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The $166 million Herndon Square is being developed across five phases on a former public housing site.
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Herndon Square. Image courtesy of Hunt Cos.
Hunt Cos. and Oakwood Development Group have begun construction of the first phase of Herndon Square, a $166 million five-phase mixed-income and mixed-use development that is set to deliver hundreds of affordable housing units to Atlanta's Westside.
The community, which will have a variety of building types and bedroom sizes for single professionals, families and seniors, is being built on the 12.3-acre site of the former Herndon Homes public housing community.
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The first phase of the project, Herndon Square Seniors, will include 97 affordable units for seniors 62 and older who earn up to 60 percent of the area median income (AMI). It will have five ADA-compliant accessible units and two units for households with hearing or visual impairments. Phase I, located at Cameron Madison Alexander Boulevard and Northside Drive, will also offer free services to tenants, including organized social gatherings, senior-focused enrichment classes and health/nutrition-focused educational courses. It is slated to be completed by spring 2021.
The financial closing for Phase I occurred on December 18. Hunt Capital Partners, the syndication division of Hunt Cos., facilitated the investment of $12.7 million in federal and state low-income housing tax credits through its multi-investor fund, Hunt Capital Partners Tax Credit Fund 31. The $24 million development budget was also financed by tax-exempt bonds issued by Invest Atlanta and a ground lease first and second priority mortgage from Atlanta Housing. Atlanta Housing will also provide project-based rental assistance for all of the units under its HomeFlex subsidy program.
Tiffany Wills, vice president of real estate development at Atlanta Housing, said in a prepared statement that because Atlanta Housing owns the land it was able to have funds available to provide construction and permanent financing at competitive rates. Those factors, she said, allowed the housing authority to design a financial structure that supported the construction and operation of all the units in Phase I. Wills also called the plan an example of how public-private partnerships can secure long-term affordable housing in the city.
Phases I through IV will include Land Use Restrictive Covenants to secure affordability for units at the site for a minimum of 30 to 40 years. The development, which is expected to be completed in 2027, includes plans for approximately 681 rental units and 32 for-sale townhomes in Phase V. The plan calls for 45 percent of those units to be affordable for households earning up to 80 percent of AMI. Qualifying homebuyers earning less than 80 percent AMI will receive down payment assistance up to $25,000 from Atlanta Housing.
When completed, Herndon Square will also have green space, approximately 36,500 square feet of retail and a 10,000-square-foot health and wellness space.
Hunt affiliates involved in the development include Hunt Development Group as master developer and Hunt Capital Partners who secured the LIHTC financing for Phase I. Pennrose, which develops and operates multifamily communities throughout the East and Midwest, will manage the development of the senior and affordable units. Envolve, formerly known as LEDIC Realty Co., will act as property manager.
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Hunt Capital and Pennrose also worked together on Gateway Pointe 1, a mixed-income community in Warner Robins, Ga., that opened in November. Part of the financing for Pennrose's 90-unit multifamily development, was provided via federal and state tax credits syndicated by Hunt Capital.
Last month, Pennrose and the Chattanooga Housing Authority began redevelopment of the Emerald Villages and Cromwell Hills apartment properties in Chattanooga, Tenn., that will redevelop a total of 311 units between the two aging multifamily properties.
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Lawrence Harvey "Larry" Brown (* 14. September 1940 in New York City, New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Basketballtrainer und ehemaliger -spieler. Er ist der einzige Trainer in der Geschichte des Basketballs, der sowohl eine NCAA Division I Basketball Championship (mit den Kansas Jayhawks, 1988) als auch einen NBA-Titel (mit den Detroit Pistons, 2004) gewonnen hat. 2002 wurde Brown in die Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame aufgenommen.

Karriere als Spieler
Brown hatte eine erfolgreiche Spielerkarriere. Zunächst spielte er in der National Alliance of Basketball Leagues (NABL), dem Nachfolger der Werkteam-Liga National Industrial Basketball League (NIBL) und damit einem fernen Abkömmling der National Basketball League (NBL), bei den Akron Goodyear Wingfoots. Als Nationalspieler gewann Brown mit dem US-Team bei den XVIII. Olympischen Sommerspielen 1964 in Tokio die Goldmedaille.

Karriere als Trainer
Zwischen 1965 und 1967 war Brown für kurze Zeit Assistenztrainer an seiner ehemaligen Universität North Carolina. 1967 setzte er seine Spielerkarriere fort und wechselte er in die neugegründete Profiliga American Basketball Association (ABA), die damals eine Konkurrenzliga der National Basketball Association (NBA) war. Er wurde dreimal ABA-All-Star (1968–70) und gewann mit den Virginia Squires 1968 die ABA-Meisterschaft.

Seit 1976 trainierte er in der NBA sowie davor in der ABA diverse Mannschaften. Auch als Trainer verschiedener Uni-Mannschaften war Brown tätig. Zwischen 1976 und 1979 trainierte er die Denver Nuggets in der NBA, die er davor auch in der ABA trainiert hatte. Für zwei Spielzeiten von 1981 bis 1983 war er Trainer der New Jersey Nets, sowie für vier Spielzeiten (1988 bis 1992) der San Antonio Spurs. Zwischenzeitlich trainierte er die Mannschaft der University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) und der University of Kansas. Letztere führte er 1988 überraschend zur NCAA-Division-I-Meisterschaft. Nach zwei kurzen Engagements bei den Los Angeles Clippers und den Indiana Pacers kam Brown 1997 zu den Philadelphia 76ers. Mit diesen erreichte er 2001 die NBA-Finalserie, unterlag dort aber den Los Angeles Lakers. Am 27. September 2002 wurde Brown in die Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame aufgenommen.

2003 trat Brown als Trainer der Sixers zurück und wurde von den Detroit Pistons angeheuert. Diese führte er 2004 gegen die Los Angeles Lakers zum Meistertitel. Brown ist damit der erste und bislang einzige Trainer, dem ein Titelgewinn in NCAA und NBA gelang. Im Juli 2005 wurde er von den Pistons entlassen. Die New York Knicks unterbreiteten Brown ein Vertragsangebot über 50 Millionen US-Dollar für fünf Jahre, das er am 27. Juli 2005 annahm. Brown war damit der bestbezahlte Trainer im US-Profisport aller Zeiten. Nach nur einer Spielzeit trennten sich Brown und die Knicks aber wieder.

Am 29. April 2008 wurde bekanntgegeben, dass er das Traineramt bei den Charlotte Bobcats annehmen würde. Die Bobcats führte er in der Saison 2009/2010 zur ersten Play-off-Teilnahme in der Vereinsgeschichte. Nachdem Brown mit den Bobcats in der Saison 2010/2011 mit 9 Siegen bei 19 Niederlagen wenig erfolgreich gestartet war, musste er den Job als Head Coach aufgeben.

2012 übernahm Brown den Trainerposten bei den SMU Mustangs, dem Team der Southern Methodist University.

Für die Saison 2018/2019 unterschrieb er einen Vertrag bei Fiat Torino in Italien mit einer Option für ein weiteres Jahr, gab das Amt aber nach nur vier Siegen bereits im Dezember 2018 wieder ab.

Trainerstil
Brown gilt als sehr defensiv orientierter Coach, der auf sicheres und genau strukturiertes Spiel ohne große Freiräume für die Spieler großen Wert legt. Er stellt sehr hohe Ansprüche an seine Spieler und zögert auch nicht, sie in den Medien zu kritisieren.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Mitglieder der Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Weblinks
 Larry Brown in der Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (in Englisch)
 Larry Brown in der International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (in Englisch)
 Larry Brown auf nba.com (in Englisch)

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That Was Not a Slip-Up!
Is a draw at Leeds a good result?
Some would say yes considering we were seconds away from defeat.
Others would say no pointing out we`ve slipped even further behind the top two of Southampton and Reading in the race for automatic promotion.
Big Sam though reckons it wasn`t a slip up remarking post match,
"This wasn`t a slip up as far as I`m concerned – we`ve had those at home by drawing too many games just lately."
"That`s disappointing. And it`s true that too many draws have made us a bit edgy. But we are still confident we can take that final step and win promotion. It`s still in our hands."
I`m glad you`re confident Sam, I`m starting to panic!
Posted by toeter on March 18, 2012 in Uncategorized
LUFC Warnock – It was like walking into a bullring
Leeds United boss likened the atmosphere of that of a bullring after seeing the biggest crowd of the season inside Elland Road for the game with West Ham.
Warnock has been asking for the fans to turn out in numbers since his arrival, wanting to see a crowd of 30,000 inside Elland Road.
33,366 attended the game with West Ham, the first club to sell out their allocation since away fans moved into the West stand.
Warnock thought it was a fantastic atmosphere and he likened it to walking out into a bullring. Speaking on LUTV, Warnock said, "I asked for 30,000 and we got more than that. West Ham played their part brining their quota.
"It was just a fantastic atmosphere. It was almost like walking into a bullring, it was an amphitheatre."
Warnock was left disappointed after seeing Leeds drop two crucial points in the final minute as they try to make a late push for the play-offs and he was disappointed that the fans could not go home completely happy. "It was a fantastic atmosphere being on the bench and everyone should be going home really happy," added Warnock.
Leeds are back in action at Elland Road on Tuesday night when they face Nottingham Forest.
West Ham v Watford preview
Taylor: Back from suspension
Team news ahead of West Ham's Championship clash with Watford at Upton Park on Wednesday.
Matt Taylor returns to the West Ham squad for the visit of Watford.
The midfielder has missed the last three matches through suspension after he was sent off in the 1-1 draw with Southampton last month.
Defender Winston Reid could miss out again after he was knocked unconscious playing for New Zealand last week and winger Julien Faubert will be checked over having sat out Sunday's win at Cardiff with a virus.
Midfielder Papa Bouba Diop is still on the sidelines with a hamstring injury, John Carew is struggling with a knee problem and fellow striker Freddie Piquionne has moved to Doncaster on loan.
Carlton Cole could be handed a start up front after coming off the bench at Cardiff.
Watford will continue to be without long-term injury victims Martin Taylor and Stephen McGinn for their Championship clash with West Ham.
Defender Taylor has a shoulder problem which is preventing him from being a part of manager Sean Dyche's matchday squad, while midfielder McGinn is still not ready for a first-team return from a knee problem despite playing 45 minutes of a reserve team match last week – his first outing for a year.
Dyche hopes both players will feature for the second string next week as they step up their recoveries.
Midfielder Ross Jenkins, who has been on the periphery of the squad of late, has been ruled out with a groin strain, while Dyche will not be able to call on winger Gavin Massey because of a tooth infection.
Dyche may consider a starting role for on-loan Fulham man Alex Kacaniklic, who impressed off the bench during the 3-2 victory over Burnley on Saturday.
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Rovers pounce for Piquionne
Saunders moves to bring in striker
Frederic Piquionne: Agreed a loan deal to join Doncaster Rovers from West Ham
Sky Sports understands Doncaster Rovers have agreed a deal to sign West Ham striker Frederic Piquionne.
As revealed by skysports.com last month, Rovers were in talks with West Ham about a possible loan deal for the frontman.
Piquionne has agreed a loan deal until the end of the season at the Keepmoat Stadium as he joins the club's battle for survival in the Championship.
West Ham are willing to loan out the 33-year-old as the former Portsmouth man does not figure in Sam Allardyce's immediate plans.
Piquionne has found himself out of the picture at Upton Park and the recent arrivals of Ricardo Vaz Te and Nicky Maynard have pushed the Frenchman further down the pecking order.
Doncaster boss Dean Saunders is keen to bolster his attacking options and he has moved to strike a deal for former Portsmouth man Piquionne.
Rovers agent, Willie McKay, has confirmed the club have agreed a deal for Piquionne and the move is a coup for Rovers after the striker snubbed offers from Premier League duo Fulham and Sunderland during the January transfer window.
"I would like to thank Sam Allardyce and David Sullivan for allowing Frederic to come on loan to Doncaster," Saunders told skysports.com.
Big Sam on: Cardiff City
Sam Allardyce is hoping West Ham United can get back to winning at Cardiff City on Sunday
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Sam Allardyce was in determined mood as he faced the media ahead of Sunday's npower Championship game with Cardiff City.
The West Ham United manager and his squad returned to Chadwell Heath this morning following a few days of warm weather training in Dubai. A tricky afternoon in Cardiff now awaits, although the Hammers will be boosted by the return of captain Kevin Nolan from suspension.
Firstly how was the warm weather training in Dubai?
I think getting a bit of sunshine in at this time of the year is always very important for the squad in order to prepare them for the final end of season push. Being a manager who, for the last ten years, has always been an advocate of a winter break I've always made sure that whatever club I've been at I've always found the time to give the lads a little break both physically and mentally from the stresses and strains of playing football. Hopefully it will get them ready for the final push and the big 14 games we have left in our season so that we can achieve our goal of promotion.
Next game is Cardiff; they took Liverpool to extra-time in the Carling Cup on Sunday evening. What are you expecting at the Cardiff City Stadium on Sunday?
It was obviously a massive effort by the Cardiff players to take Liverpool to extra time and I'm sure they'll be very disappointed they lost in the manner that they did. It was a valiant effort by Malky and his players so there may be a hangover from that. It will depend on what the management staff have done with the players this week; whether they are still hungry or not to achieve what was their main goal at the beginning of the season – promotion. They are still in a very good position to achieve that so it's expected from my point of view to be one of the most difficult away games we will face this season even after their disappointing defeat last week.
Cardiff won 1-0 at the Boleyn Ground on the opening day of the season. Just like West Ham, they have kept that momentum going all season haven't they?
Yes they've been there or there abouts all season just like us. When you're in for the long haul, right from the start of the season, then you want to maintain it and finish the job off. That's the main reason we took the warm weather break, to keep the minds and the legs of the squad fresh. If we can find any weakness or tiredness in Cardiff as a result of their Carling Cup exploits then hopefully we can capitalise on that.
Both teams are going to be fired up for this game; even though it's an early kick-off on a Sunday I'm sure we will have our usual fantastic away support tripping down to Cardiff with us. We want to deliver a similar performance to the one away at Blackpool but with eleven men and not ten. Blackpool was our best performance of the season, even when we went down to ten men. Let's hope we can achieve that type of performance once again away from home and if we can then we will make ourselves very difficult to beat.
Kevin Nolan is back from suspension, what difference do you think this will make to West Ham?
I hope it will have a positive impact. It's fair to say we haven't missed him results-wise which is a great achievement for everyone else in the squad. We have had some real trauma to deal with since Kevin's red against Millwall but we have maintained an unbeaten run under extraordinary circumstances. It's good to have him back and if there is one thing I would love for him to do is to get back in amongst the goals.
We want to see him getting into the box again and scoring the goals we know he can because that has been one area in which we've lacked in the games he has missed. Against Crystal Palace, after achieving such great goalscoring form against Blackpool, we couldn't find the same against Palace and that was a great disappointment. Kevin gives us firepower in front of goal as well as the other strikers we have at the club.
In terms of goals, Henri Lansbury scored two great goals for the England Under-21s on Wednesday evening didn't he?
Yes, from a goalkeeper keeping a clean sheet to goal hero for the Under-21s! It's a measure of Henri's good attitude and it will give him a lot of confidence playing for the Under-21s and scoring two goals. Hopefully when he plays for us again he can show the same sort of scoring form. He will certainly be playing for us in the very near future, if not at Cardiff, due to the heavy schedule we have to deal with in March.
Portsmouth are in a lot of trouble at the moment financially and may not be able to fulfil their fixtures. This could lead to West Ham being deducted the six points they have gained from Portsmouth this season. What impact do you think that could have on the race for promotion?
Massive. It's a very concerning situation when you're in a position like ours. When you have worked so hard all season and then by default you may lose out on what you should actually get, I think is totally unfair. The Football League generates enough revenue to make sure all clubs should be able to fulfil all fixtures. We shouldn't let this deduction happen, not just for the sake of this football club but for football in this country.
If it did happen, other clubs around the top, Southampton, Birmingham and Reading, have only played Portsmouth once meaning West Ham stand to lose more points than their rivals?
That's the unfairness of it all, you work so hard during the season and Portsmouth isn't an easy place to go. To get a victory there was a big result for us so to have those ripped away from us would be devastating. If you're going to lose out on promotion you need to do it by your own failings not by somebody else taking it away from you.
Is Captain Kev still the right man for Big Sam at West Ham?
As the race for promotion enters its final phase, the last the two months will provide stern tests for all involved in the Championship shake-up. This weekend provides Sam Allardyce's West Ham United with a daunting trip to face heroic Carling Cup finalists Cardiff City.
Allardyce's troops, with one defeat in eight, have recovered from their catastrophic defeat away at Ipswich Town with a good deal of praise, showing undeniable character in matches against Millwall, Southampton and Blackpool where they were reduced to ten men. The Hammers ability to stay unbeaten in those matches, gaining seven points out of nine, has given the side renewed vigour and confidence as they enter the crucial final period of the season. New January signings Nicky Maynard and Ricardo Vaz Te have bedded into side well registering goals in the process, whilst Hammers fans wait with baited breath for the introduction of Ravel Morrison.
Unfortunately, the 0-0 draw with London rivals Crystal Palace did not live up to the performances of the previous three matches and high expectations of the Upton Park faithful; however, it was clear to see the effects of previous exertions as the team's fatigue showed.
Allardyce and his side came in for unfair criticism after the draw which leaves them in a strong position – 2nd in the table a point behind, and with a game in hand over, leaders Southampton. Big Sam's ability to instil a strong resolve within his side is an attribute that is clearly evident and cannot be under estimated. Over the past few years, the Hammers have struggled under previous regimes to establish a winning mentality that ultimately brings success. The early season results highlighted the difficult transition period as the Hammers conceded costly last minute goals at home to Leeds United, Ipswich Town and Sunday's opponents Cardiff. However, under the tutelage of Big Sam, an effective winning brand of football has been established, though the latter continuously, and tediously, remains one poor result from the accusations of 'long-ball football'.
Instead, what is true of Allardyce is that he has transformed West Ham into a side that bears few characteristics to the one that left the Premier League last year. The Hammers, under Big Sam, are a strong, organised and hard-working unit that produce a style of football that is not exactly to the Arsenal "Invincibles" standard of 2003/04 but hardly the Wimbledon style of the 1980s either.
Indeed in recent weeks the Hammers have proven the stereotypes of Allardyce's style of football as false, producing a string of stylish performances collecting positive results on the way. Impressively, West Ham boast the league's best away record, collecting 30 points on their travels, a complete transformation from a side that claimed only three away wins in the previous two seasons. This stat is one few fans would have dreamed of after the past years of dire away showings.
Sunday's lunchtime visit to the Cardiff City Stadium will provide the Irons with the chance to continue their great away form and not only avenge their opening day defeat but highlight their Premier League credentials. Yet City's strong home form has provided the basis of their promotion push and Carling Cup run defeating leaders Southampton and Premier League Blackburn Rovers in the process. The distraction of the Carling Cup final as seen the Bluebirds slip away in previous weeks and makes Sunday's crunch game crucial for both sides.
Allardyce, who has taken away his squad to warmer climates this week, is left with the dilemma of whether to bring captain Kevin Nolan back into his recently undefeated side. Arguably, the Irons have performed better without their major summer signing, who is yet to rediscover the form he produced last season at Newcastle United. Nolan's suspension, attributed to the red card he received against Millwall, has resulted in the upturn in form of stand-in captain Mark Noble who has produced a number of virtuoso performances in his absence.
Nevertheless, Nolan has shown the ability to be a priceless match winner on a number of occasions in scoring single goal winners against Brighton and Hove Albion, Coventry City and Doncaster Rovers. This ability was sorely missed in the home match against Palace and this is sure to encourage Big Sam to reintroduce his Captain back into the fold.
Big Sam has often deployed Nolan behind a lone front man away from Upton Park and the number 4 has justified this selection on a number of occasions producing his best form away from the home faithful. In fact of the seven goals Nolan has scored for the Irons this season, four have been scored away securing crucial victories.
Nolan has previously shown the ability to be a catalyst for success emphasised during his periods at Bolton Wanderers and Newcastle, where he achieved promotion to the Premier League with both clubs. Big Sam will clearly been keen to see his captain recapture this form, as the next few weeks will provide Nolan with the opportunity to demonstrate his unquestionable ability in testing high profiled fixtures. If Nolan is to regain the form that saw him score 12 Premier League goals last term, West Ham and Big Sam will surely be toasting a promotion if not a Championship winning side at the end of April.
The hectic run-in for West Ham, which will begin in South Wales on Sunday, also sees them visit Leeds United and Leicester City as well as entertain promotion hopefuls Reading, Birmingham City and Middlesbrough.
Allardyce and Hammers fans will look to their big named players such as Nolan to perform to their maximum in order to remain on course for a swift return to the top division. This pressure will only be increased if promotion rivals Southampton, Reading, and Blackpool and Birmingham gain victories before their clash on Sunday.
However, if victory is achieved in South Wales on Sunday, West Ham will take a giant step towards a return to the Premier League and inflict serious damage to Cardiff's chances of achieving automatic promotion. Big Sam will be hoping, as all Hammers fans, that the return of captain Kev this Sunday will be the tonic for achieving their tenth victory on the road.
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A large man with a stained apron approaches your table and sets down tankards of ale. An older man gone to fat but one can still see the muscled frame he had most of his life. He's bald with thick dark brows and a walrus mustache. The man suddenly gives Cauley a hard stare yet the former bandit slaps a few coppers on the table and orders a beer. The man grunts and turns to the party.
"Welcome to the King's Rest. I'm Lastel and yonder in the kitchen is my wife Tana and my daughter Laeran. The other girl is Jocilin. Here are you're drinks and Tana is making yer hotpots. Will ye be staying the night?"
Yilmaz slowly nods: "Well met, Lastel, and thank you for your hospitality. We would indeed like to stay for the night, if there is still room." He takes a sip form his drink, only then noticing how thirsty he is from the day on the road.
Brother Loren slowly moves over to the table at which Yilmaz is seated and sits down beside him, "What do you charge for daily room and board good innkeeper?"
Loren is painfully aware that his purse is pretty light. Acolytes of the Light need to be a frugal lot as they are supposed to give away most of what ever they earn as alms to the poor and down trodden.
Lastel nods his rather large head. "Aye, there's lodgings available still. I've got two common rooms, each with four beds. I charge by the bed, so that's a gold a day. Includes a bath and breakfast fer each. Private rooms are more, but none are available now."
"Very well," Yilmaz says, "I suppose we will share one common room, then." he will pay up front, if all agree to sharing a common room.
"By Grimnir's Hoary Breath!" exclaims Gormlaith with typical Northern brashness while flashing Cauley a dirty look. "We go from one form of banditry to another! Here's your gold, then." The barbarian reaches into the cut of her leather above her bosom and retrieves a pair of gold coins and slaps them down onto the table with the palm of her hand. "That's a bed for me and the holy man here. For that amount, my bed better feel like I'm clasped within a valkrjal's soft and warm embrace. As for that cur yonder, Cauley can sleep on the floor."
Without waiting for Loren's thanks nor wishing to hear one, Gormlaith returns to her ale, roaring for another one after gulping down her first.
Lastel's face draws tight at the barbarian woman's outburst yet quietly picks up the coins. "Yer hotpots will be coming along shortly," he grumbles before turning away. At that moment the door opens and a tall slender man in farmer's garb with gangly limbs and a large hook nose enters the inn. Thin lips top a formless chin and a pair of rheumy eyes under beetling brows sweep the inn's confines as he sidles up to the counter. The man sees Cauley and the two stare at each other for a long moment.
"That there is Gedde," Cauley whispers. "Bowb's eyes and ears in the village. Now that he's seen me, I reckon word'll get get to Black Bowb. My days are measured fer sure. Yours too."
"Thank you Gormlaith. I will buy your next ale." Brother Loren says and digs a coin from his pouch,"Thank you, also, Lastel we do appreciate your hospitality. Oh and is there a Church of Sol in this good village?"
Loren nods and says quietly, "We'll be on our guard."
"Thank you Gormlaith. Oh and is there a Church of Sol in this good village?"
Once Loren asks, there is a marked change within the inn. There's a long uncomfortable silence as the customers stare into their cups. Even Cauley does the same. Only Gedde seems not to care, a smirk on his face as he sips his beer.
After a pause, Cauley finds his tongue and looks at Loren. "Mind you, this was before I joined Bowb's gang. The way I heard it, there was a chapel here in Wodbury. A chapel dedicated to Sol. The priest here, Brother Abathis, he had a mouth on him. Always preaching against Bowb and trying to rouse the countryside to resist him. Well, Bowb had enough of the brother's talk and had some men visit him. Abathis wouldn't budge and so the men made a spectacle of his death right outside the chapel. Then they desecrated the place and tried to burn it to the ground."
Tamerlaine wrote: "Thank you Gormlaith. Oh and is there a Church of Sol in this good village?"
Loren draws a breathe, and sits quietly for a few moments then says quietly, "Where is Brother Abathis buried and where are the remains of the chapel?"
The only sign that Loren isn't anything but calm and collected is the whiteness of his knuckles as he grips the edge of the table.


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Catch up: Part 4… Yes Retreat, Yes Surrender.
Even though I've grown to love silence, it is sometimes very difficult to work out how to make it a resource when reflection is actually necessary rather than practise. It can be like those odd moments where someone tells you not to think of an elephant and you try to obey. Once the gavel rained down telling us to be quiet all I could do was notice the noise in my head and heart.
I hadn't been a regular retreater so this was a somewhat unusual thing to be part of. most of the times I had taken to do some reflection involved very long walks/ hikes/ bike rides. I always had something physically exhausting to do which allowed me to think. Being in one place, and worse being still, didn't really work for me. Neither did the surrounding city streets. So this ordination retreat was going to be awkward, even more so with that blasted elephant I had to try and barge out of my head (a thing not helped by the elephant's penchant for trumpeting and hip hop based interpretive dance).
Once the train ride was done and we had found our way, bags and all, through to the east of the city, we alighted and carried our wares to St Katherine's retreat centre. I was nervous. The bag that my cassock was in was white, noisy-plastic and quite cumbersome. It kept knocking against my knees. I had hooked the hanger on the strap of my football kitbag which was looped over my shoulder: my kitbag had my other clothes. The more we walked, the more foolish I felt. The more foolish I felt, the more nervous I got. The more nervous I got, the more the feeling that this role to which I was supposed to step into after this retreat was one which I was neither capable nor qualified for. It would only be a matter of time before they (whoever they are) would see through the facade and expose me as the fraud I felt I was. To compound the whole thing I didn't offer to help one of our party with her bags coming down the steps from the train station (insert poop emoji here).
[Just to say… Our faith is one that is chuck full of hypocrites. Not because we profess to be something we are not, but because we are something we have no right to be. Righteousness is a gift given to those who cannot attain it. Accepting the gift is quite a hard task, especially because ever unction from within us rejects the gift: simultaneously also stating our need for it. This whole priest thing isn't exempt from the struggle of self acceptance – acceptance of the self as God declares it to be. If you are facing a similar predicament, looking at the privilege and wondering whether you fit the bill then hear me say this… You are fit for it because you are not fit for it. You are fit for it because God makes you fit. It is fit for you as gift, like that blasted technicolor dream coat which repulses part of you because of the unfiltered and unexplainable hope. You wont be comfortable with this until the right time, and those parts of you that are impoverished, and trying to escape the drought rediscover this aspect of you seated in prime position in Pharaohs courts. Be patient. Trust God. Trust him more than you trust yourself. Oh… I digress. Let's return to the regular programming.]
The tranquility of the retreat centre was as welcome as an oasis would've been to Lawrence of Arabia (hyperbole). Finally having a room to enter and a place to put my bags down meant, at the very least, space to breath. I took off my shoes. I was tired of hiding my nerves by joining in the niceness of the troop. I hate smart shoes. There was still dinner to endure followed by the silence for which I had downloaded episodes of Rev onto my iPad (apparently the final part of my theological education). The retreat schedule lay open on the small table, one for each room I assumed. I read over it as I unpacked my bag onto the bed, freeing my cassock from its confines. My Darth Vader costume was well pressed (Vader of Cheam) but my new and unused clerical shirt still had the new-shirt creases in it. It would need ironing before Saturday (when the force would be at full strength).
After a few seconds staring at it I tucked the collar into the inside jacket pocket and then by the hangers lifted everything off the bed and placed them in the wardrobe by the door. It had doors which, thankfully, meant I could compartmentalise that part of my future for now. The full size mirror hanging on the outside of those blasted doors weren't helpful. There I was. In full 'colour'; the dreamer in technicolor (HD). I couldn't look myself in the eye for too long. Priesthood… lol (insert tear drop emoji here). The story behind me was a full and enfleshed one, my heart wouldn't let me turn back even though my stomach desperately willed it. It was too late now.
I cannot capture in words the depth of gratitude I have for our retreat guides. The balance between the seriousness of the task before us ordinands and the truth of a joy filled life on display not only filled me with courage, it inspired me past the cobwebs of my shaken self concept and into a place of deep trust in the God who was gently beckoning me forward. The pre-dinner introduction was fantastic. it gently teased me into laughter by making the experience I was about to have a corporate one: the nerves were shared equally between the 30 odd ordinands on this retreat. The stories that our guides shared made what seemed like a dark thicket at first turn into a well trodden path whose pitfalls were well documented, avoidable, and survivable.
Permit me to straddle two times here.
This post should've been sent shortly after Catch Up 3. The reason for the delay is the great disruption that was Brexit and its equally devastating aftershock TRUMP. I put my silence down to a broken heart. All of a sudden the world I thought I lived in took its mask off and once more revealed itself to be negatively complex. Worse still it didn't understand itself as it was appearing. There were friends, close friends who I felt were contributing to the this negative complexity and as such I didn't know how to respond. I couldn't understand their positions. Neither could I understand my own hearts. I couldn't write about what I hadn't understood, mainly because I didn't have a clear ethic to apply. The lessons captured in the book of Barabas needed to seep in. The bitterness to which those lessons spoke into needed to be digested so as not to pepper every expression with the same blotches of red (or whatever colour grief takes).
At this juncture I must apologise to those who listened to me preach 'in those days'. #Gosh.
"That morning" one of the retreat guides said to me in a moment of prayer. He was referring to the end of the ordination ceremony. "Look out the great west doors to the cathedral. Look out into the world to which you are called".
At the time these words lifted some of the weight I had felt thrust upon me by the little black boy. They refocused my mind away from questions surrounding my capacity and aptitude towards the clear image of a God who went before those whom he called. The shepherd was good and all I had to do was follow him. Simply true, and traceable through the life I had thus far lived. I was where I was due to a stupid bumbling into obedience. God had made use of my errors to make me who I was and was now about to do the same in leading me to life, and with that others also. #SolaGratia
Then came brexit… and trump.
To the ordinands out there slowly marching towards their ordination I share this. The world is messy. That makes the calling both complex and life giving. Complex because people generally do not realise their rejection of Jesus and each other (it is one of those things the bible attests to).
Complex because the effect of it all is heart ache (and I suggest that a lack of heart ache indicates an unknown resistance to Christ: because having compassion and being confronted by its subjects will always break hearts). Complex because the nature of the compassion and the nature of the people who need it most make embodying compassion extremely difficult.
Life giving because the banner we bear is the only one with a realisable hope at its core. There is nowhere else other than in Christ that the world finds resolution (both existentially in the present but also in eschatological terms). Life giving because the same place of deep frustration at the seeming ineffectiveness of compassion is the same place of understanding God's gracious unconditional compassion towards you. Life giving because for a brief moment at different frequencies, there will come a moment when the banner and uniform will grant access to the privileged place of helping others see that compassion from God as centred upon them – and that is magical.
In the face of these things, it is definitely worth recognising early that the rank your joining is one you've already been apart of. You are being set apart to be who you are and no more. There may be other responsibilities but the tip of the spear remains the same: proclaiming Christ the crucified and resurrected forever servant-king of kings. It remains being his witness to a world that doesn't know him or even understand the impact of its blindness to him. Our proclaimation will work against a vast and seemingly endless tide but, in the words of a very wise group of people, "we are on the winning side".
Embarking on my retreat, all I had was the petty nervousness that was born of a small world. A world that encompassed only my own perception of myself. Now, about to embark on another retreat (priesting), I am assured of a bigger world into which I'm being sent. If this was as clear to me last year as it is now, I might have dealt with the heartbreak a lot better than I did.
When the time to be silent came, I plugged in the iron and brought out the shoe polish. With each crease I took out of my clericals, I recognised the flawed nature of the institution I was soon going to represent; I recognised the flaws in me that these well pressed garments would either cover or highlight; but most importantly I recognised the reality that God had chosen to not reject either. In his mercy and wisdom he had chosen earthen ware to carry his Holy Spirit. I wasn't with Simeon, who after patiently waiting to see the Messiah now sought peace. No! I was with simon peter, who through error and betrayal and blasted cockerels (or elephants in my case) was now being asked to feed lambs and sheep; who was being asked to fish men into an eternal net; who was being granted the privilege of watching them draw their first breath once out of the waters of baptism.
I didn't watch Rev in the end.
Catch up: Part 3…The Little Black Tourist
By the entrance to the crypt a sentry stood.
"I'm here for the ordination retreat". I almost whispered.
"Right this way Sir!", the reply, with an arm extended toward the well lit hollow.
I lifted my bags so they wouldn't hit the steps. Inside one of them was a bottle of Aardberg which I had been advised to take with me (as for the contents of that bottle, what happens on retreat stays on retreat!).
The last time I came to St Paul's Cathedral it was for my confirmation service. I managed to find myself a seat upstairs and secured some for my family: who had come to support me. About five minutes prior to the service, my sister's nose began to bleed. One of the vergers, who I came to learn later was a cannon (cracking Job title by the way) had let us down some steps into the crypt. That was my first time down there.
I had once, before writing Talitha Koumi, aired some of my frustrations about Christian obsessions with buildings. Stone altars was the series of blog posts through which I mused on the place of symbolic structures in the life of faith. At that point, as with now, I was passionate for people to know God as one who did not need the many buildings, and all the ornate things within them, in order to touch the heart. Because of this, the history of St Paul's Cathedral and of all that was within its walls – specifically the crypt, weren't a fascination.
Today, as the outstretched arm of the Sentry pointed me down into the crypt, I hadn't lost that sense of non-wonder (and this has taken a while to understand). It wasn't the building that I was walking into that had me trembling, it was the life I was leaving behind. Going down the steps felt like leaving the autonomy with which my journey had been peppered: I was one amongst many traversing the busy London streets. It felt as though with each step down my life was stopping being my own.
At the end of the ceremony to come there would be a prefix to my name. One that denoted my connection to the institution that this building represented. It would denote my connection to a whole plethora of people. I trembled because I knew how complex my own sense of identity was (#It'sComplicated). How could I then enter into the space of representing? Would I lose who I was and become something else? If yes, then what if I did not like who I became? There were too few steps and too many tourists going up and down them for any of these questions to have had answers by the time I got to the room we were supposed to congregate in.
Bags down I was glad to see some familiar faces. I was also glad to see some new faces, each with that Nicky Gumble christian smile. It was daunting, but somehow also safe. I could trace in each face I met – of the ordinands – internal turmoils of a similar texture. There was a quiet, subtle, undercurrent of care for each other which made – even the silences – a good thing.
About 40 minutes passed with us, the group of ordinands, doing things not worth the blog-space (apart probably from the pre-quasi-seminar coffee, which was good). When all had been said that needed saying we donned our cassocks to head up for the rehearsal. The cafe in the crypt went silent as soon as the door to the room we were in opened. Cups were put down, some even did the sign of the cross as we – in single file like soldiers – marched out towards the set the same steps that had ushered us individually in. Lifting my cassock so as not to trip on the steps I slowly ascended back out into the sunshine of the courtyard. The faces, now turned towards our cohort of oddly dressed individuals, were filled with wonder and confusion in equal measure. We went up the steps, through the side doors past the tourists into the nave.
Part of what we would have had to do in the service was walk in that same single file up the aisle to the front. There was a slight commotion in the nave as the many tourists who were in the building gathered around close to the font, where we were, in order to see what was going on. Our names were called out so that we will be in the right order when our march begun. Like a good schoolboy I listened attentively for my name, suppressing every instinct towards mischief (I know… it happened). When it came, resounding with echoes, I walked toward where I was supposed to stand: my stomach slightly churning. I lifted my eyes from my shoes and that's when it happened; that's when I saw him. I'm certain however, that he had been watching me a while now.
He was short, just tall enough for the rope that demarcated the 'no access' area to pass across his shoulders. His hair was combed, dark like his eyes – which were wide open. There was a look of wonder in his eyes that both confused and encouraged me. It was a look mirrored by his mother, who was standing beside him. Hers however, had a tinge of pride: the kind of pride that God likes; that expresses a gratitude mixed with joy and affirmation. No one else had the same look these two had. For most of those surrounding them, the look was more of surprise and intrigue. Somehow, within that moment, I had become his – a memory to savour. He too had become mine. Both our eyes glistened at the realisation that we were no longer just tourists, misfits in a place we didn't belong. We represented each other from the other side of the rope: I could be him (in fact I was him once but in a life that – till fairly recently – was empty of the counterpart in a cassock), and he could be me. Once innocently colour-blind little black tourists in a sea of white, now priests to each other. Me, evidence of a new possibility; Him, a reminder of where I came from and the privilege I was now to hold: the privilege of who I was becoming.
Stopping short of going to embrace him, I nodded and waved. He slowly raised a hand, still with wonder in his eyes, and gently – almost with a tinge of embarrassment – waved back. With that we were called forward and I had to leave the scene.
Being an ethnic 'minority' (and I hate some of what that word might imply) had never really been a thing that I focussed on. Being and ethnic 'minority' in the Church of England was also not a thing that I had particularly focussed on. Being a Church of England ordinand from an ethnic minority was also not something I particularly mused upon. For some reason – and do think it is from him – God had somehow blinded me to the fact that I was usually one of perhaps two black guys in most of the churches I had been involved in. Looking back now, with the added experience of my sending church, I can see quite clearly the correlation between the affluence of the particular churches and their ethnic diversity (quite a sad thing to ponder really).
Only once during the discernment process had cultural mis-translation proved an issue for me: even then it was only slight. I barely noticed my ethnicity at my B.A.P (selection conference), and only slightly – on rare occasions – had it become a noticeable thing at theological college or in the placement churches. But this wasn't because issues regarding race and culture weren't alive in the undercurrent. No! It was because they were the aspects of my own experience that I had chosen, sub-consciously and consciously at times, not to reflect on. For so long as doors kept opening I kept walking through without pausing to ponder the scars and wounds from the journey.
This moment, then, was important because it helped me realise that I had a tourist's understanding of my presence at the cathedral. Somewhere between church, the discernment process, theological training and all that had led to this point, I had suppressed the truth of my blackness and thus wasn't really in the space to recognise the fact that I belonged where I stood. I had forgotten the wonder with which my eyes met my sending incumbent – a young black man serving as a priest. I hadn't recognised the permission he had given me, permission in my deepest recesses to dream. He had given me the sight of a future I could occupy, like the sight I had here given the little black tourist. I had had the fortune, in the sea of middle-class white males (a generalisation, but also a kind of reality), to have found someone who looked like me, spoke like me, had a story like mine, who was doing what I felt God was calling me to do. My dream had possibility.
To recognise my belonging meant recognising the moments when I was a cultural outcast, smiling in groups when I didn't understand the references or appreciate the same genre of music or films being used (unintentional exclusion by my God-loving peers). It meant recognising the loneliness of culture-centric pleasures and joys that I couldn't share: they would neither be appreciated fully/ understood nor enjoyed. It meant having to recognise the struggle to find a barber shop that did afro hair while my colleagues had short walks to theirs. It meant recognising that I didn't know how to begin to express my hurt when I was made a victim by a racist shopkeeper (my colleagues would have cared for me but they may not have understood the pain – real untranslated empathy heals in a way unparalleled). It meant recognising that I was going to be ordained as a black man.
If I didn't allow the authenticity of my experience to kneel before the cross, I wouldn't be healed; neither would the others from my background for whom our shared experience would be an avenue through which hope would flow. As Rev Azariah France-Williams (my sending incumbent) was for me, so I had to be for myself first, then for others. I suppose this was why Jesus had to be fully human, so as not to be a tourist but a priest.
The rest of the rehearsal was a blur: my thoughts overwhelmed me. I was occupied for the days of reflection that followed and have been since. The young boy ensured my commitment to a deeper reflection on the part my ethnicity plays in this great adventure God is leading me on. It's not easy. Keep me in your prayers.
I couldn't post this without this minor appendix….
In the diverse city that London is, I was the only black person ordained in 2016. There were a few from other ethnicities but in total we were a small percentage and I suspect didn't represent the make up of our city. I don't think this is an issue whose root rests solely in the majority male-middle class white clergy. What God blinded me to, other's see and are afraid. Had I seen it myself, I might not be where I am. We must together share the burden of cross-cultural translation. I think it is at the centre of the term 'incarnate'. Difference is not to be feared but to be embraced. Sin will mask our fear in apathy or the illusion that is the assurance of our being untouched by issues of race and culture: do not allow it to take root. Repentance, specific to this, looks like a real interrogation of the sub-conscious biases that exist within us. These are not just about race and culture but also include gender and age. Kneeling at the foot of the cross means just that, accepting that our minds need transformation and our whole lives conforming to be like the God who reached out to the uncircumcised.
(More can be said, more will undoubtedly be said.)
PS: Pontiff sed hi.
Left onto Stoke Lane
The sun shone brightly,
it's warmth tempered by a deep cooling breeze.
The days weren't as long as they had been,
the grasses were browning from summer's green,
And I could see, as I drove in,
that the leaves were desperately clinging to the trees,
Soon all would fall and a new thing would begin.
It had been a quiet drive,
Serene and subtle deep,
The slower speed now meant I could perceive
the acorns and conker seeds
knocking in the wheel arches.
Left onto Saville Road from Parry's Lane,
then right onto Stoke Road down the hill,
I'm sure its here I should turn in.
There are indeed some scenes that stick
like the big rocks at the bottom of clear streams,
or words vividly spoken mid-winter dreams,
that lay claim to a past and form the present's meaning
while conquering future schemes,
She was one of these,
The tree's – like her veil – did peel,
her brick work sealed by the gardens (Big up Dave Snell).
Intimidating, her beauty was to me,
Shyly I walked into her open arms
and within her embrace I blinked.
Then with a blade, dipped in love she touched me
Hurting to heal, healing to teach,
teaching to give me more than I had dreamed
There are indeed some scenes that stick,
or words vividly spoken mid-winter dreams
while conquering the future's schemes.
How indeed, will I now with eyes open
Full of hope release the grip of her embrace?
Even though the grasses are green,
and the flowers pristine,
And the trees themselves in bloom,
And my real calling is to serve her groom,
How will I, without tears, this very long journey resume?
Well, I must bid these faces adieu,
Treasure the spaces and rooms,
The calories burnt and consumed,
The songs sung in and out of tune,
The comedians, The d.j's,
and the tears shed in the old swimming pool.
As they go from present meaning to past anchor,
securing my future schemes
as I turn left one last time onto Stoke Road,
and up the hill.
The light brightly shines through the clouds,
the sun they slightly shroud in drizzles will win,
His warmth, seeping in through the slight chill
will bless the new leaves and fill the trees,
And lay claim to a past, form the present's meaning,
and conquer the future – once a dream.
PS: All mistakes are on purpose, they frustrate those who notice. Those who notice… know!!
https://www.trinitycollegebristol.ac.uk/blog/kingdom-living/left-onto-stoke-lane-a-poem-from-one-of-our-leavers/
Weorthscipe: Excerpt from a Sermon.


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I'm Really A Superstar Chapter 1695
Chapter 1695 This Is An Animated Musical?
The next day.
At a theater in Beijing.
"It's time for work."
"Little Liu, do a check on the equipment."
"Little Wang, how many movies are screening today?"
"Just four, but most of the sessions are for Frozen."
"Hai, to give an animated film such a screening rate, will it really work out? Will people really watch it?"
"Sister Han, the ticket bookings have been tabulated!"
"What are the ticket sales for today?"
"They're all sold out!"
"What? Sold out?"
"The tickets for all of Frozen's showtimes have been sold out."
"Huh? There are people buying tickets for the morning sessions too?"
"Damn, just how many fans does Teacher Zhang have!"
Shanghai.
In a theater.
"Isn't that Director Li Ke?"
"He's here?"
"Ah, I saw Xu Meilan!"
"Sister Lan also came to support the movie?"
"And Jiang Hanwei too! That's Jiang Hanwei, right?"
"It's him. Old Jiang has also been filming a show in Shanghai recently."
"That theater is booked for the day. The attendees are all celebrities."
Several Hollywood animation directors came together in a group.
These people were all well-known animation directors in Hollywood. One of them was even the director of a Top 3 animated film of all time at the Hollywood box office, even though its earnings weren't that much compared to Hollywood live-action movies.
"Are we really going to watch it?"
"Come on, let's have a look."
"It cost 200 million dollars to make, so I would like to see what he came up with."
"I don't have much hope for it."
"The new directors are all too arrogant for their own good."
"Yeah, who doesn't know how tough it is to make an animated film? As someone who has only made a live-action movie, what does he know about animated films? What does he know about Hollywood animated films?"
"Lillian!"
"Lillian brought her family here to watch a movie?"
"Is she going to watch Potter's new movie?"
"Surely? She has a guest role in that movie, after all."
"Eh, that's not right. She didn't go into that cinema hall!"
"That cinema hall is—the VIP cinema hall for Frozen?"
"What? Lillian is going to watch Zhang Ye's animated film?"
"Lillian has actually come to support Zhang Ye's movie on its premiere day? She's not even going to watch the movie she acted in?"
"Uh, it's making me wanna watch Frozen as well."
"Why don't we also buy a ticket for it?"
Japan.
At a downtown theater.
Several acquaintances bumped into each other in the crowd.
"Ah, Kyoko."
"Ah, Seki-chan?"
"Editor Fujita, what are you also doing here?"
"Ahem, you all came to watch Frozen too? Weren't you all calling to boycott Zhang Ye at the editorial department yesterday? You were so hyped about the boycott, so what are you are doing here!"
"No, that's you! You're always the first person to criticize Zhang Ye's new works, but aren't you here too?"
"I'm just curious, aren't I?"
"Hai, we were curious too."
"Keep this matter a secret. We never saw each other."
"Uh, OK."
At a media session.
Many media personnel had come, with quite a few film critics among them. When everyone got seated in the theater, they took out their pens and notebooks and got ready to write their reviews of the movie.
"This farce is finally coming to an end."
"Yeah, Zhang Ye was too impulsive this time."
"Everything was actually going very well for him in the international entertainment scene."
"Who let him challenge the Hollywood directors?"
"The movie hasn't even started yet. Talk after we finish watching it."
"Is there still a need to watch it? Do you really think that he can win?"
"During the Nobel Prize award ceremony, during the premiere of Wolf Warrior 2, during the time Man vs. Wild was showing, I've always stood on the losing side by writing my drafts in advance. So I've decided this time that as long as it's a report on Zhang Ye, I will only write my drafts after I've watched to the end. This is a very special person we're talking about."
On the Web.
Netizens from all over the world appeared.
Quite a few social media personalities also joined the festivities. They used their own ways to share this moment of the ultimate bet between Zhang Ye and the Hollywood directors by livestreaming to their fans.
"It's starting!"
"The live text commentary for Frozen is beginning now!"
"I've arrived at the theater, and I'll be updating everyone on how Zhang Ye's new movie turns out, haha."
"Two minutes and counting down!"
"The lights have dimmed! I can't wait!"
"Everyone, wait for my video review."
"The worst animated film with the largest budget in history will be coming soon!"
On the day of the premiere.
Media outlets from around the world were all in attendance.
The entire world's industry insiders were paying attention to this.
Many normal people also went to watch the movie at the earliest showtime.
Zhang Ye's sisters.
Xu Meilan.
Lillian.
Fan Wenli.
Jiang Hanwei.
Zhang Xia.
Many of Zhang Ye's family and friends had come to catch the premiere.
A lot of people knew how capable Zhang Ye was and what he could do, but his opponents this time were simply too good. That 700 million USD box office movie that Wilson directed had backed Zhang Ye into a tight corner. They had never seen Zhang Ye lose before, but they knew even the most capable person couldn't keep winning forever. If there was ever a time when Zhang Ye would lose, then it would probably be this day.
Frozen premiered around the world.
When the first scene played, many people were taken by surprise.
"Elsa. Elsa! Wake up. Wake up. Wake up."
"Anna, go back to sleep."
"I just can't. The sky's awake, so I'm awake, so we have to play."
"Go play by yourself."
"Come on, come on, come on, come on! Do the magic! Do the magic!"
The theater burst into an uproar.
"What kinds of visuals are these?"
"It looks exquisite, doesn't it?"
"The character designs are so pretty!"
"These two girls are so cute!"
"I've never seen an animation with such good visuals before!"
"This looks like it was really made frame by frame!"
"So this is what 200 million USD can make?"
"Zhang Ye is such a wastrel. He's so bold to spend money like that!"
"Yeah, no one else would dare to spend as much as he has!"
"Ah, Anna's hurt!"
The story continued developing.
Anna's memory was altered.
Elsa was confined to the castle and isolated from others.
Everything had calmed down and seemingly returned to normal.
"Do you want to build a snowman? / Come on, let's go and play. / I never see you anymore. / Come out the door. / It's like you've gone away. We used to be best buddies / And now we're not. / I wish you would tell me why. / Do you want to build a snowman. / It doesn't have to be a snowman."
Elsa said, "Go away, Anna."
Anna sang dejectedly, "OK, bye."
When this song played, it surprised countless moviegoers around the world once more.
The Hollywood animated film directors were stunned.
"Music?"
"Why is there music?"
"It has tied music into the plot and dialogue?"
"Can it even be done this way?"
"Woode, has anyone made an animated film in this way before?"
"I think—it's never been done like this before!"
"Zhang Ye really does know how to make a Hollywood animated film!"
"This does have the style of Hollywood! Yet it's not quite the same!"
Beijing.
At the theater that Zhang Ye's sisters were.
"Anna is so cute!"
"It's such a good song!"
"Why is this song so good!"
"They're both so adorable!"
"I thought this was going to be a sad story, but when the song played, why does it change the entire mood of everything? They even used the lyrics as their lines?"
"This animated musical was made by our brother?"
"Oh, our amazing brother!"
Lillian's family was rather surprised.
"So how is it? I wasn't wrong in bringing you all to watch this, right?"
"Sis, that Chinese friend of yours is so impressive."
"I'm sure this opening has captured everyone's attention."
"Is this a brand new type of animated musical? It's truly unimaginable."
Lillian smiled and said, "This fellow has always had a lot of guts to try out new things. But even with what we've seen, it might not be enough to outdo those Hollywood directors. Let's see what else he has up his sleeves for the rest of the movie."


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If you're looking an alternative browser other than the one that came with your mobile phone, one of these four choices will do the trick because they're dedicated to mobile devices only, they may actually enlighten you to use more features on your phone.
Morgan Sims is a writer and graduate of the University of South Florida who loves all things tech and social media. When she's not trying out new gadgets and tweeting she spends most of her time with her dog, cooking and staying active. Follow her on Twitter: @MorganSims00.


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