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Friday, December 15, 2006
64th GOLDEN GLOBES NOMINEES
Labels: THIS IS GOING TO BE A GOOD SHOW
THE NOMINESS ARE IN SEE BELOW: BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL ANNETTE BENING — RUNNING WITH SCISSORS TONI COLLETTE — LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE BEYONCE KNOWLES — DREAMGIRLS MERYL STREEP — THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA RENEE ZELLWEGER — MISS POTTER BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMALEONARDO DICAPRIO — BLOOD DIAMOND LEONARDO DICAPRIO — THE DEPARTED PETER O'TOOLE — VENUS WILL SMITH — THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS FOREST WHITAKER — THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND BEST MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN One America; Twentieth Century Fox THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA Twentieth Century Fox; Twentieth Century Fox DREAMGIRLS DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Pictures; DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Pictures LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE Big Beach/Bonafide Productions; Fox Searchlight Pictures THANK YOU FOR SMOKING Room 9 Entertainment/David O. Sacks Production/Content Film; Fox Searchlight Pictures BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE ADRIANA BARRAZA — BABEL CATE BLANCHETT — NOTES ON A SCANDAL EMILY BLUNT — THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA JENNIFER HUDSON — DREAMGIRLS RINKO KIKUCHI — BABEL BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE BEN AFFLECK — HOLLYWOODLAND EDDIE MURPHY — DREAMGIRLS JACK NICHOLSON — THE DEPARTED BRAD PITT — BABEL MARK WAHLBERG — THE DEPARTED BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE "A FATHER'S WAY" - THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS Music by: Seal and Christopher Bruce Lyrics by: Seal "LISTEN" - DREAMGIRLS Music & Lyrics by: Henry Krieger, Anne Preven, Scott Cutler and Beyonce Knowles "NEVER GONNA BREAK MY FAITH" - BOBBY Music & Lyrics by: Bryan Adams, Eliot Kennedy and Andrea Remanda "THE SONG OF THE HEART" - HAPPY FEET Music & Lyrics by: Prince Rogers Nelson "TRY NOT TO REMEMBER" - HOME OF THE BRAVE Music & Lyrics by: Sheryl Crow THE SHOW AIRS ON JANUARY 15TH 2007 @ 8:OOPM LIVE ON NBC
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Deecmber 14. We told you it was coming. An insider emailed and stated that Janet Jackson will officially be leaving Virgin Records. Here's the full text of the email: Virgin is selling the company. With that being said, every artist is being affected. This could take up to 2 months to a year. What does this mean? All of the funds/money is being frozen for everyone unless they pay for it out of their own pockets. Janet isn't going to be shooting a video for "With U", because it's just not looking possible. She still plans on touring, and tour rehearsals will start up soon. A re-release? That's looking unlikely too. Do you really want her to? Why re-release on a label that is showing no support on other formats besides Urban? It'll just be a way to make more money for Virgin, and it just wouldn't be smart to do at this point. The tour will go on as planned, and Janet will sign to another label. Janet doesn't need a single and/or an album to tour. Remember that. Once Janet gets re-signed (she's shopping around now), the tour will push forward. It won't take as long as you think. She needs label support to tour. Hope this didn't ruin anyone's day, but it's the reality of the situation. to be continued...
Wild child, Zoe Kravitz graces the cover of a recent issue of the French mag Jalouse. The 18-year-old is the daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet. Look out for Zoe next year, when she makes her acting debut in the movie "No Reservations."
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Pam Anderson: On Tommy, Kid, and the Miscarriage
Pamela Anderson called in to the Howard Stern radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio on Thursday morning to clear the air about her split from Kid Rock. The former Baywatch star -- who plays herself in the Golden Globe-nominated film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan – dispelled rumors that ex-husband Tommy Lee, 44, came between the newlyweds. Anderson, 39, also denied reports that she partied her way through their four-month marriage, leaving Rock, 35, to stay home and watch their children. See a partial transcript from the interview below: Howard Stern: "It was reported that you were deciding between Tommy and Kid. Is that true?" Pam: "No, no, god no!" HS: "Do you still bang Tommy, when was the last time you banged him?" Pam: "No, no, it was a long time ago, I don't even remember. That wasn't it…I think I just got swept up and I wanted to have a family for my kids, but you remember really quickly when you get back together why you're not together." HS: "You said you weren't going to get married again, what made you marry [Kid Rock]?" Pam: "Well it was just a long time apart and the whole idea of having a family and knowing somebody and not having to introduce somebody new to my kids. It was a big mistake, but I was in St. Tropez, I would have married the fisherman on the corner! We just knew each other. We both wanted a family, we both have kids. But when we were together it just wasn't a good thing. We're just two very different people." HS: "It was reported that he was really upset about your role in Borat, that he was screaming at you..." Pam: "He was unhappy about that. I don't know why -- you'd have to ask him -- but he really was very unhappy about that." HS: "I don't understand, if I was your boyfriend, I would have been so excited for you." Pam: "Thank you, that's what I'm looking for. Someone who is excited about me. This just didn't work out that way." HS: "Now he said, his camp said that part of the problem was that you were always out partying and drinking and he was at home babysitting." Pam: "No, no, he's never been alone with my kids. That was horrible, I think that's what upsets me the most because I am home with my kids all the time, or my parents are here from Canada. I don't even have a nanny." HS: "Are you happy you miscarried and didn't have Kid Rock's baby?" Pam: "That's horrible, no. Everything happens for a reason and now we're all here and we're back to normal. It's like it never even happened
Thursday, December 14, 2006
'I'm a target,' says Naomi Supermodel Naomi Campbell has spoken out about her reputation for having a fiery temper - saying she is the "target" of people who are attempting to take advantage of her. The 36-year-old catwalk star says she does not want to spend time alone in the same room with anyone to prevent further allegations. • Naomi's howler earns her a prize from English campaigners She spoke out as it emerged that police in London are taking no further action over claims that she attacked her drugs counsellor. But Campbell is due back in a New York court in January to face separate charges of assaulting her former maid with a jewel-encrusted mobile phone. Campbell faces up to seven years in jail if convicted of second-degree assault on her former maid. The Streatham-born model told Sky News: "It's been really like a tough year in terms of like the accusations and stuff like that. It's been very hurtful and blown out of proportion. "But I can't stop getting on with my life. I have to get on with my life. I can't pay too much attention to this negative stuff. "I don't like to live in the negative. I like to stay in the present moment and stay positive." The catwalk queen said of the London allegations: "What's awful about it is it's dropped - none of it was concrete evidence to be held. "It's just like 'where does this come from and why?' I just feel like I am a target. People have told me for months and years 'you're a target' but it's only just kind of sunken in that I am a target. "I have to be very careful who I'm around, what I say, who's around me. I cannot be with someone on my own anymore because I don't know the agendas that people have. "I've had to learn from my mistakes but I don't harbour grudges. I'm like a human like everybody else. I just want to have my health every day and my family's health." She added: "I'm happy right now. I know not every day's going to be great. I don't drink, I don't do drugs anymore and I feel great about that." Campbell could agree to perform community service to settle the assault charge in New York but her lawyer has said that she will not sweep the streets, as Boy George recently did
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Former model Tyra Banks reminds the world why she is now retired from the runway. The TV host strikes a interesting pose in Sydney on Tuesday, while filming scenes for America's Next Top Model. TYRA YOU STILL GOT IT RIGHT A ONE PIECE???
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Smokin' Aces is and action, comedy, drama about a snitch (Jeremy Piven, Entourage) on the run for his life. Common plays "Sir Ivy", no word of how big his part is. Alicia Keys is playing an assassin out to kill Piven. The movie should be out sometime next year
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Britney Spears & Her New Boo (JR??)
Labels: oops she did it again....
This guy worked on her soon to be Ex husband album, Party girl and part time single mom Britney Spears has been spotted with a new date, music producer Jonathan 'JR' Rotem. He and Britney were shopping together at The Grove outdoor shopping center in Los Angeles. They were spotted kissing in public Sunday night and ended up going to see a movie before heading back to Rotem's place, New York Post's Page Six column says. The couple saw "The Holiday" and then headed to the restaurant The 3rd Stop, where Spears sat on his lap and the duo made out in a corner table. "They looked like a couple in love. She sat on his lap and he stroked her back very tenderly. They seemed really into each other," The Bosh quoted an onlooker, as telling the tabloid. Jonathan "J.R." Rotem is a very successful music producer who has worked with Rihanna, 50 Cent, Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg, and, of course, Spears' recently Fed-ex-ed husband, Kevin Federline. Apparently her no-panties rampage was successful and the pictures of her bare crotch caught somebody's attention. Rotem has also previously worked with Britney's ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake and her new best friend, socialite Paris Hilton.
Yolanda Adams Launching Couture Line, "Yolandas Clozet
Settling into her own better place and taking a minute with EUR's Lee Bailey, the statuesque singer talked about two new projects she's working on – outside of the studio. Adams is launching her very own clothing line, with both casual and couture styles. In addition, she has created a boutique record label aimed at fostering and mentoring talent in the music industry. The new clothing line, aptly titled Yolanda's Clozet, are designs sparked by the singer from her own experience sewing clothing and restyling designs. "We have jeans and T-shirts coming out before Christmas. But in the spring, we'll have the actual line out. We're talking about ready-to-wear [styles] right now, but the couture will be coming in the fall. I think people are going to be surprised. We're coming out with furs – they're not going to be real furs – we want to be politically correct, so we're working with Marc Bower who is a great designer and has some of the most impeccable imitation furs out there. You really can't tell the difference, except for the price tag." Adams was inspired to start the line because of two reasons: her own talent for sewing and designing clothes, and the necessity and desires she has to redesign and reconfigure her own wardrobe
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Labels: WHAT DO YOU THINK??...HOT MESS..
December 12. For years Queen Latifah has managed to keep her private life out of the tabloids. But it now looks like the cat is out of the bag. MediaTakeOut.com located a woman who claims to be sleeping with Latifah's longtime girlfriend. In an exclusive interview, MediaTakeOut spoke with Ty, an open lesbian who says that she and Latifah's girlfriend (pictured above with Latifah) have been carrying on an illicit affair for months. Ty tells, "I met [Latifah's girlfriend] at the BET awards ... we exchanged numbers and a couple of weeks later it was on and popping ... since then we see each other every chance we can." According to Ty, who used to model for the fashion designer FUBU, Latifah's girlfriend may be ready to leave the Oscar-nominated actress. The model explains, "in the beginning, me and [Latifah's girlfriend] used to sneak around, but not anymore ... now we just do our thing and if [Queen Latifah] finds out about it - then oh well." The model added, "I know I'm better than [Latifah] anyway - what does she have to offer besides money - she's fat and nasty." And Ty isn't feeling the least bit guilty about coming between the Queen and her girlfriend of many years. When asked if she was ashamed of her actions, Ty told MediaTakeOuT,"I don't give an [EXPLETIVE] about that [EXPLETIVE] (making reference to Latifah)." Queen Latifah is currently in Canada shooting the film adaptation of the movie Hairspray. Representatives for the Queen did not respond to our repeated requests for comment. Developing...
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Foxy Brown rapped over probation terms
NEW YORK - Rapper Foxy Brown was summoned to court unexpectedly Monday after being accused of violating probation stemming from a fight in a nail salon more than two years ago. Brown, appearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, where she was sentenced in October to three years probation, was accused of failing to keep appointments with probation officers, appear for anger management classes and submit to drug tests Brown "is flouting the court-ordered conditions of her probation," said Shawnda Weinberg, a lawyer for the city Department of Probation. "She's asked for special treatment. She's told us, `I'm not like them (others on probation).'" Brown, 26, was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor assault charges in August for kicking one employee and smacking a second in the face on Aug. 29, 2004, in an argument over payment for a manicure at Bloomie Nails. The judge, who sentenced Brown in October, warned her to comply with the terms of her sentence or face going to jail. The judge would not let Brown speak, telling her to wait until her next court appearance when her lawyer is present.Outside court, Brown said, "I have never violated probation. This is happening to me because I'm Foxy Brown." The rapper said she had submitted to drug tests "and they came back clean, negative, perfect." Brown said the accusation about her wanting to be treated specially resulted from her reluctance to sit in a downtown Brooklyn probation office during the late evening for three hours "with all kind of criminals" without any security. "My safety was in jeopardy," Brown said. ... "I didn't think they were going to throw me in with the wolves." Weinberg suggested to Judge Melissa C. Jackson that Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, should spend some time in jail. SHE OBVIOUSLY THINK SHE IS STILL A STAR...NOT!!!
NY: Kelis Models Jay McCarroll's Dress For The Ronald McDonald House
Accoring to the NY post, December 12, 2006 -- Rapper Busta Rhymes, already charged with kicking and punching a fan who accidentally spat on his car, was slapped with another charge yesterday - for the machete cops say they found in the vehicle when they arrested him. Rhymes, 34, whose real name is Trevor Smith, has refused Manhattan prosecutors' plea offer of six months in jail on charges of misdemeanor assault for the mid-August incident at West 19th Street and Sixth Avenue. The misdemeanor weapons charge is for the machete cops say they found in the seat pocket of the SUV when they busted the rapper for the alleged beating. Defense lawyer Robert Kalina is trying to fight what he sees as the "selective prosecution" of a hip-hop celebrity. Prosecutors counter that six months would be fair, given Rhymes' status as a violent predicate felon. ding to the NY post,
Mariah Carey develops perfumes
Labels: COPY CAT...
Mariah Carey is following in the footsteps of Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez and Celine Dion by developing her own perfume. The singer is taking a hands-on role and confesses she loves the creative process involved. WE HAVE SEEN THIS DONE BEFORE!!!
Here is some of that interview: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are finally ready to take their relationship public. The pair walked the red carpet for the first time as a couple at the premiere of The Good Shepherd last night in NYC. Now, in an interview with Vogue magazine, the very private actress opens up about her relationship with Pitt. In the magazine's January issue, Jolie says that when she met Pitt, 43, on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, it was never her intention to ruin his five-year marriage to Jennifer Aniston, 37. "I didn't know much about exactly where Brad was in his personal life. But it was clear he was with his best friend, someone he loves and respects," Jolie, 31, says in the interview, obtained by the New York Post. "I think we were the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn't," she says. "I was quite content to be a single mom." However, once the pair began shooting Smith in 2003 and 2004, the pillow-lipped actress soon found herself developing a strong bond with Pitt and admits that "a few months in I realized, 'God, I can't wait to get to work.'" "Whether it was shooting a scene or arguing about a scene or gun practice or dance class or doing stunts - anything we had to do with each other, we just found a lot of joy in it together and a lot of real teamwork. We just became kind of a pair." Though Vogue doesn't press the actress on whether the costars began hooking up while they were filming Smith, as rumors at the time indicated, Jolie says that the two had fallen for each other by time filming wrapped. "And it took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realize that it might mean something more than we'd earlier allowed ourselves to believe," Jolie said. "And both knowing that the reality of that was a big thing, something that was going to take a lot of serious consideration." Jolie insists that she and Pitt remained "very, very good friends" and were resigned to staying platonic pals, until Pitt and Aniston announced their breakup in early 2005. Pitt and Aniston filed for divorce that spring, "and then life developed in a way where we could be together, where it felt like something we would do, we should do," Jolie says. Jolie also has two adopted children, son Maddox, 23 months, and another daughter Zahara, 23 months. In fact, it was Maddox who took Jolie's relationship with Pitt to the next level. One day, Maddox "just out of the blue called him Dad," the actress explains. "It was amazing. We were playing with cars on the floor of a hotel room, and we both heard it and didn't say anything and just looked at each other. "So that was probably the most defining moment, when he decided that we would all be a family," she said. Pitt later legally adopted the children -- who Jolie has nicknamed "Mad" and "Z" -- and the couple welcomed their first child, a daughter named Shiloh, last May. Jolie said that in addition to Pitt being a great dad, he has a "wicked sense of humor" and, "He's a great challenge to me." "We're constantly in competition with each other," she says. "He's somebody I admire based on the way he lives his life." Jolie says that she has no plans to marry the Ocean's 13 actor, but that they're committed parents. "We both have been married before, so it's not marriage that's necessarily kept some people together," she says. "We are legally bound to our children, not to each other, and I think that's the most important thing." In the interview, Jolie also admits that she's a very guarded person and has problems with intimacy. "I don't trust anyone," Jolie confesses. "I'm not a hugger. People make fun of me. It's something that I have a hard time with. If someone hugs me, I hold my breath. Snuggling, cuddling, hugging, crying . . . all that stuff makes me very uncomfortable
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Labels: EVERYBODY SHOWED UP...
(Beyonce) (Jennifer) (Michelle) ) (Vivca) (Terri Hatcher) Mary Wilson) (Isaiah Washington) (Cedric the Entertainer) (Daman Wayans) (Snoop Dog) (Areseno Hall)
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6 New, Critically-Acclaimed Eco Documentaries Worth Seeing
Image: "Cane Toads: The Conquest"
Forget the boring documentaries that you suffered through in school -- today's filmmakers use everything from 3D technology and IMAX lenses to custom-designed equipment and pop soundtracks to draw attention to their causes.
Covering topics ranging from an ousted family of lions searching for a home to a steady invasion of toads on an unsuspecting town to the mysterious disappearance of bees, these films are worth seeing above and beyond their environmental messages.
1. "Cane Toads: The Conquest"
Video: YouTube
The trailer for "Cane Toads: The Conquest" seems like a lighthearted take on classic horror films -- but the move is anything but.
Sure, northern Australia wasn't attacked by the Blob or the 50-Foot Woman, but for residents, the cane toads have been just as life-changing.
Director Mark Lewis follows the toads as they make their way across the country, using 3D film technology and custom equipment to put together a comic -- and powerful -- look at the problems of invasive species. The 2010 film was an award nominee at Sundance, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and Seattle International Film Festival.
2. "Queen of the Sun"Video: YouTube
Maybe you think of bees and only think of honey, but those little buzzers are responsible for a whole lot more of our food system than just the sweet stuff.
"If we didn't have bees to pollinate our crops we'd have to eat just bread and oatmeal all the time," says one expert in the trailer for "Queen of the Sun", a documentary (and 2010 nominee at the Seattle International Film Festival) about the staggering impact of colony collapse disorder on human civilization.
From the first use of pesticides and sprays to modern-day beekeepers and conservation efforts, see how altering the secret lives of bees could end up stinging us all.
3. "Memoirs of a Plague"Video: YouTube
The plague of grasshoppers that infested Australia in September 2010 was the most massive in that country's history -- and filmmaker Robert Nugent was there, turning his camera on the farmers, residents, and crops affected by the insects.
While desperate towns tried to combat the grasshoppers, Nugent used it as an opportunity to frame the story in a more expansive context; the finished product, the 2011 "Memoirs of a Plague," is about "the tension between ecology, fate, civilization, and science." The film was nominated for the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam's Green Screen category.
4. "The Last Lions"Video: YouTube
Narrator Jeremy Irons is the ideal choice for National Geographic's 2011 "The Last Lions" -- who better than "The Lion King"'s star to tell the story of a family of lions forced out of their pride?
As the mother and her cubs travel across Africa looking for a new life, they're threatened by animal enemies -- and by human activity. With lion populations dropping dramatically every year, this documentary offers up a look at the dangers faced by the world's most majestic predator.
Says Washington Post film critic Stephanie Merry: "While jaw-dropping footage of the animals of the African bush is a remarkable aspect of "The Last Lions," more impressive still is the strong narrative thread that runs through the nature documentary."
5. "The Last Mountain"Video: YouTube
In a small town in the West Virginia Appalachians, Massey Energy mining company is about to reduce the last remaining peak -- Coal River Mountain -- to a pile of ash.
But in the 2011 "The Last Mountain", the residents of the town are ready to fight back, and with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (this time, apparently, a mountain advocate instead of a river advocate) lending his support, they're standing up for their land, their children's future, and their health. Nominated for the Sundance Film Festival, the film will be released June 3.
6. "Carbon Nation"Video: YouTube
Released February 11, "Carbon Nation" bills itself as "a climate change solutions movie that doesn't even care if you believe in climate change" -- which makes it the kind of film that even your climate-change denier friends can get behind on movie night.
The movie makes a very simple point: You don't have to believe in global warming to want clean air and water, more jobs, a sturdier economy, and cheaper energy. And if your skeptical friends still aren't on board, then there may not be a movie in the world that can change their minds.
According to The Village Voice, "Alternative energy sources-algae, wind, and geothermal-are showcased, but "Carbon Nation" is most persuasive when it focuses on the individuals utilizing those supplies in their communities."
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At the age of eight, Cole became a frequent visitor of emergency rooms. He was on all possible asthma medications and yet they were not able to suppress his suffocation attacks. Fortunately, Cole's mother made a wise decision: she gave her son the best gift any parent could offer to their child - perfect breathing & health. Cole took the Main Course (the Breathing Normalization program) via Skype with Michael Gosselin. One of the first concepts he learned was that his body is not his enemy. The Breathing specialist helped him to understand the language of his highly intelligent body and it became Cole's ally. Now asthma is just a memory.
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Level Up Your Bedroom
Is your bedroom a boring colour?. Has it got plain walls with no great design.
This might make you rethink how your room is decorated, because Guy Smiley from Flickr has literally taken things to the next level. That's right, he decided he was going to paint this room throughout with the Super Mario Worlds from the original NES.
As you can see from the design, he's gone into great detail in a pixelated form. The levels consist of Goombas, mushrooms and invincibility stars, but where's Mario?.
GGUK have no idea how long it took to prepare this Mario masterpiece on these walls, but it's definitely eye catching.
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Come and Super Mario My Bedroom | Said,
[…] It's totally worth it and what child wouldn't want to wake up to Mario and them awesome Goombas? This isn't the first of it's kind room, as we've seen many of these over the years such as this Mario room and this Level-Up room […]


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Lost Daughters: Baby Veronica: What Adoption Does to Adopted Persons from a Legal Perspective
Lost Daughters: Baby Veronica: What Adoption Does to Adopted Persons from a Legal Perspective.
This post from Julie details much of why my Petitioning Parliament post was written. This is the basis of many of the issues created by adoption, some of which I extrapolated upon in my reply to Sir @martinnarey (who still hasn't responded to my My Heart's Desire post).
Julie's post over on Lost Daughters (and the comments that follow it) talks about the impact that the act of being adopted will have upon Veronica's life. The act of adoption changes the status of a person in ways that are more than just legal. The societal aspect of living as an adoptee is a minefield. If we're happy with adoption, then we're happy with the fact that a child is growing up unrelated to their own kin – whyever this happens, it is something sad. If we're pissed at adoption, then obviously we must have "had a bad experience".
One of my more recent FB page creations is The Lucky Adoptee, who – contrary to popular perception – I consider myself to be. I did get the steady life that adoption promises. While we weren't by any stretch well off, my APs were excellent at juggling money (a trait I sadly missed out on picking up ;)) and so the life I lived was comfortable. In fact, were it not for the issues that BEING ADOPTED has caused for my life, I actually would've had that fabled "better life" that is the lure of adoption.
#WASO40 hints at posts relating to the future, so for inclusion I'm finishing where I started; wanting to get legislation changed so that the ADOPTEE is the one who ultimately gets to decide what they want for their life. Giving adoptees the chance to annul/overturn/however you wanna phrase it THEIR OWN adoptions scares people though – any of us could become ungrateful bastards if we can all undo what's been done to us, think of how the number of adopters'd plummet if they knew we the adoptees could have the final say over whether our adoptions're "forever" or not.
My heart's desire
In the thread from which https://twitter.com/martinnarey/statuses/375024235753639936 descends, there's the usual bunch of us complaining that Sir @martinnarey isn't listening to us and doesn't want to help any of us get anywhere 'cause we don't fit into his "helpable" category of #adoption stuff. The linked post is the first time he's commented directly to me to do anything other than answer 'easy' stat's/yes/no stuff since my 7rin respecting Narey? post, a point upon which my protestations have been based on.
I'm guessing from his response that Sir @martinnarey hasn't been reading too many of the links I've been posting with his @ name attached. Then again, he may've just been confused by me pointing out that I actually wasn't fighting for face-to-face time with him, unlike so many of the others within the thread. My fight is not personally for me, and so doesn't need to be conducted behind closed doors in order to protect identities or ongoing cases nor any such things, which is why while I understand his request to take this to email, I'd actually rather not because I need *MY* comments open to others in order to make sure I'm not missing any fundamental points out from my reasonings during my arguments.
Thus, this post is answering what it is I'm hoping that Sir @martinnarey may be able to help current and future adoptees with.
For those who're unaware of the extent of my 'relationship' with Sir @martinnarey, https://adoptedintheuk.wordpress.com/tag/martin-narey/ will give you a brief run-down. I don't dislike the guy, and think that actually yeah, his heart is (generally) "in the right place". However, I do think he is deeply misguided in his belief that the impact of adoption loss on adoptees is "minimal". There is a massive collection of voices out in the adoptee blogosphere explaining quite how much simply the act of getting adopted hurts in ways that the unadopted usually fail to comprehend, and even those like Michael Gove who're Adoption Poster Children(tm) demonstrate quite how much pain even the "happy" adoptees get. Adoptee socialisation is insidious, and unrecognised as trauma by far far far too many.
I summarised the two small changes that *I'm* wanting to be made to adoption practice in the UK (heck, in the whole world, actually) in https://adoptedintheuk.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/stop-trashing-adoption/ but for Sir @martinnarey and anyone else who might not've read the post, I'll quote it here:
I'll stop trashing adoption when just two very very simple things happen.
1. I'll stop trashing adoption when http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/38120 has been passed into law, thus giving the ADOPTEE the right to make THEIR OWN choice.
2. I'll stop trashing adoption when https://adoptedintheuk.wordpress.com/tag/post-adoption-support/ is available to ALL ADOPTEES from professionals fully conversant with the devastating impact that the process of adoption can have upon the psyche of the adoptee.
That's it.
Nothing more.
However, back in the 7rin respecting Narey? post, Sir @martinnarey conceded that despite his position as the incumbent UK Government's Adoption Advisor (and not an Adoption Tsar as suggested by some press :p), he:
can't help you with your wish to change the law so that an adult can annul adoption.
What I don't understand, and what I'd like Sir @martinnarey to explain to me (and anyone else willing to read his words) why it is the UK Government's Adoption Advisor *can't* help with such a thing?
Of course, personally I believe that such moves should come with a whole other bunch of changes in legislation about how getting names added on/taken off BIRTH certificates, but that's a whole 'nother bunch of posts on their own.
I'll also keep fighting until adoptee get access to specialised adoptee-comprehending psych mental health support from people who understand the true depth of issues that adoptees grow up experiencing. While I know budgets are being cut left, right, and centre, and that even juvenile adoptees are going short on the help needed, if you're (generic Governmental Minister/Advisor etc.) going to be creating more of us faster – at least give us all the tools to be able to deal with it.
What I'd really really REALLY like from Sir Martin Narey is the support to get these two significant but minor changes through, even if only eventually (I know legislation can take years of pushing), but I don't think I'm gonna get it. What I'd at least appreciate is an answer to the points I've raised in this post, taking into account the stuff said in the 7rin respecting Narey? post. Such an answer doesn't need to be on here, it can be one his wonderfully crafted over at SlideShare or anything like that. My only requests are that such an answer is both publicly available, and a continuation not ending of discussion.
This post also being added to http://theadoptionsocial.com/weekly-adoption-shout-out/weekly-adoption-shout-out-waso-week-33/
How Fallopian Tubes are like Holocaust Cattle Cars
I don't often to reblogs on to my own adoption blog (don't need to 'cause I've got so many other places I can send it ;}), but this post is so very much in tune with my perspective I was attempting to describe in my recent An update, of sorts post that I just HAD TO share it right here with y'all. :D
Trying to conceive is a strange experience. The more I learn about my body, the more I realize that junior high and high school health/biology class are severely lacking in the information department. Or maybe I was too busy doodling the name of my dreamy crush on my pee chee. Or both.
But seriously, it was only this week that I learned how…um…dumb (for lack of a better description) the whole getting pregnant thing really is. I mean, you have unprotected baby making sex, hopefully at the right time for the stars to align, and when you're finished you go and get a drink of water, or take a shower or eat a sandwich. And meanwhile, if you're the lady, there are are these microscopic swimming things just…oh you know….hanging out inside you. I mean, that's like something from a B level Science Fiction movie…from the late 80's.
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Home to the iconic University of Notre Dame campus, South Bend attracts thousands of visitors each year just for visiting the campus and catching football games. The town is home to several romantic restaurants, perfect for taking your sweetie out before or after the big game. Bistro 933 is located inside the Hilton Garden Inn. Specializing in modern American cuisine, this restaurant is open seven days a week, serving breakfast and dinner, with the bar open later. Bistro 933 offers daily specials, so check their website to see if any interest you. The menu is billed as "A culinary road trip," as evidenced by the different state and regional ingredients. Start your dinner with the Chicago mini filet sandwiches, topped with Dijon mustard mayo, or the California grilled pesto pizza, topped with pesto sauce, caramelized onions, mozzarella cheese and prosciutto crisp. Follow your appetizer with the Washington Granny Smith blue cheese salad or the Georgia Vidalia onion soup. Feed a piece of the New England crab cake or Alaskan king salmon to your sweetie, and let them give you a taste of their New York pesto gnocchi or Ohio Lake Erie walleye. With a tantalizing dessert menu, full bar and wine list including Dom Perignon, there are plenty of temptations and libations to help spark the romantic mood.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Putin will give nothing [update]
Yanukovych has sat in the middle of the see saw playing off Russia on one end against the EU on the other. Now the president has pushed the EU off their end, Ukraine will be even more vulnerable to Putin's demands.
Russia has its own financial woes and capital is short. There are rumours that the Russian state pension fund will soon start raiding the country's private pension funds. Any loans from Russia will have to be paid for, as a former British PM once said, by Ukraine "selling off the family silver". There is no guarantee exports from Ukraine to Russia will pick up either.
What of the Europeans? The chief negotiators of the European Union and Ukraine initialled the text of the Association Agreement, which included provisions on the establishment of a DCFTA about nine months ago. Everything was agreed and ready ...then last week's dramatic volte-face by the Ukrainian side..
Yanukovych is as a result can now be considered 'damaged goods' - an unreliable and unpredictable interlocutor. Next autumn Europarliamentary elections take place. The new boys will not be as friendly and understanding as the current lot.
There are reports that despite this mess, behind the scenes negotiations are still taking place between Ukraine and the EU.
Rinat Akmetov is allegedly suggesting to Yanukovych that if the EU provides 7-8 Bn Euro stabilisation money and improves quotas for Ukrainian metallurgical products, a deal could still theoretically be done in Vilnius later this week. His big-selling newspaper, 'Segodnya', unlike state broadcasters, seems to have been most objective when reporting recent events.
I watched portions of yesterday's anti-maidan. The PoR speakers....tired political geriatrics like Anatoliy Kinakh, looked like yesterday's men. Half of the audience that had gathered had their backs to them as they spoke and stuttered...they all dispersed very quickly..
As for the true Euromaidans, these are student-dominated. A countrywide general students strike is currently being seriously discussed; if it comes to fruition, an significant new civic force will have been created.
The president's first official response to Thursday's Cabinet of Ministers' bombshell [poorly translated here] is vague and confusing waffle. The freezing of the AA is not mentioned at all.
He says: "The will of Ukrainian citizens have always been, is and will be decisive for every my decision." Well, we will see..
p.s. Petro Poroshenko has done a half hour interview on BBC 24's HARDtalk with the excellent Stephen Sackur, who was at the recent YES summit. It may be available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mkby1
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So, even though EU was so eager to sign the AA with Ukraine that they were prepared to accept a "solution" of the Tymoshenko issue where she would remain a political prisoner but at least get proper medical treatment at a German hospital, Yanukovych anyway decided to block the AA. The mismanagement of foreign policies by the current mafia/communist alliance is spectacular; relations with Washington, Brussels and Moscow are at an all-time low. In Washington there is talk even about sanctions, Brussels feel betrayed and humiliated, and Moscow has launched an economic war on Ukraine; under Yanukovych Ukraine has become increasingly isolated, which has had a disastrous effect on the economy. A very good analysis of the situation is provided by Anders Åslund.
It is also a huge mistake when Ukrainian "analysts" (Kost Bondarenko, Vyacheslav Pihovshek) now try to find rational reasons why Yanukovych is blocking the AA with EU. There are three major reasons why Yanukovych is blocking the AA with EU, and none of them is rational:
1/ He is weak and scared of political opponents, and in particular Tymoshenko; he is simply afraid to let her out of
prison as the EU has demanded
2/ He does not see the money for himself and his family in the AA deal
3/ He is not intellectually capable of understanding the meaning and implications of the AA deal
The huge demonstrations now indicate that people are finally fed up with the astonishing imcompetence, selfishness and
sheer stupidity of the current mafa/commnunist alliance, led by an imbecile "president"; let's hope this will lead to a definitive downfall of the disastrous PoR rule.


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Wise Words (Tim Minchin's Occasional Address at UWA)
Don't seek happiness. Happiness is like an orgasm. If you think about it too much it goes away. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy and you might find you get some as a side effect.We didn't evolve to be constantly content.
Adoption and Parentinghttp://www.findingmagnolia.com/2013/09/some-thoughts-on-adoption-preparation.html
We had some discussion about whether or not we would have a biological child before adopting. From a health point of view, it would be better for my body to have a pregnancy before I'm thirty. On the other hand, I am so so glad we didn't. We could not give Tiger what he needs with other children in the picture, especially younger children.
I am not here to judge those who have faced very hard choices, because I know what it feels like to try to get your child to sleep for two and a half hours, while she screamed and cried and raged, every night for I-don't-even-remember-how-long, and I know that none of the pre-adoption training mentioned that possibility. I know what it feels like to be unable to do anything else for an entire day because the one thing my child needed was to be strapped on my back and taken for a very long walk outside, or else she would scream her lungs out. I honestly cannot imagine what it would have been like to manage that if she had not been an only child at first, and had I not been able to be home with her. I know I speak from a position of privilege. But I think that privilege was something that Zinashi needed and benefitted from, and there was no way to know before we brought her home with us if she would need more intense help or not. We need to be preparing families for the possibility that their child, regardless of age at the time of adoption, might end up having some very big needs.
I share this humble as a now-reformed Judey McJudgerson. All parents I have glared at in disgust in the past: I apologise. Sincerely. And also that snarky article I once published in a local magazine about people pushing their older kids in strollers because they were too impatient to wait for the kids to walk at their own pace? Yeah, sorry about that too.
Dear Lady Judging Me At The Playground,http://www.nohandsbutours.com/2013/09/05/dealing-with-grief/
You seem to be reading a lot into the very tiny slice of my life that you see. You see me vacantly tapping on my phone, and are apparently filled with sadness for my children, whose lives you assume are slipping away without me noticing. (I wonder what your own kids are doing that you're missing while you sit in judgment of me?) You see my daughter twirling in the sunlight. You see my son smiling and cooing. You see me not noticing.
Would it be okay if I filled you in on some things you didn't see?
You didn't see this morning, when I greeted my waking daughter with a smile and a kiss. You didn't see when I painstakingly helped her pour her cereal and milk, then help her wipe up the spills. You didn't see me cut up her fruit. You didn't see me dance like a ballerina while doing so. You didn't see me smiling and baby talking to my son while I changed the nastiest diaper you could imagine. You didn't see me grit my teeth when he bit my breast, testing out the new teeth on the way, then sing a silly song about how we don't bite Mama.
You didn't see me do all that before I'd had even a drop of coffee.
I want to write more about this when I can. I was prepared for some feelings of loss... the loss of the lifestyle we had been enjoying and loss of some of the ideals and plans I had about family life that would necessarily be unattainable when we decided to adopt an older child. I was not prepared for what has been the biggest source of grief though, and that is the loss of the dream of the kind of parent I would be. Put simply, I guess, I thought I'd be better at it. It's hard to accept "doing the best I can" when what I want to be doing is "the very best that can be done".
But one thing that doesn't get talked about very often is how an adoptive parent should respond when they find themselves grieving. Because…no matter how happy the adoptive parents may be or how much they love their new addition…when a new child enters the family oftentimes a part of their old life is "lost" for the adoptive family as well. Suddenly the home that made sense and ran like a well-oiled machine is thrown into chaos and confusion by things like a grieving child, orphanage behaviors, attachment struggles, processing disorders, medical needs, night terrors, or other children in the home regressing due to the addition of a new sibling. If an older child joins the family, then things like language barriers and cultural differences come into play. It can feel like the magic trick where a magician quickly pulls the tablecloth away…only you're left wondering how and when the pieces will fall into place again.http://www.thelostdaughters.com/2013/09/equality.html
I wrote about this case before (see this post), and I am devastated that this family has been broken apart. The idea that fathers have no automatic custodial rights is abhorrent.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/09/23/mark-joseph-stern-and-the-conversation-he-wont-have-about-circumcision/As a feminist, I should make clear that I believe in the true definition of feminism … "the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men." But this assumes that men have rights.In the case of Baby Veronica, her father did not have the rights that her birth mother did. He was misled. Birth fathers should have equal rights and protections, especially in the welfare of their children.If a birth mother decides she cannot parent her child, and the birth father wants to raise his child, he should be given the opportunity to do so. No other adult should be given that right unless both birth parents have relinquished it.Dusten Brown has proven that he loves his daughter. He has provided for her, cared for her, cuddled her and nurtured her for almost two years.Baby Veronica knows he loves her, and she wants to stay with him. Her right in all this is paramount. She deserves the love of her birth father, the man she will never forget.
Lets [sic] look at incentives Stern (and others) may have for wanting to avoid confronting the realities of the procedure.
Like most circumcised men, Stern probably does not want it to be true that his circumcision means that he is missing out sexually. Or that as he ages, he will likely notice diminishing sensitivity in his glans. Or that profit incentives played a role in the push to remove his erogenous tissue; or that other people altered his sexuality in a permanent way when he was still too young to do anything about it.
But the facts are what they are.
Over 50% of penile nerve endings are removed during a circumcision, including one-hundred percent of the Meissner's Corpuscles, the unique fine touch nerve receptors found only in fingertips and on the ridged band of the penis.
Mucous membrane exposed to the air for decades does callus.
Many physicians earn sizable compensation for performing circumcisions.
And it is true that your circumcision means that someone surgically altered your body in a permanent way without first having obtained your consent.
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to believe that all of these sacrifices were not in vain, that they bought you some greater good? It would, but we can't just believe things because they are appealing. We can't in good conscience marinate in denial when that means asking future generations to pay the price by allowing a harmful practice to continue to play out on their flesh.
Society, Politics, and Japanhttp://lowdownontemplevalley.blogspot.jp/2013/09/poisoned-minds.html
This is particularly interesting for me since I wrote my first honours thesis on the politics around history textbook censorship in Japan.
According to a recent story in the Japan Times the city's Board of Ed has recalled a junior high school textbook due to its "descriptions of the mass lynching of Koreans following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake."This one isn't a blog post, but it leads into one. Bear with me.
During the aftermath of that massive temblor, fear mixed with old hatreds to create a tornado of violence that swept up Yokohama's small ethnic Korean community in a path of death and destruction. In his book, Yokohama Burning, Joshua Hammer writes that army commanders "whipped up rumors about Korean well poisonings." The lies added more fuel to the fire as vigilantes roamed the streets, hunting for human prey.
Not http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/generation-y-unhappy_b_3930620.html
To get to the bottom of why, we need to define what makes someone happy or unhappy in the first place. It comes down to a simple formula:And
It's pretty straightforward -- when the reality of someone's life is better than they had expected, they're happy. When reality turns out to be worse than the expectations, they're unhappy.
Paul Harvey, a University of New Hampshire professor and GYPSY expert, has researched this, finding that Gen Y has "unrealistic expectations and a strong resistance toward accepting negative feedback," and "an inflated view of oneself." He says that "a great source of frustration for people with a strong sense of entitlement is unmet expectations. They often feel entitled to a level of respect and rewards that aren't in line with their actual ability and effort levels, and so they might not get the level of respect and rewards they are expecting."There's a lot I like about this article, but there's a lot it glosses over too. After-all, every generation this century has bemoaned the terrible failings of the next. It isn't a new story. The following blog post gives a very nice reply:
For those hiring members of Gen Y, Harvey suggests asking the interview question, "Do you feel you are generally superior to your coworkers/classmates/etc., and if so, why?" He says that "if the candidate answers yes to the first part but struggles with the 'why,' there may be an entitlement issue. This is because entitlement perceptions are often based on an unfounded sense of superiority and deservingness. They've been led to believe, perhaps through overzealous self-esteem building exercises in their youth, that they are somehow special but often lack any real justification for this belief."
I graduated in 2008. Remember 2008? Oh, right. The housing market collapsed. Global stock markets plummeted. The Great Recession happened. I had $25,000 of student loan debt and a liberal arts degree in English and Theatre.And, furthermore
In other words: Oh, Hey, Real World. I'm Katherine. I'm HERE! What's that, you say? We're all kinda fucked? Oh. Okay. Neat.
I exist in a world in which I don't understand what a 401K is all about.Speaking of the future...
Social Security will not likely exist by the time I will need it.
I will never have a pension.
I've never even filed for unemployment. Because as a freelancer, I'm never in one place long enough to qualify.
This is not unique to my job description.
This is unique to my generation.
I live in a world in which the teachers in the city of Philadelphia are on strike because their budget issues are so rampantly unresolved that they are returning to work without contracts, paper, or desks. I live in a world where we're slashing budgets so that the kids of the next generation won't know a childhood with art or music classes.
I'm a woman in a generation fighting insane battles for reproductive rights that we didn't even know until recently that we needed to be fighting, because we had simply assumed that we had already won them.
I live in a world in which we have a black president and yet we say hateful racist shit on Twitter when an Indian-American woman takes the Miss America crown. I live in a world in which we give a fuck about Miley Cyrus.
I live in a world in which we perpetuate the unpaid intern system.
I live in a world in which, since 1979, the average American worker has seen a 75% increase in productivity, and yet wages remain flat.
I live in a world where the top 1% of earners have seen their income quadruple since that exact same year.
I live in a world that simply seems too crazy for me to handle some days. I live in a world that sometimes makes me simply want to hide under the covers and not come out until it's fixed.
And here's what's super fucked up:
I live in a world in which I still believe there is hope for the future.
http://throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/the-skeleton-in-the-closet/Let's hope Third World War doesn't break out and that Akira doesn't destroy the stadium.
Short version: Japan's justice system is badly badly broken. I encourage you to read the long version though, it's interesting and takes a slightly different approach to a lot of other similar articles.
This is the rather unpleasant skeleton in the closet that the police would rather keep hidden. A bygone era of intensive, frequent protest in which mistakes were made on both sides. Scapegoats and quick fixes were found, and then people were quick to move on. Injustices and false convictions happen in every justice system in the world. However, the Japanese state has a lot to lose and will only backtrack and grant retrials through firmly gritted teeth. It took mild-mannered bus driver Toshikazu Sugaya over seventeen years to win his freedom in the Ashikaga murder case of 1990. Years of campaigning to get DNA evidence re-examined were only begrudgingly acknowledged, since the prosecutors knew that then the truth might come out — that Sugaya's "confession" had been bullied out of him. He had been an easy target: divorced and a bit of a loner. Hours of interrogation and physical abuse, and the police had their confession. It was not until 2010 that the flawed DNA evidence was accepted as proof of innocence, in spite of the fact that Sugaya's stories of his apparent multiple crimes — made, he said, in order to assuage the duress from the police — did not concur with the witness accounts, and that he had failed to identify the sites where other purported murder victims' bodies had been found.
Although there have been some vocal scandals recently and a few very belated victories such as the Sugaya case, the situation remains essentially unchanged. For one, Hosei University, long a site for radical student activism in Japan, has recently been suffering under the fist of the police, who would arrive and pick out the activists they had already pre-planned to arrest. Campaigners say that over 100 have been unlawfully arrested in the last few years.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In the country of no crime, the police and judiciary rule supreme. Heaven help you if you get arrested.
Travel and AdventureWe all have friends we live vicariously through, right? I am currently living out an eighteen-year-old-me fantasy through the travels of an ex-JET friend. You can read the background to his current adventures at
We set out with torn out pages from a Rand-McNally map of the USA (pre-smart phone days!), tents and sleeping bags on our bicycles, as well as big packs of Clif bars and 2-3 changes of clothes. Around an hour before sunset each night, we'd start eying homes for nice yards. We'd knock on their doors and ask if we could set up a tent, that we'd be out in the morning. Every night after setting up our tents we'd sip on some homemade whisky from a mason jar we'd received in Kentucky and plan the next day.
Five years later I want to have that feeling again.and some more at
Milan Kundera has this amazing book called "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." The main gist is that we feel free and light in certain points in our lives .. free from the gravity of our decisions... but this lightness is unbearable. We have a need for something heavy, something dark to anchor us to the world. That is why lightness is unbearable.
http://shamozal.blogspot.jp/2013/09/louise-sassy-and-yorgenorgen-women-at.htmlA: So, what are you studying?B: French language.A: Oh, that's cool. (Awkward pause, look around the room, shuffles feet) Uh,what are you going to do with that?I am pretty sure that dialogue is repeated approximately every 18 seconds on every American campus. It's trite. Anyhow, three years out of college I found an appropriate response to this commonplace: "I am going to travel the world, learn a ton of languages, drink my weight in local beers and eat amazing food, meet beautiful people and make lifelong friends. Et toi?"
Plans for after college. Makin' ya proud mom!I've had a few friends and relatives ask me about how I am doing it, how I am financing the trip, other practical details. I was working on a farm in Poland and talking with my friend Craig from England (Hi Craig!) as we cleaned the goat stalls. He said a lot of his friends back home had this real wonder about how he was able to travel, have these experiences. He gets the vibe from them that it is this unattainable opportunity, this secret skill that he has.Well, we both agreed that it was baloney!
The low down on international schools from a veteran traveling mum
The Australian Schoolhttp://thisjapaneselife.org/2013/08/22/1772/
Your friends will be called Cheryl and Angela. You will drive badly because you are on the wrong side of the road. You will need a big enough back seat for the esky and the keg of beer. When you drop your child off at school you'll hear someone yell out "Hey, bloody sit still while I tie your shoelaces back up will ya?" There is no embassy, you will create your own informal embassy in the tuck shop which now has a bar. It's highly possible a few bottles of champagne will make their way to the PTA coffee morning and the participants will need to catch the bus home with the kids at the end of the day. The school is littered with pictures of Opera Houses, Kangaroos and Aboriginal art. All fundraising will involve a keg of beer and a sausage sizzle.
A lot to think about re the orphanage business in Nepal and tourist volunteerism
The central force behind all profitability is supply and demand, and child exploitation isn't an exception.
Nobody would buy an "I Heart Nepal" T-shirt knowingly produced by an exploited child, and likewise, neither should we buy the "product" of begging children.
This sounds, and feels, inhuman. We want to do the right thing, we want to help the orphanages. We feel good when we fundraise from friends and family, when we connect with children and use our wealth to improve their lives. We want to soothe our conscience by putting money into the hand of a begging child.
This feeling of doing the right thing, however, through the force of a dark human ingenuity, is precisely the illusion that child begging rings are selling.
When we hand 500 rupees to a child with a sick baby in her arms, these guys profit, and then reinvest. They recruit more kids, and earn more profit.


text: Iraqi forces are making plans for a push into Mosul, Iraq's second city that was captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters six month ago, Iraq's Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari told Al Jazeera. The Iraqi government has set up an operations room for the liberation of the city, Zebari said, adding that success of the offensive depended on coordination between Iraqi forces and the US-led international coalition. Zebari, who is from Mosul, said he did not agree with predictions by US officials that the fight against ISIL could take years. "Contrary to what many people think, I don't think this will be a long drawn-out battle," the finance minister said. In November, Deputy Governor of Mosul Nuraddin Kaplan said, "The sooner the operation begins the better. The more time passes, the harder it will become." Speaking to Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf in Baghdad, Zebari said the government should do everything in its power to persuade Sunnis alienated by government policies to turn against the armed group. "I think the key is Mosul. It was in Mosul where the Iraqi security forces collapsed; it was in Mosul where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his caliphate and it will be in Mosul where they should be defeated - and where we, the Iraqis, and the coalition should declare victory over them," Zebari said. The finance minister said that Kurdish Peshmerga forces already made "great advances" in the northern and western areas around of the city. 'Richest armed group' After an accounting of banks under ISIL control, Zebari told Al Jazeera that ISIL is now believed to have looted about $500m from Mosul, Tikrit and other cities, saying it was "the richest [armed] group in the world". He said Iraq was trying to crack down on ISIL financing, including oil smuggling. "They control a number of oil fields in Syria and Iraq and they smuggle this oil overland through trucks, through middlemen to Turkey or towards other countries," Zebari said. "The air campaign targets these facilities in Syria and in northern Iraq in order to deprive them of this revenue but they have enormous financial resources; they are paying recruits good salaries, better than what we can afford to pay ours," he added. "And this is one element of the strength of this organisation. It's not purely an underground terrorist organisation. It has an agenda it wants to control. It wants to rule." SOURCE: Al Jazeera Politics Middle East US & Canada Iraq Syria's Civil War


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OpenMoko will be launching its second handset in the March-April period this year, according to company's president Sean Moss-Pultz. In addition to pushing its own products, the Taiwan-based open source handset maker will also use its platform to engage in production of hardware devices in cooperation with other companies and even plans to make up to one-third of its overall revenues from such deals. First OpenMoko's partner is already announced and it's Dash along with whom OpenMoko will develop Dash Express portable navigation device.
Back to the new handset. What can we expect? It's hard to argue the company's Neo handset was a success. Then again, we're not sure what goals they have set nor how they measure it. Still, it's kinda clear the user interface improvements will take a center stage in the new device. Plus, let's hope they'll also try some new form factors with Neo 2. Why not release a complete series instead of a single device? I could easily imagine OpenMoko selling Neo 2 Slide, Neo 2 Clam and Neo 2 Brick. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?
[Via: DigiTimes]


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Agreement of cooperation between CSIT and IFBT
At the CSIT congress held in Tortosa CSIT President Bruno Molea and IFBT Vice-President Joan Egea are starting a new cooperation between two organizations to promote and develop beach tennis throughout within their organizations members.
The agreement states that common activities, seminars and workshops on several topics of Sports and Fair-Play will be organized.
IFBT will cooperate in the organization of the sport of beach tennis in the World Sport Games which will take place in July 2-7 in Tortosa – Catalonia (Spain).


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The euro fell to a four-year low this week, and all signs are that it will keep falling. At $1.19, it means that a hotel priced at 100 euros per night now costs $119 compared to $140 last year. The rise in airfares, unfortunately, will likely more than offset any savings for most travelers, but here's a tip: If you booked a tour for this year, and haven't already paid, ask for a discount. Chances are it was priced last year to anticipate expenses based on an exchange rate at least $1.50, likely more to hedge against any increases that might have come about if the dollar fell in value against the euro. Most tour operators will likely keep prices high to make up for losses last year when business was so bad, but I notice Rick Steves has discounted some of his fall tours.
Taking RyanAir? Pack light
We've all grown used to finding good deals on the discount airlines for getting around Europe, but watch those extra fees.
Anyone considering summer travel on Europe's Ryanair might want to consider packing light, or be prepared to pay a hefty surcharge for checking bags.
Ryanair will charge 20 euros ($24.40) each way for the first checked bag in July and August, up from 15 euros ($18.30) during other times of the year. A second bag will cost 40 euros ($49) compared to 35 euros ($43) other times. The weight limit is 33 pounds per bag (less than U.S. airlines allow on international flights to and from Europe), and you can take just one carry-on, no heavier than 22 pounds.
Chip and Pin: Problems with U.S. credit cards in Europe
A Seattle Times reader asks: "We have heard that U.S. credit cards with the magnetic stripe on the back are being rejected by retailers in Europe, who are using a new microchip-based reader. Our bank doesn't issue such a card. What can we do when the little cafe in Venice says we can't use our Visa? Click here for the answer in today's Seattle Times travel section.
Refunds on checked bag fees?
What happens if you pay $25-$30 to check a bag and it doesn't show up at your destination when you do? When it comes to refunding the checked-bag fees airlines began charging last year, policies are surprisingly vague. Bottom line: Refunds for bag fees are rare, even when the "service" provided turns out to be less than you'd expect.
That could change as early as this fall under a new set of consumer regulations proposed by the Department of Transportation. DOT is considering requiring carriers to reimburse passengers for baggage fees if bags are lost or not delivered within two hours of arrival. It does seem like a written rule is needed, given the airlines' failure to come up with concrete policies on their own. Let's hope the DOT prevails. Click here to read more.


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Good Samaritan Act Scam
This one has several variations, but in all it involves a good samaritan act who comes to your rescue or wishes well for you. Some of the more common variations include:
- Clean-up act: A dog or a child, or someone else 'accidentally' soils your clothes. A passer-by notices, guides you to a place where you can clean up, offering to take care of your belongings in the meantime. You accept the offer and on your return, find nothing – no samaritan and no belongings – they have vanished in thin air. In another variant, the passerby helps you to clean up, while his partner takes off with your belongings, leaving you and the 'passerby' wondering how it vanished and who took it.
- Fallen Note Act: You have just deposited your belongings in your car and are just about to get in yourself, when someone, a passerby, calls out to you and indicates a high denomination note lying on the ground a little distance away. He/she asks you if it is yours; when you step away from the car to investigate, his partner comes and sneaks out with your belongings from the car.
- Tap on the window: this one is dangerous and one of the most important reason why you should not keep your valuables in the passenger seat or dashboard while driving. You stop somewhere, at the red light or on the roadside because someone signed you to pull over indicating to the vehicle you are driving. You wonder. The person who signed comes over; you roll down your window and begin to speak to him. Just then, there is a tap on the window of the passenger seat – you turn to see who it is and the person you were speaking to, suddenly, places a hand over your mouth and grabs you. His partner at the passenger seat window grabs your valuables and dashes off and the assaulter follows suit; before you recover from the assault, both have gone off with your valuable. This occurs especially in lonely roads.
- Whatever you do, wherever you are, Do not, we repeat, do not talk to strangers – it is a golden rule that we keep hearing from our elders.
- Do not accept any help from strangers;
- Do not leave your belongings with any stranger.
- Keep your car locked and windows rolled up.
- Do not leave your valuable lying in the passenger seat.
- If you have bags, put them in the trunk or lock the car before stepping away from it. Do not stop on lonely roads for anything.
- AND Be Alert and Aware at all times


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Assalam oalaikum,
The sayings of the Prophet (saw) mentioned below can give us a fair idea that Islam has greatly emphasized on protecting the wealth of the orphans and safeguarding their rights.
Abu Huraira (ra) reported that a man said to Prophet Mohammad (saw) that he is hard-hearted and wanted to get rid of his bad trait. On hearing this Prophet Mohammad (saw) replied, "Show affection towards the orphans and feed the poor."
Abu Huraira (ra) reported that Prophet Mohammad (saw) said, "Whoever caresses the head of an orphans in affection, solely for the goodwill of Allah, a good deed will be written in his account for every hair over which he passes his hair and whoever treats an orphan, whether girl or boy with kindness, he and I will be close to each other in heaven as these two fingers." While saying this Prophet Mohammad (saw) made a gesture with his index and middle fingers to demonstrate his above statement.
Abu Huraira (ra) reported that Prophet Mohammad (saw) said, "The best house amongst the Muslims is the one in which an orphans is well-treated and the worst house is the one in which an orphan is ill-treated. "
So we find that Allah (swt) has placed the responsibility of an orphan on the entire society because they are weak and hence in need of special care for their healthy upbringing. They should be brought up with the same love, affection and support as one would bring up his/ her own child. Trying to satisfy one's own lust for wealth by usurping an orphan's wealth unlawfully is uncalled for in a Muslim society and whoever will indulge in such a deviant sin will have to face the wrath of the Creator, Allah (swt) sooner or later.
Amel soname contact


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Project Management
SaskWater provides project management services for customers, when appropriate, to plan and manage the design and construction of water and wastewater infrastructure projects.
In 2018–19, SaskWater's project management activities included a conceptual design and environmental screening for a regional potable water supply system in the Rural Municipality of Wilton. SaskWater also continued to support the potash industry as companies investigated water supplies for potential new mines.
Northern Activities
SaskWater also plans and manages the design and construction of water and wastewater infrastructure in northern Saskatchewan on behalf of the Ministry of Government Relations. From our Prince Albert office, SaskWater provides ongoing technical advice to northern communities and First Nations for maintenance and expansion of their water and wastewater infrastructure.


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Dressing Up: The Production and Performance of Identity Through Drag
Reviewed by Chris Meyer
March 15, 2015
Using extensive field research and nuanced analysis of the secondary literature, Rebecca Ewert has authored an impressive theoretical examination of drag performance and its role in gender identity construction. Ewert bases her analysis on the work of Judith Butler and other prominent figures in gender studies and sociology, using the concept of gender performativity as a theoretical linchpin for the rest of her argument.
Indeed, Ewert accepts that drag queens, through their exaggerated and sexualized performances, decouple gender from ascribed sex. In doing so, they demonstrate that gender is not something innate, but rather a set of practices and values members of a given sex are expected to perform. However, Ewert goes further than parroting Butler, arguing that drag performances produce a "framework of power and identity" called diva femininity. Although drag queens sever the connection between gender and sex, they do so by appealing to stereotypical norms of masculinity and, in the case of racial minorities, whiteness.
As a result, drag performances can enforce the same norms they are critiquing. This is a sophisticated conclusion for which Ewert deserves significant recognition. The only notable weakness of the paper is its tendency to drift into vague, occasionally ill-defined jargon, which can make it difficult for a non-specialist to follow the twists and turns of Ewert's claims.
See the full paper here!


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The Peoples Bank of Talbotton is changing its name to The Peoples Bank of Georgia, effective January 2017, in an effort to unite the Bank's mission of banking local communities in Georgia.
The Peoples Bank of Talbotton opened its main office in Talbotton in 1890, and expanded with a Loan Production Office in Ellaville, Georgia during the spring of 2012. The Loan Production Office was converted into the Bank's first ever, full service branch in January 2013. The Peoples Bank of Talbotton built and officially opened the current Ellaville branch at 131 South Broad Street on May 9, 2016.
In March of 2016, a Loan Production Office was opened at 1062 Hwy 41 North in Buena Vista, Georgia to better serve Marion County.
"The Peoples Bank of Talbotton has strived to ensure that our customers feel they are treated the way they used to be, " said Bank President, Shareholder and CEO Henry Persons. "Having an opportunity to open multiple locations in other markets has been our goal for years, and it has been wonderful to see our vision transform into reality. This Bank has been open for over 125 years and we look forward to servicing local communities over the next century."
In selecting this new name, careful consideration was given to not alienate the existing customer base or categorize each location by its immediate market. Bank officials and shareholders wished to have a uniform name for all locations, while still honoring the original trade name of The Peoples Bank of Talbotton.
The transition to the new name is expected to take place through the first quarter of 2017, and will be a seamless transition for our customers.
"The Peoples Bank of Georgia will strive to unite communities through financial services and familiar faces at all current locations," said Chairman of the Board and shareholder Tom Persons. "While owned by my family for over a century, this Bank was created for the people and operated by the people of our local communities. Servicing the people in our communities will continue to be our mission and we look forward to the opportunity as we move into the next phase of The Peoples Bank of Talbotton."


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Quentin Tarantino (b. 1963) is an American film director. He made a cameo appearance as himself in The Muppets' Wizard of Oz.
Tarantino made an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 2005, just prior to the initial airing of The Muppets' Wizard of Oz to promote various projects. A majority of the interview was spent talking about his experience with the Muppets and his love for the characters.
Several of his films have been parodied by the Muppets, including Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill.
The movie director in the Sesame English episode "Tingo the Superstar" is named after Tarantino.


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Everyone makes mistakes and as small business owners the process of trial and error is essential figuring out what works for your Brand and what doesn't. Business' don't simply fail because if a few mistakes, but the inability to correct them and provide a solution; some of the biggest mistakes happen during the marketing process.
Common Mistakes within Email Marketing
With so many avenues of online marketing today, Email Marketing is still the leading generator of sales and conversion; however, some small businesses aren't getting the results they'd hoped. That's because in their haste to implement email marketing they have made some common, but harmful mistakes. Let's find out which mistakes are harming your Email marketing campaigns.
1. Are You Creating A List?
This may be obvious but, how can you succeed at something you don't have? One of the main mistakes small businesses make is not accumulating an email listing early on and the latter result is attempting to backtrack and collect subscribers. This could be resolved easily with an opt in on their websites landing page. If this is you, it's time to correct this mistake immediately.
2. Generating an Email List You Don't Use
The second biggest mistake small businesses make is generating a list of email subscribers and not taking advantage of these leads. This is just as harmful as not having a list altogether as subscribers come to expect something in return for their email and you fail to follow through. When you don't engage your list they forget that you exist.
For those who say they just don't have the time, then you don't truly understand the power of your list. You could double your marketing results if you would put the same amount or even half the amount of effort into engaging your list as you do other marketing methods. Try taking advantage of Email Service providers that streamline the subscription process and allow for preset templates to new leads and established consumers.
3. No Incentive to Generate Leads
When you go fishing, one of the main things you need if you want to catch fish is the bait. The same things go for leads. Simply providing valuable email content is not enough to run a successful email marketing campaign, you must also provide incentive. To attract those leads there has to be some kind of offer, freebie, or discount that makes them want to become a part of your community.
4. Buying Subscribers
Some small business attempt to cut corners when comes to building a list of active email subscribers by buying established email listings of other relevant businesses; not only is this considered a lazy marketing effort. It can also be considered a waste of time. The people on this list have no idea who you are and, the truth is, you have no idea if they are even interested in what you are offering. Those same dollars could have been spent on ads that will put you in front of people who are really your target market.
5. Not Verifying New Subscribers
This extra step is so important! It helps you make sure that the email a person registered with is actually one they are going to check. Many people use old emails to register for list so they are able to get the offer without having to receive your follow up email.
6. Not following the rules
When implementing an email marketing campaign, there are several rules you must abide by in order not to be labeled as a spammer.
For example, you need to have your address in the email along with an unsubscribe link. It is important to remind subscribers where you got their email address from and when sending the emails, you also need to send both an HTML and text only version.
7. Go Pro
One of the biggest mistakes made is not using vendors to send your emails. I understand that as a business, there are times when you need to save money, but this is not one of them. A pro service will help you to:
- Reach the people's inbox
- Consistently track how effective your efforts are.
8. Not Testing Email Marketing Campaigns
Just like with anything in business, you should always have a testing system. With email marketing, A/B Testing lets you track certain aspects of your campaigns to see what opt-ins were most successful. Some examples of things to test would be:
- Sending time – What time/date does your community open emails the most
- Where you have your sign-up box – Which sign-up position attracts the most subscribers
- Email format – Do plain emails perform better than emails with more text, headings, images etc.
- Call to Action Subject Lines – Which subject lines grab your subscriber's attention
- Use of images – Does your subscribers like to get straight to the information or do they like the pictures
9. Not Making It to the Contacts List
Another really simple mistake is not asking your subscribers to add you to their contact list. To save account holders time, Email Services may open and review recipients emails such as Gmail who categorizes by priority, social, and promotional; however, based on poor formatting or too much sales content, it could be automatically labeled spam. The result is never making it to the inbox in future marketing campaigns.
Benefits of Email Marketing for Small Business
Today, marketing techniques such as email campaigns are vital to the growth and success of any business. They are the most cost efficient method of community building and sales generation. By avoiding these common mistakes, your small business can benefit from these campaigns. Start collecting a viable subscribers list, test different formats, provide great incentives and watch your list grow.


text: With our hosts Total, we're delighted to announce on 5th June we will be holding the inaugural ERTC Summer Social at the Westin, Paris. Join the ERTC team and our hosts Total as we enjoy the Parisian summer over drinks, canapés, prize draws and networking. This is the perfect setting to discuss the key issues in the downstream industry as we look ahead to the 2018 edition of ERTC, which takes place in Cannes. When: 5th June Where: The Westin, Paris Times 6pm-9pm Dress: Business Free to attend Register your ticket below. Please note, applicants without an official company email will be rejected (no @hotmail, @gmail etc) We have only 55 tickets left, so make sure you apply for your free ticket soon. Please note only people working within the oil and gas industry will be accepted. If you have any questions, please contact me on email@example.com