Entries from March 2013 ↓

March 26 celebrity birthdays. These people of the present and past were born on this date. Tweet · Article Tab: Actress Keira Knightley (“Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, “ · MORE PHOTOS ». Actress Keira Knightley (“Pirates of the Caribbean” movies …
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Happy Passover! Celebs all over tweeted about the Jewish holiday! Find out how your favorite celebs are celebrating! From Barack Obama to Harry Styles, celebs all around the world are preparing their Seder dinners and celebrating in honor of the Jewish …
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Kim Kardashian takes her preggy beauty routine to the extreme with a traditional acupuncture session. For her show, she sat through a blood facial session.

The Keeping Up With The Kardashians diva found the treatment ‘Oh so relaxing…’

Kim is now 5 months pregnant and is into alternative medicine perhaps to ease her bouts of morning sickness.

In the latest episode of her reality series, Kim K received a blood facial of which a huge needle drew blood from her arm before being used on her face.

She was then pricked with 9 tiny little acupuncture-style needles.

Kim cried like a baby during the whole procedure. But was all game to take photos right after the bloody event. Expect the same thing, the wiling and photo-op to happen right after her delivery 4 months from now.

It was deja vu all over again on "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice." Once again, Omarosa was a huge hassle for her team, ultimately costing them the challenge. Once again, the project manager — this time Claudia Jordan — told Donald Trump that Omarosa …
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TODAY’S lesson is self-harm. At Unsted Park School, Godalming, Surrey, the teachers, reportedly, have allowed a pupil with a history of self-harm controlled access to razor blades. Not to worry, though, because the blades were sterilised. Safety first, readers.

Principal Steve Dempsey and headteacher Laura Blair face allegations of unacceptable professional conduct.

What do we know of the school? It’s run by the Priory Group, the people most famous for their treatment of addictions. And:

Unsted Park School provides specialist education for boys and girls aged 7 to 19 with Asperger’s Syndrome, higher functioning autism and associated disorders. It is our aim to allow all our young people to thrive effectively within an ever demanding and complex society. Students have ambitions to live and work as self-reliant adults and we can help pupils to reach their goals with continued support, structure and guidance.

Unsted Park Sixth Form is specifically designed to allow young people aged 16 to 19 with Asperger’s Syndrome, higher functioning autism and associated learning difficulties to build a post 16 curriculum that is tailored to their individual needs and ambitions.

The focus of the whole school approach is in three core areas: education, independence and integration. Based on these core areas we provide individual, child-centred programmes which recognise individual abilities and strengths and help students to reach their full potential.

The school teaches:

Imaginative and flexible thinking

Nick Edmondson writes:

According to the controlled self-harm procedure, handed out to staff but aborted after just six days, the pupil would be escorted to a bathroom and allowed to carry out self-harm in a “safe and controlled manner”.

Teachers would wait outside the bathroom while the pupil was inside, checking on them every two minutes. The wounds would then be dressed and cleaned by staff.

Imaginative and flexible. You betcha.

But the policy didn’t last a week.

A Priory Group spokesman tells us:

“We are always willing to review cases with the Teaching Agency. This was a short-term, local procedure introduced by the headteacher and school principal who genuinely believed it was in the best interests of the pupil. However, they accept that the procedure should not have been implemented without further approvals having been obtained from key stakeholders and senior management prior to its introduction.”

Before we damn them all, a spokesperson from charity Selfharm.co.uk adds some background:

“The issue of controlled self-harm has proven to be effective in some areas, but only under the correct supervision. Self-harm is sometimes the safest option for a young person – if they’re using self-harm to make life a bit easier to manage (for example) then taking it away from them without replacing it with something else can actually bring on a desperate kind of depression that could make them slide from self-harm to having suicidal ideation.

“I’d rather someone be self-harming in a way they can manage as safely as possible than be left stranded with no way to cope and be thinking about more desperate measures.”

It’s a behaviour management strategy. It’s complicated.

One question, though: did the child’s parents agree to it?

Apparently Sofia Vergara‘s beau, Nick Loeb, got the memo that the quickest way to a woman’s heart is shopping.

The man in Sofia’s life was seen escorting his ladylove to a mall in Century City on Saturday.

….And she looked MIGHTY happy to be getting some retail therapy.

He BETTER suck up because now that Sofia is freezing her eggs, that doesn’t necessarily mean she plans for him to be the baby daddy.

We suggest Cartier, Nick. LOLz!

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DANICA Patrick and her boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr. stepped out for Nickelodeon’s 26th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles Saturday! Recent reports claimed Danica wants to marry Ricky. “After Danica spun out of control and hit the wall, Ricky was the first thing that came to her mind,” said an insider. “She’s madly in […]

Lindsay Lohan was the headlining name in celebrity news this week as the 26- year-old actress was sentenced to 90 days in locked-down rehab in lieu of jail …
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