Lefty

I'd like to meet:

Considering I’ve had dinner, drinks and attended numerous parties with dignitaries and the famous, other than Alison Hinds, I’d have to say that I would love to meet Mick Jagger.
I’d casually mention that I admired his work, maybe drop a reference to a song so he’d see that I know my stuff. But I wouldn’t fawn or kiss his ass. I definitely wouldn’t ask for an autograph and I’d be very natural, very real, no jumping around or making a fuss and I would remain quiet and self-assured.
I’d steer the conversation away from his career and just hang out. We would talk about other things, normal things, and regular sorts of ordinary everyday conversational things. Just being a pal. Not sucking up or making a big deal, you know, and I’ll buy him a cool beer too…like; totally cool mon!

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Music that I really enjoy hearing anytime Check out this MySpace MP3 Player !

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Next to Soca Music; Latin Dance Rocks!(Lambada/Zouk)

Movies:

Is Your Cell Phone Bugged?

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Heroes:

Women who change the world
Three English women who have made a real difference to the world around them
What can an individual do when faced with global problems like poverty and starvation? Unlike most of us, some people roll up their sleeves and set to work. We meet three charity workers who are making a difference.
No one in their right mind would want to start a charity in Africa. If Bob Geldof had problems, Heaven help the rest of us. It just happened I was there.”
So says Patricia Parker, 58, attempting to explain her decision to turn her life upside down for the people of western Sudan’s Darfur.
What she saw on her first visit to this desolate, dehydrated land shocked her so much that she couldn’t just walk away. She knew that with deep certainty, as did Anita Smith when she first saw Bansang Hospital in the Gambia and Sarah Davies when she volunteered at the cerebral palsy institute in Monterey, Mexico.
These three women were ordinary English wives and mothers who have achieved extraordinary things since chance introduced them to the causes they now champion with a passion that dominates their lives.
The passion of these three women makes them persuasive. Although the scope of what these three women have set out to do varies, each of them has proved just how much difference one determined individual can make.
I came away from meeting them not just awe-struck by their achievements but also humbled and rather ashamed of my own blinkered existence.
Like most women of their generation, Patricia, Anita and Sarah didn’t set out to change the world. They had men to care for, children to nurture and, where they could, they fitted work around those responsibilities.
But where these three stand out from the crowd is that when an opportunity to make a difference presented itself they recognized it and then had the courage to run with it. They didn’t seek refuge in the fact that they were ill-equipped to help or too busy.
At a time when many empty-nesters are wringing their hands and wondering what to do with themselves, these three have found a purpose to life which in its turn has given comfort, hope and indeed life to others. They are an inspiration.
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A Hero From The Vietnam Generation
George Mizo-Hero of Conscience, an American Indian, was a U.S. combat soldier in the Vietnam War. He realized the war was wrong, and he turned strongly against it.
After his platoon, except for him, was killed, Mizo became totally committed to stopping the war as a soldier within the military. He paid a heavy price for his stand of conscience: He was sent to prison. He also suffered from Agent Orange-related illness.
Years later, Mizo created the idea and founded the project in Vietnam called Friendship Village. It is a home for permanent victims of the war to live in and be cared for. These include the victims of Agent Orange poisoning. Many are children who were born after the war. Tragically deformed, Agent orange-afflicted children are being born continually and will be born in Vietnam for the next 500 years. The U.S. military sprayed the terrible poison all over Vietnam.
U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers who fought each other many years ago now work together to wage peace at Friendship Village. These former enemies work for reconciliation and healing. Mizo's partner in building Friendship Village was the Vietnamese general who had killed Mizo's platoon.
Mizo became a strong peace activist. I applaud the hero of conscience for showing us we can make a difference in the world. He died in April 2002 at age 57.
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Jimmy Massey
"I'm not going to kill innocent civilians for no government. ...I was taught and raised by parents and relatives that there are certain things you don't do, and killing innocent civilians is one of them."
Massey was a Staff Sergeant in the USMC. He hired a good lawyer and was honorably discharged from the Corps in December 2003 after 12 years of active duty. He went to his superiors about his changing feelings regarding the war, when he was offered a desk job away from combat, he responded to this offer by saying, "Thank you sergeant major, I don't want your money anymore. I don't want your benefits. You killed some civilians, and you're going to have to live with it partner, and I'm going to tell the truth."
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Strangers Unite To Save Twins
For Claudia Cox and her 22-month-old twins, a weekend vacation nearly ended in tragedy before it had even begun.

Ms. Cox, her infants and two friends were driving from Miami to Naples across ``Alligator Alley'' - a highway cutting through the Everglades bordered by canals teeming with gators and other wildlife - when the right front tire on their car exploded.
The four-door car careened out of control, smashed through a chain-link fence and flipped, landing upside down in a canal.
Within seconds, a torrent of murky water filled the car.
``The only thing going through my mind was 'Oh God, my babies,''' said Ms. Cox, a 23-year-old Miami resident.
The twins, Kendia and Kenisha, were strapped to their child seats, trapped underwater.
Guy Burnett, his wife Hanna, and their two children also were headed west on Alligator Alley that Sunday, June 13, for a day trip to Naples.
Burnett, a former lifeguard, saw people standing on the side of the highway and thought they were just looking at an alligator.
Then he saw the car, its tires and a sliver of the chassis breaking the surface of the water.
After nearly five minutes underwater, one of the passengers, Simone Hyatt, emerged from the canal and staggered onto the bank. Swallowing water and struggling upside down in the front passenger seat, she had managed to open the door.
The car's driver, Tashana Brown, followed her out.
Another minute passed before Ms. Cox surfaced, screaming, ``My babies! My babies!''
Kendia and Kenisha had been underwater for nearly six minutes.
Burnett heard the mother's pleas and dove into the canal. Two other men who had stopped also dove in.
After first struggling with one of the front doors, Burnett managed to open the rear passenger door, reaching underneath and upward through the half-open window to reach the door's latch.
``I got the door open, but we couldn't see the babies,'' he said. ``They were completely underwater.''
Burnett and one of the other men went back under and inside the car and frantically pulled at the child seat holding Kenisha.
``We could see her ... she was flapping around like a rag doll,'' Burnett said.
The two men pulled Kenisha out in a little over a minute. She was not breathing. Her face was bruised, her body stiff.
Burnett stayed in the water to go after Kendia while the two other men carried Kenisha to shore. Ms. Brown, a flight attendant, performed CPR on the girl.
Going on seven minutes now, Kendia remained underwater, strapped in her seat.
Burnett blindly prodded inside the car, trying to feel for the other girl. Frustrated, he surfaced and yelled for a knife to cut through seat belt straps, then dove in again without waiting for one.
He managed to find the latch for Kendia's seat and pulled her out.
Kenisha had already begun breathing and Ms. Brown began to perform CPR on Kendia, before Burnett intervened.
``I popped her neck up so I could get some air into her,'' Burnett said. ``I felt for her pulse and there wasn't anything.''
Burnett placed Kendia on her side and pressed on her belly, pushing water out. He kept up the CPR until he detected her pulse and saw her gasp for air.
``I was just saying 'Come on baby, breathe','' said Burnett, 27, of Plantation. ``I'm just glad I was there.''
The infants were airlifted to a hospital in Naples and released the next day. Still vacationing in Naples last week, Ms. Cox said her children were being treated for an ear infection, but were well.