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Twilight: Beautiful People and Hairless Cats
Posted by AnaMardoll at Saturday, April 09, 2011 Edit
Twilight Recap: It's her first day at a new high school, and Bella has made it to lunch period with her new classmates. As her newest "friend" (a girl whose name Bella doesn't try to remember and whose conversation Bella doesn't try to follow) chatters on about the inner workings of Forks High School, Bella's attention is about to be fully absorbed by something else entirely.
Twilight, Chapter 1: First Sight
It was there, sitting in the lunchroom, trying to make conversation with seven curious strangers, that I first saw them.
Astute readers will note at this point that we're all of sixteen pages into this book - not very far at all in a series that is almost 1,700 pages long. So far, the pace has been moving at a fairly solid clip, and the writing has been very economical with detail - we know that Bella is slender, pale-skinned, and dark-haired - and we can perhaps assume that her parents may be as well - but that's about all the description we have of the main characters so far.
The other characters so far in this high school drama have been shaded with the broad brush of stereotypes - Eric is a "chess club type" that seems generally greasy and unpleasant; Jessica (whose name we haven't yet heard) is short and has curly hair, and everyone knows that curly haired girls exist solely to be cheerfully extroverted plot-exposition devices. We don't even have a good bead yet on when the setting is - the trees outside are green, and the sky is gray, but that's about all we have so far.
Thus, it's important to note that this first mention of the Cullen family will have two full pages of lavish description devoted to them in a manner that I feel can fairly be termed a "Wall o' Text" - and a great deal of this description will serve as the starting point for the personalities of the family members. As such, I'd like to deconstruct these two pages a bit.
They were sitting in the corner of the cafeteria, as far away from where I sat as possible in the long room. There were five of them. They weren't talking, and they weren't eating, though they each had a tray of untouched food in front of them.
The Cullen family - Jasper, Alice, Emmett, Rosalie, and Edward - attend high school every day, ostensibly because they feel they can "pass" as humans longer in a given place if they start out pretending to be in their teens instead of pretending to be in their 20s and 30s. We've talked briefly before on how taking and retaking high school 10, 20, or 30 times over as part of an immortal masquerade would be many people's personal version of hell, but I can imagine that if you truly craved human companionship then you would make the necessary sacrifices in order to stay in one community for as long as possible.
What's odd, though, is that the Cullens don't appear to be socializing with the other students at school. They sit alone at the far end of the cafeteria and apparently brood their way through lunch - beautiful and unapproachable. I can imagine that a group of immortal beings all several decades old would have very little to say to their high school peers, but I'm not sure that "waiting it out" is going to make the situation better. By the time the Cullens graduate and can start socializing with actual adults, the adults that are "their age" (or, rather, the age they will be passing as) will be these same students, just a few years older.
This creates the curious scenario where the Cullens are willing to submit to something they hate (attending high school over and over again) in order to gain access to something they consider worthwhile (living in human society) while all the while refusing to actually partake in that society. Perhaps this would have made more sense if the "passing" was less of a personal choice and more of a survival necessity, but that angle was presumably dropped once the Twilight-verse vampires evolved into unstoppable god-creatures. Since the Cullens don't need humans for survival and can just lope off to the Alaskan wilderness to live in the raw beauty of the majestic north any time they want, I can't really fathom their reasons for living in the depressingly rainy town of Forks, Washington.
What is particular sad to me about this paragraph isn't just that the Cullen "children" aren't socializing with the other students - they're not even talking to each other. The initial impression I get is that this is a "family" thrown together simply because the alternative - being alone - is just so much worse. I can't even imagine the unbearable sadness of an eternal life, always missing your lost loved ones, forced to live with pale imitations of a family you can never see again, having nothing to say to each other after the decades of simmering pain, resentment, and hatred - all while you go through the meaningless motions of a human life that you can't appreciate and can never truly join.
But, then again, I love wangst, so maybe I'm reading too much into this scene.
They weren't gawking at me, unlike most of the other students, so it was safe to stare at them without fear of meeting an excessively interested pair of eyes.
This is something of a tricky passage - I think we're meant to take from this that the Cullens' lack of interest in Bella means that she is able to observe them at length and unnoticed without seeming to be rude. However, there is an alternative impression created: that Bella is interested in the Cullens because they aren't interested in her. This could be a healthy response - Bella could be finding polite disinterest as safer and less pressuring than the gossip-mongers and hanger-ons watching her every move for something interesting to report at the dinner table later - but it could just as easily be a terribly unhealthy one.
We've mentioned that the "overly helpful" appellation applied to Eric could be taken as a "creepy and clinging" description, but could just as easily convey the idea that truly worthwhile people are cold and aloof at all times. And if this is the case, then I can't help but think of a particularly apt Dilbert comic.
One of the major problems with the mentality that aloofness is a sign of social standing and "alpha" status within a group is how incredibly isolating it can be. Taken to the extreme, the principle of self-isolation becomes a way of trying to exercise control on one's surroundings by controlling one's own behavior. If I can just exercise perfect self-control, the inner voice assures, then everything will be perfect. You too can be beautiful, aloof, mysterious, and desirable, as long as you never exhibit the slightest sign of your actual emotions - as long as you constantly maintain a perfect mask for the outside world to judge and praise.
The problem, of course, besides the fact that perfect self-control is a meaningless and impossible dream, is that the promise is a lie. There's no guaranteed method to popularity and power, and being quiet and aloof and mysterious is far more likely to get you sidelined in Real Life as uninteresting and boring rather than providing a sure-fire method to high school popularity and accolades. However, reality has done very little to stop the myth of perfect self-control leading to a perfect-life and for every Van Diemen at 17 and Hunger that explores the dangers of pursuing that seductive lie, there are hundreds of books that reinforce self-destructive, self-isolating behavior in the name of being pretty, perfect, and popular.
They didn't look anything alike. Of the three boys, one was big - muscled like a serious weight lifter, with dark, curly hair. Another was taller, leaner, but still muscular, and honey blond. The last was lanky, less bulky, with untidy, bronze-colored hair. He was more boyish than the others, who looked like they could be in college, or even teachers here rather than students.
S. Meyer and I have very different opinions on the meaning of the phrase "they didn't look anything alike" - three muscularly fit white boys with pale skin and dark eyes look pretty "alike" to me, but again I think we're meant to take from this that the Cullens don't have the same bone structures and physical details that might indicate a common genetic line.
And now it's time to start filling out our TV Tropes bingo card with a little pet peeve of mine - that of characterizing personalities based on personal appearance. Emmett is "muscled like a serious weight lifter", so it's a good bet that he'll be the Big Bruiser - the relatively dumb member of the family who serves as the loyal and brutish muscle. Jasper is tall and lean, which in literary-stereotypes shorthand conveys intelligence and experience, so it's good money that he's The Lancer - he may be smarter and more experienced and generally cooler than everyone else in the novel, but he won't for a moment get to be the star - at best, he'll dish out important advice and crucial strategic planning. And Edward is younger-looking and has bed-head, so he's guaranteed to be the Hero - it's some kind of law.
The girls were opposites. The tall one was statuesque. She had a beautiful figure, the kind you saw on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, the kind that made every girl around her take a hit on her self-esteem just by being in the same room. Her hair was golden, gently waving to the middle of her back. The short girl was pixielike, thin in the extreme, with small features. Her hair was a deep black, cropped short and pointing in every direction.
Tall, blonde, and beautiful? What are the chances that she'll have a truly horrible personality and be rude and cruel to our dowdy protagonist? Slim to none, I'll guess. Short, dark-haired, and pixie-like? If that girl is anything other than incredibly energetic, full of idiosyncrasies, and the smart one of the group, then I'll eat my hat.
Oh, look, I got Five Man Band bingo!
Obsessive TV Troping aside, I'm uncomfortable with the language used here. It may not be unusual for women in our society to compare themselves unfavorably to other women, but it's not something I think is worth reinforcing or aspiring to. Here we see the first example of many where the Cullens' beauty is placed in stark contrast to Bella's - Rosalie is described as a statuesque model whose very existence hurts "every girl['s]" self-esteem. I find this particularly frustrating because "self-esteem" - literally the appraisal of self-worth - should not, in my opinion, be a relative thing.
My own appraisal of self-worth shouldn't dive in the presence of Jesus, Gandhi, and Kate Beckinsale any more than it should rise in the presence of Hitler, Stalin, and small hairless cats. I think it's faulty and dangerous to judge one's own worth in comparison to others - this comparative judging leads to a whole slew of unhealthy behaviors, and in fact is one of the first things Kate Harding deals with in her Fat Acceptance book, Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere . Fundamentally, you cannot be happy and self-accepting of yourself if you are constantly judging and re-judging yourself based on who is in the room with you at the moment; and self-judging behavior quickly and inevitably leads to other-judging behavior - if you value yourself less because of Rosalie Cullen's presence, it's just a matter of time before you start valuing all other girls less because of Rosalie Cullen's existence.
Sadly, this most definitely will not be the last time we see this self-judging of Bella against all the very, very pretty Cullens.
And yet, they were all exactly alike. Every one of them was chalky pale, the palest of all the students living in this sunless town. Paler than me, the albino. They all had very dark eyes despite the range in hair tones. They also had dark shadows under those eyes — purplish, bruiselike shadows. As if they were all suffering from a sleepless night, or almost done recovering from a broken nose. Though their noses, all their features, were straight, perfect, angular.
It should be obvious by now, I think, that Forks doesn't have a strong social welfare network - if a nice-but-strange doctor and his charming wife moved into the far outskirts of town with a passel of adopted teenagers that refused to socialize (either with themselves or the other kids in town), never ate lunch at school, kept strange hours and were pulled out of school entirely on nice days for "mountain hikes", and constantly showed up at school with bruised faces and sleepless eyes, I would expect some kind of welfare investigation to occur.
I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful. They were faces you never expected to see except perhaps on the airbrushed pages of a fashion magazine. Or painted by an old master as the face of an angel. It was hard to decide who was the most beautiful - maybe the perfect blond girl, or the bronze-haired boy.
And the prestigious "Comment of the Week" award will go to the reader who provides the best example of an artistic masterpiece featuring an angelic being with purple bruises under their eyes.
They were all looking away - away from each other, away from the other students, away from anything in particular as far as I could tell. As I watched, the small girl rose with her tray - unopened soda, unbitten apple - and walked away with a quick, graceful lope that belonged on a runway. I watched, amazed at her lithe dancer's step, till she dumped her tray and glided through the back door, faster than I would have thought possible. My eyes darted back to the others, who sat unchanging.
Once again, no matter what you think about the Cullens or about this novel in general, I find this scene utterly tragic. S. Meyer would have us believe that this family cares about each other - four of the five featured here are officially coupled, after all - and that they live together out of love rather than need for survival or fear of being alone. So why are they so silent and avoiding each other's gaze? I can imagine that maybe the Cullens would save the bulk of their conversation for home - no need to draw attention to their oddness further by discussing quantum physics at the lunch table, perhaps - but it seems deeply sad to me that they aren't even communing with their eyes in silence. They're not exchanging meaningful glances or enjoying each other's company - they're looking away from each other, not so they can look at anything in this utterly disinteresting lunchroom, but rather because they want to avoid their gaze.
What's more interesting is how obviously impossible this charade is and how uncommitted they are to maintaining it: they're not eating. Edward will later admit that they can eat human food but that the experience is intensely unpleasant; in the meantime, they daily go to school, buy food in the lunchroom, make no pretense of touching their food, and throw it away entirely as soon as possible. It seems like the Cullens are trying to stand out as odd - why wouldn't they bring lunch bags from home where they could at least obscure the fact that they are openly not eating? For that matter, why don't they go off the premises for lunch period - an option that I'm given to understand is perfectly acceptable nowadays for high schoolers? If Carlisle Cullen can get them permission to skip on sunny days, he can surely come up with some kind of "nutritional diet that can only be fixed at home" excuse to get the kids off the school campus every day at noon.
But, no, they buy the school lunches publicly where everyone can see exactly how much they've bought and exactly how much they aren't eating. It's not just wasteful, it's incredibly attention-getting. Or, rather, it would be in my world - but I suspect that in S. Meyer's world this may be just another acceptable expression of the Cullens' special aloofness; they don't talk to the school students; they don't eat the school food. For me, that would immediately set a group apart as weird, noteworthy, and suspicious - not the sorts of emotions you would want to raise if you were a vampire set on passing as a human. But for S. Meyer - and, presumably, for the rest of the school because Edward can read minds and has not elected to alter the Cullens' daily routine - this would seem to be a perfectly normal outward expression of perfect self-control.
In many ways, Twilight seems to me to be about control. Self-control isn't a bad thing - it's actually a pretty good strategy to not go through life saying every little thing that crosses our minds, eating everything regardless of our intuitive internal cues, and sleeping with people without thoughtful consideration of what may come after. But these examples of "good control" are deemed good because they're examples of control utilized in service to a greater goal: the point of the control is to minimize hurt to oneself and others and maximize pleasure for the associated parties. In contrast, the control in Twilight seems to be about control for the sake of control - passing as humans merely so you can then ignore them, buying food so that it can sit in front of you for an hour before being thrown away, entering into intimate relationships in order to hold the other person at arm's length, both emotionally and physically.
That sort of control is far from healthy and - in my opinion - is less about using control in order to live and more about living your life in order to control.
jetso said...
The seeming starvation and the descriptions of "lanky" and "thin in the extreme" also rings the Eating Disorder Alarm.
SkyknightXi said...
I've not read the books, but I've heard a fair number of things about the bodies of Meyer's vampires as being like unto stone (hence the gleaming; what happens when light hits mica?). If you're worried about keeping your body under utter control, unchanging stone rather than comparatively amorphous hydrocarbons for flesh would seem a godsend. Add in Meyer's apparent fondness for eternal couples, and one really does begin to see an obsession with stillness.
SkyKnightXi,
It's an interesting point that the "eternal couples" of Twilight definitely represent, if not stillness, then at least unchanging status quo. Contrast with a series like, say, "Elfquest" where the near-immortality of the elves has caused them to develop a very open society in terms of relationships and sex - author Wendy Pini has confirmed in and out of the series text that pretty much every possible pairing (including the Ho Yay and Les Yay ones) has occurred at some point in their ridiculously long lives.
That doesn't mean that the elves don't have "one true loves" and that they aren't faithful to them in the context of their soceity, but rather that the immortality in their society has led to different ideas about what constitutes sexual faithfulness in their culture.
I'm honestly not sure how an immortal life would affect a monogamous relationship like what Edward and Bella seem to be angling towards, but I get the impression that Twilight isn't going to delve into that question.
Leely said...
I'm with jetso. Flamboyantly not eating? The physical act of consuming food being deeply unpleasant? This sounds distinctly pro-ana to me.
(Oops, forgot something!)
I think a lot of the depictions of saints' martyrdom could be described as masterpieces of angelic beings with a variety of bruises. St Sebastian in particular comes to mind.
Leely,
Hmmm. That's a really good point, but I seem to recall from my arts classes that by the time we got around to painting saints, the people in the pictures usually weren't what we'd modernly think of as pretty, since the focus was at that point more on the symbolism of the painting as opposed to being photo-realistic. Still, maybe there's a Sistine Chapel angel with bruises that someone can dig up. :D
Greenbrains said...
Really enjoy these posts, tnx
Kit Whitfield said...
Twilight's a book of great internal tensions, and I think the description of the Cullens has some more of them. How do you square 'airbrushed' with 'bruised', for example? Dark shadows under your eyes are an imperfection, a sign of mortality and vulnerability, which is right at the other end of the scale from the 'inhuman' perfection they're supposed to be displaying. And come to that, are they like fashion models or like Old Master paintings? Because those are two different things: ideas of beauty change as culture changes.
Even more than that, the models/angels mix feels unsettling because it gives conflicting ideas about Bella. Is she a fashion-conscious, modern girl whose notions of beauty come from pop culture, or is she a studious, unworldly girl who's unusually up on the art history for her age? Saying that a character looks like a model immediately sounds shallow to my ears - it's rather lazy writing, and it invokes a world of appearances rather than depth. It might have worked if Bella was genuinely interested in fashion, because it's a world where there's a lot of creativity and artistry, but when it's thrown in with the angel paintings, it just comes across as a generic way of saying 'attractive.'
Then we have the 'runway'/'dancer' description of walking, and it's the same thing: a model and a dancer don't walk the same way. And come to that, if you walk across a crowded cafeteria with a model's strut, you're likely to bump into something pretty quickly. You can't use a runway walk in a busy area: the model stride is specifically adapted for a long, narrow, uncluttered space where you don't need to look where you're going. (Or at least, you need to keep an eye on the edges of the runway, but you can use peripheral vision for that and keep your head up for the cameras.) All in all, it starts to sound like similes are being used to substitute for description, and used imprecisely and carelessly.
The result is that the Cullens end up a bit difficult to picture: we know they're attractive, but apart from some basic descriptions of colouring and musculature, exactly what's attractive about them is rather left to the readers' imagination. Which may be an advantage in its way, as the reader can picture whatever's most attractive to them.
The aloofness is interesting too. Given that Bella's been so aloof from everyone she meets, and that Edward will later be attracted to her despite, or because of, the fact that she alone is immune to his telepathy, I think we're seeing a certain consistency in the idea that attractive means inaccessible.
Actually I've known people who think that way - as I suspect many of us have. These are the people whose love lives always seem to be in drama, who are not really happy, but who somehow tend to see the suitable, interested potential partners as boring, as if eligible was unromantic. I remember one time someone was asking me and my husband about the secret to being married, and to being committed enough to feel able to have a baby (I was pregnant at the time); she seemed genuinely puzzled by the idea that you just find someone you like and make a consistent effort to get along with them. The way she talked, she seemed to find the qualities that would make a good father unattractive, but didn't quite seem to believe that this meant that having a baby might be problematic. But when I asked her what kind of person she'd like to be with, she named a couple of actors she liked - actors who were similar physical types but tended to play different characters. I'd meant 'What kind of personality do you like?', but she didn't seem to get that. I suspect that if you don't think in terms of personality, then being ignored is less of a turn-off - and Bella really doesn't seem to think about personalities very much...
Ana, I'm loving these posts. I found my way over here from the Slacktiverse. I'm baffled by this scene, I have to admit. There's so much about it that isn't normal at all and it seems weird that Meyer would think it was normal. The idea of aloofness=superiority isn't an uncommon one in high schools, but even The Libby has a support network of lackeys and hangers-on. One can't be popular in a void. Whereas is seems like the Cullens don't talk to anyone at all (apparently not even each other!), which would put them squarely in the category of "freak" to most high schoolers.
Which brings up another interesting point: are vampires social animals in the Twilight-verse? You'd think so, considering that they were born humans and still think at least partially like humans, but the lunchtable behavior makes them seem extremely ill-at-ease. No sharing food, no talking, no holding hands or touching at all.
...sorry, anthropology major here. Anyway, keep up the posts!
And Kit, I think part of the contrasts of descriptions comes from Meyer not being a very good writer. Saying someone is as beautiful as a model/like a classical sculpture is fairly cliche, so why not toss both in together? It's easy to do, doesn't require too much thought or fleshing out, and your readers will understand what you're trying to say even if they acknowledge that the way you're saying it makes no sense. It's the same as when someone describes a character as having "the body of a dancer"; my immediate thought is always "So their feet look like nightmares?"
Karen Nilsen said...
Fascinating analysis of the Cullens' relationships based on the initial description of them in the text. Meyers tells the reader one thing about the Cullens, but shows quite a different thing. They supposedly have this perfect family, but the relationships are actually very shallow. I think this dichotomy between what she tells and what she shows is completely unconscious on her part, so it's definitely not dramatic irony. :) You do a wonderful job analyzing the description to show this.
Another theme you touch on that's dear to my razor-edged heart when it comes to Twilight . . . It's always bothered me that the Cullens attended high school over and over and over again . . . why couldn't they be taking night classes at a university? If I had countless years and seemingly endless wealth at my disposal, I would be taking some night classes in philosophy or advanced calculus or the history of world literature, not high school biology. I would be improving my immortal vampire mind so I could be an interesting vampire, like Joshua in George RR Martin's Fevre Dream. Don't get me wrong, some of the classes I took in high school were interesting--the first time around. But the tenth time? You have to be kidding me, Stephanie Meyers.
Hence my point some time back that if the Cullens played at undergoing homeschooling, they'd get the best of both worlds. They'd be able to believably maintain their still-normative-human facade while mixing with the mortals, but not have to put up with a swath of near-unalloyed repetition.
Admittedly, my idea for how I'd cast non-evil vampires would have them sticking around for much the same reason as many folkloric ghosts: unfinished business. Once their respective Tasks of Great Import have finally been Dealt With, THEN they'll let themselves age normally and die. Until then, nothing doing.
(So one wonders what might make a good Task of Great Import for each member of the Cullen clan...)
Hmm, home-school for the Cullens--that is a good idea, SkyknightXi, and would take care of the problem of academic monotony I raised. Sorry I missed your previous comment about it. The repetitive high school experience in Twilight for the vampires really does bother me, and not just because of the academic monotony of learning the same things over and over again. It's not that I didn't enjoy high school--I did. But college was so much more fun, both as an academic and social experience. When I went to college, I got out of the bubble of my small town and experienced a wider variety of people and things. It doesn't seem like the Cullens will ever get to expand their horizons in this way or that they even want to, and this makes me sad. What a waste of immortality.
Speaking to your interesting idea of vampires taking care of unfinished business and then moving on to the next realm as well as Ana's point about the Cullens' self-centeredness, there are things I wonder. I mean, if you have endless years and a good heart, why not spend some time trying to find the cure for cancer? Or raise social consciousness about a particular issue? Or create great art? I realize the Cullens don't want to be famous because of their vampiric condition, but Carlisle seems to be contributing good things to society in a quiet way. Why not the rest of them? It seems to me that all the Cullens had adverse experiences when they were human--war, getting attacked on the street, pestilence. After fifty, sixty, seventy years or so of immortality, wouldn't they start thinking about those experiences and perhaps trying to help others who are suffering? Apparently not.
Mau de Katt said...
The only way I can think of "bruise-looking undereye shadows" being on "perfectly beautiful, unflawed-looking" people and not be considered a flaw is in the Goth subculture. (Or at least how I used to understand the Goth subculture.) Which would actually be the perfect place for the younger Cullens to hang out, if it wasn't SO very extremely cliched.
But then these books are so abysmally written that I think even the "hide in plain site" fake-Goth-vampire-is-actually-a-REAL-vampire-SURPRIEZ" cliche would be an improvement....
I agree, though -- this initial description of the Cullens makes their existence seem sad and pitable, rather than something to be desired with all one's heart.
Five Man Band Bingo! Whoooo! (In all seriousness, I love TVTropes references, and have seen my share of shows that have the Five Man Band, so this particular reference tickles more than others.)
Perhaps Ms. Meyer is playing up a different trope of the stereotypical high school - the person at the top of the heap is always seen as inaccessible, because of the Barrier Of Cool that separates most novel protagonists from The Heathers at the top. I wonder whether Isabella felt like she was higher-up in the pecking order in Arizona and has thus become accustomed to being able to brush off anyone that didn't meet the cool standard. Thus, confronted with the people who are immediately recognizable as the top of the pecking order, the people who are so cool that while they sit together, they're totally aloof from each other, she realizes her status as "cool enough to get by" is threatened and is sizing up the competition to see whether the right response is to spread her hood and hiss or roll over and expose her belly. Either way, Isabella is going to have a posse to hang out with, assuming that the overly-friendly chess-club types don't sink her chances by being seen with her too much.
This may be giving Ms. Meyer far too much credit, but it does at least make it botched execution instead of poor planning.
Quick throwaway on the Renaissance-Masters-with-too-much-eyeshadow: Guido Reni's St Sebastian seems to fit the bill: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/arrows-of-desire-how-did-st-sebastian-become-an-enduring-homoerotic-icon-779388.html?action=Gallery
ack-47 said...
One of the things that strikes me about Meyer's writing is that she is profoundly indifferent to anything she lacks a perverse interest in. It's very much a fanfic attitude, and as anyone in that subculture can tell you that attitude extends to the Original Character and is usually the shit icing on its shit cake. Not only has she not thought through the idea of going to high school for a century, I think the idea of her permanent teenagers going to college would make her angry and proprietorial (as have several other fan inquiries about her awful books).
There is a sort of life you lead where learning is a burden - and sometimes you justify it to yourself by screaming about how you've already learned all this - and the only tolerable part of institutions of learning is being an awkward, sex-obsessed moron. There are two aspects to this. One is the cult of infancy and youth - the idea that childhood is more innocent and being a teenager is exciting, where the reality is that childhood consists of a fog of ignorance and confusion and teendom, even for fairly healthy people, is like the high manic phase of MDPD for six years. The other aspect is an inculcated hostility to depth.
Stephen Bond discusses it in the context of "objects of fandom", and Fred Clark as the evangelical hostility to metaphor - smug, self-assured people have this traumatic formative experience where they learn there's meaning beneath what they think they know that they're unaware of, which turns them against either their existing knowldge or the idea of learning. This is a formative experience in the Midwest, whose culture is fairly shallow, whose education is modelled by people with religious objections to novelty and metaphor, and which tends to raise particularly prickly, vicious cynics from a young age. Meyer is part of the monoculture, she thinks of herself as smart in the useless way that women are only allowed to be smart in, and the idea of spending a hundred years learning - being constantly reminded you don't know things, and having to constantly reassess what you do know - would be like living through that minute of hell between the cute Scottsdale boy sneering and insisting that Carrie was about menstruation and finding people to laugh him off with, forever.
Twilight is a book about how the person you are can become perfect without having to go through any suffering that you don't deserve for being inferior. You don't need to edify yourself; you don't need to debase yourself with learning; you just have to be born with imperfections you can have killed. The first step is finding a man who loves you for your soul so much he has no concept of your body or mind and the last step is giving birth to a grown adult.
Reader of Books said...
Playing into the archetype of angels watching over humanity, the refusal to engage in society but just sit there watching it makes a little more sense to me.
"It should be obvious by now, I think, that Forks doesn't have a strong social welfare network - if a nice-but-strange doctor and his charming wife moved into the far outskirts of town with a passel of adopted teenagers that refused to socialize (either with themselves or the other kids in town), never ate lunch at school, kept strange hours and were pulled out of school entirely on nice days for 'mountain hikes', and constantly showed up at school with bruised faces and sleepless eyes, I would expect some kind of welfare investigation to occur. "
But no one else in the world is attentive enough to notice these little details that lead to the formation of the very obvious theory that they're all vampires, not abused children. Only Mary Sue can save them from a life of boredom!
"They're not exchanging meaningful glances or enjoying each other's company - they're looking away from each other, not so they can look at anything in this utterly disinteresting lunchroom, but rather because they want to avoid their gaze."
[spoiler note]
They're just waiting for psychic-super-baby to come along and let them have conversations entirely in their heads!
"But, no, they buy the school lunches publicly where everyone can see exactly how much they've bought and exactly how much they aren't eating. It's not just wasteful, it's incredibly attention-getting."
Except they're in a crowded cafeteria filled with teenagers who are socializing and being paranoid that they're being watched like hawsk by others. The same way I never noticed there were drug deals going on in my high school, none of the students but Mary Sue notice these things. It makes a tiny bit of sense.
"That sort of control is far from healthy and - in my opinion - is less about using control in order to live and more about living your life in order to control. "
Very much so. It's not a series about healthy relationships.
"After fifty, sixty, seventy years or so of immortality, wouldn't they start thinking about those experiences and perhaps trying to help others who are suffering?"
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как мне при вводе в поля и при редактировании считать значение ячейки saldok = debit - credit - braksumma

A: Сделал красиво, через MutationObserver, крутая штука. Пробуйте вводить, все считается.

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  const td = e[0].target.parentNode

  if (!td)
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  const values = [...elements].filter(i => tr.contains(i)).map(i => +i.textContent)

  console.log(values.join())
  const id = tr.dataset.id
  const result = values.reduce((a, b) => a - b) // saldok = debit - credit - braksumma

  document.querySelector(`tr[data-id="${id}"] > td[data-name="saldok"]`).textContent = result
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Here are some of the questions I am asked by people considering buying pygmy goats. I hope you find them useful.
Can I keep pygmy goats in my garden?
Yes, providing there are no conditions in your lease to say otherwise. I did check with my council to be on the safeside.
Can I keep one pygmy goat?
No, pygmy goats are herd animals and they must be kept in a pair.
Will they keep my grass cut?
Pygmy goats are browsers, not grazers and will eat all you shrubs and flowers before they would eat any grass.
Can I let them wander in the garden?
This is not a good idea, they should be confined behind a 4` high fence. If allowed to roam your garden it is quite likely they will find something poisonous to eat and could die.
I would like to get a goat as a companion for my pony and someone suggested a pygmy goat would be a good idea. Would they get on OK?
Pygmy goats need the company of their own kind, a pony is not a suitable companion. They are too small, I would not be happy for either animals as the goat is likely to get under the pony`s hooves.
Do pygmy goats make good house pets?
No. Pygmy goats are farm animals, they should be kept in a suitable environment outside. If you allow pygmy goats to come indoors and treat them like a family member it is possible that they could develop undesirable tendancies, such as aggressive behaviour towards you or your children. In their correct place, pygmy goats make wonderful pets for young and old, just enjoy them as they were meant to be.
I have two wethers who I think are wonderful. I would love to take them to a show but I`m a bit nervous as everyone there seems so professional and have lots of pedigree goats.
Go for it. Most goat keepers who look `professional` started with a couple of wethers themselves. All Pygmy Goat Shows have classes for wethers and new exhibitors are made very welcome. If you belong to the Pygmy Goat Club most shows are listed in the quarterly magazine, just look down the list and find one close to you. Contact the show and ask them for a schedule and that will give you all the information you need. More help and advice can be obtained from Regional Advisers. Good Luck.
I would like to mate my two females but I do not know how to find a suitable male.
This is a problem most small breeders have and there is no easy answer. First try the Breeders List on the Pygmy Goat Club Website. In the club`s quarterly magazine there are usually a few adverts for stud goats although it depends where you live if they will be of use. If you plan ahead and visit agricultural shows in your area where they are holding pygmy goat shows then you could meet breeders, and once you have got talking to them they may be prepared to loan you a male.
How much space do a couple of pygmy goats need?
Pygmy goats do not need an enormous amount of space, a well fenced area of about 30` x 30`would probably be the minimum I would recommend. In that area they would need a shelter and if possible something to climb on so that they did not become bored.
Are they like dairy goats and need milking as I would not be able to manage that.
Pygmy goats are not suitable for milking, they only give enough milk to rear their kids and then they should dry up naturally.


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Black Pearls Magazine Intimate Conversation with Janie De Coster
BPM: It is such a pleasure to have you join us to discuss When The Vows Break. Describe yourself in three words.
Passionate, Spiritual, and Witty.
BPM: What drove you to publish your first book? How long have you been writing?
What drove me to write my first novel, believe it or not, was God's voice telling me to do so. I've always read romance novels but I never imagined that I could have written one myself. I had no idea how to begin let alone what to write. But the Holy Spirit led me and several books later here I am. I've been on this writing journey for over thirteen years.
BPM: Introduce us to the people in this new book! Give us some insight into your main speakers.
This novel When the Vows Break was a pleasure to write. I grew up in the church and we all know there's more going on sometimes than the word of God. The main characters are Pastor Sidney Teal, his lovely wife First Lady Olivia and young and beautiful Jasmine Lewis who will test the strength of the Teal's marriage.
BPM: What's so unique about their story-line or voice in the story? What makes each one so special?
I wanted to give each character a strong voice with raw emotions. I wanted the readers to be able to actually feel the characters deposition and be able to relate to what the character is going through. What makes these characters so special is at the end of the day they all love God in spite of their transgressions.
BPM: Share one specific point in your book that resonated with your present situation or journey.
The one point in my book I would want the younger readers to capture especially females which resonated with me is searching for love in the wrong places. They tend to make bad decisions based on immaturity. It is so easy to be pulled into a fantasy world especially when it comes with money and status. They also fail to see the consequences that will affect them for the rest of their lives.
BPM: Do you ever have days when writing is a struggle?
Yes, especially when it is a complex storyline.
BPM: Have you written any other books that are not published?
Yes, I have one that I wrote years ago and it has been collecting dust in my desk drawer. But I'm thinking about pulling it out soon and perhaps bring it to light.
BPM: What projects are you working on at the present?
I just finished a book that has been re-released called FRIENEMIES. It's available now on Amazon.com
BPM: What legacy do you hope to leave future generations of readers with your writing?
I want my children, grandchildren, and others to know that with God you can do all things. It's not going to be easy. You may have to put in a lot of prayer, sweat, and tears. But the race is not given to the swift but to the one who perseveres.
BPM: What is your preferred method to have readers get in touch with or follow you?
You can contact me through my website: sweetsmells2003.wix.com/janie-decoster
BPM: How can readers discover more about you and your work? Share all of your social media links.
Check out my novels on my Janie De Coster Amazon Page
https://www.amazon.com/Janie-De-Coster/e/B00547Y2DA
When The Vows Break by Janie De Coster
Genre: Contemporary Christion Fiction
Yasmin Lewis finds herself in love with a married man but not your ordinary married man. He is Pastor Sidney Teal, a fine and prominent leader of the megachurch, Holy Word Holiness, with a membership of thousands. Pastor Teal treats her well in and out of bed. However, Yasmin knows he will never be hers, and she longs for more.
More comes in the form of sexy, successful, and single Ambrose Hunter, a man who's willing and able to give her the kind of life she knows she deserves. Yasmin's sins catch up with her when Ambrose finds out she is not only seeing another man behind his back but a man of the cloth at that.
Now Yasmin's world spins out of control. Will she be able to redeem herself and find forgiveness in When The Vows Break?
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
The storyline throughout this story was very realistic and should be read in every women's group. Women that read and share this story can talk about how easy judgments are perceived in the church, which often results in division, where true believers would understand the importance of forgiveness of self and one another, just as Christ forgave us from the cross, what better example can one follow.
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed this book!
This story was so realistic I feel like I know these people. Sidney and Yazmin were both selfish and wrong, they both got what they deserved. Off to find other books by this author, another one added to my favorites list!
5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book great writing kept my interest what I …
I love this book great writing kept my interest what I would say though is this can happen to any man, not only Pastors, I don't like the constant attack on Pastors. Real life situations highlighted, however.
EXCERPTS FOR WHEN THE VOWS BREAK
"Will you be coming to the festival tomorrow," asked Vanessa Stacey, who was no more than fourteen or fifteen years but could have easily past for eighteen or nineteen, especially with the tight t-shirt she wore, emblazoned with the logo of some urban fashion designer. Sidney sighed, remembering what he'd said to Brother Goodings earlier. Girls these days were far too well-developed for their own good.
"Of course Olivia and I will be there," he answered smoothly, knowing that naming his wife would quell any ideas some of the ladies might have had concerning his marital state. "My children haven't talked about anything else nearly all week."
From the corner of his eye, he saw another young woman stride over to them as Sister Margie waved her over. He coughed, tried to hide his sudden discomfort.
Dark molasses skin glowed, set off perfectly by a fiery-colored form-fitting sheath dress that accentuated every curve. Sidney took in her short but well-shaped legs that would have given Tina Turner a run for her money. Sidney's heart skipped a beat as the distance closed between them.
"Pastor Sidney, this is my niece Yasmin Lewis", Sister Margie introduced proudly. "She's planning to attend business school here and recently moved from South Carolina. I told her that I'd be getting her into this fine church the minute she arrived."
Yasmin extended a slender hand and Sidney gently took it. Her skin felt like soft rose petals. The heady floral perfume she wore teased his nostrils.
"It's very nice to meet you, Pastor Teal. Auntie Margie's always talking about you." Yasmin replied in a honey-sweet drawl, her smile warm, sincere and almost innocently sexy.
He didn't understand it. No other woman had affected him the way Yasmin Lewis had. In less than a minute, something had happened.
"Likewise, Miss Lewis," Sidney said, outwardly composed and inwardly a turbulent storm of emotion. "You will be at the Youth Festival tomorrow?"
Again that innocent smile that he was reading far too much into. "I sure will. I think what Auntie Margie's doing with the children is just wonderful and I wish more churches would do the same."
Sidney couldn't help noticing the beam of approval from Sister Margie's eyes. He should rebuke her for the sin of pride, but couldn't bring himself to say anything negative in front of her niece.
"Have you attended service yet?" For some reason, he'd know if she had.
"I will this Sunday, I promise," she said, warm brown eyes smiling. "Aunt Margie says you preach so good you could get the devil to change his ways."
"Whatever," muttered Vanessa from the side, obviously upset at being put in the shade.
Sidney laughed. "Oh, I don't know about all that. I just let the Lord fill me with His spirit and the words just come. I don't take any credit for it."
"You're too modest, Pastor Sidney," added Sister Margie. "Remember that article in Ebony Magazine about the One-Hundred Most Influential Ministers in America. You were number fifty-seven."
Yasmin's eyes widened. "Oh my goodness, I saw that article when I was getting my hair done! That picture didn't do you justice."
Was the look in her eyes and her words sending him a silent message, or was it just his imagination running wild at the sight of the vivacious young woman?
Before he made a bigger fool out of himself, Sidney graciously bowed. "Ladies, I was on my way home for lunch. I hope to see you all tomorrow." Especially you, Miss Yasmin Lewis, was the rest of the unspoken thought.
Once inside his SUV, he turned the air on full blast and closed his eyes. The divine vision of the woman he just met came into sharp focus. Something about her intrigued him. She touched him in a way that made his whole body respond in a totally inappropriate manner. He couldn't wait to see her again.
Reaching down to switch off the air, his conscience raged at him. What in heavens name was he thinking? Just minutes ago he was counseling Brother Goodings about infidelity and giving into temptation. He needed to take heed of his own advice and stay well clear of Yasmin Lewis until he could make sense of his feelings.
( Continued… )
© 2018 All rights reserved. Book excerpt reprinted by permission of the author, Janie De Coster. Do not reproduce, copy or use without the author's written permission. This excerpt is used for promotional purposes only.
Meet Author Janie De Coster
Janie De Coster's love of writing began in her high school years with poetry. It wasn't until many years later she heard a spiritual voice instructing her to write a book. Having no idea as to what genre it would be, she just put pen to paper.
Janie De Coster writes not only to entertain but to educate as her topics shine a light on today's society such as Mental Illness, Domestic Violence, Infidelity, and Self-Esteem. In her spare time, she loves to travel, shop and spend quality time with her family.
You can contact Janie De Coster by:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JanieDeCoster
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Janie-De-Coster-192088097478061/
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Bundesliga 2022 – A year in review
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In the 2022-23 season so far, the Bundesliga is averaging 3.19 goals per game – the highest of Europe's top leagues. In fact, over the entire year of 2022, 912 goals were scored in the Bundesliga.
The first 15 matchdays of the 2022-23 season alone saw 431 goals – making the Bundesliga the top league with the highest number of goals in Europe.
The Bundesliga has also recorded the highest average number of shots on goal per game in Europe's top five leagues so far this season (25.9).
16.4% of all chances were converted in the Bundesliga so far in 2022-23 – the highest share among the top five European leagues, showing how effective Bundesliga players are in front of goal.
The Bundesliga continues to be one of the most exciting leagues in Europe: only 3.7% of games this season ended 0-0, the lowest figure of all European top leagues.
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Two of this year's most surprising teams were 1. FC Union Berlin and SC Freiburg. After both sides qualified for the UEFA Europa League (and subsequently progressed through the group stage). They continued to deliver on the pitch each week in the Bundesliga.
On Matchday 6 of the 2022-23 season, the team from Köpenick made it to the top of the table for the first time in the club's history.
1. FC Union Berlin stayed at the top for a total of seven matchdays. Before them, this feat has only ever been managed by FC Bayern München and Borussia Mönchengladbach.
SC Freiburg finished the year second in the table, reaching the top in Matchday 5 for only the second time in the club's history.
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World-class talent continues to shine
FC Bayern's Jamal Musiala has scored nine Bundesliga goals this season. No other teenager scored as often in the top five leagues. The German international scored more than twice as many as all Premier League teenagers combined (4 goals). Borussia Dortmund's Youssoufa Moukoko, just 17 years old, completed this feat as well scoring six times – including the winner in the Revierderby.
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'Love Is Love' But Is It?
Author: Bob O'Boyle
Every year, somewhere around the beginning of June, you can see the language of social media begin to change in predictable ways. Pride is coming up, and people are eager to celebrate. One of the phrases that you're likely to see popping up everywhere – from major political figures to the t-shirts commercial retail stores put up for sale to the feeds of your friends and families – is the seemingly profound Love Is Love. From the time that it first came from people's mouths, it carried a sort of defiant power; it was the rallying cry of the queer community pushing for marriage equality, trying to get the highest court in the United States to recognize the validity of their relationships. It was a pushback against virulent bigots, an appeal to an allocishet society by queer people for the legal protections they had been denied for decades.
Back in 2015, I was shouting "love is love" as loud as any other Good Ally, thinking that I was doing my level best to help the queer people I knew to be able to live a life just like I did. It seemed like such a simple idea that I couldn't understand why people didn't just 'get it' inherently. Love between two people of the same or similar gender wasn't any different than the love I had for my (now ex) wife, so why shouldn't they be able to enjoy the same privileges I did? The very next year, I was asked by a bisexual friend if I'd ever considered that I might be asexual, and slowly what I thought was the simplest idea in existence became a much more complicated and nuanced thing than I had ever thought possible.
As an asexual person, I don't experience sexual attraction the way that allosexual people do, which inherently changes how I think about and consider the notion of love. Most of society conflates 'love' and 'sex', thinking that one absolutely cannot exist without the other, and that there is – and can be – only one kind of love. In this case it would be romantic love – the love that soulmates share, the love that has inspired some of the most revered works of art, the love that pushed people to fight for the validity of their relationships, pulling an entire country along the progressive path with them. Unfortunately, that's only one facet of the diamond that is love, and an oversized facet at that.
A lot of my dissection of love came by way of interacting with aromantic people, who are similar to asexual people, but not the same. Many times, the asexual and aromantic communities overlap, leading to a lot of shared information between them. Aromantic people could tell you all about the many varied types of love they feel, and diversity of attractions they feel based on them, all either without or with a varying level of romantic attraction. Platonic love is a familiar type for them – and anyone else, really – where there's a draw toward someone in a non-romantic way, otherwise described as friendship. There's also alterous love, which is a bit vaguer, but descriptive of a strong emotional closeness with another person that isn't only romantic or platonic. Aesthetic love is something that basically anyone can say they've experienced, where they have an adoration for the way another person looks, and often stemming from that is sensual love or the love of how a person feels in a physical sense –the warmth of their body against yours, the softness of their skin, the gentle teasing of their hair.
So, given all these various ways that love can be expressed between two people, in addition to merely separating the idea of love from the idea of sex to begin with, how can I possibly take the phrase 'love is love' seriously anymore? Not to mention the fact that it is tied to a very specific kind of love that is often a struggle for asexual people like me to find, and a kind of love that my aromantic siblings experience anywhere from little to none of the time to begin with.
While it started as a rallying cry demanding radical inclusion from a puritanical and bigoted society, it has changed to become just another gate that aspec people have to contend with both in and out of the community. And, as it was back in 2015, most often it is well-meaning allocishet people trying to be good alies who cling to it as a Powerful Notion. Speaking for myself, I'll trade the good intentions of 1,000 self-proclaimed allies for the legitimate understanding and support of one person – or perhaps the retiring of this diluted, toothless expression of upholding the relationship status quo?


un wargame de qualité sur la guerre et les campagnes de la péninsule ibérique de 1808 à 1814.
"Tomb for an Empire" simulates the conflict that took place in the Iberian Peninsula from 1808 to 1814. It was a complex war that involved diverse interests and troops from many nations. Great Britain sent her troops to defend Portugal, within the context of the European Coalitions against France. In Spain proper the war, which presented certain aspects of a civil war, saw an uneasy alliance of reformists and traditionalists under the name of "Patriots" facing the puppet King Jose I Bonaparte and the occupation army; composed mainly of French but also of Italians, Neapolitans, Poles, Germans, Swiss, Dutch and even Spaniards (known as "Juramentados").
- 1 "Tomb for an Empire" booklet including special rules, scenarios, historical notes and designer notes.
"Tomb for an Empire" is not just a game it's a whole gaming experience that includes 6 introductory battle scenarios and 18 campaign scenarios of increasing complexity, from Bailen (lasting less than one full turn) to the full campaign starting any year of the war (scenarios 14 to 18).


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Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.
Song of Solomon 2:15 NIV
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Metaphorically, the "foxes" are the damaging attitudes and actions that can creep in and threaten the love relationship of a couple and a home.  Catching Foxes is committed to being a resource as you guard against the things that might injure and destroy the harvest you are striving to grow in your home.
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Our oldest son, Jon and his wife, Allie.
I have spent a lot of time talking about the death of Mike Brown with my sons this week. It is not out of the ordinary for our family to talk about the news and especially how current events intersect the lives of young people. One particularly hasty conversation took place standing up in my bedroom after they told me they wanted to drive thirty minutes up the highway and join the protests. "Unarmed teens should not be shot dead in the street, Mom. I've been stopped lots of times by the police. I've never been shot at. This isn't right."
Warning: This probably should have been two or three separate posts over the last few weeks. But here we go... a lengthy update on where we are with augmented communication for Nathaniel. The reward is at the end - videos!
Nathaniel and I had our first difficult mother-son conversation a few weeks ago. Well, in reality I was talking; he was not. That was what made it difficult.
I made a very hard decision today to discontinue all of Nathaniel's oral feeding. He is aspirating. I have know something was wrong for months. I have grown increasingly frustrated with oral feeds which most days produce coughing fits and increased suctioning needs. Often the coughing spells end in vomiting. His occupational therapist was aware of the problems. She spent half her weekly therapy session on feeding. Her solution was that the more he ate, the more he would get over his 'gag' sensitivity. I felt like I was getting no answers to my growing concerns and decided to get a second opinion.


GREENSBORO – The Greensboro Fire Department was the largest user of Hahn Fire Apparatus in North Carolina. Our records do not indicate how many units were purchased, and we are not aware of any other departments in our state that ordered Hahns.
Note the Opticom traffic intervention device on top of the cab.
Hahn was based in Hamburg, PA and ceased operations in 1989.


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Q: Parse HTML and look for multiple classes and tags - most elegant way? Currently I have the following code:
author_name = soup.find(True, {"class":["author", "author-name"]})
    if author_name is not None:
        print author_name.text
    else:
        author_name = soup.find(rel="author")
        if author_name is not None:
            print author_name.text
        else:
            print "No Author Found"

I am trying to find the author of an article. Thus I look through the classes for entries like class="author", class="author-name", etc... or rel=author and so forth. If I do it the way I did it will end up in alot of different if and else statements. This does not seem very elegant to me, even though I just recently started coding. Could you guys help me out on how to do this much more elegantly?

A: You could use CSS selectors; these let you specify multiple selection criteria in one string:
soup.select('.author, .author-name, [rel="author"]')

This produces a list, looping would give you the option to find one most to your liking perhaps, or you could just use the next() function to get the first:
for candidate in soup.select('.author, .author-name, [rel="author"]'):
    if candidate.text:
        author = candidate.text
        break
else:
    print "No author found"

The soup.select() call will include any elements that match in document order, so the above will find the first qualifying element regardless of how it qualified; it won't prefer .author-name over tags with rel="author" if the latter is found in the document first.

A: This how i would do it:
results = []
results += soup.select('.author')
results += soup.select('.author-name')
results += soup.select('[rel=author]')


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"Satin Pillows" is a song written by Sonny James & Robert Tubert, which was released by Bobby Vinton in 1965. The song spent 10 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 23, while reaching No. 3 on Canada's "RPM Play Sheet".

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1965 songs
1965 singles
Bobby Vinton songs
Epic Records singles
Songs written by Sonny James

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The Series Culminates On 20 May Same Time As The U.S. At 9am Exclusively On HBO
PHILIPPINES, 14 MAY 2019 – Following the penultimate episode premiere of GAME OF THRONES Season 8 yesterday, HBO has made available several behind-the-scenes videos regarding the episode.
HBO Asia | Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 5: Cast Commentary – The Mad Queen
HBO Asia | Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 5: Cast Commentary – The Hound's Gift
HBO Asia | Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 5: Inside the Episode
HBO Asia | Game of Thrones Season 8: The Game Revealed Episode 5
David Benioff (Executive Producer, Writer) and D.B. Weiss (Executive Producer, Writer) break down Episode 5 in 'Inside The Episode' –
"Jon Snow is someone that she's fallen in love with and as far as she's concerned by this point Jon has betrayed her by telling people about his true identity, and also the fact that he's unable to return her affections at this point. I think that when she says "let it be fear" she's resigning herself to the fact that she may have to get things done in a way that isn't pleasant and she may have to get things done in a way that is horrible to lots of people. She chose violence, and a Targaryen choosing violence is a pretty terrifying thing."
"I don't think she decided ahead of time that she was going to do what she did. And then she sees the Red Keep which is to her, the home that her family built when they first came over to this country 300 years ago. It's in that moment on the walls of King's Landing where she's looking at that symbol of everything that was taken from her, when she makes the decision to make this personal."
In addition, a 35-minute featurette, The Game Revealed Episode 5, delves into the astounding set builds, stunt work, and battles of "The Bells." Production designer Deb Riley, SFX supervisor Sam Conway, VFX producer Steve Kullback, and prosthetics designer Barrie Gower give exclusive interviews alongside series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, episode director Miguel Sapochnik, actors Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) and more to explain how the massacre of King's Landing – from the destruction of the Iron Fleet, to the "Clegane Bowl," to the fall of the Red Keep – came to life.
The series finale of the Emmy®-winning HBO Original series GAME OF THRONES premieres same time as the U.S. on Monday, 20 May at 9am exclusively on HBO.
New trailer for the final episode can be viewed here.
Based on the popular book series "A Song of Ice and Fire," by George R.R. Martin, this HBO award-winning fantasy series chronicles an epic struggle for power in a vast and violent kingdom. Members of the ensemble cast for the eighth season include Emmy® and Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams.
GAME OF THRONES, HBO and Home Box Office are trademarks of Home Box Office, Inc. Used with permission
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ICE ON FIRE, PRODUCED AND NARRATED BY LEONARDO DICAPRIO, DEBUTS 12 JUNE →


On point number 3, they are in alliance store pool. I have over 100 artemis frags I have gotten from alliance store and gold crates.
Apart from that I have all 3. Imagine the following, 3 star heroes are common, 5 star heroes are uncommen / rare and 7 star heroes are SSR (Super Secret Rare) (terms taken from another game). Of course, then the 7 star heroes should be harder to get. If you have a little patience then you will get the heroes too. Brogan I got through the 10 Hero Crate and that only through, in the game earned gold.
Been playing since the game's global launch, Vip 0, I got Artemis by grinding from heronium store and from the recent The Watch faction sale.
Artemis and Prophet definitely show up in the Heronium store, but I'm not certain about the Alliance Store. Brogan doesn't show up in either, though Don't put them in the PVP crate, though; that's pretty much for past and present PVP store heroes only.
It's a shame tbh. Sometimes you can get all 8, but usually not.
That was just an accidental leak, don't worry about it. If there are going to be Level 90 co-ops, the fragment amount will probably be better than 85.


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Époque de Nara
L'influence politique du clan Fujiwara connut un essor pendant la période Asuka. Nakatomi no Kamatari, un membre de la famille Nakatomi (de la basse noblesse) mena un coup d'État contre le clan Soga en 645 et initia rapidement une série de réformes (réforme de Taika). En 669, l'empereur Tenji, qui régna de 661 à 671, accorda le kabane « Fujiwara no Ason » à Kamatari. Ensuite, le nom passa aux descendants de Fujiwara no Fuhito (659-720), le deuxième fils et héritier de Kamatari, qui fut en vue à la cour de plusieurs empereurs et impératrices de la période Nara. Fujiwara no Fuhito fit de sa fille Miyako une concubine de l'empereur Mommu. Et lorsque le prince Obito devint l'empereur Shōmu, Fuhito lui fit épouser une de ses autres filles, Kōmyō. Elle fut la première impératrice du Japon à n'être pas issue de la famille impériale elle-même. Fuhito eut quatre fils et chacun d'eux fonda un clan. Parmi eux, Hokke (la famille du Nord) devint le chef du clan Fujiwara.

Époque de Heian
Pendant la période Heian, la branche Hokke de la famille Fujiwara est parvenue à établir une position de régence héréditaire auprès des empereurs, aussi bien pour les empereurs mineurs (sesshō) que pour les adultes (kanpaku).

De nombreux membres du clan Fujiwara occupent alors des postes clefs auprès de nombreux empereurs. D'autres membres plus modestes comprennent des nobles de cour, des gouverneurs provinciaux, des vice-gouverneurs, des membres de l'aristocratie provinciale ou des samouraïs. Le clan Fujiwara était la plus puissante des quatre grandes familles qui ont dominé la politique japonaise pendant la période de Heian (794-1185). Les autres familles étaient les Tachibana, les Taira et les Minamoto.

Le clan Fujiwara a exercé un énorme pouvoir, particulièrement pendant la période des gouvernements de régence aux s, période qui a connu des empereurs fantoches.

Le clan Fujiwara a dominé le gouvernement du Japon de 794 au règne de l'empereur Go-Sanjō (1068). Il n'y a aucun point de départ clairement établi quant à leur domination.

Les princes Fujiwara ont, au commencement, servi de plus hauts ministres dans la cour impériale (kanpaku) et de régents (sesshō) pour les monarques mineurs.

Le clan Fujiwara était donc la véritable « puissance derrière le trône » pendant des siècles. Ils n'ont apparemment jamais aspiré à supplanter la dynastie impériale. Au lieu de cela, l'influence du clan procédait à des mariages avec la famille impériale. Les épouses des princes et des empereurs étaient souvent des femmes issues du clan Fujiwara. Ainsi, les chefs de la maison Fujiwara étaient en général le beau-père, le beau-frère, l'oncle, ou le grand-père maternel de l'empereur.

La famille a atteint l'apogée de sa puissance sous Fujiwara no Michinaga (966-1027), un kanpaku qui était le grand-père de trois empereurs, le père de six impératrices et le grand-père de sept autres épouses impériales. Il est donc clair que c'est Michinaga qui a régné sur le Japon pendant cette période et non les empereurs en titre.

Le clan Fujiwara a dirigé le Japon jusqu'au règne de l'empereur Go-Sanjō, qui fut le premier empereur depuis l'empereur Uda (au ) dont la mère n'était pas une Fujiwara. L'empereur Go-Sanjō a rétabli la puissance impériale grâce à sa forte personnalité et à des réformes pour diminuer l'influence des Fujiwara.

Les Fujiwara cherchent en vain à regagner leur ancienne puissance en 1156 au cours de la rébellion de Hōgen puis, en 1160, au cours de la rébellion de Heiji. Cependant, la guerre de Genpei détruit définitivement leur puissance et voit l'avènement du clan Minamoto et du premier bakufu.

Époques ultérieures
Au , le clan Fujiwara du Nord (Hokke) se scinda en cinq familles : la famille Konoe, Takatsukasa, Kujō, Nijō et Ichijō. Ces familles continuèrent à se partager à tour de rôle les titres de régents (sesshō et kanpaku), devenus largement honorifiques dans le nouveau système du bakufu dans lequel la noblesse de cour avait perdu tout rôle politique. Les membres du clan Fujiwara continuèrent à occuper des rôles de régents, conseillers et ministres auprès de l'empereur jusqu'au .

Fumimaro Konoe, un descendant célèbre de la lignée, devint premier ministre pendant trois mandats au cours de l'ère Shōwa.

Membres
Voici une liste non exhaustive des membres du clan Fujiwara par ordre alphabétique :

Ōshū Fujiwara
 Fujiwara no Hidehira
 Fujiwara no Kiyohira
 Fujiwara no Motohira
 Fujiwara no Tsunekiyo
 Fujiwara no Yasuhira

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Bibliographie et sources en ligne

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