Friday, 10 August 2012

Shocking Rules for International Adoptions


CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Adoptive parents must provide a signed
Acceptance Statement about the adoption from the Mayor of their city
or town.

CHINA: China has a number of stipulations in place around adopting
children by foreigners including that couples consist of one man and a
woman and that neither parent is blind in one eye, has a severe facial
deformation, has had a major organ transplant within 10 years,
has AIDS or a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or more.

CONGO: If you are single, widowed or divorced, you can’t adopt a child of the opposite sex unless you have the court’s say so.

INDONESIA: Prospective adopters must believe in God and the child
waiting to be adopted must be of the same religion as the parents.
If it’s not known what religion the parents are, the child will be
deemed Muslim.

IRAN: Potential adoptive parents must be Muslim, be married for at
least five years and have no children already.

RUSSIA: Russia has laid out some medical stipulations for those
wanting to adopt including that adoptive parents must not have any
dysfunction of their limbs or a disability that prevents them from
working.

SRI LANKA: Like South Korea, single people cannot adopt from Sri
Lanka, nor can gay or lesbian people.


Monday, 6 August 2012

The Eyeball Tattoo

The eyeball tattoo tends to attract the attention of a large amount audience. It seems like the people are really liking this trend a lot of people are getting their eyeball tattooed. Here are some pictures of the people getting it done:-








Sunday, 5 August 2012

Facts about Steve jobs

                          
1. He tried LSD: He reportedly said it was "One of the two or three most important things I have done in my life."

2. He dated Joan Baez: Jobs dated the folk singer when he was in his 20's.

3. He was a vegetarian: PETA praised Jobs for his vegetarianism and his support of animals.

4. He saved Pixar: Jobs purchased the company from George Lucas' LucasFilm for $5M in 1986. The first film produced by Pixar under Jobs was the critically acclaimed "Toy Story."

5. He was Disney's largest shareholder: He became Disney's largest shareholder when the company bought Pixar in 2006.

6. He was offered an internship with Hewlett-Packard ... in eighth grade: As an eighth-grader, he called William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, to inquire about a part missing from a frequency counter he was assembling, the New York Times reports. Hewlett reportedly spoke to Jobs for 20 minutes, then offered him a bag of parts and a summer internship.

7. He and Steve Wozniak originally sold "blue boxes": The duo reportedly built so-called "blue boxes" that could trick phones into allowing users to make free calls to anywhere in the world. They reportedly raised a total of $6,000.

8. He was homeless: “I didn’t have a dorm room,” he said in a commencement address given at Stanford in 2005, “so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."

9. He patented the glass staircase in the Apple Store: He is listed among the group of inventors for 317 Apple patents.

10. He drove without a license plate for years: Jobs drove his 2007 Mercedes-Benz SL55 for years with no official license plate, just a barcode, according to USA Today.