News and celeb gossip

Introducing “bad News Bores”

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:40:56 -0600

I noticed it first at a Kwanzaa party late last year. Having trouble keeping myself amused, I started quizzing those holding drinks and discovered that everyone there was kind of "into" news and recent events. For a second, I brightened. As a media junkie hanging out in a room of strangers, I realized it would be my lucky night if they all turned out to be informed and alive. It wasn't to be. Everyone was joking about who'd called whom, in the middle of what night, to break the news of whichever bit of current events. It was as if, I realized, it was a big contest for this crowd, a competition to be the first to tell people about each big happening in our hypey news times. "Remember, I was nervous to call you at three in the morning about Saddam because you love your sleep so much," reminisced one woman. She was followed by some giddy man confessing how after a recent airline crash he didn't hesitate from calling a friend, regardless of the hour, because he wanted to get to tha...

Asthma News

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:55:57 -0600

This news can either be to sensitize people on the magnitude of the condition or help those living with the condition. Asthma news can be found in the form of newspapers, magazines, web sites, books and television programmes. This news is very important. It helps us get to know how to deal with this condition whose prevalence is rising day by day. The prevalence is rising as a result of air pollution and drug resistance. Urbanization and industrialization are the main causes of air pollution.Asthma news can also be found in asthma treatment centers. These centers have professional asthma doctors who help the patients deal with the condition. Asthma as a condition should be sensitized even in the workplaces. This is to avoid occupational asthma. Pregnant women should be warned on the dangers of smoking while pregnant. This increases the chances of getting a baby with the condition. Smokers too are at a higher risk of developing the problem.When people get to know the dan...

Acai Berry Celebrity Scams Are Real

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:19:47 -0600

If you are anything like I was when I first started researching acai several years ago, you are probably greatly influenced the celebrity endorsements you read and see everywhere online, right? It's true...like just about nothing else in recent memory, acai berry has become the belle of the ball, which famous, household names seemingly lining up to endorse every product you see anywhere online.But is it true......or is the whole Acai Berry celebrity promotion one big scam?It's a good question, and a little bit of both! Here is why:Acai Berry is in fact being endorsed as an amazing super food by lots of the top celebrity names in health, nutrition and wellness. Athletes such as superstar surfer Kelly Slater, to uber talk show hosts Oprah and Rachael Ray, to world renowned physicians like Nicholas Perricone have all enthusiastically recommended Acai.But...where the scam kicks in is here: None of the endorsements you've seen on Oprah, for example, have been for a specific product, or make...

6 Ways to Support Another Woman

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:54:34 -0600

Every Thursday, I have been glued to the hit television show,'The Apprentice". It is drama at it's finest, except there issomething that is painful for me to watch as a woman. When theshow began the women dominated and worked together as a team. Astime progressed the women slowly but quickly began to rip eachother apart and then... there were none, leaving two menstanding for the high profile position to work for Donald Trump.The "catfights" between the women have continued and are clearlyevident as they make media rounds. Meanwhile, Kwame and Troy hada small show down only to be followed with words of loyalty andstrong hugs and handshakes. When will women learn to sticktogether through the good, bad, and the ugly? Ways to Support Another Woman: Don't hate the player, hate the game. Women tend to get verycompetitive in looks, love, and career. Stop the "catfight".Focusing on your goal will get you further, than focusinghostility on another woman who you deem as comp...

Retro Toys - Who's Buying Them?

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:31:19 -0600

The shelves are packed with toys with a cross generationalappeal, but which demographic is buying most?As Christmas looms ahead, thoughts move towards the hottest toysthis year and parents steel themselves in the annual slog tomake sure they get the sought after merchandise. And so do a lotof grown men. The recent trend for retro toys has had an impacton the sort of shopper we find in toy stores and online.A two tier market has developed, stimulated by an increase inretro culture. The TV schedules and multiplexes are filled withremakes - The Dukes of Hazzard, Charlie and the ChocolateFactory, Starsky and Hutch, Bewitched, Doctor Who and Star Warshave all made an outing in the last year alone. But as theseremakes and rehashes appear vying for an audience, the questionhas to be asked - who is the audience? These films have across-generational appeal - the kids they are strictly cateredfor and the kids who watched them the first time around. The impact on the commercial wo...

Sukh Ram Gets Three Years In Jail

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:31:54 -0600

Sukh Ram gets three years in jail A Special Court in India has found an ex-minister guilty of amassing wealth beyond his recognized sources of income and has sentenced him to three years jail term and fine of rupees two lac. We the people of India congratulate the police investigating authorities who investigated the case, collected evidence and the Court who examined the whole case and passed final order of sentence. This case shall become the foundation for examining more cases and in due course we shall be finding more and more people who had been holding high offices and at the same time they had been indulging in scams, scandals, muddles, bribes, corruption, dalali or commissions. The people of India know that most of the politicians who were penny less or were poor people have turned rich in days which clearly means that here in India the people are joining politics only with one purpose and that is the purpose of amassing wealth. Very few of them ...