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I Want to Know Who Your Favourite Harry Potter Characters Are
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LittleBallOfFire 13-15, F 8 Responses 12 Aug 14, 2015
My FavesI absolutely love Harry Potter... I've read the series at least five times. My favorite characters in order are Severus Snape, Sirius, and Professor McGonagall. Lupin is pretty awesome too, as are Ron, Hermione, and Harry. Harry Potter rocks and I can't wait for J.K. Rowling's...
hacky2012 18-21, F 3 Responses 2 Apr 15, 2012
timegeek 13-15, F 2 Feb 26, 2015
Snape is my favourite!!!!!!!!!!
Youreawizardharry 18-21, F 1 Response 4 Aug 13, 2015
Fred and George weasley are among my favoritesbut there's so many to choose from
volleyballgirl94 18-21, F 1 Response 2 Nov 11, 2014
My favourite is hermoine ( idkif i spelled it right ) !! Shes pretty, nerd, bookworm, smart , and a little bit grumpy gah love her
Unstableteen 16-17, F 1 Response 2 Nov 12, 2014
Sirius black and Remus lupin 😍😍 alsodreco Malfoy
porcelainymphet 18-21, F 0 Aug 14, 2015
Ron all the way!!! I have an undying sexualattraction for gingers or I would say the twins
Taterbug678 18-21, F 2 Aug 29, 2015
Luna Lovegood. I admire her personality.Also the fact that she stays calm in the the most stressful of time and doesn't pay attention to those who make fun of her. She would make a great Viking.
ValhallaAwaits 22-25, M 3 Feb 26, 2015
Yes i would like to meet harry potter fans😛 irather favored Hermione granger😊 serious black was another fav of mine
I cant decide on onebut narrowed it down would have to be Fred and George, Luna and Sirius
noseatbeltsong 18-21 2 Feb 27, 2015
harry,ron, and dumbldorfebecause there boss
I love Luna Lovegood.She is amazing in every way. I hope I have a daughter like her. Ginny has an amazing fire like spirit. And I am a fan or Ron
ValhallaAwaits 22-25, M 2 Responses 1 Sep 29, 2014
I think Ron's pretty fit actually (nicerthan Harry by miles even though he's quite cute) but my fave character is Luna Lovegood cos she's just mental. I wish I was friends with her for real. Haha
GeorgiaAllender13 13-15, F 3 Responses 2 Aug 29, 2015
It has to be Siris Blackfor me I just absolutely love him
MONKeMAN1234 18-21, M 1 Aug 13, 2015
My favorite Harry Potter character probably isSnape. I don't know why but I've always liked him.
TeresaChanaki 13-15, F 1 Nov 11, 2014
The Sorting Hat, probably.I wish J.K expounded more about him!
Streptococcus 18-21, F 1 Feb 27, 2015
- Fred & George Weasleybecause they're twins and I am a twin. - Snape. I know the guy has done some pretty terrible things (joining Voldemort and make Harry's life a living H*** at Hogwartz), but his backstory is pretty sad and I believe that he should have been the one to marry Lilly. Why Lilly...
NTDenmark 18-21, M 1 Response 1 Nov 11, 2014
I Like Strong WomenIt wasn't an easy decision, but my favorite HP character is Ginny Weasley. She is very strong emotionally, and very devoted to Harry, even though Harry hasn't quite figured it out yet in the initial 5 movies. Harry and Cho would never have lasted, even without...
jjfranz63 41-45, M 1 Response 1 Nov 30, 2008
thenameszed 16-17, F 1 Aug 28, 2015
I really like Luna because I can relate to heradorable weirdness :D
kelvinng90 22-25, M 1 Feb 27, 2015
Dobby the free elf! :):):) Be yourself,serve no master. You are born to not be a slave to any man. :)
Pinaybarbie 36-40, F 3 Mar 31, 2015
Probably Hermione, Draco Malfoy,(I've read Hermione and Draco fan fiction and I kinda liked it) and Dobby-House elf.
TheEnduringSunrise 18-21, F 1 Response 0 Apr 10, 2015
Honestly, Luna Lovegood.There was something different and whimsical about her.
arkaybee 18-21, F 1 Aug 14, 2015
there were so many great peopleand the character development was amazing. i would have to choose harry (of course) and Luna. I relate to Luna a lot and they have both taught me so much.
nicolieflowergirlie 18-21, F 1 Response 1 Aug 14, 2015
I can't pick just one,my top three would be Luna, Tonks, or Sirius. Tonks because she's just awesome (especially in the books). Luna because she's taught me a lot. Sirius because he's just amazing.
LearningHearts 16-17, F 0 Feb 27, 2015
I love the trio, but my favorites are 1.) Sirius Black 2.) Severus Snape 3.) Hagrid 4.) Lupin
charzkie15 13-15, F 1 Response 1 Feb 27, 2015
Luna. Loony Luna! So 'out there!' Wonderful!! And Neville. So glad he had his big moment in the final movie:)
picklebobble 51-55, M 1 Sep 28, 2014
Colin Creevey. Extremely underrated character,such a shame no one likes him other then me and like 3 ppl.
I need to think about this one.Love it though lol
Snape ,Fred and George,and Tom Felton (Notice how i don't say Draco ,he was such a daddy's boy xP )
aya101 18-21, F 1 Response 4 Feb 27, 2015
Oh tough! I love them all If I had to chooseit'd be either Sirius, Luna, Fred, or Neville, and dumbledore of course ??
Pinkamena03 22-25, F 1 Aug 13, 2015
It's such a hard decision,but I think Ron is definitely a favourite character of mine! I feel like he is so overlooked sometimes. Not only has he got an amazing appetite lol, he also comes away with some great one liners and he makes Harry and Hermione less serious. Along with his great sense of humour...
Kazafcb814 16-17, F 1 Aug 14, 2015
Umm ..... Defiantly Ron.Also absolutely hate spiders, I wish most of them would like die out and cEaSe to exists . I also think I'm a natural pessimist
Sirius Black. I love himso much because he's like the father Harry never had, and he's like a best friend to Harry. I read the books when I was really little, and when Sirius died, I had to stop reading Order of the Phoenix for a few days before I mustered the strength to keep going. It broke my heart...
Boulier 18-21, F 1 Response 2 Aug 15, 2015
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As the World Trade Organisation started to look for a new head, it was also struggling to remain relevant after repeated failures to revive global trade liberalisation talks.
Pascal Lamy, who steps down as director general of the WTO at the end of August, vowed in 2005 to make liberalisation his "first, second and third priority", but by 2011 was finally forced to declare that talks on the issue were at an "impasse".
The new chief will have to decide how to revive the so-called Doha talks, launched in that city in 2001, and which were intended to further liberalise trade in ways that would particularly help developing countries.
With Doha stalled, regional and bilateral trade deals have flourished, which could threaten to sideline the WTO.
"The big question is this: does the WTO retain its centrality in the trading system? It's down to the next WTO head," said Simon Evenett, professor of international trade at St Gallen University in Switzerland.
Lamy himself said recently that the major challenges for the new holder of the top job will be strengthening world trade, further opening trade and restricting protectionist tendencies.
The weak global economy makes the job of the next WTO head even more difficult.
World trade growth dropped from 13.8 percent in 2010 to 5.0 percent in 2011 and an estimated 3.7 percent last year. It is forecast to rise just 5.6 percent this year.
There are nine candidates being interviewed by the WTO – from Latin America – Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico; Africa – Ghana and Kenya; the Middle East – Jordan – and the Asia-Pacific region – Indonesia, New Zealand, and South Korea. Three are women.
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Experimental pop duo Niagara are quick to point out the name of their debut album, Otto, is the Italian word for eight—the numerical basis of Buddhist theology, the magic number in nuclear physics, the core of George Gurdjieff's Law of Octaves. Hell, if you turn it sideways, it looks like an infinity symbol. And while they're not wrong, Niagara mistakes multiplicity for depth. Eight is also the number of founding members of the Warsaw Pact, how many years a US President can serve in office, and the number of legs of an octopus. Just because there are a whole lot of important eights doesn't mean they're all connected in any significant way.
Musically, Niagara falls into the same trap. There's a lot going on in Otto—'60s sunshine pop, noise washes, melancholy folk, breakbeats—but the various influences rarely mesh meaningfully beyond mere juxtaposition. As a result, the album's eight tracks feel like just that, eight standalone songs, rather than a cohesive LP. Some of those songs a pretty good—standout "Seal" glides along on breezy mandolin and tangles of handclaps, while the catchy "Etacarinae" seesaws between Beatlesesque pop pomp and thunderous shoegaze dreamscape. Like its titular numeral, Otto is impressively multifaceted but, as a result, sounds like the disjointed work of, well, eight very different Niagaras, or maybe just one still searching for the right fit.
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There can't have been many better sights than Concorde for showing cutting-edge technology in its pomp. From the graceful tip of its tapering nose to the imposing broad spread of its delta wings, Concorde was symbolic of engineering at its best. Flying at up to Mach 2.04 (that's around 1,350mph), it was twice as fast as any other commercial airliner in the sky. You could get from London to New York in well under four hours.
Concorde was the product of two nations – Great Britain and France – working in tandem to turn science fiction into reality. From the highest level of government to the mechanics who serviced it, the project was a technical and political collaboration. The name is the French word for 'agreement', although the British tried to change it to Concord. Unlike almost every other commercial airliner, Concorde sparked such affection that 'she' needed no preceding definite article or proceeding marquee number.
Despite Concorde's technological breakthroughs, only 20 of the machines were ever made, which meant that for most of its career the plane was a financial burden. Although Concorde had an incredible track record on safety, there was one fatal crash in 2000. This, combined with the appalling wake of financial disaster the project trailed behind it, led to the plug being pulled and by 2003 Concorde's 27-year service came to an end.
Project briefing
To build a long-range (4,500-mile) supersonic commercial passenger airliner capable of flying at twice the speed of sound (Mach 2) at a height of up to 60,000ft (11 miles). Format of ogival delta-winged aircraft with fly-by-wire flight-control system, supercruise capability and droop nose section for increased pilot visibility. Objective to provide trans-Atlantic and other non-stop long haul flights for passenger complement of about 100, in half the time of existing commercial airliners.
Budget and costs
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Concorde was designed to be constructed mainly out of aluminium to keep weight down. The famous droop nose is a design compromise that allowed decreased drag and increased aerodynamic efficiency in flight, while ensuring that the pilot had good visibility during taxi, take-off and landing. The delta-wing configuration meant that Concorde had to take off with a high angle of rotation, which also accounts for the unusual wheel beneath the tail, which is there to literally prevent the plane from scuffing its rear end if the takeoff angle is too great.
Concorde's main designer was Pierre Satre, with Sir Archibald Russell as his deputy. Pilot Brian Trubshaw made his name when he flew the first UK-built Concorde from Filton to RAF Fairford in April 1969. In 1983 managing director of BA Sir John King persuaded the UK government to sell its Concordes to BA for £16.5m plus the first years profits. On 10 April 2003 entrepreneur Richard Branson offered to buy BA's fleet for £1, intending to operate the aircraft 'for many years to come'. His offer was refused.
Controversy and disaster
The only fatal accident involving Concorde happened on 25 July 2000 in Gonesse, France. Air France Flight 4590 failed when debris from a Continental Airlines DC-10 punctured one of Concorde's tyres. This culminated in a fuel leak that led to the shut down of engine No2. The aircraft became unstable and crashed, killing all 100 passengers, nine crew and four people on the ground. Prior to this, Concorde had one of the best aircraft safety records, with no crashes and a passenger deaths per kilometre rating of zero.
Facts and figures
Although the manufacturing consortium originally took orders for more than 100 units, the vast majority of these failed to materialise and (including prototypes and pre-production test models) only 20 Concordes were ever built.
Concorde's legacy
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In an interview with Britain's Daily Mail, Trump positions himself more firmly than ever as a Netanyahu political ally.21:13 03.05.16 | 0 comments
The bloody nerve. They started this round of agression...as usual. Look at the results. 9 dead militants. 1 dead Israeli. One of the missiles hit an Israeli school but thankfully there was no school that day. Where is the condemnation from the UN for hitting a school.


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BRASELTON, Ga. (Oct. 2, 2015) – Corvette Racing posted solid efforts in challenging conditions Friday at Road Atlanta ahead of Petit Le Mans. The final race of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship on Saturday will see a bright yellow Chevrolet Corvette C7.R on the inside of the second row in GT Le Mans (GTLM) following rain-soaked qualifying sessions.
[VIDEO] Corvette Z06 Wins Motor Trend's Greatest Drag Race 5
In light of Corvette's recent troubles with Motor Trend, we are happy to report some great news about another recent test the magazine ran in conjunction with its Best Driver's Car series. When you have that many performance cars together, there really is only one test that matters…who can win the World's Greatest Drag Race 5.
Before Power Wheels, There Was the Kiddie Corvette
Photo Credit: CarStories.com
We've featured the Power Wheels Corvette Stingray several times so we thought this great picture from The Petersen's CarStories.com would be of interest to the "older kids".
For those people who were young kids in the 1950s, being the proud owner of this Kiddie Corvette would surely have been a big thrill.
General Motors, in the midst of promoting its products in a big way in the mid-1950s, commissioned the Eska Company of Dubuque, Iowa to manufacture a one-third size pedal car of the 1956 Corvette, which had just been redesigned for the first time.
[PICS] Show Off Your Corvette Z06's Brembo Brakes with these ADV.1 Wheels
We've been featuring custom wheels for the Corvettes lately as its one of the easiest ways to give your Corvette a personalized look. When we first saw these pictures, we knew they would be a hit, so enjoy this photoshoot from ADV.1 wheels.
Corvette Driver and Passenger Critically Injured in Chain Reaction Crash
Two passengers in a C6 Corvette were critically injured Wednesday in a domino-type accident on State Highway 105 at County Road 2077 in Cleveland, Texas.
The accident happened about 5 p.m. when a log truck yielded to a Liberty County EMS ambulance answering a call in the area but didn't wait long enough for the emergency vehicle to clear before pulling back onto the roadway from the shoulder.
Familiar Four: Corvette Racing Re-Signs Full Season Drivers for 2016
BRASELTON, Ga. (Oct. 1, 2015) – With its 2015 racing season coming to an end this weekend at Road Atlanta, Corvette Racing already is casting an eye toward the future. The team and Chevrolet announced today that its group of full-season drivers – Antonio Garcia, Jan Magnussen, Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner – will return to drive two Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs in 2016.
[PIC] Throwback Thursday: 1963 Corvette Sting Ray Racer at the Drum Shop
It's time for Throwback Thursday where we feature vintage photos of Corvettes. Last week we featured a 1963 Corvette on the street at night and for this week's TBT, we've selected another period photo of the classic split-window. Here's a picture of a 1963 Corvette Sting Ray racer stopped in front of the Professional Drum Shop.
September 2015 Corvette Sales
This morning, General Motors released their monthly sales report for September 2015 and the outlook still looks great for Corvette. For the month, GM sold 2,572 Corvettes, an increase of 4.3% over the 2,467 Corvettes sold in September 2014. For the Calendar Year to Date, a total of 26,398 Corvettes have been built and we are trending 1.7% ahead of the 25,950 Corvettes sold during the same time period last year.
Seized C5 Corvette in New York to be Auctioned
Crime definitely didn't pay for a Batavia, N.Y., man who is in state prison and lost his 1999 Corvette convertible to the Genesee County (N.Y.) Sheriff's Department after being convicted of drug crimes.
But crime WILL pay for the local Drug Task Force, which will get the proceeds from the sale of the Corvette through a County Highway Department online auction next month.
Corvette Museum to Submit New Noise Plan Tonight for Motorsports Park
Tonight could be the night when a potential resolution to the National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park noise controversy could finally be reached.
At 6 p.m. Thursday in the City Commission Chambers, the City-County Planning Commission will consider a new 38-page detailed development plan submitted by the Museum.
If the plan is approved, the matter will likely head back to the Warren County Code Enforcement Board, which recently levied a $100 a day fine against the Motorsports Park until it's in compliance with the planning commission.


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Happy 2014! Another year, another edition of the Silicon Roundabout Meetup.
Expect drinks, inspiration and a night of meeting interesting people from the Tech City ecosystem. We're looking to the future for this event. We'll have 3 start-ups (Wauwaa, Pickevent & Panetivy) tell you their plans for world domination in 2014.
Make 2014 the year you meet you co-founders and co-consipirators by attending one of the most consistant networking events in London!
As always, space is limited at Google Campus so RSVP early to ensure you spot! See you there!
Ebay Breakfast Meeting: https://pickevent.com/event/view/8305 "Breakfast with EBAY – Advanced Techniques for User Acquisition"
0 · January 7, 2014
Great evening and very interesting company, really enjoyed chatting to those of you I met about your projects, it's a very inspiring group of people!
I'm working on a start up idea in the social sphere and need to find a good developer to work with on the project to help get it off the ground. Would love to hear any recommendations anyone may have I can get in touch with?
Many thanks and once again great to meet you all.
0 · January 7, 2014
Hi Luis, can you please post a link to the Pickevent (breakfast) function on Friday?
1 · January 7, 2014
Hi all I'm the guy that runs an education startup if you're interested in connecting just message me direct at https://www.facebook.com/DeepakS1986
0 · January 7, 2014
Hey everyone, it was great you meet you guys! Good luck on your quest to riches, fame, and changing the world, and I look forward to next time!
0 · January 7, 2014
Hello all, Looking forward to meeting you all tonight. I'm in my penultimate year at university and I'm looking to intern in London this summer. I'm especially interested in data science / personal informatics / quantified self, so if you know of any companies I should reach out to, please shoot me a message!
0 · January 6, 2014
Who are the startups?
0 · January 1, 2014
looking forward to meeting you all. :)
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""Of course, our credit has run out and we are aware of the challenge". Brazil superstar Neymar could face a ban or suspension for slapping Valencia player Antonio Barragan after Barcelona's shock defeat to Valencia on Sunday."
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"Brazil superstar Neymar could face a ban or suspension for slapping Valencia player Antonio Barragan after Barcelona's shock defeat to Valencia on Sunday."
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James Gonzalo Medina, 40, allegedly told FBI informant he wanted to bomb synagogue 'for the glory of Allah.'02:00 03.05.16 | 0 comments
With the comments #1 and #2. I might be left leaning but the protests went out of hand. Smashing windows etc. is more something I am used to by price tag vandals. The social protest have to be peaceful and led in a democratic way. Thus not giving the police an excuse to overreact.
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Welcome to the official site of the ICA Game Studies Division (GSD)!
The study of games and the game experience offers opportunities for the study of human communication that involve multidisciplinary approaches that merge the disciplines of conventional communication studies and research, arts and visual design, cognitive studies, computer sciences, cultural studies, engineering social sciences, health sciences, and information design.
Although the common ground for the Game Studies Division is digital and video games, the group encompasses a broad range of inquiry topics and methods. The group serves as fertile meeting ground for the exchange of ideas among a very broad spectrum of disciplines and hosts a number of activities at ICA's annual conference.
Should you have any questions about our Division's interests and opportunities, please do not hesitate to reach out to one of our Division officers - each of which is more than happy to respond to your questions via the e-mail addresses provided on that page.
As the 2015 ICA Puerto Rico conference has passed, the Division is not actively accepting paper or panel proposals. However, check back later in 2015 for our official Call for Papers for the 2016 ICA conference, hosted in Fukuoka, Japan. Current Vice Chair Julia Kneer (Erasmus U, Netherlands) will be organizing the GSD program for that conference, and can address any specific questions or comments you have about submitting to or being a reviewer for our Division.
We welcome members from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives who are interested in scholarship and research related to games and communication.
To become a member of the Special Interest Group, you must first be a member of the International Communication Association, our parent organization.
The Broadcast Education Association (of the United States) is accepting 4000-word empirical reports and theoretical syntheses for their 2017 research symposition on the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social demands of video game play. The Symposium is chaired by Nick Bowman (West Virginia U, USA) and complete details can be found online at: http://www.beaweb.org/wp/?page_id=3345.
Colleagues Leonard Reinecke (Hamburg U, Germany) and Allison Eden (Michigan State U, USA) are editing a special issue of the Journal of Media Psychology focused on how media - such as video games - might play a role in hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. Authors are asked to submit a 1000-word abstract by June 15, 2016, and complete details are available online at: http://bit.ly/1XYmI89.
The Games and Gaming minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is looking for submissions broadly related to digital games and sociality. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods papers are welcome, ranging from interviews to big data analyses, or more broadly theoretical papers looking at digital gaming practices in general. Types of games studied may include mobile, social, free to play, AAA, MMOGs, PC, console, multiplayer, and indie games. As part of the Digital and Social Media track, papers should contain a social dimension in the analysis, examining, for example, sociability, social practices, communities (in-game, out-game, across multiple spaces or time), use of social affordances, or some other social dimension. Possible topics include: Social affordances of games. Network analysis of groups and communities in games. Social practice (in-game, out-game, both). Player communities. Fans and fan communities. Community management. Toxicity online. Multiplayer games. Cooperative and competitive play. eSports. Fantasy sports leagues. Multigenerational play. Intercultural play. Streaming gameplay (e.g., Twitch). Game curation via sites like Steam. Games & Gaming minitrack:http://www.hicss.org/#!games-and-gaming/cdx2Digital and Social Media track:http://www.hicss.org/#!track3/c1xcj HICSS general CFP and author instructions:http://www.hicss.org/#!authors/ccjp
Submission dates: Submission site opens on April 1, and closes on June 15
Conference details: January 4-7, 2017 Hilton Waikoloa Village, on the Big Island Also, it's the 50th anniversary, so it should be even better than usual! Hope to see you in Hawaii!
Minitrack co-chairs: Nat Poor and Mia Consalvo
ECREA-ECC conference, Prague, November 8, 2016
Submission deadline for abstracts: May 2, 2016
The Digital Games Research section is happy to announce a PhD Colloquium as a pre-conference to the upcoming ECREA European Communication Conference in Prague in November 2016. This colloquium brings together PhD candidates researching digital games and experienced scholars in the field.
The goal is to provide a forum of discussion to young scholars where they can present their research projects and receive feedback, comments, and suggestions for improvement. The intention is to contribute to their research development, as well as to share experiences with other candidates and colleagues.
Participating candidates will have the opportunity to present an overview of their research project and propose a set of questions to the floor. Following the presentation, each participant will receive dedicated feedback from an experienced digital games researcher, addressing both the project in itself, and specific questions provided by the student.
The interdisciplinary nature of games research allows for a rather broad range of topics surrounding digital games. From serious games to gamified experiences, we are interested in projects that are anchored in digital games related to their social, cultural, technical and psychological dimensions. We encourage submissions presenting a wide array of theoretical and methodological approaches.
Submissions should consist of an abstract of no more than 500 words reflecting the theme of the thesis, a brief mention of the theoretical framework and methodological choices. Furthermore, they should include a note on when the project was started and when it is expected to end, as well as, a list of questions or themes of discussion during the feedback in the colloquium.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent on May 30, 2016. All accepted participants will be expected to submit an extended abstract (1,500 words) outlining their project before September 30, 2016. All submissions must be sent via e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. The deadline for submissions is May 2, 2016. The actual colloquium will take place on November 8, 2016, in Prague. Venue TBA.
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Like her three brothers and little sister, Kristina Lamparter was excited about visiting the Gainesville library Monday.
The Flowery Branch City Council plans to consider five annexation requests and a false alarm ordinance at its meeting Wednesday.
An easing of drought conditions has prompted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to resume normal downstream releases of water previously held in reservoirs during the drought.
The boat ramp at Little Hall Park will be closed Wednesday and Thursday for striping, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday.
The Justice Department has rejected Georgia's attempt to require prospective voters in the state to provide proof of citizenship.
JEFFERSON - Jackson County is poised for growth this year despite the economic downturn, but will need to watch its spending to keep from using too much of its revenues for debt payments, according to the county's 2008 financial report.
A lot of folks in Dawson County like their cars.
A consultant leading a study to update the operating manual for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin plans to give an update on his work at a Wednesday public forum.
Army Spc. Andy "Sully" Sullens doesn't remember the explosion or being thrown about 25 feet from the vehicle.
North Georgia College & State University students will be happy to know someone new joined their team today.
FLOWERY BRANCH - An employment expo Tuesday at Blackshear Place Baptist Church will feature information on job networking and writing résumés, hopefully opening doors to those in the community who are looking for work.
As you prepare to send your child off to various summer sports camps with their pads and uniforms, you may want to throw in an additional piece of equipment - a mouth guard.
A change in state party rules has prevented Hall County Republican Party members from endorsing candidates for statewide office.
Ninth District Opportunity Inc. and local volunteers will distribute USDA surplus food at 9 a.m. Thursday at the Army Reserve Center, 570 Shallowford Road, next to Target.
BRASELTON - Participants attending Braselton's comprehensive plan meeting helped nail down how future development types in three areas of town should be designed and implemented.
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Clermont Town Councilman Eric Thomas resigned Tuesday, meaning another stretch without a full council is on the way for the North Hall town.
Gov. Nathan Deal has blocked a push to allow anyone with a permit to carry concealed handguns on Georgia campuses.
Incumbent Jeff Stowe will face Troy Phillips in the Hall County Commission District 4 Republican primary this month, with the winner facing Democratic challenger Angela ...
Some 50 jobs at Cargill's Gainesville plant will be phased out over 15-18 months as ownership in the company's Dressings, Sauces and Mayonnaise ...
Hoping to maintain service levels when an employee abruptly leaves, Gainesville City Manager Bryan Lackey has been given the authority to approve temporary hiring for ...
For years, downtown Flowery Branch may have been quaint, but it wasn't necessarily motorist-friendly.
A man was taken into custody Tuesday at McEver Arts Academy when a "domestic dispute of some kind" erupted, according to Hall Superintendent Will Schofield.
Hall County and Gainesville middle and high schools scored above the state average while elementary schools scored below in the fourth College and Career Readiness ...
If you see soldiers jumping from helicopters into Lake Lanier next week, don't worry, there's no emergency.
A portion of the trail at Wilshire Trails Park will be closed Wednesday through Friday as it is replaced.
The chair of the Hall County Board of Commissioners has just one vote, worth the same as other members, but the role does call for ...
Gainesville City Schools will continue to hear comments from residents who sign up to speak at meetings and will do that earlier in its meetings ...
A lady bug tire and a frog tire help youngsters learn about senses at the new "sensory garden" at Johnson High School.
No one was believed to be impaired in a fatal wreck Wednesday involving five University of Georgia students and a Demorest woman, according to Georgia ...
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I was nine years old when I fell in love with Rik Mayall.
To begin with, I didn't know who he was, only that he played the brilliantly arrogant blond-haired, moustachioed pilot Lord Flashheart on Blackadder Goes Forth.
Vain and promiscuous but undeniably talented and really damn cool, Lord Flash had the kind of "F--- you" chutzpah that the younger me (hell, me now) desperately wanted. He was the kind of person who melted hearts, dropped jaws and punched Germans, all before breakfast.
Later, in my teenage years, I would realise he only appeared on one out of six episodes in that season; to my younger mind he had been so big, so bright, so loud, so fun, so captivating that he defined the whole final series for me.
Mayall was the King of Crude, the Rumpelstiltskin of Rude. No one - except perhaps his longtime writing and acting partner Adrian Edmondson - could spin smut, filth, grubbiness, indecency and the downright wrong into more delightful comedic gold.
Children begin life obsessed with their bodily fluids and emissions, and delight in the simplicity of slapstick, but most grow out of it, or at least pretend to be more sophisticated.
Mayall never lost the sense of how that stuff could shock adults, and shock them even more when they believed he should know better. He did of course; that's why it worked.
Smut flowed smoothly from Mayall's mouth, whether in a bravura character like Lord Flash, or a more put upon one like Rick, his acne-ridden, lisping anarchist with a penchant for bad pop music, from the seminal early '80s student share house sitcom The Young Ones.
The dialogue for both of course came from the pen of Ben Elton, another master of the toilet humour turn of phrase.
Mayall's rants, terrible poetry and general annoyingness made him lovable; indeed the first tweets to start circulating after news of his death broke were the immortal lines "He's dead! The People's Poet is dead!"
It remains the role he is best known for in Australia; but I only reached it in the early '90s, by which time I had already become obsessed with Bottom, the sitcom he and Edmondson wrote and starred in together.
As Hammersmith flatmates Richie and Eddie, they were Rick and Vyvyan grown-up, their loser young adulthood blossoming into nothing more than loser middle-age: unemployable, drunk, lacking romance or basic human empathy, their lives a spiral of cartoonish violence.
They were stupid, offensive and on occasion creepy, but they always got their comeuppance and damn, they were just funny.
Who else would think of ideas like having a "See How Much Custard You Can Fit in Your Underpants" competition, devote 10 minutes of one episode to commentating a local riot, or set one entire episode on a dodgy ferris wheel?
Eddie would get drunk on Old Spice and need to be resuscitated with an iron, Richie would fall down the stairs and get his head stuck in the toilet, Richie would recruit Eddie to be his butler to impress a date, then serve caviar from a bin. All of this would be accompanied by punch-ups, dust-ups, wind-ups, fall downs and knob gags.
I loved Richie's pathetic neediness and bitterness as much as I had loved Lord Flashheart's superiority complex.
Those characters made me, as a pre-teen, start to really look at humour, to examine jokes, to work out how a funny sequence was constructed, how to create good characters, and comedic principles like the "rule of threes" and the fact that the word "knob" is always funny.
A friend and I would recite dialogue at each other in class; my mum used to tell me off for saying "bollocks", "bugger" and "bastard" too much (I loved hearing her ask if I knew what those words meant).
Bottom toured the UK regularly through the '90s and early '00s; I used to order the shows on VHS then watch and rewatch. They could swear in the live shows, and Mayall had a glorious talent for swearing. He was Shakespeare's clown and Beckett's buffoon but he was the James Joyce of modern comedic cursing.
In those same years he was also playing impoverished Richie's polar opposite as greedy Conservative MP Alan B'Stard in the parody The New Statesman; he also starred as the titular imaginary friend in 1991's Drop Dead Fred, probably his best-known film. In more recent years he had a recurring role on detective series Jonathan Creek as a policeman whose intellect and powers of observation almost matched the hero.
A couple of gems to grab are the 1998 BBC drama-thriller In the Red, in which Mayall showed off his remarkable dramatic capabilities as a fantastically immoral economist; and the sitcom Believe Nothing, in which he played the smartest man in Britain, Professor Adonis Cnut (the wordplay by no means an accident), who solves problems and mysteries with the help of a faithful manservant.
Every Mayall fan knows that nose of his; the way he would push it forward like a pig's snout to look slimy or grovelly, tilt it up to look haughty, or pair it with a raised lip and maniacal grin to look scheming or clever. No other performer, serious or comedic, has ever acted so well with their nose.
Mayall had cheated death once before. In 1998, he crashed a quad bike Edmondson had given him as a present.
It happened the day before Good Friday, and he christened it "Crap Thursday". There was some contention that the head wound he suffered changed him in some way forever; whether this was so is not really to speculate, save to say that any experience like that would have some effect.
What's for certain is that while 56 is far too young to go, we did get those extra 16 years of his glorious presence, time in which he worked, and still made us laugh.
The Young Ones were always huge supporters of Britain's famous Comic Relief charity events, and in 1986 joined Sir Cliff Richard to rerecord Living Doll. That version hit number 1 on the UK charts, and you can't sing it now without having someone yell The Young Ones' additional lyrics out at you ("What does this button do?")
It seems strange that one of The Young Ones should die before the seemingly immortal Sir Cliff - but then that kind of dark twist would probably be right up Mayall's alley, the utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter... oh, just pass me the mallet.
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Fennel and Potato Bake
To trim fennel bulbs, first cut the stalks from the top of the bulb, and then remove any tough outer layers. After the stalks have been trimmed, halve bulb lengthwise. Cut out the triangular core with a sharp paring knife. To cut into very thin slices, a vegetable slicer will work wonders, but you can also use a sharp paring knife.
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- 1½ tbsp. butter
- 2 medium fennel bulbs
- 1½ lb. russet potatoes
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- ½ c. grated Asiago cheese
- 6 tbsp. grated Asiago cheese
- ½ c. heavy cream
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly butter an 8-inch square baking dish.
- Trim fennel bulbs; halve, and core. Slice bulbs and potatoes very thin (1/8 inch thick).
- Add potatoes to prepared dish in three layers, alternating with two layers of fennel; season each layer with salt and pepper, sprinkle with 2 tablespoons Asiago, and dot with 1/2 tablespoon butter. (Omit cheese from final layer.)
- Pour cream over top. Bake until potatoes are tender when pierced with the tip of a paring knife, about 45 minutes. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup grated Asiago; bake until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes.
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Pepper-Crusted Filet Mignon
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- Meanwhile, on cutting board, with rolling pin, crush peppercorns and fennel seeds. With hands, pat spice mixture around edges of steaks. Cover and refrigerate steaks until ready to cook. (Can be prepared up to 1 day ahead.)
- Cut each pepper lengthwise in half; discard stems and seeds. With hand, flatten each pepper half.
- Place peppers, skin side down, on hot grill rack. Cover grill and cook 8 to 10 minutes or until skins are charred and blistered. Transfer peppers to bowl; cover with plate and let steam at room temperature 15 minutes or until cool enough to handle. Reset grill temperature to medium.
- Remove peppers from bowl. Peel off skins and discard. Cut peppers lengthwise into 1/4-inch-wide strips. Return peppers to same bowl and toss with parsley, oil, and 1/4 teaspoon salt.
- Sprinkle steaks with remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt. Place steaks on hot grill rack. Cover grill and cook steaks 8 to 10 minutes for medium-rare or until desired doneness, turning steaks over once. Serve steaks topped with peppers.
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What do you mean? Congress has the power to borrow, no one else. I was correct.<quoted text>Not this last time, and we got to hear Obama piss and moan and make it as inconvenient as possible.
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#109 May 25, 2013
Constitutionally yes, however in reality the federal reserve has the power to sell debt which is what they did. Did you not realize that our money is backed by debt? Its illegal and stupid but it's been the way for 100 years since Woodrow Woodpecker Wilson, working with the big banks, illegally installed it.
#110 May 25, 2013
Probably because you've been taking yours and gobbling down the meds for every other lunatic on your floor again.
#111 May 25, 2013
Woodrow Wilson was a what? Progressive liberal! Imagine that.
#112 May 25, 2013
Ooooh, skewered by that rapier witt.
#113 May 25, 2013
I think we've already established that you have absolutely no concept of the healthcare debate, but this is a good reminder of that fact.
#114 May 25, 2013
I think I've already established that when left learners are in a corner they attempt to undermine the intelligence of the person that put them in the corner. I understand perfectly that a percentage of people that work didn't want to invest in insurance.
#115 May 25, 2013
You undermine the notion of you possessing any intelligence every time you make a post, this one being no exception. The problem isn't people's unwillingness to invest in health insurance. It's the fact that is beyond their financial ability to be able to purchase it. You continually make erroneous statements as if they were indeed facts. That pretty much illuminates your intelligence level more than anything anybody else says about you.
#118 May 26, 2013
It is hard to respect a President that does not respect the hard working middle class people.
Sick of being forced to support the scum that will not work. Cut off most of the benefits to baby producers and see how quick they look for work.
#119 May 26, 2013
Post of the day! Nailed it.
#120 May 26, 2013
You are not as informed as you think about some of this. Eliminating "pre-existing conditions" means that you cannot be denied coverage, however, the verbiage intentionally omitted ANY limit on cost! So, perhaps your mother cannot be denied for her "pre-existing heart condition" but her coverage might just cost her $3,000 a month. How many working people with a "pre-existing condition" will be able to afford whatever cost someone pulls from their backside for these "non pre-existing pre-existing conditions"? It sounds great in the sound bites but, unfortunately, the sound bites are misrepresentations. An example of similar misrepresentation- the TV commercials for purchasing a car that say "We finance everyone! Nobody is ever refused!" Sounds great until you discover that your interest rate will be 30%!! Is that a good deal for anyone? Sure it is!! The "provider" It is NOT a good solution for the consumer.
Open competition is the only thing that drives the cost of anything down. I should be able to price shop any ins provider in any state and purchase where I want to.
#121 May 26, 2013
It's hard to say what's beyond their financial ability. Maybe they could do without cable or some other luxury and invest in insurance. From my experience, and it involves doing a lot of orientations which included signing people up for insurance, they don't want health insurance.
#122 May 26, 2013
If you were conducting the seminar, I can see where people wouldn't want to sign up. I find it hard to believe that someone with absolutely no grasp of the current healthcare situation in our country would be in charge of any kind of sign up for health insurance unless it were some kind of Amway meeting they were duped into attending. Making everybody responsible for purchasing affordable health insurance or face a tax penalty is crucial to creating a system where people accept personal responsibility for their healthcare expenses.
#123 May 26, 2013
I do, however, like Obamas stand on gay marriage.
Now me and my same sex partner can be married.
#124 May 27, 2013
Well good for you. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything but maybe you can find others of your kind and find a soulmate. Shame you wouldn't be entitled to rights traditional marriages afford like your spouse being elgible for health insurance under your policy. The prez took awhile recognizing gay marriage but he did come around to it.
#125 May 27, 2013
I'm afraid you're the one with no grasp on Obamacare. It's not going to make anyone take personal responsibility. It's going to force folks like me to pay huge premiums to pay for all the MF's who can't afford insurance. They are going to get their insurance for free. It's another step in Obama's march toward redistribution of wealth. Nothing more. Nothing less. Even the unions are figuring it out and screaming for repeal or reform of Obamacare. That speaks volumes.
#126 May 27, 2013
We will leave Obama and Mooshell alone when they stop their lying, race baiting, spending BILLIONS of our tax $$, Muslim loving, communist spewing propaganda..Before it is over this traitor should be tried for crimes of treason impeached and jailed...If you voted for obama because he is black then you are a racist, if you voted for him because of his policies then you are a total & complete moron.
#127 May 27, 2013
Get the pitchforks and torches.
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#128 May 27, 2013
The GOP has done a fine job of redistributing the wealth of the middle class to the wealthy. The economic stats prove that.
#129 May 27, 2013
Neither party should be redistributing wealth. Want wealth? Work for it!
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Our June Meetup is going to be on Saturday June 21st at Veterans Park, our usual location. I am thinking we should shift to our summer hours of 9 AM at this time. It will be cooler and there is less likelihood of afternoon rain. See everyone then and for all the dads in the group have a great fathers day on Sunday.
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