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Harry Potter is a superior book series to Twilight.
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The Harry Potter book series with consist of the original seven books:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's (Sorcerer's) Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Twilight Saga will consist of the original four novels:
New Moon
Breaking Dawn
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Focusing on the two leading ladies both series, Hermione Granger shows how independence, knowledge, and a genuinely pure heart can bring happiness and strength even through difficult times. She often is sought after by her friends for her advanced knowledge of wizardry. She is careful and always manages to eye a situation, examine it, and warn her friends about how things could turn and not end up in their favor. She is known to be the smartest witch of her age, but never brags about it. She isn't particularly beautiful with her frizzy hair and bucked teeth, but she doesn't have self-esteem problems that would lead her to second guess herself or depend on others. In the 6th installment, her love interest (and close friend) Ron Weasley gets together with another girl. This is the second time in the entire series that Hermione cries, but it doesn't stop her world. She continuous studying and working even harder to show him what he is missing. In the 7th book, while the trio is out hunting for horcruxes (objects that contain fragments of Voldemort's soul- he's the bad guy), Ron gets tired of the search and plans to return home. After an argument that leaves Hermione distraught, Harry comforts her (she actually has friends) and they continue their search. Hermione can pull herself out of the depression, which she could easily sink into, knowing her friend and the search is more important.
Bella Swan, the main character from Twilight, can be seen as almost a polar opposite of Hermione Granger. She has moved to a new town to live with her helpless father and makes friends (I use this term loosely because she often dodges the plans they make and never calls them back) with poorly depicted high school teenagers. She instantly falls for the gorgeous Edward Cullen. She frequently is dependent on her male counter parts. Many times through the first book, Edward is saving her from her own klutziness. She falls, passes out, and almost gets hit by a van. In every case, Edward is there to literally catch her or even use his vampire abilities to damage the side of the van, making a cove so that Bella Swan is safe. He risks exposing himself to the word to save her, even though she is a complete stranger. The same resounding theme of helplessness can be seen in the beginning of New Moon. When Edward leaves Bella for Italy, she ventures further into the woods, gets lost, and curls into a ball on the forest floor, crying for hours on end until she eventually passes out. Even months later, she has nightmares of the incident. Her father often worries about her and her lack of nutrition. She even gets to the point of wanting to throw her-self off of a cliff because she fantasizes seeing Edward. A break up leaves her damaged beyond repair.
Bella Swan has no significant attributes. She is plain, skinny, pale and quite awkward. She depends on men to make her decisions. She is often found in the kitchen making food for her father (taking her traditional role in the kitchen, no doubt) and her entire existence is surrounded around two men. She falls in love with Edward and runs back to Jacob as a rebound whenever she doesn't feel wanted.
Hermione is strong, independent, and wise. Progressively through the series, you can see Hermione grow. She defends herself, is not afraid to stand up for what she believes in, and even at one point punches a ruthless boy named Draco Malfoy. She creates a club vouching for the equal treatment of house elves after seeing the elves that make the food at Hogwarts (the Wizarding School she attends). She advocates equality whether it be race, species, or gender.
Overall, Rowling creates her (good) characters so that they realistically demonstrate fathomable qualities in hopes that the readers will aspire to be more like them. While Granger has flaws, Rowling makes it a point in the series to show the audience that everyone has good and bad in them. Meyer's characters are rather flat and stereotypical. Bella is needy, unable to function without a man, whiny, and often avoids her 'friends' to mope over Edward.
In the case of Hermione Granger, of the Harry Potter Series Vs Bella Swan of Twilight series, I see it to be unfair fight. My point being that for the Twilight books, Bella is meant to be a portrayal of how teen girls of today act when they feel they are in love. Bella's reactions to her feelings of Edward leaving her for the "greater good" are based in the sad truth of what girls today do. The reactions and reasons for Bella's way of thinking and actions have been met with honesty, from thousands of teen girls.
Hermione on the other hand is "strong" or stubborn to a fault. Her stubbornness only leading her to trouble. In the first book of the series, Hermione does want to make an example of her superior knowledge by finding the troll that has entered the school, this leads her to need Harry and Ron to save her. Hermione's fundamental intelligence, isn't meant to be realistic to the views of the age group the book is presented to.
You make the basic point between to the two books, that there is a generalized sexism. Allow me to point several things out. Let's begin with looks. Hermione is seen to be, unattractive in her description, with frizzy hair and buck teeth. Bella is seen to be simply plain. I see there being something wrong with this. While Bella may not be spoken as intelligent, and her grades never come into question, why is then, there is a point made that Hermione is highly intelligent. My point here is that JK Rowling, obviously points at the unattractive girls need to be smart to make them any kind of appealing, whereas Stephanie Meyer, projects that plain girls, can be perfectly beautiful.
Moving on to my next point toward the sexism, point blank, yes, Bella is seen in the kitchen making food for her father, is there anything wrong with that? No there is not. This shows she is nurturing and caring of her father who is less inclined to care for himself. Hermione seems quite selfish and content with not being very nurturing of her two best friends and is often very uninvolved in their feelings.
And once more allow me to move forward, in Twilight, Edward is the 'Hero' of the book, it is his job to save Bella. He is the Superman to her Louis Lane. In Harry Potter, there is no real direct person to save Hermione should she be in trouble, in fact, she is seen as "Heroine" in the novels.
Overall I feel to compare the two females, while enticing as it may be, is an unfair fight, strictly based on their gender, and not for their significant roles in each of the series.
As far as how the character's are portrayed, I feel Rowling's representation on realism, is incorrect. Her character's find themselves in predicaments not poignant to those found in Twilight. But to play nice, I would like to use the fact that the age group targeted for Rowling's books, are much younger and more impressionable, the need to represent character's into a "fathomable qualitied people" is truly unrealistic. Her character's show almost a super human level of intelligence and maturity for their respective situations that no real child could live up to. Meyer on the other hand has a firm basis for portraying her characters in each of their respective roles, for a modern day approach at how the age group targeted has and can be in real life.
In fact, you claim Edward as the 'hero' in twilight which furthers my point that the main character in Twilight just plays a damsel in distress throughout the entire four books. Edward is the perfect boyfriend, the 'chosen' one. Jacob is the side kick who doesn't get as much attention and Bella connects the three of them. This is similar in Harry Potter. Harry is the chosen one yet he is flawed and sometimes even shows that his ego makes him a little big headed occasionally. Ron is Harry's friend who doesn't get all the spot light but is fiercely loyal anyway. And as I've said, Hermione is the female counterpart to the two who easily holds the two together, especially during their school work.
There is one stark contrast between the two. Bella is dependent on both men; Hermione is dependent on both men, but they are also dependent on her. She is able to hold her own ground. In fact, the Harry Potter trio are friends, and show that it is possible to have a friend of a different gender without being infatuated with them.
You also claim that Hermione's stubbornness has gotten her in trouble during the books, especially the first one, but you are mistaken. Hermione does not go looking for the troll, but in fact was in the girls bathroom unknowingly when the troll had entered. Harry and Ron went looking for Hermione to warn her about the troll and ended up having to save her with her guidance from beneath the sinks. When the professors arrived, Hermione took credit for everything as a way of thanking the two boys for saving her life. Hermione is one of the most level headed characters in the book, and always seems to know how far to take a situation and in what direction. But she isn't perfect. We learn in the first book that she's a terrible flyer and she stays up nights on end to study to get the grades she does. Knowledge isn't her key, but a willingness to get done what is needed. In fact, you claim that Hermione isn't a realistic depiction of a young girl but, J.K. Rowling actually inspired Hermione directly on her younger self.
You have assumed that I meant that because Hermione was smart, Rowling didn't make her the prettiest girl. This assumption is wrong. We find out that Hermione is actually extremely beautiful in the fourth installment during the Yule Ball. The reader later finds out though it took her at least two hours to tame her hair. Meaning, if Hermione put in the effort, she could be as attractive as she wanted to be. I pointed out the Bella was nothing particularly special to show how unappealing Bella Swan is. She is just a normal girl, so what is it about her exactly that stands out enough for both men. It must be the way she trips and falls on her face that appeals to them.
You also claim that Hermione never cares for her friends but there are countless times when she is covering for them. Between helping Harry and Ron with their papers and homework to helping figuring out the different mysteries, she was always there for them. She was the one that cracked the mystery of the chamber of secrets. She found out it was a basilisk; she figured out it was using the pipes to travel through the castle. She also helped Harry during the tri-wizard tournament as well. And while they were risking their lives, running from snatchers and Voldemort, she never left him.
Meyer's interpretation of teenagers make them seem like pathetic individuals who have no sense of self and are unable to care for themselves. Rowling on the other hand shows the faults and strengths of each character throughout every single event in the books. No character in the book is wholly good or wholly bad (with the exception of Voldemort and he wasn't always that way). In Twilight, there are just good guys and bad guys, but Harry Potter shows us that good and evil lives in all of us. As Sirius Black says, "We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are."
I would also like to argue that Twilight definitely has a slimmer ranger of audience. You claimed that the "age group targeted for Rowling's books, are much younger and more impressionable". This is flat out false. While it may be a children's book originally, the books deal with adult themes such as discrimination, loyalty and friendship, and genocide. The books also become very mature and dark as they progress which would appeal to an older audience. Twilight is a romance novel specifically targeted for teenage girls. Harry Potter can appeal to men and women, boys and girls. It is a family book. Twilight is a young adult girls book.
I disagree, Hermione doesn't seem to have any other friends other than Harry and Ron, and in some way they manage to coddle her throughout the series.
Yes, I claim Edward as the "Hero" of the Saga. Meyer does not however portray him as perfect. He is flawed. Edward holds both a dark and light side, such as the one you claim the Harry Potter crew hold within. Edward has to constantly keep himself in check to not drain Bella of her blood. As far Jacob, yes, he is seen as a potential love interest to Bella, but she finds him to be too young and far more enjoys his company. In the final books, Jacob actually becomes a fierce ally to both Edward and Bella.
I will attest to the fact that I was wrong, perhaps Hermione didn't go after the troll herself. But I still view her based as an unrealistic depiction. J.K. Rowling can have claimed to have based her off a younger version of herself, but there still remains the feeling of over dramatization. Hermione though is not level headed and takes criticisms far too seriously through the series.
You take a low blow, Bella's tripping over herself is realistic. My younger sister falls all over herself when she has a crush. It has something to do with the hormones I am certain. No, Bella is nothing special and doesn't pretend to be. That is what makes her appealing to both men. Her unwillingness to be the object of desire. The tables may have turned if Bella had suddenly decided to take two hours to doll herself up. Hermione though often shows a desire to be something special, and has to put forth an effort to make herself look on a level that the other males may recognize.
So you are basically telling me that Hermione is an enabler. Well thats not a good role model. Why should someone be pointing out to children that its ok to lie and cover for your friends. And if she is helping them with their work, doesn't that imply cheating? And if she is doing all of their work and covering for them oftem and solving their problems for them, doesn't that mean she has some enhanced, possibly, an ability that once more no real child could live up to such a standard?
Meyer's interpretation of modern teenagers falls pretty accurately. There are numbers to show for it. Statistics show that teen girls suffer from depression after a change in a social circle or the loss of a boyfriend, trauma is also a high risk factor( I think hanging around a vampire whos family at one point or another wants to bite you, counts as trauma). Depression can spur especially in the winter months, hmm, Bella was depressed for the winter, I think things are making sense. Teens with untreated depression are likely to leave or ignore social calls, have trouble focusing on anything other than what is causing the depression and lastly are likely to seek risky behaviors. Surely, there is realism and research going into Meyer's books. Bella is exactly what she is said to be, a typical teen aged girl.
Twilight is not in fact a young girls adult book. The books fan base spreads very diversly, such as you claim the Potter books to do. Demographics include and are not limited to; Married women, Married men, Teens (of either sex, but predominately female), younger children, people of every creed, religion and orientation. The books do support a wide fan base.
Citations for my arguments can be found at:http://www.teendepression.org... :: http://www.examiner.com...
1. pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
2. tending or leading to suicide.
3. foolishly or rashly dangerous.
The third definition would probably be the most relatable, yet they all describe her actions. I urge you to read this article (though it is about the movie it represents the same theme and telltale signs) and tell me that Bella Swan was not a suicidal teenager. Sure, cliff diving was safe. But when beneath the water, she fought the urge to resurface to stay with Edward. Her intent originally was not to kill herself, but her intent became suicidal when she fought her bodily need of oxygen to stay within the waters grasp. If it hadn't been for Jacob being in the right place at the right time, she would have drowned. May I add, this is yet another time she is dependent on a man. She can't make the right and conscious decision to rise to the surface and take a gasp of air, but needs a man to make that decision for her by pulling her to safety.
She again, does need Jacob. Is she didn't need him, she would have died. In fact her entire fascination with Edward was helped along by Jacob unknowingly. She depended on Jacob to fix the motorcycles. She depended on him to teach her how to ride them. Every step of the way she was using Jacob; taking advantage of his feeling and using them for granted. She was whole heartedly and fully dependent on Jacob during New Moon. She slowly rotted away without Edward.
Your accusation is wrong about Ms. Granger. She does have friends and she does spend time with them, for instance the Patil twins and others, but her best friends are Ron and Harry and naturally she is going to spend the most time with them.
As for Edward, I will restate my claim before. He is portrayed as the perfect boyfriend. Bella even calls him "perfect", "beautiful" and a "Greek god". While he may struggle with his blood lust, Edward never once gives in to the urge. Not even slightly. This just makes his perfect image even more perfect. He may have this internal conflict going on, but is never more than anything internal. The characters in Harry Potter actually do slip up on occasion. They're only human. And the fact that Edward remains so chaste during the series is very unlikely of any teenage boy today. Edward Cullen is the ultimate boyfriend; he's perfect. The problem with perfection is that it isn't real and this over exaggerated image that Meyer paints can and probably has altered teenage girl's perception of love and the ideal man.
In fact, another flaw that Meyer gives her heroine in the story is her lack of personality. Bella Swan is a blank slate that any teenage girl can project herself on to make the reading seem as if they are the main character. And eventually, Ms. Swan decides to change herself completely for this man. She leaves everything that she's ever known true behind and ultimately ends up committing suicide. After a very unhealthy pregnancy, Bella's stomach is torn to shreds by the demonic spawn that Edward and she have created. Only then, does Edward try to put her through the transition to becoming a vampire even though Bella had begged him in the several months prior.
Ultimately their child becomes the biggest Mary Sue (character who is seemingly perfect in every way and has no flaws) ever known to literature. And have I yet mentioned that Edward is 107 years old and Bella is 17? That's highly illegal in many states. And even when she turns 18, that's just plain disgusting. Who wants to have sexual intercourse with a man who is nearly a hundred years older than you?
Harry Potter
-deals with adult rated themes that are intertwined appropriately with interesting storylines
3.Abandonment, Adoption
4.Loss and death
-the characters are multidimensional with flaws and strengths
-love and friendship are abundant throughout the works
-capitalizes on intelligence and how important an education is
-appeals to all audiences
-funny and clever characters and plot lines
-singular theme of unrealistic teenage love
1. flat characters with unappealing personalities
2. over emotional main character who has no personality
3. an uninterested father who could careless about his daughter
4. a mother who is distant both physically, mentally and emotionally
5. a poor teenage boy overcome with puppy love (pun intended)
-perfect boyfriend who has unlikely traits of 107 year old man
-puppy love is the only real love in the book series
-Bella often skips class with Edward and brushes school off
-slim audience of teenage girls
-repetitive storylines in which Edward is always rescuing Bella
I suppose some may view her thrill seeking as a suicidal tendency, but at no point does she in fact want to die, in fact she wants to live. Its her desire to be with Edward that pushes that forward. Her want to be a vampire springs from that love.
I still see no proof in Edward being the "perfect" Boyfriend. Every girl calls their husband or significant other perfect or any of those types of things at any given time, hell, I have been referred to as a Russian God. Girls say those things, doesn't necessarily mean anything. And he does screw up, He left Bella, knowing the damage he was more than likely to cause. In the first novel, he does start to drink her blood more than enough to get the poison (or whatever you wanna call the stuff that turns you into a vampire) so much so, that Carlisle has to pull/urge him away. When they had begun to kiss, he had to fling himself off of her, so as not to have a repeat. He was like an alcoholic in recovery around her. Yes, plenty of temptation, but he fought not to give in. I don't think thats perfect, I just think thats trying.
I agree, Edward does remain very chaste through out the series for multiple reasons, just as the one you point out, he's 107 years old. People in those times had self control unlike many of the people today. And I take offense for you to think otherwise, some of the people I know have beliefs much like those of Edwards. Meyer's perception of love, is accurate to those who share a similar belief structure.
And yes, if you want to be absolutely technical, Edward is 107, Bella is only 17, and when she turns 18, anything and everything done with Edward is perfectly legal and completely up to her. There is nothing anyone can do about it. Anna Nicole who may not be the best example, was in her twenties, when she married the 80+ year old man. There really is nothing anyone can do. They are consenting adults. And just so I may, 17 is the legal age of consent, in many states, including Washington. And they never entered any "adult" acts until after their marriage.
How exactly is Renesmee, the perfect character? I am curious to hear, because I am almost certain, that she is still nothing more than a child at the end of the last book. How does that render her perfect if she can't even really do anything?
Both sets of books deal with the basic, mysticism and impossibilities that no one could live up to for the shear fact that such abilities as witch craft and great speeds, don't happen in real life. But the moral's in Twilight are that of a classic love story. Girl falls in love with boy, boy can't see girl for whatever variable of reasons, girl finds a way around said rules, and boy comes to the rescue, except in this book, it doesn't end with Death. Harry Potter on the other hand, is some story that's only real plot line is boy wanting to avenge parents death.
You also claimed that Edward is not perfect. He did in fact fling himself off of Bella's bed during a make out session they had. This was before he had ever tasted her blood though and it is never clear if he had actually pulled himself away because of sexual arousal or blood lust. It is left for the audience to assume. If you want to argue that it was blood lust, this just points out that he never seems to make a mistake. He is infallible. He did also leave, sending Bella into a neurotic depression. But once again, Edwards actions were in Bella's best interest. He in fact told her that he was leaving because he was a danger to her, especially by drawing other vampires near. Another way to prevent a slip up from her getting injured. And yet, when Renesmee is ripping through Bella's skin making a bloody mess all over the place, he is somehow able to maintain his composure.
I understand why Edward is chaste, but once again I think Meyer's is being very unrealistic. Edward Cullen is still a man, vampire or not and the fact that he is a vampire heightens his senses. Though the outlook on sex before marriage was different 107 years ago, doesn't mean that men weren't having sex before marriage because they most certainly were. And the fact that this book takes place in the 2000's should be an even bigger indicator that sex before marriage is no longer frowned upon by society. If he had adapted to the times with fashion and such, why didn't his morals change as well?
This is true that they never committed adult acts but still. It doesn't take away the creepy factor. A man pretending to be a teenager is actually 107 years old. And on top of all that, he ends up falling in love with a 17 year old girl. Mind you, he is old enough to be her great great grandfather. Now tell me you'd be willing to get with somebody that old? So his body was frozen and all the liquid was replaced with venom, okay. I'm just saying I wouldn't want to involve myself in that. And this brings me to another point, if all the bodily liquid is replaced with venom, then how exactly was he able to create sperm and bring Renesmee into the world?
Like I said, Renesmee is the biggest Mary Sue to ever exsist. By the end of the book, you are correct, she is only a child. But she proves that age doesn't mean much because by the end of the book, she communicated with her parents before being able to walk. She is born from highly unlikely circumstances. Even though he mother should have died, she didn't technically. She also cures Jacob's broken heart by causing him to imprint on her and forget any of the feelings he ever felt towards Bella. From this imprint, she is able to join the werewolves and vampires into a peace treaty and they agree to fight side by side for her protection. But when the Volturi come, she uses her gift and prevents a full on fight from breaking out. This child, yet again, saves the day. May I also add, that not one character dislikes the child either.
You claim that Harry Potter's plot line is just of revenge. But, you have completely over simplified it and in correctly did it as well. Harry Potter is a series of 7 books, with a boy coming to age in a world he never knew existed. Upon finding out Voldemort killed his parents, yes, he wants to avenge them. But never does Harry go looking for Voldemort. Instead, in every book, it is Voldemort trying to avenge his own death. Voldemort knows the prophecy says that Harry will be the only one able to kill him so he tries to kill him before he reaches his full potential. Unfortunately he fails several times and ultimately reaches his own end. You described a typical love story very well. Girl and boy fall in love, something comes between them and they can't be together but ultimately find a way to bend their fate and end up together anyway. Twilight is a typical love story. It has no interesting twists or turns. It follows the typical love story plot and does not stray away from it even a little. You can't relate Harry Potter to a mold because it's completely original and like nothing ever created before.
Overall, I believe I have given a fair argument as to why Twilight is inferior to Harry Potter. Twilight's themes are childish and not very well developed. Each book in the Harry Potter series can stand independently as an interesting piece of literature whereas Twilight heavily depends on reading the books prior. Harry Potter's characters and very dimensional and interesting. Rowling created an entire new world set within ours whereas Meyers just created an already known (to literature) species. Rowling's works appeal to all audiences, young and old. Harry Potter is a coming of age story that deals with friendship and education. Twilight just deals with what the characters consider love and a rushed marriage. And overall, the Harry Potter series has generated a large fan base with includes touring of the sets used to film the adaptations and an amusement park.
Just so you have the information available to you, many people, while watching a loved one go through surgery or have something gruesome happen, can maintain composure. Its based on your ability to tolerate such a thing, Edward obviously has a high toleration and honestly, after living for as long as he has, of course he would be able to contain himself. The plan for when she was to be born was to turn her should anything go horribly wrong. His composure was justified.
Meyer's is not being unrealistic. While he is a man, his ability to maintain his morals isn't unfathomable through out the amount of years he was alive. People today maintain similar morals, and some people who have actually gone through the aging process and are in their 80's maintain similar morals to when they were young. Its not an off idea that Meyers proposes, its actually a fairly accurate idea.
I agree with you, how if he was turned a vampire, and his blood replaced by venom is he able to produce sperm? Well, how does the fictional creature of an Incubus do such a thing? Perhaps it is just a mythological process that occurs that we may never understand. But its a book based in myth, just as Harry Potter is. I am pretty sure we will never understand the concept or use of a time turner and how exactly that is possible.
Fine, Harry Potter never purposely seeks out Lord Voldermort, but he does put all of his friends and family at risk by returning year after year to Hogwarts does he not? He could have simply stayed with his aunt and uncle as terrible as they were and been a normal human boy and avoided all of that drama. No while he didn't he continued to pursue in risky behavior. Harry runs off the school grounds constantly when being told not to. He shows a classic side of disrespect for the authority and rules set before him. Overall I believe there a mixed signals given to the audience of the Harry Potter series.
Twilight is a love story and targets a wide fan base from not only its book sales, but its movie endorsements and through sales of merchandise and other assorted fandoms. The characters do each have their own distinct personalities, though they can be somewhat hollow at points its for the support of the person reading to be able to step into the character's shoes.
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Posted by mariahjane 6 years ago
2. The way Bella acts with Edward is quite realistic for many teenage girls who are "in love."
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I Mr. Salim Charania (President of Pawa India) Received a call from Mr.Madhav Tople) that one society has taken away 7 pups in a gunny bag and thrown away out of the society somewhere in remote area, he connected me to the animal lover staying in the same society named siddhesh Hengre and his family. The family was present with us for the whole rescue of 7 pups.
Manisha (Animal Activist) and me reached Kashimira Police Station and asked them to send cops with us for investigation; we reached the spot at Highness Park Building in Nityanand Nagar, Mira Road East. We investigated the case and came to know that one lady named Elizabeth Elfrod had taken help of BMC cleaner named Pradeep and bribed him to take away the pups and throw it somewhere else.
We asked Elizabeth for the brutal sin, she replied if you are so much worried take the pups at your home, later the other society people join her in arguing with us, another society man named Mukul gupta who is working in times of India started behaving rudely.
We have seen the mother dog who was sitting quietly at the corner of the society and was looking very upset and sad, these all circumstances made us angry and then we back fired them and threatened them that we want all pups in 5 minutes, if you don't get pups back to us, will result in immediate arrest.
Elizabeth later confesses that it was the society decision and the society committee member has given her charged to throw the dog out. She got afraid and called the Pradeep who has thrown the dog, Pradeep was misleading us about the location.
We asked the watchman, then watchman said the exact location, we took the watchman with us at the spot which was 15 minutes away far from the society. We found that the pups, they were hiding below the container, next to gutter in a remote area, Pups were in fear and hungry. To rescue all the pups below the container was a very difficult task, all the pups were rescued and were taken back to the society and were release near the mother dog, the pups were very hungry, and the mother dog immediate started feeding milk.
There was a mob present at the society to fight with us, I asked them to come to police station and will show you the law, We went to the police station, and asked the duty officer to book the people for Animal Cruelty, later around 40 people from the society including local Politician came to Police Station to oppose us.
But Law is law, before also I have faced a mob of more than 100 people alone in the society and in the police station for Animal Cruelty : Majority is not the Authority
We got a good cooperation from Senior Inspector and the Fir was registered Under Maharashtra Police Act 119 : Fine up to 2500 or 1 month Prison or Both against Elizabeth and Pradeep, they will be arrested soon and will be taken to court, if Elizabeth says that it was also the Society Committee member decision in front of judge, all the people present in the committee member will be charged under the same act.
We thanks to Siddhesh & his family who stood & fought with us for Animal Cruelty.
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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Building and Environment, Volume 82, December 2014, Pages 726–739
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Understanding the relationship between occupant behaviors and building energy consumption is one of the most effective ways to bridge the gap between predicted and actual energy consumption in buildings. However effective methodologies to remove the impact of other variables on building energy consumption and isolate the leverage of the human factor precisely are still poorly investigated. Moreover, the effectiveness of statistical and data mining approaches in finding meaningful correlations in data is largely undiscussed in literature. This study develops a framework combining statistical analysis with two data-mining techniques, cluster analysis and association rules mining, to identify valid window operational patterns in measured data. Analyses are performed on a data set with measured indoor and outdoor physical parameters and human interaction with operable windows in 16 offices. Logistic regression was first used to identify factors influencing window opening and closing behavior. Clustering procedures were employed to obtain distinct behavioral patterns, including motivational, opening duration, interactivity and window position patterns. Finally the clustered patterns constituted a base for association rules segmenting the window opening behaviors into two archetypal office user profiles for which different natural ventilation strategies as well as robust building design recommendations that may be appropriate. Moreover, discerned working user profiles represent more accurate input to building energy modeling programs, to investigate the impacts of typical window opening behavior scenarios on energy use, thermal comfort and productivity in office buildings.


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Crypto-currencies have recently seen an explosion in growth and are starting to gain some mainstream acceptance particularly in Asia. Even Russia is starting to accept Bitcoin as legitimate currency.
The big three; bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin now look like potentially sound investment opportunities. In light of this I offer three cautionary tales of profit and loss, one for each currency.
A risky currency with a bright future. I invested early and am now enjoying the sharp rise in the value of Bitcoin.
Loss – 0.08 Bitcoins ($170)
Rookie mistake. I forgot the mnemonic on one of my wallets, losing 0.08 Bitcoins forever.
I purchased few coins of Ethereum when the value went over $50. It is currently $150.
Loss – 0.6 Ethereum ($90)
I played on iDice.io – a double or nothing dice game where you can bet Ethereum. Unfortunately I forgot the house always wins.
Update – 03 June 2017
All Ethereum lost on Ethereumwallet.net!
I just logged in to my Ethereum Wallet at https://ethereum-wallet.net/ and the site has been cleaned out. All Etherum are gone. All that is left is the info message shown below:
I bought several Litecoins when the currency started to grow.
Loss – 2 Litecoins ($50)
I accidentally transferred two of them to a Bitcoin wallet – forever losing them in cyberspace.
Total loss – $310
I consider Ethereum a good investment and Litecoin an interesting sideline but for me the interest and profit is in Bitcoin.
I made some profit, made some losses and learned some lessons. To paraphrase Andreas Antonopoulos,
"if you are developing or experimenting with bitcoin then buy as much as you can afford to lose – you will learn how the blockchain works a lot quicker when you make a mistake and lose real money"
Cryptocurrencies are gaining real value as an investment, however great care must be taken in their use. If you lose your secret mnemonic, forget your private key or send coins to an incorrect address they are gone forever.


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The Royal Danish Consulate General had the pleasure of hosting a delegation of Danish experts who sought out to present the Danish perspective on the 'People First' approach to Canadian stakeholders.
The Embassy of Denmark is looking for candidates for the position as Consular Officer to begin work on June 1st, 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. The application deadline is May 9th 2017.
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|They may just look like a pair of water towers, but they can lead to a wonderful date with your significant other!
My wife and I don't get dates very often.
Living 900 miles away from family in Michigan makes it somewhat difficult to find people to babysit on a regular basis. Sometimes we ask our daughter, a teenager, to watch her younger brothers, but we also don't want to monopolize her time.
We are also teachers, so by the time the week is done, we are just plumb exhausted. Friday evenings usually consist of watching a show on Netflix and then in bed and sleeping by 9:30.
But on the rare occasion, about once a month, that we do get to go on a date, our dates consist of going out for dinner, maybe a wine bar, and walking around Target. How romantic, huh? Now don't get me wrong. I absolutely love the dates and time alone spent with my wife. It gives us an opportunity to reconnect and remember why we fell in love in the first place.
But what would happen if we were given the opportunity to go on a date, just the two of us, at Walt Disney World? How would we spend our evening without the kids? If it were up to me, I don't think we would do the same that we do at home...it's not exactly "romantic" to go grab dinner with hundreds of other people at the Rainforest Cafe and walk around the World of Disney store at Disney Springs. Now, on occasion, it is nice and relaxing to go out for a romantic dinner at a nice Disney restaurant (like the Coral Reef), but is that really how we want to spend our evening without the kids?
I, for one, would much rather spend our evening alone at Walt Disney World doing something that would not necessarily be easy to do with our five year old twins in tow or that our seventeen year old would be bored with.
While I've not done this with my wife, I think it is a brilliant idea, one that I came up with in the place I come up with all my good ideas:
The shower.
|Sorry for that image in your mind...hope I didn't scare you too much..
Before I ruin your appetite with that image burnt into your brain, I present to you my idea:
Story Hunting.
When creating Walt Disney World, Imagineers could have just given us standard rides in blasè show buildings in lands that have no theming whatsoever.
But lucky for us, that's not what they did.
When Disneyland opened in 1955, Walt Disney created an experience for his park guests. He wanted to put his guests into the worlds of his animated films, to make them characters in the stories and worlds he was portraying. This led to him charging the park's designers to create highly immersive environments including props, scenery, music, smells, and even foliage authentic to the place and time of the story being told.
Some of these stories are obvious. Take, for example, the details in and around Pirates of the Caribbean. The plaza on the exterior of the show building features a shipwreck with a skeleton hanging out of the crow's nest, setting the stage for the dangerous adventures inside. Palm trees stand nearby to create the setting that guests are going to have an experience in a tropical locale. The show building's facade itself is styled like an old Spanish fort, El Castillo del Morro, located in San Juan, Puerto Rico, further cementing the setting of the attraction in the Caribbean. The illusion of the Spanish fort continues inside as guests move through the queue, observing different rooms including a dungeon, an armory, and the battlements. This level of detail continues in the architectural stylings and details throughout the entirety of the attraction (I give an in-depth analysis of the historical accuracy of the attraction's architecture in a previous post).
However, some attractions and locations throughout Walt Disney World have stories that are not so obvious. There is no sign to explain why certain props or details were put where they were or who the names belong to on different doors or crates. This is where Story Hunting comes in: it is up to the guest to figure out the backstory on their own, which creates a deeper appreciation for the place you are experiencing. This usually requires walking around in circles throughout a resort, looking at the walls, paintings and photographs, the architecture, the plants, the different buildings, the names of restaurants and shops, as well as props and decorations used.
Because hunting for the backstories of lands, attractions, resorts, and restaurants can take up so much attention and because they're like a puzzle to put together (more rewarding, I venture to say, than paying money for an hour in an Escape Room), I present this idea to my readers as a great way to spend a date night with your significant other without the kids. It allows you and your partner to go on walks, to spend time talking and work through conflicting ideas. While you may get weird looks from other resort guests, it gives you a chance to be mostly alone with your significant other, and can present an enjoyable afternoon or evening together, doing something physical more than just seeing a movie, digesting food, or staring at the back of your eyelids in your resort hotel room.
How does one get started Story Hunting?
1.) Pick a location on property that is rich in detail. It could be a land in a park (like Adventureland, Frontierland, Tomorrowland, or Dinoland USA), a restaurant (Jock Lindsay's Hanger Bar, Trader Sam's, AbracadaBar, or Pecos Bill's Tall Tale Inn and Cafe), or a resort (Port Orleans: Riverside or the Wilderness Lodge). I would advise staying away from attractions when Story Hunting, as the stories presented on individual attractions are pretty cut-and-dry and easy to figure out. Imagineers present all the details and the plot of the story to guests in an easy-to-digest manner, taking out much of the challenge. However, if you want to start somewhere easy to whet your appetite for Story Hunting, start with the Haunted Mansion: there are numerous details inside the mansion and out, but still a hint of mystery to the attraction that one could manipulate the details to come up with a backstory or mythology to the attraction.
2.) Begin with the exterior. Imagineers begin telling the story of the land, restaurant, shop, or resort before you even step foot in the doors. As someone who is a history teacher with an English background, I can personally tell you that setting and context is essential to understanding a story. Look at the architectural features of the building. What is the style of the building? Is the building meant to look like it is from another part of the world? Another time period? How might that help unfold the story being told? Look at the plants outside, as well. What types of plants, flowers, trees, and bushes are being used in the landscaping? How do the plants help to set the scene of where and when Imagineers are transporting you? Look at the walkways. Is there anything imprinted in them that might help to tell the stories? What about traffic and street signs? What names are being used for the roads on the resort's property? What jargon or slang is being used on the signs and how does that help to place you in a specific time and place? If there are multiple buildings, how does the architecture, style, and building materials of the buildings progress and change? Why do you think this is? If at a resort, what does the pool look like? What does the pool appear to be made of? Where is the water source that feeds the pool? What is the decoration and theming around the pool? What is the name of the pool bar? How might this all fit together to tell a bigger story? Look at the fixtures (i.e. lampposts, lighting, door handles, door styles, window styles, signs, directories, stairways, balcony spindles, etc.). What does this tell you about where and when the story takes place?
|Disney's Wilderness Lodge
|Disney's Port Orleans Resort: Riverside
3.) Take notice of first impressions. Upon entering the building, resort, restaurant, shop, or land, use all of your senses to take note of first impressions. What color is the walkway? How are different things arranged? What are building materials made out of? What type of music is playing (As I write this, I'm listening to Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," which plays as part of the background loop at Wilderness Lodge)? What do you smell? How does what you are seeing and experiencing make you feel? Is the view before you grandiose? Ramshackle? Extravagant? Old-timey? Does it remind you of anything? As we ask in the world of education, can you connect what you are seeing with any prior knowledge? Have you seen anything like this before in other places you've traveled or patronized? Where was it? When was it? How might that connect to the story you are currently a part of?
|The Check-In Lobby of Disney's Port Orleans Resort: Riverside
4.) Pay attention to specific details. What are the architectural styles and decorating style on the interior? What era of architecture or interior decorating is being used? What are the materials that are being used to create what you are seeing? Who might have created this space? Why? What are the names of the different shops and restaurants? How might they fit into the story? Who might have started the shop or restaurant? Do you think it was always a shop or restaurant or could it have served a different purpose and then converted to a new establishment later in life? How do you know? Are there dates posted? What might those dates signify? How might they tie into the story?
|Riverside Mill Food Court, Disney's Port Orleans Resort: Riverside
|River Roost Lounge, Disney's Port Orleans Resort: Riverside
|Fulton's General Store, Disney's Port Orleans Resort: Riverside
|Medicine Show Arcade, Disney's Port Orleans Resort: Riverside
|Detail of lobby column, Disney's Port Orleans Resort: Riverside
5.) Examine props, artwork, and artifacts in detail. Walt Disney World restaurants, shops, lands, and resorts are replete with physical objects that can be touched, manipulated, and examined to further the story being told or to help set the stage for what is to come. Take, for example, the queue for MuppetVision 3D: pipes are made to look like noses for chalk drawings on the exterior walls, visual gags (like nets full of jello) hang from the rafters, signs using immense amounts of puns (hehe PUNS) hang on the walls, and various references to episodes and films starring the Muppets are abundant, all in the name of helping to prepare guests for the show they are about to see. A similar process occurs all throughout the resorts, including restaurants, lands, resorts, and shops. Take a moment to look at your surroundings. Are there seating areas nearby? What do the benches or chairs look like? Are there store displays? How are they shaped? What do they resemble? Are there pieces of artwork hanging on the walls? Are they photographs or paintings? What do they portray? Who or what is in the artwork? How does that help to tell the story of the space you are in? Are there glass display cases? What is inside them? Are there placards that explain what you are looking at? What language does the placard use? If not, is there any information printed on the objects themselves? Are there dates on the signs, artifacts, artwork, or props? Who might have used the prop or artifact? Who may have taken the photograph or painted the painting? What is being depicted? Who might the people be in the photograph or painting and what are they doing? How do the props, artwork, and artifacts help to tell the story of the resort, restaurant, shop, or land?
|Fans in the Roaring Fork Cafe, Disney's Wilderness Lodge
|Display case in the Territory Lounge, Disney's Wilderness Lodge
|Mural above seating in Artist's Point, Disney's Wilderness Lodge
|Display case, lobby of Disney's Wilderness Lodge
|Detail of waterwheel mechanics, Riverside Mill Food Court, Disney's Port Orleans Resort: Riverside
|Wall map of area waterways, outside Boatwright's Dining Hall, Disney's Port Orleans Resort: Riverside
|Wall decoration, Boatwright's Dining Hall, Disney's Port Orleans Resort: Riverside
|Wall decoration, River Roost Lounge, Disney's Port Orleans Resort: Riverside
|Steamship inside display case, entrance lobby of Disney's Port Orleans Resort: Riverside
|Candy dispenser/merchandise shelving unit, Big Top Souvenirs, Storybook Circus, Magic Kingdom
|Hot dog quick service kiosk, Storybook Circus, Magic Kingdom
6.) Tie together progression. Looking at the architecture, props, shop and restaurant names, do you notice a chronological or geographical progression? Does the building materials change? Do colors of the walls, buildings, or flooring change? Does architectural style change? Do dates or numbers change as you move through space? How might this show a progression through time or geographical space and how might that help to tell the story?
7.) Use your detective skills. Tie everything together. Imagineers were very deliberate by what they placed throughout resort. No fixture, piece of artwork, building material, architectural style, prop, or piece of music was placed there by mistake or as a fill in--it is there on purpose to help tell a detailed story. Put together the dates or periods or era being depicted. Apply the geographical region that has been designed for the land, restaurant, shop, or resort. Make some educated guesses about the proprietors of the shops or restaurants based on the names attached or the props or decorations on display. Imagine who may have built or occupied this space and for what reasons. Try to determine how something got there, what its origin may have been. Look at the names of the different shops, restaurants, lounges, bars, arcades, buildings, and kiosks to determine what role they may have played in this fictional community or who the proprietors were and what their individual backstory may have been. Think about what information may be missing or what doesn't make a whole lot of sense and look for details that may help to fill in those gaps.
Finally, together with your partner, grab a drink of your choice (water, beer, wine, froo-froo drinks, soda, Joffrey's Coffee, etc) and find a place to sit together. Try to hash out a plot or progression to your story. What is the origin of the restaurant, store, land, or resort? Who were the key players? What was their individual backstories and how did they contribute to the restaurant, store, land or resort? Did the buildings maintain their original functions or did they change over time? Why? How did the surrounding landscape and resources (foliage, rock outcroppings, elevation, water features, etc) contribute to how or why the resort, restaurant, store, or land turned out the way it did?
Like I said, my wife and I have never gone Story Hunting by ourselves. I have gone Story Hunting alone a few times, snapping pictures for research purposes for my most recent book, A Historical Tour of Walt Disney World Vol. 2, as well as forthcoming volumes, in Storybook Circus, Frontierland, Liberty Square, Disney's Wilderness Lodge, Casey's Corner, and Disney's Port Orleans Resort: Riverside. However, the time spent alone, engaging with each other, searching for clues, and creating an elaborate backstory for what we are seeing and experiencing would not only enrich our appreciation for the level of detail Disney Imagineers put into the parks and resorts, but would also enrich our relationship as a married couple through quality time spent together.
Here is the map of our Magical Blogorail Green | Creative Disney Date Ideas Loop:
- 1st Stop - Adventures in Familyhood | Creative Ways to Have a Disney Date Night at Home
- 2nd Stop - Disney in Your Day | Disney Movies and Wine Pairings
- 3rd Stop - Rolling with the Magic | Star Wars Date Night at Disney's Hollywood Studios
- 4th Stop - Running on Disney | Disney Inspired Date Ideas - Romance Around The World
- 5th Stop - Distalgic | Date Night: Story Hunters


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THE CONTEMPORARY ART WORLD has grown enormously in the last 30 years. New galleries, art fairs and museum biennials have appeared with increasing frequency around the world. These have given rise to a crowd of collectors, gallery owners, artists, publicists and hangers-on who travel tirelessly from one must-see event to another. The work exhibited at these events is often highly specialized in nature; as a result, it usually communicates solely to this attendant class of "art professionals." Outsiders, the ones we once called "spectators," are confused and alienated by contemporary trends in art. Art publications, in an effort to cater more and more to the professionals, have become "trade publications." They are commonly filled with indecipherable reviews of arcane art shows and windy articles rife with insider references, all written in a lingo impenetrable to the general spectator.
READ MOREAlex Melamid asks "Why is today's art so meaningless?"With the creation of Artenol, we turn a new page in the art magazine world. Here is a publication for spectators written by spectators in prose that is both readable and literary. It is time for art to emerge from its modernist isolation, much as contemporary literature did years ago. Though modernism has spoken to the gods of art through line, color and shape, it has lately been speaking in tongues. With our faith in gods weakening, the art world's position seems shaky. It is our hope that Artenol will bring contemporary art back to − or at least closer to − its senses.
We at Artenol have only one requirement of our contributors: that they write well. Some of our authors will address art issues in specific; others will offer stories of interest in the context of an art magazine. Artenol's content will be engaging, provocative, entertaining − and, most of all, readable.
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PUBLISHER: Gary Krimershmoys is an art advisor and curator who has been immersed in the art world since 2008. Specializing in international post-war and contemporary art, Gary works to build and manage collections as varied and unique as the collectors who initiate them. He previously worked in financial trading and sales in New York City and London from 1994 to 2008. His last finance position was heading the European Structured Credit Derivatives Group for Tullett Prebon Group Ltd. During last seven years, Krimershmoys was Managing Director of Quintessentially Art's global art advisory business, founded a project space in Chelsea called (Art) Amalgamated, was Director at Vohn Gallery and the Acquisition Advisor for the(un)SCENE art show. In 2011, Alexander Melamid and Gary co-founded the Art Healing Ministry in New York City.
FOUNDER: Alexander Melamid has long been known in the art world for his partnership with fellow Russian artist Vitaly Komar, with whom he founded the Soviet Realist Pop art movement, Sots Art, which satirized Soviet Socialist Realism. During their almost 40 years of collaboration which ended in 2003, Komar and Melamid were noted as revolutionaries and, at times, rebels. Their work has often been compared to that of Pop artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, and has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. They have also had more than 60 solo exhibitions worldwide. In 2003, the duo decided to explore individual careers. Over the last decade, Alex Melamid has created a series of portrait paintings of American hip-hop stars and has promoted an arts healing ministry, declaring himself God Melamid.
MANAGING EDITOR/ART DIRECTOR: David Dann has created illustrations for publications like Fine Woodworking, Popular Woodworker and Popular Science, and has made hundreds of models for the hologram and toy industries, including the sculpted dove for the VISA credit card. His work has appeared on the covers of National Geographic, Omni Magazine, Marvel and Malibu Comics, and many others. In 2000, Dann became owner and co-publisher of a successful news weekly and worked as Senior Designer at the Times Herald-Record, a Dow Jones newspaper with a circulation of 85,000. He is currently the director of special projects at the newspaper and produces Ulster Magazine, a glossy regional bimonthly serving the Hudson Valley of New York State.
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Walker Mimms is a writer and musician living in Nashville, Tennesee.
A graduate of Bennington College, he has written for The New Criterion among other publications and is currently working on a book about Samuel Johnson's circle.
LONDON EDITOR: Zinovy Zinik is a Moscow-born novelist and critic. Zinik lost his Soviet citizenship when he emigrated from the USSR in 1975. Since 1976, he has been living and working in Britain, writing in English as well as in his native Russian. His fourteen books of prose, written since his departure from Russia, have been translated into a number of European languages and adapted for radio and television ("The Mushroom Picker," BBC TV, 1993). Zinik's recent works include a collection of essays, Emigration as a Literary Device (NLO, 2011); an autobiographical tale, History Thieves (Seagull Books, 2011); and a new collection of prose (in Russian), Third Jerusalem (NLO, 2013). Zinik regularly contributes to BBC Radio, The Times Literary Supplement and other British periodicals. He has taught creative writing at a number of American universities, including Wesleyan University and Columbia University.
ACCOUNTS/CIRCULATION MANAGER: Denise Krimershmoys is the owner of Vohn Gallery in NYC. Previously, she was the gallery manager of (Art) Amalgamated in Chelsea, New York City, where Mikel Glass first showed his Fair exhibition, the forerunner to the (un)SCENE, and held the same position at the Art Healing Ministry, an ongoing project with Alexander Melamid. Denise studied decorative arts at Sothebys, obtained her degree in Interior design and architecture at AIU and studied fine art at Central Saint Martins, all while living in London in the 2000s. Denise will be heading up the accounts and circulation team at Artenol.


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Qatar Airways May Be Extending To Pittsburgh International Airport
While still in the very early, preliminary stages, talks have begun between Pittsburgh International Airport and luxury Persian airline, Qatar Airways to start offering nonstop flights to Qatar's capital city, Doha. Qatar Air announced new flights in Atlanta, Boston, and Los Angeles just last week and has been expanding its luxury international first class and international business class flights to more and more U.S. cities.
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