| COMEC to Raise Money and Awareness With Saturday Treasure Hunt
OPEN SESAME: Mary Allison Gumbel, 8, and Britt Ferguson, 2, share some face time with "Sesame Street" favorites Elmo and Cookie Monster at a recent Pink Palace event. -- PHOTO COURTESY OF COMEC Searching for a missing child is no laughing matter. It's easy to imagine that for people involved in a search - family, volunteer workers and law enforcement officials - passing moments can seem like hours. But the Commission on Missing and Exploited Children (COMEC) is hoping people have lots of fun this weekend searching for missing treasure at the Pink Palace Museum. COMEC's first treasure hunt event takes place Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., with the actual treasure hunt contest at 3 p.m. General admission is $10 and children younger than 2 get in free.
Support for stability: SCIE’s response to Care Matters White Paper
The measures reflect many of SCIE's recommendations drawn from work with care-experienced young people, parents, practitioners and researchers. Chair of SCIE, Allan Bowman, welcomed the challenging political initiative of raising the national profile of the lives of children in care. Speaking about the paper, he said that care-experienced young people will particularly benefit from support after the age of 16 and more structured ways of participating in service development. "Young people from care have told us that they want stability, to be listened to, taken seriously, involved fully in decisions about their lives, and helped to become independent adults. High-level support for young people during their transition to adulthood is vital to build the necessary resilience, self-esteem and empowerment to progress with confidence.
Michael Bay on Transformers!
Q: I know my colleagues are going to have "Transformers" questions, but I wanted to know your reaction to "Hot Fuzz" which was so inspired by "Bad Boys 2," and that you said that you were offered "Die Hard 4" and I was wondering if this hadn't come together would you have considered doing that? Bay: "Die Hard 4," no, I don't think so. "Hot Fuzz," I haven't seen it yet, because I was finishing this movie. It's really hard, the end of your post schedule is such a grind, seeing a movie is like the last thing you want to do when you go home. I thought this would be an easy post, on our budget we had a hiatus scheduled in here, because I said, "Oh, my God, I have the longest post schedule," I didn't think the robots would be that hard, but I was directing them all the way to the very end. Q: How did you balance the needs of your vision as a filmmaker with those of Spielberg and those of the fans? I noticed that there are definitely some Spielberg elements to this film.
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