Lauryn Hill Sued
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Lauryn Hill Sued
When Does It Go Bad
When Does It Go Bad, When to keep and when to toss your favorite foods. We’ve all heard tales of the Twinkie that would survive (as fresh as the day it was made) into the next millennium, but most food, fortunately, does not have quite that long a shelf life (how long do Twinkies really last?). Confused about what to keep and when to toss? Here is a guide to the lifespan of some of the foods currently sitting in your refrigerator or on pantry shelves.twinkie shelf life 25 days,
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Tom Jones chest hair insured $7 million
Tom Jones chest hair insured $7 million
Gene simmons insured tongue $1 million
Gene simmons insured tongue $1 million
Monday, 26 September 2011
Hells Angels boss killed in shootout
Hells Angels boss killed in shootout
Roker twitter apology accepted
Dog-eating festival october
Dog-eating festival october
Embarrassing moments caught on tape
Embarrassing moments caught on tape
Sunday, 25 September 2011
Tourist flight crash Nepal
Tourist flight crash Nepal
Facebook's awkward 'unfriended' feature
Facebook's awkward 'unfriended' feature
And now, in a first-of-its -kind comprehensive, a University of Colorado Denver Business School student has revealed the top reasons for Facebook unfriending, who is unfriended and how they react to being unfriended.
NYU freshman Dakota Fanning shuns dorm life
NYU freshman Dakota Fanning shuns dorm life
Katie Holmes' slutty pumpkin
Katie Holmes' slutty pumpkin
Famous women firsts
Famous women firsts
Saturday, 24 September 2011
World's oldest running car for sale
World's oldest running car for sale
Diana Nyad's Jellyfish
Diana Nyad's Jellyfish
Bieber and Titanic
Bieber and Titanic
Billy Beane Vice President Oakland Athletics
Billy Beane Vice President Oakland Athletics
Teachers say talking is an occupational hazard
Teachers say talking is an occupational hazard
Should boys get HPV vaccine
Should boys get HPV vaccine
Pete Wentz dating model?
Pete Wentz dating model?
Beyoncé’s mom selling mansion?
Beyoncé’s mom selling mansion?
Some asthma inhalers banned
Some asthma inhalers banned
Liposuction may lower heart disease risk
Liposuction may lower heart disease risk
Peruvian bar serves up fresh frog juice
Peruvian bar serves up fresh frog juice
Rare crocodile found in Florida
Rare crocodile found in Florida
Rare crocodile found in Florida, A rare crocodile was spotted in St. Petersburg over the weekend, stunning residents of a gated community.
World's oldest running car for sale
World's oldest running car for sale
The four-seater, fuelled by coal, wood and paper, takes about half an hour to work up enough steam to go. In an 1887 race, La Marquise hit an average speed of 26 miles per hour on a 19-mile course. The following year it won the world's first motor race, beating out its three-wheeled competition, another De Dion-Bouton.
The steam-powered La Marquise was built in France in 1884 by De Dion-Bouton et Trepardoux, one year before Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz each independently built their first gasoline-powered cars in German. Twelve years later, Henry Ford built his first automobile in the US.
La Marquise is being sold by Gooding & Company, the California-based auction house, in August in Pebble Beach.
Source: telegraph
Drug cartels target social media
Drug cartels target social media
More than two days later, it was unclear who the two brutally slain victims left dangling from a bridge were, or whether they had any connection to social media.
Local police in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, didn’t answer the phone. State prosecutors said federal authorities were handling the matter. The Mexican Attorney General’s Office said it had not received any details about the killings from local officials.
But no matter what investigators uncover, analysts say the case shows the prominent role technology has come to play in describing and denouncing violence in Mexico.
“It’s still very telling,” said Andres Monroy-Hernandez, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “Regardless of why they killed these people, the cartels kind of went out of their way and wrote a message explicitly calling out what is being reported on the Internet.”
‘The truth has to be told’
A woman was hogtied and disemboweled. Attackers left her topless, dangling by her feet and hands from a bridge in the border city of Nuevo Laredo earlier this week. A bloodied man next to her was hanging by his hands, his right shoulder severed so deeply the bone was visible.
Signs left near the bodies declared the pair, both apparently in their 20s, were killed for posting denouncements of drug cartel activities on a social network.
“This is going to happen to all of those posting funny things on the Internet,” one sign said. “You better (expletive) pay attention.”
The Nuevo Laredo case “shows that online messages are worrying a lot of people,” said Raul Trejo Delarbre, who studies social media at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. “It shows that uncomfortable topics are being addressed there.”
Online posts have become some of the loudest voices reporting violence in Mexico. In some parts of the country, threats from cartels have silenced traditional media. Sometimes even local authorities fear speaking out.
Over the past year, Twitter users in the northern industrial city of Monterrey posted balacera — the Spanish word for shootout — more frequently than anyone elsewhere in the world, Monroy-Hernandez said.
“There are frequently comments about fear, the feeling of distress,” Trejo said.
But there’s a flip side. Last month, false rumors about school attacks in Veracruz, Mexico, spread rapidly on Twitter and Facebook, causing real-life chaos on the coastal city’s streets. Parents panicked, rushing to rescue their children from schools they feared were under attack. Traffic jammed and cars crashed.
Rumors swirled online this week, as word spread about the slayings in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. Some users posted fears in online forums, vowing to delete their accounts or post anonymously. Others claimed the crime scene had been altered to add the social media threat.
“When I first saw the photo of the scene, I was scared. But I’ve calmed down. And now I’ve made some changes, but this is not going to compromise what I’m doing, or what others like me are doing,” said one Twitter user in northern Mexico who frequently posts about drug violence.
The Twitter user spoke to CNN but asked to remain anonymous to protect his family. He said he has removed any personal information about himself from his online profile, stopped showing his face in his profile picture and made sure not to tweet anything about his family or his job.
“People will still continue to tweet, despite these threats. People will still continue because the truth has to be told,” he said.
An anonymous voice chronicles the violence
The signs left beside bodies this week threatened those who report violent incidents through social media networks. But the two websites it mentioned, Al Rojo Vivo and Blog del Narco, also showed no signs of stopping their efforts.
On the Al Rojo Vivo forum, where citizens can make anonymous tips, one person posted: “Don’t be afraid to denounce. It’s very difficult for them to find out who denounced. They only want to scare society.”
More than 600 user comments appeared below pictures of blood-spattered shooting victims on Blog del Narco Thursday.
Since its launch last year, the drug-violence blog has gained notoriety for posting shocking videos and pictures, many of them submitted to the site anonymously.
The identity of the person behind the site also remains unknown. Last year the site’s creator said he was a twenty-something college student from northern Mexico majoring in computer science.
“The media and the government would like to make it look as if nothing is happening,” he said last year. “The media (keep silent) because they’re threatened, and the government apparently has been bought.”
In a statement sent to CNN Wednesday, Blog del Narco said its site was not dedicated to denouncing crime.
“In addition, we are not in favor or against any criminal group, we only inform as things happen,” the statement said.
‘We don’t want to find out who’s responsible’
At another blog, known as Menos Dias Aqui, Spanish for “Fewer Days Here,” “counters” spend their days combing media reports, searching for detailed descriptions of killings.
Their goal is finding the names of the deceased in every violent death in Mexico, and posting them online for the world to see.
“We want to give them names, faces. To stop trivializing death,” the website says.
That’s a difficult task amid a nationwide drug war that has claimed tens of thousands of casualties since Mexican President Felipe Calderon began a crackdown on cartels in December 2006. As of Wednesday, the website said it had documented 15,372 deaths caused by violence in Mexico since last September.
Alicia Gonzalez, a translator who runs the website, said Thursday that this week’s killings in Nuevo Laredo did not diminish her resolve.
“I have nothing to do with the causes of violent acts. Really I have no desire to get involved in those things. I am always very clear. We don’t want to find out who’s responsible,” she said. “What worries us is what will happen with all these children who are left as orphans.”
CNN’s Rafael Romo, Nick Valencia, Mariano Castillo and CNNMexico.com contributed to this report.
Where are Moneyball's major players
Where are Moneyball's major players
Where are Moneyball's major players, Billy Beane is a former MLB outfielder who played for the A's, Tigers, Twins and Mets. Beane's most valuable contribution to baseball isn't as a player, but as a GM and talent evaluator. As GM of the A's, Beane gained notoriety for his use of baseball metrics to build the team's roster.
This use of sabermetrics ran counter to conventional baseball wisdom and changed the way teams did business. The practice was chronicled in Michael Lewis' book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game," published in 2003. Billy Beane vice president oakland athletics,
Source: foxsports
Friday, 23 September 2011
Thomas McCulloch axe
Thomas McCulloch axe
In 1976, McCulloch and another accomplice killed a police officer, a nurse and a patient when they went on a rampage at the State Hospital, Carstairs, South Lanarks. The other accomplice was the gay partner of McCulloch named Robert Mone.
McCulloch was given a life prison sentence for his crimes. He has been in jail for more than 40 years and officials seem to have relaxed the hold on him recently. For the first time his he was jailed, he was allowed outside his prison walls.
Source: thaindian
Burglar caught after falling asleep on bed
Burglar caught after falling asleep on bed
Burglar caught after falling asleep on bed, Burglar caught after drinking victim's wine and falling asleep. A burglar was caught after drinking a bottle of his victim's wine and falling asleep on the sofa instead of making his getaway, a court has heard.
Michael Dwyer, 44, broke in through a window of a basement flat in Cambridge before stuffing several pillow cases with DVDs, CDs and electrical items.
Unemployed Dwyer, who had already been drinking, then spotted a bottle of red wine and settled down on the sofa to drink it.
But he fell asleep until he was discovered with the empty bottle by his feet the next day by the homeowner returning from work.
The victim was still unable to wake up Dwyer and called police, who arrested him at the scene.
Dwyer admitted burglary following the raid on September 22 at Cambridge Magistrates' Court on Monday.
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Paul Brown, prosecuting, said Dwyer claimed he had broken into the house to use the lavatory.
He said: "Mr Dwyer was found sleeping on the sofa with a bottle of wine next to his feet.
"The victim informed police who then arrested Dwyer. He claimed that he didn't remember putting the items in the pillowcase and said he had a serious alcohol problem."
Monica Lentin, defending, said Dwyer had shown genuine remorse for his crime.
She said: "He is really trying to get help for his alcohol problems. This is the first time he has actually committed a burglary and it is out of character."
Magistrates adjourned sentencing until October 27 and requested a pre-sentence report be prepared by the probation service looking into Mr Dwyer's alcohol addiction.
Anne Mozingo Wife sues after husband's brain is removed
Anne Mozingo Wife sues after husband's brain is removed
Anne Mozingo Wife sues after husband's brain is removed, The practices of a prestigious medical research institute that studies schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are on trial in Maine, where the organization collected at least 99 brains from organ donors.
Anne Mozingo, of York, contends that the Stanley Medical Research Institute and a man working on its behalf removed her late husband’s entire brain without her consent after he died of a brain aneurism in 2000. She said she agreed to donate only small brain tissue samples.
Mozingo learned nearly five years after her husband’s death that his entire brain – along with its lining, plus his liver, spleen and pituitary gland – had been removed and sent to the institute. She filed suit in 2005 against the Bethesda, Md., institute and its Maine representative, Matthew Cyr.
Her claims include infliction of emotional distress, fraud and negligent misrepresentation. After Mozingo learned that her husband’s entire brain had been removed, she suffered extreme emotional and mental distress and had nightmares in which her husband’s body was being mutilated, she said in court documents.
The lawsuit accused the defendants of acting “beyond all possible bounds of decency.”
The institute and Cyr, of Bucksport, deny any wrongdoing. The institute has repeatedly said over the years that it never knowingly obtained brains without full consent from next of kin.
From the mid-1990s to 2003, Stanley Medical Research Institute used a network of “brain harvesters” in Maine and three other states to collect hundreds of brains for use in the study of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The brains were packed in dry ice and shipped by FedEx to the institute.
Cyr, who also worked for the Maine Medical Examiner’s Office, was paid more than $150,000 to collect brains and other organs from at least 99 bodies from 1999 to 2003, according to court documents.
Mozingo’s lawsuit is one of more than a dozen that were filed against the institute by Maine families alleging that their relatives’ full brains were removed without their consent.
Most of the complaints have been settled out of court, but three have gone to trial.
The first one to go resulted in a mistrial in January 2010 after the plaintiff testified that he chose to put the case before a jury because he didn’t want to settle. The judge ruled the statement implied to jurors that the defendant was offered a financial settlement to avoid a trial.
A second case went to trial last fall, with the jury siding with Stanley, Cyr and the institute’s former executive director, Dr. E. Fuller Torrey.
Mozingo’s case began this week in York County Superior Court.
On the first day of the trial, her attorney held up a model of brain as a prop while giving his opening statement. Mozingo told jurors that she was misled and betrayed during a time of grieving and stress. The institute’s lawyers questioned her reliance on notes to recount her conversation with Cyr after her husband died.
Mozingo’s lawyer, Thomas Douglas, declined to comment on the case because court proceedings were ongoing. Philip Coffin, who represents the institute, also declined to comment.
Mozingo’s trial is expected to conclude Friday or Monday, but it likely won’t be the final court case.
Portland attorney John Campbell said he expects his client, Ray Martin, of Old Orchard Beach, to have his day in court next spring. Martin’s case was the one that ended in a mistrial, and Campbell said it’s the last remaining case in Maine.
“Mr. Martin feels very strongly about going back to trial,” the attorney said.
No Child Left behind
No Child Left behind
On Friday, Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are scheduled to detail plans to waive some of the law’s toughest requirements, including that schools ensure that every student be proficient in math and reading by 2014 or risk escalating sanctions.
In exchange for relief, the administration will require a quid pro quo: States must adopt changes that could include the expansion of charter schools, linking teacher evaluation to student performance and upgrading academic standards. As many as 45 states are expected to seek waivers.
For many students, the most tangible impact could be what won’t happen. They won’t see half their teachers fired, their principal removed or school shut down because some students failed to test at grade level — all potential consequences under the law.
“It’s a momentous development,” said Jack Jennings, president of the nonpartisan Center on Education Policy. The White House is essentially rewriting the law, he said.
Duncan said the administration has no other choice, driven by mounting pressures on schools caused by the law and no clear sign that Congress will fix its flaws. Lawmakers have been trying for four years.
“I feel compelled to do this,” Duncan said as he rode a bus two weeks ago to tour schools in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio, among other states. “My absolute preference is for Congress to fix it for the entire country. But there’s a level of dysfunction in Congress that’s paralyzing. And we’re getting to the point that this law is holding back innovation, holding back progress. We need to unleash that. We need to get out of the way.”
For Duncan, one of the most visible members of Obama’s Cabinet, the move is likely to cement his reputation as arguably the most powerful education secretary in the department’s history.
Duncan already has propelled school systems across the country to make far-reaching changes by awarding a record $8 billion, provided by the economic stimulus package, to states and districts that embraced Obama’s agenda.
Even states that didn’t win money through the best-known of those programs, called Race to the Top, changed policies and laws to compete for the funds.
Duncan “walked into office and was handed a big pot of money and very few congressional restrictions,” Jennings said. “Congress went off and got into health reform, the budget, all these other issues that sucked up their attention. He was left alone with his money and took advantage of the opportunity. Now he’s got another opportunity.”
Some say the administration is reaching too far.
Source: washingtonpost
Wanda Sykes Cancer
Wanda Sykes Cancer
Wanda Sykes, whose visit to The Ellen DeGeneres Show will air Monday, is lucky to be alive and in good health. The mother of two with wife Alex tells Ellen, "I had breast cancer. Yeah, I know it's scary. It is. I found it through ... I was having a breast reduction, actually."
"I had real big boobs and I just got tired of knocking over stuff," Wanda Sykes joked as the audience laughed. "Every time I eat -- oh lord -- I'd carry a Tide stick everywhere I go. My back was sore so it was time to have a reduction."
It turns out that breast reduction may have saved Wanda's life. She continued, "It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS [ductal carcinoma in situ] in my left breast -- I was very, very lucky because [at the time, it was] basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky."
Of the decision to undergo a double mastectomy Wanda Sykes explained, "I had the choice of, you can go back every three months and get it checked. Have a mammogram, MRI every three months just to see what it's doing. But, I'm not good at keeping on top of stuff. I'm sure I'm overdue for an oil change and a teeth cleaning already."
Happily knowing she now has "zero chance" of having breast cancer again Wanda Sykes struggled to decide if she should speak publicly about her ordeal. "I was like I don't know, should I talk about it or what. How many things could I have? I'm black, then lesbian. I can't be the poster child for everything," she said, laughing.
"At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade, we get a float, it's a party," the mother of 2-year-old twins added. "I was real hesitant about doing this, because I hate walking. I got a lot of [cancer] walks coming up."
Best wishes to Wanda Sykes for continued good health!
Be sure to watch The Ellen DeGeneres Show Monday for more from Wanda Syke on breast cancer and her double mastectomy.
Source: sheknows
Spontaneous combustion kills man?
Spontaneous combustion kills man?
Deaths attributed by some to "spontaneous combustion" occur when a living human body is burned without an apparent external source of ignition.
Typically police or fire investigators find burned corpses but no burned furniture.
An inquest in Galway on Thursday heard how investigators had been baffled as to the cause of Mr Faherty's death.
Forensic experts found that a fire in the fireplace of the sitting room where the badly burnt body was found, had not been the cause of the blaze that killed Mr Faherty.
The court was told that no trace of an accelerant had been found and there had been nothing to suggest foul play.
The court heard Mr Faherty had been found lying on his back with his head closest to an open fireplace.
The fire had been confined to the sitting room. The only damage was to the body, which was totally burnt, the ceiling above him and the floor underneath him.
Dr McLoughlin said he had consulted medical textbooks and carried out other research in an attempt to find an explanation.
He said Professor Bernard Knight, in his book on forensic pathology, had written about spontaneous combustion and noted that such reported cases were almost always near an open fireplace or chimney.
"This fire was thoroughly investigated and I'm left with the conclusion that this fits into the category of spontaneous human combustion, for which there is no adequate explanation," he said.
Read more: bbc
Kim Delaney kicked off stage after bizarre behavior
Kim Delaney kicked off stage after bizarre behavior
She was supposed to be honouring Mr Gates, who was receiving the Liberty Medal during the ceremony.
I've seen soldiers come home with painful life-altering injuries borne of their time and service,' she said, stuttering. Army Wives' Kim Delaney Yanked Off Stage by Military Officials,
'I've attended numerous military funerals, including that of my best friend’s son. And my heart has been broken on numerous occasions.'
Read more: dailymail
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