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I was thinking about all you poor people out there who refuse to read the Harry Potter books, yet will sit down and watch the movies. You miss so much that way that I thought I should let you know what you are missing. This post will be on the first book and movie of Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. I will be telling you the Differences form the book point of view to the movie as the Book is the original. OK here I go…

First off Professor MC. Gonagall has black Hair not salt and pepper like in the movie, and wears very square glasses not round. MC. Gonagall, Hagred and Dumador talk for some length before leaving Harry with the Derslys, not just dumping him off like luggage. At duddlys Birthday harry had to cook bacon for his Birthday not ham and they could not eat at the table, that is where they put all the gifts. In the movie they had them on the counter and they ate at the table.

Harry’s eyes are green in the book and brown in the movie. Harry was supposed to be left at a babysitters not go to the Zoo a last minute change and Harry had to go also.

Dudly has a friend “Piers,” he also goes to the Zoo with them.
Now to the famous snake scene. Yes, Harry talks to the snake. however Dudlly and Piers fall into the tank when the glass dissipates. The snake says Thanksss, amigo not just thanksss and the glass never reappears trapping them in there.

The letter that came from Hogwarts was addressed in emerald green ink and Harry had it out of the envelope when it was taken away he just had not had time to unfold it and read it yet. It was after they received that first letter addressed to the cupboard under the stair that they decided to move harry to dudlys spare bedroom. The next letters were addressed to The Smallest Room. The third day Uncle Vernin slept on the doorstep to make sure Harry did not get to the letters before he did. Saturday they found twenty-four letters rolled inside of the eggs that were delivered that day. Sunday they went to a hotel where more letters were delivered. Monday was the day that Hagred showed up. When Hagred came knocking at the door he only knocked twice before the door fell in, not three times. Harry never hides from Hagred he findes him right away he never mistook Dudly for Harry. The gun that Vernin had, Hagred took it away, tied it in a knot and tossed it into the corner of the room, not just bending it up and the gun was never fired. The cake that Hagred brought for Harrys birthday was not misspelled. When Hagred lit the fire in the fire place he had his back to them they did not see him light it. After Hagred lights the fire he pulls sausages from his pocket and proceeds to cook them on the fire. Hagred’s umbrella is pink, and a bright pink at that. Dudlly gets the pigs tail when Vernin insults Dumbledore not when he eats the cake. Dudley never touches the cake.

Qurril shakes Harry’s hand at the leaky cauldron, he does not avoid it like it shows in the movie. To get to Diagon Ally, Hagred taps one brick three times not multipule bricks once. Gringotts is a snowey white building with burnished bronze doors. Vault door 713 dissapers completely not unlocking when the goblin touches it. Harry went into the Owl shop with Hagrid to get Hedwig. Harry tried many wands before finding one that worked. The wands that were not right did not explode anything they did nothing. When Harry had the right wand it shot red sparks out of it. Harry first met Malfoy at the robe shop in Diagon Ally.

When Hagred and Harry where done shoping they went back to the Dersily’s for another month before going to Hogwarts. Harry meats Ron like the movie says but Ron allready has Scabers. They did eat chocolate frogs on the train but none jumped away in fact no jumping was ever mentioned. Harry again meets Draco on the train, in the movie it was not till later that he meets him. Professer McGonicle does not put the sorting hat on the kids they do that themselves. A student named Hannah Abbot was the first to put the hat on not Hermonie. Dumbalore’s welcoming speech goes as follows “nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweek.” Dumbadore gave the speach, they had him say it first in the movie before supper not after. Then they sing the School song pg.128 if you are interested in looking it up. It’s too long to put on here.

You also get to meet Peeves the Poltrigist, who is never mentioned in the movie at all.
The fat lady in the portrait is wearing a pink dress in the book. The class History of Magic is taught by a ghost. Nevil gives himself boils in potions class. Harry reads the news about the break-in at Gringots in the News paper at Hagreds hut, not at mail call.

The rememberal is the size of a large marble not a tennis ball like it was shown in the movie. Nevil did break his wrist when he fell off his broom in flying class.  He actually broke his wrist when he was 20ft in the air, he did not do any crazy stunts or get caught by anything on the way down. Malfoy said that he would leave the remembral up a tree not on the roof. When Harry caught the remembral he was about a foot from hitting the ground, not right in front of a window. Malfoy challenged Harry to a duel but he never shows, instead he sent Filtch after him trying to get Harry into trouble. It is while running from Flilch that they discover the forbidden corridor (not a room). They desover Fluffy in the corridore.

Six owls had to carry in Harry’s Nimbus 2000 not just Hedwig. On Halloween they had live bats flying in the great hall. Harry and Ron acually locate the Troll in the girls bathroom, not realizing that is the one Hermonie is in they lock it. They hear Hermoni screaming and they go in to help her. Harry was hanging onto the Trolls neck the whole time and he was never dangling by one leg.

During the first Quiditch match no one was knocked out. The Weasly twins did try to help Harry onto their brooms, when his started to go crazy, but they could not get close enough to him. Hermoni knocked over Querril trying to get to Snape. She set Snape’s robes on fire with a blue fire. Hermoni then put the blue fire into a jar then her pocket when everyone started to freak out. Harry was the only Seeker after the snitch when he caught it in his mouth.

Wizards chess pieces talk to the players. The Invisibility cloak is silvery gray. When Harry looks into the Mirror of Ersied he sees his entire family not just his Mom and Dad (Aunts, Uncles and Cousins ). Harry took Ron to see the mirror the next night not the same night. The Invisibility cloak also has a hood like a proper cloak should.

Malfoy stuck Nevels legs together with a leg locker curse, he torments Nevel a lot in the book. Harry found Nickolas Famels name on the back of a chocolate frog card, and that reminded Hermonie that she had the book. Harry heard Snape and Querril arguing in the forest not in the caste. Hagred put his Dragon egg directly into the fire not in a kettle above the fire. It took days for the dragon egg to hatch after the kids found out about it. Hagred ended up having Norbert for weeks after he hatched. Harry and Hermonie and Ron convinced Hagred to send Norbert to Charlie in Romania. Harry, Hermonie and Nevel were caught out after sending Norbert to Romania. Ron was not there and did not receive detention.

The party going into the forbidden forest was Hagred, Hermoni and Harry.
The other party was Malfoy, Nevel and Fang. They switched Harry and Nevil halfway through, becuse Malfoy would not stop scaring Nevil. Firenze a palomino cenatar rescued Harry from the cloaked figure. Harry was allowed to ride him back to Hagred.

When they went back to the forbidden corridor Fluffy was already awake. There was a harp there in the corridor but it was not playing. Harry played a flute that Hagrad had gave him. When they hit the devils snare Hermonie was not caught and she used a spell to get them both out, there was no relaxing to get out.

In the key room all the kids went after the keys, no keys chased them. The keys had colorful wings like birds not clear wings like bugs. The key they needed had blue wings. The chess pieces did not have faces. Ron got to choose what pieces they where going to play as. When they won, the white king took off his crown and threw it at Harry. The next room had a troll in it and the troll was already knocked out. The next room had potions on a table Hermoni helped Harry pick one and then went back to get help for Ron. Quirril tied Harry up with rope. Quirril could not touch Harry’s skin or it burned not just when Harry touched him. Voldemort never passed through Harry.

Again, these are just my observations I want in no way to put down the movies. I think that the movies were very well done and I realize that they only had so much time to work with. This is for those out there who refuse to read the books. I am hoping that this will show you the differences enough that you will want to go read them yourselves. I have left some of the minor differences out, feel free to post your comments below when you find them.

This is me compairing/rating both CALPICO and Milkis. I was told that Milkis is the knock off of CALPICO witch in this video I would have to agree they’re both the same color plus the taste is kind of the same. However the CALPICO has more of a orange flaver thats very mild where as the Milkis has a very fruity flavor as well but its not orange. I couldn’t place it but they are both very good and I rate them a 9/10. One thing I forgot to say in the video was that I liked Milkis better.

You’ve missed the last comic con in Seattle, and you had really planned on going to it, too. But don’t despair, not only are there other comic cons on the horizon, both near and far, but, in the interim, why not get yourself to a nice, intergalactic UFO con?

You Are Not Alone

2011 MUFON (Mutual Unidentified Flying Object Network) of Ohio Summer Conference is a con on the very near horizon, right behind that round saucer-looking thingy in the sky. With a conference title of “50 Years of Abduction Experience – Setting the Record Straight,” people are stampeding to get their plane tickets. It’s a one day conference, July 16, in Ashland, Ohio. This is the con that bills itself “REAL UFOs – the latest UFO videos and news,” featuring Travis Walton, “author of the famous abduction account ‘Fire in the Sky’ made into a blockbuster movie,” and Kathleen Marden, niece of Betty Hill, and author of the bestseller, “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience.”

Or if that’s too soon, plan to go to the McMinnville UFO Festival next May, noted as “the second largest UFO Celebration in the Country,” held in an out-of-this-world venue, McMenamin’s Hotel Oregon. Here’s an event that offers the best of both worlds – or of many worlds. It starts off with an Alien UFO Costume Parade, followed by the Alien Pet Costume Contest. Getting those alien creatures to look like earth dogs is no easy task, but the festival participants are pretty successful at it.

The other bonus is that the McMinnville UFO celebration is held in the heart of Oregon’s wine country, so you can tour the many excellent wineries as well. No wonder the aliens landed here.

I-Con, Con You?

But if the UFO scene is too “spacy” for you, how about I-Con (aka: Island Convention) held in March at Stony Brook, New York, on the State University of New York campus. This is an eclectic convention including science fiction authors, Anime and other animation devotees, furry folks, gaming, SCA medieval participants, with various and sundry performances.

The first I-Con was held in 1982 with Gene Roddenberry as a GoH (guest of honor). How do you top that?

Finding Our Furry Friends

And now, for something completely different, how about a furry con? The attendees at a furry con focus on fictional anthropomorphic characters. The first furry convention, ConFurence, was held in California in 1990.

Many attendees at a furry con wear elaborate animal or animal-like costumes, usually of their own construction. Costumers play a major role at a furry con. Like most cons, attendees will find an art show, a masquerade – distinguished from walking through the halls by having a raised stage – discussions of the literature, movies, print and online fare of anthropomorphic stories and characters.

Boo!

And if all of the foregoing is not scary enough for you, why not go to a World Horror Convention? The next one will be held March 29 through April 1, 2012 in Salt Lake City, “At the Mountains of Madness.”

Salt flats for miles, now that’s scary! Here attendees rub elbows with famed horror writers and watch horror films, as well visit the dealer’s room, go to presentations and panels, as is usual for all cons. But horror Con-goers have the added advantage of getting to run about the halls in terrifying zombie, oozing, blood-dripping costuming. Fun will be had by all.

I Want My Comic-Con

But if you’re still pining for a full-on comic con, don’t despair. THE comic con of comic cons, the San Diego Comic-Con International, will be held July 21-24 at the San Diego Convention Center, Petco Park. With an attendance of 130,000 in 2010, it is billed as the fourth largest convention in the world. It’s still but a pale follower of Comiket, held in Tokyo, Japan twice a year in December and August, with an attendance of 520,000 in December 2010.

The San Diego Comic-com was originally all about comic books, but has expanded to include, somewhat logically, animation, anime, manga, horror, webcomics, fantasy novels, the burgeoning popularity of the illustrated novel, as well as the other pop culture components of video games, toys and collectible card games.

Probably the most intriguing aspect of the wealth of cons is that people from all walks of life, with greatly varying belief systems, political stances, cultural underpinnings and gender persuasions come together and play well together. Earthlings, take a clue!

Matthew Warren is a sci-fi fan, wanna-be astronomer and a programmer when not working on Gump Tees and Things Nerds Like.

I spent a week making this.

Have you played Fallout 3? I was hesitant to play this game. I was afraid it was going to be another over-brown shootin’ game. But then came the customizations. Oh the customizations! And then the abundance of missions to do.

In this illustration, I used the character I played as (Asgard) and the outfit I used most of the game (until I got the Enclave armor).  This particular gun, the Rock-It Launcher, allows for junk to be loaded and propelled.  I chose books as my ammunition, as it would be teaching the kids something.

If you get a chance to play this, do so. If you played through it once, play though it again but choose the opposite path you did from last time.

Oh, and visit my Deviantart for other nerdy things.

For more than a century people around the world have been enjoying the cool refreshing taste of Coca-Cola, and helping put their dentists’ kids through college while they did it. Sure, most carbonated soft drinks such as Coca-Cola contain lots of sugar and are bad for your teeth, but not all of them have the same name brand recognition of Coke which is turning 125 years old this year.

Coca-Cola and its unique red and white label is one of the most recognizable brands in the world. The uniquely Coke cans show up in stores around the world. It is now possible to buy a Coca-Cola in just about every single country in the world. Sure, the label may be written in a language other than English, but the product inside tastes exactly the same because the formula does not change from place to place. What makes a Coke a Coke in the United States is the same thing that makes a Coke popular in Africa, South America, Europe, Asia and all points in between.

In the early 1980s Coca-Cola experimented with the recipe, causing a near public panic. They decided to update the recipe for what they considered to be the evolving palates of the general consumer. So, the introduced New Coke and began clearing the old-style product from store shelves. People began hoarding their supply of the traditional product, fighting over it, doing whatever was necessary in some cases to hold on to every drop of the original product they could find.

Sure, some folks reportedly liked the flavor of New Coke better, but these folks were few and far between. For the most part people expressed their desire to do anything to avoid drinking the new product. Coke consumers started turning away from the brand, feeling betrayed by the decision to arbitrarily replace their beloved product with another simply because it seemed like a good marketing idea.

It was actually the idea of Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta who took the reins of the company in 1980. By 1985 he had begun replacing the original formula of Coca-Cola, and forcing the New formula on the unsuspecting public. There was immediate and heartfelt backlash. In fact, the opposition to the New Coke formula was so strong it is to this day considered one of the greatest marketing fiascoes ever committed by a major brand.

Pepsi began running advertisements proclaiming it had won the cola war! And saw its highest month over month sales increase ever omore than 14 percent. Sales of New Coke flattened out in the summer months when sales normally surged, and just three short months after the introduction of the New formula, Coke Classic was re-released to a public that was eager to buy it. In fact, the re-introduction of Coca-Cola Classic outsold both New Coke and Pepsi by a wide margin.

It has been more than a century since the first Coke splashed into a glass at soda fountains in the southern United States, but consumers are seemingly not bored with the product. In fact, Coca-Cola sales have remained strong through the recent Recession and they still command a majority of the soft drink market, though they now offer a wide range of soft drink products.

With the New Coke fiasco behind them, Coca-Cola has made strides to re-connect with consumers and seemingly put all thoughts of changing the traditional formula out of their heads for ever. Or, at least for now.

Sheeja Watson is a writer for a Virtual Assistant company based out of Atlanta. She’s been working with Virtual Assistants for the past 5 years and is considered an industry specialist. To speak with Sheeja or to find out more, visit her website.

We all have heard it. We’ve all been called it. We’ve all had our feelings and sense of security threatened by this overly-simple, six letter word. Stupid; such a small and simple world, but how can it hold so much negativity and power? If people would realize there isn’t truly a stupid, then we could work for a better world. Stupidity is either an all or nothing deal, as intelligence isn’t truly a measurable, or tangible for that matter, subject. Each person has a specific mental intelligence, and they are all unique in their specific intelligences. None of these intelligences are superior, more so they are equal but many societies bias some as “superior” over one another. So if you’ve ever been called stupid; just select what mental intelligence fits you best and stand proud with it!

1. Mathematical/Logical Intelligence. More common amongst males, this type of intelligence views the world with numbers and defined logic. One who operates on this level of thinking is often described as being “cold” and “uncaring.” Although this is honestly not their intentions, they do not realize they seem socially cold. These people are often interested in deep thought and are the day dreamers of our world. A prime example of a user of this type of intelligence would be Albert Einstein.
2. Artistic Intelligence. Quite the opposite of the mathematical and logical intelligence, these people view the worlds in colors and shapes rather than numbers. These people tend to be outgoing, friendly, and bubbly. These are the people who enjoy photography and remembering the “golden days.” This type of intelligence is often taken as bubbly and bright. A popular example of this personality type would be Pablo Picasso.
3. Social Intelligence. This is similar to artistic intelligence, but not quite as bubbly. These people know how to be socially accepted and just “get along” with almost anyone they meet. These people can smooth talk their way into any conversation or opportunity that comes there way. They are often quick-witted and comedic people and are the life of the party. A great individual who fits into this role would be Stephen Colbert.
4. Musical Intelligence. These people are the people you see constantly playing some sort of instrument. They have a passion for music and often are attending concerts or trying to organize some themselves. These people are often trying to make beats out of just about anything, including tapping their pencils in class! A “classic fit” to this intelligence, would be Ludwig Van Beethoven. Pun intended.
5. Emotional Intelligence. These are the people who base their decision making off of emotions. Whether these emotions be controlled or not are completely up to them. To be honest, the largest determination in success in life is the ability to control this type of intelligence. You could fail math class, or science class, and still be better off if you can emotionally stabilize yourself like these people. An example of an emotionally intelligent person would be George Washington, or anyone who is able to make sound decisions and hold their temper, honestly.

Although there are many more intelligences, so many so I could write a book, these are the primary. If you can figure out where you fit and be comfortable with what you were born and raised with, you can truly see who you are and that you are an intelligent being. You have value and intelligence no matter what any ignorant fool may state using that cliché six-letter-word. Remember that intelligence is not just school!

Tim Frisch is a student at the University of Wisconsin – Stout and is a regular contributer at PSCLife.com (http://PSCLife.com).  PSCLife.com has been in business since 2009, and is a leading retailer of ThreeLac – a lemon-flavored probiotic supplement designed to boost immune health as well as provide numerous other health benefits.