OU Zone

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lol

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"I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks."
- Groucho Marx

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"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
- Elbert Hubbard

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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas A. Edison

[originunknown]

I started reading some Lawrence Block books and though a bit dated now I like the style from the 40s film noir style.

[originunknown]

The Wrestler

I really enjoyed this movie. Mickey Rourke at his best and most comprehensible. I always sort of like this actor but here he goes deep into a role and comes out a huge winner!

[originunknown]

good ones

[BullNBear52]

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
- Nicholas Johnson

I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness," but that doesn't work.
- Anonymous

Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control.
- Donna Gephart

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
- David Frost

Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.
- Homer Simpson

The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.
- Raymond Chandler

TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.
- Anonymous

Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
- Alfred Hitchcock

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
- Joey Adams

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
- Alan Corenk

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
- Clive Barnes

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
- Rod Serling

Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.
- Fred Allen

[KIRBY]

so true

[originunknown]

Those are great -- I like every one of those sayings.

[BullNBear52]

A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
- Douglas Pagels

A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
- Sicilian Proverb

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
- Aristotle

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
- Anonymous

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- William Blake

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
- Eustache Deschamps

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
- Truman Capote

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lol

[KIRBY]

I like it, life is good :)

[originunknown]

LIFE

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is challenge meet it.
Life is duty complete it.
Life is game play it.
Life is promise fulfill it.
Life is sorrow overcome it.
Life is song sing it.
Life is struggle accept it.
Life is tragedy confront it.
Life is adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is Life, fight for it.

[KIRBY]

for some reason I just love this song remake, movie is also remake from 72

[originunknown]

Working very hard and planning a trip for the fall. Always good to read to your posts.

[BullNBear52]

I thought you'd like that. Hope all is well.

[originunknown]

Sweet pic -- thanks!

[BullNBear52]

Peek-a-boo.

[BullNBear52]

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
- Andy Warhol

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
- Andy Warhol

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
- Pablo Picasso

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
- Edgar Degas

Take me! I am the hallucinogenic!
- Salvador Dali

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
- Ansel Adams

A good sketch is better than a long speech.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
- Oscar Wilde

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
- Claude Monet

Every good painter paints what he is.
- Jackson Pollock

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
- Vincent Van Gogh

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
- Steve Martin

[BullNBear52]

"I was the kid next door's imaginary friend."
- Emo Phillips

[BullNBear52]

In the San Francisco Chronicle a few years ago, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a web of crab traps and lines. The fifty-foot whale was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her tail, her torso and a line tugging in her mouth.

A fisherman spotted her just east of a local island chain and called an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her - a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.

They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around - she thanked them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

[originunknown]

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

[BullNBear52]

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
- Robin Williams

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.
- Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
- Christopher Morley

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.
- Charles Dudley Warner

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in a bad mood. Wait Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
- Robert H. Schuller

The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
- Therese of Lisieux

One swallow does not make a spring; nor does one fine day.
- Aristotle

In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
- Mark Twain

An optimist is the human personification of spring.
- Susan J. Bissonette

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

In spring time, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head.
- Emma Racine deFleur

When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
- Bishop Reginald Heber

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.
- Virgil A. Kraft

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
- Mark Twain

[BullNBear52]

"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."
- William Safire

[originunknown]

Sleep: Are you getting enough?
Here are some ways to determine your own optimum amount of sleep and tips on how you can get it
By Laura Bickle
For many of us it's a familiar scene: You hit the snooze button for the umpteenth time, and think to yourself, "I just need one more hour." Well, you're probably right. Many of us don't get the sleep we need and it can have a dramatic effect on how we think and feel. In fact, sleep deprivation can cause moodiness, lack of motivation, difficulty making decisions and general malaise. And sleep deprivation doesn't just occur when you pull an all-nighter - if you don't get the sleep your body requires on a consistent basis, you're not going to feel your best, it's that simple.

How Much Is Enough?

So how much sleep do you need? According to sleep experts you're getting the right amount when you are able to get up easily, stay alert throughout the day and then go to sleep easily at night. But the amount of sleep required to accomplish that varies from person to person, says psychologist Dr. Joseph De Koninck, president of the Canadian Sleep Society. "It's a bit like your height or the size of your nose, it's something that is most likely genetically determined." Everyone is different - some people feel rested after six hours while others may need 10 to feel good.

One way to find out how much sleep you need is to simply wake up at the same time every morning and go to bed when you're tired. By following your body's signals, instead of your own schedule, you'll have a good idea of how much sleep you really need. De Koninck also says that if you need an alarm clock to wake you, you probably aren't getting your ideal amount of sleep. "You're interrupting your natural sleep needs. So if you require an alarm clock you should go to bed earlier." Once you adjust the time you go to bed to suit your sleep requirements you may not need an alarm clock to wake you on weekdays.

Make It Count

But even when you've determined that say, eight hours is your magic number, those eight hours need to be quality, restful sleep. And that means having a sleep routine that works for you. The catchphrase the experts use is "sleep hygiene," which is basically a set of behaviours that gets your mind and body ready for slumber.

One of the most common causes of difficulty in getting to sleep, says De Koninck, is worry. "If you start worrying in bed," he says, "get out of bed. You shouldn't associate bedtime with trying to solve problems." Most experts agree that the bedroom should only be used for sleeping and sex. For example, if your bedroom is also your office, it may be all the more difficult to get your mind for sleep if you know that urgent report is sitting unfinished on your computer, only a few feet away.

However, says De Koninck, some people have successful routines that contradict the "sleep and sex only" edict - just like the amount of sleep you need, the routine itself varies depending on the individual. For example, some people find that reading or watching TV in bed takes their minds away from their worries and lulls them to sleep, while for others these activities have the opposite effect.

No matter your routine once you get into bed, it's important to find activities that relax you before you climb between the sheets - maybe it's doing some soothing yoga, taking a warm bath, writing in a journal or having a warm drink.

Here are some more tips for getting the sleep you need:

Don't drink caffeinated or alcoholic beverages within four to six hours of going to bed.
A light snack may help you sleep, but avoid eating a large meal.
Regular exercise helps promote sleep, but don't workout within six hours of bedtime. The energizing effects of a good workout will make if difficult to get to sleep.
Make your bedroom as quiet and dark as possible - consider buying earplugs and blackout shades. And make sure the temperature is comfortable.
Go to bed only when you're sleepy. Otherwise you'll lie in bed waiting for sleep to come and that can cause anxiety itself.
If you can't fall asleep, get up and do something quiet, such as reading a book, outside the bedroom. Go back to bed only when you feel drowsy.
Have a regular wake-up time - even on your days off.
If you must nap, sleep for less than one hour and before 3 p.m.
If worrying has been keeping you up, set aside some time earlier in the evening to think about your problems and come up with solutions. It may also help to make a to-do list so that you're not making one up in your mind while lying in bed.
Turn your clock away from your line of vision - watching the clock can elevate your stress about getting to sleep.
If you consistently have trouble sleeping, or if you feel sleepy during the day even with a reasonable amount of sleep, speak to you doctor.

Originally published in Today's Parent, April 2002. This content was current at the time of publication.

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Saskatoon Canada's most dangerous city; Caledon, Ont., the safest, says Maclean's
Thu Mar 5, 4:21 PM



By The Canadian Press


TORONTO - Saskatoon is the most dangerous city in Canada and Caledon, Ont., is the safest, according to the latest survey by Maclean's magazine.


This is the second year the magazine has put out the lists and the second year in a row Caledon, northwest of Toronto, has topped the safest areas list.


Saskatoon is followed on the most dangerous list by Winnipeg, Regina, Prince George, B.C., and Edmonton.


Caledon is followed by Oromocto, N.B., Levis, Que., Maskoutains MRC, Que., which includes Saint-Hyacinthe, and Halton Region west of Toronto.


As for Canada's two largest cities, Toronto ranked 29th out of 100 cities, compared to 26th last year, and Montreal ranked 24th compared to 19th on the high crime list.


Maclean's says it based its rankings on 2007 per-capita crime rates, the most recent available from the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics.

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Bruce Willis being sued for $4 million

Fri Feb 27, 11:02 PM

By The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - Actor Bruce Willis and his production company are being sued in Los Angeles $4 million for breach of contract.

The lawsuit filed Friday alleges Willis Brother Films agreed on a contract with three companies to produce the feature film "Three Stories About Joan," which Willis was to star in and direct. The lawsuit alleges on Sept. 29 Willis quit as director without notice in violation of the agreement. Phone calls to Willis's publicist and lawyer were not immediately returned.

Henry Gradstein, lawyer for the companies suing Willis, says the courts will resolve the matter. He had no further comment.

The plaintiffs include Foresight Unlimited, Signature Entertainment Group and Three Stories Productions.

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Swedish woman finds 1.13-bln-dollar windfall
Tue Feb 24, 4:18 PM



STOCKHOLM (AFP) - A Swedish woman received the shock of a lifetime when she found 1.13 billion dollars (883 million euros) more than expected in her bank account, a newspaper reported Tuesday.


Cornelia Johansson discovered the windfall on Monday, after she logged on to her Internet bank to pay some bills, regional daily Goeteborgs-Posten said in its online edition.


"The balance was more than 10 billion kronor. It said the amount had been deposited as a correction for a credit card purchase," Johansson's boyfriend Daniel Hoeglund told the daily.


On Tuesday morning, the money was still credited to her account, but a few hours later it was gone, as mysteriously as it had arrived.


A press spokeswoman for Nordea bank, the largest bank in the Nordic region, later explained the mystery as "a technical mistake made by a company."





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"If you do not specify and confront real issues,
what you will do will surely obscure them.
If you do not alarm anyone morally,
you will yourself remain morally asleep.
If you do not embody controversy,
what you say will be an acceptance
of the drift to the coming human hell."
-- C. Wright Mills
(1916-1962)

[BullNBear52]

"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
- W. Somerset Maugham

[BullNBear52]

6,473 Texts a Month, But at What Cost?
Constant Cellphone Messaging Keeps Kids Connected, Parents Concerned

By Donna St. George
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 22, 2009; Page A01

Julie Zingeser texts at home, at school, in the car while her mother is driving. She texts during homework, after pompon practice and as she walks the family dog. She takes her cellphone with her to bed.

Every so often, the hum of a new message rouses the Rockville teen from sleep. "I would die without it," Julie, 15, says of her text life.

This does not surprise her mother, Pam, who on one recent afternoon scans the phone bill for the eye-popping number that puts an exclamation point on how growing up has changed in the digital age. In one busy month, Pam finds, her youngest daughter sent and received 6,473 text messages.

For Pam Zingeser, the big issue is not cost -- it's $30 a month for the family's unlimited texting plan -- but the effects of so much messaging. Pam wonders: What will this generation learn and what will they lose in the relentless stream of sentence fragments, abbreviations and emoticons? "Life's issues are not always settled in sound bites," Pam says.

Parents, educators and researchers are grappling with similar concerns as text messaging has exploded across the formative years of the nation's youngest generation. Teens now do more texting on their cellphones than calling. And although it's too early for conclusive data on the effects of prolific texting -- on attention span, social life, writing ability, family connections -- questions abound, even as many experts point to clear benefits.

"It's a huge cultural phenomenon with huge down-the-road consequences," contends David E. Meyer, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan.

Nationally, more than 75 billion text messages are sent a month, and the most avid texters are 13 to 17, say researchers. Teens with cellphones average 2,272 text messages a month, compared with 203 calls, according to the Nielsen Co.

The tap, tap, tap of connectivity can benefit teenagers at a time in life when they cannot always get together in an unscheduled way. Texters are "sharing a sense of co-presence," said Mimi Ito of the University of California at Irvine. "It can be a very socially affirming thing."

For families, the text world can bring convenience as never before in arranging rides, doing errands, letting parents know of changing plans.

But some experts say there are downsides, starting with declines in spelling, word choice and writing complexity. Some suggest too much texting is related to an inability to focus.

There also are concerns about texting while driving, text-bullying and "sexting," or the term for adolescents messaging naked photos of themselves or others. What might have been intended for a friend can be widely distributed, and the texting of lewd photographs of minors can lead to criminal charges.

The American Journal of Psychiatry published an editorial last year by psychiatrist Jerald J. Block, suggesting that addiction to the Internet and text messaging be included in the diagnostic manual for mental illnesses.

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IF THIS SCARES YOU, THINK ABOUT THE ONES WHO PASS: Stanley Mayausky, 79,
has lived in Tampa, Fla., since he moved there from New Jersey 30 years
ago. He'd really like a Florida drivers license, but it was taken away
from him after he drove away after an accident -- a hit and run. To get
it back, he has to take the standard written state driver test -- 20
multiple-choice questions, and he has to get 15 correct to pass. There
is no time limit, and he takes his time. Still, he has failed the test
72 times. "I've been driving for all these years and, see, they've made
all these changes to the rules and they never told me," he explains.
"Maybe I'll try again tomorrow." If he passes, he then has to take a
driving test. If he fails that test five times, Florida will ban him
from driving for life. (St. Petersburg Times) ...All of Florida admires
his persistence, but fears his success.

[BullNBear52]

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
- George Washington

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!
- George Washington

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- George Washington

To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
- George Washington

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "Honest Man."
- George Washington

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
- George Washington

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
- George Washington

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
- George Washington

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
- George Washington

How soon we forget history.
- George Washington

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- George Washington

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
- George Washington

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Police make Parliament Hill arrest before Obama arrival
Thu Feb 19, 11:02 AM



By The Canadian Press


OTTAWA - RCMP made an arrest on Parliament Hill shortly before the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama for a six-hour visit.


Few details were immediately available, but a police spokesman said the arrest was made after a young man jumped a barrier. A group of burly RCMP officers wrestled the man to the ground at Wellington Street, just in front of the Parliament Hill lawn, and led him away for questioning.


Crowds were relatively sparse on the front lawn of Parliament Hill as Air Force One touched down at the airport, about 20 minutes' drive away.


The city was crawling with police and other security personnel.


The Parliament buildings were surrounded by fencing and crowds were being kept in check by double steel barriers.





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[BullNBear52]

"There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool."
- L. M. Boyd

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Police in Conn. shoot chimp after it attacks woman
Mon Feb 16, 9:04 PM



By Stephanie Reitz, The Associated Press


HARTFORD, Conn. - A 200-pound chimpanzee kept as a pet and once used in commercials was shot and killed by police Monday after it mauled a woman visiting its owner and later cornered an officer in his cruiser, authorities said.


Stamford police Lt. Richard Conklin said the injured woman was hospitalized late Monday in "very serious" condition at Stamford Hospital; her identity was not immediately released. Conklin said she suffered "a tremendous loss of blood" from serious facial injuries.


The 15-year-old chimpanzee's owner and two officers also were hurt, though police said the extent of their injuries was not immediately known.


Police said they had no idea why the chimpanzee, named Travis, attacked the woman as she got out of her car to visit the animal's owner, Sandra Herold. Conklin said Herold wrestled with the animal, then ran inside to call 911.


"She retrieved a large butcher knife and stabbed her longtime pet numerous times in an effort to save her friend, who was really being brutally attacked," Conklin said.


Travis ran away and started roaming on Herold's property as police arrived. Officers set up security so medics could reach the critically injured woman lying on the ground, Conklin said.


As the woman was treated, the chimpanzee went after several of the officers, who retreated into their cars, Conklin said. Travis opened the door to one cruiser and started to get in, trapping an officer who then shot the chimpanzee several times, Conklin said.


The wounded chimpanzee fled. Conklin said police followed the trail of his blood down the driveway, into the open door of the home, through the house and to his living quarters, where he had retreated and died of his wounds.


Well-known around Stamford because he rode around in trucks belonging to his owners' towing company, Travis appeared on TV commercials for Old Navy and Coca-Cola when he was younger, made an appearance on the "Maury Povich Show" and took part in a television pilot, according to a 2003 story in The Advocate newspaper of Stamford.


"He's been raised almost like a child by this family," Conklin said Monday. "He rides in a car every day, he opens doors, he's a very unique animal in that aspect. We have no indication of what provoked this behaviour at all."


A message seeking comment was left Monday night at Herold's home.


Conklin said the chimp has been ill from Lyme disease, "so maybe from the medications he was out of sorts. We really don't know."


Police have dealt with the animal in the past, including an incident in 2003 when he escaped from his owners' vehicle in downtown Stamford for two hours. Officers used cookies, macadamia treats and ice cream in an attempt to lure him, but subdued him only after he became too tired to resist.


At the time of the 2003 incident, police said the Herolds told them the chimpanzee was toilet trained, dressed himself, took his own bath, ate at the table and drank wine from a stemmed glass. He also brushed his teeth using a Water Pik, logged onto the computer to look at pictures, and watched television using the remote control, police said.





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[originunknown]

Christina Victoria Barcelona is a great movie, but then again Woody Allen can do no wrong cinematically in my world

[originunknown]

Flashback of Fools

another terrible movie!!!!

[originunknown]

BLINDNESS

Horribly annoying movie ...

1 star

[originunknown]

Islamic TV founder charged with beheading wife: reports
52 minutes ago



NEW YORK (AFP) - The founder of a US television station aimed at countering stereotypes of Muslims has been arrested and charged with beheading his wife, local media reported.


Muzzammil Hassan was charged with second-degree murder of his wife, Aasiya Hassan, whose decapitated body was found Thursday by police at the Bridges TV station in a Buffalo suburb in New York state, The Buffalo News reported Monday.


"He came to the police station at 6:20 pm (Thursday) and told us that she was dead," Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz told the newspaper.


Police reportedly went to Bridges TV, which Hassan founded in 2004, and discovered her body.


Orchard Park police told AFP there was a statement about the murder and arrest but would not release it or confirm any details pending contact with the police chief, who was unavailable.


Bridges TV said in a statement it was "deeply shocked and saddened by the murder of Aasiya (Zubair) Hassan and subsequent arrest of Muzzammil Hassan."


CNN reported on its website that Benz said Hassan, 44, confessed to beheading his wife.


Benz said Hassan's wife, 37, had filed for divorce January 6, and that police had responded to numerous domestic violence calls at the couple's home, according to CNN.


He reportedly had two children, age four and six, with his wife, and two other children, age 17 and 18, from a previous marriage.





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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
--Mark Twain

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Salma Hayek marries French magnate Francois-Henri Pinault in Paris

6 minutes ago

By The Associated Press

PARIS - Salma Hayek picked a romance-lover's ideal time and place for her wedding: Valentine's Day in Paris.

The Mexican-born actress wed French magnate Francois-Henri Pinault in a civil ceremony Saturday at the City Hall in Paris' chic 6th arrondissement, according to an official there.

The wedding was a small affair, said the official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, in accordance with policy.

The nuptials followed a rocky romance. The two met in Italy in 2006, announced their engagement and had a baby, Valentina Paloma, in September 2007. Last year they broke off their engagement but made up a few months later.

Hayek, 42, was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 for the film "Frida," the biography of the painter Frida Kahlo, which she produced and starred in. She is one of the executive producers of the hit series "Ugly Betty" and is also the chief executive of Ventanazul, a production company she formed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

Pinault, 46, is chief executive of the French luxury and retail group PPR SA, which owns high-end labels such as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and Puma.

Copyright © 2009 Canadian Press

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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein

Anyone can catch our eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.

You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
-Ingrid Bergman

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
- St. Augustine

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
- Henry Ward Beecher

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
- Henry Drummond

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal

Falling in love is so hard on the knees.

Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato

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- Bertrand Russell

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Husband ends marriage on Facebook, court hears
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LONDON (AFP) - A 39-year-old husband ended his six-year marriage by announcing it on social networking website Facebook, a court heard Friday.


Emma Brady, 35, only found out about her husband Neil's intentions when he changed his Facebook status to read, "Neil Brady has ended his marriage to Emma Brady," and a friend in Denmark called her to ask how she was coping.


The mother-of-one, who works as a conference organiser, was "shell-shocked" by her husband's decision despite the fact that their marriage had had its "ups and downs", magistrates in Blackburn heard.


Neil Brady's lawyer Gareth Price told the court, however, that Emma Brady had not first learnt of the divorce over Facebook, saying their marriage had already become strained.


The details of Neil Brady's decisions were told to the court during sentencing for assaulting his wife at their home in nearby Accrington.


At Christmas last year, the pair had gone on separate nights out and upon returning, an argument broke out, with Neil Brady, an IT consultant, demanding to see his wife's mobile phone.


When she refused, he grabbed her hand, injuring her wrist, and then threw her out of the house.


Neil Brady, who is currently living with his mother, pleaded guilty to the charge and was handed a fine of 580 pounds along with 175 pounds in compensation and legal costs.





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"However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
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