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Sammy Sosa's Changing Face

From this to this. Is it poor self esteem?

Isn't it ironic that while some darker-skinned people seem to want to be lighter, it seems the opposite for caucasian people. Millions of them are diagnosed with skin cancer from lying in the sun wanting to tan their colour. ]]> The Lounge valteena http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38802-changing-color-complex.html http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38796-nigerian-vs-american-men.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:24:09 GMT disclaimer: This was culled from someone's write up,not lateesha's opinions perhaps her experience but do you think it's true?

Nigerian Men: I realllly like them- they are soo sexy and I love their macho and manliness
American Men: They're cool- a little too soft at times, but less domineering.

Nigerian Men: VERY passionate and intense in their pursuit of a woman
American Men: Very casual about pursuing women and assumes few women are "good enough" for him.

Nigerian men: Are more likely to avoid loose trampy ignorant behaving women - wants sex- w/ women who can potentially make good wife material.
American men: Don't mind loose trampy ignorant women- he just wants sex anyway and not marriage.

Nigerian men: Are sexist. Has strict ideals about the role of a woman vs role of a man
American men: not sexist at all. Wants a woman to do all he can do and MORE!

Nigerian Men: will Allow wife to be a housewife.
American Men: think housewives are lazy freeloaders. But if the wife is White (Oyimbo) then its okay for HER to be housewife and raise their children.

Nigerian Men: don't keep six pack , muscles, or stay w/nice physique past 20's or once they are married.
American Men: more likely to keep six pack, muscles, well into 30's, 40's and after marriage.

Nigerian Men: see honor in having wife, and kids
American Men: have 3 kids, and never 1 wife. (according to statistics that 70% of Afr. Amer. children are born out of wedlock.)

Nigerian Men: Appreciate beauty in all colors, and shapes. Do not like thick/plus sized women too often.
American Men: Appreciates beauty in every color except VERY DARK skin, do not like skinny girls too often, is OBSESSED with big butts. A LOT of them favor plus-sized women.

Nigerian men: don't stay in shape past their 20's, or once they are married.
American Men: Are vain and more likely to put more effort into staying in shape and looking young well into 30's and 40's.

Nigerian Men: will cheat and expect wife to forgive and forget.
American men: will cheat and KNOW he will be cussed out from A-Z, AND suffer some type of bitter revenge from the wife.

Nigerian Men: are responsible AND STINGY with money. Wife has to EXPLAIN why she needs it.
American Men: are irresponsible with money, but more likely to share with his wife with little question.

Nigerian Men: Looove Sex and are well endowed.
American men: Looove Sex and are well endowed.

Nigerian Men:Know AIDS is real-so he is more likely to play safely
American men: believe AIDS is a scare tactic and is more likely to take chances with unsafe sex. ]]> The Lounge lateesha http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38796-nigerian-vs-american-men.html http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38787-oprah-queen-day-time-show-end-talk-show.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:10:47 GMT

Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday's "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that she will end her talk show, said a spokesman for Winfrey's Harpo Productions.

"Oprah will be ending her talk show," Harpo spokesman Don Halcombe said Thursday. "She will be speaking about it on tomorrow's live show."

The show will air live from its Chicago, Illinois, studio at 9 a.m. CT (10 a.m. ET), he said.

The show will end on September 9, 2011, as its 25th season draws to a close, according to a letter from Harpo Inc. that President Tim Bennett addressed to partners and obtained by CNN affiliate WLS-TV.

"Tomorrow, Oprah will announce live on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that she has decided to end what is arguably one of the most popular, influential and enduring programs in television history," Bennett wrote.

The show has been the highest-rated talk show for 23 consecutive seasons, according to the Oprah.com site. It is seen by an estimated 42 million viewers a week in the United States and is broadcast to 145 countries.

The show had its origins in 1984, when Winfrey moved to Chicago to host WLS-TV's morning talk show, "AM Chicago," which became the No. 1 local talk show. The show surpassed ratings for "Donahue" one month after it began, the site said. Within a year, it had expanded to an hour-long format and been renamed "The Oprah Winfrey Show." It entered national syndication in 1986.

In August 2004, Winfrey signed an extension for the show to keep it on the air through 2011.

"I got a call from Oprah, and she told me that she is announcing that next year will be her last year," talk show host Ellen DeGeneres told her audience Thursday. "It will be her 25th year, and she feels like it's time for her to stop.

"I don't think I could be here without her," DeGeneres said. "I think she has blazed a trail ... she is an amazing woman. She will always be the queen of daytime television ... she is fantastic and I love her and I wish her the best. She deserves to rest. She has worked really, really hard."

Over the years, the show has made news on several occasions. In September 2004, for instance, Winfrey began a new season by giving each member of the audience a new car. In May 2005, Tom Cruise caused a sensation when he jumped up and down on Oprah's couch, declaring his love for actress Katie Holmes.

Other guests have shared their personal struggles, such as Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former vice presidential candidate John Edwards; performer Whitney Houston and Lisa Niemi, widow of actor Patrick Swayze.

The show has also served as a launching pad for several experts -- Dr. Mehmet Oz on nutrition and health; Suze Orman on financial matters; Dr. Phil McGraw on families and relationships; and Martha Beck, a life coach. McGraw went on to have a talk show of his own.

Along the way, Winfrey has revealed her struggles with weight loss and as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. From the talk show, she has created the popular Oprah's Book Club; O Magazine; Oprah's Angel Network, a charitable foundation; and co-founded Oxygen Media, a 24-hour cable channel aimed at women.

In 2008, Winfrey announced that beginning in 2009, the Discovery Health Channel would be named OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. The network is "a multi-platform media company designed to entertain, inform and inspire people to live their best lives," according to Oprah.com. Harpo Productions has also grown to include Harpo Films.

Winfrey's wealth was estimated at around $1 billion by Forbes in 2004. Last year, she topped the Forbes Celebrity 100 list that measures both power and money.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/1...how/index.html ]]> The Lounge valteena http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38787-oprah-queen-day-time-show-end-talk-show.html http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38769-do-men-expect-anniversary-gifts.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:08:48 GMT I was just thinking about this. Annually I get a bouquet of flowers delivered ,a card and a gift for our anniversary and I never give him anything... I was just thinking about this.
Annually I get a bouquet of flowers delivered ,a card and a gift for our anniversary and I never give him anything in return except the usual gift (in kind):D
I'll like to know if other married ladies here reciprocate the gift giving at their anniversary and if the men expect their women to give them something too at those times. ]]> The Lounge lateesha http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38769-do-men-expect-anniversary-gifts.html http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38765-murder-suspect-steals-police-car-way-prison.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:48:54 GMT Murder Suspect Steals Police Car on Way to Prison Handcuffed teen jumps in front seat and drives back to Chester By VINCE LATTANZIO ... Murder Suspect Steals Police Car on Way to Prison

Handcuffed teen jumps in front seat and drives back to Chester

By VINCE LATTANZIO

Updated 7:00 PM EST, Thu, Nov 19, 2009

Delaware County Prison A 17-year old murder suspect managed to delay his trip to prison, by stealing the police car he was riding inside.

Abdul Johnson was handcuffed in the backseat of an unmarked Delaware County police car outside the county jail when he made his way into the front seat and drove away just after 4 p.m. Thursday, police said.

His two escorts were outside the vehicle, securing their weapons when the teen made a break for it.

The teen sped through four Delco townships along Route 322 on his way back to Chester. Authorities caught up with the car and Johnson at Sixth and Highland Streets.

Dominique Smith, 19, is one of two teens charged in the murder of Kathy Stewart. Johnson and 19-year old Dominique Smith are facing First Degree Murder charges for the death of Kathy Stewart.

Stewart, 49, was sleeping in a front bedroom at her mother's home along 300 block of Franklin Street in Chester Tuesday when a stray bullet struck her in the head. She later died of her injuries.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/...-70563537.html ]]> The Lounge POWERHOUSE http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38765-murder-suspect-steals-police-car-way-prison.html http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38764-couple-busted-refusing-pay-tip.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:43:04 GMT Couple Busted for Refusing to Pay Tip Patrons claim service was so bad, they had to get napkins and silverware for themselves By DAVID CHANG ... Couple Busted for Refusing to Pay Tip

Patrons claim service was so bad, they had to get napkins and silverware for themselves

By DAVID CHANG
Updated 12:20 PM EST, Thu, Nov 19, 2009

If you’re frustrated by poor service at a restaurant, think twice before you decide to not tip. You may be in for a bit more than just a dirty look from the waiter.

"Nobody, nobody wants to be forced to pay a tip or be arrested for terrible service," Leslie Pope said when her happy hour ended in handcuffs.

Pope and John Wagner were hauled away by police and charged with theft for not paying the mandatory 18 percent gratuity totaling $16 after eating at the Lehigh Pub in Bethlehem, Pa. with six friends.

Pope claimed that they had to wait nearly an hour for their order and that she had to get napkins and silverware for the table herself.

"At this point I became very annoyed because I had already gone up to the bar myself to have my soda refilled because the waitress never came back,” Pope said.

After the $73 bill came, the group paid for food, drinks, and tax but refused to pay the tip. After explaining the bad service to the bartender in charge, Pope claimed he took their money and called police. The couple was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police car.

“I understand that, you know, we didn’t pay the gratuity, but it was a gratuity, it wasn’t something that was required,” said Wagner.

The owner admitted that the group waited unusually long for their food, but said the pub was extremely busy that night. He said managers offered to comp the food, a claim the couple denies ever happened.

“Obviously we would have liked for the patron and the establishment to have worked this out without getting the police involved,” said Deputy Police Commissioner Stuart Bedics.

Police charged them with theft since the gratuity was part of the actual bill. However, it is doubtful that the charges will hold up in front of a judge. The couple is scheduled to appear in court next month.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/...052.html?yhp=1 ]]> The Lounge POWERHOUSE http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38764-couple-busted-refusing-pay-tip.html http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38762-louis-armstrong-jews.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:50:01 GMT For a racial realist like myself, who often likes to discuss racial differences and the downside of races competing and interacting, some aspects of... For a racial realist like myself, who often likes to discuss racial differences and the downside of races competing and interacting, some aspects of these kinds of stories are interesting and sometimes heartwarming.

Of course, some bigots - who know themselves for I shall not reveal their names - deny that things like this ever happen - but that is why they are bigots.
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https://www.commentarymagazine.com/v...15265?page=all

Satchmo and the Jews
Terry Teachout From issue: November 2009

In addition to being the greatest jazz musician of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong was also the most beloved. “I never met anybody that didn’t love him that ever saw him work or ever has encountered him, had any connection or any business with him,” said Bing Crosby. The secret of Armstrong’s charm lay in the straightforward openness of his character. Though his personality was more complex than his fans realized, his public and private sides were essentially identical. One of his friends described him as “down-to-earth, natural, completely unpretentious, simple in the best sense of the word.”

Armstrong’s openness was not limited to his fellow blacks. To be sure, he had no illusions about the racism of the society into which he had been born. A colleague once dropped in on him after a performance and asked what was new. “Nothin’ new,” he replied. “White folks still ahead.” Yet he never yielded to the temptation to treat white musicians as he had been treated by whites. He was devoid of personal prejudice, and the All Stars, the band he led from 1947 until his death in 1971, were integrated at a time when it was still uncommon for a working jazz group to be racially mixed—especially one whose leader was black. “Those people who make the restrictions, they don’t know nothing about music, it’s no crime for cats of any color to get together and blow,” he said.

Armstrong’s lack of prejudice extended to Jews, an attitude that was comparatively rare among blacks of his generation. Outside his marriages, his closest adult relationship was with Joe Glaser, a Jewish gangster from Chicago who became his manager in 1935 and with whom he was intimately associated from then on. Armstrong described Glaser as “my dearest friend,” and those who knew both men well agreed that this was nothing more than the truth.

He was similarly admiring of the Karnofskys, a family of Jewish peddlers from Lithuania for whom he had worked as a boy in New Orleans. In 1969 he wrote a lengthy memoir of his relationship with the Karnofskys called “Louis Armstrong + the Jewish Family in New Orleans, La., the Year of 1907.” In it he told of how surprised he had been to discover that they “were having problems of their own—[a]long with hard times from the other white folks[’] nationalities who felt that they were better than the Jewish race. . . . I was only Seven years old but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the White Folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for.”



The young Armstrong saw the Karnofskys’ problems up close, for they took him under their wing, treating him almost like a relative. “They were always warm and kind to me, which was very noticeable to me—just a kid who could use a little word of kindness,” he recalled. He shared meals with them and borrowed money from them to buy his first cornet. Thereafter he would identify with the Karnofskys and the other Jews of New Orleans so closely that he became an ardent philo-Semite who wore a Star of David around his neck (Joe Glaser gave it to him). “I will love the Jewish people, all of my life,” he wrote in “Louis Armstrong + the Jewish Family,” adding that he learned from them “how to live—real life and determination.”

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One of the most striking aspects of Armstrong’s memoir of the Karnofskys is the explicitness with which it compares their conduct to that of New Orleans’s black community. Armstrong was impressed by the way in which the Jews whom he knew banded together in the face of prejudice, seeking to better their lot through work, and he was dismayed by the contrast with the irresponsibility of the fathers of the black children in his neighborhood. “Many [black] kids suffered with hunger because their Fathers could have done some honest work for a change,” he wrote. “No, they would not do that. It would be too much like Right. They’d rather lazy around + gamble, etc.”

Among the men whom Armstrong had in mind was his own father. Not only did Willie Armstrong refuse to marry Mayann Albert, Louis’s mother, but he left her for another woman on the day his son was born and apparently made no attempt to support Mayann or the two children whom he had by her. Armstrong did not spend any significant amount of time with his father until he was a teenager, and in later years he shunned Willie, whom he regarded with contempt. “Didn’t go to his funeral and didn’t send nothing,” he told a reporter in 1967. “Why should I? He never had no time for me or Mayann.”

Beyond describing Willie as “tall and handsome and well built” in Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, his 1954 autobiography, Armstrong would never have anything good to say about his father. In the same breath that he praised Willie’s looks, he added that “my father did not have time to teach me anything; he was too busy chasing chippies.”

In “Louis Armstrong + the Jewish Family,” he was franker still:

The next time we heard of him—he had gone into an uptown neighborhood and made several other children by another woman. Whether he married the other woman, we’re not sure. One thing—he did not marry [Mayann]. She had to struggle all by herself, bringing us up.

Armstrong revered Mayann, who did her best to raise him and his younger sister as well as she could. Not so Willie, whom he took as a role model—in reverse. As a boy he worked hard to help feed his family, and as a man he labored no less ceaselessly to perfect the artistry that made him rich and famous. “I think I had a beautiful life,” he told an interviewer in 1970. “I didn’t wish for anything I couldn’t get, and I got pretty near everything I wanted because I worked for it.”

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Armstrong wrote his memoir of the Karnofskys around the time that black anti-Semitism, which had showed signs of subsiding in the early years of the civil-rights movement, underwent a recrudescence that was fueled by the anti-Semitic statements of such black leaders as Malcolm X. Few prominent blacks were willing to speak out in praise of Jews in 1969. Yet Armstrong actually wanted to publish “Louis Armstrong + the Jewish Family,” in which he explicitly attributed black anti-Semitism to envy of the superior achievements of the Jews: “The Negroes always hated the Jewish people who never harmed anybody, but they stuck together. And by doing that, they had to have success.”

Might Armstrong have written “Louis Armstrong + the Jewish Family” in response to the rising tide of black anti-Semitism? It seems unlikely. He was almost entirely apolitical, both in public and in private. “I don’t dive into politics, haven’t voted since I’ve lived in New York, ain’t no use messing with something you don’t know anything about,” he said. Only once did he deviate from this stance. In 1957, Armstrong attacked President Eisenhower for initially refusing to take action to desegregate the public schools of Little Rock, declaring that the president was “two-faced” and had “no guts.” In years to come, he would occasionally make forceful statements about racial matters but only when specifically asked to do so by reporters, and he never took part in civil-rights demonstrations. As a result, many younger blacks, either forgetting or ignoring his highly publicized quarrel with Eisenhower, dismissed him as an accommodationist.

But if Armstrong remained mostly silent about political matters, he was forthright when it came to what he regarded as the moral failings of his own people:

The Negroes always wanted pity. They did that in place of going to work . . . they were in an alley or in the street corner shooting dice for nickels and dimes, etc. (mere pittances) trying to win the little money from [their] Soul Brothers who might be gambling off the money [they] should take home to feed their starving children or pay their small rents, or very important needs, etc.

The bluntness with which Armstrong expressed himself in this 1969 memoir was more than just the remembered resentment of an old man. On numerous other occasions, he made it clear that he believed poor people, regardless of their color, to be largely responsible for their own fate. “You don’t have to do a damn thing bad unless you want to,” he had told a reporter nine years earlier. “Other than that, you weak-minded, you should go to a hospital or somethin’.” In 1940 he went so far as to record “W.P.A.,” a controversial novelty song by the black songwriter Jesse Stone, whose lyrics poked fun at the relief programs sponsored by Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration:

Sleep while you work,
while you rest, while you play,
Lean on your shovel
to pass time away.

That the song’s lyrics reflected his own point of view cannot be doubted. “The Lord will help the poor, but not the poor lazy,” he said in a 1961 TV interview.

Armstrong’s autobiography is the definitive statement of his belief in the hard gospel of self-help. Though he did not speak critically in Satchmo of anyone other than his father, it was clear that he saw his own life as proof of the value of deferred gratification. “I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so,” he wrote. No Horatio Alger hero could have improved on his iron determination to get ahead in the world, and once he did so, he felt an obligation to tell others how to do the same.

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Today Armstrong’s views on individual responsibility are the source of considerable disquiet among his admirers, many of whom prefer to ignore them altogether. Contrary to his desire that it be published, “Louis Armstrong + the Jewish People” was buried among his personal papers after his death and was not published in its original form until 1999. To this day, most scholars cite it cautiously, if at all.

The reason for this caution is plain to see. What is mostly left implicit in Satchmo is made wholly explicit in “Louis Armstrong + the Jewish Family,” many parts of which are startlingly contemporary in tone:

[Blacks] hold too much malice—Jealousy deep down in their heart for the few Negroes who tries . . . they know within themselves that they’re doing the wrong things, but expects everybody just because he is a Negro to give up everything he has struggled for in life such as a decent family—a living, a plain life—the respect.

Armstrong would appear to have had little in common with those latter-day “white-acting blacks” whose adherence to middle-class codes of social conduct is viewed with suspicion by many of their peers. He never shed the homespun manners of his New Orleans youth, and throughout his life he would criticize blacks (including two of his wives) who had what he called “a sense of ‘Aires.’” But though he never aspired to the refined “airs” of the black bourgeoisie, he believed no less devoutly in the transformational power of middle-class values and resolved to lead his own life according to their lights.

On occasion Armstrong has been compared to Booker T. Washington, whose long-unfashionable vision of racial redemption through self-improvement had a powerful influence on the turn-of-the-century blacks who heeded his call to “cast down your bucket where you are.” Louis Armstrong was one of them, as can be seen by visiting his New York home, an elaborately decorated three--story brick-covered frame house located seven blocks from Citi Field in a rundown but respectable working-class neighborhood. The house, which Armstrong bought in 1943, looks like what it is: the residence of a poor boy who cast down his bucket and pulled it up overflowing. Yet it says as much about him that even after he became wealthy enough to live in a tonier neighborhood, he preferred to stay in Queens. “My home . . . is good, but you don’t see me in no big estates and yachts, that ain’t gonna play your horn for you,” he wrote in his old age.

To visit the Armstrong house, which is now a museum, is to see how its proud owner achieved “everything he has struggled for in life.” It was the outward symbol of the lessons in life that he learned from Mayann, his devoted mother—and from the Jews of New Orleans, who helped teach him to return love for hatred and seek salvation in work. ]]> The Lounge NextLevel http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38762-louis-armstrong-jews.html http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38747-hanging-clothes-not.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:15:34 GMT http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/us_nm/us_usa_laundry When we resort to making laws to stop people from hanging laundry because we think it is... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/...us_usa_laundry

When we resort to making laws to stop people from hanging laundry because we think it is "offensive", then I think we've gone too far...must they look into their neighbor's backyard? It's even healthier to sun-dry than machine dry... Father, help this generation to appreciate nature... ]]> The Lounge Oluwato http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38747-hanging-clothes-not.html http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38723-dad-jackson-sex-claim-boy-kills-himself.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:49:54 GMT Jordy Chandler's dad was last night revealed to have killed himself just five months after the death of Michael Jackson whom he accused of sexually abusing his son.

Mr Chandler's suicide on November 5 but which only emerged last night was being probed by baffled cops.

The 65-year-old - whose son was 13 when he claimed in the early 1990s that Jacko molested him - left no note.

Jordy, now 29, was given a payoff worth millions by the King of Pop to prevent his allegations emerging in court.

His dad's body was found after he failed to keep an appointment with a doctor - who called the concierge to check on him.

Police confirmed: "We have ruled it as suicide because he was found with a gun held to his body.

"He had a single bullet wound to the side of his head.


"There was no note but officers did find medication in keeping with a serious medical condition."

Sources said the dad was barely recognisable from how he looked during the 13-month probe launched by Santa Barbara's district attorney into the abuse claims.

The family also sued Jacko.

Bizarrely, the dad had undergone a string of cosmetic surgery operations - mirroring those of the superstar, who died in June aged 50.

Jordy, who has always been tight-lipped about his time with Jacko, had fallen out with his parents.

Three years ago he got a restraining order against his father - claiming the dentist attacked him with a dumbbell weight.

But he was recently said to have been patching things up with his mum June, who got divorced from Evan in 1992.

Former Santa Barbara County Sheriff Jim Thomas said: "Everybody in this whole saga was touched tragically."



Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz0XEaMshMu ]]> The Lounge valteena http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38723-dad-jackson-sex-claim-boy-kills-himself.html http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38685-how-you-like-me-now.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:08:25 GMT I decided to change my hairdo and will soon update my avatar? What y'all think?

]]> The Lounge Rose http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38685-how-you-like-me-now.html http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38684-what-says-you-wife-beaters-register.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:03:37 GMT We have sex offenders register, child abuse register etc, and now the British police wants *wife beaters register* added to the list. With such a... We have sex offenders register, child abuse register etc, and now the British police wants wife beaters register added to the list.

With such a register, men with a history of domestic violence could be put on a register so that any future partners can be warned about them.

The police say women have the right to know about violent past of their lover, What do you say?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz0X8XTVqpD ]]> The Lounge valteena http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38684-what-says-you-wife-beaters-register.html http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38672-russian-cannibals.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:42:42 GMT + Villager *Bode Eluyera*: Watch where and what you eat out there O! Auspicious. --- +

Villager Bode Eluyera:

Watch where and what you eat out there O!

Auspicious.

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Cannibals nabbed selling corpse to kebab house
Mon Nov 16, 3:04 pm ET | LINK

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.

Suspicions were raised when dismembered parts of a human body were found near a bus stop in the outskirts of the Russian city of Perm, 1,150 km (720 miles) east of Moscow.

Three homeless men with previous criminal records have been arrested on suspicion of setting upon a foe with knives and a hammer before chopping up his corpse to eat, local investigators said in a statement on their www.susk.perm.ru Web site.

"After carrying out the crime, the corpse was divided up: part was eaten and part was also sold to a kiosk selling kebabs and pies," the Prosecutor-General's main investigative unit for the Perm region said in a statement issued Friday.

It was not immediately clear from the statement if any of the corpse had been sold to customers.

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; editing by Dmitry Sergeyev) ]]> The Lounge Auspicious http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38672-russian-cannibals.html http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38592-igbo-translation-needed.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:55:01 GMT I heard this beautiful befitting worship song this evening in Church but I didn't want to mess it up.

I know it has a few words I remember, imarama...meaning beautiful.. ibuchukwu, ijebube


But this is the English one, so please my Igbo people please translate it into igbo for me. The way I heard that song, I felt in my heart that I should never ever forget it in Igbo.


Here it goes...

You are God
You're not a man o
And then another song

You are bigger than what people say Jehovah bigger than what peoplesay
...
Please translate...

Thanks a mil.. ]]> The Lounge MrsChocT http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38592-igbo-translation-needed.html http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/lounge/38582-barber-leaves-fortune-charity.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:15:30 GMT Barber Leaves Fortune to Charity

Published: November 12. 2009 1:15AM

Erie barber's estate leaves $800K to Barber National Institute

Nearly all of estate will go to Dr. Gertrude A. Barber Foundation

By ED PALATTELLA

A late Erie barber who quietly clipped his way to a fortune has left more than $800,000 to the foundation for the Dr. Gertrude A. Barber National Institute, making his gift one of the largest in the organization's history.

Dominick J. Colelli, 95, an Erie native who died Jan. 6, never married. For 37 years he cut hair, retiring in 1977 from Dom's Barber Shop at the southeastern corner of West 32nd Street and Greengarden Boulevard.

Colelli chose to leave nearly all of his estate -- the fruits of all those years of trimming and shaving and investing the money -- to the Dr. Gertrude A. Barber Foundation, the fundraising and development arm of the nonprofit Dr. Gertrude A. Barber National Institute, near the foot of East Avenue. The institute, founded in 1952 as the Barber Center, annually provides services for 3,500 adults and children with developmental disabilities.

"It really is something, that there are people out there like him who really want to make an impact for other people after they are gone," said John Barber, president and chief executive of the institute.

"I guess that is what makes human beings great. He made money not just for him, but saved it up and wanted other people to have it."

Barber, who made Colelli's donation public in an interview late Wednesday, said the institute received most of the money from Colelli's estate earlier in the day. Barber said the final amount of the gift will be little more than $800,000, which Barber said makes the gift one of the foundation's largest from a single donor.

Barber said he believes Colelli's respect for the Barber National Institute led the longtime barber -- Barber described him as humble, unassuming and personable -- to bless the local landmark with his largesse. Barber said the institute is the only charity that is a beneficiary of Colelli's estate. He said Colelli left smaller, but generous, amounts of money to nieces and other relatives.

Barber said Colelli had no friends or relatives who were clients of the Barber National Institute, but that Colelli long ago befriended Gertrude A. Barber, who died at 88 in April 2000, 48 years after she founded the institute that bears her name.

John Barber, Gertrude Barber's nephew, said Colelli regularly attended the annual spaghetti dinners and other fundraisers for the Barber Center and Barber National Institute. He said Colelli, an avid golfer and bowler, also organized several bowling events to raise money for Barber Center in its early years.

"He really liked Gertrude," Barber said. "He was always interested in her mission and her special people."

He said he believes Colelli's own disability strengthened the affinity between him and the Barber National Institute. Colelli was awarded five bronze stars for honor and valor during World War II, but Barber said he also suffered an injury that left him with a severe hearing loss.

"I think that because of this disability," Barber said, "Dom developed a greater appreciation for the challenges that our children and adults face, and he became determined to support them in their aspirations for a better life."

Several years before Colelli died, he told Barber he wanted to leave money to the Barber National Institute, but that he wanted more time to pass so the amount would grow.

"I'd give it to you now," John Barber recalled Colelli saying, "but I'd like it to be $1 million."

Barber said Colelli remained committed to his promise when he died at the Erie Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

"Turns out he almost made $1 million," Barber said.

The Barber Foundation a year ago received a similar donation from the estate of another Erie resident who largely kept to himself during his lifetime. The estate of Conrad G. Woelky, a businessman who died in 1992 at age 82, left more than $1 million, the largest gift in the institute's history from a named donor.

The institute in October 2007 also received $2 million from an anonymous donor, payable over three years, as part of the donor's $100 million donation to more than 46 charities in the Erie region and elsewhere.

As it did with the Woelky donation, the Barber Foundation will use Colelli's gift to bolster its $12 million endowment, which helps support the Barber National Institute, which has an annual operating budget of $63 million.

The Barber Foundation will also use Colelli's gift to encourage others to donate to the foundation. Barber said the foundation has created a matching-gift program called Colelli's Challenge, which applies to donations made through June 30.

Barber said he would like to see donations from others to guarantee the Barber National Institute receives $1 million -- approximately $800,000 from the Colelli estate and the rest from other gifts.

"We want to get his whole gift to $1 million," Barber said.

No matter how much additional money comes in, the legacy of Dominick Colelli, the quiet bachelor barber with a penchant for making money, is guaranteed to be lasting.

"He is a person," Barber said, "who is going to positively affect children and adults far into the future, kids and adults he will never know, and maybe kids and adults that you and I will never know."

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A suspicious wife posed as a teenager online to catch her husband propositioning girls in a chatroom, Cardiff Crown Court has heard.

Cheryl Roberts, 61, pretended to be a 14-year-old girl and was asked by David Roberts, 68, to meet for sex.

Roberts admitted engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and making and possessing illegal images.

He was given a three-year community order and banned from having access in person or online to under 18s.

The couple have now split up and are getting divorced.

Different computer

The court heard that mother-of-two Mrs Roberts became suspicious about the amount of time her husband was spending in his study and of a message which popped up on their computer while he was out.

While Roberts was chatting online in his study, Mrs Roberts used a different computer in the living room at their home in Pantygog, Bridgend, and pretended to be a schoolgirl.

Roberts propositioned the "girl", unaware he was chatting to his wife, the court was told.

Prosecutor Martyn Kelly told the court that Roberts, a former pub landlord who used the nickname 'Corky' online, also used a webcam to film himself carrying out acts of indecency - which his wife could see on her PC just yards away.

Illegal images

Mrs Roberts was so shocked by the behaviour of her husband of almost 20 years she brought in police, who seized his computer and found dozens of illegal child porn images.

Roberts believed he had been caught through downloading the images and did not know until weeks later that it was his wife who had called the police.

The court heard that, when interviewed, Roberts denied having sex with any schoolgirls but admitted he was "prepared to do so".

Byron Broadstock, defending, said: "He's brought shame on himself and his family."

Psychiatrists' reports said Roberts might have a brain disorder which causes him to be an exhibitionist.

Mr Broadstock said Roberts had been going through a dark patch at the time, was anxious to know why he had behaved in that way and would welcome treatment.

Claude Knights, director of children's charity Kidscape, said: "The offences that he has committed are very serious indeed and his wife must be commended for the active part that she played in bringing him to justice."

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