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I found these stunning images while researching Fashion Week in China, and lucky for us, they weren’t censored. We can anticipate more panda pandering as the Olympics draws near.
Bandi Panda Fashion Show
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A model displays the “Pandi Panda” creations by designer Zhao Bandi catwalk on stage during the China Fashion Week in Beijing, China, Sunday, Nov 4, 2007.
I’ve recently been enjoying Australia’s Daily telegraph. Below is a funny op-ed piece about Nicole Kidman and the modern celebrity in general.
Nic’s drama bad like her acting
The Daily Telegraph Au | By Brendan Shanahan | November 23, 2007 12:00am
Along with cardigans and bad acting, privacy has been one of the great themes of Nicole Kidman’s life.
Until this week, that is, when she was finally forced out of her cloister, blinking into the sunlight, to give evidence against a paparazzi photographer accused of stalking her.
This can’t have been easy for a person as private as Nicole. I mean: how would you feel if only days after you appeared in the media talking about your miscarriages you had to appear in court, reliving the terrifying ordeal of being photographed in your car?
Just thinking about it makes me feel violated.
Privacy has not always come easily to Nicole Kidman. Her struggle began when she innocently married a Hollywood megastar who thinks that there are dead aliens in volcanos and psychiatry is evil.
Doing their best to keep the passionate affair a secret, the newlyweds embarked on almost 10 years of worldwide publicity before finally calling it quits.
Tired of spending almost a decade ignoring the fact her husband was barking mad and repulsed by the empty celebrity life, “our Nic” decided to get serious.
So she made The Hours and won an Academy Award by wearing a rubber nose and a straw hat – in Hollywood this is called “acting”.
Yet, despite outward appearances, there was still something missing, a hole in her heart that no percentage of her $200 million-dollar fortune could fill.
Tired of looking for love in all the wrong places and realising none of her films were making any money, Nicole needed a simpler, quieter relationship without all the fuss of celebrity scandal – so she dated Lenny Kravitz before marrying Keith Urban, Grammy-nominated country star with a serious drug and alcohol problem.
Since then, in between her husband’s bouts of rehab and tell-all stripper exposes, Nicole somehow managed to continue making bad movies and appear in Vanity Fair looking wan and fragile.
Seriously, what does she have to do before everyone will just leave her alone?
I for one am sick and tired of the indignities that have been foisted upon Nicole Kidman.
It’s time for us to take a stand, to say enough is enough. After all, isn’t she just a human being like the rest of rest of us?
A really, really famous human being whose head regularly appears in billboard sizes on movie screens across the world? A human being who was paid almost five million bucks to do a three-minute perfume commercial?
A human being who will, apparently, tell us anything we want to know about her except cool stuff like how crazy Tom Cruise really is?
Nicole Kidman is a self-professed “artist” and should be treated as such – ie, left to labour away in obscurity and poverty. Maybe then she will finally find the happiness she craves.
The great nation of Turkey has nothing to do with Thanksgiving. But I found this Turkish lingerie site days before North America slaughters masses of Turkeys on the altar of familial love and gluttonous gratitude.
This year I will be grateful for a secular Muslim nation like Turkey. A nation where a lady may HAVE to wear a headscarf to cover a fantasy bra and panty set! C’mon go to the TurkeyLingerie site and buy something-just so you can tell folks your petticoat came from TurkeyLingerie.com!
Wanna make this turkey? Directions can be found here.
There are a few elements of this story that seem suspicious, but if it were smuggled into Australia you’d expect the smugglers to be on the “down low” about it, not blabbing to authorities. Or if you smuggled an illegal animal you no longer wanted-you’d prolly just kill it. Whereas if you and your mate saw a snake fall from the sky you might tell anyone who’d listen, especially a cute blond Sheila like the one shown.
This snake ain’t no fake
Article from: Herald Sun Australia | November 19, 2007 12:00am
A Sunday morning turned snaky when a this reptile fell from a tree on to a footpath in Fitzroy St, St Kilda.
The corn snake, which is native to North America, was found outside the George public bar and was caught and held by one of the regulars until police arrived.
Keith Larner from the Department of Sustainability and Environment said corn snakes were an exotic species and were illegal.
“A person found in possession of a corn snake can face fines of up to $110,000 and/or five years’ jail,” he said.
Bar manager Mick Hocking said the snake fell from the sky. “I was chatting to one of our security guards and all of a sudden we noticed something fall from the sky,” Mr Hocking said.
“At first we thought it was a rubber snake,” he said.
“Then it started moving and looking around. We’ve both gone: ‘That’s a snake’.”
The snake has been confiscated by DSE which is investigating the matter.
I reckon having your remains scattered in the “Happiest Place on Earth” beats having your remains sprinkled in the line at the DMV. My fave cremains story, is when David Sedaris allegedly sprinkled the ashes of his forever housebound city kitty on the carpet and vacuumed them up. As you’ll see in the photos, Jack Sparrow, has now been added to the Disney ride that inspired the movie that created his character. Now if Johnny Depp’s ashes get sprinkled in the water on the ride….
Possible Scattering Of Human Remains On Disney Rides Reported
Ride Closed, Police Alerted After Woman Seen Dumping Substance On Ride
http://www.local6.com/news | POSTED: November 15, 2007 | UPDATED: November 16, 2007
Disneyland workers were recently forced to close the “Pirates of the Caribbean” attraction after a ride security camera caught a woman apparently dumping human remains, in what may be a growing trend.
Workers at the Anaheim theme park spotted the woman sprinkling an unidentified substance into the water on the “Pirates” ride. Anaheim police were notified of the incident.
The woman told Disney park workers that the substance she dumped was baby powder, but officials are investigating the possibility that she sprinkled human ashes, Local 6 reported.
Some Disney watchers said park-goers tell them that people smuggling in the cremated remains of their loved ones and then sprinkling ashes on rides has been going on for a while.
They said it started at the Haunted Mansion, but now the “Pirates of the Caribbean” ride is growing in popularity.
Al Lutz, who runs Miceage.com, told KABC that it is not unusual for people to scatter a loved one’s remains at the happiest place on earth.
Disney officials said they were unaware of any confirmed ash-scattering incidents in the park and didn’t believe it to be a problem, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Park officials said there was no real way of knowing if cremated remains were dumped into the “Pirates” ride.
Though I was never a huge fan, I always had an awareness of and respect for the trailblazer born in Tookiedoo SC. Until I read her obit I never knew how long and distinctive a career she’d had. Further reading suggests Miss Moolah may have died from complications from shoulder, perhaps shoulder replacement surgery. The world just got a lil more boring.
Friends wrestle with loss of Fabulous Moolah
Famed female wrestler from Columbia dies at age 84
LEE HIGGINS | thestate.com | Sun, Nov. 04, 2007
In the scripted, fabulist world of wrestling, the Fabulous Moolah was all real.
She wore bling before anyone called it that. She was a showman who clearly was all-lady.
“I love old people and I love babies,” she told The State in 2005. “And if anybody else steps in my way, I’ll just kick (their butt). That’s the way it is.”
The Fabulous Moolah, the legendary female wrestler who called Columbia home and became the first female inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame, died Friday.
She was 84.
Born Mary Lillian Ellison in 1923, she was raised in the Tookiedoo neighborhood near Blythewood — the youngest and only girl of 13 children. Her mother died of cancer when Ellison was 8.
Father-daughter time for Ellison meant attending weekly pro wrestling matches in Columbia.
Ellison was trained in the ring in the 1940s by then-women’s champion Mildred Burke — the sport’s biggest star at the time, according to the WWE.
Moolah held the world’s championship for 28 years, from 1956 to 1984.
The next year, she won it again for two more years.
In 1999, at age 76, she reclaimed the title for a final time.
She acquired her “Moolah” moniker when a wrestling promoter asked her why she wanted to wrestle.
Her response: “For the money! I want to wrestle for the moolah!”
Moolah’s signature move? The “Backbreaker,” according to WWE.
Her daughter, Mary Austin, 66, of Myrtle Beach, said Saturday night from her mother’s home on Moolah Drive that Ellison, who had six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, loved her family and wrestling.
“She was famous, but I never looked at her that way,” Austin said. “She was just Mom, someone that was always there for me. Someone I could turn to.”
Professional wrestlers mourned the loss on the WWE Web site.
Katie Glass, 63, of Columbia, also known as “Diamond Lil,” a former professional midget wrestler for 25 years, was taken under Ellison’s wing when she was 17.
Glass saw Ellison wrestle in Richmond, Va. Ellison took Glass to live with her in Columbia and coach her.
“She just taught me the basics, the holds, how to get somebody down, lock them down and everything,” Glass said Saturday night.
Glass is struggling with the death.
“It’s gonna be hard, I’ll tell you. We’re doing the best we can. She was there for me. She’s a very nice lady. I’m gonna miss her dearly and I love her very much.”
In 2005, Ellison was featured in a documentary film, “Lipstick & Dynamite: The First Ladies of Wrestling.” Moolah also wrote an autobiography, “The Fabulous Moolah: First Goddess of the Squared Circle.”
Funeral arrangements have not been set.
I’m a little slow in posting this story that seems to happen every hunting season.
Hunter Recovers After Being Shot by Dog
Oct 30, 2007 | DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)
A hunter is recovering after he was shot in the leg at close range by his dog, who stepped on his shotgun and tripped the trigger, an official said Tuesday.
James Harris, 37, of Tama, was hit in the calf Saturday, the opening day of pheasant season, said Alan Foster, a spokesman with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
“He had surgery and is doing pretty well,” he said. “He took between 100-120 pellets in about a 4-inch circle to his calf.”
Harris was listed in good condition Tuesday, officials at University Hospitals in Iowa City said.
Harris was hunting with a group about three miles north of Grinnell. The group shot a bird, and when Harris went to get it, he put his gun on the ground and crossed a fence. As he crossed the fence, his hunting dog stepped on the gun, Foster said.
The gun was about 3 feet away from his leg.
“The muzzle velocity is so great that the pellets don’t have a chance to spread out,” he said.
No one else was hurt, and the dog was not injured.
Foster said no citations have been issued.
I’ve culled these photos from many sources. She’s named after the 4 armed Hindu Goddess of Wealth and is apparently doing well after surgery. For more on her story, click here.
This story has captured the hearts, minds and imaginations of people around the world. Want to see many photos of this little girl? Click here.
Surgery successful on eight-limbed girl
Gulf Daily News-Voice of Bahrain | November 8, 2007
BANGALORE: Indian surgeons yesterday said they had successfully removed the extra limbs from a two-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs, in a gruelling operation that lasted more than a day.
The girl, named Lakshmi after the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, was born fused at the pelvis to a “parasitic twin” that stopped developing in the womb.
She had absorbed the organs and body parts of the undeveloped foetus, a condition that occurs once in 50,000 conjoined twin births, requiring the rare, risky operation – the first of its kind performed in India.
After more than 24 hours of surgery, Lakshmi was breathing yesterday with the aid of a ventilator and under observation at the intensive care unit of Bangalore’s Sparsh Hospital.
“I’m very relieved and proud of my team,” said Sharan Patil, the orthopaedic surgeon who led the team that operated on her.
“But we still have 48 to 72 hours in the post-operative period we have to be extremely careful about.”
“She is a very small, delicate child and has been through a major operation,” the doctor said. “Even very small things can cause a major impact so we are keeping a very close watch on her.”
A team of 36 doctors covering a range of specialities from paediatrics to plastic surgery removed Lakshmi’s extra limbs, saved one of her kidneys that was in both bodies and reconstructed her pelvis.
Doctors said the girl would have been unlikely to live into her teens with her condition.
“The surgery went according to the plan – every step of it was successful. There were no setbacks whatsoever,” a tired but cheerful Patil told a Press conference.
Patil, who thanked the “blessings of elders and the good wishes of the entire country” for the success of the surgery, said doctors would remain at the hospital until Lakshmi stabilises.
Monitoring
Doctors had said that Lakshmi had an 80 per cent chance of surviving the procedure.
“We have to monitor her very closely for the next two to three days before we are able to say anything more,” said a hospital spokeswoman.
“Having said that, she is not in any kind of danger right now,” she added. “The operation was a success, and she looks normal now, with two arms and two legs.”
Lakshmi was brought to Bangalore by her parents Shambhu, a labourer from eastern Bihar state, and Poonam, for the surgery. The hospital bore the cost of the operation, estimated at 2.4 million Indian rupees (BD22,604).
Last week, a privately-run hospital in Mumbai offered free surgery to separate four-year-old conjoined twins – Veena and Vani – after their parents said they did not have enough money to pay for the surgery.
To quote the owner of the cow, ” I have yet to figure out how to tell our children what happened to her.” Amen. With this fine story I’m adding a new category-Falls.
Couple escapes injury when falling cow hits minivan.
KING5.com Staff | MANSON, Wash | 06:33 PM PST on Tuesday, November 6, 2007
A Michigan couple is lucky to be alive after their minivan was hit by a falling cow on Sunday.
According to a report in the Wenatchee World newspaper, Charles Everson, Jr. and his wife Linda were driving on Highway 150 about one mile east of Manson in Chelan County when a cow fell about 200 feet off a cliff and landed on the hood of their minivan.
“It was ‘bam’- you just saw something come down and hit the hood,” Everson told the newspaper from a hotel room in Manson.
Everson, 49, and his wife were visiting the area from Westland, Michigan, near Detroit, and were headed back to their hotel after attending a church service.
Chelan Co. Fire Dist. 5
A 600 pound cow fell 200 feet from a cliff near Manson, WA, landing on this minivan driven by Charles Everson, Jr.
The newspaper cites Everson saying he didn’t see the animal until it hit and didn’t realize what happened until after the impact.
“I’m like, ‘I don’t believe this, I don’t believe this, I don’t believe this,’” Everson told the newspaper.
“It’s funny because it was such a close call,” Arnold Baker, Chelan County Fire District 5 Chief told the World. “Inches different and the couple in this car would have been killed.”
The Eversons were examined at Lake Chelan Community Hospital and released. The cow was euthanized at the scene.
Rena Albertson
“Michelle” was owned by Rena Albertson of Rockin A Rodeo Bulls.
Rena Albertson, the owner of the cow, said the animal was named Michelle and the family had raised her from a calf.
“She was a long way from home, lost and scared,” said Rena Albertson. “She was at a breeding facility since August and had broken away from their control about three weeks ago.”
Anderson said after weeks of attempting to contain Michelle, the breeder was right behind her on a four-wheeled ATV, but an hour later she was dead.
“She is very missed and I have yet to figure out how to tell our children what happened to her,” said Albertson.
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If you are angry enough and resourceful enough I reckon ANYTHING can be a weapon. Upon closer reading it seems home invasion, cutting phone lines and verbal threats were the main offense with the throwing of 2 pickles, a furious flourish.
Pickle assault no laughing matter. Buchanan man gets probation for a year for encounter with former friends.
October 30. 2007 | DEBRA HAIGHT | www.southbendtribune.com
NILES — Sometimes a pickle can be used as a weapon. While that might sound funny, it was anything but for a Buchanan man sentenced in Berrien Trial Court on Monday.
Bobby Lee Bolen, 35, of Main Street in Buchanan, was sentenced to 54 days in jail with credit for 54 days already served, placed on one-year of probation and ordered to pay $1,150 in fines and costs as well as $270 in restitution for third offense home invasion.
The incident occurred Aug. 20 at a home on Moccasin Street in Buchanan. Two counts involving Bolen’s assaults on Jody Lee and J.W. Romanski III were dismissed as was a charge of cutting or interfering with phone lines.
According to police reports, the three were friends before Bolen broke into Lee’s home, got into an argument and threw two large pickles at them.
“If this is not the silliest case I’ve seen in this courtroom, it certainly is in the top 10,” Judge Scott Schofield said Monday. “The fact that it’s silly doesn’t mean that it’s not serious.
“To invade someone’s home and assault them is serious and the person who does that deserves to be punished. This action is deserving of time in jail, but no more time than what has already been served.”
Assistant Prosecutor Kelly Travis called the whole situation “completely needless.” “The victims and Bolen were friends and they got into this situation over pickles,” she said.
“Mr. Bolen is in need of anger management so maybe he can get to the bottom of why he would commit a felony over pickles,” she said. “This is a wake-up call for what he has done in the past and how he can change his actions in the future.”
Defense attorney Robert Lutz said he thought alcohol was at the root of Bolen’s problems as evidenced by the fact that he would get into these problems because of pickles. Schofield agreed and ordered a substance abuse evaluation for Bolen as part of his probation.
The British press had this article with more photos and more info not just on this siting but on Bigfoot in general. The critter in questions does seem to have long legs for a bear, but never having spent much time with bears I’m no judge.
Is this Bigfoot … or is it a bear with bad skin?
Last updated at 10:02am on 30th October 2007 | www.dailymail.uk.co
It is furry, lives in the woods and walks on all fours.
Beyond that, there are no hard facts about the furtive creature spotted prowling around the foot of a tree in Pennsylvania.
But its mysterious appearance has prompted a storm of speculation – and prompted many Bigfoot believers to grab their cameras and head for the woods.
Others, however, believe it’s just a bear with bad skin.
The animal was photographed by Rick Jacobs, who captured the images after fastening a camera with an automatic trigger to a tree in the Allegheny National Forest on September 16.
He had hoped to get pictures of deer – but instead ended up with something more sinister.
“I couldn’t figure out what it was,” he said. “But I’ve been hunting for years and I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Mr Jacobs contacted the Bigfoot Research Organization, which pursues reports of the legendary two-legged creature, also known as the sasquatch, that some people believe lives in parts of the U.S. and Canada.
“It appears to be a primate-like animal. In my opinion, it appears to be a juvenile Sasquatch,” said Paul Majeta of the Bigfoot group.
Despite the furore, the Pennsylvania Game Commission has a more conventional opinion.
Agency spokesman Jerry Feaser said conservation officers routinely trap bears to be tagged and often see animals that look like the photos.
“There is no question it is a bear with a severe case of mange,” Feaser said.
According to most reports, Bigfoot is a large ape with dark brown or dark reddish hair.
There have been recorded sightings of the creature since 1840 but most scientists dimiss the sasquatch as myth.
However, the Bigfoot legend refuses to die and there have been a number of elaborate hoaxes, as well as some possible genuine spots.
The best known and most controversial was a film shot by two Americans Roger Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin which purported to show a genuine recording of Bigfoot.
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