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Guest: Joan Rivers
JOAN RIVERS, COMEDIAN: I was a good girl.
DEBORAH NORVILLE, HOST: An evening with Joan. She's going back to her roots and is reaching out to a new generation. Joan Rivers is doing stand-up again.
RIVERS: The Club Herpes, I will never forget. There was a two rash minimum.
NORVILLE: Tonight, from the red carpet...
RIVERS: The line for the ladies room is longer than the ones at Whitney Houston's coffee table.
NORVILLE: ... to the color of money.
RIVERS: And the bigger the better.
NORVILLE: How she turned some of life's harshest blows into punch lines. Joan Rivers on her fortunes, her facelifts and the future.
RIVERS: First off...
ANNOUNCER: From Studio 3-K in Rockefeller Center, Deborah Norville.
NORVILLE: And good evening, everybody.
I'm here with Joan Rivers for the full hour tonight. What fun. Can we talk?
RIVERS: Can we talk?
NORVILLE: Long before Donald Trump tried to trademark "you're fired," you put a trademark on that one.
RIVERS: Yes. I had a female lawyer who I spent, like, $4,000, you cannot get an umbrella without getting an OK from me that says "Can we talk?" It's the only one we could patent.
NORVILLE: You have a patented umbrella?
RIVERS: That all she could get for me, $4,000 later. "I got you the patent on umbrellas."
NORVILLE: That's the best she could do?
RIVERS: That's my life.
NORVILLE: That's the story of your life.
RIVERS: Patented umbrellas, my career.
NORVILLE: That is hardly a metaphor for your career. I mean, seriously, four decades into a career as an entertainer, you still keep coming up with new chapters.
RIVERS: Does one have a choice? NORVILLE: You feel that way?
RIVERS: In this business you damn better well keep—try to get through another door because, as I've told you before, they're cutting your fingers off. You have to keep moving forward.
NORVILLE: Just keep going?
RIVERS: You stop, you're dead.
NORVILLE: You've got a new show that you first premiered in Scotland.
RIVERS: Edinburgh.
NORVILLE: Edinburgh Comedy Festival, called "Broke and Alone." Where does the title come from?
RIVERS: You know—
NORVILLE: This is, like, your greatest fear?
RIVERS: Yes. It's everybody's greatest fear. And my accountant says it's here. And broke and alone because everyone says, "I'm broke." If you have ever met anybody that says that, "I've got enough money. It's all I ever want"? I've never heard that from anybody. "If I only had this I'd buy this."
So we all feel broke and we all are alone.
NORVILLE: And the show is hilarious, according to the critics. One critic with—I think it was the "Scotsman" newspaper—said he enjoyed the show so much he wanted to go and have children so that he could tell his kids about the time he Joan Rivers.
RIVERS: Isn't that sweet?
NORVILLE: That's amazing.
RIVERS: We tried that night, but I only have two eggs left, so...
NORVILLE: It didn't work.
RIVERS: It just didn't work.
NORVILLE: Why are you going back to stand-up after becoming a headline act in Vegas and having so much success. Stand-up is where you started.
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: You're going back to your roots.
RIVERS: And I will be in Boston, I think, this weekend at the Wilbur Theatre. And then I'm going back to Vegas.
About two years ago I just said, "I wonder if new people would think I'm funny." Because I wanted to know—oh, it's John Rivers, she's funny.
So I went back to my—I went back to a little place in Greenwich Village called The Duplex, where I had started. It held 35 people.
NORVILLE: The same exact club you started in?
RIVERS: The same club where I started it. And went in unannounced and started talking to very young people and it just worked.
And then I moved now to much bigger place every Wednesday night called Fed's. We hold 110. And it's just been so much. And then I went to England and it just rushed into this whole big thing.
NORVILLE: Is—What is the show about? Is it a typical stand-up routine?
RIVERS: It's about anything that annoys me. And...
NORVILLE: It's just a crotchety old woman downloading.
RIVERS: Yes. I swear and cursing and spitting and just, "Oh, yes, well." And it's great, because everybody is so filled with anger and angst and things that upset us. I mean, we're all in New York waiting for the next bomb. We're all waiting for something terrible to happen.
NORVILLE: You really think it's going to happen?
RIVERS: Yes. And come to Fed's, because they will leave us alone because it looks like they have already gotten us. So one safe place in New York.
NORVILLE: Because it's a bunch of riff-raff?
RIVERS: It looks like somebody already blew it up.
NORVILLE: It's been bombed already. No point in wasting another...
RIVERS: That's right.
NORVILLE: ... another weapon here.
RIVERS: But it's just—it's been amazing. And the people that have come are all young people. They say I know—"The New York Times" said I'm the spokeswoman for Generation Y, which is hilarious.
NORVILLE: That's cool.
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: You started in 1959.
RIVERS: 1959, right out of school.
NORVILLE: Right out of school. And to be still...
RIVERS: Same dress.
NORVILLE: Same dress.
RIVERS: I shouldn't really, though.
NORVILLE: That you can fit into it, that's really something. I mean, you look at this—Throw the picture back you, will you, Ray? Put that picture back up.
RIVERS: I was a little bit...
NORVILLE: This is a memory lane picture.
RIVERS: That's me in the upstairs, the downstairs.
NORVILLE: At the very beginning.
RIVERS: And it's Barry Manilow behind me on the piano.
NORVILLE: Was it?
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: He was on a couple weeks ago.
RIVERS: Yes. Wonderful. He was my pianist.
NORVILLE: And the—the humor that you used back then really shocked a lot of people, because there were no holy cows. There was nothing sacred, and there was no body sacred. And people didn't expect that, certainly, from a woman.
RIVERS: Right.
NORVILLE: Now it's old hat.
RIVERS: Now it's—But now there are new sacred cows that I go right after.
NORVILLE: Like what?
RIVERS: 9/11. Which we are—I do a lot about 9/11.
NORVILLE: Like what?
RIVERS: It will sound very harsh here, but about the widows in 9/11 that perhaps some are not quite as upset as the majority are. And then it came out in the "New York Post" that were some that were going, "Harry's gone, boohoo. Hello."
You know, but there are so many things.
NORVILLE: Are there things that are off limits, I mean, even today?
RIVERS: Nothing that I can say out loud that doesn't—that I'm able to say is off limits, because I think if I'm saying it, then it's OK, if I'm thinking it. And it's wonderful.
Age. Old people actually buy at Costco. How stupid is that? You're 80 years old and you buy nine jars of mayonnaise?
NORVILLE: Or the 48-ounce thing of mayo?
RIVERS: Unless you know God likes sandwiches, you're a fool.
NORVILLE: I saw a lady on TV tonight. She's 97 years old. She got pulled over and fingerprinted. She's worried about her record for the future. She's 97. I mean, come on.
RIVERS: It makes me laugh. You want to say, "It's over, Gladys.
Lock it down and cross your arms." So I talk a lot about that.
NORVILLE: You're a big hit at the home, I guess. They love you there.
RIVERS: They forget, though.
NORVILLE: I think she said something not nice but I'm not really sure.
RIVERS: I can't remember.
NORVILLE: What about celebrities? I mean, you have just had a field day with them.
RIVERS: Yes. Yes.
NORVILLE: Is there a joke that you've ever told that, when it came out of your mouth you thought, "I shouldn't have said that? How am I going to dig my way out now?"
RIVERS: Very often.
NORVILLE: Like two seconds ago.
RIVERS: Well, I'm terribly sorry now about all the things I said about you over the years, because...
NORVILLE: But I called you on it once. You did. You were very mean to me during "The Today Show" times.
RIVERS: I know. I didn't know you then. And we all thought that you had pushed out Jane Pauley. Little did we know that she had just dynamited, you know...
NORVILLE: She just moved on to something else on her own.
But I remember coming on your talk show, which—for which you won an Emmy.
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: Yet another award that you've gotten, and you said something like that and I leaned over and I said, "And you're sorry now, aren't you?"
And you said, "Yes, I am."
RIVERS: I'm terribly sorry because you were adorable. And it wasn't your fault.
NORVILLE: Have you said that to other celebrities?
RIVERS: Yes, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise. Yes. Of course, if you ever say
· I did. Mary Tyler Moore, didn't talk to me for 15 years. You know, we see her at all these things in New York. Right past me, right past me.
And finally, one day I thought come on. I said, "Why don't you talk to me?"
And she said, "You made a joke about me. You once called me, you said my smile makes me look like the joker." Remember, from "Batman?"
NORVILLE: Right.
RIVERS: I said No. 1, it was a lousy joke. I had forgotten it.
And No. 2 that was 18 years ago. How can you remember? And now we talk.
NORVILLE: So all is forgiven?
RIVERS: Well, she does look like the Joker.
NORVILLE: Joan.
RIVERS: Of course not. I can't help it.
NORVILLE: You also really get good on the red carpet. I want to roll a snippet of tape from the Golden Globes this year...
RIVERS: Uh-oh.
NORVILLE: ... where you reached into the celebrity file and wove in some current events, too. Here's Joan at the Golden Globes.
RIVERS: What a year it's been for the entertainment industry. Winona Ryder grabbed the spotlight and everything else within reach.
The mystery was finally involved of what happened to Michael Jackson's original nose. Nicole Kidman, wearing it in "The Hours." I spotted it right away.
NORVILLE: Do you ever laugh at your jokes?
RIVERS: When they're funny.
NORVILLE: Did you laugh at that one?
RIVERS: No, that's very dated now. What I always say now is, "Poor Janet Jackson. What she was trying to say is, 'Here's my brother's nose.' And they didn't give her a chance. She was trying to be very sweet."
NORVILLE: It just didn't happen.
Is Michael Jackson somebody that you can still have fun with, or has he just been in the news with the facelifts and the allegations for so long that, you know, enough already, move on to somebody new?
RIVERS: No, I still talk about him in the act a lot.
NORVILLE: What do you say about him?
RIVERS: It would be too rough here.
RIVERS: But really, no he's still very—Liza, unfortunately, Liza's divorce, which sure shocked me, that was great—great material for while. It just never stops. And it's in all the papers.
NORVILLE: Just now you wouldn't share the Michael Jackson material, because it's too rough for television. There's a big controversy going on right now. What can you say, what can't you say, the indecency wars, started by the flash of the nose or the nipple or whatever it was.
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: How do you come down on that?
RIVERS: I think that it's absolutely right. I think every show has its rules. I do "Regis and Kelly," and I know the rules. Your choice is you want to do the show, here are our rules.
I will go on David Letterman. There are certain rules there. There are certain rules here. You abide by the rules.
What I don't like is to say Janet Jackson flashed her breast, meanwhile did you see the commercials on the—what was that, the Super Bowl?
NORVILLE: Super Bowl.
RIVERS: One was a couple obviously after intercourse having a beer.
Make up your mind.
They had another one where a horse farted in a couple's face.
Remember that one?
NORVILLE: Yes.
RIVERS: And that was fine, but poor Janet Jackson who showed this pathetic little thing and it was down to her knee to start with, you know, so a lot of missed it. We were looking up—we should have—you know, she should have gone like that.
I just feel there should be a set of rules for every—but don't do that with the commercials and then say that's OK because we're making money.
NORVILLE: Double standard.
RIVERS: And I hate also innuendo. That I can't stand, you know.
NORVILLE: The wink and the nod.
RIVERS: The wink and the nod. We really know what they really are doing.
NORVILLE: But you never go there.
RIVERS: Yes. Just say the word and get it out of your mouth.
NORVILLE: You also take as well as you give. You're great on self-deprecating humor.
RIVERS: Well, you see me this a bathing suit, that's not hard. You see, you cry.
NORVILLE: When you're wearing a swimsuit.?
RIVERS: I came on stage and you, a visible, and then your husband said oh.
NORVILLE: I never saw you in a bathing suit. We're going to let the audience ponder the image in their mind, Joan Rivers in a swimsuit.
Back more with Joan Rivers in a moment.
ANNOUNCER: Coming up, four decades in show business and still talking, the story of how this suburban housewife and mom climbed the comedy circuit to sit in for the king of late night.
RIVERS: To make Johnny laugh was the name of the game.
ANNOUNCER: Joan's fall from grace and how she managed to bounce back into the limelight.
RIVERS: I could have had a quickie. I could have downed a couple of huffers. I could have fired my staff.
ANNOUNCER: DEBORAH NORVILLE TONIGHT is coming right back.
RIVERS: I got out of college and played in Greenwich Village in a lousy club where you passed the hat, the hat wouldn't come back. That and then I played outside of Boston, Springfield, Massachusetts. I played strip joints there. Have you been there? The Club Herpes, I will never forget. There was a two rash minimum.
NORVILLE: That was Joan Rivers on "THE TONIGHT SHOW" back in 1983.
She's my guest for the full hour. That one you laugh at.
RIVERS: It's funny.
NORVILLE: It is funny.
RIVERS: I'm going to Boston this weekend. I'll put the same joke right back in.
NORVILLE: And it still works.
RIVERS: Club Herpes.
NORVILLE: Your mother must have heard jokes like that and know that this was true. You really were playing the dives.
RIVERS: The dives. The dives. And my parents were very proper.
And my mother would sit in an audience and say, "This is not so. This is truly not so. Didn't happen. Not my family."
But I always wanted to be in the business, and there was no discouraging me. I played—I was Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard. I was playing strip joints and being fired. You know, it was like, I would do jokes, you know. I would take pasties, put them on my dress and people would go like, what?
NORVILLE: We want the real show. Come on.
RIVERS: "Put them back," they started to say to me.
And I was—the first seven years—the first year I worked in the business I was fired from every job, every single job. And then it got a little better. I got into Second City, but I got seven years before I got on the Carson show.
NORVILLE: How did you know to keep going? What was it inside that told you, "I'm destined to do this. I will be a star. I'm not wasting my time. Just try one more gig?"
RIVERS: I never thought about being a star. It was a calling. I try to say this and people think I'm insane. It's—I mean, an artist has to paint, or I was a priest, just know where they're going.
NORVILLE: Right.
RIVERS: And there was no choice. There was no question about it. I wanted to be—I wanted to be an actress. I wanted to be in the business.
NORVILLE: Was it was to be in front of people and make them laugh? Was it to be in front of people and perform, or was it to be in front of people and take them away from wherever they were to another place?
RIVERS: It was take me away from where I was.
NORVILLE: You didn't want the proper suburban upbringing?
RIVERS: No, no. And you know, people always say the childhood. I had a good childhood, considering. There are always problems.
But I wanted to perform. When I put two words together—I saw Margaret O'Brien, long before your time, an actress in a movie called "Journey for Margaret." And I was 4 ½ years old, and I thought, "Why is she up there and not me?"
NORVILLE: Really? You were in kindergarten and you wanted to do this?
RIVERS: Pissed.
NORVILLE: I don't think you can say that.
RIVERS: Furious. I can't say that. Upset. Four-year-old child sitting next to her mother in the movie theater going, "Why is she there? I can do that."
Every time—you know that song from "A Chorus Line," "I Can Do That." That was always me. "I can do that. I could be Joan of Ark. She'll have a New York accent. We'll work on it."
NORVILLE: We'll work on that.
Your mom didn't approve?
RIVERS: My poor mother. No, they were in shock. And my father was in shock. My father was a doctor, and every time a prostitute would come in the office he'd say, you know, "What do you do, Laura?"
And she'd say, "I'm an actress."
So his daughter wants in and says, "I want to be an actress," my father, it was over. No, they didn't approve at all.
NORVILLE: Did they ever come around? At what point did they say, "Joanie, we're proud?"
RIVERS: When I got on the Carson show, and thank goodness they lived
· thank goodness they lived to see it. And it was wonderful for them.
NORVILLE: This is a picture of your first appearance. And that was a big moment, the fact that you're even sitting next to him, because Carson didn't always invite the comics that came through to take a seat.
RIVERS: No, no.
NORVILLE: When he invited you to sit down do you remember the thought going through your head as you walked across the desk?
RIVERS: I never did a stand-up. I was brought on as a girl writer, because they didn't think he was funny enough to be a stand-up.
And Bill Cosby had been on the night before, and they had a terrible comedian. And Bill said—I had been brought up nine time to audition. And when Bill saw that comic, he said, "Use Joan Rivers. She's better than him."
So they put me on because the guy the night before had bombed.
NORVILLE: Had just bombed.
RIVERS: And so they brought me on. They still didn't believe so they put me on as girl writer. So I sat down and I never did stand-up on "The Tonight Show" until I actually hosted.
NORVILLE: And that was a humongous deal. You were Johnny's replacement.
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: And it went well for a long time. Let's go back. There you are coming out.
RIVERS: Coming out.
NORVILLE: And I think we've got a clip where you had—I believe it was Susan Anton. Let's take a listen to Joan Rivers on "THE TONIGHT SHOW."
RIVERS: Don't you feel like you're wearing, like you forgot something? You can get away with it, but you're in a bra. I mean, you know.
SUSAN ANTON, ACTRESS: At least I'm finally wearing one.
NORVILLE: Was that fun?
RIVERS: Yes, that was great. I loved "THE TONIGHT SHOW."
NORVILLE: And then Fox network started up, right? Offered you the gig of a lifetime.
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: Come in there, host their signature show right up against Carson, Johnny Carson. How hard was that?
RIVERS: I didn't realize—It wasn't hard. It was hard getting guests. Who are you going to go on, six stations or all over America. But it was sad, because I didn't realize how upset it made Johnny.
We're competitors. And we became competitors.
NORVILLE: And you didn't realize that he would see it as disloyal?
RIVERS: I never thought of it.
NORVILLE: It just didn't occur to you?
RIVERS: My contract had come to an end. Everybody else had gone on. You know, Letterman had gone on, Cosby had gone on. We had all gone. But I think because I was a woman he absolutely took it as disloyalty.
NORVILLE: Did you two ever mend that fence?
RIVERS: No and it made me very sad. When his son died I sent him a letter saying whatever happened between us, this should not happen to anybody. And I never heard from him. That made me very sad. There are so few of us left that really go back a long way, and I loved him. Best straight man ever. I adored Johnny.
NORVILLE: And then, as bad as it was when your show was canceled, it was just a matter of weeks later that your husband committed suicide.
RIVERS: He committed suicide three weeks after the show was cancelled. Yes, because he thought it was his fault and it really was—not his fault but he and Ruben Murdock and Barry Diller went at each other. It was nothing to do with ratings. They...
NORVILLE: Personalities.
RIVERS: Personalities. And he knew what had happened, and he killed himself.
NORVILLE: and yet you kept on and did a movie about it. I think a lot of people were shocked.
RIVERS: Excuse me.
NORVILLE: That's OK. We all understand about working through a crisis. But I think a lot of people looked at the movie that you and Melissa did, your daughter, about his suicide...
RIVERS: His suicide.
NORVILLE: ... and the angst that you all went through and just were...
RIVERS: Appalled.
NORVILE: ... appalled. Why would you do that?
RIVERS: We did the movie—First of all, it was four years later, after the suicide. And we did a movie all about the suicide, a very honest movie. Critics destroyed us.
Deborah, I must have gotten over a million pieces of mail from people saying, "Thank you. This is the first time suicide was ever dealt with. Thank you for showing me it's OK to be angry. Thank you for showing me what happens in a family."
It was amazing what happened.
NORVILLE: And let's show people what happens in the family. Here's a clip from the movie "Tears and Laughter."
RIVERS: "Tears and Laughter."
NORVILLE: Starring Joan Rivers and Melissa Rivers.
MELISSA RIVERS, DAUGHTER: Not once have you even asked me about me, how I really feel. It's always about you. It's always been about you. It will always be still about you.
RIVERS: I'm selling that house. I'm selling that house with or without your permission. This is absolutely crazy.
M. RIVERS: It's not. I have needed you. And you have not once been here for me. You got rid of Daddy and now you're trying to get rid of me. Well, guess what. I'm the one getting rid of you.
RIVERS: Kills me.
NORVILLE: How do you...
RIVERS: Isn't she a good actress?
NORVILLE: I don't know that that was acting.
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: That was life being played out for real.
RIVERS: Yes. Look at this.
NORVILLE: I know. You've got tears in your eyes. Do you ever regret doing it?
RIVERS: Not at all. Deborah, you should never know what suicide does to a family. Not at all. To this day I work so hard in suicide prevention, and you want to say to everybody, "It's OK," because what's left after suicide is a shattered life. And you've got to find your way back.
NORVILLE: People don't know this. But there are times when someone can call the suicide prevention line here in New York City, and this one is on the other end of the phone talking to them.
RIVERS: Yes. Sometimes.
NORVILLE: That's important to you.
RIVERS: Yes, very. And people call up, and I'll get letter. And I always stop, always stop and I make sure that they're put in touch with somebody. Big priority in my life.
Look at me, you are never over it and you're never over the anger. People say, "You'll see Edgar in heaven." I'll kill him. He better not come near me in heaven.
What it did—what it does to your child. It's a very difficult time for you, and that was 17 years ago and look how it affects you.
NORVILLE: It never goes away. It never goes away.
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: We'll take a break. Back with more with Joan Rivers in a moment.
RIVERS: Make-up!
ANNOUNCER: Up next the red carpet's fashion queen crowns Hollywood's worst dressers.
RIVERS: I love that dominatrix look.
ANNOUNCER: Why Joan Rivers may just be one of the most feared women in show biz.
RIVERS: Well, you know.
ANNOUNCER: When DEBORAH NORVILLE TONIGHT returns.
RIVERS: What about Jack Nicholson's comb-over in "Schmidt," huh? Was that the first cover-up since Rosie O'Donnell said she was too hot for Tom Cruise?
NORVILLE: Joan Rivers and her daughter, Melissa, have been co-hosting red carpet events in Hollywood since 1996, applauding the people who look good and dressing down those who don't.
Back now with Joan Rivers.
No one ever thought to pay attention to people on the way in.
RIVERS: We were the first. We were the first.
NORVILLE: Where did the idea come from?
RIVERS: Desperation. I was banned from late-night television since I left "The Tonight Show."
And I needed a job. And Melissa was working at E! and said, you should try my mom. And they said, she wouldn't go out and stand with the paparazzi. Well, Deborah, you do what you have to do.
And I went out. I was the one that would say, who are you wearing, who are you wearing, wear is that from? And I remember somebody at NBC, as a matter of fact, said, oh, people shouldn't ask such shallow questions. And now everybody—it became a big thing because I love fashion so much.
NORVILLE: You would be the kind before the show existed that would pick up the magazines after the events and pore over the paparazzi pictures.
RIVERS: Yes. Yes.
NORVILLE: And look at the dresses and critique them just on your own at home, oh, she looks like a dog, she looks fabulous?
NORVILLE: Well, didn't you always do that as a real person at home, where you would sit and you would you'd say, what to you think of them as they come down? You always want to see what they were wearing.
RIVERS: And in those days, they didn't have stylists, so they really looked great, some of them, and some of them really looked like idiots. It was so much fun.
NORVILLE: You have, I think, changed the way celebrities think about their public image. And that is pretty astonishing because they spend the lion's share of time thinking about their public image.
RIVERS: Yes. I think that they now—I love it when somebody will come up to me and say Susan Sarandon said to me one time, Tim Robbins, he wore this just for you, Joan. Well, you just think, this is amazing. It's so much fun.
Or Sarah Jessica Parker will go, I know, I know. It is fabulous, but not the shoes. And you go, life is good.
NORVILLE: Life is good.
RIVERS: Life is good.
NORVILLE: Do you ever feel bad about things that you say, because you can be pretty biting out there, too. Not everybody looks great and you don't always pretend that they do.
RIVERS: I truly think, if you are making $20 million a movie, whether or not I like your dress shouldn't destroy your life. That's No. 1.
No. 2, they all have stylists, so don't be mad at me. And, No. 3, I'm a critic. It's like saying, I'm mad at you because you don't like my movie. My job the minute I hit the red carpet is to say what I think so the people—and we're No. 1 on E! -- we're the highest rated show—that the people at home know my opinion. I'm a critic. Very tough.
NORVILLE: And the people on the red carpet know your opinion, too.
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: And Bono, for instance, from U2 was watching one year and apparently you didn't like what he had to put on that night and the next year he came up to you and made a point of saying, check me out. Check this out.
BONO, U2: I'd like to say something, Joan.
RIVERS: Yes.
BONO: You referred to me once as the worst-dressed man.
RIVERS: Yes.
BONO: Now, I am Irish.
RIVERS: Well, look at the difference.
BONO: Have I made any improvements?
RIVERS: You have made a lot of improvement. I'm very happy tonight.
You are OK tonight.
BONO: Thank you, darling.
RIVERS: A pleasure to see you.
NORVILLE: How important is the look to the Hollywood machine?
Clearly it mattered to Bono?
RIVERS: Bono cares. It cracks me up. I just goes, this is insane that Bono is worried what I think.
NORVILLE: He's out there helping people in starving countries.
RIVERS: Yes, and planting trees where they don't want them planted. This man is working, where he's force-feeding people. Yes, he is a wonderful man. And he's worried.
NORVILLE: And while you are worrying about what people are wearing, you are also very conscious about what you wear yourself. You consistently are on the best-dressed lists. How much work is that?
RIVERS: I'm not as good as I should be.
NORVILLE: You're kidding.
RIVERS: I'm truly—also, I'm right now doing things that are age appropriate, which means I should be in a shroud.
NORVILLE: As you said, with the hands crossed and the flower
RIVERS: The hands crossed.
NORVILLE: The lily in your hands.
RIVERS: Mother, get a new toe tag.
NORVILLE: But you have also launched an incredible career that, quite frankly in terms of dollars and cents is probably more lucrative than what we see you doing on television, unless we're flipping around to cable and land on QVC.
RIVERS: QVC. God bless QVC. God bless my jewelry line. God bless my mother, who loved jewelry. That's where it's coming. There we are.
NORVILLE: How—is it true that you have sold over $200 million worth of costume jewelry?
RIVERS: Probably, as my partner David Dangle (ph) would say, probably more. He is always to me, Joan, you're lowballing.
NORVILLE: How did this door open to you?
RIVERS: It opened again at another low point in my career. I've had many low points. And they came to me and they said, would you like to design jewelry? And I thought, sure, why not?
And at that time nobody went on television to sell. It was—if your career was dead and over with, you still thought about selling on television. That is how low it was.
NORVILLE: But you thought your career was over.
RIVERS: Yes. Well, I always think that. But, yes, but I really did.
And I thought, I believe in going through every door. I believe in God and I really think everything has a reason. And I truly thought, do it. You only regret what you didn't do in life.
NORVILLE: Right.
RIVERS: And I did 10 things I would need on a desert island. So I wrote sailor and then I thought, what would the other nine be? And they would all be jewelry.
And that's where I created. And it sold. So I then went back and did a little more and then a little more. And it grew into this astonishing—we're international.
NORVILLE: It's amazing. It's amazing.
RIVERS: Yes. It's amazing. It's so—to be walking in Brussels and see a woman who doesn't speak English wearing one of my B-pins kills me.
NORVILLE: Kills you.
RIVERS: Kills me.
NORVILLE: Back with more of Joan Rivers right after this.
RIVERS: If this had been a taped show, I could have had a break now. I could have had a quickie. I could have downed a couple of uppers. I could have fired my staff. I could have dealt with feelings of inadequacy, like a normal star.
But, anyhow, stay tuned for more happy times.
NORVILLE: Joan Rivers puts celebrities to the test on the red carpet, but her opinions go way beyond that. We'll get her take on some of Hollywood's biggest stars right after this.
NORVILLE: Back now with comedian and entertainer Joan Rivers.
You have made a career on television talking about and to celebrities. But we have really kind of gone into this culture of celebrity. Do you feel responsible for it? How did this happen?
RIVERS: I don't know and I don't get it, because I really am not interested who "The Bachelorette" is going to pick. They are not real celebrities to me.
NORVILLE: But that just underscores how many people want to be like you. They want to be famous.
NORVILLE: No, seriously. They will sign up for these shows.
RIVERS: Fame.
NORVILLE: They will do anything to get their 15 minutes.
RIVERS: Anything. Anything.
And I guess that is wonderful because it makes you—your butcher will now say, I saw you on television. It makes you stand a little straighter.
NORVILLE: And the stars are just as into that as the regular people are. This whole industry that exists, it is very important for you to mention them.
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: Even though they may not like what you have to say, they are somebody if they get noticed.
RIVERS: Yes.
And it keeps you going. I remember after Edgar's suicide and the whole thing and I wasn't mentioned anywhere. And then they came out with a terribly mean article about me in "National "Enquirer." And Melissa called up and said, mom, you are in "The Enquirer." We are back this business.
NORVILLE: Really?
RIVERS: She understood. They're going to read about you. That means you're a celebrity again. It's OK.
NORVILLE: Who do you this is the most overrated celebrity out there now?
RIVERS: Oh, I don't know. It is so hard to say. I really don't know. How about that?
NORVILLE: Really?
Who do you see out on the landscape then on the other question that is not getting the notice they ought to, but they are going to be big?
I think Kathy Griffin is a brilliant comedian. And I don't think she is quite getting the due yet that she should yet. I think she's—Hugh Jackman is a super, super, super, super, blow-your-mind-away star. He is getting the recognition, but I think he is going to be major, even bigger.
NORVILLE: What about some of the stars on the red carpet? I just want to throw up some pictures and get your take on some of the people.
NORVILLE: So let's throw some videotape, if we can. I think this is from the Costume Institute the other night. We didn't have you on the red carpet, so we thought we would take some of the pictures.
This is Anne Heche at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum. What is with the hair?
RIVERS: I don't know. Perhaps she bumped into Ellen. I don't know.
NORVILLE: Next.
RIVERS: It was supposed to be France, wasn't it?
NORVILLE: Yes. The theme was dangerous liaisons. That is Renee Zellweger. She was one of the co-chairs of the thing. She looks pretty nice.
RIVERS: She looks great, but, again, the hair then should be French.
NORVILLE: Yes, but it was pouring down rain.
NORVILLE: Oh, that is going to hurt us. But I love Renee. I think Renee is terrific and has gone through a lot.
That is one of the Williams. That is Serena Williams, I think.
RIVERS: Great. Busty. How does she hit a ball? How does she do her backhand?
NORVILLE: Next. Let's move on. Who is that? Oh, that is Kim Cattrall.
RIVERS: Looking great.
NORVILLE: That is very pretty.
RIVERS: Looking great.
NORVILLE: I think that is Kim Cattrall. And that is the lady of the Oscars.
RIVERS: Oh, please.
NORVILLE: Charlize Theron.
RIVERS: I mean, golden. Golden. Can't touch her.
NORVILLE: Has she ever done it wrong on the red carpet all the times you've been out there?
RIVERS: Never. Long before she was who she was, when she was like one of the thousands that come through, you always noticed her because she was so beautifully dressed.
NORVILLE: And how much do you think about it when you are out there? You are out there critiquing the stars. You have got to be thinking a lot about what you are putting on. Where do you get your clothes?
RIVERS: I have a man named Kerry Fettman (ph) who goes and begs designers to lend it to me. And he says, she doesn't sweat. And I let him decide. I absolutely let him decide.
NORVILLE: So you don't pick your own clothes?
RIVERS: No, I let Kerry pick my clothes for the awards.
NORVILLE: But you get the award for being best dressed. That really doesn't seem fair.
RIVERS: But that is real life.
NORVILLE: Oh, OK.
RIVERS: That's real life when we go to our own things. But the award shows, Kerry is so smart and knows what he is doing. Just let him do it.
NORVILLE: And the designers are thrilled.
RIVERS: They are very happy. And so far, I have had a couple of misses, but most of it has been hits.
NORVILLE: Who have been the biggest misses in the years that you have been out there on the red carpet?
RIVERS: Well, come on. Bjork.
NORVILLE: OK, the swan lady.
RIVERS: The chicken. Woman walking with a chicken.
NORVILLE: Did she ever say what she was thinking?
RIVERS: I think she was clucking.
NORVILLE: Uma Thurman.
RIVERS: Uma Thurman. Wasn't this, this year?
NORVILLE: That's this year's Oscars.
RIVERS: Well, she looks like she is coming from a—like she's going
to carry a German
NORVILLE: No, I think it's more like the gypsy wedding.
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: Oh, this is Lara Flynn Boyle.
RIVERS: Smartest white woman alive.
NORVILLE: Why?
RIVERS: She had just broken up with Jack Nicholson that year and she made every paper. He won and she made the headlines. I said to Melissa, this is one smart woman.
NORVILLE: So that was a calculated move.
RIVERS: That's what I have been told.
NORVILLE: To take the spotlight away from...
RIVERS: And did.
NORVILLE: And it worked.
RIVERS: How about that? Break up with me, will you?
NORVILLE: The dish from Joan Rivers.
RIVERS: Well, we will see, honey, who is going to get the headlines tomorrow, the winner, little picture, or me.
NORVILLE: And it is still out there.
RIVERS: It is still out. I think she is brilliant.
NORVILLE: Cool.
We will be back. More with Joan Rivers right after this.
NORVILLE: Do you like the music? You are sort of dancing around. A little happy tune.
RIVERS: This is called widows. That is how widows dance, dance from the waist up at parties, because nobody asks.
NORVILLE: Oh, that is so sad. Oh, lord.
Joan Rivers has had all kinds of ups and downs in her career, but she has always managed to carry on in the face of adversity.
You really have been a survivor. Where do you get the drive?
RIVERS: No choice. And what are you going to do? You can't fix what just happened. I can never sit down here again. You can never ask me the questions again, so you better keep moving forward.
NORVILLE: You do a lot of motivational speaking around the country. And I know a lot of women always come up to you afterwards. What piece of advice are they looking for? And guys, too, I guess.
RIVERS: I think they just want to hear that you are going to get through, the it is back to—nobody wants to deal—if she got through, then I can get through. And it does get better. I truly believe this.
I always say write down everything in a book, put it in the book and then reopen it in a year and you will go, oh, nonsense. It is much worse now. That was nonsense.
NORVILLE: Now we have really got a problem.
RIVERS: Now we have got problems.
NORVILLE: There was I know a sad chapter in your life when Melissa, your daughter, and her husband, John, were divorced.
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: They really did have the wedding of the century. I was privileged to attend. It was like being in a winter wonderland. The tables were beautiful. The hall was incredible. Melissa looked stunning in a Vera Wang gown.
RIVERS: Yes. And Preston Bailey did—look at those flowers.
NORVILLE: It was amazing.
RIVERS: Yes, it was great. Sad, very sad, sad that it didn't work, sad that he is so angry. And I'm so worried how it is going to affect the baby. And it is just one of those things. You have got to move on.
NORVILLE: Does it make it harder dealing with those kinds of family crises when you have been so in the limelight, the wedding was so public, you are such a public figure, and Melissa as well?
RIVERS: It does and it doesn't, Deborah.
It is horrible, as you know, when bad things happen to you in public. But the public can be so wonderful. When Edgar committed suicide, I was walking down the street in New York and a garbage man called out from his truck: "My wife lit a candle for you, Joanie."
NORVILLE: Aww.
RIVERS: I don't know where he is, but you just go, oh, thank you.
Somebody is helping me, caring for me.
NORVILLE: And that is really what it's all about, isn't it?
RIVERS: It's all about that we are there together helping.
NORVILLE: Yes. Yes.
RIVERS: Here I go again.
NORVILLE: You are not supposed to be crying here. I don't mean to do that.
RIVERS: You look so good.
RIVERS: I have to go look in the mirror.
NORVILLE: Reminds you of your youth.
NORVILLE: Is it true that you signed up for an online dating service?
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: I do not believe that.
RIVERS: Yes, I did.
NORVILLE: So you're here on national television telling the guys, I'm available.
RIVERS: Not one person called in.
NORVILLE: Seriously?
RIVERS: Seriously. Because everything was funny.
NORVILLE: Tell me about your application. What did you say about yourself?
RIVERS: I said things like, I only like long walks on the beach if you own the beach, that kind of stuff.
RIVERS: Oh, just—and the last thing was, and, frankly, Scarlett, if you don't call, I don't give a damn. And then I put in Nicole Kidman's picture with a line through it.
NORVILLE: This is not me.
RIVERS: This is not me. And they said, you can't do that. Didn't get one person.
NORVILLE: Do you go online and every day and check?
RIVERS: My assistant did, and then we stopped.
NORVILLE: It was too depressing.
RIVERS: Nobody.
NORVILLE: So, in your broken, alone old age here, how do you spend your nights?
RIVERS: Well, actually, performing. I perform. And I have a lot of
· nobody is 100 percent. It sounds like my lecture now. I have, boy, 92.6. It's OK. So there is nobody in my life at the moment.
NORVILLE: But that's OK?
RIVERS: I met one man. He is in Australia. That is my luck.
NORVILLE: Well, you can always do a show in Australia.
RIVERS: Sure.
NORVILLE: See him for the three nights that you are there.
And, finally, I have got to ask you, I think you were the first person, maybe after Phillies Diller, to actually be public about plastic surgery.
RIVERS: Yes. Yes.
NORVILLE: Does it bug you that people know that you have had cosmetic work. Does it bug you that you see it all over the place now on reality TV?
RIVERS: I think it is wonderful. It bugs me they think I have done so much. I just came out of the closet because I was so sick of hearing actresses saying, I have done nothing and they're talking through their part in their hair.
And I came out and said, listen, everybody, everyone has done something pretty much in California after a certain age. If you want to look good, do it. And I think it's wonderful. If it makes you feel good, do it.
NORVILLE: Joan, it is always a pleasure. Your first book that you wrote was called "Enter Talking."
RIVERS: Yes.
NORVILLE: And something tells me that, years from now, when we are all standing around the grave, cemetery, the epitaph on the gravestone is going to be, she left laughing.
RIVERS: That is so sweet.
NORVILLE: Great to see you, Joan Rivers.
RIVERS: I love you. Thank you so much.
NORVILLE: Thank you so much for being here.
And for all of Joan's fans, she is going to be performing. If you are going to be up in the Boston area, she will be up there performing at the Wilbur Theatre. Her show is called "Broke and Alone." It is going to be tomorrow night through Saturday.
And also you'll be in Las Vegas.
RIVERS: The Stardust.
NORVILLE: The Stardust Hotel.
RIVERS: Going back after 10 years.
NORVILLE: It's the first time in 10 years?
RIVERS: Ten years, yes. The costume smells.
NORVILLE: Joan and her moldy costumes a decade later back in Las Vegas. It is really a testament to the fact that you keep on pushing and things are happening.
RIVERS: Yes, and to Bob Mackie.
NORVILLE: And to Bob Mackie.
Joan Rivers, always a pleasure. Come back and visit.
RIVERS: Thank you. Thank you.
NORVILLE: Back after this.
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Jun 8, 2017
Going to Young Living Convention 2017? So are we!
Come meet Sam in the Upper West Lobby on Thursday, June 15th @5:45pm-6:30pm or Saturday june 18th @ 12pm-12:30pm.
We'll be giving away fun oily swag and recording mini interviews for the show.
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Eggs in Purgatory
Eggs in Purgatory
Uova in Purgatorio
by James Belardo
Eggs in Purgatory (Uova in Purgatoria) or Shakshuka, as it's known in Tunisia and other northern African nations, is a quintessential Mediterranean dish. While it's typically made using fresh ripened tomatoes and spiced with Arabic spices such as cumin and turmeric, the Italians have their own interpretation. Ours is based on the Italian version. We use our recipe for a basic Pizza sauce which uses basil, oregano and hot pepper flakes as the main herbs.
4 Eggs
1-2 cups Pizza Sauce (try our homemade version)
Grated Pecorino Romano Cheese
Peperoncino Fiocchi (hot pepper flakes) – optional
Italian Bread (optional)
1. In a frying pan, heat the sauce to a simmer. You can either prepare the tomato sauce from scratch or use leftover sauce.
2. Slip the eggs into the sauce carefully, do not break the yolks!. We break the eggs into a small bowl prior to adding them to the sauce.
3. Cover the pan and let the eggs cook on top until they turn white.
4. Sprinkle the grated Pecorino Romano cheese on top.
5. Cover once again for a minute or two or place in broiler (f you prefer the egg yolks to harden).
6. Remove from oven and toss some chopped flat-leaf parsley on top!
7. Serve on top of crusty Italian bread!
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Products available in the Bashful shade include cardstock, ink pads and reinkers, glitter paper, gems and an album. They will all be available through July 31, 2018. I anticipate seeing coordinating patterned papers in the the 2018 Seasonal Expressions 1 & 2.
For more inspiration on the theme of Do Be Bashful, please visit Heart 2 Heart Challenges. And then, how about creating a project and sharing it with us at Heart 2 Heart Challenges? We will love being inspired by you!


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|BB Seguridade - Profile
Company´s profile
BB Seguridade Participaçőes S/A, is a leading player in the Brazilian insurance market. Formed on December 20, 2012, the Company was created by Banco do Brasil to centralize its partnerships with private players in insurance, pension plans and premium bonds companies, besides BB Corretora, its proprietary insurance broker.
BB Seguridade has two partnerships with Spanish group Mapfre, operating in the areas of rural, housing, auto and P&C segments. In pension plan solutions, the company has a partnership with Principal Financial Group. In the premium bonds segment, it operates through Brasilcap Capitalizaçăo, in a partnership with Brazilian Icatu Group. It also holds the controlling interest in BB Corretora, which sells the products exploring the banking channel through an exclusive contract signed with Banco do Brasil. Currently, those insurance products reach under 15% of the bank clients.
The company is also expanding into new businesses, with recently created Brasildental, to operate in the dental plan segment. In August 2013, BB Seguridade also made its debut in the reinsurance market, acquiring 20.5% of IRB Brasil Resseguro S.A.
As a result of the corporate reorganizations undertaken since 2008, and the existing potential inside Banco do Brasil's customer base, BB Seguridade is the fastest-growing company in the Brazilian insurance industry in terms of volume of premiums and contributions, according to Brazilian Superintendence of Private Insurance (SUSEP), and occupies a prominent position in each of its segments of operation.
In line with its controlling shareholder, BB Seguridade follows the highest corporate governance standards, as ratified by its inclusion, from 2014, in BM&FBOVESPA Novo Mercado (BBSE3). That listing segment requires the provision of information facilitating the monitoring and inspection of all acts by the management and controlling shareholders of the Company, and the adoption of corporate rules that best ensure the balancing of shareholders' rights.
The company's prominent position is based on the quality of products offered and on the exclusivity of sales through the Banco do Brasil's distribution channels. This model, known as Bancassurance, can be defined as a partnership between a bank and an insurance company, in which the bank acts as a distributor of such insurance company.
The network of Banco do Brasil's distribution channels includes 94% of Brazilian municipalities, comprising of: 5.4 thousand branches, 13.8 thousand points of service, 44.3 thousand ATMs, 28.6 thousand shared self-service terminals and 17.4 thousand points of bank correspondents.
The importance of this partnership is significant because it is part of BB's strategy to offer products that are suited to each segment of clients. And, the insurance, pension and premium bonds products are essential to this relationship strategy.
Besides this distribution network, BB Seguridade has also a network of over 20 thousand authorized brokers all over the Brazilian territory whose purpose is mainly to sell vehicle and non-life insurance lines.
BB Seguridade is also delivering commitments made to the market during the IPO process: the announcement of dividends, with an 80% payout, a public Guidance for the financial year, and the election of a member elected by the minority shareholders in our Board of Directors and Fiscal Council.
Those steps are part of our governance process, as well as being a part of the new Ibovespa from 2014 and launching an ADR level 1 program, in order to enhance the liquidity of our shares, and provide access to investors that have some kind of burden to invest in assets that are not traded in the US Market.
Controlling shareholder Banco do Brasil
Banco do Brasil S/A is the largest Brazilian and Latin American bank in terms of assets, with over 61 million customers, and third by market value. Headquartered in Brasília, the company was founded in 1808 and is the oldest active bank in Brazil. Controlled by the Brazilian government, is one of the four most profitable Brazilian banks, holding a strong leadership position in retail banking. Before BB Seguridade, it already had over 20 years of performance in the insurance area.


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Diljit Dosanjh also joined the actress in sharing the teaser. The actor hummed "Dum Dum Ishqaye Gunjata, Baje Dil Ek Tara Naal Ni" from the song and mentioned that the song is all set to release tomorrow and will be the first song of his upcoming romantic-comedy film Phillauri.
Phillauri is a romantic-comedy movie starring Anushka Sharma and Diljit Dosanjh. The movie under Anushka's second project as a producer and is set to hit the theatres on March 24. The film's first official poster was released on February 3, 2017. Notably, this will be the second time when Anushka and Diljit will share screen space after Udta Punjab.
Anushka's fans and followers have high hopes with the upcoming release as the actress' first production NH10 was highly acclaimed by critics and won awards as well. Post the release of Phillauri, Anushka will start filming Imtiaz Ali's next film Rehnuma with Shah Rukh Khan.


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End of another couple of weeks of holidays (much of which I spent working, but there you go), and here, finally, along with the first of my Macedonian Cav...
...including Thessalian Cavalry (Cv), some generic Greek LH, and young Alexander himself, atop Bucephalus, which I'll use to represent all Hellenistic generals (DBA Kn - after all, they were all trying to be a new Alexander, right up to Napoleon!)...
...I have finally finished painting all of my Hoplites!
(Newline metals)
So now I have 18 hoplite elements. Huzzah! Enough for two opposing armies...
...in this case II/05b [Later Hoplite] Athenian Army 448-275 BC...
- 1 x General (Sp)
- 1 x Cavalry (Cv)
- 1 x Cavalry (LH)
- 4 x Hoplites (Sp)
- 3 x Hoplites (Sp) (or Peltasts (Ps), which I've pulled into my 4Ax elements)
- 1 x Hoplites (Sp) (see above)
- 1 x Archers ([3]Bw - mine are 4Bw...for some reason...)
...against II/05i [Later Hoplite] Other Hoplite Armies in Greece 448-225 BC...
- 1 x General (Sp)
- 1 x Hoplites (Sp) (or Cavalry (Cv) which will be in the form of my Alexandrian Allied Greek Cav, which are now on the painting block, so to speak)
- 7 x Hoplites (Sp)
- 2 x Hoplites (Sp) (or Peltasts (Ps), which I've pulled into my 4Ax elements)
- 1 x Psiloi (Ps) (these are actually figures from my first box of Revell Pretorians many, many, many moons ago)
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I've been with RTR since 2004 and present RTR's gonzo journalism show Indymedia as well as spinning Hip Hop on All City. I'm also somewhat active in the local music scene and activist community.
How did you become involved in the station?
I joined RTR shortly after Indymedia went to air in early 2004, I'd been involved as an editor for the Perth Independent Media Centre and getting involved in the show was a natural progression.
If stuck on Mars, what five albums could you not go without?
- Fugazi – The Argument
- A Silver Mt Zion – Horses In The Sky
- Battles – Mirrored
- El-P – Cancer For Cure
- Saul Williams – Amethyst Rock Star
But seriously, life on Mars would suck without being able to discover new music!
What is the best thing about being involved in the station?
Being able to give air time to those artists, activists and muscians often neglected by the mainstream corporate media.
What is the strangest thing that has happened to you at RTRFM?
People are strange….
If you could present a show other than your own, which would it be and why?
I enjoy doing the occasional Drive Time but possibly Down Underground to rep some ozi hip hop or Burn The Airwaves for the punk edge.
What do you do in real life?
Among other things I play in local band Zeks, help produce the local zine Avenue, organise various gigs and generally enjoy the ups and downs of living in Perth, the largest city on the planet


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Survival Tips: How to Prepare to Move House with Young Children
Article by Liza McKilliam, Licensed Real Estate Agent.
It can be hard to see the act of moving house with rose tinted glasses on. It's stressful, emotional, and will likely involve tears (not just from the children). But it's also exciting, adventurous and full of promise!
Nevertheless, how do you manage to maintain order in the process of moving house with young children? Some days it can be a challenge even to get them to pack up their toys! I'm not going to lie; it's a tough gig. But it IS doable. With a little forethought, thorough planning and a firm grip on how to approach several potentially emotionally charged situations, you can get to your new home with minimal breakages and next to no (unhappy) tears!
Focus on the positives
The first and most important thing to address is how to break the news of the move to your children. It's critical to get this right from the offset as it will determine how they view and act throughout the entire process of relocating. While babies may be blissfully unaware of any changes as long as there are minimal interruptions to their routine, toddlers and children under the age of five may need some strong convincing.
Consider reading them books about moving house and telling them (positive) stories about your previous moving experiences. Make sure you always appear upbeat and excited about the move whenever you discuss it. In those moments where you need to stamp your feet, cry out a few select curse words and pull your hair (we all have them!) ensure that this is done out of sight of your little ones. It's no secret that small children can be very perceptive, and will catch on if they know you're stressed about the impending change.
If you have the chance, take your children to the new house before you move and get them excited about decorating their bedroom. A little exploration of the parks, library and grocery shops around the neighbourhood may also be a good idea! Cultivating a sense of enthusiasm and reassurance around the moving process will help to ease tension and make the process much smoother.
Don't be afraid to enlist the help of others
If you are hands down exhausted by the time baby goes for a nap or you put the kids to bed, packing while they're asleep isn't feasible. And don't forget that you need a decent rest too! When you're boxing everything up and decluttering as you go, having someone there to mind the kids while you do so can be a real godsend. Whether this is a hired babysitter, a friend or a relative, it'll allow you to get on with the job while your children are merrily occupied.
If the kids are old enough, you may even like to give them a few crayons and put their artistic skills to work drawing the items that are packed on the boxes they're in. Just remember, everyone needs a little help when moving house, and it's usually no issue if you're more than happy to return the favour when the time comes!
Know what you need during the move
Ensuring that all boxes are correctly labelled is a no-brainer. But don't forget to separate the things you will need straight away, from the things that can wait to be unpacked. Put aside a suitcase for all the essentials which will be required on the first night you get to your new home. These may include basic kitchen utensils, clothes, toiletries and all the necessary baby care items. Make sure you leave aside your children's favourite toys so that they have something familiar with them at all times during the moving process.
Have an 'off limits' room
The packing process usually starts at least a week before moving day. And it can often lead to the house being strewn with half-packed boxes just waiting for someone to trip and fall over them, or items to be taken out and displaced. Things which would usually be in cupboards with child-proof locks may be out in the open, tempting the inspection of curious little hands. The last thing you need is a trip to the hospital! To avoid these situations, pack one room in the house first (perhaps the study, guest room or garage) and then designate it as the 'packed and ready to go' room that's out of bounds for the kids. This will not only allow you to rest easy knowing that everything is safely out of reach, but it also means that once those boxes are in that room, there'll be no unpacking until they get to the new house. We all know how kids like to squirrel toys away when (they think) you aren't looking!
Let everyone in on the game plan
Have a plan for moving day that everyone in the family, and everyone helping with the move, is aware of. Moving on a day that the kids are in daycare, or having a fun visit to Grandma and Grandpa's organised, will relieve you of a lot of stress. It'll also allow you to concentrate on setting up the house so that the children will feel comfortable on their first night there.
Know what rooms you intend on assembling first; the kitchen is always a good place to start! Unbox sentimental items for the children's bedrooms that will make them feel at home (a nightlight or two will never go amiss!). You can always leave a special box for them to unpack so that they feel a part of the process. Remember that having a plan is fantastic, but if something goes wrong, it isn't the end of the world (though it can feel like it after minimal sleep). Keep a level head, make sure you get your morning coffee and a few moments of respite throughout the day, and most importantly remind yourself of the exciting reasons you're moving!
If you're looking to sell a home in Kenmore, Chapel Hill, Pullenvale, Fig Tree Pocket or Brookfield contact Liza McKilliam today. Liza is a second generation real estate with over 18 years of experience selling local homes, and above all, she is passionate about finding the perfect buyer for your home.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of RE/MAX Profile Real Estate, the Global RE/MAX network or its agents.


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A federal judge has rejected efforts by a Canadian smelter to drag other companies into a legal fight over Columbia River pollution, paving the way for a trial in September and potentially saving the state or U.S. government from having to pay to clean up the mess, Washington state officials said Monday.
The ruling last week marks the latest step in a long-running dispute over a buildup of heavy metals in sediment behind north-central Washington's Grand Coulee Dam. Cleaning up the contamination has been estimated at as much as $1 billion.
Teck Cominco Metals Ltd., operators of a lead and zinc smelter in Trail, British Columbia, had argued it should only be responsible for part of the cleanup, contending that other unidentified polluters should also contribute.
U.S. District Judge Lonny R. Suko ruled Wednesday that the company should pay for the cleanup if found liable for the pollution. A trial on that question is scheduled to begin Sept. 10 in Yakima.
Teck Cominco could still file claims against other companies to help pay for cleanup, Assistant Attorney General Kelly Wood said, but the government now won't have to "eat that cost" if those other companies are no longer operating or viable.
Teck Cominco is aware of the ruling and reviewing it with legal counsel, according to Marcia Smith, the company's senior vice president for sustainability and external affairs.
"It is important to note that these proceedings are still at an early stage," Smith said in an email. "Further, despite these rulings, we are encouraged by the results of our ongoing studies into environmental conditions in the Upper Columbia River."
Teck Cominco is one of Canada's largest mining companies, and its lead-zinc smelter 10 miles north of the U.S. border is among the largest of its kind in the world. However, state and federal authorities contend the company and its predecessors discharged mining waste into the river for decades.
That waste then flowed into Washington, causing significant heavy metal contamination in Lake Roosevelt, a 150-mile stretch of the Columbia River from Grand Coulee Dam to the Canadian border.
A decade ago, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to assess contamination in the reservoir. In 2003, the EPA decided that Teck Cominco was subject to the U.S. Superfund law, because releases from the smelter had traveled down the river into the United States. The agency demanded the company pay for studies to determine the extent of the contamination, and then clean it up.
The tribes filed suit in 2004, and the state joined the lawsuit as an intervener.
The case has proven to be both costly and contentious. In 2009, a federal judge ordered Teck Cominco to reimburse the Colvilles for more than $1 million the tribes' had spent on the case over five years. The company also has appealed some rulings in the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The latest ruling is welcome news for the tribes, Colville Business Council Chairman Michael Finley said in a statement.
Doug Seymour, chairman of the tribes' Natural Resources Committee, noted that the Columbia River has always been central to the tribes' way of life, culture and survival.
"I look forward to a cleanup of the river that has been so important to the Colville Tribes for thousands of years," he said, "and to righting the environmental wrongs that we have suffered as a Nation."
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Brokers may have idealistic visions of the benefits of breaking away from their wirehouses to go independent, but they should be extremely cautious before making the move, according to industry executives speaking at a roundtable forum sponsored by Schwab Advisor Services.
"The amount of due diligence [necessary to become an RIA] is incredibly overwhelming," said Christopher Forte, who left Wells Fargo Advisors with his wirehouse team to launch Integrated Investment Consultants in 2015. "For around a year, you're running an existing business with clients, while starting a new business at the same time."
Hubris can also be an issue, according to Chris Dupuy, who helps wirehouse brokers transition as president of Focus Financial Partners' Independence division.
"Successful lead advisers can be a very confident group," Dupuy said. "They risk underestimating the level of complexity [of going independent]. If we see signs of that, it's an enormous red flag. We try to remind them that you don't what you don't know."
Wirehouse stars can be "naïve" about starting an RIA — or joining one that's already established, warns Shirl Penney, CEO of integrated platform provider Dynasty Financial Partners.
"They may hire the wrong people or the wrong partners," Penney says. "They may not understand a firm's capital structure or ask the right questions about a firm's preferred equity, debt or what the common equity is actually worth."
To be sure, the virtues of owning an independent business outweigh the hassles involved in starting one, the panelists agreed.
The rapid growth of the independent channel has meant an "explosion of opportunity" for advisers, according to Jon Beatty, SVP, sales and relationship management for Schwab Advisor Services.
Schwab's own business with newly-formed RIAs has increased by 25% in the past two years, he said, and he noted industry forecasts predicting an increase of the RIA's share of the advisory market to 28% by 2020, up from 23% in 2016.
Forte said that existing and prospective clients of his Birmingham, Michigan-based firm have applauded the newly-minted RIA's entrepreneurial bona fides and embrace of the fiduciary standard.
"Having fiduciary language in contracts means something to clients," Forte said. What's more, he added, about half of Integrated Investment Consultants clients are entrepreneurs, who appreciated the fact that Forte and his partners knew the challenges involved in starting and running their own company.
Breakaway brokers using firms like Dynasty and Focus to acquire state-of-the-art technology, middle-office services and capital for expansion are part of the "rapid professionalization" of the advisory industry, according to Penney.
These RIAs will have "a lot more ability to differentiate themselves" in an increasingly competitive marketplace than legacy advisory firms, he argued.
What's more, breakaways have the potential to capture more income as independents, Penney said, in addition to owning equity in their firm. Breakaway brokers can expect an "uptick in compensation," he said, in the form of gross margins of 60% to 65%, compared to 40% to 45% at wirehouses.
Success as an independent depends on the strength of a breakaway's team, the quality of its business, access to capital and good timing, Penney maintained.
The willingness of a wirehouse broker to take risks is also critical, but can't be forced, he cautioned.
"You can't sell somebody to be an entrepreneur, but you can educate them to be a successful one," Penney said.


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Home > Law > NLR > Vol. 58 (1979) > Iss. 1
I. Introduction
II. Leading Supreme Court Cases Defining Procedural Due Process Rights of Juveniles
III. Review of State Court Cases
IV. Analysis of State Court Decisions … A. Analysis of the Determination That a Juvenile's Acts Would Constitute a "Crime If Committed by an Adult" … B. An Alternative to the Two-Pronged Test
V. Conclusion
Recommended Citation
Joseph F. Smith Jr.,
An Analysis of When Juveniles Must Be Afforded Due Process Rights,
58 Neb. L. Rev. 136
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol58/iss1/4


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Paint in the Dark™ UV body painting class for couples
A body painting class for couples at our studio location in Williamsburg, NYC. A romantic and playful date activity where couples paint each other in a dark studio lit by black lights.
You don't need to bring any thing to the class. We will provide all the supplies to create your masterpiece. In this class, you have the creative freedom to paint anything you want.
Check out the pictures from past classes below so you can get an idea of what others have painted in class. If you're not very confident of your artistic ability, our instructor would be more than happy to provide help and support.
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Is there an age limit to enter the event?
Because of the (partial) nudity involved in the event, you need to be at least 18 years olf
What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
The venue is a short walk from Greenpoint Av stop on G train and street parking around the venue is normally easy to find
What do I bring to the class?
We will provide the supplies for the class, so you don't need to bring anything to the class. We do encourage participants to come with ideas for the design(s) that they'd like to paint on their partner or what they'd like to have painted on themselves.
Can my friend come to the session?
Sorry, this is only for registered students. Having people who don't participate in the class could make some students feel uncomfortable.
Do I have to be an artist or have some artistic skills
No. Most people who come to this class don't consider themselves as artistic or would brag about their painting abilities. The focus of this class is to experiment with body painting and have fun: to play. Our professional artist will be able to provide any help that you may need (i.e. outlining the design for you to fill in )
Can I request what will be painted on me?
Yes, you have the opportunity to decide (together with your partner) what you will paint and what will be painted on your body.
Do I have to be in nude for this class?
No, nudity is not required for this class. Many students prefer to be topless for the class. However, if you don't feel comfortable being topless, you can get the painting on your back and you can cover your front torso.
Can I bring wine to class?
Yes, please do.
What if I need to cancel or reschedule?
Our standard cancelation policy applies to this class. You can review it on our site: Cancelation and rescheduling policy


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Before we begin this review it's important that we acknowledge the massive black cloud that's been hanging over this movie since the Suicide Squad reviews starting pouring in. Since people seem to scream "bias" or "paid off" like it's some kneejerk reaction and justification, let me be quite clear that I am actually a massive DC fan. Far more than Marvel and especially for anything relating to the villains such as Suicide Squad. Normally this shouldn't even matter, but it seems like some people will straight out refuse to accept that a DC property can be bad. Which, of course, brings me to director David Ayer's Suicide Squad.
For those unaware, the Suicide Squad is a crew of famed DC villains (mainly Batman's) that have been assembled as a Black Ops force to go on secret missions that others cannot. This is the basic set up for the film, as the steely-eyed government official Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) assembles a task force of meta-humans to hunt down a destructive entity. Each member has a bomb planted in their necks in case they try to run and they are babysat by the overly stern Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman). Don't go into this movie expecting a lot of development from the majority of the cast as Ayers brushes over 90% of their backstories and never brings it up again.
Characters like Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney) and Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) are so utterly one-dimensional that it becomes clear very early on that they are simply in this movie because the Suicide Squad needed to have more characters. This really comes to the heart of the issue, and that's the balance between this massively bloated cast. Now don't get me wrong; the actual actors and actresses do a fantastic job portraying their respective characters — Margot Robbie offers up an incredibly memorable Harley Quinn and Will Smith's Deadshot is so on point that he feels as if he jumped directly from the comic book's pages.
Speaking of Deadshot, there is a lot more time spent on him than you might expect, and, honestly, it makes me wonder what would happen if the film was more focused on him. Smith brings the charisma and coldness needed for this hitman, but the disproportionate amount of time spent on him over the others is incredibly apparent. Harley is the other character who gets an intense amount of focus and she is a welcomed presence to the movie. Robbie has clearly embodied everything about this character and her passion for this iconic villain bleeds through the screen.
Though I'm sure the one performance everyone wants to know about is Jared Leto's portrayal of The Joker. From what time Leto gets, the man eats up every moment on screen, giving us a unique and interesting version of the Clown Prince of Crime. Acting more as a mix between a flamboyant gangster and the classic psychopathic version we all know best, his portrayal is fascinating to watch. However, you won't be watching for long because this character appears for maybe a whole 15 minutes — I'm being generous with that time. His character literally serves no purpose to the plot itself, and when it seems like he might actually make a significant impact that concept is dashed away as fast as it arrived. The Joker is here for fan service and nothing more, which is a shame.
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Speaking of shame, the disjointed editing and soundtrack for this movie is so out of place that it borderline ruins the entire movie. Suicide Squad is a prime example of when someone tries to be trendy by throwing in as many "fun" soundtrack pieces as possible in hopes of giving a film some personality and life. Instead of letting one or two big music drops cap off a great moment, Ayers throws an insane amount of songs at the wall and hopes that a few stick. The same could be said for the editing, which comes off like the editor was just slapping the keyboard with reckless abandonment and cutting random sections out.
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In terms of action, it's handled competently with some interesting choreography and fun crowd-pleasing moments. Though there is nothing exactly special about its fight scenes, they are serviceable enough and allow everyone a fair amount of screentime. It's a shame that during their fight scenes there's so much CGI plastered everywhere that you might think the actors were digitally inserted into scenes. Characters like Enchantress (Cara Delevinge) look great because the CGI is only used to enhance their appearance, while those who are completely computer generated are absurdly cartoonish.
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Suicide Squad is not the worst movie DC has made, but this isn't the smash hit they needed, either. This is a fractured film that is only saved by the talented cast and some serviceable moments to both comic and movie fans. It's a frustrating movie due to the clear ambition and fantastic source material to pull from, but it's a shame Ayers had no idea how to handle it all. By the end of Suicide Squad, you can almost hear DC's movie division go on life support as another property fails to deliver anything it seemed to promise.
- Will Smith's Deadshot
- Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn
- Some Fun Fan Service
- Jared Leto's Joker…
- …Who Shows Up and Promptly Does Nothing
- Disjointed Soundtrack/Editing
- Weak Story
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JP Nadda to launch 15 medical outlets of AMRUT Deendayal in Assam, UP & Punjab:
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda will launch 15 medical outlets of AMRUT Deendayal in Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab through Video Conference from Shimla.
Mr Nadda will also inaugurate one outlet of AMRUT Deendayal at Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) Shimla. Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment, AMRUT Deendayal Pharmacy is the flagship programme of Government of India.
The purpose of AMRUT Deendayal programme is to provide different kind of medicines and equipment's on cheap rates to the patients. The discount up to 60 percent on MRP is provided to the patients. The flagship programme was launched in November 2015 and 84 outlets have been opened in 18 states.
- Capital: Dispur
- Chief Minister: Sarbananda Sonowal
- Governor: Banwarilal Purohit
- Capital: Chandigarh
- Governor: P. Singh Badnore
- Chief Minister: Captain Amarinder Singh
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- Capital: Lucknow
- Chief Minister: Yogi Adityanath
- Governor: Shri Ram Naik
Assam govt proposes project to improve rural road connectivity:
The Assam government has proposed ambitious project to improve rural road connectivity. Managing Director of Assam State Transport Corporation A P Tiwari said that government is mulling to start Chief Minister's Lok Parivahan Yojna.
Apart from this, 140 uncovered routes of the state will be covered. He also said that a slew of measures are being initiated to make the corporation a profit making body. Mr. Tiwari said that commercial complexes will be constructed at PPP mode. He further said that super deluxe buses including Mercedes will run in Guwahati by October this year.
IOC to invest Rs 52,000 cr in Paradip refinery post pact with Odisha govt:
State-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC) will invest about Rs 52,000 crore in expanding Paradip refinery and setting up petrochemical complex after the Odisha government agreed to restore part of tax incentives, a top source said.
The state government has agreed to give Rs 700 crore per annum of an interest-free loan for 15 years to make up for the withdrawn incentive of 11-year deferment on payment of sales tax on Paradip refinery products sold in the state.
- Capital: Bhubaneswar
- Chief Minister: Naveen Patnaik
- Governor: C. Jamir
Union government to double Metro network in 18 months, add 4 new cities on map:
In a major fillip to urban transport, the Union government is all set to double the metro rail network over the next 18 months, adding three new cities to the metro map. The biggest gainers would be cities in BJP-ruled states, viz. Lucknow, Ahmedabad and Nagpur. Lucknow Metro would be the first off the block as it has received safety clearance and would be inaugurated within this month.
Election-bound Gujarat would get its first 6.3 km stretch in the capital city Ahmedabad next month. These two stretches would be followed by 28.4 km stretch in Delhi and 28 km in Hyderabad in September.
Defence Ministry approves delegation of powers to Border Roads Organisation:
The Ministry of Defence has decided to delegate administrative and financial powers to the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to avoid delays on account of references between the Chief Engineer, HQ DGBR and the Ministry.
The Defence Ministry intends to bring transformational changes in the organisation in order to improve the pace of execution of works and to achieve desired outcomes according to the requirement of the armed forces. A chief engineer of the BRO can accord administrative approval up to Rs. 50 crore, ADGBR up to Rs. 75 crore and DGBR up to Rs. 100 crore.
PM reviews progress of Soil Health Cards and PMFBY:
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, reviewed the progress of two key schemes related to the agriculture sector – Soil Health Cards; and Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana.
The Prime Minister was informed that 16 States/UTs have completed the first cycle of Soil Health Cards distribution, and the remaining States are likely to complete the same within weeks.
On Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, the Prime Minister was informed that in the Kharif season of 2016, and Rabi season of 2016-17, claims of over Rs. 7700 crore have already been paid, and over 90 lakh farmers have been benefited.
National Workshop on Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights:
The Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM), a professional body under the aegis of the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, is organizing a three-day workshop on Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) from 22nd – 24th August, 2017, in New Delhi.
Shri Rajnath Singh, Union Minister of Home Affairs, will be the Chief Guest in presence of Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State (I/C), Commerce & Industry, and Shri Kiren Rijijiu, Minister of State, Home Affairs at the inauguration of the workshop.
Shri Piyush Goyal addresses the 8th World Renewable Energy Technology Congress:
Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, Renewable Energy and Mines, Shri Piyush Goyal, addressed a distinguished gathering of delegates attended 8th World Renewable Energy Technology Congress in New Delhi. The Minister also gave away Energy and Environment Foundation Global Excellence awards 2017 during the inaugural session of the conference.
The annual conference is visualized and planned in the backdrop of India's vision on achieving "Energy Independence and Power for all by 2022". It focusses on new Green Technologies to ensure clean, reliable and affordable Renewable Energy supplies.
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- Deputy General,: Shri Upendra Tripathy
NASA launches satellite to help astronauts talk to Earth:
NASA has launched the latest in a series of satellites aimed at ensuring astronauts at the International Space Station can communicate with Earth.
The $408 million Boeing-made Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-M) soared into space atop an Atlas V rocket that launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
US-South Korea set for divisive military drills:
The annual ten day "Ulchi Freedom Guardian" joint military exercise between the US and South Korea is routine. It begins, just days after dictator Kim Jong-un shelved plans to land four ballistic missiles in the waters around the American Pacific Territory Of Guam.
South Korea
- Currency: South Korean won
- Capital: Seoul
- President: MOON Jae-in
- President of the United States: Donald Trump
- Currency: United States Dollar
- Capital: Washington, D.C.
Regional rural banks' mergers get exemption from CCI:
The mergers of regional rural banks that are ordered by the government are now exempt from seeking CCI approval, according to a notification a move that will lead to faster closure of such transactions. The exemption has been granted for a period of five years.
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) keeps a tab on unfair business practices across sectors. Mergers and acquisitions beyond a certain threshold compulsorily require clearance from the fair trade watchdog.
Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) set up under the RRB Act, 1976 provide credit and other facilities to small farmers, agricultural labourers and artisans, among others, in the rural areas. The provisions of Section 5 and 6 of the Competition Act would not be applicable for five years on such transactions.
Govt extends BHIM cash back scheme for merchants till March:
The government has extended till March a cash back scheme that offers incentives of up to Rs.1,000 to merchants for accepting payments through the Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) application.
The BHIM cash back scheme for merchants will be operational till 31 March 2018, a note by ministry of electronics and information technology (IT) said.
About BHIM:
The scheme was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 14 April for a period of six months for promoting cashless payments through the BHIM app. Under the scheme, a merchant can get cash back of Rs 50 for 20-50 transaction, Rs 2 for every transaction there after till Rs 950.
The monthly limit of BHIM cash back scheme is Rs.1,000. The condition for availing benefit is that at least 20 transactions should have been accepted by the merchant during the month from unique users of the BHIM with each amounting to minimum of Rs. 25.
The app user can make transaction by using UPI address, ISFC code and bank account of the recipient and by scanning QR code that can be generated in the app itself.
Axis Bank to waive 12 EMIs on regular home loan repayment:
With competition getting hotter in the affordable housing finance sector, private lender Axis Bank will waive 12 equated monthly installments (EMIs) on regular repayments of loans of up to Rs. 30 lakh under the new scheme Shubh Aarambh Home Loans.
The lender has introduced Shubh Aarambh Home Loans, in which 12 EMIs are waived — four EMIs each after the fourth, eighth and 12th year — from the date of the first disbursement. The waiver will be in the form of reduction in tenure.
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- Headquarters: Mumbai
- Chairman: Shikha Sharma
12-year-old Indian-origin TV star crowned Child Genius in UK:
A 12-year-old Rahul Doshi Indian-origin boy has been crowned as the UK's 'Child Genius' in a popular television quiz competition.
He won the Channel 4 show 'Child Genius' by beating his nine-year-old opponent – Ronan – 10-4 in the programmes finale. The schoolboy from north London clinched the title by answering a question on 19th Century artists William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.
- Currency: Pound sterling
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- Prime minister: Theresa May
'Durga of Indian football' Oinam Bembem Devi wins Arjuna Award:
Oinam Bembem Devi, the flag bearer of Indian women's football over the past two decades was named the winner of the prestigious Arjuna Award. Bembem becomes the second Indian woman footballer to win the award, the first being Shanti Mullick in 1983.
Bembem, nicknamed the 'Durga of Indian Football,' who had made her international debut in 1995, bowed out on a high after winning the SAF Games Gold Medal in Shillong in February 2015.
Ghosh-Sathiyan settle for silver at Bulgaria Open:
The Indian pair of Soumyajit Ghosh and G Sathiyan came close to toppling the top-seeded Japanese duo of Jin Uda and Maharu Yoshimura, only to end with a silver in the men's doubles at the Bulgaria Open in Panagyurishte.
US comedian Jerry Lewis passes away in Las Vegas:
Jerry Lewis, one of Hollywood's most successful comedians died in Las Vegas. One of the most popular comic actors of the 1950s and '60s, Lewis perfected the role of the quirky clown but also won acclaim as a writer, actor and philanthropist in a career spanning six decades. He became the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, chalking up hits such as The Bell Boy, Cinderella and The Nutty Professor.


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In September, Tila spent time down on her private island, which turns out to be Joe Francis' Mexico beachfront property. While spending time there, she did an interview for Girls Gone Wild Magazine. The property at that time was called Girls Gone Wild Island. What does a girl like Tila do in a place like Girls Gone Wild Island? She had told police and anyone else who would listen that she cannot drink alcohol only days before, so that is out of the picture. Let's take a look at her article from Girls Gone Wild Magazine to see what she did do!
"My life is so hectic," Tequila tells the Girls Gone Wild magazine. She saw "Girls Gone Wild Island" as "an escape, a place where I could be by myself, have some peace and quiet. "Girls Gone Wild Island" is a sprawling tropical paradise and favorite getaway spot for A-List celebrities. In her revealing interview, Tila takes readers through her day-to-day life on the island — riding jet skis, lounging in the sun and drinking Margaritas, in nothing but a bikini and stiletto heels (or less). "I was a giddy little girl in a candy store," Tila says of her luxury vacation."
Tila Tequila, the girl who got her name because it is ironic since she cannot drink, spent her vacation drinking margaritas less than a week after telling the world she is allergic.
Now, what is this connection to Joe Francis? It turns out that Joe Francis owns Mantra Films which owns Tila's dating website. Joe Francis found himself in a bit of trouble when it turned out that some of the girls on his video were underage. One can only wonder how Mr. Francis would feel about Tila Tequila telling minors to lie about being 18 to sign up for her site where she hosts pornographic videos of herself and does live strip shows. Not only are there images of Tila Tequila nude for minors to see, but there are numerous instances of girls as young as 13 using the website to host live videos of themselves in unlawful acts.
We think it is time Tila Tequila takes a break from it all. She can spend an alcohol-free month down at her private island and turn the computer and phone off. No VIP chatting, no lying on Twitter about Shawne Merriman admitting to things he didn't admit to at all, and no talking to minors from her so-called-Army.
It would be a much needed break for her and for the world.


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