#Vernal Allegro

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I hope no one finds out about this...

(I was sitting on the dakimakura`s website, and…)

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𝗝𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻: 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗼 𝗩𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗶’𝘀 “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀” | 𝗟𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮 (𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴) Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269 Baroque | Italian Baroque

3. Allegro: Pastorale

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Personnel: Janine Jansen: Violin / Soloist Julian Rachlin: Viola Maarten Jansen: Cello Candida Thompson: Violin Henk Rubingh: Violin Elizabeth Kenny: Theorbo Stacey Watton: Double Bass Jan Jansen: Harpsichord

Produced by Dominic Fyfe

Recorded: @ The Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, Netherlands between May 20 - 23, 2004

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Happy Spring Equinox! We made it out of wretched Winter!! Hoorah!⚘️🌹🌺⚘️🌷🌻🌻🌼🌷🌸🌹⚘️

Persephone returns from the Underworld. She has done her time..... 🌸

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"You seem like you don't trust me. Do you expect me to do something?"

TRUST,   that   elusive,   ethereal   entity,   as   delicate   as   a   spider's   cocoon   yet   as   potent   as   the   mightiest   of   rivers,   is   not   a   gift   voluntarily   given   but   a   precious   commodity   to   be   earned.   It’s   a   complex   tapestry   woven   from   the   threads   of   behavioral   attitudes,   a   dance   of   actions   and   reactions   that   mold   our   relationships   with   others.   It’s   a   nonverbal   agreement,   a   pledge   sealed   not   with   ink   but   with   deeds,   with   the   consistency   of   character   and   the   reliability   of   actions.

In   the   inner   sanctum   of   her   being,   a   silent   conflict   raged—not   of   clashing   aluminum   or   splintering   shields,   but   an   ethereal   skirmish   of   emotions   and   hesitance.   She   longed   fervently   to   yield   trust   unto   him,   to   dismantle,   stone   by   stone,   the   formidable   fortress   built   with   so   much   diligence   around   her   heart;   to   allow   forth   those   tender   vines   of FAITH,   allowing   them   to   interconnect   with   his   in   an   exquisite   dance.   Yet   a   profound   reluctance   held   sway,   her   very   spirit   akin   to   some   captive   bird   within   its   skeletal   prison,   its   supple   wings   thrumming   against   constricting   ribs   in   an   allegro   of   anxiety.   Her   gaze,   those   tender   orbs   of   amber   hue,   operated   as   unobstructed   portals   to   the   maelstrom   within.   Within   their   luminescence   swelled   a   burgeoning   hope   as   splendid   as   the   vernal   sun's   nascent   beams,   whilst   simultaneously   steeped   in   the   murk   of   DUBIETY.   Her   digits   quivered   at   her   side,   itching   to   bridge   the   expanse   and   hold   on   to   the   hope   she   pined   for   so   dearly—stiffened   yet   by   the   adamantine   manacles   of   her   vacillations.

Her   heart   preserved   its   cadent   hammering   within   her   bosom,   a   fierce   tympanic   roll   mirroring   the   discord   of   her   inward   fray.   Within   this   tumult   lay   a   glimmer   outstanding—a   filament   of   ambition   so   delicate   it   might   crumble   beneath   a   gaze   yet   possessed   with   a   tenacity   emblematic   of   the   spirited   human   condition.   Her   lips   parted   softly. "I   wish   to   trust   you,   but   we   must   form   a   bond   of   trust   first."   Accompanied   by   a   tentative   upturning   of   her   mouth's   corners. @brokenalmighty

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Forever was in the vernal words and autumnal thoughts; “eternal” stayed in my dreams: a constant mockery, for it exists not for us. I swore upon the morning sunlight to make a bouquet for stars — Her — thus I clipped, stole, with dirtied hands and heart, soul — but, for her, for her I would dye black into white with only a pinch of salt. Burning. Breaking, my time is! Daring deity, you’ve torn me; write, rewrite, verse upon page; and let me, too, paint all of Her days —

into my book: a blank slate — fail me no longer, and let me breathe Her life, sew it into a quilt of patchwork staccato, allegro, vivace — subito. I shall beg of the stars to-night and ask them, plead them, to extend each moment into double, triple, their time, for they are too short �� far too short … too little, too slight…

lungs at half-capacity — steal my breath away! leave me with the lycoris, blood-flowers, marigolds. I shall rot away, turn to stone; life-delay — forever, like a feline, arching my back and baring my teeth — em-dashes, en, dashes, hyphens; stop; I am but a child, now. Yet I wish for more evenings, mornings, as many as possible — but such are not for those on Earth, is that not so?— for it is not our decision, but that of Moon —

When every tear

is criticized,

who am I to cry?

to judge a life

— at the slight of a hand

a candle tips,

(spills)

my grains of sand;

to-night, I think

—alone

of a plan —

to extend my time

and then, understand.

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Janine Jansen: Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” | La Primavera (Spring) Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269 "La Primavera" (Spring): 1. Allegro | 2. Largo: E Pianissimo Sempre | 3. Allegro: Pastorale

Baroque | Italian Baroque

Personnel: Janine Jansen: Violin / Soloist Julian Rachlin: Viola Maarten Jansen: Cello Candida Thompson: Violin Henk Rubingh: Violin Elizabeth Kenny: Theorbo Stacey Watton: Double Bass Jan Jansen: Harpsichord

Produced by Dominic Fyfe

Recorded: @ The Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, Netherlands between May 20 - 23, 2004

1. Allegro:

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2. Largo: E Pianissimo Sempre:

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3. Allegro: Pastorale:

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Album: 4 Stars out of 5 Eschewing its usual heavy orchestral sound in favor of a more stripped-down instrumentation, Dutch violinist Janine Jansen's second album offers a fresh interpretation of one of the most performed classical works, Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. The 2005 follow-up to her Barry Wordsworth-conducted debut, the subtle but passionate renditions of the "La Primavera," "L'estate," "L'autunno," and "L'inverno" concertos are performed with a sparse, eight-piece ensemble including Lithuanian violinist Julian Rachlin, her cellist brother Maarten, and harpsichordist father Jan. - Jon O'Brien AllMusicCom

Happy Vernal Equinox 2021

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Firsts and Lasts

John Flanagan, Flynn Center

A preview of Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s Masterworks concert happening Saturday, March 16 on the Flynn Center MainStage. Tickets and information are available at www.flynncenter.org.

In a letter from Richard Strauss to Professor Hugo Burghauser, Strauss’s Duet Concertino’s dedicatee, the composer wrote that his concertino depicted the scene of a dancing princess who becomes “alarmed by the grotesque cavorting of a bear in imitation of her.” Smooth as the bear must be, the princess is soon wooed and dances with him, a gesture upon which the bear becomes a prince.

While Strauss hears beauties and beasts in his concertino, a listener at the end of a robust Vermont winter could be forgiven for discerning the sensations of spring awakening: snow in retreat; budding branches; woodpiles diminishing; dirt roads churned to mud—in effect, change in the sequence; vernal firsts, brumal lasts.

Firsts and lasts pop up frequently throughout the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming Masterworks performance at the Flynn. For firsts, look to the last piece on the program, Georges Bizet’s Symphony in C Major, the composer’s first—and effectively only—symphony. Bizet wrote it shortly after his 17th birthday, taking compositional cues from another first symphony, that of his instructor, the great Charles Gounod, who had drafted his, in D, the year prior. Popular as Bizet’s symphony is now, the composer, known (unfortunately) for Carmen and little else, probably never heard it performed.

Penned around 1856, it wasn’t until 1935 that Austrian conductor Felix Weingartner debuted Bizet’s symphony, in Basel, Switzerland. The delay stems from neglect; for if Bizet himself seemed to take no great care during his lifetime to enshrine his symphony into posterity, his survivors certainly didn’t either. His wife, Genevieve, entrusted a heap of her late husband’s work to the composer Reynaldo Hahn (a paramour of Proust), who in turn gave a cursory glance at the material and deemed little of it worthy. The perhaps embittered, lesser composer handed Bizet’s works off to the Conservatoire de Paris, where Weingartner, at the request of Bizet biographer Douglas Parker, later rescued the “student” symphony. With stunningly sweet moments in the second movement and a brisk buzz in the fourth, the Symphony in C is an exemplifying artifact vindicating Bizet as far more than a one-opera wonder.

Another key first of Saturday evening belongs to the VSO’s extraordinary guest, New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill, the NY Phil’s first African American principal player in history. In 2009, McGill joined Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and Gabriela Montero to perform at President Obama’s inauguration. Speaking recently to the Rutland Herald, McGill mused that the Mozart Clarinet Concerto he’ll lead the orchestra in is “the standard by which we judge everything on our instrument…just sincerity of expression, and beauty of the singing phrase and line throughout.”

Like Strauss’s concertino, the Clarinet Concerto, written in 1791, was Mozart’s last instrumental work. Characteristic of Mozart’s later, flowing style, the opening allegro movement establishes an air of accumulating revelry, providing the ideal contrast for the second, adagio movement, where the orchestra draws out a clear horizon for the clarinet’s exploratory and lulling leads.

Strauss incorporated a similar fragility into the concertino, with the clarinet circling the bassoon—helmed on Saturday by VSO’s principal bassoonist, Janet Polk—like acquaintances reacquainting. Their spin churns to a gusting, explicit theme announced by the strings, perhaps marking where Strauss’s beast becomes a prince, or, for me, where winter melts to spring.

This week, there’s rain in the forecast and partly sunny skies. There are highs in the 50s and lows and the teens. There’s been more birdsong in the morning when I take my dog out to pee, and despite the snow still covering the ski slopes, there have been cars at the nursery on the way into town. The days of change are here, and just in case the summer lies within them, take a cue from Strauss: dance with the bear.

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CNN 10 – March 14, 2017

March 14, 2017

More than 20 million people are facing the threat of famine and starvation, according to the United Nations. Today, we’re explaining why and what the U.N. wants to do about it. Afterward, we’re examining whether the ISIS terrorist group could be completely eradicated, and we’re looking at a wintery forecast for the U.S. Northeast. Other subjects include a meeting of heroes and a dog that stole an agility show by making mistakes.

TRANSCRIPT

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Hi. I’m Carl Azuz.

An urgent warning from the United Nations leads off today’s show.

The organization’s humanitarian coordinator says more than 20 million people are threatened by famine and starvation. They’re concentrated at four countries, the African nations of Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan, and the Middle Eastern nation of Yemen. The U.N. says this constitutes the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945, when the U.N. was founded.

What are these countries have in common? Conflict.

In Nigeria, it’s the fighting against the Boko Haram terrorist group, combined with potential famine that has devastated parts of the country.

In South Sudan, fighting between government troops and armed groups, combined with a famine, have left more than 40 percent of the population in need of food, farming help and nutrition.

In Somalia, attacks by the Islamic militant group al Shabaab, plus a worsening drought are taking their tool and in Yemen, a two year old civil war has left roads blocked, reduced imports, left markets damaged and left millions hungry.

So, what can be done about this?

The United Nations wants funding, $4.4 billion by this summer that would go toward fighting hunger and disease in these countries.

Used of war have also destroyed parts of Iraq and Syria, and helped give rise to the ISIS terrorist group. ISIS, an acronym for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. That’s what the terrorists wanted, based on their severe interpretation of Islam.

But their two major strongholds in those two countries are now the targets of international efforts to destroy ISIS. A battle is looming over Raqqa, ISIS’s self-declared capital in Syria, and the terrorists are losing their hold on the Iraqi city of Mosul after months of fighting there.

But will all these rid the world of ISIS? What would that take?

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It began slowly from the ruins of two groups of wars in Iraq and Syria, but when will ISIS truly began?

SUBTITLE: Can ISIS ever be eradicated?

WALSH: As U.S. and allied firepower honed on their final strongholds, they may almost fall as fast as they rose, when they emerged in 2014 and declared their leader, Abu Bakr al Qaeda, head of their caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

Their territory grew in Iraq, exploiting the suffering of the Sunni minority and in Syria, offering a savage sense of order among the indiscriminate murder of the civil war. Their brutality became ubiquitous, yet also appealed to warped minds globally.

In Libya, a franchise on the coast, in Afghanistan, in the east, in Egypt, around Africa, even southern Russia, pledges of allegiance were made because to be part of ISIS, all you have to do was make a video or a phone call during an attack, and you were part of the global branded enterprise of horror. Paris, Brussels, Orlando, Nice, Istanbul, the lists have to be a lot longer to include all those who claimed to act on their sick name.

As they wane in Iraq and Syria, and lose their Libyan stronghold altogether, they’re not over yet. Their idea lives on. The virus of their perverted version of Islam now contagious perhaps forever for anyone on the Internet.

The challenge going forward: how do you make ISIS lose its appeal to those drawn to something so deliberately vile?

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

AZUZ (voice-over): Ten-second trivia:

Which of those words describe a time when day and night are about the same length?

Solstice, Allegro, Equinox or Invicta?

A vernal and autumnal equinoxes or spring and fall equinoxes are when day and night are all equal all over the world.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

AZUZ: The spring equinox is on March 20th this year, less than a week away. It’s the first official day of spring in the northern hemisphere and it feels like it in many parts of the U.S. From Washington, D.C. to Massachusetts, blizzard warnings are in effect, with up to 18 inches of snow in the forecast for Boston and New York City.

Schools were closed. Thousands of flights were cancelled for airports in the path of the late winter storm, it’s already slammed the Midwest and this system could bring the Northeast its heaviest snowfall of the whole winter.

Residents stocked up on food and supplies. State governments stockpiled sandbags, pumps and generators, in case there’s flooding or the power goes out. Meteorologists say this was all caused when two low pressure weather systems came together, forming a potentially potent nor’easter.

In cold weather in general is affecting a large part of the U.S. population, almost a third of all Americans are under some sort of winter weather alert this week. Many of them live near a lake.

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CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Let’s talk about lake-effect snow. As a boy growing up in Buffalo, New York, I knew it as a day off of school. My dad knew it as a day he may not get home from work as it was just snowing too hard.

SUBTITLE: Lake-effect snow.

MYERS: But how does it work? Well, first of all, you need a lake, because it’s called lake-effect snow. And the lake needs to be unfrozen, 35, 40, 45 degrees is great. And then the air that blows across it from the north or from the west can be 10 degrees.

All of a sudden, the moisture from the lake mixes in with the cold air from the north, and you get big clouds and you can get big snow. When it goes on land and goes uphill, all of a sudden, you get significant lake-effect snow. It can be two to three inches per hour.

And depending on where you are, if you’re just south of it or north of this lake-effect band, it can look like a wall of snow was coming down. And so, that’s why you can be anywhere from a two to three-inch snow fall in one county, and just a few miles south, you can get 30 inches in one day.

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AZUZ: Nominations are open for the 2017 CNN Heroes. These are everyday people. You may know a potential hero, who’s making an incredible impact on a community. The 2016 Hero of the Year, Jeison Aristizabal, was born with cerebral palsy and he’s helped give a brighter future to more than a thousand Colombian children with disabilities.

After accepting his award from CNN, he visited another Colombian hero who’s made it his life’s work to help others.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SUBTITLE: In December, he was honored as a Top 10 CNN Hero — but that’s not all.

KELLY RIPA, HOST: The 2016 CNN Hero of the Year is Jeison Aristizabal.

ANDERSON COOPER, HOST: Jeison Aristizabal.

(APPLAUSE)

SUBTITLE: While in New York, Jeison visited fellow Colombian and 2009 Top 10 CNN Hero Jorge Munoz.

(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)

SUBTITLE: Every single night, Jorge brings free meals to hungry people in Queens, NY.

Jeison helped Jorge prepare meals to be distributed that very night.

JEISON ARISTIZABAL, CNN 2016 HERO OF THE YEAR (translated): I’m very inspired by how Jorge fights. His manner, his tenacity, the enthusiasm that he brings.

The food multiplies here.

JORGE MUNOZ, 2009 TOP 10 CNN HERO (translated: Yes, it’s really nice.

ARISTIZABAL: It inspires me do something for others every day.

SUBTITLE: They also got the chance to swap stories.

MUNOZ: I mean, it was very special, I felt very proud of being Colombian when I saw you there.

ARISTIZABAL: What a joy to be part of this CNN family! I’m very pleased, very proud, very happy.

CROWD: Jeison! Jeison! Jeison! Jeison!

(END VIDEOTAPE)

AZUZ: Agility events test the dog’s athleticism, its training, its connection with its owner, charging over A-frames, hurdles, through tunnels and between weave poles makes for good TV. But when an animal isn’t particularly skilled at these things but competes anyway, that makes for great TV.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look at this. Ooh, what a nose dive and he couldn’t care less.

SUBTITLE: This dog might be the worst competitor ever.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here we go! That’s one of the best shots I’ve seen in a long time.

SUBTITLE: But when it comes to pure hilarity, he’s a big winner. Olly the Jack Russell terrier has become a viral star — thanks to a comically-bad obstacle course run at the 2017 Crufts Dog Show.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, he’s a little bit confused. Some people think he sould have — oh!

Little Jack Russell here Olly with Karen from the Blue Cross, closes out the group, this last of the small (INAUDIBLE)

He’s all over he place and so he should be. Olly and Karen here, Olly was from (INAUDIBLE)

SUBTITLE: His hilarious performance is trending on YouTube.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Some people think he should have stayed as lucky (INAUDIBLE). Olly is totally crazy.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

AZUZ: So, maybe he’s not on course on the concourse, more energetic than synergetic and more vigorous than rigorous. But agility is not beyond his abilities. He’s still more agile than fragile, more boss than draws, and he’s super. He’s able to Olly over A-frames in a single hound.

I’m Carl Azuz.

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Vernal was actually imprisoned in Dracula's castle. Their relationship was... Voluntarily sexual, she did not notice any feelings on Alucard’s part, except that he always waited for permission. She didn't refuse.

Alucard kept his wives away from Vernal, understanding how jealous they were. And knowing about their weak condition, but with a strong spirit of struggle, the latter would definitely lose. Therefore, half of the castle was divided into two parts, where separate worlds existed: wives and for mistress.

When Harker arrived at the castle, Vernal was transported by Alucard to London, where she successfully went unnoticed and disappeared, which upset Alucard, but not for long. Soon Mina appeared.

(Vernal was very frightened by the frequent howls of wolves at night and simply interfered with sleep)

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I'm posting this reference later, unfortunately(( Vernal and her scars, which can already be named

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I'm not sorry for this, but I REALLY wanted to draw this

I have a hard time imagining Walter in sportswear, but I think it would look good on him :D

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A little bit about everyday life in Iscariot. Vernal had a good relationship with Alexander, they were close friends and nothing more

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The 40s were very difficult. Vernal had to sit in Germany when this whole idea with National Socialism began. In Germany, I had to work for a long time and bring one of the Ancient vampires to cooperate.

His daughter Rebecca was persistently advancing in her military career and was aware of Annenerbe's plans for vampires, which she gladly shared with Vernal, but did not allow her to take action so easily.

Together with Rebecca's father, Vernal later cleared out the camps where the experiments were carried out...

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Vernal Allegro is one of the few remaining vampires in existence on an equal footing with Alucard. There are also others, but they are hiding more diligently in connection with the Hellsing organization that “recently” appeared for them.

Vernal has been around for many centuries, unlike Alucard, as she herself hinted more than once. But for the most part this is perceived as a joke. She never really insisted on it.

Unlike Alucard, she is one step above his status as a count. Technically she is a duchess, but without lands now.

The story of Vernal's vampirism begins on the day of her wedding with her beloved man, who had been waiting for this significant day for a long time. One vampire showed up at the celebration, attacked both of them, turned the girl into one of his own kind and disappeared, leaving behind most of the corpses. Vernal managed to quickly convert, and be in time before the final death of her lover and convert afterwards. And then Hell began for her. Her people decided that she had signed a deal with the Devil without even bothering to listen to her. She eventually fled with her husband, hiding in the mountains as long as possible without bloodshed. They drank each other's blood, understanding the situation they were in, literally walking on the edge of a knife. Over time, they began to travel around Europe, studying medicine and alchemy. They both had hope that it could be cured. The result was not encouraging.

She developed different relationships with all the vampires she met: she was friends with some, was at enmity, or tried not to intersect. Alucard belonged to the latter type. There have long been rumors about him among vampires in Europe, of varying degrees of quality. Until the last moment, she delayed meeting him, until she accidentally crossed paths with him in London. He made a strong and negative impression on her.

Vernal came to the organization at the invitation of Alucard years later, precisely during his mission in Poland, when she was looking for Nazi laboratories, having learned about the possibility of the emergence of artificial vampires. Five years before the original events, Vernal entered the ranks of the organization with difficulty, on some of her own terms.

Vera, for a vampire, has very weak regeneration and increased sensitivity to sunlight, refusing to feed on human blood, with the exception of the vampires themselves, and the diet itself has recently begun to suffer from taste due to the flesh of artificial vampires.

She did not immediately come to hunt vampires, only when “rumors about the dead” in her medical practice made her feel Spanish shame for desecrating the corpses of the dead, until one day she encountered a vampire. Then she killed a vampire for the first time, beating him to death with an aspen branch and piercing him through. Then she realized that she would soon change her focus.

She is a professional wielder of firearms and knives, preferring the former due to her regeneration.

Long before Hellsing, she managed to work in Iscariot and leave Italy alive.

He understands medicine and alchemy.

(I've been dreaming for so long to finally make a performance of my beloved girl😭)

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Today is my birthday... now I've become an old and even more grumpy goose, but I don't regret it