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Dear white people
First of all, I want to assure you that my dislike of you isn't because of the color of you skin. It's the "people" part. I really don't care much for people, regardless of the skin color, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious or economic background or national origin. Most of you are just too predictable, too willing to believe anything as long as it fits your preconceived notions. And you wear those preconceived notions on your sleeves, telegraph them with your eyes and reveal them in the patterns of your speech.
And yes, I have noticed that I am a people too. If I weren't me, I probably wouldn't like me either. But I've been with me for several decades now, and while I don't always trust myself, I have come to an understanding that keeps me from shuffling off this mortal coil for some trivial reason.
How I came to that understanding was simple, although it took a fair number of those decades to really comprehend. It's just this: I ask myself every day, several times a day, one little question: What if I'm wrong?
It keeps me humble, this realization that I could be wrong. It also keeps me from buying into everything that's thrown my way, even if it agrees with my way of thinking, my ideology, if you will.
Ew. That's a Darth Cheney phrase. And by the way, I'm well aware that I'm generalizing here. But I'm trying to make a point. If none of this describes you, terrific. If any of it does — or if you find you're getting angry with me for saying it — take a deep breath and think long and hard before you respond.
Anyway, because I know that I could be wrong, I want to check out everything I read, see or hear because I'd like to minimize the chance that I am wrong. I don't like to be wrong, but sometimes I am, and when I am, I want the harsh truth shoved into my face so I can admit it and go on about my business.
Too many people — and white people, you are some of the most egregious offenders — can't conceive of the possibility you might be wrong. But I suspect that way deep in your minds, you fear you might be, but can't ask the question. So you surround yourself with other people who believe what you believe and will assure you of your correctness.
I gotta tell ya, that ain't no way to live.
Look what happens when you live like that. You listen to bloviators, watch news shows with a clear agenda, read blogs and books and newspapers that offer no space for an open mind. So when Fox News tells you that a guy named Van Jones, who is the White House "green jobs czar," is a convicted felon who spent six months in jail for something vague having to do with the Rodney King riots, you look at Van Jones and you believe it. You don't question it, not for a moment, and you join the rowdy cacophony calling for his head. And, Van Jones — who has never been convicted of a crime or spent a day in jail and is imminently qualified to guide the administration's strategy to create environmentally sound jobs — loses his. And you cry "Victory!"
And when your news sources tell you that an organization called ACORN is involved in massive voter fraud and even stole the Minnesota Senate election from Norm Coleman for that socialist comedian Al Franken, you look at the leaders of ACORN and call for their heads. And when your news sources play videos that seem to show an man and a woman outrageously dressed as a pimp and a prostitute getting advice on running an underaged whore house, you look at ACORN's employees and you go absolutely berserk. And ACORN — which has never been charged with felony voter fraud (some of its registrars, generally poor people they hire in various locals to register people to vote, have been charged with voter registration fraud) — loses its federal funding and is forced to shut down. And again, you cry "Victory!" even though the videos you saw were heavily edited, the couple never appeared to ACORN employees dressed as a pimp and prostitute and every single investigation of the matter completely exonerated the group.
Then your news sources tell you about the very scary New Black Panther Party, which was charged with voter intimidation in Philadelphia only to see the charges dropped by the Justice Department, which is, of course, absolute proof that the Obama administration won't pursue charges against black people. You looked at the New Black Panther Party and screamed "Racism!" and your news sources pour it on. But they don't tell you the truth about the New Black Panther Party, the charges against them or the Justice Department. The New Black Panther Party, which has no connection to the original Black Panther Party (whose members have strongly condemned it and even sued it), is an offshoot of the Nation of Islam. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League, which monitor such things, have labeled it a hate group. And the voter intimidation? One armed member of the group showed up at a polling station in a heavily black precinct in Philadelphia and was escorted away by the police. Because the incident was videotaped, the Justice Department filed charges and investigated, finding that no one filed a complaint charging voter intimidation and the deluded idiot thought he was there to "protect" the black voters. A career attorney — not a political appointee — made the decision to drop the charges. But you look at Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama and keep crying "Racism!" because there's no way Fox News could possibly be wrong.
And then there was Shirley Sherrod, the state director for rural development for the Department of Agriculture in Georgia. Your news sources showed you a two minute video tape in which Sherrod says she didn't give a white farmer her "full" help. They tell you this is what the Obama Agriculture Department is doing — discriminating against white people. You look at Shirley Sherrod and scream "Racism!" and Shirley Sherrod loses her job, even though the rest of her 45 minutes speech shows clearly that she was using her personal experience to share a life lesson — that we must move beyond racism, that poverty is colorblind — and that the incident took place 24 years ago, long before she started working at USDA. And you cry "Victory!" even as the administration delivers mea culpa after mea culpa. And you believe it when your news sources tell you that this heavily edited video shows members of the NAACP applauded racism (it doesn't — but since you didn't watch the tape you don't know that) and that it wasn't about Shirley Sherrod, who lost her job, but about that racist NAACP.
You are angry with the NAACP because your news sources told you that the organization condemned the entire Tea Party as racist. You look at the Tea Party and scream "It's the NAACP that's racist!" and you nod and shout some more when your news sources tell you there's no proof whatsoever that the Tea Party is racist. But the NAACP didn't do what your news sources told you. They passed a resolution calling on the Tea Party to divest itself of racist elements, to go further than media statements condemning racism and actually remove those elements. But because your news sources have told you that the "racist elements" so visible at Tea Party rallies are liberal plants, you ignore what's actually been said and keep screaming "Racism!"
That's what you do, white people. But here's the thing. Your leaders and your news sources have snookered you, just like they snookered the NAACP and the administration with that heavily edited video of Shirley Sherrod. They are playing on your fears, your distrust of "the other" that comes from both an eternity of human history and a more recent history of America.
And they've been doing this same thing for years. Lying to you. They tell you black people get everything and you get nothing. They tell you a gay couple getting married will destroy your own marriage. They tell you the liberals are going to make it impossible for you to worship in your church and possibly make it illegal. They tell you Barack Obama and all liberals are socialists, that illegal immigrants are taking away your jobs and your health care, clogging up the schools and ruining America because they're all drug smugglers.
They have made you believe that you are a victim. But you're not. None of those things are true. Oh, there's a kernel of truth in each one, but it's nothing like what you're told.
Black people are hundreds of years behind you, having spent hundreds of years as slaves to your ancestors. No, it's not your fault. But what little comes to them to help erase centuries of discrimination takes nothing away from you. It is not a zero sum game. A gay marriage changes your marriage only in that it becomes more inclusive, and no, not including marriages between man and beasts or man and children (that belongs to fundamentalist Mormons) or man and man and man and woman and woman and woman. Liberals don't care how you worship, or that you do, only that you don't use your religious beliefs to tie the hands of the rest of us. That you see abortion as murder does not make it so. Don't have one, but leave the rest of us out of it. And we're not socialists. Well, some of us are. Frankly, a little socialism would do us some good. It's unbridled capitalism that has cost you your jobs and your bank accounts, not illegal immigrants or black people. And illegal immigrants are illegal because we've lost what we once were and it's too damn hard to be legal. Yes, some of them are drug smugglers, but they're not the ones mowing your lawn or trying to get their children a decent education so they can earn enough money to live, something that is awfully hard where they come from.
You, white people, you look at all these millions of people and don't see people. You see "not me." But you're wrong. And all the people telling you you're not are lying to you.
I'd like you all — white, black, Muslim, Christian, etc. — a helluva lot more if you just realized that and stopped listening to the power-mad deceivers who have your ear. I'd even like me better if you did that, because I'd have much less reason to be angry, to worry about our future.
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Sweet Corn Pheromone Trap Network for Western New York,
This is a seasonal scouting report giving growers in the Western New York area information on the presence of sweet corn pests and recommendations on scouting and thresholds. The report is written by Abby Seaman, NYS IPM's Area Extension Educator for Vegetables.
For 9/2/03
ECB-E catches have tapered off at most locations, however Z race trap catches remain moderate. ECB larvae are being found in the field and Don Sweet reports that many of the larvae he's finding are in the silks. CEW numbers are gradually increasing and they are being caught at most locations in high enough numbers to be the major factor determining the spray schedule. FAW catches are also increasing and being caught at most locations. Don reports finding FAW larvae in tassels and ears. To keep an eye on trap catches in the larger region go to: Pestwatch.
Fields should be first scouted for ECB and FAW larvae at early tassel emergence. Even at a location with high ECB populations, insecticide applications in bare ground fields to whorl stage corn did not result in improved control when compared with one or two well-timed applications at tassel emergence. Larvae feeding in the whorl are protected from insecticide applications and mortality will not be as high as at tassel emergence, when larvae feeding in the emerging tassel are exposed to the spray. Larvae will leave the tassel as it opens up and no longer provides a moist, protected feeding environment, and move down the plant looking for protected places to feed. Insecticide applications need to be timed to kill larvae before they bore into a new feeding location where they will be again protected from sprays. In fields with uneven development, two applications may be necessary, one when approximately 25-50% if the tassels have emerged, and again after 75-100% of the tassels have emerged, if the field is still over threshold.
The threshold for ECB and armyworms at tassel emergence is 15% infested plants. For corn borers, look down into emerging tassels for tiny larvae or frass (white to brown material about the size of fine sand). For armyworms look for ragged feeding holes and frass pellets the texture of coarse sawdust.
Before any insecticides have been applied, scouting is fast and easy because any sign of feeding is an almost sure sign of live larvae, so it's not necessary to spend time finding the larvae. After the initial insecticide application, feeding damage may be from a larva that has already been killed, so finding the critter is more important for an accurate estimate of the number of infested plants.
Once a field is silking, the threshold drops to 5% infested plants. Scout the ear zone (roughly from two leaves above and one leaf below the ears) for ECB egg masses and ECB or FAW larvae. Egg masses are found most frequently on the underside of leaves near the midrib, and consist of approximately 10-20 flattened eggs overlapping like fish scales. Eggs are white when first laid, turning cream colored after a couple of days, and show the black head capsules of the tiny larvae through the surface of the eggs when within 1 day of hatching (the "black head" stage). Egg masses can also sometimes be found on the flag leaves of the ears or on the husk itself. Eggs take approximately 100 base 50 degree days to hatch. When temperatures are in the 70's during the day and the 50's at night egg masses will take about a week to hatch. When temperatures are in the 80's during the day and the 60's at night, they could hatch in only 4 days.
Look down into the tops of the silks for newly hatched larvae, and pull the ear away from the stalk slightly to look for larvae feeding between the stalk and the ear.
Once CEW are being caught in higher numbers, insecticide applications in silk stage fields should be determined by CEW trap catches. The recommended spray intervals for CEW should be adequate for ECB and FAW control. Because CEW lay their eggs directly on the silk, and eggs are difficult to find in the field unless the population is VERY high, we rely on pheromone trap catches rather than scouting to make CEW management decisions. It is most important to adhere to the recommended spray intervals when the field is in the green silk stage. The chart below indicates recommended spray intervals during the silk stage for a range of trap catches:
Add one day to the recommended spray interval if daily maximum temperatures are less than 80F for the previous 2-3 days.

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Pitti Uomo 83rd edition registers 4% more foreign buyers
11 Jan. 2013
Pitti Uomo registers +4% foreign buyersFor the first two and a half days, the 83rd edition of Pitti Uomo, the international trade show held in Florence between 8 and 11 January 2011 that is dedicated to menswear fashion anteprimas for f/w 2013/2014, registered a +4% increase of foreign visitors, that is over 7,000 people entered in the Fortezza da Basso.
Therefore, since the total number of January 2012 foreign visitors was 7,400 buyers, the show expects growth in relation to last year. The highest numbers were registered among buyers from Japan and Germany, the only country to register an increase. Also growing were visitors from China, Russia, USA, Turkey and Korea. UK remained stable, despite the overlapping with London Menswear Fashion week held between 7 and 9 January 2013. Significant results also came from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mexico and Brazil, some African and Middle Eastern countries.
Italian retailers visiting the show were 5% less because of the economic difficulties and the overall transformation the national retail system is going through. The organization forecasts that Italian buyers can go beyond 13 thousand buyers. On the first day the halls were not crowded, but on the second day they were very busy and full of people. Despite the economic situation, the atmosphere pervading the show was very lively and optimistic. The third day was slightly quieter but remained busy.
Focusing on the jeanswear and sportswear segments, the market shows great attention to denim innovation, waxed hand effects and printed surfaces. Silhouettes remain generally skinny, even if some slight baggy effect is showing up, especially in the upper part of the trouser. Cooked wool tops and jackets are featuring heavily, as are laser cut and raw edges as an alternative to knitwear, or employed as outerwear and in this case treated for weatherproof performance. Gas presented a wide selection of cooked wool tops and jackets that focus on visible knitted elements and contrasts - in greys, blues and vivid yellows for men as well in bouclé variants and contrasting colours for women. They also presented a special package of Italian made jeans. Blauer and BPD also played with knitwear by doubling and layering their down jackets and outer jackets for innovative and sophisticated special effects.
Printed motives - often recalling Provence-inspired patterns and Paisley elements pervade many collections often inclined toward natural hues such as burgundy, rust, ochre and deep blue as seen at Nichol Judd, Roy Rogers upper sportswear sister collection, or Dockers. The US brand has also shown a series of its archive historical items as presented by historian Lynn Downey. The company also presented a very elaborate selection of trousers made with colourful corduroys often printed for different surface effects.
At Gerard Loft Meltin' Pot presented its new collection designed by Leopoldo Durante including KLSH, a redesigned collection playing with sophisticated silhouettes, soft glittery jeans for women as well as an Icon, a selection of products focused on the brand's key historical elements such as the yellow colour and the triangle graphic motive.
Roy Rogers presented its special collaboration with British footwear specialist Tricker's while presenting US college inspired collection, while Rifle, announcing the opening of a Rifle monobrand store in Milan by March 2013 also focused on college inspiration by presenting aged effect printed sweatshirts and strong contrasting blue-white denim.
Arct'eryx Veilance, a sophisticated highly innovative outerwear brand, presented a series of outer jackets that appear to be seamless, both on their inner and outer sides, thanks to special material employed, and unique thermosealing and thermotaping techniques, and invisible zippers and closures. Kenzo focused on an urban-futuristic collection including a series of jackets characterised by a dreamy camouflage variant that recalls cloud prints. Jospeh Abboud, focused on space-like sci-fi outfits, and were also presenting catwalk shows.
A special guest like Marc Newson attended the G-Star Art of RAW Gallery at Pitti and hosted an exclusive aperitif to mark the launch of his new book "Marc Newson Works". G-Star's newest Marc Newson capsule collection's highlights included a wool bomber jacket and peacoat with leather sleeves, and a denim in Japanese herringbone selvedge.
Other collaborations presented include a special collaboration between Onitsuka Tiger and Andrea Pompilio, which focuses on a mix between the rock and the surf world. Ben Sherman celebrated its 50th anniversary by presenting a special book that while going through the iconic British brand presenting an overview of some the British lifestyles that most characterised the evolution of menswear fashion and were also tied to the evolution of the brand such as the punk, teddy boy and the mod movements.
Closing their 30th anniversary celebration there was Wp Store that launched its book "30 years of Research in Style" while showing a totally redesigned and more sophisticated Woolrich woman collection.
Plus more and more events enlivened Florence nights. Most prestigious was Ermanno Scervino's fashion show inside the historical Sala dei 500, inside Palazzo Vecchio. The show was a tribute to the craftsmanship that goes into Italian tailor-made apparel, and focused on the innovative qualities that characterise the craft.
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I'm not the most educated or literate person on the planet and even after over 750 posts in these very forums I still struggle, but it has taught me loads and I really do enjoy writing.
Anyway, below is a shameless plug for the new novel I have been composing around Steel's Campfire. Please note you will have to be over 18 to view.
I would recommend you all attempt a novel at some time in your life(Or at least read!) I have found it a refreshing change from text messages, emails and the like.
Let you imagination run free, and never care what anyone else thinks. The probability of penning a best seller are slim, but it will sharpen your spelling or at least make you activate the spell checker on your machine. Your punctuation will improve as will your vocabulary.
I think it's a shame that more players don't take an interest in the story of Ateil. I am guilty of it because I joined too late and feel like I would never catch up.
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2.Each person must post 11 Facts about themselves in their journal.
3. Then Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and create eleven new questions for the people you tag to answer.
4.You have to choose 11 people to tag and post their icons on your journal.
5.Go to their page and tell them you have tagged him/her.
6.No tag backs.
7.No stuff in the tagging section about "you are tagged if you are reading this." You legitimately (AKA, really, truly, with all honesty) have to tag 11 people
My question seem easy....
1. Someone you look up to?
Don't know... Steve Jobs I guess....
2. Your biggest dream?
I don't have much dreams, but to have a job I enjoy... very boring, I know... A more interesting one might be to be able to get new computer and phone and stuff often.. I guess that mean $$...
3. Your greatest achievement?
Rank1 in SDD.....
I can't do much...
4. If there is something you own that you have to give away, what would it be?
Like really? errrr that water bottle that I don't need? or that scrap paper.....
5. Can you cook?
Well, if you are talking about cup noodle, sure!!! other simple stuff is ok too.
6. Have you taken purikuras before? *they're the Asian photo booths with sparkles everywhere*
Well, no... mostly girls do that, and they haven't dragged me in to one yet!
7. Brown sugar or white sugar?
sugar? SUGAR!!! YAY!!!! both!
8. Black sesame or white sesame?
Black, it is more common...
9. Have you ever jigged school?
school? no, just one class, on the last day of a term and I had a free period before that, and it was just one of those day you just don't feel like school...
turn out 1/2 the lesson was a practice fire alarm thingy, so no biggie!
10. Your favourite movie?
Despicable Me!!!! YAY!!!!
11. Have you had braces?
Since I am going to fail by not having 11 people to tag, and i don't know how to tag people.... so I might as well just give up now XD


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Home List of Titles The IC process in the 'new telecoms world': the Ericsson Business Consulting Norrkoping experience
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/228418
- Title
- The IC process in the 'new telecoms world': the Ericsson Business Consulting Norrkoping experience
- Author(s)
- Roos, Goran; Lovingsson, Fredrik
- Abstract
- This article addresses the experience of Ericsson Business Consulting Norrkoping's management team, where they allocated ten days to articulate their business recipe clearly and to develop an action plan for increasing the utilization of its intellectual resources (IC). It describes the IC Process from a managerial point of view, by outlining its framework and defining relevant resources. The overall results from the process was a business recipe aligned to the strategic intent, a deep understanding of what drives value for the company's stakeholders, and improved business focus.
- Publication type
- Book chapter
- Source
- Intellectual capital management: a strategic perspective / Goran Roos and Sharath Jutur (eds.), Chapter 5, pp. 71-95
- Publication year
- 2005
- Keyword(s)
- Ericsson; Intellectual capital; Norrkoping; Knowledge management
- Publisher
- ICFAI University Press
- 9788178817460, 8178817462
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- Copyright
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Good fucking attitude. Made popular and famous by the electronica band "Blood On The Dance Floor." Used when really happy or to tell others to get a gfa.
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Stands for Grenade Free America which is a term coined by The Situation cast member of the jersey shore of the Jersey Shore. Grenade meaning an ugly or overall unattractive women, another term The Situation had coined.
We gonna be hitting the shore hopping for some GFA!!!
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means "Grenade Free America" used by the cast - mostly Mike and Pauly D - of Jersey Shore. used in season 2 of show when in miami and describing that they will not hook up with any grenades - ugly women - during there time there
Pauly D - "Me and Situation have a gameplan for there to be no grenades in Miami. 100% No Grenades!"
Mike - "It's a GFA, Grenade Free America."
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by csharro5 July 08, 2010
Stands for Great Fucking Attitude. Found in a song by the band Blood On The Dance Floor. Can be used is a sarcastic way as well as in an honest way.
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GFA: An abbreviation for "Good from Afar", used to describe a girl who is thought to be good looking from far away, but when seen closer is not attractive at all
Man, she was a real GFA, I hope her future husband proposes at a distance
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Gasping For Air
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Cassie: Fuck i'm in love with any South American. Especially Brazilians.. you know that
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- —The spirit of Remus Lupin to Harry Potter concerning his son.[src]
Ted Remus "Teddy" Lupin (b. April of 1998), was the son and only child of the late Remus Lupin and his deceased wife, Nymphadora Tonks. He was a Metamorphmagus like his mother. He was named after Nymphadora's father, Ted Tonks, who was killed shortly before his birth, and his father Remus who was killed during the Battle of Hogwarts. Harry Potter was named as his godfather.[1]
Ted Lupin was born in April of 1998 to Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Lupin née Tonks. He was named in honour of his maternal grandfather Ted Tonks. On May 2, 1998, when he was between two weeks and one month old, his mother and father both fought in the Battle of Hogwarts, leaving him with his maternal grandmother Andromeda Tonks[2]. Unfortunately, both Teddy's parents died in the battle, leaving him an orphan and was therefore raised by his grandmother[2] and usually spent much of his time with the Potter and Weasley families.
Since he was born in April 1998, Ted most likely began his education in the magical arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1 September, 2009.
On 1 September, 2017, Teddy came to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters to see off Victoire Weasley, with whom he was in a romantic relationship, in which case, they were distantly related. It was remarked that it would be nice if he was an official member of the Potter/Weasley family. Of the three Potter children, he seemed to be the closest with the youngest, Lily. She didn't laugh at his relationship with Victoire Weasley, unlike her brother James[1]. Lily very much hoped Victoire and Teddy would get married so that he would become a real part of their family.
Teddy Lupin did not become a werewolf like his father. He was, however, a Metamorphmagus, like his mother.[3]
Teddy's mother and father were killed by Death Eaters Bellatrix Lestrange and Antonin Dolohov, respectively, during the Battle of Hogwarts, leaving their son an orphan. Teddy was thus brought up by his maternal grandmother, Andromeda Tonks, and saw a lot of the Potter and Weasley families,[4] visiting at least four times a week for dinner.
On his mother's side, Teddy is also related to the Black and Malfoy families; Narcissa Malfoy is his great-aunt, Lucius Malfoy is his great-uncle, making Draco Malfoy his second cousin and Scorpius Malfoy his third cousin. His mother's murderer, the late Bellatrix Lestrange, was also his great-aunt. Bellatrix's husband, Rodolphus Lestrange is also his great-uncle. His grandmother and two great-aunts's cousins, Sirius Black and Regulus Black are his first cousins twice removed.
Harry Potter, of whom Remus and Nymphadora deeply trusted and always liked, was asked by the couple to become Teddy's godfather, to which Harry accepted.
- "Ted" is a short form of the names Theodore and Edward. [5] Theodore is derived from Greek Θεόδωρος meaning "gift of God" and was the name of many Christian saints. [6] Edward is derived from the Old English words ead, meaning "blessed", and weard, meaning "guard", and has been the name of many members of the English nobility and royalty. [7]
- The name "Remus" comes from the brothers Romulus and Remus, the legendary brothers who fought in their adulthood, and of whom Romulus became the founder of Rome, who were raised by wolves. Interestingly, Romulus was the codename used by Ted's father on Potterwatch.
- "Lupin" derives from the Latin lupus meaning "wolf".
Behind the scenes
- Luke Newberry was cast as Ted Lupin in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, but he was cut from the ending of the film and he is only mentioned by Remus to Harry.[8] Teddy also does not appear in any of the deleted scenes on the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 DVD and Blu-ray.
- Teddy's origins are supposed to reflect Harry's, who lost both parents to Voldemort as well. However, unlike Harry, Teddy grows up in a new and safe world, surrounded by loving family and friends.[9]
- It is unknown which House Teddy was Sorted into, but he has close relatives in at least three Houses: his father was a Gryffindor, his mother was a Hufflepuff, and his grandmother who raised him was a Slytherin.
- Both Teddy and Victoire Weasley have fathers who were attacked by the werewolf Fenrir Greyback.
- J. K. Rowling stated that part of the reason she wrote the epilogue was to inform many eventual heartbroken readers that although Teddy never knew his parents, he was surrounded by friends and family that cared deeply for him and had a pleasant childhood.
- Teddy shares many traits with Neville Longbottom: both of their parents were injured by Death Eaters (Teddy's parents died, while Neville's parents were driven insane), both of these incidents involved Bellatrix Lestrange, and both were raised by their grandmothers, Andromeda and Augusta, respectively.
- Both Teddy and Victoire have mothers with unique traits; Fleur Delacour has Veela blood, and Nymphadora Tonks was a Metamorphmagus.
- Victoire and Teddy are fourth cousins once removed, as both are distant descendants of Phineas Nigellus Black.[10]
- Teddy is the second cousin of Scorpius Malfoy.
- Ted is named after Ted Tonks, his maternal grandfather.
- Following Teddy's birth, Remus Lupin stated to the occupants of Shell Cottage that Teddy had changed his hair colour from black to ginger in the hour since he had been born. This suggests that Teddy's natural hair colour could in fact be black like that of his great aunt Bellatrix and first cousin twice removed, Sirius Black.
- In a Privet Drive scene at the beginning of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Tonks almost announces that she is pregnant before she is interrupted by Mad-Eye Moody.
- Teddy is like his godfather, Harry Potter, in a lot of ways. First, they both lost their parents to Voldemort; James and Lily Potter died when Voldemort came to their home, and Remus and Nymphadora died in the Battle of Hogwarts. Second, they both grew up with family; Harry grew up with his uncle, Vernon, aunt, Petunia, and cousin, Dudley, and Teddy grew up with his grandmother Andromeda. Third, they were both in infancy when their parents died; Harry was one, Teddy wasn't even a month old. Fourth, both their fathers were Marauders.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Mentioned only) (Cut from final edit)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game) (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2007 Bloomsbury Chat with J. K. Rowling
- ↑ J.K. Rowling and the Live Chat, Bloomsbury.com, July 30, 2007
- ↑ JK Rowling web chat, 30th July
- ↑ Behind the Name: Ted
- ↑ Behind the Name: Theodore
- ↑ Behind the Name: Edward
- ↑ http://ajmanagement.co.uk/clientDetail.asp?intClientID=157
- ↑ J.K. Rowling: I wanted to kill parents, MSBNC.com interview, 29th July 2007
- ↑ Black family tree


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The West Osage River Basin lies in the west-central Missouri counties of Bates, Vernon, St. Clair, Barton, Henry, Cedar, Benton, Hickory and Polk (Figure Lo01). It starts at Harry S. Truman Dam near Warsaw, Missouri, and contains the Osage River and all tributaries except the South Grand, Pomme de Terre and Sac rivers. The watershed encompasses 2,795 mi2 in Missouri and 4,046 mi2 in Kansas (Missouri Department of Natural Resources [MDNR] 1984, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [COE] 1985). Hereafter, the term "basin" will refer to the entire West Osage River Basin, unless otherwise specified.
The Osage River originates at the confluence of the Bates County Drainage Ditch and Marmaton River northwest of Schell City, Missouri, in northeast Vernon County. It ends at its junction with the Missouri River (RM 130.2) east of Jefferson City, Missouri, in Osage County. The original length of the river was 310 miles; 193 miles have been impounded by Bagnell and Truman dams, 22 miles have been channelized and 95 miles lie below Bagnell Dam (MDNR 1986a). Truman Dam impounded 98.5 miles of the Osage River in November 1979.
The basin is divided into six subbasins to facilitate discussion of the large, diverse area (Figure Lo02). Hereinafter, the subbasin will be referred to by the first stream listed below:
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