Just a day after we posted, Ready, Steady and Go! the Facebook IPO lift-off, we’re stunned to hear Mr Zuckerberg has taken a second HUGE plunge
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has wed long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site. The 28-year-old billionaire’s wedding took place a day after Facebook’s initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday.
In the photo – above – the famously casual billionaire is wearing a dark blue suit and tie, a departure from his trademark ‘hoodie’, while Ms Chan has on a sleeveless white dress with lace overlay :: Read the full article »»»»
For the first time in the history of United States, the number of non-white babies being born outnumbers the number of white babies. Hispanics, blacks, Asians and other minorities accounted for 50.4 per cent of births in the 12 months to July 2011, new census figures show.
That compares to just 37 per cent in 1990 and 49.5 per cent in April 2010. Social scientists say the change reflects a wave of immigration in recent decades.
Minority groups are already in the majority in California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Texas and Washington DC. Whites still made up the largest single share of the total births, at 49.6 per cent. They also constituted a majority of the overall population of the United States at 63.4 per cent :: Read the full article »»»»
The West Australian Government plans to introduce a specialist court to deal with offenders suffering from mental illness. WA Mental Health Minister Helen Morton says the state government will draw on the experience of other jurisdictions for its planned mental health court.
Under the proposal, offenders with mental illness will be assessed prior to appearing before a dedicated magistrate and the nature of their condition will be taken into account when sentencing.
The 2-year trial program is tipped to cater for up to 300 people a year and cost $5-million.
Similar courts have been implemented across Australia, Ms Morton says those programs have played an important role in the development of the government’s proposal :: Read the full article »»»»
Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights, rescuing fair damsels, slaying dragons and conquering evil villains. Behind many a hero is a good-for-nothing younger brother trying just to stay out of the way. Danny McBride and James Franco team up for an epic comedy adventure set in a fantastical world :: Read the full article »»»»
Donna Summer, whose disco anthems dominated dance floors in the 1970s and went on to have a huge influence on dance and club music for decades to come, has died of cancer at the age of 63 :: Read the full article »»»»
Around 150 medical practitioners from the group Doctors For The Family have signed a submission to the Senate inquiry into marriage equality opposing same-sex marriage. The group says it believes heterosexual marriage is healthier for children.
Doctors for the Family’s Lachlan Dunjey told ABC News Radio that the organisation is concerned about the health consequences for children of same-sex marriages.
“It’s well proven that children who grow up with a mother and a father in a biological mother and father family do better than children who don’t have the opportunity to grow up in that kind of family,” Dunjey said.
The organisations website is blunt about it’s beliefs, stating: There are many organisations in Australia and internationally that support marriage – the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others – as the basis for family and a healthy society.
Doctors for the Family is a supporting medical organisation to highlight the health aspects of marriage and family and ensure a healthy future for our children.
Its purpose is to be a source of information and at times make representation to parliament or appropriate organisations to ensure policies that enhance and preserve the health and future of our nation :: Read the full article »»»»
The internet is an integral part of our lives, it takes up a substantial amount of our time, we work through it, spend leisure time on it. It’s an ease to forget that this place is unreal, that all is not what it seems.
For those with children, it’s a huge concern
There is no way of telling who your children are conversing with, not for you nor for them, that your children are secretive is a given. Those who are intent on doing your children harm are also secretive, this is the daunting prospect all parents must cope with.
National Family Week “Families Make All the Difference” kicks off on May 15 this year , coinciding with the United Nations “International Day of the Families” also May 15. So what does this have to do with Online Security? Everything! Families are THE best security system for you to protect your children from online harm, from nefarious internet predators. Families enable us to create a safe, enjoyable and educational place for children to be :: Read the full article »»»»
On this week’s Time Magazine cover. The mother – Jamie Lynne Grummet, a 26 year old mother of two – is a proponent of attachment parenting. She breast feeds her biological son, who is almost four, and her adopted son, 5, who she feels compelled to point out is of a different race. She posts pictures of this on her blog, I am not the babysitter. and catagorically isn’t doing any of this – the Time stuff – for attention, ooops :: Read the full article »»»»
A school in Fort Worth, Texas decided to change it’s name from Sunrise Elementary School to Sunrise-McMillan Elementary School in honour of the first teacher who taught there oh-so many years ago. However, instead of spelling it “Sunrise-McMillan”, someone tossed an extra “i” into the mix, transforming the name into “Sunrise-McMillian”. You’d think that, over time, someone would have noticed the blunder. Apparently the kids aren’t the only ones not paying attention.
Everything associated with the school, from logos to signs to its own Facebook page, bears the misspelling. The school is currently in the process of making the necessary changes, but, unfortunately, it’s much too late. The news has spread, and I’m sure the embarrassment will be hard to shake :: Read the full article »»»»
President Obama has finally made it official, announcing that he supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition. In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to this decision, based on conversations with his staff members, openly gay and lesbian service members, and his wife and daughters.
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors, when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together; when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama told Robin Roberts in an interview on ABC’sGood Morning America
The president stressed that this is a personal position, and that he still supports the concept of states’ deciding the issue on their own. But he said he’s confident that more Americans will grow comfortable with gays and lesbians getting married, citing his own daughters’ comfort with the concept.
Obama’s decision to come out in support of same-sex marriage has sparked a Twitter frenzy :: Read the full article »»»»
So the big thing – globally – seems to be gay marriage, here in Australia Bob Katter is still pulling his foot from his mouth after bungling bigtime with those TV commercials. New York has said YES, Julia Gillard is on the fence. The Catholic Church is clearly not bending on it, the Presbyterian’s ordained their first gay minister in October 2011 and apparently US President Barack Obama is all for it…
The surprise comments were from the rednecks, who knew there were so many….
We digress, the US vice-president Joe Biden has sparked intense speculation that Barack Obama will endorse same-sex marriage if he wins a second term as president :: Read the full article »»»»
Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights, rescuing fair damsels, slaying dragons and conquering evil villains. Behind many a hero is a good-for-nothing younger brother trying just to stay out of the way. Danny McBride and James Franco team up for an epic comedy adventure set in a fantastical world :: Read the full article »»»»
Sydney police are searching for a group of men involved in a string of robberies across the city. According to investigating officers the bandits threw faeces at their victims. Detectives say the men would watch their victims withdraw large sums of cash from a bank before distracting them by hurling faeces on their backs. The men would then offer to help clean up their victims before robbing them :: Read the full article »»»»
The editors of all 19 editions of Vogue around the world have pledged to use only healthy models no younger than 16 on their editorial pages in an attempt to shift the fashion industry’s approach to body image.
Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue’s flagship US edition, and Emmanuelle Alt of Paris Vogue – which caused an uproar in 2010 with a photo spread featuring a 10-year-old girl – are among those who agreed to the pact.
“Vogue believes that good health is beautiful,” said Jonathan Newhouse, chairman of Conde Nast International and a scion of the New York publishing family that privately owns the world’s most influential fashion title.
“Vogue editors around the world want the magazines to reflect their commitment to the health of the models who appear on the pages and the wellbeing of their readers,” Mr Newhouse added :: Read the full article »»»»
Facebook plans to raise as much as $12 billion from its initial public share offering, dwarfing the coming-out parties of tech companies like Google.
The eight-year-old social network that began as Mark Zuckerberg’s college dorm room project has priced its initial public offering at between $28 and $35 a share.
This will see Facebook attain a valuation of as much as $95.9 billion at the high end and grant the world’s largest social network a market value close to Amazon.
If an over-allotment or “greenshoe” option is triggered, Facebook could end up raising close to $13.6 billion, according to a prospectus. Investors are expected to flock to the highly anticipated IPO, though some have voiced concerns about Facebook’s longer-term growth :: Read the full article »»»»
“..hmmm, what to cue up for my parents? plaintive sobbing in the darkened suburban childhood bedroom they raised me in? How’s about some… or perhaps… noo… ohhhhh…whats about… ”$H!T” F_CKITlet’s just go with Skrillex”
