Britney Spears "Gimme More" Video

The world has been waiting for this video...here it is!



Unlike the rest of the world, I don't think it's that bad.

She certainly isn't teh "slave 4 U" Britney, but she isn't horrible.

'Tribute in Lights'

'Tribute in Lights' shines over former World Trade Centre in New York, USA, to remember six years since 2,750 people lost their lives on September 11.


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Research Shows That Chocolate is Not Addictive

Hmmm...I am not sure that I believe this one...

People often say they are addicted to chocolate, but few studies have ever shown any evidence for true addiction to this widely craved sweet.

Rather, chocolate is irresistible partly because we know we're not supposed to have too much, says Peter Rogers of the University of Bristol in England.

Presenting his idea Tuesday at the annual BA Festival of Science held at the University of York, also in England, Rogers noted that people readily label themselves chocoholics, with the assumption that chocolate has mood-enhancing ingredients.

There is little evidence to support that idea, Rogers said. The stuff in chocolate said to be pharmacologically significant — serotonin, tryptophan, phenylethylamine, tyramine and cannabinoids — exist in higher concentrations in other foods with less appeal than chocolate.

"A more compelling explanation lies in our ambivalent attitudes towards chocolate," Rogers said. "It is highly desired but should be eaten with restraint (nice but naughty). Our unfulfilled desire to eat chocolate, resulting from restraint, is thus experienced as craving, which in turn is attributed to 'addiction.'"

They believe that the attraction is the sugar and fat.?

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Is Oscar This Popular?

Photographers shoot from a riser at the Oscar de la Renta Spring 2008 collection show during New York Fashion Week.

I had NO idea that Oscar De La Renta was this popular. He makes nice stuff, but does each agency need to send 3 photographers?

Trailer Park Barbie

We have seen many versions of the popular doll, but I think this one takes the cake!

She didn't just fall off of the turnip truck!

Turleen is a sophisticated and patriotic American and a model working mother. After hours of hard work gathering carts at the Honk & Holler and waitressing at the elegant Bowlarama, she still finds time to spend quality time with her kids.

With seven children and one on the way, she recently won the Mother of the Year Award from the Pink Flamingo Trailer Park Homeowners Association!

This special trophy sits proudly on the kitchen window sill in her luxurious double-wide next to her six first place Little Miss Guzzler Awards from the county fair! Yes this honey has grown up! She's got a bun in the oven and she?' ready to hit the town!

Just push her belly button and Trash Talkin' Turleen will share some pearls of wisdom with the sophistication and style that makes her family and third grade teacher proud.
Turleen stands approximately 12" tall.

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Why Wasn't I invited???

I LOVE cake, so when I saw this gigantic cake that was built to celebrate a Chinese festival. I was Jealous!

The mooncake was built in north east China's Liaoning province.

I would be interested in seeing them cook the whole thing at one time. Isn't it amazing that it didn't burn?



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COOLEST Laptop EVER!!

The Ego laptop and portable DVD player has been designed to look like a handbag. You can have your choice of fabric coverings including a cow print, crystals and leather.

Every ego is manufactured at our high-quality atelier using dedicated craftsmanship to make sure that every ego is unique and features unsurpassed excellent product quality and finishing. Completely personalised to match your desires, it could be your ego

I LOVE this computer. It has all of the features that you would find on a high end laptop plus it looks SO good!!


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Crazy Wavepool in Tokyo

The footage of this wave pool is out of control!!!

It is located at Summerland, a water park in Tokyo and was broken until 3. After they announced it was open this is what happened.

The scary part is that kids die in Wave Pools all of the time. You would NEVER know if someone was trapped underneath.

Another thing to consider while watching this video...What colour is the water???? EWWWW!!!

I think I will pass...



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The photo is a before shot from the official summerland website.

Have The Coolest Desk In The Office!!

Treehugger has this VERY cool USB powered greenhouse for your desk.

It " features an adjustable growth light and an easy view window that offers maximum plant protection! It comes with a computer interface that monitors growth rate, and includes calendar, wallpaper and bookmark settings so you can take care and grow your own desktop plants" and comes with marigold seeds and artificial soil to get you started.

How cool would you be to have a 'glowing pod' on your desk growing flowers?

The big bonus is the fact that it is only $20 at geeks.com

In The Ghetto Lisa Marie Presley and Elvis Duet

I have loved this song by Elvis since I was small. The story behind it is sad, but the new version's profits are to be used to help children and poverty in New Orleans.

Lisa Marie has posted information to prevent the video from being viewed illegally or without payment. Both the video and song are for sale at iTunes.

She says on her website that she wants people to support the song by purchasing it at iTunes as opposed to watching it for free on Youtube.

There is only one problem with that...when I went to purchase it, the song is not for sale in my country.

The charity that she has created is called The Presley Charitable Foundation.

The Presley Charitable Foundation is a philanthropic organization that will work to bring assistance and solutions to those in need. It's first endeavor will be, Presley Place New Orleans, a transitional-housing facility for homeless families.

I am happy that Lisa Marie is using hers and her fathers celebrity to do good in the world, but music video's are normally not seen as something that are illegal, they are promotional.

Having this video out there whether it is being viewed through youtube or any other on line video source creates awareness about your campaign.

I urge people to spend the $1 on the song or $2 on the video to support the work that Lisa Marie is doing in New Orleans, but I don't believe that watching the video should be classified as illegal especially when it is not for sale in my country.

If and when it becomes available for me to purchase I will do so, until then here is the video:

Withdrawl

I am having So You Think You Can Dance Withdrawl so I thought I would post some of my favourite clips...

Starting with Blake McGrath's Solo from season 1 - GOD! he's hot!!



Lacey and Pasha Electronic Dave Scott Hip Hop Rountine.



Lauren and Pasha Shane Sparks Hip Hop Routine



Neil and Sabra's Contemporary Routine to Sweet Dreams



Lacey and Danny's Samba Routine (original one NOT finale)



Danny and Sara's Argentine Tango

When Not To Hyphenate Your Name

I don't even know if these are real, but they sure are funny!

Man With Largest Hand In the World Get's Surgery

Liu Hua, a 24-year-old Jiangsu Province native, was born with a left thumb, index and middle finger much larger than normal. The condition he suffers from is called macrodactyly, a birth defect in which toes or fingers are abnormally large.

The cause of the disease is unknown but bone and soft tissue grows at an extraordinary rate.

Liu's three fingers and arm grew dramatically as he grew older and this had a serious affect on his life and his ability to work.

When Liu was hospitalized in Shanghai last month, his left thumb measured 26 centimeters, his index finger was 30cm and his middle finger 15cm. The overall weight of his left arm was about 10 kilograms.

"It was the biggest hand in the world," said Chen Zuliang, a hospital official. "Liu's fingers stopped growing in recent years so plastic surgery was at last possible to correct the malformation."

On July 20 surgeons began a seven-hour operation to reduce the size of Liu's fingers and thumb. Doctors removed 5.1kg of flesh and bone in the procedure.

"This was the first stage. The patient will regain the use of most of his left hand after rehabilitation," Chen said. "A second operation is scheduled in six months to reshape his left arm and shoulder."

It is hard to look at this picture... I hope that he can start having a regular life again. I can't imagine this guy was getting much action with his hand the way it was.

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California Home On The Market For $76 Million

If you are in the market for an estate with some history, the Tippett Hall is back on the market.




The mansion boasts 10,000 sq ft., it has nine bedrooms, 7 ½ bathrooms, leaded glass, chandeliers and inlaid floors, but is not fit for occupancy.

Local venture capitalist Bill Stensrud and his wife, Carol, who are selling the estate for three times what they paid seven years ago, were unavailable for comment on the reason the mansion was gutted. With its current state, it would cost millions to re-do the house as well.

The Stensruds bought the house for $25 million from the Scripps Memorial Hospital, which had received it as a bequest from the late Ruth “Sally” Tippett, who served on the board of the hospital. They paid $5 million more than asking price of the home.

I am not sure why this couple thinks that they can triple the value of a home that is not even fit for occupancy...

It does have some strong history and sits on a beautiful bluff, but no one believes that it is worth even close it's asking price.

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Fabulous Aquariums!

We have an amazing freshwater fish tank with 2 stingrays, an eel and 2 ghostknife fish.

Before we had the tank I really couldn't appreciate the hard work and dedication that went into keeping the fish happy.

When I see an amazing tank it always makes me wonder who cleans it and how long it takes for them to keep everything running well.

Mentalfloss.com has a neat collection of unbelievable tanks.

Here are a few...

Pieter van Suijlekom’s aquarium is a saltwater tank system with a total volume of 2074 gallons. This marvel is Pieter's 5th design, he is a hobbiest from the Netherlands.

Placed at the lobby of the Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin, the 25 meters high AquaDom is the largest cylindrical aquarium ever built. Filled with about 900,000 liters of seawater, it contains some 2600 fish of 56 species.

This in the wall tank belongs to Quoc Hoang. It is 220-gallons that sits in the garage, but is viewed through the living room. Quoc had the tank custom built when he had his house built.

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You GO Girl!!

Edna Parker, who has outlived her husband, children and siblings, was confirmed as the world's oldest known person when Yone Mnagawa, a Japanese woman four months her senior, died on Monday.

The 114-year-old Indiana woman became the world's oldest person this week celebrated the distinction yesterday with a slice of her favorite cake.

Dressed in a pink polka-dot dress and costume pearl jewelry, Parker was wheeled before television cameras and reporters Thursday in a dining room at the central Indiana nursing home where she lives. Clutching two old photographs — including one from the early 1900s of her and her sisters wearing floppy hats — she shook her head when reminded of her feat of longevity.

"It's hard to believe," she said.

Parker was born April 20, 1893, the year Lizzie Borden was acquitted in the ax murders of her father and stepmother. She taught for a few years in a two-room schoolhouse, but as was the custom of that era, her teaching career ended with her marriage to Earl Parker. She became a farmer's wife, preparing meals for as many as a dozen men who worked on her husband's farm.

She said she never drank alcohol or tried tobacco, and led an active life. But instead of tips on living a long life, her only advice to those gathered was: "More education."

Parker has 5 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great grandchildren. The youngest, 7-month-old Kole Scott, sat on her lap Thursday as she and her visitors ate white cake, her favorite, decorated with sugar flowers and icing declaring her "the oldest person in the world."

"We think it's amazing, a little lady from the country who really doesn't care much about being acknowledged or anything like that," said grandson Don Parker, 58.

Her ranking as the world's oldest living person was confirmed by the Gerontology Research Group, an Inglewood, Calif.-based organization that tracks and verifies the ages of supercentenarians — people 110 or older.

As of Thursday, its Web site listed 76 living supercentenarians.

Can you even imagine all of the things that this woman has seen? When she was born the radio had just been invented.

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Even Jennifer Lopez Has Cellulite

Every celebrity is always portrayed as perfect and unflawed, which is why I was happy to see that Miss Badunkadunk Jennifer Lopez has cellulite.

Not a tremendous amount...just enough for her to be a nice normal girl just like the rest of us - LOVE it!

Here is the BEST part - she doesn't care. Her husband loves her just the way she is.

She told Elle: "He [Marc Anthony] likes my body. And for most of my adult life, my body hasn't gone up or down, it's remained the same, give or take four pounds.

"I eat meat, I eat carbs, I even eat McDonald's. What I don't do is ever overeat. I don't eat desserts and I can limit the chocolate chip cookies to one or two."

And if there were any doubt that a little cellulite would trigger feelings of insecurity or self-doubt about her famous Latina looks, she added:

"For me, looking good is all about looking healthy, and the ultimate beauty secret is about being happy in yourself."

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Another Great Anti Smoking AD

I am a non smoker and can't understand why anyone would pick up this useless habit.

There have been some pretty cool ad campaigns launched to try to get people to understand the health repercussions from smoking.

This one is from Brazil via ADS OF THE WORLD.

6 Acre Snakes And Ladders Game

Do you remember playing snakes and ladders were your were a kid? I do and I liked it but not enough to create a 6 acre version of the game.

Michael Blee, 62, who spent months creating the six-acre maze at Gore Farm in Upchurch, near Rochester, Kent, said: "This is the 10th one I've done and its the most complicated so far.

"We are applying to the Guinness Book of Records as it must be the world's biggest game of snakes and ladders.

"Families really enjoy themselves. One visitor took four hours to complete the game and get out."

Holidaymaker Robert Hope, 36, who completed the game with his two children Maisie, five, and Stewart, eight, said: "It was amazing. You really feel like you are playing a game of snakes and ladders even though it is on such a large scale. It's a fantastic maze."

The maze will be open throughout the summer holidays.

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What Has This World Come To?

There is a website out there will 'ruin' the life of an enemy for $20.

For as little as $20 a month, visitors can make the credit ratings of people they dislike plummet, and even have them suspected of fraud.

Victims' bank accounts can be shut down remotely and all their essential utilities cut off.

Fake e-mails and text messages which purport to come from someone else, such as the victim's spouse, can be sent containing false accusations of affairs or sexual liaisons.

"We can make it so someone couldn't even get an ice cream cone on credit again," the site promises.

One way of doing this, it explains, is to apply repeatedly for credit using the victim's name and multiple addresses, leading inevitably to a red flag from Britain's Credit Industry Fraud Avoidance System (Cifas) or similar agencies.

Credit is then stopped until an investigation by Cifas decides whether the subject has been the perpetrator or victim of fraud.

CA offers further ideas of how to use its services.

"Create some false payslips [paychecks] and send them back returned to the victim's employer and watch them lose their job," it advises.

"Destroy a person's bank account using our novelty bank statements. Bank accounts are like gold dust now; return[ing] a novelty bank statement with their details back to the bank works for killing someones [sic] credit card account.

"Watch your victim cry when all his/her accounts are closed."

The Web site states that even accounts on eBay, the auction Web site, and PayPal, the Internet payment system, can easily be sabotaged.

I am not publishing the name of this despicable site. You finances are not anyones business. No one should be able to destroy the hard work that has been done over the years to establish credit because they are mad at you.

Walk away...

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Some things are better left unsaid..

This Dude Is Probably Not Getting Many Numbers With THIS Shirt On!

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Makes You Think...

This 'ash tray' art/ad installation by German health insurance company AOK probably made more than one person think about their crappy habit.

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Lacey and Neil's Mia Michaels Contemporary Routine

This dance had me in tears for 5 minutes last night so I thought I would post it - in it's entirety - for you all to see, in case you missed So You Think You Can Dance?

Pregnant Panda At San Diego Zoo

Nicole Richie and Isla Fisher aren't the only females out there that are pregnant. Bai Yun, a 16 year old giant panda at the San Diego Zoo is pregnant again and expecting her fourth cub sometime in August.

Zookeepers put her on a "24-hour birth watch" after officials detected a fetus and fetal heartbeat through ultrasound images July 18. Additional tests confirmed the pregnancy was going normally.

Her first baby, Hua Mei, which was born in August 1999, has given birth to three sets of twins since moving to China in 2004, including a pair in July.

Mei Sheng, a male panda born in August 2003, will leave the San Diego Zoo in October to join China's breeding program. Bai Yun's third cub, Su Lin, was born in August 2005.

Bai Yun, which translates as White Cloud, appears to have been impregnated seven or eight weeks ago by Gao Gao, the father of her two youngest cubs, the zoo said.

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Breast Cancer Awareness??

Do you think that this mouse pad would make your husband more aware of breast cancer and how to tell if his spouse had it?

It would definitely cause them to think about something more often...I'm just not sure what.

It reads: "frequent massaging breasts enables you detect breast cancer before it strikes"

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Star Jones Is a LIAR!!

Back when Star Jones 'lost' all of her weight she INSISTED that it was because she ate properly and exercised regularly.

At that time Rosie O'Donnell called her out and said that a weight loss that dramatic, that quick could only occur after surgery and was killed in the media for being catty.

Today a different tune is being sung and I think Star owes Rosie and apology!

She stated on air MANY times that she did not under go surgery to lose weight and even wrote a book about it as well...

Now, in the September issue of Glamour, she's admitting that, yes, she had gastric bypass surgery – despite previously only admitting to having undegone a "medical intervention."

Why the delay in speaking up? "First, I didn't know if the surgery would work," she writes in the first-person essay. "I had spent my entire adult life telling everyone that I was fine with the way I looked. I never thought I'd have to explain it.

"But the complete truth is, I was scared of what people might think of me."

Jones Reynolds, 45, begins her Glamour essay on Aug. 19, 2003, the day of her surgery, and she writes, "I was so angry: How had I allowed myself to get to 307 pounds?"

Tracking her weight gain over the years – peaking after she rapidly gained about 75 lbs. following her 40th birthday – Jones Reynolds describes feeling lonely and using food as a tool to fill the void. "Whenever I felt lonely, a Double Whopper with cheese became my friend. If I felt sad, six strips of bacon made me feel better."

"Even though I claimed to be just fine with my weight, I saw how other women [colleagues] were treated like the girlfriend, while I was treated like the good friend, she writes about her first job with NBC News in 1991. "To compensate for my insecurities, I spoke louder and ate more."

After a close friend intervened, Jones Reynolds says she consulted doctors and went in for a successful gastric bypass operation in 2003.

After undergoing her surgery, the Court TV host said she didn't expect so much public scrutiny. So, she says, she sidestepped reports that she had undergone the treatment despite rapidly losing upwards of 160 lbs. over three years.

Several life changes led to Jones Reynolds's decision to come forward, she says. The support of her husband, Al Reynolds, was a contributing factor. And therapy led her to feeling more accepting of her body.

"The toughest part of the journey has been forgiving myself for not having the self-control I know I should have had, or admitting I needed help," she writes about her counseling. Reader letters while she was still on The View also contributed to her decision.

"Every day I am learning to let go of my insecurities and acknowledge that I don't have all the answers, which is okay," she writes. Though she still struggles with self-image, she writes that being healthy is what counts. "I'm not saying that in order to be happy, women need to be a certain size, but I am saying that we should all strive to be healthy."

I guess we will see what Rosie has to say later... Could this be a way for her to create some press around herself so that he TV show will do better??? I wonder.....

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ADORABLE Mom and Baby Shot

I had to post this photo..doesn't this mom look so happy holding her baby?

Anak, a 31-year-old Orang Utan, holds her five-day-old baby Apie in her arms in Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, central Netherlands, July 31, 2007. The baby was born in captivity at the zoo. The zoo participates in the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP) , a European breeding program to save the endangered Orang Utans from extinction.

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No Naughty Licence Plates In the UK

Th UK has cracked down on sneaky naughty licence plates and have stepped in to ban a list of naughty number-plates before the new 57 registrations arrive.

They were forced to act to stop cheeky drivers using the number combination to "spell out" offensive or controversial words.

Officials feared the figures 5 and 7 - on new plates from September - may be used to represent letters S and T or S and Y, reports The Sun.

That could have seen cars on the streets with registrations TE57 CLE (Testicle), EC57 ASY (Ecstasy), BA57 ARD (Bastard), MY57 ASH (My Stash), H057 AGE (hostage) and HE57 ABS (stabs).

Also banned is EA57 GAL (Easy Gal).

A DVLA spokesman said the plates were blocked "to avoid causing "general offence or embarrassment".

But a spokesman for the Association of British Drivers said: "The DVLA should be setting their priorities on more worthwhile issues - like reviewing safety."

Who has a licence plate with easy gal on it?? Why don't you tattoo it on your lower back while your at it???

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Dear Britney,

Now that you are a mom maybe you should try to tone down the trashy nature of your life.

Pole dancing in your videos is something that would have been accepted when you were 20 and single, NOT now that you have 2 young children who are looking for a role model.

Please spend some time with your children and stop being such a whack job.

The world DOES NOT revolve around you, smarten up and start to be responsible!!

Set up some playdates for your kids and keep your personal life private.

You have so much going for you stop throwing everything away.

The world is WAITING for you to turn your life around and return to being the pop princess that everyone fell in love with.

It never too late to become a good person.

Thank you for your time,

Rambling Lady


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One TOUGH Dog

Someone had better give this poor guy some extra love when he gets better...



Vets in the UK believe that he was shot twice at close range with a crossbow.

Lovable Beau was handed in to vets in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, by police on Wednesday night. She was found by a member of the public at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield, with the devastating injuries.

She was given urgent pain relief when she was handed to shocked staff at the animal hospital.

And she underwent the drastic surgery last week to remove the distinctive bolts.

He added: "In all my years as a vet I have never seen anything like this. It's disgusting. It's one of the most extreme cases of cruelty I have ever encountered. It is easy to tell when dogs are in a horrific amount of pain since they fail to eat and have a high heart rate."

Here he is after his surgery:



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The Japanese Love Their TOYS

The Japanese love technology so much that now even sex toys are on the cutting edge.

The “gPod”, a phallic-shaped vibrator, is designed to respond automatically to sounds picked up by an accompanying handset, which can plug into anything from a telephone to a music player to a television.

The gPod, referred to as an "iVibrator," takes its name and description from Apple's wildly popular iPod. Apple, however, has no affiliation with the product.

The gPod, which retails for $243, was one of a number of toys that went on public view this week at Japan's first-ever sex toy expo in suburban Tokyo.

Just when you thought that it couldn't get any better...

“You can use it in many ways, for example hooking it up to your mobile phone,” said Ichiro Kameda, the machine's inventor. “One of the ideas is that you can use it here in Tokyo when your boyfriend in New York is talking to you on the phone.”

As you can imagine, Apple is not impressed. They have sent the company a letter requesting that they stop using the gPod trademark. The Japanese creator has laughed off Apple's threats, saying that they will fight if Apple decides to sue.

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What Does 200 Million Dollars CASH Look Like??

The US government called the windfall "the largest single drug cash seizure the world has ever seen."

It was all found stashed behind false walls and in cupboards of a luxurious Mexico City mansion owned by a Chinese pharmaceutical tycoon accused of making a fortune by peddling massive quantities of a chemical used to make the street drug crystal methamphetamine.

Police also seized six Mercedes Benz cars in the March raid on the Mediterranean-style house, but businessman Zhenli Ye Gon managed to escape and fled across the border into the United States.

Drug agents who arrested Ye Gon, 44, at a restaurant in the Washington DC suburb of Maryland on Monday night suspect the businessman had already gambled away more than 125 million of his ill-gotten gains on the blackjack tables in Las Vegas.

His company, Unimed Pharm Chem de Mexico, has been charged with illegally importing pseudoephedrine, a cold medicine ingredient.

According to court documents, the massive amount of the chemical shipped overseas was enough to produce crystal meth with a street value of more than 750 million.

"With the arrest of Zhenli Ye Gon, we've apprehended not only the man behind the money, but the man behind the meth," said US Drug Enforcement Agency boss Karen Tandy.

"He may never have touched the drugs, but he made it all possible, facilitating the massive meth trade by brokering chemicals to kingpins," she added.

Ye Gon, who claims he has been framed by corrupt Mexican politicians, was ordered jailed without bail when he appeared in US District Court in Washington on Tuesday.

His lawyers claimed that Ye Gon was merely safeguarding 160 million of the cash that was raised as a 'slush fund' to fight the Mexican presidential election.

Well at least we know that this bust may put a bit of a bite in the Meth market temporarily...Who keeps $200 Million dollars in cash at their house? Buy a house or a yacht or something.

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Hollywoods A List Rolls Out The Welcome Mat For The Beckhams

WOW! When Hollywoods A List decides to roll out the welcome mat they do it in style!! I am not sure what makes the Beckhams so special, but I guess it doesn't matter because the rest of the world is following their every move...

Demi Moore

Eva Longoria

Jim Carrey and Jenny Mc Carthy

Rihanna

Adrian Grenier

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The Evolution Of A Baby Panda

Dark Roasted Blend has some amazing photos of a baby panda growing from birth to about 3 months old.

The photos were taken at China's Wolong Reserve.

A record 30 surviving giant pandas were born at breeding centers and zoos around the world in 2006. Last year, cubs born at the National Zoo and at the San Diego Zoo helped set the previous record of 25 surviving panda cubs. In 2004, only nine cubs survived.

At two breeding centers and a zoo in China, artificially inseminated pandas gave birth to 31 cubs, of which 27 survived. A cub born at Zoo Atlanta and the twins born in Japan bring the total to 30.

Natural reproduction is rare among pandas in captivity. Efforts to breed pandas by artificial insemination date back to the 1960s. A major breakthrough occurred in 1980, when scientists mastered the freezing of panda sperm in liquid hydrogen, which preserves it until females are able to become pregnant, just two or three days a year. Other advances include improved artificial insemination techniques and increased knowledge of pandas, in particular their nutrition needs, hormone patterns, genes, and behavior.

Thanks to artificial insemination, more than 90 pandas have been born and survived at the Wolong Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center since 1983.

The newborn panda weighs only 100 grams at birth (the fully grown animal weighs up to 160 kilos) and remains without black/white coloration for the whole first month of its life.

These photos are not all the same baby, but a collaboration of different Pandas growing and getting stronger.





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Potter is Dethroned

In a wierd turn of events Boxoffice Powerhouse Harry Potter was dethroned by the Adam Sandler and Kevin James movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry.

The funny part is that 'Chuck and Larry' is getting terrible reviews. Maybe all of the Potter fans are at home reading their books and not at the theatres. I bet you that the movie will be back on top next week after the diehards are done their last chapter.

1 . I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry $34,775,250
2 . Harry Potter & The Order Of The Phoenix $32,185,000
3 . Hairspray $27,800,000
4 . Transformers $20,506,000
5 . Ratatouille $11,000,000
6 . Live Free Or Die Hard $7,300,000
7 . License To Wed $3,760,000
8 . 1408 $2,600,000
9 . Evan Almighty $2,455,020
10 . Knocked Up $2,318,400