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Taoiseach Brian Cowen will join Northern Ireland’s leaders at a meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council in Armagh.
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The Apostolic Visitation, which includes Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, is to meet the main group representing Northern Ireland victims of clerical abuse, in Newry.
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Police try to trace a 17-year-old Vietnamese woman who left her newborn son in hospital the day after he was born.
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Smoking squirrels and a carnival of the weird
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One in 3 children in England leave primary school overweight Childhood obesity is a growing problem, but parents are often surprised, even angry, when told that their child is too heavy.
In this week’s Scrubbing Up, consultant paediatrician Professor Mary Rudolf, who advises the government on obesity, asks why it is so difficult to recognise when children are overweight.
Do you know whether your child is overweight?
Most of us are aware that obesity is a problem, and we may even know that the UK is in the middle of a child obesity epidemic.
But many parents are unable to tell when their own child is overweight.
A National Opinion Poll involving over 1,000 parents of children aged 4-7, showed that only 14% of those with an obese child considered that their child was overweight.
The problem is that we have all adjusted to overweight as being the norm. Understandably, parents compare their own child with the children around them.
“Did you know that a healthy ten-year old’s ribs should be clearly visible? Many parents would consider that such a child was quite underweight.”
Professor Mary Rudolf Obesity expert
When one in three children at primary school is overweight, it is not surprising that it is hard to identify when a child has a problem.
Did you know that a healthy 10-year-old’s ribs should be clearly visible?
Many parents would consider that such a child was quite underweight.
Parents are not alone in having difficulty recognising when children have an unhealthy weight.
Studies in the US and the UK show that health professionals often underestimate children’s weight too.
When shown pictures they invariably mis-categorise children as being a healthier weight than they are, unless the child is exceptionally obese.
In fact, health professionals do not even recognise when they themselves are overweight; a good half of those who were overweight reported that their weight was healthy!
In 2005, the National Child Measurement Programme was introduced in primary schools.
The programme was introduced to monitor the epidemic in childhood obesity, by weighing and measuring all children as they start primary school and again in their last year.
In many areas, parents receive a letter to let them know the outcome and how healthy their child’s weight is.
Some feel surprise and even anger if they are told that their child is overweight.
They have difficulty marrying up the term ‘overweight’ with the healthy child in front of them.
The lack of recognition is very common.
Another reason for the lack of knowledge may be that the media often portrays and highlights extreme cases of child obesity.
Most children identified by the National Child Measurement Programme do not look obviously overweight.
By comparison to the images shown of very obese children in the media, they look slim.
Yet lesser degrees of being overweight and obesity can be accompanied by health concerns and are a marker for obesity and health problems later in life.
The letter is not intended to make parents feel they have failed in any way.
Information is offered to help them make positive decisions about their child’s lifestyle.
Many parents, while not necessarily welcoming the information they receive, have taken it as a ‘wake-up call’ to ensure that their family become more active and develop healthier attitudes to eating.
Schools have also taken the impetus to make sure that children under their care spend time in a healthier environment with better opportunities for healthy food choices and physical activity.
Once obesity is established, it is extremely difficult to reverse, as most of us know.
Less serious levels of being overweight can more easily be reduced by lifestyle changes.
It is for this reason that it can be so helpful to inform parents when their child’s weight is of concern.
Without doubt, the introduction of the National Child Measurement Programme has been controversial, but hopefully most parents will appreciate that it offers the potential for improving children’s lives and protecting them from the very real problems that accompany obesity and unhealthy lifestyles.
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Tehran insists its nuclear programme is for peaceful civilian purposes Iran and major world powers are gathering in Istanbul, Turkey, for a new round of talks on Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme.
Officials hope to establish a “constructive process” for talks with Iran, but are not expecting major breakthroughs on key issues.
The UN has imposed four rounds of sanctions on Iran in recent years for not fully disclosing its programme.
The West suspects Iran aims to build nuclear weapons, which Tehran denies.
Iran insists its uranium enrichment programme is peaceful and complies with international law.
Negotiators from China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK and US will meet their Iranian counterparts on Friday and Saturday in a restored Ottoman Palace on the edge of the Bosphorous.
The talks will be chaired by European Union foreign policy chief Baroness Catherine Ashton.
Ahead of the summit, US state department spokesman Mark Toner said Washington was “not expecting any big breakthroughs”.
“But we want to see a constructive process emerge that… leads to Iran engaging with the international community in a credible process and engaging and addressing the international community’s concerns about its nuclear programme.”
In recent years these negotiations have achieved almost nothing, says the BBC’s Iran correspondent James Reynolds, in Istanbul.
Because of this, Western diplomats suggest that they have set only one immediate goal for this round of talks.
They want to persuade Iran to start getting rid of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium – estimated to be about three tonnes, our correspondent says.
With further enrichment, this would be enough to make several nuclear weapons.
Iranian officials suggest that the country is willing to give up some of its stockpile, but for negotiators from the world powers “some” is not enough, our correspondent says.
They want Iran to get rid of most of its stockpile in order to make sure that there is not enough enriched uranium left inside Iran to build even a single bomb.
In an effort to achieve this there are reports that the negotiators are preparing to revive an old offer – a fuel swap.
Under such a deal Iran would give up an agreed amount of its low-enriched uranium. In return the world powers would provide fuel for a research reactor in Tehran.
However, Istanbul would be the third time in the last year-and-a-half that the idea of a uranium-for-fuel swap has been addressed.
A first version of this deal was agreed in October 2009, but collapsed shortly afterwards.
In May 2010, Brazil and Turkey brokered another version on their own with Iran – but the deal was rejected by the West.
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Vincent Tabak’s flat has been searched by police Police are continuing to hold a 32-year-old man arrested over the murder of landscape architect Jo Yeates.
Miss Yeates, 25, was found dead on Christmas Day, eight days after going missing from her home in Canynge Road in the Clifton area of Bristol.
Police have been searching a flat next to Miss Yeates’s, which BBC News understands is home to Dutch national Vincent Tabak.
Avon and Somerset Police have not confirmed Mr Tabak has been arrested.
Mr Tabak’s flat is not the first in the block to have been searched by officers.
Police closed Canynge Road early on Thursday and put up scaffolding next to Miss Yeates’s flat.
Forensic teams then began a search at the block, which was covered up with green sheets, and police also sealed off part of Aberdeen Road in Cotham, about a mile from the flats.
The arrest early on Thursday is believed to have taken place at a converted Victorian terraced house in the road.
Miss Yeates’s frozen body was found by dog walkers on 25 December next to a country road in Somerset.
A post-mortem examination revealed she had been strangled.
It is believed a 32-year-old man was arrested in Aberdeen Road Miss Yeates, who was originally from Ampfield in Hampshire, was reported missing by her 27-year-old boyfriend Greg Reardon on 19 December when he returned to their home after a weekend away visiting family in Sheffield.
Earlier this week a reconstruction for the BBC’s Crimewatch programme was filmed, tracing Miss Yeates’s last steps.
The reconstruction focused on what happened to her after she left the offices of BDP, where she worked in Bristol city centre, on 17 December.
Miss Yeates went to the Bristol Ram pub and then stopped at Waitrose and a Bargain Booze shop.
She then bought a pizza from a Tesco Express store before returning home.
CCTV footage of her in all three shops was later released by police.
Miss Yeates’s shoes, coat, mobile phone, purse and keys were found in her flat, leaving detectives certain she had returned to her home.
The receipt from Tesco was also discovered in the flat but no trace has been found of the pizza or its packaging.
Tests have revealed she did not eat the pizza before she died.
Miss Yeates’s parents, David and Teresa, made a new appeal for information on Monday in which they urged “armchair detectives” to help police.
The appeal prompted more than 300 calls to the force.
Miss Yeates’s landlord Chris Jefferies, 65, was previously held for three days for questioning on suspicion of murder before being released on bail.
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Tony Blair was prime minister when the invasion of Iraq took place Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to be questioned for a second time by the Iraq inquiry about his role in the lead-up to the 2003 war.
He is expected to be asked about apparent discrepancies between his previous evidence and comments by former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith.
Lord Goldsmith told the inquiry he was “uncomfortable” about statements made by the then PM before the conflict.
Anti-war demonstrators are expected to protest outside the London inquiry.
The inquiry, led by former civil servant Sir John Chilcot, is looking at the UK’s role in the run-up to the invasion and the aftermath of the war.
When he first appeared before the panel in January 2010, Mr Blair said he had “no regrets” about having taken the UK to war and believed the world was a safer place after Saddam Hussein had been overthrown.
BBC correspondent Peter Hunt said the encounter between Mr Blair and the committee had the potential to be a “testing affair” for both sides.
“Tony Blair is unlikely to want to deviate from the main thrust of last year’s testimony,” he said.
“For their part, the inquiry team will want to prove their critics wrong by effectively cross-examining Mr Blair.”
Mr Blair’s evidence session at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre is to last more than four hours.
The questioning is expected to focus on apparent differences between Mr Blair’s previous evidence on the legality of the war and comments made to the inquiry subsequently by Lord Goldsmith.
Lord Goldsmith, who as Attorney General advised the government on legal matters, advised Mr Blair on 14 January 2003 that UN Security Council resolution 1441 was not enough on its own to justify force against Iraq.
But the next day Mr Blair told MPs that, while a second UN resolution was “preferable”, there were circumstances in which it was “not necessary” – in the event of the use of an “unreasonable veto” by a Security Council member.
According to fresh written evidence released by the inquiry this week, Lord Goldsmith said he was “uncomfortable” about this statement.
The invasion eventually went ahead without a second UN resolution.
Mr Blair’s spokesman has said he will deal with the former attorney general’s comments during his appearance on Friday.
The ex-prime minister is also expected to be asked about private conversations he had with President Bush over Iraq and about intelligence on the threat posed by Iraq.
Sir John said earlier this week the inquiry panel was “disappointed” the government would not allow the public release of details of these talks.
Mr Blair’s previous appearance prompted demonstrations at Westminster, although the former prime minister arrived hours before the start and avoided any confrontation.
Similar protests are expected later.
Chris Nineham, from Stop the War, said: “Evidence has now emerged at Chilcot showing Blair lied to public and Parliament about the legality of an attack on Iraq.
“Finally it has been confirmed that the war in Iraq was criminal as well as catastrophic.
“There is no more excuse for Blair to escape justice, and certainly no possible argument for him to continue as UN Peace Envoy in the Middle East.”
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There is pressure for Michel Martelly to go through to the run-off The US and the UN have backed a call for Haiti to drop a government-backed candidate from the second round of the presidential election.
They supported a recommendation by the Organization of American States for the candidate, Jude Celestin, to be replaced by singer Michel Martelly.
Observers said the November election was marred by widespread fraud.
There is concern that the return to Haiti of ex-leader Jean-Claude Duvalier could add to the political uncertainty.
Mr Duvalier, known as “Baby Doc”, arrived on Sunday – the day Haiti was supposed to hold a second round of elections to choose a successor to outgoing President Rene Preval.
Mr Martelly’s supporters staged violent demonstrations when it was announced that Mr Celestin, a protege of incumbent President Rene Preval, had been placed second behind former first lady Mirlande Manigat.
The run-off has been postponed amid growing international pressure for Mr Celestin to be dropped from the ballot paper.
“Should the CEP (Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council) decide otherwise, Haiti may well be faced with a constitutional crisis, with the possibility of considerable unrest and insecurity,” said UN peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy.
Mr Le Roy said he thought Haiti’s electoral commission would announce definitive results by the end of the month and try to stage the run-off vote in mid-February.
The US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, told a UN Security Council briefing: “Sustained support from the international community, including the United States, requires a credible process that represents the will of the Haitian people, as expressed by their votes.”
The UN has some 12,000 peacekeepers in Haiti, which suffered a devastating earthquake on 12 January 2010.
Ms Rice also voiced concern about Mr Duvalier’s return.
“Given the continuing turmoil surrounding the November 2010 election, the United States is concerned about the unpredictable impact that Duvalier’s return may have on Haiti’s political situation,” she said.
State prosecutors have charged Mr Duvalier with corruption and embezzlement. Four Haitians have filed suits against him for alleged cases of torture and other crimes against humanity during his 1971-1986 rule.
“My government is clear about Duvalier’s notorious record of human rights abuses and corruption,” said Ms Rice.
Mr Duvalier has denied wrongdoing.
AFP news agency cited an unnamed Haitian judge as saying that Mr Duvalier had been barred from leaving the country.
Another former President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has said he may also return to Haiti.
Meanwhile, the US has resumed the deportation of Haitian migrants with a criminal record – suspended after the earthquake.
Human rights groups have criticised the end of the moratorium, saying the men faced inhumane jail conditions in Haiti, but US officials said they posed a threat to public safety in America.
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Hi,
ecard website update design.
I’m looking for someone who has excellent programming skills ajax php html html5 to update my small ecard website to bring it into 2010.
This project is to create custom sending software, a members area, website re-design, flash software application. You must have
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excellent skills in programming in php ajax to be considered.
The software must be custom made from scratch. not open sourced scripts modified and patched to try and make it fit the needs.
We can discuss this in detail on the pmb. I’m open to suggestions for how to make this site look and function better then it currently does.
I will only post the url on the pmb for qualified bidders who are 100% sure they can handle this project.
You must have a good feedback score and be able to show me some samples of some websites that you created in the past.
Here is a list of what this website needs.
New Custom Sending Software.
Members Area for members of the site.
Website redesign new layout design to make sending ecards much easier.
flash application creation
We can Discuss payment information on the PMB.
Please no bids yet. I understand you can not
bid on this project until you know all of the details about it.
I will only post complete details for qualified bidders. This with a large amount of positive feedback.
Only reasonable bids will be considered. I’ve been working on websites for 10 years. I know
how much work like this costs. If this works out, I will have more design jobs
for you in a the coming months. I will post them on scriptlance for you as well.
If you have any questions, Please post them on the PMB.
Thanks
jackhammer8
Im looking to make a site like naked.com the same kind of script. It will not be a sexual content website I just want to have a site with the same functionality as naked.com . I need people to be able to sign up and be able to chat live like that site and post pictures. If you can do this let me know and I will get into more details. I will email the winner prior to paying and you must sign a non disclosure agreement before I pay you. Thanks
to add 300 products in magento as discussed.
Thank You
I need very straight forward squeeze pages built for a new business that I’m helping out with.
Here is a great example of the squeeze page I’m looking for:
http://www.lideranca.org/link/h9U
We are looking for seniors with medicare and arthritis. All the questions in there form are needed in our form. The layouts should be very unique to each design, but one of them at least can be very similar to the page shown above. We will preform some A/B testing with these pages.
Here are some other squeeze pages but for different products:
(I’m just showing these for examples of designs)
http://www.lideranca.org/link/qSj7ff4ker
http://www.lideranca.org/link/02l70X
http://www.lideranca.org/link/8lrgwq
The 3 pages need to look entirely different.
We’re trying to get a high % of conversions for this product so make the form attractive for people to fill out.
It all have to look incredibly professional.
I have a few stock photos but I’d prefer to see you all be creative and find images yourselves.
Besides the 3 pages, you’ll have to make a generic thank you page for each one as well. The squeeze pages need to display our phone number as well.
Please send me some links to samples of your work. I’ll give preference to developers with good ratings, and that provide personalized feedback in regards to this specific project.
Thanks tons and happy bidding!
Wes
Hello, and thank you for considering my project. Please review the entire project.
My goal is to be very specific with each detail so there is no confusion as to when a task is completed. I want this to be very quick and up and running asap.
If you do not make reference to specific areas of the project in your reply I will assume you have not read the full requirements and your proposal will not be considered.
My website is nearly complete, but it needs some fine tuning and Flash work. The fine tuning is straightforward and any developer should be able to complete it easily. The Flash work requires expert knowledge.
Please visit my website (www.shirtfast.com) and click on “Design Now” to view the Flash editor. Once inside the editor, add some text in the “Text Tool” box. This will open the text editor. Everything looks good to this point. However, I need to have the Following text effects added:
Arch Text
Bridge Text
Valley Text
Curve Text
Pinch Text
Bulge Text
Please visit www.customink.com and view their shirt editor to see samples of these text effects.
The fine tuning aspects for SHIRTFAST.COM are listed below:
A. Right Column Main Page: I am going to supply a new image that says “Bulk orders from $9.99!”. I would like to use this to replace the “Memories” image, and this will change positions with the Embroidery image/box.
B. When the new bulk order box is clicked by the user, it should open a simple page that instructs the user to open and create an account or sign in to an existing account. They then need to fill in a basic form where they can detail the order they want to make, upload an image, and submit the request for a price quote. It can be a simple text box for them to detail the quantity, color, sizes, etc., although drop down menus would be nice. The user should be able to attach an image.
C. Embroidery – Right column main page. Please correct the spelling error. Embriodry should be Embroidery. This box will be below the Bulk Orders box in the right column.
D. When users click on the Embroidery box, it should open a simple page that instructs the user to open and create an account or sign in to an existing account. They then need to fill in a basic form where they can detail the order they want to make, upload an image, and submit the request for a price quote. It can be a simple text box for them to detail the quantity, color, sizes, etc., although drop down menus would be nice. The user should be able to attach an image.
Secondary pages:
Shipping:
E. The Shipping feature does not work. Please correct issues so that the items in the shopping cart can be calculated by number of items or use a per item flat rate shown below:
1 item = 5.95
2 = 6.95
3 = 7.95
4-9 = 8.95
10-20 = 11.95
20-30 = 18.95
30-40 = 25.95
40-60 = 35.95
60-100 = 54.95
On the Flash Shirt Editor
F. Change “Customize the Product” (at the top) to “Start Designing Your Shirt!”.
G. When you click “buy this design” it launches an unattractive “waiting for server” message. Please update with something more professional looking.
H. Price. The price defaults to $14.00 when you click buy now, although it says 17.99 on the shirt editor. The price should be 17.99 per shirt. I’ve tried changing it on the OS Commerce admin page but it doesn’t change on the Flash Editor or Checkout Page. Please make the change and show me how make changes in the future. I should be able to change the price of the shirt from the OSCommerce admin page. The price should be consistent throughout the Flash Shirt Editor, Checkout Page, and OSCommerce admin page.
I. Save Design. Users should be able to save their design. This would require them to create an account. If they have created a design and click “Save Design”, it should be saved to their account. If they don’t have an account, they will be prompted to create an account. Once the account is created, the new design will be uploaded to their account.
So you see, we have some flash issues, pricing issues, shipping issues, and layout issues.
I’m looking forward to working with you. Please submit your detailed response as quickly as possible.
Warm Regards,
Shirtfast.com