The car explosion in Thailand

 In Thailand, police received a signal about an abandoned car in the city center, in which a bomb. The area immediately cordoned off and started to work engineer. However, as soon as he approached the car to defuse it, there was an explosion. The man was thrown to the ground. Thanks to the protective suit he practically did not suffer.

Lottery millionaire's selfless gesture

n Ohio man who needs kidney dialysis to stay alive won $5 million in the lottery--but says he plans on giving part of his windfall away.

"I'm going to help people because I love it. It makes me feel good, and I think that's what God put us here for," Phillip Withem of Logan said Tuesday, right after accepting the mega-check from the Ohio Lottery.

In 2006, Withem paid $20 for an instant lottery ticket, and won $2,500. Then he won a second-round draw, featuring 86 entrants, called the Top Prized Drawing, which gave him his big payday.

Withem said he planned to donate some of the haul to children's charities, and to friends who helped him during his illness.

Before he got sick, Withem worked part-time cleaning and maintaining the Hocking County Courthouse.



"The people at the courthouse were really nice to me when I got sick," Withem said. "I really appreciate that."

Withem, who needs to undergo dialysis three times a week, said he'll also use the money to make his life comfortable.

"No more disability," he said. "But I don't think I need it."

He also has his sense of humor to help him get by. Asked whether he had any children, Withem replied: "I have no kids that I know of. But I'm sure I'll have them coming out of the woodwork now."
Source : Yahoo

Report: Friends say Rep. Weiner to resign

Rep. Anthony Weiner has informed friends that he's stepping down from Congress, the New York Times reported Thursday morning.
Multiple news outlets report that Weiner will publicly announce his decision at a press conference Thursday. NBC reported just  before the news broke that Weiner's staff members appeared to be packing up Weiner's office this morning. NBC's Alex Moe reports that two staff members and two interns left the office with their belongings, turned off the lights and locked the door.

Weiner's move was widely expected in the face of increasing pressure from colleagues as well as the public amid a growing scandal over the New York Democrat's lewd online communications with multiple women.
Weiner had previously indicated that he wished to speak with his pregnant wife Huma Abedin before deciding on his political future. Abedin returned to Washington yesterday following a trip to Africa with her boss Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
House Democrats today were scheduled to meet to discuss potential next steps to punish the New York congressman, including possibly stripping him of his committee assignments (he currently sits on the powerful House Energy and Commerce as well as the Judiciary committee), and expelling him from the Democratic caucus.
The scandal, which first broke three weeks ago continued to deepen this week.
Just yesterday, porn star Ginger Lee held a press conference to announce that the congressman had asked her to lie about their online communications. "I think that Anthony Weiner should resign because he lied to the public and the press for more than a week," Lee said.
Weiner was asked about his Twitter communications with Lee back when the scandal broke, telling CNN's Wolf Blitzer that Lee probably received "pro-forma"  messages from his account and that was all.
Lee claims Weiner sent her specific messages about his "package."
Lee hired celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred to make her case to a national audience and multiple news outlets report that an Atlanta strip club was already using the scandal to promote her appearance at their venue Wednesday night.
Source : Yahoo news

Rexburg Snake House

Rexburg Snake House

Rexburg snake house- The residence near Rexburg, Idaho, now known locally as "The Snake House," is shown. The five-bedroom house on a nearly 2-acre lot in the eastern Idaho countryside seemed like a steal at $178,500. But it wasn't long before Ben and Amber Session realized the dream home they had purchased for their growing family was their worst nightmare: It was infested with hundreds upon hundreds of garter snakes.

Pakistan CIA Informants

Pakistan CIA Informants- (AFP) – Pakistan's top spy agency has arrested five Pakistani informants who assisted the CIA ahead of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.The men arrested reportedly include a Pakistani Army major said to have copied the license plate of cars that drove up to bin Laden's compound in the military town of Abbottabad, two hours from the capital Islamabad.

The Pakistani military denied that any army officer had been detained over what it called the "Abbottabad incident"."The story is false and totally baseless," it said in a statement. A Pakistani security official earlier told AFP that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency had no immediate comment on the report.
US officials told the newspaper that Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta raised the fate of the CIA informants during talks with Pakistani military and intelligence officers in Pakistan last week.
At a closed briefing last week, the CIA deputy director rated Pakistan's counterterrorism cooperation with the United States as three out of 10, officials told the newspaper.
Relations between Pakistan and the United States, wary at the best of times, deteriorated sharply over the bin Laden raid on May 2, which humiliated the Pakistani military and invited allegations of incompetence and complicity.
As US President Barack Obama seeks to bring an end to the war in Pakistan's neighbor Afghanistan, US and Pakistani officials have sought to play down any unease between them.
Source: Yahoo

Lindsay Lohan

 Lindsay Lohan was already an experienced performer when she made her feature debut in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap.

Born in New York City, Lohan began modeling at age three. After appearing in numerous TV commercials, Lohan moved to series TV with a role on the soap operaAnother World from 1996 to 1997. Cast as The Parent Trap's scheming twin sisters after a six month search for just the right girl, Lohan succeeded in filling Hayley Mills' shoes, winning over audiences with her pert charm as both the Californian Hallie and the British-raised Annie. She subsequently starred in the Disney TV film Life-Size (2000). Subsequently cast in actress Bette Midler's short-lived sitcom Bette, Lohan took a turn as a teenage gossip columnist (Get a Clue[2002]) before turning up in yet another remake of a Disney classic, Freaky Friday (2003). Stepping into the shoes formerly filled by Jodie Foster, Lohan and co-star Jamie Lee Curtis brought a winning, new chemistry to the film that made it a sleeper summer hit.

Lohan kicked off 2004 with her first big starring vehicle, the comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. Met with mixed reviews and modest box-office receipts, the film didn't cross over from the teen audience the way Friday did. Only a mere two months later, Lohan proved she could carry a film. The Tina Fey-penned Mean Girls debuted at number one, recouping its budget and then some in its first week of release. The spotlight on the then-16-year-old Lohan changed almost overnight, as she quickly became a tabloid fixture: speculation on her body, her nightclubbing, her string of high-profile boyfriends, her incarcerated father, and her feuds with a variety of other young female celebrities became inescapable. Perhaps predictably, 2004 also saw Lohan branch out into the world of pop music with the album Speak; the supposedly confessional -- and similarly undistinguished -- A Little More Personal followed in 2005.

All of the hullabaloo seemed to have little effect on her work, as she starred in Herbie: Fully Loaded for Disney -- suffering a bout of "exhaustion" on set -- before graduating to more adult fare with Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion. Playing a morose poetess, the young actress ably held her own against Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin when the film opened in 2006; around that time, her first shot at a "grown-up" romantic comedy, Just My Luck, opened to little notice from the public or critics.

Undaunted, Lohan set to work on another grande-dame comedy, Georgia Rule, in which she played a wayward, risk-taking teenage girl who is hauled off to live with her stern grandmother (Jane Fonda) for the summer. Perhaps fittingly, Lohan's own tardy behavior on the Georgia Rule set prompted a very public memo from the film's backers, who claimed her late-night partying was endangering the shoot; a short stay in rehab followed in early 2007. For all the publicity generated by Lohan's wild-child routine, Georgia Rule tanked when it opened in May of that year, although many critics preferred Lohan's performance over those of her histrionic co-stars Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman. The actress' R-rated summer blitz continued with the thriller I Know Who Killed Me, just as her work in the widely panned Mark David Chapman biopic Chapter 27 made the festival rounds. This trifecta of flops was complemented by an increasingly erratic public image, as she found herself involved in two DUI arrests within two months' time that same summer. Both prompted stays in rehab, as well as mammoth media attention.

Cannes 2011

 Another title that will compete at the 64th Cannes Film Festival is Michael, an upcoming Austrian drama film directed by Markus Schleinzer.

Just in case you’re not familiar with Schleinzer’s work, don’t worry, because this movie is the first feature he’s directed, and it is a first-time competitor for the Palme.

Reportedly based on the real-life story of a 10-year-old Austrian girl who was kidnapped and held prisoner for eight years by a man she called “Master”, this movie describes the last five months of 10-year-old Wolfgang and 35-year-old Michael’s involuntary life together. Unfortunately, we currently know too little about the film, and as you see just these two photos from the movie as well.

Director Schleinzer is responsible for the script as well, and the movie stars Michael Fuith as Michael and David Rauchenberger as Wolfgang, while the rest of the cast includes Christine Kain, Ursula Strauss, Viktor Tremmel and Gisela Salcher.

justin bieber selena gomez

 Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez went to Menchie's in Encino together - with a bodyguard in tow - last week for some de-lish frozen yogurt.

A source at the scene tells us that on the way out, Selena was ahead of Justin and "she reached back for his hand and pulled him out of the store. They were laughing and having a great time together."

Rachel maddow beck

 In a sequel to is "Restoring Honor" rally that took place in Washington last year, media personality Glenn Beck is planning to hold a "Restoring Courage" rally in Jerusalem, Israel. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is not pleased.

Maddow's beef apparently stems from the belief that Beck's presence in the Middle East will somehow upset the carefully crafted maneuvers that President Barack Obama has made to bring peace to that troubled region.

"'What American export can be less helpful to the Middle East than that?' she asked.

"'Whatever your own politics around Israel and the Palestinians, everybody can agree that this moment in the Middle East is even more delicate than usual,' Maddow said. "It is time for deliberate calm, for a light touch.'"

One wonders what Maddow thinks that Beck means to do in Israel. Bring about Armageddon? Unlikely,

"Last summer we set out to Restore Honor in Washington, DC. This summer it is time to Restore Courage. Taking a stand is not always easy, but now more than ever it is imperative that we live with conviction and do the right thing. It is time for us to courageously stand with Israel.

"I invite you to join me in Israel this summer to stand together and show the world what living a life of faith and honor really means. I invite you to join me in my quest to Restore Courage."

It seems somewhat less dire than Maddow's obvious fear that Beck wants to jump start the End Times. A hundred or so thousand people, probably mostly evangelical Christians and Orthodox Jews rallying in favor of courage and faith and no doubt clean living isn't the sort of thing to be alarmed about. Of course the local Muslim terrorists will be upset about it. But if it's not one thing, it'll be something else.

Glenn Beck may be a real life, latter day version of Howard Beal, the Mad Prophet of the Airwaves, but he is at least entertaining and occasionally wise. Besides, one commodity that the Middle East has in abundance is mad prophets. One might say that it is the birthplace of mad prophecy. One more is not going to make a difference.

jennifer aniston dog

 They say all dogs go to heaven.

Jennifer Aniston, a well-known dog-lover in Hollywood, lost her beloved pooch, Norman. Her rep confirms to Us Weekly that the Corgi-terrier mix passed away "a few weeks ago."

When promoting her 2008 canine-centric film Marley and Me, Aniston, 42, told The Sun: "Men come and go but there really is no relationship like the one you have with a dog - and then they don't live as long as they should."

She added: "You have to say goodbye way too soon. It's just so sad. It makes me so sad. But their love is unconditional and I love that."Aniston has another dog, a white German Shepherd mix named Dolly.

Dougie rapper killed

Dougie Rapper killed

M-Bone Killed

Rapper M-Bone of the group Cali Swag District died Sunday night in what police said was a drive-by shooting in his hometown, Inglewood, California.M-Bone, whose real name was Montae Talbert, was sitting in a car in the 400 block of North LaBrea Avenue when a car pulled up next to his and someone fired two rounds that struck the rapper in his head, Inglewood Police Lt. Steve Overly said Monday.
Talbert, 22, died later at a hospital, Overly said.
Preliminary reports on the model of car that was involved have not been confirmed, he said.
Cali Swag District's biggest hip hop hit came in 2010 with the song "Teach Me How to Dougie."

Source: cnn

jill scott 50 pounds

 On the cover and in the pages, Jill Scott flaunts her 50-pound-lighter frame photographed in a captivating shoot by Steven Gomillion and Dennis Leupold. Meanwhile, the Grammy Award-winner’s first CD and video in four years hits the airwaves. EBONY contributor Dream Hampton sits down with Scott, who opens up about the knock-down, drag-out battle with her former fiancé, her move from Hidden Beach Records and her 2-year-old son.

Danielle staub real housewives

 As previously announced, Danielle Staub is officially gone -- but not forgotten -- from "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" after two seriously drama-packed seasons.

"I'm way too good for this," Staub, 48, tells Us. "They have used me about as much as I can be used."

Since the moment the Garden State version of the franchise debuted last year, Staub clashed with the four other housewives, despite an initial friendship with Jacqueline Laurita.

"I think it's time for me to move on and upward," says Staub. "I don't see any interest for me to be attacked like that."

"I mean, what's left for To kill me? Bravo seems to be glorifying their behavior. And I think it's almost like telling children to behave poorly at school, 'It's OK.' "

"I want my own show," she tells Us.

"I want to be me now," Staub continues. "Not me according to other people. Me ... A spin-off is absolutely, positively where I'm going."

A spin-off, she says, would allow "my kids to be seen for the wonderful children that they are. I want to be shown as a mother, an artist, a supporter of my charities and the foundations that I'm passionate about. I want to use my platform to speak about the things that I love in my life."

What about the future of "RHONJ" post-Danielle? "The bottom line is, they need me, I don't need them," she says. "They don't talk about anything but me. I don't talk about them, at all. I talk about me too!"

She adds: "I have no need for them in my life. They have a great need for me to make the show successful. I made it successful."

One topic her spin-off might cover: her continued search for her birth mother. "I did not give [this] to Bravo because I felt like there was no fair portrayal of me and my family ... to share with people who didn't even want to portray me as a human being."

"So that will be shared," Staub says. "I will do a breaking story on that when it does come out and it will be a part of my spin-off."

Life these days? "Life is fantastic!" she tells Us. "I am far too busy to be around things that don't make me feel good and people that don't make me feel good."

How i met your mother

Created by former Late Show with David Letterman writers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, the 30-minute CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother was, per its title, related entirely in flashback, from the vantage point of 2030. 

The hero, Ted (his "old" voice provided by Bob Saget) was endeavoring to regale his children with the stories of how he wooed and won his wife and their mother. The main action took place in "the present," after the twentysomething Ted (played in flashback by Josh Radnor) decided to... Read more take upon himself a bride after the unexpected engagement of his friend Marshall (Jason Segel) to the lovely Lily (Alyson Hannigan). Ted had his sights set on a girl named Robin (Cobie Smulders), but there was no guarantee that she would ultimately be the "mother" of the title, not as long as Mike allowed himself to be immersed in the what-the-hell lifestyle of the early 21st century. Providing snide sidelines comments (and most of the laughs) was Ted's know-it-all best pal, Barney (Neil Patrick Harris). How I Met Your Mother premiered on September 19, 2005.

Donald Trump 2012 Bows Out

Trump bows out of 2012 presidential race

 Out of the presidential race before he was officially in it, the celebrity real estate mogul announced Monday he would not seek the 2012 Republican nomination. He could have won the White House, he said, but instead will continue to steer his business empire and remain host of his reality show "Celebrity Apprentice." 

The announcement, ending a colorful and attention-grabbing chapter in the unfolding GOP nominating race, surprised some strategists who said Trump had been assembling a campaign team and had been expected to announce his candidacy soon. This spring, Trump had gained considerable attention by stirring renewed controversy over President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth, leading the White House to persuade the state to release a copy of Obama's long-form birth certificate after two years of dismissing the issue.

Trump revealed his decision Monday at a meeting of advertising executives who had come to learn about NBC's fall television lineup. The network had been pressing him for a decision, fearing the loss of millions of dollars in ad revenue if "Celebrity Apprentice" didn't return next year.

"I will not be running for president as much as I'd like to," Trump said to cheers from the audience.

His office also released a formal statement, in which Trump said he felt confident he could have won both the Republican nomination and a general election showdown with Obama.

"Ultimately, however, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector," Trump said.

The Republican race lacks a clear front-runner.

Among the top hopefuls are former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The GOP is still waiting to hear whether Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin or Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann will get in the race. Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and 2008 presidential contender, announced Saturday he would not be a candidate this time.

While Trump's consideration of a run was dismissed as a stunt some Republican pundits and lawmakers, several polls showed him at or near the top of the field both nationally and in early voting states. John McLaughlin, a pollster who would have served as the campaign's senior strategist, said he met with Trump last Thursday to finalize plans for a May 25 announcement, three days after the "Celebrity Apprentice" finale."There was a path for him to win. If he got in and showed he was serious, his vote would have doubled and tripled again," McLaughlin said. "His message had resonance because he was the most anti-Obama candidate or potential candidate of the bunch."

However, not all the interest he stirred was positive: In a recent Associated Press-GfK poll, he was the only potential GOP candidate to receive a 50 percent unfavorable rating by Republicans.

read more:  fox11online

The first ever parachute jump from a balloon

October 22, 1797, 14 years after the sky was first raised by a balloon, the famous balloonist Andre Jacques Garnerin a historic first jump with a parachute from an aircraft (not a tower or roof).

Garner, rising to a height of 680 meters above the Parc Monceau Paris together with his brother, at some point ordered to cut the rope holding the gondola under the canvas-covered 8-meter umbrella.

And then, clutching the handle of "umbrella", went into free fall, accompanied by thousands of admiring glances of the crowd.
This art, he taught his niece Eliza Garner, which made its first jump from the balloon 8 April 1814 and entered history as the first female parachutist

Frenchmen Jacques Garner and friends on the prisoner attempted to use a parachute, in practice, while in captivity at the Austrians. Garner was caught during cooking, but my friends made from a sheet, a kind of parachute and descended on it from the wall of the fortress, broke his leg and was caught.Later Garnerin became the first successful parachute tester.

Parachute Andre Jacques Garnerin represents a design of white silk, in the form of an umbrella with a diameter of about 8 meters. The parachute attached to a balloon balloon and parachute sling was attached to a basket

Parachute landing was carried out Garnerenom October 22, 1797 in Paris with the 1,000-meter height. After rising to km altitude, Garner cut the rope connecting the parachute to the balloon, balloon with hydrogen disappeared into the clouds and Garnerin gradually sank into a basket under the canopy, in front of a delighted the French public.This chute was not opening and the average fluctuated from side to side.

Garnerin subsequently upgraded the parachute, making a hole at the top, and put in a closed canopy horizontal wheel of light bars, suspended by 3 / 4 of its vertices so that was slightly opened the bottom edge of the parachute, which facilitated its dehiscence. Since the parachute design remains virtually unchanged.This type of parachute is the closest to the modern, the most widespread type of umbrella.Subsequently Garnerin with his brother, in order to earn money, made a record jump from high altitudes around the world, including in 1802 in England, was made the record jump from a height of 2,440 m. In 1803, a similar jump has been demonstrated in Russia .

Eliza Garner, niece of Jacques Garner, in 1922 became the first female parachutist. Her first parachute jump from a balloon was performed under the guidance of her uncle, 8 April 1814.Twenty-eighth jump Eliza has also been significant. In 1821, Eliza became the first woman carried out the parachute jump from a balloon over the sea.Driving, she continued to float through life-belt, made specifically for this purpose by her father.All she has made about 60 parachute jumps, each of which was successful.Together with Garnerenom, Eliza made leaps in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

In the XIX century. became very popular jumping with a parachute from a balloon.Prior to that, the first living creatures spustivshimsya similar way to the balloon, were pets.In 1791 the aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard rose over the Varna and dropped by parachute dog.Seeing the result, in 1793 he ventured to make the jump.The attempt was not entirely successful - aeronaut broke his leg.

Container For Food Sunch Lunch Box - Proper Nutrition Is Always And Everywhere

 Who among us would not want to enjoy not only delicious, but also a "proper" lunch at work or school? However, just cook a favorite dish is not enough, still have to somehow pack it and then carry around. As a result, it is limited to a couple of sandwiches in a hurry. New container for the transport of food Sunch Lunch Box will enjoy a gourmet favorite dish in full during the lunch break.

 An impromptu picnic in the park at lunch time? Unzip the sides, expand the details of the "lunch box" and arrange a stable tray on his lap. Fixing band of a small table between them, ensuring that your salad will not fall down into the grass on the sides put forward leg. It remains to extract a plate and enjoy lunch. Bon Appetit!

 Lunch-box - a good thing. It may look different: as a sandwich or a cardboard box. But very often it looks like a child and not always convenient for a neat meal. The design of this "lunch box" from a designer Soo Kang Lee designed as a small zippered bag with handle, looks still quite presentable.

So, in the set: one large container for the main dish, four mini-container for salads or sauces, a glass with a handy lid that serves as an exploded version of the stand.

The invasion of algae in China

Bono received emergency back surgery

Bono, the lead singer of U2, has received emergency back surgery after an injury sustained during tour preparation training, his band’s Web site reports.

The American Red Cross

“He was admitted to a specialist neuro surgery unit in a Munich hospital, and is under the care of neurosurgeon Prof. Dr. Jorg Tonn and Dr. Muller Wohlfahrt. Bono will spend the next few days there, before returning home to recuperate,” the statement reads.

U2’s 360 tour launch, scheduled for June 3 in Salt Lake City, has been postponed, the Salt Lake Tribune has confirmed. According to the report, fans who had tickets to that concert at Rice-Ecles Stadium should hold on to their tickets until updates on Bono’s health and the band’s touring status have been released.

U2’s tour is scheduled to stop at Spartan Stadium on June 30 with Interpol opening. LiveNation Detroit promoters said all they know thus far is the information about the Salt Lake City show.

Google celebrates Pac-Man's 30th anniversary and destroys productivity around the world

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, Google has created the first-ever interactive and playable doodle, or custom home page logo. Seen here is a screenshot of the game, as it is being played on the Google home page.
(Credit: Google)

Saturday is the 30th anniversary of the release of Pac-Man, and to commemorate the occasion, Google is rolling out its first-ever truly interactive and playable home page logo, a fully-functional version of the iconic 1980s video game.

For years, Google has produced its so-called doodles for all kinds of holidays and special occasions, from Valentine's Day to the Fourth of July to Mother's Day and many others. In each case, the Google Doodle team works on a special logo that appears on the search engine's home page.

But a few months ago, when the team discovered that May 22 would be the 30th anniversary of the release of Pac-Man in Japan--it was actually called Puck Man, but that name was rejected in the United States because of the propensity of the "P" to chip and look like an "F"--they knew they had to do something extra special.

"When we became aware of the...anniversary," said Ryan Germick, a member of the Google Doodle team, "we thought it would be awesome to create not only something that references Pac-Man on the home page, but also something playable."

Until now, the most interactive of the logos had been one last Halloween that users could click to see more candy, and another for Isaac Newton's birthday that dropped apples. But for the Pac-Man celebration (see video below), Google has pulled out all the stops and has built, from scratch, a fully-playable version of the game, complete with 255 levels and re-created (but authentic) sounds and graphics. And unlike most of the special logos, which disappear off the home page--but are available in perpetuity in the archives--when the day is over, the Pac-Man doodle will stay up for 48 hours.

According to Germick, the company worked with Pac-Man's publisher, Namco Bandai, to make the project as realistic as possible. Yet the Google team, with the inspirational lead of Marcin Wichary, a Google senior user experience designer, built their version of the game from the ground up using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

"We are very excited about the Google doodle project," Namco Bandai President and CEO Kenji Hisatsune told CNET by e-mail. "With this being the first time Google has ever included sound or made a doodle playable demonstrates just how big of an impact Pac-Man has made. "

And in the end, Wichary made a "picture-perfect" version of the game, Germick said. Except for one thing, of course. Being a Google home page logo, it had to have the word "Google" in its design, so Wichary, Germick and their colleagues built their version of Pac-Man so that it had the search engine's name in the middle of the iconic board.