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In Matthew's Gospel, Jesus' last command to his disciples is to "go and make disciples of all nations." Two millennia later, the church is still fulfilling the Great Commission through training, offering experiences and instruction and financially supporting modern-day disciples. It is also lived out during worship.
Worship's first purpose is to glorify God, but it also plays a primary role in forming and nurturing disciples.
Disciple-forming worship experiences often contain language encouraging participants to take action and deepen their faith. The Rev. Jeff Hall, associate minister and director of adult ministries at Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, doesn't dismiss worshipers from a service, but sends them into the world to practice their faith. He makes a point always to include a note about going forth to be Jesus' disciples in the benediction.
Through sermons, liturgy, prayers and music, Hall says, "Worship is the primary place in which disciple-making happens." Supplementing it is the learning that goes on in Sunday school and small groups, mission and outreach experiences, youth group and other ministries.
"If I have excited you and inspired you to think more deeply about being a disciple, it's up to you to seek a Bible study or small group to explore more deeply what that means," explains the Rev. Safiyah Fosua, director of Transformational Preaching Ministries at the General Board of Discipleship. "It starts in worship and flows out to other ministries of the church."
Many worship rituals — giving offerings, passing the peace, greeting each other — are practices that prepare disciples to go out into the world, says the Rev. Taylor Burton-Edwards, discipleship's director of worship resources. "What matters is not do we pray well, but do we live well what we pray."
James K. A. Smith's book Desiring the Kingdom [Baker Books] makes the point that humans "are fundamentally 'desiring' animals," Burton-Edwards says. "The role of worship and ritual is to shape our desires [in the case of faith] toward our Triune God," he explains. "When one is discipled by a master, that is a process of having desires shaped to be like the master's."
Doing rather than explaining gives worship the potential for deep formation, he continues. "In worship, we're not just hearing, we're being the body of Christ before God." Ritual allows worshipers to embody and emote their faith together, "and what we learn in worship is an etiquette of grace: we learn what it is to hear the word of God together. We all hear different things but are listening to the same word."
At St. Mark United Methodist Church in Sumter, S.C., the Rev. Telley Gadson, pastor there for 12 years, seeks to incorporate disciple formation in a way that empowers people and helps them to see Jesus.
"Our best opportunity to be the church happens on Sunday morning," Gadson says. "One of the things that has taken us from 35 to 200 has been doing worship well — we plan some parts, but we understand that the free movement of the Spirit is the hallmark of our worship experience." She believes their worship experiences draw people to ministry programs the other six days of the week.
Most services at St. Mark last from 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., but worshipers are often so engaged that they don't notice the length, she says. "That's what worship does for us: it's engaging, it's empowering and it's life-transforming."
A coordinated, unified, scriptural theme is key to a service that seeks to makes disciples, Fosua says. With a theme, "the sermon, liturgy and songs all work together for one transformational purpose." Those elements can work together in any style of service — from traditional to contemporary – and in any size of church. A unified worship experience takes advanced, communal planning, but pays off in worshipers' understanding and grasping of the message.
"Even if someone didn't get the point in the sermon," she explains, "they may have heard it in the song, or they take their bulletins home and maybe reinforce it with prayer."
Also, to better form disciples, sermons must be local, Fosua believes. "The best sermons are ones that are contextual: the people, the times, the economic climate ... the best sermon is found between the biblical text and community text.
"I don't need to tell you something interesting about the Bible, I need to tell you what to do with it. Worship and sermons are important parts of being transformed."
Music, whether contemporary or traditional, has the same potential to shape a person.
"Singing in worship not only forms you to the core and [influences] what actions you take and how you live your life, it also teaches you," says Dean McIntyre, discipleship's director of music resources.
"Hymns like 'A Mighty Fortress is Our God' teach us who we are as a people of faith and a congregation as we sing and internalize them," McIntyre continues.
"We may not remember the sermon, the offertory prayer or the words of institution for Holy Communion, but we will remember, until the day we die, the words of 'What a Friend We Have in Jesus,' and we'll sing 'How Great Thou Art' on our deathbed."
Music is internalized and connects worshipers to each other and to God. He recalls visiting a man in his 90s who couldn't speak and often had his eyes closed, but when McIntyre and his five-year-old daughter visited and sang a hymn for him, the man would sing along.
"Even when we're totally out of our minds, we're still connected through singing," McIntyre says. "Music has such a deep and abiding impact on who we are, what we believe and what we do with our lives — that's how music is an important factor in the shaping and forming of a Christian ... their character, their beliefs."
Carrie Madren is a freelance writer based in Olney, Md.
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Practical practiceThere are many products available in the aftermarket to supplant extra forces on the performance of a car's original airflow, partly known now as ground effects. One way is by using a spoiler. Essentially, it is an aerodynamic device normally on the rear of the vehicle (a front spoiler is called an airdam) that changes the direction of airflow in order to reduce lift or aerodynamic drag. A spoiler can reduce drag and lift or create a downward force on the car. It is called a spoiler because it "spoils" the normal airflow over the car. However, it should be noted that most of these attempts to reduce drag, such as adding spoilers, underbody panels, and airdams, are not entirely practical to road-going cars. The results, if any, are very minor, if they don't result in actually impairing the vehicle's daily capabilities, including reduced ground clearance and so on. Simply put, most aerodynamic aftermarket equipment serves more to improve the car's appearance than its performance-not that there's anything wrong with that.
On the track, however, there is nothing more hotly debated than the effects of aerodynamics on a racecar, as the same principles that apply to aircraft are applied here but with a twist. The shape of a racecar chassis is similar to an inverted wing or airfoil that creates downforce rather than lift. This keeps the car on the ground at high speeds and increases traction around curves because the air under the car is moving faster than the air above it. Slower moving air creates greater pressure, forcing the car down against the track. The reverse-wing shape of the underbody creates another area of low pressure that sucks the car to the pavement.
Downforce must be carefully balanced against drag, which slows the car. Designs are refined through research using wind tunnels equipped with moving tracks to simulate racing conditions, and an efficient compromise in the downforce/drag relationship is the goal to obtain the best handling at the highest possible speeds. This concept is mostly lost on production cars.
Throughout the '50s, a typical prototype sports racing car was small and lightweight, had a front engine, and had a body with a nicely designed aerodynamic shell. Due to relatively inefficient engines, racecar designers were relegated to building a car as aerodynamic as possible by making the body round and streamlined so that it cut through the wind to make up for any horsepower deficits. Sometimes they did this too well. Racecars of the era were prone to too much positive lift, causing them to unpredictably launch into the air even if slightly provoked at high speeds.
In 1956, michael may, an engineer, had an idea to construct an airfoil, but flip it over so that it produced a negative force toward the ground, and mount it onto his porsche type 550 to use the downforce to improve the traction, grip, and handling on his car. May's innovation was too successful; race organizers kept him from the track because the wing "restricted the view of the drivers behind him." Nothing more was said of the innovation or anything like it for the rest of the decade.
Ten years later, jim hall mounted a wing onto his 2e can-am chaparral and proved the value of the concept by running competitively in the can-am championship that year, and he introduced it to the europeans the following year. By 1968, wings started to show up on formula one cars, and a new era of aerodynamic development began, specifically in the area of downforce.
In the early '60s, ferrari's engineers discovered that by adding an airfoil to the rear end of the ferrari 246sp endurance racer for the 1962 season they were able to direct the majority of the airflow away from the rear of the car, thereby reducing drag and lift. This technology trickled down the following year to the 250 gto road car, which incorporated a small duck-tail rear wing.
In 1969, porsche introduced the 917 to international sports car racing, a car with a reliable but low-horsepower engine paired with sleek, low-drag bodywork. The combination worked well, but it couldn't get the championships the factory was after. Porsche switched to a higher-horsepower engine, but the car was then plagued with aerodynamic instability problems (drivers soon named it "the ulcer"). Through wind tunnel testing, the front and rear bodywork was restyled and the car soon dominated the sports car world championship in 1970 and 1971.
However, the wing did not get popular until porsche launched its 911 rs 2.7 in 1972, whose big duck tail reduced lift by 75 percent at high speed. Now a trademark of the 911, the "whale tail" appeared the following year on the rs 3.0, and it completely eliminated lift at the rear tires.
Almost 750 years ago, scientist roger bacon was onto something when he uttered the words with which we began this compendium: "when you get it right, mighty beasts float up into the sky. When you get it wrong, people die."
Sometimes, they get it rightRecently, with the increased cost in gas, there has been a sharp increase in the limits of aerodynamics, sometimes as a design study, other times as a practice in public relations to create a buzz. Many years ago, volkswagen introduced its vw arvw test vehicle that looked more like a race boat than a car. It tested a very low drag coefficient of 0.15, about the same as an f-15 jet, but it wasn't the company's only foray into aerodynamics. Several years ago, vw built a three-wheeled, bullet-like car with bobsled-style seating that was made more for lower consumption of fuel (thanks to its anemic engine) than for aerodynamics, but here it was realized that to increase fuel consumption, perfecting aerodynamics was a must.
More currently, in june 2005, DaimlerChrysler put its philosophy of "leaving familiar paths and giving chance to new ideas" to practice when the company unveiled what it considered to be the shape of the future of the automobile. The project was the mercedes-benz bionic car, a concept vehicle based on examples in nature. For the first time, in the case of the mercedes-benz bionic car, the engineers at the mercedes-benz technology center (mtc) and daimlerchrysler research looked for a specific example in nature whose shape and structure approximated their ideas for an aerodynamic, safe, spacious, and environmentally compatible car. They found what they were looking for in the boxfish, an angular but nonetheless very streamlined little fish covered with numerous hexagonal, bony plates that provide it with lightweight armor. While hardly the quickest fish in the sea, the boxfish is highly maneuverable with minimal effort.
When the boxfish shape is applied to a car design, the results are impressive. The drag coefficient value for the car's final design ended up being 0.19, one of the most aerodynamic designs ever penned. This unique vehicle project was a compact car with two doors, four comfortable single seats, a panoramic windscreen, a glass roof, and a large tailgate. In addition to the boxfish-like basic shape, the low drag coefficient was made possible by a number of other aerodynamic features: rear wheels almost completely shrouded with sheets of plastic, flush door handles, and the use of cameras instead of exterior mirrors. Fuel consumption of the 140-hp direct-injection diesel engine was 84 mpg with a maximum speed of 190 km/h (118 mph).
Sometimes, they get it wrongBernd rosemeyer was seen as the motor racing idol of his day. In just a few short years, the former motorcycle rider shot to stardom in the era of the silver arrows, winning all possible titles in the auto union 16-cylinder type c, from the european championship to the german road racing and german hill-climbing championships. He took the chances of a superstar and nothing could possibly distract him from the fruits of competition: fame, fortune, and immortality. He considered 13 his lucky number. He was married on july 13, 1936, and 13 days later, he won the german grand prix at nrburgring, which he again won the following year on june 13, 1937. His last victory came on his thirteenth start of the 1937 season at the donnington grand prix.
Three weeks after the last 1937 grand prix, in late october, rosemeyer bested rudi caracciola's speed in a german record week held on a stretch of autobahn between frankfurt and darmstadt (now the a5) by pushing his auto union to a speed of 252 mph. Afterward, rosemeyer commented on his record-setting experience: "at about 240 mph, the joints in the concrete road surface are felt like blows, setting up a corresponding resonance through the car, but this disappears at a greater speed. Passing under bridges, the driver receives a terrific blow to the chest, because the car is pushing the air aside which is trapped by the bridge. When you go under a bridge, for a split second the engine noise completely disappears and then returns like a thunderclap when you are through."
Caracciola and the mercedes team, determined to earn back bragging rights, had a few strings pulled to allow for a new attempt the following january. On january 28, mercedes team manager alfred neubauer verified that weather would be clear of gusty winds, but only until 9 a.m. just past eight, caracciola regained the record for mercedes with a speed of 268 mph, noting that "the road seemed like a narrow white band, the bridges like tiny black holes ahead. It was a matter of threading the car through them..." The first person to push himself through the crowd to congratulate caracciola was rosemeyer, who smiled and said, "my turn now."
The modified 6.5-liter, 545-hp auto union streamliner was rolled out onto the autobahn around noon, and caracciola, concerned about the increasingly poor weather conditions at the far end of the road, suggested to his rival and friend that he wait and try again the next day. Rosemeyer said not to worry, that he was one of the "lucky ones." Later, rudolf caracciola said of his young rival, "bernd literally did not know fear and sometimes that is not good. We actually feared for him in every race. Somehow, i never thought a long life was in the cards for him." After two preliminary runs, rosemeyer was on his third and final attempt at 11:47 a.m. when the car was caught by a gust of wind, skidded to the left and then to the right and off the road, somersaulting several times through the air. The 28-year-old rosemeyer was thrown from the car and died by the side of the road. Today, on the frankfurt to darmstadt autobahn, just beyond the langen-morfelden crossing and set back among the trees, stands a small monument to the once great rosemeyer.
As aerodynamic as his car was, equally that of his rivals at mercedes-they could slice through the air, appearing to slip between the molecules-he crashed because of a simple gust of wind no stronger than that which rustles the leaves in a tree. The aerodynamics that helped rosemeyer and auto union achieve the speed that day were the same that led to his demise.
Aerodynamics Buyers GuideThe wind beneath our wingsMore aftermarket aerodynamics from the world's best design housesConversations and theories about aerodynamics abound in the automotive industry, and if you wanted to throw puns around, you could say it is a lot of hot air passing over stiff resistance. Does a car go fast enough to warrant a full body kit? Is a spoiler or airdam necessary on american highways? Will i affect my car's performance enough to offset the cost of the variety of packages on the market today? These questions can be argued until your car becomes an antique, but the only solid answer with any kernel of truth that everyone can agree on is that most aerodynamic-themed accessories make your car look cool. Whether they improve handling, fuel economy, or 60-foot times are issues best left to physicists, engineers, and bench racers (unless, of course, you have the time slips to prove it).
Glossary of termsAerodynamics: the study of the motion of gas on objects and the Forces created.
Airflow: the movement of air around the chassis of the car.
Bernoulli effect: states that the pressure of a fluid (liquid or gas) decreases as the fluid (liquid or gas) flows faster.
Carbon fiber: carbon-based composite material that is strong in tension but reasonably flexible. It can be bound in a matrix of plastic resin by heat, vacuum, or pressure. It is strong, light, and expensive.
Cd: drag coefficient, or coefficient of drag. It is determined by the shape and smoothness of the object, in this case, the car.
Chassis: refers to all mechanical parts of the car attached to the Structural frame.
Computational fluid dynamics (cfd): equations that are known are programmed into computers. The computers provide solutions to the problem of external airflow over vehicle shapes. The body of the configuration and the space surrounding it are represented by clusters of points, lines, and surfaces; equations are solved at these points. Cfd is divided into three steps: grid generation, numerical simulation, and post-process analysis.
Downforce: a vertical force directed downward, produced by airflow around an object. Downforce is generated from the front and rear wings and the venturi tunnels on a ground effect car.
Drag: force acting on an object in motion through a fluid (in this case, air) in a direction opposite to the object's or chassis' motion, produced by friction.
Ground effects: downforce created by an a low pressure area between the underbody and the ground, and downforce created by the front And rear wings.
Laminar: laminar flow means the fluid is moving in smooth layers around the object. Airflow becomes turbulent moving from the front to the rear of the car, forced around obstructions such as mirrors, helmets, and roll bars.
Lift: the upward reaction of an object to the flow of air forced over the shape of the wing (airfoil). The front and rear wings of ground effect cars are shaped like inverted wings to create downforce or negative lift.
Monocoque: a body structure that derives its strength and rigidity from unitized construction, rather than a framework of thick members.
Telemetry: an electronic device that transmits specific data (measurements) to a remote site. It electronically records performance of engine and actuation of controls by the driver. The data is then used as a foundation for determining car setup.
Turbulent: turbulent airflow is when the fluid streamlines break into eddies and complex changing patterns. This can cause unstable forces on an object. As the airflow moves from the front of the car to the rear it becomes turbulent.
Turning vane: deflectors located between the front wheels and side pods to direct turbulent flow away from the tunnels. This eliminates a source of turbulent air to the tunnels. Cleaner air to the tunnels creates more downforce-currently seen on most f1 racecars, and on some indy cars.
Venturi: a narrow tunnel under the side pod, shaped like an inverted wing. As air enters and is forced through the narrow center, its speed increases, creating a low pressure area between the bottom of the car and the track. This creates a suction effect which holds the car to the track.
Venturi effect: fluid speed increases when the fluid is forced through a narrow or restricted area. The increased speed results in a reduction in pressure. The underbody venturi is shaped to create a low pressure area between the road and chassis, which creates downforce.
Vortex: when a fluid rotates around its own center, it is called a vortex. Turbulent flow is made up of many little vortices.
Wind tunnel: a tube-like structure where wind is produced, usually by a large fan, to flow over the test object. The object is connected to instruments that measure and record aerodynamic forces that act upon it.


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During the train ride before third year Harry has a close encounter with a dementor that causes him to absorb the soul fragment within him, granting both knowledge and power. Features Harry with a ...
Chapter Eighteen
by Lionheart
A loud growl interrupted the teens' conversation.
Harry looked embarrassed. "On reflection, I am reminded that this body has never eaten anything in the entire span of it's short existence. Anyone care to join me in breaking it in?"
Hermione became aware that her own stomach was trying to gnaw a hole through her backbone. "Sure! I'm game. What shall we have for breakfast?"
"Hogwarts is out," Luna cautioned. "We can't hold private conversations there, no matter what we do. And we have to plan."
Harry acquired a sly grin. "I was thinking Kentucky Fried Chicken."
Somehow, the girls were not certain how, Harry found a college town where the fast food stays open all night, and side-along apparated the two there. It was a combined KFC/A&W, so they had hamburgers and fries on the menu as well as the traditional biscuits and fried chicken. Seeing as how their entire digestive tracts were empty from one end to the other, intestines as vacant as their stomachs, they wound up ordering a lot, and quite a variety.
Harry also proved able to conjure muggle currency, which put Hermione into fits about honesty, until they had a lengthy talk over their cheeseburgers and chicken legs about the world financial system and how, with fractional reserve banking, that was essentially what the banks, mortgage institutions, and lenders of all types were already doing: conjuring money out of nowhere.
This led to Hermione being deeply distressed about the stability of the world economy, as the entirety of the world banking institutions ran on principles that a hundred years ago were prosecuted as fraud; things that could, would and HAD gotten bankers lynched, strung up the nearest tree for robbery.
The poor girl started muttering about getting her parents to move their assets over to wizarding currency, as at least that was gold, which had enduring value and was considerably more difficult to counterfeit.
Appetites sated at last, Harry pocketed the coleslaw containers no one had been interested in. Refilling their sodas before they left (ironically, Harry had never tasted one himself, but Tom Riddle HAD. But there was no reason for the Dursleys to part with money for a soda for him when there was perfectly good water in the tap), they left for a muggle park to do their planning.
Luna left to go attend to business of her own, and so she would not influence their choices negatively as part of her own bad luck. Harry gave her a dose of polyjuice and a hair summoned off the head of a coed so she could take the Knight Bus and not be recognized, then he and Hermione went off on their own.
And Harry felt it a good idea, to get back into the spirit of things, to pick up right about where they'd left off.
"All are supreme, yet equal. Only Dumbledore's wand can always find my cloak. How fair is that?" he grumbled jokingly.
Hermione positively glittered, and rushed in to explain what she'd already figured out on her own. "Oh! I found that part easy to understand. It's simple, really.
"You have three equals. Let's describe it mathematically, maybe that will help. A, B, and C are equal, they all have the same value. So the wand isn't greater than your cloak or the stone. However, a wand is also boosted by the magic of its wielder. So A plus X is greater than either B or C. A, the wand, cancels out the value of B, the cloak, and you are left with X, the magic of the person who wields the wand. So long as you have nothing to counter X, the spells of the wand wielder could find the cloak. But say you cast your own spells to hide yourself, on top of what the cloak was already doing. A and B would still cancel each other out, then it would be a contest between your magic, Y, and the magic of the wand wielder to see who emerged victorious."
Harry grimaced, getting it. "And Dumbledore is not only extremely powerful, he possesses a vast arsenal of spells and devices to choose from to aid him, so X, whatever he is adding to that wand, is an enormous value."
"Far greater than Y, I'm afraid. We're all still students," Hermione agreed, glancing aside at Harry in concern.
Harry, in spite of having Voldemort's memories and spell arsenal, had to agree. Most of what the Dark Slytherin knew was Dark Magic, which by its very nature was weighted heavily towards combat, torture, and so on.
He knew a great deal of other magic, but Dark was his specialty.
In a contest of information gathering or concealing, things would naturally go to the Dark Ravenclaw as the one who had every advantage of inclination, but also time and resources.
That was his special area.
But Hermione wasn't done explaining. "And the way they can all be different, yet equal, is simple as well! Just compare it to economics, think of it as fifty pounds worth of gold, fifty pounds worth of flour, and fifty pounds worth of ... I don't know, something else, stone maybe. I know those values fluctuate in the muggle world, but just ignore that for now. Each one is worth exactly what the others are, but each is used for different things. You wouldn't want to make a semi-conductor out of stone or flour, nor would you want to eat gold or rock, and you couldn't make very much of a house out of dry cakes or gold leaf. All equal in value, but suited to different purposes!"
"Thank you, now on to stealing Trelawney from Dumbledore," Harry put the real item on the agenda back on track. "What we are trying to do here is called 'stealing a march', or acting before our enemy has a chance to find out what we are up to and react to counter us. It's our only possible chance against someone like Dumbledore, to be honest. He's got too many resources to counter once he starts to realize that we are in play against him. So long as he thinks we are merely pawns he is moving about at his whim, we have some measure of freedom - only so long as he doesn't realize we are using it, of course. Once he accepts the fact that we are resisting him... well, things will get much harder. As he effectively holds ALL legal power in Britain, he makes up the rules. We are opposing a petty tyrant on his own turf, and the very least of all actions he could use to discipline or control us would be to make every single thing we want to do, that he doesn't want us to do, illegal."
Hermione paled. "I hadn't realized it was that bad."
"It isn't. It's worse." Harry grimaced. "But according to the Queen it's a war we've got to fight regardless of how we feel about it. We're in the war. Whether we fight back and try to win it is up to us, but we're already in it."
His girlfriend looked at him in fright, before nodding soberly.
Harry shot her back a grin. "Oh! It really is not so bad! Dumbledore has a bad habit of thinking far too much over every possible aspect of a situation before he does anything. Now we can use that against him, as it makes his reactions extremely slow to anything he hasn't planned out ahead of time. All we really have to do is go in, grab Trelawney, and jump out a window onto a set of brooms. We'll be gone before he knows it."
"Only we'll never be able to return to school, and he'll turn those laws against us, like you said." Hermione frowned in concentration. "No Harry, like you said, it's best if he never knows we're resisting him. We should at the very least go in under a disguise, or something."
Now it was Harry's turn to grow serious. "Hermione, I don't think you know just what we are up against. I'll tell you later how it happened, but over the summer I became an expert on wards and how to break them, and once you do that it becomes almost reflexive to study any you come across. The ones around Hogwarts have been turned into an information network, much like a spider's web. But the ones on the Divination tower are extremely overdone in that aspect. They make the ones over the rest of the castle look tame. It's clear that Dumbledore's hiding a treasure there, I just never thought that he could consider Trelawney that treasure; not until the Queen told us, anyway."
He sighed. "Hermione, we can't even go to class there without setting off soft alarms, and that's after we got keyed in with a certain degree of permission, because we do have class with her. Strangers would set off far more extreme alarms, and that's if we could figure out how to fool them."
Hermione was nodding, deeply considering this. "But I'm already known for getting excited about lessons and asking teachers for extra work to do, or trying to get ahead. So you and I could go in on that pretext, and any alarm we set off he would likely ignore. If what you said is true, about anything and everything setting off alerts of some sort, then I'm sorry but sooner rather than later it would all just become background noise. The wards you describe would be spamming the Headmaster with several hundred messages a day! If he couldn't learn to ignore them they'd drive him mad! So routine messages like scheduled students arriving to class early would get ignored. They'd HAVE to be! All we'd have to figure out how to do is leave without any traces of our having kidnapped her!"
"Rescued, more like," Harry corrected. "If Dumbledore has meddled with her mind to the point of almost irreparably destroying her gift, then Trelawney can't be happy with whatever he is doing to her."
"Point," the girl conceded.
Harry kicked back on a bench and thought. "Okay, to do this we're going to need to do several things. First is get some method of invisibility, so we can creep past most of the regular guards, otherwise our steps will be tracked too completely for Dumbles not to know the entire story. Too bad the fairies used up all of our demiguise hair, or I could've made cloaks out of that."
"Harry!" Hermione shot up in her seat excitedly. "Didn't Luna say that they'd incorporated demiguise hair into the outfits they made for us? The outfits we now have on?"
He looked at her in dawning recognition of her point before hurriedly checking his own outfit, and, after fiddling with it for several moments, vanished. His voice then appeared out of thin air. "Got it. The clothes come with both a broad-brimmed plumed hat and a hood," he stated unnecessarily, as she could observe that on her own. "Obviously, those are redundant. You don't need one if you've got the other. But when you wear both together, as well as the gloves, you activate that power and turn invisible."
She followed suit and soon vanished herself. The gloves on her outfit were more slim and feminine, the hat and hood a different style than his(just as her outfit was a dress and his included trousers) but the effect was the same: total coverage of the body invoked the invisibility power. All they really had to do was put on the gloves and pull the hoods over so they covered their faces. Due to the old-fashioned nature of the clothes, they already had neck to toe coverage, as that was just the way those styles worked.
Of course, they still had a hat, and the easiest place to leave it was still on top of the head. So Harry could be forgiven for thinking that wearing the hat and hood together was the key. Hermione quickly sorted him out on that.
They could see out through the hoods just fine even when they were pulled down to cover their faces. And, the pair found that when they both had their hoods down that way they could also see each other as dim outlines, clearly not visible to others, but just as clear as ghosts to each other.
So they began to have an invisible conversation.
Harry was grinning strongly now. "It's not the super-invisibility of a supreme and ancient magical artifact, but it will do nicely."
"And this doesn't have a bad luck curse on it," Hermione agreed.
"And Dumbledore's wand lets him detect the super-cloaks anyway," Harry tossed off a shrug. "So back to the subject of our raid," he discussed with his partner as they both sat invisibly on a bench in a park. "Next on the agenda is obtaining a means of taking Trelawney without resistance, as we can assume that any interlopers can't just carry her off from the life she's had for the past dozen years or so without explanations we have no time for, and wouldn't want to speak out loud in that castle in any case."
"Harry," Hermione admonished, shaking her head. "Any number of spells would serve just fine! Why, there's Stupefy, and Petrificas Totalis..."
"And none of those would serve us in the least, as we don't dare use wands." Harry shook his own head. "Those wards would detect it, and wand use is not a regular part of Divination, so would stand out as abnormal- especially any and all combat spells. They'd flag our Headmaster with alarms he could not ignore, because they'd be of a much more strident type than the standard 'student going to class' warnings. You can ignore car alarms and telephones ringing, but this would be an air raid siren going off in his ear. The wards are set to give a very high priority to any spell we might use to disable her. Any combat spell at all would have him rushing that tower in moments, sure that the worst had happened, and in our case he'd be right - not something we want if we are trying to disguise our presence."
"Oh. I hadn't realized," Hermione spoke softly, getting an odd look from a passing college student who heard words from a bench no one was sitting at.
Conversation resumed once the early morning jogger had departed.
"No worries at all. You can't read wards. Most can't." Harry shrugged."And before you ask, yes, I'll explain later how you can, and where I learned. But I just got struck by an idea. Dumbledore is too good by far at identifying people and tracing magic through signatures left by their wands. But devices don't leave the same kind of traces, none at all, really. That's why he carries things like a deluminator, because wand use can be detected, but devices can't. So he can darken areas under heavy wards without being detected."
"So, we need some kind of device to subdue Trelawney," Hermione muttered, putting her great brain to work on it. "Too bad Hogwarts suppresses muggle devices. This would be a perfect opportunity for a tazer."
"Actually, I was thinking of potions that could do it," Harry offered."I have a few that stun or shock, and they only have to be splashed on somebody. But it's still very early. We might easily find her asleep and be able to dose her with something without her knowing."
"That would do it then," Hermione nodded her agreement firmly. "So long as we can avoid leaving splashes. I'm sure Dumbledore could identify potions by their traces, if he found any droplets scattered about."
"Hmm, good point." Harry considered, before bouncing a shrug no one but her could see because of their magic clothes. "Well, then, we'll just have to acquire potions that can't be traced to us, maybe buy some at astore."
The invisible girl shook her head. "Not if we're going to catch her asleep. I've been to Diagon Alley often enough to know most stores don't open until well after breakfast. We'd have had our first Divination class before then, and all chance of catching her asleep will be gone, unless we want to wait a day."
Harry invisibly shook his head. "No. We have to take her as soon as possible. It's our best, and possibly only, chance for success. If the Headmaster learns of our plans, getting her out of there becomes impossible."
The bookworm suddenly shot up, her eyes shining with the brilliant inner light of a great idea. "Professor Snape! I know he keeps a stock of completed potions in his office! I saw them once when I was in there asking for extra work! He might have what you need!"
Harry threw on a wide grin, and hugged his currently invisible friend."You're right! And, considering the kind of person Snape is, he's guaranteed to have the sort of potions we want! Excellent idea, Hermione!"
She glowed at the praise, immediately launching on to the next phase of their operations. "So we can get to her invisibly, pass the wards as students who ought to be going to her class anyway, and dose her with apotion to get her tractable. Then how do we get her out?"
The currently invisible (except to his friend) boy shook his head. "Have to be brooms out a window. He'll know the moment she starts going anywhere. He has wards to track her, and she doesn't go anywhere often enough for him to disregard the spam warnings of her moving about. We can use school brooms so there is nothing to track to us."
"Brilliant!" Hermione declared, drawing attention from a few students on their way to very early classes to this oddly vocal yet empty bench.
Harry eyed a pair of athletic types, a boy and a girl, on their way to an early morning tennis match, and got an idea.
After hurried consultations, the pair made their way back to Hogwarts in the brisk post-dawn light, using their fairy clothing to be invisible, and under the influence of polyjuice charged with hair taken from the tennis couple.
Harry knew Voldemort's memories, and Voldemort knew Snape's proclivities. So they were able to find a narrow corridor through the wards of Hogwarts from a certain point on the grounds through a few twisting passages, right to Snape's office.
From Voldemort's knowledge of the man, Harry knew their Potions Professor would be dealing in black market potions while at Hogwarts, and he had to have a route for his customers to reach him, as he could not go out to meet them without gaps appearing in his schedule that would seem suspicious for a teacher who was supposed to be on hand for kids at their boarding school.
Knowing that such a thing had to exist, and that Dumbledore refused nothing that Snape really wanted, the duo were able to use Voldemort's ability to examine wards to find such a route and follow it in to where it ended: right in Snape's office in the dungeons, next to his classroom.
There stood a potion cabinet that was well stocked with a variety of illegal and questionable potions. Harry spent a moment examining the protections on it, before whispering close into Hermione's invisible ear.
"It's warded, but not very well, obviously the work of Snape rather than Dumbledore. Two parts of this concern us, I can bypass the rest. One alerts Snape if a potion is lifted from a shelf - a fairly standard anti-theft measure so his customers don't help themselves while his back is turned or he isn't here. Next alerts him if any of the bottles are empty when the cabinet doors are closed - obviously he's had a few canny customers use switching spells to nip a potion without taking the bottle."
"How are we going to get passed them?" she whispered hotly back.
He grinned in reply. "I have empty bottles from potions we've used before, all we have to do is take the fluid we want and not leave his bottles empty. His wards don't tell him what is in a bottle, only if it is full or not."
Nodding, Hermione looked around and, finding a flexible bit of tubing among the tools left lying around, demanded some empty bottles from Harry, then set herself up to siphon out the contents of some potions.
"What do I get?" she asked over her shoulder.
Harry checked over the contents of the cabinet. "This one, this one, and these four... oh dear."
Hermione looked where he was staring. There on a shelf was a collection of small bottles holding hairs, each carefully labeled. "Draco Malfoy, age eleven, Draco Malfoy, age twelve... Pansy Parkinson, same ages... there's practically every Slytherin, and..." she held her breath to stifle a gasp."Harry POTTER, age twelve?!! Hermione GRANGER, age thirteen?!? Why?"
Harry covered her mouth to prevent her from screaming in outrage. Fiercely the boy whispered in her ear, "Calm. The man sells polyjuice. It should not seem odd that he would sell hairs as well, although it is reprehensible. Why anyone would want them, though..."
"Themes and role plays," Hermione concluded, looking angry. "There are tons of people who want to be with the real Harry Potter, but if they can't have the real one, why not a fake? It's disgusting, but..."
Harry rolled his eyes. "A magical pimp, hard at work. Never mind, we can use this to our advantage. I'll collect the hairs. You siphon the potions."
Nodding, Hermione got hard at work, draining out several vials Harry pointed out into empties that he provided, making sure not to jostle the originals on their shelves and possibly set off a warning. When she was done she noted that Harry had deftly taken out all the hairs using a set of tweezers, and was now adding spoonfuls of coleslaw, unused since breakfast, into the now empty bottles. Surprised, she even stood aside and let him do that to the potion bottles she had emptied, closing the cabinet on them moments later.
No alarms sounded.
"No Slytherins take Divination, nor does Snape appear to collect hair from many people outside of his House," Harry told her in hushed tones."So we'll have to go up as Harry and Hermione Potter."
He gave her a wink, and she smiled for him, downing the potion to resume her human looks, not that she needed a potion to do that anymore, but she would follow his plan. They'd known going in here that talking, especially about their plans, had to be kept to a minimum.
Departing out from the Potion Master's office the pair scurried upstairs and thence to Gryffindor Tower, where Harry crept into the second year boy's dorm and stole Colin's camera, then took along a fresh roll of film and some development potions.
He'd make it up to Colin later.
Then it was up to the Divination tower. Dumbledore was still asleep, resting from the poisoned chicken bone wound that Draco had delivered to him, was it only last night? Real time, he supposed it was. Subjectively, that seemed so long ago.
Well, that increased their chances for success to have Dumbledore out of action, for the moment at least.
Slipping inside the wards around the Divination classroom, Harry noticed them sending off a standard alert message to Dumbledore about the arrival of two students, early to class. Hermione was right, Dumbledore had to get hundreds of those messages a day, considering they were sent whether the student was early, on time, or arriving late. Information overload would have killed many a lesser man, although he suspected the Headmaster had used rituals to increase his ability to process such information. He'd had to have done so to have survived under the information load so long.
But you could feel wind on your cheek, and when it was windy all the time still learn to ignore those sensations.
Alerts for anything out of the ordinary would be another matter, but so far they were just two students showing up early for class. Several hours early, but teachers had to be available at all hours for special lessons or advice. So there were no problems there.
They were inside the Divination classroom before Harry noticed any flaw at all in the wards Dumbledore used to alert him to Trelawney's captivity.
"There is no separate ward alerting him to whether someone steps from the classroom to the teacher's private quarters," Harry whispered especially quietly directly into Hermione's ear, noting the room had several paintings and not wanting to be overheard.
Giving him a quick yet frighted smile, Hermione led as the invisible duo darted into the oracle's bedchambers. The place was a madhouse, scattered about with all sorts of Trelawney's belongings haphazardly stacked in uneven piles or strewn randomly about the floor. It was all well scrubbed, it had to be with House Elves looking after everything, but it had no organization at all, looking like a kindergartner's toybox when no one came through to tell her to clean up after herself.
Sunk completely into an overstuffed bed, under mountains of covers to guard against the chill permeating her drafty tower, the teacher snored softly. Hermione had to poke over the side before she'd believe their teacher had actually sunk a good twelve inches into her super soft, thick mattress.
Harry found the one painting in the room, carefully stood up with his back to it, brought out Colin's camera and shot a picture of the room before waving for Hermione to follow him into the bathroom. Inside, he gave aheartfelt sigh of relief. The chamber was opulent by some standards, fairly average by the ones set by this castle, not even on par with the prefect's bath.
But there wasn't a painting.
"What now?" Hermione whispered.
"No paintings in here. My guess is, judging by the covers, Trelawney likes her baths hot enough they steam, and that would rot the canvas. We can develop a photo in here. I snapped one in front of the painting, once I noticed it was watching her like a hawk despite her being asleep."
Hermione did not have to be told. She's seen enough muggle movies. "And so we can put a photo in front of the security camera, or in this case portrait, to show what it expects to see and thus convince it that whatever we are doing isn't happening."
"And then we make the switch," Harry nodded.
It didn't take long to develop the photo. Wizards were big on convenience, and disliked waiting for their results. He had a photo sheet blown up large enough to drape over the portrait in moments.
"Harry, I just thought of something," Hermione whispered desperately once they were prepared to go out into the teacher's bedroom once again."We can't take Trelawney out of the castle now! She was there when we had our first class with her, and that is a couple of hours from now!"
Harry paused to consider his best friend, before reminding gently, "We have to take her as soon as possible. We've all agreed on that. We can get her now - which may be the only opportunity we'll ever get."
"But this is before we had our first class with her, so it would create a paradox!" she whispered fiercely. "Surely time itself would intervene to make us fail, or something! We can't risk that!"
"No, it won't." Harry grinned at her in reply. "Time moves oddly around the fey, remember? Loops and spirals avoid crossing, even though they seem to. It's the ability to move sideways a touch that makes all the difference. But even so, think on this: If one of us were to take her place and give the lesson as we remember it, no paradox would have resulted!"
The girl stood stunned, too shocked to reply, and Harry kissed her on the cheek. "Thanks Love!" He slipped out, and she followed in a daze. Already, by the time she'd gotten out, he'd maneuvered invisibly before the watch-portrait, and with a deft bit of sleight of hand placed the photo before it.
The painting never noticed. One moment it was watching a room, and the next a wizarding photograph of that room. Harry had done all the work invisibly so one moment it was watching a scene, and the next a picture of it, with nary a ripple in between.
Had Hermione been less stunned she could've appreciated that better.
Then Harry was at their teacher's bedside, and had produced a funnel, which he fed into their teacher's mouth, shortly thereafter pouring a potion down it. Trelawney choked, swallowed and sputtered awake, but Harry had chosen well, dosing her with Unctuous Unction, a potion that persuades the drinker that the giver is her very best friend.
Sybil Trelawney came sputtering awake and looked at Harry, who was now visible and holding a finger to his lips in a shushing gesture.
Smiling, the teacher obeyed her best friend's suggestion, staying silent.
Grinning wide now, Harry leaned close to her and whispered in Trelawney's ear, but whatever it was he said Hermione couldn't overhear, which was well, she supposed, as if she couldn't the painting couldn't either.
Harry then handed the teacher another potion, which she downed readily, turning into an identical copy of Hermione's mortal body. He then gave her a set of Hermione's school robes, making the girl wonder just how long Harry had been planning to switch them.
She soon had her answer, as he then left the teacher, who skipped off into her bathroom to dress, and whispered into Hermione's ear. "She thinks that she is going out on a lark with a very old friend, and has to slip out as you in order to get away from her employer - which is right. The wards registered you and I enter, they won't see anything unusual about you and I leaving. Her own clothes have tracking charms on them, especially her glasses. Get rid of them before you make your own exit and you should make it much further much faster. I'll meet you at the place we're supposed to take her, ok?"
And with that, he pressed another vial of polyjuice and a few of Trelawney's hairs into the maiden's hands, along with one of the shrunken brooms.
Hermione didn't like it, but could see no other way. Desperately biting her lip, she nodded her acceptance of this plan.
And with a last bit of advice, "Slip out as soon as you can," Harry took the teacher now dressed as her, sheltered her inside of his invisible robes, and left Hermione behind to prevent a paradox.
Author's Notes:
Went back to chapter twelve and replaced Eton with Cheltenham Ladies College on a reader recommendation, as I was tired of getting reviews about Eton being an all-boy's school.
Heck! I LOVE AUs! I could have made it an all-HAMSTER school if I'd wanted to! One that Hermione was only able to sneak into because of her big front teeth and bushy hair.
But it's not worth the bother, so you get this. It's easier. Well, and I couldn't picture Hermione waxing eloquent about the academic excellence of her opportunities to run around on those little exercise wheels.


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5 Tips For Preparing Your Home For A New Puppy
A month ago we brought home a new member of our family– Ferdinand the French Bulldog. Amazingly cute and funny, he is charming and we love him to bits. We sure have learnt a lot about puppy proofing our home over the past few weeks and have put together our top 5 tips for getting prepared.
Give them their own space - Ferdy has taken up residence in our laundry. Set up with bed, food, water and newspaper he's happy to spend the day there while we are at work. Once he gets older and stops putting everything he finds in the garden in his mouth, we'll install a doggy door to the backyard. But for now he knows that's his room and that is where he should go for toilet breaks, meals and sleep.
Stock up on cleaning products & equipment - It is shocking how many cleaning products we have been through in the past 4 weeks. Puppies bladder control doesn't fully develop until they are about a year old so accidents will happen. We've been using Murchison-Hume products as well as a general carpet sanitiser from the supermarket so far with great success. Paper towel and a good quality mop are also on the top of our list.
Chew Toys - Little puppies have itchy teeth and if you don't give them something to chew on then they'll find something [like our antique dining chairs- sigh]. We found some locally dried pigs ears which have been wildly popular as well as rubber toys and a chew ball.
Bedding - We currently have 2 beds on rotation so Ferdinand always has a clean bed after any accidents. Before we brought him home we thought it would be nice for him to have a bed in the living room with us but now there is always one in the wash. He has also made himself at home on our couch.
Remove any potential hazards - Electrical cables were the biggest concern in our house and turned out to be very tempting for a small mouth. We also check through our garden to ensure there were no plants that were dangerous to dogs and plugged up any holes in the fence.
Those are just our tips and wont suit everyone. What are your tips for preparing your home for a puppy?
Bringing home a kitten? Check out Laure's 5 tips for preparing your home for a new kitty.
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When you run out of your MH products and carpet sanitizer, do not buy more.
Instead, go to your local pet store, Target or grocery store and pick up a big bottle of Nature's Miracle. The stuff is great. All you have to do is blot the spot with a paper towel or cloth, sprinkle or spray Nature's Miracle where the spot was, let that sit for a few seconds, and blot again. It works on carpet (and even gets down to the mat if you let it) and hard floors. It's the best.
It's not necessary a tip for preparing your home, but your home will definitely benefit, I promise.
Enroll your puppy in obedience training. Too many friends have brought home puppies only to be frustrated when the puppy acts like a puppy (biting things, chewing everything, potty accidents, running around, barking). A little obedience training goes a long way no matter how small or large the dog.
I *love* your dog. Frenchies are so freakin' cute! Congrats on your new puppy; sounds like he's got a great home!
oh my GOODNESS he's so cute!! So so SO cute!
I'll second the Natures Miracle! Great stuff.
Umm, please more pictures. I have a boston terrier and would already have a frenchie too if my fiance would let me. God my heart is melting.
Yikes! Disembodied puppy head in that first photo
I stared at that first photo fro a good thirty seconds, wondering why you'd show a decapitated puppy head sitting on a brick sidewalk.
This dog is DARLING!
I third, or fourth?, the Nature's Miracle, that stuff is a life saver.
And I definitely second the obediance training! My parents enrolled our then-8-lb puppy in Puppy Play School (which was pretty much socialization and Obediance for Dummies), and I'm pretty sure it's the only reason that our now-130-lb dog is so manageable.
Before reading the comments, I was about to say Nature's Miracle is a must (especially for hunting breeds with stronger noses...). I think establishing the laundry room as his space was a good idea too (need to make sure dog's understand that they are dogs and not people)...
Sooo cute!
Erin @ SYL: Slipcover Your Life
He's so cute! Nature's Miracle was what we used and it worked great. Also, there's something called bitter apple spray you can spray on wood furniture and things that the puppy is chewing on and it makes it taste bad to them. Ours was obsessed with chewing on the back of the slipcovered sofa, so we sprayed a bit there and she stopped. Also, the best trick for teething dogs (which I got from the dog trainer) is to take a washclot and cut it into pieces. Submerge them in chicken broth or stock and then roll them up and freeze them. Dogs LOVE them--they are cold and yummy to chew, super cheap and environmentally friendly (when they're done with them, wash and repeat). Good luck!
Ok going to repeat what others said: nature's miracle is a god send. Puppy classes are not only helpful but dang they are all so cute.
And I LOVE the floating puppy head pic.
I myself just got a puppy about 3 months ago. He is a major chewer but thankfully he has yet to chew up any furniture or shoes. When we first got him we watched him like a hawk and as soon as he neared the nelson bench or eames lounge we thrust a bone in his mouth and he quickly learned what was or wasn't appropriate to chew on and now we have nothing to worry about.
Agree to everything you said...our first puppy is now 10 months old, and our second puppy is only 11 WEEKS old. We are going through the same things right now. One thing we learned though, is that with the pigs ears is that they are harder on a puppies digestive system. Try lambs ear, they are much gentler on their digestion, AND they aren't as fattening. Pigs ears can end up racking on the pounds! I love the tip on the wash cloth broth too!
Although i agree the pooch needs their own space growing up, i myself wish i never locked my dog up in the bathroom while we were away when he was younger. Although westies are notoriously stubborn, my dog at 2 years old will still escape to the bathroom sometimes to do his business in there. Just be aware that it might not be a good idea to let them go to the bathroom somewhere now, that you might not want him to go in the future. :)
One tip i've also learned is to invest in a quality dog food. Especially if your puppy will mostly be inside. when they do their business it will be more solid and less smelly. (sorry to bring up poop so much everyone!)
I would suggest buying toys that they can't chew through while you are away (you have no idea how many pieces of yarn we have pulled from their rear ends from those braided tug toys). I love West Paw Designs because they are tough and your dog (hopefully) won't be able to chew through them while they are teething (or bored). The toys are also eco-friendly which is an added plus. Other suggestions: Gummy Bones (mint flavored, safe and great for tender teeth) and TurnUp (you can hide treats in the hollow center).
(Also, can't say enough about Nature's Miracle too!)
Eeek. Good sentiment but... hurts me a little. Adopt don't buy. Crate, don't let them go to the bathroom in your house. House-training won't progress otherwise. And don't leave him home all day. Doggy day care or a walker is necessary for a dog that young. Socialization and house training won't progress otherwise. Good luck!
SO CUTE! Does he have a cork tree to lounge under? I just love that story.
Cables and poisonous plants were a big thing for me when I got my kitten. The ASPCA has a list of plants on their website so you can find out it whatever it is is toxic to dogs or cats. It's been helpful.
Um...that pup is too precious. I want a couple. I hear frenchies are good apartment dogs too, quieter than most.
i would like to second (and third and eight, etc...) these comments:
please ADOPT/RESCUE!!!!
nature's miracle is where it's at
good quality dog food will help in so many ways. check www.dogfoodanalysis.com to learn more
and def enroll in an obedience class
and Kongs rule for keeping pups occupied.
slipcovers rule. or just put blankets/sheets something over your couch.
Congratulations ... you adopted a puppy! Oh, wait. That's a purebred Frenchie puppy. You must've bought him. So, um, congratulations ... you purchased a dog that is highly inbred and will suffer breathing problems throughout its life! You had a chance to save the life of a wonderful shelter puppy and you didn't! Congrats all around!
Save ya money. Club Soda and Nature's Miracle are the exact same thing!
editrix, not all purebreds are inbred and many are bred by people who hold genetic soundness in the highest regard. Some people want a dog they know will grow into an adult with a temperament and size that is predictable. They want a dog whose parents were checked for genetic disorders. You are not at all likely to get that with a shelter dog. If you want to rescue a dog, do so. But if you want to condemn people who buy purebred dogs, try focusing on the people who don't research and buy from breeders who don't breed healthy dogs for a purpose beyond just producing puppies. Right now, you're doing rescue dogs more harm than good with your holier-than-thou rhetoric.
One thing I did with all my dogs during their teething period is take an old sock and place it in cold water squeeze and put into freezer till it hardens. Give to pup on the kitchen floor or outside to chew on. This keeps them busy for a bit and very soothing on their teeth.
Keep shoes off the floor, take anything they can reach away, like books or anything on lower shelves away. Don't set them up for failure.
A tired pup or dog is a happy dog!
if you have carpet, I recommend a cleaning tool called the Bissell Spotbot. That's been handy for our cat (who pukes) and our dog when she was housetraining.
I love frenchies..I'm so jealous of yours! I'd love to get one if I could afford it. I have a little boston terrier that would love a boyfriend..
I just put together a collage of all my french bulldog pictures I've clipped from magazines last night! How funny this would pop up :) I've wanted one since I was really young. I visited my grandparents country home, and the neighbors got a frenchie named Spanky. It quickly became my best friend when I visited, and he would trot up and down the road with me all day long, play fetch, watch me swing. But he wouldn't dare let anyone around me! And he didn't like anyone nearly as much as he took to me.
He was hit by a car and died :( But I found out my hairstylist got a frenchie puppy... named Spanky too! She brings him into the salon for me to play with. These great memories make me want one :( Oh, to have a fenced yard!
I use the Bissell Little Green Clean Machine for rug and upholstery spot-cleaning. It's perfect for those, ahem, *messier* messes, and way less time-consuming and gross than the spray-and-blot cleaners. Nature's Miracle and Folex are both awesome for little messes, though.
Also, editrix, try not to be such a buzzkill, eh? Maybe Ferdinand was a rescue, or maybe he wasn't, but either way, it's none of your business.
shirley-temple-of-doom; that was hilarious!! This is the cutest dog I have ever seen and I am a die-hard cat person! Thanks for the tips on dog-proofing. Most people don't understand that puppies are no different than babies in that they are very curious and can get hurt if the house is not puppy proofed.
editrix, we hope you have a better day; that was very cranky of you!
1. yes Nature's Miracle
2. Yes puppy training (I loved Denise at Empire of The Dog f you live in NYC)
3. make sure your puppy always has something delicious enough on hand that it will prefer it to your favorite pair of shoes.
4. I actually got my hyper pug 100% accident free way before the one year mark, so don't think daily accidents are unavoidable.
5. be prepared to physically exhaust your puppy every single day. we took ours to the park, or to doggy daycare every single day, and this alone corrected nearly all "puppy misbehavior"
6. Whatever treats you stumble upon - remember you'll have to change them up regularly for them to have the same magical effect. Otherwise, puppy gets bored and moves on to your stuff.
7. Socializing them as soon as they have all their shots also really helps. It made our little guy really happy and friendly.
8. consider feeding your puppy it's meals in a king toy. This worked great for us - the puppy had to work on the toy to get the pieces of kibble to come out. Again, burning puppy energy is key!
oops # 8 should have said Kong toy.
Editrix26, I hope you take the same hard line condemning people who choose to selfishly have children on their own terms instead of adopting one. After all, puppies like children, are for life - except of course with puppies you have some control over traits like size, temperament, lineage and dietary and exercise requirements. But other than that...
my two cents...
1. invest in slip covers for your couch until they're trained to not jump on furniture
2. Introduce your puppy to your neighbors, friends, landlord, maintainance people, etc. You want him to be comfortable with anyone who could be in his environment
If you live in Los Angeles, join the Hollywood Hills French Bulldog meetup group! It's the best. We meet semi-frequently in the Lake Hollywood Dog Park. Lots and lots of frenchies running around and their owners standing by laughing. Here's the link:
exercise is you and your dogs best friend! the more tired the dog the more well behaved they will be.
also throw away all the tic tacs and candy you have laying around that contains xylitol. it's highly toxic to pets and i learned this the hard way when Lola ended up staying at the vets for 3 days.
instead of the laundry room, you might want to crate train instead. a puppy peeing inside is really hard to stop, you'll find they have fewer accidents if they are confined to a smaller space.
if you work all day you should have someone come over to relieve Ferd 2 times. puppy's can only hold pee-wee for about 2 hours. also they need to pee within 20 minutes of eating and drinking.
teach a pee word or phrase that you can use during your walks. I use "do your business". people don't really know what i'm talking about and it's a bit more innocuous than "go poopie".
Re: Potty-training.
I'm a member of the Keep-a-Bottle-of-Nature's-Miracle-Handy-and-Yell-and-Scream-and-Generally-Scare-Your-Dog-When-He-Pees-on-the-Carpet School.
I've pet-sat for more than one very smart little dog who was crate-trained, but then thought the rest of my floor was free peeing and pooping territory.
It's best that dogs learn to associate grass, trees and bushes with peeing, rather than associating being inside a little box with not peeing. (Though that can backfire as well. I had my dog trained to pee and poop in trees and bushes. So he thought it was perfectly OK to pee on the Christmas tree.)
One more tip:
Consider your furniture arrangement.
I guess this sort of goes along with moving potential hazards. But I think there's more to this one than that idea.
I've always kept my living room floor completely open (no chairs or sofa, except against the wall; no coffee table, etc.). That way, I can play inside with the dogs when it's raining or snowing. I've always had and pet-sat pugs or pug-mixes (my first pug was purchased because no one would let us adopt and my second was adopted from a pug rescue), and none of them have been keen on going out in the rain. My dogs and cat also understand that the floor is for playing, and the couch is for snuggling.
You don't have to do that. But I think it's pretty convenient.
So cute--he looks a lot like our Frenchie girl. As far as the buying vs. rescuing debate, we have done both. Our current Frenchie was a rescue, and she is the most loyal dog. If anyone reading this post caught the Frenchie bug, I suggest you check out this rescue: frenchbulldogrescue.net.
Whoops! I meant frenchbulldogrescue.org.
These are great puppy preparation tips, especially giving them their own area - that is key and eliminates most of the typical puppy problems. We gated off the hallway which has hardwood floor and nothing dangerous (like wires) - everything our puppies need is there and we never have to worry about accidents ruining anything.
I screamed -- screamed! -- when I saw Ferdinand's decapitated head. Now that I realize his head, ears and all, remains firmly attached to his soft, pink-tummied, plump little body, all is well. Except... now I can't stop staring and making woogie-woogie noises. Whose little face needs to be kissed? Whose?
Nature's Miracle, bitter spray, and two rounds of puppy classes saved our sanity, and that of our six month old lab.
The other miracle we experienced was the Gentle Leader - maybe not necessary for all breeds, but our Phyllis is a puller and kind of stubborn; the Gentle Leader works to remind her that we are in charge. The transformation is remarkable - as soon as she gets it on, you can almost feel the stubbornness draining out of her.
Rawhide and hooves have been good for her chewing - we just watch her like crazy with either of them, especially the rawhide, and take it away and trim it when she starts to work a portion of it free.
Lots of exercise, walks, play dates and socializing are a part of our daily life.
Never leave a shoe, sock or anything you value unattended in their vicinity. I have lost too many shoes :(
I understand your pain about your dining chairs too- my pup ate all but two of the low leg supports on our dining room chairs.
Also, make sure your carpet cleaner is one that neutralises the scent of urine- if not the dog will keep peeing on your carpet.
To stop accidents watch the dog, usually they'll give a sign their about to pee. With my Corgi it was that he started to sniff the floor, hunting for a good place to pee. He only ever had 2 accidents but each dog is different. Some prove a bigger challenge to toilet train.
Whilst leaving a dog alone all day is something that should be avoided don't think of it as an evil practice. It's a reality and not everyone has something such as puppy pre school to take their dog too. We were lucky in that someone is home every day but this isn't an option for everyone. Just try and limit their time alone- come home as soon as possible and if you can return at lunch to let them out.
As for everyone saying adopt don't buy- well I too believe adopting is a wonderful thing and fully support it I don't think we should chastise everyone for making the decision to buy a dog. Whilst I understand the logic of not buying and therefore decreasing demand for puppies, a lot of puppies have already been born and need homes. Should we wait for them to be taken to a shelter because no one is buying them and then adopt them? I bought my dog and whilst I support shelters I am not going to apologize for giving him a home.
If you want a purebred dog due to size/temperment predictability (something I care a lot about myself, personally) there are a lot of purebred dogs in shelters and breed rescues.
If you're uncertain about signing on for a puppy that could end up 15 or 150 lbs, or have the activity level of a Basset or a Border Collie, that could work for a lot of people.
I have had both rescue and purebred dogs, and I can say that sometimes you really need to know what you're getting. I needed a dog that would be small and calm inside and not a barker. I rent, and I genuinely need to be able to claim those things and to have references that can back it up. With research, those things are exactly what I got.
When I was younger, we got a couple of rescues that seemed great until we brought them home and then they had serious behavioural / emotional problems. We finally found one that's amazing, but I don't have the luxury of that unpredictability. I really don't understand people who condemn other peoples choices just because they don't understand them. Holier than though is a pretty horrible way to be.
Please fine some sort of substitute for the pigs ears - those things have been linked to multiple salmonellosis outbreaks, both in dogs, people who own them, and people who handle the ears. Whether it's local or not, there's a very high risk of Salmonella infection associated with them. Other than that, I totally agree with designated chewing items. Puppies eat a lot of stuff.
The strident protests about getting a dog from a breeder rather than adopting are perfectly obnoxious. If you get a dog from a good breeder, you know the puppy had good socialization, get to meet both parents, garantees of freedom from common genetic defects and get to train them from a young age. That said, as owner of the nicest dog in the world, adopted as a two year old, with respect to the issue of knowing the personality and behavioral patterns of shelter dogs, the humane society's "meet your match" personality tests for dogs and adopters really do work pretty well to help people get matched up with a pooch that works for their lifestyle, so there are more options out there than there used to be. See for example: http://www.warl.org/animals/mym.php
I 100% agree that dogs need rescuing from shelters. It makes me very sad... BUT, these obnoxious people who are condemning people who gain a puppy from breeders is so damn tiring, and makes me mad. As someone stated above, what would happen to the puppy from the breeder, if no one picked her up? Abandoned, or straight to the shelter anyhow! I went to the dog park the other day with my beautiful, new boxer pup, and a woman asked, "where did you get her?" I stated a breeder... Snottily, she makes a face and says " you should have went to the shelter", and nastily walked away. This holyier than now snob should have gotten a kick in the rear end! I'm sorry I sound so nasty myself, but when I bump into people like this, I think ' mean people suck'. People... Please mind your own business, and keep your opinions to yourself please. We all love dogs, and be mad at the abusers, abanondeners, kill shelters, puppy mills, pet stores. But DON'T be nasty to your fellow puppy owners. Thanks for listening to my rant!


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I haven't tried this yet, but I really want to thank you for your kindness and generosity for offering it to us for free. Thank you!
I hope you do like it. So far, the reviews have been excellent.
The bread looks delicious! I have downloaded the recipe and hope to make this soon. I am a beginner at breadmaking. Thank you for sharing.
It should turn out well for you. The real trick is in knowing when to stop adding flour, but you do get a feel for it after a few times around. Best of luck with baking bread!
I found it this time. Thank you for the recipe.
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i'm french and i could say that the best way to judge this bread is seeing its crumb....
anyway it looks like most of the baguettes sold at franch baker's
Thank you for this bit of information. You've made me nervous! I've never been to France, so I don't have much to go by in knowing whether or not this is at all authentic. The inside is quite chewy and moist, and it's a much smoother texture than traditional white bread. I learned most of what I know about baking bread from my grandmother who was a German-Russian, North Dakota farmer's wife.
good morning ! thanks replying and giving a little piece of your story. i'm french and half of my family lives in Alsace - near french & german border - so i can easily imagine what kind of bread you've done (perfect for breakfast with butter and jam ;) !in france bread is only made of flour, baker yeast, salt and lukewarm water ; here the recipe (needs energy and patience) :1 - dissolve yeast in a little of lukerwarm water2- mixing flour and salt3- then add yeast dissolved, knead adding warm water little by little until getting an uniform ball.4 - let it rest 2 hours in a warm and wet place5- hit the dough so the carbonic gaz can escape6- hoven with a plate of water (to get a crispy crust)hope this recipe suit you have a good day !
Thank you so much! I'll give this a try. The main difference in my recipe is the addition of just a small amount of butter. I also add the flour to the water instead of the other way around.
I have made French bread for years, with and without sourdough, and have yet to add sugar, which is never used in true French bread. Why are you adding sugar and butter? Is it to achieve the texture or crust?
I love baking bread, but I'm not an expert in any stretch of the imagination. I'm not sure what the sugar or butter do, but this bread really is our favorite.. The crust is crisp, the inside is very tender, and the flavor is wonderful.
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Personalis' CEO, John West, first became involved in DNA sequencing and DNA sequence interpretation in 1982. In the 1980's, he led the development of an automated DNA sequencing system based on pattern recognition from autoradiographs, and licensed software from the lab of Roger Staden at MRC Cambridge, UK for sequence assembly and analysis. In the 1990's Mr. West was General Manager and subsequently President of Princeton Instruments, a company focused on low light scientific imaging. This technology was used in a number of fluorescent automated DNA sequencing developments. In 2001 Mr. West joined then market leader Applied Biosystems as Vice President of Genetic Analysis. He was subsequently promoted to VP, DNA Platforms. While at Applied Biosystems Mr. West's group introduced the model 3730xl Genetic Analyzer. This product became the mainstay of almost every major genome center in the world.
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Newly released data shows that more than half of physicians have adopted electronic health record (EHR) systems, but only a fraction have received incentive payments under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) "meaningful use" program.
Survey results released last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics revealed that 55 percent of physicians had adopted an EHR system in 2011. About 85 percent of these physicians reported that they were satisfied with their systems, and 74 percent said they believed using their system enhanced overall patient care.
While the survey found that approximately three-quarters of physician adopters have systems that are certified to meet meaningful use requirements, CMS's latest data shows that just 214,000 physicians have registered for the program. Of these, only about 89,000 physicians have received payments. View a story by American Medical News about the survey.
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After his sterling work on Skyfall (the highest-grossing British film in UK box office history, lest we forget), Sony / MGM have reportedly been desperate to re-sign Sam Mendes to direct the next Bond movie, and finally, it sounds as if they may be getting their wish.
According to The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye, Mendes is now "75% likely" to return to the director's chair, having initially been sceptical about his ability to fit it into his busy schedule.
Mendes was also reportedly put off by the suggestion of the next episode being part of a two-film storyline, to be filmed back to back. That would have required around four years of the director's time, a commitment he was unwilling to make.
However, it seems now that Bond 24 will be a standalone movie, and Mendes is in negotiations to thrash out a deal. What doesn't seem likely is that Mendes will hit the targeted release date of Autumn 2014.
With various theatre commitments clogging up his schedule, Mendes would only be able to begin work on the film in January of next year, which would make the traditional October arrival a bit of a squeeze.
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