Live Below the Line BzzCampaign

The Live Below the Line BzzCampaign is a charity campaign and will not have a kit; it’s all about YOU spreading the word and participating if you can. Read the recipes to see if you’re up for the challenge — with the right menu, you shouldn’t have to go hungry! If you decide the challenge isn’t for you, that’s ok — you can still participate in the activities below to spread the word and help make a difference.

 

What is Live Below the Line ?

 From 7th – 11th May, join us living on £1 a day for 5 days to change the way people in the UK think about extreme poverty – and make a huge difference. 

 

• How to Participate
• Suggested Foods and Recipes
• Jono is Living Below the Line

What is Live Below the Line ?

Live Below the Line is an campaign that challenges individuals and communities to eat and drink on £1 per day for 5 days. By exposing participants to a glimpse of some the daily difficulties experienced by the 1.4 billion people living in extreme poverty every day, for everything, the campaign provides a unique window into understanding the realities of life for so many.

Through the insights gained over the 5 days, Live Below the Line is assembling a movement of people passionate about making a difference in the lives of those who desperately need it. Through partnerships with various charities, the campaign raises both awareness and fundraising.

If you don’t think you can live off £1 a day yourself, pass on the information and the Live Below the Line website to friends and family who you think will be up for it.

How to Participate

Ready to Take the Challenge?

Are you ready to take the plunge and live off of £1per day? First, eat a giant cheeseburger. All finished? OK, now follow these steps:

1. Visit the Live Below the Line partner pageand choose one of the 22 partner charities to support, including -Enter your profile details, making sure to add BzzAgent as your network so you can compare yourself to other participating BzzAgents, including Jono.Here are some choices:
   • Christian Aid
   • Malaria No More UK
   • Restless Development
   • RESULTS UK
   • The Salvation Army – International Development UK
   • UNICEF
   • Or donate to a charity of your own choice
   • Let your Facebook friends, Twitter followers, friends and family know you’re going to be Living Below the Line May 7th-11th to spread awareness and convince them to join and support you.

 Here are some things you can do to prepare:

• Like Live Below the Line on Facebook to connect with others participating in this year’s challenge
• Follow Live Below the Line on Twitter to get some moral support from the team plus other participants. (You’ll thank us later for the reinforcement)
• Check out the Live Below the Line YouTube page to see videos from previous years. Great for some preparation ideas and what to expect.

 

 

Mother’s bid to become the fattest human ever at 115 stone… (and she’s marrying a chef to help her) | Mail Online

 

• Supersize mum who dreams of becoming the world’s fattest woman reveals she’s marrying a CHEF

By Emily Allen

A mother bidding to become the fattest woman in the world has become engaged to marry a chef.

Susanne Eman, 33, revealed her controversial dream of reaching a target weight of over 115 stone last year – to become the biggest human ever.

Now the mother-of-two, who currently weighs more than 54 stone, plans to wed fiance Parker Clack, 35, who loves cooking for her.

Supersize diet: Susanne Eman, 33 being spoon fed by her boyfriend Parker Clack, 38 at the breakfast table

The pair met over the internet last year and hit it off following a string of emails.

Within months Parker moved in to Susanne’s home in Casa Grande, Arizona, where she lives with sons Brendin, 13, and Gabriel, 17.

Unemployed Susanne said: ‘We are a match made in heaven. I love eating and Parker loves cooking.

Love: Susanne and Parker share a kiss on their bed. The pair met over the internet last year and hit it off following a string of emails

Feast: Susanne enjoys her dinner at a local restaurant tucking into several dishes, including a side salad

‘It’s a perfect pairing. I still want to be the fattest woman in the world and Parker is fine with that.

‘He loves larger women and sees how happy I am when I’m eating.

‘His cooking skills were definitely part of the attraction. How could I resist a man with talents in the kitchen?

‘His signature dish, spaghetti bolognese, is my favourite. I could eat it all day.

‘Parker helps by doing the housework too.

‘He does most of the house work, cooking, helps encourage me to go for walks, he goes swimming with me, helps me do anything I have difficulty with.’

Parker encourages Susanne to go for walks and swim to keep her mobile and helps her with anything else she has difficulty with

Keep-fit: Parker is supporting Susanne in her controversial goal of becoming the world’s heaviest

Susanne says she has gained several stone since her last weigh-in last year when she registered at 54 stone

Amazingly Parker is supporting Susanne in her controversial goal of becoming the world’s heaviest.

Seen here dishing up a home-cooked breakfast for her, Parker cooks mountains of bacon and scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, huge slices of toast and even salad for Susanne.

Parker said: ‘I support her because it makes her happy, and I love big women.

‘I do worry about her health of course, but I try to make sure she eats some healthy food like salad, and I make sure she does exercises.

‘She’s taken up swimming since we met and we love to swim together.

Susanne poses for a photograph with her two sons Gabriel, left, 17, Brandon, right, 13, and her fiance Parker Clack. The couple are pictured right, together. Doctors have told Susanne she is gambling with her life

‘I know becoming the biggest woman ever is something she truly wants to do with all of her heart.

‘She had a check up last year and the doctor said she was fine, even though he doesn’t support her mission. He said she’s gambling with her life.

‘As long as the doctors say she’s okay, I’ll support her.

‘I’d love Susanne whatever she looked like, but if she was a size-zero model I wouldn’t have noticed her in the first place.

‘We met online and exchanged photos when we were courting. I thought she was beautiful.

‘I’ve always preferred bigger girls. To me there’s nothing attractive about a skinny woman. It’s more ladylike to have curves.

As Susanne, a size 10XL, continues to balloon, Parker takes her and her sons to the park on day-trips – wheeling Susanne around in her wheelchair

‘Men aren’t supposed to have curves, but women are, and Susanne definitely has them.’

Susanne says she has gained several stone since her last weigh-in last year when she registered at 54 stone.

She had hoped to be three stone heavier by the end of 2011.

‘It’s harder to gain than you might think because I’m trying to stay as healthy and active as possible,’ she said.

‘I’ve been slowly upping what I eat. It’s like an athlete training but instead of training to be harder, I’m making myself softer.

‘There’s not been a point where I’ve doubted what I’m doing. It’s deep desire for me to do this and I feel I can do it without endangering my health so I don’t worry about my boys.’

As Susanne, a size 10XL, continues to balloon, Parker takes her and her sons to the park on day-trips – wheeling Susanne around in her wheelchair.

‘My mobility is decreasing,’ she said. ‘But I always knew this would happen as I gained. I get out of breath more easily and Parker has to push me in my chair more often.

Susanne is served breakfast in bed by Parker who is a chef. Her favourite food is spaghetti bolognese which is his signature dish

‘When we go to the store he shops for me. He helps me in and out of the car. He encourages me to do my exercises.

‘My aim is to never become bed-bound. As long Parker keeps taking me out to the park for waddles, then I know I can keep moving.’ 

Reaching her goal would mean Susanne tops that of previous world record-holder Carol Ann Yager, who died in 1994 from kidney failure caused by morbid obesity.

But despite warnings from doctors that she is playing ‘Russian Roulette’ with her life, Susanne says she can avoid the fate of others who have reached over 1000lbs (71 stone).

‘I do my best to eat as much healthy food as possible,’ said Susanne.

‘I do an exercise regime to keep me as mobile as possible and Parker helps with that. He makes sure I do my stretches and sit ups.

‘I want to try and break the stigma that being fat is bad.

‘And it’s helped me to find love, so hat’s wrong with that.’

Mother’s bid to become the fattest human ever at 115 stone… (and she’s marrying a chef to help her) | Mail Online

David Kelly dead: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory grandfather dies, aged 82 | Mail Online

David Kelly brought happiness to many people with his many and varied roles he will be missed..jboy2244

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory grandfather David Kelly dies, aged 82

By Alanah Eriksen

Irish actor David Kelly, who played Grandpa Joe Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has died, aged 82.

The dapper dresser passed away after a short illness following a career on stage and screen spanning 50 years.

He became a familiar face on British television during the 1970s with a long running role as the one-armed dishwasher Albert Riddle in Robin’s Nest.

Tributes are flowing: Irish actor David Kelly, who played Grandpa Joe Bucket in the 2005 remake, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, alongside Johnny Depp and Freddie Highmore, has died, aged 82

Despite his longevity, Kelly reckoned a nine-minute part as a feckless builder on Fawlty Towers gave him more fame worldwide than all his years acting.

Kelly also remarked he finally made it as a sex symbol after an unforgettable scene in the 1998 film Waking Ned where he rode a motorbike naked.

He was married to actress Laurie Morton – whom he met in the Dublin suburb of Goatstown – with whom he had two children.

Actor friend Niall Toibin, who lived with him in London for six months, paid a warm tribute to Kelly, saying he would always remember him with a smile.

‘He was a hilarious man. He had an outlook on life that was slightly skewed and made you laugh all the time,’ the former Ballykissangel star said.

Pouring himself into the role: Kelly with Freddie in a scene from the Tim Burton-directed movie

Flashback: One of Kelly’s first roles was a vicar on the The Italian Job in 1969, alongside Michael Caine and Noel Coward, with director Peter Collinson

‘Even when he was down in the dumps recovering from our mutual, sort of, weakness for the bottle, he was still extremely funny and very light-hearted and he had a wicked sense of humour.’

Born in Dublin, Kelly was a calligrapher and talented watercolour artist and began acting aged eight at the Gaiety Theatre.

His impressive list of film credits includes playing a vicar on the The Italian Job in 1969, Into The West in 1992 and Waking Ned for which he earned a Screen Actors’ Guild nomination.

Others included Agent Cody Banks 2 in 2004, Laws of Attraction that same year, Stardust in 2007 and his role as Grandpa Joe in the Tim Burton remake alongside Hollywood heavyweight Johnny Depp and rising star Freddie Highmore.

Coveted role: He became a familiar face on British television during the 1970s with a long running role as the one-armed dishwasher Albert Riddle in Robin’s Nest, alongside Tessa Wyatt, Richard O’Sullivan and Tony Britton

Among his many talents: Kelly, pictured with Ian Bannen, joked that he had finally become a sex symbol in the 1998 English comedy Waking Ned, during a scene where he rode a motorcycle naked

He was widely tipped for an Oscar nomination for the role which saw him lead Freddie’s famous character Charlie around Willy Wonka’s factory after the youngster won the golden ticket in a chocolate bar for a tour.

Kelly received a lifetime achievement award in 2005 at the Irish Film and Television Awards.

Toibin added to RTE Radio: ‘Even when he was in the depths of hangover he was hilarious company, always.’

My love: Kelly, pictured in 2008, was married to actress Laurie Morton with whom he had two children

In 1975 he took the Fawlty Towers role of O’Reilly for one episode. He also had parts on British sitcoms like Oh Father, On the Buses and Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width. Other television work included Glenroe on RTE, Ballykissangel and Emmerdale Farm.

Kelly, considered a charmer, continued to work up until last year but one of his most acclaimed performances was his portrayal of Rashers Tierney in the 1980 RTE series Strumpet City. He also pointed to it as one of his favourite roles.

Born on July 11 1929, Kelly went to Synge Street Catholic Boys School.

David Kelly dead: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory grandfather dies, aged 82 | Mail Online

Amazing ‘tsunami cloud’ hits Florida coastline – Yahoo!

 

Amazing ‘tsunami cloud’ hits Florida coastline

At first glance, it looks as though a tsunami wave is about to crash into a swathe of high-rise tower blocks.
But for beachgoers and surfers alike along Panama City Beach, Florida, there was no need to panic, the giant wave was just an curious illusion caused by harmless sea fog rolling off the Gulf of Mexico.

The tsunami-like clouds are just a harmless weather phenomenon.

Photo: Splashnews

So what’s the science behind the captivating photograph taken from a helicopter earlier this month?
This ‘tsunami cloud’ effect is believed to be caused by a phenomenon known as the ‘Kelvin–Helmholtz instability’ that can occur in both air and water.

This is when a fast-moving layer of fluid or air washes over a slower, thicker layer – creating the wispy wave effect.
According to helicopter pilot JR Hott, the clouds appear a few times a year but normally further down the coast.

Mr Hott wrote: "When the temperature, humidity and winds are just right, we’ll get this fog that forms on the high rise condos on the beach.”

He added: “The event, while it can form quickly, moves gently and slowly. It isn’t something that happens with more than a gentle breeze.”

Amazing ‘tsunami cloud’ hits Florida coastline – Yahoo!

By Gaby Leslie

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Take One and Divide it By 998001

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Take One and Divide it By 998001

For Surprising

 Results

by Max Eddy | 3:34 pm, January 23rd, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately, a lot of calculators are going to truncate the results. However, if you manage to get a hold of one that doesn’t, solving 1/998001 will generate all the three digit numbers from 000 to 999. And in order, no less. I have no idea how this works, but it’s a pretty neat trick and even a bit unsettling. If you’re a fan of this kind of spooky math fun, solving 1/9801 will generate all the consecutive two digit numbers. 

Ask A Stupid Question Day comes to British schools

 

Ask A Stupid Question Day comes to British schools

Ask A Stupid Question Day comes to Britain’s schools, encouraging pupils to ask teachers the daftest things they can think of.

 

Nature’s opposites: a camel (left) and a soapdish Photo: GETTY/CHRISTINE BOYD

Ask A Stupid Question Day has come to Britain’s schools.

The tradition dates back to the 1980s in America, and took place on 28 September or the last day of the school year. Pupils are encouraged to ask their teachers ridiculous questions.

Now British children are to get the same opportunity.

To mark the occasion, we have attempted to find some of the silliest questions ever posed in Britain to date, as asked by users of the Any Questions Answered (AQA) text service. Here are 10 of the best.

Q: What’s the opposite of a camel?
A: The opposite of a camel is a soap dish: it has dimples instead of humps and lives in a mostly moist area.

Q: How long would it take to roast a fully grown Indian elephant?
A: An Indian elephant, average weight 5000kg, would take 2916 hours and 40 minutes to roast to perfection (based on 35 minutes a kilogram). You would need an extremely large serving dish.

Q: In Mars Bars, how much taller is Jeremy Clarkson than Tom Cruise?
A: A Mars bar is four inches long. Jeremy Clarkson measures 19.25 Mars Bars (six feet five), while Tom Cruise is 16.75 Mars bars high (five feet seven). That’s a 2.5 Mars bar difference.

Q: How long would it take a snail to slide around the world?
A: 34,519 days at 0.7 miles a day or 0.03 miles per hour, the average speed for a garden snail.

Q: What’s the funniest word in the world?
A: The funniest word in the English language is fartlek (an athletic training regime); other funny words include furphy, pratfall, parp and firkin.

Q: What is the best type of biscuit to make a mattress from?
A: The best type of biscuits to make a mattress from would be fig rolls or strawberry Newtons. They would be soft, but still provide some back support.

Q: I want to write a film script which makes me millions: what should it be about?
A: Based on the top-grossing films, your script should be about a young wizard and a robot looking for a ring on a pirate ship which sinks. Good luck.

Q: In an average lifetime, how much gas will a human expel?
A: The average adult has 14 occurrences of flatulence per day. Total expulsion is about 538ml, making approximately 14,727 litres of gas expelled in a life time.

Q: How long is a piece of string?
A: A piece of string is twice as long as half its length. It is usually shorter than the amount you need to wrap a parcel, but always long enough to tangle.

Q: When will I die?
A: You will die in a freak parachuting accident aged 98. Your memorial service, attended by more than 1,000 of your closest friends, will be at Wembley.

By Tom Chivers: Telegraph

Couple lose battle over £500,000 home they hid inside this barn.

 

Couple lose four-year battle over £500,000 home they hid inside this barn

A couple who disguised their £500,000 home as a hay barn yesterday lost a four-year legal battle to save it.

Property developer Alan Beesley and his wife Sarah had been granted permission to build a barn for agricultural use – but then fitted it out as a luxury two-storey home.

They tried to outwit council planners by disguising their house as a windowless barn and surrounding it with farmyard machinery.

Disguise: This building may appear to be a barn, but its interior contained three bedrooms and a gym

Alan and Sarah Beesley, with their daughter Ellen, inside therr converted barn that they may be forced to pull down

But instead of hay, it had three bedrooms, a study, a bathroom, lounge, reception area, utility space, storeroom and a gym.

In a landmark ruling yesterday, the Supreme Court ordered the couple to leave their house in Northaw Brook Meadow, near Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.

The seven judges ruled that Mr Beesley was dishonest and claimed he hatched a plan to ‘mislead and deceive’ council planning chiefs.

Mr Beesley, 40, yesterday revealed that his legal fight to remain in the house, which may be destroyed, has cost him tens of thousands. He said: ‘We are absolutely devastated. We are gutted. It’s been our home for nine years and now we are in limbo.

‘From what I understand we cannot live there. My wife is in pieces.’

The saga began in 2001, after Mr Beesley was granted planning permission from Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council for a building to be used as a barn on green belt off the M25

He claims that he had no intention to live there, but changed his mind after a spate of burglaries in the area. So he altered plans to relocate the large barn door and built extra doors and lighting, which were never approved by the council.

He and his 37-year-old wife moved into the house in August 2002 – without planning permission.

In 2007, the couple applied for a certificate of lawfulness, which would allow them to remain in the barn legally after four years.

Fraud: An aerial view of Northaw Brook Meadow offers no clues that it is actually a luxury, two-storey house worth £500,000

But planners objected and accused the couple of fraudulently building the home with the intention of living in it.

In April 2009, the High Court ordered their eviction, but the decision was overturned in January 2010. However, the Supreme Court judges reviewed the case and yesterday upheld the original judgment.

They ruled that Mr Beesley intended to deceive the council from the outset to exploit a legal loophole by secretly using the building as a residential home for four years.

Lord Brown said: ‘His was a deliberate, elaborate and sustained plan to deceive the council from first to last. His conduct throughout was calculated to mislead the council and to conceal his wrongdoing.’

Best-laid plans: The architect’s drawings for the barn built by Alan Beesley and his wife Sarah, that show no sign of their proposals for the interior

By Daily Mail Reporter| Mail Online

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The weirdest animals on Planet Earth

The weirdest animals on Planet Earth

Take a look at some of the weird animals on the planet.

The star-nosed mole’s snout has 22 fleshy tentacles that are used to identify food by touch. Often found in North America, it lives in wet lowland areas and eats small invertebrates, aquatic insects, worms and molluscs

The Hispaniolan solenodon, a strange looking shrew-like creature with a long snout and specialised teeth capable of delivering venom. Only two solenodon species exist today, one in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and the other in Cuba.

Seapigs live on, or just underneath, the bottom of the ocean and feed on the mud of the seafloor. Scientists haven’t yet worked out how they are such a successful deep-sea creature.

The blobfish is a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than that of the water it occupies. This helps it maintain buoyancy. Hovering just above the sea-floor, the blobfish gobbles edible matter that floats past it.

The long eared jerboa is a nocturnal mouse-like rodent found in the deserts of China and Mongolia. It has a long tail, long legs and extremely large ears. Being such a rare creature, it is in danger of extinction.

The slender loris inhabits tropical moist lowland forests found in India or Sri Lanka. The species is threatened by habitat loss.

The most distinctive trait of the proboscis monkey is the male’s large protruding nose. It has been suggested that the female proboscis monkey prefers big-nosed males.

The white turtle, whose creamy colour is offset by a few hints of pink, features prominently in Chinese culture – a character in Journey to the West is turned into one for his wrongdoings.

The Telegraph.co.uk

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 20,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 4 fully loaded ships.

In 2010, there were 76 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 286 posts. There was 1 picture uploaded, taking a total of 5kb.

The busiest day of the year was July 8th with 509 views. The most popular post that day was British government joins celebrities in bid to save Iranian mother from stoning.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were alphainventions.com, blogsurfer.us, heavyrotations.com, facebook.com, and birdflu666.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for blobfish, weird animals, blobfish swimming, the blobfish, and shell v power.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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British government joins celebrities in bid to save Iranian mother from stoning July 2010
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The weirdest animals on Planet Earth August 2009

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Shell V-Plus Diesel February 2010

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List of weird and wonderful animals March 2009
2 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,

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Weird animals from around the world September 2009