It seems like it happened like this -

On November 15th 2009, 28-year old Marium Varinauskas was busy getting drunk when his girlfriend decided that she cannot take any more. So, she did the best thing she could think of - call the cops. When Police officer Elaine Lynch arrived at the apartment, Marium found her a little too charming and decided to take his wiener out and tried to strike the officer's head with it. Luckily, Elaine was fast and avoided the deadly assault on her head.

Fiscal depute Elaine Lynch said: "The accused got to his feet and was standing over the police officer exposing his penis and thrusting it in her face, forcing her to take evasive action to avoid getting struck."

Defence solicitor John Hardie said: "He was sitting on the couch drunk with his pants on.

"He can't remember anything but accepts that if that's what the police say then that's what happened.

"He has never been so drunk before that day and accepts he has to take full responsibility. He apologises profusely and is extremely embarrassed."

Luckily, Marium got off easy with just a fine of 600, despite the dangerous crime!

Police in north Zealand are hunting a man who has been accosting female joggers near the town of Kokkedal and asking them to break wind on him.

The first reported incident took place on 10 January on a running path near Kokkedal Castle when the man surprised a woman with his unusual request. He struck again on 11 February as a woman was jogging outside the local shopping centre.

Both women were frightened enough that they reported the man to the police, who described him as Danish, between 20 and 30 years old, 180cm tall and last seen wearing a black jacket, jeans and white trainers.

Sexologist Karen Sveistrup told news website Lokalavisen.dk that its likely the man gets a sexual kick from surprising the women.Source: www.cphpost.dk

Interestingly, there is a name for this fetish - Flatulophilia or flatulence obsession. And if the guy gets aroused by the fart, then it is called Eproctophilia or arousal from flatulence.

Please report to North Zealand police if you have any information about the fart smeller!

The wife had been thrown out of the house by the husband and is currently staying with her parents.

Not sure who is at fault, but taking the roof sounds a little below the belt.

The person behind the famous Erin Andrews peephole video, which was taken as the ESPN reporter traveled during an 18-month period, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison. Michael Barrett, 48, was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $7,366.

Barrett had previously pleaded guilty to the charge. Michael Barrett reportedly shopped the Erin Andrews peephole videos to at least on celebrity website, and after being turned down, uploaded 10 of them on the Internet, IDing the reporter in his posts.

At Monday's sentencing hearing, the ESPN reporter told the court that she still suffers as a result of the "Erin Andrews peephole video." The 31-year-old said:

"I'm being victimized every day...and I did nothing to deserve it. I'm living public humiliation. It's my body that's on the Internet. [...] He stalked me, he terrorized me -- this will never be over for me, and I don't want it to ever be over for you (referring to Barrett)."

During the aftermath of the Erin Andrews peephole video revelations, Andrews sometimes found herself stalked by others. You can read a transcript of a 911 call and listen to audio here.

According to court documents, at least 16 other unidentified women were targeted by Barrett in the same way. Court papers described them only as "female sports reporters and other television personalities."

Erin Andrews was voted America's "sexiest sportscaster" by Playboy magazine in 2007 and 2008, pre-peephole video days, and will be one of the celebrity contestants in the upcoming season of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars," which starts on March 22.

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While a particular woman was lying in bed, she hears someone climbing into her second story balcony. Her first thought? A burglar is trying to rob her. Logical, if she ignores the fact that her man isn't the most law abiding citizen.

Police discovered the "burglar" was a man carrying flowers and a bottle of wine who turned out to be the woman's boyfriend, but then arrested him on an outstanding warrant.

"He was trying to surprise her with the flowers and a bottle of wine but it all went wrong," said Korbach police spokesman Volker Koenig. He said the man jumped down from the balcony and tried to escape but was quickly tackled by police.

Ah, the stupidity of criminals. While this isn't a stupid act in and of itself, it ended badly, so you have to blame someone ... why not the criminal?

The story has a happy ending, though. The criminal in question was apparently so pleased with the way the police treated him, unlike his ungrateful woman who called the police in the first place, that he decided to give the police officers the bottle of wine. See, somewhere out there exists a small band of police officers that are nice ... imagine that!

Most of the Arab wore masks, thus their identification in court will be problematic.

A crowd of criminals who defy law enforcement officers and purposely evade identification is an enemy formation, yet the police feared prosecution and shrunk from shooting at the crowd. Arabs know that rioters usually go unpunished, and engage in riots as national sport.

The riots are instigated by Islamic Movement, an official organization which Israeli government refuses to ban despite decades of incitement.

Those who think that the Arabs would be satisfied with East Jerusalem might learn from the fact that the current round of riots follows renovation of the famous Hurva synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem.

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Mr Winn, of Taunton, Somerset, wrote back: 'Personally, I'd rather recruit ex-drug dealers, convicts and even child molesters rather than consider anybody who has been in the pay of the British Government.'

'Anybody who has been in the pay of such a military force, and by their silence and complicity has condoned such illegal and immoral actions while accepting a monthly bloodstained pay-packet , certainly won't be considered for employment by us.'

'The reality for the families of their victims is that there will never be any justice, and there never will be any closure, for the loss of a son, a husband, a child, or a family member who has fallen victim to British Military personnel who are going beyond 'just doing their job'.

'Please remove us from your email list. Regards, Karl.'

Initially Karl claimed that the email was sent by a disgruntled employee who had hacked his email account but later on, he did admit that he sent the email.

Karl claims to be associated with a lot of organizations.

Karl Winn, Webeurope's founder and principle owner, has for many years supported numerous organisations (NGO's), such organisations include: -

The company website has the following press release -

Between 5th and 9th of March, there was a private and personal email exchange between Karl Winn and Graham Brown the Managing Director of Forces Recruitment Services Ltd. FRS specialises in the recruitment of ex-British Army personnel, as part of the Hire-A-Hero campaign.

In those emails Karl Winn stated that his personal preference would be to offer employment even to ex-offenders, rather than British Military personnel because at least the former had been investigated, and bought before the courts, and held accountable for their actions. The reality for the families of their victims is that there will never be any justice, and there never will be any closure, for the loss of a son, a husband, a child, or a family member who has fallen victim to British Military personnel who are going beyond "just doing their job".

The reality from the north of Ireland, to Afghanistan and Iraq, is that the perpetrators of such atrocities will always be free to get on with their lives, safe in the knowledge that the policy of the British Government is to ensure their protection from prosecution.

... we are not talking about people who do their duty. Nobody is going to condemn any service man or woman for that. What I'm referring to is the unwillingness of far too many service men and women to give evidence against those who commit criminal offences. .. I'm not talking about incidents that happen in the heat of battle against armed combatants, but actions, that by any standard, amount to murder, or other such crimes against a civilian population. However, I accept we'll never agree on this. Your allegiance is to the British Military - mine is on the side of its victims.

I am also against war but it is ridiculous for a company/person to have such a policy against ex-servicemen or women. If he has something against war, then he should be against the people who declare them, rather than people who are made to carry it out. Servicemen or women did not select the war but chose to serve the country in which ever way the country needs them, which in turn is decided by head of countries. The person should be thankful to the men/women in uniform, rather than comparing them to drug dealers, etc.

What do you guys say?

While Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij still have their own legal problems to contend with, it seems that The Pirate Bay itself will not be blocked by its providing ISP, Telenor. Personally, I don't think it would have mattered too much because they would simply move to another ISP, likely in Eastern Europe, where such laws don't exist. Regardless, this is a great victory for The Pirate Bay and other Torrent sites.

Slashdot gives a great summary:

Copyright holders have given up legal efforts to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to block filesharing site The Pirate Bay, one of the parties to the case said. The copyright holders, led by Norway's performing rights society TONO and by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Norway (IFPI Norge), have lost two rounds in the Norwegian court system, and have now decided against appealing the case to Norway's supreme court.

While those tyre men have had to work harder and train ever more with the tyres, what about the companies behind the fuel rigs? They have had to work even harder to ensure their fuel optimises everything from power, efficiency and weight.

Thanks to Shell, The F1Fanatics Blog can bring you an exclusive look at some of the challenges surrounding the fuel company who provide their V-Power mixture to the Ferrari F1 Team.

Lisa Lilley, who is the top manager for Shells racing fuels department and works directly with the Ferrari F1 Team told us The 2010 refuelling ban is by far the biggest challenge we have seen in fuel development in 15 years, but it is also a really positive one for Shell. Over the last year we have put a lot of work into the formulation of the Shell V-Power race fuel for the new season, and our main objective has been to optimise the power and performance benefit of the Shell V-Power race fuel for Ferrari.

Lisa Lilley of Shell Race Fuels

On top of just creating that faster fuel, efficiency is necessary so that the cars can complete the race as quickly as possible, yet the fuel needs to last them. While Bahrains Grand Prix yesterday was only 49 laps, the Monaco Grand Prix is 78. The fuel needs to work across the range of circuits to its top performance, and Shell have focussed on efficiency. Mike Evans, Shell Formula One Fuels Development Project Leader explains, Engines, performance-wise, are tuned to run a rich, heavy type of fuel but you can then run them on a slightly leaner formulation, which will give you a small drop in performance but it will also give you better fuel efficiency. Its getting that balance right.

The more efficient the fuel can be, means that the fuel tanks can be smaller and can lead to the car being lighter and thus faster in race trim. Ferrari are well known for having one of the fastest engines in the pit lane, and when compared to the Renault equivalent in their rivals Red Bull Racing car the Ferrari engine guzzles its fuel much faster so this has been an added challenge for the fuel scientists. Mike Evans continues [We have been] working hard for the last nine months leading up to the 2010 season, given the latest FIA rule changes.

The heat of the engine on the fuel has been another concern for the manufacturers, with the engines and fuel tanks in a much more compact structure than they were back in the early 1990s, there is a good chance of the engine heat affecting the fuel. This could occur even more frequently at races in locations such as Bahrain where the air temperature is usually around 36oC. ,Lisa Lilley continued her explanation Without this cooling effect, and in addition to having the larger fuel tank sitting next to very hot engines, the fuel itself will be getting hotter while it is in the car this year.

Lilley continued, At Shell, our fuel experts have been working since last year to meet these challenges, and provide Ferraris Formula One team with a custom-made Shell V-Power race fuel that can provide optimum performance even at high temperatures.

The drivers carried out extensive winter testing of various components including fuels

So it is very evident that Shell, like other fuel manufacturers have been working very hard. But what is the relationship between Ferrari, the most successful F1 team of all time and the Dutch fuel manufacturer? Stefano Domenicali was very happy with the links between the two companies The technical partnership we share with Shell is key to our understanding of fuel development. Shell has unrivalled expertise and knowledge in fuel technology, and our close-working relationship means we can constantly push the fuel to its boundaries to achieve both power and performance.

Domenicali continued The fuel is a crucial element that has always been very important to Ferrari and the refuelling ban in 2010 means the partnership will be absolutely fundamental this season.

The drivers too seem very happy with the work Shell have done, newcomer Fernando Alonso told us I think we are ready. We have some innovative new products from Shell, that we have spent a lot of the winter testing and I think we have found the right compromise. We have to be very optimistic for the season ahead

Team mate Felipe Massa, who has been with Ferrari for many seasons alongside both Michael Schumacher and Kimi Raikkonen added We are using V-Power from Shell, which is a great fuel anyway and were trying to make it even faster and even more reliable, because reliability is really really important now.

So, after 10 constructors championships and 12 drivers titles with the Italian giants, we would be fairly confident that Shell know what they are doing with the fuel this season, and their expertise tied in with one of the best teams, Ferrari, and two of the best drivers, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa could provide and unstoppable force in F1.

Ferrari are pinning their hopes on two time world champion Fernando Alonso to deliver great results

F1 Fanatics

Paralympic Games 2010:

When I was in the states years ago, I became a big sponsor of the Paralympics and also of the Special Olympics. I have had the pleasure to cook, organize and feed multiples of thousands of these Olympic contestants in my time. One of the most memorial times for me was the paralympics after the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta Georgia. Right Now the Paralympics is going on in Vancouver Canada...

I have always been impressed by the organizations but have always been dismayed by the lack of public attention that everyone gives to these two wonderful programs for disabled people.

I was shocked as I turned my attention to the Paralympics and saw that Russia has excelled in the medal counts so far...

Go Russia!

Windows to Russia!

PS: (Look at Ukraine also!)

Gaga, 23, who looked like she was on the verge of collapse, was seen struggling through her closing number Bad Romance, appearing dazed and unsteady on her feet on March 13, reports News.com.au.

She then removed her headgear, sat down and laid flat on the stage for most of the song.

According to the Daily Telegraph, the singer had been forced to cancel a January concert in the U.S. after passing out from exhaustion, and now questions are going around if she will be able to last the rest of the tour.

Celebrity and World

In the film Aniston, 41, steps into the shoes of investigative journalist Nicole Hurley who has jumped bail to go after a story and ends up on the run from her bounty hunting ex-hubby Milo Boyd, played by Gerard Butler, 40.

The former Friends star has performed all her stunts herself and when asked how she ran wearing heels, she said: I trained for years trained, trained.

Talking about how her hair still looks stunning in the movie even after she falls in a pond, Aniston joked: She's fallen in a pond I know, yeah dried well.

I was dumped into a trunk, I ran for miles and miles in four-inch Manolos, I got covered in pond scum, gun shots, car chases, crashes. It was so much fun, the Mirror quoted her, as saying.

Aniston added: The toughest stunt, I would say the car chase, getting shot at, it wasn't hard, it was just a little scary.

Helmer Andy Tennant said: There were a lot of bruises and she's handcuffed for half the film, and she had some serious black bruises on her wrists because she was very physical, because she didn't want the fake ones, she needed the real ones, because she's constantly trying to get out of them.

Aniston said: It was terrible. No really, it hurt. It was painful, they really cut into my wrists.

Celebrity and World

Rihanna, 22, was teamed up with JLS by Jay-Z, who is keen to develop the boyband in America.

He further plans on putting the two acts together and to link JLS up with his wife Beyonce and pal Kanye.

Working with JLS is something that will happen this year, the Sun quoted Rihanna as saying.

Jay will make stars out of them. He has been a great mentor to me.

He has been around long enough to spot real talent and he knows who will become worldwide stars.

They can sing, they can dance, they look good, actually they look very good.

But more importantly they look like a group. It doesnt look like they have been put together. It looks like they are meant to be together, she stated.

Rihanna, who has met the boys at parties in London, is certainly very enthusiastic, and believes they could become the biggest band on the planet.

I will be working with them on one of their singles and am sure Kanye and Bey will collaborate with them on tracks as well, she said.

America has only had a little taste of them so far, but give it probably as little as 18 months and they could be the most famous band in the world.

There is nothing Jay doesnt know about the music business.

Under his management I think JLS will probably be the biggest, she added.

Celebrity and World

On the road to eternal peace, a body left inside a funeral home minivan wound up at hell on earth: the city tow pound.

The unscheduled stop came after a police tow truck hooked the illegally parked vehicle outside Redden's Funeral Home on W. 14th St.

The dearly departed was soon heading for a lot off the West Side Highway, with the truck driver handling the last rights - and a few lefts - on the ride through Chelsea.

Funeral director Paul DeNigris said he nearly died after walking outside the business Monday afternoon to find his client no longer resting in peace.

"I was just a wreck," DeNigris told the Daily News. "I was frantic. When something like that happens, you go into panic mode."

The corpse was finally rescued after 90 undignified minutes in Manhattan's most miserable locale, trapped amid scofflaws and irate out-of-towners.

DeNigris had parked his silver 2002 Dodge in a "No Parking Anytime" zone outside the funeral home. The body, in a white cardboard box, was headed for Newark Airport and a flight to Miami for cremation.

DeNigris said he stepped inside to pick up some paperwork, took a phone call, and returned to find ... nothing.

"The car was just gone," he said yesterday.

The NYPD said the van was ticketed at 9:22 a.m. - and then towed nearly three hours later, at 12:07 p.m.

"There was nothing to indicate it was more than just an illegally parked car," said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.

The terrified DeNigris was at the pound within minutes, explaining his improbable plight and showing his funeral home paperwork.

"I tried not to be too loud," he recounted. "I didn't want to scream, 'I'm the guy from the funeral home with the car with the person in the back.'

"We try to be discreet."

The car and its human cargo were returned at 1:40 p.m., with Redden driving to Newark in time to put the body on the Florida flight.

He declined to provide any information about the victim.

DeNigris said the minivan had a windshield placard reading "Funeral Director on Official Business," but acknowledged it had fallen flat and was hard to detect.

The van's tinted windows helped obscure the box packed in its rear, he said.

Redden's will start putting signs identifying its vehicles in the rear and side windows to prevent a repeat.

The tow pound, in a show of respect despite the bizarre circumstances, waived the $185 fee when returning the minivan.

DeNigris said he planned to fight the $115 parking ticket, claiming a funeral business vehicle transporting a body is immune to parking regulations.

If he loses, DeNigris said, that's the cost of doing business in the city.

"It's frustrating," he said. "It's aggravating. But this is New York City. Things like this are not uncommon."

Original NY Daily News Article By Rocco Parascandola, Barry Paddock and Larry Mcshane

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/12/2010-03-12_tow_no_thats_my_corpse_he_undertakes_mission_to_get_back_body_from_the_city_poun.html#ixzz0iGo6vzhZ

One thing I want to know is, how long was that phone call he said he took while he left the corpse outside? Maybe before blabbing for three hours on the phone he should've taken the corpse inside? One thing is for sure, he won't be making that mistake again.

The White House demands a construction freeze in extremely rude terms. The current crisis is attributable to the scheming Israeli president. Peres expected that Obama will force Netanyahu to formally abandon the construction, and such a decision provoke coalition crisis. Netanyahu, accordingly, would have to bring Kadima into the government to prevent it from falling apart, and Kadima will push for further concessions to Palestinians.

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Answer: You lose $$$

Hard to believe, but it happened in reality. A Hungarian bank lost $28,000+ in a crash after a bank's security van met an accident with a prison van carrying convicted robbers.

While rescue personnel saved the prisoners from their burning van, a small fortune disappeared from the security van as bags of money spilled out onto the streets of Budapest.

Civilians were seen driving up and grabbing the cash before speeding off again.

By the time law enforcement arrived the money was gone and there was no trace of those that had taken it.

Police suspected the robbery may have been organized from jail by crime bosses and carried out by gang members still on the outside.

But after interviews with the inmates - who were being transported from court back to jail - those suspicions were quickly refuted. The prisoners claimed they had nothing to do with the crash.

"The bank remains very suspicious. Of all the vehicles that could have hit their van, it had to be one full of bank robbers," said a police spokesman.

Planned or just a coincidence, it does sound really strange!

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The 49-year-old bought the pokey space for 120,000 four years ago, the Mirror reported.

He said: I do the cleaning while lying in my sofa bed. In fact, I can wash up, answer the door, make a cuppa and go to the loo all at the same time.


The flat's two rooms measure 60.5sq ft (compared to a 72sq ft snooker table) and has a toilet, a shower which doubles up as a wardrobe, and six-inch deep cupboards.

It was converted into a living space in 1987 and bought by a secretary for 37,000.

Now worth almost six times as much, selling the flat would enable Mr Barker to put down an offer on 600-year-old Ballyfinboy Castle, which rests on two acres of land in Co. Tipperary, Eire.

But he said: My cosy flat is just fine for sleeping. And itd be a lot harder getting to my job in Chiswick from Ireland.Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Claustrophobia anyone? But living across Harrods might just do the trick for some women!

The team principal of Ferrari Domenicali, said that after all the hard work the team had put in to get the F10 car working well, and following a difficult 2009 season it was a great remedy to any underlying doubts fans may have about the car.

Well, for sure this race is very important for the team, said Domenicali. After a difficult season like last year, and after a very difficult decision that we had to take last year, everyone was ready with the gun to fire. But that is part of the game.

This is the reason why I have to take certain responsibility. It is good because it shows that the decision was right. I have to thank all the people at home who worked very hard, they were staying together, because it is easy when you have a very bad season everyone says you have bad people and it was better in a different period. But that is life. We know that. So the only way to react is to come back with results.

Red Bull Racing looked very good in this race, with Sebastian Vettel leading the field until reliability problems with the Red Bull lowered him to 4th place late on. However Domenicali is just happy the car looks competitive.

What is important to see is that the car we have seen this weekend is a good base to look ahead for the future, he said. The season is very, very long and we have to stay with our feet on the ground because I am expecting all the others to be very aggressive and very competitive.

But we have seen a good car in both qualifying and racing conditions, and it proves that the work that has to be done is a lot still. But we are starting from a good pace.

F1 Fanatics

South Park is ready for season 14, and they are going to start the season off with a bang. Not a banging, but a bang, though you might assume that since they are targeting Tiger Woods with their first episode, banging might be involved. Since the Black Friday 2009 car accident that first spotlighted to the public the reality of Tiger Woods' numerous affairs and sex addiction, Woods has been lampooned, roasted (and not a celebrity roast) and derided. How could South Park pass it up?

"It's such an important issue in America right now the sex addiction outbreak," Matt Stone, who partners with Trey Parker on the series, said on Friday. "We're all really concerned about him and hope he gets better."

It's difficult to tell if that concern is honest or sarcastic. Stone and Parker were reportedly still working on the script on Friday, and he noted that he was both fascinated and disgusted by Woods' public apology, so sarcasm isn't out of the question.

South Park's new season begins on Wednesday, and the series will air its 200th episode next month.

Watch a teaser for the episode below:

Originally on SNAFU-ed

Saturday night during the news hour on Imedi TV channel, Made a broadcast that Russia had invaded Georgia after a terror attack on the president of South Ossetian republic, Eduard Kokoity. The news report started out and stated that Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili and his government had been evacuated.

They did have a short disclaimer (like this statement) about not being true at the end of the newscast, very short! And at the beginning of the news cast was a statement that the program showed a sequence of possible events that could only occur "If Georgian society is not brought together against Russia's plans."} ---- Kinda small and short like this!

Within several minutes into the news report, they reported the death of Saakashvili and creation of the Peoples government headed by one of the opposition leaders, Nino Burdzhanadze. (Nino Burdzhanadze is pissed!)

By this point Georgia was a madhouse of instigated turmoil and the damage was done...

On Sunday after all was over with and a form of calm had set in, Mikhail Saakashvili claimed that such staging of a war situation might be useful to protect Georgia from a new war with Russia. But he made clear that he had nothing to do with it and next time that the news station should do a better job of letting people know that is was a false report!

OK! I really believe that Sassy had nothing to do with it...

Windows to Russia!

Hurley and Grant live next door to each other in London and share good relation despite their split 10 years ago.

We're always trying to find something that Uncle Hugh has done that he can see, but they're full of swear words. We can't find any! the Telegraph quoted her as saying.

She added: He can't watch Four Weddings And A Funeral. He can't watch About A Boy. It's quite difficult trying to find stuff for kids.

The actress revealed that Damian often spends time with Grant, who is also his godfather.

She said: We see an awful lot of him. We still live next door to each other in London.

Damian's very lucky, actually, because he's got a lot of godfathers, and they all spoil him rotten. Hugh adores him and it works very well indeed.

Hurley claims that she has permitted her son to watch her films Austin Powers and Bedazzled, which are both rated 15.

I wouldn't really watch anything that I'm in, but because of Damian, I've seen Austin Powers thousands of times.

He knows all my lines, he can describe all my costumes, all my hairstyles he knows which ones are wigs; he knows the lot. And Bedazzled he loves. He loves me being the devil. Of course he knows all those lines as well. I dont know any of them.

Celebrity and World

The 35-year-old ET actress revealed she had no qualms with wrinkles and looked forward to growing old.

Im so curious as to whats going to happen naturally that I cant imagine wanting to alter things just yet, the Daily Express quoted her as saying.

And to all those women putting botulism in their faces we dont know what the long-term effects are, so stop. Id rather look like a basset hound than do that to my face, she added.

Celebrity and World

Jenny Paul touched upon the actress beauty and her life with partner Brad Pitt in her new book, Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie: The True Story, reports the New York Post.

The author alleges that though the stars puffy lips are for real, she has undergone a nose job and some laser eye surgery in the past, according to Life Style magazine.

Jolie and Pitt share six kids and have five nannies to look after them, who are also responsible for their home schooling.

Celebrity and World

The 41-year-old star amassed 4.1 million pounds in the year to April 2009, it has emerged.

The latest accounts for the singers Darenote company lodged at Companies House in Britain reveals she earned 2.8 million pounds from her 2008-09 world tour, reports the Mail.

The rest was made through record sales and royalties.

Minogue paid herself 1.2 million pounds and left the rest of the money in Darenote.

They are very healthy figures for any business, the Sydney Morning Herald quoted a financial expert as saying.

The expert added: But for a singer who has been around for quite a long time it is incredible to be still earning money at this level.

There are few pop stars who can sustain themselves at the top for so long.

This shows that Kylie Minogue is among that select band.

Financially, it is Minogues most successful year throughout her career.

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NOT ON THE SAME PAGE Vice President Joe Biden (left) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the vice presidents trip last week to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The grim expressions on their faces tell the story: Biden, angered by Israels announcement that it was building new housing for Jews in a predominantly Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, reportedly blasted Israeli officials during a private meeting, condemning the decision as undermining the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. But the vice president also reportedly raised for the first time the specter of Israeli actions causing serious problems for U.S. forces fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Photo: Getty Images)

Rarely have relations between the United States and Israel been this testy. But there was Vice President Joe Biden during a visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories using unusually blunt language last week to condemn Israels decision to build new housing for Jews in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem.

Bidens remarks were the sharpest rebuke of Israel by the U.S. in more than 20 years and might signal a new get-tough policy by the Obama administration on the volatile issue of Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian Territories.

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According to the reports a 38-year woman was dining with her daughter at the restaurant when she saw them kissing and reported it to the authorities. Najafi denies the accusation and claims that it was just a peck on the cheek.

In a phone call to his distraught mother yesterday, Mr Najafi said: I havent done anything wrong mum, hopefully I will clear my name and then I can come back.Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Interestingly, the country doesn't allow kissing on the lips but allows kiss on the cheek which is used as a greeting.

The next hearing is on April 4th and if found guilty, they can be jailed for 1 month jail time and then deported.

In this revolutionary new procedure a patient is given local anesthesia and the fat removed during liposuction, mixed with other body cells is injected into the breasts (instead of traditional silicone). The procedure is known as platelet injection fat transfer (PIFT).

Last December 25-year Emma Harding became the first British patient to go under the procedure going from 32B to 32C.

'I always wanted larger breasts, so when I was made redundant from my job in marketing last year and found another job straight away, I decided to spend the money on surgery,' she says.

'Having silicone implants was not for me - I may have wanted a bigger chest but I didn't want to look like Jordan. And I didn't like the idea of something alien in my breasts.'

Emma considered injections of synthetic filler Macrolane - a procedure known as 'the boob jab', which can boost the breasts by a cup size.

'But I decided against this as I had heard too many reports of this filler turning lumpy,' she says.

'I began speaking to surgeons about other options, which is how I was offered the chance of having a PILF breast enhancement by the Viel brothers.

'I was concerned that it was a new treatment and there was an amount of uncertainty in the outcome and longterm effects. But Dr Viel reassured me I had nothing to worry about and that the procedure had been carried out in America.

'I asked whether there was a chance my breasts could end up lumpy and he told me the process eliminated that possibility. So I booked myself in.'

There are concerns regarding the procedure. There are concerns about breast cancer and asymmetricity with regards to fat absorption. Some plastic surgeons say that only 65% of the grafted tissue survives, which might mean that the post-procedure breasts might shrink over time.

Consultant plastic surgeon Mr David Ross, at Guy's, St Thomas' and Kings College hospitals, also believes the Viel brothers are giving patients overly optimistic expectations.

'I have used similar procedures in reconstructive and aesthetic patients,' he says. 'There is evidence that fat transfers could provide augmentation in the breast but normally only 65 per cent of the grafted tissue survives.

'My concern is the use of Vaser Lipo. This liquifies the fat which, in my experience, would increase the likelihood that they would be quickly reabsorbed. Much of what the Viel brothers are promising women is unproven.'

The procedure costs 3,500 around and further top-ups are 1,800 each. Sounds like that this procedure (if it works), might become expensive in the long run.

Accidentally started by documentary filmmaker Annabel Park, the Coffee Party movement faces its first test today: newly-formed Coffee Party chapters are meeting all across the country. Formed out of frustration over what some call the extreme views of the Tea Party movement, and even racism, the Coffee Party movement started with a rant on her Facebook page by Park.

Several weeks ago, Park posted the following on Facebook:

After Park was swamped by responses agreeing with her, that the Tea Party movement did not represent their of America, things snowballed. The official Coffee Party movement Facebook group has swelled to over 130,000 fans. They also have an official website. Interestingly, despite being founded in March of 2009, as opposed to weeks ago, the Tea Party facebook group has only 110,000 fans.

Saturday, local Coffee Party movement organizers will hold more than 350 meetings for the Coffee Party National Kick Off. Meetings will take place in almost every state, with national organizers encouraging groups of no more than eight people at a local (where else) coffee shop.

The Coffee Party movement declares the following on its Facebook page:

It also states the following in a message to Congress:

The Coffee Party movement, like the Tea Party movement, believes that government does not represent them. Unlike the Tea Party, however, the Coffee Party wants to change it so that government does represent them. Meanwhile, the Tea Party wants government to go away.

It is clear, therefore, that the Tea Parties have not taken an example from Denmark. For years (2007, 2008, late 2009) Denmark has been called the "happiest place on earth."

University of Copenhagen Sociologist Peter Glindelock described part of the reason for the happiness in Denmark is, in fact, big government. He has conducted many studies on this issue.

Watch a video from the Coffee Party Movement's website:

Originally on SNAFU-ed

Barclays bank in Britain has the solution for their wealthy clients - the calls will be routed to their British call center, but the ones with poorer credit rating will still be routed to call center in India.

Though the reason for the change is not to give better customer service but to sell products to the people who can afford them. No surprise, but it seems like the call centers in India is not good at selling these products and services.

One Barclays sales executive said: 'Before we've had people ringing up who have been overdrawn, so we haven't been able to sell them anything.'

Critics say the bank is only interested in people with cash and not the genuine concerns of millions who have queries about the state of their finances.

Eddy Weatherill of the Independent Banking Advisory Service said: 'This is an apartheid system and certainly preferential to their wealthier customers.

'This is not intended to give the best advice, but a chance to make more money.'Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Makes you wonder, is it really better to be routed to the call center in Britain with all the sales pitches for new products and services?

The Titanic star admitted that the need has grown after the passing of his grandmother.

I definitely feel a need to make my life about more than just my career. I was thinking to myself how little of it has been lived normally as opposed to being spent on some far-off movie location, the Mirror quoted him as saying.

He added: Family is something Im starting to think about more and more, especially now that my grandmother is no longer around.

It makes you think about the impermanence of things and how important it is to be part of a family to have some meaning apart from your work.

Celebrity and World

The pictures, snapped by Life photographer Gerry Deiter, are being showcased in an exhibition in Coventry Cathedral, West Mids.

Deiter was the only photojournalist who was permitted to capture the couple for the full eight days of bed-in at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.

The pictures show the couple writing and recording their song Give Peace a Chance.

Gerry Deiter was the only photojournalist there the entire eight days, with complete access, the Telegraph quoted Nick Chevasse, the Cathedrals tourist director, as saying.

He said: He was on assignment for Life magazine, but his story was bumped in favour for one about Vietnam.

The photos were never published, they never ran, so Deiter hid them away.

This is why many of the images are not familiar, even to Lennon fans they have never been seen before by anybody.

He captured the celebrity visitors, the action and intimate, behind the scenes moments between John and Yoko.

In one photograph, John strums his guitar, while Ono chats to 16-year-old Gail Reynard, who had scaled the hotel's fire escape and pleaded with the couple to let her stay.

Gail was given the original handwritten lyrics for Lennon's peace song, as she was present at the spot throughout the eight days.

She said: When I first saw the images from the exhibition, I was carried straight back to that amazing time.

They started to unlock details that I thought I had forgotten.

Celebrity and World

The supermodels affair with the actor has been hitting headlines since the couple began dating in 2005, including speculation leading to their marriage.

An Israeli politician has now penned a letter, sent on behalf of the Lehava organisation, calling for the star to come to her senses and not dump her Jewish descent, the Daily Star reported.

Baruch Marzel's letter read: It is not by chance that you were born Jewish. Your grandmother and her grandmother did not dream that one of their descendants would one day remove the family's future generations from the Jewish people. Assimilation has forever been one of the enemies of the Jewish people.

Marzel added that he has nothing against Mr DiCaprio, who I have no doubt is a talented actor, before concluding: Come to your senses, look forward and back too and not only the present. Don't marry Leonardo DiCaprio, don't harm the future generations.

Celebrity and World

It was later revealed that Waltraud had taken an impersonator to the bank who was made to look like her husband Hermann Hill. It is reported that she approached up to 10 people to play the part of the "fake" husband. The final willing candidate had a make-up artist work on him to make him look like her husband.

Police believe that she killed her husband and then got an impersonator to get the fortune. The husband is believed to be dead, but there is no proof of his death yet.

The alleged deception was uncovered when another man Mrs Hill had asked to impersonate her husband came forward to police.

Detectives launched an investigation in which officers interviewed 7,000 people, and found another eight people who admitted they had been asked to pose as the bogus Mr Hill.

One allegedly told detectives: "She showed me a photo of this old geezer, said there would be a 'good drink in it for me' if I played him at a lawyer's office and at a notary's. I didn't want to get involved."

Police also traced the lawyer in Freiburg and she confirmed details of the transfer of wealth to Mrs Hill. Detectives did not arrest her immediately, but asked her to turn up at the police station with her husband for an interview.

On the day she was supposed to show with him she telephoned in advance to say: "I am terribly sorry, but he has been called away on a business trip."

The singer explained that Mr Hill had surprisingly appeared, then disappeared again, and has remained missing for two months.

Detectives have not found the body of Mr Hill, but his wife has been arrested and charged with murder and fraud.

A police spokesman said: "We have to go on the assumption he is dead and that she is responsible for it. In the weeks after she went to the lawyer she made many conflicting statements to us.

"She thought she had committed the perfect crime, never thinking that anyone would ask questions about why a missing man would turn up to sign legal papers and then go missing again." Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Did she really think that she will get away with an impersonator after asking 10 people?

She was jailed for 9 years in prison, but she won an appeal that reduced her sentence to 7 years 8 months. She recently did a TV interview where she admitted that she cooked the chili with the finer of a co-worker.

In the interview, Ayala admitted for the first time ever how she prepared the severed finger of a co-worker in a batch of chili made with a similar recipe to Wendy's chili.

"I cooked it," she said of the finger. Source: cbs5.com

There is one condition of her release - She cannot go inside a Wendy's restaurant during the period of her parole.



"On March 22, 2005, Ayala alleged that she had found an amputated human finger in her chili and sued Wendy's, a fast-food restaurant chain. After an investigation by the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office and San Jose Police Department, it was determined the finger did not come from a Wendy's employee, or from any employee at the facilities that provided ingredients in the chili. Though early reports suggested that the finger was "fully cooked," the Santa Clara County coroner's office initially concluded that the finger "was not consistent with an object that had been cooked in chili at 170 degrees for three hours."

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department investigated the woman's home in Las Vegas, Nevada, in relation to the case, but what, if anything, was found was not immediately disclosed. Rumors ran rampant that Ayala had a dead aunt who might be related to the case, although she denied anyone recently passed on. Ayala claimed the police treated her and her family "like terrorists," acting against her violently, but neighbors downplayed the event. Later, it was also discovered the woman had filed numerous lawsuits against various retail establishments in recent years (see section above), adding another level of mystery to the case.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department arrested Ms. Ayala on April 21, 2005, taking her to the Clark County Detention Center. Ayala was charged with felony attempted grand larceny as well as grand theft. The grand theft charge is allegedly in connection with the fraudulent sale of a San Jose mobile home that Ayala did not own between September 2002 and November 2003; in reality it was owned by her live-in boyfriend, according to a statement filed by San Jose police Detective Albert Morales. The attempted grand larceny charge is connected to the Wendy's chili finger case; a penalty enhancement was issued for inflicting more than $2.5 million in losses on Wendy's as a result of plummeting sales.

Prosecutors portrayed Ayala as a scam artist with a penchant for filing lawsuits. Tests indicate that the finger had not been cooked in the chili, according to court records. They did not indicate where they thought the finger came from.

At a press conference held in San Jose, California on April 22, 2005, local Wendy's franchise holder Joseph Desmond urged people to "please come back to Wendy's because we do serve wonderful hamburgers, shakes and everything else." Wendy's announced it would offer free Frosty shakes with any purchase to all Bay Area customers that weekend as a show of goodwill and commitment in the wake of its investigation. On May 10, Wendy's expanded its offer of free Junior-sized Frosties nationwide from May 13 to May 15, with no purchase required.

On September 9, 2005, in San Jose, Ayala and her husband, Jaime Plascencia, plead guilty to conspiring to file a false claim and attempted grand theft."

I was in San Jose during the time and I remember how empty all Wendy's restaurants had become despite the fact that they were providing so many incentives and free stuff.

Rina Bovrisse, senior retail manager at Prada Japan who oversaw 500 staff and 40 stores in Japan, is suing Prada in a discrimination and harassment case with allegations about eliminating the "old, fat and ugly" and order for her to "change her hairstyle, to lose weight".

Her allegations focus on an incident in May last year when she claims that Davide Sesia, the CEO of Prada Japan, allegedly asked her to "eliminate" around 15 managerial staff he described as "old, fat, ugly, disgusting or not having the Prada look," following a tour of 40 stores.

Immediately after his demands, human resources reportedly notified 13 members of staff with devotional transfer orders due to poor sales, according to Ms Bovrisse, who disclosed details of the case in a Japan Times interview.

Ms Bovrisse alleges that she herself was later summoned to a meeting and informed that Mr Sesia reportedly wanted her to "change her hairstyle, to lose weight" because he was "ashamed of Ms Bovrisse's ugliness, so he doesn't want visitors from Italy to see her".

Describing why she had launched the claim, Ms Bovrisse said: "My responsibility is to protect hard-working women and make sure their working environment is safe."

What do you guys think?

While many would find these accusations baseless, the fact is that they are on point. The USA are quick to criticize all, but never take a step back to reflect on their actions. America has caused over a million deaths in Iraq and counting, which is exponentially higher than Saddam's entire reign. What American corporations do around the world, often causing irreversible devastation, is completely ignored in America's criticisms. This is hypocrisy at its peak.

Nancy Pelosi later criticised china for its Tibet issue, honoring the many brave Tibetans who have sacrificed their lives fighting for freedom. China has become extremely sensitive of the Tibet subject.

As the rhetoric grows, so do tensions. With China becoming more and more agitated at America's interference, its alliances with Russia grows. Worse yet, its support of Iran hardens, making America's life substantially more difficult.

It is time for America to press the reset button on Chinese diplomacy. If they don't understand the Chinese, they should simply back down. Antagonizing China is in no one's interests today.

The big commercial movies coming out this weekend are Green Zone and She's Out of my League. Other movies to look forward to are "Mother", "Exploding Girl", "Delta" and "Our Family Wedding".

GREEN ZONE

Starring: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan, Brendan Gleeson

SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE

Starring: Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, T.J. Miller, Mike Vogel

OUR FAMILY WEDDING

Starring: Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera, Taye Diggs, Regina King

REMEMBER ME

Starring: Robert Pattinson, Pierce Brosnan, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper

DELTA

Starring: Felix Lajko, Orsolya Toth, Lili Monori, Sandor Gaspar

EXPLODING GIRL

Starring: Mark Rendall, Hunter Canning, Zoe Kazan, Maryann Urbano

MOTHER

Starring: Hye-ja Kim, Bin Won

SEVERE CLEAR

Director: Kristian Fraga

Let us see how these movies play out this weekend. Watch out for Green Zone at the box office reports.

Now that is a shot in the arm, so to say! Even if you (like me) do not believe that "Standard and Poors" credit analyst is worth a hill of beans, the business world does and that is what counts.

Then also today the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has announced that Russia and Ukraine, after 7 long years of total Navy ignoration, will resume exercises of the Ukrainian Navy and the Russian Black Sea Fleet just like in the old days!

Wow what a difference a new president has made for Ukraine.

Windows to Russia!

A traffic police officer from the Chelyabinsk region, caught in the act of taking a bribe of two thousand rubles, ate the money right in front of the police.

On March 2, 2010 a traffic police officer stopped a car driven by a resident of Kasli who broke the rules of the road (passing in a no passing zone). The officer demanded a bribe of 2,000 rubles for not filing a report on the incident. The driver then left to get the money.

Instead of getting the money, the driver went to the police for help. The Economic Crime Department worked out a surveillance plan to arrest the corrupt traffic officer. The driver was given the sum, three bills adding up to the 2,000 rubles, which he passed to the traffic officer that same day.

During the planned arrest the officer locked himself in the company car and, covering his face, choked the money down. Having destroyed the evidence, he voluntarily surrendered to the police.

Gotta Love it...

Windows to Russia!

Many Americans claim to believe that the answer to all these questions is yes, all men are equal.

Indeed, answer is contained within the single most quoted line from our Declaration of Independence and has been used many times as a rationale for changing our nations laws.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

The very wording of this declaration, combined with what we know of the Founding Fathers theologies and philosophies, sets forth the inherent equality of all of Man as a matter of Natural Law.

But, if this is case, one would be forced to accept the bad along with good. Whether it is merely peoples belief that all men are inherently equal or a fact of Natural Law that they are, in fact, equal in both propensity for nobility and for ignominy then one should expect roughly similar results and responses any stimulus that is applied to a group people, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, or creed.

That being the case, why do so many people in America believe that domestic aid programs will achieve any better results than the bulk of both private (NGO) and governmental foreign aid programs have achieved in the many decades of their existence?

Foreign Aid Failure

Truly, if the aim of aid was and is to better the lot in life of its recipients, then the trillions of dollars Americans have given in aid to the impoverished of countless nations has been largely a failure. With the fewest of exceptions it has not achieved that goal. It may have kept a great many from dying but it has not let them live, but merely to exist dependent upon the largess of Americans.

Does anyone reading this post have an example of a circumstance when foreign aid has had a long-term positive effect that resulted in the recipients no longer needing the aid?

In some cases, such as AIDS relief in Uganda, foreign aid actually made things far worse. Foreign aid, focused on treatment instead of prevention and containment has actually ended up killing more people than would have died without it.

Domestic Corollary

There are, of course, obvious direct corollaries between foreign aid and domestic social programs, both in methodology and in efficacy. This stands to reason; people in America who are interested in such things have found a singular premise and formula for providing aid to the poor, and have applied it to both foreign and domestic targets.

Welfare, Medicaid, SCHIP, WIC, Food Stamps, and a plethora of other Social Programs are essentially domestic variations of the same programs we deploy as part of foreign aid. They are all based solely upon keeping people alive and do not make provisions for actually improving the recipients situation.

American Exceptionalism

Do people truly believe that our domestic aid programs will have different and better outcomes than our foreign aid programs have had? Wouldnt such a belief just be an example of the philosophy of American Exceptionalism something which so many of the people who favor the continuance of these programs describe as self-serving, jingoistic, and based upon a myth?

Aside from some thought or belief that Americas poor are somehow different and better than the poor of other countries, how can people expect subsistence aid to have any long-term positive effect and remediation of the recipients situations when it has failed to do so in other countries time after time.

Conclusion Opinion

Im left with having to choose between two disparate conclusions either the proponents and supporters of Americas various subsidies for the poor base their support on something other than actually improving the lives and situations of those poor, or the proponents and supporters of Americas various subsidies for the poor believe in American Exceptionalism and, therefor, do not believe that a man is man and that all men were created equal.

Reflection From a Murky Pond

IAF bombing raids are ludicrous: there is no conceivable sense to bomb two tunnels out of 400. More importantly, IAF bombs them in a way to minimize Palestinian casualties. Since IAF refrains from bombing the Egyptian end of the tunnels, smugglers run there in case of attack and survive.

Egypt employs a more fearful tactics of flooding the tunnels, so that smugglers die which frightens them a lot and drives many people out of this business.

Samson Blinded

He will be discussing The Future of Cinema with Bollyoods megastar Aamir Khan (Lagaan) in a conclave in a five star hotel in capital New Delhi, watched by few hundred over a dinner. Lasting about 90 minutes and ending around 09-30 pm, it will include questions from the attendees also. Aroon Purie, Editor-in-Chief of Indias leading newsmagazine India Today, will chair the session.

Describing Oscar winner Camerons movies, Conclave says: movies speak the language of immense courage and deep spirituality. His female heroes are fearless and all powerful, his men learn the power of conviction. It talks about Camerons dropping out of college to drive a truck for the local school districtselling the script of The Terminator to Hemdale Films for one dollar on the condition that he could direct it.

India Today Conclave 2010 whose theme is New Decade: Great Expectations, is being organized by The India Today Group at Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi on March 12 and 13.

This decade holds great expectations for India and the world, Aroon Purie, Group Chairman, says.

Speakers on other topics at the Conclave include ruler of Dubai, Indias key Government ministers, Cisco CEO, Google President of Global Sales, author Salman Rushdie, yoga expert Swami Ramdev, Harvard economics professor, Ford Motor CEO, Facebook co-founder, Godrej President, goal keeper of Indian hockey team, actors Ranbir Kapoor and Asin Thottumkal.

Celebrity and World

The Godfather of Soul was placed in a temporary crypt at his daughter Deannas South Carolina home, while a public mausoleum was being considered.

However, illegitimate daughter, Pettit, has alleged that the remains of the I Got You hitmaker are no longer there.

She insists that it has been misplaced to avoid her carrying out an autopsy to reveal the true cause of his death.

My daddys body has disappeared. I have no clue where it was taken but I need to know where it is, the Mirror quoted Pettit as saying.

She added: Im convinced his death was suspicious and I want those responsible brought to justice. The only way to do that is to exhume his body and have an autopsy.

I cannot understand why one was never conducted, especially as his death seemed so mysterious. It was common knowledge daddy took illegal drugs until his death.

He was also hooked on various prescription painkillers. At the very least there were enablers who helped cause his death.

Rumours were once abuzz that Brown had buried some of his 120million pound fortune in his 62-acre estate in South Carolina.

Pettit said: There were reports he may even have been beaten up before he died, perhaps by someone looking for money on his property.

Brown had died of an alleged heart attack following a bout of pneumonia on 25th December 2006 at the age of 73.

Celebrity and World

The beauty said she did not approve of the Who Says hitmaker calling her sexual napalm.

Normally you'd think someone you care about would keep those details to himself. It was definitely a compliment, in a way, the Daily Star quoted her as saying on The Late Show with David Letterman.

She added: I don't really want people to know that about me. I'm like the good girl, then that happened He gave away my game.

(But) I will always care about him. I think hes a great person, a great musician, but I was very disappointed by the article.

Mayer had apologized to Simpson after his comments created a buzz.

Celebrity and World

A UK man lost all of his teeth at the age of 22 because of his heavy drinking, which included 24 cans of beer a day.

Nicky Welfare, who ironically enough, lives off of public assistanceon unemployment compensation of nearly $91 weeklywas able to get free dentures paid for by tax payers.

He may not have any teeth, but Id still hit it! Hey, no teeth? You thinking what Im thinking? He could land lucrative work really fast if he takes notes from HBOs Hookers on the Strip. NO TEETH is a great marketing tool! Theres no reason for someone that good looking to go hungry or thirsty.

His lack of teeth and winning drinking habits were used as a defense during a court hearing yesterday as he faced charges on driving while banned. The judge invoked his suspended sentence jail term (four months) on a previous charge and urged him to call Alcoholics Anonymous. Ladies, hes single!!!!!

Via Tabloid Prodigy

An idea that needed to happen. A companion on your bedside table, desk, table, counter, or wherever you store and charge your cell phone. This silverware dude is fitted to hold an iPhone, but can also hold various phones, iPods, music players, and all sorts of handheld tech gear.

If you want one, these fun iPhone stands are available for $30 each from Etsy.

Kozar Cool Blog

55-year-old Charles Bentley broke into the First Christian Church and used the electronic equipment in the church to watch pornography (and possibly jerk off).

Police allege 55-year-old Charles Bentley broke into the First Christian Church on Thursday. After gathering items from around the building, he is believed to have gone to the basement to spend the night.

Police summoned to the church Friday by staff, found Bentley trying to haul away a garbage can filled with food, kitchen utensils, clothes, electronic equipment and a 26-inch flat-screen television.Police Cmdr. Mike Brennan said Bentley used the electronic equipment to watch pornographic movies that were found on him when he was arrested.

Bentley probably thought that is better to commit the sin there, so that he can ask for forgiveness right away!

What do you guys think?

Abbas explained his refusal by the alleged Israeli plans to build in Ramat Shlomo.

Of course, the terrorist have a right to refuse the negotiations which are futile, anyway. But why Israeli government continues tax transfers to support his regime?

Samson Blinded

Officials in Pecica (Romanian village town near Hungary) have found the answer. They have installed 10 road signs around popular nightspot areas in the town. The signs are bright red in color which show a person crawling on their knees while clutching a glass in one hand with the Romanian phrase "Cetateni Turmentati" (in English - Attention - Drunks) under it.

The mayor of the town, Peter Antal, got his inspiration from a town in Germany which installed similar signs.

He said officials took action after a despairing number of accidents in the town, which has a population of about 13,000, caused by drunken revellers, with some even resulting in fatalities.

He said it was not motorists fault but blamed the towns pedestrians, many of whom were not able to look out for themselves as they walked around the town, which is more than 300 miles west of the Romanian capital Bucharest.

"We are a border town and have lots of cars thundering through here all the time," he told local media.

"But we also have a very vibrant nightlife and the two don't mix.

We have to target the drivers because by the time they get to this state, the pedestrians are beyond caring.

He added: In recent years some traffic accidents (have) resulted, in some cases, even with deceased (people).

We have thought about different options (on how) we can stop this and we decided that first step was to mount these signs.

We must warn drivers that sometimes people who have little control over their actions can suddenly appear in the road.

I wonder the effectiveness of these signs. Does it mean that you yield if you see a drunk pedestrian? And how do you distinguish between a drunk and sobre one?

Would you like them installed in your city?

The exact incidence happened with David Cerda from Dallas, Texas.

I woke up to texts and phone calls, went out to Facebook and people were talking about it on Facebook, Cerda said.

His mom, Maria Cerda, was flooded with phone calls and people dropping in to console her.

A lady was telling me she was fixing to bake a cake, and I said, 'No, don't; David is not dead,' she said.

It seems like one of David's acquaintances had mental issues and had submitted the obituary. Despite strict policies, Dallas Morning News never checked if it was genuine or not.

The Dallas Morning News says this fell through the cracks. "We are deeply sorry that we did not catch this falsified submission, and are checking into the source," the paper said in a statement. "We have apologized directly to Mr. Cerda and have also run an apology in today's newspaper. We are reviewing our fact-checking procedures to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in the Obituaries." The Dallas Morning News said they do not just print any death notice that comes their way; they confirm the information with a family member and even call the funeral home to make sure it's legitimate. Source: www.wfaa.com

At least David is alive and can refute the claim.

Bachelor Toby, who works for Halifax bank in Stockport, admits most of his friends are doubting Thomases at the story but insists it is true.

He said: "Its a crying shame that no-one believes me! I went onto the internet and found other things that had Jesus on them, like pizza, but they were just outlines. Mine has eyes and a nose and everything.

"Ive recently started going to church again so Im glad I took part in the Shrove Tuesday tradition."
He now plans to hang the frying pan on the wall as a talking point.

Why do I think that I might soon find it on eBay? Call me a sceptic but I don't trust a banker (especially after the recent financial crisis) and a man in a suit holding a pan with Jesus burnt in side!

What do you think - real divine intervention and miracle or just the usual fraud by a banker?

Thankfully, the rules have stayed fairly similar as the main talking points of this off-season have been the drivers and these pesky new teams. Michael Schumacher is the headline grabber, coming back to race but this time with Mercedes. Fernando Alonso jumped ship to Ferrari (at last!), Jenson Button is over at McLaren for the titanic battle of Britain against Lewis Hamilton and the Senna name returns as the late great Ayrtons nephew, Bruno, joins the sport.

The new teams are almost all here, with the exception of USF1 who failed quite spectacularly it has to be said and Hispania who only launched the car last week. Stefan GP, the Serbian team will not be racing as they weretold to pack up and go home by the FIA.

Right, now to the race preview.

Were starting the season in Bahrain, the Arabian circuit hosted the first race once before in 2006 while Melbourne hosted the 2006 Commonwealth Games and couldnt cope with the Grand Prix at the same time. The track has had a couple of changes, which havent been well recieved (see Mark Webbers comments below).

Pre-Race Driver Comments

Bruno Senna (Bra)- HRT: I am enjoying it already! I have had a pretty tough year so far, starting from the end of 2008 all the way to this year, where things have got there only to be taken away. I was very low on expectation that the team was going to happen because we had spent so much time trying to be sold, trying to be bailed and this and that.

Nico Rosberg (Deu) Mercedes: Im going into the season very optimistically. I feel very, very comfortable in the car, very confident. But at the same time I know its going to be as difficult as ever, because obviously I have a rather strong team-mate. So well have to wait and see.

Karun Chandhok (Ind) HRT: It is going to be extremely tough. We havent even done a shakedown so its no secret it is going to be a bloody tough weekend. I think if you look on the plus side, at least Dallara are a respected [racing] car manufacturer and they have built cars before, so we should be in a slightly better position than if it was with someone else doing it independently.

Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari: I am very happy and very motivated that we can start the championship in a better way not just than last year, which was not a very good year, but also than the other championships. My expectation [for this weekend] is definitely to score many points. Even if maybe we dont know if it will be possible to win, it will be important to start the championship in the right direction. Thats our expectation and thats what were looking for.

Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull: [Speaking about the circuit changes] Nothing but tight corners. Accelerate, brake, accelerate, brake

Timo Glock (Deu) Virgin: Here we are, heading into our first race, and Im very excited. Were as ready as we can be; were a small team but we have the resources and people to keep building something special together and that is what we must all keep in mind as we progress. Our objective remains to be the best of the new teams and that particular race starts this weekend.

Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren: Im actually really looking forward to the start of the season. It will be a thrill and an honour to sit on the grid with the number 1 on my car itll actually be the first time in my car racing career that thats ever happened but I wont be spending too much time thinking about the drivers who want to take it away from me.

F1 Fanatics

Well, in this case, not quite so drastic. A group of 8 beautiful Chinese girls became tired of their parents persistent harrassment, so they decided to take action. On March 8th, Womens Day for those not in the know, the women went hunting.

They braved the weather to strip down to their bras and pants outside a subway station in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, and danced for passers-by.

The girls handed out sheets of paper with their personal details and the kind of men they hoped to marry, reports Guangzhou Daily.

And they held boards with slogans such as: 'Brother, marry me!', 'My mom is pushing me for marriage!', and 'Time flies, let's date!'.

I can't see the others too well, but the one in red is a definite beauty.

Organiser Xing Zi said: "We planned this to stand as a declaration. This is to prove we have enough confidence and determination."

One participant, Xiao Xuan, explained: "We think we are beauties, but we can't find our Mr Rights. Our age is close to 30, so we have to do something."

Another dancer, with the nickname Ali Nerd, said her mother was driving her crazy: "She calls me all day long, nagging me to get married," she said.

Someone has got to find more pictures, or better yet, the girl's personal info ;)

The 23-year-old star, who portrays Edward Cullen in the film adaptation of the novel by the same name, revealed he dodged trailing paparazzi and screaming followers and managed to be one his own while driving through LA.

I'd been working all year pretty much without a break, then I'd gone back to LA and I'd been followed around all the time, the Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying.

I finally escaped from people and I drove past this guitar shop and I was just like I need to remind myself why I'm doing this, he added.

The Brit further said the reception is different everywhere he goes, saying: Every time I come back to London I'm always thinking it's going to be the same as America but it never is. People don't look for the same stuff.

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The two posed for the upcoming April issue of W Magazine and the chemistry oozing between them is apparently undeniable.

The magazine, which also includes 7 shots by renowned photographer Steven Klein, described the role the two were playing in the photos.

Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler do a little role playing in the searing heat of the California desert where damsels arent always in distress and lawmen sometimes break the rules, Radar Online quoted it as stating.

The magazine will be hitting stands on March 17.

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Lohan, 23, is seeking 66.7 million pounds in damages and compensation in connection with the promo for financial firm E-Trade, which depicted a baby girl called Lindsay as a boyfriend stealer and a milkaholic.

The Mean Girls star filed a lawsuit against the advert, which aired on U.S. TV during the Super Bowl last month, on March 8 at Nassau County Supreme Court.

The actress lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, alleges company bosses used Lohans name and characterisation without paying her or asking for her approval, thus violating her rights.

But chiefs at the advertising firm behind the commercial claim they chose the name Lindsay at random.

And now Dina has waded in to defend her daughters decision to sue, insisting the advert reduced the actress to tears during the Super Bowl celebrations.

She claims the actress called her after the Super Bowl extremely upset.

She said, Mommy, help me. This is wrong. How can they do this? the Daily Star quoted her as telling The New York Post.

Dina is adamant the commercial was aimed at her daughter insisting the name Lindsay has as much recognition as other single-word monikers, used by stars such as Madonna and Cher.

Theyre little babies doing this, mocking another child whos just trying to survive Hollywood, basically, she said.

Im just basically glad I took a stand. Im not going to let them do this to us anymore. Everyone knows Lindsay, like Cher or Madonna, she added.

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Al Gore His Warmists Exposed!

Of course, as the above image displays, Al Gore hopefully wouldnt be the first choice by the Warmists for a PETA style AGW poster or billboard. ;)

Reflection From a Murky Pond

Highlights about the story -
- The two sisters were raped starting 1980 when the daughters were 8 and 10.
- He would rape them 2-3 times a week.
- He would rape the sisters even when they were pregnant.
- The sisters would have to take it in turns to babysit their children while the other was forced to have sex with him.
- If they refused, they were punched, kicked and sometimes held to the flames of a gas fire, burning their eyes and arms.
- Called himself "Gaffer" and tookpleasure in fathering children by his daughters!
- He moved the family 67 times to maintain the secret.
- Family was seen by more than 100 people from 28 different agencies but none did anything!

The agencies have issued apologies to the daughters.

In issuing the apology all the agencies gave assurances that changes in the safeguarding process now offered better protection to children.

Sue Fiennes, from the Sheffield Safeguarding Children Board, said: "We want to apologise to the family at the heart of this case.

"It will be clear that we failed the family.

"We are committed to work relentlessly to do all we can to minimise the risk of this happening again."

The case is very similar to Austrian man Joseph Fritzl's case who kept his daughter Elisabeth locked in a cellar for 24 years while raping her repeatedly. Joseph had seven children with the daughter all of whom were kept in the cellar. Fritzl was sentenced to 12 years in prison last October.

The story reminds you that there are really sick people out there who need to be identified early and incarcerated for life. Please watch out for these monsters and report for any suspicion!

As usual, Biden called on Israel to take bold steps toward peace that is, offers still more staggering concessions to our sworn enemies.

As just everyone else in the world, Biden condemned Israeli construction plan in Ramat Shlomo, Jerusalem. Unveiling the plan on the date of Bidens visit to Israel could hardly be a coincidence as the government claims, but more likely a well-deserved slap in his face.

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Daniel said: 'Being a chef, you're curious about anything in terms of flavour - you look out for something new and what you can do with it.

'After two weeks ageing, it was somewhat like a raw-milk cheese - it had all the flavours in there. It tastes just like really sweet cow's milk.

It wasn't like, Hey, this is such an amazing cheese. It's just like, Can you use human milk? Yes, you absolutely can!

'Our baby has plenty of back-up mother's milk in the freezer, so whoever wants to try it is welcome to try it as long as the supply lasts.'

He added that his 'cooking instincts are rather natural... such as sourcing ingredients from the local market... but this is a whole other level of natural.

Check the recipe -

Step-by Step
My Spouses Mommy Milk Cheese Making Experiment
(basic recipe using 8 cups of any milk - yields about pound cheese)

2 cups mothers milk
2 cups milk (just about any animal milk will work)
1-teaspoon yogurt (must be active cultured yogurt)
1/8-tablet rennet (buy from supermarket, usually located in pudding section)
1 teaspoon sea salt such as Baline

1. Inoculate milks by heating (68 degree Fahrenheit) then introduce starter bacteria (active yogurt) then let stand for 6 8 hours at room temperature, 68F covered with a lid. Bacteria will grow in this way and convert milk sugar (lactose) to lactic acid. You can detect its presence by the tart/sour taste.
2. After inoculating the milk heat to 86 degrees Fahrenheit then add rennet (I use tablets which I dissolve in water) and stir throughout. Cover pot and dont disturb for an hour until clean break stage is achieved, meaning with a clean spoon lift a small piece of curd out of the milk - if it is still soft and gel-like let pot stand for an hour longer. If curds break clean cut with a knife into a squares (cut inside the pot a -inch cube pattern).
3. Raise temperature slowly continuously stirring with a pastry spatula (this will prevent clumping of cut curd). This is what I call the ricotta stage if you like this kind of fresh cheese here it is. For cheese with a little bit more of texture heat curds to 92 degree Fahrenheit - for soft curd cheese, or as high 102oF for very firm cheese. The heating of the curd makes all the difference in the consistency of the cheese. When heated the curd looks almost like scrambled eggs at this point (curd should be at bottom of pot in whey liquid).
4. Pour curd through a fine strainer (this will separate curd from whey) then transfer into a bowl and add salt and mix with a pastry spatula (this will prevent curd from spoiling). Whey can be drank - it is quite healthy and its protein is very efficiently absorbed into the blood stream making it a sought-after product in shakes for bodybuilders.
5. Give curd shape by lining a container with cheese cloth (allow any excess of cheese cloth to hang over edges of container). Transfer drained, warm curd in the cheese cloth lined container (I used a large plastic quart containers like a large Chinese take- out soup container and cut 4 holes in the bottom with the tip of my knife). Fold excess cheese cloth over top of cheese then weight curd down (with second container filled with water or such) then store in refrigerator (14 hours or so put container into a second larger container this will catch draining whey liquid).
6. Take pressed curd out of container (flip container upside-down then unwrap carefully not to damage structure of pressed curd). Rewrap pressed curd with new cheese cloth then age in refrigerator for several weeks (cheese will form a light brown skin around week two this is normal). Age cheese longer for a more pronounced/sharper cheese flavor.

Please read his very interesting blog for more recipes (not all of them use breast milk).

Not sure if you would qualify it as a weird or a delicacy or an efficient use.

I got a funny joke for you. Imagine, you are driving down the road and a police officer signals for you to stop. Like a good law abiding citizen, you follow orders. When the policeman approaches, you are ready to ask what you did wrong, but before you can say a word the policeman asks you to move your car into a specific position perpendicular to traffic.

This is a generally odd request, but you do as you are told and wait to talk to the police officer. The police officer quickly walks up to the car and tells you to stay put, then immediately leaves. Your first thought, "what an ass", but again you do as you're told. As you are sitting in your car you look around and notice that you aren't the only one in this position, it turns out there are half a dozen others also in the road. The formation seems very strange, all the cars are blocking 2 of the 3 available lanes, and traffic has virtually slowed to a crawl.

Next thing you know, you look up the road and you see an Audi barreling down the road going full speed with a squadron of cop cars behind it. It dawns on you, you are part of a human shield ... but that psycho isn't stopping. FUCK, he is coming straight for your car.

3 ... 2 ... 1 ... BAM!!!! The Audi plows through your car, sending you into neighboring cars, wrecking your car and theirs. The cop cars then squeeze through the newly made hole, further damaging you car as they scrape by.

You then learn that the driver of the Audi is an armed and extremely dangerous criminal ... so, if he even managed to stop, if he lived he would likely come out shooting. Luckily, nobody is hurt 'too badly', but what about our cars?

So, whats the punchline? Now that your car is wrecked, along with everyone else's, the cops simply tell you to go fuck yourself and drive off ... The Aristocrats!

Check out the video from Russia Today, it has the full story.

What started this all was the following eye witness account (unfortunately it is in Russian)

The incident happened in the living room of the couple's trailer, which is located on the north side of Fort Dade Avenue in Brooksville.

Thomas Diservio, 42, told deputies his wife became "irate" after he fell asleep on the couch when he was supposed to take the dogs out, according to the incident report.

At that point, Diservio said his wife hit him on the mouth and pulled at his t-shirt. Deputies say Jennifer Diservio, 25, is six months pregnant, suffers from bipolar disorder and had not been taking medication.

Jennifer Diservio was taken to the Hernando County jail, charged with felony domestic battery and held without bond.

Deputies say Diservio has "numerous prior convictions for battery and domestic battery," according to the incident report.

Not to forget, Jennifer has had numerous convictions for battery and domestic battery, is bipolar and pregnant. Makes you wonder, why would her husband mess with her?

Some of us might give her a medal for beating up the lazy husband!

The Nord Stream pipeline development has exposed treasures that were not expected! The latest discovery was made during a search of the seabed east of the Swedish island of Gotland by the Nord Stream consortium, which is building a 750-mile pipeline in the Baltic Sea. The 12 wrecks were found in a 30-mile-long and 1.2-mile-wide corridor of the sea.

The find is considered to be exceptional because the Baltic sea has a lower salt level and by that one condition, a sea worm that attacks and eats wood does not exist in the sea...

This means that the ships, some as old as 800 years. Are in fantastic shape. Nord Stream has promised to not destroy the hulls of the ships and will do everything necessary to make sure everyone interested can find and research these ships. The ships found do not lay in the path of the pipeline so that danger is mute...

The former Spice Girl reportedly called the Sunset Tower Hotel to stop the hottie from letting in.

The singer apparently described Price, who wore an OTT sequin dress, as looking like a Christmas tree from a trailer park.

The two had reportedly involved in a row at Elton John's birthday part last year.

Because the Vanity Fair party was all about fashion, Victoria knew she could call some shots, the Daily Star quoted a source as saying.

The insider added: But at Elton's party, she didnt want to come across like a stroppy diva, especially as it was for charity.

However, party girl Price apparently avoided confrontation this time.

A fellow party-goer said: Kate and Victoria both knew the other was going to be there so it must have been a bit awkward.

Everyone was expecting Kate to have a few too many and confront Victoria. In the end Posh dashed off to the other party.

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That is where the truth lies and to think different would be a total lack of empiricism...

As far as the successor to the START treaty: America has created a quandary for itself! Russia who has stayed firm on her commitments, thoughts and factors. Is seeing an America that talks out of two mouths. One of the most important factors to Russia is American missile defense in countries around Russian borders.

As Prime Minister Putin has eloquently stated in a recent speech in the Pacific coastal city of Vladivostok.

So as America plays games of decisive destruction of confirmatory relations with major world powers such as China and Russia - America keeps wondering why no-one wants to trust her...

The 23-year-old singer was said to have left the LA Dodgers baseball star beaming in delight after showing up to support his Ante Up for Autism charity fundraiser.

Matt was happy she came. It was an awesome show of support. Rihanna fit right in as if they all knew each other. It was comfortable, the Daily Telegraph quoted a source as telling E! online.

Kemp, whose brother is autistic, previously swept the star off her feet after surprising her with a party for her 22nd birthday.

A source said: It was so sweet and she was really surprised. She looked just beautiful. Matt really wanted to do something nice for Rihanna this year since she didn't have much of a 21st birthday last year. It was just her closest friends, good Jamaican food, a photo booth, dancing and a nice cake.

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The Brit singer was said to be waiting for her US visa application to be cleared before she purportedly remarries her jailbird ex.

They will definitely be getting married and have agreed on Vegas. Amy doesn't want a traditional ceremony and wants it to be similar to their first wedding, the Sun quoted a source as saying.

The source continued: She chose not to marry in Miami again because she thinks it could be a bad omen. She can't stop talking to people about their future together.

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The New Moon co-stars were spotted together on Sunday night.

Robert and Kristen sat really close together and kept touching and rubbing each other's arms as if no one else was around, the New York Daily News quoted a witness as saying.

They definitely appeared to be an item, the source added.

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And the Twilight star is scared what his mum will say if she happens to find out about his vice.

The British heartthrob has been enjoying sneaky fags on the London set of new movie Bel Ami.

Robert tried to make sure his security shielded him from lurking photographers. But a snap has appeared in America, the Sun quoted a source as saying.

Roberts since admitted hes been scared about his mum finding out, added the source.

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Joking aside this new technology was demonstrated at the recent ceBIT Technology fair and shows what can be achieved with current cerebral electric activity technology . Check out the video after the jump to see the device in action.

The system records cerebral electric activity through an electroencephalogram (EEG), in basic terms the electrodes attached to the scalp via the headgear. The right and left flippers were controlled through thoughts of right or left hand movements by the player.

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Security is a major concern, but there are numerous ways to get at and manipulate data. Some of the most effective, it turns out, is social engineering. With criminal organizations becoming more attuned to the technological front, and even countries taking up technology as a means for fighting wars, the fear of a total technological meltdown is now almost warranted.

More from Slashdot:

Organized cyber-criminal gangs stole $25 million in the 3rd quarter alone last year, by pilfering the online bank accounts of small to midsized businesses, the FDIC reported last week. In contrast, traditional bank robbers hauled just $9.4 million in 1,184 bank robberies during that same period, according to an analysis of FBI bank crime statistics by krebsonsecurity.com. From that story: 'The federal government sure publishes a lot more information about physical bank robberies that it makes available about online stick-ups. Indeed, the FBI's bank crime stats are extraordinarily detailed. For example, they can tell you that in the 3rd quarter of last year, bank robbers were more likely to hold up their local branch between the hours of 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on a Wednesday than at any other time or day of the week; they can tell you the number of tear gas and dye packs taken with the loot, the number of security cameras activated, the number of food stamps taken, even what percentage of suspected perpetrators had illegal drug habits at the time of the robberies. About the only thing the stats don't tell you is what brand of jeans the perpetrators were wearing and whether the getaway car had cool vanity plates. What do we get about e-crime statistics from the federal government? One guy from the FDIC giving a speech at the RSA conference.

For those that are lacking in the common sense department, police officers are generally paranoid about everything, that's there job. So, obviously, officer Lubrano ran the plates of the SUV and found out it was stolen. Police officers generally have radios, for occasions such as these, which they use to alert other officers of such events. Hence, Lubrano called to her police buddies to alert them that a stolen vehicle is heading towards the interstate ... yeah, another good rule of thumb is to avoid letting the police know where you are going when doing illegal activities.

It didn't take long for other officers to spot the vehicle driving down the interstate, and then an even shorter period of time to catch up to said idiots. Stupid criminals are what make my days all the more fun.

This moron, who goes by the name of Ronnie Ricks, is now being held at St. Tammany Parish Jail on a $22,000 bond. I get the feeling that this isn't the last we hear of Ronnie Ricks.

Headline stolen from Fark

The reasoning is nonsensical. If the Africans were remotely related to Jews three thousand years ago, whats the deal now? They are pagan, Christian, and Muslimnot Jewish. That they put the Star of David on their tombstones only proves that they are fakes: Jews did not start commonly using the star until the nineteenth century.

In Spain and some regions of Ukraine, a quarter of the population have Jewish ancestry. Does that make them Jewish?

A proper study of Lembas Jewishness would involve ethnography rather than genetics. One must carefully learn about their old practices rather than quasi-Jewish beliefs implanted in them by Christian missionaries. If, besides being of remote Jewish origin, they have maintained significant Jewish practices throughout their history, then they must be welcomed in Israel. Otherwise, let them stay among the Christianized blacks in Africa.

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Bill Whitfield and Mike Garcia, who served as the Jacksons minders, revealed that he often suffered fits of rage.

We were asked to leave hotels because the credit card on file was denied, the New York Post quoted Whitfield as saying on Good Morning America.

Also, Whitfield added: We smile about it, but its really more painful and hurtful.

He got so frustrated he threw my cell phone out the window, through the window and broke the glass.

And he looked at me and said, 'Bill, you're going to need a new phone.'

The bodyguards also mentioned that he tried to avoid Jacksons three kids Prince, Paris and Blanket from seeing images of their father on magazine covers.

He added: I'll be ahead of him, because I know he's coming this way, and I'm looking at magazine racks that may have something about him on them and I'll turn it around. Sometimes he's seen them, and you would actually see him take it and turn them around so the kids didn't see them.

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It was a terrible decision and very hurtful Farrah was a member of the Academy for over 40 years and we could not believe she did not get a mention, the Herald Sun quoted O Neal, as saying.

The traditional video montage of stars who died in the past year including such familiar faces as Patrick Swayze, Brittany Murphy and Michael Jackson, but inexplicably omitted the Charlies Angels star.

His daughter and Oscar winner Tatum O'Neal is also planning to join her father in insisting the Academy address the omission.

Quite frankly, we were stunned at the decision not to include her in the tribute and I feel that the Academy should be scolded for that, everyone was shocked. Both Tatum and I were very upset and we intend to write a letter to the Academy to try and get an explanation for this oversight on their behalf, O Neal said.

However, Fawcett's exclusion wasn't an accident, according to a spokeswoman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

I would not say that it was an oversight. No matter how carefully and how conscientiously people address who is included, there are people who just simply can't be, said Leslie Unger, spokeswoman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In any given year there will always be some people that other people think should have been included and that there's more justification for one person versus another. It is impossible to include everybody, she added.

Fans of Fawcett flooded networking sites with their grievances on Sunday.

Fawcett died on June 25, 2009, the same day as Michael Jackson, after a long battle with cancer. She was 62.

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The 31-year-old, who starred in Avatar as Neytiri, made the confession in the new issue of Essence magazine, reports The Daily Telegraph.

Love it, love it, love it, Cant live without it, she declares.

I love sex. I love skin. I dont believe the body is something to hide.

She adds: I think in American society we're messing up our kids by taking away the education on and awareness of our sexuality and replacing it with violence, guns and video games and we're breeding little criminals.

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A randy German couple brought traffic to a halt when the twosome stepped outside their car and began having sex in the middle of a busy street.

Onlookers say they romped for nearly 10 minutes as vehicles became distracted by the unusual sight. I nearly crashed my cab, its not something you see every day in the middle of the road, a shocked taxi driver revealed.

A witness even stepped close enough to snap some very revealing photos of the brazen act: A busty womanwith her top undoneis seen on top of her lover who has his pants down to his ankles.

He turned the images over to the authorities.

Police say that the sex was indecent and they want to question the couple.

Via Tabloid Prodigy

This was the moment a nearly 15-foot crocodile devoured a shark in one bite in Australia. Stunned fisherman took snaps of the young shark that became the crocs snack and say that it all happened fast. There was not a whole lot of sound, a fisherman told reporters. All we could hear was the crunching sound.

Via Tabloid Prodigy

"I had this song [Autumn] in mind as something that was really appropriate because there is this line that says: 'You still live on in my father's eyes.' Mummy also liked Paulo Nutini's music too.

"In the run-up to mummy's death, I thought it was absolutely perfect but it was unrealistic for me to be able to sing it live at her funeral [because she would be too upset]," said Sarah.

"So I recorded it on my mobile phone in my bedroom at about 10pm [on February 10]. I looked the lyrics up on my computer it was the first time I had seen them.

"I had said my 'goodbye' to mummy the day before. It was exactly as you would expect. I said: 'I love you.' She just said she wanted me to be happy, but she could not speak very much because her breathing was laboured.

"She was upset by what she would miss our [her three children's] weddings, having grandchildren. She would have been an amazing grandmother."

Sarah mentioned the recording to her father three days after her mother's death and a family friend, Charlie Mole, a professional score composer and songwriter, helped edit it and put it to music.

The video clips came from 70 hours of family recordings mainly recorded during family holidays abroad.

"I never appreciated how much mummy suffered because her priority was always to make sure we were not upset by her illness," Sarah said.

"She was incredibly selfless everything she did was for other people. I was always very close to my mother and we have always been a close-knit family. I have wonderful memories of us all together."

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I think, this is the saddest video I have ever seen in my whole life. I just couldn't hold back my tears!

On April 16th 2007, Cousin telephoned his local police station in Arras, northern France, and told an officer: Excuse me for disturbing you, Ive killed my wife.

In a fit of rage following a domestic argument, he had taken a kitchen knife to her neck before slicing her head off.

This morning he appeared before a judge at the Pas-de-Calais assizes at Saint-Omer, near Calais, facing life in prison for murder.

He denies the charge, pleading diminished responsibility, but faces life in prison.

The court heard how Cousins also told police: Im sorry for the work which I ve given you.

'My wife shouted my name out, I decapitated her. You realise that, and Im not mad!

While on remand he said his wifes inability to have children lay at the heart of the couples domestic difficulties.

She feared that she would pass on her fathers multiple sclerosis through his genes, the court heard.

This meant that every time he tried to have sex he was rebuffed. An autopsy confirmed that Mrs Cousins was indeed a virgin when she died, even though she married aged 21.

Defending barrister Didier Robiquet said that the problems came to a head two weeks before Cousins 50th birthday in what was described as pressure cooker syndrome.

His wife had threatened to leave him but he had never undergone any psychiatric treatment because of this, said Mr Robiquet.

He had been hugely frustrated over more than twenty years and this built up into a terrifying repressed aggression which finally exploded. He did not feel he was completely in control of his actions.Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

The whole idea of being married and not having any sex sounds strange to me, but it makes me believe that Philippe must have known about this problem before the marriage and quite possibly agreed to the arrangement. Further, If it was such a big deal for him, why didn't he leave her?

Sexting is (unfortunately for parents) popular among teens and tweens. Some of the teen sexters have even been charged with child porn because of it. Many think that is unnecessary, but in this case, with a New Hampshire teacher, the door to jail seems wide open.

Melinda Dennehy, 41 and a mother of two, is an English teacher at Londonderry High School. Despite her degree, she apparently did not read, or did not understand, laws on indecent exposure, however.

Melinda Dennehy turned herself in to Londonderry police last Friday. She reportedly sent four "sexy" shots of herself to a 16-year-old male student at that high school. The student thought the pictures were "hot" enough that he forwarded the images to his friends.

According to the police, the pictures were sent two months ago. The teenager also told police that Melinda Dennehy had "continuously sent him text messages." Many of those were, he said, sexually explicit. He added that she "kissed him twice on two separate occasions" in a classroom.

According to the local Londonderry website, the charge of indecent exposure leveled at Melinda Dennehy is considered a Class B Felony. The maximum punishment is up to seven years in state prison and a fine of $4,000.

Dennehy was released on $10,000 personal recognizance bail; she is due to be arraigned in the Derry District Court on April 30, 2010. Dennehy is to have no contact with anyone under the age of sixteen and was ordered to stay away from all Londonderry School property.

Sexting is a word that combines sex and texting (or text messaging). As previously noted, child pornography charges have been brought against some teens due to the practice. In response, the question of when sexting should be a crime, particularly among consensual teens, remains an open issue.

You can listen to the school districts press conference on Melinda Dennehy here.

Originally on SNAFU-ed

Im thinking of a cheeseburger

He wasn't charged about "thinking of a cheeseburger", but violating the city begging ordinance.

Gastonia City Ordinance 5-17 makes it unlawful for anyone to beg or offer to work for money or other compensation by accosting one another or forcing oneself upon the company of another. The citation did not state whether McLaughlin had been approaching vehicles.

McLaughlin was charged with unlawful solicitation under the city ordinance and was jailed under a $500 secured bond.

Sounds kind of harsh! If I was the officer, I would have rather bought him the cheeseburger. Makes you wonder, is it OK to donate to different causes in world, but not be able to donate to your own countrymen?

List of winners at the 82nd annual Academy Awards the Oscars:

A lot of people got disappointed with "Avatar" losing to "Hurt Locker" on lot of awards. Personally, I liked both the movies a lot but they seem to be in a different genre. Avatar was more of a commercial movie with tons of CGI, where as Hurt Locker was more off an offbeat drama with great acting, amazing story and great direction.

Which side are you? Avatar or Hurt Locker?

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After three months of enrichment, no Israeli attack will be able to eliminate Irans nuclear stocks.

Every sane person understands that sanctions are futile. Not only they are torpedoed by Russia and China, but even the strongest sanctions wont break Irans back within the few months the ayatollahs need to finish their bomb.

Irans Russian S-300 SAM do not change the situation. In the current political climate, the Russians wont man the batteries with their own personnel, and it would take Iranians months to learn to operate them reliably, if they ever do. Most importantly, the S-300 is too small to defend against a missile strike. Two S-300 will take out some 40 missiles, but Israel can launch about a thousand Tomahawk-type missiles.

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Chandhok, who previously raced in GP2 and tested for Red Bull, says he expects initially things will be tough but HRT can prove themselves worthy contenders.

The team looked unlikely to even make the grid until 2 weeks ago when they were bailed out, and then the car launched a few days ago in Spain.

Our goal early on in the season is to show the world that we are a credible company, Chandhok told Indian newspaper the Deccan Herald. The focus is to gain some mileage, reliability and experience in the first season.

Well probably be off the mark in the first four races but from Catalunya, Spain, we will prove a challenge. You never know, we could also bag some points late in the season.

Chandhok also said he felt no ill feeling towards Vijay Mallya who runs Force India with regards to him not giving him a race seat despite it being sold as a national team.

He called me and wished me well, Chandhok said of Mallya. Force India required something else at that point of time and they have now turned into a very good team.

I hold nothing against Vijay. I wanted to drive in F1 and it didnt matter to me which team I drove for. My priority is to stay in F1 and give it my best.

I will consider driving for Force India if an offer does pop up and if they are still on a high, in terms of racing.

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It is a rare case that a man doesn't have an important woman in his life. The most important that comes to mind is, of course, the mother. However, there is always the Sisters, Wife, Daughters or just female friends. Today is the day that the women need to receive some level of acknowledgement for their being. Bring them flowers, chocolate or simply just let them know how much they mean to you. Congratulating your female coworkers is also a good idea, letting them know that they are appreciated for their effort.

International Womens Day started as a Socialist holiday, which is likely why it never caught on in the Western World. However, its meaning surpasses socialism, or politics in general, and so I would love to see it as a true international holiday where everyone can enjoy it. Its history is best summed up in Wikipedia:

The first IWD was observed on 28 February 1909 in the United States following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America. Among other relevant historic events, it came to commemorate the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The idea of having an international women's day was first put forward at the turn of the 20th century amid rapid world industrialization and economic expansion that led to protests over working conditions.

In 1910 the first international women's conference was held in Copenhagen (in the labour-movement building located at Jagtvej 69, which until recently housed Ungdomshuset) by the Second International and an 'International Women's Day' was established, which was submitted by the important German Socialist Clara Zetkin, although no date was specified.[1] The following year, 1911, IWD was marked by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, on March 19.[2] However, soon thereafter, on March 25, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City killed over 140 garment workers. A lack of safety measures was blamed for the high death toll. Furthermore, on the eve of World War I, women across Europe held peace rallies on 8 March 1913. In the West, International Women's Day was commemorated during the 1910s and 1920s, but dwindled. It was revived by the rise of feminism in the 1960s.

Demonstrations marking International Women's Day in Russia proved to be the first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Following the October Revolution, the Bolshevik feminist Alexandra Kollontai persuaded Lenin to make it an official holiday in the Soviet Union, and it was established, but was a working day until 1965. On May 8, 1965 by the decree of the USSR Presidium of the Supreme Soviet International Women's Day was declared as a non working day in the USSR "in commemoration of the outstanding merits of Soviet women in communistic construction, in the defense of their Fatherland during the Great Patriotic War, in their heroism and selflessness at the front and in the rear, and also marking the great contribution of women to strengthening friendship between peoples, and the struggle for peace. But still, women's day must be celebrated as are other holidays."

Today, International Women's Day has gone well beyond mere Socialist states and has entered the world market as a true International Holiday. Most countries that celebrate International Women's Day have declared it a National Holiday with all businesses closed. However, some simply recognize the days importance but still ask its citizens to work. The following countries recognize International Women's Day as a National Holiday:

Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Zambia.

Numerous other countries recognize International Women's Day, such as Cameroon and Romania, but they have not made it a National Holiday. This is unfortunate because there is nothing quite as important as the women of our society.

Disregarding the smoking ban, the Smile hitmaker lit up at the MEN Arena in Manchester.

However, she apologized to the crowd for off key vocals.

Ive got a bout of bronchitis so sorry if my singing's a bit shit. Not that it's any good anyway, the Daily Star quoted her as saying.

Allen had flouted the smoking ban in Liverpool in December, forcing local authorities to reprimand her.

She was even fined last year for smoking onstage in Paris.

Smoking in public places is banned in both Britain and France since 2007.

Allen is currently in a tour with rapper Dizzee Rascal.

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The singer had first cancelled plan Valentines Day marriage plan after the date was disclosed.

Since then he has been forced to cancel two more dates.

Now, Williams is apparently trying to find out the source of the leaks.

Robbie and Ayda are desperate to marry and start a new domesticated life together, the Mirror quoted a source as saying.

The insider added: But when their first day, February 14th, escaped into the public domain, Rob hit the roof. He has played out his relationship with Ayda largely behind closed doors and wanted it to stay that way.

They don't want a huge showbiz wedding with glossy magazines in attendance and flashbulbs going off.

So it is vitally important to both of them that it stays private with only a handful of people knowing where and when the event will be.

Two other dates were suggested almost as a test to see if and when they got leaked. He is determined to find the culprit and cull him or her from their circle of friends.

Meanwhile, Field can't wait to get married to the Bodies hitmaker.

She reportedly said: I can't wait to marry him. We're so in love, its a case of the sooner the better.

They are now expected to wed at year-end in a private ceremony in LA.

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Andrew Tweedy, 29, said his 26-year-old sister had been so keen on becoming a mum and believed that Chelsea defender Cole was equally committed to a family.

She saw him as the father to their kids. Thats why she married him and thats why he has left her heartbroken, the Mirror quoted him as saying.

Having kids with him, becoming a mother, thats all Cheryl has ever really wanted. She comes from a big family we are all still close and the maternal instinct is really strong in her.

The public humiliation makes it 10 times worse, but for her not being able to start a family is the hardest part, he said.

He also revealed that Cheryl had told her family about the career break just before a string of women came forward to claim Cole had bedded them.

She planned to take time off once she returned from recording her first solo album in America.

I have spoken with Cheryl and she always thought she was going to have a family with Ashley. But trust is a big thing for Cheryl and that is another reason why Ashleys affairs have hit her so hard, Tweedy said.

To be honest I never ever thought he would get a second chance. But she took him back and gave him that second chance. I did not think she could take any more from him but she has.

He has ruined so many things for her. The biggest is the chance to start a family, he added.

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It also has a range of built in features which includes Bluetooth connectivity for your mobile phone, when you phone rings or you receive a text message the watch will vibrate.

The watch is controlled by buttons that are located at the bottom of the strap, and the time is shown by digital numbers in dark dots on the watch face.

It certainly looks like an interesting design concept, I wonder how long it will be before we see watches using E-Paper displays.

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A source told The Mail on Sunday: The gang had balaclavas, machine guns, hand grenades and machetes.

They made off with at least 700,000. Thank God everyones OK, apart from the injuries sustained when fleeing. The tournament continues tomorrow with armed police.

Police spokesman Carsten Mueller said four robbers in disguises forced employees to hand over money before escaping.

He said: Several people at the tournament were slightly injured when they panicked and fled.

He added that four of the raiders entered the hotel at 2.15pm from Potsdamer Platz, one of the German capitals most popular squares, while two others kept watch.

Barnes and Charles Judy were southbound in her Thunderbird at 11 a.m. when they slammed into the back of a 2006 Chevrolet pickup driven by David Schoff of Palm Bay. His passengers were a man and two women; the latter were treated for minor injuries at Lower Keys Medical Center, FHP spokesman Alex Annunziato said.

Schoff had slowed to about 5 mph to make a turn when the Thunderbird hit him, traveling about 45 mph, which was within the speed limit, Dunick said.

Barnes allegedly drove another half-mile, then switched seats with Judy, who allegedly claimed to be driving, Annunziato said.

"She jumps in the back seat and he moves over," Dunick said. "It was like the old comedy bit, 'Who's on first?' "

Burns on Judy's chest from the passenger-side airbag deploying belied their story, Dunick said. The airbag in the steering wheel did not deploy, he said.

Interestingly, both Megan and her thunderbird were not supposed to be on the road.

The day before the wreck, Barnes was convicted in an Upper Keys court of DUI with a prior and driving with a suspended license, said Monroe County Assistant State Attorney Colleen Dunne. Barnes was ordered to impound her car, and her driver's license was revoked for five years, after which time she must have a Breathalyzer ignition interlock device on any vehicle she drives, Dunne said. Barnes also was sentenced to nine months' probation.Source: keysnews.com

This story has too many questions here -

I will scrape off the last question, especially after looking at the hair on her head.

Makes you wonder, was she trying to make an "urgent" appointment with a "customer" instead?

Abdullah Barghouti, a terrorist serving 67 (!) life terms in Israeli jail, declared PM Netanyahu guilty of refusing prisoner exchange. In the warped Muslim mind, it is not the serial murderer who is guilty, but the prime minister who refused to submit to terrorist demands. It did not raise eyebrows in Israel that a convicted terrorist freely makes political declarations.

Turkish PM Erdogan claimed that the tomb of foremother Rachel was never Jewish and Netanyahu destabilized the Middle East by including it on the Jewish Heritage Sites list.

Wakf, an Islamic organization entrusted by mad Israelis with upkeep of the Temple Mount, defended the Fridays riots which left 18 policemen wounded. The preacher, mind you, merely asked good Muslims to defend their sites against Israelis.

The UNSC expressed concerns over the Temple Mount clashes. For some reason, the UN remains unconcerned with dozens of other conflicts throughout the world which claim millions lives.

Abbas, who depends on IDF for protection against Hamas and on Israeli treasury for his salary, joined the chorus of Jew-bashing.

Syria, which used to kill 20,000 Muslim Brotherhood members in a day, and 8,000 Palestinians on the other day, suddenly embraced pan-Arab feelings. Its secular Alawite regime lambasted Israel for desecrating Islamic sanctities that is, our Temple Mount.

Meanwhile, Jews remained quiet, abstained from name-calling and accusing the other side. So in the world news Arabs looked determined and righteously indignant while Jews silenced by their guilt.

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Ciccone, who left the Queen of Pop fuming with the publication of his tell-all book, openly disapproved the twice-divorced singers involvement with the new American TV show The Marriage Ref.

I cant imagine what shes doing on The Marriage Ref giving advice to married couples, the Daily Star quoted him as telling the New York Post.

He added: I guess its kind of ironic. Everyone has their experiences regarding marriage: hers are maybe what not to do.

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The singer turned designer and joined forces with Chrysler to develop the new Eco Style car, the Daily Telegraph reported.

The Eco Style by Christina Aguilera features recycled materials in the interior and an economic engine.

It also boasts of sustainable materials such as a water-based Vanilla, cactus-colored seat-inserts and bamboo appliqu placed on the door trim and center console.

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The I Kissed A Girl hitmaker will feature as Smurfette, the only female among the group, in Smurfs: The Movie, the Daily Star reported.

The star will share the screen with How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris, Alan Cumming and George Lopez, according to Variety.com.

Scooby-Doo filmmaker Raja Gosnell will helm the project, the shooting for which is expected to kick start in April.

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