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Watch Ryan Keith's January 2011 address to the graduates of New Life Christian Church's Tailoring School for widows in the community. The church is located in Ndola, Zambia. The graduation marks 45 graduates from the school. Graduates receive a sewing machine, capital, and fabric to start their own business. Forgotten Voices International (www.ForgottenVoices.org) funds the project as part of the church's local orphan care plan.Watch Ryan Keith's January 2011 address to the graduates of New Life Christian... more
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http://celebwhack.com/2010/11/23/christina-aguilera-is-sexy-latina/
This is a bad news from her that she is separated now. Yes, I do not exactly know whether Christina Aguilera is really divorced or not, but if it is so, we are very lucky because there is a fair competition to win her heart and her body to accompany us every time we need. Some people say her with the name the wild cat singer. And she does not look have any sex appeal by the time when she got married but this time she does it by showing off her cleavage in that green dress and state her that she is still pretty and quite hot according to the sexy scale. Her boobs is also still wild and after her marriage and now become single she wants to grab the time when she was becoming a hot star and she was free to do anything to show her sexiness. Well, welcome back Christina, we are waiting for you for long time.http://celebwhack.com/2010/11/23/christina-aguilera-is-sexy-latina/
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Wilson Lucom decided to leave his fortune of $50m (£32m) to the poor of Panama, with the Guardian reporting it would have been the biggest charity donation for Panama.
However, a court has overturned the donation and said the fortune is to be given to his widow and family. The court case over the fortune went through four years and this decision has caused controversy.
"His will granted his wife a monthly stipend of $20,000 and gave her children one-off payments ranging from $50,000 to $200,000. But the big prize – the hacienda, whose value had soared to more than $50m – was to be sold off and the proceeds given to a newly created foundation for poor children. [...] Critics – including a former US ambassador – have in the past accused Panama's justice system of favouring the rich and powerful. "It's a joke. They stole that money, it's that simple," said Lehman. "I'm sad and disgusted. Kids are starving and a few individuals have walked away with everything."" -Guardian
The court case has been heated with the widows lawyer accusing the longtime lawyer for Lucom as being corrupt and playing a part in her husbands death, he is now on the Interpol list.Wilson Lucom decided to leave his fortune of $50m (£32m) to the poor of Panama,... more
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The 91-year-old widow lived by herself in a tumbledown house on a desolate country road. But she wasn't alone, not really, not as long as she could visit her husband and twin sister.
No matter they were already dead. Jean Stevens simply had their embalmed corpses dug up and stored them at her house — in the case of her late husband, for more than a decade — tending to the remains as best she could until police were finally tipped off last month.
Much to her dismay.
"Death is very hard for me to take," Stevens told an interviewer.
As state police finish their investigation into a singularly macabre case — no charges have been filed — Stevens wishes she could be reunited with James Stevens, her husband of nearly 60 years who died in 1999, and June Stevens, the twin who died last October. But their bodies are with the Bradford County coroner now, off-limits to the woman who loved them best.
From time to time, stories of exhumed bodies are reported, but rarely do those involved offer an explanation. Jean Stevens, seeming more grandmother than ghoul, holds little back as she describes what happened outside this small town in northern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains.
She knows what people must think of her. But she had her reasons, and they are complicated, a bit sad, and in their own peculiar way, sweet.
Dressed smartly in a light blue shirt and khaki skirt, silver hoops in her ears, her white hair swept back and her brown eyes clear and sharp, she offers a visitor a slice of pie, then casts a knowing look when it's declined. "You're afraid I'll poison you," she says.
On a highboy in the corner of the dining room rests a handsome, black-and-white portrait of Jean, then a stunner in her early 20s, and James, clad in his Army uniform. It was taken after their 1942 marriage but before his service in World War II, in which he fought in the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, James worked at a General Electric Corp. plant in Liverpool, N.Y., then as an auto mechanic. He succumbed to Parkinson's disease on May 21, 1999.
Next to that photo there is a smaller color snapshot of Jean and June, taken when they were in their late 80s.
In many ways, Jean shared a closer bond with her twin than her husband.
Though June lived more than 200 miles away in West Hartford, Conn., they talked by phone several times a week, and June wrote often. The twins — who, as it happened, married brothers — were honored guests at the 70th reunion of the Camptown High School Class of 1937.
Then, last year, June was diagnosed with cancer. She was in a lot of pain when Jean came to visit. The sisters shared a bed, and Jean rubbed her back. "I'm real glad you're here," June said.
On Oct. 3, June died. She was buried in her sister's backyard — but not for long.
"I think when you put them in the (ground), that's goodbye, goodbye," Stevens said. "In this way I could touch her and look at her and talk to her."
She kept her sister, who was dressed in her "best housecoat," on an old couch in a spare room off the bedroom. Jean sprayed her with expensive perfume that was June's favorite.
"I'd go in, and I'd talk, and I'd forget," Stevens said. "I put glasses on her. When I put the glasses on, it made all the difference in the world. I would fix her up. I'd fix her face up all the time."
She offered a similar rationale for keeping her husband on a couch in the detached garage. James, who had been laid to rest in a nearby cemetery, wore a dark suit, white shirt and blue knitted tie.
"I could see him, I could look at him, I could touch him. Now, some people have a terrible feeling, they say, 'Why do you want to look at a dead person? Oh my gracious,'" she said.
"Well, I felt differently about death."
Part of her worries that after death, there's ... nothing. "Is that the grand finale?" But then she gets up at night and gazes at the stars in the sky and the deer in the fields, and she thinks, "There must be somebody who created this. It didn't come up like mushrooms."
So she is ambivalent about God and the afterlife. "I don't always go to church, but I want to believe," Stevens said.
Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a psychiatry professor at UCLA who researches how the elderly view death and dying, said people who aren't particularly spiritual or religious often have a difficult time with death because they fear that death is truly the end.
For them, "death doesn't exist," she said. "They deny death."
Stevens, she said, "came up with a very extreme expression of it. She got her bodies back, and she felt fulfilled by having them at home. She's beating death by bringing them back."
There was another reason that Stevens wanted them above ground.
She is severely claustrophobic and so was her sister; she was horrified that the bodies of her loved ones would spend eternity in a casket in the ground. "That's suffocation to me, even though you aren't breathing," she said.
So she said she had them dug up, both within days of burial.
She managed to escape detection for a long time. The neighbors who mowed her lawn and took her grocery shopping either didn't know or didn't tell. Otherwise forthcoming, Stevens is vague when asked about who exhumed the bodies and who knew of her odd living arrangement. She blames a relative of her late husband's for calling the authorities about the corpses.
"I think that is dirty, rotten," she said.
State police — who haven't yet released the identities of those who retrieved the bodies — will soon present their findings to the Bradford County district attorney. A decision on charges is expected in a few weeks.
Stevens has talked extensively with both the police and Bradford County Coroner Tom Carman, who calls it a "very, very bizarre case."
But the coroner has nothing but kind things to say about the woman at the center of it.
"I got quite an education, to say the least. She's 100 percent cooperative — and a pleasure to talk to," Carman said. "But as far as her psyche, I'll leave that to the experts.";_ylt=AlhQk4ZTPlO4nEOWCDfR3Eqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNxZWUwYmpzBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNzA2L3VzX2x... more
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The widow of Kill Bill actor David Carradine is seeking damages from the French film company behind his last movie, saying it failed to protect him.
Carradine, 72, was found in a Bangkok hotel room last June, while filming Stretch, having died from asphyxiation.
In legal papers, Anne Carradine says an assistant employed to help him around the city went for dinner without him because he was not in his hotel room.
A representative for the company, MS2 SA, was not available for comment.
Mrs Carradine claims in the papers, filed in Los Angeles, that the assistant and other members of the film crew left for dinner without her husband, who she says had been in the city for three days.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10234643.stmThe widow of Kill Bill actor David Carradine is seeking damages from the French film... more
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The widow of a Lexington police officer killed in a hit-and-run has filed a lawsuit against her husband's accused killer.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Fayette Circuit Court, says that as a result of Bryan Durman's death his wife, Brandy, "has lost the love, affection, companionship and consortium" of her husband.
The lawsuit also says their 4-year-old son, Brayden, "has lost the love, affection and companionship" of his father.
Lexington Herald-Leader - "He was the father that everyone wishes they had," Brandy Durman, right, said Sunday of her husband, Officer Bryan Durman, left, with their son, Brayden. Brian Durman died in the line of duty Thursday.
Bryan Durman, 27, was struck in a hit-and-run while investigating a noise complaint on North Limestone about 10 p.m. on April 29. He later died.
Police have charged Glenn Rahan Doneghy with murder. Doneghy, 33, has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Brandy Durman, who is being represented by Lexington attorneys Joe C. Savage and Escum L. Moore III, is seeking an undetermined amount of money. The suit seeks punitive and compensatory damages, as well as a civil trial separate from Doneghy's criminal proceedings, Savage said.
While the lawsuit mentions Bryan Durman's death, it is not currently a wrongful death lawsuit, Savage said.
Currently, "it's an injury case ... for the injuries done to the wife and the son," Savage said.
Savage said that wrongful death claims will be added to the lawsuit once Brandy Durman is named administratrix of Bryan Durman's estate.
Savage said Brandy and Brayden Durman are both still struggling with the loss of their husband and father.
"She lived day-to-day knowing that ... officers are to some extent in harm's way, but you never think this kind of thing is going to happen," he said. "It's devastating to her and her son."
Attorney Kate Dunn, who is representing Doneghy in his murder case, said she will not be representing him in the civil suit. Dunn said she did not know whether Doneghy had an attorney.
Doneghy has 20 days to respond to the lawsuit unless a written defense is prepared, the suit says. He is being held at the Fayette County jail.
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/05/20/1272793/widow-sues-man-charged-in-lexington.html#ixzz0oYlFy4caThe widow of a Lexington police officer killed in a hit-and-run has filed a lawsuit... more
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