This & That, Ceci et Cela

All you movie-goers gotta love this one! What & how Arnold et al really get paid, practically tax free!  Goes to show you ain't nobody without a goood lawyer!  Interesting to see how Schwarzenegger gets paid $30 million for terminator 3 whether or not the movie gets made.  And that doesn't include contingent royalties compensation.

I recently came across an interesting article by Jay Epstein exploring the good ol' marketing precept that the value of a diamond never diminishes, until you try to sell it... Why you're forever being told that "diamonds are forever", so don't sell/exchange, just buy more. Good thing I happen to find conventional/white diamonds ...

The coca farmer is now the president! Evo Morales wins Bolivia's presidential elections: The leftist candidate from one of Bolivia's Indian peoples who wants to legalise coca-growing has claimed victory in the presidential election.

Bush admits he authorized spying but chastises the world for uncovering it.  He criticized the leak that had made the programme public. "Revealing classified information is illegal. It alerts our enemies," he said. Never mind that it was illegal to secretly order the spying in the first place!  This man IS made of executive stuff...

Freaky is as freaky does!  The man confessed to breaking into the woman's home five times, including once while she was sleeping, though he had fled as soon as she woke up. ...  But the court in Harbin, capital of northeastern Heilongjiang province, dismissed harassment charges against the burglar. It heard that on the times he entered the woman's apartment while she was out, he had washed her dishes, done ...

From random looting to architectural theft in New Orleans: Professional photographer Keith Calhoun is resigned to the hurricane that destroyed his studio. And he has even reconciled himself to the pilfering of negatives he had stored there. But what has him spitting nails is the recent looting of the fat cypress beams that had kept his Victorian-era building standing -- and that would ...

Thousands of young white men have converged on Cronulla Beach in Sydney, Australia, and attacked people of Arabic and Mediterranean background. Police and ambulance officers were pelted with beer cans and bottles, and an ambulance was attacked. Several people were injured in the alcohol-fuelled violence, and at least 12 were arrested. The authorities have condemned the outbreak of racial violence as "not the Australian way". ...

And why the Red Cross is now changing it's official symbol partly because of this? ... "Red Cross officials hope approval of a third emblem will finally put an end to decades of controversy over the issue. At the moment, the only two emblems recognised under the Geneva conventions are the red cross and the red crescent; relief workers and ambulances bearing these symbols are protected under international law. In ...

Mm-mm-mm.  Is he cheating on you? To find out, go to this website.   Billed as an "online resource for women who have shared the experience of dating a no-good man"!  Fully equipped with a database and search engine of alleged cheaters, liars and cads.  If you've been played, add your own tale with the perp's picture to help warn everybody else.

After finishing the course, it has just occurred to me that the best way for me to learn French/any foreign language is to take lessons in that language simultaneously with English language classes. Why? The Anglais class refreshes grammar rules while supporting acquisition of the new language which is based on a similar grammatical structure. E.g. it is easier to learn adverbs en Fran?ais when you are ...