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dancing with the stars results november 17

2009-11-18T08:26:00.000-08:00

dancing with the stars results november 17

Despite having good grades and is one of the 40 search trends, particularly as the order in December Playboy cover model Joanna Krupa is no basis to encourage a fan semifinal; when he lost to Donny Osmond. Krupa has bermitra with Derek Hough, one of the most popular dancers as evidenced by her response, as well as his sister, be professional people in the last two seasons Dance Plan.

His popularity and a nod from Hugh Hefner weren't enough to keep Krupa and Hough in the running. The finals will have the teams: Mya and Dmitry Chaplin, Kelly Osbourne and Louis Van Amstel and Donny Osmond and Kym Johnson. Things didn't look good at the end of Monday night. Donny Osmond and his partner Kym Johnson began Monday night with a tango that should have been a snap.

Monday evening, a wardrobe malfunction Johnson is a little tricky footwork and scored a 21 (right to Seven). The rest of their program had improved scores. The last Osmond and Johnson received 21 were in Week 3 for the rumba (of Lionel Richie and Diana Ross "" Endless Love "). Osmond and the lowest score of the individual dances Johnson was 20 the first week on the fox-trot.

insurance institute for highway safety

2009-11-18T08:07:00.000-08:00

insurance institute for highway safety

Insurance Institute for Road Safety has released its list of safest cars in 2010. Among the winners was the first award to the representatives of Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen. You can find more information about the event, the winners and cars with 'safe' by clicking the 'related articles' After seeing the video below.

"Since its launch in March, Soul has lived up to its tagline of being Kia Motors' affordable halo vehicle by winning numerous awards and consistently being a media and consumer favorite," said Michael Sprague, vice president, marketing of Kia Motors America (KMA). "Soul being honored with a 'Top Safety Pick' for a second time solidifies it as a top contender in its segment as a vehicle that offers consumers the entire package."

Guests of the Institute on the basis of the results from the front, side and rear impact crash tests, and for the first time, a good job testing the strength of the roof rollover protection are also needed to win. Each vehicle's overall score is based on a variety of measures specific to each angle of impact and the overall impact of crash test dummies inside the vehicle at the time of collision. All vehicles must have electronic stability control available to be acceptable.

nina muschallik

2009-11-18T07:45:00.000-08:00

nina muschallik

This is a beautiful picture of Nina Muschallik Saving Private includes TV today. Nina Muschallik show fear factor known in Britain 2004th She has previously starred in the television series Emma 2003 Goal. Nina 's other credits and a dream Nikki Pegg, death, deception and destiny of the Eastern Express passenger aircraft is Polly, High explosive Kat Koller and Guest House Paradiso is a saucy wood nymph.

The British actor born in 1976 appeared in modeling ad campaigns for Pot Noodle advertisements, entitled the “Slag of Snacks”. As a child actor she appeared on ITV series Kappatoo.

Other credits include Robbie Coltrane is a girl in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.Nina attended Redroofs Theater School in girls, England.

National Coming Out Day

2009-10-11T08:03:00.000-07:00

National Coming Out Day

A Coming Out Day at the Center for Equality will be held today as part of National Coming Out Day.This is the 30th anniversary of the first march for lesbian and gay rights on Washington, D.C. Another march is planned in the nation's capital this year. The local Coming Out Day activities will begin at 12:30 p.m. at the Center for Equality, 3600 S. Minnesota Ave., with a worship service led by Pastor Don Reusch of St. Matthew the Martyr Church. Lunch will be served from 1 to 3 p.m. with time to visit. Counselors and those who support gay and lesbian rights also will attend to offer support to those ready to declare their sexual orientation to family and friends. From 3 to 5 p.m., Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays will hold its regular meeting, with members sharing personal stories of coming out and family members sharing stories of their experiences. Priceless. Beautiful. Wonderous. Inspiring. I can only hope that all parents can appreciate their child's unique qualities. Wow! Sane and loving parenting. A confident, comfortable, sane young man... Thank you both for sharing your experience with the world.

LGBTI kids!!! What about Q kids! Queer kids, Questioning Kids. What about A kids -- Asexual kids. Allied kids! What about 2S kids? 2-spiritied peoples of the first nation kids! What about SK kids? Straight kinkster kids! What about HGWCTQAAWTGPOMC kids? Heterosexual Girls Who Call Themselves Queer As A Way To Go Poopie On Mommy's Carptet kids?!?! You are so exclusionary and bigoted and need a re-education on inclusion in the LBTQAI2SAQSKHGWCTQAATGGPOMC (and Stu Rasmussen) communities of oppression and misery and victims of gay male power and privilege. That is why they are marching -- to dismantle the gender binary, heteronormativity and the eating of bananas on the subway by non-simian beings. Wow - I so wish my coming out was as sweet as that. He is so lucky to have such a great mom and I am very impressed at how confident & happy he is. I wish it to be this easy for all gay & lesbian youth. Looked great...but I had to stop because I found the (completely unnecessary) background music really distracting. I loved this video clip! I wish everyone had as great a mother as Jack does. Happy coming out day!

Regina Spektor

2009-10-11T07:55:00.000-07:00

Regina Spektor

Drew Barrymore is energy. Pure, almost-scary energy. It's disorienting to watch when one is bleary-eyed and staring at a tiny TV in the wee hours of the morning, but this trademark makes for consistent television-viewing. While the quality of Saturday Night Live's writing may waver from episode to episode, every time Drew Barrymore returns, one can safely expect absolute enthusiasm and a palpable willingness to step back and laugh at herself. All right, little Ms. "I Extra-Love Female Empowerment," prepare for me to work that ego.... Especially when one compares her to the typical "hot girl" host (see: Megan Fox's SNL premiere), Barrymore doesn't box herself in and offers a lot more opportunity for fun characters. Would someone like Fox ever be willing to bolo it up to play Nina Wilkes Booth? I doubt it. This episode was fun, but not all sketches were winners. It felt strong in performance and a little weak in writing. At the top of the show, I got my hopes up a bit. SNL has been doing some great Obama material in the last two episodes, and I'm sure they could have pushed the Nobel Peace Prize controversy even further (though I suppose the did touch upon it more during "Weekend Update"). I loved the idea behind the monologue, as Drew Barrymore impressions are addictive to both watch and try. I once did one during a conversation and, weeks later,

I was still catching myself talking out the side of my mouth occasionally. Apparently that's a side effect. Then, in a strange twist, I actually enjoyed a "Gilly" sketch for the first time in a long time. Barrymore's expressions as Gigli were fantastic and maybe even a little disturbing. Then, after that, the funny kind of dropped a little and rode the "okay" line until the end of the evening, with a few big laughs here and there.The billiards sketch was just an excuse to make tampon jokes that a writer had probably been holding onto for years and was desperate to work into a sketch. I mean, not that I didn't crack up at "Tampax, helping you relax when Mother Nature attacks your slacks." Ohh, menstruation jokes. Barrymore's beau, Justin Long's surprise cameo as Matthew McConaughey during the celebrity ghost stories sketch was a demonstration of another go-to impression that rarely fails (really, you've just got to smirk/grin and growl, "All right, all right"). The Digital Short wasn't nearly as hysterical as Barrymore's first, "Body Fuzion", but that is to be expected, since this one didn't involve 80s-tastic leotards and Kristen Wiig repeatedly winding her legs in a scary way. And, of course, once again Seth Meyers worked the "Weekend Update" desk like he wasn't lonely for a co-anchor. Strong material that wasn't covered in the Cold Open was touched upon here, and it was another pretty solid installment.

Whip Tt Movie

2009-10-11T07:32:00.000-07:00

Whip Tt Movie

It,” starring the likes of the Oscar winning Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Stern and Barrymore herself. The movie has released on the Oct. 2. However, it is not her on-screen romancing that has her in the news for this movie. The “E.T.” star has honed her behind the camera skills and donned the director’s cap for “Whip It”. The comedy drama has Ellen Page essaying the role of the misfit Bliss Cavender, who puts up a tough resistance against her mom’s constant insistence to take part in beauty pageants. She however joins in the Roller Derby league, where she thinks she fits in perfectly. Barrymore has reportedly told the Couriermail, “I always wanted to direct so this is a very wonderful moment for me. I’ve found something very personal and got to put my whole heart in to it.” Her achievements have always been very laudable. Over the years, growing up in front of the public eyes and intense media scrutiny, she has developed from the adorable little Gertie in E.T. to be one among the top ranked actresses in Hollywood. Now, with her directorial debut, she is all set to tread that extra mile.

In between running around for the busy schedule of all the promotional campaigns she is attending for “Whip It,” Barrymore was seen going the easy and low maintenance way, dressed in the “bad lady” attire. The 34 year old actress was spotted in and around the New York City, running errands by squeezing in some time in between talk show appearances. Even more improbably, it stars Ellen Page, the petite, smart-mouthed star of “Juno,” which is a little like a movie about Michael Cera going for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Ol’ Juno MacGuff as a derby queen? Those jocks spit bigger than she is. The gulf between the dream and the reality could be a large part of the humor in “Whip It.” Unfortunately, there isn’t much comedy in the movie at all.
Instead, it just recycles ideas from quirkier indie comedies (the beauty pageants, the schlocky minimum-wage jobs) and more mainstream young romances (the “sensitive” new boyfriend, the follow-your-dream bromides). It’s as if Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine strapped on skates and sailed right into some pat Hollywood comedy. That’s too bad, because Barrymore .

But “Whip It” just moves blandly along, right up to the inevitable “gag” reel under the final credits. The derby scenes are filmed in such tight closeups that we miss out on the plays the women are working so hard to execute; Bliss’ conflicts with her best friend, her new boyfriend and her parents are so obvious they could write themselves. True, the derby dames’ stage names — “Bloody Holly,” “Eva Destruction,” “Smashley Simpson” — are more fun than a roomful of drag queens. The always courageously eccentric Juliette Lewis is terrific as the evil “Dinah Might,” and after her SNL hamming, Kristen Wiig gives a refreshingly restrained comic performance as “Malice in Wonderland.” But Page never convinces as “Babe Ruthless,” her team’s new star. As her emo boyfriend, Oliver, Landon Pigg is, well, just as smoothly charming as his name. And if Barrymore really wanted to do a movie about empowerment — “girls getting to do what boys do,” as she told Time Out New York — why make the team’s bossy coach a man?
Points go to Lewis for bringing all of her fixed-stare intensity to a typical villainous part and elevating it. And credit is owed to some of the supporting performers, including Barrymore who, modestly, settles for playing one of the lesser athletes. But like the sport itself, this movie goes in circles. In the end, it hardly matters who wins.

Chicago Marathon 2009

2009-10-11T07:24:00.000-07:00

Chicago Marathon 2009

Latest updates about Chicago marathon and chicago marathon street closures, chilly 2009 Chicago Marathon is underway.As many as 45,000 participants from all 50 states and around the world braved sub-freezing temperatures for the city’s 32nd marathon. The runners, handcyclers and wheelchair riders left at 7:30 a.m. for the 26.2-mile jaunt that will take them from Millennium Park north to Wrigley Field, as far west as Damen Avenue, then south near U.S. Cellular Field and up Michigan Avenue to the finish line.While some elite runners are competing for a chunk of the $450,000 in total prize money, most, like 34-year-old Mark Harry of Aurora, are competing against themselves. “It’s cold,” said Harry, “but cold is better. Once we get going it should be OK.”
Harry, a lifelong runner participating in his first marathon, battled the cold with layers of disposable clothes: an old sweatshirt and a garbage bag covering his torso and a tattered towel keeping his lower half warm.
“I’m throwing this all away as soon as the race starts,” he said.

He wasn’t alone. Moments before the race began, the starting area more closely resembled the end of a graduation ceremony as disposable clothing like the Harry’s was thrown to the sidelines to be collected and given to charity. After the runners had left, said one volunteer, “it looked like a wasteland.”
On the men’s side, last year’s race was dominated by Kenyans, with five out of the top six finishers in 2008 hailing from the East African country. Evans Cheruiyot won in ‘08, finishing the race in just over two hours.
Russia’s Lidiya Grigoryeva, who won last year’s Chicago Marathon on women’s side, will look to repeat this year. For one runner, the experience running last year’s Chicago marathon was enough to convince her to return.
“It’s an unbelievable feeling to run past all those spectators,” Melinda Schaller, 24, of Detroit said. “That’s what makes Chicago such an amazing race.”
Jeff Butcher, 44, made the trip from Los Angeles to run his 13th marathon. Like Harry, he donned garbage bags and disposable warmup pants to keep warm.

Charlyne Yi

2009-10-11T07:05:00.000-07:00

Charlyne Yi

Asian-American performance artist, musician, writer, painter and actress Charlyne Yi new film, "Paper Hearts" opens in cinemas on 7 August. Viewers may remember yi brief but memorable appearance in the hit comedy director Judd Apatou in "Knocked Up." In "Paper Heart," Yi stars with Michael Cera and Jake Johnson. The film was directed and produced by Nick Jasenovec Sandra Murillo. Yi I executive produced, along with co-wrote the screenplay and stars as a fictionalized version of themselves. "Hybrid-documentary" as it moves in the search for America to find "love."

According to the filmmakers, as Yi and her good friend (and director) Nick search for answers and advice about love, she talks with friends and strangers, scientists, bikers, romance novelists, and children. They each offer diverse views on modern romance, as well as various answers to the age-old question: does true love really exist?
But shortly after filming begins, Yi meets a boy after her own heart: Michael Cera. As their relationship develops on camera, her pursuit to discover the nature of love takes on a fresh new urgency. Yi risks losing the person she finds closest to her heart.
The movie combines elements of documentary and traditional storytelling, reality and fantasy into a whimsical story that won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

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Fort Collins Soccer Club

2009-10-10T08:24:00.000-07:00

Fort Collins Soccer Club

Pamela Chappelle Christensen, of Evergreen, Colo., passed away on October 4 from injuries related to a fall. She was the loving wife of David Christensen and devoted mother of Charles Wade Christensen, a second-year cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Pam was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 6, 1947 to Charles and Nettie Chappelle. She was raised in Fort Collins, where her father became a veterinarian after retiring from the Navy. After graduating from Poudre High School, she attended Colorado State University where she graduated with honors in mathematics and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Pam joined the Peace Corps in 1969, learned Swahili and taught mathematics and coached volleyball and track at a girl's high school in Kenya.
Upon her return to the U.S., she spent two years recruiting for the Peace Corps. She then entered law school at the University of San Francisco, where she was a member of the Law Review, worked as a student extern for the California Supreme Court and graduated with honors in 1977.

She joined Pacific Gas & Electric in San Francisco where, for 13 years, she handled civil litigation.
In 1982, she married David Christensen, who was the love of her life. Their son, Charles, was born on March 26, 1990. In 1993, they - along with their two golden retrievers--spent 10 months exploring the country in an RV.
Pam returned home to Colorado in 1994 and the family settled in Evergreen. Over the next 15 years, she was a full-time mother and tireless community leader.
Pam's volunteer commitment was broad and included scouting and school activities. Pam was president of the Stingers Soccer Club, president of the King-Murphy PTA and coach of Clear Creek High School mock trial team. In 2003, she began her volunteer work for CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocate), an organization which represents abused and neglected juveniles.
She and her family traveled extensively in Europe, Alaska, the Caribbean, Africa and Central America.

Always fit and an avid outdoors-person, Pam bi-cycled across the country in 1976 as part of the Bike Centennial; she also ran the Boston Marathon. She was a lifelong passionate reader. She cared deeply for animals and was committed to the cause of animal welfare.
Pam was a remarkable woman who glowed with life, and the loss to her family and friends is immense.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to CASA or the World Wildlife Fund : The immediate family held a private gathering to honor Pam's memory. A public celebration of her life will be scheduled in the near future. The Christensens hosted foreign exchange students from Uzbekistan, Syria, the Czech Republic and Macedonia.

Thermos

2009-10-10T07:56:00.000-07:00

Thermos

There is science behind your thermos, but that is old science. The new science says you can keep your coffee hot for a lot longer using photonic crystals, but that is only a part what this new material could do for us in the future. Keeping coffee hot is step one, using the sun’s heat as energy source is the next step. So far, the vacuum was basically the only and the best insulator that a thermos could use to keep the liquid inside warm. It seems that is about to change as scientists have found another structure, called a photonic crystal, which can keep the heat from dissipating in a better and more effective way than the vacuum can.The team that made this discovery published a fascinating article in the October issue of the “Physical Review B”, where they have explained thoroughly the phenomenon. It seems that these photonic crystals have a lot of potential in the computing and communications technologies and that their thermal properties could be used in the future for capturing the sun’s heat and transforming it into usable energy for everyone. Your normal thermos keeps the liquid’s heat from dissipating by creating a vacuum between the two walls (one inner and one outer).

The process is not perfect because the light that is radiated through the walls (all warm bodies radiate a range of infrared frequencies) will take some energy away with it. And by energy, this time we mean heat. This was the starting point for the team led by Shanhui Fan from Stanford University in California. As photonic crystals are already known light frequency blockers, last year they have wondered if they could make these crystals block the infrared frequencies that a worm body radiates. And by studying different silicon and vacuum layer variations, they have found out that a 100 micron thick stack that alternated vacuum layers and 10 layers of silicon (those silicon layers are 1 micron thick) reduced the thermal conductance to half. This basically means your coffee will stay warm for longer that it does in the thermos you have today. In the paper published this month, the same team took a different approach: rather that studying specific cases, they managed to complete a complete analysis of the matter. And while most scientist that study this problem usually focus on calculating the frequency ranges that are blocked by the crystals (also called band gaps), Fan and his colleagues used a method called statistical theory to calculate the percent of all the frequency that these photonic crystals allow to pass through. The result was highly unusual.

It seems that this percentage does not change depending on the thickness of the layers (which is unusual because the structure is very important when dealing with photonic crystals, as Fan states). Instead, it only depends on the speed of light in the solid layers (also called an index of refraction). This is a big discovery that also puts researchers in a dilemma as they can adjust the conductance only by varying the materials, and not the way the layers are placed. Further on the team plans on studying photonic crystal that have irregular structures. If their assumptions are correct, these crystals can be even more effective insulators. Fan is highly convinced that studying the control of heat flow by using photonic crystal can lead to major breakthrough in the way we can use the sun’s heat as an energy source. I was wondering in times of recession, as municipalities have less and less money to spend on programs and services as do their citizens, why it is that the public libraries whose hours are usually one of the first things to shrink as a money-saving idea, tend to become more popular as those with limited incomes seek entertainment and information. It was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel to find sources to support the level and breadth at which this has been happening across the USA, just by clicking here. At the time I entered the phrase in a search engine (sorry, Bing, you're not my choice), there were 1.4 million mentions identified in less a quarter of a second.

Asolo Italy

2009-10-10T07:43:00.000-07:00

Asolo Italy

Noise has been proven to raise stress levels, can potentially cause heart and immune system problems, and raise blood pressure. Some studies even show noise can alter brain chemistry in less than fun ways.
So what can you do about it? Escape into the quiet. Around the world remain places that are surprisingly accessible where the constant din of civilization simply drops away. An hour outside Venice (another carless place that could have made this list), Asolo is a perfect medieval hill town of walls and cobbled streets and afternoons of nothing to do but sip a drink in an open-air café. Once home to Robert and Elizabeth Browning, in Asolo, the only alarm clock you’ll ever need here are the songbirds. According to Dr. Cheryl Fraser, “On a circular hike through the hillside farms and vineyards, over the top of the old castle and down the ancient winding stone path, the predominant sounds are the buzz of various insects (I wonder, do they buzz in dialect?) and the beating of my own heart.” Roads tend to be noisy places. Engines and wheels are not at all kind to the soundscape. But the Troll Ladder has something very few roads do: a soundtrack. Famed Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg wrote his piece

“Hall of the Mountain King” with exactly this place in mind: Hairpin turns so close to a towering waterfall that it’s a good idea to check your brakes and windshield wipers before starting the drive. Norway’s mountains block the horizons in scenery that looks like you thought The Lord of the Rings should have looked like, if the producers hadn’t been from New Zealand. Once you get past the fun of just saying the place’s name — Yap — this Pacific island (take a left at Guam), might just be paradise. It’s a jungle island, with endless coastline, mangrove swamps where giant fruit bats play, and under water, manta rays with 10-foot wingspans glide without a sound. Yap’s entire culture is built on adherence to social peace, so that, according to resident Richard Flow, even playing your car radio too loud when you drive simply isn’t done. “Do it,” he says, “and you’ll come back the next day to find your windshield broken.” So the loudest sound in Yap? Waves hitting the reef, more than a mile from shore. And occasional broken glass. Deep in the rainforests of Olympic National Park, the largest roadless area in the contiguous United States, the Hoh is home of the "One Square Inch Project," a fight to preserve just a single inch of landscape from human sound. Keep that one inch quiet, says founder Gordon Hempton, and the silence will radiate out for thousands of acres. And he’s right: The Inch offers few sounds louder than water dripping from leaves and the occasional clack of a grouse.

Some of the box canyons off the main river have been measured to be half as loud as human breath. But nobody can take that for long, so head back out to the Canyon proper, where the signature sound, says Mike Buchheit, director of the Grand Canyon Field Institute, “as it grows from the graveyard silence of any hike, is the roar of the Colorado River.” Of course, some people come just because they think all the red rocks are pretty. Big Bend is a kind of acoustic greatest hits record. Because the park, located in southwest Texas, has such a diverse landscape — mountains, deserts, river, with more species of birds, bats, and cactus than any other park in the country — only a few minute’s change in location can dramatically change what you hear. And one of the best things about Big Bend? It’s not on very many airplane flight routes. In fact, the sound of planes is still very rare here. And that makes it one of the most unusual, noise-free environments anywhere in the world. Simple math: The greater the distance from people, the quieter a place is going to be. the Kalahari — which lies mostly in Botswana, but also spreads into five other African nations — may be one of the emptiest landscapes on the planet, over 350,000 square miles of low scrub and acacia trees, nibbled on by giraffes. But then, giraffes aren’t noted for being noisy. Photographer Jad Davenport says of the Kalahari, “No sound out there at all. Nothing.”Source: Forbes Traveller.

Google Squared

2009-10-10T07:31:00.000-07:00

Google Squared

Google has released a few enhancements to Google Squared, its attempt to build spreadsheets out of search results. Google Squared is a Google Labs project first unveiled in May at its Searchology event and set loose on the world a month later. The idea is to take the search results for a given query, such as "U.S. presidents" or "European countries," and present the results as a table with facts and dates helpfully sorted for easier research. The company announced on Friday "a number of improvements to the amount and quality of information you can find with Google Squared, as well as new tools to sort and export the data," it said in a blog post. For example, Google Squared can now return 120 facts organized in rows and columns, as opposed to just 30 at launch. The filters have gotten better as well, which was a definite problem with the first batch of Google Squared results. It's still not ready for prime time, however: according to Google Squared, the Milwaukee Brewers play home games in both Milwaukee and San Diego. It had no idea what city is home to Yankee Stadium--let alone which New York borough--and it also seemed to miss the grand opening this year of a new Yankee Stadium to replace The House That Ruth Built.

Google said Squared is an experiment in "understanding structured data from across the Web to build new tools for organizing and presenting information." Despite plans to offload its back-end search technology, Yahoo is trying to keep its name in the game as a search company by conducting much of the same research.Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Internet search, including Google, Yahoo, online advertising, and portals, as well as the evolution of mobile computing. He has written about traditional PC companies, chip manufacturers, and mobile computers, spending the last three years covering Apple. E-mail Tom. As we explained when we first launched Squared in Labs this summer, the product takes on a difficult technical challenge. It's a first step towards automatically extracting useful facts from all over the web and presenting them in meaningful way. It has the potential to be particularly useful for research questions where the answers may not live on a single website, but instead must be combined from many different pages.

Rather than return a list of the most relevant websites, Squared returns a "square" (or table) of facts, sourced from across the Internet. For example, if you search Squared for [us presidents], each row on the resulting table represents a particular United States President, and the columns include relevant facts about him, such as date of birth, a picture and a short description. At launch, your first square could include at most 30 facts. With today's update, squares display four times as much data — up to 120 facts. For example, instead of seeing only five presidents and three categories, now you'll see a table with 20 presidents and up to six attributes. The quality of the information is also better, because we're ranking based on both relevance to your query and whether we can find high quality facts. For example, in the past we would show you a column for "First Lady" even if the column only included a couple accurate names. Now we're actively filtering out items (rows) and attributes (columns) from the initial square if we haven't found enough accurate data. Perhaps more interesting, we built Squared to learn from edits and corrections, so as people have been improving their squares, Google Squared has gotten better for everyone.

Baltimore Marathon

2009-10-10T07:11:00.000-07:00

Baltimore Marathon

Thousands of runners have started around 8 hours out of the line in Saturday's Baltimore Marathon. Twenty thousand people participate in the five race organizers say is While hundreds of volunteers, Baltimore Running Festival, one of the local volunteers in the Baltimore Marathon, when it comes to responsibility is quite a bit. Legg Mason CEO Mark Fetting public, "Choosing the Baltimore Marathon is". "We are Legg Mason on 6 consecutive years Marathon events will be invited" WBAL's Scott Fetting Way is proud nose. "And we support our currency." The other six workers and Legg Mason, also handing out water along the race route. Fetting said Legg Mason sees the Baltimore Marathon as a starting point for a major corporate effort to help Baltimore City Schools.

Legg Mason is sponsoring a school spirit contest where Baltimore City schools along the race route will have students out to cheer on the racers.
The company has employees in the race, as well as employee volunteers who will be stationed near the new Legg Mason headquarters building at Harbor East working a water station for the runners. The Baltimore Sun has been good enough to provide a map in order to help you, the spectator or Michael Phelps, not get killed while in Baltimore for the Baltimore Running Festival. who might win the Baltimore Marathon, but here are a few of the elite runners you might want to keep your eye on, race organizers say:Ndereba, 32, was born in Kenya and lives in Philadelphia. His personal best half marathon time is 1:01:56, set in Philadelphia last month. This is his marathon debut.

Chirlee, 29, is from Kenya. His current marathon PR (2:12:10) was achieved at the 2007 Rock 'N' Roll Marathon. His marathon victories include: 2006 Rocket City Marathon - 2:23:32; 2007 ING Georgia Marathon - 2:19:17; 2008 Deseret News Salt Lake Marathon - 2:18:16 Berkele, 27, is from Ethiopia and lives in The Bronx. He won the Columbus, Ohio half marathon in 2009 with a time of 1:00:38.5 Portilla, 36, is from Peru, and won last year's marathon with a time of 2:36:32. Her personal best was set at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games; 2:35:22. Her marathon victories include: 2008 Baltimore (2:36:32); 2008 Salt Lake City, Utah (2:39:39); 2007 Salt Lake City, Utah (2:39:00)Runner no. 70: Natalia Sokolova Sokolova, 27, is from Russia. Her personal best marathon is 2:32:01, when she won the 2008 California International Marathon in Sacramento. She's also won the 2008 St. Petersburg, Russia Marathon with a time of 2:38:12. Pushkareva, 24, is from Russia. Her marathon personal best is 2:34:55, and she placed 4th in the 2008 San Antonio Marathon in addition to winning the 2007 Tyumen Marathon in Russia with a time of 2:39:08.

Woodrow Wilson

2009-10-09T09:06:00.001-07:00

Woodrow Wilson

Maybe I'm just old-fashioned or just plain old, but when I awoke this morning to news that Barack Obama had been selected to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, something didn't feel right.
Having worked for six secretaries of state and four presidents and watched them struggle with a cruel and unforgiving world, sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, it occurred to me that today's announcement was seriously out of whack. A young president, barely in the 10th month of his first year in office, is receiving an internationally sanctioned peace prize when the vast majority of his predecessors, some of whom actually achieved extraordinary success in foreign policy (Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush), did not.
Teddy Roosevelt, who was the first American president to receive a Nobel in 1906, actually brokered a Russo-Japanese treaty; Woodrow Wilson, whose search for a League of Nations got him the prize in 1919, probably accelerated his later stroke and death in a heroic effort to realize his dream. Even Jimmy Carter, who eventually got his prize in 2002, didn't get it when it was warranted in 1979 for brokering an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty.

What was happening here? Was this the Nobel committee's down payment, in an effort to encourage the president to actually achieve something in foreign policy?
Was it a not-so-subtle slap-down of the Bush administration's war presidency in favor of the Obama administration's "we can fix things and be loved by the world" strategy? Or was I just missing something? Had the president's accomplishments merited the award? here's no doubt that the Obama administration has begun to create a better image for America abroad. When you're in a hole, the adage goes, at least stop digging. The administration and the president personally have worked hard on this. Obama is the Energizer Bunny of American foreign policy, even overshadowing a very talented secretary of state. He's everywhere, in Cairo making nice to the Arabs and Muslims; in Buchenwald and Normandy wrapping himself (quite appropriately for a president) in history; at the G8 and G20 massaging the allies; negotiating arms control with the Russians; and trying to get the Iranians off of a nuclear weapons program.

All of this is good and may prove consequential. But it is hardly determinative, particularly in a world in which diplomatic achievement will be extremely difficult to attain. To pronounce and hail the president as a peacemaker based on process, effort and a change of tone is a stretch.
Maybe Obama will emerge as a consequential foreign policy president. But raising the bar on his accomplishments now actually lowers it for all of us, diminishes what he's actually accomplished and undermines the concept of excellence.
The award says more about the world's love affair with Barack Obama and its collective sigh of relief that George W. Bush is gone than it does about the president's substantive foreign policy accomplishments. And in the end, America doesn't want to be loved by the world; we want to be admired and respected, and that will depend not on celebrity, process or celebration that the Democrats are back in office, but on real foreign policy accomplishments.A beaming Obama told reporters in the White House Rose Garden that he wasn’t sure he had done enough to earn the award, or deserved to be in the company of the others who had won it before him.

Matt Holliday

2009-10-09T08:54:00.001-07:00

Matt Holliday

Matt Holliday in the Cardinals vs. Dodgers NLDS game 2 yesterday? If not, take a look at the video below. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth and the St. Louis Cardinals up 2 – 1 a routine line drive was hit to left field. Game over right? The Cardinals have stolen one in L.A. and now head back home with a chance to take the series with two wins at home. Not so fast. Holliday seemed to be stuck between a regular catch and basket catch as the line drive was coming in around waist level. So what did he do? Basket catch? Nope, he decided to completely miss it and try to catch it with his man parts. It didn’t work out so well as the baseball ricocheted off his cup and fell to the Dodger Stadium turf. James Loney stood at second and the Dodgers had hope. From there it looked like Cardinals pitcher Ryan Franklin was rattled by the error and he walked the next batter to put men on first and second. He then gave up a solid single up the middle to Ronnie Belliard which brought in the tying run. But the Dodgers weren’t done as they moved runners to second and third on a pass ball and loaded the bases on a walk. Then Dodgers manager Joe Torre made the call to send up 38 year old Mark Loretta to pinch hit. Watching this game I had to do a double take to check the name.

Mark Loretta? He’s still in the league? I thought he was done after his stint with the Red Sox years ago. I didn’t get a chance to see many Dodgers games and didn’t realize L.A. had picked him up.
Anyway, good thing they did pick him up as Loretta delivered big time with a quick swing cleaning out an inside pitch. The hit dropped into left center field and bought in the winning run as the Dodgers won in walk off style 3 – 2. Loretta got mobbed by his teammates while Holliday and the rest of the Cardinals walked off the field looking dazed and confused. I don’t know if you ever read ESPN columnist Bill Simmons but in a classic Page 2 post he breaks down bad losses into different levels of pain. Check it out here. I would categorize this loss by the Cardinals as a combination of Level III: The Stomach Punch and Level XI: Dead Man Walking. It's going to be hard for the Cardinals to come back to win three straight games after such a devastating loss. They will have the day off on Friday to regroup and try to take the first step in the comeback on Saturday at 6:07 p.m. EST on TBS.

With two outs in the bottom of the ninth and the Cardinals leading 2-1, Matt Holliday lost a sinking line drive in the lights, couldn’t track the ball, and instead of catching it, appeared to take it square in the nuts. Most reports are saying the ball hit Holliday in the stomach, but I think they are trying to avoid adding insult to injury, because if you watch the above video replay (with bonus Couples Retreat preview! You haven’t seen that before!), it’s pretty clear that the ball drilled him square in the junk. The Dodgers capitalized on the error, scoring two runs, including the game-winning single by Mark Loretta that scored Casey Blake to beat the Cardinals 3-2 and take a 2-0 series lead. The Cardinals are perhaps now drowning their sorrows while Matt Holliday is icing his balls.The Rockies evened up their matchup with the Phillies at one game apiece as the series heads to chilly Colorado. Speaking of nuts, after pitching five innings and surrendering four earned runs, starter Cole Hamels departed the game and then had to rush to the hospital after his wife went into labor. I hope the Hamels saved some of the placenta to share with the whole team. If you have never sampled placenta, you must. It tastes delightful on a Chicken in a Biskit.

Moon Crash

2009-10-09T08:39:00.000-07:00

Moon Crash

A planned one-two punch into the moon to search for hidden reserves of frozen water seemed to have gone off like clockwork. But if the crash kicked up plumes of lunar soil into the sunlight, the plumes weren’t as visible as researchers had hoped.At 7:31 a.m. EDT on October 9, an empty rocket booster was deliberately crashed into Caebus, a shadowed crater near the moon’s south pole where ice is suspected to reside. Astronomers watched through telescopes and the visible-light camera aboard the rocket’s mother ship, NASA’s LCROSS, or Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, spacecraft. Amateur astronomers using medium-sized backyard telescopes have not reported seeing a plume, which had been predicted to rise above the crater rim and be visible from Earth. “It’s hard to tell what we saw there,” commented Michael Bicay as he watched the crash from the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., where he is science director. About four minutes later, just before taking its own death plunge into the same crater, LCROSS did confirm that the crater had brightened at both infrared and visible wavelengths.

The brightening indicated the booster's crash had kicked up material, although no actual plume was recorded by the LCROSS visible-light camera. “It’s a little disappointing,” said planetary scientist Bill Hartmann of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, one of about 200 astronomers in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, attending the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences and who gathered together to view the LCROSS images on a big screen. “It would have been nice to see something,” he added.
But even without a visible plume to ooh and aah over, the data recorded by LCROSS as it homed in on Caebus and flew through the debris from the first impact will still be invaluable for searching for frozen water, said Barbara Cohen of the lunar precursor robotics program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.Astronomers are scrutinizing the data as well as that taken from a slew of other telescopes, including the Keck Observatory atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, to look for the fingerprints of water vapor or for one of its fragments, the hydroxyl radical, which contains one oxygen and one hydrogen.

The presence of either fingerprints or fragments would indicate that the part of the crater floor impacted indeed contained ice.
Keck astronomers did see a brightening in the spectroscopic readings, indicating that Keck recorded the plume. The astronomers will not know about water vapor, as that data will take a little longer to analyze.
More details are expected after a 10 a.m. EDT press briefing from NASA Ames, the control site for the LCROSS mission.
Astronomers using the 5-meter Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego also saw no plume. By comparison, when the Japan Space Agency’s lunar-orbiting Kaguya spacecraft deliberately crashed into the unlit side of the moon last June, a 4-meter ground-based-telescope could see it. LCROSS’s rocket booster weighed about two tons and might have made a smaller impact than the three-ton Kaguya did.

Moon Crash

2009-10-09T08:21:00.000-07:00

Moon Crash

A planned one-two punch into the moon to search for hidden reserves of frozen water seemed to have gone off like clockwork. But if the crash kicked up plumes of lunar soil into the sunlight, the plumes weren’t as visible as researchers had hoped. At 7:31 a.m. EDT on October 9, an empty rocket booster was deliberately crashed into Caebus, a shadowed crater near the moon’s south pole where ice is suspected to reside. Astronomers watched through telescopes and the visible-light camera aboard the rocket’s mother ship, NASA’s LCROSS, or Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, spacecraft. Amateur astronomers using medium-sized backyard telescopes have not reported seeing a plume, which had been predicted to rise above the crater rim and be visible from Earth. “It’s hard to tell what we saw there,” commented Michael Bicay as he watched the crash from the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., where he is science director.About four minutes later, just before taking its own death plunge into the same crater, LCROSS did confirm that the crater had brightened at both infrared and visible wavelengths.

“It’s a little disappointing,” said planetary scientist Bill Hartmann of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, one of about 200 astronomers in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, attending the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences and who gathered together to view the LCROSS images on a big screen. “It would have been nice to see something,” he added.
But even without a visible plume to ooh and aah over, the data recorded by LCROSS as it homed in on Caebus and flew through the debris from the first impact will still be invaluable for searching for frozen water, said Barbara Cohen of the lunar precursor robotics program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Astronomers are scrutinizing the data as well as that taken from a slew of other telescopes, including the Keck Observatory atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, to look for the fingerprints of water vapor or for one of its fragments, the hydroxyl radical, which contains one oxygen and one hydrogen.

Keck astronomers did see a brightening in the spectroscopic readings, indicating that Keck recorded the plume. The astronomers will not know about water vapor, as that data will take a little longer to analyze.
More details are expected after a 10 a.m. EDT press briefing from NASA Ames, the control site for the LCROSS mission. Astronomers using the 5-meter Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego also saw no plume. By comparison, when the Japan Space Agency’s lunar-orbiting Kaguya spacecraft deliberately crashed into the unlit side of the moon last June, a 4-meter ground-based-telescope could see it. LCROSS’s rocket booster weighed about two tons and might have made a smaller impact than the three-ton Kaguya did. The astronomers will not know about water vapor, as that data will take a little longer to analyze. The presence of either fingerprints or fragments would indicate that the part of the crater floor impacted indeed contained ice.

Lcross Impact Video

2009-10-09T08:04:00.000-07:00

Lcross Impact Video

The identification of water is very important to the future of human activities on the Moon. LCROSS will excavate the permanently dark floor of one of the Moon’s polar craters with two heavy impactors to test the theory that ancient ice lies buried there. The impact will eject material from the crater’s surface to create a plume that specialized instruments will be able to analyze for the presence of water (ice and vapor), hydrocarbons and hydrated materials.LCROSS will also provide technologies and modular, reconfigurable subsystems that can be used to support future mission architectures.Ames Research Center (ARC) is managing the mission, conducting mission operations, and has developed the payload instruments, while Northrop Grumman designed and built the spacecraft for this innovative mission. Ames mission scientists will spearhead the data analysis. This is a fast-paced, low-cost, mission that will leverage some existing NASA systems, Northrop-Grumman spacecraft expertise, and Ames’ Lunar Prospector experience.

Just like on Earth, water is a crucial resource on the Moon. It will not be practical to transport to space the amount of water needed for human and exploration needs. It is critical to find natural resources, such as water, on the Moon. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission will begin the search for water, leveraging the information we learned from the Clementine and Lunar Prospector missions. NASA’s Lunar Prospector first unveiled that there were hydrogen signatures located in craters on the dark side of the moon back in 1999. Ever since, researchers have eager to verify the presence of water on the moon.
The Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was tasked with uncovering the truth, with millions watching as it happened. NASA's LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite) mission is coming to a glorious end. The mission launched on June 18, 2009 is just minutes away from making dual-impact on the face of the moon.The first impact sees the Centaur craft hitting the surface at a speed of about 1 mile per second ejecting about 350 tons of debris from a crater about 20-30-meters in diameter and 2- to 4-meters deep.

A second Shepherding spacecraft will pass through the debris plume 4 minutes later, collecting and relaying data back to Earth in real-time before meeting its end. With any luck, we'll know shortly if the moon contains the water-ice theorized by scientists... and cheese. While the obvious use of lunar-based water is to sate the thirst of astronauts, it could also be used be make fuel for off-Earth exploration. Hit the read link for live streaming of the mission from NASA -- first impact occurs at 07:31:19 AM EDT. Impact occurred... are we still here? Data is now being analyzed and NASA is expected to know the facts in about an hour. Post-impact news conference scheduled for 10:00 AM EDT. Tom did a great job recording the LCROSS impact, and publishing the video to YouTube. There doesn’t seem to be much of a plume from the Centuar’s impact… okay, I can’t see one at all. We’re waiting for the first analysis of the plume. Either they identify water ice or not; as Tom says either result is scientifically important and interesting.
NASA also has several videos up on YouTube this morning; of the impact and the press conferences. The planetarium plans to show videos of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and its rocket booster smashing into the moon this morning. From the plume created by the impact, instruments aboard LCROSS can tell scientists what's in the moon dust, with the hope of detecting the presence of ancient ice that could be used for future exploration.

ObamaNobel Peace Prize

2009-10-09T07:19:00.000-07:00

ObamaNobel Peace Prize

Obama to get the Nobel for his groveling International Nevile Chamberlain has been comparable to it (which is not) to sign with the Nazis taking over the British stroke of the pen. Such Norwegian "baloney phoney" is taken seriously only after the Liberals - Chris Matthews will be one of Obama tingle running up their leg. Perhaps your client former president may award money acorn. Events in the world is moving so fast. Far from being a nothing President, from day one, Obama has tried to win with ideas, logic and reason instead of bluster, threats and bladder. Is not this kind of world we all want to live in? Gandhi said "Be the change you want to see in the world." Obama was to begin.
Only time will tell when the Nobel Committee made a mistake with the timing. We hoped they were right. This is the news that I saw throughout the year, you must be a stupid thing. My kids have done exactly nothing means anything. And now he "won" is useless. Nonsense. If I were President Obama, I would be shocked and embarrassed.New low and embarrassment - appointed in a few weeks after his inauguration - the liberal obsession and the cult of personality knows no limits - the hero worship is nothing less than sickening - U.S. President during 9 months.

promote the left, and have clearly done well in picking Obama - in the past they had much more credibilty selecting candidates with actual accomplishments or who have survived torture i.e. the Dalai Lama or even President Carter who decades after ACTUAL accomplishments recieved the award. Obama? Nothing other than ambivalence and apologizing on behalf of America - so pathetic its beyond words. Nice way to intervene a faltering administration. Perhaps he can skip some other rules and qualify for canonization and sainthood in his first term also. Also nice to see a President diss and decide not to see a real laureate, Dalai Lama, and for his weakness and capitulation, he is awarded a Nobel Peace prize himself. Pathetic. After the shameful leadership and performance that we and the world have endured for eight years, the contrast is eminently refreshing, which is what this European beacon is signaling. It recognizes that America _does_ have better angels in its nature. Obama has ALREADY done a tremendous amount simply by changing the PARADIGM. We can no longer just run out and "kick butt" somewhere and then run back behind our borders. the only way to get along in this ever-shrinking world is to have a much broader view. We are truly "ALL in this together." It's nice to now feel a part of this wonderful, complicated world, rather than just it's detached ruler...

One of the things that the world and many Americans found so disturbing about the bush cabal was their total disregard for the entirety of the flow of history and their disregard for the internation system of conflict resolution created by the United States in the 20th century. A system and set of ideas and ideals followed by every American president from FDR to Clinton. Every one regardless of party or ideology played from the same rulebook. A rulebook drafted from the foundation of American values and ideals. bush thought all the rules - those ones, the ones in the Constitution, the ones in American law, simply did not apply to him if he wanted to do something outside the rules. THAT is why the nobel commitee was moved to present this award to President Obama. He has moved in a short time, a time when he is also fixing the system of finance left in tatters by conservatives, while he is fixing the health care system left in tatters, the environmental policy of the US also left in tatters, moved in that short time to place the United States foursquare and center back in a place of leadership and moral authority stemming from our adherence to our own system of laws and values. He is leading by example, not by dropping bombs on anyone who dare disagree with him. A much stronger and far reaching way to affect democratic change and bring peace.

herta mueller

2009-10-08T08:01:00.002-07:00

herta mueller

Herta Muller, Romania, Germany born novelist and essayist who has written about the suppression of the dictatorship in her native area and unmoored life of political exile, Thursday won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy described Ms. Müller, “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.” Her award comes on the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism in Europe.

Ms. Müller was born and raised in the German-speaking town of Nitzkydorf in Romania. Her father served in the SS during World War II, and her mother was deported to the Soviet Union in 1945 and sent to a work camp in what is now Ukraine. As a university student studying German and Russian literature, Ms. Müller opposed the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu and joined Aktionsgruppe Banat, a group of dissident writers who sought freedom of speech.

Nobel PrizeChemistry 2009

2009-10-07T09:26:00.000-07:00

Nobel PrizeChemistry 2009

medicine and Physics the Noble prize for Chemistry was also declared on Wednesday in Stockholm. Two US citizens Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and an Israeli Ada E Yonath won the Noble Prize in Chemistry Royal Swedish Academy said that Nobel Prize was awarded to them” for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”. One of the core processes in life. Ribosomes generated protein, which regulate chemistry in all living organisms. Modern researches for the development of antibiotic are based on their work. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences conducted the Nobel Prize ceremony every year in different fields of chemistry. Nobel Prize is normally awarded for major contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, of the Netherlands was the first to get Noble Prize in 1901 in the field of chemistry by his work. The 2009 Chemistry Nobel Prize went to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Cambridge U.K., born in India), Thomas A. Steitz (Yale), and Ada E. Yonath (Weizmann, Israel) for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome. That could look like a biological discovery but the methods were pretty "chemical".

Crystallographer Dr Yonath whose victory was correctly predicted by some media broke the 45+ years when women receeived no physics or chemistry Nobel prize. Whether or not she was chosen purely by meritocratic criteria, there's one aspect you could have expected. By pure statistics, it shouldn't be too shocking for you to learn that the first woman to succeed in this way is Jewish. ;-) An Ashkenazi Jew is 40 times more likely to receive the Fields medal than a random non-Jewish white: it may be similar for similar awards. Because there are about 10 million Ashkenazi Jews, you may see that their combined odds exceed those of the non-Jewish U.S. whites. ;-) Let's hope that Israel, an island of relative wisdom, peace, and advanced civilization, will survive in the sea of a relative lack of wisdom, peace, and advanced civilization. ;-) You know, in the Israeli-Iranian nuclear standoff, there's one consideration I view as important while most others don't. Who has the right to possess the nukes? Well, the Jewish scientists have contributed to the science that was needed for nuclear energy much more profoundly than the Persian scientists did. So I find it completely logical and deserved that they can possess the weapons while Iran cannot. They can also be expected to act more wisely with this technology - something we have already checked in the most recent decades.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which selects the winners of the physics award, made the announcement on Tuesday. The academy says Kao was honored for his breakthrough work in fiber optics. Boyle and Smith were honored for inventing an imaging semiconductor circuit. The academy also says this year's winners have created many practical innovations for everyday life and provided new tools for scientific exploration. All three scientists are U.S. citizens. Kao also holds British citizenship while Boyle is also Canadian. The winners will share a $1.4 million prize. Each of them will also receive a diploma and an invitation to the prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10. On Monday, American scientists Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells. That discovery has inspired new lines of research into cancer. The prizes are named after Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite. He established the prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, and peace in his will. The prize ceremonies are held on December 10, the anniversary of his death in 1896.

AOL

2009-10-07T09:16:00.000-07:00

AOL

If last weekend's unsolicited posting of about 10,000 supposed Hotmail addresses and passwords to a legitimate developers' Web site did not contain some addresses that were fake, the theory that a hacker may have obtained those addresses through an attack on Microsoft's servers might continue to hold water. That theory lost ground today, after more addresses from major services other than Hotmail -- including Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Earthlink, and Comcast -- appeared without warrant on Pastebin.com, a site for developers to share debugging information. In what could be the first publicly shared forensic report on the original Hotmail list, security researcher Bogdan Calin with server security software maker Acunetix reported that of the 10,028 entries that appeared in that list (which was apparently partial, including usernames that only began with A and B), 185 of the entries actually had blank passwords. That in and of itself could not have come from a server's own list of valid passwords, thus lending much credence to the theory that the responses came from a phishing scam. But not a very sophisticated one, Calin goes on. Without revealing information that would have compromised anyone in particular, he reported that the most commonly repeated passwords he saw in the list, coupled with the nature of the remaining passwords, leads him to conclude that they were obtained from members of the Hispanic community.

The password alejandra, for example, appeared 11 times in the list -- once more than 111111 -- and alejandro appeared 9 times. From time to time, many sequences of password characters appear almost repeated, except with varying capitalization. "What most probably happened, is that the users didn't understand what was happening, and they tried to enter the same password again and again, thinking the password was wrong," Calin wrote. An unsophisticated phisher might have accepted every attempt at repeating a password in sequence; meanwhile, the unsuspecting victim is trying to log in, thinking, "Didn't I capitalize the O?" Paul Dixon, who maintains Pastebin.com, told the press yesterday he's had to take his site down to address the problem more directly, saying, "Pastebin.com is just a fun side project for me, and today it's not fun." This morning, the site was operational. Though Dixon's site bears a strong resemblance to Pastebin.org, which has the exact same purpose, users of the latter site -- which was not involved in the list-posting incident -- began complaining to Dixon last month about problems they were having with that site, not knowing the two were not connected. In a blog post at the time, Dixon wrote that Pastebin.org "seems to have been compromised in other ways, with extra advertising banners and popups...I'm not responsible for that site."

Possible confusion over the two sites' identities could play into the motive for the unknown party posting these apparent phishing entries onto a site that otherwise has perfectly legitimate purposes. As of yet, there is no evidence that anyone -- the original poster or any downloaders -- has attempted to use any of the partial lists posted to Pastebin.com in a security compromise operation directed at password holders. However, the possibility exists that these lists were posted as evidence of the existence of more complete lists, for inspection by underground sources willing to bid for them. After Bogdan Calin's analysis, the bidding may not be all that high. The once highly regarded jurist – and a deft Democratic politician repeatedly elected in an Alabama county that was predominantly White and Republican – Thomas is now a disgraced shell of his former self, accused of sodomy, kidnapping, sex abuse, extortion, assault and ethics violations, AOL News reports. Inmates say that over the past decade Thomas has tried to trade courtroom leniency for sex, that he has forced them to strip down to their underwear and spanked them, and that he forced them to perform sex acts. "Everyone thought he had a lot of concern for people who got into criminal difficulty. All of this was a surprise to everyone," retired Mobile County Circuit Judge Braxton Kittrell told AOL News.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

2009-10-07T09:00:00.000-07:00

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The prize will be shared equally between the three winnersThe prize is awarded for the study of the structure and function of the ribosome - the cell's protein factory. The ribosome translates genetic code into proteins - which are the building blocks of all living organisms. It is also the main target of new antibiotics, which combat bacterial strains that have developed resistance to traditional antibiotic drugs.
These new drugs work by blocking the function of ribosomes in bacterial cells, preventing them from making the proteins they need to survive. Their design has been made possible by research into the structure of the ribosome, because it has revealed key differences between bacterial and human ribosomes. Structures that are unique to bacteria can be targeted by drugs. The announcement was made during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, during which the three winners were described as "warriors in the struggle of the rising tide of incurable bacterial infections".

Professor Ramakrishnan is based at the Medical Research Council's Molecular Biology Laboratories in Cambridge, UK.
Thomas Steitz is based at Yale University in the US, and Ada Yonath is from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. The prize is to be shared equally between the three scientists, who all contributed to revealing the ribosome's huge and complex molecular structure in detail. Professor David Garner, president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, described the three as "great scientists" and said their work was of "enormous significance".These scientists and their colleagues have helped build a 3D structure of the ribosome. In doing so, they solved an important part of the the problem posed by Francis Crick and James Watson when they discovered the twisted double helix DNA structure - how does this code become a living thing?DNA is made available to the ribosome by "transcription" of genes into chunks of messenger RNA. In the ribosome, these are read and translated into the various amino acid sequences that make up an organism's proteins By looking closely at its structure, scientists are able to study how this translation process works.

The work is based on a technique called x-ray crystallography - where molecules are removed from cells, purified and made into crystals that can be examined using x-rays. Professor Ramakrishnan told BBC News that until the ribosome's atomic structure was determined, "we knew this was a large molecular machine that translated genetic code to make proteins, but we didn't know how it worked". "We still don't know exactly how it works, but we have made a tremendous amount of progress as a direct result of knowing what it looks like.
"It's the difference between knowing that when you put gasoline in a car and press on a pedal, it goes. But if you know that the gasoline gets ignited and pushes down pistons and drives the wheels, that's a new level of understanding." Addressing the Nobel press conference by telephone, Professor Yonath said that modern techniques were allowing scientists to look at the structures on the atomic scale - individual bond after individual bond. This is the 101st chemistry Nobel to be awarded since 1901, and Professor Yonath is only the fourth woman to win. She joins an illustrious list of female chemists that includes Marie Curie, who also won the physics award.

AOL.com Mail

2009-10-07T08:50:00.000-07:00

AOL.com Mail

Thousands of users are reporting AOL mail login error, but mine is working just fine at 9:01 AM EDT. Most the of people who are experiencing problem are receiving an AOL Error Code C0FE1701 which is rather weird. Normally we expect Google Mail to go down with error codes, maybe Hotmail, but we surely don’t expect this to happen to AOL. Although we’ve had a somewhat peaceful week, lately these outages have hit Gmail, Hotmail, Netflix, and more, and frankly, we are very tired of them. Most of us use Google Mail and other Google apps, and our work depends on it, but I know there are thousands of AOL mail users who cannot log into their email at AOL.com. At the moment we don’t know if the AOL mail login error code C0FE1701 is in any way related to the phishing attacks that hit Hotmail, Google, Yahoo, Comcast, AOL, and others as the only mail that it’s not working for some is AOL mail. I repeat: at the moment AOL mail works fine as well as AIM. Let me know in comments if you are experiencing issues and I’ll let you know if AOL releases an official statement.

At the official website of AOL.com, see the option of Sign in at the top right side of the page. Click on it and find the next page, enter your E-mail or Screen Name and Password. Then click on Sign in button. If you are not the registered member then at the same page see the option of Get a Free AOL Screen Name Now. Click on it and find next page where you have to enter your personal details to register. Login at AOL.com and enjoy its great features as it allows you to receive and send messages from your mobile device. You can store your precious messages for any period that you want. Tell your friends also to sign up at AOL.com Mail as it is free. Addresses ending in hotmail.co.uk, yahoo.co.uk, gmail.com, aol.com, hotmail.com, aim.com and other domains were posted to the site late last night. Users with accounts at these email sites are strongly encouraged to change their passwords immediately. Initial lists, first discovered by tech blog Neowin, contained accounts beginning mostly with the letters A and B. This new list, however, contains accounts beginning mostly with the letters T to Z. Users whose email addresses begin with these characters are even more strongly encouraged to change their passwords.a

Furthermore, it appears many accounts within these lengthy lists of email addresses are present in other lists now circulating the Internet. Some of these lists appeared as early as 29 September. In an email to CNET UK, Websense Security Labs believes compromised accounts have been used to send spam. "The spam emails are being sent from user accounts to contacts in their address book -- so people will think the email came from a friend or known contact," Websense explained. "[We have] detected a marked increase in the number of spam emails which have been sent from Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail accounts over the last few days." We reported yesterday that we had seen lists containing thousands of usernames and passwords to Hotmail, Google and Yahoo accounts. All three companies confirmed they had taken action to protect the compromised accounts and blamed the leak on phishing attacks."Upon learning of the issue, we immediately requested that the credentials be removed and launched an investigation," Microsoft explains. "As part of that investigation, we determined that this is not a breach of any Microsoft servers."Google assured us its position was similar. "As soon as we learned of the attack, we forced password resets on the affected accounts," it said. "We will continue to force password resets on additional accounts when we become aware of them."

Bai Ling PHOTOS

2009-10-07T08:25:00.000-07:00

Bai Ling PHOTOS

PHOTOS! Here are pictures of Bai Ling (”A Beautiful Life”) who stars in over eight films this year alone. Bai Ling’s 2002 director from her hit film “FACE” will next direct Edison Chen in his first film since Chen’s 2008 photos scandal, LALATE reported earlier this week. Bai Ling appears in Beautiful Life that opened October 2 opposite Jesse Garcia, LALATE’s fav Dana Delany, and Debi Mazar. Bai Ling is currently in production on Cross. Other 2009 films to be released from Ling include The Lazarus Papers, The Bad Penny, The Gauntlet, and Love Ranch. In 2010 she will appear in The Confidant. Also this year Ling appears in Magic Man, Chain Letter, and Crank. Debroah Calla says of Ling and the Beautiful Life the following: A Beautiful Life, a film that I produced and co-wrote with Wendy Hammond, opens on October 2nd in limited release and stars Jesse Garcia, Angela Sarafyan, Bai Ling, Dana Delany, and Debi Mazar. The film deals with … abuse, love and violence. I’m not going to give the plot away except to say it ends with hope, which is why I spent so many years of my life trying to make it. I understand this story.

I, like Maggie, the main character, am a survivor. I know what made her run and I understand what made her hide and search for a better existence. My wish is for this film to contribute to the continuing dialogue of how to better prevent abuse… We need to know abuse occurs in many forms and many times a day all over this country. It’s hard not to instantly like Bai Ling, with her languid, deep voice and striking fashion sense which she wears with a nonchalant attitude. She also loves to talk — so much so that I have trouble keeping up, especially when she switches subjects mid-sentence. “Kozuki!” she suddenly exclaims, catching the name of a restaurant over my left shoulder. “Sounds Japanese.” It’s easy to classify her as eccentric with her otherworldly ideas of nature and spirits, however, it’s obvious that she’s not affecting a persona; she believes every word she says “I’m totally not in this world,” she admits, “and I feel like I’m not really existing as a human being, but part of me is. I have eight little spirits living inside of me. They’re all different personalities.” According to Bai, most people only know the crazy party girl spirit, with her short skirt and exposed nipples, but that same spirit is fearless and doesn’t care about what anyone else thinks. “She’s fire. She’s a burning fire. That passion, for me, is so magical.”

When it comes to reconciling her natural views with the artificial world of Hollywood, Bai dismisses the premise outright. She doesn’t see obstacles; she sees opportunities. Where others may see problems, she sees puzzles that are fun to solve. “I’m taking all the negative words away from life,” she says. “When you take a situation as a difficulty, you become bitter.” Beyond simply thinking good thoughts, she also tries to view situations fairly from all angles. Recently, she was caught running late for the Toronto premier of her new film, A Beautiful Life, and didn’t have time to find a proper room to slip into her gown. So she used an airport restroom to change, which quickly turned into a bad idea. Women started pouring in, accosting her and wanting to find out if she was Bai Ling. The women pressed her, even after Bai asked them to leave her alone and not look at her while she dressed. Finally, Bai ran flustered to her awaiting limo where she finished getting ready. Then, in a moment rare for most people, she laughed off the situation. “That lady probably thought I was the crazy one since I was naked in the ladies room.”More than just PR for her film, Bai went to Toronto for a humanitarian cause as well. She participated in the Rally for Kids with Cancer, coming in a respectable 9th place out of 21. “I was so busy and tired, but I promised I’d go. I just hope all this money will go to the hospital and to the children. No matter what part I supported, if I’m not there, it’s going to be less. So I’m there.”

Teacup Pigs

2009-10-07T08:04:00.000-07:00

Teacup Pigs

Most of the people to take the economic activities in order to earn a living. Jane Croft made it home bacon. 42-year-old farmer has become the sensation of something in his native England, thanks to its unique line of products: cute-as-button miniature pigs, never grows. Croft is filled with their feet on the Wednesday cross-dressing Stall Waste straw blending of imagination goes a small pig on the market all have a "cup of the pigs," he said today Meredisubiera and Ann Curry - with the warm feeling called to hit UK pet. Their name comes from the size: At birth, children pig weight around 9 ounces and cup size. At full growth at age 2, which is the top 12-16 inches - about knee-high - and medium-weight 65 pounds.

“It’s about the size of a small spaniel,” Croft said. “They make fantastic pets. They’re really clean. They’re highly intelligent and just love to be loved. They give so much back to you.”Pigs are known to be highly intelligent; they beat dogs in animal IQ tests. They’ve also enjoyed surges in popularity as pets before. In the United States, potbellied pigs were something of a fad a generation ago — but their popularity faded when their owners realized that they got rather large and hard to care for. “People love pigs so much, but it’s almost impossible to keep a full-grown pig in the house,” Croft explained. “Now that we’ve gotten them down to this size, they’ve become extremely popular.” Teacup pigs, which are also called micropigs, are a mixture of those potbellied pigs with the Tamworth, Kune Kune and Gloucester Old Spot breeds. When Croft first saw them, she was so smitten she gave up her day job and started breeding them at her Little Pig Farm in England. That was five months ago. In the brief time since, demand has exploded.It hasn’t hurt that celebrities have discovered the endearing critters. Earlier this year, Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley in the “Harry Potter” films, bought two teacup pigs from Croft.

Mind you, this bacon doesn’t come cheap. The piglets cost up to $1,100 each, and Croft sells them only in pairs and only to people she feels are qualified to keep them. In Great Britain, owners must be licensed to keep livestock, as the pigs are considered to be farm animals. “They have to reach very, very strict criteria,” Croft explained. “I won’t sell to anybody who’s going to keep one alone in a house; they have to be home all the time. They have to have a garden. They have to have company. I don’t like them going on their own. They’re only sold in pairs.” Since the pigs are highly intelligent, she said, they get bored easily, which is why she will not sell to people who can’t be home to entertain them. The pigs are also clean. “You can litter-train them like a cat. You can take them for walks,” Croft said. The mini porkers also are said to be good for people who are allergic to dogs or cats, because they have hair instead of fur. So far, the pigs are not officially available in the United States, but it seems just a matter of time before someone starts breeding them. They have the sort of cute quotient that proves irresistible to pet lovers.Curry and Vieira asked if prospective owners need any special skills to raise a teacup pig.

Shyne

2009-10-06T08:47:00.000-07:00

Shyne

Rapper Shyne is expected to be released from prison today according to online reports. Shyne, real name Jamal Barrow, was sentenced to 10 years in prison following a nightclub shooting involving music mogul Sean Combs and pseudo singer/actress Jennifer Lopez. Sean Combs narrowly missed going to prison on the same gun charges and Barrow ended up taking the fall. It can be said that this incident took the shine off Sean Combs’ sterling reputation. His gal pal Jennifer Lopez unceremoniously dumped Sean after he was acquitted. Will Shyne return to prominence as one of Hip Hop’s most eminent MC’s? Or will he fade into the background of Hip Hop obscurity like Nas and Sean Combs? This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 at 10:49 am and filed under Celeb news, Celebrity Justice, Crime, Law and order, Music news, Throwback/ Old School . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed or Trackback from your own site. This site is Gravatar enabled. Sign up to upload your own avatar.

YAY I :heart: Shyne. I wonder if Diddy is going to get extra security because he totally threw Shyne under the bus in their case IMO.
LOL @ Sandra still going in on Nas. Stealing from another poster yesterday….Damn Sandra, did Nas piss in your cereal or something?
:off topic: Did anyone see that nonsense Cubic Zirconia said about her relationship with Scrappy Do? That 90% crap? That’s what wrong with our young women today. Boo why are you settling for 90%.f shyne comes back to HIPHOP is because he has fans that still fiend for his music. but on the other hand will HIPHOP embrace him..? I read that crap about diamond n her relatioship with crappy, its sad, but thats nothing new woman now adays sum woman are accepting the short end of the stick just so they can say they have a MAN!Everybody wanna Shyne off of BIGGet it, Shyne try-na sound like him when they rhymeYou ain’t a murdererNigga please come off thatI’m next up to bat mother****ers get their jaws tappedBum ass nigga don’t even know how to bust a gun ass niggaYou dumb ass niggaRappers acting out the late Frank White’s pathOnce they get in jail they get ****ed in the assNever snitch, never send a nigga to jailI’d rather find him by a boat doing the deadman’s floatWe gangstersReal gangsters bGun in the greenroom up at BETWe gangsters

For the longest time I played his album in the car… I hope he at least gives Sean Combs one major bish slap. I don’t know if he can re-ignite his career many of the factors that made him big are no longer there; Biggie’s been dead for so long, how many people will listen to him because he sounds so much like Biggie; how many people are really checking for east coast rap like that? What will his material be? I mean if he comes out talking about bling and what not, who’s going to really believe him? Won’t he have some sort of probation that prohibits travelling freely. Shyne was not that hot of a rapper. He had like one hit before he hit the bricks. He only made as far as he did because he sounded like Biggie and people were still mourning him and wanted to fill that void.
Puffy Pimped him out and ate off of that fact. That’s when Puff had his horns showing foreal.
I read that Cubic mess. What a young dumb girl she is. I wish these record companies get back into grooming artist. She just came across as a young girl with low self esteem. Messing with a dude with no respect for her. Dirty birds belong together. Sandra, fix your stylesheet, the purples from the queen ads is bleeding onto your main page…

H1N1 vaccine risks

2009-10-06T08:35:00.000-07:00

H1N1 vaccine risks

H1N1 vaccine risks are a major concern for many Americans this flu season. With flu season just around the corner, many people are getting not only the flu shot, but the H1N1 shot as well H1N1 vaccine risks exist. Whenever you inject something in to your body, you are not without risk. The question to ask yourself is this: is theH1N1 Vaccine Risks: A Big Controversy Covers "Life Saving" ShotH1N1 vaccine risks worth the reward of not catching the H1N1 flu virus? The H1N1 flu virus, also known as the "swine flu" has claimed the lives of several individuals. According to the CDC, those at high risk for the H1N1 virus are children under 2, individuals over 65, pregnant women, individuals with certain chronic medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, and HIV, and children under 19 on aspirin therapy For the high risk group, the H1N1 vaccine risks may be worth the reward. The H1N1 virus is more likely to claim the lives of one of the high-risk individuals than it is someone who is completely healthy. Pregnant women and those caring for infants under 6 months of age are suggested recipients of the H1N1 vaccine. The H1N1 vaccine risks may be worth it for those trying to protect their children from the virus.

CBS's The Early Show discussed one of the most disturbing H1N1 vaccine risks. Someone who takes the H1N1 vaccine could develop GBC - Guillian Bar Syndrome. Dr. Jennifer Ashton estimates that this risk is only 1 in a million vaccines. Still, that's one of the H1N1 vaccine risks that freaks people out. According to Dr. Jennifer Ashton, GBS is a "rare, neurologic disorder that has elements of an auto-immune condition in that some trigger (usually an infection or rarely a vaccination against an infection) results in a progressive weakening of nerves. GBS starts in the legs and works its way up the body."
80% of GBS patients have a full recovery about a month after their onset of symptoms. 2 to 3 people can die of this disorder. I will take the risk of getting a bad case of the flu over the risk of getting GBS. The H1N1 vaccine risks are just too high for me. H1N1 vaccine risks exist. Whenever you inject something in to your body, you are not without risk. The question to ask yourself is this: is theH1N1 Vaccine Risks: A Big Controversy Covers “Life Saving” ShotH1N1 vaccine risks worth the reward of not catching the H1N1 flu virus?

The H1N1 flu virus, also known as the “swine flu” has claimed the lives of several individuals. According to the CDC, those at high risk for the H1N1 virus are children under 2, individuals over 65, pregnant women, individuals with certain chronic medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, and HIV, and children under 19 on aspirin therapy.For the high risk group, the H1N1 vaccine risks may be worth the reward. The H1N1 virus is more likely to claim the lives of one of the high-risk individuals than it is someone who is completely healthy. Pregnant women and those caring for infants under 6 months of age are suggested recipients of the H1N1 vaccine. The H1N1 vaccine risks may be worth it for those trying to protect their children from the virus. CBS’s The Early Show discussed one of the most disturbing H1N1 vaccine risks. Someone who takes the H1N1 vaccine could develop GBC – Guillian Bar Syndrome. Dr. Jennifer Ashton estimates that this risk is only 1 in a million vaccines. Still, that’s one of the H1N1 vaccine risks that freaks people out. According to Dr. Jennifer Ashton, GBS is a “rare, neurologic disorder that has elements of an auto-immune condition in that some trigger (usually an infection or rarely a vaccination against an infection) results in a progressive weakening of nerves. GBS starts in the legs and works its way up the body.”

Max Cleland

2009-10-06T08:20:00.000-07:00

Max Cleland

As a boy growing up in a small town in Georgia, Max Cleland, a former Democratic senator from Georgia, was inspired by the adventures of the Lone Ranger on his TV screen.
Just as the Lone Ranger was motivated by a sense of duty, so was Cleland. As he tells NPR's Renee Montagne, Cleland's parents raised him "to be an eagle, not a sparrow." When he was in college, he joined the ROTC and volunteered to go to war in Vietnam. There, he was brutally maimed by a grenade that a fellow soldierdropped accidentally. The explosion took away both of his legs and his right arm. In his new memoir, Heart of a Patriot, Cleland recalls that moment, and how he overcame the trauma it caused. The book is subtitled "How I Found The Courage To Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove."After his military service, Cleland turned to public service as a way to find meaning in life outside of his own struggles. "It meant survival. It meant a purpose and destiny," he says. His political career spanned four decades, and ended with a loss to Republican Saxby Chambliss in 2002. Cleland says that his opponent — backed by Karl Rove's political machine — questioned his patriotism by airing attack ads that listed his votes on homeland security bills that opposed President George W. Bush's policies.In the TV ads, those questions were accompanied by images of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, followed by photos of Cleland that avoided depicting him in his wheelchair — the visual and physical vestige of his service in Vietnam.

"There are plenty of reasons to go after me, but my military service is not one of them," Cleland says. "Especially when I was running against a guy that had no service in Vietnam and got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee and multiple deferments. He somehow became the American patriot, and I became somehow less than that." Cleland says that losing his political career left him with nothing but those old memories from Vietnam that he had tried to shut out of his mind. And that, he said, led him to identify with the challenges America's young soldiers face when they return from Iraq and Afghanistan.
"They carry that feeling of helplessness, trauma in their minds. It's stuck there," Cleland says. "That is a terrifying place, and they need some help." Throughout his book, Cleland quotes the fiction of Ernest Hemingway, who had been wounded during service in World War I. In his semi-autobiographical novel A Farewell To Arms, Hemingway wrote: "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

Taking comfort in that, Cleland tells Montagne: "Regardless of what we go through — war, political loss, loss of job, spouse, whatever — it is possible to become strong even at the broken places in our lives." In a phone interview on Monday, former Georgia Sen. Max Cleland was upbeat – "What's goin' on, kid?'' – and quick to laugh. But after losing his U.S. Senate seat to an opponent who ran post-9/11 TV ads that showed the decorated Vietnam vet alongside Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, Cleland fell into a depression he was afraid he might not pull out of. It was public service, he says, that had given his life shape and meaning after he left three limbs on a battlefield in Khe Sanh. But without that role, the old darkness came back. Along with his job and his bearings, he lost his relationship with his fiancée. "That's emotionally and physically over,'' he told me. "That's gone.'' And for a time, he was once again a patient at Walter Reed, where he'd first been put back together nearly four decades earlier – and was now surrounded by vets from Iraq and Afghanistan: "I cried uncontrollably for 2 ½ years.'' "It's been war for me for the last six or seven years, but Obama won – the public saw that Bush was bullfeathers – and that helps me. Public service is who I am and what I do, so I'm coming back to that.''

Holly Hester

2009-10-06T08:09:00.000-07:00

Holly Hester

Holly Hester is the second woman who say she had a sexual relationship with the Talk-show host David Letterman in the 1990s. David Michael Letterman a late night talk show “Late Show with David Letterman” host since 1982, is in his early sixties now (62-year-old) and he’s feeling sorry for his wife Regina these days who’s been horribly hurt by her husband’s sexual relations with other females. David Letterman himself confessed that he had affairs with his staffers and by far two names have been made public; Stephanie Birkitt and Holly Hester.

These relations made David the target of an extortion attempt by Robert J. “Joe” Halderman, who was also among his staff. Holly Hester pictures added as more scandalous evidence in David Letterman case. Holly Hester is the second known woman sexually involved with Letterman. Her pictures must have hurt the feelings of poor Mrs. David Letterman a bit more. Especially after hearing Holly Hester say, “I was mad in love with David.” David Michael Letterman a late night talk show “Late Show with David Letterman” host since 1982, is in his early sixties now (62-year-old) and he’s feeling sorry for his wife Regina these days who’s been horribly hurt by her husband’s sexual relations with other females. David Letterman himself confessed that he had affairs with his staffers and by far two names have been made public; Stephanie Birkitt and Holly Hester. These relations made David the target of an extortion attempt by Robert J. “Joe” Halderman, who was also among his staff.

Now, few pictures of Holly Hester have been obtained and posted by TMZ all over the wire right after the submission of Stephanie pictures on the internet. The only second known female after Stephanie Birkitt, Holly Hester has acknowledged that she had a correlation with David Letterman in the 1990s when she was an intern for David Letterman. The correlation was based on sexual activities and Holly doesn’t mind admitting that she was madly involved with Letterman. Hester explained that David had a special bedroom within the premises where the late night show was recorded, but it was a top secret, shared only between David Letterman and his ‘loved-ones.’ She further detailed that their ‘private’ relationship could last only a year and that it was developed prior to David’s arrival at CBS.

Regina Lasko

2009-10-06T07:31:00.001-07:00

Regina Lasko

Meet Regina Lasko, long-time friend David Letterman. They secretly married. Letterman has been entirely with hostility by Oprah Winfrey has reconciled appearance as recently pointed out. In the event, they discuss young Regina Lasko and their 3-year-old son Harry. Regina became David Letterman's girlfriend in 1989 and moved in with him in 2001. They love each other and live in North Salem, New York. They married after 20 years of their love in March, 2009. Lasko was a production manager and Colleague in show business. She has light brown hair and an average build. He does not like to talk about her. Once on the Letterman show while Grilling Demi Moore about her latest romance, she turned the tables on him Prying into his personal life with Regina Lasko. He Squirmed and said "Nobody cares. I feel like I've been Punk'd "Regina has become the company of David Letterman in 1989, moved in with him in 2001. They love each other and live in North Salem, New York. They were married after 20 years of love March, 2009. Lasko was a production manager in show business colleague.

David Letterman, after confessing that he’d been sexually involved with women from his television program, apologized to his wife on Monday’s “Late Show,” saying she had been “horribly hurt by my behavior”. He also apologized to his staff.Letterman and Lasko, married during a quiet courthouse civil ceremony in Choteau, Montana on March 19, 2009. Letterman announced the marriage during the taping of his March 23 show, shortly after congratulating Bruce Willis for getting married the previous week. Letterman told the audience To open your reprehensible intimate relationships publicly can be a difficult task, David Letterman did exactly that due to a possible extortion attempt and now he is going to face his bad days as his wife Regina Lasko is very disappointed and outrageously hurt by his conduct of exposing his life overtly. He apologized to his wife Regina Lasko, on Monday’s “Late Show” for his reprehensible intimate relationships. “Late Night Show” host 62-year-old Letterman always tried to keep his personal life veiled from public view,

He lives in a tony Westchester, N.Y. suburb with 6-year-old son and his wife, Regina Lasko, who never seen as openly and widely. Letterman told viewers about his marriage to Lasko earlier this year after 23-year long relationship with her. Both have a five years old son. He confessed that he was not serious about married life. He said that he furtively felt that men who were married appreciated him in the way as he was the last of the real gunslingers.Public was shocked by this extraordinary confession of letterman and viewers thought that he was just joking.He felt sorry for his staff members to put them in this disgraceful position and especially he apologized to his wife for throwing her in instability. David Michael Letterman a late night talk show “Late Show with David Letterman” host since 1982, is in his early sixties now (62-year-old) and he’s feeling sorry for his wife Regina these days who’s been horribly hurt by her husband’s sexual relations with other females. David Letterman himself confessed that he had affairs with his staffers and by far two names have been made public; Stephanie Birkitt and Holly Hester. These relations made David the target of an extortion attempt by Robert J. “Joe” Halderman, who was also among his staff.

College Football Rankings Week 6

2009-10-05T08:57:00.000-07:00

College Football Rankings Week 6

College Football Rankings Week 6: we have just received this week's College Football Top 25 rankings for week 6. The current rankings have been jumbled a bit from last week's list, and we have some movers and shakers in this week's Top 25 ranking poll. Let's take a look at the list, and break down in depth what moves we have seen over the last week, and what moves to expect after this weekend... This week's Top 25 AP poll and rankings show 4 new teams amongst the top 25. South Carolina in at #25, along with the likes of Missouri who is currently 4-0, and two 5-0 teams in Auburn and South Florida. The top 3 stayed steady this week, while the top 10 basically moved a bit. The biggest mover, was Oklahoma as they plummeted from number 8 to 19 this week. They are just 2-2 on the season, and despite being a big named school and team, I really don't believe they are deserving of a spot on this list.

The biggest surprise is that Miami moved back near the top 10, as they show a number 11 ranking this week with only a 3-1 start. They have been undervalued this season, but there are many other better teams in my opinion that would warrant a higher spot in this top 25. What can we expect moving forward? Well, there are a few games that come to mind that will be in a near future college football schedule article that will be up on Tuesday. I can say that this list will move around a lot more this week, and you will start to see more and more familiar names drop off this list. The top 10 will also shift. Let me in closing state that I have said from day 1 in college betting, play against ranked teams playing non-ranked teams. It is the best value you can get, upsets happen often and in the right circumstances, you can make a ton of money, as we have seen over these last couple of weeks.

There was a tiny bit of shuffling in the Top 25 (more or less)this week. The three real upsets--#8 Oklahoma dropped a real close contest to #17 Miami, #12 Houston lost a high scoring affair to Texas El-Paso, and #22 Michigan lost to Michigan State--caused the largest movement, but there were other, smaller shifts along the way also. We can be pretty sure of some major moves after this week is done. We've got #1 vs. #4, #3 vs. #20, and #21 vs. #24. And then there's the Wisconsin Badgers (NA/25/20) going against #9 Ohio State. Here are the rankings going into week six as well as the opponents in this week's contests. The rankings are from the AP/Coaches Poll/CBSSports 120. Those in parentheses are those heading into week 5. The BYU Cougars edged up a bit in the polls released Sunday, ranking No. 18 in The Associated Press poll and No. 20 in the USA Today /Coaches poll.

institutional investor

2009-10-05T08:32:00.000-07:00

institutional investor

High-yield bonds have given stocks a run for investors' money this year, and a tepid U.S. economic recovery could keep institutional money flowing to that corner of the credit market, some market watchers say. Even with the Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II index surging 48.5% this year through Sept. 30, investors have continued to allocate money to high-yield bonds. For example, on Aug. 7, the board of the $12.6 billion Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System, Frankfort, hired Cincinnati-based Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. to manage a $200 million high-yield bond mandate, its first allocation to that market segment, according to a spokesman for the system According to institutional sales executives, who declined to be named, other pension funds looking now to award U.S. high-yield bond mandates of $100 million or more include the $3 billion Kern County Employees' Retirement Association, Bakersfield, Calif.; $23 billion Northrop Grumman Corp. pension plan, Los Angeles; and Munich-based BMW pension plan. Investors under pressure to add risk in the face of continued economic uncertainty can still turn to high-yield bonds for “competitive returns with better downside protection” than equities, said Thomas P. O'Reilly, a managing director with Neuberger Berman LLC, New York, and a portfolio manager of the firm's $6.5 billion high-yield bond strategy

The definition of “competitive” might be in flux following the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index's eye-popping 59% surge from early March, which turned January and February's sharp sell-off into a gain of roughly 20% for the first three quarters of the year. The flow of money into high-yield bonds began picking up late last year after market turmoil swelled their spreads over Treasuries from a historic average of roughly 400 basis points to more than 1,800 basis points, promising windfall capital gains for investors bold enough to put money in at that moment. According to public fund institutional investor data tracked by Louisville, Ky.-based Eager, Davis & Holmes LLC, 15 high-yield bond mandates were awarded in the final quarter of 2008, just one shy of the combined total for the three prior quarters. The first and second quarters of 2009, meanwhile, saw 12 and nine mandates awarded, respectively, with combined assets placed for the three quarters ended June 30 coming to just less than $2.4 billion.

It was a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy credit” for firms such as Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC, that believe in swimming against the tide, said Mark R. Kiesel, a managing director and global head of the corporate bond portfolio management group at PIMCO in Newport Beach, Calif. Late last year, PIMCO officials were “pounding the table,” calling on clients to look at high yield, he said. Data from Marietta, Ga.-based performance tracker eVestmentAlliance LLC suggest some clients were listening: PIMCO's high-yield strategy pulled in more than $1 billion of net inflows in the first half of 2009. Ted L. Disabato, managing member of Chicago-based investment consultant Disabato Advisers LLC, said high-yield bonds figured prominently in a two-step deviation from the “rule book” his firm pursued to keep clients from getting “run over by a truck” — one of only two suchmoments in his 25-year career. By mid-2008, he said, a number of his clients had halved equity weightings that had come to roughly 60% of their portfolios, putting the balance in Treasury bonds. Then in February, with top economic policymakers clearly signaling their intention to do “whatever it takes” to support the financial system, that Treasury bond allocation was shifted to high-yield bonds.

Matthew Knowles Scandal

2009-10-05T08:19:00.000-07:00

Matthew Knowles Scandal

Latest news update about Matthew Knowles Scandal, Mathew Knowles is an American music executive and manager from Gadsden, Alabama. Knowles is married to stylist and House of Dereon owner Tina Knowles; together, they have two daughters, R&B singers Beyoncé and Solange Knowles, both of whom are managed by MathewKnowles and his family are members of St. John’s Methodist Church in Houston, Texas Beyonce and Solange Knowles’ father and business manager Matthew Knowles has another mouth to feed, according to TMZ.com.

Matthew, who has been known to sow his wild oats indiscriminately in the past, has been slapped with a paternity suit by Alexsandra Wright who is 6 months pregnant. That gives Matthew 3 months to try and buy her silence before the baby is born. Wright is repped by Neal Hersh, who is currently repping Lamar Odom in the prenup negotiations with Khloe Kardashian. Matthew and Tina Knowles have been married for 29 contentious years. The baby will be Matthew’s second child born out of wedlock. Singer and former Destiny’s Child member, Kelly Rowland (pictured above with her father), was the first.

Matthew, who has been known to sow his wild oats indiscriminately in the past, has been slapped with a paternity suit by Alexsandra Wright who is 6 months pregnant. That gives Matthew 3 months to try and buy her silence before the baby is born. According to TMZ.com, Wright, who is in her 30s, filed the suit in L.A. County Superior Court where she lives and works in the name branding business. Which means she’s a PR chickWright is repped by Neal Hersh, who is currently repping Lamar Odom in the prenup negotiations with Khloe Kardashian. Matthew and Tina Knowles have been married for 29 contentious years. The baby will be Matthew’s second child born out of wedlock. Singer and former Destiny’s Child member, Kelly Rowland (pictured above with her father), was the first.

Powermat

2009-10-05T07:49:00.001-07:00

Powermat

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) - If you're sick all the black cords out of their electronic equipment and have a phone charger, everywhere is a newcomer to the city, their hearts: Powermate, self - proclaimed pioneer of wireless charging. Tech geeks have been buzzing about the concept of wireless charging for some years, but being foreign to consumers in general. On the way to change next month when it unveils Powermat, a private marketer in the suburbs of Detroit, global campaign - just in time for the holiday season - to promote its namesake product, a glossy black that MAT works through technology known as magnetic induction. Powermat was created via a joint venture with Homedics (a company known for foot spas, pillows and massagers) and received a lot of attention when it showed off its mats at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Soon after, Beth Harrison Meyer, Powermat's director of product development and the lead on all marketing efforts, set about finding agencies to handle a broad launch for the device, choosing WPP's Maxus to handle media duties after a review and New York indie shop Woods Witt Dealy & Sons for creative. The push breaks in the U.S., U.K. and Italy on Oct. 5, with an integrated campaign that includes everything from airport signage and installations to a four-page insert in Wired magazine and full-page print ads in other publications, and a series of humorous 15- and 30-second commercials intended to show people's reactions to the new technology. Ms. Meyer declined to discuss spending for the launch, but industry executives estimate it at $10 million to $15 million for the first phase. The campaign will coincide with Powermat hitting shelves next month at two mega retailers, Best Buy and Target, which will also provide significant in-store marketing support. "You will not be able to walk into these retailers and miss Powermat," said Ms. Meyer, noting it bypassed specialty shops such as Brookstone, as the device aims to have broad appeal among consumers.

Powermat is a two-part system made up of an ultra-thin mat and a receiver. Both a portable and folding home version are launching at the same price point, $99.99. The Powermat's "powercube" receiver charges hundreds of devices, including iPhones, iPods, BlackBerrys, e-readers and a host of other electronics. Powermat also offers custom receivers for $29.99 to $39.99, such as a built-in iPod case and specially made battery doors that let consumers drop their devices directly on the mat to begin charging. It charges up to six devices at a time. "If you think about how much money we spend on accessories for phones and other devices, it is a small amount," Ms. Meyer said. "We expect to see it on a lot of wish lists." One feature that's sure to be a hit among greenies is that Powermat is energy-efficient, halting charging once a battery is full. "So many of the smartphones are battery hogs, so you can charge them at a useable level for you, " Ms. Meyer said. The concept behind the work, said Harry Woods of Woods Witt Dealy & Sons, is to show there's no need to fight that big bunch of cords sitting in your kitchen or crawling under your desk to plug something in.

AUS vs NZ

2009-10-05T07:17:00.000-07:00

AUS vs NZ

New Zealand in Champions Trophy final entry for all cricket pundits were surprised one package. Champions Trophy, New Zealand team before the Black Caps beat Sri Lanka and also had three Cup Compaq face unpleasant series defeat. Bruising Brigade Daniel Vettori has shown a brave face in group B. However, luck was also in favor of Kiwi, but the end was from New Zealand to take up the powerful Aussie final. On the other hand, Australians are already popular, the CT-finals. Legendary Pakistani Pacer Wasim Akram said in an interview that Australia would be final. Akram and predictions came true. As regards the title, kangaroos are favorites, but New Zealand have been doing since the beginning of the big surprises of the tournament.

Toss: Team should bat first after winning the toss as Centurion wicket is known for batting paradise.Australia: Ricky Ponting, Tim Paine, Shane Watson, Mike Hussey, James Hopes, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Hautriz, Peter Siddle, Brett Lee, Cameron White, C Furguson. New Zealand: Daniel Vettori, Ross Taylor, Aaron Redmond, James Franklin, Neil Broon, Martin Guptil, Kylie Mills, Grant Elliot, Ian Buttler, Shane Bond. The winner will get USD 2 million prize. It will be the same old rivals that will clash for the coveted Champions Trophy 2009; playing the finals. Australia will take on New Zealand at the Centurion, South Africa. There is an interesting share here; both Australia and New Zealand won the title once each. Aussies are defending the title and the Kiwis won it in 2000 and courtesy Chris Cairns.

Australia though will go as pre-match favorites to lay their hands on the coveted trophy. Kiwis are battling injury woes, although they have had a convincing victory against the Pakistan they don’t look still their best form. In fact all fancied teams had to go out including India and South Africa. Although India had been unlucky with one match being abandoned due to rain. So New Zealand is fortunate to be here and should things including toss go in their favor, they can well pull up another surprise. But New Zealand batting should come strong right from top; Brendon McCullum and Redmond. He debuted against Pakistan and although did not have had success; he cannot be written off soon, but a second game against a team like Australia should tease his batting and he will pick a lesson or two from the game, nevertheless. Daniel Vettori has been graduating lately into a wonderful all rounder that kiwis could depend and Elliot will prove to be the best bet lower the order, and if McCullum plays his best, there will be no stopping to the kiwis.

Rudy

2009-10-04T08:11:00.000-07:00

Rudy

Rudy Ruettiger is a sports man of foot ball field. He was born in August 23, 1948 in the city of Joliet USA. His birth name is Daniel Ruettiger and Rudy is his nick name. He was the member of rich birth family because he has 13 brothers and sisters in which he stands on the third. He joined Joliet Catholic Academy where he got a chance to join sports. He played for the locally team initially and later became senior player in the team. He joins the holy cross college. In 1974 he was accepted as a student in the Notre Dame University. The man has organized many institutions to restore his help and pass a health life. For this purpose many steps and measures have been taken and are still continuing for the health. Such institutions increased time to time because the pressure of the work on human putting heavy load on the mind of the people. The diseases accordingly increased and to maintain the health became a problem. To minimize the pressure some persons introduced a system of exercise which later merge into the different games.

It was a day of October 14, 2005, when he started his carrier as footballer. When he was a player of Notre Dome he became the master of the ceremonies which listed him a top class leader. He was distinguished when he came in a rally and delivered a speech. In 1997, Rudy Ruettiger and his wife organized in Ruddy Foundation for the benefit of children. In January 8, 2008 he starts the award of best foot ball player. Many other organizations awarded Rudy Ruettiger in reorganization of his services rendered for the benefit program. The Rudy Awards is a venture of Rudy Foundation which is co-founded by football star Daniel ‘Rudy’ Ruettiger and his wife Cheryl. Rudy Ruettiger is a well-known, inspiring football star of the country who has played for Notre Dame. A film has also been made about Rudy Ruettiger and his sports life. The foundation was established in 1997 and gave its first college football awards in year 2007. This year the Rudy Foundation is offering its first High School Rudy Awards and is accepting nominations till November 3, 2009. The winner will be announced in March, 2010.

Maya Angelou

2009-10-04T08:07:00.001-07:00

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou, aged 81, was in Los Angeles to be honored at the BraveHeart Awards. BraveHeart awards is for women who choose to be inspiration in action. Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is a famous American autobiographer and poet. She was called “America’s most visible black female autobiographer” by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. Maya Angelou is best known for her series of six autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adulthood experiences. Maya Angelou’s first and probably best-known autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), focuses on the first seventeen years of her life. It brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award. The rumors in Twitter range from she is OK ( a statement apparently made by her grandson ) to she is dead. We do not have any confirmation at this time.

We hope for the best and our prayers are with her. We will keep you updated on the latest news of Dr. Maya Angelou. Dr. Maya Angelou is a remarkable Renaissance woman who is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature. As a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director, she continues to travel the world, spreading her legendary wisdom. Within the rhythm of her poetry and elegance of her prose lies Angelou's unique power to help readers of every orientation span the lines of race and Angelou captivates audiences through the vigor and sheer beauty of her words and lyrics. Now come along now, no one is going to describe themselves in these terms, are they? This has to be a spoof, it's not possible that anyone, not even Maya Angelou, would put up something this gloriously over the top, is it? Contrary to a Saturday night TMZ.com report, literary giant Maya Angelou was not hospitalized while in Los Angeles, CNN reported this morning.

NYS dept of labor

2009-10-04T07:59:00.000-07:00

NYS dept of labor

NYS dept of labor. Governor Paterson announced today that New York State will receive approximately $4.5 million in federal grant funds for 2009 under the national Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment (REA) initiative of the US Department of Labor. The REA initiative is designed to help people receiving unemployment insurance get back to work faster by providing them with individualized job search and training services. The money comes from federal funds that support the administration of unemployment insurance. “Because of the economic turmoil New York has faced during the past 18 months, I have made it a priority that we do everything within our power to protect the most vulnerable New Yorkers, including the unemployed. These grants demonstrate that the federal government has recognized and rewarded those efforts,” said Governor Paterson. “New York was one of the first states to try this individualized approach to helping the unemployed get back to work faster, and we are thrilled to have an opportunity to expand this promising program. I want to thank President Obama and Secretary Solis for providing funding that will allow us to serve more workers through this program.”

REA grant funds support additional One-Stop Career Center staff who work one-on-one with individuals receiving unemployment insurance. Staff will help workers determine what job hunting and training services they need, and then develop a job search plan customized to each person’s needs. Additionally, information on the local labor market is used to help focus the individual’s job search. Staff will continue to follow-up with each worker throughout the job search process, until the worker gets a job or exhausts his or her unemployment benefits. State Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith said, “As this recession continues to drag on, we are doing everything we can to help unemployed workers get back to work and support themselves and their families. These grant funds will help us do that.” Twenty-five states received awards that totaled $26.5 million under the REA initiative. New York is one of nine states receiving grant funds that have previously participated in the program. In 2008, New York received $647,000, which funded a model REA program in one Local Workforce Investment Area. For 2009, New York received more than $4.5 million to continue the model REA program and expand it to eight additional Local Workforce Investment Areas throughout the state.

Early results from the REA initiative are promising. For 2008, participants found jobs approximately two weeks faster than those in a control group. Putting New Yorkers back to work more quickly not only benefits participants, but also saves the State money. In 2009, New York could save approximately $10.4 million per year in payments from its Unemployment Insurance Trust fund (based on the current average weekly unemployment insurance benefit rate of almost $316) if program participants find a job one week faster than those who do not participate. U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer said: “For years, New York has been a leader in improving the lives of its citizens. This federal funding recognizes our success, and allows us to provide even more support to unemployed New Yorkers during these difficult economic times. I am extremely proud to have worked so hard on behalf of New Yorkers to secure this funding and will continue to fight to ensure New Yorkers are well taken care of.”

NYS Unemployment

2009-10-04T07:51:00.000-07:00

NYS Unemployment

NYS unemployment benefits he is now collecting? What if the corporation is dormant for a period of time as he get his business together – can he collect benefits during this start-up You are considered to be employed if you are engaged in operating or starting a business either by yourself, with a partner or in a corporate arrangement. Time spent during the day or evening or on weekends preparing to start or actually operating a business may be considered employment even though no sales are made nor any compensation received. To contact Telephone Claims Center (TCC) staff:Call TCC toll-free at 1-888-209-8124 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday. If you live outside of NYS, call toll-free at 1-877-358-5306. Hearing impaired individuals, who have Telephone Device for the Deaf (TTY/TDD) equipment, may contact the Telephone Claims Center by calling a relay operator at 1-800-662-1220 and requesting the operator to call 1-888-783-1370. Service at this number will only be provided to callers using TDD equipment.

The TCC is less busy on Thursday and Friday afternoons. During heavy call loads, such as after a Monday holiday, callers may hear a message that all representatives are busy with other callers and it will be necessary to call back to speak with a representative regarding your claim. Be sure that your Social Security number appears at the top right hand corner on all pages. Save your fax confirmation sheet as we do not confirm the receipt of a fax or written correspondence.What is the Self Employment Assistance Program (SEAP)?A: State and Federal legislation has established the Self Employment Assistance Program (SEAP) which provides certain eligible individuals the opportunity to start their own businesses while collecting unemployment insurance benefits. In order to be considered eligible for this program, you must first be identified by the State's profiling system as likely to exhaust benefits.

If you are interested in participating in this program or wish to obtain additional information, contact your local Division of Employment Services office nearest you. Click here for the office locations. You must comply with program requirements and receive written acceptance into the SEAP program before you can start or operate your own business while collecting benefits. Using the wonderful tools of Google, there is not more reason to be alarmed about New York’s unemployment rate than any of the other states. In fact, New York is getting along rather nicely compared to some other key ones. If you look at the trends below supplied by Google, it is easy to see that these metrics follow pretty much the same trend whenever there is a recession. New York being somewhere in the middle by these accounts, with Michigan obviously being hit much harder It is no secret that New York State is in trouble. A couple of weeks back Forbes reported that the state’s unemployment rate had reached is worst valley in over 25 years, while New York City’s jobless numbered more than at any time since 1993.

Pakistan vs New Zealand Live Streaming

2009-10-03T07:53:00.000-07:00

Pakistan vs New Zealand Live Streaming

Pakistan and New Zealand will face each other in the second semi final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2009, Watch Live Streaming and Live scores of the match which will begin in Johannesburg on Saturday, 3rd Oct, 2009. Match start time at 14:30 am local, 6 pm India time. Pakistan & New Zealand have faced each other nine times in ODIs in world events, and have won six. Itss interesting to note that all four day-night matches at the Wanderers in this tournament have been won by the chasing team. There’s only a 40% chance of rain but if the match is washed out, New Zealand will go through by the virtue of having topped Group B. New Zealand (probable): 1 Brendon McCullum (wk), 2 Aaron Redmond, 3 Martin Guptill, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Neil Broom, 6 Grant Elliot/Scott Styris, 7 James Franklin, 8 Daniel Vettori (capt), 9 Kyle Mills, 10 Shane Bond, 11 Ian Butler.

Pakistan: (probable): 1 Imran Nazir, 2 Kamran Akmal, 3 Younis Khan (capt), 4 Shoaib Malik, 5 Mohammad Yousuf, 6 Umar Akmal, 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, 9 Mohammad Aamer, 10 Saeed Ajmal, 11 Umar Gul. Well did you really expect Australia to beat England by such a big margin in yesterday’s ICC Champions Trophy matchup? We have a live stream to give you now, for the other semi final match between Pakistan and New Zealand. The match is taking place in Johannesburg and will start around 13.30GMT, 14.30 local time and 6PM Indian time. It will be the ninth time the two teams have met each other in ODIs, with the last meeting coming at the World Twenty20s a few months ago, which Pakistan went on to win. New Zealand will be fielding a weakened lineup, after having to call in three replacements to their team. You may think Pakistan are the favorites here, but NZ will be looking to upset the odds.

AJ Jewell Killed

2009-10-03T07:47:00.001-07:00

AJ Jewell Killed

A.J. Jewell was killed during a brawl at the Atlanta strip club Body Tap at 1271 Marietta Boulevard yesterday. Jewell, the father of six children, was taken to Piedmont Hospital where he was pronounced dead of massive head injuries on Friday, October 2, 2009. Kandi’s publicist Lisa Nelson reported that her client is “stunned and speechless” after learning of the brutal death. She indicates that the family is asking for privacy during this very difficult time. Atlanta Police Lt. Keith Meadows said, “It appears he was involved in an altercation in the parking lot and he received a severe blow to the head. We have developed a person of interest and we’ve made contact with him to question him about the incident. No arrests have yet been made in the case. The 33 year old singer, songwriter and businesswoman began dating Ashley A.J. Jewell of Atlanta in early 2009 and the couple became engaged to be married. In August, Burruss and Jewell called off the engagement and later ended their romantic relationship completely, though Jewell was quoted as saying they remained “good friends”. Though he moved out of Burruss’ home, she is the legal guardian of his 12-year-old twin daughters who remain in her care.

We don’t know if this is the real deal or not but we will put it out there for others to determine. Jewell reportedly ‘tweeted’ a few entries just prior to being murdered. View more photos below – click to expand. We’ve also included an August 2009 video interview with Kandi about A.J. The fiance of Real Housewivesof Atlanta's Kandi Burruss, AJ Jewell, was killed Friday evening in a club brawl. The reality TV's fiance sustained ill-fated head injuries at a northwest Atlanta strip club, according to WSB Atlanta. Burruss' publicist Lisa Nelson confirmed the info in the first hours of Saturday morning to WSB that the actress has been informed and the situation confirmed. The incident, now public, is meeting a request from the family for privacy. Police official reports note the base of the argumentative brawl is unclear and that no arrests have been made at this time. According to Wikipedia.com, the Georgia native is a Grammy-award winning singer and songwriter and was engaged to fiance Ashley Jewell (AJ).

Kandi Burruss Fiance Killed

2009-10-03T07:36:00.000-07:00

Kandi Burruss Fiance Killed

Kandi Burruss has been informed that her ex-fiance A.J. Jewell was killed during a brawl at the Atlanta strip club Body Tap at 1271 Marietta Boulevard yesterday. Jewell, the father of six children, was taken to Piedmont Hospital where he was pronounced dead of massive head injuries on Friday, October 2, 2009. Kandi’s publicist Lisa Nelson reported that her client is “stunned and speechless” after learning of the brutal death. She indicates that the family is asking for privacy during this very difficult time. The 33 year old singer, songwriter and businesswoman began dating Ashley A.J. Jewell of Atlanta in early 2009 and the couple became engaged to be married. In August, Burruss and Jewell called off the engagement and later ended their romantic relationship completely, though Jewell was quoted as saying they remained “good friends”. Though he moved out of Burruss’ home, she is the legal guardian of his 12-year-old twin daughters who remain in her care.

Atlanta Police Lt. Keith Meadows said, “It appears he was involved in an altercation in the parking lot and he received a severe blow to the head. We have developed a person of interest and we’ve made contact with him to question him about the incident. No arrests have yet been made in the case. We don’t know if this is the real deal or not but we will put it out there for others to determine. Jewell reportedly ‘tweeted’ a few entries just prior to being murdered. Ashley Jewell, the fiancé of Kandi Burruss, a castmember of Bravo's Real Housewives of Atlanta, has died from an injury sustained during a brawl outside an Atlanta strip club, TV station WBSTV reports. "It appears he was involved in an altercation in the parking lot and he received a severe blow to the head," Atlanta Police Lt. Keith Meadows told the TV station. Jewell was taken to a hospital where he later died. Jewell, known as A.J., appeared regularly on the hit reality show, often clashing with Burruss's mother, who disapproved of her daughter's relationship.

Erin Andrews peephole video

2009-10-03T07:27:00.000-07:00

Erin Andrews peephole video

Erin Andrews peephole video case. As we mentioned a while back, a video of ESPN’s Erin Andrews naked in her hotel room, managed to make its way onto the Internet a couple of months ago. At the time of the incident, there was a lot of speculation as to whether or not it was someone that Erin knew that took the video. Well according to reports from msn.foxsports.com, a Chicago man who is accused of the taking the videos, has just been arrested. According to an FBI statement, a 48-year old man by the name of Mr. Michael David Barrett, now faces federal charges, of interstate stalking for taking the videos, posting the videos online, and trying to sell them to celebrity Web site TMZ. Michael David Barrett, 48, has been arrested as the man who secretly filmed ESPN reporter, Erin Andrews

while she disrobed in her hotel room. Known as the ‘Erin Andrews Peephole Video’ the alleged suspect apparently knew the videos would be a hot commodity. According to the FBI, Michael David Barrett not only posted the videos online, but shopped them around to the highest bidder. The FBI reports that Michael David Barrett had a total of eight ‘Erin Andrews Peephole Videos’ and posted seven of those online. They also believe that Barrett called numerous hotels in Nashville to find which one Erin Andrews was staying at. He is charged on federal stalking charges and was arrested Friday, October 2, 2009 at O’Hare International Airport, located in New York. The FBI also reports that Michael David Barrett requested that the hotel place him in a room adjacent to that of Erin Andrews. The arrest came as a result of Barrett offering the videos for sale to TMZ; TMZ refused the offer and contacted Erin Andrews’ attorney, the Associated Press reports.

Stephanie Birkitt

2009-10-02T08:11:00.000-07:00

Stephanie Birkitt

Stephanie Birkitt has been identified as one of the women involved in the David Letterman extortion plot. Birkitt, Letterman's former assistant who has made several appearances on the "Late Show," lived with alleged blackmailer Robert "Joe" Halderman, who allegedly "was in possession of Birkitt's diary, correspondence and photos -- which he says incriminated Letterman," Sources tell TMZ that Letterman and Birkitt had a sexual relationship that ended before 2003, when his son Harry was born.
Sources tell RadarOnline.com that "Birkitt and Letterman slept together for a period of time before he married his girlfriend Regina had their son Harry" and that Birkitt is reportedly "mortified Halderman is using her fling with Letterman to blackmail her boss." Birkitt is a 1997 graduate of Wake Forest University who interned in the writers' department at the "Late Show" in spring 1996. After a stint at "48 Hours" -- incidentally, where Halderman worked as a producer -- Birkitt moved back to the "Late Show."

"I heard there was a job in Dave's office opening up and I applied, because I didn't think I was much of a news hound, as it was a little too serious for my personality," she told the New Hampshire Union Leader in 2004 (via Nexis). Birkitt would often appear on the "Late Show" — sometimes as a character, "Vicki." She became well-known for her reports from the Winter Olympics in 2002 and 2006 and her "Jaywalking"-style polls of people on Manhattan's streets. She also interviewed "Survivor" castoffs and appeared in the "CBS Mailbag" segment of the show. Aside from being incredibly funny and personable he is generous, kind, and is great fun to play catch with. I really couldn't ask for a more fun work environment. Dave is truly the greatest boss I could ever have. Stephanie Birkitt served as a full package for the host. From calling guests to arranging shows. From appearing in the show to recording, she has done EVERYTHING for the host. She was eventually promoted as Associate Producer of a segment on the show. Besides “Late Show” her professional duties include co-host duties The Tony Mendez Show. In an interview she said about Letterman “He’s the best boss I’ve ever had”. He certainly would be as the details of their affair are surfacing up. David Letterman liked to call her with various pet names on the show like Vickie or Kitty.

Ted Williams

2009-10-02T08:02:00.001-07:00

Ted Williams

Ted Williams was abused, according to an excerpt from an upcoming book. The book, Frozen, chronicles the remains of the late Red Sox slugger in the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a cryogenic facility in Arizona. The book’s author, former Alcor executive Larry Johnson, describes how Williams’ body was mistreated and abused. The book, out Tuesday from Vanguard Press, tells how Williams’ corpse became “Alcorian A-1949″ at the facility, where bodies are kept suspended in liquid nitrogen in case future generations learn how to revive them. Johnson writes that in July 2002, shortly after the Red Sox slugger died at age 83, technicians with no medical certification gleefully photographed and used crude equipment to decapitate the majors’ last .400 hitter. Williams’ severed head was then frozen, and even used for batting practice by a technician trying to dislodge it from a tuna fish can.

Johnson writes that holes were drilled in Williams’ severed head for the insertion of microphones, then frozen in liquid nitrogen while Alcor employees recorded the sounds of Williams’ brain cracking 16 times as temperatures dropped to -321 degrees Fahrenheit. Johnson writes that the head was balanced on an empty can of Bumble Bee tuna to keep it from sticking to the bottom of its case. Johnson describes watching as another Alcor employee removed Williams’ head from the freezer with a stick, and tried to dislodge the tuna can by swinging at it with a monkey wrench. That’s inhumane and disturbing stuff. And probably touches on a lot of people’s fears about how one’s body is handled after death. The Williams estate paid $120,000 for Ted’s body to be “suspended.” Johnson is scheduled to appear on ABC’s “Nightline” this Tuesday. Johnson writes that in July 2002, shortly after the Red Sox slugger died at age 83, technicians with no medical certification gleefully photographed and used crude equipment to decapitate the majors’ last .400 hitter.

Williams’ severed head was then frozen, and even used for batting practice by a technician trying to dislodge it from a tuna fish can. Gaaah. Regardless of where you stand on the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry, Joe D. versus Ted Williams, cryogenics versus logic, this is just wrong. I sincerely hope the people involved with this weren’t supposed Yankees fans because that won’t be good… for anyone. So it is startling to see him listed as executive producer for the ambitious "30 for 30,'' a 15-month-long series of documentaries by A-list filmmakers to celebrate ESPN's 30th anniversary. But Simmons, who turned 40 last Friday, insisted he hasn't changed, saying his role merely is evidence of the network's diversity of opinion and willingness to "mesh it into one thing.'' Then, though, just in case you feared he had morphed into a bland corporate suit, he answered a question about HBO, the reigning king of sports documentaries, with this riff about its approach:

Robert J Halderman

2009-10-02T07:49:00.000-07:00

Robert J Halderman

Robert J Halderman, commonly known as Joe Halderman, has been taken into custody over the extraordinary scenes that attended the attempt to blackmail David Letterman. Robert or Joe Halderman (not to be confused with either Joe Haldeman the sci-fi auther, nor Bob Haldeman, Nixon's aide at Watergate) is, or at least was until a day or two ago, a producer at the "48 Hours" show for CBS. As the AP report says, it wasn't Letterman who announced the name, rather CBS itself unofficially: The network said the person who was arrested works on the true-crime show "48 Hours" and has been suspended. A person with knowledge of the investigation said the suspect is Robert J. Halderman. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because authorities have not released the suspect's name. A "48 Hours" producer named Joe Halderman was part of a team nominated for an Emmy for outstanding continuing coverage of a news story in a news magazine in 2008. Two numbers listed for Halderman were disconnected, and a message left at a third number was not immediately returned Thursday.

Three weeks ago, Letterman said, he got in his car early in the morning and found a package with a letter saying, "I know that you do some terrible, terrible things and that I can prove that you do some terrible things." He acknowledged the letter contained proof. AP sources refer the venture as parliamentarian J. Halderman. Halderman, who has been suspended by the network, is covering charges of attempted noble stealing after allegedly gift the Late Show patron an ultimatum to clear up or to venture having his concern with someone exhibit employees be prefabricated public. During the recording of his CBS late-night exhibit in New royalty Thursday, Letterman discussed receiving a danger to either clear $2 meg or venture the relationships existence prefabricated public. A CBS News employee is accused of trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman, forcing the late-night host to admit in an extraordinary monologue before millions of viewers that he had sexual relationships with female employees.

Letterman said that "this whole thing has been quite scary." But he mixed in jokes while outlining what had happened to him, seeming to confuse a laughing audience at Thursday's taping about whether the story was true. The network said the person who was arrested works on the true-crime show "48 Hours" and has been suspended. A person with knowledge of the investigation said the suspect is Robert J. Halderman. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because authorities have not released the suspect's name. A "48 Hours" producer named Joe Halderman was part of a team nominated for an Emmy for outstanding continuing coverage of a news story in a news magazine in 2008. Two numbers listed for Halderman were disconnected, and a message left at a third number was not immediately returned Thursday. Three weeks ago, Letterman said, he got in his car early in the morning and found a package with a letter saying, "I know that you do some terrible, terrible things and that I can prove that you do some terrible things." He acknowledged the letter contained proof.

Joe Halderman

2009-10-02T07:42:00.001-07:00

Joe Halderman

Joe Halderman, a producer of CBS’s “48 Hours,” was arrested Thursday for an alleged extortion plot to expose David Letterman’s multiple affairs with women on his staff. The scandal was revealed Thursday night, when Letterman told his studio audience he was being blackmailed for $2 million by someone who threatened to expose his sexual relationships with female employees. The Late Show host contacted the Manhattan District Attorney’s Special Prosecution Bureau, and was told to cut a phony check to the alleged extortionist. Letterman testified this morning at a Grand Jury hearing, and was asked if he had ever slept with a member of his staff. Halderman, 51, was arrested for attempted grand larceny in the first degree, and has been suspended from “48 Hours” pending the results of the investigation.

He runs a production company, Worldwide Pants. The danger: Yes, Dave is the 62-year-old CEO of a company that supplies programs to CBS, and he has admitted to having multiple affairs with subordinates. The additional danger: While none have stepped forward claiming harassment, the implications in situations such as this are always the same -- that a powerful man used his position to extract sexual favors from employees. That may very well not have been the case at all, but the implication still exists -- a reason why CEOs are held to the very highest standards, and why companies talk constantly about sexual harassment in the workplace. Again, I caution: No one is making this charge, but the questions now arise. Letterman has been a lightning rod for the right wing after his Palin daughter joke bombs over the summer. The danger: This could be real -- they could muster advertiser boycotts, for example -- or a mere shrug of the shoulders blip. "See! We told you what he was like," they could say. But he is not the host of a children's show either, but host of a late night talk show . . . If they do, however, organize advertiser boycotts . . . watch out.

CBS will almost certainly launch an internal investigation. The danger: Oh yes, it will. The minefield will be especially acute here, because CBS News will have to get involved as well as CBS corporate. They will seek to find out who this man was, how the situation got out of hand, and again, what the nature of the workplace environment is like over at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Ratings will be huge. The danger: But they'll be huge for all the wrong reasons. Millions will tune in to see what Dave might say again. Millions will look for additional meanings in his monologue jokes. Millions will think -- this guy admitted to have multiple affairs. This is what people do -- and why there are huge traffic jams near accidents on highways. People slow down to take a look, to see the carnage. Letterman's image has suddenly been shifted. The danger: Come on! Let's not get too carried away here! He's never held himself up as a moral exemplar. But for his longtime fans, he was never really considered a person who was particularly libidinous either. He's Dave! He doesn't chase women. In a funny way, that made him even more appealing -- good old Dave, who may be funny and nutty, but he doesn't he have any grubby impulses that would make us think askance. Now, we must wonder .

Saturn Closing

2009-10-01T07:57:00.000-07:00

Saturn Closing

Saturn’s days are numbered — Recent reports have let us know that Penske Automotive group has backed out of a deal with GM that would have effectively purchased the entire Saturn brand. The reason for the backing out is because Penske fears they will not be able to provide the Saturn dealerships with inventory after GM stops supplying them with vehicles at the end of 2010. The deal said that they would have to find their own manufacturers to produce vehicles for the dealerships, something Penske doesn’t think they will be able to do. So, in lieu of this deal falling through, GM has said they will be phasing out Saturn, closing all dealerships and directing current Saturn owners to other GM dealers for service. Goodbye Saturn, you shall be missed. This news is just in: Penske Automotive Group and General Motors have both issued statements announcing that negotiations between the two for the Saturn brand has been terminated.

Saturn has been one of the GM casualties of the financial crisis, with GM announcing a few months ago that the brand would be shuttered. Upon hearing this, Saturn’s leadership and fans attempted to mount a campaign to secure an independent future by being bought by another company, Penske Automotive Group. Tat effort has reached a dead-end. This is very disappointing news to all the Saturn employees and loyal customers that have tried so hard to keep Saturn alive. The problem lies with Penske Automotive Group’s ability to secure products for Saturn bey0nd the supply period it negotiated with GM. Apparently, PAG negotiated an agreement with another manufacturer (unnamed) to supply new products, but the agreement was rejected by that manufacturer’s board of directors. Penske didn’t want to risk purchasing the brand and having to deal with all the problems of winding it down itself if new product could not be secured.

Tsunami in Samoa 2009 video

2009-10-01T07:49:00.000-07:00

Tsunami in Samoa 2009 video

Tsunami in Samoa 2009 video - After a powerful 8.3 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Samoa, a tsunami came. The Pacific tsunami killed a total of 149 people so far calculated. The tsunami sent hundreds of people to search for higher grounds waiting for the storm to be over. The earth quake was centered 120 miles south of the Islands of Samoa and American Samoa. It sent 4 waves, each at the height of 15-20 feet. In the video below you can see just how much destruction was caused by the Tsunami in Samoa. Many homes were obliterated and cars swept off the road. The destruction created by the tsunami is horrific. President Obama declared it a major disaster and has people working close with emergency responders in the region. (c) tPC

After the earthquake in Samoa on Tuesday, September 29, the Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, at 7:24 p.m., issued its sixth update for the California and Oregon coast. The advisory specific for the Southern California area stated, “A tsunami has been generated which could impact the advisory region. Low-lying coastal areas should be alert to instructions from their local emergency officials. Evacuations are only ordered by emergency response agencies. Persons in tsunami advisory areas should move out of the water...off the beach and out of harbors and marinas.” The advisory stated that the “six to eight inches” of tsunami waves should hit La Jolla at 9:16 p.m. At 9:00 p.m., I parked on the beach-view bluff on San Elijo Avenue, overlooking the reef at Cardiff beach. I placed myself well east of the tsunami evacuation zone signs permanently posted at the corner of Coast Highway 101 at Chesterfield Drive.

The floodlights from the Chart House restaurant lit up the shoreline. For 25 minutes, I watched the gently rolling one-to-two-foot waves with no notice of increased tidal or wave action. There was, however, very light traffic on the Coast Highway, unusual for that time of night. At 9:25, I headed for the beach parking area south of the Chart House to watch the ocean with 15 other tsunami observers. They said nothing had changed in the past half hour. At 9:37 p.m., a helicopter flew over the area, about 100 feet above the ocean, 100 yards out from the beach. The copter went north to Encinitas, turned around, and flew back south down the beach.

Christopher Hitchens

2009-10-01T07:40:00.000-07:00

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens says religion poisons everything, he is not kidding - he really does mean everything. ''Yup. People ask - do you mean religion poisons aerobic dancing? Chess? Tantric sex? And I say yes - it does. Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it, and that a supernatural dictatorship is our only hope. That makes us all into serfs. And chess and Tantric sex and Chinese food are pointless if you must enjoy them as a serf.'' ''How Religion Poisons Everything'' is the highly provocative subtitle to Hitchens's fulminating bestseller God is Not Great, which sold 40,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand. It's also the title of the address he will give tomorrow to open the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Opera House. And it is the danger he believes to be inherent in religious ideas - and that posed by the religious who follow them - that he will be speaking about.

''I've already read an attack saying it's much too easy to do what Hitchens does, and what does he mean 'dangerous'?'' Hitchens said. ''It's a perfectly good point - in a way. What danger is there in my going to the Opera House? None. ''But it's not nothing to me that a murderous theocracy in Iran is about to get nuclear weapons by stealing and cheating - that is dangerous. Or that there are settlers around the greater River Jordan and Jerusalem area who think that by stealing other people's property they can bring on the Messiah and Armageddon - that is dangerous. Before the publication of God is Not Great, Hitchens was best known for abandoning the left to support the invasion of Iraq, and for writing books venomously critical of Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill Clinton. And for his reputation for hard living: he calls Johnny Walker Black ''the breakfast of champions'' and has referred to smoking in the shower.

There is one idea put to him in debate more than any other: that morality is God-given. ''Most [believers] believe that without religion their children, and even they, would not know right from wrong. I have two arguments to which no answer has yet been received. One: Name me a moral kindness or action that they can do because of their belief but that I can't. Two: Can you think of one evil action done by a religion person? You can, and you can think of another, and another.'' ''Everything we know about philosophy, we first learnt because of religion. It deserves respect for being humanity's first attempt to make sense of everything, to discover knowledge.'' ''I think human civilisation only begins when people separate religion from the state. Policing that frontier, making sure of it, is a huge thing, culturally and politically. You realise that any attempt to cross it is poisonous - in the sense of lethal.''

Badtz Maru

2009-10-01T07:33:00.000-07:00

Badtz Maru

Badtz Maru has a new home online - Kelly Ketty Online! The new website for Badtz Maru ’s Hello Kitty Online made its North American launch this month at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. Hello Kitty describes Maru and Kitty’s new home as a “free-to-play PC online gaming space” featuring “one of the world’s greatest characters” “Hello Kitty gaming fans have long been looking for the ideal level of online community and engagement, and Hello Kitty Online delivers that in a format that will thrive as the fan base continues to grow. “We are proud to have the opportunity to bring one of the world’s greatest characters into the free-to-play PC online gaming space via Aeria Game’s high-quality publishing platforms.” “Hello Kitty Online was designed to be a fun and interactive social gaming experience that brings Hello Kitty and Sanrio fans and friends together in an engaging MMO setting. We look forward to bringing Hello Kitty Online and the integrated SanrioTown social networking site to Hello Kitty fans across North America.”

Developed by Sanrio Digital and published in North America by Aeria Games, Hello Kitty Online invites players to create a fully customizable character and engage with other online players in a world rich in adventure and inhabited by more than one hundred original Sanrio characters and other newly designed creations. Thanks to the innovative social media features of Hello Kitty Online, players are able to share videos, screenshots, blogs and email messages with other players without leaving the game world. Hello Kitty Online will be available for free download in North America at hko.aeriagames.com. Badtz-Maru is a very mischievous penguin hailing from Gorgeoustown. His altogether is April 1st. He is one of the few Sanrio characters that is marketed to both males and females. In Japanese "badtz" (batsu) is a appellation for "X", the cantankerous blame a amiss answer. "Maru" agency amphitheater or "O", and signifies a actual answer. Thus, his name figuratively agency "wrong-correct," and is frequently represented by "XO". Badtz-Maru has abounding altered facial expressions and poses, but a accepted announcement is of affairs one eye down and afraid out his tongue, a action agnate to alarming a raspberry.

Tim Pawlenty

2009-10-01T07:12:00.000-07:00

Tim Pawlenty

Tim Pawlenty to discuss the launch of his Freedom First PAC. Pawlenty says that he’s worried that freedom is being corroded by a “tyranny of a creeping bureaucracy.” Pawlenty wants to re-elevate the principles of freedom and liberty, including an effort to educate people on their value and to impact current policy. Pawlenty plans a particular effort to reach out to younger voters and a “purposeful outreach” to urban areas. The measure of this will be the ability to grow small business without getting smothered by government regulations. That will create jobs and economic freedom. Pawlenty plans to push school choice as part of the Freedom First PAC. We should be free to choose our own doctors and medical care without government making those decisions for us. The founding fathers understood the importance of individual choice, but those principles have been diluted over the last several decades.

Freedom First PAC will be supporting like-minded political candidates. They will have a large New Media contingent and experienced political hands on its board. What will be the focus of Freedom First PAC? — Mainly economic freedom. Are we being true to the notion of a limited government? Measures: How much we spend, how many regulations we have to enforce, etc. Average budget growth in MN had been 19% before Pawlenty, under Pawlenty, it’s been 2%. The last budget decreased spending 7.6%, which is the first time that has happened in Minnesota history. We need that on a national level. His thoughts on popular resistance to Obama’s agenda — Did the Obama election represent a significant shift in the political poles of the country? That question has been answered by the negative reaction to the stimulus, the bailouts, ObamaCare, etc. This confirms that the country remains center-right and that the pendulum is swinging back. However, conservatives have to have more than a hope that the “other team will kick the ball into the dugout.” That’s why FFP is important. Education and intellectual support for conservative principles have to use freedom and liberty to push back against the “free stuff” sales pitches of statists and progressives.

Cap and trade - Pawlenty opposes cap and trade. We can support the general goal of reducing pollution, but we have to do that in a way that follows “good science” and without wrecking our economy. There are more reasonable ways to reduce pollution, especially by “massively expanding nuclear energy.” He supports R&D through private-market efforts in energy production and usage. Encourage basic research and let the private market make the rational decisions on application. Carbon and natural gas are tremendous resources; the latter alone could provide our baseline power needs for 75 years. Pawlenty correctly asserts that we need better foundations for arguing on behalf of freedom and liberty, and the last election shows that we need to do a better job of educating the public on these principles and how they apply to public policy. We’ll see how FFP plays a role in that effort over the next three years, and especially in next year’s midterms.

Toyota Recall

2009-09-30T07:46:00.000-07:00

Toyota Recall

Toyota issued a safety recall for 3.8 million Lexus and Toyota cars because of potentially deadly floor mats. In statements released Tuesday, the world's largest automaker and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration warned drivers to remove the mats or risk a forced-down accelerator pedal that could lead to a fatal crash. The seven models being recalled could potentially have removable mats that would interfere with the pedal and cause it to stick. "A stuck open accelerator pedal may result in very high vehicle speeds and make it difficult to stop the vehicle, which could cause a crash, serious injury or death," said Toyota in its statement. Though Toyota recalled accessory all-weather floor mats in 2007 for similar problems, NHTSA noted that reports of vehicles accelerating rapidly even after the release of the pedal have continued.

In a statement posted on the automaker's Web site earlier this month, Toyota said that preliminary information from investigators indicated that a fatal crash involving a family driving a 2009 ES350 loaned by a local Lexus dealer in San Diego could have been caused by an all-weather floor mat interfering with the accelerated pedal because of a faulty mat installation. "There is an urgent matter," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in the NHTSA statement. "For everyone's sake, we strongly urge owners of these vehicles to remove mats or other obstacles that could lead to unintended acceleration." Toyota has announced that it will soon launch a safety recall to redress the problem, but NHTSA and the automaker warn Toyota and Lexus drivers of certain models to remove that floor mats sooner for safety. The Toyota models being recalled include the 2007-2010 Camry, 2005-2010 Avalon, 2004-2009 Prius, 2005-2010 Tacoma and 2007-2010 Tundra. The Lexus models facing the safety recall are the 2007-2010 ES 350, and the 2006-2010 IS 250 and IS 350.

Samoan islands location

2009-09-30T07:26:00.000-07:00

Samoan islands location

Samoan islands location tsunami 2009. A tsunami may have killed as many as 120 in Samoa and American Samoa islands, officials said late Tuesday. At least 26 are confirmed dead in Samoa and 19 casualties were reported in nearby American Samoa after a tsunami waves struck the islands, US homeland security official Mike Sala said. Waves were reported five feet to 15 feet above sea level, prompting warning across the Pacific to the Western United States, from southern California up to Oregon-Washington border. US President Barack Obama declared a 'major disaster' in American Samoa, the White House said in a statement, and the US government is preparing to send emergency aid to the region within the next 24 hours. The killer tsunami was triggered by a massive 8.1 magnitude earthquake about 122 miles southwest of the Samoa island.

As a blogger not allowed to link to AP stories without paying big bucks, you will have to google this title “Tsunami hits American Samoa” to get the facts of the tsunami that has hit Samoa in which an entire village has been wiped out. No fatalities have been reported as of yet. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center at Ewa Beach, Hawaii is reporting the Hawaiian Islands are under a Tsunami Watch with expected arrival time of 1:11pm Hawaiian time. I will keep you updated on this post as more details are reported by Hawaii Civil Defense, and/or the big a** cruise ship sitting in the bay goes back out to sea unexpectedly, (my money is on the cruise ship). A tsunami warning was issued for New Zealand and other small Pacific islands after a major 7.9 magnitude quake struck in the ocean off American Samoa, U.S. government agencies said on Tuesday.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, a branch of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, issued the warning after the quake hit about 120 miles southwest of the remote Pacific island of American Samoa. It struck at a depth of 20.5 miles. A tsunami watch was in effect for Hawaii, Papua New Guinea and other small Pacific islands. The agency noted that its warning did not mean a tsunami had necessarily been generated by the quake. The warning was issued because a quake of this magnitude had the power to generate a destructive tsunami, it said. My prayers are with you and your family, hope all the islands are spared and damage. All you lurkers; let it be known that this is not a free site. If you enjoy this site and the information on it, PONY UP! Help support The Monster and The Research Roundtable!

Garmin Nuvi 850

2009-09-30T07:15:00.000-07:00

Garmin Nuvi 850

Garmin Nuvi 850 GPS navigator for only $164.99 down from $799.00. That’s a $535 save that you can use to buy something else. The Garmin Nuvi 850 features a 4.3-inch touch widescreen, voice commands, FM transmitter, built-in antenna, pre-loaded maps for North America with 6 million POIs and the ability to add custom POIs, multi-destination routing, Where Am I? tool which shows you the emergency services near your location, and Where’s my car? tool which is very useful if you forgot where you parked. The Garmin nüvi 850 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Voice Command and FM Transmitter is available in Soft Black, and it measures 6.4 x 6.4 x 3.3 inches while weighing 1.3 pounds. The GPS device also features a microSD card slot, easy-to-use UI, photo viewer, MP3 Player, Garmin Lock, and the abilities to send addresses to it from Google Maps or Mapquest, and to customize your on-screen vehicle icon.

You can tell from its dimensions that it’s very small, and we assure you that it features a sleek design. You can buy the Garmin Nuvi 850 GPS Device from Amazon here for only $164.99. Take your time to read the reviews before you purchase it! The nuvi 850 not only tells you where to turn but listens to your spoken commands. With nuvi's innovative speech recognition, you safely interface with your voice allowing you to keep both hands on the wheel. Simply press the button on the remote, which attaches to the steering wheel, to activate speech recognition and begin speaking menu options. It even recognizes shortcut phrases for popular functions. Simply say, "Find Address", and speak an address to start navigating.Note: California and Minnesota state laws prohibit drivers from using suction mounts on their windshields while operating motor vehicles. Optional dashboard or friction mounts should be used in these states.

Ind vs Wi

2009-09-30T07:08:00.000-07:00

Ind vs Wi

India vs West Indies (Ind vs WI) will face each other in the Group A match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2009, Watch Live Streaming and Live scores of the match which will begin in Johannesburg on wednesday 29th September, 2009. Match start time at 14:30 am local, 6 pm India time. If India have to make it to the the semi final of the Champions Trophy, Then the equation is ..Australia have to lose to Pakistan, then India have to beat the West Indies, and that too with a huge margin , so that their net run-rate surpasses Australia’s. If any of these doesn’t happen, then India have to pack there bags and come back to India. Indian Captain M s Dhoni Said in a press Conference “I think Indian fans want us to qualify, so I am sure they will definitely support the Pakistan team,” said Dhoni. “You can expect them to cheer Pakistan tomorrow, but it is entirely up to them.”

The points split in the last game means India and Australia will fight it out for the semi-final slot in Group A, with Pakistan already through. Now If Australia beat Pakistan, they’ll obviously go through , It’ll get more complicated, though, if Australia lose to Pakistan and India beat West Indies. Its interesting to note that the depleted West Indies have lost 5 ODI’s in a row. But if the the history of the champions Trophy is taken into consideration West Indies have won both the matches they have played against India in the previous two editions of the Champions Trophy. Johannesburg: India's fate in the Champions Trophy has been depending on Pakistan's victory over Australia in the ongoing match today. The present scenario is indicating that India's chance to book semifinals berth are very much grim as Pakistan failed to post big total on board. Australia need just 206 runs in the 50 overs to enter the semis. If Pakistan defeat mighty Aussies here, India will have to thrash West Indies by huge margin to stay alive in the tournament.

Britney Spears 3 Lyrics

2009-09-29T07:50:00.000-07:00

Britney Spears 3 Lyrics

Britney Spears released her new single, "3," on Tuesday morning (September 29). The song will be featured on her greatest hits album, The Singles Collection, due out on November 24. She's releasing the collection to celebrate her 10 years in the business since the release of her seminal first single, "... Baby One More Time." The track was produced by hit-maker and longtime Spears collaborator Max Martin, who also produced "... Baby One More Time," and its subject matter — which appears to be about loving multiple people at one time — is sure to cause a stir. Of course, Spears has been causing that kind of stir since she dressed in a sexy school-girl uniform for the "... Baby One More Time" video.

The song, which is posted on New York radio station Z-100's Web site, is a catchy dance track with provocative lyrics, such as, "1, 2, 3/ Not only you and me/Got 180 degrees/ And I'm caught in between." The chorus also mentions "Peter, Paul and Mary," which would seem to be an out-of-left-field reference to the '60s folk act. (There's no indication whether this song was recorded before or after member Mary Travers' death on September 17.) In July, during the European trek for her Circus tour, Spears tweeted that she was working with Martin on a song. "Back in the studio with Max!" she wrote about the collaboration. The Singles Collection will be available for purchase as a standard set and a packaged box set. The standard set will include 17 of her biggest hits, plus "3." The ultimate fan box set will contain all 29 of Spears' singles individually packaged in slip sleeves with their original artwork and B-sides or remixes. The box set will also include a DVD with all of Brit's videos from past to present and a photo booklet with various photos spanning her career. Spears released her first greatest-hits collection, My Prerogative, back in 2004.

It's been 10 years since the "...Baby One More Time" video started a party in your creepy older brother's pants. And just in time to celebrate, Britney Spears has released a new single, "3," -- off of her upcoming anniversary-marking Singles Collection (out Nov. 26). The song debuted, as previously announced, this morning via NYC radio station Z-100. And while the robo-manipulations at work on this Max Martin-produced dance track render Spears' vocals near unrecognizable, the blunt sexual lyrical content is 100 per cent Britney. "1, 2, 3 / Not only you and me / Got one eighty degrees / And I'm caught in between," goes the chorus.

Zapatero Daughters Photo

2009-09-29T07:44:00.000-07:00

Zapatero Daughters Photo

Zapatero born on 4 August 1960, Valladolid. Due to popularity of his Spanish socialist party he won two consecutive elections. On 9 march 2008 general election his party got 43.8% votes. On 7 March 2008 his party politician Isaías Carrasco was killed in an attack. ETA was suspected behind the attack. Due to this incident the final day campaign was cancelled.Zapatero daughters rarely appear before media. In recent the photograph both daughter are standing with their parents along with Barrack and Michelle Obama. The daughters are standing in gothic attire, covered in black dress. In the picture both girls are wearing black trench coat, black boots and one has amulet around her neck and wearing black wrist bands in picture. Normally you will not find Goth people wearing these kinds of cloths.

It seems that the daughters of zapatero are going through a rebellious phase. Infect no one have an idea about the girls they may be very pleasant and kind hearted. It is a big deal for some people. May be the girls choose it as mean of expression just like other youngsters. Spanish prime minister tried every thing in his capacity to stop the picture from spreading. It was too late for him as the picture spread uncontrollably. You can find it on news sites, ever gossip and on the web now. Spanish Prime Ministers Daughters Photo – Spanish prime minister’s daughters pictures with Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama/Spain’s first family with the Obamas picture can be viewed here.Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ,his wife Sonsoles Espinosa,Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama took a photo at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday in New York which is creating a bit of controversy.

Spanish prime minister’s daughters pictures with Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama. Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ,his wife Sonsoles Espinosa,Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama took a photo at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday in New York which is creating a bit of controversy.José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s 13-year-old Alba and 16-year-old Laura. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s 13-year-old Alba and 16-year-old Laura, daughters are rarely in the public eyes and now we know why.Like most teenagers their age they are into the Gothic movement which consists of wearing too much black at once.The pictures have few people posing certain questions like should a world leader let his kids be goths? And if the Prime Minister can not run his household how can he govern his country?

Acne Pillowcase

2009-09-29T07:33:00.000-07:00

Acne Pillowcase

pillowcase frequently is like taking a dirty rag and rubbing it all around your face for six to eight hours a day. Changing your pillow case daily can help those with acne due to the fact that your pillowcase has bacteria, dust and other acne-causing agents on it.If you suffer from acne, you are probably very diligent about your skin care routine and you cleanse your skin properly each and every night. However, sleeping on the same pillowcase nightly may cause your acne may look worse than it did the night before. Your pillowcase has dust and bacteria that can easily cause or contribute to acne. If you want to prevent this from getting into your pores and causing acne, your pillowcases need to be washed regularly. Most people sleep on their pillow for many nights until they finally decide wash it. Your sleeping environment as clean as possible to help prevent acne, or at least keep it from getting worse. Simply washing your pillowcase regularly will help to prevent your skin from a night full of bacterial attacks.

Many do not realize pillow case can become filled with bacteria and oil from their hair, their skin and anything that is expelled out of their body through your ears, nose, eyes or mouth while they are sleeping. Bacteria can survive for a long time on the surface of someone's skin. How often should you change your pillowcase to help prevent acne? The answer ranges from nightly to weekly. Your face lays on your pillow case every day. Your pillow case absorbs the oils from your skin and reapplies the dirt and oil causing breakouts. Washing your pillowcase at least every other day is a great idea for those who suffer from acne or are trying to prevent it. Bottom line: your pillowcase can never be too clean. There are many acne pillowcases that are promoted online or in stores. These are typically just hypo-allergenic pillows covered in a clean case. Washing your pillowcase frequently and not using the same pillow for years on end is just plain common sense in the fight against acne.

Joe Scarborough Surgery

2009-09-29T07:23:00.001-07:00

Joe Scarborough Surgery

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If Joe Scarborough is right, this could be a game-changing blow to Barack Obama . On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough left no doubt that he believes the Obama administration acquiesced to the release by the British government of Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie murderer and terrorist. Scarborough was reacting to reports suggesting that, contrary to initial claims, the release was done at the behest of Gordon Brown's British government, and was not an independent move by Scotland. This is just one of those stories that smells from the very beginning. They set up that Scottish guy to hold the press conference, like he's going to release the biggest terrorist this side of al Qaeda? . . . No! You knew the British government was attached. We predicted it last week; it's come true. Then that raises the next question: what's the link between Great Britain's government and the U.S. government? Anybody that works in Washington for more than a day knows the British government is not going to release a terrorist that killed American kids without getting the OK from the American government.

This Is it Michael Jackson Tickets

2009-09-28T08:12:00.000-07:00

This Is it Michael Jackson Tickets

Michael Jackson tickets, as it will be the last farewell for America's late King of Pop. As expected, "This is It!" Michael Jackson tickets flew off the shelves like hotcakes. "This is It!" Michael Jackson tickets accounted for 71% of the ticket sales on fandango.com, according to the New York Daily News. Many people were looking forward to seeing Michael Jackson on stage again in his last concert series that was set to start in London three weeks after his death. Instead, people will now get to see a documentary featuring footing of the King of Pop rehearsing for his London concert series. "This is It!" Michael Jackson tickets may lead some Michael Jackson fans to the theatre at odd hours of the night. "This is It!" Michael Jackson tickets sold for the debut of the series will be shown simultaneously. This means a 9 p.m. showing in Los Angeles, a midnight showing in New York City, and a 4 a.m. showing in Berlin.

Not only are "This is It!" Michael Jackson tickets taking America by storm, a previously unreleased song "This is It" will be released on October 12. Jackson's brothers sang backup on the song. "This is It" Michael Jackson tickets are only the latest in Michael Jackson's news. Ever since the King of Pop's death on June 25, the world has been glued to their TV's and to the Internet looking for the latest Michael Jackson news. The "This is It" Michael Jackson tickets allow certain fans to see their favorite musician one last time during the last few days of his life. For many, this is a very important event. I am hoping that the "This is It" Michael Jackson documentary will be available on TV one day. I would like to see it, but do not live close enough to a theatre where "This is It!" Michael Jackson tickets are sold. The movie documenting the King of Pop's final performance rehearsals days before his death will debut simultaneously in 15 cities around the globe on October 28, but a sneak peek will be presented at the new Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 the night before on October 27. The Associated Press, in the meantime, reported that the advance screenings have been sold out. 3,000 tickets to the Los Angeles shows have been snatched by fans within two hours early Sunday.

"'This Is It' may go down as the greatest concert no one got a chance to see," the movie's director and Michael's longtime collaborator, Kenny Ortega, promised. "But with this film we get a rare portrait of Michael as he prepares for his final curtain call." Jeff Blake, Sony's worldwide marketing and distribution chairman, added, "Michael Jackson has an army of fans everywhere round the world. By rolling out this film simultaneously worldwide, we are giving audiences an incredible opportunity to join together in celebration of Michael Jackson's incredible career." "This Is It" offers a behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson preparing for a series of the O2 London shows he was rehearsing when he died June 25. It will compile more than 100 hours of video footage concert promoter AEG Live shot during April, May and June 2009. Reuters claimed that a source close to the project has mentioned the planned 3-D sequence for the movie will not make it into the final reel. “This is It” was compiled by Jackson’s choreographer and creative-partner Kenny Ortega from over 100 hours of rehearsal footage shot at the Staples Center and Forum in Los Angeles in the weeks before the “ing of Pop” died on June 25. (Ortega also directed the recent “High School Musical 3″ and is set to direct the remake of “Footloose.”)

Jenny Slate Fired

2009-09-28T07:57:00.000-07:00

Jenny Slate Fired

Jenny Slate dropped the ‘f-bomb’ on Saturday Night Live last night. An apparent slip of tongue came from Jenny Slate, and her partner in the skit didn’t even seem to notice and just kept going. The Brooklyn funny lady, Tehran-born, raised in California comedian, and SNL newbie has attracted a lot of attention when she dropped an f-bomb, apparently by accident. She was in the middle of a SNL skit when she let go of a sentence; “You stood up for yourself, and I f—ing love you for that.” Over the years, people have been fired for saying these things on live TV, including Charles Rocket in 1981 and Norm MacDonald in 1997. No news yet on if Jenny Slate is being fired for her slip of the tongue.

The new 'Saturday Night Live' cast member that dropped the F-Bomb this weekend will NOT have to worry about a different F-word: "Fired". Jenny Slate was performing in her first show as a cast member of 'SNL', when she got a little too into character in a sketch called "Biker Chick Chat" and said the word some call "the mother of all swear words". That caused some speculation that Slate's first show would be her last, but an NBC spokeswoman says she will NOT be fired. The slip was not seen here, they dubbed in a different word for the west coast broadcast. It's not the first time the word has slipped on the show. Comic Charles Rocket did the same thing in 1981, when he was a new cast member. But he was fired the next week, had a rough time in show business after that, and killed himself in 2005.

Ind Vs Aus

2009-09-28T07:41:00.000-07:00

Ind Vs Aus

India vs Australia , ICC Champions Trophy 2009, Match Preview, Live Scores , Live Streaming : India and defending champions Australia will face each other in the Group A match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2009, Watch Live Streaming and Live scores of the match which will begin in Johannesburg on Monday 28th September, 2009. Match start time at 14:30 am local, 12:30 GMT , 6-00 pm India time.This is a do or die match for India and Captain Dhoni has chosen the tricky option to play five bowlers and ask their depleted batting order to rise to the occasion. India and Australia seem to play each other so many times often that it’s hard to believe they haven’t met in an ODI for the last 18 months. since the CB series in Australia last year. If India play 5 blowlers it is almost certain Amit Mishra, the leggy, who made an impressive Test debut against Australia recently will play this match. There are all kinds of possible scenarios for which teams could be in the semi-finals in Group A , among all the simplest seems to be : if Australia beat India, it will be Pakistan and Australia in the semi finals fro group A..

Despite injuries, Team India was among the top contender for the title but last hour ouster of flamboyant all-rounder Yuvraj Singh has left the ‘Men in Blue’ in a tizzy. India’s clash with Australia is now bigger than Saturday’s match against Pakistan. Skipper Dhoni will have to settle with not less than a victory. All the top guns of Team India Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni will have to fire today. It becomes important for India when bowlers are not upto the mark in absence of Zaheer Khan. Once again Harbhajan Singh has to strike early to put Australians on backfoot. In the fielding department, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli and Harbhajan Singh to save extra run for the team and couple of run outs could pave the way for victory. In one sentence, Team India will have to improve its batting and fielding to compensate weaker bowling side. To strengthen bowling, skipper Dhoni has decided to play five bowlers against Australia. Amit Mishra is likely to make into final eleven while RP Singh may be rested and Praveen Kumar will replace him in the side.

Affiliated Computer Services

2009-09-28T07:33:00.000-07:00

Affiliated Computer Services

Affiliated Computer Services Inc. for $6.4 billion in its biggest purchase, shifting to computer services as sales of its traditional printing equipment decline. The transaction will help triple sales from services to about $10 billion, Xerox said today in a statement. The total price of the cash-and-stock deal is about 34 percent more than Dallas-based Affiliated Computer’s closing price Sept. 25. The acquisition is Chief Executive Officer Ursula Burns’s first since taking over the world’s largest maker of high-speed color printers in July. Burns’s predecessor, Anne Mulcahy, helped Xerox avoid bankruptcy this decade by paring debt, exiting unprofitable businesses and shedding jobs. Affiliated Computer jumped $7.43, or 16 percent, to $54.68 on the New York Stock Exchange at 9:52 a.m. Xerox, based in Norwalk, Connecticut, fell $1.30, or 15 percent, to $7.67, the biggest intraday drop since March. The stock had climbed 13 percent this year before today.

“With this combination, our tool box just got a lot bigger,” Affiliated Computer CEO Lynn Blodgett said in an interview. Blodgett will run the business as a unit of Xerox and report to Burns, 51. The transaction helps Burns expand into a market Xerox values at about $150 billion and gives her a foothold in managing administrative operations for multiple arms of the U.S. government. Almost 90 percent of Affiliated Computer’s new business contracts last year came from outsourcing, or managing operations for other companies. Total sales rose 5.9 percent to $6.5 billion in the year ending June 30. Xerox has posted sales declines for three straight quarters, with analysts projecting a fourth, according to the average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Global spending on technology products will fall 8 percent this year, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said this month. Mulcahy, who took over in 2001, cut at least 20,000 jobs to revive Xerox after the bursting of the technology bubble at the start of the decade left Xerox with mounting debt and its first annual loss in five years. Under Mulcahy, Xerox stopped making personal copiers and started focusing on laser printers, as well as color printing.

Tawny Kitaen Pictures

2009-09-27T08:00:00.000-07:00

Tawny Kitaen Pictures

Tawny Kitaen was arrested in Newport Beach, Calif. today for suspicion of driving under the influence. Kitaen was arrested at about 3:00 PM Saturday when officers suspected she had been driving her Range Rover under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Tawny was born in California, USA on 5 August 1961. She is a famous American actress and media personality. She became famous in 80’s by her efforts. In 1987 she developed relations with David Coverdale. She also appeared in videos of several music bands. She married with David Coverdale in February 1989 and divorced on April 1991. Later she married with Chuck Finley a baseball pitcher in November 1997 and divorced in April 2002. She had two daughters from the relationship. Wynter and Raine are her daughters with Finley. Finley filed a divorce against her after she was arrested for hitting him. He also claimed for the custody of one of his daughter.

In 2006 she was charged for having 15 kg of cocaine with her. In December 2006 she was entered in a six-month rehabilitation program to get rid of drugs addiction. On Saturday 26 September 2009 she was arrested at Newport Beach, California. According to police former actress was charged for driving under influence. According to Newport police Sgt. Shontel Sherwood she was suspected for driving her Range Rover under influence of alcohol and Drugs. She was released after posting $2,500 bail. She also appeared in the second season of the VH1 reality TV show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, which began in October 2008. Dr Drew concerned for her after she admitted the use of triazolam more then 50mg per use. According to Dr Drew this quantity of dosage has a fear for her life so he cut it to 25mg per usage.

Anjelica Huston

2009-09-27T07:51:00.001-07:00

Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston spent a privileged but troubled childhood in Ireland. Although her father didn’t really want her to be an actress, he gave her substantial roles in his films Sinful Davy and A Walk With Love and Death (both 1969). The actress did little movie work during the ’70s, choosing instead to pursue a successful, albeit short-term, career as a model before returning to films with a vengeance in the ’80s, diligently studying with famed drama coach Peggy Feury. In 1985, Huston earned an Oscar for her performance as the vengeful girlfriend of hit man Jack Nicholson in Prizzi’s Honor, making her the first third-generation Academy winner in history. Other worthwhile roles followed in her father’s final directorial effort, The Dead (1987), and Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). She was also rewardingly directed by her half-brother Danny Huston in Mr. North (1988).

Huston earned additional Oscar nominations for her outstanding dramatic work in Enemies: A Love Story (1989) and The Grifters (1990). On a lighter note, she was ideally cast as Morticia Addams in the two Addams Family movies in the early ’90s; neither was recognized by the Academy, although both earned her Golden Globe nominations. Despite her breakup with long-time companion Nicholson (she went on to marry Robert Graham in 1992), Huston still occasionally acted opposite him, most notably in Sean Penn’s The Crossing Guard (1995). Other notable roles for the actress during the late ’90s included her turn as the wicked stepmother in Ever After (1998) and a hilarious portrayal of a football-obsessed, dysfunctional mother in Buffalo ‘66. In addition to her work on film, Huston accumulated an impressive roster of television credits during the 1980s and ’90s, including her powerful performances as frontier woman Clara Allen in the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove and the beleaguered mother of an autistic child in the two-part Family Pictures (1993).

She also had a supporting role in the widely acclaimed 1993 production of And the Band Played On. In 1996, Huston made her directorial debut with Bastard out of Carolina, a praised adaptation of Dorothy Allison’s novel of the same name, and followed that up with another behind-the-camera effort, Agnes Browne, in 1999. She played Gene Hackman’s estranged wife in the critically-acclaimed The Royal Tenenbaums in 2001. She appeared opposite Clint Eastwood in his police drama Blood Work. She continued to appear in a wide variety of films including an officious antagonist in Daddy Day Care. In 2004 she reteamed with Wes Anderson for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and played in the made for cable historical drama Iron Jawed Angels. In 2006 Huston took on a small role in Terry Zwigoff’s Art School Confidential, and appeared in Martha Coolidge’s Material Girls opposite Hilary and Haylie Duff. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Why Is Google Spelled Wrong

2009-09-27T07:41:00.000-07:00

Why Is Google Spelled Wrong

Why is the Google logo spelled wrong? On the Google homepage, the Google doodle appears to have a typo: it reads "Googlle" instead of "Google." Engineers getting sloppy? Google is celebrating its 11th anniversary today and decided to commemorate the event with a doodle that references the number 11 by adding another "l", to create "Googlle." (See photo below) As you can see from a screen shot of Google Trends, the search engine's new doodle seems to have created a lot of confusion. Two of the top ten queries on Google trends were "why does Google have two 'l's" and "why is Google spelled wrong?". Maybe "Goog11e" would have created less of a stir. Last year, Google put up its 10th birthday logo on 2 September and, according to its Wikipedia entry, it was incorporated as a privately held company on 4 September 1998.

Why does Google have two Ls? Why is Google spelled wrong? These are the questions running in the minds of every internet user who visit Google website on September 27, 2009. 2 L’s created excitement in the user that why Google has 2L’s. This was never happened before in Google’s 11 year life. There is no need to worry about it. Actually 2L’s are number 11. This is a part of Google’s 11th birthday. It will be celebrated in each time zone when it officially become September 27. This is unique way of celebration. This mode of celebration keeps the viewer thinking what is going on, where the 2nd L comes from. Google likes the visitors to keep on guessing when exactly the Google’s birthday is. Last year on 10th September they celebrated their birthday. Google don’t have 1 exact day on which they celebrate their birthday. September is a month of celebration for Google as they incorporated on September 4th and the domain was registered on September 15th.One thing is for sure that Google has a great sense of humor. Google knows how to make the visitor guessing. At first one could not under stand what happens. People check it again and again why it is spelling wrong. No one knows that Google has chosen 27thSeptember for its 11th birthday celebration.

Tim Tebow Injury Update

2009-09-27T07:29:00.001-07:00

Tim Tebow Injury Update

Tim Tebow going down yesterday during the game against Kentucky. The sack by Taylor Wyndham was pretty hard, but the real doozy was his head knocking forward off of the leg of another Gator, Marcus Gilbert. Watch the slow motion footage if you want to see what really happens. Here it is again, if you haven’t seen it: To be clear – as the announcer said, it was a clean hit. It was a hard hit, yes, but the injury came from Tebow’s head bouncing forward off of the leg of another player, not from some kind of illegal, bad sack. Poor Wyndham will probably get death threats from rabid fans, when all he did was play some ball. Several fans showed up at the hospital and have been asking to go back to his room and pray with him, but security is tight. Sources also say that his dad and brother are there. Coach Urban Meyer talked to the press after the game, and said that Tebow’s first question to him was “did I hold onto the ball?” and later said “it’s great to be a Gator.” Tebow was taken to the University of Kentucky Medical center after laying on the field, possibly blacked out, for two or three minutes. He walked off the field under his own power, but felt ill on the sidelines, so an ambulance took him away. At the hospital, sources say that he got a CAT scan and MRI.

They haven’t released anything official yet, but I’m sure that he has a concussion. Hopefully, it isn’t anything more serious. I may not be a Florida fan, but I don’t want to see any player get hurt. From my own experiences, I know that concussions typically aren’t super serious unless there’s bleeding or discharge from the holes in your head or unless you throw up. I say typically because we all know what happened to Natasha Richardson after a little bump on the head. He definitely was sick after that hit, but I’m not sure if he vomited or not, and you’ll need a true Gator fan to actually look through the tape of the game at the sidelines to see if there’s pictures of him puking. Of course, Tebow was sick before the game, so that could have something to do with it. He actually took a private plain to Kentucky, separate from the general team, as did other players with flu symptoms, as a precaution. I think Jen at RightFielders makes a good point though: why was he playing at this point? Florida was way up at the end of the third, and Tebow was definitely already sick. He should have been out of the game at that point. All of this information is up to date as of the time of posting (Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 5:30 AM EST), but I’m sure there will be new information during the day today about Tebow’s condition and the likelihood that he’ll play against LSU. At least he has next weekend off for sure – it’s Florida’s bye week.

Roman Polanski Arrest

2009-09-27T07:17:00.000-07:00

Roman Polanski Arrest

Roman Polanski has been arrested on an arrest warrant stemming from a decades-old sex charge, Swiss police said Sunday. The Academy Award-winning director pleaded guilty in 1977 to a single count of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, acknowledging he had sex with a 13-year-old girl, but fled the United States before he could be sentenced. U.S. authorities issued a warrant for his arrest in 1978. He was taken into custody trying to enter Switzerland on Saturday, Zurich police said. Polanski, 76, has lived in France for decades to avoid being arrested if he enters the U.S. He declined to collect his Academy Award for Best Director in person when he won it for "The Pianist" in 2003. He was en route to the Zurich Film Festival, which is holding a tribute to him, when he was arrested by Swiss authorities, the festival said.

Polanski was nominated for best director Oscars for "Tess" and "Chinatown," and for best writing for "Rosemary's Baby," which he also directed. "However yesterday, on Saturday, he was taken into custody while attempting to enter Switzerland due to a request by U.S. authorities in connection with an arrest warrant from 1978." "Roman Polanski, who is one of the greatest film directors of all time, would have been honored for his life's work in Zurich today," the film festival said in a statement. The Swiss Justice Ministry said Polanski was put "in provisional detention." But whether he can be extradited to the United States "can be established only after the extradition process judicially has been finalised," a ministry spokesman said in an e-mail. "It is possible to appeal at the federal penal court of justice against an arrest warrant in view to extradition as well as against an extradition decision," the spokesman wrote. "Their decisions can be taken further to the federal court of justice."

"She appeared to be one of those kind of little chicks between -- could be any age up to 25. She did not look like a 13-year-old scared little thing," Huston said. Polanski was accused of plying a 13-year-old girl with champagne and a sliver of a quaalude tablet and performing various sex acts, including intercourse, with her during a photo shoot at actor Jack Nicholson's house. He was 43 at the time. There have been repeated attempts to settle the case over the years, but the sticking point has always been Polanski's refusal to return to attend hearings. Prosecutors have consistently argued that it would be a miscarriage of justice to allow a man to go free who "drugged and raped a 13-year-old child." Polanski's lawyers tried earlier this year to have the charges thrown out, but a Los Angeles judge rejected the request. In doing so, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza left the door open to reconsider his ruling if Polanski shows up in court. But the original judge in the case, who is now dead, first sent the director to maximum-security prison for 42 days while he underwent psychological testing. Then, on the eve of his sentencing, the judge told attorneys he was inclined to send Polanski back to prison for another 48 days.

Conan O Brien injured

2009-09-26T08:03:00.000-07:00

Conan O Brien injured

Conan O’Brien was injured while taping a stunt for “The Tonight Show” on Friday.A rep for NBC tells us Conan hit his head doing a stunt. Fortunately, the late-night host was able to laugh about the incident afterward. "Last thing I remember I was enjoying the play with Mrs. Lincoln, and the next thing I knew I was in bed being served cookies and juice," Conan joked. A source tells us the 46-year-old funnyman was examined at a hospital. NBC didn't immediately comment on his condition. As a result of the incident, Friday evening’s show wasn’t completed, and a “Tonight Show” re-run aired. NBC’s “Tonight” show was forced to broadcast a repeat rather than its regularly scheduled first-run show Friday night after the star, Conan O’Brien, hit his head while attempting a stunt during the show’s taping.

Mr. O’Brien could not continue with the show and was taken away for medical attention. NBC issued a brief statement saying only that Mr. O’Brien had “hit his head doing a stunt and the show was not finished.” No other details were released. One staff member on the show said Mr. O’Brien was expected to be fine and it was likely he would be back to work on Monday. NBC also released a statement attributed to Mr. O’Brien, which said, “Last thing I remember I was enjoying the play with Mrs. Lincoln and the next thing I knew I was in bed being served cookies and juice.” Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien was injured on the set of his show Friday and was taken to hospital to undergo tests. According to the network, O’Brien hit his head while he was attempting to do a stunt. It was determined by first responders on the scene that the head injury was more than a bump and O’Brien was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Willow TV

2009-09-26T07:55:00.000-07:00

Willow TV

Willow tv. Indian and Pakistani cricket teams are again slugging it out on the cricket pitch in Champions Trophy in South Africa. For them cricket is simply not a game to win and lose, here they come as enemies and cricket pitches are warfields for both the teams. The two teams take it as war and do every bit to ensure that they are not to face the ignominy of losing a war. The pressure from around one and half billion people from both the countries is always very high on both teams to handle. They have to win the match at any cost to keep the honor of their nations. And whenever they lose they may be sure that their effigies will be burnt on Indian or Pakistani towns and villages by their own people who praised them and made them demigods. Over-zealous supporters even burn effigies of a losing team's players or even of individual players that had simply performed less than well.

The two teams met in the Super Sixes of the 1999 Cricket World Cup, where India won against Pakistan but lost against Australia and New Zealand. Pakistan went on to face Australia in the finals. In the 2003 Cricket World Cup, they again met each other in the Group league match where India achieved a memorable victory and later went on to appear in the finals, but lost to Australia. After the 1999 Kargil Conflict, much of the hatred transformed into a peaceful rivalry between the teams. They played each other in Australia in the 1999–2000 Triangular Series. A successful team and successful players could expect to be given hero status for months after the victory. Thus both the teams are under tremendous pressure to perform well and win which can make for a very exciting game. Then, in the 2003–2004 season, India completed a tour of Pakistan in which there were rare scenes of Indian and Pakistani supporters in unison, followed in early 2005 by a reciprocal tour by Pakistan in India to complete 3 Tests and 6 ODIs.

National Book Festival

2009-09-26T07:48:00.000-07:00

National Book Festival

National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.! I cannot wait. After an exceptionally tough week at work and being treated for strep throat, this is exactly what I need. I’m making plans to listen to John Irving, Judy Blume, Jeannette Wells, and David Wroblewski speak. I’m going to try to get John Irving and possibly David Wroblewski’s autographs, but after my experience last year, I know that anything might happen. In addition to a wonderful day of books and authors, I am going to get the opportunity to meet some of my wonderful book blogging friends! That, to me, is almost more exciting than the books and the authors. So many of them have become my friends and I can’t wait until I can say they’re my friends IRL as well. We’ll all be celebrating at one book festival or another (there’s one in Baltimore this weekend, too!) and then meeting up for dinner at 6. You are sure to hear all about my experience on Sunday. A special thanks to my dear husband Danny for taking one for the team and staying home with the girls tomorrow. I owe you one!

I can't think of a park that didn't provide me with those unexpected thrills. And I think that's the glory of the national parks, that as John Muir said, "It's still the morning of creation. Everything is happening right now." Thank You! The civil War is the most important event in the life of America. Everything that came before it, led up to it and everything after it, is in some small way at least a consequence of it. It's no wonder then, that it holds a universal and continuing appeal. Being a Red Sox fan, you may have asked the wrong person the wrong question, but it is clearly a huge monumental structure that reflects both the glory of the Yankees dominance in this sport and also the excesses of the current age. I've always been interested in films that reveal ourselves to ourselves and I can think of no better subject than the national parks; they are a prism through which one can see refracted the whole history of our complicated United States. The best of us, and the worst of us, is on display in this drama. We've made not a travelogue or a nature film, but a history of complicated ideas and extremely interesting individuals.

North Meck Soccer

2009-09-26T07:27:00.000-07:00

North Meck Soccer

North Meck, why would anyone in north Mecklenburg/Cabarrus county/Lake Norman want to play anywhere else? It seems that NMSC has a stranglehold on quality soccer in the north part of metro Charlotte. It also appears that they are on an upward swing while other clubs like LNSC and FC appear to be falling apart. The Charlotte-area Southwestern 4A and I-Meck (formerly ME-CA 7 4A) conferences represent two of the toughest and deepest leagues in the state. Since 2000, teams from these conferences have been in every state semifinal and six out of the eight state finals – Myers Park (2003), East Mecklenburg (2004) and North Mecklenburg (2005, 2006) – and Providence (2000) and Myers Park (2008) won state championships. This year, a key difference is the new I-Meck conference, which is much stronger than the old ME-CA 7 4A.

Traditional soccer powers Lake Norman, No.15 in the Sweet 16 soccer poll, and No.5 Mooresville have joined the conference, and No.7 Vance and Hopewell have started the season impressively. No.11 North Mecklenburg, which has won numerous conference titles over the years, faces a battle to repeat its past success. North Meck coach Paul Kikta predicts the conference champion could lose two or three games. Vance coach David Smith says that all six teams from the group (West Charlotte will not field a team this fall) could make the playoffs. As a measure of the conference's talent, its teams have begun the year with a 10-5-2 record against Southwestern 4A teams. The Southwestern 4A race is more wide open than it was last year, when Myers Park was undefeated. Only three teams have done that in the past – East Meck in 1987 and 2004, and Providence in 1992. The No.2 Mustangs should be one of the favorites, but will get plenty of pressure from No.8 Ardrey Kell, which has more returning starters than any team in the conference, and No.13 South Meck. Those three should also get pressure from No.6 Butler, 5-1-2 so far, and No.14 Providence, which beat North Meck and tied No.3-ranked Catholic.

India vs Pakistan Live Streaming

2009-09-26T07:17:00.000-07:00

India vs Pakistan Live Streaming

India vs Pakistan cricket match today is estimated to attract several million viewers, and defeat is usually unacceptable for both teams. India should be inspired by the fact that they have never lost to Pakistan in an International Cricket Council (ICC) in the battle for the trophy, even with the team’s fair share of injuries. India and Pakistani cricket teams have played each other in non-test-playing nations such as Canada (Toronto) or the United Arab Emirates (Sharjah), but didn’t have the same number of viewers. Here are a few live streaming sites where you can watch the match, but they are slow…and frustrating. Sopcast requires the download of software before you can watch it. It may be easier to wait until it is over and watch the video of it online.

Good news if you are planning to tune into the highly anticipated ICC Champions Trophy match between India Vs Pakistan, as we have found a working live stream for the match. The match is scheduled to get underway within the next half hour, with the strength of both the Indian and Pakistan teams making for an exciting prospect. The match will take place at the Centurion, with Pakistan already having won their first ICC match against the West Indies. It will be India’s first game of the tournament, with a win giving them a great chance of making the semi-finals. We have found a working stream for the match, which you can watch live here. Let us know if it works for you, or if you are having problems. Watch Live Streaming and Live scores of the Group A match between Asian arch rivals India vs Pakistan in the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 which will begin in Johannesburg on Saturday 26th September, 2009,

Randy Quaid Arrest

2009-09-25T07:25:00.000-07:00

Randy Quaid Arrest

Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi were arrested in Texas on California Warrant on Thursday afternoon when they driving in Marfa, where they had been staying in the hotel. They were arrested for skipping California hotel bill $10,000. The couple was released on bond after spending several hours in the jail. Randy and his wife, Evi, posted $40,000 dollars in bonds to get out of Presidio Country Jail. According to authorities, Randy’s wife Evi Quaid put up a fight and resisted when they were arrested. Corps quickly restrained her.Quaid was charged of three things; burglary, defrauding and conspiracy.Presidio county sheriff Danny Dominguez told the associated press that he drove the actor to bank for the bail money and no special treatment was made to the actor. Quaid was not handcuffed.Dominguez also expressed himself by saying, “I like to help everybody out.”

Earlier in September, the warrant was issued after sheriff’s detective filed the case to district attorney after receiving complain that the couple had not paid the local hotel bill amounted to $10,000.Randy won a Golden Globe award. He is the best known for his roles in the “National Lampoon’s Vacation” movies, “Independence Day” and “Kingpin.” He was also nominated for Portrayal of president Lyndon in”LBJ: The Early Years”. Law enforcement sources tell us they were picked up by Presidio County Sheriff's deputies. We're told there was a struggle and deputies had to wrestle Evi to the ground as she screamed loudly. Felony arrest warrants had been issued for the Quaids in Santa Barbara, CA for burglary, defrauding an innkeeper and conspiracy. They're accused of stiffing the San Ysidro Ranch near Santa Barbara out of thousands of bucks.

Soldier Boy

2009-09-25T07:14:00.000-07:00

Soldier Boy

Soldier Boy," "The Jerk,"or any of the other latest dances, Washington is going to bust another move. "I will never stop until my last play is up," said Washington, in his seventh season. "When I retire, and guys do something big in a game, I will dance for them." Because this is Baltimore, and we're old school. We'll let you dance a little if you score a touchdown, or if you have a couple of Pro Bowl years. But after downing a punt? Oh, no, please. Never in the brief history of the Ravens has there been so much controversy over a player dancing. Ray Lewis dances. Derrick Mason dances, if you can call it that. So why can't Washington dance? Whether he dances or not, there is a perception about Washington that is wrong. There is this image of a flamboyant, arrogant player who struts and prances because his ego is out of control. Washington is very low-key, soft-spoken and well-liked by his teammates. During training camp, he got fans excited, especially the kids, by doing his little dances. He often stayed late to sign autographs, and for a first-year player in Baltimore, he does a lot of charity work around town.

"I think this dancing thing is getting blown out of proportion," Washington said. "It's not about dancing, but celebrating a big play for your team. I get excited. I've always been that type of player. I'm not trying to show up another team; it's just my way of getting myself and our team going." "It's Kelley, man," Mason said. "He's out there - he's enjoying football, and he's having fun. He's found himself a niche on this team where he can go out there, not only on special teams, but he's coming out there and being a big contributor for us on offense, especially when he comes out on third down and he's making those huge catches for us." "On the field, I look at myself as an entertainer, somebody who plays for the crowd," he said. "As a kid, I idolized guys who played to the crowds and got them into the game." There is no debate about Washington's contributions. He came into training camp trying to make the team as one of possibly five or six receivers, and he has worked his way to No. 3.

Fallingwater

2009-09-25T06:44:00.000-07:00

Fallingwater

Fallingwater, also known as the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence, is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1934 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The house was built partly over a waterfall in Bear Run at Rural Route 1 in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. Hailed by Time magazine shortly after its completion as Wright’s “most beautiful job,” In 1991, members of the American Institute of Architects named the house the “best all-time work of American architecture” and in 2007, it was ranked twenty-ninth on the list of America’s Favorite Architecture according to the AIA.

Even those not familiar with America's most notable architects are likely familiar with the name Frank Lloyd Wright -- a man who designed more than 1,000 projects that emphasized what he called "organic architechture." The most famous is Fallingwater, a home built in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania, which was constructed in part over a waterfall. He is said to have told the owner Edgar Kaufmann, "I want you to live with the waterfall, not just look at it." "The Smithsonian" magazine included it in " 28 Places to See Before You Die " and now you have an opportunity to spend the night. Up until recently, visitors could only take tours of the historic landmark for about $18. But now fans have a more exclusive and pricey option that includes lounging, dining and walking the grounds at your own pace as well as an overnight stay on the property. The sleeping accommodations are in a four-bedroom home behind Fallingwater.

IPhone MMS Update

2009-09-25T06:31:00.000-07:00

IPhone MMS Update

IPhone users in the U.S. will finally get a long-anticipated feature: Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). With a patch from iTunes, AT&T iPhone owners will be able to quickly send pictures and videos to their friends. Of course, a lot of people seem to forget that almost every other phone has MMS capability. In fact, the iPhone has been MMS-capable since June, when iPhone OS 3.0 was released. The delay has been because of AT&T, which has been furiously upgrading its infrastructure to handle the increased stress that MMS will cause on its network. 3G iPhone users in the U.S. will finally be receiving Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) through an upgrade by AT&T. By downloading a patch from, AT&T 3G Phone owners will be able to quickly send pictures and videos to their friends, like they send text messages (See the picture below).

As most of you will be aware, the highly anticipated MMS update from AT&T is expected to go live today at somepoint this morning for all iPhone users. While we have confirmed that some of you have already received the update, many are still waiting for the update to appear. As we reported to you yesterday, AT&T confirmed that the update is ‘expected’ to go live towards the ‘late morning’ to iPhone customers on the Pacific time zone. Well thats not too long away now, so you should start checking out iTunes to see if the update has become available. It’s quite a strange situation, as we know there are a lot of you who have already unlocked the MMS features with no problems, but for others, this process is proving to be quite difficult.

Lakewood NJ

2009-09-24T08:04:00.000-07:00

Lakewood NJ

Lakewood Police Officers were shot overnight while executing a weapon & drugs warrant. Sources tell YWN that the officers entered the residence located at 1154 McKenzie Court (Chestnut area), when they were hit with gunfire. Officers returned fire hitting the suspect, Jamie Gonzalez multiple times. Lakewood Patrolman Jonathan Wilson was shot in the face during the raid, and was in critical but stable condition at a local hospital. Authorities said they were cautiously optimistic he would survive despite being grievously wounded. Two other Lakewood officers, Sgt. Louis Sasso and Patrolman Leonard Nieves Sr. were shot in their bulletproof vests, sustaining only minor injuries despite being struck in the chest. They were treated and released from the hospital. The suspect, Jamie Gonzalez, 39, was in critical condition after suffering numerous gunshot wounds as police returned fire, Ford said. A second person who was inside the house when the shooting erupted also was in custody, but had not been charged as of Thursday morning. First Assistant Prosecutor Ronald DeLigny said it does not appear the second person was involved in the shooting, but may be implicated in the underlying guns and drugs case that brought the multi-agency task force to the house in the first place.

At 2:25 a.m., the task force consisting of officers from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, New Jersey State Police, the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office and Lakewood police executed a "no-knock" search warrant at the single family home. The shooting comes more than two months after Jersey City police Det. Marc DiNardo was shot in the face storming an apartment where two armed robbery suspects were holed up. Four other officers were wounded in the gun battle and the suspects were killed. Ford would not characterize the underlying drug and weapons case other than to say it was "big enough to attract the attention of the task force." Authorities were still searching the house Thursday morning for evidence in the shooting case, as well as the gun and drugs case. Police returned fire and shot Gonzalez several times. It was not immediately clear how many shots were fired. Lakewood was once known as the resort in the pines for wealthy New Yorkers in the 1800s and early 1900s. The Rockefellers and Goulds built mansions there. The township has a large Orthodox Jewish population and has one of the largest yeshivas in the world, Beth Medrash Govoha.

19 Pound Baby

2009-09-24T07:54:00.000-07:00

19 Pound Baby

An Indonesian woman has given birth to an 8.7-kilogram (19.2-pound) baby boy, the heaviest newborn ever recorded in the country, a doctor said Wednesday. The baby, who is still unnamed and is 62 centimetres (24.4 inches) long, was born by caesarean section Monday at a public hospital in North Sumatra province, a gynaecologist who took part in the operation told AFP. “This heavy baby made the surgery really tough, especially the process of taking him out of his mum’s womb. His legs were so big,” Binsar Sitanggang said. The boy is in a healthy condition despite having to initially be given oxygen to overcome breathing problems, the gynaecologist said. “He’s got strong appetite, every minute, it’s almost non-stop feeding,” he said. “This baby boy is extraordinary, the way he’s crying is not like a usual baby. It’s really loud.”

She had to be rushed to hospital due to complications with the pregnancy, which had reached nine months. The baby, her fourth, was the only child not delivered by a traditional midwife. The boy’s massive size was likely the result of his mother, Ani, 41, having diabetes, Sitanggang said. When a diabetic mother’s glucose level is high during pregnancy, the baby can receive too much glucose and grow too large, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Indonesia’s previous heaviest baby, weighing in at 6.9 kilos, was born in 2007 on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta, according to the Indonesian Museum of Records website. He’s a bouncing baby boy who could break a knee — a mother in Jakarta, Indonesia, delivered a 19.2-pound, 2-foot-long child on Monday via Caesarean section. The as-yet-unnamed baby’s arrival, chronicled on TODAY Thursday, was marked by a cry that sounded more like a roar and an appetite of epic proportions. The big baby, a weight record for a newborn in Indonesia, although a bit short of the world record of 23 pounds set in 1879, was likely caused by his mother having gestational diabetes. And even though mom Ani was saved the grueling task of pushing the child out herself, the surgery to bring him into the world was still touch and go.

Tylenol Recall 2009

2009-09-24T07:40:00.000-07:00

Tylenol Recall 2009

Tylenol Recall 2009 is listed on Tylenol.com or the FDA’s website today. But one report claims a “warehouse recall” is in place. Moreover, online comments says Sams Club users who recently purchased specific products from the manufacturer were called by their store. There they said the recall is only a “warehouse recall,” and store owners have already been advised to pull the drug from their shelves. They also directed doctors to pull sample bottles from their shelves. The best news? The drug is safe. It’s a voluntary recall. Lot numbers are thereafter posted in the report that is following by Sams’ shoppers commenting about recent calls. Children’s Tylenol Recall,Tylenol Recall 2009:Blister package design and information on the packages and bottles of all lots and flavors of Tylenol Meltaways and SoftChews in 80 and 160mg may be confusing and lead to improper dosing, possibly even overdosing. Read more to find out if any Tylenol you have could be affected by this recall.

McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals is voluntarily recalling all lots and all flavors of Children’s TYLENOL® Meltaways 80 mg packaged in bottles and blisters, Children’s TYLENOL®SoftChews 80mg packaged in blisters, and Junior TYLENOL® Meltaways 160mg packaged in blisters. The blister package design, as well as the information on the blister package and on the blister and bottle cartons may be confusing and could lead to improper dosing, including over-dosing. In addition, some Children’s TYLENOL® Meltaways 80mg are packaged in a bottle. The bottle is packaged in a carton. Concerns have been raised that the information on the front panel of the carton for Children’s TYLENOL® Meltaways 80mg may be confusing to some consumers in determining the proper dosage. The carton labeling says that each dose provides 80 mg of acetaminophen. Consumers should know that each tablet of Children’s TYLENOL Meltaways contains 80 mg of acetaminophen. Caregivers should be guided by the dosage directions on the bottle label for the correct number of individual tablets to be given based on the child’s age and weight.

Mackenzie Phillips on Oprah

2009-09-24T07:24:00.000-07:00

Mackenzie Phillips on Oprah

Mackenzie Phillips told all to Oprah on Wednesday. She said she and her father John had a longterm consensual incestuous affair, that began with a drug-fueled rape. Her book "High on Arrival" also details it. The last time he touched her was when she found out she was pregnant, ten years into their sexual relationship, and she had an abortion. But prior to that, when they were in a hotel in Hawaii while out on tour, Mackenzie says her famous dad wished aloud that they could run away together and raise Bijou and Tam (Mackenzie's younger half-siblings with whom she shares her father) and Shane (Mackenzie's son) as their own. "You begin to love your captor, and I felt great love for my father. The moment that he tried to make it a romance, all the sudden, it was like being shot into present time." She talked about her repulsion at his attempt to romanticize their relationship, That was the beginning of the end. She wound up pregnant, not knowing who the father was.

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Mackenzie Phillips appeared on Oprah on the Wednesday episode and revealed some shocking secrets from her past. 49-year-old Mackenzie Phillips is the daughter of John Phillips, singer of The Mamas and The Papas. In the interview with Oprah Winfrey, she claimed that her father was the one who shot her up with cocaine for the first time and also claimed that she had sexual relationships with her own father John Phillips for about a decade. The accusations made by Mackenzie Phillips during the interview were startling and most of the people are not ready to accept them. She also described all the brutal secrets from her past in her newly written memoir “High On Arrivals”. Even Mackenzie Phillips’ stepmother, Michelle Phillips doesn’t believe her as she said. Now, it is hard to tell whether the allegations made by Mackenzie Phillips on her late father are true or not. Some people believed that these secrets are revealed at the same time when her book was on to release, so she did it all to promote her newly written book. The video of Mackenzie Phillips on Oprah is given below.

Taylor Schilling

2009-09-23T08:03:00.000-07:00

Taylor Schilling

Taylor Schilling recalls standing in a class not so long ago doing a scene from Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters" that changed her life. "I thought, 'Wow, this is where I feel at home,'" Schilling told the Daily News. "It was a feeling of disappearing and coming into myself." There won't be any disappearing for Schilling these days. In just a couple years, she has gone from attending college to a part in the film "Dark Matter," which co-stars Meryl Streep, to being the lead in a new NBC hospital drama, "Mercy," launching Wednesday night at 8. Schilling plays Veronica Callahan, a nurse who returns from Iraq to work at Mercy Hospital. "Veronica is sort of a dream for an actor," Schilling said. "She has so many different layers, and is so complex and so human, and there's so much to sink your teeth into." The show is shot partly on location at a closed hospital and in a studio in New Jersey. Besides Schilling, it stars Jaime Lee Kirchner, Michelle Trachtenberg, James Tupper and others. The show is shot partly on location at a closed hospital and in a studio in New Jersey. Besides Schilling, it stars Jaime Lee Kirchner, Michelle Trachtenberg, James Tupper and others.

Despite her relative inexperience, Schilling said she doesn't feel the pressure of carrying the series. "I absolutely don't," she said. "It doesn't feel like pressure on my shoulders. It feels like the show sinks or swims based on the team. We have an amazing cast and an amazing crew and an amazing creative team. Everyone is extremely invested. I feel so supported." As with any series representing a subset of society, there will be complaints about the portrayals, and nursing is no different. "You can't care that much about what people think," Schilling said. "Everyone is going to have an opinion. What I can do is do my best and hope the majority like what I do. "I do hope nurses can see some sort of reflection in this role," she added, "and I hope it's entertaining. It's just TV, I'm not really saving lives." That said, the show has nurses on the set to help with the terminology and techniques involved in medical procedures, which, Schilling noted, need to be done as if it's rote. "Mercy" is more than just nursing. The story lines follow the characters outside of the hospital as well. Callahan is married and having an affair with a doctor at the hospital. "This is one of those things I've always loved and always wanted to do," she said. "It's such an interesting way to explore myself and explore human beings. I'm endlessly curious about what makes other people tick, [what makes] me tick, and to get that work is a dream."