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HONG KONG, Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lotus Communication Limited has released a telephone service called Instant Translation Phone, ITP for short on 29th October, 2012. The service is currently available on IP phone supplied by the Company. However, users can also download VoIP mobile app. INAtalk to use the free beta version of ITP.
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Through our service, you can communicate confidently with someone who doesn't speak your language. You only need to speak in your language and your colleague at the other end will hear you in their language.N ow the whole world can talk together ! How it works? Using ITP can't be simpler - you may either use our IP phone or download INAtalk on Android or iPhone app. stores. You only need to dial a preset number that we give you. Everything else happens automatically - the other end does not need to do anything. That's it, no complicated steps or buttons to press. It is as easy as making a normal call.We are now doing a beta test version for INAtalk users. You are required to fill in the ITP beta registration form online, and we will send you the instructions via SMS and email. The full version of ITP is expected to be released within one month from today. Please wait for our announcement. Who are we? ITP is developed by a professional team of electronic engineers of Lotus Communication Limited, a subsidiary of Netel Technology (Holdings) Limited listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 8256). We engage principally in IP-based telecommunication services. Seeing the rapid growth of VoIP technology in Asia-Pacific Region, we seek to cooperate with other telecommunication service providers through worldwide networks. We hope to bring ITP to our business partners in different areas. Watch the ITP video on YOUTUBE now. For more details, visit www.i-translate.co or www.inatalk.com, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call +852-2907-3777. Media Contact: Neil, email firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com call +852-3610-2887 or +852-5806-0012. SOURCE Lotus Communication Limited
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Another brilliant panel. This was my favorite it really gave great insight into what is possible when you start out with even the littlest blog.
The panel consisted of Alison Perry of The Motherhood and Not Another Mummy Blog, Molly Forbes of Mother's Always Right, (the very lovely) Fi Star-Stone of Childcare is fun! and someone called Rachel who wrote a book (sorry for the vague last member!)
So there we have quality featured writers, editorial experience, radio slots interviews and books being published. A very brilliant panel.
My notes are an interpretation of what was said and how I could use it in my blogging and beyond.
Pitching Ideas
- Pitch the idea, not the full article
- Know what you're talking about
- Look at their readership
- Don't write long emails
- Look at the unique angel - why should you write this article?
- In the subject line 'Feature pitch: HEADLINE'
- In your first line give a brief summary - make the impact
Making the move
So you've decided to go for it and make the leap from blogger to paid blogger/feature writer and freelance journalism. Here are a few things that might help you on the way
- Guest writing - get your name appearing in more than just one place and for a different audience
- Do some free writing for your portfolio and for some practice
- Have a page on your blog OR a separate website where you can list where you've been featured, information and a contact. Think of this like an online business card - but with more space.
- Take part in case studies, read case studies and use them in your writing.
- Let people use quotes when asked, it's a good way to start getting your name out there.
Things to remember
- Don't be put off if you're ignored, there are many people sending in ideas everyday
- Write down your ideas - even the vaguest of titles might turn into a great feature
- Re-use your ideas - on your blog, online magazine and print - change the tone and format to suit each media you intend to send it to
- Blogs are used to track trends, read blogs and keeps yours up to date
- Your pile of blog awards will matter a little less to an editor who thinks a BiB is what you mop up baby dribble with
- Have the confidence to promote you, your writing skills and what you do.
- Networking events are worth it - if you can get to them then do.
- Reply to press releases - keep the lines of communications open
- You can negotiate with SEO when they pitch a job to you, but if you are pitching to an online mag (or other) they have a whole host of staff writers they can replace you with.
Those were my notes from the panel.
I'd like the thank the speakers for giving us some fab information and no doubt the inspiration to many of us to make some changes!

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Document - Nigeria: Detention of hostages: the detention of relatives of people suspected of involvement in the April 1990 coup attempt
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The detention of relatives of people suspected of involvement in the April 1990 coup attempt
At least eight people have been detained without charge or trial in Nigeria for nearly 18 months. Most are the female relatives of men suspected of involvement in an unsuccessful coup attempt in April 1990. No official reason has been given for their detention.
Amnesty International believes that they may be prisoners of conscience, and is concerned that they are effectively being held as hostages by the government because of their family relationships with people sought by the authorities. Their imprisonment appears to be arbitrary and as such to violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as international treaties guaranteeing human rights which have been ratified by Nigeria.
Following the failed coup attempt in April 1990, hundreds of soldiers and civilians were detained without charge or trial. Most were released uncharged within weeks or months, but 69 soldiers were sentenced to death and executed after secret and unfair trials. All those detained following the coup attempt were held in administrative detention authorized by the State Security (Detention of Persons) Decree, No. 2 of 1984. This empowers the Vice-President to order the administrative detention, for an indefinitely renewable period of six weeks, of any person suspected of threatening the security of the state or the national economy. The courts are specifically precluded from investigating any detention under the decree. Although a 1990 amendment to the Decree1set up a Review Committee to review all such detentions every six weeks, this procedure does not appear to have been effective in preventing the lengthy detention of prisoners of conscience. Therefore, although such detentions have a basis in law, they nevertheless appear to be arbitrary because the law allows no formal procedure for challenging them through the courts. The detainees whose cases are described below have not been accused of any involvement in the April 1990 coup attempt, nor with misprision of treason, in which case the correct procedure would have been to try them before a civilian court.
Gloria Anwuri and Rhoda Heman-Ackah, sisters of a businessman suspected of financing the coup attempt who fled the country, were detained on 8 May 1991. Another brother, Turner Ogburu, was convicted in connection with the coup attempt and sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1990 after a secret trial by a special military court. Both sisters were held at the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) premises in Apapa, Lagos, until August 1991 when they were moved to Kirikiri Women's Prison near Lagos, where conditions are known to be harsh. It is thought that they were transferred to Kirikiri following the escape from detention of another civilian hostage, Dorah Mukoro, whose case is described below.
Legal action by the Lagos-based Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) for the release of Gloria Anwuri and Rhoda Heman-Ackah was thwarted in December 1990 when the Lagos High Court ruled that their detention was a matter for the Armed Forces Ruling Council (the military government), the Council of State and the Federal Executive Council, and not within the jurisdiction of the High Court. Nevertheless, on 2 February 1991 the High Court ordered the government to produce their detention warrants in order to establish whether the warrants had been renewed after six weeks. Mr Justice Kessington maintained that it would be illegal to hold the two women in detention if their detention warrants were not formally renewed after 19 November 1991. The government's lawyer responded that the court had already received copies of the relevant detention documents, and in June 1991 Mr Justice Kessington finally dismissed the suit, saying that the High Court lacked jurisdiction. However, he appealed for the release of the two women on humanitarian grounds.
Gloria Mowarin, girlfriend of another businessman suspected of involvement in the coup attempt who had also fled the country, was detained on 28 April 1990. According to some reports, the 14-year-old son of the same businessman (who is not related to Gloria Mowarin) is also in detention, although Amnesty International has not been able to confirm this information. Gloria Mowarin was detained at the DMI in Apapa, and has now also been transferred to Kirikiri Women's Prison. After her arrest, the Civil Liberties Organisation filed a suit challenging her detention. In June 1990 the Lagos High Court ordered that she be produced in court. Government lawyers informed the court that the 1984 State Security Decree provided legal grounds for her continued detention and she was not produced in court. In his final ruling on the case in February 1991, Mr Justice Owobiyi ordered her release on the grounds that her detention was illegal and unconstitutional. However, the authorities have refused to accede to this court order (while not formally appealing against it) and Gloria Mowarin has not been released.
Charles Mukoro, brother of an armed forces officer suspected of involvement in the coup attempt, whose whereabouts are not known, was detained shortly after the coup attempt and is being held in the Maximum Security Prison at Kirikiri. His uncle, David Mukoro, has also been held in detention without charge or trial since April 1991. They are both alleged to have been beaten following arrest and to have been denied access to their families and lawyers. According to reports, legal action taken on their behalf was also thwarted by the High Court ruling that the cases were outside its jurisdiction.
Dorah Mukoro was arrested at the same time as her brother-in-law, Charles Mukoro. She is the wife of the armed forces officer mentioned above, who is sought by the authorities. She was held together with her three children, her niece and Alice Atehere, a housemaid, at the Ikeja military cantonment in Lagos, where she gave birth to her fourth child. In February 1991 the Lagos High Court ordered the release of the five children and Alice Atehere, who were subsequently restricted under a form of house-arrest. However, on 20 August 1991 the High Court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to order Dorah Mukoro's release. On or around 11 August 1991 she escaped from military custody, together with the five children and Alice Atehere, and is believed to have fled the country.
Other detained relatives of people suspected of involvement in the coup include Christine Osamede Oziegbe, Pat Obahor and Mrs Edojah, all wives of armed forces officers believed to have fled after the coup attempt. On 18 September 1991 the High Court dismissed a legal action seeking the release of Christine Osamede Oziegbe and Pat Obahor, on the grounds that the action had not been brought within 12 months of their arrest.
There is no indication that any of the detainees described above have had their cases examined by the Review Committee established in 1990, and attempts by the High Court to challenge the government's powers of indefinite detention without charge or trial have been thwarted or ignored. In May 1990 the Constitution (Suspension and Modification) Decree, No. 9 of 1990, conferred immunity from prosecution on all the leading military members of the government - the President, the Chief of General Staff and State Military Governors. This apparently forced the withdrawal in early June 1990 of a legal action by the family of Gloria Anwuri and Rhoda Heman-Ackah. Two lawyers working on the case were themselves briefly detained. The detention powers of the military government appear to have remained absolute, despite claims that the State Security Decree was reformed in 19902. In the absence of any public announcement of administrative detention orders, the legal basis (or lack of it) of particular cases of detention without charge or trial is not apparent, and the conditions have been created in which arbitrary and unlawful detention can occur without being apparent and without being challenged.
Amnesty International is concerned that the eight people whose cases are described above may be prisoners of conscience and is appealing to the Nigerian authorities to release them, and any others held in similar circumstances, immediately and unconditionally if they are not to be charged with recognizably criminal offences and tried fairly before open, civilian courts.
1The State Security (Detention of Persons) (Amendment) Decree, No. 3 of 1990, promulgated in January 1990, provided for a review committee to examine every detention after six weeks and to advise whether the detainee should be released. The nine-member committee is headed by the Minister of Justice and includes among its members two religious leaders, the Archbishop of the Church of Nigeria and the Secretary General of the National Council for Islamic Affairs, as well as a retired judge, a senior police officer, the director of the prison service and a lawyer.
2Under the State Security (Detention of Persons) (Amendment 2) Decree, No. 24 of 1990, the power of detention was transferred from the Chief of General Staff to the newly-created civilian post of Vice-President. The post of Vice-President was established in September 1990, when the then Chief of General Staff, Admiral Augustus Aikhomu, retired from his military post and was subsequently appointed Vice-President.
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Kermit the Frog gives a very special holiday greeting at Disneyland with a live performance of "It Feels Like Christmas" from The Muppet Christmas Carol.
All Apple TV viewers can now access full episodes a week after they air. Like WATCH ABC for mobile devices and desktop, viewers can now watch such shows as Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder,Modern Family, black-ish, Once Upon A Time and Castle, among others, a week after they air. Sign in is required for ABC's live network feed and its most current episodes. The Apple TV WATCH ABC app has also been updated with a new bolder, immersive look and feel, more short form video and a continuous play mode!
Beginning in 2015, each year's college football stars will be honored at the home of the game's greatest legends as The Home Depot College Football Awards will move to the College Football Hall of Fame and Chick-fil-A Fan Experience in downtown Atlanta as part of a new multi-year agreement between ESPN and the Hall of Fame. Airing live on ESPN on December 10, 2015, The Home Depot College Football Awardswill feature the presentation of nine of the most prestigious accolades in college football and pay tribute to the remarkable successes of each year's standout student-athletes both on and off the field. The 45-yard-long indoor football field at the new 94,000-square-foot attraction doubles as a fully-functioning event facility and will serve as the show's new home.
"Disney gave us a wonderful home for The Home Depot College Football Awards for more than two decades. Now, the National Football Foundation and the College Football Hall of Fame will provide us the opportunity to enhance both our coverage and the experience for attendees and fans. The show and this new venue are not only a natural fit, but a great way to mark 25 years of ESPN televising the awards," said Burke Magnus, ESPN senior vice president, programming and acquisitions.
"The Home Depot College Football Awards celebrates exceptional student-athletes, and there's no more fitting venue for this prestigious ceremony than at our spectacular new facility, which celebrates college football every day," said John Stephenson, president & CEO of the College Football Hall of Fame. "The Hall of Fame was designed, built and wired for premier broadcast events like this, and we will honor this decision to move the show by providing exceptional hospitality and a celebratory experience to the players, their families, coaches and fans."
"The new College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta provides an amazing platform for the entire college football community to celebrate the game," said National Football Foundation President & CEO Steve Hatchell. "ESPN has been a great supporter of all of the initiatives of the National Football Foundation, and we are extremely pleased that they recognize the unique and powerful role that the new Hall of Fame can play in raising the profile for The Home Depot College Football Awards."
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ABC News President sent the following note to his team today regarding new roles for Dan Abrams and Byron Pitts:
I want to share big news for two of our key players, Dan Abrams and Byron Pitts.
Earlier this year Dan came to talk to me about taking on a new role at ABC News and returning to his true passion – running the websites and company he founded, Abrams Media.
Dan has decided to step back from his full-time role as Nightline anchor after tonight, but I'm very happy to report that he will bring us his brilliant insights as chief legal analyst for ABC News for years to come. From Trayvon Martin and Bill Cosby to Ferguson and Staten Island, we count on him to provide legal context and scrutiny to important stories that capture national attention.
As co-anchor of Nightline Dan has showcased some of our best storytelling and been a crucial part of the Nightline team that has taken us to #1 in late night. On a personal level, I wish Dan great success expanding Abrams Media beyond the impressive milestones they have already achieved. I'm thrilled that Dan has committed to continue to appear on all our programs and platforms for many more years.
I'm delighted to announce that Byron Pitts will join Nightline as co-anchor. Byron is a truly passionate storyteller and deep thinker about the critical issues of our time, as his work from Soweto to Ferguson makes clear.
Last week for our "Race. Justice. In America" series, Byron delivered compelling reports told with incredible compassion and his singularly distinctive voice. He reported on the distrust between the public and the police in his hometown of Baltimore, and he delved deeply into how fathers and sons talk about race.
Our chief national correspondent since 2013, Byron has been committed to finding stories and voices rarely heard on the national stage. He profiled an American lawyer – inspired by Nelson Mandela – helping hundreds of South African orphans go to school; got a closer look at New Orleans' comeback as the Hollywood of the South; and memorably talked to the self-described pope of Satanism preaching in the heart of the Bible Belt.
I couldn't be happier we'll now see even more of his outstanding work on Nightline and all our platforms.
Byron joins the Nightline team in its strongest position yet in its new time period; in November they won the third consecutive sweep in Total Viewers. Turning in their best results ever at 12:30 A.M., they showed us once again that great storytelling leads to great results. With Roxanna, Dan Harris, Juju and Byron leading the way, I know there are even more great days ahead.
Please join me in congratulating Dan and Byron on their new roles.
The Tusker House restaurant at Disney's Animal Kingdom will be extending its character dining program through dinner. This means that the restaurant will be character dinning all-day. The African-inspired buffet will feature Donald Duck, Daisy, and Goofy. The character dinner will begin March 8, 2015.
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Disney has released the poster for the upcoming film Strange Magic.
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The DSM 5 sexual disorders work group recently rejected rape as a mental disorder. It is now (past) time for it also to drop the silly proposal to add "hebephilia" to DSM 5. "Hebephilia" is a medical sounding term for what is a purely legal issue- the statutory rape of pubescent youngsters aged 11-14. This is a crime deserving punishment, not a mental disorder deserving psychiatric hospitalization.
The work group has tried to package "hebephilia" as no more than a natural extension of the already existing DSM IV diagnosis Pedophilia. This is false advertising. Having sex with someone who is post-pubescent is not at all the same as having sex with someone who is pre-pubescent. Puberty is the most decisive of all rites of passage-it makes a world of difference whether the victim has attained it or not.


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I'm not confusing you at all - first you advocated teaching miracles and mysticism in the classroom, then teaching "What Would Jesus Do" to children, then more miracles and mysticism to members of Third-World countries, because they need superstition to get through the day - if it walks like a platypus --
RE: "So what is it that you dont like then, is it that Im not a carbon copy of you? " - oh, good grief no, if I knew of an I.Q. bank where you could go to borrow a few dozen points, then possibly, but as it is, no.
I'll repeat: "you advocated teaching miracles and mysticism in the classroom, then teaching "What Would Jesus Do" to children, then more miracles and mysticism to members of Third-World countries, because they need superstition to get through the day" - now I don't have the time, inclination, nor interest to go back through your posts to extract all of the statements you've made, in order to back up my statement, but you appear to have not much else to do, so I suggest you do that and refresh your memory.
And what's with the renewed attack on Mike Long - he was stating a hypothetical case, just as I was posting a news article several months ago, about a girl who was abused as a child, and apparently offended a lady who had been terribly abused. First, I had no idea she'd been abused, second, I wasn't advocating a position at all, just as Mike wasn't, merely reporting a story from the news. The end result was, that our current Belle Rose, who at that time was either Sarah or Jessica, I forget which, along with her pet puppy, Simon Paynton, went up one side of me and down the other, much like you and your pet puppy, Paynton, are now doing to Mike. Quite the coincidence --
It's equally coincidental that you seem to have knowledge of correctional institution terminology, while our friend, Jessica/Sarah/Belle Rose, whose earlier thoughts nearly echo your current ones, also worked for a correctional institution. You two should really get together and chat, you'd find that you have a lot in common.
Mike made it clear to you that he was only responding to Unseen's comment, that you'll find on page 13 - here is Unseen's comment:
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Pedophilia is a difficult subject for people to discuss logically. And here I AM talking about true pedophiles, not some guy guilty of statutory rape with a pubescent teen of 15 or 17. That is a different issue, and the guy who's guilty of that may not (and probably is not) attracted to prepubescent children. Pubescent teens can meet the normal standards of physical attractiveness that we apply to adults. However, as a society we believe that people of that age aren't ready to have sex with full adults.
Let's assume that pedophiles are born not made. In that regard, if that's true, they resemble homosexuals.
But pedophiles want sexual contact with children, which is different from homosexuality. It's not just that we want to protect children, it's that we need to and have a duty to do so. Since in some cases the children give consent or even may initiate sexual contact, this includes protecting them from themselves because at that age they really are clueless what they are getting into.
In that pedophiles can do damage to others if they let themselves go, it is like alcoholism. If someone is an alcoholic who gets into the system through some infractions, but gets their drinking under control, we let them get out of the system. We don't have them registering in their community as alcoholics for the rest of their lives.
Pedophilia has certain aspects of an OCD, because pedophiles certainly obsess about sex with children and feel a compulsion to act out, which they sometimes cannot resist. While, no doubt, some pedophiles qualify as predatory creepozoids, some are just sad cases with a compulsion they are powerless to resist.
So, the challenge is for the community to approach pedophilia in a non-hysterical, logical way that both maximizes the protection of children and yet isn't draconian in terms of cosequences for the offender.
Let's also bear in mind what I heard Bill Maher say once (and I'm sorry, but I have totally forgotten the context). I paraphrase, but I know the gist is right: "When they come to take your rights away, they'll say they're doing it to protect the children."
So, let's hear some alternative ways to treat pedophiles that doesn't amount to branding a big letter "P" on their foreheads.
How about this: In exchange for not molesting children, we (the Government) will keep your condition secret and we'll give you unfettered access to high-resolution, computer-generated pedophilic images and videos.
This would not reoffend children, which would be the reason for not giving them access to real kiddie porn, and it would help both prevent child sexual victimization and murder, because a certain small percentage of pedophiles end up murdering the children they molest in an attempt to keep their crime from becoming public.
Anyone got a better idea? The Ludovico Technique?
There may have been earlier ones, but it has taken me the better part of an hour to locate that one, and as I'm sure you often hear your therapist say, I'm sorry, our time is up.
Angela, so you think religion is useful to those living in the third world and that they need an alternative. No we don't need. People need to be freed from this madness of some middle Eastern god created by men in exile several eons ago and solve the current problems facing us.
Education is it's own reward. We don't need coloured glasses to look at reality. And I have met quite a number of atheists and they are seem to me to be doing very well for themselves. So cut the crap and tell me why you think people in the developing countries need religion.
In your response to archy where he mentioned me, you said he only knows one person and that his knowledge can not be true of the group. It is in that light that I told you there are several atheists I know here who are doing good for themselves and need no religion to hang on.
Ah, so you can't talk about empathy without mentioning Jesus? that is if I get you correctly?
So Angela, are you implying the Chinese or Japanese who is not into this Jesus business can't have empathy or can't know it? Or in which way is Jesus and empathy very similar or same?
As to whether increasing secularism has created a hole, I don't know, there is a bigger hole where I live created by religion. It follows from us against them mentality that runs deep in religious texts, which over time has made it hard for those around me to rise above religious bigotry and ignorance and so something to improve their lot.
@Belle - I'm making no effort whatsoever to humiliate you - what possible reason would I have? I just know how you believed when you first came on the board, and what you've made clear your beliefs are now. I've also seen you use your own experiences to explain your viewpoint to others who indicate they have religious delusions. Then Angela begins advocating teaching "WWJD" to children, preaching Jesus in school systems and in third-world countries to give them strength to endure their hardships, and it just seemed to me that those were issues you would normally jump all over, as well as try to help out a fellow woman, who, if one follows her posts on several discussions, has definitely had some issues in her life, with which I was sure you could identify.
Further, I believe a woman can talk to another woman better than a man can, and it was clearly obvious I wasn't convincing her of anything, and I couldn't help wondering why you so completely distanced yourself from something that normally would have been right up your alley.
@Belle - RE: "Empathy isn't really the ultimate goal." - that entire paragraph was very profound!


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The Show: Showtimes Shameless
The Character: Fiona Gallagher, played by Emmy Rossum
The legal guardian of an unruly brood of latchkey kids, Fiona has a daily grind that includes warding off her alcoholic deadbeat dad (William H. Macy), supplementing the familys constantly draining funds, and attempting to better herself with only scrappy genetics and a GED as collateral. Oh, and trying to keep a boyfriend.
Fiona has a limited amount of clothing, and she doesnt have time to think about putting things together, unless shes going on a date. In montages where shes just throwing on clothes, trying to decide what to wear, we make sure all the dresses still have the tags on themFiona has her own tagging gun. We know shell wear it, retag it, and then return it to the store. At different points throughout the season, several characters wear the same clothes, and we try to repeat looksthe sweater shes wearing in this shot (above right) actually belongs to her brother Lip [Jeremy Allen White]. And in later episodes, we decided that her Aunt Ginger had made that scarf. I had it made extra-long so she could hide the whole bottom half of her face when its really cold; its functional but also inappropriatefar too skinny to really protect her. The jacket is Abercrombie & Fitch; we have to have four of them because things are always happening to Fionatheres always a stunt, people throw up, all that stuff. We spend a lot of time aging everything she wearsputting holes in it, thrashing it, pulling it out of shape. But we cheat on the jeans. She wears a lot of 7 For All Mankind. The producers are always asking, Why dont you go to a thrift store for her jeans? I say, Look, she went to a thrift shop and bought some jeans for $5; the previous owner had already moved on to the next designer. How does Fiona shop? She probably gets some stuff from her best friend, Veronica; she thrifts; maybe she shoplifts. In Chicago there are swap meets in the tougher neighborhoods where you can buy eight bras for $2. Im a coal miners daughter, and I grew up very poor in the northeast of England, and yet we all managed to have a sense of style. Its just about finding the fine line between making her look ugly and making her look poor. There still are moments where weve failed, because she looks far too good.


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The marble like table top of this counter height dining table is a perfect choice for your home's dining nook, kitchen, or other casual dining and entertaining space. The leg table and four slat back bar stools feature a cherry finish over hardwoods and wood veneers. The microfiber upholstery adds comfort to the counter height chairs for a casual contemporary pub set that you will want to share with friends and family.
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Sony Grabs Rodriguez's 'Machete'Movie News By Scott Beggs on September 22, 2009 | (7) Comments
Just last night, my friend Patches alerted me via a text-based cellular message that Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo were downing some brews over at a local bar called Nomad. And who could blame them? Monday night is $1 Tecate night. The word spreading through the bar was that they were celebrating wrapping – either a scene or, less likely, the whole damned Machete. Still no word on whether Ethan Maniquis was there co-drinking with Rodriguez, though.
And with that, we've now become Gawker. We can officially shut down.
Rodriguez and company can also shut down their search for distribution, because Sony has purchased the bulk of international distribution rights to the flick, continuing a partnership built by their involvement with El Mariachi and the other Mexico trilogy films.
If anyone asks, my new reason for heading out to the bars is to catch an interview with the filmmaker. That sounds like a good enough excuse right? I've been dying to ask him what his perfect Sunday is.
What do you think?
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