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n Alcoholics anonymous holds meetings daily throughout the Seacoast. For meeting or general information on New Hampshire Alcoholics Anonymous, call (800) 593-3330 or visit www.nhaa.net.
n AL-ANON/ALATEEN — Visit www.nhal-anon.org, call (877) 825 2666. For meeting list and information locally, call 645-9518.
n CELEBRATE RECOVERY: A Christ-centered 12-step recovery program based on the scripture and open to the public, will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday evenings at Bethany Church, 500 Breakfast Hill Road, Greenland. For information, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com, or come to a meeting.
n GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS meets every Saturday at 9 a.m. at York Hospital, 16 Hospital Drive, York, in the purple building directly in back of the main hospital building. The meeting is downstairs in the basement conference room.
n NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: For help information, call 645-4777, toll-free: (888) NA-HELP-U. For meeting information, visit www.gsana.org.
n A MAKING CHANGE GROUP will be held from 3 to 4 p.m. every Monday at OdysseyNH Academy, 150 High St., Hampton. This is a substance abuse support group for young people who are considering or committed to recovery. No AA or NA, but an experience that encourages 12-step involvement. For information, call Barry T. at 758-1558.
n HELP FOR SMOKERS is held every first, second and fourth Wednesdays at 5 p.m. and every third Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Martin's Point Health Care, 161 Corporate Drive, Pease International Tradeport, Portsmouth. Free and open to the public. No registration is required but first-time participants should call the office at (800) 260-6681.
n SEACOAST HOSPICE WINTER 2008 GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS FOR 6 WEEKS, FREE: Location information is provided at the time of registration. Registration is required by calling (800) 416-9207, ext. 1141.
n Healing After Suicide is a support group for anyone experiencing bereavement due to the suicide of a loved one, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31 to Thursday, March 6 in the Exeter area.
n Bridges, a 10-week grief support group for children and teens who have experienced the loss of a loved one through death will be held from 6 to 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 25 to Tuesday, May 27 in the Newington area.
n BREASTCANCERSTORIES.COM, based in Portsmouth, provides breast cancer patients with a unique Web address for writing and uploading diary entries and photos; the ability to connect with other patients nationwide; resource links to hospitals and cancer centers; and information on breast cancer products, programs and events. Friends and family members can visit their loved one's Web site, follow her story and leave messages of support. Newly diagnosed breast cancer patients can search through an index of stories based on age, location, type of cancer and treatment, etc., find people in similar situations, and follow their story so they don't feel so alone. Industry professionals wishing to learn more about BreastCancerStories.com can visit the Web site and/or contact Wendy McCoole directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
n BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS Group meets the third Monday of every month at the Ellis Conference Room of the York Hospital from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in York, Maine. Contact persons are Jean Smith at (207) 646-1364 or Joann Noel at (207) 351-1324.
n BREAST CANCER WELLNESS support group meets the first and third Tuesday of the month from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Medical Office Building conference room. Call 433-6988 or 433-4960.
n SEACOAST INTEGRATIVE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP meets at 6:30 p.m. every second Thursday at Dover Herbal Path. Maya Bisson, a colon cancer survivor, is the facilitator and will share her story on how qi gong therapy was crucial to her recovery. For information, call 749-1575.
n CANCER ADVOCATES COALITION has launched www.canceradvocatescoalition.org. Chaired by testicular cancer survivor Ronald K. Bye of Greenland, Cancer Advocates Coalition is a collaboration of northeastern delegates who attended the Lance Armstrong LiveSTRONG Summit. Its mission is to organize, educate, empower, inspire and motivate cancer survivors, caregivers, health care providers, elected officials, advocates, and other stakeholders throughout the region. The group is planning a regional survivorship summit. Visit the Web site for details.
n FILL THE GAP is a 24/7 telephone helpline in Durham staffed by local breast cancer survivors for emotional and informational support from first awareness of a breast cancer diagnosis to entry into treatment. For information, call 570-3333 or visit www.fillthegap.info.
n ALZHEIMER'S CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP meets the first and third Thursday of each month at 2 p.m. at 127 Parrott Avenue Place, Portsmouth. Free and open to the public by Compass Care. No referral or appointment necessary, call Compass Care at 430-0070 for additional information.
n ALZHEIMER'S SUPPORT GROUP for CAREGIVERS and Loved Ones meets on the last Wednesday of each month. All meetings take place at 3 p.m. in the Great Room at The Inn at Spruce Wood, 25 Worthen Road, Durham. For information or directions, call 659-1100 or visit www.theinnatsprucewood.com.
n CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP meets from 7 to 9 p.m. on the second Tuesday of the month at the Fremont Public Library, on the corner of Route 107 (Main Street) and Jackie Bernier Drive. RSVP to The Independent Caregivers Group, Bettie Valentine at 300-6518.
n FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP meets from 5 to 7 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month at the Rice Public Library (downstairs, parking lot entrance), Kittery, Maine. Registration not required. For information, call (800) 427-7411.
n SEACOAST AUTISM SUPPORT GROUP meets from 2 to 4 p.m. the second Saturday of every month to provide support and networking opportunities to caregivers of individuals who have autism. Meetings are held in the Ellis Conference Room at York Hospital. (207) 363-2897.
n DIABETIC SUPPORT GROUP meets at 6 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month at Sunbridge Care and Rehabilitation, 8 Hampton Road, Exeter. The group is open to all individuals who have been diagnosed with diabetes. 778-0531, ext. 219.
n JUDY NELSON, of HealthReach Diabetes, will give an open forum discussion to parents of children with diabetes at 7 p.m. the third Tuesday of every month September-June at Exeter Healthcare, 4 Alumni Drive, Exeter. For information, call (800) 439-3837 or visit www.foreveryday.com.
n TALK'N DIABETES is an informative and energetic discussion about diabetes self-care. Monthly topics focus on helping people who live with diabetes gain control over their disease, one step at a time. These programs are free to the public and offered by Neighborhood Diabetes, a local pharmacy and diabetes resource organization: in conjunction with HealthReach Diabetes, a department of Exeter Hospital. Meetings are held the second Wednesday of every month, 2 p.m. at the Exeter Senior Center, 32 Court St., Exeter. To register, call the HealthReach Information Center at 1-800-4-EXETER, locally 926-9131, or sign up online at www.foreveryday.com.
n DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP meets the third Wednesday of each month from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, 3rd floor, Classroom 2, 155 Borthwick Ave., Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Portsmouth. For all people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. No fee or registration required. For information, call 433-5160.
n AIDS RESPONSE SEACOAST holds a free support group for HIV positive women from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the first and third Thursday of the month in Portsmouth. Contact ARS Prevention Educator Beth Kolanach at firstname.lastname@example.com or 433-5377, ext. 2226. AIDS Response is also accepting registrations for Healthy Relationships, a new program for people who are HIV positive. For more information contact Mike Amichetti at 433-5377, ext. 2228 or e-mail email@example.com.
n NATIONAL OSTEOPOROSIS FOUNDATION HealthReach Support Group meets monthly 7-8:30 p.m., the third Tuesday of each month in Exeter Hospital Conference Room 3 North. Call 1-800-439-3837 for more information.
n PARKINSON'S SUPPORT GROUP for individuals with Parkinson's, families and friends, meets the third Wednesday of each month at 1:30 p.m. at 127 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth. Free and open to the public. No referral or appointment necessary, call Compass Care at 430-0070 for additional information.
n Seacoast Herpes Support GROUP meets at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every month at the Feminist Health Center, 559 Portsmouth Ave., Greenland. The group is free. For directions or question, call Brigit at 436-7588.
n CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE EDUCATION & SUPPORT GROUP meets from 11 a.m. to noon on Tuesdays at Heart Health Institute, 127 Long Sands Road, York, Maine. (207) 351-3700.
Domestic violence, sexual abuse support
n CARING UNLIMITED, York County's domestic violence program services include a 24-hour hot-line offering support, advocacy, information and referral for victims of domestic violence and their children. All services are confidential and free. Hot-line: (800) 239-7298; Kittery, Maine Outreach Office: (207) 439-8810, ext. 123; Sanford, Maine Office (207) 490-3227.
n SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES, Program services include a 24-hour hotline, information and referrals, office walk-ins, support groups, professional training and prevention education. All services are free and confidential. Toll free hotline: 1-888-747-7070. For more information please contact one of our offices or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Main office: 7 Junkins Ave., Portsmouth, NH 03801, 6436-4107. Outreach Office: 18 North Main St., Rochester, NH 332-0775. www.sassnh.org
Families, relationships
n ADOPTIVE FAMILIES TOGETHER holds parent-led discussions on the third Wednesday of the month from 6 to 7:30 p.m., at Families First at 100 Campus Drive, Portsmouth. Childcare is available by reservation by calling 422-8208, ext. 2. The group is a support network of adoptive families who combine experiences and information to strengthen their families. All families touched by adoption, or considering adoption, are welcome to attend. Group leaders are Sharon Johnson and Karen McCarthy. For information, call (617) 587-1563.
n CHADD SUPPORT GROUP (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder) meets from 7 to 9 p.m. on the last Thursday of the month at Pilgrim United Church of Christ, Middle Road, Brentwood. E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com, www.chadd.org.
n FAMILY RECEPTION CENTER, a support group for families of prisoners, meets the fourth Saturday of the month at 10:45 a.m. at the Strafford County Jail. The County Jail needs volunteers to provide validation, support and resources that lessen the impact of incarceration for families. For information, contact Marilyn Allen at 749-3289.
n PARENTS OF INFANTS AND TODDLERS support group run Tuesday evenings from 6 to 7 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, 1026 Route 1, York/Ogunquit, Maine, for socializing and relaxing with others with similar interests. Speakers will be available for hints on how to enjoy quality time with the little ones. For more information, call (207) 363-2749 or Marilyn Fyfe (207) 363-1452.
Men's Health
n MEN'S DISCUSSION GROUP now meets in the upstairs conference room at the Senior Citizen Center, 127 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and every second and fourth Wednesday of the month. A donation will be accepted for coffee and light refreshments. For information, call Judith P. Bunnell at 431-8677.
Women health
n MOMS Club of Portsmouth Area meets at 3:30 p.m., the first Monday of every month at Community Campus, Classroom 1, 100 Campus Drive, Portsmouth. This nonprofit support group offers playgroups and a variety of weekly and monthly activities for moms and their children to enjoy. For more information, please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
n DOVER MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) meets the first and third Wednesdays of the month at 9:30 a.m. Free childcare is available. Get some fresh perspective, a little friendship, a little break from the normal everyday routine can be the fresh air we need to refresh and renew ourselves so we can live our lives to the full. For more information contact Dover Baptist Church 151 Washington St. Dover, 742-5452 or Michelle Launchbury, 755-3759, email@example.com or Leah Roth at 335-3019, email@example.com.
n SEACOAST POSTPARTUM ADJUSTMENT GROUP, Mother-to-Mother Support, meets Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.at Portsmouth Regional Hospital. The group offers comfort, encouragement and practical information to new mothers experiencing feelings of sadness, depression or worry. For women who have given birth within the last year, this ongoing peer support group provides a caring and nonjudgmental space to share stories and concerns. Led by women trained and experienced in birth and postpartum. For information or to register, call Liz Gaudette at (207) 363-1379.
n SEACOAST AREA MOTHERS OF MULTIPLES club meets the first Wednesday of each month from 7 to 9 p.m. at Portsmouth Community Campus in Portsmouth. This nonprofit group offers networking, support, and camaraderie for families who are expecting or have twins, triplets, and higher order multiple children. For details, visit www.samomclub.org or e-mail email@example.com.
n WORKING MOTHERS' BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT GROUP is a new support group for working mothers unable to make the Family Center's daytime support group. Meetings are held the last Thursday of the month from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Exeter Hospital, in the North Conference Room 1. Mothers may attend either with or without their babies. The group is led by a lactation consultant. Registration not necessary. Participants may bring a brown bag supper if desired. For information, call 580-4324.
Food-related Disorders
n OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS is not a diet club, but a 12-step program that provides a foundation for living life one day at a time. All meetings are open and held daily in various towns throughout the Seacoast. To find locations near you, contact the 24-hour Answering Service at 433-5464 or visit www.oaregion6.org.
n SEACOAST CELIAC SUPPORT GROUP meets at 6 p.m., the third Thursday of every other month at the Newington Town Hall on Nimble Hill Road. The regular gluten-free potluck supper will be followed by discussion on this lifelong allergy to wheat, oats, barley and other grains. For information on meeting times, call 778-1938 or 772-4827.
n SEACOAST FOOD ALLERGY GROUP meets the third Monday of the month (except July and September) from 7 to 9 p.m. at Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Borthwick Avenue, in Classroom 1. For information, contact Tamara Leibowitz at 430-9935 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
n TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets on Tuesdays with private weigh-ins from 6 to 6:30 p.m. and meet from 6:30 to 7 p.m. at the Kittery Community Center, and have been for more than 35-plus years. The Kittery chapter is small and is in need of new membership and a leader. If you are interested in joining this group, call Danna Eddy at (207) 439-8731, visit www.tops.org, or stop by the Kittery Community Center.
n OVERCOMERS TWELVE STEP GROUP meets every Thursday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the second floor of the New Creation Healing Center, 148 Plaistow Road, Plaistow. It's not just for people battling drugs or alcohol, but helpful for anyone with a self-defeating behavior such as excessive shopping, compulsive eating, inappropriate anger and more. Each week's session is dedicated to one of the 12 steps of recovery. For information, call Bob at (978) 372-7945 or Judy at (978) 257-0382.
Mental Health
n ANXIETY DISORDER SELF-HELP SUPPORT GROUP for individuals experiencing anxiety symptoms, panic attacks, chronic worry, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, phobias, social anxiety and post-traumatic stress, will be held the second and fourth Wednesday of the month, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Community Campus (in the boardroom), 100 Campus Drive in Portsmouth. For information, e-mail Gina at firstname.lastname@example.com, or call 431-1535.
n BIPOLAR SUPPORT GROUP, sponsored by Seacoast Mental Health Center, offers support to people with bipolar disorder, family members and friends, meets from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on the second Monday of the month at the Community Campus in the lower level, Portsmouth. For information, call 431-6703.
n NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS, Seacoast Chapter, holds support and informational meetings on the second and fourth Thursday of each month. The meetings are open to families of those suffering with schizophrenia, bipolar, schizo-affective and depression. Meetings are held in the library of the Community Campus, 100 Campus Drive, Portsmouth, from 7 to 9 p.m. For more information call 431-1512.
n SEACOAST APHASIA SUPPORT GROUP meets the third Monday of the month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Community Campus, 100 Campus Drive in Portsmouth. For information, contact Dave at 659-6161 or e-mail email@example.com.
n DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR DISORDER SUPPORT GROUP meets every Monday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover. Free. 742-5252.
n DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT GROUP, greater Seacoast area, meets each Friday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in conference room 1, third floor (opposite gift shop) at Exeter Hospital. This is a peer-led support group that welcomes anyone diagnosed with a mood disorder or has a family member or friend diagnosed, or who thinks they might have depression or bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression). Free parking available in hospital parking garage opposite the main entrance. 778-3160, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, or Ted Doan at 778-3160.
n OVERCOMERS, a 12-step program with a specific Christian bent, is available to help those with old conflicts and emotional wounds and meets every Thursday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the second floor of New Creation Healing Center, 148 Plaistow Road (Route 125), Plaistow. Each week is a self-contained meeting so people may come as often or as infrequently as they need. Call Judy at (978) 257-0382, or Bob at (978) 372-7945.
n NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS NH (NAMI NH) is offering a free 8-week educational program for parents and primary caregivers of children and adolescents with serious emotional disorders from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursdays beginning Feb. 21-April 10 at the Congregational Church of Raymond, 1 Church St. The program will provide tools, strategies and information to help parents to navigate and advocate for their child's mental health needs. This program is taught by parents, with both knowledge and personal experience, and who are specially trained in this program. (800) 242-6264, ext. 25.
n PFLAG AND THE STRAIGHT SPOUSE NETWORK meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Stratham Community Church on Emery Lane, Stratham. PFLAG (Parents, Families and, Friends of Lesbians and Gays) offers support, education, and advocacy for the entire gay community and their families and friends. For information, visit www.pflag.org. The SSN offers confidential support to the heterosexual spouse/partner of a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender partner. Visit www.straightspouse.org.
n SEACOAST OUTRIGHT and the NH Seacoast Chapter of PFLAG, will be joining together to create a new meeting for parents, teachers, friends and other adults who would like the opportunity to discuss issues around sexual orientation and gender identity. This meeting/support group is held the second Friday of the month from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Portsmouth Community Campus in the library on the ground floor, 100 Campus Drive, which is an extension of West Road off of US Route One Bypass, Portsmouth. 431-1013.
n RAINBOW HEARTS, a new monthly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender spiritual forum, peer support and community action endeavour will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. the first Sunday of every month at Tranquilities Tea Room and Gathering Center, in the center of downtown Dover, next to Dover Yoga Studio. 988-4281, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
n SEACOAST BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP meets at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month at the North Hampton United Church of Christ. For information, call 659-5769.
n SEACOAST SPECIAL SPEAKERS, a support group for people who stutter, will be held the first Tuesday of the month from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Rye Public Library. For information, call Mark at 828-7696 or e-mail email@example.com.
n Seven Lessons Spiritual Step Meeting For Everyone will be held a the Community Church of Durham, 17 Main St., from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays. Meetings focus on learning how to nourish our souls and spirits by collectively sharing our experiences and hope with each other, as well as through messages shared by our weekly speakers. 674-0319.
Mobile Van
n EXETER HOSPITAL'S MOBILE MEDICAL VAN offers free health clinics for children, adults and seniors the first Wednesday of the month at:
St. Michael's Church, Front Street, Exeter, 1-4 p.m. Second Wednesday of the month at Hobbs House, High Street, Hampton, 1-4 p.m. Third Wednesday of the month at Seabrook Recreation Center, Route One, 1-4 p.m. Fourth Wednesday of the month: St. Joseph's Parish, Church Street, Epping, 1-4 p.m.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Green team defeated the White team 26-20 on Saturday at the annual Spring Game this Saturday at D.B. Milne Field.
The Green team was headed by QB Kade Bell, who had 14 completions for 238 yards and two touchdowns and WR Andrew Robustelli who finished with four catches for 87 yards and a touchdown. DL Juan Pimienta also a big impact on the defensive side for the Green team registering a sack for safety.
WR Dorian Guy stood out for the White team catching six passes for 168 yards. DB Andre Addison added an interception while, and DL Luidji Michel stood out defensively for the White team.
The Green team struck first with a 14-yard pass from Ryan Walker to Robusteli. White answered back on a two-yard rush by QB Patrick McCain. The score was set up by a 42-yard pass from McCain to Guy.
Brandon Behr broke the tie with a 30-yard field goal making it 10-7 green at half.
Coming out of the break, the green team struck again on a 18-yard TD pass from Bell to Adrian Riley. White then closed the gap as Dylan Lynch hit a 50-yard field goal.
Pimienta's safety which followed a key Behr punt that pinned the White at the four-yard line, would put the green team up 19-10.
The white team began their comeback with a 60-yard interception returned for a touchdown by Terrance Bryant with 9 minutes to go.
With a minute and a half to go, Lynch hit a 43 yard field goal to give the white team their first lead of the game 20-19. Lynch pushed the first attempt left but got a second shot at it after the green team was penalized for rushing the kicker.
With 1:27 to go, Bell lead the green team offense down the field and capped of the drive with a 26-yard td pass to Robustelli with 6.6 seconds on the clock.
"There is a purpose here with this team," head coach Kerwin Bell said. "They've worked extremely hard. I liked how they competed today."
"We worked hard all spring and were pushed to the limit, I'm glad its over," junior DB Andre Addison. "We wont get off our grind, were continually trying to get better.".

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Pictures of Milo Ventimiglia from Monday's Heroes!
Looking at these makes my day that much better....thanks Confessing you rock! Everyday with Milo Ventimiglia is a good day!
Hayden Panettiere is off to the post office again
Hayden Panettiere has sure been going to the post office a lot lately?? I wonder what she is sending??
Sean Preston and Jayden James
I saw this cute pic of the kids and I had to share. I really hope that Sean Preston and Jayden James come out okay because of this.
Milla Jovovich looks really pregnant!!
Milla Jovovich is due to give birth any day now...I think she looks amazing.
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AT&T today announced its Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards contest will return to CTIA Wireless 2009 in Las Vegas on April 1-2. The contest, in its fourth year, is hosted by devCentral, AT&T's official resource for development.
The contest is designed to identify the country's most innovative wireless applications. Developers of the best applications, content, and enterprise solutions will be rewarded with cash prizes, given the opportunity to go to market with AT&T and earn the title of 2009 Fast-Pitch Platinum Award winner.
AT&T will award a total of $70,000 in cash prizes, including $25,000 and inclusion in an AT&T distribution channel for first-place winners in the consumer and enterprise categories. Two runners-up in each of those categories will win $5,000.
Fast-Pitch sessions will take place at CTIA Wireless 2009 from April 1-2 in Las Vegas. The deadline for submissions is March 10. Developers can enter only one contest category. An AT&T representative will contact presenters in mid-March to schedule Fast-Pitch meetings. Those invited to present will have five minutes to pitch their applications to a consumer panel of judges and 10 minutes to present to an enterprise panel of judges in private meeting rooms. Content and applications must be presented on a working handset.


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Chicken & leek pies
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Healthy
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal538
- fat17g
- saturates5g
- carbs55g
- sugars15g
- fibre7g
- protein43g
- salt1.4g
- 1 large sweet potato, cut into chunky chips
Sweet potatosweet po-tate-toe
Sweet potatoes have a creamy texture and a sweet-spicy flavour that makes them ideal for savoury…
- 4 tsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 2 chicken breasts, chopped into bite-size chunks
- 1 leek, finely sliced
Like garlic and onion, leeks are a member of the allium family, but have their own distinct…
- 1 carrot, chopped
The carrot, with its distinctive bright orange colour, is one of the most versatile root…
- 225ml low-sodium chicken stock
- 2 tsp wholegrain mustard
- 85g light soft cheese
- 2 tbsp chopped tarragon leaves
A popular and versatile herb, tarragon has an intense flavour that's a unique mix of sweet…
- 2 sheets filo pastry
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. In a roasting tray toss the sweet potatoes with 2 tsp of the oil and some seasoning. Cook for 30-40 mins, until golden and crisp. Heat 1 tsp oil in a medium frying pan. Fry the chicken until browned, remove from the pan and set aside. Add the leek and a splash of water, and gently fry until soft, about 7 mins. Add the carrot and cook for 3 mins more. Pour in the stock and boil until reduced by half, then add the mustard and soft cheese, stirring well to combine. Return the chicken to the pan, add the tarragon and some seasoning.
Divide the mixture between 2 small ovenproof dishes. Take the filo sheets and scrunch them up. Top each pie with a sheet and brush with remaining 1 tsp oil. Cook the pies in the oven with the chips for 15 mins, until the pastry is golden.


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Listen to my 9 millimeter go bang!
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This is KRS-One...
[Verse 1]
Me knew a crack dealer by the name of Peter
Had to buck him down with my 9 millimeter
He said I had his girl, I said "Now what are you? Stupid?"
But he tried to play me out and KRS-One knew it
He reached for his pistol but it was just a waste
Cos my 9 millimeter was up against his face
He pulled his pistol anyway and I filled him full of lead
But just before he fell to the ground this is what I said...
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Listen to my 9 millimeter go bang!
Wa da da dang
Wa da da da dang (Ay!)
This is KRS-One...
[Verse 2]
Seven days later I was chillin in the herb gate
But seven days too much when the gossip has to circulate
Puffin sensimilla I heard "knock knock knock"
But the way that they knocked it did not sound like any cop
And if it were a customer they'd ask me for a nick
So suddenly I realized it had to be a trick
I dropped down to the floor and they did not waste no time
They shot right through the door so I had to go for mine
They pumped and shot again but the suckas kept on missin
Cos I was on the floor by now, I crawled into the kitchen
Thirty seconds later, boy, they bust the door down
The money and the sensemi' was lyin all around
But just as they put their pistols down to take a cut
Me jumped out the kitchen, went "buck! buck! buck!"
They fall down to the floor but one was still alive
So I put my 9 millimeter right between his eyes
Looked at his partner and both of them were dead
So just before he joined his potnah this is what I said...
[Verse 3]
I gathered all the money and I ran up the block
I said "This is a perfect time to meet with Scott LaRock"
But Scott is either psychic or he has a knack for trouble
Cos Scott LaRock showed up in a all-black BMW
I jumped inside the car and we screeched off in a hurry
And Scott said "What is wrong? Relax, tell me the story"
I said "You remember Peter? Well his posse tried to kill me
I'm all right now because the sensemi' fill me"
Scott just laughed, he said "I know they're all dead
And just before you pulled the trigger this is what you said..."
From the 1987 album Criminal Minded.


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Rosie O'Donnell opened up about her planned Fall 2011 return to daytime talk television on this morning's "Rosie Radio" on Sirius Satellite radio.
The star revealed that her upcoming talk show, news of which broke over the weekend, won't be like her old program, "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," which ran from 1996 to 2002 and had a big star presence.
"It wouldn't be like my old show where it's celebrities promoting stuff," she told her listeners. "It would [be] more like the radio show, where you get an hour on a topic that you like, whether it's autism or something funny like a comedian that you love. You'd get an hour to sit and chat to one person about one thing."
Rosie said she is looking forward to the new program, which reunites her with Warner Bros. former syndication president Dick Robertson, who she previously worked with on her old show, and Scott Carlin, a former president of domestic distribution at HBO.
"I think that would be fun and it wouldn't be like the old one, it would be a new one because frankly, it's a dozen years later," she said.
Rosie's talk show return will occur at the same time that Oprah leaves her "The Oprah Winfrey Show" after 25 years on the air, but it could put Rosie head to head with her former "View" team.
The star revealed that she ran into Barbara Walters, her former co-panelist on "The View," a show she left in 2007, over the weekend and the veteran television journalist reportedly asked her a number of questions about when Rosie's new show will air.
"'What time are you gonna be on?'" Rosie claimed Barbara asked. "I [know] that 'The View' wants to be on in the Oprah spot, so just for sh**s and giggles, I said, 'Oh yeah, the Oprah spot.'… to which Barbara's face goes slack-ish."
Rosie, who previously said she and Barbara had repaired their frosty post-"View" relationship, hinted that things may be cool again between the two women, while recounting what happened when Judge Judy Sheindlin, who was also a part of the conversation, realized that if Rosie takes the Oprah spot, she will compete with the star for viewers.
"Judge Judy goes, 'Then we'd be on against each other,' and I said, 'It's not 'til 2011, and by that time Judy, I'll probably have a lawsuit and we can do it on your show and you can be the judge. It'll be sort of like a combination thing. What do you think about that?' and she laughs. I said, 'It will be really fun to work with me. Just ask Barbara,'" Rosie recounted. "Barbara keeps eating her meatloaf, not looking up and I'm go, 'C'mon Babs, smile' and she's like, 'I said congratulations.'
"I think Barbara is really wanting that 4 o'clock Oprah spot on ABC," Rosie added.
Whether Rosie and Barbara will go head to head remains to be seen, but one thing she won't have to compete with when she returns to television is parenting time. She revealed she finally said yes to another show after years of being asked because her four children are all finally in school.
"Now all my kids are in school and two years from now I'll be about to turn 50…. My son will probably already be going to apply to colleges so I'm like, why don't we kick it around and see what happens," she said.
One thing that probably won't feature on her new show, however, is Rosie's longtime crush on Tom Cruise, which was a standard reference point on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show." The star did reveal though, that for her birthday, which was Sunday (she turned 48), Tom and his wife, Katie Holmes, sent her flowers.
Rosie also commented on pictures that surfaced over the weekend showing Tom courtside at the Lakers game at Los Angeles' Staples Center with Katie.
"He is the nicest guy, I gotta say… He is stunning," she said. "He's stunning to me. I think he's like the perfect male specimen."
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Ingres has announced EasyIngres, an Ingres developer community product that helps PHP developers create applications using Ingres and simplifies the transition from MySQL to Ingres. Spearheaded by Cedric Pasquotti a PHP developer based in France, EasyIngres bundles all necessary components to easily create PHP applications which can take advantage of the enterprise feature set provided by Ingres.
"The EasyIngres developer team recognized early on that it's not just the enterprise that demands the best database technology -- Web 2.0 and social networking companies are managing more mission-critical business and customer data than ever before," said Emma McGrattan, senior vice president of engineering, Ingres. "EasyIngres makes it easy for PHP developers to transition to Ingres from MySQL and take advantage of the superlative performance, scalability, and security features of our code right away."
EasyIngres, a package which automatically installs a PHP development environment, is a community project that brings together the Ingres database, Apache and PHP projects to streamline the setup and configuration process. Included in the bundle are Ingres 9.2, Apache 2.2.8, PHP 5.2.9, Ingres Developer Workbench, Scite Editor Version 1.77 and the Frequent Flyer application, all in a single installable package. EasyIngres was designed with productivity in mind, and offers enterprise capabilities for business critical projects, from the desktop to the data center.
"From the moment I worked on Ingres, I knew that as a community we could make it much easier for PHP developers to work in their environment," said Cedric Pasquotti. "So, for the first time ever, we put together all of the various components needed to write PHP applications for Ingres, and packaged it as a single installable image. In turn, we've made it significantly easier for PHP developers to make the switch over to Ingres."


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The family of Amy Winehouse has put the late singer's London home up for sale for 2.7 million pounds, or $4.2 million.
The three-bedroom property in the Camden neighborhood of northwest London had become a shrine of sorts for mourning fans who left flowers and tributes following Winehouse's death last July from alcohol poisoning.
Chris Goodman, a spokesman for the Winehouse family, said Thursday that the singer had loved the house and her family put it on the market because they felt it would be inappropriate for any of them to live there.
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"It was not practical to keep it empty while paying the costs of its upkeep," he said in a statement, adding that the family had reached the decision with "great regret."
The 2,500 square-foot home features three bedrooms — including an "impressive master suite with vaulted ceiling" — three living rooms and private front and rear gardens overlooking the tony Camden Square, according to online listing agent Housenetwork.co.uk.
Graham Lock, spokesman for Housenetwork.co.uk, confirmed that the listing has generated "a lot of interest" but would not go into detail about how many inquiries had come in given that the Winehouse family had asked for discretion.
"There's a lot of fans getting in touch about it so we're trying to weed out the genuine interest from people who are just being nosy," he told the Associated Press.


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Some of you may have noticed the half-page ads in the paper. Or many of you reading this are habitual online readers and have already seen it. For the rest of you, the Local launched its redesigned website last week and It's opening up some new territory for this 50-year-old neighborhood publication.
Newspapers have generally been slower to develop online for a number of reasons. A lot of it has to do with professional print people adapting to new news habits. It's tough to invest a lifetime in a craft and then come to the realization that a lot of your old tools just don't cut it anymore.
Also, it's been tough for small news organizations like this one to redirect resources away from the tasks of putting out the print product. When you're running at capacity with the staff you have, it's a challenge to take on new tasks and develop new things without putting your old, but still very valuable, product at risk.
We've finally found ourselves at an intersection where the technologies available (and affordable) to us intersect with what we think this staff can handle. So what does that mean?
First, we're going to be on a more open online schedule. We have the ability to easily post news when it happens. When we learn something that shouldn't wait for our weekly print schedule, we'll post it online. We can more easily bring you stories, photos and even video on a daily basis.
Second, we have much better opportunities for readers to be involved with online comments. Have an opinion on Fairmount Park's ongoing deer cull? You can respond to letters as they appear in real time. Some readers have already taken advantage of this and I'd encourage others to join in. All comments are subject to editorial approval so our online comments won't be gobbled by anonymous vitriol and spam.
Third, we want to develop more ways for Local readers to contribute. If you see anything you think your neighbors should know, send us photos or drop us a tip. Or if you have an opinion that you'd like to share, let us know. We can get it online quickly. You can e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com. The Local has always been an open publication, available to everyone. It's your paper and your website.
Finally, we'd really like to hear from you about how we can improve. Our new format is flexible and gives us opportunities to try new ideas with relative ease. Want new features? New sections? Places to contribute or just categories you'd like to see developed? Let us know. We're all ears (see my e-mail above).
We hope the website gives the readers what they need and what they can use, from our online calendars to local dining and shopping guides. And of course, we hope it gives Local readers the opportunity to more easily learn about what's happening in their neighborhood and give them the opportunity to say something about it.
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. --Families and friends eagerly awaited with open arms and anxious smiles as soldiers returning from combat made their way into Wilson Sports and Fitness Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord-North, for a special holiday welcome home ceremony, Dec. 16.
The return of more than 280 Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division from Afghanistan proved to be a special gift to those Family members at JBLM.
Valerie Kagan and her son, Sean, eagerly waited for their holiday gift, Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Kagan, 2nd Bde., 2nd Inf. Div., to finally come home.
"This was a special surprise that we were not expecting," Kagan said. "Just having him home is a gift that we couldn't be more thankful for. We had planned on just waiting and having Christmas wait for him. It wouldn't be the first time that we changed the calendar to suit us."
Before the Soldiers could scatter to their awaiting Family members, Col. Ken Kamper, commander, 17th Fires Brigade, took the opportunity to congratulate the returning members of the Lancer brigade.
"To the soldiers just returned, we are proud of you, proud of each and everyone of you," Kamper said. "Lancers are protectors, men and women of the Army. We are proud of everything you did. You made a difference and we are glad your home."
Kamper did not forget those who supported their soldiers from home.
"We are proud of each and every one of the Family members, loved ones and friends who are here today," said Kampers. "It has been a tough nine and ten months."
Fortunately, the time away from home didn't mean that the Soldiers were completely cut off from their Families. A few resources, such as the United Service Organizations, in the combat zone allowed for a connection to their loved ones at home.
"The USO was doing a read-a-book on DVD's, so my husband read a few of those for Sean, and Sean was able to watch him read books before bed every night. That was very helpful," said Kagan. "We had also done a couple record-a-story books, which had been our son's favorite toys."
Some returning soldiers had new babies to meet in person for the first time.
"It means everything to be home for the holidays. It's amazing, " said Spc. Jonathon Molina, 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, who had a new daughter to get to know. "I had seen her first steps, her first words on Skype. So now I'll be able to see her do everything in person."
This is just the first group of Lancer Soldiers returning to JBLM from Afghanistan; the rest will return and be reunited with their Families sometime after the New Year.


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My father, Vincent dePaul Gisriel, Sr., was a bombardier during World War II. He served with the 8th Air Force based in England. When he passed away in 2003, some of the men who had served with him told me about their combat experiences in the skies over Germany and occupied Europe. It was then that I realized that my father was actually a wartime hero. Like so many other veterans of that era, he did not talk very much about the war. While growing up, I only had a vague idea of what my Dad did in the military. At the age of 62, I decided to find out more about the man whom I knew and loved all my life, but knew little about his service to our country.
Over a three year period, I gathered many details about my father's military career. I sifted through hundreds of pages searching for bits of information in an attempt to tell his story. I was able to document a major portion of his time in the Army Air Corps. I knew that my parents had corresponded extensively during the war. They saved the many letters written between them. I thought that if I could read them all, it would reveal additional aspects about his military service. I quickly discovered that he could not write about military strategy or bombing missions he flew, for that would have been a breach of security.
However, what I did discover from reading over a thousand letters between them was a beautiful love story. Thus, Hearts Away, Bombs Away is a true story about an American hero, but it is also a story of a young couple who were deeply in love.
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Oct 5th: Painting with Tots
Oct 9th: Columbus Day
Oct 16th-23rd: Parent Conferences
Oct 31st: Halloween
We would like to thank everyone who supported us after the hurricane. Parents, teachers, neighbors, community leaders, etc.
We also want to let you know that we are here for you and your family. We partner with the United Way and their 2-1-1 program that provides free information and referral to human/social service agencies within Lee, Hendry, Glades and Okeechobee Counties.
Messina 4 and 5 year old children in the Lion and Bumblebee classrooms will be celebrating Halloween Fun with the residents. Children have been invited over to go Trick or Treating with the residents. The residents and the children always enjoy their time together. The residents have an opportunity to socialize with the children and enjoy seeing the children fill their trick or treat bags and parade through in their costumes. We are fortunate to have a great partnership the Page Field Convalescent Center. Date to be announced.
Children should always go out trick or treating accompanied by a responsible adult. If you have a group of kids going, the parents should choose two or three of them to go along and keep an eye on things.
Instruct your children not to eat any treats until they bring them home to be examined by you. This way you can check for any problem candy and get the pick of the best stuff!
Instruct your child to never go into the home of a stranger or get into their car. Explain why this is not a good idea and what to do if someone approaches them and tries to talk to them.
The Lee County Trail Blazers will come on October 5th, from 6:30-8:00pm for Painting with Tots!They will come up with fun and creative art projects to teach children under 5 years old.
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This past month our community experienced a natural disaster, that created stress and fear in all of us. As we know, young children are most fearful when they don't understand what is happening around them. As parents, it is important to provide guidance and understanding that help restore a sense of security and well-being.
So, what can we do to help children who have experience a disaster or any other tragic event?
From www.savethechildren.org
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We are asking parents to bring in a vegetable plant for their child to plant in the garden. Each classroom has a vegetable bed and are responsible for planting, nurturing and eating their vegetables. Classrooms will bag the surplus for parents to enjoy. We are always looking for gardening volunteers. So, if you have always thought you would love to garden this is the perfect opportunity. You can also claim a bed for your family. See Tammy or Yolanda if you would like a family garden bed.
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9 health-saving tips men should know
9 health-saving tips men should know
Does your doctor ask about your alcohol habits? Doing so could save lives.
Let's take a deep breath here and say that we love men. We appreciate them. We cannot imagine a world without them. Thus, we can often overlook certain shenanigans that make us cringe a bit.
Unless such recklessness comes at the expense of their health. So in the interest of keeping men on the planet as long as possible (which is already, on average, five years shorter than for women), we've asked experts what they wish men knew — and would incorporate into their lives.
"Where do we start?" says Sid O'Bryant, Ph.D., associate professor of internal medicine at UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth. "There are a lot of things I want to convey, not only for men to understand they're not just important for the heart, but also for how your brain ages."
One of the key things he finds frustrating is how men don't think about brain health during aging.
"They wait till they're in their 80s and then say, 'I wish I would have done things differently,' " says O'Bryant, an Alzheimer's researcher. "Women plan better. Women plan to age. They actually think about it. We men plan for a financial future for our family. We think how our wives will be taken care of when we're gone, but not how we can be around longer."
If men pay attention to these nine things the experts want them to know, who's to say how much that life-span age gap can narrow?
1. Depression is nothing to be ashamed of.
Depression is a real physiological event, says certified athletic trainer Ken Locker. But "most men don't think they have depression because they don't cry easily."
Men don't talk about depression, O'Bryant says. "And if we don't talk about it, it isn't real."
But, he says, "it's this huge thing that's impacting so many men across the age range. Men think we'll tough it out because we don't want to talk about it: 'It might make things worse,' or 'I'm admitting weakness.'
"That is a huge hurdle for men that couldn't be more wrong," he says. "Strength is acknowledging the problem."
Depression doesn't just bring people down mentally; it hurts physically as well, he says. "If you're sick, depression makes it worse. If you have diabetes and depression, the diabetes is worse. It also increases the risk for Alzheimer's, and most people don't know that."
They also need to realize it's treatable, he says. "When depression gets better, other things get better. Diabetes can get better. The risk for Alzheimer's can go down."
What to do: Don't be ashamed to talk to your family doctor, who can recommend a professional counselor or prescribe medications.
2. You don't need a gym to be fit.
"Gravity," Locker says, "was the first gym ever invented."
What to do: Walking, pushups, crunches and squats can be done anywhere.
3. "No pain, no gain" is stupid.
Even in less than a year of being a certified chiropractor, Logan Sherman has witnessed plenty of examples of this belief not taken seriously.
"The big thing I see with a lot of male patients is that they potentially push past the minor things that could be caught at an earlier stage," he says, "and are now related to an injury."
Sherman, who is training for the 2016 Olympic Trials in the marathon, cites plantar fasciitis as an example.
"That's something that can really be avoided," he says. "Men say, 'Hey, I've experienced tightness in my calf the past couple of weeks.' They've heard from a buddy how he worked through it but never followed the steps. It ends up being a full-blown problem."
What to do: If you feel a twinge, rest. For plantar fasciitis, avoid going barefoot. Roll a tennis ball, golf ball or frozen water bottle under the foot several times a day. If the pain persists, check with your doctor.
4. Certain cancer screenings are imperative.
"Prostate cancer is "the easiest cancer to kill if it's detected," Locker says. But men, go figure, would happily skip that part of a physical, he says.
"They're afraid," he says. "Most men are ego-driven as far as their 'manlihood,' but they need to take care of that manlihood part."
Another villain is colon cancer, which can be detected early, he says. "Men tend not to want to know, or to think they don't have any problems."
What to do: Schedule the screenings, for crying out loud.
5. Yoga isn't just a girl thing.
Men need to realize that bench-pressing three days a week isn't going to cut it, workout-wise, Locker says. They need cardio, and another good choice is yoga.
"As you age, yoga is really good because it helps balance," he says. "It works against gravity. You have to stop, to concentrate when you're doing it. It's good for men, too, not just for women."
What to do: Ask friends for recommendations, then try a class. Get there a few minutes early. If you don't like it, talk to the instructor, or try another. Don't give up after one class.
6. Your job is not a workout.
Even if you do manual labor for a living, "physical activity is above and beyond anything you do in daily life," O'Bryant says.
You do need to raise your heart rate on a regular basis.
"Physical activity has such broad-based benefits for men," he says. "It can reduce depression, help your memory, help your brain at a basic biological level. It may actually reduce the risk for Alzheimer's."
What to do: Move. And switch it up, Sherman says.
7. Don't be afraid to ask for help.
"If we don't vary the stress or stimulus we put on the body, we become bored, the activity becomes mundane, and we don't gain as much physiological benefit as we would with a varied activity," he says. "This is why I always encourage anyone to have faster, slower, longer, shorter, heaving, light, hard and easy days."
You don't automatically know what to do. "What men do that's the biggest problem in exercise is not asking for help," O'Bryant says. "It's like that asking for directions thing. I go to the gym, and see people there for the first time and they think they automatically know what they're doing. But they're probably doing it wrong."
What to do: Use a trainer. Most gyms offer a free session with membership. Or research the correct way to work out efficiently. "By getting better at the exercises themselves, the outcomes have been better for me," O'Bryant says.
8. Sunscreen isn't for wimps.
Yes, men get skin cancer, too. "If you're driving around a lot, you're getting sun rays on your face," Locker says. Ditto for your left arm, if you drive with your elbow out the window.
What to do: Use face cream with SPF of at least 15, Locker says. "It will keep your face looking younger and also prevent skin cancer."
Schedule a skin check once a year.
9. Exercising isn't a free license to eat anything.
"Men who are successful getting into physical activity often think that's enough," O'Bryant says. " 'I work out so I can eat what I want.' 'I work out so I can drink whatever I want.'
"Instead, you're negating the benefits," he says.
What to do: Think moderation. Also remember that diet "is not only related to heart health, but intimately related to brain health," O'Bryant says. "It's very, very powerful."
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Broken vows: One wedding, two divorces, one scandal
The wedding listings tucked into The New York Times' Sunday edition usually evoke a smile, with sweet tales of couples enjoying their happily-ever-after moment. Chances are some readers spat out their coffee last Sunday, when they discovered a "Vows" story that explained how two people broke up their respective marriages so they could waltz down the aisle with each other.
Former TV reporter Carol Anne Riddell, 40, and ad exec John Partilla, 42, told their story of how they were part of a buddy-buddy foursome of two married couples with five children between them, but the attraction between them became so strong that they broke up their two families and then got hitched.
The backlash from the off-kilter love story was quick and immediate: The New York Times comment page was filled with generally negative comments; bloggers and commentators went into overdrive dissecting the story, and many asked, "What in the world was the Times thinking?" in seemingly celebrating the dissolution of two marriages for the sake of a new union.
"They got what they wanted — tough luck, kids and mates," one person posted on the Times website. "It's all about 'me' these days. I wish the unlucky children of these two show-offs a good place to hide and hopefully at least one sane parent and at least one set of loving grandparents who might be able to undo some of the damage."
A poster on the mediabistro.com website called the story a "disgusting display of selfishness and stupidity on both the couples' and the New York Times part."
While Riddell and Partilla have become the most talked-about couple since Prince William and Kate Middleton, Riddell called the backlash "surprising."
"I think people are focusing on the negative, but there was a lot of positive; we've had a lot of people say to us how brave we are to do this," Riddell told Forbes.com.
"We did this because we just wanted one honest account of how this happened for our sakes and for our kids' sakes. We are really proud of our family and proud of the way we handled the situation. There was nothing in the story to be ashamed of."
To be sure, the couple let it all hang out — frankly airing what some consider dirty laundry — in giving the Times an account of their love story.
The article begins: "Carol Anne Riddell and John Partilla met in 2006 in a pre-kindergarten classroom. They both had children attending the same Upper West Side school. They also both had spouses. … The connection was immediate, but platonic. In fact, as they became friends so did their spouses. There were dinners, Christmas parties and even family vacations together."
Riddell told the Times it all changed two years later when Partilla invited her out for a drink at a local watering hole, the first time they had gotten together away from their spouses. "I've fallen in love with you," Riddell recalled Partilla as saying. She said she beat a path out of the bar, only to return five minutes later to tell him, "I feel the exact same way."
Riddell said the pair decided to not have a clandestine affair, instead opting to do the "honorable" thing and separate from their spouses. Their love affair reached its height last month when the pair exchanged vows in a small ceremony at the Mandarin Oriental New York hotel. Then, the pair was surprisingly picked from among a sea of blue-blooded aspirants to tell their love story to the New York Times on its wedding pages. It was actually their second appearance in the section, as both had announced their first marriages in the Times as well.
Perhaps most surprisingly, neither ex was quoted in the story. Riddell told Forbes.com she didn't know if the reporter covering their love story contacted either, but "I would assume not." And for its part, the Times isn't saying.
But the Gray Lady issued a statement to TODAY saying it is not the arbiter of what makes a love story. "The Vows feature gives a close-in account of a wedding every week. Every one is different. We don't attempt to pass judgment on the suitability of the match, the narrative of the romance, the quality of the ceremony or the flavor of the cake."
Besides, both the Times and Riddell-Partilla have their defenders. Writing on Salon.com, Mary Elizabeth Williams asked whether sticking to an unhappy or unfulfilling marriage "is for the ultimate best?" And while admitting the story was eyebrow-raising, in an age of oversharing, it might have been "easier to give a public version of events than to repeat it forever to every curious friend," she wrote.
A New York Times poster actually applauded the couple: "The world is not perfect and life is far from perfect. Love happens at inconvenient times. I commend the couple for handling this situation with honesty and openness."
Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford tackled the Riddell-Partilla story on Monday's fourth hour of TODAY. Kotb expressed concern about whether the write-up in the Times "glorified" the situation, a question Gifford was quick to answer.
"If you're going to do it, do it," Gifford said of the couple's decision to break up their marriages so they could be together. "I guess our big question is why advertise it, why celebrate it, why say "Look at us!' "


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Our friend Jeremy Bulloch, whom most of you know played Boba Fett in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi," will be at the annual Star Wars Weekend at
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Jango Fett, who was played by Temuera Morrison, will be there June 12th thru 14th.
For more information, visit the official site for the event.
Last year, Daniel Logan accompanied Jeremy Bulloch. In 2006, Bulloch and Morrison were guests.
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Samurai Poster (Part 2)
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♫ fast music playing ♫ Welcome back to the Russell Brown Show and the second part of a two-part series all about creating this Samurai poster. As you recall from the first part I extracted the Samurai warrior from the green screen background and I showed you some great tips and techniques. In this tutorial, I am going to discuss how to change the lighting. Let's go over here to...back to Adobe Bridge. And as you saw in this project I had the Samurai warrior, but I didn't exactly have him in the lighting that I wanted for the poster. I have this light source up here in the sky it's beaming down and it's leaving these tones as if the Samurai is being lit by that light source. But that's not what really happened. So let's go over to Photoshop and check this out. So here's our extracted Samurai warrior that we did in the last show. We got this great hair and the edges look great. And you can see that over here in my layers panel right here I have the mask. And if I hold down my Command key excuse my Option key on the Macintosh or my Alt key on the PC I can see the mask right here. And its tied to this smart object and I really recommend working with smart objects because you can always go back in to the camera raw image and adjust its color and its lighting. It's fantastic. But, one of the great things that I want to do is change the direction of the light. Check this out. I'm going to show you what I did. I'm going to go up here and I'm going to turn on this layer. Now watch the way the light changes. Did you see that? Darker on the right. Lighter on the left. So I'm readjusting where the light source comes from. And I'm going to do that in these steps. Let's do this. First I'm going to go to the mask. I've turned off that top layer and I'm going to rebuild it completely. On the Macintosh I'm going to hold down the Command key. On the PC it would be the Control key. And I'm hovering right over the mask. Do you see this? I click on the mask and it reselects the mask as a selection the little marching ants around the edge. because now I want to create a new layer right here at the base of my layers tab panel. Create the new layer. And I want to fill this layer with black. Now this may be the long way of doing this but it works for me. I'm going to go ahead and do an Option Delete key on the Machintosh or an Alt Delete key on the PC and its going to fill the current selection into layer number seven with the current foreground color. It's my favorite, one of my favorite tips and techniques. It just instantly fills that with black. Just like that. And I just have this...If I turn off that base layer and I hide my selection under Select and select "none" here I can go in here and work on this. Because what I want to do is use a layer style to bring back in the lighting. I use this all the time. A layer style for lighting. Now I can't exactly apply the layer style directly to this because there's a mask tied to this layer. I need that something that is silhouetted against a transparency a true transparency because now if I double-click here in the blue space, the blank blue space next to layer number seven I can bring up my layer styles. And this is the focus of this entire presentation it's the power of layer styles for relighting your subject. And it all has to do with Bevel and Emboss. I'm going to turn on Bevel and Emboss by clicking it here. I'm going to soften my light source. I might increase the size of my light source. You see how the highlights are coming in on the left. And the shadows come in on the right. Notice that my highlights are screened my shadows are multiplied. And I can adjust the angle and position of my light source. That looks pretty good right there. It's actually in about the same position as my light source in the sky. So I've got the right lighting I'm looking for. But what I don't want is I don't want the internal black shade that's inside this shape. So if I go back here under, excuse me under Blending Modes Blending Options right here I can adjust the fill opacity. Not the opacity of the general blending itself but the fill opacity of the shape. Now check it out. I'm reducing the opacity but I'm leaving the tonality behind. Like a ghost sitting here. So I've taken that out and now I click OK. So I have the tonality I want. I turn back on my Samurai and I now have that tonality and that light playing on the Samurai. But the light is a little bit...It looks like it's glowing. That's an interesting effect in the way that the lights are glowing around his face here. But let's go back into the special effects and let's do one more thing to the Bevel and Emboss. Let's change the screen to something like Vivid Light. I like the style of Vivid Light. Vivid Light comes in and brings in a color and a shade over this. I can then go back in here. Let's drop the opacity of this down a little bit. It's a little bit too extreme right there. But I have an almost color quality. In fact I can go in and change the color. I can click here on this patch and in this case there's sort of a dark blue sky in my background. So I can go in here and I can actually change not only the direction of the light but the color of the light that's coming down here from the sky. A little bit of a blue cast to it just like that. And notice once again I can move this around and adjust where my lighting sits and I want the back, his backside I want the hair to fall into shadow. Do you see that? So I've got a nice shadow on the right highlight on the left. I didn't photograph it that way, I adjusted it here using layer styles. Great controls. I click OK. And I can turn back on my background just like this. So I've got that highlight coming down shadows on the side and it looks great. Let's just finish this off. Let's go over to my finished poster over here. So here's the combination of my background. I just want to show you a few other things that I added to add to this. I added up here at the top a lens flare. One of my great capabilities. It gets overused a lot. Lens flare mania. You see this in all the movies but I've added a lens flare here at the top as my light source coming down. Let's turn off that layer we just created. So here's before and here's after. So I've brought in...The light source seems to be coming from above there. What else did I add in? Bring in my text here to add to this. Oh, and you always have to do this technique. Stars. I've gone star crazy. Don't forget when you're working with lens flare and stars always target your star layer and set it to Screen. Notice that a normal layer of stars is simply white specks on a black background. But if you target your stars move them into position and set the Blend mode for stars usually to either Screen or Soft Light excuse me, Screen or Lighten as your choices you get a slightly different result. And here's a great one. This is a rule to live by. If one star pattern looks good duplicate it because two may look even better. Okay, here's, here's before. That's one. And here's after, that's two. I always, always live by that. If one looks good, duplicate it and it may look better and you can see the same is the case here. The screen value is set for the Blend mode for the lens flare there at the top. So there you can see a combination of different techniques. My first technique was to get a really nice extraction, the green screen extraction. And then I really wanted to show you how to readjust the lights with your layer styles. There you have it. Creating posters here inside of Adobe Photoshop CS4. ♫ fast music playing ♫
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A new weapon in the battle against jet lag
The symptoms of jet lag are familiar to any traveler who treats time zones like ZIP codes: Exhaustion and insomnia. Fuzziness and anxiety. Stomach problems and loss of appetite.
And so are suggestions for avoiding, or at least minimizing, those symptoms: Follow a "feast and fast" diet, which supposedly helps reset your body clock by alternating high-protein meals with high-carb ones. Get plenty of rest the night before your trip. Set your watch to your destination time as soon as the plane takes off, and plan your in-flight meals and activities accordingly. Drink lots of water, skip the in-flight Chardonnay and stretch your legs frequently during the flight.
I've followed all those tips and then some on overseas jaunts, from saline nose spray, lavender aromatherapy and regular doses of No-Jet-Lag, a New Zealand-based homeopathic remedy, to melatonin, acupuncture and ear candling. (The latter, which I sampled in Hong Kong during a Mother of all Jet Lags journey that took me around the world to eight countries in eight days, supposedly draws out waxes and toxins and helps clear sinuses, a bonus for frequent takeoffs and landings.)
But, in too many cases, I still wind up feeling like an extra from The Walking Dead...which is why I was intrigued by the recent launch of Jet Lag Rooster.
Created by Jay Olson, a psychology instructor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, the free website uses a computer algorithm that helps travelers reset their circadian rhythms (i.e. body clocks) by calculating when to seek and avoid light depending on the number of time zones crossed, direction of travel, and usual wake and sleep times.
In my case - an upcoming flight from Washington, D.C. to Yangon, Myanmar via Qatar that results in an 11.5-hour time difference - the site instructed me to "seek light" an hour or two later than my normal 10 p.m. bedtime, several days before I started my trip. So far, so good - until I realized that by Olson's definition, "light" means either natural sunlight or a commercial (and pricey) light box. Without either option at my disposal, was I doomed before I even took off?
Not necessarily, says Olson, who reassured me that while the results wouldn't be optimum, I could make do by keeping my room as brightly lit as possible. The good news, he adds: "Avoiding light" can be as easy as donning a pair of extra-dark sunglasses.
Will it work? Stay tuned - and share your own jet lag remedies as a comment.


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Run, Bandits, Run
In the depths of the automotive depression that was the 1970s, the Pontiac Trans Am towered like a giant among Lilliputians. A garishly dressed and badly coiffed giant perhaps, but a giant just the same. And the impression it made among that decade's youth is one that, for some of them at least, hasn't faded with time.
"My brother's friend had a '79 Trans Am," recalls Bill Halsey, who has a red '79 today. "I saw the car only one time, but it had all those wild colors on the hood, and it was kind of extreme for back then. I just loved the car. It always stuck with me."
This is not an isolated feeling. For a certain generation of car nut, Pontiac Trans Am worship is a near-universal part of one's past--and, for many, the present. There was a time when nearly every red-blooded American male had a picture of a Trans Am on his wall, probably not too far from the poster of Farrah Fawcett-Majors in a red bathing suit.
Although the Trans Am is associated with the '70s, the option package actually debuted in 1969, on the first-generation Firebird. But it was restricted to a white-with-blue-stripes color scheme, and it wasn't very popular. When you say "Trans Am," the cars that spring to mind are the second-generation body style, model years 1970-1/2 through 1981. Like most muscle cars, though, the bad-boy Firebird spent the first half of the Me Decade lying low. (Sales reached their nadir in 1972 at 1286 units.) But unlike most, the Trans Am never checked out entirely. Meanwhile, the Ford Mustang had become a joke (Mustang II Cobra II, anyone?), and the once-mighty Mopars had fled. So when the dark clouds over muscle cars began to lift slightly in the latter half of the 1970s, the Trans Am was there to take center stage.
An available black-and-gold color scheme, introduced in 1976, gave the Trans Am a distinctive look, one that caught the eye of movie director Hal Needham. In an interview years later, Needham remembered: "I saw a picture of the Trans Am, with the T-tops, in a magazine--and it was black--and I thought, `Boy, that's a slick, sexy-lookin' car.' " In what is perhaps the most successful bit of product placement ever, Pontiac agreed to give Needham three black-and-gold 1977 Trans Am Special Editions (plus two sedans to use as police cars) for Needham's Burt Reynolds flick, Smokey and the Bandit. Sales skyrocketed.
One sale was to Jim Middleton of Panama City, Florida. Ask him when he got his black '77 T/A, and his wife answers, "About two weeks after we saw the movie." They still own it.
But for many of the young theatergoers who were starstuck in 1977 by the Pontiac supercar that jumped creeks and eluded Smokies, the wait was longer than two weeks. A lot longer.
"I was eight years old when the movie came out," says David Hershey, who's in his mid-thirties now. "Honestly, I don't really remember the whole plot. I didn't understand why they were doing what they were doing. All I remember is that they had this really cool black car that could outrun anything. And that always stuck in my head."
So much so that last year he sold his 2003 Acura and bought a $1500 Honda Civic to drive to work. "I took the money I was spending on my new car and I bought this." "This" is a fully restored 1977 Trans Am Special Edition, which Hershey found through Trans Am restoration specialist Dave Hall of Restore a Muscle Car in Lincoln, Nebraska.
"When I went there, of course we were talking about the car," Hershey said, "and I mentioned this whole idea of 2007 being the thirtieth anniversary of the movie and the idea of doing this run . . . "
"This run" is the Bandit Run, a drive Hershey and Hall organized that follows the bulk of the movie plot, a blast from Texarkana to Atlanta. In the movie, Burt Reynolds drove a Trans Am with Sally Field riding shotgun and his partner, played by Jerry Reed, driving an eighteen-wheeler loaded with Coors beer (which was then illegal to transport east of Texas). Jackie Gleason, as Sheriff Buford T. Justice, gave chase.
We're making the run in a black 1979 Trans Am, purchased for just this occasion by Automobile Magazine's auction reporter, Dave Kinney. Seconds after our car first rolls into view outside the Little Rock, Arkansas, airport terminal, we attract our own Sheriff Buford T. Justice, in the form of an overexcited Arkansas state trooper. He interrupts his important business of ticketing cars at expired meters to harangue the delivery driver who, after trucking the car down from Missouri, is now picking us up in the Trans Am. Evidently, our driver has chosen the wrong one of the three empty lanes in front of the terminal and is thereby Impeding the Flow, an offense that carries a $185 fine.
Despite demonstrating a complete lack of respect for the law, we get out of there without a ticket, but only because Buford fails to notice that the car has no license plate. (It arrives with Kinney on a later flight.)
With Kinney on board and the plate on the back, we roll down I-30 and into the setting sun, with the warm breeze carrying the smells of Arkansas--luckily here it's mostly forestry and not hog farming--through the open windows. The CB antenna almost immediately blows off the roof (we reel it in by its cord), but the car, with 99,000 miles on its Oldsmobile 403-cubic-inch V-8 and three-speed autobox, is running like a train; even the ominous slapping sound coming from the rear end has gone silent--or at least is drowned out by the rumble of the engine and the rush of the wind.
The next morning, at the Tex-Ark Antique Auto Museum for the official kickoff event, we got a very different reception from the representatives of officialdom. The state line-straddling city turns out both its mayors (Mayor Bramlett, of the Texas side, and Mayor Shipp, from the Arkansas side) to give speeches, and the Bandit Runners, in some forty cars, are given a police escort out of town. We're soon "eastbound and down" on state highway 82, getting nothing but friendly waves from the Smokies we pass.
The view over the long hood, punctuated by the center scoop with "T/A 6.6" on the side, is every bit as cool as I imagined it would be back when I stared at the picture of a Trans Am on my wall and built my model Trans Am--both '79s, as it happens. The worn-slick, leather-wrapped steering wheel feels great, and the burnished-metal dash is fun to look at--despite the fact that the tach doesn't work and the see-no-evil speedometer reads at least 10 mph slow.
Hershey's black '77 is leading the group, his wife Lori's wedding veil trailing out the T-top, Sally Field-style. The '77 and '78 black-and-gold Special Edition ("Bandit") cars are the obvious stars of our traveling road show, but participants' rides run the gamut and include Trans Ams from the early 1970s to the early 2000s, plus a GTO, a '68 Catalina, and a General Lee Dodge Charger (apparently one southern hero car deserves another). Hall's Restore a Muscle Car pickup and box trailer full of tools ride toward the rear.
Somehow we end up behind them, however, which proves to be a bummer when a burning smell prompts a stop on the side of the road. We pop the giant hood and see wisps of smoke curling up from the air-conditioning compressor. After cutting the belt to the compressor Kinney had just spent $600 to have fixed, I console him by pointing out that A/C is for wimps. This makes him feel much better.
Soon a downpour arrives and knocks all the heat out of the air anyway, but not before the T/A starts squealing like a pig (which brings to mind an entirely different Burt Reynolds movie). At lunch, the Restore a Muscle Car guys swarm under the hood and tighten the power steering and alternator belts. They also notice that the T/A has the wrong fan clutch; no problem, we'll pick up a new one when we get to Tupelo, Mississippi.
But shortly after crossing into Mississippi, a sudden severe shuddering sends us diving into a gas station. Expecting to find a flat tire--a potential problem, since we have no spare--we instead see the left rear snowflake mag hanging on by just one lug nut. Removing the wheel reveals that there are two missing studs. Not good. Just then, the Restore a Muscle Car rig bounds into the station. With the speed of a NASCAR pit crew, the guys set to work borrowing one stud from the other side to give us four lugs for each wheel, enough to get us to Tupelo.
The next morning starts with the Bandit Runners, whose numbers have increased, showing their cars outside the Tupelo Automobile Museum. The downtime gives the guys from Restore a Muscle Car--which we've renamed Restore Dave's Muscle Car--a chance to install the wheel studs and the new fan clutch Kinney purchased. Others use the time more wisely by doing smoky burnouts in the empty parking lot next door.
While some Bandit Run enthusiasm takes the form of Bandit-worthy burnouts, other participants are content to show off by displaying framed movie posters, movie stills, and even Smokey and the Bandit models. Rick Rodriguez has all three with his '77 Trans Am Special Edition.
"I saw the movie with my mom when I was ten years old, and I swore I'd have the car someday," he says. "If you study the movie, it's hard to find a difference between this car and the one the Bandit drove."
Back on the road, we're headed to Birmingham, Alabama, and Kinney's Trans Am is once again running strong. Although it's behaving well, it is drinking heavily (10 mpg!). The group stops at a gas station in Alabama, and the semis driving past give an air-horn salute. Smokey and the Bandit didn't just lionize the Trans Am, of course; it also made heroes of truckers. Unfortunately, we don't have a tractor trailer full of Coors along with us, but there's plenty waiting at the bar in Birmingham's Redmont Hotel.
The next morning, heading out onto I-20, our numbers have swollen again. At our stop at Talladega Superspeedway, I count sixty-five cars that have muscled in for a group photo. After a tour of the NASCAR museum--where the lone Trans Am, a white, early '80s pace car, is ignominiously displayed dirty and spotted with bird crap--the Run heads to its final destination, Road Atlanta.
"This is something I've always wanted to do--drive an SE from Texarkana to Atlanta," says Tyler Hambrick, who's driving his '77 Special Edition. For those who want to do a little bit more, Hambrick will lead a tour two days later that takes in the Atlanta-area movie shooting locations, which he's researched in the Georgia archives.
What is it about Smokey and the Bandit--which Reynolds himself played down as "a rainy Saturday afternoon kind of movie"--that gave it such a powerful impact for so many people? Perhaps the best answer comes from Regina Johnsey, who drove the full length of the Run with her brother, not in a Trans Am but in his '68 Catalina coupe. "To me, one of the best things about the movie is that it has a wonderfully anarchic sensibility." More so than so many highbrow car-guy events, the Bandit Run captured that same sense of fun. And 10-4 to that.
Yes, I bought a '79 Trans Am
Just to answer a few of the inevitable questions: no, I've never owned a Members Only jacket, worn my hair in a mullet, or dated a Camaro-driving bleached blonde from New Jersey named Donna. I just checked my iPod, and there are two Abba songs on it, but I swear they were put there by an evil force. I write the auction column for Automobile Magazine, and I go to more than twenty collector-car auctions every year. I watch what's hot and what's not among the collectors, dealers, and buyers who attend the sales. Even before the proposal to go on the Bandit Run was first floated, I had noticed that the once-hopeless late-1970s Trans Ams had a growing coolness factor. I found this car at the Cox Auctions event in Branson, Missouri. I was ready to step up for it, a '79 in factory black with a gold screaming chicken on the hood. Trans Ams from the late '70s were down on horsepower compared with earlier models, even though the big engines remained. That's a major negative. But the positive side far outweighs the bad stuff. The cars have aged well in the looks department, and now that they are no longer everyday fixtures on streets and used car lots, they get more than a passing glance when you drive one. I really wanted a T/A with T-tops and a factory-installed CB radio--if you're going retro, why not go all the way? Hey, is "My Sharona" available as a download? I've already got "East Bound and Down." - Dave Kinney
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