Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
CELEBRITY GOSSIPER IS QUITE THE PERVERT
From the NY POST:
February 28, 2008 -- MARIO Lavandeira - better known as online gossip "Perez Hilton" - encouraged a handsome young blogger to send sex tapes of himself while he was making promises of promotion for the blogger's own fledgling Web site.
Jonathan Jaxson - a former publicist and founder of gossip site JJ's Dirt - told Page Six he sent Lavandeira sexually explicit videos of himself with the hope of Lavandeira's help, which never materialized.
"He would tell me he would give me stories for my blog," Jaxson, 24, said of Lavandeira, 29. "He used me."
We've obtained pages of lengthy AOL Instant-Messenger chats between Jaxson and "Perez Hilton," who has risen to fame with his Web site, where he doodles on photos of celebrities accompanied by scathing insults.
The New York Times ran a gushing puff piece on "Perez" Tuesday, reporting he gets 2.8 million visitors a month and is in talks with Warner Music for his own label because he has such a great ear for new music.
In an exchange from Sept. 1, 2007, Lavandeira told Jaxson, "you should totally make a sex tape . . . (but not with me)." Jaxson wrote back, "I will have to make one on here for you tomorrow and e-mail it to you." Lavandeira responded, "Hot! Do it now!"
The next afternoon, Lavandeira asked Jaxson, "When are you sending me that video you promised?" Jaxson responded, "If you do a phone blog with me for my blog . . . as if I am cold calling you in attempt to get advice for my blog. You can be totally rude. I don't want others to know we talk."
The next day, Lavandeira asked again, "Where is that video?"
Jaxson told Page Six he sent Lavandeira videos of himself masturbating and other forms of "sex videos," but said he only met Lavandeira in person three times - once in Florida and twice in New York.
"I fell in love with Perez. I thought he had a huge heart . . . but he's just a [bleep]hole," Jaxson told us. "We started working together and communicating on how to make my blog bigger. Then it got more personal and intimate."
Lavendeira had no comment.
Prince Harry Battling Taliban on Front Lines in Afghanistan
From Foxnews.com:
LONDON — Prince Harry has been serving on the front line in Afghanistan with the British Army, the Ministry of Defense said Thursday.
Officials said the prince was still deployed in the country.
Harry, who is third in line to the throne, has been in Afghanistan since December. The deployment was not reported due to an agreement between the Ministry of Defense and news organizations, including The Associated Press.
The story was leaked by an Australian magazine and a German newspaper.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
SIMON COWELL ON HILLARY CLINTON
“I think she’s struggling with the likeability. I genuinely think she should cry more. That’s what happened before. She cried, she won.”
- Simon Cowell on Hillary Clinton to TV's Extra
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
$100 MILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST DATELINE NBC
A New York judge has refused to throw out a $100 million lawsuit brought by the family of a man who committed suicide after police, accompanied by a camera crew from "Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator," showed up at his house to arrest him.
The lawsuit, brought by the sister of former Kaufman County, Tex. Districy Attorney Louis "Bill" Contradt Jr., alleges that NBC and police acted with deliberate indifference to Contradt and that cops had a duty to protect him. She says, "Apparently unable to face the humiliation of the public spectacle that faced him, Conradt took his own life."
Cops say Conradt solicited sex from a decoy online posing as a 13-year-old boy as part of a sting operation conducted jointly by "Dateline NBC" and the internet watch dog group Perverted Justice.
Amanda Leith, a lawyer for NBC Universal, had no comment on the ruling. The company previously called the lawsuit "completely without merit."
Bruce Baron, the lawyer for Patricia Contradt, tells TMZ, "This decision sends a strong message to law enforcement officials throughout our country, that you may not subcontract your uniform, badge, and the oath you take."
TWIN BROTHERS, TOGETHER IN PORN, TOGETHER IN ROBBERY
Taleon and Keyontyli Goffney, 25 years old, were arrested Wednesday in South Philadelphia for a series of burglaries.
And if those faces look familiar, it's because they are.
The twins are also gay porn stars!!!
According to reports from NBC 10 News in Philadephia, Taleon and Keyontyli got into a Rite Aid by cutting a hole in the roof and climbing down from a rope. They got away with money and several goods.
The twins are also thought to be involved in at least 35 other burglaries throughout the tri-state area of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Police are also reporting the twins broke into a beauty supply store, again by cutting a hole in the roof. The owner, Young Moon, said "Just over there, they made the hole right here. Took money from the register, and change, too. He left only pennies." The burglars emptied out the cash register and ATM machine.
But the fun doesn't stop there. Once they robbed the beauty supply store, the twins went back up through the roof and then broke into the Wings and More Store right next door. Again they stole money from the cash register and ATM machine.
Luckily while the twins were in the process of robbing the store, the alarm went off, and police nearby were able to arrive and arrest them.
Both storeowners are said to have lost thousands of dollars due to the break-ins.
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TEACHER'S AIDE QUITS AFTER HOSTING SEX AND DRUG PARTY FOR STUDENTS
From the Post Gazette.com:
A special-education aide at Highlands Senior High School resigned under pressure yesterday and faces possible drug and corruption of minors charges for a hotel party involving high school teenagers.
New Kensington police said they found suspected crack cocaine, empty beer cans and used condoms in a room that Abbiejane Swogger, 34, of Harrison, shared with minors Thursday night at New Kensington's Clarion Hotel. The room contained drug paraphernalia and a marijuana odor when officers arrived just before noon on Friday to follow up on reports of missing teens, said Detective Dennis Marsili.
Abbiejane SwoggerInvestigators questioned Ms. Swogger at the New Kensington police station Friday afternoon, but did not arrest her. Charges could be filed as soon as today, Detective Marsili said.
He said police would consult with the Westmoreland County district attorney's office about whether there's a basis for charges of possession of controlled substances and corruption of minors against Ms. Swogger, and whether any charges should be filed against others involved.
Ms. Swogger was in the hotel lobby when police from New Kensington, Harrison and Tarentum arrived, Detective Marsili said. Two female juveniles from Harrison and Tarentum whose relatives had contacted police after they failed to come home Thursday night were in the room, along with three males.
The police investigation did not factor into action taken against Ms. Swogger yesterday morning by Highlands School District officials, according to Superintendent Karol Galcik. She said Ms. Swogger failed to report for work, without explanation, either Thursday or Friday. A letter was sent to her Friday about her conduct, Dr. Galcik said, advising her to meet with administrative representatives yesterday.
"She did not follow proper procedures in not showing up for work," the superintendent said after yesterday's meeting. "We said that she had a choice to either resign or we would be taking this to the school board [for possible dismissal], and she chose to resign at that time."
The one-time exotic dancer worked since September for the school district at a job paying minimum wage or slightly above. At the time Ms. Swogger was hired, the school district had no drug-testing policy for employees at her level, Dr. Galcik said. The school board later expanded its policy to require such testing in January for new employees, she said.
Ms. Swogger says she rented a hotel room to socialize and drink beer with adult acquaintances, but teenage friends of her son showed up and refused to leave. She maintained yesterday that she knew nothing about drugs in the room and did not give the teens any beer.
"I think if they drank, I would have known about it," she said, adding that she unsuccessfully urged the two girls to leave.
Ms. Swogger also said she did not have sex with any of the young people present. They may have had sex with one another, she said, but did so "discreetly."
She said she was upset to lose her job providing one-on-one personal-needs assistance for a disabled student: "I loved it. I loved the little girl I worked with."
She said she relied on her school income along with child support payments and Social Security checks sent to her on behalf of one of her two sons, whose father died. Her older son, a 10th-grader at Highlands Senior High School, was distraught about the attention her case has received and will transfer to a cyber school, she said.
Friday, February 22, 2008
MOM GOES ON "STRIKE" FROM UNRULY TEEN BOYS
From My Fox Orlando:OCALA, Fla. (AP) --
Police say an Ocala mother is facing charges after telling investigators she was -- quote -- "on strike" from taking care of her four boys.
She is out of jail on bond.
According to an Ocala Police Department report, Melissa G. Dean told investigators that she was leaving her children alone in her home because she wanted them to quit fighting with each other and to clean up.
According to the report, Dean told investigators that she had lost control of her children and could not get any help from the police or the court system. She's been charged with child neglect.
On Wednesday FOX 35 sent a reporter and photographer to the family's home for a story. When they got there Dean’s sons walked up to the news car when they pulled up and started swearing, and yelling out racial slurs three times the kids came back at the news crew. After the first time, the FOX 35 news crew called 911. The four kids then surrounded the FOX 35 news photographer. One of the kids stood behind him with a pipe in his hand while another kid threatened to hit him.
When police showed up they talked to some of the kids, who had scattered then took a report. A woman with the Department of Children and Families also showed up. We’re told the boys are staying with neighbors. No word on where the mother is after bonding out of jail.
30 Fired After Cockroach Scurries Across TV News Set
From the Guardian.com:
For the viewers of Turkmenistan's popular nightly news programme, Vatan, it was another routine bulletin. But as the newsreader began the 9pm broadcast, viewers across the central Asian country spotted something unusual crawling across the studio table: a large brown cockroach.
The cockroach managed to complete a whole lap of the desk, apparently undetected, before disappearing. The programme, complete with cockroach, was repeated at 11pm that night.
It was only at 9am the following day that horrified officials from Turkmenistan's ministry of culture discovered the cockroach's guest appearance. And that, perhaps, should have been the end of the matter, the mildly entertaining footage being consigned to the occasional airing by the Turkmenistan equivalent of Denis Norden on a telly bloopers show.
But the consequences of this particular cockroach's impromptu five minutes of fame were immediate and severe.
The country's president, Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, took news of the insect so badly that he responded by firing no fewer than 30 workers from the main state TV channel, the news website Kronika Turkmenistan reported yesterday.
Before the cockroach debacle, Berdymukhamedov had instructed Turkmenistan's minister of culture, Gulmurat Muradov, to revamp the country's Soviet-era TV channel. However, a new ministerial supervisory committee founded to carry out this task only worked 9am to 6pm - allowing the cockroach to make its audacious run undetected.
Berdymukhamedov became leader of the oil-rich former Soviet republic in December 2006,following the sudden death of Turkmenistan's longstanding and flamboyantly authoritarian ruler Saparmurat Niyazov, who also had run-ins with state TV executives. Several executives were sacked after drunken technicians failed to screen the new year's address to the nation by Niyazov.
They eventually managed to get the bulletin on air at 3am.
Those sacked in the cockroach debacle included journalists, directors, camera operators, and technical staff, the website reported. Yesterday nobody from the Turkmen embassy in Moscow was available for comment.
Berdymukhamedov has been credited with improving relations with the west, and embarking at home on a series of mild liberal reforms.
He has announced the opening of internet cafes in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan's capital, and reintroduced foreign languages to the school curriculum.
Last March the president restored pensions to more than 100,000 elderly citizens and in January he reversed another of his predecessor's more bizarre bans - on opera and ballet performances.
"Our flourishing nation should not stand separate from the world," Berdymukhamedov told state-run television. He added: "It absolutely should have a worthy operatic theatre and a worthy state theatre." The first opera would be performed in six or seven months, he suggested.
Berdymukhamedov has moved to end Turkmenistan's isolation from the rest of the world in other ways too. He has overseen attempts to attract larger numbers of foreign tourists to Turkmenistan, including the building of a multibillion pound tourist resort on the Caspian Sea. The president has also dropped in on Washington.
Berdymukhamedov's apparent dislike of cockroaches may have something to do with his previous career as a dentist. He graduated from Turkmenistan's state medical institute in 1979, completing a PhD in medical sciences in Moscow, and working as a dentist from 1980 to 1995. In December 1997 he was appointed minister for health.
· 4,500 cockroach species have been classified, but there are thought to be at least twice as many species yet to be discovered around the world
· Despite the belief cockroaches would be the only survivors of nuclear war, being 15 times more resistant to radiation than humans, other insects such as fruit flies can survive even higher doses
· A cockroach will live after decapitation for several weeks before starving to death; the severed head survives several hours
· The world's largest species is the wingless Australian rhinoceros (Macropanesthia rhinoceros), weighing up to 33.5 gms and up to 90 mm in length
Friday, January 11, 2008
SEPARATED TWINS ACCIDENTALLY MARRY EACH OTHER
From Cnn.com:
LONDON, England (CNN) -- British twins who had been separated at birth learned they were related only after they had become husband and wife, a senior British lawmaker said. The marriage has been annulled.
The couple's identities have been protected for legal reasons.
Their case was first highlighted by Lord Alton of Liverpool during a discussion on donor conception in the House of Lords in December, but only came to light Friday.
The peer told the House of Lords that a court annulled the union as soon as the twins' true relationship became known.
"They were never told that they were twins," he said during the Dec. 10 debate on a law covering human fertility and embryology. They had been adopted by separate families and "met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation."
No further details about the couple have emerged, and it is not known when the marriage took place or how long they were together before they discovered the truth.
Adoption groups said Friday the case proves the need for openness and transparency during the adoption process.
Mo O'Reilly, director of child placement for the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, said released a statement saying: "Thirty or 40 years ago it would have been more likely that twins be separated and brought up without knowledge of each other."
However, she said, greater emphasis in recent years on ensuring adopted siblings stay in touch meant this "traumatic" case will remain "incredibly rare."
Daisy O'Clee, a spokeswoman for the agency, said that of more current concern is the lack of legislation surrounding fertility treatment.
Under British law the parents of a donor-conceived child do not have to declare that fact on the child's birth certificate, O'Clee told CNN. This means a child conceived with a donor sperm or egg may never know their true origin.
Lawmakers will vote Tuesday on whether to pass a law covering human fertility and embryology that would relax the rules on who can have fertility treatment.
O'Clee warned that in its present form the proposal does little to address the rights of donor-conceived children.
"The rights of donor children are being ignored," she said.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
10-YEAR OLD BOY GLUES HIMSELF TO BED TO AVOID GOING TO SCHOOL
From Foxnews.com:
A 10-year-old boy thought he had discovered a novel way of getting off school — glueing his hand to the bed.
Diego Palacios had so much fun over the Christmas holiday he was in no rush to get back to lessons.
He had to be freed by emergency services in Monterrey, northern Mexico, after his master plan went wrong.
His mother, Sandra, spent nearly two hours trying to free his right hand with water, oil and nail polish remover, but to no avail.
"I didn't want to go to school because vacation was so much fun," the youngster explained.
He told how he sneaked into the kitchen in the early hours and then covered his hand with industrial-strength adhesive.
His mother woke up to find him watching TV with his hand stuck to the bed.
"I don't know why he did it," she said. "He's a good boy but mischievous — like all kids."
His hand was freed by paramedics — just in time for school.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Kneeboarder Finds Lost Nose Ring Inside Fish Boyfriend Caught
From Foxnews.com:
IT is a tale some would say smells a bit fishy, but Kristy Brittain swears it is true.
Last Friday she was kneeboarding behind a boat off Slopen Main on the Tasman Peninsula, east of Hobart, when she was tossed from her board in rough conditions.
In the fall she lost a nose stud from a piercing she had done only a week before Christmas.
Brittain, 25, of Magra, never expected to see the tiny stud again.
Enter a hungry flathead.
You guessed it, the stud turned up in a fish caught by her fiance, Darren Triffett, when fishing with his friend Tim Hall three days later.
Triffett and Hall were in roughly the same area where the stud was lost on Monday. When filleting one flathead they found a tiny nail-like object inside.
"They thought it was a little tack or nail," Brittain said. "I was standing near them talking to them and realized it was the nose stud I had lost in the ocean."
"How could it have ended in the fish? I suppose it would have sparkled and they (flathead) eat pretty much anything.
"But you think how many fish are in the sea . . . and to catch this one."
It's no surprise Brittain regards the stud as lucky. And it won't be lost again.
"I have put it in a sachet so I don't lose it again," she said."I will go and buy a Tattslotto ticket and put this on it."
MC Hammer Hoping for Comeback as Internet Titan
From Foxnews.com:
SAN FRANCISCO — MC Hammer hasn't topped the music charts since the early 1990s, but the former rap star says he has another hit in him — only this time around he'll produce it as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
Hammer, whose real name is Stanley Burrell, is choreographing a new career as co-founder and chief strategy officer of Menlo Park-based DanceJam.com.
The Web site, scheduled to debut in mid-January, will try to upstage YouTube and become the Internet's hub for sharing and watching dance videos.
DanceJam then hopes to make money by grabbing a piece of the rapidly growing Internet advertising market, which is expected to rake in $27.5 billion in 2008, according to eMarketer.
If the business pans out, DanceJam could help Hammer compensate for losing his fortune when he went bankrupt in 1996 with nearly $14 million in debts.
The bankruptcy was a sobering comedown for Hammer, who parlayed the popularity of his once-ubiquitous song, "U Can't Touch This," to become a pop icon in the early 1990s.
Although Hammer isn't churning out best-selling records any longer, everyone still seems to know his name. Even children born after his downfall are familiar with his music because "U Can't Touch This" still gets played in TV shows and movies.
But Hammer's involvement in DanceJam has more to do with his technological savvy than his celebrity, said Ron Conway, a longtime Silicon Valley investor who is part of a small group that provided DanceJam with $1 million in startup funds.
"I expect him to integrate all his knowledge into this Web site," said Conway, who befriended Hammer at a baseball game seven years ago and has been tutoring him in the ways of technology ever since. "He is the lightning rod for this whole thing."
Hammer, 45, started poking around Silicon Valley while he was still selling millions of records. He often hung out at computer makers like Silicon Graphics Inc. and Apple Inc., hoping to learn more about how technology might help his music career.
"There is no high-tech lingo or business strategy that you can talk that is above my head," Hammer boasted during an interview. "I breathe this stuff."
Hammer's entrepreneurial roots date back to the 1980s when he began recording songs with financial help from a few Oakland Athletics, where he once worked as a ball boy. His nickname came from his resemblance to the former home run king, Hammerin' Hank Aaron.
Without the support of a major music label, Hammer built a loyal fan base by hitting the streets and selling his early recordings out of a car.
His success in grass roots marketing prompted Salesforce.com Inc. to call on Hammer for advice in its early days. The company wanted to raise awareness about its online software service without paying a lot for traditional advertising, said Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com's chief executive officer.
"We really learned a lot from Hammer. He is the most entrepreneurial individual I have ever met," said Benioff, whose San Francisco-based company is now worth $7 billion.
Hammer and his DanceJam partners — Geoffrey Arone, the chief executive, and Anthony Young, the chief technology officer — are wading into a market already saturated with dozens of Web sites that have built huge video libraries.
Arone became convinced the Web needed a site devoted exclusively to dance shortly after he left Web browsing startup Flock, which he had co-founded.
Hammer had been feeling the same way about dance for years so they quickly hit it off when they first met and hammered out the concept for DanceJam.
Drawing upon the popularity of reality shows like "Dancing With The Stars," DanceJam will stage head-to-head competitions where contestants submit videos that will be judged by viewers.
The site also will provide demonstrations and information about a wide variety of dances, ranging from the Boogaloo to the Krump.
Arone, Hammer and Young have spent several months videotaping people around the country dancing. They say they have stockpiled about 100 gigabytes of video to help launch DanceJam.
James McQuivey, a media analyst with Forrester Research, doubts that will be enough to lure people away from Google Inc.'s YouTube, which listed 1.7 million dance videos in its index as of late December.
"When people are looking for any video, whether it be about skateboarding, dancing or a science project, they don't stop to think about where's the best place to find it. They just start off by going to YouTube," McQuivey said.
The most watched video in YouTube's 2 1/2-year history happens to be about dancing. The 6-minute clip, a facetious tribute called "Evolution of Dance," includes about 25 seconds alluding to some of the moves that Hammer made famous back when he was still wearing colorful parachute pants as he sang "U Can't Touch This."
Hammer recognized YouTube's potential before most people he did. Besides putting some of his own clips on the site, Hammer visited YouTube's offices in February 2006 when there were still just a handful of people running the site above a pizza parlor. (A clip of that visit is at http://www.youtube.com/blog?month=2&year=2006.)
Until he saw what YouTube was doing, Hammer had doubts about the Web's entertainment value.
"When everybody started raving about the Internet, I always wondered, 'If it's so great, why can't you see my videos on the Internet?'" Hammer said. "It looks like technology has finally caught up with my vision."
Officer Accused of Paying Hooker with Wife's Clothes, Shoes
From myfoxaustin.com:
AUSTIN -- An Austin Police Officer is accused of hiring a prostitute and paying her with his wife's clothing and shoes, according to a search warrant.
The search warrant shows 45-year-old Scott Lando used his wife's new pair of boots, jeans and shirt to pay the prostitute for her services. The warrant also shows Lando also took the prostitute on shopping trips to Wal-Mart and Payless ShoeSource, and to dinner at Threadgill's on North Lamar on one occasion.
APD first heard about Lando's possible involvement with prostitution in June of 2006 during the arrest of a different prostitute, according to the warrant. While that prostitute was making her sworn statement to police about her own case, she mentioned to investigators that Officer Lando had been engaging in "tricks" with another hooker. Officers were able to find that prostitute in the Burnet County jail and questioned her about Officer Lando.
The warrant shows the prostitute confirmed from June to September of 2006, she had engaged in sexual acts with Lando for money or clothing. The prostitute also told police her first sexual encounter with Lando happened in an Austin Police patrol car in North Austin.
The prostitute told investigators on her last encounter with Lando in August of 2006, Lando took her to his home in Cedar Park, the warrant says. The prostitute told investigators Lando asked her to take a bath before having sex with her. Instead of money, Lando allowed the prostitute to take some clothes from his wife's closet after telling the woman that his wife would never miss them. The warrant shows that the prostitute took a new pair of black Harley Davidson leather boots still in their box, studded and jeweled jeans, and a pink and yellow top.
Investigators confirmed the prostitute's story after issuing the search warrant for Lando's Cedar Park home and tattoos. Investigators concluded that the prostitute's description of the home and tattoos were accurate, and could only be described by someone who had seen them. During a visit to the home last month, Lando's wife also confirmed she was missing a new pair of Harley Davidson boots and jeans, had assumed that a neighborhood kid had taken them.
Lando has not been charged with a crime, he is still under He has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the ongoing investigation.
According to archived versions of former APD Cheif Stan Knee's newsletter 'The Shield,' Lando received the Distinguished Service Cross for Valor in 2004. Lando was honored after being shot at by a suspect. Lando fired a shot back at the suspect then continued the pursuit on foot.
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