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Arsenal vs Wolverhampton Wanderers Highlights 12.2.2011
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Arsenal vs Wolverhampton Wanderers
Match Details
Result: (2 – 0)
Tournament: England Premier League
Stadium: Emirates Stadium (London)
West Bromwich Albion vs West Ham United Highlights 12.2.2011
West Bromwich Albion vs West Ham United
Competition: England Premier League
Result: (3 – 3)
Venue: The Hawthorns, West Bromwich (West Bromwich)
Liverpool vs Wigan Athletic Highlights 12.2.2011
Liverpool vs Wigan Athletic
Match Details
Result: (1 – 1)
Tournament: England Premier League
Stadium: Anfield Road (Liverpool)
Blackburn Rovers vs Newcastle United Highlights 12.2.2011
Blackburn Rovers vs Newcastle United
Match Details
Result: (0 – 0)
Tournament: England Premier League
Stadium: Ewood Park (Blackburn)
Blackpool vs Aston Villa Highlights 12.2.2011
Blackpool vs Aston Villa
Match Details
Result: (1 – 1)
Tournament: England Premier League
Stadium: Bloomfield Road (Blackpool)
Arizona Senator Jon Kyl to Retire
Three-term Sen. Jon Kyl will announce his retirement at a noon ET news conference Thursday in Phoenix, two Republican sources confirmed to Fox News.
The Arizona lawmaker, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, will be the fifth senator scheduled for re-election next year to announce a departure from Congress in 2012.
Kyl, 68, served four terms in the House before winning a Senate seat. In 2006, he was named one of the 10 best senators by Time Magazine.
"He's leaving now at the top of his game, he has money in the bank, and he’s one of the few long-term incumbents who doesn’t face a Tea Party challenge," a senior Senate GOP aide with knowledge of Kyl’s decision said.
Kyl has never lost an election, and would not have been expected to lose a vote for a fourth term. He will be 70 years old when he leaves.
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham called the senator "one of the most dependable and solid leaders I have ever known."
"His decision to retire will be a great blow to the Republican Conference and Senate as a whole. Jon is one of the smartest members of the Senate and knows how to get things done. What he brings to the table will be very difficult to replace," Graham said.
Kyl will return to Phoenix, the source said, but he could decide on a “hybrid” position that keeps him connected and returning to Washington.
Replacing the senator, who is a major force in finance and defense policy, could prove to be an interesting fight.
Several officials, both GOP and Democratic, speculated Thursday that should Kyl resign, Rep. Gabby Giffords, rapidly recovering from a recent shot to the head at a constituent meeting, could be a contender. Other names mentioned are Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who is also a former Democratic governor of Arizona; and Republican Rep. Jeff Flake, a rising conservative star and budget hawk.
Rio doubles dividend and unveils $5bn buy-back
The multinational mining company boosted its 2010 dividend by 20 per cent to $1.08 per share and said it would buy back $5bn in shares before the end of 2012. These rewards come less than two years after it asked investors for a $15.2bn cash infusion through its 2009 rights issue.
Its dramatic change in fortune derives from the market prices of iron ore, copper, coal, and aluminium. Like peer miners it is enjoying what one analyst called "Boom 2.0", a sharp resurgence of China-led demand for the raw materials of industrialisation.
Higher commodities prices alone added $9.5bn to underlying earnings which more than doubled from $6.3bn to $14bn.
Iron ore once again delivered the majority of profits, as Rio continues an extraordinarily lucrative business of digging up the steelmaking ore from its mines in the Australian desert and shipping it north to China. The iron ore division accounted for $16.6bn out of a total $26.6bn of group earnings before interest taxation depreciation and amortisation. Ebitda rose 84 per cent compared to 2009.
Profits from aluminium did not compare to iron ore. But a significant turnaround occurred at the formerly loss-making division previously known as Alcan, the Canadian aluminium giant that Rio bought for $38bn in 2007. Alcan's earnings before interest taxation depreciation and amortisation jumped from $594m to $2.4bn.
Once again the pricing effect accounted for most of the gain. Aluminium prices rose 31 per cent over the course of 2010. The metal has taken on a new use as a financial investment that some say is dangerous because its value is tied to low interest rates and the expectation that prices will continue to rise.
Operational cash flows in 2010 rose 70 per cent to $23.5bn.
The wave of cash flooding the mining industry has led many analysts to expect share buybacks from BHP Billiton, the other top Anglo-Australian miner that reports interim results next week. But buybacks at Rio were less widely expected, in part because the company has agreed a $3.9bn acquisition of Riversdale Mining, which owns coal properties in Mozambique.
It is also funding a vast mine-building programme, committing $12bn to new projects since the start of 2010.
But Rio's balance sheet on Thursday indicated a flexibility to pursue several multi-billion-dollar outlays simultaneously. Its net debt, which at the end of 2008 stood at $38.6bn, was $4.3bn at the end of 2010. That compares to $18.9bn last year.
"Rio Tinto is reinvigorated, running strongly, and benefiting from favourable markets," said Tom Albanese, chief executive, in a statement. He noted that the removal of government stimulus spending on infrastructure this year has "the potential to generate both volatility and substantial swings in commodity prices."
The company expects capital expenditure of $13bn in 2011 including construction costs of Oyu Tolgoi, the world-class copper mine that it is building in Mongolia.
Rio's pre-tax profits rose 161 per cent from $7.9bn to $20.6bn, on gross revenues that rose 36 per cent to $60bn. Last year sales to China accounted for 28 per cent of Rio's revenues, a rise from 2009.
The company's bid for Riversdale, which is tightly held by companies including Tata Steel and Brazil's CSN, was extended to March 4.
Earnings per share more than doubled from $2.75 to $7.26.
Rio shares fell 2.5 per cent to £45.41 in midday trading in London.
New Drilling Method Opens Vast U.S. Oil Fields
A new drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States, helping reverse a two-decade decline in domestic production of crude.
Companies are investing billions of dollars to get at oil deposits scattered across North Dakota, Colorado, Texas and California. By 2015, oil executives and analysts say, the new fields could yield as much as 2 million barrels of oil a day -- more than the entire Gulf of Mexico produces now.
This new drilling is expected to raise U.S. production by at least 20 percent over the next five years. And within 10 years, it could help reduce oil imports by more than half, advancing a goal that has long eluded policymakers.
"That's a significant contribution to energy security," says Ed Morse, head of commodities research at Credit Suisse.
Oil engineers are applying what critics say is an environmentally questionable method developed in recent years to tap natural gas trapped in underground shale. They drill down and horizontally into the rock, then pump water, sand and chemicals into the hole to crack the shale and allow gas to flow up.
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Iran: Mehdi Karroubi 'house arrest' after protest call
Security officials at the premises say the measures will last until next week, it adds. No one is being allowed to enter the house except his wife.
Mr Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, another opposition leader, had called for a rally on Monday to support the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
The authorities refused permission, calling it a political move.
Sons kept out
Although Iran's establishment supports the Egyptian popular protests, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary said on Wednesday that Iranians should show their solidarity by taking part in official rallies this Friday to commemorate the anniversary of Iran's revolution.
Choosing another day to hold a rally means that the opposition leaders "wish to be in a separate front and will create divisions", he told a news conference in Tehran.
Mr Karroubi, a 72-year-old cleric and former parliament speaker, ran against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the disputed 2009 election which returned the hardline leader to power.
He currently leads the National Trust Party, and is seen as a political survivor who sought a soft and gradualist strategy of reforms.
Reports from Tehran say that police officers surrounded Mr Karroubi's house on Thursday.
His sons have told the BBC that they each tried to enter the house to see their father, but were stopped from doing so.
Mr Karroubi's movements were already heavily restricted, but in recent days, he had been increasingly politically active, says the BBC's Tehran Correspondent, James Reynolds from London.
On Saturday, he and Mr Mousavi submitted a request to hold a peaceful rally on 14 February in support of protesters in Egypt and Tunisia - what would have been the first mass opposition rally in Iran since the country's disputed presidential elections of 2009.
Mr Karroubi's son was reportedly told by the police that the new restrictions imposed on his father will stay in place until that very day, our correspondent says.
Egypt protests: Hosni Mubarak to make TV address
The US Central Intelligence Agency says there is a "strong likelihood" that Mr Mubarak will step down soon.
It comes on the 17th day of protests against his 30-year rule.
Earlier, Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq told BBC Arabic that the scenario of President Mubarak stepping down was being discussed.
The BBC's Lyse Doucet, in Cairo, says the fact that President Mubarak's departure is even being talked about is a huge development.
Our correspondent, who spoke to Mr Badrawi by telephone, says the 25 January movement - the day when the protests began - will see this as a great victory.
State television has carried footage of a meeting of the high council of the armed forces. State news agency Mena said the high council was in a state of continuous session "to protect the nation, its gains and the aspirations of the people".
Thursday's sudden developments came as thousands of Egyptians again took to the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian towns and cities, calling for President Mubarak to step down.
Doctors, bus drivers, lawyers and textile workers were on strike in Cairo on Thursday, with unions reporting walkouts and protests across the country.
The BBC's Jon Leyne, in Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square, the focal point of the anti-Mubarak protests, reports that the protesters there are starting to celebrate after hearing news of Mr Mubarak's possible departure.
But Egyptian Information Minister Anas el-Fekky told Reuters news agency: "The president is still in power and he is not stepping down. The president is not stepping down and everything you heard in the media is a rumour."
Mr Mubarak had previously pledged to quit office after presidential elections due to be held in September.
Negotiations between the government and opposition groups have made little progress, with protesters disillusioned at plans for reform put forward by Mr Mubarak's government.
Terror Threat 'Most Heightened' Since 9/11, Napolitano Says
The threat of terrorism is at "its most heightened state" since the 9/11 attacks nearly a decade ago, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today.
"The terrorist threat facing our country has evolved significantly in the last ten years -- and continues to evolve -- so that, in some ways, the threat facing us is at its most heightened state since those attacks," she said before the House Homeland Security Committee.
Her comments were a sobering reminder that the potential of another attack is real and growing, most notably from individuals radicalized inside the United States, despite elaborate security measures implemented by the government since 2001.
"One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens," Napolitano said, referring to so-called homegrown terrorists fueled by the Internet and connections with operatives overseas.
More than two dozen Americans have been arrested on terrorism charges in the past two years, according to government statistics.
Fifty individuals involved in 32 high-profile terrorism plots involving al Qaeda-like ideology in the past decade were U.S. citizens at the time of their arrests, according to a study by the New York State Intelligence Center. Most were natural-born.
"[We] are now operating under the assumption, based on the latest intelligence and recent arrests, that individuals prepared to carry out terrorist attacks and acts of violence might be in the United States, and they could carry out acts of violence with little or no warning," Napolitano said.
Napolitano made the remarks before the House Homeland Security Committee, where she testified with National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter.
"This shift is a game changer," Republican committee chairman Rep. Peter King of New York said. "We must confront this threat."
FBI and Justice Department officials have reported a spike in the number of terrorism-related investigations and prosecutions involving U.S. residents since 2009.
Many of the suspects -- including Najibullah Zazi, who plotted New York City subway bombings in September 2009, and Faisal Shahzad, the convicted would-be Time Square bomber -- lived and worked for years inside the United States before preparing their attacks.
David Headley of Chicago was convicted of a role in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed more than 170 people, and Colleen LaRose, more commonly known as "Jihad Jane," was implicated in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for drawing the head of the Prophet Muhammad on the body of a dog in 2007.
Leiter said the evolution of domestic radicalism has been aided by propaganda developed by extremists and pushed on the Internet.
"This narrative -- a blend of al Qaeda inspiration, perceived victimization and glorification of past homegrown plotting -- addresses the unique concerns of like-minded, U.S.-based individuals," he said.
Pakistan TV Footage Shows Detained American
An American who shot dead two Pakistanis tells police he's a consultant for the U.S. consular general in Lahore and pleads with them to find his passport, according to footage purportedly showing his encounter with security officials soon after the late January shootout.
The clip first aired Wednesday night by the private Dunya television channel could deepen the mystery surrounding what's become a major diplomatic dispute between the United States and Pakistan, whose alliance is considered key to success in the war in Afghanistan.
The U.S. has demanded that Pakistan release the American, saying he has diplomatic immunity and shot the armed Pakistanis in self-defense on Jan. 27 in Lahore because they came up to his car and tried to rob him. To pressure Pakistan for his release, the U.S. has begun curbing contacts with Pakistani leaders and lawmakers have even threatened to cut off billions in aid to the nuclear-armed Muslim nation.
Pakistani leaders, eager to avoid a backlash among a population where anti-Americanism is rife, have avoided definitive statements on the status of the American, whom they've identified as Raymond Allen Davis, and say the matter is up to the courts. Davis faces potential murder charges, and his next court appearance is set for Friday.
The brief footage was apparently shot by a cell phone lying on a table in a room at a police station in Lahore. The authenticity of the video could not be independently verified and the faces that appear are darkened. But Davis' face is somewhat visible and it matches pictures taken of him after the incident.
By Thursday, the clip was available on YouTube.
Speaking in a clear American accent, with a slight Southern twang, Davis says at one point he's with the U.S. Embassy, which is in Islamabad, but also says later that he's doing consulting work for the consular general, who is based in the U.S. consulate in Lahore. He also says he's with the "RAO," an apparent reference to the Americans' Regional Affairs Office.
Egyptian Army Chief Tells Protesters: 'All Your Demands will be Met'
Egypt's Army Chief of Staff waded into the jubilant crowd of protesters in Egypt's Tahrir Square today and told them cryptically, "All your demands will be met tonight."
When asked by ABC News whether that meant that President Hosni Mubarak would leave office, Army Chief of Staff Sami Eman replied, "It ends tonight."
The crowd around Eman erupted in a roar of cheers and began singing the national anthem.
Egypt's interior minister told ABC News officials are meeting to discuss the next steps but would not confirm nor deny whether embattled President Hosni Mubarak is indeed stepping down, as some reports suggest.
"You will know soon," the minister said.
The head of the ruling party Hossam Badrawi told the Associated Press that he expects Mubarak to "address the people tonight to respond to protesters demands."
In one makeshift hospital near the square, as rumors of Mubarak's departure spread, the injured and healthy literally jumped for joy, hugging and kissing each other.
But others were more cautious, waiting to hear what follows Mubarak before they truly celebrate.
A group of young men gathered in Tahrir Square told ABC News they wouldn't be satisfied if the military takes Mubarak's place, and that they want full democracy.
"We don't want dictators or soldiers to lead. We are ready for democracy," said one protester.
In Tahrir Square, soldiers who had been screening everyone coming in appeared to be standing down and people streamed in from all directions uninterrupted.
Egypt's armed forces issued a statement broadcast on state radio, saying they will protect the people and will support the demands of the people. The state television reported that the council of armed forces met today to discuss the current situation, and resolved to convene regularly. "We will ensure the protection of the people and that their legitimate demands are met," the army said.
Neither Mubarak nor his new vice president, Omar Suleiman, were present at the meeting.
The protests, in their 17th day, gained momentum today as protesters and labor unions across the country went on strike today, adding more fuel to the revolutionary fire.
Factory workers, textile workers, laborers on the Suez Canal, all stopped working. On Tahrir Square, doctors and bus drivers joined the protests today, in a sign of solidarity. The transport strike brought traffic in a city famous for its congestion, to a standstill.
Want to Up Those Math SAT Scores? Try Electricity
Participants in the study were given a one milliamp electrical stimulus across the parietal lobe for 20 minutes a day. It doesn't amount to more than a tingle, according to Oxford University's Cohen Kadosh, but the 20 and 21-year old student volunteers who underwent the treatment found their performance level significantly improved on a battery of tests. Not only that, but the boost still held six months after the initial jolting.
Two quick thoughts. First, please don't try to self-electroshock your way through differential equations. Second, would this process be more or less expensive than a kickass graphing calculator?
Eliza Kruger, 17-Year-Old, Allegedly Hooked Up With Mark
Eliza Kruger Pictures, According to the New York Post, Eliza boasted of the alleged meeting on Facebook and sent photos of an unmade bed Deadspin as “proof”. When the reporter asked her if she Deadspin “hung” with Sanchez this evening after dinner, she replied, “Yes.” “It’s a really nice guy, you know,” Eliza says the site. “He is one of the best people, and there is a genuine person.”
The Internet is on fire with reports that 24 years, Mark Sanchez hooked up with Eliza, 17, Kruger – the daughter of Connecticut hedge funder Konrad Kruger.
While there were mixed views about whether the news was true, a writer for Deadspin.com spoken directly with Eliza (or someone they call for legal EK) who said the cast was finally place. It’s a bit complicated but here are some highlights of the story:
Eliza would have met Mark at the New Year’s Eve at a club called Lavo in Manhattan (she used a fake ID to enter). Mark approached Eliza and she gave him her number of BB. She told him she was 17, he said nothing could happen until she turns 18, she reassured him 17 was legal in New York (which is apparently true).
She, being a typical girl of 17 years, has left a comment on her Facebook wall that read “F-CKING MARK SANCHEZ JUST ME!!!!!!!!!!” TextED
Fast-forward a day (or weeks, who knows really) later and Eliza (or Eliza someone claims was posing as her) Deadspin sends a phone number and photos as proof of their connection. She sent thempictures of his room with photos and a shot of her bed.
Allentown, PA - 1 Dead, 5 Missing after Massive Gas Blast
Allentown, PA - A natural gas explosion in eastern Pennsylvania killed at least one person, leveled two houses, spawned fires that burned for more than seven hours and prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people. At least five others were unaccounted for Thursday.
The victim lived in two-story row house in a downtown residential neighborhood that blew up about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday, police Chief Roger MacClean said. A couple in their 70s lived in the home, but the condition of the body prevented positive identification, fire Chief Robert Scheirer said.
The cause of the explosion was unclear.
The fires consumed an entire row of homes, Scheirer said. The blaze was put out early Thursday, delayed by the difficulty of digging through packed layers of snow and ice to a ruptured underground gas line that was feeding the flames, he said.
He predicted eight houses would be lost and another 16 damaged.
In all, 500 to 600 people were evacuated, including elderly residents of a high rise. Residents were allowed to return home early Thursday. They had been taken to a Jewish community center and an agricultural hall at the city’s fairgrounds while emergency crews worked overnight.
The blast was so powerful that it sent a flat-screen computer monitor sailing into the back of Antonio Arroyo, whose house was on the opposite end of the row from the house that exploded.
“I thought we were under attack,” he recalled from a shelter where some 250 people took refuge in the hours after the blast.
Arroyo and his wife, Jill, both 43, lost their home in the fire.
Antonio said he ran outside and saw that an entire house had been leveled, a fireball now raging in the spot where it once stood.
“What I saw, I couldn’t believe,” said Arroyo, a community volunteer.
He and his wife, a nurse, fled their home with only the clothes on their back. They planned to return at daylight to see what they could salvage. Jill Arroyo broke down sobbing when she recalled her son’s athletic memorabilia — likely lost in the blaze — including DVDs of his high school football games.
“The DVDs are gone. All his trophies are gone. All gone,” she sobbed as her husband comforted her.
Tricia Aleski, who lives a few blocks away, said the explosion jangled her nerves.
“I was reading a book in the living room and it felt like a giant kicked the house. It all shook. Everything shook,” she said. “I checked the stove and everything, (to) make sure everything’s off.”
Jason Soke was watching college basketball when he heard and felt the explosion. It rattled his windows. He went to the third floor and looked out and saw flames and smoke.
“Your senses kind of get stunned,” he said. “It puts you on edge.”
Military talks between rival Koreas "collapse" - source
"The talks have collapsed; they haven't even agreed a date for their next meeting," the official told Reuters, referring to the first talks between the neighbours since the North attacked a South Korean island in November.
Colonels from the two Koreas, still technically at war because an armistice not a treaty ended the 1950-53 Korean War, had met at the truce village of Panmunjom to set the time and agenda for more senior dialogue.
The South demanded the North acknowledge its role in two deadly attacks against the South last year that killed 50 people, but the North refused to discuss the issue, local media reported.
Woman dies after buttocks injection at Pa. hotel
PHILADELPHIA – A woman who had a cosmetic injection in her buttocks at a hotel near the Philadelphia airport died early Tuesday, prompting a police investigation.
Detectives said the woman and three companions traveled from London and were staying at the Hampton Inn in southwest Philadelphia. Two of them had traveled to the city in November to have their buttocks enlarged and, on Monday, one received another injection while the other had a hip augmentation.
Detective Joseph Murray said the 20-year-old woman who had the buttocks injection later complained of chest pains and trouble breathing. Paramedics were called, and she was taken to Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital where she died. Her name was not officially released.
The results of an autopsy by the Delaware County medical examiner's office haven't been released.
Police were seeking two people involved in the cosmetic procedures. They said they believe the procedures were arranged over the Internet.
"We're not quite sure right now if that person performing that procedure is licensed or unlicensed," said Lt. John Walker of the Philadelphia police southwest detectives division. "We're still working that information right now."
Walker said investigators were also awaiting test results to determine the substance used.
Freed young leader energizes Egyptian protests
CAIRO – A young Google executive who helped ignite Egypt's uprising energized a cheering crowd of hundreds of thousands Tuesday with his first appearance in their midst after being released from 12 days in secret detention. "We won't give up," he promised at one of the biggest protests yet in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Once a behind-the-scenes Internet activist, 30-year-old Wael Ghonim has emerged as an inspiring voice for a movement that has taken pride in being a leaderless "people's revolution." Now, the various activists behind it — including Ghonim — are working to coalesce into representatives to push their demands for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster.
With protests invigorated, Vice President Omar Suleiman issued a sharply worded warning, saying of the protests in Tahrir, "We can't bear this for a long time, and there must be an end to this crisis as soon as possible," in a sign of growing impatience with 16 days of mass demonstrations.
For the first time, protesters made a foray to Parliament, several blocks away from their camp in the square. Several hundred marched to the legislature and chanted for it to be dissolved.
In Tahrir, the massive, shoulder-to-shoulder crowd's ranks swelled with new blood, including thousands of university professors and lawyers who marched in together as organizers worked to draw in professional unions. The crowd rivaled the biggest demonstration so far, a week ago, that drew a quarter-million people.
Some said they were inspired to turn out by an emotional television interview Ghonim gave Monday night just after his release from detention. He sobbed over those who have been killed in two weeks of clashes and insisted, "We love Egypt ... and we have rights."
"I cried," a 33-year-old upper-class housewife, Fifi Shawqi, said of the interview with Ghonim, who she'd never heard of before the TV appearance. She came to the Tahrir protest for the first time, bringing her three daughters and her sister. "I felt like he is my son and all the youth here are my sons."
Tuesday's huge turnout gave a resounding answer to the question of whether the protesters still have momentum even though two weeks of steadfast pressure have not achieved their goal of ousting 82-year-old Mubarak, Egypt's authoritarian leader for nearly three decades.
Suleiman rejected any departure for Mubarak or "end to the regime. He told a gathering of newspaper editors that the regime prefers to deal with the crisis using dialogue, adding, "We don't want to deal with Egyptian society with police tools." He warned that the alternative to dialogue was "a coup" — a possible hint of an imposition of military rule. However, editors present at the meeting said he then explained he didn't mean a military coup but that "a force that is unprepared for rule" could overturn state institutions.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Suleiman, saying Washington wants Egypt to immediately rescind emergency laws that give broad powers to security forces — a key demand of the protesters.
Ghonim's reappearance gave a clearer picture of the stunning trajectory of the protests, which swelled from the online organizing of small Internet activist groups into the first and greatest mass challenge ever to Mubarak's rule.
Ghonim is an Egyptian who oversees Google Inc.'s marketing in the Middle East and Africa from Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates. He vanished two days after the protests began on Jan. 25, snatched off the street by security forces and hustled to a secret location.
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DA to charge Lohan with felony grand theft
Prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to charge Lindsay Lohan with felony grand theft of a $2,500 necklace reported stolen from a jewelry store last month.
District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison said the charge will be filed Wednesday. She is due in court for an arraignment on Wednesday afternoon.
Lohan is due to surrender tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. at L.A.'s Airport Courthouse, Deputy D.A. John Lynch said in a statement. If convicted, the actress could face a maximum penalty of three years in state prison.
Robison said bail would be decided by a judge.
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The charge brings the troubled star another step closer to jail. Lohan, 24, remains on probation for a 2007 drunken driving case and a judge had threatened to throw her in jail if she ran into trouble again.
Los Angeles police said Feb. 2 that Lohan was under investigation for taking a necklace from a Venice store later identified as Kamofie and Co. Detectives obtained a search warrant to try to retrieve the item from Lohan's home, but it was turned into a police station before any search was made.
Sources close to Lohan claim she thought the necklace was on loan from the store.
A phone message to Lohan's attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, was not immediately returned. Holley has previously denied any wrongdoing by Lohan.
Pregnant Colo. woman mistakenly gets abortion drug
A Colorado woman who is six weeks pregnant says a pharmacist at a grocery store mistakenly gave her an abortion drug instead of an antibiotic and now she fears she will lose her unborn child.
Mareena Silva tells Denver's KMGH-TV that the pharmacist at the Safeway in Fort Lupton gave her methotrexate last week. The drug, intended for another woman, is used in chemotherapy and to terminate early-stage pregnancies.
Silva says she took a pill and checked the bottle after becoming sick. She was rushed to the hospital.
Doctors say Silva could miscarry or have a baby with birth defects.
A woman at Silva's apartment Tuesday said she's not talking to the media. Safeway says it has apologized to Silva and will pay medical expenses resulting from the mistake.
In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Safeway director of public affairs Kristine J. Staaf says, "We are redoubling our efforts to ensure that all our pharmacists follow the strict policies and procedures we have in place to prevent medication errors.
"All pharmacy personnel are instructed to ask and listen to the patient’s full name and date of birth before retrieving a medication from the “will call” area," the statement continues. "They are then instructed to repeat that information to the patient before the transaction is completed and any medication is given. Had that procedure been followed, this regrettable error could have been avoided."
Harry Baals is the runaway favorite in online voting
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A former Indiana mayor who won four terms in the 1930's and 1950s is proving less popular with modern-day city leaders, who say they probably won't name a new government center for him because of the jokes his moniker could inspire.
Harry Baals is the runaway favorite in online voting to name the new building in Fort Wayne, about 120 miles northeast of Indianapolis. But Deputy Mayor Beth Malloy said that probably won't be enough to put the name of the city's longest-tenured mayor on the center.
The issue is pronunciation. The former mayor pronounced his last name "balls." His descendants have since changed it to "bales."
Supporters said it's unfair that the former mayor can't be recognized simply because his name makes some people snicker. But opponents fear that naming the center after Baals would make Fort Wayne the target of late-night television jokes.
"We realize that while Harry Baals was a respected mayor, not everyone outside of Fort Wayne will know that," Malloy said Tuesday in a statement to The Associated Press. "We wanted to pick something that would reflect our pride in our community beyond the boundaries of Fort Wayne."
An online site taking suggestions for names showed more than 1,300 votes Tuesday for the Harry Baals Government Center. That's more than three times the votes received by the closest contender.
Jim Baals, 51, who has lived in the city his entire life, said it's unfortunate that his great-uncle's name won't be considered for the building.
"Harry served four terms and was a wonderful mayor. I don't know what the problem is," he said. "I understand people are going to poke fun at it. That's OK. I've lived with that name for 51 years now, and I've gotten through it. I think everybody else can, too."
City spokesman Frank Suarez said the city has no regrets about opening the name selection up to people online.
"It is a new way of reaching out to the community," he said. "The fact that 17,000 votes have come in tell us the buzz created by this is really good. When was the last time somebody could say they had fun with their government? We've had fun with this."
Suarez told The Journal Gazette that Mayor Tom Henry will meet with local groups and choose from up to 10 finalists from the suggestions submitted. Online voting ends Friday.
Valentine s Day Gift Ideas for Pearl Jewelry
As a Limited Edition piece in HinsonGayle’s acclaimed Extreme Baroque Collection, this unique extended-length pearl tin cup chain is a true head turner. The necklace is crafted from 20 handpicked multicolor free-form baroque pearls, some of which are rare metallic pearls. These freshwater beauties are treasured for their stunning natural colors and unique and irregular shapes, as no two are exactly alike. The premium-grade freshwater pearls were selected for their mirror-like luster, enchanting natural colors, and alluring tones; they range from approximately 8-9mm wide to 11-13mm long. To finish off this ravishing design, we added one AAA-grade naturally metallic baroque pearl to the end, so that it can be suspended as a pendant from the chain. We handpicked each of these unique pearls from thousands of premium freshwater baroque pearls to find the handful of pearls that were colorful and large enough to be used in this design. This gorgeous showcase pearl is prized for its extraordinary shape and size, strikingly rare color, metallic luster, and rare surface orient. This statement gem has an unparalleled natural body color that exhibits an unbelievably stunning surface orient that casts a rainbow of metallic aubergine, rose, copper and green overtones. The pearl is around 20mm in length, which is extremely large for a real pearl. Each pearl is so rare that no two are alike, making this the perfect piece for the woman never wants to spot another wearing “her” necklace.
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A HinsonGayle signature design.
The perfect station necklace, this attention-stealing piece is composed of gorgeous free-form baroque pearls and finished with a rare giant metallic multicolor baroque pearl.
925 sterling silver box chain is approx 35″ in length. Can be worn as a single or double layer.
The quintessential stress-free gift; HinsonGayle’s presentation will impress.
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Aaron Rodgers Letterman Video: Watch Rodgers’ Appearance on Tonight Show
We’ve got the Aaron Rodgers Letterman video for you today, after the Super Bowl MVP made an appearance on The Late Show the day after making an appearance in a victory parade at Walt Disney World.
It’s been a wild ride for Rodgers this postseason, as the Packers quarterback announced his arrival into the realm of the NFL’s elite passers. With Green Bay’s 31-25 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Super Bowl Sunday, Rodgers became an instant celebrity and began making the rounds.
Rodgers and Dave talked about the quarterback’s struggles getting to a Division I college, after getting no scholarship offers out of high school.
“I played baseball my senior year of high school,” Rodgers said, “So I thought about doing that, or maybe joining the military.”
Instead, he opted to head to Butte Community College, which of course prompted Letterman to make the obligatory, “So you were playing with grown men and criminals, right?” joke.
He talked about injured cornerback Charles Woodson, one of Green Bay’s defensive stalwarts, and how he was able to pick the veteran’s morale up after he suffered a broken collarbone on Sunday.
The quarterback exhibited the same kind of poise under pressure that he’d shown in Dallas on Sunday, fielding questions and quips from the venerable host with a casual, laid-back demeanor. He flashed his sense of humor, talking about how guys still didn’t know the plays in the huddle, and how Mike McCarthy likes to call plays that work more than once.
In the end, Rodgers managed to get the job done again, delivering another strong performance on the big stage.
American Model Michelle Baker the Yoga Woman
Michele Baker is certainly the woman who will make men get down on their knee and beg. Michelle Baker is not just a model and a yoga instructor. She is also a Cubs fan. Well, she perhaps only knows a little about baseball, but surely she can put down draft beer and a Chicago dog. She had moved to Florida, by the way.
Michelle has been adopting yoga over the past 6 years to help her stayed in shape. She finds that yoga is not just about how to have a nice body, yoga delivers happiness, balance and peace to her life. That is the main reason why she teaches yoga. By teaching yoga, Michelle can share that joy and happiness with others.
Some of Michelle Baker works:
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- FHM Norway Miss January Centerfold 2011
- TransWorld Surf Miss October 2010
- Elan Catalog Spring 2011
- North America & Canada Swimsuit Calendar 2011 shot by Playboy Photographer Ric Moore
- MET-RX Magazine Cover Summer 2010
- MET-RX print editorial, web media, and calendar 2010-2011
- MET-RX print editorial, web media, and calendar 2010-2011
- It’s Better in the Bahamas travel tv segment, commercial, print and web media 2010
- Bikini Destinations TV Series on HD-Net 2010
- Playboy.com
- American Curves Magazine January 2011
- American Curves Magazine May 2010
- American Curves Beach Babes Cover 2009
- American Curves Magazine October 2009
Madam Cj Walker | United States Online News
Madam Cj Walker, Madam CJ Walker was born December 23, 1867, as Sarah Breedlove. She was born in Delta, Louisiana, to Owen and Minerva Breedlove. His parents were freed slaves. There was a yellow fever outbreak that has killed many people in Los Angeles. When Sarah was 6, she was an orphan. She moved with her sister and Louvinia she resided in Vicksburg, LA.
His sister, like many black women of that time was a domestic worker. They were very poor and there were just not great opportunities available in Vicksburg.
Sarah married a man named Moses McWilliams at the age of 14. She gave birth to a daughter named Leila. When Sarah turns 20, she was a widow. Rumor has it that her husband was lynched Moses. After years of struggle, Sarah decided to move to St. Louis and worked as a laundress. Sarah could not read or write. She was extremely proud of her daughter’s education in St. Louis. It was something was not able to grow in Louisiana.
Sarah was facing the loss of hair when she reached her late thirties. It found that products on the market for black women destroyed hair. She began experimenting with various products at home and mixes a product that regrew her hair. She bottled and sold its new formula to the family and friends. Demand for its products increased. Sarah began going door-to-door selling her product for the hair.
(WALA) – Sarah Breedlove, born in 1867 to former slaves in Louisiana, became a laborer with no education in one of the most successful in history, women self-made entrepreneurs.
Newly widowed, working for and 1.50 per day, Breedlove was able to save enough money to send her only daughter in public school. After forming friendships with other black women, some members of the National Association of women of color, her vision of the world changed significantly.
Breedlove began to suffer from a disease of the scalp in the 1890s. The evil he lost most of her hair. After experimenting with home remedies, even some made by another black woman entrepreneur, Annie Malone.
After remarriage, she changed her name to Madame CJ Walker, and created its own product for the hair, “Mrs. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower ‘. She sold the scalp conditioning, healing form her own company she founded in Denver.
Walker said that the formula was revealed to her in a dream. To promote her product, she traveled door to door for a year and a half throughout the South. Churches and the boxes were the perfect place for her to demonstrate her scalp treatment.
Always think about marketing strategies and sales, she moved her base to Pittsburgh and opened Lelia College to train “Hair Culturist Walker.
Finally, it built a factory in the center of the nation’s largest manufacturing, Indianapolis. It has also built a hair salon and manicure and another training school in Indianapolis.
Soon, Walker has expanded its activities in New York, Central America and the Caribbean.
When she died, she sealed her place in history as the first woman of any race, becoming a millionaire. It was truly a businesswoman self-made American, and pioneer of modern black hair care and cosmetics industry.
“There is no royal road to success flowered, … And if there is, I did not find fault if I have accomplished in life, because I was ready to work hard. ” – Madam CJ Walker
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