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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Turkey, Iran and China lead the world in the number of imprisoned journalists within their borders, a new report said Tuesday.
The report, compiled by the New York-based group Committee to Protect Journalists, said the number of journalists jailed reached a record of 232, among them at least three Palestinians.
The Palestinian journalists in Israeli custody are Amer Abu Arafa of Shihab news agency, Sharif Alrjoub of Al-Aqsa Radio and Mohammed al-Tamimi of Tamimi Press Agency.
Abu Arafa has been held in administrative detention since August 2011 and, according to his family, is accused of being a "security threat," although no formal charges have been filed. He had been detained in 2010 by Palestinian intelligence agents and sentenced to three months.
Alrjoub, Hebron correspondent for Al-Aqsa Radio, was detained in June during an early-morning raid at his home. He is being held under administrative detention at Ofer prison. He had previously been held for seven months in 2007, also without charge, the group says.
Al-Tamimi, a reporter and editor for his family-run agency, was detained in October during an early-morning raid at his home in the West Bank town of Nabi Saleh. The Ofer military court later sentenced al-Tamimi to three months in prison and a fine of 3,000 shekels ($784) on charges of "participating in illegal protests," according to the agency.
Meanwhile two of the 15 journalists held by Syria -- freelance blogger Tal al-Mallohi and Bilal Ahmed Bilal -- reported extensively on Palestinian issues.
Al-Mallohi's blog was devoted to Palestinian rights and was critical of Israel. In February 2011, she was sentenced by a state security court to five years in prison on a fabricated charge of disclosing state secrets, according to the CPJ report and Syrian media.
Bilal worked as a reporter for the TV station Palestine Today. Intelligence agents arrested him in September 2011 at his home in Damascus and took him to an army recruitment center in the town of Daraya, his family told local media. In April, a former prisoner said he had seen Bilal in Sednaya Prison, according to CPJ. Authorities have not disclosed any information about his status, whereabouts, or the charges against him as of late 2012, the report said.
In November a Palestinian media rights group said two Palestinian journalists -- Bashar Qaddoumi and Muheeb Nawati -- were missing in Syria. Mada said Nawati, from Gaza, went missing in January 2011 and Qaddoumi went missing in August along with a Turkish colleague. Both Palestinians were presumed to be in Syrian custody, but Damascus has yet to announce their whereabouts.
Turkey, Iran 'helped' set record
Tuesday's report said Turkey, Iran and China "helped lift the global tally to its highest point since CPJ began conducting surveys," in 1990, surpassing the previous record of 185 in 1996.
The extensive use of vague anti-state laws in the three countries helped break the record, including codes that ban political views including those expressed by ethnic minorities.
The report noted that Eritrea and Syria also ranked among the world's worst, each jailing numerous journalists without charge or due process and holding them in secret prisons without access to lawyers or family members.
Worldwide, 63 journalists are being held without any publicly disclosed charge, the report said.
The others that CPJ's report called the 10 worst countries were Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, and Saudi Arabia.
"CPJ believes that journalists should not be imprisoned for doing their jobs," the group said. It says CPJ's advocacy on behalf of detained journalists led to at least 58 being released in 2012.
The group compiled its report based solely on where and how many journalists were jailed on a single day in 2012 -- Dec. 1 -- to provide a snapshot of the situation of journalists facing imprisonment around the world.
The rise in 2012 marks a 29.6 percent increase over 2011, which is the largest percentage jump in a decade and the second consecutive annual increase of more than 20 percent.
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11/12/2012 19:42
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* Just another weekend in Milwaukee.
* IRS Agrees To Monitor Religious Groups For Political Campaigning.
* How an honors student became a hired killer.
* A Thai surrogate mother said Sunday that she was not angry with the Australian biological parents who left behind a baby boy born with Down syndrome, and hoped that the family would take care of the boy's twin sister they took with them. Honestly, I think I'm pretty mad at them.
* Is Howard the Duck Really Marvel's Next Franchise? A Close Look at the Evidence.
* They say Western civilization's best days are behind it, but Bill Murray will star as Baloo in Disney's live-action The Jungle Book.
* Ever tried. Ever meowed. No matter. Try Again. Meow again. Meow better. Beckittens.
* Filming is apparently wrapping on Fantastic Four, but they didn't even have a teaser trailer for Comic-Con. This film must be a complete disaster. Can't wait!
* Why are we impeaching Obama today?
* The third Lev Grossman Magicians book ships tomorrow. Soon to be a TV show, maybe!
* Presenting the all-new, all-different Ghostbustrixes.
* Always remember: The best thesis defense is a good thesis offense.
* And it took its sweet time, but the Singularity is finally here.
Monday Morning Links
* An Illustrated Account of the Great Maple Syrup Heist.
* The 85 richest people on the planet are as wealthy as poorest half of the world.
* Slate has a memo from MLK following the desegregation of Montgomery's bus lines.
* The problem, Berger concluded, was that "the Cubists imagined the world transformed but not the process of transformation." It is that larger question – the process of actually getting to another world — that takes us beyond the artist and challenges the Left as a whole to cope with what can be done in this current moment of widespread disillusionment. Art in the Age of Fatalism.
* If we don't greatly reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, or completely eliminate them, a major city is going to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon. It's remarkable—it's incredible!—that a major city hasn't been destroyed since Nagasaki. We can confront this problem or we can accept that hundreds of thousands or more will be killed.
* 14 Things We Learned from Bill Murray's Reddit AMA. Bill Murray says he tried mightily to save Garfield.
* About 100 demonstrators rallied Friday outside the Safety Building to denounce Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm for his decision not to issue charges in the death of Corey Stingley.
* Dropouts with heavy debt litter for-profit college landscape in Wisconsin, new report says.
* "The world does not understand the settlements," Livni said in a Channel 2 TV news interview. "The peace negotiations are the wall stopping the wave [of international boycott pressure]. If there is a crisis [in the talks, that wave] will crash through."
* Planet Likely to Warm by 4C by 2100.
* The Myth of the Deserving Rich.
* Responses to Grantland's Trans Outing.
* Famous movie quotes recreated as pictograms.
* Book reimagines 'Pride and Prejudice' from a cat's point of view.
* Debating executive salaries at MLA.
* Melville and the Language of Denial.
* The president is quoted today saying some things I never excepted a president to say.
* Even cough medicine is a lie.
* What if saving could be like a lottery?
* Thinking about the future here and its bleak prospects is not much fun at all, so instead of too much black-minded introspection you have the pills and the dope, the morning beers, the endless scratch-off lotto cards, healing meetings up on the hill, the federally funded ritual of trading cases of food-stamp Pepsi for packs of Kentucky's Best cigarettes and good old hard currency, tall piles of gas-station nachos, the occasional blast of meth, Narcotics Anonymous meetings, petty crime, the draw, the recreational making and surgical unmaking of teenaged mothers, and death: Life expectancies are short — the typical man here dies well over a decade earlier than does a man in Fairfax County, Va. — and they are getting shorter, women's life expectancy having declined by nearly 1.1 percent from 1987 to 2007. If the people here weren't 98.5 percent white, we'd call it a reservation. The National Review visits Appalachia, and somehow manages to blame welfare.
* Meanwhile: Heroin gains a deadly foothold in Vermont.
* The headline reads, "Thief drops urn containing Sigmund Freud's ashes during break-in attempt."
* Ultimate Slate Pitch? I Would Rather Lick a Toilet Seat Than a Cellphone.
* What's Inside This Mystery House In North Carolina?
* Isn't it pretty to think so? As Presently Constructed, GOP Cannot Win White House. More here. They say the Democrats can't lose. I say give them a chance.
* The Average Human Wastes 22 Years Of Their Life… Sleeping.
* Why Expanded Universes Matter.
* I saw this movie: Starting next week, all Indianapolis-area hospitals will ban visitors with flu-like symptoms.
* Adjuncts exist, and the New York Times is ON IT.
* During World War Two, conscientious objectors in the US and the UK were asked to volunteer for medical research. In one project in the US, young men were starved for six months to help experts decide how to treat victims of mass starvation in Europe.
* Judge Dredd now enforcing jaywalking laws in New York, apparently.
* And someone left a laptop on a park bench.
Weekend! Links!
* Program for the 2014 MLA Subconference, January 8-9 at Columbia College Chicago.
* CFP for "Joss Whedon: A Celebration" at DePaul University this May.
* The New Yorker considers Kim Stanley Robinson: Our Greatest Political Novelist?
Depending on your own politics, this may sound like millennia-overdue common sense or a bong-fuelled 3 A.M. wish list, but there's no arguing that to implement it in the real world circa 2013 would be, literally, revolutionary. My own bet would be that either your grandchildren are going to be living by some of these precepts, or else they won't be living at all.
* It is an open question as to whether academics today, in their heart of hearts, still realize that the choice between the employability agenda or the death of universities actually means the death of universities through the employability agenda.
* Our football team here at Purdue went 1-11, losing the final ten games in a row by an average of almost 25 points and going 0-8 in Big Ten play, including a 20 point blowout to arch-rival Indiana. The lone victory on the season came through a nail-biting 20-14 performance against Indiana State… an FCS school… who themselves went 1-11. If beating the doormat team of the Missouri Valley Conference is the highlight of your season, it's perhaps time for a reevaluation of priorities. After ranking 122nd in points scored a game and 114th in points against a game, making a legitimate case for being the worst team in FBS football, the campus is buzzing about how long a rebuild will require and whether first-year coach Darrell Hazzell is the man to lead it. With the season's "One Brick Higher" slogan now seeming like a sad joke, my message to the Purdue community is simple: don't rebuild. Retreat. The best path forward for Purdue University is to dismantle its football program altogether.
* I also liked Freddie's piece on how the permanent squabble between tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty plays directly into the hands of administrators.
* This Thousand-Year Institution Could Really Learn Something from These Fly-By-Night Scams: Forget Academia. Startups Are the Future of Knowledge.
* Invisible Rituals: Pre-Graduate School Programs and Developing Diversity.
* "If you haven't been in a hen plant, you don't know what hell is": Animal rights activists vs. the agribusiness industry in Rolling Stone.
* Liberalism is a game the rich play with themselves. They Pretend to Think, We Pretend to Listen: Liberalism in the tank.
* Aaron Bady considers Mandela, all of him.
If you're a president, it probably feels good to think about this, about how a revolutionary came to defend the stability of the society he once threatened to overturn. It probably also feels good to think of him as historical, as past: like Nkrumah or Lumumba, he is no longer our problem, no longer our responsibility. Instead of a defiant refusal to stop short of victory and a refusal to compromise or negotiate on principles, he can represent the passing away of that very thing.
* Want the best person for the job? Don't interview.
* Why Don't Supreme Court Justices Ever Change Their Minds in Favor of the Death Penalty?
* Jackson's Hobbit II so little resembles the book, it may as well be called Some Further Adventures in Middle-earth. The Hobbit 2 Is Bad Fan Fiction.
* Here's Every Time Paul Rudd Has Shown the Same Movie Clip on Conan.
* Jaws retold as Peanuts comic.
* Everything in the oceans is dying.
* The Economy Looks Good Because The Data Has Been So Bad For So Long.
* No Civilian Leadership for NSA After All.
* Ph.D.s With and Without Jobs.
* Please excuse Davontaye, he suffers from povertenza.
* Belgium took a big step on Thursday to becoming the first country to allow euthanasia for incurably ill children, after the upper house of Parliament voted by a large majority to extend to minors a 2002 law legalizing the practice for adults.
* A national study being released today in book form found that those who are attractive in high school are more likely than those with just average or below average looks to go on to earn a four-year college degree.
* Take that, conventional wisdom! Study: Long Distance Relationships Can Work.
* Whether you agree with the ASA's boycott of Israeli state institutions or not, I think we can all agree that to boycott Larry Summers.
* The U.S. government lobotomized roughly 2,000 mentally ill veterans—and likely hundreds more—during and after World War II, according to a cache of forgotten memos, letters and government reports unearthed by The Wall Street Journal.
* America, 2013: No charges after man pulls gun on 'b*tch' with disabled kid over Walmart parking delay.
* Your odds of winning the jackpot used to be 1 in 176 million. As of Oct. 22, those odds changed to 1 in 259 million. The Lottery Is a Predator and You Are Its Math-Illiterate Prey.
* Space Race back on! China lands on the Moon!
* Hollywood finally goes too far.
* And Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation. Overflow Error: Abort, Retry, Fail….
Thursday Night Links: Liars, Scoundrels, Star Trek, and More
* Transcript from the September 19 meeting of the Cooper Union Board of Trustees. Even putting aside that their short-sighted and obviously bad decisions caused the problem in the first place, the enthusiasm with which these supposed trustees speak about the possibility of closing the school is just unreal.
* All of which brings you back to one central point: if you care about the integrity of elections and people actually being able to vote, the supposed cures for vote fraud are vastly more destructive than the problem. All evidence suggests that vote fraud is a minuscule, minuscule problem. Voter ID and most of the other nostrums are solutions looking for a problem. The people who support these policies are either ignorant of the facts or actually want to cull a certain subsection of the population from democratic participation. There are simply no two ways about it.
* "Since it won't reform itself, Starfleet needs to be destroyed." Star Trek into Darkness Hostile to Star Trek, Intelligence.
Remember how Kirk was going to nobly take Khan to Earth to stand trial? Did this actually happen? Is it possible to imagine such a trial ending with a court imposing the punishment of cryogenic stasis? How could a court not demand the other 72 be brought back to life? Wouldn't such a trial inevitably entail Marcus's cimes — leading to the exposure of his massive corruption and a public outcry to structurally reform Starfleet?
* Bridge collapse in Washington State, sending vehicles and people into the water.
* Scenes from the fight over Obama's judicial appointments. Obama won one battle today.
* The Wisconsin State Legislature is trying to defund United Council, the oldest state student association in the country.
* The best headline ever? The FBI Investigated the Song 'Louie Louie' for Two Years.
* Diane Kendig's letter of resignation from her adjunct position at Kent State.
* Senate Accepts Deal to Kick Formerly Incarcerated Off Food Benefits.
* The kids are all right: Teens hate Facebook.
* Historian Helen Fry, who has written a book called The M Room: Secret Listeners who bugged the Nazis, says the information gleaned by the eavesdropping of the German generals was vitally important to the war effort – so much so that it was given an unlimited budget by the government. She believes what was learned by the M room operations was as significant as the code-breaking work being done at Bletchley Park.
* The Boy Scouts inch forward.
* And This Incredible Full Scale Lego X-Wing Is the Largest Model In History. I'll allow it.
May Day Links, Not All of Them about May Day Exactly
* Is today the day Marty McFly arrives when he travels to the future?
* Jacob Remes on May Day from a year ago.
* Lost generation: on unemployment in Spain.
* A May Day Manifesto: Seven Principles for Adjuncts.
1. Increase the starting salary for a three-credit semester course to a minimum of $5,000 for all instructors in higher education.
2. Ensure academic freedom by providing progressively longer contracts for all contingent instructors who have proven themselves during an initial probationary period.
3. Provide health insurance for all instructors, either through their college's health insurance system or through the Affordable Care Act.
4. Support the quality education of our students by providing their instructors with necessary office space, individual development support, telephones, email accounts and mail boxes.
5. Guarantee fair and equitable access to unemployment benefits when college instructors are not working.
6. Guarantee eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program to all college instructors who have taught for ten years, during which they were repaying their student loans.
7. With or without a time-in service requirement, allow all college teachers to vote and hold office in institutional governance, including faculty senates and academic departments.
* A very strange thing happened to the California single payer health care bill this year. It disappeared.
* There were a few radical writers like Tom Paine who did use the word "democracy" from early on, but the first official use was by Jefferson and Madison when they founded the "Democratic Republican" party — which is clearly just some sort of PR trick, since Jefferson himself never uses the word "democracy" at all in his own writings. But the person who really transformed the language was Andrew Jackson. He ran as a "democrat" and it was so effective that over the course of the 1830s, everyone started calling themselves that. So basically the Republican system that was set up to contain democracy itself got renamed "Democracy." Interview with David Graeber on Democracy in America.
* After Neoliberalism? The Kilburn Manifesto.
* Washington Post editorial urges the closing of Guantánamo.
For the prison to close, lawmakers would have to lift a ban on transferring prisoners to the United States. But it was good that Mr. Obama also pledged to "examine every option that we have administratively" — because there are steps he could take without Congress.
* US soldier not found alive after 44 years in Vietnam. Via the comments.
* Japan and Russia want to finally end World War II.
* Interesting interactive chart from the Guardian about violence in recent best-selling video games.
* Interactive infographic at the New York Times shows long-term Democratic hegemony (at least at the presidential level) given most demographic assumptions.
* Coursera Eyes Teacher Training With New MOOC Partners.


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Sales Is Still A Numbers Game
But, the numbers that you need to monitor and measure have changed dramatically, and I do mean dramatically. Back in my early days of selling for IBM, one of our management's mantra was "calls plus presentations equals sales," and that worked.
Channel Sales Vendor/Partner Relationships: What Vendors Want (Part 3)
It's not love at first sight. It is all about the relationship between the vendor and the partner if a channel sales partnership is to be successful. A better understanding of what a vendor expects from a partner helps the solution provider make well informed and prudent business decisions that have a positive and profitable impact on their organization.
Advice After The Joplin Tornado: Put A Disaster Recovery In Place Now
Late in the afternoon on May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado tore a mile-wide swath through the southern part of Joplin, Missouri. It was the deadliest tornado in the U.S. since 1947 and has proven to be the costliest single tornado in U.S. history with more than $2.2 billion in insurance payouts.
5 Must-Haves For Surveillance Solutions For Public Transportation Vehicles
2013 marked the eighth year in row that more than 10 billion trips were taken on public transportation systems nationwide, and that number is showing no signs of slowing down. As ridership figures have grown exponentially so too has criminal activity, including crimes against passengers and employees, fare evasion, revenue theft by employees, and crimes against transit property such as vandalism and graffiti, all of which further complicate the role of the transit security official and transit system administrators.
Does Your Brand Translate From Traditional To Online Media?
As consumers move toward digital media for brand information, it's the perfect time to reassess how a brand translates from traditional media to online media. A consumer's opinion about any brand is shaped from the moment they enter the brand search term, or related keywords in any search engine — such as Google or Yahoo. The impact of these search results on the consumer perception of the brand is known as Search Perception Impact (SPI).
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'X Factor': Ryan Seacrest Asks to Guest Host, Simon Cowell Wants Demi Lovato Back
With L.A. Reid and Britney Spears exiting their judges posts, Cowell says "we'd be crazy" not to have the teen pop star return.
Amid a judges overhaul, Demi Lovato could be returning to The X Factor, with executive producer Simon Cowell admitting that "we'd be crazy not to have her back."
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In an interview with his former American Idol cohort Ryan Seacrest, Cowell said that "I liked having Demi on the show" and that "she's fun to work with." But, of course, "nothing is official."
Season three of X Factor quickly is approaching, with the first round of auditions kicking off March 6 in Los Angeles. So far, replacements have not been named for exiting judges L.A. Reid and Britney Spears, nor have co-hosts Mario Lopez and Khloe Kardashian been confirmed to return.
"We're talking to people all the time, and hopefully within a couple of weeks we might announce the first two," said Cowell of the judges panel.
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And while Seacrest is committed to Idol for at least one more season after its current cycle wraps, he is hoping for an onscreen reunion with the Brit that hired him for Idol's 2002 U.S. debut.
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"Yes," was Cowell's immediate reply, though there was a disagreement over whether Seacrest would shill for Coca-Cola (American Idol's sponsor) or Pepsi (X Factor's sponsor) during the stint.
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chickens/golfball question
I've been reading this forum for a few years and I'm learning a lot from all of you. I've had my 25 chickens almost 4 months. You all are so helpful people and being new I have questions I'll be posting. I guess I just want to thank you all ahead of time.
Anyway..question..When I was a young girl my grandparents had chickens. I can remember there were always golfballs in the nesting boxes. I'm wondering why. Is this a way of encouraging hens to lay?
It is a way of encouraging them to lay eggs in the nest boxes. Chickens, when they are young and just starting laying eggs, will lay them anywhere. The thought is that if they have something hard and round under them, they will start putting their own hard and round objects in the same spot.
I tried it, and my hens scratched a hole in the coop and practiced their putting (just kidding!).
It's when they start practicing their drives that it's time to worry! *G*
Yeah, the golf ball trick is an old one...works sometimes, not others. Although sometimes my silly girls will auddenly get it into their heads that weird places are the PERFECT place to lay an egg! Especially the banties, the little stinkers...
Enjoy your chickens!
Velvet ~:>
You might find plastic toy eggs in a toy store.
Some people recommend wooden eggs.
I used plastic toy eggs years ago. Worked just fine.
Amazon has some wooden ones for $12 a dozen. They list 877 items under toy eggs. plenty to look at.
Here is a link that might be useful: toy eggs at Amazon including wooden


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Silvio is a wine merchant and I work in communications, but when we are not working we travel a lot, particularly to Italy, where we have family. We are also very keen on eating so spend lots of time investigating new restaurants but since we can't spend all our time eating, sometimes we go out dancing or to the theatre too.
We live in Hackney, a really exciting area of London. If you come to stay at our home we will more than happy to tell you about our favourite spots to hang out at nearby. We love our flat and are sure that you will too!


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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth got ready to leave Los Angeles, traveling through a private jet today. Miley had recently tweeted that 'The paparazzi already killed Princess Di. What do we have to do to stop these murderers.' It seems that Miley is trying to avoid paparazzi, and therefore traveling private. GSI Media.
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Miley showed off her massive diamond rock on Twitter earlier — and HollywoodLife has all the exclusive details about it!
After Miley Cyrus tweeted a picture of herself wearing a HUGE diamond ring on her wedding finger earlier today, the internet went abuzz speculating that the 19-year-old actress had gotten engaged to her hunky boyfriend Liam Hemsworth. So what's the truth?
"They are very much in love, they are not engaged," an inside source tells Hollywoodlife, adding that Liam didn't even buy her the ring.
We can reveal a little bit more about the bauble, though. Miley's ring appears to be a three-carat round diamond ring with an eight-prong gold setting worth around $50,000, according to experts at 47 St. Diamond exchange. "They don't sell rings like that anymore," the diamond expert added. "It looks too old to have been purchased recently."
Maybe it's a family heirloom!
Source: HollywoodLife.com
Liam Hemsworth is upset with Miley Cyrus because she did something he never thought she would do. She disrespected him in public. Yikes. Sounds serious. Does that mean Miley really did get down and dirty dancing with "a hunky mystery man at Hollywood hotspot Beacher's Madhouse?" No, Gossip Cop laid that rumor to rest. Her Hunger Games boyfriend is miffed because the former Disney darling played a joke on him on an upcoming episode of the rebooted MTV series Punk'd.
"I knew she was doing the show," Liam whined—er—revealed in a March 23 interview with Ellen Degeneres. "I thought she had enough respect for me not to do me."
Poor Liam. Obviously, he was wrong.
In the now famous prank, Miley told Liam a whopper about two naked strangers locking themselves in her car. When he, naturally, rushed to her rescue, he almost demolished the car window.
"Your girlfriend comes running around and she's yelling hysterically," Hemsworth explained. "I think my instincts were right."
Liam Hemsworth's instincts may have been correct, but he still ended up looking like an idiot. He still got punk'd. How embarrassing.
Source: Gather.com
Even though Jennifer Lawrence might be in love with Miley Cyrus' boyfriend, Liam Hemsworth, in "The Hunger Games," the former "Hannah Montana" star doesn't seem to harbor any hard feelings.
Despite reports that Miley Cyrus was jealous of Jennifer Lawrence's relationship with Liam Hemsworth, Cyrus took to her Twitter account on Friday to gush over Lawrence's work.
"Happy Hunger Games everyone! can't wait for everyone to see it! Such an amazing film! JENNIFER LAWRENCE IS GENUIS," Miley wrote, seemingly putting an end to the feud rumors.
Meanwhile, Cyrus will have to deal with Hemsworth new found gaggle of female fans, which are sure to grow larger due to his "Hunger Games" role as Gale.
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Miley tells girls that they look their most beautiful when they don't hide their natural beauty — it's such a great message!
While everyone loves to get glam sometimes or experiment with fun makeup colors, it's important to love how you look underneath the eyeshadow and blush. When a fan Tweeted to Miley Cyrus about the HollywoodLife.com story highlighting stars looking great without makeup, Miley responded by saying:
"@StylishCyrus wow :) that is so sweet! I don't think there's anything more beautiful in the world than a girl el natural!"
It's great that Miley encourages her fans to love themselves for who they are and appreciate their natural beauty.
I love to try a fun smokey eye or red lip for a night out or add a soft flush and peach lip for a business event, but when I'm sitting at my desk at work or hanging out with friends or family, I wear a light moisturizer and embrace the naked-faced look! The most important thing to remember when going without makeup is that your flaws look so much worse to YOU. The other day I was complaining about my dark under eye circles that I felt so embarrassed about and my friend commented that she honestly didn't even notice I had any. Give yourself some credit and understand that more often than not, you are your own harshest critic!
Thank for the fabulous message, Miley!
Source: hollywoodlife.com
You think you've been worked into a tizzy by The Hunger Games? Then spare a thought for the stars, chief among them Liam Hemsworth.
While yesterday, Katniss herself, Jennifer Lawrence, told Ryan Seacrest that she was doing her best to manage her excitement over the biggest thing ever, Liam has found no such balance.
Of course, the nonstop red carpet proposals and ribbing at the hands of his fellow movie star brother, Chris Hemsworth, probably aren't helping matters.
"I'm just running on adrenaline most of the time," Gale's alter ego told Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show this morning. "I've been waiting a while for people to see it. The expectation just keeps getting bigger and bigger."
And he assures fans that they won't be disappointed.
"It's a really, really good movie. It's honestly one of the most powerful films I've seen."
No false modesty here. But hey, he's earned it. Particularly when you bear in mind the girl on fire trial by fire it took to get him into fighting form.
When asked appreciatively about his physique in The Hunger Games, Liam admitted that he was told to lose weight and get in shape for the role…albeit not in so many words.
"No one said it to me personally. They got a personal trainer and said, 'Here's your personal trainer,' and I just started eating less and losing a lot of weight." And he found whatever extra motivation he needed from a somewhat unlikely source: his brother, Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth—who, it goes without saying, knows from hard bodies.
"My brother was a big part of it. He texted me and said, 'It's called Hunger Games, not Eating Games,' " he laughed.
Meanwhile, Liam is undoubtedly poised to rise to the top of the heartthrob pack, thanks to his blockbuster role—so what does his girlfriend, Miley Cyrus, think of his newfound fame? Could she be—gasp!—a wee bit jealous of his Hunger dames?
"No, not at all. She's one of the biggest stars in the world, there's no shadowing her," Liam said.
"She embraces it. She's very, very happy for me," he went on. "I've had a few marriage proposals from 12-year-old girls…Ah, I don't know. It's a very awkward question to get proposed to from someone you don't know at all, who doesn't know you. How crazy are you?"
Source: EOnline.com
Miley Cyrus has fuelled speculation that she is engaged to 'The Hunger Games' star Liam Hemsworth after she shows off a huge diamond ring on her left hand.
The 19 year-old singer, who has already said that the Australian hunk is "the one", posted a picture of her left hand on twitter to show off her new nails, but the huge diamond ring on her wedding finger meant no-one looked at her nails.
She tweeted: "I am soooo obsessed with @jennahipp nail foundations! It looks so chic and classic!"
The photo was quickly taken down as speculation spread that the couple are set to tie the knot and Miley has stayed silent over the matter prompting rumours that the flash of the ring was intentional.
The former Disney star is said to be jealous of her boyfriend's close relationship with co-star Jennifer Lawrence.
Perhaps the ring was her way of showing that Liam is all hers? Miley isn't the only one who wouldn't mind becoming Mrs Hemsworth.
The actor has been proposed to by hoards of love sick 'The Hunger Games' fans during his whirlwind promotion of the movie.
Source: entertainmentwise.com
It's National Puppy Day! What does that mean, other than a sure-fire trending topic on Twitter? It means we're gonna show you pictures of your favorite stars and their canine companions. Come on now, everybody say "Awwww!"
Lots of celebs are proud dog owners, including Miley Cyrus (pictured here with her bulldog Ziggy), Selena Gomez (here with her pooch Baylor) and Stacy Keibler (who shares doggie duty for Einstein with beau George Clooney).
In the mood to see more stars with their pets? Check out the Very Important Pets gallery here!


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A pre-Irish Free State rule book for rural postmen issued in 1921 and amended and used until the 1950s.
The curious case of the little Roman figurine found in the River Boyne.
Specimens from three Irish factory ships collected during the Antarctic whaling boom
A sampler made by Elenor Hickey aged 14, dating to 1838 with a macabre rhyme embroidered onto it.
Arthur Griffith's statement told the world that the war between Ireland and Britain was at an end.
T. M. Ray (1801 – 1881) was active in the 19th century Irish nationalist movement and also left his mark on the collections of the National Museum.
In the course of the Inventory Project a starfish from a Norwegian fjord was catalogued.
A nineteenth century foundry cast bell from Sheridan's Foundry, Dublin.
A late Renaissance wrought iron Sienese dragon in the National Museum of Ireland.
This Japanese wood-block print by Katsushika Hokusai entitled: The Suspension Bridge on the border of Hida and Etchu Provinces (NMIDB:1933.84) is one of eleven prints from the landscape series Views of Famous Bridges in Various Providences (1827 – 1830).
King Edward VII gave this animal to Dublin Zoo.
This subspecies of lion is now on the brink of extinction.
The inventory team documented a pair of season tickets to The Cork International Exhibition which was held in 1902, attracting exhibits from all over the world and almost 2 million visitors.
Unexpected discovery of Late Roman amphora sherds amongst the excavated material in the crypt of the National Museum.
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Pros: The fact that the car won't let me lock my keys in the car.
Cons: nothing as yet
Advice: Try it, you'll like it!I have fallen in love with this car. Real comfort, real get up and go for easy merging on the highway and with it's high safety rating, real peace of mind.
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Pros: There are three things I like most about the 2002 Monte Carlo SS...it's appearance, handling, and the On-Star Security.
Cons: Two things I like least include the 'pull knob' for the headlights (which seems outdated) and turning on the fog lights each time you restart the engine is cumbersome.
Advice: With the access consumers have to internet information, I would simply suggest to fully research your vehicle(s) of choice before visiting a dealership. Being an informed consumer will help you, AND the dealership get you into the auto of your choice!!The Monte Carlo has a smooth ride and decent acceleration. Being a former Pontiac Grand Prix owner, I was skeptical about moving on to another vehicle. I wasn't sure I would be happy owning anything but another Grand Prix. I was pleasantly surprised with the handling and ride of the Monte Carlo. Driving on the highway is great...the Monte Carlo offers a smooth ride and is just fun to drive. The sleek look, exterior and interior is classic, yet sporty! The built in On-Star security system also offers peace of mind. On-Star assistance, combined with the On-Star calling features were a great selling point.
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Pros: The moonroof and cruise control (a must have for me)
Cons: The small-car
Advice: Do your online research first.This car handles very well. The ride is rougher than I was used to but then I was currently driving a larger car and used to a smoother ride. However, I enjoyed the test drive so much I bought it!
2002 Saturn S-Series - SC1 (M5) Coupe
Pros: Fuel economy is excellent
Cons: Saturn Service is very poor
Advice: know your dealer, if problem persists, evolk the lemon lawThe SC-1 seems to be a good car overall, the factory brakes are very poor, first problem was at 9,000 and replaced at 12,000 and I finally replaced the rotors with aftermarket at 40,000. The car would not track, the car was reatuned to the dealer 6 times for tracking problems and twice to independent alignment shops for evaluation. Tracking improved with new tires but still present. I am in the Auto Aftermarket business, I know cars, the service writers at three Saturn dealers have very poor automotive knowledge and I suffered the consiquences by not receiving the proper attention to my problems. E-mail to Saturn in KY went unanswered and Telephone calls to service managers were polite but problems never resolved. I would not recomend this car to anyone because of the poor service at the dealer level!
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Advice: Just buy it.First, just like any other car maker you have to find a dealer that will treat you the way one wants to be treated. The Elantra GLS is everything they say it is. Good looking, plush inside, and all and all a great deal that no other manufacture can beat. The ride and performance of this car is the best of many worlds. The ride is smooth, but nimble. You can go out for ride in comfort but also rip down a back road curve or two. The power output of the motor needs to be felt and seen. Romping down on the pedal brings the car to life and the tack dancing, like that of most sports models. No slug here, the Elantra GLS has power to spare. All in all once you get through the purchase of the car, bad or good, you will be left with a car that will always leave you pleased about your choice.
2002 Saturn S-Series - SL2 (M5) Sedan
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Cons: They seem to cut corners on some items
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The closing paragraph of General Douglas MacArthur's April 19, 1951 address to Congress: "I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of the day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier in the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty."
An open meeting Monday night generated a few suggestions and more than a few questions over the future of the county landfill, as the citizen panel to study the issue was finalized.
Over 600 volunteers turned out Saturday for the start of the Great American Cleanup, which will continue from March until May.
The City of Covington will continue another section of the City's major water line improvement project this month, resulting in the temporary closure of a sidewalk along Jackson Highway from Town Branch Court north to Pennington Street.
Georgia Farm Bureau (GFB) members and members of Georgia's ag community enjoyed a festive evening March 7 as the organization held its inaugural gala for the GFB Foundation for Agriculture at the Evergreen Marriott Resort in Stone Mountain Park.
In the midst of this beautiful spring weather, it's the perfect time to get out and run or just enjoy the outdoors. It can also be a good time to bond with the family. This is why there is so much anticipation for the 14th Annual Cheerios Challenge held right here in Covington, at the YMCA on April 18.
Local families living with seizure disorders welcomed Governor Nathan Deal's executive order this week greenlighting cannabis oil medical treatment in Georgia, but emphasized that they remain committed to in-state growing.
Baxalta Incorporated is still making its way toward bringing a large amount of new jobs and a new level of industrial growth to Newton County, and it progressed another step during a meeting of the Joint Development Authority (JDA) Tuesday.
Each of Newton County's commissioners and chairman have chosen a citizen to sit on a panel to review the county charter, which dictates the local form of government.
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Alcovy High School senior Alex Yang was extremely proud of himself when he was named valedictorian of the school's 2015 graduation class. It was a goal of his since the start of his senior year.
Newton County High School senior Ian Cole isn't worried about much these days.
The Newton County Board of Commissioners narrowly approved this week a motion to restore the county chair with the full powers invested in the position by the charter, effective January 1, 2017, and to set up another citizens committee to review and update the language of the charter.
Covington plays host to several movie and TV projects each year, and the chamber suggested a storefront on the square be dedicated to housing film memorabilia.
Social Circle's budget will increase this year for the first time in several years, going from $2.8 to $3 million.
The city of Porterdale established a resolution for new water and sewer utility rates at its city council meeting on Monday.
A grand opening and a mini farmers market will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at Noring Farms on Glass Springs Road.
You can be part of the Fourth of July celebration in Oxford and possibly win a prize for your efforts.
The Newton County Board of Commissioners received a glimmer of good news Monday night, when it learned the property tax digest may decline 8.25 percent next year instead of the projected 10 percent.
Councilwoman Sue Dale is stepping down from the Oxford City Council.
The proposed civic center project in downtown Covington is the classic example of a project in limbo, something counties may be able to avoid in the future.
A hike in water and sewer rates gets a third and final reading and a public hearing when the Porterdale City Council meets at 6:30 tonight.
The Covington City Council will hold a work session at 5:30 tonight that will lead into a council meeting at 6:30 p.m.
Three reports of financial fraud have been filed with the Newton County Sheriff's Office.
MACON - Authorities say a 13-year-old girl was found unharmed after a car was stolen while the teen slept inside.
Bibb County sheriff's Sgt. Sean DeFoe says the car was stolen from a gas station late Saturday night with the sleeping child in the back seat.
WOODBINE, Ga. - A section of old railroad tracks converted to hiking and biking trail just got a mile longer in coastal Georgia.
ATLANTA - Georgia is now among the top five U.S. states for film and TV production with more than 274 projects shot in the state since July 2010.
A judge ordered a man convicted in a 2004 vehicular homicide to continue to pay restitution to the family, even though it had been canceled at the end of his probation for the crime.


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The ocean liner is looking to improve its fleet structure after merging with South American carrier CSAV.
The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufactures has filed a lawsuit against the railway objecting to a $1,000-per-unit surcharge on older DOT-111 tank cars used to move crude oil.
A recent Oxford Economics study estimates the overall contribution of the European shipping industry to EU GDP at 147 billion euros for 2013, according to the European Community Shipowners' Association.
Election proceeded despite the request for a restraining order.
January 2015 totals for U.S.-North American Free Trade were higher than the previous year for rail, truck and air transportation, according to figures from the Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Officials say the worst back ups have been alleviated, but challenges remain as countermeasures continue to be implemented.