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After a two-year hiatus, Veep is finally coming back to HBO. If you haven’t watched it yet, the political satire is absolutely worth checking out; mainly in part of its outlandish, self-centered characters. We took a look at some of those same outlandish characters, and since we couldn’t tell you exactly what’s wrong with them, decided to figure out where they fit on the Myers-Briggs® personality type list. Watch the show if you haven’t already, and once you have, check out this list of Veep characters by Myers-Briggs® personality type....

Here’re examples of min heap and max heap. In the above figure, if you notice the “Min Heap”, the parent node is always smaller than its child nodes. At the head of the tree, we can find the smallest value 10. Similarly, for the “Max Heap”, the parent node is always larger than the child nodes. The maximum element is present at the head node for the “Max Heap”....

Here’s everything we know about Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Happy Hogan’s (Jon Favreau) roles in Avengers: Endgame. Playing Tony Stark’s assistant-turned-fiancee and his driver/right-hand-man, respectively, the two helped kick off the MCU in 2008’s Iron Man, alongside Robert Downey Jr., who played the titular character. Since then, they’ve portrayed their roles a handful of times over the course of the decade, with Paltrow coming back five times and Favreau returning three times....

Every Harry Potter fan wants to go to a few specific (fictional) places. Hogwarts, obviously, is top of the list, but Hogsmeade isn’t far behind. This all-wizarding village first popped up with Harry and his classmates were given the opportunity for field trips to it on weekends - and when Harry, being The Chosen One, chose to ignore his lack of permission slip and sneak out through the secret tunnels to join his friends there....

The Forbidden Forest has been of interest since Harry Potter book one when Dumbledore warns the first years to avoid the forest. Hagrid has long found the area fascinating, releasing Aragog into its depths and fans may wonder if beast loving Newt Scamander has some history with the area as well. While the Fantastic Beasts movies move characters farther and farther away from Hogwarts it’s unclear if fans will ever learn more about the Forbidden Forest than they already know....

Does Draco Malfoy even need an introduction? Over the course of seven Harry Potter books and eight films, where he was played by Tom Felton, the arrogant Slytherin made enough of a name for himself. A bad name, anyway. Draco was the archetypal school bully. Rich, snobby, and prone to insulting anyone and everyone around him. Even though none of us had ever gone to a wizarding school, we all recognized this guy....

Hayao Miyazaki has revealed the title for his next feature-length directorial effort. The creator of such animated films as Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and My Cousin Totoro announced his retirement from filmmaking (again) in 2013, after completing the 2012 film The Wind Rises. However, four years after his announcement, Miyazaki has decided to return to his creative pursuits for a final feature film, and his reason for doing so is as personal as his entire filmography: he wants to make a film for his grandson....

HBO’s Watchmen revealed the full scope of Ozymandias’ plan and what he did to ensure the world’s safety after the events of the graphic novel. Series creator Damon Lindelof has taken the original story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons into 2019 and he changed the setting from New York City to Tulsa, Oklahoma. But the world of Watchmen 34 years after the comic has been profoundly changed by Ozymandias’ giant squid hoax prevented nuclear war in 1985 - changes that Adrian Veidt (Jeremy Irons) himself specifically engineered as he did his so-called “extradimensional monster”....

One of the subtle but valuable new features with iOS 15 is that Siri works even when offline for some commands. That means faster performance, but offline requests won’t work for everything. Let’s look at what does and doesn’t work with offline Siri in iOS 15. Apple announced the new offline Siri functionality during its WWDC keynote and highlighted some use cases. Since Siri can work without having to communicate with a server, offline Siri commands are faster and more responsive....

Hannah Brown, lead of The Bachelorette season 15, took home the People’s Choice Award for Competition Contestant of 2019. Brown won the category against two of her exes, Colton Underwood and Tyler Cameron, as well as a number of other well known reality television personalities, including Buddy Valastro, Kodi Lee, T-Pain, Tyler Oakley, and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo. Brown has been the definition of a competition contestant this year, competing not only on The Bachelor season 23, but also leading her own season of The Bachelorette, and finally competing on Dancing with the Stars season 28....

This week Benjamin and Zac discuss the new Apple TV 4K, macOS High Sierra launching, Apple Watch Series 3 and LTE apps, watchOS 4.1 beta and streaming music, and more. New episodes of Happy Hour are available every week. As mentioned, you can download this podcast via iTunes or plug in our RSS feed link into your favorite podcasting app. Note: Subscribing to the podcast feed will guarantee the latest episode is downloaded as soon as possible....

If there’s one thing we all learned from the Harry Potter novels and films, it’s that not every magic user is the same. Some have a more natural tendency to cast spells while others… not so much. After all, it may be a learned art, but there are always going to be some people better at it than others. One person who clearly had a grasp of the concept of magic was Bellatrix Lestrange....

Celebrating Christmas in the wizarding world is similar to celebrating in the Muggle world. While there are many overlapping traditions, there are also some that vary greatly. Because wizards and witches in the world of Harry Potter have magic, they are able to create some truly fantastical Christmas traditions that Muggles can only dream of. While things, like having evergreen trees, opening presents, and eating a Christmas feast, might stay the same, the specifics of these celebrations are often different....

The relationship in Harry Potter between Ron and Hermione is one that has caused some debate within the fandom. While some fans like their relationship and how it was built up over the books, other people feel that they wouldn’t have been great together. Some fans think that Ron and Hermione might have been better off in the long run being with other people. In fact, even J.K. Rowling herself has said that these two probably shouldn’t have gotten together....

Of all the horrible witches and wizards in the Harry Potter series, Dolores Umbridge is by far the one we all love to hate the most. With her sickening pink clothing, tacky obsession with cats, and cringeworthy ‘ahems,’ she makes our skin crawl and our teeth clench. There’s not one redeemable quality about her, but it’s her sinister misdeeds that make her stand out as a formidable villain in the wizarding world....

The team behind Hell or High Water is reuniting for a new movie project under the Netflix banner. David Mackenzie’s neo-western/crime drama, Hell or High Water was a sleeper hit in 2016, going on to garner four Oscar nominations including one for Best Picture. Telling a powerful story rooted in rural American economic desperation, the film stars Chris Pine and Ben Foster as brothers who became bank robbers in a last-ditch attempt to save their family ranch....

Even though Draco Malfoy is definitely not written to be a heart-throb, teenage girls took a liking to Harry Potter’s nemesis thanks to actor Tom Felton. Because of his popularity, the films make Draco seem more charming than malevolent. Regardless, Draco acts as the perfect adversary to Harry, and he creates an entertaining riff between himself and his nemesis. The two also help bring a tangible representation of good versus evil, which is the most prominent symbolism in the Harry Potter story....

The magical world of the Harry Potter book and film series is one of the most rich and vibrant fictional universes around, and it’s easy to see why these stories captured the hearts and minds of so many readers and viewers around the world. This fictional world (which is supposed to coexist with our own) is full of unique kinds of magical animals, creatures, and beings. One of the most mysterious and terrifying creatures in the Harry Potter universe is the Dementor....

Harry Potter’s distinctive, lightning bolt-shaped scar is arguably the most well-known facial blemish in all of modern pop culture. The result of dark wizard Lord Voldemort’s failed attempt to do away with the boy wizard as a baby, the scar – coupled with a pair of eyeglasses, naturally – has come to represent a shorthand way of referring to the character. Over the course of seven Harry Potter novels, eight film adaptations, the Cursed Child stage show and numerous interviews, series creator JK Rowling has divulged plenty of interesting tidbits relating to Harry’s scar....

HBO is reportedly negotiating with Apple to have the Apple TV included as a launch device when the network’s new standalone streaming service launches next month. International Business Times reports Apple has been “aggressive” in pushing to get access to the new service as HBO reportedly plans a launch by mid-April in time for the latest season of hit show Game of Thrones: HBO is in talks with Apple to make Apple TV one of the launch partners for its highly anticipated streaming service when it debuts next month....