Leave it to Vice President Joe Biden to celebrate a historic American event by swearing like a sailor. After announcing Barack Obama to the podium after a monumental Health Care reform bill gets passed, he whispers into the Commander-In-Chief's ear, "This is a BIG FUCKIN' DEAL!".

And, of course, the microphone picked up the audio. Nice move, Uncle Joe. Now it's all over the fuckin' internet so everybody's fuckin' kid will have an excuse use that kind of fuckin' language and fuckin' get away with it. WTF?

French Director NICHOLAS SCHMERKIN has won the Academy award for Best Animated Short with a brilliant & disturbing work called "LOGORAMA". I'm not even gonna set this one up. This is one of the most Avatarded pieces of art I've ever seen. Enjoy.  Watch it HERE.

Officials: 6 New Jersey Women Hospitalized after Botched Butt Jobs

NEWARK, N.J. (AP/ 1010 WINS)  -- Six women in New Jersey are recovering after they received buttocks-enhancement injections containing silicone used to caulk bathtubs.
State health officials say the women, from Essex County, apparently underwent cosmetic procedures from unlicensed providers.


John Montone reports (play audio)
 
Investigators have not determined if the cases are related.
No arrests have been made.
Instead of medical-grade silicone, the women received a diluted version of nonmedical-grade silicone.
State epidemiologist Tina Tan says there's the risk for more serious complications when infections are not treated early.

You wanted change: You got it! :
Your day just got shorter
thanks to Chile earthquake.

By Peter Becker

GateHouse News Service

Posted Mar 05, 2010 @ 06:03 PM

According to a NASA scientist, the Chilean earthquake has moved the Earth’s axis and shortened our day.

A minute change may have occurred. Researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., suggest that the Feb. 27 earthquake shortened the length of a day by about 1.26 microseconds. Consider that! We complain that there are not enough days in a week, and now each day may have been speeded up!

Our axis also may have been realigned by the movement of the Earth beneath - by about 3 inches.

There’s no cause for hysteria, but imagine the supermarket tabloid headlines:

GETTING DIZZY YET? EARTH SPIN SPEEDS UP

BETELGEUSE BECOMES NEW NORTH STAR; POLARIS FILES SUIT

HOLD ON TO YOUR HAT: WORLD ON A WHIRL

PENGUINS IN PANAMA; GATORS IN GREENLAND

Note that a microsecond is one-millionth of a second. It remains a wonderful feat of technology that we can measure that short of time.

Scientists also note that it is not the North-South axis that may have shifted, the one around which the world rotates and points to the northern sky immediately next to Polaris, what we know as the North Star. What may have been bumped is the “Earth's figure axis,” about which the planet’s mass is balanced. This axis and the North-South axis are offset by approximately 33 feet. In other words. Polaris didn’t lose any of its coveted star status.

It must also be noted that other earthquakes may have adjusted the rotation and axis as well, and may be a normal occurrence.

JPL scientist Richard Gross reported that the same computer model was used to estimate the magnitude 9.1 Sumatran earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004 that set off the giant tsunami.

While the recent Chilean earthquake was of lesser magnitude, it had more of an impact on the Earth because it was located in the mid-latitudes, not close to the equator. The fault that caused the quake in Chile dips into our planet at a steeper angle. Gross said that this would make the Chilean quake more able to budge the planet’s mass and axis. Gross stated that the data is still preliminary and under study.

Quakes on the “Third Rock from the Sun” seem to be on an increase, considering huge quakes in Chile and Taiwan, and another major aftershock in Haiti, all in the past week.

The universe, from a distance, appears so calm, with the glittering stars faithfully shining night after night, the constellations very much the same. They can give us a measure of comfort, but in reality the whole cosmos is forever on the move, and far from stable. Our sun is a constantly churning and boiling. Some stars (not the sun’s type, as far as we know) explode. Black holes form and whole stars are sucked right in. Asteroids strike and comets have landed. The vast asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter may have come from a planet that broke up.

The good news is that we can have a right, stable frame of mind and heart, and although our world around us may rock and roll, we need not be moved!

Last-quarter moon is on March 7. Anyone remember what happened in the daytime sky 30 years ago on March 7?

Write to Peter Becker at pbecker@wayneindependent.com.

Keep looking up!

Nude snow sculpture in Rahway leads police to request 'snowlady' cover-up

By Eliot Caroom/For the Star-Ledger

March 03, 2010, 5:30AM

 
Photos courtesy Conneran family

 A snowlady that Maria Conneran and her family sculpted in front of their Rahway home that attracted passers-by on Rahway's Colonia Boulevard to stop for pictures, but prompted an anonymous complaint to police who had the family cover up the sculpture with clothing.
RAHWAY --She was a frosty Venus de Milo, but one Rahway family’s snow-packed tribute to the Greek goddess of love and beauty was another person’s pornography.
Maria Conneran and her family worked feverishly to fashion their armless, nude snowlady from last week’s heap of snow, grabbing attention and photographs on Rahway’s Colonia Boulevard.
Not all the attention was good, however.

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO...WTF?

Among the visitors was a patrolman dispatched to the Conneran household after Rahway police received an anonymous complaint "of a naked snow woman," said Sgt. Dominick Sforza. She sure was, the family gleefully agreed.
"Curvaceous, bodacious and booty-licious," said Elisa Gonzalez, a court reporter who built the snow goddess with her daughter, Maria Conneran, 21 and son, Jack Shearing, 12.
"But she had a six-pack!" Conneran said.
Photo courtesy Conneran family

 A snowlady that Maria Conneran (pictured) and her family sculpted in front of their Rahway home that attracted passers-by on Rahway's Colonia Boulevard to stop for pictures, but prompted an anonymous complaint to police.
When the officer arrived, Gonzalez said, he was apologetic and appreciative of the snowlady and her assets.
"He said, ‘It’s very good,’" Gonzalez recalled.
Despite his appreciation, the officer then asked the family to dress the snowlady. Nonplussed, they complied with a green bikini top and a blue sarong around her ample hips.
 
Photo courtesy Conneran familyJack Shearing, 12, and his mother, Elisa Gonzalez with the nude snowlady.


"I thought she looked more objectified and sexualized after you put the bikini on," Gonzalez said.
Conneran and Gonzalez said the visit from police reminded them of former Attorney General John Ashcroft’s move to drape a semi-nude statue of the Spirit of Justice when he arrived to lead the U.S. Justice Department.
"(Our snowlady) looks like marble. It looks like a statue," Conneran said. "Are you going to go to the Met and cover up all the statues?"
William Torres, visiting the neighborhood from North Carolina, agreed the snowlady should have remained au naturel.
"They’re censoring art," Torres said. "To me ... that’s no different from what you see in a museum ... and its lifespan was short anyway."
Indeed. On Monday, the family took down the snowlady, because with the return of warmer weather, she was starting to melt away.
The Venus di Milo may be gone, but the Connerans said they will continue their work with the next snow. This was not their first foray into famous snow sculpture.
Last January, the family created a realistic bust of newly inaugurated President Obama.
 
People in a passing car stop to take a photo of a snow sculpture of a female torso on a lawn in Rahway.

On the run, the lingerie model who heads an all-women cocaine-smuggling cartel

A lingerie model is believed to be the mastermind behind an all-women drug gang that smuggles cocaine into Britain.
An international arrest warrant has been issued for Angie Sanselmente Valencia, 30, who is said to only hire glamour models to transport the drugs from South America to Europe.
It's believed that Colombian-born Valencia had been seeing a Mexican drug lord known as 'The Monster' but split with him at the end of last year to form her own cocaine-smuggling gang.

Wanted: Angie Sanselmente Valencia, who was crowned Colombia's 'Queen Of Coffee' in 2000, left modelling and moved to Argentina late last year to establish her drugs network

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She is said to describe the women working for her as 'unsuspicious, beautiful angels'. The women are told to be 'nice, but not flashy'.
Valencia, who was crowned Colombia's 'Queen Of Coffee' in 2000, left modelling and moved to Argentina late last year to establish her network.
Her 'angels' were paid £3,200 for each trip they made and one of her gang is believed to have boarded a flight every 24 hours with the packages of cocaine.
From Argentina they would fly up to the Mexican Caribbean resort of Cancun and from there they would smuggle them into Europe. 

However her network began to unravel several weeks ago when one of her 'drug mules' was caught at Argentina's Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires carrying 55kg of cocaine.

Valencia's network began to unravel when one of her 'drug mules' was caught at Argentina's Ezeiza International Airport (pictured) in Buenos Aires carrying 55kg of cocaine

The 21-year-old woman began to talk and within 12 hours police investigators had arrested a further three people.
The drug mule had made no attempt to hide the cocaine in her suitcase because she'd been told no one would stop her at the airport, according to Argentine newspaper La Nacion.

Police are now investigating the gang's links to people working at the airport.
Following the arrests Valencia promptly disappeared from a four-star hotel in Buenos Aires but is still believed to be in the South American country.
She'd arrived from Mexico last December with her beloved pet Pomeranian dog. Investigators tried to trace her through the address to which the animal was registered but it only led them to an abandoned warehouse.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1253347/Runaway-lingerie-model-Angie-Sanselmente-Valencia-named-head-drug-gang.html#ixzz0gZ1oXVDi

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc plans to integrate Twitter into its collection of websites, as the company seeks to enhance the appeal of its online properties with popular social networking features.

The partnership will allow web surfers to view the short, 140-character messages created by Twitter users, dubbed Tweets, directly within Yahoo sites as well as to publish their own Twitter messages without leaving Yahoo.

The move, which Yahoo announced late on Tuesday, comes a couple of months after Yahoo announced a similar deal with Facebook, the world's No.1 social networking site.

Earlier this month, Google Inc unveiled a new service dubbed Google Buzz that replicated many of the social networking features that have made services like Twitter and Facebook Internet success stories.

Facebook and Twitter - which said on Monday that users of its service generate more than 50 million Tweets every day - pose an increasing threat to established Internet giants like Yahoo and Google whose businesses depend on selling online ads to large audiences.

In January, Facebook overtook Yahoo to become the second most visited website in the United States, according to a recent report by web analytics firm Compete. A separate study by comScore showed Yahoo maintaining its No.2 rank with roughly 164 million unique U.S. visitors, while Facebook was the No.4 site with 112 visitors, behind third-ranked Microsoft Corp.

Yahoo said that beginning on Tuesday its Internet search engine results will display up-to-the-second Tweets about various topics, matching the so-called "real time search" capabilities that Google and Microsoft announced in their own respective deals with Twitter last year.

Yahoo also plans to display a live stream of Tweets within other online properties including its email service and sites devoted to sports, entertainment and finance later this year.

Yahoo executives said that the company was looking at ways to make Twitter messages relevant to each property, such as by customizing the selection of messages that appear alongside an article about a particular sporting event, for example.

"We believe that the content and context side of things is very unique," Yahoo Vice President of Communities Jim Stoneham told Reuters in an interview.

Yahoo would not comment on any financial terms involved in the deal with Twitter.

According to some media reports, Microsoft and Google paid a combined $25 million for the right to include Twitter data in their search results.

(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; editing by Carol Bishopric)

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WHIRLGIRL: A blast from the past


The other day I happened to see a YouTube video of WHIRLGIRL, an animated series that ran online in 1999 and got picked up by SHOWTIME to launch SHO.COM.

Edgy and clever, the futuristic, sci-fi adventures of KIA CROSS (AKA freedom fighter WHIRLGIRL) and her band of rebels fighting aganst the tyrannical TY HARDEN was ahead of it's time.

Two chapters (6&7) can be viewed here at www.whirlgirl.com/sample_eps/.

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