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Verizon's anti-iPhone gets its first commercial

We knew Verizon Wireless would soon be throwing caution to the wind in an effort to sway uncommitted smartphone buyers towards Big Red, and it looks like the November-bound Motorola Droid will be VZW's anti-iPhone. The spot, which launched tonight and can be view in its entirety after the break, is a 30 second clip that begins by mocking Apple's cutesy music and iconic font typically seen in iPhone plugs.
Verizon's anti-iPhone gets its first commercial
i Think i Love My Wife

i Think i Love My Wife:9 years we’ve been married. 9 long years. And you know being married to me ain’t easy. But somehow my wife has done it and she has done it with grace and style. There are a multitude of reasons why I love her, but these Top 9 will do for THIS year. But NEXT year I’m gonna have to come up with something better than this to profess my love…
9. She lets me be me
I’m not the easiest shlub to get along with. I can be cranky & moody & sometimes downright obnoxious! But she puts up with me and gives me her “opinion” when I need it. Usually she is a voice of reason in my overloaded brain.
8. She’s supportive
I can really get stressed out about things. Everything from money to work to the kids. It all gets in my head and I get all worried and crazy. But she brings me down to earth and keeps me focused. She has this way of dragging my worries & concerns out of me. She can be relentless when it comes to forcing me to talk about all the crap in my head and I don’t think I could survive without her!
7. She’s funny
As she will tell you, she IS funnier than me. I don’t necessarily agree…but everyone always laughs at her jokes. Me? I usually get the “What are you talking about?” look and an uncomfortable silence. So yeah…maybe she IS funnier than me…
6. She’s a great mother
My kids are wonderful and she is the main reason why. They love her unconditionally and when I’m gone for a few days, she takes care of them and loves them and makes sure they are well-behaved. Without her I’m lost when it comes to dressing the kids, feeding the kids, fixing their hair, etc…
5. She’s hot
14 years into our relationship and I still find her to be as gorgeous today as she was when I met her. No lie.
4. She’s charitable
When she told me she wanted to quit her job and work for a charity that would pay her very little but it would make her happy, I was skeptical. But she just seems to glow when she talks about how well the charity is doing and how much they are doing for pediatric cancer research. I recommend that if you haven’t heard of “The Cure Starts Now“, you look it up. Seriously…is there any cause better than one that is trying to help save children?
3. She’s beautiful inside & out
I know…I already said she’s hot, but this is different. Because I think she IS hot…but being a beautiful person is totally different. She doesn’t have a bad intention in her body. She is always looking for the equality in life. And that is one of her strongest qualities.
2. She gives me my space
This might not seem like a great reason to love my wife, but when I need alone time, she gives it to me. When I’m gone for a while for work, she trusts me. When I need time with my friends, she tells me to go. It’s nice not being smothered, because when I need my time alone, she gives it to me. Thanks honey!
1. She’s an awesome friend
If you need an ear, she is ALWAYS available. You will never have a better friend than my wife. She can talk to just about anyone and if you need help with anything, she will drop whatever she is doing to be there. I used to think her allegiance to her friends was a little much, but I see now that it is just who she is. She loves to socialize and she is at her best when she is around people. Unlike myself, she is an open book…and she is always supportive, even if she doesn’t always agree with your opinion. It’s one of her best qualities and I love that about her!
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Fab Five Texas Cheerleader Scandal

Here are the cheerleader photos of the McKinney Texas Fab Five! These girls were very naughty in school.
The latest news is that there is a naughty documentary about the Fab Five McKinney cheerleaders which will premiere on Lifetime in August 2008. Actress Ashley Benson plays a naughty Texas cheerleader while Tatum O’Neal plays the school principal. More photos of the Texas cheerleaders are here.
Jan. 2, 2007 – The pictures posted on MySpace.com looked like the latest installment of “Girls Gone Wild.” In them, cheerleaders from McKinney North High School in Texas exhibited all variety of bawdy behavior. One shot showed a bikini-clad girl sharing a bottle of booze with a friend. Another featured a cheerleader and several other girls in risqué poses offering glimpses of their panties. But the most infamous photo of all was taken in a Condoms To Go store. Five smiling cheerleaders dressed in uniform posed with large candles shaped like penises. At least one of them appeared to be simulating fellatio. “It would be an overstatement to describe any of the photographs as pornographic, but it would be an understatement to describe them as harmless high jinks,” wrote Harold Jones, a lawyer hired by the school district to investigate the incident. “Quite frankly, I personally found it ‘creepy’.”
Cheerleader sex scandals are nothing new. One of the following pictures is the Louisville cheerleader who had porno photos plastered all over the net. The others are the Fab Five Texas cheerleaders. Can you tell who is who?THANKS TO:www.bollywood91.com
Fab Five Texas Cheerleader Scandal
Galleon Group

Galleon Group:Galleon Management, L.P. is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm primarily provides its services to pooled investment vehicles. It invests in the public equity markets across the globe. The firm makes its alternative investments in private equity. It primarily invests in the growth stocks. The firm employs a fundamental analysis with a long/short equity strategy to make its investments. It conducts in-house research to make its investments. The firm invests in the companies operating in information technology and communication industries. Galleon Management, L.P. was founded in January 1997 and is based in New York, New York
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Heene Hoax
Now that Balloon Boy is safe, it’s been revealed his family participated in reality TV show Wife Swap, and there’s even a t-shirt about the whole affair, the question seems to be turning to: was this whole thing a hoax?
An interview this evening on CNN is raising all sorts of questions and is likely to be making the rounds well into the night. Asked why he didn’t respond to his family calling his name, Falcon says, “you guys [his parents] said we did this for the show.” His parents, seemingly stunned by the answer, quickly try to change the story.
The video’s embedded below. What do you think: has the media been punk’d by Balloon Boy? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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Heene Hoax
Heene Hoax
Now that Balloon Boy is safe, it’s been revealed his family participated in reality TV show Wife Swap, and there’s even a t-shirt about the whole affair, the question seems to be turning to: was this whole thing a hoax?
An interview this evening on CNN is raising all sorts of questions and is likely to be making the rounds well into the night. Asked why he didn’t respond to his family calling his name, Falcon says, “you guys [his parents] said we did this for the show.” His parents, seemingly stunned by the answer, quickly try to change the story.
The video’s embedded below. What do you think: has the media been punk’d by Balloon Boy? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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Heene Hoax
Baby Stroller Train

Baby Stroller Train:MELBOURNE, Australia—Police in Australia say a 6-month-old baby has miraculously survived a train hitting his stroller that had rolled onto the tracks.
The train pushed the stroller about 130 feet (40 meters) along the tracks before it stopped.
Security video footage released Friday shows the mother looking away for a moment when the stroller suddenly rolls off the edge of a station platform and onto the tracks. The mother panics as she looks back and sees the oncoming train hit the stroller, but the baby boy survived with only minor injuries.
Victoria state Police Sergeant Michael Ferwerda called Thursday’s incident a “lucky escape” and said people should be cautious in train stations.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Police in Australia say a 6-month-old baby has miraculously survived a train hitting his stroller that had rolled onto the tracks.
The train pushed the stroller about 130 feet (40 meters) along the tracks before it stopped.
Security video footage released Friday shows the mother looking away for a moment when the stroller suddenly rolls off the edge of a station platform and onto the tracks. The mother panics as she looks back and sees the oncoming train hit the stroller, but the baby boy survived with only minor injuries.
Victoria state Police Sergeant Michael Ferwerda called Thursday’s incident a “lucky escape” and said people should be cautious in train stations.
Baby Stroller Train
Carolina Forest High School

Carolina Forest High School:Carolina Forest High School, located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, serves grades 9-12 in the Horry district. It is among the few public high schools in South Carolina to receive a distinguished GreatSchools Rating of 9 out of 10.
This school has an average Parent Rating of 4 out of 5 stars, based on reviews from 22 parents.
Carolina Forest High School
Danielle Chiesi

Danielle Chiesi:The founder of the Galleon Group, a big New York hedge fund, was charged on Friday with insider trading in the stocks of several companies, including Advanced Micro Devices, Clearwire and Akamai, earning about $20 million in the process.
Federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York accused Raj Rajaratnam, 51, with illegally obtaining and trading on information on these companies, which also included Polycom, Hilton Hotels, Google and People Support. He was charged with four counts of conspiracy and nine counts of securities fraud. (Read the complaints after the jump.)
Others charged by prosecutors include Mark Kurland, the president of New Castle Partners, another large money manager; Danielle Chiesi, a former Bear Stearns executive who now works at New Castle; Rajiv Goel, an executive at Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel; Anil Kumar, an executive at McKinsey & Company; and Robert Moffatt, an executive at I.B.M.
All six were arrested Friday morning. Five of the six are set to be arraigned in federal court in Manhattan Friday afternoon. Mr. Goel is set to be arraigned in California.
The prosecutors’ case is built on both statements from an unnamed cooperating witness, who has agreed to plead guilty, and from the recording of four conversations between the witness and Mr. Rajaratnam. The unnamed witness began conversations with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2007, which led to the phone taps.
According to the complaint, the witness first approached Mr. Rajaratnam in mid-2005 about divulging nonpublic information. That led to a scheme that ran from January 2006 through July 2007 involving insider information about three companies — Polycom, Hilton and Google — in which the hedge fund executive garnered about $12.7 million in profit. Mr. Rajaratnam reciprocated by supplying inside information about other technology companies.
Mr. Rajaratnam partnered with the likes of Mr. Goel and Mr. Kumar, who supplied information about their portfolio companies or clients, and in turn made profitable trades for these associates.
A spokesman for Galleon said in a statement: “Galleon was shocked to learn today that Raj Rajaratnam was arrested this morning at his apartment. We had no knowledge of the investigation before it was made public and we intend to cooperate fully with the relevant authorities. Galleon continues to operate and is highly liquid.”
Mr. Rajaratnam, a native of Sri Lanka, is listed as No. 551 on Forbes’s 2009 list of the world’s richest people, with an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion.
– Michael J. de la Merced
Danielle Chiesi
Dr Siegal S Cookie Diet

Eat your cookies and lose weight? Sounds like a diet dream come true. Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet plan is a program that helps you to lose weight while munching on his low-fat, fiber and protein-filled cookie which are also specially-formulated to suppress appetite via its secret recipe of amino acids. For more than 30 years, Dr. Siegal has been preparing, baking and distributing these cookie snacks to help people manage their weight loss goals. He still continues to Dr. Siegal personally mixes every batch of his proprietary protein formula in his private bakery near his Miami medical clinic.more
Dr Siegal S Cookie Diet
Ken Hutcherson

Ken Hutcherson:Pastor Ken Hutcherson is a man who makes the most of his controversial sound bites.
Take the reasoning behind his threat to organize a national boycott of Microsoft products if the company didn’t withdraw its support of state legislation banning discrimination against gays and lesbians: “They tried to make their policy my policy,” he said. “(I told them) that gave me the right to step out of my world into theirs and they wouldn’t like it.”
Or, last year, on his plans to organize a national rally against gay marriage in Washington, D.C., shortly before the November elections: “My idea here is to drop a spiritual bomb on D.C., like Spain, where they had the terrorist bomb,” he said, referring to the March 2004 Madrid train bombing that killed 191.
Or this, on why he got into football, before becoming a Christian: “It was the only sport where I could hurt white guys legally.”
It’s this outspokenness that has some lauding Hutcherson as a speaker of clear truths in a murky world, and others calling him an intolerant bully.
In the past year, Hutcherson, head of the 3,500-member Antioch Bible Church, has gained media coverage for organizing massive local and national rallies against gay marriage. But this last month brought him the most attention, as he claimed to have made Microsoft change its stance on the gay anti-discrimination bill, from support in past years to neutral this year.
Microsoft denies that, saying it decided to be neutral before the legislative session started — a statement both Hutcherson, and Rep. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, the bill’s sponsor, question.
Murray, who’s never met Hutcherson individually, said the pastor “came across in the (legislative) hearings as a bully.”
The bill failed by one vote in the Senate.
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Labeled “egotistical” Seattle gay-rights activist Bill Dubay, who was on a panel with Hutcherson last year, said the pastor interrupted him when he was introducing himself.
“He’s an egotistical bully,” Dubay said. “He talks about not having a personal agenda but he’s personalized the Bible to his liking. … He wants his religious beliefs to be followed by everybody else. That’s not the government’s role.”
Dubay takes issue with Hutcherson’s stance of hating the sin of gay sex but not the sinner.
“I compare that to saying, ‘I love Christians but hate Christianity.’ Or: ‘I hate women, but love my wife.’ That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard in my life.”
Hutcherson acknowledges that some think he’s egotistical.
“There’s a fine line between being so confident in God and being totally egotistical,” he says. “Those who don’t know me think I’m so egotistical. Those who know me know I love God and just want to do his will.”
For years, Hutcherson has condemned many sins, saying churches weren’t doing enough to combat them. In his own church, he calls forward members for public reprimand if they are repeatedly recalcitrant in repenting of sins such as divorcing for frivolous reasons, having sex outside of marriage or having gay sex.
Hutcherson’s supporters say those practices are simply making clear the rules of Scripture.
“It’s easy for churches to get wishy-washy,” said Adair Kreft, 35, a stay-at-home mom. She likes that Hutcherson is “standing on the truth and not backing down.”
It’s that certainty — the church motto is “black and white in a gray world” — that attracts many to Antioch, which holds Sunday services at a rented gymnasium at Kirkland’s Lake Washington High School.
They say Hutcherson is a funny and happy person — remaining jovial even through prostate cancer — and has been mischaracterized as a hate-filled preacher. What about the church’s free adoption service, or the low-income housing it supports, they ask.
“He’s not a pastor of hate,” said Dan Kreft, 32, Adair’s husband and a software engineer. “He preaches the word of God.”
That there are others with different interpretations of God’s word — for instance, a coalition of religious leaders led more than a thousand people in support of the gay-rights bill in Olympia earlier this year — is of little import to Hutcherson.
“I don’t give a rip what other people’s interpretations of the Bible are,” he said. “God is my coach. The Bible is my playbook. I play for my coach, what I think his playbook says.”
Outspoken since childhood
Hutcherson, 52, has been strong-willed — and vocal about it — since his childhood, growing up an illegitimate child in a poor home in Alabama.
He grew up experiencing racial prejudice, riding in the back of the bus and drinking from separate water fountains. In hospitals, for instance, he said black people would wait for days to see doctors, while white people got in ahead of them.
He is outraged by those who equate the racial civil-rights struggle with the fight for gay rights, saying the one is immutable, while the other is a choice.
“I’ve never run into an ex-black” although, he says, several ex-gays attend his church.
His hatred of white people dissolved, he said, after he became a Christian during a high-school assembly where a speaker was talking about God. Hutcherson, who says his life had been feeling empty, said he told God then, “OK, I’m yours.”
After college at Livingston University in Alabama, he went on to play pro football in Dallas and San Diego before playing linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks in 1976-’77. A knee injury ended his football career, and he eventually started Antioch, which grew out of a small Bible study group.
Today, he pastors a multiracial, but predominantly white, church and is married to a white woman of German descent. His wife, Pat, who is a stay-at-home mom, worked at Microsoft as a technical writer before they had their four children, whom Hutcherson refers to with a laugh as “German chocolate kids.”
Hutcherson has made waves for years, whether it be with huge billboards telling Christians to shape up or calling for a ban on the practice of adoption agencies charging more for prospective parents to adopt white children than those of other races.
Tactics raise questions
While his tactics and sound bites have garnered him press, even those who agree with his views wonder if it’s the best way to achieve shared long-term goals, especially in this state.
Cedar Park Assembly of God Pastor Joseph Fuiten, who also heads a statewide evangelical lobbying group, said he used to think Hutcherson was “just a flame thrower” but has come to respect his integrity and character and believes he has an attention-grabbing role to play in getting their message across.
Still, “in the evangelical community, I don’t know many people who would say they would approach this the same way as Ken,” Fuiten said. “There are people who say they wish he would tone it down.”
Especially in Washington state, which has one of the lowest church-going rates in the country, “you can only influence by cooperation, by working with people,” Fuiten said. “You can’t alienate people; you have to bring them on board.”
Hutcherson isn’t convinced.
“If God’s down there,” he said, pointing toward the distance, “I’m going to go. Join in or get run over by me.”
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Boy in Balloon

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Balloon Boy Hoax

The family of a 6-year-old boy who set off a nationally televised scramble when he was thought to be in a balloon over Colorado has been featured twice in the ABC show “Wife Swap.”
Falcon, the son of Richard and Mayumi Heene of Fort Collins, Colo., was found hiding in an attic above the family’s garage after authorities spent Friday afternoon looking for the boy. Falcon’s family was last on “Wife Swap” in March, favorites of the audience who had voted to have them featured again on the show’s 100th episode.
In “Wife Swap,” two mothers trade places for a few weeks. Producers try to match families with wildly different attitudes and lifestyles to see if sparks fly.
When they first appeared last fall, the Heenes were described as storm chasers who lived on the edge and were matched with a Connecticut family who considered safety to be paramount.
Viewers later voted for two families who had previously appeared on the show – including the Heenes – to be featured in a special 100th episode swap in March. ABC called the family “science-obsessed.”
“When the Heene family aren’t chasing storms, they devote their time to scientific experiments that include looking for extraterrestrials and building a research-gathering flying saucer to send into the eye of the storm. In this ultimate swap, the Heenes swap lives with a psychic mom who speaks to the dead and can control the weather, her husband and her children — who believe they are destined to be star,” the promotional copy read.
Father Richard Heene is an amateur scientist and storm chaser, according to a 2007 Denver Post profile. He is a co-author of the Web site The Science Detective.
The balloon saga captivated people around the country as they stopped to watch the jaw-dropping sight on television of the aircraft gliding through the air. Some wondered if the whole episode was a hoax.
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John Ondrasik

John Ondrasik, the incredible songwriter and lead singer with Five For Fighting, answers questions about his songwriting process. John has had a smash hit on each of his records, songs that most of us are familiar with. We start the article off with some background on John from his bio….more on
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Trisha Yearwood

Trisha Yearwood initially rose to fame as a protégée of Garth Brooks but quickly staked out her own identity as an assertive yet vulnerable modern woman. Yearwood was born in the small town of Monticello, Ga., in 1964 and grew up on a farm owned by her father, who also worked as a prominent local banker. She loved Elvis Presley as a child and sang in musicals, choral groups, and talent shows while in school.
She enrolled at the University of Georgia, but in 1985 she transferred to the music business program at Belmont College in Nashville. Yearwood served an internship with MTM Records and soon moved on to become an in-demand demo singer, which resulted in an up-and-coming Brooks hiring her as a backup vocalist. Yearwood appeared on Brooks’ 1989 debut and its blockbuster follow-up, No Fences, and with the help of producer Garth Fundis, she staged a showcase performance in 1990 that landed her a record deal with MCA.
Yearwood’s self-titled debut album was released in 1991, and the lead single, “She’s in Love With the Boy,” rocketed to the top of the country charts, making her an instant star. Three more singles from the record — “Like We Never Had a Broken Heart” (co-written by Brooks), “That’s What I Like About You,” and “The Woman Before Me” — all went Top Ten, and Yearwood toured as Brooks’ opening act, gaining immense exposure. As a result, she became the first female country singer ever to sell a million copies of her debut album — and later on, two million. Her follow-up was the acclaimed Hearts in Armor, which appeared in 1992 during the aftermath of a divorce. Two of its singles, “Wrong Side of Memphis” and the Don Henley duet “Walkaway Joe,” reached the Top Five, and the record as a whole established Yearwood as an artist of creative ambition; like its predecessor, it also went platinum. The title track of 1993’s The Song Remembers When went to No. 2 and she followed it with a Christmas album, The Sweetest Gift, in 1994; that year, she also married Mavericks bassist Robert Reynolds.more on
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Yovanna Guzman

Editor’s note: This article contains graphic images and video that some may find offensive. It’s the last of a three-part series showing different aspects of life inside Colombia’s drug gangs.
BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) — All that glitters may not be gold, but for Colombia’s narco-molls the most important thing is that it glitters. Beauty queens, fashion models, actresses or regular girls made good are lovers of drug capos and above all lovers of the finest luxuries that cocaine money can buy.
Few are prepared to speak publicly and even less to appear on camera.
Those who date mob bosses don’t want to blow their cover. It could expose their boyfriends to arrest and themselves to retaliation. In addition, it could bring anti-drug police sniffing, ready to seize ill-gotten gains.
Yovanna Guzman
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Chloral Hydrate

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433 Line Poem

433 Line Poem:“Through writing/ I bare myself:/ naked/ before you”
The above line is from the first poem, “Exposed,” of Elaine Woodward’s book of poetry and stories, Grandmother. Woodward, a Metis woman originally from Alberta but now living in Yellowknife, dedicated this book to two deceased women: her grandmother (presumably shown on the cover) and sister. It is clear from the poems that Woodward has had a lot of pain in her life (through an abusive marriage and through death), but fond memories of the aforemention women.
The lines from “Exposed” perfectly summarize the book to come. There’s a lot of honesty, told in a lot of cliché. And that’s about as harsh as I’m going to be. Grandmother, originally published by the now defunct Wordcrafting Publications (a company she started on her own), is no longer in print and so reviewing it would serve no great purpose. It’s wonderful that Woodward had poetry to turn to in times of stress and she’s a remarkable woman to have overcome what she did. Maybe someone who comes across the book at the local library will find solace in her words.
Plus, the illustrations by Autumn Downey are quite well done.
For comic relief only, here’s a poem from none other than Robert DeNiro as Jack Byrnes in Meet The Parents:
“You gave me life,
You gave me milk,
You gave me courage.
Your name was Angela,
An angel from Heaven.
But you were also an angel of God,
And He needed you, too.
I selfishly tried to hold on to you,
While the cancer ate away at your organs
Like an unstoppable rebel force.
And now we’ll meet in Heaven.
And I shall see you
Nevermore, nevermore, nevermore.”
(For what it’s worth, Woodward’s poetry is better than this!)
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