Americans Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Boobie-Thon
The people are Boobie-Thon are raising awareness and funds to help in the fight against breast cancer. Please stop by their site.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt travel to Damascus to meet refugees
Friday, October 2, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie traveled to Damascus, Syria on a United Nations goodwill mission to meet with Iraqi civilians displaced by the Iraq war. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees have found temporary asylum in Syria (and Jordan, Turkey and Iran, amongst other countries). Usually, Angelina goes solo on her UNHCR missions, but Brad joined her for this trip, meeting and speaking with two families. After meeting with the refugees, Angelina met with Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad to discuss the refugee situation in his country - but there is no mention of whether Brad joined her for that part of the trip. Angelina was last in Syria in 2007, when she also traveled to the Iraqi border camps housing refugees.
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The rest of the article can be found here: http://www.celebitchy.com/73619/angelina_jolie_brad_pitt_meet_with_iraqi_refugees_in_syria/
Pizza Hut Raises Awareness of Global Hunger Issue through Twitter
DALLAS (September 28, 2009) — Twitterers, RT this 2 feed 4: Pizza Hut 2 donate 4 meals 4 each Twitterer who tweets this link: http://ow.ly/qWn8.
To help raise awareness of the worldwide hunger issue, Pizza Hut is turning to its Twitter followers to help spread the word. Pizza Hut is pledging four meals to World Hunger Relief, a campaign that supports the United Nations World Food Programme and hunger relief agencies across the globe, for every Twitter user who passes on and "re-tweets" the link to the Pizza Hut World Hunger donation page,http://ow.ly/qWn8.
"Global hunger has reached epic proportions this year – reaching more than 1 billion hungry people around the world," said Pizza Hut President Scott Bergren. "At Pizza Hut, our goal is to get the word out about what can be done to help feed the hungry. We’re asking our customers to help us spread the word through a simple tweet, and in exchange we will provide meals for World Hunger Relief."
How to Re-Tweet for a Donation
To lend your help to the cause, post a tweet on Twitter, www.twitter.com, that includes a link to http://ow.ly/qWn8, and the hashtag #pizzahut, and Pizza Hut will donate four meals to the hungry. The donation period will start at midnight (CST) on September 28, 2009 and end at midnight (CST) on October 31, 2009. Donations will be made for the first 25,000 tweets, providing a total of 100,000 meals. (Four meals ($1 for 4 meals) will be donated for each Twitter user who posts the link, so make sure to encourage your followers to re-tweet your message.)
About World Hunger Relief
World Hunger Relief supports the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and other hunger relief agencies. More than 36,000 company and franchised restaurants located in more than 110 countries will be participating, including Pizza Hut and other Yum! Brands, KFC, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's, and A&W All-American Food. For more information, visit www.fromhungertohope.com/donate.
Funds raised for WFP go directly to the areas of greatest need, feeding poor school children in the developing world and helping villages become self-sustainable. Yum! Brands’ employees and franchisees will be volunteering their time at hunger relief agencies, food banks, soup kitchens and launching fundraisers.
During the 2009 World Hunger Relief campaign, Yum! Brands plan to work towards a pledge made at the Clinton Global Initiative last year. At the Clinton Global Initiative, Yum! Brands pledged to do the following in the coming years: raise and donate at least $80 million to help WFP and others provide 200 million meals for hungry school children in developing countries; donate 20 million hours of hunger relief volunteer service in the communities in which it operates; donate $200 million worth of its prepared food to hunger agencies in the United States; and use the company's marketing clout to generate awareness of the hunger problem while convincing others to become part of the solution.
Yum! Brands has been committed to fighting hunger for more than a decade by donating more than $46 million of prepared food annually to the underprivileged in the United States. Since the company went public in 1997, it has donated more than $550 million of its food to hunger relief agencies in the U.S.
About Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut, America's Favorite Pizza, delivers more pizza, pasta and wings than any other restaurant. The only pizza company to be named a top ten franchise in 2009 by Entrepreneur Magazine, Pizza Hut began 50 years ago in Wichita, Kansas and today operates more than 10,000 restaurants in hundreds of countries. Pizza Hut, Inc. is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM). To check out what's new at Pizza Hut visit pizzahut.com.
Media Contact:
Dan Skinner
Zeno PR for Pizza Hut
312-396-9706
dan.skinner@zenogroup.com
To help raise awareness of the worldwide hunger issue, Pizza Hut is turning to its Twitter followers to help spread the word. Pizza Hut is pledging four meals to World Hunger Relief, a campaign that supports the United Nations World Food Programme and hunger relief agencies across the globe, for every Twitter user who passes on and "re-tweets" the link to the Pizza Hut World Hunger donation page,http://ow.ly/qWn8.
"Global hunger has reached epic proportions this year – reaching more than 1 billion hungry people around the world," said Pizza Hut President Scott Bergren. "At Pizza Hut, our goal is to get the word out about what can be done to help feed the hungry. We’re asking our customers to help us spread the word through a simple tweet, and in exchange we will provide meals for World Hunger Relief."
How to Re-Tweet for a Donation
To lend your help to the cause, post a tweet on Twitter, www.twitter.com, that includes a link to http://ow.ly/qWn8, and the hashtag #pizzahut, and Pizza Hut will donate four meals to the hungry. The donation period will start at midnight (CST) on September 28, 2009 and end at midnight (CST) on October 31, 2009. Donations will be made for the first 25,000 tweets, providing a total of 100,000 meals. (Four meals ($1 for 4 meals) will be donated for each Twitter user who posts the link, so make sure to encourage your followers to re-tweet your message.)
About World Hunger Relief
World Hunger Relief supports the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and other hunger relief agencies. More than 36,000 company and franchised restaurants located in more than 110 countries will be participating, including Pizza Hut and other Yum! Brands, KFC, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's, and A&W All-American Food. For more information, visit www.fromhungertohope.com/donate.
Funds raised for WFP go directly to the areas of greatest need, feeding poor school children in the developing world and helping villages become self-sustainable. Yum! Brands’ employees and franchisees will be volunteering their time at hunger relief agencies, food banks, soup kitchens and launching fundraisers.
During the 2009 World Hunger Relief campaign, Yum! Brands plan to work towards a pledge made at the Clinton Global Initiative last year. At the Clinton Global Initiative, Yum! Brands pledged to do the following in the coming years: raise and donate at least $80 million to help WFP and others provide 200 million meals for hungry school children in developing countries; donate 20 million hours of hunger relief volunteer service in the communities in which it operates; donate $200 million worth of its prepared food to hunger agencies in the United States; and use the company's marketing clout to generate awareness of the hunger problem while convincing others to become part of the solution.
Yum! Brands has been committed to fighting hunger for more than a decade by donating more than $46 million of prepared food annually to the underprivileged in the United States. Since the company went public in 1997, it has donated more than $550 million of its food to hunger relief agencies in the U.S.
About Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut, America's Favorite Pizza, delivers more pizza, pasta and wings than any other restaurant. The only pizza company to be named a top ten franchise in 2009 by Entrepreneur Magazine, Pizza Hut began 50 years ago in Wichita, Kansas and today operates more than 10,000 restaurants in hundreds of countries. Pizza Hut, Inc. is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM). To check out what's new at Pizza Hut visit pizzahut.com.
Media Contact:
Dan Skinner
Zeno PR for Pizza Hut
312-396-9706
dan.skinner@zenogroup.com
Friday, October 2, 2009
Special Ed. of the Origin of Species
A girl totally rips on Kirk Cameron and the special edition of Origin of Species is promoting. It's hilarious LOL
Fertility Risks in Delayed Motherhood
I've given up on the idea that I will ever have a child, but I thought this was interesting information to share with anyone that may want to have a baby someday.
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