'Speaking with people daily who are dying, the biggest thing is not appreciating their health.

We take a lot of things for granted — being able to see being able to eat, swallow, walk, live completely pain free. A lot of people say they didn't appreciate that and they wish they would have.'

Order of the not-so-fake phoenix This last tidbit sounds like an urban legend, but the actors and crew claim it's true. An elaborate prop bird was created for Fawkes, but Harris reportedly thought it was a real bird. In 2002's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which featured Richard Harris playing Dumbledore, we meet Dumbledore's pet phoenix, Fawkes.

Child rearing costs are even higher in China's major cities, reaching more than 1 million yuan in Shanghai and 969,000 yuan in Beijing.

Birth rates in the two cities are even lower than the national average.

Experts warn China's ageing population will put huge pressure on its health and social security system, while a dwindling workforce could also severely limit growth for the world's second largest economy in the coming decades.

Similarly, shoppers spent 1.2 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) on alcohol at supermarkets during last year's Euro 2020 soccer tournament, delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, in which England reached the final at London's Wembley Stadium.

However, confidence levels among shoppers were at record lows even before the government's, now reversed, new economic plan sent mortgage rates surging and sparked fears of a sharp drop in house prices to compound the cost-of-living crisis.

Although new policies allow families to have as many as three children, China's birth rate dropped to 7.52 births per 1,000 people in 2021, the lowest since the National Bureau of Statistics began recording the data in 1949.

In October, researchers at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine published a paper showing a 389% increase in gender-affirming chest surgeries performed nationally from 2016 to 2019 on patients under age 18.

Beijing-based YuWa Population Research Institute said in a report published on Tuesday that the average cost of raising a child to the age of 18 in China in 2019 stood at 485,000 yuan ($76,629) for a first child, 6.9 times China's per capita GDP that year.

'I'm really excited to come up with a bunch of husband nicknames for him,' she confessed. 'All the different cringey things I can call him as my husband… the great hu-bino, black friday columbus you know, the options are endless.'

UK food retailers are already under severe pressure from cost inflation and changing shopper habits.

Earlier this month Tesco trimmed its profit forecast, while last month, Morrisons, the Co-operative and Aldi UK all reported profit falls.

"So the prop people kept moving it and responding," director Chris Columbus recalls with a laugh, as clips are shown of Harris marveling over the responsive creature. He doesn't say if Harris ever figured out that Fawkes was not an actual living, breathing bird, but just an elaborate puppet.

People also say they 'wish they didn't work their life away' and women in particular 'talk about dieting, [and regret] worrying about what their body looked like, or not eating this or not eating that because of diets and trying to look a certain way'.

There is also a danger that people, distracted by the soccer, do not feel festive and do not turn their attention to Christmas spending until after the tournament, leading to a frantic final week of trading, he said.

(The scene was deleted from the movie, but can be watched as an extra feature.) Once though, he accidentally went too far, smacking Felton's hand with a cane and not realizing the cane had sharp teeth that cut Felton's hand. And Isaacs said that while he loved young Tom Felton, who plays his son, Draco, he was "as unpleasant as could be" to him on set, jobs in the tri cities trying to set up the cruelty that ruled the Draco-Lucius relationship.

In another personal touch, they also used a cake topper that was from Wulfurt's grandparents' wedding in 1951. The cake was two tiers of white buttercream decorated with greenery and florals to match the green color scheme.

SHANGHAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed.

Retail executives say the World Cup, moved to the winter to avoid the intense Qatari summer temperatures, has totally thrown the algorithms they increasingly use to predict trading and plan their logistics.

That's what we're planning for," said Murphy. "Whether (people) choose to celebrate in the pub, and we service them through (wholesaler) Booker, or they celebrate at home, and we service them through Tesco, we don't mind as long as they're having fun.

LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The winter World Cup has added a new level of uncertainty to the Christmas trading outlook of Britain's supermarkets: How do you persuade cash-strapped shoppers to buy yule logs and luxury biscuits at the same time as beer and pizza?