Jen aniston invited to pitt's family christmas celebration!

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie may have a frosty Christmas after Jennifer Aniston was reportedly invited to the Pitt family celebration.

Jolie allegedly went ballistic after discovering Pitt’s mum, Jane, had invited Aniston to join them for Christmas in Springfield, Missouri.

Jane and Bill Pitt have remained good friends with Aniston despite the 2005 breakdown of her marriage to their son.

“It’s an awkward situation. Angelina has been furious about the impending get-together since

Brad let the cat out of the bag,” an insider told Star magazine.

“She let him have it, blasting that she thinks Jen’s spending Christmas with them is totally inappropriate.

“Jane’s heart goes out to Jennifer. She knows how lonely Jen is. And Jen trusts Jane, and she thinks of the Pitts as family. Brad accepts that.”

And Brad’s brother Doug, and sister, Julie, share the warmth towards Aniston.

“They still think of her as a sister. Brad’s nieces and nephews love Jen too.”

But that has not carried any favour with Angelina, with whom Brad has three adopted children and one biological child.

“She (Angelina) thinks Jen’s relationship with Jane is unhealthy.

“She’s made it clear she won’t be anywhere near Jen. So if Jen shows up in Springfield for Christmas, Angie sure won’t.

“Angelina was livid. When she gets mad, she really gets mad. She got in Brad’s face and said she thought it was disrespectful.

“Her nose has been out of joint ever since he told her about it.

“Angie isn’t helping by keeping her distance from Brad’s family.

“She flew with Brad into Springfield on the morning of Thanksgiving for a brief stay and was supposed to help with dinner, but she didn’t.

“She didn’t really socialize with the family. While Brad spent time in the kitchen with his mum and sister, Angie stayed with the kids.”

But Jane, 66, is reportedly not fazed by Jolie’s anger. “She is still very close to and friendly with Jen. And that’s causing big trouble for Brad.

“It’s a tough spot to be in. Brad feels he has to respect the relationship between his mum and Jennifer.

“He still cares about Jen, and that just makes the situation even more precarious because Angelina is enraged by what she calls Jen’s ‘interference.’ It’s causing major friction.”

Jolie angry over Aniston's holiday plans
Tuesday, November 13 2007, 18:38 GMT



Angelina Jolie is said to be furious about Jennifer Aniston's plans to spend Thanksgiving with Brad Pitt's mother.

The Beowulf actress accused her partner's former wife of being "sneaky" and even threatened to disown Jane Pitt if she continues her close relationship with Aniston.

Pitt's mother reportedly invited the Friends actress to spend the US holiday at her home in Missouri.

Friend of Aniston, Tiffany Law, told Star magazine: "Jen sees no reason to stop (contact with Jane). They speak on the phone at least once a month and exchange cards and e-mails. But, apparently, it makes Ange's skin crawl.

"Ange has pulled no punches, and has made it clear to Brad that there will be no family harmony while Jane keeps up her friendship (with Aniston). But Brad has told Ange that what his mother does in her free time is her own business."

Jolie has three adopted children and one biological daughter with Pitt, who divorced Aniston in 2005 after five years of marriage.

Angelina Jolie Splits Pants at Premiere; Brad Pitt Covers Her Up Monday November 12, 2007
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the premiere of "Beowulf" in London on November 11, 2007.

They fly, they bike, they tour refugee camps — and they save each other from the occasional fashion disaster.

As Angelina Jolie walked the carpet at Sunday's night Beowulf premiere in London, her tight black leather Versace pants began to tear. Luckily, Brad Pitt leaped in and strategically placed his hands over the splitting seam.

It wasn't Angie's only fashion oops! that night: She also stepped in a big wad of gum in her Christian Louboutin high heels boots.

Miri City

Lots to do and see in Miri

The birthplace of Sarawak’s petroleum industry and the second largest city in the state, Miri boasts of scenic sights and interesting local products and food.

Miri Tamu market


Native products can be easily purchased at the Miri Tamu or a market where the locals come and sell their products. From foodstuff to handicraft, there is something for everyone.

Shopping



Shopping is a breeze with the numerous shopping malls such as Bintang Plaza, Boulevard Shopping Mall, Imperial Shopping Mall, E-Mart, Miri Plaza, Miri Square and Wisma Pelita Mall, to name a few in this small bustling city.

Beach fun



Watching the romantic sunset from the Miri beach is a favourite pastime and a must for tourist as it offers beautiful photography opportunity. The beach is also a popular spot for locals on weekends.

Food

Miri is popular with seafood and there are numerous outlets with their own specialities such as Birds’ Nest, fish in any style and other sea slugs like snail-like Dong Fung Lor, steamed prawns that are sweet and succulent, oyster omelette that would rival those in the Peninsula, and the not-to-be-missed pucuk paku of Sarawak, midin, which is fried simply with garlic.

Grand Old Lady



This is Malaysia’s very first inland oil well. Located on top of Canada Hill, it is now known as Bukit Telaga Minyak. Built in 1902, this Oil Well No.1, which produced 660,000 barrels of oil over 60 years from 1910 by Shell Company, was shut down in 1972. The hill overlooks Miri city and there is a lookout tower nearby where visitors can view the city and the sea.

Niah National Park



One of the oldest human remains in South-East Asia was found in the Niah Caves in this park. Several chambers make up the Niah Caves and though eerie, with the makeshift huts in the Traders’ Cave, the caves exude a natural beauty one cannot discount when one sees them filled with bats and swifts that are busily building their nests several hundred metres high.

Lambir Hills National Park



Lambir Hills National Park, a 30-minute drive from Miri city, has many lovely mini waterfalls. The park has very diverse species of flora and fauna and is ranked as the 12th mega-biodiverse sites in the world.

City Parks



Miri has 14 public parks and one of the most popular is the Miri City Fan, which is a 10.4ha park right in the heart of the city. It was accorded Malaysia’s best-landscaped city park in 2001. For leisurely pursuits, Taman Selera is a family picnic spot while Miri Bulatan Park is a lake garden. Another good park to visit is the Luak Bay Esplanade, which is a park at the seafront.

Miri Taoist Temple



Miri Taoist Temple, or better known as the Lian Hua San or Lotus Hill Temple, is the biggest of its kind in South-East Asia. Its intricate sculptures and architecture have attracted tourists, especially those of the faith. The temple is located in the Krokop suburbs.

Saberkas Commercial Centre

The Saberkas Commercial Centre is popular during weekends with Bruneians, who come in droves to the Malay Pasar Tamu.

GETTING THERE

Flights to Miri, which is the third busiest airport in Malaysia after the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and the Kota Kinabalu International Airport, from Kuala Lumpur, Johor Baru, Kuching, Kota Kinabalu, Labuan, Sibu, Bintulu and other small towns in Sarawak.

Both Malaysia Airlines and AirAsia operate flights from Peninsular Malaysia to Miri.

Miri is also accessible by road from Brunei’s capital, Bandar Sri Begawan, and other major towns in Sarawak by the Pan-Borneo highway.

source The Star sunday metro.

Singer Robert Goulet dies at 73 2 hours, 35 minutes ago


Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - Robert Goulet, the handsome, big-voiced baritone whose Broadway debut in "Camelot" launched an award-winning stage and recording career, has died. He was 73.

The singer died Tuesday morning in a Los Angeles hospital while awaiting a lung transplant, said Goulet spokesman Norm Johnson.

He had been awaiting a lung transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being found last month to have a rare form of pulmonary fibrosis.

Goulet had remained in good spirits even as he waited for the transplant, said Vera Goulet, his wife of 25 years.

"Just watch my vocal cords," she said he told doctors before they inserted a breathing tube.

The Massachusetts-born Goulet, who spent much of his youth in Canada, gained stardom in 1960 with "Camelot," the Lerner and Loewe musical that starred Richard Burton as King Arthur and Julie Andrews as his Queen Guenevere.

Goulet played Sir Lancelot, the arrogant French knight who falls in love with Guenevere.

He became a hit with American TV viewers with appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and other programs. Sullivan labeled him the "American baritone from Canada," where he had already been a popular star in the 1950s, hosting his own show called "General Electric's Showtime."

>> May God Bless His Soul<<

Celeb Homes threaten as fire torch Penn's Land

Fires Torch Penn's Land, Threaten Celeb Homes Natalie Finn
Mon Oct 22, 5:12 PM ET



Los Angeles (E! Online) - Private beaches, a fleet of luxury cars, 24-hour private security and sweeping ocean views are no match for Mother Nature, especially on a windy day in SoCal after a hot, dry summer.

A wildfire that began early Sunday morning in Malibu scorched a plot of land belonging to Sean Penn on Monday and has forced evacuations all over the tony Pacific-adjacent enclave, including gated communities where celebs such as Mel Gibson, Jennifer Aniston and Kelsey Grammar reside.

Penn's lot at the top of Carbon Canyon Road, where he used to have a home before it was destroyed in an arson-suspected 1993 brushfire, contained two trailers, both of which burned after firefighters determined that, since they were unoccupied, there was no use risking lives to save them.

Photos posted on splashnews.com, which first reported Penn's loss, show the burning structures.

No damage has been reported, however, to David Duchovny and Téa Leoni's home, which is right near Penn's property.

Firefighters were also spotted clustered outside David Arquette and Courteney Cox's home, but according to images on celebrity photo site X17.com, the house remains intact and it looks to have been hosed down to ward off damage.

The gated community where Gibson, Olivia Newton-John and country singer Tanya Tucker have homes has been evacuated. James Cameron and Cindy Crawford's residences are also said to be in danger; Mark Hamill and his wife are also packed and ready to go should the siren sound, per the actor's rep.

Grammar and Victoria Principal were also among those who were forced out of town over the weekend, according to their publicists.

The Malibu fire, which as of Monday afternoon was reportedly only 10 percent contained, started at about 4:50 a.m. Sunday and has since charred at least 2,400 acres.

According to authorities, the blaze was probably triggered when the oft-destructive Santa Ana winds, which were blowing at about 65 miles per hour on Sunday, crossed paths with some high-voltage power lines.

Meanwhile, a dozen conflagrations have sprung up all over the Southland, affecting parts of the San Fernando Valley, Orange County, San Diego and Lake Arrowhead. More than 250,000 people have been evacuated altogether.

Taking matters into their own hands were The Hills' Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, who talked to Ryan Seacrest on Monday about their own containment efforts when a brushfire inched toward their Los Angeles-area home on Sunday.

"Spencer was literally down there putting out the fire, and I was screaming at him 'Come back here, the firemen are coming!'” Montag said on Seacrest's KIIS-FM morning show.

“It was here and I was putting out the fire with the hose,” Pratt added. “Until the firemen got there. They were fast.”

Also affected Monday was Young Hollywood's home away from home—Promises treatment center. Patients staying at the Malibu rehab facility, where Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Ben Affleck and a host of others have stopped to sober up, were transferred to an outpatient locale after the area was included in a mandatory evacuation.

"Part of the problem is that Promises is on a single-lane road, and we didn't want to have problems with a lot of people trying to get out at one time," an L.A. County Fire Department spokesperson told reporters.

Despite the allure of all that oceanside luxury, Malibu has always been a notorious hot spot, so to speak.

Suzanne Somer's beachside manse was one of 11 homes destroyed when a brushfire, spurred by big winds, whipped through Malibu Road in January. Penn's residence was one of 268 homes that burned in 1993 when a possible arson blaze killed three people and caused $219 million in damage.

Collier Glacier is shrinking

BEND, Ore. - Between the North Sister and Middle Sister in Oregon's Cascade Range, Collier Glacier has advanced and receded for hundreds of thousands of years. But like many glaciers, it is headed in one direction these days: backward.

It is in serious peril, says geologist Ellen Morris Bishop of the Fossil-based Oregon Paleo Lands Institute. "We have basically a really sad picture of Collier Glacier today."

Geologists blame among other things a warming climate, altering the landscape and perhaps the availability of water to high-elevation ecosystems. Collier is shrinking faster than most of the 35 glaciers in the state.

"Now everything is just in a chaotic shrink," Bishop said.

This summer she led a climate change-themed tour of the Central Oregon Cascades, starting from McKenzie Pass and heading south. Volcanic activity built the Cascades, but over eons the glaciers have worn them down.

At the glacier's base is a moraine, or a ridge of rocks, deposited by the slowly moving glacier when it was bigger. Today an empty valley fills the space between the ridge and the glacial edge.

"This was a full valley in 1906," Bishop said. Since then it has retreated more than a mile.

The ice sheet has visibly shrunk since she first visited the glacier in the 1980s, Bishop said.

"We're in trouble," said David Eddleston, of Bend and a participant in the field trip. "It's right there in front of our eyes."

The shrinking of the glacier started about the same time carbon dioxide emissions started rising, Bishop said.

"It's all tied to climate change, said Peter Clark, a geosciences professor at Oregon State University.

In the late 19th century, many glaciers started to retreat, he said. That shrinking was probably due to natural fluctuations in the atmospheric temperature.

But in the last 20 to 30 years, all of the Cascades' glaciers have been shrinking, he said.

Collier is reflective of glaciers all along the Cascades, Clark said.

And because the actions of glaciers reflect temperatures from two decades ago, even if warming trends were to stop today, glaciers would still be shrinking for at least 20 years to come, he said.

With warming predicted to rise between 3 and 5 degrees by the end of the century, temperature will likely be the main factor that causes glaciers' decline.

"Most people would say that by the turn of the century there will be very little ice left on the mountains," Clark said.

Glaciers store water in the winter and then release it throughout the year, Clark said, spreading out the time when water is flowing. Without the glaciers, many streams will rely more on springtime runoff.

"It will affect the water balance of the mountainous regions," he said.

"At some point, they're going to be so small that they're not going to pump out that water," said Andrew Fountain, a geology professor at Portland State University.

And when that happens, lands at higher elevations will be much drier and subject to droughts, Fountain said. Stream flow will probably decrease, which means that plant life along those waterways would diminish.

Some lakes previously fed by glaciers would become clearer because there would be no sediment but they could also start to evaporate and become smaller.

But while glaciers might shrink, that doesn't mean the ice on mountains will disappear completely, he said.

"It's actually tough to get rid of a glacier," Fountain said. As glaciers retreat, they do so by inching up to higher mountain elevations, where the air is colder.

"But it's the difference," Fountain said, "between the Collier Glacier today and a little ice patch that might be 100 yards long."

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Information from: The Bulletin, http://www.bendbulletin.com