2012-01-31

Recording Artist Elephant Man charged with rape.

Police say they have arrested a Jamaican dancehall star accused of raping a 31-year-old woman at his home on the island.

Detectives arrested Elephant Man late Monday and charged him with grievous assault and rape.

Police say a woman has accused the 36-year-old entertainer of assaulting her at his home in St. Andrew parish. They gave no further details Tuesday.

The entertainer known offstage as Oneal Bryan is expected to appear in court this week.

Defense attorney Linda Wright could not be reached Tuesday.

The dancehall rapper is best known for the track "Willie Bounce" and for his collaboration with recording artists such as Wyclef Jean and Busta Rhymes.

You may remember him best for this song below

Pon De River (Who.Am.I (eirikrt) Remix)

link below:

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UPDATE ELEPHANT MAN RELEASED VIDEO LINK BELOW 2/1/2012

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Ex-LA teacher charged with molesting 23 children

A former Los Angeles elementary school teacher was arrested after he allegedly gagged and made bondage photos of nearly two dozen children — possibly inside a classroom, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday.

A department statement said Mark Berndt, 61, was arrested at his Torrance home on Monday and remained jailed Tuesday on $2.3 million bail.

The district attorney's office said Berndt has been charged with committing lewd acts with 23 boys and girls ages 7 to 10.

Berndt worked for more than 30 years at Miramonte Elementary School in an unincorporated area of south Los Angeles before being fired.

The investigation began when a film processor gave authorities some 40 photographs depicting blindfolded children in a classroom with their mouths taped shut.

Some of the photos showed Berndt with his arm around the children or with his hand over their mouths.

"In addition, the photographs depicted girls with what appeared to be a blue plastic spoon, filled with an unknown clear/white liquid substance, up to their mouths as if they were going to ingest the substance. There are also photos of children with large live Madagascar-type cockroaches on their faces and mouths," the statement said.

A blue plastic spoon and container found in trash in his classroom tested positive for semen, the statement said.

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地震 terremoto Earthquakes,

Over the past week Google users around the world have been searching for news of the earthquakes in Verona and Japan, Two earthquakes that struck Verona and Parma on Wednesday, January 25, and Friday, January 27, respectively. Both earthquakes had a magnitude of around five and reportedly neither caused any injuries.

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2012-01-30

Kermit and Ms. Piggy outraged by comments made on Fox,

LOL See link below

http://www.youtube.com/embed/Y8YhED4IgQA

Pythons killing mammals in Everglades at alarming rate.

In West Palm Beach Florida, a large population of huge pythons lots of them former pets turned loose by their owners when they got too big appear to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other mammals in the Everglades, a study says.

The study, found that sightings of medium-size mammals are down dramatically as much as 99 percent, in some cases in areas where pythons and other large, non-native constrictor snakes are known to be residing.

Scientists fear the pythons could disrupt the food chain and upset the Everglades' environmental balance in ways very difficult to predict.

A Burmese python is seen in south Miami, FL in 2005. Across southern Florida, rabbits, raccoons, bobcats and foxes have been disappearing at dramatic rates over the past decade.

The United States formally banned the import of Burmese pythons earlier this month

Machine Gun Kelly Arrested

Just spent my entire night in a f*cking Florida jail," Machine Gun Kelly tweeted after being arrested and shortly released on misdemeanor disorderly conduct.

"Shit escalated way to quick last night, it always does with us though," he continued to tweet.

Machine Gun Kelly, born Richard Baker, was arrested at 4:12 a.m. Sunday morning (Jan. 29), according to TMZ via Pinellas County Sherrif's Office. MGK was released hours after his arrest after posting a $100 bond.

Machine Gun Kelly Arrested for Flash Mob at Cleveland Mall: Watch

Houston High School massive fight on video.

Dekaney High School in Houston TX

Police paid a visit to Dekaney High School in Houston, Tex., after what students called an “outrageous” brawl broke out in the cafeteria, KHOU-TV reports.
“All these people came and just started hitting everybody,” student Maya Rodriguez told the station. “After a while, I got hit and everybody just started fighting. So I hit back…”
A student caught the riot on cell phone camera, and told KTRK that students were throwing items like milk cartons in the cafeteria and trash cans in the halls.
Parents told KTRK that they’re sick of the violence the school, and blame the “lack of control” by school officials. Dekaney High School principal Delic Lloyd says they are working to fix the problem, the station reports.
“We are working hard to work together and partner with parents and the community to improve the climate of Dekaney High School and to prove the teaching and learning that’s taking place here,” Lloyd told KTRK.

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Guns N' Roses performances...

Guns N' Roses announced four dates in the area -- Feb. 10 at Roseland Ballroom, Feb. 12 at Terminal 5, Feb. 14 at Webster Hall, all in New York City; and Feb. 24 at the House of Blues in Atlantic City.

2012-01-29

5000 fish found dead.

About 5,000 dead fish were discovered between the Middle Swan Bridge and the Ellen Brook in the upper reaches of the river.
Sources say recent rain and hot weather have lowered oxygen levels in the waterway and that particular area is outside the reach of the river's oxygenation plants.
"Sudden rainfall often brings high nutrient organic matter into the river and this usually causes oxygen levels to quickly drop below levels acceptable for fish and other aquatic fauna,"
"It is something that is of a concern, and although we believe the cause was low oxygen levels in the water column, we are monitoring the water quality and sending off samples of those fish for that to be clarified."
Also, most of the fish appear to be juvenile black bream with the remainder being trumpeter.

2012-01-28

Police arrest hundreds in Oakland.

Riot police arrested more than 100 anti-Wall Street protesters amongst a series of clashes in the streets of Oakland on Saturday with officers in riot gear firing tear gas at activists who tried to take over a closed convention center.

Three officers were injured during the confrontations, which police said first started when the crowd started destroying construction equipment and tearing down the fencing at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in downtown Oakland early afternoon.

"Officers were hit with bottles, metal pipe, rocks, spray cans, and burning flares," the Oakland Police Department said in a statement. "Oakland Police Department deployed smoke and tear gas."

The scuffles marked the latest confrontation between police and Occupy activists seeking to regain lost momentum in their movement against economic inequality after authorities cleared protest camps across the country late last year.

Nick Santino commits suicide...

After Being Forced To Put His Dog To Sleep, Leaves Note Saying “I Betrayed My Best Friend!"

Nick Santino euthanized his dog, Rocco, Tuesday — on Santino’s 47th birthday. That night, his guilt over the gut-wrenching decision became too much to bear.
“Today I betrayed my best friend and put down my best friend,” a despondent Santino wrote in a suicide note, said close friend Stuart Sarnoff.
“Rocco trusted me and I failed him. He didn’t deserve this.”
The Brooklyn-born Santino — a struggling actor whose TV credits include “All My Children” and “Guiding Light” — adopted Rocco from a shelter several years ago.
The man, raised in an orphanage and foster homes, soon began to write about his pet on Facebook, writing, “I did not rescue Rocco, Rocco rescued me.”
But in 2010, his building at 1 Lincoln Plaza announced strict new dog regulations, including a ban on pit bulls. The ban didn’t apply to pit bulls already in the building, but friends and neighbors said Santino began to be harassed.
Rocco couldn’t ride in the main elevators and wasn’t allowed to be left in the apartment alone for more than nine hours.
Santino was then threatened with a $250 fine for having a barking dog, neighbors said.
“The dog was not a barker, but somebody complained that the dog would bark,”
“He felt like he was in this battle because he was the only guy in the building with a pit-bull mix,”
After months of increasing anguish, Santino had the healthy dog put to sleep Tuesday.
Neighbors said a tearful Santino brought dog treats to the building’s doorman and said: “Give these to the other dogs. Rocco is no more.”
Dog owner James Steven Grant said Santino left two rawhide bones on his doorstep and earlier was seen tearfully giving away Rocco’s fluffy bed.
“Rocco was the sweetest dog in the world. Rocco wouldn’t hurt a fly,” Grant said.

The last phone call he made was to a former girlfriend at 2 a.m. Wednesday. Later that day, police found his body in his bedroom. He had overdosed on pills.
Rocco has been cremated, and friends said Santino’s remains will be, too, and they will be reunited.
“One way or another, their ashes will be together forever,” Sarnoff said.

2012-01-27

India shows Nuclear Capable Long-range missile.

India unveils new Nuclear Capable long-range missile

India displayed its latest nuclear-capable missile in front of the country’s leaders at the yearly Republic Day parade.

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Costa offers $14,460 to uninjured passengers in deal for ruined Italian cruise, trauma Associated Press

Costa Crociere SpA is offering uninjured passengers euro11,000 ($14,460) apiece to compensate them for lost baggage and psychological trauma after its cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany when the captain deviated from his route.
The agreement was announced Friday after negotiations between Costa representatives and Italian consumer groups who say they represent 3,206 cruise ship passengers from 61 countries who suffered no physical harm when the Costa Concordia hit a reef on Jan. 13. Individuals are free to reject the offer and pursue their own lawsuits against the company if they choose.

2012-01-26

Man who pulled own tooth in jail awarded $22M

A federal jury has awarded $22 million to a New Mexico man who was kept in solitary for two years and forced to pull his own tooth after being arrested for drunken driving in Dona Ana County.

Civil rights attorney Matt Coyte said the jury awarded Stephen Slevin, 58, the damages Tuesday after a six-day trial in Santa Fe.

Jess Williams, spokesman for Dona Ana County, declined comment other than to say the county plans to appeal.

"We have believe we have strong legal issues to raise with the appeal," he said.

Slevin was arrested while driving through the southern New Mexico county in August 2005. He ended up in solitary confinement because he was suffering from depression and someone checked a box on a form indicating he was suicidal, Coyte said.

Slevin was given some drugs for depression but never saw a mental health professional, Coyte said. He said his client wrote letters for months seeking help, but they were ignored.

"By January 2006, his last letter goes out looking for help. Then he falls into this delirium. He was there for the next 20 months," Coyte said.

Coyte said that in May 2007, Slevin was sent to a mental health facility in Las Vegas, N.M., for two weeks but then was returned to the Dona Ana County jail and solitary confinement.

"He immediately decompensates," Coyte said. "He sends off another letter at this point asking for medical care. ... He is forced to pull his own tooth. He rocked it back and forth over a period of eight hours before he was able to pull it out of his mouth."

Slevin was finally released in June 2007, Coyte said. He was never convicted.

"He entered this facility with overt symptoms of mental depression," Coyte said. "But that's not the issue. ... He was stuck in a 6-foot-by-11-foot cell with a concrete bench for a bed. And he sat in that cell. We had documentary evidence that he didn't get out for anything — for recreation, a shower — for months at a time."

Hillary Clinton Say's she won't return as Secretary of State

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told State Department employees Thursday that she will not stay on in the job if President Obama wins re-election, saying that she is ready to step off "the high wire of American politics," according to the AP.
"Clinton tells State employees she's not staying on if Obama re-elected but will work until last minute," CNN's Elise Labott first posted on Twitter.

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Man fired over 20cents

Kyle Dowie, a 43 year old disabled man, was fired from his job at an Iowa supermarket over cashing 20 cents of bottle deposits that were left behind by customers. After a complaint was filed with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission Dowie's behalf said discrimination based on his disability, he is deciding on an offer to return to his job.
Dowie worked for 25 years at the Hy-Vee supermarket in Urbandale, west of Des Moines. On Nov. 2, after recycling $3.75 worth of bottles from home through the store's recycling machine, his mother said he tried to redeem 20 cents from credit slips dated in September that may have been left by customers; his manager accused Dowie of stealing the 20 cent slips and fired him that day.
The company offered to give the employee full reinstatement on Tuesday with the same pay and benefits, $13 an hour, full-time at 35 hours a week and five weeks of vacation.

Iran ready for nuclear talks, per Ahmadinejad.

Iran is ready to return to talks with the world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, as harsher sanctions aim at forcing Tehran to quickly scale back its nuclear program.

Even so, he said that the pressures WILL NOT force Iran to give up its demands, including to continue enriching uranium, that led to the collapse of dialogue last year. Does someone see anything wrong here? I do!

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks with journalists at Tehran's Mehrabad airport after his visit to Latin American countries

SKorea --- artillery drills

South Korea staged live-fire drills Thursday from a front-line island shelled by North Korea in 2010, the first such exercise since North Korean leader Kim Jong Il died last month.
On Sunday, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency blasted South Korea and the United States over reports they plan a large-scale amphibious drills in March. A KCNA dispatch said the planned drills showed the allies' "wild design to stifle (North Korea) by force of arms."

2012-01-25

Laker's most valuable team

The Los Angele's Lakers is the most Valuable team in the NBA.

No team has benefited more from the enormous amount in TV money than the Los Angeles Lakers, who have unseated the New York Knicks as the league’s most valuable franchise.

The top 10:
1. Los Angeles Lakers, $900 million
2. New York Knicks, $780 million
3. Chicago Bulls, $600 million
4. Dallas Mavericks, $497 million
5. Boston Celtics, $482 million
6. Miami Heat, $457 million
7. Houston Rockets, $453 million
8. Golden State Warriors, $450 million
9. San Antonio Spurs, $418 million
10. Phoenix Suns, $395 million

2012-01-24

Basketball Wives' Evelyn Lozada in a new spread

One of Evelyn Lozada’s pics from her new Maxim Magazine photoshoot. The reality show star and current fiancee of Chad Ochocinco . More @ the website below.

Beyonce has a college course...

Beyoncé is a well known performer, fashion designer, Jay-Z’s wife, and probably the most famous new mom in the world. But could she also be considered a social change agent? Kevin Allred, a doctoral student and lecturer in Rutgers’ Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, where he teaches “Politicizing Beyoncé,” thinks so. though, he says, she may not be “political” in the traditional sense.
“This isn’t a course about Beyoncé’s political engagement or about the many times she performed during President Obama’s inauguration weekend,” he says. Rather, her music and career are used as lenses to explore American race, gender, and sexual politics. Allred pairs Beyoncé’s music videos and lyrics with readings from the Black feminist canon, including the writings of bell hooks, Alice Walker, and even abolitionist Sojourner Truth.

Kevin Allred and Beyonce pictured below.

Beyonce Kevin Allred “Politicizing Beyoncé” Rutgers

Judge, "Obama must appear in 'birther' suit!"

A Georgia judge has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court this week in a lawsuit filed by a Georgia resident, challenging whether he is a natural-born US citizen and if he's qualified to be president.

The latest case was created by the so-called "birther" movement that has made claims which have not been confirmed that Obama was born overseas.

Although it is not clear whether a court could force a sitting president to appear in a court case, Georgia Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi has denied a motion by the president's lawyer to repress a subpoena that requires Obama to show up.

Iran: UK Could send Forces to Strait of Hormuz

Iran: UK Could Send Forces To Hormuz Strait

Britain could send military back-up to the Strait of Hormuz to block any Iranian attempt to close the vital waterway in which a fifth of the world's crude oil passes through.

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the UK has a "contingent capability" to reinforce the military presence it already has in the Persian Gulf "at any time it be considered necessary to do so".

The Iranian threat to close the Strait came after the EU implemented unprecedented sanctions against Tehran, including an oil embargo.

Australia has now said that it, too, would join in the embargo

2012-01-23

Magnitude-6.3 quake hits Pacific

People, this is five or six quakes just today, at 5.0 & up, all over the world.

Serena Williams loses to Russia's Ekaterina Makarova

The Russian world number 56, who had not won a main-draw match since August 2011 and before arriving in Melbourne, was expected to provide nothing more than an obstacle for the five-time champion.

But she instead, surprisingly, Makarova, 23, who had earlier upset seventh seed Vera Zvonareva, sent Serena packing for one of her worst losses at a grand slam tournament

Kyle Williams receiving death threats.

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The San Francisco 49ers punt returner whose two fumbles helped cost the team of going to the Super Bowl, has been receiving death threats via Twitter from upset fans. The San Francisco Gate found multiple tweets written to Williams by angry fans, many who suggested what the second-year veteran should do with himself in light of his ugly playoff performance. One of the messages said he should jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. Another suggested he "run n2 a bullet." One of the more upsetting tweets mentioned Williams' wife and kids. Man some people take things in life way too seriously.

Bad Girls Club Season 8

Well this club has made it to it's eighth season and this time Las Vegas is the location. The reality show tends to have lots of viewers as The Oxygen channel brings us yet another group of seven bad girls living together in a mansion; all with hopes of becoming a better individual after their interval of a few months. This is the third season to take place in a different location from Los Angeles, California; The first was season five in Miami and the second was season seven in New Orleans. Season 8 premieres tonight on Oxygen 10/9c

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Super Bowl Tickets short supply/high demand

It’ll be hard to escape the hype, definitely with the NFC champion New York Giants going to the Super Bowl in what is sure to be an amazing rematch with the New England Patriots on Feb. 5.
Now that Giants’ fans have had the chance to buy the newly-minted NFC champion hats, t-shirts and oversized foam hands that appeared within hours of Big Blue’s big win over the 49ers in San Francisco, the only thing left on the pigskin wish list is a pair of Super Bowl tickets.
Super Seats USA spokesman Matthew Kenny tells 1010 WINS the bottom price you can expect to pay per ticket is $2,800.

New York Giants fans celebrate after the Giants defeated the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game at Candlestick Park on January 22, 2012

Joe Paterno funeral to be held Wednesday

The Legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno will be buried Wednesday in a private family service, with a public memorial service to follow the next day, his family announced today.
Paterno, 85, died Sunday, a little less than three months after his 61-year career with the Nittany Lions suddenly ended amid being criticized for his action taken or lack there of, to alleged child sexual abuse by a former assistant.
Public viewings were scheduled for Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning on the Penn State campus. A private funeral service will be held Wednesday afternoon, the public relations company hired by the family said Monday.
A public memorial service was scheduled for Thursday at Bryce Jordan Center on the Penn State campus.
Details were still being worked out, according to family members..

Severed head in New York Station

Subway commuters in New York City were in for a surprise as they gazed upon the horrible sight of a severed head when they stepped off a train on Saturday.

But the thing most disturbing is that there were other deaths on the city's subway in less than 24 hours.

Police say the incidents are not related.

The first victim, an unidentified male maybe in his 60s, was found unconscious bleeding from the mouth at about 1:00am in Queens' Elmhurst Avenue station at Broadway, on the R line.

Police say he could have fallen down the stairs and hit his head at the elevated station.

He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he died almost an hour later.

At about 8:30am, 22-year-old Brian O'Mara, of Long Island, was struck and killed while walking around inside a tunnel between stations and was hit by an L train near West 14th Street and Third Avenue

2012-01-22

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SEGA making games for urinals.

Elsewhere In The World: Sega Hopes To Make A "Splash" With Urinal Game Consoles in Japan

Located in Tokyo the firm is bringing to you a game console that it has called “Toylet” (Toylets) at urinals for men in bars around the country, encouraging men to take part in a series of contests by varying the strength and direction of their urine. WTF
Each of the urinals has a pressure sensor, a company spokesman said, and a screen is secured on the wall above the unit, which each cost £1,266.
Players have a choice of five games, which are full of advertisements for products and services. Sega hopes that users will pay more attention to the adverts if they can also play games while using the facilities.
The most simple game is titled “Mannekin Pis” and simply measures how hard the player can urinate. Slightly more challenging is “Graffiti Eraser,” in which the player is required to remove a picture by pointing a hose at the offending image. Sega has it come to this?

US aircraft carrier sails through Strait

In the middle of very high tensions with Iran, an American aircraft carrier has sailed through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf. The Navy says it is routine for this type of activity.

Cmdr. Amy Derrick-Frost said the USS Abraham Lincoln entered the Gulf on Sunday without incident. (Derrick-Frost is a spokeswoman for the Navy's 5th Fleet, based in the Gulf state of Bahrain.)

U.S. warships almost-always operate in the Gulf. But when the carrier USS John Stennis departed the Gulf in late December, Iranian officials stated that the U.S. should not return. Nevertheless, on Saturday, Iran made known that it viewed U.S. naval operations in the Gulf as normal.

Iran, just recently, said it might use it's military to close the Strait in a retaliatory move for new international economic sanctions.

Giants to face Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI

The Giants received a welcome of gifts as 49ers returner Kyle Williams fumbled a kickoff return in overtime, setting up a 20-17 win -- and a return trip to the Super Bowl.

Six hurt during shooting at San Francisco party.

Six people, five of them teens, were injured when gunfire erupted at a girl's 16th birthday party in the San Francisco Bay area, said authorities on Sunday.

Police believe three or four male partygoers opened fire Saturday night when two groups started arguing. Per police, "Violence is not common in the neighborhood in Antioch, which is about 38 miles northeast of San Francisco."

"Weapons were shown and multiple shots were fired from various guns," Willerford said.

Among the wounded a 13-year-old boy, two 16-year-old boys, two 18-year-old men and a 21-year-old woman, police said. Their injuries ranged from a minor grazing wound to an abdomen wound, police said. Some have been released from hospitals.

Patriots are in the Super Bowl, beat Ravens...

The Patriots beat the surprised Ravens 23-20 in the AFC championship game Sunday after Baltimore’s Billy Cundiff missed a 32-yard field goal attempt with 11 seconds left in the game that would have tied the score.

FOXBORO, MA - JANUARY 22: The New England Patriots celebrate after Billy Cundiff #7 of the Baltimore Ravens missed a game tying field goal late in the fourth quarter during their AFC Championship Game at Gillette Stadium on January 22, 2012 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)

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Brady scored the touchdown which led to victory as he leaped over the exulted Ravens defense in the fourth quarter.
His 1-yard dive brought the Patriots (15-3) from behind, and the tainted New England defense made several key plays, that included shutting down Ray Rice, the league’s total yardage leader.
Brady led the Patriots to their fifth AFC championship in 11 seasons. Next up as the Patriots go after their fourth Super Bowl trophy in Brady and coach Bill Belichick’ clasp in New England is the winner of Sunday’s late game for the NFC championship between the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers. The Super Bowl is Feb. 5 in Indianapolis.

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