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The Age ThingEdit
For those interested, I believe I've come up with an explanation to the "consistent age skew" which Molly has been subjected to. You can find it in the "discrepancy explanations" section on my user subpage. Keep in mind it's only my opinion (and therefore not canon) and you can choose whether or not to accept the explanation provided. Alternate explanations for this discrepancy or any other discrepancies are also welcomed and encouraged; just make sure to post them in the User Talk page. --Shran 12:23, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Something Ira Steven Behr said about the three actresses playing Ziyal comes to mind to be similar to this. It about something about reminding the audience that its just a TV show. Tough Little Ship 19:23, 15 Aug 2005 (UTC)
- I hate when people associated with the production of a television show use "it's only tv" as an excuse for flaws in continuity, it indicates a weakness in the perception of this medium as an art form. No self respecting novelist would use the statement "it's only a book". Jaf 15:55, 18 Sep 2005 (UTC)jaf
- It was TNG who cast Hana Hatae as Molly. At that point the actress was four years old when the character was only supposed to be one year old! Tough Little Ship 16:02, 18 Sep 2005 (UTC)
- It's still production, now we are simply expanding the list of people who don't care enough. : ) Jaf 16:05, 18 Sep 2005 (UTC)Jaf
- This article mentions Molly being shown as a baby during TNG's 5th Season, when she was born, and then says that less than a year later she was on DS9, looking almost 4 years old. Well, in TNG's "Rascals" (Season 6) she also appeared to be at least 2 years old, even though she was only a year old. So the discrepancy really started on TNG, not DS9.
- Not that I'm trying to defend DS9 or anything. Goodness no...--Antodav 04:53, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
- There are only two instances in DS9 where her age is explicitly given on screen, as far as I know. The first is in "Crossover", where Julian tells Miles (mirror) that Miles (standard) has a daughter who's five. Then in "Time's Orphan", she's explicitly referred to as eight by Kira.
- This immediately shows a mathematical problem, because there would appear to be four years difference between the late season 2 episode ("Crossover") and the late season 6 episode ("Orphan"). Either a) DS9's production crew screwed things up as much as TNG's crew or b) we're falsely assuming that broadcast years are calendar years. I'm personally going for the latter, as almost all seasons end in a cliffhanger, meaning that the final episode of one season occurs moments before the first episode of the next season. Thing is, though, unlike TNG's very explict references to "seven years" having elapsed between pilot and finale, DS9 doesn't quite do that. You have to piece it together; e.g., A and B are X years apart, B and C are Y years apart, therefore, A and C are X+Y years apart. Our only real clue of Molly's final age is when Kira says to Damar in the finale that he's been living in Cardassian HQ for the "past two years". So seasons 6 and 7 happen within the span of 2 years, but there's no telling exactly how those two years pass. Is each episode neatly equidistant from each other, meaning you get about two episodes for each month of the year? No, that's clearly improbable. But it's hard to find the explicit "break points" between runs of episodes that are clearly meant to be happening within days of each other.
- There's no doubt that if you go off of stardates, there's definitely a problem with Molly. But, c'mon: stardates? I think they're best viewed as they were originally intended in TOS: a way to avoid giving an explicit year. They're pretty ridiculous, since a) canon doesn't tell us how they actually work and b) they're working on an obviously different principle in the original series and the later ones. Yes, the intent of the Berman years is that they operate in an apparently standard way, and even that they would seem to suggest that seasons 1 and 2 of DS9 are happening in the same years as seasons 6 and 7 of TNG. But it's also clear that stardates became an increasing problem for a continuing drama like DS9. Each successive season had progressively fewer stardates, unlike TNG's almost maniacal dedication to them. And a few episodes of DS9 have even been broadcast out of stardate order—"Dax" and "Cardassians" spring to mind. By the time Season 7 rolled around, they were all but abandoned. Only four episodes during the entire year get them, and only two consecutive episodes, "The Dogs of War" and "Extreme Measures" have known stardates. Those dates, though, are ridiculously far apart, suggesting the passage of months between the two. In fact, the time difference between these two episodes is fully one-half the distance between the other two episodes with known stardates, "Shadows and Symbols" and "Penumbra". And it's about twice the distance between "Penumbra" and "Extreme Measures". The result is thus a season that doesn't handle dates in the same way as past seasons. Were the events of the first few seasons happening more rapidly than those towards the Dominion War arc? I'd go for that, personally, since many episodes of Seasons 6 and 7 seem to be happening in tight consecutive order. That seems a plausible explanation for how there can be 3 narrative years between season 2's "Crossover" (where she's 5) and season 6's "Time's Orphan" (where she's 8). Another explanation is that she's on the cusp of her ninth birthday in "Orphan".
- I'd go so far to say that the narrative could be read to explain how stardates are not working as they would appear to be. "Sanctuary" puts the Cardassian overthrow at one year old. "Emissary" puts Dukat in charge "two weeks ago". In this instance, stardates seem to be right on the money. "Emissary" happened on 46379.1; "Sanctuary" on 47391.2. However, the previous Season 2 episode, "Second Sight" (47329.4), has Sisko marking the fourth anniversary of Wolf 359 (c. 44000). However, it would seem that "Second Sight" is a lot closer to being the 3 year anniversary. And so we have a problem. Both these dates are "big" for our respective leads. Surely neither would get them wrong, would they? Well, I dunno. Kira's making a rhetorical point when she claims the year anniversary; Sisko's narrating a somber, personal log. I'm trusting the guy who's mourning his wife's passage, more than the major who's trying to prove something. So let's assume Sisko's "right". Molly would appear to have been born around the first anniversary of the battle, at the top of TNG Season 5. If Season 2 of DS9 actually contained the fourth anniversary of Locutus, Molly "should" be 3. So how can she be 5?
- To me, It comes down to a matter of trust by the viewer. Do we trust what people say on screen, or do we trust a dating system that has never been explained on screen? Do we believe our characters who are speaking in terms of what they perceive to be the passage of time, or do we trust our own perception of time passage? For me, there's no other choice but to try to make sense of what our characters say, and if no solution can be found, only then do we declare an error.
- We start by throwing out stardates and broadcast dates. There's no reason to assume, for instance, that Molly actually was born a year after Locutus, just because that's what broadcast order and stardates seem to tell us. She could be born within the same year as Wolf 359, without too much of a stretch. Thus by the time of "Second Sight", she could have been 3, with as much as 6-8 months before her fourth birthday. So, somehow, between "Second Sight" and "Crossover", she has to pick up a year. This is pretty easy actually, as the majority of episodes between the two aren't dated (in fact, only one of the last nine episodes is). Also, two non-contiguous episodes, "Sanctuary" and "The Alternate" appear to be occurring on the same day, which would strongly suggest to me, at least, that stardates got realigned. Thus, there's a great deal of uncertainty, not error, about dates in the second year. I don't see it as a stretch at at all to think she's just settling in to her fifth year by the end of the season.
- Another explanation for this whole thing is that Miles appears in both TNG Season 6 and DS9 season 1. This makes it possible to believe that somewhere between the beginning of Seaon 6 and "Rascals"—Miles' last contemporary appearance on TNG—a great deal of time elapses. Enough to justify Molly being recast with Hana Hatae. One could believe that the first part of Season 6 is a year unto itself. Furthermore, the exact moment of O'Brien's departure from the Big E is not specified by any script I can recall. Now, sure, DS9's original stardate only slightly postdates that assigned to "Rascal". But again, I think the unreliability of stardates has been proven. It is much more satisfactory for me to believe that the two shows are in fact asynchronous. Season 7 of TNG may not, in fact, be set in the same year as Season 2 of DS9. Molly's age at the beginning o DS9 might not be a mistake, but a positive indication that the two shows are supposed to be read as occurring in different narrative years, despite their year of broadcast and the so-called "evidence" of stardates. So with a year skipped at the top of Season 6, Miles on board the Enterprise, but never seen, throughout the remainder of Season 6, it's just possible to believe that the Picard we see in "Emissary" is older than the one who appeared on the episode of TNG that broadcast closest to it ("Chain of Command, Part II"). Molly could easily be well into her third year by the time DS9 starts for this reason, too.
- The only other question about Molly's age is how she's only 8 by "Time's Orphan", when four years would apparently have elapsed since "Crossover". The easiest explanation here is that narrative time naturally slows once the big story arcs begin in Season 5. It's easy to believe that the top half of Season 6, for instance, happens in relatively quick succession, making Molly only close to her 9th birthday by "Orphan". Now, I would say that she has to be at least 10 by the last episode of DS9, because of Kira's statement about Damar's presence at Cardassian HQ. Since Molly's age is not commented upon after "Time's Orphan", and the actor was actually 10 at the time of recording, I'm prepared to believe it all worked out in the end. Even if it requires believing in a misfit between broadcast year and narrative year. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 00:16, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Wow... you've definitely thought a lot about this whole thing, lol! I agree, though, there's not really any reason to believe the last few seasons of TNG and the first few seasons of DS9 take place at the same time, despite the stardates and broadcast order. In fact, evidence (as you pointed out) seems to suggest that they don't. If there are any holes in your argument, I can't find or think of any at the moment. Well done. :) Perhaps this will put a rest to the whole Molly age debate... though it's not very likely, since there are people out there who like their precious stardate/broadcast order chronology. :P --From Andoria with Love 21:16, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
- What about TNG: "Birthright, Part I"? --OuroborosCobra talk 21:18, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
- Not sure I see how "Birthright" makes any difference to the argument. The only two characters relevant to the DS9 timeline are Bashir and Worf. The only two events that have an impact are Picard's mission to help with the rebuilding of aqueducts damaged by Cardassian occupation, and (ambiguously) the USS Enterprise-D crew's switchover to DS9 uniforms.
- Bashir's appearance is not, in itself, fixed in time, except that it must pre-date Worf's arrival on DS9. He doesn't say anything of relevance to DS9 whatsoever (except that DS9's computer is less advanced than the Enterprise's). His presence has little impact on the plot, except that it serves to get Data to push Worf into a recollection of his vision. The discovery of Kahless is, after all, what this rather meandering episode is about.
- At the end of the day, the only thing that solidly fixes this thing in time, at least insofar as characters are concerned, is that it is prior to the time that Worf joined the DS9 crew. Thus, the episode has a rather large window in which it could take place.
- As far as events, Picard's mission is only mentioned in passing, as it's just the pretext for Enterprise being at DS9. (In truth, it doesn't really even do this, though, because, really, the Big-E should've been in orbit of the planet, not docked at the non-orbital space station. But I digress . . . )
- One could argue, I suppose, that the aqueduct repairs might've been a priority in the rebuilding of Bajor, and that the nature of the mission indicates they've arrived at a rather early time in the history of the Federation's involvement on Bajor. Now, maybe they have, and maybe that fixes the thing to the first season of DS9. But it doesn't seem likely, to me. Aqueducts can't be the main method for moving water on the planet. It's just too primitive a concept for the time period. I think it more likely that the Federation's help was needed because the Bajorans wanted an archeologically sensitive way to rebuild certain aqueducts that have an historical value. And, indeed, this is maybe why they assigned PIcard to the job, because of his known archaeological background. So I think this mission isn't one that was vital to Bajor. In fact, I think it's an indication that the episode happens later than the then-current episodes of Deep Space Nine; the Bajorans have begun to reassert themselves to the point that they're taking on non-essential rebuilding projects that attest to the unique characteristics of Bajoran society. How better for the Federation to show that it cares about the culture of Bajor to assist in a project that is more important symbolically than practically?
- So then we have the uniform question. All we can say about the disparity between DS9 and TNG uniforms is . . . that there was one. It doesn't really establish dates to any degree of reliability. There just seems to have been a period of time where the two uniforms were equally "official"—the so-called "Class-A"s and "Class-B"s. Picard may have preferred the old-school formality of requiring Class-A's, whereas Sisko may have allowed the more functional Class-Bs. Who knows. About the only thing we can say is that the episode appears to have occured before Star Trek Generations, because that's the first point at which the TNG crew are seen to have more-or-less fully switched to Class-Bs. However, there are various episodes of later DS9 episodes in which "Starfleet extras" are seen to still be wearing old Class-As. And, Admirals don't seem to have been afforded the luxury of Class-Bs at any point. This makes things really confusing to me because the Admiral unforms, even into the latest stages of the DS9/TNG-post-First Contact era, still look like the old Class-As to me.
- In Birthright, the Enterprise visits a DS9 under Federation control, Worf walks around in it. We see more than just Bashir, we see the entire station. That means that the last seasons of TNG must have taken place during seasons of DS9, as before DS9 the station was under Cardassian control, not Federation control. Since we also know that O'Brien transfered onto the station at the start of Federation control, we know that Molly had to be on DS9 at the time of Birthright. Molly can be no younger in Birthright than she would have been in Emissary, or any other early episode of DS9. --OuroborosCobra talk 03:31, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
- Well, okay, I guess it is tied a little bit more tightly than I initially supposed. Picard's mission is probably closer to the beginning of the Fed's time on Bajor than not. Indeed, I'm not saying there's no overlap. I just don't think you can say that because the stardate of "Birthright" slides between "Q-Less" and "Dax" that the events are strictly chronological. The only "rule of time" that TNG has to obey from what's on screen is that everything has to fit within seven years (cause Picard says so in "All Good Things . . .") How you get to the seven year mark, though, that's the rub. It's entirely possible to believe that everything from "Birthright" to "All Good Things" (and possibly several episodes prior to "Birthright") happens within the same year, despite being split across two broadcast years. And there's no guarantee that we're seeing the episodes in the order that they actually occurred. The only thing we know about "Birthright" is that it happened sometime after the Fed took over DS9 and sometime before "Rightful Heir". That has only peripheral bearing on Molly's age. Molly still has the chance to have aged quite considerably between "Power Play" and "A Man Alone".
- To put it more concretely, "Emissary" (and thus "Birthright") could have occurred in the seventh year of Enterprise-D's mission. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 04:37, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
- You are also forgetting about her appearance in "Rascals". My point here is that I feel a lot of information is being left out of your analysis, such as episodes Molly appeared, episodes proving concurrence between TNG and DS9, hints in episodes as to how long before previous episodes took place (there are references in various episodes to it being "one year" since something or other happened, for example). I think that a LOT is getting left out here, and a LOT more undue speculation being added (such as events not being in the order the episodes aired, that one is rather absurd level of speculation to me, unless we have reason to believe it is true why should we even consider it?). --OuroborosCobra talk 04:47, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
- Haven't forgotten about "Rascals" at all; it's been covered further up. In fact, these latest comments on "Birthright" are a part of the earlier statements about "Rascals". And, while you're correct that some episodes do say that things happened "one year later", there's not an example in the late 6th-7th seasons of TNG, of which I'm aware. (Also, when someone says something happened "a year ago" or "last year", they almost never mean that literally.)
- As for events not being in the order aired, this, too, has been covered above, in that there are episodes with later stardates broadcast before those with earlier ones, and episodes with the same stardates broadcast around an intervening episode with no stardate. While, sure, it's speculation, it's not "absurd" speculation. The absurd speculation, to me, is when stardates are used as "reliable" enough to translate to an actual year, and, moreover, when those years are effectively tied to broadcast years. There's just no reason to assume that what we see in a given broadcast year is covering events in a nice, neat, regular narrative year. That's problematic enough in the highly episodic TNG, but clearly ridiculous when it comes to the more serial DS9—especially since DS9 had a mid-season start.
- I know this probably strikes at one of the underpinnings of the wiki. There's a detailed exercise going on here in trying to give some AD year to every event. Again, in that light, Molly's age is clearly screwed up. There's not really a way to defend the aging on that basis. In that line of thought, S6 of TNG is S1 of DS9 and each broadcast year adds a neat year onto the counter, such that the total time elapsed from "Encounter at Farpoint" and "What You Leave Behind" is 12 years (or possibly 11, since DS9 1 is a "short" broadcast year).
- Thing is, though, narratively, that all depends on stardates, and stardates are plain silly. They have no canonical weight. RDM says they shouldn't be investigated closely. Roddenberry said they gave him headaches, or somesuch. They aren't reliable. So why are we trying to rely on them instead of offering plausible possibilities from the narrative.
- I haven't offered a single theory here. One part of it is on the TNG side, but there are gaps on the DS9 side, too. Finding the "gap" is definitionally a matter of speculation. Maybe the first part of TNG 6 is a year unto itslef, explaining why Hannah Hatae was appropriate casting in "Rascals". Maybe narrative year 7 starts in the middle of broadcast year 6. Maybe there's a whole bunch of time between "Sanctuary" and "Second Sight", because of a "reset" button being thrown on the stardating system. Maybe narrative time moves more slowly in the last three seasons of DS9 because of all the big story arcs.
- Point is the highest canonical source in the "Molly Quest" are TNG: "Disaster", DS9: "Crossover", DS9: "Time's Orphan"—during which her age is explicit—and DS9: "What You Leave Behind"—where it can be confidently extrapolated from dialogue. How we get between those explicit points is the rub. There's only an "error" if a non-canonical understanding of stardates is applied; I'm arguing Molly's age shows precisely why stardates aren't reliable. While finding the gaps might be a matter of uncomfortable speculation for some, the existence of gaps is the only thing which keeps canon chronology together. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 05:57, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Very good arguments all around. However, I have noticed that in "Cardassians" O'Brien mentions that Molly is four. This makes no sense, because four episodes later ("Second Sight") is the fourth anniversary of Wolf 359, which happened BEFORE Molly was born. The only in-universe explanations I can think of is that O'Brien 'Translated' her age into Cardassian years because he was talking to a Cardassian at the time, or he "rounded up" her age and she was actually three. Neither seems likely to me. In any case, we know at the very least that four years elapsed between "The Best of Both worlds" and "Second Sight" even though they are barely over three seasons apart. So TNG's fifth season could actually occur over the course of two years, which would explain Molly's older appearance in "Rascals." Finally, "Birthright, Part I" definitely happens AFTER Emissary, because of the way the station looks, and I assume at least a few months have passed since it's the enterprise-D's second visit to DS9. The rest should all fall into place.
- I think the problem is that we assume the characters are using our same calendar system as a point of reference. Maybe it's not. I remember several episodes in the various Star Trek series where our (20th-21th century) calendar is described as "old". Not mentioning the stardates, it's possible that the Federation use a unique calendar that is quite different from the Gregorian one... This is logical, because the Federation is formed by many races and colonies, humans and not humans, etc. There could be an "UTC" system that is applied in all the Federation: then, every planet and colony can use its own time standard. So, when someone says "he's four years old" we cannot know which system is using (Federation calendar? Bajoran calendar? Earth calendar?). DS9, for example, operates on a 26 hour per day, not 24, because it's using the Bajoran system. I know this is not canon, but could be a reasonable explanation for the various inconsistencies.--Sid-Vicious (talk) 05:28, December 5, 2012 (UTC)
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However, the error itself relies on a non-canonical (but widely believed) fact: that each broadcast year corresponds to a narrative Earth year. If one believes, as do writers Gene Roddenberry and Ronald D. Moore, that stardates are a means by which to avoid giving specific dates, then Molly's age presents less of a logical conundrum. However, trying to establish the exact passage of years without relying on stardates is one that involves non-canonical speculation of its own. Molly's age may be then seen as proof of the non-alignment of stardates to calendar years.
The text is trying to sort-of argue that "Disaster" was set three years before S1 of DS9, without mentioning just as prominent references to the DS9 pilot being set "three years" after Wolf 359 and the fourth anniversary of Jennifer Sisko's death in S2. No, the writers haven't always adhered to Mike Okuda's assumption that each season starts around January and ends around December, but if we look at all the dialogue references combined, the writers do seem to agree with that in general, except when they make mistakes or when it doesn't suit particular stories or character ages (Alexander's being another example). Stardates should not be used in service of such non-explanations: it is enough for a wiki to report all the facts about Molly's age and leave it at that. -- 220.127.116.11 08:20, August 12, 2014 (UTC)
Important point for establishing datesEdit
After reading the massive walls of text from 10 years ago (sorry for reopening this), I should point out that in Defiant, Odo & Sisko established that Thomas Riker had been created nine years before and discovered two years before the events of that episode. This would sync with the dates in TNG. Therefore, CzechOut is wrong and TNG and DS9 exist within exactly the same time frame. Just to clarify. 188.8.131.52 15:47, April 5, 2017 (UTC)
middle name Edit
Isn't her middle name Worf? I could swear that in the episode where she gets sent into that portal, Miles called her "Molly Worf O'Brien" when he was upset with her. - 220.127.116.11
- Yeah, I think her full name is Molly Miyaki Worf O'Brien, but I can't remember where I read this...perhaps in the novelization of All Good Things or Unification? Makaristos 10:25, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
- It's in the novelization of Unification. leandar 23:54, October 7, 2009 (UTC)


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Mora was animated and emotional. And he was such a regular presence on the team that it will seem very strange to walk into the home clubhouse at the Sarasota complex later this month and not find him there, sitting with a group of Latin players - Oriole teammates and minor leaguers - and telling stories with wide-eyed expressions that left his friends doubled-over in laughter.
I wish him the best, but I don't need a hug.
Luke Scott said he started growing his beard around Christmas. He'll start shaving it by the time he reports to camp.
Calling into the Hot Stove Show on Friday, Scott said he stuck to his winter workout routine. You'll find him outdoors chopping wood, not inside a gym walking on a treadmill. And he's still taking his fish oil and cayenne pepper pills. If you own stock in Vitamin World, you owe Scott a dinner.
"I'm 31 years old, but if you put any 18 or 20 year old on a therapy table and check their range of motion of joints, ligaments and all that stuff, they couldn't hold a candle to me because I've invested in my body, I've invested in a personal trainer that's a physical therapist that keeps all my joints and my ligaments in proper working order," he said. "It's something I do on my own because this is my job, it's part of being a professional, it's part of getting the max out of what I can do."
Hitting coach Terry Crowley has speculated that Scott's brutal second-half slump intensified because he began pressing and tried too hard to pull out of it.
"Yes and no," Scott replied. "Being very analytical, and that's the type of person I am, it's a blessing, and it's also a curse. The blessing is the fact that I'm very driven, I take my job and my profession seriously. It's my heart's desire. This is the passion that God has given me in life, to play the game of baseball and give Him my best. Now, the downside of that is that, yeah, I can be my own worst enemy because I get over-analytical and try to figure things out.
"The truth is that slumps are a natural part of the game. I consider myself a very hard worker and I do struggle with that. I struggle with the failure part of it. You've got to handle success and you've got to handle failure in any aspect of life.
"I can't really say that because of that, I was in that slump for so long in the whole second half. I have to give credit where credit's due. I'm going against the best pitching in the world. They've done a good job. But the game of baseball is a feel game. If you feel good, you're going to play good. That's just the way it is. If you've got confidence and you're in the zone, you're on top of things. It's more mental than anything.
"I have not yet put my finger on it, exactly on what it is. I'm still trying to figure it out. But the one thing I can do is take care of what I have control over. I will be prepared for every game and I'll be in a position to be successful every time I step out on that baseball field."


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A few days after Asus announced the first Chromebox mini-PC to be introduced the original Samsung Chromebox, HP unveiled its own Chromebox model, which similarly runs on Google's Linux-based Chrome OS. Meanwhile, Google announced "Chromebox for Meetings," an enterprise video-conferencing system that initially will be built on the Asus Chromebox, but later this year be available with the HP Chromebox and an upcoming Dell Chromebox (see farther below).
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District Coaching Legends
Published 7:15 pm, Sunday, June 23, 2013
Photo: JAMES DURBIN
It's summer so it's time to have a little fun. The MRT decided to pick some of the top football coaches the large school district has seen through the years. These are presented in alphabetical order by last name and should stir up some debate.


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|Blu-ray Releases for February 16th 2010
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Black Dynamite
This is one of those films made just for fans of the genre. It's part spoof and part homage to the Blaxploitation films of the 70's. It stars Michael Jai White, Arsenio Hall and a cast full of familiar faces with less familiar names. If you dig Blaxploitation, chances are you'll love Black Dynamite.
Law Abiding Citizen
Jamie Foxx is a fantastic actor, but suffers from an inability to pick scripts. After his startlingly good performance in The Soloist, Foxx is back in a relatively boring role in a fairly banal movie. It's one part Saw and one part Death Wish, and it's got one of the least satisfying endings of all time. Gerard Butler's character is a bit fun, and there are some well executed action scenes, but don't expect much more than that.
Cabin Fever
There's a reason Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino seem to get along so well. They both absolutely adore classic slasher flicks. As Kill Bill was Tarantino's love letter to martial arts movies, Cabin Fever is Eli Roths love letter to 80's style horror. There's violence, nudity, and buckets of blood. If you're a fan of 80's style horror, this one was made for you.
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The Dog Whisperer: You can raise good dogsPosted: Updated:
PHOENIX -- The Dog Whisperer usually works with animals that are already heading for what he calls "the red zone." Now, though, he wants to help you raise a great dog from the get-go. Cesar Milan has a new book out and the new season of his Nat-Geo focuses on puppies and raising good dogs right from the start.


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Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura?s bashing of organized religion to Playboy magazine has caused a firestorm of controversy. It led to his appearance on Meet the Press, where he gave pregnant pauses when asked about his own religious beliefs. Some have defended him by saying that, regardless of what he says, he?s doing a good job as governor. This sounds like the defense of President Clinton after he got caught in a sex scandal.
The problem is that Ventura?s record is not known nationally. Other than cutting taxes, his record is a big mystery. However, an education activist from Minnesota has provided some details about Ventura?s plan to make revolutionary changes in Minnesota?s education system. Renee Doyle, president of Minnesota?s Maple River Education Coalition, heads a coalition of more than 20,000 people in the state who have been trying to meet with the governor to discuss the matter. Her group has staged demonstrations of thousands of people in the state capitol. She insists that Ventura, far from being a man of the people and a real reformer, is a captive of the radical left.
And that includes Hillary Clinton. Doyle says that Ventura is actually tied into a plan that was devised by Hillary and her friend, Marc T ucker, for exercising federal control over the schools and the workforce. It is called "School-to-Work" and has been made part of the Goals 2000 federal plan to reform the educational system. Ventura didn?t start the plan in Minnesota, but he is continuing and expanding it under the name of the "Profile of Learning" system. Doyle says this restructuring undercuts parental and local control of education and guts real academic standards.
Doyle says, "Ventura has totally isolated himself on educational issues. He has totally surrounded himself with state bureaucrats who have put our new educational system in place. Moms and Dads can?t even get in to talk to Governor Ventura. Our governor has chosen not only to embrace it, but he is working on the federal level to become the premier governor of this system." Although Doyle represents over 20,000 people, she can?t get in to see him for a meeting to discuss these issues. On one occasion, she says, she did succeed in shaking his hand and introducing herself, and she watched the color drain from his face. "But he absolutely will not meet with me," she says.
It would seem to be a relatively easy matter for Ventura, a new governor, to change course and abandon this controversial educational plan. But Doyle says his failure to do so reflects his alliance with the radical left in the state. His aides include activists who have worked for leading Democrats, including Bill Clinton and Senator Paul Wellstone.
Ventura?s controversial comments, his book deal, and recent appearance at a wrestling event have made national news. But it looks like the real story is how many citizens of the state are in an uproar over the changes he?s making in the education system. Ventura has time to autograph books for strangers. But he can?t meet with citizens of his own state. This is a story that should be told.


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"You can do anything, but you can't do everything " ~ David Allen
The modern trend is to be overwhelmed by almost everything that comes in our way. However, David Allen, the prominent productivity consultant with his system for 'mastering workflow' can teach us how to stop stewing and start executing. His book on time management, Getting Things Done (GTD) is a corporate manager's guide to adapt stress free productivity challenges in this information age. Perhaps some of you might have heard about it through the Global Inter web or might have been confronted by someone who swears by David Allen's principle of GTD. In India, where managers, especially from Government offices complain about lack of time to complete a task or project, this system can bring a lot of change. Yes, that means maximum amount of work, less stress and thereby no fights, no suicides but a happy-blissful professional as well as personal life.
What is GTD?
"Your Mind is a great place to create thoughts but lousy place to store them." ~ David Allen
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Getting Things Done is a system of productivity and time management given by David Allen in his book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity. It is a system for managing and organizing your projects and tasks methodically so that you can focus on finishing your tasks completely without being stressed or affected by avalanche tasks. Behind the principle of GTD lies the fact that – if you store your tasks in a trustworthy mode by using a technique that you trust, you will then, liberate your mind and set it free from remembering things. This free, unburdened and energetic mind will help you to become efficient and more productive in carrying out both your personal and professional task successfully.
Why is GTD so popular and why does it get a thumbs up?
It is complete
Easy yet influential, Getting Things Done is a simple task manager that helps to create, organize and manage "to do list" perfectly. In addition, it assist one to focus on what's important for today and help them to keep everything aside that might cause obstruction in their work and thereby productivity.
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A complete solution, it not only helps to arrange projects and tasks in one's professional life but also every day jobs and homely duties in their personal life. From making a list of daily office routine to arranging for the painter to paint your home, it will straighten your life effortlessly.
It helps one to stay organized
The basic principle of GTD helps all its users to keep their desk and inbox clean. Also, there is a place for everything where they can easily store and retrieve information within seconds. People using GTD have witnessed that even if their list is longer than before, they are not only well organized but also more productive.
It is flexible
Geeks love tweaking and playing with their tools. So, whether a user is into Gmail, PDA, Moleskines, Backpack, One Note, Hipster PDA or any other type of tools, GTD can easily adapt itself as per the user's preference.
It is a memory booster
David Allen's system helps its users to make and keep their commitments. It never allows them to forget anything as it bestows you with a system for tracking and recording all your commitments with all the 6 vital aspects – project, purpose, goal, vision, action and area of focus. This also means, no more forgetting your wedding anniversary or mother-in-law's birthday!
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A powerful system, GTD or Getting Things Done not only helps you in completing your task in a proficient manner but also relieve your work stress that might hamper your productivity. Formulated in 2001, at present, the system is being practiced across the globe by everyone from engineers to senior managers. It has been adopted by a number of Fortune 500 companies counting Google. Just thinking, what will the achievement in India with respect to economy, if the managers and officers sitting in Government offices are provided with such a system?
Overseas, GTD is one of the most pivotal systems adapted for maximum productivity, let's see how much time India takes to adapt it and eventually get rid of the patented dialogue – "Sir, Time nahi mila!"
By Deepti Verma
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Gladstone Public Library unleashes undead into city streets
Citizens of Gladstone beware! The zombies are coming. The zombies are coming.
On Oct. 30, anyone age 12 and older is encouraged to don zombie attire and makeup, converge on the Gladstone Public Library, 135 E. Dartmouth St., gather into a group and, well ... lurch down Portland Avenue. Spectators of all ages are welcome to cheer on the hordes of undead.
The event will begin around 5:30 p.m., and participants should arrive in costume. A limited amount of makeup will be available at the library. Afterward, light blood and guts and red fruit punch will be served, said Irene Green, the new library director who is working to upgrade library services for kids.
The movie, Warm Bodies, based on the Isaac Marion novel of the same name, will be shown at the library after the zombie walk. Described as a paranormal romantic comedy, the PG-13 movie is told from the zombie perspective and is unusual in that love brings them back to life, said Sean Lavadour, library assistant.
Why does a library want to host a zombie walk?
Green wants to attract more teens to the library, so she is planning one teen-centric activity per month, and the walk is the event for October.
Green browsed the Internet for ideas and came across other zombie walks, hosted by other libraries around the country, and thought it was a good fit.
I came from a library system in Maryland, and I know if you want to get teens to come to the library, you need to think outside the box, she said.
And the timing is right, noted both Green and Lavadour, since a large number of television shows, movies and computer games feature the brain-devouring creatures.
As for proper attire for the zombie walk, Green recommends ripped clothing, while Lavadour pointed out that participants should just wear street clothes, because that is what you would have been wearing when you were infected.
He added, Its the makeup that makes the zombie.
Lavadour speaks from experience, since last week he spent nearly four hours in the makeup chair, while a friend created a zombie look for him.
He threw on layer after layer of makeup, starting with latex and tissue paper. He put a piece of skull on my face and put makeup on that to create a wound, and then he used really thick red gel for the blood the same thing film companies use, Lavadour said.
Luckily, the entire eerie mask peeled right off in minutes, although there was a certain amount of face washing that followed.
Lavadour has a theory about the current fascination with zombies, saying, People have been preaching the end of the world for years, and were kind of morbid. We want to see a zombie apocalypse.
Wild about books
John Wetten Elementary School students are also reaching their local library in a new way through their Wild About Books program, sponsored by the Gladstone Public Library Foundation.
This years five second-grade classrooms headed to Gladstones library earlier this month for story time and got to pick out a nonfiction animal book to keep after a tour of the library. The children also learned about library cards so they can return to the library and visit with their families.
Our second graders were very amazed and excited to see all of the different tools and resources that are available to them through the Gladstone Public Library for free, said teacher Cathy Pheil. Students loved the book that they each selected and were able to take home and keep. We all look forward to further collaborations.
The second-grade curriculum focuses on animals, a topic 7 year olds love. The school year will culminate in a field trip to the Oregon Zoo in spring.
We wanted to introduce the students to the library in a memorable way, Green said. Its nice that the school is interested in this project. We hope to plan even more partnerships that will benefit Gladstones children and support early literacy.
What: Gladstones Zombie Walk
When: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Oct. 30
Where: Gather at Gladstone Public Library, 135 E. Dartmouth St.
Details: The walk is for ages 12 and up. Spectators of all ages are welcome. Participants should arrive in costume and makeup.
Extras: After the walk, light refreshments will be served and the movie Warm Bodies will be screened at the library.
Contact: For more information, call the library at 503-656-2411.


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"See!" Dom exclaimed, as if a point was proven, which –in her case- it was. "I told you that this Quidditch thing was bad for Chaise! I told you he was becoming friends with them all. But no. You go and believe Ty. Over me."
"It wasn't like that and you know it, Dom," I responded, shifting the weight of the books I was holding from one hip to another. My tone softened as I continued. "I just… I can't believe that he's actually friends with them."
"I can," Dom said, her annoyance evident. "He's been totally different ever since he made the Quidditch team; it's ridiculous! Some Ravenclaw chick told me yesterday that him and James were sitting with each other during lunch."
"What?" I asked, a bit shocked. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure," Dom huffed. "And I'm going to need to have a talk with him when I see him."
"But, Dom… the next time you'll see him is in Potions," I pointed out, which was where we were headed to now.
"I know," Dom said, not seeming to understand what I was trying to convey.
"Well… don't you think that conversation should happen somewhere that's not… like in a classroom full of people?" I asked.
"Why?" Dom asked. "You think the conversation'll go badly?"
"No…" I responded, trailing off. "I just think…"
"Relax, Corinne," Dom said, stopping our trek to the Potions room and putting both of her hands on either of my shoulders. I fought back the strong urge to tell her I wasn't the one that needed to relax. "I'm just going to talk to him about it calmly, like the mature adult I am. Okay?"
"Okay, Dom…" I said a bit unsurely.
"Just trust me, alright?" Dom said, sensing my trepidation.
"Alright, I will," I said with more conviction.
"Why does Dom look like she's a woman on a mission?" Tyson asked me interestedly as I took my seat next to him in Potions. I looked at Dom, who had a set expression on her face as she marched to her seat by Chaise, and shrugged.
"She's getting ready to have a confrontation with Chaise," I responded, rolling my eyes.
"I see," Tyson said, although I could tell he was confused. "And why is she getting ready to have a confrontation with Chaise?"
"Oh… you know," I responded shrugging my shoulders as if it was no big deal, "we just found out he was a total Peter Pettigrew and betrayed us, so she wants to fix it."
I began to set up my cauldron, acting as if the previous words I said didn't matter and instead focused on correctly brewing a Sleeping Draught. I turned the flame beneath the cauldron to the exact level it was supposed to be, before going back to the potions cupboard to get the ingredients I'd need. Tyson stared at me in shock, while I pretended not to notice.
"Can you maybe explain?" Tyson asked as soon as I returned to the table.
"Peter Pettigrew… You know, the guy who betrayed his best friend in order to help Voldemort," I responded in a 'duh' tone of voice.
"I know who Peter Pettigrew is!" Tyson responded, seeming a bit annoyed. "What I want to know is how Chaise betrayed you."
I let out a sigh before stopping my organization of the ingredients we'd be using, and instead looked at Tyson. "Okay, fine. I'll tell you."
"So," I started, "I was walking back from my meeting with Professor McGonagall yesterday—"
"Oh yeah! How'd that go by the way? You never told me what it was about—"
"It went fine," I said giving Tyson a pointed look for interrupting me. "She just had a question for me. It was no biggie. But anyways, when I was walking back from her room with Scorp and Al—"
"You were with Scorpius and Al?"
I gave Tyson another annoyed look and let out a huff. "Do you want to hear, or not?"
"Fine, I want to hear."
"Okay then let me speak." Tyson closed his mouth as I said this, waiting for me to continue. "So anyways, when I was walking back, get this: we bumped into Chaise and the rest of the Gryffindor Qudditch team being all chummy-chummy with each other even though Chaise knows how much I hate them. And worse, he was laughing with James, acting like he was his best friend!"
I waited a long moment for Tyson to respond with 'I can't believe him!' or a 'How could he?' but I was met with silence. Not exactly the reaction I was hoping for.
"So… You're mad at him for hanging out with his Quidditch mates?" Tyson asked.
"You know that's not it, Ty," I responded, letting out a sigh at the fact that he was missing the point. "If it was anyone else, I wouldn't mind. But it's not. It's James."
"But…" Tyson said as he looked to be trying to put the correct words together while he thought. "James did those things to you when he was twelve. Don't you think that time has you know… humbled him somewhat?"
"Not at all," I responded sharply, immediately on the defensive. Why was Tyson even trying to help James out? "I know he was the one behind the…you know... Great Hall thing."
"Really?" Tyson asked, seeming very confused all of a sudden. "How do you know?"
I told him my theories. How James had been talking to me more than usual the week it happened, how he was friends with the two girls who had already been caught for being a part of it, how he had been the one responsible for the picture existing in the first place. When I was done talking I felt like I had been talking for hours, and I let out a deep breath.
"You do realize," Tyson said delicately, "that your reasoning for James being behind the Great Hall thing is circumstantial at best. Right?"
"No it's not!" I responded, immediately on the defensive. "I know he did it! How else would Madison and Elise have gotten everything done?"
"They could've just done it themselves," Tyson reasoned. "It seems to me that you're trying too hard to come up with a reason to still hate James."
"He's an arsehole that is out to get me by hurting me the best way he knows how! How is that not a reason to hate him?" I asked, an edge entering my voice.
"I think," Tyson began, looking as if he wasn't sure how I'd react. "And don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to justify what he did when he was younger. But, I think that your reasoning for hating him now is a bit… selfish."
"Selfish?" I asked Tyson, my voice immediately taking an acid tone at his words. Tyson thought that I had no right to hate James? That my reasoning for hating him was selfish? Did he not understand what I had had to deal with, all the self-hate that I had undergone?
Tyson immediately looked affronted at my tone of voice, and he continued to press his case, "I mean, you're jumping to conclusions about whether or not James was even involved in the Great Hall incident. And from what you've told me, all he'd been doing was trying to apologize to you. Why can't you just forgive him?"
"Forgive him?" I asked, my voice laced with bitterness. "You think that after everything he put me through, I can pretend it's okay? How can you even say that?"
"Corinne, don't be dramatic. I'm just trying to be honest here! You're totally overreacting," Tyson responded, his voice changing its tone.
"Wow," I responded coldly, completely shocked and angered at his words. "Tell me how you really feel."
"This is exactly what I'm talking about! Why can't you just take my advice instead of making it some personal attack?" Tyson responded, his anger flaring. "I'm just trying to help you! I mean, do you realize how crazy you sound? You and Dom are mad at Chaise, for becoming friends with someone who picked on you when you were twelve. News flash: Everyone get's picked on."
At Tyson's words, I felt like I was being belittled. Like everything that had been done to me was something that didn't matter, because of the amount of time spread between it. But things weren't that black and white. There were so many smudges and marred up shadows in between that made forgiveness not an option.
"Don't you dare, act like Chaise being friends with them is okay," I hissed, anger pumping through my veins. "I may have been twelve when it happened, but that doesn't make it any less serious."
Tyson rolled his eyes. "Chaise has the right to be friends with whoever the hell he wants. Stop trying to control him and stop trying to control me. I can think whatever I want. And I think that you are being selfish and are holding way too many grudges at undeserving people."
I pressed my lips together, feeling involuntary tears prickle the back of my eyes at the severity of Tyson's words, and instead scanned my eyes over to where Chaise and Dom were sitting. Dom's eyes were narrowed at Chaise, and her face was flushed in anger. I guess that conversation wasn't going well. Neither was this one for that matter.
"Well," I said after a long pause, my voice shaking a bit as I spoke, "if you think I'm so selfish, why are we even friends?"
"Come on, Corinne," Tyson responded, his face even more annoyed. "Why do you have to make this into a big deal?"
"Because you don't understand," I responded. "You don't know how hurt I was by everything! You don't know how many years I hated myself! You're supposed to be my friend."
"I've been trying to be!" Tyson argued. "But ever since we got here all you've been doing is complaining about how awful your life is. You're not you anymore. You used to make the best out of every situation, and now all you do is bitch and moan and give up at the first sign of trouble! How long has it been since you've been in the Great Hall?"
"That's not the point," I said, my voice gaining a bit of strength at Tyson's response. "It's about the people who did it, and the fact that Chaise is friends with—
"You don't know James did it!" Tyson responded, cutting me off. "You're so self-absorbed in thinking that everyone's out to get you, that your blaming people for no reason!"
I felt like I was under an attack. This was one of my best mates, who was picking apart all of my flaws, in order to defend one of the people that had hurt me in the first place. It was like he was choosing James, over me, and he didn't even know James. And suddenly, I was furious.
"Shut up," I responded, my voice deadly. "You may be able to act like everything's all fine now, because you didn't have to go through it, but that gives you no right to pick me apart for my reactions. And as for being selfish? You're one to talk. You're the most selfish bastard I've ever met."
Tyson looked shocked at my outburst. As if I had just punched him in the gut (which I was seriously contemplating doing). But at the same time, there was some very small part of me that felt awful. I had never said anything like that to Tyson before.
"Whatever, Corinne," Tyson responded, his gaze turning steely and determined. "You can think whatever you want. I'm sick of having to baby you and act like everything that happened to you so long ago is this big deal when it's not. Everyone besides you is ready to get over it, so maybe you should give it a goddamn try."
There was a long silence after that where neither of us spoke. I couldn't even look at him I was so enraged by his words. Angry thoughts flooded through my head and all I wanted to do was—
"YOU'RE THE BIGGEST GIT ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH! I CAN'T BELIEVE I WASTED MY TIME ON YOU! WE'RE OVER," Dom shouted, causing the attention of the entire class to stop brewing their potions, and instead snap their attention over to her and Chaise. Professor Cosgrove looked up from grading his papers, a deer in the headlights expression now plastered across his face as he watched Dominique.
"FINE, you controlling bint! Good luck finding someone who'll put up with you," Chaise shot back, his tone acrid.
Dom let out a noise of anger as she picked up the cauldron that she'd been brewing her potion in, and promptly dumped it onto Chaise's head. The bell ending the class rang immediately afterwards.
There was a long moment of silence throughout the room in which Professor Cosgrove stared in shock at the scene, while Chaise began to turn an alarming shade of bright green (from the potion I suspected), before Dom marched over to me and grabbed my arm.
"Let's go," She said through gritted teeth.
I quickly agreed and without saying one more thing to Tyson I grabbed my stuff and got up from my seat. As we left the room, I found someone else's gaze trained on me, and I looked up to see James's level stare from across the room. I suddenly grew even more furious. He was the reason all of this was happening. He was the reason my life seemed to always be falling apart. So, I gave him the dirtiest glare I could muster, as Dom pulled me out of the room.
Once we were outside the classroom (luckily Dom had made such a quick exit, Professor Cosgrove had no time to react and give her the detentions she most definitely deserved) I filled Dom in on the conversation I had with Tyson, and she got even more furious.
"Guys are arseholes," She stated loudly. "I swear if we didn't need them to reproduce, I'd kill all of them."
I couldn't help but think she'd never been more right.
"So I told him that he needs to be more sensitive to us, because he knew when he started being friendly with James that neither of us would like it. But you know what he said? He said he had the right 'to be friends with whoever he wants'. As if me asking him not to be friends with the one person that would piss us off the most was too hard a task! Can you believe it?" Dom stopped her rambling and looked over at me as she asked this, keeping a 'you better agree with me or I'll flip a shit' look on her face. I nodded my head to her in agreement still furious about the argument with Tyson, and clenched my mouth shut.
The news of Chaise and Dom's public break-up had spread rapid-fire throughout the school. There had been more than enough speculation as to why Dom and Chaise had had such a heated argument. Enough speculation that caused more than a few questioning eyes to linger on us in class or as we walked down the hallway, as if hoping we would decide to tell everyone everything that had happened to cause the argument. So far, the leading ideas that led onto the fight were that a.) Chaise had cheated on Dom, or b.) Dom was pregnant.
Oh the joys of gossip.
It was now lunchtime, and neither of us had talked to Chaise or Tyson since our Potions class (as if we wanted to). Chaise had managed to change back to his god-given color from what I'd heard in the gossip mill, but Dom and I had dutifully ignored him and Tyson thus far.
"And you know what else he said?" Dom asked, still not on the end of her rant. She had taken to repeating to me the entire argument with Chaise whenever she got the chance. She tended to do this when she was angry. "He said that I was being a controlling girlfriend!"
Her words sounded eerily familiar to the words Tyson had said to me, minus the girlfriend part, and I suddenly knew exactly how Dom was feeling: angered, betrayed, unsure. But you want to know the kicker? While I was furious at Tyson for everything he had said, I was mostly just upset.
I mean this was Tyson, the one guy who I could always depend on for comic relief and positive reinforcement. The first guy I had trusted enough to become friends with when I entered Beauxbatons. Not to mention I lost Chaise, probably the most easy-going and understanding friend I'd had. These were two of my best friends, gone within the span of a day. If things kept going this way, by tomorrow I'd have no one.
"Hey, Dom?" I asked, once I noticed that we were nearing the Great Hall. "Where are we going?"
"Lunch," Dom responded, shrugging her shoulders, continuing to walk up to the Great Hall doors, her anger subsiding slightly.
"But where?" I asked, slowing my steps.
"The Great Hall," Dom responded nonchalantly.
"But… we eat lunch in the library," I said slowly.
"You do," Dom stated matter-of-factly. "I, however, have decided that I hate the library. It smells like old people and the library lady is always looking at us as if by existing we're disturbing her."
"Madam Pince isn't that bad," I started as Dom snapped her gaze to me, daring me to argue with her further. I closed my mouth.
"Coco," Dom started, looking as if she was about to go on a long rant. "I know that you're all scared of the Great Hall and everything, but you'll have to go into it eventually, and I've decided that that time is now. So don't be difficult and just come in with me, okay?"
I found my memory suddenly flash back to my conversation with Al and Scorpius, when both of them were convincing me that I needed to go back into the Great Hall. Soon after, my memory shifted to Tyson when we had been arguing in the potions room.
How long has it been since you've been in the Great Hall?
And while this didn't seem like the best time to finally go in, what with the fact that I had recently had a huge fight with two of my best friends, I realized that I couldn't let Tyson win. I needed to prove that I was fine, and that he was wrong. I was still the same girl from Beauxbatons.
I needed to go to the Great Hall. And that time was now.
"Okay," I responded, albeit reluctantly, as I noticed Dom's gaze still fixed upon me. Once I responded, she squealed and linked her arm through mine, dragging me with her towards the Great Hall, making sure that I could in no way change my mind.
As she pushed the doors open, I unknowingly held my breath, as a million different thoughts and fears started racing their way through my head. However, when the doors opened there was…
Nothing. Nothing out of the ordinary that is. The Great Hall was full of students, all of them chatting and eating lunch at one of the four long wooden tables, while the teachers were sitting at the head's table, looking out over the students with politely uninterested gazes. Everything was the way it should be.
It was weird, because even though I didn't want to admit it to myself, I had been expecting something different. Like maybe another incident, only this time, worse. This time, something I wouldn't be able to bounce back from.
But no, I was fine. I felt myself smile just the tiniest bit at this relief. And suddenly, I wanted to go up to Tyson, stick my tongue out at him, and tell him that he was wrong; I could go into the Great Hall if I wanted to.
"So…" I said to Dom, realizing that Chaise was sitting at the Slytherin table with Wyatt, Tyson, Scorpius, and Al, which meant that that was not a welcoming territory. "Where are we going to sit?"
"We are going to sit with…" Dom began, enthusiasm building up in her voice, "my amazingly adorable baby brother of course!"
Louis's smiling face and bright blue eyes popped into my line of vision as she said this, and I found myself suddenly feel overwhelmingly guilty. I hadn't seen or talked to him in what felt like forever, and I had become so consumed in everything else that I hadn't even really… thought about him.
Did that make me an awful person?
Dom made a beeline for the Gryffindor table, which I realized would make it the first time I sat there after punching Freddy, and I followed behind her tentatively. She immediately plopped herself across from Louis, while I sat down next to her.
"Louie!" Dom exclaimed excitedly, causing Louis to look up from the homework he seemed to be finishing up (tsk, tsk he really shouldn't save things till last minute).
"Don't call me that," Louis responded a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"Aw, come on, Loulou," I teased, keeping a light smile on my face. "You can't expect us not to call you our nicknames!"
The annoyance on Louis's face slid (very) slowly to a look of amusement, but he still kept up his charade of being annoyed. "At home, you guys can call me whatever nickname you want," Louis started, "But at Hogwarts, I'm Louis Weasley: hottest fifth year alive, and you two," He looked from Dom and me as he said this, "are totally cramping my style."
Dom and I both stared at him a bit gob-smacked at what he said, still trying to register if he was being serious.
"You think you're the hottest fifth year alive?" Dom asked with wide eyes.
"You think we're cramping your style?" I asked at the same time.
"Watch how you respond," Dom said, as soon as Louis opened his mouth. "Just because you're my brother, doesn't mean I won't hurt you if need be."
"Lay off, Dom," Louis said, trying to shrug her off.
"Yeah, Dom, lay off," I responded jokingly, "Louis is a man now. He should be treated like one!"
"I hate you both," Louis responded, giving us both a glare.
"No you don't," Dom said, completely unfazed at Louis's words. "You can't hate family."
"Corinne's not family."
"I'm insulted Louie!" I said, putting a hand over my heart. "You don't think of me as family?"
Just as Louis was about to respond, a presence came from behind him and I looked up to see Roxy, fidgeting with her necklace and biting her lip.
"Hey, guys," She said, looking at the three of us with a cross between a hopeful yet worried expression.
"Hey, cuz," Louis said easily, gesturing for her to sit down, which Roxy eagerly did. "What's up?"
"Oh you know…" Roxy responded, shrugging her shoulders even though none of us knew. Dom and I exchanged a look, while Louis looked as if this was all perfectly normal.
I, however, was deeply confused. I was the reason Roxy no longer had her best friend. I was the reason that everyone had been sneering at her in the hallway. So why was it that she was purposefully going out of her way to talk to Dom and me? Shouldn't she be trying to keep her distance? Shouldn't she hate me?
More importantly, could it be possible that she actually wanted to be friends with me?
"So, Corinne," Roxy said, smiling at me happily, which I took as an answer to my question, "What brings you to the Gryffindor table? You're normally always at the Slytherin one."
My mouth immediately twisted itself into a straight line, as I remembered the two traitors that were Tyson and Chaise.
"Yes, well," I said, as I absentmindedly drew circles onto the dark wood of the table, "Tyson and I sort of had a… er… falling out."
"Really?" Roxy asked, looking surprised. Louis's expression matched hers, and they both stared up at me questioningly.
"Um, yeah," I said shifting uncomfortably in my seat.
"Why?" Louis asked interestedly.
"Because guys are bloody arseholes!" Dom exclaimed, smacking her fist on the table to enforce her point. Roxy and Louis looked at her worriedly.
"Oh yeah, Dom," Roxy said, her voice softening as she looked at Dom sympathetically. "I heard about your… uh…"
"That Chaise called you a controlling bint and then dumped your arse," Louis responded, bluntly.
Dom seemed enraged at this mentioning and I could have sworn she growled as she narrowed her eyes at Louis. "For your information," Dom spat, "I dumped him."
"But he still called you a controlling bint, did he not?" Louis asked, taking pleasure in the fact that he now had something to annoy Dom with. He really was the quintessential brother in that aspect.
However, Dom's furious expression faded and she instead blinked a couple times, before looking away from Louis and down at her hands. I knew, that while she was putting on this front of just being angry at Chaise, she had really liked him, maybe even loved him, and that this had to be hard for her.
"Louis," I warned, using his full name, which I only did when I was serious. Louis sensed this, and then I gestured to Dom, who was picking at her nails.
"I'm sorry, Dom," Louis said, changing his teasing expression to one of sincerity. "I was just—"
"It's fine," Dom said, quickly cutting him off, not wanting the conversation to continue any further.
"So," Roxy said, obviously sensing Dom's mood and deciding to change the subject. I shot her a thankful look. "How do you think you did on the Charms quiz?"
Roxy was referring to the previous period, in which Professor Flitwick had given one of his infamous pop-quizzes. He was an avid pop-quizzer, because he thought it made students more likely to pay attention in class, when in all actuality it just made a lot of students hate him.
"I think I did alright," I responded a bit uncertainly, keeping my eyes trained on Dom, who was furiously picking away at a hangnail. "What about you Dom?"
"I think I did fan-freaking-tastic," Dom responded, an edge to her voice.
Roxy seemed a bit alarmed at Dom's tone, but decided to continue on with the conversation despite that. "Yeah, when I was talking to Wyatt, he thought he did pretty bad. But since Professor Flitwick loves him, he'll probably get a good grade anyway."
"Mhmm," I said, a smile pulling at my lips at the mention of Wyatt. "And how are things with you and Wyatt?"
Roxy took this moment to bite her bottom lip again as a faint blush tinged her cheeks. Dom's head popped up in interest. "I'm not really sure what you mean…" Roxy said trailing off.
"What she means," Dom said, taking charge of the conversation. "Is that you and Wyatt fancy each other, and that we all want to know when you're going to make it like… official."
"She's right," I said, nodding solemnly. "There's nothing I hate more then an almost-relationship."
"It's true," Louis joined. "And when Corinne get's too antsy about how long things take, she likes to take the reigns herself."
Roxy shook her head so that some of her dark hair covered her face, obviously trying to figure out a way out of the conversation. "Me and Wyatt don't… you know… like each other. We're just friends."
Dom rolled her eyes before staring off across the room, where Chaise was sitting and laughing with Tyson and Wyatt, completely unaffected by the break-up. "That's what they all say."
"Can't you guys just all sit down and talk?"
"Doooom, why not?" Wyatt whined.
"Because I have nothing to say to him."
"But," Roxy began, looking from me to Dom with a sad expression, "Don't you all want to be friends again."
"Of course we do," I said immediately, adjusting myself on the couch of the common room. "But this is something that just can't be fixed, you know?"
I was, of course, referring to the rift that had now formed in the group between Dom and me against Tyson and Chaise. None of us had made to have any sort of conversation with the other since Potions class a couple days ago (we had even taken to changing our seats in the class) and I wasn't sure if we ever really would. It was starting to worry me, because I had never been in a fight with either guy for this long, and I knew it was worrying Dom as well.
"I don't understand," Roxy said, her face completely puzzled.
Somehow, over the past couple of days, Roxy had become a permanent fixture in our group. This was mostly because she offered an unbiased opinion into the whole argument, and also the fact that her and Wyatt were always together now-a-days, and were most definitely on their way to going out. This could be shown by the fact that her and Wyatt were now sitting extremely close to one another, while his hand was casually strewn around her shoulders.
Friends my arse.
"They've said a lot of shit to us," Dom said, cutting her way in with a matter-of-fact voice. "Shit that can't be taken back, no matter how much either of us wishes."
Roxy and I grew quiet as Dom said this. Neither of us really knew how to act around Dom ever since her and Chaise's break up.
"Can't you at least try for me then?" Wyatt asked, looking between us. "I feel like the child of divorced parents."
I sighed at this. But it was mostly out of guilt. The past couple of days Wyatt had been passed back and forth between us all like a hackey-sack, as he tried to keep the peace and get us all to be mates again. It had been hard on him having to deal with it, which is a lot of the reason he'd been hanging out with Roxy instead of us, if only to get out of the drama.
"Wyatt," I started, but then I wasn't sure what to say to comfort him. Instead I just let his name float in the air, before disappearing. I sighed.
"But, You guys have to make up before the Hogsmeade weekend," Wyatt whined a bit desperately. "I mean, it's your birthday then."
My birthday. In some strange change of fate, it had managed to fall on the first Hogsmeade weekend at Hogwarts. Something that I was excited about, because it meant that I could actually do something on my birthday. However, the whole fight with Tyson and Chaise was really putting a dampener on the impending day.
"Corinne can have a good birthday without the traitors," Dom snapped back, trying to prove a point.
"This is just so annoying," Wyatt complained. "We're all best mates. And the reason you guys are fighting is stupid."
"Why are you guys even fighting?" Roxy asked, a bit timidly, causing us all to look at her.
"We are fighting, because of loyalty," Dom stated dramatically. Wyatt rolled his eyes, obviously annoyed, while I nodded my head to agree with Dom.
"What do you mean?" Roxy asked, arching an eyebrow.
It was after this, that Dom launched into a log and dramatic account of all the events that had unfolded that snowballed into the predicament we were now in: James's obvious participation in the Great Hall prank, Chaise's friendship with James, Tyson's harsh words. When Dom was done talking, I found myself becoming furious all over again at everything that had happened.
"Um…Corinne?" Roxy asked, biting her bottom lip (she seemed to always do that) and looking at me as though she had something she should say.
"Yeah?" I asked absentmindedly.
"James didn't help Madison and Elise with the Great Hall thing…" Roxy said, fiddling with the ends of her hair as she talked. "It was…erm… Freddy."
There was a long silence after she said this, as each one of us took the news differently. Dom looked extremely confused, whereas Wyatt looked hopeful. I, however, was in denial.
"How do you know?" I asked, suddenly not wanting to believe her. I mean, everything pointed to James having a hand in it. Not to mention I had totally freaked out on James after it happened. He had to have been involved in some way. Right?
"Because him and Freddy kind of got into an argument about it," Roxy said slowly. "That's why James and Chaise have been hanging out more. Him and Freddy aren't on speaking terms."
I was about to respond when-
"That makes so much sense!" Wyatt exclaimed, seeming excited at the fact that he finally understood something. What that something was, I wasn't quite sure. "I didn't want to mention this because I knew it'd piss you off, but James was the one who told me where to find you when you were holed up in the library. He had some sort of map or something I think…"
After Wyatt said this, there was a strange sort of realization that washed over me. I suddenly thought back to the moment in the tower, where James had come to check up on me. He had only been trying to ask me how I was, and I had yelled at him and told him he was an awful human being.
He had actually (for once) not deserved it.
As soon as I made this realization, I made another one. One that was even worse than the first.
I would have to… maybe… eventually… apologize. To James Potter.
A/N: Here it is: Chapter 17. The chapter that has been the hardest for me to write thus far. I'm not sure why but this chapter really was a battle to get done. I'm not even sure how I feel about it, but I'll leave the opinions up to you. I'm just deciding to post it so that I can get it over with, and move on to the next chapter.
I know it took me a while to get this out, and I would like to apologize (again) for how my updates have been lately. I don't think my updates have been particularly slow, I just think they've been slower than they normally are, which is why I'm apologizing. However, I do have to tell you all that updates probably will continue to come out slower until December rolls around, because I'm very busy working on college apps and such, so it takes longer for me to pump out so many chapters.
It's not that I'm going to be abandoning the story for months, but I will only be able to update once every two weeks instead of my usual once a week type of schedule. I hope you all can bear with me through it :)
So anyways, onto my chapter questions: What do you think about Tyson siding with Chaise? What about Dom and Chaise's breakup? Who's really being the selfish one in the argument? What about Roxy? What about JAMES? Most of you areadyl knew he had nothing to do with it, but are you at least a tiny bit surprised?
Let me know what you think of the chapter in a review below! Which brings me to another topic: Thank you all so much for the positive feedback on my last chapter! I still am so totally overwhelmed by the support you guys give me, and I'm insanely flattered. You're reviews continue to make my day.
So THANK YOU for reading/glancing at this story<3 I honestly have the best readers out there, I swear. The tips and encouragement you guys give me is amazing.
p.s. The spacing is not my doing. I hate how large the gaps are between the paragraphs as well, but I figure instead of wasting time trying to figure out how to fix it, I'll just post the chapter, eh?
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This work explores Paul's conception of maturity, paying special attention to the maturation process and the role of the local church in facilitating this process. Although central to Paul's theology, maturity is often overlooked in Pauline studies. An exegetical-theological study of the seven generally accepted epistles, this work makes heuristic use of three studies for the purpose of illuminating Paul's thoughts regarding maturity: a survey of modern psychology, and analyses of the communities of Qumran and of the Therapeutae. Samra argues that Paul understood his apostolic commission to involve delivering mature believers on the day of Christ. Samra suggests that the central motif of Pauline maturity is conformity of believers to the image of Christ and that believers' attitudes and actions become aligned with those exhibited by Christ, who provides the defining standard of maturity for Paul.;For Paul, there are five means used by the Spirit to conform believers to the image of Christ, which Samra presents and analyzes as components of the maturation process, namely: identifying with Christ, enduring suffering, experiencing the presence of God, receiving and living out wisdom from God, and imitating a godly example. Samra concludes by arguing that Paul expected the local church to facilitate maturation, so that believers' participation in a local assembly would result in their being conformed to Christ. The church does this by facilitating the five components of the maturation process.
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