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Check with seller Maheswaram Vaastu Plot for sale in DTCP Layout 267 to 400 sq yrd Hyderabad
- Location: Jubille Hills, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
DTCP approved plot
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near Bangalore highway (NH-44) area Kothur near Bus and Railway station
150 sq yard plot size
Industrial Area
5-10 mins drive from Rigional Ring Road
33 feet wide road
40 feet main road
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75 per cent Bank Loan (IDBI Bank)
Price 4300 Rs. Per Yard
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Modular Kitchen in stainless Steel
Stainless steel kitchens have become extremely popular nowadays with the its airy and light feel. But one thing that might not appeal to experts with this material used for kitchen cabinets is its issue or staining. Also, stainless steel acts as a conductor of electricity and might require the repainting job in every few months. But the appearance and feel of this material used for kitchen cabinets in a modular kitchen design is classy and pleasing to the eyes.

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Today is all about reflecting on my love of wall mirror decor. I love using mirrors in my home décor. There are a lot of great reasons to use as many mirrors as you can {and in every room!}. One of the best reasons to use wall mirrors is to make a small space feel much bigger. Another great reason to use wall mirror decor is because of the extra light mirrors reflect, and that automatically makes a room feel brighter. I am sure you have a room or two that could be a little brighter. Got ya thinking, right? While you are busy with that, read on. I'm going to show you some of my favorite wall mirrors, as well as some places you can buy one for yourself.
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Around 90 participants from 27 institutions across Australia braved a wet December day to celebrate and reflect on peer mentoring at the OLT National Senior Teaching Fellowship Symposium on Caulfield campus. The day was a great success with 80% of delegates rating the program and calibre of speakers as very good or excellent.
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Export your Babies from Daz and render with Blender EEVEE!
Here is my manual workflow on how to import Daz models into Blender and render with EEVEE. Please tell me if something is confusing or unclear and feel free to ask me anything.
Main steps:
Since 2.80 is still in Alpha and therefore is unreliable and unpredictable, it is highly recommended to work and save our files in 2.79b. Really, don't save your file with 2.80, you can easily loose all your work 🙂
Select your figure mesh and open Node Editor (Shift +F3).
We are going to walk through all these 17 materials. Select the first one Ears and delete all this useless mess of nodes. This mess is selected by default, so just hit (X).
Let's first add Material Output node and Principled BSDF node and connect those buddies together.
We gonna use only two types of textures: Base Color and Bump Map. I found it pretty enough for good-looking results. So let's now add Bump node and bring our textures.
To easily find the path to the textures location navigate at Surfaces tab in Daz Studio, choose any of used texture and click Browse. You now get the path to the textures folder. Copy it, open in explorer or even create a shortcut on your desktop for easier access in the future.
Add Image Texture nodes and choose your face textures (color and bump maps). You can just drag and drop the images from the folder into Blender, that will create Texture Node automatically. Connect all the nodes and let's do some tweakings.
Set Subsurface and Subsurface Radius to something like values on the screenshot below
Roughness is about 0.35. And for Bump, I found these numbers work pretty cool. So, instead of lowering Strength value, leave it as 1 and set Distance to something very low, about 0.0005. That will create a really nice skin. Also, it looks like bump should be inverted, so check the Invert option. Don't forget to set color data to Non-Color for our Bump map and that is pretty much it, our first material seems to be ready!
Now let's select all these nodes and copy them (Ctrl + C). Go to the next material, delete that mess (X) and paste our copied nodes (Ctrl + V). Repeat that process for all the materials. Then we need to change the textures for all the materials.
Ears, Lips, EyeSocket, Face all use the same face texture so we don't actually need to change them. For Mouth, Teeth, Fingernails, Nails we can just remove textures and feel good with just a color. So, we actually need to change our Legs, Arms, Torso textures and then let's talk about eyes and lashes.
For Irises, Pupil, Cornea, Sclera change textures to eyes maps and set the Roughness all the way to 0 and maybe do some other tweaking as you wish. You can do it just for one of these material and then copy-paste to rest ones.
For EyeMoisture we can use just Transparent BSDF node
And finally Eyelashes.
Find the greyscale texture of lashes and put it as the Factor to blend between our main Principled BSDF and transparent BSDF shaders. The node setup is below:
Switch to your hair mesh and go through all materials which it has. We can use nodes from Eyelashes, it's basically the same setup. In order to figure out which texture we need for opacity, we can again navigate to the Surface tab in Daz and see which texture it use. Also, add a color texture. The crucial textures for hair are Color and Opacity maps and probably Bump do the job, but you can, of course, transfer all the textures or none. You are the boss after all 🙂
Various hairs have more or fewer materials and maps, so ones are more complicated than others.
I went ahead and set up materials for items of clothing. This cloth only has Color and Bump maps, but in most cases, you also want Roughness (aka inverted Glossiness) map. Not necessary step, really, but I also added some random roughness with procedural noise texture, just to remind you, that it is Blender, it is freedom, it is power! You are unlimited here, you can do whatever you want.
I also split the window and switched to Material Shading view to be able to approximately see what I'm doing.
Now let's get into Blender 2.80, do some tweaks there, and see how it looks in real-time rendering engine EEVEE.
Switch render engine to Eevee and go to Rendered Shading view.
For all light sources enable Contact Shadows.
For all transparent materials in the Options section, we need to change Blend Mode from Opaque to Alpha Hashed. In our case, it is Hair materials, Eyelashes, and EyeMoisture.
In order to see Subsurface Scattering effect, we need to enable it in Render settings and also enable Subsurface Translucency in material Options for each material which has SSS. In our case, it is Ears, Lips, Legs, Face, EyeSocket, Torso, Arms.
We also want to enable Screen Space Reflections and Ambient Occlusion in Render settings and maybe all the other sweetnesses as you wish. And next, it's all about tweaking, lighting, and compositing.
Oh, and what you really want to do as well is set Color Management to Filmic.
And yet, at this stage, we actually want to save our scene with 2.80, let's do it now but as a separate file just in case.
I did some tweakings and a little bit of compositing.
And here is my final result after some color correction in Photoshop
That's workflow definitely has some drawbacks, one of which is manual labor. But on the other hand, you get the full control and wider grasping of what's happening. Anyway, if you know any better ways, tips and tricks, or have any questions, please let me know.
And once you ready with material setup, you can now make a new pose in Daz and import it again and then easily replace duplicated materials with Materials Utils Specials addon (you don't need to repeat this setup process for each import). So, this method is more worth for rendering a set of images rather than one single shot.
And for a new scene with a new character you can use Append function for appending your already created materials and use them as a billet.


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The Longitude Prize
By the start of the eighteenth century, many thousands of sailors had perished at sea because their captains had no way of knowing longitude, their east-west location. Latitude, the north-south position, was easy enough, but once out of sight of land not even the most experienced navigator had a sure method of fixing longitude. So the British Parliament offered a substantial monetary prize to whoever could invent a device to determine exact longitude at sea.
Many of the world's greatest minds tried — and failed — to come up with a solution. Instead, it was a country clockmaker named John Harrison who would invent a clock that could survive wild seas and be used to calculate longitude accurately. But in an aristocratic society, the road to acceptance was not a smooth one, and even when Harrison produced not one but five elegant, seaworthy timekeepers, each an improvement on the one that preceded it, claiming the prize was another battle.
Set in an exciting historical framework — telling of shipwrecks and politics — this is the story of one man's creative vision, his persistence against great odds, and his lifelong fight for recognition of a brilliant invention.


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As I've been working on Sunday's sermon about gratitude and generosity, I came across this video.
See Also:
Quotes on Giving and Generosity – 2014
Quotes on Giving and Generosity – 2013
Here are some of my favorites for the Stewardship Season. Be sure to check the Archives for more on Generosity and Gratitude.
Stewardship is a dreaded word. Once when I tried to recruit a man to serve on the Stewardship Committee, he responded, "That's as bad as being asked to teach sixth grade boys." Stewardship is church code for "money." At least that is what people think. And we all know people talk more openly about sex than they do money.
In our congregation it is the time of year when the Stewardship Committee is hard at work, preparing the emphasis for this fall. We set the theme; we've outlined the main information booklet to be mailed. I've struggled over how to address the issue in worship – again – for the 33rd time (by my count). Once again I am confronted with the task of trying to convince people that Stewardship really isn't about money; it's about discipleship and it's about love. If our congregation discovered it sits on top of an oil well and had all the money it needs for 100 years – We would still need stewardship because it is about discipleship and it is about loving God.
Many years ago I came across this marvelous book by Jeavons and Basinger. Each year since, at the beginning of stewardship planning, I retrieve it from my shelf and reread many of the passages I highlighted the first time through. The book grounds me in the task of reminding believers why we all give. It grounds me in taking the correct theological approach so that people grow and express their love of God through giving.
I really don't like the term fundraising for church. To me the task of a fundraiser if different than that of a pastor. And the tools of fundraising may include a raffle or rummage sale, while stewardship is about giving, tithing, and offerings. Jeavons and Basinger, however, help me see the crossover between the two. Thus, the book is equally helpful for congregations engaged in stewardship and for any faith-based organization attempting to fund its mission. If your task is theologically based, this book will help you perform your task better, whether you call it fundraising or stewardship.
If you are leading an effort to engage givers in a Christian mission, this book will provide reminders and encouragement that you will find invaluable.
All quotes from:
Jeavons, Thomas H. and Basinger, Rebekah Burch, Growing Givers' Hearts: Treating Fundraising As Ministry, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000. Copyright by the authors. Perhaps these quotes will encourage you to read the entire book.
Jesus did not say to his disciples, "Your money will follow your heart." That is conventional wisdom in fundraising but may well be the best explanation for why volunteers in many organizations are generous donors themselves, but it is not the essence of this teaching of Jesus. He told his disciples, "Your heart will follow your money." In this teaching, Jesus points out the very powerful connection between the way people use their wealth and their emotional and spiritual commitments. p. 2
Henri Nouwen once said, "Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love." p. 27
Note that this practice (tithing) also requires one to trust God enough for one's own essential needs. It requires one to act on faith. p. 43
If Christian fundraisers show as much concern for their donors' spiritual growth as their own organizations' financial needs, these fundraisers will help grow their donors' hearts, resulting in donors who are truly and more consistently generous over a lifetime. p. 67
Quoting Hannah Whitall Smith: "The greatest lesson a soul has to learn is that God, and God alone, is enough for all its needs. This is the lesson that all God's dealings with us are meant to teach, and this is the crowning discovery of our entire Christian life. God is enough!" p. 71
In contrast, when Christian organizations approach the end of one fiscal year after another clawing and scratching toward their stated goals, a very different message is communicated to constituents about God's ability to meet the needs of the church. These organizations say they serve a God who "owns the cattle on a thousand hills," but, plainly stated, many Christian ministries operate in a perpetual state of scarcity and financial panic. The message conveyed to supporters out of this panic is that God is unable to supply even the most basic needs, let alone provide funds for new programs. If this message of panic is a contrived fundraising technique, it is doubly harmful. p.73
"I don't need a calendar to know it's May," the longtime friend of a Christian ministry stated. "Any day now, I'll get that 'with two months to go in the fiscal year, we still need $300,000 to balance the budget' letter. I'll give again, but I have to tell you, after more than twenty years, the crisis approach is wearing thin." p. 81f.
Appeals that focus exclusively on crises, whether internal or external to the organization, reinforce donors' perceptions of scarcity, and work against joyful giving in response to God's great abundance. p. 83
As one observer puts it, "Our fundraising methods reflect not only the character of our organization, but also its values. They reflect who we are. Whatever methods we use ultimately come from the hearts of the leadership." p. 109
We take care to check up on what sponsors hear in what we're doing." Compassion International actually runs focus groups to find out what people glean from the material the organization puts out—what message the donors are taking away—not just what is making them give. p. 110
Quoting one development officer: "If possible, during donor visits, I try to encourage the individuals with whom I'm meeting to talk about what God's been doing in their hearts as a result of their giving." p. 111
Quoting Bishop Manuel Moreno of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson: "It's more than just money that people are giving. It's part of their life. They worked hard to earn what we are asking them to give away." p. 118
This is the season when many congregations look at stewardship and generosity. The peripheral member thinks pastors use words like these to w hide the fact that they are just asking for money. Perhaps some do. A long time ago I cam to the conviction that giving is one pathway to a happier and healthier life. God encourages us to give because it is good for us. So here are a few quotations that I have collected that speak about how the goodness of generosity makes live better.


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Every day more than 6,000 children die from diseases spread by unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation and hygiene. Giving to the safe Water for Life Fund will help bring clean water, sanitation, and hygiene to communities to help cut child deaths by more than half! Your gift of clean water will also help save children the suffering caused by parasites, worms, dysentery, and diarrhea.
Worse still, many children walk very long distances to get unsafe water for use in the family and end up missing school. When this water is available near their homes, they can be able to attend school, because they won't have to spend their days sick in bed or walking long distances to collect water. Clean water has improved the villagers' health and saved many walk hours a day. We have put in place two intervention;
Construction of concrete water tanks
They help in harvesting rain water. It costs $5,000 to construct a 30,000 litres water tank which can be for a school and $1,500 for a 5,000 litres water tank which can be for a family. Donations for this project in the past helped us construct two concrete water tanks at one of the high schools in the area. Several sponsors have also been able to donate concrete water tanks to their sponsored families.
Apart from saving energy for the children, this initiative has helped to provide safe water for all the children and adults.Help us to provide safe Water to more people.
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The bio-sand filters that we purchase are supplied by Tiva Water and they come from USA. Due to poverty, many people sleep in grass thatched houses which make it hard for a family to harvest rain water.
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Dear Maynard,
Is there some kind of club you're the president of? A club, maybe, where you get together with all the other animals I watch and compare notes on how to best get me committed? I ask because it seems like you have passed on your favorite trick to little Trixie. You know which one I'm talking about, the one where you would stand outside and not pee because you preferred peeing indoors on the new carpet. There were several times when I nearly drop kicked you out the second story window (And it would not be the first time I have drop kicked a tiny dog. No, not the first.) because I could not take another night of waking up to the sound of you peeing on the floor beside me.
It's your right to pass on your wisdom, but I'm a little upset that you shared it with Trixie. She's always been really good to me. You may not know this but I was there when she left behind the rough and tumble life on the streets and became a Dog of Elegant Leisure. I was at work and a PE teacher from the middle school across the street brought her in and said that she found her roaming around the track. One of my bosses decided to take her home so instead of going to the pound she got to spend the afternoon curled up in a little ball on my lap. She was very sweet. And she was my very first house sitting gig. So she and her pal Brutus hold a special place in my heart. Why did you have to go and ruin it? She would not stop peeing in the house!
And I feel like I should warn you here. The student is now the master. She has totally surpassed you in number of indoor puddles in one day. Yesterday I had to clean up after her 5 times. And that was even with both back doors open all day long. She would sun herself by the pool for hours and hours and then prance inside and let loose on the tile.
You win. I always knew you would.


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Richard Erdman, best known to audiences as Korean War veteran Leonard "Bucket of Guts" Rodriguez in the comedy series Community, has died. He was 93.
Erdman died Saturday, according to film historian Alan K. Rode, who shared a photo of the actor with the caption reading, "Goodbye pal. Dick Erdman 1925-2019." The actor's reps did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation.
Though he endeared himself to a new generation of audiences with his comedic supporting role across all six seasons of the NBC and Yahoo comedy, Erdman had an extensive resume as a character actor with many notable turns in projects throughout Hollywood's Golden Age. Most notably, he played a cynical, alcoholic ex-Marine in 1951 noir classic Cry Danger opposite noir stalwarts Dick Powell and Rhonda Fleming. He also played opposite William Holden in 1953's POW drama Stalag 17 as barracks chief Sergeant "Hoffy" Hoffman.
Erdman shared screen time with some of Hollywood's biggest names, including appearing opposite Marlon Brando in the method actor's feature film debut The Men. He portrayed Leo, a patient in a veterans' paraplegic ward who helps Brando's Ken adjust to his new life.
Other memorable roles include a turn as garrulous barfly McNulty in an iconic The Twilight Zone episode, "A Kind of a Stopwatch," and as Colonel Edward F. French in 1970's Pearl Harbor dramatization Tora! Tora! Tora! His last onscreen appearance was in 2017 as himself in ABC sitcom Dr. Ken in an episode where Ken Jeong's autobiographical doctor attends an audition. Jeong posted a tribute to his co-star on Saturday night, including a tribute reel of some of Erdman's most memorable moments on Community.
Community costar Yvette Nicole Brown also shared a tribute to Erdman, writing, "I knew the day we'd have to say goodbye to this lovely man would come sooner than any of us were ready. But knowing that doesn't make it any easier. #RichardErdman was JOY walking. Anyone who saw him on @CommunityTV gleeflully stealing every scene he was in knows that's true."
Writer Andy Bobrow shared a page of "Shut Up Leonard" jokes in Erdman's honor.
Richard Erdman was born John Richard Erdmann on June 1, 1925 in Enid, Oklahoma. Raised in Colorado Springs, he moved to Los Angeles in 1941 at the encouragement of his high school drama teacher. Erdman began his career with a studio contract at Warner Bros. making his screen debut in Bette Davis classic Mr. Skeffington and playing a bumbling boyfriend in 1944's Janie.
He made over 30 films at Warner Bros. over the course of his time there through 1947, and he appeared in over 160 film, television, and theatre projects across his entire professional life. Other notable films include Objective, Burma!, The Blue Gardenia, Saddle the Wind, and You're in the Navy Now.
Erdman also worked steadily in television throughout his career with recurring roles on series like Where's Raymond?, Perry Mason, and The Tab Hunter Show. He made countless guest star appearances on everything from Cheers to Wings to The Beverly Hillbillies to I Dream of Jeannie to Felicity. Most will remember him as rowdy Leonard, one of the Hipsters (named after their hip replacements) at Greendale Community College on Community.
He also dabbled in directing, helming the feature film The Brothers O'Toole in 1971 and two episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show.
He is preceded in death by his only daughter, Erica, and second wife Sharon Randall, whom he was married to from 1953 until her death in 2016.
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In his latest Guardian column, the perpetually befuddled George Monbiot wants to tell us that Greece's current problems are actually caused by an extreme version of what he calls 'neoliberal market fundamentalism'.
treaty, establishing the European Union and the euro, was built on a lethal
delusion: a belief that the ECB could provide the only common economic governance
that monetary union required. It arose from an extreme version of market
fundamentalism: if inflation were kept low, its authors imagined, the magic of
the markets would resolve all other social and economic problems, making
politics redundant. Those sober, suited, serious people, who now pronounce
themselves the only adults in the room, turn out to be demented utopian
fantasists, votaries of a fanatical economic cult." Maastricht
It's incredible how, when you only have a hammer in your mental toolbox every problem seems like a nail. But it's also interesting to see how to hard left extremists things slightly less extreme yet still very economically left can seem to them to be right wing - a bit like how warm water feels hot when your hand has just been in very cold water.
I am completely at a loss as to how George Monbiot can think us neo-liberals - you know we who argue for small state interference, open global trade, the celebration of national diversity, and a drastic reduction in bureaucracy, can be to blame for the present day big top-down interfering, globally restrictive, nationally homogenous, stuffily bureaucratic European superstate and the problems of some of its struggling nations.
Because George Monbiot thinks neoliberal free markets are the cause of most of the world's ills, and because
currently going through one of those ills, he assumes that the former must be
the cause of the latter. But it just isn't so. Greece
Let's tell things as they are - the problem with this European superstate is that it is devoid of the open free market qualities that many of its countries so badly need. The federal state of
Europe is an overblown political project, showing not the
slightest reason to think that monetary unity could make it a successful
economic project. The Greek situation shows the result of numerous poor
decisions, but also it shows the danger of a fanciful idea of a European
superstate with a single currency. I wouldn't be surprised if the EU breaks
down in the future - but until then, a few comments about as
things stand. Greece
The Greek economy gave indications of going this way as far back as the 80s - in recent times it has been a country that doesn't focus on market-based wealth creation but more on wealth extraction through top down management. It's a great example of the failure of leftist economics - the focus on other people's money rather than small government and economic growth. A country's ability to generate growth is roughly commensurate with its ability to allow the market to facilitate that growth. That's why places like
Portugal and Spain struggled after the crash and why much
less so. England England has one
huge advantage too - and that is, it has . London
exit the Eurozone, revert back to the drachma (and a concomitant devaluation),
there could be a slow climb. In real terms Greek wages and prices would sharply
fall, and the Greece would effectively be
locked out of capital markets for a while, but if it learned how to create
wealth it could then gradually price itself back into the global market. As
things stand currently this looks unlikely. Greek
By printing more of the drachma, this lowers the value of the currency in international markets, but it also makes Greek exports more competitive. Add to that the lowering of domestic interest rates, which then encourages domestic investment, and it can potentially make the servicing of their debts for Greek debtors more conducive too.
Alas, when you are locked in a shared monetary policy with the rest of
this won't happen. The monetary policy of the European Central Bank is
Germany-friendly, not Greece-friendly. It's Hobson's choice for the Greek people
- massively increased debts, or Grexit and a depression that could last a long
while longer. The IMF, which has a questionable record of international policy,
has been loading
up to the waist with debts in exchange for austerity and huge tax increases,
which only exacerbates things. Greece
To recover in the long term,
needs an awful lot more of those things George Monbiot laments, not less of
them. What Greece needs is not going to be likely under this current European
superstate - its advocates have a lot resting on it working, and they don't
want anything to spoil what they hope will be (but evidently won't be) an
unspoiled legacy. Greece


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GEC 8-inch metal-cone "FR" loudspeaker, Cat. No. B
GEC 8-inch metal-cone "FR" loudspeaker, Cat. No. BCS1851, in cabinet, c. 1953
- Category:
- Radio Communication
- Object Number:
- 1985-208
- credit:
- Barber, C.P.
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Officially opened in June 2017, Graduate Richmond celebrates southern charm and urban creativity. The 205-room hotel is located on Franklin Street, ideally situated one block from Virginia Commonwealth University, walking distance to the Virginia State Capitol building, downtown Richmond and the Broad Street dining and entertainment district. The hotel also features two food and beverage concepts: Brookfield, a lobby café, and Byrd House, the hotel's newly opened sixteenth floor rooftop bar.
Drawing inspiration from Richmond's forward-thinking mindset, Graduate Richmond encapsulates the city's social creativity and cultural innovation. From warm walnut paneling in the lobby to grey and blue plaid carpeting in the guest rooms, Graduate Richmond's design evokes collegiate prep while paying homage to the town's rich history.
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- Here is the very rare and one of the most difficult pieces in the Hess collection to acquire.
- The set has all original parts including the box.
- There are no reproduction parts on this item.
- Hess re-introduced the same fire truck in 1971 but ran out of the colorful boxes midway through production and replaced them with a plain box with no graphics.
- The service station attendants were in charge of applying the "Season's Greetings' sticker on top of the box when the item was purchased at the stations.
- Many customers were disappointed not getting the colorful box but little did they know how valuable it would become!
- The truck is a replica of the actual fire engine used at the Hess refineries and storage terminals.
- Some of these trucks are still in service today at the plants.
- This is a pumper style truck in 9.9 condition with bright chrome.
- There are two removable hoses on one side, a ladder on the other, a swivel water cannon and a rotating light that flashes on the top of the cab.
- Battery compartment is clean (see pic) and the light on top works great.
- Box is plain and all original with the "Season's Greetings" sticker across the top.
- The box shows some wear and has a few faint stains (see pic) but great condition for its age
- Bottom of the box has the paper company stamp on it but difficult to photo (see pic).
- Included in the box are all 4 inserts and the battery card in excellent condition also all original. A great collectible at a great price!
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By MICHAEL LETENDRE
BRISTOL – All the Bristol Legion baseball team has to do is hit the ball.
That's because its defense and pitching is always there but once those bats starting coming alive for Post 2, good things always seem to happen.
The squad from Pittsfield, Mass. learned that fact and quickly fell behind against Bristol on Friday, Aug. 7.
Post 2 notched four runs in a blazing seventh inning of play, watched it completely evaporate as Pittsfield matched that total to tie it up at 5-5 before Bristol notched two in the ninth to wrap up a 7-5 victory from Muzzy Field in Bristol, staying alive in the Northeast Regional Tournament.
Notching just six previous hits over the first two games of the fray combined, Post 2 exploded for nine hits and when offense was needed, Post 2 delivered.
"We got some hits today," said Bristol coach Jerry LaPenta. "You know what, the guys stepped up. When we took that 5-2 lead, and [starting pitcher] Jerry [LaPenta] kind of ran out of gas there, they came back and tied it and we could have easily popped our balloon there and just rolled over and died."
"But Jaeden [Rasmus] got a huge hit."
Rasmus, in fact, hit two huge doubles in game play, going 2-of-4 overall with two runs scored and three RBI.
His two base blast to left field in the bottom of the ninth proved to be the game winning hit of the event.
"He went back to wood," said LaPenta of Rasmus. "He hit great with wood, he didn't with aluminum. He just didn't have the feel for it. So I told him he's probably not going to use aluminum in high school either next year…he should stay with the wood."
Ricky Lemke went 2-of-4 with an RBI and two runs scored; big Chadd Richardson also wrapped up two hits and scored twice; while Jalen Benoit, Troy Micale, and LaPenta all angled up hits in the winning effort.
Bristol was the away team in the contest as Pittsfield won the coin toss and earned the right to be the home squad of the affair.
Micale could care less as he slapped a single up the middle with one out gone in the first inning. But two fly ball outs later, the Massachusetts squad came up for its first at-bats.
In the second, Pittsfield went to work offensively.
Dom Traversa singled to left to start the frame, stole second, and went to third base when a pickoff attempt by LaPenta was chucked into centerfield.
It appeared as the gaff would be for naught as the next two batters grounded out with Traversa stuck on third.
But Kevin Squires dropped in a ball that was just inside the right field line – legging out a triple – as Travesa scored to make it a 1-0 contest after two completed frames.
And then with the Bristol bats silent in the third, Pittsfield went right back to work.
Chad Shade singled to center, swiped second and moved to third when Kevin Donati dropped a base hit into left – putting runners on the corners.
Donati quickly stole second to put two runners in scoring position with just one out gone in the frame.
But Bristol made up for it when Benoit ran back to snatch a Anthony Jones fly-ball from landing in cleanly and quickly – with coach LaPenta instructing his outfielder to get ball to third base – got out number three at the bag when Donati left early in what should have easily been a sacrifice fly that would have given Massachusetts a 2-0 edge.
In the end, the game remained a 1-0 affair after three completed frames.
Post 2 didn't give its defense much of a break in the fourth and went down in order quickly and Pittsfield was right back at it from the plate.
Mitch Cleay drilled a two-out single down the left field line but Squires grounded out to Micale at short and the deficit for Bristol remained a reasonable one run.
And then, Bristol finally woke up offensively.
With one gone in the fray, Richardson unleashed a stinging double to left while Benoit slipped a single just passed the dirt in short right field.
There were runners on the corners when Lemke fired a screamer to third base that was too hot to stop, plating Richardson, as the game was quickly tied at 1-1.
Rasums was up with runners on first and second but bounced into a 6-3 double play.
However, the damage was done and the contest was all knotted up at 1-1.
Pittsfield went down in order to close out the sixth but in the seventh, Post 2 loaded the bases with just one out.
Richardson singled, Benoit walked and Lemke flipped out a base hit to juice the bases.
And then, Rasmus unleashed a double to center – scoring both Richardson and Benoit to make it a 3-1 game.
LaPenta followed with a flare to left, scoring Lemke – who nicely eluded the tag at home plate – and then Micale dropped a sacrifice fly into left and when Rasmus scored the final run of the frame – Bristol's edge reached 5-1 midway through the seventh.
But Pittsfield refused to yield as Clary singled up the middle and Squires walked to open their portion of the seventh and the tying run was in the on deck circle.
Shade flipped out an RBI single into center and when he stole second, two runners were in scoring position with one out.
"I thought Pittsfield was the best hitting team we faced all year," said LaPenta. "They were some big guys that took some swings. There were some college kids and some older kids. That was by far the best hitting team we've seen all year."
Carusotto then represented the tying run in the batters box and he drew a full count before his RBI groundout plated Squires to make it a 5-3 game.
Donati earned a walk and with runners on first and third, Pittsfield had the ability to tie or take the lead.
And Jones knotted it up as his long double to left scored two and off the hit, the game was tied up at 5-5 and LaPenta was done for the day.
"I was happy with the job Jerry did," said LaPenta of his son. "He was throwing strikes. We were in the game. It was 1-0 and 1-1 for a long time there so we got seven innings out of him. I was happy."
St. Paul's Wes Lahey moved on to pitch and generated the final out of the inning but it was a brand new game at 5-5.
Then, Post 2 made its stab at the lead in the top of the ninth and final frame.
Lemke reached base via error and Rasmus smashed a double to left-center and the lead runner was looking to score after rounding third base.
The throw in was on the money to nab Lemke but the catcher couldn't grasp the ball as Bristol went in front 6-5.
And then Lahey, forced to bat in the leadoff position, dropped in a safety squeeze and Rasmus was quickly charging home.
But the catcher bungled the ball again and when Rasmus scored off the miscue, Post 2's edge reached 7-5.
"I left him in because we were kind of short on pitching," said LaPenta of Lahey. "That was his first at-bat all year and I told him 'hey, it was three safety squeezes in a row brother.' And the first pitch, he got it down, put the pressure on the defense and what can you say?"
"[In terms of pitching], It was a big spot for a young guy to come in and pick up the win, threw strikes…it was awesome."
Suddenly, Pittsfield was down to its final three at-bats of the campaign and trailing by two.
But Burney made a hit-saving catch in right to close out the game and Bristol impressively advanced in the tournament with a two run win, 7-5.
"We've got another day," said LaPenta. "After today, there's only going to be 32 teams left in the whole country. So hey, we can say we're one of them too."
NOTES…On Saturday, Aug. 8, Bristol defeated CT state champion RCP by a 3-2 final and advanced to "Championship Sunday"…On Championship Sunday, Bristol defeated Cumberland 9-8 in 12 innings to advance to the finals…And in the Northeast Regional Final – an all Connecticut final – Post 2 fell to RCP, 5-0 as the Rocky Hill, Cromwell and Portland grouping is headed to the World Series in Shelby, North Carolina…The Bristol Observer will have stories for both the RCP games and the Cumberland, Rhode Island contest in next week's edition.
Hitting comes through as Post 2 defeats Pittsfield
By MICHAEL LETENDRE


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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:17
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noun: CrossFit; noun: Cross Fit
A high-intensity fitness program incorporating elements from several sports and types of exercise.
noun - trademark
noun: CrossFit; noun: Cross Fit
A high-intensity fitness program incorporating elements from several sports and types of exercise.
Stay with me! I'm not talking about Crossfit for your body, so let's rename it to CrossCT (Cross Creative Training).
That's right, a one-hour exercise program for writers to keep our brains engaged and active. I hope y'all try this! I'm gonna! Ready? 3, 2, 1, GO!
- 5 minutes of hard and fast writing only dialogue
- 10 minutes, new characters, describing scene
- 5 minutes, same characters, short world-building in a genre other than your own
- 5 minutes learning the definition of a new word by randomly flipping open the dictionary and popping your finger down
- 10 minutes, four new characters telling the reader their first impressions of one another
- 5 minutes of micro-plotting
- 5 minutes of speed editing the first dialogue you wrote
- 10 minutes of prose with no dialogue using the word you just learned
- 5 minutes of typing out a conversation with one of your characters
And you're done! That seems fun, right? Anyway, what I'm trying to get to here is that you should take terms and things you're familiar with and apply them to your writing. Have some fun. Flex your muscles!
Never stop learning how to write, market, and do. This is your career.
What do you think? You gonna give it a whirl?
I'll post my results sometime next week. Should be fun!
Well, that's all for today, folks! Until next time, WRITE ON!


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- The fact that Harry was able to teach the DA members, some of them older than him, and do a pretty good job at it despite having had only 2 competent teachers (one of whom was not actually a teacher at all) teaching him before counts as one. And the fact that his training really pays off for them in the next two books.
- The one thing that each and every teacher agrees on: Umbridge must go.
- When someone is such a horrible teacher that Severus Snape is rising up against her, you know it's awesome.
- When someone is such a horrible teacher that a stickler for the rules, like Minerva McGonagall lets people - and one uncontrollable poltergeist — break the rules, you know it's awesome.
- One of Neville's better crowning moments of awesome is in when he's crippled, unable to cast spells, and still stabs a Death Eater in the eye with Hermione's wand.
- The fact that Harry and his friends, a bunch of fifth-years and fourth-years, managed to escape and defend themselves against about a dozen trained and deadly Death Eaters for quite some time was pretty amazing. As is the fact that Harry initially buys time by taunting them about Voldemort being half-blood.
- Fred and George Weasley get their moment when they leave the school, and set off a chain of events as a giant "fuck you" to Umbridge that all count as Funny Moments.Umbridge: So - you think it amusing to turn a school corridor into a swamp, do you?
Fred: Pretty amusing, yeah.
Umbridge: You two are about to learn what happens to wrongdoers in my school.
Fred: You know what? I dont think we are. George, I think weve outgrown full-time education.
George: Yeah, Ive been feeling that way myself.
Fred: Time to test our talents in the real world, dyou reckon?
George: Definitely.
Both: Accio brooms!
- "Give her hell from us, Peeves."
- It gets even better: not only does Peeves do as he was told, he saluted Fred and George as they left. Earning that amount of respect from Peeves, of all people...
- And then we have all of the teachers letting Umbridge get hoisted by her own petard (metaphorically) and the twins (literally) by making her run all through Hogwarts to help them with the twins' fireworks (bonus points since, while Umbridge finds it extremely difficult to deal with them, they would have no problem at all doing it on their own). Flitwick gets the crown by openly mocking Umbridge to her face for it, and suffering no consequences at all.Flitwick: I could have cleared it up myself, of course, but I wasn't sure I had the authority. . .
- As well as everything that the mass of unnamed students who took up after the twins left did. Hexing Umbridge's minions, making themselves sick to get out of class (her class, specifically), putting Nifflers in her room, the list goes on.
- And before that, the speech they give to Hermione declaring that they don't care about getting thrown out anymore; in fact, they're only staying at all to do their bit for Dumbledore.
- One of the Slytherins tries to use his Umbridge-given powers to bully Fred and George. He ends up stuck in Vanishing Cabinet limbo for weeks.
- Which is mildly degraded by the fact that this (very inadvertently) led to Dumbledore's death.
- But Dumbledore would've died anyway due to wearing Gaunt's ring later that summer. So this actually gave Dumbledore a quick and painless way out, and prevented Voldemort from gaining full control of the Elder Wand, even if his plan didn't quite go right.
- After Umbridge left, Flitwick removed the swamp they made, which Umbridge had been trying to get rid of for months with no success, in about 3 seconds, leaving just a small patch, commenting it was "A nice piece of Charms work".
- Bellatrix overdid her share of amazing things during the series, but her crowning moment of awesome occurred in the end of The Order of the Phoenix, where she defeated Tonks, Sirius, and Kingsley, which were half of The Order of the Phoenix present at the battle. Not only that, but she deflected Dumbledore's spell, while all the other Death Eaters were easily caught by that same spell. She also delivered a Curb-Stomp Battle with Harry when he tries attacking her. None of this was shown during the movie, but Helena Bonham Carter's acting made up for that flaw. Of course, she was later owned by Dumbledore's enchanted statue, but still, it took Dumbledore to defeat her.
- Antonin Dolohov also proved to be very capable during the battle. First, he almost killed Hermione, crippled Neville, defeated Mad-Eye Moody (who was once a legendary Death Eater catcher and is still a very powerful wizard!), and was on the verge of defeating Sirius before Harry hit him in the back with a spell. For a minor character, Dolohov clearly made his mark.
- Dumbledore destroying the Ministry's trumped-up charges against Harry and calling them out for their corruption, all while being completely calm and extremely polite.
- Damn near everything McGonagall does, period, which, again, also count as Funny Moments. Especially her response to being inspected by Umbridge in Order of the Phoenix.
Umbridge: Something you'd like to say, dear?
- This deserves some elaboration: Umbridge is constantly interrupting McGonagall's lesson to harp on some trivial thing. Eventually, McGonagall turns to her and calmly, but with unmistakable snark, asks how she expects to learn anything about McGonagall's teaching methods if she insists on interrupting, as talking during the Transfiguration lesson is not generally allowed. Not only does Umbridge hold her tongue until the end of class after being admonished by McGonagall, she doesn't follow her around as she does with the other teachers. Harry wonders if this is because she thinks it wouldn't be allowed.
- He's probably (read: definitely) right; McGonagall was able to keep James Potter and Sirius Black in line in her classes - a miracle in itself - so Umbridge has no chance in hell of following her around.
- "It unscrews the other way." That is all.
- On a similar note, her inability to join Peeves in chasing Umbridge from the school is because he had stolen her walking stick, which he used to whack Umbridge with. The way it's written - and said, on the audio tape - makes it plainly clear that Peeves went to McGonagall and told her explicitly what he was going to use it for and she allowed him to use it.
- McGonagall railing all over Umbridge's attempts to crush Harry, saying she'll do everything she can to get him made an Auror even if she has to die in the process, all the while giving Umbridge the hate glare. Awesome.
- Made even more awesome by the fact that Harry doesn't just become an Auror, but the head of the Aurors. Yes, McGonagall did it in the end!
- And as McGonagall and Harry are discussing his career ambitions, Umbridge keeps clearing her throat to get their attention. McGonagall ignores her at first, then starts offering her cough drops. It's after this that she starts cutting Dolores Umbridge down to size in epic fashion.
- "You are raving," said McGonagall, superbly disdainful. "Superbly disdainful". I mean, right?
- Professor Umbridge stood up. Since she was so short, this didn't make much of a difference... Professor McGonagall stood up. In her case, the effect was much more impressive.
- McGonagall's answer to Umbridge about Harry getting poor grades in her subject: "I should have made myself plainer: he has achieved high scores on exams applied by a competent teacher." which, at that point, pretty much meant the fake Moody from the previous year... and Lupin. Umbridge must have loved that.
- Even better is the fact that she looked Umbridge dead in the eyes while saying that. This wiped the simpering smile right off Umbridge's face and replaced it with a stupid look that would've made Goyle proud.
- It also means that Mc Gonagall is placing Gilderoy freaking Lockhart above Umbridge.
- It may not have achieved anything, but she ran into battle against four Aurors to stop them arresting Hagrid. And taking four Stunners in the chest in the process. Madam Pomfrey assures Harry that none of those four Aurors, whom McGonagall herself earlier described as exceptionally talented elites who underwent three years of harsh training, would have stood a chance against McGonagall in a fair fight. They had to resort to suddenly whirling round to attack her without warning.
- Even more awesome: McGonagall survives this. Madam Pomfrey is pretty clear that a woman of McGonagall's age and constitution, hit at that close range in the chest by Stunning Spells that powerful, could very easily have died, but Minerva's not done yet.
- She also offered to duel Fudge, Umbridge, and two Aurors on Dumbledore's behalf and only backed off when Dumbledore told her that Hogwarts needed her.
- McGonagall protecting Trelawney from Umbridge. She may disdain the woman's profession, but NO ONE is throwing one of her teachers out but her. Her moment goes to Dumbledore in the movie, but Maggie Smith's icy glare to Umbridge while standing in front of a sobbing Trelawney deserves a mention of its own.
McGonagall: There are several things I would like to say!
- The title of the 36th chapter (yes, a chapter title is a CMoA) says everything you need to know about Voldemort's true view of Dumbledore: "The Only One He Ever Feared".
- The whole chapter is a CMOA for Dumbledore and Voldemort. The two most powerful wizards in the world show us, definitively, how they earned their titles.
- Dumbledore vs. Voldemort. Here we have the two best wizards in the series dueling and showing Harry why exactly everyone shows such fear and awe towards them.
- For most of the duel Voldemort actively tries to kill Dumbledore. Dumbledore on the other hand merely spends most of the battle casually blocking or deflecting Voldemort's spells, though once he starts throwing them back Voldemort quickly realizes that he cannot win and flees! Dumbledore literally scared Voldemort off without even trying too hard! Imagine what he could do if he'd really been trying to win.
- In a blink-or-miss it CMOA that was cut from the movie, Voldemort nearly gets Dumbledore with a Killing Curse combined with Teleport Spam. Unfortunately for him, Dumbledore is so Crazy-Prepared that he had an out for any drop in his own guard. Before the killing curse hits Dumbledore, Just in Time, Fawkes swoops in and takes the blast, saving Dumbledore.
- There is also Dumbledore mocking Voldemort for being unable to accept the concept of Fate Worse than Death.
- After that, he states (and is probably not bluffing) that he's ready to take on every one of Fudge's people there, and win again. And then he creates an illegal Portkey right in front of Fudge's eyes and hands it to Harry, before offering Fudge half an hour of his time, and telling him that if Fudge has any more questions, "letters addressed to the Headmaster will find me." After all that, he has the patience to help Harry through the initial onset of grief and rage. Ladies and gentlemen, Albus Percival Wulfric Badass Dumbledore.
- You have to give Voldemort some credit though. He arrived at the Ministry knowing that the only wizard he feared was there and he engaged said wizard in a duel promising to kill him.
- Dumbledore showing up right when the Order members begin losing to the Death Eaters. By the time the Death Eaters realize what's going on, Dumbledore already has his wand out and quickly disables all of them (except Bellatrix Lestrange and he even gets her soon enough). As soon as he arrives Harry instantly thought to himself "we are saved" before Dumbledore had even done anything except show up!
- As a prefect at Hogwarts, and especially in her house, it was only a matter of time before Hermione had her authority challenged by the red-headed twins of chaos Fred and George. When she stands up to them, and they stand up to her, they taunt her with challenges to give them detention. But Hermione utterly terrifies them with the promise, "I'm going to write a letter to your mother." Made even better, because the twins immediately complied, an act which was never seen before, or since.
- This is pretty justified, as it's been well-established across the series that you do not make Molly Weasley angry. Fred and George would know how she would react to their antics and how she would disapprove. They'd sooner just get detention than have her on their case. And Hermoine's hung out with the Weasleys enough to know that.
- It then becomes even more awesome when you remember that, in Deathly Hallows, we see just how scary Molly can be when you royally and truly piss her off.
- This is pretty justified, as it's been well-established across the series that you do not make Molly Weasley angry. Fred and George would know how she would react to their antics and how she would disapprove. They'd sooner just get detention than have her on their case. And Hermoine's hung out with the Weasleys enough to know that.
- After Umbridge grabs the student Marietta Edgecombe in Dumbledore's office, shaking her very hard, before anyone can see him, Dumbledore pulls out his wand and says that he will not allow her to harm one of his students; it even mentions that it was one of the few times that anyone has ever seen Dumbledore angry. May also double as a Heartwarming Moment to see how much Dumbledore cares for his students. Umbridge is rightfully terrified
- Keep in mind that Marietta was the one who betrayed the others and Dumbledore in the first place. Dumbledore will even protect the students who work against him.
- During that scene, Kingsley modified that student's memory to make it seem like there were only two meetings of the DA. On the spot, without getting noticed. So either he had his wand hidden up his sleeve, or he did an excellent Memory Charm, on the fly, wandlessly.
- Actually Harry noticed. Kingsley had smartly used the time where the rest were distracted by Dumbledore and making use of the fact that he was behind Harry by using Harry's body as a coverscreen.
- The fact that Harry after noticed Kingsley's spell, is capable to recognize the effects of the Memory Charm in Marietta and links the two facts in about five seconds.
- Dumbledore assures Fudge that he won't be taking on him, 2 Aurors and his Senior Undersecretary alone... "not unless [they were] foolish enough to force [him] to".
- Made better by Phineus Nigellus line which ends the chapter "You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style..."
- "You seem to be laboring under the delusion that I am going to — what is the phrase? 'Come quietly.' I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course — but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing."
- This has to be elaborated on: Azkaban is a prison guarded by creatures that literally suck all the joy and happiness out of the prisoners, leaving most of them with no will to even contemplate breaking out, which only one person has ever broken out of... and Dumbledore says he wouldn't want to break out because it's a waste of his time and he'd rather be doing something else. He's talking breaking out of a maximum security wizard prison the way most people talk about minor troublesome tasks and given that Gellert Grindelwald, who only lost out on the top spot of "supreme evil wizard" because Voldemort came along, didn't dare come to Britain while Dumbledore was around, Dumbledore is someone you do not trifle with.
- By the way, they are foolish enough to try and force him. They don't even get time to act. Also, he's able to only hit the four who are coming at him (although Kingsley was actually on Dumbledore's side, not to mention savvier than the others, but they couldn't risk blowing his cover) and them only, leaving the other people in the room completely unharmed.
- Even better - Dumbledore says he wouldn't want to break out of Azkaban because it's a waste of his time and he'd rather be doing something else, but he later breaks into the Ministry of Magic - apparently without breaking a sweat.
- You've gotta give Percy some credit. He might act horribly toward Harry and his family throughout the whole book, but consider this: his family never had that much of a reputation in the Ministry, and now they are also all really close to the boy the Ministry is accusing to be a fraud and the wizard they are accusing to be actually trying to overthrow the Ministry, and yet that doesn't seem to slow down Percy's career in the slightest. An awful prick he might be, but the kid is good at his work.
- Hermione showing just how much she owned Rita in the Three Broomsticks. Also (while pretty cruel) that she had the foresight to see that one of DA might betray them and came up with a jinx that even Pomfrey couldn't remove to mark them — and her spell incapacitated Marietta enough that she was prevented from spilling too much about the DA. Not to mention that she came up with a pretty good lie to keep Umbridge from torturing Harry later on.
- Snape, showing nothing but contempt to Umbridge when she catches Harry and the DA. Especially awesome when he's telling her to suck it using lame excuses when asked for Veritaserum, and you realize later on that he was the first to inform the Order of the situation.
- And he gets in a lovely little Stealth Insult: "You surely didn't use it all? I told you that three drops would suffice." Umbridge can only look embarrassed and put him on probation, which he makes clear that he doesn't take seriously.
- Even better, it was revealed that the Veritaserum he gave her was a dud anyway.
- Snape hates literally everything. When Umbridge is around, however, everything else gets some time off while he masterfully drags her.
- Hermione Granger vs. the Ministry of Magic's propaganda campaign. Hermione wins.
- "None of them had seen Hagrid in a real temper before..." Umbridge has two teachers dismissed from Hogwarts during her reign as High Inquisitor: Professor Trelawney (Divination teacher) and Professor Hagrid (Care of Magical Creatures teacher), the former because she wasn't actually a prophet (or so she thought), the latter because he was a half-giant. When Professor Trelawney is dismissed, she cries like a baby, begging Umbridge to let her stay, saying "Hogwarts is my home!" and generally being really pathetic, even though it was a sad scene nonetheless. When Hagrid is dismissed, does he cry? No. Does he beg to be allowed to stay? No. What does he do? He delivers an epic Curb-Stomp Battle to the four Aurors (read: exceptionally powerful wizards) that came to take him away, with his bare hands, while holding his unconscious dog under his arm, while the whole time Stunning Spells are bouncing uselessly off him (which Hermione later explains is due to his giant's blood, giants being notoriously hard to Stun). Umbridge is freaking terrified, two of the Aurors get knocked out cold by Hagrid (who as mentioned before, is not using any magic, and is facing a team of the most highly-skilled wizards there are), and it ends with Hagrid fleeing into the Forbidden Forest, still being bombarded with spells that are doing absolutely nothing to him.Dawlish: "Be reasonable, Hagrid!"
Hagrid: "Reasonable be damned! Yeh'r not takin' me like this, Dawlish!"
- Even better... Before the Aurors hit McGonagall and Fang, Hagrid was just defending himself and trying to reason. Them attacking McGonagall and Fang hit his Berserk Button, and only then he delivered a brutal Curb-Stomp Battle in two seconds flat. He went in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge... then saw they weren't worth the trouble, picked up his dog and quietly left.
- Just to hammer it home - Hagrid's hands are, in the first book, described as being "as big as dustbin lids". This means that two of the Aurors were knocked unconscious by hands the size of dustbin lids hitting them with all the force an eleven foot six inch tall half-giant can hit someone with.
- Even better... Before the Aurors hit McGonagall and Fang, Hagrid was just defending himself and trying to reason. Them attacking McGonagall and Fang hit his Berserk Button, and only then he delivered a brutal Curb-Stomp Battle in two seconds flat. He went in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge... then saw they weren't worth the trouble, picked up his dog and quietly left.
- Hagrid also gets one earlier on when he saved Firenze from about a dozen centaurs in the woods. Though we don't get to see this, it really shows that you do not mess with Hagrid. Later on when Hagrid is in the woods with Harry and Hermione, the centaurs attempt to threaten them only for Hagrid to put them in their places. Though the centaurs let them off with a warning because he is with "foals" it's possible that they were simply too wary of Hagrid after the last time.
- Neville standing up to Bellatrix in the Ministry of Magic. Keep in mind, this isn't some rent-a-cop Death Eater. This is Bellatrix freaking Lestrange, arguably the most dangerous witch in the world, the one who tortured his parents into insanity. And not only does he meet her taunt ("Why, I've had the pleasure of meeting your parents, boy!") with pure, unadulterated rage as opposed to fear, he charged in to save Harry. With a wand that didn't work properly for him. Unable to pronounce spells. His line "HE'S DOT ALONE! HE'S STILL GOD BE!" (Translation: "He's not alone! He's still got me!") qualifies as his first huge CMOA in the series. It was just a taste of the awesome to come.
- He was, in the DA, improving so rapidly that near the end of their lessons with Harry he was the second person after Hermione to master the spell they were learning. And even though he was injured, inarticulate and unable to perform magic, he still charged an armed Death Eater who could've killed him and stuck a wand in his eye to save Harry. Gryffindor, indeed.
- During the scene where Bellatrix is taunting him, Neville struggles so hard that the Death Eater restraining him asks for someone to Stun him. Neville is that determined to attack her, even bare-handed and with a broken nose, that a grown man asks that someone Stun a middle-school student.
- "Weasley Is Our King" is transformed from a mocking taunt to a song of triumph - one of the few victories that Ron wins for himself.
- Harry subdues Bellatrix while tracing her down, tapping into his Unstoppable Rage. This is the woman known as Voldemort's best lieutenant. She's supposed to be Voldemort's most skilled Death Eater, except for Snape. Harry has only ever had one, maybe two, competent Defence against the Dark Arts teachers and five years experience of fixing Hogwarts' problems on his side.
- It should be noted that he only "subdues" her for about two seconds. Once she gets up and starts getting serious Harry clearly finds himself outmatched. Still once he realizes how out of his league she is dueling wise he opts to taunt her by telling her the prophecy broke and that even if she kills him Voldemort will be furious with her for failing the mission. It works.
- And how does Harry subdue her temporarily? The Cruciatus Curse. Harry pulls out an Unforgivable Curse, he's just that angry. But Harry's real Moment of Awesome is that it only works temporarily, since as Bellatrix says, "you have to really mean them. Righteous anger won't hurt me for long." Despite being the angriest he's been in a book full of him being angry, Harry's still a fundamentally good enough person that he doesn't want to see a person he hates suffer horribly for no reason.
- Peeves is at his finest chasing off Umbridge and it is definitely one of the highlights of the book, especially for standing apart from the rest of the book.
- After a Quidditch match against Slytherin, Malfoy is being a poor sport and throwing his usual insults at the Weasleys and Harry. Harry is ushering the twins (Fred and George) away when Malfoy drops the bombshell: he insults Harry's deceased mother. A 3-on-1 brawl begins. Needless to say, it ended awesomely for the twins and Harry, despite the fact that Umbridge punished them.
- Two-on-one: Fred was being restrained by three people and later regrets not having been able to contribute.
- Peeves trying to invoke Falling Chandelier of Doom on Umbridge. Granted, it didn't work, but hey, it's the thought that counts.
- An off-page one for Lupin, who is the only Order member bar Dumbledore to escape the battle in the Department of Mysteries unscathed, even taking down Lucius Malfoy relatively quickly in a duel. Bear in mind that this same battle ended with Tonks (a junior Auror) unconscious, Moody (a hugely experienced Auror) pretty much incapacitated, Kingsley (another experienced Auror) injured and Sirius dead. Not bad for a geeky teacher.
- Tonks herself didn't do too badly — barely qualified as an Auror and she still manages to hold off Bellatrix freaking Lestrange for a lot of the battle. She also launched a stunning spell at Lucius Malfoy (though it's unknown if it hit, it was still enough to allow Harry to get away from him).
- Similarly, if in a smaller scale, there's a moment of awesome for Ron. He's the only one of the DA members, besides Harry, that was completely undefeated by any of the death eaters. He is incapacitated, but he's the only one besides Harry never to lose his wand or be restrained by any of the Death Eaters.
- Madame Maxime gets an off-page one as described by Hagrid. The Gurg (chief giant) they'd been negotiating with was killed in an uprising two days after they'd managed to make contact and the new one turned out to not be as welcoming. Hagrid was grabbed by two of the new Gurg's men and says that would have been the end of him if Maxime hadn't been there. "She pulled out her wand an' did some o' the fastes' spellwork I've ever seen. Ruddy marvelous. Hit the two holdin' me right in the eyes with Conjunctivitus Curses an' they dropped me straightaway—" Considering whose spellwork Hagrid has seen in his time and how multiple spells later bounce off him when he's only half-giant, this is high praise indeed.
- Hermione tricking Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest and getting the centaurs to take care of her by making good use of the latter's rampant bigotry.
- Malfoy and his gang getting blasted into quivering slugs when they decide to ambush Harry in front of a compartment full of DA members.
- After returning to Hogwarts, Dumbledore walks into the Forbidden Forest and singlehandedly rescues Umbridge from the centaurs. Not only that but he walks out of the forest without a scratch. Keep in mind that this is after Dumbledore asked Frienze to come teach at the school, meaning the centaurs probably weren't fans of Dumbledore at the moment.
- Granted the centaurs might not have an issue with Dumbledore, being as they were probably aware of Dumbledore's kind attitude towards magical creatures; they might have handed Umbridge right over. If that's the case, then it's even more awesome; Dumbledore can inspire the respect of a herd of (we-have-no-need-for-human-ways-or-laws, we'll-attack-whoever-we-want-in-our-forest) centaurs.
- Dumbledore's defense during Harry's trial, especially his brief What the Hell, Hero? speech to the court, ironically asking them since when the most important court of Britain is gathered to judge a minor offense done by a child. He completely crushes Fudge's rather flimsy accusations in about five minutes flat.
- The Order subtly threatening the Dursleys, saying that they'll find out if Harry is mistreated from here on out.
- Tonks is in this scene; Vernon Dursley trips over a luggage trolley and Tonks, the universal klutz who can barely stay on her own feet without falling over, does not actually fall over.
- Harry's done astonishingly well on his Defense Against the Dark Arts O.W.L. (teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts to a bunch of fellow students will have that effect) and the examiner is quite pleased. . . then notes that he heard Harry can produce a Patronus, and offers him extra credit if he does so. Harry looks at Umbridge (who, it turns out, sent the Dementors that made him use the Patronus that almost got him expelled at the beginning of the year), grins a shit-eating grin, imagines her getting sacked, and uses that as his "happy thought" to summon his stag Patronus, which canters down the hall as everyone stares at it in awe (except Umbridge, who's extremely annoyed). Harry leaves not only confident he's scored an "Outstanding" (which he has), but also having given Umbridge a big, silver, stag-shaped middle finger.
- Even better, it means someone from Harry's trial was openly defying Fudge to mention it to Professor Tofty.
- We learn that Frank and Alice were tortured into insanity by Death Eaters for information on Voldemort's whereabouts. However, those particular Death Eaters never actually learned anything about his whereabouts... which means that, despite the fact that were literally being tortured into insanity, they did not squeal.
- J.K. Rowling has revealed that, no matter what anyone else thinks, Luna is perfectly fine with how she is - she just gives no fucks to anyone else's thoughts: she is happy with who she is. Who else can say that?
- Assuming Luna is actually reading the Quibbler upside down and not just doing it to be weird, then she's very intelligent as it is notoriously hard to read backwards and/or upside down words.
- Grimmauld Place has doxies, a troll foot umbrella stand, a clock that shoots bolts and, as mentioned in Chapter 9, a burping bin! One wonders just what else is in that house?
- Harry averting Love Makes You Dumb when he calls out Cho for defending Marietta. Yes, it's a Kick the Dog moment where he tells her not to run off crying, but also Harry is not going to just let his crush for a girl forget that her so-called best friend would have let them all get expelled. He's right that Marietta made a choice, and it's her fault Umbridge became headmistress. What's more, Harry realizes that his crush was just infatuation, because if he actually knew Cho he would have known about her irrational loyalty to Marietta. Then he's fine with moving on from her when she goes on to date Michael Corner.
- To contrast, Ginny never has a moment of miscommunication with Harry, unlike Cho. When he isolates himself from everyone after Christmas, she tells him off for forgetting that Voldemort once possessed her. She tells him that if it had happened, he would have gaps in his memory, and would have ended up in places without knowing how he got there. Usually Harry is furious when his friends call him out; here, Ginny actually calms him down by reassuring him he's not the weapon that nearly got her father killed.
- While he's scared that he might have killed Arthur, Harry as a matter of fact saved him by alerting the Order in time about Nagini biting Mr. Weasley. Mrs. Weasley's thanks to Harry are well-earned.
- Can we please talk about Ron ripping up Percy's letter? I mean, Ron's dealt with most of his family ignoring/forgetting about/making fun of him all of his life, and now, Percy is giving him the chance for acceptance. More than that, Percy's giving him advice on how to get everything Ron saw in the Mirror of Erised! Head Boy, Quidditch Captain, holding the House Cup...if Ron had taken Percy's advice and dumped Harry and Hermione in favour of what Percy wanted, Umbridge probably would have put him on the path to getting all of those. Ron's greatest desire was to be someone important, admired and respected, like his brothers are and his two best friends, who are a world-renowned child superstar and the smartest person in school. What does Ron do instead? Rip up the letter and throw it in the fire, because he values his best friend Harry more than he values his desire for importance and respect. This troper has always theroized that this was the moment Hermione realized she "more than fancied" Ron.
- Sirius decking Lucius at the start of the fight in Order of the Phoenix. "Get away from my godson". *BAM!* The Malfoys seem to come off on the wrong end of CMoA's.
- Similarly, Harry and Sirius double-dueling with Lucius and Dolohov showcases how awesome our heroes are. Harry, whose only duels have been against Malfoy and Voldemort himself, manages to hold his own just as well as the experienced duelists with decades more experience. Sirius, for his part, seems to be simply enjoying himself.
- Lucius Malfoy, pure-blood extremist. Meet the fist - a Muggle form of fighting.
- Similarly, Harry and Sirius double-dueling with Lucius and Dolohov showcases how awesome our heroes are. Harry, whose only duels have been against Malfoy and Voldemort himself, manages to hold his own just as well as the experienced duelists with decades more experience. Sirius, for his part, seems to be simply enjoying himself.
- Professor Umbridge is begging for her life, pleading to not be attacked by the centaurs she rather stupidly insulted to their faces, one of whom she nearly strangled to death. She pleads, "Potter, do something! Tell them I mean no harm!" Harry - clearly remembering her 'punishment' - just glares at her and coldly replies:Sorry, Professor. But I must not tell lies.
- The Weasley twins destroying Umbridge's classroom... with fireworks... on brooms... during an exam.
- The whole scene was kickass. And after destroying her classroom, they create a giant fiery dragon's head, which chases after Umbridge. Then after it clamps down on her, it splits off into hundreds of little rockets, smashing into every single one of her precious decrees. They all fall off the wall, making a huge mess while the twins fly out of Hogwarts, with every single student cheering them on. The scene lingers on a giant W firework floating in the sky.
- At one point in the crowd, we see Professor Flitwick. He does a victory pose.
- There are even a handful of Slytherins in the giant crowd cheering for Fred and George.
- They don't give a damn if this gets them immediately kicked out of Hogwarts, as this act of rebellion gives them extraordinary publicty for the joke shop they open afterwards.
- When Dumbledore steps out of one of the fireplaces in the Ministry of Magic to fight Voldemort with one simple line. "It was foolish of you to come here tonight, Tom."
- Voldemort is no slouch during the final battle, producing a huge serpent made of fire and an implosion that shatters everything that's made of glass, then sending every shard of glass Dumbledore's way. For someone who fears Dumbledore, he certainly held his own (briefly).
- Dumbledore vs Voldemort need some elaboration: after their initial beam-o-war, every spell they unleash is essentially a counter to the other. Voldemort conjures a fire snake? Dumbledore traps him in a bubble of water. Voldemort shatters all the glass and flings the shards at Dumbledore? Dumbledore turns them into a fine powder with a shield spell. Whats more, there's no music so you focus entirely on the action.
- As noted above, Dumbledore was barely even trying to win. If he'd really gone all-out, they probably would've been picking pieces of Voldemort out of the walls.
- Harry overcoming Voldemort's possession by recalling all his happy memories of Sirius, Ron, and Hermione, combined with him ''pitying'' the Dark Lord before breaking the mirror in his mindscape containing Voldemort's reflection.
- "You're the weak one. And you'll never know love, or friendship... And I feel sorry for you!"
- Dumbledore is about to be arrested by Fudge, Umbridge and Kingsley... and down comes Fawkes. Dumbledore's hands grasp Fawkes's tail, Fawkes goes boom, and an enormous shockwave hits the room. Fawkes and Dumbledore are gone immediately. That was when you saw why Dumbledore had the rep he did; even his pets are dangerous.
- It gets better: the shock-wave slammed into everyone but Harry + Cho, and didn't affect anything else in the room. The level of control that would require is just as awesome, if not moreso, than the display of power itself.Kingsley: You may not like him Minister, but you can't deny, Dumbledore's got style.
- It gets better: the shock-wave slammed into everyone but Harry + Cho, and didn't affect anything else in the room. The level of control that would require is just as awesome, if not moreso, than the display of power itself.
- Ginny pulling off a Reducto spell at the Department of Mysteries that's so powerful everybody has to flee the room.
- Snape's responses to Umbridge. All of them, but especially, "...No idea."
- Snape's legendary snark:Umbridge: You first applied for the Defense Against the Dark Arts post. Is that correct?
Snape: Yes...
Umbridge: But you were... unsuccessful?
Snape: (with unbelievable sarcasm) Obviously.
- Even Ron can't stop laughing, and with the exception of Harry, Ron probably hates Snape the most. Umbridge is that bad.
- Luna's CMOA from Order: during the fight in the Department of Mysteries, Luna (already bleeding from her lip) is confronted by a Death Eater flying towards her from a great height. The camera shows her from the Death Eater's POV as she looks up at him placidly, pulls out her wand and (with an expression of mild curiosity on her face) hits him with a levitation spell that's so powerful it blasts him backwards into a shelf of prophecies. Now, imagine what she could do if she was angry...
- This exchange:Bellatrix: Neville Longbottom, is it? How's Mum and Dad?
Neville: Better, now they're about to be avenged. (pulls out wand)
- In the Department of Mysteries, Moody bangs his staff on the ground, launching a spell from it and taking down a Death Eater. (Now you know why he doesn't carry a wand.)
- An off-screen moment of awesome for the Longbottoms, then part of the first Order of the Phoenix, were tortured with the Cruciatus Curse for information by Bellatrix - and never gave in. Even in absolute agony, and knowing that their spouse was also being tortured (possibly just a room, or a few feet, away) and they still didn't give away any information.
- Not that it diminishes what they managed to do, but there was little they could say - they were tortured by the Lestranges and Barty Crouch Jr because the latter thought they had information about where Voldemort was after attacking the Potters.
- While Mad-Eye Moody's magical ability is somewhat implied to have atrophied with age in the books (where he is defeated by Dolohov at the Department of Mysteries), he proves himself still formidable by instantly curbstomping two Death Eaters by slamming his staff onto the ground, especially when the other members of the Order have more trouble with their opponents.