Big Buttocks Are Good for Your Health!

Beyonce is proud of her voluptuous buttocks.


You got a big booty?
Well shake the booty and put your hands up in triumph, because the doctors say being bootylicious is good for your health!

Most black women are sexually attractive, especially with their curvaceous or voluptuous buttocks, called Ikebe in Nigeria.

Having a well-covered behind, big hips and solid thighs "is good for you", experts said on Tuesday in a new finding likely to delight women the world over.

Carrying fat on the hips, thighs and bum, rather than around the waist, has a range of health benefits and actively protects against diabetes and heart disease, researchers at Oxford University said.

~ Yahoo News.

Now you can roll your booty with the swagger of pride.

Macy's Loves Go Red For Women with INC's 'Little Red Dress'

"The Little Red Dress" Benefitting The American Heart Association's Go Red For Women Movement and Available Exclusively at Macy's and macys.com. (PRNewsFoto/Macy's) NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES

13 Jan 2010 13:00 Africa/Lagos

Macy's Loves Go Red For Women with INC's 'Little Red Dress'

Limited Edition Design to Benefit American Heart Association Available Exclusively at Macy's and macys.com

NEW YORK, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Macy's continues to show its love for the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women movement, by announcing the launch of the INC International Concepts "Little Red Dress." Since 2004, Macy's has raised more than $21 million in the fight against heart disease and this marks the first time in the retailer's six year relationship with the American Heart Association that a limited edition design has been specially created to inspire and promote awareness of women's heart disease--just in time to celebrate National Wear Red Day on February 5, 2010.


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Available exclusively at select Macy's, including locations in New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, as well as on macys.com, the "Little Red Dress" retails for $69 with 10% of the sales price of each dress to be donated to the American Heart Association. A seasonal twist on the iconic "Little Black Dress" in a seductive shade of red, this exclusive design showcases a flirty, fitted silhouette and is available in Small, Medium, Large, and Extra-Large. An obvious choice for a glamorous Valentine's Day rendezvous, it's also the perfect way to show heartfelt support for Go Red For Women, a nationwide life-saving movement to promote awareness and prevention of heart disease among women.


"This is the sixth consecutive year that Macy's and the American Heart Association have joined forces in the crusade against women's heart disease," stated Nicole Fischelis, Macy's Group Vice President, Fashion Director for Ready-to-Wear. "Creating an exclusive dress design and donating a portion of each sale to the American Heart Association was a logical and fashionable way to celebrate our partnership and demonstrate Macy's ongoing support for the Go Red For Women movement and National Wear Red Day."


Neil Meltzer, Board Chairman of the American Heart Association and President and COO of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore added, "Macy's long-standing commitment to Go Red For Women has helped us provide women with the knowledge and tools to make life-saving choices every day. The creation of Macy's 'Little Red Dress' will bring even more exposure to the red dress symbol and awareness of heart disease, as we continue to fight this No. 1 killer of women."


Additionally, in honor of American Heart Month and National Wear Red Day, Macy's customers wearing any item of red--anything from lipstick, to the signature Red Dress pin, to an entire red ensemble--will receive a special 20% discount on a wide assortment of merchandise at all nationwide Macy's stores, as part of the Wear Red Sale Event on February 3-7.


The "Little Red Dress" will be available from January 31-March 21, 2010.


Go Red For Women is the American Heart Association's solution to save women's lives. With one out of three women still dying from heart disease, we are committed to fighting this No. 1 killer that is


largely preventable. GoRedForWomen.org, a premiere source of information and education, connects millions of women of all ages and gives them tangible resources to turn personal choices into life-saving actions. We encourage women and the men who love them to embrace the cause. For more information please visit GoRedForWomen.org or call 1-888-MY-HEART (1-888-694-3278). Macy's is a proud national sponsor of the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women.


About Macy's:


Macy's, the largest retail brand of Macy's, Inc., delivers fashion and affordable luxury to customers at more than 800 locations in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. Macy's stores and macys.com offer distinctive assortments including the most desired family of exclusive and fashion brands for him, her and home. Macy's is known for such epic events as Macy's 4th of July Fireworks® and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade®, as well as spectacular fashion shows, culinary events, flower shows and celebrity appearances. Building on a 150-year tradition, Macy's helps strengthen communities by supporting local and national charities that make a difference in the lives of our customers.


For Macy's media materials, images and contacts, please visit our online pressroom at www.macys.com/pressroom.


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CONTACT: Marissa Nicolaescu, +1-646-429-5232,
marissa.nicolaescu@macys.com


Web Site: http://www.macys.com/

Lady Gaga Breaks Another Record

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8 Jan 2010 21:41 Africa/Lagos

Lady Gaga Breaks Another Record

'Bad Romance' Becomes Superstar's Latest #1

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- International pop superstar Lady Gaga today added another notch to her belt of #1 hits as "Bad Romance" climbs to the top of Billboard's Top 40 Airplay Chart. She becomes the first artist in the chart's history to send their first five singles to the #1 spot, and remarkably she has done so in less than a year. "Bad Romance" is Gaga's first hit from her second album, The Fame Monster (Streamline / Konlive / Cherrytree / Interscope Records). Her debut album, The Fame, has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide, and her singles have sold an astounding 35 million digital copies as well. The album is the home to her previous #1 hits ("Just Dance," "Poker Face," "LoveGame" and "Paparazzi").

Says Lady Gaga, "Just six months ago, 'Bad Romance' was nothing but a dream, a recurring melody, a lyric hidden on a napkin on my tour bus. Now, it's my fifth #1 record, and a reminder to fans to always follow their dreams. I would like to thank all my beautiful little monsters and my incredibly supportive team for the most memorable year of my life. To have had such a phenomenal reception to my second album, The Fame Monster, is life-changing. I'm so happy I could die."

Lady Gaga is wrapping up the first U.S. leg of her Monster Ball Tour this month, and after she performs at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on January 31 (where she is nominated for five Grammys), she'll take a revamped Monster Ball Tour to the U.K.

Source: Interscope Records

CONTACT: Dave Tomberlin of Interscope Geffen A&M Records,
+1-310-865-4575, Dave.tomberlin@umusic.com

Avatar is an Awesome Romantic Fantasy, But also a Political Protest

~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima

"Avatar is also an emotional journey of redemption and revolution. It is the story of a wounded former Marine, thrust unwillingly into an effort to settle and exploit an exotic planet rich in biodiversity, who eventually crosses over to lead the indigenous race in a battle for survival," and "We're creating an entire world, a complete ecosystem of phantasmagorical plants and creatures, and a native people with a rich culture and language."

~ From 2007 Press Release from the Producers.

The most ambitious director in Hollywood, James Cameron's Avatar has become the second highest grossing box office hit in history after his first groundbreaking box office mega movie, Titanic.

James Cameron’s filmography is enough to justify the fantastic cinematography of his mesmerizing movies and his latest mega movie Avatar adds more aura to his genius. Avatar is more profound than Titanic in concept and depth, because of the messianic mission of the reformation of the earth and the transformation of humankind. So, in vision should not be compared to the historical fiction of the romantic Titanic. Avatar is a universal film on a rescue mission to save the earth.

There is a Jake Sully in everyone with the head in the clouds in romantic escapism as Jake was enraptured in the Na’vi utopian planet of Pandora. But as we know in Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman who cazrried a jar “that, when opened by her, unleashed many terrible things on mankind – ills, toils and sickness – and hope”, and that hope would be the magic of the exotic love of Jake and Neytiri, the hero and heroine of Avatar. And millions of Americans and geeks of 3-D movies are going over the moon for Avatar.

Who wouldn’t love a paraplegic Marine reminding us of a war hero who might have been wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan?

The journey of the romantic fantasy of Avatar did not start when Cameron began the production, but in 1994 when his genius gave him the idea of a fantastic science fiction epic. The characterization looks like something taken from Marvel Comics. Something that Stan Lee would have written.

The first impression of Avatar is the proverbial triumph of good over evil, but analytically Avatar is James Cameron’s unapologetic denunciation and indictment of Western imperialism and endorsement of biodiversity.

The feline blue-skinned species of humanoids called Na’vi could be the personification of the primitive native tribes of the world whose continents were colonized by imperialist kingdoms of the West. The apparent echoes of imperialism and biodiversity have resonated at every screening of the film all over the world and propelled the epic fantasy to record breaking success as the fastest film to make $1 billion in box office receipts after it was released theatrically worldwide from December 16–18.

The sci-fi epic is Sam Worthington’s wildest dream wish coming true as Oprah Winfrey would have loved to call it and Zoë Saldana was fine as Neytiri, the female Na’vi. But the best acting in Avatar was done by Stephen Lang whose role as Col. Miles Quaritch is unforgettable.

The credit for the success of Avatar should go to the director and the multiple Academy Award winning special visual effects company Weta Digital for the awesome digital visual effects that took the movie to greater heights in cinematography. Weta Digital is famous for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy..

The New York Times reported that President Barack Obama and his family saw Avatar in IMAX 3-D and this is the best format to see the film.

According to Avatar Movie Zone, watch out for the sequels, because Cameron said, "I have a trilogy-scaled arc of story right now, but I haven't really put any serious work into writing a script." So, James Cameron's fantasy still continues.

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Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, the Publisher/Editor of Nigerians Report is also a TV/Film producer and prolific writer for local and international publications on movies and music and other subjects. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria.

About Avatar:

AVATAR takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on an epic adventure, ultimately fighting to save the alien world he has learned to call home. James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of “Titanic,” first conceived the film 15 years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not exist yet. Now, after four years of production, AVATAR, a live action film with a new generation of special effects, delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.

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Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore
Director: James Cameron
Genres: Sci-Fi Action, Science Fiction
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All-time worldwide box office

# Film title

1. Titanic (1997)
2. Avatar (2009)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
5. The Dark Knight (2008)
6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
7. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Source: boxofficemojo.com

All-time box office -

# Film title

1. Gone With the Wind, 1939
2. Star Wars, 1977
3. The Sound of Music, 1965
4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982
5. The Ten Commandments, 1956
6. Titanic, 1997
7. Jaws, 1975
8. Doctor Zhivago,
9. The Exorcist, 1973
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937

Source: boxofficemojo.com

19-Year-Old YouTube Vlogger Receives Over One Million Views and Wins $100,000 in Lashes to Riches Giveaway

5 Jan 2010 13:00 Africa/Lagos

19-Year-Old YouTube Vlogger Receives Over One Million Views and Wins $100,000 in Lashes to Riches Giveaway

DALLAS, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Tessa Violet, a 19-year-old model, artist, and popular YouTube "vlogger", wins $100,000 in the Lashes to Riches Giveaway. Beauty Biosciences, a Dallas-based beauty company, recently launched Lash Allure MD, a lash and brow enhancing serum, and in celebration of the new launch held the Giveaway. Lash Allure MD kicked off the Giveaway in November using Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube and asked entrants to post a video on YouTube answering the question: WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH $100,000? The winner was chosen by public vote, which ended December 21, 2009.


Tessa began posting videos on YouTube using her vlogger name, Meekakitty, to meet new friends when she moved to New York City a year and a half ago. Sitting in her room in front of a video camera, Meekakitty turned her internet passion into a popular weekly vlogger site with over 7 million video views. "She's a quirky, sassy, intelligent young woman who put her obsession to work," says Leesa Smith, EVP of Beauty Biosciences.


Wearing huge dark rimmed glasses and sporting a simple ponytail for special effects, Meekakitty in her signature style of combining wit, imagination, and self -reflective thought shared with her audience her plans for spending $100,000: take her mother to Prague as a thank you for supporting her YouTube obsession, buy a jetpack and the country Switzerland, build a life-size replica of the fictional Harry Potter castle, and have unlimited burritos for life. She also promised her voters that, if she won, she would do a 24-hour blog TV show.


The Lashes to Riches $100,000 Giveaway officially ended 12/21/09 and the check will be awarded in January.


Tessa's winning video


Source: Beauty Biosciences

CONTACT: Gigi Howard, Public Relations Director of Beauty Biosciences,
+1-214-691-7600, cell, +1-917-297-2132, ghoward@beautybiosciences.com

Sandra Bullock Top Money-Making Star of 2009

Happy New Year 2010!


31 Dec 2009 14:55 Africa/Lagos


Sandra Bullock Top Money-Making Star of 2009

GROTON, Mass., Dec. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandra Bullock has been voted the Top Money-Making Star of 2009 in Quigley Publishing Company's 78th Annual Poll of Exhibitors and is the first female to win since Julia Roberts in 1999. Bullock is the eighth woman chosen #1 in the Poll's 78 year history. She appeared in three films in 2009, "The Blind Side," "The Proposal" and "All About Steve."


The Quigley Poll, conducted each year since 1932, is an annual survey of motion picture theatre owners and film buyers, which asks them to vote for the ten stars that they believe generated the most box-office revenue for their theatres during the year. It has been long regarded as one of the most reliable indicators of a Star's real box-office draw because the selections are done by people whose livelihood depends on choosing the films that will bring audiences to their theatres. The Quigley Poll appears annually in Quigley Publishing Company's International Motion Picture Almanac and at www.quigleypublishing.com .


Johnny Depp placed second this year based on "Public Enemies" and a small role in "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus." He was #1 in 2006 and 2007. Matt Damon made his second appearance in the survey, placing #3 with 2009 roles in "Invictus" and "The Informant!" Although George Clooney, placing #4, has never won in his seven mentions in the Poll, he had an extremely productive year with "Up in the Air," "The Men Who Stare at Goats" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox"(voice). Robert Downey Jr.'s performances in "Sherlock Holmes" and "The Soloist" helped him place #5. He was #2 in 2008.


Tom Hanks is #6, which marks the fifteenth time in the Poll since he first appeared in 1988, including five times as #1. Meryl Streep was in "Julie and Julia," "It's Complicated" and a voice in "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and placed #7, her third mention in the Poll. Brad Pitt made his fifth appearance coming in at #8, due to "Inglourious Basterds." 2007's "Star of Tomorrow," Shia LaBeouf scored #9 with "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and Denzel Washington rounded out the Top Ten with "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3."


With Bullock's win, eight women have been voted the Top Money-Makers sixteen times as follows: Marie Dressler (1932, 1933), Shirley Temple (1935, 1936, 1937, 1938), Betty Grable (1943), Elizabeth Taylor (1961), Doris Day (1960, 1962, 1963, 1964), Julie Andrews (1966, 1967) and Julia Roberts. (1999)


Tom Cruise has not placed in the Poll in the last two years but he has been in the Top Ten 20 times since 1983, and been voted number one seven times. Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds and Bing Crosby have all won five times. John Wayne, Doris Day and Shirley Temple each finished first four times, but John Wayne was voted one of the Top Ten Money-Making Stars an astounding 25 times from 1949 to 1974.


Exhibitors were also asked to name the Stars of Tomorrow for 2009: one actor and one actress who they feel will be Top Money-Makers in the years to come. The 2009 winners are Carey Mulligan who had a breakthrough performance in "An Education" and was also in "Brothers" and "Public Enemies" and Taylor Lautner who scored as Jacob Black in "New Moon."


Top Ten Money-Making Stars of 2009

1. Sandra Bullock
2. Johnny Depp
3. Matt Damon
4. George Clooney
5. Robert Downey Jr.
6. Tom Hanks
7. Meryl Streep
8. Brad Pitt
9. Shia LaBeouf
10. Denzel Washington

Stars of Tomorrow:

Carey Mulligan
Taylor Lautner


Quigley Publishing Company was founded in 1915 and has published the International Motion Picture Almanac annually since 1930 and the International Television & Video Almanac since 1955. Historical data and all of the Top Ten Money-Making Star Poll dating back to 1932 are available in the 2010 edition of the International Motion Picture Almanac and on our web site: www.quigleypublishing.com


Source: Quigley Publishing Company

CONTACT: Bill Quigley of Quigley Publishing Company, +1-978-448-0272, or
Fax: +1-978-448-9325


Web Site: http://www.quigleypublishing.com/

True Love Makes Sacrifices and Not Excuses

Happy New Year 2010!


Please, hold me and never let me go in 2010.

True Love Makes Sacrifices and Not Excuses



It easy for so many people to confess or profess their love online and offline and claiming to love a man or woman as if that person means the whole world to them. But we have seen countless cases of lovers who swore to love each other forever, but sooner or later breaking up over childish and foolish problems and in most cases over material demands.

Women expect their men to make sacrifices to please them and displease themselves and the men expect their women to serve them heart and soul. The sacrifices should be for mutual benefit and not for selfish interests.

We have heard complaints and pleas by many jilted lovers who have been cheated and dumped. And many of them are still heart broken and afraid to commit themselves in new relationships, because they are still licking the wounds of the bruises they suffered from terrible relationships of the past and the scars are still on them.

There are hard questions you must ask in relationships to detect fake lovers before they harm you and leave you scarred for life.

How much time have you given to your partner you claim to love?

Have you ever even saved to buy a shirt or even a tie for that your boyfriend who spends on you and calls you often?

When do you call him?

Is it when you need something from him?

QUESTIONS FOR THE FEMALES:
Are your phone calls and visits more frequent when you need money or other material things from him and after he has given them to you, you no longer call or visit him as you were doing when you needed his money or gifts?
Do you care about his academic or professional pursuits?
Do you care about his family?
How do you relate with his family.
Can you make a list of the sacrifices you have made for his welfare?
Are you proud of him and can defend him in his absence?
Are you faithful to him heart and soul?
DO YOU RESPECT HIM OR DISRESPECT HIM?


QUESTIONS FOR THE MALES:
How often do you call your so called sweetheart?
Do you want her to excel academically and professionally or you would prefer to see her not as educated as you are or not good enough to be in your professional peer group?
Are you insecure, because she is academically and professionally ahead of you?
Do you make sacrifices for her career?
Do you care for the welfare of her family or you are afraid to visit them?
Do you prefer to chat with her outside instead of going to sit with her in the company of her family regardless of their living conditions?
Or do you love her, but you sneer at her family?
Are you really faithful to her?
Or do you see her as one of your social class trophies?
Can you remain faithful to her no matter the temptations from other female attractions?
Are you proud of her behind her back?
DO YOU RESPECT OR DISRESPECT HER?

There are other questions to ask and probe how truly we can prove our love and not lip service or eye service of lust.

True Love is not a game of wits and egos or grudges.
True Love is not a game of trying to outsmart your so called lover.

True Love makes sacrifices and not excuses.