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Welcome back to the Harry Potter Film Rewatch Project! This installment is certainly…a thing. Both book and film marked the beginning of a solid turning point for their branches of the franchise. For one thing, this was the first Harry Potter film to not be directed by Chris Columbus. While he stayed on as a producer, the director's chair would instead be occupied by Alfonso Cuarón for his first and only contribution to the franchise (so far at least; maybe he'll get pulled in for a Fantastic Beasts story). We'll talk more about the changes Cuarón brought about as the recap goes on.
It also marked the arrival of the new Dumbledore, played by Michael Gambon. Again, we'll get into the effects of that as they come up. And now I will no longer be complaining about child actors in every piece, since everyone now looks more or less close to grown up, and are starting to show promise as actors. It's the first time the students are shown just wearing casual muggle clothing when not in classes, a thing that I know upsets a lot of fans but doesn't really bother me—sorry. And of course, there's a rather drastic tonal shift too. Let's get into this and see what happens!
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We open on…Harry practicing magic. In the Dursley house. Using a spell invented solely for the film. I…uggghhh. I'm going to blame this one on Columbus. The film for Chamber of Secrets did not include the scene where Harry gets a warning for practicing magic outside of school. So I guess Cuarón figured it wouldn't be necessary to hold to the ban now. This certainly makes the fifth movie and the reaction to casting his Patronus…interesting, though I guess given the larger context and what happens when Harry runs into Fudge, maybe Harry was given a free pass this summer?
Okay, so that's the Watsonian excuse I'll use, but I can guess the Doylist excuse too. Cuarón was not super interested in making a faithful adaptation. I don't say that as conjecture or a guess. The man openly admitted that when he first got the job he hadn't planned on reading any of the Harry Potter books at all until his friend and fellow film maker Guillermo del Toro told him that he had to. That is a…curious attitude to develop for someone directing an adaptation, but we won't harp on him any further since that's not truly the point of this project, so I'll only bring up adaptational changes if they impact future films or cause plot holes within the current one.
After the title flashes, summoned by Harry's spell presumably, we get the arrival of Aunt Marge, Vernon's sister who actually was briefly mentioned in the first movie. They pretty quickly establish that she and Harry do not get along well at all, with Marge generally agreeing with and adopting her brother's attitude towards Harry. Harry also attempts to get his uncle to sign a permission slip for school stuff, though the film glosses over what the slip is for. It'll come up later, they just don't do more than mention it's existence for now. Aunt Marge is, well, a Dursley and as such a bit…completely and utterly awful. After going a bit too far insulting Harry's parents (and introducing young children everywhere to the B word) Harry experiences a burst of accidental magic and blows up his aunt. Well, strictly speaking he inflates her, but everyone refers to it as him blowing her up which…I feel like that's not exactly clarity of language, but okay. Harry, understandably worried about the consequences of his accidental actions, packs his suitcase and takes off. Uncle Vernon attempts to stop him, but a thoroughly fed up Harry just pulls his wand on him. Vernon responds with some fear, but also points out that if Harry uses magic he'll be kicked out of school which…okay, I guess the issue of Harry practicing magic in bed late at night can't just be blamed on Columbus…why draw attention to the plot hole you introduced like that? Or why keep in the intro scene, if you knew it was a problem?
Well, Harry runs off and finds himself sitting on the sidewalk outside a park where he sees a really large, scary looking black dog come out of the bushes to bark at him. Also…his breath is visible in this scene, an effect I'm pretty sure was added digitall,y but I concede I'm not certain when that scene in particular was filmed. The thing is, there are no Dementors around, and that dog can't affect the weather so…how cold does Alfonso Cuarón think the British summer is? I mean, I know it's not exactly warm but that's a bit silly.
In the process of trying to fend off the dog Harry summons a magical purple bus, the Knight Bus, which he takes to the Leaky Cauldron. Here is where we see another invention of the film-talking: racist caricature shrunken heads. No, they're not in the books, not even a little, and no, I don't know why Cuarón thought creating them would be a good idea. They only appear in a couple scenes, so we won't be mentioning them again, just…yeesh. There's a good amount of slapstick shenanigans as we learn that magic allows the Knight Bus to drive like crazy and ignore physics and safety, so Harry gets tossed around the upper deck of the bus. He makes it to the Leaky Cauldron intact though, where he is greeted by the owner of the inn, Tom. In this movie Tom is a wizened, strange acting hunchback which…huh. Aside from changes to the book, we saw Tom briefly in the first movie, he was called by name and had a few lines, and he was nothing like this. So something drastic and traumatic happened to him during the intervening year I guess. Good for him not letting it keep him down or drive him into retirement.
The Minister of Magic happens to already be there, waiting for Harry. He tells Harry that Aunt Marge has already been deflated and her memory modified, so no harm done. Harry points out that he did magic outside of school which is against the law which…again, calls the very first scene of the movie into serious question! No, really, what the heck movie, why are you doing that? Stop pointing out that doing magic outside of Hogwarts when you're a student is a serious offense when your movie started with a student doing magic outside of Hogwarts for no reason! It's not even a Chekhov's Gun; that spell he was practicing never comes up again! And fortunately for you readers, that's the last time this comes up so I'm not going to talk about it again. I'm sure you're all relieved by that.
Harry spends the night at the Leaky Cauldron (I'm curious to know if he paid or Fudge covered it—it's never mentioned) and when we see him again he discovers a strange, tightly bound book on a bench in the room. It's fuzzy and makes strange noises, so Harry undoes the binding only for the book to come alive and attempt to attack him, behaving like a snapping turtle and moving like a crab. He manages to eventually subdue it, but it takes a minute. Frankly, it reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin claims that his book ate his homework and he had to break its spine to survive.
Having survived this perilous encounter, Harry goes downstairs to the Leaky Cauldron proper, where he finds Ron and Hermione clutching their respective pets and arguing. Apparently Hermione got a cat at some point, a squashed face, fluffy orange thing named Crookshanks. When and where she got him isn't really explained in the movie. More to the point, just about everything he contributes to the story of the book is left out, only making token appearances so they can say 'look, we included the cat!'. We won't be mentioning him again either, just wanted to acknowledge that they did indeed include the cat.
More importantly, Mr. Weasley takes Harry aside to warn him. He admits that people in the Ministry don't want him to say what he's about to say to Harry, but that he believes the kid has a right to know that, in the opinion of the Ministry, the crazed murderer Sirius Black has escaped from the Wizarding prison of Azkaban specifically for the purpose of finding and killing Harry. He tries to make Harry promise not to go looking for Black, which confuses Harry. He asks why he would go after someone that wants to kill him. Except…that's kind of what he did in the last two movies. Admittedly, he got the identity of the culprit wrong in the first movie, but he still went after the Philosopher's Stone believing that someone who had tried to kill him earlier that year was ahead of him. And in the second one, he knew that the Monster of the Chamber, and possibly the Heir, were down there when he went to save Ginny. He never goes specifically after the person themselves, but Harry and his friends do still tend to deliberately put themselves in the path of villains.
We flash cut to the departure of the Hogwarts Express, where Mrs. Weasley has to run after them to give Ron Scabbers. I wonder if that was the rat trying to escape or if Ron genuinely had a Neville moment? Either way this would have been a very different plot if Ron hadn't brought Scabbers to school. They get on the train, in a compartment with only one other person, largely covered by their blankets, and Harry tells them what Mr. Weasley told him. Hermione is comforting, while Ron blunt and honest about his own concerns, but before anything else can be discussed the train stops. Ice begins to creep across the windows, and the train goes dark, and then, suddenly, a dark figure covered in black appears, a diseased and rotting looking hand forcing the locked door to open. It floats into view and proceeds to start sucking the…layers from Harry? His visibility? It's not entirely clear in the form the film demonstrates.
Though to be fair, there isn't really an easy way to demonstrate having the happiness sucked out of you in a live action drama. A cartoon or comedy could have little emoji smiles being sucked out of you but in a film meant to be taken seriously, it's a little difficult. So how they decided to depict this mostly works.
I say "mostly" because this causes a conflict with the books. I know, I know, this is meant to be a series looking at the films on their own, but if a change causes problems in the movie itself, I'm going to bring it up! I didn't rant about what they did to Crookshanks, so let me have this!
…Ahem. As I was saying, there's a problem here. In the books, the Dementors just emit a general aura of depression and despair. They drain everyone around them, an Area of Effect spell if you will. They certainly are drawn to those who have more despair or trauma in them than others, but on the whole they don't focus solely on one person with any one attack. This is why Harry and other students (Malfoy) interpret his tendency to lose consciousness around them as a personal weakness. Because to anyone with little to no knowledge of Dementors, it does look like Harry is having an unusually strong reaction to the exact same thing happening to everyone else. That's why, in both the book and the movie, Lupin (yes, he's here; don't act like you don't know who he is) has to forcefully tell Harry that his fainting is not about weakness, that he has more trauma in his past then most and thus is more susceptible than most.
The problem with this, is that because they made Dementor attacks visible, we can see that they are attacking Harry and only Harry every time. This means that nobody should have any reason to believe that Harry is weak, because we can all see them zeroing in on the poor boy!
Moving on from that bit of frustration that might just be me overthinking, Harry is saved when the figure under the blanket stands up and pulls his wand, repelling the Dementor with a nonverbal spell. Harry loses consciousness shortly after, but once he wakes up he is helped by a large piece of chocolate given to him by said figure, Remus Lupin. Again, his name hasn't been given yet, but we all know who he is. Lupin leaves to go speak to the driver of the train, and Harry consults Ron and Hermione, learning that neither of them fainted and that neither heard the woman screaming like he did.
A quick transition gets them onto the carriages and then a second cut gets us to the Great Hall, while we hear the voices of Hogwarts' choir and their giant toads, conducted by the newly make-overed Professor Flitwick. Not going to lie, it took me until the sixth movie to realize that this was Flitwick and not just another short professor, since he looks so different and is only ever seen in the context of choir director from this point on. An odd side effect that I doubt Cuarón intended but there you go. Also, the Gryffindor and Slytherin tables seem to have moved to be the two inner tables instead of the two outer ones like in previous films, allowing Draco to mock Harry for fainting which…I don't know how he knows that really. In the book, Neville and Ginny were in the compartment with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and Neville accidentally told Draco. On top of that, Harry was pulled aside after they arrived to be looked over by Madam Pomfrey. In the movie, the only people who saw Harry faint were Lupin, Ron, and Hermione. Ron and Hermione presumably never left Harry's sight so…did Lupin tell Draco? Why would he do that?
Either way, once the song is over (and it is a good song) Dumbledore welcomes them to Hogwarts, and we get our first scene with Gambon-dore. Might as well discuss that particular elephant in the room now. Gambon is an…interesting Dumbledore. Of the two I have seen (still haven't seen Crimes of Grindelwald, after hearing what spoilers I know about the movie I'm not going to see it until it hits DVD if ever, so I can't speak about Jude Law) I do prefer Richard Harris' take. But, that being said, Michael Gambon does have two qualities that Richard Harris did not. For one, he embodies Dumbledore's boundless, ageless, energy much better than Harris did, being a younger actor. He seems far less sedate than Harris. For the other, as the movies go on, Gambon does make for a better general/war leader. Of the two, he seems like the more likely to say to Voldemort "Merely taking your life would not satisfy me, I admit" at any rate. So is Gambon a bad Dumbledore? No, not really, he's just not the one I prefer.
Dumbledore gives them a speech, warning them about the Dementors, and then we go to the Gryffindors heading off to the Common Room. We get a bit of comedic relief shenanigans from the Fat Lady, because she wasn't in the second movie but will be slightly important to this one and thus must be reintroduced, and then they go to bed.
The first class we get to see this time is Divination. Emma Thompson is, in all honesty, a freaking amazing Professor Trelawney. Genuinely, as good for the character as Maggie Smith was for McGonagall or Robbie Coltrane was for Hagrid. The main purposes here are to show Hermione disliking a class (though since Hermione doesn't drop the class until the very last scene involving the subject and Trelawney there's not much payoff) to introduce Trelawney herself, and to reveal a running motif in the form of the Grim, a dog that many wizards and witches believe to be a death omen that Harry sees in his tea leaves. And not subtly either, it's rather explicit for tea leaves. It does rather resemble the large dog he saw the night he fled the Dursleys, though it also curiously enough bears a strong resemblance to the House Stark Direwolf.
Go ahead, tell me I'm wrong
We then move on to the next class, Care of Magical Creatures. At the welcome feast from the beginning it was revealed that Hagrid had been promoted to the position of Professor for that class which does raise the question of who's taking care of his duties of Groundskeeper now that he's a Professor. Does he just have to do both things? And if so, does that mean that Hagrid is getting paid more than the other teachers since he has two jobs?
Well, whatever the logistics of this, Hagrid takes his students to see a Hippogriff named Buckbeak, a temperamental and deeply prideful creature named Buckbeak. Harry manages to earn his respect, and gets a very neat looking ride out over the lake. Draco then proceeds to be an absolute idiot and purposefully mocks the creature he was told not to insult on pain of a mauling, resulting in him getting slashed across the arm by Buckbeak's talons. This does result in shattering Hagrid's confidence and getting Buckbeak sentenced to execution, but it's a weirdly risky move to take just to essentially troll Hagrid.
Hermione urges Hagrid to take Draco to the Hospital Wing and…okay, her Time Turner is clearly visible around her neck! It's not even hidden behind the tie; we can very clearly see the hourglass part of it! What the heck movie? You've already had, and will continue to have, moments of Ron being confused when Hermione arrives at classes suddenly or commenting that her schedule requires her to be in two places at once. We don't need more foreshadowing, and it certainly shouldn't come in the form of Ron being an idiot!
Well, regardless, it's time to move on to the next class. Defense Against the Dark Arts with Professor Lupin. And this one is…interesting. He sets them to deal with a Boggart, a strange shapeshifter that turns into whatever the person in front of it fears most. He sets Neville against it first, hoping to boost the boy's confidence. Though strangely for a teacher, he whispers the key to defeating a Boggart into Neville's ear, which certainly increases dramatic tension but isn't very helpful for the other students. Well, they manage to work it out, and the key is to say the spell and picture a humorous version of what you fear most, which will force the Boggart to take that form, confusing and weakening it. We get to see a few students' Boggarts, with the penultimate one being Parvati Patil. Her Boggart is a giant cobra, and what she turns it into is…uhm…
Yeah that's not less scary than a giant cobra Parvati. Less threatening one hopes, if that jack in the box is sentient than there's no hope for humanity, but uhm…Padma? You might want to get your sister to a therapist. Or at least keep an eye on her lest she become a murderer, because finding that clown the less scary thing is probably a significant warning sign.
Well, after Parvati comes Harry, and here we have to talk about another change between book and movie. In the book, Lupin places himself between the Boggart and Harry before it can shift. He later explains to Harry that he was worried that the Boggart would take the form of Voldemort and panic the class (how Harry would know what Voldemort looked like, since it seems unlikely that History of Magic textbooks would include pictures of him and Harry had only seen adult him sticking out the back of Quirrell's head isn't really explained). In the movie, Lupin offers up this exact same explanation…but puts himself between Harry and the Boggart after the creature shifts into a Dementor, meaning that this makes no sense. I mean, I get that you needed to show that Lupin's fear was the full moon, you had to foreshadow that Lupin is a werewolf after all, but I don't know why it couldn't have happened the same as it did in the book.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to keep harping on this, and truthfully none of these deviations from the book are deal breakers, but there's lots of little changes like this that cause little plot holes or moments of confusion in the film and I have to point them out. Columbus largely stuck to the books, so this didn't happen as much in the previous two, but it happens a lot here and I can't not address it!
Moving on (sorry), we see the other students heading off to the nearby village of Hogsmeade, apparently the only all magical community in the UK. Harry attempts to go along, but requires a legal guardian's permission and, since he didn't, can't go. He winds up talking to Lupin instead, which is when we get the explanations for why Lupin put himself between Harry and when Lupin tells him that he knew Harry's parents. It's a nice, quiet moment, and the debut of the Hogwarts covered bridge, an invention of Cuarón that managed to become a significant reoccurring feature in both the movies to come and the fandom.
After that though, things begin to go downhill. For Harry that is, not the audience. The movie isn't about to spiral downhill, don't fear. When Harry attempts to return to Gryffindor tower, he is prevented by a large crowd, and the fact that, not only has the Fat Lady fled her painting, it's been hacked at with a knife. Apparently Sirius Black attempted to break into the tower, and then attacked the painting when she wouldn't let him in. Which is, honestly kind of hilariously petulant and petty on Sirius' part. I mean, it didn't help him any, and it left tangible proof he'd been there which only resulted in security tightening. Which does, with the front doors of Hogwarts being barred in a pretty cool scene and the students having a sleepover in the Great Hall. The ceiling of which is now showing galaxies and nebula. Is that a setting Dumbledore activated to distract the students? Because that ceiling is supposed to reflect the actual sky. That's not a book change either, we're told that very fact in the first movie. So either it's in some sort of special setting, or else Hogwarts isn't really on Earth.
On to more important matters though. We cut to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, where Snape storms in abruptly, having a projector already setup and ready to teach them about werewolves and animagi. It is a little jarring to see the projector, but given that earlier in the film we saw a magical bus I'm not too bothered. We get another bit of foreshadowing the time turner, with neither Ron nor Harry sure where Hermione came from when she suddenly responds to Snape's lesson plan, but mostly this is more werewolf foreshadowing, with some foreshadowing for Sirius and Peter as well.
It then leads into our only Quidditch match of the movie, resulting in one of the two times I'm going to be annoyed that they cut out the other matches, because it was actually a nice and significant subplot in this book. The main point of it is that it's a massive thunder and lightning storm, to the extent that the Hufflepuff seeker (Cedric? Maybe? I don't really know, he's not named and doesn't talk which…is going to hurt the fourth movie. Not a lot, but a bit.) Harry looks up and sees the image of the grim in the clouds (see the above picture comparison to the House Stark direwolf for a visual) which uhm…is certainly more dramatic but…uh..huh. Okay, now, Harry did see the grim during this match, but he saw an actual, physical dog in the Forbidden Forest, the same dog that he saw after fleeing the Dursleys. Because that dog is Sirius, who can't resist occasionally getting a glimpse of his god son. That's sort of the point of the grim: it's not a real omen, it's just a coincidence done to highlight that most of what Trelawney says is nonsense. So…why's there one in the clouds? Is it an actual omen? I mean, what else could it be, right?
The more important occurrence though is that the Dementors show up, drawn by the excitement of the fans and audience. Quite a few fly up through the clouds to where Harry is, and we get a rather gross look at a Dementor's mouth before Harry passes out and falls from his broom. He gets caught by Professor Dumbledore, but his broom unfortunately gets trashed by the Whomping Willow. We then cut to Harry and Lupin talking and walking near the lake, which is when Lupin explains why exactly Harry is so affected by the Dementors. Harry asks Lupin to teach him how to repel Dementors, like the Professor did on the train, and Lupin agrees, with the caveat that he can't do so until after the winter holidays.
With the promise of defense training secured, Harry attempts to sneak into Hogsmeade under the invisibility cloak. A rather…stupid plan, given that he knows there are Dementors patrolling the perimeter of the grounds, though I suppose nobody in the film has stated whether or not the things can see through them so maybe it's not that bad. It's a moot point though, because apparently at some point Fred and George found out about Harry's invisibility cloak and so they stop him, forcibly dragging him to a small alcove where they gift him the Marauder's Map, a magical item that shows the majority of Hogwarts (though we won't learn about the parts not on the map until later, though one assumes the Chamber of Secrets wasn't on it) and where everyone in it is located. It also, critically, shows where a secret passage out of the school is. Harry leaps at the chance, sneaking out to Hogsmeade and messing with Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle before spending time with Ron and Hermione. Eventually though they spot a group of significant adults gathering in the local inn, and Harry sneaks after them to eavesdrop. This is when he learns that Sirius Black is his godfather, and he runs off, understandably upset by this revelation. He even vows tearfully to kill Sirius in a powerful scene that manages to come off as genuinely sad rather than whiny or silly.
That's how we end the holidays though, cutting forward to Harry's first defense against Dementors lesson. Lupin explains what he plans to teach Harry: an advanced spell called the Patronus Charm. It relies on the wizard or witch casting it to think of a very happy memory, and then takes that positive energy and creates a sort of shield to drive them away, or at least keep them away. He asks Harry to figure out a good memory, and then, when Harry says he's ready, opens the trunk, unleashing a Dementor. Well, strictly speaking it's a Boggart, but I just adore the idea of Lupin wrestling an actual Dementor and forcing it into a trunk. Repeatedly actually, since he manages to get it back in after Harry passes out. And no, it's never explained how a Boggart taking the form of a Dementor has Dementor powers, but to be fair to the movie the book doesn't explain either so oh well. Like I said, Harry fails his first attempt, but manages to succeed on the next, creating a cupped shield that holds back the Boggart.
In the next scene, we see Harry sneaking around the castle at night, looking at the Marauder's Map and following the path of someone the map has labeled Peter Pettigrew, the man he recently learned Sirius killed the night Harry's parents died. However, he is doing this openly, not under the cloak, and with his wand out and lit up. Kind of a stupid thing to do when breaking curfew, which unsurprisingly gets Harry caught by Snape, then rescued by Lupin. It's uhm, kind of strange honestly. Getting caught out of the dormitory after curfew was enough to get Harry sent into the Forbidden Forest to track down something that was killing unicorns in the first movie, and that was when he was caught by a teacher who liked him. Odd that Snape lets him off scot free. Lupin confiscates the Map, not happy that Harry's sneaking around unsupervised when Sirius Black has proven capable of getting into the school. Harry is mainly interested in telling him about spotting Peter Pettigrew on the map though, which makes Lupin look pensive but surprisingly does not send Lupin on the hunt.
Instead we cut to the aftermath of a Divination class, where Harry sees Sirius' face laughing in a crystal ball. Yeah…this film is really not agreeing with Rowling's 'Divination is mostly crap with occasional moments of usefulness' message. Curious, I wonder why. Either way, the main reason for this scene is Trelawney falling into a trance, uttering a 'true prophecy' one that is a lot more clear and unlikely to spur different outcomes depending on how the listener reacts to it than her last prophecy interestingly enough. Harry shakes it off though, heading down to be with Hagrid before Buckbeak's execution. Which, rather strangely since the Killing Curse exists, is to be carried out with an ax. And it had been four years since Goblet of Fire was published so we know the film makers knew. And I know that in the book the executioner had an ax but…Rowling was pretty blatantly making the rules up as she went along at this stage, since multiple spells are introduced in the fourth book that should have resulted in a very different ending for the third, so I'd have forgiven them for cutting out the ax. I mean, the guy's dressed like a medieval executioner anyway, it's not like we would have had trouble knowing who he was if he didn't have that ax. But this is just me nitpicking.
The main important thing here is that this is when Ron is given Scabbers (the rat had gone missing earlier and was presumed dead) in Hagrid's hut. The rat is not happy about this though, and escapes. They chase after him, but right as Ron grabs him the dog from before grabs him, hauling him into a tunnel under the Whomping Willow. After some shenanigans involving Hermione and Harry riding the Willow's branches and getting swung around, the manage to go after their friend, which is when they learn that Sirius Black is an animagus. Harry attacks Sirius and pins him to the ground, holding his wand to the escaped convict's face. Sirius just laughs and asks Harry if he's going to kill him. Harry keeps his wand on him, but before he can decide whether or not he's capable of killing Lupin arrives, immediately disarming Harry. And miracle of miracles, expelliarmus doesn't cause a flash of bright light that sends whoever it hit flying this time. For a moment, as Lupin taunts Sirius about his looks, it feels as though he just didn't want Harry to be the one to kill Sirius, but after Sirius taunts back Lupin smiles and helps him to his feet, giving him Harry's wand.
This understandably confuses the heck out of the kids, prompting feelings of betrayal. As Lupin attempts to explain what the heck is going on, not helped by Sirius' raving, Snape arrives. Why is Snape here? Lupin is understandable since he has the Map, but nothing in the movie explains why Snape would show up. Snape gets Harry's wand from Sirius, then threatens the other two adults. Sirius and Lupin have some rather amusing banter here, with Snape even commenting on it, but when Snape tells the kids to get out, Harry responds by casting expelliarmus on the Potions Professor…which causes a flash of bright light that sends the person it hit flying.
Well, Harry in this case but the point remains
Harry demands an explanation, which Sirius and Lupin give, and after a bit of pleading and yelling, they reveal Scabbers to be Peter Pettigrew. Lupin and Sirius are ready to kill the rather gross traitor on the spot, but Harry convinces them to take him to Hogwarts for the Dementors. They proceed to attempt to do so, but unfortunately it's the full moon, and Lupin proceeds to transform. Sirius attempts to keep him calm, but is batted aside, and Peter takes the opportunity to escape, turning into a rat. Strangely, when he transforms he shrinks and runs out of his clothes. I say this is strange because when he was forced to turn back into a human just minutes ago, he was fully dressed. Plus, Sirius is still wearing his prison clothes, even though we know he's repeatedly transformed. So…why didn't they change with him this time?
Either way, Peter escapes and Sirius is out of sight. Help then arrives in the form of Snape, who storms onto the scene looking furious and ready to cuss out Harry, but then immediately puts himself between the werewolf and the three students. And then, after they get knocked down and Lupin is distracted by Sirius in dog form, he does so again. I've heard this scene derided as out of character, but I can't agree. Yes, Snape is a petty, petulant bully, a poor teacher, his obsession with Lily is creepy, and anything salvageable about him is only made so by Alan Rickman's performance. But…honestly, I feel safe in saying that yes, the slimy git would try to protect three students from imminent mortal peril, however much he disliked them.
Lupin is distracted by the howl of what sounds like another werewolf and runs off, but Sirius and Harry are pursued by Dementors. Both are unable to hold off the sheer number of the things that arrive to attack, and collapse to the ground, the Dementors managing to almost pull off the dreaded Kiss on Sirius (apparently it's a ranged attack despite being called a kiss), but then a glowing white stag appears and forces them away. Harry passes out, but then wakes up in the Hospital Wing, along with Ron and Hermione, the former of whom has his leg in a cast. Dumbledore arrives, and they tell him that Sirius is innocent. The Headmaster does believe them, but tells them that nobody else is likely to and they need to make a plan. He then proceeds to tell Hermione that she has the means to save two lives and that three turns should suffice before leaving. He is, for some reason, very cryptic despite being alone with the three people least likely to rat him out, but Hermione figures it out and uses her Time Turner, taking herself and Harry back in time. They manage to pull off a bunch of neat tricks, saving Buckbeak, then themselves from Lupin, then Harry masters the Patronus to save himself and Sirius, and then they free Sirius, who flies off on Buckbeak.
Overall Thoughts
Wow that was a long recap! And I skipped over quite a few scenes, did my best to focus on what I felt was important and still! Whoo boy. This does not bode well for the future installments of this project. Well, not for me anyway. You guys might like it, tell me in the comments if I was too wordy.
So, how was the movie? I like it. I really do like it a lot. It has flaws to be sure, notice the multiple times I ground myself to a halt to talk about plot holes created by changes Cuarón made. And it is very clear that, unlike Columbus, Cuarón was less interested in making a faithful adaptation then he was in leaving his mark on the series. And he certainly did that. Cuarón might never have directed a Harry Potter movie after this one, but it's pretty clear that the successive movies were more interested in following him than Columbus. To be fair, it did work. Of the Harry Potter movies that were adaptations of books, this is my favorite one. Chamber of Secrets is by far the better adaptation, but this is, in my opinion at least, the better film. Which is kind of depressing considering that we have five more films to go. Oh well, got nobody to blame but myself! See you all next time!
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I don't want to feel, and if I run they'll be twice as strong.
I try to separate , Try to separate my body from my mind.
I watch the clock as the second hand slowly goes strolling by.
I try to separate, try to separate my body from my mind.
You know, this feeling just ain't right.
Cold winds blowin' through me with an icy touch.
I wait for a warning, I'm waiting for some kind of sign.
Try to separate my body from my mind.
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Some European doctors think that Chinese medicine should come with a health warning
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Herbs to increase the supply of breast milk and heal the spleen. Traditional remedies that promise to cure insomnia and acne. Secret treatments against cancer that have been ignored or suppressed by Western medicine.
Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine (MTC) have a long history of huge claims, especially in the case of fertility and virility, where the demand for tiger penis and rhino horn has devastated wild populations.
Charlatanería and false claims exist in all branches of medicine, but doctors in Europe are concerned that claims not verified under the pretext of traditional Chinese medicine are disseminated throughout the world by social networks, helped by World Health Organization (WHO).
Two important European scientific and medical bodies say that WHO has legitimized all forms of traditional Chinese medicine by including traditional Chinese medicine in the next edition of the International Statistical Classification of Related Diseases and Health Problems (DCI), a very influential compendium used by health professionals across the globe.
The inclusion of TCM "may lead some to see it as a legitimation of what are really unfounded claims," the Scientific Advisory Council of the European Academies (EASAC) and the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM) warned in a statement set this month. .
"There is a risk of deceiving patients and doctors and increasing pressures for public health systems to reimburse at a time of limited resources," the statement said.
More generally, there is a growing concern that people who turn to the Internet for home remedies may be exposed to serious harm. For example, black ointment, which claims to treat tumors but actually burns meat and can leave people with horrible disfigurements.
"Social networks now facilitate obtaining (misleading information)," said George Griffin, professor of Infectious Diseases and Medicine at St. George's, University of London. "Unscrupulous people who want to sell these products can easily put things on social media without any formal verification."
One of the basic principles of traditional Chinese medicine, as generally defined, is that vital energy, or qi, circulates through channels in the body that connect to various organs and functions. MTC therapies, such as cupping, acupuncture or herbal treatments, seek to activate these channels or balance someone's qi.
Although the methods have been in use for hundreds of years, critics argue that there is no verifiable scientific evidence that the qi really exists.
While the traditional Chinese medicine industry has an estimated value of $ 130 billion in China alone, and the country's leaders have struggled to promote the practice, until recently it has struggled heavily to gain widespread acceptance outside of East of Asia.
The wide variety of alleged benefits of some forms of TCM can be amazing. In a review of acupuncture alone, the Society for Science-Based Medicine, a US-based lobbyist. In the US, he found professionals who offer treatments for everything from cancer, stroke, Parkinson's disease and heart disease, to asthma and autism.
In 2009, researchers at the University of Maryland surveyed 70 systematic reviews of traditional medicines, including acupuncture, herbal treatments and moxibustion, burning herbs near the skin. They found that no study demonstrated a strong conclusion in favor of traditional Chinese medicine due to insufficient evidence or poor research methodology.
This lack of scientific rigor has created space for often extravagant claims about the capabilities of TCM in the treatment of certain disorders, something driven by the handful of treatments related to TCM that have scientifically proven to be beneficial. In 2015, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize in medicine for her work on malaria that was based on traditional practices and folklore.
Other products derived from herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine have also shown benefits in scientifically controlled experiments, claiming traditional Chinese medicine in the eyes of many professionals, and new research has been requested in this area, as well as in other ancient remedies that They could have clues to future medical advances.
However, what worries many scientists and doctors is that, instead of these experiments and findings that increase the reputation of an individual drug, they are often presented as proof of the validity of the entire field of traditional Chinese medicine, great part of which has no scientific basis. And it can be potentially dangerous.
"The treatments included in the broad TCM category are very different from each other," said European doctors. "They can only be considered to form a group of therapies from the perspective of history / ethnology (" traditional ") and geography (Chinese)."
Griffin, who helped draft the joint European declaration, told CNN that "our concern is that by having this in the ICD, people who are not critical, who are not medical or scientific, can take this as a sign that the WHO has full confidence in traditional Chinese medicine. "
A WHO spokesman said earlier this year that the inclusion of traditional Chinese medicine in the new guidelines, "was not an endorsement of the scientific validity of any traditional medicine practice or the effectiveness of any traditional medicine intervention."
Despite this, Dan Larhammer, president of EASAC, a general body representing the national scientific academies of the EU member states, as well as Norway and Switzerland, said it was "very likely that proponents of traditional medicine China interpret it this way. "
China's state news agency, Xinhua, seemed to confirm concerns about the measure that is interpreted as a backup by stating that it was "an important step for Chinese Traditional Medicine to globalize."
Doubtful Claims
On Facebook and YouTube, doubtful claims about the effectiveness of the use of TCM products in the treatment of cancer and other important disorders are readily available. A page that drives traditional Chinese medicine, "The truth about cancer," has more than 1.3 million likes on Facebook, and encourages users to follow a tour of Asia in search of alternative treatments.
"What would happen if effective, proven and economical cancer therapies were available? Would you choose them instead of toxic chemotherapy and radiation? ", Says Truth About Cancer. "There is ample evidence to support the claim that the" war on cancer "is largely a fraud and that multinational pharmaceutical companies are" running the program. "
The truth about cancer did not respond to a request for comment. Many other pages on Facebook make similar claims, both about the potential effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine and against conventional medical practices.
Technology companies have begun to take strong measures against deceptive medical claims. In September, Google announced that it was banning "the advertising of unproven or experimental medical techniques such as most stem cell therapy, cell (non-mother) and gene therapy," and Facebook also promised "minimize the health content that be sensational or misleading. "
While Facebook and Google have been praised for their recent efforts, the repression has had a limited effect. On both Facebook and YouTube, owned by Alphabet, Google's parent company, health healing cures still abound. Its prevalence has coincided with the continuous increase in the anti-vaccination movement, which has had significant negative effects on public health in some countries.
While many patients may see benefits when using alternative treatments, including traditional Chinese medicine, along with other medications, the risks arise when people avoid intervention because they are being treated with non-scientific cures.
In particular, Apple founder Steve Jobs repeatedly ignored doctors' recommendations on how to treat cancer that eventually killed him, choosing instead to use acupuncture and herbal remedies.
TCM products are not necessarily harmless either. An exhaustive review of the medications and health products that were sold under the TCM label in Hong Kong last year found that many were "severely compromised by the practice of adulteration," with potentially serious side effects, while in some cases, Acupuncture has been related to organs. and tissue lesions, infection and other adverse reactions.
"The most important risk is that people and patients rely on unproven methods and refrain from using evidence-based methods," said Larhammer, president of EASAC.
"Patients lose time and money by relying on useless methods that can, at best, provide a placebo response that is generally transient. Some alternative medicine methods, including traditional Chinese medicine, involve side effects, especially herbal extracts. "
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Alleged OnePlus 7 real-life picture shows off pop-up camera
by Anton D. NagyMarch 4, 2019 10:00 am
We've seen a handful of OnePlus 7 renders earlier this morning, and, along the lines of what we've seen, we're now looking at an alleged real-life picture of the phone. As the vivo V15 and V15 Pro have an "elevating" camera, it makes sense for OnePlus to use a similar approach. OnePlus, vivo, OPPO, and Realme are all sister companies with the same parent, BBK Electronics.
We're looking at a rather generous screen-to-body ratio, as there is no notch, no punch hole, and almost imperceptible bezels. The picture also shows the pop-up camera in its ejected state, while the screen shows the Facial Recognition setup screen. The camera seems to be offset to the left, pretty much like in the case of the vivo NEX. The rest of the device looks similar to the OnePlus 6 and 6T.
The details are nicely falling into place but we're positive that there will be mode rumors and leaks involving the OnePlus 7 between now and its official debut.
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Alois Brunner, born 8 April 1912 in Nádkút, Vas, Austria-Hungary, SS-Hauptsturmführer in the Gestapo, commander of the Drancy internment camp, oversaw deportations of tens of thousands of Jews from France, Austria, Salonika and Slovakia to extermination camps, assistant to Adolf Eichmann, fled to Syria after the war to avoid prosecution, known in Syria as Dr. Georg Fischer, condemned to death in abstentia in France in 1954, object of many manhunts and investigations over the years by different groups, serious injured several times by Israeli Mossad letter bombs, interviewed by Bunte magazine in 1985, lived in an apartment building on 7 Rue Haddad in Damascus, probably died in Syria in 2010 and buried somewhere in Damascus, said in an interview in 1987:
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Pinterest as a social network is quite valuable, but it's also tricky to use. It's unlike anything most of us experience with social media marketing. There aren't the same traditional relationships or interactions we've come to expect. Pinterest does things its own way, and it's up to use to adapt to use it the way it's meant to be used.
One thing you might be interested to see is a list of the top performing content on Pinterest. It's always good to see what's popular, what's trending, and what you can emulate to get the most out of your own marketing, right?
The bad news is that Pinterest doesn't provide the information you're looking for. There's no trending feed, no top posts section, and nothing to really indicate what is and isn't making its way around circulation. Your home feed is tailored to your interests based on boards you've followed and the Pinterest sorting algorithm. There's not "top posts" or "most popular" option to choose to see what's catching the wind.
There are, however, a few things you can find out just by using Pinterest itself, and a lot more you can find using third party tools.
When you sign into Pinterest, you're presented with your customized home feed. This feed is a curated mess of content that suits your interests and is relatively recent. It's a mix of content from people you follow, content from boards you like, and content similar to what you enjoy.
This is a test account that I used to search for templates for a different post, and now those templates are showing up as recommended content.
This isn't a very reliable way of determining what's popular, of course. You have to spend the time manually clicking through various pins in hopes of finding the popular content, and even then, it's just popular amongst the interests you've gathered and chosen.
That said, this is the kind of curation you should be doing for your business and marketing. Carefully choose your interests. Whenever you see content you don't really like, or that doesn't fit with the kind of content you want to see on your board, click the little dots beneath the pin and click "hide" or, if it's dramatically outside of your interests, "unfollow topic". These will help you curate what you see, which helps ensure that the popular content you see is the popular content your followers will like to see as well.
As you might expect, the content that tends to do well on Pinterest tends to be top lists, DIY tips, art, and anything really visual. Less visual content or content not formatted to work with Pinterest's display resolution tends to fall through the cracks.
You know how one of the more common techniques for finding keywords you can use for your SEO is to go to Google and play around with their autocomplete? I might not stress about keywords, but a lot of people do, so it's a frequently used technique.
Pinterest has something similar. You can click in the search bar and Pinterest will recommend some "trending ideas". These trends tend to be relevant to your chosen interests, again, but those interests should be what you're looking for in the first place.
Across the top of the screen, before the pins but below the search bar, you'll see a series of boxes with keywords in them. These help further refine your search and are also recommended based on popularity. Again, how popular the individual pins within each search are depends on a lot, but you can see what topics are trending at any given time within your interests.
Pinterest's trends are localized, which means they're only really relevant to your interests and to tertiary interests that share something in common with those interests you've chosen or had assigned to you. I tend to use it more as a discovery tool and some basic Pinterest keyword research rather than reliable analytics. Through recommended suggestions you can find niche subjects within your industry, and get ideas on what you might want to cover.
Pinterest has analytics, but there are a few drawbacks to this.
First of all, in order to even access Pinterest analytics, you need to upgrade your account to a Pinterest business account. It's free to do, much like how Instagram handles business accounts, so you may as well.
Upgrading to a business account, if you haven't already done so as a marketer and business owner, gives you access to a lot of additional content. You get new data fields for your profile to help further customize the content you see. You get website insights and insights about how you're performing on Pinterest. And, most crucially, you get a reading of your best pins.
When you first log into Pinterest analytics you are presented with a handful of charts and graphs. These show you the summary of your activity for the past week and your impressions for the past month. It's not really about trends, just your recent performance. You'll need to click through to your profile performance to see how your account has been performing.
When you click through to this section, choose a date range. Then click the "clicks" tab, which will show you click activity. The default display shows you impressions which, if you know anything, you know are terrible. Impressions just count the number of eyes that potentially could have seen your pin in passing in their feeds, that's all. It's not a worthwhile or reliable metric.
So here's the trick. When you see the pins for various topics and the clicks they've gotten, they can be pins from anyone, but they are pins you specifically have saved to one of your boards. This means you can pin content you haven't covered on your site, and watch your Pinterest analytics to see if your audience likes the subject. If the audience does like the subject, you can write your own content and pin it later, to show that you too can cover it and to capture that attention.
There's a lot more information you can gather from Pinterest analytics, but most of it isn't relevant to picking the most popular pins on the site, so I'll leave it to this excellent guide to further explain it.
Again, though, the biggest drawback with using the native Pinterest analytics is that it can only show your own pins. It shows analytics data about the content you pin to your boards, but it won't even show you pins of your website made by other people. There's no easy way to link up those sets of data, so the best you can do is get analytics of your own local sphere.
You may have noticed that the article/guide I just linked to is from Tailwind, and that it mentions Tailwind as a tool you can use in conjunction with Pinterest Analytics. This is true! Tailwind is one of several tools you can use to get information about Pinterest above and beyond what your basic analytics will provide.
Tailwind has a 30-day trial when you want to use it with Pinterest, which is generally plenty to help you determine if it's something you want to keep using or not. When you use Tailwind, they show you a screen for your followers, one for your pins, one for repins, and one for comments.
Tailwind also shows you a series of scores, based on their own calculations. They estimate how viral your account is, what your engagement is and how it ranks, and what your engagement rate is on average. It's all useful information to see.
The Tailwind Pin Inspector is a sub-tool that will analyze all of your recent pins, up to 5,000 of them, and will be able to filter them by date, number of comments, number of saves, and more.
One of the better features of Tailwind is the ability to set Power Pins, the best performing pins, on their own rotations. You can tell the app to recirculate your best pins on a regular schedule, to keep them alive and keep people engaging with them. It's a way to make your best pins better.
There are a few other tools you can use besides just Tailwind, and I won't blame you for looking around.
Cyfe is a sort of analytics aggregator that includes widgets for dozens of different platforms ranging from Google ads to Pinterest to MailChimp. It's a sort of build-your-own or DIY analytics suite with payment depending on what you want to use, which makes it fit in quite well with Pinterest.
ViralWoot is a Pinterest-focused social media scheduling and analytics app. The analytics being the important part, it has a lot of useful influencer marketing tools and other useful widgets. In particular, it helps you discover your top performing pins and ways to connect with others in your niche.
Google Analytics shows you the equation from the other end. Rather than scanning Pinterest to show you which pins perform the best, you can check which posts on your site are getting the most traffic from Pinterest. It's easy to see, and you can even trace it back to the original pin, even if that pin wasn't created by your team.
Nothing can really get you more information than what Pinterest provides on their own, though. Since Pinterest doesn't have one unified feed or even highly visible metrics and filters, you're just going to have to estimate the best you can from what you're given. If you want to see the best content on Pinterest as a whole, you're better off looking elsewhere. Anything performing well on Twitter or Reddit is likely to be performing well on Pinterest as well.
On top of that, you might be able to get some decent data simply from Google's image search. As you've probably realized over the years, Pinterest has come to dominate Google's image search. It's one massive domain with a lot of SEO value behind it, and it's a ton of images with relevant text behind them, so it's very easy to index. The shortcoming, of course, is that when your image is in search from Pinterest, it's not directing traffic to your site, it's sending it to Pinterest. Even if Pinterest then ferries it on to you, it's not very reliable. There will always be attrition.
My best advice for Pinterest is to simply watch and keep your eyes open. You can capture traffic from Pinterest simply by making the option available and by using high quality images in your blog posts. You don't necessarily have to dig into competitive analytics to be successful.
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In an effort to empower an emerging youth leader in the field of international philanthropy, the International Community Foundation has sponsored Morgan Hicks, an 18-year- old resident of Carmel Valley and a senior at the Bishop's School in La Jolla, to represent the International Community Foundation at the One Young World Summit in Zurich, Switzerland, in early September. Hicks will be joined by over 1,600 other "under 25s" from every country across the globe including 94 other delegates from the United States.
One Young World is the world's first global youth leadership summit, aiming to bring together delegates aged 25 and under from every one of the world's 192 countries. One Young World combines the social power of the internet with the energy and ideas of global youth to address the most challenging issues of today.
One Young World focuses on plenary sessions at which delegates are guided by a group of international luminaries including former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan; Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu; musician activist Bob Geldof; Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus; Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and Doctors without Borders Co-Founder, Bernard Kouchner among others.
The inaugural One Young World summit took place in London between Feb. 8-10, 2010. The Second Annual One Young World Summit will be held in Zurich, Switzerland from Sept. 1-4, 2011.
"The One Young World summit is a unique international convening that brings together some of the most inspirational emerging young leaders from across the globe" said Richard Kiy, president & CEO of the International Community Foundation. Kiy noted that the International Community Foundation is proud to have Morgan Hicks representing our institution in Zurich.
The International Community Foundation sponsorship of Morgan Hicks comes as a result of her voluntary service and philanthropic efforts in collaboration with the International Community Foundation over the past two-and-a-half-years to launch the Youth International Philanthropy Council (YIPC), and helping to raise monies leading to the construction of a playground benefiting IPODERAC, A.C, a Puebla, Mexico based charity providing an alternative home for abandoned and neglected children and youth.
Over the past summer, Morgan has been working with the International Community Foundation in the development of "The Teenager's Guide to International Giving" which will be published in October 2011. The International Community Foundation's sponsorship of Hicks to the One Young World Summit was made possible through the generous support of donor Antonio Diaz through his San Diego-Tijuana Talented Youth Opportunities Fund at the International Community Foundation.


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Q: Can't login to Costco.com with Selenium I'm working on a online purchase bot for costco.com and I've run into a blocker. Upon providing correct username and password combination on the login page and clicking "login", a bot don't login. This only occurs when running through browser automation.
Especially  If I run manually chrome and manually  enter the user\pwd and login will succeed.
After I signout costco.com and turn off chrome, In this case when again I run bot in 1-2 minutes, bot login costco.
Just wondering if there's a workaround for this issue. Here is my code thus far:
import unittest
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userdata_path = "C:\\Users\\Administrator\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Profile3"
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My friend had to cancel our breakfast date. She was not feeling well so we will get together in the next couple of days.
Before I left the house the blood bank called for me to give blood. They call every 56 days of before. I'm "O" negative and CMV negative so my blood goes to the babies. I wonder how many babies have my blood running through their little veins. Hopefully I have helped.
I also read an email from my friend who has prayed about my situation. She has asked God why he took Kathryn and his replay to her was that her duty was short and it was done. She has this amazing ability to get answers from God and I appreciate her getting answers for me. She said she was at a retreat recently and had a vision of Jesus, She said she stared into his eyes and asked him to show himself to me to let me know Kathryn was safe. I think this is so thoughtful of her to ask this for me. I hope to get my own answers. I pray for this and hope it will happen for me.
I arrived at my Mom's house around 10am and started painting. Things are looking good. We really accomplished a lot today. We took a little lunch break around 2. I took a walk with my sister-in-law around 4pm. I sure enjoyed our walk. I don't get to spend a lot of time with her so it was nice to chat with her. We stopped working around 7:00. My oldest brother came by and talked with my Mom and myself for an hour or so. I enjoyed his visit. He can be pretty darn funny.
As we were working we found something that had fallen behind a piece of furniture. It was a poem Kathryn had given my Mom for her birthday. It's about success. In this poem there is nothing about having money or a good job. It is all about the way you look at life and how you treat people. It's about biting your tongue when your words may hurt and ignoring the words of others when they talk poorly about others. It is a great poem of how encouraging and helping others makes you successful. It is a wonderful poem and it describes so well how Kathryn lived her life. She wrote, "Grandma, you are the most successful person I know." My Mom is very successful by this description and Kathryn was too.
I slept really well at my Mom's house. Mom made waffles just the way Kathryn liked them. A second day getting a lot done. We had a couple of patched spots that weren't dry for painting. This left just a little bit for Mom to finish later. The patching isn't perfect but it sure looks so much better than those scraps and dents left by the wheel chair. It looked very fresh and clean.
Scott said he had a hard time sleeping last night. I thought about him last night staying in the house alone for the first time since Kathryn passed away. Hopefully he will sleep better tonight with me by his side. I always have a hard time getting to sleep when alone in the house. I'm sure it would even be harder now. When we first got back from our trip I had a real hard time sleeping.
My Mom is going to stay here on Friday night. She said she just isn't ready to stay in Kathryn's room so she will sleep in Richard's room. She did sleep in Kathryn's room one night since she passed but she didn't sleep well at all. I told her I understood and that was just fine with me. I would rather have her have a good night's sleep. I have a hard time just going into her room. Some where in our conversation today I also told my Mom that I wake up every morning with Kathryn on my mind. In my vision every morning is Kathryn laying there at the viewing. I told her that I can picture things so clearly like my Grandma Peggy in her casket. Now I have that vision of Kathryn every morning. But I can also change it to be any picture of Kathryn that I choose but this one pops in and out. I usually get up pretty quickly because I don't like having this vision even though I can change it, it comes back as Kathryn at the viewing.
Please pray for the two young women that I have mentioned with cancer, our little 3 year old friend Rowan and my cousin's husband Rafer. Pray that all of them are freed of their cancer by way of a cure. Kathryn was freed of her cancer but not in the way we would have preferred.
One last thought – Please remember to love those around you sincerely and show your love often. You just never know when they could be taken away. Never go to bed angry or leave another person with harsh words. Treat every time you share with someone as a precious moment that could be taken from you at any time.


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Joseph Horowitz
A former New York Times music critic, Joseph Horowitz is the author of ten books exploring the history of American music, including Classical Music in America and Artists in Exile –both named books of the year by the Economist. He lives in New York City.
Conversations with Arrau (1982)
Understanding Toscanini: How He Became an American Culture-God and Helped Create a New Audience for Old Music (1987)
The Ivory Trade (1990)
Wagner Nights: An American History (1994)
The Post-Classical Predicament: Essays on Music and Society (1995)
Dvořák in America: In Search of the New World (for young readers, 2003)
Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall (2005)
Artists in Exile: How Refugees from War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts
Moral Fire: Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle (2012)
"On My Way": The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess (2013)
Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music (2021)


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The Right to Recess
Avrey Tuttle
During elementary school, I remember staring at the analog clock still not being able to tell time. But I knew exactly where the big hand would be placed when it was time for recess. Recess was always the most anticipated time of the day, all twenty minutes of it. In my opinion, whoever thought of recess had the right idea. I remember the feeling of confinement sitting in the classroom, and the freedom I felt the second my feet touched the black top on the playground.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, in its 2017 policy statement titled, The Crucial Role of Recess in School describes recess as, "a necessary break in the day for optimizing a child's social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development." A child learns crucial life skills on the playground, like sharing and patience. Recess may be the only time during the day when children have an opportunity to experience socialization and real communication with their peers.
40% of school districts in the United States have reduced recess since the implementation of the No Child Left Behind act. Decreased opportunities for recess have been associated with increased academic pressure. Recess has been the 'victim' to the 'bully' of increased time spent preparing students for standardized testing and to meet demands for more instructional time. Seattle has been following a national trend in reducing recess time in primary grades as school districts bend to federal mandates to raise test scores. Yet no research supports the idea that test scores go up by keeping children in the classroom longer. However there is plenty of evidence that recess benefits children in cognitive, social-emotional, and physical ways.
We also know that young
people of color, especially
Black children, receive
disproportionately strict
discipline in school settings,
so they may be missing
out on more recess
than their peers.
City schools reported the lowest average minutes per day of recess: 24 minutes in first grade, and 17 minutes in sixth grade. Rural schools reported the highest average minutes per day: 31 minutes in first grade to 24 minutes in sixth grade.
The fewest minutes per day of recess, totaling 21 minutes in first grade, and 17 minutes in sixth grade, occurred in schools where 75 percent or more of the students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Given the evidence of the value of recess for children, what can educators, schools, and districts do to ensure every child across the state gets the same amount of time for recess? Students should get the same time regardless of the location of the school, race, and the income of the child's household. Daily decisions about who gets recess and when and where it will happen are often made by teachers; they can establish and carry out alternatives to discipline other than withholding recess. We also know that young people of color, especially black children, receive disproportionately strict discipline in school settings, so they may be missing out on more recess than their peers.
Daily recess for every child supports a school's mission of providing a high-quality, comprehensive, and meaningful education so students grow and reach their full potential.
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A takeover offer by infrastructure group Balfour Beatty for Alkane Energy has been accepted at 36p per share, valuing the independent gas to power producer at £61.4m.
The offer from Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Partners (BBIP) represented a premium of 44% to Wednesday's closing price of 25p and a 59.5% premium to the average closing price over the last six months.
AIM-listed Alkane's directors consider the offer to be fair and, having irrevocably agreed to vote in favour, said they also intend to recommend it unanimously to shareholders.
Balfour has so far received irrevocable undertakings representing roughly 35.34% of the shares in issue.
Alkane chairman Roger McDowell said: "This offer enables Alkane shareholders to realise value today in cash for their shares at a significant premium to the recent historical share price, which, in the board's view, has been impacted by negative sentiment towards the energy industry and continued regulatory scrutiny.
"BBIP have a well-respected track record in the infrastructure sector and as a patient investor, will be able to support the company's longer term growth ambitions, building on its current portfolio of baseload CMM generation and power response sites."
Alkane, which in the first six months of the year saw revenues rise 23% to £8.7m and adjusted PBT by 166% to £1.4m, claims to be one of the UK's fastest growing independent power generators, operating 27 midsized "gas to power" electricity plants providing both baseload and fast-response capacity to the national electricity grid, using gas from its portfolio of coal mine methane (CMM) sites from abandoned coal mines.
The company has a total installed generating capacity of 145MW and an electricity grid capacity of 160MW, while its 102MW of power response sites produce electricity at times of high electrical demand through peak running, or in order to balance the electricity grid through participation in the National Grid's short term operating reserve programme (STOR), which reaps premium rates. Alkane is of the UK's largest power response businesses, with contracted STOR revenues extending out to 2025.
Alkane has long-term visibility, having been awarded 101MW of capacity mechanism agreements starting from October 2018, with 55MW existing sites being secured on one year agreements and 46MW new sites on 15 year agreements over the period to September 2033.


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