"Until Tuesday" to be made into a movie (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Waterman Entertainment has acquired the rights to the New York Times bestseller "Until Tuesday" and attached "Mr. Holland's Opus" writer Patrick Sheane Duncan to adapt it into a film, the company announced Monday.

"Until Tuesday" is about Army Capt. Luis Carlos Montalvan's true story about his return from two tours of duty in Iraq. During the war, he sustained traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder and other injuries.

The pressures of life were overwhelming for the captain. Then he met Tuesday, a golden retriever that became his service dog and best friend.

"Captain Montalvan's story is incredibly inspiring and we feel very privileged to bring it to the big screen with the help of such a talented screenwriter as Patrick Sheane Duncan," Tucker Waterman, executive vice president of Waterman Entertainment, said in a written statement. "Service dogs have played a crucial role in the rehabilitation of many American soldiers, and this film will pay tribute to them as well as the soldiers who have sacrificed so much for our country."

The movie is scheduled to begin production next summer.

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Politics Heating Up Over Labeling GMO Foods

Do you really know much about the corn in your cornflakes?

Probably not. But a few hundred protesters who descended on the White House yesterday want President Obama to honor a campaign pledge to label foods that have been genetically-modified ? like the corn in most of those cornflakes that have been in your bowl for years.

However, politicians who govern the country often find themselves at odds with the candidates they once were. And the GM issue has become a full-blown political one that's not likely to go away anytime soon.

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Back in 2007, presidential candidate Obama said he would "let folks know when their food is genetically modified, because Americans have a right to know what they're buying." (Roll the videotape.)

But as president, Obama has actually cleared the way for more GM products. He has allowed alfalfa, which feeds our cattle, and sugar beets, which fuel our coffee and sweets, with modified genes on the market. That's much to the consternation of organic farmers who fear cross-pollination of their crops with the modified crops and activists who fear potential future health consequences.

The FDA is currently considering a genetically-engineered salmon that carries the genes of another fish to help it grow faster. However, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a provision this summer that would block the agency from spending money to approve the salmon. And the Senate is likely to debate the same issue this week as part of the agriculture spending bill.

The Daily Beast has a pretty good round up here of the political battle over GMO labeling so far.

Foods that have been genetically modified ? that is, foods that have new genes inserted into their DNA to give them desirable traits like pest or drought resistance or greater nutrition ? have been controversial for years. And that's in part because they are currently not required to be labeled in the U.S., although the vast majority of people polled say they should be.

Scientists and regulators have concluded time and time again that labeling is unnecessary. "FDA has no basis for concluding that bioengineered foods differ from other foods in any meaningful or uniform way, or that, as a class, foods developed by the new techniques present any different or greater safety concern than foods developed by traditional plant breeding," the agency says in a guidance document.

Some say labeling would indicate that there is something wrong with the food. By the way, some 70 to 90 percent of processed food is genetically modified, and has been that way for years.

But respected food policy experts like Marion Nestle say just label them, already, so people can choose.

The battle has moved well beyond the realm of science, and its political impact on the health and food-conscious Obamas has yet to be measured. Some protesters have vowed not to support the president's reelection over the issue.

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Pet Stores ? Finding the Right Product and Services for Your ...

Small animals for company, supplies, accessories, various types of pet food, toys and pet magazines can be found in pet stores. You go to pet stores when you need to change a collar, buy a leash, renew the food supply or order a customized ID for your animal. Children usually like to go to pet stores because there are so many things to delight in there. Although such locations do not get cats and dogs, you will find fish, hamsters and Guinea pigs, ferrets, parrots, turtles, frogs and even birds.

In terms of supplies, pet stores sell toys, beds, grooming tools, food, furniture, bowls, cat litter, cages, carriers, covers, temperature control devices, fish tanks with maintenance equipment, large pond pumps and koi pond filters and so much more. In fact, every pet owner makes regular visits to pet stores in order to get the usual supplies to cover for the animal?s needs. Besides the products they sell, pet stores may also offer various services to their customers. Pet sitting, pet grooming and pet walking may be available.

Although pet stores do not sell dogs and cats, they help you find such pets. Pet shop owners often make a message board where private pet owners and animal shelters/rescue centers place notes. It is a excellent thought to question the shop assistant whether they have anything like this in their facility. There are also private cat and dog owners who leave notes and advertise pet donation by such means. It is hard to keep all the puppies or kittens in a litter, and dog owners try to find homes for them all.

Pet stores also have extensive online activity, particularly since there are some that sell exclusively on the Internet. Much of the popularity of organic pet food, for instance, is due to the intense advertising on the Internet. And since not all pet stores sell such products, pet owners who are interested in all-natural food for their four-legged friends, will place orders online. Some web pet stores make incredible profit by selling organic pet food and organic cleaning products.

The prices are sometimes very similar for the same products sold in pet stores. For bulk orders you can get discounts too. You can nevertheless get a free toy, hair brush or flee shampoo for ordering or buying a certain product. Normally, it is fantastic fun for children and adults alike to go shopping in pet stores. There is always something fascinating to admire!

Source: http://www.morebuddies.com/2011/10/15/pet-stores-finding-the-right-product-and-services-for-your-beloved-pets/

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French Socialists to choose presidential nominee

A poster representing the front page of a French magazine showing the two socialists candidates Francois Hollande, left, and Martine Aubry is displayed at a newspaper kiosk before the second round of the primary elections to chose a Socialist party candidate for the 2012 French presidential elections, in Nice, southeastern France, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. The poster reads "Primary,Tension ahead of runoff vote". (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau )

A poster representing the front page of a French magazine showing the two socialists candidates Francois Hollande, left, and Martine Aubry is displayed at a newspaper kiosk before the second round of the primary elections to chose a Socialist party candidate for the 2012 French presidential elections, in Nice, southeastern France, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. The poster reads "Primary,Tension ahead of runoff vote". (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau )

French candidate for the 2011 Socialist party primary elections, Martine Aubry delivers a speech during a meeting in Lille, northern France, Thursday Oct. 13, 2011. She faces Francois Hollande in next Sunday's runoff vote. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

France's Socialist Party former first secretary and candidate for the party's primary elections for the 2012 presidential election Francois Hollande gestures as he speaks during a meeting in Paris, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011. He will face Martine Aubry in next Sunday's runoff vote. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

(AP) ? France's Socialists and sympathizers on Sunday are choosing their nominee for next year's presidential election ? an expected showdown with embattled conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The main opposition party was holding a runoff to choose its standard-bearer as many French people worry about high state debt, cuts to education spending, anemic economic growth and lingering unemployment.

The contest pits current party boss Martine Aubry against her predecessor, Francois Hollande. He is the former partner of the Socialists' last presidential nominee, Segolene Royal. Aubry is best known as the author of France's fabled 35-hour workweek law passed in the late 1990s.

Aubry and Hollande were the survivors as the six-person Socialist field was winnowed down last week in the first phase of the unprecedented party primary in which more than 2 million people cast ballots.

Starting with Charles de Gaulle in 1958, France has had a string of conservative presidents over the past half-century, but only one Socialist: Francois Mitterrand.

The party's primary this year has been designed in part to help overcome years of dissension within its ranks. The primary is open to voters beyond those in the Socialist Party, though some conditions apply.

Hollande, the top vote-getter in the first round, has since received expressions of support from the other four candidates who lost out last Sunday ? a tacit sign that a Socialist victory is their highest priority.

"If Martine Aubry had been ahead, and Francois Hollande behind, I would have chosen Martine Aubry," Arnaud Montebourg, who placed third last week after staking out the party's left wing, told i-Tele TV network.

Both Aubry and Hollande say trimming state debt is a priority, but have kept to Socialist party dogma on issues such as shielding citizens from the whims of the financial markets and raising taxes on the rich.

The party's nominee will face questions about how to keep France competitive at a time when sluggish growth will rein in state spending and emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil keep booming.

Hollande, seen as a party moderate who favors greater integration with Europe, is little-known outside of France and has provided no dramatic proposals for saving the euro, shrinking debts, solving tensions with immigrants or other French woes.

Aubry has repeated her hopes for "a strong left" to face Sarkozy ? seen by many as a jab at Hollande ? and insisted she would unite ideological allies such as Green Party supporters for the presidential race finale.

In an interview published Saturday in Le Parisien newspaper, Aubry said the phrase "soft with the weak, and hard on the powerful" was one that fits her well.

Recent polls suggest Aubry and Hollande could beat Sarkozy in the presidential election next spring. The incumbent's favorability ratings have hovered near the 30-percent level for months, but he is a strong campaigner and senses a rightward-majority tilt in the French electorate.

Sarkozy, who was elected to a five-year term in 2007, has not announced whether he will run again, but most political observers expect that he will.

Associated Press

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Visualised: Google opens @Android Twitter, raises Ice Cream Sandwich effigy (video)

Now that Ice Cream Sandwich is officially coming our way next week, Google's statue-makers (Honeycomb, Gingerbread, Froyo) wasted no time raising an idol in its honor. Video of the ceremony is after the break, helpfully pointed out by the brand new @Android Twitter account. Give 'em a follow, won't you?

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Hulu no longer for sale, owners say

(AP) ? After months of being courted by technology giants and TV signal providers, online video service Hulu is no longer for sale, its media company owners said Thursday.

The Walt Disney Co., News Corp., Comcast Corp. and Providence Equity Partners had been shopping the site since June after it received an unsolicited takeover offer.

They tested the waters for other interest, and dozens of companies, from Internet giants Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. to satellite TV providers Dish Network Corp. and DirecTV came knocking.

But the owners said in a joint statement Thursday that Hulu "holds a unique and compelling strategic value to each of its owners" and that they would refocus on "mapping out its path to even greater success."

The site had been bulking up on content to top up its roster of reruns from Disney's ABC, News Corp.'s Fox and Comcast's NBC. It recently said it would add Spanish-language programming from Univision, adding to a whole host of content from rival media companies including Viacom Inc.'s MTV and film studio Miramax.

It had even teamed up with documentary maker Morgan Spurlock on an original show series.

The service has been gaining traction while online streaming rival Netflix Inc. has stumbled badly.

Hulu has more than a million subscribers who pay $8 a month for a deeper catalog of TV shows less than a year after launching the premium tier last year. CEO Jason Kilar has said Hulu is on track to make around $500 million in revenue this year, up from $263 million in 2010, and has said the company is profitable.

Netflix had 24.6 million paying subscribers at the end of June, but it warned last month that it expected a net 600,000 to leave after a series of controversial decisions including hiking prices as much as 60 percent and then quickly backtracking on a decision to split its streaming and DVD-by-mail services into two separately-billed operations.

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Maternal love is closing theme for Busan film fest

(AP) ? A mother's love will be the closing theme for this year's Busan International Film Festival.

The nine-day festival kicked off last Thursday with a South Korean romance. On Friday it will close with a Japanese movie about a mother who is forgiven by her son after she was forced to abandon him during wartime.

"The movie is about a mother's love for her son even as she suffers from dementia," Japanese director Masato Harada told reporters Thursday as he spoke of his 2011 movie, "Chronicle of My Mother."

The film has drawn acclaim at several other international film festivals. Busan festival organizer Lee Yong-kwan praised Harada for his mastery in depicting a relationship that can be as complex as it is universal.

Motherhood is a theme increasingly attracting South Korean audiences and artists. In the 2009 thriller "Mother," South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho portrays a woman who hunts down a murderer that she believes framed her son. Shin Kyung-Sook's novel, "Please Look After Mom," also became a best-seller in South Korea and went on to make a splash in the United States.

Describing South Koreans' attachment to maternal love as "especially strong," Harada said he hopes his movie will help "confirm the great love of mothers."

"Chronicle of My Mother" features "Shall We Dance" star Koji Yakusho and award-winning actresses Kirin Kiki and Aoi Miyazaki. It is based on an autobiographical novel by Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue, but Harada said his own mother was another inspiration behind the movie.

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Relationship advice for PR practitioners : PR CONVERSATIONS

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Posted by Heather Yaxley on October 12, 2011 ? 2 Comments?

Relationships are in the DNA of PR ? in fact, the name itself indicates the function manages relations with publics.? But the priority in PR practice is largely on writing skills rather than interpersonal ones; whilst although academic definitions and literature highlight two-way communications, they largely omit what is required to build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships.

Most of the focus on communications skills is still primarily on an ability to write.? Even here, the emphasis is usually on informing, or persuading, rather than engaging, initiating a response or building a relationship.? Rhetoric rules rather than dialogic communications.

Perhaps it is presumed that PR practitioners are competent in relationship building and don?t need to learn relevant craft skills in the same way that they need to learn to write for the media or other publics.? Indeed, one of the claims made to explain the ongoing gender shift of the occupation is that women have better people skills.? But is it natural to know how to build professional, multi-dimensional relationships to help organizations manage conflict situations or seek co-orientation with a wide range of individuals or groups over time?

Is it unreasonable to suggest practitioners need relationship counselling rather than relying on a gender stereotype of a friendly nature or outgoing personality?? The relational perspective of public relations offers a good body of knowledge regarding the concept of organization-public relationships, albeit drawing on other fields such as marketing, organizational theory, conflict resolution and interpersonal communication (see Julia Jahansoozi?s excellent review).? This needs to be translated into practical competencies to become recognised as a vital intelligence-based skills set to close the gap between the ?friendliness? focus of relationship building in practice and an informed understanding of research and knowledge-based strategies.

There are lots of opportunities for building a competency toolkit ? from considering how to establish professional relationships to methodologies for evaluation, ethical frameworks, etc.? Issues arising from the traditional journalist to PR career route need to be considered in relationship terms.? Aspects of openness, acknowledgement of partisanship, and ?faux friendship? need to be examined.? Strategies around frenemies and friendlies (Judy Gombita?s great term) could be investigated.

The focus on what is required to develop and maintain professional relationships is of particular relevance to young PR practitioners, based on a recent PR Conversations? post on mentoring and networking by Alan Berkson and Fred McClimans.? They reference a vital ?knowledge acquisition ecosystem?, and relationships are an important way in which culture and practice is developed and corrected.? The reliance of Gen Y on their peer relationships, and other online cultivated contacts, has an impact on the way in which professional relationships may be conceived going forwards.? How this relates to the organization-public relationship would be an interesting area to research further.

Likewise, what are the consequences of a faster cycle of job changes on practitioners? credibility as the hub of organization-public relations?? Are the contacts primarily personal rather than ?belonging? to the client organization?

PR practitioners should also play a key role in providing relationship counselling advice at the strategic level ? something that seems to be a pitfall waiting for many CEOs, or is that just British politicians, police and newspaper proprietors?? Surely such a role needs to be based on more than intuition, common sense and previous experience, particularly if PR is to be seen as providing strategic counsel that delivers proven results.

And, if relationships are to be recognised as a central unit of public relations, then we need to engage with methods of analysing, tracking and researching them.? This means qualitative not simply quantitative survey approaches.? Relationships are nuanced and the methods of research we use need to reflect this.? Counting Twitter followers or Facebook likes does not constitute evaluation of organization-public relationships.

We need to consider the challenges as well as the benefits of building relationships and understand issues such as power-imbalance, selfishness and disengagement.

This is a rich channel for PR practitioners that extends their competency beyond the short-termism of generating press coverage or seeking ownership of the digital terrain.? It is not something new, but is an area which seems to be taken for granted so perhaps it is time to foreground this aspect of practice and academic research.?? If we are called public relations at the least we ought to be competent in building public relationships.

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