Friday, July 20, 2007
Daily Update 07/20/2007
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I am planning on posting daily things that I find interesting on the internet. I hope you enjoy these items as much as I do. Most topics posted on this page will be completely random. Just various stories and news tidbits I have discovered today.
My Favorite Featured Story
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Harry Potter's life hangs in the balance. Millions of fans are holding their breath. Meanwhile, his creator is baking a cake — and keeping her secret.
On Saturday, readers around the globe will learn the schoolboy wizard's fate with the publication of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling's fantasy series. Will Harry defeat his evil nemesis, Lord Voldemort, and restore order to the wizarding world? Will he die in the attempt, as many fans fear — and as Rowling, an expert narrative tease, has hinted?
"Harry's story comes to a definite end in book seven," is all she will say a few days before publication, serving up tea and home-baked sponge cake in her comfortable Edinburgh house. Writing the final words of the saga felt "like a bereavement."
That sounds ominously final. So have we really seen the last of the staff and students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
"Because the world is so big, there would be room to do other stuff," Rowling says carefully. "I am not planning to do that, but I'm not going to say I'm never going to do it."
Rowling (her name rhymes with bowling, rather than howling), looking relaxed in jeans and a sweater, shoulder-length blonde hair stylishly cut, has wildly mixed emotions at leaving behind the character she conjured up during a train journey across England in 1990: a neglected, bespectacled orphan who learns on his 11th birthday that he is a wizard.
She's enjoying the absence of pressure from publishers and fans clamoring for the next installment in Harry's adventures. And she's reveling in the chance to focus on normal life with her husband and three children.
But after finishing the last book, "I felt terrible for a week."
"The first two days in particular, it was like a bereavement, even though I was pleased with the book. And then after a week that cloud lifted and I felt quite lighthearted, quite liberated," she says.
"Finishing is emotional because the books have been so wrapped up with my life. It's almost impossible not to finish and look back to where I was when I started."
It has been an extraordinary journey. When Rowling created Harry Potter, she was a struggling single mother, writing in cafes to save on the heating bill at home. Now, at 41, she is the richest woman in Britain — worth $1 billion, according to Forbes magazine — with houses in Edinburgh, London and the Scottish countryside.
Her first book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," was published in 1997, with a print run of less than 1,000. Rowling's publisher suggested she use gender-neutral initials rather than her first name, Joanne, to give the book a better chance with boys. Lacking a middle name, she took the K from her paternal grandmother, Kathleen.
By the time the book appeared in the United States in 1998 — as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" — Harry was on his way to becoming a publishing phenomenon.
The six Potter books have sold some 325 million copies in 64 languages, including Latin and Ancient Greek. "Deathly Hallows" has an initial print run of 12 million in the United States alone; more than 2 million copies have been ordered from Internet retailer Amazon.
The novels have produced five movies, mountains of toys, a riot of Internet fan sites and scores of companion books — from academic studies to parodies to pop psychology. A theme park, complete with Hogwarts castle and Forbidden Forest, is to open in Orlando, Fla., in 2009.
The launch of each new book is now accompanied by choreographed chaos and military-level security. No book is sold until a minute past midnight on Saturday.
The series' success has been "a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon," said Joel Rickett, news editor of trade magazine The Bookseller. "It has brought a new generation to reading — got kids absorbed in huge hefty hardbacks the way they wouldn't have been," he said.
While some critics have dismissed the books as lightweight kiddie fare, others have been impressed by their moral complexity and darkening tone. Death haunts Harry Potter, who was orphaned at the age of 1 when Voldemort killed his parents. He loses his godfather Sirius Black in the fifth book and his beloved headmaster Dumbledore in the sixth. No wonder fans fear for Harry's future.
Rowling was profoundly affected by the death of her own mother from multiple sclerosis in 1990 at the age of 45.
"My mum died six months into writing (the books), and I think that set the central theme — this boy dealing with loss," Rowling says.
And she makes no apologies for exposing children to death.
"I think children are very scared of this stuff even if they haven't experienced it, and I think the way to meet that is head-on," she says. "I absolutely believe, as a writer and as a parent, that the solution is not to pretend things don't happen but to examine them in a loving, safe way."
Rowling says her success has been "the experience of a lifetime." But it also has brought an intense level of pressure, scrutiny and criticism. In the United States, her book tours have attracted thousands of screaming children, but also death threats. Some Christians have called for the books to be banned, claiming they promote witchcraft.
But it's only now that she realizes just how intense the pressure has been at the center of the Harry Potter whirlwind.
"I was very lonely with it," she says. "It's not like being in a pop group, where at least there would be three or four other people who knew what it was like to be on the inside. Only I knew what it was like to be generating this world as it became bigger and bigger and bigger and more and more people were invested in it.
After producing a book a year between 1997 and 2000, Rowling took a break. There was a three-year gap between the fourth book, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," published in 2003. During the gap, Rowling met and married Neil Murray, a Scottish doctor. They live in Edinburgh with their children David, 4, and Mackenzie, 2, as well as Jessica, Rowling's daughter from her first marriage to a Portuguese journalist.
Rowling now seems reconciled to her success. She says she lives a normal life and is rarely recognized in the street, although her graystone town house on a tree-lined street is protected by an 8-foot stone wall and iron security gates. Like the neighborhood — a leafy literary enclave that's also home to crime novelist Ian Rankin and "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" writer Alexander McCall Smith — the house exudes solid affluence, rather than extravagance.
The modestly sized lawn holds a soccer net and a colorful plastic jumble of children's toys. In the tidy family room, are crowded bookshelves, an aquarium, photo albums and board games — the trappings of any middle-class family's life.
Rowling predicts that some of Harry's fans will dislike "Deathly Hallows." But she is proud of it. "The final book is what it was always supposed to be, and so I feel very at peace with that fact," she says.
As for the future, she says she has no plans.
"I can never write anything as popular again," she said. "Lightning does not strike in the same place twice.
"I'll do exactly what I did with Harry — I'll write what I really want to write, and if it's something similar, that's OK, and if it's something very different, that's OK.
"I just really want to fall in love with an idea again, and go with that."
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
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Lindsay Lohan's next film just got the final 86 -- and one crew member claims it's because the funding dried up after LiLo was spotted playing in Las Vegas.
According to Page Six, the set designer on "Poor Things," starring Shirley MacLaine, sent an email around saying that the plug had been pulled, and explained, "Apparently, Ms. Lohan's antics in Las Vegas over the weekend have scared the bond companies and all of the funding has been pulled."
It didn't seem to make any difference that Lohan wasn't boozing during her trip to Sin City. A friend of Lohan responds to the Post: "She had nothing to do with that movie shutting down. It was a mess to begin with ... producers spent money like water."
Cruises Roll Out Welcome Wagon for British Invaders
In case Hollywood hadn't already figured out that David and Victoria Beckham had arrived, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes just wanted to do their part to welcome the aging soccer star and his wife to Tinseltown.
"Please join Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith in welcoming David and Victoria Beckham to Los Angeles," reads the "gold lettering" on the invite, says People, to the big event Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art. No word on whether recipes and muffin baskets will be exchanged. Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney are also expected to show up.
Silverman to Paris – My Bad for MTV Smackdown
Sarah Silverman, acid-tongued comedienne, says she actually feels "bad" about the vicious -- but funny -- jokes she made at Paris Hilton's expense the night she went to jail. You'll remember that Silverman made cracks about Hilton's jail time during the MTV Movie Awards, including one about prison bars and penises -- and TV cameras showed Paris visibly upset by the jabs. "I looked down and saw a man in her face with a camera ... I was there to be funny and I was, but that doesn't mean I can't feel bad about it."
Party Favors: Benicio Del Toro to Play Che ... Potter Finale Will Make for Crazy Scenes ... Felicity and Marcia Desperate for Bellinis at Nove Italiano
Benicio Del Toro (who else, really?) will don the beret and facial hair to play Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming biopic, reportedly to be called "Guerrilla." ... The last Harry Potter book will be rolling out of stores at midnight tonight, and TMZ spotted kids of all ages mobbing NYC bookstores in the wee hours just to wait to get their hands on the tomes. ... Just Emmy-nodded Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross were spotted at Nove Italiano, the N9Ne Group's Italian spot at the Palms' new Fantasy Tower in Las Vegas.
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Online poker rooms currently reviewed:
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Online Poker Rooms: Ranking each poker room we have reviewed receives a rank based on the following criteria, bonuses, competition, software, Rake, game variation and customer service. Betwin-Poker.com also includes a ranked list of online poker rooms, US Poker Rooms, still accepting US players after the signing of the UIGEA.
Poker Games: There many different poker games that can be played at online poker rooms and Betwin-Poker.com sets out to introduce these games and also provide basic poker rules for each game. The poker games range from Texas Holdem, Omaha Poker and Seven Card Stud to mixed games such as HORSE.
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I am planning on posting daily things that I find interesting on the internet. I hope you enjoy these items as much as I do. Most topics posted on this page will be completely random. Just various stories and news tidbits I have discovered today.
My Favorite Featured Story
Brought to you by Yahoo
Harry Potter's life hangs in the balance. Millions of fans are holding their breath. Meanwhile, his creator is baking a cake — and keeping her secret.
On Saturday, readers around the globe will learn the schoolboy wizard's fate with the publication of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling's fantasy series. Will Harry defeat his evil nemesis, Lord Voldemort, and restore order to the wizarding world? Will he die in the attempt, as many fans fear — and as Rowling, an expert narrative tease, has hinted?
"Harry's story comes to a definite end in book seven," is all she will say a few days before publication, serving up tea and home-baked sponge cake in her comfortable Edinburgh house. Writing the final words of the saga felt "like a bereavement."
That sounds ominously final. So have we really seen the last of the staff and students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
"Because the world is so big, there would be room to do other stuff," Rowling says carefully. "I am not planning to do that, but I'm not going to say I'm never going to do it."
Rowling (her name rhymes with bowling, rather than howling), looking relaxed in jeans and a sweater, shoulder-length blonde hair stylishly cut, has wildly mixed emotions at leaving behind the character she conjured up during a train journey across England in 1990: a neglected, bespectacled orphan who learns on his 11th birthday that he is a wizard.
She's enjoying the absence of pressure from publishers and fans clamoring for the next installment in Harry's adventures. And she's reveling in the chance to focus on normal life with her husband and three children.
But after finishing the last book, "I felt terrible for a week."
"The first two days in particular, it was like a bereavement, even though I was pleased with the book. And then after a week that cloud lifted and I felt quite lighthearted, quite liberated," she says.
"Finishing is emotional because the books have been so wrapped up with my life. It's almost impossible not to finish and look back to where I was when I started."
It has been an extraordinary journey. When Rowling created Harry Potter, she was a struggling single mother, writing in cafes to save on the heating bill at home. Now, at 41, she is the richest woman in Britain — worth $1 billion, according to Forbes magazine — with houses in Edinburgh, London and the Scottish countryside.
Her first book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," was published in 1997, with a print run of less than 1,000. Rowling's publisher suggested she use gender-neutral initials rather than her first name, Joanne, to give the book a better chance with boys. Lacking a middle name, she took the K from her paternal grandmother, Kathleen.
By the time the book appeared in the United States in 1998 — as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" — Harry was on his way to becoming a publishing phenomenon.
The six Potter books have sold some 325 million copies in 64 languages, including Latin and Ancient Greek. "Deathly Hallows" has an initial print run of 12 million in the United States alone; more than 2 million copies have been ordered from Internet retailer Amazon.
The novels have produced five movies, mountains of toys, a riot of Internet fan sites and scores of companion books — from academic studies to parodies to pop psychology. A theme park, complete with Hogwarts castle and Forbidden Forest, is to open in Orlando, Fla., in 2009.
The launch of each new book is now accompanied by choreographed chaos and military-level security. No book is sold until a minute past midnight on Saturday.
The series' success has been "a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon," said Joel Rickett, news editor of trade magazine The Bookseller. "It has brought a new generation to reading — got kids absorbed in huge hefty hardbacks the way they wouldn't have been," he said.
While some critics have dismissed the books as lightweight kiddie fare, others have been impressed by their moral complexity and darkening tone. Death haunts Harry Potter, who was orphaned at the age of 1 when Voldemort killed his parents. He loses his godfather Sirius Black in the fifth book and his beloved headmaster Dumbledore in the sixth. No wonder fans fear for Harry's future.
Rowling was profoundly affected by the death of her own mother from multiple sclerosis in 1990 at the age of 45.
"My mum died six months into writing (the books), and I think that set the central theme — this boy dealing with loss," Rowling says.
And she makes no apologies for exposing children to death.
"I think children are very scared of this stuff even if they haven't experienced it, and I think the way to meet that is head-on," she says. "I absolutely believe, as a writer and as a parent, that the solution is not to pretend things don't happen but to examine them in a loving, safe way."
Rowling says her success has been "the experience of a lifetime." But it also has brought an intense level of pressure, scrutiny and criticism. In the United States, her book tours have attracted thousands of screaming children, but also death threats. Some Christians have called for the books to be banned, claiming they promote witchcraft.
But it's only now that she realizes just how intense the pressure has been at the center of the Harry Potter whirlwind.
"I was very lonely with it," she says. "It's not like being in a pop group, where at least there would be three or four other people who knew what it was like to be on the inside. Only I knew what it was like to be generating this world as it became bigger and bigger and bigger and more and more people were invested in it.
After producing a book a year between 1997 and 2000, Rowling took a break. There was a three-year gap between the fourth book, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," published in 2003. During the gap, Rowling met and married Neil Murray, a Scottish doctor. They live in Edinburgh with their children David, 4, and Mackenzie, 2, as well as Jessica, Rowling's daughter from her first marriage to a Portuguese journalist.
Rowling now seems reconciled to her success. She says she lives a normal life and is rarely recognized in the street, although her graystone town house on a tree-lined street is protected by an 8-foot stone wall and iron security gates. Like the neighborhood — a leafy literary enclave that's also home to crime novelist Ian Rankin and "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" writer Alexander McCall Smith — the house exudes solid affluence, rather than extravagance.
The modestly sized lawn holds a soccer net and a colorful plastic jumble of children's toys. In the tidy family room, are crowded bookshelves, an aquarium, photo albums and board games — the trappings of any middle-class family's life.
Rowling predicts that some of Harry's fans will dislike "Deathly Hallows." But she is proud of it. "The final book is what it was always supposed to be, and so I feel very at peace with that fact," she says.
As for the future, she says she has no plans.
"I can never write anything as popular again," she said. "Lightning does not strike in the same place twice.
"I'll do exactly what I did with Harry — I'll write what I really want to write, and if it's something similar, that's OK, and if it's something very different, that's OK.
"I just really want to fall in love with an idea again, and go with that."
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Lindsay Lohan's next film just got the final 86 -- and one crew member claims it's because the funding dried up after LiLo was spotted playing in Las Vegas.
According to Page Six, the set designer on "Poor Things," starring Shirley MacLaine, sent an email around saying that the plug had been pulled, and explained, "Apparently, Ms. Lohan's antics in Las Vegas over the weekend have scared the bond companies and all of the funding has been pulled."
It didn't seem to make any difference that Lohan wasn't boozing during her trip to Sin City. A friend of Lohan responds to the Post: "She had nothing to do with that movie shutting down. It was a mess to begin with ... producers spent money like water."
Cruises Roll Out Welcome Wagon for British Invaders
In case Hollywood hadn't already figured out that David and Victoria Beckham had arrived, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes just wanted to do their part to welcome the aging soccer star and his wife to Tinseltown.
"Please join Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith in welcoming David and Victoria Beckham to Los Angeles," reads the "gold lettering" on the invite, says People, to the big event Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art. No word on whether recipes and muffin baskets will be exchanged. Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney are also expected to show up.
Silverman to Paris – My Bad for MTV Smackdown
Sarah Silverman, acid-tongued comedienne, says she actually feels "bad" about the vicious -- but funny -- jokes she made at Paris Hilton's expense the night she went to jail. You'll remember that Silverman made cracks about Hilton's jail time during the MTV Movie Awards, including one about prison bars and penises -- and TV cameras showed Paris visibly upset by the jabs. "I looked down and saw a man in her face with a camera ... I was there to be funny and I was, but that doesn't mean I can't feel bad about it."
Party Favors: Benicio Del Toro to Play Che ... Potter Finale Will Make for Crazy Scenes ... Felicity and Marcia Desperate for Bellinis at Nove Italiano
Benicio Del Toro (who else, really?) will don the beret and facial hair to play Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming biopic, reportedly to be called "Guerrilla." ... The last Harry Potter book will be rolling out of stores at midnight tonight, and TMZ spotted kids of all ages mobbing NYC bookstores in the wee hours just to wait to get their hands on the tomes. ... Just Emmy-nodded Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross were spotted at Nove Italiano, the N9Ne Group's Italian spot at the Palms' new Fantasy Tower in Las Vegas.
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
BetWin-Poker.com is an independent online poker information website created by online poker players for people who are interested in online poker whether they are new players just starting to play poker or seasoned poker players.
Highlights of the site include:
Online Poker Room Reviews: The BetWin-Poker.com team have written unbiased and critical online poker room reviews aimed at providing all the information a player needs on a specific room.
Online poker rooms currently reviewed:
Paradise Poker
Titan Poker
VC Poker
Pacific Poker
Full Tilt Poker
Pokerstars
Online Poker Rooms: Ranking each poker room we have reviewed receives a rank based on the following criteria, bonuses, competition, software, Rake, game variation and customer service. Betwin-Poker.com also includes a ranked list of online poker rooms, US Poker Rooms, still accepting US players after the signing of the UIGEA.
Poker Games: There many different poker games that can be played at online poker rooms and Betwin-Poker.com sets out to introduce these games and also provide basic poker rules for each game. The poker games range from Texas Holdem, Omaha Poker and Seven Card Stud to mixed games such as HORSE.
Betwin-Poker.com aims to provide as much information as possible to the online poker player whether they are looking for a new room to play at or want to expand there poker playing resume by trying different poker game variants.
My Favorite Spam e-mail of the day
I don’t know about you but I am consistently getting spam e-mail. Some of these e-mails totally crack me up. I’ve decided to post my favorite spam e-mail daily.
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Today: Sun and clouds mixed. High 83F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy skies. Low 67F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy skies. High 86F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow night: Mostly clear skies. Low 66F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday: Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the upper 60s.
Monday: A few clouds. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the upper 60s.
Tuesday: Abundant sunshine. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s.
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