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This blend is no mutt
In Monday's discussion of "Offbeat Blends," we talked about the merits of blending grape varieties (like Bordeaux) as opposed to the advantages of making wines 100 percent from a single variety (Burgundy, for instance).
In pursuit of the edges of the envelope, Monday's column featured a California wine that married California's own Zinfandel and a Bordeaux blend of grapes in roughly equal proportions, and did so surprisingly well, the more austere Bordeaux grapes toning down the Zin's natural exuberance in a wine of real elegance and grace.
Today, let's wrap up the week with a virtual taste of another wacky California blend.
Wine maker Kent Rosenblum, a veterinarian and once-time home wine maker turned pro, pays homage to his veterinary background with a doggy theme: In addition to the punning moniker, Rosenblum's "Chateau La Paws Cote Du Bone Roan" bears a dog bone and canine footprints across the label.
Those who normally shun wines with cute animal labels can tread safely here, though: In spite of the undeniable "cuteness" of the labeling, this wine is quite serious. An offbeat blend of the Rhone-style flavors of Syrah (70%), Mourvedre (10%) and Carignane (8%), it adds a substantial splash of Zinfandel (12%) to add an exuberant edge of sunny California fruit to the flavor mix.
The winery declares it a "Southern Rhône style wine ... reminiscent of a Côte du Rhône from the South of France, but with a Rosenblum twist."
I'm not sure I'd go that far. Its hefty 14.9% alcohol and that very berry Zin component mark it clearly New World. I don't get a real echo of the Rhone here, but some of the sunnier slopes of Languedoc in a hot vintage ... maybe.
That's nitpicking, though. It's a big but surprisingly elegant red, and the high alcohol doesn't diminish its competence at the dinner table as companion to steaks, prime rib or even a hearty ratatouille.
If you have a comment about this wine or this topic, I hope you'll drop in and post a reply.
Here's my tasting report.

Rosenblum Cellars 2005 "Chateau La Paws" California Cote du Bone Roan ($11.99)
This unusual blend of Carignane, Syrah, Mourvedre and a ration of Zinfandel is inky blackish-purple in color. It offers up ripe black fruit aromas with notes of spice, smoke and meat. Plummy, almost pruney fruit flavors are warm and full with 14.9% alcohol, but there's good acidity there to give it structure, and a sense of balance that spares it from dismissal as just another California whack-you-upside-the-head big boy. (July 18, 2007)
FOOD MATCH: Bold meets bold in a happy marriage when I paired it with the streamlined summer version of ratatouille featured in yesterday's Wine Advisor FoodLetter, a hearty, meatless melange of garden-fresh eggplant, summer squash and tomatoes with onions, garlic, green peppers and lots of fruity green olive oil.
VALUE: Absolutely no grounds for complaint at this just-over-$10 price point.
WHEN TO DRINK: Gauging the aging potential of one-of-a-kind blends can be iffy, but the fruit, structure and balance of this sturdy red certainly suggests the possibility of evolution with several years of cellar time. If you're feeling adventurous, it wouldn't take much of an investment to put a few away just to see what they do.
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Scherzer superb as Tigers top A's for Game 1 victory
OAKLAND -- The Tigers' postseason plan isn't complicated, and it isn't a secret. Jim Leyland laid it out Friday afternoon as their playoff drive was about to begin. "It's pretty simple, really," the Tigers' manager said. "We've got to figure out how to score some runs, and we've got to
OAKLAND -- The Tigers' postseason plan isn't complicated, and it isn't a secret. Jim Leyland laid it out Friday afternoon as their playoff drive was about to begin.
"It's pretty simple, really," the Tigers' manager said. "We've got to figure out how to score some runs, and we've got to figure out how to shut them down."
Save for a Yoenis Cespedes home run, it worked pretty well to script. And after Max Scherzer's seven innings converted a three-run opening inning into a 3-2 win over the A's to open the American League Division Series on Friday night, the Tigers are hoping the rest of the best-of-five set proves the same way.
The Tigers have not lost a postseason series under Leyland's reign as manager after winning Game 1. That includes two series sweeps after winning the first two games on the road. Justin Verlander, who shut out the A's here in Game 5 of last year's series, will take the mound in Game 2 Saturday (9 p.m. ET, TBS) to try to put them in position to clinch the series in Detroit next week.
Most likely, they'll try the same formula to get there.
"We want to do the same thing. Every day's not going to be the same," said Miguel Cabrera, whose RBI single opened the scoring in a three-run first inning that provided all of Detroit's offense. "The important thing is we feel comfortable with any pitcher we have on the mound."
Scherzer's ability to chew up innings made Friday's opener a much easier opening night for the Tigers. In the process, Scherzer made a statement: There was a lot more to his potential Cy Young Award-winning season than 21 wins and just three losses.
"He was awful determined," Leyland said. "He was thrilled to get Game 1. I think it meant a lot to him, even though he said it didn't matter which game he pitched. And I think he responded like we expected him to respond."
It was Scherzer's usual result when he gets his usual early run support. However, from the raucous sellout crowd creating a canyon of noise to an A's team increasingly desperate to create offense, it was far from a usual outing.
The same Tigers offense that topped three runs just once over its final seven games in the regular season, including three runs total in a three-game series at Miami, produced three runs by the time Scherzer took the mound. It did nothing to quiet the crowd, but it did plenty to spark the Tigers.
Scherzer, meanwhile, denied the early ignition for an A's offense that roughed him up in August at Comerica Park. If not for Cespedes, there would have been no spark at all.
Not only was Cespedes' second-inning triple over left fielder Andy Dirks the lone hit Scherzer allowed over the first six innings, it was the only ball the A's hit out of the infield until the fifth. In between were ground balls and strikeouts, the latter in abundance.
The same A's lineup that swung and missed just eight times against him at Comerica Park five weeks ago did so 20 times on Friday, seven times in the first few innings alone. Instead of a 29-pitch bloodletting in the first inning like August, Scherzer needed just 14 to get through the opening frame this time.
Four A's struck out the first time through the order. The next time through, Scherzer fanned four in a row from the fourth inning into the fifth, three of them on offspeed pitches.
"I threw strike one tonight," Scherzer said. "I looked inside and I was 18 of 26 [first-pitch strikes], and that's always a good percentage. I thought I had a great changeup tonight. I thought that was the difference. I was able to keep them off balance, and it allowed me to pitch deep into the game."
He wasn't simply pitching deep, he was cruising. Once he sent down AL MVP candidate Josh Donaldson swinging to end the sixth inning, he had 10 strikeouts, tying his career postseason high. But two swings from the A's brought the crowd back to life in the seventh.
The first was a slow roller from Brandon Moss that nearly saw shortstop Jose Iglesias duplicate his tumbling highlight throw from August. Only a high throw prevented what would've been an acrobatic out. The second, from Cespedes, left nothing for Dirks to do but stand and watch a two-run homer sail well into the left-field seats.
"You don't look for that, it just comes," Cespedes said. "He threw me a strike, I just tried to hit it, and it went out."
The 95-mph fastball over the plate, after Cespedes had fouled off back-to-back pitches, was Scherzer's one regret of the night.
"I didn't know what pitch to go with, and I thought if I went with my fastball, I could make him go away," Scherzer said. "That pitch caught too much of the plate and he took it deep, and that's just something that happens."
Suddenly, a shutout bid was a one-run game, and the Tigers' bullpen was on alert. With the crowd of 48,401 at fever pitch, however, Scherzer regrouped to retire the A's in order, capped by a changeup past Daric Barton for Scherzer's 11th strikeout of the night.
For Scherzer, who calls his final 15 pitches his biggest each game, his final 13 took Friday's game back.
"The wheels could have come flying off," Scherzer said, "but I thought I kept my composure and was able to continue and execute."
"Those last 15 pitches mean a lot, and when you can do it in the postseason, that means even more."
In this case, it meant the game. Once Drew Smyly and Joaquin Benoit took care of the final six outs, it meant momentum in the series, just as the Tigers had scripted.
"This," Leyland said, "is playoff baseball. It was a great game."
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason.

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Our Cataumet Massachusetts alcohol awareness classes are ideally suited to meet a court alcohol class requirement or simply for lifelong learning. Our courses are completely self-paced and can be taken from any PC, Mac, iPad or smartphone. A completion certificate is awarded upon completion of the class.
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A Nigerian priest who ministered to the dead after the Christmas bombings in Madalla, Nigeria, said he gained new insight into martyrdom.
In a first-person piece for The Catholic Register in Toronto, Father Emmanuel-Mary Mbam said:
In my agony of ministering to the dead I gained insight into why the Church calls the day a person is martyred one's birthday. These people were martyrs; they died for their faith. As Christ was born into the world, they were born into heaven. This is my only consolation. The past year saw an upsurge in religious violence in Nigeria as a determined Islamic sect intensified efforts to impose Sharia law on the country. Incidents of devastation and death are now common.
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The world celebrates first ever International Day of Sport for Development and PeaceApr 1, 2014
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Geneva – The UN General Assembly has declared 6 April as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace. Created at the initiative of the International Olympic Committee and officially announced at the United Nations headquarters last August, the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace promotes the role of sport as a tool at the service of society and a universal tool for peace.
UNDP welcomes this decision as it marks a new step in the United Nations advocacy efforts to highlight the benefits of sport and healthy lifestyles on broader social development. Sport is seen as an important development tool. It builds self-confidence; Sport empowers youth, promotes good health and plays an important role in the global effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Sport belongs to everyone and has a common international language. Sport is also a strong unifying factor in the process of conflict transformation and peace building.
The convening power of sport makes it additionally compelling as a tool for advocacy and communication. In this regard, UNDP has appointed sporting personalities as Goodwill Ambassadors with the objective of creating public awareness about development issues, while promoting tolerance and peace.
Among the UNDP Goodwill Ambassadors, six are sports champions - Ronaldo Nazario, Zinédine Zidane, Didier Drogba, Iker Casillas Marta Viera da Silva and Maria Sharapova – They have all agreed to give their time and their image to promote sustainable development through sports and they are now joining the United Nations and the global sports community to celebrate the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, highlighting how sport can contribute to education, health, gender equality, social inclusion, solidarity, tolerance, development and peace.
"The observance of the day will help spread awareness about the importance of sport as a tool to build a peaceful and better world and to recognize the potential of sport to create positive social change across the globe. It is also an opportunity to unite and celebrate together." said Didier Drogba on behalf of the UNDP team.
All Ambassadors are reaching out to the public in a series of posters to celebrate this day all together, as a team.
UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. On the ground in 177 countries and territories, we offer global perspective and local insight to help empower lives and build resilient nations.
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I guess Words with People You Want to Hook Up With was just too long a title. In honor of the day before discount candy, Zynga has crafted an infographic to demonstrate what a hotbed of flirting the "With Friends" franchise really is. Who uses the chat function of a mobile game to hit on people?
According to the results of Zynga's poll, 30 percent of the "With Friends" player base, and considering how many people play Words with Friends alone, that's gonna big a really big number. If I were forced to guestimate, I'd say certainly more than five, but less than 11 billion.
In other love-numbers, 43 percent of players say a poor vocabulary is a turn-off. Huh.
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Walpole Youth Soccer offered free GK clinics this Fall on September 22nd, 29th and Oct 27th at Mylod Fields.
Run by our new WYSA goalkeeper coach, Darth, they were SUPERB: teaching both the fundamentals and the advanced elements of the most difficult position on the field.
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- "One squeeze and you're wearing your balls for earrings."
- ―One of his possible quotes when he's chasing Niko.
Officer 219 is a Hispanic officer of the LCPD in Grand Theft Auto IV and its DLC. He can be found everywhere in Liberty City.
Officer 219
This police officer is a common "Fit Patrol" officer found in GTA IV. He announces himself as "Officer 219" and/or "Officer 219 requesting assistance" whenever the player commits a crime in front of him.
He is also the only Hispanic cop in the game. His real name is H. Sanchez, as indicated by the name tag under his badge. He is ranked as a regular Patrol man telling by his badge like any other cop spotted on the streets or in cars in GTA IV and its stories.
On his chest above his badge he has two medals awarded to him. The first one is the Metorious Police Duty award or MPD given to officers who commit acts of intelligent and valuable police work demonstrating special faithfulness or perseverance. The other award is the Excellent Police Duty award for An intelligent act contributing to a valuable accomplishment or Submission of a device or method adopted to increase efficiency in an administrative or tactical proceedure. These medals are awarded by the NYPD and clearly by the LCPD.


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- "...that's Bode and Croaker... they're Unspeakables... from the Department of Mysteries, top secret, no idea what they get up to..."
- —Arthur Weasley[src]
The Department of Mysteries is a section of the Ministry of Magic that carries out confidential research. Most of its operations are carried out in total secrecy. Few wizards within the Ministry actually know what is located within this department, though it is learned that the various mysteries of the world are studied there, these include: love, space, thought, time, death, and others. Those wizards who work in the Department of Mysteries are known as Unspeakables because of the confidential nature of their work.[2]
Some of the covert research projects this department has undertaken were revealed to Dumbledore's Army, and an important battle of the Second Wizarding War took place within the department in 1996.[3]
Due to the highly classified nature of this department, it is granted a great deal of independence, being the only one within the entire Ministry that does not need to answer to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.[4] Even the Minister for Magic has very little authority over the department's operations, as the fifteenth Minister's attempt to shut down the branch was ignored by the Unspeakables.[5]
- "Bartemius! Not trying to lure Potter into one of the Ministry's summer internships, are we? The last boy who went into the Department of Mysteries never came out!"
- —Barty Crouch Jr (disguised as Alastor Moody) to Barty Crouch Snr[src]
The Department of Mysteries lies on the second-lowest level of the Ministry of Magic, Level Nine. It is accessible via the lifts from the Ministry Atrium. This level bears a striking difference to those above: the black-tiled walls[6] are bare with no windows and no doors, apart from a plain black one at the end of the corridor that leads into the Department proper.[7] Light is provided only by torches, which glow with a blue-white light.[8] A small flight of steps to the left leads to Level Ten.[7]
Behind the black door is the Entrance Chamber, which is designed to disorient any unauthorised personnel who enter it. It is a circular room with a dark marble floor that looks almost like standing water, candles emitting a cool blue light, and twelve handleless doors. Whenever a door closes, the walls rotate, making it impossible to determine which door is which. This chamber will respond to a verbal request for an exit by the opening of the correct door.[3]
Early history
The Department of Mysteries was established sometime in or before the 17th century, actually predating the Ministry of Magic, which was only established in 1707. It has been in activity since at least 1672, since there are records of intensive studies from this Department, dating as far back as that year, demonstrating that wizards and witches are born, not created.[1]
Minister Ottaline Gambol (term of office 1827-1835) was known to establish committees to investigate Muggle brainpower which seemed, due to the emergence of the British Empire, to be greater than some wizards had credited.[5] It is unknown if these investigations were conducted by the Department of Mysteries, but the Department does contain a room devoted to the study of thought.
In 1835-1841, Minister Radolphus Lestrange took a reactionary position, and attempted to close down the Department of Mysteries. He was ignored, however, by the Unspeakables and the rest of the Ministry.[5]
In the 1890s, the Department of Mysteries was known to have conducted time-travel experiments. These experiments were discontinued in 1899, when Unspeakable Eloise Mintumble travelled back in time to the year 1402 and there was a major breach of the laws of time, with catastrophic results. For one, Madam Mintumble was stuck in the 15th century for five days, and when she was finally retrieved to the present, her body had aged five centuries and she later succumbed in St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. Also, there were at least twenty-five people (all of them descendants of people Mintumble had met in the past) who vanished into thin air, effectively becoming un-born. Finally, the Tuesday that followed the ordeal lasted two and a half full days, while the following Thursday lasted only four hours.[9]
During Lord Voldemort's first reign of power, he implanted Augustus Rookwood into the Department of Mysteries as a spy. When Voldemort first fell, Rookwood was turned in by turncoat Death Eater Igor Karkaroff, and was sentenced to life in Azkaban for exposing the Department's confidential experiments to the Dark Lord.
Second Wizarding War
Battle of the Department of Mysteries (1996)
- "Voldemort knows you, Harry! He took Ginny down into the Chamber of Secrets to lure you there, it's the kind of thing he does, he knows you're the — the sort of person who'd go to Sirius's aid! What if he's just trying to get you into the Department of Myst —?"
- —Voldemort lures Harry Potter into the Ministry[src]
In 1996, Lord Voldemort had his Death Eaters attempt to steal the above mentioned prophecy. After two failed attempts, Voldemort lured Harry Potter and five of his friends there by planting a vision of his godfather being tortured into his mind. Harry, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Ginny Weasley, and Luna Lovegood flew to the Ministry, where they were confronted by twelve Death Eaters.
The six members of Dumbledore's Army managed to distract their attackers and flee, scattering throughout the Department of Mysteries and combating the Dark Wizards who pursued them. The Order of the Phoenix soon arrived, saving the teenagers but losing one of their own, Sirius Black, murdered by his own cousin Bellatrix Lestrange, who pushed him through the veil.
This battle caused considerable damage to the Department of Mysteries, including the loss of many Time-Turners, and signalled the beginning of open war in the wizarding world.[3]
Under Voldemort's control (1997-1998)
- "Recent research undertaken by the Department of Mysteries reveals that magic can only be passed from person to person when Wizards reproduce. Where no proven Wizarding ancestry exists, therefore, the so-called Muggle-born is likely to have obtained magical power by theft or force."
- —Daily Prophet article in August 1997[src]
On 1 August, 1997, the Ministry of Magic fell under Voldemort's control, with Imperiused Pius Thicknesse the new puppet Minister for Magic. In line with the Death Eaters' ideology about blood purity, the Ministry began distributing anti-Muggle and Muggle-born propaganda, based on research allegedly conducted by the Department of Mysteries. Muggle-borns were forced to register with the Muggle-Born Registration Commission, which convicted them of having stolen magic from "real" wizards and witches and sent them to Azkaban.
Since this is not factually true, it is likely that this "research" either did not exist at all or was strongly skewed in order to support false conclusions. Unspeakables may have been intimidated into doing this, as many were shown to be terrified and under surveillance while the Ministry was under Death Eater control. Despite the clear ludicrousness of such "research", the public nevertheless followed suit, and Muggle-borns were rounded up.[10]
Presumably, after Voldemort's defeat in May of 1998 and the reform of the Ministry under Kingsley Shacklebolt, this information was exposed as untrue.
The Department apparently works to uncover the secrets of death, time, space, thought, and love, among other things, and records prophecies whenever they are made. It includes the following known chambers.
Brain Room
- "Hey Harry, there are brains in here, ha ha ha, isn't that weird, Harry?"
- —Ron Weasley regarding the human brains in the Brain Room[src]
This long, rectangular room is lit by low-hanging lamps. It contains a tank of encephala, or brains, that swim in a green solution. These particular brains are highly aggressive and will attack and constrict anything that tries to touch them or pick them up, as was the case with Ron Weasley. The tendrils that the brains possess are implied to be physical manifestations of thoughts.[3] The concept of thought and all related subjects are studied in this chamber.
Hall of Prophecy
Records of prophecies are stored in this long, cold chamber with high ceilings and towering shelves lit with blue-flame candles. These prophecies, held in glass orbs, are magically protected, so that the only people who can lift them off their stand are the Keeper of the Hall of Prophecies and the subject or subjects of the individual prophecy. Anyone else who attempts to inspect the orb with their hands will be afflicted with instant madness. Alas, during the battle that took place within the Department of Mysteries in 1996, the six D.A. members used Reductor Curses to smash the shelves of prophecies in order to distract the Death Eaters, and destroyed a great number of prophecies in the Hall as a result.[3]
Known Prophecies
- "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives...The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies..."
- —Sybill Trelawney's first prophecy[src]
A year before Lily and James Potter were murdered by Lord Voldemort, the seer Sybill Trelawney made a prophecy involving Voldemort and a child who would come to be his destroyer. After his return, Voldemort sought to know the entire prophecy and lured Harry and other members of Dumbledore's Army to the Hall in attempt to steal and confirm the contents of the orb. Due to the incompetency and failures of the Death Eaters, the orb was shattered in a commotion that prevented anyone from listening to the contents.[3] However, Harry was able to hear the prophecy from the Pensieve in Albus Dumbledore's office, since Trelawney made the original to Dumbledore himself.
During the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange destroyed, accidentally, two prophecies while talking to Harry Potter. The first one was made by a male seer and it was about something "new" that would come at the Solstice. The second one was made by a female seer and it was about "none will come after" something unknown.
Death Chamber
This large, square room somewhat resembles Courtroom Ten of the Wizengamot. It is dimly lit, with stone tiers leading down to a pit in the centre. In this pit is a dais, upon which stands a very old stone archway with a tattered black curtain hanging from it. This arch separates the worlds of the living and the dead. Some people, such as Harry Potter and Luna Lovegood, heard voices through this veil. Sirius Black fell through the archway during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries after being struck by a curse from his own cousin Bellatrix Lestrange and subsequently died.[3]
Love Chamber
This room is behind a door that remains locked at all times and which cannot be unlocked by Alohomora or magical unlocking penknives. According to Dumbledore, behind the door is the most mysterious subject of study of the department, and the most powerful force ever to exist in the universe — which is known as "Love". It may also be used in attempts to understand and duplicate the magical protection self-sacrificing love creates, the only magic strong enough to repel the Killing Curse.[10] There is said to be a large fountain of Amortentia in the room.
Space Chamber
This is a dark room full of planets floating in mid-air. Presumably, it is from this Chamber where Wizards study the aspect of space, as it is one of the limits of magic (along with time). Visitors may find themselves floating as well. Luna Lovegood deemed it "a very odd place" and used the Reductor Curse on the Pluto replica to block an attacking Death Eater during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries.
Time Room
This long, rectangular room is filled with a beautiful, dancing light that sparkles like gems. All kinds of time-related devices completely fill the chamber, such as clocks of every description, and Time-Turners. It also contains a large crystal bell jar at its far end, from which the sparking light comes. Inside it, anything will grow increasingly younger, to its pre-life state, be reborn to grow older, and cycle through endlessly.
At the end of the room there is a door that leads into the Hall of Prophecies. There are also small offices just off the main chamber, in which Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom faced two Death Eaters during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. During this battle, the department's entire stock of Time-Turners was smashed.[3]
It can be assumed that study in the time room has led to the discovery and creation of the ability to magically manipulate time through Time-Turners.
Known employees
- Levina Monkstanley (c. 1772)
- Broderick Bode (deceased)
- Saul Croaker
- Augustus Rookwood (Death Eater spy)
- Unidentified intern (disappeared within the Department before early 1995)
- The Keeper of the Hall of Prophecy
Behind the scenes
- Luna Lovegood – probably influenced by an article in The Quibbler — once stated that Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge "uses the Department of Mysteries to develop terrible poisons, which he secretly feeds to anybody who disagrees with him".[3] There is no proof that this is true.
- The name of the department may be an allusion to the Mysteries of the Ancient Greek and Roman religions, in which admission and knowledge was restricted through arcane initiation rites. The word "mystery" literally means "initiation." The Eleusinian Mysteries were the most famous and important of these.[11]
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Exterior hallway only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game) (Exterior hallway only)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Harry Potter for Kinect
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Tales of Beedle the Bard - Albus Dumbledore on "Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump"
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Writing by J.K. Rowling: "Ministers for Magic" at Wizarding World
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) - Chapter 26 (The Department of Mysteries)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 7 (The Ministry of Magic)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 34 (The Department of Mysteries)
- ↑ Pottermore - New From J.K. Rowling: Time-Turner
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ↑ Mystery cult on Wikipedia


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Thursday, February 13, 2014
How YOU can buy Silver or Gold bullion AT SPOT! A Cheap way to invest!
I thought I would share one of my 'Methods' to getting silver or gold at the lowest possible price. With Silver & Gold being down in price, more people are holding off selling to Local Coin Stores until the prices rise. I've found a way that makes you happy because you're gonna be able to buy silver or gold at spot! Also the person selling is happy because no "We Buy Gold" store or LCS will pay close to spot! It's a win win!
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Knowledge about genetically modified organisms or genetically engineered crops is extremely small by African farmers, but their acceptance of GMOs is critical to feeding the population of Africa and the world headed to 2050.
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The pro-GMO organizations appear dominated by scientists, rather than the "good friends of African people like the anti-GMO crowd seems to portray themselves to brainwash and influence the people.
An article in The Guardian online news, which leans toward the activist point of view, got it right recently with one key paragraph. "They [Africans] are also misinformed on the issue, which has divided the world and created divisions in governments, caused misunderstandings among policymakers and led to academic rivalries among researchers and scientists. Limited by a shallow background on science and technology, farmers in the continent remain confused and undecided on which way to go.
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text: BREAKING NEWS !!! [NEWS] Lee Min Ho confirmed to work with scriptwriter Kim Eun Sook with "Inheritors" Actor Lee Min Ho will comeback with a drama. On March 29th, Lee Min Ho's agency confirmed that Lee Min Ho decided to take the role for the upcoming SBS Drama "The One Who Wears the Crown, Endure the Weight - Inheritors (Short: 'Inheritors')" as his next project. The upcoming drama "Inheritors" will be written by scriptwriter Kim Eun Sook and directed by Kang Jin Hyo PD in which many are anticipating that the three will come back with the best drama of 2013. Up until now, Lee Min Ho was in "Boys Over Flowers," "Personal Taste," "City Hunter," and "The Faith" which were all well known and loved by many fans worldwide. While on the other hand, scriptwriter Kim Eun Sook wrote famous dramas such as "Secret Garden," "A Gentleman's Dignity," "Lovers in Paris," etc., and even received the nickname "Viewership Maker." Also, scriptwriter Kim Eun Sook is well known for creating strong, male lead characters that haven't been surpassed by anyone, so many people are looking forward to what she will bring into Lee Min Ho's new transformation. Lee Min Ho stated, "I've always wanted to work with scriptwriter Kim Eun Sook since I've been an avid viewer of her works, and now my wish is fulfilled. I believe that this will become a very meaningful work since I'll be working with the scriptwriter and director whom I've always admired." Scriptwriter Kim Eun Sook also admired and had interest in Lee Min Ho. Scripwriter Kim wants to create a "Fitting Character" just for Lee Min Ho which showed her dedication for the coming project. Hwa and Dam Pictures production company stated, "It is confirmed that Lee Min Ho will be taking the role for the male lead, and we are currently in discussion for the female lead role." On the other hand, Lee Min Ho is giving his fan service by releasing an album in this coming May, and will start his tour with Korea following 10 different cities.


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