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Rohtas FortRohtas Fort is 109 km from Rawalpindi. It is located about 6 km south-west of Dina Town. Going from Rawalpindi/Islamabad, you have to turn right from G.T. Road to a narrow road just before Dina Police Station and then go left until you find the dry bed of Kahan River. The fort is visible from this point. However, you have to cross the river to reach it. During rainy season, you need a four-wheel-drive to cross the river. The fort is one of the most impressive historical monuments in Pakistan. It was built by Afghan ruler Sher Shah Suri, between 1540 and 1547 AD. It served as a huge fortified base for military operations against Gakkhars by Sher Shah Suri. It was later used by Mughal emperor Akbar and Sikhs. Within the huge terraced rampart walls with robust bastions and twelve gates, is located another fortress, palaces and ancillary buildings.
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Carlos Delgado doesn't like caps or helmets or anything else that infiltrates the space between his head and the outside world. His head is a sculptor's dream, perfectly shaped and precisely shaved, and Delgado seems to understand this completely. He takes batting practice bareheaded and takes infield bareheaded and always takes his time putting on his helmet when he stands on deck. When he leads off an inning, he waits until the last moment, until the ball has been tossed around the infield and the umpire is pulling on his mask, before palming his helmet, shoving it on his head and going to work. During night games, the stadium lights shine off that head so brightly you'd swear you could read by it.
So the point is obvious: If you had a head like this, you wouldn't like caps either.
We don't know much about what goes on inside that head, though. We know Delgado from numbers-big, florid numbers like last year's 44 homers and 134 RBI; MVP numbers like the ones he's putting up this year-but events of the past few years have taught us to distrust numbers.
We like the look of them but aren't totally sure what they mean. There are so many like them, it seems impossible to get to the story behind each. Delgado's Blue Jays teammates say our relative ignorance of their leader is due to the exchange rate on hype; word travels slowly out of Toronto, with the hype devalued by an American media committed to fostering and promoting the Red Sox and Yankees. This is how they see it, anyway. As far as baseball theories go, it's a lofty, vaguely conspiratorial one; David Wells can give it to you in several different versions, each more verbally vibrant than the last.
Jays manager Jim Fregosi says, "People need to know this guy. Carlos is very sophisticated. He's mature. Wise beyond his years. Very, very intelligent. He loves the game. He's always in a good mood. He's also close to his family, he saves his money and he's single. The way things are now, being single makes him pretty smart all by itself."
Delgado speaks English, his second language, like a professor of Shakespeare. Backup catcher Charlie Greene, dressing at the locker next to Delgado, interrupted an interview by saying, "Just remember: I taught him everything he knows." It's the standard ballplayer-to-reporter line, but then Greene was asked, in jest, if he taught Delgado to speak English. "No," Greene said. "I taught him to hit a fastball. He taught me English." The 28-year-old Delgado calls teammate Homer Bush "Kid" even though he is Bush's elder by five months. Delgado often goes to plays on his nights off and has cultivated friendships among the owners and chefs of Toronto's best restaurants. "Toronto is a great city, very cosmopolitan," Delgado says. "You can get a lot of mileage out of that city if you know how to do it."
In other words, Delgado owns the world. The world just doesn't know it yet.
The numbers by themselves indicate that Delgado's world is the same one occupied by the game's biggest names: McGwire, Sosa, Belle, Bonds, Griffey. At the All-Star break, he was leading the AL in homers with 28 and in slugging percentage. Increased confidence and patience have lifted his average, consistently in the .270s, into the stratospheric .360 range. His 22-game hitting streak, which lasted through most of June, is the longest in the American League this
"Last year he was a great player; this year, he's 10 times better," says Jays closer Billy Koch. "If I were to face him right now, I don't know how I would pitch him. I honestly don't, because he can hit anything."
Says Bush, "This guy, I've never seen anything like this guy. Even when he doesn't get his hits, he hits so many bullets you walk away thinking he got hits. I can't count the number of times we'll be sitting on the bench, thinking we need a home run, and he comes through. You can't rely on that all season, but I'm telling you, it's working out so far."
The Jays' surprising-to the outside world, anyway-run to the top of the AL East is attributable to several factors. They have one of the best closers in baseball in Koch, whose fastball routinely tops 100 mph. They have two of the game's most unappreciated players in leftfielder Shannon Stewart and third baseman Tony Batista. And in the off-season, general manager Gord Ash managed to pull off that rarest of baseball trades: a salary-dump deal-Shawn Green for Raul Mondesi-that turned out better for the dumping team. And not four years from now. Right now. Immediately.
Still, this team runs on the current generated by two men: Delgado and Wells, the Blue Jays' only consistent starter. Delgado is the conscience of the clubhouse. The team usually doesn't take batting practice on Sundays, but on June 25, Delgado decided it wouldn't be a good idea to face Pedro Martinez without first taking a few swings.
The Jays took BP. The Jays beat Pedro. Wells, with his league-best 15-2 record, provides the backbeat. Or maybe what Wells brings to the clubhouse and the mound can be described more aptly as a background electrical hum-sometimes annoying, sometimes comforting, always necessary.
Delgado, through media negligence or not, still needs an introduction.
Wells, as everyone knows, can speak for himself. Wells: I haven't changed anything. I'm just going out there and hitting my spots. I'm not walking guys, I'm getting ahead in the count and I'm getting incredible defense. It's a pretty simple world, really. Other guys get more attention, and that's fine. I'm not out there for the hoopla. I'm just happy that this time around is a lot better than my first time with the Blue Jays. The last time, that was just pitiful. They didn't care about my pitching, they just wanted me to look good in the lobby. Be a certain weight, do this, do that. I got to the point where I told them to f- off. I said, "I don't need to pitch here if that's what you want me to look like." I got fed up and started talking crap and being rude to them. You can only take it to a certain extent. They fined me and a couple other guys $100 for every pound we were overweight. At some point, it gets ridiculous. Whenever I got to the park, it was to the scales. They'd put the scales right in front of me. Back when I was in the minor leagues, they used to pack the scale around in the equipment bag and weigh me every day. What the hell is that? The best thing that ever happened to me was getting released by Toronto in 1993. This time around, Gord Ash has been great. He said, "We're going to leave you alone. You've been around long enough to know what has to be done." That's the way they treated me in New York, too. Everybody can say what they want about my physique, but I know what I'm doing. Here's the way I look at it: When you're pitching good, you're the skinniest man in the league. When you're pitching bad, you're the fattest.
On Sunday, June 25, in Toronto, after hitting a game-tying, two-run homer off Martinez in the seventh inning, Delgado sat in the dugout and did his best to ignore the commotion circling around him. He heard the shrieking cries and the pleading cheers, and his answer was no. There were 31,022 people in the stands, and the Blue Jays were heading for a series sweep, and still Delgado-who had just hit the ball 427 feet, off the glass wall of Windows restaurant-would not leave the dugout to take a bow. Pedro hadn't allowed a homer with a runner on base in 43 starts, and still the answer was no. The accomplishment, in his mind, did not merit the reward.
But then catcher Alberto Castillo told him to get out there, and Wells stuck his head out of the dugout and waved as if he had done something. Slightly shamed, mostly amused, Delgado gave in. He poked his head out like a frightened gopher, gave a quick wave and went back to his seat.
"Now, don't take me wrong," Delgado says. "I appreciated it, and it was awesome to get the recognition from the fans and my teammates. But let's look at it: All I did was tie the game in the bottom of the seventh inning. It wasn't like we won the World Series or anything like that. Here we are, facing the best pitcher in the game, and all we did was tie the game. We still have work to do. You know, this is June. This is June. We're not talking about
Delgado heads to the batting cage more than three hours before every game, intent on getting 40 or 50 good swings as a way of "getting my routine started." He missed it once this year, before a game against the Red Sox, because he was tired and knuckleballer Tim Wakefield was going. (He got a hit.) Patience at the plate has become his greatest virtue. He stands there like an arrogant inspector, confident enough to wait for the one mistake he knows is coming. "I think nobody can get me out," he says. "I've got a pretty good idea of what I want to hit. If I get my pitch, I'm going to get a hack in. And if I don't get you this time, I'll get you next time. I'm not saying I'm better than anybody, but I am saying that nobody is better than me."
At first base, Delgado, a converted minor league catcher, has gone from being a misplaced DH to a respectable fielder. "He's busted his tail to get where he is on defense," Wells says. "He was a box of rocks over there at first base for a few years, and now he's one of the tops in the league. I enjoy going out and seeing him there because he's going to make the plays."
Wells: You look at the way baseball is going, with all these guys bodybuilding, taking all these supplements, getting stronger and in better shape. It's working for some guys, and for other guys it's not working at all. But hey, they look good in the lobby. They've got a great body. You know what? Screw that. I'm living proof you don't have to lift a weight, you don't even have to run or ride a damn bike. Just go out there and pitch. I can get in shape when I'm out of the game, but for now, why mess with something that works? I get ready in my own way. I do my conditioning, both mentally and physically. Look at my innings. I do what I have to do on the field. Forget the rest. People may think I'm some sort of wild man, but I respect this game. I don't think there's a guy in the game who loves it more than I do. They might say they do, but they don't. I'm a big collector; I love the history of the game. I wish I could have played back in the old days, because I think I fit that mold better than I do this one. I'm not a stats guy. I just want to win. I want to go to the playoffs and World Series-that's where the fun is. It's a shame, because I'd say 75% of this game is playing for the money and not for the game. There are a lot of individualists out there, and I've played with a lot of them. You can't have that. When I'm out there, I'm out there fighting. I'm an SOB. I don't care about anything but keeping the team in the game. I get caught up in it. It looks like I'm out of control, cursing and yelling. I'm very vocal. It doesn't sound good and it doesn't look good, but hey-that's my approach and I'm sticking to my guns. I don't really care what anyone thinks of it.
Homer Bush owes his spot in the Jays lineup to Delgado. He readily concedes this, laughing as he does. Bush, a .320 hitter a year ago, is hitting below .200. With each passing day, he gets more frustrated, confused and angry. "I can't understand it," he says. "What's going on? This isn't me. This can't be me."
The low point came June 29 in Tampa. Bush grounded out in the second inning, making him hitless in his last 12 at-bats. Between innings, he stood near second base, staring into nowhere and cursing his fate. Delgado approached Bush and did something unusual: He gave his teammate a hug.
"It's going to be okay," Delgado told him. "I love you. We love you. You've just got to get loose and start doing your thing."
"I felt like the ship was sinking again," Bush says. "This guy doesn't have to worry about me. But that's how he is. He has a feel for what's happening with everybody. Hey, without him hitting the way he is, they might pull the plug on me."
Bush got three hits in his next four at-bats that night, his first three-hit game of the year. Coincidence?
"Carlos is a great leader-a leader by example and every other way," Wells says. "We're going to have tension and our little squabbles here and there. But when it happens, Carlos and I are right in the middle of it, making sure it stays under control."
Delgado and Shawn Green came up together, step by step, through the Jays organization. They went to lunch every day on the road, most days at home. They took vacations together-Europe two winters ago, Arizona last year. They still talk two or three times a week. It's a sign of Delgado's maturity that he sees the Green trade for what it was: a business decision, maybe even a good one. Mondesi, known as a player who enjoyed a good time and a lavish lifestyle, worked his way out of the Dodgers' favor last season by unleashing a tirade against general manager Kevin Malone and manager Davey Johnson.
"Shawn is an awesome player, and he's hard to replace, but Raul brings something to the team that isn't tangible, a fire that we sometimes lacked," Delgado says. "Raul is a guy with an unbelievable intensity level. He'll run through a wall, steal third, anything. All that stuff we heard about him in L.A.? I haven't seen any of it. This guy is very generous, doesn't trouble anybody. He's just a big kid who wants to have fun and play hard."
Says Mondesi, "Teammates ask me, 'How come everybody said those things about you?'"
Before the season, Delgado signed a three-year, $36 million contract that includes a clause allowing him to demand a trade after this season. Asked if he plans to use that leverage, he says, "Right now, I can't think of a reason why. At the end of the season, I'll have to look at it, but I like this team and I love the city. If you asked, I bet half the people wouldn't know who Tony Batista is, and that's sad. It's sad that people don't know who Shannon Stewart is. We've got a great team and people don't know we're in first place. That's okay, though. We don't have any pressure except to play the game the way it's supposed to be played."
Wells: "Put it this way: Even if we're in first place, everybody still seems to think we have to beat Boston and the Yankees. It's kind of funny to hear all these commentators on TV since we've been in first place-they think it's a joke. We're not supposed to be here? Fine, let them think that. They're idiots. Right now everybody knows us. But nobody wants to give the Toronto Blue Jays any recognition. For what reason, I don't know. But let's keep it that way. Keep talking about those other teams. We'll just go out there, do our jobs and be happy. There's a bunch of clowns in here; that's the way we want it. We talk crap all the time, just ragging each other. It's the best. It's the only way to win. I see something coming together here that reminds me of when I was with the Yankees. But I forgot-nobody wants to hear that. They just want to keep talking about those other teams. Idiots. That's fine. We'll just go out there, do our jobs and be happy. Let 'em all keep talking. We'll keep playing."


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Selling/Shipping Large Lots of Items on eBay
Due to some unforeseen expenses, it looks like I may need to liquidate some of my larger collections (dolls, toys, etc). Theoretically I'd like to sell them en masse (i.e. 20 dolls total in one lot) rather than individually. These aren't small or sturdy items. Is there a standard practice for shipping that many semi-fragile items (all bubble wrapped) at once to a buyer? Can you do multiple shipments through eBay, like how Amazon sometimes splits orders up? Any advice would be appreciated.
What's the best way to sell a lot of stuff online?
My guy and I are digging in to all of his old stuff and we're going to sell a bunch of it off. What's the best way to do this? [more inside]
How To Sell Comics in a Post-Wizard World?
Please help me make as much money as is possible from liquidating my comicbook collection. [more inside]
The money pit: money goes in, it doesn't come out.
How can I sell my Star Trek/Star Wars Customizable Card Game cards and Miniatures game pieces for the best balance of money/hassle? [more inside]
How do I sell very large and potentially valuable LP and comic collections?
How do I sell very large and potentially valuable LP and comic collections? [more inside]
Online Auction Tips?
Cleaning house, looking to sell books, CDs, toys etc., and I'm LOST. Need advice both specific and general. Is eBay best for books and CDs, or are there other places to get better value? With the 'Net awash in Star Wars paraphernalia, how do I find a price for this elaborate 1998 14" talking Darth Vader? (I've checked books and they're mostly about "vintage" SW toys.) How do I value odd things for my uncle, like this pipe from Germany circa 1890 or earlier, or some Xmas cards circa WWII made by Chinese Xtian nuns in Tsing Tao? Is there a market for historical magazines and newspapers, for example with headlines about the first moon walk? [more inside]
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Sisters showcase art for free at downtown gallery
Published: Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, August 28, 2009 at 11:19 a.m.
The Terrebonne Fine Arts Guild is featuring the artwork of long-time guild members, Cecile Evans and Lydia Champagne, during September at Downtown Art Gallery 630, 630 Belanger St., downtown Houma.
The sisters' artwork consists of paintings in oil and watercolor with various subjects, such as landscapes, florals and still life. A few paintings in memory of their recently departed sister, Elsie Andrews, will be on display.
Champagne and Evans are lifetime members of the Terrebonne Fine Arts Guild, and they have served the Arts Guild in numerous ways during their active membership. Their display is the featured exhibit for Art After Dark. A reception is scheduled from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sept. 12 at the gallery. The exhibit is free to the public.
The 10th annual Art After Dark is scheduled for Sept. 12 in downtown Houma. Twenty-six locations from Lafayette to Barrow streets along Main Street will feature artwork from more than 60 local and regional artists. Included are exhibits on Belanger, Goode and School streets.
There are several musical performances scheduled this year, including performances by the Houma-Terrebonne Community Stage Band, Gene Bonvillian and Don Babin, and Barnaby Bastille. This year's event will feature a free dance at Studio 371, 371 School St., downtown Houma.
This year's event includes open exhibits, Phantom Gallery displays and numerous exhibits outside businesses along Main Street. Flyers with a map showing all venues and artists exhibiting will be available at all locations.
Exhibit locations for Art After Dark include: Downtown Art Gallery 630, Scarlet Scoop Ice Cream Parlor, Lunch Basket, Downtown Memorial Park, Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum, Bilello's Café, Whitney National Bank, Coffee Zone, old City Court building, Houma Elks Lodge No. 1193, Castalano's Deli, The Main Affair, Earl Williams Clothing Store, City Club of Houma, Le Petit Theatre de Terrebonne, Fabregas Music Store, Houma Dancewear, Juju's, Michel Claudet's office, Daigle's Jewelry, Café Milano and Aficionados, Studio 371, Terrebonne Folklife Culture Center, Thatcher Place, Ledet office building and Courthouse Square.
Several workshops are in the planning stages at Downtown Art Gallery 630. Karen Kelly will teach a one-day fundraiser workshop scheduled for Oct. 15, and Mary Boudreaux will facilitate one in November. Details next month.
Artwork by Carolyn Pellegrin is on display for September and October at Café Milano and Aficionados. Cecile Evans will exhibit her work for September and October at Griffin's Po-Boy & Grill. Karen Kelly will exhibit her work in October at the Crescent City Brewhouse in the French Quarter in New Orleans.
The exhibit "If the Shoe Fits" remains on display through September. The next competition is "Toyland," which is scheduled for display from October to December.
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World War I–Era Training Camp Excavated in Ohio
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO—The Chillicothe Gazette reports that archaeologist Andy Sewell, members of the Ohio History Connection, and additional volunteers are investigating Camp Sherman, a large World War I–era training site for the Ohio Army National Guard, ahead of the construction of a power distribution center. The team has uncovered sewer pipes and the foundations of several buildings, including one they think might have been a fire station. "Surprises have been finding parts of buildings that don't match the maps," Sewell said. "Mainly, the buildings are where they are supposed to be, but there's a mess hall, for instance, that's further to the west than it shows on the map, and it kind of matches up with some of the photos that show it in line with another mess hall," he said. Footprints in the bakery's concrete could also reflect how quickly the camp was constructed. Charred pages from a ledger, a broken bottle, the base of a toilet, food waste, and burned soil where the bakery ovens may have been located have also been found. To read about the World War I battlefield at Gallipoli, go to "Letter from Turkey: Anzac's Next Chapter."
Blade of Ancient Egyptian Dagger Analyzed
MILAN, ITALY—Daniela Comelli of the Polytechnic University of Milan and her team conducted an analysis of the dagger found in the wrappings of Tutankhamun's mummy by Howard Carter in 1925. The dagger, which dates to the fourteenth century B.C., has a gold handle, a rock crystal pommel, a gold sheath, and an iron blade. But the ancient Egyptians are thought to have developed iron smelting much later, in the eighth century B.C. "The problem is iron working is related to its high melting point," Comelli said in an Associated Press report. "Because of it, early smiths couldn't heat ore enough to extract iron and couldn't forge the iron into weapons." Using a technique called X-ray fluorescence, Comelli found that Tutankhamun's metal blade contains ten percent nickel and 0.6 percent cobalt, a composition that is similar to that of known metallic meteorites. The analysis suggests that the dagger could have been hammered from rare meteoritic iron, which is thought to have been considered more valuable than gold. For more, go to "Egypt's Immigrant Elite."
Texts From the Early Years of Roman Rule Found in London
LONDON, ENGLAND—Excavations at the site of the new European Bloomberg headquarters have yielded 405 Roman writing tablets, 87 of which have been deciphered. According to a report in BBC News, this more than quadruples the number of known Roman writing tablets recovered in London. Romans would have used styluses to write on a layer of blackened beeswax covering such wooden tablets. The wax did not survive on these tablets, but some of the etchings went through the wax to mark the wood, which was preserved for nearly 2,000 years in the mud of the buried Walbrook River. Roger Tomlin, an expert in cursive Latin, deciphered and interpreted the writings with the help of digital photographic methods. The texts include the earliest-known reference to London, an alphabet thought to have been written as practice or to demonstrate literacy, and a financial document dated January 8, A.D. 57. Researchers from the Museum of London Archaeology say it is the earliest intrinsically dated document to have been found in the United Kingdom. For more on this site, go to "Roman London Underground."
An Update from Virginia's James Fort
JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA—The Williamsburg Yorktown Daily reports that archaeologists from the Jamestown Rediscovery Project are excavating the well found within the cellar that had been built by the colonists just outside the perimeter of the original James Fort structure. The team expected the well to have been filled with trash, like other old, brackish wells at James Fort. This well, however, was filled with clay. Senior staff archaeologist Mary Anna Richardson thinks that when the colonists expanded the cellar after the winter of 1609-1610, they put the clay they dug up into the well. Because the well had been located inside and down a flight of stairs, it may have been an inconvenient trash pit. "An absence of artifacts is actually a key part of the story," added senior staff archaeologist Danny Schmidt. The bottom layer of the well may hold artifacts from the time when the well was in use. For more, go to "Jamestown's VIPs," which was one of ARCHAEOLOGY's Top Ten Discoveries of 2015.
Iron-Age Remains Found on Isle of Wight
ISLE OF WIGHT, ENGLAND—Last year, two brothers discovered a set of human remains in the silt on Fishbourne Beach at low tide. The skeleton was lying on its left-hand side with its arms against its chest and legs bent. No clothing or other objects were found. According to On the Wight, local officials decided to recover as many of the bones as possible before the tide came in. A postmortem conducted by pathologist Basil Purdue concluded that the bones were ancient and belonged to a woman whose upper left arm bone and left collarbone were shorter than those on the right side of her body. She may have had a congenital deformity, or perhaps had suffered from a stroke that caused muscle wasting in the years before her death. Radiocarbon dating revealed the remains were nearly 2,000 years old. Barrister Caroline Sumeray explained that the remains will be housed at the Isle of Wight Museum. "They will be appropriately and ethically stored and recorded as per national guidelines for the treatment of human remains," she said. To read about other finds from the same period, go to "Letter from Wales: Hillforts of the Iron Age."
Traces of England's Industrial Past Unearthed in Devon
DEVON, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Exeter Express and Echo, the Stover Canal, completed in 1794, was used to transport ball clay for making pottery from pits in the Bovey Basin to the port at Teignmouth for distribution. For the first time, a team of volunteers led by archaeologist Phil Newman of the Stover Canal Trust has excavated the remains of a 200-year-old canal barge at Ventiford Basin, in an upper section of the canal. By 1820, the canal was also used to transport granite from local quarries to the docks. Part of the journey was conducted on an unusual tramway made of granite blocks. Archaeologists have uncovered a section of the tramway, measuring more than 87 yards long, near the canal. "Although long and impressive sections of the tramroad survive in situ within Dartmoor National Park, until now it had been believed that the track was lost completely between Bovey Tracey and the head of the canal," Newman said. "However, this amazing find, which represents three sidings off the main route, provides the only significant surviving section outside the national park." To read about another find in the same area, go to "Seaton Down Hoard," which was one of ARCHAEOLOGY's Top 10 Discoveries of 2014.
Ancient Crops Offer Clues to Colonization of Madagascar
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA—Linguistic and genetic evidence has hinted that migrants from Southeast Asia could be among the ancestors of the modern inhabitants of Madagascar. Now Science reports that Austronesians may have settled in Madagascar between 1,000 and 1,200 years ago. Led by archaeologist Alison Crowther of the University of Queensland, an international team of scientists collected more than 2,400 ancient crop samples from 20 archaeological sites on the eastern coast of Africa, Madagascar, and the Comoro Islands, which are situated between Madagascar and the African coast. Radiocarbon dates of the charred seeds indicate that between A.D. 700 and 1200, crops such as pearl millet, cowpea, and sorghum were grown on the coast of East Africa, where Asian crops such as rice, mung bean, and cotton were rare. But the Asian crops were common on the Comoros Islands and on Madagascar. And although rice and mung bean were grown in India at the time, other common Indian crops were not found in Madagascar and the other islands. "We finally have a signal of this Austronesian expansion," said Nicole Boivin of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. To read about an island 300 miles east of Madagascar, go to "Castaways."
Mobility in Germany's Corded Ware Culture
GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN—Karl-Göran Sjögren of Gothenburg University and his colleagues examined bones and teeth excavated from seven Corded Ware Culture sites, including two large cemeteries, in southern Germany. The Corded Ware Culture, found throughout Europe between 2800 and 2200 B.C., is noted for its burial of the dead in large burial mounds and pottery ornamented with corded textures. According to a UPI report, carbon dating and isotopic analysis of the remains in the study revealed that Corded Ware people subsisted in a variety of ways within isolated locations. At one cemetery, more than 40 percent of the remains were identified as non-local. Sjögren thinks that women in particular may have moved away from their birth villages to marry, taking their food preferences with them. "We interpret this as indicating a pattern of female exogamy, involving different groups with differing economic strategies, and suggesting a complex pattern of social exchange and economic diversity in Late Neolithic Europe," he said. For more on archaeology in Germany, go to "The Neolithic Toolkit."
Wet Weather May Have Pushed Mongols Out of Hungary
ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND—Spring flooding may have pushed the invading Mongols out of Hungary in 1242, according to a study of Eastern European climate history conducted by Nicola Di Cosmo of Princeton University and Ulf Büntgen of the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. Tree-ring data from northern Scandinavia, the Polar Ural, the Romanian Carpathians, the Austrian Alps, and the Russian Altai suggests that in 1242, southern Poland, the Czech Republic, western Slovakia, northwestern Hungary, and eastern Austria experienced a cold and snowy winter that was followed by an exceptionally wet spring. Di Cosmo told Live Science that the Mongol commanders, who had brought at least 130,000 troops and perhaps 65,000 horses into the region, might have been bogged down in pastures that had turned into muddy marshes. That could account for their sudden retreat through the Carpathian foothills and other elevated areas. "This is one of the very few cases in which we can identify a minor climatic change on just one winter and link it to a particularly important historical event," Di Cosmo explained. For more, go to "Mongol Fashion Statement."
People Could Have Pulled Bluestones to Stonehenge
LONDON, ENGLAND—University College London archaeology student Barney Harris and a team of volunteers attempted to drag a 1.1-ton bluestone, lashed to a sycamore sleigh, on a track made of silver birch logs. Their goal was to see how much effort might have been required for Neolithic Britons to move bluestones from the Preseli Mountains in Wales to Stonehenge. Harris thought it would take at least 15 people to transport the heavy load, but he found that ten people were able to pull the stone some ten feet every five seconds, or potentially faster than one mile per hour. The experiment suggests that a group of just 20 Neolithic Britons may have been able to convey a two-ton bluestone over the 140 mile trip. "It's true that we did the experiment on flat ground, and there would have been steep slopes to navigate when going through the Preseli Mountains, but actually this kind of system works well on rough terrain," Harris said in a report in The Telegraph. Harris and his team will take the data from the experiment and calculate how long it might have taken to move all of the bluestones to Stonehenge. For more, go to "Quarrying Stonehenge."
Paleolithic Paintings Found in Northern Spain
ATXURRA, SPAIN—The Local reports that archaeologist Diego Garate has found at least 70 paintings of bison, horses, and goats in Spain's Atxurra caves at a depth of nearly 1,000 feet. Garate says the hunting scenes, spread over 14 panels, are between 12,000 and 14,000 years old. "I have been searching the caves of the Basque Country for ten years and have discovered lots of new caves but none as important as Atxurra," he said. "It could very well be the cave with the most animal figures in the Basque Country." One of the images is thought to depict a bison pierced by more than 20 spears. Charcoal and flint tools have also been found in the caves. For more, go to "The First Artists."


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Sometimes websites are just so darn ugly. You have to wonder what they were thinking about when they slapped it together. However, if you want users to take an interest in your website you can learn from all the mistakes of previous website admins.
While it might be a bit ugly below, every website is a goldmine of information on how not to design a website. When you put together the lessons, you can determine the best way to design your own site.
Christmas is time for Santa's gifts, for mistletoe kisses and for togetherness. It is the time of year when your loved ones come closer to celebrate the event and passing Christmas gifts and Good wishes to each other. So why don't you send some unique Beautiful Christmas Desktop Wallpaper Gifts to the people who are important to you and get a new look to their desktops.
We all love desktop wallpapers as they always come in handy and you will always find a wallpaper to express your feelings or mood. I know some of my friends who keep changing their desktop background almost on a daily basis. Unless like me, who rarely change their desktop wallpaper. So, what about you? When was the last time you changed desktop background?
As websites have grown from just information portals to important business assets, the user experience of websites has grown in importance. Moreover, your website isn't just competing with other sites, but it is also trying to fend of competition from mobile apps.
Apps are much faster and users find them easier to use. However, good UX design can make your website function much faster than it currently is.
A trillion-digit industry, yet you find over 65,000 names struggling to cross the bar of $1,000 in the world of E-commerce. Go through the stats, and I bet you will find an empire full of disparities.
You may be offering far better products than the big names in the market, but that will not be enough unless your website is offering seamless user-experience, visitors would love to come back again for.
The astoundingly rapid pace at which the technology is advancing means increasing convenience for people by each moment. It also means a great influx of gadgets and devices that make life simpler and more manageable.
Amidst this gigantic plethora of gadgets and devices, consumers usually overlook many or at least underrate their importance in making lives less onerous.
WordPress continues its rapid growth and market enlargement. One of the main reasons is the huge number of developers, designers and marketing specialists fully devoted to the community. As a result a big number of new plugins and themes are released every year.
More than 40.000 plugins with over 1 billion total downloads are listed in wordpress.org directory. One theory that goes around is that old popular plugins with years of development are a better choice for efficiently built websites or blogs. Obviously such plugins are the best in their categories in terms of design, functionality and provided support by the development team.


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Hey guys. I want a situation in which I could point to my phppgadmin url and it opens up without asking for login details i.e. how can I set up phpmyadmin to use a default login credential. Or how can I increase the amount of time before the session expires. These are straightforward with phpmyadmin. Thanks all
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An Old and New World
by Lens of Sanity
Prologue: All Blue Skies
Harry Potter found himself looking down a familiar length of Holly, one he knew to be exactly eleven inches in length, and containing a single feather once belonging to a Phoenix named Fawkes. Things really could have been going better, but then again, this was pretty standard as far as his life went, par for the course and all that jazz. What was being tied to a chair with his own Ollivander wand pointed at him, when stacked up to all the other enjoyable goings on that had happened over the past few years, hell the whole of his life?
This all started when Harry was a baby, fifteen months old, when a man came to kill him. No, that's too far back, so it's best to just give the short version. He found out he was a wizard, made two good friends, took down a troll, rescued a dragon, killed his Defence Professor, flew a car into an animated tree, battled a swarm of Acromantula, and at the end of his second year went to the rescue of his friends younger sister.
There, we are more or less up to date on things which are important.
He went to rescue his friend's younger sister. Not that he knew the girl very well you understand, if asked Harry would find himself hard pressed to pin down a single conversation he'd had with her, but from comments made he'd come to the conclusion that she was... sweet. You know the type, all freckles and shy smiles, would do no harm to anyone.
Nevertheless she was a friend's sister, so in the finest traditions of storytelling everywhere he went on one of those classic princess rescues. There was a creepy dungeon, a scary monster, and a damsel in distress. Not to mention the magical sword. So he grabbed the sword, shouted 'Aaaarg!' and ended up slaying the beast; it was a large venomous snake known as a Basilisk, which could kill with a single glance, dead away just as lethal as the famous green light.
Given that Harry was only twelve at the time, you can see how this might have been a little tough, so he blacked out once the threat was taken care of. Coming to Harry noticed that the young girl with the freckles and shy smiles was gone, the beast was still dead, and the only thing left besides the magical sword was a small book, which he took with him and made his way back to civilisation.
Things went downhill for the twelve year old Harry Potter, as an evil wizard of aristocratic bearing was among the authority figures he sought out. The man denounced him for dispatching the young girl and being in possession of such an obviously evil object. For the small book was once created by a far more evil wizard long ago, one who was, like Harry, in possession of a magical trait which allows the user to converse with serpents.
Proclaim his innocence any way he would Harry was not believed, and even the words of the aged and wise Headmaster are overruled, leaving Harry alone without the aid of his friends or allies. Under the guise of public safety he was locked away where he could do no harm, to the castle fortress of Azkaban. No you may ask, he was but a child, and this was so. It was for this reason he was placed in the minimum security section, far from those nightmarish creatures of cloak and withered flesh.
Between two others he was placed, two who would eventually become friends, who had known him his whole life, one by reputation, and one by blood. The man was an evil mass murderer and an old friend of his parents, the woman a feared dark witch who was every bit as insane. Yet with no other company they talked and they played, they taught many things, for you see Harry was quite popular in his castle prison.
Harry learned in the early days that when the foul creatures came close he was made to see all the worst things in life, feel like there was nothing worth living for, and that no hope was there to be had. He discovered through luck that if he forced happiness through his magic, a wonderful mist would overcome him and his friends. The bad things were still there, of that you cannot doubt, but with the mist they could touch him only a little.
So they talked and laughed and played many games. Harry learned the evil wizard of aristocratic bearing had many stories both funny and embarrassing which the woman could enlighten him too, and the man could reveal the past of his parents, misdeeds and adventures which keep him laughing and fascinated.
Long days turned to weeks, and months were passed in this way, until the aged wise headmaster came and took Harry away, and with his new learned stories the man too was freed. For you see the real traitor was not him but a rat. A rat masquerading as a man who was shaped like a rat. It was quite confusing but it worked, and the rat was put in the castle in place of the man, and the man was set free in place of the rat, the rat who was shaped like a man. So now free of the creatures and castle Azkaban, the man and the boy spent time in the house of his old evil family, the boy alone feeling sorrow for leaving his other friend there to suffer.
A few weeks more and Harry would be back where it stated, the castle of his school, and his old abandoned friends. Now fourth year was coming and Harry Potter had changed.
Harry Potter had changed, but the world was the same.
Lens of Sanity
You've read it a million times, Harry goes to Azkaban, meets Sirius and Bellatrix, comes out different, and the story goes from there. I got it all out of the way before even the first chapter, so that we can get on with the parts of the story you might not have seen (any)(every)where else. The style will change to standard third person from here on out.
A/N: My writing has gone from bad to marginally less bad while posing this, so it has a few grammar and tense problems due to early ignorance on my part. I now know why betas are so important. Anyway, with that in mind our story begins…
An Old and New World
by Lens of Sanity
Chapter One: Freedom and Other Boring Things
"Sirius we need to get her out of there!" The two of them were searching though the wreckage of the once imposing #12 Grimmauld Place for as many spare wands as they could find.
"I've told you before Harry, she's evil, pure evil. Why won't you listen to me?" Sirius Black still looked like death warmed over, barely warmed over at that, he'd been in Azkaban prison for about a third of his life, circumstances like that don't do good things to a person.
Harry rolled his eyes "And I've told you a million times, that's what everyone said about you!" He paused to think a moment "And me come to think of it. You should not be so quick to judge people Sirius."
Following a second attack from a swarm of pissed off Doxies they decided that they had found all the wands they were going to "It is not the same. You and I were actually innocent. She isn't innocent. Not at all, she even admitted guilt at her trial for Merlin's sake."
"So did you when they arrested you." Harry reminded him as he placed the eight wands on a table in the front room.
Placing the dozen he'd found Sirius let out a frustrated "Aarg!" and looked down at what they had managed to scrounge together. Twenty was not bad at all, way more than he was expecting at any rate. "It's not the same, I was feeling guilty for your parents-, bah, I've explained this fifty times already, it's just not the same at all."
Rolling his eyes Harry started going through the wands one by one, stacking the friendly ones in one pile and the hostile ones in another. "I wish I could just go to Ollivander's."
Seizing hold of a change in topic the dog animagus jumped in with "Yeah, I know, but it was one of the things Albus had to give up in order to get you out, I'll be heading there soon to get a new wand, but you can't until you become of age, sorry. I suppose we could try one of the stores down Knockturn Alley but I'd bet anything that Lucius has already made sure you can't get one from there either, he sure worked hard enough to keep you wandless and out of Hogwarts."
"Are you sure my wand was really gone, couldn't someone have taken it when I was unconscious or something?" The friendly pile held only four, not much to choose from, and none of them came close to his old phoenix wand.
Sirius thought about it even though the question had been asked a thousand times "I don't see how, it just wasn't anywhere when they looked for it. You'll just have to make do with one of those, at least for now." Sirius watched as Harry decided on a fairly standard pale stick about a foot long.
"This one is the best. Do you know anything about it?"
"That was my Grandfather Pollux Black's wand, Elm and Dragon Heartstring. From a Horntail if I remember, he used to boast about it when he was deep into his wine, and about how he used it to earn his Order of Merlin."
Harry nodded at this and, knowing he couldn't be tracked by the Ministry under the wards of the House of Black, did a simple measuring charm learned from Professor Flitwick in second year "Twelve and a quarter inches. Elm you said?" he nodded "Yeah, it's not as good as my old one but it's not that bad either." Harry lost himself in thought for a moment, before he snapped back to awareness. "So how are we going to get her out of there Sirius?"
He just groaned.
Finishing off some kind of boiled sausage which Harry had decided never to eat again in his life -seriously Azkaban food was tastier and probably more nutritious- he reluctantly changed the subject and asked "Are you going to teach me that totally impressive piece of magic you've been blathering on about for months or what?" He'd finally shelved the discussion of getting his friend out of prison, for now at least.
"The Patronus, yeah we'll do it now, it won't take long saying as you know the hard part anyway." Sirius had been amazed when Harry first produced a Patronus Mist, as he'd done it without a wand, no wand for Merlin's sake, if he had not felt the effects with his own senses he'd have said that it was impossible. "Follow these wand motions, but don't do anything until I say you've got it exactly right."
For the next fifteen minutes Harry obliged, refraining from making any sarcastic comments, until he was up to his instructor's needlessly high standards. "So, now what?" He said irritably.
"Describe how you produce the mist." Describe it for the hundredth time he meant.
"You just come up with the happiest feeling you can, and then kind of force it out into the universe. Simply make it happen, I don't know, I don't really think about it, I just do it."
Sirius got the same look he always did at this explanation but eventually conceded. "On the last 'brandishing' motion, force that feeling through your wand and out of the tip, easy." Harry locked eyes with him for the longest time, eventually he just sighed and got on with it.
"Expecto Patronum"
The familiar silvery mist coalesced into the well defined shape of a powerful and majestic animal. Harry got up from where he was lounging and peered closely at it, ignoring his companion's startled expression. 'It's not like it was any harder with a wand, I don't get why he's so surprised.'
"You know Padfoot, I think you're right, this is kind of cool. Flashy magic, like what you'd use when you want to be all impressive at people" The green eyed boy said this watching the construct pad powerfully about the room with intelligence as it sought out threats. Eventually he let the silvery image dissolve. "What do you want to do now? …Well?"
"I guess I shouldn't be surprised you got it first time…" Though for some reason he clearly was surprised "…do today? Whatever you want, you're going back to Hogwarts in a few days do you think you're ready?"
"No idea, should I not be in my third year though? I don't see why they'd advance me when I didn't do a single third year class."
"That was Albus again, I think he wants you in the same class as your old friends" Harry's face twisted at that.
'Who the hell cares? It's not like they matter anymore, where were they when I was in Azkaban, safe and sound that's where, good luck to them and good riddance. Hermione is alive, fine, that's all I wanted to know. With today's paper once again proclaiming me released on a technicality, and that I'm a dangerous threat to society I can just see how much fun my school chums are going to be. I'm the intimidating, blood splattered Heir of Slytherin remember; fear me bwahahahaha. Maybe I should get robes with Dark Lord stencilled on the back, really play up my evil side.'
Harry shook himself from his internal monologue and commented "Whatever Padfoot, how about you teach me some wandwork so I'm not as rusty when I get there, there's no doubt I'll have to defend myself from pretty much everyone at one point or another this year."
Picking up one of the spare wands he started on Precision Casting, showing the recently turned fourteen year old a simple shield to start "Remember focus on accurate motions, and make them as tiny as possible so your opponent can't easily tell what you're casting."
They spent most of the day this way. It was not all that different from prison really.
A smile broke across Harry's face as a fondly remembered snowy owl swooped into the kitchen, -the grumbling house-elf was kicked out quite tersely earlier- and attached to her talons was a parchment which was etched in a precise hand.
"Hey Hedwig, did you miss me as much as I missed you?" he asked throwing the unopened letter into the Victorian style oven.
She nibbled his ear affectionately for a long while as he stroked her feathers gently, with all the love in the world. The animagus walked in on this scene and stood there looking strangely at them for a few seconds before blurting "We should get your school supplies today Harry."
"I honestly can't be bothered, get the elf to do it." Sirius just looked at the kid like he was crazy. "…yeah, that's probably a bad idea now I say it out loud." 'Everything would come back covered in dirt or something, no, Muggle blood. Absolutely everything would be soaked in the life's blood of a thousand Muggles if that mental elf had his way.'
"Get ready right now. I might even buy you a broom once we're done."
"Don't bother, I got most of my stuff back so I still have my Nimbus 2000, y'know I'm pretty sure Professor McGonagall had a lot more to do with my getting that broom than she let on." Harry said returning with a cloak.
"Probably, she was always nuts about Griffindor winning the Cup when I went to Hogwarts." They flooed to the Leaky Cauldron and Harry fell flat on his arse much to the amusement of the older man.
"Laugh it up, I'm the only one with a wand remember." He tried for an intimidating glare but it failed utterly. "Screw it, go to Ollivander's on your own I'll sort myself out, I could use a break from all of your annoying cheerfulness."
Other than the occasionally fearful looks thrown at him Harry got his shopping done with very little drama. That was until he'd just finished paying for all the books on this year's list and as he was about to exit Flourish & Blotts. He heard the easily recognisable twang of the junior Malfoy interrupt his musings "Well if it isn't-,"
Fist slamming into the side of the blonde's neck and a hand roughly taking hold of his collar, Draco Malfoy's doubtlessly callous comment was cut short. With what was sure to be a surprised look gracing his face, Draco found himself unceremoniously tossed through the plate glass window, and out into the middle of Diagon Alley.
Spying his godfather Harry carelessly pushed past the boy's two stupefied bodyguards and simply stated "All done here, ready to head home?" as he stepped over the groaning teenager.
Sirius looked at the scene and obviously came to the conclusion that its funny as hell because he said nothing, instead taking the broken glass and lacerated boy in stride "Sounds good to me, I was going to stop for lunch at the Cauldron but now I've kind of lost my appetite."
"I'll cook this time, you're terrible at it, and I'm sure the elf is trying to accidentally poison us… Hmm, can you eat house-elf Sirius? That would kill two birds with one stone." They chatted on about nothing really and slowly made their way back to the floo.
The day of September the First dawned as it did every year, bright eyed children eager to get on with the new year's learning, -or not learning depending on the student- at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry rolled over and abruptly fell back to sleep. Eventually he was awoken again at five to ten and commanded to shower and be ready to Side-Along to the Express.
"Why don't we just crack to Hogsmeade? That way I won't have to spend seven friggin' hours on a train full of schoolsheep."
"Stop your bitching Harry and get ready, I'll see you this weekend if you can find that secret entrance I told you about. Oh, and remember to get a Prophet today, you'll like the headline." Harry Potter was a very typical teenage schoolchild in that he really didn't want to go to school following his summer holidays, though the reasons he didn't want to go back to school were slightly more peculiar.
Harry was famous, world renowned even, known the world over for the deeds of his youth. The next Dark Lord, people cower in fear at the mere mention of his name, did you know he once defeated the most powerful dark wizard in history, when he was a baby? A baby for goodness sake, he must have the power to turn continents to dust, and scatter the armies of all those opposing him with nothing but the wave of his hand.
Two years ago, he was a hero, a vaunted world saviour type. The kind of child who you hope will grow up to marry your daughter. Then it's bam; who murdered and then ate a fellow student, and oh look, who offed poor stuttering Quirrelmort. Prison and then hatred.
Finishing the shower and brushing his teeth Harry decided that there had to be a better way of cleaning ones teeth than a fool Muggle toothbrush, and once downstairs he asked as much to his godfather "Yeah, the Incantation is 'Integrum Restituere' but I don't know the wand motions so just overpower it until it works."
"Did you not say that the wandmotion was important for efficiency and power spell casting?" He asked catching the older man out on his ridiculous and contradictory advice.
"You're not going to be brushing your teeth in a duel, just do it and stop whinging." Sticking the Horntail wand in his mouth he tried it and found it to be surprisingly effective. Hmm. "Shrink your gear and let's get you out of here, the Hogwarts Express leaves in less than ten minutes."
He grumpily obeyed, and a quarter of an hour later Harry was unable to find an empty compartment. Spying one with a single third year, and three second years one of whom was likely the brother of the older, he crashed open the door glaring with as much malevolence as his fourteen year old frame could manage "What are you all doing in my compartment…" he growled in a tone he hoped was menacing. "…Get the hell out of here, and is that a Prophet? I'll take that too." The onetime saviour commanded obedience, finger pointed at the door.
They predictably scuttled out and he placed the locking spell 'Colloportus' he'd learned a while back, and a privacy charm Sirius had said was invented by Snape of all people 'Muffliato,' then set about studiously ignoring anything that was happening out in the hall.
Dark Lord Potter Senselessly Attacks Innocent Schoolboy
by Rita Skeeter
'Oh this is going to be a winner, thanks a bunch Padfoot, really a good way to cheer me up at the start of term. I wish Bella was here, she's always on my side.'
Once he got through the article, which was about how a brave Draco Malfoy had nobly stood up to a deranged lunatic and somehow chased him off with only minor injuries, he caught a bushy-haired brunette in his peripheral vision. She was hammering on the door, but the privacy ward was keeping it silent and he could pretend not to notice as he turned to gaze out of the window.
She didn't go away for over an hour.
It was considerably more difficult to ignore his one time friend at the feast saying as she sat disturbingly close, but in a brilliant flash of foresight Harry had hit her with a 'Muffliato' before she got close, so all he could here when she made any noise was a kind of unidentified buzzing.
Other than the occasional shake, and the oh-so-familiar looks of fear pointed in his direction, Harry found the feast surprisingly good. The food for one was the best he'd had since, well being at Hogwarts at the end of his second year.
Madam Pomfrey, Hogwarts school nurse and Headmaster Dumbledore's private physician, had been giving nutrient and stabilising potions to both Sirius and Harry since they got out of Azkaban, and he found himself enjoying one with his meal. The nutrient potions were actually quite tasty, an oddity as most potions seemed to taste like they'd been brewed in a running sock. Harry had made sure to learn a glamour which would make what he was drinking appear the same colour and consistency as human blood, but that in no way contributed to the looks of fear on the students faces.
Listening to the old man's announcement Harry found himself interested in this upcoming tournament, even if he was disappointed that there would be no Quidditch this year. It had been far too long since he had last flown.
Then a horrible thought occurred to him. "Bloody fucking hell, I'm going to be forced into this damn thing aren't I!" It was not a question. This world did not exist so that Harry Potter could simply sit back and watch a horrendously dangerous tournament such as was described without somehow having to be in it.
Later that night, through the charmed mirrors, Sirius Black reluctantly agreed with this assessment.
Sirius had yelled at the Headmaster many times in the weeks between the welcoming feast and Halloween, each time met with assurances that there was no danger, cementing in both their minds that this whole thing was simply going to be inevitable.
Harry was forced to step up from simply ignoring the silent brunette, to ignoring her and also hitting her regularly with 'Aculeus' the mild Stinging Hex. She was for some reason very persistent. The redhead Harry once thought of as a friend was much more peaceable, saying as how he had given up after his first attempt.
Over the past two months Harry had become much more accomplished at sneaking about, he had spent time with his godfather regularly, and knew his way around the Restricted Section probably as well as any save the Librarian herself. The two newly released prisoners were taking no chances, people were trying to kill them and the sensible thing to do is to be vigilant.
In the words of Harry's new, and most hated Professor 'Constant Vigilance.' Honestly the axe crazy sociopath seemed to take these Dark Lord rumours ten times more seriously than even the most paranoid of the sheep. Harry throwing off his Imperius Curse like it was nothing probably did him more harm than good in that respect.
"Still, being immune to the Imperius for life is worth being turned into a ferret for twenty seconds, fucking Malfoy he started it, how is it my fault if I was forced to be the one who ended it?" He muttered under his breath.
"Did you say something Harry?" The bushy haired fifteen year old asked in a tone which was approaching zealous levels.
Harry ignored her with a practised ease, instead focusing on the hopefuls in the hall. He ignored the Hogwarts students for the obvious reason, it was clear to him now that none of them can possibly be chosen. There were only three slots in the Triwizard Tournament and as he was in Hogwarts robes, this meant it was only down to the Durmstrang and Beauxbatons students who could conceivably be picked by this Goblet of Fire.
There were a few in Durmstrang robes who might get a crack at it, there was a student named Athena Manos who Sirius mentioned was probably the granddaughter to some big nuts Greek gangster/politician, and on further investigation turned out to be a shoe in for the Duelling Circuit next season.
Victor Krum was a big name too, he was in the World Cup which was apparently held in England this year. He caught the Snitch and won Bulgaria the Title. From the sounds of it he was the only player on their team too, so that meant that even though Bulgaria only won by twenty points, it was Krum alone who did it.
It was hard to say much about the French contingent, not because they were incompetent or anything, just that they had this Veela girl sitting in the middle of their group, and it's laughably pathetic how everyone was fawning over her meagre little aura. Harry really hoped that someone other than her got chosen, even though he couldn't come up with anything about the other classmates, he just really didn't want to have to deal with a conceited bitch.
"Representing Durmstrang; Victor Krum." There were cheers, and Harry clapped along uncharacteristically, he wanted to see how Krum did off a broom as much as everyone else.
"Representing Hogwarts;…" Here it comes 'Harry Potter,' yes, yes, we all know by now I'm in this, just get on with it. "…Angelina Johnson."
'WHAT? Oh thank the fucking gods for that one. I'm just paranoid, I'll take just being paranoid over having to get killed in this fool contest. "Representing Beauxbatons; Fleur Delacour" Harry clapped exactly as enthusiastically as the other aura-addled morons, it was so worth it. 'I'll take an annoying champion in the face of such good news.'
Yeah, Harry wasn't happy about what happened next.


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Nolasco begins spring training as Marlins ace
JUPITER, Fla. -- Now that Ricky Nolasco's an ace, he might soon be traded. Such is life with the Miami Marlins.
Nolasco began his eighth spring training with the Marlins this week, and for the first time he's their top starter -- by default. Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle and Anibal Sanchez departed when Miami slashed its budget, leaving Nolasco as the team's most experienced pitcher and highest-paid player.
He'll make $11.5 million in 2013, about one-quarter of the payroll. Because of the Marlins have returned to their tightfisted ways after a brief flurry of spending, and because Nolasco's contract expires after this year, he might well be dealt during the season to a contending team.
That would be fine with Nolasco. The right-hander was so upset by the Marlins' downsizing that he asked in December to be traded.
He now declines to discuss last offseason, saying he's focused on the future.
"Every year you want to go out there and do more and set your goals really high," Nolasco said. "This year is no different, whether it's the last year of my contract or not. I'm just trying to have a good year. I'm not thinking about any trades. I'm just going start by start, and want to help as much as I can."
The Marlins have decided they can afford to keep Nolasco -- for now. In fact, the pitching staff desperately needs his experience.
"We don't have anybody else like that," new manager Mike Redmond said. "His experience of going through the everyday grind of playing in the major leagues is huge. You need a guy like that.
"To have him at the top of our rotation, it's going to be big to have that stability. You know what you're going to get every time he goes out there. He's young, too, but after that we're really young."
The 30-year-old Nolasco has been a model of consistency, posting double-figure win totals each of the past five seasons. Last year he became the franchise leader in career victories, and he's 76-64 with an ERA of 4.49.
Those aren't the statistics of an ace, and neither was his record last year -- 12-13 with a 4.48 ERA. In the past two seasons he has allowed 458 hits, most in the majors. In 2012 opponents hit .285 against him, third-highest in the NL.
But he's the best the Marlins have.
Three pitchers expected to start -- 21-year-old Jacob Turner, 22-year-old Henderson Alvarez and 23-year-old Nathan Eovaldi -- have a combined career record of 17-38. Competition for the fifth spot is wide open, and it could be a revolving door all season.
Redmond said the Marlins' youngsters will benefit from Nolasco's leadership.
"Just to always have somebody to talk to and say, `What's it like facing this guy?' is huge," Redmond said. "We always talk about important experience is."
But Nolasco's not keen on a role as mentor.
"Nah. I'm going to be the same," he said. "I'm a quiet guy by nature. I'm not going to change that. I'm going to keep going about my business and do what I have to do to prepare myself."
He's preparing to start opening day April 1 at Washington against the defending NL East champions. The Marlins finished 29 games behind the Nationals last year, and that was with Johnson, Buehrle and Sanchez.
Johnson started the past three openers. Now the Marlins have a new ace.
"I'm not changing my approach," Nolasco said. "Whether you're 1 or 5, you're trying to give your team a chance to win every time out."
Money can be motivation, too. And if Nolasco pitches well in 2013, his next contract will likely surpass the $26.5 million, three-year deal he signed before the 2011 season.
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