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Drew (Japanese: Shū) is a Pokémon Coordinator and May's greatest rival. His hometown is LaRousse City and he first appeared in Now That's Flower Power!.
May and her friends met Drew while she practiced with her Beautifly on a beach near Slateport City in Now That's Flower Power!. Despite his cutting remarks and attitude, which tend to anger May, he is not a villain and teases May simply to push her into becoming a better coordinator. Drew's skill has been a continuous inspiration for May on her quest to be a Top Coordinator.
In his first battle against May, he pitted his Roselia up against her Beautifly. May managed to gain the edge, much to Drew's shock, but the match was cut short by Team Rocket.
Later on, in Win, Lose or Drew!, his Roselia won against Beautifly in the Slateport City Contest, but Drew ultimately ended up losing to Robert and his Milotic in the final round.
Drew returned in Pros and Con Artists, competing in the Fallarbor Town Contest, where May discovered he now has three contest ribbons. Before the contest began, Drew had his Roselia battle Ash, pitting him against Taillow. Drew and Roselia emerged victorious. During the contest, he battled against Grace, but lost to her Medicham. At the end of the competition, Drew congratulates May on her victory by giving her a rose. The gesture of handing a rose to May is repeated in other episodes and is seen by some fans as a hint toward a romantic relationship between them.While watching a different Roselia, May is reminded of their rivalry.
In A Fan with a Plan, Drew was assaulted by a fan club in the Pokémon Center in Rubello Town. Before the contest, May sees Drew practicing outside with his new Pokémon, Masquerain. Drew wins his fourth ribbon using his Roselia in the appeals round, and his Masquerain in the battle round.
Notably, Drew is runner-up in the Hoenn Grand Festival, having defeated May in the quarterfinals with his Flygon and Roselia, but losing to Robert in the finals.
In Going for Choke!, he helps Ash, Brock, and Max out of traps and tricks prepared by Team Rocket and Harley.
Drew also revealed in May, We Harley Drew'd Ya that he had been training an Absol for the Kanto Grand Festival. During the quarterfinals of the festival, he lost to May, who was ultimately defeated by Solidad.
In The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing, he reveals that he will travel to Johto to participate in contests there.
Like Ash's main rival in the original series, Gary, Drew is portrayed as being confident, critical, and popular among his supporters, though he isn't as overly insulting as Gary was. Though May and Drew remain rivals throughout the series, Drew becomes less insulting towards May and more kind and friendly as time goes on. His signature greeting is flicking his hair in a charming manner and can usually be seen with a rose in his hand.
In the Kanto Contests, Drew is often seen even at contests in which he is not competing. It is hinted that he comes to support May.
In Kanto, Drew may have develop feelings for May. Drew keeps blushing after people say that Drew likes May or something similar, even after he denys it.
|Number of Ribbons
|Won 5 ribbons
|Won 5 ribbons
- He was runner-up to Robert in the Hoenn Grand Festival and was among the top eight in the Kanto Grand Festival, losing to May. Although he has yet to achieve his goal of Top Coordinator, he is regarded as one of the best coordinators.
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|It's first appearance with was under Drew's command. Believed to be his first Pokémon, Roselia evolved off screen. But by the time May reached Sinnoh, Drew's Roselia had evolved into Roserade. It was seen behind Drew, Harley and Solidad, watching the Wallace Cup. His Roserade used Petal Dance, SolarBeam, and other moves.
|Roselia → Roserade
|No one knows when he caught it. It first appeared in the Rubel Town double contest. It is very beautiful and often used in the first round. It used Bubble, Ice Beam, Silver Wind, and Hidden Power, among others.
|Its first appearance was in the Hoenn Grand Festival to battle May. Drew claims to have spent a great time specially training it for the festival. Flygon is one of Drew's strongest Pokémon.
|No one knows when Absol was captured. Like Flygon, it was revealed in the Kanto Grand Festival where it fought against May.
|It is unknown when Butterfree was captured but it was revealed at the end of the ninth season in a contest against May. It is very beautiful and has impressive combinations with Roselia.


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- Changes in technology and stylistic developments in the design, use, and reproduction of typeface designs were exponential in the last two decades of the twentieth century. This was due in no small part to the availability of the desktop computer and associated software. Anthony Cahalan investigates this late twentieth century proliferation of Western typefaces by analyzing and interpreting the phenomenon from the perspective of those studied: graphic designers and similar experienced users of typefaces, rather than the general population of computer users. This book documents the way these design and typography professionals saw the type design industry from the inside to provide fascinating 'snapshots in time' of typeface design during this exciting period.
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Home Opinion Columns Good-bye to all these great people
Good-bye to all these great people
Public goodbyes aren't my thing, but in the newspaper business they sure can be efficiently handled.
In one column I can wish you all well and say nice things about the people I've worked alongside the past nine years.
Both are easy tasks, but neither is a job I tackle with relish. Except for the nice-making part.
First things first.
You people — you know who you are, because you've graced our Page 1 over the years — have been wonderful, a privilege to profile. Ned Steele told me the moving story of his Marine Corps service during the Battle of Guadalcanal — a story so painful he'd just started sharing it with family members in August 2002, the 60th anniversary of that fierce battle.
Baker High School wrestling coach Dee Gorrell told me how a chance course in a trick move, something called the Bondola, helped Heath Paxton to a state wrestling title.
I've written stories about very gifted people, like Manfred Radius, a glider pilot and star of what I described as a nighttime aerial ballet, set to Bach's "Air on a G String" and punctuated gracefully with plumes of smoke, during a Wings Over Baker air show. Or, more locally, a piece about Leslie Leviner, an en plain air artist who ought to have a national reputation.
I've profiled people who grow things, including wildflowers, cattle and mint. I've told about people who kill things, like Arnie Grammon, the county's weedfighter, who hates weeds and loves Baker County with a passion and Jim Lunders, our best hope against those divebombers who would suck our blood — and I'm not talking about the IRS here.
After nine years of fun and laughs and even a little work getting done, today's my last day at the Baker City Herald. My wife, a pastor, has accepted the call to a church in Lone Tree, Iowa, a town of about 1,200 that's 15 minutes from Iowa City, home to the University of Iowa and the town where I hope to (soon) find work.
Work that probably won't be nearly this fun.
In the past few years here at the newspaper, my beat (a newspaper term that refers to the topics we write about most often) has been refined to covering government — state, county and city. You probably know this already, but Baker County and much of the rest of Eastern Oregon are blessed with some astonishingly accomplished and able public servants, people who could well be doing something else for more money but chose instead the hard work of providing services and solving problems and getting opposing groups to work together.
What I like best about local politics is that partisanship really has no place: we're so underpopulated out here, and our bench is so short, we can't spend even five minutes discounting each other's plans or motives because they belong to the wrong party. I'm especially thinking of Baker County Commissioners here — all three of them locally-prominent R's or D's who don't believe in letting labels derail their work together.
Legislators Cliff Bentz and Ted Ferrioli share one quality I wish everyone in Salem extended — they return your phone calls promptly, and they both somehow answer your questions both honestly and thoughtfully. I'll miss them both.
Mostly I'll miss my colleagues in the newsroom and throughout the office — Jayson Jacoby, Chris Collins, Lisa Britton, Ed Merriman, phototographers John Collins and Kathy Orr, intern Nate Hellman, sports editor Gerry Steele and publisher Kari Borgen.
This is an unbelievably fun place to work, easily the best job I've ever had. Even while we're cranking out three editions per week we're laughing and cutting up, alternately pointing out each other's foibles and noticing the feet of clay all around us. Except for, perhaps, Dr. Evil's secluded lair in the Austin Powers films, there's no kind of energy like a newsroom energy. It's a drug that's totally legal and will be totally difficult to do without.
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The Power of Independent Thinking
Clifford Thies on the American Economic Association and Richard T. Ely
Recorded: Monday, November 28, 2011
The American Economic Association (AEA) takes pride in celebrating its founder Richard T. Ely. This pride is strange, given the character of Elys thought, which is revealed in The Independent Review article The Shaping of a Future Presidents Economic Thought: Richard T. Ely and Woodrow Wilson at The Hopkins by Gary M. Pecquet and Clifford F. Thies, as well as the Econ Journal Watch article Richard T. Ely: The Confederate Flag of the AEA? by Clifford F. Thies and Ryan Daza. In this podcast, Thies is interviewed by the economist Lawrence H. White and explores Elys ideas, values, and impact. Thies is the Eldon R. Lindsay Chair of Free Enterprise and Professor of Economics and Finance at Shenandoah University.
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Congestion is not a fact of life, declared Mr. Mineta, We need a new approach, and we need it now. Such an approach is presented in the new Independent Institute book, Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship and the Future of Roads.
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Home Opinion Columns Census Bureau like a nosy neighbor: annoying but harmless
Census Bureau like a nosy neighbor: annoying but harmless
I heard Lars Larson deliver quite the verbal lashing to a couple of Census Bureau workers on his radio program the other afternoon.
I was amused, but also a trifle disappointed.
Not that he's likely to ever seek my counsel, but I'd prefer that Lars focus his prodigious persuasive abilities and piercing sarcasm on matters rather more malignant than the federal government's once-every-decade head count.
The increasingly deft way Congress has of getting through a trillion of our dollars, for instance — a task which takes lawmakers considerably less than 10 years.
By comparison, the government asking me how many people live in my house seems an innocuous, and comparatively cheap, exercise.
Also, this go around they're not interested in the number of toilets I've got. Or how much water each flush uses.
But Lars seemed pretty upset about certain of the 10 questions which are on the 2010 Census form (a document that is shockingly concise by government standards, by the way). Nor is he much happy about a law that authorizes the feds to fine people $5,000 if they don't answer every question.
Lars tried several times to goad the Census people into saying that anybody who leaves one of the spaces blank could be subject to that fine.
I'll admit the idea is troubling.
Imagine, the government docks you five grand because you forgot to jot down whether you own your home or rent.
(Or, worse still, because you forgot one of your kids. Which could get you into a different sort of trouble.)
Except both of the Bureau workers told Lars that during the 2000 count the government didn't fine a single person for ignoring the Census.
This seems to me the salient point.
I suppose it's silly for the Census Bureau to keep that $5,000 stick in its arsenal, even if the Bureau never swings it.
But I'm not going to worry overmuch should I decide, when I sit down with my Census form, to suggest that if the government is so keen to know the shade of my skin that it knock on my front door and see for itself.
Probably, though, I'll just check the "white" box and have done with it.
I don't particularly care whether the government is aware of my Caucasian ancestry. It's no secret, certainly. I mean I go out in public, uncamouflaged, all the time.
Nor, unlike Lars seems to be, am I bothered by the idea that the government knows my phone number and date of birth.
The government already has got me pretty well pegged, so far as I can tell, even without the benefit of a Census survey.
Every year around my birthday, for example, the government mails me a Social Security report that shows, by way of a neatly tabulated table, every taxable dollar I've ever earned.
Which, frankly, is a ledger I'd rather not see, even once a year.
The sheer mediocrity of my financial achievements, laid bare, is awfully depressing, which explains why the government's records are a whole lot more complete than my own.
Lars, in arguing his case against the Census, suggested that identity thieves might profitably mine the Bureau for information — by swiping Census laptops left lying about by careless enumerators, for instance.
Personally, I'm far more fearful that somebody will rifle through my mailbox. It's at least as easy to get into as a laptop, and unlike a laptop the mail just sits there in the box, utterly defenseless, for a couple hours most days.
And considering the credit limit some lenders think I'm worthy of, I probably would look like a prime victim to any shady character who sorted through the daily stack of offers.
(Maybe I should tape a copy of my latest Social Security report to the mailbox; that ought to convince even a desperate swindler to look for richer realms than my mine to plunder.)
From what I've read, though, identity thieves would prefer to know my Social Security number than, say, my gender.
And the government already has the former.
Which makes sense, since the government assigned that number to me in the first place.
That was almost 40 years ago. The government has apparently managed, in the ensuing decades, to keep the contents of its dossier on me close to the vest. My identify has yet to be appropriated, at any rate.
Besides which, I doubt many identity thieves — successful ones, anyway, and who cares about the ones who are lousy at it — depend on data that's gathered only once every 10 years.
I suspect identity thieves, like most thieves, have a personality that leans toward immediate gratification. This is why they dig around in Dumpsters.
What seems to me the gaping hole in Lars' indictment against the Census, though, is this: Almost every piece of data the Bureau asks us for is already available, via public records, to anyone with a modicum of sense.
If I want to know who owns a house down the street I can glean the answer, in less than a minute, from the county assessor's Web site.
It might well be, of course, that Lars doesn't believe the Census Bureau is quite so sinister as he implies. Perhaps he boxed the agency's ears merely to illustrate his distaste for the whole broad sweep of governmental nonsense.
I can go along with that.
I think it's ludicrous, to cite only one example, that the government lets people mine for gold and run their cattle in wilderness areas, but says I can't ride my bicycle there.
What I can't do is work up any real enmity for the Census Bureau, which reminds me of nothing so much as a nosy neighbor — annoying, but ultimately harmless.
It seems significant to me that the Census has managed to avoid the nasty reputation that afflicts so many government enterprises, even though the Bureau has been around since America was a political infant.
It's right there in the Constitution, in fact, which implies that the Founding Fathers, who were hardly advocates of vast bureaucracies, thought it an appropriate duty for the new republic to keep track of how many people live within its borders.
And although I'm sure Thomas Jefferson and his cohorts would, much like Lars, decry the bloated regulatory beast their wondrous creation has become, I'd wager that those statesman would confine their criticism to those intrusions which are both more frequent, and more punitive, than the Census Bureau's.
But then again I might be addled still by the effects of having done my taxes a few weeks back.
Now there's a branch of government with real clout (and if you've been audited I'll bet you felt like you'd been clouted upside your head).
The Census Bureau wants your phone number, your age and, when it's feeling frisky, to poke around in your bathroom fixtures.
The IRS wants your money.
And when the IRS talks about fines, it's as serious as your dad was that time you wrecked his car.


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The Thing You Think You Cannot Do: Fear and Anxiety
Author Gordon Livingston discusses the psychological breakdown of fear and how it affects the lives of everyone.
Our preoccupation with "safety" is a natural reaction to our vulnerability to loss. At the same time, the search for perfect safety is absurd given the inevitability of our eventual demise.
Even as our lives have become safer overall, our fears remain intact and lie at the foundation of our most revered institutions, notably religion, which typically promises some version of immortality as a salve for our dread of extinction.
Americans live in an increasingly authoritarian society out of persistent fear that other tribes in distant places are a threat to our way of life, to our very existence. Over the last century, this apprehension has brought us to a continual state of war, which shows no sign of abating. And, although we congratulate ourselves for being a peace-loving people, our national anthem is a tribute to fighting off threatening foreigners. (Because I am, by accident of birth, an American, the reader will find that most societal references in this book derive from this place and time. However, I have tried to choose themes with universal meaning and application.)
As a psychiatrist, I spend my professional life in the presence of fearful people. An entire category of mental disorders is characterized by "anxiety," a distress of the mind typified by worry and dread. This disorder is usually distinguished from fear by the fact that anxiety may have no specific object, except when it takes the form of so-called phobias: of crowds, of flying, or of driving, for example. When anxiety is acute, its physiological symptoms take the same form as those of fear: sweating, rapid heartbeat, muscular tension. We are, in short, manifesting the onceadaptive "fight-or-flight" phenomenon except that neither of these responses may now be called for. More common triggers in the present day are things such as public speaking, taking a test, or rejection in love. Fears of failure and humiliation have replaced the threat of imminent death as our most common sources of apprehension. Collectively, our fears take the form of a pervasive worry that supports huge therapeutic and pharmaceutical industries devoted to the alleviation of emotional distress. Because I work in one of these industries, I routinely employ medications, but I have found myself in recent years invoking virtues such as courage and resilience as alternatives to the sense of victimization and helplessness that medical diagnoses often engender. On the wall of my office hangs a 1915 picture of the British explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship "Endurance" trapped in the ice of the Weddell Sea, near Antarctica. His ultimately successful battle for his crew's survival has much to teach us about the courage required to confront adversity of all sorts.
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Today, we are traveling to Taiwan for a doubleheader of ghost towns San Zhi and Katoli World. San Zhi, as you will soon see, is a strange and oddly experimental resort for the rich and famous, with building resembling UFO ships. Katoli World, on the other hand, was once an amusement park that brought joy to thousands, until an earthquake struck and the park was shut down for safety reasons. Regardless, lets go on a trip!
San Zhi, Taiwan
Construction on the UFO homes began in 1978. It was supposed to be a gimmicky vacation resort for U.S. military officers on leave from their Ease Asian postings. Unfortunately, the project was abandoned in 1980 due to lack of financing and several accidental deaths. After the deaths, rumors spread amongst the locals that San Zhi was haunted by the workers who died building these extremely unique homes.
As the years passed, the buildings felt the effects of nature and neglect, and no one restarted the project. Since it was originally started by the Government of Taiwan, they tried to cover up the failed attempt at bringing life to the area and eventually started demolition work in 2008. There is no current word as to whether or not the UFO houses are still standing there today. These pictures may be the closest we will ever come to experiencing San Zhi.
You can see a Google Maps view of the location here.
Katoli World, Taiwan
All week we have seen various ghost towns from around the world, but what about ghost amusement parks?
Katoli World was no Disney World, but it was the first amusement park in Taiwan to host a roller coaster. It opened in the 1980s and met with moderate success. However, on September 21st, 1999, an earthquake struck the surrounding area of Katoli World and killed thousands of people. Some of the park was destroyed during the quake and it was deemed too expensive to repair the damage, so the park was closed down and abandoned.
Katoli World, a place of imagination and youthfulness, turned into a rotting, decaying jungle of rust and disrepair. But, before you go running out to find it, there are rumors that demolition has already begun. Some sources claim that Taiwan is building another Katoli World close to the original location, hoping to bring back the joy once more.


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Disciplinary hearing of Harry Potter
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- Harry Potter: "But the letter said..."
- Kingsley Shacklebolt: "Dumbledore has persuaded the Minister to suspend your expulsion, pending a formal hearing."
- Harry Potter: "Hearing?"
- Kingsley Shacklebolt: "Uh-huh."
- — Kingsley Shacklebolt and Harry Potter on Harry's hearing[src]
The disciplinary hearing of Harry Potter occurred before the Wizengamot on 12 August, 1995 as the boy wizard was charged for using underage magic, that is, he was forced to conjure a Patronus Charm to save himself and his cousin Dudley Dursley from Dementors in the Muggle town of Little Whinging ten days earlier.
As this hearing took place in the midst of the Ministry of Magic's attempts to discredit Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter, there was some bias against Harry's case in hopes to expel the boy and stop him from claiming Lord Voldemort had returned, and Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge was determined to convict Harry for this crime. Despite this, Harry was cleared of all charges during the hearing.
Background information
On the night of 2 August 1995, while Harry and his cousin Dudley Dursley were returning home, two Dementors appeared in Little Whinging. To save himself as well as Dudley, Harry was forced to perform the Patronus Charm and successfully repelled the Dementors. However, Harry, being an underage wizard, was not supposed to perform magic outside Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As a result, Harry was formally accused of performing underage magic, and was expelled by the Ministry of Magic. However, after Albus Dumbledore's intervention, the expulsion was retracted and changed to a disciplinary hearing which would take place ten days later, on 12 August at 9 am, at the Ministry of Magic's headquarters, before the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement Amelia Bones, in her office.
Cornelius Fudge, then-Minister for Magic, was attempting to discredit Harry and Dumbledore's claims about the return of Lord Voldemort, and so he changed the hearing to an earlier time (8 am) and a different location (Courtroom Ten) in the hopes of making Harry to miss it, as well as making Harry tried by the entire Wizengamot. Due to the change of time, Harry was five minutes late, but managed to attend it anyway, as he was already at the Ministry, having arrived there with Arthur Weasley. It is later revealed that Dolores Umbridge, a Ministry bureaucrat who served as Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic and one of Harry's prosecutors during the hearing, had secretly ordered the Dementors to attack Harry in the first place.
The Hearing
- Cornelius Fudge: "Disciplinary hearing of the twelfth of August, into offences committed under the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery and the International Statute of Secrecy by Harry James Potter, resident at number four, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey. Interrogators: Cornelius Oswald Fudge, Minister for Magic; Amelia Susan Bones, Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement; Dolores Jane Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary to the Minister. Court Scribe, Percy Ignatius Weasley —"
- Albus Dumbledore: "Witness for the defence, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore."
- Cornelius Fudge: "Ah. Dumbledore. Yes. You — er — got our — er — message that the time and — er — place of the hearing had been changed, then?"
- Albus Dumbledore: "I must have missed it. However, due to a lucky mistake I arrived at the Ministry three hours early, so no harm done."
- — Albus Dumbledore's arrival at Harry Potter's hearing in Courtroom Ten.[src]
During the hearing, Fudge was incredibly biased against Harry, in the hopes to discredit and expel the boy for his claims that Voldemort has returned. Fudge introduced highly irrelevant considerations and biased accusations into the trial, all the while denying Harry a chance to tell his version of what happened. Percy Weasley, the court scribe, was also nodding to Fudge's words and refusing to acknowledge Harry, much to Harry's fury. The whole hearing was turning out to be nothing but a show trial, until Dumbledore arrived. When Harry finally told the court about the Dementors that attacked him, Fudge scoffed it and said that he made up a convenient and weak cover story, with no witnesses to back up his claims, as Muggles can't see Dementors. However, Dumbledore, invoking the Wizengamot Charter of Rights, produced one witness, Arabella Figg, who gave an accurate description of the attack. Fudge tried dismissing her testimony, partly due to her being a Squib, more over why Dementors just happened to be in a Muggle suburb.Dumbledore tried stating that perhaps someone inside or outside the Ministry must have ordered the attack, and expressed his hopes that this matter would not go uninvestigated. As Fudge tried to get the trial back on the subject of the matter, Dumbledore cited Clause Seven of the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery, which was reasonable enough for Harry to defend himself and his cousin. Fudge tried pointing out the other violations of the decree Harry allegedly carried out a few years ago, such as the Hover Charm performed in 1992, and the Engorgement Charm used on his aunt the year after. Dumbledore countered that the former charge was performed by Dobby and that Fudge did not prosecute Harry over the latter charge; he furthered stated that the Ministry does not have the authority to punish Harry for every bit of magic he has performed, nor use a full criminal trial for a simple case of underage magic, and in fact, all those past charges brought up were irrelevant to the trial. Fudge shamelessly defended his actions by saying that laws could be changed if necessary.
Due to the fair Madam Bones and a majority of the court, Harry was found innocent, with only Fudge, Umbridge, and roughly half-a-dozen of the court (also very likely Percy) favouring in convicting Harry. Fudge reluctantly cleared Harry of all the charges. Harry soon emptied his entire pouch of Galleons into the Fountain of Magical Brethren in triumph, although the trial did leave him with a bitter resentment for Fudge, Percy, Umbridge and possibly the remaining wizards and witches who voted against him.
Behind the scenes
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Mafalda Hopkirk's letter expelling Harry was a Howler, which looked less like the Howlers from the books than the one in Chamber of Secrets. Examples are: First of all, it didn't scream, second is that it wasn't red, third is that it had lips.
- In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, while Harry and Dudley were being attacked by Dementors, Harry uses Lumos in a hurried attempt to find his wand in the darkness. Though this is also magic, it was not mentioned at the hearing. It is possible, however, that they were including this when they said underage magic.
- There are some notable differences of the hearing in the film than in the book:
- Mention of Mrs. Figg being a Squib is omitted.
- Mrs. Figg stays during the entire hearing and is even there while the Wizengamot votes to decide if Harry is guilty or innocent (she even goes on to raise her hand when Madam Bones asks all those in favour of clearing the accused of all charges, but then realises she cannot vote and pretends to have risen her hand to scratch her ear instead).
- Fudge announcing Harry's previous magic acts are omitted.
- There is only one chair during the hearing rather than two. Harry sits on it, then Mrs. Figg takes his spot while Harry sits in the stands.


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I guess a fair comparison would be an ordinary AKM vs. a Yugo.
My best guess is that receiver flex isn't hurting much, since it's consistent.
biggun, hc and the rest of you seasoned builders
one of the issues with ak precision is too much flex on the stamped receivers, right? is it possible to weld stiffening plates to the receiver or bend thicker (>2mm) flats to minimize the flex?
curiosity is getting the best of me. the wife has agreed to get me a psl kit for christmas. my option is to get a nodak receiver or try something stiffer. the plan is to ditch the x54 barrel and go the biggun route and try something outside the norm. i like the 6.5 swede, or if the kit will handle it a 7mm-08. this and the x25 parts i have should get me thru the florida winter.
al gore is full of carbon enriched shit
I guess a fair comparison would be an ordinary AKM vs. a Yugo.
My best guess is that receiver flex isn't hurting much, since it's consistent.
well i can tell you this the most accurate AK that I have seen or heard of is sitting here on my bench and it has a un tempered Tapco flat as the reciver. It will shot sub 1/2' groups so Im finding it hard to buy into the whole reciver flex causing accuray issues. If any thing its possable the reciver is dampening the barrel harmonics ( no proof of any kind ) I think the before you can even think of factoring in reciver flex to the equation you need to remove the slop from the bolt to reciver, the slop from the carrier to bolt, the loose chamber and and then make sure the bolt is true to the bore and centered. then and only then would I worry about reciver flex. the only thing it might affect is when a scope is mounted to the reciver and then it becomes a issue. I can litteraly twist my reciver by hand and with good ammo its well under 1" all day long and has been for the last 4000 rounds or so.
Im not saying it wont afect it but you have a lot of other issues infront of it. I saw were one of the US reciver or barrel makers did a test and they claim there milled wil shoot better than a stamped the only problem was that neither guns were very accurate to begin with. saying one is better than the other when they were both shooting a 3" or bigger group tells me little.
The barrel makes all the differance my varmint gun in reality is nothing more than a good barrel and some mild mods. the reciver is the least modifed part of the gun.
what differance will it make if the reciver flexes a thousands when you can raise and lowere the carrier/bolt assembly close to 3/16 of anch in the reciver??
If your going to build a 6.5 swede or 7mm-08 or any other round that uses a 308 win size bolt face then i would not use a x54 based kit. I would use a m70 kit or even a AK 74 kit and open the bolt up. If you want to do some thing with a x54 kit I would be looking a rounds that use a simular larger bolt. There is a 6.5x54 that was used in Bioatolon compitition that would be a barrel change only as awell as several wild cats based on the 7.62x54 round one of them would be the way to go IMOO.
If you were going to do a 7mm-08 i would just get a used 308 Saiga and rebarrel it. then you should be safe with any factory load.
I need to get one of those PSL kits to play with a wild cat based on a WSSM case would be cool. again the million dollar question is what will the bolt and trunion handel pressure wise?????????? What is the chamber pressure of the ammo that was original used in the PSL????? abolt face extention like a sagia shot gun might work to reduce it. I would not weld it up under any circumstances.
The receiver's got nothing to do with accuracy.
Any "flex" that shows up, does so long after the bullet has left the barrel.
The sights are mounted on the barrel (fore and aft), so you can't pin any sighting issues on it, either.
the reciver on any rifle can affect accuracy to some degree as it affects the harmonics of the barrel perticulary were the barrel attaches to it as well as many times the scope is mounted to it. driving a pin in on one side of the barrel cant be good as it surly will induce some stress also. however as nalioth said the bullet is long gone before any recoil induced flexing is going on.
Bench rest shooters go to great lengths to make sure that there recivers are stiff and very very percise. They mount there scopes on them so any distortion from heat, stress or bolt fit will affect the inharent accuracy of the gun. Untill you are getting well under 1/2" groups you would be hard pressed IMOO to show me accuracy gains or losses of a .045 vs a .060 or even a milled especialy if the scope is mounted on the RSB an not the reciver. if the scope mount is touching any part of the recver then flex will affect it as how even holding it on the bags VS holding it to your shoulder will affect point of aim. If i was going to mount a scope on a side rail then IMOO a milled reciver would be the best. I can litteraly twist my reciver by hand so if the scope mount was touching it any up down or side pressure would easly affect the point of aim. since my scope is on the barrel it affects it very little. it light affect the bolt position slightly and how it locks in but I havent got one that accurate to really be able mess with seeing if side loads or down pressure will affect how it shoots. I likelywould never be able to proove it to myself at any rate. some thing to think about is a thein reciver cools off faster than a heavy one so while it may flex faster during rapid fire it will also cool off and go back to normal if shooting slow like in a target situation.
tighten the carrier to reciver fit as well as the bolt to carrier fit and also remove up and down play and it will do far more than any recvier material or thickness will ever change.
see this is why i ask the questions. i do not know these things i am starting the learning curve. rumor has it that flex is the achilles heel of the ak platform (look at the comments on any ar discussion board).
as far as chamber pressure and bolt thrust are concerned, i used the web app i wrote to compare. based on the info i could get of the www,
the x54 has a cham press of 57000 and a thrust of 10617 psi
the 7mm-08 has a cham press of 61000 and a thrust of 10583 psi
the 6.5 swede has a cham press of 55000 and a thrust of 9047 psi
all 3 are very close and most likely well within the tolerance of the bolt and chamber. i assumed the x54 psl kit would be a better starting point for a large caliber/long range rifle.
al gore is full of carbon enriched shit
First mistake, listening to AR people talk about something other then ARsrumor has it that flex is the achilles heel of the ak platform (look at the comments on any ar discussion board).
Most AKs are fairly accurate, and a lot of them are more accurate then people think. A couple of the main things I noticed that can cause problems; 1-Ammo, most people shot surplus or low quality ammo. 2-The trigger can make a big difference, a gritty or hard trigger (plus the long travel) can cause people to move around before the shot is fired. 3-The shooter, yes the person holding the firearm can be the cause as well.
Your assuming right, at least that's my opinion too.i assumed the x54 psl kit would be a better starting point for a large caliber/long range rifle.
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Here's a slow motion clip of the AK.
I can see barrel flexing going on.
The large bolt also racks the entire rifle.
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the problem is the bolt face on the x54 is to large for the non rimed rounds like theall 3 are very close and most likely well within the tolerance of the bolt and chamber. i assumed the x54 psl kit would be a better starting point for a large caliber/long range rifle.
7mm-08. now if you start looking at some of the magnum cases you might find something you like. I was also thinking of a 458x2 on one of those kits. that round uses a cut down 458 mag or any mag case in that class. the rim is still a little small but it likely can be done and the length would work. the WSM an remington short mags are really close. the 6.5 remington short mag would be a great longrange shooter.
have any of those so called experts actually tried to shoot a AK accurately??? IMOO the loose chamber and poor ammo quality are the biggest issue. followed by the lousy sights and crap trigger. the loose tollerances of the bolt and carrier also factor in as they are responsable for consistant round placement in the already loose chamber.rumor has it that flex is the achilles heel of the ak platform (look at the comments on any ar discussion board).
this gun that I litteraly threw together with no other changes to the reciver ( un tempered tapco) has a decent barrel and a good trigger and a scope mount that dont touch the reciver. it shoots one inch 3 shot groups at 100 yards with handloaded softpoint hunting ammo and I havent even started working up a load for it yet. the action is as slopy as hell. Im sure with better bullets and a properly worked up load it will do 3/4" or better.
its a 308x39 BTW.


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My file:
T1: Regus
T2: Owl Sage/ Mermaid Shield Soldier
T3: Owl Sage/ Mermaid Shield Soldier/MoF
Then summon Shufas or Spear depends on the matchup.
Summon Metia as soon as 1 Mermaid die.
Use Shufas+transformation against slowpoke tank.
Use Carrier for mini buff when Metia out of ammo/use her to get Metia copy back.
Use harpist to recover from mass genocide and Refuge at the same time.
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