TRIBUTE TO THE ROCK KING

HATERS

The president had his first foray into the byzantine world of U.N. politics last week and walked away cheered on by the anti-America crowd.
He appeased the delegations led by tyrants and petty dictatorships by condemning President Bush and spelling out how his administration is going to be different.
President Obama was applauded by Castro, Chavez, and Gadhafi (no friends of ours) when he said he wanted a "new era of engagement in the world." Are either of those three dictators going to be better world citizens or kinder, gentler leaders as a result of Obama's outreach? Put me in the doubtful column.
No American president has ever stood before the U.N. body and condemned his predecessor or American foreign policy in such a way. President Bush, like every president before him made some mistakes, but he did not deserve this put down. And let's not forget America was attacked on September 11, 2001, and thousands of American lives were lost. President Bush and his team got us through all that and kept us safe for the rest of his terms. And I hope Mr. Obama realizes the "haters" of America are still out there.

Shot himself after swallowing a cyanide pill.

A bone fragment believed to be part of Adolf Hitler's skull has been revealed as being that of an unidentified woman, US scientists have said.

The section of bone - marked with a bullet hole - was used to support the theory that Hitler shot himself.
Russian scientists said the skull piece was found alongside Hitler's jawbone and had put it on display in Moscow.
But US scientists said DNA tests revealed it actually belonged to a woman aged between 20 and 40.

An archaeologist from the University of Connecticut travelled to Moscow, where the fragment has been on show in the city's federal archive since 2000, to take a sample.

'I'm smiling this morning, it is a good morning'

A City banker accused of murdering his wife sent his mistress a text message on the day she died saying he was smiling, a court has heard.

Describing a text message she received from Mr Ellerbeck on 14 November, the day Mrs Ellerbeck died, she said: "The very first text message that morning said, 'I'm smiling this morning, it is a good morning'."

"He thought it would be prudent to put some money aside just in case - something that I think most people would probably do."

MADE IN CHINA

Celebrations have begun to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of Communist China.
It was Mao's defeat of Chiang Kaishek's Nationalists that lead to the birth or the People's Republic.
To mark the anniversary a new film on Mao's victory has just been released and it stars some of the biggest names in Chinese cinema, including Jackie Chan.

Aptera 2e

By this time next year, they could be millionaires — or so say the makers of the Aptera 2e, the space-age American successor to the three-wheeled Reliant Regal driven by Derek “Del Boy” Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, an older British television sitcom.
Technology has moved on a long way since the Reliant made its debut in Britain amid the fuel crisis of 1973. For a start, the $25,000 Aptera 2e runs on batteries, not petrol, although the 4,000 or so customers who have already put down deposits will be offered a hybrid version.
Also, the third wheel is at the back of the vehicle, not the front, making the Aptera 2e look more like a UFO than a tricycle.

The Real Reason Women Have Sex BY Cindy M. Meston,David M. Buss

New Book Reveals the Real Reason Women Have Sex

So why do women have sex? The vast majority (84 percent) have sex to guarantee a quiet life or to persuade their men to do some housework. Some of the other reasons given in interviews include...

1. She’s alleviating boredom – it gives her something to do.
2. She wants to relieve a stress headache or migraine.

3. She’s trying to put an end to an argument.
4. She wants a better complexion.
5. She’s thanking her date for a nice dinner, a present, or spending a lot of money on her early on in the relationship.
6. She’s after a spiritual experience since sex is seen as “the closest thing to God.”
7. She’s refining her sexual skills.
8. She feels sorry for the fellow.
9. She likes that he has an extravagant lifestyle.
10. She’s in a long-distance relationship and wants action now versus later

Locked Black Box

The black box sat inside a cabinet. Philip Garrido had given it to a friend for safekeeping, and that's where the friend kept it.

He feels he can speak to you and me and everyone else using this box," said Garrido's friend and former business client, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"He was a whack job, but he was a whack job who sounded like he had a really good heart," the friend added.
Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were arrested last month and charged on more than two dozen counts, including kidnapping(JAYCEE LEE) and rape.

The black box is simple, with a handle, a metal switch and jacks for plugging in headphones. But it provides some insight into the mind of 58-year-old Garrido.

Garrido told his friend and customers of his printing business that the box allowed him to communicate without speaking.
"He would move his lips and not speak ... and you would be able to hear his voice through the headphones," the friend said.

Bon Jovi yes to Cobain protest

Rocker Jon Bon Jovi says he understands why Nirvana's former members protested over the use of Kurt Cobain's image in video game Guitar Hero 5.
Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl said last week they were "very disappointed" that Cobain's avatar could be used to play songs by other acts in the game.
"I don't know that I would have wanted it either," Jon Bon Jovi told the BBC.
"To hear someone else's voice coming out of a cartoon version of me? I don't know. It sounds a little forced."
Guitar Hero 5 entered the UK games charts at number one last weekend, beating its heavily-promoted rival, The Beatles: Rock Band.

The late Nirvana frontman features as an unlockable character, allowing players to see his image performing a multitude of other tracks, including Bon Jovi's You Give Love A Bad Name.

ONLINE LIBRARY?

The US Justice Department has urged a New York court to reject a deal that would allow internet company Google to publish millions of books online.
The deal raised copyright and anti-trust issues, the department said, and should be rejected in its current form.

The court is due to rule on the issue early next month.

Under the deal - the product of a legal suit - Google would establish a $125m (£77m) fund to compensate those whose works it published online.
It would establish a Book Rights Registry so that authors whose work it digitised were paid when their material was viewed online.

In a statement, Google, the Authors Guild and the AAP said that they were "considering the points raised by the department and look forward to addressing them as the court proceedings continue".

Google says the deal would give readers unprecedented access to books that have been out of print for years.

Liquid Viagra

A cream allowing erectile dysfunction drugs to be applied directly to the skin could one day make them safer to use, say New York scientists.
Studies in rats suggest that Viagra, Levitra and Cialis could pass through the skin in tiny capsules, they say.

The research, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, could mean fewer side-effects, and even significantly speed up the drug's action.
However, it could be a decade before creams are fully ready for use.

The arrival of erectile dysfunction treatments in tablet form has been one of the success stories of the modern pharmaceutical industry, with some estimates suggesting that tens of millions of men worldwide have used them.

Jay-Z breaks Elvis album record

The rap star's new album Blueprint 3 is on course to top the Billboard 200 chart, taking him past Elvis's record of 10 number ones.

The Beatles are still the most successful act on the US chart, with 19 US number one albums under their belt.

The Fab Four also feature heavily on the US chart this week following the release of their remastered back catalogue.

The best-selling remastered album was 1969's Abbey Road, which sold 89,000 copies.

THE LOST SYMBOL

The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown's book The Lost Symbol has been closely followed by a release of his opinions on religion and science. In his interview with James Kaplan, for Parade magazine, he reveals he is sceptical about both:
"I was raised Episcopalian, and I was very religious as a kid. Then, in eighth or ninth grade, I studied astronomy, cosmology, and the origins of the universe. I remember saying to a minister, 'I don't get it. I read a book that said there was an explosion known as the Big Bang, but here it says God created heaven and Earth and the animals in seven days. Which is right?' Unfortunately, the response I got was, "Nice boys don't ask that question.' A light went off, and I said, 'The Bible doesn't make sense. Science makes much more sense to me.' And I just gravitated away from religion ...The irony is that I've really come full circle. The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'

Ghost Star Died

US actor, who had been battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years, died with family at his side on Monday.

The actor had been starring in US TV show The Beast since being diagnosed with the disease. He had also planned to write a memoir with his wife.

Patrick Swayze was best-known for starring in Dirty Dancing and Ghost.
In January, the star admitted he might only have two years to live, but denied he was near death.
In a US TV interview, he admitted he was "scared" and "going through hell".
"Am I dying? Am I giving up? Am I on my death bed? Am I saying goodbye to people? No way," Swayze told TV interviewer Barbara Walters.

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light-
Patrick Swayze, January 2009 interview

Most Mysterious Bermuda Triangle

Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the decades in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary apexes in Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico.

At 2,000 feet you'd be leaving very little altitude for manoeuvre. In any serious in-flight emergency they could have lost their height in seconds and gone into the sea.

The report on the disappearance of the first plane, the Star Tiger, said something which, because it could be easily misinterpreted, helped the accident achieve notoriety.

In a moment of philosophical conjecture, the investigators mused that maybe "some external cause may (have) overwhelm(ed) both man and machine."

Those comments from sober-suited British civil servants opened the floodgates for conspiracy theorists, hack journalists and mischief makers, adding to the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.

911 2009

The Tribute in Light was a temporary art installation of 88 searchlights placed next to the site of the World Trade Center from March 11 to April 14, 2002 to create two vertical columns of light in remembrance of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The tribute was launched again in 2003, to mark the second anniversary of the attack, and has been done every year since on

September 11, to mark the anniversary.

Those working on the project came up with the concept in the week following the attack. Architects John Bennett and Gustavo Bonevardi of PROUN Space Studio distributed their "Project for the Immediate Reconstruction of Manhattan's Skyline".

On clear nights, the lights could be seen from over 60 miles away, clearly visible in all of New York City and most of suburban Northern New Jersey and Long Island, Fairfield, Connecticut, Westchester County and Rockland County, New York. The beams were clearly visible from the terrace at Century Country Club in Purchase, NY. Pilots have claimed to have seen the beams from their cockpits in the sky over Cleveland, Ohio. The project was originally going to be named Towers of Light until some people complained that the name emphasized the buildings destroyed instead of the people killed.

'Tree of Liberty'

"America under Obama is turning into a socialist state. We've got someone who is an out-and-out Marxist, a total socialist, who is trying to put everything under government control,"- Mr Parshall

Parshall and other self-described "free-thinkers" make much of Thomas Jefferson's statement: "The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"If they don't start conforming to our constitution, we may have to rise up in arms and take our country back"- Parshall

A short distance from the Mr Parshall's pawn shop, for example, is the University of Nevada Medical Centre, a hospital funded by the tax-payer.
In a small room on the first floor, illegal immigrants are being treated at great cost for kidney failure.

This enrages some people who cannot understand how the cash-strapped American tax-payer now comes to be funding the healthcare of people who have no right to be in the country in the first place

999 BEATLES

Apple Corps, Ltd., Harmonix and MTV Games announce the 9/9/09 worldwide release of The Beatles: Rock Band. The music-based video game, an unprecedented, experiential progression through and celebration of the music and artistry of The Beatles, will be available simultaneously worldwide in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and other territories for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™ home videogame console from Nintendo.

The Beatles: Rock Band will allow fans to pick up the guitar, bass, mic or drums and experience The Beatles extraordinary catalogue of music through gameplay that takes players on a journey through the legacy and evolution of the band’s legendary career. In addition, The Beatles: Rock Band will offer a limited number of new hardware offerings modeled after instruments used by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr throughout their career.

Kurt Cobain Still Rocks

Some people have found Kurt Cobain's posthumous appearance in Guitar Hero 5 a little unsettling -- including his widow, Courtney Love.

For the record this Guitar Hero [expletive] is breach of contract on a Bullys part and there will be a proper addressing of this and retraction," she posted on her Twitter account. "WE are going to sue the [expletive] out of ACtivision we being the Trust the Estate the LLC the various LLCs Cobain Enterprises."

In particular, Love is incensed over the look of Cobain's avatar, which can be used by gamers to play non-Nirvana songs with Cobain lip-synching along. Love insisted she "never signed off on the avatar, let alone this [expletive] feature" and that "there's been four breaches of a very strict contract.

We have NOTHING to do with this it was presented to me and oi said "show me a better avataR" TO DRAG MY HEELS., never did i intend on allowing GUITARHERO for me or for Kurt i am NOT yoko [expletive] Ono no ofense to her, but i am a different person entirely and this is insane."

Trousers Woman

A Sudanese woman has been jailed for a month after refusing to pay a fine for "dressing indecently" by wearing trousers, her lawyers say.
Lubna Ahmed Hussein did not want to "give the verdict any legitimacy" by paying the fine of about $200.
Before the verdict, she had said she wanted her trial to become a test case for women's rights.
Ms Hussein had resigned from her job at the UN, which would have given her immunity.
Earlier, at least 40 protesters were held by police outside the courthouse in the Sudanese capital. Some of them were women reportedly wearing trousers in support for Ms Hussein.

Rev Wright vs Oprah

REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT SLAMS OPRAH AS ‘NOT SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS’.

He also slammed Oprah Winfey saying she is "just an entertainer" who is "not socially conscious," and is therefore not really making an impact.

According to the Los Angeles Times both Obama and Oprah have both belonged to Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ!
Both were attracted to the dynamic, outspoken paster, the Rev. Jeremiah Write. According to Newsweek, Oprah stopped attending this church in the 1990’s because “something wasn’t right.” However in 2002 Rev Wright claimed that Oprah introduced him as “her pastor.”

Not Socially Conscious = Wouldn’t Submit To My Shakedown {mhu cao}

Gorbachev & Beatles

As Russian cultural commentator Artemy Troitsky says: "The Beatles turned tens of millions of Soviet youngsters to another religion."

"They alienated a whole generation from their Communist motherland," he says.

Although the band were never permitted to play in the Soviet Union, where they were officially denounced as "capitalist pollution", the "four lads who shook the world" unwittingly helped shake the Soviet system to its knees, according to many of those who spent their 1960s east of the Iron Curtain.

They destroyed Communism - more than Gorbachev.

The Beatles produced a cultural revolution, the cultural revolution destroyed the Soviet Union.

They made a quiet revolution in our brains. We had it in our hearts.- Yuri

The Beatles did more to undermine the system than the most anti-Soviet literature for which people went to jail.

Crying Blood

"I looked up and saw myself, and I thought I was going to die," says Calvino Inman the 15-year-old from Rockwood, Tennessee. His eyes were streaming tears of blood.

Dr. Barrett G. Haik, director of the University of Tennessee's Hamilton Eye Institute, says there is an answer, sort of. He says "crying blood," a condition called haemolacria, is common in people who have experienced extreme trauma or who have recently had a serious head injury. But a case such as Inman's is still a medical mystery. "What's really rare is to have a child like this," Haik says. "Only once every several years do you see someone with no obvious cause."

According to experts, between February 1992 and January 2003 only four cases of “crying blood” were recorded

Legendary American boxer

Muhammad Ali has visited the birth place of his ancestors in Ireland.

The visit was commemorated by the town council with the unveiling of a plaque at the home of his great grandfather and by making Ali the first honorary "freeman" of the town.
Abe Grady -- the grandfather of Ali's mother Odessa Lee Grady -- lived in the town of Ennis, before emigrating to the United States in 1860 where he married an African-American emancipated slave.

Ali -- who has been a Parkinson's Disease sufferer since 1984 -- did not speak to those who had gathered but shadow-boxed to spectators and cameras before meeting his distant relatives.

"It was incredible. We've had so much rain and yet today it was beautiful. The rain held off wherever Muhammad Ali went." Frankie Neylon, the town's mayor said.

LONGEVITY

It is a rule of thumb in any Middle Eastern country that the more pictures of the leader you see, the less political freedom there is.

Occasionally he sports the large mirrored sun-glasses favoured by comic-strip dictators and 1970s porn stars.

It is disaster for Libya to have this regime for 40 years, the UK, France, Italy, I don't know why they support this dictatorship -Jamal al-Haggi Libyan dissident

One man recalls: "One day we all had small businesses to run, the next we found out it was almost illegal and had to shut down.
"Or we could rent our homes to people and then there was the policy of 'every home belongs to its dweller'.
"Another time, our children were learning foreign languages in school one year and the next year it was banned."

No One Is Above The Law

A week before Congress returns from its August recess, there are already signs that a recently announced Justice Department investigation into the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques of terrorism suspects will be a source of tension between Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill.

"They’re making it so the people at the CIA are afraid to do anything,” said Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee. “Frankly, it’s gone way too far."

No one is above the law? Great comment, great battle cry, but last time I checked we were kinda at war. Does this mean our military will now face criminal charges for murder? Alot of great people are giving everything they have for this country. If some terrorist is on a waterboard, I won't loss a minute's sleep. -Jeff

If a person violates the constitution that they vow to uphold, someone needs to be held accountable. Even if he was a president . There needs to be a clear message that no one is above the law. There are people in prison for stepping across boundries and they believed they were justified at the time, but wrong is wrong, big or small. -Isaac Arnett

Hurricane Bill

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has turned his attention to controlling the weather.

Five U.S. Patent and Trade Office patent applications, made public on July 9, propose slowing hurricanes by pumping cold, deep-ocean water in their paths from barges. If issued, the patents offer 18 years of legal rights to the idea for Gates and co-inventors, including climate scientist Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

The basis for the modification plan is to use multiple specially-equipped ocean vessels to essentially lower the temperature of the Gulf Stream water surface, by pulling deeper, colder water up into the mix.

All these ideas have major draw backs and ecological consequences that would be almost impossible to anticipate. Controlling Mother Nature is a dangerous game, when one system is modified without consideration of other systems, environmental impacts, and so on. The potential ecological domino affect could be disasterous.

The King at 51

Just two days ago, Europe’s Broadcast company, RTL made a hoax video claiming that Michael Jackson was still alive. People started making up their own conspiracy theories, and some even believed it. RTL later admitted that it was a hoax in a press release.

The Los Angeles County coroner says the death of pop star Michael Jackson was homicide primarily caused by two drugs: propofol, a powerful anesthetic, and Lorazepam, a sedative. Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, told investigators that he gave the pop star a series of drugs starting with Valium and then Lorazepam, followed by a sedative - all so Jackson would be able to sleep. The drugs didn't work. Early the next morning, Dr. Murray gave Jackson propofol intravenously. The drug is designed for hospital use only

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DJ AM dies

Disc jockey Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein was found dead in his New York apartment Friday afternoon.

Goldstein was found unconscious and unresponsive in his lower Manhattan apartment Friday afternoon, New York police said. The cause of death would be determined by medical examiners, but "There is no criminality suspected at this time," a police statement reported.

Goldstein and Travis Barker, the former drummer for rock band Blink-182, were the only survivors of a September 2008 plane crash in South Carolina that left both critically injured. Four others aboard the plane were killed when the Learjet skidded off a runway during takeoff from Columbia.

"Daily I live with the guilt and grief of what happened that night, what I saw, who was lost and why I was spared," he wrote in a December 2008 post on his Web site. "I have no words to express the pain that comes with knowing four people died, while I lived."

LION

The death of US Senator Edward Kennedy, the last of the Kennedy brothers, leaves no obvious successor to take on the leading role in one of America's most famous political families.

He became not only one of the greatest senators of our time, but one of the most accomplished Americans ever to serve our democracy.- B OBAMA

We've lost the irreplaceable centre of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever. -KENNEDY FAMILY

He was known to the world as the "Lion of the Senate", a champion of social justice and a political icon. Teddy inspired our country through his dedication to health care reform, his commitment to social justice and his devotion to a life of public service.-ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

We mourn, with his family, and the United States of America, the loss of a champion of democracy and civil rights.
His made his voice heard in the struggle against apartheid at a time when the freedom struggle was not widely supported in the West. We remain grateful for his role.

NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION

A disrespectful and intolerant attitude

Outrage over Madonna gig

Madonna fans are being urged to stay away from her forthcoming Sticky and Sweet tour date in Bulgaria by the country's Orthodox Church.
Church of Bulgaria officials have accused the star of showing a "lack of respect" for church rituals.

The concert, at Sofia's Vasil Levski Stadium, is expected to be attended by about 50,000 people.
Saturday is also a day of lent for Orthodox Christians marking the beheading of John the Baptist. In Poland's case, it was the celebration of Virgin Mary's assumption.

The Siren Blows Up

"The alarm bells on our nation's fiscal condition have now become a siren"-Senate Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell

The US budget deficit will soar to almost $1.6 trillion (£978bn) this year, the highest on record, both the White House and Congress have warned.
Fuelled by President Obama's $787bn stimulus package and reduced tax revenues due to the recession, it compares with a $455bn deficit in 2008.
The White House says the deficit will grow further, predicting it will hit a cumulative $9tn from 2010-2019.

Perfect Storm

Possible Crisis in 2030

As the world's population grows, competition for food, water and energy will increase. Food prices will rise, more people will go hungry, and migrants will flee the worst-affected regions.

The world's population will rise from 6bn to 8bn (33%)
Demand for food will increase by 50%
Demand for water will increase by 30%
Demand for energy will increase by 50%

Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we do it, all that, while mitigating and adapting to climate change? And can we do all that in 21 years' time?"- John Beddington