SDCC: The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Panel
Harry Potter’s own Draco Malfoy, Tom Felton, made an appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con today to introduce footage for the upcoming “Deathly Hallows” films, being released in November and July 2011, respectively. The footage shared played like an extended trailer for the pair of movies and opened with a mirror shard falling to the ground following by a profiled shot of Harry. Voice-over during the shots is Voldemort speaking about the people who have died and those who have suffered as a result of Harry. During the speech, shots of Dumbledore and other. The voice-over closes with Voldemort saying that he will “punish every last man, woman and child that tries to conceal you from me.”
It switches to the familar scene in the forest with Voldemort and all of the Death Eaters when Harry arrives… and Voldemort’s now famous line – “Harry Potter. The boy who live, come to die…” Then you see a bit of the wand duel in the forest. The scene then shifts to fast cuts that include dragons, the trip through Gringotts… and what looked like several Harry Potters standing with each other and various scenes of the epic final battle.
Next is a voice over from property newcomer Bill Nighy playing new Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour who promises his loyals that “Your Ministry remains strong!”
JENNIFER LOPEZ
Jennifer Lopez was born and grew up in Castle Hill, a neighborhood in the Bronx, New York. She is the daughter of Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe (née Rodríguez), a kindergarten teacher, and David Lopez, a computer specialist, both born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Lopez was raised Roman Catholic. She has two siblings, Lynda and Leslie. Lopez spent her entire academic career in Catholic schools, finishing at the all-girls Preston High School in the Bronx. She financed singing and dancing lessons for herself from the age of 19. After attending Baruch College for one semester, Lopez divided her time between working in a legal office, dance classes, and dance performances in Manhattan night clubs. She had a little part in the 1987 film My Little Girl. After months of auditioning for dance roles, Lopez was selected as a dancer for various rap music videos, a 1990 episode of Yo! MTV Raps and as a backup dancer for the New Kids on the Block and their performance of their song “Games” for the American Music Awards in 1991. She gained her first regular high-profile job as a “Fly Girl” dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color in 1990. Soon after, Lopez became a backup dancer for Janet Jackson and made an appearance in her 1993 video “That’s the Way Love Goes”.
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Vitamin B6, amino acid tied to reduced lung cancer risk
Smokers with higher levels of vitamin B6 and a certain essential amino acid have less risk of developing lung cancer than those lacking the nutrients, cancer experts said Tuesday.
A study of nearly 400,000 participants that included current and former smokers in 10 European countries found that people with high levels of vitamin B6 and the essential amino acid methionine — found in most protein — were at least half as likely of getting lung cancer.
But the researchers did not conclude that consuming more of the nutrients reduced risk of lung cancer, the deadliest cancer worldwide, and stressed the importance of quitting smoking.
“Similar and consistent decreases in risk were observed in never, former, and current smokers, indicating that results were not due to confounding (factors that can influence outcomes) by smoking,” the researchers wrote.
“The magnitude of risk was also constant with increasing length of follow-up, indicating that the associations were not explained by preclinical disease.”
Former and current smokers with higher serum folate levels — in addition to high amounts of vitamin B6 and methionine in their blood — also had 67 percent less risk of developing the disease.
Lung cancer claims some 1.3 million lives worldwide each year, accounting for nearly 18 percent of all cancer deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
The researchers, whose study was published in Wednesday’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, also noted that many former smokers have lung cancer and that a “non-trivial” number of people who never smoked get the disease, especially among women in parts of Asia.
Paul Brennan of the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, led the study of nearly 900 lung cancer patients.
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