Playboy’s Bollywood Goddess Sherlyn Chopra makes startling revelation on Twitter

Sherlyn Chopra, Playboy’s Indian Goddess who is expected to appear on its October issue cover has made a starting revelation  on Twitter stating that she had slept with men for money in the past, Indian television channel NDTV reported.

Below is NDTV article…
Last evening, Sherlyn tweeted:
I’ve been receiving contact numbers on my twitter handle n on contact@sherlynchopra.com of those who wish 2 enjoy…..physical intimacy with me at a price….
In the past, on various occasions, I’ve had sex 4 money…out of all my past experiences of paid sex, there’s not a single one that I remember having indulged in out of free will….
The declaration was followed by an addendum that clarified she was “no longer available for paid sex.”
Sherlyn, who is described on the Playboy website as a ‘Bollywood Goddess’ despite having appeared in only one film of any note – Dil Bole Hadippa starring Rani Mukherji – explained: b’coz I’ve come to realize that I derive no pleasure or joy out of physical intimacy that is pursued out of ……obligation(mental/emotional/financial or any other kind)…….
Lest she be suspected of attention-seeking, Sherlyn began by saying:
Dear all, before I proceed, let me make it very clear that the intent of sharing the following confessions… is not to create public sympathy OR to raise eyebrows OR to project myself as a ‘bad girl gone good’….itz just to state a few facts…….
But if attention was really what she was seeking, attention was what she got. #SherlynChopra trended briefly, and it seemed from some of the comments on her Twitter feed that she was being hotly discussed in workplace coffee breaks.

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Reporter gets rare opportunity to visit marijuana cultivation in Golden Triangle

~The farmers are not allowed to sell their harvested plants to any one else other than a man addressed as “el señor’, who the author believes is the kingpin of Sinaloa cartel Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman
~Most of the people the reporter met is armed with AK-47s known as “cuerno de chico”, a slang word for the automatics in Spanish.
~Even 14 year olds own land to cultivate marijuana

An investigation by Mexican newspaper Rio Doce provides a rare look at the difficult life of marijuana farmers in the rugged mountains of Sinaloa.
After some initial difficulty, Miguel Angel Vega, a writer for the Sinaloa-based paper, was able to gain access to the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains located in the heart of the Golden Triangle, Mexico’s key drug producing region. The region, which spans three of Mexico’s 32 states, is known as the epicenter of marijuana and poppy production in the country. As Vega writes, the region’s rough terrain combined with the inherent danger of the job breeds hardy locals:

To live in the Sierra is to live in a constant state of neglect, where one is always “at the mercy of God.” If you don’t hunt a hare, deer or wild boar, there is hardly any meat to be had, unless you bring something with you from Culiacan. But besides the food, you also have to pay for electricity, oil, clothing, shoes and school supplies for the children; even though one can plant beans, squash and tomatoes, having money is essential to living there.

And yet there is no work to be had, no industry to create jobs, so it is difficult to stay afloat. And that is why locals continue to grow marijuana: despite encroaching signs of civilization like paved roads and electricity, it is the only product they can be sure will sell.
Upon arriving to the area with a guide, Vega sees that nearly all of the locals he met carried weapons, most often a “cuerno de chivo,” Mexican slang for an AK-47. According to locals, a gun is a necessary part of living in the Sierra, serving as protection from wild animals as well as one’s personal enemies. Much like settler communities in the days of the Wild West, bitter and sometimes violent rivalries are common between families in the isolated region, and can date back generations.

Despite their differences, Vega finds that locals share a detailed understanding of the intricacies of marijuana cultivation:
As with any other crop, marijuana requires a lot of care and dedication. From August to September, farmers undertake what is known as the “desmachadero” process, which consists of identifying the male marijuana plants in a plot and cutting them down to prevent pollination of the female marijuana plants. If this is not completed, the crop is ruined.
“If you leave the male plants, they produce these little balls, and these little balls release a dust that gets into the buds [of the female plant]. If that happens, instead of harvesting marijuana buds you harvest seed, and that’s where the crop is ruined,” explains “Pancho,” a farmer that has a plot of more than 50 square meters.
Like him, every local tends to his own little plot, from a 14 year-old boy to a 70 year-old man. They help each other, and if one of them falls behind in their “desmachadero,” the rest of the campesinos get together to lend a hand.
If the “desmachadero” process is carried out successfully, and locals are lucky enough not to have their crop eradicated by soldiers in the meantime, the marijuana is ready to harvest about a month later, in mid-October.
The locals, Vega learns, are only allowed to sell their harvested plants to one buyer, referred to simply as “el señor.” They can make up to 800 Mexican pesos per kilo for high quality marijuana, and as little as 200 pesos per kilo if it has seeds. His curiosity piqued, Vega asks a campesino if this “señor” could be the Señor, Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman:
The campesino hesitates slightly before answering, looking around. Finally he explains that while the entire Sierra does in fact belong to Chapo, he is not the one who manages purchases. However the buyers surely knows Chapo, and probably sells all the product on to Chapo Guzman. This man is the one who picks up the grass, and only he knows where he takes it. We just plant it, and if we lose it or if the army destroys it, then there is no money.
As InSight Crime has noted, however, the Sinaloa Cartel’s grip on the Sierra is not unchallenged. In recent months the rival Beltran Leyva Organization has been encroaching into the region in an attempt to increase their access to poppy and marijuana production. Human rights organizations say that the resulting violence has displaced as many as 25,000 rural Sinaloans.
The full article, in its original Spanish, is available at the Rio Doce website.
Source:Insight Crime

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Hollywood actor Tommy Lister and accountant charged for $ 3.8M scam!

LOS ANGELES—Actor Tommy Lister, who has appeared in approximately 100 movies, and a San Fernando Valley accountant were charged today in federal court with conspiring to commit mortgage fraud in a scheme that led to $3.8 million in losses.

Tommy Lister second from right

Lister, who is also known as “Tiny” and “Zeus,” a 54-year-old Chatsworth resident, was charged this afternoon in a criminal information with one count of conspiracy.
A second person involved in the scheme—Arcelia Chavez, 48, of Northridge, who is a self-employed certified tax preparer—was also charged today with conspiracy.
In plea agreements that were also filed this afternoon in United States District Court, both Lister and Chavez agreed to plead guilty to the conspiracy charges.
The court documents filed today outline a scheme that ran from November 2005 through June 2007 and involved Lister, Chavez, and several other individuals, including: Sami Sager Sweiss, formerly a mortgage loan officer based in Woodland Hills; Jason Patterson, a real estate agent in Long Beach; J.R., formerly a manager of a Washington Mutual Bank branch in Woodland Hills; and Wanda Tenney, formerly an escrow officer based in the San Fernando Valley.
Lister conspired with these individuals to fraudulently acquire title to four residential properties he could not afford. With the help of these individuals and others, Lister obtained mortgages for the four properties through fraudulent means, including submitting mortgage applications that included inflated income and asset amounts; fabricating bank statements and falsifying other documents to substantiate the fraudulent statements in the loan applications; and falsifying escrow records to deceive lenders into believing Lister had made required down payments.
In addition to fraudulently obtaining the mortgages, Lister and his co-conspirators concealed from lenders the fact that he would receive kickbacks from sellers after the real estate deals closed.
Relying on the fraudulent applications and documents, lenders issued mortgages totaling $5.7 million. Lister subsequently defaulted on the four mortgages, causing those lenders and their successors to lose approximately $2.6 million.
After acquiring title to the four residential properties, Lister obtained fraudulent home equity lines of credit on each of the four properties. Lister drew down a total of $1,146,000 in cash from the four HELOCs but did not pay back any of the principal.
Lister also admitted in his plea agreement that Chavez aided and abetted him in obtaining one of the fraudulent mortgages and a fraudulent HELOC by preparing a false CPA letter, as well as fabricating W-2s and a pay stub. The false CPA letter stated that Chavez had prepared Lister’s tax returns. Chavez separately admitted in her plea agreement that she prepared the false and fictitious documents, actions that caused lenders to lose approximately $1.1 million.
Lister and Chavez will be summoned to appear in federal court in Los Angeles in September.
The charge of conspiracy carries a statutory maximum sentence of five years in federal prison.
On July 30, 2012, Sweiss pleaded guilty to a conspiracy count before United States District Judge Dale S. Fischer. As part of his guilty plea, Sweiss admitted that he conspired with Lister, Patterson, Tenney, and Chavez to commit mortgage fraud. Sweiss is scheduled to be sentenced on March 18, 2013.
The charges in this case are the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and IRS-Criminal Investigation.

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Railroad employee wins $ 337M Jackpot

The Michigan winner of the $337 million Powerball claimed his prize today, joking about taxes, early retirement and his first purchase after becoming a mega-millionaire, ABC News reports

When Donald Lawson, 44, approached the podium to accept his giant check, he jokingly pointed to the blank line on the check and told the lottery commissioner, “My name goes here.”
He then asked whether the amount was tax-free, and Michigan lottery Commissioner Scott Bowen laughed and replied, “I’m afraid not, brother.”
Lawson of Lapeer, Mich., chose to take the cash lump sum of $224.6 million.
The railroad engineer quit his job after his Aug. 15 win and told his whole family to do the same.
“Everybody that’s related to me, as far as my whole [immediate] family, was told to retire and they had no problem with that,” Lawson said.
Lawson, a frequent lottery player, recalled buying his ticket at a Sunoco gas station. He said he usually buys the Quick Pick tickets with automatic numbers, but when he saw a line of five or six people, he decided to hand-pick his numbers. Read More

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9/11 changed driving behavior of U.S drivers~study finds

* In the year following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, there were approximately 1,600 more traffic fatalities in the United States than expected. This figure suggests the possibility that fear may have been a strong motivator for many people, leading them to choose driving over flying. This change in behavior, motivated by fear, may have ultimately led to additional deaths through traffic fatalities.

A catastrophic event – such as a terrorist attack, a natural disaster, or market collapse – often strikes twice. There is the damage caused by the event itself, as lives are lost or left in ruin. But there is also the second act, catalyzed by our response to the catastrophic event. This second act has the potential to cause just as much damage as the first, the association for psychological science said in a news release today.

In the year following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, there were approximately 1,600 more traffic fatalities in the United States than expected. This figure suggests the possibility that fear may have been a strong motivator for many people, leading them to choose driving over flying. This change in behavior, motivated by fear, may have ultimately led to additional deaths through traffic fatalities.
But fear does not tell the whole story. As Wolfgang Gaissmaier and Gerd Gigerenzer of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, observe, the changes in driving behavior observed after 9/11 varied widely across different regions of the United States and did not just occur in those states closest to the attacks where fear was presumably strongest.
Gaissmaier and Gigerenzer hypothesized that another factor might have played a central role: driving opportunity. While fear provides a motivational explanation, in order for people to substitute driving for flying there had to be an environmental structure that allowed fear to manifest in a behavior change.
The researchers explore this hypothesis in a new research article to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
They collected data on the number of miles driven and the number of traffic fatalities per month from each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. They also gathered data on fear and driving opportunity. They used proximity to New York City to get an approximate measure of post-9/11 fear, as previous research had shown that proximity was linked with substantial stress reactions after the attacks. To measure driving opportunity, they assessed the length of nationally significant highways in each state in the National Highway System, divided by the number of state inhabitants and they also looked at the number of car registrations per inhabitant.
The results of the analyses show that people did in fact drive more following 9/11: Across all states, the average monthly increase in miles driven per inhabitant was 27.2 miles in the three months following the attacks. This increase was significantly greater than that observed in the same three-month period in the five years leading up to 2001.
Interestingly, people who were closer to New York City showed only a slight increase in driving. Increase in miles driven was strongly associated, however, with greater driving opportunity. Most importantly, increased driving was associated with an increase in traffic fatalities. These findings suggest that fear can lead people to engage in potentially dangerous behaviors, such as increased driving, but that understanding fear is not enough.
“To be able to foresee where the secondary effects of catastrophic events could have fatal consequences, we need to look at the environmental structures that allow fear to actually manifest in dangerous behaviors.”
According to Gaissmaier, understanding citizens’ behavior as a function of both the mind and the environment ultimately allows for two routes toward behavior change: altering people’s minds (through education or awareness campaigns) or altering people’s environments.

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Autopsy: Porn actor “Sledge Hammer” who clashed with police died of neck trauma

LOS ANGELES — Adult performer Sledge Hammer died of neck trauma, a severe lack of oxygen to the brain and an inflammation of airways to his lungs, an official from the L.A. County coroner’s office said Friday. But in spite of a cause of death now being determined for the popular performer whose legal name was Marland Anderson, it remains unclear what led to these conditions, the coroner added, Xbiz Newswire services report.

The autopsy findings concluded that the exact causes of Anderson’s death were “neck compression,” “acute anoxic encephalopathy” and “aspiration pneumonia,” Ed Winter, assistant chief coroner for LA County, told XBIZ.
Winter said in addition to these findings that toxicology results have also been completed, but those results are not yet available. The toxicology results had been “deferred” for almost 16 weeks as additional tests were conducted.
“For some reason he became unresponsive and we don’t know why his airway was closed off,” Winter said. “And there was no broken [neck bone], but there was compression.”
Anderson died on April 13 at the age of 39. He had been in a coma for five days as a result of a cardiac arrest in the early morning hours of April 9, after an altercation with several Los Angeles police officers.
LAPD Commander Andrew Smith on Friday confirmed to XBIZ that an internal investigation into the police’s handling of the incident is “still ongoing.”
“Yes, we are investigating it,” Smith said.
The incident started when Anderson’s girlfriend, adult performer Alexa Cruz, called 911 about 1 a.m. on April 9 from the Reseda apartment where they had lived together for over a year when it appeared that Anderson might be suicidal.
When police and medical personnel tried to take him to the hospital in the ambulance, Anderson, who was suffering from what Cruz said was severe insomnia and mild schizophrenia, did not want to go. When he resisted, LAPD officers tried to subdue him twice with a Taser, using a technique called contact Tasing in which the darts aren’t fired, an LAPD official told XBIZ at the time. Instead, the Taser is placed on the subject’s body in an attempt to get him to comply. This technique, also known as a “Drive Stun,” is intended to cause pain without incapacitating the target.
Both times the Taser was used on Anderson it was ineffective, LAPD spokesman Lt. Andrew Neiman said in April, adding that bodily force from several police officers, possibly between six and eight, was ultimately what got Anderson under control.

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Indians who made “Time Magazine” cover

Aamir Khan is the latest in an elite group of Indians, that includes Mahatma Gandhi and Sachin Tendulkar, to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine. He’s also the fourth Bollywood star and it’s second leading man to have received this distinction.

Aamir was preceded by Parveen Babi in 1976 and Aishwarya Rai in 2003. The first actor to be make the cover was Shah Rukh Khan in 2004.
When Parveen Babi landed on the cover of Time’s July 1976 issue, she had just appeared in the blockbuster film Deewar. Directed by Yash Chopra and written by Salim-Javed, Deewar was a seminal film that broke many stereotypes of mainstream Bollywood. It marked the rise of Amitabh Bachchan as the Angry Young Man, and established Parveen Babi as “the new woman.”
Babi’s working girl character in the film smoked, drank and slept with her lover, activities previously left to the vamps and gangster’s molls. Deewar’s Anita shattered existing cinematic convention and paved the way for a new breed of heroines led by Babi and Zeenat Aman.

The cover story of the July 1976 issue of Time was about ‘Asia’s Frenetic Film Scene,’ and ‘India’s Parveen Babi’ was chosen as representative. This reportedly caused some heartburn among the other leading ladies of the time.

Babi appears on the cover in a black, skimpy-for-the-time costume hung about with pearls. Babi’s career was brief compared to those of contemporary actresses like Hema Malini and Rekha – she flickered out in the early Eighties, later returning to public consciousness as an overweight, paranoid former star to accuse Amitabh Bachchan and some others of conspiring to kill her. But in 1976, Parveen Babi represented the changing face of Indian cinema, a Bollywood of rule-breakers and experimentation.27 years later, Aishwarya Rai was deemed by Time the ‘New Face Of Film,’ leading ‘the invasion as Bollywood goes global and becomes hip.’ Aishwarya, already the numero uno actress at home with an award-winning role in Devdas the previous year, was about to star in her first international project, playing a desi Lizzie Bennet in Gurinder Chaddha’s Bride And Prejudice. She had begun her long and fruitful parallel career as the Indian face of L’Oreal at the Cannes Film Festival. A wax version of Aishwarya would join future father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan in Madame Tussaud’s the next year – only the second Bollywood star to be given this honour. In 2006, she would make her first appearance on the holy grail of US daytime TV – The Oprah Winfrey Show.

The next year, Shah Rukh Khan made the cover of a special issue that looked at ‘Asia’s Heroes: 20 Under 40.’

The cover story looked at a ‘new generation taking centrestage’ in Asia. 2004 was also a critically and commercially successful year for SRK who starred in Main Hoon Na, Veer Zaara and Swades. All three roles fetched him Best Actor nominations, and he scooped the award for Swades.And now, nearly a decade after Ash and 36 years after Parveen Babi, TV show Satyamev Jayate puts Aamir Khan on the cover of Time.
Written by Gitanjali Roy of NDTV

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Sri Lankan asylum seekers rescued after being in rough seas for nine days without food or water

Sikakap, Indonesia: Indonesian fishermen on Friday rescued 43 starving, dehydrated Sri Lankans who had been adrift in a boat for nine days after their engine broke down while trying to reach Australia to seek asylum, police said, NDTV reported quoting Associated Press

Another group of about 60 Sri Lankans in a boat, also apparently heading for Australia amid a surge in attempts to arrive before a tough deportation policy takes effect, were seeking food and drink from communities nearby on Mentawi island in western Indonesia, Police
Captain Abdurachman Suryanegara said, citing reports from residents in the area.
Australian officials have noted a big spike in asylum seekers trying to make the dangerous sea journey to the country ahead of an immigration policy that goes into effect in the coming weeks.
A boat with about 150 asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Pakistan sank off Indonesia’s main island of Java on Wednesday, leaving at about 95 people missing.
The Sri Lankans with engine trouble were discovered by fishermen off Mentawi island on Friday and towed the ashore, where the passengers were given medical treatment and placed in a temporary shelter pending processing by immigration authorities, Suryanegara said.
Members of the group, which includes four women and three children, are weak but in stable condition, he said. The group had run out of food and water after losing engine power nine days earlier, he said.
“Thank God they were found. They would have died if they were found any later,” Suryanegara said.
He said police would try to catch up with the second group of Sri Lankans on Saturday.
The islands of Indonesia have long been a transit points for people fleeing war-ravaged countries on their way to Australia. Read More

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Chemical exposure in the womb from household items may contribute to obesity

Pregnant women who are highly exposed to common environmental chemicals – polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFCs) – have babies that are smaller at birth and larger at 20 months of age, according to a study from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health published online in the August 30 edition of Environmental Health Perspectives, Emory News reported.

PFCs are used in the production of fluoropolymers and are found widely in protective coatings of packaging products, clothes, furniture and non-stick cookware. They are persistent compounds found abundantly in the environment and human exposure is common. PFCs have been detected in human sera, breast milk and cord blood.
The study, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, included 447 British girls and their mothers in the United Kingdom participating in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a large-scale health research project that has provided a vast amount of genetic and environmental information since it began in the early 1990s.
The researchers found that even though girls with higher exposure were smaller than average (43rd percentile) at birth, they were heavier than average (58th percentile) by 20 months of age. The authors say this path may lead to obesity at older ages.
“Previous animal and human research suggests prenatal exposures to PFCs may have harmful effects on fetal and postnatal growth,” says lead researcher Michele Marcus, MPH, PhD, a professor of epidemiology in Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health and the assistant program director at Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research.
“Our findings are consistent with these studies and emerging evidence that chemicals in our environment are contributing to obesity and diabetes and demonstrate that this trajectory is set very early in life for those exposed.”
According to Marcus, a recent study in Denmark found that women exposed to PFCs in the womb were more likely to be overweight at age 20. And experimental studies with mice have shown that exposure in the womb led to higher levels of insulin and heavier body weight in adulthood.
Marcus and her colleagues focused on the three most studied PFCs: perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFS), perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS).
The researchers measured maternal serum concentrations of PFOS, PFOA and PFHxS during pregnancy and obtained data on the weight and length of the girls at birth, 2, 9 and 20 months. They explored associations between prenatal PFC concentrations and weight at birth as well as changes in weight-for-age scores between birth and 20 months.

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Worker kills colleagues in morning rampage in New Jersey

OLD BRIDGE, N.J. (WPIX)—Three people are dead including an alleged gunman, following an apparent shootout inside a New Jersey supermarket Friday morning.

Police arrived to the Pathmark, located at 1043 Route 9 near Ernston Road in Old Bridge, to respond to reports of shots fired inside the store at about 4:15 a.m. Reports say the gunman was a disgruntled current employee who was attempting an armed robbery.
The alleged gunman was working the overnight shift and left at 3:30 a.m. to walk back to his home in the Park Ridge Apt. complex behind the Pathmark. He then changed into camouflage and donned a bullet-proof vest, and armed himself with an AK-47 and a shotgun.
He went back to the supermarket at 4 a.m. and opened fire, killing two co-workers. The victims were employees who were restocking shelves at the time of the shooting. Reports say the victims were a 18-year-old woman and 24-year-old man who were Old Bridge residents.
At least 16 shots were fired by the gunman. Police did not fire any shots.
Officials said in a press conference that they do not believe the two vicitms were targeted, rather all the employees were targets.
The other 12 to 14 employees who were in the store either hid from the gunman or escaped from the store. They were the ones who contacted police to report the shooting.
The gunman had then apparently barricaded himself at the back of the store. He had already killed himself by the time SWAT team discovered his body and the body of the two victims. The gunman is said to have been a 23-year-old former Marine, and neighbors tell PIX11 News his name was “Tyrese.”
The Pathmark employees were escorted by police to a staging area established at the T.G.I. Friday’s, across the parking lot from the supermarket, for questioning. They were later taken to a nearby police precinct. Read More

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Former Japanese IBM chief accused of filming up the skirt of a woman

TOKYO —A former president of IBM Japan has been questioned by police after allegedly filming up the skirt of an unsuspecting woman in a train station, local media reported Thursday, Japan Today reported.
Takuma Otoshi, 63, used his iPod to take the illicit footage as the woman rode an escalator at a busy Tokyo station, the Yomiuri Shimbun and the Mainichi Shimbun reported.

StockpicTakuma Otoshi, 63, used his iPod to take the illicit footage as the woman rode an escalator at a busy Tokyo station, the Yomiuri Shimbun and the Mainichi Shimbun reported.

Passers-by saw what he was doing and reported him to police officers who found the recording, the papers said. Otoshi told officers he was “interested in voyeurism”, according to investigators.
Broadcaster NTV said the case would be sent to prosecutors “soon.”
Otoshi was president of the Japanese unit of the U.S. giant from December 1999 to January 2009. For around the last nine months of his term, he was also chairman, a position he continued to hold until May 2012, when he became the most senior adviser to the firm, according to IBM Japan’s website.
A company spokesman Thursday said he had resigned from that post. He gave no details about the resignation and said the company had no comment on the media stories.
Police in Tokyo refused to confirm the allegations.

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Anti Obama campaigners insult the President of the nation on billboards

HANSON —Each time Eric Folsom drives by the anti-President Obama campaign sign in Hanson, he tries to shield his young children from seeing it – that’s because it shows a young girl giving the middle finger to the president, the Patriot Ledger reported.

“If (my 6-year-old daughter) saw that, she’d say ‘Why is that little girl doing that? What does that mean?’” said Folsom, 27, of Whitman. “How do I explain that?”
Just a few feet away outside Sullivans Inc., a motorcycle accessories distributor at 121 Franklin St., is another large sign showing the president. It says: “Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot. Obama One Big Ass Mistake America, Vote Mitt Romney for 2012!” Two images of the hammer and sickle, which are symbolic of communism, are shown on Obama’s shirt collar.
Are the signs over the top?

Some passers-by said the campaign signs go too far and are offensive, while others said it’s a matter of free speech. Either way, the signs have drawn a lot of attention on Franklin Street in this small town of about 10,000 and they violate town bylaws, said Hanson officials.
Robert Sullivan, the business owner, did not get a necessary permit to put up the signs, said Hanson building commissioner and zoning enforcement officer Robert P. Curran.
“It is a sign that … is in violation of general bylaws,” Curran said Wednesday. “It also doesn’t meet any of the zoning bylaw criteria for the signs to exist as they are.”
Curran informed Sullivan of the violations in a letter from the town dated Aug. 2, town records show.
When The Enterprise visited the business Wednesday, Sullivan sent down an employee who said he would not comment.
Sullivan’s attorney, Roger S. Davis of Quincy, cited free speech when asked about the signs Wednesday.
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High school cheer leading squad forced to offer lap dances

The cheer leading team at Reitz Memorial High School, a Catholic school in Evansville, Indiana, is dealing with a bizarre hazing scandal, Heavy reported.

Stockpic: Not actual pictures of high school cheer leaders

This summer, the 30-member cheer team from Reitz Memorial attended a four-day, “elite” level cheer camp held by the Universal Cheerleaders Association at the University of Tennessee. The same cheer camp the cheerleaders of Reitz Memorial have been attending for more than a decade.
Now, an anonymous letter written by the mother of one of the cheerleaders (see the letter below) is making the rounds. It was sent to media outlets and dropped in random mailboxes around Evansville. The letter alleges that some horrific hazing took place at this cheer camp.
According to the letter, all the junior cheerleaders pooped in a single toilet and then locked the sophomore cheerleaders inside with the toilet, warning them there’d be trouble if they flushed. They then forced them to strip and give lap dances to stripped-down junior cheerleaders who treated it as a contest and mocked the sophomore cheerleaders bodies, calling them fat and ugly.
This all lasted three hours, during which many of the sophomore girls were crying and one even peed herself in fear.
The juniors told the sophomores that they would lose their place on the squad if they didn’t participate in the hazing, told anyone about it, or if they didn’t do the same thing to the sophomores next year.
After the hazing was reported to the school an investigation was launched during which the juniors admitted to the hazing, but said that they were forced to do it by coaches Jill Mitchell and Kim Schmidt who told them that it was a 15-year tradition and they’d be kicked off the team if they didn’t do the hazing that hey had also suffered when they were sophomores.
The coaches said it was a bonding experience and it’d bring them closer together. Read More

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Mayor of small U.S town trampled to death by stud donkey

An aggressive donkey is being blamed for the death of Hollywood Park Mayor William “Bill” Bohlke, My San Antonio Newspaper reported.

He was found on his Atascosa County ranch about 50 yards from his truck about 10 p.m. Monday, at least 10 hours after a stud donkey apparently attacked him, Atascosa County Chief Deputy David Soward said Wednesday.
“They can become very aggressive, very mean, sometimes triggered by a female in heat,” Soward said. “We’ll probably never know what triggered it, but it was evident that this particular donkey was involved, based on the evidence at the scene and what we saw on this donkey.”

When asked if Bohlke was kicked or trampled, Soward replied, “We can just surmise, based on the evidence that we have, all of that.”
“Bill suffered a fatal injury while taking care of his prized cow herd near Pleasanton,” read the family’s statement on the city of Hollywood Park’s website. “Bill, your mayor, dearly loved serving you, our community, and we only wish he was here to continue doing so.”
Soward said the door of his truck was open and the engine was running, and it appeared Bohlke was killed between 11 a.m. and noon Monday.
The donkey, average-sized at about 500 pounds, remained on the property, Soward said. He told the Associated Press that it’s up to the family to decide what to do with the animal. Read More

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Author of controversial book “No Easy Day” may face charges for violating U.S Navy agreement

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Matt Bissonnette, author of “No Easy Day” that describes the killing of Osama Bin Laden may face charges for divulging military secrets, according to well informed sources.
The Guardian Express of Los Angeles learns that a letter was sent to Bissonnete on Thursday to pin point that he had signed a non disclosure agreements with U.S Navy in 2007, never to divulge any classified information. According to sources Bissonnette may be in violation of agreements.

Cover of the book was published in Daily Mail.

Bissonnette was the member of the sniper team that rescued American captain Richard Phillips in Indian Ocean when the ship was hijacked by Somali Pirates in 2009.
Author was also a member of the U.S Naval Special Warfare Development Group.  The group’s missions are highly secretive and most of the “operation techniques “are not even commented by the white house.
The publishing house of the book, Dutton Subsidiary of Penguin was quoted by several media outlets that no secret information was leaked in the book. The book scheduled to be released on September 11th, the same day another book written by Robert D Kaplan about Iranian power in Middle East titled “The revenge of Geography” to be released.
Read the excerpts of the book on Daily Mail.

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American guard pleads guilty for attempting to sell U.S defense secrets to Chinese

WASHINGTON—Bryan Underwood, a former civilian guard at a U.S. Consulate compound under construction in China, pleaded guilty today in the District of Columbia in connection with his efforts to sell for personal financial gain classified photographs, information, and access related to the U.S. Consulate to China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS).

At a hearing today before U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle, Underwood pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to communicate national defense information to a foreign government with intent or reason to believe that the documents, photographs, or information in question were to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation.
The guilty plea was announced by Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Ronald C. Machen, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office; and Eric J. Boswell, Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security.
Underwood, 32, a former resident of Indiana, was first charged in an indictment on August 31, 2011, with two counts of making false statements and was arrested on September 1, 2011. On September 21, 2011, he failed to appear at a scheduled status hearing in federal court in the District of Columbia. The FBI later located Underwood in a hotel in Los Angeles and arrested him there on September 24, 2011. On September 28, 2011, Underwood was charged in a superseding indictment with one count of attempting to communicate national defense information to a foreign government, two counts of making false statements, and one count of failing to appear in court pursuant to his conditions of release. Sentencing for Underwood has been scheduled for November 19, 2012. He faces a maximum potential sentence of life in prison.
“Bryan Underwood was charged with protecting a new U.S. Consulate compound against foreign espionage, but, facing financial hardship, he attempted to betray his country for personal gain,” said Assistant Attorney General Monaco. “This prosecution demonstrates that we remain vigilant in protecting America’s secrets and in bringing to justice those who attempt to compromise them.”
“Bryan Underwood was determined to make millions by selling secret photos of restricted areas inside a U.S. Consulate in China,” said U.S. Attorney Machen. “His greed drove him to exploit his access to America’s secrets to line his own pockets. The lengthy prison sentence facing Underwood should chasten anyone who is tempted to put our nation at risk for personal gain.”
“Bryan Underwood sought to benefit from his access to sensitive information, but his attempted betrayal was detected before our nation’s secrets fell into the wrong hands,” said FBI Assistant Director in Charge McJunkin. “Together with our partners, the FBI will continue to work to expose, investigate, and prevent acts of espionage that threaten our national security.”
“The close working relationship between the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service, the FBI, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office resulted in the capture and conviction of Bryan Underwood before he could harm the security of our country,” said Assistant Secretary of State Boswell. “The Diplomatic Security Service is firmly committed to thoroughly investigating all potential intelligence threats to our nation.”
According to court documents, from November 2009 to August 2011, Underwood worked as a cleared American guard (CAG) at the construction site of a new U.S. Consulate compound in Guangzhou, China. CAGs are American civilian security guards with top secret clearances who serve to prevent foreign governments from improperly obtaining sensitive or classified information from the U.S. Consulate. Underwood received briefings on how to handle and protect classified information as well as briefings and instructions on security protocols for the U.S. Consulate, including the prohibition on photography in certain areas of the consulate.
Plan to Sell Information and Access for $3 Million to $5 Million
In February 2011, Underwood was asked by U.S. law enforcement to assist in a project at the consulate, and he agreed. In March 2011, Underwood lost a substantial amount of money in the stock market. According to court documents, Underwood then devised a plan to use his assistance to U.S. law enforcement as a “cover” for making contact with the Chinese government. According to his subsequent statements to U.S. law enforcement, Underwood intended to sell his information about and access to the U.S. Consulate to the Chinese MSS for $3 million to $5 million. If any U.S. personnel caught him, he planned to falsely claim he was assisting U.S. law enforcement.
As part of his plan, Underwood wrote a letter to the Chinese MSS expressing his “interest in initiating a business arrangement with your offices” and stating, “I know I have information and skills that would be beneficial to your offices [sic] goals. And I know your office can assist me in my financial endeavors.” According to court documents, Underwood attempted to deliver this letter to the offices of the Chinese MSS in Guangzhou but was turned away by a guard who declined to accept the letter. Underwood then left the letter in the open in his apartment hoping that the Chinese MSS would find it, as he believed the MSS routinely conducted searches of apartments occupied by Americans.
In May 2011, Underwood secreted a camera into the U.S. Consulate compound and took photographs of a restricted building and its contents. Many of these photographs depict areas or information classified at the secret level. Underwood also created a schematic that listed all security upgrades to the U.S. Consulate and drew a diagram of the surveillance camera locations at the consulate. In addition, according to his subsequent statements to U.S. law enforcement, Underwood “mentally” constructed a plan in which the MSS could gain undetected access to a building at the U.S. Consulate to install listening devices or other technical penetrations.
According to court documents, the photographs Underwood took were reviewed by an expert at the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security who had original classification authority for facilities, security, and countermeasures at the U.S. Consulate. The expert determined that many of the photographs contained images classified at the secret level and that disclosure of such material could cause serious damage to the United States.
In early August 2011, Underwood was interviewed several times by FBI and Diplomatic Security agents, during which he admitted making efforts to contact the Chinese MSS, but falsely claimed that he took these actions to assist U.S. law enforcement. On August 19, 2011, Underwood was again interviewed by law enforcement agents, and he admitted that he planned to sell photos, information, and access to the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou to the Chinese MSS for his personal financial gain.
The U.S. government has found no evidence that Underwood succeeded in passing classified information concerning the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou to anyone at the Chinese MSS.
This investigation was conducted jointly by the FBI’s Washington Field Office and the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security. The prosecution is being handled by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and Trial Attorney Brandon L. Van Grac

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Please hire my wife”

TOLEDO, OH (Toledo News Now) - ‘Please Hire My Wife’ is a billboard put up downtown Toledo by a husband in efforts to help find a job for his wife.

Brandon Stuard wanted to do something special for wife Holly Stuard in what seemed like a never ending job search. One day it hit him, a billboard built to look like a resume for thousands to see.
“Over the last five or six months, she’s had a few opportunities come along that we thought looked really positive and unfortunately they just didn’t work out,” said Brandon Stuard.
Holly Stuard lost her job at the University of Toledo a year ago due to budget cuts and has been searching ever since.
“I felt a sense of, she was getting a little frustrated, but not losing hope. But I wanted to do something maybe help lift her spirits if nothing else,” said Brandon Stuard.
Then the “Please Hire My Wife” went up.
“Had I asked, it probably would have never gone up, so I had to do it behind the scenes,” said Brandon Stuard.
“I think I definitely would have said no. I would have thought it would have been too embarrassing to have my face up on a billboard but, now I’m having fun with it and hopefully a good opportunity will come out of it,” said Holly Stuard.
The billboard gives Holly’s credentials which include business experience, academic experience and an MBA. Holly has two degrees from the University of Toledo. Holly knows what she wants to do; she just needs someone to give her a chance.
“What I would really love to do would be to lead the training and development of an organization, to work with the on-boarding of new employees to focus on developing the existing talent and helping organizations improve their overall effectiveness, to really help organizations maximize performance by tapping in to asset, tapping in to their human capital,” said Holly Stuard.
“I know she’s trying extremely hard, no one prepares like she does. So, it’s difficult to watch so, this is, I feel like this is probably the best I could come up with to help her out,” said Brandon Stuard. Read More

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Woman giving away $ 65,000 Lotus sports car in return of her lost engagement ring.

BOHEMIA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – A Long Island woman is desperately trying to find her lost engagement ring.

Graphic designer Annemarie Albate, who got engaged in December, believes she dropped the ring Tuesday in the parking lot of the Kmart store in Bohemia.
Albate said she had taken off the ring and put it in her front pocket along with her wallet.

“I was just about to put it on, when I got in the car and I had thrown the wallet in the car,” Albate said. “I think when I pulled the wallet out, the ring came out as well and I didn’t notice it until I was on the road on my way to work.”
Albate has posted an ad under the lost and found section on Craigslist and created a page on Facebook in hopes of finding the ring. Read More

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270 miners face murder charges under “outdated’ South African apartheid law.

Lonmin miners that were arrested at Marikana mine earlier this month have been charged with the murder of 34 of their colleague who were shot by police during violent protests earlier this month, South African Mail & Guardian reported

The politically controversial move falls under the “common purpose” doctrine because the 270 miners were in the crowd that allegedly incited police on August 16.
The “common purpose” doctrine was used by former apartheid forces against black activists fighting against National Party rule.
The BBC reported on Thursday that at the time, the ANC campaigned against the doctrine that is now being used.
There is speculation that critics will accuse the ruling party of behaving like the apartheid regime.
Police opened fire on the protesting crowd, killing 34 and wounding 78 others. A commission of inquiry, set up by President Jacob Zuma, has yet to give its final report.
‘Infamous doctrine’
The miners appeared in the Ga-Rankuwe Magistrate’s Court on Thursday where their bail application was postponed to next week.
“This is a very outdated and infamous doctrine,” lawyer Jay Surju told the BBC’s Focus on Africa.
“It was discredited during the time of apartheid.”
The best known case was that of the “Upington 14″, who were sentenced to death in 1989 for the murder of a policeman in 1985.
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Frank Lesenyego told the BBC the workers would all face murder charges – including those who were unarmed or were at the back of the crowd. Read More

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No more “good mornings” at Russian St.Petersburg subway, you may be detained

In St. Petersburg, members of the local group Tesamie are not allowed to say “Good morning” to the passengers of the city subway, Russian newspaper Pravda reported.
The members of the group for quite a long time dress up in costumes, masks and hats, go to various stations of the St. Petersburg subway and hold glowing signs with “Good morning,” “Have a good day” and other positive messages written on them. For some reason, the police detain the members of the group on a regular basis.
“Giving people good is forbidden” the band members wrote on their page on a social network after the most recent arrest. “We were arrested on Ladozhskaya station on Friday, although it was not the 13th. We never ask for help, but when it comes to absurdity and the problem doesn’t get solved, it is only the public opinion that can help,” they wrote.
There is no political motive in such actions, but it appears that law-enforcers do not seem to care about that. They already compare Tesamie to Pussy Riot, whose three members have recently been sentenced to two years in prison for the infamous “punk prayer” at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. To prove their point, the young people uploaded an audio of their communication with a police officer.
“Do you need to have a paper with a stamp to say kind words to another person in Russia?” a member of Tesamie said.Read More

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“Jersey Shore” comes to an end

“Jersey Shore” will be no more, Variety Reported

MTV has decided to cancel its signature franchise series following the upcoming sixth season, which launches Oct. 4. Ratings for the last few seasons have been declining, and the cabler decided to make the announcement five weeks before the final season so it can market it as the last, hoping that viewers who may have turned away will return to say goodbye.

It was December 2009 that the network introduced America to a houseful of fist-pumping, tan-loving and partygoing Italian-American twentysomethings. Soon after the debut, personalities such as Snooki, the Situation, Pauly D and JWoww became part of the cultural conversation.
The series, which was a big destination for the 12-34 demo, hit a ratings high for the premiere of the third season when 8.4 million tuned in. By the fourth episode, that record was shattered when 8.8 million viewers watched and it remains the most-watched series episode in MTV history.
As part of the marketing plan to promote the final season, MTV will air the one-hour retrospective special “Gym, Tan, Look Back” at 6 p.m. Sept. 6 prior to the net’s “Video Music Awards” telecast. At 7 p.m., as part of the net’s kudocast preshow, the “Jersey Shore” cast will discuss the last season. Read More

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Mass Sacrifice Found Near Aztec Temple

Sixteen feet (five meters) below street level in Mexico City, archaeologists have found a jumble of 1,789 bones from children, teenagers, and adults along with the complete skeleton of a young woman, the National Geography said.

The burial, dating to the 1480s, lies at the foot of the main temple in the sacred ceremonial precinct of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, founded by the Aztecs in 1325. The Aztecs dominated central Mexico until falling to Spanish conquistadores in 1521.
Although several burials with multiple remains have been uncovered previously in this precinct, this is the first that includes human bones from such a wide span of ages.
The discovery offers a rare opportunity to study Aztec funerary rituals and religious beliefs. Few burials from that culture have come to light, most likely because they lie beneath modern buildings.

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Putin is demonized while democracy fails in America~Paul Craig Roberts writes

The latest “rights group” to jump on Russia’s President Putin about Pussy Riot is RootsAction. Following the propaganda line that Washington has established, RootsAction’s appeal for money and petition signers states that the three Russian women were sentenced to two years in prison “for the ‘crime’ of performing a song against Russia’s president Vladimir Putin in a Moscow church”, writes Paul Craig Roberts, the Chairman of Institute of political economy.

This statement is a propagandistic misrepresentation of the offense for which the women were tried and convicted.

I have expressed my sympathies for the convicted women, and as a member of Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union, I support human rights.
But I do not support the use of human rights organizations in behalf of Washington’s propaganda.

If Putin or some other official has the power to commute the sentences, I hope he uses it. But I do not think that the concerted Western propaganda campaign against Putin encourages that result. Twice as many Russians support the sentence than oppose it.
If the sentence is commuted in response to the Western propaganda campaign against Putin, Russian nationalists will depict Putin as a weak leader unable to stand up to Western intimidation. The more internal dissension there is in Russia, the easier for Washington to marginalize the country and kick it out of Washington’s path to the overthrow of Syria and Iran by brutal human-rights-violating violence, such as Washington has applied to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
The State Department, the EU, and human rights groups are sufficiently politically astute to be aware of this fact. Yet, the propaganda continues.
As Putin has said, “we know what Comrade Wolf is up to.” But what about the human rights organizations? What are they up to? Have they been incorporated into Washington’s propaganda machine, like the Western media, or are they latching on to Pussy Riot as a visibility and fundraising issue for themselves?
Do-good organizations hurt for money, because compassion for others is not in abundant supply. Pussy Riot is a fundraising opportunity. If the Russian government succumbs to the propaganda, it provides an opportunity for human rights organizations to tout their influence. In other words, human rights organizations have independent reasons to align with Washington’s propaganda. Their alignment does not necessarily mean that they are conscious tools of Washington. Read More
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NORTH COUNTY — Another batch of court documents was released Wednesday in the case of slain Marine wife Brittany Killgore, providing more details about the investigation that led to three people being charged with murder, San Diego Union Tribune Reported.

Louis Ray Perez, 46, Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino, 37, and Jessica Lynn Lopez, 25, have each pleaded not guilty in connection with Killgore’s death. At some point, all three lived at a house in Fallbrook, where Killgore is believed to have died.

Sheriff’s investigators searched the home in April and seized several items, including prescription drugs, toys and paraphernalia related to sadomasochism, a note titled “slave rules,” and a slave contract.
They also confiscated power tools, a stun gun, knives, duct tape and clothing.
“Based on my training, experience and investigation, I believe that Perez, Maraglino and Lopez were involved in sexual behavior which included bondage, torture, and master, servant and slave role playing,” said Detective Susan Fiske in a search warrant affidavit.

The detective said she believed Killgore, 22, was an “unwilling participant” in those activities.
Her body was found in a roadside ditch near Lake Skinner in southwest Riverside County a few days after she was last seen on April 13. She appeared to have been strangled. Read More

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Killers scrawl “free pussy riot” in victims blood on wall

The bodies of a 76-year-old mother and her 38-year-old daughter were found in their Kazan apartment near a wall daubed with the words “Free Pussy Riot,” apparently in the victims’ own blood, investigators said Thursday, the Moscow Times reported.

A lawyer for three Pussy Riot punk rockers sentenced on Aug. 17 to two years in prison for singing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral called the English-language message “a dirty provocation.”
A senior Russian Orthodox official urged international celebrities like Madonna and Paul McCartney to withdraw their support for Pussy Riot to prevent further killings, while a lawyer for Russian Orthodox believers who sued Pussy Riot for the performance blamed the punk group for the deaths.
The bodies of the two women were found with multiple stab wounds in Tatarstan’s capital on Wednesday, the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
Investigators believe the killings of the women, who were not identified, took place sometime between Aug. 24 and 26.

While a Pussy Riot supporter might have been involved, all signs point to a robbery, including the “total mess” in the apartment, said Andrei Sheptitsky, a spokesman for regional investigators.
The killer might have written the message under the influence of alcohol or drugs or “as a cover-up,” Sheptitsky said by telephone. Alternatively, he said, the killer might have been “simply insane.”
Investigators refused to say whether they had any suspects.
Decrying the bloody message as a provocation, Pussy Riot lawyer Nikolai Polozov said the group’s supporters were “mostly people who stick to legal ways of protest,” Interfax reported. On Twitter, he warned journalists against calling the killers Pussy Riot supporters.
But a headline Thursday afternoon on state-run news website Vesti.ru seemed to do just that, reading, “People Have Begun to Kill for Pussy Riot.”
Mikhail Kuznetsov, a lawyer for the plaintiffs in the trial, said that if the musicians had been convicted of inciting religious hatred, “tragedies like the one in Kazan … would have been avoided,” Interfax reported. The defendants were convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.
Kuznetsov speculated that the masterminds of the February performance in Christ the Savior Cathedral might have been involved in the Kazan killings.
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Ashton Kutcher plays the role of Steve Jobs in “Jobs”

Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher, who is playing the role of late Apple great Steve Jobs in a biopic, has been spotted shooting for the movie in the by lanes of old Delhi, India’s NDTV said.
According to a report published in The Hindustan Times the 34-year-old actor has already shot at the Safdarjung tomb on Tuesday (August 28) and in Vrindavan on Wednesday (August 29).
Ashton, who is staying at the famous Claridges Hotel in the capital, will reportedly also shoot in Uttarakhand and Jharkhand, and leave India on September 3.
Steve Jobs, who died of cancer in October 2011, made a journey of self-discovery to India 35 years ago. While the exact dates are unknown, it’s accepted that he spent between one and three months here sometime between 1974 and 1976. His Indian adventures included roaming the streets of the capital in a lungi, being swindled by a fake holy man near Nainital and falling victim to the dreaded Delhi belly.
The movie, titled Jobs: Get Inspired, is being directed by indie filmmaker Joshua Michael Stern and will release later this year.

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Nine Indian Air Force officials killed in mid air collision

Jamnagar, Gujarat: Nine air force officials, including five officers, were killed after two Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters collided mid-air near Jamnagar in Gujarat today, said an air force spokesperson, NDTV said.

The two Mi-17 helicopters crashed into each other around 12:25 pm, shortly after they took off from the Jamnagar base. The accident happened over the Sarmat field firing range in Sharmath, 12 kilometres south west of Jamnagar. (See pics)
According to initial reports, the Russian-made helicopters came very close to each other while carrying out formation flying and firing exercise. The upper rotators of both the helicopters came in contact, leading to the collision. Read More

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