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Students in Secondary Schools in France, 1864 (ICPSR 7806)
Principal Investigator(s): Harrigan, Patrick J.
This study is based on data collected from questionnaires administered in 1864 by the French historian Victor Duruy, who was serving as Minister of Education under Napoleon III. In Duruy's inquiry into France's secondary schools and students, leaders of French education answered more than 100 questions on a variety of subjects including curriculum, textbooks, qualifications of instructors, the relationship between public and private schools, and the public image of these schools. This file contains the portion of those data that illuminates the socioeconomic origins of students and the degree of social mobility fostered by public education. The 27,771 records in the file represent each of the students and graduates who were studied, as well as many of their fathers. Variables selected from the original questionnaire to be used specifically to analyze mobility include school identification number, departement/province number, type of school/lycee/college, student identification number, student status (current or graduate), intended occupation of student/graduate, occupation of student's father, type of curriculum at schools, occupational groupings of students, and occupational groupings of fathers.
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Harrigan, Patrick J. STUDENTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN FRANCE, 1864. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1981. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07806.v1
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January NCUA Board Agenda Includes Two Anticipated Final Rules
The Jan. 10 NCUA Board meeting will include a final rule on a proposal that would allow the federal regulator to declare a state-chartered credit union "troubled," a privilege that is currently only available to state regulators.
The proposed rule, introduced in July, was in response to the disagreement in CAMEL ratings between state regulators and the NCUA. Such discrepancies happen 2% to 4% of the time, NCUA Staff Attorney Steve Widerman told the board last summer.
The NCUA Board will also issue a final rule on the updated definition of "small credit union." The proposed rule issued in September calls for an increase in the maximum asset threshold from $10 million to $30 million; trade associations have countered that $50 million or higher is a more reasonable number.
Other agenda items include the NCUA's 2013 annual performance plan, final rules on the acceptance deadline for this summer's low-income designation offer and a technical amendment addressing treasury tax and loan depositories, and a briefing on an interagency final rule on mortgage loans that trigger HOEPA disclosures.

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Beckham fighting through injuries to find consistency
CHICAGO -- Over the past 23 games, Gordon Beckham has just 12 hits in 86 at-bats.
That slump has dropped the second baseman's average from .313 to .267. But to be honest, Beckham really isn't concerned with individual numbers at this time of year.Full Game Coverage
CHICAGO -- Over the past 23 games, Gordon Beckham has just 12 hits in 86 at-bats.
That slump has dropped the second baseman's average from .313 to .267. But to be honest, Beckham really isn't concerned with individual numbers at this time of year.Full Game Coverage
"Unfortunately, it doesn't really matter what your average is when your team is this far behind," said Beckham, prior to Sunday's game against the Indians.
Whereas White Sox prospects are getting an extended September look amid the excitement of their first big league experience, this final month is a tough one to deal with for veterans with any sort of service time such as Beckham. The losses are piling up, and in the last 16 games, each setback seems to be more poorly played than the last.
Beckham's offense has been under scrutiny since the past three years didn't match his breakout rookie campaign. He found a consistent stance that he liked at the end of the 2012 season and has used it successfully in 2013.
But numerous injuries have stunted Beckham's progress.
He sustained a fractured hamate bone in his left hand in April, hurt the same wrist in a different area after the All-Star break and has been battling a right quad strain since mid-August. Manager Robin Ventura believes Beckham can and will be a solid No. 2 hitter, but the injuries have prevented any sort of accurate judgment.
"It just feels like it's kind of an ongoing thing," said Beckham of the injuries. "The quad thing has been annoying. I haven't been able to really run very well. The good news is when you don't get on base, it doesn't hurt. You are not straining it. It's just been kind of myriad things for everybody and everybody is kind of banged up.
"I was mechanically off until the last couple of games," added Beckham of his recent slump. "I feel like I've made an adjustment to get back to what I'm doing right. But you know that happens to everybody in every season. It's a little more drastic for me because of the lack of at-bats, so when you have a couple of days, weeks, like that, that's kind of what happens, unfortunately."
Beckham had found some offensive consistency, but realizes there's a higher plateau to reach with the bat.
"Definitely a step in the right direction," Beckham said. "I can be better, and obviously having more games and at-bats will help. But I can be better."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin.


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Putting off problems to worry 'bout later
Spending my days as an internet hater
Gorging on chicken with crispy fried skins
These are a few of my favorite sins
Fighting temptation with no hope of winning
Glad that just thoughts, and not actions, are sinning
Not what I do, but what's buried within
These are a few of my favorite sins
When I succumb and by lust I am driven
Simply confess; it will all be forgiven
Tell how I romped with those Latvian twins
Those were a few of my favorite sins
When I'm prideful
When I envy
When I'm feeling mad
I simply remember my favorite sins
And then I don't feel so bad.
CNN's Belief Blog has a fairly frustrating article, Americans reveal their 3 favorite sins.
"Temptations and America's Favorite Sins," a survey conducted by the Barna Group, a Christian research firm, concludes that the moral struggles that vex most Americans aren't the salacious acts that drive the plotlines of reality television shows. Most Americans are too worn down or distracted to get snared by those vices, the survey concludes.
The top three sins seducing most Americans: procrastination, overeating and spending too much time on media.
"You would think it would be sex, drugs and rock and roll," said Todd Hunter, pastor and author of "Our Favorite Sins," whose book was consulted in conjunction with the survey.
The survey focused on "temptations", and asked what people were tempted by–from chocolate to internet porn. (BTW, they conclude that "Temptation has gone virtual"… on the basis of (wait for it) their (wait…) online survey.
Annoying already, they then get to the bit that really irritates.
Many Americans who admit to being tempted aren't putting up a big fight. The study said that 59% of Americans admit that they don't do anything to avoid temptation and half can't explain why they give into temptation.
Many Americans still can't explain what sin is, Hunter said. Worrying, for example, is not considered one of the seven deadly sins (pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed and sloth). Yet survey respondents listed it as one of their top temptations.
"There's no agreement on what sin is," Hunter said. "It's one of the aspects of the world we live in. It's becoming more relativistic. It's hard to talk about sin when everyone disagrees about what it is."
The listed sins are all desires, and never actions. No wonder everyone disagrees; what you actually *do* doesn't seem to be a problem! It's just the stuff you are thinking. Acting on my anger (or lust, or greed…) isn't the sin; the anger itself is.
Since I have already sinned by feeling greed, I might as well act on it and rob someone. Especially since I can ask for (and receive) forgiveness afterward.
It's exactly backward. I shouldn't care about your motives, just your actions. Your motives don't hurt someone; your actions do.


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California Desert Peaks > Red Mountain > Climber's Log
Red Mountain Climber's Log
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|afternoon hike
Date Climbed: Dec 6, 2017
|short hike using HPS Route 2. Lots of wind at the summit, the same wind as feeding the wildfires in LA.
|Posted Dec 11, 2017 12:27 pm
|70 Peaks In 30 Days
Date Climbed: Mar 17, 2017
|This was part of a month long solo peakbagging trip in which I hiked every day and got 70 peaks in 30 days. I hiked up Black Mountain and El Paso Mountain earlier the same day.
For numerous photos and brief route descriptions see the trip report.
|Posted May 5, 2017 1:10 pm
|from trona rd
Date Climbed: Jan 4, 2015
|lovely cloudy day on the way home from death valley.
|Posted Jan 5, 2015 12:07 am
|A nice desert peak outing
Date Climbed: Oct 13, 2013
|Climbed this along with Black Mountain. Sadly the dust was so intense the normally excellent views were stunted. An easy climb well worth doing.
|Posted Jan 31, 2014 11:54 am
|Windy Day
Date Climbed: Oct 9, 2013
|Parked off of Hwy 395 and followed a very old Jeep track to the north ridge. Fun scrambling to the very windy summit.
|Posted Oct 12, 2013 4:47 pm
|Blazed our Own
Date Climbed: May 26, 2013
|Hiked from 395 straight up the valley where the water would flow between the 2 mountains directly in front of you. Took the Saddle to the False peak where there was a big flag pole. Then hoped onto that saddle over to Red Mt. Great views on a great day. poured some brew out for the fallen comrades and decided to blaze our own path straight down the side of Red. Not very brightand very dangerous
|Posted May 28, 2013 2:49 pm
|On the way back from San Jacinto
Date Climbed: Dec 24, 1999
|Think I only did the middle peak after spending the night in the area on my way back to the SF bay area.
|Posted Jan 3, 2012 2:14 am
|I climbed it in December 2008 and in December 2009.
|Posted Aug 9, 2011 7:54 am
|Great Views
Date Climbed: Jan 22, 2011
|Great 360 degree views from the top!
|Posted Jan 24, 2011 3:36 pm
|NW Route
Date Climbed: Nov 6, 2010
|Off the Trona Road after doing two peaks near Tehachapi (Tehachapi Mtn & Black #3)
|Posted Nov 7, 2010 10:49 pm
|Breezy day
Date Climbed: May 23, 2010
|Started at Cuddeback Road, went cross country to top. Great little hike, great views, but the wind was fierce. Lots of neat etchgings from visitors to the top from about 100 years ago. Trip Report (5-23-10)
|Posted May 27, 2010 3:38 pm
|Princess Buttercup
|Not even a half day, but nice.
Date Climbed: Jan 5, 2008
|Rainy and foggy, but a nice day.
|Posted Nov 30, 2009 11:01 pm
|Great bouldering
Date Climbed: Mar 14, 2009
|Hiked up from the parking spot off HW395. Had a lot of fun scrambling over the lava boulders to the north ridge. Great views over the desert on a beautiful day.
|Posted Mar 14, 2009 11:20 pm
|Dennis Poulin
|Nice winter hike
Date Climbed: Feb 7, 2008
|Cuddback Trailhead. Beautiful day.
|Posted Mar 1, 2008 4:16 pm
|Bob Burd
|Easy peak
Date Climbed: Dec 11, 2004
|With Five Fingers and Black Mtn the same day, with Matthew. Trip Report
|Posted Mar 1, 2008 12:06 am
Date Climbed: Dec 28, 2005
|Dayhiked from the dirt road, just off 395. Got dark on the summit, so limited views.
|Posted Nov 26, 2007 4:27 pm
|I am so tired...
Date Climbed: Nov 23, 2007
|Why do i stay out all night the night before doing hikes like this?? It was way fun anyways, glad to be able to get out hiking with a friend while visiting:-)
|Posted Nov 23, 2007 9:28 pm
Date Climbed: Nov 23, 2007
|Finally realized another little dream peak of mine. Had to shake the cobwebs out of my legs. Amazing views and really fun lava boulder route to the cool summit. Cold and windy as hell, should have brought a sweater. Good to be hiking with my ole friend Janell.
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After completing her fellowship, Dr. Yates became an assistant professor at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. She has been trained in Minimally Invasive and Robotic approaches to reproductive surgery. Dr. Yates is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Additionally, she is the author of numerous publications in both national and international journals.


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Class of 2007, Spanish
Hola! My name is Katie Heird. My passion for Spanish began when I participated in a Volunteer program in Oaxaca, Mexico, Fundación Comunitarias Oaxaca, after my freshman year at SU. My experience as an undergrad in the Spanish program was excellent: small classes, great professors and wonderful study aboard opportunities. My Spanish professors helped me to decide on a study abroad program in Cuenca, Ecuador at the Centro de Estudios Interamericanos (CEDEI). I came for a semester, fell in love with Cuenca, and returned a year later to work as an intern in the Office of International Programs. During my internship, I was offered a job.
Thanks to my Salisbury experience, I am currently working in Ecuador as a Coordinadora de Programas Internacionales; in English this means that I work with university and high school students before and during their study aboard experience at CEDEI. In the upcoming academic session I will start teaching too! The highlight of my job is leading students on tours throughout Ecuador and Peru. My favorite trips include the Amazon Rainforest and Machu Picchu. If you want to check out SU's study abroad options at CEDEI visit www.cedei.org.
Without my time as an undergrad at Salisbury, not only would I not have the skills for my job, I wouldn't have my job. First and foremost I need to speak Spanish daily. Secondly, it was through SU that I was able to develop such a passion for the language and culture of Latin America. Lastly, the most vital lesson I learned from my experience at SU was the importance of one-on-one attention I received from my professors and my academic advisor. From their genuine commitment to helping me in my academic pursuits during and after my undergraduate career I learned that it is crucial to give that same commitment to my own students.
After my time in Cuenca, I would like to continue helping people break down cultural barriers through intercultural communications.
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Salisbury University Alumni (class of 2006)
Spanish Secondary Education major
I am currently a High School Spanish teacher at Yongsan International School of Seoul, located in South Korea.
The qualifications and experience that I received during my undergraduate studies at Salisbury University have prepared me immensely for the many challenging, yet rewarding, endeavors that go along with teaching. I never would have survived the past two years without the quality training that I received at Salisbury. Surprisingly, my ability to speak Spanish has also helped me in my many travels around the world, including interacting with other airport customers, with Hispanics in Seoul, as well as Peruvian woman in a Thailand prison.
Undoubtedly there is an growing population of Hispanics and Latinos living in the United States, as evidenced by the fact that Spanish is the second language of many of its residents. Pursuing the study of the Spanish language will enhance one's ability to communicate with this community. Additionally one's qualifications and marketability for several different occupations would be increased through the acquisition of the Spanish language. Pertaining specifically to Salisbury University, Spanish majors are given a substantial amount of individual attention and quality learning opportunities in part because the student to faculty ratio is extremely favorable. The professors always made themselves available to me and offered any assistance or advice when necessary.
I am currently in the process of applying to the Louisiana State University graduate program of Guidance Counseling. This will help to broaden my options in the educational sector. However, I have no doubt that sooner or later my future profession will likely entail some sort of involvement or action helping with the Hispanic and Latino population residing in the United States, as much of my heart lies with this community.
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Realistic Network Traffic Profile Generation: Theory and Practice
Network engineers and designers need additional tools to generate network traffic in order to test and evaluate application performances or network provisioning for instance. In such a context, traffic characteristics are the very important part of the work. Indeed, it is quite easy to generate traffic but it is more difficult to produce traffic which can exhibit real characteristics such as the ones you can observe in the Internet. With the lack of adequate tools to generate data flows with "realistic behaviors" at the network or transport level, we needed to develop our tool entitled "SourcesOnOff". The emphasis of this article is on presenting this tool, how we implemented it and which methodology it follows to produce traffic with realistic characteristics. To do so, we chose to consider different stochastic processes in order to model the complexity of the different original traffics we wanted to replay. In our approach, we are able to consider several statistical laws and to combine their effects to model accurately the original behavior we analyzed in the real data. We then select the right parameters to consider as inputs for our SourcesOnOff tool. This approach gives really good traffic characteristics and, consequently, the generated traffic is really closed to reality as results presented at this end of this paper demonstrate it.
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What was happening in Rockland County 150 years ago? You can read the digitized issues of the Rockland County Messenger online at http://news.hrvh.org [2]. The editor of the Messenger bragged about the quality of the Steamboat service as the ships returned to service after the winter in an article entitled "Our Steamboats [3]". This weekly newspaper published the schedule for the steamships on the back page of each issue. There was an announcement for a local fair in Nyack [4] and a "Metropolitan [5]" one in New York City to help support the efforts of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a private relief agency created by Federal legislation to help sick and wounded soldiers during the U.S. Civil War.
A small notice entitled "Our Quota [6]," reported on the status of the draft in Rockland County. Each town was required to supply a certain number of troops based on population. In this notice it is mentioned that Haverstraw has a deficiency of 117, Clarkstown 17, Orangetown 1 with only Ramapo not only filling the quota but delivering a surplus of ten men.
As much of the local population was against the war, the towns eventually developed a system whereby they could collect a tax and purchase a substitute to fight. The cost was $300, but there was much corruption amongst the town clerks. For more on the quotas in Rockland, read Frank Green's History of Rockland County, pages 311-322 [7]. You can read this week's entire issue of the Rockland County Messenger from 150 years ago online at http://new.hrvh.org [8].
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Blizzcon 2008 headlines
BlizzCon adds up to a "substantial loss" for us, says Blizzard
All the exclusive, convention-only Murloc plushies in the world can't recoup the cost of cramming 20,000 frothing fans into the Anaheim Convention Center, it seems. During the 2009 Austin GDC, Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce explained that – while certainly an excellent marketing opportunity – BlizzCon does quite a number on Blizzard's wallet. "BlizzCon is operated […]
BlizzCon 09: Diablo III "not ruled out for consoles"
Paul Sams of Blizzard has told Geoff Keighley that the firm has not ruled out Diablo III for consoles. Currently, Blizzard is in talks with first-parties now. This according to Keighly's latest tweet. Diablo III on 360 and PS3? Color us excited at the possibility. Nathan is at BlizzCon now. We'll see if he can […]
Morhaime: Blizzard can move to consoles anytime thanks to Activision
Speaking to GI at BlizzCon, Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime said that merging with Activision will allow the firm to move to consoles when it likes, and said being first in the console space with an MMO isn't a requirement to taking a significant share of the market. "I think that, it comes down to games, […]
Paid character customisation heading to WoW
World of Warcraft production boss J Allen Brack apparently confirmed at BlizzCon session this weekend that paid character customisation is on the way to World of Warcraft. From this Warcry report: When asked to expand upon a button found by sifting through the Lich King beta's data files named "Paid Character Customization," Brack initially hesitated […]
Terran: Wings of Liberty shots posted out of BlizzCon
On Gamespot. These are taken from Terran: Wings of Liberty, the first of the three StarCraft II parts, of which you can find an explanation here. Still no release date.
Blizzard "worried" at too many players swamping Diablo III co-op
Speaking to IGN at BlizzCon, Blizzard boss Rob Pardo's said the final number of players to be allowed in a Diablo III co-op party has yet to be decided, and that the team is "worried" that too many cooks may spoil the broth. "We're a little bit worried that if you go up to too […]
Blizzard's Wilson: Some Battle.net features to be 'monetized'
According to this Joystiq report, Diablo III boss Jay Wilson said at BlizzCon this weekend that you're going to be paying for some elements of the new version of Battle.Net, releasing alongside StarCraft II. "We are looking to monetize Battle.Net so that we get to keep making these games and updating features," he said during […]
New StarCraft II gameplay movies head out of BlizzCon
Here and here. They're direct-feed montages of gameplay showing off various units from all factions. Looks lovely. Thanks, VGB.
StarCraft II trilogy release explained
Kotaku's posted a chat with StarCraft II producer Chris Sigaty, outlining the thinking behind releasing the game in three parts and adding some detail as to what to expect in each. From the piece: Each new single player campaign will come with upgrades and changes to the multiplayer. The main difference here is that instead […]
New StarCraft II cinematic released
On Eurogamer.pt. It's Protoss versus Zerg and it looks amazing. The game was confirmed for a trilogy release in California yesterday. Go watch it: it's very cool.
Rumour: Blizzard mentions WarCraft IV in StarCraft II BlizzCon panel
According to this Hellforge story, Blizzard yesterday mentioned that WarCraft IV will use the same trilogy release system as StarCraft II in a panel at BlizzCon yesterday. Blizzard announced at the expo last night that StarCraft II would be release in three parts, each product focusing on a separate single-player campaign. We're chalking this up […]
Brack: We thought 1 million WoW subs was the pinnacle of success
Speaking to IGN at BlizzCon 08, World of Warcraft production director J Allen Brack's said the WoW team has been humbled by the success of the game, and that the initial benchmark for success was 1 million subscribers. "Our big thoughts about what the game would eventually be internally was, 'Well, one day we might […]
BlizzCon 08: 22 Diablo III shots posted
On Gamespot. Some of these were posted last night with the announcement of the Wizard class, but you can never have too much Diablo III. Check them out.
The Diablo III Wizard's talent tree posted
Shacknews has posted up what looks to be the entire talent tree for Diablo III's Wizard, the game's third confirmed class. Two words: magic missile. As it stands so far, we'll be playing a Wizard when the game finally releases. No question. Unless Blizzard pulls something a little "darker" out of the hat in the […]
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Capita Group PLC
25 November 2003
Letter to Capital Group PLC dated November 24, 2003
Enclosed are amended notifications of disclosable interests under the U.K.
Companies Act 1985. Please note that while this information details the
disclosable interests of more than one entity, the enclosed disclosure
constitutes separate notifications of interest which have been combined solely
for purposes of clarity and efficiency. It is not intended to indicate that any
of these entities act as a group or in concert with respect to these interests.
These disclosures are made in the interest of conformity with the Companies Act.
The Interest detailed herein were acquired solely for investment purposes.
For disclosure purposes, holdings should be represented as FMR Corp. and its
direct and indirect subsidiaries, and Fidelity International Limited (FDL) and
its direct and indirect subsidiaries, both being non-beneficial holders.
From Fidelity Investments
Amendment #2
1. Company in which shares are held: Capita Group Plc
2. Notifiable Interest: Ordinary Shares
(A) FMR Corp.
82 Devonshire Street
Boston, MA 02109
Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCO),
investment manager for US mutual funds. (See Schedule A for listing of
Registered Shareholders and their holdings).
(B) Fidelity International Limited (FBL)
P.O. Box HM 670
Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda
Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries, including
Fidelity Investment Services Ltd. (FISL) and Fidelity Pension Management (FPM),
investment managers for various non-US investment companies and institutional
clients. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders and their
3. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of:
Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d
82 Devonshire Street
Boston, MA 02109
A principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International Limited.
4. The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorised unit
trust schemes in the UK., notwithstanding the exemption from reporting
pursuant to Section 209 (1) (h) of the Companies Act 1985.
5. These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate
notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for the
purposes of clarity and efficiency. Nothing herein should be taken to
indicate that FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Fidelity
International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or Mr. Edward
C. Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of the disclosed
interests, or that they are required to submit these notifications on a joint
6. The disclosable interests arise under section 208 (4) (b) of the Act, namely
where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled to exercise a
right conferred by the holding of the shares or to control the exercise of
such rights, or under section 203 of the Act respectively.
Eric D. Roiter
Senior V.P. & General Counsel - FMR Co.
Duly authorized under Powers of Attorney
dated December 30. 1997, by and on
behalf of FMR Corp. and its direct
and indirect subsidiaries, and
Fidelity International Limited
and its direct and indirect subsidiaries.
Amendment 2
Security: Capita Group Plc
(Ordinary Shares)
1,477,000 FMRCO State Street Nominees Limited
10,809,200 FMRCO Chase Nominees Limited
133,397 FISL Chase Nominees Ltd
211,401 FPM Bankers Trust
1,857,054 FPM Chase Nominees Ltd
114,400 FPM Citibank
103,300 FPM Bank of New York London
119,300 FIL RBS Trust Bank
1,147,2OO FIL Nortrust Nominees Ltd
60,900 FIL State Street Bank & Trust
2,361,746 FIL Chase Nominees Ltd
288,500 FIL BT Globenet Nominees Ltd
643,600 FIL Northern Trust
12,531,600 FIL HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited
286,400 FIL Chase Manhattan Bank London
265,356 FIL JP Morgan
154,700 FIL State Street Nominees Ltd
128,500 FIL Bank of New York Brussels
28,400 FIL State Street Bank & Trust
356,100 FIL Bank of New York London
227,200 FIL Morgan Stanley
Total Ordinary Shares 33,389,454
Current ownership percentage: 5.02%
Shares in Issue: 665,586,700
Change in holding since last filing +6,403,856 ordinary shares
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Kate Middleton's Due Date "Has Passed" New Hospital Report "Not True"; Couple in Bucklesbury
She's still "wait-y Katie!" The whole entire world, it seems, is sitting on pins and needles waiting for Kate Middleton to give birth to the royal baby -- and a new report in The Telegraph claims that the Duchess' "real" due date was Friday, July 19. The British paper went on to report that staff members at London's St. Mary's Hospital -- Kate will give birth in the swank Lindo Wing -- were instructed to avoid alcohol and be on their best behavior, with an expected due date on Friday.
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A Palace aide tells Us Weekly the July 19 due date report is "not true," and adds: "Kate's due date has passed."
For now, Kate, 31, and Prince William are still ensconced at the Middleton family home in Bucklebury. Middleton retreated to the compound, 50 miles away from London, last weekend after scorching London temperatures -- and a lack of air conditioning at Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace -- became too unbearable.
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Whenever the Duchess does go into labor, there's a detailed plan in place. The palace staff is "on call every day and night in July for this," explains a palace insider to Us. "There is nothing left to prepare or plan for."
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Adds a Royal Air Force source of William, 31: "William is not on paternity leave yet but he has had to take time off work now. He did double shifts the week before he returned to London. We're all on the edge of our seats for news. I thought the baby would be born by now!"
This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Kate Middleton's Due Date "Has Passed" New Hospital Report "Not True"; Couple in Bucklesbury
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text: Saints Cyril and Methodius were Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They were Christian missionaries among the Slavic peoples of the First Bulgarian Empire, Great Moravia, and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they received the title "Apostles to the Slavs". They are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic. After their deaths, their pupils continued their missionary work among other Slavs. Both brothers are venerated in the Orthodox Church as saints with the title of "equal-to-apostles". In 1880, Pope Leo XIII introduced their feast into the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1980, Pope John Paul II declared them co-patron saints of Europe, together with Benedict of Nursia.


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Tomorrow's Tape: Jobless Claims, Disney, Groupon Earnings
Weekly jobless claims (8:30 a.m. ET): claims seen rising to 365,000 from 363,000
US September trade deficit (8:30): deficit seen at $45 billion, after $44.2 billion deficit in August.
EIA weekly natural gas storage report (10:00): gas in storage seen rising 27 Bcf, after rising 65 Bcf the week before.
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Europe: ECB monetary policy decision (7:45 a.m. ET); Bank of England monetary policy decision (7:00 a.m.)
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Tulane safety Devon Walker suffered a broken neck and a collapsed lung in a game against Tulsa Saturday.
He is listed in stable condition after a helmet-to-helmet collision with teammate Julius Warmsley on a tackle attempt left Walker unconscious on top of a pile of players. FOX reported that Walker stopped breathing and was administered CPR. A tracheotomy was performed in order for Walker to resume breathing.
Dr. Buddy Savoie said in the postgame news conference that Walker has a fractured spine and will need surgery.
"He was stable when we transported him," Savoie said. "I do not think, based on the information we have, his life was ever in danger."
Later Saturday, Tulane Athletics said in a statement that Walker had been placed in traction and was undergoing treatment for a "lot of swelling in his neck."
"The current plan is for him to have surgery in the next one to two days. He is being treated by specialists," said the statement posted on Tulane University's website. It added that the physicians in Tulsa were doing a "great job" taking care of Walker.
Coach Curtis Johnson stayed with Walker on the field as the team left for the locker room at halftime. According to NOLA.com, athletic director Rick Dickson went with Walker in the ambulance to the hospital.
Walker, a former walk-on who was a backup for three seasons, earned a starting job for the Green Wave this season. He entered the year with 47 career tackles. In the team's opener against Rutgers, he registered a career-high nine tackles. Tulsa won this game, 45-10.
According to NOLA.com, Walker is a cell and molecular biology major who hopes to someday become a pharmacist.
"He's a driven kid," said his former Destrehan High coach, Stephen Robicheaux, to NOLA.com. "He's a kid who works hard. He's an overachiever. They said he was too slow to play college ball but he always had a skill set and did what he needed to do. He set his goal to play for Tulane. He wanted to get his degree there and then here he is on scholarship. That says it all about Devon Walker. He's a great kid. He does whatever it takes to be successful."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Topeka police say an Indiana fugitive is jailed after leading police on two brief car chases.
Topeka police Lt. Ron Gish says 38-year-old Jamie Allen Sigman of Topeka was arrested Wednesday and faces several felony and traffic charges. Gish says Sigman had a fugitive justice warrant issued for him in Indiana, and a warrant with the city of Topeka, but he didn't know what the warrants were for.
Gish says the chase began when officers tried to stop a pickup, which sped off and crashed into a curb. A passenger jumped out but the driver drove off again, only to collide with pickup about a mile away. The driver tried to flee on foot but was arrested.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the pickup truck driver suffered only minor injuries.


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For the 2005 holiday season, I offered to write a story for any friend who dared challenge me. Tárion, one of my oldest fannish friends, asked for a story with Caranthir and angst.
It should have been a simple request. I write Caranthir all of the time, and most of my stories are dramas, which is the slightly dressed-up cousin of angst. But nothing came to me except ... this.
"When the Stars Smile" does, indeed, involve angst. But it's also a comedy, and this may have been the first story I wrote where my Caranthir muse showed his acerbic wit. It's not quite what Tárion probably expected, but I hope she has forgiven me! Despite being one of my oldest stories, it remains one of my personal favorites, and it is generally reviewed very well also. When I won a bet against my husband with the "prize" being that he had to read the Silmarillion story of my choice, my fandom friends and readers voted that he should read this one. And, some years later, this story would also inspire Kasiopea to ask for the tale that would become The Coveted, and the voice I established for Caranthir here would influence my writing of Discretion, another gift-story for Tárion, even after that. "When the Stars Smile" has never been nominated for any awards and gets very little notice these days, and I like to think of it as a hidden gem among my stories.
When the Stars Smile
I have come to the conclusion, through much research and deliberation, that being in love has the power to make my brothers behave quite oddly.
Well, to be more precise about it: has the power to make my brothers behave quite stupidly.
But of course, things that cause stupid behavior have a tendency to be enjoyable at first--drinking large quantities of wine, for instance--then cause great pain later. At first, when I realized at my coming-of-age ceremony that I had yet to be kissed by a female outside of my family and that it had taken me fifty years to notice, I was a bit perturbed by the notion of having never been in love. After all, by the age of fifty, my father was married, had one son, and was working on the second. I seemed quite delayed in comparison. (Tyelkormo has always preferred "retarded" but I'm not sure that I share in his liking of this particular word.) Still, the level of disturbance that I felt for this fact seemed rather less than it should, and so I tried to force myself to care, to pour my woes into a diary like Maitimo did or to make my eyes well at sad songs like Macalaurë did or to sulk and kick at stones like Tyelkormo did, but all I ended up doing was using the paper to draw swordfighting scenes and giggling at lyrics like "when the wind carries your scent to me" and breaking my little toe and having to hobble around with a bandaged foot for a week.
And slowly, I decided that I didn't really care that I'd never been in love; in fact, I was rather glad.
For I find stupid behavior--in the name of love or not--so unbecoming.
Macalaurë is recently married and so always sighing with the greatness of love for his new wife; Maitimo and Tyelkormo alternate between giddy infatuation and the agony of loneliness, sniffing scented parchments and trying to decipher whether certain inanely small behaviors are indicative of love, lust, or mere friendly affection (they refuse to consider my hypothesis that fluttery eyelashes mean complete despise), debating the merits of various outfits and hairstyles on their "prospects."
"Personally," I say from Tyelkormo's bed, where I am slowly polishing off the last of the almond biscuits that his current paramour gave him, "I think that you both look like overdressed princesses." Maitimo glares at me in the mirror where he is braiding Tyelkormo's hair in a style that looks not only complicated but slightly uncomfortable as well. At least, it makes Tyelkormo's eyes go funny at the corners, stretched like a cat's, and I can't imagine that that's pleasant. Macalaurë, who is perched on the corner of the vanity table and plucking at his lute, falters and says, "You know, Carnistir, with all that we hear from you, when at last you fall in love, you are going to fall so hard that you'll come up crooked."
Tyelkormo laughs at this, but Tyelkormo has a stupid sense of humor to match his equally witless behavior, and Macalaurë goes back to strumming some song that includes a line about the "sweet mead of love": case in point, I think, as my second-eldest brother is revered as the best poet and singer of the Noldor, but if this particular song--and this particular line--were to be exported to a distant civilization, then they would likely come to the reliable conclusion that we are a bunch of blathering idiots.
Maitimo fastens the last of Tyelkormo's plaits into place and Tyelkormo stands up so that he and Maitimo may swap places. He is handsome, I suppose, if I can manage to look past the fact that he is my brother and less than a day ago, we were sprawled beside a campfire in the woods, both reeking worse than two swine, our hair so oily that the water rolled right off of it, and Tyelkormo was making an impressive show with the natural consequences of our baked-bean supper and a torch. (Truthfully, it's a wonder he can sit at all today; although I did see him chasing after Maitimo earlier with a vial of aloe, making promises of some wondrous favor. I'd hidden, lest he get any ideas.) My brothers are all handsome, really, if I look at them as people other than my brothers. In fact, in terms of attractiveness, I think it must have all been doled out early, leaving me to come up a bit short. Tyelkormo ripples with a virile attractiveness like a golden panther in the afternoon light; Macalaurë has the delicate, mournful beauty of a classical painting; and Maitimo...well, I once saw a girl stare so long at Maitimo while trying to walk down the street at the same time that she fell into a gutter and sprained her ankle. I laughed but Maitimo--the perfect gentleman to compliment his fiery looks--had of course carried her to a healer, her pain "so bad that she fainted three times in my arms."
She must have done a lot of fainting after that too because, in the weeks to follow, he found many excuses to loosen her clothing and lay her in his bed.
Now me, when I woke up this morning, my hair was sticking to one side of my head like a sail and I noticed that the few stray hairs that grew between my eyebrows were coming back after Tyelkormo had insisted on holding me down and pulling them out last month. I washed my teeth and noticed that the canine tooth on the left side of my mouth was loose and sitting at an angle after Macalaurë had thwacked me in the face with a tree branch while hunting the other day. I was putting off telling Atar because then he would send me to the healer to have it fixed and those things tend to hurt no matter how fervently the healer swears that they won't. Besides, it made my grin crooked and--I liked to think--a little jaunty. Of course, all of this was overshadowed by the hair-sail, which--when I tried to brush it--began to more resemble a frizzy mushroom, so I resorted to my usual tactic of tying it back with a strip of hide and having done with it.
Once, Tyelkormo joked to me that it would indeed take a special love for someone to consent to wake up beside me each morning. And although I punched him as hard as I could in the stomach and poked fun at the very obvious spot on his nose, I was a little hurt. I even wrote about it in my diary, hastily drawing a few armor designs immediately afterward to console myself that I wasn't turning into a girl.
The Spring Festival draws near and someone had the brilliant idea that Taryindë, daughter of the lord Mirimakú of Formenos, should come to Tirion for the festival. Poor Taryindë: she has it worse than me. At least if a male is ugly, he can extend his other virtues. But a woman--and the daughter of a lord at that--is expected to uphold a certain degree of femininity that poor Taryindë simply cannot approximate.
Still, I am fond of Taryindë. She doesn't try to deny that she can drink just as well as my brothers and her sense of humor is nearly as acerbic and misguided as mine. Indeed, a bit of stolen spirits (from the cabinet that Atar thinks is a secret) and Taryindë at my side (but not so close that people think we fancy each other or anything like that) and the festival should be nearly bearable.
I watch from the window as her carriage draws inside the gate. Maitimo, of course, is there to meet her, to bow neatly and extend his hand to help her down. She jumps gracelessly from the bottom step and plunks both feet into the mud--for we have had heavy rains of late--splattering the bottoms of Maitimo's breeches. Of course, he is diplomatic enough that even I--his brother--detect no tremor in the perfect smile on his face.
Her gown was meant to be off-shoulder, but her shoulders are broad and the sleeves are too tight, and so she keeps hauling at the neckline. She drags her trunk behind her through the mud with one hand, tugging up the neckline of her gown with the other, and when Maitimo offers to take the trunk from her, I see her lips move in the distinctive shape of a very profane word that makes him blush and makes me laugh. She grins and punches him in the arm, and now, even his most dignified smile can't cover his wince.
Of course, I can't run down the stairs to meet her, although I want to desperately, to tell her about my discovery that Tyelkormo steals Atar's chemicals to make his hair more golden. I have thought of replacing the chemicals with black ink but don't quite have the courage to do it alone.
But I've seen my brothers dash to meet women with their tongues hanging around their knees and I refuse to be likewise foolish. So I pace across my bedroom floor, until I realize that my bedroom is directly over the foyer and they can probably hear me. So I leap onto my bed and pace there instead, until Amil shouts from the bottom of the stairs, "Carnistir! Come and greet Taryindë!"
I grumble as I stomp down the stairs and find poor Taryindë ensconced in Macalaurë's embrace, enduring open scrutiny from Tyelkormo, and having to listen to Maitimo blather about some research he's doing with rocks that he thinks might be of interest to her father.
"Carnistir!" She wrenches free from Macalaurë, interrupting Maitimo in mid-sentence and stepping on Tyelkormo's toe. We greet each other as we have since we could both walk: She punches me in the gut and I grab a hank of her hair and twist it until she screams and bites my arm. So I bite her arm back.
There is an uncomfortable silence in the room and Tyelkormo's mouth is hanging open. She releases her grip on my arm and clears her throat. "It's good to see you, Carnistir."
I also release my grip. She tastes powdery, like sand. "Yes. You too."
There is a scorched-tingly feeling in my face, and I have a feeling that my complexion closely resembles a tomato. No mind: hers does too.
"Well, I will show you to your rooms, Taryindë," says Maitimo, and for once, I am grateful for his graciousness--and the fact that he scowls at Tyelkormo until Tyelkormo picks up her trunk--for it allows me to duck from the room and endure my humiliation in solitude and peace.
Less than a day later, Taryindë and I find ourselves in my grandfather's finest ballroom, more resembling the pillars that keep the walls from collapsing than young, unwed Noldor, a goblet of wine each that has been liberally doctored with some of Atar's secret spirits. The wine keeps making us belch and we make a point to always blow it in the other one's face; Taryindë is wearing a very unflattering purple gown with a ruffle around her shoulders--making them appear of insurmountable girth--and her father's crest pasted at the center of her ample chest. Until tonight, I had never noticed that her chest was ample before, and now I find myself having to concentrate on not staring at the tops of the pale orbs of her bosom that are mashed inside her too-tight bodice while actually managing to get quite a decent look at them--a difficult task, I imagine, even for one with far more experience, like one of my brothers.
Well, it seems that I am a normal male. That is a comfort, I suppose.
I am so busy trying to look like I'm not looking at her chest that I fail to notice for some time--or at least, I assume it is some time, as I have failed to actually note its inception--that she is not paying me much heed. Actually, she is slowly shifting so that her back is completely turned to me, and when I belch and blow the rotted-grape stench at her, it brushes her thick shoulder and nothing more. I follow her gaze to a table along the dance floor.
And there, I see the most beautiful creature ever to grace Arda.
All of the stupid metaphors and saccharine lyrics that I have mocked for years now come suddenly flooding back: "the sweet mead of love" and "Your beauty is a fair wind / Winding through the trees / And carrying upon it's back / The sweetest melodies." I find myself humming the latter, and I am so distracted by the thought that I should fall to my knees and worship this being that I lose hold of my goblet and nearly drop it, managing to bobble it but not before liberally sloshing wine across the front of my robes.
She is a Vanya, I suppose, for her hair makes Laurelin look like a pale, withered sapling tied to a stake in uncle Nolofinwë's feeble garden; like a thirsty man wandering the desert pushes his face into the water of an oasis, I want to drown in her hair. I imagine that it smells of flowers crushed beneath the delicate feet of Maiarin maidens dancing beneath the boundless blue sky, the same color as her eyes. She laughs and--if it could--my heart would break in two, for Macalaurë has never crafted a song fairer; the nightingale and the warbling rivers should weep for shame at their inadequacy; I should weep at my inadequacy, for I feel like naught but dust beneath her feet, but gladly would I be crushed upon her delicate shoes if it meant that I might abide with her forever.
So, I realize, this is love.
I find my feet carrying me in her direction; my mind doesn't even realize how foolish I am being, even though I can feel my mouth stretched in a grin so wide that my face hurts and my teeth show top and bottom. There are tables and chairs in my way, but the thought of veering from my path to her is unbearable, and so I push through them, knocking a tray of hors d'oeuvres onto the floor and treading through a pile of crackers smeared with crabmeat. The lady Indis is seated and speaking with one of the lords and his wife, and she is in my way, so I lift her chair, move her aside, and climb over her feet.
From the periphery of my vision, I see a purple shape moving beside me and realize that Taryindë is following beside me.
I am near enough to the beautiful creature that I can almost smell her flower-sweet scent and can see the tendrils of escaped hair lying like golden ribbons on her porcelain-smooth neck that begs to be tasted with the King's finest wine. I am opening my mouth to sing to her the sweetest love song that Macalaurë has ever penned, ready to fall on my knees in reverence of her, when someone steps between us.
That someone is as golden as she and nearly as beautiful, with sapphire-bright eyes and a radiant smile; that someone is holding out his hand and asking her to dance; that someone is calling her by her name--Amarië, a name like the mingled Light of the Trees put into song--that someone is my cousin Findaráto.
And, beside me, Taryindë sighs loudly and collapses into my arms.
Maitimo knows a lot about fainting maidens, and he sends Macalaurë for the smelling salts and borrows Tyelkormo's hunting knife to cut the laces on Taryindë's bodice. He seems to have everything under control, so I slip away while he is accepting a cool rag from Findekáno and pressing it to Taryindë's cheeks.
Findaráto and Amarië are unaware of Taryindë's spell and have continued to the dance floor without looking back. (I have always harbored the secret theory--which I intend to prove with experiments on Tyelkormo--that blondness is somehow associated with flagrant ignorance of anything that is not likewise golden and shiny. My cousin and the lovely Amarië are not helping to disprove this theory.) They are the center of a meager crowd--for many, I see, have run to assist Taryindë--moving with the music as though their bones and blood are made of the same stuff as the gently lilting flute melody. Findaráto holds Amarië closer than he would a normal dance partner and her gaze does not break from his face. Let it not be true, I beg--of whom, I do not know--and even as I entertain thoughts of hope, he lowers his face to hers in a lingering kiss.
I am aware only of the floor pounding beneath my feet, of vision that pulses with the racing rhythm of my blood, and of the unnatural desire to wrest Findaráto to the floor by the hair and slowly use my fists to turn his face a shade of blue to match his eyes.
I am standing right before them, my fingers crunched into fists, ready to seize my treacherous cousin and win the love of Amarië by whatever means necessary, but the song abruptly ends, and they release each other, smile, and turn, colliding directly into me.
"Ah! Carnistir!"
Findaráto smiles to see me, his blue eyes sparkling with genuine pleasure at my presence, although I do not know why. He is second nearest in age to me of all of my family, and I see him rarely--usually only at festivals, for I avoid his happy-go-lucky father like I avoid oversweet sugar water laced with honeysuckle--but he has the power to annoy me like no one else in the family. He has Maitimo's air of humble perfection and Macalaurë's saucer-eyed, doting amicability and Tyelkormo's swaggering magnificence with nary a hair ever out of place. At our grandfather's last begetting day feast, he entertained the family by reciting all of my father's lays of Cuiviénen, translated perfectly into Ancient Quendian. At the last Winter Festival, he gave each of his aunts and Lady Indis a rose sculpted of pink marble so fine that one expected it to draw dew; my mother keeps hers on the table in the vestibule, in an exquisite crystal vase made by my father, while the last I saw of the lumpy copper armlet I had made for her, Curufinwë was using it as a discus in the garden. (I keep "bumping" the rose whenever I pass, successfully knocking it to the floor on a few occasions, but it appears that Findaráto has a talent for both the sturdy and the delicate, and the forsaken thing refuses to break.) Findaráto is also fond of sayings such as "The stars smile upon us" and "Fair as the Light of the Trees," and I cringe now as he takes my hand in his soft, ever-warm fingers and says, "The stars smile upon our meeting, Carnistir, as fair as the Light of the Trees," and without breaking the flow of his words, places Amarië's hand in mine. "And may I acquaint you with the fair Amarië of Taniquetil, who has chosen to bring her fair radiance to this joyous celebration."
Now I can either punch Findaráto with my left hand--which isn't nearly as strong--or I can take my right hand from Amarië's and punch him like he deserves, or I can forgo punching him entirely and enjoy the silken feel of Amarië's hand in mine, relishing the sound of my name in her voice as she says, "It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Carnistir," letting her eyes linger on mine just long enough that--even could I muster the fortitude to deprive myself of her touch--my fingers are too weakened to ball into a fist suitable for pounding one's perfect cousin into the dirt where he belongs. So I figure that the world is a long way from ending, leaving many ages yet in which to coax my right hand into a fist that one as perfect as Findaráto truly deserves meeting with his flawless face.
I manage to squeak out, "Hello, Amarië," in a manner just as boorish and juvenile as one would expect of me. But she doesn't seem to notice my churlishness, and when Findaráto invites me to join them at their table, she links her arm in mine and his, and all I can do is allow my body to follow my feet trailing weakly in her wake, doing disservice to the ground on which I tread, which has already known the perfect lightness of her delicate footsteps.
My half-uncle Arafinwë's table is empty but for Artaher, who is nearly of age and fond of acting as though he possesses the wisdom of one of the Unbegotten. He is as radiant as Findaráto but good only at feigning intelligence, making him slightly more bearable--but only slightly. As far as I know, he does not speak Ancient Quendian, nor can he sculpt lifelike roses from stone, nor does he force upon unwilling ears his honeyed, nauseating greetings. In fact, as I approach on Amarië's arm, he grins rather widely at me before controlling his lips again and saying, "Greetings to you, cousin Carnistir."
"Same," I say. Whatever fuss was made of Taryindë has subsided, and I see that she is sitting at our table, her gown drooping and showing more of her ample-but-pasty bosom, having her hands patted by Macalaurë and her tears dabbed by Maitimo and a wine goblet proffered by Tyelkormo.
Findaráto offers Amarië a chair, and too late, I realize that I should have done that. Flushing, I plop down in the chair beside her, nearly miss, and send it screeching across the floor, catching myself from falling just in time by grabbing the table edge. If Amarië notices, she says nothing. Findaráto takes the seat between her and Artaher, and Artaher leans over to whisper in his ear, just loudly enough that I can hear: "That lord's daughter from Formenos--" he snickers with delicate fingers pressed to his perfect, shapely lips--"she fainted at the mere sight of you."
And then it all makes sense. I find the strangest feeling of dismay that Taryindë fancies Findaráto. I've never imagined Taryindë fancying any man before; she is very nearly a man herself, but for the fact that she wears gowns and has a distracting quantity of cleavage. And with all of the time she spends with me, you would think that she might have fainted in my presence. Yes, Findaráto may be golden and perfect, but I have substance, and I know that she likes me.
I feel so hurt by this notion that--for the barest flicker of a moment--I forget about Amarië and pout.
"Ai, Artaher, do not mock the girl. We have all felt the agonizing throes of infatuation." And he looks directly at me when he says the last bit and smirks in such a way that I feel my face grow hot and my right hand is strongly considering mustering itself into punching him. But that quickly, his eyes move to Amarië's face, and he goes on to say, "After all, consider what I endured in thought alone of my fair Amarië." He raises her fingers to his lips and kisses her fingers. "And should she ever leave me, I would spend the rest of my days composing an endless song of solitude."
I might have rolled my eyes but for my bitter dismay. So she is his. Which means that she cannot be mine. And the way that she is looking at him leaves no mistake that no "endless songs of agony" will be composed anytime soon. Anytime ever. All of the liquor that I drank earlier with Taryindë begins churning in my stomach then, and I have to concentrate on not vomiting. For I have a dismal feeling that every last shred of hope that Amarië might fancy me would be drowned in the vomit that I choked out all over her gown.
That is my last thought before the world suddenly develops a strange, dark, glittery border that quickly constricts until my vision is dark, and I feel the solid thud of my body hitting the floor before I feel no more.
When I awaken, Maitimo is cutting the ties of my robes with Tyelkormo's hunting knife and calling for Macalaurë to fetch the smelling salts, Findekáno is mopping my face with a cool rag, and Taryindë is leaning over me in the most provocative way, close enough that when I sit up suddenly, my nose finds itself buried in the drooping front of her gown, and I wonder if that is enough to make me faint again.
"It must have been the liquor," I manage to mumble, extracting myself carefully (and a bit reluctantly) from Taryindë's cleavage, but I see Amarië holding tightly to Findaráto's arm and standing at the periphery of the crowd gathered around me, and our glances intersect for the briefest moment, and I see by the pity in her face that she knows the real reason and regrets it--but not enough to change anything.
When I fell, I must have landed on my right hand because it aches fiercely. A pity, I think, because nothing would rouse me back to my senses than allowing my knuckles to meet the acquaintance of Findaráto's cheekbone. The stars would smile upon that meeting, I am sure.
The crowd is dissipating, convinced that the fourth-born son of Fëanaro is suffering nothing worse than the ill effects of inebriation, until only Taryindë remains, crouching beside me with her gown stretched between the lumps that are her knees, her thick hands helping to pull me to my feet. "Why do you smile so?" she asks, and there are two spots of color on her cheeks, and her hands flutter to rearrange the loosened neckline of her gown over her chest. I realize that I am watching her hands and look quickly away, feeling my face heat up.
Why am I smiling? "I am not exactly sure," I answer. "Probably because all of those insufferable sots are finally gone and--" reaching into my pocket--"I have a bit of spirits left. If you're interested?"
Laughing, she replies, "You know that I am!" and we returned to supporting the far wall, where we can make vehement fun of the ridiculous couples on the dance floor without being overheard, becoming slowly drunk, maybe discovering somewhere in between how we have both come to be so inexplicably happy.


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Chicago Fire 2 – 1 Toronto FC
Toyota Park – Aug. 4,2012
Frank Klopas, Chicago Fire Head Coach
On the result:
"It's a good feeling at this point to get three points. I thought we had a good start to the game. The team started off well, created some good opportunities and sometimes mistakes happen – like when we gave up that goal. At that point we lost a little momentum, but we had a strong second half. The team played well and pushed the game. Sean [Johnson] made a key save at the end of the first half to keep us only down by one goal, which was a huge save. The guys came out in the second half with a belief in the team and pushed to create chances which lead to two very nice goals. It was a great win against a good team."
On Fernandez and MacDonald's performance:
"Alvaro [Fernandez] is just such a good player – he has the ability to move and find space on the field. Technically he is a very good player and very composed on the ball, and I think he gives us the opportunity to now to have depth on the line with Patrick [Nyarko] and Marco [Pappa]. It's just unfortunate that he rolled his ankle, but he's just a very composed player and smart how he moves, his ability to make good decisions on the ball and I thought he did very well.
As for Mac [Sherjill MacDonald] we've been talking about his fitness, which he can get from games. He came into the game, was quick on the ball, made good decisions and on runs was strong and was very dangerous. They both gave us what we expected, but they can give us a lot more."
On Austin Berry's performance:
"I think the whole back line played well, but Austin is so committed to defending, but at times he wants to do everything on the field, which is a good thing, but he's just so competitive and he's gotten so much better with the ball. His defensive instincts are very good and on set pieces he's just so dangerous creating service."
On the physical play of the game:
"There's a belief and mentality amongst the group that this is our home, we have a good fan base and we need to defend it and push and never give up until the end. I think this is our fifth game we've come from behind to win. We have a lot of leadership on the field to motivate and push the guys, but everyone is committed. We put ourselves in a good spot and these are must win games for us at home and it would have been very difficult for us to drop points at home against a much improved team. Paul Mariner has done a great job with Toronto and they're a very tough team, much better than the first game we played them. They're very organized, they have a lot of pace from the younger players and now with Hassli and Johnson on top they are a force, it was a difficult match especially falling behind but there's a belief within the group to never give up and play to the end."
Arne Friedrich, Chicago Fire Defender
On the result:
"It was one of my goals to push the team a little bit, which we had to do I the second half because we were down by a goal. In the end we did very well, were very smart – we held possession and created chances. In my eyes it was a very good win for the team because we were down by a goal and showed very good character to come back."
Austin Berry, Chicago Fire Defender
On the win:
"This is big time, we needed this win especially in this second half stretch of games all being against Eastern Conference teams to make this push to make the playoffs, so this is pretty big."
On his role in set pieces:
"I pride myself on being good in the air and I want to be dangerous on every attacking set piece, and I have to take care of all of my opportunities. There are so few chances for me to score and I was able to do that tonight. "
On scoring a game winning goal:
"It was important for us to get three points , especially in a game that I thought that we were the better team , so it was good to get the goal but the important thing is that we won the game."
Marco Pappa, Chicago Fire Midfielder
On his goal:
"It always feels good when you score, but the most important thing is the team. I made a big mistake for the team, I apologized to the guys but we kept pushing knowing we could earn three points at home. I want to thank the team because they supported me after the mistake, but this is for everybody and we are feeling good. Now we need to focus on the next game."
Paul Mariner - Toronto FC Head Coach
Comments on the match...
There were a couple of turning points, and you try to look at it as balanced as you possibly can. I think it is plain to see that we gifted them two goals. You can't do that to a very decent Chicago Fire team. I think if Eric Hassli's ball goes in, and it's two-nil at halftime, it's a different game. There were a few turning points. I took Eric off because we couldn't get any more out of him. He hasn't played for a while. That was a bit of a difference maker. You can't really legislate for Logan deciding to get himself sent off. The play was going nowhere-just ridiculous. You can't legislate for Jeremy [Hall] getting hurt. What was striking to me was that my player hobbles off with an ankle injury and they get the free kick. It's rather puzzling.
On some of the players wanting to stay on the field...
Milos [Kocic] probably broke his nose but said he was fine. He's a tough kid. What you don't want to do with Jeremy [Hall] is that he just came back from a hamstring [injury] so you don't want to leave him out there and really damage himself. It was the most sensible thing to do.
On Eric Hassli's play tonight...
Terrific. His holdup play was terrific. He's going to be great for us. People can't handle him-he's too strong.
On the difference in play between the two halves...
It was a catalogue of factors. I thought we were looking pretty comfortable to be honest. We kept the ball in front of us. I thought that Frank would make a couple changes and he did. It didn't really turn the game. You've got to hold your hand up and say that you can't give decent teams opportunities like we gave them. Other than that, we're fine. I genuinely thought we were going to win the game tonight. I was very confident at half time.
Eric Hassli - Toronto FC Forward
Comments on his debut for Toronto...
It was a very tough game for me after the month and a half. Everybody is disappointed in the locker room. I thought we did great in the first half. We just gave up set pieces and we have to learn, that's it. Everybody is disappointed. We are looking forward to the next game against Columbus. We have to win there. We need to win. I hate to lose the game. Looking forward to the next game.
On recovering from his ankle injury...
The ankle held up pretty good. I need to work on my fitness because I have not played in a long time. The ankle is pretty good-I thank the medical and technical staff.
On being comfortable in Toronto's system...
Yes, it's great. Everybody is working hard and communicating. It's easy for me. I feel great in this system.
Milos Kocic - Toronto FC Goalkeeper
On the physicality of the game...
I tried to come out and cut the angle and collided with the guy. As long as I'm not unconscious, I'm good to go.
On his nose injury...
Yeah, I think it was broken in the first half. We set it up though so now I think it is okay. We will see when we get back to Toronto. But I mean, it looks pretty sweet.
On the match result...
We were unlucky with the subs and the way everything ended up. Our play against set pieces was not good. One, that clearance in the first goal. The second goal was a set piece too. We need to learn as quick as possible. We lost too many points this year on set pieces. I think we need to do better on that part of the game.
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