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A century ago, most personal injury claims were governed by a -common-sense legal principle called "assumption of the risk." The idea is a simple one: If an individual knows that an activity is potentially dangerous but voluntarily takes part in the activity anyway, the participant is responsible for injuries he or she might suffer. The participant, in other words, assumes the risk of being -injured.
Although assumption of the risk remains a viable defense in a personal injury lawsuit, responsibility for one's actions has taken a legal hit in recent years. -Aggressive personal injury attorneys, television advertisements that treat an accident like a winning lottery ticket, and even so-called reality courtroom shows like Judge Judy and The People's Court have contributed to a litigious culture that devalues personal -responsibility.
Implications for the horse industry are clear. Horses are frequently seen as accidents waiting to happen; being sued for a client's injuries is a real threat to farm owners, trainers, event sponsors, and other industry professionals; and losing a personal -injury lawsuit can bankrupt a business.
Thinking outside the box has become a shopworn cliché for creative thinking. Insulating your horse business from liability requires creative thinking inside a protective box using a combination of strategies: an emphasis on prioritizing safety, acting reasonably, complying with state equine liability laws, using signed liability waivers and releases, and obtaining commercial
liability insurance.
Be Reasonable
Everyone has a legal obligation to act like a reasonable person under whatever circumstances happen to be at hand. This might be an obligation to do something, such as checking a lesson horse's girth tightness before a ride, or to refrain from doing -something, like never putting an inexperienced rider on a green horse. It's a flexible, fact-specific standard of conduct that shifts from situation to situation.
In legalese, this requirement for reasonable conduct is called a "duty," and its existence is the first thing an injured plaintiff must prove before establishing negligence in a personal injury lawsuit. The other elements of a successful negligence claim are breach of legal duty, harm of some kind (usually a physical injury to an individual), and a direct relationship between the breach and the harm. To win a negligence lawsuit, an injured plaintiff must establish the existence of all four elements. Only three won't do.
Here's an example illustrating all the elements of negligence: A harried groom at a trail riding facility fails to ask about a client's riding ability and assigns the novice rider to a fractious young horse. (This almost certainly is a failure to act reasonably on the groom's part, satisfying both the "duty" and "breach" requirements of a negligence claim.) Due to his inexperience and apprehension, the rider is unable to control the horse on a trail. The horse unexpectedly breaks into a gallop and the rider tumbles off and suffers several broken bones in the fall. (The rider's injuries satisfy the "harm" element; there also is a clear causal link between the breach and the harm, the "causation" element.) A jury is likely to find the riding concession operator, who is responsible for the employee's actions, negligent and liable for the rider's injuries.
Emphasizing safety around horses always is a good idea. You might be able to short-circuit a personal injury lawsuit simply by proving in court that you acted reasonably under the circumstances leading to the accident. More important, though, is that being careful is proactive—an accident that never happens cannot be the basis for a lawsuit.
"Using a waiver is good public relations for the business because pointing out the risks of the activity shows a concern for the participant's safety."
Doyice J. Cotton
State Laws That Actually Help
Forty-six states—all except California, Maryland, Nevada, and New York—have statutes on their books that limit individuals' liability for horse-related injuries suffered by someone else. These liability laws vary from state to state in both language and effect, and the best way to learn about your state's laws is to talk with a local attorney familiar with the horse -business.
Julie Fershtman is a shareholder in Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC, a law firm in Farmington Hills, Mich. She is past president of the State Bar of Michigan, a leading equine law attorney, a popular speaker, and a prolific author. Fershtman has been tracking state equine liability laws since their inception in the 1990s.
"Unlike the common law, which is based on court decisions, state equine liability laws help streamline the understanding of liability by defining the inherent risks associated with working around horses," Fershtman says. An inherent risk is a hazard so integral to an activity that the two cannot be separated. Some of the inherent risks of equine activities are easily identified: falling off a horse; being kicked, bitten, or stepped on; the inability of another participant to control his or her mount; the tendency of horses to shy away from just about anything.
State equine liability laws typically acknowledge that working with horses carries inherent risks and recognize that those risks cannot be eliminated. The effect of these laws is to shift the legal duty of an equine professional from the nearly impossible task of making the activity completely safe to simply warning participants about the existence of the inherent risks. If an individual then decides to participate in the activity despite the warning, he or she has assumed the risk of being injured.
The laws can create an effective legal defense against a personal injury claim, but they are not always a get-out-of-jail-free card for equine professionals; they -apply in some, but not all, situations. Understanding when the state law applies can be the difference between winning and losing a personal injury lawsuit.
"The perception of some people in the industry is that the state laws eliminate their liability," Fershtman says, "and that is not the case." The laws typically include specific requirements for the posting of signs warning participants of inherent risks and the use of the same language in contracts. There also are exceptions—-certain situations in which the laws cannot be used as a legal defense. "The exceptions are very important when you are reading the laws," she says, "because they narrow the protection provided by the statutes." Exceptions also provide valuable direction when taking proactive steps to decrease the risk of injury and liability, she adds.
Common exceptions include injuries resulting from the use of faulty tack or other equipment, the failure to assess a participant's ability or mismatching horse and rider, and negligence. Another typical exception involves spectators and employees, whom state equine liability laws frequently exclude from coverage because they are not considered "participants" in an activity. Fershtman cautions employers about the importance of determining whether workers are employees for whom workers' compensation insurance might be required by law or if they're independent contractors, along with acquiring necessary coverage.
State equine liability laws can provide valuable protection against liability for personal injuries, but they are no excuse for lax safety procedures.
"Everyone should make safety a consistent practice," Fershtman advises.
No Apology
We learn at an early age that an apology—a simple "I'm sorry"—is the appropriate response when something goes wrong and another person is injured. Doing what seems right might carry unintended consequences, though, in the event an accident leads to a personal injury lawsuit. If a riding instructor apologizes after a student is injured in a fall from a lesson horse, for example, a jury might interpret the teacher's apology as an admission of responsibility for the incident. If the jury feels that the instructor was at fault, the injured individual should win in court.
There is compelling evidence, in human medicine at least, that an apology might actually reduce the number of malpractice lawsuits. At least 35 states have statutes protecting doctors from civil liability based on an apology for a failed medical procedure. So far, similar legal protection does not extend to service providers in the equine industry. Instill an "apology policy" based on advice from your liability insurance carrier and an attorney familiar with the laws in your state before things go wrong.
There are several things you should do in the event of an accident: Seek immediate medical help for the victim, preserve any broken tack or other equipment, take photographs, obtain statements from any witnesses, and save signed waivers or other relevant paperwork. "I'm sorry," on the other hand, might be better left unsaid.
Milton C. Toby, JD
Waivers and Releases
A liability waiver is a contract between an equine business operator and an activity participant in which the latter agrees to release the business owner from liability for injuries. Common in the horse -business, waivers typically include injuries resulting from the ordinary negligence of the owner or of his or her employees or agents—-injuries sometimes excluded in state equine liability laws. (The terms "waiver" and "release" often are used to mean the same thing. Some courts make a distinction between the two, however, using "waiver" to refer to an agreement signed before participation in an activity and "release" to refer to an agreement entered into after an injury.)
Doyice J. Cotton is author with his wife, Betty, of Waivers & Releases of Liability, an authoritative guide to the law of waivers for the horse industry and other recreational activity providers. He cautions against borrowing a fill-in-the-blank waiver form from a book or the Internet.
"I don't like the term 'generic' waiver," he says. "To be effective, a waiver should be specific to your particular business." He recommends hiring an attorney to draft a waiver, but adds that "the attorney should be knowledgeable about waivers, state law, and the horse business. Most of the waivers I've seen fail were written by lawyers."
Waivers provide an added layer of protection against liability and are perhaps the main protection in those few states without equine liability laws. They are not foolproof, however. A few states refuse to enforce liability waivers as a matter of law, and even in states where waivers can be enforced, courts might be reluctant to do so, citing public policy. The concern is that an enforceable waiver of liability for negligence eliminates the incentive to be careful.
Waivers signed by minors—individuals under the age of 18 who lack the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract—-also are problematic. Further complicating matters, liability laws are unclear about the effectiveness of a waiver signed by an adult on behalf of a minor.
Cotton advises service providers to always use properly drafted waivers, even if there is a question about whether the agreements can be enforced in court.
"Once a person signs a waiver, even if it can't be enforced, the individual often believes that she cannot file a lawsuit," he says. "A signed waiver also provides evidence that the individual knew about the inherent risks of the activity, understood the risks, and took part anyway. Even if a court will not enforce the waiver, the agreement can be used as evidence that the injured plaintiff assumed the risks inherent in the activity. Finally, using a waiver is good public relations for the business because pointing out the risks of the activity shows a concern for the participants' safety."
Insurance: Final Brick In the Wall
Commercial liability insurance is the final component of the protective box around your equine business. Typical liability policies include coverage for injuries resulting from ordinary negligence, which state equine liability laws or liability waivers might not cover.
There are no shortcuts to comprehensive coverage. Homeowner insurance, even if your home and business share the same property, generally does not provide coverage for business activities, and some general farm owner insurance coverage might exclude personal injuries resulting from equine activities. A reputable insurance agent with expertise writing policies for the horse industry should be able to recommend a package that fits your business' needs.
Take-Home Message
Insulating your equine business from personal injury liability requires a multi-faceted approach. Successful risk management is not a do-it-yourself project and should involve an attorney familiar with the horse business and relevant laws in your state and a reliable insurance agent. Goals should be reducing the possibility of lawsuits wherever possible and doing everything necessary to prevail in court.


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The Game of Life, an interactive inequality simulation, will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 5 p.m. in Room 310B at the Kent Student Center. This event is open to all Kent State faculty, staff and students, and is meant to be an immersion-style game played with real people, real emotions, but fake money.
The Game of Life event is part of activities marking Kent State's Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. The event is co-sponsored by the College of Education, Health and Human Services' Office of Diversity Outreach and Development, LGBTQ Student Center, Student Multicultural Center, Office of Global Education and Residence Services.
"The Game of Life is similar to the board game, but acted out by the participants and the simulation actors. It is a way for individuals within our community to gain a greater awareness of the inequality that exists within our society. It is really a hyper-play on the stereotypes and acts of discrimination that occur around issues of sexuality, gender, race and ability level," says N. J. Akbar, director of the College of Education, Health and Human Services' Office of Diversity Outreach and Development.
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Ontario nurses say pesticide ban creates healthier environment for children
TORONTO, Mar. 4, 2009 – When the province's pesticide law takes effect next month, it will include a comprehensive list of harmful and toxic substances banned for use on gardens and lawns.
The sweeping regulations released today by the Ministry of Environment cap a long campaign by the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO), as part of a coalition of health and environmental groups that pushed for fast implementation of the law.
"The Premier and the Minister of the Environment are to be congratulated for heeding the call of health and environmental organizations. Pesticides are poisonous and children right across the province will be better protected thanks to this announcement," says Wendy Fucile, President of RNAO.
"These regulations set a new standard. Ontario is ahead of any jurisdiction in North America when it comes to banning the display, sale and use of cosmetic pesticides," says Doris Grinspun, RNAO's Executive Director.
While RNAO is pleased that the new law about to take effect will make the province a healthier place to live, the association says its work isn't finished. Nurses will continue to push the government to extend its ban to include golf courses.
The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) is the professional association representing registered nurses wherever they practise in Ontario. Since 1925, RNAO has lobbied for healthy public policy, promoted excellence in nursing practice, increased nurses' contribution to shaping the health-care system, and influenced decisions that affect nurses and the public they serve.
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In my kitchen I have a vast collection of cookbooks. I know nowadays you can get recipes on line but there is nothing nicer than browsing through cookbooks, looking at the glossy photos and flicking through the pages.
I have tried a few recipes from the book such as Spanakopita a a spinach and feta tart, Oriental salad and the sticky spiced nuts. They turned out delicious.
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For the second time this week, Carnival Cruise Lines says one of its ships has experienced problems during a cruise.
On Friday, the company said a technical issue with one of the ship's thrusters is affecting the sailing speed of the Legend, forcing the cancellation of a stop at the Grand Cayman Islands.
The ship is expected to arrive in Tampa as scheduled Sunday following a seven-day cruise. Passengers will get a $100 credit, refunds on pre-paid shore excursions and half off on a future cruise.
Also this week, the Carnival Dream experienced problems with an on-board generator while docked in St. Maarten. Passengers are being flown home.
A month ago, passengers on the Carnival Triumph spent five days in the Gulf of Mexico without power or working toilets.


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The NYU School of Law Library has, in addition to an impressive physical plant with approximately 785,000 volumes of books, access to all of the major online tax resources. Once a student enrolls in the Executive LLM program, he or she will be given assigned a NetID, which will allow online access to a variety of subscription-based tax resources, including:
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! Rather than share a decadent Shamrock Shake or a moist-and-delicious Guinness Cake or other drippy, sinful St. Paddy's Day treat, I thought I'd be a rebellious little leprechaun and share a simple, relatively healthy green smoothie for those among us who are in the mood!
This smoothie would go great with a Shamrock Shake, by the way…)
Start by adding a heap of yogurt to the blender. This is plain Greek yogurt, but you can use vanilla Greek yogurt, regular vanilla yogurt, or any flavor of yogurt (including yogurt containing fruit) you'd like!
It's a smoothie, baby. There are no rules.
Add a little bit of milk. I used whole milk because whole milk is my life, but you can do anything all the way down to nonfat…or you can use soy milk, almond milk—whatever makes your skirt fly up.
Pile in some fruit. I kept it in the yellow/green family so the smoothie would wind up being nice and bright green later: pineapple, banana (against my better judgment, but bananas and smoothies just go together), green apple, pear, and grapes.
OTHER POSSIBILITIES: Mango, avocado (yes!), cucumber, zucchini.
A little ice is nice! I like smoothies that are undeniably, unapologetically freezing cold.
Blend that baby until it's super blended and smooth…
And then it's time for the green to assert itself. Grab some kale and add a bunch to the blender…
OTHER POSSIBILITIES: Spinach, collard greens, mustard greens, or a mix of all of the above.
Oops! Don't forget the honey or whatever sweetness you want. (If you use vanilla or other flavored yogurt, you won't have to sweeten it quite as much.)
OTHER POSSIBILITIES: Sugar, brown sugar, stevia, maple syrup,
OPTIONAL INGREDIENT: Don't quote me on this, but if you added a very small spoonful of coconut oil OR a little coconut
The green intensifies a bit in the minutes following blending it up, and your soul will thank you as you drink it down.
Go have a Shamrock Shake if that's what your heart tells you to do!
(Or whip up one of these…whichever you prefer.)
Here's the handy dandy printable, though it's really a customizable recipe. Just make it all yours.
Healthy Green Smoothie
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- Prep Time:
- 5 Minutes
- Difficulty:
- Easy
- Servings:
- 8 Servings
- 2 cups Greek Yogurt (or You Can Use Vanilla Or Any Flavor)
- 1 cup Milk (whole, 2%%, Etc---or You Can Use Soy, Almond, Etc.)
- 2 cups Pineapple Chunks
- 1 cup Green, Seedless Grapes
- 1 whole Green Apple, Cored And Cut Into Chunks
- 1 whole Pear, Cored And Cut Into Chunks
- 1 whole Banana, Peeled
- 1/2 bunch Kale Leaves (or Spinach, Collard, Or Mustard Greens)
- 1/4 cup Honey (or Other Sweetener) (optional)
- Additional And Optional Add-Ins: Mango Chunks, Spinach, Cucumber, Zucchini, Coconut Oil Or Milk
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Mineko Clay Tempered Folded Katana Samurai Sword
This sword has been forged using traditional techniques and methods and has been hand polished and sharpened. All our swords use high-quality carbon steel, which ensures a hard-wearing battle ready edge, making it an ideal choice for anyone looking for a functional sword capable of cutting.
The folding process was originally used to homogenize the carbon content within Japanese steel. Nowadays the folding process is not strictly necessary, however, it does produce beautiful blades containing visible fold lines. The blade has been folded 11 times creating 2048 folds within the Katana.
Clay tempering involves adding a layer of clay to the blade which is thicker on the spine compared to the edge. When the blade is heated and subsequently cooled the clay allows the edge to cool at a faster rate, which in turn creates a crystalline structure which is harder at the cutting edge but softer at the spine. This allows the blade to have a tough and hard edge and softer more flexible spine.
- Overall Length: 103 cm / 40.6 Inches
- Blade Length: 70 cm / 27.6 Inches
- Tsuku Length: 26 cm / 10.24 Inches
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More than 1,600 Gaston County residents receiving federal unemployment benefits will see those benefits go away after June 30.
More than 1,600 Gaston County residents receiving federal unemployment benefits will see those benefits go away after June 30.
Federal emergency unemployment benefits stop at the end of the month because the state cut the amount of weekly unemployment benefits, said Larry Parker, spokesman for the Division of Employment Security.
The U.S. Department of Labor said that because the state reduced the weekly unemployment benefit, it violated a federal rule.
That means approximately 1,692 Gaston County residents, 790 Cleveland County residents and 570 Lincoln County residents will no longer be able to file weekly claims for federal emergency unemployment benefits � also called the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program � after June 30. These numbers are based on who had filed weekly unemployment claims as of June 8.
People who receive state unemployment will see decreases in both the amount they receive and the time they are eligible for benefits.
The maximum benefit go from $535 to $350 per week, and the length of time to receive benefits will go from a maximum of 26 week to between 12 to 20 weeks, said Angela Karchmer, director of the Gaston local area workforce development programs. The changes start July 1.
Gaston County has about 9,000 people who identify themselves as being unemployed, she said.
What should you do?
If you�re one of the people who will be losing federal benefits, Karchmer said the best thing to do is to get into one of the county�s JobLink Career Centers as soon as possible.
The offices can help with job placement services and connect people with resources within the community.
The centers offer interview classes, resume workshops and other training to help people gain skills to make them more employable.
�And folks don�t need appointments to come in,� Karchmer said. �There will be someone there who can give one-on-one help getting connected to the right jobs or any type of training that could benefit them.�
�It can happen to anyone�
The Gazette asked about federal benefit losses and state cuts on its Facebook page.
Readers who were receiving benefits say the loss of that money will hurt, and they aren�t sure what to do next.
�I�m upset to the highest extent�. I needed that money,� Brittnay Miller wrote. �Oh, well. I job hunt every other day. Something will come my way.�
Kristy Bright Spencer�s emergency benefits ran out in May, but she�s still trying to find a job.
�I�ve barely avoided foreclosure on my home, thanks to my fianc� who has taken up my slack. I don�t think anyone who hasn�t been unemployed at any time during the last four to five years has a single clue about how bad it is out there for job seekers,� Spencer wrote. �Yes, there are some jobs out there. There are also a minimum of five applicants for every job. Trust me when I say that for a lot of the people finding work, it�s a case of being at the right place at the right time. Also, a good many employers won�t even consider your resume if you�ve been unemployed for more than 3 months or so. If you�re lucky enough to have a job, be thankful, but don�t be so smug as to dismiss the long-term unemployed as lazy and not wanting to work. I think that�s a very condescending attitude to have. I worked for 25 straight years before becoming unemployed, and thought that the last long-term job I had was stable, as I�m sure the majority of others did. It can happen to anyone.�
You can reach Amanda Memrick at 704-869-1839 or twitter.com/AmandaMemrick.
Gaston County JobLink Career Centers
1391 Bessemer City Road, Gastonia (inside the Division of Employment Security building)
7220 Wilkinson Blvd., Belmont (Kimbrell campus of Gaston College)
9,000: Number of employed in Gaston County
1,692: Approximate number of Gaston County residents receiving federal emergency unemployment benefits
790: Approximate number of Cleveland County residents receiving federal emergency unemployment benefits
570: Approximate number of Lincoln County residents receiving federal emergency unemployment benefits
70,454: Approximate number of state residents receiving federal emergency unemployment benefits
$290: Average weekly unemployment benefit
Source: N.C. Division of Employment Security
Community response
What: A �Facing the Unemployment Cliff� roundtable discussion
When: 10 to 11:30 a.m. July 1
Where: St. Mark�s Episcopal Church, Gastonia
Why go: Clergy members and human services professionals in Gaston County are invited to attend the crisis management meeting to respond to the end of unemployment benefits for Gaston County residents.
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Admin status
About time, huh? Congratulations! ;-) -- Seth Cooper owl post! 00:20, October 20, 2012 (UTC)
- I'm glad to know I was the bearer of good tidings! -- Seth Cooper owl post! 00:28, October 20, 2012 (UTC)
- Hi, I've yet seen you finally got your admin-status. Congratulation! Harry granger Talk contribs 14:35, October 20, 2012 (UTC)
- Congrats from me as well! (Next stop, adminship on the Casual Vacancy wiki?) -- RobertATfm (talk) 15:31, October 20, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Blog promotion
Sure, sorry I didn't know. I got booted from there yesterday for what I did a year ago on another wiki, so I'm going to stop those Help Wanted posts. Sorry again.
Sorry. I got demoted at that wiki for what I did on another wiki a year ago, so I'll stop those posts. THanks for telling me and sorry again.
Mrjoebobisvoldemort (talk) 14:02, October 20, 2012 (UTC)
Aequus156 and the new wiki
From User_talk:Aequus156, I see that s/he earlier today spammed the main page in order to promote his/her new The Casual Vacancy wiki. Sad to say, s/he has done it again, this time on the article page of the novel (as I said on the article's talk page, one link on a page might be legitimate promotion but three is spamming), and even worse, removed the existing link to the older (and far better) wiki!
I think a ban is in order. Entirely up to you, of course. -- RobertATfm (talk) 15:40, October 20, 2012 (UTC)
Hub article
Hi, Professor! What do you think about a hub article for the small Death Eater articles? Harry granger Talk contribs 20:23, October 20, 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, I meant the articles with the Notability. This notability lead me to this idea that you already had, too.
Harry granger Talk contribs 20:38, October 20, 2012 (UTC)
- O. k., when I see one I will do. Harry granger Talk contribs 20:43, October 20, 2012 (UTC)
Re:Wikia Features / Congratulations
I haven't been around in a while. My monitor burned out on me on Thursday (I think?), and I haven't been able to get a "new" one until today. It appears the discussion is still ongoing, so I'll leave my comments when I have the time.
Also, a belated congrats on your promotion to administrator! -- 1337star (Drop me a line!) 23:43, October 22, 2012 (UTC)
Vandal ban needed
Check Special:Contributions/22.214.171.124; this IP has today vandalised Talk:Main Page, and a block is thus called for. I don't know how long a block is usually imposed on this wiki; in cases of mild to medium severity such as this, where the offender is anonymous, I usually give one or three months. -- RobertATfm (talk) 11:56, October 23, 2012 (UTC)
Fireworks Clip
The clip that you requested for the fireworks scene can be found here. - Wagnike2 (talk) 18:22, October 23, 2012 (UTC)
First off.. hello. Second, congratulations on being made an administrator here on the Harry Potter Wiki. Third, I figured I'd tell you that chapters 12-18 will, if the Insider means exactly a week, be released on the eve before Hallowe'en. So yeah, that's about it. 22.214.171.124 02:08, October 24, 2012 (UTC)
- Hello (yes, this is Hunniebunn). I made a GIF for Shooting spell, and here is the link: http://imgflip.com/i/57dn. I wondered if you knew how to download it onto here so that I could add it to the page? Thanks. 188.8.131.52 04:26, October 24, 2012 (UTC)
- Actually, the video only showed the ground erupting slightly as though something had burrowed into it, when the spell was cast. I uploaded until Harry cast the spell on the rabbit (the second after it ran away, and the gun noise could be heard when Harry pointed his wand at it). Anywho, I figured it'd at least be something to use. 220.127.116.11 19:24, October 24, 2012 (UTC)
Hunnie Bunn account
Hi, I only wanted to tell you. Hunnie Bunn is back. Your message wall in Potterpedia is now overcrowded. Harry granger Talk contribs 21:47, October 24, 2012 (UTC)
Infobox problem
Hey, I looked at Template:Individual infobox.
should be replaced with either:
{{{name|{{PAGENAME}}}}}- uses the page's name if no
nameparameter is used. This is standard practice.
{{{name|}}}- uses just the
Either one will fix your problem. Dzylon (Talk) 02:32/October 25, 2012
- Sorry, replied on my page (force of habit after working on talkback-based wikis). Anyway... you have a message on User talk:Dzylon. | Dzylon (Talk) 03:16/October 25, 2012
- Alright. Also, as my bot doesn't have a bot flag here, the changes made by it will flood RecentChanges and WikiActivity (though that shouldn't last long). Also, semi and fully protected pages won't be changed (as my bot isn't autoconfirmed here, nor is it an admin. Dzylon (Talk) 03:42/October 25, 2012
Casual Vacancy wiki
I've now founded a third The Casual Vacancy wiki at tcv.wikia.com. As you can see, it has a much shorter URL than either of the others, making interwiki links a lot easier; I've also chosen a colour scheme which is at least an order of magnitude easier on the eyes than that of w:c:casual-vacancy, and at least two orders of magnitude more readable than that of w:c:the-casual-vacancy.
If you want to look at it, and possibly contribute, feel free. I've uploaded the favicon, but for some reason it isn't yet showing for me; I'm currently in the process of transferring the contents of the first TCV wiki, to get things started.
Of course, if the URL of the new wiki is to be added to this wiki's TCV page (replacing the present lnk?), that will have to be done by somebody else as I don't want to appear to be self-promoting (although, unlike another editor I won't name, I don't suffer the delusion that I "own" this wiki, merely becuse I founded it). -- RobertATfm (talk) 01:54, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
- After numerous tries, I've settled (for the time being) on a black-on-beige scheme. I've also turned off the background. Annoyingly, the favicon still isn't showing for me. -- RobertATfm (talk) 04:17, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
- Your attention is needed: I've just copied your Template:Quote over to the new wiki, and there's a problem with it; the example given includes the template recursively, which is Not Allowed, so the intended result doesn't show properly. The result needs to be edited to use the markup instead of the template, but as I don't fully understand Parsertongue I don't know how to do this. Could you see to it? -- RobertATfm (talk) 04:59, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Professor! It looks as if it does not work for you in "orange", whatever is the cause. Harry granger Talk contribs 20:32, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
- Just seen I answered on my own talk page, oh oh, talk page against message wall. That's what I answered: I mean the Special:Recentchanges. Harry granger Talk contribs 17:54, October 28, 2012 (UTC)
I appreciate the time you took to write to me, Professor, but I'm afraid that being admin and bureaucrat of two different sites and a casual editor on another two is quite enough responsibility as it is. Thanks, though. --Hunniebunn (talk) 23:55, October 27, 2012 (UTC)
- That's true; I suppose I'd best consider it. By the way, I found a quite amusing and interesting post here Bellatrix's Secret on Mugglenet, and wondered whether you wanted to read it (if you hadn't already, of course). --Hunniebunn (talk) 00:06, October 28, 2012 (UTC)
Red Sparks/Periculum
As you may have seen on the talk page for what is currently Red Sparks, I have my doubts now that that and Periculum are the same. I would have renamed that page Periculum and made a new one for Red Sparks, but I can't as there's a redirect there. I wondered if perhaps now that you're an admin you can undo the redirect, or if perhaps there was something I'd been missing. --Hunniebunn (talk) 00:15, October 28, 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, never mind. I figured it out. --Hunniebunn (talk) 00:18, October 28, 2012 (UTC)
Yes, that's quite true - both that it was interesting and that it was probably untrue. So yeah. And by the way, I figured I'd ask if you had any idea what the below image said:
Thanks. --Hunniebunn (Talk) 23:58, October 28, 2012 (UTC)
RE: Language
If I'm to be honest with you, I figured maybe it was a secret code seen only throughout the films and video games. Then again, the words do seem Latin... --Hunniebunn (Talk) 01:37, October 29, 2012 (UTC)
- Anywho, thanks for trying. --Hunniebunn (Talk) 01:38, October 29, 2012 (UTC)
- I just checked the words on Google translate, the best that came out was "Ropos de Rocas" which means "Rock unto clothing"... Oh well. --Hunniebunn (Talk) 01:41, October 29, 2012 (UTC)
Nice to know that you understand a little bit German because I am German. Harry granger Talk contribs 15:20, October 29, 2012 (UTC)
- Then I think we stay communicating in English. :-)))
Harry granger Talk contribs 16:03, October 29, 2012 (UTC)
Wikia's Time to Play
Hey Tofty,
Wikia is rolling out a fun new initiative for the holiday season called "Time to Play" where we ask our wikis what page they're most proud of. We want to know which page you would want to have represent Harry Potter Wiki. There will be an official blog going out on Nov. 1 but we wanted to reach out to you early and see if you were interested in participating now.
If you wanted to participate, a "Time to Play" badge would go up on the right rail of the mainpage that links users to the page that you choose, while the footer will live on that same page that links to hub pages eg. http://www.wikia.com/Entertainment for Time to Play goodies. You can see how the badge looks by clicking here and how the footer will appear by clicking here.
We will feature Harry Potter Wiki on http://www.wikia.com/Wikia in one the three biggest spots that we reserved for "Time to Play" participants on a rotating basis, as well as a feature on the hubs.
Let me know if you have any questions, I hope you decide to participate! Kate 23:28, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
- Saw your comment to Kate, just wanted to give you a quick answer. As soon as you all figure out which article you'd like to focus on just leave Kate a msg and we'll get you set up. We would love for your other wiki to participate, leave Kate a talk page msg there with a link to the article you choose, and we'll get that one set up for you too! Sena 01:37, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
Fantastic, we've put it live on Eternal Sonata Wiki and super excited that Harry Potter is excited to participate!
Kate 16:47, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
Love it! I do so love Professor McGonagall! It's a hard choice on Harry Potter Wiki :)
Kate 17:05, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
Hello ProfessorTofty. Just wondered, have you checked the Pottermore Insider today? You'll find a surprise there. Hunniebunn (Talk)
RE: Time
Yes, I'm quite looking forward to it. My only problem is.. school. I have to leave at 8:10 sharp to get to school on time, and so I'll be lucky to get through the chapters. And so I have to wait till after school so I can view them all simultaneously. Tell me how it goes, though - it sounds like fun. --Hunniebunn (Talk)
- Another thing: We are at the end of the second book. The {{Pottermore}} template still exists and is used on pages with Pottermore content. What shall we do about it? Delete it, as Seth and 1337star suggested? Or keep, as I favoured? --Hunniebunn (Talk) 02:15, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
RE:Pottermore Tag
All right then. I'd offer to help, but I'm not that great with codes whilst on my laptop and will be heading to bed soon. Thanks. And enjoy the rest of Chamber of Secrets - I'm sure you will. --Hunniebunn (Talk) 03:09, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
Rollback rights
I'm wondering if I should have rollback rights on this wiki. I think I've done enough (good) edits by now to be a trusted user, especially since I'm only asking for rollback, not full admin (I have enough adminships to be getting on with). How does one request rollback rights here?
On another topic, has the colour scheme changed slightly? I think the red of the navigation bar, and the salmon-pink of the top bar on the edit page, makes a good contrast with the teal of the sky in the background graphic. -- RobertATfm (talk) 10:31, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
Order of Merlin
Thank you very much for presenting me the award - I hope to continue making good, quality edits to the wiki. --Hunniebunn (Talk) 20:12, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
Finite Incantatem Merge
I have merged Finite Incantatem with General Counter-Spell for the following reasons:
- They have the exact same effect.
- General Counterspell was released with the second book on Pottermore, while Finite Incantatem was first shown in that same book.
- The length of the incantation matches the time it would take for one to move their wand as shown for the wand motion of the General Counter-Spell.
- GCS has an image on Pottermore, while Finite Incantatem doesn't - and Finite Incantatem is the only one without a wand motion.
--Hunniebunn (Talk) 00:54, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
Firstly, I would like to apologize for the trouble I've given you. However, my second point is that the way I was taught to make a merge was to copy all the information from one page, redirect the page you took the content from to the new page, and then incorporate both sets of info into a new article. I did so - you can see on General Counter-Spell. However, I do agree that we ought to have a nice proper discussion on the topic first, something I should have waited for. --Hunniebunn (Talk) 01:09, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
- In response to your saying that I merged them after you sent me the message: you sent it two minutes before I published my changes. I actually sent you the first message right before I got to work, and started at it whilst you were writing. But anyways, yes, I agree that discussion (and patience, something I need to work on) are important. --Hunniebunn (Talk) 01:16, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
RE:Future Merges
All righty then, thanks. --Hunniebunn (Talk) 01:28, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
Hey, thank you for the Prefect badge. That's a nice surprise. I should tell you that there are a few articles where I thought the info is so new that I did not switch, like Peeves, Peeves's contract, Polyjuice potion and The Toad after I've read that Pottermore shall offer new infos about ghosts and Polyjuice potion. That I think should you decide, you have an account there, I've not. Harry granger Talk contribs 21:37, November 2, 2012 (UTC)
- O. k., thanks. Harry granger Talk contribs 21:42, November 2, 2012 (UTC)
- Aha, once guessed right, great. :-))) Harry granger Talk contribs 21:52, November 2, 2012 (UTC)
Blog Post
Sorry, I didn't realize it counted as advertizing. Hermione – The Half-Blood Prince(Always Accio Me)
New Page
Hi. I was wanting to know if one page I was considering creating is article worthy. I don't think it is, seeing as it is only based on a grey feather, which most likely came from an owl. See this page to see what I mean. Sorry to trouble you, and I'd like to say that your work as an admin so far has been brilliant. Hermione – The Half-Blood Prince(Always Accio Me)
It was an image I came across on Pottermore. I was putting images of the bertie bott's beans up on the appropriate page, so I had to look through the 'trunk area' on pottermore where the images were loacted, and I just came across the feather which I must have 'picked up' from a scene at some point. Half-Blood Prince(Mischief Managed Always)
- Thanks for the help. :) The Half-Blood PrinceMischief Managed Always
- I Erm, I think it wasn't one of the latest updates. I think I got it a while ago, if you give me a short while, I'll create a new account and try to find out. This is the page right now. I'm adding object boxes to a few other pages, and also, how can you delete a category from a page or visa versa if that makes more sense? The Half-Blood PrinceMischief Managed Always
- Thanks. I'll look for it and try and find it by tomorrow at the latest. The Half-Blood PrinceMischief Managed Always
- The page was put up for deletion so not to worry about the label. They are considering creating an owl feather page in which the image and eagle owl feather could be used. One little query though, I've looked at my talk page and found that I'm part of the prefect category. I've seen people with badges to that effect, but i have never been notified that i have earned one or whatever it is. A little light on the matter and i would be most grateful. The Half-Blood PrinceMischief Managed Always
Admin colour
It's ridiculous, but this Wiki does not want to mark your name orange in the Special page "Recent changes". Perhaps someone does not want you as admin :-))) ?!?
Harry granger Talk contribs 17:21, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
- Both does not change anything. Harry granger Talk contribs 17:45, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
- O. k., I now go home and try it with my computer and then I write to you. Harry granger Talk contribs 17:49, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
- Hi, I'm at home now at my own computer but your name in the "Recent changes" is for me blue and not orange, sorry! Harry granger Talk contribs 19:20, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
- O. k., I now go home and try it with my computer and then I write to you. Harry granger Talk contribs 17:49, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
- I've done all, also your last suggestion. It's the same thing, all the other admins are orange, but you are for me "blue". Harry granger Talk contribs 22:30, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
- Whatever the reason is: I know you're admin here :-))) and I know there are unfixed bugs. Perhaps I have the "luck" to be bugged and suddenly in the future all is o. k. So, let's wait and see. Harry granger Talk contribs 22:37, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
- Hi, it's me again. I had asked in the Community Wiki Germany what can be the reason why I see your name in the "Recent changes" in blue and not in orange. That's the answer I got:
- "The class selector for the table was not written correctly. ProfessorTofty has forgotten the "d" in table.mw-enhanced-rc." Perhaps that helps. Harry granger Talk contribs 14:51, November 7, 2012 (UTC)
- Hi, it's me again. I had asked in the Community Wiki Germany what can be the reason why I see your name in the "Recent changes" in blue and not in orange. That's the answer I got:
- Yes, it works now and I know why because a user in the Community-Wiki Germany wrote this to me:
- "Your Admin, Harry, is right: In en.hp-wikia/special: WikiActivity (which means "Recent changes" in our de-Wikia) he sees his orange entries.
- It seems he does not often use the Special:Recent Changes, so it was apparently not noticed by him (yet)." Harry granger Talk contribs 18:53, November 7, 2012 (UTC)
This user
Perhaps you should read this talk page again because of the answer of this user. Harry granger Talk contribs 22:01, November 8, 2012 (UTC)
- I think it happened because he posted into the middle of a post on Hunnie Bunn's talk page instead at the end. Then he saw your answer to Hunnie Bunn, thought it was your message to him, only on the wrong talk page - yes, and that was it. Harry granger Talk contribs 22:51, November 8, 2012 (UTC)
i MaY bE nEw BuT tHaT dOeSn'T mEaN yOu HaVe To Be MeAn!!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by StielyPaiC (talk • contribs).
Remembrance Day
Hello Professor. I know you aren't all too familiar with Remembrance Day and hence it's probably not a thing you do all too thoroughly, but I figured I'd pass on this video to you - it's quite inspiring and well sung. Thank you. --Remember (Least We Forget) 22:26, November 9, 2012 (UTC)
- Really? That's quite interesting - sometimes people here in Canada call it Veteran's Day, Soldier's Day, or even Anti-War Day, though mostly it remains Remembrance Day. You'd never believe it, but this morning we had a soldier whose family was from Ohio come to my school; he was raised in Canada but born in Ohio. I find that quite interesting, considering where you live. --Remember (Least We Forget) 22:40, November 9, 2012 (UTC)
U.S. Veteran's Day
Hi, I read your message on Hunnie Bunn's page. He sent me the video, too. Have you looked already? Wonderful music, but serious theme. I like the end line of the video very much but I don't want to tell too much when you perhaps have not seen yet. That's interesting that the Remembrance Day in Canada is the same as your U.S. Veteran's Day. You knew it without knowing that you knew it. Different names - same theme. Harry granger Talk contribs 22:37, November 9, 2012 (UTC)
You have a good ear - it wasn't until I saw the cutscene with the people playing the bagpipes that I realized that's what it was. But yes, the bagpipes and the accordion simultaneously were being played. As for Canadian entertainment and such, I've watched the Red Green Show once, but I'm not that big of a fan of television. I'm more of a literature or music sort of guy. Then again, if LMFAO represents this century's music, it's quite pitiful. --Remember (Least We Forget) 23:31, November 9, 2012 (UTC)
Hello Professor. I wondered... I've been meaning to make a forum, but the best way that I know how to do that was to make a blog and hope somebody would read it and make it a forum for me. Could you please inform me how to create a forum the proper way? Thanks. --Remember (Least We Forget) 00:04, November 10, 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. --Remember (Least We Forget) 02:03, November 10, 2012 (UTC)
RE:Romilda Goshawk
No, actually, I don't even own a PS3 to begin with (although I would love getting my hands on a copy of Book of Spells) -- the first walkthroughs are being uploaded to YouTube and the like. I've put the link to such a video on the "Notes and references" section of the article. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 21:16, November 13, 2012 (UTC)
- There is nothing in the game proper (the parts that I have seen thus far, that is) that says that the Book of Spells is 200-years-old (when you are introduced to it, it is covered in dust, and it is mentioned that it is "very old", but nothing more). There is an event (I'm earnestly trying not to spoil you, here) mentioned to have happened in 1779, and the text refers to the late 18th century as "relatively recently in wizarding history" -- I wouldn't think a book would refer to something that happened a mere twenty years ago as "relatively recent", instead choosing the word "contemporaneously", but perhaps that's just me.
- My possible explanations are: the "200-year-old-book-thing" was something that the game developers/producers had in mind when creating the look and feel of the game, but did not treat that as rock-solid fact (out-of-universe explanation); or, that the game is set sometime after 2121 (in-universe explanation). -- Seth Cooper owl post! 16:34, November 14, 2012 (UTC)
Hello. First off, thanks for removing the category on my userpage, I keep forgetting to take it off myself. Secondly, do you recognize this image from anywhere? I thought that since you were interested in buying it you may have seen it, or else may have noticed it on a website you might have visited. --Hunniebunn (talk) 22:55, November 14, 2012 (UTC)
- Oh well... all the same, do you think it would be too speculative to call it the Atmospheric Charm and add the image, as well as the Wonderbook mention? --Hunniebunn (talk) 00:26, November 15, 2012 (UTC)
Wonderbook Template
I guess it's far too late to ask now, but I figured I'd inform you of my creation of the {{Wonderbook}} template, for those who don't want to be spoiled by Wonderbook content or who haven't yet seen the videos. I've already added it to quite a few articles, so I figured I'd see if you wanted to help as I have to get ready for school tomorrow. Below is a preview:
And ta-da! So, what do you think? --Hunniebunn (talk) 01:57, November 15, 2012 (UTC)
RE Images
Sorry it was never brought to my attenion. I will start doing so. :) The Half-Blood PrinceMischief Managed ...
Principle Thing
Hello, Professor. Sorry to bother you again, but do you know where the information from this article came from? All it says, after all, is "Wonderbook: Book of Spells". --Hunniebunn (talk) 23:37, November 15, 2012 (UTC)
- That's what I figured... oh well. I'll ask Starstuff the next time she's online. Thanks. --Hunniebunn (talk) 23:42, November 15, 2012 (UTC)
Talk Page
Hello Professor. Sorry to keep on bothering you, but I wondered whether you would like to add your opinion to this page - on the merge, on the rules regarding speculation, or on anything else you feel could be discussed. Thank you. --Hunniebunn (talk) 20:06, November 16, 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, I see. Sorry to bother you, and hopefully you don't mind. Thank you for responding so quickly. --Hunniebunn (talk) 21:12, November 16, 2012 (UTC)
About the Wonderbook ?
I know that you obtained this sentence ("It's covered in dust! You must be the first student in years to pick it up.") in the original version of Wonderbook, but I didn't manage to obtain it in French version.... if you have the possibility of obtaining it, inform me!
Thank you in advance!--Caliméro (talk) 14:14, November 19, 2012 (UTC)
RE: Lily Evans edit.
I see! It's basically like adding the "This page may contain Pottermore information" without having the massive banner? HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 04:16, November 22, 2012 (UTC)
Gotcha! HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 04:26, November 22, 2012 (UTC)
Sorting Hat
Just a suggestion. Should we create a section under the Sorting Hat article about the questions it ask's on Pottermore? Basically, I have two speeds. Hostile or smart-alek. Your Choice.
Hi, I noticed you reverted my edits to Tiago Montoya. I understand that you don't want completely far-out name interpretations, but since no other Etymology section I've noticed has had references I decided to include it when I saw the article, making sure to word it tentatively.
The first name of the teammate Inigo Fuente Marrero, the similarity in sound of "Tiago" and "Inigo" and the obvious sense of humour of the Quidditch World Cup developers, especially in their naming of characters (such as Denison Frisby, Katrina von Glockenspieler & Kelly Whakkaarangapawarau) make me pretty sure that this was a deliberate pop culture reference (maybe it's a generational thing?).
Is there any place in the Wiki (such as an analysis of pop culture analogues in the Harry Potter series, or humour in the games) that it might have a place, or any compromise on the wording that you'd consider? Thanks. --xensyriaT 22:22, November 23, 2012 (UTC)
- P.S. Have you ever seen the clip from The Princess Bride? It's a pretty awesome film. :D --xensyriaT 22:24, November 23, 2012 (UTC)
Orphaned Pages
Hello. I've been helping with the orphaned pages, linking them to other articles. However, when I go back on to the orphaned pages list I find that ones that have already linked are still there. Do you know why? --This is an automatically sent message. (You can reply here) 17:22, November 24, 2012 (UTC)
Sorting Hat
Okay thank you. It'll take a while to take screenshots etc, but i hope to have it done soon. Basically, I have two speeds. Hostile or smart-alek. Your Choice.
- While on the topic. What would you say to a similar thing but with olivander's wadnd quiz thing? Basically, I have two speeds. Hostile or smart-alek. Your Choice.
- Ok thank you. Basically, I have two speeds. Hostile or smart-alek. Your Choice.
Hello Professor. Sorry to bother you, but I have a few queries.
First of all, I realize that tomorrow you're going to be unavailable (traveling to wikia headquarters, I believe?), so I figured I'd wish you best of luck in whatever awaits you.
However, my other purpose in writing is to ask whether you would have a problem with my integrating the information from the page "Smokescreen Spell" into the page "Patronus Charm", per my logic given on the talk page for "Smokescreen Spell" (seen here). Of course it will wait until tomorrow, but I wanted to see whether you would give a thumbs-up or not. --This is an automatically sent message. (You can reply here) 02:22, November 27, 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for replying so quickly to my post. --This is an automatically sent message. (You can reply here) 02:53, November 27, 2012 (UTC)
uh... ProfesorTofty, its actually my older brother doing this, like, i've really tried to get him to stop, but he's obsessed with violent games, so i'll try do to delete lots of stuff on my user page pretty quick.Mart456t (talk) 02:50, November 27, 2012 (UTC)mart456t
RE Wrock Songs
Okay sorry ! :) Basically, I have two speeds. Hostile or smart-alek. Your Choice.
Wiki Videos
Hi, ProfessorTofty!
I just wanted to let you know that we are going to start implementing the video methods that were discussed when you visited our office! To remind you, we will be doing the bulk of the work by finding relevant great videos and embedding them on the wiki. We will also update a part of the Community Messages, and create a rotating gallery of videos on the main page. The example of the rotating gallery can be seen here: http://ninokuni.wikia.com/wiki/Ni_No_Kuni_Wiki
Let us know if you have any more questions or concerns!
Grace 21:28, December 4, 2012 (UTC)
RE:Two issues
- I hadn't noticed you had set up a forum; I've taken a look and I totally agree, but perhaps you should read my (lenghtier) response there (we also have to see to that the Featured Images, DYK, and the like get featured; frankly, I'm sick of having the same info on the Main Page for months at a time);
- About the dub voice actors, I honestly do not remember doing that. The page must've been awkwardly written, or just a stub, because there are now loads of pages on such voice actors (and I, myself, created Ana Zanatti and Diogo Morgado just last week, and I sure don't want to be seen as someone who uses double standards). I'd say we'd tend to keep them, as a general principle, just like we do with pages about extras and minor actors. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 23:02, December 10, 2012 (UTC)
- (By the way, and on a completely unrelated topic; I see that you and Hunnie Bunn also tried to decypher the mysterious scipt on the Transfiguration blackboard -- I've stumbled across its meaning (see my complete explanation here: User talk:Hunnie Bunn#Transfiguration blackboard) -- Seth Cooper owl post! 23:07, December 10, 2012 (UTC)
RE:Video viewing
Yup, I can see them alright. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 19:25, December 13, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Design
Well I could honestly think of a hundred things... the main thing that I need really needs to be added is the Wiki Navigation background. If you look on Survivor Wiki, it has water background, perhaps here we could make it (for the time being) something Christmassy. Anyway, I think absolutely anything is accomplish-able. User:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd
RE:Featured Articles
Actually, I think any of them would be a wise choice, though Bathilda Bagshot's is my favourite, to be honest, for the choice - it's well- written and well-sourced, has lots of information, and an adequate amount of photos. --Happy Christmas! (Season's Greetings) 02:41, December 15, 2012 (UTC)
Draco Malfoy
You seem to forget ProfessorTofty that Draco served as the main antagonist in Half Blood Prince
Buddyrichiedonmoochie (talk) 18:19, December 18, 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I saw your post on Seth Cooper's talk page and followed the link to the Harry Potter article. That's interesting. I like it. Harry granger Talk contribs 12:25, December 20, 2012 (UTC)
As my user is banned I have only the choice of using a sock puppet. But when trying to help, by suggesting changes on both talk pages and user talk pages, but I can't get a response, like good idea or no, that's not a good idea I have to act myself. But when I'm trying to help, my edits are almost always deleted. Furthermore I want to know why Cadogan's parent couldn't be called Mr. and Mrs. Cadogan. Please, I'm trying to show that I regret my heavily stupid behaviour the past few years, but I simply can't get any response unless I edit something. --126.96.36.199 06:52, December 21, 2012 (UTC)
- I then stop editing anything, unless it is vandalism or there's a good reason, and then report to you for some changes I think of, then you can decide whether or not it should be. Some people don't think of what they have before they lose it, and I was one of them. --22.214.171.124 12:16, December 21, 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. I will really try to be a better wiki-user this time, I really will. Then we can talk my user at a later point. --18.104.22.168 16:01, December 21, 2012 (UTC)
RE:Time-Turner & "Image" of Invisible Book of Invisibility
Sorry for not having responded yesterday. I wasn't at home, and everyone was looking at me funny when I sneaked to the computer to browse through the new Pottermore chapters and when I giggled to myself after reading about Sir Cadogan's misadventures.
Anyway, I think that the Time-Turner is a pretty neat idea (a "look how much we've grown", as it were), although I'm not entirely sure how it will work?
As for The Invisible Book of Invisibility... I don't deserve the credit; that is literally the image of the book featured in Pottermore (yet another of those things that made me giggle, and that made everyone look at me as if I was slow-witted in some way). -- Seth Cooper owl post! 17:18, December 21, 2012 (UTC)
Re:Linking of Deer
Sure, I have the free time. That sounds like a fine way to split it up. -- 1337star (Drop me a line!) 18:24, December 21, 2012 (UTC)
- Alright. Well, I just went ahead and linked to the more "important" of the mentions of deer/stags/does then. If you want to make further links when you have the time, go ahead. -- 1337star (Drop me a line!) 18:51, December 21, 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't see any blog police like that any where on the page. It must've been hiding. Sorry about upsetting you (or other admins)!
--Roger6881 Waddle On! 18:12, December 22, 2012 (UTC)
When I edit here (what may be quite rarely) I'll have a good read of those! =)-Roger6881 Waddle On! 18:35, December 22, 2012 (UTC)
Missing information
The article Helga Hufflepuff's portrait needs to be expanded with information, it only says that the portrait remains in the Hufflepuff Basement of Hogwarts Castle. Also the Screaming Bogey of Strathtully article needs an appearance-section. --184.108.40.206 12:28, December 23, 2012 (UTC)
- Do we need an infobox in the Bogey-article, or is that unnecessary? --22.214.171.124 13:06, December 23, 2012 (UTC)
- Your edit to Helga Hufflepuff's portrait have been undone, just to your notice. --184.108.40.206 17:35, December 23, 2012 (UTC)


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The ant species Leptothorax acervorum is found throughout the Northern hemisphere. While many populations have multiple queens, a few have only one queen that reproduces. And in those societies, queens and workers alike viciously fight for ant dominance.
Researchers from Germany's University of Regensburg examined a Leptothorax acervorum colony in Spain. They found that only one of the many queens in the colony was actually able to reproduce. All the others either did not yet have active ovaries, or their ovaries had actually reverted back to their former inactive state. And it doesn't appear that the ants arrived at this state of affairs peacefully.
Prospective queens were observed fighting, boxing with their antennae and threatening each other with their mandibles. These more ritualistic fights appeared relatively tame compared to the no-holds-barred craziness that would go down when worker ants took on queens, which involved way more biting and shoving. It appears only the fights between queens could actually determine which ant would be allowed to reproduce. The workers were fighting more to determine which queens were the most dominant and therefore worthy of their protection.
Lead scientist Juergen Trettin explains:
"These ants live high on mountain slopes — which makes dispersal and colony formation difficult. Under these circumstances the colony cannot support more than one reproductive queen and limited resources make it inadvantageous for the colony to allow low ranking queens to leave and start their own colonies. Destruction of habitat, for instance due to climate change, may cause this behaviour to become extinct."
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Michelle and David Huck married in 2000 and since then, life has been busy — to say the least.
They are now parents to Indira, 10, Soleil, 9, Saul, 8, and Samuel, 6, and life in Calgary is a blur of backpacks, lunch kits, homework and hustling everyone off to the hockey rink, soccer field and school — and they wouldn't have it any other way.
"We're just busy! We're at the dance studio, we're playing the piano before school. It's a lot of driving. It's a typical family — it's a gong-show," Michelle says, laughing. "I hope that's everybody else, anyway."
Indira and Saul are the Hucks' biological children, while Samuel was adopted from Sierra Leone and Soleil from Ethiopia. The Hucks have met both of their adopted children's biological mothers and consider them part of their extended family.
The Hucks are a typical Canadian family — in that they don't fit the definition of what once passed for typical. But the results of a new poll conducted exclusively for Postmedia News and Global TV suggest public perceptions of what makes up a family lag behind the reality around kitchen tables across the country. For example:
— Couples without children now outnumber those with children in Canada, but fewer than half of Canadians believe a married or common-law couple with no children counts as a family. A similar minority considers a same-sex married couple and their children to be a family.
— Nearly one in five Canadian children lives in a lone-parent household, but only a slim majority of 55 per cent of Canadians believe a single mother and her children constitute a family and 54 per cent see a single father and his children as a family.
— For the first time, there are more unmarried than married people in Canada, according to the most recent census data (2006), and common-law families — particularly those with children — are the fastest-growing family type in Canada. Yet poll results from Ipsos Reid show that while 80 per cent of Canadians believe two married, heterosexual parents and their children constitute a family, just 66 per cent consider a common-law couple and their children to be a family.
"When people are asked to think about families, they think about their own families; they think back to what their family looked like," says Clarence Lochhead, executive director of the Vanier Institute of the Family.
Today, the Ottawa-based research and advocacy organization releases Families Count, an encyclopedic book of Canadian family trends and statistics published every five years. The release coincides this year with National Family Week in Canada.
There's "no question" that families have changed profoundly over the last 50 years, the report says, but it also highlights surprising stability lying beneath the surface.
In 2006, the most recent year for which census data is available, 85 per cent of Canadians lived with a relative — very similar to the nearly nine in 10 who were living with family when it came time for the 1901 census count. The proportion of people living in married or common-law families has held steady around 84 per cent over the last few decades, census data show, although the proportion of married couples is declining while the ranks of common-law couple families are growing rapidly.
Dramatic changes in the family's structure over the last several decades haven't lessened its importance in people's lives, Lochhead says: whatever it looks like, "family" is consistently the top answer when people are polled about the most important thing in their lives.
"Despite all the difference we see around us in our family lives, we still recognize this profound, deeply felt importance of being cared for and caring for other people," he says.
Vanier Institute research conducted by Reginald Bibby, a sociologist at the University of Lethbridge who has extensively studied Canada's baby boomers and up-and-coming millennial generation, revealed that people's family aspirations remain buoyant in the face of upheaval and change. Fully 90 per cent of teens aged 15 to 19 said they expect to get married, Bibby found in the "Canadian Hopes and Dreams" project in 2004, and 88 per cent said they expected to stay with the same partner for life. Across all age groups, 80 per cent of Canadians said getting married at some point was important to them.
Public perception hasn't quite caught up to contemporary family life, but our collective notions of what families used to be and how they've changed are equally misguided.
"I think we have a very, very bad historical sense of what family looked like in the past, what it did, how it functioned," Robert Glossop, former executive director of the Vanier Institute and a sociology researcher who was named to the Order of Canada last year.
Lone-parent families may be increasingly common, but they're nothing new, he says. That family type was widespread in the 1930s, he says, although in that era it was created most often by death or family desertion during the Great Depression rather than through divorce.
"We didn't invent single-parent families. They've always been part of the cultural fabric of Canadian society," Glossop says. "There was a period when Canadians thought that was a function of feminism in the late 60s and kids growing up and overthrowing the traditional family, as though lone-parent families had never existed before."
Stephanie Coontz, a professor of history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, says step-families are also treated as a new phenomenon, but until the turn of the 20th century, early death was common and death in childbirth particularly so, making step-families and blended families their own sort of "traditional" family in terms of their history.
And against a historical backdrop in which marriage functioned as a political or business arrangement for most of its history until the "love-based" model took over in the West in the early 20th century, hand-wringing about the death of marital commitment today seems absurd, she says.
"It's a big myth that people take their marriage vows less seriously than they used to. It's a total myth that couples used to work at their relationship," Coontz says. "Marriage for thousands of years was not even about love, and even after it became about love, that love was very moderated by female economic dependence on men and by the laws that made women subordinate to men."
In a departing lecture when he retired from the Vanier Institute, Glossop shared some of his family secrets — including a successful surgeon relative who had been raised by a "mother" who was in fact her aunt — by way of illustrating that every family's history has hidden chapters.
Recognizing that family life has always harboured secrets and dark corners as well as profound love and support helps us see the past and the present more clearly, he says.
"That stuff happened. It happened a whole lot," Glossop says. "Don't judge what you see going on in families today simply on the basis of what they look like, and don't have any naive illusions about us somehow having left an idealized past that we want to somehow return to."
If there is one constant in the shifting, changing family portraits of Canada and other countries over the last century, the experts agree it's the family's adaptability and elasticity in weathering these changes and remaining intact.
"Families have never been stable and unchanging, and every family form has its own distinctive set of problems. That's how the world works, that's how history works, that's how personal life works. You never just reach a stasis and stay there," says Coontz. "Family is never idyllic. There are always irritations, there are always conflicts, but when families work, they manage to engage in the mutual support and aid that overcomes or compensates."
In Calgary, meanwhile, Michelle Huck still can't get used to the adulation of strangers she suspects might be influenced by celebrity adoption stories.
"It's kind of cute. I think people idolize the adoption process or people who adopt," she says. "I'm like, 'We're just a family. I yell at my kids,' but I get quite nice comments."
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
We are a new and young company which goal is to set up a environmental friendly clothing line. We also try to raise attention for social issues that are present in the Dutch society. Hopefully later on international issues.
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Miranda wrote:Do you know / think that Mr. Keats believed in the liberty of individuals?
Shelley was indeed extremely politically active, an atheist and republican no less at a time when both were seen as abominations by the authorities.
Keats was politically I would say liberal with a small 'l'.
It's hard, unless you've really explored the political landscape of the Regency era and are politically aware of today's climate to transpose modern liberal ethics and political thought into that time. Forget the modern meanings of the word liberal or conservative, they are not compatible with the way those terms would have been applied in that era.
Keats was neither as radical as Shelley, nor as reactionary as Wordsworth would later become.
He was a reader of Hunt's Examiner the leading liberal journal of it's day and seems to have take most of his political standpoints form what was written there, at least in his early years. He died of course so young and his political views were never as fully expressed as someone like Shelley, or Byron even, who although aristocrats were active in the cause of reform, Byron even making his maiden speech in the House Of Lords in favour of frame-breakers in Nottingham.
It's hard for us today with near universal suffrage to imagine a time when only the very wealthiest landowners could even have a vote. Before the 1832 reform act Britain was certainly no democracy as we think of it today, with rotten boroughs and a tiny electorate of the wealthy elite.
You need to read up on Byron, he was most certainly on the liberal side of the equation, he was seen as the great radical Antichrist bogeyman, even more so than Shelley who was virtually unknown to the general public.
Keats almost certainly didn't have a vote at all believe it or not. I studied this period at University in great detail and while I can't remember the details, Keats certainly didn't fit into the property-owning class who were able to vote, you needed I think 40 shillings worth of landed property to vote, before the 1832 reform act the entire electorate was only about 200,000 in the whole country out of a population of about 12 million in England alone.
.I studied Ancient and Modern history ['modern' bizarrely ranging from the 14th century to the 20th which I always found amusing
Anyway I think the suffrage was so limited and parliament so corrupt [yes even more so than today] that politics were beyond the reach of most mere mortals. Elections were not as we see them today, and the 'parties', if they can be so-called in those days were not as sharply defined and coherent as we see now. Politics was of course as much a topic of conversation then as it is now, but as actual participation in the political process was so limited the vast majority [and they were the vast majority of people] without the vote had no concept of participating in democracy as we do today, the thought was beyond them.
I know what you mean about this present election, but I would urge you whatever your choice to vote, because a lot of people struggled their whole lives and some like the suffragettes of course died to give us that privilege. Whatever you think of the parties, or the politicians [and I could rant for even longer on their faults] we must exercise our right to vote, or the extremists will not be shy in mustering their hoards and playing on the fears of the people [I think you know which party I'm talking about there.
Saturn wrote:Yes but whatever you do, vote, don't [as some morons do] 'spoil' your vote because that is a wasted vote and will be binned, it won't account at all, it won't be seen as some proud protest, but a stupid thing to do, the politicians won't get the message that way at all, the less the turn-out the more power you give them.
I know what you mean about not knowing who to vote for, believe me it's even harder where I come from where I don't agree with either of the main parties' political stances but I will be voting.
Malia wrote:Sometimes not voting is actually a "vote". In the 2000 election, I voted for the third party candidate (Ralph Nader) as a kind of "objection" to the two main candidates. All that did was drag votes away from the Democratic candidate and give more fuel to the person I absolutely did *not* want in office--George W. Bush.
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Just another reminder for everyone to RESPECT the sea. One minute you're having the time of the life, the next you can be in serious trouble.
I was out kiting early in 20knots on my 10m2 in some big chop with wind speeds gradually picking up. I had a hard crash (kite looped, flying superman style, head first etc etc, we've all been there).
Anyway, the board was well up wind from me and with the wind now beginning to over power me I decided to get out of the water, land the kite then go get my board which was about 30 metres from shore.
After a big struggle to land the kite and feeling fatigued from my crash, I dumped my gear and went for the board. By this time I didn't realise just how tired I was as I started swimming in the chop to try to get my board.
About 10 metres (IT WAS RIGHT THERE!) away from my board I realised that if I continued to it I was not going to be able to swim back so made the choice that my life wasn't worth the €400 my second hand board was worth.
I just, JUST managed to get back to the shore after a big fight. I was so tired I was doggy paddling in the end, doing my best to stay calm, forcing my body to keep going. I have never dug so deep in my life to keep going.
All this happened literally 20 metres from the beach in deep water.
The moral of the story is that you should never put the value of your gear over the value of your life. Live to kite another day boys and girls.


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