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|2013-02-27, 07:05
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The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
so this chapter is continued from the previous chapter,my updates on the story will probably be late from here on because of the college, but please be patient and thank you for reading the story so far,
like always i will appreciate any of your thoughts on the story and pointing out my grammatical and writing mistakes.
the name of the chapter 7 is "Cure of Blood"
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|2013-02-27, 20:18
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
I think watching you improve over the seven chapters is almost as interesting as the story. Massive improvements.
I'd recommend you go back and overhaul the first few chapters so they match the quality of your more recent chapters, in terms of story content, descriptions, and formatting.
You're not using 'standard grammar rules' (especially on dialog) but you're very consistent so it is quite easy to read anyway.
For the moment, I'd suggest putting a space outside of quote marks:
Make use of punctuation to end sentences, especially for questions or shouts:
|2013-02-27, 21:47
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^first of all thanks millions for replying and giving your thoughts about this
and by overhauling the first few chapters, do you mean that the quality of the first chapters was better than the recent ones, i agree that i have reduced the amount of surrounding description but that is because i thought that general set up would have been created in the mind by the time you reach the 7th chapter and also because of the content if you go into more detail descriptions then it will become too long, i try to keep it as short as possible without compromising the story,because if it's too long people might not read it
and the reason i do not put spaces after commas and at the conversation is also the same to save space,
and i will try to make good use of the punctuation from now
|2013-02-27, 22:50
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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I actually like descriptive text, it helps the reader visualize the scene. Mostly I just meant the formatting. If you compare the first and last chapters - the first one has all the text crammed together. It is just hard to read. The last chapter makes good use of white space to help group dialog and descriptions.
Yeah, you shouldn't have to repeat descriptions after the first few times. You might say what the character is wearing or if they've changed their hair but otherwise you should only need facial expressions.
I'll admit I'm more prone to Tolkien style writing - I say what the weather is like, the dust in the air, etc. For action writing, that doesn't work quite as well. The only thing I don't like to see is a page of dialog where I lose track of who is saying what - there's a happy medium.
|2013-02-28, 04:10
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well i hope my writing live upto your liking,
mind if i ask exactly how have you pictured the universe up till now, don't need to explain in detail words you can give examples of other popular works like, novels or movies or anime and tell which one is similar to your imagination of this universe
and what more would you like to see in it.
|2013-05-23, 06:35
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first of all thank you a million to all those who read this story and for so many views,
i have been very busy with my end-sem finals, so could not post further chapters, but i am almost over with my finals and now i have time to take the story further, i have already written the next two chapters only editing is remaining and they will be up soon,
soon i will be also posting some other details about my writing and inspirations so that you can have a better view of this universe
as usual i'd like to know your thoughts on this and i hope my writing has improved and less mistakes and i hope you enjoy reading this
so i have the 8th chapter "A City at War"
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|2013-05-27, 06:22
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The Lost Lamb
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Location: in Darkness
the story, the characters, the plot are all my own thoughts but here are some of my inspirations for the universe.
Anime: Fairy Tail
Books: Lies of Locke Lamora
Game: Assassin's Creed(2,brotherhood)
and the 9th chapter "The Roussel"
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|2013-06-08, 03:10
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Location: in Darkness
the 10th chapter, just a note, the action in this chapter might be complicated,i mean their moves and all,
and as usual tell my mistakes and your thoughts
Chapter 10: "The Flame Wizard"
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|2013-06-18, 13:23
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Location: in Darkness
i hope my writing style and this story has been pleasing you, i am still trying to improve on my writing and grammatical mistakes.
i think the length of the chapter has been getting bigger, but the content has been growing as well
Here's the 11th chapter: "A Scheme in the Dark"
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|2013-06-20, 03:21
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Age: 61
yeah, chapter length will probably keep increasing just naturally. My first pack of chapter releases, I struggled to create more than 10 or 15 pages. Now it's rare I don't hit 30 even in rough draft.
Most important, I'm enjoying the story. I don't have to guess who's talking. When they talk, they're making sense and referencing things that are made clear by context or earlier description.
There is some minor verbal static easily fixed in second or third draft fixes. One example:
Then when half of the city was poisoned by this and they turned against me, I hired mages from the Dragon Nest to ...
I'll often read my dialog out loud to see if it sounds awkward, missed a word, etc.
OTOH, I most often spot errors the instant after I hit the post button
|2013-06-20, 08:43
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ah finally, i was wondering whether you are following this story or not
thank you very much, i'll pay more attention towards the mistakes and errors and i am glad that you are enjoying the story. it get's more exciting afterwards
|2013-07-10, 12:39
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sorry for the late update i have been locked up in a lot of college stuff,the days are just getting very tiresome, but somehow making time for this, the next chapter might also be a little late but i'll try to get it up as soon as possible
so here is they next chapter "Chapter 12: A Night in Lybster", i hope you enjoy it
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|2013-07-13, 14:42
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Join Date: May 2009
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Aw! Now I feel sad because I want to know what happens next! Must...be...patient! But I will say that I'm glad that you're still updating despite your busy schedule.
Anyways, I think you've really improved not just in your writing but in your storytelling as well. I also think you've gotten clearer in your descriptions of what's happening.
A tip on quotations is that anytime someone initiates a sentence, there's a capital letter after it.
I enjoy reading the descriptions of the clothes they wear. Some Lies of Locke Lamora influence there?
|2013-07-13, 14:50
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The Lost Lamb
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of course there is an influence of Lies of Locke Lamora, i mentioned it earlier, i am happy that you are enjoying it, i'll see to it what you mention about the sentence initiation
and yes it had been getting difficult to write regularly but i'll try my best
|2013-07-13, 15:09
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Oh, I was meaning it as a compliment. I think it's cool when I get to know what inspires an author. I also think the descriptions of the clothing were done well because they were detailed but not so much that it gets boring or anything.
Well, it's good to see that you're still writing. It's always nice to see updates to this story.
|2013-08-01, 10:13
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The Lost Lamb
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Location: in Darkness
so recently i have been in bad shape so i wasn't able to put an update here,
but here is the next chapter and it is filled with action from start to end and it is more than just magical energy blasting here and there.
this time i had to work hard a little bit for this chapter, i hope you enjoy the action
a Note: the battles are happening simultaneously
"Chapter 13: Dragonest vs Scourge Chaos"
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|2013-08-13, 23:56
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The Lost Lamb
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i am being occupied by a lot of things, so i am not able to prepare a chapter quickly, i am having lot of work to do in which i am finding less peaceful time to write, but i'll try to post the next chapter as soon as possible
as always i am trying to improve my writing and make less mistakes and i hope it is turning out that way
for now here is the next chapter, "Chapter 14: Scared to Fight"
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|2013-09-05, 22:51
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Entertaining as always! I enjoyed the battles in these last chapters. I liked how they each tried to outsmart their opponents. I thought the battle between Erica and Raegen seemed a little more confusing than the previous battles though. Rather than using so many commas, maybe you could try using character names and short sentences to make it easier for the reader to understand.
|2013-09-05, 23:27
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The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
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i am glad you are enjoying the battles i hope the one between Lukas and Wolgrin was not confusing ,well i try not to use characters names every time i refer to them, but i'll see to it that it is not confusing and easy to understand.
thanks, point taken and i'll be posting a new chapter in a couple of days
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In a sermon some years ago, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Harvard University's longtime spiritual leader, offered a precise, if unconventional, definition of hell. He said hell is "being defined by your circumstances, and believing that definition."
Gomes, 68, who died of stroke complications Monday in Boston, was never one to let circumstances or the opinions of others dictate his sense of himself. He was a black Republican, a Baptist preacher in a stronghold of secularism, a descendant of escaped slaves who rose to become president of the Pilgrim Society.
Further complicating this bundle of contradictions was his voice, a baritone that was as commanding as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s but flowed with the accents and cadences of a Yankee blueblood. "It was as if Cotton Mather had returned from the dead, and in black face at that," Harvard colleague Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote in a New Yorker remembrance last week.
Gates' description probably would have delighted Gomes (which rhymes with homes), who knew he was peculiar. At Harvard he was no doubt a celebrity, preaching for three decades to standing-room-only crowds at the university's church where he was its first black minister.
Chosen by Time magazine as "one of the seven most distinguished preachers in America," he participated in the inauguration of two presidents, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He was also a biblical scholar and bestselling author, whose works include "The Good Book: Reading the Bible With Mind and Heart" (1996), "The Good Life: Truths That Last in Times of Need" (2002) and "The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus" (2008).
In 1991, he added another distinction. After a conservative student magazine devoted an issue to attacking gays, he publicly declared his homosexuality. The crowd of 200 students in Harvard Yard gasped and then cheered the stunning disclosure from a member of the university's establishment.
Defying expectations may have been in Gomes' blood. His mother was a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and a member of one of Boston's oldest black families. During a drive in the country, she met her future husband, a multilingual immigrant from the Cape Verde Islands off the African coast who was a laborer in the cranberry bogs. They doted on Peter, their only child, who was born in Boston on May 22, 1942.
Growing up in predominantly white Plymouth, he took music lessons, absorbed books and attended a Baptist church. The grandson of a Baptist minister, he practiced preaching on cranberry crates in his basement and gave his first sermon when he was 12. After graduating from Plymouth High School he worked as an organist and choirmaster to pay his tuition at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, graduating with a history degree in 1965.
He intended to become a museum curator, but a Bates professor persuaded him to try a year at Harvard Divinity School. Realizing what his true calling was, he earned a bachelor's in divinity in 1968 and was ordained in the American Baptist Church.
Then came another unexpected turn. Gomes, who had never been to the Deep South, took a faculty position at Tuskegee Institute, a predominantly black college in Alabama. "I saw more black people in my first half hour at Tuskegee than I had ever seen in my entire life," he said in a 1996 New Yorker profile. Compared with many of his colleagues and students, who were immersed in the racial politics and fashions of the late 1960s, "I was the strangest Negro they had ever seen," he recalled, "because I didn't talk or dress like them."
In 1970, after two years at Tuskegee, he was invited back to Harvard as assistant minister of the non-denominational Memorial Church. In 1974 he was appointed minister and Plummer professor of Christian morals. Worshipers jammed the pews to hear his well-crafted sermons, which were as likely to quote Woody Allen or T.S. Eliot as Scripture. (Forty of Gomes' addresses were collected in a 1998 volume, "Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living.")
In 1991, after reading the anti-gay diatribes in the student magazine Peninsula, Gomes fumed. The articles cited a variety of religious texts, including the Koran, the Torah and the Bible, to support a condemnation of homosexuality. At a protest rally the next day, Gomes asserted a new identity: "I am a Christian who happens as well to be gay," he declared. "Those realities, which are irreconcilable to some, are reconciled in me by a loving God."
The unmarried, celibate pastor weathered calls for his resignation. Although he was loath to be labeled a gay activist, he announced that he had a new mission: addressing the religious roots of the hatred of gays. In "The Good Book," which examines what the Bible says about a number of controversial issues, he calls homophobia "the last prejudice." Critics attacked his interpretations as "the gospel according to Gomes."
In 2006, he became a registered Democrat to vote for Deval Patrick, the first black governor of Massachusetts. The minister who had taken flak from liberal colleagues for his roles at the Reagan and Bush inaugural ceremonies quipped that it had been "much easier coming out as a homosexual than it was as a Republican."
His extravagances made him one of the most colorful pillars of Harvard. He lived in a grand, 19th century house owned by the university and crammed with the antiques he loved to collect. Every Wednesday he hosted 50 students for afternoon tea poured by local volunteers, who at one time included his Cambridge neighbor Julia Child. He exchanged cordialities with his guests for precisely an hour before ushering them out by banging on a gong.
"He was an original," Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust said in a statement. To that, Gomes might have added, "Amen."
In a sermon some years ago, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Harvard University's longtime spiritual leader, offered a precise, if unconventional, definition of hell. He said hell is "being defined by your circumstances, and believing that definition."


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The next class session of the four will be Thursday night at 7 when USC Upstate visits Allen Arena for an Atlantic Sun game. The Bisons are 15-11, 10-6 in the A-Sun. Upstate is 4-22, 3-13 in the conference.
In their previous meeting this season in Spartanburg the Bisons won 76-55 Jan. 23.
"Upstate is one of the hardest playing teams in the league," Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson said. "For winning no more games than they have won their coach has done an incredible job of getting them to compete and play at a high level.
"They beat ETSU this year and that says enough. They have played a lot of close games. They have a lot of young players. They are going to be good down the road."
The Bisons are still working on several areas as the A-Sun Tournament gets closer and closer.
"It's more about showing understanding of what we are doing…all of the things we have been emphasizing since day one," Sanderson said. "We are trying to close the gaps and improve in those areas.
"There are still some cracks we are trying to fill up. We want their play in practice to show me that they understand. Instead of making four mistakes in a game they are going to make two and instead of making two they are going to make one. When you multiply that by 15 guys your chances of winning are going to go up."
Another concern for Sanderson is trying to keep his players physically fresh.
"If we have a long practice it is because of them and not because of me," Sanderson said. "We can go longer if they are not showing me what I need to see."
Sanderson would like to cut back practice five to 20 minutes a day. Sanderson thinks that will make a difference to the players both physically and mentally as they head into the tournament.
"The players want to bust it even more to try to please us and try to get off of the floor," Sanderson said. "They have been very attentive. The attention to details has gone to another level which we really want.
"We still have room to improve. Sometimes teams max out and start to regress after awhile. Our players know we can improve."
The Bisons continue to be led offensively by center Adnan Hodzic with 18.5 points per game and guard Josh Slater with 16 points per game. Guard Jordan Burgason is averaging 10.4 points.
Hodzic is the team rebounding leader with 7.4 per game. Slater is second with 6.1 rebounds per game.
Hodzic is first in the conference overall in scoring, second in rebounding and first in field goal percentage (56.1).
Slater is first in the conference in steals per game with 2.88 and fifth in NCAA Division I. He is fourth in scoring overall.
Torrey Craig, eighth in the conference overall, is averaging 14.7 points per game for Upstate. Ricardo Glenn is the rebound leader with 5.6.
The Bisons close out the home portion of the regular season Saturday at 6:30 against ETSU as part of a doubleheader. It will also be "Senior Night".
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The Andrews University Board of Trustees is promoting spiritual growth on campus like never before. Thanks to generous donations given by board members, E. Edward and Ann Zinke of the Foundation for Adventist Education, Andrews faculty and staff, along with a host of other donors, all current University students were able to receive an Andrews Study Bible free-of-charge. Distributions took place in January just in time to get the Word of God into the hands of every student prior to Weeks of Spiritual Emphasis.
Before the beginning of fall semester, Andrews faculty and staff donated funds to the Bibles for Freshmen project. It provided an Andrews Study Bible for each incoming freshman. That project took on a new life at the October Board of Trustees meeting. Engineering student Sandra Prieto opened the board meeting with a word of prayer. Sandra, who had previously donated toward the Bibles for Freshmen project by sponsoring a Bible for an incoming Andrews freshman, then shared the impact the Andrews Study Bible gift had on her. That launched the Board of Trustees into a conversation of how they could also support the project. In a matter of minutes, the board collectively pledged $18,000 of their personal funds to expand on the Bibles for Freshmen project to provide Bibles for all current students. In the end, those gifts, combined with funds from the Foundation for Adventist Education and other donations, totaled nearly $64,000.
Graduate students received their Andrews Study Bible at the first distribution event on Thursday, Jan. 13, in the Howard Performing Arts Center. Students were asked to sit with classmates from their respective schools/college while deans, department chairs and faculty distributed the books.
During the graduate convocation service, President Niels-Erik Andreasen engaged in conversation with Edwin Hernandez, an Andrews alum and a trustee who supported the Andrews Study Bible distribution project. Hernandez recalled the October board meeting and said the decision to sponsor Bibles for all Andrews students was "Spirit-led." "We wanted to ensure all students had access to this extraordinary resource," Hernandez said. "These study Bibles will not only help students grow spiritually but also scholastically," said graduate student Elkyn Beltre. "I think that it was very generous and thoughtful of the board members to give this gift to us." Elkyn is just one of many students who plan to use this gift for both personal devotions and academic study.
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The distribution event for undergraduates came just one week later, on Thursday, Jan. 20. Following chapel at Pioneer Memorial Church, Ron Whitehead, assistant to the president for spiritual life, shared with the students the story behind this gift.
"Most Christian universities give Bibles to students when they reach graduation," he explained, "...but 20–30% of students who start as freshmen won't make it to graduation! So we thought, 'Why not give one to them at the beginning?'"
A host of Office of Campus Ministries leaders and faculty/staff from across campus helped pass out the Bibles. Bookmarks highlighting a list of Sabbath School and small group opportunities to utilize the study Bible were also given out.
"It tells a lot about a person where they put their money. It's really nice to know the University cares that much about us to give out of their own pockets," said Kali Jardine, biology major. "I feel like the study Bible will be a tool I can use to refresh my devotional life and give me a new perspective on what I read. I'm excited for this opportunity and the blessings it will bring."
-Written by Ashleigh Jardine, student news writer, with additional reporting by Keri Suarez, media relations specialist, Office of Integrated Marketing & Communication


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 21st Oct 2012 15:11 UTC
The Next Web: "Google has also been working with Samsung to launch a 10-inch tablet, confirming leaks which suggested Google had teamed up with the Korean manufacturer for another device. Our source tells us that internally the tablet goes under the name 'Codename Manta', runs Google's new Android 4.2 operating system (previously referred to as Key Lime Pie, but is set to retain the Jelly Bean branding), and will offer a 2560x1600 pixel (10:16) resolution, which we believe will offer around 300 pixels per inch compared to the new iPad's 264 PPI." Between the iPad and this supposed Android tablet... Poor Surface. Poor, poor Surface.
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RE[2]: Only in OSNews bizarro land
by akrosdbay on Mon 22nd Oct 2012 04:32 UTC in reply to "RE: Only in OSNews bizarro land"
RE[3]: Only in OSNews bizarro land
by WereCatf on Mon 22nd Oct 2012 05:07 in reply to "RE[2]: Only in OSNews bizarro land"
Android has 70% tablet market share? When did that happen?
I have no idea where he got such numbers. http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/device_ownership covers only the United States, but according to that report Android has a 48% market share on tablets and iPad has a 52% market share. That's to say that Android - tablets and iPads are more-or-less at an equal footing.
Here in Finland it's harder to find any trustworthy numbers, but apparently Android-smartphones have a market share of 33% and iPhones have a market share of 35%, and of tablets Android has only managed to gather a market share of 12% whereas iPads have 88% market share. One of the reasons for this is the fact that you just do not see Android-tablets being advertised ANYWHERE, and the selection is very poor. Finland is the promised land of smartphones, but for some reason all other kinds of electronic devices are in short supply.
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The aircraft on display is Emirates' 48th A380 in its fleet and was delivered directly from Airbus in Hamburg Finkenwerder to the show site, allowing ILA visitors to be among the first guests on-board the brand new double-decker.
This is also the 150th A380 to be delivered from Airbus globally.
German chancellor Angela Merkel visited the Emirates A380 display at ILA Berlin.
The visit was part of the official opening tour for the airshow.
Emirates was the first airline to order the A380 and is the largest operator of this aircraft.
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I have seen LCs. I was thinking about seeking out an IBCLC... We've had so many weight checks. But what I remember is this:Have you been in to see the LC? And can you post a complete weight history for the baby? (Birth weight, lowest weight, weight at each checkup.)
- Birth on June 1st (no IV fluid for me): 7lb5oz
- June 3rd (leaving hospital): 6lb12oz
- June 5th?: 6lb6oz (10% loss)
- June 6th?: 6lb5oz
- June 8th? (began demand feeding): 6lb8oz
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I made this cake about a week after the huge all you can pick raspberry trip, and I don't mind admitting that they were beginning to weigh on my mind a bit. I even found myself thinking about what to do with raspberries when I woke up in the night, and over-exposure was even slowing my rate of snacking off them straight from the fridge. To make matters worse, there was a whole bunch of bananas beginning to go over-ripe in the fruit bowl. To avoid a complete head explosion, I searched for some recipes which could use both, and which could then be stashed out of sight in the freezer. This was the only one I photographed but the other one may yet get a feature when I can next face a raspberry muffin.
I found the recipe on, of all places, a mums forum, which isn't somewhere I usually hang out. I made a few tweaks to cut down on the refined sugar - subbing fruit sugar instead, and using coconut oil instead of butter. I also upped the ante with the berries - this was no time to start getting stingy. The original recipe was for muffins, but I made it as a loaf and it worked out really well. The banana flavour was nice and strong, and the berries nice and tart. It also defrosted well when I took it out a few days later for a visit from Kiwi Sis (and a lovely visit it was too :) ). After my double baking session I crammed all of the rest of the berries into the freezer on various cookie trays and then bagged them up (they stay separate rather than form a huge clump that way). I'm glad they won't be wasted, and this way I can get my berry mojo back and appreciate them properly again. In a few months time, maybe.
Banana and raspberry loaf (adapted from askamum)
120g plain white flour
80g plain wholemeal flour
2 tsp baking powder
5 Tbsp fruit sugar
150g raspberries
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
30g melted coconut oil
100ml soya milk
1 ripe banana, mashed
Preheat oven to 200C/400F. Line and grease a loaf tin.
Sift the flour and baking powder into a large mixing bowl. Add the sugar and raspberries.
Beat together the egg, vanilla, coconut oil and milk. Stir into the dry ingredients with the mashed banana, and stir briefly, to combine. THe mixture will be quite lumpy, but there shouldn't be any unmixed flour. Spoon into the tin.
Bake for about 40 minutes, covering after 25 if the top is starting to darken too much. It should be risen and golden. Cool on a wire rack.
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Raspberry stress meets banana stress - and has a happy ending
Labels: cake, muffins, reduced fat
3 comments:
- Johanna GGG said...
might be one for me to try - I have berries in the freezer from summer and they are beginning to look a bit freeze dried - I am wondering if I can save them in baking! And I have no excuses for not using raspberries - hope your frozen berries come to a happier end than me!
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- "As they soared upwards, away from the two remaining Death Eaters, Harry spat blood out of his mouth, pointed his wand at the falling sidecar, and yelled, Confringo!"
- —The curse is use in the Battle of the Seven Potters[src]
The Blasting Curse (Confringo) is a curse that causes anything that the spell comes into contact with to explode. This curse can be very dangerous and even deadly, if not used responsibly.
This curse is also popular when it comes to duelling. It can create maximum damage, depending on the power behind the spell. If handled improperly it can even prove fatal.
It is unknown who invented the curse and when but, considering that it has been used at least since the year 1430, it had to have been invented sometime before that. This curse was used during the First Wizarding War and several times during the Second Wizarding War. The most prominent example was the mass killing of twelve Muggles by Peter Pettigrew in 1981.
Known uses
|Alberta Toothill
|She used this curse to defeat Samson Wiblin in the All-England Wizarding Duelling Competition.
|Peter Pettigrew
|1 November, 1981
|Pettigrew may have used an extremely powerful blasting curse to decimate a street and kill twelve Muggles at once while evading Sirius Black, who was blamed for the crimes and Pettigrew's alleged death.[2] The explosion was so fierce, it left a massive crater in the street, with the pipes showing. The Ministry gave an excuse of a "gas leak" to the surviving Muggles, and thought that Black was the one who used the curse.
|Jacob's sibling
|Jacob's sibbling used this spell for duelling
|Harry Potter
|27 July, 1997
|Harry used this curse to destroy Sirius Black's flying motorcycle's side-car during the Battle of the Seven Potters.
|Hermione Granger
|24 December, 1997
|Hermione used it in an attempt to kill Nagini and facilitate her and Harry's escape from Bathilda Bagshot's house in Godric's Hollow, but broke Harry's wand in the process.[3]
Possible uses
- This spell may have been the cause of the explosion which killed Fred Weasley during the Battle of Hogwarts.
Known practitioners
Confringo is Latin for "I break".
Behind the scenes
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Professor McGonagall possibly uses the Blasting Curse to duel against Snape (just in case this is not the Blasting Curse, it is referred to as the Fiery offensive spell), defeating Amycus and Alecto Carrow in the process. Though it did not burn them and simply knocked them down, leaving them incapacitated.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Harry uses the Blasting Curse against Nagini in an attempt to kill her and possibly to provoke Voldemort to chase Harry, so the snake would stay behind unprotected. This fails in that the spells bounces off Nagini, due to her magical protection, and instead strikes multiple Death Eaters, though they were only knocked over and otherwise seemed undamaged by the explosive spell. Immediately after this instance, Voldemort also casted several Blasting Curses at Harry as he jumped into a corridor and escaped Voldemort's wrath.
- Both this spell and Expulso share similar effects, though - unlike the latter - Confringo is sometimes accompanied by fiery explosions. The reason for this may be that Confringo is the result of a sharp, local temperature increase where as Expulso increases the local pressure to cause explosions. However, in the Deathly Hallows video games, Confringo is an explosive spell, while Expulso serves as a sort of "machine gun" spell, causing damage similar to gunshots.
- In different varieties of games and films, the colour of Confringo varies. Its two main colours so far are a light blue and purple, or simply a fiery explosion.
- A spellbook for this spell could be found nearby an old building close to an Acromantula lair and some abandoned nuclear power plants.
- In the video game adaption of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the colour of the curse varies. For the player, the curse is blue; enemies fire red curses; bosses, Snape, Greyback and Bellatrix, fire green curses.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Mentioned on a Famous Wizard Card) (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Mentioned on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Mentioned only)[4]
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (play) (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Appears in photographs)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Harry Potter: Spells
- Pottermore (Mentioned on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 4 (The Seven Potters), page 54 - UK edition
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ↑ On the Hogwarts Express Ron Weasley reads the Daily Prophet which says Twelve years ago, Black murdered 13 people with one single curse., in a story about the event.


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To accelerate this fratricide, Brennan issued a damning account of Bin Laden's behavior during the raid on his compound. "He was engaged in a firefight with those that entered the area of the house he was in," said Brennan. During this shootout, "there was a female who was in fact in the line of fire that reportedly was used … to shield bin Laden." Brennan concluded:
Here is Bin Laden, who has been calling for these attacks, living in this million-dollar-plus compound, living in an area that is far removed from the front, hiding behind women who were put in front of him as a shield. I think it really just speaks to just how false his narrative has been over the years.
At a Pentagon briefing, a senior defense official told the same story: Bin Laden was "living in a mansion that was eight times the size of any other structure in the neighborhood, living rather comfortably. He and some other male combatants on the target appeared to use—certainly did use women as shields." A senior intelligence official repeated that Bin Laden "died during a firefight" and that "many of his terrorist associates in other parts of Pakistan and throughout the region are living in much more dire conditions. So you have to be wondering what they're thinking at this moment when they see that their leader was living, relatively speaking, high on the hog."
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The myth of Bin Laden was one of a freedom fighter living in austerity, risking his life for the cause as he moved around in the hills and mountainous caverns of the tribal areas. The reality of Bin Laden was very different: a man who encouraged others to make the ultimate sacrifice while he himself hid in the comfort of a large expensive villa in Pakistan, experiencing none of the hardship he expected his supporters to endure.
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A reporter asked Carney "which of those women was being used a human shield, as Mr. Brennan suggested yesterday." Carney answered: "The woman I believe you're talking about might have been the one on the first floor who was caught in the crossfire. Whether or not she was being used as a shield or trying to use herself as a shield or simply caught in crossfire is unclear." What's clear is that Bin Laden, who was upstairs, couldn't have used her as a shield.
Carney blamed the misleading early reports on the "fog of war." But a fog of war creates confusion, not a consistent story like the one about the human shield. The reason U.S. officials bought and sold this story is that it fit their larger indictment of Bin Laden. It reinforced the shameful picture of him hiding in a mansion while sending others to fight and die. It made him look like a coward.
This is the narrative that's really at stake. A narrative isn't just a chronology. It's a tale woven with themes. For 20 years, Bin Laden peddled a tale of oppression and jihad. In elaborate video and audio messages, he depicted al-Qaida's trail of bombings as a Muslim struggle against Western persecution. He wasn't just a terrorist. He was a storyteller.
That's the story Brennan sought to undermine when he cited Bin Laden's use of a human shield to show "how false his narrative has been over the years." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also targeted Bin Laden's story. In a statement trumpeting his death, she argued that "people across the Middle East and North Africa are rejecting the extremist narratives and charting a path of peaceful progress." Carney, too, warned against false interpretations. "It would be a shame," he warned, if Bin Laden's killing "became a piece in a partisan narrative."
Carney is right. So are Brennan, Clinton, and Cameron. Bin Laden was a delusional mass murderer, and his narrative was false. But you can't debunk one false narrative with another. The firefight at Bin Laden's compound, it now appears, pitted two or three men against a dozen or more commandos. Bin Laden didn't engage in the firefight and used no human shield. He wasn't even armed. We shot him dead anyway. That's the truth. Deal with it.
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Computer won't boot to Windows 7 pro - have tried everything
i've used different windows discs, tried startup repair 10 times, sfc /scannow, chkdsk /r, and all sorts of other things. "system volume is corrupt" and whenever i try system restore it won't find the o/s. same thing when i first go into system recovery options - there's no o/s listed and it wants me to load drivers, which i don't know where to get.
this was an xp pro dell that was reinstalled with windows 7 pro from a master disk. i don't have the original disk and won't be able to get it, as i bought this used off someone.
any ideas? i have heard about rebuilding the master boot record, but don't really know how to do that. or maybe you know which drivers to load and where to get them?
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|02 Jan 2012
First thing what exact type of computer do you have. Need to have more computer specs. Mother Board type, Ram, Hard Drive, Video Card or Adapter. As with any upgrade did you run the Microsoft Upgrade Advisor. Please check the following link. Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 - Help & How-to - Microsoft Windows.
You may have to re-install Win Xp Pro before you can do anything else. Another suggestion is to download Windows Ultimate Boot cd. UBCD for Windows
As with any upgrade from Win XP to Win 7 there are usually a multitiude of issues and some of items in Win 7 will not run on a Win Xp machine.
Again these are all suggestions as someone else may have a better answer than I.
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|02 Jan 2012
You'll need a Win7 Installation DVD for your licensed version or a System Repair Disk. You can google the official Win7 ISO download for your version to burn to DVD using ImgBurn, to use for Repairs or Reinstall.
Boot into the DVD or Repair CD System Recovery Options to mark the Win7 partition Active: Partition - Mark as Active (Method Two)
Then also from DVD or Repair CD run Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times until Win7 starts on its own and holds the System Active flags.
Once you get to Win7 run Belarc Advisor to audit the Product Key for either or both OS's as you will need this for reinstalling or even some repairs. You can lose the value of the OS if you don't have these keys to back them up.
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|02 Jan 2012
the partition trick seemed to have worked, but unfortunately i haven't been able to get past the startup repair step. any other methods?
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|02 Jan 2012
Did you run Startup Repair at least 3 times with reboots from DVD or Repair CD as stated, while Win7 partition is marked Active?
You may need to check for infection. Download, burn to CD or write to flash stick, boot and run a full scan with Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper. Then run the Repairs again.
Boot free Partition Wizard bootable CD
to see if Win7 partition is marked Active and what flags it currently holds, then click on Disk number to highlight it, from Disk tab select Rebuild MBR which will sometimes preclude the need to run Repairs.
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|02 Jan 2012
hey i'm playing with partition wizard right now and it says my partition doesn't have a boot.ini file and it always gives an option to "set windows boot partition". do you know if i'm safe to go ahead and "set" it?
|My System Specs
|02 Jan 2012
Yes, should be the same as rightclicking on Win7 or it's 100mb System Reserved partition (if you have it) to Modify>Set to Active, then highlighting Disk number to run Rebuild MBR from Disk tab.
These are not tricks nor are we playing, as we've used Partition Wizard for thousands of repair and partitioning operations here successfully. I gave you the steps. If it is presenting unusual errors or prompts, please post them back verbatim and tell us exactly what you did.
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|02 Jan 2012
it said "failed to find windows directory" when i tried to set it as the windows boot partition. also, it looks like it's already set to active, because that's greyed out and only "set inactive" is an option for the main drive....which is not lettered. it only has a *:
the boot.ini editor says the selected partition does not contain boot.ini file.
|My System Specs
|03 Jan 2012
Please post back a camera snap of the Partition Wizard drive map with all listings, or type them out.
What boot.ini editor is on PW CD?
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|03 Jan 2012
i don't seem to see a boot.ini editor. not quite sure what to look for, but nothing jumped out at me. there was a boot folder and then a couple files, then another folder inside that and five or six files.
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Colonel Ron Replogle, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, is pleased to announce Missouri has experienced a strong reduction in traffic fatalities since 2005.
Preliminary statistics indicate that Missouri recorded 741 traffic fatalities in 2013. This is a 41 percent decrease from the 1,257 fatalities recorded in 2005.
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Not only have traffic deaths decreased, but the total number of traffic crashes has decreased as well. While the total crash information for 2013 is not available at this point, from 2005 to 2012 the total of all Missouri traffic crashes decreased 21 percent.
"This is an important trend that the Patrol would like to see continue," said Col. Replogle. "Every trooper is committed to working with other agencies to further reduce the number of traffic deaths in our state. We believe education and enforcement encourage safe driving, which results in fewer traffic fatalities. I want to thank the public for helping to make this year safer than last year."
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Gas Prices Creep Lower, but for How Long?
National gas prices ahead of the July 4th holiday are dropping but can consumers plan on cheap gas throughout the summer? GasBuddy senior petroleum analyst Patrick DeHaan joins MoneyBeat.
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(NEW ORLEANS) — Authorities are continuing to search for two workers who jumped from the burning platform into the Gulf of Mexico after their oil rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana, sending flames and a cloud of black smoke into the sky Friday.
The Coast Guard has been working for more than 24 hours to find the rig workers, whose names and genders have not been released. Air and sea units are searching for what they believe will be two survivors.
An 87-foot Coast Guard cutter is searching the seas, while two helicopter crews and a fixed-wing aircraft crew search from above. They are searching a 1,400 square-mile area around the platform, according to a Coast Guard press release.
The rig was not producing oil on Friday morning during the explosion. Black Hawk Energy, which owns the platform, said one of 22 contractors on board mistakenly grabbed a blow torch instead of a saw to cut a pipe line that had 28 gallons of oil inside, igniting the blast. Everyone on board was employed by Grand Isle Shipyard, not Black Elk.
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The rig had been expected to begin oil production again later this month. Because the rig was offline, the Coast Guard said there is little risk of a major spill.
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By PATRICIA DONOVAN
Published October 18, 2012
Steven Kurtz, professor of visual studies who is considered "the grandfather of interventionist art," is the new chair of the Department of Visual Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Kurtz, a founding member of the internationally renowned art and theory collective Critical Art Ensemble (CAE), succeeds Millie Chen, professor of visual studies, who served as department chair for the past four years.
Kurtz, who came to UB in 2002 from Carnegie Mellon University, is best known for interventionist art, described by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MOCA) as art that "critiques, lampoons, interrupts and co-opts; art that acts subtlety or with riotous fanfare, and art that agitates for social change using magic tricks, faux fashion and jacked-up lawn mowers."
Kurtz's artistic interventions are in the fields of electronic civil disobedience and Bio Art, a practice in which he works with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms and life processes using biotechnologies like genetic engineering, tissue culture and cloning.
He is the author or co-author of several books produced by the CAE, most recently, "Critical Art Ensemble: Disturbances," a landmark handbook for activists in art, theory, science and politics launched in London, UK, on Oct. 4, where Kurtz currently is a visiting artist at the Goldsmiths College of Art, University of London.
Kurtz says his administrative work in the Department of Visual Studies is cut out for him, in part because undergraduate recruitment is more difficult than it used to be.
"There was a time when we were deluged with undergraduates from New York City," he says, "but these days, they're staying downstate, perhaps because of the cost of an out-of-town education for families struggling with job security or unemployment.
"Nevertheless, there will always be people who are driven to express themselves through the arts," Kurtz says," and they will find a way to do it.
"Students from the more 'comfortable' classes benefit from families that often will compensate the graduate who faces difficulty making a living," he says.
"For art students whose families are engaged in economic struggle, however, there is a sense that there must be vocational dimension to their training. They may be attracted to fields like commercial art, graphic design or teaching," Kurtz says, "something they can turn into a job."
He says he hopes to increase undergraduate enrollment and continue development of the department's very successful China exchange programs established by Chen.
"We have excellent programs and facilities for whatever art form a student might want to pursue," he says, "including those that challenge assumptions about the political sphere, the economy, science, the body and technology."
On the graduate side, he says the department is doing fine, enrollment-wise.
"Our MFA program has always been robust and we now have four PhD students on board. With our upscale gallery space, including the UB Art Gallery, the Anderson, the new downtown project gallery that allows large-scale and group work, and the return of the student gallery, we have a lot to offer," he says, citing "an excellent faculty," some of whom, like Kurtz, hoist our profoundly commoditized, technologized, restrictive culture on its own petard.
In addition to his provocative art, Kurtz is known for the USA Patriot Act controversy that began with his arrest by the FBI in 2004 (charges eventually were dropped) for possessing materials that were to be used for "Marching Plague," a project sponsored by the Arts Catalyst, London, one of the United Kingdom's most distinctive arts organizations focused on experimental work that critically engages science.
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Another documented case of police abusing anti-terrorism laws against photographers
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Wednesday, Jun 29th, 2010
A young photographer was accused of being a threat under the Terrorism Act and eventually pushed down a flight of stairs by London police after he refused to stop photographing officers and cadets during a public parade.
Jules Mattsson, a 16-year-old freelancer student from Hackney, east London, was ordered to identify himself and stop taking images of the march on Armed Forces Day, this past Saturday.
For his own protection, Mattsson recorded the exchange with police on his mobile phone.
The audio provides evidence of yet another case in which officers are caught inventing imaginary laws, bandying around the Terrorism Act, and forcefully demanding that the public abide by their orders, when they have no legal right to do so.
Officers initially claim that Mattsson needs parental permission to capture images of the cadets who are minors. When Mattsson corrects the officer, noting that there are no restrictions on photographers in public spaces, the officer then claims that it is against the law to photograph police and members of the armed forces.
As the police continue to prevent the student from taking photographs and demand ID, he repeatedly asks them under what law he is being detained.
Eventually one officer replies "We don't have to have a law."
Following continued declaration that it is his right to photograph in a public space and that he should be allowed to get on with his work, Mattsson is informed by another officer that he is now "considered a threat under the Terrorism Act".
As officers forcefully ushered him away from the parade, Mattsson says he was pushed down a short set of stairs and detained for "breaching the peace" until the parade passed.
Listen to the exchange:
At just 16 years of age, Mattsson's knowledge of his rights as a photographer and a member of the public, his declaration that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public place, and his bravery in standing up to several forceful uniformed aggressors should be commended.
The notion that this teenager was "breaching the peace" as he was pushed down a flight of steps by a gaggle of thug officers is ridiculous. Given that Mattsson has been advised not to publicly comment on the incident, he is thought to be considering legal action.
Matteson's case is not an isolated incident. As we have repeatedly highlighted, photographers and film makers are routinely stopped and harassed under terrorism laws and routinely have their material seized and even deleted by police on a daily basis in London.
Only rarely are such incidents captured on film or recorded on audio devices. Another such case was recorded last December when a young woman was harassed, accused of being a terrorist, and forcefully tackled by police when they noticed her filming a building.
Watch the video and note how the officer, hands in pockets, chewing gum, declares that she is being "cocky" when she is simply standing up for her rights:
In another case, this time in a different UK town, an amateur photographer was arrested under anti-terror laws and detained in a police station for eight hours after taking pictures of Christmas celebrations.
The man refused to provide his details after he was approached by a police community support officer (PCSO) who told him "Because of the Terrorism Act and everything in the country, we need to get everyone's details who is taking pictures of the town."
The most worrying thing about these cases is the fact that officers seem to really believe that they are acting within the law. As the Association of Chief Police Officers recently noted in a strongly worded memo to all officers, the idea that anti-terror laws prohibit photography is an "internal urban myth."
As we highlighted in our article last week, following a similar incident in London involving film maker and activist Charlie Veitch, The Metropolitan Police have recently issued guidelines to their officers regarding legal protocol on photography/filming, following sustained police abuse of terrorism provisions against photographers, journalists and members of the public.
As the guidelines clearly state:
"Members of the public and the media do not need a permit to film or photograph in public places and police have no power to stop them filming or photographing incidents or police personnel."
The guidelines go on to state:
"…officers should exercise caution before viewing images as images acquired or created for the purposes of journalism may constitute journalistic material and should not be viewed without a Court Order."
Though there are provisions under section 58A of the 2000 Terrorism Act and Section 76 of the Counter Terrorism Act 2008 which prohibit photographing police and members of the armed forces, police "must be able to demonstrate a reasonable suspicion that the information was, by its very nature, designed to provide practical assistance to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism".
This means that it is unlawful to arrest or detain anyone for filming or photographing police during the course of normal policing activities, including parades, protests, or simply walking down the street.
This was noted in court last week as two investigative photojournalists received an apology and financial compensation from the Metropolitan Police after being forcibly prevented from working by officers at a political protest outside the Greek Embassy in 2008.
As for photographing children, again there are no restrictions in public, something Met police should be well aware of given the fact that Scotland Yard recently admitted its officers have been photographing children who are stopped and searched, even after they have been found to be innocent of any offence, and keeping the pictures on a database for "intelligence-gathering purposes".