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Hot Mother
Inspired by a true story, Hot Mother is a is the tale of a single mother and her contemptuous daughter, who go to a spa retreat to spend time together. Set over the course of one afternoon, the pair seem unable to connect; the divide between them is too great. When the mother attempts to leave the sauna in a huff, the door handle breaks off in her hand and the pair are trapped inside together. In the extreme heat, they risk dehydration, even death. Their minor bickering presents the image of a family not in unison, but as fear mounts the importance of their love and dependence on one another becomes paramount.
Hot Mother
\"Good mothers don't do this. I don't know how to live without my kids. They are my life,\" Brenda Nesselroad-Slaby said in an interview with police after her 2-year-old daughter, Cecilia, was found dead in the family SUV.
Cecilia was in the back seat of the car when her mother backed up to the school entrance. It was all recorded by the school's surveillance camera. She unloaded the doughnuts and walked past Cecilia in the back seat on the driver's side a half dozen times.
The case has fueled emotions on both sides, with some saying that the mother killed her daughter and got away with it and others believing she shouldn't be judged too harshly because this kind of tragedy can happen to anyone.
A horror trip based on a true incident: The feel-good atmosphere of the wellness resort cannot calm the tense mood between mother and daughter. They relentlessly criticise each other. Ultimately, in the hot sauna, there is no escape for either of them.
"She was just a young girl, may have been experiencing depression or whatever the case may be," Keisha Harris, Battle's cousin, said. "She just made a bad decision. At the end of the day, she was a good mother to those girls."
So I took the obvious next step: I watched the video. In it, Woodard, a San Diego surfer, is shown crooning about the beauty of motherhood while strolling down the beach with his guitar (not to mention a couple of creepy shots where he shows up in women's bathrooms). As he sings, a variety of "hot moms" are shown frolicking in the surf, dancing around their bedrooms in their underpants, and gazing pensively out toward the ocean while wearing bikinis. It's like a Mother's Day catalog for Victoria's Secret.
But who, you ask, is that hot mom, that sultry brunette with the smoldering eyes, chiseled cheekbones and a stomach that most women can only dream of even if they haven't had a baby? According to the press release, Woodward drew inspiration for the song from one of the founders of the Hot Moms Club (not kidding), Dayanara Torres, who just so happens to be a former Miss Universe. When it came time to make a video, it seemed only logical, I suppose, to ask Torres and her children to participate. But the result is a "tribute to motherhood" that stars a beauty queen, emphasizes the importance of maintaining one's "hotness" and, were it not for the heartfelt lyrics and strategically placed children, could pass for a normal music video -- that is, three minutes of a guy, a guitar and a bunch of women he wants to bonk. (I mean, how much resonance can the line "You're beautiful now" really have when the woman you're talking about was already crowned Miss Universe?)
For generations, Germany has largely taken it for granted that a mother's place is in the home. But the hausfrau model of marriage isn't yielding the expected results. Germany's birthrate has dropped ominously since the 1970s and is now among the lowest in the industrialized world, threatening the labor pool and the economy.
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's government has launched a raft of measures to help young families and thus encourage the birth of more babies, such as opening more nurseries and subsidizing couples buying their first home. In a measure also aimed at getting more Spanish women into the workforce to reduce reliance on immigrants, the Spanish government is reforming its tax law to give working mothers with children under the age of 3 a tax rebate of $1,130 per child.
As a senior vice president at Commerzbank in Frankfurt, Petra Eberlein-Kemper feels like a loner. She's the only manager at her level who is also a mother and says she longs for role models, women with whom she could discuss the "complexity of the entire situation." Three percent of the bank's top managers, below the board of directors, are women. None has children. Mrs. Eberlein-Kemper manages to work full time because her husband is self-employed and can pick up their two toddlers.
Edmund Stoiber, Schröder's conservative rival, pledges to provide more direct benefits to families. Even Stoiber's party, traditionally the stodgiest in its views toward a woman's role, is talking for the first time about the need to reconcile family life and work. Reflecting the country's new emphasis on childbearing, Stoiber has also voiced an open-mindedness toward less traditional models of family, saying that his choice for family minister would be an unmarried mother.
Developers of a cell phone Web game are considering modifications after a parent complained the content had sexual connotations unsuitable for children.The Shanghai E-touch Co said it had not anticipated complaints about the game, which allows the player to chase a beautiful girl.Company officials said the game is clean and healthy, but the sexy dress and dialogue may worry parents."We have reported the issue to our top leaders, who are discussing it with our developing team," said an official from Shanghai E-touch surnamed Gao. "Very probably we will modify the dress and some words."A local woman said she switched off the Web function of her 16-year-old daughter's cell phone yesterday, after detecting the game by accident.The woman said she used her daughter's cell phone after her own phone ran out of power."Since I was not familiar with her phone, I entered the Web function. To my surprise, I found a girl in sexy dress and suggestive words on the screen," said the mother identified as Wang."My daughter is only in middle school, so she can be easily misled by such a game."The company said the game targets cell phone Web users, most of whom are adults. "The game is still under development and not available to the public. The student may have got it from friends. We will make changes to meet objections," Gao said.
My mother is now 83 years old, rather frail but with the memory of an elephant. Her story begins in July 1939 on her 18th birthday when she decided to join the TA as she wanted a bit of excitement in her life - my mother was was about to get more than she bargained for!
A week after war was declared there was a knock on my grandparents door, a letter was given to my grandfather with call up papers, my grandmother was totally confused as two of her sons, my Uncle Bill and Uncle Fred, were already in the Navy and RAF respectively and my Uncle Charles was only 16, it took about 5 mins of arguing with the courier before my grandparents looked at the name on the call up papers.....Yes it was Mother. Two days later a young ATS officer called at the house and dropped off my mother's uniform; this was about 5 sizes too wide and 3 sizes too long. My grandmother's sister was visiting from Sheffield for a few days and was to spend those few days altering and sewing my mother's dress and work uniform so she wouldn't show up the family! My mother had never been away from home before and was the cossetted and spoiled youngest daughter of 9 brothers and sisters so the Army came as rather a shock to say the least - I believe Mother's first posting was to a barn somewhere in Richmond which she shared with a number of other young ladies, a few hens and goodness knows how many different insects. Her stories, told to my brother, sister and I, have caused many a smile too numerous to tell here.
I need now to move on a couple of years to 1942 the year my mother was 21. 21 and she could do what she dreamed of from being a small girl, she could go abroad! In 1942 my mother was in the RASC and was posted to Palestine, her and 5 other ATS, they were to relieve soldiers to allow them to go to the front, originally it was 12 ATS to relieve 6 soldiers but ended up with 6 ATS to relieve 12! Does that sound typical or what? Mother boarded a ship in the South of England, sailed around the West of Africa and the Cape of Good Hope and landed in Durbin where the 6 ATS disembarked for a quick stopover. Fortunately for them they were held up in Durbin and were unable to reboard the ship - I say fortunately as the ship was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean and was badly damaged, to be honest I think it might even have sunk. Whew I wipe the sweat from my brow for very selfish reasons - I wouldnt have been born! Eventually mother and her colleagues arrived in Haifa to start their duties. She tells me they lived on marmalade sandwiches for about a month as none of them could manage the local concoctions served up to them. 041b061a72