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im looking to buy the Z-Wave.Me Wall Controller and i want to reuse my eljo trend (schneider) frame and paddle, but im unsure which one to choose. I will use switch to send signal to my Samsung smartthings that i will program to turn a lamp on off and dim via zigbee.
Can you help me to get wiser which model to choose?
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Which one will suit my need?
Also there is possible to buy "ZME_SW7" but i assume this is a kit to make switch complete and is not used when using an existing frame and paddle?
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Discussions about existing Z-Wave device and their usage with Z-Way/Z-Cloud/Z-Box
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Protect Mega-Populations
Protect Mega-Populations
The importance of bats to their ecosystems is difficult to overstate. This is particularly true where bat populations number in the many millions, as with Mexican free-tailed bats in the Texas Hill Country and straw-colored fruit bat colonies in Africa.
The ecosystem services provided by these mega-populations are profound and, if lost, would have serious consequences for agriculture, forestry, and ecosystem health.
Such populations also hold significant potential for educating the public.
Bat Conservation International will identify and protect mega-populations of bats wherever they are found, including areas containing a high percentage of the total population of individual bat species (major hibernacula, roosting colonies, migratory concentrations, etc.).
Bracken Cave (United States)
BCI owns and manages the property surrounding the largest bat colony in the world, Bracken Cave, located just north of San Antonio, Texas. With between ten and twenty million bats, this colony of Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis), along with numerous other large colonies located in central Texas provides area farms with insect pest control services valued at close to one million dollars each year. Learn more about Bracken Cave.
Congress Avenue Bridge (United States)
Also located in the Texas Hill Country, the well-known population of 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats that lives seasonally under the Congress Avenue Bridge in downtown Austin is currently well protected. However, this was not always the case. Soon after beginning habitation of the concrete expansion joints on the underside of the bridge in the early 1980s, it appeared the bats might be forcibly evicted.
Through no small effort, BCI's founder, Dr. Merlin Tuttle, and others led an education and advocacy campaign that succeeded in allowing the bats to remain. Today, they are an important fixture in the city, and the tourism revenue estimated to be generated by visitors coming to watch the nightly bat emergence is in the millions of dollars annually. Learn more about the Congress Avenue Bridge bats.
Kasanka National Park (Zambia)
Every year, the bats arrive during October and November to feed on figs and scatter their seeds, prompting reforestation and ecosystem renewal.
Then, just as suddenly as they arrived, the bats scatter to their other seasonal homes, which are thought to be largely in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. Surprisingly given the size of this mega-population, we still have much to learn about its ecology and conservation needs.
There is also a great need to educate local hunters and landowners about the value of protecting the Kasanka population. For these reasons, BCI partners with the Kasanka Trust to promote educational activities for local schoolchildren and to hire forest guards. Another recent conservation initiative for the bats of Kasanka is being led and funded by the Max Planck Institute of Ornithology, in which researchers have attached radio transmitters to some of the bats to track their nightly movements and discover their foraging habits.
Escaba Dam (Argentina)
Large populations of Mexican free-tailed bats are also known throughout Latin America.
The Escaba Dam in Argentina is thought to house South America's largest bat population with just over 1 million individuals .
BCI and the Program for Bat Conservation in Argentina (PCMA) are partners in studying the ecosystem services of this colony and advocating for its permanent protection.
Monfort Bat Cave (Philippines)
In Asia, BCI has been a long-term partner in protecting the Monfort Bat Cave and its 1.8 million Geoffroy's rousette fruit bats on the island of Samal in the Philippines. Despite the fact that bats enjoy wide-ranging legal protections in the Philippines, cave roosts are frequently disturbed or even destroyed by irresponsible use by humans.
Such is the case in the region surrounding Monfort Bat Cave, such that the majority of the region's caves are empty of bats, meanwhile, the Monfort site is literally overflowing with bats. This shows the power of protecting vital roosting habitat, and it was this promise that led BCI to partner with landowner, Norma Monfort, when she appealed for our help in 2006.
Once on the verge of being seized by the government for agricultural development, today the cave is visited by thousands of eco-tourists annually and stands as a bright beacon for the importance and potential for bat conservation throughout Asia.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private-sector hiring took a hit in November due to the impact of storm Sandy on the northeastern United States but the country's huge services sector continued to expand.
The ADP National Employment Report, which is closely watched as it comes two days ahead of the government's monthly national employment report, showed that the private sector added 118,000 jobs during the month, below expectations for a gain of 125,000.
The report largely underpinned economists' forecast for a weak reading in the Labor Department payrolls report on Friday. Economists expect the economy added 93,000 jobs in November, down from 171,000 the month before, according to a Reuters poll.
"It's close to what the market was expecting. If Friday's employment report from the U.S. Labor Department comes in similar to this, that would be a good outcome," said Terry Sheehan, economic analyst at Stone and McCarthy Research Associates in Princeton, New Jersey.
Wednesday's raft of data, which also included better-than-expected factory orders and productivity, presented a mixed picture of the U.S. economy. That was in part a reflection of cross-currents from Sandy, as well as difficult budget negotiations in Washington aimed at averting the "fiscal cliff," a series of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes next year.
A report on the U.S. services sector showed a similar slowing in hiring during the month. But forward-looking indicators pointed to faster growth as a rise in new orders and business activity helped offset a slowdown in employment and prices.
The Institute for Supply Management said its services index rose to 54.7 last month from 54.2 the month before. The reading topped economists' forecasts for growth to 53.5, according to a Reuters survey. In the report, 50 marks the divide between growth and contraction.
"The much larger service side of the U.S. economy remains relatively healthy," said Joseph Trevisani, chief market strategist at Worldwide Markets in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.
"It has so far avoided the contraction in manufacturing but worse is probably coming in the first quarter of next year as the economy continues to slow."
In a twist to the story of Sandy's economic impact, some companies reported that relief efforts actually boosted business, if only temporarily, and this may have helped the headline number beat expectations.
Respondents in the ISM survey did, however, suggest that decisions such as hiring are being put on hold due to the uncertainty that the fiscal cliff is generating.
A separate report on Monday showed that the manufacturing sector contracted after two months of growth.
The noisy readings on the economy will make it harder for the Federal Reserve to form a clear picture when it meets next week. The U.S. central bank is widely tipped to announce a fresh round of Treasury bond purchases, avoiding monetary policy tightening to maintain support for the lackluster economy.
U.S. stocks were little changed after the data but rose in volatile trade by midday. The S&P 500 index, a broad measure of U.S. stocks, traded up 0.5 percent.
Also on Wednesday, a report showed new orders received by U.S. factories unexpectedly rose 0.8 percent in October as demand for motor vehicles and a range of other goods offset a slump in defense and civilian aircraft orders.
The Commerce Department also upwardly revised October's figures on non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft in a hopeful sign that the slowdown in business investment in recent months might soon draw to a close.
Economists at Barclays said the strong reading, driven by orders and shipments of capital goods, equipment used to make other things, means the economy will grow faster than expected in the fourth quarter. They raised their gross domestic product growth outlook for the quarter to 2.2 percent from 2 percent.
The report chimed with another release showing U.S. nonfarm productivity increased at a much faster clip than initially thought in the third quarter as businesses held the line on hiring even as output surged, with unit labor costs falling at their fastest pace in almost a year.
With the effects of Sandy out of the way in the months ahead, hiring is expected to return to its previous trend even if more slowly than most would like to see with the employment rate still hovering near 8 percent.
Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, who helps compile the ADP report, said underlying jobs growth was closer to 150,000 in November after discounting the impact of the storm as well as seasonal jobs brought forward at the start of the holiday season.
"Abstracting from the storm, the job market turned in a good performance during the month," he said. "Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc on the job market in November, slicing an estimated 86,000 jobs from payrolls."
Zandi said he was seeing little indication that budget negotiations in Washington, aimed at averting the so-called fiscal cliff, were having a significant impact on hiring.
"I don't sense that businesses have pulled back on their hiring or increased their layoffs as a result of the angst surrounding the fiscal issues," said Zandi.
The impasse over the fiscal cliff, which could slam the economy to the tune of $600 billion next year, has been blamed for fueling uncertainty and making corporate managers delay business decisions.
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Gulf Oil Spill
A blowout on April 20 led to huge fire and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
blowouts (explosions, followed by fire) are possible when wells are being drilled. The oil industry depends on technologically advanced equipments to deal with such eventualities. One way they do is to study with computer simulations. 'If one tweaks one part of the equipment to make it stronger (to deal with the higher pressures, and greater temperature differential between the hot oil and the cold water), it can cause unforeseen problems with another system that interacts with it. In short technology is merely groping in the dark hoping the ground realities ever remain true to computer model.It is like a blind shooter who is the fastest draw may yet find his mark because of his speed. What we need to concern ourselves is that where one gets the problem licked it is more likely something else could go wrong from an area least expected.
The earliest oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico were in shallow waters near the coast. But as these wells have become depleted, it has been necessary to drill in ever-deeper waters. When one drills in deeper water, the challenges are greater–the pressures are greater, the temperature of the oil is higher, and the stresses on the metals involved are greater.
With such likely 'environmental disaster scenario 'one expects government agencies would be more vigilant to protect their green wealth,flora and fauna that could be wiped out by disasters.
In this case the government regulator downplayed environmental impact of spill.
In a 2007 the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service presented environmental impact statement for the Western and Central Planning Area Sales, which includes the Macondo Prospect where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded In the document which covers oil drilling leases from 2007-2012
" Offshore oil spills resulting from a proposed action are not expected to damage significantly any wetlands along the Gulf Coast… Overall, impacts to wetland habitats from an oil spill associated with activities related to a proposed action would be expected to be low and temporary." (emphases are provided by the writer of the Huffington Post. Ack:The Huffington Post-May 3,The Oil Drum report of April 28,2010 by Gail the Actuary)
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The Jewish Journal and the Jewish Belle de Jour
The Jewish Journal reports on the University of Bristol prostitute Belle de Jour who has revealed her identity as a UK cancer researcher, Brooke Magnanti. But why should such be reported in the Jewish Journal? Well, it turns out that Magnanti is Jewish.
The Jewish Journal found the following quote from Magnanti from the Daily Mail as being particularly tasteless-
'My mother's family are Jewish; there's this hoarding thing, saving, being prepared – if you're in debt, somebody could come and knock on your door and take it all away tomorrow.'
That explanation sent columnists in a stammering outrage. Where to take umbrage first: at the ethnic stereotype? At the leap from debt to paid sex? At the idea of a smart woman taking life-threatening risks?
Leaving the stereotypical reference to Jewish people aside, it is outrageous by implication to liken herself – an educated woman waiting to get her PhD – to the kind of pitifully poverty-stricken and powerless female who, the world over, becomes a prostitute because of need.
The Jewish Journal then reports:
Dr Magnanti, who studied anthropology and math in Florida, was completing a PhD at Sheffield University's department of forensic pathology when she became a call girl. Realising she had no objection to having sex for money, she contacted an agency and worked as a prostitute from 2003 to late 2004, which she said was 'so much more enjoyable' than her shifts in another job as a computer programmer.
The Belle du Jour blog became a hot media property, spurring speculation about the true author, a lucrative book deal. The book was serialized on UK prime time television in 2007's "Secret Diary of a Call Girl," starring actress of Billie Piper, and eventually played on pay cable in the US…
The blog made no secret of Belle du Jour's Jewish background. But in a recent post, though, Magnanti provided a slightly different explanation of why she turned to a life of $600 hour sex rather than the workaday grind:
Once upon a (very long) time ago, after being a student and before moving to London, I had a year of working several jobs at the same time. They were, in case you wondered, at an art gallery, a bookshop, a map/travel store, and an internship for the professional employment I later returned to. I put two thirds of my earnings into savings… savings that didn't last half as long as I needed them to, or thought they would, and were long gone by the time I moved to London.
It was a busy time of my life. So busy, in fact, there were days I literally had to choose between having time enough to eat and getting enough sleep. I lost weight to the point at which my father, all ten stone of him, was concerned for my health. And once out the other side I promised – no, I swore – I would never do that again.
Which is not, incidentally, the reason I became a call girl a couple of years later – though certainly it was an experience informing that decision.
So was it boredom, or a "Jewish" aversion to debt that led Magnanti into her secret life as a hooker with a heart of…Goldstein? Her father, a plumber who lives in Holiday, Florida, told the Daily Mail it's all his fault: after his divorce from Magnanti's mother, he visited as many as 150 prostitutes, and introduced his daughter to many of them.
'Of those, four or five were deep emotional relationships, and Brooke met those women. She saw that prostitutes were human. They were women.
'Brooke did not approve of me seeing the prostitutes, not because they were selling their bodies for sex but because of their drug use.
'We had a very big falling out. Brooke said some harsh things that she hoped would help me – but which had the opposite effect.'
But the former plumber said he was proud of his daughter, saying: 'She has not done anything wrong. Brooke is a very independent woman, and I support whatever she has done.'
He added: 'I am glad that she is no longer a prostitute. In my experience prostitution is wrong and corrupts people. I know that from my own experience.
So what does Judaism teach about prostitution? Rabbi Shmuely Boteach, jewishjournal.com's resident expert on sex and Jewish law, put it this way:
"Don't believe any balderdash that says Jews can visit prostitutes. Judaism demands that all men and women experience sex the best way. And that is, where they can have really uninhibited sex because they are devoted to each other. They are not ashamed to be around one another because they are totally committed. They are not afraid of exposing their soft underbelly. Many people today have sex with full body armor, with all their inhibitions intact, with their defenses up."
Judaism condemns prostitution. Then again, it has some pretty harsh things to say about eating shrimp, and plenty of Jews enjoy that too. So are we shocked, shocked that a bright Jewish woman would turn to tricks to make a living? No—just that she'd somehow ascribe "a pathological aversion to being in debt" as a Jewish trait. Way to shatter one stereotype and spread another.
The dankprofessor feels that the Jewish Journal goes beyond the fringe when it asserts that somehow Magnanti shatters one stereotype and spreads another. I did not even know that there was a stereotype of a Jewish prostitute or of Jews suffering a pathological aversion to being in debt.
In any case, if people are so prone to engage in stereotypical thinking as reported by the Jewish Journal, maybe people will start stereotyping sex workers as cancer researchers. OK, not as cancer researchers but as British cancer researchers. This sort of thing simply can't happen in the United States.
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LONG BEACH, CA -- Frog's Fitness has announced it will close its location on the California State University Long Beach (CSULB) campus at the end of the year.
Frog's, which has leased its space in CSULB's Walter Pyramid for 15 years, will close on Dec. 31. A spokesperson for Frog's parent company, Club One, told the Long Beach Press-Telegram that the club was hit hard by the opening of the new $70 million university recreation center earlier this year.
Membership in the CSULB facility is included as part of current students' union fee and also is available to the school's staff, faculty and alumni for a monthly fee. The rec center is not open to the general public, but a post from the administrators of Frog's Facebook wall says management has approached the university about opening the facility to current Frog's members.
According to Club One spokesperson Kari Bedgood, approximately 80 percent of the members at Frog's Long Beach location are students. The club also is popular with senior and disabled members due to its specialized wellness center and physical therapy program.


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Some incredible individuals and parent advocates have been hard at work the past two days in Washington working with legislators on Capital Hill for the annual Eating Disorders Coalition Lobby Day to push forth further measures and legislation in the continuation to further progress within treatment, research, prevention and education of eating disorders.
This is vital and necessary work. I for one am so very grateful, since I was not able to attend, for all of these individuals who have committed themselves towards improving the lives of those affected by this devastating illness and the families that are doing so much of this work solo, without much support, treatment resources, and clinicians adequately trained to best help their loves ones.
Thank you EDC and its sponsors, Ms Laura Collins— you are the best!
"Heinasirkka-heinasirkka mene taalta hiiteen!"
(Grasshopper-grasshopper go away!)
Having Finnish ancestral blood-lines, we take this man-made legend with both some celebratory flare as well as good-natured humor. Though when I was growing up, St Urho was presented more as a fact– I actually believed there was a real St Urho chasing those grasshoppers out of the vineyards!
And I do remember drinking the grape juice (now we've switched to framboise) having bowls of fish soup (not too memorable taste-wise, but I've revised this recipe accordingly throughout the years) wearing something purple, and having a sense of pride in our family's heritage (rarely did anyone I know growing up have any idea about Finnish culture, let alone being a fellow Finn) ; and how my great-grandparents came to the US, fleeing Soviet conflict to make a better life imbued with "Sisu" strength. Imagine too, to my surprise and sense of fellow-kinship when I found out one of my teacher's was also Finnish and knew this St Urho character, even going so far as to wear the green (representing the grape leaves) and purple and taking the time during chemistry class to shed a little cultural legend to the day!
So you may be wondering what I'm going on about… what does this have to do with eating disorders, has this woman lost her mind completely, gone off on a tangent of sorts? Well yes, and no…
Our daughter has been battling anorexia nervosa since last year, and as most families with young adolescents struggling with ED know- -it's definitely a challenge, sometimes requiring every last reserve, every ounce of your sanity, energy, finances, etc. to help pull your child through the black hole of this life-threatening illness towards supporting, loving and helping them find their way back to Life, to Hope and Healing. And it is possible for your child to find their way back towards full recovery, in whatever form that may take that fully supports, treats and assists your child and family best to getting the best care possible.
Many times as parents when confronted with the diagnosis of an eating disorder, after we clear the fog of our own lack of knowledge having not experienced the illness first hand, and then educating ourselves, we may also feel conflicted by all the advice of those while well-meaning, or touting as "experts"cannot ultimately speak for our individual circumstances and personal family needs, preferences, values and choices. And as parents, we have the right to make those fully-informed decisions knowing our child best, and not feeling coerced, manipulated, brow-beaten or given endless heavy-handed black/white-right/wrong ways of fighting this illness and finding the best treatment options for our child– whatever it takes. You, as the parent, will know what is best for your child and should not have to feel guilty or at fault, or having failed , or less of a parent in any way for your choices towards making treatment possible and suiting your individual childs' needs as well as that of your family.
However, not making a decision or acting towards taking a stand against your childs' eating disorder/illness will only dig that black hole even deeper, and really no one suffering with this illness or their families should be alone in finding help and the care they deserve. There is help, support and resources available, but since eating disorders are still relatively incoherently and inconsistently treated, and in many instances not adequately covered by insurance for long-term outpatient treatment/services, let alone intensive residential treatment options when necessary, we as parents must take a stand, advocate for our children (and ultimately all those suffering from an eating disorder) and be the "squeaky wheel" in our child's treatment plan.
Even when your child is at a "safe" stage within his/her recovery, as parents we know there is no looking back– our lives have profoundly changed, ED is not a welcome guest, yet at your childs' most vulnerable moments, the disorder will work so damn hard at trying to stay and undermine progress– Health and Recovery. Recovery takes time, patience and perseverance. It requires us as parents to listen, be present, and support our children yet also allowing them to take ownership of this process without being left on their own, and with ED's it's a complex balancing act because we love our children and want to keep them safe, but at the same time cannot force the process on our terms, or by what we feel when they are feeling something completely other– recovery does have to be ultimately theirs, they will own it, and feel the triumph of success everytime ED rears it's ugly head and they can face these challenges with courage, resilience and continued strength. Slowly dismantling this pernicious illness, as Lee Wolfe Blum pointedly states: "protect your recovery"…. like the patron St Urho, chasing after either the original mythical frogs or later the grasshoppers; I think there are a couple of translations that have the word "hell" added to the chant.
We Finns celebrate this day every year at this time in March, (some corners of the globe even have a dance ritual they gather together to enjoy– very interesting!) but this year something about St Urho's Day brought an even more striking meaning to me personally with his image holding up the trident with a captured grasshopper, I was instantly struck by the power of this statue/image minus the grasshopper(s): "ED- ED, get the hell out!"
-May the spirit of this St Urho's Day be with you all!
Extremely tragic news of a mother who "believed there was no hope" for her daughter who was suffering from anorexia and depression, which ironically she herself began battling around the same age- but seemed to be particularly well hidden from the rest of the family's awareness– ends in the death of a promising young life.
This heartwrenching loss brings to mind many who struggle in silence and isolation, but what few still come to terms with is that this illness can indeed take lives not fully lived, and at any age.
Families, parents, and sufferers affected by disordered eating and self-starvation need and deserve compassion, effective treatment, and ongoing support. Public awareness, insurance coverage and access to quality care, along with early intervention are still what we all need to keep pushing for so that HOPE becomes reality; and lives can be restored.


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|Armando Dippet
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Between 1 September [1] and 18 December, 1992 [2]
|Physical information
Male [3]
|Hair colour
|Eye colour
|Skin colour
Light [3]
Headmaster of Hogwarts [3]
- "We are honour-bound to give service to the present Headmaster of Hogwarts! Shame on you, Phineas!"
- —Dippet's portrait scorning Phineas Nigellus Black.[src]
Professor Armando Dippet (October, 1637—late 1992) was Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and the predecessor of Albus Dumbledore in the post. He was a "nearly bald and a somewhat feeble" man in his elderly years.
Dippet served as Headmaster in the 1940s at least. It was during his tenure that the Chamber of Secrets was first opened by Tom Riddle since its creation by Salazar Slytherin in around A.D. 993. Unknowingly, Dippet was indirectly responsible for the end of the attacks by telling Riddle that the school would have to be closed if said attacks continued. Dippet was also responsible for the expulsion of Rubeus Hagrid after Riddle framed him with the attacks.
Following his retirement, Dippet was accused of the Flying Ford Anglia incident in 1992 by Leonora Gore and Daphne Maubyslin. He died before December of the same year, and, ever since, his portrait hangs in the Headmaster's office. He is featured on a Chocolate Frog Card.
Early lifeEdit
Armando Dippet was born in October 1637.[1] At some point prior to his magical education, he purchased or inherited his wand.[4]
It is possible that he attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, being Sorted in 1649.
It is also probable that he had high O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. grades, as he later became Headmaster of Hogwarts, most likely succeeding Newton Scamander, a famed Magizoologist.
As Headmaster of HogwartsEdit
Early yearsEdit
Professor Dippet became Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the early twentieth century.[5] In his position, it is likely he was responsible for the employment of Horace Slughorn,[6] Albus Dumbledore,[3] Herbert Beery,[5] Silvanus Kettleburn[5] and possibly Galatea Merrythought[7] as teachers at Hogwarts.
Christmas pantomimeEdit
- "The night's entertainment concluded with a packed hospital wing..."
- —Albus Dumbledore[src]
During Dippet's tenure as Headmaster, Herbert Beery, then-Herbology master, proposed an adaptation of The Fountain of Fair Fortune as a Christmas treat for both staff and students. The show, however, was a fiasco: the students playing Amata and Sir Luckless had been boyfriend and girlfriend until one hour before the show, at which point "Sir Luckless" dumped her for "Asha". During the play, the Engorged Ashwinder portraying the Worm (provided by the reckless Professor Silvanus Kettleburn) exploded in a shower of hot sparks and dust, filling the Great Hall with smoke and fragments of the scenery. While the Ashwinder's eggs set fire to the floorboards, "Amata" and "Asha" started duelling fiercely. Professor Beery was caught in the crossfire and his head assumed unusual proportions. While the staff evacuated the Great Hall the fire raging inside it threatened to engulf the place.[5]
Of course, there were several people sent to the hospital wing and Professor Dippet had to put Professor Kettleburn in one of his sixty-two periods of probation. In response to this dramatic fiasco, Professor Dippet imposed a blanket ban on future pantomimes, a tradition is still followed by the Hogwarts' staff and students to this day.[5]
Chamber of Secrets openingsEdit
- Armando Dippet: "My dear boy, you must see how foolish it would be of me to allow you to remain at the castle when term ends. Particularly in light of the recent tragedy… the death of that poor little girl. You will be safer by far at your orphanage. As a matter of fact, the Ministry of Magic is even now talking about closing the school. We are no nearer locating the — er — source of all this unpleasantness…"
- Tom Riddle: "Sir — if the person were caught — if it all stopped —"
- Armando Dippet: "What do you mean? Riddle, do you mean you know something about these attacks?"
- Tom Riddle: "No, sir."
- — Armando Dippet and Tom Riddle on 13 June, 1943.[src]
Dippet was the Headmaster of Hogwarts when the Chamber of Secrets was opened by Tom Riddle, during the 1942—1943 school year. Very fond of Riddle, Dippet was unaware of his sinister nature.[3]
That school year, many students were attacked by Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk. On 13 June of the same year, a student named Myrtle was murdered in a bathroom,[3] during one of the Chamber's openings by Riddle.[8] After realising that no one had seen Myrtle for a couple of hours, Professor Dippet asked fellow student Olive Hornby to go and look for Myrtle.[9]
Myrtle's Muggle father and mother were summoned to the school by Dippet, and the Headmaster faced the possibility of closing the school. Dippet also rejected Tom's request of staying at school over the summer holidays due to the situation, but would have given him special permission if the school were much safer.[3] Not wanting the school to close, or possibly not wanting to return to the orphanage, Riddle stopped attacking students with the Chamber's Basilisk and framed Rubeus Hagrid for the attacks. Dippet promptly expelled Hagrid. Under Albus Dumbledore's request, Hagrid was trained as Gamekeeper and was allowed to remain at the school.[8]
Riddle's job applicationEdit
- Dumbledore: "Professor Dippet told him that he was too young at eighteen, but invited him to reapply in a few years, if he still wished to teach."
- Harry Potter: "How did you feel about that, sir?"
- Dumbledore: "Deeply uneasy. I had advised Armando against the appointment - I did not give the reasons I have given you, for Professor Dippet was very fond of Voldemort and convinced of his honesty - but I did not want Lord Voldemort back at this school, and especially not in a position of power."
- — Dumbledore and Harry Potter on Dippet and Riddle's application.[src]
When Tom Riddle returned to Hogwarts after his graduation to apply for the post of professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts, after Galatea Merrythought retired, Dippet denied him the position for being too young, but invited him to reapply in a few years, despite being advised against it by Albus Dumbledore.[10]
Dumbledore realised Riddle's true intentions, but did not include them as his reasons for denying him the job, as Professor Dippet was very fond of him and believed that he was completely honest.[10]
- "Eye-witnesses Leonora Gore and Daphne Maubyslin said that the accident was caused by a rather feeble old wizard called Armando Dippet, a local well known for his erratic flying. He is due to take his ancient age flying test next month on his 355th birthday. Unfortunately, this accident occurred a month too early. [...] Recently Dippet had dropped some of his [...] by looking at [...] and crashed straight into Felickaria Tugwood and she in turn fell off her broomstick [...]'"
- —Evening Prophet, 1 September, 1992; Flying Ford Anglia Mystifies Muggles, by Andy Smudgley.[src]
Headmaster Dippet retired at some point before 1955, leaving Professor Dumbledore to take his position of head of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He was, at the very most, 318 years old.
Following his retirement Dippet went to live in an unspecified locality, neighbour to Leonora Gore and Daphne Maubyslin. He became well known for his poor flying skills.[1]
In or before August 1992, Dippet crashed into Felickaria Tugwood, who fell off of her broom. Later that year, he was to take a flying test because of his ancient age on his birthday in October.[1]
When Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley were seen by Muggles flying an enchanted Ford Anglia, Dippet was initially accused by the locals and had his broomstick confiscated.[1] However, the accusations were later proven false.
Death and post-mortemEdit
- " The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore – by Rita Skeeter, best-selling author of Armando Dippet: Master or Moron?."
- —Cover of The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore.[src]
Dippet passed away sometime between September and December of 1992.[2] He is featured on a Chocolate Frog Card[11] and at least one biography of him is known: Rita Skeeter's Armando Dippet: Master or Moron?[12] (although it is likely this work contains some defamatory false information, given the author and the book's title). His position as Headmaster of Hogwarts was succeeded by Albus Dumbledore.[3]
A portrait of Dippet was hung at the Headmaster's office,[13] depicting him dressed in blue and bronze robes.[14] In 1995, he scorned the portrait of Phineas Nigellus Black, who was feigning tiredness in order to avoid going to 12 Grimmauld Place like Dumbledore asked him to. He was devoted to serving whomever was Headmaster.[15]
Physical descriptionEdit
Professor Dippet had pale skin, brown eyes and, in his youth, a thick brown beard.[11]
In his elderly years, he became frail and feeble-looking. He was balding and had only a few wisps of white hair left.[3]
Personality and traitsEdit
Armando Dippet was loyal to Hogwarts and reprimanded Phineas Nigellus for attempting to defy a request from Dumbledore.[15] Like most teachers he was manipulated by Tom Riddle and was charmed by his politeness and dedication to his magical studies.[8]
Professor Dippet was distrusting, or at least careful with whom he relayed information to, as Dumbledore noted that he was one of the few people that Dippet confided in.[10]
- Wand: Professor Dippet's wand was of unknown manufacturer, length, core and wood. Presumably purchased at the age of eleven prior to his magical education, he was in possession of it during the 1940s. He left it on his desk during his meeting with Tom Riddle in 1943 concerning the summer holidays and the Chamber of Secrets openings.[4]
- Broomstick: Dippet once had his broomstick confiscated following allegations by Leonora Gore and Daphne Maubyslin.[1]
- Headmaster's office: When Professor Dippet lived in the office in the Headmaster's Tower, there was a single bookcase, a desk, and several paintings there, including the portraits of his predecessors. His passwords are unknown, though it can be presumed that he told one of them to Tom Riddle in 1943.[3]
- Strawberry and ling plantations: According to Albus Dumbledore, Professor Dippet planted some strawberries and ling in the castle grounds while he was Headmaster. However, it is likely that Albus was simply trying to distract Cornelius Fudge and Walden Macnair.[16]
Tom RiddleEdit
- "I had advised Armando against the appointment - I did not give the reasons I have given you, for Professor Dippet was very fond of Voldemort and convinced of his honesty [...]'"
- —Albus Dumbledore with Harry Potter.[src]
Dippet was very fond of Tom Riddle, whom he made several "special arrangements" for. His relationship with him was strong enough to make Dumbledore decide not to tell Dippet about why he thought Riddle should not be given a job at the school.[10]
It is unknown how Dippet reacted when the Dark Rebellion, later known as the First Wizarding War, broke out, with Riddle, calling himself by the name "Lord Voldemort", leading the Death Eaters.
Hogwarts staffEdit
Professor Dippet was, apparently, distrusting of his employees, confiding only in a few professors, which included the Transfiguration teacher Albus Dumbledore.[10]
As headmaster, Dippet placed Silvanus Kettleburn on at least one, but presumably many more, of his sixty-two periods of probation. The one known time was after he provided an Ashwinder with an Engorgement Charm on it instead of a worm for the The Fountain of Fair Fortune pantomime. Dippet, after the chaos, placed a permanent ban on pantomimes from thereon.[5]
Another of Dippet's employees was Herbert Beery, who was the one who adapted The Fountain of Fair Fortune into a play. Beery, who had been teaching Herbology, eventually left to become a professor of the Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts.[5]
Horace Slughorn also worked under Headmaster Dippet. One evening, during one of his Slug Club's supper parties, Slughorn joked that if the student group would be found up and about after hours, Professor Dippet would put them all in detention, including himself.[17]
- "Armando" is from the name Armand, "of the army". "Dippet" is not a word in English, but "dip" has many meanings, including: to put something into something else, often a liquid; to take something out of something, as in dipping out water; to lower and raise something; a fool.
Behind the scenesEdit
- Alfred Burke appeared as Dippet in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, in the memory scene. His face can be glimpsed only for a fleeting moment, before he turns around and convenes with several other wizards. He is also not bald contrary to the book's description.
- According to Albus Dumbledore, Professor Dippet had ling and strawberries planted on the mountains surrounding Hogwarts Castle when he was headmaster, presumably a lie to gain Harry Potter and Hermione Granger some more time to release Buckbeak (seeing as apparently neither Cornelius Fudge nor Walden Macnair could see the said strawberries).[16]
- Dippet was the fourth-oldest known wizard, being born in 1637. The only known wizards older than him were an unidentified 755-year-old wizard, and Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel.[1]
- Coincidentally or not, Armando Dippet shares his initials with Albus Dumbledore (not including the latter's middle names).
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (Appears in flashback(s)) (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Appears in flashback(s)) (GBC version only)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Mentioned only) (DS version only)
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Mentioned only)
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Appears in portrait(s))
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) - see this image
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.K. Rowling at the Edinburgh Book Festival (15 August, 2004)
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Chapter 13 (The Very Secret Diary)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) - GBC version
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 The Tales of Beedle the Bard - Albus Dumbledore on "The Fountain of Fair Fortune"
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 5 (Excess of Phlegm)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half- Blood Prince - Chapter 17 (A Sluggish Memory)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Chapter 17 (The Heir of Slytherin)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Chapter 25 (The Egg and the Eye)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 20 (Lord Voldemort's Request)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Chapter 13 (The Muggle-Born Registration Commission)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Chapter 37 (The Lost Prophecy)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Chapter 22 (St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries)
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)


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4 tablespoons olive oil
1-1/2 pounds assorted mushrooms, wild and regular (it will work with just regular if you like)
1 onion, chopped
4 stalks celery, sliced
4 teaspoons minced garlic
3 to 4 pounds flanken (short ribs)
4 quarts water
3 tablespoons beef broth powder
1 red pepper, chopped
2 parsnips, chopped
4 carrots, sliced
1-3/4 cup barley
1 (15 oz) canned crushed tomatoes
In a large stock pot, heat oil over medium heat. Add mushrooms and onions and sauté for about 15 minutes. Add celery and garlic and continue to sauté a few minutes longer. Brown short ribs and then add remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil; then reduce heat to simmer. Cover and let simmer for 1-1/2 to 2 hours.


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How to Enjoy a "Happily Ever After" Marriage
- Whitney Hopler Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2011 8 Nov
Editor's Note: The following is a report on the practical applications of Craig Groeschel's book, Love, Sex, and Happily Ever After: Preparing for a Marriage that Goes the Distance, (WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group, 2011).
The desire that you have for a lifelong, intimate marriage is a God-given one that reflects His plan for marriage. But when you look around, you see many marriages that either don't last or aren't close and happy relationships.
Despite the divorce and marital tension that are so prevalent, marriages in which spouses live "happily ever after" aren't just found in fairytales. They do exist – and you and your spouse can enjoy one, if you approach marriage the way God intends.
Here's how you and your spouse can enjoy a marriage that really is a happy one, today and every day after:
Find your "one." Loving Jesus must be your number one priority in life if you're going to become the kind of person God wants you to become and be able to give and receive love in your marriage the way you should. So reach out to Jesus with all of your heart, devoting the best of your time and energy to pursuing a closer relationship with Him. Place your relationship with Jesus at the center of your life and revolve everything else around it.
Find your "two." If you're not yet married and are looking for a spouse, search for a spouse carefully, in ways that honor God. Don't even consider marrying someone who's not a Christian because you can't ever truly be compatible with someone who doesn't share your spiritual connect with Jesus, and marrying a non-Christian can only bring misery into your life that will grow. Beyond choosing a person who's a Christian, you should also look for someone who shares common interests with you, whose personality fits well with yours, and to whom you're physically attracted. Don't rush the process, and don't settle for less than God's best for you simply to marry by a certain time.
Move a relationship with a potential spouse through first gear. In first gear, when your relationship with a potential future spouse is just beginning, work to get to know each other well and build a strong foundation of friendship. Rather than spending time alone, try to spend most of your time together with groups of people. If your discover that you're not interested in taking the relationship to the next gear, then don't lead the other person on; be honest about how you feel to avoid hurting that person more deeply later on.
Move a relationship with a potential spouse through second gear. In second gear, as you sense God blessing your friendship, you can spend more time alone together. But continue to guard your heart, and avoid discussing marriage at this point. However, ask yourself questions like: "Is this person becoming more like Christ?", "Does this person have a strong and growing character?", "Does this person have the right kind of friends?", "Is this person responsible – financially, relationally, emotionally, intellectually?", "Is our attraction increasing?", and "Are we helping each other grow closer to God, rather than drawing each other away from Him?" If the person you're dating isn't helping you move closer to God or isn't right for you, break up with him or her as soon as you know.
Move a relationship with a potential spouse through third gear. In third gear, you should discuss the possibility of getting married and explore it with the help of prayer, advice from mentors, getting to know each other's families, and talking openly about how each of you have been both hurt and helped in life and what dreams each of you are hoping will come true in your lives. Don't hesitate to break up if God isn't clearly leading the two of you to get married; it's better to end the relationship (and grieve and heal) before making a lifetime commitment than to marry when you know you shouldn't.
Move into fourth gear: engagement. If it's clear to you both that marriage is where God is leading your relationship, then set a wedding date. But use the time during your engagement to plan your marriage – not just your wedding. Participate in premarital counseling, and discuss issues about which you'll have to make decisions about together in married life, like: career choices, where you'll live once you're married, how you'll share and manage your finances, your philosophy for bearing and raising children, which church you'll be a part of together, and how you plan to grow spiritually together. Continue to protect your sexual purity during your entire engagement until you're actually married, so you can enjoy God's best during your marriage. The fifth gear is marriage itself!
Pursue sexual purity. Keep in mind that you can't have premarital sex without consequences (physical, emotional, and spiritual), so your future marriage will be affected in significant ways if you and your future spouse have sex before your wedding. Realize that you can't have premarital sex without intimacy, either, since God designed sex to develop intimacy between people, so if you end up breaking up with the person you had sex with it, the breakup will hurt badly. Ask God to help you make and keep a commitment to abstain from sexual behavior of any kind until your wedding night. You'll gain many benefits if you do, including trust between you and your spouse (if you compromise sexually before marriage, you may compromise after marriage by having affairs) and an exciting sex life (that you'll never have to compare to the thrill of dangerous sex before marriage and are free to build with real intimacy between you). Set clear boundaries of behavior in your relationship to guard your sexual purity (such as no sleepovers) and ask some trusted friends to hold you both accountable to respect those boundaries.
Identify sins and wounds and pursue repentance and healing. Both you and the person you're considering marrying need to confess sins to God regularly, repent of them, and accept God's forgiveness and strength to make better decisions. You all should also talk honestly with God and each other about the emotional wounds you've suffered in life, and seek God's healing for them, perhaps through Christian counseling. This will help you both begin married life as healthy as possible.
Keep passion alive after you're married. Every new day that God gives you and your spouse during your marriage, pursue each other like you did when you were dating, seeking to learn something new about each other, and nurture the passion and deepen the intimacy between you. Don't keep sins or secrets from each other; confess them to each other and pray for each other regularly.
Submit to God together. Rather than trying to convince each other to make decisions that either you want or that your spouse wants, commit to seeking God's will together regularly and basing your decisions on the guidance He gives you. Learn how to pray together, listen carefully to each other and to God, and work through conflicts with love and respect.
Adapted from Love, Sex, and Happily Ever After: Preparing for a Marriage that Goes the Distance, copyright 2011 by Craig Groeschel. Published by WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group, Colorado Springs, Co., www.waterbrookmultnomah.com.
Craig Groeschelis the founding and senior pastor of LifeChurch.tv, recently ranked the nation's second largest church. By 2010, LifeChurch.tv was hosting more than 80 services at 14 campuses. Craig and his wife, Amy, share a passion to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ. They live with their six children near Edmond, Oklahoma.
Whitney Hopler is a freelance writer and editor who serves as both a Crosswalk.com contributing writer and the editor of About.com's site on angels and miracles (http://angels.about.com/). Contact Whitney at: email@example.com send in a true story of an angelic encounter or a miraculous experience like an answered prayer.


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The wife of former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover was arrested in Florida after she allegedly attacked the golfer and his mother following the third round of The Players Championship. Krista Glover got into a heated argument with Lucas after he shot a 78 on Saturday.
Lucas told police that "when he plays a bad round of golf, Krista proceeds to start an altercation with him and telling him how he is a loser and a p---y, how he needs to fire everyone, and how he'd better win or her and the kids would leave him, and he would never see the kids again."
While Krista was berating Lucas in front of their two children, his mother Hershey tried to intervene and calm her down. Krista proceeded to hit Hershey and then started to attack Lucas when he tried to stop her.
The police report stated that officers found "multiple lacerations" on Lucas and his mother and that their clothing had blood stains while Krista was uninjured. Lucas told police Krista had been drinking all day and attempted to convince deputies not to arrest his wife.
Police said that Krista refused to cooperate after she was handcuffed and damaged the door of the police car when officers attempted to put her in the back seat.
She is scheduled to appear in court on May 31 to face misdemeanor charges of domestic violence battery and resisting arrest without violence. She faces up to one year in prison for each count.
Lucas confirmed the altercation on Twitter and said that "Krista will be cleared in this private matter."
"On May 12, my wife and mother were involved in an argument to which the police were called. Everyone is fine. Regrettably, although Krista was charged, we are comfortable that the judicial system is able to address what actually happened and Krista will be cleared in this private matter. We thank you for respecting our privacy as we work through this unfortunate situation."
Photo: St. John's County Sheriffs Office