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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Since this is an era when many people are concerned about "fairness" and "social justice," what is your "fair share" of what someone else has worked for?
Democracy aims at equality in liberty. Socialism desires equality in constraint and in servitude.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's 'fair share' of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.
No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.
Socialism is communism before it gains total power; communism is socialism after it gains total power.
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom; socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any other conclusion would necessarily imply either privilege or servitude.
A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom.
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him..
One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can't tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society can comfortably allow people to choose voluntary socialism.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an Anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.
An expanding prosperity requires that the largest possible amount of surplus income should be invested in productive enterprise under the direction of the best personal ability. This will not be done if the rewards of such action are largely taken away by taxation.
Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.
A right, such as a right to free speech, imposes no obligation on another, except that of non-interference. The so-called right to health care, food or housing, whether a person can afford it or not, is something entirely different; it does impose an obligation on another. If one person has a right to something he didn't produce, simultaneously and of necessity it means that some other person does not have right to something he did produce. That's because, since there's no Santa Claus or Tooth Fairy, in order for government to give one American a dollar, it must, through intimidation, threats and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American.
Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers." Similar offspring of inherited wealth have repeatedly provided the leadership of radical movements, with similar pretenses of speaking for "the people."
History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome of the operation of the free market. They are on the contrary the result of well-intentioned but ill-advised government interference with the market.
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.
What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their preferences. When you hear someone say that he doesn't trust the market, and wants to replace it with government edicts, he's really calling for a switch from a democratic process to a totalitarian one.
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For, fortunately, the matter stands so that the duty of making the best on one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but the two are one, and the latter is accomplished when the former is done.
We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
What can prevent the coming of totalitarian socialism is only a thorough change in ideologies. What we need is neither anti-socialism nor anti-communism but an open positive endorsement of that system to which we owe all the wealth that distinguishes our age from the comparatively straitened conditions of ages gone by.
How is it that Liberalism, getting more and more into power, has grown more and more coercive in its legislation?
To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, 'the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.'
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
Under communist rule in the Soviet Union, the 3 percent of agricultural land that was privately farmed by people who kept part of the profits from their efforts supplied the majority of all farm produce. It is not simply that bureaucracy is inefficient. Any form of production that is not based on material reward will not operate efficiently.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as De Tocqueville describes it, 'a new form of servitude.'
Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
There is nothing more arrogant than a self-righteous income redistributor.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of man who have folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.
Socialism has been tried on every continent of the globe. In light of its results, it is time to question the motives of [its] advocates.
The only possible relationship between individuals and collectivists is the relationship between prey and predators.
There are those non-God religions, Nazism and Communism. We are urged from the Continent and from different quarters that we must choose which side we are on. I repudiate both, and will have nothing to do with either. As a matter of fact, they are like two peas. Tweedledum and Tweedledee were violently contrasted compared with them.
It's illegal to say to a voter "Here's $100, vote for me." So what do the politicians do? They offer the $100 in the form of Health Care, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Food Stamps, tobacco subsidies, grain payments, NEA payments, and jobs programs.
The dilemma … is between the democratic process of the market in which every individual has his share and the exclusive rule of a dictatorial body. Whatever people do in the market economy is the execution of their own plans. In this sense every human action means planning. What those calling themselves planners advocate is not the substitution of planned action for letting things go. It is the substitution of the planner's own plan for the plans of his fellowmen. The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.


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Build Track's Virginia Longrifle,
with 44" swamped octagon barrel,
round faced lock, and brass trim,
a project for advanced builders
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Price: starting at $685.21
Build a Virginia flint longrifle with a 44" swamped barrel, round faced English lock, and brass furniture from our suggested list of parts. A advanced project, no pre shaped stock exists and this set of parts must be shaped from a blank. Laying out centerlines, and inletting the components into a square blank is not difficult, once you understand the geometry and relationship of each part, and you have a good feel for inletting, using our inletting black.
This beautiful Virginia flint longrifle dates from the period of the 1770's and 1780's. This example rifle was built by noted gun maker
J.E. Eddie Brown
the rifle is modeled after an original built by F. Klette of northern Virginia. Found in George Shumway's,
Rifles of Colonial America Volume II
, the rifle and a brief description are found on pages 534-539.
Shaped from a curly maple maple blank, then finished a very deep and dark brown. The Colerain 44" swamped .54 caliber barrel, gives this rifle a nice balance for off hand shooting. This specific rifle had a .54 caliber barrel with a overall weight of 9 pounds.
Rearward from the barrel the flared tang is visible. The area of the stock around the tang has raised carving in the beaver tail style, framing the tang in a very English and Southern (Virginian) fashion.
To the rear of the wrist the comb of the rifle flares beautifully back to the buttplate. The brass comb extension of the buttplate has three flats, to echo the theme of the octagon barrel, and those flats have been continued onto the comb. Tapering forward to the end of the comb, the flats eventually meet before diving down to the wrist. This feature has been expertly executed and is found on the original rifle, visible in Mr. Shumway's book.
Our bottom view shows off the brass toeplate and triggerguard of the rifle. The small toeplate, is installed to protect the delicate toe of the stock, the toeplate acts as a guard against chips and dings during the loading and cleaning processes.
Forward of the toeplate the brass triggerguard of the rifle can be seen. A single screw retains the rear of the guard while the front has been pinned into location. The hand done engraving found on the triggerguard is a repeat of the double triangular border, giving the borders a zigzag appearance.
The brass sideplate, which is retained by two lock bolts, has been finished to resemble the original. Not quite the exact same shape, the sideplate has been finished with very similar engraved borders and floral like petals coming down from the upper lock bolt.
Raised carving adorns the butt of the rifle, both ahead and behind the classic stepped check. An engraved sliver hunters star has been inlet into the cheek itself and adds a nice bit of decoration to this area of the rifle.
Our American Heritage 44" swamped rifle barrel copies the design used in the famous bicentennial longrifles made by John Bivins and others, for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Since the barrel will need to be hand inlet into the blank we offer three different profiles, with calibers from .40 to .54 caliber. The price includes the breech plug, installed.
Our 'A' profile
small caliber barrel has a .950" breech, .668" waist, .815" muzzle, with round bottom rifling.
Our 'B' profile
medium caliber barrel has a 1.000" breech, .718" waist, .865" muzzle, with round bottom rifling.
Our 'C' profile
large caliber barrel has a 1.062" breech, .780" waist, .927" muzzle, with round bottom rifling.
Colerain barrels are cut rifled with fancy radius groove rifling, in these correct twist rates for round balls:
1 turn in 48 inch twist, in .40 caliber
1 turn in 56 inch twist, in .45, .50 or .54 caliber
Colerain rifle barrels are the favorite choice of today's best muzzle loading gun makers, because knowledgeable shooters demand Colerain's accuracy, inside and outside.
Founded by two entrepreneurs, Scott Keller and Scott Kelly were tutored by Bob Paris, the famous rifle barrel maker who was first to perfect the technique for production of correct swamped barrels.
Colerain rifle barrels are drilled from solid steel, cut rifled .012" to .016" deep depending on caliber, with six "round bottom" grooves. Called "radius groove rifling", Colerain eliminates the sharp inside corner that accumulates fouling. Radius groove rifling cutters are a bit more expensive to make, but Colerain's customers agree that the accuracy, easy loading, and easy cleaning are worth the cost.
Rice Muzzle Loading Rifle Barrels
are our most costly swamped rifle barrel, made in the USA, by L.C. & Liston Rice, these cost a bit more than other barrels, due to the extra attention given to the bore and surfaces. All bores are reamed, rifled, and "ball burnished" to a mirror finish, with a more uniform bore diameter than can be achieved with reaming alone. Match quality, no break-in period, no hand lapping is required. This barrel will shoot accurately from the very first shot.
We offer the 44" length Rice swamped barrels in three profiles (weights), depending on caliber. Known as the
American Heritage
profile, our 44" swamped rifle barrel copies the design used in the famous bicentennial longrifles made by John Bivins and others, for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Our 'A' profile
small caliber American Heritage barrel has a .950" breech, .668" waist, .815" muzzle, with round bottom rifling.
Our 'B' profile
medium caliber American Heritage barrel has a 1.000" breech, .718" waist, .865" muzzle, with round bottom rifling.
Our 'C' profile
large caliber American Heritage barrel has a 1.062" breech, .780" waist, .927" muzzle, with round bottom rifling.
Cut Rifling Specifications:
Each barrel has 6 lands and grooves for .32, and .40 caliber.
Each barrel has 7 lands and grooves for .45, .50, and .54 caliber.
Grooves cut .016" deep, with round bottom rifling.
Twist is 1 turn in 48 inches for .32, and .40 caliber.
Twist is 1 turn in 66 inches for .45, 50, and .54 caliber.
Twist is 1 turn in 72 inches for .58 caliber.
Rice barrels do not require lapping or extensive shooting to break in
60 degree lathe cut and polished crown.
Rice Muzzle Loading Rifle Barrels
are set between centers and milled octagonal, insuring a centered bore, concentric with the exterior, with no "run-out". Each barrel is stress relieved in an atmosphere controlled electric furnace, to eliminate work hardening or barrel warp, and to dampen harmonic vibrations or barrel whip.
After the rifling has been cut, each bore is "ball burnished". A carbide bore-sizing die is pulled through the barrel, to insure bore dimension uniformity, eliminating any tight or loose spots inside the barrel. This critical procedure leaves the top of the lands smooth and polished, equaling the traditional lead lapping procedure. Rice barrels are Match grade quality, with bench rest capability. Rice barrels do not require lapping or extensive shooting to break-in.
Rice Muzzle Loading Rifle Barrels
are premium quality barrels in every sense! A small maker's trade mark, and caliber mark, is stamped near the breech, on the bottom of each barrel.
Rice Muzzle Loading Rifle Barrels
include a fitted and indexed flared tang plug, threaded to an inside depth of .500". We can quickly install underlugs and sights, at small extra cost. See our gunsmithing service options. Allow three to seven days shop time, when you choose optional labor.
Stock Blanks cured to 6% to 8% moisture are stable!
Stocking a rifle with cheap wood can be discouraging! If your wood twists, warps, cracks, checks, or splits after you begin work, your labor may be lost. Properly cutting and curing can minimize your risk. Our wood was selected for gun stocks, often before the tree was cut. These stock blanks are not 'lumber yard culls'. The stock blanks we offer are slow cured to the ideal 6 to 8% moisture content in a special kiln, and often have been in climate controlled storage for three to five years. We keep a large supply on hand.
Sugar Maple fullstock blanks, often called "hard" maple
So called "hard maple" or "rock maple" is from the Sugar maple tree (
L. Acer saccharum
). Very dense, with closed grain, ideal for raised carving, but the figure is less obvious than most red maple.
Red Maple fullstock blanks, often called "soft" maple
So called "soft maple" is actually hard and dense, and has more brilliant figure than Sugar Maple. From the Red Maple tree, it is ideal for fancy figured longrifles. Less expensive, since it is more widely available and hardy. We do not sell the very soft Silver Maple wood.
How are our curly maple stock blanks priced?
Curly maple is priced by the amount and type of figure, as follows:
Grade 1 Maple
has nearly straight grain, with little or no curl.
Grade 2 Maple
has some curl over 30% of its length, or more.
Grade 3 Maple
has some curl over 75% of its length, or more.
Grade 4 Maple
has some curl over 100% of its length. Desirable.
Grade 5 Maple
has even curl over 100% of its length. Scarce.
Grade 6 Maple
has tight even curl over 100% of its length. Rare!
Grade 7 Maple
has exceptional tight even curl. Very rare.
Our guarantee is simple:
Order "sight unseen" with confidence. We will pick a good one.
You pay postage, which is not refundable. Your only risk.
When your blank arrives, examine it carefully for 10 days.
If not delighted, return it and we will ship a replacement.
No sale is final until you cut it. Cut wood may not be returned.
All wood contains internal stress. Figured wood is more highly stressed than straight grain wood. Every piece of wood may have hidden chips, checks, cracks, knots, bark inclusions, rot, cross grain, worm holes, warping, or incorrect dimensions. These become your problems only after you decide to cut the wood. Old time gunsmiths faced and solved such hidden problems. Many antique longrifles will reveal clever repairs, inlays, and "wear plates" to cover flaws.
Examine any blank for 10 days. If not delighted, perhaps we can substitute a different grade, select another piece or suggest a simple solution.
We offer a complete set of brass furniture to build this nice Virgina flintlock rifle. As cast, the castings need to have the casting gates removed by filing or grinding, and must be polished, then drilled for mounting screws, as needed.
Furniture includes
, wax cast brass
sand cast brass
cut sheet brass
Forward and entry ramrod pipes
3/8" formed sheet brass
wax cast brass
3/8" hickory, 48" in length
Ramrod Tip
3/8" brass
use 13 for 'A', use 14 for 'B', use 15 for 'C'
Sometimes called a "Queen Anne" lock, this best quality round faced flint lock actually dates from the 1730 to 1770 era, well after Anne's reign ended.
Our undecorated "Virginia Fowler" flint lock is modeled after a fine antique lock found on a fowler from the Williamsburg collection.
These early London style fowler locks are found on colonial American longrifles and fowling guns. The tall cock sweeps a wide arc of sparks, making these larger locks among the best sparking locks we've ever offered. The pan has a bridle arm to support the frizzen pivot screw, not always found on early English locks. The plate has an integral pan, and the frizzen is tightly fitted.
Fitted with a large fly detent, this lock works equally well with set or plain triggers. A powerful mainspring engages the cam action tumbler. Bearing shoulders on the tumbler and sear minimize friction, to focus all energy into speed and sparks. Notice the long sear spring, which hides the sear spring mounting screw behind the flint cock.
This lock is shown at
, in
Track's new catalog
for gunmakers and gunsmiths.
: This patchbox kit has a neatly formed hinge, and is slightly curved to conform to the shape of your buttstock. Tempered springs and instructions are included. Made of brass, this was the traditional trim for an early longrifle. We recommend mounting the patchbox with nine of our #SCREW-6-1/2 unplated iron wood screws.
This patchbox was used on a Pre-Revolutionary War era American longrifle, by F. Klette, Culpepper County, Virginia, shown in Kentucky Rifles & Pistols, 1750 - 1850. The lack of side panels on either edge of the patchbox lid are typical for an early patchbox, or you may use the side panels included. Overall length is about 6-1/4".
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This high quality patchbox release kit is made for use with brass, iron, or nickel silver patchboxes. The kit includes four precision steel parts, two unplated steel screws, and fully illustrated instructions. Made with your choice of a brass or steel release button.
Gunsmithing Labor Options
are a popular low cost method of speeding assembly. Our gunsmith can install front and rear sights (2
), and underlugs (4
) at small extra cost, with prompt delivery.
When you buy the sight from us, we will remove any burrs, gates, or parting lines, and hand fit the sight to the dovetail slot, ready for you to finish and use. Many of our rear sights are cast with an oversize base, to allow these to fill oversize slots. It is wise to allow us to trim these to a standard size, before installation in a new barrel. We must install the breech plug before installing sights, rib, or pipes.
Front sight slots are centered 1.5" from muzzle, unless your clearly specify another location. Do not embed special instructions within lengthy text of a letter. Place special instructions immediately after your written order for that item, or in the comment field of our on-line order form.
Rear sight slots are centered 8.5" from the breech end of the barrel (not including plug), unless your clearly specify another location. Do not embed special instructions within lengthy text of a letter. Place special instructions immediately after your written order for that item, or in the comment field of our on-line order form.
When you buy the lugs from us, we will remove any burrs, and hand fit the lug to the dovetail slot, ready for you to finish and use. Allow our gunsmith to determine the best location for lug. Typically these rifles require four lugs. We require the breech plug to be fitted before performing this operation.
: We strongly recommend
Recreating the American Longrifle
, by William Buchele. The late William Buchele was recognized as a true master longrifle maker. But his greatest contribution to muzzle loading must be this book. He shares the step-by-step details of his craft. His work has been enhanced by the editors. This book does not assume that the reader is an expert stock maker, but begins with illustrated explanations of the basic concepts. Buchele shows several alternate approaches to most tasks. This newly revised fifth edition includes full scale plans for a carved flint longrifle, and fullstock flint pistol. Over 250 photos and drawings, within 176 pages, 8-1/2 x 11" format, soft cover.
We also recommend our new catalog, which describes these parts in great detail, and shows most individual parts in exact full size photographs. Prices may change, over the years, but the technical data, dimensions, instructions, and precise photos will make this 432 page book an essential too on your work bench.
Typically 40 hours of skilled labor is required to build a longrifle rifle. Use of a drill press in recommended. A skilled mentor, as always, can be a invaluable aid in building any rifle.
: Ramrod hole drill. The very best tool, for this risky task, is worth our price. Made in the USA, from one solid piece of tool steel, with the correct tool geometry with tempered cutting edge. Slightly larger than actual ramrod diameter, for a perfect fit. Full 48" length. The secret to success is to carefully and slowly start the hole in perfect alignment. Go slow and clear chips frequently.
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Up to 5.9 inches of rain are forecast during the next seven days in many areas of Mato Grosso and Goias, as well as other soybean production regions. Some of those areas were in urgent need of more soil moisture.
"It is raining now in my place, and finally also raining in east of Mato Grosso," said Ricardo Arioli Silva. Silva farms with his brother in Campo Novo, in the middle of Mato Grosso. "Looks like the rain has a very good coverage in many other states." He added that he was watching on TV a football game played in Goias state and it was raining there on the football field.
USDA's most recent weekly weather and crop bulletin reported that Mato Grosso's soybean planting was just 44% in the ground, as of Oct. 27, lagging last year's pace by approximately 24 points.
Nationally, Dow Jones reported Oct. 27 that all of Brazil was just 20% planted for the 2017-18 crop, according to the consulting group AgRural. That actually falls in line with the five-year average of 31%, though still behind last year's early pace.
The later planting than last year is already causing some analysts to dial back Brazil's expected soybean production, which USDA has tentatively pegged at 107 million metric tons, (3.9 billion bushels), down from 114.1 mmt (4.2 bb) for Brazil's 2016-17 crop.
"I would add that if the rains keep the pace of the last days, we might even see a good catch-up on this number, considering the machinery power (that) producers in Mato Gross (have) today in their farms," said Thiago Piccinin, president of Lotus Grain and Oil in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Piccinin said the question is how much the Safrinha corn crop can be harmed. Talking to some local producers, he said there will be some reduction in the corn area. "How much that number is going to be? Million dollar question and too early to build any position over that, in my humble opinion," he said.
Silva is happy he finished planting soybeans last week. "Many farmers are doing good in my area. With this rain now, farmers in my area will all be finishing planting next week, he said.
However, Silva mentioned, one of his neighbors will need to replant because he risked planting his crop under drought conditions -- he hoped for rainfall last month that did not happen.
"Sometimes you have to be lucky," Silva said.
Farmers in Sorriso, in central Mato Grosso, have planted 88% of their soybeans. They'll be able to finish planting next week also, thanks to the good rainfall this week.
"Planting in my area stopped, because we have 18 days without rain," said Clayton Tessaro, who farms in Sorriso, north of Mato Grosso.
"We had some rain last Sunday night and planting resumed after that," he said. The east side of the state, such as Primavera de Leste, was very dry and farmers were not able to start planting yet, said Tessaro, adding that now they will be able to catch up.
Most of the early planted soybean emerged well. "It is too early to talk about yield, as we are in the early stage," said Silva. "What I can say is, so far so good!"
Silva told DTN that they do have some problems, such as caterpillars and weeds. He said they are spraying pesticides and herbicides to control the problems.
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NEW YORK -- Today is a very important day in the life of Andy Pettitte, and not just because it is his responsibility to nip these Angels in the bud of momentum, shut them down right here and put a merciful end to what has become an excruciating American League Championship Series.
Today is especially important because on this very day in 1996, the Yankees handed 24-year-old Pettitte a similar assignment of letting the Atlanta Braves know that what happened to them in Games 3 and 4 of the World Series was no fluke and that the Yankees had every intention of finishing them off, too.
Pettitte responded with the best game of his career that night at Fulton County Stadium, shutting down the Braves, the favorites coming into the series, on five hits, carrying a shutout into the ninth inning and outpitching John Smoltz, a 24-game winner who won the NL Cy Young Award that year, to give the Yankees a 1-0 victory in the pivotal game of that World Series.
There have been other great playoff performances by Pettitte since then, and a few clunkers, and even allowing for the inflated number of playoff games in the three-division and wild-card eras, there is no overlooking the fact that the name on top of the all-time leader board for postseason wins is Pettitte. His 15 wins in the postseason are tied with Smoltz. Pettitte's 231 innings pitched, and his career October line -- a 15-9 record, a .625 winning percentage and 3.90 ERA -- is a pretty good season for just about any pitcher in any era.
As phenomenal as CC Sabathia has been this postseason, there really is no one the Yankees would rather have on the mound tonight than Pettitte, especially with a team like the Angels beginning to believe maybe it can pull this off, with the fans starting to have flashbacks of 2004 and with this being the ALCS, a round in which Pettitte has historically been lights out.
Sabathia may have the numbers, but Pettitte has the pedigree, the four world championship rings and the comfort of knowing that in similar situations, he has done what his team needed him to do.
"I've been there and done that," Pettitte said late Thursday night in Anaheim, shortly after the Angels had beaten the Yankees, 7-6, in a thrilling seesaw game that pulled them to within 3-2 in the series and thinking they could duplicate this weekend in the Bronx what the Red Sox did to the Yankees in 2004.
"All my work, everything I've done, I'm prepared to be ready to pitch (today)," Pettitte said. "Hopefully, I get everything going and give this team a quality start and give us a chance to win that ballgame."
The Yankees need a start of the quality that Pettitte can give them. The Angels' offense, dormant for three of the first four games of this series, came to life in the first inning of Game 5 against A.J. Burnett, and rekindled in the seventh against the suddenly suspect Yankees bullpen, especially Phil Hughes.
The guys who were killing the ball early -- Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez -- have cooled off, and despite his three-run double the other night, Mark Teixeira is still mired at .174. Nick Swisher hasn't hit a lick and may be about to grab a seat next to Joe Girardi.
Meanwhile, the Angels' Torii Hunter and Vlad Guerrero are heating up and the Yankees can't seem to get out someone named Jeff Mathis, who had six consecutive hits off them before striking out late in Game 5.
The only thing that can set this thing right again is a clutch pitching performance of the type that carried the Yankees past the Braves in 1996 and brought three more world championships to the Bronx between 1998 and 2000. The type Pettitte has given them more times than many of us can even remember.
"For me, this is it, this is what I came back for," said Pettitte, who left the Yankees for an unhappy three-year hiatus in Houston but returned in 2007 and is working in the final weeks of what could be his last Yankees contract. "I have a tremendous opportunity to help this organization get back to another World Series."
On this very day in 1996, the Yankees turned to Pettitte to help them win an important game in October. Now, 13 years later, they ask him to do it again.


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Dr Rev paints with his own blood.
Every few months the Australian blood artist gets a pint of the stuff extracted from his body by a friend and former pathologist.
He keeps it in his fridge, waiting for the bright red vials to turn a darker shade of maroon, then he pulls out his paintbrush and creates realistic images on canvas that sell for thousands of dollars.
There's only one other guy in the world that does anything like it, Dr Rev says, and, despite never meeting him, from what he's read, "the guy's a w**ker".
Dr Rev has had a "morbid fascination" with blood since he was a kid.
"When you're a kid, if you ever had an injury you sort of picked and poked at it. I never kind of grew out of it," he says.
"There's something about blood. When I see blood, weather it be butchering steak or whatever, there's something about it."
He says the decision to start painting with his blood was spontaneous, but the tattoo artist used to get regular blood tests because of his craft.
"I became very good friends with the pathologist and one day I was sitting in the chair in one of my goofy moods and asked if I could have one of those vials they collect the blood in."
She said no, but after a bit of "begging and pleading," caved and handed one over.
Dr Rev excitedly returned to his tattoo studio, took out the "cheapest, nastiest bit of canvas" and started brushing "the most horrific painting ever and it actually turned out quiet well".
It was a samurai helmet with a skull. It was a thick, dark piece, blotted with blood. That was five years ago.
Now he paints cute and cuddly animals, self portraits and also delves into the macabre and evil with plenty of skulls.
Every couple of months he gets an email asking if he'll use someone else's blood to create a personal piece. But this compromises his "gimmick," he says.
"There's some douchebag over in America that uses rattlesnake blood, and my response to him, was, 'What the hell did the rattlesnake do to you?'"
Dr Rev says he was banned from demonstrating his craft at an art expo in Sydney after the health department received a bunch of complaints, which he says lacked any justification.
"Blood is a cornerstone of life. Why make it out to be this evil, nasty thing?," he says.
He is flying to New Zealand to do a demo at the International Tattoo and Art Expo in Hamilton this weekend and is determined to put on a show, though is concerned about getting his blood through customs.
"I better show up there and be bloody well able to paint ... I'm pretty sure you guys are going to be a lot more relaxed.
"My major argument ... is it's my blood. My blood's dead because it's been out of my body for months before I use it. It sits in my refrigerator for months before I use it ... I find that the older the blood the better.
"At the end of the day it's dead tissue that I'm putting on to a canvas. Where's the health issue?"
"I don't have a life outside blood painting. I am blood painting."
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Why Are Job Descriptions Still So Important (Especially for SMBs)?
Why Are Job Descriptions Still So Important (Especially for SMBs)?
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Talent acquisition is hard work. But as we near the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, it's only becoming more difficult. Attracting and hiring the perfect candidate is now one of the biggest challenges all companies face.
While larger organizations have an almost endless amount of resources to assist with recruiting, smaller businesses aren't as lucky. This is why
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is critical for SMBs. In order for small businesses to compete with larger firms, they must revamp their efforts to stand out from the crowd, and one of the best ways to do that is through
job descriptions
Often times, job descriptions are overlooked when companies assess their
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and resources. However, this can be a big mistake for recruiters and hiring managers. In today's business and recruiting world,
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1) Entice High-Quality Candidates to Apply
One of the bigger complaints that recruiters hear from hiring managers is that applicants aren't qualified or aren't the right fit for the role. This can cause a lot of frustration across departments. Having a job description that is too vague or doesn't accurately depict the right candidates will lead to unqualified applicants.
It is extremely important for recruiters and hiring managers to sit down and craft a well-thought-out job description that makes it very clear to applicants what the company is looking for in their perfect hire. Not only will this encourage your ideal candidate to apply, but it will decrease the likelihood that unqualified job seekers will respond. Both of these outcomes are beneficial for recruiting.
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For job seekers, coming across your requisition may be the first time they interact with your organization. Assuming that everyone knows about your company and what it does can be a costly mistake, especially for SMBs. This is why providing relevant company
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Some things to include in a job description include:
Brief company overview
– Explain what your company does, the products or services it provides, and the accomplishments of the company. It is also helpful to provide a link to your website so candidates can seek additional information.
Position summary
– Great job descriptions should provide a short summary of the expectations and duties of the role.
– Clearly state what the candidate will be doing in the role. This is the area where you can get more specific. As we mentioned above, making sure this section is clear and accurate will help to attract better candidates.
– Just like with responsibilities, this area of the job description should clearly state what skills and experience the ideal candidate should possess.
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An anonymous donor has offered a huge reward for credible information regarding the whereabouts of Judy Garland's famous pair of ruby red slippers from The Wizard of Oz.
It has been a decade since the red slippers were stolen from a museum in Judy Garland's hometown in Minnesota.
The donor has offered a whopping $1 million reward.
Time Magazine wrote: "John Kelsch, executive director of the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, says the donor is from Arizona, and is a huge fan of Garland and the 1939 movie. The reward offer requires the exact location of the slippers and the perpetrator's name."
The Guardian wrote: "The shoes were designed by Adrian Greenberg, MGM's chief costume designer in the 1930s. Originally, they were to be silver, but scriptwriter Noel Langley is credited with changing them to red, a decision intended to provide a striking visual contrast for when Dorothy was transported from black-and-white Kansas to the Technicolor magical world of Oz."
New York Post wrote: "The 10-year anniversary of the theft is in August. The slippers were insured for $1 million. Kelsch says they could be worth $2 million to $3 million now."
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Minimum Requirements to run a Docker Swarm Cluster
The minimum requirements are minimal indeed to create a Docker Swarm cluster. In fact, it is definitely feasible (though perhaps not best practice) to run the Swarm daemon on an existing Docker Host making it possible to implement it without adding any more hardware or virtual resources. In addition, when running the file or nodes1 based discovery mechanism there is no other infrastructure (besides of course Docker) that is required to run a basic Docker Swarm cluster.
I personally believe that spinning up another machine to run the Swarm master
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There are a variety of configuration settings in Swarm that are sane by default, but give a lot of flexibility when it comes to running the daemon and its supporting infrastructure. Listed below are the different categories of config options and the options of how they can be configured.
Discovery is the mechanism Swarm uses in order to maintain the status of the cluster. It can operate with a variety of backends, but it's all pretty much the same concept:
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- Using the list of nodes, Swarm healtchecks each one and keeps track of the nodes that are in and out of the cluster
Node Discovery
Node discovery requires that everything be passed in on the command line. This is the most basic type of discovery mechanism as it requires no maintenance of config files or anything like that. An example startup command for the Swarm daemon using node discovery would look like:
File Discovery
File discovery utilizes a configuration file placed on the filesystem
/etc/swarm/cluster_config) with the format of
<IP>:<Port> to list the
Docker hosts in the cluster. Even though the list is static, healthchecking is
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Consul Discovery
Consul discovery is also supported out of the box by Docker Swarm. It works by
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<IP>:<Port>'s used to
form the cluster. In this configuration mode, each Docker host runs a Swarm daemon in join mode
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overhead to the configuration, runtime, and security of a Docker host, but not
a significant amount. The Swarm client would be fired up as such:
The Swarm master then reads it's host list from Consul. It would be run with a startup line of:
These key/value based configuration modes raise the question of how healthchecks within Swarm work in combination with the Swarm client in join mode. Since the list in key/value store is itself dynamic, is it required to run the internal Swarm healthchecks too? I'm not familiar with that area of functionality and so can't speak to it but it's worth noting.
EtcD Discovery
EtcD discovery works in much the same way as Consul discovery. Each Docker host in the cluster runs a Swarm daemon in join mode pointed at an EtcD endpoint. This provides a heartbeat to EtcD to maintain a list of active servers in the cluster. A Docker host running the standard Docker daemon would concurrently run a Swarm client with a configuration similar to:
The Docker Swarm master would connect to EtcD, look at the path provided, and generate it's list of nodes by starting with the following command:
Zookeeper Discovery
Zookeeper discovery follows the same pattern as the other key/value store based
configuration modes. A ZK ensemble is created to hold the host list information
and a client runs alongside Docker in order to heartbeat in to the k/v store;
maintaining the list in near real-time. The Swarm master is also connected to
the ensemble and uses the information under
/swarm to maintain its list of
hosts (which it then healthchecks).
Swarm Client (alongside Docker):
Swarm Master:
Hosted Token Based Discovery (default)
I have not used this functionality and at this point have very little reason to.
Scheduling is the mechanism for choosing where a container should be created and started. It is made up of a combination of a packing algorithm and filters (or tags). Each Docker daemon is started with a set of tags like this:
Then when a Docker container is started Swarm will choose a group of machines based on the filters, and then distributes each run command according to its scheduler. Filters tell Swarm where a container can and cannot run, while the scheduler places it amongst the available hosts. There are a few filtering mechanisms:
- Constraint: This utilizes the tags that a Docker daemon was starting with. Currently it supports only '=', but at some point in the future it may support '!='. A node must match all of the constraints provided by a container in order to fit into scheduling. Starting a container with a few constraints would look like:
- Affinity: Affinity can work in two ways: affinity to containers or affinity to images. In order to start two containers on the same host the following command would be run:
Since Swarm does not handle image management, it is also possible to set affinity for an image. This means a container will only be started on a node that already contains the image. This negates the need to wait for an image to be pulled in the background before starting a container. An example:
Port: The port filter will not allow any two containers with the same static port mapping to be started on the same host. This makes a lot of sense as you cannot duplicate a port mapping on a Dockerhost. For example, two nodes started with
-p 80:80will not be allowed to run on the same Dockerhost.
Healthy: This prevents the scheduling of containers on unhealthy nodes.
Once Swarm has narrowed the host list down to a set that matches the above filters, it then schedules the container on one of the nodes. Currently the following schedulers are built in:
- Random: Randomly distribute containers across available backends.
- Binpacking: Fill up a node with containers and then move to the next. This mode has the increased complexity of having to assign static resource amounts to each container at runtime. This means setting a limit on a container's memory and cpu which may or may not seem OK. I personally like letting the containers fight amongst themselves to see who gets the resources.
In progress are the balanced strategy2 and the ability to add Apache Mesos3.
I am happy to say that Swarm works with TLS enabled. This makes it more secure between both the client and Swarm daemon as well as between the Swarm daemon and the Docker daemons. This is good because my security guy says that there are no more borders in networks. Yey.
It does require a full PKI including CA, but I have this solved in another post already :) This is how to generate the required TLS certs for Docker and Swarm.
Once the certificates have been generated and installed as per my other blog post, the Docker and Swarm daemons can be fired up like this:
Swarm master:
Then the client must know to connect via TLS. This is done with the following environment variables:
You are now setup for TLS. WCGW?
More to come!
Well there is a lot to talk about when it comes to configuration of complex clustered software, but I feel this is a good enough overview to get you up and running and thinking about how to configure your Swarm cluster. In the next episode I'll lay out some example architectures for your Swarm cluster. Stay tuned and please feel free to comment below!
All of the research behind these blog posts was made possible due to the awesome company I work for: Rally Software in Boulder, CO. We get at least 1 hack week per quarter and it enables us to hack on awesome things like Docker Swarm. If you would like to cut to the chase and directly start playing with a Vagrant example, here is the repo that is the output of my Q1 2014 hack week efforts:


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Do you remember watching cartoons of gophers from the garden, seeing the tops of plants quiver, vibrate and disappear? Because basically, that is exactly what really happens. And if you've poured a lot of time, energy, money and nurturing into your backyard… only to wake up one morning and find your garden ruined… you come to grips with the fact that gophers are no damn good.
Now don't start, telling me to live and let live, that they're cute and furry and wonderful and need our love. The simple fact is, they're destructive and if you let them get a toe-hold around your property, they will destroy root systems on whatever they can get their choppers around. Does not matter what it is, if it's got a root system, gophers will develop a desire for it. Whether it's a garden full of vegetables or your newly planted apricot tree, gophers seem to believe you planted it just for them. No. Through trial and error, I have developed my own little easy system of gopher control and it works really well.
This may require some effort in setting it up, but you will be rewarded with years of gopher gardening. Since gophers do not go deep, dig a two foot perimeter around your backyard and line it with 1-1/2″ galvanized chicken wire. When placing the cable in, run it from the bottom of the trench to about a foot above ground level. Fill the trench with dirt, and bet the above-ground wire, which will form a little fence around your garden. It'll prevent gophers from getting under your garden, the fence prevents them from climbing into your garden, and the result is fresh, healthy veggies for you. Now, gopher control isn't fool-proof. These little buggers have been known to dig down around six feet! However, for the most part, it should work well for you. I did my backyard with the two foot perimeter six years back, and it hasn't been breached, yet.
Gopher Control for Your Yard What does Possum Poop Look Like
This is an entirely different scenario than your garden, but is just as simple to do. You may need two Macabee gopher traps (available at your local diy store) and a small hand gardening shovel. The Mactrap is the one I have used for years, and it works perfectly each time.
When you see new mounds of dirt in your yard, that is a sure indicator of a gopher. Take your spade, and dig through the mound, and expose the tube. If you find an intersection of two tunnels, you'll need a trap in each tunnel, as you don't know which way he'll approach. Set your Mactrap(s) and put it in the hole, prongs in first. Some pest control people advise you to re-cover the hole, but this is not needed. Now, it's just a waiting game, because eventually that gopher will return and re-plug that hole.
Just a little trick I have discovered, since a time or two, the gopher has lived long enough to pull the Mactrap deep into the pit, taking it so far back, gotta' dig up the yard to retrieve it. Now, I take a piece of string about two feet long, tie one end to the snare, make a loop on the other end and place your screwdriver blade through it, then push the blade to the ground. Leave some slack in the line and you'll be able to immediately tell if you have got one!
Does a water hose help with gopher control?
Using a garden hose and letting it run into a gopher tunnel does work, but only if your lawn is fairly level. Be prepared with your'manually operated gopher control apparatus' (a shovel) when he comes running out. However, if your yard slopes, the water will just run from the floor, usually with the gopher taking refuge in an upward portion of the tunnel, waiting for the flood to subside.
This is a simple trick, but it's worked really well. When you buy a new tree to your yard, wrap the trees root ball in the galvanized chicken wire. This will give the tree the time it has to develop its taproot, as the chicken wire prevents the gopher from damaging the core of the tree root. As you can see, gopher control can easily be accomplished with the right tools and a bit of fore-thought. Prevention and trapping are easy to do, and will easily give you full gopher control of your lawn and garden.


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HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam earned three gold medals at the first World Tae kwon do Beach Championship, which closed in Greece on May 6.
Trio Lê Hiếu Nghĩa, Nguyễn Thiên Phụng and Hồ Thanh Phong triumphed in the men's team over-17 poomsae (performance) event.
China came in second and was followed by Finland.
Nguyễn Thị Lệ Kim, Trần Tiến Khoa earned the second gold medals in the mixed pair freestyle poomsae.
Their teammates Lê Thanh Trung and Trương Phạm Phương Khanh finished second.
The bronze medal went to a duo from Turkey.
The third gold medal was earned by five athletes, including world champion Châu Tuyết Vân in the mixed team of free style poomsae.
Turkey and China placed second and third, respectively.
It was Vân's third medal received in Greece.
She earlier took a silver medal in the women's team recognised poomsae and a bronze in the individual free style poomsae.
The Vietnamese athletes also pocketed one silver medal and four bronze medals in the first day of the competition.
"The new style and rules, as well as way of judging participants' performances, make us feel free and comfortable to show off our best skills," said coach Nguyễn Thanh Huy of Việt Nam.
"Freestyle performance and special uniforms that we can decide to wear ourselves also attracted more attention from spectators, who were really excited while watching our shows all day.
"It is a great warm-up for our world beach games, to be organised in 2018," he added.
Covered in 25 categories, the Championships attracted large crowds. At the end of the competition, the athletes gathered to freely display their techniques.
Among the 26 countries participating, the top five places went to Thailand, Korea, Turkey, Việt Nam, and China. — VNS


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- I think Snape and Alias' Jack Bristow have some personality traits in common: both definitely have that "by any means necessary" thing going on that leads them right up to the very edge of the dark side, sometimes crossing the line. Some miscreant on the 'net deliberately put the book's biggest spoiler right out where everyone could see it in 20-point type with a scrolling marquee and extra exclamation points in a community where it had no business being, so I knew the big loss right from the beginning. At first I was really disappointed, but it allowed me to watch for a few things early in the book.
I think Snape had to kill Dumbledore, else he would risk exposure and undo all he had achieved as a spy, not to mention being killed by his companions . . . Dumbledore would have died anyway, and if Snape were killed, too, there would be no mole, no infiltrator with information to protect Harry. That whole "he's a good actor" road runs both ways. Make no mistake: I think Severus dislikes Harry, and he fails to give Harry credit for being quite different from his father in certain respects. Regardless of that, however, I think he is loyal to Dumbledore.
Keep in mind that Dumbledore asked Lupin to infiltrate the werewolves that were aiding Voldemort, so asking those he trusts, including Snape, to spy on the enemy is not out of character. Dumbledore does trust Snape for a specific reason, though the real reason has yet to be uncovered. We are reminded of Snape's merits several times during the book: Although whatever curse was on Malvolo's ring protecting the Horcrux caused Dumbledore's hand to be permanently withered, he indicates that he might have lost his life instead of his hand had Snape not saved him. Lupin mentions Snape's proper preparation of his monthly potion.
However, Snape was willing to take the Unbreakable Vow, knowing full well what it would entail. He could very easily have begged off, despite the fact that he seems to care for Narcissa, indicating that it was Voldemort's order for Draco to complete the task, and that he would not cross his loyalty to the Dark Lord.
So . . . do a couple of plot lines cross paths here? The chance to prevent Draco from committing murder that would seal him to the path of shadow? Also, perhaps, I think that Severus told Dumbledore of the plot to kill him, and that he had taken an Unbreakable Vow. Furthermore, the potion Albus consumed in obtaining the false Horcrux may have had side effects he did not anticipate -- opening himself up to Voldemort, for example. Perhaps Snape had to play Judas in order for the world to be saved. Dumbledore did ask Severus to kill him.
Of course, all of this could be wrong, but I would be horribly disappointed if Rowling made Snape a true villain after all. It would be terribly trite, and would completely undermine the fascinating character she's created.
- Some folks are speculating that Dumbledore isn't really dead, basing their points on the fact that 1) the Avada Kedavra curse has to be uttered with hatred, and 2) in Goblet of Fire, all four victims of the curse have their eyes wide open after death. Dumbledore's eyes are closed. Hey, it's a magic world, anything can happen, and Dumbledore has done disappearing acts before.
This could be corroborated by several factors: the fifth book is named The Order of the Phoenix. Who heads up the order? Dumbledore. Who has a phoenix in his office? Dumbledore. What bird rises from death? The phoenix. And who disappeared after Dumbledore's funeral? Fawkes, the phoenix -- I'm sure we'll discover where he went in the last book. There's heavy suggestion that Dumbledore's Patronus is a phoenix. He even looks like Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, who also rose from the dead -- no reason for us not to expect that Dumbledore won't return. Heck, you could even say that there's a loose parallel of symbology working between Dumbledore/Fawkes and Gandalf/Gwaihir.
One other thing -- whether or not Dumbledore stays deceased, can't Harry and McGonagall just talk with him through his headmaster's portrait in the office? We've seen that they can be chatty.
However, I'd be even more surprised if Sirius didn't come back. He fell through a portal, for crying out loud, a door. Doors go both ways, and there's been so much emphasis on Harry's lack of a father figure that I would be incredibly shocked if he didn't return.
Speaking of death, no, I don't think Harry's going to die, not unless J.K. thinks she needs to kill her protagonist off to keep herself from being tempted to write more. I do think that Snape might sacrifice himself in some way in book 7.
- I liked Rowling's structure on this one: Dumbledore speaks of love as the great differentiator between the sides, and she parallels this heavily with the relationships in the book: Fleur and Bill, Ron and Hermione, Harry and Ginny, Tonks and Lupin, etc. It got me to wondering a bit about Dumbledore's family, though. We never hear much about the family of any of the faculty members, it's true, but given that he's such a high profile figure, hearing nothing about a spouse or a child of any sort seems a tiny bit odd. Surely he's had some romance in his past, with that swanky purple suit and all. :)
- I don't think we've seen the last of Horace Slughorn and the venom. Consider Dumbledore's advice to Harry to be careful around him, the repeated comparisons of Horace to a spider, and his keen interest in Aragog's venom. No, I don't think he'll use it himself, but given that we know he has a bit of vanity and likes his creature comforts, I don't think he'll be particularly selective about the buyer or the buyer's plans for the venom. We also know that he's let rather important bits slip before. No, given that Rowling made rather sure that we knew the venom had been harvested, I think we'll see it again. Besides, spiders are a recurring them in the books, and I don't think she's inclined to let go of them in the last one.
- Is Harry's scar the container for a Horcrux? Is he a descendant of Godric Gryffindor? Dumbledore at least indicates that a living being may contain a Horcrux when he mentions Voldemort's snake, Nagini, as a possible container, though he later dismisses that idea. He also mentions that he believes Voldemort planned to use Harry's death to create the final Horcrux (as its creation necessitates a murder), but obviously something went quite wrong. Harry's scar pains him wihen Voldemort is near or present in some form.
- Speaking of Harry's scar, he has another one that has steeled him and shaped his character: the one on his hand from Dolores Umbridge. She deserved so much worse than she got.
More on Harry: nice that he actually got to be right about Draco.
- Interesting little bit of character reinforcement on Hermione Granger: she fussed at Harry about the luck potion that he didn't actually use on Ron, after she'd truly altered the outcome of the Quidditch trials. And this isn't her first "for your own good" use of her powers. As Ron says: "You're a little scary sometimes. Brilliant, but scary." She's an ethical, responsible young woman, but perhaps also the most likely of the three to be vulnerable to the proverb: "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." Ron is kind of an anchor for her.
- We never really got an answer in the book as to why the school has never been able to keep a Defense of the Dark Arts teacher since Voldemort's visit. Dumbledore mentioned it, but if he specifically laid it out, I missed it (it's possible: it was very late at night by that point). Just what was that little flick of the wand that Harry saw from Voldemort in the Pensieve?
- Poor Draco. He and Smallville's Lex need to have some ice cream together and talk about their fathers.
- Neville. I think he'll have his role in the final book, but I'm curious to see what it will be. I also suspect we haven't seen the last of Kreacher and Dobby: the house elves will get their little bow in the last book, I'm sure.
- Hogwarts. They're leaving. What part will the school play? It's been the backdrop for the whole series: will it be the place where Dumbledore's Army makes its final stand, with Harry "Dumbledore's man, through and through" commanding? Yet at the end of HBP, they're speaking of closing it, and I think Harry's about to begin the last leg of his hero's journey in earnest, leaving the safety of its confines. Closing it over ENTJ Minerva McGonagall's dead body, I'm thinking (and I sure hope that never happens to her). I think it will be there, the school is a character in itself, but J.K. is definitely in the part where she strips away Harry's supports to force him to stand on his own (though he's always had his peers, esp. the trinity of himself, Hermione, and Ron), so it might be present in a much more limited way.
Overall, I liked it. I think my only exceedingly microscopically minor quibble upon first reading is that writing in the margins of a book is very uncharacteristic of an INTJ (Snape). Necessary plot device, I know, but no INTJ I know has done so, and I count a greater-than-average percentage of them among my friends, including my husband. I think the seventh book is going to be very long, though: there's a lot of ground to cover, and many unanswered questions remain. I think she can pull all the threads together -- the editors aren't stupid enough to trim the finale in any way shape or form, so I'm sure she has as many pages as she needs -- but again, I think it's going to be the longest one yet.
I want to reread the whole series, start to finish.