Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Movie Split in 2-Part Films

J.K. Rowling's the seventh and final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be split into two movies. Part I will be released during the holiday season in November 2010, and Part II will follow in May 2011. Link

Roni DeLuz is a Naturopathic Doctor

Roni DeLuz is a traditional naturopathic doctor. A graduate of the Clayton School of Natural Healing and the American Holistic College of Nutrition, she completed her doctorate in natural health. Roni is also a registered nurse and colonic therapist who has been a healing professional for 20 years. Originally from Connecticut, she graduated from Fairfield University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Her experience includes five years at Yale New Haven Hospital specializing in rare syndromes and one and a half years as Director Nursing at Regis Multi-Health Center. She has recently been certified as a Hypnotherapist by the American Institute of Hypnotherapy.

Roni DeLuz authored Lose 21 Pounds in 21 Days: The Martha’s Vineyard Diet Detox. The book said to “cleanse” the body and stimulate weight loss. So if you are interested, you can click here to buy on http://www.mvdietdetox.com/.

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Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography

Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography is a book written by the Princess Diana biographer Andrew Morton. The book that sets for publication in the U.S. on Jan. 15, is so explosive that it claims:

1. Suri, the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, was "conceived like Rosemary's Baby" and "the product of a sperm donation from Scientology's late founder L. Ron Hubbard"
2. Tom Cruise is the second-in-command of the Church of Scientology (the church leader is David Miscavige, pictured above, via)
3. Nicole Kidman "feared blackmail" over sex tapes made with Scientologists
4. Scientologists "planted meadown of flowers for Tom and Nicole to run through"
5. Cruise's next mission is to recruit David and Victoria Beckham

Click here to check out Dailymail's world exclusive story. #Tags: tom cruise, suri, katie holmes, scientology, david miscavige, david beckham, victoria beckham, nicole kidman

Bell Steals Elisha Gray's Telephone Patent Idea?

In a new book "The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret," due out January 7, journalist Seth Shulman, claims to have definitive evidence of a long-suspected technological crime - that Alexander Graham Bell [picture left] stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray. Author Shulman believes that Bell — aided by aggressive lawyers and a corrupt patent examiner — got an improper peek at patent documents Gray had filed, and that Bell was erroneously credited with filing first. Alexander  Graham Bell- Patent Thief? on Slashdot well summarized the main contents of Shulman's book

...Author Seth Shulman shows that Bell's notebooks contain false starts, and then after a 12-day gap during which he visited the US Patent Office, suddenly show an entirely different design, very similar to Gray's design for multiplexing Morse code signals. Shulman claims that Bell copied the design from Gray's patent application and was improperly given credit for earlier submission, with the help of a corrupt patent examiner and aggressive lawyers. Shulman also claims that fear of being found out is the reason Bell distanced himself from the company that carried his name. And if Gray Telephone doesn't seem to roll off the tongue, Shulman also noted that both of them were two decades behind the German inventor Johann Philipp Reis, who produced the first working telephony system."

 Click here to read the full report on Smh.

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Cartoonists of Prince Felipe El Jueves Cartoon Fined 3000 Euros Each

Guillermo Torres and Manel Fontdevila, two cartoonists of Spanish weekly satirical magazine El Jueves were ruled to fine 3,000 euros each for the cartoon depicting Crown Prince Felipe and his wife Letizia having sex.

Kathleen Willey's Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Released

Kathleen Willey, is a former White House Aide who accuses the former president Bill Clinton groping her in the Oval Office. Her new book, Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton, containing explosive revelations on Clintons has been released today. The book definitely has some negative effects on Hillary Clinton's 2008 President campaigns, from

Earthtimes.org

Willey's book contains explosive revelations that could damage Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, including accusations of campaign finance violations and new revelations about harassment and threats by the Clintons and their associates. Willey also identifies the person who threatened her just prior to her testimony against President Clinton -- a man who turned out to be linked to the Clintons.

Last September, Willey was the target of an unusual house burglary that nabbed a manuscript for her book, while little else was taken from her rural Virginia home.

The break-in, she said, reminded her of the widely reported incident 10 years ago in which she was threatened near the same Richmond-area home by a stranger just two days before she was to testify against President Clinton in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. Willey believes the recent break-in and theft were prompted by the teasers of her book's contents published that week in U.S. News and World Report's "Washington Whispers" column and the New York Daily News.

Willey says she wrote the book because of persistent misunderstanding about what happened 10 years ago.

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Harry Potter First Edition Auctioned $40,326 In London

The copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," published in 1997 and signed by British author J. K. Rowling on the back of the title page, was sold to an anonymous private bidder for $40,326 at Christie's auction house in London on Oct. 25. 

Source:ABC

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Albus Dumbledore Is A Gay, He Loves Gellert Grindelwald

(Albus Dumbledore picture: /Film)

JK Rowling has revealed this secret at Carnegie Hall in New York on Oct. 19:

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has exposed one of the main characters of her best-selling Harry Potter series, by revealing that wizard Albus Dumbledore, head of Hogwarts school, is gay.

Speaking at Carnegie Hall on Oct 19 in her first U.S. tour in seven years, the author confirmed what fans have long suspected -- that she "always thought Dumbledore was gay."

After a brief reading from the final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Rowling took questions from the audience. [T]hen a young fan asked if Dumbledore would find "true love", Rowling answered: "Dumbledore is gay".

Rowling said Dumbledore fell in love with the charming wizard Gellert Grindelwald but when Grindelwald turned out to be more interested in the dark arts than good, Dumbledore was "terribly let down" and went on to destroy his rival.

That love, she said, was Dumbledore's "great tragedy".

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Rowling said she had read through a script for the movie adaptation of the sixth book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and corrected a passage in which Dumbledore was reminiscing about past loves by crossing it out and scrawling "Dumbledore is gay" over it.

Sources: Telegraph & Dailyindia

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Doris Lessing Awarded 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature

(Photo credit: AP/Martin Cleaver)

English writer Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today (Thursday, October 11), citing her "skepticism, fire and visionary power" in dozens of works, notably her classic "The Golden Notebook" which was completed in 1962. At an age of 87 years old, Doris Lessing is the oldest person to have received the literature prize, the oldest prior recipient being Theodor Mommsen, who was 85 when he won the prize in 1902.

Doris Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, then Persia but moved to Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe, with the family in 1925.  Her other major works include The Grass Is Singing in 1950, semi-autobiographical Children Of Violence series, The Summer Before Dark in 1973 and The Fifth Child in 1988.

Because of her criticism of the South African regime and its apartheid system, Doris Lessing was once prohibited from entering the country between 1956 and 1995. Lessing, who was a member of the British Communist Party in the 1950s, had been active in campaigning against nuclear weapons.

Source:  Doris Lessing Wins Nobel for Literature @ AP

Recommended reading: 2007 Nobel Prizes in Medicine，Physics and Chemistry; DorisLessing.org; Doris Lessing Myspace Page

Funky Winkerbean Character Lisa Moore Dies in the Comic Strip

Lisa Moore, one of the central characters of the newspaper comic strip Funky Winkerbean by Tom Batiuk, has lost her fight with breast cancer and died in today’s installment of the daily strip. It can't say is is not a grim end as many readers required Tom not to let her die.

Lisa's odyssey has been compiled in a book, Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe (Kent State University Press, $19.95 in paperback), that went on sale Tuesday as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Royalties will go to Lisa's Legacy Fund for cancer research at University Hospitals Ireland Cancer Center.

Link to Elsanto//Rooktopia and NYT and Chron.com

Alan Greenspan: Bush's Iraq War Is Really for Oil

From Timesonline:

AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.

In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow [September 17], Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush ’s economic policies.

However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,” he says.

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Book: To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-century’s most widely read American novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee, has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. The quote below from Cape Girardeau: United We Read '07 is a summary of the book

To Kill A Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story of Scout Finch and her brother, Jem, in 1930's Alabama. Through their neighborhood meanderings and the example of their father, they grow to understand that the world isn't always fair and that prejudice is a very real aspect of their world no matter how subtle it seems.

The summer when Scout was six and Jem was ten, they met Dill, a little boy who spent the summer with his aunt who lived next door to the Finches. Dill and Jem become obsessed with the idea of making Boo Radley, the neighborhood recluse, come out of his home. They go through plan after plan, but nothing draws him out. However, these brushes with the neighborhood ghost result in a tentative friendship over time and soon the Finch children realize that Boo Radley deserves to live in peace, so they leave him alone.

Scout and Jem's God-like father, Atticus, is a respected and upstanding lawyer in small Maycomb County. When he takes on a case that pits innocent, black Tom Robinson against two dishonest white people, Atticus knows that he will lose, but he has to defend the man or he can't live with himself.

The case is the biggest thing to hit Maycomb County in years and it turns the whole town against Atticus, or so it seems. Scout and Jem are forced to bear the slurs against their father and watch with shock and disillusionment as their fellow townspeople convict an obviously innocent man because of his race. The only real enemy that Atticus made during the case was Bob Ewell, the trashy white man who accused Tom Robinson of raping his daughter. Despite Ewell's vow to avenge himself against Atticus, Atticus doesn't view Ewell as any real threat.

Tom Robinson is sent to a work prison to await another trial, but before Atticus can get him to court again, Tom is shot for trying to escape the prison. It seems that the case is finally over and life returns to normal until Halloween night. On the way home from a pageant, Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout in the darkness. After Jem's arm is badly broken, their ghostly neighbor, Boo Radley, rescues Scout and her brother. In order to protect Boo's privacy, the sheriff decides that Bob Ewell fell on his own knife while he was struggling with Jem. Boo Radley returns home never to be seen again.

Through the events of those two years, Scout learns that no matter their differences or peculiarities, the people of the world and of Maycomb County are all people. No one is lesser or better than anyone else because they're all people. She realizes that once you get to know them, most people are good and kind no matter what they seem like on the outside.

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