tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338861202024-03-06T00:31:01.705-08:00Interesting peopleInteresting, fun, humorous, strange, lucid and all other people who are not common.accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-21693119336079209932013-08-18T13:15:00.002-07:002016-11-19T01:20:48.886-08:00Hugh GrantHugh Grant, the synonim for <a href="http://chickflicks.myfilmo.com/">romantic comedies and chick flicks</a> in general, these days. So many talking about him on Twitter, FB, people publish pictures of him on Instagram, fans photos with Hugh on Flickr, videos on Youtube.<br />
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accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-81324614582144164852013-08-18T12:58:00.002-07:002016-11-19T01:22:17.498-08:00Count DraculaAll know that Count Vlad Dracula is medivial historical figure and Bram Stocker made something more and different then he was actually. But today, Dracula is still famous and people knows him as kind of vampire, the most famous one. Lots of <a href="http://horror.myfilmo.com/">horror movies</a> were made about him, lots of books written.<br />
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Here is several people on Twitter ho present themselves as Dracula:<br />
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accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-28823298740387213562012-09-10T13:42:00.000-07:002012-09-10T13:42:02.904-07:00Right dentistWhen you choose right dentist for you, one important factor to consider is the price. never mind if you try to find <a href="http://dentist-bend-oregon.com/">dentist in Bend</a>, Redmond, Portland or any other place in US. Even in the World. Not all of us have the money to spend on the most expensive dental services in town. For people on a tight budget and for those who don’t have insurance coverage, you might want to request for a price quotation first before sealing the deal. But this should not mean that you should always <br />
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And lastly, location is very crucial. Going to a dentist nearby or in your local area can save you a great deal of time, money and effort. It would also be very beneficial in case of emergencies.<br />
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The internet has a wealth of valuable information that can help you find the best dentist in town. Most databases even publish contact numbers and addresses of all the professionals on their list and you need only look and search by city and state.<br />
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Most sites even post reviews from previous clients, so you should check them out first.
Always bear in mind that health should always come first. Your research for the best dentist in Bend, Oregon should be taken seriously to achieve fruitful results.
accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-75169642272152295982012-06-20T03:04:00.002-07:002012-06-20T03:04:51.491-07:00Blake Mallen, Visalus co-founderBlake Mallen was born on February 2, 1981, in a middle-class suburban home. His father was a Cop and mother a School Principal. He graduated Cum Laude from a Top University with a BS Political Science, Emphasis in Public Law, and Minor in Psychology, and got many other formal knowledge. But seams his unformal, living knowledge was crucial to his success.
Blake mallen worked in a multi-level marketing firm The Free Network untill 1997. when Blake and his friend Nick Sarnicola started new company, <a href="http://visalustahoe.com/" title="Visalus">Visalus Sciences</a>. They both devoted all their time into promoting ViSalus products in Northern California. And that was the real hit. Visalus sells <br />
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Visalus Sciences primary product is Vi-Shake, and there is Vi-Pak energy supplement, and Neuro energy drink.
In 2012, ViSalus was awarded the DSN Bravo Growth Award by Direct Selling News for having a seven-fold sales (from $34 million to $231 million) in 2010-2011 period. It's growth is reasonable when we have on mind an increase in the number of Vi distributors (to 59,000 in 2011. from 8,000 in 2010.).<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgoforth/2311741016/" title="Little did the bride know, a power struggle erupted just after the ceremony by jcgoforth, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2388/2311741016_c9b1d53b93_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Little did the bride know, a power struggle erupted just after the ceremony"></a>accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-9038453324672523522011-05-09T13:33:00.000-07:002011-05-09T13:34:46.901-07:00Classic car theft in AustraliaAustralian police searched a property in Bayswater and found 1965 Ford Mustang coupe, stolen from in Wattle Grove, Australia. They didn't find six men who obviously stole it.<br />
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The group, who were armed with a gun, broke into the house early in the morning.<br />
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They held the owner at gun point and demanded he sign over ownership of the old car Mustang.<br />
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The vehicle as many <a href="http://www.ooyyo.com.au/" title="used cars in Australia">used cars in Australia</a> has a GPS tracking device which led the police to a factory placed in White street in Bayswater.<br />
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Police used armoured vehicle (Bearcat) and tactical response unit searching the property since they believed the armed men was inside.<br />
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The car was found in a laneway.<br />
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It looked as if the car has been dumped. Anyway, investigation is continuing.<br />
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The owner of the property is assisting police with their enquiries and forensics will examine the Ford Mustang later.accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-17194750526270152482010-08-30T14:35:00.000-07:002012-06-20T08:02:22.697-07:00Mark Oglesby<span style="font-weight: bold;">Efax.Com vs Mark Oglesby</span><br />
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Prior to 1998 the Claimant, an American company which was formerly known as Jetfax Inc until it changed its name to efax.com in February 1999, carried on business as a supplier of computer hardware. In February 1998 the company launched a new service on the internet converting <a href="http://buyfaxnumbers.com/">fax to e-mail</a> messages. This was a free service and involved the subscribers, who logged on at www.efax.com, being allocated a US telephone number for use as their fax number. Faxes sent to that number would be automatically converted into digital form and forwarded to the subscriber’s e-mail address. In November 1999 the Claimant relaunched its efax service in the UK using UK telephone numbers.<br />
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Since January 1998 the Defendant’s business had offered services which included a fax to e-mail service similar to that offered by the claimant. In February 1998 the Defendant had acquired and registered the name efax.co.uk on the internet. The service was not made available to the general public, however, until August 1999 when the service became automated and available on the internet. The Defendant charged for the service.<br />
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In February 1999 the Claimant’s European operations manager had discovered that the name efax.co.uk was already taken up. He therefore contacted the Defendant on a number of occasions and offered to purchase the domain name; these offers were refused. In November 1999 an action was commenced for passing off. The Claimant applied for interim injunctive relief restraining the Defendant from passing off his services as and for those of the Claimant by the use of the name “efax”. The Defendant cross-applied for the claim to be struck out on the grounds that it was bound to fail or, in the alternative, for summary judgment in his favour.<br />
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The Claimant contended that it had established a substantial reputation and goodwill in the UK, based on the fact it had approximately 17,000 UK subscribers of whom 5,000 had used the service. Further the Claimant argued that the word “efax” was a good trade mark as it carried connotations of fax and the internet but yet it was not part of the English language.<br />
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The Defendant argued that the name “efax” was descriptive of the service offered and therefore the Claimant had no real prospect of establishing an exclusive goodwill in the mark. In addition the Defendant claimed that the Claimant had not built up a reputation in that mark in the UK by November 1999 and, that the risk of confusion was likely to be very small given the different names of the businesses and the fact that one service was free.<br />
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Efax.com has got a big struggle on its hands to win control of the efax.co.uk domain name, following its failure to secure an injunction against a small British company. In court, efax.com argued before Mr. Justice Jonathan Parker that that the name efax.co.uk was confusingly similar to its own name. This is cybersquatting with a twist: efax.com, a US company offering fax-to-email conversion services has been trading under this name since February 1999, while efax, a UK company owned by businessman Mark Oglesby offering inter alia fax-to-email conversion services, has been trading under its name since 1997. Mr. Justice Jonathan Parker disagreed with efax.com, finding "considerable force" in Oglesby's submission that the word efax was highly descriptive of the services being provided: "e" being the universal prefix for Internet services and there being universal familiarity with the word "fax" as a shorthand for facsimile. It was likely that efax would be taken to be a fax over the Internet service. The ruling effectively scuppers efax.com's chances of bulldozing the .co.uk address away from a triumphant Oglesby. He says he never had any intention of passing himself off as efax.com -- a bit unnecessary that, considering he's been trading a year longer than the US interloper. Now he urges settlement -- shorthand for Efax.com for scrapping further legal action and, we assume, stumping up a lot of cash for the domain. Efax.com is in a bit of a pickle: in Britain, it signed up only 17,000 subscribers, 12,000 of which are dormant accounts, it revealed in court. As of February 7, efax.com claims 50,000 subscribers, a representative said. The company had launched the legal action prior to launching an advertising campaign in Britain. It said today that it has not put any media campaign on ice.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Mark Oglesby moved</span><br />
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FIVE years ago Clare Oglesby lived in a four-bedroom detached house. So far so normal. Today she is chatelaine of a 40-bedroom royal estate that was once home to the present Queen’s aunt.<br />
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But behind this amazing leap up the property ladder lies a fascinating tale of two women, two family generations removed and a world apart in terms of upbringing and life-style. Yet they are united by a love for one house.<br />
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Home today for Clare Oglesby is 400-year-old Goldsborough Hall. She shares it with husband Mark, 40, their daughter Charlotte, four, and Lucy, 14, Mark’s daughter from a previous relationship.<br />
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The hard-working couple have ploughed their savings and lives into renovating the once-dilapidated estate in North Yorkshire, restoring it to its glory days where it was a home fit to receive kings and queens.<br />
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Just over 80 years ago the lady of the house was Princess Mary, a great- granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She shared the house with husband Henry, Viscount Lascelles, and their two sons George and Gerald.<br />
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Mary and Henry were given the 80-room house after they wed in 1922 in a lavish royal ceremony. It was their first family home and the Princess created much of the gardens which exist today. But there any similarities end.<br />
Mark had spotted the hall for sale in 2003 and suggested they take a look at it with a view to moving his telecom business there. Despite their falling in love with the property, which was still in good condition, their offer was rejected and they heard nothing more until two years later when they were contacted by the estate agents to say: “Put your best offer in – it’s between you and a developer.”accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-74526981747629526232010-07-28T04:08:00.000-07:002012-06-20T08:03:09.392-07:00Cosplay GirlsCosplay Girls at Tokyo, Japan<br />
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gothic cosplay girls<br />
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Gravity photogenic bunny girl (with bunny ears)<br />
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Cosplay girl represents the upcoming king kong video game<br />
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Borg cosplay girl in Harijuku answering a call<br />
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Kunoichi, The ninja Girl. Sexy and lethal.<br />
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ati booth 2 girls<br />
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Power girl<br />
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Little Martian girl on San Diego Comic Conference<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/scragz/2715199406/" title="Little Martian girl by scragz, on Flickr"><img alt="Little Martian girl" height="400" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/2715199406_499e1524e5.jpg" width="400" /></a>accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-62416374123938961662010-05-10T01:56:00.000-07:002012-06-20T08:03:32.435-07:00Nepal spiritual menThe overwhelming majority in Nepal follow Hinduism. Shiva is regarded as the guardian deity of the country. Nepal is home to the largest Shiva temple in the world, the famous Pashupatinath Temple, where Hindus from all over the world come for pilgrimage. According to mythology, Sita Devi of the epic Ramayana was born in the Mithila Kingdom of King Janaka Raja.<br />
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Sadhus or Hindu holy men wander the Indian subcontinent on a perpetual barefoot pilgrimage to holy places. Picture has been taken in the temple of Pashupatinath in Kathmandu valley which is considered as one of the holiest shrines of the Hindus glorifying Lord Shiva.<br />
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Fashionable Nepal man. Covered with ashes and some mysterious orange mixture, an incredibly colourful saddhu with a great haircut on the ghats in Pashupatinath temple.<br />
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Jai Nepal! He is apparently meditating with more performance following.<br />
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Sadhu - Interesting and colorfull man from Nepal.<br />
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Interesting man in Nepal. Sleeping or meditating?<br />
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Thanks for all the pictures to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/e-zamprogno/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">e-zamprogno</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kkcondon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kkcondon</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmhullot/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jmhullot</a>.accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-63594110810378770262010-04-26T15:21:00.000-07:002010-04-26T15:27:01.108-07:00Costa Rica "Kiss me" girlCosta Rica "Kiss me" girl. Pura Vida<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicqJweMYGL621eH0I7duC7lt5UKa7XbGusLV3ySps4nMfTuNH9uwiGNcTyen9YmkZnMwxsVyBR4EB_LvWWgz1jDNp9rDwhEM6VJ3S5iNYeg-2ucSdDUdpFsVXCC3ZyZFaWXyoQoA/s400/kissme.jpg" border="0" alt="Costa Rica Kiss me girl" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464575502940970322" /><br /><br />photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/whappen/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Whappen</a>accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-12927480093374846702009-08-27T14:22:00.000-07:002009-08-27T14:27:55.798-07:00Officers of Courts in Virginia<pre>Clerks.<br /><br />In all Justices' Courts, the justices are required to make and<br />preserve their own dockets. The Clerk of the Court of Appeals is<br />appointed by the court; the Clerks of the Circuit and Corporation<br />Courts are elected by the people of the county or corporation in<br />which the court is held. They hold office for a term of eight<br />years. Salary, fees and special allowances.<br /><br />Duties. Shall record the proceedings of their respective courts<br />and issue writs in their name; shall be the custodians of all<br />papers lawfully returned to or filed in the Clerk's office; shall<br />perform such other duties as are imposed upon them by law.<br /><br />The Tipstaff and Crier are the executive officers of the Court of<br />Appeals.<br /><br />For meaning of DOCKET, see under Chancery Court of the City of<br />Richmond. DOCKETS here mean entries in a book giving lists of<br />names of persons connected with the cases tried, and particulars<br />of the proceedings in each case. In justices' courts such dockets<br />are made and kept by the justice himself.<br /><br />The clerks of the courts mentioned have no salaries. They are paid<br />by fees and special allowances. For example, when a clerk of court<br />makes out a writ or bond or a copy of any court document, he gets<br />a fee for doing it. A special allowance is an allowance (or a grant of money)<br />made by the court for special work done.<br /><br />The TIPSTAFF and CRIER are executive officers of the Court of<br />Appeals--that is, they execute or carry out certain orders of the<br />court. In some places a sheriff's officer is called a tipstaff,<br />the name being derived from the custom of such officers bearing a<br />STAFF TIPPED with metal.<br /><br />Criers sometimes are appointed for other courts besides the Court<br />of Appeals. The name is derived from the practice of proclaiming<br />or CRYING out in court the commands or orders of the judge.<br /><br />Sheriff.<br /><br />The Sheriff is the executive officer of the Circuit Court, and of<br />the Circuit and Chancery Courts of the city of Richmond; the City<br />Sergeant is the executive officer of the Corporation Courts and<br />Circuit Courts held for cities, and the Hustings Court for the<br />city of Richmond; the Constable is the executive officer of the<br />Justice's Court.<br /><br />Though the sheriff is an officer of the courts, he is more<br />particularly a county officer. His principal duties will,<br />therefore, be found set forth and explained under County Officers. The city<br />sergeant is also a court officer, but his<br />duties are limited to cities. They are stated and explained under<br />Government of Cities and Towns. The duties of the constable, who<br />is a magisterial district officer, are explained under District<br />Organization.<br /><br />Commonwealth's Attorney.<br /><br />Elected by the people at the general election in November for a<br />term of four years; must reside in the county or corporation for<br />which he is elected; shall hold no other elective office. Salary,<br />allowance by the Board of Supervisors and fees.<br /><br />Duties. Gives legal advice to the county and district officers,<br />and prosecutes criminals in the Circuit and Corporation Courts.<br /><br /><br />LEGAL ADVICE is advice on matters of law. The commonwealth's<br />attorney prosecutes criminals--that is, he attends in court and<br />makes the charge, or states the case, and examines witnesses,<br />against persons charged with crime.<br /><br />A WITNESS is a person who tells on oath, in answer to questions,<br />what he knows about the crime charged against the accused, or<br />about the facts in a civil case or process.<br /><br />Attorney-at-Law.<br /><br />Must hold license granted by any three or more judges of the<br />Supreme Court of Appeals acting together under such rules and<br />regulations and upon such examination both as to learning and<br />character as may be prescribed by the said Court; must be a male<br />citizen over the age of twenty-one years; must have resided in the<br />State six months preceding application for a license; and must<br />qualify before the Court in which he proposes to practice.<br /><br />An ATTORNEY-AT-LAW is a person legally qualified and licensed to<br />act as attorney. A person not a lawyer might be called an attorney<br />if appointed to do any business on behalf of another, but to be an<br />attorney-at law a person must be qualified as stated in the text.<br />(See under Attorney-General, page 29.) A LICENSE is a permission<br />to perform certain acts. It is usually in writing, and is issued<br />by persons having legal authority to do so.<br /><br />An attorney-at-law must QUALIFY before the court in which he<br />wishes to practice. This means that he must produce evidence that<br />he is legally licensed, that he must take an oath that he will<br />perform his duties as an attorney, and also that he must take an<br />oath that he will be faithful to the Commonwealth of Virginia.<br /><br />Who May Practice Law in Virginia.<br /><br />Any person duly authorized and practicing as Counsel or Attorney at Law in any<br />State or Territory of the United States, or in the District of Columbia. But if<br />he resides in Virginia he must pay the prescribed license fee.<br /><br />DULY AUTHORIZED means having received the proper license, and<br />having qualified. PRESCRIBED LICENSE FEE is a certain fee or<br />charge for the issuing of a license to practice in Virginia.<br /><br />Juries.<br /><br />Drawn by lot from a list of those well qualified to serve as<br />jurors, furnished by the Judge of the Circuit or Corporation<br />Courts. The list shall contain not less than one hundred nor more<br />than three hundred names.<br /><br />All male citizens over twenty-one years of age who have been<br />residents of the State for two years, and of the county, city, or<br />town in which they reside for one year next preceding their being<br />summoned to serve as such and competent in other respects, are<br />WELL QUALIFIED to SERVE as jurors within the State. But certain<br />persons are disqualified as not competent, such as idiots,<br />lunatics, and persons convicted of bribery, perjury, embezzlement<br />of public funds, treason, felony or petit larceny.<br /><br />Certain public officers and persons belonging to certain<br />professions are exempt from jury service. The governor, the<br />lieutenant-governor, postmasters, practicing physicians (doctors),<br />and many others, are exempt from the duty of serving on juries.<br /><br />Juries in civil and misdemeanor cases are chosen by lot. Once<br />every year the judge of each circuit and corporation court makes<br />out a list containing the names of not less than one hundred and<br />not more than three hundred persons resident in the county or<br />corporation and well qualified to serve as jurors. These names are<br />written on slips of paper or ballots (each name on a separate<br />ballot) and the ballots, after being folded so that the names may<br />not be seen, are put into a box kept for the purpose by the clerk<br />of the court.<br /><br />Ten days before any term of a court at which a jury may be<br />required, the clerk draws sixteen ballots from the box, without<br />looking at the names until they are all drawn out. The persons<br />whose names are thus drawn are summoned to attend at the term of<br />court. Should more than sixteen be required, more are summoned,<br />and on the day they attend the court their names are written on<br />ballots and placed in a box, and from them the juries for the<br />trial of cases are drawn in the manner already stated. This is<br />what is called choosing or selecting BY LOT, the word lot meaning<br />chance. It is considered the fairest way of forming a jury.<br /><br />If jurors were appointed instead of being selected by lot, persons<br />having prejudice or ill feeling against one of the parties in the<br />case might be put on the jury, and the verdict rendered by such<br />jury might be a very unjust one. But when the selection is by lot<br />nobody knows who is to be on it, and so it is equally fair to both<br />sides.<br /><br />The number of persons on a jury is usually twelve, but in a civil<br />case, if both parties consent, there may be a jury of only seven;<br />or, the case may be tried and decided by a jury of three persons,<br />one selected by each of the two parties to the suit, and the third<br />by the other two; or, by the judge without a jury.<br /><br />For juries in cases of felony the names of twenty persons residing<br />at a distance from the place where the crime or offence is said to<br />have been committed are taken from a list furnished by the circuit<br />or the corporation court. Those twenty are summoned to attend the<br />court, and from them a jury panel of sixteen is selected. The<br />accused person may, without giving any reason, object to, or<br />strike off, any four of the sixteen, and the remaining twelve will<br />be the jury to try the case.<br /><br />If the accused does not strike off any, or strikes off less than<br />four, a jury of twelve is selected from the panel by lot. The<br />attorney for the commonwealth--that is, the attorney who<br />prosecutes the accused--may CHALLENGE--that is, object to - a<br />juror, but he must assign a reason for his objection, and if the<br />judge decides in favor of his objection, the person challenged is<br />not put on the jury. A panel is a list of persons summoned to<br />serve as jurors.<br /><br />To SUMMON is to call or notify a person or persons to appear in<br />court. A person who is summoned to attend as a juror and who,<br />without sufficient reason, fails or neglects to do so, may be<br />punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty<br />dollars.<br /><br />Persons summoned as jurors are entitled to receive one dollar per<br />day for service on a jury, and mileage at the rate of four cents<br />per mile travelled in going to and returning from court.<br /><br />Grand Jury.<br /><br />Consists of not less than nine nor more than twelve persons taken<br />from a list of forty-eight selected by the Judge of the Circuit or<br />Corporation Court from the qualified jurors of the county or city<br />in which his Court is held. A Special Grand Jury shall consist of<br />not less than six nor more than nine persons.<br /><br />The principal duties of the GRAND JURY are mentioned under Circuit<br />Courts, page 55. The law requires that "the grand jury shall<br />inquire of and present all felonies, misdemeanors, and violations<br />of penal [criminal] laws committed within the jurisdiction of the<br />respective courts wherein they are sworn."<br /><br />To PRESENT is to make a statement or PRESENTMENT to the court as<br />explained on page 55. Every grand jury has a chairman or speaker,<br />who is appointed by the court and is called the FOREMAN. The<br />foreman is required to take an oath or swear that he will "present<br />no person through prejudice or ill-will, nor leave any unpresented<br />through fear or favor," but that in all presentments he "shall<br />present the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."<br /><br />In this way the foreman is SWORN, and the other grand jurors must<br />swear that they will "observe and keep" the same oath taken by the<br />foreman. An oath is a solemn statement or declaration with an<br />appeal to God, or calling God to witness that what is stated is<br />true or that the person shall tell the truth.<br /><br />Witnesses before giving evidence in courts at the trial of a case<br />must make oath or swear to "tell the truth, the whole truth and<br />nothing but the truth." While the witness is repeating the words<br />of the oath he holds a Bible or Testament in his hand, and kisses<br />it when he has repeated the words.<br /><br />There are two kinds of grand juries--regular and special. There is<br />a regular grand jury at two terms in each year, of the circuit,<br />corporation, or hustings court. But a grand jury may be ordered by<br />a circuit, corporation, or hustings court at any time there may be<br />special or urgent need for it, and such grand jury is called a<br />SPECIAL grand jury.<br /><br />Grand jurors are entitled to the same compensation and mileage as<br />petit jurors (see next section).<br /><br />Petit Jury.<br /><br />Consists of twelve members.<br /><br />Duties. Hear evidence before the court in civil and criminal cases<br />and render a verdict according to the law and evidence.<br /><br />The PETIT JURY is the jury impanelled--that is, put on a panel or<br />list--to try cases in court. How such a jury is formed is stated<br />under Juries (see page 68). Petit jurors, like grand jurors, must<br />take an oath to do their duty honestly. (The word jury is derived<br />from the Latin word jurare, which means to swear.)<br /><br />It is the duty of the petit jury to hear the evidence in the case<br />it is to try, and to give a verdict in accordance with that<br />evidence. If the evidence presented before the court proves the<br />accused to be guilty, the jury must give a verdict of "guilty"; if<br />the evidence is not sufficient to show that he is guilty, they<br />must give a verdict of "not guilty." (For verdict, see page 11.)<br /><br />The verdict of the jury must also be ACCORDING TO LAW. This means<br />that the jury must give heed to the law of the case as explained<br />by the judge. Evidence might be offered which would not be lawful.<br />It is the duty of the judge to decide whether evidence is lawful<br />or not, and if he decides that any evidence is illegal or<br />unlawful, then the jury must not pay any regard to it in<br />considering their verdict.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.paragonremodeling.com/">Virginia Contractor</a><br /><br /></pre>accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-50386429676550216452009-06-18T18:09:00.000-07:002009-06-18T18:16:42.228-07:00Wrist watch inventors<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi92QbdzZTv8IbliasF0paT1sexNGdLkR4PmBe4M4Kuxh_bXSJD2UopFfXGNlchkGutlPJe6iOgNgYWtYBTKy8KoV0zLyldDJ_nRMNeF4WZq1Fl57eq8Mod-fteTvX6MxNgDE57lQ/s1600-h/swiss-watch.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 269px; height: 136px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi92QbdzZTv8IbliasF0paT1sexNGdLkR4PmBe4M4Kuxh_bXSJD2UopFfXGNlchkGutlPJe6iOgNgYWtYBTKy8KoV0zLyldDJ_nRMNeF4WZq1Fl57eq8Mod-fteTvX6MxNgDE57lQ/s400/swiss-watch.jpg" border="0" alt="Swiss wrist watch" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348840710184940978" /></a><br />The wrist watch was invented by the <a href="http://www.aaaqualityreplicas.com/" title="Swiss watch">Swiss watch</a> maker, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patek_Philippe">Patek Phillippe</a> in the late 1800s, 1868 to be precisely. Though at first only women wore them. They have also pioneered the perpetual calendar, split-seconds hand, chronograph, and minute repeater in watches. Amongst manufacturers, PP has a long history. Polish watchmaker Antoni Norbert Patek started making pocket watches in 1839 in Geneva, along with his fellow Polish migrant Franciszek Czapek. They separated in 1844, and in 1845 Patek joined with the French watchmaker Adrien Philippe, inventor of the keyless winding mechanism. In 1851, Patek Philippe & Co was founded. The man's wristwatch was invented by Louis Cartier in the early 1900s for Mr. Alberto Santos-Dumont. Dumont was working on the development of aircraft and found a pocket watch inconvenient to look at while in the aircraft. He asked his friend Cartier to design a watch for him. <br />To become part of mainstream culture, wristwatches needed to be relatively easy to use and maintain. The self-winding watch, invented by Abraham-Louis Perrelet in 1770 and perfected in 1923 by John Harwood, ensured that the watch would keep time without the wearer needing to maintain the watch's time-keeping ability constantly. Today, watches are powered by batteries, the wearer's motion or by the self-winding mechanism that is part of the watch.accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-68966168442558918002009-03-18T06:46:00.000-07:002009-03-18T06:56:21.626-07:00Wtf people all over the WorldRick Murray has spent over $4000 USD and 24 tattoo hours turning himself into a tattooed Zombie.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBMEt2ANTTi8khmK-KCax248obIu8jgBqU-2fr6XL7LQMKJEJR7_xtwCz8KU6UFqtKHivJn6tYTzeBdAu-bbmL-KACS_NJveoVqZQOma35ty22s-iFSSwWTbIjtMtRFgrkGCIxcw/s1600-h/zombie.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 165px; height: 110px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBMEt2ANTTi8khmK-KCax248obIu8jgBqU-2fr6XL7LQMKJEJR7_xtwCz8KU6UFqtKHivJn6tYTzeBdAu-bbmL-KACS_NJveoVqZQOma35ty22s-iFSSwWTbIjtMtRFgrkGCIxcw/s400/zombie.jpg" border="0" alt="Rick zombie tatoo" title="Rick zombie tatoo" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314523976873520818" /></a><br /><br />This guy, Ru Anting of Henan province, creates art in an unusual way. Ru sucks water up his nose then squirts it out his tear ducts to write messages on paper. Ru discovered the ability when he was a boy, swimming in the river with his friends. After three years of training, he can now accurately shoot up to 10 ft from his eyes at will.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMcFICGueLsxtNU034s7BtD6i6mPX_9NQcTnwtedg_e-e-4S0q33eRpEz3IfL_eBNEQlBFoV1trNYBGMPM70IaVxCVL3ZSqvsEaqemCJGUxPBSFyVtB4NkbIyOn0y3dltBT-czWA/s1600-h/tears-art.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 165px; height: 118px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMcFICGueLsxtNU034s7BtD6i6mPX_9NQcTnwtedg_e-e-4S0q33eRpEz3IfL_eBNEQlBFoV1trNYBGMPM70IaVxCVL3ZSqvsEaqemCJGUxPBSFyVtB4NkbIyOn0y3dltBT-czWA/s400/tears-art.jpg" border="0" alt="tears art" title="tears art" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314524701088767874" /></a><br /><br />Gunter Voelker owns a German restaurant in Northern Iraq and was proud to recently present a German tradition: Oktoberfest! The festivities included traditional German food, music and beer. He was glad to share the event with Iraqi people, Turkish people, Kurdish people, Americans and Germans alike. Voelker hoped the three-day party helped to show Iraq as a holiday destination where beer can bring people together.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbL1gc0VZ0KiskxPSi4xoDIAXjoKyvdrhXfW3lY4nKBGA7H5p8lDrC9TjrbhofzFNPBcKZrPKyEY5IXLio1tGPxxHT_ntZNjSimRpitE3-G8BjUdRQSGZ8qfP4ue_IlUntLVGxWQ/s1600-h/Oktoberfest-iraq.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 165px; height: 110px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbL1gc0VZ0KiskxPSi4xoDIAXjoKyvdrhXfW3lY4nKBGA7H5p8lDrC9TjrbhofzFNPBcKZrPKyEY5IXLio1tGPxxHT_ntZNjSimRpitE3-G8BjUdRQSGZ8qfP4ue_IlUntLVGxWQ/s400/Oktoberfest-iraq.jpg" border="0" alt="Oktoberfest in Iraq" title="Oktoberfest in Iraq" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314525112695683122" /></a><br /><br />Earl Henry of Lexington, Kentucky has been arrested 1,333 times and counting! None of his offenses are of violent nature; most are for public intoxication or trespassing. His first offence was in 1970 for carrying a concealed weapon, and he has spent more than 5,000 days in custody in his life. Not too bad when you realize that averages less than 5 days per offense.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKX84NoFiE7Q4Ir0yxQrVZfkHTvav4XP7cpXn10jEUzkz3h_mUu9o7qneveASnpJkpv3WV0mkBoZrWpVbEBmtSj_JsVAxrzNziTwDqyQhfjr6PgX8-BmTSpu61w5deXfAaXHgLmg/s1600-h/prison-man.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKX84NoFiE7Q4Ir0yxQrVZfkHTvav4XP7cpXn10jEUzkz3h_mUu9o7qneveASnpJkpv3WV0mkBoZrWpVbEBmtSj_JsVAxrzNziTwDqyQhfjr6PgX8-BmTSpu61w5deXfAaXHgLmg/s400/prison-man.jpg" border="0" alt="wtf prison man" title="wtf prison man" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314525869340238034" /></a>accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-72668815822347269022008-02-29T06:17:00.000-08:002008-12-12T20:44:12.841-08:00Jenna Jameson relationships<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4NkqfPgYKE5qfWHWR7JVsW_Q5oBdfh7jUeIO9RVRMcLD1qqEszYsGBNNWxagvf_TJpp5-DK5Kb_Hd8AYnT_7cztMwE_4OK2G9nS9xx-0hIzmsopd-Fdtn0aER-yNEOc2vHU7s5g/s1600-h/Jena_Jameson.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4NkqfPgYKE5qfWHWR7JVsW_Q5oBdfh7jUeIO9RVRMcLD1qqEszYsGBNNWxagvf_TJpp5-DK5Kb_Hd8AYnT_7cztMwE_4OK2G9nS9xx-0hIzmsopd-Fdtn0aER-yNEOc2vHU7s5g/s320/Jena_Jameson.jpg" alt="Jena Jameson" title="Jena Jameson" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172407227134261986" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Jenna Jameson has stated that she is bisexual, and that she has slept with 100 women and 30 men off-screen in her life. She has stated the best relationship she ever had was her lesbian love affair with porn actress Nikki Tyler, which she documents in her autobiography. They lived together at the start of her porn career and again before her second marriage. Famous male boyfriends discussed in her autobiography include Marilyn Manson and Tommy Lee.<br /><br />On December 20, 1996, Jena Jameson married porn star Brad Armstrong (whois real name is Rodney Hopkins). They were together for only ten weeks, informally separating in March 1997, though continuing to act together in pornographic films. They legally separated and divorced in March 2001.<br /><br />In the summer of 1998, Jameson met former pornographic studio owner Jay Grdina (born as John Grdina), scion of a wealthy cattle-ranching family, who had entered pornographic film production after college. Since 1998, he has been Jameson's only on-screen male sex partner, acting under the name Justin Sterling. They were engaged in December of 2000 — before her divorce from Hopkins — and married June 22, 2003 in a Roman Catholic-style ceremony. They unsuccessfully tried to have children since mid-2004, and Jameson planned to retire from acting in pornographic movies permanently after having their first child. The couple resided in Scottsdale, Arizona, in a 6,700-square-foot (620 m²) Spanish-style palace, bought for $2 million in 2002.<br /><br />In November of 2004, Jameson was diagnosed with skin cancer. Though surgery successfully removed the cancer, she miscarried shortly after the diagnosis, possibly due to stress. She was unable to get pregnant again, even with in vitro fertilization. Jameson said the in vitro process "wasn't a good thing for me"; she gained weight and did not get pregnant. According to Jameson, the stress of the cancer and then being unable to conceive resulted in the collapse of her marriage.<br /><br />In August 2006, Star magazine and TMZ.com confirmed with Jameson's publicist that she and Grdina had separated, and that Jameson was dating musician Dave Navarro. A more serious relationship seems to be with mixed martial artist and former UFC champion Tito Ortiz. Ortiz cancelled a November 12, 2006 appearance as the guest of honor at the United States Marine Corps birthday ball at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, when the Corps refused to let him bring Jameson as his guest. On November 30, 2006, in an interview on The Howard Stern Show, Ortiz stated that he is in love with Jameson, that she is no longer acting in pornography, and that they are in a monogamous relationship. On December 12, 2006, Jameson filed for divorce from Grdina.<br /><br />In March 2007, Jameson blamed her anemic and gaunt appearance at the AVN Awards on the harsh divorce proceedings.<br /></div>accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-74611137109712296682008-02-28T05:35:00.000-08:002008-02-28T05:39:09.607-08:00Baron Karl Amadeus MordoBaron Karl Amadeus Mordo was a fictional villain created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, in comic books featuring his opponent Doctor Strange. He first appeared in Strange Tales.<br /><br />Originally a Transylvanian nobleman (born in Varf Mandra), Mordo became a student of the Tibetan sorcerer known as the Ancient One. When Mordo plotted to kill his teacher, the Ancient One's newer student Dr. Stephen Strange learned of the plot, and was forced to develop great magical skills in order to overcome Mordo. Mordo was exiled by the Ancient One. Mordo's abilities were similar to those of Dr. Strange, but Mordo was particularly skilled at astral projection and mesmerism. He was more than willing to use powerful black magic and invoke demons, both of which Strange was reluctant or unable to do, although both acts would sometimes backfire on Mordo.<br /><br />The evil Mordo became an open foe of Doctor Strange, serving as one of Strange's primary antagonists early in his career as Sorcerer Supreme. Mordo disguised himself as Sir Clive Bentley, and trapped Doctor Strange. He opposed Dr. Strange's discipleship to the Ancient One. He set a series of new traps for Strange in a bid to wrest magical secrets from the Ancient One. Mordo stole Strange's body while Strange was astral projecting. He imprisoned the Ancient one. Mordo made a deal with his new master, the demonic Dormammu, to amass additional power to defeat Doctor Strange. He dispatched agents to search for the incognito Strange, and then banished him from the Earth. He fled from Strange, and then dispatched agents to kill Strange. He engaged in personal combat with Strange. Mordo was exiled to the Dimension of Demons by Dormammu. He battled Dr. Strange once more at Stonehenge, but was ultimately banished from Earth.<br /><br />Mordo would return in time to continue to bedevil Doctor Strange. He impersonated Doctor Strange during Strange's brief retirement, but was soon vanquished. Mordo discovered the Book of Cagliostro, and battled Strange in 18th-Century Paris. He then accompanied Strange and Sise-Neg to the dawn of time. After suffering a mental breakdown, he was placed in Doctor Strange's care, but later escaped. Mordo transformed the dead Lord Phyffe into Azrael, angel of death, and dispatched him against Strange. He sent the Man-Thing to kill Strange, and assembled thirteen people for human sacrifice to the Chaos Demon. Mordo was defeated by Strange, Jennifer Kale, and the Man-Thing. He attacked Strange, and escaped into the 1940s, but was manipulated by Dormammu.<br /><br />Mordo later sold his soul to both Mephisto and Satannish for power, gaming that Strange would save him. He was trapped with Sara Wolfe, and later rescued her. Mordo himself was later imprisoned, and Sara Wolfe freed him from imprisonment. Mordo battled Dormammu to defend the Earth. He was defeated, and pretended to ally himself with Dormammu, and then allied himself with Umar to defeat Dormammu.<br /><br />Umar and Mordo were eventually deposed by Clea Mordo eventually contracted terminal cancer as a side effect of his use of black magic, and renounced evil just before his death. He later returned to life.accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-36187593378094560692008-02-25T07:50:00.000-08:002008-02-25T07:54:20.165-08:00David Philippe DesrosiersDavid Philippe Desrosiers, born in August 29, 1980, is a Québécois musician known as the bassist and backing vocalist for pop punk band Simple Plan. He grew up in Matane, Quebec, Canada.<br />Desrosiers joined the band Reset, after former lead singer, Pierre Bouvier, left the band. Desrosiers was involved with Reset for 6 months, although did not record any studio albums. He was subsequently recruited to join Simple Plan in 1999, which was originally a four-piece, with Bouvier playing bass thus relieving Bouvier so he could concentrate on singing. It is sometimes rumoured that the original four members of Simple Plan almost 'stalked' Desrosiers until he agreed to join their band. He has an older sister named Julie. His parents separated when David was 13, which deeply affected him. His mom (Charlotte) lives in Matane, Quebec, Canada. and his father lives in Québec City.<br />He has been known to briefly play the drums or guitar during shows for Simple Plan as well as for many of his favorite bands such as The Used, Good Charlotte and MxPx. Desrosiers has developed into almost a co-frontman as dialogue between him and lead singer Pierre Bouvier enlivens the show.<br />Has an older sister, Julie. His parents divorced when David was quite young. Has a girlfriend, which he mentions in the 'thank you' section for the new self-titled album 'Simple Plan'.<br />He is the only member of Simple Plan who didn't attend Collège Beaubois. His first job was as a fast-food worker in McDonalds in his hometown.<br />David and the rest of the band once starred their voices as themselves in the What's New Scooby Doo? episode 'Simple Plan And The Invisible Madman', in which he mistakes Scooby for a 'fearless guard dog', before being the second to be kidnapped by the Invisible Madman. David Desrosiers uses a Fender P-Bass. He once threw a mini-fridge out of a hotel windowaccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-90478593416933709732008-01-10T12:47:00.000-08:002008-01-10T12:50:13.894-08:00Winston Churchill and Alexander Fleming storyA British family journeyed to Scotland for a summer vacation. The mother and father were looking forward to enjoying a beautiful Scottish countryside with their young son.<br /><br />But one day the son wandered off all by himself and got into trouble. As he walked through the woods, he came across an abandoned swimming hole, and as most boys his age do, he took off his clothes an jumped in!<br /><br /><br />read whole story about Winston Churchill and Sir Alexander Fleming on <a href="http://workfromhome-at.com/blog/help-anyone-anytime-you-can/">this work from home online blog</a>.accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-72280505409041726272007-09-02T12:38:00.000-07:002012-06-20T08:10:41.865-07:00Famous gay and bisexual people<span style="font-weight: bold;">Fergie</span><br />
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Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975), better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American pop and R&B singer, songwriter, and actress. She is a former member of the kids' television series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. Ann Ferguson was also a co-host of the television show Great Pretenders. She is currently a vocalist for the hip hop/pop group the Black Eyed Peas, as well as a solo artist, releasing her debut album, The Dutchess, in 2006. The album has so far spawned three US Hot 100 number ones, making Ferguson the first female solo artist to have three number ones from the same album since Christina Aguilera did so in 2000 with her debut. <br />
In April 2007, she gave an interview in which she admitted that she went on a sex and drugs spree when she turned 18, saying: "I have had lesbian experiences in the past. I won't say how many men I've had sex with - but I am a very sexual person."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Christina Aguilera</span><br />
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Christina María Aguilera, born December 18, 1980, is an American pop singer and songwriter.She revealed in an interview "I love to look at naked women. I am open with my sexuality."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Billie Joe Armstrong</span><br />
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Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972, in Oakland, California) is best known as the lead singer, main lyricist, and guitarist for the punk rock band Green Day. “I think I’ve always been bisexual,” Armstrong says. “I mean, it’s something that I’ve always been interested in. I think everybody kind of fantasizes about the same sex. I think people are born bisexual, and it’s just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of Oh, I can’t. They say it’s taboo. It’s ingrained in our heads that it’s bad, when it’s not bad at all. It’s a very beautiful thing.”<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Lindsay Lohan</span><br />
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Lindsay Dee Lohan (born July 2, 1986) is an American actress and pop music singer. Lohan started in show business as a child fashion model for magazine advertisement and television commercials. At age ten, she began her acting career in a soap opera. Lindsay chose "bi" for her orientation on her MySpace profile as well as "in a relationship" for her status selection. She is currently said to be romantically linked with Samantha Ronson, an openly gay female celebrity DJ.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Drew Barrymore</span><br />
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Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress and movie producer, the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. She has her own production company, Flower Films. Barrymore made her screen debut in Altered States (1980). Her breakout role two years later was in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles. Drew says she's had numerous affairs with women and will continue to do so. "Do I like women sexually? Yes, I do. Totally," she admits. US magazine reported in 2007 Jane Pratt, the former editor of Jane magazine says she and Drew Barrymore had sex. <br />
Although she didn't elaborate or say when this happened, Drew Barrymore was on the cover of Jane in 1997.<br />
Drew says, "I think a woman and a woman together are beautiful, just as a man and a woman together are beautiful."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Angela Bowie</span><br />
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Angela Bowie, most commonly known as Angie Bowie, was born 1949 in Cyprus, as Mary Angela Barnett. She is an American citizen who has been a covergirl, model, actress, musician, groupie and, most recently, a best-selling author. She has publicly proclaimed that she is proudly and openly bisexual. Angela is also famous as ex-wife of David Bowie.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Melanie Brown</span><br />
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Melanie Janine Brown (born 29 May 1975), professionally known as Mel B and Melanie Brown, is an English pop singer and songwriter turned actress and television personality best known as one of the members of the girl group the Spice Girls, one of the most successful female groups of all time.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Debbie Harry</span><br />
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Deborah Ann Harry (born July 1, 1945, in Miami, Florida) is a Grammy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated musician most famous for being the lead singer for the punk-rock and new wave band Blondie. Following her success, she went on to moderate success as a solo artist. <br />
In one interview, she said: "I am probably more heterosexual than I am homosexual, or even bisexual."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Nina Hartley</span><br />
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Nina Hartley (born Marie Louise Hartman on March 11, 1959 in Berkeley, California) is an American porn actress and sex educator.<br />
Hartley is openly bisexual in her private life, and had what has been described as the longest stable relationship in the adult business, living in a ménage a trois with her husband Dave (whom she met when she was 19), and "wife" Bobby Lilly for 20 years.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Missy Higgins</span><br />
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Missy Higgins (born Melissa Morrison Higgins on August 19, 1983) is an award-winning Australian singer-songwriter, best known for her hit singles "Scar" and "The Special Two" off her debut album The Sound of White. Her second album, On a Clear Night was released in April 2007.<br />
Higgins' sexuality has been brought into question due to the content of her lyrics and her demeanour. It is also notable that she does not use male or female pronouns to describe her partner during her concerts. She has neither denied nor confirmed any stance, although she has been quoted as saying: "I think everyone is a bit bisexual but not everyone admits it. Or not everyone has realised it yet".<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Jenna Jameson</span><br />
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Jenna Jameson (born Jenna Marie Massoli on April 9, 1974), an American porn actress and entrepreneur. <br />
She has stated the best relationship she ever had was her lesbian love affair with porn actress Nikki Tyler, which she documents in her autobiography. They lived together at the start of her porn career and again before her second marriage. Famous male boyfriends discussed in her autobiography include Marilyn Manson and Tommy Lee.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Angelina Jolie</span><br />
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Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American movie actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award.<br />
Jolie has said in interviews that she is bisexual and has long acknowledged that she had a sexual relationship with her Foxfire co-star Jenny Shimizu, "I would probably have married Jenny if I hadn't married my husband. I fell in love with her the first second I saw her." In an interview with Barbara Walters in 2003, asked if she was bisexual, Jolie responded, "Of course. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!"<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Alanis Morissette</span><br />
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Alanis Nadine Morissette (born in Ottawa, 1 June 1974) is a Canadian and naturalized American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She has won twelve Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, and has sold more than forty million albums worldwide.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Kate Moss</span><br />
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Katherine Ann Moss (born January 16, 1974), known as Kate Moss, is an iconic English supermodel and fashion designer. She is known for her waifish figure and many advertising campaigns and is also notorious for her high-profile relationships and party lifestyle. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers.<br />
On 15 September 2005, London's Daily Mirror ran front page and inside photos that seemed to show Moss snorting several lines of cocaine at a Babyshambles recording session. It was also reported that Moss snorted five lines in 40 minutes. It has been alleged by Babyshambles' singer Pete Doherty that James Mullord, his former manager, sold the photos to the newspaper for more than L150,000. Within a short time of publication, Kate Moss lost major modeling contracts with several international companies. The story was followed up the following weekend, with the tabloids suggesting Moss had a long-standing lesbian affair with best friend Sadie Frost, having had drug fuelled sex sessions with both Frost and Sadie's then husband Jude Law several times, and that she has also been involved in lesbian threesomes with Frost and British TV star Davinia Taylor.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Martina Navratilova</span><br />
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Martina Navratilova (born October 18, 1956, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a former World No. 1 woman tennis player. <br />
Martina's parents, especially her father, were disturbed by the knowledge of her sexual orientation, which her father characterized as a "sickness." During one of the many arguments that followed Navratilova's coming out, her father said that he would have preferred for her to have been a prostitute. Navratilova said she feared her sexual orientation might disrupt her application for American citizenship following her defection from Czechoslovakia, a country in which, she points out, "gays were sent to insane asylums and lesbians never came out of the closet." In 1981, shortly after being granted U.S. citizenship, Navratilova came out publicly about her sexual orientation. From 1983 to 1991, Navratilova had a long-term relationship with partner Judy Nelson. Their split in 1991 included a much-publicized legal wrangle. Navratilova was featured in a WITA (Women's International Tennis Association) calendar, shot by Jean Renard with her Wimbledon trophies and Nelson's children in the background. <br />
Martina Navratilova also made a humorous guest appearance on the gay-themed NBC sitcom Will & Grace in a 2000 episode in which a flashback revealed that she had been a heterosexual until a 1985 relationship with Karen Walker turned her gay.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pink</span><br />
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Born Alecia Beth Moore on September 8, 1979, known professionally as Pink (often stylized as P!nk), is an American singer-songwriter who gained prominence in 2000. As debate over gay marriage began, Pink told The Advocate: "If you want to marry Joe Millionaire, go ahead. If you're a celebrity and you want to marry your high school sweetheart for hours, go right ahead. If you're J.Lo and you want to marry 18 people for six days each, hey go right on ahead! But if you happen to be reasonably minded and have fallen in love and want to marry your soul mate and make a life of it - and you just so happen to be the same sex - then, no, how dare you! You demon creatures! We'd rather you just buy gasoline and support our war and continue to consume and fear in our country so we can make money off you. But do us a favor: Don't hold hands in public."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Lou Reed</span><br />
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Lewis Reed (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. Reed first found prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of The Velvet Underground (1965-1973).<br />
He said once: "They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland County to discourage homosexual feelings."<br />
Lou Reed was in The Primitives, with musician John Cale. The Welsh Cale had recently moved to New York to study music and was playing with the composer La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music along with Tony Conrad. Cale and Conrad were both surprised to find that for "The Ostrich" Reed tuned each string of his guitar to the same note. This technique created a drone effect similar to that which Cale and Conrad were experimenting with in their avant garde ensemble. By contrast, according to Cale's memoirs, Reed demonstrated little interest in Cale's musical pedigree and continually propositioned him for sex.
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He claims to be 2.53 meters (8 feet 4 inches) tall, weighs about 200 kg (440 pounds) (April, 2004) but has stopped growing, because the tumor in his pituitary gland which caused him to grow so large has disappeared. He also claims to have the largest palm size recorded, at 31 centimeters (12¼ inches) long. These claims have not been independently verified.<br /><br />Leonid Stadnyk's excessive growth began after brain surgery when he was 13 years old. He developed a pituitary gland tumor which caused the gland to secrete large amounts of growth hormone, resulting in what doctors describe as acromegalic gigantism.<br /><br />Although claiming to be the tallest man in the world, he refused to be measured by Guinness World Records.<br /><br />Guinness commented:<br /><br />A number of people claim to be tallest, but unless they are measured three times in 24 hours, they cannot be considered for the category. Leonid Stadnyk refuses to be measured by us. We have been told that it is because he doesn't want to court publicity — yet he continues to claim to be the tallest. Unfortunately we can only conclude due to previous experience, that he refuses to be measured officially by us because he is not the height he claims to be.<br /><br />Guinness currently recognizes Bao Xishun, at 2.361 meters (7 feet 8.95 inches), as the world's tallest living human being.<br /><br />Most recently, a Pravda news report in Spring 2006 reported that Leonid Stadnyk grew 2 centimeters (about one inch) in the last year, not accounting the time between the original Spring 2004 report and Spring 2005. Therefore Stadnyk would have to be at least 2.56 meters (8 feet 5 inches) and possibly taller. According to Pravda, his health is slowly failing in that he needs to hold on to limbs of trees and the side of his house to walk about. Also a group of Ukraine business people donated a satellite dish and a computer to Stadnyk and now he is on the Internet.accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-4229131720585222007-07-07T07:03:00.000-07:002007-07-07T07:06:13.447-07:00Chris BenoitChristopher Michael Benoit (IPA: [bə'nwɑ]) (May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler who performed in Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and World Wrestling Entertainment. He was regarded as one of the best technical professional wrestlers of his time.<br />Benoit, his wife Nancy, and their 7-year-old son Daniel were found dead in their Fayetteville, Georgia home on June 25, 2007. Subsequent investigations confirmed that Benoit murdered his wife, then killed his son before hanging himself in the house's weight room.<br /><br />Benoit idolized the Dynamite Kid growing up, and styled himself after him. This prompted him to be a wrestler, so when he began wrestling, he wrestled as "Dynamite" Chris Benoit, as a tribute to the Dynamite Kid. He also began using the Diving Headbutt and the Snap Suplex, some of the Kid's trademark moves.<br /><br />It is believed Stu Hart was not the first one who knew about Chris Benoit, but rather Bruce Hart who brought him to the Hart house. After years of strenuous training in the legendary Hart family "Dungeon", Chris Benoit began his career in 1985 in Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling promotion. His debut match was a tag team match on November 22, 1985 in Calgary, Alberta, where he teamed with "The Remarkable" Rick Patterson against Butch Moffat and Mike Hammer. During his tenure in Stampede, he won several International Tag Team and British Commonwealth titles, and had a lengthy feud with Johnny Smith that lasted for over a year. In 1989, Stampede closed its doors later that year, and with a recommendation from Bad News Allen, Benoit departed for New Japan Pro Wrestling.<br /><br />Upon arriving in New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), Benoit spent about a year training in their "New Japan Dojo" with the younger wrestlers to improve his abilities before debuting, wearing a mask and assuming the name The Pegasus Kid. While with NJPW, he came into his own as a performer in matches with luminaries like Jushin Liger, Shinjiro Ohtani, The Black Tiger, and El Samurai.<br /><br />In 1990, he won his first major championship, the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, from Jushin Liger. He eventually lost the title (and his mask) back to Liger, forcing him to reinvent himself as Wild Pegasus. He went on to win the Super J Cup Tournament in 1994, defeating Black Tiger, Gedo, and Great Sasuke in the finals, solidifying his status as one of the foremost junior heavyweights in the world.<br /><br />Benoit eventually left New Japan to compete in Mexico and Germany, where he won a few regional championships including the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship.<br /><br />After controversy surrounding a US title defense against Booker T, Theodore Long set up a "Best of Seven" series between the two. Booker T won three times in a row, due largely to his wife's interference, and Chris Benoit faced elimination in the series. Benoit won the fourth match to stay alive, but after the match, Booker suffered a legitimate groin injury, and Randy Orton was chosen as a stand-in. Benoit defeated Orton twice by disqualification. However, in the 7th and final match, Orton defeated Benoit with the help of Booker T, Sharmell, and Orlando Jordan, and Booker captured the US title. Benoit feuded with Orton for a short time, only to compete against Booker for the US title. Benoit was given one last chance at the US title at No Way Out 2006 and won it by making Booker submit to the Crippler Crossface, ending the feud. Soon after, Benoit defeated Randy Orton in a No Holds Barred match on Smackdown via Crippler Crossface.<br /><br />The next week on SmackDown!, Benoit (kayfabe) broke JBL's hand (JBL actually needed surgery to remove a cyst). A match was set up for the two at WrestleMania 22 for Benoit's title, and for the next several weeks, they would attack each other. When it came time for their match, JBL won the match with an illegal cradle to win the title. Benoit used his rematch clause two weeks later in a steel cage match on SmackDown!, but JBL again won with illegal tactics.<br /><br />Benoit entered the 2006 King Of The Ring tournament, only to be defeated by Finlay in the opening round, after Finlay struck Benoit's neck with a chair and delivered a Celtic Cross. At Judgment Day 2006 Benoit gained some revenge by defeating Finlay with the Crippler Crossface in a grudge match. On the following edition of SmackDown!, Mark Henry attacked Benoit during a match, giving him back and rib injuries. Benoit then announced a sabbatical to heal nagging shoulder injuries. On October 8, Benoit made his return at No Mercy, defeating William Regal by submission in a surprise match. Later that week, he won his fifth United States Championship from Mr. Kennedy also by submission.<br /><br />Benoit then engaged in a feud with Chavo and Vickie Guerrero. He wanted answers from the Guerreros for their rash behavior towards Rey Mysterio, but was avoided by the two and was eventually assaulted. Benoit retained his United States Championship at Survivor Series 2006 and Armageddon 2006, both times defeating Chavo Guerrero. The feud finally ended after a match with no-disqualification rules in play, which Benoit won to retain his United States title.<br /><br />After defeating Guerrero, Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP) claimed that he was the best man to hold the US title, so he challenged Benoit for the title at WrestleMania 23, where Benoit retained. Their rivalry continued with similar results again at Backlash. At Judgment Day, however, MVP gained the upperhand and the title in a two-out-of-three falls match.<br /><br />On the June 11 edition of RAW, Benoit was drafted from SmackDown! to ECW as part of the 2007 WWE Draft, after losing a match to Bobby Lashley. Benoit won his ECW debut match teaming up with CM Punk and defeating Elijah Burke and Marcus Cor Von by disqualfication.<br /><br />On June 19, 2007, Benoit wrestled his last match, defeating Elijah Burke in a match to determine who would face CM Punk for the vacated ECW World Championship at Vengeance. Benoit missed the weekend house shows, telling WWE officials that his wife and son were vomiting blood due to food poisoning (see below). When he failed to show up for the pay-per-view, viewers were informed that he was unable to compete due to a "family emergency," and that he would be replaced in the title match by Johnny Nitro. Nitro went on to win the match and became ECW Champion.accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-52929621856291317762007-06-04T06:07:00.000-07:002007-06-04T06:39:58.899-07:00Sasa Curcic<img src="http://xs116.xs.to/xs116/07231/curcic-won-big-brother.jpg" alt="Sasa Curcic won Big Brother" title="Sasa Curcic won VIP Big Brother"><br /><br />Last night, the first Serbian VIP Big Brother finished. And the winner is - Sasa Curcic, former football midfielder. <br /><br /><br /><h2>About Sasa Curcic</h2><br /><br />Aleksandar "Sasa - Djani" Curcic (born February 14, 1972 in Belgrade, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former football midfielder. Known for his eccentricity, Curcic played for OFK Beograd (1991-93), Partizan Belgrade (1993-95), Bolton Wanderers (1995-96), Aston Villa (1996-98), Crystal Palace (1998-99), MetroStars (1999), and Motherwell (2000). He also turned out 14 times for the national team of Yugoslavia, and scored one of the most memorable goals in the history of the Premier League whilst with Bolton. Curcic has been known to sport a shaved head and a fu manchu beard sans moustache. Upon his arrival to Major League Soccer in 1999, he declared his intention to become the "Dennis Rodman of MLS". Curcic's stint in the league, however, lasted only nine games. On 16 March 2000, Curcic joined Motherwell. He only made five appearances for the club, before joining Obilic Belgrade in his native Serbia. In an interview on Sky Sports in April 2001, Curcic stated that he had retired from football. On 5th May 2007, Curcic entered the Serbian Celebrity Big Brother house and 3th Jun he won in VIP Big Brother. He won 50.000 euros prize, and after leaving the house, while he was taking the check, he promised he will spend the money together with other VIP Big Brother housemates in next 12 hours. <br /><br />I have to mention that in the last 29 days, Sasa Curcic wanted to leave the house twice and he barely decided to stay. Unofficial voting results for final was:<br />Saša: 158.270 votes<br />Maca: 28.650 votes<br />Danijel: 18.393 votes<br />Olja: 5.193 votes<br /><br /><img src="http://xs116.xs.to/xs116/07231/bolton_curcic.jpg" alt="Sasa Curcic soccer player" title="Sasa Curcic as soccer player"><br /><br /><h2>Sasa Curcic about Dennis Rodman, fights, prison, cops</h2><br /><br />I wasn't leader in fight where Dennis Rodman took part. It was very bloody. I was standing in one part of disco club with top-models Helen Kristensen and Eva Herzigova when some Americans started shouting to us. Little provocation, little drink, little freedom and there you go. It finished with scandal. In prison and newspapers.<br /><br />I was in prison several times and lucky me - I can meditate. I have an klaustrofobia. <br /><br />I can't stand US cops. Whole that things are money and business. I prefer European cops. There, they are ten times worse.<br /><br /><h2>Curcic testimonial game</h2><br /><br />Sasa's former football club - Partizan, will organize testimonial game for him. Sasa Curcic would like to see Sten Kolimor, Albert Nađ, Dragan Ćirić, Lotar Mateus, Mario Stanić, Dragan Stojković Piksi and some other soccer players with him in that team. <br /><br />Here's video with Sasa Curcic and Lombardo, Jansen, Shipperely and Marcus Bent rip Derby apart to give us our first home win of the 1997/98 season. Crystal Palace vs Derby County.<br><br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M20XidKhkqw"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M20XidKhkqw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><h2>Article about Sasa in US magazine</h2><br /><br /> <br />Many suggested that Curcic was waived due to his love of the 'illegal drugs'.<br />Sasa Curcic. He of the bald head, spaghetti beard and Buddest tattoos, is no more. No longer will we see his graceful stride through the stadia of Major League Soccer. No longer will the passion of a swift judo kick to a fallen opponent's skull be featured in soccer highlights.<br /><br />Oh Sasa how could you! We've heard the stories. We've heard the tales. There's so many of them that it's hard not to believe! They say you spent too much time out ravaging the New York nights, galavanting with lady friends and downing a pint or two... or three. We've heard stories that you failed piss tests. Oh Sasa, how could you?<br /><br /><img src="http://xs116.xs.to/xs116/07231/curcic-beard-bold.jpg" alt="Curcic with beard" title="bold Curcic with beard"><br /><br />And off you'll go, back to Europe where you'll forget about all us. All about MLS. But MLS will never forget you. How could it? How could WE?<br /><br />What were you thinking? That night when you smoked your doob? That afternoon when you bought your crack? That evening when you poked that prostitute? Did you think about us, your fans? Did you think how it would affect us to see you leave? For you knew it would come to that when you got caught. If you got caught. Did you think of it? Or did it not matter.<br /><br />Maybe, Sasa, you couldn't help yourself. Maybe you just are what you are. Maybe no league can hope to hold you... to fully have you. You are a free spirit, and so goes your life. Never to settle, never to rot. Never to stay too long in one place. And if that is the case, if that is the way it must be, than happy are those who have been given the chance to see you once... twice... thrice... on the field of play.<br /><br />Goodbye Sasa, and take care. The world seeks to conquer those like yourself. Don't let them. You must fly... fly... fly away on the wings of the freebirdaccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-39144208668899851812007-06-01T09:00:00.000-07:002007-06-01T09:02:02.399-07:00Women steal spermMen accusing women of "stealing" their sperm appeared in a pair of 2005 stories, including that of a Chicago doctor who impregnated herself with her doctor-boyfriend's sperm (from oral sex). (He sued her for theft, but an appeals court called the sperm a "gift.") In a less spectacular lawsuit filed in March 2007 in New York City, Quoc Pham charged that girlfriend Neli Petkova had exploited him to father a baby, and that as soon as she was pregnant, she discarded him, publicly terming him sexually inadequate and allegedly announcing that she had met another man, who "could make her cervix orgasmic just by thinking." Pham wants $1 million and visitation rights to the now-3-year-old.accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-85454707979559099322007-05-26T06:18:00.000-07:002008-12-12T20:44:16.362-08:00Ian Robert AstburyIan Robert Astbury (born May 14, 1962, in Heswall, Cheshire) is an English rock singer and lyricist.<br />Astbury's career began in 1981, with the gothic rock band Southern Death Cult. At that time, he was going by the name "Ian Lindsay." Southern Death Cult gigged to support its "Moya" single, and secured a slot as an opening act for Bauhaus in 1983. Shortly after that tour, the band split up.<br />Along with guitarist Billy Duffy bassist Jamie Stewart and drummer Ray Mondo, Ian (now going by the surname "Astbury"), formed a new band, Death Cult and later dropped Death from the name.<br />The Cult band was one of the most successful British rock bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s. With the 1984 release of their first album Dreamtime, The Cult were the darlings of the Indie post-punk scene, their chart topping "Spiritwalker" single having held at number one for three months. Their second album, Love, evoked memories of 1960s psychedelia such as The Doors, and the Pretty Things. It also featured their now classic hit "She Sells Sanctuary", which introduced them to an international audience. On their third album, Electric, The Cult made a radical transformation to hard rock reminiscent of AC/DC and Aerosmith with the help of Rick Rubin. This further broadened their audience as rock began making a comeback in the late 1980s. Guns N' Roses, who were heavily influenced by Electric, opened for The Cult on their 1987 North American tour, before going on to sell millions of copies of their debut album Appetite for Destruction.<br />Although The Cult went on to greater heights with their mainstream hit single "Fire Woman," (on the follow up 1989 Sonic Temple album), they began to get criticized by many hardcore fans on artistic merits. Soured on the band's more commercial direction, The Cult were now characterized as pretentious and as having sold out, particularly among their British fan legion. Around this time, Ian Astbury relocated to Los Angeles California. He became friends with The Fuzztones, often jumping up onstage with them at live concerts. One such concert,at Scream in Downtown LA,was recorded and a cover of "The Stooges" song "Down On The Street" was released as a picture disc in the UK on Situation Two Records. It features Ian Astbury on vocals & the "In Heat" era Fuzztones (John Carlucci, Jordan Tarlow, Mike Czekaj & Jason Savall) as his backing band.<br />The dent in their reputation was amplified by the loss of many Sonic Temple fans, when their next album (Ceremony, 1991) delivered dissapointingly in the wake of an oncoming grunge fad.<br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkhIAnziECRDV1xUz-Q39Sv3KgVwAKzGPw8ZbnI_pfRHk0BZWrRFA2gqS_58qGbXyTuAw97stEM_6tASpG4SlI4lrl2vC-YGCSlx4rSHEmz1cjNLqSalJZVqbKWqwhMdMtzG9x7Q/s320/Ian-Astbury-the-cult.jpg" alt="Ian Robert Astbury" title="Ian Robert Astbury The cult singer"><br /><br />In 1994, The Cult returned with their untitled album and a musical change of pace. Gone was much of their overblown rock trappings, replaced instead by Astbury's growing interest in electronica and introspective lyrics. To support the album they set out on tour, but in Brazil, Astbury's creative differences with guitarist Billy Duffy reached their peak, and Astbury walked out on The Cult.<br />Inspired by his sudden change in direction, Astbury immediately assembled another group of musicians and began writing new songs. He called the group The Holy Barbarians, and in 1996 the band released an album, "Cream". Although the Barbarians were not a commercial success, they were well received by many who had regained respect for Astbury as an artist.<br />Personal difficulties and a drive for further introspection drove Astbury away from his new group, as he began working on a solo album (eventually released as Spirit/Light/Speed), to mixed reviews and low sales.<br />In 1999, Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy regrouped The Cult to head one of the most financially successful tours that year. A new contract with Atlantic Records was inked, and in 2001 came the release of Beyond Good And Evil. Early radio success was being had by the single Rise, until the band had a falling out with Atlantic and they killed any and all commercial promotions and radio play for BG&E. The fight with Atlantic was described by Ian as Soul Destroying and a disillusioned Astbury, brought The Cult onto another hiatus in 2002.<br />Having long been influenced by Jim Morrison, in 2002 Ian Astbury filled his hero's footsteps by becoming lead singer in an updated version of The Doors, with original members Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek, known as The Doors of the 21st Century, renamed in 2005 to become Riders On The Storm. In 2003, Astbury also performed with surviving members of MC5 at the 100 Club in London, before finally reforming The Cult with Billy Duffy again in 2006, for a series of live dates and rumours of reissues and another greatest hits compilation in the works.<br />2007 THE CULT will enter the studio to begin pre-production on the group's first album since 2001's "Beyond Good and Evil". A Autumn release is expected. Also planned for release is a DVD of the band's November 13, 2006 concert at Irving Plaza in New York City, tentatively due in April.<br />THE CULT's current touring lineup includes principals Ian Astbury (vocals) and Billy Duffy (guitar) alongside bassist Chris Wyse, drummer John Tempesta (ex-WHITE ZOMBIE, TESTAMENT, EXODUS, HELMET) and rhythm guitarist Mike Dimkich.accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33886120.post-7194789940456321762007-05-10T01:56:00.000-07:002007-05-10T02:00:03.060-07:00Jack Tramiel - Commodore manJack Tramiel is a businessman, famous for founding Commodore International, manufacturer of the Commodore PET, Commodore 64, and Commodore Amiga home computers, and later President and CEO of Atari Corp. <br />In 1970, Tramiel started work on electronic calculators, and in the early 1970s Commodore became a major supplier of calculators based on a Texas Instruments chip-set. In 1975 TI decided to take over the market, and started producing their own complete calculators which sold at a cost lower than the price of the chip-set alone. This drove most manufacturers out of business, but by this time Commodore had enough of a war chest to survive.<br />Tramiel started looking for a chip producer to buy, thereby guaranteeing a supply of chips in the future. The obvious solution was MOS Technology, a small company in Pennsylvania that had been set up as a second-source of the TI chips, and was currently struggling with cash-flow problems. MOS was bought in 1976, becoming a part of Commodore.<br />One of the engineers at MOS was Chuck Peddle, the man who had designed the ground-breaking 6502 chip. Peddle convinced Tramiel that the calculator was a dead-end as a product, that the computer would take over, and that the 6502 was the first in line for success. Peddle showed him a "test system" using the 6502, the KIM-1, and while Tramiel was interested he demanded that Peddle and Tramiel's son Leonard put it into an all-in-one form in time for the COMDEX in six months.<br />Combining the KIM with a new display driver chip, 4kB of RAM, a version of Microsoft's BASIC programming language, and an all-in-one case including a monitor and cassette tape drive for storage resulted in the PET 2001. At US$599, it became a hit, notably in schools where its tough construction was a major advantage over technically superior machines like the Apple II and Atari 8-bit family, which came out a year later.<br />Although Peddle left the company in 1980, improvements were made to the platform. In 1980 a new graphics chip with basic color output and a RF modulator for television display produced the Commodore VIC 20, which became a huge seller. In 1982, another new graphics chip, a new state-of-the-art sound chip and 64K of RAM resulted in the Commodore 64 (C64), which was an even more popular and went on to become the best selling home computer in history, with about 22 million units shipped. In 1984, Commodore's sales surpassed US $1 billion.<br />The success of the C64 was based on a massive manufacturing effort that cost a huge amount of money to set up — borrowed money that should have been easy to pay off in profits on the sales. However, Texas Instruments entered the market, and it appears that Tramiel was so upset about their earlier dealings in the calculator market that he decided to kill them in this one. Publicly declaring "Business is war", he started a price war, with the C64 quickly dropping from US$595 to US$199. While sales continued to skyrocket, profits plummeted, and Commodore's cash flow along with it. It seemed Commodore would soon be in command of a market worth nothing.<br />By late 1983 Jack and the Board of Directors argued over the direction of the company, which resulted in Jack resigning or being forced out, and several Tramiel loyalists quit Commodore in protest. Jack took a brief hiatus but decided to come back to the computer industry under the claim that he felt no current US computer company was strong enough to compete against the Japanese, who were now moving to enter the US market. So, he formed a new company named Tramel Technologies, Ltd., in order to design and sell a next-generation home computer. (According to Leonard Tramiel, "Our name Tramiel was constantly being mispronounced as 'Tra-meal' and my dad hoped that the other spelling would get people to say 'Tra-mell' (it rhymes with 'done well'). It didn't work."). Several former Commodore employees (including his son Sam and lead Commodore engineer Shiraz Shivji) soon joined him at the new startup, and by March Jack had his new computer design underway.accahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12434666749875701640noreply@blogger.com0