alone time to relax in. Ron tells Harry about wizard chess, where the pieces can talk and help (or hinder) the players. Ron has a family set and Harry borrowed one from Seamus.
- Christmas Day, Harry is surprised and pleased to see that he got presents, just like Ron. He gets a flute from Hagrid, 50 pence from the Dursleys, a sweater from Mrs. Weasley, and Chocolate Frogs from Hermione. The coolest gift, though, is what Ron tells him is an invisibility cloak.
- The cloak comes with an unsigned note that says the cloak belonged to Harry's dad.
- Ron is jealous, and Harry is blown away.
- Fred, George, and Percy come in, with Weasley sweaters, and go downstairs for the great feast.
- The dinner is the best one Harry's ever had, with magic wizard crackers and all kinds of desserts. Harry gets even more presents from the crackers, including his own wizard chess stuff. He has a great rest of the day, with a Weasley snowball fight and more hanging out and eating.
- When he goes to bed that night, he re-focuses on the puzzle of the invisibility cloak. He realizes the cloak will help him break a lot of rules. It's really amazing to have something that belonged to his dad, so he wants to try it out right away. He wants to use it by himself.
- He slips out of the Gryffindor dorm and heads back to the restricted section of the library. He's sort of weirded out by how he looks when he's invisible.
- In the library, the books look creepy and unhelpful. He picks one to look at but when he opens it, it starts screaming. Even though he quickly closes the book and tries to run away, the screaming continues. Filch comes in, looking for the intruder, as Harry runs out.
- Harry finds himself in a corridor he doesn't recognize, next to some armor. He hears the voices of Snape and Filch, and he gets worried that he'll get caught. He goes into a room that he sees left open, and the other men don't seem to realize it when he moves away.
- They leave, and Harry looks around the room. It has desks, chairs, and a tremendous golden mirror with strange words carved on the top. The words are "Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi" (12.118).
- Harry looks at the mirror, planning to geek out some more about being invisible, but freaks when he sees his reflection, and the reflections of a bunch of other people. He's not sure if there are other invisible folks in the room or what. When he looks in the mirror again, he sees a beautiful lady and a man, both of whom look a lot like Harry. He calls them "Mom" and "Dad," and realizes that the other people in the picture must be his relations.
- He looks and looks in the mirror and is both really happy and really sad. He has a hard time leaving the people in the mirror.
- The next morning, Harry gets Ron, because he wants to show him his family. He thinks Ron will be able to see his family too. Ron's not excited about that, and tries to get Harry to eat. But all Harry can think about is seeing his family again.
- That night, Harry is worried they won't be able to get back to the room with the mirror, but they find it at last. When they go over to it, Harry sees his parents right away, but Ron can't. When Ron looks in the mirror by himself, he sees something very different: himself as head boy, Quidditch captain, and winner of the house and Quidditch cups.
- They can't decide how the mirror works, and are in the midst of an argument when they're interrupted by the noise of Filch's cat. They decide to return to the dorm.
- The next day, even though Ron tries to distract him, all Harry can think about is the mirror. Even though Ron thinks Harry shouldn't go back, it's all he wants to do.
- That night, Harry ditches Ron and goes back to the mirror. He just sits and looks at his family.
- Suddenly, he realizes that Dumbledore is there. Dumbledore explains to him how the mirror works: it shows the viewer his or her most inner desire. He explains Harry saw his family because he lost them, while Ron sees himself with all the attention, because he doesn't get it. Dumbledore says the mirror is really dangerous. He's going to take it away from Hogwarts and asks Harry not to follow it.
- As they're leaving, Harry asks Dumbledore about what he sees in the mirror. Dumbledore says nice, warm socks. Later, Harry realizes that this might not have been his real answer.


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A former Berryessa Union School District board member, Chu has also worked as an electronics engineer, a small business owner, a district director for former State Assemblymember Rebecca Cohn and a district representative for former State Sen. Elaine Alquist.
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"Bob will do his formal announcement soon," Chu said of the state Senate race, adding he also hoped to gain Wieckowski's political endorsement as his potential successor to the Assembly seat. "I have had a very positive and longtime working relationship with him."
Teresa Cox, an Ohlone College Board of Trustees member, has indicated she will run for the same Assembly seat.
Cox, a Fremont resident, was first elected to the college board in 2008, becoming the first African-American elected to that board, according to Ohlone College's website.
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Delta Air Lines said it plans to add 18 flights out of Dallas Love Field if it can get the two gates that American Airlines will give up in a lawsuit settlement.
It said it plans to fly to New York LaGuardia, Los Angeles, Detroit and Minneapolis-St. Paul where it has hubs or significant operations.
At present, Delta's Love Field services comes from ExpressJet, which flies five flights a day from Love Field to Atlanta as a Delta Connection partner.
"Our new service at Dallas Love Field means more competition and options for North Texas travelers, and flights to our international hubs will provide convenient connections to international destinations in Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa," said Bob Cortelyou, Delta's senior vice president of network planning.
"Dallas/Fort Worth is a top business market and critical to our strategy of connecting the world's leading cities for business and commerce," he said in the airline's announcement.
American, which leases two gates at Love Field, hasn't flown out of there since June 2009. However, it holds rights to two gates in the new Love Field terminal, which is to be completed by October 2014.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice said American had agreed to give up rights to the two Love Field gates as part of a settlement that will allow American's merger with US Airways to go forward.
Southwest Airlines, which controls 16 of the 20 gates in the new terminal, has indicated it would like to pick up American's two gates.
In its announcement, Delta painted a frightening picture of the impact of Southwest being able to add the gates.
"Currently at Love Field, 16 of the 20 gates and more than 95 percent of available seats are controlled by one airline, Southwest Airlines, which transports more passengers in the U.S. than any other carrier. Love Field has one of the highest concentrations of operations controlled by a single airline among the nation's large airports," Delta stated.
As soon as DOJ announce d the settlement, Delta has been publicly lobbying for some of the takeoff and landing slots to be surrendered at Washington Reagan National Airport and for the two Love Field gates.
On Tuesday, it expressed the wish for National slots. On Wednesday, it repeated that desire, plus the request for Love Field gates. On Thursday, it outlined its plans for Love Field.
The expansion would begin in October 2014, when limits on Love Field are removed. At present, flights out of the Dallas airport must make at least one stop in Texas or eight other states before traveling to the rest of the United States. After the limits expire, airlines can fly nonstop anywhere in the United States.
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Will 'Rush' Opening Help Auctioneer Sell Old Race Car?
The opening of director Ron Howard's auto-racing film "Rush" later this month will put the late Formula One champion James Hunt in the spotlight. It could also increase the value on the collector market of cars that he drove.
Classic-car auction house RK Motors Collector Car Auctions said it will offer Hunt's 1977 McLaren M26 race car during a sale in Charlotte, N.C., from Oct.31 to Nov. 3. The car is not the model he drove to the championship in 1976, but it is said to be the car in which Hunt took his last Formula One win at the Japanese Grand Prix in 1977.
The auction house didn't give an estimate for how much the car might fetch but noted similar racing cars have sold for millions of dollars.
The M26 is powered by a Ford Cosworth DFV V8 engine, a classic racing power plant that dominated Formula One grids throughout the 1970s. It puts out 525 horsepower at 10,600 revolutions per minute and can drive the car from zero to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds. Top speed is 195 mph. The auction house said the car for sale is ready for vintage-racing competition.
The coming film "Rush" follows the 1976 rivalry between Hunt and the Austrian Niki Lauda, who drove for Ferrari. It will be released in exclusive engagements in New York and Los Angeles on Sept. 20, and across the U.S. on Sept. 27.


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It's Showtime For Burke And Leafs
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After a year-and-a-half of shuffling and dealing, a defining day for Brian Burke and the Maple Leafs dawns on Thursday.
The Leafs and the NHL's other 29 teams can begin signing free agents at noon and despite a shallow free agent pool, Burke expects to be wade in waist-high. He has repeatedly said rebuilding the Leafs would not be a long-term job. Now he is ready to prove it.
With ample room under the salary cap and a stabilized situation on defence and in net, Burke is concentrating on landing the three or four forwards he needs to push the Maple Leafs into the post-season. After another year of junior, last year's first rounder, Nazem Kadri should be ready to play. The Leafs have a player who should be an elite goalscorer in Phil Kessel and a host of impressive young players including Tyler Bozak, Viktor Stalberg, goalie Jonas Gustavsson and defenceman Carl Gunnarsson. All were unknowns at the beginning of last season.
Burke's first moves will involve free agency. Defenceman Dan Hamhuis who's rights are held by Pittsburgh is a top-four all-arounder. Plenty of teams will look at speedy centre Matthew Lombard, a 28-year-old who scored 19 goals with the Phoenix Coyotes.
Rugged right winger Colby Armstrong (27) scored 15 goals with Atlanta and would fit the Leafs' need for second and third line winger who can score. Raffi Torres, 28, scored 19 goals last year and would fill a similar hole.
The real fun starts if Burke lands Hamhuis. That would leave him with seven NHL defencemen: Dion Phaneuf, Francois Beauchemin, Mike Komisarek, Luke Schenn, Carl Gunnarsson, Jeff Finger and Hamhuis. Burke has another defenceman who is nearly NHL ready in Keith Aulie and Juraj Mikus who advanced nicely last season with the Marlies.
That would set up the long-anticipated Tomas Kaberle trade, but also enough room to move another rearguard for a quality forward. Because of his youth and salary, the Leafs most attractive blue line commodity is Schenn and should Burke make him available, he could be assured of a top six forward in return. Among Leaf fans there has been much talk of the club trying to free restrickted free agent power forward Bobby Ryan from Anaheim. Should he choose, Burke could offer a player whose future might be comparable to Ryan's in Schenn.
Finally, Burke has long been rumoured to have front-of-the-line access to Boston centre Marc Savard. After a concussion and injury plagued year, the 32-year-old could be in line for a Leaf renaissance or a grinding end to his career. The gifted Savard was magical when paired with Kessel in Boston but is obviously larded with risk.
The Leafs are coming off a disastrous season in which they finished 29th in the 30 team-league. Paradoxically, Burke has manouevered his team into an advantageous position. The Leafs have cap space, a handful of legitimate prospects, a sprinkling of tried NHLers, emerging organizational depth and top drawer talents in Phaneuf and Kessel.
He has the levers to land three significant additions and head into the season in October on the dead run.
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Got a gear question you want/need answered? I want to help and answer it. Send your gear questions to me at Gear Questions and I'll do my best every Wednesday to answer as many questions as I can. Questions are really light this week, you run out of them? Keep in mind the answers are just my $.02 worth and you have to take what works for you and your photography and embrace it and ignore the rest. So here's this weeks questions ….
Moose man!
I need advice on just one lens, 85mm Nikon. I don't have the budget for the f1.4 version but I do have the funds for the f1.8. My question is, what am I giving up buying the f1.8?
Thanks for your time!
Paul, this has been a common question of late. I have been trying to get my hands on both the f1.4 and f1.8 for a side by side but have only got my hands on the f1.8. There is no difference in focal length, there is a difference in physical size, filter size and as you mentioned, price. The f1.4 closes down to just f/16 where the f1.8 closes down to f/22. I kinda like that f/22. The f1.4 is much sexier, I like that. Now I've shot with f1.4 in the past and its smokin hot sharp. I can now say the same thing about the f1.8. It's performance at its MFD all the way out smokes too. So these brings you down to the isolation quality of f1.4 compared to f1.8. To be real honest with you, I'm not going to try to tell you there is one. I'm sure technically there is, but in practice, I just don't see it. So my $.02, going with the f1.8 is a smart move especially when counting pennies. Hope that helps.
Hi Moose,
I'm a helicopter Pilot over in the UK – I'm hoping to try and photograph more Aviation generally, but also sometimes when we train with multiple crew I get to stand behind the seats and get some shots! I've recently bought a Nikon 16mm Fisheye for my new Df, both of which I love, although I've quickly noticed the challenges of achieving good exposures in the often difficult light of cockpit shots. Have you got any of advice for these situations, and could you also offer any help as to what metering modes are best for airborne shots – I've been having a play but feel a little in the dark if you'll pardon the pun!
Thanks again for all your inspiration, I'm on my third read of Taking Flight now and love it! I was recently in Florida and tried to make it to Fantasy of Flight, but we tried to go down the day after it closes its doors! It's such a shame but we will be back when it re-opens for sure, and we got to see a launch at Kennedy which definitely made up for it!
Anyway, hope you are well and thanks again.
Hi Jamie! Great to hear from folks across the pond! Glad you're liking Taking Flight and it's helping. On your Df / 16Fish cockpit question. First, I would go with a single click option. The issue of the BT Journal coming out the end of the month has a pg28 video lesson that would be the technique I would recommend to you of underexposing in camera and processing it in ACR. Next recommendation would be using a single SB-910 along with Custom Setting e4. Be sure to turn the flash backwards and bounce the light and NOT light the cockpit directly.
Glad you got down to Fantasy. Sorry it was closed for ya but I'm sure in the future Kermit will have the public back. He has a great collection and he loves to share it!
Hi Moose,
*Sigh* – Can you talk (again) about whether or not to leave VR on or off when using a tripod?
I was recently shooting in very windy conditions on a tripod, and my gut said that my camera must be moving some, and that VR had to help in those circumstances.
Can you tell me your reasoning? I think I've read too many different blog posts on the subject.
Long-time fan,
Greg, VR does seem to confuse the heck out of folks. Here's what I do and more than likely, it's not what the instruction book says to so. VR is always on, set to Normal. Now if you're in doubt, just turn it off. If you're using proper hand holding or long lens technique and you are on a stable footing, VR isn't going to make any difference in your images.
Can't thank you enough for taking questions from us newbies, it's a big help! I'm just starting, I'm still in high school and money to buy gear is hard to come by. I want to learn about and use flash but I simply can't afford the Nikon units. I've read about the Bolt VX-760N and wondered if it will work on my D7000 and if it's a good flash.
You're my hero!
Tony, it's so great to hear you're into photography, lemme see if I can be of assistance. I contacted my friends at B&HPhoto and they sent me a sample of the Bolt VX-760N. Now being a Nikon dude, I depend on my SB-910 so recommend it first and foremost. But I do understand where you're coming from so I put in a little time with the Bolt to give you an honest answer. While it does not have all the features of the SB-910, it does have two things that would help you learn light, iTTL operation and a powerful light. I think for the price, it's a darn good flash as long as you don't need all the features the SB-910 offers. So I would recommend you get yourself one and beat it to pieces using it and learning light. In the process, take some portraits and get paid for them and save that money up to eventually get yourself the SB-910. And keep clickin!
I did a quick search on your site and hope that I am not duplicating an already answered question. I have for the past year been shooting with the D4 and feel fairly comfortable with quickly adjusting the Exposure Compensation given the lighting and how the light interacts with the shades of the creature I am photographing. SO – This past weekend, enter the D4S and with the first few hundred clicks, it seems the Exposure Compensation is quite different in how it interacts with the new sensor/processor. To my eye, it seems I do not need as much negative compensation to saturate colors and not "Blow Out" white feather details. Have you noticed a difference and if so which way does yours lean?
Thanks and hope to catch you at the WOH airshow this year.
Chris, thanks for searching for the answer! The D4 & D4s & Df work exactly the same for exposure compensation and range of light and deliver the same results with the same settings. No idea why you're seeing any difference but for me, they are interchangable in this department 100%!


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Bank of Canada Sends Mixed Messages
By Don Curren
Usually one of the world's more eloquent central bankers, Mark Carney made a rare misstep this week when he confused financial markets about the Bank of Canada's intentions on interest rates.
The gaffe – resulting from a series of seesawing statements from the Bank of Canada and Mr. Carney over the last 10 days – sent bond and currency markets gyrating and left analysts scratching their heads as they pored over the statements.
And it came from a central bank that prides itself on clear communication. Perhaps the most striking example of this was the bank's 2009 commitment to hold interest rates steady for more than a year, a tactic then adopted by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
The communication breakdown has garnered global attention. Bank of America/Merrill Lynch had this to say: "Central bank officials are usually associated with attempting to reduce market volatility. Unfortunately, the Bank of Canada has failed to do this over the past week."
But Mr. Carney's mixed messages reflect the difficult policy bind the Bank of Canada – the only major central bank believed to be even contemplating rate increases – finds itself caught in.
On the domestic front, Canadian household debt has reached worrisome levels after four years of rock-bottom interest rates from the inflation-targeting central bank. But the bank has been unable to raise rates because of the fragile and uncertain state of the global economy, an important variable to a trade-oriented economy such as Canada's.
The confusion started last week when the market got the impression the bank was leaning away from higher rates when Mr. Carney omitted from a speech the "guidance" sentence the bank has used to signal potential hikes since April.
The market embraced that as a nod towards a more neutral interest-rate stance, sending the Canadian dollar sharply lower and pricing a softer stance into the country's rate markets.
However, on Tuesday the bank included a modified version of the tightening guidance in a statement it issued when it left its key policy rate at 1% for the seventeenth time.
Markets promptly reversed direction, driving the Canadian dollar sharply higher as the statement was taken to mean that rate hikes were back on the table.
The final chapter came Wednesday. In a news conference after the release of the bank's quarterly monetary policy report, which echoed Tuesday's mildly hawkish tone, Mr. Carney said the case for rate increases has become "less imminent," but also said rates are more likely to increase than decrease over time.
The Canadian dollar sold off again and Canadian bond markets rallied on the view the bank was once again backing off rate hikes.
Asked point blank at the news conference about the perception the bank's communications were less than transparent, Mr. Carney said bluntly: "The perception's incorrect."
A spokesman for the Bank of Canada said Thursday the bank will be making no further statement about the perceived lack of transparency beyond Mr. Carney's remarks at the news conference.
Mr. Carney said Wednesday that the guidance sentence was left out of last week's speech because it was largely about the uncertainties afflicting the global economy and their impact on Canada. He said the speech also made the point that any monetary policy response to household imbalances would be made clearly and transparently.
He acknowledged the bank is caught in a policy bind, keeping rates low to offset factors such as global headwinds and the strong Canadian dollar, but recognizing that policy stokes household borrowing.
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"Do you, Party A, take this Party B to be your lawfully wedded spouse ...''
Nah. Never did sound right. So the state of California is now changing the way people can identify themselves on its new gender-neutral marriage licenses.
Now the bride and groom can choose to be called, well, the "bride" and "groom."
Or, for that matter, the bride and bride. Or the groom and groom.
Since June 16, when gay marriage became legal in California as the result of a state Supreme Court ruling, two people getting hitched had only one option when filling out their marriage license form. One had to be identified as Party A. The other had to be known as Party B.
"Following the Supreme Court decision in May, we moved quickly to make that change to be consistent with the ruling,'' said Suanne Buggy, spokeswoman for the California Department of Public Health, which oversees marriage licenses.
Perhaps too quickly.
Many Californians, even those who support the right of gays to marry, thought "Party A, Party B'' sounded too cold, too bureaucratic.
Santa Clara County Clerk-Recorder Regina Alcomendras said Monday that she's heard few complaints from people obtaining marriage licenses since the gender-neutral form took effect. But Alcomendras said county clerks in rural counties have received a lot more flak.
One Roseville couple refused to sign their marriage license because the form didn't say "bride'' and "groom.'' And last week the couple filed a lawsuit against the Placer County clerk in Superior Court.
"We've been hearing from a lot of average Californians that they would like to have the bride-groom option,'' Buggy said.
Or they can simply choose to be known only as "First person'' and "Second person.''
In any case: No more Party A, Party B.
County clerks will begin using the newest marriage-license form on Nov. 17.
That's 13 days after Californians decide whether to keep gay marriage legal when they vote on Proposition 8, which seeks to overturn the Supreme Court's decision.
New research released Monday from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law found that an estimated 11,000 same-sex couples got married in California in the first three months since it became legal. It's not known how many couples were from out of state.
San Francisco is currently the only county in the state that tracks the gender of people getting married. So researchers calculated the number of gay marriages by assuming that the increases in the number of licenses from year to year were largely attributed to the legalization of same-sex marriage, said Gary Gates, a senior research fellow at the Williams Institute who wrote the University of California-Los Angeles study.
According to the researchers' estimates, five counties accounted for nearly 80 percent of the same-sex marriages: Los Angeles (2,719), San Francisco (2,708), San Diego (1,689), Riverside (1,237) and Alameda (475).
Santa Clara County had 265. Santa Cruz County had 138. San Mateo County had 350.
Gates said about 5,000 gay marriages were performed within the first week after it became legal.
The new marriage form should make it easier for researchers to get a more precise count of gay marriages, Gates said.
"But that will depend on the degree that people choose the bride-groom option,'' he said. "That's the unknown.''
In any case, Gates said, California seems to be negotiating the brave new world of same-sex marriage with more sensitivity and bureaucratic efficiency than the city of Toronto.
When gay marriage became legal in the Canadian province of Ontario five years ago, "Toronto didn't have time to change the form, so same-sex couples had to choose which one would be the bride, which one would be the groom.''
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Family, friends and neighbors gathered in the cold Sunday to launch balloons on the one year anniversary of Teddy Foltz's death.
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The Butler Institute of American Art opened its doors and bared its walls Sunday to local artists.
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There are a number of young and talented footballers in the world and many of them are excelling for their respective clubs. Most footballers tend to be at their best fitness levels between the ages of 23 and 28 and that is the time that they could excel and develop into a world-class player.
There are many who play regularly for top clubs despite being very young, like Mario Goetze and Christian Eriksen, who are very talented teenagers.
Most successful clubs tend to have a good combination of youth and experience and Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is a manager who believes in having veterans alongside youth players which could help the team develop as a unit.
He has retained the likes of Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Gary Neville even though when past their best because playing alongside these legends could help youngsters gather experience and knowledge from their game.
With the imminent introduction of financial fair play rules, elite clubs will also try to develop players from their academies as it would help them meet the regulations. Also, teams which are lower down in the table also produce some very good players, though they eventually end up in a big club, but the production of a talented player like Phil Jones of Blackburn or Wayne Rooney of Everton pumps money into these clubs.
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MONTREAL – Three Habs prospects are one step closer to spending Christmas in Russia.
On Monday, Canada and Sweden released the names of the players who have been invited to take part in each country's respective selection camps for the World Junior Hockey Championships, set to kick off on December 26 in Ulf, Russia.
The Canadiens' fifth-round pick from the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, Charles Hudon, is among the 37 hopefuls named to Team Canada's selection camp which will take place from December 10 to 13, in Calgary. The 18-year-old Chicoutimi Sagueens forward currently leads his team in scoring with 35 points in 25 games.
Not surprisingly, Canadiens second-round selection Sebastian Collberg received an invite to attend Team Sweden's selection camp. The 18-year-old forward took part in last year's WJC in Alberta, finishing second in team scoring with seven points in six games, helping end Sweden's 31-year gold medal drought in the process.
Team USA's top brass announced Tuesday morning the roster of players invited to attend a selection camp in preparation for the 2013 World Juniors. Unsurprisingly, Alex Galchenyuk has made the shortlist.
After being sidelined for all but two games in 2011-12, the Canadiens' 2012 first-round draft pick has bounced back impressively, hitting his stride immediately in his most recent campaign. With 20 goals and 49 points already under his belt, Galchenyuk currently leads his team in points and ranks as the OHL's third leading scorer. Should the 18-year-old forward carve out a place for himself on the national team, it would mark his first time representing his country in the tournament.
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BEIJING: China will overtake the United States as the world's second-largest gold producer this year as its output rises 8 percent to 260 tonnes, the Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday, citing China Gold Association Vice Chairman Hou Huimin.
Falling production in South Africa, the world's top producer, could soon propel China to the No. 1 spot. China's miners and smelters produced 240.1 tonnes of gold in 2006, up 7 percent from the year before, spurred by rising gold prices and expanded smelter capacity.


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|Yi Lee
Posted: Jan 10 2012, 02:39 PM
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G'day everybody,
It's been about two weeks since I saw this at a private screening and I was wondering if anyone else has caught the new Zhang Yimou film starring Christian Bale set during the Nanking massacre of 1937? Based upon a 2005 Yan Geling novella entitled "The Thirteen Hairpins of Nanjing" (Jinling Shisan Chai), which can be finished in under two hours if one is reading at a snail's pace, there's been very little written about "Flowers" in English considering it's currently the biggest grossing film in China and has consistently beaten out Tsui Hark's 3D "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" for the top box office spot since both opened on the same day at the start of the 2011 Christmas holiday viewing season.
My own gut reaction is that it compares well to Lu Chuan's "City of Life and Death" (2009)--though "City" is probably the better, more artistically consistent of the two (I wonder how much of this has to do with Zhang's painterly use of color vs. Lu's clinical use of "classic" documentary black and white)--and will probably draw in a fair bit of arthouse attendance over here due to Bale's child actor performance in "Empire of the Sun" (1987) plus general Western (Orientalist?) fascination with all things geisha/courtesan/high class hooker-ish from the East--the "flowers" or "hairpins" in the title refer to thirteen such individuals.
I have a really tough time thinking critically about World War II movies set in China. I lived in Nanjing for three intellectually fruitful years in grad school and, being a Republican era specialist, am aware of the historical situation in the city and surrounding areas. I lived in the old diplomatic quarter of the former Nationalist capital, daily passing by the still standing villas of bygone government big-wigs and overseas officials posted there. I regularly strolled by the former Japanese embassy and novelist Pearl Buck's home on my way to my morning jog at Nanjing University's outdoor track before heading out for a few laps at their Olympic-sized swimming pool in the school's athletic complex (all of which was overlooked by the soaring Run Run Shaw building which housed the media studies department and the heavy hitters in social sciences.) Made regular monthly trips to Purple Mountain--home of Sun Yat-sen's grandiose mausoleum--in addition to the old Presidential Palace (also the HQ for the Taiping Rebels) and the Massacre Memorial itself. And let's not forget the so-called international zone of Nanking was also ground zero for the Cultural Revolution in post-liberation Nanjing; though the streets have been since repaved and shiny high-rises shoot towards the sky, my daily work routine started with me walking atop one of the bloodiest square miles on the face of the planet.
Given the above considerations, I found flowers remarkably restrained yet was troubled how beautiful--including the grit and grime--Zhang made it all appear. The pic looks terrific and considerably more money has been poured into it compared to "City of Life and Death." Lu, however, does a better job of evoking the stench of rotting corpses and human degradation taking place all around. Given that Yan's original novella throws out a scenario ripe for sitcom potential--a bunch of saucy courtesans and dowdy Catholic school girls get holed up in a cathedral being shelled by enemy fire while being watched over a slyly opportunistic American fox keeping the chicken coop--that Patrick Bateman/Bruce Wayne himself gets cast to play this role is just too rich(!)--I suppose one should just be thankful the thing didn't go totally off the rails. Tastefully done but considering how some things should never be given the "classy" treatment (e.g. family musical set in a holocaust concentration camp; stoner sex comedies about 9/11, Benny Hill music playing as people leap from the burning WTC in sped-up hilarity )...
***Kinda Big Spoiler***
this is the classiest movie you're ever going to see about child gang rape/murder. Yay? That the White Man pulls one over the squinty-eyed Japanese by switching them out with a bunch of hoary high end hookers in the end, that's okay 'cause "the children are the future." And whores aren't people.
***End Spoiler***
Worth seeking out for the strong female ensemble performances but at its' heart the movie asks audiences to swallow a pretty nasty proposition. And although this is substantially subdued compared to the real life crimes against humanity taking place in Nanjing during the horrific massacre (looking back at some of the actual Japanese war documents, I genuinely can't tell who allowed things to go to seed or what possessed the soldiers from enlisted to senior officers to go so totally apeshit with the random mass murdering and raping) , this one just feels wrong to me. Open-mouthed kissing your sister wrong. I guess that's not a problem for people born in a country with a one child policy. Moreover, English-speaking audiences can kind of ride the "Atonement" (2007) vibe given off by the picture (and short story's) discursive framing device.
|Steve Erickson
Posted: Jan 10 2012, 03:32 PM
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This played an Oscar-qualifying run in New York around Christmas, and it's returning for a longer one on Jan. 20th. I haven't been impressed by Zhang Yimou's late work, apart from HERO, but I plan to see it when it reopens.
|Yi Lee
Posted: Jan 10 2012, 05:27 PM
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Hey Steve (and everybody else),
If you liked "Hero" (2002) and Zhang working in that mode, I think you might find yourself pleasantly surprised with this one.
Out of curiosity, did Chen Kaige's wuxia-tinged revenge drama "The Sacrifice" (2010)--based on an ancient play titled "The Orphan of Zhao," one of the first Chinese plays ever adapted/translated into Western Romance languages--ever play in normal (non-museum, non-festival) retail movie theaters? Now that was a return to form unremarked in the press.
(To everybody): Gosh there's a chance this might make it to the local multiplex. This and the new [New] "Dragon Gate," which I'm dying to see because of all the old school personnel listed in the credits. That noted, I remember "City of Life and Death" being avoided by festival programmers and audiences at first given its harrowing subject matter. Zhang Yimou's going to be the beneficiary of some of the art cred Lu Chuan built up with his picture, but I'm afraid Zhang squanders a bit of it with this one. "Flowers" is just too polished--sort of like one of those Benetton adverts found in glossy fashion rags from the 1990s--and though one could easily invoke names like Theodore Adorno and whatnot, let me just say the pic doesn't sit well with me. It you find yourself thinking the same thing, don't pass on "City of Life and Death"--'cause that one's the real deal. Zhang's "Flowers," on the other hand, is a multiplex remix shot in the highest, def-est hi-def possible.
|Steve Erickson
Posted: Jan 10 2012, 07:11 PM
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I actually walked out on CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH when I saw it at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival. Have you read Shelly Kraicer's article on Lu Chuan in CINEMA SCOPE? It's been too long since I read it for me to do a good job of summarizing it here, and I don't think it's available on-line, but he expressed my misgivings about CITY quite well. I'm definitely not looking for a more sanitized depiction of the same subject matter, so from what you're saying, I think I'd like FLOWERS even less.
|Yi Lee
Posted: Jan 10 2012, 09:44 PM
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Hello Steve (and everybody else),
Is this the article of which you speak?
Shelly Kracier, "A Matter of Life and Death: Lu Chuan and Post-Zhuxuanlu Cinema," _Cinema Scope_ no. 41 on-line at:
Oh how I love thee, Google.
I know Shelly along with Lisa Roosen-Runge. Despite not being a film scholar or a person with academical film interests, I've always found them really generous with their time. Continuing, his essay in _Cinema Scope_ concludes with the following line: "In true Hollywood fashion, ['City of Life and Death'] substitutes spectacle for thought, mythology for history, and ideology for reality." If that cutesy aphorism describes your initial apprehension towards Lu's movie, then yes, it would be advisable to avoid the new Zhang Yimou film later this month.
(To everybody): That selfsame concluding line reveals a passing familiarity with Continental philosophy and the Gallic post-structualists that have come to dominate humanities departments in the States (the British Marxists and so-called empiricists have never bought into such logomachy) coupled with a bit of Cold War era Pekinology to decipher the tea leaves, as it were. If that toolkit sits well within one's worldview, then Shelly's analysis is essentially sound albeit somewhat dated.
I say "dated" because of this: 2009, the year in which the film premiered, also marked a huge upswing in what are referred to as "mass incidents"--polite political jargon for "riots" and "all hell breaking loose locally"--in China. 2009 was the first time there were over 90 thousand local domestic mass incidents there. We've since topped 100K and these things keep escalating by the tens of thousands every year. My own reading of the film points toward a lack of civil society "social structures"--to use Phillip Kuhn's China Area Studies language--mostly of a political nature, and just how loose the gaskets of the social contract are on the ground in that country. Universally panned--though as Shelly notes, profitable enough to be considered 100 million RMB blockbuster--consider for a moment Lu's film in contrast to the highly successful "Flowers of War," which crossed that 100 million RMB threshold in its opening weekend gross alone. Around that week one of the biggest mass incidents breaks out in Guangdong province after a suspect--arrested from another mass incident--died in police custody. Coupled with the Ai Weiwei secret house arrest earlier this year and it's an obvious a bad moon's rising as they'd say here in the South.
Yet if you read your Chinese papers, blogs, and bulletin boards, you'd find all manner of shit eating grin-wearing praise for "Flowers"--and if Shelly and Steve's sensibilities are correct--this pic ought to be even more offensive than "City of Life and Death" owing to it's even more (earnest?) use of (political?) spectacle. I don't totally buy Shelly's reading of the film because he doesn't elaborate on a clear definition for ideology and how Leninist political parties employ ideological works for "thought training" (very interesting in the Chinese case in that the CPC is one of the few Communist Parties in the world that did not start out Leninist) but I'm willing to cut him slack because _Cinema Scope_ is mainstream periodical that apparently eschews the use of (useful?) citations and foot notes.
But getting back to mass incidents and the cultural moment, the praise for "Flowers" in China as a remarkable piece of historical film making in addition to its boffo B.O. points at a deeply out of touch viewing class delighted with the conventions of "scar" fiction--much like my above missive to Steve, Google is your friend--but blind to the realities of widespread unrest. I admire Lu's "City of Life and Death" for how it showed how ugly everyone and all sectors of society were caught up in, if the anodyne term can be applied here, a "mass incident" gone horribly wrong. It seemed Lu was using allegory to, yes, talk a bit about the "Nanking Incident" (polite, upmarket Japanese phrasing for whatever happened in 1937) but also about, more importantly, the blind group think that emerges when the social contract breaks down completely (as is currently happening in China in accelerated form since 2009.) For that reason I don't buy Shelly's "ideology" argument but I cannot speak to what the article looked like prior to editing for general publication.
In a way Lu's pic reminds me of the recent Chinese dystopian sci-fi novel by former filmmaker turned TV producer Chan Koon-chung (Chen Guanzhong)--titled _The Fat Years_ in recent English-language translation. I thought Lu, along with Chan, were one of the few voices operating in the popular arts calling bullshit on ideology and exposing the emperor for his nakedness (Liu Xiaobo is more of a philosopher/literary critic along with being a human rights activist.) I'm not quite sure why Chinese audiences are eating this one up and why Western observers are so reticent to talk about it.
Lastly, Oscar for "Best Foreign Film," indeed. The thing's about 75% American English. Nonetheless, neat hearing so much local Nanjing dialect and Shanghainese featured in a mainstream non-documentary film (it seems local dialect cinema are the provenance of Hong Kong and Singapore nowadays.)
|Steve Erickson
Posted: Jan 23 2012, 08:50 PM
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Now that I've seen THE FLOWERS OF WAR, I can concur with Yi that there's something really foul about it. I don't know enough about Chinese culture to say this with any certainty, but for this American viewer, the film seems to partake of Christian notions of sacrifice and redemption that aren't deeply felt, but absorbed from other films, particularly SCHINDLER'S LIST & SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. Furthermore, the screenwriters are too lazy to even come up with a definitive fate for the prostitutes; although they hint very strongly at the ugliness that awaits them, the ending, especially the final freeze frame, allows for an out. The mixture of treacle and brutality is really unpleasant and jarring, and not in any produdctive way.


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The Blasdell Village Board has thrown its support behind legislation pending before the Assembly and State Senate that would make it mandatory for lending institutions to provide contact information for those parties responsible for vacant, abandoned or foreclosed homes.
Village Administrator Janet Plarr said there were about five foreclosures in the village this year and, as the properties deteriorate, either through overgrown landscaping or broken windows, it can be nearly impossible to track down those responsible for repairs.
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It's one of the buildings that houses the offices of our congressmen and women.
You would think. Last time a man with a gun got in a Capitol Policeman went down.
And they're elected, too.
Did Art Bell/George Noory mention them on the air last night? [g]
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