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On the actual Thanksgiving day (Thursday) we went with two Elders to Soufriere It is a beautiful village down by the Pitons. There currently aren't any Missionaries in that area. The two that were there were moved to Castries. It takes a little over an hour to get there. The roads are very narrow and windy, up and down mountain passages. The last time we took the Elders there, our borrowed car got a flat tire and also broke down on the way back. This time we took the brand new car. The Missionaries taught three discussions to different people. There was a 27 year old gal that has been searching for a church that answered all her questions. She has been very impressed with the message, saying she has never heard anything like that before. She has visited numerous churches and has felt that there is something else out there. As of now, President Mehr has said that the Castries Branch needs to grow more before opening up that area again. In other areas where there isn't a Church, the Missionaries hold Sunday Meetings in their apartment which are called group meetings. We were hoping to do that in Soufriere, but more work needs to be done in Castries.
Today was the last Sunday for the Gartz'. They leave next Saturday. Elder Gartz was acting as a Branch President for the Castries Branch. A local member, Brother Debeauville, was called as Branch President. President Mehr came out and set him apart. Since this area is small, President Mehr is the Ecclesiastical leader over the two branches. He has asked us to oversee these two branches and make sure they are operating properly. He has asked us to train the members in the different organizations. So our time here will be split between Castries and Vieux Fort.
The Christmas season has started here in St. Lucia. The shops are decorated and Christmas music is playing. It is a little strange because it is so hot. Elder and Sister Gartz gave us a small Christmas tree, so I will put that up shortly. It will be nice having our own Island to work in. We are looking forward to working with the members and getting to know them better. As Thanksgiving has passed, I am so thankful for so many things. Mostly my family and my Savior, Jesus Christ. I miss you all very much and am so grateful for all that you do for us while we are out here. We love you all very much and hope that you all enjoy this coming month as we celebrate the birth of our Savior.
Thanksgiving dinner
Thanksgiving dinner
Thanksgiving dinner
Baptism yesterday
Elder & Sister Gartz
Sister Gartz is wearing a St. Lucia
native dress. Their last Sunday
Poinsettia tree outside our apartment.
Our view
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The Hibernian Historical Trust are delighted to announce that we will once again hold an open day as part of the Leith Festival on Sunday 17th June 2018 from 1pm - 5pm.
The Hibernian Historical Trust Easter Road Stadium Open Day offers supporters and visitors to Leith a unique chance to see behind the scenes at the home of the Hibees. The tours, which are self-guided, offer visitors the chance to explore many areas of the stadium and get up close with a range of historical Hibernian items held by the Trust. Other Hibernian groups will be present on the day.
A range of historical Hibernian artefacts will be on display during the Open Day
A range of historical Hibernian artefacts will be on display during the Open Day, with new displays including memorabilia from our Scottish Cup win, a Lego model of Easter Road Stadium and much, much more.
More details to follow.
Easter Road Stadium (tours begin at the main reception in the West Stand)
12 Albion Place
Sunday 17th June 2018 from 1pm - 5pm. Final entry into the Stadium will be 4:15pm.
Other details:
Free admission but any donations will be gratefully received
No need to book, just turn up on the day
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Saturday, February 18, 2006
While I know that there are individual teachers, and perhaps even administrators in the school systems who care deeply about the needs of the students they teach, I think it's pretty safe to say that the bureaucracy as a whole expect our children to fit their needs rather than the other way around. The examples are legion, but here's one more: high school kids eating lunch at 10:30 am or earlier. Researchers think this may *gasp in shock* lead to the formation of bad eating habits. Ya think? Of course everyone knows that making a kids eat lunch as much as 8 hours before they can expect to be fed dinner is a bad idea - but hey, schools are crowded, schedules are tight and heck, what are we suppose to do - turn ourselves inside out just so we can act in the best interest of the students? Yeesh!
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I agree with you 100%. My children's last school went in at 8:15am, which meant the children were up by 6:30am. How is this good for children, and how are they supposed to learn that early in the morning when they are still tired. Lunch by 10:30am, as you mentioned in your post, makes no sense at all. We've since moved, and now the children don't have to be to school until 9:15am. The school systems these days have little interest in the children - they are more worried about their budget, and what they can do to make their work day end earlier.
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Connecticut residents are deeply skeptical of increasing taxes to pay for President Clinton's health care reform proposal, a Courant/Connecticut Poll shows.
Asked about five possible increases, only one -- a rise in the federal tax on tobacco and alcohol -- won majority support from Connecticut residents. They rejected a national sales tax and increases in the Social Security, business and personal income taxes.


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Sad news but please do not fray. We have received word as missionaries that our beloved mission presidents wife, Sister McKee has suffered a major heart attack and has been hospitalized for the past week. Tests, surgery and more later, she is in somewhat stable condition. This news has somewhat struck me hard. She is essentially my mother away from home, PLEASE do not add the stress to the situation by calling for updates, just keep her in your thoughts and prayers. As a mission, 5pm on Thanksgiving, we all prayed where ever we were for a miracle and for a speedy recovery. I urge you all to do the same, and to pray for a speedy recovery for our beloved Sister McKee.
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On November 11, 2013, Kirk Mason's video "Ecology of the Mountains - Part II: Dancing Queen and the Patels" was featured on MSU Today. The video is the second installment in Kirk's chronicle of his study abroad trip to Mukteshwar, Uttarakhand, India.
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The long riding season is finally at an end. With the relatively mild temperatures that we experienced through much of January, people continued to ride. The recent snowfall has put a stop to that for most of us. Among the more adventuresome is our head mechanic Tim Fricker, who rode to work on Friday on his studded bike tires.
This is the perfect time to bring your bike in for it's Spring tuneup. All too often people wait until the weather is nice and they realize that their bike needs work. If you haven't had your bike in for a tuneup in a while, bring it in and we'll give it some tender loving care and get it back to you in just a day or two.


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The Invasion Review
It seems that lately, every film that I've reviewed has been either a remake or an adaptation of a celebrated book and, in most cases, actually both. What with The Omega Man, I Am Legend, Stardust, 3.10 To Yuma and Cat People all passing before my critical eye, I seem to be stuck in some Groundhog Day-cum-Twilight Zone of filmic re-visitations, re-appraisals and, inevitably, a lot of unavoidable comparisons and disappointments. And, folks, here we go again ... only this time out, the general consensus has it that Oliver (Downfall) Hirschbiegel's take on the now overly-familiar scenario based upon the novel Invasion Of The Body Snatchers written by Jack Finney, the fourth official adaptation, with some "poddie-wannabes" like TV's awful Invasion and the cheesy gold of Quinn Martin's sixties variation The Invaders lurking just off centre-stage, is firmly located in the department marked Disappointment. Yes, that capital D is thoroughly deserved ... sadly.
Having already reviewed the classic original version (seek it out) and being a confirmed fan of the story as it has evolved over the years - Philip Kaufman's 1978 remake is terrific and a classic in its own right, and Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers is an awesome gut-punch of a movie, and both do justice to their metaphor-rich source material - it would be all-too easy to play the purist card and state that this troubled and glaringly fractured film is nothing more than pants of the lowest common denominator. But you really don't have to take my word for it as I purposely watched this disc with three other people whose opinions I was interested in getting to help form an unbiased overall picture of whether or not The Invasion was, indeed, the right stinker that it has been accused of being. One was another fan of the series of films although he hadn't read the book, and the other two decidedly casual fans of the genre at large but avid movie-goers, just the same. The results of this experiment were, perhaps, slightly unexpected, as we shall see.
The plot is essentially the same. A vicious, all-consuming alien parasite comes to Earth with the intentions and the means of taking over its human population and assimilating it into a sort of hive-society that is cold and unemotional. This time around, the alien spores appear to arrive here via a crashing space shuttle, echoing the original premise of Night Of The Living Dead's returning Venus probe. Spreading like wildfire, the infection, once the microbes have been passed on, begins to transform the human host once they reach REM sleep. The famous pods of the book and the previous films have been strangely jettisoned, David Kajganich's screenplay clinging to the New Age fears of disease and viruses to get its point across. This leads to a set-up that is similar in vein (geddit?) to early Cronenbergian horrors Rabid and Shivers, the victims attacked from within rather than merely replicated by anonymous alien pods, taking the body-horror idea to a "superficially" more realistic level. But don't worry, Hirschbiegel's film still allows for some icky-ness as the victims have to go through a type of chrysalis stage whilst they get some shut-eye, their bodies changing colour, their flesh mutating into what resembles a mouldy old potato. Once again, though, people begin to notice that their partners, wives, husbands, kids are no longer the same ... that they are, somehow, alien, cold, impassive and intimidating. One of the first to cotton-on to the weird pandemic that is taking place around her, is psychologist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman, looking like the most exquisite MILF on the planet), whose estranged husband (played by Jeremy Northam) just happens to be one of the first guys to have boarded the downed remains of that stricken Shuttle. Already deeply distrustful of him even without any alien-interference, now seems like the worst time for him to request that their young son, whom she has custody of, comes over for the weekend. And with her patients claiming that their nearest and dearest have transformed into total strangers - among them Veronica Cartwright, who not only starred in Alien but also Kaufman's bleak but exciting version of the story - her hackles rise and that little pixie nose begins to twitch with unnerving suspicions. Doctor friend Ben Driscoll (a lost and wandering Daniel Craig) is also soon on the case as odd happenings swiftly consume the metropolis and, before long, the two become embroiled in a race against to time to outrun the infected hordes, rescue Bennell's son and, natch, find a cure.
Well, admittedly, the original story's hook is still in place. Mysterious mood-swings and ominous gatherings of people on street corners make the hairs begin to bristle. Hirschbiegel makes a neat set-piece out of Bennell simply walking across a road that she walks every day of her working life, the usual faces and crowds losing their monotony and becoming nightmarishly uncomfortable swathes of collective menace. But the mass takeover and what should be the slow seeds of its progress happen almost overnight - one minute we have carefully constructed spells of disquieting happenings (dogs sense the alien spores on victims and go for them; policemen have either stone-like reactions to nasty accidents - in a scene that pays homage to Kevin McCarthy's role in the original movie and windscreen-splattering cameo in Kaufman's take, or breathe whispered warnings in the ears of their fellow uninfected) and the next we have 28 Days Later-style crowds out hunting those who still haven't gone to sleep. The hive-brain mentality is also fudged as, after first bringing it into play - there are plenty of initial moments when infected passers-by are quite clearly aware that Bennell isn't one of them and a certain uniformity of behaviour - the film then lets the concept simply slip into something more like mob mentality, and this is the point at which the film, depending on what you want from it, either gets better or much worse.
The infected are supposed to be emotionless and although this is engaged during a standout scene that has us observe, alongside the uncaring masses, a couple join hands and fling themselves off a roof to escape the New World Order, this is patently ignored when we see various members of this warped community getting angry, impatient, beguiling and frustrated during the majority of the action scenes the sweep over the rest of the film. One even makes an incredibly aggressive calling-card attack that would make every pod-person in the prior movies gasp in astonishment - collectively, of course. And here, presumably, is the main bone of contention that critics had with the movie - the upped action levels. Well, if we are honest, it is not just the critics who have had problems with them, for, as you are probably well aware, when Hirschbiegel's original cut of the film appeared to be vastly too talky and sedate, producer Joel (action is my middle name) Silver took over and brought onboard the Wachowski Brothers to write in some car chases, fights and street-battles for V For Vendetta's James McTeigue to then direct. Well, whatever your viewpoint on their inclusion is, they definitely do bring a vital spark of life and energy to what, beforehand, was tedious, dry and, quite frankly, boring. The shift from nervy suspicion-drama to all-out run-for-your-life thriller is clumsily done though and, worse still, makes the first half of the film look all the more like absolute old tosh. But the scene of Kidman's car speeding along under a carpet of clutching infected is more comical than chaotic. Heavy-handed plot signposting is never a good idea and here during Invasion's scene-setting act it is so blatant that it is akin to a Janet And John screenplay for idiots. The dinner-table conversation with an irritating and outspoken Russian dignitary is thoroughly excruciating and the writer should be ashamed of himself for penning such "THIS IS OUR FILM'S MESSAGE" garbage so spectacularly that it can probably be seen from space. Kidman's confession that her character is a "post-modern feminist" during the same exchange is as dreadful as the "issue"-proclamations, themselves, and as poor as she is in the movie (never once convincing as a shrink or as a determined alien-battler), I doubt that there is an actress alive who could pull off a line as crass as this and not have it sound utterly patronising. And Craig, so good in Layer Cake, Munich and, of course, as the new Bond in Casino Royale, is a seriously wasted talent here. Relegated to hanging on to Kidman's tail, and then suddenly performing some nano-second derring-do, he reveals his disinterest in the film with his complete reluctance to spark with his leading lady throughout. A crueller man than me might even go as far as to say that both he and Kidman portray the real aliens in the story, so obvious is their lack of chemistry and natural emotion. Craig's co-star from his first Bond outing, Jeffrey Wright, also appears in the thankless role of some specialist bacterial scientist whose computer projections make Blair's Atari-graphic leap of logic in Carpenter's The Thing (oh God, another remake of an original work of literature!) appear far more believable. Honestly, just check out his CG readouts of what the Earth is fighting - pure cartoon biology class.
All this makes it sound as though I hated the film, doesn't it? Well, truth be told, I ended up getting quite involved in it, though probably for all the wrong reasons - I mean Kidman does look gorgeous in it. But there are a clutch of neat ideas that miraculously peep through the smoke-screen of cosy, by-the-numbers studio-endorsed genre-licks. For instance, the exponential spread of the infection is orchestrated quite ingeniously via a mass inoculation program to stem to tide of a particularly virulent bout of flu. Long lines of people happily waiting for their jab are a curiously chilling image that looks like the most ignorantly cheery culling of a species you can imagine. Horrible scenes of Nazi-style roundups of those not yet infected - dragged from cars or simply pounced-on as they walk down the street - while the "poddies" look on impassively are quite effective, especially when Bennell and her small cortege of refugees have to fake indifference to the iron-fist clamp-down. This feigning of assimilation is where the film succeeds. A tense scene set on a subway train quickens the pulse and it is strange how the plight and communication between the few remaining humans actually recalls something of a French Underground vibe of hiding in plain sight.
Now, I'm not going to give away the ending of the film, folks - so don't worry - but it would be extremely remiss of me not to warn you in advance that, if you stay the distance, you are in for a letdown of possibly "demand-your-money-back-with-violence" proportions. What Hirschbiegel, Silver and Kajganich hand out here is nothing short of a cheap, shameful con. Hollywood continually proves its yellow-bellied fear of upsetting an audience, but this cop-out goes way, way beyond the call of duty that cowardly Tinseltown ever had to deliver viewers home to their beds without fear of any nightmares. This isn't a post 9/11 conscience thing, this is just needless reassurance that, hey, only in the movies, huh! We know the film was seriously tampered with - it feels uneven, broken and then snapped back together like a Lego castle with several integral pieces still lost on the carpet - but it could have done without this sappy, aw-shucks, lousy denouement to kick it when it's down. Trust me on this, The Invasion is made by some very scared people. Even without falling back on the book and the other visual interpretations (to see how this sort of thing really ought to be handled), this is just a jaw-dropping insult to anybody who has had the patience to run with the badly scripted film in the first place. Sadly, it doesn't end with this entry's awful chicken-out climax. Even the otherwise marvellous I Am Legend suffered the indignity of a wimps-only finale - although that may soon be rectified when we get to see the original unrated cut of the film on disc (out March - can't wait!) with its promised "shocking" alternate ending.
Maybe one day, we will see the original version of The Invasion that Hirschbiegel was attempting to put out two years ago ... but, like the two versions of The Exorcist prequel, I can't, for the life of me, believe that it would be any better. Just slower.
But, bizarrely enough, the person who actually enjoyed this film the most ... turned out to be me. Quite why that is the case is beyond me, if I'm honest. During the film I was the most vocal in my complaints and groaning - no surprises there, as many can testify - but, at the end of the day, I liked some of the ideas and scenarios enough for it to satisfy on a fairly simplistic level. Grand sci-fi it is not. Intelligent, metaphorical observation, it is not. An hour and a half of hide-and-seek it most certainly is, though, and even if The Invasion can't hold a candle to Finney's book or the previous adaptations which, at least, had the sheer courage to see the horrific premise through to the end (and beyond), it is diverting and entertaining schlock for the undemanding. My advice, though - turn the film off around the eighty-nine minute mark and just leave it at that. You go any further and you may regret it.
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- Diodorus Siculus mentions a flood which destroyed all Greek cities leaving the Egyptian cities intact . WHY only the destruction of the Greek cities? These facts of the flood and Egyptian worship as the remnant of the once famed Atlantis are hinted at by Herodotus and in the writings of Plato. These cities did not survive fortuitously, but did so as a matter of intentional design and later served as points of sun worship. WHY? to promote the worship of one supreme being. The Atlanteans who controlled the seas and the world had a world empire and worship of the one Supreme G-d in ways and manners we cannot even conceive now and were engulfed in a flood, again alluded to by Plato and other writers (Ignatius Donnelly).
- Jesus(Yeshua) and Moses were mentioned by tradition as being adepts of this priesthood of On. I have not located the references but when I do I will b certain to blog those.
- Did Joseph use the city to store bread? It was the capital for a while and grain was stored here for the famines. The Book of the Dead states it was used to multiply bread and explains the legend that Horus fed the masses there with only seven loaves. This account reminds me of Jesus feeding the crowds with only 12 loaves. I do believe that what we today call miracles were known to these priestly adepts and the higher laws of physics and mathematics were attained in this priesthood to enable its adepts to perform these miracles. and this faintest breath of hint in this legend is telling. We today have no knowledge of these laws and Yeshua and other adepts such as Moses could have studied here. There is a tradition of Jesus in Egypt during the lost years and "Moses in the house of Pharaoh as the son Pharaoh's daughter raised. None of these are fortuitous events but all part of the evolutionary chain (spiritually) of mankind.
- Note the Grecian Roman allusions by ancient writers-they are copious.
- Alexander the Great very attune to all embraced knowledge halted in his march at Baalbek or the Syrian Heliopolis, which had a priest colony at the time. (Arrian and Macrobius as sources cited below).
In ancient times it was the principal seat of sun-worship, thus its name,
which means city of the sun in Greek
Now Heliopolis contain the earliest temple obelisk still in its original position. The 20.7 m / 68 ft high red granite Obelisk of Senusret I of the XIIth Dynasty is at Al-Matariyyah part of Heliopolis.[2] It is now in Al-Masalla area of Al-Matariyyah district near Ain Shams district (Heliopolis). It is 67 feet (20 m) tall and weighs 120 tons or 240,000 pounds.
The city's Egyptian name (shown in hieroglyphs, right,[3] transliterated ỉwnw), is often transcribed as Iunu (literally "[place of] pillars"), and was often written in Greek as Ὂν On, and in biblical Hebrew as אן ˀÔn and און ˀĀwen.
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was a priest of the Ancient Egypt town of On, mentioned in
the Book of Genesis
(41:45,50). He was the father of Asenath, who was given to Joseph as his wife
by Pharaoh, and
who bore Joseph two sons: Manasseh and Efraim. His name means "he whom Ra has given".
GENESIS 41:44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without
thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
GENESIS 41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah (1);
and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On.
And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
Heliopolis has been occupied since the Predynastic
Period, with extensive building campaigns during the Old and Middle
Kingdoms. Today, unfortunately, it is mostly destroyed, its temples and
other buildings having been used for the construction of mediæval Cairo; most information about it
comes from textual sources.
According to Diodorus Siculus Heliopolis was
built by Actis, one of the sons of Helios and Rhode, who named the city after his
father.[4] While all Greek cities were
destroyed during the flood, the Egyptian cities
including Heliopolis survived. The chief deity of Heliopolis was the god Atum, who was
worshipped in the primary temple, which was known by the names Per-Aat (pr-ˁ3t; "Great
House") and Per-Atum (pr-ỉtmw; "Temple [lit. "House"] of Atum"). The city was
also the original source of the worship of the Ennead pantheon, although in
later times, as Horus gained in prominence,
worship focused on the synchrentistic solar
deity Ra-harakhty (literally Ra, (who is) Horus of the Two Horizons). During
the Amarna Period, king Akhenaten
introduced monotheistic or perhaps henotheistic
worship of Aten, the
deified solar disc, built here a temple named Wetjes Aten (wṯs ỉtn "Elevating
the Sun-disc"). Blocks from this temple were later used to build the city walls
of mediaeval Cairo
and can be seen in some of the city gates. The cult of the Mnevis bull, an
embodiment of the god Ra, had its centre here, and possessed a formal burial
ground north of the city.
As the capital of Egypt for a period of time, grain was stored in Heliopolis for the winter months, when many people would descend on the town to be fed, leading to it gaining the title place of bread. The Book of the Dead goes further and describes how Heliopolis was the place of multiplying bread, recounting a myth in which Horus feeds the masses there with only 7 loaves.
Greco-Roman Heliopolis
Heliopolis was well known to the ancient Greeks and Romans, being noted by most major geographers of the period, including: Ptolemy, iv. 5. § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57; Arrian, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian, H. A. vi. 58, xii. 7; Plutarch, Solon. 26, Is. et Osir. 33; Diogenes Laertius, xviii. 8. § 6; Josephus, Ant. Jud. xiii. 3, C. Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21; Pliny the Elder, v. 9. § 11; Tacitus, Ann. vi. 28; Pomponius Mela, iii. 8. The city also merits attention by the Byzantine geographer Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Ἡλίουπόλις.
Alexander the Great, on his march from Pelusium to Memphis, halted at this city (Arrian, iii. 1); and, according to Macrobius (Saturn. i. 23), Baalbek, or the Syrian Heliopolis, was a priest-colony from its Egyptian namesake.


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Factual error: When the cop saves the girl from the mob of locals, his car tires squeal as he accelerates away, but the car is on loose dirt, which makes the squealing impossible.
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A seasoned audiophile used to tell me, that in his days, Bryston stuff was something only one would buy if he couldn't afford a Krell or Mark Levinson. Strictly class B stuff, he said. How times have changed!
According to Brian Russell, President of Bryston, the last 2 years have been a peach for Bryston, whom recently dropped in to KL, AV Designs, to be exact, for a pit stop of his Asia Pacific tour. James Tan cordially invited a few of us friendlies to have a chat with Brian. The Qs are not entirely mine, but are a summation of the few of us whom was there.
Q: How has the current financial turmoil effected Bryston?
BR: In fact Bryston couldn't have been better! We've got rave reviews with all our recent new product launches, like the 28B SST power amps, the recently renewed SST2 amps, the BCD 1 CD player and the BP26 pre amp. The Torus Power range also did surprisingly well in the market. We just couldn't make enough products to meet orders list!
Q: How did the recent Hifi and Audio Shows fared stateside? The recent KLIAV 2009 in KL recorded significant increases, in both trade participants and visitor counts.
BR: Some were more effected than others, like CES, will always be CES! It's the more regional shows, like one held recently in Atlanta, where only a third of total visitor numbers turned compared to last year! That was a pretty depressing show.
Q: How does Bryston test their amps in the factory?
BR: We do not do any listening test in the factory! We only do measurement test in the lab. There's just no space to do so!
Q: So there's no PMC speakers in the Factory?
BR: No, there is no space in the factory, we only use small speaker drivers to ensure there's output from the amps we produce. We listen to our products at home. We have 2-3 employees whom we entrust them with gears to take home for listening trails, where by they report their findings and any faults that may have experienced then. James Tanner and Stuart Taylor does most of those listening trials. James has 3 systems of various set ups in his place, where he'd put the Bryston gears thru its paces. James has amongst others at the moment, a pair of PMC, Thiel, Martin Logan and Magnaplanars, I think. He is constantly changing speakers so when I get home later, it'll probably all be changed?
Q: But many have said that Bryston amps and PMC speakers work best?
BR: For the record, Bryston amps will work best with which ever speakers of your liking, within reason of course! I guess many do feel that Bryston works best with PMC speakers is perhaps, because PMCs have transmission line tuned cabinets, which places more difficult loading on an amp. Our Bryston amps have that capability to control the woofer's forward and aft movement better in a transmission line tuned cabinet, there fore giving more favourable results, sound wise.
Q: Bryston seems to be venturing in to hybrid class D amps in the professional segment, any plans to introduce similar concept to the consumer audio line?
BR: We call it a hybrid because we used a linear(non switching) power supply with a class D module, which is out sourced. We feel that for the PA and piped music applications, a hybrid class D amp would meet the need for a multi chanel, efficient and non absolute audio critical quality. However, we have no plans for a hybrid class D in the consumer high end market. Audiophiles will mostly avoid class D based amp, and I will agree with them that class D sound can never be as good as class A or A/B amps. Maybe in the future, but most certainly not anytime soon.
Q: How many employees does Bryston have in the factory?
BR: We have about 50 employees.
Q: There's been a slew of new product launches from Bryston lately, what's next?
BR: We are hoping to launch the new Bryston SP3 processor for the home theater market in about six months from now. This will replace the Brsyton SP2 processor.
Q: Would the SP2 be upgrade able to SP3 spec?
BR: No, the SP3 works on a totally new architecture, circuit wise. However, we've come to learned from many customers that they appreciate a module upgrade able approach, and we've incorporated that feature to the new SP3 to allow it some degree of future proof. The SP3 has an over sized case and there are empty, unpopulated slots on the SP3 main board to accommodate new cards and video modules should we need to add features later. However, should existing SP2 owners wanna up grade to the new SP3, we may have a program in place by then to make it as financially painless as possible to do so.
Q: Bryston has been doing very well in the last 2 years you've said earlier, what did you do differently this recent 2 years compared to before?
BR: Bryston have always been doing the same things in the last 37 years of our existence. We provide quality products with a realistic mark up, and back it up with the best warranty and after sales services in the audio industry. Who else would offer a 20 year warranty on the audio products? The only difference is that in the last 2 years, there was a proliferation of audio blogs and online consumer feedback journals, such as yours(now remember that's HiFi-Unlimited)! The internet based media offer insights, exposure and reviews of our products at speeds that no traditional print media can hope to match.
Q: Your amps have 20 years product warranty, why 5 years only for digital products like BCD-1 CD player?
BR: Now again, tell me if you know another manufacturer whom will offer you a 5 year warranty on a digital product? You see, digital products component lifespan turns over just too fast. 5 years is a very, very long time in the digital world. Take the Philips transport that we used for the BCD-1 CD player, barely 2 years we've launched the product, Philips now tells us they no longer make the transport! We bought the last batch of transport available from Philips, log, stock and barrel, to make sure we have enough spares to support the BCD-1 for the next 5 years at least!
Brian demo-ing the BCD-1 CD player's reliable CD tray!
Q: Speaking of the BCD-1 CD player, are you ever going to improve the CD tray motion quality? It's the single biggest let down in the otherwise impressive product!
BR: I am gonna throw you a grenade for bringing this up! He!He! Yeah, we know about that problem, but it's really not a problem is it? The Philips sourced CD transport is very reliable, and even if we used an all metal transport, would it had contributed so much more to the sound?(Perhaps? I quietly thought) It would just probably glide in and out smoother and give a better perception of quality, that's all. That'll be something we'll have to think about in the BCD-2, our next CD player. Now don't get all excited and ask me when that"ll come. It's still a white sheet of paper now!
Q: Yes, perception, that's the word! But isn't that important in the market for high end audio?
BR: Yes, perception is important, but that's also why we see so many brands out there selling a 20 thousand dollar amp with fancier quality case and marketing perception at say, 100 thousand dollars. Bryston just would not do that. By the way, do let me know if you are in the market for a 100 thousand dollars amp, I'd gladly sell you one with an emperor's clothing plus my personal signature on it and just for you, it'll come with a 40 year product warranty! Show me the money!(Now I am wondering which part of me looked rich?)
Q: You mean Bryston products are actually priced accordingly to reflect the product's actual manufacturing cost with a fair mark up factored in?
BR: Matter of fact, yes! We will provide a product of the best technical quality and specifications where possible, irregardless of selling price. For instance, if we used a certain grade of capacitors in our amps, and a supplier can come and suggest a better spec capacitor, for example, long life span, we will test it and if confirmed to meet the promised specs, we will certainly adopt it in our parts catalogue tomorrow, even if it means we have to pay more for the better capacitor. Now if the supplier says we can save money on a better capacitor, than I'd be very careful about it, because, there's just no such thing as that, if it's too good to be true, it probably is!
Q: Speaking of the "new" yet to come BCD-2 CD player, with the dawn of hi-rez music down loads, do you still think there's a market for CD players? If so, how long do you see the CD player will still be around?
BR: Hey! They said the same thing with vinyl, right? Look at the market today, the turntable is still around, and a growing market too! Why? There'll always be guys whom have vinyl collections, and they'll still need good quality turntables to play their collection. I see the same thing happening to CD. There'll always be a guy, like my self, I have 5000 CDs, and I'll always need a CD player to play my collection. Down loads or not!
Q: I have been playing with the latest SST2 amps lately, and they are very good! I would consider them to be absolutely sonically superior to the earlier non squared SST series. What's changed?
BR: As electronics specs and quality improved, we will incorporated these newer parts, like transistors in to our designs. The SST2 upgrade was just that. It's got lower noise floor, higher signal to noise ratio and closer L/R chanel matching tolerance. Also, THD is significantly lower in the SST2 series, like 0.005% on the 4B SST2.
Q: Now, can one subjectively hear lower THD in amps?
BR: You probably have to ask James Tanner about that! However, I suppose, you hear what you wanna hear right? There's always the tube guys too remember?
Q: How is the current financial meltdown in the US affecting Bryston?
BR: Despite the financial situation in the states, they are still our single biggest market by taking 45% of our production. Asia/Pacific and Canada are about even at 25% and 27% each respectively.
Q: Who do you consider to be Bryston's biggest competitor?
BR: I'll tell you this as I've told all others whom asked this question before! It's the room! Now, people have suddenly become aware of their rooms, they spend a lot of money to build custom ed rooms! Money, which would have been better spent in my opinion, buying bigger Bryston amps! He!He!
Brian and local man AV Designs, James Tan getting a li'll friendly! He!He!
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KUCHING: State Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders have welcomed the readiness of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to discuss the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).
Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) supreme council member Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said the readiness shown by Najib showed that the Prime Minister is practical.
"I am sure he can feel how the people of Sarawak and Sabah feel. It is good for him to reciprocate and come up with this statement that he is willing to discuss with Sabah and Sarawak leaders on MA63 if this agreement had been misinterpreted by Putrajaya all these years," he said yesterday.
"I am sure this statement from him will go a long way in building a more prosperous and united Malaysia."
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Datuk Amar Dr James Jemut Masing, who is Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president, said that the form of discussion between the federal government and state governments of Sabah and Sarawak must done in the right manner.
"In what form (will the discussions be held); within the four walls, or in the open via the State Legislative Assemblies of Sabah and Sarawak. This we need to know," he said.
"I would prefer the discussion on MA63 within the four walls. Then, Putrajaya and the two East Malaysia states will have serious and meaningful discussions on important matters without input from the opposition, who will certainly politicise the matters just for the sake of publicity."
He feared that if the discussion is done via the State Legislative Assembly, nothing concrete will take place but just noise and manoeuvring to score political points by the opposition.
When officiating at the United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (Upko) national convention in Penampang, Sabah yesterday, Najib said he is ready to discuss MA63 with Sabah and Sarawak, stressing that his door is always open to leaders from East Malaysia.
"If the Malaysia Agreement as a document … if a part of our Constitution had been misinterpreted, the door is always open for us to discuss (the matter) in the Barisan Nasional family.
"I have an open mind. I do not want to take the rights of Sabahans, in fact I want to defend them," he said.


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One less Christmas card from each women.
Nene Leakes and Wendy have not been each other's fans for a while and so it is no surprise that they don't run in the same circles.
But, not talking to each other or doing stuff together is one thing, actually throwing shade is another.
While the two women spoke at an event a few days ago, Nene Leakes threw shade at Wendy Williams and it was so bad, Wendy's Williams had to raise hell backstage.
At some point when the insult became too much, Ms Williams apparently abandoned her book signing and left. Oops!
Nene has taken to Twitter to state she did not fight publicly or raise her voice at Wendy but she clearly did not state if she was throwing jabs at her on purpose or not.
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As he's wont to do, Robert Griffin III provided a window into his offseason life with an Instagram video on Monday. The Redskins quarterback was singing along to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" en route to a workout, according to his caption.
"Jamming to MJ on the way to get that work in this morning #BillyJean," Griffin wrote. "What you working with this morning?"
As they're wont to do, the haters hated. Amid the comments about Griffin's singing ability, Instagram user @cperezrn suggested that Griffin jamming to Michael Jackson is at least part of the reason Griffin is not long for D.C.
"This is why you will be cut after next year in Washington," @cperezrn writes. "Why you weren't even mentioned as the future. You are a 'QB'. Act like one."
Another commenter asked @cperezrn to explain what listening to music on the way to work has to do with acting like a QB, and @cperezrn obliged:
"[V]ery simple," he wrote. "He cares more about his brand, social media than working in his craft. After the 2016 seasons respond back to me if I am wrong. He will be cut by the Redskins after those years. Brees, Brady, Rodgers, Manning don't act this way. Very simple observation. "
And then Griffin, who already violated the first rule of sharing content on the internet — "DON'T READ THE COMMENTS" — took it one step further and engaged a commenter. "This will not end well" is the appropriate phrase here.
@rgiii: @cperezrn If giving back to the community and training for football at the same time is frowned upon…..then what would you say I do Sir? Not give back or Train? Honest Question
Oh wait…and should I not enjoy a classic song with others who Love MJ? I'm just asking for your wisdom here.
@cperezrn: It's about the image @rgiii. Whether or not you are training trying to get better it's all about how you present yourself. Your coach, owner doesn't want to see you present yourself in this matter. Think about it for a minute. You grew up in a military family. I am also a military man. Ask your father, mother it's how you present yourself.
@rgii: And I'm presenting myself in a negative way by doing…..what exactly?
@cperezrn: Never said you were presenting yourself in a "negative" way. Just seems that you care more about your social media, commercial's and brand than football. That's all bud. Good luck next year. @rgiii. Hope you prove your fans wrong.
@rgiii: And what or who makes it seem that way? The fans are the ones who support not the ones I have to prove wrong
Several fans jumped in to defend Griffin, to which Griffin responded:
@rgiii: Appreciate Ya. Players put too much time into our profession to be told posting on social media 2 or 3 times a day is a sign that you don't focus on your craft.
Griffin wasn't done with @cperezrn, though. They eventually agreed to disagree, I think.
@rgiii: I hear what you are saying, but for you to say those things to me is a sign that you don't know what I am about and have been watching and listening to other people who have never even met me.
@cperezrn: I rest my case at least you understand what I'm trying to tell you and what your critics have said about you. It's about how you present yourself. Of course we don't know you. We know your social media, the commercials you make. That's why I said act like the leader of your team. After you win a title no one can criticize you, but for now they do. Anyways, good luck to you.
@rgiii: No need to act like a leader, just gonna be one as always. The case you tried to make isn't supported by anything I have done. Fun loving, motivation & football based commercials? Motivation and family related social media post?
@rgiii: Community events and gear going towards helping the community?
@cperezrn: If you were the leader of your team, why weren't you mentioned as the future the other day. I'm not talking about your community involvement. Not criticizing that. I'm talking to you about the way you present yourself and many of your critics feel that you care more about your brand than football. That is ALL that I'm saying. I can be 100% wrong, even your teammates have said they aren't sure about you. Think you have too much "DIVA" in you. Anyways I'm wrong you are right."
@rgiii: Military families have class, dignity & loyalty. I will maintain mine. You have not shown any of those. I will keep it that way and let you go right off my page God Bless
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Our weekend plans include a visit from a Tennessee friend which will likely lead to playing tourist in our city - my favorite! I'm also putting the finishing touches on a party I'm hosting next Sunday, more fun details to come ;)
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It seems nearly pointless to talk about 8 1/2; it's widely regarded as one of the finest films ever made. Fellini is another of those directors whose entire ouvre I'm trying to see, but it seems so intimidating at times to even try to get into the head of this master. 8 1/2 tells the story of a director, trying to make a film, even though he has written a (seemingly) terrible script, has financial troubles, and, most of all, has troubles with all the women in his life. It is the best movie I've seen about filmmaking ever, but it wasn't quite the revelation I expected it to be.
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Did you know that logarithms, the toaster, and the modern game of golf were invented in Scotland? Or that many movies and TV shows, such as Outlander and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, were filmed in Scotland? Culture, history, innovation, beautiful landscapes, and friendly people—Scotland has it all. Immerse yourself into the Scottish culture by exploring some of the 3,000 ancient castles, taking train rides through the beautiful Scottish countryside, visiting museums, enjoying the local cuisine, attending summer festivals, and much more. Scotland has something for everyone!
Explore the Vibrant City of Glasgow
Glasgow was the second city of the British Empire. The city's wealth was reflected in its grand Victorian architecture, most of which survives today. Today, Scotland's largest city is home to some of the trendiest neighborhoods in the UK. The West End won the Academy of Urbanism's Great Neighbourhood Award in 2014. Glasgow is known for its friendly residents and banners around the city that declare, "People Make Glasgow." Although you'll be in an urban setting, Scottish railways provide quick and easy access to scenic lochs, hills, and glens.
Illinois Tech faculty teach all courses, which meet at the University of Glasgow campus. The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451, and is one of Scotland's ancient universities. Classes will be conveniently scheduled three days a week to allow for weekend travel. You can reach Ireland, England, and Wales by train, bus, or ferry.
This program is open to students in all colleges who are not on academic probation. One social sciences course and one humanities course are offered, giving students the opportunity to earn "S" and "H" credit toward the Illinois Tech core curriculum requirements.
SSCI 285/385: Scotland: Economic, Social, and Political Change
Industry Associate Professor Rebecca Steffenson, Department of Social Sciences
This special topics course explores the evolution of the Scottish state and society since the creation of the new Scottish Parliament in the 1990's, paying particular attention to the recent debates over UK and EU membership. We will visit the Scottish Parliament, meet with political parties, and explore urban neighborhoods and seek answers to the following questions: Why did the Scottish Referendum to leave the UK fail? Why are Scots more pro-EU than other parts of the UK? What does "Brexit" mean for Scotland? Why do Scottish students get free university tuition while students in Northern Ireland, Wales, and England pay increasingly higher fees? How has Scotland coped with being a multi-ethnic, multi-religious state? Why is Scotland more tolerant of immigrants than other parts of Europe?
HUM 380: Scottish History
Professor Margaret Power, Department of Humanities
The history of Scotland is exciting! This class will examine the historical reality behind the best-known images of Scotland: whiskey, men in skirts (kilts), pipers, Macbeth, golf, and sheep. It will explore key aspects of Scottish history: the early inhabitants, the formation of the clans, the development of the Scottish nation, English colonization of Scotland and Scottish resistance, the impact of English colonization on Scotland, the immigration hundreds of thousands of Scots, and Scottish involvement in the British empire. The course will include visits to museums, castles, battle sites, among others, to see and experience Scottish history. Some of the specific sites we will visit are Kilmarten Glen, with more than 350 ancient monuments; the Antoine Wall, once the northern frontier of Roman Britain; Stirling Castle; and Culloden, where the last fight between Scottish nationalists and the English occurred in 1746.
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Friday, May 14, 2010
I'm Very Mousy This Week
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- DawnTreader said...
Wow, I can't believe I was right, even down to the mouse-ear. I'm really only a beginner at using my Flora (book) to identify flowers. (It all came with my increased use of the camera, and blogging!) Thanks for the explanations of the name, I didn't find those yesterday.
- Saturday, 15 May, 2010
- Stacey Dawn said...
Such smart people!
- Saturday, 15 May, 2010
- Kilauea Poetry said...
Hi there Ginny..well we have our share of the invasive but not always topped with sunny yellow! At least this
medicinal has redeeming qualities! Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
- Saturday, 15 May, 2010
- Stephanie V said...
I feel really dumb. I have a cousin of this plant in my garden - Leopard-leaved Hawkweed. Your husband won't believe that I actually planted it. But it has such beautiful spotted leaves and cheerful yellow flowers.
- Saturday, 15 May, 2010
- Sandra said...
amazing amount of info here. never heard of the name or story, but have seen them and knew they were a yellow weed. good job SQ and DT
- Saturday, 15 May, 2010
- Betsy from Tennessee said...
Isn't it interesting how so many wildflowers have some medicinal purposes??? I don't know one wildflower from another --except for those dreaded Dandelions...
Interesting post. Thanks, Ginny.
- Saturday, 15 May, 2010
- Glenda said...
I always learn something new here, Ginny! It's so interesting that this tiny, but beautiful, little plant has medicinal value.
Have a great Sunday!
- Saturday, 15 May, 2010
- George said...
Thanks for the education. I still think it's a pretty plant!
- Saturday, 15 May, 2010
- Bird Girl said...
Ha - I had to laugh as I read your post because I would go to where they have this and camp out JUST to see the swooping hawks and photograph them ;-) It really is amusing how these plants get their names (I think some people had too much time to think about such things ;-) Can you really imagine a hawk needing to put a solution on their eyes to see better? Maybe they wear contacts and we don't know it - haha!
- Sunday, 16 May, 2010
- SquirrelQueen said...
I'm a little surprised too that I got this one right. Hawkweed was the only plant I could think of that looked that much like a dandelion. I had no idea it had such medicinal properties, thanks for the info Ginny.
The plant that produced the flower I posted today also has a few useful qualities.
- Monday, 17 May, 2010


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I eat like a king when I visit Tujunga.
Maria (that's the Maria w/the Donovan and Grace and Baby Gwyneth, my goddaughter, in Tujunga Maria - come on you should know this!) cooked us this wonderful meal on Monday evening. Grilled chicken Mediterranean with polenta (that yellowish foodcake stuff made with ground yellow or white cornmeal) and covered in ratatouille, a traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish. The crepe-ish looking thingy on the top left is spanakopita, filled with spinach.
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This week we show Mort – in a classic Mort expression – wearing a coat that will be seen in the New York Pet Fashion Show by Stylish Canine!
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Last night I experienced a couple of San Diego taxi rides as I attended the 12 films in 12 months film festival - I experienced all 12 films that I've previously only seen on youtube on the big screen – each one was great! (You can see my reviews of almost all of them in previous posts) Seeing friends I've made over the years was the icing on the cake. In many ways – last night's outing was like going to a family reunion. Just being around those folks makes me feel happy.
For those of you with really great eyesite – here's all 12 of Ian's 12 films in 12 months.
In Ian's words, "Enjoy."
(If there's lots of space between these words and the films - and the table doesn't look perfect -- I'm sorry. I don't do html very well . . . )


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White Mold on Soybeans: Preventable, not Treatable
"White mold is terrible," said Bob Marquette, Federated agronomist at the Albertville location, adding, "It's a big problem, and though it depends on the season, Federated saw a lot of it last year."
Unlike many yield-robbing pests and diseases, white mold can't be treated. It must be stopped before it starts. Sclerotinia stem rot - white mold - can affect high-yield-potential soybeans and it thrives under moist conditions and below average temperatures. Several other factors create the ideal environment for white mold to grow:
- a dense canopy of soybeans;
- susceptible soybean varieties (some are more vulnerable than others);
- a field history of white mold.
While no variety of soybeans is completely tolerant of white mold, the fluffy cottony growth on the outside of pods can be prevented with crop management that includes the following strategies.
- Consistently rotate between corn and soybeans (but if white mold is present, it is necessary to keep a field out of beans for three to four years, until the sclerotia dies).
- Avoid dense canopies with wider row spacing ("Lower populations will help," said Marquette).
- Control weeds; lambsquarter, velvetleaf, ragweed, and Canada thistle, for example, are hosts for white mold.
- Apply preventive treatments (such as Aproach - see article below); fungicides can be added to many planned herbicide treatments.
Marquette described sclerotia as small black structures that resemble mouse droppings. "If you slice the stem [of a soybean plant] open, these will be found inside."
It is important to apply fungicides at the right time. Talk to your Federated Agronomist for more info on white mold before it robs yield in your soybean crop.


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"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether his is working or playing. To him he is always doing both." – Zen Buddhist text
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Chapter 20
Disclaimer: Twilight and Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) belong to their rightful owners.
Thanks so much to my Beta, Ninkita
Sebastian and Edward returned a few hours later. They were surprised at the scene they walked in on. Lucifer, Bella and Undertaker were playing cards, laughing amongst themselves and sipping on margaritas. Anyone who didn't know these people would think that the three were best of friends. Edward and Sebastian exchanged surprised looks before entering the living room.
Bella noticed them first. She welcomed them with a beaming smile and a joyful exclamation. "You're back! Hi…" she giggled. It was clear that she was tipsy.
"I see you had fun," Edward stated as he took a seat beside her and placed a kiss on her forehead, making her grin at him. She nodded her answer at him.
"Did you mange to finish everything you needed to do?" she asked Sebastian who sat down her other side.
"Yes, Kitten. I contacted him and convinced him to come here as soon as possible," he explained.
"Hehehe… it would be an interesting sight to see…. hehehehe… yes it will…" Undertaker giggled some more.
"I agree with you, Undertaker. He'll be so jealous of Sebastian," Lucifer joined in Undertaker's mirth.
"Jealous? Why?" Bella asked the Devil.
"This demon has always been envious of Sebastian. The fact that he's biologically mine makes this demon green with envy. So when he finds out that Sebastian has not only found his mate but two of them, he's likely to behave rudely with you two," Lucifer explained.
"What do you expect of him, father? After all he's the demon of greed," Sebastian smirked at his father.
"That's right," Lucifer chuckled.
A knock on the front door interrupted their conversation. Bella looked questioningly at Edward who answered, "It's my siblings; Alice and Jasper. She seems excited about something," he noted.
"Can we come in?" a familiar voice sounded from outside. Everyone in the room had enhanced hearing after all.
As they entered, Bella could see it was Alice and Jasper in the doorway. Alice walked… almost danced… to the center of the room, where she folded herself lithely onto the floor. Jasper, however, paused at the door; he looked shocked. He stared at Edward's face, and Bella wondered if he was shocked to see how Edward was sitting there calmly with dangerous beings sitting just a few feet away from him. Even though Undertaker kept grinning madly, Bella guessed he had a murderous aura about him. After all, he was a Grim Reaper.
"What's going on?" Edward asked his siblings tilting his head curiously as if trying to read their minds. After a second his smile widened at whatever he found there.
"Mind sharing with the class?" Lucifer asked with a smile.
"Actually," Jasper said, smiling hesitantly as he walked into the room slowly. "Alice says there's going to be a real storm tonight, and Emmett wants to play ball. We don't have much time together before you leave. And we wanted everyone here to see how we, Cullens, entertain ourselves. Are you game?" He smirked a little at his brother.
The words were all common enough, but the context confused Bella. 'Did they just say they wanted to play…ball? As in…baseball?' she thought, utterly confused. But before she could ask anything, Lucifer answered "That sounds intriguing."
"How does this work?" Sebastian asked with an adorably confused look on his face.
Edward felt like kissing the hell out of his mate at that moment. A wave of calm washed over him, before he could act on his thought. Blinking, he looked at Jasper and found him smirking at him. Shaking his head as if to clear it of lustful thoughts, Edward stated, "We have to wait for thunder to play ball…you'll see why."
"Will I need an umbrella?" Bella asked hesitantly.
"Will she?" Jasper asked Alice.
"No." She sounded sure. "The storm will hit over town. It should be dry enough in the clearing."
"Good, then." The enthusiasm in Jasper's voice was catching, and everyone found themselves eager to play, even Bella.
"See you in two hours at the clearing then." And with that, they were swiftly on their way. Jasper managed to quietly close the door behind them.
"Vampires like baseball?" Bella asked curiously.
"It's the American pastime," Edward said with mock solemnity, making others in the room chuckle.
Edward, Bella, Sebastian, Lucifer and Undertaker came together. Edward led them through a massive hemlock tree, and suddenly they were on the edge of an enormous open field in the lap of the Olympic peaks. It was twice the size of any baseball stadium Bella had ever seen. They could see all the others were there; Esme, Emmett, and Rosalie, sitting on a rock. Jasper and Alice were throwing something back and forth. Bella guessed it was a ball because even with her enhanced vision all she saw was a blur. It looked like Carlisle was marking bases.
Soon Edward, Emmett and Jasper started explaining the game rules to Sebastian, Lucifer and Undertaker. Bella joined Esme and Rose on the builder and watched her mates getting animated along with the King of hell and an undertaker. She chuckled at her thought and mouthed 'I love you' at Edward and Sebastian as they glanced at her.
Alice, who was practicing with Carlisle now, left her position and ran towards them. She came to a fluid stop in between the two teams. "It's time," she announced, grinning widely. As soon as she spoke, a deep rumble of thunder shook the forest beyond them, and then crashed towards the town.
"Eerie, isn't it?" Emmett said with easy familiarity, winking at Lucifer.
"Impressive!" Lucifer grinned at Alice.
Alice took a graceful bow before with a "Let's go," she reached for Emmett's hand and they darted toward the oversized field.
"Are you ready for some ball?" Edward asked, his eyes eager, bright as he passed Bella.
"I'm ready to see it," Bella laughed.
"Why, Kitten? Are you worried about falling down?" Sebastian teased her as he joined them.
"GO PLAY! Stop harassing me!" she poked her tongue at her mates, making them snicker and fist bump. Then they bounded off after the other two.
"Shall we join them?"Esme asked in her soft, melodic voice. Bella quickly nodded at her.
"You don't play with them?" Bella asked curiously.
"No, I prefer to referee them," she explained with a smile.
"Do they cheat?" Bella asked jokingly.
"Oh yes! You should hear the arguments they get into! One would think they were raised by a pack of wolves." Esme chuckled.
"Then Sebastian, Lucifer and Undertaker will blend in flawlessly," Bella smirked. A chorus of "HEY!" came from three different parts of the field
The game started as another peal of thunder sounded. Bella was correct in her assumption. Where vampires usually fears demons, on that field was only space for friendship, family and contentment. Bella smiled as a feeling of belonging settled in her. After what had happened all those years ago, she had finally found peace in her soul. However, it seemed Bella thought so too soon. Carlisle was up to bat, Edward catching, when Alice suddenly gasped.
Bella was ogling Edward when she saw his head snap up to look at Alice.
Their eyes met and something flowed between them in an instant. He was at
Bella's side before the others could ask Alice what was wrong.
"What happened?" Sebastian asked curiously.
"Alice?" Esme's voice was tense.
"I didn't see them coming…. They heard us playing and made a snap decision," she whispered. All the others were gathered around by this time.
"What is it, Alice?" Carlisle asked with the calm voice of authority.
"Nomads," Edward answered.
"How many?" Emmett asked Alice.
"Three," she answered abruptly.
"Okay, back up a few seconds please," Lucifer interrupted.
"We don't have time. They are almost here," Edward and Alice answered.
Lucifer shook his head and snapped his fingers. In an instant everything turned black and white. Other than the people gathered in that field, nothing was moving… not even the leaves of the trees. At Bella's questioning look, Lucifer stated, "I stopped time. Now, Ms. Alice, mind explaining was has you so panicked?"
"SWEET!" Emmett boomed happily.
"Nomad vampires hunt humans. These three were hunting around this area. Hearing us play, they decided to check it out," Alice explained.
Only the vampires looked worried. Sebastian, Lucifer and Undertaker just looked confused, shrugging and saying, "So?"
"Oh… you are worried that they might hurt me?" Bella guessed. At Edward and Alice's nods, Bella smirked. "But I'm not a human anymore, remember? I'm almost a demon." All the vampires' eyes widened, as it seemed even with their picture-perfect memories they did forget sometimes.
Sebastian laughed at their reaction. "Even if my kitten was a human, did you forget you have a demon, a Grim Reaper and the King of Hell with you? As soon as they realize what we are they would be so frightened that they would've run away without doing anything to Isabella," he explained.
"Wow… now I feel silly," Jasper huffed adorably.
"So do I," Carlisle, Rose and Emmett said at the same time. Alice and Edward looked at each other and burst into laughter.
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This photograph is by Kim Ludbrook/EPA. The caption reads: Zimbabwe refugees vote during a mock Zimbabwe presidential elections at the Walter Sisulu Hall in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, 29 March 2008. Many of the refugees are illigal immigrants who are not prepared to vote in the presidential elections being held in Zimbabwe. The votes where counted and the outcome was that Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai won with 83% of the vote.
The actual election results are twofold, Parlimentary and Presidential. It is possible the Presidential vote will go to a second round. It is certain that Mugabe will not relinquish the power he has enjoyed for almost three decades without a fight. The BBC has a rundown here.
There's also a lot of good information on the election on the Guardian website.