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Great stuff everyone, happy to see it all. This is an Editorial picture, by the way, the rest of which you can find here

Just got done reading Harry Potter HBP, and have decided to open a books titled: The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict between Iran and America Much different subject matter than HP obviously but, none the less interesting, to me at least.

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Woah , After reading all of that, I wouldn't even know where to begin. You guys know quite a lot about this stuff, I feel like a complete novice. Regardless of how much I know of backstory, I am somewhat adept at picking things up. I do think as well that Snape was indeed following orders much as Harry was made to do inside the cave. Knowing that his exposure as an Ally of Dumbledore, could infavorably tip the scales in Voldemorts favor. Snape has a uniquely advantageous position being able to infiltrate Voldemorts circle, and provides obviously important information to the OotP. Dumbledore recognized this, which is why I think it isn't out of the question for Dumbledore to have sacrificed his life at the hands of Snape, if he thought it would bring and end to Voldemort. I do remember quite often within the last few chapters of the book, Dumbledore mentioning to Harry that his (Harry's) life was much more important than his own. Which tells me again that he would not be above sacrificing himself for the cause, especially to keep such a valuable asset as Snape inside the Lion's Den. Arguably though, now that Dumbledore is dead, and at Snapes hands, who exactly would Snape relay this important info to, seeing as now everyone in the story believes Snape has indeed defected. Unless of course Dumbledore trusted in the fact that regardless of whether Snape was able to transmit vital info or not, he would use his brains to tip the scales in favor of good, even though he is now seemingly on the outside. Very tired, but that is my half awake take on Snapes' situation, I do believe in the end he will turn out to be a good man, though I do believe that he will always dislike just about everyone around him. Love is love though according to Dumbledore, and he believed that Snape must have had some down their somewhere, to have been able to trust him. As someone mentioned earlier, Dumbledore was no fool. @neo, I notice an assload of typos, one in particular jumped out at me, mishit Now I don't think that is British slang or something like that, I just think it's a good old fashioned typo, the result of someone not paying attention, or just rushing themselves. Thanks for whoever mentioned Regalus as a possibilty for the note in the locket. I was racking my brain trying to figure out if I had read the initials anywhere before, or if maybe they would ring a bell in a different order. Though I would doubt this idea, simply for the fact that Dumbledore admitted he would not have been able to get the locket himself had there not been two of them there to retrieve it. Saying that Regalus was able to take the locket alone, is akin to saying that he was a greater wizard than Dumbledore, which even though we do not know much about Regalus, we know it is not possible for Regalus to be more powerful than Dumbledore was. Of course you could argue that he was not alone, but I am quite sure that he would not be able to find enough Death Eaters willing to desert Voldemort and help him steal the locket, and had he been helped by someone good, Dumbledore would have known this I would think. Did I spell his name wrong everytime there? Tired again. Lots of stuff. Horcruxes, interesting things. JK will come up with something none of us would ever think of in a million years, but it is fun to speculate on what could possibly hold part of Voldemorts soul. To tell you the truth I haven't got the slightest clue as to what they could be hiding in. Though I do not think that Godric's Sword, is going to end up being one of them obviously. Like I said, she'll come up with something no one thought of, which makes it that much more fun. JK was keen to keep the eye on the significance of the number 7 when speaking about Voldemort and his Horcruxes, though this might have been simple distraction to keep the mind somewhere else. Voldemort believes himself all powerful, so why would a magical number such as 7 have any weight to him, if he believes he's already beyond threat. Just a thought, this train of thought could lead to more Horcruxes than first thought, because regardless of the magical power of a number, common sense tells you that it would be much more wise to have made a Horcrux for each person you ever killed, because before Harry had time to find every last one, in order to kill Voldemort, he may very well have died of old age. This is assuming Voldemort feels that he is all powerful and beyond threat, which if he learned anything over these 6 years his eventual rule is anything but certain with Harry still in the picture. Grawp patting hagrid on the head and sinking his chair legs into the ground, made tears well up in my eyes. And the fact that the Centaurs even paid their respects was simply a testament to the heart of the man they paid tribute to, and I love how JK portrays that, very simply, nothing overly complex like some authors tend to do, and yet it was played out perfectly, and couldn't have been better positioned to make you feel what they were feeling. This lady creates magic. Edit: Did anyone else feel that when Dumbledore was crying out after drinking the potion from the Penseive like dish, that he thought something was his fault? Page 572 "It's all my fault, all my fault," he sobbed. "Please make it stop, I know I did wrong, oh please make it stop and I'll never, never again..." Does anyone else feel that this is in reference to the fact that he went to invite Tom/Voldemort to Hogwarts, and deep down inside blames himself for the way things are at present?

Now that's what I'm talking about, pmech a man who could not and would not choose a single favorite. I don't blame you in the least, I would have chosen them all too. As an added bonus to your post I have found quite a few covers I had never seen before, I must thank you. That Shania Twain cover is uber-sexy suzuki, something else I haven't seen. Which I am surprised by because I used to subscribe to FHM.

Finally finished the book, to be fair I did not get it the day it came out. So it's not that I read slow it's that you all had a head start. Now I think I will go back and see if you guys have been having interesting discussion or if it's just more of the above

Glad to be able to give some form of help About the video and audio being out of sync, I'm thinking maybe this might be a conversion problem, between the mp3 audio (DivX & Xvid) and the MPEG audio, there might be some sort of loss, which your experiencing with the lag. Not quite sure how to go about fixing that. But I'm glad that you were able to get somewhere after all.

In true fashion, Yes?

Wish I could say the same, Thanks much for the pictures though, can't complain there.

No problem I agree, she does look damn good in those vids.

Well that sucks. I would suggest downloading a trial of TMPGenc and testing it out to see if it will do what you need. As I mentioned though unfortunately it's not free. Someone here has got to know of another good MPEG encoder.

Here is the one with the other Angels as well as Adriana Angels in Venice 1 And here is the 60 second video with only Adriana, Angels in Venice 2

I'll probably put it at $9.99, which is about what the Brazilian sellers tend to start everything out at. Don't know how much it's worth though. The shipping will certainly be cheaper.

I am waiting until I can get the season finale episodes before watching the entire season. I've only seen th first few eps and then I started downloading them so I could see the ones I missed, but no matter what I do I can't seem to get that damn finale episode. Can't wait to see what happens, after like the 7th episode.

This just means that the file you are trying to watch is no longer available on the server. Just a dead link, or the server is offline. Just to make sure, if you don't mind, post the link, and I will see if I am able to see it.

I think this time you might have been the only one that didn't have to scroll.

Anjel2nV, Your signature is exceeding the limits, 600x128.

Jonathan's Junkie, Your signature is exceeding the limits, 600x128.

Appreciate the candids, but would you mind not posting them side by side greater than 600 pixels, 4 side by side will do. Anything larger and people start to have to scroll to the right to see all of them. With all of these side by side, people have to scroll literally 2 feet to the right just to see all of the pictures.

Yeah, The above quoted story was made up, but Page Six recently reported that the show is indeed on for this year, but a TV deal has yet to be worked out. They will work one out, I'm sure as TV stations can't turn down ratings, you know.

If anyone is interested, I'm gonna be putting this Iguatemi Catalog up on Ebay sometime tomorrow. Just thought I would let anyone know who might have some interest. There are 20 pages inside with Isabeli, as well as 9 on Ana Hickmann including the cover. Couple pics.

Excellent, Thanks much,

The Movie Maker is something I know nothing about, I never could find a version for Win2000, I could only find an XP version, which I can't use. Maybe someone who has used it might be able to give you some pointers, not sure who here has it though. I'm thinking, seeing as you don't need to edit anything, maybe you could just open up your video in Movie Maker, and then just save it right away, as the WMV . Probably want to save it as 700kb/sec bitrate or higher, so that you lose little quality, as long as size isn't too much of a factor, you could make the bitrate even higher if you want.

IJatRotLA Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, good stuff.

That sounds like just the flakeyess of WinAvi I was mentioning above. It seems to do that to me just about every other time I try and convert anything with it. If you have WinXP, I think microsoft offers Windows Movie Maker for free from their site, that should be able to convert into WMV, pretty much flawlessly. I looked at that GraphEdit Spark. I had no idea what the hell I was looking at. I guess that's where the "If you know how to use" comes into play.