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Once you've configured your Internet connection, you can view websites for information, entertainment, software, and more.
You can also send and receive email and participate in newsgroups. First, you'll have to configure your email and news applications, or clients. You can find two of the most popular mail and news clients in Netscape Communicator, which is included in Red Hat Linux.
In this chapter, you'll learn how to customize Netscape Communicator's browser, email, and news applications. A suite of applications, Communicator contains:
Navigator for finding information on the World Wide Web
Messenger for sending and receiving email and news
Composer for creating and publishing your own Web pages
We'll concentrate on Navigator and Messenger in this chapter.
Lynx: An Alternative Browser
You'll probably use Navigator for your Web browsing. But your Red Hat Linux system also includes a useful browser called Lynx. Lynx is a general purpose browser for character-cell displays; it will display the content of pages on the Web, but not the images. It's very fast, and can be an excellent alternative for you if you're interested in reading information, without having to wait for graphics.
To try Lynx, open a shell prompt and type lynx
at the prompt. You'll find a list of options at the bottom of the screen. To go to a site, for example, use the
To learn more about Lynx, type man lynx at the shell prompt. If you want to print the man page, type man lynx | col -b | lpr.
You'll find the Netscape Navigator icon on the panel in GNOME and on the desktop in KDE.
To start Navigator, click once on the icon. When the browser first starts, you'll be asked to read and agree to the software license. Click on the Agree button to proceed. Once the browser starts, it should look like Figure 7-1.
The top row containing the icons is called the Navigation Toolbar. Selecting the icons will perform the following actions:
Back Returns you to a previously viewed page. To jump back several pages, left-click on the icon and hold down the mouse button to reveal a pulldown menu of previously viewed pages. Drag and release the cursor on the page to which you want to return.
Forward When you've moved back to previously viewed pages, selecting this button will take you forward, toward the more recently viewed pages.
Reload Refreshes the current page in the browser. This can be useful, for example, if you want to view a page that's frequently updated.
Home Selecting this button will immediately send the browser to the location specified as your start page. For more on how to set this feature to point to a different page, see the section called Communicator Preferences.
Search Sends you to a search engine page. Search engines allow you to locate information, people, merchandise, and more.
Print If you have configured a printer, selecting this button will print the current page.
Security Displays security information about the current page, as well as encryption information (which aids in security) about your browser.
Stop Stops loading the page into the browser.
You can visit other websites by clicking on hyperlinks in documents you view or by entering a URL in the address field on the toolbar. Addresses you type manually are stored in a history list and can be viewed by clicking on the down arrow next to the address field.
You can also click on Go in the Netscape main menu to see a list of sites you visited recently via hyperlink, search engine, or manual entry. You can return to one of these sites by clicking on it.
Opening Web Pages in a New Window
If you want to visit other sites, without losing your place on the page you're viewing, you can open a link in a new browser window by right-clicking on the link and selecting Open Link in New Window from the menu. (If you have a three-button mouse, or you selected three-button emulation during the installation of Red Hat Linux, you can also open a link in a new window just by clicking on the link with the middle mouse button.)
The following table provides keyboard shortcuts you can use in Navigator.
Table 7-1. Keyboard Shortcuts
Stop Page Loading
Open Location
Open Page
New Mail Message
Edit Bookmarks
Find (on page)
Find (again)
New Window
Close Window
Save As
Jump Forward
Jump Back
Having Problems With Your Netscape Address Book?
Here are the instructions to use if the Address Book in Netscape crashes the application:
Open a shell prompt and type grep locale $HOME/.netscape/*.js at the command line. It will return something similar to the following:
Close all Netscape windows and remove the following lines from those files:
Communicator allows you to customize many of its features. You can select how a Web page appears, security levels, and more.
To enhance your browsing experience, you can customize Navigator. From the menu, select Edit => Preferences to open the options menu (see Figure 7-3).
The Preferences section is divided into subsections in the Category menu, including:
Appearance Allows you to modify the way Navigator physically appears, such as the colors or use of icons on the navigation bars.
Navigator Among other things, lets you specify your home page, or the page you see when the browser starts. Also allows you to modify how long to keep previously visited sites in a history, for quick viewing later.
Mail & Newsgroups Settings for using Communicator's email and news clients. To learn how to use these settings, turn to the section called Email and News Settings for Messenger.
Advanced Allows you to specify settings for acceptance of cookies, which are small pieces of information stored on your computer and used to identify you to the websites you visit. Also allows you to modify other settings.
Each of these sections in Preferences can be expanded by clicking on the arrow next to the item on the menu. Let's look at each section in more detail:
Click on the arrow next to the Appearance category to reveal all the related menus (see Figure 7-4).
In this category of the menu, choose among the following by selecting the box next to its listing:
Appearance Here, you can select the features you want to launch on startup and determine how you want the toolbar to look.
Fonts In this section, you can decide which font or typeface you want to use by default. If you're having difficulty reading the type on sites you visit, you can adjust the typeface and size of type here. Select your fonts and their sizes from the drop-down lists; your selections will then be reflected in the page you're currently viewing, so you can see the effect.
Colors Lets you specify which colors you prefer for the text on pages, background, and links to other sites. You can also choose whether you want links to be underlined in a document (links will appear only as colored text if you deselect this option).
In the Navigator category you'll find options for starting the browser, languages, and related applications (see Figure 7-5).
On the first screen of the Navigator preferences, for example, you can choose to have the browser open with a blank page rather than automatically go to a site when it starts.
In the Home page section of this category, you can specify a page you want to call the home, or start page. You can also designate the page you're currently viewing as your home page by clicking on the Use Current Page button.
In the History section, you decide how long you want to retain previously visited sites in your history list. The history list can be used to jump to important sites you may have visited days earlier but neglected to bookmark. In the History expires after field, enter the number of days you want to retain URLs in your history file. To clear the file immediately, click on the Clear History button.
Using Your History File
To open your history file, from the menu go to Communicator => Tools => History.
The following category, Mail & Newsgroups, allows you to enter your account information to use Communicator's email and newsreader clients. For more on these settings, turn to the section called Email and News Settings for Messenger.
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Alec finds his mother to be very cold and unemotional. He tells us that he always felt alone, even with his parents: 'even with them, I was alone' (p.6).
What evidence is there to show they did not have a good relationship?
- At the very beginning of the novel Alec writes that he loves 'no living person'. He will not write to his parents to inform them of the situation: 'Time enough for others to do that when it is all over.' He feels sympathy for how his father will react to the knowlege but he says that his 'heart doesn't bleed for her'.
- P. 23-25: His mother forbids him from seeing Jerry.
- P. 25: Alicia takes Alec away to Europe for four months in an attempt to make him forget Jerry. Alec does not want to go but she makes him. She is not thinking about what her son wants or needs. Instead she is thinking of herself.
- P. 39-40: Alicia wants him to go to war. WHY? She wants to separate him from Frederick, with whom he has grown closer. She is jealous of this relationship. She wants to be able to tell people that she has an officer son in the war. She can no longer live as a family unit. Each reason shows what a selfish character Alicia is.
- P. 46-47: She tells Alec that Frederick is not his real father. This is malicious and cruel.
- P. 64: Alec is repelled even by the touch of his mother and he strongly tells us that he 'hated her'.
- P. 109: While at war, he writes a letter to his mother describing the table he is sitting at. This shows that he has no concern for her and that he has nothing of importance to tell her.

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Managing dependencies
When planning work for your teams, it helps to monitor the dependencies across the issues in the plan. This helps you spot any issues that are blocking the progress of other issues, and ultimately helps you create a realistic schedule for your teams.
To use dependencies in the new experience, dependencies must already be configured in Portfolio for Jira. If dependencies are not configured yet, see Managing Portfolio dependencies (current documentation) to know how.
Displaying the dependencies columns in a plan
- In the roadmap view of the plan, click more ( ) in the fields section.
- Select the Dependencies checkbox. The 'Incoming dependencies' and 'Outgoing dependencies' columns will be displayed.
When the dependency fields are already displaying in your plan, the dependencies of any issues will be also be displayed in the corresponding columns.
|The incoming dependencies and outgoing dependencies columns, where the dependencies of an issue will appear as an issue count.
Click the dependencies field of an issue, to view the associated dependencies in detail.
The details of the associated dependencies, which include:
The number of dependencies that a particular issue has.
A number on the left of the schedule block means there are (n) outgoing dependencies for the issue, while a number on the right means there are (n) incoming dependencies.
You can also click on the number to view the associated dependencies in detail.
When you're auto-scheduling your plan, note that the lead time that appears in the dependency details is not an auto-scheduled value.
Sample lead time of a dependency when a plan is auto-scheduled
Filtering issues with dependencies
When planning work across multiple streams, filtering issues with dependencies helps to quickly narrow down any potential blockers that need the attention of your teams.
Sample plan, filtering a specific issue with dependencies, and including the dependency chain
To filter issues with dependencies:
- In your plan, click the Filters drop-down.
- Choose which issues with dependencies to display, using any of the following:
- All issues, to show all issues included in the plan, regardless of whether or not the issues have dependencies.
- Has dependencies, to show only issues that have dependencies.
- Specific issue, to show a specific issue from all the issues in the plan. The filtered issue will be displayed, whether or not it has dependencies. This helps you view any dependencies of that issue, or add a dependency to the filtered issue, if needed.
As an option, you can choose to include the dependency chain of a specific issue. This effectively filters both the direct dependencies and indirect dependencies of the issue.
For example, in your plan, you have TIS-1 blocking TIS-2 — with TIS-2 also blocking TIS-6 and PERF-1.
If you specifically filter for TIS-1, and you include its dependency chain, then the direct dependency TIS-2, and the indirect dependencies TIS-6 and PERF-1 will display in the plan.
Adding a dependency to an issue
When adding a dependency to an issue, note that the dependency type will depend on which side of the issue you're adding the dependency.
Sample issue without any dependencies
In the sample above...
- If you click the add icon on the right, the result would be IOS-24 is blocking the selected issue.
- If you click the add icon on the left, the result would be: PERF-2 is blocked by the selected issue.
To add a dependency to an issue:
- In your plan, hover the issue for which you want to add a dependency. The add icons will appear, at either side of the issue where there's no dependency yet.
- Click the add icon where you want to add the dependency.
- Choose the dependent issue that you want to link to the issue.
- Click the check icon. The dependency dialog will be displayed, showing the added dependency for the issue.
- Save the dependency changes by doing the following:
- Click Review changes. The 'Review changes' dialog will display, with all changes selected by default.
- Make sure the checkboxes for the dependency changes are selected, then click Save selected changes in Jira.
You can also add multiple dependencies to an issue. Add and specify the details for the dependencies before clicking Review changes. When you're done, review and save your changes in Jira.
Scheduling dependencies
After adding a dependency to an issue, you can easily adjust the dates of the linked issues by dragging either end of the schedule block.
Note that if you reschedule an issue that results to conflicting dates for any of its dependent issues, then the corresponding number badges of the affected dependencies will turn red.
Issue dependencies with aligned dates
Red number badges, indicating conflicting dates for issues with dependencies
Removing a dependency from an issue
For issue dependencies to be displayed in the new experience, you'll need to add the dependency fields to your plan first.
- View the dependencies of the issue in detail. The dependency details will be displayed.
- Find the dependency that you want to remove from the issue.
- Click the delete icon next to the dependency.
- Save the dependency changes by doing the following:
- Click Review changes. The 'Review changes' dialog will display, with all changes selected by default.
- Make sure the checkboxes for the dependency changes are selected, then click Save selected changes in Jira.
You can also remove multiple dependencies from an issue. Remove the dependencies first, and then review and save your changes in Jira.
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Before we dive into answering the question, let's clarify both the notions as there has been confusion concerning these.
Marketing has changed to a very significant extent in recent years. Digital Marketing has taken a major role in overall marketing activities. Content Marketing and Inbound Marketing — both the notions are branches of Digital Marketing.
There are confusions regarding the two terms even among the ones who practice Digital Marketing in their profession. So, in this article, I am going to discuss "Content Marketing vs Inbound Marketing: which one should global companies focus on."
What is Content Marketing?
Content Marketing has been performed for long in the marketing history. But it has evolved as an distinguished marketing branch in the recent years. It has been discussed mostly after internet marketing became popular all over the world.
Content Marketing Institute says, "Content Marketing is a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing useful, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience — and ultimately, to attract profitable customer action."
Simply put, Content Marketing is a marketing technique which uses content to stimulate interest in certain brand or product. Content Marketing does not directly ask people to buy products, rather it indirectly make them interested in products, services or brands.
In other word, Content Marketing encompasses the creation and sharing of content to indirectly promote products or services. It provides content that the consumers are interested in.
What is Inbound Marketing?
Inbound Marketing is a strategic marketing method where a marketer seeks to attract potential customers to buy a certain product or service, who are already looking for that product or at least are interested in that.
Inbound Marketing professionals approach a potential customer who needs a product. An Inbound Marketing professional knows the requirement and even the wish of the potential customer to fulfill that requirement.
With Inbound Marketing, you can attract potential customers to your website. You can do this in many ways like social media content, blog post with required SEO in it, Search Engine Marketing or Paid Search Advertising, e-newsletter, opt-in email marketing etc.
When customers reach out to your website through any of these ways, you give them an awesome experience by interacting with them. Hubspot, the global company that coined the term Inbound Marketing in 2005, suggests to chat with them, send them email etc. and thereby meet their need and expectation as an expert advisor.
While Outbound Marketing put much effort in taking attention of the crowd, Inbound Marketing seeks to engage with customers with content that they need.
Inbound Marketing does not interrupt people with its marketing effort, who are doing something else like Outbound Marketing does.
Why the Confusion Concerning the Two Notions is Prevailing:
There has been a deep confusion prevailing in the Digital Marketing community, concerning Content Marketing and Inbound Marketing. The most notable reason behind this confusion is that Content Marketing and Inbound Marketing – both use content to reach out to potential customers.
Another significant reason is that both the marketing approaches use many similar channels to disseminate content. For example, both Inbound Marketing and Content Marketing may use Facebook or any other social media channels to publish content. How will you define this marketing effort? Is it Content Marketing or Inbound Marketing?
It's both Content Marketing and Inbound Marketing.
Now, let's make the confusion disappear.
Distinctions Between Content Marketing and Inbound Marketing:
Let's put first thing first, Content Marketing is a part of Inbound Marketing.
Inbound Marketing uses many channels, tactics, and ways to reach out to the potential customers, drive them to a certain website, give them awesome experience, and ultimately help them buy a product. Content Marketing is one of the techniques described above.
What global companies should focus on:
We already have got to realize the differences between Content Marketing and Inbound Marketing. As you know Content Marketing is an element of overall Inbound Marketing approach, it should not be the only way of marketing for global companies.
A global company should focus on Inbound Marketing strategy for many reasons. Global companies cannot be confined to Content Marketing regarding their marketing activities. They must consider many other things like the following:
A. Drive potential customers to the website through different channels:
The first step in the process is to find visitors (potential customers) for your website. You can take many routes to drive visitors to your website. Content Marketing is one of the ways. The following routes can help a global company get visitors to their website.
1) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in the global context:
SEO is inevitable for global companies. It can help a global brand spread across the border in an easy way. Global companies have to ensure that when a person searches for a certain thing on the internet, he or she finds their business website on the search result.
2) Social media:
Social media has been a great tool for companies to get customers from. In today's world, it is very difficult to find someone who does not use any social media. Rather, it has been the place for many to roam around for a significant time of the day.
So, your customers are roaming around on social networks and you must reach out to them as a global company. Social media ads and organic posts – both are required to drive visitors to your website.
3) Strategic SEM for different countries:
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) or Paid Search Advertising is a significant tool for Inbound Marketing. Your global brand will appear on the search engine result page (SERP) when the customers are searching for certain products. It is an immense opportunity for global companies as potential customers are already looking for the products you offer.
But you have to be strategic in targeting keywords or search queries.
4) Blogging as a global brand:
Blogging makes a brand trustworthy as it educates certain audience with a topic that they are interested in. For example, you are interested in WordPress website development. You searched on Google with the query "Multivendor WordPress plugin" and clicked on the first result on SERP.
This article is highly educative. Since you got the information that you want, the company Wedevs has been able to build a positive image of the brand in your mind.
Moreover, the visitors who come to your website through this content can also buy your products.
5) Videos:
Videos are now trending on various online platforms. Even, you will notice the popularity of videos on Facebook, Instagram, and other social networks though they are not basically video sharing sites like YouTube or Vimeo. So, videos can be a great way to get visitors to a company's website.
B. Interacting with potential customers:
You have to give personalized and interactive experience to the visitors of your website. In doing so, you can use many different techniques from interactive landing page to using chatbots and conversation inboxes.
The following can help you engage with your visitors:
1) Chatbots:
You can provide quick answers to your visitors' query by integrating chatbot on the website. Simply speaking, chatbots are talking or chatting software that uses AI to interact with people.
2) Conversation inbox:
People love to interact with a human, not with technology. It's true. Conversation inboxes make a website humanly.
When a visitor sees the conversation inbox on your website, he gets motivated to send a message there. Thus your visitors get the opportunity to interact with a real human and you get a loyal potential customer.
3) Email Marketing:
Email Marketing also provides you with a personalized way of communication between you and your potential customers. So, as a global company, you should integrate Email Marketing with your website.
You can collect email addresses of the visitors of your website in many ways and leverage them with personalized Email Marketing.
4) Social media interactions:
Among online platforms, social media is the best place for engaging with your customers. The opportunity is enormous here.
5) Smart lead management:
Global companies should employ smart lead management so they can get the most out of their leads. If you can manage leads properly, you will even be able to offer relevant products to your customers and many more.
C. Give them an awesome experience:
Content Marketing, being one of the ways of Inbound Marketing, helps provide your audiences with an awesome experience.
Besides, you can use the following for giving your customers better experience:
- Marketing automation
- Email Marketing
- Conversations inbox inside the website
I am not explaining these again here to keep the article short and focused.
D. Sell your products:
The following should be considered regarding sales:
- Showcase your products where relevant:
- Make it easy for visitors to find products anywhere on the site:
- Motivate the visitors to buy your products in a way that doesn't seem too much advertising.
We discussed an ideal marketing approach of global companies above. Now let's evaluate which marketing approach does the above discussion suggests. Surely it is Inbound Marketing.
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The Final Talk:
A global company has to incorporate many marketing tactics for its success across the border. Therefore, it cannot rely on a single marketing approach.
Global companies need to focus on Inbound Marketing as this marketing approach encompasses most of the techniques needed.
However, I am not saying that Inbound Marketing or any other certain marketing strategy should be the sole focus of a global company.
Rather such a company should smartly employ a flexible marketing strategy that integrates all necessary marketing techniques.


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For the past 13 years a German bomb has taken pride of place in the centre's World War Two display.
Thought to have been de-activated, it had also been taken to schools for history presentations.
But it was only when carrying out safety checks at the centre that volunteer Mike Brown's brain began ticking and he realised it might be quite dangerous!
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Comme Un Chef:
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Kochen ist Chefsache (Germany)
El chef, la receta de la felicidad (Spain)
Chef (Italy)
Le Chef (USA) / (World-wide) (English title)
The Chef (Europe) (festival title) (English title)
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Born in Rome in 1946, Nicola Piovani is one of the stars of Italian film music. But he also has a special relationship with France. He gave an Italian touch to these two apparently "purely French" projects: on the one hand, a satire of French domestic policy (La Conquête, directed by Xavier Durringer); on the other hand, a film about French cuisine (Comme un chef, directed by Daniel Cohen).
In Durringer's film, Piovani's music is used above all to highlight the comedic aspect of the French political world. Piovani composed a baroque counterpoint, close to the twisted circus music (reminiscent of the work of Nino Rota), which would evoke the theatrical quality of politics and give it a quasi-burlesque dimension. In Cohen's film, Nicola Piovani's music reflects the director's humane point of view in this playful and innocent melody where a honky-tonk piano seems to be conversing with a cheerful trombone.
For these two soundtracks, Nicola Piovani reaches his target again, showing at once all his humour, his talent for creating melodies and orchestrations, and his emotional impact based on simple yet powerful effects. This remastered edition features the same content as the digital releases. The CD comes with an 8-page booklet with liner notes by Nicolas Magenham, discussing the films and the scores.


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There are positions that have emerged with the technology, and these are areas where clinicians can to take on defining roles within the industry.
As the telemedicine industry grows, so do opportunities for physicians—especially physicians who have previous experience with technology. But the industry still faces challenges when it comes to convincing health care providers that telemedicine is as effective as traditional medicine in providing patient care.
A study from Adelphi University found that the number of telemedicine jobs increased 36 percent from 2007 to 2011, while the number of other health care jobs increased only 9 percent during the same period. Nearly half of the hospitals surveyed for the study reported they plan to continue hiring telemedicine positions — the market is expected to increase by nearly 19 percent by 2018.
"It's a unique industry in the sense that it's very much a marriage between health care and technology," says T.J. Ferrante, a health care attorney in the health care practice group at Foley & Lardner, an international firm that focuses on telemedicine, virtual care and digital health.
A December 2016 report on telemedicine from Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration found that nearly half of the state's hospitals have adopted telemedicine services. However, there is significant uncertainty in what is considered telemedicine because of varying definitions across federal, state and private sectors. Many providers also admitted to a lack of detailed knowledge about telemedicine because of too few educational resources and training opportunities.
Ferrante believes the industry is set to grow at an exponential rate across the U.S., but there is still some inconsistency in how the industry will function in the long term.
"It's still a very fragmented industry that changes on a state-by-state basis," Ferrante said. "So the way they practice telemedicine in Florida is different from New York, which is different from Texas or California, but they are starting to sort of unify their approach."
Telemedicine is not necessarily revolutionary or new. The basic idea has been around for decades, but it has gained acceptance with the advancements in streaming media over the past 10 years.
"The advent of high-speed broadband allows for much better video quality, which allows for physicians to have much better tools," Ferrante says. "A lot of fear or hesitancy has started to dissipate because I think physicians are starting to realize that the technology is starting to catch up and allow them to do their jobs effectively."
Physicians have expressed two major fears when it comes to telemedicine, Ferrante says.
First, physicians who are not familiar with the technology are hesitant to believe it can be as effective as traditional medicine. This is primarily due to a lack of empirical evidence; but as more research confirms its efficacy, many physicians who have less experience with technology are beginning to accept telemedicine as an acceptable tool to provide patient care.
Second, there is fear that competition from new services will disrupt thriving business models. Many physicians are protective of the businesses they have worked years to build.
"Any sort of change is always met by resistance, but I think the trend is leaning toward acceptance of telemedicine," Ferrante says.
While the industry is on the upswing, Ferrante says, it's difficult to estimate how many jobs that growth will translate to, especially because existing jobs may be replaced by positions focused on telemedicine.
There are positions that have emerged with the technology, however, and these are areas where physicians have opportunities to take on leadership roles within the industry.
Many telemedicine startups are on the lookout for physician ambassadors. These are typically physicians early in careers who have spearheaded efforts to expand telemedicine at their institutions.
"If you are a telemedicine company, the best mouthpiece you can have is a doctor who will be the face of your company as a great way to increase productivity and patient care," Ferrante says.
Another growing role within the industry is for physicians who are willing to train their colleagues how to use telemedicine technologies.
"A lot of the more junior physicians have just grown up in a tech environment and it's more intuitive to them," Ferrante says. "It's a great way to get a leadership role if you are a more junior physician in a large institution or a hospital system."
Hannah O. Brown is a freelance writer based in Florida.


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Diversability – Celebrating People with Disability at IBM
As a business, we recognise the need to capitalise on the skills and talents of all segments of our diverse community. With four million Australians identifying as having a disability – a figure that will only increase as our population ages we are committed to building the representation of People with Disability (PwD) into our workforce.
Our long term commitment and approach to ensuring that people with disability are represented in our business has resulted in workforce representation across all business areas in the organisation and at all levels. This fact was externally recognised when IBM was named a finalist in the Prime Minister's Employer of the Year award for the inclusion of people with disability. IBM was recognised for its ongoing commitment to disability employment through its proactive and holistic approach, resulting in disability representation throughout all business units and at all levels from graduate to senior roles within the organisation. In addition, IBM also won the Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association (ASLIA) NSW 'Organisation of the Year' award for its commitment to the deaf community in its workforce.
Our proactive approach to employing PwD means this important group is represented across our business. Where needed, we provide accommodations – a modified workplace, specialist equipment or tools – to ensure our PwD employees are able to realise their potential.
We also support video remote interpreting and live remote captioning and encourage hearing colleagues to undertake deafness awareness training. In 2014, IBM appointed a Global Chief Accessibility Officer to further accessibility standards and develop human-centric technology and industry solutions that support PwD.
Locally were founding members of the Australian Network on Disability (AND) – the premier not-for-profit body that supports organisations to advance the inclusion of people with disability in all aspects of business. In 2016 IBM were proud to be rated as 1st out of all Australian organisations for inclusion of PwD.


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Cabana is a design magazine different from others. 'Its covers for example are made from designer fabric or wallpaper.'
How different is Cabana? 'There are a lot of design titles out there, but they are all mass market and often country based. We thought, we'll do something different: an interiors magazine that showcases a very specific mood without a defining country or style and with worldwide distribution. And we'd make it a beautiful object that is itself collectable.'
'A lot of it is by feel. There are some constant features. We always have a piece on collectable items. In the first issue, we did Ex-Voto religious objects and photographed them against antique rugs. We always do a story on a contemporary craftsman; in the second issue, we looked at a kimono-maker in Japan and illustrated every aspect of his process. We also do something unusual, which is to shoot rooms in six or seven houses in a specific city, and then blend them in one portfolio to create a kind of dream house. It has a more narrative, poetic quality than the usual design feature.'
Quotes are from Martina Mondadori Sartogo, founder of Cabana, in an interview with Roslyn Sulcas (1stdibs – April 6th 2015).


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The Walking Dead as Dark Thought Experiment
One thing I love about zombie stories—from Romero's groundbreaking Dead saga to AMC's brilliant The Walking Dead—is how they flip the script of history and imagine an inverted world. It's a dark thought experiment. Post-apocalypse, what would our lives be like? What kind of humans would we be under those circumstances?
Contemplating such extremes, I can't help but wonder if I could survive at all, a curiosity which taps into my anxieties over the fact that, if I had to feed, shelter, and clothe myself, I'd be screwed. Long ago, our culture off-loaded these life-skills to specialists and technological capabilities most of us take for granted and are pretty clueless about. We're alienated from our own livelihood. That's why there's a growing subculture in this country devoted to learning survival skills and preparing for the social calamity so many see coming.
As a student of history, I can't just dismiss this anxiety as pure paranoid fantasy. One of the properties all civilizations seem to share is their inability to overcome the law of entropy. Even the mighty Roman Empire fell. Dark ages do happen. So where do we get off assuming the modern West will be the one culture that bucks this trend?
While I graze the aisles of my beloved local supermarket, sipping my bottled water and pondering which shrink-wrapped package of factory farm beef to buy, I'm haunted by the notion that, if this easy access to sustenance were to vanish suddenly, I'd be hard-pressed to find an alternative source. After all, I'm not a hunter and gatherer. In the zombified state-of-mindlessness, in which I often find myself these days, it's a struggle to remember to water the plants sometimes. After all, I'm not a farmer. I'm a consumer. I'm a debit card-swiper and button-pusher.
How in the world would I survive the end of the world?
[Warning: Walking Dead spoiler alert]
Zombie mythology raises an even deeper issue: would I even want to survive? The characters in The Walking Dead constantly wrestle with this core existential dilemma. Andrea's nihilism in particular gets under my skin. You want to reach through the screen and slap her—you want to tell her that, yes, what happened to your sister is tragic—you're obviously entitled to your grief—but be glad you're still alive and that someone like Dale, the post-apocalyptic Obi-Wan, is there for you. Your life matters, Andrea, because life itself still matters. I hope I'd be like Dale—optimistic, determined, not cynical and defeatist. But how do I know I wouldn't feel like Andrea? After what she's experienced, isn't she entitled to her nihilism? What's even more disturbing is, what if she's right? Under those conditions, the right to check out—to call it a life—could be just as ethically-viable as making the effort to survive. If I decided to stockpile booze and pills and go out like Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, who's to say that, under those circumstances, I'm 'wrong.' Live fast, die young, and leave a rotten liver for the Walkers to munch on.
Why not?
The first half of Season Two has been particularly good at exploring the existential implications of a zombocalypse. But finding the will to go on is just the beginning of your troubles because, even if your will to live survives intact, the anxiety just switches from 'Do I want to live?' to an even harder question: 'How do I want to live?'
I tell myself I wouldn't become like Shane, whose cold pragmatism has grown more brutal and vicious as Season Two has progressed. Watching his transformation from wily, but redeemable trickster to a truly duplicitous, anti-heroic killer has been the creepiest thing about this season, punctuated with startling irony and tragic pathos in the climax of Episode Seven.
But what really disturbed me about the ending was who wound up resolving it. When Rick pulled the trigger, his intentions seemed so ambiguous. Was he doing "the right thing" by putting Sophia and, by extension, the rest of the gang out of their misery? Or was he really just reasserting his authority over the tribe after Shane's over-the-top attempt at a coup de ta? Are the two intentions so conflated in his mind they could never be pried apart and judged?
Looking towards the future, will Rick have to become like Shane in order to keep him in line? One thing's for sure, they can't go back to the relatively stable and orderly life the farm has provided. No doubt, after what happened at the barn, Rick would have to adopt a Shane-like mentality in order to keep the gang there. At any rate, his attempts to persuade Herschel and entertain his zombies-are-people-too ethic are all moot now. Unless Herschel has a mental breakdown or a radical change of conscience, Rick and company have certainly worn out their welcome in this pastoral paradise. So what are they going to do? Again, for Rick, it's not a question of 'Do I want to live?' but 'How do I want to live?'—a conflict made all the more poignant when you consider that his wife is pregnant. Now we're left to wonder if, by stepping up and pulling the trigger, he hasn't compromised some core element of his morality.
What is Rick willing and prepared to do now?
Some fans have complained about the pacing and melodrama of the farm episodes, but I think the writers should be applauded for slowing the story down and developing the characters and the thematic implications of their struggles. The last few episodes have focused more on tweaking the character arcs in order to enhance the terror lurking around the corner and in the woods. It's a refreshing change from the hyperactivity you get with True Blood and American Horror Story, two series which flow like a sugar rush—sleek, Gothic concoctions for the Ritalin Generation.
The Walking Dead knows how to spread out the story and alternate between terror—the dreaded threat of the unseen, the lurking menace yet to be revealed—and horror, the moment when the monster lunges from the bushes and takes a bite, and the monster isn't always a zombie, either. This kind of structure and pacing not only builds the dread, but it lets the viewer contemplate the dark thought experiment, too. In short, in the midst of the suspense, The Walking Dead gives its viewers the time and space to think about the truly terrifying aspects of the scenario and care about the implications because we're invested in the characters and understand the stakes.
This approach lets us wonder about the ultimate meaning and purpose of our lives, as well, the desires that get us out of bed in the morning, the fears that won't let us sleep at night. If the script of history does flip, would you want to throw away the old morality? To hell with having to be altruistic, especially to strangers or people who can't help you survive. To hell with reasoning and debating 'the right thing to do.' It's shotgun politics. The one with the biggest gun and the most ammo makes the rules—pure might over right.
Seen in this light, zombie fiction is a pop cultural version of Enlightenment philosophers' state-of-nature theories. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, three highly influential thinkers, imagined a prehistoric past to justify modern ethics and politics. In doing so, they helped articulate the West's new vision of human nature—the rational individual with unalienable rights—and argued for the proper political structure in which said individual should live. Their theories helped inspire the American and French Revolutions, reshaping the modern world. Conversely, a zombie state-of-nature story allows us—not to retroject like an Enlightenment philosopher—but to project visions of human nature, politics, and ethics onto the great hypothetical that's haunting us all these days: what if the world founded on Enlightenment principles falls apart, and we're back to square one?
In a world where life is brutish, nasty, and short, who would you be like? Rick and Dale or Andrea and Shane? Not only does The Walking Dead's spin on the zombocalypse pose this query, it prompts an even more pointed and immediate question: what kind of person are you now? What's your character like, morally speaking, under your current existential circumstances? Are we fulfilling our individual potential as human beings and living up to our social duties? Would it take a zombocalypse to find out who we really are and what we truly value? Maybe if we confronted these issues in the here and now, we could redirect or squelch the very forces which make the End of Days look so inevitable sometimes.


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CHAPTER#2 the new opportunity for refugees
CHAPTER#2 facilitates the integration of refugees providing emotional support and activities towards economic independence.
I confirm that I am fully aware of the eligibility criteria, and based on its description, I am eligible to apply to the CSV Prize 2017.
- Yes, I'm eligible
Preferred language
- English
Organization nameCHAPTER#2
Year founded2017
Initiative stage
- Start-Up (a pilot that has just started operating)
Annual budget in 2017 (USD)
- $50k - $100k
Organization type
- Social enterprise
Secondary Focus Area
- Rural development
Headquarters location: Country
- Spain
Headquarters location: CityCalders (Barcelona)
Location(s) of impactCalders, Artés, Manresa, Berga, Barcelona
Facebook URLhttps://www.facebook.com/Chapter2Project/
Twitter URLhttps://twitter.com/chapter2project
Problem: What problem is this initiative trying to address?65 million people displaced. 17000 committed to be hosted in Spain but 10% arrived. Only 2% reach economic independence. Migrants boost economies and I want to be part of the solution.
Solution Summary: What is the proposed solution? What do you see as its most promising aspects for creating shared value?CHAPTER#2 facilitates the integration of refugees providing emotional support and activities towards economic independence. On one hand we have opened the physical space near Barcelona for entrepreneurship mentoring and inclusive leisure activities and, on the other, we have created the webpage for connecting refugees with jobs and flats
Impact: What is the impact of the work to date? Specify both the social and the environmental impact of your workPilot test with 10 participants at entrepreneurship program. Coordinating a series of 7 hackathons in Spain for solving 7 challenges identified.
Financial sustainability plan: How is this initiative financially supported? How will you ensure its financial sustainability long-term?In 2017, 80% private funding, 10% corporate contributions, 10% grants. In 2018 50% private funding, 20% corporate contributions, 20% grants, 10% earned income.
Unique value proposition: What makes your initiative innovative? How does your project differ from other organizations working in the same field?CHAPTER#2 is fulfilling the gap between first aid NGOs and businesses
Founding story: Share a story about the "Aha!" moment that sparked the beginning of this initiative.5 years working at the Spanish oil and gas company, Repsol, coordinating biodiversity management and stakeholder engagement. I volunteered at refugee camps for two weeks and because of my little arabic, I would have access to more people. Afterwards I went to Nepal and when I was back I decided to quit my job and found CHAPTER#2.
Where did you hear about the Nestlé Creating Shared Value Prize?
- Social media


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The Yankees beat the Pirates as Sabathia continued to pitch well
The Yankees beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in spring training action Thursday afternoon with a score of 4-2. Stats normally don't matter for established players in Grapefruit or Cactus league play, but for players like CC Sabathia, who struggled last season, they can be meaningful.
During this matinee, the lefty who lost weight and put on muscle in the off-season, shutout the Pirates in four innings while recording five ground-ball outs during his final Grapefruit League appearance. Sabathia allowed three runs in three innings in his second appearance of spring training, but since then he has turned it around to throw 17 scoreless innings.
He has now pitched in four games during spring training and his final stats of the exhibition season include an ERA of 1.29, 16 strikeouts, three runs and only three walks. This does not necessarily prove that he has turned the corner from last season's 4.78 ERA campaign, but it is promising that he has only allowed runs in one game and his effectiveness has increased as the regular season has gotten closer.
In reference to his scoreless innings streak going into the regular season, and the upcoming start of the season, Sabathia said: "Those innings don't count once the season starts, but I feel good. I feel good going into it. Me an Mac (Brian McCann) have been working really well, the changeup is good, so I am ready to go."
In reference to how important the 17 scoreless innings were and if they were a confidence builder going into the season, Sabathia said: "Yeah, I guess. I have been playing long enough to know that it is spring training, so I need to go out and pitch better than I did last year, and this is the first step."
This is what Sabathia had to say about working with McCann for the first time after his arrival as a free agent from the Atlanta Braves: "He has been unbelievable. I always like to have a close relationship with my catchers. The ones in the past that I have had, Russell, Jorge, you know even going back to Victor Martinez in Cleveland, and Mac is right up there, working with them and being able to talk to them. He is a seven-time All Star, he has got it! It feels good to have someone back there that you can count on."
On if they are on the same page by now: "Yes, I think so. A couple of times today it just showed where I wanted to throw a pitch and he put it right down. That just tells me that he is paying attention to what I am trying to do. It is a good feeling."
His connection between Brian McCann could be a good sign to go along with his success in Florida based on the overwhelming upgrade McCann is behind the plate over Chris Stewart and Austin Romine, who caught most of his games last season. Sabathia's fastball is not what it once was, but based on his track record, it seems like he will be able to locate it and find a way to make it work for him.
His changeup and curveball have been pitches that have helped him get outs in the past, and this season based on Andy Pettitte's help, he will now have the cutter in his arsenal. The retired Pettitte started to teach Sabathia the pitch late last season. Being able to add this pitch to his repertoire can only help him get hitters out at a more consistent rate than last season.
Also, on Thursday morning, these are the players that were reassigned to minor-league camp and will not be coming north with the Yankees: Preston Claiborne, Danny Burawa, David Herndon, Fred Lewis, Chris Leroux, Jim Miller, Yoshinori Tateyama, Russ Canzler, Scott Sizemore and Zoilo Almonte. Some of those players will definitely be called up to help the team at some point. Claiborne had a lot of success in the bullpen during his first two months after being called up last season, but his case was hurt by pitching horribly in spring training, which included allowing six earned runs in Wednesday's game.


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Ah, the joys of social networking.
Fellow blogger Mr. Suave (Hi, Mr. S!) put a message on Twitter about a song he enjoyed on the Ice Cream Man Power Pop and More (Ding Ding) blog. I scooted on over there to have a listen, and enjoyed it myself.
The song is an 60's-inspired instrumental, which is just the kind of thing I'm a sucker for.
Stereoscope Jerk Explosion – "Bumblebee" (2008)
Thanks, Ice Cream Man. Thanks, Mr. Suave. Thanks, Twitter. Thanks, Internet.
Album Cover Anomoly:
The name of the album is La Panthère Pop. "Panthère" is apparently French for panther, but on the album cover I see two tigers. I'm confused. Did the band get tigers and panthers confused? Or does the band think that two tigers equals one panther? I don't get it.
The Album:
I don't see anything in the song titles about tigers*.
Stereoscope Jerk Explosion – La Panthère Pop (Vinyl LP-Digipack CD) (2008)
(*Maybe track 2, "Bengali Corporation" is about Bengal tigers**.)
(**The scientific name for a Bengal tiger is Panthera tigris tigris. So it looks like two tigers can equal one panther.)


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Flickering Treasures
Amy Davis (Johns Hopkins University Press)
In Baltimore, we don't have to look far to find vestiges of cinema's golden age—venues like the sparkling Senator or the majestic Parkway that remind us of a time when all our problems vanished with a night by the big screen. What we might not realize is how many more of these cinemas once existed in Baltimore, and that's where Davis comes in. She photographs old movie houses—both those that are decayed or have been repurposed and the ones that remain grand and glorious. Juxtaposing current conditions with historical photos, Davis shows how much time has altered the face of our city. Her book is a comment on this transition, and a reminder that change is the only constant.
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A Saturnalia of Bunk
H.L. Mencken, edited by S.T. Joshi (Ohio University Press)
There's a reason Henry Louis Mencken is called the Sage of Baltimore. His sardonic wit, explosive exuberance, and wry critical eye shaped the spunky attitude of our city. But while many in Baltimore know Mencken for his newspaper column "The Free Lance"—which he wrote six days a week for The Baltimore Evening Sun from 1911 to 1915—few have actually read them. In this collection of those columns, we get a sense of the issues that defined Mencken's voice—freedom from censorship and battling against temperance and other moral reform movements among them—and the passion behind a man hellbent on ridding his community of, as he writes, "stupidity, flapdoodle, and buncombe."


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I've always wanted to be an expert on tadpoles. I've always fancied being a tadpole expert. It's a wonderful life if you become an experty tadpoleous, as they are known in the trade. You get invited to all the smart parties and social gatherings.Peter Edward Cook: "The Tadpole Expert" (1964)
Australia has been separated from other landmasses for more than 50 mya. Due to this isolation several species could survive that are now endemic to Australia. The probably most famous examples are the monotremes, marsupialia (which are otherwise only found in South America), and the tree genus Eucalyptus which is native to Australia and Indonesia but has, unfortunately, spread over almost the whole world.
About 50.000 bis 40.000 years ago first man came to Australia. There were about 400 to 500 aboriginal tribes when first white settlers arrived in 1788. The number of tribes decreased drastically after white peoples arrival and also flora and fauna suffered significantly. Especially invasive species introduced, for example, for hunting, agriculture, or gardening caused dramatic changes. New species may still be introduced although authorities try hard to control.
Probably the most prominent invasive species in Australia, which have been caused and are still causing dramatic changes in native flora and fauna, are the omnipresent rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), as well as the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) both of which have been introduced by settlers for hunting reasons. Rabbits are competing with several marsupial species and the red fox may be both, competitor of native Dasyuromorphia and predator of other small marsupials. Also the cain toad (Bufo marinus), which has been introduced in 1935 as "biological control" of agricultural pests became a very important pest itself. It is spreading dramatically fast and causes disappearance of other amphibians, reptiles (paranoid lizards, snakes, and even crocodiles) and more.


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Two productions by St Andrews students at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival have been recognised with awards.
Delay Datch, a play by the St Andrews-run company Sonder Theatre, were the runners up in 'The Scottish Arts Club Theatre Awards'.
Each year, the Scottish Arts Club awards a prize for the best Scottish Theatre production appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Productions with a Scottish director, writer, cast, or a Scottish-based theatre company are eligible. The judges are also drawn from the Scottish arts world.
Joanna Alpern, the St Andrews' graduate and award-winning playwright who wrote the play told The Saint that she was "extremely pleased" to receive the honour.
Going on Ms Alpern said, "…as are the actresses and my director and the whole team. Usually only professional shows at the Traverse win, so it means so much that we were even shortlisted.
"I wrote the play in my first semester at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. I'm studying Dramatic Writing there on a full scholarship. The play is about female friendship and mental health, two things I'm very interested in.
I sent it over to my academic daughter, Joanna Bowman, whom I love and admire very much.
"She was keen on taking it to the Fringe, so the show got passed through Mermaids, she held auditions, and ultimately cast Cara Mahoney (who has starred in four of my plays now!) and Amy Chubb.
The Fringe was a lot of fun. We got some lovely reviews and I loved hanging out with the team. Made me feel like an undergraduate again!"
"It was wonderful that such talented, hardworking and lovely people wanted to help take my play to the Fringe. That was the best part of it."
Blind Mirth, the improve comedy group from St Andrew were also recognised. They received an honour for "Best Improv Show" from the Derek Awards.
Speaking to The Saint, a member of the Blind Mirth group said, "We're absolutely delighted to have won the Derek Award for best improv show! It's been a wonderful Fringe festival for us and we couldn't have asked for better audiences. We're really looking forward to getting back to performing on home turf again!"


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Cult-ivating Mania
This is a home for my heart...a distant refuge for my spirit, away from the madding crowd and the masquerades that we live. This is where everything is unveiled and nothing is compromised.
Posted by Keshi at 10:28 am
hey chicki....
ok this is just you rambling your annoyances off...it's ok..we all need that sometimes....
hey, do you know where pondicherry,india is? is it really pretty? it seems so cuz i like the name....i just think of a seaside town with lots of trees with red berries in its branches...
hey keshi
just dropped in real quick to say Hi!
i hope everything is fine... i'll read the posts that i missed and comment later today :)
LOL! Love your rant!
But agree about the music. Most of the songs being aired are utterly forgettable a year from now.
I don't believe that's Suri's first poop. That's much to huge for a new born! Ick!
Good morning Keshi
Hi Keshi
Guess who comes from Canada.
Guess who comes from Ontario
Guess who lives close to this person's hometown.
One guess only. No cheating.
Yep, Avril
Now that you're sweating and thinking you are going to be punch between your eyes, I agree to the fact that Avril is not all that great.
Hey, Ontario gave the world Shania, and Titanic movie. Canada gave the world Celine. What the hell more do you want from us!!!!
We can't get it right all the time. We're just Canucks.
I'm off for a week. Going hiking.
LOL all too funny, and too true. My tom loves Avril, but I think she is a toddler in a girls body really :)
LOL Keshi, I think someone was in a bad mood when they wrote this.
I will admit, I enjoy Avril. Especially that song. And she's hot too.
And you would think Suri's poop would be quite a bit smaller. Most of mine aren't even that big, LOL.
I can see if my aunt has one?
whats the fuss over paris hilton.. she's all over the hate rants on the internet!
She IS hot... well.. except the face... ummm and the jugs... and her legs.. ummm.. i think i get it now. she's plain ugly.
Is that why you hate her? no.. cant be.. maybe cuz she so fucking dumb? but she does what she needs to do very effectively.. get all media running behind her to watch how she drives when they could rather cover 10 thousand hungry ethopians.
yea i dont love her too. Elisha Cuthbert for me ;)
Hi,Keshi-I had a big grin on my face,reading your annoyance at celebrities.You know what,I think they deliberately concoct these idiotic nuances, just so that they can stay in the news.As for people who think they can sing,well,the less said the better..haha.And,naming kids funnily-that too is part of the publicity hunt.I wouldn't be surprised if Paris named her kid 'Sing Sing'(Slang for prison)or,say,'Simple'.:)(BTW,I posted on http://amitsmusings.blogspot.com. Rediff conked off after quite some time)
ive had about enough of tomkat, suri, paris, nicole, and that WHITE TRASH LINDSAY LOHAN AND KFED AND BRITNEY shit..
to all of those dumbfounded idiots i say: SNAP OUT OF IT AND GET IT TOGETHER!!
secondly... scientology -- is bunch of BULL SHIT!
thirdly - OMG... DID U SAY THAT SURI'S FIRST POOP?:
u mean shit
u mean feces
u mean things that flies lurk around
u mean things that u wash ure hands off with antibacterial
u mean HUMAN WASTE was made into a mold
OMG.... GET A LIFE AND MOVE THE HELL ON. no one
i mean no one is that precious and awesome.
no one molded mother teresa's poop or gandhi's poop or dalai lama's poop.
OH LORD... something completely wrong with the world we live in.. and people are DERANGED.
OH SORRY.. lol forgot to post with my normal id
Yes she is Canadian as I am but I think she is an ugly little twat with no talent
As far as the bronze (or is it gold) turd goes ... she obviously takes after her father who is full of shit
Lisa Pondicherry is in South India. Its supposed to be a beautiful seaside holiday spot. Find out more abt it on Google.
tnxx sweetie!
Hey DJ tnxx for stopping by to say HI!
It is a sculpture of Suri's first poop after solid food. Apparently her poop was on eBay for charity!
GM Anony!
LOL Bev I knew she was from Canada. But hey that doesnt mean every Canadian performer is bad. I love Celine and Shania! THETY ROCK!
MWAHHHHHHH! U hv a wonderful break sweetie!
Caz heyy!
**I think she is a toddler in a girls body really
I agree. She's trying to look o so sexy but really she's still too young for her act!
AB lol u were on my mind as I wrote abt Avril. Cos I know u like her AND that song :)
**Most of mine aren't even that big,
LOL hahahaha!
Apparently Suri's poop was immortalised on eBay.
U should Kaylee.
hey Acid!
**Is that why you hate her?
I didnt say I HATE her :) I just HATE the fact that she hates herself so much to allow herself to be laughed at this much!
**get all media running behind her to watch how she drives when they could rather cover 10 thousand hungry ethopians.
I totally agree!
Amit tnxxx!
**.I wouldn't be surprised if Paris named her kid 'Sing Sing'
LOL! Sing Sing is FUNNNAY :):)
tnxx Choco!
I really dun u'stand why or how girls like her think that doing drugs, driving stupid and doing time is so cool!
**u mean HUMAN WASTE was made into a mold
LOL yes POOP that comes out from behind. This is a sculpture of the real thing...and supposedly it was on eBay too. Imagine poop on sale and ppl bidding for it!
George not only her, alot of others lack real TALENT these days but make it to the charts cos of all the wrong reasons.
**she obviously takes after her father who is full of shit
I hope she doesnt end up being a Jackentologist! Poor girl.
No, I don't think Avri's a great singer ...
Six mill on a wedding? They should be ashamed when there are so many starving babies in the world. Wonder how long the 'marriage' will last?
all greek to me :(
my gk about western music is same your ricky ponting's gk about mardo waala ad ;) ok its alightly better than that
Papa roach did an awesome cover of Lithium, NIrvana is a very hard band to cover, this one is ok though...
AVril- the less said the better rebel without a clue.... Its a shame to see so much disposable music out there but there is no accounting for tastes, if that is what takes you there go with it....
I think stace and i spent about 2500 on our wedding, nice and small just the people who really meant something to us.
It sure doesn't seem to take much to get a record deal anymore. Certainly doesn't take talent.
I know a lot of people like cheesy pop music and country music and crap like that. And, that's fine that they like it, but I find it so funny that they get soooo offended when I don't like what they like.
It was 1947 Jan, when a crew member of the HMS Vanguard, Brit Navy, while on passage to South Africa, retrieved a floating turd left in the dunny by a member of the Brit Royal Family. This revered artifact came up for mention on several occasions in the press, but the preserved turd never to my knowledge enjoyed a public viewing.
I agree on the Kurt Cobain part. Nobody seems to be making good music these days.
OMG is that a real poop?! wtf....sick...im not going to watch any tom movies anymore...the craddle snatcher...
I agree with the pop stars of today...bah...hey hey, you you, I want to be your boyfriend'??...I can sing but they cant! God Bless Kcobain. Lets start a religion keshi.,..we can make good money.
hey Bibi!
** They should be ashamed when there are so many starving babies in the world. Wonder how long the 'marriage' will last?
I agree...I mean HOW LONG b4 it's anothee 10million spent on their divorce! Like he did with his ex-wife Jodi Packer.
heyy Jitterbug u dun listen to western music? o ok. :)
**my gk about western music is same your ricky ponting's gk about mardo waala ad
LOL! Did u see that ad?
btw Ricky Ponting acts in some Hindi music video..have u seen it?
Heyy Aidan!
Gotta check out the Papa Roach version then. Especially cos u recommend it.
**I think stace and i spent about 2500 on our wedding, nice and small just the people who really meant something to us.
thats brilliant! Cos thats what REAL love is like.
hey Jay!
**but I find it so funny that they get soooo offended when I don't like what they like.
LOL I know wut u mean. haha!
heyy Vesty hows it going?
**retrieved a floating turd left in the dunny by a member of the Brit Royal Family.
LOL r u serious????
aha Toothless...its the way Music industry works these days. PATHETIC.
Ghosty I neva fancied Tom anyways...there was something so looney abt him right from the start.
**Lets start a religion keshi.,..we can make good money.
yep...mebbe we can call it Ghostology and ban members from wearing red? wow sounds cool.
I hv only heard avril's , complicated and that was quite a shrill and loud number. Paris Hilton was a disaster and Nicole Ritchie i s a surprise to me!
avril sucks, so does tom cruise. i can't believe they bronzed suri's first bowel movement (talk about a huge isht). nirvana is legendary and will probably always stay that way. good music always withstands the test of time.
yeah Southy she loves to scream.
D u listen to Nirvana at all?
Raffi ty!
Suri's poop is on eBay too.
**good music always withstands the test of time.
well-said! It's been a long time since Kurt died but so many ppl r still in love with his songs...and he still makes it to the news!
LOL!! good ones!!!
Suri's poop is so huge!! that must be a combined effort of tom & katie!!
hahaha Deepz that must be it!
Not so very often....the ones which i listen to regularly is Abraxas, inner secrets...and in the newer bunch Enrique, Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, Shakira, Christina Aguilera!!!!
o ok Southy. I like Santana...d u?
The music in abraxas and inner secrets is by carlos santana...:)
o really? WOW! Gotta catch em then :) tnxx!
Hi keshi..how r u? am still thinking of the big strawberries..;)
tk care gal
hehe Anits :) tnxx!
LOL - I kinda like that girlfriend song - it's very catchy and you know my record for catchy pop songs *cough*MMMBop*cough*
Just too much attention is given to them - and EW - that is one big poop...
have a great day :)
Silvara I respect ur choice of music..it's each individual's taste :) AB loves her too. So yeah. hehehehe.
One bronzed poopy memorial that is LOL!
first poop!!!!!!!
i dont beleive this...storing the first poop of a celebrity kid is as crazy as it gets and as disgusting as it gets...yukk!
Oh shit!!
though there are many other singers whom i simply adore..esp all lead singers of the Seattle 4..dey rock
n yeah anuj reached safely..currently both of us kinda caught in preapring for our campus palcements :)
hehe n anuj likes avril :P
take care dear
They are just a whole different speicies put here for our amusement! Crazy eh?
lol Ekta such is showbiz!
hehe @o shit!
Abhi how r ya?
Dhruv hey say HI to Anuj for me :)
Kurt is indeeds GOD! His voice, lyrics, music...no one else can replace that!
hehe Susan they r indeedz!
//U should Kaylee.//
CANT GET aholD OF hER going to the er:)
I liked the title best :D
haha! :D that was a nice post!
like u said KURT COBAIN is god. sad that he's no more.
i've always been inspired by these lines "Its better to burn out than to fade away"
i think its soo true!
im better now. altho not completely fine!
peace & love
I too think the same about music these days.
Thats why i still listen a lot to the old guys, especially Jim Morrison.
Speaking of great singers, are you a fan of the late Jeff Buckley? He was really good. Elliott Smith was also very good and very dead as well.
I love the first pic. HAwT!
Ok about Avril. I do agree that she doesn't really have much of a voice. Ilike how you went "hey hey hey.." lol
But one thing abt her i like is the fact that she writes her own songs and songs that some other artiste are singing. Somehow that appeals to me.
And that gold shit is crazy! LOL! The world is going crazzzzey!
ohh grosssss i canat believe they preserved her poop
what is wrong with this world?
Kaylee hope everything works out well for ya.
ty Neihal!
Good to hear ur feeling better Rajeev.
**"Its better to burn out than to fade away"
yep..I love that Kurt quote too. :)
Alex thats good taste in music...Jim Morrison rocks!
I get so bored by new age music I refuse to turn the radio on sometimes.
Grunty u've got TASTE! Jeff Buckley is God! Have u heard his song Grace?
Amy I agree...we must give her credit for writing her own songs.
Kurt is HOT in any pic. Dead for many years but still making HOT news.
Gold shit? LOL Amy!
Aditi the qn should be WHAT IS RIGHT WITH THIS WORLD...cos it's becomeing very rare these days.
U might like to read this too:
David Kesting, director of Brooklyn's Capla Kesting Fine Art Gallery, said: "A bronzed cast of baby's first poop can be a meaningful memento for the family...
LOL @ Death by listening. She might not just be in the mood.
Eeeeeewwwww @ the poop.
How have you been? Have you found Mr. Right?
keshi, loved this post! :D
i agree. i was so surprised and flabbergasted once wen i came across a news article abt paris spending time in jail and there were ardent supporters and detractors holding a verbal fight in the comment column of that news site!
celebs are a waste of time. Yimes of India did a full length feature over here abt celebrity's beauty treatments. zeta jones using caviar on her hair imported from israel! do they even know of the volatile situation in that country?!?!
***Kurt is HOT in any pic. Dead for many years but still making HOT news.
Thats very very true!:D
lol! keshi.I was just looking through the pics posted again and i can't help but comment this.
Did you notice Oprah's face when she saw Tom cruise jumping? lol..
Its like she is thinking silent with a forced smile," OH NO TOM IS GOING CRAZY!"
somehow that whole drama in my head cracks me!
And he is really crazy!Whoops!
hi keshi babzzzzz how are you? so i am not able to comment and even post anything .... yet to get my permanent system ....
How are you? how are you feeling?
Miss ya babezzzzz :))
I like avril :D true .. bt have heard very few songs of her .. she is a draculla lookin cutie blondy :P ..
m bck home .. in the uni .. wid frndz .. n its bloody hot :(
I love music .. it is so full of somthing tht soothes me at times whn I am sober. It feels as if there is someone who feels the same and is singin abt it .. which sounds gud ..
this aussie laid bck life has got on me .. I hav to prepare fr my campus recruits bt m least bothered .. nd nt evn a bit worried .. which is nt a vry healthy sign :D ..
rest .. all is gud keshi .. I wanna come bck as well .. bt I feel i dont wanna leave my country too .. this is so confusing ..
bt ya lets see .. wht future has in hold fr me :P ..
u take care haan ;) .. wud try to b regular wid our blog chats like the old days :P .. hehe
I liked every word you wrote, but maybe the best would be not to write (and read) anything about all these false celebs? Just ignore them?
Keshi: Gay Cedric & Cyril in the Pub.
Cedric asks the barman "Two Gins please".
Barman replies "What kind of Gins; Oxy gin or Hydro gin?"
"Clever Dick" say's Cedric, "We will change the order, We'll have 'Two Turds' Please barman".
The barman replied "Ok What kind of turds do you want"
Cedric replied. "There are three Kinds of turds barman, Mustard, Custard and you, you Big Shit".
Avril??? I think I am more content with Shania, Madonna, Celine and teh likes....
As for Scientology... errr... wot is dat??? no idea!! :P
And btw, wot's wid dat last pic?? are they serious??? YUCK!!!!
Yucks! Absolutely gross.....
Did u say poop keshi! and it's on e-bay ...... and there must be some nerd who will buy it as well ....
celebrities and their constant drive to attract attention ... huh!
and "These days anyone is a singer and mostly are one-hit-wonders .... couldnt agree wid ya more ... i just wish someone paid me for my bathroom singing too ... wldnt need to release another album after that i guess ... every crap (poop) is a runnaway hit these days ...
and btw donno know if u r aware .... Laxmi Mittal (the richest indian on planet) spent Rs 2500 mn (or 63 mn USD or 30 mn GBP)on his daughter's marriage ..... was just thinking if he will adopt me (:
forget it ...
u take care
yeah i agree with u keshi-chan!
avril's songs are disappointment.
although i think she and paris are damn cute :))
and peaches is a lovely name for pet. aww not hong kong lol
ha keshi so sweet...
ya avrils girlfriend thing was funny but it becomes irritating after some time...lolz
Ha! It's all pretty much silliness. Where would they be if something really serious happened and the ability to survive was necessary? Who knows? they're just people ultimately.
Avril was spitting at Paparazzi and she thought it was adorable!!!Sic!
Did you Know Freddie Mercury was a Indian Parsi? Farroukh Merchant was his name or something like that and is from Bombay,then moved to UK.
POOP!!! Ugghhh!!!!!!
good time Paris is not in news here! those names are very funny! Paris can chose a capital of some country to her kid.
Thanks for the wishes.
I hate avril's singing too.(but funnily kids think she is great)
Suri poop--YUCK!!!
Totally agree with all the one-hit wonders! Music now is just now as it was withthe classics like Frank Sinatra!
Seriously...the poop thing! WTF???
Freddy Mercury sure could sing ... but now is the time to show my age. I love listening to Sinatra.
hey im an avril fan :( i like complicated best somehow..
n eeks on the poop he he
keshiiiiiiii..how u doin babe??
avril...hmm...i liked complicated!
but i feel u right somewher..i mean she aint the proper singer types..hope u get wht i mean to say! and yay the last album girlfriend is like yuckkkkkkk...cant even listen to one song! it sucks
kurt cobain...hmm..no wonder some ppl call him god..i dint like him for the first time..but wen i realized the lyrics and the music and the intensity with which he sings..i became a fan! he rocks yay
bout ritchie and company, never heard em..i consider em more f d classic types..dun like tis music i guess
bout the poop :P
remember keshi..i once asked u on shout box(BUF) wht is poop..and u were like i wont tell..:P
i realized i asked u somethin weird..4got to search for it too..but eventually realized wht it really is thru ur post..hehe...nice pic there...
Hi Keshi,
Just stopping by to see how you are doing...
I'm OK : )
Hi Keshi! Yes you were right at least one rotten tomato!!
I totally agree with everything you say but I do think that choosing Avril was wrong. She writes her own songs, plays the guitar, has redefined the word attitude, isn't a natural blonde, has a bod to die for and a husband.....shucks! there are probably a hundred other women, no...girls that would have made your argument stronger but hey the rest of the post is brill....
Nice one Keshi!!
I AM beTTER TODAY AND ya?
heh!!loved it.
If you ask me that poop is too solid to be a baby's first poop. lol
Or wait.. maayyybeee celeb babies poop out brains..does that explain the dumb things they do as adults?
Anthony heyy nah I havent found Mr.Right yet but I did come across alot of Mr.Monkeys...read my recent post 'How I Met My Sucker' :)
**LOL @ Death by listening
yeah..like Death by drowning...
:) how have u been mate?
Triniie ppl who support Paris' disgusting lifestyle r losers.
** zeta jones using caviar on her hair imported from israel! do they even know of the volatile situation in that country?!?!
I read abt that too. Zera needs a reality check.
hey Amy lol!
**Did you notice Oprah's face when she saw Tom cruise jumping? lol..
hahaha yes I noticed the 'omg-Im-gonna-get-eaten-by-tom-in-just-abt-2secs' look on her face and cudnt stop laughing! :):) Look at how Tom seems to be jumping on Oprah's face like an aligator on his lunch break?
tnxx Amy MWAHHHHH!
awww Poo WB HUGGGGGGGGGZ! Im sooo missin ya hun! I hope u get ur PC all set up soon. Infact Im praying for it :)
Im ok...how r u? I mean hows the new place? D u like the ppl etc? U must miss home alot ha...:*(
tnxx for coming here even tho u havent got access to a PC yet...MWAHHHHHHHHHHH luv ya sweetie!
Anuj omg u too! Missed n missed chatting to ya! WB n HUGGGGGGGGGGGGGZ!
So ur bak at home now...must feel relaxed ha...anyways u must be missing Aussie way of life too..such as bludging at work etc..LOL!
**she is a draculla lookin cutie blondy
I agree..she's HOT looking but plz not her music LOL! nenenene Anuj like Avril!
When r u comin bak to Aus?
Peter I cant ignore em taht easily when they r all over my radio, TV and my newspapers :):)
WC Poet n ty!
**"What kind of Gins; Oxy gin or Hydro gin?"
turds? ewwwwwwwwww!
Sam they r serious...it's the bronzed commemoration of Suri's first poop.
**As for Scientology... errr... wot is dat??? no idea
Its a cult..based on ehh..God knows what!
aha Diva, yukkkks indeed!
hey Alok!
**and there must be some nerd who will buy it as well
oyeah n he'll pay $3million for it n preserve it in the NY museum.
** wldnt need to release another album after that i guess
**Laxmi Mittal (the richest indian on planet) spent Rs 2500 mn (or 63 mn USD or 30 mn GBP)on his daughter's marriage
u r kidding me right!!!! Wut kinda shit is that??
O.K. that poop thing was really gross!!
I think I'm going to start my own religion ... hmmmm ... and only gorgeous men will be allowed to join and worship me! LOL!!
hey Niki!
**although i think she and paris are damn cute
CUTE doesnt cut it when it comes to MUSIC. or does it?
Peaches is a nice name for a pet indeed!
Vish heyy! :)
**but it becomes irritating after some time
it was irritating from day 1.
hey Helen!
**Where would they be if something really serious happened and the ability to survive was necessary?
Exactly! I wonder what Paris wud do...run ard saying MOMMY MOMMY GET ME OUTTA HERE.
G'day Asha hows it going?
**Avril was spitting at Paparazzi and she thought it was adorable!!!
Spitting? mebbe her next song wud be something like this 'hey hey u u I want spit at u'...
**Did you Know Freddie Mercury was a Indian Parsi? Farroukh Merchant was his name or something like that and is from Bombay,then moved to UK.
yup..I know EVERYTHING abt ppl like Freddie and Kurt. :) To me they r geniuses that did things the way they should be done...with no pretenses and no borrowed or copied talent. They were PURE orginal talent and will always be so. I hv so much respect for those 2 artists.
hey Jeevan hope u had fun on ur bday.
**good time Paris is not in news here!
she's supposed to be Mother Superior after her 'divine' prison experience but I havent heard yet abt any charities she contributed to?? apart from going straight to the hairdresser to do her extensions!
PS alot of kids like her music, I know...wonder why LOL! Mebbe she should join Bananas in Pyjamas? She has a market there.
hey Jen!
**Music now is just now as it was withthe classics like Frank Sinatra!
omg u like Sinatra? ME TOO. My favs by him r 'Something Stupid' and 'Strangers In The Night'..and many more ofcourse.
Paul the Queen's King Freddie was also a great PERFORMER. Have u seen him on stage? No one can match up to his Dynamism.
** I love listening to Sinatra.
me too! I LOVE SINATRA!
hey Diya :)
**hey im an avril fan :( i like complicated best somehow..
lol its ok...u like ur music and I like mine...no worries at all. :)
hey Wacko Im not surprised alot of guys like Avril..she looks good :)
**no wonder some ppl call him god
yep...to me Kurt is a form of GOD. His lyrics and the intensity of his voice always, I mean in every song of Nirvana, strikes a cord with some emotion in me. Its just magic or what?
LOL @poop comment in SB! yep I was writing this post then :) U r very smart!
hey Coco Im good ta and great to hear ur doing well too. MWAHHHHHH!
Ebezp heyy hows u?
LOL @tomato pic...very CUTE!
I see u like Avril...:) not a prob mate. but Im sticking to my opinion abt her music...cos I cant like something I dont like.
**She writes her own songs, plays the guitar, has redefined the word attitude, isn't a natural blonde, has a bod to die for and a husband...
agreed...must give her credit for writing her own songs :)
good to hear that Kaylee.
Im much better too :) tnxxx!
LaVida heyy!
I agree..my mum said the same...thats its too solid n big to be baby poop. Then it must be Tom's poop.
**maayyybeee celeb babies poop out brains.
lol LaVida! MAYBE ur right!
hey Crazy_Me!
**and only gorgeous men will be allowed to join and worship me
LOL can I apply for Gold membership straight away?
Crazy ME said gorgeous MEN Dummy
Anony dumbass thats why I asked if I cud join her religion, so that I cud have similar worshippers. duhhh!
my children are both earning
i dont need to work any more
i am considering retiring from work
tell me Keshi
how do I pass my time
when all my friends are at work
i had a foolish idea of going to USA and making big bucks
but that is history now
why go to USA and face an uncertain future when i have friends and family here
Jim do wut ur comfy with...it certainly depends wut ur prioroties r.
k I just blasted a friend by email...I dun think she'll talk to me again!
Love is a great mental disease ...
... especially when it happens later in life
- Plato
blogging is a nice way to pass time
as long as u dont get enamoured with any blogger like i did
Jim Love is a mental disease that has no cure..
Blogging is not time-passing to me...maybe it is to u.
what is blogging to u then ?
You make Avril sound like Britney! I think Avril has more character in her voice than singers like Britney or Hilary. And comparing her to singers like Kurt Cobain is like comparing apples to oranges.
News has it that Paris is back in the studio. I wonder if she will be making a gospel album to go along with her jailhouse religion.
Jim heyy!
**what is blogging to u then ?
blogging to me is expressing...freedom...and growth. Having conversations with the walls...listening to what few ppl who stop by have to say...growing in knowledge and thoughts.
I'd be a very different person if not for blogs...someone who's limited in many ways.
If I blogged for time-pass, I dun hv to take the extra effort to write my inner most feelings this way. I cud jut go to a night-club or a chat room to pass my time!
Hey Niv :)
Sorry but to me Avril and Britney r the same...music-wise.
**And comparing her to singers like Kurt Cobain is like comparing apples to oranges
how else can we gauge music? by comparison ofcourse. Apples n oranges have one thing in common...they r fruits. Yet they taste different. Kurt and Avril have one thing in common..they r both musicians...yet they r way too different in TASTE. :) And thats what i was talking abt. I wasnt comparing their personalities tho...just the music.
but ofcourse thats just my opinion on Avril's music. I agree that music tastes vary and there r millions of ppl who like her music. I have no probs with that hehe.
hey Fuzzy I was thinking of u this morning!! Wanted to come ard n see wut u were upto. and now ur here b4 me :):)
**I wonder if she will be making a gospel album to go along with her jailhouse religion
LOL! Some jailhouse rock will give her the fame she craves.
u sure have grown Keshi
i remember the time u wud go Eeeewww like janice when i talked about gays and les
and u saw that the rest of the world dont consider my blog as porn
its erotic art
most of the nice pics have been stolen from Rex
he has exquisite taste in wine women and the good life
Hi keshi., This was funny and I laughed a great deal. Funny enough, I knew Avril back in the day--hung out with her and her fam at the cottage in the summertime. I think she can sing--I prefer her when she's at a camp fire with an acoustic guitar. I'd loved your rant though. Needed the laugh.
hey Jim!
**u wud go Eeeewww like janice when i talked about gays and les
I neva said EWW to gays n les. NEVER. I respect every sexuality. r u loco or wut?
**and u saw that the rest of the world dont consider my blog as porn
if ur blog isnt porn, then what is? :)
lol Diva!
**Funny enough, I knew Avril back in the day--hung out with her and her fam at the cottage in the summertime
u really knew her??
a post recently posted at WUB
i want to share with u guys
u have changed soo much
u forgot what u were
Jim cud u buzz off? Who r u to judge wut I was and wut I am now? In my opinion, I havent changed the least bit from who I was. Ur the one who's struggling constantly with ur identity.
o its so easy for u to preach at WUB when u cant even be nice to a friend like me...leaving anony abuse n all!
* I havent changed the least bit from who I was.
u r contradicting your self dummy
u just said blogging helped u to grow
and u sure are touchy
i been around long enuff to see u grow
and u have grown into a lovely person
the annony mouses are bored
they dont visit me no more
i have adopted the PLAYBOY marketing strategy
post some real intelligent stuff by authors such as Arthur Miller
and at the same time post PLAYBOY center spreads to make them keep coming
sex sells
Hiya Keshi my friend, thank you for your well-wishes at my blog, truly appreciate it...I'm fine now just very very tire & painful when you know time to visit the restroom :(
Anyway..about Surin's first poop....from my experience as a Mom...*ahem* sorry about that, this is really not how baby's poop looks like. Honest not unless they are different coz they belong to celebrities....
Babies are in diapers and first poop is usually watery and not so 'nice' as what was being shown kekek...maybe that belongs to Kate ~ first poop right after giving birth to Surin hehehheh...
Jim get a life.
**u r contradicting your self dummy
u just said blogging helped u to grow
growing doesnt meaning changing who u r!
wut u do in ur blog is not my business. But I do have a choice of not visiting a place where ppl trash me under the name of CHEAP THRILLS.
Shionge HUGGGGGGGGGZ Im glad ur ok. TC sweetie.
LOL @Kate's poop.
Maybe ha :):)
btw my mum said the same...that baby poop isnt so solid and big!
Sinatra is the fucking king of cool good music! How can anyone NOT love him!
My Way...great song!
you do like red dear?
suri cruise's poop in gold..??!!!!
sheesh! wat is this world coming to..??!
My Way is a GREAT song Jen!
I cry as I listen to it :)
nah Ghosty I just said it cos anything is possible in made-up religions LOL!
Lemonade, the world is cranium-starved these days.
well well..i think Cobain was overrated.I mean he was a great enigma but as a songwriter he wasnt much at all.And if he werent dead at his peak,he would have been forgotten by now.
and Avril..hehe she's canadian and they have weird teeth.
most of what you say about celebrities is valid,but well to each his own.
My fav music talent lately has been Feist & John Mayer...
Ashes I'd still ADORE Kurt! :)
Javagirl thats COOL taste!
No one quite like Freddie, but I do like the name Apple. :-)
Freddie FOREVA!
yes Apple is not a bad sounding name at all. Atleast its better than Avacado! :)
ty Autumn!
Oh I guess you rubbed me on the rong side [:(] I like Avril but it is alright. But heck I missed this post of yours and realised now that had posted it and damn the suri's poop.
What is F'ing wrong with this world?Wonder wat sorta kid she turns out to be when she hits her teens !!! Another Paris !
LOL Vik yes...poor Suri...