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Chapter 2 : Lily Evans is Beautiful
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I watched as Marlene left the compartment, quickly followed by Mary and Lily, her swish of long red hair leaving a slight scent of strawberries on the air. Dorcas lingered a little longer, stuffing her book into her trunk and giving Remus a quick glance before she left.
I ran my hand through my hair absentmindedly, feeling a little bit dizzy. "That girl," I sighed, "is gonna be the death of me."
"Maybe you should just...y'know...leave her alone for a bit?" Remus suggested.
"That wouldn't be any fun, now, would it?" Sirius said, passing me my trunk and getting his own down. "C'mon then, or we're gonna miss the carriages."
It was cold outside, but the platform was so crowded with people packed closely together, it seemed almost warm in our black Hogwarts robes, which we'd changed into at the last minute on the train.
"So, where were you when we were all on the train and you and Mary turned up late then?" Sirius asked Peter, "Please don't tell me you got off with her, because frankly, there would be nothing that could disgust me more. Macdonald might be a bit ditzy, but she can sure as hell do better than you, Wormtail. Plus, I dated her in third year, which would mean her standards have dropped enormously."
Peter looked confused for a moment, not quick witted enough to realise he was being insulted, and then said, "I was with some Hufflepuff fifth years. I got lost and I couldn't find you so I just gave up. Plus they had food."
"Wow Wormtail, you've sunk to whole new levels," I commented with a grin, and Sirius gave an appreciative chuckle as we climbed into the nearest carriage waiting, "Hanging out with Hufflepuffs..."
"And what exactly is wrong with Hufflepuffs, Potter?" a sharp but amused voice came from behind us.
"Amelia!" I grinned as the familiar square jawed, stern-looking face of family friend and seventh year Amelia Bones smiled up at me cheerfully, "Care to join us? There's plenty of room."
Amelia, closely followed by Alice, climbed up into our carriage and squashed up between Wormtail and Sirius.
"How are you, Amelia?" Sirius asked as politely as he could manage. He knew Amelia wouldn't take any of his shit that was for sure.
"I'm alright," Amelia said, sounding important, "Alice here is better though. She got Head Girl!"
"That's brilliant! Well done, Alice," I said cheerfully, "Can't say it's ever been a job I aspire to myself, but still..."
"What jobs do you actually aspire to, Potter?" Amelia said scornfully, "From what your mother told mine, you like to waste as much time as possible causing trouble and doing nothing!"
"Got it in one," Remus replied grimly, but even he couldn't help but spare a small grin.
As the carriage drew to a halt and we began to climb out, Amelia turned around offered me her hand to shake. "I'll see you around, alright, Potter? I'll be watching you- don't go causing too much trouble, or I'll set Alice here on you. I've got to go and see Professor Sprout before the Sorting ceremony." She gave a short nod to Sirius, Remus and Peter and then left.
Alice gave us all her typical sweet smile. "Nice to see you guys," she said, "But I better go and find Frank, he's Head Boy too you see..."
She wandered off to find him.
"Amelia's never struck me as someone you'd be friends with, Prongs," Remus commented as we continued to follow the steady stream of people through to the Entrance Hall, "A bit too sensible, surely..."
"Nah, my parents have known her for years," I told him as we passed Nearly Headless Nick, who gave Sirius a scared look and floated off in the opposite direction, by which Peter seemed to be greatly amused (last year Sirius had managed to trick Nearly Headless Nick into thinking he was to be part of our History of Magic lesson and have him re-enact his entire execution, which caused complete and utter havoc), "Her brother Edgar is hilarious, and you see that fourth year Gryffindor over there? That's Lizzie, her little sister. She really is a brilliant witch, though and she can be a good laugh sometimes, kind of makes up for the whole sensible thing. Plus my mum reckons she's a good influence on me."
"How come?" Peter asked, catching up with us again after he'd been caught up in the crowds entering the Great Hall, where the sky twinkled black and silver above us.
"She's really ambitious," I explained, as we sat down at the Gryffindor table, which wasn't quite full yet, "Wants to go into the Law Enforcement department at the Ministry, you see. I think Mum's kind of hoping it'll rub off on me. Reckon she asked her to keep an eye on me this year, to be honest. Not that it's gonna make any difference."
"What d'you reckon we're gonna be when we're older, Prongs?" Sirius pondered, sounding almost serious for a second, "I don't suppose we'll get away with pissing about all our lives."
"Don't see why not," I shrug, with a grin, "We really are rather excellent at it."
"Is it me or were you two finally having a sensible conversation for once, until you went and ruined it?" Remus laughed.
"I can take things seriously," I said honestly, "I just choose not to. Couldn't think of anything more boring, to be honest."
The heads of the whole Hall turned as the first years were led in by Hagrid, and we were distracted by the Sorting ceremony for a while.
"How are they so small, Prongs? I mean, is that even possible?" Sirius stared down the table as the last of the new Gryffindor first years joined them.
"Speak a bit quieter, Pads, you're scaring them," Remus hissed, but a couple of first years down the table were already staring at us, looking mildly terrified.
"Who cares? Little squirts."
Remus rolled his eyes but said nothing. He was looking towards the Top Table. "Professor Kettleburn has lost the other leg," he said, shaking his head, "Shouldn't he have retired by now?"
"Really? Let's have a look," I scooted up, further along the bench, and looked around Sirius' head, "Blimey, he has as well. Wonder what mangy creature chewed it off this time? Unless there's something you're not telling us, Moony?"
Remus chuckled. "Nope. Look, it's time for Dumbledore's speech."
"Excellent," Sirius wheeled around to look, "This means there can't be long until the feast. I'm bloody starving."
Dumbledore was on his feet. "I'm very happy to greet you all at the beginning of another year at Hogwarts, which I hope will be just as eventful as the last!"
"Which wasn't very," I muttered darkly to Sirius, "Unless you count all the fun times jinxing Snivellus' sorry arse..."
"Well I won't keep you from your food any longer," Dumbledore continued, "So let the feast begin!"
"Ah, brilliant!"
I watched expectantly as the silver plates and goblets filled with mountains of glorious food and drink, as they always did. The welcome feast was always the best by far. As Sirius, Remus and Peter busied themselves with their food, I took the opportunity to look down the table where Lily was sat with Marlene, Mary and Dorcas. Her long hair was hanging over her face like a curtain, shielding it from view. I sighed, disappointed. I wasn't quite sure what I had been expected to happen- perhaps to get a glimpse of her perfect face, or maybe even receive a furtive glance in return to let me know that she really did want me, she was just hiding it. I returned to my food regardless.
When we all thought we had eaten as much as were humanly possible, the plates refilled with delicious desserts which were really quite irresistible. I helped myself to a large slice of treacle tart, and chancing another glance at Lily, was satisfied to see her doing exactly the same. We were just made for eachother, clearly.
"Oi, leave some for everyone else!" Sirius said, awakening me from my Lily-daydream, as he ladled ludicrous amounts of trifle onto his own plate.
Once every plate in the Hall had been scraped entirely clean, the din rose even more, as everyone began catching up again- it had been a long time since we'd seen eachother. I leaned back, satisfied, and let my gaze stray to the opposite end of the Hall, where the Slytherins sat.
Then I caught sight of him. His greasy black hair, his hooked nose...he was almost impossible to miss, as he sneered to his disgusting friends about something. It wouldn't surprise me if he was a Death Eater too. If my darling brother was pathetic enough to join the club, then surely Snivellus would be a reigning member.
"There's old Snivellus," I sneered to the others, "Staring at her, the slimy little git...Every year, I hope he won't turn up, and yet every year, he has to show his greasy face..."
"James, give it a rest," Remus sighed, "At least just for today."
"No," I replied indignantly, "No, do you see the way he looks at her?"
"Why must every conversation turn to Evans, Prongs?" Sirius rolled his eyes, "Can't you just get over her and pick some girl who'll actually have you?"
"It'll be no mean feat finding one," Remus smirked, "Considering he's such a bigheaded idiot ninety percent of the time."
"Hey, that Ravenclaw over there is hot isn't she?" Sirius cut in absently.
"Which one?" I asked, leaning around Peter to get a good look at the Ravenclaw table. I couldn't see any fit girls- most of them already had their noses buried in books, or were discussing what their timetable would be this year.
"The one with long blonde hair, sitting next to Hestia Jones."
I scanned the table and couldn't see the dark hair of Hestia Jones anywhere. "Where?"
"On the end! There!"
"Oh, her," my eyes fell on the girl he was talking about, who was clearly deep in intense discussion with the boy opposite her. She was pretty, but she wasn't anything compared to Evans. Besides, she looked incredibly miserable."Nah, she's not really my type."
"No one's your type," Sirius scoffed, "You need to get over Evans, mate. She's never gonna go out with you. Besides, we're young- you should be having fun like me, not pining over stupid girls who have been rejecting you since first year."
We all watched the blonde girl over at the Ravenclaw table for a while. "How old do you reckon she is?" Sirius added, "Might ask her out, actually. No one can resist the charms of Sirius Black."
"I'd leave her alone, if I were you. Her dad was killed off by some Death Eaters last week- I saw it in the Prophet," Remus said grimly.
"Yeah, better look next time, Pads," I said, clapping him on the shoulder as the girl promptly burst into tears, the boy opposite her patting her on the back sympathetically, "She looks like she might come with more than a little baggage."
"It's not a joking matter!" Remus frowned at me across the table disapprovingly but before he could say anymore, Albus Dumbledore stood up and the hall fell silent again.
"Alas," he said, wringing his hands together, "Our start of term feast is over already- how time flies when you're having fun! Now, whilst I would happily stay up all night and-what do you kids call it these days?- party- Professor McGonagall does insist that I send you to bed. Not before a few announcements first, though! The Forbbiden Forest, hence the name, remains, as it always has been, forbidden to anyone and everyone from all year groups. Professor Filch does well to remind me that anyone who ignores this rule will, indeed, be punished severely."
He allowed himself an indulgent smile, and I could have sworn his eyes flickered slightly over to myself and Sirius, who was grinning.
"For those of you sixth years who seem to take the term mischief to the next level each and every year, and you know who you are, I would advise you stay away from the forest, as you will undoubtedly be serving a few detentions if you are caught."
Definitely talking about us then. I exchanged a quick glance with Padfoot, who winked, but beside him, Remus was doing his best to look stern.
"Whilst we are still lingering on the topic of Mr Filch, he wishes me to remind you that an extensive list of banned objects is taped to his door. Those select sixth years ought to remember that, also. I urge you to read it yourselves, as although my brain is admittedly larger than most, I don't think I could ever memorise so many items! And finally, hopefuls for the House Quidditch teams, excluding first years, should see the new Captains, and or Madame Silverbirch, our new Head of Sports at Hogwarts."
A few heads along the Gryffindor table turned to look at me, to which I took the opportunity to flash my Quidditch badge in as many directions as possible. Remus shook his head and my heart sank as Evans made a face at me. I quickly looked down at the table as if nothing had happened.
"Arrogant arse..." I could hear her whisper to Marlene, who nodded and joined her in throwing daggers at me with her eyes. Girls. I really don't understand them sometimes.
"I believe it is all time for us to retire to our warm and comfortable beds, which no doubt are waiting for us," Dumbledore continued, "First years, please locate your house Prefects and they will show you to your common rooms and respective dormitories."
There was a smattering of applause as Dumbledore sat down, and Remus jumped up hastily. "Right, I've got to go."
And he strayed further down the table, desperately yelling over the din, "First years! First years, this way!"
I watched him go through the hoarde of first years, and noticed with a pang of jealousy that Lily was right behind him.
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Sony today pushed out a new software update for its PS3 console in preparation for the return of its PlayStation Network service.
The update brings the PS3′s software up to version 3.61 and requires users to change their PSN password as part of the new security put in place since Sony's servers were attacked last month.
If using a PS3, your password can only be changed on your own PS3 (or a PS3 on which your PSN account was activated), as an added layer of security. If you have never downloaded any content using your account on the system, an email will be sent to the registered sign-in ID (email address) associated with your account when you first attempt to sign-in to PSN. This e-mail will contain a link that will enable you to change your password. In this email, click on the link and follow the instructions to change your password. Once you have changed your password you can sign-in to your account using your new password.
The update coincides with news from Sony's Kazuo Horai that the company is beginning to to switch its PSN and Qriocity services back on across the globe, with the US and Europe being the first to have their respective switches flipped.
Sony's Seybold laid out plans for the return of PSN in a blog post, complete with a map to show just which states will see access restored.
Please note that these services will take a bit of time to be turned on and rolled out to the whole country. The process has begun and some states are being turned on now, so please be patient as we reach your city and state. We'll be updating the map below as service comes online in individual states. It will take several hours to restore PSN throughout the entire country, so please keep checking back for the latest updates. In the meantime, now's a great time to get your PS3's firmware updated and change your password, both of which are required to get online.
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" Brand: Lily's Kitchen / Type: Dog Food "
* Prices may differ from that shown
My moto is that I will never feed by dog something that doesn't smell good enough for me and I wasn't disappointed when I bought a tin of this at the London Pet Show recently. I bought 3 tins (all different flavours) for £5 but that was a show special. Doing market research I have found the price per tin generally ranges from £2.15-£2.60 for a 400g tin, which is a little pricy (particularly if you have a large dog) but for my 16kg cross breed I had to give him just over half a tin in the evening, with kibble in the morning. Rather than disrupt the tin balance I gave Rafa 1/2 a tin with a small amount of kibble one evening and then the same the next night. The tins don't really lend themselves to working out portions with ease, which is a negative.
The food itself: well as soon as i opened the tin i smelt what smelt like corned beef! It smelt lovely and Rafs nose was twitching straight away. It is of quite a solid texture, but fairly smooth unlike the cheaper chunky dog foods. You could clearly see lumps of potato, carrot and peas imbedded in the meat.
As soon as i put it to the floor rafa had demolished it- the bowl was licked clean! I will encourage this product as an occasional treat because of the price, unless you are well off or have a tiny dog- then your dog can enjoy the luxury everyday!


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There was a post like this, but it was very old, here.
I have a similar problem, although I don't think it's at exact time increments. But I could very well believe it has something to do with ACPI or APM (knowing nothing about those things except for the fact that neither have ever worked very well with regard to suspending and waking my machine).
I may follow the bios settings suggestions from that post, but I'd like to not make changes that I don't understand. I also see earlier in that thread a suggestion to modprobe. Which of these options seems better, and does anyone have a clear description as to why this kind of thing, generally, happens? Right now I'm just setting everything to autosave pretty frequently, which is very annoying. I may have to get a wired keyboard if I can't solve it.
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Motorola Droid Razr Maxx Price Drops to $199 on Verizon
Verizon is now offering the Droid Razr Maxx for just $199 with a new 2-year agreement.
The device was previously available as a special on Amazon.com for that same price, but now customers can now purchase it with this $100 discount directly from the carrier.
Customers who want to take advantage of the new low price will also have to shell out $30 for an upgrade charge.
"If you value life of the battery about the rest in a smartphone, don't mind Verizon as the carrier, and would like to get a pretty high-end device too- the Razr Maxx is it," said YouMobile.org.
Motorola seems to strongly focus on the battery life this time around with the Razr Maxx, and it easily outdoes the competition with its 3300mAH.
The new Samsung Galaxy S3 is close in some areas in terms of battery life.
The device's battery was recently tested by GSM Arena and the site found that it was good for 10 hours of talk time.
The 10 hours of talk time was achieved with the Galaxy S3 while the display for the handset was off.
Other results included 5 hours and 17 minutes of web browsing, and over 10 hours of continuous video playback.
According to GSM Arena's data, the Galaxy S3 fell just behind Motorola's Droid Razr Maxx on video playback and talk time. And in terms of web browsing, the smartphone ranks no. 14 behind many other competitors thanks to its AMOLED display.
The report also stated that with the Galaxy S3's stand-by endurance rating of 43 hours, users would need to charge the smartphone once every 43 hours if they want to do an hour of 3G talking, video playback and web browsing per day.


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This project took me about 6 hours. I am neither a critic or a gear head. As a novice, I found this to be a challenging process, but very rewarding when complete. I would like to post my pictures of the install, but can't figure out how. If you want good pics and instructions, let me know.
Jeep JK 2.5 suspension kit (from Top Gun Customz)
1. Chock rear wheels and jack the front. Jack the wheel at the frame, not the axle. The axle need to be able to move.
2. Using your lug wrench or 19mm socket, remove your wheels.
3. Using an 18 mm socket and wrench, remove the bottom sway bar bolts and set hardware aside for later use.
4. Using an 18mm socket and wrench, removethe lower shock absorber bolt.
5. Push down the axle to allow room for the coils to be removed. Remove coil springs and factory spring isolator.
6. Install new spacer over the factory bump stop.
7. Reinstall factory coil spring. Be sure to rotate the spring until the pig tail hits the stop.
8. Reintall the shock with the factory boltin the lower shock mount and tighted using the 18mm socket and wrench.
9. Reinstall the front tires/wheels and tighten to factory specifications.
Remove the jack stands and lower the vehicle to the ground. Install the the sway bar links on the sway bar using factory hardware using 18mm wrench after the vehicle is on the ground. Do not install the sway bar link on the sway bar until the vehicle is on the ground.
The drag link must be adjusted to center the steering wheel BEFORE the vehicle is driven. Failure to do so will cause a computer error with the Jeepss traction control system and will result in odd handling and poor performance.
1. Chock the front wheels and and jack up the rear of the vehicle and support the the vehicle with jack stands so the rear wheels are off the ground.
2. Remove the rear tires/wheels using your lug wrench or 19mm deep well socket.
3. Remove the upper shock bolt using using a 16mm socket and wrench. Then remove the lower shock bolt using a 18mm socket and wrench. Remove the factory shock.
(Upper schock bolt)
(Lower shock bolt)
4. Remove the bottom sway bar bolts. Retain bolt for reinstallation later.
5. Using a 10mm wrench remove the bolt holding the brake line from the frame. Dont skip this step, you could damage your factory brake lines if you do by extending them beyond the length available.
6. Push down the axle to allow for enough room for the stock coil to be removed. Remove the stock coil and isolator.
7. Install the new coil spacer with supplied washer/nut retainer and secure the assembly with supplied ½ x 2 ¾ bolt and lock washers through the factory coil mount.
(Side view with factory isolator attached)
(Bottom. Note the coil stop located @ 3 oclock position.)
8. Install factory coil spring isolator as shown in photos for step #7.
9. Install the top of the coil back onto the coil seat. When installing the bottom of the coil into the seat, rotate the coil until the pigtail hits the spring stop (This can be seen in the photo in step #7). Lower the vehicle slightly, watching coils to assure they properly seat on top.
10. Reinstall the sway bar link using a 18mm socket and wrench, replacing the stock hardware removed in step #4. Install the brake line bracket removed in step #5.
11. Reinstall the shocks, first by attching the upper and then lower shock bolts using the 18mm socket and wrench as seen in step #3.
12. Reintall the rear wheels/tires and tighten to factory specifications. Lower the vehichle to the ground.
NOTE: The drag link must be adjusted to center the steering wheel BEFORE the vehicle is driven. Failure to do so will cause a computer error with the Jeepss traction control system and will result in odd handling and poor performance.


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English tenor Mark Padmore has earned a reputation as a committed Britten interpreter. ADRIAN TINNISWOOD illuminates the qualities that make Padmore a worthy successor to Peter Pears.
The Medieval Hall at Salisbury in England is an ancient, intimate space, older even than the soaring spire of the cathedral in whose shadow it stands. For 750 years, people have gathered here to eat, to drink, to talk and make music. On this particular night, the high open timbers of the roof are decked with boughs of beech, and heavy woollen hangings cover the wall, evoking memories of some Wagnerian Hall of the Grail. An audience of around 160 sits and stands and murmurs and waits, expectant and perhaps a little nervous. The next item on the program, The Holy Sonnets of John Donne,is oneof Benjamin Britten's darkest works. Composed in the wake of the success of Peter Grimes and Britten's visit with Yehudi Menuhin to Germany in the summer of 1945, where the pair played Beethoven and Bach to Holocaust survivors at Belsen, the sequence makes for difficult listening.
A gaunt figure in black, with cropped hair and high cheekbones, steps up onto the tiny stage. Immediately there is silence. Then a series of urgent, pounding fortissimo octaves from the accompanist, and the figure breaks into a heartrending hymn of despair. "Oh my blacke soule! now thou art summoned / By sicknesse, death's herald and champion." The words soar through the hall, demanding, tortured. The voice, Mark Padmore's high tenor, is anguished, exquisite.
English tenors are always described as "intelligent." Obituarists paid tribute to Philip Langridge's intelligence and applauded Anthony Rolfe Johnson as "one of the most attractive and intelligent tenors." Critics praise Ian Bostridge for being "an intelligent singer." This is hardly an insult, but it is code, and it doesn't take much intelligence to decipher it. The word is used to imply a lack of fire, in rather the same way that English Baroque architecture is called "cerebral" to put a positive spin on the fact that it lacks the brio of Bernini. English tenors don't have the raw physicality of their Continental counterparts. Their training in the choral tradition gives their voices a reedy quality that sets them apart from tenors such as Pavarotti or the late, lamented Salvatore Licitra.
Mark Padmore is a product of this English choral tradition. Moreover, he is intelligent and unashamed of the fact. There are two types of singer, he told me when we spoke this past summer — those for whom the sound is everything, such as Joan Sutherland, who was almost encouraged not to "do words," because it interfered with the sound; and those whose aim is to get the text across. Padmore puts himself firmly in this latter category. "It's not the vocal art that interests me so much,' he says. 'It's the singing.'"
Born in Woodford, a London suburb, and raised in Canterbury, Kent, Padmore learned the clarinet as a child and then went to King's College, Cambridge, as a choral scholar. In the 1980s, he worked with a number of groups known for Renaissance and Baroque polyphony, including the Tallis Scholars and the Sixteen. In 1986, he joined the Hilliard Ensemble, touring with them to the U.S. and Japan.
Five years later, Padmore joined Les Arts Florissants, the great French Baroque ensemble founded in 1979 by Franco–American harpsichordist William Christie. The collaboration lasted for ten years, taking Padmore all over the world and attracting notice for his performances, particularly as Jason, Prince of Thessaly, in Charpentier's Médée, with the late Lorraine Hunt in the title role; and as Hippolyte to Hunt's Phèdre in a brilliant series of performances at the Palais Garnier of Hippolyte et Aricie, Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera (his first) of incestuous love and divine retribution. Driving always for authentic period sound, Christie found Padmore's high tenor voice particularly well suited to the haute-contre parts so beloved by French composers of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (although not by Rousseau, who in his 1768 Dictionnaire de Musique condemned the haute-contre as "always sour and rarely in tune").
Also in the 1990s, Padmore worked with the Belgian choral ensemble Collegium Vocale Ghent under Philippe Herreweghe, recording and performing many of the Bach Cantatas and touring with the St. John and St. Matthew Passions. "Bill Christie and Philippe Herreweghe were both enormously important to my development as a singer and as a musician," he has said. From Christie he learned about engagement with audiences, something that shines through in his performance to this day; and from Herreweghe he acquired "an intensely serious approach to rehearsing" and a deep love for Bach.
In recent years, Padmore has focused on recitals. He sang all three Schubert song cycles at the Wigmore Hall in London in 2008, and he has recently repeated them in Vienna and Paris. His recording with regular accompanist Paul Lewis of Schubert's Winterreise won Gramophone magazine's Vocal Solo Award in 2010. "It's always terrible to hear yourself singing," said the tenor when he came onstage to accept the award to the sound of a brief excerpt.
Since the late 1990s, when Padmore was the cowboy cook, Hot Biscuit Slim, in the Royal Opera House production of Paul Bunyan at the Snape Maltings, Britten has come to play an increasingly prominent part in his repertoire. Recent recordings, all well received, include the Holy Sonnets paired with Winter Words, Britten's intimate settings of Thomas Hardy poems, culminating in the heartrending, anguished cry of "How long?" at the end of "Before Life and After." Preserved on DVD is a masterly performance at Coventry Cathedral in the grueling War Requiem in 2012 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the piece's premiere, in its original setting.
In the field of Britten opera, Padmore has been more hesitant. "I don't think of myself as an opera singer," he says. It is hard to know why. His first major foray was a triumph. In 2004, he played the dead manservant Peter Quint to Lisa Milne's Governess in a fine BBC version of The Turn of the Screw, arguably the darkest, most problematic and greatest of all Britten's operas, dealing as it does with suppressed sexuality, demonic possession and the corruption of innocence. The story of two orphaned children possessed by the ghosts of dead lovers, Quint and a previous governess, needs to frighten us if it is to do its work. And Padmore's Quint, his leering face pressed against a window pane, or encountering the boy Miles in the darkness of the night, or wrestling with Lisa Milne's Governess in the final scene for the soul of Miles, is genuinely terrifying.
Britten's centenary year marks Padmore's return to opera. When I spoke to him, he was immersed in his preparations for the role of Captain Vere, who is attracted to young Billy and yet condemns him to death, in Glyndebourne's revival of its 2010 production of Billy Budd — "a big deal for me," says the tenor. He sees Billy Budd as a battle, with Vere in the middle of it, looking both ways and drawn to both sides. Vere's last song, "We committed his body to the deep," in which he claims to have achieved a kind of peace through Billy's blessing, is conventionally seen as a moment of redemption. Padmore is not so sure. In the final bars, the drift from major key back to minor hints at self-justification, at uncertainty. "When Vere claims to have been saved by Billy," he says, "we can choose whether or not to believe. I am looking to explore that ambiguity."
In the hall at Salisbury, Padmore reaches the midpoint in the song cycle. The fifth of Donne's sonnets, "What if this present were the world's last night?", while still driven by an existential despair, holds out to the audience just a chance of redemption.
It's not enough. Not yet.
A tenor who decides to tackle a Britten opera has to contend with a ghost. Like Quint, the spectral presence of Peter Pears — the man for whose distinctive, reedy voice Britten wrote all his major roles — always hovers close by, daring us to speak his name and break the spell. Or so you'd think. Padmore argues that in the twenty-seven years since Pears's death, others have managed to put their own mark on the roles of Quint and Peter Grimes, on Captain Vere and Aschenbach. "There was an intervening generation," he says. "Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Philip Langridge were my heroes."
Yet when one mentions Britten's name, an awful lot of people still think of his life-partner, his collaborator, his inspiration. Moreover, Pears's interpretations of those roles are easily available. An interested listener can compare and contrast any modern tenor with the original, which has to be daunting.
It says a lot for Mark Padmore that he is not found wanting. More than a decade ago, when his solo career was beginning, he was quite relaxed about his performances and his voice. Now his delivery is tighter, more considered. And his power of expression, the English tenor's great strength, is more focused. Anthony Tommasini got it dead right in a recent review of Padmore's recording of the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and Nocturne. His voice is in the Pears mold, but it has a more penetrating intensity, says the New York Times critic. "He is a more high-charged performer than Pears, while still elegant and alluring."
Britten's centenary offers a tenor of Padmore's stature a host of opportunities. In 2013, a punishing schedule has seen him in London, Paris, Munich, Dresden and Stockholm. He has performed the Holy Sonnets, Winter Words and the War Requiem, as well as the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Spring Symphony and the less well-known Six Hölderlin Fragments (Op. 61), in addition to Captain Vere at Glyndebourne.
Padmore has some competition. More than a hundred productions of Britten operas are scheduled this year, from Peter Grimes in Aldeburgh and Aspen to The Turn of the Screw in Sao Paolo and Saarbrucken — not forgetting the Met's tribute, this autumn's Midsummer Night's Dream, with Kathleen Kim as Tytania and Iestyn Davies as Oberon.
Our fascination with Britten extends beyond the music. His relationship with Pears and his well-documented (and generally unrequited) attraction to adolescent youths have intrigued biographers and gossipmongers for decades. They discuss the questionable relationships between men and boys that figure in Peter Grimes, Turn of the Screw and Billy Budd and shake their heads over imagined parallels between Britten and Aschenbach in the final opera, an adaptation of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice.
The centenary biographies dwell on Britten's private life, each searching for that killer revelation. Much more serious is the reaction to the music. More than ever in his centenary year, critics accuse Britten of being second-rate, too obvious — a charge that is often leveled at the work of his friend E. M. Forster, who collaborated on the libretto of Billy Budd. They echo Elisabeth Lutyens's devastating forty-year-old verdict that Britten's operas are "the product of a talented schoolboy…. Each repeated hearing yields less."
Padmore acknowledges the problem. Britten has become something of a national treasure, he says, and the fact that he wrote music to be enjoyed, and didn't seek difficulty, makes him seem "uncool" compared with more challenging twentieth-century figures. "People get sick of lovely Benji." But if we see him as some kind of Wizard of Oz, with no substance behind the façade, says the tenor, we'll be the losers by it. Britten's work is filled with subtleties and subversive moments, ambiguities and ambivalence. There is "an undertone of hard messages," couched in language that "speaks to us at a subconscious level. Britten," concludes Padmore, "was an absolutely great composer."
Edith Sitwell, whose poems Britten set to music, gave a perceptive assessment of the emotional charge released from a good performance when she wrote, after the premiere of the War Requiem, "I am not a person who ever really cries…. On this occasion, the tears were blood."
If anyone needs confirmation that Britten offers emotional depth and nuanced ambiguities, let them listen to Mark Padmore. The intensity and, yes, the intelligence that this most English of English tenors brings to one of the twentieth century's greatest English composers has the power to move the most cynical heart.
In the Medieval Hall, under the beech boughs and the high rafters, the last of Donne's Holy Sonnets ends in a funeral march and a major chord of hope. "Death, thou shalt die," sings Padmore, defiant. There is one of those stunned silences you sometimes hear at concerts when an audience is struggling to come back to itself. Then the applause erupts.
Britten is not easy listening. Nor is Mark Padmore. There is a depth, a passion, an undertone of hard messages. The tears are blood.
ADRIAN TINNISWOOD is a British historian whose interests range from Britten to seventeenth-century Puritanism. His latest book, The Rainborowes: One Family's Quest to Build a New England, is published this month.
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Bossfight (Epilogue)
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
This is really cool. Has a very Metal Gear Solid vibe to it. Might just be me, though. XD Regardless, this is an impeccable piece and I love the climactic feeling to it.
Thanks. An extended version that I created specifically for Arkuni's Versus Umbra can be found on YouTube (titled Bossfight Redux). And yeah, I think I know what you mean with the MGS thing. It's of course not nearly as good as the MGS soundtracks but I also sometimes get that vibe. :D
Rated 5 / 5 stars
:D Omg! :D
this is so amazing, if you made it a loop it would be perfect as the epicness is suddenly gone.
Thanks. As mentioned in the comments there already exists a looped version though.
Rated 4 / 5 stars
Well done!
I think this needs to be a little bit longer to transition into ending a little bit better, and/or make it so that it could easily loop into itself. I agree with the previous poster about it feeling cut off.
Really puts you in the mood for something epic!
Thanks for the review and I agree, but as written in the author comments there already exists a loopable version, I just decided to upload this one to Newgrounds. I think that this impression of the track being "cut off" is the worst thing about it, and in my ears it's not present in the looped version. But yeah, it's probably still too short for a longer fight.
Anyhow: thanks again for the comment. :)
Rated 5 / 5 stars
I think its a good battle theme as in your comment section its a shame that it was not longer as it just seems to cut off but still awesome tho
Thanks dude. Good to see an honest comment that actually confirms flaws for a change. :D But who knows, maybe I'll improve it someday (I would certainly do so if someone expressed interest in using it in a game or movie that needs a longer version).


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The debate over pensions for public employees has shifted radically in recent years. The old framing of the debate often built off the idea that it was primarily an ideological fight between small-government advocates and public employee unions. But as the cost of pensions and health care benefits began to eat up ever-bigger shares of government budgets – especially in cities and school districts, where services and programs have been cut deeply – the debate has become much more pragmatic.
Which brings us to Gov. Jerry Brown, who Thursday went public with a pension reform plan that goes places no powerful California Democratic officeholder has ever been. Its most striking provision would require that "all new and current employees transition to a contribution level of at least 50 percent of the annual cost of their pension benefits." This is a sharp break with the status quo that would give workers a huge incentive to work to keep pension costs reasonable.
The governor also wants to increase from 55 to 67 the age at which new public employees could retire with full benefits and to revamp the boards of the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California State Teachers' Retirement System, which have both been criticized for caring much more about pensioners than taxpayers. Except for public safety positions, new hires would receive smaller defined-benefit pensions along with 401(k)-style accounts similar to those in the private sector. The plan also includes such long-overdue fixes as banning late-career pension-spiking and stopping the practice of allowing workers to purchase years of service credit to up their pensions.
Brown's plan got a tepid reaction from public employee unions, and a mixed to negative response from Republican officials and high-profile pension reformers who back even more sweeping changes. But critics should think about the implications of the Democratic governor saying public employees should be obligated to pay half the cost of pensions. His actions sharply undercut just about all the arguments made by the well-funded union group defending the status quo, the Californians for Retirement Security. Its leaders say pension problems are exaggerated and frame the issue in the old terms – as being about ideology, not budget math. These claims just got much harder to make.
Brown can achieve some of his proposals through legislative action, while much of the plan will require voter approval. Meanwhile, Republicans in Sacramento and elsewhere are actively discussing a pension ballot measure of their own. The GOP measure is likely to propose an end to all defined-benefit pensions for new government employees – but also include some of the reforms that Brown has now formally endorsed.
This editorial page has long hoped for this sort of bold leadership from the governor. It harbors great promise to help not just state finances but those local governments that are often in much worse shape than the state. Good for Jerry Brown. California will be better off if he succeeds.


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You think there's a chance her third eye could be tied to a devil fruit ability? The way she subdued Reiju makes me think she has special abilities and that the third eye isn't simply for aesthetics. Third eye could be a mutation too if BM did some inbreeding within the family >.> lol
Hahaha xD I had a feeling...
Ahaha, I knew it already :v, but thanks for the spoilers.
I do have Skype, but I hardly use nowadays, well, anything you can talk with me.
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Trying to update on a few things online. So that I don't mislead people into believing that I do that stuff yet? I'm still in training wheels. And I may try to get better in a few years. Just gotta hold my Fort till then.
Here's the link. http://holidaybeefstew.tumblr.com Tell him that I kept my promise to him when I said I'll give him credit where credit is do. ;)
Back from the dead. Got a new avatar drawn by holidaybeefstew on Tumblr. He's into Undertale and I'm going to give him both a shout out and credit for drawing this OC of mine. Thanks bro.
Sigh. This is going to kill me. But I'm just going to stop posting for the rest of the night. I don't wanna get into trouble with the other mods. It's not worth it for being the Village idiot on the forums. I need to rest in my bed and think about what I need to do in life? :(
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Great profiling questions! Loved the verbiage.
ENTP in a Nutshell
ENTPs are inspired innovators, motivated to find new solutions to intellectually challenging problems. They are curious and clever, and seek to comprehend the people, systems, and principles that surround them. Open-minded and unconventional, Visionaries want to analyze, understand, and influence other people.
ENTPs enjoy playing with ideas and especially like to banter with others. They use their quick wit and command of language to keep the upper hand with other people, often cheerfully poking fun at their habits and eccentricities. While the ENTP enjoys challenging others, in the end they are usually happy to live and let live. They are rarely judgmental, but they may have little patience for people who can't keep up.
What Makes the ENTP Tick
ENTPs are energized by challenge and are often inspired by a problem that others perceive as impossible to solve. They are confident in their ability to think creatively, and may assume that others are too tied to tradition to see a new way. The Visionary relies on their ingenuity to deal with the world around them, and rarely finds preparation necessary. They will often jump into a new situation and trust themselves to adapt as they go.
ENTPs are masters of re-inventing the wheel and often refuse to do a task the same way twice. They question norms and often ignore them altogether. Established procedures are uninspiring to the Visionary, who would much rather try a new method (or two) than go along with the standard.
Recognizing the ENTP
ENTPs are typically friendly and often charming. They usually want to be seen as clever and may try to impress others with their quick wit and incisive humor. They are curious about the world around them, and want to know how things work. However, for the ENTP, the rules of the universe are made to be broken. They like to find the loopholes and figure out how they can work the system to their advantage. This is not to say the Visionary is malicious: they simply find rules limiting, and believe there is probably a better, faster, or more interesting way to do things that hasn't been thought of before.
The ENTP is characteristically entrepreneurial and may be quick to share a new business idea or invention. They are confident and creative, and typically excited to discuss their many ingenious ideas. The ENTP's enthusiasm for innovation is infectious, and they are often good at getting other people on board with their schemes. However, they are fundamentally "big-picture" people, and may be at a loss when it comes to recalling or describing details. They are typically more excited about exploring a concept than they are about making it reality, and can seem unreliable if they don't follow through with their many ideas.
Famous ENTPs
Famous ENTPs include Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Feynman, Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, John Stuart Mill, Jon Stewart, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Conan O'Brien
ENTP in the Population
ENTP is one of the rarer types in the population. ENTPs make up:
- 3% of the general population
- 4% of men
- 2% of women
Popular Hobbies for the ENTP
Popular hobbies for the ENTP include continuing education, writing, art appreciation, playing sports, computers and video games, travel, and cultural events.
What the Experts Say
"ENTPs tend to be independent, analytical, and impersonal in their relations with people, and they are more apt to consider how others may affect their projects than how their projects may affect others."
- Isabel Briggs Myers, Gifts Differing
"ENTPs are the most reluctant of all the types to do things in a particular manner just because that is the way things have always been done."
- David Keirsey, Please Understand Me II
"Don't tell an ENTP that we can't fly a rocket to Mars, build a 200-story skyscraper, or communicate over two-way wrist radios. That will be an invitation for the ENTP to prove you wrong."
- Otto Kroeger, Type Talk at Work
Facts About ENTP
Interesting facts about the ENTP:
- On personality trait scales, scored as Enterprising, Friendly, Resourceful, Headstrong, Self-Centered, and Independent
- Least likely of all types to suffer heart disease and hypertension
- Least likely of all types to report stress associated with family and health
- Scored among highest of all types in available resources for coping with stress
- Overrepresented among those with Type A behavior
- Among highest of all types on measures of creativity
- One of two types most frequent among violators of college alcohol policy
- Among types most dissatisfied with their work, despite being among the types with highest income
- Commonly found in careers in science, management, technology, and the arts
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But the photographs in the book, The Second World War in Colour, bring it vividly to life with images that look as if they were taken yesterday – or come from a film set. But there are colour pictures of the last months of the war in Europe, including Dutch celebrations after the liberation of Eindhoven, and an image of the spontaneous celebrations of VE Day in Whitehall, central London. There are also pictures from German and American sources, including US aircrew. Photograph: Ted Dearberg/IWM/PA
General Dwight D Eisenhower and his senior commanders at supreme allied headquarters in London, February 1944. Some 3,000 colour pictures were taken between 1942 and 1945, and those that survived were passed to the IWM in 1949. Images portray the fighting fronts, with rare photography of Mustangs and Spitfires in flight and the RAF's top-scoring fighter pilot, Wing Commander 'Johnnie' Johnson, with his pet dog Sally. The scarcity of colour film and the high cost of reproducing it in printed publications during the second World War means that for most people today the war is a black and white conflict. Photograph: Ted Dearberg/IWM/PA
Land Army members sawing larch poles for use as pit props at the Women's Timber Corps training camp at Culford, Suffolk, 1943 Photograph: IWM/PA
The British Ministry of Information, which controlled output of material to the press during the war, wanted to obtain colour photographs as a record and for inclusion in publications which could print in colour. Photograph: Ted Dearberg/IWM/PA
Air raid warden in Holborn, London. Photograph: Ted Dearberg/IWM/PA Wire
No colour film was supplied to British official photographers to document the D-Day landings. They range from the women preparing bullets and cannon shells underground to shots of troops in training, stationed in Italy and Tunisia, and sightseeing in Greece. Photogaaph: Photograph: IWM/PA
– (PA) Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery explaining Allied strategy to King George VI in his command caravan in Holland, October 1944. A crew from the 16th/5th Lancers, 6th Armoured Division, cleaning the gun barrel of their Crusader tank at El Aroussa in Tunisia, May 1943. Photograph: IWM/PA
B-24 Liberator bombers of the 491st Bomb Group, US Eighth Air Force, en route to a target in Germany, 1944. An extraordinary collection of rare colour photographs reveal the second World War as the people living through the conflict would have seen it. Photograph: Ted Dearberg/IWM/PA
There are images of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery explaining Allied strategy to King George VI, General Dwight D Eisenhower and his senior commanders at supreme allied headquarters in London in February 1944 and Winston Churchill and his chiefs of staff in the garden at Downing Street in May 1945. All of the photographs in the book come from the IWM photograph archive, and most were taken by a band of British official photographers, while the ministry also sourced colour images from agencies and freelancers. Lt Vernon R Richards of the 361st Fighter Group flying his P-51D Mustang nicknamed Tika IV during a bomber escort mission in 1944. Dutch civilians dancing in the streets after the liberation of Eindhoven by Allied forces, September 1944. A new book from the Imperial War Museums (IWM) includes rarely seen colour images taken by official photographers, as well as news agencies, freelancers and even air crews, many of which are being published for the first time.


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In case you missed the first trailer for Jim Sheridan's suspense/supernatural thriller "Dream House", you can rectify that by heading over here. I'm still reasonably certain that the trailer gives away a couple of very crucial plot twists, but maybe I'm wrong. In any case, take a gander at some new images from the upcoming movie below.
Some say that all houses have memories. For one man, his home is the place he would kill to forget. Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts star in Dream House, a suspense thriller about a family that unknowingly moves into a home where several grisly murders were committed…only to find themselves the killer's next target. Successful publisher Will Atenton (Craig) quit a job in New York City to relocate his wife, Libby (Weisz), and two girls to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was the murder scene of a mother and her children. And the entire city believes it was at the hands of the husband who survived. When Will investigates the tragedy, his only lead comes from Ann Paterson (Watts), a neighbor who was close to the family that died. As Will and Ann piece together the disturbing puzzle, they discover that the story of the last man to leave Will's dream house will be just as horrifying to the one who came next.
Starring Daniel Craig and a pair of lovely ladies in Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts.
Revealing all September 30, 2011.
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Yes. I admit I am weak. While I have a perfectly lovely jasmine flavored black tea in my cupboard, I apparently could not live without this one. I finally gave in and ordered enough tea from thepuriTea to get free shipping. The Jasmine Silver Needle, which is also quite notable, put me over the edge, as well as over the free shipping threshold. The funny thing is, that I almost gave that Jasmine Silver Needle sample to my local tea drinking friend, Bonnie. Now, I can just give her a taste from my stash. Shipping from CA to OH was lightening fast. And Nav included several samples, including the Lychee Green that I almost put in the cart anyway. This way, at least I will be sure….for next time. Because I am certain there will be a next time!
Ahhhhh. Notes of chocolate and jasmine. This one does differ from my other jasmine black in that I do think there is some silver needle in here, too. It makes for the most wonderful mouth feel. I am not at all sorry that I gave in……and my cupboard feels rather complete at this time! (Did you take a look at my current shopping list? Only one to possibly buy, and the other two are placeholders for a few fun custom blends with teas that I have in my cupboard)…. Now, I should just stop reading everyone's tempting notes, but I am also too weak for that. I love it here!
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They say behind every great man is a great woman. And while there are many that would dispute the title of "great" applied to Ozzy Osbourne, his feisty wife has done a great job making a name for herself separate from her drug-addict husband.
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But fools tend to be blind Richard.
God has stated::"18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools
And God has stated::"1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good."
"3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:""4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."


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The Caprock Chapter of the Texas Air Museum will celebrate Armed Forces Day today with a fly-in and a concerted effort to name a Lubbock park in honor of war hero Maj. George A. Davis.
The fly-in, which opens at 8 a.m., also will display a collection of warbirds that includes the B-17 Flying Fortress and replicas of the Japanese carrier planes that attacked Pearl Harbor.
Davis, a fighter pilot in both World War II and the Korean War, was shot down on Feb. 10, 1952, in Korea. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously, and he is one of the most celebrated combat pilots of the 20th century.
His family plans to be present at the Texas Air Museum's fly-in.
A petition recommending Davis for the park memorial will be circulated at the event, which is scheduled to last until 4 p.m. Later the petition will be submitted to the Lubbock Parks and Recreation Department for consideration in assigning a name to a park, said Craig Hannah, museum restoration director.
The museum is located at the Slaton Municipal Airport, two miles north of Slaton on FM 400. Tickets for the fly-in activities are $3 for adults and $1 for children ages 5 to 16.
Other aircraft at the show include the F4U-1 Corsair, P-40N Warhawk, B-25J Mitchell and the SB2C Helldiver. The Experimental Aircraft Association will participate with 16 homemade planes, and aircraft involved in a fly-by include the F-117 Stealth Fighter and T-37 Trainer. More than 40 World War II-era aircraft are expected to participate in the event.
The World War II Horse Cavalry will be present, and a display of classic cars from the Nifty Fifties Car Club is planned.
Hannah said the museum is attempting to buy a $30,000 F-86 Sabre Jet similar to the one Davis was flying when he was last seen in Korea.
The petition for the park name could persuade city parks and recreation officials to remember Davis with the naming of a new park in his honor, Hannah said.
Davis was one of only four men who became ace fighter pilots in both World War II and the Korean War. On his last mission, he and a wingman attacked 12 enemy MIG-15 fighter planes in defending American bombers.
The Medal of Honor citation stated ''Maj. Davis' bold attack completely disrupted the enemy formation, permitting the friendly fighter-bombers to successfully complete their interdiction mission.
''Maj. Davis, by his indomitable fighting spirit, heroic aggressiveness and superb courage in engaging the enemy against formidable odds exemplified valor at its highest.''
Hannah said aircraft will be landing from 8 to 10 a.m. for the fly-in. ''They will be flying in from all over the Southwest,'' he said.
At approximately 10:35 a.m., the F-117 Stealth fighter will make three passes over the airport area.
''This is the first time that people in the South Plains have had the opportunity to see the Stealth in flight. It was on the ground at the last Reese air show but did not fly,'' Hannah said.
Other events include:
11 a.m. Florene Watson, a woman pilot from the World War II era, will tell some of her stories.
Noon an exhibition by a World War II mounted cavalry reenactment group.
12:30 p.m. An air battle between an American Corsair and a Japanese Zero.
1 p.m. A public address interview with the family of Maj. Davis.
1:30 p.m. An exhibition of air power by the world's only flying SB2C Helldiver.
2 p.m. Demonstration of a Bradley armored fighting vehicle.
2:30 p.m. Aerial battle between an American FM2 Wildcat and a Japanese Kate.
3 p.m. Second presentation by Florene Watson.
3:30 p.m. Air power demonstration by the B-17 and B-25 bombers.
4 p.m. Show concludes.
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Our Journey Part 7 : Success, Setbacks and Hope! - Page 5
Reply by Love00 » Apr. 9, 2012 11:21am
Lis- I have always wanted to do a road trip! How fun! Hope Af shows soon. This is the only time I would say that of course. And about dh leaving, I totally get you. We really do need it sometimes...the alone time.
Where and how is everyone? What is happening here?
I know a lot of you are busy, I just hope this thread doesn't die!
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Reply by jesshillard » Apr. 9, 2012 11:24am
Been really busy! I am sorry! I promise I will post later tonight.
Reply by jesshillard » Apr. 9, 2012 10:31pm
let me know what you think....
I have been really tired no other symptoms. Also I don't know if you follow my blog or remember this...
but it has me super hopeful. It was my prayer doodle back on August 17, 2011. I thought that it meant May 2012 would be when we had twins. Obviously I was wrong, or was I? Line is by no means super dark. BBs aren't sore. And I am not sure of how many dpo I am. Started getting EWCM from CD13-22. Today I am CD29. I put for my guess O date as usual CD18, making me 11dpo but I could be wrong. Could be as far out as 15dpo.
Life has been crazy with school, and M, and everything else. Sorry I have been a slacker of a friend!
I hope all is well with all of you!!
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Our story: Began TTC July 2010, 6 losses: 11/14/10. Early m/c, 12/25/10 Blighted Ovum, 6/29/11 Early m/c, 11/11 early m/c, 3/8/12 Early m/c, 6/29/13 suspected ectopic. Currently breastfeeding and NTNP. hoping to lose weight And blessed with another miracle baby!
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Reply by jesshillard » Apr. 9, 2012 10:50pm
Please someone be online? I am curious what you ladies think!! Praying for this to FINALLY be it. Sixth times the charm, right?
Reply by lisserb » Apr. 9, 2012 10:54pm
That test looks very positive Jess!! Praying and hoping for you! Please keep us posted. :)
Reply by jesshillard » Apr. 9, 2012 10:58pm
I SO hope so melissa. I will certainly keep you posted. May God bless all of us with little ones SOON.
Reply by Kraken » Apr. 10, 2012 12:36pm
Hi girls - ive a quick question ive been drinking cranberry juice for months instead of fizzy pop and alcahol, is it ok when ttc?
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Reply by lisserb » Apr. 10, 2012 2:20pm
I thinks it's fine Karen. It shouldn't affect fertility at all and may even help you prevent uti's.
Jess, thinking of you!
Shea, how did it go with the Dr?
Hope everyone is well and had a great Easter!
Reply by TeacherToria » Apr. 10, 2012 2:41pm
Jess - Looks positive to me! HOPING this one will stick! PLEASE keep us posted!
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Reply by Kraken » Apr. 10, 2012 3:51pm
Thanx lisser
Jess keep everything crossed for you hun
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Reply by jesshillard » Apr. 10, 2012 10:35pm
http://www.countdowntopregnancy.com/pregnancy-test-gallery/my-pregnancy-test20611 Another test. Still not blazing dark.
Karen - I am with Melissa I don't think it should affect ttc.
Victoria - thanks! I am hoping sixth times the charm!!
Reply by lisserb » Apr. 10, 2012 11:10pm
Oh Jess!! I'm hoping, hoping, hoping!
Please little baby stick!
Reply by jesshillard » Apr. 11, 2012 6:41am
Trying not to be a negative nancy....but tests dont seem as nice this morning, I have cramps....putting 2+2 together....*sigh* we will see. But, I am not wasting the money on a beta/progesterone so I am just going to wait.
It could be from drinking a lot of water yesterday evening....I was SO thirsty. I just dont know
Reply by jesshillard » Apr. 11, 2012 8:26am
So it got darker as time passed. And now almost dry and no doubt in my mind....it is darker. So still hoping and praying
On way to final meeting for test bank situation....investigation is complete and we get to talk about where we go from here *gulp* whatever that means. Girl that passed them out was dismissed from school. Girls that same night they got them are fine, not so sure about Lindsay, Trisha, and me. If I never updated on it, I am sorry. It is a huge stressor at the moment. Quick recap this girl gave us lose papers to study from saying they were "study guide" from her friend. We took them, they had rationales! Turns out...test bank questions. Cheating. Now our asses are on the line for something the three of us would have NEVER gotten by ourselves OR taken if we knew what they truly were. It is a mess. Big prayers appreciated.
And for beta, I said Thursday (or today) but today we have the meeting and tomorrow I am working before class so earliest it can be is Friday, and followup Sunday....but I was SO trying to keep it from my husband until I knew for sure what was happening. I have a good feeling in my tummy and heart, but of course doubt from life experiences come creaping in all too often!
Reply by lisserb » Apr. 11, 2012 9:31am
Good Luck with the school.
Keep positive about the positive tests. I'm definitley hoping this is it for you!
Reply by nursejones29 » Apr. 11, 2012 12:58pm
Jess I'm praying for you!
Ladies sorry I've been MIA. I was put on antidepressants and it's been down hill every since. I had to stop taking them. My triglicerides are really high and my thyroid hormone is out of whack. Not to mention my sugar has been dropping. I have seriously thought I was dying the last week. DH and I have been staying with my parents so someone can keep an eye on me 24/7. I just want to be back to my normal self. The anti depressant was helping a little and then it starts messing with my sugar and blood pressure. I'm scared to even take a tylenol now! Anyways, just figured I'd update and explain my absence. Love you all.
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Reply by TeacherToria » Apr. 11, 2012 1:20pm
Jess - Wow! That certainly is a positive. So excited and worried for you at the same time! You are due for a sticky one!!!!!! I must have missed your original post about the testing situation??? Sounds like they think you cheated by unknowingly seeing the key?? That is so awful someone set you up like that! The truth always comes out so I'm sure the situation will be handled appropriately. For now, just focus on some sticky vibes and nurturing that tiny baby!
Shea - I am soooo sorry this is happening to you! I have heard some anti depressants can have adverse side effects for some people. Are you keeping in touch with your doctor about it? Thinking of you and sending you lots of love!
AFM - 37 weeks tomorrow (according to the doc which is what I'm going by now.) Still having horrible contractions at night, blood pressure is on the rise (but no pre-e yet, headache, and positive test for group B strep last week so will need antibiotics during delivery to prevent transmission to Annabelle. That combined with the gestational diabetes has made for a challenging 3rd trimester but I am thankful everyday for what I have and know that I can do anything for my baby girl. Just hoping and praying she comes out healthy!
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Reply by jesshillard » Apr. 11, 2012 9:24pm
Exhausted and horrid day today with school. Will update tomorrow or Friday. Here are my tests so far in order of when I did them....
ok I lied...tried adding them to thread. Massive fail just go click on my name then my tests and you will figure it out. Zzzzzzz
Reply by lisserb » Apr. 11, 2012 10:49pm
Hugs about school Jess! Those tests look good though! Stick and grow baby! Stick and grow!!
Shea, big hugs to you too! I hope you can get all your medical issues figured out soon. Are you still on the metformin? Thinking of you!
Tori, so very soon that little baby girl will be here! I'm sorry it's been so rough on you these past few weeks.
Luck and hugs to all!
Reply by jesshillard » Apr. 12, 2012 6:12am
I am going to make this as short as possible. Test banks are example questions from publisher that teachers can choose to pull from. I assumed it was a study guide because that is what she said and it even read "Chapter 37 Kozier and Erb" meaning the chapter I needed from our textbook. I thought it was a study guide that lined up with the book!
So unknowingly I set myself upp to deal with consequences that will be only by the grace of God could I pass. I am getting points off of last exam because I looked at Ch 37, and 50% you read that right....FIFTY percent off my overall score on the exam I did yesterday. I wasnt able to study, I coulldnt focus. I couldnt sleep well because worried, and HELLO a llittle bit pregnant.
So now I have to kick it into gear and try to do my darndest to pass this class so I can stay on track. *sigh* WHAT a mess. I figured it out. If I pulled an 80 out of my butt on the test my grade will drop from the 85 I HAD down to a 71%....Failing. We have to have 780. Exhausting to think about.
I didnt test this morning but I did last night will post picture later if I get time. Working as a sub at a daycare today before school.


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BBC Radio 4: a Terry Pratchett interview
May 20, 2008
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The latest "On The Ropes" (which is a show that interviews successful people who have weathered storms in their careers) features a conversation with Terry Pratchett! Prachett talks about his early career as well as his recent diagnosis of Alzheimer's. It isn't not specifically about his literary output, but it should be of interest to those who follow his best selling books.
On The Ropes
Hosted by John Humphrys
1 Broadcast – Approx. 20 Minutes [INTERVIEW]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 4 / On The Ropes
Broadcast: Tuesday May 20th 2008 @ 09:00am
Check it out via the BBC Radio 4 Listen Again feature.
[Thanks Roy!]
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Zaide at the Symphony: Fraction of a Fragment
February 26, 2013
San Francisco Symphony, often getting into the business of its neighbor across Grove Street, the San Francisco Opera, is now offering a Mozart novelty. It's not easy to find something virtually unknown by one of the most performed composers of all time, but Michael Tilson Thomas has found one and he is now boosting Zaide on both coasts — in a very different fashion. Performances in Davies Symphony Hall are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening this week.
Zaide is an unfinished opera by the 22-year-old Mozart, who by 1779 had written numerous music dramas, and was about to create one of his greatest operas, Idomeneo.
A forerunner of Abduction from the Seraglio, Zaide (originally titled Das Serail) is a rescue play about enslaved Europeans in a Turkish harem. Only arias and ensembles from the first two acts were composed; a planned third act wasn't even begun.
So last week, MTT staged a fascinating production of Act 1 of the opera in Miami, with the New World Symphony, serving as narrator, with an assistant conducting.
Now comes the San Francisco version: a two-minute orchestral introduction (Mozart didn't write an overture), two arias, and ... intermission! The entire first half of these concerts will run a little over 15 minutes, before the 20-minute break, which sounds very much like a ballet repertory evening.
At least, the two Mozart arias, performed by Nadine Sierra in her SFS debut, should be exciting. One is the only familiar excerpt from Zaide, the dazzling soprano aria "Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben" (Rest in peace, my sweet life); the less familiar "Tiger! Wetze nur die Klauen" (Tiger, sharpen the claws).
The concert's second half should make up in time and gravitas whatever is missing before the intermission. It's Anton Bruckner's magnificent Symphony No. 7, running about 65 minutes, according to SFS program notes — unless MTT follows the somewhat slower (67 minutes) tempos of his Bruckner-expert predecessor, Herbert Bloomstedt, or that of Otto Klemperer or Riccardo Chailly, who didn't bring it in under 70 minutes.
While audiences are getting used to Gustav Mahler's demanding symphonies — especially in San Francisco, after MTT's repeated performances of all of them — Bruckner may still be subject to members of the audience abandoning the hall during the performance. Once a chronic occurrence, walkouts are getting more sporadic. Stay and relish the uniquely rich harmonic language, dissonances and unprepared modulations that still seem radically new.


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Here's the heads up on the new South Korean horror film "R-Point", a movie set during the tail end of the Vietnam War: it's not so much as scary as it is psychologically interesting, with a heavy dose of atmosphere to help you get over the lack of horror. Not much happens in the film that will make you jump or shriek in fright, and instead the action is generated from suspense and atmosphere, two things "R-Point" has in great abundance. As such, the Vietnam War setting is mostly incidental, and you could extract the characters and place them in, say, a German bunker during World War II and you would have the British horror film "The Bunker".
"R-Point" stars Woo-seong Kam ("Crazy Marriage" and recently "Spider Forest") as hardnosed Lieutenant Choi Tae-in. After an incident involving a Viet Cong saboteur at a Vietnamese motel, Choi is assigned to take a platoon and journey to the isolated area of Romeo Point (or R-Point), where a platoon of South Koreans had gone missing 6 months earlier. Arriving at the designated location, Choi finds an abandoned building in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by the graves of those who entered R-Point, but never left. Before the platoon can figure out what's going on, they discover a shocking revelation: a man in their platoon, who they all thought was one of them, turns out to be one of the missing men they were sent to find.
It's "got one over you" twists like the above that makes "R-Point" a very entertaining film, the kind of movie that keeps you guessing until the very end. In truth, "R-Point" is not the anti-war movie many have claim it to be, and as mentioned, its Vietnam War setting is purely incidental. If writer/director Su-chang Kong (who also wrote "Tell Me Something") had somehow pictured his film as being in the same veins as other Vietnam anti-war film as "Platoon" and "Apocalypse Now", he failed miserably. Simply put, the film just isn't deep, or intelligent, enough to make any kind of statement.
But as a purely psychological horror movie, "R-Point" is quite good. Up front and in charge is a very stout and dependable Woo-seong Kam, whose character sports a calm demeanor and a certain way about him that will remind people of Ronald Speirs from "Band of Brothers". It's uncanny how Choi remains in complete control throughout the entire ordeal, even as his men come unglued. In fact, the soldiers fall apart so easily and with such swiftness that you wonder if an army consisting of Madonna, Britney Spears, and J-Lo couldn't have done a better job staying calm. I'm pretty sure the speed with which Choi's men falls to pieces is some kind of record in a war movie.
To no one's surprise, the cast blurs by as a series of indistinguishable faces and singular behavior traits or background information. We get the tough Sergeant (there's always one in every war movie), the cowardly greenhorn (again, always one in every war movie), and of course there's the guy that keeps showing the picture of his family back home to everyone. (Want to guess if this guy is going to make it?) Not surprisingly, when soldiers start dying, the viewers will simply be calculating the bodycount. Not that it matters in films like these. In a way, the genre has become so ridiculously unoriginal that the only way to make fans sit up and take notice is to write background characters that actually stand out as individuals.
The one important element that horror fans should know is that "R-Point" is not particularly gory. In fact, it's not very gory at all, or at least nothing that would convince you the filmmakers put very much thought into how the characters will get their comeuppance. Most of the deaths come by way of gunshot wounds, although there is a relatively small bodycount until the film's final 15 minutes, when the soldiers start dropping like flies at each other's hands.
It should also be mentioned that "R-Point's" ending is more than a little derivative of John Carpenter's "The Thing", with Choi forcing the soldiers to "prove" their identity or get shot. Also, the film's climactic Third Act is a bit of a letdown, not to mention anti-climactic. With all the ghostly visions and supernatural happenings that have occurred up to now, all we get are soldiers standing in a room shooting at — and stabbing — each other? It's not much of a payoff, and feels as if Kong had written himself into a corner, and had no idea how to get out of it except to make his characters pull their guns on each other. And for you Asian horror film fans out there, the answer is, Yes, they do manage to toss in a female ghost with long black hair into "R-Point".
Of course if you approached "R-Point" as purely a vessel of supernatural entertainment, it's quite good. The direction by Su-chang Kong gets off to a slow start, with scenes of the soldiers in Vietnam looking ridiculously tame, at least in comparison to all the other Vietnam War movies we're used to seeing. The film has a lot of good scenes, especially during moments with the platoon in the wide-open fields in search of their missing comrades. It's actually in broad daylight, using some clever camera tricks, that the filmmakers achieve the film's best moments. A scene, when a character stumbles across a squad of ghost soldiers, is one of the film's highlights, eliciting some creepy vibes without any of the cheap gimmicks one is used to from the genre.
"R-Point" is a very well done supernatural thriller, with an excellent performance by Woo-seong Kam. It's atmospheric when it needs to be, and the visuals are quite excellent across the board. The early moments are completely devoid of ghostly entanglements, making the rest of the film all the more effective. On the negative side, Su-chang Kong could have used more subtlety when it comes to the ghost-related scenes, and it might have been a good idea not to show us the POV of the ghosts using nightvision green light. Who knew ghosts wore nightvision goggles?
Aside from some minor complaints, as well as an ending that doesn't quite come through with the expected slam-bang payoff, "R-Point" is nevertheless still better than most of its fellow Asian ghost stories by a mile and a half. At the very least, it's different, and taken in consideration with the current sad state of the Korean horror scene, being "different" mind as well qualify "R-Point" for top honors.
Su-chang Kong (director) / Su-chang Kong (screenplay)
CAST: Woo-seong Kam …. Choi Tae-in


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