puff 549 Mon 25th

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According to CNN Health, research from the University of Chicago showed that dieters who slept for 8.5 hours lost 55 percent more body fat than dieters who slept 5.5 hours

"The dieters who slept less reported feeling hungrier throughout the course of the study," CNN said, even though "they ate the same diet, consumed multivitamins and performed the same type of work or leisure activities."

The study authors concluded that "Lack of sufficient sleep may compromise the efficacy of typical dietary interventions for weight loss and related metabolic risk reduction," CNN said.




Peter Cleave at the London



Peter Cleave on guitar and vocals at the London on George Street Palmerston North- Fridays and Saturdays 6- 8.30pm. The London is one of New Zealand's best restaurants. Come and eat. The gig goes into its second month. It started with a show called Peter Cleave aqnd the British Invasion to go with the theme of the London. Beatles, Stones, Van Morrison and the like and it carries on from there.

Aotearoa question of the day
Who is in the puff community and where is it going?

Monday 25th
Rangitaanenuirawa

Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
He aha te pai o te mahi e mahia nei i Himatangi? He mea pai teenaa mahi moo Rangitaane kaore kau ranei? He mea pai te mahi nei moo ngaa taangata e noho ana ki reira?

Rangahau

Subject of the day
Rangitaanenuirawa


Analysis
What is the value of the work being done at Himatangi. Is it good for Rangitaane or not? Is it good for the people who live there?
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What is happening with Angelina Jolie in Bosnia and Serbia?
Angelina Jolie has told critics of a film she is directing in eastern Europe that she hopes they will withhold any complaints, for now, because it has different storylines that might quell their concerns.

"There are many twists in the plot that address the sensitive nature of the relationship between the main characters and that will be revealed once the film is released," the Oscar-winning actress said in a statement.

"My hope is that people will hold judgment until they have seen the film," she said.

The movie, which has yet to have a title, portrays a love story between a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman on the eve of the 1992 Bosnian war that killed 100,000 people.

Bakira Hasecic, president of the Women Victims of War association in Bosnia, told the Oslobodjenje newspaper that the female character "is really falling in love with her torturer," and she urged officials to ban the film's production.

On Wednesday, a government minister canceled a permit for the film shoot, and some headlines trumpeted that the movie's production had been halted. A representative for Jolie told Reuters those headlines were incorrect and, in fact, the crew is currently shooting in Budapest before moving on to Bosnia.

Edin Sarkic, an executive with the movie's Sarajevo-based producer Scout Film, told Reuters the company had submitted a final script to the proper authorities and the production company said it would reapply for the filming permit.

By Thursday, the producers characterized the permit cancellation as "a purely technical matter."

Jolie further sought to allay concerns of the Bosnian women's group by saying in her statement that, "obviously, any dramatic interpretation will always fail those who have had a real experience."

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Daily Highlights: Wednesday October 13, 2010

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 01:04 AM PDT



In honor of Paul Simon’s 69th birthday—today—Milling About host Robin Milling unspools a never-before-aired 1986 interview with the music legend. “The songs emerge,” he said of his creative powers. “Seldom do they sort of pop. They slowly reveal themselves.”


Life After Dusk host Cedric Collier hangs with Nick (son of Hulk) Hogan who made his name on the VH1 reality series Hogan Knows Best. Nick will chat about getting his life back on track after his 2007 car crash—which landed him in jail for 6 months.


Film Festival Radio host Janice Malone goes on-one-one with Boris Kodjoe, who stars as CIA operative Steven Bloom on J.J. Abrams’ Undercovers, which debuted last month on NBC. The hottie actor will chat about how he landed that plum role.


Talking Smooth Jazz’s Terri Scott grooves with bassist Stanley Clarke, a virtuoso performer and composer in his own right, who has also scored a host of TV series and feature films. Stanley will sample tracks from his latest album, The Stanley Clarke Band.


Former House Speaker—and To Save America author—Newt Gingrich is keeping the door open on a bid for Barack Obama’s job. “I don’t know quite what we’ll do,” he tells AACONS host Marie Stroughter. “We’ll decide probably next March.”


Talk Entertainment kicks it with Vinny Foti from the MTV’s Fresh Meat 2, who’s now on Challenge Cut Throat. The reality sex symbol will dish about upcoming drama on the show, while taking questions about his personal life.

Thousands of live radio shows broadcast live everyday on BlogTalkRadio. Find out what’s on live now.



Newt Gingrich: Not Sure (Just Yet) If He’ll Seek the Oval Office

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 08:19 PM PDT

Will Newt Gingrich have a go at Barack Obama’s job?

That seems to be the question on a many a GOP mind these days—and a fear lurking in the not-so-distant-future for the Dems.

Interviewed on African American Conservatives, the former House Speaker addresses persistent chatter that he’ll toss his hat into the ring in the 2012 presidential race.


"That gives me a headache even thinking about it," Newt (above) tells us of imagining a Democratic strategy for winning in November.

“Well, I don’t know quite what we’ll do,” he tells host Marie Stroughter. “We’ll decide that probably next March.

“What I’m focused on is a project we have called 10MillionVoters.com, which is an American solutions project to turn people out this fall, to make sure they go vote,” he continues.

“Because if everybody who agrees with our values goes to vote this fall, we will win a tremendous, stunning election.

“So I’m really not thinking much beyond this immediate campaign.”

Later in the interview, after Newt touts his “Memo for Republican Candidates on the Winning Closing Argument for the Last Four Weeks” leading up the midterm elections, Marie asks:

“Imagine for a second you’ve entered some bizarro universe and suddenly you were writing a strategy memo for the Democratic congressional candidates. What do you think your advice would be?”

To which he replies: “I think that question is so painful, and forces me into such deep psychic shock, that I can’t imagine how I’d go forward.

“I mean, if I were the party that had caused 9.7% unemployment, 10.1% unemployment, according to Gallup; if I were the party that had passed a huge, horrendous, terrible tax-selling health bill that two out of three Americans want to repeal; if I were the party that wanted to dramatically raise the cost of energy and kill even more jobs; if I were the party that favored tax increases of small-business owners to kill even more jobs; and if I were the party that was totally and utterly confused about what to do in the Gulf of Mexico, I don’t know that I could design a strategy for them.”

Click here to hear Newt Gingrich’s full interview.




Maori Unpacked continued
11

Numerals

How many words?

tahi, one

rua, two

toru, three

at least three!

That was tiring. What about lunch?

Maybe after we've set up a Numerals Box.

Or after we've put numbers on the walls above the windows in your room.

Or after we've made mobiles with items like, say, apples, with tahi,
rua and toru aaporo

Or we could have a poster above or beside a fruitbowl with three apples in it asking

E hia nga aaporo?
How many apples?

and you could reply as you walk by, just for practice

Kotahi te aaporo.
One apple.
E rua nga aaporo.
Two apples.
or
E toru nga aaporo
Three apples





When asking about numbers you can say

E hia?
How many?

E rua.
Two.

Mind you if the answer is one then its
kotahi

E hia nga raa?
How many days?

E toru.
Three.

Tokohia nga taangata?
How many people?

Tokowhaa.
Four people.

He aha te waa?
What's the time?

Rua tekau maa iwa ki te toru.
Twenty nine minutes to three.







He kupu hou- some new words

mea- thing

taua- aforementioned, singular

aua-, aforementioned, plural

ko- focus marker

au- I, me, first person singular

wai- who

teeraa- that, over there

pea- perhaps

raanei- or, otherwise

e- marker of address

hoa- friend

waihotia- leave alone

i- at

ki- at

konei- here

kei- at, present

hei- at, future

tahi- one

rua- two



toru- three

aaporo- apple

kotahi- one

ka- verbal particle here used to introduce a number

hia- many

poaka- pork

pooro- ball

taane- male

wahine- woman

waahine- women

putiputi- flower

maunga- mountain

awa- river

rangi- sky

tapawhaa- square

Unpack this list by drawing basic pictures about each word, writing the word on the drawing and putting them in places where you can see them.

Isis: the dancing tramp by Benjamin Drum continues
Part Fourteen
Getting back lost property

The Don was dumped outside Oxford Station. On his return to college he packs up and goes back to Cambridge. He is scared stiff. He wants to speak to nobody.

Paullie finds out that William the lawyer likes going to the theatre. Paullie wonders why. He finds out what is on in London and starts to hang about on a calculated basis. He has coffee near the lawyer's office. He finds out where people from the office drink and drops in there for a pint. Paullie finds out all he can about the Private Investigator, where he drinks as well. He goes there for a pint and a round of darts.

Simon goes up to Cambridge to try and get some information out of the Don. The Don is, in a word, opaque. They have tea. It is a meeting of silence. Simon asks the odd question but the Don will not talk.

Paullie is beginning to see how close and tight the intelligence works in the United Kingdom really is, in fact how close it is world wide. Paullie realises that Simon's mum knows some of the people involved. He calls her and leaves a message.

Is the theatre some kind of a drop for William, the lawyer, asks Paullie to himself. A place he goes to meet people and take or leave information. Pretty standard spy stuff thought Paullie. But sometimes these complex things worked in long established, quite simple ways. He thought of the James Bond film, Quantum of Solace where Bond watches several people from the stage scaffolding all miked and talking to one another during an opera.

The Ringmaster rang the Torturer to see what to do next with the Tramp. More of the same said the Torturer. Keep him confined and keep him incomfortable.

There is quite a catch up to do with Paullie and Simon has to think hard to get it all straight. Paullie the retired rock star is trucked out at functions now. When he can be bothered to attend them that is.

He has kept his physique. His hair has receded but not gone. He is an acceptable telvision face for an age past, especially one with the dissipation of Paullie's set.

In a way he is quite appealing as a partner Simon thought to himself. He'd never thought that way about his father and he started to think about one or two rumours that were swirling about. Something about an ex senator's wife and Paullie.