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Vietnam Solar Serve is an organization of volunteers that promotes solar cooking in Vietnam.
Many people in Vietnam still depend on coal, straw, leaves or wood for cooking. Open fires contribute to air pollution and cause lung and eye diseases owing to people spending time in hot and smoky kitchens. This traditional cooking method also compels women and children to walk for hours each day to find wood for daily cooking.
Vietnam receives 1400-2000 hours of sunshine per year in the north and 2000-3000 hours per year in the central and southern part, but not many people take advantage of solar energy for daily cooking. Only one basic solar cooker is needed to save lives, money, time and even the environment
Since 2000, simple solar cookers for cooking food have been introduced by Solar Serve in Vietnam. 1500 families (updated 2008) have been provided and almost 79% are using these solar cookers frequently. People have been able to save money, time and even improve their health.
Over the years, local people have progressively adopted solar cooking as an alternative cooking method. Therefore Solar Serve hopes to benefit more people in cooking with free solar energy in the coming years.
News and recent developments
- April 2013: Solar Serve News #36 Climate change affected Vietnam a few weeks ago when over 10,000 houses were damaged and at least 26 people were injured during a hail storm in the northern Lao Cai province. Hail may fall during the transitional period between dry and wet seasons, but hailstones measuring up to 10 cm in diameter are very rare. It reminded us again that we as Solar Serve should make products in order to protect the environment and also, when a disaster hits the country, we can provide simple and effective solutions. For example: What can be used when there is no water, gas, electricity or other necessities after a disaster? Please share with us your ideas too and we will be happy to think it over.
- April 2013: We made a new brochure before we attended the Clean Cooking Forum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from March 18-22. We will inform you later in our newsletter about the event, but for now we invite you to have a look at our new folder.
- January 2013: Solar Serve News #35 We made more solar cookers and improved some models. We also finished the 150 clean stoves. Our staff left at four o'clock in the morning our Center to two villages near the ancient city of Hue. The truck was fully loaded and people were already waiting for them. After explaining the benefits and usage of the stoves to the people and farmers, the local authorities were able to hand out the stoves. They were sponsored by a organisation involved in health, gender and climate programs. A great way to help people. People were so thankful. Not long after we received another order and felt that the clean stoves are a good replacement, when it is raining and a solar cannot be used. The weight is 4 kg and the cost is reasonable (around 25 US dollars). This is a great way for organizations to help poor people in cooking clean, protecting their health and the environment, and also save money in fuel costs.
- November 2012: Since 1997 we have been testing our solar cookers. During the summer months the use of solar cookers is for many people a blessing. But after all those years there was still one major question: "But when it's raining, what do we do?" The main answer was to encourage people to return to their old way of cooking, but it never satisfied us. In 2007, during an exhibition in Nepal they showed us several clean cooking stoves. We talked with some people about their benefits. Was this the answer to the above question and a good alternative? After several years of researching and asking around, finally in 2011, we came up with our own model. It worked so well, that local farmers near Hue city (Vietnam) became very interested. In November 2012 we made 170 clean cooking stoves for them and when they received them they were very excited. So, it became a great alternative when there is no sun! Watch this short video clip!
- October 2012: Vietnam Solar Serve News No. 34 Vietnam Solar Serve explains how they have incorporated clean cookstoves with solar cooking to better serve local cooks. Till now it has been a good year for us and we are excited for the new things to come. In our 34th newsletter we mainly tell about our new challenge and show you some pictures, besides our ongoing solar cooker projects.
- August 2012: A team of three French students came to visit our Solar Serve Center. They had organized a "Global Universities' Social Trip" (GUST), a project, that aimed to raise students' awareness of social entrepreneurship in Asia. For six months they met many social entrepreneurs throughout Asia, who worked on problems such as energy, communication, waste, water, housing... and made videos that presented the entrepreneurs' projects, the social issues they wanted to solve and the challenges they had to overcome. Here is the video (click on picture) they made on their visit to our Solar Serve Center in Danang. For more information on the Gust Project, visit the: Gust project or visit the: Vimeo Channel
- July 2012: Solar Serve News #33 After winning the CSIP award in 2011, a lot of things changed and a whole new scale of support and advice came together with it. A consultant encouraged us to design a new cooker which can be used for boiling water. This seems to be the greatest need at the moment. As a result we redesigned several models and will test them in the coming months.
- April 2012: Solar Serve News #32
- April 2012: Vietnam Solar Serve has provided a recent video tour of their production facility in Da Nang, Vietnam. The resourceful group has been adapting solar cooker designs from other countries and developing their own solar energy products. Looking at the larger alternative energy picture, they also promote photovoltaic panels made in Vietnam and are working on designs for water and wind power turbines. They manufacture a variety of solar cookers including parabolic and box cookers.
- October 2011: Solar Serve News #31
- September 2011: Vietnam Solar Serve was introduced to a Social Entrepreneurs Support Program. Their aim was to identify and support social entrepreneurs at their early stages of development. Mr Bich, the director, felt to participate in this program along with 200 other entrepreneurs in Vietnam. There were three rounds. In each round participants dropped out and finally Bich had to stand in front of a panel. The result was made known on the first of September. Amazingly, mr Bich was at the top of the list and was chosen as the best social entrepreneur. It came along with 20,000 dollars worth as seed money to strengthen and to develop Solar Serve.
- August 2011: Vietnam Solar Serve provided a restaurant in Hoi An with a parabolic solar cooker. Immediately it caught the attention of the neighbors and tourists. Near this restaurant on Cam Nam Island, They decided on World Environment day (June 5th) to help several families with new parabolic cookers. All of them were very happy, and now a small solar village with twenty cookers has been established. They hope this will really benefit more families.
- July 2011: Vietnam Solar Serve has been recently contacted by a tourist agency in southern Vietnam. They are seriously thinking about establishing several solar villages. They asked Solar Serve if they could help them with solar cooking portion of the project. Several years ago VSS provided a small village near Marble Mountains with many solar cookers. It attracted many people and several reports were written in the newspapers. Due to government development plans however, this village has been recently removed.
- July 2011: Solar Serve News #30
- April 2011: Solar Serve News #29
- January 2011: Solar Serve News #28
- October 2010: Solar Serve News #27
- July 2010: Solar Serve News #26
- June 2010: Slideshow - World Environment Day in Danang - 05-06-2010
- April 2010: Solar Serve News #25
- January 2010: Solar Serve News #24
- December 2009: Carbon Footprints by Sam Miller - Pages 26-27 of Live Hoi An Magazine
- October 2009: Solar Serve News #23
- July 2009: With assistance from donors and the help of many
- July 2009: Solar Serve News #22
- May 2009: Solar Serve fliers for printing - English - Vietnamese - Dutch
- May 2009: Cooking with the Sun. We found this video clip a few days ago. It was made by Surpreme Master Tv It covers our work from 2000 to 2005.
- April 2009: Solar Serve and the University of Danang received two awards in the 14th Creative Awards for Science and Technology Vietnam. Ceremony broadcast on Vietnamese national television.
- April 2009: Solar Serve News #21
- February 2009: Villagers go solar - Tuoi Tre
- October 2008: Solar Serve News #20
- October 2008:There is nothing new under the Sun. When you watched the Olympic Games you could see that in the ancient times a parabolic shaped bowl was used to light the Olympic torch. We are using the same principles in catching the fire. First we did it with our basket cooker, but changed it into a wooden one and now we make the cooker from aluminum. Also our parabolic cooker made progress and now we are able to make it in four parts. At the moment we are building a new community cooker. Our staff made an amazing clock from bicycle parts and now an impressive framework stands in front of the center. Yes, there is nothing new under the Sun, but it feels great when you are able to create something (like) new.
- August 2008: We received a telephone call from the University asking if we could help the people in Quang Tri, a province almost 300 km north of Danang. Our staff explored the area and they noticed that there were many trees in the countryside which could prevent people in using the solar cookers. But most of the families had an open area in front of their houses. During the dry season it is very hot in this province, so it is a good place for solar cooking. We decided to help more then 40 families with 30 box cookers and 10 parabolic cookers and next year we will help others near the border of Laos. We had to transport all the cookers by truck and after some education the families received their first cookers. They were very happy!
- July 2008: Solar Serve News #19
- July 2008: This year we are still in the news after we started our project in Hoa Quy village near our center. We provided many box and parabolic cookers for the local people (see also May 2008). Our desire is to make this village a solar cooking model for the whole region and even Vietnam. A combination of box cookers and parabolic cookers seems to be very successful. Last Saturday a TV station showed a 25 min documentary about this village. Even reporters are checking it out by themselves and find out that the people love it and are using the cookers daily when there is sunshine. Last week we got a telephone call from an official of the Environment department from North Vietnam. He has been visiting this village by himself too and was very excited. The solar cookers could stand the test.
- June 2008: On June 15th we decided to dedicate our new Solar Serve Center. We had a great time of celebration with at least 120 people together. We told the history of the building, showed a short power point presentation and thanked the people who have stood with us during this time. After that we had a wonderful meal prepared by our staff and other volunteers. Many people expressed their excitement and some of them believed that the building will soon be too small for all the work that will be in store.
- May 2008: In cooperation with the Danang University we have established a village near our Solar Serve center to become the first solar cooking village in Vietnam. We provided at least 50 box cookers and 20 parabolic cookers in the last few weeks and hope to add more in order to establish a good model. The locals loved it. They are using the solar cookers by themsleves and do not need our help anymore. Articles in national and local newspaper appeared and there was also a short TV report on local TV.
- April 2008: Solar Serve News #18
- April 2008: In our last newsletter we told you that we finished the foundation of the building. We felt that the factory was just a part of the building, so we renamed it Solar Serve Center. After the walls and pillars were built and the second floor was laid, things happened fast and if you see the pictures, maybe you will not believe your eyes. It's wonderful and so exciting. We made an agreement with the contractor to finish the construction work within 6 months. That will bring us almost to the end of May.
- March 2008: In early 2007 the non-profit Solar Serve (SLS) organization was prematurely evicted from its solar cooker factory in Tamky. Though unfortunate, the incident created an opportunity to move the factory to Da Nang, which is more suitable for transport, materials acquisition, marketing, and access to labor. A search for a suitable building was unfruitful, and the financially difficult decision was made to purchase land for a new factory. In August, SLS acquired a 420-square-meter tract of land big enough for a factory and additional space for research and storage. It is located behind the Marble Mountains area, along the beach and the new road to Hoi An. SLS worked with an architect to design the building, which will house the factory on the first floor, and a show room and training rooms on the second floor.
- January 2008: Solar Serve News #17
- October 2007: Solar Serve News #16 *July 2007: In partnership with Dutch organization Solar Cooker Workgroup Sliedrecht NL, Vietnam Solar Serve (SLS) has developed a new solar box cooker for use in Vietnam. The previous SLS solar box cooker is made from wood, which is increasing difficult to purchase in Vietnam. The new cooker is made from aluminum sheets that are shaped using two molds, one for the inner box and one for the outer box.
- July 2007: Solar Serve News #15
- April 2007: Solar Serve News #14
- January 2007: Solar Serve News #13
- November 2006: This year, the[Vietnam Solar Serve organization has been introducing solar cookers to the Raglai minority south of Phan Rang. Many Raglai cut and sell firewood for a living, and were a little hesitant to try solar cooking. They warmed to the idea over time. Solar Serve organized workshops, trained a person to conduct follow-up house visits, and ultimately provided 100 solar box cookers and 30 concentrator-type solar cookers to the community. One kind Vietnamese donor provided funds for 20 of the solar cookers. To celebrate International Environment Day, 70 Raglai solar cooked a feast of fish, beef, vegetables, rice, and curry for dozens of people, including some local authorities. Contact: Nguyen Tan Bich
- October 2006: Solar Serve News #12
- July 2006: Solar Serve News #11
- April 2006: Solar Serve News #10
- November 2005: The Vietnam Solar Serve organization reports overwhelming response to a nationally broadcast television documentary of their work promoting solar cookers around Da Nang, including many requests to bring solar cooking to southern areas of the country. As a result, Solar Serve conducted several workshops in Phan Rang, an area that is "like a desert. Hot, dry and sandy." Water contamination is rampant, according to Vietnam Solar Serve. "There is no clean water available but dirty river water has been pumped into an open drain system. Every day people are using this water for cooking, drinking and washing." High levels of illiteracy forced the Solar Serve staff to be creative in their workshops, in which participants ultimately assembled 100 solar box cookers and several parabolic cookers. A two-day celebration at the end of the workshops drew over 100 people, who feasted on solar-cooked fish, beef, curry, vegetables and rice.
- October 2005: Solar Serve News #9
- July 2005: Solar Serve News #8
- April 2005: Solar Serve News #7
- January 2005: Solar Serve News #6
- October 2004: Solar Serve News #5
- July 2004: Solar Serve News #4
- April 2004: Solar Serve News #3
- January 2004: Solar Serve News #2
- October 2003: Solar Serve News #1
Design and manufacturing
- Box cookers: In partnership with Dutch organization Solar Cooker Workgroup Sliedrecht NL, we have developed a new lightweight solar box cooker for use in Vietnam. The previous SLS solar box cooker was made from wood, which was increasing difficult to purchase in Vietnam. The new cooker is made from aluminum sheets that are shaped using two molds, one for the inner box and one for the outer box. It weights only 12 kg.See also: Solar Serve box cooker-
|Two molds are used for the inner and outer box of the new solar box cooker
- Parabolic cookers: Besides making our present parabolic cooker, we have been asked to design a parabolic cooker easy for transport. We used the same mold of our present parabolic cooker (1.30m) and divided it in four parts. It took some time, but we came up with the cooker you see in the pictures below. We also made the stand foldable. The new four-part parabolic cooker is working well and weights only 23 kg. It fits in 100 x 80 x 20 cm carton boxes, which is good for transport. The deaf workers were very excited when we got some orders from Canada and Holland. See also: Solar Serve parabolic cooker-
|Parabolic disc in four parts. A foldable stand. Weight: 23 kg. Fits in a 100 x 80 20 cm carton box
- Box cookers and parabolic cookers are available upon request.
- History- Brief Solar Serve history in pictures
Photo gallery
- Photo gallery- Solar Serve photo gallery
Audio and video
- YouTube - Solar Serve's YouTube channel
- Solar Serve Video clips- Solar Serve video clips
Solar Serve publications
- Solar Serve News- Solar Serve Newsletters
- English - Vietnamese - Dutch - Solar Serve fliers for printing
Solar Serve web site
- Vietnam Solar Serve- Vietnam Solar Serve
External links
- March 2008: Reducing black carbon - Solar Serve and Solar Cookers Internatinal - Global warning video clip
- June 2007: 1,200 solar energy cookers for remote areas - Peoples Army Daily
- April 2007: VN-Video 1, VN-Video 2, VN-Video 3, VN-Video 4, VN-Video 5- Vietnamese video clips
- July 2006: An audio interview with Solar Serve director Nguyen Tan Bich discussing the work of his group
- November 2005: Unlikely partners develop solar cooker for the poor - VietNamNet Bridge
- May 2005:More locals in central Vietnam exposed to solar cookers - Thanh Nien Daily
- Vietnam: Vietnam
Nguyen Tan Bich
Solar Serve Center
Lo 24-26 - Duong Dong Hai 6
Phuong Hoa Hai, Quan Ngu Hanh Son
Danang City, Vietnam
Tel: +84 0511 - 3 967 108
Mobile: 0919 511 552
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Web site: http://www.vietnamsolarserve.org


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Help, looking for gimp tutorials or information
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There are some good tutorials on youtube as well, that's mostly how I have been teaching myself gimp. But I just look one up when I want to do something but don't know how. Like when I wanted to do a sunburst effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKlICU0Egcc or when I wanted to do pushed in text https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1K3L7RdbKw . But it depends how much a beginner you are. You might try Gimptricks channel https://www.youtube.com/user/GIMPtricks?feature= I learned how to use the align button there.


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Fire Seeds are seeds off of the fire seed bush. They are used in certain potions. In order to be collected, the seeds must be cooled down. The fastest way of doing this is using the Glacius Charm, although if one waits for a moment, the seed's temperature will lower until they can be collected. Hagrid used these seeds to maintain the temperature of his fire high while breeding out his baby dragon, Norberta.
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Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore was the Head Of Gryffindor House, Transfiguration Professor, and Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. (c. 1845-1997) He is the one of the most powerful wizards of his times.
Early Life
Little is known about Dumbledore's early life. According to sources, he was born in the 1840s, and most probably 1845. His only known sibling, a brother named Aberforth, was also a member of the Order of the Phoenix, and was prosecuted in the Wizengamot for "practising inappropriate charms on a goat". Aberforth is currently the bartender at the Hog's Head in Hogsmeade [1].
Albus Dumbledore began his education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1938, and was placed in Gryffindor. His extraordinary magical talents were apparent from an early age, as later described by the elderly Griselda Marchbanks, Head of the Wizarding Examinations Authority, who personally examined the school-age Dumbledore for his N.E.W.T.s in Charms and Transfiguration. Marchbanks recalls that the young, talented Dumbledore had "done things with a wand I'd never seen before."[HP5]
An unknown time after his graduation, Dumbledore returned to the school as Professor of Transfiguration. He later also became Deputy Headmaster, in which capacity he also served in recruiting students for the school. Most prominent among his student recruited by Dumbledore is Tom Riddle, later known as Lord Voldemort.
In 1945 Dumbledore defeated the Dark Wizard Grindelwald. In the course of his life, he was appointed Headmaster of Hogwarts. He became the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot and Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards. Dumbledore refused the position of Minister for Magic at least four times (he was requested for the office before Fudge came to power).
His card also states that he, along with Nicholas Flamel, discovered 12 uses of dragon blood.
He was removed from these posts during his conflict with the British Ministry of Magic under Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge, but was reinstated when the Ministry was forced to concede that he had correctly warned that Voldemort had returned. He holds the Order of Merlin, First Class, for Grand Sorcery.
Accomplishments and skills
Dumbledore is famous as an alchemist who has worked with Nicolas Flamel, the only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone, and is credited with discovering the twelve uses of dragon's blood. He is known to be able to conjure Gubraithian Fire (magical everlasting fire). He is also capable of conjuring a Patronus, one that takes the form of a [phoenix]].
His weapon of choice seems to be fire. In his duel against Voldemort he used a fiery rope; when he displayed his Wizarding powers to young Tom Riddle, he did so by setting Riddle's wardrobe on fire; in the Cave he also used fire to hold off the Inferi. Dumbledore has devised a method of sending messages using a Patronus Charm, a skill he has taught only to members of the Order of the Phoenix. He has claimed to be able to become invisible without using an Invisibility Cloak. Dumbledore is also skilled in Occlumency and Legilimency.
Dumbledore places great emphasis on memories; he uses them both as a weapon and as a means of research. He uses his Pensieve to show Harry many people's memories that he has collected about the history of Tom Riddle and how he became Lord Voldemort, as well as the events leading up to the creation of the Horcruxes. Also Harry stumbles across the Pensieve for the first time. This is where Dumbledore first explains it to Harry and how it works.
Dumbledore can speak Mermish, the language of the Merpeople,[HP4] as well as a number of other languages. He can recognise Parseltongue, the language of snakes, as he demonstrates while he and Harry are inside Bob Ogden's memory; he is able to quote verbatim a Parseltongue phrase uttered by Morfin Gaunt in a later memory.[HP6]
However, Dumbledore sometimes seems the opposite of reckless. He often hesitates to act until he is certain: for example, allowing Snape to return unchallenged and teach at Hogwarts.
While he is by no means vain, Dumbledore also exhibits no false modesty, readily acknowledging that he is unusually intelligent and an exceptionally powerful wizard. He admits a number of times to Harry Potter in their occasional meetings in the sixth Harry Potter book of the series that he makes mistakes, and since he is rather more clever than most men his mistakes tend to be "correspondingly huger".
Dumbledore is a tall and thin, with long silver hair and a long beard. He has blue eyes, a very long and crooked nose (looking as if it had been broken at least twice) and long fingers. He wears half-moon spectacles. He once claimed to have a scar above his left knee, of which provenance is unknown, in the shape of a map of the London Underground.
Considered the most powerful wizard in the world, Dumbledore is benevolent and eccentric, an archetypal good wizard in the style of Merlin. It is said that he is the only wizard Lord Voldemort ever feared.
Dumbledore's Chocolate Frog card mentions that he enjoys chamber music and ten-pin bowling. The card also reveals that he has a great affinity for sweets, magical and non-magical, and frequently sets the password for the gargoyle statue guarding his office door to be the name of various sweets. He told Professor McGonagall in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone that he is rather fond of sherbert lemons. He dislikes Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans after coming across a vomit flavoured bean 'in his youth'. He is a fan of knitting patterns and once told Harry that one could never have enough woollen socks. His favourite flavour of jam is raspberry.
While he had been repeatedly offered the post of the Minister of Magic, he had firmly refused to leave Hogwarts.
Dumbledore was murdered by Severus Snape in Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts. J. K. Rowling confirmed this at a charity reading on August 2, 2006. (Although there is a small but out-spoken group of fans who dispute his death.) He is survived by his brother, Aberforth Dumbledore.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry
Dumbledore began his career at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as a teacher in the subject of Transfiguration. His students over the years included Tom Riddle, later known as Lord Voldemort, and Rubeus Hagrid.
Dumbledore's final years at Hogwarts were rocky due to political circumstances.
The death of a student Cedric Diggory during the Triwizard Tournament compelled Dumbledore to announce the return of Lord Voldemort. The news of Lord Voldemort's return was not well received and Dumbledore was removed from the position of Headmaster and forced into hiding. The position of Headmaster was then temporarily held by Dolores Umbridge. In due course, Dumbledore was taken seriously and reinstated as Headmaster only for the Second War to break out in Britain.
The Order of the Phoenix
Dumbledore has been credited as the founder of the Order of the Phoenix to combat the army and chaos created by Lord Voldemort. He was known to be a strong leader and significant contributor to the fight against Voldemort until his untimely demise.
The notable among his members included the Weasleys, the Longbottoms, the Potters, Severus Snape, Alastor Moody and Sirius Black.
Dumbledore and Harry Potter
It was Dumbledore who arranged for the infant Harry Potter to be rescued from the cottage at Godric's Hollow where Harry's parents had been murdered. He then left Harry in the care of Harry's Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon in Surrey. Throughout Harry's years at Hogwarts, Dumbledore provides Harry with protection and guidance, and supplements Harry's schooling with additional training and information as he feels it is important. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Dumbledore admits to Harry that he has also withheld from the boy knowledge of a prophecy spoken to Dumbledore by Sybill Trelawney which marked Harry as the only wizard who could destroy Voldemort.
His unwavering determination to pursue the fight against Lord Voldemort leads him to break with the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge in The Order of the Phoenix and to be temporarily removed from his position as Headmaster of Hogwarts when control of the school is given to Dolores Umbridge, an appointee of the Ministry.
By the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Albus Dumbledore takes on the role of providing Harry with additional insights into the origins of Lord Voldemort. He does this largely through the use of the Pensieve. He entrusts Harry with the task of getting a final, crucial memory from Horace Slughorn regarding Voldemort's knowledge of Horcruxes. It is in the destruction of one of these Horcruxes that Dumbledore's hand is seriously and permanently injured. Harry and Dumbledore forge a bond in The Half-Blood Prince that is sorely tested in a cave where a horcrux is supposed to be hidden. Harry, who has promised faithfully to follow Dumbledore's instructions, has to force Dumbledore to drink liquid from a goblet that is nearly fatal to Dumbledore just to get a Horcrux.
Role in the series
Dumbledore is clearly one of the most important characters in the Harry Potter books, as much for the significant role he plays in the fostering and education of Harry Potter as for his leadership in the struggle against Lord Voldemort.
Drawn from the archetype of the wise old wizard, Albus Dumbledore is reminiscent of characters such as Merlin from the medieval tales of King Arthur, of Gandalf from the more recent Lord of the Rings trilogy, and, to a lesser extent, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda of the Star Wars films. Yet J.K. Rowling has nevertheless created a character that lives with his own literary life.
Dumbledore's given names could be interpreted as representing the four primary divisions of the British Isles:
'Albus' may be the masculine form of "Alba", an ancient name for Scotland.; 'Percival' is a legendary Arthurian knight from Wales involved in the grail quest; 'Wulfric' is an Anglo-Saxon name found in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and could be representative of England; and 'Brian' is the name of the real Irish high-king and hero Brian Boru who defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf near Dublin.
Rowling stated that 'Dumbledore' is an old word meaning 'Bumblebee', and that she imagined him flitting about the castle.
Albus translates from Latin as 'white', traditionally representing good.
Wulfric translates literally as wolf-power, and is reminiscent of another similar name, Beowulf, meaning powerful wolf-bear. Beowulf was a legendary hero who in his youth slew the monster grendel, a name similar to Grindelwald, the dark wizard Dumbledore slew in earlier days. Beowulf was finally fatally wounded by a dragon(the potion) in a sea cave, when the only one of his knights who would help him was his squire, the orphaned son of some loyal followers(Harry).
Percival is a name from old French, meaning 'pierce the veil'. In le morte d'Arthur by Thomas Mallory, Percival is both hero of the quest for the grail, and narrator of the tale, as is the case for Dumbledore in parts of the story.
One of Dumbledore's dominant traits is his ability to see the merits of persons that others would be prepared to ignore and to give them protection and a chance to flourish. He hires Sybill Trelawney, for example, to teach Divination even though her abilities as a seer are scant because he recognizes that she does possess a real, if highly sporadic, gift of prophecy. Similarly, Rubeus Hagrid, whose approach as an instructor is quite questionable, is offered the post of professor of the course in Care of Magical Creatures, and Remus Lupin, a werewolf, is given a teaching position despite the danger that this might pose to the students.
Pushed to the next level, this trait leads Dumbledore to always look for the spark of light within the darkest hearts. In The Half-Blood Prince Dumbledore appeals to Draco Malfoy's vestigial sense of morality when Draco, under orders from Lord Voldemort, threatens Dumbledore with death.
However, the most significant example of this aspect of Dumbledore's character is his unwavering loyalty to Severus Snape, despite Snape's background as a Death Eater, and despite evidence that Harry provides Dumbledore in his sixth year at Hogwarts of Snape's offer of assistance to Draco Malfoy to carry out a mission on behalf of a wizard who could only be Voldemort. The reason for Dumbledore's complete trust in Snape's reform is not revealed, but Snape's treachery and his murder of Dumbledore by use of the Avada Kedavra comes as a shocking surprise to everyone in the wizarding world.
As a supremely talented wizard, Dumbledore shows numerous examples of extraordinary powers, such as his battle with Voldemort and rescue of Harry from Voldemort's power in the fight in the Ministry of Magic at the end of Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts. His abilities as a wizard are combined with a cunningness and subtlety of mind that allows him to apprehend human nature and, where he can, turn the better aspects of humanity (love, loyalty, friendship and forgiveness) to Voldemort's disadvantage. Yet despite his many talents and accomplishments, Dumbledore is never in the least arrogant, self-important or pompous and in this he stands in contrast to many of the other characters, from Cornelius Fudge to Voldemort himself.
Dumbledore is known for his odd displays of his whimsical sense of humour.
It is quoted that "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" was Dumbledore's before dinner speech at the start of term feast in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
His legendary sweet tooth and use of treat names for his personal passwords add to this sense of whimsy. It is this humour, and the love of the goodness of life behind it, that places everything in its proper perspective and gives purpose to the battle against the evil that Voldemort represents.
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Anticollision Lights and Electrical Radio Noise
At some point in flying, the possibility of in-air collision
should become an important consideration. The installation of
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In getting serious about this, let's first look at where one should put strobes. Certified airplanes usually have a rotating beacon on top of the rudder, but that is not visible from below so a strobe is often placed on the belly as well. These are turned on during the day. At dusk the navigation lights are turned on along with the anticollision lights.
We should install our anticollision lights so at least one light can be seen from any direction. If strobes are placed in the outer edge of the wing tips, that goal can be met with only two lights. Of course the other alternative is to place the lights above and below as on certified airplanes, but if that doesn't satisfy your concern you can do both.
Flashing lights of any type have to be a safety benefit. Tests that I have evaluated indicate that a pulsing quartz halogen light is more visible in bright daylight than a strobe. The best pulse appears to be about 1 second on and 1 second off in duration. Strobes appear to work best at night but we don't have to concern ourselves about that because ultralights aren't permitted to fly at night. Ultralight flight is permitted 30 minutes before official sunrise and 30 minutes after official sunset, provided the ultralight has anticollision lights.
One problem with these types of lights is the likelihood of radio frequency interference (RFI) - the result of the pulsed power that surges to the lamp or strobe. The pulse is in the form of a square wave incorporating some very high frequency components that can be picked up by the antenna on your transceiver. You will be subjected to a pop in your headset each time the light flashes on. The interference is easily avoided if some simple precautions are followed.
The circuit to your lights or lamps should not depend upon the airframe for its ground connection. The lights must be wired all the way from the pulse source to the lamp or strobe. There is no need to purchase some super coax cable for this purpose. Regular well-insulated tinned copper wire will do very well.
The trick in eliminating RFI is to twist the wires together. The amount of twisting is important. Ideally the wires should be twisted so there is about one twist per inch. This reduces the power of noise radiated as RFI by 10,000 at 100 Megahertz, and that is a lot of shielding. Higher frequency components of the pulse are attenuated even more. As compared to the noise from your ignition, it is essentially zero interference.
Now we come to our next subject - ignition noise.
This problem is eliminated on certified aircraft by shielding the ignition wires with metal braiding, and then grounding the braid. That may or may not work on your ultralight. I made up a set of shielded wires for my engine and found I couldn't fire the spark plugs. My engine is fired by a capacitance discharge ignition (CDI) system, which produces one pulse with high frequency components in its wave. The shielding, in conjunction with the wire insulation and the wire going to the spark plug, formed a capacitor. The capacitance, though small, shorted out the pulse to ground. This I found out a good deal later from an electrical engineer, who was versed in that sort of thing.
I had to find an alternative means of cutting down the fierce spark noise in my radio. I didn't want to use resistance wire because it has a way of deteriorating with use. Most resistance wire uses a nylon string that has been loaded with graphite as its current conductor. In time the spark current causes the graphite to sublimate (evaporate away), the resistance goes up and the engine will start to miss, especially at high power settings. Not good.
I tried various noise-suppression caps and finally I found one that would do the job satisfactorily. Of course it was the most expensive one so it is no wonder. The best cap I was able to find is a Bosch, part number 356-351-032 marked as having a 1K-ohm impedance. To be sure it doesn't cut out all of the spark noise but by turning up the squelch on my transceiver, it works just fine. The only time I hear any spark noise is when I have an incoming signal, but it is at an acceptable level.
If there is anything better out there I would like to hear about it.Arnold C. Anderson has been flying ultralights since 1982, logging more than 300 hours in his Kasperwing. After 37 years in the engine and aerospace industry as a mechanical engineer, designing electro-mechanical equipment and solving reliability problems in equipment for unmanned deep space missions, Arnold is now retired. He lives in Bellevue, Washington, where he pursues his hobbies, including aerial photography and flying RC airplanes and gliders.
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Interdiction is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas given to protagonist Carl Johnson by government agent Mike Toreno from his ranch in Tierra Robada, San Andreas.
Toreno states that he needs a favor, but Carl asks about his brother. Toreno explains that he's in prison in upstate, and he is all right. Toreno then reveals that Frank Tenpenny and Eddie Pulaski killed Ralph Pendelbury after he threatened to expose their corruption. He then goes on to explain the favor - there is precious cargo that needs collecting.
Carl heads to Las Brujas, near El Castillo del Diablo. Once there, Toreno contacts him through a speaker, and instructs him on what to do. Carl then picks up a rocket launcher and chooses a vehicle (a Bandito, a Quad, or a Sanchez) which he uses to climb up Arco del Oeste. Once atop Arco del Oeste, Carl lights a flare to signal the contraband helicopter. The helicopter heads for Arco del Oeste, but is ambushed by enemy choppers. Carl uses the rocket launcher to shoot down the enemy helicopters, protecting the contraband chopper and the package. Afterwards, the contraband helicopter drops the package north of Verdant Meadows. Carl picks it up, and heads for a garage in Las Brujas.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Go to El Castillo del Diablo in the desert
- Pick up the rockets
- Take a suitable vehicle and go to the top of the mountain
- Protect the contraband helicopter from the spooks
- Get the contraband
- Deliver the contraband to the hideout
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- If you used an air vehicle to get to the top of Arco del Oeste, it will automatically be replaced by the Bandito.
- The attacking helicopters in this mission move extremely fast, faster than any other helicopter in the game.
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- A good weapon for this mission would be a minigun, as it can easily take the Mavericks down fast and might give you enough time to get away from a falling helicopter.
- While descending Arco del Oeste after destroying the helicopters, a priest and a Las Venturas prostitute can be seen driving up the road in a Journey.
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After being indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday, republican state Representative Stephen Laroque of Kinston is now being pressured to resign.
Wednesday House Speaker Thom Tillis publicly advised Laroque to step down, a suggestion Kinston Mayor B.J. Murphy also supports. While Laroque's term is up at the end of the year, some voters feel he has already lost the respect of many of his supporters, since this is not the first time for these allegations to make headlines.
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Shippū! Konoha Gakuen Den!
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Shippū! Konoha Gakuen Den!
Shippū! Konoha Gakuen Den! is the fifth Naruto OVA.
Behind the Scenes
It is an OVA Gaiden (alternate history) made by Studio Pierrot and was released with the Naruto: Shippūden DVD 7 in Japan. This fan-service OVA is not animated: it is narrated through a series of still cells, based on the still cells that were used for the second Naruto: Shippūden ending.
The history is completely narrated by Sakura Haruno, Ino Yamanaka and Hinata Hyūga, but sometimes Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha say their own dialogue. The story is about the brawler Naruto (who uses yo-yo techniques) after he is transferred to Konoha High School. Naruto's dream is be the souban (leader of Yakuza) of all Japan. The Naruto-Sasuke kiss that happens in the series is not present in the OVA. Instead, Naruto's pants get stuck when jumping while fighting Sasuke, and in the next cell, Sasuke is cleaning his mouth and Naruto is putting his pants on, both of them incredulous and furious about what just happened.
Most of the story is about how Naruto defeats, one after another, the most prominent fighters in the school, including:
- Local gang leader (who doesn't have a counterpart in the manga).
- Kiba Inuzuka.
- Rock Lee, who is the school's cool soccer star.
- Sumo Fighter Chōji Akimichi (after calling him a fatty).
- Karate Shotokan expert (and a tomboy) Tenten.
- Class President Neji Hyūga, the best martial artist in school.
This turns Konoha High into a chaos, and teachers Kakashi Hatake, Kurenai Yūhi, Asuma Sarutobi, or headmistress Tsunade can't do anything about it. When Naruto has defeated everyone at school with the exception of Sasuke Uchiha, the local gang leader lures him by kidnapping Hinata, Ino, and Sakura. Naruto tries to free them but the gang threatens to harm the girls if he fights back. Naruto is beaten badly until he enters Tailed Beast state. However, we never actually see him fighting with this power-up because at that moment, Sasuke, Shikamaru Nara, Kiba, Chōji, Neji, Lee, and Shino Aburame come to help him. This event marks the start of their friendship.
The next day, Hinata, who has a crush on Naruto, invites him on a date. This date is interrupted by all their friends who were spying on them as Hinata falls over Naruto. Embarrassed, Hinata runs without telling Naruto her feelings. At this point, it is hinted that everything had a happy ending.
However, as a sort of epilogue, or sort-of events that would happen in the next episode, we are told quickly of more events-to-happen:
- The school enters another state of chaos because principal Tsunade had been using the school's money for gambling.
- Iruka Umino a new teacher who appears to have a relationship with Naruto, is hired.
- A new gang, Akatsuki, appears to attack Naruto.
- Konoha High School will face against the Suna High School's nerds: Gaara, Kankurō, and Temari.
- There appears to be some relationships between Sasuke and an Akatsuki member named Itachi.
- Transvestites Orochimaruko (Orochimaru in original manga) and Kabuko (Kabuto in original manga) come looking for Sasuke… and Sasuke goes with them!!! (with unknown purposes).
- New transfer student Sai appears and follows Naruto everywhere, wanting him to be the subject of his drawings, much to Naruto's disgust.
- The final showdown between Naruto and Sasuke will soon start!
At the very last moments of the OVA, it is revealed why Sakura cut her long hair at the end of the second Naruto: Shippūden ending; because a bit of chewing gum got into it.
- An omake of Naruto: Shippūden episode 59, animated versions of "Konoha High" Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were shown on a sidebar.
- Naruto and Sasuke from this special are separate unlockable characters in the PSP game Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3.
- The dress that Hinata wears during her date with Naruto looks similar to the dress Kishimoto used for the first concept art of her.


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Funds made available for the purposes of this chapter shall be available for—
(1) compensation, allowances, and travel of personnel, including members of the Foreign Service whose services are utilized primarily for the purpose of this chapter, and without regard to the provisions of any other law, for printing and binding, and for expenditures outside the United States for the procurement of supplies and services and for other administrative and operating purposes (other than compensation of personnel) without regard to such laws and regulations governing the obligation and expenditure of Government funds as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter;
(2) employment or assignment of members of the Foreign Service serving under limited appointments for the duration of operations under this chapter;
(3) exchange of funds without regard to section 3651 [1] of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 543), and loss by exchanges;
(4) expenses authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1980 [22 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.], not otherwise provided for;
(5) expenses authorized by the Act of August 1, 1956 (70 Stat. 890–892), as amended;
(6) contracting for personal services abroad, and individuals employed by contract to perform such services shall not be considered to be employees of the United States for purposes of any law administered by the Office of Personnel Management, except that the Secretary of State may determine the applicability to such individuals of section 2(f) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2669 (f)) and of any other law administered by the Secretary concerning the employment of such individuals abroad; and
(b) Savings provision
Except as may be expressly provided to the contrary in this chapter, all determinations, authorizations, regulations, orders, contracts, agreements and other actions issued, undertaken, or entered into under authority of any provision of law repealed by this chapter shall continue in full force and effect until modified, revoked, or superseded under the authority of this chapter.
(c) Use of personnel
Personnel funded pursuant to this section are authorized to provide administrative assistance to personnel assigned to the bureau charged with carrying out this chapter.
[1] See References in Text note below.
Source(Pub. L. 87–510, § 5,June 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 123; Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2206(a)(10),Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2162; Pub. L. 99–93, title I, § 112(a),Aug. 16, 1985, 99 Stat. 410; Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 164(b),Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 411; Pub. L. 103–415, § 1(ff),Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4303.)
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original "this Act", meaning Pub. L. 87–510, June 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 121, as amended, known as the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, which enacted this chapter, amended section 1104 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality, repealed sections 1925 (a), (c), (d), and 1951 (c) of this title, enacted a provision set out as a note under section 2601 of this title, and amended a provision set out as a note under section 1182 of title 8. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2601 of this title and Tables.
Section 3651 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 543), referred to in subsec. (a)(3), was repealed by Pub. L. 97–258, § 5(b),Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1068, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.
The Foreign Service Act of 1980, referred to in subsec. (a)(4), is Pub. L. 96–465, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2071, which is classified principally to chapter 52 (§ 3901 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 3901 of this title and Tables.
Act of August 1, 1956, as amended, referred to in subsec. (a)(5), is act Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, 70 Stat. 890, known as the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, which enacted sections 2651a, 2669, 2670, 2671, 2672, 2673 to 2679a, 2680, 2680a, 2684, 2687 to 2690, 2692, 2695, 2696 to 2715, and 2715b to 2734 of this title and chapters 53 (§ 4301 et seq.), 53A (§ 4341 et seq.), and 53B (§ 4351 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2651 of this title and Tables.
1994—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103–236, as amended by Pub. L. 103–415, added subsec. (c).
1985—Subsec. (a)(6), (7). Pub. L. 99–93, § 112(a), added par. (6) and redesignated former par. (6) as (7).
1980—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 96–465, § 2206(a)(10)(A), substituted "members of the Foreign Service" for "Foreign Service personnel".
Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 96–465, § 2206(a)(10)(B), substituted "members of the Foreign Service serving under limited appointments" for "Foreign Service Reserve officers".
Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 96–465, § 2206(a)(10)(C), substituted reference to the Foreign Service Act of 1980 for reference to the Foreign Service Act of 1946.
Effective Date of 1985 Amendment
Pub. L. 99–93, title I, § 112(b),Aug. 16, 1985, 99 Stat. 411, provided that: "Authority provided by the amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall only apply with respect to funds appropriated after the date of the enactment of this Act [Aug. 16, 1985]."
Effective Date of 1980 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 96–465effective Feb. 15, 1981, except as otherwise provided, see section 2403 ofPub. L. 96–465, set out as an Effective Date note under section 3901 of this title.
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