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sweetpinkpixie · 07-08-2014, 05:36 AM

Removing his handkerchief from his charmed breast pocket and dabbed his forehead with it. Phew. That certainly had been quite the work out, but his body temperature was already decreasing at a rapid pace thanks to the lack of movement. Bloody winter weather.

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Originally Posted by hermionesclone

Soooooo, using this method of thinking, Grayson raised his hand in the air. "Do you attach something to the balloon and launch it into the sky and let the reader read............ things about the weather in the atmosphere?" It was certainly a guess, alright. A bad one, probably.

"MMMMMMHMMMMMMMMMM," he nodded vigorously towards the Slytheirn. Very round about way for describing the mechanism they would be using today without actually saying its proper name.

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11

Jasmine raised her hand and took a wild stab at answering the question. "Will we be using the balloon to make a barometer, to measure atmospheric pressure?" Was that even possible? Jasmine didn't know, but that was the first thing that came to her mind so she went with it.

"An excellent guess, but no. We will not be making barometers today. Perhaps another day, however."

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Originally Posted by Edward Penguin

Sir, the balloons are used by meteorologists can help them to measure pressure, as was noted but also wind speed and direction along with atmospheric moisture levels as well. It might give indications in the changing conditions which produce unstable air which may cause storms, tornadoes and such. I would expect we'll be attempting something similar.

Yes. YES. There was some very excited nodding going on from the astronomer with Mr. Tinker's answer, but yet again it was another student who was giving him essentially everything but the proper name of the device. "Yes, something like that," he grinned.

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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom

AND, he kind of had an idea where Flamsteed was going with the next question too! Yes, the exercise had DEFINITELY helped him warm up his brain. He raised his hand anxiously. "It'll be used to determine the air pressure or something, right? If the balloon shrinks or gets larger, that means the pressure is affecting the volume of the balloon, which means...something will happen to the weather," he concluded. WHAT that something was, he didn't know, but he was on the right track, he knew that much.

"EXCELLENT application of today's concepts, Mr. Newell," Airey replied while giving the boy some very enthusiastic applause. "While true, this is not exactly what we will be doing today since it is far too dangerous for us to venture outside, say to the Tower Patch, and observe balloons reactions to the temperature and air pressure. Take 2 points for your application of today's concepts to your thinking."

While many others had mentioned similar trains of thought, the Slytherin had been the first to put it into such concise words.

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Adi was impressed with Ian and his answer. His fellow Hufflepuff third year certainly knew his stuff. He was also impressed by Flamsteed and his Fantastic Five comics. He vaguely wondered if the man still had them. Those would be interesting to read.

The third year raised a hand. "We'll use the balloons to measure the atmosphere's pressure,'' he suggested.

"Yes, and much more," he winked at the Hufflepuff.

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Originally Posted by Harry174

Angel raised her hand, "Professor are we going to do some X-ray astronomy, where we will get an item and launch it into the sky, though if we are doing something like that, it's normally best outside for the best results." Angel thought a few second more before continuing. "So basically you tie an object that can help you understand the weather more." Angel wasn't sure if she was right or not but it had been worth a guess.

GAH! Again. Describing essentially the exact device without actually giving the proper name. Although parts of Miss Valentine's logic were a tad off, but over all she was on the right track. "You are certainly on the right track," he grinned towards the Gryffindor. "And it is a a good thing the classroom is full of windows." Windows that actually opened. Although they would have to be VERY quick when dispatching their projects.

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Originally Posted by Hey Ju

However, Agatha didn't because she was normal. She decided to keep quiet again. Besides... she kind of had no idea what to say and didn't want to make a fool of herself.

Airey gave Miss Hapgood a quick wink as his gaze passed over here.

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Originally Posted by Awarlesta Black

Well, the balloon thing as the project was the obvious part, but his classmates were pretty much already blurting out what he was thinking, so just a tiny contribution sounds just about right. "Balloon. Measure. Pressure. Atmosphere." Covered, yeah?

"STELLAR Captain Kirk impression," he saluted the Hufflepuff. Really had those dramatic pauses and disjointed speech down. "Take a point for that."

He didn't even know that the young man knew Star Trek. Kudos!

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Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin

Hmmm then why were they running then if they weren't training for a marathon?? That made no sense. He still kept up with the professor though. He heard the answer and it had to deal with the earth and the atmosphere or troposphere to be precise. He tried to remember it since he didn't have his notebook with him. He then heard the professor's next question. Why are they using the balloon? Hmm....Kace raised his hand sand said, "Perhaps to measure the volume of the balloon?" he guess was just as good as Declan's.

"Close, Mr. Lecium. But not exactly," he nodded towards the Hufflepuff.

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Originally Posted by LilFox06

Ooooh. Fun. Now they were going to play with balloons. Mitchell raised his hands. "We're going to blow up the balloons." With science! "That measures pressure." Probably. "Then you can see where the pieces fall. That measures wind speed." ... probably.

Can they play now?

Airey chuckled. "Well, yes, eventually the balloon will blow up as the gas inside expands more and more as it goes high and high up into the Earth's atmosphere." Seemed like the Gryffindor knew precisely what he was talking about, pity he too had danced around the actual name of the device without saying it.

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Originally Posted by Meizzner

"Are we going to lie like Weather-Man...People do"

Balloons could be there to blow up and send on their way to die in the atmosphere....It was possible.

20 percent chance.

"They don't lie on purpose, Mr. Barrington," he tisked, feeling as though he had to defend his meteorologist colleagues. "They take what data they can from the atmosphere and combine this with computer models, observations, and a knowledge of trends and patterns and do their best to predict the weather. All based on scientific and mathematical inquiry, but with far too many variables to be 100% correct all the time. Far better off than some of the other pseudoscientific hokum out there."

And his eye was twitching just a tad thinking about one subject in particular.

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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

"Are we going to magick the balloon much bigger and go up in it, high enough in the atmosphere until we're able to decipher for ourselves exactly what's going on with the weather?"

"Your balloons have already been magick'd just a little," he winked at the Gryffindor prefect. Something he had taken care of before the lesson. "Instead of being made from flimsy rubber, they have been transfigured into a highly flexible latex material."

The rest of her answer got two very big thumbs up. On the right page, Miss Cambridge!

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

Balloons, hmm? Mo wrinkled his nose thoughtfully as his classmates answered the question... and he agreed. Honestly, it was some sort of measurement of weather, and balloons and air pressure... a barometer was a natch.

But he'd rather play balloon volleyball and continue to warm up. It was cold now that he was seated at his desk again. Hmph.

The professor gave Mr. Branxton a small nod as his gaze moved around the classroom. Attentive listening always appreciated. SALUTE!

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Originally Posted by Emms

Where they going to make their own weather balloons? But they didn't have any barometers or any of that high tech stuff that they needed to complete the job. In that moment, it hit him. OHHH. He knew what they were going to do. "Are we going to make our own barometers, Professor? If so, can we keep them after class?" he asked with a wide grin. Was that right? Because if so, he was definitely going to use his to check the weather outside. But would the balloon last that long in that weather? Who knew.

Was it just him...or did Mr. Simon seem a bit...apprehensive about the balloons. Was that...his fault? Seeing as he had kind of sort of attacked the boy outside his office with a balloon he had forgotten was between his teeth.

Oops.

"Any balloons you do not use during the lesson you may keep and do what you want with," he nodded. The barometer answer had been addressed just a few moments earlier, so no need to repeat that again.

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana

"I vote for what he said," Sophie replied, raising her hand then pointing at her brother. "That right there sounds really good."

"This isn't a democracy, Miss Newell," he laughed.

Looking around for other raised hands but seeing none, the professor decided he better ease their anticipation and curiosity and just tell them. "As many of you alluded to, we will be using the balloons to help us see atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and wind speed. But the balloon can't do all of this on it's own, especially with us stuck inside, so we will be utilizing a device called a radiosonde which is a key element is a device called a weather balloon - which is what we will all be making today," he explained as he gave his desk a firm tap with his wand to reveal a box containing enough of the devices for everyone. "These were donated to me by a colleague and, while a little old...still work. Each of these has a sort of radio device that each of you will hold on to here in the classroom and will receive data transmitted from the radiosonde as the balloon ascends into the atmosphere." He paused for a moment and bounced a bit in place. "The concept of a weather balloons date back to as far as 1785 with French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard, but today they do most of the work for meteorologists with somewhere around 67,160 balloons being launched into the air per year here in the United Kingdom." Craaaaaaaaaaaaaazy.

"You will not be blowing these balloons up using air expelled from your own lungs. In order to produce the proper amount of lift necessary to send your weather balloon into the atmosphere we will be using the second lightest element, even lighter than air, helium. To do this, you will need to try your hand at a bit of conjuration," he continued as he selected another balloon from his bag. "Under classmen, you may struggle with this due to conjuration being advanced magic. So please DO ask an older student or myself for assistance if it is needed. Now, you are going to take your balloon and stick the open end over your wand like so," he said while demonstrating. "With your non-wand hand, you want to hold on to the opening of the balloon or else it will go shooting off when you cast the spell. The incantation is helic umtus and you only need to give your wand the slightest of flicks. Watch me first."

Moving his legs shoulders length apart and rolled his shoulders a few more times. Last time he had been a bit over eager with the spell and it had shot him across his office and into one of his bookshelves. No need to tell the students that, however. He was supposed to be the man who knew what he was doing.

"Helic umtus," he said firmly, giving his wand a very subtle flick. The red balloon instantly began to expand and stretch until it was the size of a watermelon and getting bigger by the second. "Now, to stop the spell you need only cast Finite and the helium should cease coming out of your wand. Once you have your balloon to about....oh....a large watermelon you can stop the spell and then carefully remove it from the tip of your wand and tie it off. Once you have done that, please come up here and get your device and attach it to the balloon and wait for further instructions."

He was going to wait for a moment to let all that sink in as he turned his back to the class and walked towards the chalk board to write the incantation on the board...only to notice that his balloon was a taaaaaaaaaaad too large. Well, not really a tad. It was WAY too large. Removing it from the tip of his wand, the astronomer inhaled some of the helium for effect, wrote the incantation on the board and turned back to the class.

"You have about 30 minutes to practice the spell and get your weather balloon put together," he said in a voice reminiscent to that of a hyperactive animated chipmunk. "Time starts.....NOW!"

OOC: you have about 36 hours from the time of this post to complete this activity (depending on your activity this may go shorter or longer ) and should have at least 2 RP posts. In your posts you should accomplish the following:
successfully cast helic umtus

retrieve a radiosonde from Professor Flamsteed's desk

attach the radiosonde to your balloon (use this image to give you an idea of how that is done)

Keep in mind that conjuration is very difficult to perform and very advanced magic. It is OKAY for your character to fail at the spell or cause mild disasters Just don't do anything to get someone killed or seriously injured and we are good to go <3

Feel free to interact with each other - especially older students helping out the younger ones. Smack each other in the face with balloons. Blast each other with helium on accident. SQUEAKY VOICES FOR EVERYONE?! Just have fun with it :3

Any questions you may have, please do not hesitate to ask me via PM or VM

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sweetpinkpixie Wizarding World RPG Admin Minister for Magic Alley Proprietor Leprechaun Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: The Paths Posts: 40,105 Hogwarts RPG Name: Briallen Ashburry-Hawthorne Gryffindor First Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Nyle Harden Hufflepuff Second Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Iris Harden Ravenclaw Second Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Calliope Barrington Slytherin First Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Diamond Marchbanks Gryffindor Sixth Year Ministry Department Head: Charles Hollingberry Minister's Office Ministry Department Head: Airey Flamsteed Mysteries Diagon Alley Proprietor: Zachaël Lufkin Owl Post x12 x12	astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK \| & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf Removing his handkerchief from his charmed breast pocket and dabbed his forehead with it. Phew. That certainly had been quite the work out, but his body temperature was already decreasing at a rapid pace thanks to the lack of movement. Bloody winter weather. Quote: Originally Posted by hermionesclone Soooooo, using this method of thinking, Grayson raised his hand in the air. "Do you attach something to the balloon and launch it into the sky and let the reader read............ things about the weather in the atmosphere?" It was certainly a guess, alright. A bad one, probably. "MMMMMMHMMMMMMMMMM," he nodded vigorously towards the Slytheirn. Very round about way for describing the mechanism they would be using today without actually saying its proper name. Quote: Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 Jasmine raised her hand and took a wild stab at answering the question. "Will we be using the balloon to make a barometer, to measure atmospheric pressure?" Was that even possible? Jasmine didn't know, but that was the first thing that came to her mind so she went with it. "An excellent guess, but no. We will not be making barometers today. Perhaps another day, however." Quote: Originally Posted by Edward Penguin Sir, the balloons are used by meteorologists can help them to measure pressure, as was noted but also wind speed and direction along with atmospheric moisture levels as well. It might give indications in the changing conditions which produce unstable air which may cause storms, tornadoes and such. I would expect we'll be attempting something similar. Yes. YES. There was some very excited nodding going on from the astronomer with Mr. Tinker's answer, but yet again it was another student who was giving him essentially everything but the proper name of the device. "Yes, something like that," he grinned. Quote: Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom AND, he kind of had an idea where Flamsteed was going with the next question too! Yes, the exercise had DEFINITELY helped him warm up his brain. He raised his hand anxiously. "It'll be used to determine the air pressure or something, right? If the balloon shrinks or gets larger, that means the pressure is affecting the volume of the balloon, which means...something will happen to the weather," he concluded. WHAT that something was, he didn't know, but he was on the right track, he knew that much. "EXCELLENT application of today's concepts, Mr. Newell," Airey replied while giving the boy some very enthusiastic applause. "While true, this is not exactly what we will be doing today since it is far too dangerous for us to venture outside, say to the Tower Patch, and observe balloons reactions to the temperature and air pressure. Take 2 points for your application of today's concepts to your thinking." While many others had mentioned similar trains of thought, the Slytherin had been the first to put it into such concise words. Quote: Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Adi was impressed with Ian and his answer. His fellow Hufflepuff third year certainly knew his stuff. He was also impressed by Flamsteed and his Fantastic Five comics. He vaguely wondered if the man still had them. Those would be interesting to read. The third year raised a hand. "We'll use the balloons to measure the atmosphere's pressure,'' he suggested. "Yes, and much more," he winked at the Hufflepuff. Quote: Originally Posted by Harry174 Angel raised her hand, "Professor are we going to do some X-ray astronomy, where we will get an item and launch it into the sky, though if we are doing something like that, it's normally best outside for the best results." Angel thought a few second more before continuing. "So basically you tie an object that can help you understand the weather more." Angel wasn't sure if she was right or not but it had been worth a guess. GAH! Again. Describing essentially the exact device without actually giving the proper name. Although parts of Miss Valentine's logic were a tad off, but over all she was on the right track. "You are certainly on the right track," he grinned towards the Gryffindor. "And it is a a good thing the classroom is full of windows." Windows that actually opened. Although they would have to be VERY quick when dispatching their projects. Quote: Originally Posted by Hey Ju However, Agatha didn't because she was normal. She decided to keep quiet again. Besides... she kind of had no idea what to say and didn't want to make a fool of herself. Airey gave Miss Hapgood a quick wink as his gaze passed over here. Quote: Originally Posted by Awarlesta Black Well, the balloon thing as the project was the obvious part, but his classmates were pretty much already blurting out what he was thinking, so just a tiny contribution sounds just about right. "Balloon. Measure. Pressure. Atmosphere." Covered, yeah? "STELLAR Captain Kirk impression," he saluted the Hufflepuff. Really had those dramatic pauses and disjointed speech down. "Take a point for that." He didn't even know that the young man knew Star Trek. Kudos! Quote: Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin Hmmm then why were they running then if they weren't training for a marathon?? That made no sense. He still kept up with the professor though. He heard the answer and it had to deal with the earth and the atmosphere or troposphere to be precise. He tried to remember it since he didn't have his notebook with him. He then heard the professor's next question. Why are they using the balloon? Hmm....Kace raised his hand sand said, "Perhaps to measure the volume of the balloon?" he guess was just as good as Declan's. "Close, Mr. Lecium. But not exactly," he nodded towards the Hufflepuff. Quote: Originally Posted by LilFox06 Ooooh. Fun. Now they were going to play with balloons. Mitchell raised his hands. "We're going to blow up the balloons." With science! "That measures pressure." Probably. "Then you can see where the pieces fall. That measures wind speed." ... probably. Can they play now? Airey chuckled. "Well, yes, eventually the balloon will blow up as the gas inside expands more and more as it goes high and high up into the Earth's atmosphere." Seemed like the Gryffindor knew precisely what he was talking about, pity he too had danced around the actual name of the device without saying it. Quote: Originally Posted by Meizzner "Are we going to lie like Weather-Man...People do" Balloons could be there to blow up and send on their way to die in the atmosphere....It was possible. 20 percent chance. "They don't lie on purpose, Mr. Barrington," he tisked, feeling as though he had to defend his meteorologist colleagues. "They take what data they can from the atmosphere and combine this with computer models, observations, and a knowledge of trends and patterns and do their best to predict the weather. All based on scientific and mathematical inquiry, but with far too many variables to be 100% correct all the time. Far better off than some of the other pseudoscientific hokum out there." And his eye was twitching just a tad thinking about one subject in particular. Quote: Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo "Are we going to magick the balloon much bigger and go up in it, high enough in the atmosphere until we're able to decipher for ourselves exactly what's going on with the weather?" "Your balloons have already been magick'd just a little," he winked at the Gryffindor prefect. Something he had taken care of before the lesson. "Instead of being made from flimsy rubber, they have been transfigured into a highly flexible latex material." The rest of her answer got two very big thumbs up. On the right page, Miss Cambridge! Quote: Originally Posted by Cassirin Balloons, hmm? Mo wrinkled his nose thoughtfully as his classmates answered the question... and he agreed. Honestly, it was some sort of measurement of weather, and balloons and air pressure... a barometer was a natch. But he'd rather play balloon volleyball and continue to warm up. It was cold now that he was seated at his desk again. Hmph. The professor gave Mr. Branxton a small nod as his gaze moved around the classroom. Attentive listening always appreciated. SALUTE! Quote: Originally Posted by Emms Where they going to make their own weather balloons? But they didn't have any barometers or any of that high tech stuff that they needed to complete the job. In that moment, it hit him. OHHH. He knew what they were going to do. "Are we going to make our own barometers, Professor? If so, can we keep them after class?" he asked with a wide grin. Was that right? Because if so, he was definitely going to use his to check the weather outside. But would the balloon last that long in that weather? Who knew. Was it just him...or did Mr. Simon seem a bit...apprehensive about the balloons. Was that...his fault? Seeing as he had kind of sort of attacked the boy outside his office with a balloon he had forgotten was between his teeth. Oops. "Any balloons you do not use during the lesson you may keep and do what you want with," he nodded. The barometer answer had been addressed just a few moments earlier, so no need to repeat that again. Quote: Originally Posted by Anna Banana "I vote for what he said," Sophie replied, raising her hand then pointing at her brother. "That right there sounds really good." "This isn't a democracy, Miss Newell," he laughed. Looking around for other raised hands but seeing none, the professor decided he better ease their anticipation and curiosity and just tell them. "As many of you alluded to, we will be using the balloons to help us see atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and wind speed. But the balloon can't do all of this on it's own, especially with us stuck inside, so we will be utilizing a device called a radiosonde which is a key element is a device called a weather balloon - which is what we will all be making today," he explained as he gave his desk a firm tap with his wand to reveal a box containing enough of the devices for everyone. "These were donated to me by a colleague and, while a little old...still work. Each of these has a sort of radio device that each of you will hold on to here in the classroom and will receive data transmitted from the radiosonde as the balloon ascends into the atmosphere." He paused for a moment and bounced a bit in place. "The concept of a weather balloons date back to as far as 1785 with French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard, but today they do most of the work for meteorologists with somewhere around 67,160 balloons being launched into the air per year here in the United Kingdom." Craaaaaaaaaaaaaazy. "You will not be blowing these balloons up using air expelled from your own lungs. In order to produce the proper amount of lift necessary to send your weather balloon into the atmosphere we will be using the second lightest element, even lighter than air, helium. To do this, you will need to try your hand at a bit of conjuration," he continued as he selected another balloon from his bag. "Under classmen, you may struggle with this due to conjuration being advanced magic. So please DO ask an older student or myself for assistance if it is needed. Now, you are going to take your balloon and stick the open end over your wand like so," he said while demonstrating. "With your non-wand hand, you want to hold on to the opening of the balloon or else it will go shooting off when you cast the spell. The incantation is helic umtus and you only need to give your wand the slightest of flicks. Watch me first." Moving his legs shoulders length apart and rolled his shoulders a few more times. Last time he had been a bit over eager with the spell and it had shot him across his office and into one of his bookshelves. No need to tell the students that, however. He was supposed to be the man who knew what he was doing. "Helic umtus," he said firmly, giving his wand a very subtle flick. The red balloon instantly began to expand and stretch until it was the size of a watermelon and getting bigger by the second. "Now, to stop the spell you need only cast Finite and the helium should cease coming out of your wand. Once you have your balloon to about....oh....a large watermelon you can stop the spell and then carefully remove it from the tip of your wand and tie it off. Once you have done that, please come up here and get your device and attach it to the balloon and wait for further instructions." He was going to wait for a moment to let all that sink in as he turned his back to the class and walked towards the chalk board to write the incantation on the board...only to notice that his balloon was a taaaaaaaaaaad too large. Well, not really a tad. It was WAY too large. Removing it from the tip of his wand, the astronomer inhaled some of the helium for effect, wrote the incantation on the board and turned back to the class. "You have about 30 minutes to practice the spell and get your weather balloon put together," he said in a voice reminiscent to that of a hyperactive animated chipmunk. "Time starts.....NOW!" OOC: you have about 36 hours from the time of this post to complete this activity (depending on your activity this may go shorter or longer ) and should have at least 2 RP posts. In your posts you should accomplish the following: successfully cast helic umtus retrieve a radiosonde from Professor Flamsteed's desk attach the radiosonde to your balloon (use this image to give you an idea of how that is done) Keep in mind that conjuration is very difficult to perform and very advanced magic. It is OKAY for your character to fail at the spell or cause mild disasters Just don't do anything to get someone killed or seriously injured and we are good to go <3 Feel free to interact with each other - especially older students helping out the younger ones. Smack each other in the face with balloons. Blast each other with helium on accident. SQUEAKY VOICES FOR EVERYONE?! Just have fun with it :3 Any questions you may have, please do not hesitate to ask me via PM or VM __________________ When you're stuck in a moment and your spark has been stolen .................................................. ........... this is our time to own it, so own it..................................... baby we were born with fire and gold in our eyes