property room

property room

Inside the Seattle Police Department's property room, rows of bicycles, Christmas decorations, wheelchairs and other unclaimed or seized items gather dust until they're put up for auction. But bargain hunters no longer have to wait for police, or the King County Sheriff's Office, to schedule a public auction to score a deal. They now merely need to log onto a computer.

Seattle police and the Sheriff's Office contract with PropertyRoom.com, a California-based Web site that receives items from the property rooms of 1,600 law-enforcement agencies in the U.S. — 124 in Washington state — and sells them online.

Proceeds are split between the police departments and the Web site.

Before, the Seattle Police Department and Sheriff's Office periodically held auctions to sell off unclaimed items — and there wasn't even a guarantee they could sell it all.

"It's a lot easier for them [PropertyRoom.com] to come and take it all than for us to auction it off," said sheriff's spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart "It's a very efficient way to dispose of excess property we get."

"It's a very green way to do it," added Cindy Granard, detective sergeant of evidence for Seattle police. "It's recycling old material and giving it to someone new."

When Granard wants to give items to PropertyRoom.com, she compiles a list and calls the Web site, which sends a truck to get them. The truck then takes the items to a facility in Seattle, where they move from one truck to another that goes to PropertyRoom.com's processing facility in Los Angeles.

"We usually wait until we have pallets full of stuff before we give to them." Granard said.

Once the items arrive in Los Angeles, Gemological Institute of America-trained specialists look over items containing precious stones to ensure they are real. They are then listed for auction on the Web site.

Once an item sells, the originating law-enforcement agency receives 50 percent of the proceeds if the item sells for less than $1,000, and 75 percent if it's more than $1,000.

Since using PropertyRoom.com starting in July 2003, Seattle police have seen their profits go up. From 2004 to 2005, for example, police recorded about a $28,000 increase in auction profit. In 2004, the department's auction profit was $29,951. In 2005, it was $57,974.

Proceeds from the sale go toward the department's pension fund.

PropertyRoom.com is set up as a kind of eBay for police auctions. Items are sold in categories including jewelry, fine art, tools, bicycles, watches and "everything else." The site was founded by former police officers, including Daryl Gates, former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, according to its Web site.

Since many of the items were stolen but never reclaimed, PropertyRoom.com will return them to their owners provided they can prove ownership of an item shown online.

When the site started in 2001, it had contracts with 100 departments and profits of $3 million. Now, the company has contracts with nearly 2,000 departments, 25,000 new bidders each month, and last year reported a profit of $35 million, according to company spokeswoman Cher Murphy.

duct tape prom dress

duct tape prom dress

ELYRIA — High school girls like it when their senior prom dress is one of a kind. Rachel Cunningham didn't have to worry about that. She constructed her dress, and her date's tuxedo, out of duct tape.

This is very cool and uniqe dress.

Now, Cunningham and her date, Billy Oliver, who wore their whimsical creations to the Midview High School prom May 9, are competing for $3,000 scholarships in the Stuck at Prom contest, sponsored by Henkel Corp., the Avon-based maker of Duck brand duct tape.

If they win, Midview High School will also receive $3,000, according to Lisa Schwan, spokeswoman for Stuck at Prom. Second place prizes are $2,000 scholarships for each student and $2,000 for their school, and third place pays $1,000 scholarships to each student and $1,000 for their alma mater, Schwan said.

Cunningham and Oliver chose the theme of Mother Nature and Father Time for their colorful outfits, which used 47 rolls of duct tape in 18 colors.

Cunningham's halter-top dress depicts a pair of pink flamingoes, a koala bear, a giraffe, a cardinal, a tree frog, an owl, autumn leaves, mountains, clouds, a rainbow, a tornado and a bear fishing for salmon. The halter top is laced up in the back with grape vines. Her accessories include a whale handbag, a duct-tape corsage, shoes covered with duct tape in a fish-scale pattern and sun and moon earrings. Even her fingernails were covered with duct tape.

Oliver's outfit includes a top hat that is also a clock, shoes covered with duct tape, a cane numbered with the hours of the day and a pocket watch made from duct tape. The sleeves of his tuxedo are numbered with roman numerals one through 12 and his pants legs are festooned with an hourglass, a grandfather clock and calendar dates important to the couple, including their birthdays and the prom date.

Cunningham, 18, and Oliver, 17, are one of 10 couples selected from more than 215 entries nationwide for the Stuck at Prom contest, Schwan said. Judges who have worked with duct tape to create artwork, clothing and crafts selected the top 10 entries based on originality, quantity of duct tape used, craftsmanship, use of color and accessories.


Cunningham said she started the project in April.

"It took a lot of trial-and-error," she said. "But I got better and better at it as I went."

Oliver said he was skeptical of the idea at first.

"It was a lot of fun, and I'm glad Rachel talked me into it," he said. "I played the role of mannequin and gofer and made a lot of trips to Wal-Mart for duct tape."

comoros

comoros

June 30 -- An airliner operated by Yemenia, Yemen’s national airline, crashed in the Comoros Islands with 150 people onboard,citing the vice president of the Indian Ocean archipelago,
It wasn’t immediately known whether anyone survived the crash, Nadhoim told Reuters. He said the accident happened earlier today. The plane went down in waters off the archipelago, Reuters said, citing an unidentified police officer.
Yemenia operates Airbus A330-200 and A310-300 as well as Boeing 737-800 aircraft,
The airline had a flight that originated in Sana’a yesterday at 8 p.m. local time and was due to arrive in Moroni in Comoros at 11:59 p.m.,
Calls to Yemenia’s offices in Aden and Sana’a, the government in Comoros and the airport in Moroni weren’t answered.

michael jackson autopsy leaked

michael jackson autopsy leaked

The Michael Jackson autopsy was leaked to British tabloids well before the Michael Jackson autopsy was supposed to come out. Once Jackson's autopsy was leaked, the details that came out were bound to turn some people's stomach. The Michael Jackson autopsy leak reveals that broken ribs, had only pills in his stomach, and was missing his hair and bridge to his nose. However, this Michael Jackson autopsy leak may actually be quite false.

British tabloids like the Sun leaked the Michael Jackson autopsy. Although it didn't come with pictures of the body, as some may have hoped, the Michael Jackson leaked autopsy details were still pretty graphic - and possibly filled with lies.

TMZ just recently posted that the Jackson autopsy leak was a complete fake. They did not give any proof to that, but TMZ reports that the story is "developing" and will likely have more details later.

For most of the day, reports have treated the British tabloid reports of Michael Jackson's autopsy as true. That may be due to their findings being sensationalistic, and paint a very harrowing picture of Michael Jackson's state at the time of death.

The Sun alleges that the Michael Jackson leaked autopsy results listed Jackson at only over 110 pounds at the time of death. His hair was all but gone, as was the bridge of his nose. Pills were the only thing found in Jackson's body, while he also allegedly had many broken ribs, bruises, and cuts on his back.

But the TMZ report may raise some doubts as to how true the autopsy leak is. In addition, a source told FOX News on Saturday that Jackson was surprisingly healthy, according to those performing the autopsy. The source said that Jackson had obvious facial scars, and bruises from people trying to revive him.

However, that report isn't nearly as horrifying as the autopsy that was just leaked - or made up. These reports are just part of the massive speculation and rumors around Jackson's final days, and how exactly he died.

rick astley dead

rick astley dead

Good news everyone -- George Clooney is alive and well ... just like Jeff Goldblum and Natalie Portman.

For some reason, some messed up people dropped some seriously evil rumors that Clooney was the latest star to croak this week ... and now, we've learned the fake stories have caused some serious concern within his circles.

TMZ spoke with Clooney's publicist, Stan Rosenfeld, who told us he's been bombarded by frantic calls from legitimate media outlets and some of Clooney's friends who were genuinely shaken by reports of Clooney's death.

With the rash of actual celebrity deaths in the last few weeks, "death pranks" are at an all-time high -- but the people who are starting these terrible lies ... they're still the lowest of the low.

fred travalena

fred travalena

And now, the untimely death of comedian, Fred Travalena.

The "Man of a Thousand Faces"; a comic impressionist who appeared numerous times on the Johnny Carson show in the 70's and early 80's, has died at his home in Encino, CA from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 66.Travalena's death comes the day after famed TV pitchman, Billy Mays, died at the age of 50. Preceding Mays, pop star icons, Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died last Thursday. Tonight Show sidekick, Ed McMahon, succumbed to multiple health conditions early last week.Travalena was a fixture on the late-night TV shows in the 70's and 80's. Later in life, he was also a regular guest on David Letterman's CBS show. His television credits began in the 1970s, as a regular performer on The ABC Comedy Hour and the Dean Martin Roasts. He also had several voice credits on cartoons as well as appearances on nationally-broadcast children's programs. Mr. Travelena also made many guest appearances on game shows and dramatic programs in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. In the mid-1980s he hosted the game show Anything For Money, a game where contestants attempted to guess how much money it would take an ordinary, unsuspecting person to participate in a silly stunt.In 2005, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

johnny carson death

johnny carson death

Ed McMahon (left) shook hands with host Johnny Carson during the final taping of "The Tonight Show" on May 22, 1992. McMahon died today at age 86.
By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff
Ed McMahon, whose nearly three decades as Johnny Carson’s sidekick on “The Tonight Show” and innumerable appearances as television pitchman and master of ceremonies made him one of the medium’s most ubiquitous figures, died today. He was 86.
Publicist Howard Bragman told the Associated Press that Mr. McMahon died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center surrounded by his family. Bragman didn't give a cause of death, saying only that the entertainer had a "multitude of health problems the last few months."
“My talent is making it seem I have no talent,” Mr. McMahon once wrote. “It took me years of hard work to convince an audience that I wasn’t working.”
Implacably genial, Mr. McMahon’s persona was one of abundant bonhomie and reputed bibulousness. His booming voice made him a natural announcer, and his even more booming laugh made him a natural straight man.
“If I could fake that much laughter, I’d be the finest actor in the world,” Mr. McMahon once said. “I thought Johnny Carson was very funny.”
Carson and Mr. McMahon were a match made in late-night heaven. Where Carson was slight, coiled, preternaturally quick, Mr. McMahon was oversized (6 feet 4 inches tall, and usually well over 200 pounds) and the soul of unhurried amiability.
His trademark response of “Hi-yo!” to a particularly racy Carson line was a boys-will-be-boys battle cry, and his nightly introduction of Carson, “Heeeere’s Johnny!,” became one of the best-known catchphrases in popular culture. When Jack Nicholson’s homicidal maniac in the 1980 film “The Shining” used it to announce an ax-wielding assault, everyone in the audience got the joke.
Getting the joke was fine, but Mr. McMahon’s fonder wish was that everyone in the audience buy the product. Among the companies he was associated with as spokesman were Budweiser, Alpo (he claimed to have served it to some 4,000 dogs on camera), and American Family Publishers’ sweepstakes. Indeed, the words most associated with Mr. McMahon might not have come from “The Tonight Show” but were instead the sweepstakes’ come-on, “You may have already won $10 million!”
A series of financial and medical setbacks left Mr. McMahon flirting with bankruptcy last year, which he averted with the sale of his house.
Mr. McMahon had few if any peers as a pitchman. By his estimate, he did more than 60,000 commercials on radio and television. “Of all the things I am, most of all I’m a salesman,” he declared in his 1998 memoir, “For Laughing Out Loud.” “I’ve always said with great pride, if I can hold it up or point to it, I can sell it.”
Mr. McMahon, who was born in Detroit on March 6, 1923, came by that talent as a birthright. His father, Edward Leo Peter McMahon Sr., was at various times a traveling salesman, entrepreneur, charity fund raiser, and sideshow operator. The one professional constant was movement. By the time he was 5, Mr. McMahon and his mother, Eleanor (Russell) McMahon, had accompanied his father to some 40 states.
The closest thing Mr. McMahon had to a home was Lowell, where his paternal grandparents lived. He spent summers there, as well as attending a year of junior high school and his final two years of high school.
While still in school, Mr. McMahon worked as a bingo caller. His dream, though, was to be a radio announcer. He took elocution classes at Emerson College and got a job on Lowell’s WLLH. As part of the Navy’s V-5 program, Mr. McMahon then enrolled at Boston College, where he was freshman class president. He served as a Marine flight instructor in Florida during World War II.
Rather than returning to BC, he enrolled at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., because he could major in speech and drama there.
Upon graduation, Mr. McMahon hosted several television programs in Philadelphia. He was recalled to active duty during the Korean War, flying 85 combat missions in an artillery-spotting plane.
Back in Philadelphia, Mr. McMahon resumed his television career and began commuting to New York to do commercials. In 1957, he was offered the job of announcer for a daytime game show called “Who Do You Trust?” The host was Carson.
Mr. McMahon later described his introduction to Carson as “about as exciting as watching a traffic light change.” Yet it led to television history. The next five years amounted to a giant dress rehearsal for “The Tonight Show,” with Carson and Mr. McMahon perfecting their onscreen chemistry.
“We developed,” Carson later wrote, “a unique relationship — similar to that which married couples often experience — an unspoken method of communication.... By a look a pause, body language, or tone of voice we could tell each other the direction to go.”
“My role on the show was never strictly defined,” Mr. McMahon said of his “Tonight Show” years. “I did what had to be done when it had to be done. I was there when he needed me, and when he didn’t I moved down the couch and kept quiet.”
Over the years, Mr. McMahon also performed in a nightclub act, hosted television quiz shows, presented compilations of television bloopers and practical jokes, took on the occasional film or stage role, and assisted Jerry Lewis with his annual muscular dystrophy telethon.
The best-known of these ancillary activities was “Star Search,” a syndicated television talent show that ran from 1983-1995. Among the then-unknown performers who appeared on the show were Rosie O’Donnell, Martin Lawrence, Britney Spears, and Drew Carey.
“I am one of the very fortunate people who grew up to do exactly what I spent my whole childhood dreaming of doing,” Mr. McMahon once wrote, “even if no one is quite sure exactly what it is that I do.”
Mr. McMahon leaves his wife, Pamela (Hurn); a stepson, Lex; from his first marriage, he leaves two daughters, Claudia and Linda, and son, Jeffrey (another son, Michael, died in 1995); from his second marriage, to Victoria (Valentine), he leaves a daughter, Katherine Mary.
Funeral arrangements were pending.

jeanice mcmillan

jeanice mcmillan

One Metro train slammed into the back of another on the Red Line at the height of the evening rush yesterday, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 70 others in the deadliest accident in Metrorail's 33-year-history.

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said this morning that seven people were confirmed dead in the crash, and two others remain in critical condition after being hospitalized overnight. He said rescue crews were using heavy equipment to search through the crushed rail cars for any possible remaining victims, and hoped to be able to say definitively by late afternoon whether there were additional casualties.
D.C. Fire Chief Dennis Rubin said cadaver dogs were also being used, and the wooded areas on either side of the tracks had been thoroughly searched for any surviving or dead victims. Earlier media reports had put the death toll as high as nine. A total of 76 people were taken to hospitals for treatment of injuries that ranged from minor to critical.
The impact of the crash was so powerful that the trailing train was left atop the first train. Witnesses told stories of rescues and people helping others amid the chaos. Firefighters had to use heavy rescue equipment to cut open the cars to reach people trapped inside.
The investigation will continue today, shutting down some parts of the Red Line and MARC commuter rail's Brunswick line. Officials advised the public to brace for a difficult commute, and those who boarded Red Line trains early today said they were traveling at a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour, significantly slower than usual.

A member of the National Transportation Safety Board said the front train was comprised of more modern rail cars than the striking train. As a result, only the struck train is expected to have been equipped with data recorders. "We don't expect to get any information" off the older-model train, said Debbie Hersman, member of the NTSB board.
One of the dead was Jeanice McMillan, 42, of Springfield, the operator of the train that rear-ended another stopped in front of it just outside the Fort Totten station in Northeast Washington, Metro officials said.
No one answered the phone last night at McMillan's home.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said the identities of the dead are still being confirmed, and their relatives being notified. Their names will not be released until that process is completed, she said.
The crash occurred just after 5 p.m., and traffic on the train lines and highways was severely affected.
Metro, like all transit agencies, is supposed to have numerous safety systems in place to prevent crashes, and it was not clear what caused yesterday's accident. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash and has assigned a railroad investigator and two specialists from its office of transportation disaster assistance. The Metro board is scheduled to hold a special meeting at 2 p.m. today.
Although the investigation is just beginning, certain systems are designed to prevent an accident like yesterday's. During morning and afternoon rush hours, all trains except longer eight-car trains typically operate in automatic mode, meaning their movements are controlled by computerized systems and the central Operations Control Center. Both trains in yesterday's crash were six-car trains. But officials would not say whether the trains were in automatic mode or being operated manually.

neda agha sultan video

neda agha sultan video

Think of our do-nothing state Senators up in Albany, trivializing democracy.
Then watch the video of Neda Agha-Soltan dying on a street in Tehran.
See the life drain out of her.
Listen to the anguished cries of the music instructor who was standing next to her.
Consider that the person who shot the video was risking his life.
Ponder the risk faced by each and every person sending pro-democracy messages out of Iran.
Remember other brave believers at other times and places, heroes such as the lone man who stepped before a tank in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Do not forget the many thousands of Americans who sacrificed all in the cause of liberty, in our city going back to the 400 young soldiers who charged into certain death in the long ago Battle of Brooklyn.
Think again of those 62 senators who sit in Albany.
Each of those mutts owes his or her position to a system built on courage and sacrifice.
Each took a solemn oath to faithfully discharge his or her duties.
And there they sit in a disgraceful stalemate.
As if they owed nothing to the gallant souls who made this democracy possible.
As if liberty were the freedom to finagle and self-deal rather than a sacred right for which people in other lands are even now risking all.
They are Republicans and Democrats who betray the republic and democracy.
Compare their lame excuses and tired lies in the state Senate to some of the Tweets coming out of Iran Monday:
"Clashes...street fires & tear gas - shooting heard - many militia."
"Situation in Tehran very tense today - many roadblocks."
"If you weren't old enough to appreciate the gravity of Tiananmen, pay close attention."
"THIS IS THE DAWN - this is the new beginning - have hope and prepare."
"Two young men injured...one dies...GRAPHIC VIDEO."
The video shows a young man who was shot in the upper thigh and another with grievous wounds in the back and head. As some comrades bend over them, others hold up cell phone cameras to keep the whole world watching.
More shots erupt, but the comrades do not just flee. They pause to lift the wounded and carry them down a passageway, a camera recording it all. The young man hit in the head leaves a trail of red spatters.
"If you want to help but are frightened of the streets - give blood - this is big help."
To read these messages is to be taught anew childhood lessons about the universal human need for liberty and the nobility of those who place it before their very lives. The Internet was calling Agha-Sultan "the Fallen Angel of Freedom" and carried an interview with her fiance.
"Neda wanted freedom and freedom for all," Kasamin Makan is quoted as saying.
He said she favored no particular side in the disputed election and was just a bystander when she fell victim to a bullet. She was buried in Behesht-e-Zahra Cemetery yesterday as spiritual kin to the host of innocents who have died during other struggles for freedom, and to those sure to perish in the time to come.
Meanwhile, those mutts in Albany continued to behave as if such sacrifices meant nothing, as if there were nothing sacred about the votes that put them in office.
The one action they have managed to take in recent days has of course been on behalf of themselves, ensuring they get paid.
The mutts are due to get their regular paychecks tomorrow, along with a $160 for each day of a special session, a gross misnomer if there ever was one.
The law says they have to be paid, but it does not say how.
Give them pieces of silver

neda agha sultan video

neda agha sultan video

johnny strange

johnny strange

Three weeks ago, Malibu's Johnny Strange delivered a message from the top of Mt. Everest, stating, "Stop Genocide."
But he carries another message for fellow teenagers: Pursue your dreams and meet challenges head-on.
Strange, 17, after scaling the world's tallest peak at 29,035 feet, flew from the Himalayas to Australia and on Monday (Tuesday in Australia) strolled to the top of 7,310-foot Mt. Kosciuszko to become the youngest person in the world to have climbed the highest peak on seven continents, known collectively as the Seven Summits.
Strange beat a record held by Long Beach mountaineer Samantha Larson, who achieved the Seven Summits when she was 18.
Afterward Strange typed an e-mail to family and friends that read: "Never let anyone stifle your dreams no matter the feat, for if you have the heart and the courage, impossible is nothing."
It helps to have a wealthy attorney and fellow adventurer as a father, but this should steal nothing from Strange's accomplishment. He climbed Antarctica's Mt. Vinson when he was 12 to set this project in motion, and Everest is daunting for climbers of any age and experience level because of its perilously thin air and unpredictable nature (six climbers have died on Everest this season).
Strange reached the summit of Everest two days after Utah's Johnny Collinson stood on top of the world. Collinson also is 17 and he's trying to bag the Seven Summits within a calendar year.
Strange said he chose Kosciuszko instead of Everest as his final Seven Summits peak because he wanted to tackle Everest "as a lone experience, not part of the Seven Summit goal."

jon and kate divorce papers

jon and kate divorce papers

After months of speculation, the 10-year marriage of Jon & Kate Plus Eight's stars Kate and Jon Gosselin appears to be coming to an end, a source close to the situation tells PEOPLE. Documents to initiate a legal split were filed in Pennsylvania Monday afternoon.

Fans who have watched the couple's popular TLC show – or read the voluminous coverage of the Gosselin marriage in the press – will hardly be surprised: The duo had long maintained a tense relationship, with Jon recently telling PEOPLE he wanted a less high-profile life, while Kate appeared to remain committed to their TV career.

In February, photos surfaced of Jon in the company of young women during a solo visit to see his mother, who was recuperating from surgery, in Huntingdon, Pa. The couple quickly attempted to quash rumors of problems. But in May, the scandal erupted again when 23-year-old Deanna Hummel was photographed driving Jon's car home from a bar late at night. When the fifth season of the Gosselins' show premiered May 25, the couple admitted to having problems and not knowing where their relationship was headed.

"Parents of multiples have triple the divorce rate," Kate said through tears. "I was thinking we were going to beat that. I don't know if I can say that anymore." TLC promotions of the show are promising a major announcement about the family in Monday night's episode of Jon & Kate Plus Eight.

lydia hearst

lydia hearst
Lydia Hearst as in, the daughter of Patty and great-grandaughter of William Randolph -- may be in Boston tomorrow night. The Kendall Square Cinema is hosting a big premiere of the young model's new movie, "The Last International Playboy," and so far, Hearst is on the guestlist.
Hearst and a few other "Playboy" cast members -- including Boston-born "Project Runway" model Polina Frantsena -- are also expected to show up at an after-party for the screening at the Estate. Supermodel Paulina Porizkova, as in wife of Ric Ocasec, has also RSVP'd a yes to the late-night shindig. Very Hollywood, yes?

She is very hot and preti

neda soltani

neda soltani

Her name is Neda, which means "voice" in Farsi, and her death has become the central rallying cry of the Iranian rebellion.
The fresh-faced teenage girl killed by what appears to be a single sniper shot on the streets of Tehran Saturday is now a potent symbol for Iran's pro-democracy protesters.
Her shocking and quick death in the arms of her howling father was captured on closeup video, posted to Facebook and came to life on computer screens across the globe.
"RIP Neda, the world cries seeing your last breath," was one of a flood of messages on Twitter.
"They killed Neda, but not her voice," read another. "Neda is everyone's sister, everyone's daughter, everyone's voice for freedom," said a third.
Within hours of her death, posters of the girl's face, open-eyed and bloody, were being brandished by demonstrators in Los Angeles and New York City.
The graphic video was originally posted to Facebook by an Iranian expatriate in Holland who said it was sent to him by a friend in Tehran, a doctor who tried to save the girl.
He identified her as Neda Soltani, a 16-year-old philosophy student.
A Facebook group created to mourn her calls her "The Angel of Iran."
In Tehran on Sunday, the streets were quiet for the first time in a week, but the city was bracing for more unrest today when thousands are expected to mourn the girl's death.
"To protest against lies and fraud is your right," opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi told his followers in a statement.
"Be hopeful in exercising your rights and do not allow those who try to instill fear in you to make you angry."
An ABC reporter in Dubai said she was told the girl was rapidly buried to forestall a funeral rally.
In the holy city of Qom, turmoil was reported among the ruling clerics. There were reports that some dissident clerics were trying to replace the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The regime is under threat after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a suspiciously huge landslide in the June 12 election, sparking accusations of vote rigging and days of mass protests.
Saturday's brutal crackdown, in which at least a dozen people were killed and hundreds wounded, hardened opposition to the supreme leader as well as Ahmadinejad.
In apparent retaliation, the daughter of powerful former President Hashemi Rafsanjani and four of his other relatives were arrested and held for a day, according to state TV.
State radio said Monday that 457 people were arrested in the clashes.
Rafsanjani's kin were held for a day for their own protection, but it was seen in most quarters as a clear warning to curb his support for Mousavi

leighton meester sextape video free

leighton meester sextape video free

“Gossip Girl” Leighton Meester has a wild side. And we’re not just talking about on the popular series in scenes with her GG character, Blair Waldorf's, on-again, off-again lover, Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick).
Celebhotline.com has screen shots of what looks like the buzzed-about sex video that reportedly has been shopped around on its site.
TMZ reports the private video was shot a few years back by her then-boyfriend and shows Leighton nude – and the antics of her talented tootsies.
Oh, Lordie. There goes Leighton's shoe spokesmodel career.
Celebhotline.com spokesman Kevin Blatt told TMZ earlier "We've seen the tape, and we're hoping to close the deal."
Leighton's rep has -- so far -- issued no comment. Our only comment is that we are not willing to join the site – even with a free seven-day trial – to see this salacious video. And we bet we're not alone.
Keep reading to see more hot pictures of Meester with Westwick.


Why do you think young actresses are so dumb as to let their boyfriends shoot videos of them making love?
Will you pay to see Leighton's sex tape?

Stick It

stick it

Warned that their skirts were too short to wear to school, more than 100 British high school students decided they’d rather drop out for a day than drop their hemlines.
Last week, the students at Upton-by-Chester School in Chesire, England, organized a walkout on Facebook, reports the London Daily Mail, and proceeded to hold a “peaceful protest.”
At issue were the teensy skirts that head teacher Jane Holland said made male teachers walking behind the girls confused over “where to look." Holland added that “despite repeated warnings, skirt lengths have got even more ridiculous.”
The students, rather than skirt the issue, aired their grievances in the school dining room as teachers listened, according to The Daily Mail, and then proceeded to hold their protest.
So what should win out -- fashion, or old-fashioned values?
“Part of what’s going on here is teen rebellion, or a way to make their own voice be heard,” says Corinne Gregory, founder and president of Social Smarts. “But part of the problem is that our young people are growing up increasingly quickly, and the message of sex and hormones is no longer just a teen message and a teen issue. Little girls as young as seven, eight and nine are dressing up to look like little Britney Spears and there’s no sense of boundaries or propriety.”
Teenagers are struggling to become adults, says Sarah Burningham, author of “How to Raise Your Parents” and “Boyology” (Chronicle Books), and they feel that the one thing they have control over is their body.
“Fashion is all part of their personality and it’s an easy way for a teen to say, I am in charge of myself,” Burningham explains. “That said, there’s definitely a generational difference when it comes to fashion.”
In the case of the British students, the head teacher noted, “I have issued warnings that if skirt lengths aren’t adhered to there will be a move toward trousers for everyone,” according to the Daily Mail. “We have handed out questionnaires and invited students to be part of making decisions.
Burningham advises parents to pick their battles when it comes to a teen’s choice of clothing. “You have to decide how short is too short for you and of course it will be different for every family,” she says. “Parents want to protect their children. But remember that one short skirt does not make your daughter a slut.

Mermaid Girl

mermaid girl
Shilah Pepin, known to the public as “Mermaid Girl,” suffers from sirenomelia, a condition found in one out of ever 100,000 births. Sirenomelia has left Shilah’s two legs fused together and without a bladder, uterus, colon or vagina.
Told by doctors that Shiloh would survive only a few months, two surgeries later Shilah is still functioning and enjoying a young childhood. At age ten, she now attends the Consolidated Elementary School, making her the single survivor of sirenomelia not to undergo surgery to separate her conjoined legs.

jibjab obama

jibjab obama
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama knows a little something about catching flies — knowledge he says he's using to help win over groups in solving the nation's health care crisis.
"I'm pleased that in our quest to reform the health care system, I have gained the support of the American Medical Association," Obama told the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner Friday night. "It proves true the old expression that it's easier to catch flies with honey. And if honey doesn't work, feel free to use an open palm and a swift, downward wrist motion."
Featuring political and topical humor, the black-tie dinner at the Washington Convention Center was the group's 65th annual gathering of journalists, politicians and their guests.
During an interview for CNBC at the White House on Tuesday, a fly intruded on Obama's conversation with correspondent John Harwood. So Obama waited for the fly to settle, put his hand up and then smacked the insect dead in one try.
Obama told the crowd he is working to repair the financial institutions and auto companies. "But you probably wouldn't understand the concept of troubled industries," he said, "working as you do in radio and television."
But he said Friday's dinner was far better than his appearance at the White House Correspondents Dinner, a higher profile event that typically attracts Hollywood celebrities.
"Why hang out with celebrities when I can spend time with people who make me one?" Obama said.
The president also poked fun at himself and his acerbic chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who was seen in photos on top of a camel during a trip to Egypt.
"I'm sure you've all seen the pictures of Rahm on that camel," Obama said. "I admit, I was a little nervous about the whole situation. I said at the time, 'This is a wild animal known to bite, kick and spit. And who knows what the camel could do?'"
On a more serious note, Obama concluded his remarks by saying he appreciated the work of broadcasters who bring truth to people and allow people to bring truth to the world. He noted how this was happening in scenes from the current disputed presidential election in Iran.
JibJab.com, a comedy Web site, and the Onion News Network, a parody of a 24-hour TV news network, provided some of the evening's laughs along with John Hodgman, a "Daily Show" contributor who also personifies the PC in Apple commercials.
Sweet Honey in the Rock, a Grammy Award-winning female a cappella ensemble, was also part of the entertainment. First lady Michelle Obama had the group perform in February at the White House.

Cindy Hampton Pics

cindy hampton pics
Cynthia Hampton Picture:Cynthia Hampton John Ensign – Cindy Hampton picture search is heating up the internet.Cindy Hampton/Cynthia Hampton became an overnight celebrity after she was exposed as the mistress of Senator John Ensign (R., Nevada).Most Cindy Hampton pictures posted on the web are actual pictures of Darlene Ensign the wife of Senator John Ensign or a lady by the same name,a former Jehovah’s Witness.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Twitter

arnold schwarzenegger twitter

LOS ANGELES, California -- A plane carrying California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made an emergency landing Friday evening after the cockpit filled with smoke, his office said in a statement

Schwarzenegger confirmed the incident with a tweet on the social-networking Web site, Twitter. He also included a photo of the jet on the tarmac.
"A little adventure just now when my plane made an emergency landing. All's OK, though," he posted.
The governor was on his way to the Santa Monica airport after a speech in Mendota, California, about the drought affecting the state.
The jet was diverted to Van Nuys Airport after the pilot reported "smoke emanating from the instrument panel in the cockpit," Schwarzenegger's office said, adding that there were no visible signs of a fire.
The pilot made a "quick, steep, but safe landing," his office said. No one was injured.

Ugly Tattoos

ugly tattoos

ROMANIA (WPIX) - Imagine waking up to half your face full of stars. It may sound strange, but it happened to one woman in Belgium, after it appears her tattoo artist got a little too ink happy.

Kimberly Vlaeminck, 18, said she asked Romanian tattoo artist Rouslan Tourmaniantz to design three stars near her left eye. The woman claims she was so relaxed during the process she slipped into sweet slumber.

But that all quickly changed when she awoke to Tourmanantz working near her nose - a part of her face he apparently shouldn't have been touching."I awoke as he tattooed me on the nose and I saw what he had done," Vlaeminck told the UK's Daily Mail . "I counted 56 stars."Vlaeminck, completely outraged, is now taking Tourmaniantz to court and suing the artist for 10,000 Euros in order to pay for the tattoos removal.

That translates into $14,000 US dollars."I cannot go out on the street, I am so embarrassed," said Vlaeminck. "I just look ugly, a freak mutilated."Tourmaniantz, however, is singing a different tune. The Tattoo Box owner said the 18-year-old was happy with his work before she left the shop and it wasn't until she received negative feedback from her family that she became thoroughly dismayed."She was awake all the time," he said. "

No way I could have tattooed so many stars on her face against her will."Tourmaniantz insists the teenager asked for 56 stars on her face but said he will do everything in his power to keep his client happy.

"It is not my wish to have an unsatisfied client," Tourmaniantz said. "There is a way to remove the tattoos with the help of a laser. I accept to pay for half the cost."

Gia Carangi

gia carangi

Gia Carangi was born on January 29, 1960 in Philadelphia. In 1977, Gia traveled to New York to begin her modeling career. She became a model by mere accident. As Gia was letting lose at a local Disco, a photographer saw her, and asked to take her picture. Gia began dancing wildly around the bar, arms out stretched, hair in her eyes, and squealing like a school girl. When the pictures reached the desk of Vogue magazine, there was no stopping her.
Her first major modeling job was with Gianni Versace when she was 18. She was quite a change from the typical blonde hair-blue eye model everyone saw as the most beautiful type of women. Gia changed all that. Within the next year Gia became one of the biggest models of the late 1970s.Gia was immediately swept into the fashion world. She never went through the tough rejections that other models faced; she was considered a “rare gem” in the modeling business. Partly due to supermodel Janice Dickinson’s success, a demand for more ethnic looking models was in. She was visibly striking, and was a hit with all the photographers.
“There’s only been maybe 3 girls in my whole career that have walked into my studio and I went ‘wow’. Gia was the last who came in here and I said ‘wow.’”
-Francesco Scuvallo.
By the end of 1978, Gia had already rocked the fashion world at age 18. However, she was extremely lonely and still looking for stability in her life.
Gia was a regular at Studio 54, and Mudd Club, in which anyone who was anyone was seen.
“We loved it,” Janice Dickinson would later recall, “it was a place for us. A place where we could be with the beautiful, do drugs be out of our minds and it all seemed normal.”
Gia began to develop a serious cocaine addiction. Common for the time, but lethal to most everyone who took it up. Kelly LeBrock, a top model at the time, remembers the time she spent with Gia.
“Gia, when I was working with her, was still sort of in the beginning, still very fresh and lovely, I think drowning a little bit in her own success, but not anymore screwed up than anybody else was in the set.”
In October of 1978, Gia did her first major shoot with top fashion photographer Chris von Wangenheim. Wangenheim had Gia pose nude behind a chain link fence, with makeup assistant Sandy Linter. She automatically fell in love.
“She sent flowers to me, and she really sort of courted me, which I thought was adorable. Eventually I did go out with her. She’s the type of person at that time, and anyone who knew her at the time can tell you, if she showed up on your doorsteps and you opened the door and she got in your apartment she was there, that’s it,”
By January of 1980, Gia’s surrogate mother and agent, Wilhelmina Cooper was diagnosed with lung cancer. Gia quickly turned to drugs to escape the harsh reality. Scuvallo remembers a distinct instance in which Gia was on a fashion shoot in the Caribbean.
“She was crying, she couldn’t find her drugs. I literally had to lay her down on her bed until she fell asleep.”
A month after she returned, Wilhelmina passed away at the age of 40. This was something Gia never quite got over. Combined with her confusing sexuality, her Mother’s persistence at her becoming successful, and her now newly formed heroin addiction, Gia’s life began to slowly crumble.
To the world, 1980 was a great year for Gia in fashion. She was seen on covers of Vogue and Cosmopolitan, but behind the scenes she was a very different person. She would have violent temper tantrums, walk-out of photo shoots and even fell asleep in front of the camera. In a 1980 November issue of Vogue, has since been the butt of many rumors about her drug use. It was said for many years that the nor famous cover, with Gia’s arms tucked stealthily behind her back, were posed that way in order to hide track marks when she was supposed to have been sober. This is not true; it was disputed most recently by Scavullo himself, who shot the cover. For three weeks, Gia was signed with Eileen Ford, but was dropped because she had little tolerance for Gia’s behavior.
1981, Gia dropped from the face of the fashion world. She had hopes of getting her life back together. She enrolled in a 21-day detox program. It is said at that time, Gia started dating a college student named Rochelle (her real name was Elyssa Golden - she used an alias when being interviewed by Stephen Fried for Thing of Beauty). The Carangi family and Gia’s mother had always suspected that Rochelle had an abusive heroin problem, and brother Michael Carangi even recalls being offered some by Rochelle. With Rochelle by her side, Gia’s recovery had failed. In 1981, she moved out of her mother’s house and in with some friends, once again entering into a detox program.
Her attempt to quit drugs was shattered when news that good friend and fashion photographer Chris Von Wangenheim had died in a car accident. It is said that Gia locked herself in a bathroom for hours, shooting heroin. In the fall of 1981, Gia looked far from the top model she once was. Drugs had ravaged her body, and in time, her face as well. However, she was still determined to make a comeback into the fashion industry. She contacted Monique Pillard (who was largely responsible for Janice Dickinson’s career), and who was hesitant to sign her.
“She was sitting in my chair and I said, ‘Gia, I want to represent you so badly and everything, but I hear a lot of negative stories about you.’ And I remember I asked her ‘well, why are you wearing such a long shirt? Can I see your arms?’ And she said ‘No!’ And she held on to her shirt and she said to me, ‘Do you want to represent me or not?’” For her second time, Gia received the harsh treatment she skipped last time. Nobody would book her. Desperate, she turned to good friend Francesco Scavullo. She landed a Cosmo cover, a gift from Scavullo.
In West Germany, a budding fashion industry was being created. Although seen as tacky by the designers from New York, Paris and Milan, the Germans were willing to pay 10,000 a week to shoot Gia abroad. However, no one in the states would book her. In the spring of 1983, Gia was caught with drugs in a shoot in Africa. Her career was over.
Gia moved back in with Rochelle, and after pressures from her family she entered a drug-rehabilitation program again at Eagleville Hospital. Another patient, Rob Fay became close to Gia. Although rumors among the other patients said that Fay was romantically interested with Gia, Fay claimed it was just a friendship.
After six months, Gia was released from the program. She moved back to Philadelphia, and it seemed as if she was getting her life back on track. She started taking classes in photography and cinematography. But, three months later, Gia had vanished once again, and had returned to Atlantic City, and started shooting heroin again. She sexually prostituted herself and was raped on several occasions. She soon became sick with pneumonia, and her mother came and checked her into a hospital.
She was diagnosed with AIDS, then a newly-known disease. As her condition worsened, she was transferred to Philadelphia’s Hahnemann Hospital. Her mother stayed with her day and night, allowing barely anyone see her. By this time, AIDS had taken a toll on her body; her once beautiful face was vanishing.
On November 18, 1986 at 10 in the morning, 26-year-old Gia Carangi died. Her funeral was held on November 23 at a small funeral home in Philadelphia. Gia’s mother and father did their best to contact people in Philadelphia and in New York.
In April of 1988, Gia’s mother, Kathleen, appeared on the morning show AM Philadelphia, after they aired a segment about AIDS. It was a move that shocked the family. Gia’s father called Rochelle to let her know about the show. “I had run into him in the casino before that,” she recalled. “He just gave me a big hug and a kiss and he started crying. He knew Kathleen. He knew she’d do anything to get on TV. She wanted to be the model, the superstar. Now she was doing it through Gia’s death.”
Although her death was tragic, it was surely not in vain. Gia was the first well known woman to die from AIDS. She brought AIDS into the forefront of the American conscience. She was a fighter. Although she eventually succumbed, no one could ever say she didn’t try. She searched her entire life for honesty and love, two things she cherished and rarely attained.
I remember when she died. I had the Cosmo cover hanging in my room at the time. I loved Gia. I loved her face and I loved her style. I probably also loved her sense of danger. I cried even though I never met her, and didn’t really know much about her. She was so beautiful and so alive, and this thing called AIDS was now attacking everyone. I remember thinking no one was safe. It was the beginning of a tidal wave of death I never in my life thought could be possible. I don’t think anyone really knew. How could we? Gia changed me. I remember walking around my house in High School and using the small hallway connecting my room with my brother’s as my runway. I would fling shawls and small blankets, anything I could find, over my shoulder and flip my hair, just the way Gia did. She was my princess, and I wanted to be her disciple. She had a fire and a passion that leapt off the page and headed right for me. I never forgot her. And when I was diagnosed myself, I knew I didn’t want to go like her. At the very end Gia made peace with some of her family and I think, with all I’ve read, with herself as well. She made it to the finish line and she knew she was part of something much bigger than she could ever have dreamed. Her memory would live forever, and her image would keep her struggle alive. Having practically lived the life she lived, I’ve survived as well. I’m sad she’s no longer on the earth flipping her hair and tossing her clothes around the stage, but I’m thankful for her memory. And for what she left behind

norm coleman

norm coleman

Norm Coleman can use campaign donations to pay for some — but not all — of the legal fees he’s amassing as a result of two lawsuits and an FBI investigation targeting one of his top donors.
That’s the conclusion Federal Election Commission lawyers reached in a pair of draft advisory opinions that the full commission is slated to consider Thursday.
The draft opinions reflect slightly different interpretations of the law, and the full commission on Thursday is slated to determine which it prefers. Either would be a mixed result for Coleman, a former Minnesota senator who has accumulated a mountain of legal bills since Election Day.
The bills stem from his lawsuit to overturn the results of his November loss to Democrat Al Franken (a decision from the Minnesota Supreme Court is expected imminently) and his monitoring of two lawsuits alleging that longtime confidant Nasser Kazeminy improperly steered cash to Coleman's wife, in addition to an alleged FBI investigation into Kazeminy.
Coleman, who is not a party to the lawsuits and has denied any wrongdoing in his relationship with Kazeminy, has asked donors for contributions to pay lawyers to contest the election and has asked the commission for permission to use campaign cash to pay legal bills stemming from the Kazeminy matters, as well.
Federal election law only allows politicians to use campaign cash to pay legal bills related to their positions as officeholders or candidates. And the FEC lawyers concluded that means Coleman can’t use donor cash to pay lawyers to represent him if the FBI inquiry delves into “allegations not directly related to his campaign or duties as a Federal officeholder.The more restrictive of the two draft advisory opinions also bars him from using campaign cash to pay for legal bills related to the two Kazeminy suits.
Coleman’s “need for legal representation in the two lawsuits stems from his role as a potential witness. Senator Coleman’s obligation to serve as a witness would exist irrespective of his campaign or duties as a Federal officeholder,” the lawyers wrote. “Accordingly, the use of campaign funds to pay legal fees and expenses for representing Senator Coleman in the ... lawsuits, including the preservation of documents, would be an impermissible personal use.”
Nonetheless, he can use campaign cash to pay for 50 percent of the legal fees accrued from monitoring the two cases, the draft concludes.
The more permissive draft allows him to use campaign funds to represent him in the suits, while both allow him to use the money to respond to media inquiries about the lawsuits, the FBI investigation and related complaints with the Senate Ethics Committee

mia farrow

mia farrow

The death of Mia Farrow's brother is now a case for the police.
Authorities are investigating what they're calling the "suspicious" death of sculptor Patrick Farrow, whose body was discovered Monday night on the premises of the gallery and studio space he owned with his wife in Castleton, Vt., not far from the New York border.
Vermont State Police tell the Burlington Free Press that officers arrived at the Farrow Gallery and Studios after receiving a 911 call from a woman, whose identity was not released, at around 11:30 p.m.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Burlington will be conducting an autopsy, after which more information will be available, police said.
Patrick, 66, was Mia Farrow's older brother and one of seven siblings born to author John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan.
In the mission statement on his gallery's website, Patrick wrote, "Early on my imagination was stimulated by years spent on movie sets in Hollywood and Europe as a result of my parents' professions. My art is a result of the total of my life so far."

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cynthia hampton

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Nevada Senator John Ensign has confessed to an affair after his mistress' husband approached him about money, according to reports.

Senator John Ensign, married to wife Darlene, has admitted to having an affair last year with a campaign aide when he and his wife were separated. The aide, Cindy Hampton, was married to John's former legislative aide, Doug Hampton.
According to John, the affair lasted several months until John reconciled with his wife, at which time he paid Cynthia a severance package and went his separate way.
According to Right Celebrity, it is reported that sometime later, Ensign met with the husband of his lover, Doug Hampton, and had what some described as a 'positive encounter' although what that means in circumstances like this, I am not quite sure. Supposedly, Doug Hampton, the husband of John Ensign's Affair, subsequently asked Ensign for a substantial sum of money - at which point John Ensign decided to make his affair public.
Ensign confessed: "Last year, I had an affair."
"I violated the vows of my marriage. It is the worst thing I have ever done in my life. If there was ever anything in my life that I could take back, this would be it. I take full responsibility for my actions."
John's wife Darlene said of the affair in a statement: "Since we found out last year, we have worked through the situation, and we have come to reconciliation. This has been difficult on both families. With the help of our family and close friends, our marriage has become stronger."

ana maria macedo

ana maria macedo

IN the all's-well-that-ends-well department, Ana Maria Macedo -- who was stood up by her fiancé a year ago just two weeks before they were set to swap vows -- married him on Saturday, capping a three-day, fairy-tale wedding celebration.
Brazilian-born Ana Maria, a model and fashion designer, married Swedish financier Jon Jonsson at St. Bartholomew's Church in front of 200 jet-setting guests, including novelist Coerte Felske, restaurateur Vittorio Assaf and his Swedish wife, Charlotte, shipping heir Alexei Zoulas and his Brazilian wife, Priscilla, and Nicole Coste, the former flight attendant who has a son, Alexandre, 6, by Prince Albert of Monaco.
"If you were a wedding crasher," observed one guest with an eye for gorgeous Brazilian girls, "this was the wedding to crash."
It was an event that most of the guests thought would never happen after Jonsson got cold feet a year ago, in a replay of the "Sex and the City" movie, just before the lovebirds were planning to marry in Stockholm.
"I'm a real-life Carrie Bradshaw, jilted by my own Mr. Big," Ana Maria told Page Six Magazine a month later. The groom evidently freaked out as the guest list climbed from 80 to 250 and the bride-to-be planned increasingly lavish celebrations.
Not that she stinted with the New York version. The bride wore an Oscar de la Renta gown and borrowed Bulgari jewels, while the groom was suited by Tom Ford. The 10 bridesmaids wore Nicole Miller.
The fun started Thursday at Pink Elephant. On Friday, guests wore white for a cruise by the Statue of Liberty aboard the yacht Romantica with an after-party at Kiss & Fly. After the black-tie wedding on Saturday, Tavern on the Green turned into Carnival, with scantily clad samba dancers. Die-hard revelers finished off at the Griffin.
The happy bride, who lost her voice, whispered to Page Six, "There's no way to explain how wonderful it was." She and her groom leave today for Stockholm, then Ibiza for two weeks, and maybe St. Tropez.

cristiane santos

cristiane santos

Gina Carano (7-0) vs. Cristiane Santos (7-1) Strikeforce Betting Odds: One of the most prominent mixed martial arts, female fighters in the world, Gina Carano, is finally set to make her much-anticipated return.
Strikeforce Betting Odds officially confirmed that Gina Carano would finally take on arguably the best female fighter in the world, Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos, in a 145 pound, 5-round matchup at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. This, Gina Carano vs. Cristiane Santos Strikeforce Betting Odds will air on Showtime on August 15th 2009.
"I think everyone involved just felt it was the right thing to do," Strikeforce Director of Communications Mike Afromowitz said.
"We felt it was a good idea, and both camps agreed. The commission has approved the proposal as well, so everything is set."
Carano, who was the star of the now defunct EliteXC Promotions, has remained optimistic that her contract disputes would be resolved and has been eager to fight Santos.
"I've wanted this fight with Cyborg for a long time and so have the fans, so it was important to me that it happen in my first fight back," Carano stated. "I've been training hard the last few months and come August, I will be in the best shape of my life. This fight will absolutely deliver on all the hype."

mariah carey obsessed

mariah carey obsessed

An artwork claimed to be the official single cover for Mariah Carey's new song "Obsessed" has been unveiled. It shows Mariah wearing black top and panties. Her left hand grabs a handful of her clothes, revealing her cleavage, while her hair is dripping wet. "Obsessed" is produced by The-Dream and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart. Serving as the lead single from Mariah's upcoming studio album "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel", it will be played for the first time on Chicago radio station B96 on June 16.Previously, The-Dream came up revealing that "somebody's going to be very upset" when the track arrives, leading to rumor suggesting Mariah will shoot down someone on this song. "It's going to light the blogs up too because you don't know who she talking about, what she talking about, but she talking about something," The-Dream said.

megan fox leaked photos

megan fox leaked photos

Actress Megan Fox, a sex symbol and Hollywood starlet, has decided not to sue after topless photos of her leaked into the tabloids.
Transformers hottie Megan Fox is steaming hot that photos of her seemingly topless were leaked to the media - but because she wasn't exactly 'topless', she has decided to let karma handle the culprit responsible for the leak.

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chasity bono

chasity bono

LOS ANGELES — Chastity Bono is having a sex change to become a man. A spokesman for Bono, born a girl to Sonny and Cher, says he "has made the courageous decision to honor his true identity" and began the sex-change process earlier this year. Publicist Howard Bragman said Bono is proud of his decision and hopes "that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue."
The 40-year-old writer, activist and reality-TV star came out as gay 20 years ago, Bragman said.
In the book "Family Outing: A Guide to the Coming-Out Process for Gays, Lesbians, & Their Families," Bono describes the realization of being "somehow different — specifically different from who my mom expected me to be."
A message left with Cher's representatives was not immediately returned Thursday.
Bono's second book, "The End of Innocence: A Memoir," details how relationships with Joan, a lover, and Sonny and Cher changed after coming out.
In 1995, Bono posed for the cover of the gay magazine The Advocate and began working for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).

letterman palin

letterman palin

Popular 'Late Show' host and comedian David Letterman is under fire after making jokes about Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin and her family.
David Letterman, who was trying to be funny when he made jokes about former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's youngest daughter Willow, is under fire from offended viewers.

David Letterman mocked Sarah Palin and her recent trip to New York. The Late Show host also joked about Palin's family and 14-year-old daughter.
Sarah Palin has called Letterman's jokes pathetic, while others are blasting him for taking such merciless hits at the Palin family, something they say he'd never do if the jokes were about Obama's family and daughters.

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The New York Post chatted up producer Todd Black, who's out doing the press rounds for 'Pelham 1 2 3'. He's also a producer on 'Spider-Man 4'.
They did manage to get a few details on the super-secret project. Black told the Post that Kirsten Dunst is definitely set to return as Mary Jane. However, Black has thankfully heard nothing of a potential wedding happening in this movie. The producer also gave a definitive thumbs-down to rumors that Morbius, the living vampire would appear in the film.
Black did say this about the story's villain, who will definitely be drawn from the classic rogues gallery: "We're just coming up with who the villain's going to be now. We'll be shooting in New York again. Trust me, people will appreciate who we pick, because it'll be a big part of New York."
Let the speculation begin!
"It'll be a big part of New York," you say? This has every website jumping on the Kingpin bandwagon, given that he practically runs the town. However, in the past having the Kingpin tied to the 'Daredevil' franchise (which was and still is at 20th Century Fox) seems to preclude the character from appearing in a Sony/Marvel venture. Unless, of course, Marvel has done some horse-trading, granting Deadpool to Fox to free Kingpin for Spider-Man. That seems a bit far-fetched though.
So who else is New York centric? Many of the Spider-Man villains are based there.
I'm going with Electro as a wild guess. He's not tied to the city in any specific way, but I'm old enough to remember the black out of 1977. An electricity powered villain could plunge the city into darkness and cause all kinds of chaos. So that's my pick.
The Vulture is a also a classic villain that's been under-utilized. I can picture many a cool set piece of ariel chases and dog fights through the canyons of the city. Of course, that could happen with many flying villains as well.
And, at the end of the day, can we even trust Black's cryptic remark to be any indicator? Or is it just a red herring?

kendra wilkinson pregnant

kendra wilkinson pregnant

U.S. model and reality television personality Kendra Wilkinson says she is pregnant with her first child.
Wilkinson, 23, and Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett, 26, announced their engagement last November. They are scheduled to marry June 27 at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles where she once lived with her ex-boyfriend Hugh Hefner.

"Hank and I are thrilled to announce that we are expecting our first child together," Wilkinson, who is known for her work on the reality TV shows "Girls Next Door" and "Kendra," told E! News. "We are touched by the outpouring of support by our family, friends and fans."

kate cooper

kate cooper
This is not a softball team. This is an episode of “This Is Your Life.” Here is the unofficial scorecard:
Bob Peruzzotti, Fitch softball assistant coach: Fitch High graduate, Board of Education member.
Bob's daughter, Kate: the Fitch coach. Also a Fitch grad and Fitch softball alum, a player for former coach Glen Graham, who played for original varsity coach Bernie Nasser.
Sophomore Brianna Turgeon: Niece of Cheryl Turgeon, Fitch softball alum.
Senior shortstop Brittany Duclos: Niece of Michelle Leger, former Fitch softball captain.
Arielle Cooper: daughter of Renee Khoury Cooper, Fitch grad, Fitch softball alum.
”I remember the days,” Khoury Cooper was saying Monday, after watching Fitch advance to the Class LL state championship game over Mercy of Middletown. “The good ol' days. Bernie Nasser. If we stepped out of line … he used to make us crawl to left field. He made us want to win.”
Officially, Nasser said, it was not a crawl.
”Duckwalk,” he said. “From home plate to the left-field foul pole, back to home, then to the right-field foul pole. I learned that in wrestling.”
And to think all this happened 25 years ago. Twenty-five years. Twenty-five years that felt like 25 seconds.
Memo to all the Fitch seniors of 2009: You'll remember the shapes and forms of this week - of your whole careers - all your life. That's the power of sports. Even better, that's what happens in this program. You can't help it. When you're in, you're in forever. Just like your moms and aunts.
”I didn't think we'd get along,” Bob Peruzzotti was saying about the prospect of coaching with Kate. “I figured she wouldn't listen to me. But this has been one of the best times of my life.”
It only fits perfectly that such a familial program has one of its own coaching the biggest game in its history Friday or Saturday. Fitch plays Masuk of Monroe, whose resume consists of a pitcher going to LSU and 77 straight wins.
Kate Peruzzotti, who coached at Waterford for a year while Liz Sutman was on maternity leave, is back home.
”We talk about it every night,” her dad said. “Kate loves Liz. She's a friend and a mentor. But it's different for Kate at Fitch. There's nothing better than coaching at your alma mater.”
Unless it's watching your kid play for it.
”I think it means more to me now than it did then,” Khoury Cooper said. “Not too many people's kids even go to the same high school as they did. (Arielle) is a good girl.”
And a good player. She has no choice. In addition to her mom's resume with softball and as an all-state soccer player, Uncle Scott was an all-state baseball player at Fitch and made it to Class AA with the Orioles and Indians.
”My mom's always telling me what I need to work on,” Cooper said. “She doesn't think I listen. But I always do.”
Nasser, who recently retired as a teacher at Fitch, sounds like the proud father. The Fitch softball program started as a club team in the early '70s coached by Tom Doyle, who would go on to win basketball championships at Fitch with his own kids.
”Tommy didn't want to coach varsity and I admit, I wanted to coach baseball, but some guy named Eddie Harvey came along,” Nasser said, referring to the future Fitch coach who won three state titles. “Now softball is like my baby. This makes me feel good to see all the kids playing after all their relatives did.”
Nasser was still rattling off names long into the conversation. Pitcher Aubrey Latham's dad, Mark, wrestled for Nasser. On and on it goes.
Fitch has a number of college players-in-waiting, including Cooper, who has never been the best player on any of her teams, but has done the family proud. She's playing at Eastern Connecticut next year.
Now she's left searching for two things: a state championship and her aunt's recipe for mussels.
Aunt Marieke, Scott's wife, runs South Side Bistro in New London. If it's not the best food in town, it's in the championship round.
”Those things are sooooo good,” Cooper said of her aunt's mussels. “But she won't tell me how to cook them.”
And with that, Arielle Cooper laughed and was off to find her mom after the game. One generation to the next. This is Fitch softball.

lakiha spicer

lakiha spicer

Mike Tyson is married for a third time, two weeks after the death of his 4-year-old daughter. The owner of the La Bella Wedding Chapel at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino said Tyson, the 42-year-old former heavyweight champion, and Lakiha Spicer, 32, exchanged vows Saturday in a private ceremony. Records in Las Vegas show that Tyson and Spicer got a marriage license about 30 minutes before their ceremony.
Tyson’s daughter Exodus suffocated after she either slipped or put her head in the loop of a cord hanging under a treadmill’s console in her Phoenix home. Tyson’s agent, Harlan Werner, said Spicer is not the mother of Tyson’s daughter Exodus, who died in the accident.