violence flares in ivory coast

At least nine unarmed protesters in Ivory Coast's largest city were shot and killed by security forces Thursday, eyewitnesses told Amnesty International.

The violence erupted as troops loyal to the incumbent president and supporters of his challenger confronted each other on the tense and chaotic streets of Abidjan.

"Amnesty International is appalled by this completely unjustified and disproportionate use of force and calls on the Ivorian security forces to stop these killings immediately," said Salvatore Sagues, the West Africa researcher for Amnesty, a human rights group.

"Those who opened fire on these people, as well as those who gave the order, will have to account for their acts," he said.

The demonstrators -- part of mass street protests called by the presidential challenger, Alassane Ouattara -- had been marching from various locations in Abidjan "in an attempt to seize the state-run RTI" broadcasting offices when security forces fired on them, Amnesty said.

Witnesses told CNN that exchanges of fire also raged outside a hotel that is serving as the headquarters of Ouattara, a former economist and prime minister who ran for president against incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo in a November 28 runoff.

The West African nation has been in a political stalemate over the disputed election, in which both men claim victory.

egyptians married sexlife

Within seconds of answering the phone to discuss his latest film, documentary director Amr Bayoumi is talking about female orgasms.

While it might seem unusual for an Egyptian man to be talking so frankly about intimate matters, Bayoumi is something of an expert in the field.

His film "Sex Talk," which features compatriots revealing details of their physical relationships, is his second exploration of a subject still largely considered taboo in Egypt.

But, insists Bayoumi, the most unusual aspect of his conversation is his willingness to talk and make movies not just about sex -- but about what he calls "normal" sex.

"In 2005 I was thinking of making a small film interviewing women speaking about their moment of pleasure -- orgasms," he said.

"In the process of researching this I tried to find books or academic studies ... and discovered there isn't anything focusing on normal sexual relationships in Egypt.

"You find material on prostitution or child abuse, but nothing about normal sexual behavior."

ufo shotdown

The Israeli Air Force shot down an unidentified flying object over the Dimona nuclear plant in the Negev Desert Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces said.

The object appeared in a designated no-fly zone, the air force was scrambled and the object was shot down, the IDF said.

The object could have been a party balloon, the IDF said, but forces have not yet found the debris to determine what it was.

There have been unconfirmed media reports that it was a motor-driven object. The air force reacted according to procedure when the object was spotted, the IDF said.

The Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz reported that last October "IDF warplanes intercepted an Israeli ultralight aircraft that accidentally flew into the area and forced it to land at an airstrip in southern Israel."

It also reported that "an Israeli surface-to-air missile downed a crippled Israeli fighter-bomber that strayed into the restricted zone" during the Six Day War in 1967. The craft's pilot was killed.

French.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy wrapped up his four-day visit to India on Tuesday, securing defense, energy and aviation deals worth billions of dollars.

Headlines heralded a significant breakthrough -- a framework agreement signed by India and France that will allow French energy group Areva SA to build two nuclear reactors in India's western state of Maharashtra and to supply fuel for 25 years.

The deal, worth $9.3 billion, is set to boost strategic ties between the two countries and help feed India's growing demand for energy.

But it may be too early to celebrate, said Brahma Chellaney, a professor of strategic studies at the Center of Policy Research in New Delhi

While an agreement has been reached, the precise terms of the commercial contract are still "very much in the air," Chellaney warned.

"France is selling India nuclear reactors which are completely untried for design and safety, so there might be criticism in India in days to come about the choice of reactors," he said.

PKK

Six suspected members of a Kurdish militant group were seized Tuesday in southern France, government authorities said.

The arrests -- made in the Marseilles region at the request of a Parisian anti-terrorism judge -- include one person who is "an important member at the European level" of the group -- the Kurdistan Workers' Party, also known as the PKK.

Officers from the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence and Marseilles police arrested the six as part of an investigation into PKK financing.

They were put in custody in Marseilles and can be kept there for four days. Some are also suspected of throwing Molotov cocktails, said a source close to the investigation.

The PKK is a separatist Kurdish group that has been fighting security forces in southeastern Turkey for years.

14 year old drug cartel hitman

The U.S. State Department backed away Tuesday from earlier statements that a 14-year-old boy accused of being a drug cartel hit man in Mexico is a U.S. citizen.

Department spokeswoman Gini Staab said Monday the department had "confirmed the boy's U.S. citizenship," but took it back on Tuesday. Staab could not say why the department had pulled back the confirmation.

The boy had at least one consular visit Tuesday, another State Department official said.

The teen -- reportedly carrying a birth certificate issued in San Diego, California -- and two of his sisters were detained Thursday at an airport in central Mexico after an anonymous tip alerted authorities he was heading to Tijuana, Mexico, local media reported.

Ron Santo, who played third base for the Chicago Cubs for 15 years and later joined their broadcast team, died of complications of bladder cancer Thursday night, the Chicago Tribune reported. He was 70.

Santo suffered from juvenile diabetes, which he kept secret even from his teammates. He was loved in Chicago as a great player on a bad team in the 1960s and '70s. He played his final season for the crosstown White Sox in 1974. The Cubs retired the nine-time All-Star's No. 10 after he retired.

unemployment rate rises

 The government's monthly labor report threw a curve ball Friday morning as November's job growth came in far lower than expected and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8%.

U.S. employers added 39,000 jobs to their payrolls in November, the Labor Department reported. That marks a major slowdown from October, when the economy added an upwardly revised 172,000 jobs.

                  I think that people should be worried about how secure they are online, me on the other hand i know the web like the back of my hand so i feel really safe in whateva im doin on the comp.

being online bullied is not very hard, many teens today im sure expieience some bullying on the net i think that it will just get worse, you will be able to do more on the net in like 10 years so the consequences will only progress.

if i had to participate in a workshop on cyber bullying i would want it to adress how important it is to keep personal stuff to yourself on the net, you never know who could access that information they could get ya like that....

young boy dies at Staples Center

A young boy fell to his death from a luxury suite at Los Angeles' Staples Center on Sunday night, according to a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department.

The boy, who was between 2 and 3 years old, fell from the suite around 10 p.m. local time, Sgt. Frank Alvelais told CNN. The boy was transported to the USC Medical Center, where he later died

17 year old miner trapped in New Zealand

One of the 29 people trapped in a New Zealand coal mine is a teenage boy who’d only been on the job for an hour when an explosion rocked the mine.

Joseph Dunbar had celebrated his 17th birthday last Thursday, according to news reports from New Zealand.

Scientists Capture Anti-Matter.

Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time, a breakthrough that could eventually help us to understand the nature and origins of the universe.

Researchers at CERN, the Geneva-based particle physics laboratory, have managed to confine single antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic trap.

This will allow them to conduct a more detailed study of antihydrogen, which will in turn allow scientists to compare matter and antimatter.

Understanding antimatter is one of the biggest challenges facing science most theoretical physicists and cosmologists believe that at the Big Bang, when the universe was created, matter and antimatter were produced in equal amounts.

However, as our world is made up of matter, antimatter seems to have disappeared.

Understanding antimatter could shed light on why almost everything in the known universe consists of matter.

Antimatter has been very difficult to handle because matter and antimatter don't get on, destroying each other instantly on contact in a violent flash of energy.

us sendig tanks to afghanistan

The United States is beefing up its firepower in Afghanistan by employing heavily armored tanks in Afghanistan for the first time in the nine-year war, a military spokesman said Friday.

The U.S. Marine Corps plans to use a company of M1A1 Abrams tanks in restive Helmand province by early spring, said Marine Maj. Gabrielle Chapin.

The M1A1 tank is the fastest and most deadly ground combat weapons system available. It will allow for more aggressive missions while mitigating risks to U.S. forces, the military said.

Indonesia mount merapi

Indonesia's Mount Merapi erupted again Friday, spewing volcanic material for more than an hour, the official Antara news agency reported.

The death toll from the volcano's latest round of eruptions, which started October 26, has reached 206, and nearly 400,000 people have had to flee their homes, a national disaster official said Friday.

News

iowa must win this weekend against michigan state in order for big ten championship hopes

http://thegazette.com/2010/10/25/iowa’s-hopes-for-title-on-the-line-against-spartans/

Iowa State gets huge win over No. 22 Texas, 28-21

http://thegazette.com/2010/10/23/iowa-state-gets-huge-win-over-no-22-texas-28-21/

Cyclones get back to work after upset over Longhorn

Non-profit organizations

Cancer Fund of America


4-H


National Park Foundation


          These are some non-profit organizations that i would support if i had the money, cancer fund...just because. 4-h because it has alot to do with our community. National park foundation to help keep americas forests and parks beautiful and healthy

Homeless In Cali

 Homeless in Los Angeles, there are around 48,000 homeless people in LA on any given day. In the city of  LA there are 42,694 homeless people in glendale, long beach, and pasadena together there are 5,359 homeless people. There are shelters all around the city that can provide shelter, medical care, and good company for these broke down people, some of which are listed here.

Bring LA home (homeless services)

Los Angeles Mission

Union Rescue Mission

Video games can improve reaction time.

Chicago Tribune. (site)
Violent video games like "Call of Duty" can help trigger-happy players make decisions faster in real life, according to a study released on Wednesday


"These benefits of video games stem only from action games, which almost always means shooter games, where you go through a maze and you don't know when a villain will appear," researcher Daphne Bavelier said in a statement.


The study, published in the journal Current Biology, involved testing 26 people aged 18 to 25, none of whom had played shooting games before, over several months.

Half of the participants played 50 hours of shooting games like "Call of Duty" and "Unreal Tournament" while the other half played 50 hours of a strategy game, "The Sims 2."

They were then given various tests such as deciding which direction a group of dots on a screen was moving at varying speeds, and deciphering which ear was hearing noises.

The researchers found that the group who had played the shooting games was able to make judgments faster and more accurately. They were found to be 25 percent better at decision making.

Lindsay Lohan's probation revoked, arrest warrant issued

Lindsey lohan went before judge and cried about going to jail. now look how shes acting! shes had probation revoked, and shes high again! what will happen to miss lohan she was said to go before judge fox later on this week.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/09/20/lindsay.lohan.probation.revoked/index.html

Miner's in chile were rescued by drill recently.

Miners from chile.Miners from chile.

Should Cruz be shooting a new pirates movie, or takin care of that baby..

The doctors say theres nothing wrong with Penelope shooting the new pirates of the carribean, he says that what shes doing isnt really that dangerous for the baby shes carrying, unless she had a hard fall, or was sky diving, she should be able to film all the movies she wants while pregnant.

Cali votes to legalize recreation marijuana.

Some people like this idea, they think it could bring us out of recession and if legalized, would be the new #1 cash crop of our nation. Others think that it would just make marijuana more available and have no positive outcomes. What you think?


Allows people older than 21 to possess up to an ounce of marijuana for personal use. 
• Allows for the cultivation, in plots no larger than 25 square feet, and transportation of marijuana for personal use. 
• Enables local governments to tax the estimated $15 billion in marijuana transactions each year. 
• Allows local governments to maintain prohibitions on marijuana, much like a dry county would alcohol. 
• Permits the Legislature to develop a statewide regulatory system for commercial cannabis. 
• Bans public consumption, possession on school grounds, smoking in front of minors and providing marijuana to those younger than 21.
• Maintains prohibitions against driving under the influence of drugs.


the elections wont be held until november, i cant wait to see the results.

RE: paris....

I think paris was definately in the wrong, but the only reason she was busted was because there was a random traffic stop, and when paris stopped she smelled like a narcotics factory.

Paris Arrested For Cocaine.

Paris Hilton will be charged with possession of a controlled substance -- .8 grams of cocaine -- this according to documents obtained by TMZ ... and it's a felony. 



We're told the D.A. filed the case today.  You can read the criminal complaint and the police report in this post.

According to the police report, obtained by TMZ, the cop who stopped the Escalade pulled along the passenger side of the vehicle and smelled "the strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle."

The cop writes he noticed immediately the passenger was Paris.  He then observed her trying to roll up the window.

After the traffic stop and a crowd of 100 people gathered around, Hilton said she was "extremely embarrassed" and asked the cop if she could go to the bathroom at the Wynn Hotel.

At the hotel, Paris told the cop she needed lip balm so the cop handed Paris her purse: "As she began to open it, I saw a small bindle of what I believed to be cocaine in a clear baggie begin to fall from the purse and into my hand."

The cop also says ... inside the purse was a "broken tablet of Albuterol" -- a prescription medication used to control wheezing.  And cops say they found Zig Zag wrappers ... commonly used to roll joints.

Paris then admitted the Albuterol was hers but she said the cocaine was not and claimed the purse was not hers -- that she had borrowed it from a friend.  The cop questioned Paris about the cocaine and according to cops Paris gave an odd answer: "She said she had not seen it, but now thought it was gum."

Note:  Paris has changed her story with friends, saying the purse was hers but had been in the possession of a friend.  Paris claimed to cops several cosmetic items in the purse were not hers, but she copped to $1,300 cash and some credit cards.

Cops say they found .8 grams of coke in the purs

school is ra-tarded

i hate school....and life. i have nothing to talk about and i am just bored:(  haha Txt it. 402-238-6179

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