In the past 24 hours, there were rumors that Aretha Franklin died from a cancer disease; but the story still unconfirmed. Many speculate it was probably a hoax, much like the false reports of Morgan Freeman death last week (but he is still alive, by the way). Earlier this month, Fox News Detroit said that Franklin had been diagnosed with cancer. Although the type of cancer has not been officially confirmed, the National Enquirer says that Aretha is suffering from pancreatic cancer - the same cancer that Patrick Swayze died last year. These still only rumors, but they can be true. Who Knows? Maybe she is still alive, and maybe she is just gone. The next hours will reveal the truth for us.
Erykah Badou fined for "window seat" music video "; the X-Men Founded: first class" wide cast; Kevin Spacey signs agreement with HBO, and John Mellencamp calls the Web "dangerous".
Erykah Badu pays for video: Instead of a window seat in the prison to strip naked during the filming of a video, Erykah Badu and will escape with a fine. The singer received a 500 dollars fine and six months probation tactics earlier this year during the filming of her video "window seat". He complained, r & b singer who stripped down for the video shoot guerrilla-style in Dallas received the quotation for nudity scenes, the singer for the video controversial. [People]
Spacey signs with higher vocational education: Kevin Spacey, an Oscar winner joins a growing list of higher authorities who are working on a series of higher vocational education. And the Spacey signed a cable channel for a new project called "core", whose "American Beauty" star will play the leader of a religious community. Spacey shopping the project around to networks before settling on higher vocational education, which will develop the drama. Dustin Hoffman and recently signed with HBO to co-star in a drama set in the world of horse racing. EW []
Jones won the January to star in X-Men: "Mad Men" in January Jones role in "The Origins of X-Men: First Class", and actress Emma Frost will play in the next installment of the franchise, directed by Matthew Vaughn. Other members of the cast include James McAvoy, Kevin Bacon and Zoe Kravitz. The film was to employ kick recently: was just added Oliver Platt to the cast as well, and Rose Byrne to be in talks. [Variety]
John Mellencamp rails against the Web: John Mellencamp to join a growing list of musicians are not satisfied with what became the Internet. Called "Wild Night" the singer the Internet, "the most dangerous thing since the invention of the atomic bomb. And destroyed the music world. It would be to destroy the film industry." And 58 years old), which released new CD "There is no better than this" on Tuesday, was on hand at the Museum Grammy for the seminar also addressed the success of digital downloads. Citing the difference between the Beatles remastered on CD-ROM and on the iPod, the singer said "you can barely even recognize it as the same song. You can say those vocals men, but the warmth and quality of what the artist intended for us to hear so it was somewhat different large. "
At least six people were killed when a truck off-road race plowed into a crowd in Southern California in late Saturday, authorities said.
All six were pronounced dead at the scene around 7:48 p.m. local time (10:48 p.m. EST), said Tim Franke of the San Bernardino County Fire Department.
Four others were transported to hospital by air ambulance in serious condition. Five others were transported with minor injuries to moderate.
Eight air ambulances and businesses have responded to the scene of several engines.
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said it had captured its image on the webcam and publish photos to their MySpace friends if she posed for pictures and videos more explicit about it. At least twice, the teenager did what his blackmailer demanded. Finally, the police and federal authorities became involved and charged a 19 year old man in Maryland in June on charges of sexual exploitation.
federal prosecutors and defenders of the safety of children say they see a recovery in such cases of extortion of sexual favors online. They say that teenagers who text naked cellphone photos of themselves or show their bodies on the Internet have been approached by pedophiles who threaten to expose their behavior to friends and family, unless that they account for porn more explicit, creating a vicious circle of exploitation.
A federal affidavit
includes a special term for the crime: "sextortion."
No tracks currently
the number of cases involving online sexual extortion in state and federal courts, but prosecutors and others to the development of several recent examples of large-scale victimization of young people in a dozen states: " / p>
- In Alabama, Jonathan Vance, 24, of Auburn, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in April after admitting sending threatening e-mails on Facebook and MySpace extorting nude photos of young women over 50 in Alabama, Pennsylvania and Missouri.
- In Wisconsin, Stancl Anthony, 18, received 15 years in prison in February after prosecutors said he represented as a young girl on Facebook to deceive men schoolmates by sending nude photos of cell phone, which he then used to extort 'for sex.
- A 31 year old man has been arrested in California in June on charges of extortion after authorities said he hacked into more than 200 computers and threatened to expose the nude photos he found at least their owners have asked for more sexually explicit videos. Forty-four of the victims were minors, authorities said. Federal prosecutors said he was even able to remotely activate the webcams of some victims without their knowledge and save them to undress or have sex.
cases have prompted police officials and advocates to warn teens about their activities. Privacy is nonexistent on the Internet, and once indiscretions appear online, it is virtually impossible to regain. A nude photo sent to their mobile, with a boyfriend can move easily through the cell phone contacts and wind on Web sites that post pictures sexting. Once there, it is available to anyone who wants to trace the person who did it.
"The children put their heads into the lion's mouth every time they do," said Parry Aftab, a lawyer and advocate of online safety for children.
Teens may be more vulnerable to blackmail because they are easily intimidated and embarrassed to seek help. And the crooks are often willing to take their threats, "said Steve Debrot, Deputy Prosecutor of the United States in Indianapolis, who has been involved in investigations sextortion.
"You're Blackmail, Aftab says," ... and you will do everything to keep these images out. "
In the case of Indiana, the mother of the teenager called police when she learned about the threats. Authorities are assigned by Internet service providers to monitor chat sessions and e-mails to their source, a computer in Mechanicsville, Md., according to court documents.
According to court documents, the computer's owner, Trevor Shea, told agents that he had engaged in similar initiatives with about 10 girls, most of them 17 or 18.
His trial is scheduled for August 30. He pleaded not guilty and his lawyer, Michael Donahoe, said he is working on a possible solution.
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The flag Steve Crowston said he underwent the months of continual anti-homosexual harassment and the sexual discrimination of his companion and commanders(majors) with fighter's Squadron (of Fighter) of Strike (Blow 136) to the Naval Aerodrome, Oceana, Goes.
The harassment began in August, 2009, says Crowston, 36, when his(her) similar officers called him(it) in a room(part,play) (room)((chamber)) for an examination ( a magazine(review)) of call signs, a military nickname which identifies easily a member(limb) of service. He says that his name was written on a whiteboard with a list of recommendations of sign (panel) of call(appeal): "cowboy", " Boy Homosexual, " " Fagmeister, " "Cowgirl", " the Bitch de Romo, " " In, " "Terrell Owens" and "American Indians".
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A rare U.S. outbreak of typhoid fever has been linked to a product frozen tropical fruit used to make the smoothies, responsible Health said Thursday.
Seven cases were confirmed - three California and four in the case of California Nevada.Deux more are under study. Five people have been hospitalized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention said.
The CDC said five of the victims was drunk milkshake vending machines or smoothies made with frozen fruit mamey pasta. Four of them used pulp sold by Goya Foods Inc. of Secaucus, N.J.
Mamey is a tropical fruit sweet, reddish, grown mainly in South America and centrale.Il is also called zapote or Sapotier.Il is peeled and mashed to make pasta, said of the JSC.
The company has recalled pulp, packages sold mainly Western States. A sample from one package found in Vegas tested positive bacteria that causes typhoid, the Food and Drug Administration reported Wednesday.
A phone call to comment search Goya was returned immediately on Thursday.
No other feed has been linked to the disease, which occurred between April and July.The range of victims aged from 4 to 31, says CDC spokesperson Arleen Porcell-Pharr.
Typhoid fever is a fatal disease caused by a type of bacteria called salmonella typhi.It became rare in the United States.There are only about 400 cases per year, and most people he captured when moving abroad.
Three food-related outbreaks were reported during the 12 last années.Un, also related to the pulp of mamey frozen, caused three diseases in Florida in 1999. One, related to the coast of the Gulf oysters, six makes Texas in 2006.The third, linked to a restaurant in Maryland, four diseases caused.
The symptoms are as high as degrees of 103 to 104, lasting fever accompanied by tête.faiblesse headache, stomach pain, or loss of appetite computer.some patients have a rash of dishes, the taches.Elle voicis can be treated with antibiotics.
It is unclear if there will be other cases, said Dr. Ezra Barzilay, the CDC epidemiologist supervise .the survey can take between three to eight weeks for an infected person to develop symptoms days, he noted.
The disease is still common worldwide in developpement. The bacteria through the intestinal tract and often spreads to other users through the stool-tainted food or water.
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WikiLeaks caused an uproar when he published last month, at the time when the U.S. public Congressional support and the nine years in Afghanistan war is signaling to more than 70,000 documents.
Extraordinary disclosure, which nues military documents classified covering the war in Afghanistan since 2004 to 2010, angry the U.S., officials turned critical NATO campaign and attracted the attention of the Taliban, who promised the equipment allows to detect persons he considers of traitors.
The Pentagon said he believes he has identified 15 000 additional classified documents and said Thursday that their exposure would still be more damaging to the military than what has already been published.
Attached Pentagon press Geoff Morrell describes potential publication as "the height of irresponsibility."
"It would be composed an error that has already far too many lives at risk", he said.
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A new study has found that clouds "communicate" with them, just like the chirping of crickets or flashing Lucioles on a summer night .the findings surprising, published online in the journal nature, may have significant implications for our understanding of the global climate.
For the next time you are laying on your back picking forms among the clouds, Cybershot on it: are they talk among themselves you?
«Cloud fields organize so that their components communicate with each other and produce regular and periodic, precipitation events» Graham Feingold, a researcher with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) and the paper lead author explained.
In other words, Feingold found clear evidence of the self-organization in regular precipitation and repeating these floating hot cotton growth models.
How come this synchronization?Fall of rain cools the air as he descend.Cela creates draughts downwards.These downdrafts touched the surface of the planet, flow outwards and collide with others, forming air flow ascendants.Le creates new clouds open up previously as older clouds dissipate.Then the new rain clouds and oscillating model repeats.
"In a sense what happens is that clouds are communicate between them by pulling toward the sol.Si you have a number of doing exactly what clouds, air is forced to go to the side of a cloud and responds to the air, on the other,"Feingold said FoxNews.com.""
Voila!Speech of cloud!
Previous theories on the cloud structure explained that temperature change was at the heart of the generation of cloud, that the warming and cooling three-quarters of work were the main precipitation forces.La as a factor driving is something of a radical change.
Clouds but talking? this is even more radical.
Feingold is nevertheless quite serious, citing a long history of research in communication of clouds.
"If you enough return far, basic physics behind this phenomenon was recorded at the beginning of the 1900s by a French scientist,", he explained.
He was watching the Sun but a telescope and noticed patterns of Rayleigh convection.Lord later put in a theoretical framework, explaining the hexagonal patterns observed in the laboratory, said Feingold FoxNews.com.
"1933 is the report more early of models in the clouds" by a scientist named Graham, he says .but Feingold think that the idea of cloud communication could back much further. ""
"I would be surprised if the elders were watching clouds and see models from the start," he says.
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DETROIT - Police say eight firefighters were injured at the scene of an explosion and fire on the Detroit side is.
Agent n. Gray, said a building that housed a phone company, a beauty and a liquor store room reduces Friday, recouvrement.Tous five firefighters were rescued.
Gray said eight firefighters were taken to area hospitals and at least one is in critical condition.
Fire is contained, but a large cloud of black smoke shrouds the scène.Le building is five miles from downtown Detroit and just west of the suburb of Grosse Pointe Park.
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Fives high water of Maxine Reps.Democratic California and Charles Rangel of New York to say the National Newspaper Publishers Association, also known as black Press of America, that they don't mention racism as the reason for investigations of the u.s. Congress ethics our in their activities financières.Le farther away we stay in turbid Marsh term racism and anger, it encourages all over and for people of all colors in this country, more a nation we are.
Here's what two legislators are indicated as indicating the association in a recent article on blackvoicenews.com:
Waters "people are speculating as all sorts of things", said in an interview to NNPA 6 August news service. ''There is one thing that I'm clear sur.Je am clear that if this gets obscured with any other arguments before we get our facts out, we don't chance because that will say that we are going to hide behind race or something. "So, I think that what needs to happen is charges must be clear, we must have our days in court, then we are going to deal with the process and how the system works or works does not."
Rangel is cited as follows:
"I believe that the case is racially motivated?". Not. "Therefore, I would like to acknowledge my re-election that I focus on,", said in a message left on voicemail NNPA Rangel."And the hearing date was not set, which is the size of it."
These types of responses are much more healing as this record "off the" vanishing statement published on politico:
It is a "double standard, one for most members, and one for African-American countries," said a member of the black caucus Congressman, speaking on condition of anonymity .the Member said that it is too easy for a foreign group to damage the reputation of a person by filing a claim with ECAs."This is stacked against you once an indictment", added the legislature."You are guilty until proven otherwise."
Rangel is charged with 13 separate counts of ethical behavior, some legitimate, including some strike this writer as a little wrong.They range from the non-payment of taxes on rental properties (legitimate managers) to solicit donations to charities for a school that he founded and is named after him (Yes, it thus on paper to header of the Congress, which was not smart, but solicitations by themselves and do not constitute unethical behavior).
Waters is proportionate with the Treasury Department to help a Bank Internet edge minority whose husband had servi.Il had also $ 250,000 of stock in the company of the Bank.
Black caucus members are not without a few reasons to be bouleversé.Plus early this year, eight legislators under investigation official by the Congress (including Rangel and waters) were noirs.Mais Democrats too white congressional members not only were studied but was added to the positions of power, including former President Jim Wright, a Democrat from Texas, making the assertion that black only members are targeted for wrongdoing in history our.
See a slide show of 10 reasons Rangel Trouble.Voir is gift to your best political cartoons Congrès.Découvrez members this month .more Bonnie Erbe publishes Reader comments read all 8 comments add comment Skin SpinIf a politician is black,
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Lynch today monsters are found.
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Google VS China. Facebook VS Pakistan. YouTube against Turkey. BlackBerry VS, well, half of the world. If this seems as Internet is under siege lately, it is because it is. The game between Government censors and communications technology is very life along the San Andreas fault. It is has all the time, but whenever murmured low level in some time, there is a tectonic change. But why all tremors and earthquakes lately? And it's a good idea for multinational enterprises, non profit to be the standard-bearers to fundamental human rights such as freedom of expression? Here are a few answers.It has been true since the beginning of the organized society: secret hate Governments. By nature, they cannot allow citizens or enemies communicate secretly. This means that each new communication technology is a potential threat. Discuss rooms, electronic mail, encryption, the Web, Twitter - all, have one, come under assault haters secrets.Now smart phones have reached the masses, Governments worldwide are panicky. This is something to control the use of the citizens of e-mail from their rooms or cubicles - in a place like Iran, there are only a few Internet pipes in and out of the country, it is not difficult to stop the pipes or analyze the data that passes through it to offensive or illegal content. But BlackBerry gadgets work differently. They enable citizens around anywhere on foot with tiny computers which can be filtered users access to everything that is on the Web and can transmit their data with encryption monitoring-busting. If your task is to monitor citizens and the maintenance of order, there is an earthquake.
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Security experts have said vehicle electronic systems could be to blame for the problems that led to massive recalls of Toyota, but the examination by the Government, while still in an early stage, found not all evidence of these questions.
Toyota, more large car manufacturer in the world, recalled approximately 9.5 million cars and trucks since October in a quality crisis that threatened to undermine the reputation of the Japanese manufacturer for construction vehicles safely.
Further to the hearings of the Congress, the Ministry of transport and NASA have been studying what may have caused unexpected acceleration in Toyotas.Le Government received approximately 3,000 complaints sudden acceleration and believes that the problem could be involved in 93 deaths over the past decade.
The Department of transport has said that he had not found any new causes problems beyond two previously identified in callbacks
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NEW ORLEANS - The final feet of well drilling relief intended to permanently plug busted BP wells petroleum deep below the Gulf of Mexico will have to wait two or three days as a tropical depression strengthening bears down on site.
BP officials and Coast Guard had already decided to stop drilling earlier Tuesday prior to the National Hurricane Center forecasters named storm depression. A tropical storm warning has been issued for a large part of the coast affected by spills of oil, Gulf of destiny, Florida, at the La Intracoastal, city.
The center of the storm was located off the coast of Florida, hundreds of kilometres southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River. He was travelling at Northwestern and should strengthen slowly and become a storm tropical Wednesday.
Retired Coast Guard flagship Thad Allen, point the Government on the spill, man says the final steps will have to wait for any threat to the well who spewed over 200 million litres of oil over three months before a temporary cap it seals in mid-July.
Crews will appear in a temporary to protect Cap through them thus far, but they do return to shore workers.They left approximately 30 to 50 feet penetrated.
The franchise is well meant to BP PLC allow mud pump and cement in broken deep underground for a so-called kill the bottom, a permanent seal that would complement a plug injected into the upper part of the property last week.
Allen insisted on days that BP move forward with the kill low, although the upper plug seemed tenir.Mardi, however, he said test must still be done on the well before a final decision is rendered.
"I'm not sure that we know that... I do not want to prejudge whether it continues to do so or step go faire.Il will be based on conditions.
He later assigned "a very low probability" to kill the bottom does not do so, but then said: "We inform everyone" If that changes.
BP, Vice-President Kent Wells said really is 'a possibility' engineers cement pumped in through the top down into the reservoir, returned and plugged in the ring, which lies between the inner pipe and the outer envelope.
Allen also says officials have been delete some boom that had been submitted to trap oil in Florida, Alabama, and the Mississippi.Il says that the boom will be there in storage and available for use later, if necessary.
The delay of the storm came on the same day as fishermen and tourist operators received some good news: Federal authorities announced that approximately 5,000 square miles of Gulf on the Florida Panhandle has been reopened for commercial and recreational fisheries.
Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, said the extent of the East of Pensacola in Cape San Blas and extension of the South in open Gulf is safe for the pêche.Aucune oil was observed in these waters since July 3, however testing continues.
The spill began with an explosion of 20 April who sank the BP-leased rig horizon killed and deep water drilling 11 workers.
More than 300 lawsuits filed in response against BP and other companies will be treated by a federal judge in New Orleans, a judicial panel said Tuesday.
An order made Tuesday by u.s. Judicial Committee on multidistrict litigation says 77 cases as well as over 200 potential "tag along" shares will be transferred to US District Judge Carl Barbier.
Order of the judicial panel said New Orleans-based Federal Court is the best place for disputes because southeast Louisiana is the "geographical and psychological ' centre of gravity" ' for cases.
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