National Enquirer Follows Former Senator

Former presidential candidate John Edwards has been linked by The National Enquirer to a woman it alleges is his mistress.
The tabloid reported that Edwards, 54, of North Carolina, met with a woman named Rielle Hunter at the Beverly Hilton in California on Monday night, July 21.
Edwards is married to Elizabeth Edwards, who is battling breast cancer.

Previous studies have linked ageing to a lower chance of fatherhood Scientists say they have found more evidence that men as well as women have biological clocks and that they start to tick in their mid-30s. A French study of over 12,200 couples having fertility treatment suggests the chance of a successful pregnancy falls when the man is aged over 35. It adds that the chance is significantly lower if he is over 40. Previous studies have shown that both natural and assisted conception is more difficult if the man is over 40. The researchers told a European reproductive health conference that it was likely the problems were caused by DNA damage in sperm. Miscarriage risk The researchers studied couples who had sought treatment for infertility at the Eylau Centre for Assisted Reproduction in Paris between January 2002 and December 2006. All were given intrauterine inseminations (IUI), also known as artificial insemination, where sperm is inserted into the w**** when the woman is ovulating. It is given to couples where the woman has no fertility problems and is less invasive than IVF. The men's sperm were examined for quantity, their ability to move and swim and their size and shape. Rates of pregnancy, miscarriage and births were recorded. In addition, the researchers analysed detailed data on the pregnancies, which allowed them to pinpoint factors associated with the man and the woman. As expected, maternal age had an effect in women over 35, who had a significantly higher chance of miscarriage and lower rate of pregnancy. But the team also found that, where the father was in his late 30s, miscarriages were more common than if the man was younger. And if a man was over 40, the chances of a successful pregnancy were even lower. For those couples, a third of pregnancies ended in miscarriage and only 10% of treatments resulted in pregnancies. 'Growing evidence' Dr Stephanie Belloc, who presented the work to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) conference in Barcelona, said: "This research has important implications for couples wanting to start a family." She said such couples should be offered IVF (where an egg is fertilised in a lab dish), and where the outer membrane of the egg seems to block sperm with DNA damage, and ICSI (where a sperm is injected directly into an egg), where the best sperm can be selected for use. "These methods, although not in themselves a guarantee of success, may help couples where the man is older to achieve a pregnancy more quickly, and also reduce the risk of miscarriage," she added. Dr Alan Pacey, a fertility expert at Sheffield University and secretary of the British Fertility Society, said: "There is growing evidence from a number of studies to show that men are not totally immune from reproductive ageing. "Previous studies of couples trying to conceive naturally or undergoing IVF have shown that men over the age of about 40 are less fertile than younger men. Moreover, if they do achieve a pregnancy their partners are more likely to miscarry. "This study reinforces the message that men aren't excused from reproductive ageing."

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CLAY COUNTY, FL -- Two mothers are accused of using their children to help them shoplift almost $700 worth of clothes from a Kohl's department store in Fleming Island.

Deputies say 30-year-old Alicia Metcalf and 22-year-old Melinda Blankenship were spotted removing clothes from hangers and then putting the items under their children who were sitting in shopping carts.

The moms are accused of leaving the store without paying for any of the clothes.

Deputies say they also found stolen clothes inside a diaper bag inside the mothers' car.

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A BRITISH mum accused of suffocating her newborn son after giving birth on a Greek island holiday pleaded with doctors yesterday: I just want to hold my baby.

Leah Andrew, 20 facing 20 years jail if convicted is under suicide watch in a Crete hospital after being found with the 5lb 8oz tots body in a towel in her hotel room.

Medical centre chief Christos Melas, who has spoken to the single mum of two at length, said last night:

She told me three times, I want to hold my baby.

 

 

I really dont know if she thinks the babys alive or dead.

She said her child was 27 weeks and was stillborn although there appears to be medical evidence to the contrary.

She is very shocked and distressed and finding her strange situation in a foreign hospital very disturbing.

We have a male and female guard with her all the time to make sure she doesnt act on her depression.

 

 

Leah, who has sons aged three and 15 months, was accused of murder and quizzed for an hour by a prosecutor yesterday.

She is likely to face magistrates today to decide if they will press ahead with a murder charge.

She is expected to deny the charge.

The Sun told yesterday how Leah was discovered with the dead tot early on Monday by her sister Lydia, 24, and a pal.

She was bleeding heavily and needed a transfusion.

Hours earlier, Leah had felt ill on a night out and gone back to their shared room in the Natalie Hotel in the resort of Malia.

When Lydia returned, she ran screaming to reception.

 

Coroner Manolis Michalodimitrakis said the newborn boy had bruises all over his face and nails.

He added: He was not sick or malformed at birth and had begun to breathe.

Leah was taken to hospital in the capital Heraklion.

Cops say neither Lydia nor her hols pals Sherene Olusesi, Krystal Donaldson and Leanne Archer-Brown knew she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant.

Last night Leahs parents Isaac and Pamela were caring for their grandsons at the familys £350,000 home in Hither Green, South East London.

Binman Mr Andrew, 54, said: None of us had any idea my daughter was having a child. That was a shock in itself.

Sagging Pants Outlawed In Flint, Michigan
July 22nd, 2008 | Author: Slava Kuperstein

"I've been sagging since the fourth grade," says 28-year-old Jayson Miguel of his pants. "I'll be sagging when I'm old and gray."

A common fashion choice with the youth for many years now, sagging pants are now being outlawed by Flint, Michigan's new police chief David Dicks. According to Newsweek, Dicks has ordered police to start arresting "saggers," threatening them with jail time and fines for a fad he calls "immoral self expression." He also told a local paper the style could give officers probable cause to search saggers.

The questionable practice has already drawn harsh criticism from many, some of whom are calling the practice downright illegal. The local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is among the critics, and have given Dicks an ultimatum: stop the policy or face legal action. The ACLU says that Dicks is violating citizens' freedom of expression and taking the law into his own hands.

In fact, sagging pants exposing boxer shorts doesn't even constitute a violation of the city's conduct policy, they say - a person must have "open exposure" of the "genitals, pubic area [or] buttocks" to be considered disorderly. "Under no stretch of the imagination does wearing saggy pants that reveal the top of one's boxer shorts violate the Flint disorderly conduct ordinance," says attorney Greg Gibbs, president of the Flint chapter of the ACLU. "This man has basically taken his personal dislike of a style of dress and made it a violation of criminal law."

"I think it's an opportunity to hara**, to be honest," says Miguel, a resident of Flint. Last week, a Flint police officer called into the radio station to say officers were using the policy to profile minorities. Dicks is an African-American.

A MODEL pupil aged 12 was found hanged from a tree by horrified family friends.

Joe Richardson went missing on Monday evening after telling his mum Soffia Rawsterne he was off to play in nearby woods.

Soffia, 43, was helped in her search by pals, who found him dangling by a nylon rope from a swing in Up Holland, Lancs.

Distraught Soffia said last night: Joe was friendly, popular and much loved.

She and Joes stepdad John, 39, were struggling to come to terms with his death.

Up Holland High School head Peter Doyle said: Joe was quiet, bright and articulate.

He had many friends and we had no concerns for him.

But a police source revealed the lads family had said he had been unhappy recently.

He added: They think this is probably related to something in school or the possibility Joe was being bullied.

MORGAN Pound, nine, hanged himself trying to swing from a beam at home in Penryn, Cornwall, a Truro inquest heard. Verdict: Open.

JULY 17--Porn star Janine Lindemulder is facing a federal criminal rap for failing to pay about $80,000 in income taxes, according to court records. Lindemulder, 39, was named last month in a misdemeanor information accusing her of stiffing the Internal Revenue Service for taxes due on $350,101 of income in 2004. The charging document, a copy of which you'll find below, was filed June 18 in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Oregon. Lindenmulder, who was previously married to motorcycle fabricator (and "Monster Garage" host) Jesse James, was charged under the name Janine Marie James (though the Lindemulder surname was included as her a/k/a). Lindemulder was arraigned Monday on the federal count and released without bail after entering a not guilty plea. She is scheduled for a September 16 trial before a magistrate judge. Lindemulder, who moved from Oregon to Huntington Beach, California, is one of the porn industry's most recognizable figures. Along with starring in hundreds of adult films, Lindemulder has appeared in Howard Stern's movie "Private Parts" and has dated Motley Crue singer Vince Neil, with whom she appears in a homemade sex tape widely available on the Internet. Lindemulder did not respond to a voice mail message left on her home phone. (2 pages)

Maybe they should have called it The Really Dark Knight.

Batman star Christian Bale has been arrested in London after turning himself in to a police station to undergo questioning on allegations that he assaulted his mother and sister.

The incident allegedly took place in the box-office champ's Dorchester Hotel room in London on Sunday, the day before the blockbuster film's European premiere.

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson told E! News that Bale as yet faces "no charges, all we are saying at the moment is that a 34-year-old male attended a central London police station this morning, by appointment, and was arrested in connection with an allegation of assault.

"He currently remains in custody."

It's unclear what exactly went down, but the Welsh-born Bale's 61-year-old mother, Jenny, and 40-year-old sister, Sharon, reportedly went to a Hampshire police station to make the allegation. The local cops subsequently turned the case over to London's Metropolitan Police.

Per standard Scotland Yard procedure, suspects are not named until formally charged, but the age and allegation match up with the Bale reports.

Although his family lodged the charges prior to Monday night's premiere, police waited until today to question Bale to allow the event to go on without headline-grabbing interruption.

Like his first appearance at Reggae Sumfest in 2005, R&B sensation Akon got a reception of deafening screams and overwhelming energy from patrons inside the Catherine Hall Entertainment Complex in Montego Bay, St James on Friday night.

The Senegalese-born singer opened with his disc jockey, Benny D, spinning dancehall and hip-hop hits, much to the delight of patrons.

In addition to singing hits including Smack That, Ghetto, Trouble Nobody and Locked Up, the entertainer did a striptease that saw him throwing t-shirts into the crowd.

This gesture, he told the crowd, was open to "the ladies only". Akon, who took time from his Canadian tour for Reggae Sumfest, also invited Jamaica's Tami Chynn on stage for their hit collaboration Frozen.

He also demanded to go 'to his people'. He jumped off the stage, made his way through the VIP area with the help of security officers - stepping on patrons in the process - and over the fence that separated the rest of the patrons.

Friday night's show also included headline acts like 26-year-old R&B singer Keyshia Cole, Queen Ifrica, Jah Cure, who was performing in Montego Bay for the first time in eight years, and the conscious Richie Spice.

Cole's back-up singers and dancers did more to engage the patrons. Queen Ifrica was in her full element as she lit up the venue with her social commentaries and witty lyrics.

There were also noteworthy acts from the electrifying LUST, Terry Linen, who impressed the crowd with his vocal styling and message-filled songs, Lutan Fyah, Pressure and Courtney John.

From her repertoire of hits, Queen Ifrica treated an appreciative audience to Brown Skin,Randy, Sensimina and Below the Waist. There was a heartfelt moment during her duo with Choc'late Allen from Trinidad and Tobago titled Friends.

"You can change the laws of man, but you caan change the laws of God - nuh bring it to Jamaica, keep it to yuself," sang Ifrica, as she debuted her new song that challenged homosexuality.

The Rastafarian daughter ended her set with Daddy Don't Touch Me There.

Richie Spice, who was the closing act, displayed maturity as he delivered songs like The Plane Land, Earth A Run Red, What Is This, and Groovin' My Girl.

-- Edited by alligcold at 00:16, 2008-07-23

Although incarcerated, Miller sent a letter to THE STAR via courier service which denied and questioned the initial reports.

Earlier this month, the police had reported that Miller could possibly be charged with possession of a contraband after a cellphone was alleged to have been removed from inside his body. In addition, the police in a release also claimed that a cellular charger and Vaseline was also found.

However in Miller's letter to THE STAR he claims that the whole scenario is a 'lie'.

The incarcerated Miller says that the report was "published to damage my name and to lead the public to question my sexual preference."

Miller then goes on to list six parts of the police reports which he says are lies. He writes;

Lie No 1

The police person who fed the false story to THE STAR obviously thought I was being held in the section of the Horizon Remand Centre where the police could enter and investigate crimes. Wrong! I was being held in the section of the prison controlled by the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) where the police would not be able to conduct any search!

Lie No 2

On Tuesday July 8, 2008 after leaving the Half-Way Tree Resident Magistrate's Court, I was told about this front-page story. No phone was found anywhere on my body. The story is ridiculous from start to finish and anyone with a little sense could see from the front-page headlines and picture that what was reported was impossible.

Lie No 3

On Monday July14 about 10:30 a.m., the leader of the search party who had searched my cell about 7:00 and 8:30 p.m. on Sunday July 6, 2008, ... (name removed) of the JDF, told my lawyer, in my presence that the story that Vaseline was found in my cell was not true.

Lie No 4

... also told my lawyer, in my presence, that it was also not true that he had found a cellphone charger in my cell.

Lie No 5

No cellphone or landline rang in my body. No telephone rang anywhere during the search by the soldiers, so that was something that the police dreamed about since no police was anywhere nearby.

In fact who was that 'absent policeman' who performed the medical procedure of removing the cellphone as the news report said? Was that police or (soldier) medically trained to perform operations on inmates bodies. This is ridiculous! Unlike the person who is spreading these rumours I do not think of the opposite of sex, just a man to a woman or a woman to a man.

Hacking MySpace: Mods and Customizations to make MySpace Your Space (ExtremeTech) by John Pospisil
Publisher: Wiley (August 28, 2006) | ISBN: 0470045841 | PDF | 40 Mb | 408 pages

There are over 90 million profiles on MySpace. How do you make yours stand out? You use these programming tricks and techniques to tweak the look, feel, and content of your profile. You get the inside scoop on hot design and photography. You maximize the effects of HTML and CSS. And, if you happen to be a musician, you check out Chapter 30 to see how MySpace can launch your career. It's all in here. What are you waiting for? Make it all about you.
Complete code and instructions for these and more MySpace hacks:
Embedding graphics
Creating animated images
Developing your own background
Building custom cursors
Changing profile text styles
Getting kinky with links
Adding a comments box
Altering your contact table
Redesigning the navigation bar
Making DIV overlays

Many US cities have begun placing fines and penalties on individuals caught in public wearing saggy pants.

Village leaders in south Chicagos suburb, Lynwood, have already approved an ordinance levying fines up to $25 against people showing at least three inches or more of their underwear, according to the Associated Press.

The law has received acclaim from Lynwoods mayor, Eugene Williams, who claims half-dressed young men had previously kept the area from growing as major retailers and economic developers were swayed away.

According to Newsweek, a similar law has sprouted in Flint, Michigan as new police chief David Dicks has given approval to begin arresting saggers in addition to threatening them with jail time and fines. He has been quoted calling the popular urban style immoral self expression although the look has been around for decades.

Ive been sagging since the fourth grade, Flint resident Jayson Miguel told Newsweek. Ill be sagging when Im old and gray.

As of today, Dicks has only issued warnings, but has promised anyone wearing their pants below their underwear violates the citys disorderly conduct code and will be punished by 93 days to a year in jail or a fine up to $500.

The local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has begun taking matters in to their own hands telling the top cop he may either stop the policy or face a court battle. Attorney and president of ACLU Greg Gibbs felt the new law is simply based on personal dislikes of Dicks.

Under no stretch of the imagination does wearing saggy pants that reveal the top of ones boxer shorts violate the Flint disorderly conduct ordinance, Gibbs said. This man has basically taken his own dislikes of a style of dress and made it a violation of criminal law.

In addition to the legal battle Dicks may face from Gibbs, the chief could also have an uphill racial fight as a Flint police officer called into a local radio station last week claiming officers were previously using the policy to profile minorities.

Four years after Janet Jacksons right breast found itself freed before an audience of millions during a Super Bowl halftime show, the court room drama that ensued as a result, is finally over.

According to E!, a federal appeals court threw out the $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. heavily lead by watchdog group the Parents Television Council.

During the 2004 performance with Justin Timberlake, Janets boob with a star shaped pasty covering her nipple -- was flashed to 90 million viewers as Justin sang, Gonna have you naked by the end of this song."

He later famously referred to the incident as a wardrobe malfunction, but the FCC didnt buy it and hit the network and its affiliates with the huge fine.

A three-judge panel overturned the fine though, saying the FCC had overreacted and ignored its 30-year practice of only fining for indecent programming that is "pervasive as to amount to 'shock treatment' for the audience."

The Parents Television Council is infuriated by the decision.

"While we are not surprised that the legal venue hand-picked by CBS would rule in favor of the network, the court's opinion goes beyond judicial activism; it borders on judicial stupidity, said Tim Winter, president of the PTC. "If a striptease during the Super Bowl in front of 90 million people including millions of childrendoesnt fit the parameters of broadcast indecency, then what does?"

No immediate comment from the FCC, CBS, Jackson or Timberlake was available.

Jones, who pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful wounding, appeared before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday. He is accused of using a knife to stab his sister because she was "lacking in manners".

"Your honour, every day she coming to my house and don't even have the courtesy to say 'good morning' or 'good evening'," the accused said. He further continued: "One day I see her come there and do the same thing, so I tell har fi come out a mi house and then I saw her with a knife, so I went to take it from her and she got cut," said Jones.

When Resident Magistrate Glen Brown asked the complainant for her report on the matter, she told the court: "From last October, your honour, we have not been on speaking terms and I try to avoid him every way. He is the one who does not respond when I say 'good morning' or 'good evening'."

The complainant went on to say that she normally goes to the house to visit the accused man's wife because she just had a baby. "One particular morning, he attacked me, saying I must come out of his house because I have no manners and I went outside in my car ... . He followed me, I had a knife in my hand that I was using to clean something in my car. He grabbed the knife and stabbed me in the leg and scraped my chin."

In response, RM Glen Brown addressed the matter by simply asking Jones to reconcile with his sister, "You find a way to talk back to your sister before I sentence you, okay? You should be wearing the dress, you are behaving like a girl, following up argument."

He is scheduled to reappear in court on August 8.

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 Darry Waters

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- An ex-convict from Tennessee was shot and killed Sunday night after stealing a police cruiser, ramming other police cars before pulling a "Rambo-like" knife on officers, police said on Monday.
The incident happened about 10 p.m. at Hilltop Village Apartments on West 45th Street, where police were still on site investigating a stabbing that occurred 12 hours earlier.
Darry Edward Waters, 38, who was released from a Tennessee prison in February after serving time for either second-degree murder or manslaughter, died at the scene, according to Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Chief Rick Graham. Graham said the incident began when an officer responded to a call about someone stealing a bicycle. When police approached a man witnesses identified as a suspect, the man took off running. The responding officer pursued him on foot.
"The suspect runs around the building, goes back to the officer's car ... jumps into the marked patrol car and speeds off," Graham said.
The officer radioed for help and was quickly backed up by three other officers already at the apartment complex investigating the earlier stabbing. Police said the man drove the patrol car through the apartment complex parking lot and crashed into the other patrol cars, pinning one officer inside his car.
"The suspect jumps out, has a very large knife in his hand, engages one of our officer in close-quarter physical altercation, trying to stab the officer," Graham said.

Graham said that's when two officers opened fire and fatally shot Waters. He died at the scene.
"It's a miracle we don't have officers hurt badly," Graham said. "The officer definitely perceived a threat and did what he did in the defense of his own life."
Three JSO officers were taken to Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center. Two were treated and released, but Officer D.D. Purcell, injured when Waters rammed his cruiser, remains in Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
All three officers will remain on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated, which is standard practice for the sheriff's office.
Graham said he believes the incident was related to the stabbing near the apartment complex about 10:30 a.m. Sunday. That victim, Daryll Alexander, 33, was stabbed several times and remained hospitalized Monday in critical condition.
Graham said Waters had been living with relatives in Jacksonville for the past couple of months.
Just before 8 a.m. Monday, tow trucks took three heavily damaged police cars from the scene.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Crimestoppers at 866-845-TIPS. You can remain anonymous and could be eligible for a cash reward.

ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- Police are investigating more smash-and-grab burglaries, but what happened to a car dealership on Wells Road over the weekend is beyond anything Clay County deputies have seen.
Thieves cut through the chain on the entrance gates of Mike Shad Nissan sometime between 11 p.m. Saturday and 7 a.m. Sunday, threw a brick through the front door and entered the showroom, deputies said.
According to the incident report, the storage cabinets and desks were ransacked. Several sets of keys were missing.
Four cars worth about $78,000 were stolen, along with a GPS navigation system, two digital cameras and several temporary dealer license tags.
The Nissan vehicles stolen were two 2008 four-door Sentras, a 2009 four-door Maxima and a 2007 four-door Versa.
Investigators said one of the Sentras was driven away through the glass doors and panels of the showroom, leaving behind shattered glass and bent metal frames.
The Clay County Sheriff's Office said they have put out alerts for the vehicles with surrounding agencies and said they aggressively investigating the case.

Two foreigners who were arrested for allegedly selling pirated DVDs will be appearing in court tomorrow.

The men who were charged for breaches of the Copyright Act will be in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.

The police report that the men, who are brothers from Ghana, were held during police operations in downtown Kingston and Bull Bay, St Andrew.

Arrested and charged are 26-year-old Rufie Abukar and 36-year-old Allsane Abukar.

Policemen attached to the Organised Crime Investigation Division reportedly arrested the younger brother on Orange Street in downtown Kingston, after he was allegedly caught selling more than 300 pirated DVDs. Subsequent investigations led the police to a premises in Bull Bay where the other brother was arrested for other breaches in the Copyright Act. A number of computers fitted with DVD recorders and more than 2,500 pirated DVDs were reportedly seized at the premises.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) A feared police commander known as "Rambo," who led a commando-style team accused of multiple killings across Jamaica, retired Saturday and said he plans to pursue an acting career.

Reneto Adams, considered effective but ruthless as commander of an elite, anti-crime unit, is a media sensation in this Caribbean nation who rarely appears in public without his signature aviator sunglasses, helmet and black c****at gear.

Jamaicans often ask for his autograph, and local musicians have compared him in song to Rambo, Saddam Hussein and Dirty Harry. He made his TV debut this year in the soap opera "Royal Palm Estate," a love-and-intrigue-story based in Jamaica.

Adams announced his retirement after 41 years with the department, saying he has turned 59 years old the mandatory retirement age for Jamaican police.

At a news conference Saturday, Adams expressed some regret for a 2001 shootout involving his squad that left an estimated 28 people dead in the capital's Tivoli Gardens neighborhood.

"The criminal elements have always tried to make this community hostile to the police," he told reporters. "So for that, I am eternally sorry and in sorrow for the circumstances that took place."

The Crime Management Unit that Adams headed was created in 2000 to c****at rising violence in Kingston. A local rights group, Families Against State Terrorism, has linked his team to at least 40 extrajudicial killings. It was disbanded in 2003.

Adams was permanently relegated to desk duties in 2004 because of a raid the year before in which four people were killed, although he and five squad members were later cleared in the deaths.

The day after his acquittal, he released a dancehall song called "Serve and Protect," in which he warned criminals that he was returning to the streets. He also accused rights groups of "trying to stop me from doing my job while hoodlums continue to destroy the only livelihood we have."

He said Saturday that he will focus on acting and plans an autobiography.

Hong Kong's English newspaper The South China Morning Post reported Friday that Chinese authorities have issued a secret ban on blacks, Mongolians and other "social undesirables" from Beijing's bars during the Olympics.

As the content on South China Morning Post's site is for subscribers only, here is an excerpt of the article c/o the Beijing drinking blog Beijing Boyce:

Beijing authorities are secretly planning to ban black people and others it considers social undesirables from entering the city's bars during the Olympic Games, a move that would contradict the official slogan, "One World, One Dream".

Bar owners near the Workers' Stadium in central Beijing say they have been forced by Public Security Bureau officials to sign pledges agreeing not to let black people enter their premises....

Security officials are targeting Sanlitun, which Olympic organisers expect to be a key destination for foreign tourists looking for a party during the Games.

The pledges that Sanlitun bar owners had been instructed to sign agreed to stop a variety of activities in their establishments, including dancing and serving customers with black skin, they said.

China's preeminent English-language media analysis site Danwei didn't lend credence to the SMCP report, calling the high-level ban "unlikely." However Jeremy Goldkorn writes on Danwei that "it is highly plausible that some low level cops have issued such instructions, especially with the current state of high alert in Beijing making officials and government agencies paranoid and very nervous about foreigners."

Further investigation by Beijing Boyce, who interviewed Beijing bar owners on the alleged ban, found that low-level Beijing cops have been visiting the capital city's watering holes and warning owners and employees to keep their eye on black patrons. According to an update Saturday on Beijing Boyce:

An owner said police met with Sanlitun bar reps and told them to monitor black patrons. He said the police told the reps that drug dealers are predominantly black in the area. He said the police did not ask bar owners to ban blacks.

A Florida police officer has been fired after threatening to take his time to respond to emergencies if he didn't get free coffee.

Lt. Major Garvin, a 15-year veteran of the Daytona Beach Police, told workers at a local Starbucks he would respond slowly to future emergency call-outs if he didn't get his free drinks.

Garvin would apparently go to the Starbucks up to six times in a night and spend up to an hour at a time there.

In one exchange between Starbucks manager Angie Cato and Garvin, the lieutenant said: "I've been coming here for years and I've been getting whatever I want and I'm the difference between you getting a two-minute response time - if you needed a little help - or a 15-minute response time."

Garvin emphatically denied the accusations but failed a lie-detector test he volunteered to take.

"There is nothing in my past that comes close to the accusations brought against me," Garvin said in a letter he sent to police. "I challenge the veracity of the accuser."

Deputy Police Chief Steve Beres said: "The behavior described in this investigation and Lieutenant Garvin's response is disappointing and embarra**ing."

Dancehall superstar Bounty Killer was arrested early this morning at Reggae Sumfest being held in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

In a performance that started off very upbeat and was initially warmly received in front of the estimated 19,000 in attendance the mood changed dramatically as Bounty was booed when he began to disparage fellow artists Ninja Man and Beenie Man. With both unkind and, daresay, juvenile commentary that included physical threats, sexually charged comments and a slew of obsenities Bounty served to dampen the mood of what was proving to be a full but engaging lineup in front of a packed audience and large international media presence.

After Bounty's performance the MC made an announcement that the police were closely monitoring all performances and those in violation of the laws would be arrested.

Beenie Man who closed the show made light of Bounty's indiscretions (saying he should be forgiven) and played a set that left the capacity crowd streaming out at minutes after 6am fully satisfied with what proved, on the balance, to be an excellent night of terrific music.

-- Edited by Dj blazer at 23:30, 2008-07-21

LOS ANGELES (AP) Batman has sent Spidey packing as king of Hollywood's box-office superheroes.

"The Dark Knight" took in a record $155.34 million in its first weekend, topping the previous best of $151.1 million for "Spider-Man 3" in May 2007 and pacing Hollywood to its biggest weekend ever, according to studio estimates Sunday.

"We knew it would be big, but we never expected to dominate the marketplace like we did," said Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros., which released "The Dark Knight." The movie should shoot past the $200 million mark by the end of the week, he said.

Hollywood set an overall revenue record of $253 million for a three-day weekend, beating the $218.4 million haul over the weekend of July 7, 2006, according to box-office tracker Media By Numbers.

"This weekend is such a juggernaut," said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for Universal, whose musical "Mamma Mia!" debuted at No. 2 with $27.6 million.

Factoring in higher admission prices, "Spider-Man 3" may have sold slightly more tickets than "The Dark Knight."

At 2007's average price of $6.88, "Spider-Man 3" sold 21.96 million tickets over opening weekend. Media By Numbers estimates today's average movie prices at $7.08, which means "The Dark Knight" would have sold 21.94 million tickets.

Revenue totals for "The Dark Knight" could change when final numbers are released Monday.

The movie's release was preceded by months of buzz and speculation over the performance of the late Heath Ledger as the Joker, Batman's nemesis. Ledger, who died in January from an accidental prescription-drug overdose, played the Joker as a demonic presence, his performance prompting predictions that the role might earn him a posthumous Academy Award nomination.

"The average opening gross of the last five `Batman' movies is $47 million. This tripled that, and for a reason," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers. "A big part of that was the Heath Ledger mystique and a phenomenal performance that absolutely deserves the excitement surrounding it."

"The Dark Knight" reunites director Christopher Nolan with his "Batman Begins" star Christian Bale, whose vigilante crime-fighter is taunted and tested by Ledger's Joker as the villain unleashes violence and chaos on the city of Gotham.

Overseas, "The Dark Knight" added $40 million in 20 countries where it began opening Wednesday, including Australia, Mexico and Brazil. The film opens in Great Britain this weekend and rolls out to most of the rest of the world over the next few weeks.

"The Dark Knight," which cost $185 million to make, also broke the "Spider-Man 3" record for best debut in IMAX large-screen theaters with $6.2 million. "Spider-Man 3" opened with $4.7 million in IMAX cinemas.

"Every single show is sold out," said Greg Foster, IMAX chairman and president. "We're adding shows as much as we can, but we're at 100 percent capacity."

On opening day Friday, "The Dark Knight" also took in more money than previously counted, Fellman said. The film pulled in a record $67.85 million, up nearly $1.5 million from the studio's estimates a day earlier.

The previous opening-day record also had been held by "Spider-Man 3" with $59.8 million.

Women accounted for most of the audience for "Mamma Mia!", which Universal opened as counter-programming to the male-dominated audience for "The Dark Knight."

"With the crowded summer, we knew we would have to find the right weekend, and this seemed like the perfect one considering three-quarters of our audience was female," Rocco said.

Based on the stage musical set to the tunes of ABBA, "Mamma Mia!" features Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Julie Walters and Christine Baranski.

The weekend's other new wide release, 20th Century Fox's animated family flick "Space Chimps," opened at No. 7 with $7.4 million.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.

1. "The Dark Knight," $155.34 million.

2. "Mamma Mia!", $27.6 million.

3. "Hanc**k," $14 million.

4. "Journey to the Center of the Earth," $11.9 million.

5. "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," $10 million.

6. "WALL-E," $9.8 million.

7. "Space Chimps," $7.4 million.

8. "Wanted," $5.1 million.

9. "Get Smart," $4.1 million.

10. "Kung Fu Panda," $1.8 million.

DJ Stacious wows Sumfest organisers in dazzling debut 22 Jul 2008 | by A.K.A., Contributing Writer DJ Stacious, riding a high with her top ten hit, Falling Down, delivered a high-quality, profanity-free set during International Night 1 at the Catherine Hall venue Stacious.JPGDressed in a provocative pair of black tights and a black-and-white t-shirt with the sides slit open, Stacious was at her crazy-sexy-cool best. She hit the stage doing the ultra-popular Inna Mi Class, before seguing into the lyrically-sharp Hotta Gal. She closed strongly with her top ten hit, Falling Down, and got a nice forward and ovation from the crowd as she delivered the song with great clarity. I am happy that I was able to deliver my set the way I rehearsed it and the crowd really warmed to me. This is one of the biggest reggae-dancehall stage shows in the world so I am honoured to be able to participate in it, and it was a really good experience, one of the directors even came over to me after and congratulated me, so its all good, she said. Stacious Falling Down is now #10 on the Jamaica Music Countdown charts and her followup single Goodas Clap on the Estrogen riddim is looking to blow up. A video was shot for the latter single last week and it should be available for release this week. Its a bit racy, some people will object but most will definitely love it, she said.

Ready for a Hip-Hop conspiracy theory? Well a week ago, G-Unit dropped their second album Terminate On Sight (T.O.S.) and if you dont know that, stop reading and go find something better to do with your time. Anyways, after the album dropped, initial reports were stating that based on first day numbers, T.O.S. was slated to move about 700k units in the first week.

Then, MediaTakeOut (renowned for posting bullshit) leaked this supposedly internal email:

From: xxxxxx@umusic.com
Sent: Fri Jun 27 16:13:53 2008
Subject:

Guys we understand u are pissed, all we can say is 2nd week #s will be out of here.

We acknowledge we SIGNIFICANTLY underestimated the G unit fan base and online awareness. Therefore we have ordered an immediate increase in production, effective 9am today. Early first week estimates stand at around 700K to 800K US. We are working to rectify the international shortcomings and put product in place by early next week. Don will be in touch.

Other reports were stating that theyd only shipped about 100,000 copies. Now this could just be a rumor started by the G-Unit camp or MTO, but we wont argue that here. Note though that they only mention INTERNATIONAL shortcomings (does that include the U.S.?)

Here we are at week 2, and the numbers posted above from HDD (which usually underreports a little bit - they put the carter at just under a milli when soundscan said over a milli), and we see that T.O.S. actually sold almost exactly 100k copies exactly what Interscope was to have shipped? Interesting.

Now the counter to that? Well, I dont buy albums in the stores anymore so I cant comment on that, but I dont remember ever seeing Amazon.com out of stock on the album, and the last time I checked, they were included in soundscan (speaking of, why arent iTunes and Amazon downloads included?). Add to that, T.O.S. was the #1 rap album on iTunes and #3 album overall and then dropped to #13 But perhaps people dont like buying albums online. You decide.

To close out, goddamn Waynes still going! Doing more than T.O.S.s first week a month after its own release. Well at least they outsold John Mayer and before you guys on about who cares about sales remember that 50 started it.

 

 

 

P.S.:Now dis shit is old but i kno the ppl who love 50 wouldnt post this cuz its embara**in and hes prolly lookin 4 pity so u can go out and buy his dumb CD,watever still f**k 50 4 puttin out dis garbage he can do much better.

In August 2008, Mr. Vegas will embark on his first tour of Africa and return to Europe for a long-awaited tour of the United Kingdom. Mr. Vegas' emanating presence is undeniable. As we speak, the singjay is leaving his imprint on the world.

Checks by 876radio.com revealed that in several markets both local and internationally, Mr. Vegas has songs and videos in heavy rotation including the summer anthems "Mus Come a Road," "Hot Gal Nuh Fight Ova Man" and the newest sensation "Daggering." and notably, Mr. Vegas also boasts the Number 2 song on the Billboard Dance Chart, "Shake it."

Vegas who just completed a ten (10) city European tour accompanied by his full ensemble of dancers and musicians said he truly appreciates the support that his fans in Europe have given him over the years.

"I have spent five years away and I really wanted to pay them back with unforgettable performances, my plan was successful!" - He added.

According to his Manager Garfield Chin from Irish and Chin, "Mr. Vegas' performances in Europe exceeded my expectations, I think that Vegas understands the importance of giving quality, flawless shows, he definitely has mastered the live performance thing."

During Vegas's stint in Europe he performed alongside other reggae acts such as Voicemail, Bugle and Wayne Marshall among others at the Rototom Sunsplash in Osoppo, Italy and shared the stage with popular French Dancehall group Dub Inc at the Big Reggae Festival in Antibes, France.

Wats the first forum u check when u log on to MZJA?

You notice what happen in the black community dont happen in the white community ? Lets take a look at this point you may or may not agree but somethings never far from the truth.
Top ten things that happen in black communities that dont occur in the white community:

1) Killing a next black man for drugs, money or just a simple dispute
2) Drugs selling on corner
3) Drugs selling to there own (blacks would sell to their bf mother)
4) Gangs & Drive bys
5) Ploting against someone (robbery)
6) Flossing on each other
7) Running out of certain food (sugar, floor, rice etc)
8) Lack of water or low water pressure
9) Illegal light due to high light bills
10) Police response to crime scenes and to solve the crime

-- Edited by kolonji at 13:09, 2008-07-07

Just a few years ago, Scott Storch was one of the top producers in hip hop, living in a $10.5 million mansion on an exclusive Miami island, driving luxury cars and dating the likes of Paris Hilton and Lil Kim and Brooke Hogan?

Nowadays, Scott Storch, 34, is missing in action. He owes over $500,000 in real estate taxes and had a warrant out for his arrest when he failed to show up in court in a child-support case last month. He has not had a top 10 hit in three years.

Wow, working with Paris Hilton and Brooke Hogan and he hasnt had a hit in 3 years??? Damn son !!LOL

Many say the fame went to his head. He had a public flare-up with Aguilera over the cost of a private jet to fly him out to produce her 06 album Back to Basics. He also traded insults with fellow hitmaker Timbaland, who called Storch just the piano man in one track.

Timbaland is somewhere in his Virginia Beach mansion laughing his ass off right now.

Life's a bitch named Paris Hilton!!SMH....

Police Find Person Who Parked SUV Containing Three Murdered Men

More details of an apparently gang-related triple murder are coming to light a day after the victims were found shot to death in an abandoned SUV.

Adrian Inglis Bannerman, 29; Aaron Brendan Macdonald, 20; and Kurt Atiba Charles, 27, all of Toronto, were found shot to death inside a gold Nissan Pathfinder parked on Lunness Road, in the Browns Line and Valermo Drive area, early Sunday. Authorities made the grisly discovery just after 3:30am.

Someone had called 9-1-1 to alert authorities to the murders.

Detectives said the trio was killed in a drive-by shooting and on Monday police revealed the man who apparently parked the bullet-riddled vehicle in Etobicoke contacted them Sunday. That driver is apparently being considered a fourth victim in this case.

"We consider the driver to be a victim. He's a surviving victim from the shooting and he's a witness," confirms Det. Sgt. Dean Burkes.

The driver was behind the wheel of  Nissan Pathfinder when a black SUV pulled up beside it and opened fire, killing the three men in the passenger seats.

"The information we have is that the vehicle was in motion, and the suspects were operating another motor vehicle ... and pulled up alongside the victims' vehicle and opened fire on the occupants," adds Det. Burkes.

"We are looking at any gang affiliations or gang associations trying to establish if it is in fact a gang related incident."

Authorities said all three victims were all at Fluid nightclub on Richmond Street before they were killed.

On Monday relatives of the slain men gathered at the spot where their loved ones were found murdered.

"Adrian Bannerman is a good boy," said a grieving relative.  "He's not related to any gang members. And this is very sad, what happened...(We were) very close."

Investigators want to speak with anyone with information or who saw the victims at the nightclub Saturday night before the murders. If you can help, call (416) 808-7399 or Crime Stoppers at (416) 222-TIPS.

These three murders mark the city's 33rd, 34th and 35th homicides of the year and the end of a deadly week in Toronto. Six people were murdered in seven days across the GTA.

-- Edited by RiddimRyder at 08:13, 2008-07-22

It has been five years since dancehall star Mr Vegas toured Europe, and in an effort to make up for lost time, the popular singjay brought fans up to speed with his repertoire of soaring hits during some recent performances there.

"I truly appreciate the support that my fans in Europe have given me over years," Vegas said. "I have spent five years away and I really wanted to pay them back with unforgettable performances ... my plan was successful!"

Mr Vegas' European tour, sponsored by Media Com, consisted of 10 cities. On the tour, he was joined by a full ensemble, including Thugz band, DJ Fatta and High Energy dancers.

While in Cologne, Germany, at Summerjam, Mr Vegas was billed as the closing act, following Queen Ifrica, Busy Signal, Ce'Cile and a host of other Jamaican artistes.

Mr Vegas' stint at Rototom Sunsplash in Osoppo, Italy, was equally explosive. On this line-up, he joined members of the dancehall massive, including Voicemail, Bugle and Wayne Marshall, to name a few.

Although Mr Vegas was not the official closing act of the big Reggae Festival in Antibes, France, some time after his segment, Mr Vegas was asked to join the wildly popular French Dancehall group Dub Inc on stage to close the show with his hit Mus Come A Road.

"Mr Vegas' performances in Europe exceeded my expec-tations," says manager Garfield 'Chin' Bourne of Irish and Chin, Inc "I think that Vegas understands the importance of giving quality, flawless shows ... he definitely has mastered the live performance thing."

In August 2008, Mr Vegas will embark on his first tour of Africa and return to Europe for a long-awaited tour of the UK.

Cops Photograph Alleged Thieves Sleeping On Items Believed Stolen From Department Store

Former Bosnian Serb Leader To Face Charges Of War Crimes, Genocide

Radovan Karadzic grew a long, white beard to conceal his identity and even managed to openly practise alternative medicine while in hiding, officials said Tuesday in revealing details of the war crimes fugitive's capture after more than a decade on the run.

Karadzic, the wartime leader of Bosnian Serbs, was arrested Monday night in a Belgrade suburb, officials said. A judge has ordered his transfer to the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to face genocide charges, war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said.
  
Karadzic has three days to appeal the ruling. His lawyer, Sveta Vujacic, said he will launch the process to fight extradition on the last day, Friday, to thwart authorities' wishes for his immediate transfer.
  
Karadzic -- accused of masterminding the deadly wartime siege of Sarajevo and the executions of up to 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War -- had topped the tribunal's most-wanted list for years.
  
Government official Rasim Ljajic said Karadzic, once known for his distinctively coifed hairdo, was unrecognizable.
  
"His false identity was very convincing," Vukcevic said. "Even his landlords were unaware of his identity."
  
Karadzic used a false name, Dragan Dabic, Ljajic said.
  
The editor in chief of Belgrade's "Healthy Life" magazine, Goran Kojic, said he was shocked when he saw the photo of Karadzic on TV, recognizing him as a regular contributor to the publication.
  
"It never even occurred to me that this man with a long white beard and hair was Karadzic," Kojic said.
  
Karadzic's whereabouts had been a mystery since he went on the run in 1998, with his hideouts reportedly including monasteries and mountain caves in remote eastern Bosnia.
  
Serbian security services found Karadzic, 63, on Monday while looking for another top war crimes suspect facing genocide charges, Bosnian Serb wartime commander general Ratko Mladic, Ljajic said.
  
Karadzic "was arrested Monday evening near Belgrade while changing locations," he said. "International pressure was to arrest Mladic, and a few had expected that Karadzic would be captured."
  
A judge finished interrogating Karadzic on Tuesday and issued the order for his extradition.
  
Ljajic refused to reveal more details about his arrest, saying Karadzic's movements are being analyzed and will be kept secret until Mladic's capture. "We are absolutely determined to finish this job," he said.
  
Karadzic -- disguised by the bushy beard and glasses -- managed to move freely while living in a new part of Belgrade and working at a private clinic, Ljajic said, holding up a photo of a much thinner-looking Karadzic.
  
Governments worldwide hailed the arrest of the man described by the tribunal as the mastermind of "scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history."
  
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called it a "historic moment."
  
"The victims need to know: Massive human rights violations do not go unpunished," she said in Berlin.
  
European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels said the arrest sets Serbia firmly on the path toward EU membership.
  
"We have waited for this for 13 years. Finally. Finally," said French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in Brussels. "This is a very good thing for the rapprochement of Serbia with the European Union."
  
In Sarajevo, Bosnian Muslims rushed into the streets Monday night to celebrate the news of Karadzic's arrest.
  
"This is a very important day for the victims who have waited for this arrest for over a decade," said the tribunal's head prosecutor, Serge Brammertz. "It clearly demonstrates that nobody is beyond the reach of the law and that sooner or later all fugitives will be brought to justice."
  
During the siege of Sarajevo that began in 1992, Bosnian Serb troops starved, sniped and b****arded the city centre, operating from strongholds in Pale and Vraca high above the city and controlling nearly all roads in and out.
  
Inhabitants were kept alive by a thin lifeline of food aid and supplies provided by UN donors and peacekeepers. Walking down the street to shop for groceries or driving down a main road that became known as "Sniper Alley" was a risk to their lives.
  
The siege was not officially over until February 1996. An estimated 10,000 people died.
  
The international tribunal indicted Karadzic on genocide charges in 1995. The psychiatrist and self-styled poet-turned-hardline Serbian nationalist continue to wield behind-the-scenes power over Bosnian Serbs, occasionally appearing in public before going into hiding three years later.
  
The worst massacre was in Srebrenica in 1995, when Serb troops led by Mladic overran the UN-protected enclave sheltering Bosnian Muslims. Mladic's troops rounded up the entire population and took the men away for execution.
  
By war's end in late 1995, an estimated 250,000 people were dead and another 1.8 million driven from their homes.
  
Under the UN indictment, Karadzic faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities committed between 1992 to 1996.
  
He would be the 44th Serb suspect sent to the tribunal in The Hague. The others include former president Slobodan Milosevic, who died there in 2006 while on trial.

 

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A summary of the charges:

• Six counts of genocide and complicity in genocide (in Srebrenica and elsewhere in Bosnia).
• Two counts of crimes against humanity.
• One count of violations of the laws or customs of war.
• One count of a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions governing wartime conduct.
• One count of persecution.
• Two counts of deportations and other inhumane acts.
• One count of inflicting terror upon civilians.
• One count of taking hostages.

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Key dates in the life of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, arrested Monday on U.N. genocide charges:

• June 19, 1945: Born in Savnik, Yugoslavia, in what is now the Republic of Montenegro.
• July 12, 1990: A founding member of the Serbian Democratic Party in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• March 27, 1992: Becomes president of Serbia's National Security Council.
• April 6, 1992: Bosnia is recognized as an independent state by the United Nations.
• May 12, 1992: Elected president of the three-person presidency of the Serbian republic in Bosnia.
• Dec. 17, 1992 - July 19, 1996: Serves as sole president of Serb Republic in Bosnia. He is also supreme commander of the armed forces.
• July 1, 1991 - Nov. 30, 1995: According to the U.N. indictment, Karadzic participates in war crimes in order to gain control of parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina that have been proclaimed part of the Serb Republic, using terror tactics and a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
• April 1, 1992 - November 30, 1995: Bosnian Serb forces engaged in a 44-month siege of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital.
• July 11 - 18, 1995: Bosnian Serb forces killed thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica.
• 1996: Karadzic vanishes from public eye.
• 2003: Bosnia's top international official freezes bank accounts and other assets of Karadzic's close relatives who are suspected of helping him hide.
• July 2005: Karadzic's wife makes public appeal for him to surrender "for the sake of your family."
• 2005: Karadzic publishes a book of poetry in Serbia, titled "Under The Left Breast Of The Century." A spokeswoman in The Hague expresses outrage that he is free to do so.
• July 21, 2008. Karadzic is arrested in Serbia in a raid by Serbian security forces.

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Excerpts from the 1995 U.N. war crimes tribunal indictment charging former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his wartime military commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic, with genocide and crimes against humanity in Bosnia:

"They are criminally responsible for the unlawful confinement, murder, rape, sexual assault, torture, beating, robbery and inhumane treatment of civilians; the targeting of political leaders, intellectuals and professionals; the unlawful deportation and transfer of civilians; the unlawful shelling of civilians; the unlawful appropriation and plunder of real and personal property; the destruction of homes and businesses; and the destruction of places of worship."

"Thousands of Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat civilians, including women, children and elderly persons, were detained ... for protracted periods of time. They were not afforded judicial process and their internment was not justified by military necessity. They were detained, in large measure, because of their national, religious and political identity. The conditions in the detention facilities were inhumane and brutal ...

"In many instances, women and girls who were detained were raped at the camps or taken from the detention centers and raped or otherwise sexually abused at other locations. Daily food rations provided to detainees were inadequate and often amounted to starvation rations. Medical care for the detainees was insufficient or nonexistent and the general hygienic conditions were grossly inadequate."

"Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, individually and in concert with others, planned, instigated, ordered or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation or execution of unlawful attacks against the civilian population and individual civilians with weapons such as mortars, rockets and artillery."

"Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, individually and in concert with others planned, instigated, ordered or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation or execution of the destruction of sacred sites or knew or had reason to know that subordinates were about to damage or destroy these sites or had done so and failed to take necessary and reasonable measures to prevent them from doing so or to punish the perpetrators thereof."

"Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, individually and in concert with others planned, instigated, ordered or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation or execution of the taking of civilians, that is U.N. peacekeepers, as hostages and, additionally, using them as 'human shields.'"  

Yes, firefox is already pretty damn fast but did you know that you can tweak it and improve the speed even more? Well that's the beauty of this program being open source. Here's what you do:

In the URL bar, type about:config and press enter. This will bring up the configuration menu where you can change the parameters of Firefox. Note that these are what Ive found to REALLY speed up my Firefox significantly - and these settings seem to be common among everybody else as well. But these settings are optimized for broadband connections.

ok now Double Click on the following settins and put in the numbers below - for the true / false booleans - theyll change when you double click.

Code:

browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs true
network.http.max-connections 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 4
network.http.pipelining true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining true
network.http.request.timeout 300

One more thing Right-click somewhere on that screen and add a NEW -> Integer.

Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0.

This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Since youre broadband - it shouldnt have to wait.

Now you should notice youre loading pages MUCH faster now!

Twenty-seven-year-old recording artiste Steven Menzie better known as Eloquent, hanged himself yesterday after slashing the throat of his girlfriend, who was also his babymother.

Up to newstime, the injured girlfriend was said to be battling for life in hospital as result of the injuries..

The incident took place between 11 a.m. and 1p.m. yesterday on Lancewood Road, in Exchange, St Ann and has left scores of relatives, friends, fans of the entertainer shocked.

Menzie and his girlfriend reportedly had a dispute about their relationship during which he used an object to cut her throat.

Believing he had killed the woman, Menzie then took his own life by hanging himself.

According to residents, the two who had been together for about five years had frequent quarrels because Menzie had often accused his girlfriend of being unfaithful to him.

Residents said that about 11a.m., Menzie was at his cousin's workshop when he received a telephone call to go to his home immediately. It is believed that a quarrel developed between the two during which Menzie injured his girlfriend.

About 1 p.m., he reportedly telephoned his cousin telling him that he just killed his girlfriend and that his cousin should take care of his three-year-old son. The cousin then made several attempts to return the call without any success. Menzie's body was found hanging from a piece of electrical cord from a tree in bushes near to his home.

TAMPA, Fla. -- A jury has convicted a former church youth leader of strangling a teenage boy.
Hillsborough Circuit Judge William Fuente on Monday sentenced Joshua Rosa to life in prison without parole after the 22-year-old was convicted of first-degree murder.
A message left for Assistant State Attorney Jay Pruner was not immediately returned, and defense attorney Brian Gonzalez was not available for comment.
Rosa was charged in the December 2005 slaying of 13-year-old Stephen Tomlinson, who lived across the street. The boy's body was found in a wooded area of a north Tampa park. He had bruises consistent with a struggle.
Rosa told detectives he tried to save Tomlinson after finding his body in the woods.

He has already spent six years in jail, but popular entertainer Garfield Vassell, more commonly known as Zebra, will still have to wait for another year before he is eligible for parole. The earliest possible date for the deejay to be released on parole is on September 6, 2008. Vassell has been incarcerated in the St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre since 2001 and was sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison for rape, assault at common law, indecent assault and breaching a probation order. CHARDED WITH RAPE The deejay was charged with the rape of an 18-year-old university student, who was assaulted in bushes near Barry, St. Catherine ,in January 2001. According to reports, at about 5 a.m., Zebra, while using his car as a route taxi, picked up the student in Half-Way Tree and proceeded to Spanish Town. Police said he dropped off the other passengers and then took the girl to Barry where he raped her. The assault at common law charge stemmed from an incident involving his then girlfriend Sherilla 'Zebress' Williams. The two reportedly had an argument at their Oakland apartment and Williams was allegedly beaten. Vassell was later charged with indecent assault following an incident which occured on October 17, 2000. He reportedly fondled a 15-year-old girl, pushed her onto a bed and tried to have sex with her. But although he won't get the chance to roam the streets for this year, Vassell seems to be making the most of his time in the pen. He is an active part of the institution's music rehabilitation programme, which seeks to make the reformation process easier through the use of music. Zebra rose to popularity in the early '90s and was immediately noticed because of his similarity to veteran deejay Tiger. His hits include Picture Frame, Rupert and Dem Unfair Eh-No. The deejay's first brush with the law came in 1996 when he was jailed for 18 months on a charge of abusing a young woman. He was however later released because of insufficient evidence.

July 19, 2008. MediaTakeOut.com just got wind that a disturbing trend is going on in China before the Olympics. According to the South China Morning Post, the Chinese government has asked bar owners not to server any Black people. Here's what they're reporting: Bar owners near the Workers' Stadium in central Beijing say they have been forced by Public Security Bureau officials to sign pledges agreeing not to let black people enter their premises. "Uniformed Public Security Bureau officers came into the bar recently and told me not to serve black people or Mongolians," said the co-owner of a western-style bar, who asked not to be named. Sometimes you just gotta shake your head ....

July 21, 2008. MediaTakeOut.com is hearing whispers that Chris Brown's mother is not too happy with the speed that her son's relationship with R&B singer Rihanna is progressing. According to one of MediaTakeOut.com's readers - who goes to the same hairdresser and Chris Brown's mom - she's been openly complaining about the couple.

And it gets more odd. MediaTakeOut.com's snitch claims that Chris' mom believes that Rihanna may have used "roots," or voodoo, to get Chris Brown to fall head over heels over her. The insider explained, "When she started talking that craziness everyone [at the salon] started laughing - but she was dead serious."

We doubt it was roots Mama. If you ask us, it's just a case of Rihanna putting it 'pon him ....

LONDON: The British Army says it is considering a recruitment drive in Jamaica as it struggles to find enough soldiers to meet its international commitments.

The military says it is weighing whether to send an Army "overseas selection team" to Jamaica. The Caribbean country is a former British colony and remains a part of the Commonwealth.

The military has had difficulty recruiting and retaining soldiers as it maintains its deployment in Iraq and engages a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Army said in a statement Sunday that it is proud to recruit soldiers from countries with close historical ties to Britain.

The British military already employs some 600 Jamaican soldiers. They are among about 12,000 foreign and Commonwealth personnel who serve in its armed forces

Massive ganja find in Old Harbour

Approximately two thousand pounds of compressed ganja was seized in a Kingfish operation carried out by operatives from the Mobile Reserve, Narcotics and the Jamaica Defence Force in Old Harbour, St. Catherine this afternoon.

No one was arrested in connection with the seizure.

Shortly after 12 noon, the lawmen commenced a three hour operation in the mangroves at Portland Bight in the Old Harbour area of St. Catherine where the drug and one hundred gallons of gas oil, was seized.

Investigations continue.

FOR THOSE WHO WAN DEAD WIT LAUGH LIKE ME


http://www.zshare.net/audio/156117120a154783/

K-Queens did haffi come and save killa from a get bokkle

what do you think about Yendi Phillipps on being the new host of rising star had a chance to watch last night but damn they could a mek are look little better yo the chick look like she need a few hamberger and some hot wings yo she mawga bad.Yo when she was in the contest she did P.H.AT

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A man suspected of shooting his ex-girlfriend outside Crowley Maritime early Friday has shot and killed himself in a Northside home surrounded by police, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

Floacia Bell Brookins, 46 -- a longtime employee of Crowley -- was shot as she arrived for work at the Talleyrand facility just after 6 a.m.

Brookins was shot once in the neck and once in the back. She was in critical condition at Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center.

Within three hours, the SWAT team was called to a home in the 11000 block of Oak Lawn Road, where 50-year-old James Lawson Williams III refused to come out.

Early Friday afternoon, after police stopped hearing responses from inside the home, officers entered and found Williams dead of a gunshot wound.

Williams once dated Brookins. When the relationship soured, Williams would not leave her alone, her brother told Channel 4's Adam Landau.

"They had a lot of domestic problems," Joel Bell said. "He stalked her for, like, a month. My brother-in-law was bringing her back and forth to work. I guess he finally caught her by herself and did what he did."

On July 4, Williams was arrested for pointing a gun at Brookins.

Brookins' family members said the woman feared for her life and nothing he did, including getting a restraining order, could keep Williams away.

"He didn't have to do this. There were other ways. He didn't have to do this to her. She's a hardworking young lady, and she has been for a long time. He didn't have to do this to her," said Brookins' aunt, Parthenia Corner.

The early-morning shooting occurred in a parking lot that is on Crowley property.

Witnesses said they saw Brookins begging for her life when a man shot her, then sped away.

Police closed off the front entrance of the 67-acre port terminal while detectives were investigating. Workers arriving for their Friday shift were taken in a different entrance.

Police at the scene confirmed that they had wanted to question Williams about the shooting.