CSI: NY (Crime Scene Investigation: New York) isan American police procedural television series that ran on CBS from September 22, 2004, to February 22, 2013, for a total of nine seasons and 197 original episodes.
The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as Crime Scene Investigators, instead of the actual title of Crime Scene Unit Forensic Technicians (CSU)) as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths, as well as other crimes.
The
series is an indirect spin-off from the veteran series CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation and a direct spin-off from CSI: Miami, during an episode
in which several of the CSI: NY characters made their first appearances. It is the third series in the CSI franchise.
Originally in 2004, CSI: NY
was produced in partnership with the Canadian media company Alliance
Atlantis. The company dissolved after season three in 2007, and all
production after that was done under the purview of CBS Paramount
Television.
The series was filmed at the CBS Studio Center, with
many of the outside scenes shot in and around Los Angeles. Occasionally,
scenes were filmed on location in New York City.
The series ended its ninth and final season on February 22, 2013. It was canceled by CBS on May 10, 2013.
CSI: NY follows a group of investigators who work for the New York City crime lab.
The series mixes gritty subject matter and deduction in the same manner
as its predecessors, yet also places a great deal of emphasis on
criminal profiling.
The team is led by Detective Mac Taylor,
a former Marine from Chicago. Mac is a veteran of the NYPD who lost his
wife on 9/11, and as such must work to rebuild his personal life while
supervising his team. He is organized, efficient, dedicated, and very
proper in his management style.
Mac's partner is originally Stella Bonasera.
Stella is half-Greek, half-Italian, and entirely New York City. She
helped Mac through the impact of his wife's death and has been by his
side ever since. She is a savvy investigator, yet she often speaks
before she thinks. Stella leaves New York to head a crime lab in New
Orleans and is replaced by Detective Jo Danville.
Jo is a
former FBI criminalist and an experienced psychological profiler. She
and Mac quickly form a strong friendship and an even stronger working
rapport. Jo is still haunted by her ousting from the FBI after blowing
the whistle on improper lab procedure, so she works to regain her
professional reputation.
Together, Mac, Stella, and Jo head an elite team of detectives including Danny Messer, Aiden Burn, and Lindsay Monroe. The team also works alongside CSI Sheldon Hawkes, Detective Don Flack, Medical Examiner Sid Hammerback, and CSI trainee Adam Ross.
Today, The Grandma has visited NewYork Harbor one of the most dangerous places of the city where occupationalhazards are more necessary than never.
New York Harbor is at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York Bay near the East River tidal estuary,andthen into the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of the United States. It is one of the largest natural harbours in the world, and is frequently named the best natural harbour in the world.
It is also known as Upper New York Bay, which is enclosed by the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island and the Hudson County, New Jersey, municipalities of Jersey City and Bayonne.
The name may also refer to the entirety of New York Bay including Lower New York Bay. Although the United States Board on Geographic Names does not use the term, New York Harbor has important historical, governmental, commercial, and ecological usages.
The harbour is fed by the waters of the Hudson River (historically called the North River as it passes Manhattan), as well as the Gowanus Canal. It is connected to Lower New York Bay by the Narrows, to Newark Bay by the Kill Van Kull, and to Long Island Sound by the East River, which despite the name, is actually a tidal strait. It provides the main passage for the waters of the Hudson River as it empties through the Narrows. The channel of the Hudson as it passes through the harbour is called the Anchorage Channel and is approximately 50 feet deep in the midpoint of the harbour.
A project to replace two water mains between Brooklyn and Staten Island which will eventually allowing for dredging of the channel to nearly 30 m was begun in April 2012.
It contains several islands including Governors Island, near the mouth of the East River, as well Ellis Island, Liberty Island, and Robbins Reef which are supported by a large underwater reef on the New Jersey side of the harbor. The reef was historically one of the largest oyster beds in the world and provided a staple for the diet of all classes of citizens both locally and regionally until the end of the 19th century, when the beds succumbed to pollution.
Historically, it has played an extremely important role in the commerce of the New York metropolitan area.
The Statue of Liberty National Monument recalls the immigrant experience during the late 19th and early 20th century.
Since the 1950s, container ship traffic has been primarily routed through the Kill Van Kull to Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, where it is consolidated for easier automated transfer to land conveyance. As a consequence, the waterfront industries of the Harbor experienced a decline leading to diverse plans for revitalization, though important maritime uses remain at Red Hook, Port Jersey, MOTBY, Constable Hook, and parts of the Staten Island shore. Liberty State Park opened in 1976. In recent years, it has become a popular site for recreation sailing and kayaking.
The harbour is traversed by the Staten Island Ferry, which runs between Whitehall Street at the southernmost tip of Manhattan near Battery Park (South Ferry) and St. George Ferry Terminal on Richmond Terrace in Staten Island near Richmond County Borough Hall and Richmond County Supreme Court. NY Waterway operates routes across the bay and through The Narrows to locations near Sandy Hook.
The harbour supports a very diverse population of marine species, allowing for recreational fishing, most commonly for striped bass and bluefish.
The original population of the 16th century New York Harbor, the Lenape, used the waterways for fishing and travel.
In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano anchored in what is now called the Narrows, the strait between Staten Island and Long Island that connects the Upper and Lower New York Bay, where he received a canoe party of Lenape.
In 1824 the first American drydock was completed on the East River. Because of its location and depth, the Port grew rapidly with the introduction of steamships; and then with the completion in 1825 of the Erie Canal New York became the most important transshipping port between Europe and the interior of the United States, as well as coastwise destinations.
By about 1840, more passengers and a greater tonnage of cargo came through the port of New York than all other major harbours in the country combined and by 1900 it was one of the great international ports. The Morris Canal carried anthracite and freight from Pennsylvania through New Jersey to its terminus at the mouth of the Hudson in Jersey City. Portions in the harbour are now part of Liberty State Park.
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) stands on Liberty Island in the harbour, while the nearby main port of entry at Ellis Island processed 12 million arrivals from 1892 to 1954.
The Statue of Liberty National Monument, encompassing both islands, recalls the period of massive immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century. While many stayed in the region, others spread across America, with more than 10 million leaving from the nearby Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal.
Today, The Grandma has visited one of her favourite places in NewYork, the Brooklyn Bridge. She loves this place, and she visits it as many times as she can.
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East River.
It was also the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its opening, with a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m) and a deck 127 ft (38.7 m) above mean high water. The span was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge or the East River Bridge but was officially renamed the BrooklynBridge in 1915.
Proposals for a bridge connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn were first made in the early 19th century, which eventually led to the construction of the current span, designed by John A. Roebling.
The project's chief engineer, his son Washington Roebling, contributed further design work, assisted by the latter's wife, Emily Warren Roebling. Construction started in 1870, with the Tammany Hall-controlled New York Bridge Company overseeing construction, although numerous controversies and the novelty of the design prolonged the project over thirteen years. Since opening, the Brooklyn Bridge has undergone several reconfigurations, having carried horse-drawn vehicles and elevated railway lines until 1950.
To alleviate increasing traffic flows, additional bridges and tunnels were built across the East River. Following gradual deterioration, the Brooklyn Bridge has been renovated several times, including in the 1950s, 1980s, and 2010s.
The Brooklyn Bridge is the southernmost of the four toll-free vehicular bridges connecting Manhattan Island and Long Island, with the Manhattan Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge, and the Queensboro Bridge to the north. Only passenger vehicles and pedestrian and bicycle traffic are permitted.
A major tourist attraction since its opening, the Brooklyn Bridge has become an icon of New York City. Over the years, the bridge has been used as the location of various stunts and performances, as well as several crimes and attacks.
The Brooklyn Bridge has been designated a National Historic Landmark, a New York City landmark, and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
One of the reasons I moved back to Brooklyn is to get to hang out with the guys I've known since we were 12, 13 years old. Having that sense of community is incredibly important to me.
It's nine o'clock on a Saturday The regular crowd shuffles in There's an old woman sitting next to me Making love to her ratafia...
Today, The Grandma has gone out to enjoying the fabulous nights of the city that never sleeps. She has been drinking a little (or too much) in a beautiful club when she has been remembering her long life accompanied by a piano man, named Billy Joel.
William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is anAmerican musician, singer-songwriter, andcomposer.
Commonly nicknamed the Piano Manafter
his first major hit and signature song of the same name as well as the
similarly named 1973 album, he has led a commercially successful career
as a solo artist since the 1970s, having released 12 studio albums from
1971 to 1993 as well as one studio album in 2001.
He
is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the
seventh-best-selling recording artist and the fourth-best-selling solo
artist in the United States, with over 150 million records sold
worldwide. His 1985 compilation album, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2, is one of the best-selling albums in the United States.
Joel was born in 1949 in the Bronx, New York,
and grew up in Long Island, both places that influenced his music.
Growing up, he took piano lessons at his mother's insistence. After
dropping out of high school to pursue a musical career, Joel took part in two short-lived bands, The Hassles and Attila,
before signing a record deal with Family Productions and kicking off a
solo career in 1971 with his first release Cold Spring Harbor.
In 1972, Joel caught the attention of Columbia Records after a live radio performance of the song Captain Jack became popular in Philadelphia, prompting him to sign a new record deal with the company and release his second album, Piano Man, in 1973.
After releasing the albums Streetlife Serenade and Turnstiles in 1974 and 1976 respectively, Joel released his critical and commercial breakthrough album, TheStranger,
in 1977. This album became Columbia's best-selling release, selling
over 10 million copies and spawning several hit singles, including Just the Way You Are, Movin' Out (Anthony's Song), Only the Good Die Young, and She's Always a Woman; another song on this album, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, is Joel's favourite of his own songs and has become a staple of his live shows.
William Martin Joel was born in the Bronx, New York City, on May 9, 1949.
When he was one year old, his family moved to the Long Island suburb
Hicksville, in the town of Oyster Bay, where he and his younger sister,
Judy, were raised in a section of Levitt homes.
Influenced
by early rock and roll and rhythm and blues artists, including groups
such as The Beatles, The Everly Brothers and Elvis Presley, Joel
favoured tightly structured pop melodies and down-to-earth songwriting.
Joel signed a contract with the record company Family Productions, with which he recorded his first solo album, Cold Spring Harbor, a reference to Cold Spring Harbor, a hamlet on Long Island. Ripp states that he spent US$450,000 developing Joel;
nevertheless, the album was mastered at too high a speed and as a
result, the album was a technical and commercial disappointment.
Joel's first album with Columbia was Piano Man, released in 1973. Despite modest sales, Piano Man's title track became his signature song, ending nearly every concert. That year Joel's
touring band changed. Guitarist Al Hertzberg was replaced by Don Evans,
and bassist Larry Russell by Patrick McDonald, himself replaced in late
1974 by Doug Stegmeyer, who stayed with Joel until 1989. Rhys
Clark returned as drummer and Tom Whitehorse as banjoist and pedal steel
player; Johnny Almond joined as saxophonist and keyboardist. The band
toured the U.S. and Canada extensively, appearing on popular music
shows. Joel'ssongwriting began attracting more attention; in 1974 Helen Reddy recorded You're My Home(Piano Man).
Columbia Records introduced Joel to Phil Ramone, who produced all of Joel'sstudio albums from The Stranger (1977) to The Bridge (1986).
Joel's next album, 52nd Street, was released in 1978 and became his first album to peak at No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Joel released his seventh studio album, Glass Houses, in 1980 in an attempt to further establish himself as a rock artist; this release featured It's Still Rock and Roll to Me (Joel's first single to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart), You May Be Right, Don't Ask Me Why, and Sometimes a Fantasy.
His next album, The Nylon Curtain, was released in 1982, and stemmed from a desire from Joel to create more lyrically and melodically ambitious music. An Innocent Man, released in 1983, served as an homage to genres of music which Joel had grown up with in the 1950s, such as rhythm and blues and doo-wop; this release featured Uptown Girl and The Longest Time, two of his best-known songs.
After releasing the albums The Bridge and Storm Front in 1986 and 1989 respectively, Joel released his twelfth studio album, River of Dreams, in 1993. He went on to release Fantasies and Delusions, a 2001 album featuring classical compositions composed by Joel and performed by British-Korean pianist Richard Hyung-ki Joo.
Joel provided voice-over work in 1988 for the Disney animated film Oliver & Company, in which he played the character Dodger with his song, Why Should I Worry?, and contributed to the soundtracks to several films, including EasyMoney, Ruthless People, and Honeymoon in Vegas.
Across the 20 years of his solo career, Joel produced 33 top 40 hits in the U.S., all of which he wrote himself, and three of which (It's Still Rock and Roll to Me, Tell Her About It, and We Didn't Start the Fire) peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
Joel has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards, winning five of them, including Album of the Year for 52nd Street.
In
1987, he became one of the first artists to hold a rock tour in the
Soviet Union following the country's alleviation of the ban on rock
music. Despite largely retiring from writing and releasing pop music
following the release of River of Dreams, he continues to tour; he frequently performs at Madison Square Garden.
Joel
was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame (1999), and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006).
In 2001, Joel received the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
In 2013, Joel received the Kennedy Center Honors for influencing American culture through the arts. Since the advent of his solo career, Joel
has held a successful touring career, holding live performances across
the globe in which he sings several of his written songs.
Joel
has been in several relationships, including marriages to Elizabeth
Weber Small, model Christie Brinkley, and chef Katie Lee; since 2015, he
has been married to Alexis Roderick, his fourth spouse. He has three
daughters: Alexa Ray Joel with Brinkley, and Della Rose and Remy Anne
with Roderick.
Joel participated in the USA for Africa We Are the World project in 1985.
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Today, The Grandma has been enjoying Central Park, the urban park in Manhattan, New York City. She has visited the Bethesda Fountain, one of the most beautiful sites of this amazing park.
Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City.
It comprises 341 ha between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side,
roughly bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, Central Park West (Eighth
Avenue) on the west, Central Park South (59th Street) on the south, and
Central Park North (110th Street) on the north. Central Park is the most
visited urban park in the United States, with 40 million visitors in
2013, and one of the most filmed locations in the world.
The park was established in 1857 on 315 ha of land acquired by the city. In 1858, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and architect/landscape designer Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they titled the Greensward Plan.
Construction
began the same year, and the park's first area was opened to the public
in the winter of 1858. Construction north of the park continued during
the American Civil War in the 1860s, and the park was expanded to its current size in 1873.
After a
period of decline in the early 20th century, Robert Moses started a
program to clean up Central Park. Another decline in the late 20th
century spurred the creation of the Central Park Conservancy in 1980,
which refurbished many parts of the park during the 1980s and 1990s.
Central Park was designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1962, which in April 2017 placed it on the tentative list for UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The park,
managed for decades by the New York City Department of Parks and
Recreation, is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under
contract with the municipal government in a public-private partnership.
The Conservancy is a non-profit organization that contributes 75 percent
of Central Park's $65 million annual budget and is responsible for all
basic care of the 341 ha park.
New York, lookin' down on Central Park Where they say you should not wander after dark.
New York, like a scene from all those movies
but you're real enough to me, but there's a heart,
Today is a sunny day in New York. TheGrangers and TheGrandma have continued their formation in English. They have studied Thereis/There areand the Plural of Nouns,beforeaccepting an invitation to assist to the MET and participite as guests in a cerimony conducted by Lady Gaga to promote her new single.
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, andactress.
She is known for her image reinventions and musical versatility. Gaga began performing as a teenager, singing at open mic nights and acting in school plays. She studied at Collaborative Arts Project 21, through the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, before dropping out to pursue a career in music.
After Def Jam Recordings canceled her contract, she worked as a songwriter for Sony/ATV Music Publishing, where she signed a joint deal with Interscope Records and KonLive Distribution, in 2007.
Gaga had her breakthrough the following year with her debut studio album, The Fame, and its chart-topping singles Just Dance and Poker Face. The album was later reissued to include the extended play The Fame Monster (2009), which yielded the successful singles Bad Romance, Telephone, and Alejandro.
Gaga's five succeeding studio albums all debuted atop the US Billboard 200. Her second full-length album, Born This Way (2011), explored electronic rock and techno-pop and sold more than one million copies in its first week. The title track became the fastest-selling song on the iTunes Store, with over one million downloads in less than a week. Following her EDM-influenced third album, Artpop (2013), and its lead single Applause, Gaga released the jazz album Cheek to Cheek (2014) with Tony Bennett, and the soft rock album Joanne (2016). She ventured into acting, winning awards for her leading roles in the miniseries American Horror Story: Hotel (2015-2016) and the musical film A Star Is Born (2018).
Her contributions to the latter's soundtrack, which spawned the chart-topping single Shallow, made her the first woman to win an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Grammy Award in one year.
Gaga returned to dance-pop with her sixth studio album, Chromatica (2020), which yielded the number-one single Rain on Me. She followed this with her second collaborative album with Bennett, Love for Sale, and a starring role in the biopic House of Gucci, both in 2021.
Having sold an estimated 170 million records, Gaga is one of the world's best-selling music artists and the only female artist to achieve four singles that each sold at least 10 million copies globally. Her accolades include 13 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, 18 MTV Video Music Awards, awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and recognition as Billboard's Artist of the Year (2010) and Woman of the Year (2015). She has also been included in several Forbes' power rankings and ranked fourth on VH1's Greatest Women in Music (2012).
Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010 and 2019 and placed her on their All-Time 100 Fashion Icons list. Her philanthropy and activism focus on mental health awareness and LGBT rights; she has her own non-profit organization, the Born This Way Foundation, which supports the wellness of young people.
Gaga's business ventures include Haus Labs, a vegan cosmetics brand launched in 2019.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially the Met, is the largest art museum in the United States. With 7.06 million visitors in 2016, it was the second most visited art museum in the world,
and the fifth most visited museum of any kind. Its permanent collection
contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial
departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park
along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art
galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon
Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art,
architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe.
On March
18, 2016, the museum opened the Met Breuer museum at Madison Avenue in
the Upper East Side; it extends the museum's modern and contemporary art
program.
The
permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity
and ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European
masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art.
The Met
maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and
Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical
instruments, costumes and accessories, as well as antique weapons and
armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from
first-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its
galleries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 for the purposes of opening a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. It opened on February 20, 1872, and was originally located at 681 Fifth Avenue.
Another day in New York and TheGrangers and TheGrandma have continued their formation in English. They have studied the Prepositions of Place,and they have been describing their suites at Carlyle Hotel.
The Carlyle Hotelis a combination luxury apartment hotel located at 35 East 76th Street on the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and East 76th Street, on the Upper East Side of New York City.
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least 100 metres or 150 metres in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-rise buildings.
Historically, the term first referred to buildings with between 10 and 20 stories when these types of buildings began to be constructed in the 1880s. Skyscrapers may host offices, hotels, residential spaces, and retail spaces.
One common feature of skyscrapers is having a steel frame that supports curtain walls. These curtain walls either bear on the framework below or are suspended from the framework above, rather than resting on load-bearing walls of conventional construction. Some early skyscrapers have a steel frame that enables the construction of load-bearing walls taller than of those made of reinforced concrete.
Modern skyscrapers' walls are not load-bearing, and most skyscrapers are characterised by large surface areas of windows made possible by steel frames and curtain walls. However, skyscrapers can have curtain walls that mimic conventional walls with a small surface area of windows.
Modern skyscrapers often have a tubular structure, and are designed to act like a hollow cylinder to resist wind, seismic, and other lateral loads. To appear more slender, allow less wind exposure and transmit more daylight to the ground, many skyscrapers have a design with setbacks, which in some cases is also structurally required.
The term skyscraper was first applied to buildings of steel-framed construction of at least 10 storeys in the late 19th century, a result of public amazement at the tall buildings being built in major American cities like New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, and St. Louis.
The first steel-frame skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building, originally 10 stories with a height of 42 m, in Chicago in 1885; two additional stories were added. Some point to Philadelphia's 10-storey Jayne Building (1849-50) as a proto-skyscraper, or to New York's seven-floor Equitable Life Building, built in 1870.
Steel skeleton construction has allowed for today's supertall skyscrapers now being built worldwide. The nomination of one structure versus another being the first skyscraper, and why, depends on what factors are stressed.
In 1857, Elisha Otis introduced the safety elevator at the E.V. Haughwout Building in New York City, allowing convenient and safe transport to buildings' upper floors. Otis later introduced the first commercial passenger elevators to the Equitable Life Building in 1870, considered by some architectural historians to be the first skyscraper.
Today, The Grangers and The Grandma have continued their formation in English.They have studied the Imperative, and they have played the hanger.
After their lesson, they have gone to visit the EmpireState Building, where AuryGranger has met a new friend, KingKong, and the family has created a plan to rescue her from his hands.
King Kong is a fictional giant monster resembling a gorilla, who has appeared in various media since 1933.
He has been dubbed The Eighth Wonder of the World, a phrase commonly used within the franchise.
His first appearance was in the novelization of the 1933 film King Kong from RKO Pictures, with the film premiering a little over two months later. Upon its initial release and subsequent re-releases.
A sequel quickly followed that same year with The Son of Kong, featuring LittleKong. Toho produced King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) featuring a giant Kong battling Toho's Godzilla and King Kong Escapes (1967), a film loosely based on Rankin/Bass' The King Kong Show (1966-1969).
In 1976, Dino De Laurentiis produced a modern remake of the original film directed by John Guillermin.
A sequel, King Kong Lives, followed a decade later featuring a Lady Kong. Another remake of the original, this time set in 1933, was released in 2005 by filmmaker Peter Jackson.
Kong: Skull Island (2017), set in 1973, is part of Legendary Entertainment's MonsterVerse, which began with Legendary's reboot of Godzilla in 2014. A sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong, once again pitting the characters against one another, was released in March 2021.
The character of King Kong has become one of the world's most famous movie icons, having inspired a number of sequels, remakes, spin-offs, imitators, parodies, cartoons, books, comics, video games, theme park rides, and a stage play.
King Kong has also crossed over into other franchises such as Planet of the Apes, and encountered characters from other franchises in crossover media, such as the Toho movie monster Godzilla, as well as pulp characters Doc Savage and Tarzan. His role in the different narratives varies, ranging from a rampaging monster to a tragic antihero.
Today, The Grangers & The Grandma have visited DUMBO,a popular neighbourhood in the NewYorkCity borough of Brooklyn.
The Grangers have assisted to a Safe & Healthy conference. They want to have more information about OcuppationalHealth and Safety.
Dumbo (or DUMBO, short for DownUnder the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is aneighbourhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The area known as Dumbo used to be known as Gairville.
The name is an acronym of Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.
The area has been known variously as Rapailie, Olympia, and
Walentasville; the developer who began its current gentrification is Two
Trees Management, led at the time by David Walentas.
The DUMBO Historic District, a historic industrial complex and national historic district in Dumbo, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
It
consists of 95 contributing buildings; the manufacturing concerns
located in this district included Benjamin Moore & Co. (paint),
Arbuckle Brothers (coffee and sugar), J.W. Masury & Son (paint),
Robert Gair (paper boxes), E.W. Bliss (machinery), and Brillo (soap
pads). The district includes the earliest large-scale reinforced
concrete factory buildings in America.
On December 18, 2007, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designate Dumbo as the city's 90th historic district.
Occupational Safety and Health
(OSH), also commonly referred to as Health and Safety, Occupational
Health and Safety (OHS), Occupational Health, or Occupational Safety, is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work.
The goal of an occupational safety and health program is to foster a safe and healthy work environment.
OSH may also protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers, and many others who might be affected by the workplace environment.
In
common-law jurisdictions, employers have a common law duty to take
reasonable care of the safety of their employees. Statute law may, in
addition, impose other general duties, introduce specific duties, and
create government bodies with powers to regulate workplace safety
issues: details of this vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
The research and regulation of Occupational Safety and Health are a relatively recent phenomenon. As labor movements arose in response to worker concerns in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, worker's health entered consideration as a labor-related issue.
In the United Kingdom,
the Factory Acts of the early nineteenth century (from 1802 onwards)
arose out of concerns about the poor health of children working in
cotton mills: the Act of 1833 created a dedicated professional Factory Inspectorate.
The
initial remit of the Inspectorate was to police restrictions on the
working hours in the textile industry of children and young persons,
introduced to prevent chronic overwork, identified as leading directly
to ill-health and deformation, and indirectly to a high accident rate.
However, on the urging of the FactoryInspectorate, a further Act in 1844 giving similar restrictions on working hours for women in the textile industry introduced a requirement for machinery guarding but only in the textile industry, and only in areas that might be accessed by women or children.
In
1840 a Royal Commission published its findings on the state of
conditions for the workers of the mining industry that documented the
appallingly dangerous environment that they had to work in and the high
frequency of accidents. The commission sparked public outrage which
resulted in the Mines Act of 1842. The act set up an inspectorate
for mines and collieries which resulted in many prosecutions and safety
improvements, and by 1850, inspectors were able to enter and inspect
premises at their discretion.
Otto
von Bismarck inaugurated the first social insurance legislation in 1883
and the first worker's compensation law in 1884, the first of their
kind in the Western world. Similar acts followed in other countries,
partly in response to labor unrest.
A hazard is an agent which has the potential to cause harm to a vulnerable target.
Hazards can be both natural or human induced.
Sometimes natural hazards such as floods and drought can be caused by
human activity. Floods can be caused by bad drainage facilities and
droughts can be caused by over-irrigation or groundwater pollution.
The terms hazard and risk are often used interchangeably however, in terms of risk assessment, they are two very distinct terms. A hazard is any agent that can cause harm or damage to humans, property, or the environment.
Risk is defined as the probability that exposure to a hazard will lead to a negative consequence, or more simply, a hazard poses no risk if there is no exposure to that hazard.
Hazards can be dormant or potential,
with only a theoretical probability of harm. An event that is caused by
interaction with a hazard is called an incident. The likely severity of
the undesirable consequences of an incident associated with a hazard, combined with the probability of this occurring, constitute the associated risk. If there is no possibility of a hazard contributing towards an incident, there is no risk.
Hazards can be classified in several ways. One of these ways is by specifying the origin of the hazard.
One key concept in identifying a hazard
is the presence of stored energy that, when released, can cause damage.
Stored energy can occur in many forms: chemical, mechanical, thermal,
radioactive or electrical.
Another class of hazard
does not involve release of stored energy, rather it involves the
presence of hazardous situations. Examples include confined or limited
egress spaces, oxygen-depleted atmospheres, awkward positions,
repetitive motions, low-hanging or protruding objects.
Hazards may also be classified as natural, anthropogenic, or technological. They may also be classified as health or safety hazards, by the populations that may be affected, and the severity of the associated risk. In most cases a hazard may affect a range of targets, and have little or no effect on others.
Identification of hazards assumes that the potential targets are defined, and is the first step in performing a risk assessment.
Hazards may be grouped according to their characteristics. These factors are related to geophysical events which are not process specific:
-Areal extent of damage zone
-Intensity of impact at a point
-Duration of impact at a point
-Rate of onset of the event
-Predictability of the event
The terms hazard and risk are often used interchangeably. However, in terms of risk assessment, these are two very distinct terms. A hazard is an agent that can cause harm or damage to humans, property, or the environment. Risk is the probability that exposure to a hazard will lead to a negative consequence, or more simply, a hazard poses no risk if there is no exposure to that hazard.
Risk
can be defined as the likelihood or probability of a given hazard of a
given level causing a particular level of loss of damage.
The elements of risk
are populations, communities, the built environment, the natural
environment, economic activities and services which are under threat of
disaster in a given area.
The total risk according to UNDRO 1982 is the sum of predictable deaths, injuries, destruction, damage, disruption, and costs of repair and mitigation caused by a disaster of a particular level in a given area or areas.
Another definition of risk is the probable frequency and probable magnitude of future losses. This definition also focuses on the probability of future loss whereby degree of vulnerability to hazard represents the level of risk on a particular population or environment. The threats posed by a hazard are:
-Hazards to people – death, injury, disease and stress
-Hazards to goods – property damage and economic loss
-Hazards to environment – loss of flora and fauna, pollution and loss of amenity
After listening to DR's explanations, The Stones have prepared their next visit. Tonight, they are going to travel to Wolverhampton to watch the match between the local team, Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club and Manchester City in the Molineux Stadium in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. They have been invited by Pep Guardiola and they are very happy, especially Yolanda Stone.
Today, The Grandma hasvisited WallStreet to invest and know more things aboutthe finantial market meanwhile TheGrangers are enjoying the return of Joan'Johnny' Granger.
Wall Street is an eight-block-longstreet in the Financial District ofLowerManhattan in New York City.
It runs between Broadway in the west to South Street and the East River in the east.
The term Wall Street has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services industry, New York–based financial interests, or the Financial District itself.
Wall Street was originally known in Dutch as de Waalstraat
when it was part of New Amsterdam in the 17th century, though the
origins of the name vary. An actual wall existed on the street from 1685
to 1699.
During the 17th century, Wall Street was a slave trading marketplace and a securities trading site, as well as the location of Federal Hall, New York's first city hall.
In the early 19th century, both residences and businesses occupied the area, but increasingly business predominated, and New York City's financial industry became centered on Wall Street. In the 20th century, several early skyscrapers were built on Wall Street, including 40 Wall Street, once the world's tallest building.
The Wall Street area is home to the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange by total market capitalization, as well as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and many commercial banks and insurance companies.
Several other stock and commodity exchanges have also been located in downtown Manhattan near Wall Street, including the New York Mercantile Exchange and other commodity futures exchanges, and the American Stock Exchange.
To support the business they did on the exchanges, many brokerage firms
had offices nearby. However the direct economic impacts of Wall Street activities extend worldwide.
Wall Street itself is a narrow winding street running from the East River to Broadway and lined with skyskrapers, as well as the New York Stock Exchange Building and Federal Hall National Memorial and One Wall Street at its western end. The street is nearby multiple subway lines and ferry terminals and the World Trade Center (1973–2001) site.
Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and Martin Sheen.
The
film tells the story of Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), a young stockbroker
who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy,
unscrupulous corporate raider.
Stone
made the film as a tribute to his father, Lou Stone, a stockbroker
during the Great Depression. The character of Gekko is said to be a
composite of several people, including Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, Carl
Icahn, Asher Edelman, Michael Milken, and Stone himself. The character
of Sir Lawrence Wildman, meanwhile, was modelled on the prominent
British financier and corporate raider Sir James Goldsmith. Originally,
the studio wanted Warren Beatty to play Gekko, but he was not
interested; Stone, meanwhile, wanted Richard Gere, but Gere passed on
the role.
The
film was well received among major film critics. Douglas won the
Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film has come to be seen as the
archetypal portrayal of 1980s excess, with Douglas' character declaring
that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
It has also proven influential in inspiring people to work on Wall Street,
with Sheen, Douglas, and Stone commenting over the years how people
still approach them and say that they became stockbrokers because of
their respective characters in the film.
Stone and Douglas reunited for a sequel titled Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which was released theatrically on September 24, 2010.
Today, The Grandma has been reading about R2D2,another a great example of loyalty, friendship and leadership. Remember again: the real leader is always in the shadow.
R2-D2 or Artoo-Detoo is a fictional robot character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas.
He has appeared in ten of the eleven theatrical Star Wars films to date. At various points throughout the course of the films, R2, an astromech droid, is a friend to C-3PO, Padmé Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
R2-D2 and his companion C-3PO are the only characters to appear in every theatrical Star Wars film, with the exception of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).
English actor Kenny Baker played R2-D2 in all three original Star Wars films and received billing credit for the character in the prequel trilogy, where Baker's role was reduced as R2-D2 was portrayed mainly by radio controlled props and CGI models. In the sequel trilogy, Baker was credited as consultant for The Force Awakens; however, Jimmy Vee also co-performed the character in some scenes. Vee later took over the role beginning in The Last Jedi.
In The Rise of Skywalker, puppeteers Hassan Taj and Lee Towersey perform the role of R2-D2, replacing Jimmy Vee, who had played the role in the previous two films. His sounds and vocal effects were created by sound designer Ben Burtt.
R2-D2 was designed in artwork by Ralph McQuarrie, co-developed by John Stears and built by Peteric Engineering. The revised Empire Strikes Backdroids had fibreglass shells built by Tony Dyson and his White Horse Toy Company.
George Lucas's creation of R2-D2 was influenced by the peasant Matashichi from Akira Kurosawa's 1958 feature film The Hidden Fortress (released in the United States in 1962), although his personality is completely the opposite. Lucas and artist Ralph McQuarrie also drew inspiration from the robots Huey, Dewey, and Louie from Douglas Trumbull's 1972 film Silent Running.
Around the same time that A New Hope was being shot, Ray Harryhausen had already created Bubo for the 1981 film Clash of the Titans. In the film, Bubo is a mechanical metal owl that flies heavily and communicates through whistles and tweets. Harryhausen denied a relation.
The name derives from when Lucas was making one of his earlier films, American Graffiti. Sound editor Walter Murch states that he is responsible for the utterance which sparked the name for the droid. Murch asked for Reel 2, Dialog Track 2, in the abbreviated form R-2-D-2. Lucas, who was in the room and had dozed off while working on the script for Star Wars, momentarily woke when he heard the request and, after asking for clarification, stated that it was a great name before going back to writing his script.
R2-D2 stands for Second Generation Robotic Droid Series-2, according to a Star Wars encyclopedia published after the release of the film Star Wars. Tony Dyson, owner of the special effects studio The White Horse Toy Company, was commissioned by special effects supervisor Brian Johnson to fabricate the revised mechanical design for The Empire Strikes Back, making several units operated by remote control. A number were used by Baker, and two were stunt double models made for the scene where the droid was shot from the swamp onto the shore on Dagobah.
Today, The Grandma has been reading about a family's friend, NevilleLongbottom, who is a great example of loyalty, friendship and leadership. Remember: the real leader is always in the shadow.
Professor Neville Longbottom is a British pure-blood wizard, the onlychild and son of Frank and Alice Longbottom.
Neville's parents were
well-respected Aurors and members of the original Order of the Phoenix,
until they were tortured into insanity by BellatrixLestrange and three
other Death Eaters with the Cruciatus Curse when he was about sixteen
months old. They were placed in the Janus Thickey Ward at St Mungo's
Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, leaving Neville to be raised
by his grandmother, Augusta Longbottom.
Neville began school at
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into
Gryffindor House, along with Harry Potter, HermioneGranger,and Ronald
Weasley. Throughout his school years, he was mostly a shy, clumsy,
introverted boy who was constantly being told by his grandmother that he
was not good enough or living up to his parents' accomplishments.
However, in his later years, he showed that he possessed great courage andperseverance:
he became an important member of Dumbledore's Army, an organisation
taught and led by Harry Potter with the goal of helping other students
learn spells to attack and defend themselves.
Neville
would later fight in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries (1996),
the Battle of the Astronomy Tower (1997), and the Battle of Hogwarts
(1998). During the Battle of Hogwarts, having refused LordVoldemort's invitation to join the Death Eaters, he destroyed the seventh and final Horcrux when he beheaded the snake Nagini. He also co-led the D.A. during his final year in opposition to the DeathEater professors.
Neville Longbottom was born to Frank and Alice Longbottom, a pair of Aurors. Moments after his birth, Neville
was able to adjust his blankets so that he was swaddled more snugly,
but no one witnessed this unusually precocious display of underage
magic. The midwife who attended the birth assumed that his father had
tucked him in more tightly. Neville was born several hours before his classmate, Harry. As
a pure-blood wizard, he was likely related to other wizarding families
such as the Weasleys, Crouches, Potters, and the Blacks. Neville's parents were members of The Order of the Phoenix and in these roles, they defied LordVoldemort at least three times.
Neville was one of two infants referred to in a prophecy made by SybillTrelawney about the person with the power to defeat the Dark Lord. The other was Harry Potter, and it was Harry whom Lord Voldemort targeted making Harry his equal and leading to his first defeat.
Shortly after, a handful of Lord Voldemort's most loyal followers attacked TheLongbottoms. Frank and Alice were tortured into insanity with the CruciatusCurse by Death Eaters Bellatrix Lestrange, her husband Rodolphus Lestrange, her brother-in-law Rabastan Lestrange, and Barty Crouch Jr.
The four Death Eaters were all sentenced to Azkaban for their crimes, while Frank and Alice were sent to St Mungo's Hospital, where they would live the rest of their lives, not being able to recognise their own son. Neville was subsequently raised by his paternal grandmother, Augusta Longbottom. At some point early in his life, he also witnessed the death of his grandfather.
Neville's grandmother was a stern and formidable woman who was concerned when her grandson did not exhibit early signs of magic. Neville
did, however, show faint signs of magic in him throughout his early
years, something which his family persistently missed -the first such
sign took place moments after birth, when Neville managed to magically shift
his blankets more snugly over himself, something which went unnoticed
by midwife who attended his mother. She often chided Neville for not
living up to his family's honour and was partly the reason for Neville's
lack of self-confidence early in his school years.
Neville Longbottom
His relatives feared that Neville
might be a Squib, though this wasdisproved when his great-uncle Algie
was holding him out of awindowby his feet when he was offered some lemon
meringue and let go. Neville
bounced. Previous to this, there were various attempts to make him show
signs of magic, including dropping him off Blackpool pier, where,
according to Neville, he nearly drowned. Neville inherited his father's wand at the age of eleven when he started to attend Hogwarts. This wand was later broken during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. Neville began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. While with his grandmother at platform 9¾, he lost his toad Trevor. Once on the train, he met Hermione Granger, who agreed to help him find his lost toad, and then Harry Potter and Ron Weasley when he entered their compartment tearfully looking for Trevor. After arriving at Hogsmeade Station, Neville managed to retrieve his toad from Rubeus Hagrid. Neville
felt intimidated by Gryffindor's reputation for bravery. During the
Sorting ceremony, he silently argued for a long time to be placed in
Hufflepuff, but the Sorting Hat won in the end, and Sorted him into
Gryffindor. Neville
was so nervous that when the Sorting Hat shouted out his house, he ran
across the Great Hall with the Hat still on his head; he had to return
to the stool to hand the Hat to the next student. On the way to
Gryffindor Tower after the Welcoming Feast, Neville had a bundle of
walking sticks dropped on his head by Peeves the Poltergeist.
During Christmas break, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny learned that Neville'sparentswere
not dead, but patients in St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and
Injuries, having gone insane after being tortured by a group of DeathEaters at
the end of the First Wizarding War. Harry was the only one who already
knew this, having found out in the Pensieve, but he had told no one,
keeping Neville's secret safe. Before
Neville left, his mother handed him an empty Droobles Blowing Gum
wrapper; while his grandmother wanted him to throw it away, Neville
instead pocketed it.
When it was learned that ten DeathEaters escaped from Azkaban, including three of the ones responsible for the torture of Neville's parents, Neville did not speak of it, but it wrought a strange and even slightly alarming change in him, according to Harry. He worked harder than anyone in D.A. meetings, and was the fastest to pick up new spells aside from Hermione.
Neville participated in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower. Along with LunaLovegood, he was the only member of Dumbledore'sArmy to reply to the summons via the coins. Neville stood guard outside the Room of Requirement with Ron and Ginny, waiting for Draco Malfoy, who evaded them by using PeruvianInstant Darkness Powder. Neville suffered an injury that kept him in the hospital wing for some time, though he was able to attend the funeral of Albus Dumbledore shortly afterwards, where Luna helped him into his seat. Lord Voldemort took over the Ministry of Magic. While Muggle-borns were rounded up and Harry, Ron, and Hermione went on the run to search for LordVoldemort's Horcruxes, Neville returned to Hogwarts, and, along with Ginny and Luna, restarted Dumbledore's Army. The D.A. opposed the new headmaster, Severus Snape, and the two new Death Eater professors, Alecto and Amycus Carrow, who taught anti-Muggle propaganda and the Dark Arts. Neville got in trouble with the Carrows for refusing to practise the CruciatusCurse on other students as a method of punishment, as well as for standing up against their bigotry and cruelty. The revived D.A. helped protect fellow students from being bullied by the Death Eater teachers, and generally rebelled against authority, such as writing Dumbledore’s Army, still recruiting on the Hogwarts walls and freeing students from detention.
Neville, Luna and Ginny also attempted to steal Godric Gryffindor's sword
from Snape's office, but were caught on the way out. In his own way to
subvert the Carrows' manner of discipline, Snape only gave them a
detention, sending them into the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid.
Neville eventually decided to cease their open rebellion after Michael Corner was caught and brutally tortured for freeing a chained-up first year.
Neville was eventually left alone to lead the rebellion efforts, as Luna was dragged off the Hogwarts Express by Death Eaters around Christmas to coerce her father into ceasing his political dissidence in The Quibbler, and Ginny did not return to Hogwarts
following the Easter holidays, as her family went into hiding following
Harry, Ron, and Hermione's escape from Malfoy Manor. By this time, the
Carrows were aware of Neville's role in the rebellion, and he suffered beatings and torture. The Ministry also targeted Neville's grandmother to try to intimidate him, but she evaded capture and went on the run.
Neville enthusiastically greeted Harry, Hermione, and Ron, and led them from the Hog's Head into the Room of Requirement. While in the tunnel he explained to the trio the nature of his injuries and the reign of the Carrows at Hogwarts. He also informed the trio that the D.A. had been reinstated and was currently resisting the new regime. Believing
that their return meant the overthrow of the DeathEater professors,
Neville signalled the rest of the D.A. to return to Hogwarts. As
students returned, along with The Order of the Phoenix, Lord Voldemort and
his Death Eater army approached, laying siege to the school in the hopes
of capturing Harry Potter.
Neville, Hermione, Ron & Harry
During the first round of battle, Neville used various plants to attack DeathEaters,
and helped transport the injured and dead when a temporary cease-fire
was called. He briefly spoke to Harry, who told him that it was top
priority to kill Lord Voldemort's snake and Horcrux, Nagini.
When the Death Eaters approached with a dead Harry, Neville stood up in defiance of Lord Voldemort. He was subsequently forced to wear the Sorting Hat as it burned because he refused to join Lord Voldemort. Fortunately, due to Harry's sacrifice, Neville was able to shrug off the Full Body-Bind Curse with relative ease.
Because of his tremendous bravery shown on the battlefield, Neville was able to pull Godric Gryffindor's sword from the burning hat, in the process proving himself a true Gryffindor,
something that was doubted constantly throughout due to his apparently
weak-willed, shy, and bumbling nature. In a single stroke, he carried
out Harry's final order, slaying Nagini, destroying Lord Voldemort's last remaining Horcrux.
Neville subsequently teamed up with Ron Weasley as the defenders of Hogwarts and Death Eaters were forced into the Great Hall and defeated Fenrir Greyback. Also during the Battle Neville duelled Scabior on the Covered Bridge. Scabior fell to his death when the bridge fell down.
Neville witnessed Harry Potter's final defeat of Lord Voldemort and survived the Second Wizarding War.
Neville is an English name originally derived from Norman French for new town.
It was the surname of a noble and a powerful warrior lineage family
prominent in England in the medieval period, as well as the given name
of a Prime Minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain, whose role in
history is controversial.
Neville
Chamberlain is infamous for his policy of appeasing dictator Adolf
Hitler just prior to World War II, which is ironic, considering that Neville Longbottom never faltered in his defiance of Lord Voldemort.
Longbottom is the name of one of the Hobbits' villages at the Shire, known for its best pipe-weed.
Longbottom is a family name around Bristol, where J.K. Rowling spent part of her childhood.
Trevor is Neville Longbottom's pet toad, whom he frequently lost during his first year at Hogwarts. Trevor was a gift from Neville's Great Uncle Algie in recognition of the first time Neville showed magical ability and thus gaining admission to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Eventually, Trevor wandered off and joined the other amphibians in and around the Black Lake. Neville's great uncle Algie used to own Trevor until he gave him to Neville as a gift from him for receiving permission to go to Hogwarts.
Neville Longbottom & Trevor
Neville lost Trevor many times. For example, the first time he came to Hogwarts on the Hogwarts Express, Neville lost Trevor but was soon helped by Hermione Granger who met Harry Potter and Ron Weasley during her search. Neville eventually found Trevor once reaching Hogwarts in one of the boats after Rubeus Hagrid asked Neville about Trevor. Professor Filius Flitwick once made Trevor fly around his Charms classroom to skilfully demonstrate the LevitationCharm. During
the night Harry, Ron and Hermione went to penetrate the Underground
Chambers, the trio left the common room but was confronted by Neville and a croaking Trevor until Hermione froze Neville using the Full Body-Bind Curse. In Neville's third year, Trevor was part of the Frog Choir when they performed Double Trouble. Later on the school year, Professor Severus Snape made Neville test his Shrinking Solution on the toad with the warning that if made incorrectly, it would likely be poisonous. After Trevor drank the potion, he successfully transformed into a tadpole, much to Neville's
delight. However, Professor Snape was displeased and spitefully
deducted five points from Gryffindor because Hermione had helped Neville create the potion. Harry used Trevor to practise the Summoning Charm in his and Neville's fourth year. When Harry encountered Neville in the last carriage of the Hogwarts Express in their fifth year, Neville had a one-handed grip on a struggling Trevor. Later, Neville dumped the toad into Harry's lap so that he could demonstrate the defensive mechanism of his Mimbulus Mimbletonia. This was to Harry's regret when Cho Chang then visited the compartment, as he would not have chosen to be sitting with Neville and Luna Lovegood, clutching a toad and dripping in Stinksap. Trevor made a bid for freedom on the Hogwarts Express, but Neville caught him again. At some point, Trevor escaped into the Lake. Both the pet and the owner felt a sense of relief.
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