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The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect defines emotional abuse as: "acts or omissions by the parents or other caregivers that have caused, or could cause, serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or mental disorders. In some cases of emotional abuse, the acts of parents or other caregivers alone, without any harm evident in the child's behavior or condition, are sufficient to warrant child protective services (CPS) intervention. For example, the parents/caregivers may use extreme or bizarre forms of punishment, such as confinement of a child in a dark closet. Less severe acts, such as habitual scapegoating, belittling, or rejecting treatment, are often difficult to prove and, therefore, CPS may not be able to intervene without evidence of harm to the child."23
The American Medical Association AMA describes Emotional Abuse as: "when a child is regularly threatened, yelled at, humiliated, ignored, blamed or otherwise emotionally mistreated. For example, making fun of a child, calling a child names, and always finding fault are forms of emotional abuse.
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Singer Paula Abdul is to make her acting debut in upcoming U.S. television drama "Drop Dead Diva".
The American Idol judge will star in the show about a blonde model who dies in a car crash and whose soul returns to Earth in another body.
Abdul will have a cameo role as a court judge in the opening season, which begins its run later this month.
She says, "I am very excited to guest star on 'Drop Dead Diva'. All of the people are extremely talented and it is a charming, wonderfully written new show."
Other guest stars on the series include Liza Minnelli and Rosie O'Donnell.
Amid all the tabloid treatment of Jon and Kate Gosselin's developing divorce -- played out on TV for millions to see -- the fate of the real stars of Jon & Kate Plus 8 seems to have been airbrushed over.
With the hit show in a month-long hiatus, we shouldn't be asking what will become of the couple's relationship or the TLC program but, rather, what will become of the kids.
While some believe the Gosselins' high-profile split represents a unique opportunity to explore divorce -- which, in Canada, affects roughly 71,000 adults every year -- others say to keep cameras rolling is to ensure their eight young children a place on the therapist's couch for life.
"It's not about what's good for the public; it's about what's good for these children," says Gary Direnfeld, an Ontario-based social worker specializing in family and marital therapy. "We always get enthralled watching a train wreck, but that doesn't mean it's good for the passengers."
Matriarch Kate insists "the show must go on," and TV network TLC agrees; the ratings juggernaut, which drew a North American audience of more than 11 million for the break-up episode, is slated to return Aug. 3.
The success of Jon & Kate, however, has largely hinged on the Gosselins' image as an all-American -- if atypically numbered -- family. Now the couple plan to lead separate lives, taking turns living with their brood in the family's $1.3-million home.
Though Direnfeld recognizes the "instructive" value in the onscreen exploration of divorce, he says the fact there are kids involved is a game-changer.
"There's no way on heaven and earth that (the Gosselin children) can voluntarily consent to having their dirty laundry aired. They're too young and aren't going to understand the implications over the course of their lifetime of what's going on today," says Direnfeld. "It may be that those kids will need therapy, just for the exposure they had when things were going well -- let alone when things weren't."
But there is a contrary view that the Gosselin youngsters may actually be damaged further by having their ties suddenly severed with film crews, who, at this point, are as familiar a sight as the kids' own parents.
In coming weeks, TLC will have to choose whether to film the Gosselins' real-life unravelling, and risk being accused of exploitation, or to not film it and potentially be criticized for whitewashing the effects of divorce on a family.
"It's definitely an interesting crack in the system," says reality-TV scholar Alison Hearn, an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario.
Shari Graydon, a media-literacy advocate, thinks Jon & Kate Plus 8 should never have made the airwaves to begin with, let alone continue filming as the family navigates a split.
"The program itself is inherently exploitive, and I think it's profoundly irresponsible for the broadcaster, the producers and the parents to have put their kids through it," says Graydon, director of the Canadian watchdog group Media Action. "I can see no benefit to the children involved for the show to continue in any form whatsoever."
Join ‘Biggest Loser’ Contestants On A Cruise For Charity
July 3, 2009
Crusing for a Cause is sponsoring a weight loss cruise to help raise money for children with chronic illnesses. The cruise will take place on Royal Carribean International’s Freedom of the Seas ship and will last from March 14-21, 2010. Keep reading for more details on how to to participate and meet contestants from NBC’s The Biggest Loser.
Cruising for a Cause announces its inaugural weight-loss cruise which promotes wellness, exercise and a healthier lifestyle. The cruise will benefit Victory Junction Gang Camp in Randleman, N.C., a camp which offers these children a chance to attend at no charge through generous donations. The cruise will feature boot camp-style workouts with some of the contestants featured on the hit reality show The Biggest Loser.
There will also be an equally invigorating panel discussion, with a lively question-and-answer session and an inspiring story exchange. By hearing the before-during-and-after contestant stories, the cruise guests will be primed on what it takes to maintain a healthy lifestyle. “We’re also planning trips to restaurants in the different ports of call as well as aboard the ship,” says Becky Davis, Co-founder of Cruising for a Cause. “This way the cruise guests will benefit from tips and tricks for the healthiest way to eat out and how to navigate the buffets. Additionally, planned shore excursions will help guests learn how to incorporate workouts and remain active during their vacations.”
The goal, Davis explains, is for guests to leave the ship and head back into their daily lives, taking what they’ve learned and applying it to make their lifestyles healthier. “We’re hoping once off the ship,” says Michael Consoli, Elite Cruise Counselor with Cruise Planners, “the guests will share what they’ve learned with others who struggle with their weight, inspiring others to embrace a healthier lifestyle as well.”
The weight-loss cruise will be aboard Royal Caribbean International’s Freedom of the Seas departing from Port Canaveral, Fla., heading to Coco Cay, Bahamas, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas and Phillipsburg, St. Maarten. The cruise departs March 14th, 2010 and returns March 21, 2010. “It’s the perfect holiday gift,” says Davis. “What a great way to prepare yourself for what is typically an over-indulgent time. Plus, a portion of the ticket price will help children with chronic illnesses achieve their dreams through the Victory Junction Gang Camp in Randleman, N.C.”
To participate in the cruise, contact Michael Consoli of Cruise Planners at 800-913-7245 or visit www.cruisingforacause.org for more details. About Cruising for a Cause Cruising for a Cause was started by a group of friends dedicated to losing weight and living a healthier lifestyle.
Inspired by the hit show on NBC, The Biggest Loser, they sought a way to learn the proper way to order while eating out, how to prepare healthy meals at home, and how to confront things that were holding them back emotionally. Tying a charitable contribution to a personal goal was the ideal way to share with like-minded people while having fun for everyone involved.
DISCLAIMER: Cruising for a Cause is in no way affiliated with NBC, The Biggest Loser, Victory Junction, and/or Royal Caribbean International.
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…Chi Chi shaving his nipples. I feel like this should be none of my business, and yet, it is.
The guys get a diary entry from Daisy that says she, Flex and Chi Chi are “hitting the road.” Nicely put, considering all the raging up in that house. With any luck, hitting the road will be like pounding chicken: boner-inducing. Daisy herds her boys and interviews that there will be no more challenges. Except for deciphering what the hell she’s talking about at any given moment!
They arrive at the site of their menage a ha to find a dune buggy. Today, they’ll be enjoying a “nice off-road adventure.” This is about as good as sexy, as for Daisy and adrenaline rush is “pretty much like an orgasm.” That’s an awfully matter-of-fact orgasm story. I’ve heard sermons that are more erotic. Way to make orgasms seem sexy, Daisy.
Whatever. Flex is the first to drive around this Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!-esque desert…
Daisy interviews that Flex’s crazy driving is “definitely a turn-on.” You know what definitely isn’t a turn-on? Bret Michaels impersonating. (No offense, Poison’d.)
Back at home, Sinister is moving out of the room he shared with Chi Chi. Obviously, the stress of competing for the same woman is taking its toll on their friendship. They’ve been roommates for years, so the fact that he’s moving down the hall instead of spooning with his bro every night really means something.
Back at the buggy, Chi Chi’s driving is nowhere near as wild as Flex’s. He keeps one hand on the wheel and one on Daisy’s lap. I guess this is to stop her from jumping from the vehicle should she get too creeped out by him. It probably just makes her want to flee even more. As Chi Chi cruises along he says, “This is fun. This is bumpy.” He sounds like he’s falling asleep. Hard not to when a herd of geriatric mall walkers seems like a threat in comparison.
When it’s Daisy’s turn to take the wheel, she makes donuts and is just generally wild. She ends up flipping the buggy…
Aren’t they, like, made to do that? There’d be no point in driving one if they didn’t. Daisy interviews, “I can’t believe that I just tipped the f***ing dune buggy. Me out of all people, of course.” Yeah, of course. Can’t argue with truthful sarcasm.
Back at home, Daisy tells Sinister that she wants to eat with him and DaveslashDavePack. Also, Chi Chi discovers that Sinister has moved out of the room they shared. I don’t know if it’s a sign of heartbreaking devotion or a pitiful lack of self-awareness, but instead of being offended, Chi Chi replies, “You’re such a pimp!” He interviews that Sinister may be playing a game, but he still loves his friend. He loves him right down to the butt crack, apparently.
DaveslashDavePack wonders why he doesn’t just wipe Sinister’s ass for him. I wonder why Chi Chi is bothering with toilet paper at all, when he has a perfectly good nose on his face. Dinner commences.
Daisy wonders if she should start calling all the guys by their real names. Sinister says his real name is Derrick, but he’s been referred to as “Tripp” forever. “Tripp Lee?” wonders 12 Pack. “I thought it was Joshua Lee.” Oh snap! Daisy cannot believe that DavePack just referenced the real f***ing person that was London.
She gives him a hand to talk to, but instead he nips at it… I guess this is enough to make her horny because soon after she invites DavePack up to her room for a jimmy hat…I mean nightcap. T-minus five seconds until Sinister’s freak out…
Shockingly, Daisy and Dave (from now on I’m referring to them together as “Davesy”) are able to find their way to Daisy’s room without a trail of rose petals or breadcrumbs as their guide. But there’s an obstacle when they finally reach the door… Chi Chi! And if the fact that he isn’t staking out for Daisy isn’t creepy enough, he’s got his socks pulled up to his ears. Chilling! Daisy interviews that he’s walking the fine line between attentive boyfriend and stalker. That really is a fine line. If I weren’t watching Daisy of Love, I might actually mistake that observation as insight. Since I am, I’ll just call it a happy accident.
Davesy make out… Then she changes into something to change out of…
“The guys’ tour bus is overcrowded. There’s only one bus for the boys and there are seven of us, and no, Adam and Kris don’t get their own bus,” Scott MacIntyre told E! last week. Michael Sarver agreed, “I’m not gonna lie. I just wish it was part of the budget to have a third bus. It’s like the testosterone tour this year. No one is looking forward to the cramped boys’ bus.”
Indeed, the girls have it easier with just three female contestants, a mom and a backup singer or two. “We got lucky,” joked Allison Iraheta. “I feel bad for them!”
Michael Sarver: “The order of performances goes in the order of elimination. So, since I was the first of the top 10 to be eliminated, I’m opening the show. And the higher you got in the competition, the more songs you get to do in your own set. I think it’s the best spot of the night because you get all that fresh energy from the crowd and you get to introduce the whole show. I need to get them on their feet and energized. I’m doing two songs I didn’t do on the show, but I don’t want to spoil it.”
Megan Joy: “One song I’m doing is Amy Winehouse’s Tears Dry on their Own. It’ll be jamsy [sic]. And my color is pink. I’m wearing a supertight, super minidress. I’m gonna be the skanky one. It’s going to be fun.” Scott MacIntyre: “My set is going to be along the lines of singer-songwriter, pop-rock, British pop and very acoustic rock. But I’m planning on getting everyone singing. I will be using the piano in a major way on the tour.”
Matt Giraud: “My Twitter fans wanted me to do Georgia on My Mind [made famous by Ray Charles], and I listen to them, so that’s one of my songs. What’s great about this tour is that we have choreographers now for our own individual sets. We should’ve had that one the show. I didn’t have the coolest moves like some people on the show.” Anoop Desai: “My set goes from ballads to [Bobby Brown's] My Prerogative, but it’ll be cooler than how I did it on the show. I’m embarrassed when I look back at that performance. This will be more refined. I like bigger crowds. I just don’t like four people sitting at a table talking to each other while I’m singing. So yeah, I’m looking forward to the bigger crowds. It’ll be nice to sing without having to worry about camera blocking.”
Lil Rounds: “My set is the party set. You gotta have your dancing shoes on for my set. I’m doing the leading ladies of R&B. I have choreography and dancing. I’ve been told my set is one of the harder sets to do vocally as well as moving-around-wise. We all picked songs based on who we are trying to be as an artist.” Allison Iraheta: “I’m doing three songs. One is one from the show, [Janis Joplin's] Cry Baby. I really enjoyed doing that one so much. My set is rock. I’m gonna be sweating. After rehearsal the other day, Kris gave me a hug and he was like, ‘ewww.’ My shirt was soaked in sweat. It was funny. So, yeah, I’ll be the sweaty one on tour.” Danny Gokey: “I’m excited to do the full version of Michael Jackson’s Pretty Young Thing because I only got to do about a minute and 45 seconds on the show. I’m doing four songs. It starts with ‘P.Y.T.’ then I do a song with a Latin feel to it. The third song is a heartfelt ballad, and the last song is the inspirational song My Wish by Rascal Flatts. I want to end my set inspiring people. The song talks about living life without regrets, enjoying it for what it is and not being held down by personal tragedies.” Adam Lambert: As we reported this week, Adam said, “I’m closing with a David Bowie medley that goes from Life on Mars into Fame into Let’s Dance. It’s doing major justice to the original Bowie intention behind them, but we’re adding synthy, dancey electronic elements to it. I’m wearing a custom-made blue, metallic silver bomber jacket with tails and spikes and studs by Skin Graft. They’ve hooked me up with some really sick fashion.” Kris Allen: “Because I go last, I have nothing to do until later, but I’m so weird I’ll probably be watching from the wings anyway. I’m doing some songs from the show. I can say one: Hey Jude by the Beatles. It’s gonna be huge. I do five songs.” Group Numbers: One of the group numbers will be Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing. Matt added, “We’ve classed up the group numbers. We have cool moves now. They’re not as cheesy as the group performances we did on the show.”
LOS ANGELES — Chima Simone couldn’t think of a better place to spend the recession than the “Big Brother” house.
“I thought it’d be fun,” said the 32-year-old freelance journalist, one of 13 contestants who will be locked away for the 11th season. “I wasn’t getting any responses to my query letters. I’m not traveling anywhere this summer. I thought ‘Big Brother’ would be a great way to make a ton of money in a limited time without really having to work for it.”
Simone will be among the houseguests competing for the voyeuristic CBS reality show’s $500,000 grand prize, awarded to the contestant who outlasts the rest while being monitored by dozens of cameras inside a makeshift two-story house on a soundstage.
This summer’s contestants also include a surfer, bikini model, “World of Warcraft” gamer, a neuroscientist, tae kwon do champion and fifth-grade teacher. Before meeting their competitors or entering the house, the cast were individually interviewed by The Associated Press while they were voluntarily sequestered — no television, newspapers or telephones — from the outside world.
Casey “DJ Mingle Mixxx” Turner, the oldest contestant at 41, is a self-proclaimed “hip-hop redneck” from St. Petersburg, Fla. The fifth-grade teacher who moonlights as a disc jockey left behind his wife and two children — including a 9-month-old son — to participate in the show. During production, the contestants will be isolated from their loved ones.
“I’m going to miss my family,” said Turner. “It’s been really hard for me just the couple of days I’ve been secluded here in the hotel, so I can imagine how I’m going to feel a month from now. I look forward to meeting some cool people. All of them will not be cool. I’m aware of that. All of them will not like my style. I’m aware of that, too.”
Michelle Noonan, a married 27-year-old neuroscientist from Pasadena, Calif., auditioned for the show after her husband forwarded her a craiglist.org posting looking for people with interesting jobs. Noonan, who works as a researcher at the California Institute of Technology, is enthusiastic about representing the scientific community on “Big Brother.”
“You don’t see too many scientists on reality TV,” she said. “I want to be a fun example of a real-life scientist that’s not a stereotype. I’m not the typical nerd you would see on a show like ‘Beauty and the Geek.’ There are actually many female scientists, but you never see them on TV. Hopefully, I can be an inspiration to girls interested in science.”
Video store manager Natalie Martinez, who has been a “Big Brother” fan since the show’s beginning, is only interested in one thing: winning. The 24-year-old recent Arizona State University graduate from Gilbert, Ariz., said she doesn’t plan on telling her competitors that she won a bronze medal for tae kwon do at the Junior Olympic Championships in 2002.
“They’re not going to know,” she said. “I’m not telling anybody about my tae kwon do. I would be shooting myself in the foot to let people know I’m a competitive athletic person. I don’t want people to know that. I want them to think I’m this sweet little girl who’s not strong, not smart and won’t win. I want them to see me as someone not to worry about.”
This season, the California-themed “Big Brother” dwelling will go green with several eco-friendly touches including organic soap in the bathroom, energy-producing exercise bikes in the gym and composting bins in the backyard. Executive producer Allison Grodner teased that one of the three bedrooms, a jungle-themed enclave, will feature a nasty surprise.
“It is a room that will test their resolve,” Grodner said during a recent tour of the newest “Big Brother” house. “I will go out on a limb and say that it is the worst room to sleep in any ‘Big Brother.’ After 11 seasons, that’s saying a lot. This is a special treat for the houseguests. Each week, one group of houseguests will end up in this room.”
At the start, the cast will be divided into teams. One clique will be joined by a mystery 13th houseguest when the show premieres July 9. Rumors have been swirling online that the 13th spot would go to a contestant who appeared in a previous season of “Big Brother.” HTML code on the show’s official Web site points to someone with the first name Brian.
The confirmed contestants of “Big Brother”:
— Braden Bacha, 28, model-actor from Santa Monica, Calif.
— Kevin Campbell, 29, graphic designer from Chula Vista, Calif.
— Laura Crosby, 21, bikini model from Atlanta
— Russell Kairouz, 24, mixed martial arts fighter from Walnut Creek, Calif.
— Jordan Lloyd, 22, waitress from Matthews, N.C.
— Natalie Martinez, 24, store manager from Gilbert, Ariz.
— Michelle Noonan, 27, neuroscientist from Pasadena, Calif.
— Jeff Schroeder, 31, advertising salesman from Norridge, Ill.
— Chima Simone, 32, freelance journalist from West Hollywood, Calif.
— Ronnie Talbott, 30, teacher from Belpre, Ohio.
— Lydia Tavera, 24, makeup artist from Torrance, Calif.
— Casey Turner, 41, teacher from St. Petersburg, Fla.
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