Ghost Hunting with Girls Aloud- Part Two
May 19, 2008 in
People
jobee13 asked:
Part 2 of Ghosthunting with Girls Aloud
Archive for May, 2008
So You Have Won A Million Dollars, What Now?
May 18, 2008 in
Uncategorized
Mitchell Hampson asked:
What would you do with a million dollars? It’s unlikely that you’ll have a problem spending the dosh, but that’s if you get it. Million dollar sweepstakes are held all over the world, but the problem is that some aren’t legitimate. It’s easy to get conned if you don’t know what to look for in a contest. Learn what you should really do and know if you get a call from a telemarketer that needs you to collect your prize. Be prepared for all the scams in a million dollar sweepstakes.
It goes like this when the call comes through from an employee of a supposed legitimate contest. You’ve not won the million, but you’re a runner up, and you need to collect your runner up prize in the contest. It’s easy to not remember what contests you’ve entered, unless your detailed orientated. Ask how the company got your name. If they can’t tell you, don’t talk with them. If the marketer says that you must act this second, know that it’s a ploy to get your money. A ideal sales person has a convincing tone’ and a million dollar sweepstakes and prizes is tempting.
Be wary too if anger becomes part of the telemarketers when you ask questions about what you’ve won and how to claim it. You’ll need to know everything regarding it, so ask for it in writing. You’ll find that often the phone will go silent when you request it in writing, or it could infuriate them to hound you to release bank’ credit card or savings account information. Con artists like this, use this tactic to get your money. Don’t ever give this information to them until you’re sure the million dollar sweepstakes is verifiable.
You might be interested to find out that there are restrictions on what type of overseas contests that you can enter. Almost all are prohibited to enter from the U.S. unless you are residing in that particular country. Also, there are state laws that are violated if you enter a million dollar sweepstakes, so don’t do it. You could be heavily fined, and jailed. No million dollar sweepstakes contest is worth having your name scarred for life.
If you do get scammed by these scoundrels, you need to report them to your local and state police. Tell the media too, and they can work with the police to warn others. Write to your governor’s legal department and state in a lot of detail what happened to you. They can investigate the million dollar sweepstakes, and get back to you. You might or might not get your money back from the million dollar sweepstakes, but at least you’ve learned a valuable lesson.
What would you do with a million dollars? It’s unlikely that you’ll have a problem spending the dosh, but that’s if you get it. Million dollar sweepstakes are held all over the world, but the problem is that some aren’t legitimate. It’s easy to get conned if you don’t know what to look for in a contest. Learn what you should really do and know if you get a call from a telemarketer that needs you to collect your prize. Be prepared for all the scams in a million dollar sweepstakes.
It goes like this when the call comes through from an employee of a supposed legitimate contest. You’ve not won the million, but you’re a runner up, and you need to collect your runner up prize in the contest. It’s easy to not remember what contests you’ve entered, unless your detailed orientated. Ask how the company got your name. If they can’t tell you, don’t talk with them. If the marketer says that you must act this second, know that it’s a ploy to get your money. A ideal sales person has a convincing tone’ and a million dollar sweepstakes and prizes is tempting.
Be wary too if anger becomes part of the telemarketers when you ask questions about what you’ve won and how to claim it. You’ll need to know everything regarding it, so ask for it in writing. You’ll find that often the phone will go silent when you request it in writing, or it could infuriate them to hound you to release bank’ credit card or savings account information. Con artists like this, use this tactic to get your money. Don’t ever give this information to them until you’re sure the million dollar sweepstakes is verifiable.
You might be interested to find out that there are restrictions on what type of overseas contests that you can enter. Almost all are prohibited to enter from the U.S. unless you are residing in that particular country. Also, there are state laws that are violated if you enter a million dollar sweepstakes, so don’t do it. You could be heavily fined, and jailed. No million dollar sweepstakes contest is worth having your name scarred for life.
If you do get scammed by these scoundrels, you need to report them to your local and state police. Tell the media too, and they can work with the police to warn others. Write to your governor’s legal department and state in a lot of detail what happened to you. They can investigate the million dollar sweepstakes, and get back to you. You might or might not get your money back from the million dollar sweepstakes, but at least you’ve learned a valuable lesson.
Visa Issues For Your Filipina Bride
May 16, 2008 in
National, State, Local
Peter Finch asked:
As incidents of Filipino citizens flying to the United States or other countries and not returning home pile up, government and the foreign embassies were prompted to implement stricter measures in issuing visas.
When a foreigner crosses cultures just to acquire a Filipina bride, he has to go through numerous hassles, like complying with mountains of paperwork, spending hundreds of dollars and waiting for a long time before he can finally take his Filipina bride to his country. Processing the requirements for a fiancee or spouse visa takes time and the length of the waiting time depends on where you live.
You can either apply for a fiancee visa (K1 Fiancee Via) or a spouse visa (IR-1) for your Filipina bride, but you still have to comply with several requirements. There are many specialized lawyers that can help you with this. The law requires that you and your Filipina girlfriend must have been legally free to marry and if your girlfriend is granted a fiancee visa, you have to marry her within 90 days after arrival in your own country.
You may need to show documents to prove your relationship with your Filipina girlfriend so keep track of those emails you exchanged with each other, letters, photos, plane tickets and any other proof that you have a relationship going on.
To obtain a spouse visa for your Filipina bride, first of all you must get married so you can petition your Filipina wife to migrate to your own country. If you get married in the Philippines, you must comply with all the requirements of applying a marriage certificate and getting married whether in the church or civil ceremony.
You must not forget to bring important documents if you want to get married in the Philippines, like your US passport, an Affidavit from the US Embassy, a divorce decree or spouse’s death certificate if you were previously married, proof that you have informed your parents if you are 22 to 24, or proof of parental consent if you are 18 to 21 years old. These are needed in filing for a marriage license. Your marriage must be authentic and valid under the Philippine laws, and only then can you file a petition to get a visa for your Filipina wife.
Here is a brief run on the procedures of acquiring a spouse visa. After you return to your own country, you should file a petition with the nearest office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) where your place of residence is covered. The INS will in turn send the papers to your Filipina bride for her to comply. You and your Filipina bride must return all required forms to the National Visa Center, who will in turn forward all of the documents to the US Embassy, including your Affidavit of Support.
Your Filipina bride will then have to wait for an interview with the consular officer in your Embassy who will determine if she will be issued a visa or not. If you join bride tours, they will take care of all the visa processing and immigration procedures but if you came on your own, you and your Filipina fiance will have to do the petitioning or applying of her visa.
Cynthia Marcano asked:
With so many proud parents in the world, no wonder baby photo contests are so popular. Of course there is usually only one winner and we all want our little darling to be it. Here are a few tips on how to submit photos to be judged for baby photo contests. Here is what the judges are looking for.
Can the judges see the baby’s face? If not, then how can they judge your baby or toddler’s appearance? If you have taken your cutie to a picture studio, chances are they have several shots of your child looking at a prop of some sort. These are no doubt cute pictures, but opt for the shot of your child looking at the camera. Close up facial shots are eye catching. Your baby is indeed a cutie, let the judges see that.
If you are a 1st time parent, you have probably taken too many photos to keep track of. Sorting through your tons of pictures can be a breeze if you follow this next suggestion. If it has a lot of background, move on. Family vacation photos with your little standing next to 10 cartoon characters won’t work. All the background distracts the eye away from the main subject- your little one. Pictures with background are ok, as long as the main focus is your child. For example, a child swimming in a pool would be good as long as the child takes up more picture than the pool water. The pool water is all one color and your child’s bright face and bathing suit colors are sure to bring the eye right to your darling.
Focusing on the baby is really important. While keeping background to a minimal is important, so is making your child the main subject. For parents with more than one child, I am sure to have tons of family shots. Keep these photos in the family scrapbooks and photo albums. Of course you can tell your children apart, but that may not be such an easy task for judges. If your children look alike that can be very difficult. Make judging as easy as possible by keeping pictures simple. Playing the guessing game will only frustrate judges. It doesn’t get any easier than one person in the photo to be judged. Of course this rule doesn’t apply to multiples or Mommy or Daddy and me photos.
I already know you have a dozen shots with your baby wearing huge sunglasses, daddy’s baseball hat, mommy’s jewelry, or a Halloween mask. Photos with props truly are cute, but they are not always suitable for baby photo contests. Props that hide your baby’s face make it hard for judges to see the true beauty of your baby. The key is to enhance, not hide their cute faces. For instance, wearing daddy’s hat is ok as long as its to the side or back where we can see the baby’s face. Halloween costumes with face covering masks or that require facial makeup, is not helping your toddler win.
Other Tips Include:
Send clear photos. Photos that are dark are pretty useless. You are not giving yourself a fair judging chance.
Red Eyes do not make appealing photos. Many online picture software can help fix that problem.
Pictures taken from far away distances can’t help judges see the child’s face.
Size matters. Judges prefer pictures larger than a wallet up to size 5×7 (3×5, 4×6, 5×7 and anything in between).
With so many proud parents in the world, no wonder baby photo contests are so popular. Of course there is usually only one winner and we all want our little darling to be it. Here are a few tips on how to submit photos to be judged for baby photo contests. Here is what the judges are looking for.
Can the judges see the baby’s face? If not, then how can they judge your baby or toddler’s appearance? If you have taken your cutie to a picture studio, chances are they have several shots of your child looking at a prop of some sort. These are no doubt cute pictures, but opt for the shot of your child looking at the camera. Close up facial shots are eye catching. Your baby is indeed a cutie, let the judges see that.
If you are a 1st time parent, you have probably taken too many photos to keep track of. Sorting through your tons of pictures can be a breeze if you follow this next suggestion. If it has a lot of background, move on. Family vacation photos with your little standing next to 10 cartoon characters won’t work. All the background distracts the eye away from the main subject- your little one. Pictures with background are ok, as long as the main focus is your child. For example, a child swimming in a pool would be good as long as the child takes up more picture than the pool water. The pool water is all one color and your child’s bright face and bathing suit colors are sure to bring the eye right to your darling.
Focusing on the baby is really important. While keeping background to a minimal is important, so is making your child the main subject. For parents with more than one child, I am sure to have tons of family shots. Keep these photos in the family scrapbooks and photo albums. Of course you can tell your children apart, but that may not be such an easy task for judges. If your children look alike that can be very difficult. Make judging as easy as possible by keeping pictures simple. Playing the guessing game will only frustrate judges. It doesn’t get any easier than one person in the photo to be judged. Of course this rule doesn’t apply to multiples or Mommy or Daddy and me photos.
I already know you have a dozen shots with your baby wearing huge sunglasses, daddy’s baseball hat, mommy’s jewelry, or a Halloween mask. Photos with props truly are cute, but they are not always suitable for baby photo contests. Props that hide your baby’s face make it hard for judges to see the true beauty of your baby. The key is to enhance, not hide their cute faces. For instance, wearing daddy’s hat is ok as long as its to the side or back where we can see the baby’s face. Halloween costumes with face covering masks or that require facial makeup, is not helping your toddler win.
Other Tips Include:
Send clear photos. Photos that are dark are pretty useless. You are not giving yourself a fair judging chance.
Red Eyes do not make appealing photos. Many online picture software can help fix that problem.
Pictures taken from far away distances can’t help judges see the child’s face.
Size matters. Judges prefer pictures larger than a wallet up to size 5×7 (3×5, 4×6, 5×7 and anything in between).
What the American Idol Contestants Should be Singing
May 13, 2008 in
Uncategorized
Eric de Fontenay asked:
Randy, Paula and Simon are always talking about song selection, and the right choice can make all the difference – just ask Syesha. With the help of some top songwriters (“Love Is A Battlefield,” “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”), we choose specific songs that will wow the judges. Some of the advice:
http://www.songfacts.com/writing/2008/04/american-idol-song-selection.html
Make It Your Own – you probably don’t know who sang “I Can Dream About You,” which makes it a perfect choice.
Futz With The Arrangement – It worked for David Cook with “Billie Jean,” and it can work for lots of other songs, including “Torn” and “Bizarre Love Triangle.”
Avoid The Overdone – “Unchained Melody” has run its course.
Does a great Karaoke song translate to Idol? Not according to the folks who do it for a living. Kimberly Starling of The Karaoke Informer explains: “The typical good karaoke songs tend to lack the uniqueness needed for an Idol contestant to stand out.” Her list of songs that work in Karaoke but would bomb on Idol include “Friends In Low Places,” “Santeria,” and a surprising choice by The Ramones that works every time.
http://www.songfacts.com
Randy, Paula and Simon are always talking about song selection, and the right choice can make all the difference – just ask Syesha. With the help of some top songwriters (“Love Is A Battlefield,” “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”), we choose specific songs that will wow the judges. Some of the advice:
http://www.songfacts.com/writing/2008/04/american-idol-song-selection.html
Make It Your Own – you probably don’t know who sang “I Can Dream About You,” which makes it a perfect choice.
Futz With The Arrangement – It worked for David Cook with “Billie Jean,” and it can work for lots of other songs, including “Torn” and “Bizarre Love Triangle.”
Avoid The Overdone – “Unchained Melody” has run its course.
Does a great Karaoke song translate to Idol? Not according to the folks who do it for a living. Kimberly Starling of The Karaoke Informer explains: “The typical good karaoke songs tend to lack the uniqueness needed for an Idol contestant to stand out.” Her list of songs that work in Karaoke but would bomb on Idol include “Friends In Low Places,” “Santeria,” and a surprising choice by The Ramones that works every time.
http://www.songfacts.com