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Biggest Movers and Shakers for Week Ending May 31, 2008: 1.Lindsay Lohan500 % 2."Sex and the City" Movie 470 % 3.Jessica Alba 433 % 4.Kim Kardashian415 % 5.George Clooney360 % 6.Shania Twain 333 % 7.Madonna 300 % 8.Ashlee Simpson275 % 9.Kimberly Caldwell200 % 10. Father’s Day 150 %
Former "American Idol" contestant, singer
(#1) tops The Lycos 50 this week after it was revealed Aiken will soon be a father. Aiken’s best friend,
-based record producer
, has been artificially inseminated and is said to be due in August. Foster has produced several of Aiken’s albums and Aiken plans to be involved in raising the child. Foster, sister of record mogul
, is divorced and has no other children. In other "American Idol" news, this year’s winner,
(#13) jumps up the search charts, bringing former "AI" contestant
(#41) along with him. Caldwell makes her first-ever appearance on The Lycos 50, rising 200 percent, after Cook revealed the two have been hanging out together since the show’s finale. Topping the Movers and Shakers list this week is
(#6), up 500 percent, as rumors of a lesbian fling with deejay
continue to drive search activity for Lohan. Recent reports claim Lohan and Ronson are now living together, and wearing rings on their engagement fingers. Lohan refuses to comment on the relationship. Meanwhile,
(#4) jumps into the top 10 this week following rumors she had given birth to her twins last week. Jolie’s manager

earthtimes.org

From the food drive at a Miami magnet school to drop-off points in Palm Beach County, everybody seems eager to help Haiti. Soaring food costs there have triggered riots and spawned further worries that a much more serious food crisis is imminent.
International relief agencies and Haiti experts warn that the uncoordinated flow of aid can be counterproductive in a country where food is plentiful on store shelves but most people can’t afford it because of high unemployment and global price hikes. Delays getting food out of the port before it rots also have been a recurring problem.
”People are very generous, but it’s just best to let them demonstrate that generosity by giving money to the professionals,” said Ron Waldman, a professor in public health at Columbia University in New York, referring to the many international nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, already trying to respond to the crisis in Haiti with their own food distribution efforts. “What they need is money.”
Still, for some people the idea of walking into a grocery store and then delivering the bags is more satisfying than writing a check. Others worry that giving money doesn’t always reach the needy.
About three dozen Miami-Dade County officials and activists on Friday outlined a plan to address the crisis, from pressing for immigration reform for Haitians to debt relief from the Bush administration, to figuring out how best to feed people.
”It’s just one small thing that’s happening,” said Amy Carswell, program officer for the Miami-Dade Community Relations Board, which helped organize the emergency summit. “One thing we’re looking at is, how do we get food to the people who need it the most, immediately, without it being subject to graft or sitting in the port?”
The U.S. Southern Command in South Miami-Dade County is working on that, said Col. Bill Costello, SouthCom’s chief public affairs. For instance, several staffers are working to help the Pan American Development Foundation move 18, 40-foot containers of rice from the Midwest to Port-au-Prince. Staffers are also helping a kids organization ship 500,000 high-nutrition meals to the Caribbean nation.

miamiherald.com

Sinn Fein West Tyrone MLA Barry McElduff - acting in cahoots with Nolan’s production team - phoned the radio show to say that the boul’ Stephen had won an award for services to the people of Northern Ireland.
But just as the 34-year-old broadcaster was thanking the politician for the prize - which was to be presented at a special ceremony next week - McElduff admitted that it was a joke.
The following interchange between the Assemblyman and Nolan, which was aired yesterday morning, totally fooled the presenter, as he later admitted.
"It was discussed at the Committee that we could perhaps have an inaugural ceremony next week to mark the 2008 year that we would nominate yourself and the Nolan Show as the show that champions the rights of people," Mr McElduff said.
Nolan replied: "This would be a first, wouldn’t it? Is it not you lot and me fight every day of the week? You lot are trying to compliment me for once, are you?
"That’s very kind of you Barry McElduff. Thank you very much."
Mr McElduff told Nolan he had fallen for an April Fool ruse.
"April Fool, Stephen, April Fool," he said.
"I just wanted to say that to you. April Fool because we wouldn’t let you over the doorstep. There’d need to be a very good reason for you to come up here."
Mr McElduff chastised Nolan, who laughed off his comments, for being duped.
"You actually believed that. Your ego is getting a wee bit carried away" , said Mr McElduff.
The radio show host said he felt "so like swearing" - adding, " I will swear straight after this programme very loudly indeed" and promised to "get him back for the prank."
"I dare say that if there was the opportunity of some kind of prison sentence you lot would be throwing me in forever, wouldn’t you?"

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DeLAND - Three teenagers who authorities say were plotting to massacre fellow students at DeLand Middle School and then commit suicide will remain in juvenile lockup, a judge ruled Tuesday.
The two boys and a girl, all 13, stood as their names were called and listened as Volusia-based Circuit Judge Hubert Grimes ordered them to remain behind bars. All wore handcuffs and white jail uniforms.
The Orlando Sentinel is not identifying the children because of their ages.
The boy who Volusia County deputy sheriffs say hatched the plot — and lauded the Columbine killers on his MySpace page — appeared slight, less than 5 feet tall and younger than his age. The other two teens looked at their families and fidgeted as they waited.
All three were arrested Friday, each on a charge of conspiracy to commit murder, after the plan came to light through the first boy’s online correspondence with friends through MySpace. Authorities say he was trying to obtain a gun and threatened to lock the cafeteria doors and go on a shooting spree. Investigators searched his bedroom but found no weapons.
“Everyone will pay for what they did to me, they will die along with me,” the boy wrote, complaining that other kids were picking on him and had called him “worthless,” among other names.
The boy’s stepmother asked the judge to release him to home detention, but Grimes declined even though the youth has no previous criminal record.
According to a Volusia County sheriff’s report, the girl involved confirmed the plot to a school counselor and told her, “People like us have been picked on all our lives.” Authorities said she recently had attempted suicide.
Dr. Christopher Lucas, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, said children who feel alienated are more likely to be suicidal and to harbor fantasies of retaliating against people who bully or reject them. He was unfamiliar with the DeLand case.

orlandosentinel.com