Inver Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 (edited) Hedgehogs released theatre garden They will love it there I'm sure, it is a wonderful garden. Piccies up on the website for the hedgehogs Edited April 7, 2010 by Inver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffin Nail Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8610423.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Love him or hate him, he couldnt be ignored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexie Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 R.I.P. I think you are sooo right, Mole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted April 9, 2010 Author Share Posted April 9, 2010 Unwanted adopted boy sent back This story made me incredibly sad today. When I sat and thought about it it made me cry. It's really shocking how little people think of children. I hope he is found a good, loving home and shown that there are actually good people out there in the world. From Sky News A seven-year-old Russian boy who was adopted by an American woman has been sent home on his own with a note saying he was no longer wanted. Young Artem Savelyev arrived at Moscow airport with the typed note from his adoptive mother which said he was being abandoned after only six months in her care. Torry-Ann Hansen had admitted to having made a mistake and suggested the boy should be re-housed. "I no longer wish to parent this child," the unmarried 27-year-old nurse from Tennessee wrote, requesting his adoption be annulled. She accused the boy's Siberian orphanage of misleading her about Artem's behavioural problems. Hansen had placed sweets, biscuits and colouring pens in the child's rucksack before checking him onto the 10-hour flight as an unaccompanied minor, reportedly telling him he was going on an "excursion" to Moscow. Russia media has reacted with horror to the case and foreign minister Sergei Lavrov called for all adoptions of the country's children by US citizens to be frozen. He said the suspension must be upheld until Russia and the US conclude an agreement on terms "specifying responsibilities" by the host family. Artem is an only-child, whose only known relative - his birth mother - was relieved of her motherhood rights in 2008. He was picked up at the airport on Thursday by a Russian man who took him to the city's education ministry, where the youngster was left. The man told officials he had been offered $200 (approximately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 Oh, that's so terribly sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 I just read that about the adopted boy and came here to post about it. How heartbreaking! You just don't do that to a child! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbielleRose Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 This is just so heartbreaking and sick. It just blows my mind that some cultures are so negligent of their women and children, particularly when it is a female child! http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/09/yemen.child.bride.death/index.html?hpt=T2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Both of those stories are just incredibly sad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steeeeve Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 (edited) Possibly. I don't know how many people have heard by now that Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are trying to see if they can get the Pope arrested when he visits England in September. Snigger. It's a serious story but I can't help but laugh. Hitchens and Dawkins. What a crime-fighting team! Links! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7094310.ece and http://trueslant.com/allisonkilkenny/2010/04/11/the-case-for-arresting-the-pope/ What does everyone think? Does the Pope deserve to get arrested for covering up child abuse? Since to me he's just a man who's tried to cover up horrendous acts of abuse I'm going to go with yes. He should be treated the same as anyone else who's done what he's done. Having said that I don't have all the facts. If anyone can point out that he was justified or that he hasn't done what's being claimed then fair enough. Edit: Whoops. Didn't notice that big old In the News thread. Should have put this there. Edited April 11, 2010 by Maureen moved to 'In the news' thread. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladd Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1265065/Man-kills-row-work-non-PC-joke.html I bet the informants diversity training instructor was proud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrysalis_stage Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 This is just so heartbreaking and sick. It just blows my mind that some cultures are so negligent of their women and children, particularly when it is a female child! http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/09/yemen.child.bride.death/index.html?hpt=T2 I too read this earlier today and was sickened, tis something that should not happen but can imagine is happening alot around the world in various circumstances. It even made me think back in history when many other cultures had young girls marrying old men, even ours at times, tis so sad to think what these children (not even young women) have to endure against their will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbielleRose Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 I agree. At age 12 a child should still be experiencing the world through games and play dates with friends. They shouldn't be worrying about caring for a husband or in some cases, caring for their child or fighting for their life because their body is still too little to handle pregnancy. Its so utterly heartbreaking. And then you think back on history, like you said. Mary, Jesus' mom, supposedly had him around 14. So many monarchs marry off around that age or even earlier and if I remember right, King Tut was just a boy when he assumed the throne and began taking wives and fathering children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beef Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Possibly.I don't know how many people have heard by now that Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are trying to see if they can get the Pope arrested when he visits England in September. Snigger. It's a serious story but I can't help but laugh. Hitchens and Dawkins. What a crime-fighting team! Links! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7094310.ece and http://trueslant.com/allisonkilkenny/2010/04/11/the-case-for-arresting-the-pope/ What does everyone think? Does the Pope deserve to get arrested for covering up child abuse? Since to me he's just a man who's tried to cover up horrendous acts of abuse I'm going to go with yes. He should be treated the same as anyone else who's done what he's done. Having said that I don't have all the facts. If anyone can point out that he was justified or that he hasn't done what's being claimed then fair enough. Edit: Whoops. Didn't notice that big old In the News thread. Should have put this there. he should of course be arrested, anyone else would be at least detained and questioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 If any one is interested this is one of the big sites we have been digging on recently http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8619572.stm I did my first ever excavation down there (a long time ago) and in fact my last ever fieldwork project round there too.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Gah. It took me ages to carve that burial mound, dammit! You youngsters have no respect for us seniors... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbielleRose Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 If any one is interested this is one of the big sites we have been digging on recently http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8619572.stm I did my first ever excavation down there (a long time ago) and in fact my last ever fieldwork project round there too.. That is really interesting, pickle! You have such a cool job. Lol @ Mac (Nice to see you back!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Gah. It took me ages to carve that burial mound, dammit! You youngsters have no respect for us seniors... Its the new fangled tools we have these days much quicker than animal shoulder blades and stone tools.. Gabby, its great in that picture I am sure the guys down there didn't enjoy it so much over the winter...brrrrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbielleRose Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7595644/Dead-man-elected-as-US-mayor.html Can't decide if this is really touching or a bit odd... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beef Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 how bad does the other guy have to be... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbielleRose Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Should there be warning lables put on books aimed at teens? http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/os-lk-book-policy-leesburg-20100413,0,1908695.story?page=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 No. If parents are worried about what their kids are reading, then they should take the time to read it first and decide if it is appropriate for their child. I never had my reading censored, but my Mam did check out books she suspected might be a bit much for me before handing them over, if only so she would know ahead of time of anything I might decide to ask her about. We had a very good relationship where we (my sister and I) were encouraged to ask about anything on any subject, no matter how embarrassing most folks might find it, and we always got frank and honest answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beef Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 no. If teenagers can cope with the drugs violence and sex in school, home and their social life they should cope with it in books. Better yet they could learn to grow a pair and if they don't like something just change the channel/put it away rather than getting sue happy. These people annoy me beyond belief. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie2008 Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 There's quite a few books that do have "Not suitable for younger readers" on them. I have seen in shops, especially with things like vampire series, where younger people maybe interested but it's not suitable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/Seven-Thousand-Copies-Of-Cookbook-Destroyed-After-Recipe-Recommended-Adding-Ground-Black-People/Article/201004315608725?lpos=Business_First_Strange_News__Article_Teaser_Region__0&lid=ARTICLE_15608725_Seven_Thousand_Copies_Of_Cookbook_Destroyed_After_Recipe_Recommended_Adding_Ground_Black_People "Seven thousand copies of a cookbook called the Pasta Bible have had to be destroyed because one of its recipes recommended adding "salt and freshly ground black people". Oh dear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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