Quidditch for muggles?

Harry Potter May Be Fiction But Quidditch Is A Real Sport.
http://www.ology.com/technology/harry-potter-may-be-fiction-quidditch-real-sport

I don't know about anyone else, but I am beyond excited to see the newest potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this weekend. So I guess I am just all about Harry Potter today. But anyways, I came across this article about people playing their own version of Quidditch. Apparently the "Quidditch World Cup" was last weekend. Almost fifty clubs came to play in the tournament, and one Canadian team endured a dozen hours on buses for the chance to compete on the Big Quidditch Stage. The University of Rochester resorted to shack up in the homes of friends and families all over New York City to accommodate everyone in between matches. Alexander Manshel and Alex Benepe of Middlebury College founded the International Quidditch Association and then made it into an organization with hundreds of teams throughout the country and world. Before the World Cup, visiting clubs were invited to a small park to perform their school cheers and many broke out into songs and dances, shouting Quidditch! While most of the players are doing their best to throw the Quaffle (a deflated volleyball) through hula hoop goal posts, there's an endurance chess match going on where seekers try to run down and capture a neutral player called the snitch. If you have read the harry potter books and/or seen the films, you know all about what I'm talking about. I just thought this was fun and interesting!

Celeb's Naked Pregnancy photos.

http://www.popeater.com/2010/11/12/celebrities-naked-pregnant-photos/

I was struck by this article on popeater.com. Talking about celebs tending to pose nude during their pregnancies for magazines and such, and why they do it. This seems to be a topic that holds many different opinions. Some people look at it as beautiful, and that this is a beautiful time in ones life, and doing such is a memorable thing and makes it something to look back on. "During pregnancy, the naked body isn't as sexualized. It is safer to go nude because you're looking at these women as life-giving vessels rather than sex objects," explains US Weekly photo editor Peter Grossman.While others dub these shoots as "pregnancy porn."Yet, in some ways, these nude pregos are setting unfair expectations for the average mama. Regular pregnant women simply don't look like these women with their shapely bellies and well-proportioned everything else. A lot of women are swollen, veiny, bloated and have cottage cheese thighs when they're pregnant. Some women see the pregnancy pictures as simply another outlet for celebs to channel their self-absorption. What do you think? Beautiful or obnoxious?

Friday Post: Colleges Restrict Four Loko, As Health Concerns Rise.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/11/04/131061866/colleges-ban-four-loko-as-health-concerns-rise

"Little Rhody's big state school is banning Four Loko, the caffeine-boosted alcohol drink that's often called "blackout in a can." These popular Engergy/Alcoholic beverages are being banned on college campuses because they are too dangerous. At a recent concert at the URI campus, 30 people were treated for illnesses or injuries related to alcohol. They're looked at as being dangerous for college students because they are very inexpensive for how potent they are. This incident at URI is not the only one that's happened based off of these drinks, there have been issues reported at Central Washington University and Kansas State. So stores around college campuses are beginning to ban the drink. I personally think it's a dumb idea. Yes I agree that dangerous things can spawn off of kids drinking lokos, but just because stores in the area don't have the drinks, does not mean no one can get them. I bet some students are willing to make a 10-30 minute drive for their fix. Just like anything else that people are not supposed to have access to, they find a way.