Lady Gaga "Princess Die" Live Debut: First Listen!

While falling short of the imagery evoked by Lindsay Lohan gun photos, Lady Gaga's new song "Princess Die" is generating controversy in its own right.

She performed it last night in Melbourne, Australia, saying that the track and its suicide-centric themes “may or may not be on [my] next album.”

Lyrically, it's sure to get people talking. Take a look/listen:

Lady Gaga - Princess Die

What do you think of Lady Gaga's new song "Princess Die"?

Follow the jump for (what we think are) the full lyrics:

Leave the coffin open when I go
Leave my prose and lipstick on so everybody knows
Pretty will be the photograph I leave
Laying down on famous knives so everybody sees

Bleach out all all the dark
I’ll swallow each peroxide shot
Someone I’ll know could love and save me from myself
Maybe I’ll just clean the s— of these fancy shoes
I’ll be a princess di and die with you

[chorus]

I wish that I was strong
I wish that I was wrong
I wish that I could cope
But i took pills and left a note

I’m hungry from an anorexic heart
I’ve been trying to tell you how i feel
But was never very smart
I’m wrapped in silks made for Egyptian queens
I’ll do it in the swimming pool
So everybody sees

Bleach out all the dark
I’ll swallow each peroxide shot
Volumes I know will love and save me from myself
Maybe I’ll just keep clean the s— off of these fancy shoes
I’ll be a princess di and die with you

Princess die
I want to see her cry
Princess die
Princess die
We want to watch her cry
Princess die

[chorus]

I wish that I was strong
I wish that I was wrong
I wish that I could cope
But I took pills and left a note

[bridge]

But I took pills and left a note
I wish that I could go in my rich boyfriend’s limo
Right after he proposed with a 16-carat stone wrapped in rose gold
With the paparazzi all swarming around
In my Louis Vuitton white buttoned down
Oh it’s not that deep
So bob your head for another dead blonde
Who’s real prince is in heaven
She just wants to sleep

The final act of life will be my own hands to do,
I’ll be a princess die and die with you
Applaud, approve.

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Start Your Summer Out Write... Two upcoming Conferences in ly

Why take a book in your beach bag, when you can write a book yourself?

Cheryl's Writing and Publishing Conference - Part I (summer evening hours)
Figure out and polish your idea? ?

?Monday through Wednesday, July 16-18
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Panera Restaurant on Rand Road in Arlington Heights, IL? 60004
5 W Rand Road? (In the same plaza as Barnes and Nobles and Trader Joes.)
Arlington Heights, IL 60004

Why is information about Writing, Publishing, ereader Publishing, Blogging, and Speaking treated as secrets that not everyone can know? This conference will educate, motivate, and inspire.

Topics include:??

- Your Writing Story
- Dreaming Big Versus Realism
- The Pitch, The Platform, and the Proposal
- What are Agents Looking for

Cheryl, a literary agent for ten years, now turned author and conference speaker.? She is the author or co-author of 12 books. Some of her books were published by national publishers such as Moody Press, Multnomah and Harvest House Publishers.? Other books are self-published and some are e-published, showing the variety of options open to 2012 writers.?? ? ?

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Dinner: buy your own at Panera.
Beginners to Advanced writers.

A love offering will be taken for For Better For Worse For Keeps Ministries?

For questions or to R.S.V.P., please email forkeepsministries@gmail.com ?

Recent References: ?

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The writing conference was awesome!? SO much better than reading a "how to" book.? Cheryl provided such great information and insight, in a fun and personal way.? Can't wait for Part II!? ?

Cheryl Moeller's Writing Conference motivated me to do what I had wanted to do for so long - get my book in print. ?Her understanding of publishing and marketing was a great resource for me and now I have a book that I can share with my children, grandchildren and the world.

"I thoroughly enjoyed my time at both your writing and marketing conferences. I found myself listening with rapt attention to all that was said. There is no such thing as boredom at this conference. The candidness with which Cheryl speaks is refreshing, and the help she extends to all is over the top. Cheryl is all about community.? Her ideas seem endless." ??

- Arlene Hughes

Marketing Conference will be offered ?

Cheryl's Marketing Conference for Writing, Publishing, E-publishing, Blogging, and Speaking.? Part II? ?

Monday through Wednesday, July 9-11, 5:00 Pm - 10:00 Pm?

Panera Restaurant on Rand Road in Arlington Heights, IL? 60004
5 W Rand Road? (In the same plaza as Barnes and Nobles and Trader Joes.)
Arlington Heights, IL 60004? ?

Marketing ideas for your Writing, Blogging, Speaking, Business or Ministry?

Traditional and Online Marketing

Mostly Free or Nearly Free

?

Dinner: buy your own at Panera.
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Lawmaker doubts Australia will allow gay marriage

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Holmes Beach Police make animal cruelty arrest

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Published: Monday, June 18, 2012 at 2:20 p.m.

Last Modified: Monday, June 18, 2012 at 2:20 p.m.

HOLMES BEACH - HOLMES BEACH ? A 75-year-old man shot, beat and killed a white bird believed to be either a heron or a crane, Holmes Beach Police say.

Police arrested Laurie Miles Pardee at his home in the 600 block of Key Royale Drive on Saturday on charges of animal cruelty and discharging a firearm in public.

Witnesses told officers Pardee shot the bird with a handgun while standing on his porch, beat it with a net and discarded the dead animal in the bay.

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Microsoft brings Kinectimals to Android, is both warm and fuzzy

Catching up with its fellow iOS and Windows Phone platforms, Kinectimals has arrived on Android. It'll set you back three bucks, but for that you'll get the chance to play with five different balls of exotic fluff -- if you tie it into your Xbox 360 version. Like the other versions, you can to pet them, play with them and generally gaze enraptured at their squishy paws. The integration to Xbox 360 isn't the deepest we've seen, but we're never going to say no to a bit of inter-platform love. The download's waiting below.

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Summit lets Obama, Putin size up the competition

FILE - In this July 7, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow. With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its fiscal mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it. Yet as he prepares to plunge into summit talks with the other world leaders, Obama is down to the power of persuasion and little else. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

FILE - In this July 7, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow. With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its fiscal mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it. Yet as he prepares to plunge into summit talks with the other world leaders, Obama is down to the power of persuasion and little else. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with the military top brass while visiting a military airbase in the city of Korenovsk, about 1200 kilometers (750 miles) south of Moscow, Thursday, June 14, 2012. President Vladimir Putin says Russia needs a new strategic bomber and will develop it despite high costs. Speaking Thursday at a meeting with the military top brass after visiting a base in southern Russia, Putin said the project would be expensive and technologically challenging. He added that the job needs to be done despite high costs, according to Russian news agencies. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Russian President Vladimir Putin attaches a Russian military medal to an air regiment banner during an award ceremony at a military airbase in the city of Korenovsk, about 1200 kilometers (750 miles) south of Moscow, Thursday, June 14, 2012. President Vladimir Putin says Russia needs a new strategic bomber and will develop it despite high costs. Speaking Thursday at a meeting with the military top brass after visiting a base in southern Russia, Putin said the project would be expensive and technologically challenging. He added that the job needs to be done despite high costs, according to Russian news agencies. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a signing ceremony of an agreement between state-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft and Exxon Mobil corporation at the Black Sea port of Tuapse, southern Russia, Friday, June 15, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico (AP) ? President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin need one another, an uncomfortable truth for the superpower leader facing a tough re-election and the newly elected Russian leader who is deeply suspicious of the United States.

The two men will use their meeting Monday, the first since Putin returned to Russia's top job, to claim leverage. Much of the rest of the Group of 20 economic meeting will be devoted to the European fiscal crisis and the fate of Greece as a part of the euro zone.

"I expect that it will be a candid discussion, it will get down to business," White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said ahead of the lengthy morning meeting between Obama and Putin.

"We'll be able to sustain cooperation in some areas, we'll have differences in other areas, and we'll work to try to bridge those differences."

The G-20 gathering is a natural forum for sideline discussions of the urgent crisis in Syria as well as diplomatic efforts to head off a confrontation with Iran. Russia is a linchpin in world efforts to resolve both crises, and to U.S. goals for the smooth shutdown of the war in Afghanistan. In the longer term, Obama wants Russia's continued cooperation in nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation.

Obama made a special project of Russia in his first term and arguably needs Moscow's help even more if he wins a second one. He is trying to avoid a distracting public spat with Russia during this election year, as suggested by an overheard remark to outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in March. Obama told Medvedev he would have more flexibility to answer Russian complaints about a U.S.-built missile defense shield in Europe after the November election.

Things got off to a rocky start with Putin, when Obama pointedly withheld a customary congratulatory phone call to Putin until days after his May election. Putin appeared to snub Obama by skipping the smaller and weightier Group of Eight meeting that Obama hosted later that month at Camp David, and a planned Oval Office welcome for the new Russian leader.

The rescheduled Obama-Putin meeting comes the same day as Moscow hosts an international negotiating session with Iran. Russia has gone along with U.N. Security Council efforts to tighten some penalties against Iran because of questions about its nuclear weapons ambitions, but has blocked the harshest punishments. Still, the United States needs Russia's participation to lend legitimacy to the argument that Iran faces broad international condemnation. Iran usually paints the dispute over its nuclear program as a confrontation with the U.S. and its ally Israel.

Brutal attacks on anti-government protesters in Syria and the threat of civil war in the Mideast nation pose the most immediate crisis.

Diplomatic hopes have rested on Washington and Moscow agreeing on a transition plan that would end the four-decade Assad family rule. Russia, as Syria's longtime ally and trading partner, is seen as the best broker for a deal that could give Assad political refuge. So far, Moscow has said no.

Pressure increased on Russia over the weekend, when the United Nations suspended its unarmed monitoring mission in Syria out of concern for the monitors' safety. The move was widely interpreted as a challenge to Russia to intervene with Syrian President Bashar Assad to preserve a U.N. role Moscow sees as a brake on any armed foreign intervention.

The United States has refused to arm anti-Assad rebels in part to avoid a proxy fight in which Iran and Russia and others arm one side and the U.S. and Sunni Arab states arm the other. Opposition groups estimate 14,000 people have died in violence that the U.S. fears is sliding into civil war.

Putin's campaign included some of the strongest anti-American rhetoric from Moscow in a decade and he openly accused Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of inciting protests against him. The Obama administration mostly tried to shrug it off, but Putin's return to the presidency makes it more likely that any help Russia provides in Syria, Iran or other matters will come at a cost.

U.S. strategy has favored flattery that may overstate Russia's influence, especially on Syria, and efforts to highlight areas where U.S. and Russian goals align.

Russia's membership in numerous world bodies and its veto power at the U.N. Security Council give it leverage beyond its economic or military power. Obama holds far greater power and both leaders know it, but Putin can be a spoiler and irritant.

"President Putin clearly is somebody who can articulate where he has differences with the United States, but we can also articulate where we have differences with Russia," Rhodes said. "And I think our assessment is that being candid with one another and clear with one another is in the best interest of the relationship. So because the relationship between the United States and Russia is in our interest, it's in Russia's interest, but also it's in the interest of the world community, because when we can work together on issues, again, it opens up the door to much better progress, whether you're talking about nonproliferation and nuclear security, whether you're talking about resolving regional tensions as in Syrian, or whether you're talking about the global economy."

The White House tried to soften the blow of Clinton's accusation days before the G-20 meeting that Russia was equipping the Syrian government with attack helicopters that could bused against civilians. She later acknowledged they were only helicopters already owned by Syria that had been sent back to Russia for repairs, but Russia was already annoyed.

Russia insists that any arms it supplies to Syria are not being used to quell anti-government dissent that began more than a year ago, and has rebuffed efforts to impose an international arms embargo. Russia and Syria have a longstanding military relationship and Syria hosts Russia's only naval base on the Mediterranean Sea.

White House press secretary Jay Carney brushed aside questions last week about whether the U.S. might yank support for Russia's membership in World Trade Organization if Russia refuses to help on Syria. He underscored that the U.S. supports that core Russian goal, which will be a centerpiece of the talks.

"Putin is in a petulant sort of mood," said Russia scholar Mark N. Katz of George Mason University. "He's got all these grievances about American foreign policy and he's looking for us to satisfy him, and I don't think we're going to do that. No amount of bonhomie or talking nicely is going to fix that."

The Pew Research Center's newly released global public opinion survey gives Putin job approval ratings Obama can only dream of. About 72 percent of Russians have a favorable opinion of Putin, and a majority put more faith in a strong leader than in a democratic form of government. Nearly three-quarters of those polled said Russia deserves greater respect from other countries.

Despite that footing, tens of thousands of protesters thronged Moscow streets this past week in the first mass protest against Putin since he returned to the presidency in May. His tactics in cracking down on political opponents will make it difficult for Obama to play down longstanding U.S. complaints about human rights abuses that infuriate Russian leaders. The Kremlin ordered the detention and interrogation of at least one activist and searches of others' homes last week.

Putin's own return to the presidency was far more certain than Obama's re-election chances. Despite their differences, Putin probably would prefer a second Obama term to a Mitt Romney presidency, Katz said, not least because the Republican challenger has called Russia the chief strategic enemy of the United States.

Associated Press

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Escrow Theft: Today's Challenge in Title Insurance

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Demotech, Inc. has published its study, Escrow Theft:? Today's Challenge in Title Insurance.? This study observes the relationship between title insurance loss and loss adjustment expense ratios and the relative strength of state regulations for title insurance agents.

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Demotech has monitored the problem of escrow theft within the industry and, in 2003, published its initial study on escrow theft, Defalcations:? Today's Challenge in Title Insurance and Our Thoughts on Addressing This Challenge, in which it analyzed the impact of title insurance agent licensing requirements on escrow theft.? Over the past decade, Demotech has continued to observe the impact of escrow theft on the title insurance industry and has now updated its 2003 study.? This revised and expanded study sets forth Demotech's current findings, analysis, and observations.

Using the NAIC Title Insurance Agent Model Act as the baseline, Demotech analyzed the relative strength of each state's regulations for the licensing and oversight of title agents, and assigned each state a rating based on its interpretation of the state's regulatory strength.? Demotech also compiled title insurance loss ratio data for each state over the past eight years.? Demotech found that states that had adopted the NAIC Model Act, its substantial equivalent, or a stronger set of regulations generally reported lower loss and loss adjustment expense ratios.? In Demotech's opinion, the variations in loss ratios are related to less or more escrow theft, as well as the beneficial impact of strong licensing standards and increased professionalism.? Demotech concluded that the enactment of the NAIC Model Act, or a regulation of equivalent strength, can have a significant impact on title insurance losses -- especially losses resulting from escrow theft.

The full study can be read here:? Escrow Theft:? Today's Challenge in Title Insurance.

ABOUT DEMOTECH, INC.

Demotech, Inc. is a financial analysis firm specializing in evaluating the financial stability of regional and specialty insurers.? Since 1985, Demotech has served the insurance industry by assigning accurate, reliable and proven Financial Stability Ratings? (FSRs) for Property & Casualty insurers and Title underwriters.? FSRs are a leading indicator of financial stability, providing an objective baseline of the future solvency of an insurer.? Demotech's philosophy is to review and evaluate insurers based on their area of focus and execution of their business model rather than solely on financial size.? This philosophy was the catalyst for the Demotech Company Classification System, which was published in Insurance Journal, in order to stratify and categorize insurers into operational categories.? Visit www.demotech.com for more information.

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Elizabeth's jubilee contrasts with Victoria's empire fest

Britain is celebrating its second-ever royal diamond jubilee, in marked contrast to that of Queen Victoria more than a century ago, which doubled up as a triumphant festival of the empire.

In 1897, Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary of state for the colonies, convinced Victoria to kill two birds with one stone: mark the 60th year of her reign but also celebrate the British empire "at its zenith", said the historian Walter Arnstein.

At the time, Victoria reigned over a quarter of the world's population, recalled royal expert Kate Williams.

For her diamond jubilee -- celebrated on a single day rather than the four-day public holiday weekend this time -- the empire came to London.

Chamberlain "invited 11 colonial ministers of the self-governing colonies to be present, along with some Indian princes, and representative colonial military detachments to be part of the jubilee procession", Arnstein told AFP.

Indian lancers wearing turbans, mounted troops from New Zealand, Jamaican gunners, and even camels paraded in front of Buckingham Palace on June 22, 1897, which was declared a public holiday.

An impressive display was captured in grainy footage on short black-and-white films.

More than a century later for Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee, there is no equivalent participation from the Commonwealth or its 15 other realms where she is the head of state.

"The empire has changed in her lifetime. It disintegrated," said Williams, the author of "Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen".

This diamond jubilee "is much more a celebration of British history. It's much more a celebration of her reign and the British royal family".

In 1897, the jubilee was also celebrated with splendour across the empire, where sumptuous events were organised.

Town clocks honouring the queen were erected in Malaya and New Zealand, and fountains inaugurated in Seychelles.

Though Queen Elizabeth is the head of the Commonwealth, there is little of note taking place over the jubilee weekend in the other 53 member states, with the exception of Canada, visited by Prince William and his wife Catherine, and his father Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, in the last 12 months.

Sunday's diamond jubilee pageant on the River Thames, the biggest spectacle of the weekend's events, was not transmitted live by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on its main free-to-air channel. It scheduled the 1975 film "Shampoo" instead.

At the end of the 19th century, the idea of organising public festivities was still a relatively new concept in Britain, said Arnstein.

On June 22, 1897, the queen went through London in a carriage procession, as her great-great-grand-daughter will do on Tuesday.

From Saint Paul's Cathedral to Buckingham Palace, hundreds of thousands of people, including the US writer Mark Twain, thronged the streets to cheer Victoria.

She recorded the occasion in her journal.

"No-one ever, I believe, has met with such an ovation as was given to me, passing through those six miles of streets... The crowds were quite indescribable and their enthusiasm truly marvelous and deeply touching," the empress wrote.

At the time, Victoria, aged 78 and suffering from arthritis and rheumatism, took part in the service at St Paul's from her carriage.

It was held outside as she could not walk up the cathedral steps.

The scene elicited sarcasm abroad.

"The Europeans were like: look at that queen. They've got to have the celebration in the street in Britain!" said Williams.

Similar jubilant scenes met Elizabeth as she led Sunday's spectacular 1,000-boat flotilla with around 1.2 million braving the rain to show their support.

The eyes of the fashion world were on the queen's silver and white outfit, a far cry from Victoria's day.

Despite the celebrations, Victoria refused to change her black mourning clothes, worn since the death of her beloved husband prince Albert in 1861.

In vain, "ministers begged her to wear a kind of golden robe to go to the ceremonies", Williams said.

Instead, she wore a black silk outfit, topped off with a headdress decorated with ostrich feathers.

In 1897, organised by Victoria's daughter-in-law princess Alexandra, street feasts were laid on for 400,000 of London's poorest residents.

But the palace's generosity had its limits: it only saw the light of day thanks to the funds of tea magnate Thomas Lipton.

On Monday, Queen Elizabeth will welcome 10,000 subjects drawn from a lottery for a picnic at Buckingham Palace, paid for from the royal coffers.

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