Men hide behind an injunction and it's the girl who winds up getting hated. It is unfair

Gags aren't funny ... Divine Brown is not a fan of injunctions


THE rich and famous men who hide behind super-injunctions while leaving their lovers to hang out to dry have been slammed - by a woman who should know.


Divine Brown, the LA hooker who infamously got caught performing a sex act on actor Hugh Grant, said:"Getting an injunction and hiding their own name while the women get slandered is just terrible.
The case of Big Brother beauty Imogen Thomas - who is being publicly abused for her fling with married Ryan Giggs - has further fuelled Divine's rage.
Imogen, 28, is powerless to put her full side of the story because of a super-injunction taken out by the footballer.


Divine added: "These days women like Imogen should stand up for themselves. We have to take all the heat and the men act like we don't exist.


"Next thing you know we've got hate mail, we're liars. It'sjust straight-up bulls**t. We don't want our names shamed and slandered.


"I'd tell Imogen to hang in there, be strong. Hopefully one day we can meet and talk because I understand what she's going through.
"My heart goes out to her. Stay strong, sweet girl - and be more careful who you fall in love with.


"I believe when you've been busted, stand up and be counted.Own up and take responsibility."
However, Imogen's case is very different to Divine and Grant's and there is no suggestion whatsoever that Imogen was ever involved in prostitution.


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Turkish League Focus: Singing 'We are the Champions' again

CELEBRATION: Semih Şentürk (C) lifts the Spor Toto Super League trophy as Alex (L) looks on. AA photo

Here comes that old song, "We are the Champions" again. The ultimate victory anthem in sport was being used in television spots to mark Fenerbahçe's Turkish league title over the weekend, as it regularly is, but in this case, the Queen song fits in slightly better than most examples; the bit "It's never been a bed of roses" is an especially good description of the Yellow Canaries' remarkable rally to overtake Trabzonspor in the second half of the season.



Fenerbahçe’s road to its 18th Super League title clearly was not a bed of roses. Be it the early elimination from the Champions League against an unheralded Young Boys side, or the subsequent knockout from the Europa League against PAOK Salonika, it was close to being the worst of starts.



Domestic competition offered nothing better either. There came a string of defeats that saw the team slide nine points behind leader Trabzonspor and the team hit the bottom when it was ousted from the Ziraat Turkish Cup by Yeni Malatyaspor, a hapless third-tier team.

Women’s Football: Steph Houghton is a happy Gunner

STEPH HOUGHTON admits she was living the dream as she picked up the Women’s FA Cup with Arsenal on Saturday.

The 23-year-old from South Hetton played the full game as the Gunners saw off plucky Bristol Academy 2-0 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

First half goals from Kim Little and Julie Fleeting sealed the victory.

“Overall we deserved to win on our first half performance alone. We could have been 4-0 up at half-time,” said the former Sunderland player.

“I’m so happy to win my first FA Cup and my first trophy with Arsenal.

“I can’t really put into words the feeling of when I got my winner’s medal and lifted the FA Cup in front of my family.

“It’s definitely what dreams are made of and I’m sure it won’t sink in for a few months still.”

First-time finalists Bristol made a lively start as they looked to pressure their heavily-fancied opponents,

Anouk Hoogendijk headed wide from an early corner but Arsenal soon rammed home their superiority as, after Ellen White had a shot blocked and former Sunderland star Jordan Nobbs volleyed over, Little fired them ahead in the 19th minute.

The impressive Scottish midfielder received the ball on the edge of the Bristol box after a cross from Houghton was only partially cleared. Little nutmegged one defender and beat another before slotting home.

Fleeting had a shot blocked but the striker then doubled the lead after 32 minutes.

Full-back Niamh Fahey got forward down the left and her cross allowed the striker to head home from eight yards.

Bristol sought a response after the break, although Arsenal remained in control of the contest, and they came within inches of getting a goal back as Helen Bleazard’s free-kick came back off the bar.

Little had a late chance to grab her second goal but Siobhan Chamberlain saved well from close range after Jennifer Beattie headed a Houghton free-kick across goal.

The Gunners will now look to complete a league and cup double when the Super League resumes for the second half of the season. They are second, four points behind Birmingham and with a game in hand.

“Winning the FA Cup has made the team hungry for more trophies,” added Houghton. “Our focus has to be on the league when on fixtures resume in July.”

Next up for Houghton, though, could be the World Cup in Germany as she is hoping to make the final cut in Hope Powell’s England squad.

Apontada como suposta namorada, Nicole Bahls fala sobre filho de Neymar: ‘É uma benção’

Depois de ser apontada como a nova namorada de Neymar, Nicole Bahls disse que ainda não é namoro, mas que tem um carinho especial pelo jogador. “Não estou namorando com ele, mas o conheço muito bem. Prefiro deixar a dúvida no ar, mas tenho um carinho especial por Neymar e ele por mim”, revelou. 

Sobre a notícia que o jogador vai ser pai, a modelo disse que dá todo o apoio. “Filho não é doença, é uma benção. Dou todo o meu apoio e estou muito feliz por ele. Tenho certeza que ele será um pai maravilhoso, assim como é uma pessoa maravilhosa e o melhor jogador do mundo. Quero que o filho dele puxe ao pai e seja um menino responsável, carinhoso e maravilhoso. Com certeza esse neném será um anjinho na vida de Neymar”, finalizou. As informações são do Ego.

Modelo já havia usado o mesmo modelo em outra oportunidade em outra cor

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Yuri Gagarin proved humans have future in space

It was the Soviet Union's own giant leap for mankind, one thatwould spur a humiliated United States to race for the moon. It happened 50 years ago Tuesday, when an air force pilot named Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. The 27-year-old cosmonaut's mission lasted just 108 minutes and was fraught with drama: a break in data transmission, glitches involving antennas, a retrorocket and the separation of modules. And there was an overarching question that science had yet to answer: What would weightlessness do to a human being? "There were all kinds of wild fears that a man could lose his mind in zero gravity, lose his ability to make rational decisions," recalls Oleg Ivanovsky, who oversaw the construction and launch of the Vostok spacecraft that carried Gagarin. The flight was to be fully automatic, but what if weightlessness caused Gagarin to go mad and override the programmed controls? The engineers' solution was to add athree-digit security code that the cosmonaut would have to enter to gain command of the spacecraft. It proved unnecessary. The flightwent off safely, and the handsome Russian with the big smile became a poster boy for the communist world, still a national idol 43 years after his death in a jet training accident, and remembered with enormous affection by the last surviving pioneers of the Soviet space program at Star City outside Moscow, where he trained. From the stern and uncompromising chief designer, Sergei Korolyov, to young nursesand rank-and-file launch pad workers, "people loved, really loved him," Ivanovsky said in a telephone interview. Read more at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/16/MNQ61IRCTD.DTL

JFK airport collision shows risks of huge planes

NEW YORK - A frightening collision between one of the world's largest airliners and a commuter jet on a dark, wet tarmac at John F. Kennedy International Airport is underscoring worries about ground accidents as U.S. airports begin handling a new generation of giant planes. A total of 586 passengers and crew members were aboard the two aircraft Monday night when the left wing of an Airbus A380 operated by Air France clipped a Bombardier CRJ-700 regional jet flown by Comair, spinning the smaller plane nearly 90 degrees. No one was injured. The superjumbo Airbus is so immense — as tall as a seven-story building, with a wing span as wide as a Manhattan block — that its wing almost cleared the smaller plane. But not quite. "It's the sheer size of these aircraft and the congestion at these airports that's the problem," said Allan Tamm, a consultant with Avicor Aviation, based in Portland, Ore.

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Fashionably late ‘Everygirl’ Maria Menounos

“EveryGirl’s Guide to Life” scribe Maria Menounos, who advises readers to “be proud of your body, but not obvious,” is no stranger to the wardrobe malfunction.

So when the “Access Hollywood” honey came to town over the weekend
in a white minidress that could have caused an oopsie moment like her
on-the-beach bikini brouhaha in Miami last January, the girl broke her
always-on-time mantra.

“I had to stop and get a slip,” Maria told the Track at a book brunch bash at 94 Mass. Ave., where she kept guests waiting for 45 minutes. “That’s why I was late!”





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Access Hollywood'' host Maria Menounos told She’s got the answers teens want to know

“Saved By the Bell’’ and “Showgirls’’ actress Elizabeth Berkley’s side gig has turned into a full-time job. Besides acting, which she’s done over the last few years on shows such as “CSI: Miami,’’ Berkley has become a popular self-help guru for girls and has been traveling the country to promote her book “Ask Elizabeth: Real Answers to Everything You Secretly Wanted to Ask About Love, Friends, Your Body . . . and Life in General,’’ which placed No. 2 this week on The New York Times Bestsellers List of children’s paperback books.



On Friday, her book tour brought her to Medford High School where she spoke to a girls-only assembly. Berkley told us yesterday that Medford High was added to her list of visits because Medford-bred “Access Hollywood’’ host Maria Menounos told her to go there. “She said, ‘When you’re in Boston, you have to go to my high school,’’’ Berkley said, adding that she was thrilled to be surrounded by so many local ladies during the “town hall-style’’ talk.



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Radfahrer (69) fünf Tage nach schwerem Sturz gestorben

Der Mann war am Dienstag auf der St. Georgener Landesstraße in Richtung Oberndorf verunglückt

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FLACHGAU. Seinen
schweren Verletzungen ist jener 69-jährige Mann in einem Salzburger
Spital erlegen, der vor fünf Tagen mit seinem Fahrrad in Oberndorf
gestürzt war.





Der Pensionist radelte am vergangenen Dienstag gegen 8 Uhr auf der
St. Georgener Landesstraße in Richtung Oberndorf und ist dabei
verunglückt.





Der Pensionist, der keinen Fahrradhelm trug, zog sich unter anderem
schwere Kopfverletzungen zu. Ein Hubschrauber flog ihn ins UKH
Salzburg, wo die Ärzte schließlich den Kampf um sein Leben verloren.



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Tax day: Your 3 extra days are over

The government gave you three extra days to get your taxes done this year, but if you like to live on the edge, here’s what you need to know:

• File electronically at irs.gov for convenience and faster refunds. Be sure to file for an automatic six-month extension if you still can’t get it together.


• Columbia-area post offices will not be open extra hours for procrastinators. They stopped that practice nearly a decade ago as many taxpayers turned to online filing.


• Most branches close between 4:30 and 5 p.m. But check usps.gov for more information on your local branch. If you must make the mad dash, the latest possible pickup in the Columbia area is at 7 p.m. at 2930 Emanuel Church Road in West Columbia.

New television show 'Mob Wives' follows four Staten Island women and their lifestyles

 

Described as “The Real Housewives on steroids” by its creator, a new show about Staten Island women involved in the mob lifestyle may become the latest hit on TV.

Premiering April 17 at 8 p.m. on VH1, "Mob Wives" follows four friends at a crossroads, struggling with their identities and families as they start over while their husbands or fathers do time for alleged mob-related activities.

The cast features: Karen Gravano, daughter of Mafia turncoat Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano; Drita D’avanzo, whose husband Lee is in prison for bank robbery; Renee Graziano, daughter of Anthony Graziano, an alleged high-ranking member of La Cosa Nostra, and Carla Facciolo, whose husband Joey Ferragamo was convicted of stock fraud.

“I want everyone to know that these women are just like anyone else, like any other single mom out there,” said Jennifer Graziano of JustJenn Productions, the show’s creator and executive producer. “The show to me is really about the struggles, trials and tribulations these women go through and hopefully conquer throughout the season.”

Ms. Graziano, who grew up in New Springville and then moved to Huguenot, originally wrote a scripted drama based on her life and friends. But when reality TV started gaining momentum, she changed the show’s format figuring it was an easier way to get into television.

Picking the cast was simple. Renee Graziano is her older sister and she’s known the other women for years. All come from similar situations and each has a loved on in jail.

Sıla Şahin fotoğrafları aileyi rahatsız etti (ajans haber)

İlk kez bir Türk kızının kapak olduğu Playboy dergisine verdiği pozlar ile bir anda yıldızı parlayan Sıla Şahin, daha da koşulacak gibi görünüyor.

Alman özel televizyonu RTL' de oynayan Gute zeiten, schlechte zeiten (İyi zamanlar, Kötü zamanlar), adlı dizide rol alan Sıla Şahin, Alman Bild gazetesinin kendisyle yaptığı röportajda, Sıla Şahin ”insanın hedefleri peşinde koşması gerektiğini” ve yaptığının ”Türk kızlarına, kendi yollarında ilerlemek ve hayatlarını kendileri için yaşamaları” konularında yardımcı olabileceğini söylemişti.

Sıla Şahin 'in fotoğraflarını gören ailesi ise genç yıldıza tavır aldı. Özellikle annesinden çok büyük tepki alan Sıla Şahin 'in leriki zamanlarda başka dergilere pozlarverip vermeyeceği merak konusu oldu.

卫报：日本地震重创老年群体

据英国《卫报》3月18日报道，此次日本大地震和海啸对日本老年人群造成重创，由于缺少供热系统以及药品等物资，许多医院和疗养院已经证实有数十名老人去世。


在距离遭地震重创的福岛核电站10公里的医院中，日本自卫队士兵发现128名老年人被医务人员抛弃。大多数老人已经陷入昏迷状态，其中14人已经在地震发生后死亡。宫城县气仙沼市一家疗养院中，因为缺乏供热系统，该院已有11名老人死亡。这家疗养院的经营者称，幸存的老人感到孤独，并且承受着很大压力。而且疗养院中的煤油加热器所需燃料已经全部用光。

“医生无国界”日本分支负责人埃里克·夸尼斯说，在许多临时避难所中，许多老人正忍受着体温降低、脱水以及呼吸道疾病的折磨，但是这些地方的药品已经消耗光了。

尽管福岛核电站附近的老人被自卫队转移到一个体育馆中，但那里的条件并不好。一名政府官员说，“我们感觉非常无助，对这些老人的遭遇感到抱歉。这里没有活水、没有药品，只有一点点食物，我们无法为他们提供更好的照料。”


红十字会和红新月会国际联盟的帕特·富勒称，缺少民用燃油是最大挑战。几乎所有撤退中心都没有足够的燃油，只有少量汽油，导致许多食物无法食用被迫退回商店。许多地方爆发了胃流感，对于老人来说，很可能引发严重的并发症。

Jack Roush expects wrecks when racing at Talladega

TALLADEGA, Alabama - He has seen one of his cars soar into the fence and seen countless others hauled bruised and battered backto the garage. He also has three wins here as an owner, most recently here in 2009 with Jamie McMurray. Jack Roush is quick to admit that"historically, I have not been a fan of going to either Talladega or Daytona, for the risk involved." Because of the speed and close-quarter drafting at Talladega Superspeedway, drivers are not able to keep "out of harm's way,"Roush said Friday morning, sitting in a director's-style chair outside the No. 99 team's hauler. "On short tracks, you have a choice to back away or give quarter than you don't have here.The speeds are so fast and the time you have to react to (an incident) are so small, if you're in the proximity of something that goes wrong in front of you, you just about can't avoid it," Roush said.
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Coachella 2011: Mumford and Sons asks crowd to dance

Their songs aren't the easiest to sing along to, but the crowd at Coachella (at least the ones closest to the stage) did so with gusto screaming the lyrics to familiar songs from Mumford and Sons debut U.S album "Sigh No More." The new songs, and there were two, were a little trickier (one fan nearby even said "aww" in disappointment when frontman Marcus Mumford said they would be playing new songs) but the crowd eventually caughton as the initially mellow songs built to the usual Mumford and Sons crescendo of banjo, horn and bass drum. "Shall we dance, Coachella?" asked Mumford before the band launched into their widely played single, "Little Lion Man." On cue, women were lifted onto shoulders and hands raised in unison. "This is by far the biggest gig we've ever done as a band," Mumford told the crowd, seeming genuinely honored to be a part of the festival. The band's banjo player - whose hipscould have managed a hula-hoop while he played - said he came to Coachella in 2007 to catch Rage Against the Machine. Considering the event's strict timing for main stage acts this weekend - cutting the sound on artists who arrived late and performed later - Mumford and Sons played their full set despite starting 20 minutes later than the schedule said they would, and ending their set at 9:32, 12 minutes after the schedule had them ending. It's a good thing they did - from my vantage point near the front, the crowd loved them.

Hamilton outruns Vettel for Chinese GP win

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton overcame a pre- race fueling issue and then passed Sebastian Vettel from Red Bull with less than five laps remaining to win Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix. Hamilton experienced a fuel leak prior to the start of the race. His team corrected the fuel-line problem by changing the engine air filter in his car. Hamilton was then able to make his warm-up lap in time to line up third on thestarting grid. Vettel made just two pit stops compared to three for Hamilton in the 56-lap affair at Shanghai International Circuit. Hamilton, with fresher tires in the late-stages of the race, chased down Vettel and then overtook him on lap 52. Hamilton crossed the finish line 5.2 seconds ahead of Vettel for his 15th career F1 win. His most recent grand prix victory came last August in Belgium.

“Girl Next Door” has much to love

They have been best friends for years. She trusts him completely and he is deeply in love with her. But she has a boyfriend— and no clue. "Girl Next Door" entertained audiences at Southwestern College's Mayan Hall as part of theFestival of New Student Plays. Written by SWC student Diana Aguila, the clever 45-minute play held the audience's attention through to the end. Francisco Ramirez played the memorable character of David, the pizza delivery guy who professes his love to his next-door neighbor Stacey (Eva Flores) after she tells him she left her boyfriend. But when David finds out Stacey is moving in three weeks, he drifted into hopelessness. Ramirez shone throughout the play he delivered an empathetic performance. Flores created a cute Stacey that was a friendly "girl next door. " Her performance was steady but lacked needed emotion at times. One disappointing moment camewhen David wrote an anonymouslove letter to Stacey that she believed came from her ex-boyfriend. Stacey's reaction was less than believable when David revealed that he was the author of the note. A poignant moment was lost. George Adkins played Andy, David's quirky friend who loves toeat and adds a comedic element to the tension-filled story. Aguila wrote a lot of witty lines for the character and Adkins responded with a laughter-provoking performance. Coming in and out of scenes withencouraging lines for David, Adkins sometimes underplayed moments but his comedic clumsiness was a success at making the crowd burst into laughter when he bumped into walls and tripped over his own feet. People who paid the $8-$10 to watch the "Girl Next Door" left satisfied. This charming play made crowd members reminisce about that ever-so-enchanting moment when they first uttered the words "I love you."

Are Big Banks In More Hot Water? (BAC, C, UBS)

U.S. regulators are now investigating whether some major banks manipulated Libor leading up to the financial crisis and throughout it . Regulators arenarrowing in on Bank of America (NYSE: BAC ), Citigroup (NYSE: C ), UBS (NYSE: UBS ) and others for allegedly colluding to manipulateLibor for the purpose of improving the appearance of their credit quality. Gone are the days when the word‘cartel' made people think of drugs and oil. Now some of the biggest banks in the world are being accused of creating a global cartel to control Libor, which would affect how banks report their borrowing costs, according to the article. The Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Justice Department are investigating whether the banks understated their borrowing costs which in effect, makes their balance sheets and liquidity look better than they actually are. Because loans and derivatives areclosely tied to Libor, this could have affected trillions of dollars. The implications? Derivative contracts may be mispriced, trustin the markets will continue to be tainted, and the banks involved will receive more bad press.

N.C. projects waste millions

RALEIGH, N.C. -- State programs intended to offset environmentaldamage from development have spent roughly $140 million on work that is failing, needs significant repair or is too far away from distressed sources of drinking water.
Dozens of projects launched by the state Ecosystem Enhancement Program and its predecessors have not produced the expected improvements for streams and wetlands, which filter water on its way to lakes and reservoirs.
Some projects have damaged water quality by dumping sediment into waterways, a McClatchy investigation shows. The state also has lost track of some projects. And it paid twice for one, spending almost$700,000 extra.

Verizon iPhone Boosts iOS Ads vs. Android: Millennial

Verizon Wireless' iPhone 4 helpedApple iOS gain ad impression share versus Google's Android platform for March, according to Millennial Media.

Verizon Wireless's iPhone 4 helped boost ad impressions for Apple's iOS to 31 percent throughMarch from 27 percent in February. iOS' gain helped trim Google's Android ad share lead from 51 percent to 48 percent for the same period, according to the latest mobile ad impression figures from Millennial Media .

This should be no surprise; 14 of the current top 20 devices run Android. Apple accounted for 32 percent ofthe top 15 manufacturers impression share in March, a 14 percent boost from February..Apple iOS grew ad share 11 percent month-over-month, thanks to the uptick in sales for the Verizon iPhone, which accounted for 8.2 percent of iPhone impressions in March.

Overall, the iPhone saw ad impressions rise 17 percent month-over-month, underscoringhow a device paired with a majorcarrier can rev ad impressions in a short period of time. While Android is still the overwhelming mobile ad platform purveyor, iOS apps still dominant app revenue with 47 percent share compared to Android's 36 percent plot. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in Marchthat Apple iOS developers earned$3 billion from selling their programs in Apple's iTunes App Store. Jeff Huber , Google's new senior vice president for local and commerce, said on the company's first quarter earnings call April 14 that more than 3 billion applications were downloaded from Google's Android Market since its launch in2008. He did not specify what percentage of those were paid apps; it's clear Apple iOS is still the chief revenue driver for mobile apps developers. Interestingly, Millennial said ad impressions for connected devices such as Apple's iPad, iPod touch, Samsung's Galaxy Tab and the Motorola Xoom comprise 17 percent of device impression share, up 21 percent from February. Connected device share should overtake feature phone ad impression share, which is 19 percent, next month. Smartphones accounted for the remaining 64 percent share for March.