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You knew the list was gonna leak today, sooner or later.
ABC is set to reveal the cast for its forthcoming “Dancing With the Stars” tonight at the end of “The Bachelor.” TMZ, however, is not waiting around.
The website says it has confirmed 6 of the 11 celebrities who will appear on the show – among them Wendy Williams, who had been rumored to be part of the cast; and rapper Lil’ Romeo, who was booked for the show several years ago but injured his leg and was replaced by his father, Master P.
Below is the list of confirmed celebs and their partners, according to TMZ:
Wendy Williams & Tony Dovolani
Lil’ Romeo & Chelsie Hightower
Chris Jericho & Cheryl Burke
Kendra Wilkinson & Louis van Amstel
Kirstie Alley & Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Disney star Chelsea Kane & Mark Ballas
A friend of mine in my blog network posted some information about a psychological coping strategy I’d never heard of before: normalcy bias. It refers to a mental state some people experience in the face of an impending disaster and underestimate the possibility of devastation or destruction. Think Hurricane Katrina. Tornado Alley. The black out-of-wedlock rate.
73 percent–yes, 73–of black children are being born without the benefit of two married parents living in the home, and our collective, sluggish response to an epidemic that most surely will destroy us is usually outrage–at the messenger, not the problem. And while being a baby mama or daddy may seem normal, the result of our cavalier attitude is leading to a major devastation. Maybe not today. Maybe not in a year. But as sure as I write, it’s coming. Just look around.
Recently, a 16-year-old boy killed his single mother with a claw hammer because she took away his Play Station. Ninety students at a Memphis high school are either pregnant or lactating as we speak. Baby mamas are brawling at Chuck-E-Cheese over trifling baby daddies. Well-fed fourth grade black boys can’t read as well hungry, poor white boys. The C.D.C. recently conducted a study that said family structure can negatively influence children’s health. I could go on, but I think you get the idea.
The storm isn’t coming, it’s already here. The winds are whipping, the dams and levees are breaking, and bodies are floating right by us, and yet, some of us keep saying, “Well, it’s not that bad! I was raised by a single mom/dad and I came out all right!” Well, how lucky for you. And you be the problem.
We have become a society that is so completely self-centered and self-indulgent that we just don’t seem to give a crap. It’s an “I got mine, the hay-ell with you!” mentality that is eating us alive, swallowing us whole into an abyss so dark and dismal we may never crawl out of it.
The 73 percent out-of-wedlock eclipses all other races. The closest is Latinos, at 51 percent. Our shameful numbers overshadow all other negative statistics attributed to blacks, including the drop out rate, men and women in prison, homicide, poverty, H.I.V./A.I.D.S., drug use and unemployment. Our “black leadership” is quick to complain and cite EVERYTHING EXCEPT the out-of-wedlock rate, likely because they are afraid of the backlash and fear of offending our delicate constituents if they actually hold us accountable for a factor that we, indeed, can control.
“The African-American community has a high rate of children born in single parent homes and domestic violence because of historical trauma but more so now because of a generation who is heavily influenced by negative images of what it means to be black,” says Lyn Twyman, domestic violence advocate, radio personality and founder of CourageNetwork.com, “It’s time that African-Americans take back their communities and start promoting healthy images, healthy relationships and healthy families. We can’t let the negative define who we are as a people.”
And mesdames, the world is watching. And they are laughing at us, or shaking their heads in pity. Someone once asked me during an asinine Twitter battle why they should care what someone, for example, from France, thought of black people. To her I say this: we are living in a global economy. The world is now a very, very small place. You may not care what France or China thinks of you, but how about when it’s time for your child to find a job and can’t because someone at an international company thinks all black people look act the folks on B.E.T. rap videos? Will you care then?
“Uproar in Houston after video shows police beating 15-year-old suspect,” CNN, 2-5-2011
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/728?akid=1898.12491.VUyn73&t=7
.”Exclusive video of HPD beating of teen burglar,” KTRK-TV, 2-3-2011
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/729?akid=1898.12491.VUyn73&t=9
“4 charged, 7 fired, 12 disciplined in HPD,” Houston Chronicle, 6-23-2010
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/730?akid=1898.12491.VUyn73&t=11
Oprah Winfrey’s mom Vernita is not doing well after Oprah forced her to reveal she gave up a child 47 years ago. In a bombshell Oprah show, The Mighty O talked about her family secret. When she revealed she had a half sister, the ratings went through the roof. Family members are concerned because since the show, Vernita has not been able to get out of bed. She’s been very depressed since Oprah made her come clean on TV. Vernita didn’t want to talk about it. Oprah pays the bills, so they made her talk about it. Vernita feels she came across as a loose woman and a bad mother. At 75, Vernita recently suffered a stroke due to high blood pressure and diabetes.
Thirty years after the first Internet addresses were created, the supply of addresses officially ran dry on Thursday.
But don’t panic. The transition to a new version of addresses is already well under way and, for most people, should occur without even being noticed.
At a special ceremony in Miami on Thursday, the organization that oversees the global allocation of Internet addresses distributed the last batch of so-called IPv4 addresses, underscoring the extent to which the Web has become an integral and pervasive part of modern life.
Every computer, smartphone and back-end Web server requires an IP address — a unique string of numbers identifying a particular device — in order to be connected to the Internet. The explosion of Web-connected gadgets, and the popularity of websites from Google Inc to Facebook, means that the world has now bumped up against the limit of roughly 4 billion IP addresses that are possible with the IPv4 standard introduced in 1981.
The solution is IPv6, a new standard for Internet addresses that should provide a lot more room for growth: There are 340 undecillion IPv6 addresses available. That’s 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses.
“If all the space of IPv4 were to be sized and compared to a golf ball, a similar-sized comparison for IPv6 would be the size of the sun,” said John Curran, the chief executive officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, one of five nonprofit organizations that manage Internet addresses for particular regions of the world.
Just in case you’re worried, Curran added that “we don’t ever intend to see another transition.”
For companies with websites, the transition to IPv6 means configuring their computer equipment to support the new standard rather than upgrading hardware, Curran said. Those that don’t could see the performance of their sites slowed down, and potentially cut off to some users in the future.
Laptops, smartphones and other Web-connected gadgets, as well as Web browsers, already support IPv6, though Curran notes that according to some estimates less than 1 percent of
Internet users may not have their equipment configured properly and will need to adjust their settings in the months ahead, as websites increasingly adopt the new standard.
CNN is reporting that a 14-year-old South Carolina boy used the rifle his father bought him as a birthday present to shoot the man to death, along with a great-aunt, and critically wounded his grandmother, police said Tuesday. The boy called police just before midnight and calmly informed them that he had shot his aunt, grandmother and father, said Tony Fisher, director of the Spartanburg, S.C., Public Safety Department. The boy said in a “methodical” voice that he had laid the rifle down and would be waiting for them when authorities arrived.
Upon their arrival, the boy came out of the house with his hands in the air. Police found the boy’s 44-year-old father, Joe Robert Lankford, shot to death in his bed, and Virginia Gaston, 83, dead in her bed, apparently from a gunshot wound, Fisher said. Rachel Gaston Lankford, 80, the boy’s grandmother, was transported to a hospital, where she is in critical condition.
Authorities investigating the teen’s background said there were no behavioral issues in the past and that he was unable to articulate why he shot his relatives. Parents take note: Giving guns to teenagers as a present may have dire consequences. This situation is truly sad on so many levels.
Now that she has been embarrassed on TV, Evelyn Lozada of VH1’s Basketball Wives wants to leave the show. In the season finale, Lozada got into an altercation with Tami Roman when she revealed she slept with Roman’s husband. Lozada claims she was set up by producers to get attacked for ratings. A lot of people feel Lozada is trying to leave the show so she can do a show with Football Star Chad Ochocinco Johnson. Lozada and Ochocinco are looking to strike out on their own, and they are willing to do anything, including faking a relationship, to keep the reality show money coming in.
Mark Adams, the bass player for the 70’s funk band Slave, has died. Details of Adams’ death haven’t been released yet. Slave’s hits include Just A Touch Of Love, Watching You and Slide.