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The Last of the Voyagers
by Bruce Jividen 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engineers-steering-na…

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Re: [UTS] Travel + Leisure: 25 Perfect Spots for Watching the Total Solar Eclipse in August
by Todd Andrews 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

Gayle and I are doing the cheap version, borrowing Bruce's car and going to McMinnville which is at the edge of the totality. Gayle said some places in OR are charging $2,000 for an overnight. And then there are some hotels that go beyond taking advantage of the situation: http://tinyurl.com/ybm4j3zz On Jul 31, 2017 8:14 PM, "Chuck S" <chucksim(a)mindspring.com> wrote: > Sounds great, Bruce. Have fun! Luna will feel right at home. I can > appreciate your thoughts on the crowds, Effie. I’m planning to get there > around 7 AM, and camp out, since they said they will close the road once > they reach saturation. Hope I get in. Supposed to be a number of ranger > activities, an Astrophysicist, but no astronaut. Big festival in Nashville > al weekend, but doubt I want to brave those kind of crowds. > > > > > > > > *From:* UTS [mailto:uts-bounces@starmanet.com] *On Behalf Of *Bruce > Jividen > *Sent:* Monday, July 31, 2017 7:57 PM > *To:* Under the Stars > *Subject:* Re: [UTS] Travel + Leisure: 25 Perfect Spots for Watching the > Total Solar Eclipse in August > > > > I'll be at the Airstream Blackout Rally in Madras, OR. It's a private > event sponsored by the local Airstream club, including sun and star > watching parties, a NASA astronaut, a professional astronomer, a Science > teacher and lots of good cooking. Sounds like it's gonna be a great time! > > > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:51 PM Chuck S <chucksim(a)mindspring.com> wrote: > > You guys traveling to see the eclipse? Totality in Salem and the Oregon > Coast. > > > > I'll be in Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountain National Park, solar > binoculars and eclipse glasses in hand. Dusted off my old Canon with a 500 > mm lens and a 3x teleconverter, and bought a solar filter. All that's still > needed is good weather. > > > > Chuck > > *25 Perfect Spots for Watching the Total Solar Eclipse in August* > Travel + Leisure > > The most exciting astronomical event in U.S. history is happening this > August. Read the full story <https://apple.news/AyIiynvqoS8iRCIQL_LqmUg> > > > > Shared from Apple News <https://www.apple.com/news/> > > > > Sent from my iPhone on the beach 🏝 > > _______________________________________________ > UTS mailing list > UTS(a)starmanet.com > http://starmanet.com/mailman/listinfo/uts_starmanet.com > > > _______________________________________________ > UTS mailing list > UTS(a)starmanet.com > http://starmanet.com/mailman/listinfo/uts_starmanet.com > >

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Happy 4th of July!
by Chuck S 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

> > Have some virtual homemade All American Waffles to honor the day: > > > With macadamia nuts and chocolate chips inside. > > Hope everyone celebrates our nation's birthday with e'lan and panache! > > > >

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4th in Lower Lake
by Bruce Jividen 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

Celebrating the 4th at Chez Werkley.

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Cursed Child
by Effie in the desert 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

I hadn't thought about this play in a long, long time. Last night I was on the HP Lexicon searching for information about what kinds of beings and beasts had participated in the Battle of HW. It wasn't as easy of a task as I'd thought it would be. I wanted the information for a scene in my story. I kept seeing quotes from characters with reference as "CCn.nn" where n.nn is a number. I couldn't place CC. Here's one of them: "We were capable of having children, but Astoria was frail. A blood malediction, a serious one. An ancestor was cursed... it showed up in her. You know how these things can resurface after generations... I didn’t want to risk her health, I said it didn’t matter whether the Malfoy line died with me – whatever my father said. But Astoria – she didn’t want a baby for the Malfoy name, for pure blood or glory, but for us. Our child, Scorpius was born... it was the best day of both our lives..." -- Draco Malfoy (CC2.15) https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/greengrass-family/astoria-greengrass/ Whoa - I'm thinking. I have sketched out various scenes for my story taking it into the future 40-50 years. I didn't know what CC was, but anything in the Lexicon is canon. Something finally mentioned Cursed Child and I figured it out. The following was added to my notes in January of 2014. chap January 2004 Draco comes to Snape because Astoria isn't pregnant after a whole year. Snape tells Draco that they both need a complete physical. Draco asks Why ME? Snape says it takes two to make a baby and if either has a fertility problem there will be no baby. After testing she starts taking a standard fertility potion. Draco thinks Harry will tease him about the fertility issue. Snape says my master won't. How can you defend him? Draco asks. He's my master. Oh, so the slave has to… No, but I know him now. chap March 2004 Astoria and Draco come to Grimmauld Place to talk to Severus. Ginny is huge with her first child. It makes Astoria sad or is she jealous? She's taking the standard potion but wants the custom one. Snape has never made the custom fertility potion. He'll have to study up on it. In the meantime she is to keep taking the standard potion. Healer told them there is a custom potion that can be made but few are capable of brewing it. It's very expensive. Many of the ingredients are rare. First the healer tells Draco it's very expensive. The young man scowls at the woman as if she's stupid. Who does she think she's talking to anyway? Cost is no object to a Malfoy. Then she says few are capable of brewing it. Few have the skill or knowledge. It would take a master potioneer. Draco says that's not a problem either. She perhaps even mentions that since Snape is gone, in servitude, owned by Potter. Draco's – that's not a problem either. One of the rare ingredients is the brown algae Snape read about on 16 Jun 1998 Snape has found out it takes some time to cure the potion. He can have it ready by June. It's first a problem of getting the ingredients, then the brewing time, then the curing time. Snape as a slave cannot travel to get the items. Yet he needs to harvest it at the right cycle of the moon and immediately place it into a base already prepared. Draco must ask permission from Harry to allow his slave to accompany him to North America, California to be exact, in order to get what he needs to allow him to have a child. I'd set the stage for this occurrence when I wrote the following. Long before Cursed Child I was planning on a problem pregnancy for Astoria. 16 Jun 1998 With a shake of the magazine, Severus tried to focus on an article about a breakthrough in fertility treatments using rare brown algae, similar to the more common Postelsia. The variant was recently found in a single tide pool on the west coast of North America but as of yet, nowhere else in the world. After the first few paragraphs, sleep won out over the algae. I'll need to change the premature birth I'd planned because Albus & Scorpius are in the same year at HW, but otherwise I find it very interesting that canon and I are mostly on the same page. I decided it was about time for me to purchase Cursed Child. It's not a book but a script. I was finding multiple references and couldn't decide if there was multiple editions, updated, changed, corrected, or what. I never did figure that out. What I did find is attached to this email. It came from this website: https://archive.org/details/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild_201607 I've not read the whole file yet. I have to get my ass up from this computer and get to the railroad museum. I will get it read before the end of the day.

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Re: [UTS] What is it about the name
by Todd Andrews 28 Jun '17

28 Jun '17

i just recently saw a neighborhood alert that someone lost their cat named Todd first animal i've come across with my name, and spelled with two d's no less do you think your parents knew about Euphemia? did they tell you how they picked your name? my parents picked one syllable names on purpose, and my brothers and i all begin with 't' -- todd, trent, troy my mom's sister marilyn and her husband ken named their first born glenn, but all the rest began with 'k' -- kevin, karen, keith i'll never forget the tech seminar i attended where the presenter's name consisted solely of the letter 'h' On Sunday, June 25, 2017, Effie in the desert <wadesert(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > However, all of your guys' names are "normal", i.e. much more common. I'm > stuck with a weird name in real life then writers use the weird name to > draw attention to their characters. I'm not complaining - it is kind of > nice - it just seems odd. > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* UTS <uts-bounces(a)starmanet.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','uts-bounces(a)starmanet.com');>> on behalf of > Chuck S <chucksim(a)mindspring.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','chucksim(a)mindspring.com');>> > *Sent:* Sunday, June 25, 2017 1:16 AM > *To:* Under the Stars > *Subject:* Re: [UTS] What is it about the name > > I don't know. But a connection to Harry Potter is at least associated with > someone heroic. I'm stuck with the evil Chucky from the horror movies, > although I might claim Charlie Brown, who at least is lovable. Todd gets a > Simpson character named after him, and Bruce of course gets to have the > Batman, Bruce Wayne, as his namesake. > > > On Jun 25, 2017, at 12:31 AM, Effie in the desert <wadesert(a)hotmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wadesert(a)hotmail.com');>> wrote: > > Effie that causes writers to use it as a character name. > > > A long time ago there was a radio character called Effie Clinker. It was > on before I was aware, but a neighbor always called me that as a nickname. > > > In the Hunger Games there is a character called Effie Trinket. > > > Tonight I was reading about Harry Potter's paternal grandparents. And > here I go again. > > https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/potter-family/euphemia-potter/ > > <https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/potter-family/euphemia-potter/> > https://www.yahoo.com/tv/j-k-rowling-reveals-second-232500835.html > > > While my name is not Euphemia, nor was I named because of any connection > to Greek, Effie is the shortened form of that name. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemia_(disambiguation) > > > > _______________________________________________ > UTS mailing list > UTS(a)starmanet.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','UTS(a)starmanet.com');> > http://starmanet.com/mailman/listinfo/uts_starmanet.com > >

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Re: [UTS] Happy 20th Anniversary, Harry!
by Todd Andrews 28 Jun '17

28 Jun '17

wow, 20 years Happy Anniversary Harry and JK! On Monday, June 26, 2017, Effie in the desert <wadesert(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > And oddly enough I have my copy of Deathly Hallows on the table beside my > chair. I've been working on my epic HP story in the last week. I didn't > know about the anniversary until the media blitz in the last few days. > That's, in fact, how I stumbled upon the story about Harry's grandparents. > > > I didn't read the books until 2010 so I was late to the party. > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* UTS <uts-bounces(a)starmanet.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','uts-bounces(a)starmanet.com');>> on behalf of > Chuck S <chucksim(a)mindspring.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','chucksim(a)mindspring.com');>> > *Sent:* Monday, June 26, 2017 1:22 PM > *To:* uts(a)starmanet.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','uts(a)starmanet.com');> > *Subject:* [UTS] Happy 20th Anniversary, Harry! > > > JK Rowling marks 20 years since Harry Potter appeared > > LONDON (AP) - Wizarding legend Harry Potter's tale has turned 20. Author > J.K. Rowling's first novel, Harry Potter and the Phi... > > Read the full story <https://apnews.com/3f66f6846f2046e18a21cf62d7616461> > > Sent from AP Mobile. Download now on the App Store > <https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%…> > or Google Play > <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mnn.Android&hl=en> > > > Sent from my iPhone on the beach 🏝 >

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Happy 20th Anniversary, Harry!
by Chuck S 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

JK Rowling marks 20 years since Harry Potter appeared LONDON (AP) - Wizarding legend Harry Potter's tale has turned 20. Author J.K. Rowling's first novel, Harry Potter and the Phi... Read the full story Sent from AP Mobile. Download now on the App Store or Google Play Sent from my iPhone on the beach 🏝

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What is it about the name
by Effie in the desert 25 Jun '17

25 Jun '17

Effie that causes writers to use it as a character name. A long time ago there was a radio character called Effie Clinker. It was on before I was aware, but a neighbor always called me that as a nickname. In the Hunger Games there is a character called Effie Trinket. Tonight I was reading about Harry Potter's paternal grandparents. And here I go again. https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/potter-family/euphemia-potter/ <https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/potter-family/euphemia-potter/>https://www.yahoo.com/tv/j-k-rowling-reveals-second-232500835.html While my name is not Euphemia, nor was I named because of any connection to Greek, Effie is the shortened form of that name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemia_(disambiguation)

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Alien star
by Effie in the desert 23 May '17

23 May '17

http://nypost.com/2017/05/22/astronomers-are-freaking-out-that-this-star-is…

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