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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | JK Rowling outs Dumbledore as gay
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed that one of her characters, Hogwarts school headmaster Albus Dumbledore, is gay.

She made her revelation to a packed house in New York’s Carnegie Hall on Friday, as part of her US book tour.

She took audience questions and was asked if Dumbledore found “true love”.

“Dumbledore is gay,” she said, adding he was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, who he beat in a battle between good and bad wizards long ago.

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Bubble Wrap on Vimeo
Runterscrollen bis zum Kommentar von Xplore: I used to work for the company the invented bubble wrap, so I feel compelled to dispel all mystery regarding its production.

Bubble Wrap was invented in the late 60′s, originally intended at a wall covering. When one of the guys working on it realized that it could be used to protect shipments and they stopped smoking enough to realize that BW as wallpaper would suck, its use as packaging was born.

To make it they extrude a thin layer of plastic (varying thickness and mixture of plastics to change the qualities of the wrap) and send it over a large cylinder with holes in it that are the size of the bubbles. The holes each have a vacuum to draw the film into the cavities. As that formed film leaves the cylinder it is laminated to a second sheet of plastic, thus trapping or ‘sealing’ the air inside. Hence, we get the name of the company that first created it, Sealed Air Corp.

Btw, rolling over a bunch of bubble wrap with a fork truck is wildly entertaining.

Kinoschlager in Deutschland
50 Jahre deutsche Kinogeschichte in Filmplakaten – Der Kinobesuch gehört für Millionen von Menschen zu den beliebtesten Freizeitbeschäftigungen. Dies galt auch über vier Jahrzehnte in beiden Teilen Deutschlands. Im Jahr 1989 wurden in der Bundesrepublik 107 Millionen und in der DDR 65 Millionen Kinobesuche gezählt. Aus Kassenschlagern lassen sich kulturelle und gesellschaftliche Trends ablesen.

Sloom & Slordig — interieur design en uitvoering