Dion blames showbiz drug culture for Houston's death

Singer Celine Dion says late singer Whitney Houston's talent was "an inspiration", but she was dragged down by drugs and bad decisions.

"It's just a shame that drugs, bad people, bad influences took. It took more than her dreams, her love and her motherhood," mirror.co.uk quoted the 43-year-old as saying.

"When you think of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse ... every time we have people who perform losing pills, taking pills to wake up and taking pills to go to bed . I'm afraid of show business, "she added.

Hollywood Star Talks About Co-Sleeping, Baby-Wearing and Unschooling

Bialik mayim is not your typical Hollywood TV star. They may be the only "celebrity" who speaks in favor of Attachment Parenting are. AP is known to back-to-nature style of parenting - "baby wearing" and "sleeping together" and literally at your child's needs by being connected to them as much as humanly possible.
She is still nursing her 3 1/2 years old, although she recently blogged about weaning him from three to four feedings he had every night. When I ask her how people react, she says: "I know that it is unusual, but if you surround yourself with other women who are intelligent, educated, loving, have incredible children she cared for also past three and a half, I can see that I do not get to say what is good for someone else. "
Mayim first rave reviews and won the young Bette Midler in "Beaches." She played in her own hit TV show "Blossom" as a teenager. Then at 19, she took the obvious next step and earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience at UCLA studying hormones and bonding and OCD.
After marrying her college sweetheart, her life took a real twist. They decided to send their children as an attachment Parents raise along with a mix of other eccentric styles and strategies: diaperless parenting - even newborns mayim informs me pee every 15 minutes, and unschooling, which she describes as "We homeschool, but we do not keep a rigorous curriculum and we let our children's interests and attention of a large part determine the course of what we do. "
You can see mayim not something half-way and do everything they there when it comes to education, too.
I met their adorable 6 - ½ year old son of Miles and their 3 - ½ year old son Fred. How he was raised diaper free? It's called elimination communication. Her husband was initially against it and told her that was crazy. But mayim said she set out and successfully adapted to her sons' arms flapping and other evidence and held them over jars (with a fair share of accidents, she adds). Every 15 minutes, and it still takes place at night.
But she is proud of the fact that she won for her husband and that her youngest son was sitting on a potty before he could walk or talk or do whatever. And she has years worth of diapers is not something to contribute to a landfill.
Her husband, a fellow student at UCLA when they met, is an at-home father who most of the dishes and laundry (mayim makes cleaning the bathrooms and kitchen).
They do not believe in consumerism and she puts her money where her mouth is savings. They live in a modest house. Her children playing Wii, but are not allowed to watch TV, except for occasional sports with his father. None of them owns more than a few pairs of shoes. They cook vegan and not going out to fancy dinners.
Ironically, the most controversial part of what they do seems most sweet and cuddly. They sleep in a large family room (two futons on the floor, if you're wondering).
I showed her a gruesome public service announcement from Milwaukee equate sleeping together with putting a baby in bed with a butcher knife. She named the Scare Mongering and felt that both the PSA and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation that babies sleep in cribs are not misled.
Infant mortality in co-sleeping situations, mayim says, are a socieo-economic problem that could be solved with better safety education. But while drinking and drugs and lack of safe sleeping equipment is part of the danger of sleeping with children, so too is sleep deprivation, mayim who admitted that he was in those early nursing months.
In her ample free time, mayim has succeeded in a new book about her adventures parenting name to write, "Beyond the Sling" and I interviewed her for "Good Morning America" ​​and "Nightline." I loved doing the inevitable high school mid-term thing in my head: Compare and contrast, compare and contrast. In reading her book, I kept thinking about my own three boys and how proud they sleep trained at 4 months (they had slept 10 hours a night after the third night, no joke).
But sucked his thumb for years to come sooth themselves and the one still uses a pacifier. But my nerves were not worn by sleep-deprivation and they are excellent sleepers. I wound up caring for them for 12, 10 and seven months respectively (no, thank you Mom, I'm ready) ... But I had so much pain trouble the first time I almost nurse, that is why I hate the cultural pressures on women to quit breastfeeding to feel guilty if they stop. Oh, and all three of my boys wore diapers beyond their third birthday (way past).
I did not know whether to hate or envy the way mayim and her husband over. It's serious commitment. She had not left her house for the first 40 days of either the baby's life. After the first week I was out and about between nursing sessions with the help of babysitters.
I would be one of my older boys special time or I go to a quick lunch with friends (who tells me that Dr. Oz is literally good for my health). Mayim has not had a "date night" in seven years. At least I feel less guilty about neglecting my husband. They are not yet out to fancy restaurants, because she believes in life sober.
Some vocal feminists have taken to say that this philosophy of parenting addicted mothers (or stay-at-home dads) to their children. And although I think it makes sense when mayim says we are "wired" to parents in this way, because it is how primates and humans have parented for all times, I know not many primates that appear at the office or nursing job after nursing a toddler on demand all day and night with a baby sling.
We as parents know that's hard. It is parenting. I have certainly not enough to exercise and I have no "me" time. But as a full-time working mother, I often fantasize about what life would look like a full time parent. That said, I'm surprised by a woman (let's be honest, it's usually women) who go home to school an older child, while wearing a baby carrier and cook vegan while walking to the potty every 15 minutes and nursing on demand and keeping a clean house and sleeping with her children who do not sleep through the night, even a little.
Mayim emphasizes that parents are to sacrifice themselves or their marriage to their children. It is a wonderful concept, but it must be exhausting to say the least. Mayim is the first to admit that AP is not for everyone.

Caught Live: Florence And The Machine @ O2, Dublin

Florence And The Machine frontwoman will be so calm before the first night of Ceremonials of the tour the band on Friday that he was almost asleep.

But by the third song, strangeness, the audience is going bananas.

He's twirling around in a custom component by designer Alex Noble, casting a spell on hellraisers.

At the time he got the classic lung had a full-blown festival environment.

Florence took a moment to take the size of the crowd before yelling: "This is our biggest show to date Thanks!"

Redhead is then whisked off his peacock cape and launched the classic shake it Out, followed by Dog Day.

He ramped it at the end of the range, playing his brilliant cover of Candi Staton May you love and the rabbit also Heart.

And although he and his band said their goodbyes and did not return for a good five minutes, the crowd did not budge.

The Florence out for dancing, cape back, to finish Do not Let Me Go and latest single No Light, No Light.

If you have not got a ticket to see her tour, make sure you buy one. It is well worth the money.

'Dotted' designs, a new trend in tattoos

Dotted tatoos seem to be all the rage this season. Geometrcial patterns of several works of art, this form seems to have caught the imagination Puneites.
If you like geometry that is right for you. Area, angle, size, scope, no, we are not talking here of studies, but the color works all of this on your body. Surprised? Welcome to 'Dottism' - the latest trend in tattoos, which are made of geometric shapes.
International tattoo made popular by artists such as Xed lehead, Kostas, Amanda Rouse and entering the Mumbai and New Delhi market a while ago, they spotted little things have been included in the design of the menu as well as city tattoo parlors. So what are dotted tattoos? Tattoo artist, Andy Haq, said:. "Basically, dotted tattoos geometric patterns in shapes such as triangles, squares, rectangles drawn These look very striking, and the entire tattoo is a multiplication of the same pattern, which can go on till eternity. You can also add a 3D effect with these tattoos by using different shades of gray to black for shading. "
Dotted tattoos are likely to have originated from the Tibetan art culture. "It is a ritual in which Tibetan monks a sick person mark with points that they believe in a certain pattern, the best thing for him cure his disease are drawn. Today artists all over the world have added their own style and modernized the art" , informed artist Sabby.
The isometric pattern used in tattoos are dotted, a whole brain training, with its maze of geometric patterns. Disclose more details about the intricacies of this art form Sabby says. "There are many ways to design and we actually use tools such as scales or a compass to individually look like these tattoos very attractive, but they are also suitable fill up space, achieve Create shadow effect or depth for a 3D design. Sometimes they will even create a mixture of several art works such as tribal, henna designs, abstract and modern art. "But so many points, is quite a job to be lengthy and expensive? "Yes, there is a time consuming thing, but it is worth every effort. If the price is concerned, it is similar to conventional tattooing."
Despite of the art, for some time, it seems not much is known. Tell us the reasons Haq says.. "I agree that this beautiful form yet to be explored to fully Peoples' perception of tattoos is that of something bold or flashy That's the reason the free hand or tribal designs are so often. they want this make known more, I have on my hand so that my customers see it done. And it has already begun. I recently had a guy who wanted to cover the accident wounds on his shin. So I a large tattoo done with dotted name "Karma", which also reflects the fact that he was responsible for the accident. "
Dotted "Aum" designs are also favored among the tattoo lovers. Amit Parkhe, an aspiring tattoo artist who has recently had an AUM of vector-cube on his wrist, said: "Actually, a friend of mine in Mumbai to me about this design after checking out the pictures on the net I it very interesting. and found unique. I am very happy that I got what I wanted. "When asked if she would experiment with the style model Bidisha Roy says," Geometric designs are all in. And it looks quite different from the normal things . to do So yes, I would not mind experimenting and would be a small one on my wrist or forearm. "But Hanika Pariyani model may be too cautious. "When are permanent tattoos, I'm not quite sure if I would get inked me. But maybe if I design after I see it like I could in go for it."

Tattooed people say, 'Off with the marks'

Joe Garcia, remember - all the better - when and where it got the tattoo on his arm.
It was 1963 and Joe - lifting a 19 year old marine - some of them dared to make out with friends in San Diego, the city was.
"'You are a wuss?' "He remembers saying.
$ 7.50, so they are poor, tattoos, home of the left, he is on his forearm as the image of the skull and an eight ball.
Garcia agrees, "It was real bad, my parents happy."
Joe Garcia's parents can go to all, then, he was 68 years old here.
Henderson resident, but that does not mean they are not forgotten - or how to feel about their tattoos.
The second laser treatment to remove tattoos, waiting for her in his office and sat visesavenu dermatologist HL Greenberg of Summerlin, which describes why.
"Lucky my parents do, remembered," Garcia explains. "I do not want to know, they - and now I nirvahisaballa to achieve this."
Here it is not an inexpensive proposition.
Fresh on the canvas - Greenberg's practice of the Department of Dermatology Las Vegas - $ 225 for a 3, 3 inches to the tattoo - a single treatment $ 199 fee for 1 to 5 - inch image, $ 299 for a 5 - to tattoos and 7 - inch.
Discounts are available for a number of treatments - and in all cases, the number of treatments needed, Greenberg says.
To remove the tattoo of "the size and color on", she says.
But the whole tattoo on the arm "sleeve" may not be removed from the cost of more than $ 10,000, he estimates.
Fitness room, who arrived last Halloween in the office of his $ 120,000 RevLite laser, Greenberg, Solomon, Garcia's arm before revving up.
"If you have a heart to hear that," dermatologist recommended Garcia. "It does not beat me, visesavenu it works."
Greenberg Ink target, as the dead in the dermis of the patient in a cloud of nanosecond laser's narrow beam, as well as Garcia's tattoo.
"The (ink) particles are the risks, like sound waves visesavenu," Greenberg explains.
Approximately six weeks, Garcia is ready for his next treatment. He likens the treatment's feeling "that the rubber band snapped."
Greenberg's office, so who here is about to undergo a third of the eight treatments Larry Shipp, the. (If you www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZulbN-vUI treatments that can be seen online at Shipp was the first of the two.)
"I was afraid of pain, but here it really was relatively painless," Shipp, 34, 2003, in an improvised explosive device, Iraq War veteran, said he was disabled after appalisalpattitu.
His tattoos and getting less coverage for laser treatment.
This is a Henderson resident content Shipp knew me well. Greenberg, however, removing his tattoo on the back three, Shipp has not yet had collected over the last decade or so visesavenu his chest, arms and legs of many complex structures.

"This is not only a way I can express here," Shipp says. "I do not like the process - the artist the opportunity to really create."
More tattoos as well - once completed, Greenberg lasering "Down and Dirty," a small clown face and Shipp's behind some Asian characters, Shipp "to open my horizons" is planned.
In other words: a fresh canvas.
Starlight Tattoo in the Mandalay Bay, Mirage, and King, Inc., who has - as an experienced tattoo artist Mario Barth calls the skin untattooed here. Greenberg tattoo removal of his name and department, where visesavenu.
Barth's view, the best tattoo removal technique, "Dr. Greenberg is currently using the laser is," she says. It can easily turn it into a tattoo on the back - of the existing tattoo, "It makes it very easy to lighten up."
However, according to Greenberg, as a percentage, about 20 percent of the American population, the tattoo has a "Las Vegas high, believing that," she says.
And tattoo removal to any one of the worst, but - at the time - the time, and emotions, of change. (He was then - and then girlfriend, Winona Ryder split up "Alcoholic Forever" was his "Winona Forever" tattoo, the Johnny Depp, of Think.)
Mary Arnold-Ronish, Las Vegas-based Tattoo founder and president, stated that "I will die for a reality show about the tattoo removal Lucky" Vanish Inc.
"I am a 10 year old could do a reality show, has received a number of stories," she client interest cases, including former gang members ", that the work may be funny and silly in his life something" is a testimony to that, say the signs to get rid of their violent pasts.
A Tattoo divorce, Vanish, but the client is newly engaged, there's the name of her former husband, her ring finger, notes on the sales and marketing director, Lisa Shealy tattooed.
"Her fiance, '- and married - there is no ring on your finger on the name of that dude from the outside.' He said, "but that" he has got to show the tattoo because of what is more, people can not get to work, "says Arnold-Ronish. (Before-and-after photos of Tattoo www.tattoovanishinc.com treatments, and client testimonials available online. Vanish)
Unlike laser removal, Tattoo Vanish, tattoo removal and saline-based solution that uses a periodical, "it went on to ink pulling in the same way," explains Arnold-Ronish. "We should be all natural because the FDA, it has a controlling interest."
Tattoo Vanish after the procedure, treatment of customers belonging to a second wind for two weeks of treatment, so it is recommended to keep the area dry. During treatment, "as attractive as the right ink," she says.
Tattoo Vanish, but it is "a one-time process," Arnold-Ronish her laser tattoo removal treatments would say that it is more or less, an average of three to five sessions. Although the charges are determined by the context, Shealy is a 1 - inch - by -1 - inch tattoo of a treatment is estimated to cost about $ 150.
Other tattoo removal methods dermabrasion (where the tattooed skin ink skin out Leach the opportunity, a high speed, abrasive wheel or brush with a deeper level below the sanded) and surgical removal (including the tattoo of a pair is removed to include a small knife, and the skin), one sewn on.
In particular, new tattoos, including "fresh canvas" like this - Barth for, laser treatment is definitely the way to go.
The tattoo industry, "This is a big trend here," he says, part of the contemporary tattoo artists "such incredible work." Because
To do so at the expense of tattoo removal, "I do not really think of things," she says. "Even as kalanaipunyada tattoo, getting more expensive. People are willing to spend."
Laser treatment on his credit card was charged only visesavenu Joe Garcia, ask.
"Insurance does not," Garcia "Therefore I am." He said,

Pakistan-India ties: Chaophraya dialogue calls for friendly relations

Islamabad:
Any act of violence bearing impact on the bilateral relations should be investigated objectively and professionally, before making a decision about their nature and origin of the perpetrators. All formal and informal channels of government should be used more effectively to share information in real time.
This was agreed and recommended by former diplomats, editors, journalists, academics and analysts from India and Pakistan, which met in Colombo on the 10th dialogue on the Chaophraya 2 and 3 March, organized by the Institute of Jinnah (JI) and the Australia India Institute (AII).
While welcoming the recent decision to expand the trade between India and Pakistan, a key opinion between the two countries to continue making efforts to keep the atmosphere of peace and stability on the basis of ongoing dialogue. Conference participants noted the restrictive visa procedures between the two countries and called for its relaxation to the increased people to people contact.
They also agreed on the visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Pakistan will go a long way towards achieving greater stability in the bilateral dialogue, and will enhance the pace of progress on outstanding issues between India and Pakistan.
On terrorism, the conference stressed that both countries should establish mechanisms for the real and effective cooperation to address terrorist activities, while the restrictions should be implemented by Governments of both countries, as well as the media, as a result of such acts of violence.
Noting that the Jammu and Kashmir is a complex issue, the conference stressed the need for direct involvement and attention of heads of governments of both countries. Existing confidence-building measures in the disputed territory should be implemented in letter and spirit, and should be expanded, they recommended.
On water safety issues between the two countries, experts have suggested that India and Pakistan continue to work in the Indus Water Treaty (IWT). Meetings of the Commission of Indus Water must be carried out more than one mandatory meeting per year.
Talk of the media, the participants agreed that it was necessary that the Pakistanis and Indians have benefited from well-informed and impartial reporting of news.

Costa Concordia Cruise Ship Disaster

On the night of Friday, January 13, the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia, with more than 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members on board, struck a reef, keeled over, and partially sank off Isola del Giglio, Italy. Six people are now confirmed dead, including two French passengers and one Peruvian crew member, apparently after jumping into the chilly Mediterranean waters after the wreck. 

Fourteen more people still remain missing, as search and rescue teams continue their efforts to find survivors. The incident occurred only hours into the cruise, and passengers had not yet undergone any lifeboat drills that plus the severe list of the ship made evacuation chaotic and frightening. Captain Francesco Schettino has been arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship. 

Gathered here are surreal and unsettling photos of the massive cruise ship after it capsized off the coast of Italy. As of this writing, 6 people are dead and 14 are still missing.

View of the Costa Concordia taken on January 14, 2012, after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio. Five passengers drowned and about 15 still remain missing after the Italian ship with some 4,200 people on board ran aground. The Costa Concordia was on a trip around the Mediterranean when it apparently hit a reef near the island of Giglio on Friday, only a few hours into its voyage, as passengers were sitting down for dinner. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images) 

This photo acquired by the Associated Press from a passenger of the luxury ship that ran aground off the coast of Tuscany shows fellow passengers wearing life-vests on board the Costa Concordia as they wait to be evacuated, on Saturday, January 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Courtesy from tourist aboard the ship)  

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2012 Dakar Rally

The Dakar Rally or simply The Dakar,  formerly known as The Paris–Dakar or Paris to Dakar Rally, is an annual rally raid type of off-road automobile race, organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Most events since the inception in 1978 were from Paris, France, to Dakar, Senegal, but due to security threats in Mauritania, which led to the cancellation of the 2008 rally, the 2009 Dakar Rally was run in South America (Argentina and Chile). It was the first time the race took place outside of Europe and Africa. It has stayed in South America from 2009 to the present, 2012. The race is open to amateur and professional entries. Amateurs typically make up about eighty percent of the participants.

Despite its name it is an off-road endurance race, called a rally-raid rather than a conventional rally, the terrain the competitors traverse is much tougher and the vehicles used are true off-road vehicles rather than the modified on-road vehicles used in rallies. Most of the competitive special sections are off-road, crossing dunes, mud, camel grass, rocks and erg among others. The distances of each stage covered vary from short distances up to 800–900 kilometres (500–560 mi) per day.

2012 rally attract more than 500 teams and are currently speeding across the deserts of Argentina, Chile, and Peru, racing more than 8,300 km (5,150 mi) in the 33rd annual Dakar Rally. Competitors pit themselves against the elements, driving specialized off-road cars, trucks, motorcycles, and quadbikes through challenging terrain for two weeks. 

One rider, Argentine Jorge Martinez Boero, has already died this year in a crash. The 2012 Dakar Rally began in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on January 1, and racers will reach the finish line in Lima, Peru, on Sunday, January 15, after which I will add a few more photos to complete coverage of this year's competition. 

Stefan Svitko rides his KTM during the 10th stage of the Dakar Rally 2012, from Iquique to Arica, Chile, on January 11, 2012. (Reuters/Jerome Prevot) 

All the motorbike riders pose for a group photo during preparations for the 2012 Dakar Rally in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on December 31, 2011. (Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)  

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Government Shutdown Narrowly Averted

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Just before the midnight deadline Congress has passed a temporary budget deal that will prevent the furlough of thousands of workers and ensure that U.S. combat troops do not go unpaid. Reportedly this budget contains $39 billion in cuts and the numerous policy riders proposed by Republicans (regarding Planned Parenthood and EPA funding along with taking school lunches away from kids) have been removed.

I place the majority of the blame for the possible shutdown on the shoulders of House Speaker John Boehner. His inability to control his caucus led to these abortion and environment policy riders to be attached to a budget bill in the first place, which in turn created the deadlock. (You can find a comprehensive list of all the policy riders here.) To have presented such a poison pill laden budget to the Senate represented a huge lack of leadership from Boehner, and put this matter of a government shutdown on the political map as a reality instead of a mere talking point for conservative broadcasters.

Make no mistake, the GOP/Tea Party almost just furloughed thousands of Americans and put a question mark above combat troop pay all in the name of federal funding for abortion which is already covered by the Hyde Amendment and the unconstitutional attempt to strip previously passed legislation regarding not only the EPA but also the Consumer Protections Bureau, Medicare and legislation dating as far back as FDR's school lunch program.

The First School Of Wizardry

Meet Oberon Zel Ravenheart. The 68 year old has dedicated his life to studying the Dark Arts. He has opened the first recognized wizard academy just north of San Francisco, California, called the Grey School of Wizardry and is giving the world of Harry Potter a run for its money. The school teaches sixteen departments, such as spell casting, wand making, horse whispering and alchemy.

House Crasher

What would your reaction be if you came home to this?

Wolf Child

Supatra Sasuphan is clearly having the last laugh. The 11-year-old has gone from being teased by her peers to being given a Guinness World Record for being the world’s hairiest girl. Often referred to as “monkey face” or “wolf girl”, the Thailand native suffers from Hypertrichosis, also known as Ambras Syndrome. She has thick strands of hair growing over her face, ears, arms, legs and back and nothing can stop the hair growth, not even laser treatment. The older the wolf child gets, the thicker her hair becomes.

Latin American Weather Girls Vs. Middle East Weather Hosts

Beautiful weather babes are the reason why men the watch weather for casts in Latin America. The lack of them is exactly why men never watch the weather forecasts in the Middle East.