Care Services staff within Glasgow's Health and Social Care Partnership will, this week, take part in specific engagement sessions to help them understand and acknowledge the contribution they make to people affected by dementia.
The series of talks, given by Tommy Whitelaw from the Health and Social Care Alliance, will be delivered to staff who care for and provide services to more than 10,000 service users across the city, many of whom have the condition.
Research suggests that there is around 8,000 people with varying stages of dementia in Glasgow and each year around 800 people receive a diagnosis.
Tommy travels the length and breadth of the country as part of the You Can Make a Difference campaign, working to raise promote the importance of kindness, empathy and patience when supporting people living with dementia and their carers.
He encourages health and social care professionals to reflect on the importance of their role in caring for people with dementia and urges them to think about how, having time to reflect on their own past experiences and interactions, they can make a difference to the lives of those affected by the condition.
Tommy, cared for his late mother with the condition and uses both his own experiences and recounts those of other people, from family carers to social care and health professionals, as part of the sessions. In his powerful talk, he describes in his own words about their daily struggles and how the compassion and understanding of a district nurse helped him and his mother through their darkest days.
Each talk will be adapted to fit each particular audience, whether they interact directly with service users and their families or carers, or indirectly. This includes home carers, overnight home carers, carers responding to community alarms, call handling staff, assessors, managers, technicians, coordinators and support staff.
The session asks different groups of staff to consider what matters to people, rather than what's the matter with the people. Tommy then asks what, as an individual, will do now to make a difference and what support do you need in your workplace to make that difference.
Findings from the sessions will feed into an improvement plan and pledges will be recorded on the leaves of the 'Dementia Tree' to act as a visual reminder of our You Can Make a Difference campaign in care services.
Tommy said: "Good care is all about people and relationships. It's about the compassion and understanding shown by the person who knocks on your door every day of the week.
"I want to remind staff of the value in supporting people to live in their own homes, in their communities, for as long as they can and that only happens with good care.


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The Children's Place to close 300 stores
The children's apparel and accessories company said store closures were accelerated because of the loss of income related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Published: 2:24 PM EDT June 16, 2020
Updated: 2:39 PM EDT June 16, 2020
The Children's Place says it will close 300 stores over the next 20 months, according to a recent earnings call.
The children's apparel and accessories company said store closures have been accelerated because of the the loss of income related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The CFO and COO of The Children's Place, Mike Scarpa says amid the pandemic, digital demand has been up 300%, as 95% of their stores remain closed. As of last week, 88% of store associates were brought back after being furloughed. The rest of associates are expected to return by July 1. Net sales in the first quarter of 2020 were down over 38% compared to 2019.
Currently, The Children's Place operates 920 locations with 62% of their locations in shopping malls. Of the 300 store closure expected, approximately 200 are expected to fall within fiscal year 2020, and an additional 100 stores in the fiscal year 2021. The Children's Place President and CEO Jane Elfers says the company is now focusing on its digital investment.
"This initiative will greatly reduce our reliance on our brick-and-mortar channel and we are targeting our mall-based, brick-and-mortar portfolio to represent less than 25% of our revenue entering fiscal 2022," Elfers said in a statement
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Scarpa said that he expects nearly 100 stores to reopen following the pandemic, and says that the company plans to liquidate their inventories before the end of the second quarter's closing.
The company has not yet announced the specific stores it intends to close.
"The challenges that lie ahead are many, and visibility is limited, but we are moving forward with urgency and focus, guided by the strategic pillars of our long-standing transformation strategy," Elfers said.

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The USO of North Carolina invite you to join them Sunday, April 15, 2018 for the Food City 500 race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Active Duty, Reserve and National Guard and a guest are invited to the sport's most popular race track. Bristol Motor Speedway is on the bucket list of every sports enthusiast and you can experience it live and in person. The pre-race ceremonies honoring America's Armed Forces inside "The Last Great Colosseum" are the most dramatic and inspiring in all of sports.
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We spent part of our Columbus Day weekend camping with friends at Ft. Pickens, a fabulous park that is part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
This is our second year camping during that holiday weekend and it is fun looking back at how EJ has changed since our last trip.
I think these Columbus Day camping trips will become a tradition!
The beauty of camping at Ft. Pickens is the myriad of activities there are to do together.
We gathered together for a potluck dinner around the fire.
And the kids had a blast playing together as the sun went down.
We were prepared for a very cold night of sleep, the forecast was calling for low 40s, but the only thing we had to endure was very loud campsite neighbors.
Fortunately EJ had such an exciting day that she slept through it all and was charged for another day with friends.


No fewer than 21 travelling persons were on Monday evening burnt beyond recognition in a ghastly motor accident that occurred around Edo-Delta boundary along Benin-Asaba Onitsha expressway.
Eyewitness said the accident involved an 18-seater bus conveying the travellers and a trailer loaded with goods after the trailer driver lost control of his vehicle and veered into the lane of the bus driver heading towards Onitsha.
It was gathered that three occupants of the trailer, except the driver, who sustained severe injuries died while the 18 passengers in the bus with registration AA 216 BEN got burnt to death on the spot when it caught fire.
FRSC officials who spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity said the trailer driver lost control while descending the last hill before Agbor and crashed into the incoming bus heading towards Onitsha.
While cautioning motorists and other road users to be careful always, the FRSC officials warned that the agency would deal with lawless road users. They also said the driver of the trailer had been taken to a nearby hospital in Agbor.
When contacted, Delta Police PRO, Celestina Kalu, a DSP, said the accident was first of its kid since the beginning of years 2015.


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The Village of the Dead: The Anjikuni Lake Vanishing
The trout and pike filled estuary known as Anjikuni Lake (also spelled Angikuni) is located along the Kazan River in the remote Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada. The out-of-the-way area is rich with legends of malicious wood spirits and beasts like the Wendigo, but as fascinating as these oft told tales are, there is none more intriguing than the terrifying and controversial mystery surrounding the collective vanishing of the villagers who once lived on the stony coast of Anjikuni's frigid waters.
On an arctic evening back in November of 1930. A Canadian fur trapper by the name of Joe Labelle was seeking respite from the bitter cold and a warm place to bunk down for the night when he tromped into an Inuit village that was nestled on the rocky shores of Canada's Lake Anjikuni.
Labelle had visited the area before and knew it to be a bustling fishing village full of tents, rough hewn huts and friendly locals, but when he shouted a greeting the only sound that returned to him was that of his own echo and his snowshoes crunching through the icy frost.
Labelle tensed. He had the instincts of a seasoned outdoorsman and he could sense that something was seriously amiss.
Labelle could see the ramshackle structures that were silhouetted under the full moon, but he saw no bustling people nor barking sled dogs nor any other signs of life.
Even within the huts, the expected sounds of laughter and conversation were replaced by a deathly silence. Labelle also noted with a chill that not a single chimney had smoke coming out of it. That was when he spied a fire crackling in the distance.
Labelle, trying his best to remain calm, picked up his pace and headed toward the glowing embers of the dying fire in the distance, eager to find some trace of humanity. When the trapper arrived at the flames he was greeted not by a friendly face, but a charred stew that had bafflingly been left to blacken above the embers.
The veteran tracker — having spent so much of his life skulking around shadowy and inaccessible forests — was likely not easily spooked, but it's difficult to imagine that he was not bathed in a cold sweat as he walked past the derelict, wave battered kayaks into the heart of the ghost village, wondering what had happened to its inhabitants.
Labelle methodically pulled back the caribou skin flaps and checked all of the shacks hoping to find telltale signs of a mass exodus, but, much to his chagrin, he discovered that all of the huts were stocked with the kinds of foodstuff and weapons that would never have been abandoned by their owners. In one shelter he found a pot of stewed caribou that had grown moldy and a child's half-mended sealskin coat that lay discarded on a bunk with a bone needle still embedded in it as if someone had deserted their effort in mid-stitch.
He even inspected the fish storehouse and noticed that its supplies had not been depleted. Nowhere were there any signs of a struggle or pandemonium and Labelle knew all too well that deserting a perfectly habitable community without rifles, food or parkas would be utterly unthinkable, no matter what the circumstances might have been to force the tribe to spontaneously migrate.
Labelle then scanned the borders of the village in the hopes of ascertaining what direction the Inuits travelled in. Even though the villagers' exit seemed to have been relatively recent, and hasty enough to leave food on the flames, he could find no trace of their flight no matter how hard he searched.
Cold and fatigued as he was, Labelle was simply too terrified to linger in this enigmatically vacant village. Although it meant he had to forgo the comforts of food, warmth and shelter, the trapper considered the risk of remaining to be too great and decided to make haste through the sub-zero temperatures to a telegraph office located many miles away, lest the same nefarious — and, in Labelle's estimation, unmistakably supernatural — force that claimed the villagers descend upon him.
The exhausted and frostbit Labelle finally staggered into the telegraph office and within minutes an emergency message was fired off to the closest Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) barracks. By the time the Mounties arrived, several hours later, Labelle had calmed himself enough to relate his disturbing tale.
According to 1984's "The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries" by Roger Boar and Nigel Blundell, on their way to Anjikuni Lake the Mounties stopped for a bit of rest at a shanty that was shared by trapper Armand Laurent and his two sons. The officers explained to their hosts that they were headed to Anjikuni to deal with: "a kind of problem."
The Mounties inquired as to whether or not the Laurents had seen anything unusual during the past few days, and the trapper was forced to concede that he and his sons has spied a bizarre gleaming object soaring across the sky just a few days before. Laurent claimed that the enormous, illuminated flying "thing" seemed to changed shape before their very eyes, transforming from a cylinder into a bullet-like object. He further divulged that this unusual object was flying in the direction of the village at Anjikuni.
The Mounties left the Laurent home soon after and they continued on their treacherous journey.
Once they arrived at the scene, the Mounties were not only able to confirm Labelle's testimony regarding the state of this now desolate village, but — according to some sources — they made an additional, even more arcane, discovery on the outskirts of the community.
Various accounts verify that the officers conducting the search were alarmed when they stumbled across a plethora of open graves in the village burial ground. In fact — if some of the more outrageous statements are to be believed — every single tomb had been opened and, even more puzzlingly, emptied.
To add an extra pinch of "weird" to the proceedings, witnesses claimed that the earth around the grave was frozen: "as hard as rock." These reports also suggest that the marker stones had been stacked in two, neat piles on either side of the graves, confirming that this was not the work of animals.
Needless to say the Mounties at the scene were perturbed by these discoveries and a substantial search party was organized posthaste. During the search no additional clues as to the villagers' whereabouts were turned up, but another grisly discovery was purportedly made.
According to reports, no less than 7 (though some say 2 or 3) sled dog carcasses were discovered about 300-feet away from the edge of the village. According to Canadian pathologists, these unfortunate canines all apparently died of starvation, whereupon they were covered by snow drifts, which buried them nearly 12-feet deep.
How these animals managed to starve when they were surrounded by huts full of food is yet another unexplained piece of this enigmatic puzzle. There is a single account which claims that the ill-fated animals were tied to "scrubby trees," which would explain their inability to scavenge for food, but this does not resolve the issue of why they succumbed so quickly. Logic seems to dictate that they certainly would not have had time to starve to death between the moment of this collective vanishing and the arrival of Labelle, who reportedly found food still burning over dying embers.
This begs the question: did the villagers allow their own dogs to go hungry intentionally before they slipped into the ether? These invaluable dogs whose very existence was essential to the villagers' own survival — if so, then why? If not, then what happened?
As if this tale weren't strange enough, the officers at the scene supposedly reported odd, bluish lights pulsating on the horizon above the village. The men watched until the illumination disappeared, all of them concurring that this unusual light show did not resemble the aurora borealis.
After two weeks of investigation, the Mounties — based on some berries they found in one of the cooking pots –came to the somewhat dubious conclusion that the villagers had been gone for at least two months. This presents yet another question; if the Inuits really had abandoned their homes eight weeks before, then who was responsible for making the fire that Labelle saw when he first arrived at the village?
Fact and folklore have a notorious habit of interbreeding when bizarre events such as the one that transpired at Lake Anjikuni occur, nevertheless the first official account of the missing village is alleged to have been printed on November, 28th, 1930, when special correspondent, Emmett E. Kelleher, published a report of the events in the Canadian newspaper "Le Pas, Manitoba".
As there were no available images of the Anjikuni settlement, this article — as was standard procedure at the time — was accompanied by a stock photo of a deserted Cree tent encampment taken in 1909, this has led some to discount the whole event.
While most say that Le Pas, Manitoba was the first to the punch, there are others who insist that the initial report was actually published a day earlier by the "Danville Bee." Regardless of who got the scoop first, it's the opinion of most researchers that the account that caught the public's interest the most was printed in the November 29th, 1930 edition of the "Halifax Herald" below the undeniably sensationalistic headline: "Tribe Lost in Barrens of North — Village of Dead Found by Wandering Trapper, Joe Labelle."
Labelle did not mince words when he described his harrowing discovery to reporters:
"I felt immediately that something was wrong… In view of half cooked dishes, I knew they had been disturbed during the preparation of dinner. In every cabin, I found a rifle leaning beside the door and no Eskimo goes nowhere without his gun… I understood that something terrible had happened."
Labelle himself told reporters that he believed that the Angikuni people were now missing due to a run-in with: "the Eskimos evil spirit Tornrark."
The demonic entity that Labelle referred to appears to be a misspelling of "Torngarsuk" — also known as: "Torngasak, Tornatik, Torngasoak, Tungrangayak and Tor-nar-suk" — who, according to Inuit legend, is a powerful sky deity who is the leader of a legion of malevolent spirits. It's worth noting that Labelle, a supposed stranger to the region, was apparently familiar enough with its indigenous people and their customs to mention one of their most maleficent entities by name.
Said to be invisible to all but Inuit shamans — who were known to recite incantations and make animal sacrifices in order to keep this so-called "great devil" at bay — this malicious being was said to occasionally appear in animal form, such as that of a bear. Could it be that the Angikuni natives came to believe that one or more of their precious sled dogs were actually incarnations of this beast?
Is this why they were left to starve?
The premise is thin, but cannot entirely be discounted.
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This is the start of the new blog. Ive cut out almost everything. And may get rid of a couple of the remainders. The links at the top do not work yet. They will eventually. I will also get around to adding back the links to everyone else's blogs. I will probably even put in one or two new ones. Like to the Squid's blog (yes!) and Hopper.
Changes will be neither fast, nor furious. But they will happen.
Some of you may recall that Ninsi and I removed shrubs from the front of the house a while back, and planted rose bushes in their place. This weekend, the bushes began to bloom. This one is supposed to be 'pink.' Um, maybe when it fully opens. The other ones are white. Probably will get two more bushes soon to plant. The rose bushes are pretty much off-limits to Ninsi and her Thumb-of-Plant-Death.
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation acquires its first Judaica items
There are records of Jews who passed through Williamsburg during the 17th and 18th centuries on business, however there is not much evidence to suggest any lived or settled there for a long period.
By ILANIT CHERNICK
The courthouse building from the colonial period in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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The story of the first Jews in colonial America is a compelling one.
Sephardi Jews from England and Holland, as well as those who had escaped persecution in the Iberian Peninsula, made their way to the colonies in the United States beginning in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, while Ashkenazi Jews made their way to the colonies from Poland, Austria, Germany and Russia to find refuge and establish a better life.
In a bid to include this Jewish history as part of early America's story, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia acquired its first Judaica items in April from the period when the first Jews were living in Britain's 13 American colonies. These include a sterling silver and gold kiddush cup, and a silver and gold yad (a pointer for reading the Torah). According to the foundation, the earliest documentation of Jews in Virginia dates back to the 1620s, with the arrival of Elias LeGarde, Joseph Moise and Rebecca Isaacke.
According to a report by Antique Trader, the silver and gold kiddush cup was made in London probably by William Harrison I in about 1775, while the yad was made in Birmingham, England, around 1843. Chinese porcelain plates and saucers, as well as an alphabet sampler, made by a young Jewish girl named Rachel Cole have also been added to the Judaica collection.
"The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation sees the objects in its collections as documents of the people, places and events of the past," Ronald L. Hurst, the foundation's Carlisle Humelsine chief curator and vice president for collections, conservation and museums, told the Antique Trader.
"Because we use these objects to tell the compelling stories of early Americans, we seek to acquire things that speak to the full range of their experiences, whatever their race, religion, gender, age, or cultural ethnicity may have been," he explained. "These latest acquisitions mark important steps toward that goal."
An article written on the history of Williamsburg's Jewry in the Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities tells how the community remained small until the mid-20th century.
Jews in Williamsburg were not able to gain citizenship because the law stated that they had to swear over the Christian bible and pledge their allegiance to Jesus. That law was repealed when Thomas Jefferson drafted the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom in 1777, which granted equality and the right to worship to Jews.
The article explains that there was only one Jew who lived permanently in Williamsburg during the colonial period, Dr. John de Sequeyra, who immigrated to Virginia from London in 1745. He had studied medicine in Holland, and practiced medicine after moving to Williamsburg, where he treated 85 households during a smallpox epidemic of 1747 and 1748. There was no congregation for de Sequeyra to attend while living in Williamsburg, and no established Jewish community.
There are records of Jews who passed through Williamsburg during the 17th and 18th centuries on business, however, there is not much evidence to suggest that any lived or settled there for long periods of time, the encyclopedia article explained.
There were Jewish families, however, who owned stores and factories in Williamsburg but did not reside in the city. Although some Jews attended Williamsburg's College of William and Mary in the latter part of the 18th century, they did not remain in town after finishing their studies.
Most Jews who settled in Virginia during the colonial period lived in Charlottesville, Richmond and later Norfolk.
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Wolverines' offense halted by Blue Devils
Wed, Apr 19th 2017 07:30 pm
Niagara Falls only musters 3 hits vs. Ken-West pitching
By David Yarger
Coming into the 2017 season, Niagara Falls' lineup was built to hit and score runs. On Tuesday against Kenmore West, the Wolverines did the opposite.
Behind a dominant 6-1/3 innings from starter Dom Schmidt, the Ken-West Blue Devils defeated the Niagara Falls Wolverines, 11-3.
Schmidt struck out seven batters, gave up two hits and gave up 2 earned runs, both which came in the seventh inning.
The Blue Devils offense gave Schmidt all the run support he'd need behind 11 hits.
They got off to a quick start, as leadoff hitter Kyle LaPlante walked and got to second on a wild pitch. After a single and stolen base by No. 2 hitter Zach LaPlante, West had runners on second and third. With one out, Adam Pray hit a sacrifice fly to centerfield to score Kyle LaPlante from third. The team took a 1-0 lead into the bottom of the first.
Schmidt was in trouble early, as Dom Geracitano reached first on a dropped third strike, and then Ross Pochatko walked. With one out, Michael Laurrie laced a line drive back to Schmidt. He reacted quick, caught the liner, and threw to second for the double-play, thus avoiding the threat.
Ken-West unleashed in the second inning for 4 runs off five hits. The inning was highlighted by Zach LaPlante's 3-run homerun over the right-centerfield fence. This put the Devils up 5-0.
The Wolverines had no answer for West, as they got their first hit in the third inning of a Dustin Newman double.
Scoring continued in the fourth inning for West, as Adam Pray notched his second RBI of the game, driving in Mike Gourlay from third base to make it 6-0 Blue Devils.
The Wolverines first run came off an errant throw on a double-play in the fourth inning, to make it 6-1.
In the fifth inning, the Blue Devils took advantage of three walks to score 3 runs. Zach LaPlante drove in his fourth run of the day, and then Rich Fries drove in two more with a base hit. The Blue Devils led in the top of the fifth, 9-1.
Schmidt came out in the bottom of the fifth and struck out the side.
Schmidt helped his own cause by driving in a run and scoring in the sixth, making the score, 11-1, Blue Devils.
In the bottom of the seventh, Niagara Falls added 2 more runs after a Geracitano walk and an RBI single by Rory Sanabria, but it wasn't enough. The final was 11-3, Blue Devils.
Coach Rob Augustino noted the latest offensive struggles, as the team has scored only 4 runs in its past three games.
"We're putting ourselves in bad positions," he said. "When you're sitting yourself in an 0-1, 1-2 count all the time, well, guess what? Now you're trying to hit the pitcher's pitch instead of them throwing you the pitch you want to hit."
Augustino said the same could be said on defense, as pitchers are getting down in the count and having to throw fastballs that are getting hit.
He also praised Ken-West for the game it played and how it came out on offense.
"Ken-West is a very aggressive team, and I'll give them all the accolades possible," he said. "They swung aggressively at the plate, they moved around on the bases, and their pitcher threw strikes. Simple as that; throw strikes and put the ball in play, and good things will happen."
In a tough game, Augustino found a few positives in the outcome.
"I thought Kinney came in and threw well. I though Newman came in and threw OK," he said. "As far as offensive positives, Chris Clark and Rory came off the bench, not swinging all game, came in, got in the box, and they swung. I give them credit for being aggressive."
The Wolverines' next game is Thursday at Lockport. Augustino said his squad would have to make the other team work.
"Small things. Focus, do the simple things," he said. "Throw strikes, put the ball in play, and make them work - make them get you out, not you get yourself out."
Augustino said it's a long season. His team is 2-2, and also has notable injuries it's taking care of. He said he believes the team is fine.
The next game on Thursday will be at 4:45 p.m. at Outwater Park.
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Miracle Mets To Mark 50 Years Since World Series Win With Long Island Celebration
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NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – This week marks 50 years since the Miracle Mets shocked the baseball world. Mets Ron Swoboda and Ed Kranepool spoke with WCBS 880 about what it's like to look back on the win after all these years.
Outfielder Ron Swoboda told WCBS 880's Neil A. Carousso that he and his teammates still feel a strong bond with fans and will reunite on Long Island Wednesday night to share their fond memories of the team.
"You know baseball is our careers and all of them are made up of these little vignettes and these little stories that we can relate," Swoboda said.
Swoboda made "the catch" in Game 4 that helped propel the Mets past the Orioles in the World Series of 1969. He said manager Gil Hodges was a Marine who instituted much-needed leadership for the young team.
Some baseball fans have criticized teams for relying too much on analytics, but Swoboda says Hodges applied data available to him at the time to put the best on the field.
"You can go through game after game, play by play, and see the decisions that Hodges made and the situations he made them in," Swoboda said. "He was uncanny in his ability to plug the right guy in at the right time, because the season had a lot of ebb and flow."
Ed Kranepool has played more games in a Mets uniform than anyone else. He told WCBS 880 that 1969 was a turbulent year in America and that the team's victory was a moment of joy.
"It was a tough time in the country back in '69. You had people walking on the moon. You had Woodstock. You had the Vietnam War. There was a lot of negative surroundings, but of course winning in '69 with our ball club really brought the country together and people got behind us and celebrated," Kranepool said. "And they've celebrated this year, and you know it just brings joy."
Kranepool said a lot of players came through Shea Stadium and Citi Field, but members of the '69 team have managed to remain friends after 50 years.
"That group that we had in '69 stayed very close on and off the field. We traveled as a group, we played as a group and we celebrated as a group, and we're still celebrating, and that's what's great," he said.
Kranepool is amazed by how many fans still feel so connected to the Miracle Mets.
"Every day when you get up in the morning you can say a little prayer and be thankful that you're still here, you're still able to do things. The fans will never let us forget '69. They want to hear the stories, they want to see us, they want to get an autograph," Kranepool said. "It brings joy to everybody's heart to really be able to celebrate, and I'm looking forward to seeing all the fans."
You can join Swoboda, Kranepool and Art Shamsky at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City at 7 p.m. Wednesday—50 years to the day that the team won their first championship. You can purchase tickets for the event at cradleofaviation.org.
Kranepool will also be at the BNB Bank Business Breakfast on Thursday at the Huntington Hilton. You can find more info on the event here.
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1969 Miracle Mets Get Key To City, World Series Parade At 50th Anniversary Celebration
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NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — The Mets are turning back the clock this weekend as they celebrate the 50th anniversary of 1969 World Series championship team.
Members of the "Miracle Mets" cruised along the newly named Seaver Way in vintage Ford convertibles as the team reenacted the 1969 World Series parade.
PHOTO GALLERY: 1969 Miracle Mets Celebration At Citi Field
Jerry Koosman, Bud Harrelson, Jerry Grote, Cleon Jones, Art Shamsky, Ed Kranepool and other members of the championship team were then given keys to the city from Mayor Bill de Blasio, who called them a "lovable group of guys" and "ultimate underdogs.
"New York City felt a lot in 1969 and New York City has never stopped loving you guys," the mayor said.
.@NYCMayor gave members of the 1969 #Mets the highest honor — keys to the City. #1969Weekend 🗝 pic.twitter.com/1k9VvjYKVu
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"The last time we got together it was 10 years ago, I wish we could do it at least every five years that would be really nice," said 1969 Mets third baseman Wayne Garrett. But while many years have passed he says they just pick up where they left off the last time.
"It's tremendous, we haven't been together in 10 years when we had the 40th anniversary, it's always good to see them," said Kranepool, who attended the celebration after recovering from his recent kidney transplant.
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Most notably absent was "The Franchise" Tom Seaver, who is suffering from dementia and has retired from public life.
"He was the team. Everything focused around Tom, he was 'The Franchise' and we all knew that and when Tom was pitching good, we played good for some reason. When he threw and when he was on, and it seemed to be just about everytime he took the mound, he gave that inspiration to all of us and the confidence. He instilled that in all of us, and it's too bad he's not here," Garrett said.
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non-contradictor 3
Real Name:Tea
You keep beating me to everything!! Grrr. Maybe I should check this site more often. I do like the idea of Lily teaching Potions though.
I also didn't even notice Regulus had those initials! Man, I'm a bit off. Good ideas, good ideas...
Sorry. I'm quite a bit obsessed, and as it's summer and I'm sitting at home, I have plenty of time to devote to looking things up. Hey, it only happens once every two years. And there's only one left. *sniff* I looove mysteries. I'm done for the moment though. Ships are not my area of expertise. I have to go back and look in OotP at Snape's worst memory again, to see if it gives any hint of his feelings.
JMeganSnow 40
Location:Dayton, OH
Chat Nick:Notorious JEN
Real Name:Jennifer Snow
How was Dumbledore killed but not dead?
The Avada Kadavara curse is unblockable and cannot be survived...and that is what Snape used. Dumbledore is dead...
Ahh, J.K. Rowling is the all-time Grandmistress of suspense, I tell you, because she makes you think it was someone else all along.
It's entirely possible that Snape really DID betray Voldemort, but it's so important for him to remain in Voldemort's good graces that he has to suffer all kinds of horrible, nightmarish contradictions. Remember that he hesitated just a second before taking the last part of the Unbreakable Vow. Quite likely Dumbledore knew the entire time exactly what was going to happen and he decided to let it go ahead to keep their invaluable resource, Snape, in a position to spy.
I'm betting that Snape becomes abosolutely indispensable in the last book, because he's the only one that has an "in" to figure out where the other Horcruxes are. Snape's been suspected of EVERYTHING from the very beginning and it always turned out to be wrong, wrong, wrong. I'm going with the pattern
Sorry NC, I didn't notice that you'd posted about Regulus already, my eyes started to cross after the fourth post or so. GMTA!
Ugh. How horrible this all is. Harry will never be able to forgive Snape now, even if it does turn out that he was working on Dumbledore's orders all along. But if Snape really betrayed Dumbledore... I think I'll start crying in the middle of book 7. How awful. Slimy git... I've never been this confused at the end of a Harry Potter book before. You read it, and then you think about it and say to yourself "wait, did that just really happen?" It seems so simple that it's just got to be hiding something, it's just got to be...
No matter, I like to see there are plenty of people who guessed Regulus too. What does GMTA stand for, by the way?
Great Minds Think Alike!
Hehe, thanks. I should have known that...
Dagny 0
Location:Los Angeles,CA
Real Name:Isabel
I'm kinda confused about what you're saying here about Luna and Ernie. Do you mean as descendents of the House Founders?
that's exactly what i mean. remember that a few books back... GOF i think... the Sorting Hat kept talking about House unity.
Haha, but like they say, when it comes to the Slytherins, fat chance. Though Slughorn wasn't that bad, just annoying.
I just found something on Mugglenet.com. In Order of the Phoenix, pg 116, Harry and co. are cleaining out some cabinets in Grimmauld Place. They find: a locket. It is described as heavy, and no one can open it. RAB has to be Regulus! Harry Potter Sleuth Rule #3: There is no such thing as a coincidence. Hah, that stupid vanishing cabinet proves that. I can't believe it! Nearly Headless Nick persuaded Peeves to crash it over Filch's office the time Harry got caught dripping mud everywhere in book 2. Filch said it was extremely valuable. Then in book 5 with the Monague thing... It was there all the time. But not this time. I've got my eye on that locket.
Spinnach 0
Location:Could be Indiana or Pittsburgh...
Real Name:Melissa Minnich
You really make me wish three things. 1) That I didn't have to work and could go over those books again. 2) That I could afford internet for my apartment. 3) That my work computer didn't have internet filters on it, so I could go to mugglenet.com
*sigh* Such is the life of a poor college student...
I've got my eye on that locket.
Just out of curiousity, do you think Mundungus Fletcher found the locket when he was raiding Sirius' house? That would add complications for things since he's now in Azkaban.
Is he? I missed that. But yeah, I wondered if he'd have taken it. If he did, then who knows where it is now. That could make things difficult. It seems likely that he took it though, otherwise why mention that he was stealing Sirius's stuff?
AshleyAyn 0
The only way I could forgive Snape is if he knew that Dumbledore wouldn't survive the poison.
Great sleuthing, finding that mention of the locket. And, Harry inherited all of Sirius' things so he just has to think of it being there.
I doubt Lily is related to the Weasley's or else there wouldn't be any need of Harry to go to the Dursley's and I doubt Rowling would have the love thread between Harry and Ginny.
IdentityCrisis 0
What the heck. Okay, here are a couple of speculations of my own for book 7:
1) Dumbledore is dead and gone, but will still be able to return briefly (in a sense). Remember how it was established in book 4 that a wand can be made to "replay" the spells it had cast in reverse order, and how shades of Voldemort's last five victims popped out of his wand? If such was done to Snape's wand...
2) There may be an extra Horcrux around. The diary that Harry destroyed in book two was one of them, and Voldemort learned that it was gone. If he's obsessed with keeping the number of his soul fragments at 7, he's had years to create a replacement...
Of course, take these predictions with a grain of salt. I knew that having Voldemort be the half-blood prince would be too obvious, but I actually thought it would be Hagrid! I figured the book would focus more on making and breaking political alliances (such as with the giants)...
Clearly, I do *not* have a future in fortune telling...
...Unless she's inspired by George Lucas...
Don't forget his portrait in the head's office. I wonder if it will have his memories. We know Dumbledore used to talk to the old heads, so they must be of some value. Phineas Nigellus in particular, seems like he remembers his life because he remembered Sirius. So Dumbledore's portrait could clear a lot of things up for Harry. If, that is, it is more *ahem* forthcoming about what it knows than the live Dumbledore.
I think there is an extra, possibly two. I think that Harry is a horcrux but that Voldemort does not know it. The only way Harry could be a horcrux is if Voldy accidentally made him into one by killing Lily. Otherwise, I doubt Voldy would be so keen on killing Harry. The reasons I think Harry is a horcrux are:
1) In PoA, Harry keeps having encounters with dementors, culminating in one of them trying to give him the kiss. Now, Dementors only do that to the really horrible criminals, and the teachers in the book are confused on why they would attempt to do it to a student. I think this is a clue. The Dementors weren't after Harry's soul, they were after Voldy's.
2) Dumbeldore never really explained how Harry became a parseltongue or how he got his scar. We know it had something to do with Avada Kedavra, and that Voldy put a "bit of himself" in Harry. That sounds very much like a horcrux to me.
So, if Harry is a horcrux, but Voldy doesn't know, then he probably went and made another, the 7th. Dumbledore guessed that Voldy intended to make the 7th after killing Harry, and I'll go with his guess. So when Voldy gets his body back, he makes what he thinks is the 7th horcrux, but which is actually the 8th: Nagini. When Malfoy tells him that the diary was destroyed, he may have made another one. My question is whether there is actually something about having 7 horcruxes, and if having too many screws it up, or whether it's just another weird Voldy obsession.
As for whether Harry will have to die to get rid of the Voldy bit, I really hope not. I think Dumbledore would have told him. We still don't know all of Dumbledore's plan. The gleam of triumph still has yet to make an appearance, and according to JKR, it is enormously significant. (If you don't know what I mean, re-read the part of GoF when Harry is telling Dumbledore and Sirius what happened in the graveyard.) I don't believe there is any way that Dumbledore could have missed these suspicious signs that Harry is a horcrux, or that he would tell Harry that the memories would help him survive, if there was no chance of it.
Location:Croatia
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The title of the thread says "Spoiler Thread" on it, so you should have paid attention to that!!
Last time I was reading the thread before I saw spoilers, there weren't any, and most unfortunately, I clicked the link on the main forum index, as I knew I already participated in a Harry Potter thread (mistakenly I thought this was it), so I didn't see the subtitle (!).
Edited November 28, 2005 by Free Thinker
Why did Snape leave his Potions textbook in the back of the classroom? Didn't he own the book? Seems a little too convenient.
Convenient, but this HAD been his classroom, he might have just forgotten it there.
Why did Snape decide to return to Voldemort? As characters mentioned in the book - what made Dumbledore trust Snape so much?
Snape explained that he had always been on the side of the Dark Lord in the beginning of the book. Why did Dumbledore trust him? He must have lost his grip.
In the cave with the Horcrux - since the cup passed through the barrier why did someone have to drink the liquid inside? Couldn't he have just spilled it instead?
One stupidity which just messes up the jigsaw completely. I have several theories:
1. Dumbledore did it on purpose, because he had prearranged with Snape the scene in the corridor of Hogwarts (in which he "dies"). What happens, however, is not that Snape kills him with the Avada Kedavra curse, but that Snape simply says the words of the curse, but actually thinks of a different spell, which simply throws Dumbledore, or transports him somewhere, leaving only the fake body. This is too far-fetched, but not impossible, but it does fail to the fact that I've never seen it said in the book that it is possible to cast a different spell than the one said out loud, and Rowling usually does that - she prepares the facts, then uses them in the climax.
2. Dumbledore saw something that Rowling didn't say. Maybe spilling the contents would have caused someting even more terrible, but I certainly would have liked her to say so. Then again, Dumbledore likes to keep things to himself. This, however, fails to explain why he trusted Snape so much, except that Snape was so good at Occlumency he managed to conceal his intentions. However, Dumbledore DID say that he had a very good reason for trusting Snape. We never learned that reason.
3. Dumbledore was just plain stupid. You figure out why that fails.
Whatever was the matter with the potion Dumbledore drank, Snape might simply have acted out of fear. He made the Unbreakable Vow, which if you break it, you die. When he came to the scene, he thought that Dumbledore was dead anyhow, seing him surrounded by Death Eaters. So, he may have decided to gain absolute trust by Voldemort by finishing Dumbledore for good, and he decided to do that because of two reasons:
1. Because he really was devoted to Voldemort.
2. Because by gaining Voldemort's trust, he can get close enough to kill him.
Things could have happened as I described, or one of the many variations that I can still think of may have happened. The fact that I don't know so many things, that throughout the book we have been told that Snape is on Dumbledore's side (except by Harry), and then killing him finally, is why I want to read that last book so badly. The book really complicated everything and I think it will be a great climax.
There was another piece of "art" which I awaited with the same anticipation, and then was thoroughly dissappointed. It was called The Matrix. After the second part, there were many theories about how it will end, and then the third part turned out to be total junk. I'm hoping that this will not happen to Harry Potter, however, I will also be dissappointed if Rowling doesn't take into account all the things that bother me after reading the sixth book.
Who stole the Horcrux? Any ideas?
R.A.B.
As the book says, it must have been someone who knew Voldemort, or who knew that he was making Horcruxes. My first thought was Horace Sloughorn, but the initials don't match.
Isn't it becoming sort of trite for heroes to banish their loved ones when they need them most? (Harry and Ginny)
Ron and Hermione have promised to help Harry next year. Maybe Ginny comes too and saves Harry and they live happily ever after.
The only thing I wished was that the book was longer - by 200+ pages or so. I didn't really feel the flow of time in the book as well as it did in previous ones - a little extra material would have been nice. For instance they barely described Harry's NEWT classes or how Snape handled Defense Against the Dark Arts. Overall I enjoyed the book very much and await the final book (If she can manage to fit the ending in one book!)
We already saw Snape handling Defence Against the Dark Arts in the third year, when Lupin became a werewolf. However, I think that it was well shown here too. In fact, I thought that Rowling had described much more of Harry's lessons than in the prevous books.
I think Snape fed Narcissa and Bellatrix a load of hooey, I think Snape told Dumbledore about the Unbreakable Vow as soon as he got back to Hogwarts, and Dumbledore ORDERED him to do what he promised to do; that is why they argued and Snape complained that he "didn't want to do it any more". If Snape had intended to fulfil the vow he would NOT have quarreled with Dumbledore at any point during the year, he would simply have fudged the results of his investigations into his own house instead of complaining to Dumbledore.
The story he told Narcissa rang sort of false to me, not entirely sure why, though.
One of the things I've considered too. I just don't see why Dumbledore would have sacrificed himself for Snape's sake. All I can do though, is wait for book 7.
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I don't think Snape switched back to Voldermort's side, but I would prefer if it turned out he had. It would show the dangers of trusting people who had not really earned that trust. Also I dont think Dumbledor begged for his life. He was begging for Snape to kill him in order to fully gain the trust of the Death Eaters and possibly motivate Harry a little more against the death eaters (ala Obi Wan in episode IV).
The one thing I am suprisd no one mentioned so far is the most rational way Dumbledor could return in the last book. I'll give you a clue: What did Harry and Nearly Headless Nick talk about at the end of HP and the Order of the Phoenix?
Harry is a horcrux, although by accident (IMHO). The way horcrux are made is by fracturing a soul through murder and then bonding it to something else. If Voldermort was prepared to make one at the moment of Harry's murder it is rational (as rational as magic can be) to belive the spell backfired. However I do not believe Harry would willingly die for the "greater good" (sure, to imediately save his friends lives like in Chamber of Secrets, but not for people like those in the Ministry). Instead he would find a way to remove the soul from himself or imprison the rest of Voldermort in some way. Well, Hermony will while Harry watches.
One last thing, Ron and Hermony will be major players in the next one, and maybe a few more from their class like Nevil and Luna, (probably Doby and an army of bumbling but powerful house elves) but not Ginny. She will only be sixteen while they, and Harry, will be adults (in the magical world), able to legaly use magic outside of school at seventeen.
Snape did earn his trust though, IMO. We just don't know how. Who would have thought that the big septology question would be why Dumbledore trusts Snape. One lesson JKR could be trying to point out to us though, is that we can't really blame Dumbeldore for his trust in Snape (even if he is evil) because even with all the evidence against him, we don't take it for granted that he's evil either. Dumbledore is trusting, but he never trusted Riddle. I don't think Snape is evil, if only to give the beloved Headmaster the benefit of the doubt before I jump to the conclusion that he made the biggest mistake of his life.
I don't really see him as a ghost. Why would he need to be, with his portrait in the head's office? He didn't fear death. He will have gone on. Nick only came back because he was afraid to die. I could definitely see a ghost Voldy though.
My thoughts exactly. Harry doesn't want to be responsible for the death of a friend, so he risks his life to save them. Plus, I very much doubt that Dumbledore would ever have arranged a plan where Harry would have to die. And yes, I belive that Harry is still, more or less, working on Dumbledore's plan. I can't help but think that this is the way things were intended to go. From what he said in OotP, Dumbledore had a clear plan of how to defeat Voldemort. He never told Harry the plan. Why?
Yes, that made me feel very sorry for Ginny. However, she can leave school after she turns 17, so hopefully her birthday is early in the school year. And if they close the school... But I don't think they will, as JKR has saif that there will be a new DADA teacher. Well, I suppose some things never change.
Bah! Dumbledore a ghost?! Well, he would be the first headmaster to return as a ghost, if he did, but I'd rather he didn't. One thing that would be totally out of character if he did return, would be celebrating his death day.
Anyway, I agree that Dumbledore pleaded for Snape to do what he did, rather than for his life. Then his teaching Harry Occlumency before he left with the Death Eaters actually adds up (he said something similar to "keep your mouth and mind shut"), and instead of hurting Harry or knocking him out with a spell, he only blocked him. Besides, I doubt there is much Dumbledore could have shown Harry, which he couldn't learn by himself.
What I find particularly fascinating in the book is that people can actually invent spells of their own. I'm often wondering why Harry himself isn't more interested in learning more about the principles behind magic, like Hermione, which would help him do that by himself. Then again, he is still young. It took me quite a while too to realize how helpful the underlying principles really are in solving certain problems.
As for Harry being a horcrux... Wouldn't that make him one of inferi rather than Voldemort's greatest enemy? Is it possible to make a horcrux of another living human being? Didn't they say that only inanimate objects can be horcruxes? Anyway, if he is a horcrux, then I doubt it is really up to Harry whether he will sacrifice himself. It is up to Rowling, and I really think she WOULD sacrifice Harry. But that will basically seem like something from Terminator 2. (There's another chip - and then Arnie points to his head).
Edited July 30, 2005 by source
As for Harry being a horcrux... Wouldn't that make him one of inferi rather than Voldemort's greatest enemy? Is it possible to make a horcrux of another living human being?
Harry wasn't killed so he wouldnt be an inferi. Inferi are just animated dead people without minds (see Night of the Living Dead). Also, it does not have to inanimate. Rowling left this open when Dumbeldore said he thought Voldermort's snake was an horcrux.


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Q: Fetch records where all associated records have attribute Here are my classes:
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_and_belongs_to_many :categories
end

class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_and_belongs_to_many :products
end

Category has a visible booloean.
I need to create a scope in Product so that I can get all products which categories are all visibile (i.e.: if a Product has 10 categories, and even one category has visible set to false, the scope should discard the product).
Both ActiveRecord calls and MySQL queries are acceptable.
EDIT: we have hundreds of thousands of products and we'd need to delegate this operations to the database as we'll have to do pagination, sorting the the likes on this array of products.

A: Product.where("id not in (select product_id from categories where visible='false')")

Hope this helps.

A: Can you try finding out all Products that have :visible as false.Then minus this from all products.
Product.all - Product.where('categories.visible=?', false).includes(:category)

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Were Time Turners Omni-Directional?
It's been a while since I read the books, so forgive me if this was explicitly stated in bold text with rainbow accents, but:
Were the time turners in Harry Potter able to move a user forward in time? This doesn't necessarily need to be forward from the wizard's "current time", although this would be good to know as well, but could it return the wizard to their "current time" from the past (say a wizard needed a couple of extra days for some reason, so they go back a week and when they were finished they wanted to return to the present without re-living the rest of the time).
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Time travel forward isn't particularly different from a stasis spell. If a wizard can safely sleep for 1000years and wake up unaged, is that any different from travelling into the future? You can then return to your old present with a time-turner. I can't remember if there were any such spells/potions in harry potter, but it seems likely they could have existed. – Nick Oct 11 '12 at 14:29
It could go either way.
On the one hand, there's nothing in canon to suggest that the Time Turners could go forwards in time. They're only explicitly used to travel backwards in time (in PoA, methinks), and they also reversed the age of the Death Eaters in the Dept. of Mysteries. It also causes hideous complications, and is probably much riskier, and creates paradoxes. Bit of a reverse Grandfather paradox.
Consider: you travel forward in time, learn that you die in some preventable way. Back in the present, you make sure that you don't die. But now you were never able to see yourself die, so how did you know to prevent your death? It gets complicated.
Jumping out-of-universe, I also think it would be difficult to do within the books. It would obviously tell us what was going to happen, but unless it was done in an extremely clever way, it would probably tell us too much information that we might not want to know. (Spoilers!) It could certainly make a nice read, but I don't think there's much JKR could accomplish by doing it.
Perhaps you could go forward in time, to predict Voldemort's moves? But then did nobody use it the first time he was in power? (Suppose it wasn't invented/developed then.) Go backwards to save the Potters, the Longbottoms, Dumbledore and Sirius? It's an incredibly powerful weapon: if only one side had it, the war would be over in seconds. You also open up complex moral dilemmas. For example, we travel forwards and learn that a hitherto unknown Death Eater commits a vicious murder. Can we punish him in the present for the crime we know he'll commit, if the punishment means he won't ever commit said crime? And other such complications.
So there's no explicit reference to Time Turners having forward-going abilities in canon, and even if there were, JKR probably wouldn't have used it.
I think it should be possible. We know from OotP that the Ministry were doing research with the Time Turners, and probably into time travel itself. It's plausible that they tried to make the Time Turner travel forwards, as well as backwards. Both as an experiment in intellectual curiosity, and to ensure that they could do it if somebody else like Voldemort managed to (Cold War-esque precaution). (You could conversely argue that they'd have shied away from it, to avoid it being stolen. Let nobody have the power to travel forwards.)
As a slight digression into real-world physics, we know that wizards and witches have ultra-fast travel. In the real world, there's a phenomenon called time dilation. In a nutshell, if you're travelling really fast, you move through time ever so slightly faster than everybody around you.
The classic example is the twin paradox. Suppose Fred hops on his broomstick and travels around the universe for what he thinks is forty years at near the speed of light. When he returns, he'll be forty years older than when he begun. But George will have aged by eighty years, because time moved about twice as fast for him as it did for George.
So if wizards can travel quickly (apparition, portkeys or the Floo network), it's conceivable that they could have near light speed travel (even superluminal), and graft that effect onto Time Turners (or use it some other way). That allows them to travel forwards, but then they have no way of travelling back. Hmm…
Zapping the Time Turner with a powerful reversing spell might do the trick. Other ideas are scattered across the web; a search for time travel in Harry Potter will turn up plenty of stuff.
In summary, the canon doesn't give us an answer either way, but it's possible to make a case either way. Personally, I think a Time Turner could be used to travel forwards (albeit at great difficulty), but there's no definitive yes/no answer.
alexwlchanalexwlchan
The twin paradox is interesting to me. As I was looking into this answer, I remembered a previous question on SE asking how much Hermione had aged through the use of the Time-Turner in PoA, and I believe the answer was like 21 days or somesuch, and it made me wonder if she technically turned 17 twenty-one days earlier than expected, thus breaking the Trace 21 days before her actual birthday. Hmm, am pondering. :) – Slytherincess Jan 9 '12 at 23:00
Issues arising out of someone going forward in time are only conceivable if said person can also return to the present. If they are stuck in the future then there is little they could do affect the past and thus continuity is maintained. Since the person wouldn't be able to just live up to present time, as they could by going backwards, this might be a possiblity (no ones come back to say it works because they can't). – Xantec Jan 9 '12 at 23:04
@Slytherincess that's an interesting problem. She must have done, wouldn't she? And then, I suppose you could raise the bigger question of how Time Turners factor into the law. Not just extra ageing, but solving the problem of dual alibis: if I commit a crime, then use a Time Turner to get a cast-iron alibi, the reliability of alibis falls into question. Or if you commit a crime, then I use a Time Turner to stop you from committing it, are you still guilty or liable to be charged? – alexwlchan Jan 9 '12 at 23:25
@Xantec presumably you still have to deal with the issue of where the forward-going person disappears to (assuming it's done clandestinely, like Hermitian in PoA). You'd also have to deal with the mismatched ages when they turn up. 21 days is passable, but a difference of years might not be (ahem, film actors). Finally, in the fan fic I quoted, Hermitianone goes back by using "Finite" — they might build in something similar, for long trips into the future. – alexwlchan Jan 9 '12 at 23:33
@AlexChan -- Yes, more good points that you make. Alibis are tricky anyway -- there's so many ways to establish a false alibi without magic, I can only imagine the havoc that would wreak if Time-Turners were used to affect crimes. As to intent, I believe it becomes intent once the crime is actually committed; otherwise, it's ideation. What was that Tom Cruise (UGH) movie where he's on some kind of squad that goes back in time to pre-emptively arrest individuals who in the future are slated to commit a crime? That's a whole 'nother can of worms! :) – Slytherincess Jan 9 '12 at 23:55
As far as I can recall (and please correct me if I am wrong) canon does not address whether a Time-Turner can go forwards as well as backwards in time.
Not knowing much about the theories behind time-travel (aside from the Theory of Relativity, which kind of addresses time concepts). . . I think it's possible that the Time-Turner could also move someone forwards into the future.
One thing that I don't consider to be proper canon are the replica Time-Turners that are sold, which have an inscription on them that says I mark the hours every one nor have I yet outrun the sun. My use and value unto you are gauged by what you have to do.
Does this imply that Time-Turners cannot take a person into the future? Or does it imply that a Time-Turner cannot take one to the end of time (which would be impossible to achieve anyway, because of how many turns it would take -- it's a complete unknown, what with the universe constantly expanding.)
It occurs to me that terrible things could happen because wizards tamper with time, whether time is tampered with in the past or the future. It's just that the consequences would be unique and different to each situation (i.e. Back to the Future versus Prisoner of Azkaban)
Although it's not explicitly stated, I'm kind of leaning towards the possibility of time travel into the future via a Time-Turner existing.
SlytherincessSlytherincess
Not just "terrible things could happen", I think I remember Hermione actually saying as much about wizards who did encounter themselves when using a Time Turner. Can't quite remember if it was theoretical or if she had an actual example in mind, though. – Izkata Aug 31 '12 at 20:56
No. Time Turners were explicitly mentioned for use in going back in time. But their use for going forward in time has never been noted. Besides, if they WERE used that way, the consequences would be DIRE. Imagine putting that kind of power in the hands of a student, brilliant as she might be, and trusting that she won't go to the future to get the answers of the next NEWT exams, or prophesy the downfall of Voldemort.
Milad NaseriMilad Naseri
The limited information we have on Time-Turners suggests that it is impossible to use them to travel forwards in time.
In the old Pottermore entry on Time-Turners (which has been lost in the recent update; the Pottermore wiki has the text archived), we learn that the Time-Turner works thanks to an "Hour-Reversal Charm" (emphasis mine):
According to Professor Saul Croaker, who has spent his entire career in the Department of Mysteries studying time-magic:
As our investigations currently stand, the longest period that may be relived without the possibility of serious harm to the traveller or to time itself is around five hours. We have been able to encase single Hour-Reversal Charms, which are unstable and benefit from containment, in small, enchanted hour-glasses that may be worn around a witch or wizard's neck and revolved according to the number of hours the user wishes to relive.
Although this isn't conclusive evidence, two things in this passage suggest to me that travelling to the future would be impossible:
Why would they call it an Hour-Reversal Charm? This seems facetious, but if you had an omni-directional time travel spell, why would you name it in such a way that implies uni-directional travel?
How would you tell it which way to go? From a user-interface perspective, there appears to be no way to distinguish between "forward" turns and "backward" turns; trying to distinguish between the direction of turns would be a ludicrous design, and there's no incantation accompanying the device
However, there does appear to be evidence that it is possible to travel forwards in time in the Harry Potter universe; the same Pottermore text goes on to discuss one of the early time travel experimenters (emphasis mine):
All attempts to travel back further than a few hours have resulted in catastrophic harm to the witch or wizard involved. It was not realised for many years why time travellers over great distances never survived their journeys. All such experiments have been abandoned since 1899, when Eloise Mintumble became trapped, for a period of five days, in the year 1402. Now we understand that her body had aged five centuries in its return to the present and, irreparably damaged, she died in St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries shortly after we managed to retrieve her. What is more, her five days in the distant past caused great disturbance to the life paths of all those she met, changing the course of their lives so dramatically that no fewer than twenty-five of their descendants vanished in the present, having been "un-born".
Two things interest me here:
The word "trapped" suggests that Miss Mintumble expected to be able to return to the year 1899, presumably not by taking the long way round. Then again, since she was clearly only experimenting with time travel, it's possible that her return method failed (or would fail)
The word "retrieved", coupled with the clear assertion that she only spent five days in 1402 and died upon her return, suggests that the Department of Mysteries was able to short-circuit her return trip somehow. How this was achieved is unclear; they evidently couldn't send another wizard back, or else they would have died as well. But whatever means they used, it would appear that they did have one
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Another interesting question from your quote is, how did they know that people were unborn, since their never having existing should have rippled out and updated everything else. Apparently the universe simply doesn't care about paradoxes in the world of Harry Potter. – Xantec Sep 28 '15 at 19:50
@Xantec It's maaaaagic – Jason Baker Sep 28 '15 at 19:52
It's a great question that I'm very much interested in myself but sadly I haven't found much information on this either.
However, it seems that Time Turners serve to travel backwards in time. This comes from the description itself:
I mark the hours, every one, nor have I yet outrun the Sun. My use and value, unto you, are gauged by what you have to do
The line "outrun the Sun" shows that Time-Turners can only travel backwards in time.
I think this is supported by the fact that during the fight at the DoM the Time Turners reversed the age of the wizard.
However, given that it was being studied it could suggest that perhaps the DoM was looking into methods by which they could make forward time-travel a possibility? But it's only a suggestion, a possibility.
MariamMariam
Possibly no.
In HP and the Cursed Child Albus and Scorpius get trapped in the past when their time-turner is destroyed.
Their parents do actually
come back in time to rescue them
but before this, they have a brief conversation in which they discuss the fact that they have no way of returning to their previous timeframe.
SCORPIUS: Albus. Really? I mean, really really? We're — trapped — lost — in time — probably permanently — and you're worrying what your dad might think about it? I will never understand the two of you.
SCORPIUS: Let's not think about that. Let's focus on the fact that we have no wands, no brooms, no means of returning to our time. All we have is our wits and — no, that's all, our wits — and we have to stop her.
This would at least imply that a time-turner can't be used to send someone forward in time.
ValorumValorum
I don't see the implication. They felt trapped because they didn't have a time-turner. – ibid Jul 31 '16 at 17:22
@ibid - And that they can't use a time-turner to get back seems the clear implication – Valorum Jul 31 '16 at 17:23
Only because it was smashed. – ibid Jul 31 '16 at 17:24
@ibid - I felt that the fact that his immediate concern wasn't getting another Time-turner (e.g. to go in the opposite direction) was pretty clear. – Valorum Jul 31 '16 at 17:24
The ministry's time turners only did one hour at a time. – ibid Jul 31 '16 at 17:26
Well, in prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione tells Harry that many time travelers ended up killing their past or future selves. Killing your future self makes sense since if you see your future self visit you, you'd probably freak out, kill him, and a few hours later, be killed by your past self. However, I don't understand how while visiting the past, it be possible to kill your past self, since that would change the past, and that is impossible (as demonstrated by the fact that Harry could only save his past self from the dementors after his future self had saved him), so I conclude that you could only kill your past self if he visited you In the present. Therefore, forward time travel is possible.
The only problem with this theory is that if you kill your past self, you don't exist (as you have been killed by your future self) so how did you kill your past self? Dead men can't kill. I am guessing forward time travel is impossible and Rowling didn't really think when she had Hermione make that statement.
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Could you add the relevant quotes from the books in your answer, please? Also, most of your answer is conjecture on your part and that is not what this site is about; we're looking for canon answers. Please edit your answer to keep only the relevant parts that do answer the question. Thank you. – Sava Nov 19 '18 at 3:06
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