Heath We miss you:(

Last year's Oscar nominations day was tragic. This year's was bittersweet.It was exactly one year ago Thursday when Heath Ledger was found dead in a New York apartment, just hours after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had announced its nominees. Outside the Soho building, a makeshift memorial of flowers and candles quickly accumulated.The academy paid its own tribute to the actor Thursday by nominating him for best supporting actor, honoring his mad, incendiary performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight.""Today was the day," said Josh Brolin, who last year was celebrating the Oscar success of "No Country for Old Men" when the news on Ledger broke. "It was a very sad day. I knew Heath loosely. I think it's a great performance. It's a very bittersweet thing.""The Dark Knight" earned eight nominations in total, but was shut out of other major award categories. Ledger's nomination, though, came as expected.Ledger, who died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs at the age of 28, was nominated along with Brolin ("Milk"), Robert Downey Jr. ("Tropic Thunder"), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Doubt") and Michael Shannon ("Revolutionary Road").Many expect Ledger to win when the awards are handed out Feb. 22, which would make him only the second actor to posthumously win an Oscar following Peter Finch in 1976's "Network."

Sarah Jessica Parker Tackles Marriage Rumors

Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick know how to mix business and love. On Thursday night, they turned a visit to Broadway into a romantic evening – complete with hand holding and downplaying rumors that their marriage is in trouble. After watching The American Plan, a play starring Mercedes Ruehl and Lily Rabe, Parker told PEOPLE, "It was really lovely."Parker, looking divine in a polka dot dress, white coat and spiky black heels, also gracefully addressed recent reports that she and Broderick were close to splitting. Pressed by reporters about the rumors, she said, "We don't even bother to address them." She added that the best part of being married is "being married." Defending their relationship wasn't the only thing on their minds, however. The couple attended the play to support the director David Grindley, who will begin rehearsals for The Philanthropist, another Broadway play, with Broderick in six weeks. As for the news that a sequel to Parker's hit movie Sex and the City is a done deal, Parker coyly told PEOPLE, "that's what I've heard but I wouldn't say that is the most official thing you'll ever read."

Three People Held in Alleged Extortion Plot Against John Travolta

Two prominent Bahamian citizens and a paramedic were detained in the Bahamas in an alleged extortion scheme targeting John Travolta following the death of his son, according to reports.

Pleasant Bridgewater, an island attorney and lawmaker, has been held for questioning since Thursday, and ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne was being detained on Friday, the Associated Press reports.

Obie Wilchcombe, the island's former Minister of Tourism and a friend of the Travoltas, was also arrested but later released, according to TMZ.com.

Police did not disclose the exact nature of the alleged plot. But Lightbourne was quoted in tabloid reports about trying to revive Travolta's son, 16-year-old Jett, o died at the family's vacation home in Grand Bahama.

Wilchcombe spoke on Larry King Live about how the Travoltas were coping with the death.

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Barack Obama- PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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CHILD SOLDIER

Abduction
In Uganda, child soldiers who escape their captors are brought to a rehabilitation centre in Gulu, where Anna Kari photographed their life and spoke to one of the boys.
Eighteen-year-old John (not his real name) is one of the ex-soldiers at Gusco, who knows personally how hard it is to integrate back into the community. He was abducted twice.
“Before I was abducted I was a happy school boy, I had five sisters and one brother.”

Cooking and cleaning
At the Gusco centre, John and the other children take part in cooking and cleaning.
They have group therapy sessions, play music and watch films – as they readjust to civilian life. Thousands of children have been forced to become soldiers in the 18-year war.
“When I and my brother were abducted, I knew exactly what was going to happen to us: We used to hear about the LRA in the village, about how they abduct and torture children and force them to abduct rebels."

Brother killed
“They trained us as soldiers. I was in so many battles I don’t even remember the number.”
John’s brother was killed while with the LRA.
The rebels used to tell the children that if they ran away the Ugandan army would kill them, or they would be poisoned.
“One day we were resting after a fierce battle, it was raining and everyone was very tired. I started to think about home, about my friends… I just couldn’t take it any more, and I just got up and started to walk away.”

Cleansing ceremony
Nobody followed John, and to his surprise the Ugandan army soldiers who eventually found him did not kill him, but took him to Gusco.
Three years after he was abducted John returned home again: “I went through a traditional cleansing ceremony, and after that my family and neighbors welcomed me home.
“But there were other people who shouted, ‘You killed my mother, you killed my father.’ I tried to tell them that I didn’t want to go, that I was abducted.”

Death sentence
John started in a technical school to become a carpenter.
“At first it was hard, the other students would call me nasty names, and it brought back the memories, so I isolated myself. But slowly things got better and I started to get friends.”
But two year later in the middle of the night, John was abducted again.
“I was so scared, because there is only one punishment for running away from the LRA, and that’s the death sentence.”

Lucky
The rebels dragged him along - beating him - and discussed how best to kill him.
But John was lucky. An LRA superior decided to keep him alive, because he was well educated and an experienced soldier.
“I could only think about running away again. But now they didn’t trust me and they watched me all the time.”
A few months later he was lucky again. During a battle he was shot in the hip. The rebels left him behind. Now he is back at Gusco again, with the leg in plaster.

Protection
“I think a lot about what happened to me, but the memories become less and less every day, and I still hope that one day I will forget about it.
“I am looking forward to going home and start school again, but I don’t think I will ever walk properly again.”
John says he feels safe at Gusco, which was started by local people and is supported by Save the Children.
“We are fed well and we are treated well. Every night soldiers come to protect us, in case the LRA come for us.”

Happy to be alive
“I hope the war ends soon,” John says - although he thinks his family will take years to recover as are they are displaced with no livestock.
“I don’t have any big dreams for the future. I just want to finish studying and get a job.”
With one of his few smiles he adds: “I am very happy… I have come back alive.”
John recently returned home, and will be returning to his studies.

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