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1990: Rowling imagine Harry Potter for the first time while it delayed on a train between Manchester and King cross, London. Later said that the character of Harry Potter "fully formed" strode in his mind.

1991: Rowling, 26, writes different ten chapters of Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone while the teaching of English as a foreign language in Portugal. Uses an airsickness bag to write the names of the Hogwarts houses: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Huffelpuff and Ravenclaw.

1994: Writes Harry Potter in notebook in cafes around Edinburgh while his daughter, Jessica, she is sleeping in his seat. "What I actually wrote to me"

1995: Rowling ends Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone and writes the manuscript in an old typewriter of 40 pounds. She sends hand manuscripts type two agents and a Publisher.

1996: October: British publisher Bloomsbury press accepts book.

1997: Spring: the Scottish Arts Council Awards its £ 8,000, a grant record for the author of the children.

1997: Spring: school books wins the U.S. rights for the series, Rowling giving an advance of $105,000, an unprecedented amount for the author of the children.

1997: June: Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone was published in United Kingdom. There are 500 copies printed. Published as Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone the in United States by Arthur a. Levine books / school in September 1998.

1998: July: Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets was published in United Kingdom with a circulation of more than 10,000 copies. It is published in United States in June 1999.

1998: Rowling WINS Copyright Association of booksellers for the year and again in 1999.

1999: July: Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban was published in United Kingdom. They spent four weeks at number 1 on lists of Best seller cover lasts for adults while Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone tops the lists of books. The New York Times has Harry Potter books in the first three positions in the list of Best Sellers. Warner Bros. acquires rights for the first two books, cinema with Rowling demanding to be alive and guarantee their rights to the approval of the script. Mattel Inc. bought the marketing rights to Harry Potter.

1999: Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets wins the book Federation awards for book groups children.

1999: Rowling wins the author of the award of the year and his career in the British Book Awards.

2000: March: Rowling makes annual list of 100 celebrities Forbes as the mainstay of celebrity top 24 in the world, having earned $ 40 million in 1999. Each book is now ranked no. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list.

2000: July: Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire is published simultaneously in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and United States. It has a circulation of one million copies in United Kingdom and 3.8 million in United States, breaking all records for the largest number of books sold in the first week of publication.

2001: March: fantastic beasts and where to find them and Quidditch through the ages are published by Bloomsburg children books and Scholastic in aid of Comic relief.

2001: November: the film of Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone is released simultaneously in the United Kingdom and the United States, directed by Chris Columbus and produced by David Heyman. WINS a record $ 90 million in its weekend and since then it has become the number two all-time movie.

2001: Rowling received the official title of the order of the British Empire, or OBE, of h.r.h. Prince Charles.

2002: November: the film of Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets is released simultaneously in the United Kingdom and the United States, again directed by Chris Columbus and produced by David Hayman.

2003: June: Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix is published simultaneously in Britain, United States, Canada and Australia. 766 Pages, the more long series and breaks records 'fastest selling history book' of Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire.

2003: Rowling received the Prince of Asturias Award of the Concord in Spain.

2004: February: Forbes magazine estimated the fortune of Rowling over 576 million pounds sterling.

2004: June: the film of Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban is released, directed by Alfonso Cuarón.

2004: Rowling wins award W H Smith fiction.

2005: July: Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince is released in English speaking countries and achieved record sales.

2005: November: released the film of Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire, directed by Mike Newell.

2006: Rowling called the female entertainer second richest in the world, behind talk show host Oprah Winfrey.

2007: Rowling finishes the last chapter of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in the five-star Balmoral hotel, commemorating the event by writing "JK Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (652) on 11 January 2007" on the back of a marble bust.

2007: July: the last book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was published in English-speaking countries and sold more than 250,000 copies in its first 24 hours. Sales are more than 400 million books worldwide. The film of Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix is released, directed by David Yates. JK Rowling attended the London premiere.

2007: May: Universal Orlando and Warner Bros. announce they are forming a partnership to produce the magical world of Harry Potter, a theme park that will include the village of Hogsmeade and Hogwarts castle. JK Rowling said that "I do not think that fans of the books or movies to be disappointed".

2007: October: Rowling reveals that "Dumbledore was gay," (c)

source:  telegraph.co.uk

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‘The Departed’ Star Ray Winstone ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’

 
   
Yesterday we were wondering if the new Universal Pictures taken in the tale of snow white, entitled snow white and the Huntsman, could make known actors in all the roles of seven dwarves.

The reports were yesterday that Ian McShane (Deadwood, Pirates of the Caribbean: in strange) had been cast as the lead, Caesar, and that candidate dwarf Oscar Bob Hoskins (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, enemy at the gates), Eddie Izzard (the shadow of the Vampire, 2 cars), Toby Jones (Harry Potter, Captain America: the first Avenger), Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire, Snatch) and Eddie Marsan (Sherlock HolmesV for Vendetta) were all in talks for other roles of dwarf.

This left one more, which now has been filled.

The marvelously daunting talents of Ray Winstone have been chosen for the role of Trajan, and the actor now joins some of the others in the negotiations for a party. Winstone character would be the twin character of Adriano de Marsan, while Hoskins plays a blind dwarf named Constantine, Izzard shall be Tiberius, the "biggest and burliest crew," Jones is an easily frightened dwarf called an "angry" dwarf looking for Claudio, and Graham called Nero. As it is possible to observe, all of the dwarves, who are warriors in this version of the tale, not workers, are named for the ancient Roman emperors.

The film stars Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga, the panic room) as Snow White, who ordered is killed by his wicked stepmother (Charlize Theron) after escaping. The huntsman sent to kill her was played by Chris Hemsworth Thor (Star Trek) at the end just join the Princess and the seven dwarfs Guerrero and training him how to fight.

Winstone is known for his role (Jack Nicholson) derecho-parte - Frank Costello, Mr. French man departed by Martin Scorsese. He has also appeared in the proposition, Beowulf, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull and Edge of Darkness, to name a few.

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The Hangover 2

 

 

Sequels are never a good idea, especially if the first film is good. And The Hangover was very good.
It was a surprise box office hit and currently holds the record for the highest grossing R rated comedy of all time (US$467,416,722 all up).

Although we’d seen them as strong comedy players on television, it thrust stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis onto the big screen as they pieced together what happened over a drunken night in Las Vegas. Director Todd Philips had already proven himself in films like Road Trip and Old School, but The Hangover really hit the ball out of the park with an engaging story (well, a mystery to solve) and most importantly characters that had amazing comical chemistry.

So, how does The Hangover Part II follow that up? The simple answer is to change the setting... and then do exactly the same thing. The setting is Bangkok: Stu is getting married (he’s broken up with the Vegas prostitute we met in the original) and decides to hit the beach with the gang for one last drink. Yes, Stu brings up the point that’s where it all went horribly wrong last time, and that is Phillips’ nod to the fact that The Hangover II unashamedly follows the formula set by the first. I imagine this will be a point of contention for some, but for me, it was a good thing. Why mix up a formula that worked so well beforehand?

I don’t mind watching these grown men get beaten up, shot at and sexually violated all over again. Even Doug spends much of the movie split up from the others, leading to the formation of the original ‘Wolf Pack’. And herein lies the comedy.
Zack Galifianakis is as funny as ever, this time with a bald head. Maybe it’s all the time I’ve spent watching his Between Two Ferns skits, but I laughed harder at him in this film and he’s given more time to shine. One of his best lines is delivered with absolute deadpan: “I’m a stay at home son,” and the Los Angeles crowd I was watching it with lost the plot. The other actor that’s given more space, thank God, is Ken Jeong. He returns as mad criminal Mr Chow and steals any scene he’s in.
A qualified medical doctor in real life, Jeong hit it big with The Hangover, going on to be a part of the critically acclaimed TV show Community. It’s great that he’s back, as lewd, noisy, violent and irritating as ever (traits one would hope his patients avoided).

And yes; this film is still very R-rated. Male genitals play a fairly large role at one point, something fairly petrifying on a big screen. Overall I’d say this is a potentially more offensive film than the first. But that’s what we wanted, things to be amped up. My only complaint is the addition of Mason Lee, who plays the younger brother of Stu’s fiancé. He doesn’t have a big role, but he’s not in sync with the other guys. We don’t see him much, though; he’s mainly there to serve an element of the plot rather than be a part of the comedy.

Special mention also needs to be given to Crystal, a 17-year-old capuchin monkey that sort of takes over the role of the baby from the first film. I’m a sucker for monkeys in films, and she covers an amazing range of emotions and physical comedy. I understand animal rights activists have been crying foul over including a monkey in the flick, but I spent two hours with Crystal and her loving trainer and, for what it’s worth, just saw a monkey having a really good time.
Other familiar faces also return for Part II but I’ll let you discover who for yourselves. And you should definitely stay for the credits, because I think the photo sequence at the end may top that of the first film.

The Hangover Part II may be formulaic, but it’s a formula that works.

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     The Hangover Part II
:: Director: Todd Phillips
:: Starring: Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Liam Neeson, Jamie Chung, Juliette Lewis, Mike Tyson, Bill Clinton, Ken Jeong, Justin Bartha
:: Running Time: 102 mins
:: Rating:  R16 - Contains offensive language, drug use and sexual content that may offend

 credit to: David Farrier

 

Release dates forThe Hangover Part II (2011)

Country	Date
Belgium	25 May 2011
France	25 May 2011
Italy	25 May 2011
Sweden	25 May 2011
Argentina	26 May 2011
Australia	26 May 2011
Canada	26 May 2011
Chile	26 May 2011
Croatia	26 May 2011
Denmark	26 May 2011
Hungary	26 May 2011
Ireland	26 May 2011
Netherlands	26 May 2011
Peru	26 May 2011
Slovenia	26 May 2011
Thailand	26 May 2011
UK	26 May 2011
USA	26 May 2011
Brazil	27 May 2011
Estonia	27 May 2011
Finland	27 May 2011
Norway	27 May 2011
Paraguay	27 May 2011
Venezuela	27 May 2011
Germany	2 June 2011
Greece	2 June 2011
Hong Kong	2 June 2011
Portugal	2 June 2011
Singapore	2 June 2011
Poland	3 June 2011
Turkey	3 June 2011
Georgia	16 June 2011
Spain	24 June 2011
Japan	1 July 2011

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Best Of The Best Freeware that must exist on your pc (part 2)

1. Music Player and Organizer

Jaangle

Jaangle is multimedia software that functions as a music or mp3 management, the actual terms of the function of this software has the same ability with monkey media software. Features provided in jaangle more user friendly and very easy to display that we can also be very simple but very elegant because of the color given this very lembut.Software jaangle worth a try for those who like collecting music and want to organize your music collection is in a different way and more beautiful

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2. Media Player

KM Player

KMPlayer is an audio file player / video that supports so many codecs and file formats, such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, QuickTime and also several other file formats. KMPlayer also allows you to capture screenshots on the current video

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3. Duplicate File Detector

Duplicate Cleaner

Duplicate Cleaner is a freeware that provides an easy way to help you find and delete duplicate files from your computer. First, you must download and install the Duplicate Cleaner. Next, you must specify the location to do a search, on the local hard disk or network drive

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4. System Information

System Information for Windows 2010

This application is a complete application and the best of my knowledge so far,, powerful

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My Lockbox

My Lockbox is a security software that allows you to download Password Protect folders on your computer.
Folder (box) are protected for any hidden from users and applications from your system, including Administrator and System itself with a password protection system

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7-Zip

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7. Drive Imaging Program

Paragon Backup & Recovery

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Best Of The Best Freeware that must exist on your pc

1. ANTIVIRUS

Avira Antivirus

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Threatfire

ThreatFire is one of the companion AV that I recommend, very good.

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Wise Registry Cleaner

Wise Free Registry Cleaner is a free software that has a function to clean the registry-registry on our Windows operating system.

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4. File Cleaner

CCleaner 

CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner) is a free tool facility that is used to optimize the computer and its registry cleaning. One important feature of this program is the availability of tools to clean the cache left by a program while surfing the internet browser.

Complementary tools (utilities tools) co-operation system has a very small size, so as not to burden the computer resources during operation, but this is compensated by the lack of features available when compared to similar products with a paid license.

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Revo Uninstaller

This application can change it "Windows Add or Remove" default windows. RevoUninstaller when deleting the program, she also delete data registru and databases associated with these softwaer.
Revo Uninstaller also has various other functions, not only has the function to remove the software or application. With this program you can set the program in Window Starup, erase browser history, delete temporary files and many more.

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6. Startup Manager

Autoruns

Autoruns has a comprehensive system that works which started from the determination of the location of each monitor startup. This Autoruns to show the program-what program saha is configured to run during system bootup or login process, and shows the entries in the order of the windows when the windows process.

Program, with additional programs and that exist in your startup folder, such as Run, RunOnce, and Registry keys. You can easily configure Autoruns to show other locations, including locations for exploler Shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services and much more. Autoruns will run beyond the MSConfig utility bundled in the same package with Windows Me and XP.

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CleanMem

CleanMem is a memory optimization software is very easy to use. Very lightweight yet powerful. Simply install it once and you're done! This software is not running behind the scenes. This software will automatically run every 30 minutes (can be changed as desired in the windows task sceduler), takes only 1-5 ​​seconds (you will not notice the weight even while playing games!), after which the software is out automatically.

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8. PDF Reader

Foxit Reader

Foxit Reader is an alternative software to read PDF format files that can replace multiple applications that use Adobe Acrobat. In addition to reading, Foxit is also able to create files in PDF. This application requires very little resources from the CPU when compared with Adobe Acrobat so that makes it biased to work much faster than Adobe Reader.

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9. Screen Capture

PicPick

PicPick has a simple interface, with very easy operation. When running this software, you can easily select one of the tools that exist on PicPick Tools menu.

PicPick provides the tools to take a picture (screen capturer), image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel Ruler, protactor, crosshair, white board, and many other features.

Picpick is software that is distributed free (freeware) so that we can use it on many computers and as long as you want.

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10. File Copy

TeraCopy

TeraCopy is a software to copy the files to maximum on your PC. Thus allowing your PC to copy more quickly than usual.

TeraCopy also possible to pause the file you are copying, and melanjutkanya back to your liking. In addition, with this software, you can skip / skip file errors, and resume files - files that are in your copy.

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11. Data Recovery

Recuva

Recuva (pronounced 'recover') is a freeware Windows to restore files accidentally deleted from your computer. Including an empty file from the Recycle bin as well pictures and other files that have been removed due to user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. So that will restore deleted files from your ipod or because of errors, crashes and viruses

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1. Safely Remove Hardware

   USB Safety Remove

Do you often have problems when you want to remove the media like a USB Flash drive (flash), external hard drives, memory cards and so forth? Various ways to eject Flahsdisk have been tried, but often fail and just always show the message "The device 'Generic volume' can not be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later. "

USB Safely Remove is a safe way to replace the default Windows tool "Safely Remove Hardware". This program supports connections such as SATA, USB and FireWire.

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2. Virtual System

Time Freeze

Time Freeze is the same application functionality such as Deep Freeze only these applications more feature and no need to bother restart to activate it. more steady!!

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