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It's time for the daily Real Housewives of New Jersey post. Poor Andy Cohen is laughing all the way to the bank with this lot! Yesterday we reported that Teresa Giudice made a public apology to her co-stars, former friends, and family members; well here are the details of that apology!
"Things have gotten out of hand," Teresa admitted to In Touch Weekly (via their print edition). "I want to accept responsibility for the things I did wrong. I'm truly sorry."
"I wish I could take it all back and start all over," the reality star confesses. Teresa reveals that the reason for her change of heart is meeting people with real problems on Celebrity Apprentice – and how much it hurts her daughters to be separated from their aunt and uncle. Plus, Teresa admits she misses her friends and family! "All of this drama seemed insignificant after I was exposed to people with real problems," she shares. "I met a lot of people on Celebrity Apprentice who have lost family members and would give anything just to spend one more day, one more minute with their loved ones."
"Everyone makes mistakes in life, and Lord knows that I'm not perfect, but I want the girls to see me take responsibility for my actions," Teresa insists. "It's been very hard on the girls; families should love and support each other." Teresa reveals the time is now for her to put aside the pettiness and focus on the positive. And she is ready to forgive – and forget! "My brother has a special bond with Gia. She misses him and it breaks her heart," Teresa discloses.
As for Joe Gorga calling her "fake", which Reality Tea exclusively reported; Teresa is empathetic. "I know he was reacting from all the pressures he's facing right now," Teresa explains. "I know he doesn't really feel that way about me."
And proving (apparently) she's sorry, Teresa has penned apology letters for each of her castmates.
To Joe and Melissa, she writes: "I'm sorry I haven't been as enthusiastic about Melissa's singing career as I should have been. This has been difficult for our parents, it breaks their hearts. I want to make them proud and I want them to be happy. Life is too short for this. Let's cherish every moment."
Teresa also admits she really misses former bestfriend Jacqueline Laurita. "Things got blown way out of proportion," Teresa says of their dramatic friendship ending. "I hope we can resolve our issues. I miss her in my life." On Tuesday, the ladies spoke on the phone. Afterward, Jacqueline claimed she did not believe Teresa's apology was sincere and things had not changed as Teresa promised she wanted them to.
Teresa is not giving up, writing: "I'm sorry I didn't respond to your apology on Twitter. I miss our friendship. I miss being like Lucy and Ethel with you. I hope we can work through these problems one day, when you are ready."
Jacqueline admitted she was willing to take "baby steps" to get their friendship back on track and hopefully things will work out!
Teresa also had some apologetic words for cousin Kathy Wakile, who recently said she's had little contact with Teresa and tries to avoid talking to her because she doesn't want to set her off. Teresa admits her husband Joe Giudice's comment calling Kathy "raccoon face" was out of line and hurtful. "We all say things we don't mean. I would love nothing more than things going back to the way they used to be," Teresa declares. "I will never lose hope."
"I know in my heart the good times we have shared over the years represent your true feelings for me," Teresa adds in her apology letter. "I have nothing but love for you in my heart."
And finally, Teresa offers yet another apology to Caroline Manzo! Teresa writes: "I am truly sorry for offending you and your cooking. I miss having fun and letting lose with you. We had a lot of fun together and shared many laughs. I want us all to get along," Teresa pleads.
And yet again, she attempts to defend her Olive Garden comments. Can't Olive Garden give Caroline an endorsement deal or something – or sue one of them to shut up about this subject? It's rapidly becoming the RHONJ version of #BlackBabyGate.
"The Olive Garden always serves large portions of food, and Caroline is always serving large, delicious Italian meals," Teresa half-heartedly explains. "I hope one day we can get past all of this." Something tells me so long as Teresa has a relationship – professional or otherwise – with Dina Manzo, Caroline is not going to find herself in a forgiving mood.
And in response to Teresa's public apology, Caroline is publicly NOT accepting! "This is what you do when you apologize to somebody," Caroline snapped while appearing on Jimmy Fallon's show. "You put it on the front of a magazine."
Caroline added, "No, she's not sorry. Her publicist is sorry." Ouch! Although – she has a good point. Why go on a magazine to apologize to friends and family?
Oh – and in case you're interested; Melissa is releasing her newest song today. It's a ballad – without autotune(!) for her beloved husband! Just imagine my face right now…


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Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention
Governor Patrick's five point foreclosure prevention plan is designed to keep people in their homes and stabilize neighborhoods across the Commonwealth:
- Neighborhood Stabilization Pilot Programs
Neighborhood stabilization pilot programs will be launched in Lawrence, Boston, Brockton, New Bedford, Springfield and Worcester. The Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), working with lenders and non-profits, will seek to reclaim foreclosed properties and make them available to qualified first-time homebuyers with the goal of restoring neighborhoods to fully occupied status as quickly as possible.
- Outreach and Education
NeighborWorks' Center for Foreclosure Solutions has a free hotline at 1-888-995-HOPE that is available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day to provide foreclosure prevention information to Massachusetts homeowners and referrals to non-profit agencies for additional housing counseling. More details are available from the Neighborworks Hotline.For consumers facing imminent foreclosure, the Division of Banks and its mortgage hotline (1-888-495-BANK) can intervene and work with lenders to secure a 30 to 60 day delay in the foreclosure process.
- MassHousing Loan Refinancing Program
MassHousing's $250 million foreclosure prevention program provides fixed-interest rate refinancing loans and counseling services to struggling sub-prime borrowers. The program is privately financed through a $190 million commitment from Fannie Mae and a $60 million contribution from MassHousing. Eligible borrowers can be up to 60 days delinquent on their mortgage and have credit scores as low as 560. More details are available at MassHousing.
- Transition Resources
Participating lenders* will provide moving expenses and first and last month's rent to eligible homeowners who have lost their homes to foreclosure. Eligible homeowners are those with a sub-prime** adjustable rate first mortgage on an owner-occupied 1-4 family home that was originated between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2006 who have been foreclosed on within 4 years after the loan closed. Homeowners must also work with an approved housing counselor, fully vacate the property within 30 days of foreclosure and leave it in habitable condition. Homeowners should contact NeighborWorks at 1-888-995-HOPE to locate a participating housing counseling agency.* To date, Option One Mortgage Corporation and the Massachusetts Credit Union League, Inc. have agreed to provide funding for transition resources. Negotiations are ongoing and this site will be updated to reflect recent developments as they become available.** For purpose of this program, a sub-prime loan is one where the borrower's credit score was 630 or less at the time of closing.
- Best Practices
The foreclosure prevention plan also outlines the following best practices for lenders which will become increasingly important as more adjustable rate mortgages reset to higher interest rates:
- contact borrowers at least three months prior to a mortgage reset;
- consider long-term loan modifications;
- review whether a sub-prime borrower qualifies to refinance into a more affordable product after one year of satisfactory payments;
- require escrow of taxes and insurance for all new sub-prime borrowers;
- allow a pre-foreclosure sale or a deed in lieu of foreclosure

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I am here in St. George, Utah (actually Washington, Utah, a smaller city just to the north) for the St. George Family History Expo which starts today, 24 February 2012. I am certainly looking forward to the presentations, but even more to meeting new friends and renewing friendships.
St. George is particularly significant to me since at least two of my family lines lived and were pioneers in the area. My 3rd Great-grandfather, George Jarvis and his wife Ann Prior Jarvis lived most of their lives here in St. George. In addition, my Great-great-grandfather, Charles De Friez (who later changed his name to Jarvis) also lived here in St. George. He later married one of George and Ann's daughters, Margaret Jarvis and moved to Arizona. Charles and Margaret Jarvis were the parents of my Great-grandmother, Margaret Godfrey Jarvis Overson. Grandmother Overson helped raise my father after his mother died when my father was eight years old. She was a frequent visitor in our household while I was a child and my wife and I had the fortunate experience to drive her to St. Johns, Arizona from Mesa, where she lived to attend a family reunion.
Some of my other relatives, such as my Great-grandfather, Henry Martin Tanner and his wives and family also had connections to St. George and some of the surrounding communities such as Toquerville, Utah where Henry's second wife, Emma Ellen Stapley lived.
As you can probably guess, St. George is vastly different than it was during the pioneer days. This area was so difficult to settle, that the early pioneers had to be subsidized by surrounding communities for many years. This is a spectacular area for scenery but until there was a tourism industry you couldn't live on scenery.
Hopefully, I will get time to put up a few posts. Check in again.
In the interest of disclosure, I have become associated with Family History Expos as their Social Media Representative.
Friday, February 24, 2012
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The Wenner Gren Foundation is pleased to announce the first recipients of the newly established Institutional Development Grant: The National University of Mongolia and the Museum of Anthropology, Cordoba, Argentina The IDG program was created in 2008 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation to encourage the development of doctoral level programs in countries where anthropology is under-represented and there are no resources to support its growth. Both institutions will receive US $25,000, renewable for five years beginning in 2009. The institutions will be using the funds in different ways to support their teaching, curriculum development and graduate student research.
The Foundation is currently accepting preliminary inquiries for the Institutional Development Grant to be awarded in 2010 (see below).
The National University of Mongolia (pictured above) plans to radically upgrade the institutional capacity of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Through an active partnership with the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge a new curriculum and doctoral program will be developed. Mongolian and Cambridge professors will set up a joint committee and design and develop a doctoral program.. Furthermore four students from Mongolia will be trained in a temporary joint Ph.D. program that includes joint supervision from both institutions with the students spending time at both institutions. These students will then be recruited to return to the faculty at the National University. Finally the Department plans to build an up-to-date resource collection on socio-cultural anthropology and enhance technical capacity of the department.
The Museum of Anthropology at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina (on the right), will offer specialized training in the three classic sub-areas of research: Social Anthropology, Archaeology and Bioanthropology. The program will work in collaboration with the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology of the University of Kansas, the Department of Anthropology of the University of Wyoming and Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to develop a doctoral program. Doctoral studies will be oriented towards intensive theoretical and practical training to produce professionals who will be able to undertake independent research projects, exercise leadership of scientific research teams, communicate their research results, and teach at the university. The development of a Postgraduate Program in Anthropological Sciences at Córdoba also will provide more opportunities for graduates of other neighboring Argentina provinces, where there is no such possibility of postgraduate training. This also will extend the possibilities of bringing the practice of anthropology to non-academic realms, responding to a growing demand in the region.
The Institutional Development Grant is intended to strengthen (or to support the development of) anthropological doctoral programs in countries where the discipline is underrepresented. The grant provides $25,000 per year, is renewable for a maximum of five years (total support of $125,000), and may be used for any purpose to achieve the academic development goals of the applicant department. A minimum of one new award will be made each year. The Institutional Development Grant has a two-stage application process; a preliminary inquiry followed by a full application. The deadline for the mandatory preliminary inquiry is February 1. If the preliminary inquiry is successful, the deadline for submission of the full application is April 1, 2008. For full details and information on the grant and how to apply please consult the program information here.


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City Offers Free Business Seminar Geared Towards Helping New Business Owners
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The City of Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP) reminds entrepreneurs about the upcoming free business works seminar geared towards helping new business owners with access to resources and financing.
The seminar will be offered on Thursday, June 17, 2010 at Wright College, 4300 N. Narragansett at 5:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, registration is not required.
At the event, entrepreneurs will connect with nearly 30 government and non-profit agencies that assist small businesses with licensing, business planning, small business loan resources, financial incentives and more.
Three workshops will be offered that begin at 7:15pm on how to write a business plan, how to finance your business, and how to use email marketing to boost your business.
"Business Works is a great resource for anybody interested in starting a business. Even established businesses can benefit from the workshops and by connecting with resources to grow an existing business" said Commissioner of the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection, Norma I. Reyes.
The evenings keynote speaker will be a well known local Chicago business owner Marc Schulman, President of The Eli's Cheesecake Company, who will share his business success story.
At the event, entrepreneurs graduating from the Business Start-Up Program will be presented with certificates. The Business Start-Up Certificate Program, offered by BACP and City Colleges of Chicago, is a free program for entrepreneurs that offers a curriculum of classes that cover all the basics of starting or growing a business. Classes are held at City Hall and are offered twice a week.
Business Works Seminars will be offered throughout the year:
Thursdays, 5:30pm -9:00pm
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Over the last couple of years one could hardly accuse me of setting ambitious goals, or, if I did bother to set goals, of actually keeping them.
So while I was struggling into my Fat Pants this past September, I decided it was high time for me to drop some poundage. And owing to the motivational sinkhole I'd been inhabiting, I knew I'd have to go whole hog, as it were.
I plunked down the bucks and signed up for Weight Watchers. I'd been on it a couple of times before (the online version) and had reasonably good success, although I never stuck it out to my goal weight. But this time around was going to be different -- I'd go to the meetings and stick it with it and reach goal and make Lifetime status, dagnabit!!
My schedule was (and still is) very flexible, since I work mostly from home nowadays, so I was able to find a mid-morning meeting with a fabulous leader. And the fact that I'm not at a 9-to-5 job made meal planning much easier.
I wasn't obsessive about following the program, but I tracked my food and activity fairly consistently. I certainly didn't deny myself unduly, but I got pretty good at deciding whether something was worth splurging on or not.
I reached my WW goal weight of 148 lbs, down from 164, in mid-February. I was no speed demon, I lost less than a pound per week, but like I said I wasn't super-strict -- the fact that I allowed myself to splurge every now & then made this doable. I became a Lifetime member 6 weeks later. Now, so long as I weigh in once a month and not be more than 2 lbs over my goal weight, I can attend WW meetings and access their eTools for free. I shelled out enough money to WW Inc. so that's mighty fine by me, I like free.
Although my WW goal was 148, my personal goal weight (what I call my Climbing Weight) was 145, and I reached that a couple of weeks later. Heh, guess that means I have to start climbing hills again. 8^)
Speaking of, although I'm still biking, I haven't been biking anywhere near as much as I used to. I'll generally head out 2 or 3 times a week for a flat 10-15 mile loop near my home, plus another ride or two each week with about 30 miles and a modicum of climbing. I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but I think the fact that I haven't been biking a lot really helped my weight loss. I used to pig out when I biked a lot. Granted, you have to fuel appropriately on rides, but in my case there's a fine line between proper refueling and overdoing it, and after a long ride my motto would be "see food, eat food". So that was one less variable I needed to contend with.
Now that I'm at my climbing weight, is climbing easier? Eh, a bit. But since I haven't been riding a great deal, my speed (be that as it may) and endurance on sustained climbs has fallen off a lot. I'll be working on that next, and upping my mileage, and meanwhile I'll try my darndest to keep my weight under control.
In the meantime, it's fun to try on pants that were snug on me last fall and hang on me now. I'm not much for clothes shopping but it sure is nice to buy new clothes in smaller sizes. And I can zip up my Amici Veloci vest without cutting off circulation at my hips. Booyah!
And it's great to feel like I've actually accomplished something. :^)
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Country singer Michael Peterson visits Kearney
The first stop on country music artist Michael Peterson's whirlwind tour of San Joaquin Valley agriculture today was the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center, where he enjoyed fresh fruit produced by local farmers and was introduced to the science behind the California agricultural industry's tremendous success.
Peterson was a member of 4-H as a youth in eastern Washington. That early exposure to agriculture, he said, may have planted the seed that developed into his current affinity for the farming industry.
Peterson brings a measure of celebrity to the effort to share the message about California agriculture. His country music debut album in 1997 produced four hit singles, "Drink, Swear, Steal and Lie," "From Here to Eternity," "Too Good To Be True" and "When the Bartender Cries." He was named Top New Artist of 1997 by Billboard and Radio & Records and honored as Country Weekly's Male Newcomer and Gavin's Artist to Watch in 1998.
More recently, Peterson has been active in youth development and veterans' programs. He presents a school assembly called "Tag, You're It," which blends illusions, humor, interactive multi-media, audience participation and the power of the internet to help improve test scores and boost high school graduation rates. He has also traveled to Iraq several times to perform for the troops and is creating a music project for the Military Child Education Coalition.
Peterson said he was impressed by his visit to the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
"I never thought about the science part, on this level, being so important in agriculture," he said. "Thank goodness y'all are here."
In the video above, Michael Peterson expresses esteem for California agricultural science. For a transcript of the video, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Open the Door!
Terrible pains which had bothered him for years came to a climax on Pesach eve for Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Klein. As the traditional Seder began, it was almost impossible for him to move.
Just as the family reached that part of the Seder where the door is opened and a special prayer is said, they noticed that Rabbi Klein was making an effort to stand up despite his pain. As they rushed towards him they heard him ask that they summon a young man who was a guest.
It turned out that this pain-racked host recalled that opening the door at that point in the Seder is mentioned in sources as a merit for finding a marriage partner. Since the young guest had encountered difficulty in this area, his host made the supreme effort of giving him this opportunity to open the door – to his future as well.


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Leccy Tech Ever wondered what the progeny of today's gadget obsessed 'yoof' will be driving come the year 2030?
Honda's Helix would access your DNA's double helix
That was the question recently posed to designers from some of the world's top car makers – those with studios in California, anyway - as part of the Los Angeles Auto Show 2009 Design Challenge.
The results – all electrically powered, naturally – of the subsequent head scratching, doodling, back-of-envelope scribbling and general CGI tom-foolery are now available for your consideration and applause...or derision.
Strangest of the bunch is Honda's Helix, which would sport a body able to morph into three distinctly different shapes.
Mazda's Souga - made from recycled materials
Helix could also employ shape-shifting 'active polymer body panels' that would ensure the vehicle's ability to adapt to the driver by...er...accessing their DNA.
Next up is Mazda's Souga, a cheap - roughly $2000 (£1207/€1338) in today's money, designers estimated - runabout made from recycled materials.
Apparently kids would design their own Souga online, pay the production fee and then cough-up for the required leccy power through subscription.
Nissan's V2G could be jailbroken to go off-road
The Vehicle 2 Grid (V2G) from Nissan, however, would suck its electricity directly from roads. Anticipating the rebelliousness of youth, Nissan has already coined a term for jailbroken V2Gs – "V2G [UNLMTD]" – designed to go 'off grid'.
Nissan presumably also thinks that vowels will have been outlawed by 2030.
Toyota's Link is a modular mass transportation system aimed at penurious students.
Toyota's Link is a modular mass transportation vehicle
Students would rent a Link at the nearest hub and then zip off to combine their commute with other students, using whatever will have replaced Facebook by then to arrange pick-up points.
Gone will be the days of using the No.37 bus to get to lectures, then?
Rather than conventional wheels, Link would even run on spheres made of an electro-conductive material.
Audi's eOra and eSpira (above) would be controlled using body movements
Audi has also chipped in some motoring ideas for the year 2030, designing the eOra and eSpira vehicles – both of which will be controlled by minute body movements.
Downhill skiing was the inspiration, Audi said. But what will happen when the driver sneezes? A vorsprung durch pile-up is Register Hardware's guess.
Finally we come to General Motors' Hero, which will let drivers pit their wits against the car in a competition to rule control systems.
GM's Hero - if you can beat it, you can drive it
Nope, the idea doesn't make much sense to us, either.
The winning vehicle concept will be announced at the Design Los Angeles automobile designers' conference next month. But, for what it's worth, our money's on the Mazda.
Further details about all these flights of fancy can be found online now. ®
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Lena Dunham is saying sorry to Odell Beckham Jr. after facing criticism for what many considered were reverse-sexist, racist comments made against the NFL player.
In an interview with Amy Schumer published Friday on Dunham's Lenny Letter, the two comediennes lamented over the 2016 Met Gala. The Girls star relayed how she imagined the New York Giants star's reacted to being seated at her table, writing, "...It was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards. He was like, 'That's a marshmallow. That's a child. That's a dog.' It wasn't mean—he just seemed confused."
"The vibe was very much like, 'Do I want to f--k it? Is it wearing a … yep, it's wearing a tuxedo. I'm going to go back to my cell phone,'" Dunham added.
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But now, following an onslaught of Internet hate, the 30-year-old explained her commentary came from a place of insecurity. Shared on Instagram Saturday, Lena wrote, "I owe Odell Beckam Jr an apology. Despite my moments of bravado, I struggle at industry events (and in life) with the sense that I don't rep a certain standard of beauty and so when I show up to the Met Ball surrounded by models and swan-like actresses it's hard not to feel like a sack of flaming garbage."
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She continued, "This felt especially intense with a handsome athlete as my dinner companion and a bunch of women I was sure he'd rather be seated with. But I went ahead and projected these insecurities and made totally narcissistic assumptions about what he was thinking, then presented those assumptions as facts."
Dunham then called the backlash she felt "valid criticism," adding, "I see how unfair it is to ascribe misogynistic thoughts to someone I don't know AT ALL. Like, we have never met, I have no idea the kind of day he's having or what his truth is."
"But most importantly, I would never intentionally contribute to a long and often violent history of the over-sexualization of black male bodies- as well as false accusations by white women towards black men," the star admitted.
"I'm so sorry, particularly to OBJ, who has every right to be on his cell phone and may also just be shy. The fact is I don't know (I don't know a lot of things) and I shouldn't have acted like I did," Dunham concluded.
At this time, neither Schumer or Beckham Jr. has commented publicly on Dunham's statement.


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Disney Is Turning 'Dumbo' Into a Live-Action Movieby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Walt Disney Pictures is reportedly developing a live-action 'Dumbo' movie to be based on its 1941 beloved animated classic. The studio is looking to repeat the same success they had with 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Maleficent.'
The Wrap reports that Ehren Kruger ('Transformers: Age of Extinction,' 'The Ring') is working on the script. Kruger will reportedly produce the film with Justin Springer.
The original 1941 feature told of an elephant named Jumbo Jr. who is constantly teased by other elephants for his big ears and given the nickname 'Dumbo.' When Dumbo's mother defends him from bullies, she is locked up, leaving Dumbo alone. His only friend is Timothy Q. Mouse and together, they learn of his unique ability to use his ears to fly in the air.
While the new movie will retain much of the original story of the animated film, a new story featuring a human family will reportedly be added as well. The live actors will be interacting with the animals with the help of modern CGI technology.
So what do you think, PopCrushers? Are you excited to see a 'Dumbo' live-action film?
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We all have our holy grail makeup products, those we never get bored of and keep on buying and recommending to our friends. Well, mine are the Double Wear products by Estée Lauder. I have tried to change foundation/powder so many times in the past thinking that I might be missing something but I have always go back to using Estée Lauder !


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Harry Potter fans looking to live out the magic of their favorite fantasy series are being blamed for a rapid increase in pet owls being sold worldwide. In the Potter books and movies, Harry keeps an exceptonally obedient snowy owl named Hedwig as a pet. But the reality of owl ownership involves commitment and responsibility some fans of the children's books aren't ready for, and many of the birds are later dumped as a result.
The problem is becoming such a concern in Britian that an animal sanctuary has recently opened up to help adopt unwanted owls that have been neglected by feckless Potter fans. Currently the sanctuary is caring for 20 owls which have come from places throughout the country.
"They might look great in the Harry Potter films, but it takes years to train them. Children read the books and see the films and say to their mums and dads they want one and parents don't realise how much care it takes to look after them," said the sanctuary's director Don Walser.
And when the burden of that responsibility hits, a lot of the owls end up getting mistreated. One pair of snowy owls currently in the care of the sanctuary were starved for three days after being forgotten in their owner's garden. Many of the other owls have also arrived malnourished or in poor health.
In most places you don't need to have any qualifying credentials or license to purchase a pet owl. Furthermore, although it is often illegal to trap and sell wild owls, birds which have been bred in captivity can be sold without regulation. And the buisness can be fairly lucrative too. Breeds like snowy owls can rake in around £250 a bird.
Unfortunately, it's doubtful that boorish fantasy fads will go away any time soon, whether from this craze or some other. Until suitable regulations are passed, it's the animals that have to face the cruel reality.
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The 'Alien 3' Effect: Brad Bird on Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
To say I'm a fan of Brad Bird is an understatement. I'm a freaking wind machine of Brad Bird's. The man who brought us The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille made his first live-action feature in 2011 with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the fourth and highest-grossing installment in the action franchise. With the film coming out on DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow, April 17, Mr. Bird was cool enough to answer some of my questions about the film's development, including some SPOILER-laden queries about some of the movie's more unusual story choices, which I nitpicked last December. It turns out that Ghost Protocol was a more difficult production than I had imagined, with many dialogue scenes shot multiple ways to accommodate a screenplay that was being rewritten during production. Bird illuminates me on the development process and even chips in a little update on his dream project, 1906, about the legendary San Francisco earthquake.
CraveOnline: So Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. That did pretty well for you, didn't it?
Brad Bird: It did alright!
Obviously it was a critical success, made a lot of money… have you been getting a lot more live-action offers?
It's a good time to be making movies. Yes, it's been definitely a nice thing. I think that my ideal career would be able to be in a position to do different kinds of things, and this has opened that up.
I'm glad to hear it. I'd like to talk to you a bit about the development process for Ghost Protocol. Was there already a script when you signed on?
Well, there were many scripts, as J.J. [Abrams, producer] told me, but they it was very much in flux. We had set pieces that the film was going to have in there, and the idea that Tom [Cruise] was going to climb the Burj Khalifa, and there was going to be this room switch scene, and there was going to be a fight in a car park, and that Ethan started the movie out in prison, so there were a lot of things in place. But the script was in flux while we developing it and even while we were filming it. It was always in motion, which was a challenge.
What is it like trying to make a movie, starting with not necessarily the story but starting with the action?
All of the action stuff, most of it we shot up front, and then we moved up to sound stages, and that's where a lot of the connecting tissue was. So when we didn't have an answer for "Is it this person or that person?" sometimes I would shoot it both ways, and we'd go, "We'll figure it out when we get to the sound stages." And so we kept kind of punting the important decisions to when we got inside on sound stages, and that made it hard sometimes to be clear on exactly what we were doing. But I think we were smart about covering our bases, and allowing some options, but it was always an ongoing process and the writers were [there] with us, and kind of laying down tracks in front of this moving train.
There were two interesting story decisions that I thought were made for Ghost Protocol. One, at the end of Mission: Impossible III, Ethan Hunt seems fairly happily married, and in the fourth film, you didn't only remove Michelle Monaghan's character from the equation, but you also didn't replace her with a new love interest.
Was that something you just knew you wanted to begin with? "Oh, he's married. Leave her out, leave her out, that's a bad idea?"
Well, we were well into the film thinking that she had been killed, and filmed quite a bit of the film thinking that she wasn't around, and we just kept thinking that that kind of cast the previous movie in a negative light because it's kind of like all that stuff that he went through to keep her alive in the last one didn't ultimately amount to anything. It was kind of like… Simon Pegg mentioned that it was kind of like the feeling that you had about Aliens after seeing Alien 3, where she goes through unbelievable hell to save a couple of people, and then both of them died before the third movie.
Damned good point.
It gives you a different feeling when you go back and look at the second film. It's like, all this stuff is for naught. Just don't do it. So we thought about that, and felt like ultimately we didn't want to kill her character off. And we also recognized that it's a limiting thing for the franchise to have him be a married man that's always gotta go home and talk to the wife, you know? I think that Tom was torn between wanting to be free of the story baggage of that and wanting to also respect the people that saw the previous film, and paying it off. And we ultimately came down on the side of the ending that you see in the film, where he can't be with her but they still do care about each other, and he's still sort of vigilant about keeping an eye on her.
The other thing that I thought was kind of interesting, unlike, in particular I'd say the last film in the franchise, Ethan Hunt and Michael Nyqvist's characters are sort of at a distance for most of the screenplay. They don't have a scene together before the end. What went into that decision to keep the bad guy as the threat, first and foremost?
Yeah, yeah. You know, we had other scenes with Michael and other characters and we just kept… They were not carrying their weight, and so we kept kind of trimming it back, and by the time it gets to Act III it's just about stopping the conflict. It's not about them sitting down and… The time was past when they were going to have a conversation. So I sort of look at the fact that the way he enters the movie, for the most part, is as a voice talking to Ethan in the middle of his mission in a very open manner. I thought that was a really creepy moment. I can't ever say there was a huge, deliberate plan to keep them apart, it's just kind of how it developed.
Another interesting choice that was made for the film: so much of the spy genre is based on cool, interesting gadgets. This film is based on the failure of technology. Every action sequence, even that bit on the train, is about how, "We have this high-tech technology that reads your retinas… and it's really inconvenient!"
Right. [Laughs] When I first got involved in the film, J.J. asked me, "Are there any things that you would love to see in a spy movie?" And I listed about five things, and one them was that idea, that I wanted the gadgets to be as unreliable as they are in life, you know? They enjoyed that idea and were very supportive.
Did any of those things on your list not make it into the movie?
Oh, not make into the movie? Yeah, I have one idea that I'm not going to tell you because I'm going to find another way to use it. [Laughs]
Damn it!
One of the ones didn't make it, and it wasn't for any reason other than we couldn't get everything in, but I consider getting five out of six ideas… I can't complain. They were very good about letting me do whatever I wanted to in the movie. Tom and J.J. were very supportive.
Would you come on for another one, and try to incorporate it next time?
No, I think that one of the things that's fun about the series is that they always pull in a different director and try to get a different kind of take on the premise. I'd probably be open to looking at it, but I think that part of one of the successes of the franchises is that they're always reassessing it with a new director. That was one of the things that attracted me to it. It's not a franchise where it was about dismissing your style in order to get the style of the franchise. It was more about [having] each director influence the franchise. Because whatever you think about the Mission: Impossible films, they don't look like they were made by the same person. They're the same premise and the same lead actor and all of that, but they feel like four distinctly different movies, style-wise.
What sort of developments have been made on 1906?
I've not cracked it yet. It's still an idea that I'm attracted to. It's an incredibly challenging idea to get into a single movie. I don't think that you can break it up into two, and have 1906 II: The Rebuilding. I think that the challenge is that it's a very sprawling canvas, and you want to get it all in one film and have it be satisfying and take advantage of all the wonderful things that that idea, that that particular place at that moment in time, has to offer. But it's a very challenging thing to get to work as a script.
Would you ever think about doing that as an HBO series, something like that, try to milk it?
But then you have to do it for the small screen, and I don't want it to be on the small screen. I want it to be on the big screen! But you're right, absolutely, it would be much easier to do as a mini-series.


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The next book in the African Arguments series is Getting Somalia Wrong by BBC journalist Mary Harper. It is a complex account of a country too often stereotyped by one or two of its most notorious characteristics – recently these being the Islamist insurgency of Al-Shabaab, piracy off its Indian Ocean coast and terrible famine.
Harper's book has grown out of 20 years working on and in the country, and functions not as a conventional history of Somalia, but rather as a discussion of several key themes central to its present state. Pleasantly surprising was the thread of black humour that runs throughout, created by the description of several historical events that exemplify an admirable, and slightly crazed, Somali independence of spirit. First is the story of the 'Mad Mullah' – warrior poet Seyyid Mohamed Abdulle Hassan – who fought the British to a standstill in the early 20th century and described himself as 'a stubborn he-camel' from whom the British would get 'war and nothing else.' When his troops killed a British commander sent to pursue him, he penned 'a brutal celebratory poem' detailing how his dead body would be 'left to the carrion eaters.'
In a neat historical parallel, eighty years later, warlord General Mohamed Farah Aideed had a $20,000 bounty placed on his head by Admiral Jonathan Howe – commander of the US 'humanitarian' mission Restore Hope. Aideed responded by promising to pay $20,000 to anyone who brought him the actual head of Admiral Howe. Whilst such violent reactions might seem anathema to us, they underscore a fundamental self-confidence that Harper clearly respects. Long-time scholar of Somalia, Ioan Lewis, puts it another way – Somalis have 'an open contempt for other people.'
What Harper is trying to do is to resurrect a basic level of respect in discussions about Somalia. From its portrayal as a lawless place, riven with fundamentalist Islam, and latterly suffering the effects of a terrible famine, she argues that these aren't the only things that happen in the country. Her real interest, I think, was in profiling modern-day Somalia where 'more than two decades of conflict and crisis have forced Somalis to invent alternative political and economic systems.' These innovations in the economy, the livestock trade, money transfers and telecommunications reveal something that will be new to many readers – successful Somalis making money. She also clearly admires the political developments in Somaliland – the northern territory that seceded from the Somalia after the collapse of the country's central government in 1991. Still unrecognised by the international community, Somaliland has slowly developed its own hybrid democratic system with some traditional structures still in place, and is generally peaceful and heading in the right direction.
In conversation Harper refers to Somalia as being "like a complex mathematical equation" – the moving parts being the country's bewildering clan system, and although some Somalis reportedly deny its modern-day importance, Harper "would take any Somali on who said the clan system was not relevant." Whilst clans were suppressed under Siad Barre's pseudo-socialist regime, and their resurgence in the 1990s is sometimes seen as the cause of the civil war, they remain the shifting bedrock upon which Somali society is built. I ask what she thinks defeat of the Islamist group Al-Shabaab would do for the country. The answer is perhaps surprising – far from ending the violence, Harper predicts that Somalia might, at least initially, take a step backwards, as the more ingrained divisions would resurface and regional clan-based groups take up arms again against each other. Whilst she deals harshly with the violent and reactionary Islam of Al-Shabaab, she states that their presence has softened the influence of the clan in Somalia. Whilst this has been achieved "largely through fear," she also argues that there might be some things to learn from this about the way Somali society works.
This desire to develop a new 'take' on almost all facets of Somalia's poorly reported public profile is nowhere more in evidence than in her chapter on the pirates. Harper is blunt in her statements to me that Somali pirates are "common criminals", and does not accept the fashionable counter-narrative that they are coastguards or fishermen driven to piracy through foreign exploitation of their fishing grounds. She seeks to write about Somalia's most notorious product "on their own terms", and includes several interviews with people who have been pirates. Piracy is clearly a profitable business, and is a product of both the Somali entrepreneurial élan, and the lack of economic opportunities on land due to chronic political instability, banal as this explanation may sound.
Harper evidently has a love and fascination for Somali people. She tells me that "Somalis give me massive freedom as both a journalist and human being." Whilst she inhabits a position somewhat elevated from the average Somali women, whose opportunities are limited in what is a conservative, male-dominated society; she doesn't recognise the real bitterness against this culture characterised in the writings of Ayan Hirsi Ali, and a string of western commentators on the 'Islamic world'.
In this, and many other topics, Harper isn't necessarily positive about the country's future, and is wary of making fashionable predictions, she is however keen to show that not everything about the place is broken.
Magnus Taylor is Managing Editor, African Argumeents Online.
Getting Somalia Wrong is being launched by the Royal African Society at SOAS on the evening of 7th February – click here for more information.
Getting Somalia Wrong: faith, war and hope in a shattered state – By Magnus Taylor | African Arguments.
Related articles
- Red Cross banned from areas of Somalia under al-Shabaab control (guardian.co.uk)
- Colleagues Of Killed Somali Journalist: 'We Don't Know Why We Are Being Targeted' (thinkprogress.org)
- Red Cross distributing spoiled food: Somali insurgents (ctv.ca)
- After the famine: Somalia's refugees ponder their future (guardian.co.uk)


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Jamie Aid's first three years as head coach of the Lipscomb women's tennis team have been filled with a number of firsts for her team.
The last three seasons the Lady Bisons have qualified for the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament. The past two seasons they have advanced to the semifinals. She approaches year four with a goal of continuing to reach new levels of success.
In 2016 the Lady Bisons were 14-8, 3-3 in the conference. The 14 wins were the most in the history of the program in a season in the NCAA era.
Three players earned All-ASUN honors. Laura Kent was named to the first team, while Kate Kandyba earned a nod to the All-Freshman Team.
Aid, in her fourth year as head coach, joined the program in 2010 as an assistant and was named head coach prior to the start of the 2013-2014 season.
In 2015 the Lady Bisons were 13-10. Kent was named to the ASUN All-Conference First Team. Deahna Welch and Jenny Borck earned second team honors. Hannah Gamage was named to the All-Freshman Team.
The Lady Bisons set a season program record for wins with 10 in 2014. They finished with a 10-11 worksheet overall. In the spring seasons they were 7-0 in home indoor matches, also a program record.
Their 3-5 record in the Atlantic Sun earned the Lady Bisons their first trip to the conference tournament in 2014. Seeded at No. 6 they lost 4-0 to Florida Gulf Coast in the first round.
Laura Kent was named to the A-Sun All–Freshman Team. It was the first time a Lady Bisons tennis player had been named to the team since 2005. Kent was a unanimous selection of the conference coaches.
Off the court in 2015 the Lady Bisons also had a first for the Lipscomb athletic programs. Between their matches with Mercer and Kennesaw State they spent several days working on a mission trip working with the homeless in Atlanta.
In 2016 the players stayed in Nashville where they worked for a week with immigrants who are making the transition to living in Nashville.
For the past two seasons the Lady Bisons have also earned Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team status.
In addition to her coaching duties Aid also serves as the Director of the Lipscomb Racquet Club located at the Huston-Marsh-Griffith Tennis Center on campus.
She is also serving her second year on the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Tennis Committee. Her term has been extended until September 2020.
She directs several camps at Lipscomb and also serves as a Junior Development Director, promoting junior tennis in the Nashville area.
Prior to joining the Lipscomb tennis program Aid held several positions at The Ensworth School in Nashville, working on the high school level in the Dean of Students office as head of academic support and as a faculty member in the fitness department.
From July 2006 through 2010 Aid served a tennis director at Ensworth. She oversaw the high school, junior varsity and middle school teams.
She served as head coach for the boys and girls teams and produced winning seasons with both teams each year as well as regular appearances in the TSSAA State Tournament. Aid's combined overall record was 44-11.
Aid has also worked as an instructor at camps on other campuses, including the Vanderbilt Tennis Camps from 2001-2004.
Aid graduated from Lipscomb University with a B.S. degree in 2006. She transferred from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama after being sidelined with a knee injury.
She redshirted for one year and then played two seasons at Lipscomb. She was named First Team All-Conference one season. She served as captain of the Lipscomb tennis team as a junior and senior.
Aid earned numerous academic honors including the Provost List and the Dean's List. She was a three-time All-Academic Team member. She also was named to the National Dean's List and was a member of "Who's Who among American College Students".
She graduated from Brentwood Academy ('01) in Brentwood, Tennessee where she played tennis on the varsity level from the eighth grade through her senior year. She later served on the alumni board from 2006-2009 at Brentwood Academy.
Aid was a top player in state of Tennessee in juniors as well as the southeast region.
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Maine fisherman's scallop guts intended for research project put in wrong car, go missing
MOUNT DESERT, Maine (AP) — A Maine fisherman is seeking help from the public and police in finding his scallop guts.
These aren't just any scallop guts. Andy Mays of Southwest Harbor had been collecting scallops for six months for a project by the University of Maine's marine research facility. He'd gutted the bivalves, isolated different organs and preserved them in formaldehyde.
Mays' wife, Michelle, tells the Bangor Daily News (http://bit.ly/Yq3jBo ) he was scheduled to hand over the parts to a graduate student at a convenience store Monday.
When he arrived, he put the container of bits into a car with University of Maine plates, assuming it belonged to the student. It did not, and when he came back outside, the car was gone.
Michelle Mays says the fear is that someone will throw out the scallops.
Information from: Bangor Daily News, http://www.bangordailynews.com


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Team Whistler Cycling has partnered with Whistler Olympic Park to host the first Mountain Bike race at the site of the 2010 Nordic skiing events on Sunday, July 19th. Taking advantage of the newly constructed ski trails as a base for course design, the crew at the Park and a number of trained volunteers have added large sections of single track to make for a race course to be remembered.
There are three different events being held:
• BC Cup #4 for licensed riders
• A Citizens' Race (fun event for non-licensed riders)
• A kids' biathlon race (supported by ActNowBC)
After riding the course with staff from Cycling BC, Todd Allison, Race Director said that "the course would challenge all. Roadies will excel at the initial climb to the top of the ski jumps on the existing Olympic Cross Country ski trail but then the technical riders will hold the upper hand when they jump back into the tougher sections including the steep single track beside the Olympic Ski Jump". This section has been provisionally named "K-110", comparing it to the ski jump landing. The course offers a balance of fast climbs and places to pass on the ski trails combined with challenging single track and one fast ski trail downhill.
The course is a challenging eight kilometre laps of an Olympic Mountain Bike style course. While many riders prefer marathon style races to Olympic style, this course will not disappoint. The terrain is varied and will be challenging for all types of riders. Team Whistler rider Mike Boehm described the single track section riding down to Madelay Creek as "classic Whistler riding" - adding that it will be awesome.
These trails will form part of an important legacy for the Sea-to-Sky community and we expect that this race will become a feature of the BC Cup series in the coming years.
Further information can be found on www.teamwhistler.ca and for the kids' race, go to www.actnowbc.ca/events. Registration is open at www.karelo.com.
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Monthly cost of Magyar Telekom's landline phone plans – May 2020Download report (pdf)
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My trip to California last week was jam-packed with activities, especially in Los Angeles, which didn't leave me too much time to enjoy The Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills to the fullest, but I did enjoy my stay and the central location. It didn't take me more than ten minutes to get anywhere. The Avalon was a favorite of Marilyn Monroe's back in the 1950s and it has become a favorite of design enthusiasts since Kelly Wearstler redesigned the property.
{The cabanas by the pool feature fabulous mosaic-like murals.}
{Sadly, I didn't have time to eat at the glamorous Oliverio restaurant, but I have heard wonderful things about the food and service. Aren't the chairs fabulous?}
{I was given a premium room which was super spacious, with a sitting area and separate workspace. The rooms feature Sferra linens and the bed and pillows were incredibly comfortable.}
{The rooms have more of a mid-century modern influence than the public spaces downstairs.}
{The Large Workspace}
{The bathroom was roomy and had plenty of space for laying out my things.}
{A Second Look at the Bathroom}
{I loved that The Avalon is eco-conscious, choosing to use full-size bottles of Neil George toiletries instead of small ones. The products were very luxurious and smell divine!}
{The Breathtaking Grounds at Pelican Hill}
The two hotels that I stayed in during my trip were both very chic and comfortable, but completely different. On Wednesday, I headed down to Newport Coast because my friend and her family had invited me to stay with them at the gorgeous Pelican Hill Resort. The resort is ultra luxurious with every amenity one could possibly wish for. It's best feature is the gorgeous views. It was my first time in Newport and Laguna Beach and I am already dying to go back!
{The Main Courtyard at Pelican Hill}
{The Adorable Children's Camp}
{The Beautiful Grounds}
{Watching the Sunset from our Terrace}
{Pathway Leading to the Front Door of our Beautiful Villa}
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{The Large Living Area – The whole villa was such a great size. I would move right in!}
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Atchison and St. Joseph Rail Road!
July 28, 1857
This advertisement announces a meeting of stockholders in Atchison on August 8, 1857.
Keywords: Atchison County, Kansas Territory; Atchison and St. Joseph Railroad; Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke), 1816-1891; Railroad companies
Authors: Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke), 1816-1891
Speech, Fellow Citizens--Opposing the Lecompton Constitution
c. 1858
This hand-written speech appeared to be another by John Alexander Martin, seemingly composed for delivery in the spring and/or early summer of 1858, not long after he took over Atchison's Squatter Sovereign and renamed it Freedom's Champion. Here the speaker aimed his attack at the Buchanan administration and the English Bill, and the renewed attempt to pass the Lecompton Constitution at a referendum scheduled for August 2, 1858, and thus overturn the free-state victory that had already been won. The speaker seemed confident it would be defeated, as the constitution itself had been in January but hoped for an overwhelming vote against (perhaps as many as 15,000).
Keywords: Buchanan administration; Constitutions; English Bill; Free labor; Lecompton Constitution; Martin, John A., 1839-1889; Missouri compromise; Popular sovereignty; Slave power; Slavery; Squatter sovereignty
Authors: Martin, John A., 1839-1889
Letter, John A. Martin to Sir
c. 1858
In his capacity as chairman of the Atchison County Republican Central Committee, John Alexander Martin apparently wrote this draft of a letter to a member of the Democratic opposition, responding to an invitation to make a speech in support or participate in a discussion of the proposed Wyandotte Constitution. The campaign for its ratification took place in August and September 1858. Martin expressed a willingness to speak out for the constitution, but he objected to the proposed format ("the programme of discussion you have laid down"). Martin insisted that the Republicans were "proud" of the constitution and "are willing to go before the people with the members of the Democratic party" and discuss its provisions "on any fair terms."
Keywords: Atchison County, Kansas Territory; Black Republicans; Constitutions; Democratic Party (U.S.); Martin, John A., 1839-1889; Republican Party (U.S.: 1854- ); Wyandotte Constitution
Authors: Martin, John A., 1839-1889
Report of H. J. Strickler, Commissioner to Audit Claims of Citizens of the Territory of Kansas
Stephen Johnston of Atchison filed claim # 213 for supplies furnished to the territorial militia under the command of D. M. Johnston in December 1855. Items provided included food and ammunition. Each claimant had to submit an itemized list and have two witnesses attest to the losses claimed. Even though many of these claims were approved for payment, no funds were ever appropriated or distributed.
Keywords: Ammunition; Atchison County, Kansas Territory; Atchison, Kansas Territory; Damage claims; Food; Johnston, D. M.; Johnston, Stephen; Strickler, Hiram Jackson
Authors: Strickler, Hiram Jackson
Promotional Brochure for Lancaster City, Atchison County, Kansas
This promotional brochure advertised Lancaster City, which was located in Atchison County. It includes the price of lots, features around the city, and describes what has already been built in the city.
Keywords: Atchison County, Kansas Territory; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory; Lancaster City, Kansas Territory; Land sales; Settlement; Weightman, Henry R
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As the nation addresses soaring child obesity rates, base and school officials are trying to trim the fat in and outside the cafeteria.
As the nation addresses soaring child obesity rates, base and school officials are trying to trim the fat in and outside the cafeteria.
�From what I�ve seen in my office, the obesity rate locally is pretty high,� said Navy Lt. Melinda Villarreal, the division officer of nutrition management. �Between active-duty military and their dependents, there are only two reasons we see them here. They are either underweight or overweight, and it�s usually the latter of the two.�
The U.S. child obesity rate tripled in the last 30 years. Today, it is up to 18 percent.
There is a difference between being overweight and obese, however. Overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is being too heavy for a certain height because of excess fat, bone, water or a combination.
Obesity is the excess of body fat.
Onslow County�s child obesity rate is below the state�s 13.4-percent average, but the local rate is on the rise, according to the Onslow County Health Department.
�The first step is giving patients a dietary analysis to see what they are taking in compared to how much their body is using,� Villarreal said. �We then transition into making goals and dietary changes. It can�t be anything too drastic. We manage their weight and allow them to grow into their size because they will stretch out.�
Not one specific food group has been linked to obesity, said Villarreal, but rather it�s the total amount of calories consumed. Fat has nine calories per gram unlike proteins and carbohydrates, which have four calories per gram, Villarreal said.
The �The Healthy Plate� has replaced the old food guide pyramid. The new guide recommends children and parents divide a plate into healthy increments. Half should be fruits or vegetables, a quarter for starches or grains and a quarter for a healthy meat, Villarreal said.
The battle against child obesity also has begun in Onslow County Schools.
The school system adheres to Institute of Medicine standards for its menus. It gives children whole grain breads only. The schools allow children all the vegetables they desire. And 1-percent or skim milk is served. Fruits are limited to manage sugar intake, said Tilwanja Lucas, Onslow County Schools child nutrition director.
The fight against child obesity includes discussions of exercise.
A new K-12 program this year stresses the balance of healthy eating and active living. In middle and high school, the curriculum is mainly taught by the physical education teacher. Starting with ninth grade, students analyze nutrition, fitness and weight management in order to prevent disease, according to Judy Yeager, the director of Safe, Civil and Caring Schools.
Lanell Perkins, a nurse supervisor for Onslow County Schools, said more than 29,000 students were educated thanks to a Health and Ready To Learn grant, which expired Aug. 21.
Aboard Camp Lejeune, students also taught to make healthy decisions and stay physically active, according to Clyde Thomas, Camp Lejeune schools� child nutrition program director.
�Our program is monitored by both federal and state agencies,� Thomas said. �All of the procedures were set in place to guarantee the children will receive nutritious meals. ...They are encouraged to pick servings from certain food groups for a healthy meal.�
Department of Defense schools have health education classes and physical education content ingrained in the curriculum to prepare students to �assume full responsibility for maintaining a healthy and physically active lifestyle,� according to Dr. Rita Williams, the schools instructional systems specialist.
�Opportunities for daily physical activity are provided through scheduled physical education classes,� as well as through recess, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities, Williams said.
For some parents involved in organizations such as the Onslow County Partnership for Children�s Early Head Start Program, making healthy choices is something they are taught immediately after enrollment and monitored twice per year during home visits and at the center. The program is also sensitive to cultural preferences and restrictions when serving foods to families and will offer alternative choices to accommodate the family�s preferences, according to Connie Phillips, the director of the Jacksonville program.
�Home visitors work with families to facilitate healthy eating habits and appropriate portions for children and adults during weekly home visits,� Phillips said. �...Ensuring young children are ready for school begins with healthy development. Educating parents to make healthy and nutritious choices for their children is the first step in this lifelong process.�
Contact Daily News Military Reporter Thomas Brennan at 910-219-8453 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ thomasjbrennan.


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On track for Australia's first LNG from coal seam gas
Extends a new transport fuel industry to Queensland
Develops network of LNG refuelling stations on east coast
North Ryde, NSW, Australia, 18 March 2010 – BOC and QGC today announced a long-term gas supply agreement worth more than $100 million that puts the companies on track to extend a new transport fuel industry to Queensland and completes an interstate network of liquefied natural gas (LNG) refuelling stations for the trucking industry.
BOC, a member of The Linde Group, and QGC, a BG Group business, announced the contract at a function in Chinchilla, southern Queensland, attended by the Premier of Queensland, the Honourable Anna Bligh MP.
As part of the agreement, QGC will supply BOC with up to 30 petajoules of coal seam gas over 15 years. QGC will supply gas to BOC from July 2011, putting the companies on track to become the first in Australia to produce LNG from coal seam gas, through safe and proven liquefaction technology.
To process the gas into LNG, BOC will build a market-leading micro-LNG plant similar to the one that BOC is now constructing in Westbury, Tasmania. The plant, planned to be built near QGC's gas fields in the Surat Basin, will produce 50 tonnes of LNG a day – equivalent to 70,000 litres of diesel – for heavy transport and industry.
"This agreement heralds the extension of a new industry to Queensland based on coal seam gas where heavy transport may switch to LNG, an environmentally cleaner fuel than current alternatives," Ms Bligh said. "LNG produces up to 20 per cent1 less emissions than diesel when used for transport and is a quieter, proven, safe alternative to other fossil fuels. "Through this agreement, Queensland will join with other states as BOC develops an innovative network of LNG refuelling stations along the east coast of Australia for vehicles converted to run on LNG."
LNG is methane – a natural gas – which when cooled to about -162oC becomes liquefied, taking up 600 times less volume than as a gas. It can then easily be stored in tanks at low pressure and be used as a fuel for heavy transport.
Natural gas is one of the safest transportation fuels and offers a number of critical environmental advantages when compared to competing hydrocarbon fuels, including significantly lower carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions and cleaner air quality. As a result, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change2 identified gas utilisation as an important short and medium-term technology to help mitigate climate change.
BOC plans to complete an interstate network of liquefied natural gas refuelling stations for the trucking industry, building and operating up to eight refuelling stations from Queensland to Victoria. As a starting point in Queensland, BOC proposes to build a refuelling station on the Warrego Highway, subject to further discussions with its customers.
These stations will be supplied from BOC's existing liquefaction plant in Victoria and the one to be built in the Surat Basin. The Victorian plant and another under construction in Tasmania are based on the use of conventional gas. The company is seeking to begin construction of the new plant next to QGC's Condamine Power Station, near Miles, subject to a formal development approval process, early next year. QGC plans to assist in the supply of land and utilities. BOC expects to spend at least $100 million – exclusive of gas – on construction and operation during the lifetime of the project. Up to 40 people will be employed during the construction phase and two full-time employees will be based at the plant on completion.
QGC Managing Director Catherine Tanna said the agreement offered great economic and environmental benefits to Queensland. "This is a leading-edge partnership in which QGC and BOC will use the natural resources of the region's coal seam gas to extend an attractive new industry to Queensland," Ms Tanna said. "By supplying coal seam gas to be converted into LNG to replace diesel, we'll be helping to create a new industry and at the same time support local economies. QGC is committed to supplying the domestic gas market from our gas fields in southern Queensland as we continue to develop our Queensland Curtis LNG Project at Gladstone."
BOC South Pacific Managing Director Colin Isaac said the agreement marked an important step in the development of LNG, an innovative new fuel, for the transport industry. "Using coal seam gas to create LNG as a transport fuel is an Australian first," Mr Isaac said. "When construction is complete, this plant will supply a cleaner fuel than diesel with a more stable price. That's a big win for trucking operators, for the environment and the local economy. LNG is a reliable and proven technology that will offer Queensland's trucking operators an economically and environmentally appealing alternative to diesel. Importantly, natural gas is a well-accepted fuel, with 10 million3 vehicles worldwide fuelled by natural gas. In Australia, buses operate in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra on this fuel. Safety is of paramount concern to both BOC and QGC."
The liquefied natural gas industry has earned an enviable reputation for safety in half a century of commercial operations. This record is the product of continuous improvement of technology, safety equipment, comprehensive safety procedures, training and equipment maintenance.
1Alternate Fuels Conversion Program Trials (2005-08), sponsored by the Commonwealth Government
2IPCC Working Group III (WGIII): Mitigation of Climate Change
3International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles website
For more information please contact:
BOC: Karen Heidtmann +61 (0) 423 841 054 email@example.com
QGC: Paul Larter +61 (0) 400 776 937 email@example.com
Notes to Editors:
BOC is a member of The Linde Group which supplies compressed and bulk gases, chemicals and equipment around the globe. The company develops safe, sustainable and innovative solutions for customers in many specialty sectors, heavy industry and medical environments. For more than a century the company's gases and expertise have contributed to advances in industry and everyday life, including steelmaking, refining, chemical processing, environmental protection, wastewater treatment, welding and cutting, food processing and distribution, glass production, electronics and health care.
For further information, see www.boc.com.au
The Linde Group
The Linde Group is a world leading gases and engineering company with almost 48,000 employees working in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2009 financial year it achieved sales of EUR 11.2 billion. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards sustainable earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. Linde is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
For more information, see The Linde Group online at http://www.linde.com
QGC Pty Limited (ACN: 089 642 553) is a leading Australian coal seam gas explorer and producer focused on supplying gas to domestic and international markets. QGC is establishing one of Australia's largest capital infrastructure projects to turn Queensland's world-class coal seam gas reserves into liquefied natural gas. Queensland Curtis LNG, a priority project for QGC, involves expanding exploration and development in southern and central Queensland and transporting gas through a 540km underground pipeline network to Curtis Island near Gladstone where it will be liquefied.
For further information visit: www.qgc.com.au or www.qclng.com.au
BG Group
BG Group plc (LSE: BG.L) is a world leader in natural gas, with a strategy focused on connecting competitively-priced resources to specific, high-value markets. BG Group is active in more than 20 countries on five continents, and has a broad portfolio of exploration and production, liquefied natural gas, transmission and distribution, and power generation businesses. It combines a deep understanding of gas markets with a proven track record in finding and commercialising reserves.
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Music Media - are physical formats dying?
I guess that there are plenty of ways I could use to talk about this, and a lot of things I could say about it. So, since this comes as a reflection of two things that happened during my vacations, I'll just tell you about those two, talk only a little about my reflections about it... and let you do your own thinking.
The first one is about Stereo 8. What's in the picture is - for those that don't know - a Stereo 8 cartridge. Before the massification of the Cassette Tape, this was what people used to listen as a more portable (yet inferior) media for recorded music. After the event of massification of the use of cassettes, Stereo 8 lost most of their fans, with exceptions of truck drivers (most of their vehicles came with an 8-track player) and in some less developed countries. This one is mine, one of the two only 8-track I have that still play. The curious fact about it is that, for me, this is the best Tango album I ever listened to. In fact, I generally don't like Tango, but I really dig this album, and during vacations spent quite a few hours listening to it while playing Scrabble with Paula. Unlike the other 8-track cartridge I own, this one was never released in any other format. That means that if I want to listen to it, I must do it from the original source (well, maybe next time I go to Lamego I'll try to rip it to another format). This music is virtually lost: not only I don't believe there are that many 8-track listeners out there, but the probability they have this one, and still playable, is pretty much none. The format is so dead, that each time I tell somebody that the last 8-track released I know of was in 2004 (even if I suspect that if I dig enough I'll find that some crazy band released one more recently), their reaction is generally disbelief: they expected it was in the eighties. So, what happens if you want this music? Nothing. You simply can't have it. Of course it would done absolutely no harm if I made a copy and give it to you, but that would be illegal, this isn't in Public Domain. And since it only enters in Public Domain 70 years after its authors die, we both will be dead or deaf by then... you'll just have to believe this is good music. I don't really think that 70 years after-death for getting music into Public Domain makes any sense, but unfortunately EU is thinking in extending it even more...
The other one is about one music store in Lamego: Brincodisco. I had a quite long and interesting chat with its owner (that was already owner of that place even before I was born, my brother and older sister used to buy there their records...), and there were lots of things in that chat and my visit to the store that made me think in several things - so I'll probably end up talking about that store several times in the future. But, for now, the thing that made me enter into the store the most (well, besides being a music store and me being on vacations): there were several cassette tapes exposed there. But the shock was when I entered: my estimation is that the store sells (more or less) 40% CDs, 35% Vinyl records and 25% cassette tapes. That's right: one quarter of the items selling there are cassette tapes. How do you take this piece of information, when the trend nowadays is saying that all the physical formats are dead but CD, that is dying?
Reality check, please: physical formats are never going to die, and CDs and Vinyls have decades in front of them, before they disappear. You might not like this, you might want to ignore this when you make your business, prediction or whatever you do, but if confronted with this, you need to realize that, even if a niche, the physical music market is here to stay. And I'm glad.


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Faith Hill Enlists Tim McGraw to Help With Ice Bucket Challenge [Watch]
After being challenged by Reba McEntire and a close friend, it was time for Faith Hill to step up and complete the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS. Hill enlisted her hubby, Tim McGraw, to do the honors.
In her YouTube video for the ALS challenge, Hill reminds the world how she can still be glamorous even if she's in shorts and a T-shirt. She stands looking like she hasn't aged a day in what seems to be her backyard.
"Hi everybody, I've been challenged by my dear friend Reba McEntire ... for the ALS ice bucket challenge," she says. "Lets see, who do I nominate? I nominate Nicole Kidman, Rita Wilson and Adam Sandler."
After nominating Keith Urban's wife, actress Wilson and funny man Sandler, she lets out a little scream as McGraw moves into the frame with a big green bucket of ice cold water for his wife. He mostly misses her face and hair, but douses her body in the water.
"Oh my God," she exclaims on her tiptoes. "That is so cold!"
Although McGraw had already completed a challenge of his own, he tried to keep his wife warm and dry by she couldn't escape the challenge for that long. In his video, Hill stood dry behind the camera and filmed his Ice Bucket Challenge. Watch McGraw's challenge here and see who he nominated.
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UH, Aloha Stadium making special preparations for sellout crowdsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Sports Information Officer
The University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa and Aloha Stadium are working collectively to prepare for sellout crowds (50,000) for the Boise State and Washington football games on Nov. 23 and Dec. 1, respectively.
"We are experiencing an incredibly successful football season, which is providing fantastic exposure for our university and our entire state," Herman Frazier, UH athletics director, said. "Therefore, we want to ensure that nothing detracts from the accomplishments of these talented student-athletes or the positive national exposure they are generating.
"We've had very constructive meetings with Aloha Stadium. All groups involved with UH football are committed to providing a quality game experience for our fans and those of the visiting teams. In particular, we have reviewed security needs, especially around the perimeter of the visiting fans' sections in the north end zone. We are putting a premium on good sportsmanship and acceptable fan behavior."
UH and Aloha Stadium officials held a conference call with the media Wednesday morning (Nov. 14) and discussed the various initiatives that will be administered in order to deal with the capacity crowds.
"Our main concern is always public safety," Scott Chan, Aloha Stadium manger, said. "We will implement several security measures in order to ensure that our guests have a comfortable and enjoyable visit to our stadium. We will heighten our staffing and security presence around the visitor's section and implement a task force to focus on inappropriate behavior and allow the officers to remain at their assigned posts. We support the effort that UH is making to help promote good sportsmanship at its football games."
Prior to the Boise State contest, UH and Aloha Stadium will initiate a public relations campaign in order to communicate the heightened security measures and to emphasize good sportsmanship at Warrior football games. These initiatives include:
1. June Jones, UH head football coach, will tape a 30-second public service announcement, which will air on local television and radio stations, asking UH fans to show aloha to our visitors and to demonstrate good sportsmanship. The PSA will also air on the stadium Jumbotron prior to the start of the game.
2. Coach Jones will echo the good sportsmanship message in his interview sessions with the media, including his weekly press conference.
3. Print advertisements will be placed in the local newspapers with the good sportsmanship message
4. Through all media outlets, UH will communicate the good sportsmanship message and encourage all fans to act responsibly.
5. UH's weekly e-newsletter (H-Mail - circulation 34,000) will feature an appeal to fans with the same theme
6. Aloha Stadium will implement a task force to focus on inappropriate behavior and ensure public safety.
"I'm very pleased and supportive of the various plans and strategies that the Athletics Department and Aloha Stadium have initiated," said UH Manoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw. "We expect our football players and coaching staff to demonstrate the highest level of sportsmanship on the field and we have that same expectation for our fans. Our campus and our community are fortunate to have visitors supporting other academic institutions at athletic and other campus events, so we should warmly welcome them and be great hosts."
The 16th-ranked Warriors (9-0) play at Nevada Friday, Nov. 16, before returning home to close out the regular season against Boise State and Washington. The Boise State game is already sold out and less than 5,000 tickets remain for the Washington contest.


text: Next time you eat out, you can help UNICEF bring safe, clean drinking water to children worldwide. During World Water Week, March 22-28, restaurants all over the country will be participating in the Tap Project, asking patrons for a $1 (or more) donation for the water that all of us routinely, unthinkingly enjoy for free. Just that tiny sum provides a needy child with 40 days of clean drinking water. Given that water-related disease is the number-two cause of death for children worldwide, this easy step can really make a difference. Check out the Tap Project website to enter your zip code to find participating restaurants in your area. Make your next restaurant meal count for good!


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It's November, and you all know what that means: No, not the growing of wispy, creepy mustaches. November is National Novel-Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for (almost) short.
NaNoWriMo is the annual attempt by many tens of thousands of people to finally get that novel out of their head and into the cloud storage option of their choice. The goal is to write a 50,000-word novel by midnight on the 30th November, and you can get there by fair means or foul. The rules? It has to be a novel, it has to be 50,000 words (or more) long, and it has to be written in November.
The tools you will need most to write your NaNoWriMo novel are inspiration and a lot of perseverance. Luckily, apps can help you with both. Here's the definitive guide to NaNoWriMo apps on the Mac and iOS. If you can't drag that novel kicking and screaming into the world with the help of these apps, you can't do it at all.


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4/18 – 4/20/08: Pequea Campground
The trip to Pequea was a great trip. Our group of 7 exited active scouts was ready to camp, and it was a beautiful weekend for camping. The whole trip was an adventure from the start, as we got lost and a two hour drive turned into four. We finally arrived at Pequea Creek Campground around 11oclock. Setting up camp wasn't too time-consuming and we went to bed around 1 in the morning.
The next morning was fairly uneventful with a breakfast of transparent pancakes and charred sausage. Then, after making sure everyone had enough water for our 10 mile hike, we set off. The first stop on our hike was a Wind Cave, welcoming us with its natural air conditioning, after a hot walk up the hill. A little while later, we reached a scenic outlook point, called House Rock. This point overlooked Susquehanna River After another half an hour or so, we reached our turn around point and ate a lunch of PB and J or Ra man noodles. Before we could leave for our trip back, we got to experience some first aid when Mike suffered for his art and cut into his finger. The five miles back flew by. Tired and exhausted but still happy, we swam in the river before returning to camp to finish up our trip with another pasta dinner.


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Ireland v South Africa, November 10
Ireland name Heaslip as skipper
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November 8, 2012
Jamie Heaslip will become Ireland's 101st captain © Getty Images
No.8 Jamie Heaslip will captain Ireland against South Africa on Saturday with Richardt Strauss poised to make his debut.
The Leinster back-rower will skipper the country for the first time and in the process will become their 101st captain. He is filling the void left by the injured Brian O'Driscoll with fellow sidelined duo Rory Best and Paul O'Connell also previously in the mix to take the captain's armband.
And Heaslip admits it was a great surprise that he was to be named captain. "I was getting my mate an engagement card when I got the heads up from Declan about it," he said. "I was in Tesco and I didn't know what to do with myself. I felt like going out and celebrating. It felt like my first cap again.
"I received a text from Mick Dawson [Leinster chief executive] about my record, so no pressure there! It's great. I rang my parents straight away and I'm humbled by the decision. I'm proud to lead this group.
"Once we get on to the pitch everyone will be on automatic pilot because we have such great leaders within the team. It's talking after the dinner that's got me more nervous than anything else."
The team shows a raft of changes from the one that last pulled on the green jersey of Ireland in their heavy 60-0 defeat to the All Blacks. In total coach Declan Kidney has changed eight personnel for Saturday's match.
In the front-row Cian Healy packs down alongside debutant Strauss and Mike Ross. Connacht's Mike McCarthy fills in for Dan Tuohy at lock with Chris Henry getting the nod at openside in what will be his third appearance for Ireland. Heaslip skippers the side from No.8 while Peter O'Mahony, who started against the Kiwis in that position, shifts to blindside.
Kidney has opted to keep the same half-back combination that lost to the All Blacks with Munster's Conor Murray partnering Jonathan Sexton but has named a new pair of centres with Gordon D'Arcy lining up alongside Keith Earls. And there is a new-look back three with Tommy Bowe partnered on the flanks by his Ulster team-mate Andrew Trimble. At fullback, Munster's Simon Zebo starts just his second Test for Ireland and his first in the No.15 shirt.
Among the replacements, forwards David Kilcoyne, Michael Bent and Iain Henderson are all in line to make their international debuts should they be called into the game.
Ireland team to play South Africa:
Simon Zebo, Tommy Bowe, Keith Earls, Gordon D'Arcy, Andrew Trimble, Jonathan Sexton, Conor Murray, Cian Healy, Richardt Strauss, Mike Ross, Donnacha Ryan, Mike McCarthy, Peter O'Mahony, Chris Henry, Jamie Heaslip (captain)
Replacements: Sean Cronin, David Kilcoyne, Michael Bent, Donnacha O'Callaghan, Iain Henderson, Eoin Reddan, Ronan O'Gara, Fergus McFadden
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