Monday, January 31, 2011

Exclusive Interview With WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

Exclusive Interview With WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

Click here to watch:-
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7300034n&tag=watchnow

kroy biermann

kroy biermann


"Watch What Happens:Live" - On tonight's "Watch What Happens:Live" host Andy Cohen and Bravo TV will host a live baby shower for "The Real Housewives of Atlanta's" Kim Zolciak and her beau Atlanta Falcons Defensive End Kroy Biermann, who will be appearing together as a couple for the first time.

In an interview with People Zolciak states that her daughters Brielle and Ariana are crazy about new boyfriend, Kroy

For more info:- http://www.examiner.com/the-real-housewives-in-national/real-housewives-news-kim-zolciak-and-atlanta-falcons-kroy-biermann-baby-shower

Friday, January 28, 2011

challenger explosion

challenger explosion

It's been 25 years since teacher Christa McAuliffe died aboard the Challenger space shuttle, and people in her hometown of Concord, New Hampshire, still don't like to talk about it.

"It hurts every time the anniversary comes around. Especially for those that knew her," said New Hampshire Executive Council member Daniel St. Hilaire, 43. "My son is 18 and a freshman in college, and I've never sat down with him to talk about it."

A long-time resident of Concord, St. Hilaire went to Concord High School, where McAuliffe taught Social Studies and was an adviser for the Youth in Government club, which he was a member of. He remembers her as a passionate teacher, who stressed real world, hands-on experience both in school and out. "She was a different kind of teacher -- she didn't just lecture in classroom," he said. "She firmly believed that kids would learn better by experience and she lived her life that way."

A whole generation has grown up since McAuliffe and six other astronauts died on Jan. 28, 1986, and still her legacy lives on in this small city about an hour north of Boston. She was passionately loved by students and residents, and her death affects those who remember her. Some people still tear up at the mention of McAuliffe's name.

"It's difficult to have it all brought back to the forefront in my mind again," said Carol Berry, 71, a friend of McAuliffe's who was watching in person at Cape Canaveral when the Challenger blew up. "Every year, I think about it again. I just feel so badly."

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Keeping McAuliffe's memory alive also is important to Holly Merrow, who graduated from Concord High in 1986 and now teaches in Portland, Maine. Merrow, taught by McAuliffe in a class about women in history, recalled that she made lessons fun, interesting and real -- and she tries to do the same.

Merrow teaches third grade, but for several years taught a lesson about McAuliffe and the Challenger to students in the fifth grade and in middle school. She showed them a scrapbook full of NASA stickers, as well as articles on the explosion and McAuliffe's selection by NASA, in which she was chosen from more than 11,000 applicants in a contest to be the first civilian teacher on a space flight.

"I teach with teachers who weren't even alive then," she said. She admits it's been hard going back in time to give those lessons, saying, "I just well up sometimes."

Over the years, the city has observed the anniversary in their own quiet way, without fanfare or media attention, and this year's anniversary will not be much different. The only event planned to mark the occasion is at the planetarium, where a representative from NASA will speak and a short documentary will be shown to teachers and members of the public.

In a rare public comment, her husband, Steven McAuliffe, recently wrote a heartfelt letter to the board about the school being named after her. "There is no honor that Christa would cherish more than to have her name associated with a school in the hometown that she loved so dearly," he wrote. "I hope generations of students, teachers and administrators who pass through the new school will be inspired by her most precious lesson -- ordinary people can make extraordinary contributions when they remain true to themselves and follow their dreams."

amy henslee

Amy Henslee


A news conference has been scheduled for early Friday morning in the case of missing Hartford Township woman Amy Sue Henslee.

An unidentified family friend who spent much of Thursday at the home of Amy Sue Henslee and her husband, James Henslee, said, “The search is over and it didn’t end good.”

TV web sites were reporting that a body was found Thursday evening in Bangor Township. The 30-year-old stay-at-home mother from Hartford Township has been missing since Monday.

WWMT Channel 3 reported that two bodies were found Thursday in a wooded area off County Road 687 in Bangor Township.

For hours Thursday night, police on all-terrain vehicles shuttled between crime-lab trucks parked along rural County Road 687 and a brightly illuminated wooded area a few hundred yards off the road.

At about 10:30 p.m., ATVs pulled a wagon that had been loaded with shovels and other equipment and carried several officers back into the woods.

The area is behind a mobile home at 4287 CR 687 in Bangor Township, north of Hartford.
The mobile home was cordoned off by crime scene tape and a pick-up truck advertising firewood and plowing services was parked in front.

Public records indicate the property’s residents include Richard P. Beebe, 27, and Phillip Beebe.

A ramshackle shed and at least two other vehicles covered high in snow sat near the mobile home. A lot with firewood and bins and a small older travel trailer sit just north of the residence, in the direction of the area police have been searching.

As of 11 p.m., police with flashlights were scouring that area of the woods.

Sheriff Dale Gribler was at the scene and declined to make any comment. He said officials expected to hold a news conference between midnight and 2 a.m. in Paw Paw.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

red jacket firearms

Red Jacket Firearms on Discovery Channel’s “Sons of Guns”

Red Jacket Firearms is the focus of the new Discovery Channel series, Sons of Guns. Red Jacket Firearms creates one-of-a-kind custom weapons.

“If you can dream it, we can build it” is the motto at Red Jacket, the nation’s most unique weapons business. Owner Will Hayden and his crew of Baton Rouge, Louisiana gunsmiths are featured on the new series Sons of Guns. The show premiered tonight on Discovery Channel 9PM ET/PT.
Sons of Guns centers on Will’s Red Jacket shop, located in the heart of the Louisiana bayou. When Will isn’t rebuilding a “bring-back” rifle from the Vietnam War or using his wealth of weapon history knowledge to determine if a pistol found in the attic is an antique or not, he can be found in his shop with his daughter Stephanie and the rest of his team, swapping gossip with his customers. Whether it’s having a lunch break shooting contest, going on a nighttime bayou bow fishing trip or field testing a fully automatic M2 .50 caliber machine gun. You know, the usual family time.

As a straight shooter and an avid historian, Will is a trusted expert to handle the requests of Red Jacket’s major clients – law enforcement, military and collectors. From guns to knives to swords to cannons, Will sells, trades, buys, builds and customizes them all. While weapons manufacturers are making attachable silencers for AK-47′s, Will takes it a step further — creating internal silencers that help police departments be even more stealth in threatening situations. If someone needs to restore a WWII flamethrower to make it operational, Will can do that too. And when the sheriff’s department needs to turn two guns – a shotgun and a rifle – into one, they call Will.
I don’t know about you but Sons of Guns looks like a hit to me!

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

academy award nominations

academy award nominations

Sorry, “Burlesque” fans: the 10 films that will be vying for best motion picture at the 83rd Academy Awards are “Black Swan,” “The Fighter,” “Inception,” “The Kids Are All Right,” “The King’s Speech,” “127 Hours,” “The Social Network,” “Toy Story 3,” “True Grit” and “Winter’s Bone,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Tuesday morning. The nominees for best director are Darren Aronofsky (for “Black Swan”), David O. Russell (“The Fighter”), Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech”), David Fincher (“The Social Network”) and Joel and Ethan Coen (“True Grit”). “The King’s Speech” led the pack with 12 nominations total, including Colin Firth (nominated for best actor), Helena Bonham Carter (best supporting actress) and Geoffrey Rush (best supporting actor).

Toyota


TOYOTA

TOKYO — Toyota is recalling nearly 1.7 million vehicles around the world for various defects that may cause fuel leakage — the latest in quality control woes for the Japanese automaker.
Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it was recalling a wide range of models, including the IS and GS Lexus luxury models in North America and the Avensis sedan and station wagon models in Europe.
There were no accidents suspected of being related to the defects, according to Toyota. Toyota said it had received 77 complaints overseas, 75 of them in North America, and more than 140 reports in Japan.
The largest number of the affected vehicles was in Japan at nearly 1.3 million vehicles, the second-largest recall in this nation's history and involving two different problems.
In one problem, an improper installation of a sensor to measure fuel pressure may cause the bolt to loosen as a result of engine vibration over time, and possibly cause fuel leakage, the company said.
That problem also affects 280,000 IS and GS Lexus cars sold abroad, 255,000 of them in North America and 10,000 in Europe.

For more details:- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41266883/ns/business-autos/

michele bachmann response

Michele Bachmann Response

Washington (CNN) -- Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, responded to President Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday night from the Tea Party Express headquarters. Here is a transcript of Bachmann's speech.

Bachmann: Good evening. My name is Congresswoman Michele Bachmann from Minnesota's 6th District.

I want to thank the Tea Party Express and Tea Party HD for inviting me to speak this evening. I'm here at their request and not to compete with the official Republican remarks.

The Tea Party is a dynamic force for good in our national conversation, and it's an honor for me to speak with you.

Two years ago, when Barack Obama became our president, unemployment was 7.8%, and our national debt stood at what seemed like a staggering $10.6 trillion. We wondered whether the president would cut spending, reduce the deficit and implement real job-creating policies.

Unfortunately, the president's strategy for recovery was to spend a trillion dollars on a failed stimulus program, fueled by borrowed money. The White House promised us that all the spending would keep unemployment under 8%. Not only did that plan fail to deliver, but within three months, the national jobless rate spiked to 9.4%. It hasn't been lower for 20 straight months. While the government grew, we lost more than 2 million jobs.

Let me show you a chart. Here are unemployment rates over the past 10 years. In October of 2001, our national unemployment rate was at 5.3%. In 2008, it was at 6.6%. But just eight months after President Obama promised lower unemployment, that rate spiked to a staggering 10.1%. Today, unemployment is at 9.4% with about 400,000 new claims every week.

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money that we don't have. But instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt. It was unlike anything we've ever seen before in the history of the country.

Well, deficits were unacceptably high under President Bush, but they exploded under President Obama's direction, growing the national debt by an astounding $3.1 trillion.

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which lightbulbs to buy and which may put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill. Obamacare mandates and penalties may even force many job-creators to just stop offering health insurance altogether, unless, of course, yours is one of the more than 222 privileged companies, or unions, that's already received a government waiver under Obamacare.

In the end, unless we fully repeal Obamacare, a nation that currently enjoys the world's finest health care might be forced to rely on government-run coverage. That could have a devastating impact on our national debt for even generations to come.

For two years, President Obama made promises, just like the ones we heard him make this evening, yet still we have high unemployment, devalued housing prices, and the cost of gasoline is skyrocketing.

Well, here's a few suggestions for fixing our economy. The president could stop the EPA from imposing a job-destroying cap-and-trade system. The president could support a balanced budget amendment. The president could agree to an energy policy that increases American energy production and reduces our dependence on foreign oil.

The president could also turn back some of the 132 regulations put in place in the last two years, many of which will cost our economy $100 million or more. And the president should repeal Obamacare and support free-market solutions, like medical malpractice reform and allowing all Americans to buy any health care policy they like anywhere in the United States.

We need to start making things again in this country, and we can do that by reducing the tax and regulatory burden on job-creators. America will have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. Think about that. Look no further to see why jobs are moving overseas.

But thanks to you, there's reason for all of us to have hope that real spending cuts are coming, because last November, you went to the polls, and you voted out the big-spending politicians and you put in their place great men and women with a commitment to follow our Constitution and cut the size of government. I believe that we're in the very early days of a history-making turn in America.

Please know how important your calls, visits and letters are to the maintenance of our liberties. Because of you, Congress is responding, and we're just beginning to start to undo the damage that's been done the last few years, because we believe in lower taxes, we believe in a limited view of government and exceptionalism in America. And I believe that America is the indispensable nation of the world.

Just the creation of this nation itself was a miracle. Who can say that we won't see a miracle again? The perilous battle that was fought during World War II in the Pacific at Iwo Jima was a battle against all odds, and yet this picture immortalizes the victory of young GIs over the incursion against the Japanese. These six young men raising the flag came to symbolize all of America coming together to beat back a totalitarian aggressor.

Our current debt crisis we face today is different, but we still need all of us to pull together. But we can do this. That's our hope. We will push forward. We will proclaim liberty throughout the land. And we will do so because we, the people, will never give up on this great nation.

So God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.


For more information:- http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/01/25/sotu.response.bachmann/

race to the top

race to the top

President Obama didn’t unveil any major new education plans in his State of the Union address tonight, although he did proclaim his Race to the Top grant program “the most meaningful reform of our public schools in a generation.”

I thought that was a bold proclamation, given that the grants had only just begun and we don’t have any results yet. I would agree that the RTTT program propelled many states to move quickly on legislative reforms in an effort to better position themselves to win a grant, from more charter schools to pay for performance. I think it can be said that Race to the Top may be the most cost-effective tool to push through major reforms in public education in a generation.

Otherwise, the speech touted familiar themes of the Obama White House: More math and science teachers. Education as the key to reshape and revive the economy. A need to remake No Child Left Behind. Help for the middle class afford college.

The president did make a plea for sane immigration policy toward children of illegals, saying, “Let’s stop expelling talented, responsible young people who can be staffing our research labs, starting new businesses, who could be further enriching this nation.”

And Obama called on universities to open their campuses to military recruiters, saying, “It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.”

Anybody hear anything new that I overlooked?

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

orange county choppers foreclosure

orange county choppers foreclosure

The lender that financed Orange County Choppers‘ new headquarters in the Town of Newburgh has filed a foreclosure action against the builder of custom motorcycles, alleging that it missed its July mortgage payments.

Orange County Choppers has two mortgages through GE Commercial Finance Business Property Corp., one for $11 million and one for $1.5 million.

The foreclosure action claims that the Choppers missed mortgage payments of approximately $96,400 and $14,000 due on July 1.

The Choppers stopped making mortgage payments in order to put pressure on the lender to modify the terms of the loans, according to Choppers’ lawyer Richard Mahon. Mahon said that when the headquarters was built in 2007, it was valued at about $12 million. Because of the economic downturn, the building is now worth between $7 million and $8 million, he estimated.

“This is just a bump in the road,” Mahon said. “We believe the parties will reach a resolution and the headquarters will continue in this location.”

GE Commercial Finance spokesman John Oliver declined to answer questions about the suit, citing confidentiality.
“We worked very hard to try to come up with a better outcome, but in the end we had to make a business decision based on our agreement, and we did,” he said.

The Orange County Industrial Development Agency is also named as a defendant in the action, since it technically owns the property under a payment-in-lieu-of taxes arrangement with Orange County Choppers.

IDA chairman James Petro said he did not know the specifics of the suit.

“You just hate to see anything not go smoothly,” he said. “They’ve been a staple of the community for 10 years, and I hope they can work through their problem.”

The IDA is not liable for the back mortgage payments because a clause in the lease-back arrangement indemnifies it against default by the Choppers, said IDA attorney Philip Crotty.

The IDA has a long history of working with the Choppers, in addition to the package of tax breaks that helped the Choppers build the headquarters. In July, the IDA board approved a 10-year PILOT for Choppers Roadhouse, a restaurant to be located next to Choppers headquarters. The board also considered hiring Paul Teutul Sr.’s company to custom-build a motorcycle for the agency on his cable TV show at a cost of $75,000 to $85,000. The board viewed the project as a marketing tool, but abandoned the plan amid criticism over the idea of using taxpayer money for the project.

Now that the foreclosure filing has occurred, Mahon expects that talks will restart. He said it’s unlikely the lender would want to seize the property because it was built for a specific use, and the tax breaks now enjoyed wouldn’t carry over.

He also said that it would be wrong to assume that Paul Teutul Sr. is broke because of his company’s failure to pay.

“Orange County Choppers and Paul have substantial assets,” he said.

more details: http://surroundedme.com/

web irc client

web irc client

Mibbit is a new IRC client that -- wait, they still make IRC clients? While AOL, MSN, Google, Skype and others dominate the world chat scene these days, once upon a time IRC or Internet Relay Chat was king. And while IRC doesn't get much attention these days, it's still alive, kicking, and useful if you need a multi-user chat system for communicating with co-workers, open source project developers, or anonymous folks you might want to trade files with.

So what makes Mibbit different from old school IRC clients? It's web-based, which means you can run it from anywhere. But despite the fact that you can run Mibbit from your web browser, you get all of the features you'd expect from a desktop based IRC client, and then some.

There's a search engine that lets you find channels by keyword. You can change the color scheme, and even use a built in translator to communicate with users in different languages. Each new channel or server screen opens in a new Mibbit tab, and if you're running Mibbit in a tabbed browser, you'll get cute little alerts like "Server stuff!" or "People said stuff!"

state of the union 2011

state of the union 2011

President Barack Obama will deliver the State of the Union Address for 2011 beginning at 9 p.m. Eastern Time and 6 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011.

Obama's speech is expected to be about one hour in length based on previous years.

Last year's State of the Union from Obama was the first to hit the hour mark since 2000, clocking in at one hour and nine minutes. But the longest SOTU ever was in 2000, when President Bill Clinton's address spanned an hour and a half.

Obama is expected to focus on jobs, innovation and cooperation in the 2011 State of the Union Address. Here are a handful of predictions on what he might say from HuffPost blogger Chris Weigant.

The State of the Union Address will air on major television news networks and it can be watched LIVE on The Huffington Post. HuffPost will also have a State of the Union live blog. The address can also be watched online at WhiteHouse.gov. Check back later for more.

furciferous

furciferous

1.In entomology, bearing a forked appendage or organ. Applied to certain lepidopterous larvæ which have, on the first segment behind the head, a forked tube, called the osmeteria, or scent organ, from which the insect can protrude slender threads, for the purpose, it is supposed, of frightening away ichneumons.
2.Rascally; scoundrelly; villainous.

Monday, January 24, 2011

jack lalanne died


jack lalanne died

at the age of 96. He was a mentor to me, as he was to many. He was a great man, more so than most people realize.

His wife of 51 years, Elaine LaLanne, knew. "I have not only lost my husband and a great American icon," she said, "but the best friend and most loving partner anyone could ever hope for."

When it comes to exercise and health, the name Jack LaLanne has long been virtually synonymous with fitness. Jack literally inspired millions to live a healthful life. But Jack LaLanne didn't start out as a model of health. Far from it.

When he was a teenager, he dropped out of school for a year because he was so ill. Shy and withdrawn, he avoided being with people. He had pimples and boils, was thin, weak, and sickly, and wore a back brace. "I also had blinding headaches every day," Jack recalled. "I wanted to escape my body because I could hardly stand the pain. My life appeared hopeless." Then he met the pioneer nutritionist Paul Bragg, who preached a new way of living, and to his credit, Jack listened. Bragg asked Jack, "What do you eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?" "Cakes, pies, and ice cream," Jack answered truthfully.

"Jack," Bragg replied, "you're a walking garbage can."

He pointed young Jack in a healthier direction. That night Jack got down on his knees by the side of his bed and prayed. He didn't say, "God, make me the strongest man in the world." Instead, he asked for a new beginning. "God, please give me the willpower to refrain from eating unhealthy foods when the urge comes over me. And please give me the strength to exercise even when I don't feel like it."

Jack set out to see what he could accomplish with a good diet and exercise. He found a set of weights and began to use them. He ate only the most healthful of foods. He developed exercise equipment that evolved into what has become standard in many health spas today. In 1936, he opened the first modern health club, paying $45 a month for rent in downtown Oakland.

Jack LaLanne touted the value of exercise and nutrition long before it became fashionable. Many people thought he was a charlatan and a nut. When he encouraged the elderly to lift weights, doctors said this was terrible advice. They said it was a good way for the elderly to break bones. But now, of course, we know that weight-bearing exercise is precisely what is needed to build bone strength and prevent elderly bones from breaking. He was among the first to advocate weight training for women. Doctors said women who tried it would not be able to bear children. Now we know that regular exercise is one of the best preparations for childbirth. Over the years, he's been vindicated a thousandfold. His television programs have brought his ideas to hundreds of millions of people and helped change the way we all view health and fitness.

It has been said that without eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. Jack LaLanne was most certainly an eccentric. On his 60th birthday, he swam from the notorious Alcatraz island prison to San Francisco while handcuffed, towing a thousand-pound boat. "Why did you do that?" people asked. Jack's response: "To give the prisoners hope." (The prison has since closed, and today Alcatraz Island is a U.S. National Park Service attraction.) On his 65th birthday, Jack LaLanne towed 65 hundred pounds of wood pulp across a lake in Japan. On his 70th birthday, he celebrated by towing 70 rowboats with seventy people on board for a mile and a half across Long Beach Harbor, all while handcuffed and with his feet shackled.

He said his purpose in these phenomenal performances was to demonstrate that a healthful lifestyle can work wonders.

Having pioneered health and fitness gyms in the United States, Jack was gratified that physical fitness and nutrition have become a huge growth industry worldwide, because he believed that the emphasis on exercise and a healthful, natural diet creates stronger, smarter, and better people. "With healthier citizens," he said, "we unburden society from sickness, and reduce the medical bills that are draining people's savings and causing so much grief."

Even in his 90s, Jack was a living testimony to the value of regular exercise and a healthful lifestyle. He was for many years a vegan (no meat, dairy, or eggs), but in his later years, though he still ate no dairy products -- "anything that comes from a cow, I don't eat" -- he occasionally ate egg whites and wild fish. Mostly, he ate organic raw fruits and vegetables. And he took vitamins.

His vibrant message was that it's never too late to get in shape. "Those who begin to exercise regularly, and replace white flour, sugar, and devitalized foods with live, organic, natural foods, begin to feel better immediately," he said. He emphasized that it takes both nutrition and exercise. "There are so many health nuts out there who eat nothing but natural foods but they don't exercise and they look terrible. Then there are other people who exercise like a son-of-a-gun but eat a lot of junk ... Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom!"

Even at the age of 95, Jack LaLanne was still a model of fitness and vitality. Full of life and spirit, his one-minute "Jack LaLanne Tip of the Day" pieces were still being shown on seventy television stations. As energetic and flamboyant as ever, he was still speaking all over the world, inspiring people to help themselves to a better life, physically, mentally, and morally. When he was 94, Jack was asked if he thought he'd live to be 100. His answer was to the point. "I don't care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living! I have friends who are in their 80s, and now they're in wheelchairs or they're getting Alzheimer's. Who wants that? I want to be able to do things. I want to look good. I don't want to be a drudge on my wife and kids. And I want to get my message out to people." He smiled. "I tell people, I can't afford to die. It would wreck my image."

He was once asked about George Burns, the famous comedian who made it to 100 though he smoked cigars, drank alcohol and was not health-oriented. Jack, it turns out, knew George Burns well, and he answered, "George Burns was more athletic than you think he was. And he was a very social man. He loved people, he enjoyed life. He worked at living. Old George was a social lion, he got around and did things. That's the key right there. It starts with your brain."

Jack LaLanne was a man of great accomplishments. But perhaps his greatest achievement was that this once painfully shy and sick young man learned to love people and to love being alive.

For more details: http://www.huffingtonpost.com

super bowl 45

super bowl 45

The Pittsburg Steelers defeated the New York Jets in the AFC Championship game to advance to Super Bowl 45, and will take on the Green Bay Packers for the Lombardi Trophy.

The Steelers advanced to their third Super Bowl in six years thanks to a big-play defense that returned a fumble for a touchdown and staged a late goal-line stand in a 24-19 victory over the New York Jets.
Pittsburgh, which led 24-0 in the first half and held on, faces the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl in Dallas in two weeks. The Packers beat Chicago 21-14 earlier Sunday.

William Gay went 22 yards after fellow defensive back Ike Taylor sacked Mark Sanchez and the ball came loose. Pittsburgh then stopped New York four times inside the 2 in hanging on.

The Steelers (14-4) have won a record six Super Bowls. New York (13-5) has not been back since winning the most significant Super Bowl in 1969, validating the AFL with a victory over Baltimore.

when is the super bowl 2011

when is the super bowl 2011

By Telegraph staff and agencies 10:05AM GMT 24 Jan 2011
The Steelers raced into a 24-0 lead with first-half touchdowns from Rashard Mendenhall, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and William Gay, who recovered a fumble from quarterback Mark Sanchez and returned it 19 yards.

Nick Folk at least got the Jets on the scoreboard with a 42-yard field goal before half-time and the visitors made a dramatic start to the third quarter to threaten a comeback.

Sanchez connected with Santonio Holmes on a 45-yard touchdown pass to reduce the deficit to 24-10, but the Jets then crucially failed to punch it in from the one-yard line after a long drive.

They did tackle Roethlisberger in the endzone for a safety and then made it 24-19 with a touchdown from Jerrico Cotchery, but Pittsburgh were able to run out the clock to cling on for the win.

Friday, January 21, 2011

julia goerges bikini

julia goerges bikini

Julia Görges (born 2 November 1988 in Bad Oldesloe, Schleswig-Holstein) is a professional tennis player fromGermany. Görges reached a career high singles ranking of 38 on 10 January 2011, and a doubles ranking of 37 on 27 September 2010. She has won 1 WTA singles title as of August 2010, and 3 WTA doubles title.

kim richards rehab

kim richards rehab

The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills season finale is the most shocking episode yet, especially after Kim and her sister Kyle had a fight on the show resulting in Kim being checked into rehab!

It started at a Taylor Armstrong’s 39th birthday party where Kyle Richards accused Kim of being an alcoholic after drinking that night.

Kim Richards sister, says to Kyle, “You are a liar, and sick, and alcoholic. You are an alcoholic. That’s right. I said it and everybody knows.”

At then end of the episode, we got this update: “Kim’s family checked her into rehab . . . A week later, she checked herself out. She is taking her life one day at a time.”


Kim joined her sister Kyle as a full cast member of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which began airing on Bravo in October 2010. Kim was portrayed as a loving mother until the finale when it’s revealed that she has been an alcoholic for most of her life.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

life unexpected cancelled

Life Unexpected Cancelled

Tonight was the series finale of Life Unexpected. It was a cute show, but the female leads tending to be on the ultra annoying side so I could see why the viewers were irritated to death and the show got the axe.

I would wrap up the entire 2 hour finale...except it would just take up too much space. So I will tell you that in the last 15 minutes of the show they jump ahead 2 years and you get to see who ends up with whom. So here it goes.

Lux is no longer an idiot and is valedictorian of her class (complete rubbish if you ask me). Her and Tasha are going to college together (cause some places are really keen on accepting kids who have been to juvie with assault charges).

Ryan is now with the ex-finance Julie and they have a kid together (that they conceived when he was still with Cate...what a man-slut). Math has finally found a woman and has impregnated (and I am assuming married) the producer of the Cate and Ryan show, Alice.

Baze and Cate are finally together and making out.

And Lux also has a man...but it is not the teacher, unfortunately...cause that would have been a ridiculous ending to a ridiculous season...no she is finally with Jones. I guess having a bi-polar mother finally makes him good enough for her.