Here's A Reason To Love Disco Again: Stopping Food Waste

Tristram Stuart, founder of Feeding the 5000, is helping to organize several disco soup events across Europe for World Food Day.

Courtesy of Feeding the 5000

Tristram Stuart, founder of Feeding the 5000, is helping to organize several disco soup events across Europe for World Food Day.

Courtesy of Feeding the 5000

Wednesday is World Food Day, an occasion food activists like to use to call attention to world hunger. With 842 million chronically undernourished people on Earth, it's a problem that hasn't gone away.

This year, activists are trying to make the day a little spicier with pots full of disco soup to highlight the absurd amount of food thrown away that could feed people: one-third of all the food produced every year.

What is disco soup, you ask? It's the tasty outcome of a party designed to bring strangers together to cook food that would otherwise end up in the trash. Oftentimes, the soup is donated to the hungry. Oh, and as the name suggests, there's music involved, too.

The first disco soup party was held in Germany in early 2012 by some folks affiliated with the Slow Food Youth Network Deutschland. The organizers collected discarded fruits and vegetables from a market, blasted some disco music and made a huge pot of soup.

Two months later, a group in France threw a disco soup party and attracted 100 people. More parties followed, in Australia, South Korea, Ireland and beyond. You can check out an earnest little video of another French disco food event here:

The idea eventually caught the attention of Tristram Stuart, a British food waste activist and writer who started Feeding the 5000, a campaign named for an event held in London in 2009 and 2011, where 5,000 members of the public were given a free lunch made with perfectly edible ingredients bound for the rubbish bin.

Stuart is adamant that consumers and businesses in the developed world have a moral obligation to reverse "the global scandal" of food waste. In addition to throwing events to cook up blemished but edible produce, his campaign is working to change European Union legislation on feeding food waste to pigs through the Pig Idea project.

For World Food Day, Feeding the 5000 is hosting a "flagship" disco soup party in Brussels. And the group says more pots full of disco soup will be bubbling away today in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Greece and Macedonia. The event hub is the Disco Anti Food Waste Day Facebook page.

And what if you don't like disco? Can you still have a disco soup event?

"We play anything that gets people dancing as they peel and chop the vegetables and fruit," Dominika Jarosz, event coordinator for Feeding the 5000, tells The Salt in an email.

While there are no disco soup events scheduled for Oct. 16 in the U.S., Feeding the 5000 says disco soup is starting to get traction here. The first U.S. disco soup event was held on Sept. 20 in New York, with the support of Slow Food NYC, the Natural Gourmet Institute, chef Paul Gerard of the East Village restaurant Exchange Alley and the United Nations Environment Program.

In advance of the soup blitz, Stuart visited local farms in New York and New Jersey and gleaned blemished tomatoes, oversized watermelons, squash, eggplants and other fresh produce that the farmers were unable to sell. A rotating crew of DJs provided a soundtrack at the soup-making party at the Chelsea Super Pier, and most of the food was donated to the Bowery Mission. Such events, he says, help raise awareness among food donors like grocery stores and farmers and help them forge long-term relationships with organizations that feed the hungry.

Americans may be getting more motivated to address food waste, but we have to hand it to the Europeans, who do seem to be out in front on the issue. It was a group of Austrians, after all, who started a reality cooking show centered around Dumpster diving.

Food waste was also a talking point for world leaders who spoke up on World Food Day. "Reducing food waste is not, in fact, only a strategy for times of crisis, but a way of life we should adopt if we want a sustainable future for our planet," Nunzia De Girolamo, Italy's minister for agriculture, food and forestry policy, said at a ceremony Wednesday at the Food and Agriculture Organization's headquarters in Rome.

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Here's A Reason To Love Disco Again: Stopping Food Waste

Tristram Stuart, founder of Feeding the 5000, is helping to organize several disco soup events across Europe for World Food Day.

Courtesy of Feeding the 5000

Tristram Stuart, founder of Feeding the 5000, is helping to organize several disco soup events across Europe for World Food Day.

Courtesy of Feeding the 5000

Wednesday is World Food Day, an occasion food activists like to use to call attention to world hunger. With 842 million chronically undernourished people on Earth, it's a problem that hasn't gone away.

This year, activists are trying to make the day a little spicier with pots full of disco soup to highlight the absurd amount of food thrown away that could feed people: one-third of all the food produced every year.

What is disco soup, you ask? It's the tasty outcome of a party designed to bring strangers together to cook food that would otherwise end up in the trash. Oftentimes, the soup is donated to the hungry. Oh, and as the name suggests, there's music involved, too.

The first disco soup party was held in Germany in early 2012 by some folks affiliated with the Slow Food Youth Network Deutschland. The organizers collected discarded fruits and vegetables from a market, blasted some disco music and made a huge pot of soup.

Two months later, a group in France threw a disco soup party and attracted 100 people. More parties followed, in Australia, South Korea, Ireland and beyond. You can check out an earnest little video of another French disco food event here:

The idea eventually caught the attention of Tristram Stuart, a British food waste activist and writer who started Feeding the 5000, a campaign named for an event held in London in 2009 and 2011, where 5,000 members of the public were given a free lunch made with perfectly edible ingredients bound for the rubbish bin.

Stuart is adamant that consumers and businesses in the developed world have a moral obligation to reverse "the global scandal" of food waste. In addition to throwing events to cook up blemished but edible produce, his campaign is working to change European Union legislation on feeding food waste to pigs through the Pig Idea project.

For World Food Day, Feeding the 5000 is hosting a "flagship" disco soup party in Brussels. And the group says more pots full of disco soup will be bubbling away today in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Greece and Macedonia. The event hub is the Disco Anti Food Waste Day Facebook page.

And what if you don't like disco? Can you still have a disco soup event?

"We play anything that gets people dancing as they peel and chop the vegetables and fruit," Dominika Jarosz, event coordinator for Feeding the 5000, tells The Salt in an email.

While there are no disco soup events scheduled for Oct. 16 in the U.S., Feeding the 5000 says disco soup is starting to get traction here. The first U.S. disco soup event was held on Sept. 20 in New York, with the support of Slow Food NYC, the Natural Gourmet Institute, chef Paul Gerard of the East Village restaurant Exchange Alley and the United Nations Environment Program.

In advance of the soup blitz, Stuart visited local farms in New York and New Jersey and gleaned blemished tomatoes, oversized watermelons, squash, eggplants and other fresh produce that the farmers were unable to sell. A rotating crew of DJs provided a soundtrack at the soup-making party at the Chelsea Super Pier, and most of the food was donated to the Bowery Mission. Such events, he says, help raise awareness among food donors like grocery stores and farmers and help them forge long-term relationships with organizations that feed the hungry.

Americans may be getting more motivated to address food waste, but we have to hand it to the Europeans, who do seem to be out in front on the issue. It was a group of Austrians, after all, who started a reality cooking show centered around Dumpster diving.

Food waste was also a talking point for world leaders who spoke up on World Food Day. "Reducing food waste is not, in fact, only a strategy for times of crisis, but a way of life we should adopt if we want a sustainable future for our planet," Nunzia De Girolamo, Italy's minister for agriculture, food and forestry policy, said at a ceremony Wednesday at the Food and Agriculture Organization's headquarters in Rome.

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Not Part Of Talks, Israel Still Tries To Sway Iran Nuclear Talks

Israel is keeping a close eye on the Geneva talks on Iran's nuclear program. Israel is not party to the negotiations but its leaders say they have a big stake in the outcome. A cabinet statement Tuesday warned of "cosmetic [Iranian] concessions that could be reversed in weeks. In exchange, Iran demands an easing of the sanctions, which have taken years to put in place."

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Workers at newly privatised Royal Mail to strike November 4

By Neil Maidment

LONDON (Reuters) - Workers at newly privatised Royal Mail postal service voted on Wednesday to strike for 24 hours on November 4 if they cannot reach agreement with the firm on pay and working conditions.

The management of Royal Mail, which listed on the London stock market in a high profile float last week, had expected a vote in favour of strike action and criticised the prospect of a disruption to services in the run-up to Christmas, its busiest time.

The Communication Workers' Union (CWU) sent ballot papers to over 115,000 Royal Mail staff and said 78 percent had voted to strike, on a turnout of 63 percent.

The union said further action was under consideration and added that it planned to carry out a second ballot asking workers to support a boycott of the handling of competitors' mail, which Royal Mail delivers on their behalf.

The CWU, which fiercely opposed the privatisation over fears it would lead to poorer job conditions and services, in July rejected Royal Mail's offer of an 8.6 percent pay increase over three years, criticising proposed changes to pensions.

"What we want is a groundbreaking, long-term, legally binding agreement that not only protects postal workers' job security, pay and pensions but will also determine the strategy, principles and values of how Royal Mail will operate as a private entity," CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward said in a statement.

Royal Mail noted that, with a 63 percent turnout, 51 percent of all its CWU members had abstained or voted against a strike. It also noted that there were 24,000 frontline employees who were not union members and therefore did not vote.

Shares in the firm, which on Wednesday named Barclays as its corporate broker, closed down 2.9 percent at 475 pence, having been down all day on the expected announcement.

The Direct Marketing Association, representing the UK advertising mail industry - which it says accounts for 1 billion pounds of Royal Mail's 9 billion pound turnover - said strike action would have a severe impact on customers.

"The build-up to Christmas is a critical period that typically accounts for more than half of businesses' annual revenues ... Any disruption to service would quickly lead businesses to take their custom elsewhere," DMA's executive director Chris Combemale said in a statement.

The action comes as many Royal Mail workers have seen the value of their free shares in the firm rocket.

As part the stock market listing, 10 percent of shares were handed to Royal Mail's 150,000 eligible UK-based staff, with full-time workers each receiving 725 shares, worth around 3,440 pounds at Wednesday's closing share price.

That figure was much higher than the 2,200 pounds per person initially expected, after the shares peaked on Tuesday almost 50 percent above the privatisation price.

Royal Mail said on Wednesday that directors of the company had applied for a total of more than 500,000 pounds worth of shares in the float as part of an employee priority offer, and like others, saw their order scaled back to 10,000 pounds worth each due to strong demand for the shares.

As well as the shares they bought at the 330 pence offer price, they also received the free shares as staff. Royal Mail said its non-executive directors decided to opt out of receiving these shares as they deemed it inappropriate.

Chairman Donald Brydon owns 3,030 shares, worth nearly 14,400 pounds at Wednesday's closing price, while Chief Executive Moya Greene and Chief Financial Officer Matthew Lester both have 3,643 shares, now worth more than 17,300 pounds.

The jump in the share price has sparked criticism by opposition MPs, who accuse the government of undervaluing Royal Mail, prompting a parliamentary committee to say it will investigate the sale in an inquiry expected next month.

(Additional reporting by Kylie MacLellan, Editing by Kate Holton and Kevin Liffey)

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Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way: Hamptons Review

The Bottom Line

Celebratory biography cements Ferraro's place as a trailblazer.

Venue

Hamptons International Film Festival

Director

Donna Zaccaro

THE HAMPTONS, NEW YORK — An encomium for the first woman to run on a major party's ticket for the White House, Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way is the kind of admiring doc one would expect from a director, Donna Zaccaro, who is the late Vice Presidential candidate's daughter. Recapping an impressive career almost 30 years after she and Walter Mondale lost to Ronald Reagan and George Bush, the enjoyable film makes a fine point of entry for younger viewers who mightn't have understood the tributes paid upon Ferraro's death in 2011; though its big-screen career may be limited to fests, a video release would be welcomed by students of politics and gender equality.

Interviewed in the final months of her years-long battle with cancer, Ferraro shows no evidence of the toll the disease had taken. She recounts enough details of her youth to make her barrier-breaking adult career seem pre-ordained: Named for an older brother who died before she was born, she was raised by mother who owned a family business and insisted there was nothing boys could do that young Gerry couldn't.

After agreeing to be a mostly stay-at-home mom until her children were all in school full-time, Ferraro used her legal education to get a job in the Queens County District Attorney's office. She made an impression with a new Special Victims unit for cases involving rape and domestic violence, and soon ran for Congress under the cheeky slogan "Finally...a tough Democrat."

Clips of her in public settings depict a remarkable communicator whose straight talk and logic-driven arguments would be welcome on the current political scene; as colleagues recall with admiration, she also had a realistic view of the compromise-based political process that young idealists often lack. ("She's one of us," Tip O'Neil is said to have remarked admiringly.) Interviews with other women who made up the House's tiny female contingent convey a spirit of solidarity while depicting her as a rising star.

Mondale acknowledges her talents, recalling that he had no interest in selecting a "token female" as his running mate. Footage from the national convention in which he presented her to the world is effervescent, and for a time polls suggested they actually might unseat the incumbents.

That didn't happen, of course. Paving the Way shows how hard the candidate worked for her team while depicting the campaign against her as both willfully dishonest and slanted in ways that would become familiar to female politicians in decades to come. (Republican campaign consultant Ed Rollins admits "there was a covert operation" to get Ferraro, spearheaded by an irate Nancy Reagan.)

Though the movie never locates interviewees who have anything critical to say about Ferraro in the present tense, it takes pains to include some high-profile ones who opposed her at the time: Between visits with Bill and Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright and other high-profile supporters, we sit couchside as George H. W. and Barbara Bush recall how, once the election was over, Bush and Ferraro forgot their heated debate and became good friends.

Production Company: Dazzling Media

Director: Donna Zaccaro

Producers: Donna Zaccaro, Janice DeRosa, Andrew Morreale

Director of photography: Jim Sicile

Editor: Andrew Morreale

Sales: The Film Sales Company

No rating, 86 minutes

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Yahoo Spent $163 Million In Cash On Acquisitions In Q3, Down 84% From Its Tumblr'd Q2

In the third quarter, Yahoo purchased eight companies, including Lexity, Rockmelt, and Xobni. According to its earnings release, the net cash impact on those purchases totalled $163 million. Does that mean that the total value of the eight purchases came to $163 million? Not at all. That figure is merely the net cash outflow for Yahoo, or, the total cash that it paid to the companies’ shareholders, less cash that the companies had on hand. This doesn’t give us the full picture of the total cost of Yahoo purchases, given that the company could also employ stock as well as cash to make acquisitions. In fact, that seems to be the majority option. Here’s Yahoo in its second quarter earnings: During the second quarter of 2013, Yahoo! repurchased 25 million shares for $653 million and used a net $1 billion in cash for acquisitions (including a net $970 million to acquire Tumblr). That appears to imply that Yahoo used a net $30 million that quarter to acquire the eight companies that it picked up in the second quarter that were not Tumblr (for a total of nine second quarter acquisitions). Unless Yahoo bought exceptionally cash-rich companies – not likely, frankly – then it appears to have used far more of its own stock as bargaining chip than cash to purchase the smaller firms. The Tumblr deal was nearly all cash, though the company had over $15 million in cash on hand at the time of the deal. Speaking very purely, Yahoo has under $1 billion in cash and equivalents. But, its total cash position, as it is usually calculated including “[c]ash, cash equivalents, and investments in marketable securities” total $3.2 billion. That, tied to its forthcoming massive Alibaba check, and Yahoo is more than sufficiently capitalized to keep on buying if it wants to. Though, it isn’t clear if Yahoo will pursue more cash-focused, or stock-based purchases moving forward. It has shown an appetite for both. Top Image Credit: Kevin KrejciSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/A6Bf3G1iDbs/
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Fla. bullying case: girls aged 12 and 14 charged

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd talks about the events leading up to the arrest over the weekend of two juvenile girls in a Florida bullying case at a press conference in Winter Haven, Fla., Monday, Oct. 15, 2013. Two middle school girls ages 14 and 12 have been arrested and charged with felony aggravated stalking in connection with the suicide earlier this year of 12-year-old Rebecca Ann Sedwick in Lakeland. Judd said police arrested the 14-year-old girl after she posted online Saturday that she bullied Rebecca and she didn't care. The 12-year-old girl was Rebecca's former best friend, but Judd said the 14-year-old girl turned her against Rebecca. (AP Photo/The Ledger, Calvin Knight) TAMPA TRIBUNE OUT

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd talks about the events leading up to the arrest over the weekend of two juvenile girls in a Florida bullying case at a press conference in Winter Haven, Fla., Monday, Oct. 15, 2013. Two middle school girls ages 14 and 12 have been arrested and charged with felony aggravated stalking in connection with the suicide earlier this year of 12-year-old Rebecca Ann Sedwick in Lakeland. Judd said police arrested the 14-year-old girl after she posted online Saturday that she bullied Rebecca and she didn't care. The 12-year-old girl was Rebecca's former best friend, but Judd said the 14-year-old girl turned her against Rebecca. (AP Photo/The Ledger, Calvin Knight) TAMPA TRIBUNE OUT

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd talks about the events leading up to the arrest over the weekend of two juvenile girls in a Florida bullying case at a press conference in Winter Haven Monday, Oct. 15, 2013. Two middle school girls ages 14 and 12 have been arrested and charged with felony aggravated stalking in connection with the suicide earlier this year of 12-year-old Rebecca Ann Sedwick in Lakeland. Judd said police arrested the 14-year-old girl after she posted online Saturday that she bullied Rebecca and she didn't care. The 12-year-old girl was Rebecca's former best friend, but Judd said the 14-year-old girl turned her against Rebecca. (AP Photo/The Ledger, Calvin Knight) TAMPA TRIBUNE OUT

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2013 file photo, Polk County Sheriff personnel investigate the death of 12-year-old girl, Rebecca Ann Sedwick, at an old cement plant in Lakeland, Fla. Two girls have been arrested in her death. Officials say she committed suicide after being bullied online for nearly a year. On Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd will announce charges against the girls, age 12 and 14, in a press conference. (AP Photo/The Lakeland Ledger, Ernst Peters, File)

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — After 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick committed suicide last month, one of her tormenters continued to make comments about her online, even bragging about the bullying, a sheriff said Tuesday.

The especially callous remark hastened the arrest of a 14-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl who were primarily responsible for bullying Rebecca, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. They were charged with stalking and released to their parents.

"'Yes, I bullied Rebecca and she killed herself but I don't give a ...' and you can add the last word yourself," the sheriff said, quoting a Facebook post the older girl made Saturday.

Police in central Florida said Rebecca was tormented online and at school by as many as 15 girls before she climbed a tower at an abandoned concrete plant and hurled herself to her death Sept. 9. She is one of at least a dozen or so suicides in the past three years that were attributed at least in part to cyberbullying.

The sheriff said they were still investigating the girls, and trying to decide whether the parents should be charged.

"I'm aggravated that the parents aren't doing what parents should do," the sheriff said. "Responsible parents take disciplinary action."

About a year ago, the older girl threatened to fight Rebecca while they were sixth-graders at Crystal Lake Middle School and told her "to drink bleach and die," the sheriff said. She also convinced the younger girl to bully Rebecca, even though they had been best friends.

The girls repeatedly intimidated Rebecca and called her names, the sheriff said, and at one point, the younger girl even beat up Rebecca at school.

Both girls were charged as juveniles with third-degree felony aggravated stalking. If convicted, it's not clear how much time, if any at all, the girls would spend in juvenile detention because they did not have any previous criminal history, the sheriff said.

The sheriff's office identified the two girls, but The Associated Press generally does not name juveniles charged with crimes.

The bullying began after the 14-year-old girl started dating a boy Rebecca had been seeing, the sheriff said.

A man who answered the phone at the 14-year-old's Lakeland home said he was her father and told The Associated Press "none of it's true."

"My daughter's a good girl and I'm 100 percent sure that whatever they're saying about my daughter is not true," he said.

At their mobile home, a barking pit bull stood guard and no one came outside despite shouts from reporters for an interview.

Neighbor George Colom said he had never interacted with the girl but noticed her playing roughly with other children on the street.

"Kids getting beat up, kids crying," Colom said. "The kids hang loose unsupervised all the time."

A telephone message left at the 12-year-old girl's home was not immediately returned and no one answered the door.

Orlando attorney David Hill said detectives may be able to pursue contributing to the delinquency of a minor charge for the parents, if they knew their daughters' were bullying Rebecca yet did nothing about it.

But it "will be easy to defend since the parents are going to say, 'We didn't know anything about it,'" said Hill, who is not involved in the case.

Perry Aftab, a New Jersey-based lawyer, told AP last month that it is difficult to bring charges against someone accused of driving a person to suicide, in part because of free-speech laws.

The case has illustrated, once more, the ways in which youngsters are using the Internet to torment others.

In a review of news articles last month, AP found about a dozen suicides in the U.S. since October 2010 that were attributed at least in part to cyberbullying. Aftab said she thought the number was at least twice that.

Before her death, Rebecca changed one of her online screen names to "That Dead Girl" and she messaged a boy in North Carolina: "I'm jumping." Detectives found some of her diaries at her home, and she talked of how depressed she was about the situation.

Last December, Rebecca was hospitalized for three days after cutting her wrists because of what she said was bullying, according to the sheriff. Later, after Rebecca complained that she had been pushed in the hallway and that another girl wanted to fight her, Rebecca's mother began home-schooling her in Lakeland, a city of about 100,000 midway between Tampa and Orlando, Judd said.

This fall, Rebecca started at a new school, but the bullying continued online, authorities said.

"Rebecca's mother went above and beyond to create interventions. The one issue that Rebecca's mom said to us was, 'I just didn't want to have her not like me, so I wanted to give her access to her cell phone so she could talk to her friends,'" Judd said. "Rebecca's family is absolutely devastated by this. Quite frankly, we're all devastated by this."

___

Kay reported from Miami.

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David Oyelowo, Kate Mara to Star in True-Life Thriller 'Captive' (Exclusive)

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David Oyelowo and Kate Mara

David Oyelowo and House of Cards star Kate Mara are toplining Captive, a true-life thriller being made by BN Films. 

Veteran director  Jerry Jameson (1980's Raise the Titanic) is directing the feature, which is also being produced with Brightside Entertainment, 1019 Entertainment and Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon Productions.  

The story is based on the true events that occurred in  Atlanta, Ga., on March 11, 2005. That’s when Brian Nichols, who will be played by Oyelowo in the movie, broke out of a courthouse jail and shot dead the judge assigned to his case as well as a court reporter, sheriff’s deputy, and FBI officer.

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While eluding a statewide manhunt, Nichols took Ashley Smith (Mara), a single mother struggling with meth addiction, hostage in her own apartment. Over the course of her ordeal, Smith used a book she had been given, Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life, to reason with her captor, with surprising results. 

Leonor Varela and Mimi Rogers are rounding out the cast. 

The script is by Brian Bird and Reinhard Denke, adapting Ashley Smith’s bestselling book An Unlikely Angel. 

Alex Garcia, Lucas Akoskin, Terry Botwick, Oyelowo, and Ken Wales will produce. Katrina Wolfe, Jonathan Gray, Ralph Winter, Elliott Lester, and Bird are executive producing.

The film is set to begin principal photography later this month.

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BN Films is the international production company launched under a year ago by Garcia and Akoskin. Based in Santa Monica and Mexico City, the company has 23 projects in various stages of development, including Jonas Cuaron’s Desierto and The Jesuit, written by Paul Schrader with a cast that includes Tim Roth.

 Captive  will also mark BN’s second venture with Oyelowo, who starred in the recently wrapped Nightingale, set for a festival run next year.  

Oyelowo (WME, Inphenate, Hamilton Hodell) played Forest Whitaker’s son in Lee Daniels’ the Butler and is shooting Interstellar for Christopher Nolan.

Mara (UTA, Stone Meyer) plays ambitious reporter Zoe Barnes on House of Cards, Netflix’s hit political drama. She recently wrapped shooting Transcendence, Alcon’s sci-fi thriller starring Johnny Depp and executive produced by Nolan.

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NSA stole your address book, too -- SALESFORCE dives into identity -- Google Now coming to a wrist near you -- LAVABIT returns, briefly -- APPLE signals retail makeover

October 15, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC

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>> SHARE YOUR CONTACTS: NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally, by Barton Gellman, Ashkan Soltani: "…harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans.... The collection program, which has not been disclosed before, intercepts e-mail address books and 'buddy lists' from instant messaging services as they move across global data links.... During a single day last year, the NSA's Special Source Operations branch collected 444,743 e-mail address books from Yahoo, 105,068 from Hotmail, 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Gmail and 22,881 from unspecified other providers, according to an internal NSA PowerPoint presentation. Those figures, described as a typical daily intake in the document, correspond to a rate of more than 250 million a year." WaPo
>>>> NSA collects email contact lists, IM buddy lists from overseas with no oversight. At all. TechDirt
>>>> Yahoo promises encryption as NSA's email and IM contact list collection is exposed GigaOM
>>>> Gov't moves to keep NSA surveillance lawsuit away from Supreme Court Ars Technica
>>>> Who should judge whether Snowden's leaked secrets are too sensitive to report? The Guardian

>> IDENTITY WARS: Salesforce Identity rocks the boat for startups like Okta and Ping, by Nancy Gohring: "There's a shakeup looming in the fledgling cloud identity and access management market. Salesforce today is making its identity and access management service, known as Identity, generally available. Microsoft began offering its Azure Active Directory service earlier this year but expects to add more substantial capabilities by the end of the year. Other big names are sure to follow, making life hard for the startups like Okta, OneLogin, and Ping Identity, that trailblazed this segment. Andras Cser, an analyst at Forrester, called the emergence of cloud identity and access services from the likes of Microsoft and Salesforce a 'huge threat' to the startups." CITEWorld
>>>> Salesforce vs. Microsoft: Dueling single sign-ons InfoWorld

>> UPGRADE? HELL NO: Enterprises will snub Microsoft's faster release tempo by sticking with Windows 7, by Gregg Keizer: "Enterprises will standardize on Windows 7 and Office 2010 and will ignore Microsoft's newer operating system and suite for years, research firm Gartner predicted.... Ballmer doesn't get it... Businesses don't want to deal with annual Windows updates." Computerworld

>> IT'S NOT ABOUT TIME: Google Watch is happening soon, heavy into Kit Kat/Google Now functionality, by Seth Weintraub: "Google could put a lot of the functionality of Google Glass in the watch product. Push a button, ask a question, get a response as the watch talks to the Now-enabled smartphone. Also, the 'serendipitous' information that Google Now shows you on your phone could come up in the watch. Time to get home, Calendar alarms, emails, SMSes, etc. all could get pushed to the watch's display." 9to5Google
>>>> Google Glass: Yes, it's that bad InfoWorld

>> WE'RE ALL NIELSONS NOW: Google readying 'Mobile Meter' app that offers rewards for tracking mobile usage, by Matt Brian: "... new mobile apps that compensate users if they allow their mobile behavior to be monitored. We're told that the project, known internally as 'Mobile Meter,' utilizes iOS and Android apps that intelligently monitor app usage and web browsing habits and send the data back to Google." Engadget

>> BEZOS ERUPTIONS: Bezos in action: 10 zesty slices from Brad Stone's new book, by George Anders: "Here are 10 specific insights into Bezos's business revolution from The Everything Store. All of them made me sit up and blink, even though I've written about Amazon, intermittently, since 1998." Forbes

>> STAT DU JOUR: Device and app trends in South Korea, the first saturated device market, by Mary Ellen Gordon: "Worldwide the installed base of connected devices measured by Flurry grew by 81% between August of 2012 and August of 2013, whereas growth for South Korea during the same time period was only 17%... in a worldwide sample of 97,963 iOS and Android devices, only 7% were phablets, but for South Korea that percentage was 41%. The appeal of phablets in South Korea appears to suppress the tablet market there. Worldwide, 19% of the devices in our sample were tablets compared to only 5% in South Korea." The Flurry Blog
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>> POP-UP SITE: Lavabit to briefly reinstate services for data recovery: "Beginning today, Ladar Levison, founder of Lavabit LLC, will begin the process that will allow former users of Lavabit to briefly access their account and recover data lost from the initial shutdown. To begin this process, the user will first be allowed to change their password during a 72 hour period, beginning tonight at 7:00 PM Central.... If users are indeed concerned that their account information has been compromised, this will allow them to change their account password on a website with a newly secured SSL key. Following the 72 hour period, Thursday, October 17th, the website will then allow users to access email archives and their personal account data so that it may be preserved by the user." PR Newswire
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>> NEEDS TREATMENT: Confessions of a Windows Phone User, by Ashlee Vance: "Hello. My name is Ashlee Vance, and I have a Windows phone.... To own a Windows smartphone in Silicon Valley is to invite ridicule and pity. Every day I pull out the bright yellow Nokia (NOK) Lumia 920, and every day iPhone and Android types look at me with dismay. Why, they wonder, would I subject myself to an app wasteland? Why would anyone take the risk of a Blue Screen of Death interrupting their phone call? Why would anybody opt for the platonic ideal of unhip?" Bloomberg Businessweek

>> PICKS AND AXES: Bitcoin mining rush means real cash for hardware makers, by Olga Kharif: "The currency, used to buy and sell everything from electronics to illegal drugs on the Web, has surged to about $135, more than 10 times its value a year ago.... The rally has created a cottage industry of speculators eager to get their hands on Bitcoins, which can only be created digitally by using powerful computers to solve complex software problems. That has in turn boosted a market for high-powered machines, some costing more than $20,000 apiece, which are custom-made to unlock new Bitcoins in a process called mining, a nod to the excavation of minerals and metal ore." Bloomberg

>> MEA CULPA: A clarification and an apology, by Scott Wiess of A16Z: "The entrepreneur is usually in the middle of A/B testing to try to get one or more important end user statistics working such as downloads, daily active users (DAU), monthly active users (MAU), and a compelling cohort analysis of usage over time. This messy, but necessary, experimentation process where theories are rapidly tested and retested was the stage that I referred to as 'Fruit fly experiments.' Although it was not my intention, I see how this analogy could be offensive to entrepreneurs that are in the thick of this problem -- I don't mean to make light of their struggle. Having been in the thick of it myself multiple times, I have a deep appreciation for how hard and emotionally draining the product/market fit process is and apologize for the careless analogy." A16Z

>> FUNNY MONEY: Gaming juggernaut Supercell (Clash of Clans, Hay Day) sells a 51% stake for $ 1.53B to SoftBank and GungHo online TechCrunch

>> SkyGiraffe gets strategic investment from Microsoft to mobilize enterprises. "Terms were not disclosed but we understand from sources that the investment is more about strategy than injecting large amounts of cash. Because SkyGiraffe has key integrations with Microsoft technologies, this will give it significant distribution, and presumably, way more traction than if it was out there on its own." TechCrunch

>> VMware acquires Desktone, makes network virtualization generally available InfoWorld

>> Silicon Valley stays quiet as Washington implodes Computerworld

>> Trolls defeat Scientific American, Popular Science Ars Technica

>> Strengths and weaknesses of MS SmartScreen filter HelpNet Security

>> Zettaset claims Intel lied, cheated and stole its Hadoop software GigaOM

>> D-Link's backdoor: What else is in there? InfoWorld

>> Thousands of sites hacked via vBulletin hole Krebs on Security

>> Five tips to make your code better Vic Cherubini

>> Researchers achieve 100 Gbps over sub-terahertz wireless, set world record Engadget

>> Apple ups its fashion cred, names Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts as SVP of retail and online stores TechCrunch

>> TWEET O' THE DAY: "New Google search results in Chrome for Android are disgusting and confusing. Ease back on the ads dudes." @joshuatopolsky

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Greek isle of Lesbos shows community spirit to migrants

Mytilene (Greece) (AFP) - Beautiful beaches, olive groves and green mountains long summed up Greece's third-largest island Lesbos, but this corner of the Aegean Sea also faces an ever-rising tide of migrants reaching its shores.

Like Italy's tiny Lampedusa, site of two recent migrant shipwreck tragedies that cost almost 400 lives, Lesbos is a gateway to the European Union and refugee traffic has soared over the past year.

But locals are not clamouring for a force field around their home, also known as Emerald Island for its rich greenery of forests and mountain peaks.

Over the past few months, the residents of the capital Mytilene and other neighbouring communities have given first aid to migrants found wandering on beaches early in the morning or trying to make their way to some village.

"Lesbos is only a thoroughfare for migrants, they all want to leave as soon as possible to get to Athens and then to other countries," said Nelly Hatzidaki from the Lesbos-based citizens' movement Co-existence and Communication in the Aegean Sea.

"That undoubtedly explains why locals have never been hostile," she added.

The island's only migrant reception centre, housed in a former military warehouse, closed down in 2010 after criticism by Greek and international NGOs that called it Europe's most unhealthy place.

From then until 2012 "the influx of migrants levelled off. But when the arrivals picked up again, police and port authorities were totally overwhelmed," said Efi Latsoudi, of a local association called "The village for all".

"They would even not make arrests for lack of (detention) space."

"At first, the authorities ignored the problem," adds Hatzidaki.

"So in November 2012 we asked migrants to gather in front of the municipal theatre. It was a shock for many people to find out that there were entire families, often with very young children."

'A dignified welcome'

Immediately people brought clothes, blankets and food for the migrants and the town hall even gave local associations the keys to a former campsite, not far from the airport.

"We opened the first self-managed reception centre," says Latsoudi proudly, pointing out that thanks to volunteers the centre can feed and take care of up to 150 migrants.

Sometimes, even police bring new arrivals to the campsite, volunteers say.

But the authorities have also closed down the reception centre on numerous occasions, leaving only the overcrowded cells of the local police station or the makeshift tents set up in a fenced-off area near the port to house the migrants.

In October, a new state reception and detention centre situated in a former military camp opened its doors, promising migrants "a dignified welcome."

The volunteers' community spirit is not impermeable however, and after a few months people have been feeling the strain.

"Residents on the island have their own economic problems, and it is a heavy burden," said Hatzidaki.

Meanwhile, undocumented migrants continue to flood into Lesbos -- this week alone, dozens of Afghans and Eritreans reached the island.

Since autumn 2012, when EU border control agency Frontex and Greek authorities clamped down on the Greek-Turkish northern land border, marked by the Evros river, migrant traffic here has surged.

Greek police say 2,834 undocumented migrants were arrested in Lesbos during the first eight months of this year, compared to 253 over the same period in 2012.

"This week alone, around 70 people -- Eritreans, then Afghans," said Latsoudi.

Although arrest numbers are the only data available from the police, experts agree it provides an accurate picture of migrant traffic.

The numbers on the other Greek islands Samos, Chios and Rhodes in the eastern Aegean reveal a similar trend.

And some journeys end in tragedy. In March, at least six Syrians drowned before reaching Lesbos, while another 21 people perished in December last year.

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U.S. citizen found dead in Egyptian prison

CAIRO (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen was found dead in an Egyptian prison on Sunday in an apparent suicide six weeks after he was arrested for breaking a curfew, security sources said.

James Henry Lunn had been held at Ismailia, northeast of Cairo, since his arrest on August 28 near the border with the Gaza Strip.

A U.S. embassy official said a U.S. citizen had died as the result of an apparent suicide at the Ismailia prison. Egyptian authorities made no immediate comment.

The U.S. State Department issued a statement confirming Lunn's death and said it had contacted his family and was providing consular assistance, including helping repatriate his remains and protecting his personal property.

At the time of Lunn's arrest, security sources had said that he was on his way to Gaza.

He was arrested in the town of Sheikh Zwayed in North Sinai for breaking a dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed amid clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

Lunn's detention had been extended by 30 days on Saturday for further investigation.

The State Department said it was first informed of Lunn's case on August 28, a day after his arrest, and had been in regular contact with him and with Egyptian authorities.

The prisoner had hung himself with his shoe laces and an autopsy was now being carried out, one security source said.

In September, a Frenchman accused of breaking the curfew was beaten to death by fellow detainees in Cairo, security sources said.

(Reporting by Asma Alsharif and Youssry Ahmad and Paul Eckert in Washington; Editing by Matthew Tostevin and Eric Walsh)

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Reid, McConnell optimistic on debt-shutdown deal

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ken., is surrounded by reporters as he walks to the Senate floor after meeting with Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., in his office on Capitol Hill on Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 in Washington. The Senate's top two leaders both expressed optimism Monday that they were closing in on an agreement to prevent a national financial default and reopen the government after a two-week partial shutdown. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ken., is surrounded by reporters as he walks to the Senate floor after meeting with Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., in his office on Capitol Hill on Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 in Washington. The Senate's top two leaders both expressed optimism Monday that they were closing in on an agreement to prevent a national financial default and reopen the government after a two-week partial shutdown. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is surrounded by reporters after leaving the office of Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ken., on Capitol Hill on Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 in Washington. Reid reported progress Monday toward a deal to avoid a threatened default and end a two-week partial government shutdown as President Barack Obama called congressional leaders to the White House to press for an end to the impasse. "We're getting closer," Reid told reporters. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

President Barack Obama speaks to reporters as he visits Martha's Table, which prepares meals for the poor and where furloughed federal employees are volunteering, in Washington, Monday, Oct. 14, 2013. President Obama spoke about the government shutdown and the looming debt ceiling during remarks to reporters during his visit. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ken., walks to his office after arriving on Capitol Hill on Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 in Washington. The federal government remains partially shut down and faces a first-ever default between Oct. 17 and the end of the month. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

President Barack Obama speaks to reporters as he visits Martha's Table, which assists the poor and where furloughed federal employees are volunteering, in Washington, Monday, Oct. 14, 2013. Speaking there Obama said that if Republicans can't resolve the standoff over the debt ceiling and the partial government shutdown, quote, "we stand a good chance of defaulting." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

WASHINGTON (AP) — After weeks of stubborn gridlock, the Senate's top two leaders raced to reach an agreement Monday that could head off a first-ever U.S. Treasury default threatened for midweek and end the 14-day partial government shutdown.

The stock market turned positive on bullish predictions from the two longtime antagonists at the center of the talks, Majority Leader Harry Reid for the Democrats Republican leader Mitch McConnell for the GOP.

The two men met twice before midafternoon, their sessions sandwiched around a White House announcement that President Barack Obama was calling them and the party leaders in the House for the second time in less than a week to discuss the economy-threatening crises. The meeting was subsequently postponed to give the two lawmakers more time to work.

Visiting a charity not far from the White House, Obama blended optimism with a slap at Republicans.

"My hope is that a spirit of cooperation will move us forward over the next few hours," he said. And yet, he added, "If we don't start making some real progress both in the House and the Senate, and if Republicans aren't willing to set aside some of their partisan concerns in order to do what's right for the country, we stand a good chance of defaulting."

Any legislation would require passage in the Senate and also in the House, where a large faction of tea party-aligned lawmakers precipitated the shutdown two weeks ago despite the efforts of both McConnell and Republican Speaker John Boehner. In the days since, polls show a marked deterioration in public support for the GOP.

McConnell also met with Boehner during the afternoon.

Officials said Reid and McConnell were discussing legislation to raise the government's $16.7 trillion debt limit until spring, staving off the possible default. It was not clear if that would permit Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew to employ a series of steps that could add additional months to the extension, as administrations in both parties have done in recent years.

In addition to approving legislation to fund the government until late this year, Reid and McConnell considered appointment of House and Senate negotiators to seek a deficit-reduction agreement that could ease or eliminate a new round of automatic federal spending cuts scheduled to begin in January. While the current round of these cuts fell on both domestic programs and the military, the upcoming reductions would hit primarily the Pentagon.

Also under discussion, officials said, was a possible tightening in income verification requirements for individuals who qualify for subsidies under the health care law known as Obamacare.

Separately, Democrats were resisting a Republican-backed proposal to suspend a medical device tax that was enacted as part of the health care law. The tax is widely unpopular among lawmakers in both parties, and the outcome of that disagreement remained unclear.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to comment on the private discussions.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has told Congress the deadline for raising the debt limit is Oct. 17.

He, the president and a wide array of economists, bankers and politicians in both parties — at home and backed by world leaders — have all warned that default could have catastrophic consequences for both the domestic and global economies.

The doubters alternatively say no default will occur or that if it does, it won't be the calamity that others claim.

But after holding center stage for much of the current impasse, there was little doubt that they had been shunted aside as Reid and McConnell worked toward an agreement.

As the Senate opened for business on Monday, Reid said he was "very optimistic we will reach an agreement this week that's reasonable in nature."

Moments later, Republican leader McConnell seconded his assessment.

"We have had an opportunity over the last couple of days to have some very constructive exchanges of views about how to move forward. Those discussions continue, and I share (the) optimism that we're going to get a result that will be acceptable to both sides," he said.

In announcing the lawmakers' meeting with Obama, the White House said the president would repeat a vow he has made consistently in recent weeks: "We will not pay a ransom for Congress reopening the government and raising the debt limit."

The prospect of a default and the possibility of a follow-on recession largely overshadowed the partial government shutdown that has furloughed 350,000 federal workers. Government research labs have been affected, veterans' services curtailed and much of the Occupational Safety and Health Organization shuttered.

With federal parks off-limits to visitors, the impact on tourism prompted several governors to petition Interior Secretary Sally Jewell successfully to permit the states to finance some reopenings.

The shutdown began on Oct. 1, at the beginning of the budget year, after the House adopted a strategy of conditioning broad federal spending legislation to a proposal to starve the three-year-old health care law of funding.

The president and Democrats refused, and the long struggle began, merging quickly with the fast-approaching deadline for a debt limit increase.

In the two weeks since, public opinion polls have charted a steady decline in Republican approval ratings, and an increase in the view that the party's lawmakers are acting out of political motivation.

The shutdown has proved problematic for the GOP in the Virginia governor's race, which is on the ballot this fall. Public opinion polls show the Democrat, Terry McAuliffe, ahead of Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who is caught between tea party supporters on the one side and the public's general unhappiness on the other, magnified by the large presence of federal workers in the state.

Democrats hope for that situation to repeat itself nationwide in a year's time, when control of both houses of Congress will be at stake.

For now, though, the fear of economic harm produced warnings from around the globe that the United States must not permit a default.

Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund's managing director, spoke with concern about the disruption and uncertainty on Sunday, warning of "a risk of tipping, yet again, into recession" after the fitful recovery from 2008.

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UFC 166 Results: Melendez vs. Sanchez Deconstruction

Two electrifying lightweights will fight for bragging rights on the UFC 166: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos III main card before the heavyweights go to war at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, when Gilbert “El Nino” Melendez and Diego “Dream” Sanchez face off this Saturday (Oct. 19, 2013) on Pay-Per-View.

Melendez was a dominant champion in Strikeforce aside from his few fights with Josh Thomson, who will face Anthony Pettis for the lightweight title in Sacramento at UFC on FOX 9. El Nino went undefeated for three years prior to his Octagon debut, which saw him losing to Benson Henderson by decision after an outstanding effort in challenging for the championship.

Sanchez recorded a close win over Takanori Gomi in March at the Saitama Super Arena in Japan. The Dream seems to have lost his way since a vicious five-round beating coming at the hands of BJ Penn in late 2009, and he has yet to establish an imposing run in the Octagon after jumping up to welterweight and back down to lightweight.

In order for Sanchez to pull off the win this Saturday, he has to bring this fight to the ground and keep it there. That will be no easy task when going against El Nino, who’s shown tremendous takedown defense throughout his career and prefers to keep the fight standing. A fighter who won’t shy away from slugging it out with his opponent if he can’t get them to play his game, Sanchez will trade punches and kicks with just about anyone. But if he plans on exiting the Octagon doors without any cuts or bruises, he will have to take a page out of Georges St. Pierre’s playbook and transition from punches to takedowns to win some rounds in the fight with Melendez.

The striking of Melendez is unforgiving once he finds a home for his big right hand. As soon as Sanchez unloads with flurries, Melendez will calculate his knockout power into the equation, which is something Sanchez hasn’t shown since a surprising KO of Joe Riggs way back in 2006.

Not that Sanchez can’t take a punch as well as anyone else at 155, it’s just not his best bet to go punch-for-punch with a better stand up fighter like Melendez. As a close training partner of both Nick and Nate Diaz, El Nino can get the same look in training that Sanchez will bring if he decides to stand with Melendez. The Diaz brothers have longer reach and better striking offense and defense than Sanchez, so I’m assuming if Melendez has been getting rounds in with those guys, then finding a target for his punches this weekend won’t be an issue.

I can’t imagine the stubborn Sanchez ever getting knocked out in a fight, however, if he allows himself to get hit over and over as he’s prone to doing in the past, then don’t be surprised to see the cageside physician checking up on him in between rounds. One thing everybody forgets is how good a ground fighter Sanchez can be. It’s the noticeable deficiency in his takedown ability that brings doubt in my mind.

Prediction: Melendez via Unanimous Decision

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Clinton Kelly dishes on 'What Not to Wear' fight

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Ree Hines
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Oct. 11, 2013 at 10:51 AM ET

TLC

Clinton Kelly clashes with the fashion victim on the next episode of "What Not to Wear."

It's the end of a reality TV era — or it soon will be. After 10 years and nearly 350 makeovers, the end is nigh for TLC's fashionable staple, "What Not to Wear."

While fans of the show are sure to be sad to say goodbye to the weekly wardrobe switcheroos, style guru Clinton Kelly feels the timing is right.

"I'm not sure I could do that show for another year if I had to," Kelly told TODAY. "It gets to a certain point where it's monotonous. You know, don't get me wrong, everybody's story is a personal one and every week is different. But I just sort of found myself rolling my own eyes at my own words as they're coming out of my mouth, like, 'How 'bout you try a structured jacket?' 'How 'bout dark-washed jeans?' 'How 'bout a ballet flat?'"

But there's been nothing monotonous about the show's final run, which has been packed with "What Not to Wear" firsts, including a behind-the-scenes episode that aired in August. Kelly insisted that everyone involved in the production wanted to end the show while they still liked it, and to that end, they've pulled out all the stops.

"The casting department really did a good job in the last season of finding characters that did not seem like the same old characters we've sort of worked with before," he told us. "The frumpy mom thing gets old after a while. It's like, 'How many frumpy moms can you make over in one season?'"

The character coming up on the next episode — the penultimate episode of the series — is anything but frumpy. She's also anything but likable, at least as far as Kelly was concerned.

"We have a woman named Megumi, who I got into the biggest fight with," he recalled. "I've really only gotten into fights with about two women out of 350 (over the years), and Megumi and I had it out in the 360 mirror!"

The fight wasn't really over fit or fashion either. Megumi got personal.

"I actually feel a little bit bad about it. I mean, she told me I needed Botox and I just went off on her," he said of the heated exchange. "Not that I have anything against Botox — I really don't. I've had it before. I was like, 'Don't you tell me that I need Botox. ... This isn't about me, b----!' "

While the showdown with Megumi might just be the most intense one in the show's history, it's far from the only time Kelly just couldn't see eye-to-eye with one of "What Not to Wear's" fashion victims.

"I think that Tristen, with the duck nails, was one of the worst transgressors we've had on the show," he told TODAY. "She idolized the cast of 'Jersey Shore.' "

Despite a couple of tough participants, the positive experiences have outnumbered the negative ones for Kelly. In fact, he's still in contact with a surprising number of past subjects.

"I keep in touch with about 100 of them, believe it or not, whether that's Twitter or Facebook or a text message here and there," he said. "But yeah, I had some great times with some of them. You know, we really affected people's lives positively. So it was a good experience."

And while it's not his habit to keep in touch with the ones he "didn't like," Kelly does make exceptions.

"I didn't like Tristen," he explained. "I didn't like her when she was in the studio, and I felt bad about that. I felt she was being defensive, and I felt that maybe I was being a little bit rough on her. And then at the reunion show in Vegas, she was there. She and I had a drink together and we hashed it out. We totally just sat down and said, 'This is where I was coming from,' 'This is where I was coming from,' and we made nice and now we're friends."

So maybe there's hope for Megumi?

"I don't think I'll ever (work it out) with her," he said. "Once you've told me I need Botox, we're done."

While there are still two episodes to air, Kelly is now officially done with "What Not to Wear." But that doesn't mean he has free time on his hands. In addition to his work on ABC's "The Chew," he has a new book, "Freakin' Fabulous on a Budget," that hits stores Oct. 15, and he has new role — mango man. Kelly is the celebrity spokesperson for the National Mango Board, which means he's gone from doling out style makeovers to telling the public how they can give their meals "mangovers."  

"What Not to Wear" — featuring Kelly's clash with Megumi — airs Friday at 10 p.m. on TLC.

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Review: All-New X-Men #17 - Comic Book Resources

I don't love "Battle for the Atom" -- in part because I am really burned out on event crossovers and the painfully tired idea of heroes fighting heroes. However I cannot deny that I enjoyed the hell out of Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen's "All New X-Men" #17. It's a good comic that's wildly creative and stunningly gorgeous, with tasty glimpses into the future good enough to make me wish for more stories in that setting.

Judging "All New X-Men" #17 on its own merit is easy enough. It's absolutely beautiful, it's funny and it ends on an intriguing cliffhanger -- all while depicting a fascinating look into a potential future unlike any I've seen before from an X-book. Bendis manipulates the past, present and future characters well, and though his signature sense of humor is present, he dials it back for the more serious scenes where it doesn't quite work.

In other words, without thinking too much about it, without trying to strip it down and examine it, "All-New X-Men" #17 is truly a fun and interesting book. However, some of the logic (beyond the general use of time travel) is a bit wobbly. It was tough to believe that this "new" X-Men team really would journey to the future with Magik, especially after the fuss they put up. It's also a great argument for a superhero team to not be a democracy. The nuttiness of having four different generations and/or timelines of X-Men all converging in one spot is great fun, but again, only if it's not put under intense scrutiny.

I'm not sure Stuart Immonen's art, with inker Wade Von Grawbadger, has ever looked better than it does in this comic. The clothing on future Dazzler alone is worth the price of admission. The fact that the book is also stacked with legendary double page spreads of powerful action, emotional reunions, sublime character design and brutally awesome world building is just the icing on the already cool cake. As always, Immonen is effortlessly consistent in his work, characters are easily distinguishable from one another (even with all the blonde and the similar costumes), and the character acting is second to none. Bendis writes some truly epic moments for Immonen to draw in this issue and he executes them with an enthusiasm and power that is simply perfect. The colors by Marte Garcia are similarly pitch perfect, whether bathing a crowd in moody nighttime blues, or lighting up the night in the reds, oranges and golds necessary for a fiery death worthy of the big screen.

For readers that can manage the suspension of disbelief required to enjoy "Battle of the Atom" in general and "All New X-Men" #17 specifically, there's a great time waiting in this latest stunningly beautiful piece.

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You must care for yourself in the event you expect to do a fantastic job tending to others. Regardless of where you are on your path, regardless if you are thriving or failing, take the time to rest and restore yourself.

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Maybe you have set high goals by yourself and unable to attain them. If this describes true, it is just a good idea to stop and think why. Try to find out what are the goals of your respective peers are, and get them how they are able to meet them successfully. Many times the situation to become that you are targeting impossible goals instead of using your resources sufficiently to perform your goals properly.

Direct your own personal development efforts toward the that are vital that you you. If you focus all your the thing it the things which really matter and quit dwelling on the negative issues that don?t matter at all, you are sure to discover a greater inner peace.

Search for new methods to challenge yourself. New challenges open new possibilities to suit your needs. You could learn a new challenge and learn potentially profitable new skills. You may can set a fresh standard by a little bit of form of groundbreaking work. Rather than replicating the work of others, make your own accomplishments.

If you think that you?re constantly can not reach your goals, you?ll need to avoid and reassess your purpose and just what what you are doing to reach them. Take a look at ideas online to get individuals that have set similar goals, then compare yours with that regarding others. This may illuminate an issue with the feasibility of your goals, your way of achieving such goals, and even hardly allowing the time important to complete them.

Don?t go nuts and overreact if it?s not necessary. You?re going to get stressed out very quickly. Relax, settle back and analyze your needs without overreacting. Mistakes are hardly ever ever fatal. They could be fixed or addressed. Remember the things which you might have rather than things that maybe you have lost.

An excellent attitude is vital to non-public growth. Developing a negative attitude is only going to hold you back and make from success. To be a success, pay attention to the prize and let a bad, defeatist attitude hold you back.

An excellent suggestion to improve your own personal development would be to make sure value is placed on those activities you consider as the best. Value your qualities and skills and learn how to love yourself.

Everyone makes unhealthy diet every now and then. Stress can harm the body, and life?s way too short to bother with just about everything.

Be modest. We have been each only a tiny bit of the universe. No single individual is omniscient, yet each individual possesses some grain of unique and valuable knowledge. Remain available to any opportunities the planet presents to you. Keep an open mind and you will probably discover that other medication is more than happy to share their information along.

Do what you are able to take out unnecessary stress from a life. Taking things too seriously when in trouble results in extra, unnecessary stress. Sometimes, circumstances will be ?t be with your complete control. Spending some time to come up with reasonable resolutions will afford you reassurance.

Never take yourself too seriously. We have been each simply a tiny little bit of the universe. It really is impossible to know everything. We can all learn and grow. Bear this in mind please remember to remain offered to new possibilities. Keep an objective balance and you may always find something totally new others can instruct you Relationship Advice by Mom Baby-Care .

As you can see, personal growth is very simple of computer looks. By breaking your individual development process into small, manageable goals, you will discover yourself closer to your goals by the end of every single day. You are able to practice what you are planning to adopt as habit, and you will raise your own morale to remain. These guidelines are just a springboard, it?s up to you to create a much better life.

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