British pop group 'Girls Aloud' have found themselves the unwitting ambassadors of a Russian escort agency after the Moscow based organisation used a photograph of the group to advertise their services. 

The Babylon Escort Agency is using an old photograph of the pop stars to promote its services. The advert claims that Sarah Harding, Cheryl Cole, Nicola Roberts, Nadine Coyle and Kimberley Walsh are among its "friendly and sophisticated girls waiting for your call", reported Daily Mirror online. 

The image was taken five or six years ago before Sarah cut her blonde locks short, before Cheryl married Ashley Cole and found solo fame and before Nadine underwent a dramatic weight loss.

But even though it's an old picture, the agency didn't ask permission to use it and the band's management could sue.

The phrase once said by Lenin, "every kitchen maid will be able to govern the country”, is now particularly opportune. And that’s not because the head of state is a mediocrity. No! Quoting Lenin, the emphasis has always been placed on the word "kitchen maid". It is widely believed that the leader of the proletariat commented negatively on women whom he never imagined in the role of rulers and saw no future prospects to change his views anyway. It might be symbolic, however, that his words were precisely about ‘kitchen maids’, not ‘janitors’...

Since the day the phrase was said, a lot of water has passed under the bridges. But no Russian woman has yet been in control of the state and will never be. This is an old tradition in Russia: all leaders are men. At least a significant part of top executives belongs primarily to the stronger sex.

And women’s salary, by the way, is by an order of magnitude lower ... Now in Russia the salary of professional ladies will make an average of 64% of the salary of men in a similar position. It is discrimination, no doubt about it! Experts note that at present, the infringement of the ladies’ rights in the labor market has reached its highest level in 50 years. See for yourself: the salary is lower, as a rule; when hiring, preference is given to men, and by dismissal – to women… And only in the distant future, according to the website gazeta.ru with reference to the Guardian, there may be changes. Thus, according to experts' forecasts, women will start to earn equal with men amounts of pay only in 2057.

Generally speaking, such discrimination is observed in other countries, too, but here it is progressing. It is believed that the stronger sex has a different temperament: they are more structured in their decisions, may show greater objectivity, while women are giddy-brained and too often on maternity leave. However, this view is erroneous. Career ladies, who have experience of office work and are established in the professional sense, can have children, hire a nanny, and go back to work. In this case, the employer does not lose anything. Meanwhile, men, in contrast to the ladies, do not take maternity leave, but instead they demand more pay and do not plan to temper their ambitions.

We all know how great it feels to find the mate of your dreams and sharing your life and all its special moments with someone special that we can’t wait to share our good news and our good "fortune" with others.

In fact, we can't wait for all our friends to share in the same happiness we've found and frequently can't help playing the "Good Samaritan" or should I say Cupid.

But playing matchmaker for someone or someones you care about can be a risky challenge, especially if things don't work out (as planned).

IDEA # 11

Memorize one of Shakespeare's love sonnets and recite it to your partner when you are in a romantic setting like a botanical garden. Don't just suddenly start reciting poetry as this will just sound corny. While you are cuddling your partner, ask in a joking manner, "So is now a good time to recite a love poem to you?" She will probably say yes, expecting you to come up with something of the "Roses are Red..." variety. Instead, look into her eyes, smile and recite the sonnet while you gently stroke her face. Try the sonnet below. If this is too long, just memorize the first four lines and the last two.

Shakespeare Love Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Increasing numbers of American brides are thinking about doing something that used to be unthinkable -- getting married in a bold red gown.

Not that red is a stranger to marriage. Hardly. Red plays a major role in Chinese, Hindu, and some Muslim weddings, and was a popular choice in medieval times. But for modern Westerners? Yes -- we too are starting to marry in red. At least some of us.

It's been happening more and more in Europe over the past decade. Maybe that's because Europe recalls long stretches of time when wedding gowns weren't white. For eons, a woman simply wore her best dress -- one she could certainly use again -- although to keep luck on her side she might gravitate to certain colors and avoid others. With all the choices, it was harder to keep the good colors straight, so the folk world offered a poem with a few fortunate outcomes and many poor ones:

Teens today are sent so many messages about sex. Just say No. Safe Sex. Abstinence. Keep your legs closed. Wait until you're married. Keep your pants up. Just do It. Many of you simply want an outlet for your youthful energy. The following list provides 25 activities a teenager or young adult can do as an alternative to engaging in sexual activity.


Top 25 things Teens can do other than Sex

25. Visit the Library

24. Go see a funny movie

I just heard an unbelievable story from a lady friend of mine who works in a local business office.

A Woman walked into her office and introduced herself as a Manager for a new Marriage Agency in town.

She was specifically pitching “a new service” to the older single women in the office. And there are many of them as you can imagine. These women are at a huge competitive disadvantage because of the great numbers of younger women that are available here.

So the Marriage Agency Lady starts telling the older women (and I need to paraphrase here)..

“Look we know you want to find an American Husband and we are going to do that for you. What we will do is take a photo of you and we will photoshop it and make you look up to 20 years younger. Then we will post this photo along with a profile about you that any American Man would dream about on one of their Dating Sites and then we will start writing letters to Men we find on your behalf. It doesn’t matter if you don’t speak English or if you have a Poor Education we will “change” all of that for you.”

“All you need to do is give us some money and “we will take care of all of this”.. And you will be in business.”

I have a friend who lives and does business in Moscow for the last 4 years that I talk to on a semi-regular basis.

We call it Matt.

Matt successful, smart, street, and is closely associated with various business leaders in Russia and the United States.

Matt kind of person with whom you could easily expect a killer girlfriend next to him at any time, given the existence of a sweetheart, he has made of himself.

Someday ..

I hope all you are lucky enough to be invited to the humble but loving home of a Russian woman and her family.

It will be really time, "You'll never forget."

So let me go back in time a little and share with you that "I will never forget."

On the first evening of my arrival in Siberia, I was invited to attend his mother's house in our beautiful Inessa's for dinner.

They say that good photographers always keep the camera close to them at any time.

Well, I think today was one of my "good" days.

I was invited to a wedding in the afternoon.

And even if I correctly assumed that there will be a professional photographer and video guy covering the event