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Working?
By Weasel (July 2, 2009)
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Almost Smart appears to have been on drugs for the past day. My shotgun troubleshooting approach has apparently fixed things..somehow.  Too tired at the moment to figure out exactly what is wrong...
Please report any future weirdness.. 
P.S. gzip compression is off at the moment, things might seem a bit slow.
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Michael Jackson Dies
By notlob (June 26, 2009)
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Entertainer Michael Jackson died after being taken to a hospital on Thursday having suffered cardiac arrest, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's office.
Paramedics took Jackson, 50, from his west Los Angeles home Thursday afternoon to UCLA Medical Center, where a team of physicians attempted to resuscitate him for more than an hour, said brother Jermaine Jackson. He said the famed singer was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. PT.
An autopsy is scheduled Friday, he said. Results are expected Friday afternoon, according to Lt. Fred Corral of the Los Angeles coroner's office, who also said Jackson was unresponsive when he arrived at the hospital.
Fire Capt. Steve Ruda told CNN paramedics were sent to a west Los Angeles, California, residence after a 911 call came in at 12:21 p.m.
Law enforcement officials said the Los Angeles Police Department Robbery-Homicide Division opened an investigation into Jackson's death. They stressed there is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing but that they would conduct interviews with family members and friends.
CNN Analyst Roland S. Martin spoke on Thursday with Marlon Jackson, brother of Michael Jackson.
"I talked to Frank Dileo, Michael's manager. Frank told me that Michael last night was complaining about not feeling well. He called to tell him he wasn't feeling well.
"Michael's doctor went over to see him, and Frank said, 'Marlon, from last night to this morning, I don't know what happened.' When they got to him this morning, he wasn't breathing. They rushed him to the hospital and couldn't bring him around."
"Janet Jackson is grief-stricken and devastated at the sudden loss of her brother," Kenneth Crear, her manager said. "She is ... flying immediately to California to be with her family."
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this is fucking ridiculous... it hasn't quite hit me yet... but man.. the King of Pop is dead!!
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Farah Fawcett
By ablethevoice (June 25, 2009)
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BREAKING NEWS
FARAH FAWCETT dead at age 62.
details to follow as they become available...
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Farrah Fawcett Dies At 62
25 June 2009 10:56 AM, PDT
Charlie's Angels actress Farrah Fawcett has died. She was 62.
The five-time Golden Globe-nominated star passed away on Thursday morning at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. Her longtime partner Ryan O'Neal and best friend Alana Stewart were by her bedside when she passed away.
Her son Redmond, who is serving a jail sentence for drug charges, was not present.
Born Ferrah Leni Fawcett in Corpus Christi, Texas, the star started out as a model and actress in TV commercials, before getting her big break playing ass-kicking Jill Munroe in the hit TV series Charlie's Angels.
She quit the show after just one year, and attempted to reinvent herself as a serious actress in movies like 1986's big-screen adaptation of Broadway play Extremities and 1984's TV film The Burning Bed. That role, as a battered wife, earned her the first of three Emmy Award nods in her career. She was also praised for her work in Small Sacrifices in 1989, garnering her both an Emmy and a Golden Globe nomination.
Fawcett later went on to make guest appearances in popular U.S. programmes like Ally McBeal, Spin City and The Guardian.
She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995.
The actress was also a popular fashion icon and became a pin-up in the 1970s and '80s, with her tousled hairstyle sparking an international trend.
But her career wasn't without controversy - she was heavily criticised in 1995 when she agreed to pose nude for men's magazine Playboy, aged 48, despite previously refusing to appear naked in any film or publication. The raunchy spread went on to become the best-selling issue of the 1990s, selling over 4 million copies worldwide, and Fawcett graced its pages again in 1997.
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The ultimate "second-banana" is gone
By ablethevoice (June 23, 2009)
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RIP Ed McMahon
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`Tonight' sidekick Ed McMahon dies in LA at 86
By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer 44 minutes ago
Ed McMahon, the loyal "Tonight Show" sidekick who bolstered boss Johnny Carson with guffaws and a resounding "H-e-e-e-e-e-ere's Johnny!" for 30 years, died early Tuesday. He was 86.
McMahon died shortly after midnight at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center surrounded by his wife, Pam, and other family members, said his publicist, Howard Bragman.
Bragman didn't give a cause of death, saying only that McMahon had a "multitude of health problems the last few months."
McMahon had bone cancer, among other illnesses, according to a person close to the entertainer, and had been hospitalized for several weeks. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information.
McMahon broke his neck in a fall in March 2007, and battled a series of financial problems as his injuries preventing him from working.
McMahon and Carson had worked together for nearly five years on the game show "Who Do You Trust?" when Carson took over NBC's late-night show from Jack Paar in October 1962. McMahon played second banana on "Tonight" until Carson retired in 1992.
"You can't imagine hooking up with a guy like Carson," McMahon said an interview with The Associated Press in 1993. "There's the old phrase, hook your wagon to a star. I hitched my wagon to a great star."
McMahon, who never failed to laugh at his Carson's quips, kept his supporting role in perspective.
"It's like a pitcher who has a favorite catcher," he said. "The pitcher gets a little help from the catcher, but the pitcher's got to throw the ball. Well, Johnny Carson had to throw the ball, but I could give him a little help."
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Last Titanic Survivor Dies
By Madre (May 31, 2009)
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It was interesting because this woman had just been in the news due to the fact that she was having financial difficulties and, without help, she would have had to leave her nursing home and be put into a state-run facility. There was a recent auction and, I believe, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio donated money.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe...bit/index.html
(CNN) -- Millvina Dean, believed to be the last survivor of the Titanic, has died at 97, her friends confirmed Sunday.
Dean was just an infant when the RMS Titanic -- publicized as "practically unsinkable" and the largest passenger steamship at the time -- struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912, during its maiden voyage from Southampton in southern England to New York. The ship sank less than three hours later, killing more than 1,500 people.
Brian Ticehurst, a friend of Dean, said she died at 8 a.m. Sunday.
Dean was hospitalized a few days ago for medical complications before returning to the Woodlands Ridge Nursing Home in Southampton, said Charles Haas, a friend and president of the Titanic International Society based in New Jersey.
A nurse at the home declined to comment on Dean's passing.
Haas said Dean's last public appearance was at the British Titanic Society's convention in April, which she attended with her longtime companion, Bruno Nordmanis.
"She only visited a short while, but she wowed everybody with her charm," Haas told CNN. "She seemed in good spirits."
Haas noted that Dean's death fell on May 31, exactly 98 years after the Titanic was launched.
While Dean's survival brought her celebrity-like status in some circles, she was 8 years old before she knew she was on the fateful ship. Dean, along with her young brother and mother, survived the sinking of the Titanic, but her mother didn't tell her about it until years later, Haas said.
Although she didn't have memories of the historic and tragic event, Dean, who never married or had children, became a larger presence for Titanic enthusiasts and historians over the past three decades.
"Having gone through that disaster she was given extra years and an extra dose of vitality," said Haas, who recalled escorting Dean to a Titanic society gala a few years ago.
Dean became the last known Titanic survivor after Barbara Joyce Dainton died in October 2007. The last American survivor, Lillian Asplund, died in May 2006.
Dean's death leaves only artifacts and videotaped interviews with survivors to "speak to us about the Titanic," Haas said.
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Proposition 8 Upheld by California Supreme Court
By Yugoloth (May 26, 2009)
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There was a big party planned at my school, apparently they were predicting a different outcome:
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Originally Said by MSNBC
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, but also decided that the estimated 18,000 gay couples who wed before the law took effect will stay married. The 6-1 decision written by Chief Justice Ron George rejected an argument from gay-rights activists that the ban revised the California constitution's equal protection clause to such a dramatic degree that it first needed the Legislature's approval
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Entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30936298
While I don't personally care if homosexuals get married, I feel like this is an extremely important issue. Should the voting populace have the ability to change the constitution without any external checks or balances?
Unfortunately, democracy has led to tyranny of the majority, as the founding fathers suspected it would. Given that they are a minority, between 2% and 13% of the population, depending on whose statistics you believe, gays marrying will have a limited impact on the rest of society, but we in California chose not to allow that. I don't feel that it was an informed or rational decision.
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NKorea says it conducted nuclear test
By Bamcubz (May 24, 2009)
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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea says it has successfully conducted a nuclear test.
The country's official Korean Central News Agency reported that the test was carried out Monday.
Lee Dong-kwan, a spokesman for the South Korean president, says that a nuclear test may have been carried out in the North.
President Lee Myung-bak has called an emergency security session.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ South Korean media are reporting that North Korea may have conducted a nuclear test.
YTN television is citing an unnamed government official and the Yonhap news agency cites a ruling party member as saying the nuclear test may have occured Monday morning.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has convened an emergency meeting.
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Which Colleges Leave Students With the Most Debt?
By Bamcubz (May 24, 2009)
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My son Alex will be attending Pensacola Junior College, if I have to drag him there by his ear.
So with most of you in college now, just wondering how much of a financial struggle is it for you?
Luckily Brianna who's still in her Junior year of high school is already looking for a college/scholarship/grants/financial assistance.
Seniors at for-profit colleges are more than twice as likely to have accumulated dangerous amounts of education loans as seniors at other kinds of four-year colleges, according to a new report.
Almost 30 percent of seniors at for-profit universities in 2008 owed at least $40,000 in college loans, an amount that could be excessive, according to a new analysis of the latest federal data by Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Finaid.org and Fastweb.com. For comparison, only about 11 percent of seniors at private nonprofit colleges--many of which charge higher sticker prices than typical for-profits--graduate with excessive debt, Kantrowitz found. And excessive debt was a problem for only about 6 percent of seniors at public universities, which are typically comparatively lower priced. That means new graduates of for-profit schools are about five times as likely to have borrowed heavily as new graduates of public universities.
The levels of excessive debt are already overwhelming hundreds of thousands of new graduates. In March, the federal government released a preliminary report showing that almost 200,000 borrowers whose federal student loans came due in 2007 were already in default. The schools with the highest share of defaulters--11.3 percent--were the for-profit colleges. Only 6.8 percent of public university students had defaulted within two years. And just 3.9 percent of students who'd left private, nonprofit schools in 2007 had defaulted on their federal loans.
Robert Cohen, a spokesman for the Career College Association, which represents many for-profit colleges such as DeVry University, ITT Technical Institute, and Kaplan University, said there are several reasons why their students tend to borrow more. Their students tend to be older and thus don't have parents willing to contribute to tuition. And for-profit schools generally serve lower-income students, who are more reliant on federal grants, most of which haven't been keeping pace with inflation. But, Cohen added, "the vast majority of career college students are able to manage their loans and to pursue better, more professionally rewarding careers."
Kantrowitz's analysis did not count the debt that parents take on to pay for their children's educations. And he agreed that the declining purchasing power of federal grants might contribute to the general growth of the number of students with excessive debt. The proportion of all college seniors in 2004 who had the equivalent of $40,000 in debt in 2008 dollars was 6.8 percent. Last year, 7.9 percent of seniors owed that much.
But Kantrowitz and other analysts said that other colleges that serve the same low-income students as for-profit universities generally don't require them to borrow as much. Only about 11 percent of low-income seniors at public universities had excessive debt, compared with 17 percent at private, nonprofit universities and 27 percent at for-profit colleges, Kantrowitz found. That means low-income students at for-profit schools are more than twice as likely to overborrow as low-income students who attend public universities.
Sandy Baum, an economist who researches financial aid for the College Board, said public university students generally don't have to borrow as much because they have lower tuition bills. Students in Atlanta, for example, would pay about $1,000 in tuition for one undergraduate course at the for-profit University of Phoenix. A course at Georgia State University costs less than $700 in tuition and fees, while a class at Atlanta Metropolitan College typically costs less than $500.
In addition, both public and private nonprofit colleges hand out billions of dollars' worth of grants and other aid to students who are especially needy or who have good grades or other talents. For-profit institutions generally just funnel the standard government aid to students and hand out comparatively few of their own scholarships to students, Baum said.
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Voice of Mickey Mouse, Wayne Allwine, dies
By Misfitboy (May 21, 2009)
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Wayne Allwine, who provided the voice of Mickey Mouse for the past 32 years, died May 18 at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles from complications due to diabetes. He was 62.
Allwine's wife, Russi Taylor, who provides the voice of Minnie Mouse, was at his side at the time of his passing.
Allwine, also was an Emmy-winning sound effects editor, was the voice of Disney's world-renowned mouse since 1977, when he first lent his familiar falsetto to animated segments for "The New Mickey Mouse Club." He went on to provide Mickey's voice for such theatrical efforts as "Mickey's Christmas Carol" (1983), "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), "The Prince and the Pauper" (1990), the Oscar-nominated short "Runaway Brain" (1997) and the direct-to-DVD feature "Mickey, Donald and Goofy: The Three Musketeers" (2004).
Allwine's voice also has been heard at Disney parks around the world, on television, at live stage events and on radio broadcasts.
Walt Disney provided the original sounds and speaking voice for Mickey starting in 1928 with "Steamboat Willie." Veteran Disney sound effects wizard Jimmy Macdonald assumed speaking duties in 1947 with "Mickey and the Beanstalk" (from "Fun and Fancy Free") and continued until 1977, when Allwine, his protege, took over.
"The main piece of advice that Jim gave me about Mickey helped me keep things in perspective. He said, 'Just remember kid, you're only filling in for the boss.' And that's the way he treated doing Mickey for years and years," Allwine once said.
A native of Glendale, Calif., Allwine made his first TV appearance at 7 as one of the children interviewed by Art Linkletter on his "House Party" program. In high school, he formed his own acoustic music group and went on to record with such singers as Dobie Gray and Bobby Vinton. He was a member of the Arrows, a musical group put together by famed California record company exec Mike Curb.
In 1966, Allwine took a job in the mail room at Disney. He worked briefly in wardrobe, then moved to audio postproduction and began a 7 1/2-year stint under Macdonald.
Allwine worked in sound effects editing on Disney fare including "Splash" (1984) and "Three Men and a Baby" (1987) and for Paramount with "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" (1989).
Allwine received his Emmy for his contributions to Steven Spielberg's series "Amazing Stories," which he worked on for two years.
For 20 years, Allwine was married to Taylor, the voice of Minnie and many other Disney characters. She also supplies voices for "The Simpsons." They had their own production company, Taylor-Allwine Associates.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/...1959961e5266a6
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 Graffiti
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:: because, it's better than being stupid like you
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:: why?
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:: i wish u would take a sleeping pill already
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:: them too
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:: it should be "we pagans."
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:: us pagans are celebrating the summer solstice celebration
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:: i've been awake for days, doing various drugs, now i'm drinking. guess who?
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:: dont let the door hit you in the ass as you leave
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:: master & servant become interchangable
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:: penguins beat detroit. what an upset
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:: stupid losers suck
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:: mean people suck
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:: no one else is going to love me more than myself! :) plus it's clean, free sex.
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:: women are stupid
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:: girls may not but women do they want men that act like adults
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:: girls dont know what they want
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:: too many single bitches with babies
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:: www.frostyheidiandfrank.com
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:: remember a soldier this memorial day
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