7 year old steals car

7 year old steals car

7 Year Old Steals Car, Utah police say that a 7-year-old led officers on a low-speed car chase in an attempt to avoid having to go to church.

Dispatchers received reports of a young boy driving recklessly on Sunday morning. Klint Anderson, Weber County Sheriff’s Captain, says an eye-witness saw the boy drive right through a stop sign.

Anderson says two deputies managed to catch up to the boy and tried (unsuccessfully) to stop the Dodge Intrepid in an area that was approximately 45 miles north of Salt Lake City. The car got up to speeds of 40 mph before the boy finally stopped in a driveway and hid inside a home.

Later, when the boy’s father later confronted him, he said he simply didn’t want to go to church. The boy will not be prosecuted as he is too young and no citations were issued. Police, however, police did urge the father to make his car keys more inaccessible to children.

rorschach blots wikipedia

rorschach blots wikipedia

Ever take the inkblot test—or at least see one administered on TV (like in any "Law & Order" episode)? If so, then you know that there are no right or wrong answers on a Rorschach test, but responses do provide insight to the test-taker's state of mind.

And yet, a controversy about the posting of 10 Rorschach inkblots on Wikipedia is rocking the scientific community, according to The New York Times. In addition to the blots themselves, the Wikipedia entry also includes the most common interpretations of what these blots look like—the old bison vs. butterfly vs. moth.

Taking the Test
The Rorschach test—a series of ink blots shown to patients, who are then asked to explain what they see—is named after Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach. Five of the blots are black-and-white, two are black, white, and red, and the last three are in pretty colors. (Or not pretty, depending on your view.)

The test-taker is evaluated on 100 variables, which will show what he/she truly feels deep inside—not just separating psychotic thinking from "normal" thought. One Rorschach FAQ site describes it as asking "How does someone view and organize the world around them?"

One nonprofit parenting site, SPARC, explains that it's not only what patients say in describing what they see, but also what "hand gestures and body movements" they make. (Interestingly, SPARC precedes its lengthy description of the whole process with a disclaimer, posted "after repeated letters from dozens of outraged psychologists and psychiatrists.")

Illuminating or Cheating?
Is the test's public availability stimulating free debate, or enabling test-takers to "cheat"? Depends on how you look at it:

• From the Wiki view: Supporters say it's informative—and searches on Yahoo! for "rorschach" have popped up 111% in the past week.

• From the psychologists' view: These "cheats" could help test-takers game the system and get in the way of research. And if patients peek at the interpretations beforehand, they may get in the way of their own diagnoses.

• From the test publishers' view: The test's publisher is "assessing legal steps" to have the images removed from Wikipedia, even though those images—created some 90 years ago—are in the public domain. Still, one spokesperson huffed that Wikipedia's position is "unbelievably reckless and even cynical" for recognizing concerned claims and posting the images anyhow.

But Does One See Results?
Despite the outrage over Wikipedia's posting, not all researchers believe in the test's validity. The method was severely criticized in the 1950s and revised in the 1970s. Scientific American revived its 2005 article that called Rorschach's test "frequently ineffective" as a mental health tool.

Ideally, at least two clinicians should be involved in the interpretation of the test's results, but often they may not agree. Even worse, according to the article "What's Wrong With This Picture?", research also "suggests" that the Rorschach can't really gauge violent tendencies, depression, sexual abuse in children, antisocial tendencies, and so on. Since the test is administered to all kinds of people, from convicts seeking parole to parents in custody battles, obviously a lot rides on the interpretation of the results.

By the way, the Wikipedia uproar erupted in June, when an emergency-room doctor added the remaining nine inkblots to the one Wikipedia already had. When The New York Times told the doctor about all the experts' complaints, he replied, "Show me the evidence." Preferably not in the form of an inkblot.

iphone virus

iphone virus

Most marvel at the possibilities and features of the iPhone as a whole and also the newly released iPhone 3GS, but could this amazing Apple cellphone possibly be an easy device to hack into and take over?

Seems that Apple has a slight, but extremely dangerous flaw, in the iPhone Security foundation which could allow hackers to take over your iPhone. This iPhone security breach has been proven by and tested at the Black Hat Security Conference where Charlie Miller and Colin Mulliner illustrated the ease of the hack and just hinted at the ramifications for iPhone owners.

This hack arrives to an unsuspecting iPhone user as an SMS with a single character which could allow the hacker to do the following:
- Make calls from your iPhone
- Steal your personal data stored on your iPhone
- Send Text Messages from your smartphone, and…
- simply take over your phone making it useless…for you.

Even scarier is the ability for this hack or iPhone bug to spread like a virus. When the hacker takes over your iPhone, they could easily send this sms to your entire address book, hence sending an iPhone virus to duplicate its malicious take over.

This iPhone bug is demonstrated by a corruption bug in the SMS application of the iPhone. Unfortunately, as of now, Apple has not provided a patch to repair this tremendous flaw, even though they have known about it for 6 weeks.

Google Android showed a similar bug previously as well, but a successful patch was provided within 24 hours, making Google fans relax easier than Apple fans.

Knowing of this crazy iPhone virus development, one could only wait and hope for a quick and dependable patch to be officially released. In the meantime, if such an SMS arrives to you with one single character…immediately turn off your iPhone, in hopes that you avoided the takeover.

madonna photos

madonna photos

Pop icon Madonna, 50, was recently spotted in London having dinner with her hot Brazilian boyfriend Jesus Luz, 22, and sporting a very veiny new look (see picture below).

Always known for her strict workout regime, the mother of four appeared to be taking her workout routine a bit too far.

"Oftentimes when your body fat is really, really, low, as Madonna's is, you're going to see veins pop," explained Leslie Bonci, director of sports nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to ABC News.

"Her body fat is minimal, and she does a lot of strength training workouts that are going to build her muscles to look more visible."

As previously reported, Madonna has the same trainer as Gwyneth Paltrow and reportedly follows a strict two-hour workout six days a week. Not to mention, Madge is currently on her "Sticky and Sweet" tour which requires hours of dance rehearsal.

Bonci adds, "When muscles look that way, it's often the result of pretty restrictive eating and dehydration. With bodybuilders, the goal is to be sinewy, to make everything stand out. How do you get to that goal? You restrict your fluid intake. But then you might collapse on stage."

gossip cop

gossip cop

Although 16-year-old Taylor Momsen is being featured in Teen Vogue, the Gossip Girl star feels her level of maturity far outshines most kids her age.

"Most of my friends are older, too. I live a very adult life: I have two different careers; I'm on tour. What am I going to do, hang out with the high school kids?" Momsen asked in her interview with the magazine.

That said, she wouldn't cop to a relationship with an older guy, much less with one her age. As Taylor tells it, "Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is; there's just no way, I would eat a boy my age alive." If she ate things, that is.

Check out Taylor's Teen Vogue video by clicking the continue reading link below.

madonna biceps

madonna biceps

Madonna is a woman of so many missions: Kabbalah, AIDS advocacy, adoption.

Here's a new cause she might consider: gun control.

No, the material mom and pop superstar isn't toting AK47s to Malawi, Manhattan and beyond. Madonna's weapons of choice are her buff-beyond-belief biceps. Recent images of the singer display a double-barreled mass of sinewy veins that strike fear in the hearts of paparazzi and raise questions in the heads of fans and critics:

How and why does a 50-year-old woman get her arms to look like that?

"Oftentimes when your body fat is really, really, low, as Madonna's is, you're going to see veins pop," explained Leslie Bonci, director of sports nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "Her body fat is minimal, and she does a lot of strength training workouts that are going to build her muscles to look more visible."

But scant fat plus hardcore exercise doesn't necessarily translate to a healthy body.

"When muscles look that way, it's often the result of pretty restrictive eating and dehydration," Bonci said, noting the "pop" of Madonna's veins mimics the appearance bodybuilders attempt to achieve for competitions.

"With bodybuilders, the goal is to be sinewy, to make everything stand out. How do you get to that goal? You restrict your fluid intake. But then you might collapse on stage."

Take note, Madonna: if you plan to keep high-kicking your way through your Sticky & Sweet world tour, a couple sips of Vitamin Water between sets might not be a bad idea.

Madonna's bulky biceps contrast with her less-than-taut triceps, likely a factor of age and skin's waning elasticity. But when workouts fall short, many times, plastic surgery (literally) picks up the slack.

That appeared to be the case in February, when Madonna debuted a fresh face at Vanity Fair's post-Oscar party. The newly single queen of reinvention looked radiant on the red carpet, with supple skin and nary a wrinkle.

thunder over the valley

thunder over the valley

VIENNA - Township residents here are getting ready for thousands of visitors next month.

With the turnout expected for the Youngs-town Air Reserve Station for Thunder Over The Valley, residents are learning how Vienna will deal with them all. The plans were discussed at a meeting of the Vienna Township Neighborhood Watch Monday night.

With more than 40,000 people expected to be moving through the Air base and early birds working their way to the parking lots as early as 6 a.m., organizers say it will take a little help from everyone to keep things running smoothly for the Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team on Aug. 8 and 9.

The show won't begin until Saturday, Aug. 8 but traffic around the air base may be slowed or restricted in some areas starting Friday afternoon. Lt. Col. Mark Ables said Friday will be a practice run for the Thunderbirds.

On each day through the weekend, there will be a 12,000-foot-by-3,000-foot restricted area surrounding the air base, which Ables said was for FAA regulations. Under the rules, there can be no ground traffic within that square. The personnel at the meeting said the only two buildings within that space are one vacant home and Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, which will close its terminals while the stunt planes are in use.

On Aug. 8 and 9, visitors are expected to arrive starting at about 6 a.m., three hours before the gates to the base open. The shows should start around noon, according to personnel.

Chief Trumbull Sheriff's Deputy Ernie Cook said parking would be restricted along the roadways surrounding the base. Residents near the show who are not home may want to consider posting 'no parking' signs in their front yards, he said.

Tickets to the three parking areas are color coded by lots, they said. Visitors should have their parking tickets displayed in their windows as they find their parking lot. There will be shuttle service from some lots, which will be free, according to Chief Master Sgt. Dave Kane.

Capt. Ryan Robin said everyone going into the base will have to go through a security screening.

"It's pretty close to TSA rules, like you're boarding a flight," Robin said.

Visitors will not be allowed to bring weapons or anything that could be used as a weapon inside the base. Those can be left in their cars. The base will also have boxes where these items can be placed, but their owners will not get them back, Robin said.

Per agreement with the vendors at the show, guests will not be allowed to have outside food or drink in the base. Guests can bring water in clear plastic bottles as well as hand coolers with baby formula, according to Robin.

Folding chairs are allowed.

No pets are allowed into the base, unless they are a service animal, such as a seeing eye dog.

Special Agent Corey Christman of the special investigations unit at the Air Reserve Station said that the base is not expecting anything dangerous to happen, but people should be on the lookout for suspicious activity around the base. He said people should call his 24-hour line at 330-609-1277 if they notice anything strange.

Vienna Township Trustee Phil Pegg said the township will have all of its officers on duty to help residents during the weekend. He also said that the 911 dispatch center would be staffed with extra dispatchers during the weekend. Their number is 330-675-2730.

lake george new york

lake george new york

The state Department of Environmental Conservation will offer a workshop on "Becoming an Outdoors-woman" Sept. 18 through 20 at the Silver Bay YMCA on Lake George, in Warren County. The workshop is designed for women 18 or older with little or no outdoor activity experience.

About 40 different classes will be offered on subjects such as canoeing, fishing, kayaking, bowhunting, wilderness camping and first aid, shotgun shooting, outdoor photography and fish-and-game cooking.

Women can also earn a certificate in hunter or trapper safety education.

The cost is $120 for four classes, not including meals and lodging.

alexis cohen death

alexis cohen death

Police have arrested a 23-year-old New Jersey man in connection with Saturday morning's hit-and-run death of two-time "American Idol" contestant Alexis Cohen. The Asbury Park Journal reports that Daniel Bark was arrested at 6 p.m. on Sunday and charged with causing Cohen's death by reckless driving and then leaving the scene of a collision.

Cohen, 25, the defiant blonde who auditioned for "Idol" in seasons seven and eight, became a fan favorite thanks to her clashes with judge Simon Cowell, who referred to her as the "Green Goblin" after her first high-energy auditions. Proudly proclaiming that she marched "to the beat of a different drummer," the Allentown, Pennsylvania native who shared a studio apartment with her mom didn't impress with her cover of Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" in 2007.

She seemed humbled by the judges' criticisms at first, but then exploded once outside the audition room, dubbing the acerbic Brit Cowell "egotistical" when he failed to put her through to the Hollywood round, and vowing to go into acting instead after flipping the camera a double bird and ranting to Cowell to "Take it, take it, take it!"

Cohen was struck by a car early Saturday morning in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, and found around 5 a.m. by two passersby, who reported the death to 911. She was pronounced dead two hours later at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, New Jersey. Autopsy results showed that she had suffered chest, head and abdominal injuries. Cohen's body was found 350 yards away from her car, which was parked in a nearby lot. Police said it was unclear if Cohen was returning to her car when she was struck.

If convicted in Cohen's death, Bark could serve 10 to 15 years in jail. He is currently being held in the Ocean County Jail in Toms River on $35,000 bail.

erin andrews peephole tape torrent

erin andrews peephole tape torrent

The demand for Erin Andrews Peephole Tape Video is still very high more than a week after the video spread like wildfire. Erin AndrewsErin Andrews is an ESPN sportscaster. She was also the Playboy Magazine’s America’s Sexiest Sportscaster for 2007 and 2008.

The Erin Andrews Peephole tape video was first seen in Dailymotion. The Dailymotion video can be dated as early as February 17, 2009 but it was only this July when Erin Andrews herself, through her attorney, confirmed that she was indeed the lady on the video. The video was reportedly UNCENSORED!

The original video on Dailymotion has been brought down already but the download and direct download links are still available on numerous file sharing sites. You just have to find them. It’s too dangerous for me to post those links for some reasons such as DMCA violations and privacy invasion.

We knew all along that she was popular, but high search for Erin Andrews’ peephole video shows her mammoth popularity among denizens. Everyone wants to have at least a look at her infamous video.

In the meantime she has taken to legal recourse to stop the misuse of her video that were put on several website before being hastily taken off due to fear of law.

Now her video is not available on any well-known websites.

In the meantime ESPN has taken some drastic steps to deter people doing anything of this sort.

ESPN has taken strict measures against New York Post after it carried a few photographs from the nude video.

It has banned any of New York Post reporters from appearing on any of its program. The broadcaster thinks that this step will deter other news outlets from carrying similar photos in the past.

Chris LaPlaca, a senior ESPN official said, “While we understand the Post's decision to cover this as a news story, their running photos obtained in such a fashion went well beyond the boundaries of common decency in the interest of sensationalism”.

In the meantime ESPN sports reporter Erin Andrews has said she will fight the person responsible for her nude video. She says she will fight back against people who planted a camera and secretly videotaped her changing clothes in her hotel room.

Erin Andrews is among top American anchors who have become as famous as me leading sports stars. She has won fame on her merits and not from favours.

Play Boy while naming her as America’s sexiest sportscaster said, “Erin is the subject of fanatic adoration in every arena or stadium she visits, and she even has YouTube tributes lovingly devoted to her.”

The magazine went on to add, “The former Florida Gator basketball team dancer is now one of ESPN's marquee names, and it's always a pleasure to watch her sideline reporting during ESPN's college football telecasts”.

It added, “The results might not come as a huge surprise. Erin is the subject of fanatic adoration in every arena or stadium she visits, and she even has YouTube tributes lovingly devoted to her. The former Florida Gator basketball team dancer is now one of ESPN's marquee names, and it's always a pleasure to watch her sideline reporting during ESPN's college football telecasts”.

Erin Andrews attorney says, “While alone in the privacy of her hotel room, Erin Andrews was surreptitiously videotaped without her knowledge or consent. She was the victim of a crime and is taking action to protect herself and help ensure that others are not similarly violated in the future”.

The attorney added, “Although the perpetrator or perpetrators of this criminal act have not yet been identified, when they are identified she intends to bring both civil and criminal charges against them and against anyone who has published the material. We request respect of Erin’s privacy at this time, while she and her representatives are working with the authorities.”

Andrews has become an Internet sensation, as she is popular among male sports fans for her physical appearance and knowledge of sports. In 2007 and 2008, she was voted "America's Sexiest Sportscaster" by Playboy Magazine.

Andrews began her career with FSN Florida as a freelance reporter from 2000–01, before serving as a Tampa Bay Lightning reporter for the Sunshine Network from 2001–02. She then worked as a studio host for Turner Sports from 2002–04, covering the Atlanta Braves and college football for TBS and Atlanta Thrashers and Atlanta Hawks for Turner South.

Andrews joined ESPN in May 2004 as a reporter for the network's National Hockey League coverage. Since the 2004 season, she has served as sideline reporter for the ESPN College Football Saturday telecast, the Saturday Primetime college basketball game and Big Ten college basketball coverage.

Erin Andrews in 2005 added Major League Baseball sideline reporting to her duties. She also provides reports and features on Great Outdoor Games coverage, covers Men's college baseball, and is a familiar sight during the College World Series. On July 8, 2009, Andrews was struck by a foul ball in the chin. The ball was hit by Alex Cora of the New York Mets. She was rushed to the hospital, but she only suffered bruises.

Searches for the video surged to the top of the Google Hot Trends list last weekend — as pervs “sports fanatics” risk violating laws and downloading computer viruses to get to the video.

Her attorney in a statement said, “while alone in the privacy of her hotel room, Erin Andrews was surreptitiously videotaped without her knowledge or consent. She was the victim of a crime and is taking action to protect herself and help ensure that others are not similarly violated in the future”.

alexis cohen american idol

alexis cohen american idol

Former American Idol contestant Alexis Cohen is dead. The 25-year-old from Allentown, Pennsylvania was hit by a car early Saturday morning in New Jersey in an apparent hit and run. Read more about the story plus photos and video of Alexis Cohen below.

Alexis Cohen

Alexis Cohen, who auditioned for American Idol Season 7 and 8, was found lying on a Seaside Heights, New Jersey road at 4:00 A.M. Saturday morning.

A passerby noticed Cohen and called 911, where she was taken to Community Medical Center and pronounced dead at 6:30 A.M. An autopsy was performed and it was concluded that she died from injuries to her chest, abdomen and head, injuries sustained from a collision with a vehicle.

Alexis Cohen Biography

As a biography, Alexis Cohen is from Allentown, Pennsylvania. Her date of birth is unknown, but at the time of her death she was 25 years old.

Alexis was a college student studying to become a veterinarian. She auditioned for Season 7 of American Idol but did not receive her golden ticket to Hollywood. Video of her angry tirade after being rejected by Simon Cowell and the other judges made its rounds across the web. You can see video of that audition below. She auditioned in 2009 but once again did not make it to the Hollywood round.

You can see photos and a video of Alexis Cohen below. R.I.P.

encyclopedia of life

encyclopedia of life

It's not every day that an 18-year-old art student has the opportunity to work with some of the rarest and most beautiful images ever created.

Yet here at the Academy of Natural Sciences is Stephanie Zuppo, a Moore College of Art sophomore, affixed to a tall stool, at her feet an enormous volume bathed in brilliant light.

She focuses on a flower - a rose, possibly the first rendering of that particular variation of flora - and carefully adjusts her scanner.

An image originally created at around 1800 by Pierre Joseph Redouté, the great Belgian painter and botanist, is about to enter the universe of digital electronics, invisibly passing into machinery and onto gold compact discs, eventually into various databases and then out to the virtual world, available to anyone.

The Academy of Natural Sciences, perhaps best known locally as home of dinos and butterflies, has just joined an elite library consortium with an ambitious democratic purpose. The Biodiversity Heritage Library, as the four-year-old collective is called, seeks to scan, digitize and make available on the Internet all published information on biodiversity held in its members' collections.

The academy, which has a strong collection of 18th- and early 19th-century works, now is one of the dozen libraries in the United States and Europe involved in the work. Their holdings contain "most of the taxonomic literature known to man," said Danianne Mizzy, the academy's library director.

"They've already got 13 million pages, 12 million different species" on the Internet, she said - at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org. That means only another 70 million or 80 million or 100 million pages to go.

And it doesn't stop there. The biodiversity library is only one element of an even larger digital project - the Encyclopedia of Life, an effort to digitize and make available all information on every species known to exist. Its organizers acknowledge that the project is audacious, but it is already building an online presence at www.eol.org.

With more than 200,000 items in its library, the academy is a natural participant, despite the fact that the vast majority of its holdings consists of manuscripts. (Unpublished manuscripts and other items, while historically interesting, are not relevant to the biodiversity library effort, which deals only with published material that serves to identify species.)

That, however, is overriden by the fact that in this instance, while old is good and early is better, first is always best - the first description of a plant or animal serves as a baseline for all future descriptions, undergirding the entire edifice of taxonomy, the science of classification.

"Taxonomic literature is the opposite of wanting to know only what's the most current and up to date by which everything is superseded," said Mizzy. "Nothing is ever superseded in taxonomy. The first description is always the typeset, so the half-life of 'how long is this relevant in taxonomic literature' is much longer than any other scientific literature."

Thus, what was good in 1709 is still good, which makes the academy's library of very rare illustrated texts of flora and fauna extremely useful. But many of these volumes, including Jardin de la Malmaison by E.P. Ventenat, published in 1802-03 with Redouté's vivid color plates, are difficult to digitize quickly and inexpensively: too big.

"The kind of scanning done here currently and starting back in 1998 is called boutique scanning, where you're doing one volume at a time, one page at a time by hand," Mizzy said. "The per-page costs are very high because of the method. The reason the Biodiversity Heritage Library was able to get to this critical mass [of 13 million pages] so quickly was they partnered up . . . and are using robotic scanning stations called scribes that are able to do . . . thousands of pages in a day."

That's not possible with many of the academy's old volumes.

"There are materials that are not susceptible to this kind of robotic scanning," she continued. "They're too small. Too big. Too fragile. Too tightly bound. Or they may have beautiful illustrations that are in the form of foldouts. You can never have a robot scanning this type of material."

So for the moment, Stephanie Zuppo is scanning images from the garden of Empress Josephine and the academy is joining other institutions with a federal grant to try to figure out how to do boutique scanning more efficiently and at lower cost.

For scientists and researchers - and anyone interested in the living world, really - the overall project offers enormous benefits.

"Essentially, it's democratizing access to the most important books of the last five centuries," said Robert McCracken Peck, the academy's senior fellow. "This early literature is still totally relevant today. It needs to be quotable and referenceable."

Ted Daeschler, a paleontologist and academy associate curator, emphasized the communications potential of such digital projects.

"So much of science is built on previous knowledge and access to resources," he said. "A resource is a book or a published scientific paper or an organism. For science to progress, the easier the access to various resources, the better."

A digital world will, at least in some cases, make it unnecessary to travel to a particular library or collection to see one unique resource; the resource, in this case published text and imagery, will be available on the Internet.

"When you're looking at a plant in the field and you want to know has this species been described before, you need to go all the way back to the beginning, to before [Empress] Josephine, to figure out if it's new or not," said Mizzy, gesturing at Zuppo's scan. "So the impact is that when a scan like this goes into the Biodiversity Heritage Library, that guy out in the field, if he has access to a satellite, can look at the taxonomic literature, can get into the taxonomic literature."

Eileen Mathias, the academy's information librarian, said the goal is even greater than that.

"Eventually the Biodiversity Heritage Library will connect to the Encyclopedia of Life," she said. "It will be an encyclopedia of all the world's species. Anyone can look on there. If you find an insect in the backyard and you want to know what it is, you can go to the Encyclopedia of Life to figure it out."

e lynn harris website

e lynn harris website

E. Lynn Harris, the best-selling author of novels that addressed questions of identity and sexuality among black men, has died, his publicist told The Associated Press. He was 54.

According to his official biography at his Web site, Mr. Harris was born in Flint, Mich. and raised in Little Rock, Ark. At the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, he was the school’s first black male Razorbacks cheerleader and was a lifelong fan of the team. He sold computers for a living until he self-published his first novel, “Invisible Life,” in 1991; it was picked up by Anchor Books in 1994, spawning a prolific writing career spanning ten more novels, from “Just As I Am” in 1994, to “Basketball Jones,” published in January, as well as a 2004 memoir, “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted.”

In a review of Mr. Harris’s 2006 novel “I Say a Little Prayer” in The New York Times Book Review, Troy Patterson wrote that Mr. Harris “has helped bring taboo topics — like closeted black men indulging their sexuality ‘on the down low’ — into mainstream conversation.” From his debut with “Invisible Life”, Mr. Patterson wrote that Mr. Harris offered a writing style that “was smoothly paced, and the prose occasionally opened up on Fitzgerald-lite moments of sparkling sentiment.”

In a statement, Alison Rich, the executive director of publicity for Doubleday, which published Mr. Harris’s novels, said: “We at Doubleday are deeply shocked and saddened to learn of E. Lynn Harris’ death at too young an age. His pioneering novels and powerful memoir about the black gay experience touched and inspired millions of lives, and he was a gifted storyteller whose books brought delight and encouragement to readers everywhere. Lynn was a warm and generous person, beloved by friends, fans, and booksellers alike, and we mourn his passing.”

wedding dancers video

wedding dancers video

Drunken table dances. Inappropriate toasts. Lewd behavior in secluded banquet-hall alcoves.

The cutting-room floors of local photo studios and video-editing suites are littered with evidence of bad wedding-guest behavior the happy couple would just as soon forget. Intentionally or not, these guests managed to steal their thunder, making the day less about two people starting their new lives together and more about how that guy from the office puked in the planter next to the gift table.

You don't want to be that guest at this summer's upcoming weddings. We don't want you to be that guest either. So for your refrigerator posting pleasure, here are some tips on how to avoid stepping on toes, stealing the spotlight and committing any major crimes of poor wedding decorum.

RSVP: An order, not a request. The bride and groom did not purchase all those stamps for their health. Send back your response card promptly and make sure it's filled out correctly with your number of guests and entree selections if applicable.

"People send them in late, or don't send them in at all," says Kristin Neafsey, sales-and-catering manager for the Carriage House in Galloway Township. "We've had brides and grooms have to call their guests like 'Hey, are you coming?'"

If you do RSVP that you are coming, make sure you show up so the bride and groom don't end up paying for an uneaten dinner.

Be on time. The only people lined up at the back of the church when the wedding march starts should be the bride and her father, not you scooting in under the gun trying to figure out whether to sit on the bride's side or the groom's side of the church.

"If you're doing a wedding video, how do you edit that out?" says Bob Morgan, owner of Bob Morgan Entertainment DJ service in Millville. " It's horrible."

Show them the money. According to Steve Kemble, an expert on the Style Network's "Whose Wedding is it Anyway?" and "Married Away," there are different theories on how much to give as a cash wedding gift, ranging from how well you know the person to figuring out the cost per head for the reception.

"My personal feeling is that you should give what you can give comfortably," Kemble says. "If you are hesitant for any reason, then you should stick to the registry."

Don't overindulge on the open bar. This is a bigee. Tattoo it on your forehead if necessary. Just because it's an open bar doesn't mean you have to drink your weight in Guinness or Merlot. That's how disasters occur.

"One gentleman was so utterly intoxicated that he punched though a glass window of the reception hall, only to get glass in the other guest's nose who was on the other side of the window," recalls Miranda Duca, director of catering at Sand Barrens Golf Club in Swainton. "Both were sent to the ER, but no major injuries."

Pace yourself, especially if there's a long break between the ceremony and cocktail hour. Alternate beers or glasses of wine with water or soft drinks, or stay away from the hard stuff until after dinner.

Consider the DJ off limits. "Do not be the one to request the chicken dance or the electric slide," Duca advises. "You never know what the bride and groom put on their 'do not play' list."

Most couples know enough about their guests to play music they'll dance to. It's a safe bet that "Shout!," "YMCA" and "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" will show up at some point. Do not lurch up the DJ's table and demand an immediate performance of "Stairway to Heaven" or "Crazy for You."

Don't load up on freebies. Some venues allow you to take the centerpieces or votive candles with you at the end of the evening. But wait for them to say so before you start packing the trunk.

The same goes for favors. True, not everyone at the table may want to take home their free monogrammed chocolate bar, but that doesn't mean you can stuff your purse with goodies.

No special orders. This is not Burger King. You can't have it your way. The bride and groom chose the menu or the serving style for a reason, whether for price or their own personal taste. Don't badger the waiters for special meals or a bottle of wine or beer that they aren't serving.

"Throughout the years I've been amazed at the number of people who ask for a better bottle of wine because they do not like what is being served," Kemble says. "If you want a better wine, you should be prepared to present a credit card to the banquet captain and pay for it yourself."

Stay out of the spotlight. This is the bride and groom's day, not yours. Enjoy the party, but keep yourself out of the spotlight. Leave the cleavage-bearing dresses, and the Worm at home, and be content to melt into the background of the ceremony and reception.

"There once was a mom who wanted to stand next to the altar, between the bride and groom," says Shaun Reilly, photographer at Foschi Photography Studio in Linwood. "You have to remember it's not your day."

Just keep repeating this mantra to yourself: This is not "Wedding Crashers" and you are not Vince Vaughn.

erin andrews peephole tape video watch

erin andrews peephole tape video watch

Erin Andrews Peephole tape video is spreading like wildfire. It is still the undisputed number one news on the Internet today. It’s been nearly a week since this news about Erin Andrews Peephole Video came out but people are still curious about this very controversial video. The rumors that the video files pack were uploaded to a certain file sharing site is true. But we cannot publish the links for that once since doing such thing is against the policy and it may cause too much pain on our side.

But as what I have said, Erin Andrews Peephole Tape Video is still available the files are just spreading online.

Erin Andrews is among top American anchors who have become as famous as some leading sports stars. She has won fame on her merits and not from favours.

Play Boy while naming her as America’s sexiest sportscaster said, “Erin is the subject of fanatic adoration in every arena or stadium she visits, and she even has YouTube tributes lovingly devoted to her.”

The magazine went on to add, “The former Florida Gator basketball team dancer is now one of ESPN's marquee names, and it's always a pleasure to watch her sideline reporting during ESPN's college football telecasts”.

It added, “The results might not come as a huge surprise. Erin is the subject of fanatic adoration in every arena or stadium she visits, and she even has YouTube tributes lovingly devoted to her. The former Florida Gator basketball team dancer is now one of ESPN's marquee names, and it's always a pleasure to watch her sideline reporting during ESPN's college football telecasts”.

Erin Andrews attorney says, “While alone in the privacy of her hotel room, Erin Andrews was surreptitiously videotaped without her knowledge or consent. She was the victim of a crime and is taking action to protect herself and help ensure that others are not similarly violated in the future”.

so you think you can dance results july 23

so you think you can dance results july 23

She thought she could dance. Was she right?

In Katie Holmes' case, it should have been more like, so you think you can strut around the stage and strike a few poses.

That much she did with aplomb - not bad for someone with no real training as a dancer or a singer.

But especially when viewed after the often mesmerizing talents of the contestants on the show, two of whom were sent home last night, it's hard to qualify Holmes' performance as dancing exactly.

Mrs. Tom Cruise took the stage (well, the video screen, actually) on "So You Think You Can Dance" for the show's 100th episode on Thursday night in a tribute to Judy Garland, in order to draw attention to the Dizzy Feet Foundation, which funds dance scholarships for kids.

She also drew attention to her stocking-clad legs and pursed lips, as the camera kept zooming in for close-ups on her attempts to be sultry.

Holmes sang a pleasant, on-key if not full voiced version of Garland's "Get Happy" from the 1950s musical "Summer Stock." She appeared to be lip-synching as she slunk around the stage surrounded by a bevy of male dancers, who at one point hoisted the former "Dawson's Creek" star high over their heads.

Holmes was no where to be seen during the show - she was in fact shooting her new movie, "Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark," in Melbourne, Australia, the Mirror reports.

But she needn't have hid out. The reception to her performance was predictably gushy, especially from its choreographer, Tyce Diorio, who was still on a egotastic high from the superlatives the judges threw at his breast cancer dance the night before.

"We went on this journey together and it's wonderful to see it all come to fruition," he said backstage after the show, as quoted by People magazine. "And having Garland's son in the audience to experience that, it all just felt so right, I'm so excited — and I had a chance to direct!"

Thanks for reminding us, Tyce.

Garland's son Joey Luft, from her marriage to Sidney Luft, did indeed smile politely from the crowd after Holmes' tape rolled.

Holmes' performance did have one very positive effect - it was a welcome distraction from the very sad fate of two standout dancers on the show.

Janette and Jason were both sent home last night, and the judges were openly bummed about America's decision.

Both Mia Michaels and Nigel Lythgoe proclaimed that Janette - a self-identified salsa dancer from Miami with little to no formal training in other styles, who nonetheless wowed with everything she was handed, from disco to hip-hop - had been their favorite of the whole competition.

Lythgoe had also given Jason high praise after Wednesday's dances, telling him he channeled Gene Kelly in a jazzy Broadway number with Kayla.

With so many talented dancers on the show this season, it's only the beginning of heartache for fans who will be crushed to see them go.

erin andrews peephole tape video

erin andrews peephole tape video

Over the years, the biggest criticism of ESPN, the self-proclaimed "Worldwide Leader in Sports," has been that it engages in shameless self-promotion that often makes it seem as if the network is bigger than the stories it covers. But in a strange twist, two stories have developed in recent days that have thrust ESPN into the national spotlight and made the network the story. Here's a look at those two stories one that made the network the focus through no fault of ESPN's and one that did through ESPN's doing and how they have been viewed.

The Erin Andrews videotape

What happened

A videotape surfaced on the Internet of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, who was filmed naked through a peephole in a hotel room. Andrews' representatives and ESPN acknowledged the grainy video was of Andrews and that they would seek civil and criminal action against those behind the video if they are caught.

Exploiting the story

While all agree that Andrews was the victim of an abhorrent act, that didn't stop several media outlets, including Fox News and CBS, from airing either photos from the video or the video (with parts of Andrews' body blurred). The New York Post also ran several still photos, and ESPN has responded by banning Post reporters from appearing on its shows.

In an e-mail to the St. Petersburg Times, ESPN spokesman Bill Hofheimer said, "Erin was grievously wronged here, and while we understand the Post's decision to cover this as a news story, their running photos obtained in such a fashion went well beyond the boundaries of common decency in the interest of sensationalism. This is not a decision we undertook lightly, but we feel it is an appropriate one."

Backlash

In the story's wake has come backlash against ESPN and Andrews. The Post's Page Six gossip page ran at item Thursday that blamed ESPN. The Post wrote, "No one would have known that a sick voyeur had secretly videotaped ESPN reporter Erin Andrews nude in her hotel room if the Mickey Mouse sports network hadn't sent a letter to an obscure Web site demanding that it take down its link to a fuzzy video of an unidentified blonde."

Meantime, USA Today columnist Christine Brennan seemed to criticize Andrews in a Twitter post, writing, "Women sports journalists need to be smart and not play to the frat house. There are tons of nuts out there. Erin Andrews incident is bad, but to add perspective: there are 100s of women sports journalists who have never had this happen to them."

Brennan clarified her comments Thursday, saying her "frat house" comment, "was not meant to be pointed specifically at Erin, and I'm sorry if it was taken that way." She added, "What happened to her is terrible, and she will always have my full support."

Interestingly, "Erin Andrews peephole tape" was the top Google search Tuesday and Wednesday this week and No. 3 on Thursday. As AOL Fanhouse's David Whitley wrote, "The fact is only one person committed the crime, but almost all of us have contributed to this revealing peep at our culture. That includes ESPN."

Bottom line

Andrews was the victim of a pervert who crossed all lines of decency. To somehow question her style as a reporter or ESPN's role in creating a media sensation such as Andrews in the context of this scandal is not only unfair, it's indecent. Certainly there is never an inappropriate time to have intelligent conversations about networks' hiring practices, the networks' role in developing popular personalities and why certain personalities become popular. But it is apples and oranges. In this case, the blame starts and stops with those responsible for drilling a hole in a wall, taping an unsuspecting naked woman and posting that video on the Internet.

The Ben Roethlisberger case

What happened

This week a woman in Nevada filed a civil lawsuit accusing Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of sexually assaulting her last summer. The story appeared in newspapers throughout the country (including this one), on other media outlets and on major sports Web sites with one notable exception: ESPN. The network did not report it on any of its broadcast outlets or its Web site. It said that it has a policy of not running stories based on civil suits without a criminal investigation or without conducting its own reporting.

The initial reaction

ESPN claimed to be taking the high road by not reporting the lawsuit, and there is precedent for its decision. In 2005 it did not report a story about a woman who accused then-Falcons quarterback Michael Vick in a civil suit of infecting her with a sexually transmitted disease. On the other hand, ESPN did report last month that a woman had planned to file a civil suit against Lakers guard Shannon Brown on sex-related accusations.

With Roethlisberger, many wondered if ESPN was refusing to address the story in order to stay in good standing with one of the country's most high-profile athletes.

Backlash

Late Wednesday, ESPN first reported the Roethlisberger story when authorities announced there would be no criminal investigation. Why did ESPN shift gears? ESPN says it simply was waiting for either Roethlisberger or law enforcement to make a statement. On Dan Patrick's national radio show Thursday, ESPN senior VP and executive editor John Walsh was asked if ESPN should have reported the story sooner.

"I don't think that question should be answered until we see how the news story unfolds," Walsh said. "In the blogosphere and sports talk radio, too many judgments are rushed to be made before we know what we should know about a case. You want to get to the bottom of it and honor and respect all the people who are involved, including the victims."

Bottom line

Any news organization has the right to set the standards by which it will report a story. But because this case involved a civil suit and a high-profile athlete and because reputable news organizations, including the New York Times, reported the story, it did seem odd that ESPN chose to ignore it, especially when it calls itself the "Worldwide Leader in Sports." If nothing else, ESPN's future practices on reporting such stories will be under heavy scrutiny.

The Erin Andrews videotape

What happened

A videotape surfaced on the Internet of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, who was filmed naked through a peephole in a hotel room. Andrews' representatives and ESPN acknowledged the grainy video was of Andrews and that they would seek civil and criminal action against those behind the video if they are caught.

Exploiting the story

While all agree that Andrews was the victim of an abhorrent act, that didn't stop several media outlets, including Fox News and CBS, from airing either photos from the video or the video (with parts of Andrews' body blurred). The New York Post also ran several still photos, and ESPN has responded by banning Post reporters from appearing on its shows.

In an e-mail to the St. Petersburg Times, ESPN spokesman Bill Hofheimer said, "Erin was grievously wronged here, and while we understand the Post's decision to cover this as a news story, their running photos obtained in such a fashion went well beyond the boundaries of common decency in the interest of sensationalism. This is not a decision we undertook lightly, but we feel it is an appropriate one."

Backlash

In the story's wake has come backlash against ESPN and Andrews. The Post's Page Six gossip page ran at item Thursday that blamed ESPN. The Post wrote, "No one would have known that a sick voyeur had secretly videotaped ESPN reporter Erin Andrews nude in her hotel room if the Mickey Mouse sports network hadn't sent a letter to an obscure Web site demanding that it take down its link to a fuzzy video of an unidentified blonde."

Meantime, USA Today columnist Christine Brennan seemed to criticize Andrews in a Twitter post, writing, "Women sports journalists need to be smart and not play to the frat house. There are tons of nuts out there. Erin Andrews incident is bad, but to add perspective: there are 100s of women sports journalists who have never had this happen to them."

Brennan clarified her comments Thursday, saying her "frat house" comment, "was not meant to be pointed specifically at Erin, and I'm sorry if it was taken that way." She added, "What happened to her is terrible, and she will always have my full support."

Interestingly, "Erin Andrews peephole tape" was the top Google search Tuesday and Wednesday this week and No. 3 on Thursday. As AOL Fanhouse's David Whitley wrote, "The fact is only one person committed the crime, but almost all of us have contributed to this revealing peep at our culture. That includes ESPN."

Bottom line

Andrews was the victim of a pervert who crossed all lines of decency. To somehow question her style as a reporter or ESPN's role in creating a media sensation such as Andrews in the context of this scandal is not only unfair, it's indecent. Certainly there is never an inappropriate time to have intelligent conversations about networks' hiring practices, the networks' role in developing popular personalities and why certain personalities become popular. But it is apples and oranges. In this case, the blame starts and stops with those responsible for drilling a hole in a wall, taping an unsuspecting naked woman and posting that video on the Internet.

The Ben Roethlisberger case

What happened

This week a woman in Nevada filed a civil lawsuit accusing Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of sexually assaulting her last summer. The story appeared in newspapers throughout the country (including this one), on other media outlets and on major sports Web sites with one notable exception: ESPN. The network did not report it on any of its broadcast outlets or its Web site. It said that it has a policy of not running stories based on civil suits without a criminal investigation or without conducting its own reporting.

The initial reaction

ESPN claimed to be taking the high road by not reporting the lawsuit, and there is precedent for its decision. In 2005 it did not report a story about a woman who accused then-Falcons quarterback Michael Vick in a civil suit of infecting her with a sexually transmitted disease. On the other hand, ESPN did report last month that a woman had planned to file a civil suit against Lakers guard Shannon Brown on sex-related accusations.

With Roethlisberger, many wondered if ESPN was refusing to address the story in order to stay in good standing with one of the country's most high-profile athletes.

Backlash

Late Wednesday, ESPN first reported the Roethlisberger story when authorities announced there would be no criminal investigation. Why did ESPN shift gears? ESPN says it simply was waiting for either Roethlisberger or law enforcement to make a statement. On Dan Patrick's national radio show Thursday, ESPN senior VP and executive editor John Walsh was asked if ESPN should have reported the story sooner.

"I don't think that question should be answered until we see how the news story unfolds," Walsh said. "In the blogosphere and sports talk radio, too many judgments are rushed to be made before we know what we should know about a case. You want to get to the bottom of it and honor and respect all the people who are involved, including the victims."

Bottom line

Any news organization has the right to set the standards by which it will report a story. But because this case involved a civil suit and a high-profile athlete and because reputable news organizations, including the New York Times, reported the story, it did seem odd that ESPN chose to ignore it, especially when it calls itself the "Worldwide Leader in Sports." If nothing else, ESPN's future practices on reporting such stories will be under heavy scrutiny.

cash for clunkers stimulus

cash for clunkers stimulus

The Cash For Clunkers stimulus program starts today! Officially known as Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), the ferderal program was officially signed into law today by President Obama.

The CARS program, modeled after similar successful European initiatives, is intended to encourage drivers to trade in their older, less fuel efficient vehicles for new cars with better fuel economy - for a credit worth up to $4,500 on new car purchases.

Cash For Clunkers puts cars, trucks, SUVs and minivans into several categories based on wheelbase size and weight, and the turned in vehicles will be crushed and reused rather than resold and driven again. Sticker proces for the new vehicles cannot exceed $45,000 - so no rebates will be given to those who choose to buy over-the-top luxury cars. The program begins today with a projected end-date of November 1, 2009.

This is all fabulous, however, if your used car is worth more than $4,500, participating may not make much financial sense.

recursion

recursion

Having stumbled upon Project Euler sometime ago and solving the first problem, this disco dancer from the Age of Aquarius thought it was time to tackle problem two, which states:

Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be:

1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, …

Find the sum of all the even-valued terms in the sequence which do not exceed four million.

Fibonacci, eh? Once again, memories of high school introduction to computing and college CS101 classes came to mind as the classic recursion example stared me in the face. A bit of reading and remembering yielded the following basic equation for solving a Fibonacci sequence (aside from 0 and 1):

fibonacci(n) = fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2)

That is, the Fibonacci number of some number n is the Fibonacci number of n-1 plus the Fibonacci number of n-2; thus making it a fun exercise in recursion, baby! Yet, while Fibonacci is a great example in recursion, more often than not, the downside to recursion isn’t addressed — that is, recursion is slower than brute force iteration.

While I implemented problem #1 in Groovy, I thought it would be interesting to solve problem #2 in both Java and Groovy as I wanted to get a good feel for the performance differences between solving Fibonacci via recursion and iteration in both languages.

The basic recursive Fibonacci method in Java can be coded like so:

public static long fibonacci(long num){
if(num == 0 || num == 1){
return num;
}else{
return fibonacci(num - 1) + fibonacci(num - 2);
}
}

I made the method static as the solution will be executed within a main method for simplicity’s sake. As you can see in the above code, there isn’t anything tricky going on there — just an implementation of the recursive algorithm I elaborated on earlier (and I’ve also handled the 2 base cases — those being 0 and 1).

Interestingly, a close inspection of the problem statement calls for one of my favorite looping constructs (which, sadly, isn’t available in Groovy (yet), by the way): the do-while. That is, the problem essentially states one must perform Fibonacci while the sequence is less than 4,000,000. Accordingly, my solution in Java is as follows:

long fib = 0;
long count = 0;
long answer = 0;
do{
fib = fibonacci(count++);
if(fib % 2 == 0){
answer += fib;
}
}while(fib < 4000000);

As you can see, the recursive fibonacci call is made with an incremented counter until such time as the fib variable reaches 4,000,000. Note too, the problem specifies that the answer is the sum of even Fibonacci numbers, hence the modulo operation performed on each value of fib. Note too, that with a do-while there is no need for a bogue break statement, which would otherwise be needed to jump out of the loop (unless you leveraged a normal while loop with the said condition).

Of course, there is another mechanism to solve a Fibonacci sequence — iteration — that is, rather than recursively solving reach sequence, one can just as easily keep a few variables around that hold previous values required for generating a sequence. Thus, the same solution can be achieved in Java like so:

long curr = 0;
long prev = 1;
long answer2 = 0;
long fib2 = 0;
do{
fib2 = (curr + prev);
prev = curr;
curr = fib2;
if(fib2 % 2 == 0){
answer2 += fib2;
}
}while(fib2 < 4000000);

Note, the hip code above is essentially the same — all I’ve done in introduced a two variables — curr and prev that facilitate generating a Fibonacci number without recursion.

Having solved the problem, I then went on to see the relative performance issues in Java between the recursive example and iteration-based one. Not surprisingly, running a simple test demonstrated that the recursive algorithm took roughly 580 milliseconds and the iteration-based one took less than 1 millisecond (please rest assured that this was a most un-scientific analysis and in no way should be regarded as reference-able). Thus, in Java, there is a performance hit (albeit slight) for leveraging recursion as opposed to brute force iteration.

The Groovy example is quite similar (most likely due to my laziness and desire to see the relative performance difference between both sets) — in fact, the only difference is the lack of a do-while, which is replaced with a simple while loop. Thus, my recursive loop looks like this:

def fib = 0
def count = 0
def answer = 0
while(fib < 4000000){
fib = fibonacci(count++);
if(fib % 2 == 0){
answer += fib;
}
}

And my non-recursive loop like so:

long curr = 0
long prev = 1
long answer2 = 0
long fib2 = 0
while(fib2 < 4000000){
fib2 = (curr + prev)
prev = curr
curr = fib2
if(fib2 % 2 == 0){
answer2 += fib2
}
}

Once again, I suppose I could have Groovy-ified the code a lot more and took advantage of the magic of Groovy; however, I wanted the code to be close to the same as Java so as to compare performance results. Thus, running the Groovy example yielded the following un-scientific and therefore un-reference-able data points: the recursive algorithm took approximately 100836 milliseconds (or almost 2 minutes), while the iteration based example took 20 milliseconds.

What’s this all mean, man? Is Groovy slow? Is recursion bogue? The answers are both yes and no — Groovy is going to be a bit slower than normal Java (that difference is becoming narrower and narrower each release though) — in the case of recursion with Fibonacci, Groovy is dramatically slower (most likely due to a lot of reflection magic adding up in terms of call time). Thus, if you find yourself needing deep recursion, Groovy might not fit your needs– all you simply have to do is leverage normal Java. Or you could examine why recursion is called for — you might find that iteration is faster — in which case the relative performance hit between Java and Groovy is slight.

Either way, because it’s my bag, I like to say that for every advantage, there is an equal but opposite disadvantage. That is, with Groovy you gain the advantage of easier coding constructs, no compilation step, etc, which leads to quicker development times; however, you might pay a price in terms of runtime speed. Copasetic developers must weigh these constraints carefully. Do you dig it, man?

peter cammarano

peter cammarano

The mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus, a state assemblyman and dozens of others were rounded up early Thursday as the F.B.I. swept across four counties in New Jersey as part of a two-year corruption and money-laundering investigation that ranged from the Jersey Shore to Brooklyn and has even reached into the State House in Trenton.

Agents raided the home of Joseph V. Doria Jr., commissioner of the state Department of Community Affairs, who also is the former mayor of Bayonne, an official confirmed Thursday morning.

Among the roughly 30 people arrested by mid-morning were Hoboken Mayor Peter J. Cammarano III and Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, both Democrats, and Assemblyman Daniel M. Van Pelt, a Republican from Forked River, in Ocean County. Mr. Cammarano, who turned 32 on Wednesday, was elected mayor June 9 and sworn in July 1, after serving as councilman-at-large since 2005.

Also brought to the Newark office of the F.B.I. were the president of the city council in Jersey City, Mariano Vega, and that city’s deputy mayor, Leona Beldini.

Federal prosecutors said the arrests included several rabbis from enclaves of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn and from Deal and Elberon, communities along the Jersey Shore in Ocean County.

The Asbury Park Press reported that the investigation involved the Deal Yeshiva, a religious school which teaches children in the Sephardic Jewish tradition. The United States Attorney’s office in Newark scheduled a noon news conference.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who has fought corruption in New Jersey’s largest city, told The Star-Ledger it’s "an unbelievable morning so far."

erin andrews video peep pictures

erin andrews video peep pictures

One sports writer called it the perfect storm.

The Internet + ESPN + blogs + folks like me feeding the fire all adds up to everyone wanting to see the Erin Andrews video peep or Playboy pictures of the young lady.

I confess. I don't even know who she is. I haven't watched ESPN ever unless it flashed by the tube while I was at the gym.

Yet, millions of folk, (billions?) are wanting just a peep at the ESPN star.

But, do you really?

If you don't care about sin and all that, you can stop reading. After all, this is a Christian Worldview site.

Christians will ask, what's the big deal? Why do you want to have a look? Is it really worth it.

Jesus has something to say in Matthew 5:28
"But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."

I had a chance to see Farrah Fawcett's Playboy pictures way back when and passed. I am not about to start now. Do you really want to see?

Yes, I am a guy and I did want to look....

tony bernazard

tony bernazard

WASHINGTON - The Binghamton Mets clubhouse nearly turned into a scene out of WWE Raw recently, when VP for player development Tony Bernazard removed his shirt and challenged the Double-A players to a fight during a postgame tirade, multiples sources told the Daily News.

Bernazard particularly went after middle infield prospect Jose Coronado, using a slang term associated with a woman's anatomy, a source indicated. The confrontation happened about 10days before the All-Star break, according to insiders.

"That's an all-timer if true," an AL official said upon hearing the account, which was corroborated by multiple people with ties to the Mets.

GM Omar Minaya acknowledged Bernazard spoke to the B-Mets in a "stern voice," but said he had no knowledge of the scope being portrayed.

"I know he did have a team meeting with them," Minaya told the Daily News. "It was not a 'you-guys-have-been-great meeting.' I know he spoke to them in a stern voice. But as far as what he was wearing, what kind of shoes he was wearing, I don't know anything about that."

While the 52-year-old Bernazard's actions were over-the-top no matter what the motivation, alleged underage drinking on the team apparently was one motivation for the eruption, an organization source said. Still, sending players to counseling rather than challenging them to a rumble might have been a more appropriate course of action.

Binghamton went 1-6 during an early July home stand against New Hampshire and Erie that coincided with that tumult. Three of the defeats came by at least seven runs. The team's longtime Double-A affiliate entered last night with a 36-58 record, in last place in the Eastern League's Northern Division.

"It's ridiculous that anyone in a professional baseball environment thinks it's acceptable," a friend of several B-Mets said about the treatment of the players.

The shoddy treatment of people in the system has led to mocking of the VP behind his back.

The News reported Tuesday that Bernazard, one of GM Omar Minaya's top lieutenants, recently erupted at the organization's manager of baseball operations. During a game at Citi Field, scouts took their customary seats in a row behind home plate. Bernazard showed up during play and wanted a seat occupied by a D-Backs scout. Bernazard's deputy, already seated in the row, suggested to the Mets VP that he wait until the half-inning ended, to minimize the disruption. Bernazard ripped into his deputy with a profanity-laced tirade as scouts and patrons watched in disbelief.

alex donnelley

alex donnelley

A month after the “Piano Man” singer, 60, split up with his third wife, he is reportedly dating pretty brunette Alex Donnelley, a former star of “The Young and the Restless,” according to Page Six.

The pair reportedly met backstage at one of Joel’s concerts in Washington, D.C a few weeks ago. “The two hit it off immediately,” an insider told the gossip site, and have since been hanging out at Joel’s Long Island home.

Donnelley, who is 49 according to her Wikipedia page, recently played small roles in the films “Miss March” and “Drillbit Taylor.” She has two daughters with Robert Lamm, one of the founding members of Chicago.

erin andrews video peep

erin andrews video peep

Two Web site says ESPN is looking at an employee as the Peeping Tom in the Erin Andrews case.

Radar Online says its sources confirm that ESPN is doing a full-scale internal investigation into who shot video of reporter Erin Andrews undressing and posted that video online. TMZ.com also issued a similar report.

Radar says there are seven videos of Andrews and its source says the footage was probably shot by an employee at ESPN.

ESPN is "freaking out, freaking!" the source told Radar.

That account is similar to TMZ's report ,which indicates there are six videos, and that the videos were shot in different hotels, by someone familiar with Andrews' travel schedule.

TMZ says it has viewed the six video segments taken and published without Andrews’ knowledge and permission, and the videos were shot at different times in different cities.

The videos raise the suspicion, TMZ says, that the person who shot them knew her work schedule and was traveling with her.

Lawyers for ESPN and Andrews are feverishly working to find the person responsible for the invasion of the reporter’s privacy.

It was not clear when the video first appeared on the Internet. Most of the links to it had been removed by Tuesday. There are reports that the videos of Andrews, 31, were posted in February 2009 on the Web site Dailymotion but not noticed until recently.

Ephraim Cohen, a spokesman for the video portal Dailymotion, could not confirm the video had actually appeared on his company's site, but said it may have been there months ago.

He said a search for the name of the user who purportedly uploaded the video showed the person had opened an account in February, but had since closed it.

"As far as we can tell, the user took the account and the video down a while ago,'' he said.

Illegal videos often are posted to multiple sites such as YouTube and Dailymotion, which remove them as soon as they are found. The videos also often circulate on peer-to-peer or file-sharing sites, much like illegal music downloads.

Graham Cluley, who writes a blog for the antivirus software maker Sophos, wrote that several links purporting to send Internet users to the Andrews video actually sent them to sites with malicious software and computer viruses.

He said the some of the hackers actually include a portion of the video on their sites, apparently hoping that the malware gets passed along as users share the link with friends.

"They keep on using (videos like this) because it works,'' Cluley said. "If more people thought with their head rather than with their trousers, maybe less of these viruses would spread on our computers.''

Sophos.com says the malware programs affect both Macs and PCs, and can catch Mac users off guard, since they have been led to believe all Macs are not susceptible to hacking.

Erin Andrews peephole video leads to malware from Sophos Labs on Vimeo.

andrea mcnulty

andrea mcnulty

Yet Another Athlete in Possible Trouble With the Law

It seems to be a daily occurrence that either an athlete or politician is involved or allegedly involved in criminal activity, usually of a sexual nature. The star quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers Ben Roethlisberger has been accused in a civil lawsuit of sexual assault in July of last year in Nevada. Pro Football Talk broke the story, but other news outlets picked up the story and ran with it.

The plaintiff, Andrea McNulty, who works for Harrah’s casino, alleges that Ben Roethlisberger asked her to his room to fix his television and while there sexually assaulted her. Ben Roethlisberger has a reputation as one of the more religious of the sports figures, so it is even more shocking to hear this accusation.

David Cornwell, Mr. Roethlisberger’s attorney brings up two interesting points. Why wait so long to file the lawsuit? And why a civil lawsuit and no criminal charges filed?

The suit was filed while Ben Roethlisberger was playing in a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. It is interesting to note that there are nine other defendants in the lawsuit. Does this mean that there were more alleged attackers involved than just Ben Roethlisberger? Or are the other defendants being sued for negligence in not running a safe establishment? Stay tuned for this interesting development in the world of sports.

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The 27th annual Taste of Minnesota kicks off Thursday, but this year, it "tastes" and feels a little different.

"Did a lot of listening over the course of the last six months," Andy Faris said. Faris and his two buddies bought the taste this winter. "Increased security was a concern for some people particularly those who wanted to bring their families down here. We've tightened security, we've made some big changes at the gates," he explained.

Perhaps the biggest change is you'll be required to cough up 10 bucks if you want to get on the grounds after 3 p.m. Those ten dollars will get you ten tickets for food and beverages. The theory is those that are willing to pay aren't passing through looking for trouble.

"We make a living selling food here and that's a big issue for us is to have the security," a satisfied Craig Gass said. Gass runs a hamburger joint a stone's throw from the main stage.

"You can feel good about bringing your family down here, we've beefed up police and security personnel," Faris said.

Organizers say its not just security that's been beefed up, the musical muscle on stage also got a shot in the arm this year. "We've doubled the entertainment budget," Faris explained.

This year's headliners include Staind, Elvis Costello, White Snake, and Judas Priest.

The Taste of Minnesota opens every day at noon and it runs through Sunday on Harriet Island. If you show up before 3 p.m. admission is free.