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How I Ended This Summer (, translit. Kak ya provyol etim letom) is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by Alexei Popogrebski. It was critically acclaimed and garnered several awards and nominations; it was in the competition for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

Plot
Meteorology student Pavel "Pasha" Danilov (Grigoriy Dobrygin) is spending the summer as an intern at an isolated, Soviet-era weather station on a remote Arctic island with only the older, experienced geophysicist Sergei Gulybin (Sergei Puskepalis) for company. Their sole job is to collect the weather and tide statistics every four hours on antiquated equipment, which they do in shifts, and report the readings by radio to the state meteorology center. Pasha is respectful and friendly, but he is afraid of the gruff Sergei, who is condescending to him, as he resents Pasha's temporary stay and is jealous that he knows how to operate their only computer.

Sergei takes the boat on an unauthorized fishing trip for a few days, and tells Pasha not to mention this. When the radio operator urgently requests to speak with Sergei,  Pasha dutifully makes up excuses why he cannot come on the radio. Eventually Pasha is told to take down a radiogram that Sergei's wife and young son have been "gravely injured" in an accident, although it is apparent they've been killed. He is told that a ship Academic Obruchev is headed to get them and instructed to simply give Sergei the message and then "leave him alone." The sad news keeps Pasha awake, but when he does sleep he oversleeps; the data goes unrecorded. Seeing Sergei's boat, he hastily grabs the logbook to fill in fake numbers, and in doing so knocks his radiogram under the desk. When Sergei comes ashore with the trout, he is in a good mood. He tells Pasha a warm story about his wife craving salted trout during her pregnancy. Pasha starts to say something, but Sergei interrupts and teaches him how to properly fillet a fish.

Once inside, Sergei quickly figures out that the Pasha made up the numbers in the log and explodes in anger, dragging Pasha inside and berating him. He tells him that the station has been continuously occupied since 1935, and that no matter how bad the conditions got, never had anyone just faked the numbers out of sheer laziness, and that now all their work is worthless. He accuses Pasha of being a "tourist" in the Arctic in order to write a pointless essay, "How I Ended This Summer" (a play on the clichéd "How I Spent My Summer Vacation.") Sergei tells him an intimidating  story about the time one geophysicist apparently killed the other due to their strained relationship.

The frightened Pasha does not tell Sergei about his family and temporarily sabotages the radio. When Sergei leaves to get more trout, Pasha is told that the ship is stuck in ice, but that a helicopter will instead come before the weather worsens. Pasha, carrying a rifle, heads to the lagoon to meet the helicopter. Upon hearing the rotors of the helicopter, Pasha lights a flare, but the pilot cannot see the flare due to heavy fog and flies away. Pasha then notices bear pawprints. Following the tracks with his eyes, he sees the distinct white shape of a polar bear. He runs a short distance, and notices that the bear is chasing him. He flees, and begins to descend a steep embankment, and subsequently trips.

Pasha wakes up in Sergei's boat. As they disembark, Pasha tries to confess to Sergei that he needs to tell him something but Sergei ignores him. Pasha finally blurts out to Sergei that his family is dead. Sergei turns around and comes toward him, and Pasha, frightened and with an injured leg, falls to the ground. Thinking Sergei is going to attack him, Pasha fires at him but misses. He then gets up and runs away while Sergei picks up his gun and fires at him, and then keeps shooting into the air.

Pasha takes up residence in an old abandoned cabin. He wakes up to hear Sergei outside and hides, still afraid. Sergei calls to him and says he wants to talk to him. Sergei, who is carrying his rifle, hears Pasha step on something that makes a large cracking sound. Thinking Pasha fired at him, he fires his own rifle. The terrified Pasha runs away.

Pasha, freezing, huddles by an old radioisotope thermoelectric generator to keep warm before realizing he has exposed himself to radiation. He sneaks into the cabin when Sergei is away and tries to contact the main station for help but cannot reach anyone.  Starving, he steals Sergei's fish and nearly chokes to death on a fishbone. He screams and curses Sergei. He hangs fish up on the isotope beacon; he later sneaks back into the cabin and replaces Sergei's stash of fish with the contaminated fish.

One night Sergei sees the disheveled Pasha looking in the cabin window watching him eat the fish. He signals to Pasha to come inside, and then invites him to sit down and have some fish. He says the Academic Obruchev made it through the ice after all and will be there in three days. Pasha confesses that the fish has been contaminated. Sergei says nothing, but goes to vomit up the fish he has just eaten. Pasha checks the cupboard and sees Sergei has eaten all of the contaminated fish. Sergei returns and says only that they don't have to tell anyone what has happened. 3 days later, two men help secure the broken thermoelectric generator to a helicopter, which then flies away to the Academic, which has reached the island.

Sergei tells Pasha he plans to stay on the island. Pasha threatens to tell what has happened to force Sergei to get medical help. Sergei grabs Pasha, and hugs him, telling him that he needs to stay on the island alone.

Cast
 Grigoriy Dobrygin as Pavel Danilov
 Sergei Puskepalis as Sergei Gulybin
 Igor Csernyevics as Safronov (voice)
 Ilya Sobolev as Volodya (voice)
 Artyom Tsukanov as Stas (voice)

Production

Conception
Alexei Popogrebski stated in making the film, ever since he was a child, he has been fascinated by the diaries of polar explorers. Their ability to come to terms with the monstrous vastness of time and space amazes him. The story of two men living and working in complete isolation slowly developed inside of him over the years. After completing two features, Popogrebsky felt he was ready for this challenge.

Filming
The main location for filming was the Valkarkay polar station on the Chukchi Sea in Arctic Russia.  Alexei Popogrebski intended it was clear that the film had to merge entirely with the actual, real setting. He did some research and found the Valkarkai polar station on the northernmost tip of Chukotka. Popogrebsky states in his interview with the Russian Magazine: Action, "if you look at the map, it is literally the end of the world". Popograbsky and his team went there for location scouting in 2007 and fell in love with the place. When the group returned at the station in June, the ocean was still covered with ice; in the last days of filming it snowed and young ice began to form. It snowed for the first time on 3 August. The average temperature in these summer months was 5 degrees. The Foggy Station, where one of the most intense scenes of the film was shot, is located at the northernmost geographical point of mainland Chukotka - Cape Shelagsky. In total, five polar bears lived in the vicinity of the shooting site: the first appeared a bear with two adult bears, then a mother male (he was the one who "starred" in the film), and at the end of the shooting - a young bear who tried to have lunch with the director and cameraman. Throughout the film-making process, the film was shot chronologically, maximum jumping over one scene.

Casting
After Popogrebski came back from the location scouting, he proudly showed this place on the map to Sergey Puskepalis, who starred in his previous movie, Simple Things, and for whom he wrote one of the two parts in the new script. Puskepalis looked at it and then stated matter-of-factly: 'I lived near there for nine years'. When Puskepalis was a child, his parents worked at a nuclear plant in Chukotka. Thanks to that, Sergey, who plays the seasoned polar meteorologist, fitted in entirely with the local workers from the very start. Popogrebski's plan was for the actors to wear their protagonists' clothes, live their lives, and follow their routine a hundred percent of the time.

Themes
The landscape and nature themself seems to become one of the main characters of this film, capturing landscapes that are striking but never aestheticised, from fog-steeped valleys to murderous rocky cliffs. The film unfolds in the remotest Arctic regions of Russia's Far East, where the personal conflict between the film's two protagonists develops as they understand the nature of their different conflicts with the looming mountains and rough seascapes by which they are isolated. As Popogrebski puts it himself, "All of us being city dwellers, we tell the story from the point of view of the younger character whose life experience is much closer to ours. However, in making this film, our effort was to become subjects to the nature of extreme North, to let go of rigid pre-planned concepts and be open and attentive to what it could offer us. And it had a lot to offer."

Another theme of this film is the generational divides of Russian society today. The film establishes its two-character dynamic, a story of two personal (and incompatible) time-and-space scaled, using a psychologically tense narrative to explore the relationship  between  linear  historical  time  and  timeless.The older character, Sergei (Sergei Puskipalis) relies on old methods of collecting and transmitting meteorological data. He records water and air temperatures and solar activity using what should be described as analogue methods: thermometers, barometers, as well as a pair of Wellington boots  as he wades into the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean. His younger counterpart, Pavel (Grigorii Dobrygin), fully relies on modern digital technology—the computer. Perhaps in contemporary meteorological practice traditional and computerized methods are used conjointly; however, the director makes a clear point about the characters' difference in the use of technology.

Reception
How I Ended This Summer received positive reviews overall. How I Ended This Summer has an approval rating of 79% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 43 reviews, and an average rating of 6.47/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating  "generally favorable reviews".

Critic Philip French of The Guardian praised the film, calling it a "tense allegory about modern Russia." He said Dobrygin and Puskepalis rightfully deserved their awards for their performances in the isolated setting, writing that "They almost seem like the last survivors in a post-apocalyptic world" and that he sees "Sergei and Pavel as representing different sides of Putin's Russia, one shaped by older traditional ways, the other struggling to discover a new set of values." Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph gave it four stars, writing, that the director Popogrebsky "delivers a Tarkovskian parable about nuclear horror which also functions as a sustained and nail-biting psychological thriller."

Awards

References

External links

2010 films
2010 drama films
Russian drama films
2010s Russian-language films
Films directed by Alexei Popogrebski
Best Film, London Film Festival winners
Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution

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DENVER -- The question came when the Brewers added Christian Yelich and Lorenzo Cain on Jan. 25, again when they picked up Mike Moustakas and Jonathan Schoop before the July 31 Trade Deadline and once more before the postseason began. Sure, they have a deep lineup and a dominant bullpen, but what about that starting pitching?
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The 31-year-old lefty, who put up a 2.57 ERA in 16 regular-season starts, allowed only three hits and a walk as he kept Colorado off-balance with cutters and curveballs. Rockies manager Bud Black admitted his lineup was pressing, trying too hard to make something happen, but Miley didn't give them much to work with.
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Miley threw only 64 pitches but was pulled with two outs and a runner on first in the fifth as Rockies leadoff man Charlie Blackmon stepped to the plate for the third time. Knebel came in and struck out Blackmon on three pitches.
"You've got a group of guys who all want the same thing: We want to win the World Series," Miley said. "We're not trying to be more than who you are. Do your job and pass it on to the next guy."
Now, with four days off before the NLCS, manager Craig Counsell and pitching coach Derek Johnson can let their relievers rest and reconfigure the rotation. Miley would be able to start Game 1 at Miller Park on regular rest. Chacin will be ready to go. They can draw up a seven-game pitching plan that includes a mix of traditional starters and less traditional "out-getters" like Woodruff.
The way things went in the NLDS, it seems like just about anyone could get the job done. The Brewers inspired a new question, one born of admiration rather than doubt: How about that starting pitching?
"I think our pitching staff right now is pitching as well as it possibly could," Johnson said. "I'm really proud of our starters, too. They're getting a lot of outs."


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I haven't written in quite a bit.
But Wednesday was my birthday.
And for those of you that don't know (AKA if you aren't my friend on Facebook), I also got engaged Wednesday!
This is the post-popping-the-question-and-me-saying-yes picture.
Story and more pictures to come!
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This was a project I've been thinking about doing for a long time. Finally finished and it looks and works great! Probably about $70 all in. Forgive the worn steering wheel- I'm sure a lot of you guys have the same issue!
It involves some rare parts, and is not for electrical novices. Soldering experience is a must, and a donor car at your local junkyard will save you a ton of hunting.
~An aftermarket headunit, name brand preferably.
1. First you need to remove the airbag and steering wheel. Be safe. I'm not going into detail here, there are other tutorials for this.
2. Disassemble the sienna horn bracket and grind the rivets that hold the side remote bracket onto the horn bracket. This will be transplanted onto the solara horn bracket- as you can see, the sienna bracket won't fit in the solara steering wheel. That's the first major challenge with this install.
3. This is how I attached the remote bracket from the sienna to the solara horn bracket. Be creative, it takes trial and error and lots of test fits to get it right and depending on your fabrication skills you may take a different approach.
4. The airbag connector is a different shape, but the wire colors and functions are the same- so cut the yellow connector off the solara clockspring and solder it onto the sienna clockspring. Blue to blue, yellow to yellow. This splice MUST be soldered and properly insulated- obviously.
7. Remove the black and yellow wires from the black connector on the other side of the sienna clockspring. These are connected to the yellow and green signal wires from the remote. Insert them into the corresponding connector in the solara. It will have two open slots for you.
8. Ground the blue wire from the remote somewhere inside the steering wheel.
9. Now all the remote needs is 12 volts. The horn bracket is the only good 12V source in the steering wheel, and it doesn't turn off with the key so this option will kill your battery. This is the second challenge I faced. My solution was to rewire the horn at the fusebox under the hood so it loses power when you take the key out. I tapped into a switched 12V source from the interior fuse panel (I used the windshield wiper fuse, cigarette lighter fuse would also work) and ran the wire through the firewall to the engine compartment fusebox. Use fairly thick wire, as the horn draws about 4 amps. The result of this is that your horn and remote will lose power when the key is out.
Now your remote should have power and ground. If you need your horn to work without the key for some reason, you can stick your old horn fuse back in and it will work normally.
11. Solder two extension wires to the yellow and black signal wires coming from the clockspring, and make the wires long enough to reach behind your head unit. Feed the wires through and solder them to the plug you took from behind the sienna head unit. This plug plugs into the Axxess interface kit. If you didn't take this connector, just cut the connector off of the Axxess interface and solder the wires straight on. If you get the two wires switched it won't work- so be prepared to swap them if your test run is unsuccessful.
12. Follow the instructions that came with the Axxess kit and reassemble everything. Mine worked on the first try! All buttons work.
sweet.i was so hard up for steering wheel controls for audio I put a switch on the cruise buttons to go back and forth (only 3 functions though). I like your idea much better. junkyard here I come.
I hate this because I wanted to know this a year ago when I custom wrapped my steering wheel.
I have also been too afraid to mess with the clock spring.
I'm at a loss as to where I can get another 12V source in the steering wheel. I thought maybe the cruise control- but the wiring diagram for the cruise control doesn't show a good 12V source. Any ideas?
the 12 volt your seeing at the horn is probably from the other side of a relay coil. the horn goes to ground when pushed in. if I remember correctly the cruise circuit switches ground. i'll check tomorrow at work to see if I can find a switched power in the steering wheel somewhere.
I'd appreciate it, but I doubt you'll find anything. The horn works great for me if I'm sitting at idle or with the engine off, but as soon as I start driving the controls shut off.
What I wouldn't give for one more contact on that clockspring! The sienna cruise control must've required one fewer wire than the solara.


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Second Princess of the Night - Senyu
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With King Sombra gone, is Equestria truely safe from harm? Or will another foe as old as the Crystal Kingdom itself appear now that the dark unicorn's position of evil is vacant? What new danger will threaten the land and the Elements of Harmony?
Second Princess of the Night written by Senyu
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Act I - Chapter 9
Twilight groaned as she stirred, and weakly moved her limbs in a daze. Her body felt numb except for the sensation of pricking needles, almost as if she had fallen asleep on a leg for too long but throughout her entire body.
As the feeling returned to her limbs, she hazily looked about the forest clearing she laid in, before laying her head back down and shutting her eyes in pain from the headache that assaulted her.
"Ow…" she breathed quietly.
Holding her eyes firmly shut, she struggled to get her hooves beneath her to stand herself up, but found she was at the moment only able to appropriately control her front legs. While sucking in tiny breaths, she braced her forelegs into the ground, and propped herself. She held still for sometime as the soreness in her legs, and the pain in her head, began to dull, and only then did she open her eyes again.
Blinking wearily, she looked about the forest once more.
W...What's going on? Where… Where am I?
With half open eyes, she stared dumbfounded at the greenery around her, before the memories of last night finally caught up with her mind, and made her eyes snap fully opened.
With a startled gasp, she instinctively leapt to a standing position, bracing herself for the next attack. But she was only able to hold it for a few moments before her back legs gave out, and she sat herself down. She shut her eyes again as the headache flared once more.
Feeling the remnants of sleep fade from her mind, Twilight remained as she was, letting the strength come back to her body as she attempted to recall everything that had happened.
You're alright Twilight, they're not here. At least, I don't think they are.
Feeling some of the pain dwindling, she opened her eyes and looked about again, albeit much more slowly than she did before. There was nothing around save the trees, and the only sounds she could hear were the morning bird songs beginning to settle, and the faint rustle of leaves now and then.
It's morning already... Which means whatever they wanted to steal from the house is probably gone by now. She bit her lip at the thought of the fleeing pony. I can't believe he escaped! If I get my hooves on him again…
Her frustration of the incident quickly cooled as she replayed the events again.
No… that's not the real issue. What happened last night? What was that strange magic he had used?
Twilight sat down to give her legs some respite, feeling a sense of deja-vu of how her limbs refused to move in a similar fashion when he had caught her. As her headache began to fade further, more memories jumped in and filled in the events, bringing about each moment with chilling clarity.
She could remember everything now. From the strange shadows that had become corporeal, to her magic strangely going out. Nothing about last night made sense in her mind, or fell in line with how magic worked as she knew. And surprisingly, that bothered her more than she thought it would.
She sat there for some time, working out hypotheses as to how such things happened, during of which her body recovered more quickly than she realized. It had caught her by surprise when she realized her limbs were not protesting any more.
To make sure it wasn't just her imagination, she tentatively stood back up, readying herself for a flash of pain she felt would surely come. But nothing of the sort happened. She felt normal, without a hint of soreness to indicate she had even experienced it in the first place.
"Huh…" she commented.
Now curious about the rest of her, she turned her eyes upward and focused on her horn. Like always, she felt her magic pooling within it and flowing freely, much to her relief.
"Well, guess I can check that off the list."
Still tentative that the pain would come back in any second, she stepped forward a hoof step, then another, trotted in place, and even jump up. Her body felt fine, and she was confident any spells she would cast would also have similar results.
As she reflected over the strangeness of it all, a speck of dirt falling caught her attention. She blinked in confusion before she realized that it must have been some of the remnants of the dirt from last night.
"That jerk!"
She carefully began wiping the rest of it off her horn. How dare he shove my horn into the ground like that! Shadow magic or not, when I get my hooves on him! When she cleared off as much as she could, she looked down at her legs and saw grass stains covering them. The sudden awareness of how dirty she was too the point that she didn't even bother to check how bad it was on the rest of her body.
Grinding her teeth, her eyebrow twitched meticulously as she called on her magic again. I need to get back so I can start figuring out what the hay had happened. Nopony gets away with stealing under my watch, assaulting me in the middle of the night, and shoving MY horn into the ground!
With a flared nostril, she casted her spell, blinked out of the forest, and arrived in front of a startled Spike.
"Twilight! What happened to you?" he exclaimed immediately.
A wave of dizziness washed over Twilight, but past in moments. "I… uh… I'm okay… still recollecting myself." Twilight looked about the library as the sensation faded, letting relief fill her at being somewhere familiar. "I'm okay, I just need a bath as I… um, sure you can tell," she said while gesturing towards herself. "I'm going upstairs to fix up. Afterwards, you and I are going to Trail's. His house got broken into last night and I want to account for everything missing."
"Seriously? What in Equestria happened last night? And why are you so… messy?" he said carefully.
"I'll tell you on the way," she sighed. "And can you get me some breakfast please while I wash up? I'm starving."
"Uh, yeah, sure thing," Spike replied hesitantly, fumbling with his hands as he contemplated staying by her side between doing as she asked. But she left him little time to choose, and was quickly up the stairs and into the bedroom. Biting his teeth with worry, Spike rushed into the kitchen and began making breakfast.
As the sound of pots and pans falling echoed dimly to the second floor, Twilight drowned out the noise by turning the faucet for the bathtub on full. A steady stream of hot water shot forth and quickly began to steam up the room, causing Twilight to breath in deeply at its relieving sensation. While waiting for it to fill before switching to cold water to even the temperature out, Twilight turned towards the mirror. She stared blankly at her reflection before muttering darkly, "Rarity, would have a heart attack."
Messy, as Spike described, was an understatement. She had leaves and twigs in her mane, dirt and grass stains completely covering her coat and legs, her feathers were completely ruffled and displaced, and her eyes were red from still waking up.
"Wow, I am a mess."
As she waited for the water to fill, she began the tedious process of removing all the foliage from her mane and tail, and them aside into a neat pile on the floor nearby. She even had somehow ran into a bush with tiny ball shaped green stickers that were resilient on letting go of her.
Just before the tub was full, she quickly switched to cold water, and turned it off. The room was still misty from the heat, but it was doing wonders for Twilight as she breathed the warm air into her lungs. Tipping a hoof timidly into the water, she sunk it deep enough for it to reach passed her coat. She sucked in a breath of air as the heated water made contact, then relaxed as the sharp pain began to fade away. Oh Celestia does that feel good.
Carefully, she eased her body into the tub with hind legs first, dipping them slowly while supporting herself on the edges with her forehooves, wincing now and then at the sensation of the water touching the little cuts across her body beneath her coat. But as painful as it was, the feeling of the warm liquid enveloping her was worth it, and its warmth worked its magic. As she slid the last bit of the way, a happy sigh escaped her lips, and she looked up to the ceiling with a smile. This is what I needed, she thought, and her body couldn't agree more with her.
After washing away all the nature that had clung to her, Twilight stepped out of the tub and began drying herself off; the muddy water slowly sinking into the drain as the tub drained. She felt ten times refreshed and ready, the only thing left to pick her up and prepare her for figuring out everything being the anticipated breakfast Spike had been preparing for her.
Enjoying the brief reprieve of relaxation before getting down to business, Twilight hung the towel on the rack and began to preen the feathers, before sighing at the notion she would have to ask for help for some of the more difficult ones.
"Fluttershy had just helped me settle these in recently too," she said in disappointment. As she considered asking for her or Rainbow Dash's help later in the day after marking all the stolen goods, she blinked her eyes, and looked at her feathers. "Actually, I bet I can do it now on my own. I don't need to bother them with this."
After spending some extra time getting her feathers in place—of which she hoped meant Spike was preparing more food—she magically grabbed her brush, and began stroking her tail and mane back into their proper positions, all while staring at a much more familiar and clean looking pony.
As she was working on her bangs, she stopped in mid stride at the noticed of a detail that still remained from her messy state from before.
Setting the brush aside, she leaned closer to the mirror and opened her eyes as wide as she could. She had figured it was just the after effects of being tired, or a tiny blood vessel that had popped during the fight. But neither of those explanations, or any others that she could come up with, explained the red coloration on the edge of her purple irises. Had she not been staring idly into the mirror while brushing, she may have not even noticed it.
"Huh… that's weird."
Propping herself onto the sink, she spent some time looking at it from every angle and length, while running over in her mind on possible spells that might be able to revert it if it did not go away. It might be a side effect from the magic last night. I better take a look at some dispelling formulas just incase. I wonder if I can make one into the form of eye droplets.
"Twilight! Your breakfast is ready!"
Perfect. I am absolutely starving.
Giving the red tinge once last scrupulous glare, she lowered herself from the sink, and head out. "Coming!"
"So he was just gone when you woke up?" Spike asked as he kept up with Twilight's quickened pace.
"That's pretty much it," Twilight grunted.
Spike looked up at her worry for the umptenth time. He opened his mouth to say something, but held back at the expression of her face. Her brow was furrowed, her chin tight from clenched teeth, and her eyes were unwavering as they stared forward. I haven't seen Twilight worked up like this before. The last time she even acted remotely like this was when Nightmare Moon came back.
The tight feeling he had in his gut made him want to say or do something, anything, that might helped her feel better. But he could not. There was nothing to say. Twilight had been attacked, and he had not been there to help her.
Which means there's only thing I can do then. Gripping his claws tightly, he turned his eyes forward as well, and blew out a puff of smoke from his nose. I got to be there for Twilight here on out. I am not letting something like this happening ever again.
To deepen his resolve, he imagined himself catching the would be robber from last night, himself clad in armor, and breathing terrible fire to burn their tail off.
"Any idea why he broke into Trail's home?" Spike said with a deep voice in attempt to show his resolve.
"No idea," Twilight simply replied. Her dead set expression however, soften as she imagined the state of the house. "I feel so bad that I let him get away. I hope Trail isn't too mad that he managed to get away with his stuff."
"Don't worry, I don't think he'll sweat it too much," Spike said.
"I hope so…" Twilight replied. "I just hate the fact that something I was in charge of got ransacked…"
The rest of the quick walk was done in silence, and the path to the house seemed longer than usual despite it taking only a few short minutes.
When they did arrive, they wasted no time in walking up the front path and opening the door, only to pause as soon as they saw inside. They simply stood in the entrance way, nearly all their determination having been swept away at the sight of the mess littered about; a mess that they would have to clean up.
"Wow…" Spike remarked.
It was just as bad as Twilight remembered. Everything was toppled over and on the floor, or pulled from their position if not completely thrown on its side. The sight of it all made Twilight's heart sink in dread. The last time she had been standing in the doorway like this but looking outside instead of in, it was to see Trail off; the same worry in her chest nagging at her. Is this what you warned me about being careful? The memory of Trail flashing her a weak smile and telling her everything would be alright flashed across her mind. Trail… what is going on? Just what are you apart of?
"Well," she breathed reluctantly. "We better get started cleaning up and cataloguing what's missing so we can report what was stolen to the local guard."
"I'll be right back," Spike said before quickly trotting back down the front path.
"Spike! Where are you going?"
"To get a bigger broom and some snacks! It looks like we're going to be here all day!"
Twilight opened her mouth to call him back, but stopped, then shook her head with a smile on her lips. She knew better than to stop him when he was so set on things, and she hadn't seen him so worked up in sometime.
Spike on the other claw, had seen her smile, and ran even quicker back to the library. If there's one thing I can help out on, then I'm gona do it the best I can!
The two of them spent all morning picking up various items, tidying up broken pieces of ceramics and glass, turning furniture right side up, and ensuring everything was in their proper place, all while going over what happened been taken.
To their bewilderment however, nothing appeared to be missing. Everything was either pulled from their original spots or broken. As they moved about the bottom floor, a suspicion that the situation had nothing to do with an ordinary robber grew more and more. To her, it was as if they were looking for something, something that was very important.
Each piece they found caused her heart to sink further of the damage that was caused under her watch, and the determination to figure out exactly what it was they wanted. By the time they finished the first floor, everything had been swept into piles and repositioned, it was past noon, leaving only the second floor. The fact that not a single piece was missing from the bottom floor only confirmed further her suspicion.
As they explored the second floor, they found it in a similar disarray; everything shattered or moved from their spots. Even the beds were flipped over and torn apart. If anything had been within it, Twilight would never know. She began to worry that whatever the robber had been looking for may have already been found.
But if they found what they were looking for, then why is the entirety of the house destroyed? Unless two things happened. They either A, found it at the end. Or B, never did…
Humming to herself in thought, she made her way out of the bedroom and to the pair of doors she had been dreading to open since she first stepped into the house. With a gulp at what she may find on the otherside, Twilight slowly pushed open the door to the study room.
When she did, she wished she hadn't.
"How could anypony do this!?" she exclaimed.
Across the entire floor, was every single book from the shelves; the majority of them lying open face down, causing small folds in the papers or bends in the spines. The sight of such books—and some priceless ones in her opinion—filled her with a sense panic that only the injust treatment to literature could cause.
"Oh no no no no!" repeated over and over as she immediately began to levitate them back into their places while inspecting the damage done to them. "Some of these books are incredibly rare and first edition to! I can't believe he left them like this!" When she lifted one book and found its pages were literally ripped from the spine, she nearly fainted.
"Besides the damaged ones, doesn't seem any different than when you leave books lying around," Spike casually commented, ducking beneath a few novels that were being floated back to the shelves. He was quickly silenced by an angry glare from Twilight, then bit back the urge to sigh and began to help picking them back up. After collecting a few, he headed over to the nearest shelf before they were suddenly pulled out of his claws with magic.
"Those go over here," Twilight stated, her head turning every which way to read the various titles of the books floating around before putting them neatly back into their spots.
Of course she's memorized where they all go by now.
Wanted to stay out of the way of her frantic work, Spike set about fixing the other items in the room. While the globe he was fond of was a little heavier to put back than he'd care to admit, he was thankful everything else was within his power to move.
As he walked towards one of the corners of the room to re-stand a knocked over lamp, his attention was caught by an unusual coloration of the floor. Leaving the lamp up straight, he headed towards what was apparent as he became closer was a piece of a floorboard missing, looking to have been torn or smashed in.
Cautiously, he moved over it and stared into the hole that was about two pony hooves wide. In the dimness, he could make out the boards for the ceiling below, as well as a visible rectangular spot that wasn't covered in dust. If he had to have guessed, he would have figured a book had been lying there before the floorboards were torn.
Curiosity filling him, he attempted to stick his head into the hole and looked around, an let out a toothy grin when his eye caught the edges of what appeared to be another book that was covered in dust.
"Twilight Come here! I found something!"
Twilight paused for a moment, then let out a whine at Spike's head disappearing into the floor. "Oh no, did he deal structural damage to the house too?"
"No! I mean, yes! I mean...I found a book!" he voice shouted from beneath the floorboards. "I think there were two of them cause it looks like one's missing!"
"A book?"
Intrigued, Twilight gently set down the remaining books that had yet to be shelved, and trotted over to him.
Spike lifted his head out and grinned up at her. "Yeah, it's a book alright. I think the robber was looking for these because the first one is missing. But it's a little too far for me to reach, so I think it was for him too and he had missed it! Heck, if I hadn't stuck my head in, I wouldn't have found it," he said excitedly, a thin layer of dust covering his facial scales.
Twilight craned her neck around the hole and peered inside. It took a bit of angling, but she was barely able to make out the edges of the book Spike was talking about "I think you're right! From what I can tell, nothing else is missing in this room either."
Immediately the dusty book was wrapped in a purple glow as Twilight carefully pulled it out from beneath the floorboards and into the air.
Spike eyed it with a building sense of adventure. "What do you suppose it says? Do you think it's directions for a really powerful spell?"
"I don't know," Twilight said as she expected its cover. From the looks of it, it was a plain green journal with no title on cover. Judging from the removed floorboards and the state of the rest of the house, her suspicions were now confirmed that this was exactly what the burglar was looking for, if the shape of another missing book directly below the hole wasn't proof enough.
Unable to hold her curiosity back any longer, she blew off the dust and opened to the first page. Squinting at the hoof written ink, she read aloud the first page.
"Corpus Nocte Morsu."
"What's that?" Spike asked.
"It's a collection of knowledge on something called a Night Fang… I think," Twilight answered as she flipped through its pages. "It's really old…"
"Night Fang?" Spike asked. "What the hay is that?"
"I don't know. We don't even know if who broke in was even looking for this one…" Twilight replied. This is becoming more and more mysterious. First a robber who turns out to be something more than your run of the mill bugler. Then magic I have never seen before, and now this? While it had all been terrifying and frustrating at the same time, the situation was beginning to become more interesting each step of the way, as did her determination to figure things out. But how is Trail involved with all of this? And why does he have this book?
"Twilight," Spike said.
"Are you just going to stare at it or are you going to read?" he said.
"Oh! Right," Twilight said while snapping out of her thoughts. Coughing into her hoof, she closed the book and set it aside the nearest table. "As much as I want to now, we'll read it later today. First, we need to get the rest of the books back in their place. And after we've done a triple check to ensure nothing else is missing, we're going to report the robbery."
"Right…" Spike said, all tone of excitement having gone from his voice.
"Corpus Nocte Morsu," Twilight read aloud. She and Spike were back at the library, having just finished dinner and now were at the table together with the book before them. Putting the house back in order and verifying nothing else had been stolen —which only affirmed Twilight and Spike's hunch the books under the floor board was indeed the true goal of the break in— and submitting the report to the local authorities practically took all day.
A few of the more enthusiastic guard ponies were slightly upset that she had removed all if any evidence of the burglar by cleaning the house, but informed Twilight in the most respectful way possible due to her Princess status. They of course, were immediately on edge when Twilight informed them of the pony attacking her and stated that the report will be going to Canterlot for Princess Celestia and Princess Luna themselves to look over. As much as Twilight tried to assure them that it was unnecessary, she was unable to convince them otherwise due to certain protocols they had to follow. Being treated in such a way was still something Twilight was getting used to. It had been one thing being an Element Bearer. Though she received attention, nopony regarded her as something that couldn't handle her business on her own. Now that she was a Princess, everypony took extra care with her and acted like she can't or shouldn't do anything. And it was becoming more and more bothersome to her she found.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Open it," Spike enthusiastically demanded. Twilight simply nodded her head—suspense weighing on her as well as to what could be so important in the book—and flipped towards the first page. Clearing her voice, she began to read the introduction.
"Contained inside this book, is a compendium of knowledge regarding the dark creatures that roam the night. Their strengths and powers having easily allowing them to secure a position of power and fear throughout the land. Not all is known about them, but what we do know… is here in this book. From weaknesses to traits, all and more lie inside in this tome, a more complete reference and gathered collection of knowledge to face these deadly beasts than the majority of other books on the matter. For truly, the might of the Vampony is a fearsome thing, and more must be known about them to effectively defend ourselves."
Twilight paused reading from that last sentence, her brow rising as she reread to make sure she saw it correctly.
"Vamponies?" Spike asked aloud. "It's a book about vamponies?"
"I guess so…" Twilight said, her hopes faltering somewhat. Really? This entire book is dedicated to vamponies?
While Twilight looked a little downtrodden from finding out what the book covered, Spike on the other hoof grew more excited as his eyes widened. "Vamponies are real…" he whispered softly.
Twilight gave him a scrupulous look. "Honestly, Spike, you can't expect this to be real. I mean vamponies? Really?"
"I don't know, Twilight, you said yourself that he used some kind of strange magic on you. Maybe it's vampony magic?"
"Just because it was magic I haven't seen before, doesn't mean a vampony did it," Twilight said with an eyeroll. "Come on, Spike, you expect vamponies to be real? You know Trail had some pretty enthralling fictional books."
"Then why was this one under the floorboards?"
"Because it-" Twilight began to say before stopping. In truth, she had no idea why it was underneath the floor nor could she come up with an explanation. Turning back to the book she gave it a hard look while in thought. Why was it under the floorboards? If it's just another one of his eccentric fictional novels, then it should have been on the shelf… shouldn't it?
Spike flashed a knowing grin at stumping the mare. "See?"
"Just because I can't answer the question doesn't mean vamponies are real," she replied with a glare. "But… I suppose it doesn't hurt to read it. Maybe we can find something else out insides its passages."
"Alright! I'm going to get some Emerald Popcorn!" Spike said as he scooted off his chair and ran into the kitchen, eager to whip up a recipe from his favorite book of late for a nighttime snack.
"You are not allowed to touch its pages with buttery covered claws! Normal popcorn will do!" Twilight shouted after him.
The response was a loud, "Aww," of disappointment from the adjacent room.
"And please bring me a sandwich! Everything that has happened today has really worked up my appetite!"
Eyeing the kitchen entrance for a moment, she turned her focus back to reading the rest of the passage. "Be wary should you find yourself in need of the information in this book. For even when shielded with the knowledge and defenses listed, they are not always enough to save you from the fangs of the Vampony…"
"Garlic is one of the more useful tools in everyday protection. The stench of it for yet to be discerned reasons, have a discomforting effect on Vamponies that will ward off all that cross your path save the most hungry."
Twilight and Spike had spent the last two hours reading the book. Her speaking aloud the passages that Spike seemed most interested in, and him munching away on popcorn, tossing one at Twilight's way now and then for her to catch in magic and pop into her mouth.
But after reading late into the night, and Twilight devouring more popcorn than Spike, eventually they decided to call it a night and have a fresh start in the morning. And no matter how helpful the warm bath had been, Twilight's body still needed rest to recover from her recent ordeal. Reluctantly, Spike went to bed while Twilight went to brush her mane in the bathroom; as well as throw out the mess she had made that morning
While finishing the last chapter of 'Produces of Protection', she flipped back to the table of contents and skimmed down the rows for another section to quickly skim before finishing her brushing. Her eyes stopped on 'Suspicious Symptoms Indicating Infection'. Humming aloud, she flipped to the chapter and began reading.
"The signs of a Vampirism are often subtle, but very straight forward. Red colored eyes have always been one of the easiest defining factors even though it can be found naturally on some ponies."
Twilight paused reading, and halted her brush in midair, a sudden memory flashing in her mind from last night. She can't believe she had forgotten it until now, but the pony that attacked her had one of the reddest eyes she had ever seen.
Dismissing the notion, she resumed her brushing. It must be a coincidence, I know some ponies here in Ponyville with red eyes. It doesn't mean he was a vampony.
But despite her protests, she lifted her head as she thought over the ponies she knew, cross referencing the physique of the ones she knew off the top of her head with that of the attacker; highly unlikely since she trusted everypony here, but it was still something she shouldn't overlook.
It was doing so that her train of thought stopped, and the sound of a falling brush hitting the floor echoed in the bathroom moments later. She had been staring idly in the mirror while thinking, when her gaze passed over her eyes. Leaning forward with a held breath, she looked closer at the unfamiliar coloring she had found earlier this morning. If wasn't sure, but she could have sworn the amount of red on her iris edges had grown slightly. The same color of red the pony that attacked her had.
Having been lost in her eyes for some time, she shook her head sideways and pulled away from the mirror. "No, I will not accept that as proof that it was a vampony that did this to me. For all I know it's a side effect of something else." Twilight shoved the very thought aside, her skepticism ungiving for a single coincidence with the listed symptom. But when she looked down again at the book, another thought crossed her mind. Trail owns this. And he… has red eyes… Twilight's mouth opened a little as she tried to make some understanding of it all. That's right, I thought he was Trail at first because of his eyes…
Feeling less sure of her stance on the matter, Twilight continued reading. "The second definitive sign is the bite marks that are left after being bitten by a vampony. Though it has been recorded to appear on other parts of the body, the neck is often the preferred location for drinking blood and/or the spreading of the vampiric curse. This trait though does require some cooperation with the suspected individual as a thorough examination of their coat must be performed. When unable to cooperate, delicate use of force is recommended to ensure purity of the individual.
With a chill down her spine, Twilight paused once again as another memory flashed in her mind. She recalled in clarity her attacker moving towards her, and the gripping paralyzing sensation of something piercing her neck, of which she had lost consciousness shortly after. Not realizing she was holding her breath again while recalling the event, she quickly moved back to the mirror and began parting the hairs on her neck. She revealed small sections at a time with her magic, looking for anything that might have indicated she was indeed bitten. And her blood felt like it had froze when she did.
Right in the mirror, under her parted coat, were two scars an inch or so apart. They looked to be the marks where two fangs pierced her skin, and by the width of the scar, they had appeared to have punctured deep.
Twilight's magic ended as her mind reeled over the scars. She slowly turned her neck to face herself fully in the mirror once more, her breathing becoming shallow as she regarded herself in a new and terrifying perspective. She returned the gaze of the mare in the mirror, the mare with red tinged eyes that now seemed different. She couldn't look at her without thinking that inside; that she secretly might be turning into something awful, something that she had never believed in before, but was now staring her in the face. She held the opposing mares gaze with wide eyes and crease lines on her forehead in worry until she began to shake her head side to side once more.
"No, vamponies are not real! This has to be some elaborate trick or the work of some foal who still believes in such crazy ideas!" Whipping her head back to the mare in the mirror again, she spoke to it with a commanding tone. "You are not turning into a vampony, and you are going to figure out what really is going on. Got it?" The reflection nodded once in response at the same time as her. "Good. Now I'm going to sleep, and figuring out more in the morning."
A side note for everyone, I had gone back and updated Nathan's cutie mark. It is still a red crescent moon but now with tiny hoof prints below it..... I will leave that to interpretation and see if anypony sees the microscopic hints to his name.
Anyways hope you all enjoy the chapter. Give a shout out at what you think of it and what you may like to see. I am always open to adding more stuff to the story if I believe it will fit in with what I have planned. Someone else usually always has another idea that you have never thought of, and can at times improve the quality of whatever it is.
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Jirodyne
Jirodyne	#1 · Dec 29th, 2013 · · ·
When is she going to go crazy and bite at ponies!? I hope it's Rainbow she turns first.
Senyu
Senyu	#2 · Dec 29th, 2013 · · ·
3699044 Well she isn't a full vampony yet, so some of the behaviors won't be there or are still developing. However I will go into detail of the predator instincts that begin to form in her with a bit of humor. That is one thing that would be one of the most jarring things for a herbivore like creature, feeling those urges of a predator. To have that reaction of seeing something running and either want to stalk it or give chase to it. So expect a bit of humor in that coming up. Kinda like a kitten learning how to hunt.
3699052 a suggestion. Have Rainbow, or Pinkie poking her over and over and over until she snaps and actually tries to 'snap' at them
3699057 I like it
MessoriaAQ
MessoriaAQ	#5 · Dec 29th, 2013 · · ·
A namequiz, well, that's something. Okay, I do know that the name "Nathaniel" (though it was written "Nathanael") exists in the Bible somewhere. After googling ( ), it told me that the name is derived from Hebrew and means as much as "God's present/blessing". Given that, I think that the red moon might represent Luna or Nightmare Moon, who'd be the "God" in this context and who bestowed the "present/blessing" upon Nathan once upon a time. I'm not sure about the footprints, though were I to guess a little wilder, I'd say that they might represent the path Nathan has chosen to walk with his "present/blessing".
Sooo, enough wild speculating before I completely humiliate myself with outlandish theses.
I see Twi is being sceptical, which is fine with me. I just hope she won't become illocial and accuse Nathan or something just because he's got red eyes—she has no evidence to convict him of anything. We don't even know if Nathan's actually a bad guy. I mean, he hasn't done something completely evil yet; all he's done was ordering his guys to restrain Twi with strange BDSM shadow tentacles and turn her into a thrall, wherefor he might actually have an adequate reason—who knows.
3699086 A good villain is never one sided. And always deserves an enlightening origin story at just the right moment.
However, I can't guarantee it will be at the right moment due to my own fallacy.
Arzoo	#7 · Dec 29th, 2013 · · ·
Seems the hypnosis is having very inconsistent results. She ignores the command to deal with things herself and files a police report over something she wants solved personally, but is completely obedient to the magic and paralysis triggers in the heat of battle?
Oh ye Gods, I can sense that 'twill be in a verily awkward moment. Likely when he's showering or something.
3699114 Well the implant isn't deal with everything by herself. Its to face things things without always looking for help on the matter.
I kinda hint at it but think about it. Twilight who was a very self sufficient pony that is used to handling business, is now in a position where she is considered to special to be doing tasks. Everyone wants to help her out and do things for her that she is becoming irritated about it. I'll probably touch up a portion in a earlier chapter to further showcase this. But its not like she is going to go to Celestia herself for a direct involvement and help on the matter. And I was going to wait to say on the next chapter, but Twilight may have not leaked all the details of the incident.
The triggers during battle may have also been more strongly implanted and enforced.
Senyu	#10 · Dec 29th, 2013 · · ·
3699044 Oh, and Rainbow doesn't get her own situation until the 2nd part of this Quadrilogy planned series.
3699086 And that is actually a very good hypothesis on his name and origins. Did not think about that at all.
Unfortunately its not even close
And now I will use the Big Mac icon for no raisin!
MessoriaAQ	#12 · Dec 29th, 2013 · · ·
Aw, then I have to wait until either it comes up in the story or until I arouse enough pity within thee to tell me!
I like these kinds of guessing-games, though. So it wasn't all for nought.
[...] That is one thing that would be one of the most jarring things for a herbivore like creature, feeling those urges of a predator. To have that reaction of seeing something running and either want to stalk it or give chase to it.[...]
Yes! How I love it when people actually consider that they're—even though they're able to speak—still equines and therefore likely behave differently.
Maelstrom	#13 · Dec 29th, 2013 · · ·
This is getting interesting!
Your vamponies seem to be similar to the TES vampires.
I'm lost on the cutie mark thing.
Caffeine Junkie
Caffeine Junkie	#14 · Dec 29th, 2013 · 3 · ·
Well I guess the cutie mark relates to the poem you posted before.
I'll try to answer it as theatrical as possible...I hope I am right though ^^
The crescent moon like a scythe to reap his foes...
Crimson like the color that flows...
The hoofprints they just mark his way...
For when the walker comes...all life fades to gray...
ABitterPill
ABitterPill	#15 · Dec 29th, 2013 · · ·
You know, given yesterday's episode, I'd say you have some more material to draw from if you wanted. Given Fluttershy has retained her fangs, perhaps she and Twilight can help each other out to a degree.
3700252 As much as I love the new episode, I dont think I will be incorporating much from it into the story. I do love the idea though that batponies story for lighter story telling is them being big fruit eaters. Oh god, now the adult side is going to make something innapropiate of that sentence.
-from mobile. Forgive errors
Milk some juicy fruits for all they're worth?
3701115 I can just imagine a batpony with a lisp talking about how he just loves eating fruits. "Heeeeeeey guyssssss! Whatcha doing?"
*doesn't get it*
Still I think some from the latest episode could be incorporated. It would probably be something of interest to Nathan as well, as a vampire (of sorts) was created from another method compared to history.
Xaldon Ajide
Xaldon Ajide	#20 · Dec 30th, 2013 · · ·
Alright do you remember the Episode Bridle Gossip?
if you do you can use that as a chance for Spike to realize that there is something wrong with Twilight just assuming that something isn't real. Considering that she learned in that Episode not to just cut things off at face value. yes she is digging further, but spike should be trying to get her to not discount the book.
and if she continues discounting the book, have spike ask Celestia about vamponies and use the name of the book as reference.
Senyu	#21 · Dec 31st, 2013 · · ·
3703032 Sorry, was making really bad humor about a gay batpony. "Bat Al" instead of "Big Al" or something. Cause you know... they eat fruity things.....
I should just stop...
ABitterPill	#22 · Dec 31st, 2013 · · ·
Yeah that kinda flew over me. Even "Big Al" only makes me think of one of the better known and preserved Allosaurus skeletons. And the "hey guys" thing made me think more of Twilight Sparkle saying "Hi girls" from Lesson Zero. So yeah I just sorta went in all different directions with that.
Guilty King
Guilty King	#23 · Jan 7th, 2014 · · ·
3699411 Wow I didn't think of that. That is really clever.
MehWasAlreadyTaken
MehWasAlreadyTaken	#24 · Aug 8th, 2014 · · ·
"Wow, I am a mess[/i."
Best quote ever.
Really, it makes half the chapter in italics!
Butterwings
Butterwings	#25 · Jul 23rd, 2015 · · ·
"I feel so bad that I let him get away. I hope Nathan isn't too made that he managed to get away with his stuff."
Hmhm, being "made".
It's like being mad, but with an extra "e" for a +1 bonus to making things.
.... I make no sense sometimes.
4820926 Well, on the bright side, if everything is in italics, it means less space wasted!
... they're spaced the same way as ohter letters, aren't they?
HiddenMaster
HiddenMaster	#27 · Mar 3rd, 2016 · 1 · ·
Reading this, I'm very much wondering why Twilight or Spike didn't suggest sending a letter to Celestia. After all, she was violently attacked by a pony with magic she'd never encountered before-I would think that would be worthy of informing her mentor. I suppose you could say she just doesn't want to trouble her, but this isn't like most of the minor problems in the show-some pony, robber or not, with unusual magic attacked and knocked her out.
I suppose it could be excused as Trail having implanted contingencies in Twilight to ensure she didn't think this, but I would imagine Spike-someone who hasn't had all those long therapy sessions, would send a letter to her out of concern if absolutely nothing else.
The Portal Passer
The Portal Passer	#28 · Aug 24th, 2016 · · ·
This is what happens when you bound you're understanding of the world solely on magic, you will not believe in anything else
Snow	#29 · Sep 12th, 2016 · 1 · 3 ·
6993738 Plot armor. Getting Tia involved too soon would throw a wrench in the carefully planned narrative that results in Twivamp, and possibly result in a few pools of molten vampony slag in its place.
Which by the way is strike one: Necessary stupidity to push a plot through.
The Pyropath
The Pyropath	#30 · Aug 7th, 2017 · · ·
"Don't worry, I don't think he'll sweat it too much," Spike said. "
"I wonder what he was looking for in Trail's home," Spike said.
Delete that second sentence, as it's pretty much just repeating something that was said a few sentences beforehand (must have been an accident), and that stray quotation on the first.
Senyu	#31 · Aug 7th, 2017 · 1 · ·
Thanks for the catch
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LABOUR MP GRAHAM STRINGER has tabled a motion for Sir Alex Ferguson to become a Lord. Blackley and Broughton MP and United fan Graham Stringer put forward the motion before the House of Commons calling Ferguson to be awarded a peerage. Mr Stringer said: "Football is no longer just the working man's game – it permeates every level of society".
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EDITORIAL COMMENT: This shouting, swearing, inarticulate rant has been removed.
Let me guess. Friend of the accused perchance? Don't know what gave it away.
I think they are talking about Alfred Waterhouse. He was a right wrong 'un that one.
Yeah, and he was a scouser.
"This shouting, swearing, inarticulate rant has been removed." Are we talking about Alex Ferguson again?


SPORTS vice-minister Wesley Raminai commended staff of the PNG High Performance Centre for their continuous support ofthe country's elite athletes.
Raminai made the remarks during a celebration of HPC's fourth year of operations.
Raminai said the HPC, running its programmes under the theme "Driving the Change for a Culture of Excellence" was a legacy of the 2015 Pacific Games and the PNG SPorts Foundation arm had developed steadily to providing a vital service that PNG athletes had to, in the past, go overseas to get.
Congratulating HPC director Aaron Alsop, his staff, the PNG Sports Foundation and other partners that had continued to ensure the project continued to function despite some challenging times, Raminai said the Government had invested significantly in sports.
The world-class facilities, the successful hosting of the Pacific Games and other international events like the Fifa Under-20 Women's World Cup and several Rugby League World Cup matches, had put PNG on a new pedestral in sports.
Raminai said the HPC, which had been hatched as part of the 2015 Games project, through the PNG Olympic Committee and other partners as part of their plan to prepare local athletes, had now become an integral part of the development of sports, coach education and other related areas had received good reviews at last year's Pacific Islands Sports Ministers meeting in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
"Aaron (Alsop) did a good presentation on our High Performance Centre, as a legacy of the 2015 Pacific Games during our presentation in Vanuatu, and many Pacific island countries found it valuable," Ramina said.
He said as a new concept, there were challenges on how best stakeholders of sports, like national federations could integrate their programmes to use the HPC, but celebrating the fourth year of its existence meant it had survived the test of time.
PNG Sports Foundation chief executive Peter Tsiamalili Jr thanked those involved, whether they had left, were still involved or recently joined the HPC, for mainatining a successful concept.