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Kalka Engineering College is situated at Partapur By Pass, Near Partapur Flyover, Meerut 250006 in Meerut.
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Kalka Engineering College - KEC Meerut - KEC
Kalka Engineering College (KEC) is a part of Kalka Group of Institutions, the college was conceived with the sole objective of generating and disseminating knowledge for the development of the society. KEC is affiliated to Mahamaya Technical University, and is approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India). Institute is located in Meerut, and offers quality learning programmes in various disdisciplines of engineering.The vision of KEC is to be the leading centre of learning and innovation in emerging areas of business and management education. For every course the college imparts practical training to its students that helps them to understand better, improve their demonstrative skills, eliminate hesitation and in this process strives to mould them into industry ready professionals. Mission of KEC is 'to foster critical analysis by training students both in theory and practice so as to equip them with skills needed for facing global challenges with team work and human values. And to build quality network with the Industry, educationists and the society for exchanging knowledge'. The modern teaching methodology assists the students in getting an all around view of engineering, technology and the entrepreneur world. The diligent faculty team of the college possesses hands-on experience and up to date knowledge of their subject and area of expertise. The infrastructure and facilities of KEC consists of spread-out campus alongside various amenities in the form of library, computer center, classrooms with proper teaching and learning aids, medical facilities etc. The institute seeks to place each of its students in an organization/company of great repute.
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When Waiters returns from his relatively minor knee injury, he will the leader of the banged-up Cavaliers, even though he just entered the NBA back in the winter Although he is just a rookie, Dion Waiters has already shown bounds of leadership on his scuffling Cleveland Cavaliers team, a team that has struggled the whole season and is suffering from a bad case of the injuries, tanking, lack of talent and Luke Walton so far in the 2012-13 campaign. Playing in 57 games (starting in 48 of them), Waiters, a Syracuse product, has averaged 14.7 points and 3.0 assists per contest while serving as a clear secondary option to Kyrie Irving and even a tertiary scoring option when Anderson Varejao was healthy earlier on in the season. However, Kyrie, before hurting his shoulder (he's expected to miss three to four weeks), had missed upwards of 10 games throughout the year, leaving some isolated chances for Waiters to take the reins of the team dispersed throughout his debut season. For the most part, in these games, he has shown that the fourth-overall pick Cleveland used on him was well worth it. Furthermore, these opportunities have shown the rookie has the ability to be a leader in his own right, which will be important for the duration of Kyrie's injury. Waiters, who is expected to miss at least a week with his own knee injury, has embraced the fact that he will have to step up while Kyrie is hurt in order to keep the lowly Cavaliers playing somewhat competitive basketball. That is important to see from a young player, especially in today's age of intrusive sports media and blogging when greener guys, in situations like Waiters is in, sometimes shy away from the responsibility of leading a team for the sake of not getting the criticisms they might face if they fail in that leadership role. As said to Jeff Garcia of Project Spurs after San Antonio edged the Cavs in a close game down in Texas a few days ago: "I think teams are going to lock in on me [Waiters] more. They're going to double on me. But you know, we make adjustments and go out there and play no matter what the situation is and how they defend you." The alpha-dog mentality Waters has exhibited as he fights his own injury and prepares to play with the Cavaliers without both Irving and Varejao is a really fascinating and enlightening one to be shown by a rookie point guard without much experience. It is a rare one to be seen in the NBA of the 21st century and should give Cleveland another great player and personality in Waiters to go along with the clear-stud that is Kyrie Irving. Hopefully Waiters' injury will not keep him out long and he will be able to return to the lineup and assert himself and grow as a player. With these guys in their backcourt for the near-future, the Cavaliers will be set, especially when Varejao returns from injury and teams back up with Tristan Thompson to make two intimidating point guard/shooting guard and power forward/center combinations for Cleveland. That kind of roster structure would be scary for any NBA team to face off against -- maybe except for the Heat and Thunder -- as its ceiling would be ridiculously high, going to such heights based on how its multiple talents and players mesh together on the floor. [follow]
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In addition to boosting research in the field of cardiovascular research, the initiative hopes that the release serves as an example for how academia could make similar stores of data available for research.
Currently, there is not a lot of data with the ability to answer long-term solutions available to researchers, says Eric Peterson, MD, executive director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He says he wants DCRI to be a "role model for other institutions to do the same."
The cardiovascular dataset is part of the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Disease (DDCD), which includes de-identified records for patients treated at Duke between 1969 and 2013, including data from more than 100,000 procedures on more than 50,000 unique patients. The data includes patient demographics, cardiac medical history, comorbid conditions, final impressions and subsequent treatments.
Matt Gross, director of the SAS Health Care and Life Sciences Global Practice, says Duke Clinical Research Institute is the first outside the pharmaceutical realm to share data with the "dirtiness of the real world" at this level. He explains that the data shows patient history and how they responded to certain surgeries or medicine, making it broader than "sterile" clinical trial data that only represents a subset of the population that has already been included and excluded for a specific purpose.
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Educational surveys have a habit of focusing on the more obvious failings of our state schools: the drop-out rate, truancy, the proportion of pupils who leave with no qualifications, the poor standards of numeracy and literacy that place our school-leavers at a disadvantage when compared with better-educated East Europeans. And it is right that so much attention is paid to the chances of those at the bottom. It is they who, most clearly and urgently, need help.
This does not mean, however, that everything is rosy, or even satisfactory, elsewhere. In a report with a self-explanatory title – "The most able students: are they doing as well as they should in our non-selective secondary schools?" – the education inspectorate, Ofsted, trained its lens on the other end of the school spectrum and answered its question with a loud "No".
It found that in 40 per cent of state secondary schools, the brightest children, as identified by primary-school scores, were not reaching the standard they were capable of, and that two-thirds of those who did best in English and maths at primary school failed to achieve A* or A grades at GCSE. It spoke of thousands of bright children being "systematically failed", and said that many of those who had excelled at primary school became "used" to performing at lower levels.
Regrettably, such findings chime with criticisms made periodically since they came to government by both the Prime Minister and by his Education Secretary, to the effect that many apparently good schools were "coasting". No less regrettably, they also confirm the concerns of many parents with children at state and private schools that many state schools entrench low expectations and fail to "stretch" the brightest – a defect reinforced by an exam system that demands too little.
The laxness of the exam system is now being addressed – in the face of fierce hostility from the teaching establishment – though provision for those of a less academic bent will remain neglected. And if there is anything more depressing than the findings of this latest Ofsted report, it is the defensiveness, even denials, that at once poured forth from teachers and their leaders.
They began by challenging the inspectors' methods, complaining that Level 5 achievers at primary school formed too wide a band to be considered the brightest, or necessarily capable of an A at GCSE. They continued by insisting on the excellence of most schools (and, of course, most teachers) and they blamed league tables for distorting incentives. Of these excuses only the last, a reference to the pressure to lift pupils from a D grade to a C, holds water.
One proposal is that secondary schools should "set" or "stream" pupils by ability from the start. Another is for closer parental scrutiny of comparative performance, which will not necessarily improve relations with teachers. But an obvious solution – allowing schools to select by ability – remains taboo, even though such a system produced some of the greatest social mobility this country has known.
There is no need to reintroduce the dreaded 11-plus. Sats give primary schools a good grasp of their pupils' ability. Nor need 11 be the age of selection. The rigidity of admission to grammar schools was one of their biggest downsides. Standards and facilities in schools catering to the less academic must be far better than they were then. But to reject academic selection on ideological grounds alone is to fail many of our most promising pupils just as surely as many of the most disadvantaged are also failed.Reuse content


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Paula Walker did not enjoy her first experience in a bobsleigh, but eight years later and with an Olympic place to fight for, the adrenaline is still flying. "The first time I went down a track was really awful," she recalls. "It actually felt like I was getting beaten up in the back of a trash can. I couldn't see, it was noisy and it was awful, but I was with a novice driver at the time.
"Everyone always has their own version of what bobsleigh is like, people will say it's like rally driving or a rollercoaster. But I'm afraid it's one of those sports that you can't compare to anything."
In four months Waker, 27, hopes to lead Great Britain to glory on the ice in Sochi, the Black Sea resort that will host the most expensive Games in history.
As the lead pilot in the GBR 1 sled, she was this week paired with brakeman Rebekah Wilson for the upcoming World Cup season in which Britain's squad will attempt to secure qualification for the 2014 Winter Games.
To do so, Britain must be inside the top 14 of the world rankings by the end of the qualification period on 19 January, with the opening World Cup series event taking place in Calgary next month.
Walker, who is from Blackburn but serves with the Royal Signals near Bath, has been in this situation before. Having competed at the 2010 Games in Vancouver and after becoming a junior world champion one year later, this time she is determined that her Olympic appearance will not just be to make up the numbers.
"I remember this time four years ago I was preparing as a junior, a novice who was not expected to go to an Olympic Games," says Walker. "I had only just started driving and it was always a goal of getting there.
"This year there is a completely different feel, I have been to an Olympic Games, now we mean business and are going for a reason, the pressure is we want a medal and that's the only thing we're going for. The pressure has changed somewhat. Now I am at the forefront of the sport and I have to achieve what I've set out for the last eight years to do."
One hurdle Walker hopes to overcome before the World Cup opener in Calgary is a knee injury that has inflamed over recent months. The knee, injured in 2012 and requiring an operation, came under further pressure during a serious crash at Altenberg earlier this year.
Crashes, Walker says, are something a bobsledder has to expect. They happen rarely, but there is always an element of fear when standing at the top of a run and preparing to fly down an ice track at 80mph.
"It happens," says Walker. "I was battered and bruised and [partner] Gillian Cooke had hurt her back. I was absolutely gutted but you have to take the positives out of it and before the crash we were in medal contention, and we walked away from it.
"I've been injured in the last two months and had a little bit of a blip, so now it's all about staying injury-free. I think everything else with the bobsleigh is pretty much sorted, so it's just keeping that injury at bay and being as fit as possible."
Walker will return to the army after Sochi, having been allowed four years leave to focus on bobsleigh. Her participation in winter sport exempted her from service in Afghanistan. She joined the Royal Signals 11 years ago and was enticed into bobsleigh by a colleague in the forces, despite initial scepticism.
"I stuck with it for a week and there is something about the sport, the team environment, that I like. It is a bit dangerous and I think that's what gets you back in," she says. "On the first run I thought 'what am I doing' but I stuck with it for a year as a brakeman at the World Cup and decided to become a driver from 2007."
Respect for the track, Walker insists, is an essential commodity for any bobsleigh driver and she believes her natural leadership skills in the sled are born out of her military experiences.
"If you don't fear it, it will bite you in the arse. If you become blasé then you switch off, I think fear brings focus and focus brings result. Don't get me wrong, I don't stand at the start line scared, but I do have respect for the track," she says.
"I'm not fearless, you should always have some fear for the track, but I think I lead my team and am constantly reassuring them. I think that mirrors what military people do."
On one of Walker's wrists is a tattoo reminding her of an Olympic debut in Vancouver, and on another is a tribute to her late father. "If I ever feel down I just have to check my wrists and then get back out there," she says.
A medal in Sochi would certainly warrant another.


text: PITTSBURGH, July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- William M. Lambert, President and Chief Executive Officer of global safety equipment manufacturer MSA, Pittsburgh, Pa., has received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2012 Award in the manufacturing category for Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In receiving the honor, Mr. Lambert is now eligible for the National Entrepreneur Of The Year Award, which will be announced in November of this year. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120711/NE38943 ) The award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Mr. Lambert was selected by an independent panel of judges, and the award was presented to him at a special gala held recently at the Wyndham Grand Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh. "I am very honored and humbled to receive this recognition from Ernst & Young," Mr. Lambert said. "When I think of entrepreneurs, I think of leaders who have a vision and are relentlessly committed to breathing life into that vision," he said. "MSA is a company that in two years will celebrate its 100 th anniversary. Centennial anniversaries and entrepreneurship are two words you rarely hear used in the same sentence. So while this award is somewhat of a surprise, it is a great honor for me and for all of the associates of MSA who work exceptionally hard every day to help keep our customers safe in the workplace." Mr. Lambert was elected CEO of MSA in 2008 and, like other business leaders at that time, was challenged by the onset of one of the most difficult economic periods in history. However, with guidance from a supportive Board of Directors, an experienced management team, and the deployment of several difficult but necessary measures, MSA was able to weather the economic storm and emerge as an even stronger organization.


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Essentially, your choices start with a flat-panel set or a front projector. Flat-panel displays completely dominate the stand-alone TV market now, yet that has not simplified your choices. Look at a TV ad now and you'll see terms like LED, Full HD, Ultra HD 4K, smart TV, curved screen, OLED, and more. And that doesn't include each manufacturer's proprietary names for features (often very similar features using different terminology).
We'll go through what's available and what's coming and explain these terms and their relevance to a great home theater.
Flat-panel displays come in four basic types: liquid crystal display (LCD), plasma, organic light-emitting diode (OLED), and quantum dot. LCDs dominate, although there are still some great plasma choices. OLED and quantum-dot TVs are very new and only available in a few models—at the moment. All of these technologies will give you great picture quality.
Curved-screen TVs are simply flat-panel displays designed to provide a wraparound cinematic effect.
LCD screens are:
Light-emitting diode (LED) TVs are more correctly called LCD-LED. They're LCD displays that use LEDs for the backlight. Some of the least-expensive TVs still use cold-cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) backlights, but LED backlights allow thinner designs and have meaningful advantages in energy efficiency and potential picture quality.
Quantum-dot TVs are also LCD TVs. Used as a backlight component, quantum dots enable richer colors and better contrast, among other benefits. Several major manufacturers use this technology now in a few higher-end TV models.
Quantum-dot technology has significant potential in designing displays that will far outperform today's TV sets. Look for a rapidly growing number of these displays.
Plasma displays offer, in comparison to LCDs:
OLED TVs are new to market, and the first models have received some rave reviews for picture quality. They're very thin, as OLEDs produce their own light and thus require no backlight. At the moment, there's a very limited selection of models and sizes, and the sets are expensive.
Curved-screen TVs are meant to provide a wraparound effect. They don't use different technologies.
Until recently, the "gold standard" for resolution has been 1080p, generally called Full HD. Now, however, there is increasing emphasis on Ultra HD 4K sets (UHD, UHD 4K, or 4K in shorthand), which offer four times the resolution.
A 1080p display has a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels. An Ultra HD 4K display has a resolution of 3840 × 2160 pixels (and would be called a 2160p display using that nomenclature). The minimum resolution considered HD (high definition) is 720p, corresponding to 1280 × 720 pixels.
What to get? The bigger the TV, the more important the resolution. On a 40-inch set, from 10 feet away, you may not be able to see the difference between a 1080p and a UHD screen. Take the screen size up to 65 inches in the same space, however, and you will appreciate the higher resolution.
Keep in mind that as of this moment, UHD standards have not been finalized, and not all UHD sets can play all UHD content. Essentially, for true UHD, you're tied to streaming services and only to the services your specific TV supports. (Some manufacturers provide a limited amount of UHD content on hard drives when you buy the TV.)
This will change, and soon. Once the standards are finalized, UHDTV sets should be as universally compatible as 1080p sets are now. In addition, upcoming Blu-ray™ standards will include UHD capability.
UHDTVs upsample 1080p programs—that is, they convert them to the higher UHD resolution—with generally very good results, but not as good as native UHD (and they are somewhat unpredictable).
Dolby Vision™ complements today's TVs with high dynamic range and wide–color gamut technologies that provide a dramatically different viewing experience on both 1080p and UHD TVs. You'll see much brighter highlights, darker blacks with great detail, and millions of colors that current sets cannot display. The stunningly vivid images on a Dolby Vision enabled TV deliver the full impact of entertainment. Dolby Vision uses specially mastered content for display on TVs that incorporate the technology. For complete information, visit our Dolby Vision pages.
Take your room dimensions into account, and then get the biggest set you're comfortable watching. Popular home theater flat-panel sizes go from 37 inches to as large as 85 inches or so. For anything larger, you'll need a front projector.
The only real alternative to a flat-panel display is a front projector.
A projector, screen, and professional installation can make front projection costly.
Nearly all of the higher-end TVs are now "smart" TVs. These TVs can connect directly to the Internet via Ethernet or Wi-Fi™ (often both). They offer portals for direct access to many streaming services and often general Internet access as well. Smart TVs can serve as complete home entertainment hubs. Capabilities seem to increase daily—voice recognition, program recommendations, and so on. You'll need to look at the manufacturers' websites and literature to get details.
However, there is one important caveat for a home theater. If you want advanced audio, such as Dolby Atmos®, you'll need another component—a Blu-ray player or streaming player—as your primary audio source. (This limitation may begin to disappear soon.) Beyond that, a smart TV can greatly add to your home theater's capabilities.
Almost every display has a variety of connection options. Here are the most common.
HDMI® provides the best and simplest way to connect your TV to your home theater:
The more HDMI connections you have, the better for flexibility and future expansion. We recommend at least three for a TV display.
The current standard is HDMI 1.4, which is necessary for Dolby Atmos, and other advanced display and audio features.
3D was a hot topic a couple of years ago. But it never caught on, although 3D TVs continue to be available. 3D is no longer considered a selling point, and it's essentially a free feature now on many mid- and upper-end TV sets. There are no broadcast standards for 3D at present.
Most 3D TVs today use special active-shutter glasses and create separate left and right full-resolution versions of each image. The glasses sync to these images.
If 3D is important to you, here are some tips:
All 3D requires HDMI 1.4 or later. Any equipment labeled "3D ready" will have it, but if the signal is going through an A/V receiver, the receiver will also need HDMI 1.4.
Most displays are set up at the factory to look their best on a wall in a retail store. They're too bright and too blue. The display will often look a lot better in your home if it's calibrated after setup. Some retailers will do this for you, either for free or for a relatively small fee.
Otherwise, you have three choices for calibration:
Look at your room, at where you'll be sitting and where you plan to put the display, and go from there. Our chart gives you a starting point, with minimum and maximum viewing distances for standard TV sizes. Keep in mind that these are general guidelines, not absolute rules.
26 inches
3.3 ft
6.5 ft
30 inches
3.8 ft
7.6 ft
34 inches
4.3 ft
8.5 ft
42 inches
5.3 ft
10.5 ft
47 inches
5.9 ft
11.8 ft
50 inches
6.3 ft
12.5 ft
55 inches
6.9 ft
12.8 ft
60 inches
7.5 ft
15 ft
65 inches
8.1 ft
16.2 ft
Lots of jargon and claims accompany the available information on HDTV displays. Here are some clear explanations of various features and considerations you will encounter.
This refers to the type of backlight used for LCD TVs. For years, LCD screens used CCFL backlights. Now LED backlights are gaining popularity.
Compared with CCFLs, LEDs:
Local dimming creates a backlight image in sync with the LCD screen. This allows purer blacks, better detail resolution, and a wider dynamic range—which add up to a better image.
Most displays are set up at the factory to look their best on a wall in a retail store. They're too bright and too blue. The display will often look a lot better in your home if it's calibrated after setup. Sometimes the store will do this for you, either for free or for a relatively small fee.
The vast majority of HDTV sets now include an Ethernet connection and portals to popular streaming services. For a home theater, however, you may get better results connecting to the Internet through a different component.
See Streaming, Online, and Broadcast Programs.
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Found love, Josh RamsayChapter 8- ?Romance?
he hugged me with thanks and a happy tear fell apon my cheek.
i finished packing the picnic basket while Josh made a fruit salad, he was always so generous and he always looked out for me!
nothing could be more perfect than our love for eachother!
i smiled at him, " where do you want to have the picnic in the park?"
he looked up from the fruit and smiled, " i was thinking the willow trees underneath the cherry blossom, would be perfect!"
i thought about that place, how perfect it was and with a perfect view of the stars. i smiled and sighed contently, " that place is perfect and so quiet!"
he smiled and looked into my eyes, " i know, i thought the same thing and the best part is it's a secert spot that no one knows about!"
i laughed and he smiled! Khessy walked downstairs with her suitcase in hand, she smiled at the sight of our laughter and the picnic basket between us!
all of us grabbed our things and left the house, before Josh and i went to the park, we dropped off Khessy at her house.
then made our way to the park. we walked together hand in hand as we made our way to our secret, special spot! it was as beautiful as i remembered, a lush cherry blossom surrounded by willow trees and a beautiful meadow around us! the most romantic place there could be for a perfect picnic!
he wrapped his arms around me and kissed my cheek. he picked a daisy and put it in my hair, he smiled.
he pulled my hair behind my ear and smiled sweetly. i pulled myself closer and looked deeper into his beautiful green eyes, then my lips touched his and i stood there loved in his warm embrace! we sat contently underneath the cherry blossom and i opened the picnic basket, and fed Josh a stawberry from the salad!
he grabbed a grape and fed it to me, i kissed him again but more passionate than before, i felt like nothing could break us apart!
i was falling deeper and deeper in love with him, i would be heart broken if anything happened to him!
we continued feeding eachother fruit and snuggling up together underneath the tree. i felt so safe in his warm embrace.
i leaned in closer and snuggling up to him, lying my head on his sholder. he smiles at me and kisses my forehead, " Stella, i never want to lose you and i would never do anything to hurt you!" i smiled contently.
we look up at the sky and watched the sunset, and as the sun lowers in the sky, Josh kisses me and i feel a warm and fuzzy feeling in my heart!
we watch the sky slowly turn dark, then we gazed up at the stars and smiled. i ended up falling asleep in his arms, but he gently carried me to the car and drove me home.
i woke up in my own bed, confused. there was no sign of Josh anywhere in my room, i walked downstairs to see Josh still passed out on the couch! i tapped him on the sholder and he slowly opened his eyes, rubbing them from sleep, " morning!" i whispered.
he smiled and pulled me closer to him and gave me a long, passionate kiss......................,
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"Evenin' Snarkypants," Tonks said as she swung into the booth at The Three Broomsticks.
Snape looked up for a moment. "And how was your afternoon, dearest?" In the dim amber light of the inn's common room, Tonks couldn't read his expression - not that there was likely anything there that brighter lighting would have revealed.
"Just peachy. After our little interview with Ms. Skeeter – whom I've decided to invite to the wedding, by the way – I penned a quick letter to my mum and then spent the rest of the afternoon chasing down minor Death Eaters."
"Good to hear, dear," Snape said. He toyed with a mug of butterbeer while another sat beside it untouched. "I am pleased to see that you're not bleeding any unusual colors this evening."
Tonks spared a glance at the jagged, half-healed cut on her forearm. "Thought I'd go with the traditional color tonight."
"It is most becoming on you."
"Thank you." Tonks smiled the tight little smile that Snape seemed to bring out in her while she waited for the other shoe to drop.
A slight twist in his lips warned her of the imminent arrival of one of his acidic comments. "And I notice your unerring sense of style prompted you to coordinate your hair with it."
"Well, yes. Red is for romance after all." Tonks pointed her finger Rita Skeeter-style at the untouched butterbeer. "Is that my beverage?"
Snape inclined his head briefly and slid the mug across the table to her. "It is indeed."
She caught the mug without spilling more than a drop or two and sniffed critically at the contents before drinking from it. "Y'know, every time you give me something to drink, I can't shake the feeling that you've poisoned it."
The twist in Snape's lips widened into a grin. "That, my dear Nymphadora, is what living with Alastor Moody will do to you."
"And what will living with you do to me?" she wondered aloud.
His eyes shifted away from her almost guiltily. "Ideally this arrangement will not last long enough for that to be an issue."
"Ideally?" Tonks asked, leaning forward like she would've if they had been seated across an interrogation table. "Does that mean you are considering the possibility that this might not end... 'ideally'?"
Snape matched her stare. It might have been a trick of the low light, but Tonks thought she saw the faintest of glimmers in his dark eyes. "I would not be the wizard I am if I didn't."
"I suppose I'll grant you that one," Tonks said, smiling slightly. Just then, she caught sight of the Weasley twins. "Behave yourself," she warned Snape. "We need them to wreak havoc and mayhem."
"Why if it isn't the lady with the bat herself!" Fred exclaimed jovially.
"And the bat himself!" George added.
Fred nodded at each of them with mock-officiousness. "Miss Snape, Mr. Tonks – so good to see you."
"Percival," Snape acknowledged without missing a beat.
"Ooh - low blow, Professor." Fred looked more amused than annoyed by Snape's greeting. "Pleasantries aside, WWW hears you are in the market for specialty foodstuffs."
"And we are here to oblige," George added, brandishing a brief case. "May we join you?"
Tonks gave up her bench to the twins and sat beside Snape. "I thought I said 'no samples.' "
George looked affronted. "Merely pricing brochures and informational pamphlets."
"Only one sample, in point of fact," Fred corrected, removing what could only be described as a shapeless knick-knack from his pocket and placing it in the middle of the table. "A prototype Eaves-Dropper. Less obvious than a charm, it scrambles the immediate conversation for anyone listening in and replaces it with innocuous and utterly incoherent babble."
George snorted. "The only minor glitch it seems to have is a tendency to make people think we're speaking like American Muggles."
"We're still ironing that part out," Fred admitted. "Now, then, we thought we would start out the evening with a light sampling of the more or less undetectable products and potions," he smoothly launching into what sounded like a practiced sales pitch. "An open bar and the finger snacks that Tonks suggested. Mostly recreational substances, such as Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts and Babbling Beverages… perhaps an Elixir to Induce Euphoria or two. This, of course, would be mostly in your purview, Professor. Something to ease them into the festivities without alerting them. If the canapés start turning people into canaries, for instance, people might become a little suspicious."
"I think I can manage something appropriate," Snape said.
"We have ever confidence in your ability, Professor."
"I'm touched."
George grinned at him. "Moving on to the main course… "
Tonks took a sip of her butterbeer and then set the mug down again abruptly. "If you'll excuse me for a moment, I should visit the loo." She edged herself out of the booth. "You gentlemen continue to plot amongst yourselves."
Snape raised an inquiring eyebrow.
"I didn't use the little witches' room before I left the office. I'll be back before you miss me, I promise."
There was a glimmer of almost appreciative amusement in his eyes. "I think we can be certain of that."
Tonks inclined her head regally to him before pivoting on one heel and making her way to the washroom. "Ta."
Once she was ensconced in the relative safety of the women's washroom, she fished a tiny bottle from the inside pocket of her robe and downed the clear liquid in a single gulp. "Bloody wanker." She'd been expecting something like this after he asked her to pick up the powdered pearl from Slug and Jigger's... and it wasn't as if she could have missed the shimmering potion in his lab this morning. "I could brew a mild draught…" indeed! Who did he bloody well think he was dealing with? It was an insult... personal, professional... whatever. A bleeding insult to her to assume that she'd be such an easy mark.
"We'll see about that." Tonks splashed a little cold water on her face and shared a conspiratorial grin with her reflection in the glass. This was a game two could play.
As she approached the table again, Tonks strained her ears to hear the conversation, testing out this Eaves-Dropper device. Snape was saying something that she could barely make out. "...I know it – A way up to the roof... There was a party – celebration – all of a sudden they were – you don't work for Nakatomi..."
It was admittedly odd to hear Snape speaking with an American accent. "Who doesn't work for wossname?" she asked as she swung in next to him.
"What were you saying?"
George took a sip of his butterbeer and then wiped his mouth. "We were setting a date."
"Congratulations," Tonks said. It seemed appropriate at the time, even if it wasn't a particularly brilliant remark. "So no one mentioned working for anyone or rooftop parties?"
Snape just looked at her quizzically, but Fred grinned broadly. "I see our Eaves-Dropper is preforming satisfactorily."
"You were right about the accent bit, though," Tonks told them. "Makes it sound a mite suspicious." She paused momentarily when she turned her head to look at Snape. There was something she ought to be doing, and it involved making the bastard pay. It just came down to finding the courage to do it.
"The date, dear," Snape reminded her. "We need to choose one."
It was time for Tonks to do something very brave. The problem, of course, was bringing herself to do it. You're a bloody Auror, she reminded herself, you can do this. Beneath the table, so the twins wouldn't see, she reached out and put her hand on Snape's leg. She made herself look into his eyes and watched as he didn't react at all. Just for that, she started to slide her hand up his leg. "Let's do it as soon as possible, snookums dearest."
"How's Saturday for you?" A hand covered hers under the table, preventing it from traveling any farther. Long fingers traced a pattern on the back of her hand and her wrist. It could almost have seemed absent-minded the way his fingers ghosted over her hand, except that she was well aware that he never did anything that wasn't entirely deliberate and exhaustively premeditated. So, Snape seduces, she thought almost academically. The reference to academics thrust her back to her school days and she was suddenly reminded of how very odd this situation would have seemed to her seventeen-year-old self. Downright pervy, she decided, and not in the good way.
A flash of anger cleared away her Snape-induced distraction. He seduces a woman in a drugged state – one that he put her in himself, the bastard. "It can't come soon enough." She linked fingers with him and squeezed his hand. "I'll owl my mum later and let her know. So, how are our plots progressing?"
Damn the man, but he still looked perfectly normal. "Well enough, I think. Between us, we should be able to provide what we need... and Minerva has been so kind as to 'volunteer' her services as well, so we will have an extra wand there."
Tonks was momentarily taken aback. "Minerva... McGonnagal? Isn't she more of a rules type?"
Snape chuckled. "Only when they're her rules."
George nodded sagely. "We'd noticed that during the Umbridge occupation. We'll contact her tomorrow."
Tonks frowned. "Is she going to tell Dumbledore... or are we going to tell Dumbledore?"
"No doubt he already knows or suspects enough. This is the sort of thing that the Headmaster finds..." Snape paused for a moment as he searched for the appropriate word. "Fun. I wouldn't want to spoil his surprise."
"Y'know, as long as we're holding the wedding at Hogwarts, we could always recruit Peeves as well," Fred mused.
Snape appeared to consider it. Tonks took the opportunity to slip her foot out of her shoe and into the leg of his trousers. She wasn't entirely sure what she was supposed to do at that point, but she figured it would come to her eventually. "I... believe that might be going too far," Snape said at last. "Peeves is... unpredictable at best."
"But where causing chaos is concerned, Peeves is the top in the field," Fred reminded him.
"We learned most of what we know from him," George added.
Tonks had a feeling Snape was correct on the Peeves issue. "I dunno. Seems to me that we want something more along the lines of carefully orchestrated chaos – we want to embarrass the Ministry, not..."
"To end up in Azkaban for endangering the welfare of Ministry officials?" Snape finished. He disentangled his trouser leg from her foot and deftly hooked his own under hers so that she couldn't play that trick again. It left Tonks in a somewhat awkward position.
"Think on the bright side," George began.
"Maybe they'd let you share a cell," Fred finished for him.
Tonks turned to Snape. "The Dementor's kiss looks more appealing every day."
The faintest of smiles suggested that Snape appreciated that she was in some way comparing him with a Dementor and all that went with it. Tonks felt her hair going a little pink at the root. Apparently her antidote was not one hundred percent effective.
"Are we done here then?" Snape cast a quick glance at the twins.
George looked at his brother. "I can't think of anything else, can you?"
"Only the minor issue of fees."
"What – you're not doing this as a wedding present?" Tonks asked more-or-less facetiously.
"Much as we would like to make a gift of our services to you, we're afraid that running a business in these troubled times requires some observance of the bottom line."
"The Ministry will be picking up the tab," Snape said. "Submit your bills to them."
"You can rest assured that we will," Fred said with a conspiratorial grin.
"I'd advise making sure you get paid before the wedding reception," Tonks said.
George nodded and touched the side of his nose slyly. "Excellent thinking, if I do say so myself. Well then..."
"We'll be in touch if we think of anything else." Both twins stood and Fred deftly pocketed the Eaves-Dropper. Snape released Tonks' leg and stood as well. Tonks barely managed to scramble into her show and onto her feet. "Goodnight, Mr. Tonks. Miss Snape."
"WWW Catering is glad you have chosen to hire us for your special day."
The double pop of their Disapparition sounded through the pub. Tonks found herself rolling her eyes at the twins' deliberate flouting of manners.
"I suppose it was inevitable that they would leave me with the bill." Snape sounded almost amused. Under normal circumstances, Tonks would've insisted on paying part of it, but she was a little too irked with the git before her to want to bother, so she kept silent. "I'll settle up with Rosmerta. Walk with me back to Hogwarts."
Tonks frowned. "I thought I would Apparate home tonight." On one hand she really wanted to sleep in her own bed tonight, but on the other she really hadn't been all that effective at making Snape pay. And she rather wanted to see what nefarious plans he had for her...
"There is no way I will be allowing you to Apparate anywhere when you have been drinking."
Well, that was a flimsy excuse if she'd ever heard one. "It's butterbeer, Snape. They give it to third-years. And I haven't even finished mine."
Snape raised an eyebrow. "I would suggest you do that then."
It occurred to Tonks that he was being infuriatingly agreeable... and that it must be costing him some considerable effort to be so. Somehow, the idea of Snape seething under his mask of affability made her feel vaguely... happy. She raised her mug and drained it.
The walk back to Hogwarts was, it turned out, painfully awkward. Snape seemed content to let her lope along beside him as silence stretched out like the long dark pathway before them. For her part, Tonks was somewhat less than content with this arrangement, but she hadn't yet managed to think of something to say that wasn't completely inane.
"I spoke to Miss Hibbins again this afternoon."
"Oh?" Snape didn't sound particularly interested, but Tonks chose to infer an interrogative at the end of his monosyllabic response.
"She caught me in the hallway while Kingsley and I were running out to knock some Death Eater heads together. Volunteered to put together the guest list on account of the short time before the wedding."
"That was considerate of her."
"I thought so. She said there were some people she wouldn't want us to accidentally overlook."
It seemed that Snape pondered for a moment before answering. "Undoubtedly she would know better than we who in the Ministry ought to be included."
"By virtue of their intimate involvement in getting us together."
"Indeed," Snape said, although his tone suggested that she'd hardly needed to say that.
Tonks felt the conversation flounder and die. It occurred to her that things were not going as she had expected them to. As Snape took the fork in the pathway that cut through the Forbidden Forest, Tonks felt a faint hope light up within her, but that extinguished a moment later when she remembered that taking the path through the Forest was significantly faster than skirting the edge. She'd taken it herself often enough for that very reason when she was a student. The fact that it had been strictly off-limits had only served as extra incentive.
It was also, she remembered belatedly, half-overgrown and studded with gnarled tree roots. This last thought occurred to her as she tripped over one of the aforesaid gnarled tree roots and pitched forward into the dark. She caught herself a moment later and managed to land in a more-or-less upright position. Unfortunately, her acrobatic maneuverings put her even farther behind Snape. She could just barely make out the swish of his cloak as he disappeared into the darkness ahead.
Tonks swore under her breath and picked up the pace to try to catch up. This resulted in her tripping over several more roots, nearly being bowled over by a low-hanging tree branch, and becoming uncomfortably close to a tree that oughtn't have been where it was (namely in the middle of the path).
It appeared that Snape was attempting to torment her for something again... although she couldn't for the life of her figure out what that would be. She didn't really want to spend too much time pondering, either – not when there were so many phantom tree parts out there to contend with.
The solution to her more immediate problems belatedly occurred to her. Tonks drew her wand. "Lumos!"
Snape whirled. "Nox." And then it was dark again and Tonks was all the blinder for her moment of illumination. She could sense Snape closing the distance between them. "Have you forgotten where we are?"
"How in the bloody hell could I do that when I'm tripping over tree roots every blasted step I take!"
"Have you also remembered the Acromantulas? The centaurs? Tolls? It is called the Forbidden Forest for a reason, I would remind you."
"Don't forget the blood-sucking bugbears," Tonks muttered under her breath, certain that Snape could hear her. "And bowtruckles, glumumbles, puffskeins... who knows? Maybe you'll run into a unicorn. You can bridle it with a strand of your hair."
Snape was near enough that she could see the outline of his pale face in the moonlight that filtered in patches through the canopy. "It would not be wise to draw such attention to ourselves."
"Honestly, when have we ever been inclined to do what's wise, Snape?"
She was absolutely certain then that he was going to hex her. It therefore came as a complete surprise when she discovered they were snogging instead. A brief period of amnesia seemed to span between the one moment and the next.
She felt her heart beat more quickly and stomach somersault. The semi-lucid thoughts that tried to introject themselves suggested that one did not kiss Snape. It seemed a forbidden thing... as forbidden as the forest they were in. Bloody dangerous, too. But – oh, you know, it wasn't actually horrible. She could feel the thrill of adrenaline in her veins and pulled him closer to her. In response, Snape wrested control again and backed her into a nearby tree.
She fought to breathe for a moment without panting too obviously when he finally broke the kiss. His lips skimmed across her jawline and then he kissed the hollow just below her ear. Tonks let her eyes close. She knew she'd have to end the love potion charade at some point, but, all things considered, she found herself disinclined to object to this treatment.
"Mmm." Words, Tonks found, were proving a little difficult to come up with at that precise moment.
"Look up and tell me what you see."
Now why in the world would he..? Tonks opened her eyes and squinted. "Leaves. Branches. Some sky here and there..."
"And in that patch of sky?"
"The moon, stars... lots of dark stuff, bits of clouds..." She trailed off as he kissed her throat.
"Tell me, Nymphadora, what is the phase of the moon?"
"Er..." Tonks tried to focus on the luminous orb. It was either nearly full or just past full. She thought for a moment and seemed to remember it having been somewhat less full recently. "Waxing gibbous?"
"And what does that suggest to you?"
"Oh bugger." She didn't need any further prompting from Snape to see where he was going with this. A waxing gibbous moon meant the moon hadn't been full for some time, and he wouldn't have had the opportunity to brew the love potion she had assumed that he'd brewed with the powdered pearl. Worse, it meant that he knew that she had suspected him of having brewed it and dosed her with it.
"An interesting suggestion," he said, his voice still all-too-close, "but not entirely the answer I was looking for."
Tonks hit him upside the head and struggled to push him away from her. "You effing bloody devious, conniving bastard. You deliberately led me to believe you slipped me a love potion!"
A moment later, he had her hands pinned. "I beg to differ. Your own suspicious mind led you to believe that I had slipped you a love potion."
Tonks took a quick breath. This was not precisely a position she was used to being in... and she still hadn't quite managed to discern why Snape had gone to all the trouble of deceiving her. "Well then you ruddy well led my suspicious mind to lead me to believe that you'd slipped me the love potion."
"And you decided to punish me by playing into my hands? Some might consider that entrapment, Auror Tonks."
It occurred to Tonks that she was quite literally in Snape's hands and that he had her trapped, but luckily her ability to think clearly hadn't entirely deserted her. "That would be the same 'some' who have no blasted clue about the law but a persistent urge to blather on about it, right?"
Snape released her hands, but didn't move away enough for Tonks to be able to get free. "For my part, I am offended that you could believe I would slip any sort of potion to a witch who had so recently very nearly died. Allow me some sort of credit as a careful man, if not an entirely pleasant one."
Tonks poked him in the chest with one finger. "So you changed your mind and decided that you could bring about much the same effect with only a mind game. But you'd intended that powdered pearl to be for me before I was injured."
"Don't flatter yourself, dear. I merely thought it would be an appropriate addition to the wedding feast..." He paused, and Tonks could almost feel one of his eyebrows rise and the corner of his mouth quirk. "Although I will reserve some for you if you wish."
"You're... utterly remorseless."
"I believe I achieved my end." Snape paused again, and this time it felt like a long time before he spoke again. "Tell me, Nymphadora... did you wonder whether your antidote was working properly?"
Tonks attempted to stomp on one of his feet, but her legs seemed to be all tangled up with his. "I wonder why you still have me pinned to this tree."
"I am simply making sure I have made my point clear."
"Your point has been made obvious, Severus."
"Then I am satisfied for now." Snape stepped back, away from Tonks, and turned to continue down the path. She pushed herself away from the tree trunk and stood wobbily on her own two feet, wondering, for a moment, what had just happened.
"Oh," Snape said, pivoting and striding toward her again, "before I forget, I have something for you."
"I ought to do this properly." With a dramatic flourish of his robes, Snape kneeled at Tonks' feet and produced what she could only assume was a ring. She certainly caught the flash of a large pale jewel in the moonlight. "Would you do me the honor of making me the most miserable wizard on the planet?"
Tonks thought about it for a moment. "Do I have the option of rejecting you?"
"It would seem to be a little late for that."
"Well, then I accept your offer and promise to do my best to make that happen."
"I'm sure. Take the ring so I can get up off the ground. There's a root digging into my knee."
Tonks hesitantly took the ring from Snape's outstretched hand. It felt strange and heavy.
"Do you like it?"
Snape, Tonks noticed, had stood again and was looming over her in the darkness. She examined the ring more closely. It seemed to be an enormous crystal – aquamarine if she guessed correctly – set in heavy, age-tarnished silver that was wrought in the vague, menacing shapes of half-forgotten nightmares. In the dim light of the nearly-full (waxing gibbous, she noted wryly) moon, the gem shone the milky, soulless blue of an inferius' eyes.
"It's grotesque... it's fantastic... it's perfect."
"I'm glad you appreciate it."
Tonks slid the ring onto her finger. "Merlin, where did you get this thing?"
"My mother's cold, dead hand of course."
"Cor... Seriously?"
"I picked it up in a pawn shop on Knockturn Alley and spent half the afternoon breaking the curses on it. But if anyone inquires..."
"It's an ancient family heirloom that you engaged in unspeakable acts of grave-robbery and corpse-desecration to acquire for me. Got it." Looking at the ring on her finger, Tonks felt as if her hand had become somehow disembodied or dispossessed. "You're sure you got all of the curses?"
"Fairly certain. Shall we resume our walk back to Hogwarts then?"
There was a rustling in the woods. "We'd appreciate it if you did."
Tonks whirled, her wand out, but the curse she had ready died on her lips when she recognized their visitors. Centaurs. There were three of them. Tonks put her wand away. "Bloody hell – how long have you buggers been there?"
One cleared his throat. "Long enough." Tonks thought she recognized him as Ronan, or perhaps Elnar.
"More than long enough," the second rejoined.
The third snorted. "Far too long."
"I apologize for my fiancée's excited remark, sirs." Snape's hand was digging into Tonks' upper arm and she could tell that his other hand itched to draw his wand.
"Don't be alarmed, Professor; we would not harm our friend Tonks. We are used to her... somewhat strange ways."
"Nevertheless, it might be advisable for you to return to Hogwarts as soon as possible. Bane is nearby and he has still not forgiven our colorful friend here for a certain careless remark."
Tonks smiled a little guiltily and shifted her weight. "I called him a nag. Didn't know what it meant to Centaurs at the time..."
"And likely would have called him that even if she had."
To this, Tonks shrugged. "Can't really say either way."
Snape pulled at her elbow. "We'll take your advice and make our way back to Hogwarts, now."
She heard the faint snicker of a Centaur's laugh as Snape managed to pull her away and down the path.
"Yes, Friend Tonks?"
"Anything in the stars about Saturday?"
"Would you care to share?"
"Only this," the Centaur said, "at precisely 8:43 p.m... duck." With that, the three Centaurs turned and crashed through the woods. Tonks looked at Snape, shrugged, and together they took the path back to Hogwarts.


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An EU court rules that Lego rival Mega Brands can keep selling knockoff bricks, according to the Associated Press.
Lego has been around forever — this year it celebrated the 50th anniversary of the classic system brick. But this great accomplishment is also a weakness, as all its patents have expired.
So cheeseball rivals like Mega are allowed to make inferior bricks that fit into the Lego system. Look at the picture above. The brick on the left is a Duplo made by Lego. The brick on the right is a knockoff made by Mega. The quality difference is visible even in a photo. The Duplo is bright and clean; the Mega-Blok is cheap and faded and obviously uses thinner plastic. The two types of bricks interlock, because Mega wants to leech business off of Lego.
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It is difficult to know whether you will love or come to hate Terrence Malick's latest endeavour. A story about the fragility of love, it's a paean more to the physical environment than to the complications of its characters.
It is rumoured to be autobiographical but Ben Affleck's strangely stoical lover, first captivated by Olga Kurylenko's free spirit and then by Rachel McAdams's old flame, seems to be a figure made more of cardboard than of flesh and blood.
It's the women who seem to matter, and give the more notable performances as Wagner, Haydn, Respighi, Berlioz and Gorecki compete on the soundtrack with recurring voiceovers.
The settings are France, where there is a monument off the Normandy shore which explains the film's title, and Oklahoma, where an amorphous new town has been built to serve an environmental agency. Both are exquisitely shot so as to show us that the nature that surrounds humanity seems more potent than the people who cavort in it with such a feeble grasp of happiness.
At first Affleck's character circles fondly around Kurylenko, who bounces up and down as if life really has some spring-like meaning. Then Affleck turns to his old flame when things turn sour. But that too is useless.
"What we had was nothing," she eventually says. "You made it into nothing."
The most rounded persona is the solitary priest, played by Javier Bardem, preaching to mostly empty pews in his Oklahoma church and making his rounds of the poor and needy while striving to cling on to his faith.
The whole is full of Malick's usual visual tropes and the kind of reverberating cinematography that seems to mean so much to him. Looks can kill but what's also needed is a stronger sense that we are watching something more solid than expressions of love that are never really fulfilled.
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The Great Exhibition was initially a project of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (which would later become the Royal Society of Arts) and was intended as a celebration of peace, education, progress and trade. But the scheme, which had the patronage of Prince Albert, was mired by indecision and in-fighting.
A competition was staged in March 1850 to find a building that would house the show in Hyde Park, and cost no more than pounds 100,000. There were 233 entries but no clear winner. So the Society's Building Committee came up with its own plan, a hotch-potch of ideas for a building that resembled a vast brick warehouse. At this point, June 1850, Joseph Paxton, a gardener, engineering expert and man of culture, intervened. He persuaded the Illustrated London News to publish his designs - by September the first columns were raised. That November, Punch named the construction the "Crystal Palace". The project cost pounds 169,988 (receipts would be in excess of pounds 450,000).
At noon on 1 May Queen Victoria declared the Great Exhibition open. Over the next six months, Crystal Palace captured the imagination of a public desperate to see over 100,000 exhibits from around the world. The doors closed on 11 October 1851 and the Palace was dismantled and re-erected on Sydenham Hill, south London, where it stood until 30 November 1936 when a fire reduced it to ashes. Let's hope the Dome will have a happier ending.
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Moving Machinery Hall
This luminous lithograph (English School, 19th century) of the single-storey machine shop, shows its blue girders under the warm glow filtered through the calico blinds outside the roof glazing. The picture gives an inkling of the experience of colour and space that visitors contemplated. Much of the quality of Crystal Palace was due to Owen Jones, who devised the celebrated interior colour scheme.
The finished Palace
This is perhaps the finest rendering of the whole building as it stood in Hyde Park. The structure is depicted (by Charles Burton) in the early morning sunlight with the distant Cities of London and Westminster towards the south-east. There was some lobbying for the building to remain in Hyde Park - Paxton even suggested enlarging it. Parliament, however, voted for it to be dismantled and sold it off for pounds 70,000.
Eat and shop
Countries from around the world sent exhibits to the Great Exhibition. At the centre of this illustration (by T Picken) of the great shed are the casts of two Arabian horses owned by the King of Wurtemburg. This picture also shows the enormous size of the exhibition: there was too much to see in one day, and many people bought season tickets. If you needed a rest there were vast food and drink franchises and ices frozen by steam machines. The show also created a new market for souvenirs.
International exhibitors
Despite being a celebration of industry, many non-industrialised nations supplied the most eye-catching displays (as shown in this illustration by Joseph Nash). India had one of the largest stands but had trouble locating a stuffed elephant on which to display its howdah (the seat for riding on an elephant's back). It eventually begged Saffron Waldon Museum for the use of its specimen. Despite the obvious educational benefits of the show, there were still doubters. "Whether the show will ever be of any use may be questioned," wrote the Duke of Wellington, after the exhibition had been open for a week; "but of this I am certain: nothing can be more successful."
The sparrow problem
The Crystal Palace enclosed some of the large elm trees in Hyde Park which, along with the iron girders holding up the roof (shown in this illustration, English School, 19th century), provided perches for sparrows. Shortly before the opening, somebody has the terrible thought that these sparrows might, well, shit, on Queen Victoria's head. The story reached the Palace. Prince Albert became moody and unhappy. The Queen called the Prime Minister, Lord John Russell, who suggested shooting them. But wouldn't this break the glass? Lord Palmerston suggested killing them with birdlime. Then the Duke of Wellington was called in and, after first declaring that he was no bird-catcher, recommended "Sparrow-hawks, ma'am".
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This image (English School, 19th century) is of the packed formal closing ceremony on 15 October 1850. "I grieved not to be able to be present and yet I think Albert was right that I could hardly have been there as a spectator," wrote Queen Victoria (she had made eight visits to inspect work at the site and had been to see the exhibition an extraordinary 34 times). There had been an equally large crowd three days earlier, when the exhibition was closed to the public. The Times ran an obituary, detailing how "50,000 assembled under one roof in a fairy palace within wall of iron and glass". The crowd seemed unable to leave the building that had so entranced them, and it was evening before people finally dispersed into the winter night. n
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"How much longer 'till we get there. We have been walking for like 5 weeks now and we've passed by nothing. There's been no fighting, no villages, no nothing. Just jungles, spiders the size of your head, and man-eating animals."
"Good thing we know magic, isn't it?"
"We should just go the regular way."
"Why not?"
"One, because all naturals are hunted down. Two, because there is a warrant out for my arrest because of my little incident at the prison. Three, because Jorden doesn't like fighting. So, we're taking the long way!"
"Fine then, but how come there are no lakes."
I look at Jorden and smile, then I grab her hand, over the past five weeks her belly has been slowly getting bigger. We're starting to think that she's pregnant.
"Ask the Shaper." Bernadette said.
It turns out that Bernadette is a heavily religious woman. Often praying to the Shaper before and after every meal and once in the morning and at night. She claims this is where we all get out powers from and we should live in thanksgiving.
"Do you know what I just realized?" Jorden exclaimed. "Tommorrow is your Birthday!"
I look at her with joy. "You remembered my birthday? That's awesome."
"We should praise the Shaper!" Bernadette said.
I almost cringed. "Well, then I'll be 19, wonderful."
As darkness settled Jorden made all of our beds. She made three, one for her and I, one for Brand and one for Bernadette. Brand made a fire, so that there would be light. And Bernadette healed all our cuts from walking in the woods.
When we were all finally sleepy, we all went to our beds. And Jorden and I stayed up in our bed talking.
"So, what do you think the baby will be like?"
She laughed quietly. "A little bundle of joy."
"What will we do with him though. He can't exactly go with us on our dangerous journey."
"Perhaps we can get Avantra to look after him?"
"Yeah, but how do we contact her?"
"Give her a message in water."
"Hmm, ok, one moment."
I used my power to put voice into a bubble, and then I sent the bubble off towards the forests where Avantra lives. And thanks to a quicker wind, it would get there faster.
"She'll send the spirit wolf." Jorden said.
"Mhm." I nod.
"What should the baby's name be?"
"Thomas. Thomas Bernard Aquos."
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The most petulant pop star in the world?
It seemed that way on Monday night when the 19-year-old strolled onto the London O2 Arena stage two hours late – despite having been pictured wearing two watches over the weekend. Furious parents, who had paid up to £70 per ticket to the show, were forced to leave early with their devastated children to ensure they did not miss the night's last trains out of the capital. John Lush, 48, who took his 10-year-old daughter to the show, said that Bieber's 10.30pm arrival was just not acceptable. "I am absolutely livid. I don't think a refund would compensate the emotional damage he has done to my children," he said.
What did Bieber have to say?
He was reluctant to apologise on-stage, but in a series of tweets to his 35 million 'Beliebers' yesterday, he suggested the hostile media was responsible for his tardiness, and appeared to be somewhat misled as to the timings of his own show. "Last night I was scheduled after three opening acts to go on stage at 9.35 not 8.30, but because of some technical issues I got on at 10.10. So I was 40 minutes late to stage. There is no excuse for that and I apologise for anyone we upset."
The beginnings of an epic pop downfall?
The entire UK leg of his tour has been an unmitigated PR disaster. He was refused entry at a London nightclub for trying to bring in under-age children, unhappy diners at top restaurants have complained about his rudeness, and despite the freezing temperatures he is content to waltz around topless with his trousers barely reaching the bottom of his underpants. He was recently pictured holding a suspicious-looking cigarette, and US tabloids have speculated on the malign influence of his best friend, the rapper Lil Twist. But it is important, in all of this, to remember that he is only 19. It's an age when most young men do things that are a bit embarrassing, only they do it without the glare of 1,000 cameras. He is trying to become a man, in front of an audience of children.
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However, it's uncertain if the Giants are going to be able to bring back Stephens, who worked out for the club Monday.
Afterward, Big Blue told Stephens that they'd like to sign him. But New York can't afford to let go of any of its defensive backs, meaning they'd have to dump someone from another position, possibly throwing the roster off balance.
Unfortunately for the Giants, Stephens, who was with the club in 1999 and 2000, is no longer eligible for the practice squad.