Charlie Sheen Arrested

He may be best known for starring in Two and a Half Men, but Charlie Sheen now has one giant problem on his hands.

The actor has been arrested for second-degree assault, menacing and criminal mischief. Sheen was picked up in Aspen for an alleged incident of domestic violence against wife Brook Mueller.

While the police may claim Sheen celebrated Christmas by honoring Chris Brown, his rep says otherwise:

"Do not be mislead by appearance. Appearance and reality can be as different as night and day. It would benefit everyone not to jump to any conclusion."

Sheen - who has been accused of sleeping with hookers, beating up dogs and keeping pornography on his computer while married to Denise Richards - is being held without bond.

He'll remain in jail until Monday, due to a Colorado law that requites a protection order between those arrested for domestic violence and their victims.

Sheen and Mueller got married in May 2008 and welcomed twins in October of that year.

** UPDATE: It's been confirmed that Mueller called 911 and claimed her husband laid his hands on her - but Sheen told cops that Mueller was the aggressor and he was simply trying to keep her away.

Terrorist Attack Detroit

A suspected terrorist tried to blow up a Detroit-bound transatlantic flight yesterday with 278 passengers before he was subdued, U.S. officials said.

The passenger was attempting to destroy the plane with an explosive device, said Peter King of New York, the top Republican on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security. White House officials said President Barack Obama is treating the incident as an attempted terrorist attack. King identified the suspect as Abdul Mudallad of Nigeria.

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Oral Roberts Dead

Oral Roberts, a dirt-poor, Oklahoma farm boy who popularized the idea of a "prosperity gospel" while becoming one of the world's most recognizable televangelists, died Tuesday. He was 91.

Mr. Roberts, founder of the 5,400-student university in Tulsa, Okla., that is named after him, died of complications of pneumonia at a Newport Beach, Calif., hospital, family spokeswoman Melany Ethridge said.

Mr. Roberts became one of the most famous preachers of the 20th century by pioneering the use of television and computerized databases to spread the gospel and raise hundreds of millions of dollars -- a formula followed by many other ministries.

Using sophisticated direct-mail campaigns, Mr. Roberts popularized the "prosperity gospel," which asserts that God generously rewards financial acts of faith.

"It gives people hope and expectation that seeds sown to God will be multiplied back in every area of life," Mr. Roberts wrote in his 1995 autobiography, "Expect a Miracle: My Life and Ministry."

Mr. Roberts brought Pentecostalism -- which promotes charismatic worship including faith healing and speaking in tongues -- to the mainstream, giving it a newfound sense of legitimacy among the middle class and within other Christian denominations.

"More than any other person, he should be credited with starting the charismatic movement in mainline religion," said Vinson Synan, dean emeritus of the divinity school at Regent University in Virginia and historian of the Pentecostal movement. "He brought (divine) healing into the American consciousness."

Worldwide, the charismatic branch of Christianity -- now found in mainstream denominations as well as Pentecostalism -- grew from an estimated 20 million to 600 million during Mr. Roberts' decades in ministry. His international broadcasts and crusades deserve a large part of the credit for the increase, Christian scholars said.

In the 1970s, Mr. Roberts' prime-time specials drew 40 million viewers, and he appeared frequently on talk shows. He also had a program, "Something Good Is Going to Happen to You!," that aired Sundays.

At the time of his death, however, Mr. Roberts' ministry and celebrity had been in decline for years, a drop accelerated by a prophecy the preacher made 22 years ago that "God will call me home" unless $8 million was raised for scholarships to Oral Roberts University by March 31, 1987.

The money was raised, but by then, Mr. Roberts had become a laughingstock to many in and out of Christian world.

With dwindling revenues, the televangelist was forced in 1989 to downsize his ministry, laying off 250 employees, closing Tulsa's City of Faith medical center and an adjoining medical school and selling vacation homes and luxury cars.

A heart attack in 1992 forced him into semiretirement, although he remained the chancellor of Oral Roberts University. He spent most of his final years in a Newport Beach condominium with his wife, Evelyn, who died in April 2005. They had been married 66 years.

Mr. Roberts turned over the presidency of Oral Roberts University to his son, Richard. But he resigned in 2007 amid allegations that he had spent university money on personal expenses when the school was more than $50 million in debt.

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The Season 4 of hit show Dexter, left with a huge cliffhanger. With Rita Bennett (Dexter’s wife), and one other major characters being killed. The shows producers had said they wanted to give a shocking finale that no other show had done. Looks like they succeeded.

Clyde Phillips the executive producer explained,”The story evolved and it kind of became inevitable. We knew that we had to do more than kill Trinity. It’s a little bit of a corner that we paint ourselves into. Last year we tried to avoid that and actually I think we didn’t do as well as we could have.” in answer to why they also had Rita fall.



The shocking finale, on Sunday Dec 13, leaves us with a insight of Dexter’s own memories. And how he watched his mother die in front of him and also soaked in her blood, with Rita leaving to go to a romantic escapade only to forget her ID, this is when she ends up being murdered in the bathtub, by Trinity. Meanwhile the baby Harrison is left crying in a pool of her blood.
Phillips also revealed that Julie Benz who plays Rita, was not too happy about being killed off. “She loved being with us. We loved having her with us. She took it… professionally. She was greatly disappointed. She’s a professional. She works in television. She knew that this was a possibility.”

The writers also had an alternative ending for the finale, which was not chosen at the end. “While Dexter was packing to leave, he saw on the television that a child murderer had just escaped from prison. Either escaped or fallen thru the cracks. So he’s thinking, ‘Do I join Rita on vacation or do I…’ and then he looks towards the camera and he has this big decision,” Phillips explained.

We will be waiting till around September for the shows return, where we can see the outcome to Deb finding out that Dex is related to the Ice Truck Killer, and if she will find out about his alter ego.

We will all just have to wait on tender-hooks till it comes along.

‘Anti-social network’ aims to be Facebook killer app

Facebook makes you despair? Social networking makes you want to end it all? You may be ready for online ritual suicide with the aid of a new website that helps you kill your virtual identity.

‘Impress your friends, disconnect yourself,’ is the slogan on www.seppukoo.com, a site that aims to subvert Facebook by offering its millions of users a glorious end and a memorial page to match.

‘Rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, ancient Japanese samurai preferred to die with honour, voluntarily plunging a sword into the abdomen and moving it left to right in a slicing motion,’ the site notes.

This form of ritual suicide was known as ‘seppuku.’

‘As the seppuku restores the samurai’s honour as a warrior, seppukoo.com deals with the liberation of the digital body,’ the site says.

Today the enemy is not other bands of noble warriors but corporate media who use viral marketing to make huge profits by connecting people across the globe.

‘Seppukoo playfully attempts to subvert this mechanism by disconnecting people from each other and transforming the individual suicide experience into an exciting ‘social’ experience.’

The site, which uses its own viral marketing strategy to lure in disgruntled social networkers, is part of a protest wave that sees Facebook as a potentially dangerous entity beholden to corporate interests.

It offers ritual suicide for Facebook users in five easy steps.

Willing victims must first log in to seppukoo.com by typing in the same information they use to go on to their Facebook profile.

They then choose one of several memorial RIP page templates before writing their last words, which the site promises to send to all their Facebook friends when they have taken the final step.

Once the user has made that fatal final click, his or her Facebook profile is deactivated.

But in what might be seen as a bit of a cheat, virtual life goes on after the ritual suicide.

It comes in the form of testimonials friends can write on the memorial page or by rising in the seppukoo ranks by scoring points with every former Facebook friend who follows your lead and commits hara-kari.

The top scorer in that game is currently a blonde woman who uses the name Simona Lodi and who passed into the post-Facebook world on November 5. On her memorial page she chose to write ‘piss off!’ as her last words.

But seppukoo.com has some way to go before it attracts anything near the more than 300 million users Facebook currently boasts. On Wednesday it pulled in only half a dozen Facebookers ready to end it all.

Its owners – whose website says are an ‘imaginary art-group from Italy’ – told AFP by email that over 15,000 people had done the deed and over 350,000 Facebook users had received an invite to follow suit.

Facebook did not immediately reply when contacted by AFP to ask if it saw seppukoo.com as a threat and if it planned any action to block it.

To reinforce the tongue-in-cheek approach of seppukoo.com, the group’s art director – who uses the name Guy McMusker – replied when asked if he was a Facebook user: ‘Of course. We’re not Luddites. We’re incoherent.’

The group is called ‘Linking The Invisible’ and its website says it is made up of media artists Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini whose work explores ‘the invisible links between the infosphere, neural synapses, and real life.’

Seppukoo admits that it is in reality a social networking group but seeks to distinguish itself from Facebook by noting that it will store no data and its server will not sell data to any third party.

‘If you’ve trusted a merciless company (Facebook) until now, we hope you can also trust an imaginary artist group,’ it says. McMusker said the site was not set up with a view to making money.

The RIP memorial page it offers Facebook dissidents could easily be mistaken for a real memorial for a real deceased person. But McMusker rejected suggestions it was in bad taste and said that no-one was likely to be upset.

‘Just take it easy,’ he wrote.

In the real world, suicide is obviously a one-way trip. But in the virtual world even a would-be subversive site like seppukoo.com cannot prevent your resurrection.

If you realise that leaving Facebook was a mistake, all you have to do is log back on again and your profile is instantly restored.

ITALIAN TEAM LET " FAIR PLAY " GOAL

Legal and ethical questions surround Ascoli's decision to allow Reggina to score an unopposed goal in an effort to balance out a previous incident during an Italian second division (Serie B) match on Saturday.
Early in the first half, Reggina's Carlos Valdez pulled a muscle and attempted to kick the ball out of play so he could receive treatment. Oblivious to those intentions, Ascoli's Vincenzo Sommese intercepted the ball and set up teammate Mirko Antenucci for a goal as Reggina players protested.
A brawl ensued and Reggina defender Andrea Costa was sent off for hitting Sommese. Once the fury subsided and play resumed, Ascoli, sitting in the relegation zone at the bottom of the Serie B table, stood still to allow Reggina striker Biagio Pagano to score an uncontested goal in an attempt at fairness.
Ascoli's gesture did not bring them good karma for the rest of the match, though, as they lost 3-1 even though Reggina was a man down.

OBAMA'S NEW AFGHAN POLICY WILL BACKFIRE

Subjected to the law and order conditions in the coming years, the US authorities have decided to begin the withdrawal of their forces from Afghanistan by the mid of 2011.This news might have been a ray of hope and happiness for the distressed people of the region if it were not accompanied by another reference indicating the arrival of new American troops in Afghanistan. As announced by President Obama at least 30000 more soldiers will be deployed in Afghanistan by the end of this year. On the other hand Gordon Brown, the British prime minister has announced the arrival of an additional 500 U.K. troops in southern Afghanistan next month. That would bring the British force to 10,000. The U.S commitment in Afghanistan is not open-ended; the philosophy behind sending new troops is nothing but a sincere attempt of training Afghan forces to take over the fight and allow American troops to leave , says the White House. President Obama has assured that his new Afghan Policy will put the U.S on a path toward ending the war, but no exact timetable could be offered in this regard.

President Obama seems very much conscious and worried about the expected role of Taliban and Al-Qaida in the Afghanistan of tomorrow. His statements regarding his new Afghan Policy show that he has some hidden fears regarding the so-called concealed relationship between Pakistan and the Islamic extremists; but in his entire policy statements one never finds any reference to the intriguing role of India. God knows better if it is an intentional ignorance or misconception based on misunderstanding of the day light facts. It would have been much better if the honourable President Obama had taken some precautionary measures keeping in view the role of India in the future Afghanistan also. India would be the actual root cause of all disturbances in Afghanistan when the US troops have with drawn from there.

In the last few years, under the kind support of President Karzai, India has very successfully tried to involve herself in every walk of life in Afghanistan. Although this process of involvement is not a newly started venture, yet in the past few years it expedited in a more violent manner. India is now one of Afghanistan’s top six donors. Not only in the field of economic support, but also in all other possible sections of political and non-political relationship, we find India swiftly stepping forward. But it would be a folly to name this relationship the Indo-Afghan friendship; it is simply the India-Karzai relationship. No Karzai, no friendship. The Afghan president is acting as a spokesman of India. In commemoration to his services he was awarded the Indra Gandhi Prize for Peace and International Understanding. Since 2001 till now, the government of India has transferred billions of dollars to the official accounts of the Afghan government in the name of rehabilitation work in Afghanistan. On the basis of this economic support India virtually started undertaking projects in all parts of Afghanistan in collaboration with the Afghan government. In a variety of sectors including road transportation, airlines, health, education, police, judiciary, agriculture, industry, information technology and broadcasting, the Indian involvement can be easily noticed. Making the Afghan government realize that the local Afghan people don’t have sufficient ability to utilize the donated dollars, the Indian government planned to send its own citizens for working on different projects in Afghanistan. For this purpose, such projects were selected in which a large number of workers were required. Indra Gandhi Institute of Child Health was also one of these selected projects. In august, 2002, India announced US $ 4 Million for the rehabilitation of this child health institute. Later on an additional grant of US $ 100,000 was approved for the same project in the next year. It was in June 2003, when the government of India asked for a permission from the government of Afghanistan to hand over the rehabilitation work of this health unit to the Central Public Works Department of India. Permission was granted and ultimately a huge procession of Indian citizens landed in the war-stricken valleys of Afghanistan. Doctors, nurses, technicians, and so many others including the paramedical staff and the trainers; and most of them were the agents of Raw in disguise. Since Afghanistan is continuously in a state of war, there is no check and balance over the foreigners; it proved very easy for them to mix up in the social fiber. Some of them succeeded in seeping into the Taliban groups which have been fighting against the US invasion in Afghanistan since long. Most of these agents of Raw, imported from India, had nothing to do with Islam or Islamic extremism because they were Hindus not Muslims. It was because of their skillful and masterly training that the Taliban could not recognize their reality. These agents under the garb of Indra Gandhi Health Institute Workers very successfully took care of the Indian interests in Afghanistan. Moreover their presence in Afghanistan provided the Indian government a solid ground for opening so many consulates along the Pak-Afghan borders. To run these consulates India once again got a chance of sending new agents of Raw in guise of the consulate-staff. The story behind the Indra Gandhi Institute of Child Health is just a single page from a huge book of conspiracies; the whole book reading would require a lot of time. What is going to happen when there is no USA in Afghanistan? Would the Islamic extremist be ready to permit India gain a total control over the Afghan society? Will the Taliban forget the supporting role of India for Russia during the Russian attempt of Afghan occupation? So many questions are eager to be answered. The dream of a peaceful Afghanistan can never be realized unless Indian involvement is ‘excavated’ from there. Although President Obama has tried to put India aside in his recently announced Afghan Policy yet the situation demands more in this context.

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Kylie Victoria Secret,Kylie Bisutti:Californian Kylie Bisutti was crowned the latest Victoria’s Secret angel on the lingerie company’s televised runway show Tuesday night, ending months of competition among women across the country vying to be the next lingerie superstar.

Bisutti, 19, of Simi Valley, Calif., strutted her stuff down the runway alongside models Miranda Kerr, Marisa Miller and Selita Ebanks, earning her wings and a spot on the Victoria’s Secret roster after a nationwide vote won her the competition.

Supermodel and “Project Runway” guru Heidi Klum also made an appearance on the Victoria’s Secret runway, serving both as host and model when she rocked a fairy-like outfit and “made it work” on the catwalk. Klum, who gave birth last month, showed off her new post-baby body in the revealing getup.

Marisa Miller wore the famous $3 million diamond bra during the show, walking wearing the black,
The Black Eyed Peas headlined the show, as Fergie wore lingerie-inspired garments throughout the performance and the band played hits like “Boom Boom Pow” to a cheering audience.

The show was taped in November in New York City.