Susan Boyle freaked out tour bosses when she refused to show up for rehearsal the day before opening night!!!
Apparently, she is still in negotiations over the launch show!!!
SuBo did not want to rehearse on Tuesday with the rest of the Britain's Got Talent finalists as she reportedly only wants to perform at a handful of the 23 UK tour venues to conserve her voice for her debut album.
Don't be a diva!!!!
"We’re leaving everything up to her, to make sure that she’s happy and well. But the problem is that she changes her mind every two minutes,” said a source.
While she is busy changing her mind, she is staying in a £2 million flat accompanied by her beloved cat Pebbles, courtesy of Simon Cowell.
Cowell is paying for her to stay in a converted North London flat for five weeks along with limo transportation to and from shows while the other acts are staying in hotels!!!
SuBo is going to make enemies!!!!
“Simon is looking after his prize possession. No expense will be spared to make sure she’s happy and well enough to perform,” said the source as Susan is set to make £8 million in Britain and the US.
Even U2’s financial wizard, Ossie Kilkenny, has agreed to mastermind Susan’s career!!!!
SuBo's spokeswoman responded by saying that "She is eager to do the tour” and scheduled to rehearse.
Don't eff this up, SuBo!!!!
Stay modest!!!
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Glambert is a total di-va! With a capital D! At least that's the word on the street.
According to MSNBC: "He is such a diva. Rude to everyone - from fans right down to the lighting folks," says a source who interacted with him on his recent publicity tour.
Sounds like somebody's gettin' a little too big for their britches!!
Staff at the New York tour stop have even said that A-list celebs they've dealt with in the past have been "infinitely more polite" than Glambert.
An anonymous music producer pitched in his two cents: "No one sells that many records these days to be able to get away with that kind of behavior. To be a success you need literally everyone in your corner."
Wise up, Adam!
Or you'll find yourself begging for a spot next to Sangina on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!!
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This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the worlds first global election, between Earth and global warming.
For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.
This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.

Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Romes Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.

In 2009, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote. Unlike any election in history, it is not about what country youre from, but instead, what planet youre from. VOTE EARTH is a global call to action for every individual, every business, and every community. A call to stand up and take control over the future of our planet. Over 74 countries and territories have pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009, and this number is growing everyday.

We all have a vote, and every single vote counts. Together we can take control of the future of our planet, for future generations.

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Black Hills High School graduate Samantha Studebaker, 22, became addicted to OxyContin two years ago, after a co-worker's offer of a quick - and free - fix for her headache while she worked a shift at the Tumwater Costco.
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About OxyContin

OxyContin is a pain medication that belongs to the opioid family, which includes Dilaudid, Vicodin, Percocet, methadone and morphine. OxyContin, manufactured by Purdue Pharma, is distinctive for its patented "time release" of oxycodone the active opioid in OxyContin. It is meant to alleviate pain by releasing oxycodone gradually.

Abuse and addiction: Samantha Studebaker said she and others who abuse the drug can easily defeat OxyContin's timed-release coating by crushing the pills and snorting or smoking them for a quicker high. OxyContin, like most opioids, is addictive, meaning that users develop a physical tolerance and can suffer from withdrawal symptoms if use of the drug is stopped abruptly. At the height of Studebaker's addiction, she said, she was taking up to eight or nine 80 milligram OxyContin pills a day.

Effects: According to the Drug Enforcement Administration's Web site, the basic pharmacological effects of OxyContin are relief from pain, "sedation, euphoria, feelings of relaxation, respiratory depression, constipation, papillary constriction, and cough suppression." Studebaker described OxyContin's effects as giving her a warm and fuzzy feeling inside, "like nothing can rain on your parade."

Danger: Respiratory depression can be fatal when the drug is abused, according to the DEA. Since 2005, 116 people have died from drug overdoses in Thurston County, Coroner Gary Warnock said. The number of deaths from drug overdoses each year has remained relatively steady during that time, with 29 in 2005; 27 in 2006; 33 in 2007; and 27 in 2008.

Warnock said that in 2008 alone, there were several overdose deaths that were caused by "drug cocktails" of prescription drugs, including OxyContin, and other drugs.

Ann Lima of the state Department of Health's center for health statistics has said that in 2004, 267 Washington residents died from prescription opioids, the latest data available. That was up from 23 in 1995.

Ron Friedman is an assistant U.S. attorney in Seattle who last year prosecuted a burglary ring of 30 people who were breaking into pharmacies across the Northwest and California to steal OxyContin and other prescription drugs. Friedman said the abuse of OxyContin and other opioids can be fatal, unlike the abuse of some other drugs. "These prescription drugs are really dangerous," he said.

Who is given OxyContin: The drug is commonly prescribed for cancer patients and others who suffer chronic, long-term pain. It also is prescribed to people who have pain during recovery from surgery including dental surgery.

History: In 2007, the pharmaceutical company that patented OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, pleaded guilty to misleading the public about the drug's risk of addiction. Purdue Pharma's president, top lawyer and former chief medical officer were ordered to pay $634.5 million in fines for claiming that the drug was less addictive and that users were less likely to abuse OxyContin than other pain medications. Purdue Pharma also agreed to pay $19.5 million to 26 states and Washington, D.C., to settle complaints that it encouraged physicians to overprescribe OxyContin.

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Soon, Studebaker says, she was paying up to $40 or $80 a pill $1 a milligram to that same co-worker to feed her addiction to the painkiller. At first, Studebaker used her credit cards to pay for the pills.

Then she began stealing.

In September, Studebaker was caught after embezzling more than $32,000 from Costco over about five months to pay for the OxyContin pills that her co-worker sold at increasingly high prices. Studebaker, who worked in Costco's returns department, said she entered fraudulent returns for items, then pocketed the cash.

Studebaker's story is part of a nationwide epidemic of prescription-drug abuse. In the late 1990s, OxyContin abuse ravaged communities in the East, particularly in New England and parts of the South, where it earned the name "hillbilly heroin."

In the Northwest, including Thurston County, OxyContin addiction fuels both property crime and violent crime. In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 OxyContin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Loreli Thompson.

Studebaker said she had never been in trouble with the law before her September arrest, and she wouldn't have started stealing if not for her addiction.

She said her co-worker had a prescription for OxyContin but didn't need the medication.

"She had a neck injury and kept telling her doctor that she needed more, but she was OK," Studebaker said. Then, "she stopped taking them and just started selling them all to me."

Tumwater police confirmed that Studebaker's former co-worker was investigated for selling the OxyContin, but the Thurston County Prosecutor's Office declined to prosecute the case.

Studebaker said that at the height of her addiction, she was taking up to eight or nine 80-milligram OxyContin pills a day.

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Thrilled that all the girls are back in town for Christmas and what not, the eccentric morbid queen and her friends kept thinking 'what shall we do for New Year's Eve?'
Saved from a potential quagmire, a dear friend kindly invited us for a New Year's Eve dinner with a possibility of a party afterwards.
And the general mood was, 'lets enjoy dinner first, then party hop later!'.
And while families are peculiar phenomenons and a structure that usually necessitate disaster, my sisters and me, are no different.
Incest, sibling rivalry, inferiority complex are few among many ailments that every family is subject to.
Ours too as well.
So in an atmosphere of anticipation and ghosts let loose and past traumas, I got dressed and headed to the other side of midnight, namely Cairo.
Arriving on time, I was received with Champagne, and exquisite hors d'oeuvres!
What more could a girl ask for?!

I didn't!
I just asked for more Champagne.
But all good things come to an end, and one is never truly free from his/her past. And I had one evil diva in mine.
Long friends in our late adolescence, now silent enemies, in many ways than one.
And the diva decided to throw a party.
I flatly refused to go. He might be a diva alright, but this is as far as attitude. The rest is severely lacking.
Charm, grace or good hors d'oeuvres.
And not wanting to upset my other sisters, I decided to give in and go.
Little did we know it will end up like a scene from Victor Victoria! The cult classic, where Julie Andrews cross-dresses like a male, cabaret singer. Hence the name of the post.
The bar where she tried to audition, was a gay bar in Paris, called Chez Lui, famous for frequent riots and rows by queens and non-queens, the police regularly raids the bar and gets everyone arrested all throughout the film.

So, Chez le Diva, we ended up going, in a place he was sharing with another friend, in an area a little conservative to a full blown, "happy" party, and just as we are about to get in the mood and dance, neighbors upset by the noise came at the door, knocking.
Now, a little note about the neighbors, as I understood later on, and read the signs on the doors, many of them either openly belonged to a conservative religious movement or worked in a religious university.
It came as no surprise that they were "displeased" with the sound and the commotion.
Not wanting to go down without a fight le Diva and his friend refused to be put down by such infringement on personal privacy and freedom.
While I salute this liberal gesture, I strongly disapprove.
When outnumbered by religious fanatics, the best thing to do is to smile and say, 'you're right, I am wrong,....' and then continue whatever it is you were doing.
Self-righteous behavior will only get you so far.
And it didn't.
The next thing we know, they reported the entire incident to the cops.
It was official.
The party was over and this was very reminiscent of Chez Lui.
The moment the word was out, all the queens hit the road and everyone ran for dear life.
Its one thing to have angry neighbors knock at your door and its another being dragged to the police station and harassed by abusive police officers.
Me and Kiki staid behind, but only for too long, then we decided the evil Diva has to fend for himself. A mistake we will pay dearly for later.

On to the next party! Another expat, another embassy!
God bless foreign service!
But this time it was a "straight" party. And I could sense the hostility the moment I stepped in.
Although there was a real bar, with a real bartender, the music lacked something and the people were just different.
Before the police busted the other party, I asked the evil Diva, whats the best thing to drink after Champagne, the answer was "Vodka".
Well, be careful who you ask next time.
Wasting no time, and not wanting to lose my buzz, I had one big screwdriver, and headed for the balcony with the stunning view of the Nile.

But still, something was missing, and Kiki Jr. joined me in a heart to heart conversation while I was getting officially intoxicated.
The memory of the evil Diva and the party bust were distant thoughts now and I felt more and more uncomfortable in my surroundings.
Reading my mind, and having a curfew herself, Kiki Jr. joined me in wanting to leave ASAP.
I went I told my sisters I am done for the night and that I wanted to go home, they can stay if they want, but I am heading out.
I secretly wanted them to tag along, I felt it was our first time together to party and it was the New Year's Eve, they wouldn't let their sister go home all by herself and trashed.
But they did.
And I was sent with enough resentment to poison the happiness of cherubs flying in heaven.

Far from heaven, and back to Earth, I was poisoned and I got sicker by the minute.I barely made it home in one piece, and I felt like some trashy chick in a tragic drama series, without the nice hair or the right make up.
And the inevitable happened. And I threw up my heart out.
I finally collapsed in bed cursing my sisters, those selfish, mean bitches, all they care about is their fucking party!
Then comes daylight.
And in daylight, things look mighty different.
It looks like a hangover.
While in Chez Lui Julie Andrew finally summons the courage to tell the man she loves that she is actually a woman, and while he finally decides that he really doesn't care what she is, at the busted party I realized people are really not what we think they are or like to think they are and they perceive just the way we project ourselves. And their biggest fear and ours is that we might turn out to be different in any way.
Like a woman pretending to be a man, pretending to be a woman.

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“From a distance, this, to say the least, is strange,” Lawrence Summers, the former treasury secretary and president of Harvard, told me last year in Shanghai. He was referring to the oddity that a country with so many of its own needs still unmet would let “this $1 trillion go to a mature, old, rich place from a young, dynamic place.”
It’s more than strange. Some Chinese people are rich, but China as a whole is unbelievably short on many of the things that qualify countries as fully developed. Shanghai has about the same climate as Washington, D.C. — and its public schools have no heating. (Go to a classroom when it’s cold, and you’ll see 40 children, all in their winter jackets, their breath forming clouds in the air.) Beijing is more like Boston. On winter nights, thousands of people mass along the curbsides of major thoroughfares, enduring long waits and fighting their way onto hopelessly overcrowded public buses that then spend hours stuck on jammed roads. And these are the showcase cities! In rural Gansu province, I have seen schools where 18 junior-high-school girls share a single dormitory room, sleeping shoulder to shoulder, sardine-style.
Better schools, more-abundant parks, better health care, cleaner air and water, better sewers in the cities—you name it, and if it isn’t in some way connected to the factory-export economy, China hasn’t got it, or not enough. This is true at the personal level, too. The average cash income for workers in a big factory is about $160 per month. On the farm, it’s a small fraction of that. Most people in China feel they are moving up, but from a very low starting point.
So why is China shipping its money to America? An economist would describe the oddity by saying that China has by far the highest national savings in the world. This sounds admirable, but when taken to an extreme — as in China — it indicates an economy out of sync with the rest of the world, and one that is deliberately keeping its own people’s living standards lower than they could be... China’s savings rate is a staggering 50 percent, which is probably unprecedented in any country in peacetime. This doesn’t mean that the average family is saving half of its earnings — though the personal savings rate in China is also very high. Much of China’s national income is “saved” almost invisibly and kept in the form of foreign assets. Until now, most Chinese have willingly put up with this, because the economy has been growing so fast that even a suppressed level of consumption makes most people richer year by year.
But saying that China has a high savings rate describes the situation without explaining it. Why should the Communist Party of China countenance a policy that takes so much wealth from the world’s poor, in their own country, and gives it to the United States? To add to the mystery, why should China be content to put so many of its holdings into dollars, knowing that the dollar is virtually guaranteed to keep losing value against the RMB? And how long can its people tolerate being denied so much of their earnings, when they and their country need so much? The Chinese government did not explicitly set out to tighten the belt on its population while offering cheap money to American homeowners. But the fact that it does results directly from explicit choices it has made — two in particular. Both arise from crucial controls the government maintains over an economy that in many other ways has become wide open. The situation may be easiest to explain by following a U.S. dollar on its journey from a customer’s hand in America to a factory in China and back again to the T-note auction in the United States.

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