Tennessee woman returns 7-year-old boy, claiming he has mental problems.

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In upgrading to my newest version of Pinnacle STudio (from 10 to 11 Ultimate) I found I could no longer access any of the movies I had created with ver 10. Something that I think Pinnacle STudio needs to address. However, I had to re-create our Adoption video, which was extremeley difficult (I have been working on doing so since early this summer). It was difficult not because the program is hard to learn (it is quite easy to use and fairly intuitive) but because there has been so little time to mess with my computer.

Anyway, I wanted to redo the video, and I have used some of Studio 11 Ultimate’s new features. I’m really pleased with the results, and I have learned a lot more about video editing and using the program by taking some extra time to redo the video.

I use the same music, but have added different transitions, extra pictures and extra video clips. I don’t know how it will compare to the other two – but I’m now going to have to recreate a lot of other videos at home (which – not to worry – I’m not going to reload them!) but it will cut down on the time I have for creating new stuff. I’ll try to squeeze the new in here and there. But this video turned out so good (at least in my opinion) that I had to put it up on my channel.

Yeah, you could say I impressed myself. LOL! Not hard to do, though.

Music: Tu Jia (Hunan Lullaby) by
Beijing Angelic Choir

Amarantine by Enya

Watermark by Enya

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Holt International Adoption Group

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www.theleventhals.com
Our 19 day trip to China to adopt Abigail distilled into 3 1/2 minutes.

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Now on GoogleBooks http://base.google.com/base/s2?authorid=3960054&hl=en&gl=US David Livianu is featured on 20/20 ABC TV show “Angels in Adoptions” with Barbara Walters and Tom Jarrel. David Livianu continues his work with GlobalAdoptions.org, offering educational how to adopt guides on e-books and mp3 audios.

For more info, write to info@globaladoptions.org, or call area code718, tel.627-4049 in New York City.

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Technorati Tags: abc, adopt, Adoption, angels, barbara, David, Guide, how, IN, International, jarrel, Livianu, news, orphans, romania, to, Tom, walters

To celebrate National Adoption Month, Adoption ARK held a contest. Parents were invited to send in their pictures of the first moments with their adopted child. Adoption ARK compiled all of the pictures and created a video entitled “First Moments”.

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This is part two of our adventure. After adopting our son from Russia, we went back a year later and adopted his biological sister. They were raised in seperate orphanages and had never met until we brought her home.

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International Adoption has always been a complicated matter, but lately, it’s gotten even moreso.

The Family Matters team has assembled some links for prospective parents to use, so this kind of thing doesn’t happen to them.

JCICS
http://www.jcics.org

Adoption Institute
http://adoptioninstitute.org/index.php

Parent’s Support Group
http://www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=1311

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Now on GoogleBooks http://base.google.com/base/s2?authorid=3960054&hl=en&gl=US Romanian International TV interview with David Livianu, on the subject of internationalo adoptions, with Corneliu Calota, 1998. In Romanian!

David Livianu is originally from Romania, now a proud US citizen since 1986, living in NYC. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music. Since 1990 he has been involved in helping Romania’s orphans. His latest project since Romania closed its doors on international Adoptions in 2001, was to research and document the adoption laws and procedures for all 194 countries of the world.

The goal: to make all the critical decision making information available to parents and adoption professionals…thus reducing the exorbitant costs and the inordinate waiting time!

The project is just finished and you can see details of the 12 e-books (16,500 pages) and 2 audio libraries (2,241 mp3 tracks – 50 hours) at the following Google Books link:
http://base.google.com/base/s2?authorid=3960054&hl=en&gl=US

Questions? call 718 area code, tel. 627-4049 in NYC or write to info@globaladoptions.org

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Now on GoogleBooks http://base.google.com/base/s2?authorid=3960054&hl=en&gl=US Romanian International TV interview with David Livianu, on the subject of internationalo adoptions, with Corneliu Calota, 1998. In Romanian!

David Livianu is originally from Romania, now a proud US citizen since 1986, living in NYC. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music. Since 1990 he has been involved in helping Romania’s orphans. His latest project since Romania closed its doors on International Adoptions in 2001, was to research and document the Adoption laws and procedures for all 194 countries of the world.

The goal: to make all the critical decision making information available to parents and adoption professionals…thus reducing the exorbitant costs and the inordinate waiting time!

The project is just finished and you can see details of the 12 e-books (16,500 pages) and 2 audio libraries (2,241 mp3 tracks – 50 hours) at the following Google Books link:
http://base.google.com/base/s2?authorid=3960054&hl=en&gl=US

Questions? call 718 area code, tel. 627-4049 in NYC or write to info@globaladoptions.org

Duration : 0:10:9

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