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Two hundred plus friends and family will descend on Santinis Restaurant in Herndon to raise support and awareness for Congenital Muscular Dystrophy on Thursday, Feb. 7, from 5-9 p.m.
One in 10 Americans is affected by a rare disease. John Gluck, of Herndon, is that one in 10 with a rare form of muscular dystrophy called congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD).
As a rare group of diseases causing muscle weakness at birth, CMD is under-recognized and under-diagnosed by physicians. Several defined genetic mutations cause muscles to break down faster than they can repair or grow. A child with CMD may have various neurological or physical impairments. Some children never gain the ability to walk, while others lose the ability as they grow older. There is no cure and no treatment to slow disease progression.
For John's parents, Charles and Jennifer, it took many months of doctor visits, tests and their own online research leading them to the Cure CMD (Cure Congenital Muscular Dystrophy) website to ultimately find a diagnosis for their son. The hardest part of getting the diagnosis is the finality in knowing the disease is progressive. Recently John, who is 4 years old, proudly walked from the bathroom all the way to his bed, "Dad, I did it!".
"That's what it's all about," said Charles.
Four-year-old John Gluck has never slept at night without wearing a cast, a brace, or a feeding tube attached to him.
"I never thought I would be connecting a feeding tube to a hole in my sons stomach", said his father Charles. Although John can walk with a walker and braces, he will transition to a wheel chair in the coming years. The muscles in John's body are slowly losing their strength. This will cause scoliosis and breathing issues soon at a minimum.
John's parents are in a race to help him gain as much strength now to minimize future health complications. The race keeps his parents very busy traveling to physical and functional therapies, swimming therapy and horse therapy every week. In addition John's mother Jennifer has been busy using her engineering skills to build PVC walkers for John. She has built several now, each one slightly larger and improved. John is not affected mentally by his condition and has developed a very strong singing voice. An admitted Veggie Tales fan, John has most of the songs memorized and sings them while walking around Frying Pan Park on his horse Spirit, through the Spirit Equestrian Program. Lately John has become more of a risk taker, walking with his eyes closed to see what happens. That habit prompted the installation of a foam floor in the house to protect John's head. John currently attends Floris Preschool where he has been warmly received by teachers and students.
So little is known about this horrible disease and how it can affect children," Jennifer said. "Research is sorely needed. Greater awareness among medical professionals about the nature of rare diseases, what they look like and how families should care for their children when they are affected is equally needed."
Dr. Anne Rutkowski, chair of Cure CMD, advises families to be strong care advocates for their loved ones. "With 7,000 rare diseases, it's even more important for the family to be involved in the care of a loved one and advocate for them because there may be only a few doctors, and only a few medical centers, with expertise in a particular disease," Rutkowski explained. "For many clinicians, you may be their one and only person with CMD they will ever see in their entire career."
For the Gluck's, there is cause for hope. Four years ago, three parents of children with CMD launched Cure CMD, a nonprofit all-volunteer organization dedicated to optimizing care for people affected by CMD, finding treatments and, eventually, a cure. For more information on Cure CMD, please visit www.curecmd.org or the National Organization for Rare Disorders at www.rarediseases.org.


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Warren Buffett tells CNBC's Becky Quick this morning the U.S. economy is "very slow" and "getting slower."
But in a live CNBC interview with Becky Quick in the driveway of his Omaha home, Buffett repeats his long-held optimism that the economy will get better -- he just doesn't know when.
U.S. & World
Becky asked him about headlines in the morning's newspapers.
Here are the highlights:
- Buffett still "100% enormously optimistic" about U.S. economy over long-term, but doesn't see short-term signs of a pick-up
- "American economy is slow, and still getting slower, but that will turn" .. just don't know when .. hopes it's soon
- Time to buy stocks is when "business is bad" .. not when things are going well. Buffett says he's had some of his best investing years ever during recessions
- Buffett sees some signs of a turnaround in residential real estate
- Buffett repeats confidence in Wells Fargo and US Bancorp; doesn't know enough about SunTrust's business model to comment (Berkshire has stakes in all three banks)
- "Very important" for Chrysler to get out of bankruptcy very soon
- Sympathetic to both sides in the Chrysler bankruptcy
Repeats long-held belief that U.S. will need more tax revenue eventually, just a matter of who pays. Country can take a higher tax rate. (He thinks the very rich should be taxed more than they are now)
- "We don't need to build new houses" now .. we need to sell down the existing housing inventory
- Buffett on 'cramdowns': I would be more careful about lending money if courts are able to change the contracts
- Buffett on last fall's New York Times op-ed: I just said what I was doing at the time, not trying to "talk-up" the market.
- "The cheaper things go, the better I like it" .. especially when compared to buying Treasuries .. stocks will beat out Treasuries over the long-run. Asked if he or Berkshire has been buying stocks recently, he repeated his statement that he likes things when they're cheaper
- Buffett: "I love newspapers," but they don't have a future .. print editions getting too expensive compared to the Internet. But in Washington Post stock "for keeps."
- What's happened to AIG over past few years is a "tragedy." "They had a black box" that delivered great numbers but the black box turned into a "black hole." They were making bets they didn't understand.
- Don't look at Bank of America's specifics more than looks at Wells Fargo
- Asked about main takeaway from Berkshire meeting over the weekend: We had fun and we sold a lot of (Berkshire) products
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|"Are you a wizard or not?"
The title of this article is conjectural. Although it is based on canonical information, the actual name is conjecture and may be supplanted at any time by additional information released from canonical sources. If this occurs, please move this page to the appropriate title.
|Battle of the Department of Mysteries
|Part of the Second Wizarding War
Open war is declared on the wizarding community.
- "Did you actually believe, or are you truly naive enough to think, that children stood a chance against us? I'll make this simple for you, Potter. Give me the prophecy now... or watch your friends die."
- —Lucius Malfoy to Harry Potter in the Death Chamber[src]
The Battle of the Department of Mysteries was the first major conflict of the Second Wizarding War. It took place on 18 June, 1996, after Lord Voldemort lured Harry Potter and five of his fellow Dumbledore's Army members to the Department of Mysteries in an effort to obtain the prophecy concerning his possible defeat. Once there, the six D.A. members were cornered by a dozen Death Eaters, whom they managed to fend off until the Order of the Phoenix came to their rescue. In the skirmish, the prophecy was destroyed, Voldemort was seen by the Minister for Magic himself, eleven of the Death Eaters were captured, and Sirius Black was killed by his cousin. The battle resulted in Voldemort's return being made public and the Ministry of Magic finally taking action against his rising power.
- "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies...and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not...and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives...."
- —Sybill Trelawney's first prophecy, concerning Voldemort and Harry Potter[src]
At the height of the First Wizarding War, Sybill Trelawney made a prophecy predicting the coming of the only person who could defeat Lord Voldemort. This prophecy was heard in its entirety by Albus Dumbledore and in part by Severus Snape, a Death Eater who reported what he heard to Voldemort. The Dark Lord came to believe that the prophecy referred to Harry Potter and began seeking out James and Lily Potter's location. They had gone into hiding when Snape, who had been in love with Lily Evans, warned Dumbledore of the approaching danger. On Halloween of 1981, their location was revealed to the Dark Lord, and after killing Harry's parents, he attempted to kill the infant, but the Killing Curse rebounded and his power was broken.
When Voldemort returned in 1995 and failed to kill Harry for the second time, because of Priori Incantatem on this occasion, he became determined to hear the full prophecy, believing it to contain the secret of destroying Harry Potter, a record of which was kept in the Department of Mysteries.[1]
Attempts at theftEdit
- "We have confirmed that ten-high security prisoners in the early hours of yesterday evening had escaped. And of course the Muggle Prime Minister has been alerted to the danger. There is convincing evidence that the escape was engineered by a man who has experienced to escape from Azkaban, notorious mass murderer Sirius Black, cousin of the escapee, Bellatrix Lestrange."
- —Cornelius Fudge announces the 1996 Azkaban breakout[src]
In January of 1996, there was a mass breakout of Death Eaters from Azkaban after the Dementors defected to Voldemort. Ten long-imprisoned Death Eaters – including the Lestrange family and their comrades Antonin Dolohov, Augustus Rookwood, Travers, and Mulciber, among others – were free to join their master again. The Ministry of Magic, however, refused to admit that Voldemort had returned and blamed the breakout on Sirius Black.
Because the Ministry did not believe that Voldemort had returned and because he now had many servants to do his bidding, Voldemort did not attempt to retrieve the prophecy he sought himself. The Death Eaters made a few attempts at stealing the prophecy in question.
Lucius Malfoy placed Broderick Bode, an Unspeakable, under the Imperius Curse to force him to steal the prophecy. However, the protection charm placed on items in the Hall of Prophecies only allows those who are mentioned in the prophecy to access them; Voldemort punished Avery Jr. for assuring the Dark Lord that the plan would have worked. Bode was afflicted with a mind-confusing curse and admitted to St. Mungo's. When word of Bode's improvement reached the Death Eaters, they sent a potted cutting of Devil's Snare to Bode, to prevent the plot from being revealed, and it strangled him in his hospital bed. Earlier, Sturgis Podmore had also been placed under the Imperius Curse to attempt the same, but was arrested trying to break into the Department of Mysteries. Voldemort also sent his snake, Nagini, to scout Order of the Phoenix defences of the prophecy. This resulted in the injury of Arthur Weasley who was guarding the prophecy.
- Lord Voldemort: "Take it for me… lift it down, now… I cannot touch it… but you can. Crucio! Lord Voldemort is waiting."
- Sirius Black: "You'll have to kill me."
- Lord Voldemort: "Undoubtedly I shall in the end. But you will fetch it for me first, Black… You think you have felt pain thus far? Think again… we have hours ahead of us and nobody to hear you scream…"
- — Harry Potter's vision of Sirius Black being tortured in the Hall of Prophecies[src]
Thus, Voldemort tried a different tactic. Utilising his connection to Harry Potter, who had failed in his Occlumency lessons, Voldemort planted a false vision in Harry's head that suggested his godfather was being tortured by Death Eaters in the Department of Mysteries. Voldemort predicted that Harry would race to the Ministry to save him.[2]
Dumbledore's ArmyEdit
- Hermione Granger: "Voldemort knows you, Harry! He took Ginny down into the Chamber of Secrets to lure you there, it's the kind of thing he does, he knows you're the – the sort of person who'd go to Sirius's aid! What if he's just trying to get you into the Department of Myst-?"
- Harry Potter: "Hermione, it doesn't matter if he's done it to get me there or not – they've taken McGonagall to St. Mungo's, there isn't anyone from the Order left at Hogwarts who we can tell, and if we don't go, Sirius is dead!"
- — after Harry has a dream of Sirius being tortured[src]
Harry told his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger of his dream, intending to immediately leave Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to save Sirius. Hermione, suspecting foul play, managed to talk him into first trying to see if Sirius was at 12 Grimmauld Place. With the help of Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood, they sneaked into Dolores Umbridge's office so that Harry could contact Sirius by Floo Powder. Just after Kreacher informed Harry that Sirius was not there—having been prompted to mislead Harry by Narcissa Malfoy, who was a Black by birth and treated the attention-starved house-elf much more kindly than Sirius did— Umbridge arrived with the Inquisitorial Squad.
Umbridge attempted to interrogate Harry, demanding that Professor Snape provide her with Veritaserum. He told her he had none left, and although he pretended not to have any idea what Harry was talking about when he shouted that the enemy had "Padfoot," he went to check that Sirius was still at Order headquarters. Once Snape was gone, Umbridge threatened to use the Cruciatus Curse on Harry to force him to talk. This prompted Hermione to lie, making up a story about Dumbledore creating a weapon to use against the Ministry and tricking Umbridge into going into the Forbidden Forest with her and Harry.[3] Umbridge summarily offended the Centaurs who confronted them, and with some assistance from Grawp, Harry and Hermione escaped back to the castle. In the meantime, Ron, Ginny, Luna, and Neville Longbottom had escaped the Inquisitorial Squad.[4]
Hermione and Harry were covered in blood after the fracas in the Forbidden Forest, which lured Thestrals. The six DA members rode them to the Ministry of Magic to try to rescue Sirius Black.[5]
The Department of MysteriesEdit
- Lucius Malfoy: "Oh, you don't know Potter as I do, Bellatrix. He has a great weakness for heroics; the Dark Lord understands this about him. Now give me the prophecy, Potter."
- Harry Potter: "I know Sirius is here. I know you've got him!"
- Lucius Malfoy: "It's time you learned the difference between life and dreams, Potter. Now give me the prophecy, or we start using wands."
- — Death Eaters confront the D.A. members[src]
The group flew to the Ministry, where they descended to Level 9 and down the corridor to the Department of Mysteries. They found themselves in the Entrance, with 12 identical, black, handle-less doors. When the door behind them closes, the walls spin and the doors are put in different places. They go through one, which turns out to be the Brain Room, and go back to the Entrance Room and try another, which turns out to be the Death Chamber. The next door they try won't open by any means of enchanment, but the next room, the Time Chamber, contains the glittering lights from Harry's dreams. Once in this room, they take another door to the Hall of Prophecy, but don't find Sirius there. In the row where Sirius was supposed to be, he spotted an orb with his and the Dark Lord's names and picked it up. This prompted twelve Death Eaters – Rodolphus Lestrange, Rabastan Lestrange, Antonin Dolohov, Avery, Walden Macnair, Crabbe, Nott, Augustus Rookwood, Jugson, Mulciber, second-in-command Bellatrix Lestrange, and leader Lucius Malfoy – to emerge from the shadows and demand that Harry give them the prophecy.[5]
Battle in the Hall of ProphecyEdit
Harry attempts to buy time by mocking Voldemort in front of his Death Eaters and infuriating Bellatrix, yet Lucius stops her from killing Potter, not through defence, but so he can protect the prophecy. In their argument, Lucius and Bellatrix break two prophecies, which turn into wraiths and recite the prophecies which forever remain unheard. Harry still refuses to hand over the prophecy, so Lucius begins to tease him that the prophecy holds the answer to his scar, Voldemort's wishes to kill him, and the cause of the war.
Just then, on Harry's signal, the six D.A. members all used the Reductor Curse to smash the shelves of prophecies, distracting the Death Eaters so that they could flee. As they ran, Nott grabbed Harry's arm, but was stunned by Hermione and subsequently injured by the collapsing shelves. Harry, Hermione, and Neville fled into the Time Chamber pursued by two Death Eaters and seal the door behind them, but then realised they have been separated from the other three.[6]
- "We'll split into pairs and search, and don't forget, be gentle with Potter until we've got the prophecy, you can kill the others if necessary..."
- —Lucius Malfoy to his fellow Death Eaters[src]
The three then ran into an office off the Time Chamber, where they were struck with Impediment Jinxes by Death Eaters eventually identified as Antonin Dolohov and Jugson. Hermione silenced Dolohov to prevent him from alerting the other Death Eaters as to their location, and Harry placed Jugson in a Full Body-Bind Curse. Dolohov then struck Hermione with an unnamed curse that incapacitated her for the rest of the battle. He broke Neville's wand and nose and wordlessly threatened Harry, but was distracted by the Death Eater with the baby head, giving Harry the chance to Body-Bind him.
Neville took Hermione's wand and carried her as he and Harry met up with Ron, Ginny, and Luna in the Brain Room. Ron had been hit by a curse that made him highly confused – possibly the Confundus Charm – and Ginny's ankle was broken, leaving her pale and in shock. They had managed to get away from the Death Eaters chasing them because Luna used the Reductor Curse on the model of the planet Pluto in the Space Chamber to injure their pursuers. While the students regrouped, the Death Eaters did as well, bringing many of their number out of incapacitating curses.
- "Let's see how long Longbottom lasts before he cracks like his parents…unless Potter wants to give us the prophecy."
- —Bellatrix Lestrange gleefully threatens Neville with the Cruciatus Curse[src]
The group was then discovered by several Death Eaters, including Bellatrix Lestrange, in the circular entrance room with the many doors. They burst into the Brain Room. Harry, Neville and Luna attempted to seal the doors but Death Eaters still managed to get in. Luna was blasted with Stunning Spells. Ron, in his confused state, summoned a brain from the tank and was injured by it as it attempted to strangle him. Ginny was then Stunned. In a desperate attempt to draw the Death Eaters away from his injured friends, Harry sprinted deep into the Death Chamber, where he was cornered by ten Death Eaters. When Neville arrived to help, Bellatrix briefly used the Cruciatus Curse on him in an attempt to coerce Harry into handing over the prophecy.[6]
The Death Chamber Standoff and the Arrival of the Order of the PhoenixEdit
- "Get away from my godson."
- —Sirius Black to Lucius Malfoy[src]
Just as Harry was about to hand the prophecy to Lucius Malfoy, Sirius Black, Nymphadora Tonks, Remus Lupin, Kingsley Shacklebolt and Alastor Moody of the Order of the Phoenix arrived, and the battle resumed.
Tonks fired a Stunning Spell at Lucius Malfoy giving Harry and Neville enough time to escape from Lucius, but Harry was then grabbed from behind by Walden Macnair. Neville jabbed Hermione's wand hard into the eyehole of the Death Eater's mask, making him release Harry with a "howl of pain". Harry stunned him, only to be cornered by Dolohov, who had defeated and injured Moody. Dolohov hit Neville with the Tarantallegra curse and used the same curse he previously used on Hermione on Harry, though most of the harm was blocked by Harry's Shield Charm. Before he could attack again, Sirius slammed into him and the two began to duel. Harry hit Dolohov with a Full Body-Bind Curse and Sirius ran off to duel Bellatrix, who had just defeated Tonks. In the meantime, Kingsley was duelling Rookwood.
Once again, Harry and Neville tried to escape, but were stopped by Malfoy. Harry passed Neville the prophecy and then used an Impediment Jinx to knock Malfoy back. Before he could attack again, Remus jumped between them and told Harry and Neville to get the other D.A. members and leave. As they tried to do this, the prophecy fell through Neville's pocket and broke.At this moment, Albus Dumbledore arrived and most of the fighting stopped and the Death Eaters that saw him arrive attempted to flee in fear of duelling him. Dumbledore quickly rounded up numerous Death Eaters, but Bellatrix and Sirius were still duelling. Bellatrix used a curse to knock her cousin into the Veil that separates the world of living from that of the dead, killing him. Remus prevented Harry from jumping after Sirius, telling him that his godfather was dead.[6]
- Bellatrix Lestrange: "Come out, come out, little Harry! What did you come after me for, then? I thought you were here to avenge my dear cousin!"
- Harry Potter: "I am!"
- Bellatrix Lestrange: "Aaaaaah…did you love him, little baby Potter?"
- — Bellatrix taunts Harry about her murder of Sirius[src]
Harry pursued Bellatrix and attempted to use the Cruciatus Curse on her in retaliation for her murder of Sirius. He only caused her a brief moment of pain, however, as he was unable to summon enough malice to make the Unforgivable Curse successful. Bellatrix attempted to curse Harry, but they were interrupted by the arrival of Lord Voldemort.[7]
Duel in the Ministry AtriumEdit
- Dumbledore: "It was foolish to come here tonight, Tom. The Aurors are on their way."
- Voldemort: "By which time I shall be gone, and you will be dead!"
- — Dumbledore and Voldemort face off[src]
Voldemort attempted to hit Harry with the Killing Curse, but the blow was prevented; Dumbledore arrived and animated a golden statue to cover Harry and shield him from the curse. He animated the other statues from the Fountain of Magical Brethren to immobilise Bellatrix and warn Ministry officials. Voldemort and Dumbledore duelled, Fawkes taking a Killing Curse for Dumbledore at one point; as a phoenix, the curse caused him to burst into flames and instantly to be reborn.
Throughout the battle Dumbledore dominated marginally despite outlining his peaceful intentions whilst Voldemort, fuelled by rage, struggled to penetrate Dumbledore's defences whilst suffering against the latter's own stream of assaults.
Voldemort briefly possessed Harry, hoping that Dumbledore would sacrifice the teenager in an attempt to kill him. However, as Harry dwelt on his grief for his late godfather, the power of his love forced Voldemort to release him. Voldemort took Bellatrix with him as he fled, but not before he was seen by Ministry officials, including Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge.[7]
- "Merlin's beard – here – here! – in the Ministry of Magic! – great heavens above – it doesn't seem possible – my word – how can this be-?"
- —Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge's reaction to seeing Voldemort[src]
Of the twelve Death Eaters who broke into the Department of Mysteries, all of them but Bellatrix Lestrange were captured and sent to Azkaban. They failed in their aim to seize the prophecy made about Harry Potter and Voldemort, but Dumbledore would subsequently tell Harry of its content and importance[1].
The Order of the Phoenix suffered the loss of Sirius Black as well as several injuries. Mad-Eye Moody, Nymphadora Tonks and Kingsley Shacklebolt were all injured, but recovered. Ginny Weasley's broken ankle and Neville Longbottom's broken nose were quickly repaired by Hogwarts nurse Poppy Pomfrey, and Neville eventually got a new wand. Ron Weasley had welts for some time from the brains that grabbed him, but they faded with time and treatment. Hermione Granger had to take ten potions a day to treat the curse she was struck with, which might have been fatal had Antonin Dolohov been able to speak it aloud, but made a full recovery.
Harry felt great grief and guilt over the death of his godfather, blaming himself. But Ron and Hermione were there when he needed them to help him to come to terms with Sirius's death. It was mentioned that Ron was there to comfort him in his period of mourning more than anyone else. He was also angry at Severus Snape for what he perceived as only belatedly assisting Harry and the Order, and at Dumbledore for not telling him about the prophecy ahead of time. He was also upset to learn that he must be the one to kill Voldemort.
After the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, the Ministry of Magic was forced to admit to the public that Dumbledore and Harry had been right all along, and that Voldemort had returned. Dolores Umbridge was removed from Hogwarts and Dumbledore was reinstated as Headmaster, as well as in all his other positions. The ineffectual Cornelius Fudge was soon replaced by the more proactive Rufus Scrimgeour as Minister for Magic.
This battle marked the beginning of open war in the wizarding world.[8]
Behind the scenesEdit
The film version of the Battle of the Department of Mysteries differs significantly from the novel. Namely:
- The D.A. members are pursued mostly within the Hall of Prophecies, do not split up, and use mostly different spells — for example, Luna Lovegood uses a verbally-incanted version of Levicorpus against a Death Eater.
- Ginny Weasley's ankle is not broken.
- Neville Longbottom's nose and wand are not broken.
- Ron Weasley is not cursed to be disoriented or injured by brains.
- Luna Lovegood is not stunned.
- In the Death Chamber, all the D.A. members but Harry Potter are captured and held at wand-point by Death Eaters.
- Death Eater Travers is added to the battle holding Ginny Weasley hostage.
- Rabastan Lestrange, Rodolphus Lestrange, Avery and Nott are unidentified. (It is possible Richard Trinder played Rodolphus, however it is unknown who played the other three.)
- Bellatrix Lestrange does not use the Cruciatus Curse on Neville.
- When the Order of the Phoenix arrives, Sirius Black punches Lucius Malfoy in the face.
- Lucius, rather than Neville, accidentally smashes the prophecy orb.
- Bellatrix knows the prophecy is smashed rather than not knowing when she plays with Harry in the Atrium saying he has it before Voldemort tells her the truth after appearing.
- Harry duels alongside Sirius against Lucius Malfoy and Antonin Dolohov non-verbally, but he is not taught to do non-verbal incantations before sixth year.
- Sirius calls Harry "James", a slip of the tongue, referring to his friendship with Harry's father.
- Bellatrix abruptly kills Sirius with the Killing Curse, which then pushes him into the Veil, rather than with an unknown curse during a duel.
- Albus Dumbledore appears in the Ministry Atrium after Sirius's death rather than in the Death Chamber before Sirius dies.
- Bellatrix escapes by using the Floo Network as soon as Dumbledore arrives, instead of Disapparating with Voldemort after his duel with Dumbledore.
- It is Harry's love for his friends and godfather, rather than his grief over the latter's death, that frees him from Voldemort's possession.
- Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville and Luna are in the Atrium when Voldemort flees the Ministry.
- While filming this scene, Helena Bonham Carter accidentaly ruptured Matthew Lewis's eardrum by sticking her wand in his ear.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Appears in flashback(s))[citation needed]
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 37
- ↑ Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 31
- ↑ Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 32
- ↑ Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 33
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 34
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 35
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 36
- ↑ Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 38


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ByRory Jones
MyEXWardrobe – a second-hand clothing marketplace
First came the likes of Namshi, a Middle East fashion e-commerce business that aimed to be all things to all fashionistas: selling clothing, footwear, bags and other accessories.
A few years old now, and Namshi, alongside discount fashion websites like Sukar and MarkaVIP, has raised cash, and each of those businesses is ticking along. They don't report figures, but Namshi at least, claims it will more than double revenues in 2014.
With the broader fashion websites having led the way, smaller niche e-commerce players are also now hitting the fashion rack across the Middle East, and even raising some funding of their own.
CitraStyle.com, a website selling modest Muslim fashion, has recently raised a "multi-million" dollar round from investors, including iMENA Holdings, according to founder and Chief Executive Muhammad Chbib. It now aims to market to Muslims in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and the Middle East.
"You have to build a brand that has uniqueness," said Mr. Chbib, who also founded Desado.com, a homeware and accessories site that is no longer being marketed to customers and from which CitraStyle has been spun out.
Rashid and Salama Alabbar, the children of Emaar Properties Chairman Mohammed Alabbar, are launching Sivvi.com – another fashion portal to serve the Middle East. A number of children's clothing websites, led by Mumzworld, have been keeping the kids in shoes for some time.
On crowdinvesting website Eureeca.com alone, there are three fashion e-commerce sites that are in the process of seeking funding or have already raised cash. Poupee Couture, a handbag brand that recently launched an e-commerce site, convinced investors to stump up $80,488 in just 10 days on Eureeca.
Jordan-based Harir.com is a discounted shopping club aimed at women and raised $91,582, or 183% of its target, while MyEXWardrobe, a second-hand clothing marketplace is seeking investors on Eureeca. ShiftFashion.com is also a new online and offline fashion exchange.
"It's easy to have a website, but making sure you have the traffic is where the challenge lies," explained Roula Ghalayini, the founder of Poupee Couture.
Yet traffic might not be the only obstacle for niche fashion e-commerce websites in the region. In the U.A.E., Namshi invested heavily last year in operations, creating its own logistics operations to manage deliveries, something Souq.com and MarkaVIP had already done.
The process of managing same-day or next-day delivery, as well as cash buyers who want to try clothes on at delivery, can be a difficult one in fashion e-commerce, says Omar Christidis, founder and chief executive of ArabNet, the tech events and media company.
"I'm not sure how the smaller players are going to overcome the challenges of an immature e-commerce infrastructure in the region," he said.
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Lagos, Nigeria, August 16, 2012--Unidentified gunmen today stormed a private television station owned by Gabon's main opposition leader and burned down its transmitters, according to local journalists and news reports. It was the second armed attack on the broadcaster since 2009.
About 15 masked men armed with assault rifles and pistols subdued the five security guards at TV+ around 1 a.m. local time and set fire to the station's transmitters on the third floor of a building in Libreville, the capital, according to news reports.
Hours before the attack, TV+, owned by former Interior Minister André Mba Obame, had extensively covered violent clashes between security forces and Obame's supporters, who are calling for the ouster of President Ali Bongo and the holding of a national conference to draft a new constitution, news reports said.
Frank Nguema, director-general of TV+, told CPJ the motive for the arson is not clear but said the armed men set the transmitters on fire and left without taking any property or injuring anyone. The station is preparing to file a formal complaint with police and the courts, Nguema said. The station is not broadcasting for now, he said.
"We condemn the armed attack on TV+ and the sabotage of its transmitters as an act of political thuggery and censorship against an outlet critical of the government," said CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita in New York. "The Gabonese government must carry out a credible and transparent investigation or risk being suspected of involvement in the attack."
In a telephone interview with CPJ, Blaise Louembe, Gabon's information minister, denied any knowledge of the attack. "I confirm to you that I am not aware there was such an incident of fire or sabotage on TV+," he said. "TV+ can also file a complaint which will ensure an investigation is carried out," Louembe added.
Hours before the attack, TV+ had experienced power cuts that disrupted its coverage of the clashes, and had resorted to generators to continue broadcasting, according to news reports.
In September 2009, gunmen knocked the station off the air by firing on its transmitters, according to CPJ research.


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This will be my last progress update, as I didn't get any sleep last night and I need to finish this game SOON or I'm going to collapse. The game is pretty much done… just gotta add the sounds. Got the HUD working… the player can now be damaged by enemies… the ZUNZANDA effect is in full force… and waves flow like melted butter. It's kinda fun but needs some tweaking. The randomness of the starshines can make some waves REALLY HARD. Gotta find the sweet spot. Probably won't have time to tweak unless the music and SFX creation goes smoothly.
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Beginning April 19, you can register for the Summer and Fall semesters at the same time.
This is a big change from past registration procedures. You see, for decades, Fall priority registration has not opened until June, with Fall semester classes beginning in August. Those Fall classes will still begin in August like always — but for the first time, priority registration for current DCCCD students will begin April 19, and you'll be able to register for both Summer and Fall semester.
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Combined registration for the 2016 Summer and Fall semesters will open on April 19 for currently enrolled students. Everyone else will be able to register beginning on April 25 (after completing the application, orientation, assessment and advisement process).
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I'm not a perv!
Yes you are, you tried to pick up her little niece. true story.
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I live in what is one of the more wealthy neighborhoods in the world. By wealth I don't necessarily mean the income of the rich persons who live in the all the local apartment houses which block out our sky, but the New York institutions clustered here that pull together a steady traffic of the movers and shakers of our economy and cultural life.
On one early-morning walk I can stride past the skyscraper housing a once mighty law firm, which recently notified its partners to look for jobs somewhere else, because, according to the New York Times, they had been over-paying their top dogs enough to destabilize everyone else. Then Carnegie Hall, the Russian Tea Room, the Ziegfeld Theater, Radio City, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Lincoln Center, the Plaza Hotel and Steve Jobs's glittering cube over its Apple super-store, and Central Park are only minutes apart.
I can also encounter, within a minute of our front door, three beggars squatting against a building wall or near a restaurant doorway saying, "Good morning" and "How are you?" and/or displaying signs telling us that they are homeless, unemployed, veterans, etc. On virtually every subway ride, though the practice is against the law, men announce to the car that they are collecting funds for the homeless, or tell their life stories and take up a collection. In one day's walk I might pass a dozen men: curled up and squeezed into a doorway, sprawled out on the sidewalk, stretched unconscious across several seats on a subway platform, or on a Central Park bench, head covered by a pulled-up sweater or jacket, apparently still asleep from the previous night. I pause and check to see if he is still breathing. One morning I passed a corpse on the lawn, covered by a sheet, and roped off by yellow tape, and never learned whether he had just died or was killed the night before.
This bothers me not just because something is obviously wrong with a society where the rich are so obviously indifferent to the gap between the rich and the poor, but also because this year is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Michael Harrington's classic analysis of poverty, The Other America (1962, republished in 1971 and 1981), credited with inspiring Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty. Harrington coined the term, "the invisible poor," meaning both that because of the social class structures that isolated them and because of the blindness of the affluent majority to the inequitable distribution of wealth, it was as if the poor were not there.
Harrington, who died of cancer in 1989 and would be 84 today, said he was a product of middle-class Irish ghettos in St. Louis and Holy Cross College, where the intellectual decadence of rationalistic neo-Thomism, he said, drove him out of the Catholic Church. Yet Holy Cross gave him an honorary degree in 1971, and he has always attributed his social consciousness to his years living at the Catholic Worker where I heard him speak. Though an atheist, he found the principles of the Western European branch of socialism in tune with Catholic teaching on social justice. We met several times over the years, and he told me, shortly before he died, that his commentaries on National Public Radio seemed to have had more impact than his writing.
In the chapter on Harrington in my book Dante to Dead Men Walking, One Reader's Journey through the Christian Classics(2001), I recounted an unnerving incident where a man in rags and bandages and on crutches banged through the doors between the subway cars and told us he is homeless, sick and asked for money. Then I asked myself: What would Michael Harrington do?
In The Nation, Maurice Isserman, Harrington's biographer and editor of the 50th anniversary edition of The Other Americaasks a similar question and offers some possible answers as to what Harrington might think about today's society. First he consulted Harrington's two sons, Alec a theater director and Ted a lawyer. Here are a few samples:
(1) He would have certainly welcomed Communism's demise, but be disappointed when conservatives pretended that communism and Western European socialism were the same thing and attacked Obama as if he were importing "European socialism"—which really means a regulated market economy and basic economic security—as if it were a form of totalitarianism.
(2) Harrington was a coalition builder who enjoyed live civil debates with William F. Buckley. He would have been appalled at the incivility that dominates political life today. A close friend of Martin Luther King Jr., Harrington would rejoice in Obama's election, but would not be pleased with Obama's willingness to cut Social Security and Medicare as a gesture toward bipartisanship.
(3) He would be dismayed to discover that 46 million Americans, nearly one in six, are still living in poverty today, virtually unchanged since The Other America was published. But, an optimist, he would quote Dr. King: "The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
It is not pretty and we are probably past the point of no return. It is not economic poverty but spiritual poverty that is the problem. Rather than get into most of the details, read the book. The situation is not going away and has nothing to do with the recent and current economic crisis but is going to dominate the future like nothing else. The current economic problems just added a layer on top of an already bad situation in large parts of the country. Want to know where the disappearing job force went to? Murray will tell you and it just didn't happen recently. Here is a long review of Murray's book.
It has nothing to do with socialism, capitalism, civility etc. But it may be the result of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty but there are other causes as well.
Harrington moved JFK and LBJ, and we got, for awhile, a "war on poverty." The conservatives of the day said it would not work. What is different today - maybe as item 4 on Fr. Schroth's list - is that conservatives can feel comfortable now saying it should not work. (The undeserving poorm, and all that. Ask Alfred P. Doolittle. Or, for that matter, Charles Murray.)
On Oct 16 2011, Nick Kristof reported in the New York Times that:
* The 400 wealthiest Americans have a greater combined net worth than the bottom 150 million Americans.
* The top 1 percent of Americans possess more wealth than the entire bottom 90 percent.
* In the Bush expansion from 2002 to 2007, 65 percent of economic gains went to the richest 1 percent.
Here are some other facts
* 22% of children in America live in poverty.
* 15.1% of Americans live in poverty. That's 46.2 million people.
* According to the U.S. Government, the poverty line is $22,314 for a family of four.
* Business Week noted: "The Pew Research Center said its recent polling shows that a majority of Americans - for the first time in 15 years of being surveyed on the question - oppose more government spending to help the poor. The deep budget cuts by the U.S. House earlier this year included programs that helped the poor."
* Globally, 80% of Planet earth lives on less than $10 a day.
* Across our planet, 21,000 children die each day from preventable causes
"There also exist sinful inequalities that affect millions of men and women. These are in open contradiction of the Gospel" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, #1938).
"The equal dignity of human persons requires the effort to reduce excessive social and economic inequalities" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, #1947).
"The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich; the rights of workers over the maximization of profits; the preservation of the environment over uncontrolled industrial expansion; the production to meet social needs over production for military purposes" (Economic Justice for All, #94)
"The way society responds to the needs of the poor through its public policies is the litmus test of its justice or injustice" (Economic Justice for All, #123).
"Those who are more influential because they have greater share of goods and services should feel responsible for the weaker and be ready to share with them all they possess... the church feels called to take her stand beside the poor, to discern the justice of their requests and to help satisfy them, without losing sight of the good of groups in the context of the common good" (On Social Concern, #39).
We need to be as concerned, publicly, about these economic injustices as we are about the pelvic issues. When the bishops critique Ryan's budget, there is little attention to what they say. Bashing LCWR doesn't further the cause.
But I do not understand what the combined net worth of the top 400 or the top economic gains to the top 1% have to do with it. I believe it is a well-established fact of economics that wealth does not cause poverty. Preventing people from becoming rich can not prevent other people from becoming poor.
This is one reason there still are poor people in America: the upper-middle (professional) class would rather have them as a pretext to bash "the rich" than fork over more taxes to provide them with the basic necessities of a human life.
No progress will be made as long as people in the 95th percentile insist on running around waving signs that say "We're the 99%."
I think you're right, Amy, in the way that you phrase that. But it skirts the issue.
There is a relationship between the effort to become better off and the well-being of all of us (poor included). I think that the key word is BETTER. Becoming rich means that you are better off than others. The whole idea of becoming rich is to have an advantage over others. Peter Maurin says it best:
... when everyone tries
to become better off
nobody is better off....
Everybody would be rich
if nobody tried
to become richer.
And nobody would be poor
if everybody tried
to be the poorest
That is an amazing statement and I love the ''all due respect''. There is absolutely no respect in that statement which seems closed minded at best. Murray presents statistics, published by the government and major sociiological research organizations. He limiited his analysis to whites so to avoid the nonsense comments like the one above. No one has faulted his statistics yet. I suggest you read the book before casting aspersions. For those interested, there is about a 50 minute video interview with Murray in five parts. Here is a link to a video he made with people from Stanford
It is 5 parts about 8-15 minutes each
Communism did it on steroids killing tens of millions relatively quickly, the more gentler, kinder form of socialism does it slowly but just as surely. In either case the outcome is the same. Maybe we could have a fruitful discussion on Murray's thesis. We could ask whether ''Social Justice'' when practiced by government causes spiritual poverty?
The full title of the book is '' Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 '' so I have no idea on what the basis you make your comment. It is a book about white America. There are dozens of charts taken from government or other traditional sources for sociological data. They are charts on whites only. If that is laughable then so be it but it is not false.
I suggest that those interested, read the book. If you have a kindle, nook or IPad it could be downloaded in less than 5 minutes. Though the charts are hard to read on these devices. The change in white America since 1960 has been dramatic but especially amongst the lower class. For example, in 1960, 80% of white adults 30-49 were married. Today that it is about 50%. At the same time children born to unwed mothers in white America went from 3% in 1960 to about 30% today. The percentage of children born to unwed mothers in white women with a college degree is now about 6% which means that the percentage is much higher amongst those with less education. So education as well as income play a major role. But it is not just children and marriage that has changed.


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Well, these are the dice that Hasbro admitted infringing! When you hold them in your hand you'll be able to see why. Beautiful pearlescent crystals are wonderful to the touch and to celebrate our victory, we going to offer these at a discounted price for a limited time. Crystal dice covered by US Patents #5,938,157; #6,318,720; #D455,462.


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Makes approx. 10 slices
1 eating apple (approx. 180g in weight)
1 small sprig and 1 long sprig rosemary
1 teaspoon caster sugar
Juice and zest of ½ lemon
1 teaspoon butter
For the cake batter
225g butter
150g caster sugar plus 1 tablespoon
3 eggs
300g plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Peel, core and roughly chop the apple and put into a saucepan with the small spig of rosemary, the teaspoon of sugar, the lemon zest and juice, and butter. Cover the pan and cook on a low heat for 4-8 minutes until the apple is soft. How long this takes really depends on the variety of apple you're using. Coxes cook the fastest, and are good here. Leave to cool, and fish out the rosemary sprig when it is cold.
Preheat the oven to gas mark 3/170oC. Line a 450g loaf tin with a loaf tin liner, or butter and line the bottom with baking parchment.
Put the cooled apple into a food processor and blitz to a pulp. Then add the butter, 150g sugar, eggs, flour and baking powder and process to a smooth batter. Spoon and scrape into the loaf tin and smooth the top. Sprinkle the surface with the remaining tablespoon of sugar and then lay the long sprig of rosemary along the centre of the cake. On baking, the rosemary sheds its oil to leave a scented path down the middle of the cake.
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Sixteen Grants Will Help Protect Wetlands in New England
Release Date: 01/07/2014
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(Boston, Mass. – Jan. 7, 2014) – EPA has recently awarded sixteen grants to recipients within New England, totaling more than $1.5 million, for programs that protect wetlands within the region.
The grants are part of EPA's Wetland Program Development Grants in New England. The grants were awarded to agencies in each of the six New England states, the Penobscot Indian Nation, the University of Massachusetts and the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission. The biennial grants cover two fiscal years (2013-2014) to allow recipients to make better long-term strategic decisions about program goals.
"EPA is pleased to provide grants that will support vital research, assessment and training to help protect wetlands in New England," said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA's New England office. "Healthy wetlands are very important for the environmental benefits they provide to our communities. Wetlands help minimize the damaging impacts from floods, they help purify and protect drinking water, and they provide habitat for wildlife and recreational opportunities for citizens."
The grants can be used by recipients to build and refine any element of a comprehensive wetland program. Priority is given to funding projects that address the three areas identified by EPA: 1) Developing a comprehensive monitoring and assessment program; 2) Improving the effectiveness of compensatory mitigation; and 3) Refining the protection of vulnerable wetlands and aquatic resources. States, Tribes, local governments, interstate associations, intertribal consortia, and national non-profit, non-governmental organizations were eligible to apply.
EPA's New England office has changed to biennial grants to provide recipients with the ability to plan for longer term projects. The allocations for the first year total approximately $1,538,500 and the Region anticipates similar funding for the second year of this grant cycle. Grant recipients are required to contribute a minimum of 25 percent of the cost of each project.
The EPA Wetland Program Development Grants were started in 1990 to provide eligible applicants an opportunity to conduct projects that promote research, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to the causes, effects, extent, and prevention of water pollution.
More information: EPA's Wetland Program Development Grants in New England (https://www.epa.gov/region1/topics/ecosystems/wpdg.html)
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Q: Why should I add tooltips to my program?
A: By adding tooltips to your controls you enhance the usability of your program.
Q: How do I add tooltips to the controls in my dialog?
A: First of all you need to add member variables of type Control for your controls. In this FAQ I will assume that you have added a member variable for a CButton control called m_myButton and a CEDIT control called m_myEdit.
Then you manually add a member variable of type CToolTipCtrl to your dialog class;
Now you override the PreTranslateMessage() function in your dialog's class. This relay messages to the ToolTip control:Code://In your CDialog derived class' header file protected: CToolTipCtrl m_ToolTip;
The call to RelayEvent() is necessary to pass a mouse message to the tool tip control for processing.Code:BOOL CMyDialog::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg) { m_ToolTip.RelayEvent(pMsg); return CDialog::PreTranslateMessage(pMsg); }
Last but not least we have to make sure our ToolTip control is created, then add the dialog box's controls to the ToolTip and finally activate the ToolTip control. This code should be in the WM_INITDIALOG message handler function, OnInitDialog;
Please note that the string for the tool tip for the CEdit control is defined the string table resource with the ID IDS_MY_EDIT.Code:BOOL CMyDialog::OnInitDialog() { CDialog::OnInitDialog(); //Create the ToolTip control if( !m_ToolTip.Create(this)) { TRACE0("Unable to create the ToolTip!"); } else { // Add tool tips to the controls, either by hard coded string // or using the string table resource m_ToolTip.AddTool( &m_myButton, _T("This is a tool tip!")); m_ToolTip.AddTool( &m_myEdit, IDS_MY_EDIT); m_ToolTip.Activate(TRUE); } return TRUE; }


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seancallahan necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 587 diseños de 159 diseñadores freelance.
TweetPhoto is a real-time photo sharing platform for the social web. The service lets users instantly share photos on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks.
TweetPhoto started off allowing photo sharing on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook and has recently just launched support for FourSquare. The service has been around since April 30, 2009.
The company has developed an API with over 75 functions for 3rd party developers to integrate into their mobile and desktop applications. Some of the most popular applications on the social web use the TweetPhoto API today.
Millions and millions of users visit http://tweetphoto.com every month from all over the world with about half the traffic coming from the United States. TweetPhoto caters to both a male and female audience. These users belong to at least one social network including but not limited to Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare, MySpace, Linked In and Bebo. TweetPhoto is targeting users on these major social networks and not any one specific social network.
We are looking for a completely new logo redesign. Think photo sharing and mobile phones. The look and feel for both the header and footer logos on http://tweetphoto.com should blend and complement one another like vimeo.com and twitvid.com. Please visit our website to see where the current header and footer logos are positioned. Your new logo designs will replace the logo in the upper left hand corner of the site and the birds on the branch at the bottom of the page.
The logo redesign should focus on what we do. Think photo sharing and mobile phones. We would prefer not to use birds in our logo as that makes the logo very Twitter centric. We are open to just about anything that can accurately represent what we do - help users easily share photos in real-time across the social web.
The header logo should be no wider and taller than the current logo on the site. There are no requirements in the size of the footer logo. Please note that both the header and footer logo appear on every page throughout the website.
Please be as creative as you like although the header and footer logos need to have a web 2.0 look and feel. You are welcome to introduce new ideas, fonts, colors and whatever you like that clearly represents what we do. Feel free to even come up with your own new TweetPhoto mascot or icon! Think photo sharing and mobile phones.
This logo needs to not only be fun and friendly, but professional. It needs to be created in a vector based format that can scale big and small.
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Boogie SuperStar is a boxfull of dancing and singing fun. Aimed at girls, the characters, the choice of songs and the structure of the game elements all make for a teen performance game that is both fun and a good workout. Boogie Superstar is another savvy release from Electronic Arts and comes packaged with its own USB microphone that feels like the real deal.
The main element of Boogie SuperStar is the dancing and here the breakthrough technology of the Wii is capitalized on big time. The dance moves are natural and do not need a floor mat like Dance Dance Revolution to work. Personally, while I enjoyed skill-based dance, I never liked the mat - my feet might make the right move but miss the square a bit and it would count against me. Instead, Boogie SuperStar takes the signal from your arms in motion. This works out your whole body because you cannot keep time being stiff-legged, The moves cause you to bounce and sway, and the spins are real 360 degree turns. The game builds slowly, so you learn new moves one step at a time - literally. There is also a printed chart of the moves with a poster of Natasha Bedingfield on the reverse.
To get started, you pick a character and then get to choose costume and name. As you progress through the levels, more elaborate costumes get unlocked. I can confess that it is so much fun to mix and match the outfits on your avatar without being ashamed of my girliness after watching the guys deck out their race cars with vents and stripes and other stuff that makes no sense to me. Same idea; different avatar.
The training module is very simple and clear, helping you get the right rhythm with each move or combo. Every time you unlock a new set of moves, it is a good idea to return to train. If you're quick at dance moves, though, you don't have to because while you're playing, if you mess up a move badly, the trainer appears in the bottom corner of the screen to demonstrate the move for you as a help.
To play, you enter three-round competitions. The default is one dance, one song and one face-off dance. You can change the make-up of the competition however you want. All songs to all dance, and you can select the music style you prefer: pop, electro, and urban. Each has special signature moves that are unlocked with the points you earn in your competition rounds.
Singing was not such a great success for me simply because I didn't know any of the songs. At first. In the beginning, I selected my rounds of competition to be all dance for a while. Soon I was somewhat familiar enough with the song to try actually singing. The symbols for the notes under the words change color as you go from off-pitch (red) to fair (yellow) to on-pitch (green). I was getting the hang of it well enough to pass even though I hardly knew the music. Much fun.
The settings for the dances are beautiful and colorful, with colorful locales and story book charm. The dancers moves are equally enjoyable. They dance whatever you make them do with your own moves, but they add variations to the basic moves that teaches dance even as the game is going on. For example, the move where you point both arms front and then both arms to the side can be danced with arms in sync, arms in opposition, or just with one arm alone. The screen dancers are a kind of feedback in that way and the live dancers can pick up on and do those moves as they follow the game through.
The game, like all Wii games, allows from 1-4 players and includes the ability to network with other Boogie SuperStars. I know this is a game for young girls and teens, but the workout was as good as any jazzercise class I've ever taken and makes me wish for an older girl version with classic rock-and-roll or popular standards.
All in all, this is a lovely game for girls, full of challenge and exercise in a world that makes the daydream of being a star seem real.
Boogie SuperStar website
Publisher: Electronic Arts Inc.
Developer: EA Casual Entertainment Label
Ship Date: October 2008
Category: Sing & Dance
Platform: Wii™


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by Treadmarkz
Hey everyone. You haven't seen me around for a while now. but I am focusing on my new venture which I told you about a while back "Rolling With Vishnu". You can find a few new posts about my disability and how it relates to my spiritual quest, sprinkled in on rollingwithvishnu.wordpress.com. My most recent post has to do with how my disability has affected my practice of meditation.
The Paralympics Are Not Wheelchair Accessible?
So did you hear the one about the woman in the wheelchair in the crowd at the paralympics. Its not a joke. She was told she could not sit with her family. Apparently the people in charge are planning the event did not plan for disabled people sitting with walkies? Click here to read the entire story. I don't even want to get into it. It just defies logic, and I don't do well with that.
I Just Don't Care About Oscar Pistorius…Well, Now I Do, But It's Too Late.
by Treadmarkz
I blogged about Oscar Pistorius' bid to enter the Olympics (not the Paralympics) in 2008. If you don't know who I am talking about he is a runner who has both lower legs amputated but has been fitted with a pair of "blades" which have been found to mimic a set of human feet in such a way that they do not give him an unfair advantage. This was not the case in 2008 if I remember correctly, but anyway, he was in for 2012. I did not even know about it until the Olympics already started this year. Anyway, I have not been able to muster up the level of interest it takes for me to blog about a subject even though it is admittedly a big turn of events. Now that the Olympics are almost over, I can say, well done, Oscar. It is progress. It muddies the waters between the land of the able and the land of the horrible, mangled creatures they call "disabled.". So I am happy about that. I just don't care too much. Come to think of it, I don't really care that the Paralympics are starting, and I think I mentioned why, in 2008. There are categories that allow pretty much anyone to get into the Paralympics as long as you have a chipped tooth or got your foot run over by a bicycle when you were six or something. Seriously the categories are quite inclusive. Look it up. The Paralympics, it seems, are less specialized than the Olympics. So it is quite exclusive company Pistorius was in when he made it into the Olympics this year.
Hmm..maybe it really was a bigger deal than I thought. See that is what blogging does for me. It allows me to take an issue, and talk it out until I've come full circle, back where, I started, but with a new outlook.
I Want a 10-Day Paralympics Extravaganza On NBC in 2016 With a Five-Hour Opening Ceremony!
by Treadmarkz
Now that I have stated my demand, clearly and concisely, I'd like to note that once again in 2012 the Paralympics follows close on the heels of the Olympics. Once again it has been relegated to a Youtube channel, various other online live feeds, etc, while the Olympics (the Walkie version) is again a world-wide network TV 24-hour a day, weeks-long extravaganza. It's probably on TV right now. Let me go check………….Yup. It is. Water polo.
Eighteen percent of the U.S. population has some form of disability. That statistic throughout the world is comparable. Everybody knows someone who has some kind of disability that would be represented by athletes in the Paralympic Games. Why is this not on NBC? Do we need a specific TV network just for disability-oriented programming much like African-Americans did with the BET network?
Come on, NBC, it's 18% of the population! Think of the ratings! Even if just out of curiosity, huge numbers of people would be tuning in to see this. Think of the new ad revenue you would generate from a wide variety of sponsors.
And lastly, you would be providing a service. Network exposure for Paralympic athletes would show the world at large a new side to disability. For one thing, it would demonstrate how many disabilities are not visible, yet very real for the person living with that disability. And it would help able-bodied people become more knowledgeable about a wide array of different types of disabilities. This can only be a win-win situation. The Olympics this year got Paul McCartney to play the opening ceremony. I say we get John Mellencamp to play the 2016 Paralympics on NBC. He's got spina bifida. See, a disability that is not visible. You're learning something already.
If you agree, please pass this on.
The Ramp At My Apartment's Office Building is Being Put In Today
by Treadmarkz
I've written on this subject before and posted my own version of "Mission Accomplished" by writing about my victory, blah blah blah. So I am just posting to say that my building's managers are finally today putting in the ramp at the office that I have talked about throughout the last few years. They are really doing it. I can hear the construction workers. I will be able to use it tomorrow. Let this be a lesson to you. Whining always leads to victory! lol No, that is not the lesson. There isn't one.
Ashley Hickey Arrested For Parking in the Handicap Zone – Too Much?… 'Bout Time? Whattaya Say?
by Treadmarkz
Ashley Hickey, 24, of Florida was arrested for fraudulently using a handicapped parking placard to park in the space. She could do time. What do you think of this? For example, is what she did any different than a person who has a handicap parking placard or plates because a family member is disabled, using the handicap parking space even though that family member is not with them? Clearly Hickey's is a bigger case of fraud than what I have just described. But no more contrary to the purpose of the handicap parking zone, I should think.
Why Aren't There More Wanna-Be Paraplegics?
by Treadmarkz
A couple of my most popular pieces on this blog are one about a psychological anomaly which causes one to want to be an amputee, and another piece with tips for guys in wheelchairs to follow to keep their abdominal muscles in shape.
Observing this trend, my mind can't help but start wandering. Being in a wheelchair, this is my average (uneventful) day: dragging my body around from bed to wheelchair to car, to wheelchair at work, back to car after work, to wheelchair, to sofa, to wheelchair to shower, to wheelchair, to bed. This is a lot of movement which involves tremendous stress on the upper body, which those of you with use of your legs may never have considered. All of this transferring throughout the day goes a long way toward keeping the abdominal muscles reasonably fit. My point is this:
If I were one of the amputee wanna-be people alluded to above, if I were to dispose of my legs, and the extra weight I carry around because of them, I think my abdominal muscles would be in a rough condition after a while. So these "useless" legs have a hidden purpose, all told. I joke about wanting to cut them off sometimes, but a guy in a wheelchair would never really want to be an amputee. My paralyzed legs provide a natural balance for me. Given that the United States is one of the "fattest" countries in the world, I would think there would be more overweight men who would want to be a paraplegic in order to gain the benefits of the built in work out of dragging the legs around.
This is just how my odd mind works. Take it or leave it.


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It's a well known "problem" that there has been no pasti-compatible emulator for Mac users. Just found a temporary solution.
A nice program called Macindows is able to run some Windows-programs without Windows itself. I guess it's some sort of shell for Wine. Anyway, it seems to run Steem nicely (if a bit slow without auto frame skip). Just tried it with pasti.dll and couple of images and it runs surprisingly well
It's just a demo and expires after 30 days, but still it's a nice start. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/33366/macindows
I also tried free program WineBottler ( http://mike.kronenberg.org/ ), but haven't got it working well enough with Steem. Maybe someone with more experience can help to build a working prefix for Steem?
Ofcourse the best thing would have Pasti-support for Hatari, but for now there at least seems to be one way to run STX on OSX.


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'Snow White and the Huntsman" is now remembered as the film that led to the breakup of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, when it was revealed that Stewart had a relationship with the movie's director, Rupert Sanders.
Perhaps just as well, otherwise you'd probably have a hard time recalling the film. It's entertaining enough, though, in a big, broad overly serious way, considering what it is.
It is yet another dark take on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, which was grim enough to begin with. Even Disney's animated version was a little dark when you think about it. In this case, the heroine (Stewart) is an action figure pitted against her stepmom Ravenna, played by Charlize Theron, who displays the perfect iciness for the role. She is a woman who has her issues regarding men — and rightly so. It doesn't take her long to dispatch Snow's father.
As it turns out, there's also a Dorian Gray aspect to the film, with Ravenna needing to suck the life out of young women in order to remain beautiful. She eventually turns her wrath on her lovely stepdaughter. You know why.
The "prince" in this tale is William (Sam Claflin), a childhood friend of Snow's who has remained loyal to the memory of her father. As good-looking and honorable as the prince is, Snow isn't waiting for anyone charming. Plus, he's no match in her eyes for the sexy, earthy Huntsman of the title, played by "Thor" himself, Chris Hemsworth.
What else is there to know about the film? The dwarfs — played by some terrific actors including Ian McShane, Eddie Marsan, Ray Winstone and Bob Hoskins — are digitally mini-sized.
With this and "The Hunger Games," warrior princesses are in this year, and it's fun watching them, up to a point. Hopefully, though, there will be a filmmaker in the future who can turn one into a real character.
If you have a 3-D television, check out a special four-disc edition of "Titanic." You can also view it on old-fashioned Blu-ray.
And there are more box sets of TV shows, including the charming "Castle."


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