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Philippines vs Thailand Badminton Men's Singles Quarterfinals Sea Games 2019

There is only one type of court dimensions that exist in the badminton sport. The court is 13.4 meters long and 6.1 meters wide. If it is singles, the court is 5.18 meters wide. The lines in the court are either white or yellow and the lines are 40mm wide. The court consists of left service court and right service court, double sidelines, singles sidelines, and doubles service lines.

Equipment:

Philippines – the person wore a white jersey badminton shirt, red shorts, red shoes,  white socks, white handle, and a blue badminton racquet.

Thailand - the person wore a red jersey badminton shirt, black shorts, bright orange shoes, white socks, yellow handle, and black racquet.

General Equipment:

In the sport they used a 5 foot 1 inch net and metal bars to hold the net in place. They had a badminton umpire chair to let the official see the situation clearly. There was also a score board to let the audience and athletes know the current score of our competitors. They also had a shuttlecock, a high drag projectile used in the sport, it has a conical shape formed by feathers embedded into a rounded cork base.

Basic Skills: Every athlete or person should always know how to warm up properly. As warming up may prevent any injuries and may make you move more swiftly than not warming up. Warming up doesn’t take long so every athlete should have this skill no matter the sport. This warm up consists of high speed skipping for five minutes. A set of jumping jacks, burpees, lunges, and knee tucks each for one minute. Lastly, jogging around the hall at a quick pace for five minutes. In the sport of badminton you need to know the basic forehand and backhand grip. These grips are essentially vital as they can prevent injuries and may make you get better at the sport. Holding the racquet too tight may cause injuries, like when you’re holding it tightly and you hit the shuttlecock really hard, that pressure and vibration will travel to your arm causing injuries, this is like tennis elbow. The forehand grip is like shaking someone’s hand, and you take that thought and apply it on holding a racquet. The backhand grip is a lot easier because of my experience with it during training. The backhand grip is where you put your thumb over the handle so it sits flat on the grip rather than along the edge. Now this makes your grip a lot more stable contrast to the forehand grip. From what I remember there are 6 corner  footwork. One is where you will travel to the forehand side of the net, now this is where your body will lunge forward depends on where you will hold your racquet, if it is on your right then you will lunge forward right. Another one is where you will travel to the backhand side of the net, this is where you will lunge forward but your back is facing the net, if you’re holding the racquet in your right then you will lunge forward and left and you will point the back side of your racquet to the net. Another one is covering the forehand mid-court, this is where you will lunge to the right, the front of your racquet and your body will be facing the net. Covering the backhand mid-court is the same as the other one, the only difference is where you’re body and racquet will face, the back of the racquet will face the net and your torso will be slightly tilted. Moving to the forehand rear-court is basically where you will back up, your feet will be running backwards and the shuttlecock will be meeting you up in the air. You will hit the shuttlecock with the front of your camera. Moving to the backhand rear-court however is the same as forehand rear-court but the difference is how you will do this action. So in this you will be running facing backwards to where you think the shuttlecock will land and you will run and hit the shuttlecock with the back of your racquet. Another basic skill is where an athlete in badminton does a split step. This is where the person will stand in the middle of their court being ready in case the shuttlecock will either go to their left or to their right. This is a really essential basic skill since it is the one that a lot of people use. There are however basic shots, these consist of serve(backhand or forehand), lift, net shot, block, drop shot, smash, and clear. Next is catching, in the sport catching is where you will catch the shuttlecock with your racquet while its aiming at you high up in the air. This is really needed in badminton since it allows you to focus. Exercising your eyes is also a basic skill, this consists of focus change, near and far focus, and figure eight. Lastly is rhythm and timing, getting a natural rhythm while you play is essential in developing good footwork and creating consistency in your play. Knowing how to perfectly time when to hit the shuttlecock is really needed in the sport so that you know what move to make at a certain time, what position you should be in, and when to hit the shuttlecock.

Technical and Tactical Skills:

Philippines:

Basic Badminton Grip: I didn’t really see it clearly but I have made sense of the video playing before my eyes that this person had a really good grip, it wasn’t too tight or too loose, just right to create an attack.

Overhead Clear: His overhead clear was really good and well thought out, I didn’t expect a lot since it is quite basic but it looked strong but team Thailand found a way to maneuver through this tactic.

Overhead Drop Shot: His overhead drop shot looked quite strong and impressive at first but soon came to realize that his skill is small compared to team Thailand.

Central Base Position: His position was really thought out, although there were gaps and places where team Thailand could easily make the ball land.

Hitting to the Corners: I have noticed that he was really fast when it came to corners, although there were a few misses, it was still really impressive.

Thailand:

Basic Badminton Grip: His basic badminton grip was the same as team Philippines, not to tight nor not too lose, just right.

Overhead Clear: His overhead clear was also good but then again, team Philippines could also find a way through this tactic. Both knew how to maneuver their opponents overhead clear so it didn’t make much of a difference.

Overhead Drop Shot: There was this one shot that caught my eye and it was when he did a fast overhead drop shot but team Philippines could easily hit it quickly and he didn’t have much time to react. His overhead drop shot was really good and impressive though.

Central Base Position: His central base position was top tier since this is the technical skill that pushed him to win the game. He knew how to move swiftly and with durability which gave him an advantage in central base position.

Hitting to the Corners: I have noticed that he was quick-witted so it helped him to hit the shuttlecock before hitting the ground and it saved him from losing a point. In the end he won the quarter finals.

Rules of the game: 1. A game can take either two(singles) or four(doubles) players. 2. An official match has to be played indoors on the proper court dimensions. The dimensions are 6.1m by 13.4m, The net is situated through the middle of the court and is set at 1.55m. 3. To score a point the shuttlecock must hit within the parameters of the opponents court. 4. If ever the shuttlecock hits the net or lands out, then the point will go to your opponent. 5. Players must serve their opponent diagonally across the net. Serving stations switch from one side to the other when points are gained. There are no second serves, because if your first serve goes out, the point is taken by your opponent. 6. A serve must be hit underarm and below the servers waist. No overarm serves are allowed. 7. To decide which player would serve first and which side of the court the opponent will like to start from, each game will begin with a toss. 8. If the shuttlecock has been served, they can move around the court whenever or wherever they want to. 9. If the player or racquet touches the net then that is a fault, the point will be given to your opponent. 10. If a player however distracts the opponent purposefully, they will receive a fault. 11. If the shuttlecock is caught in the racquet and flung rather than hitting it is a fault. 12. If the player hits the shuttlecock twice or more then that is a fault. 13. Each game is umpired by a high chair referee who overlooks the game. There are also line judges who track whether or not the shuttlecock lands in. The referee's objections of infringements and errors are of utmost significance. 14. If an unusual or unintended occurrence occurs, it can be named by the referee. The shuttle bug may be trapped in the bet, server is serving, one player is not prepared, or a decision is too close to calling. 15. The game has just two rest periods come in the form of a 90 second rest time after the first game and a 5 minute rest period after the second game. 16. The referee is empowered to dock this player for persistent errors earning a predetermined default or even a match if the rules are consistently violated by one player.

How to officiate the sport:

Umpire: They are the one with maximum authority in a match and it is in charge of the court. They are also the ones to make sure the match is following the laws of badminton and regulations. They are responsible to judge service faults and other player faults. They keep records of any misbehavior or incident and then reports it to the referee. They have complete control over the match but also needs to report any serious acts to the referee. There are 3 levels of umpire, National Level Umpire, BEC Accredited Umpire, and BEC Certificated Umpire.

Service Judge: They are responsible for making a service fault call and to provide shuttlecock to players. They are one of the important officials.

Line Judge: They are the ones to tell the referee whether a shuttlecock landed in or out if the shuttlecock lands near the lines. This job is challenging since the pace of the game and skills of the players are quick and they get pressure for this. There are at least 10 line judges, 2 line judges for the short service line, 2 line judges for the center line, 4 line judges for the side lines, and 2 line judges for the back boundary lines.

Referee: It is the most important role in the sport. This person will be the one to know if the game is following the laws of badminton. They are the ones that makes sure that the facilities and the conditions to play are up to the standards required for that specific tournament. They are also the ones in charge of the approval of the schedule of matches and practice. There are national level referee and European continental referee.

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Yesterday CNBC reported that Citigroup is one of the banks selected by the Small Business Administration to handle billions of dollars earmarked in last week’s stimulus bill to help small businesses get back on their feet and keep their employees paid during the coronavirus crisis. Citigroup’s Citicorp subsidiary was charged with, and pleaded guilty to, a criminal felony count brought by the U.S. Department of Justice on May 20, 2015 for its role in rigging foreign currency trading. Its rap sheet for a long series of abuses to its customers and investors since 2008 is nothing short of breathtaking. (See its rap sheet at the end of this article.)

During the financial crash of 2007 to 2010, Citigroup received the largest bailout in global banking history after its former top executives had walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars that they cashed out of stock options. Citigroup received over $2.5 trillion in secret Federal Reserve loans; $45 billion in capital infusions from the U.S. Treasury; a government guarantee of over $300 billion on its dubious “assets”; a government guarantee of $5.75 billion on its senior unsecured debt and $26 billion on its commercial paper and interbank deposits by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Sandy Weill was the Chairman and CEO of Citigroup as it built up its toxic footprint and off-balance-sheet vehicles that blew up the bank. Weill was also the man who engineered the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, the depression-era legislation that had safeguarded the U.S. banking system for 66 years before its repeal in 1999. Weill needed the Glass-Steagall legislation to vanish so that he could merge his hodgepodge of Wall Street trading firms (Salomon Brothers and Smith Barney, et al) with a federally-insured bank full of deposits. Weill told his merger partner, John Reed of Citibank, that his motivation for the deal was: “We could be so rich,” according to Reed in an interview with Bill Moyers.

The repeal of Glass-Steagall meant that the casino-style investment banks and trading houses across Wall Street could now own federally-insured commercial banks and use those mom and pop deposits in a heads we win, tails you lose strategy. Every major Wall Street trading house either bought a federally-insured bank or created one. (See the co-author of this article testifying before the Federal Reserve on June 26, 1998 against the Citigroup merger and the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in this video.)

What Weill meant by “We could be so rich” was this: If the trading bets won big, the CEOs became obscenely rich on stock-option-based performance pay. When the bets lost big, the government would be forced to do a bailout rather than allow a giant federally-insured bank to fail. This is why the Federal Reserve had to secretly plow $29 trillion into Wall Street banks and their foreign derivatives counterparties between 2007 and 2011 and why the Fed had to open its money spigot again on September 17 of last year – months before there were any reports of coronavirus COVID-19 cases anywhere in the world.

Sandy Weill became a billionaire at the merged Wall Street bank, known as Citigroup, through a technique that compensation expert Graef “Bud” Crystal called the Count Dracula stock option plan – you simply could not kill it; not even with a silver bullet. Nor could you prosecute it, because Citigroup’s crony Board of Directors rubber-stamped it. The plan worked like this: every time Weill exercised one set of stock options, he got a reload of approximately the same amount of options, regardless of how many frauds the bank had been charged with during the year. (And there were plenty. See rap sheet below.)

Writing at Bloomberg News, Crystal explained that between 1988 and 2002, Weill “received 96 different option grants” on an aggregate of $3 billion of stock. Crystal says “It’s a wonder that Weill had time to run the business, what with all his option grants and exercises. In the years 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2000, Weill exercised, and then received new option grants, a total of, respectively, 14, 20, 13 and 19 times.”

When Weill stepped down as CEO in 2003, he had amassed over $1 billion in compensation, the bulk of it coming from his reloading stock options. (He remained as Chairman of Citigroup until 2006.) Just one day after stepping down as CEO, Citigroup’s Board of Directors allowed Weill to sell back to the corporation 5.6 million shares of his stock for $264 million. This eliminated Weill’s risk that his big share sale would drive down his own share prices as he was selling. The Board negotiated the price at $47.14 for all of Weill’s shares.

On May 9, 2011 Citigroup did a 1 for 10 reverse stock split, meaning if you previously owned 100 shares of Citigroup, you now owned just 10 and the price was adjusted upward accordingly. At yesterday’s closing price of $38.51 (actually $3.85 if adjusted for the reverse stock split), Citigroup’s long-term shareholders are still down 92 percent from where Weill bailed out of the stock in 2003.

Another man that became obscenely rich from Citigroup was Robert Rubin, the Treasury Secretary under the Bill Clinton administration who helped Citigroup advocate for the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act. Without any meaningful cooling-off period, Rubin went straight from his government post to serve on the Board of Citigroup. Rubin received more than $120 million in compensation over the next eight years for his non-management job.

John Reed had a falling out with Weill and retired from Citigroup in April 2000. In Monica Langley’s book, Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World. . .and Then Nearly Lost It All, the author reports that Reed owned 4.7 million shares of Citigroup on the date of his retirement. Langley also writes that “Reed immediately began selling his Citigroup shares and laid plans with his second wife to buy a house on an island off the coast of France.”

If Reed sold all of his Citigroup shares over the next three months after his retirement at an average price at the time of $62, he would have realized $291 million in proceeds. According to SEC filings (see here and here) Reed also received a $5 million retirement bonus and a retirement pension of at least $2,019,528 annually.

According to the SEC filings, Reed was also to receive the following: lawsuit indemnifications arising from company employment; an office at Citigroup, secretarial support and access to a car and driver for as long as Reed deemed it “useful.” If Reed decided he needed an office outside of New York City, that would be provided with secretarial support until age 75.

When Weill stepped down as CEO in 2003, he put his General Counsel and personal friend, Chuck Prince, in charge as CEO. Prince took the fall when the company imploded in 2008. For being a good foot soldier to Weill, Prince got an exit package of $68 million.

And then there was Vikram Pandit, a hedge fund manager whom Robert Rubin selected to run the sprawling Citigroup. The Wall Street Journal reported that Pandit took home $221.5 million during his five years at Citigroup.

Sheila Bair, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation that guaranteed Citigroup’s debt during the financial crisis, wrote this about Pandit’s persona at a meeting with other bankers in her book “Bull by the Horns”:

“Pandit looked nervous, and no wonder. More than any other institution represented in that room, his bank was in trouble. Frankly, I doubted that he was up to the job. He had been brought in to clean up the mess at Citi. He had gotten the job with the support of Robert Rubin, the former secretary of the Treasury who now served as Citi’s titular head. I thought Pandit had been a poor choice. He was a hedge fund manager by occupation and one with a mixed record at that. He had no experience as a commercial banker; yet now he was heading one of the biggest commercial banks in the country.”

When the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission concluded its findings into what led to the financial crash of Wall Street in 2008, resulting in millions of job losses and foreclosures across America, it made numerous referrals for potential criminal prosecutions to the Justice Department. Three of Citigroup’s executives were among those referrals: Robert Rubin, Chuck Prince and former CFO Gary Crittenden. Nothing ever became of those referrals.

In 2012 the law firm Kirby McInerney agreed to settle a lawsuit against Citigroup on behalf of shareholders for $590 million. The lawsuit charged that Citigroup had lied to shareholders about its financial condition, including its losses from off-balance-sheet accounting tricks. The plaintiffs wrote this about Citigroup’s Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs), which were loans to lower credit-rated companies that were then pooled together:

“After purchasing insurance on a CLO tranche, Citigroup would book the difference in the cost of the insurance and the payments of the loan for the entire life of the loan immediately as if the loan had been sold…Additionally, Citigroup engaged in negative basis trades with the billions of dollars of CLO exposure remaining on the Company’s balance sheet. These trades allowed Citigroup to book immediate gain for the entire term of loans by purchasing insurance on their default and, thereby, treat the purchase of insurance as a sale of the loans when, in fact, those loans (or rather, those CLO tranches) never left Citigroup’s books…In addition to the high fees for CLO creation, the ability to create instant gain through these trades was a powerful incentive for Citigroup to issue ever riskier leveraged loans. While revenue from fees and negative-basis trades inflated Citigroup’s earnings on leveraged loans and CLOs, Citigroup kept its shareholders unaware of the artificial source of the gains or the inherent risks in continuing to operate its ephemeral money-making machine.”

After Citigroup’s massive bailout by taxpayers and the Federal Reserve, its crime spree continued. This is just a sampling of charges brought against Citigroup and its affiliates since December 2008:

Citigroup’s Rap Sheet:

December 11, 2008: SEC forces Citigroup and UBS to buy back $30 billion in auction rate securities that were improperly sold to investors through misleading information.

July 29, 2010: SEC settles with Citigroup for $75 million over its misleading statements to investors that it had reduced its exposure to subprime mortgages to $13 billion when in fact the exposure was over $50 billion.

October 19, 2011: SEC agrees to settle with Citigroup for $285 million over claims it misled investors in a $1 billion financial product.  Citigroup had selected approximately half the assets and was betting they would decline in value.

February 9, 2012: Citigroup agrees to pay $2.2 billion as its portion of the nationwide settlement of bank foreclosure fraud.

August 29, 2012: Citigroup agrees to settle a class action lawsuit for $590 million over claims it withheld from shareholders’ knowledge that it had far greater exposure to subprime debt than it was reporting.

July 1, 2013: Citigroup agrees to pay Fannie Mae $968 million for selling it toxic mortgage loans.

September 25, 2013: Citigroup agrees to pay Freddie Mac $395 million to settle claims it sold it toxic mortgages.

December 4, 2013: Citigroup admits to participating in the Yen Libor financial derivatives cartel to the European Commission and accepts a fine of $95 million.

July 14, 2014: The U.S. Department of Justice announces a $7 billion settlement with Citigroup for selling toxic mortgages to investors. Attorney General Eric Holder called the bank’s conduct “egregious,” adding, “As a result of their assurances that toxic financial products were sound, Citigroup was able to expand its market share and increase profits.”

November 2014: Citigroup pays more than $1 billion to settle civil allegations with regulators that it manipulated foreign currency markets. Other global banks settled at the same time.

May 20, 2015: Citicorp, a unit of Citigroup becomes an admitted felon by pleading guilty to a felony charge in the matter of rigging foreign currency trading, paying a fine of $925 million to the Justice Department and $342 million to the Federal Reserve for a total of $1.267 billion. The prior November it paid U.S. and U.K. regulators an additional $1.02 billion.

May 25, 2016: Citigroup agrees to pay $425 million to resolve claims brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that it had rigged interest-rate benchmarks, including ISDAfix, from 2007 to 2012.

July 12, 2016: The Securities and Exchange Commission fined Citigroup Global Markets Inc. $7 million for failure to provide accurate trading records over a period of 15 years. According to the SEC: “CGMI failed to produce records for 26,810 securities transactions comprising over 291 million shares of stock and options in response to 2,382 EBS requests made by Commission staff, between May 1999 and April 2014, due to an error in the computer code for CGMI’s EBS response software. Despite discovering the error in late April 2014, CGMI did not report the issue to Commission staff or take steps to produce the omitted data until nine months later on January 27, 2015. CGMI’s failure to discover the coding error and to produce the missing data for many years potentially impacted numerous Commission investigations.”

June 15, 2018: Citigroup agrees to settle with states for $100 million over charges that it rigged the Libor interest rate benchmark.

June 29, 2018: Citigroup’s Citibank settles with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for $335 million in restitution to credit card customers over charges that it violated the Truth in Lending Act.

August 16, 2018: Citigroup settles with SEC for $10.5 million over inadequate controls, mismarking of illiquid positions and unauthorized proprietary trading.

September 14, 2018: Citigroup settles with SEC for $13 million over charges it improperly operated its Dark Pool – an internal stock exchange where it is allowed to trade its own stock.

May 22, 2019: Citigroup settles a money laundering case with the U.S. Department of Justice for $97.44 million.

November 26, 2019: Citigroup settles with the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulatory Authority for $57 million over charges that it incorrectly reported the bank’s capital and liquidity levels.

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Bailey panics as she hears there has been a surge of COVID-19 cases, knowing she has loved ones in an assisted living facility. Meanwhile, Jackson and Richard team up against Catherine to teach her a lesson, and Teddy continues to try to mend her frayed relationships. After an intense surgery, Jo is uncertain about her future.

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Meet Meredith Grey. She's a woman trying to lead a real life while doing a job that makes having a real life impossible.

Meredith is a first year surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital, the toughest surgical residency program west of Harvard. She and fellow first-year interns Cristina Yang, Izzie Stevens, George O'Malley and Alex Karev were students yesterday. Today they're doctors and, in a world where on the job training can be a matter of life and death, they're all juggling the ups and downs of their own personal lives.

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Dish Hopper 3 vs. DirecTV Genie Any Television lover would agree that Satellite TVs are truly a blessing. In today's fast-paced world, we want to enjoy every luxury but can't afford to waste any time; as they rightly say, ‘Time is the new money.’ Digital Video Recorder (DVR) is an excellent choice to enjoy your favorite TV shows but at your preferred time and day. Dish Hopper 3 and DirecTV Genie are two of the best options out there available in the market. If you are planning to invest in the best Satellite TV for your home and can’t decide which one to buy among these two, then you have certainly come to the right place.

Image source: Dish TV Comparison between Dish Hopper 3 and DirecTV Genie: Both of these Satellite TVs are at the top of their game and have home HD DVR systems with 4K Ultra HD support, but they have distinctive features. We have put together this easy buyer’s guide and noted all the defining features of each of these Satellite TVs.

Let’s take a detailed look at their differences and similarities so that it would be a lot easier for you to make a well-informed decision. 1. Storage capacity The DISH Hopper 3 offers 2 TB (2000 GB) of storage space, which is almost 500 hours of stored HD content and about 2000 hours of SD. This is the highest storage capacity offered by any satellite service provider, giving an upper hand to DISH TV in this area over any other satellite TV.

Whereas DirecTV Genie has 1 TB (1000 GB) of storage capacity, i.e., about 500 hrs of SD and 200 hrs of HD content storage, which is still a lot, but as compared to DISh TV, this does not sound as amazing.

Both DVRs can have expandable storage space with an external hard drive. But DISH is a clear winner here when it comes to built-in storage space.

2. Connectivity ports and outputs DISH TV has 3 USB ports and 2 Ethernet jacks, and one eSATA port in terms of connectivity. The outputs include Coaxial digital, optical digital, stereo, HDMI, component as well as composite video.

On the other hand, the DirecTV Genie has 2 USB ports, 1 Ethernet jack, and one eSATA port. And its outputs are coaxial digital, optical digital, stereo, HDMI, and component video. Here again, the Genie falls short of the Hopper in a few of its specs regarding ports and connectivity.

3. Remote Controller The DISH TV Hopper Voice Remote has a simple design and is small and handy. It also has a touchpad in the middle. It has an amazing voice control feature, which the Genie remote controller lacks. The backlit keys add an extra oomph to the plain old remote and make it very easy to use in the dark. Not only do the backlights serve the purpose of easy readability of keys in dim lights, but they also come in handy when finding your remote in the dark. There is a special button on your Hopper DVR that serves as a Remote Locator. Just push it in case you have lost your remote controller, and not only will it light up but also start blinking and beeping, making it extremely easy to find. How cool is that, right?

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DirecTV Genie remote has a unique shape and a couple of new advanced features. But it does not have a voice control option, nor the backlit keys (which every remote controller should have in my opinion). But the good thing is that Genie has a voice control feature when connected to their mobile device app. The Genie remote controller now comes with infrared and radio frequency technology, which allows better communication between your remote and receiver. The inclusion of this latest technology helps in avoiding common remote control problems like the TV not directly aligning with the remote. Infrared technology allows signals to go through cabinets, windows as well as doors easily.

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4. User-Interface DISH Hopper 3 has a very modern look to it. With its integrated streaming services it offers a cohesive and pleasing experience to its users. It has a black and red grid. With its easy to use filters for genre, shows and even actors it is convenient to browse through your favourite TV content. Additionally, it includes other streaming services like Netflix, YouTube, and Pandora.

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DirecTV Genie is easy, convenient to use and has a black and blue look. It has well-organized HD and SD content for easier access unlike other DVRs which separate HD channels, for which you need to remember the channel number to find the HD version of your favourite show.

Image source: AT&T 5. Recording capabilities The DISH Hopper offers a DVR setup that lets you record upto 16 shows live. It can connect to maximum 7 TVs and is able to display upto 16 unique viewings. The Hopper is an ideal choice for big families or those households where multiple roommates live together. It allows independent viewing on each connected receiver, so everybody can watch their favourite shows or movies at a time in your home.

The DirecTV Genie can record five channels at a time. It displays upto 4 unique viewings and can connect upto 8 TVs at once. Although it supports upto 8 TVs at once, only 3 of them can stay active at a time. 6. Number of channels DISH Hopper 3 offers 290+ channels, exact number ranges between different packages. Whereas, on DirectTV Genie you can view maximum 330+ channels and it offers more sports programming than Dish Hopper. DirecTV is a clear winner in this regard if you love exploring new channels and shows all the time. 7. Price Dish service costs around $59.99–$94.99/month for a 2 years contract and if you are opting for Hopper 3 (+$5.00/month). DISH prices are also quite affordable as compared to its other counterparts. RSN Surcharge up to $3/mo. applies to AT120+ and higher packages and varies based on location

Whereas, DirecTV costs around $64.99 – $124.99 per month depending upon your package, for a 2 years contract (Genie included). DirecTV Satellite TV is an excellent value for your money as it has a greater number of channels as compared to Dish Hopper 3. Keeping in mind DirecTV cost includes an exclusive NFL Sunday Ticket sports package. 8. Languages DISH Hopper 3 supports 29 different languages ranging from Spanish and Italian to all the way to Urdu and Hindi. This feature appeals to greater public and especially immigrants with different native languages.  

DirecTV Genie offers a mere eight options, which are Spanish, Brazilian, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Filipino, Vietnamese, and South Asian. Here again DISH Hopper wins the hearts of their international customers and people from different language backgrounds. 9. Unique Features The DISH Hopper 3 have some exclusive special features which are listed below:

● ‘PrimeTime Anytime’ The Hopper can record primetime programs. It will automatically record your favorite shows, as they appear each week. This feature also allows you to watch primetime shows up to eight days after they have aired. You can even permanently save some of your content if you wish. The ‘Primetime Anytime’ recordings will not be included in your DVR capacity either. ● AutoHop feature allows you to skip commercials on recorded programs. This is specifically for local channels and for pre-recorded shows in their exclusive ‘Primetime Anytime’ setup. ● Joeys: You can also add extra receivers to your Hopper. These are called Joeys, and they will link up to the main DVR unit so you can play back items in other spots around your home. ● Alexa Integration: The Hopper 3 works with Amazon Alexa to allow voice controlling even without the remote. This is an immensely convenient feature which is very popular among Hopper Users. ● DISH Anywhere is an app that allows you to use your mobile app to view your DVR recordings on any device. This is especially handy for frequent travelers. ● The SRS TruVolume system works well to keep the volume of your TV at a steady level. It automatically controls the volume of whatever show you are watching, preventing the levels from spiking as you switch from one channel to the other. ● MultiView/Sports Bar: The Hopper 3’s powerful processor allows you to watch up to four separate channels on one screen. The feature is sometimes called Sports Bar Mode, but it works with any channel, not just sports. It is also great for following breaking news from several sources at once.

The DirecTV Genie’s special features include:

● The 72-hour rewind feature allows you to watch shows you forgot to record. ● Pause/rewind live TV ● NFL Sunday Ticket An exclusive access to NFL Sunday Ticket is one of the distinctive features of Genie. None of the other service providers offer this. Sport lovers all over the world are appreciating this service from DirecTV. ● DirecTV’s Mix Channels are special sports channels that can pull in up to eight channels from different networks and put them all on the screen at once. This is a great feature for game day.This takes MultiView to the next level. ● Genie Sports feature combines all your favorite sports programming into one spot. It’s very convenient for sports fanatics. ● Picture-in-Picture is not something new, but the Genie does it really well: it can display two channels side by side by splitting your screen in two. This provides a lot of convenience if you have just one screen at your home but you and your partner want to see different channels. ● Genie App: Their app allows you to use your phone as a remote. ● On-Demand streaming system: The Genie offers an On-Demand streaming system which will allow you to watch shows that are on the VOD network at any time. It allows you to watch shows up to five weeks after they air. You can scan the guide for information on the programming that will appear up to two weeks in advance. Additionally, you can set recordings for those times in the future. ● Recommendations Feature: The Genie also has a recommendations feature, which will recommend shows to you based on what you have already seen. ● ENERGY STAR certified: Although it is not a feature but it's definitely worth mentioning that DIRECTV is the only TV provider to earn the EPA’s ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year award for its television receivers. If environmental health is important to you, this is something you should consider before making a purchase.

10. Mobile App DISH Hopper 3 Mobile App: The Dish Hopper’s mobile app, known as ‘DISH Anywhere’, allows you to watch live TV on your phone, tablet or laptop. But it does not offer remote control functions like the Genie one does.Nonetheless, you can use your app to manage your DVR recordings from anywhere.

DirecTV Genie Mobile App: This is one of the highest rated Satellite TV provider apps with 4.7/5 stars on the App Store. Apart from all the typical features that a mobile app offers, you can use it to watch your favourite shows on the go, manage your DVR recordings and use it as a remote as well. As the actual remote controller does not provide the voice control feature, like the Hopper one does, this app comes handy in this regard.

Comparison Table To sum it all up, here is an easy to read comparison chart for you to recall all the most important specifications and features listed above and helps you in making your final decision.

Feature DISH DirecTV DVR Hopper 3 Genie 4K Ultra HD streaming YES YES Local programming YES YES Built-in Storage Capacity 2 TB (2000 GB) 1 TB (1000 GB) Recording capacity HD Up to 500 hrs. HD Up to 200 hrs. HD Recording capacity SD Upto 2000 hrs. SD Upto 500 hrs. SD Expandable storage YES YES USB Ports 3 2 Ethernet Jacks 2 1 Voice Controlled Remote Controller YES NO Backlit keys on remote YES NO Remote Locator Feature YES NO Infrared and Radio Frequency technology on Remote Controller NO YES Simultaneous Recordings 16 5 Unique Viewings 16 4 Maximum TV connections 7 8 Channel Count Upto 290+ Upto 330+ Price $59.99–$94.99/month $64.99 – $124.99 per month Languages 29 8 Alexa Integration YES NO 72-hour rewind feature NO YES NFL Sunday Ticket NO YES Picture-in-Picture YES YES Auto-skip recorded commercials Yes (after 24 hours) NO On Demand YES YES Home security NO YES Apps Netflix, YouTube, Pandora, Dish Music & more. NO Watch Anywhere-supported devices Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone, Android Phone, Android Tablets, Kindle Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone, Android Phone, Android Tablets, Kindle (Watch Anywhere on DirecTV requires extra GenieGo hardware) Final Verdict Well, now it's time for our final verdict. Easily, the DISH TV Hopper 3 is the clear winner in our eyes, if you generally watch TV for entertainment or have other family members in your home. But if you are a Sports enthusiast, then DirecTV Genie is the way to go! Not only because of its free NFL Sunday Ticket, but also there are a lot of different sports related features. With this detailed review we are sure you will make the right decision according to your own personal needs and preferences. Happy shopping!

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Ranking All 49 One Piece Anime Arcs (Yes, Even The Filler)

  On July 7th, the long-awaited Wano arc of One Piece begins, and because we're about to jump into an arc that's been building up for eleven years, I think it's as good a time as any to rank all 49 of the arcs that we have already. And I'm going to include the filler arcs, too, because even though many of them can't really hold a candle to the main narrative, I think a few of them are quite underrated. 

  49. Buggy's Crew Adventures

    This isn't really an arc so much as a sigh of relief after the runaway train of emotion of the last few episodes of Arlong Park. You can laugh at Buggy for a bit after watching Nami's soul get ripped apart (and then put back together again).

48. Post Alabasta

    You know video game sidequests that are basically around to level up your specific partner characters so that they don't get immediately wiped out in boss fights? This is the anime filler arc version of that. It's fun, though.

47. Foxy's Return

    I loooooove Foxy and I looooove the Davy Back Fight arc. But Foxy's Return doesn't quite hit home. It might be because we last saw Foxy six episodes ago, but it truly speaks to Foxy's character that he'd try to make a grand, dramatic return after he got the crap kicked out of him so recently.  

46. Spa Island

    Foxy returns again in Spa Island, though this filler arc is mostly notable for the fact that Luffy uses Gear Third to split an artificial island in half. That alone wins this arc points.

45. Warship Island

    Warship Island isn't a bad filler arc, just a victim of poor placement. It comes right after Loguetown and right after the Straw Hats have each declared their dreams. So it becomes a pit stop arc, like the Straw Hat crew getting gas and snacks before they head out on the Grand Line.

44. Little East Blue

    I like to think of Little East Blue as a celebration of pre time skip One Piece, where the Straw Hats get (deservedly) celebrated for a bit. It's cute and it's a nice prologue to the Strong World movie. 

43. Z's Ambition

    The filler arcs that precede the movies are an odd bunch, as they tend to end with the main villain of the movie showing up in the last five minutes and declaring their plans. So it's hard to enjoy them on their own. That said, Z's Ambition has enough action that even if you don't watch Film Z (but you should, as it's great), you won't really mind the cliffhanger finale.

42. Straw Hat Separation

    After Kuma wiped out the crew, this batch of episodes shows where they all ended up. And it's mainly a montage of Straw Hats being confused. And don't get me wrong—the Straw Hats do confusion like nobody's business. But you get more out of their separation in the Post War arc when they finally get around to business. 

41. Diary of Koby-Meppo

    Koby is a character that has always deserved more time, so getting a few episodes devoted to him and Helmeppo training to be Marines is welcome. Also, my dude Garp shows up for the first time, which means that I've rewatched these two episodes FAR more than I should. 

40. Goat Island

    Goat Island doesn't feel as "classic" as G-8, nor is it as entertaining as Ocean's Dream. In fact, it's about as fluffy as the goats that appear in it. But a three episode arc where Chopper talks to goats and Luffy doesn't beat up a villain but rather causes him to get shipwrecked? I'm FOR it. 

  39. Chopper Man Special

    Chopper Man has Chopper in a cape. It's worth it for that. Please @ me. Chopper Man, you're my hero, and I hope you one day get a Chopper Man & Sogeking Save The Grand Line special.

  38. Romance Dawn

    Romance Dawn establishes a lot of things that will become classic tropes in One Piece: Going to a new island, meeting new crew members, helping out little kids, taking out a power hungry warlord, etc. It's a blueprint arc, and it works well as that. Sadly, the anime would not continue the "introduce a Straw Hat character with rad guitar" idea like they do with Zoro here. 

37. Orange Town

    The East Blue saga only gets better as it goes along, and Orange Town provides a nice counter to Romance Dawn. For example, if Axe-Hand Morgan represented the seriousness of the Marine threat in the last arc, then Buggy represents the other side of the villains that the Straw Hat Crew will encounter: cartoonish, loud, and beaten in a really fun way. 

36. Ruluka Island

    Ruluka Island feels like condensed One Piece, like you'd just add some water to turn this four episode arc into a twenty episode one. It's a nice arc to stretch your legs in before you go to the big themes of Jaya.

35. Ice Hunter

    Ice Hunter is neat because it gives every member of the Straw Hat crew a little time to shine in a story that is action-packed and intriguing. If you miss pre timeskip One Piece and haven't watched the Ice Hunter arc, give it a shot.

34. Marine Rookie

    I know that we're all eager to see the Straw Hats reunite in Wano, but if you want to see more of Whole Cake's Sanji Retrieval Team, the Marine Rookie arc makes for a solid bonus round. Also, the only reason it starts is because Luffy eats all of the Straw Hats' supplies, which, logically, should be the beginning of waaaaay more One Piece arcs.

33. Silver Mine

    If you didn't get enough Bartolomeo in Dressrosa, then surprise! They made a filler arc just for you. 

  32. Boss Luffy Specials

    You know when you fall asleep watching a show, and then you wake back up and, in your grogginess, suddenly whatever is on TV looks insane? That's what happened to me with Boss Luffy. I had just finished watching Ace's fight with Blackbeard and then, boom. I was out. Then I wake up and see the Straw Hats in 19th century Japan. The Boss Luffy stuff is fun, but I think it's best viewed when you're in a delirious half sleep. That's just my personal preference, though.

31. Caesar Retrieval

    Caesar made for a fine antagonist on Punk Hazard, but he's even better as shreiking deadweight that the Straw Hat Crew and Company have to keep alive. 

30. Little Garden

    Little Garden isn't as cool as Whisky Peak, nor does it provide the emotional gut punch of Drum Island. Instead, it's mainly here to further the theme of what it means to be a true warrior and introduce giants (and dinosaurs!) in the One Piece universe. It gives Usopp some of the character development that he needs and Zoro almost cuts off his own feet in an effort to keep fighting. Any arc that illustrates how hard Zoro goes gets at least one thumb up from me.

29. Loguetown

      Loguetown is a fun arc when you consider just how much it expands the scope of the world. Smoker and Tashigi truly begin the Navy's quest to stop the Straw Hats, Dragon gets introduced in a big, mysterious way, and Luffy takes a massive step in establishing himself in the realm of pirating. However, the Straw Hat side stories in the middle (aside from Zoro's awesome bit in the sword shop) slow it down a little. 

28. Zou

    Zou might be one of the most visually rich arcs in the series. From the massive elephant to the Mink tribe to the terror of Jack to more lessons about the poneglyphs, there's a lot shoved into this short span. And between the intense epics of Dressrosa and Whole Cake Island, it's fits nicely as 10 cc's of wonder and fantasy injected into the New World.  

27. Fishman Island

    Fishman Island occupies a weird spot. It's thematically heavy, but also serves as the action-packed Straw Hat Crew comeback tour. It needs to stand on its own, but it also caps off with a declaration of war against Big Mom, a villain that won't be encountered for years. In all, I feel that the importance of the Fishman Island arc is yet to be truly realized. 

26. Ocean's Dream

    One of the final two filler arcs on this list, Ocean's Dream seems like One Piece fan fiction in the best way. If you were dissatisfied with Luffy's fight with Zoro on Whisky Peak, you get another round of it here while Zoro is being mind controlled. 

25. Syrup Village

    If Romance Dawn and Orange Town were warm up laps, Syrup Village is when One Piece begins to break out in a sprint. The introduction of Usopp and the Going Merry make for some great moments and it's this arc that got me hooked on One Piece when I first started watching it. 

24. Dressrosa

    Dressrosa, for better (and sometimes for worse) is massive. Doflamingo is a threat that had been popping up since the Jaya arc, but because of Dressrosa's scope, his defeat can feel a little lackluster, especially when you consider that he's a pitstop on the road to Kaido. But Dressrosa introduces the endlessly cool Fujitora and the Straw Hats' big pirate alliance, and also gives us the dual backstories to Law and Doflamingo, neither of which disappoint. Also, Doflamingo's abilities lead to some of the coolest action scenes in the series. 

23. Return to Sabaody

    The post-timeskip starts with a bang, as the Return to Sabaody arc is both hilarious and thrilling. The Straw Hats get to show off their newfound strength as they do what they definitely couldn't do in the first Sabaody arc (easily knock out a Pacifista). And we also get to meet the Fake Straw Hat crew, which does a nice job of illuminating just how much the legend of the Straw Hats has grown since they were last together. 

22. Reverse Mountain

    One of the major strengths of One Piece is that it can accomplish three kinds of storytelling at once—giving us a narrative that is immediately satisying, giving us a narrative that will be satisfying in the near future, and giving us a narrative that will be satisfying in the long term. In the Reverse Mountain arc, we not only get a nice story about Laboon, but we also get introduced to Baroque Works (who will be the main antagonists of the saga), and also, we get hints that will only pay off when Brook is introduced years later. Reverse Mountain is short, but it also displays Eiichiro Oda's wonderful talent as a writer. 

21. Long Ring Long Land

    I've seen people on the internet say stuff like "WHEN I REACHED THE DAVY BACK FIGHT ARC, I NEARLY STOPPED READING!" and man, why? Quitting a series that you love because it slightly diverts from the hero fighting god-like enemies in order to participate in some fun games? Everyone has their own opinions, but your opinion of what fiction should be is wrong. That said, this arc is hilarious and great. 

20. Whisky Peak

    Whisky Peak is so cool. It's an anime arc with swagger, the kind that steps into a bar and buys everyone a round. I want to be friends with Whisky Peak but I know, deep down, that Whisky Peak is far too rad to be friends with me.

  19. Reverie

    The best thing about the Reverie arc is that it makes the world of One Piece a little more conveniently manageable (Oh neat. All of the major side characters get to hang out for a while), while also opening a can of worms (What's with the giant straw hat? WHAT'S WITH THE GIANT STRAW HAT?). Because this is the most recent arc, I don't know if we've seen the ripples that it will create across the One Piece world, but I sure am excited to.

  18. Post Enies Lobby

    This isn't the first time the Straw Hats have been forced to flee a place. However, this is the first time that it's felt like they'd be wiped out if they didn't. The return of Garp (and the spectre of the Yonko) throw the Straw Hats into all new territory, one where maybe being the plucky underdog team isn't enough to save them from the threats that come. Also, goofy Franky joins the team, which provides a nice counter-balance to the hints of oblivion. 

17. Punk Hazard

    Punk Hazard is home to one of my top 10 One Piece fights (Vergo vs Law & Smoker), features one of my favorite locations (an island that is half fire/magma and half ice/snow and home to an evil science base), and introduces a character that has only grown on me with time (Here's a hint on who he is: He laughs like "SHERURURURURURU SHERURURURURURU). It's kind of a prequel to Dressrosa, but in that spot, does a great job at furthering the menace of Doflamingo. 

16. Post War

      The introduction of Sabo aka Steampunk Ace aka I'm Just Kidding Sabo Is Kinda Cool and Luffy realizing that he has his crew to keep him going make the Post-War arc into a short but powerful cap to the pre-timeskip era. 

15. Amazon Lily

    Boa Hancock is a supremely underrated One Piece character, with a terribly sad backstory, amazing powers, and a hilarious crush on Luffy. And Amazon Lily helps further the major trend that will reach fever pitch in Dressrosa of Luffy amassing supporters because he's just such a dang ol' nice guy. Hopefully Hancock will one day meet Bartolomeo and together they will start a Luffy fan club and then argue over who gets to be President. 

14. Jaya

    If you were in the dark as to what the themes of One Piece are, here comes Jaya with a flashlight. This is basically a montage of the things that are important to the Straw Hat crew, and it introduces Blackbeard, a guy that will go from "Oh he seems interesting" to "OH I HATE HIM" over the next few hundred chapters. Luffy saying "Do I know how to throw a punch, you ask?" before absolutely walloping Bellamy still gives me goose bumps.

13. Thriller Bark

      There's so much good to Thriller Bark—the spooky atmosphere, the introduction of Brook, the underrated Gekko Moriah, the Binks' Sake song, the Straw Hats teaming up to face a giant zombie, etc. And just when you think it can't get any better, Kuma shows up and rocks the One Piece world. 

12. Impel Down

    Hey! It's Buggy! And Mr. 3! And Mr. 2! And Crocodile! And our new best boy Jinbe! And Ivankov! As both a launching point for new protagonists and a comeback for old foes (along with introducing Magellan, one of the best villains in the series, and Shiryu, one of the scariest villains in the series), Impel Down succeeds. I love it more and more with time.

11. Drum Island

    I've written an entire article about why the arc where we first meet Tony Tony Chopper makes me weep, so I'll try to be brief here. Drum Island is beautiful. It's the story of a little deer guy that couldn't find a place in the world and the loud rubber bro that gave him one. It's an arc about the price of dreams and the power of having someone stand up for you when you need it most. It's about love and respect and kindess. And now I'm about to cry again. THANKS A LOT, ONE PIECE.

10. Baratie

    The Baratie arc is the first hint that we'll get about how hectic the One Piece world is. We meet Sanji, we meet Don Krieg, and we meet Mihawk (and is stronger than the whole cast of the show combined at this point). Syrup Village is about leaving your comfort zones and Baratie is about finding a home in the chaos that follows. 

9. G-8

    The best One Piece filler arc and the One Piece arc that I most revisit (it's only 11 episodes, can you blame me?), G-8 is a One Piece Greatest Hits collection and possibly the first thing you should show someone if they want to get into One Piece but don't have long to do so. 

8. Alabasta

    Are the Straw Hats ready for the Grand Line? Are they ready to topple evil villains and protect those that need help? That's what Alabasta asks and the answer is "Oh yeah." Luffy punching Crocodile up through the center of the city is an iconic moment, showing us that the Straw Hats, whether they mean to be or not, are forces of good in the world. 

7. Marineford

    Marineford is loud and chaotic and powerful, forcing Luffy into a situation where he is simply an especially energetic pawn on the chessboard of battle. It's just as much of a rescue mission as it is a quest for survival for him, but in the midst of Whitebeard and the three admirals and the Shichibukai, Luffy makes his mark. However, he doesn't do it through displays of awe-inspiring force, but through his willpower. Aokiji is right when he says that Luffy isn't "ready for this stage yet," but the thing that scares the Navy most is that one day, he will be. 

6. Sabaody Archipelago

    This is not a happy arc. It's a satisfying one (Luffy punching the Celestial Dragon will never get old), and it's an illuminating one (Silver Rayleigh, y'all!), but it's not one that will end with cheering. Kizaru shows up to put an entire generation of pirates in their place and Kuma wipes out the Straw Hats. That said, even if it concludes with the most uncertain moment in the series, it's still a fun ride. 

5. Arlong Park

      Nami is the soul of the Straw Hat Crew, and learning what she's been through at the hands of the despicable Arlong is heart-breaking. But Luffy doesn't need to know every detail to know that he needs to help and the Straw Hats walking to Arlong Park is another one of those "One Piece is literally the best thing ever" moments. And by the end, every Straw Hat bro gets a victory, Luffy gets a bounty, and Nami gets her freedom. And what does she do with this freedom? She joins a ship full of dummies as their navigator. And I'm so happy about that. 

4. Enies Lobby

    For many, Enies Lobby is THE arc and I'm not disagreeing with them. It's such a display of raw emotion and exciting battles, a nonstop rollercoaster of everything that makes One Piece great. And it ends with a Viking funeral for the Going Merry, a scene that reveals Oda's true power as a writer: He makes you sob about a ship. 

3. Whole Cake Island

    If Enies Lobby is about being a hero, then Whole Cake Island is about letting that idea go. The Straw Hats can't beat Big Mom or her crew and will have to settle with getting Sanji and getting out. And Katakuri, the protective brother of the Charlotte family, learns that he doesn't have to be perfect all the time. It's a beautiful arc that shows that Oda is willing to play around with some of the pre-established ideas of One Piece.

2. Water 7

    Robin leaves. Usopp defects, Luffy is forced to do things that no captain wants to, and a villainous team shows up that seems unstoppable. Water 7 may be the first half of a story that continues with Enies Lobby, but I find it to be the better one (though not by much). It's an arc that constantly leaves you saying "Well, what else could go wrong?" and then something else does. And it's just so good.

1. Skypiea

    This is it. Everything good about One Piece, from the powerful villain (with a great weakness), to the touching themes, to enchanting locations, to the gripping adventures, is wrapped up in Skypiea. And while I have no problems with arcs being connected, there's just something about the standalone nature of Skypiea that leads me to regularly revisit it. It's an arc that makes me glad that I started this nearly 900 episode adventure in the first place. And that's the highest compliment that I can give.

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Haven Raised- Chapter 4

Summary:  Harry’s life is completely changed when his aunt and uncle are forced to take him to a funeral at a relatives. Now being raised by Primrose Evans, her sister Grace and the citizens of Havenfall, his life is going to be a roller coaster.

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The days leading up to the supply trip were slightly chaotic as the group ran around and tried to find things. It was decided to go to Diagon Alley for the supplies as the magical alleys in America would not carry all the correct supplies anyway though they did go to check, now that Harry was legally allowed into them. A precaution that the government held was that muggleborn children were not allowed to go to the magical alleys without a proper magical escort until they were ten at the very least.  As Prim was unaware of any American magical citizens they had never gone to them.

The only thing they bought in the alley was a set of phones that could reach anyone anywhere and work around magic. They were very cool and could work with any phone provider.

Prim put out the news that Harry was going to boarding school fairly easily and listened to various people comment on it, all surprised she would let him go across the world and some jealous mumbles about the fact Harry had a large inheritance. She gave those people dirty looks. That was not the proper way to react to that news.

“Alright, so the portkey will be leaving in five minutes-” Prim said, as she adjusted her scarf. With them going out, she had cause to wear one of her nicer clothing options- an outfit Grace often called her actress outfit. “We’ll be landing in the Ministry Auditorium- Grace you have-”

“I have my Muggle Pass, I promise,” Grace said to her older sister. A Muggle Pass as Grace called it would let her into the Ministry without setting off their alarms. Prim carried one as well.

“Okay- oh! Sweetie!” Prim grabbed a hat and put it on Harry’s head. “Let's try to hide ourselves a bit longer.” The group waited, all holding the belt that would be used as their portkey, nervous.

When it happened, it felt like a hook had attached to them and they went off. Prim closed her eyes tightly, feeling sick while Grace swore loudly and Harry shouted. When they landed, Prim briskly smoothed her skirt down and adjusted her scarf.

“Utterly ridiculous transportation.” She said.

“Agreed,” Grace said, standing up from where she had sprawled, Harry having to do the same. “How did you land on your feet?”

“I honestly do not know,” Prim admitted. “Well, come along. We have much to do!” They left the Ministry after a quick check-in that had Prim threatening the worker to keep his mouth shut about Harry being in England.

When they did leave though, Prim struggled to find the right street they needed, while both Grace and Harry claimed they had to go to the bathroom.

“Couldn't you have used the Ministry one?” Prim asked in exasperation.

“Hell no.”

“Language.” Prim sighed. She understood- being there risked the chances of Harry being discovered. “Fine. Go to the store and I'll look up the street.”

Prim squinted at her phone as Grace and Harry ducked into a store beside them to use the bathroom. Google maps were acting odd and not giving her the proper directions to the road she needed.

Huffing, she turned to go into the store to ask directions when she ran into a man just stepping out.

“Oh!” she shouted, about to fall back, but the man grabbed her arm.

“Easy,” the man said with a laugh. He was a rather tall man with brown hair and very expensive clothing paired with what looked like even more expensive glasses. He must be from Spain, Prim thought randomly, he has a similar accent to Diego. Very faint, but somewhat there.

“I am terribly sorry,” Prim said as the man let her arm go.

“It’s alright.” the man said in a very smooth tone. He smirked at her. “You seemed to suddenly decide to go into the store fast.”

“My GPS isn’t working very well on my phone,” Prim said. The man gave her a confused look, but Prim felt a bit off from the said look like it was masking something else. Something dangerous.

“GPS? Forgive me, but your accent is American and we are in London…”

 “I caved and bought the special travel package,” Prim lied. Thanks to the American Magical Apple Department, her phone was international. The man nodded.

“What were you searching for?” the man asked. Prim went to tap the home button on the screen when Harry and Grace came out of the store.

“Are we going, Mama?” Harry asked.

“One-second honey, I just need some directions,” Prim told the boy, turning back to the man who gave her directions. “Thank you, Mr…”

“Antonio Vasquez.” The man said with a smile.

“Did your GPS bust again sis?” Grace teased and the man seemed to stiffen almost but relaxed so quick that Prim dismissed it.

“Oh shush,” Prim said before she turned back to Mr. Vasquez. “Thank you, sir.”

“No problem Miss…”

“Primrose Evans,” Prim replied. She shook Antonio’s hand and the group split, with Antonio heading off and the Evans going to their shopping destination.

“He seemed… off.” Grace mused. “His gaze…”

“Felt a bit like something dangerous, yes I know.” Prim shrugged. “Maybe he was a dark wizard or such?”

“Whatever. Let's go shopping!” Grace cheered as Harry grinned up at them, his eyes sparkling with glee. They headed to the street and thanks to their Passes, both Grace and Prim noticed the Leaky Cauldron.

“We need to speak with the owner, a chap named Tom,” Prim told Grace and Harry as they entered the bar. Grace looked around in awe while Harry shrank against her slight. Prim simply walked right up to the counter.

“Excuse me.” She said to the bartender. He smiled at her.

“Hello, Miss! Haven't heard an accent like yours in a while.”

“Well, I am from America. Are you Tom?” Prim asked.

“Aye. And you?”

“Primrose Evans sir. I'm here with my younger cousin and sister. My cousin is a wizard and he was accepted to Hogwarts as his parents were British. Neither I nor my sister has magic…” she shrugged as Tom nodded.

“I see. Hmm,- Bruce!” He called over to a scruffy looking fellow.

“Yeah Tom?” The man grumbled.

“Can you help Miss Evans get into the alley with her cousin and sister?”

“Yeah.” The man said, standing up in a hunched fashion. The Evans family followed Bruce to the back where he tapped a brick in the wall. The bricks began to move and even Prim couldn't withhold her gasp of astonishment.

Diagon Alley was a riot of colors and sounds as they stepped through, thanking Bruce as they did so.

Prim looked around the place and spotted the Gringotts bank ahead.

“Alright, so we’ll be going to pick up some money for the shopping. After which we will start with the trunk and see if we can't get some magic to let us carry it easily or shrink it.” She told Harry and Grace who nodded their agreement.

The trip to the bank was fairly simple. She did spend a few minutes chatting with Harry’s accountant. Apparently, the Malfoy family had tried to fight back against the fines leveled at them and tried to get Remus tossed out as he was a werewolf but they had failed each time. Meaning they lost a lot of money fighting. It was funny to Prim, that they had even tried after being revealed as snakes and liars.

“It as well helped Hogwarts greatly. Their potions professor was discovered to be giving unfair points and punishments out but Mr. Malfoy was hiding any complaints made to the board by the parents. He was placed on probation until this year. Time will tell if he's changed.” Boneclaw said with a shrug.

“Good. I hope Harry actually learns something while in school rather than having to deal with a nasty teacher.” Prim said firmly.

They left the bank after confirming that the investments were going strong and with a surprising offer from the Goblins to manage Prim’s own meaner account. Apparently, they had noticed how much the Potter account was making and realized her advice had helped it grow, simply by investing in the Muggle World. They wanted to thank her (or thank her as much as they could) as these choices also helped the bank when they started investing in the Muggle World, growing their money.

Prim was thrilled though she didn't have much money in general, she hoped it would work!

They did go to the trunk store first, finding one that did shrink with a command that was also feather light as well as unbreakable and had a voice lock. It was quite expensive but Prim encouraged Harry to get it.

“You're going to be using this trunk for seven years, honey. You'll be banging it up and down the stairs, slamming it into walls and trying to carry it. As well given…” her eyes went to his forehead for a second. “Everything, having it lock and only respond to your voice to open or shrink is a benefit.”

As well he could completely afford it. The goblins had added extra to his trust and Prim did put what extra money she got from the stipend she received into the trust as well.

With that, Prim also made him get a bag with a charm on it that was called an Extendable Charm. Grace called it a bag of holding with a grin.

“That's some video game term right?”

“Prim, you play video games.” Grace pointed out. “And look up memes for a laugh.”

“True but I never actually know what game that's from.”

“... I'll be honest. I don't either.” Grace said, frowning before she shrugged. “Eh. Come on Harry! Let's go get your books now!” They skipped off after buying the trunk and coding it to Harry’s (and Prim’s) voice. It was a law for a minor to have a second person have their voice coded so a teacher could contact the third party just in case. Prim had happily agreed.

The bookstore was quick and easy- other then Harry begging to buy three books in magizoology. Prim had laughed while buying them. His love of animals was cute. He doted on Spot and often he would carry injured animals he found into the house for help. She was lucky he wasn't a vegetarian- that would be a hard thing to handle with trying to figure out proper substitutions for iron and protein supplements.

Potion ingredients and the cauldron took little time as well. At most, it just was annoying spending the time in the rather disgusting store.

“Why do you need to buy parchment?” Prim wondered as she stared at the stationary store. “Does parchment have magic properties?”

“Maybe ask the guy inside?” Grace suggested as they entered said store.

“I will,” Prim said firmly, going over to ask.

“What else would they use?” the store owner answered in confusion. Prim stared at him for a moment and then turned around.

“We’re buying enough for your assignments but going to Staples for a notebook and pens. I do not like the look of you trying to write notes with those quills!” She told Harry firmly. They gathered what was needed before heading to the next store to grab a telescope.

“This looks super out of date. Maybe he should use mine from my astronomy phase?” Grace asked.

“He can bring both just in case they kick a fuss about him using one or the other,” Prim said before she nodded to a large shop called Madam Malkins. “Let's get your robes, honey.”

“Joy, clothes shopping,” Harry said with a pout. “Can we get ice cream after this?’

“If you do not make that much of a fuss,” Prim told Harry who nodded and they entered the shop to have Harry dressed in his robes.

“You’re here rather early for Hogwarts.” the woman said. Madam Malkin apparently.

“We wanted to get his things sooner rather than later,” Prim explained, smiling. Madame Malkin nodded.

“That makes sense. Traditions do state you come in August but why not as soon as you get the letters?” The woman shook her head and began measuring Harry for his robes. He held out remarkably well and the woman didn’t jump when she had to take Harry’s hat off to measure his head and saw his scar. After they agreed to come back for the robes, they paid and went off to the ice cream parlor where Harry eagerly tried the Chocolate Butterbeer, Grace had Strawberry Unicron- an ice cream that shone a new color every few minutes- and Prim got a simple Vanilla with sparkles that changed color.

“You’re boring,” Grace told Prim. Prim shrugged.

“I accept my status as the boring one. I still get ice cream.” She told Grace who snorted, loudly.

“Boring ones shouldn’t get ice cream, right Harry?” she asked her nephew who hesitated before grinning slightly.

“Right.”

“Rude! The both of you!” Teased Prim as they finished their ice cream. They then went to what Harry was looking forward to most, not that he had said anything.

Ollivander's wand shop.

Opening the door, they looked around at all the strange boxes and shelves inside. Prim looked around for the owner while Grace sat down on the chair in the corner. Harry went up to the desk to ring the bell while Prim stood back a little.

“Hello!” a man said out of nowhere, causing the three to startle. Grace even fell out of the chair, prompting a look of amusement from Prim. “Mr. Potter. I wondered when you would be here…” mused the man, studying him. Prim reached out to grab Harry’s shoulders, leveling a look at Ollivander that he ignored.

“Which is your wand arm?” asked the wandmaker.

“Umm… I’m left-handed.” Harry said slowly. The tape measure Ollivander held began moving then and Prim backed off slowly. She noticed the tape measure going around by itself while Ollivander spoke, his voice calm and even.

“I remember when your mother and father were here for their first wands. Your mother favored a wand that was perfect for charm work while your father enjoyed one that was good for transfiguration. Well, I say favor and enjoyed but it is truly the wand that chooses the witch or wizard Mr. Potter.” Ollivander said. He pulled a wand off the shelf and offered it to Harry who took it with a wave.

And that was when the fun started. Harry tried many wands, over and over again. Grace had pulled out her phone to play a game and Prim was reading one of the books Harry had bought on Magizoology, bored.

“I wonder…” Ollivander said suddenly, bringing their attention to him. He went way into the back of the shop, carrying out a wand. “Try this one. Holly, elven inches with a phoenix feather tail. Nice and supple.” Harry took it and frowned.

“It… feels warm but not…” he said out loud, sounding confused. Ollivander blinked and then a gleam appeared in his eyes.

“Oh, you are a tricky one. Miss, may I take him to the back to get an extra piece?”

“I… yes,” Prim said with a nod and Harry followed Ollivander to the back of the shop where what looked like a workshop was set up. Harry really wished Spot was with him as Ollivander brought out feathers and what looked like strings, placing them on the counter.

“Go on, see what calls you,” Ollivander said. Harry reached out, almost knowing what to do automatically. He hovered his hand over each piece and shook his head, feeling very nervous. Ollivander looked completely confused. “That shouldn’t… hmmm.” He reached into his desk and pulled out a red feather in a small tube. “What about this one?” he asked, putting it down and opening the top.

Harry could feel the heat coming from the small feather as he reached out, hovering a hand over it. It felt like fire but also exactly what he had been missing.

“That one.”

“Fascinating… I never thought a devil feather would work with a phoenix feather. I wonder why…” Ollivander sounded impressed.

“A devil feather?” Harry asked in surprise.

“Ah yes. About… oh, thirty-fifty years ago I helped a young devil escape from England. In exchange, they gave me a feather. This one.” Ollivander said. “I never truly held the same thoughts most of my fellows hold about devils but I still hesitated to use the feather, until now.” He shrugged and took the wand and the feather. “Go back to your mother, it will take only a little time for me to make your wand.”

Harry obeyed and hugged Prim, surprising the woman who hugged back.

Harry just wondered what it meant, that a devil feather worked so well for him?

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Prim studied Harry who was snuggling Spot. He had been very quiet since the trip to Diagon and she worried over him.

“Honey?” she asked, walking over to sit down with him on the grass. “You okay?” He shrugged. Prim reached out and ran a hand over his hair, petting him as he petted Spot.

“...Am I a good person?” Harry asked.

“Of course you are,” Prim told him, frowning. “You’re one of the best people I know honey. Why would you ever think otherwise?” Harry shrugged and said no more on the subject, but he did get happier as the start of Hogwarts approached.

On his birthday a white owl appeared as a gift from Remus, as a way to contact him as the ban from contacting Harry would not work if it was from Harry to Remus.

“She’s beautiful!” Harry said, petting her.

“Better give her a good name. I vote Queenie.” Grace said. Harry gave her an affronted look.

“That’s a boring name!”

“No, it isn’t!” Grace said and the two bickered back and forth for a long while until Harry opened his History of Magic book and picked out the first female name.

“HER NAME IS HEDWIG!” Harry shouted and Grace moaned at the loss of a great name while Prim just rolled her eyes at them.

After Harry’s birthday it seemed like September ran right at them, and soon they were in King’s Cross Station, saying goodbye as they couldn’t cross the barrier themselves.

“You be good Harry,” Prim told her son with a hug. He hugged right back.

“I will Mom, promise,” he said. With that, he waved goodbye as he walked through the barrier.

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From now on until like… next story this is pure HP with the occasional cameo from Prim and Grace as well as Havenfall’s Finest. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter!!

Plot points:

-Yeah no. Sorry. I don't like Snape. I won't deny he was a ‘Good’ guy but the thing is you can still fight for the right things but be an incredibly shitty person. I think JK did have a widely publish a video where she hesitates on calling him good. Brave? He is brave. But a good man? No. So here he got a talking to early. We’ll have to see what happens later but yeah.

-I’m of two minds of the debate: Muggleborns bring in pens and looseleaf. Like, on one side I think it makes sense that the Wizarding World legit does not have any idea of pens or paper but on the other its like: What if there was a reason?  Here there isn’t but like Prim isn’t sure about the prejudice in the world. So notebooks for notes and first drafts, parchment for later.

-Harry being left handed. Okay, this is more my own amusement but I know that some schools still hold the idea that being left-handed means your evil. Some people do too- I have met some of these people. So the idea of the Dursley family forcing Harry to be right-handed isn’t a far stretch to me. So… Harry is left handed here. Because Prim let him write how he wanted and he just kept picking up his pen or things with his left hand and she never stopped it.

#haven raised #harry potter #havenfall is for lovers #fic

[bastardtravel]

August 11, 2018. Manchester, New Hampshire.

After seven hours on the road, pausing only to explore an Old Ones cult site, storm a terrible castle, and eat distressingly dry corned beef at a Greek diner that still advertised one of their menu items as “Michael Jackson’s favorite grinder”, we were in dire need of respite.

Establishing a forward operating base was our first priority. For my part, I can sleep anywhere. My bonfire days in the Frozen North frequently necessitated pitching a $10 K-Mart tent over gravel, then drinking bottom-shelf whiskey until you didn’t realize you were sleeping in a puddle of rainwater and broken glass. That’s not a knack you lose. It’s like riding a bike. The Girl was always more discerning, and became doubly so after our experience in Phoenix with the inept criminal front halfway house hotel. We agreed that she can veto any of the lodgings I book. Sometimes, late at night, I’ll hold a flashlight under my chin and tell her spoOoOoky stories about hostels in Ireland.

She insisted on the airport Super 8. I was hoping to stay in a quaint deep woods motel called “Unsmiling Jed’s Sleepaway”, attached to sister business “Unsmiling Jed’s Discount Plastic Surgery Silo and Chili Kitchen”.

If I can’t protect it, I don’t deserve to have it. That goes double for life.

A friendly foreign woman checked us in at the Super 8, then proceeded into utter bafflement when I asked for a first aid kid. I chewed myself up pretty good climbing Bancroft’s Castle, and I’d spent the last half hour bleeding into an oily dog blanket to avoid ruining my upholstery. I’m pretty sure that’s how plagues start.

There were no band-aids here, or antiseptics, or possibly medicine as a concept. There was a three gallon tub of hand sanitizer. I thanked her for the offer but gently declined.

We went up to the third floor. The hallways were lined with people sitting on the carpet outside their rooms, shouting and smoking cigarettes. The room itself was clean and the air conditioning worked. All my boxes were checked. The bathroom reeked of weed, which some would interpret as a bonus. I scrubbed my wounds raw in the sink, tucked away the precious cargo of wine and peaches, and set out to investigate downtown Manchester.

Streetlight technology has not yet made its way to Manchester, so we spent twenty minutes missing exits in ocean-floor darkness. It looked worryingly like Wilkes-Barre, which is not where one would choose to vacation, were one sane.

Downtown erupted from nowhere like graphic pop-in on a video game running at its lowest resolution. One second you’re in leatherface country, with nothing breaking the abyssal darkness but the occasional half-broken Jiffy Lube sign. The next, you’re on vibrant neon market strip, replete with hipsters and the homeless.

We knew we had hit downtown proper when we passed by the “craft grilled cheese bistro”.

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Since I am an adult man, grilled cheese cannot be dinner. Both “gastropubs” we tried, despite their bitchin Greek mythology names, offered generic terrible burgers and a draft list that consisted of Coors Light.

“I’m so hungry,” the Girl told me. “I’m gonna die.”

“We all will,” I assured her. “Soon.”

Yelp claimed there was a brewery five blocks away. We walked off the only lit street, into absolute, encompassing blackness. It would’ve been spooky if I didn’t always kind of hope some Putty Patrol mook would lunge at me from the dark while I’m far away from home, having told no one where I’m going and left no paper trail.

There were no incidents. No one was murdered in self-defense. No one knows what we did last summer. The Stark Brewing Company was in the basement of a grim looking office complex, and it was vacant save for two other wanderers.

We sat at the bar and ordered a flight and an imperial stout. I was pushing for finding an actual restaurant, but the Girl ordered “Penne with vodka sauce”, which was not the right color, flavor, or texture to be anything but penne bolognese. The Girl didn’t seem to mind. I ate a pulled pork sandwich.

The beers were warm, but I didn’t care. It didn’t matter what the beers were, so long as they were beers. And not Coors Light. The brewery themed all of their beers off of dogs, for some reason, which I believe to be the ideal business model. According to the bartenders, the brewery had been open for 25 years, but hadn’t yet received their big boom. I was outraged. The beers were excellent, and would probably be even better if they weren’t room temperature, and the taps were not only named for specific dogs, but also provided pictures.

To say nothing of the bathroom, which was covered in sharpie beer lore.

The bartender and waitresses swore a lot more than you would normally expect in this context. The Girl maintains they were swearing at us. I disagreed.

“They were swearing <i>with</i> us,” I mansplained.

“We weren’t swearing,” she countered.

“But if we HAD been.”

As I’ve grown larger and more sinuous, I’ve tried to cut back on how often I cuss at strangers. Cultural relativism is the understanding that not everyone grew up among the coalcrackers, and good-natured oaths like “how the hell are you” or using the fuck-word as a conversational placeholder, while subjectively soothing, can set off fight-or-flight in the small, soft, and bourgeoisie.

I try to maintain direct proportionality between my barbarism and my well-heeledness. Neither the wait staff nor the other two customers shared my bond, and the middle-aged guy on my right proceeded to tell me how his hometown of Denver, Colorado is the greatest fuckin’ city in America, next to maybe Southern California. Which is not a city.

We talked about our homes and travels for a while, then I got my pulled pork sandwich and they left. The sandwich was slightly warmer than the beer, which beat the alternative.

An armada of children came into the bar.

“Oh, shit,” the woman tending bar said. They were visibly teenagers, and on the wrong side of it. They had that gangly awkwardness you get around fourteen or fifteen, and if they were trying to play it off, they were woefully bad at it. There were also nearly twenty of them. It looked like a field trip.

People in their twenties don’t travel in packs of more than six. It’s hard to transport a throng, unless you have a party bus, and why do you have a party bus when you’re twenty-eight? You’re twenty-eight and party buses have always been sad. Get a job. Also, it’s hard to get that many adults to agree on something.

It can be done. You can say, “Hey, adults, you want to do some drugs?” And in a sufficiently sized crowd, you’ll manage to pull twenty or so who will follow you to your house or whatever. This is called an “afterparty”. It doesn’t go to bars at 9pm.

Have you felt out the social zeitgeist recently? Look at a random handful of current memes and it’ll be pretty clear that most adults consider socialization to be a required burden, like paying emotional taxes. “Going out” is the price of living in a civilized society. You’re not going to scare up twenty people, then put them in a party bus, then take them to an abandoned bar half a mile outside of where the actual nightlife is.

“Hey, we’re just about to close,” the bartender said.

A reedy blonde in a top that seemed to consist mostly of straps screeched, “But your WEBSITE said you were open til ONE!”

Screeched.

The bar fell silent. Well, more silent. The Girl and I traded looks, her horror for my delight.

“Uhhhhhh,” the bartender said, but with excellent elocution, as though that were the word she had deliberately chosen. “Okay.”

They sat the itinerant mall food court in an enormous corner table, whereupon they requested shots.

The waitress who had sworn at/with us the least came back to the bar and said, “You guys said you were from Pennsylvania, right?”

We nodded.

“Can I see one of your licenses quick?”

She compared mine against the obviously fake ID one of the tweens had given her. After a moment she said, “Yeah, you can see, the font is different. And the picture looks like it’s photoshopped.”

“Yeah, no one’s license picture ever looks this good,” the Girl said, studying the fake ID.

“Except mine,” I added. They ignored me. I didn’t take it personally.

The waitresses disappeared into the back. Five minutes later, the only dude working at the place was gendered into being the bad cop. He sulked over to the teens.

“You guys gotta leave,” he said. “We know your ID’s fake. We’re not trying to get fined. You gotta go.”

For maximum accuracy, imagine this said in Toby’s voice from the Office. Shamefaced, the flash mob of children dispersed.

We paid for our room temperature beers and left the poor, foul-mouthed brewery to close at 9:30 on a Friday. The Girl and I accidentally stalked the battalion of teens through the street, but only because we were all moving back toward the only lights in the city, not unlike moths. They turned a corner and vanished, presumably to find an arcade or laser tag or some sort of large carousel.

The Girl and I followed the sounds of some obnoxious bros announcing, “It’s like a fahkin sketchy ally, dewd”.

It was, in fact, the least sketchy alley I’d ever been in. Cat Alley was the best lit venue in all of New Hampshire. It was clean and well-maintained, and it was covered less in graffiti and more in an outdoor art gallery dedicated to cats.

There were more, but they didn’t all warrant a picture.

Portland Pie Co loomed from the endless darkness like a beacon in the night, hearkening back to those days lost in Maine during the Great Lobster Drought of 2017. We split a bourbon barrel ale which did me in. It was bedtime.

On the way back, toward the end of the main drag, a man made of pure light rode by blasting EZ-Listenin from his Tron bicycle, also made of pure light.

I can’t prove he wasn’t Jesus.

Heartened, we returned to the hotel, where no one was smoking or yelling in the hallway anymore. Excellent.

Next stop, Portsmouth.

Love,

The Bastard

Into the Abyss August 11, 2018. Manchester, New Hampshire. After seven hours on the road, pausing only to explore an Old Ones cult site, storm a terrible castle, and eat distressingly dry corned beef at a Greek diner that still advertised one of their menu items as "Michael Jackson's favorite grinder", we were in dire need of respite.

#alley #armada #barbarian #bastard #beer #bistro #bonfire #bourgeoisie #brewery #cat alley #cats #cheddar #children #cigarettes #coors lite #culture #doggo #dogs #downtown #fake id #first aid #forward base #grilled cheese #hipster #hostels #hotel #hungry #jesus #jiffy lube #leatherface

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Dish Hopper 3 vs. DirecTV Genie

Any Television lover would agree that Satellite TVs are truly a blessing. In today's fast-paced world, we want to enjoy every luxury but can't afford to waste any time; as they rightly say, ‘Time is the new money.’ Digital Video Recorder (DVR) is an excellent choice to enjoy your favorite TV shows but at your preferred time and day.

Dish Hopper 3 and DirecTV Genie are two of the best options out there available in the market. If you are planning to invest in the best Satellite TV for your home and can’t decide which one to buy among these two, then you have certainly come to the right place.

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Comparison between Dish Hopper 3 and DirecTV Genie:

Both of these Satellite TVs are at the top of their game and have home HD DVR systems with 4K Ultra HD support, but they have distinctive features. We have put together this easy buyer’s guide and noted all the defining features of each of these Satellite TVs.

 Let’s take a detailed look at their differences and similarities so that it would be a lot easier for you to make a well-informed decision.

1. Storage capacity

The DISH Hopper 3 offers 2 TB (2000 GB) of storage space, which is almost 500 hours of stored HD content and about 2000 hours of SD. This is the highest storage capacity offered by any satellite service provider, giving an upper hand to DISH TV in this area over any other satellite TV.

 Whereas DirecTV Genie has 1 TB (1000 GB) of storage capacity, i.e., about 500 hrs of SD and 200 hrs of HD content storage, which is still a lot, but as compared to DISh TV, this does not sound as amazing.

 Both DVRs can have expandable storage space with an external hard drive. But DISH is a clear winner here when it comes to built-in storage space.

 2. Connectivity ports and outputs

DISH TV has 3 USB ports and 2 Ethernet jacks, and one eSATA port in terms of connectivity. The outputs include Coaxial digital, optical digital, stereo, HDMI, component as well as composite video.

  On the other hand, the DirecTV Genie has 2 USB ports, 1 Ethernet jack, and one eSATA port. And its outputs are coaxial digital, optical digital, stereo, HDMI, and component video. Here again, the Genie falls short of the Hopper in a few of its specs regarding ports and connectivity.

 3. Remote Controller

The DISH TV Hopper Voice Remote has a simple design and is small and handy. It also has a touchpad in the middle. It has an amazing voice control feature, which the Genie remote controller lacks. The backlit keys add an extra oomph to the plain old remote and make it very easy to use in the dark.

Not only do the backlights serve the purpose of easy readability of keys in dim lights, but they also come in handy when finding your remote in the dark. There is a special button on your Hopper DVR that serves as a Remote Locator. Just push it in case you have lost your remote controller, and not only will it light up but also start blinking and beeping, making it extremely easy to find. How cool is that, right?

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DirecTV Genie remote has a unique shape and a couple of new advanced features. But it does not have a voice control option, nor the backlit keys (which every remote controller should have in my opinion). But the good thing is that Genie has a voice control feature when connected to their mobile device app.

The Genie remote controller now comes with infrared and radio frequency technology, which allows better communication between your remote and receiver. The inclusion of this latest technology helps in avoiding common remote control problems like the TV not directly aligning with the remote. Infrared technology allows signals to go through cabinets, windows as well as doors easily.

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     4. User-Interface

DISH Hopper 3 has a very modern look to it. With its integrated streaming services it offers a cohesive and pleasing experience to its users. It has a black and red grid. With its easy to use filters for genre, shows and even actors it is convenient to browse through your favourite TV content. Additionally, it includes other streaming services like Netflix, YouTube, and Pandora.

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 DirecTV Genie is easy, convenient to use and has a black and blue look. It has well-organized HD and SD content for easier access unlike other DVRs which separate HD channels, for which you need to remember the channel number to find the HD version of your favourite show.

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5. Recording capabilities

The DISH Hopper offers a DVR setup that lets you record upto 16 shows live. It can connect to maximum 7 TVs and is able to display upto 16 unique viewings. The Hopper is an ideal choice for big families or those households where multiple roommates live together. It allows independent viewing on each connected receiver, so everybody can watch their favourite shows or movies at a time in your home.

 The DirecTV Genie can record five channels at a time. It displays upto 4 unique viewings and can connect upto 8 TVs at once. Although it supports upto 8 TVs at once, only 3 of them can stay active at a time.

6. Number of channels

DISH Hopper 3 offers 290+ channels, exact number ranges between different packages. Whereas, on DirectTV Genie you can view maximum 330+ channels and it offers more sports programming than Dish Hopper. DirecTV is a clear winner in this regard if you love exploring new channels and shows all the time.

7. Price

Dish service costs around $59.99–$94.99/month for a 2 years contract and if you are opting for Hopper 3 (+$5.00/month). DISH prices are also quite affordable as compared to its other counterparts. RSN Surcharge up to $3/mo. applies to AT120+ and higher packages and varies based on location

 Whereas, DirecTV costs around $64.99 – $124.99 per month depending upon your package, for a 2 years contract (Genie included). DirecTV Satellite TV is an excellent value for your money as it has a greater number of channels as compared to Dish Hopper 3. Keeping in mind DirecTV cost includes an exclusive NFL Sunday Ticket sports package.

8. Languages

DISH Hopper 3 supports 29 different languages ranging from Spanish and Italian to all the way to Urdu and Hindi. This feature appeals to greater public and especially immigrants with different native languages.  

 DirecTV Genie offers a mere eight options, which are Spanish, Brazilian, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Filipino, Vietnamese, and South Asian. Here again DISH Hopper wins the hearts of their international customers and people from different language backgrounds.

9. Unique Features

The DISH Hopper 3 have some exclusive special features which are listed below:

 ●     ‘PrimeTime Anytime’ The Hopper can record primetime programs. It will automatically record your favorite shows, as they appear each week. This feature also allows you to watch primetime shows up to eight days after they have aired. You can even permanently save some of your content if you wish. The ‘Primetime Anytime’ recordings will not be included in your DVR capacity either.

●     AutoHop feature allows you to skip commercials on recorded programs. This is specifically for local channels and for pre-recorded shows in their exclusive ‘Primetime Anytime’ setup.

●     Joeys: You can also add extra receivers to your Hopper. These are called Joeys, and they will link up to the main DVR unit so you can play back items in other spots around your home.

●     Alexa Integration: The Hopper 3 works with Amazon Alexa to allow voice controlling even without the remote. This is an immensely convenient feature which is very popular among Hopper Users.

●     DISH Anywhere is an app that allows you to use your mobile app to view your DVR recordings on any device. This is especially handy for frequent travelers.

●     The SRS TruVolume system works well to keep the volume of your TV at a steady level. It automatically controls the volume of whatever show you are watching, preventing the levels from spiking as you switch from one channel to the other.

●     MultiView/Sports Bar: The Hopper 3’s powerful processor allows you to watch up to four separate channels on one screen. The feature is sometimes called Sports Bar Mode, but it works with any channel, not just sports. It is also great for following breaking news from several sources at once.

 The DirecTV Genie’s special features include:

 ●     The 72-hour rewind feature allows you to watch shows you forgot to record.

●     Pause/rewind live TV

●     NFL Sunday Ticket An exclusive access to NFL Sunday Ticket is one of the distinctive features of Genie. None of the other service providers offer this. Sport lovers all over the world are appreciating this service from DirecTV.

●     DirecTV’s Mix Channels are special sports channels that can pull in up to eight channels from different networks and put them all on the screen at once. This is a great feature for game day.This takes MultiView to the next level.

●     Genie Sports feature combines all your favorite sports programming into one spot. It’s very convenient for sports fanatics.

●     Picture-in-Picture is not something new, but the Genie does it really well: it can display two channels side by side by splitting your screen in two. This provides a lot of convenience if you have just one screen at your home but you and your partner want to see different channels.

●     Genie App: Their app allows you to use your phone as a remote.

●     On-Demand streaming system: The Genie offers an On-Demand streaming system which will allow you to watch shows that are on the VOD network at any time. It allows you to watch shows up to five weeks after they air. You can scan the guide for information on the programming that will appear up to two weeks in advance. Additionally, you can set recordings for those times in the future.

●     Recommendations Feature: The Genie also has a recommendations feature, which will recommend shows to you based on what you have already seen.

●     ENERGY STAR certified: Although it is not a feature but it's definitely worth mentioning that DIRECTV is the only TV provider to earn the EPA’s ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year award for its television receivers. If environmental health is important to you, this is something you should consider before making a purchase.

 10.            Mobile App

DISH Hopper 3 Mobile App: The Dish Hopper’s mobile app, known as ‘DISH Anywhere’, allows you to watch live TV on your phone, tablet or laptop. But it does not offer remote control functions like the Genie one does.Nonetheless, you can use your app to manage your DVR recordings from anywhere.

  DirecTV Genie Mobile App: This is one of the highest rated Satellite TV provider apps with 4.7/5 stars on the App Store. Apart from all the typical features that a mobile app offers, you can use it to watch your favourite shows on the go, manage your DVR recordings and use it as a remote as well. As the actual remote controller does not provide the voice control feature, like the Hopper one does, this app comes handy in this regard.

 Comparison Table

To sum it all up, here is an easy to read comparison chart for you to recall all the most important specifications and features listed above and helps you in making your final decision.

 Feature

DISH

DirecTV

DVR

Hopper 3

Genie

4K  Ultra HD streaming

YES

YES

Local  programming

YES

YES

Built-in Storage Capacity

2 TB (2000 GB)

1 TB (1000 GB)

Recording capacity HD

Up to 500 hrs. HD

Up to 200 hrs. HD

Recording capacity SD

Upto 2000 hrs. SD

Upto 500 hrs. SD

Expandable storage

YES

YES

USB Ports

3

2

Ethernet Jacks

2

1

Voice Controlled Remote  Controller

YES

NO

Backlit keys on remote

YES

NO

Remote Locator Feature

YES

NO

Infrared and Radio  Frequency technology on Remote Controller

NO

YES

Simultaneous Recordings

16

5

Unique Viewings

16

4

Maximum TV connections

7

8

Channel Count

Upto 290+

Upto 330+

Price

$59.99–$94.99/month

$64.99 – $124.99 per month

Languages

29

8

Alexa Integration

YES

NO

72-hour rewind feature

NO

YES

NFL Sunday Ticket

NO

YES

Picture-in-Picture

YES

YES

Auto-skip recorded  commercials

Yes (after 24 hours)

NO

On Demand

YES

YES

Home security

NO

YES

Apps

Netflix, YouTube, Pandora, Dish Music  & more.

NO

Watch Anywhere-supported  devices

Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone, Android Phone,  Android Tablets, Kindle

Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone, Android Phone,  Android Tablets, Kindle (Watch  Anywhere on DirecTV requires extra GenieGo hardware)

Final Verdict

Well, now it's time for our final verdict. Easily, the DISH TV Hopper 3 is the clear winner in our eyes, if you generally watch TV for entertainment or have other family members in your home. But if you are a Sports enthusiast, then DirecTV Genie is the way to go! Not only because of its free NFL Sunday Ticket, but also there are a lot of different sports related features. With this detailed review we are sure you will make the right decision according to your own personal needs and preferences. Happy shopping!