Scientists say that exercising not only trims the waistline but will substantially increase your salary.
Jogging, swimming or lifting weights in the gym three times a week could boost your income by up to 9%, a Cleveland State University in Ohio study say.
Even taking moderate exercise such as a regular walk has a positive effect on earnings, a study has found.
Employers may view those participating in regular activity as more determined and dedicated.
Fit staff members were also more likely to work harder because of the psychological – as well as physical – benefits of keeping fit.
Scientists say that exercising not only trims the waistline but will substantially increase your salary
The study examined two questionnaires in the US involving more than 12,000 people.
Details about salaries and the extent to which people exercised were analyzed.
The researchers found that people exercising three times a week could expect a salary between 6 and 9% greater than those who do not.
For those exercising between one and three times a month, the benefit was still an additional 5%.
The report, by Dr. Vasilios Kosteas from Cleveland State University, said: “In addition to the positive impacts on heart health, weight and other medical issues, studies show that exercise leads to improved mental function, psychological condition and higher energy levels.
“All three of these traits can translate into higher earnings.”
Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe that’s been stuck in Earth orbit for two months has crashed down in the Pacific Ocean on late Sunday.
“Phobos-Grunt fragments have crashed down in the Pacific Ocean,” Russia’s Defense Ministry official Alexei Zolotukhin told RIA Novosti, adding that the fragments fell in 1,250 kilometers to the west of the island of Wellington.
The spacecraft fell at about 21:45 on Sunday Moscow time (17:45 GMT).
As of 20.15 Sunday, the spacecraft was moving in the near-Earth orbit with an altitude that varied between 113.8 km at perigee and 133.2 km at apogee, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.
Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe that's been stuck in Earth orbit for two months has crashed down in the Pacific Ocean on late Sunday
Phobos-Grunt, launched on November 9, was designed to bring back rock and soil samples from the Martian moon Phobos. However, it has been stuck in a so-called support orbit since its engines failed to put it on course for the Red Planet.
The head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, previously said the probe would break up during reentry into the atmosphere and none of the fragments are likely to reach the Earth.
That includes the 13.5-tonne spacecraft’s 7.5 tons of fuel, which are stored in aluminum tanks that are bound to explode upon reentry.
According to NASA, Russia has failed in all 17 of its attempts to study the Red Planet close-up since 1960. The most recent failure before last month occurred in 1996, when Russia lost its Mars-96 orbiter during launch.
Demi Moore still shows the strain of her split from Ashton Kutcher, as she stepped out last night looking gaunter than ever before.
Demi Moore, 49, was at the Cinema For Peace event at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, with and her legs and arms on show looking painfully thin.
The actress was keeping up appearances by attending the glitzy showbiz event but it was clear that she is still struggling to come to terms with the end of her third marriage.
Demi Moore, who looked a shadow of her former self, wore a slim fitting black dress which showed just how much weight she had lost from her usually toned physique.
She had suffered severe weight loss on her legs with her thighs and calf appearing to be the same thin waif width from top to bottom.
Demi Moore showed that she was still keeping the faith by wearing a red string Kabbalah on her left wrist.
The talisman is a Jewish custom, popularly thought to ward off misfortune brought about by an evil eye.
Demi Moore, who is currently filming Lovelace with Amanda Seyfried and James Franco, was joined by her eldest daughter from her second marriage Rumer Willis.
Rumer Willis, 23, was in much healthier shape than her mother and wore a black dress with a sheer top that showed off her fuller figured body.
Demi Moore still shows the strain of her split from Ashton Kutcher, as she stepped out last night looking gaunter than ever before
She has followed her parents into the family business but is yet to scale the dizzy heights that her father, Bruce Willis, reached in his heyday.
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s relationship broke down after claims emerged that the actor had cheated on his wife with 22-year-old Sara Leal, on the weekend of his wedding anniversary.
On November 17 2011, Demi Moore announced that she was filing for divorce from her toyboy husband after six years of marriage.
17 people have been killed and other 20 wounded in a bomb attack on a Shia religious procession in the central Pakistani city of Khanpur.
Police initially thought the blast had been caused by an electrical fault, but later confirmed it was a bomb.
The attack targeted Shias marking the festival of Arbain, one of the main holy days of the Shia calendar.
There have been a number of attacks targeting the minority Shia community, carried out by Sunni militants.
17 people have been killed and other 20 wounded in a bomb attack on a Shia religious procession in the central Pakistani city of Khanpur
The remote-controlled bomb was planted near an electric pole, Sohail Chattha, the area’s police chief, told Reuters news agency.
He said it was set off as the procession approached.
“There was a loud explosion a few yards from the procession and we all scrambled to get away,” Imran Iqbal, who was in the procession, told Reuters.
“Debris was everywhere, and a cloud of dust engulfed us. Many people died on the spot.”
Cameras captured the sound of the blast – which silenced the mourning chants of the marchers – followed by the sight of a cloud of dust rising into the sky.
As the dust cleared, the wounded dragged themselves from the scene of the blast, their cries filling the air, he said.
Ambulances arrived quickly and rushed the injured to local hospitals.
Angry members of the procession later clashed with the police amid accusations that the security provided had been inadequate.
No organization has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, our correspondent says.
But South Punjab is home turf to Pakistan’s deadliest Sunni militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which is notoriously anti-Shia, he adds.
Reality TV show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” became a nationwide success when it transformed the home of a cancer stricken girl and her struggling family into a $1 million mansion.
As the ABC show aired its final episode this week, it emerged that the 2005 extreme makeover of the rented ranch in Arizona which came with a full-size carousal, had proved to be too extreme for the Okvath family.
Crippled by debts and rocketing utility bills which came with their “dream home” Bryan and Nichol Okvath, who have seven children, were forced to sell their one-time $1million mansion at a loss at $540,000.
Crippled by debts and rocketing utility bills which came with their “dream home” Bryan and Nichol Okvath, who have seven children, were forced to sell their one-time $1million mansion at a loss at $540,000
The episode began in 2004, when the couple’s daughter Kassandra Okvath, then aged eight, was undergoing treatment for cancer and wrote to the show, asking for her hospital cancer ward to be brightened up.
So touched by the girl’s plea, in addition to renovating the cancer ward, the producers decided to tear down the 1,800-square-foot house the family were renting in Gilbert and replace it with a six-bedroom mansion with a movie theater and a backyard carousel.
The property’s owner agreed to sign over full ownership of the house to the Okvaths, reports the Arizona Republic.
The episode aired in March 2005, with the overwhelmed Okvath family breaking down in tears of joy, as nearly 4,000 people gathered outside the home to watch the grand unveiling.
At the time, it seemed like the perfect fairytale ending.
But the extreme home came with extreme bills; utility costs reached $1,200 for electricity and $400 for water; property taxes increased from $1,625 pre-makeover to $5,600, reports the Arizona Republic.
Bryan Okvath, who was unemployed, occasionally worked as a truck driver and fire fighter, and Nichol was a stay at home mum, according to the report.
Struggling to cope, the Arizona Republic reports that the cash-strapped couple used the house as collateral for a $405,000 loan in 2006, but were not able to keep up with payments and the home was almost foreclosed.
The extreme home came with extreme bills, utility costs reached $1,200 for electricity and $400 for water and property taxes increased from $1,625 pre-makeover to $5,600
The family tried to sell the house several times – for $1.9 million in 2007, then for $1.4 million – but got no takers.
The Okvaths narrowly avoided losing the home at a public auction in 2008, then put the house up for sale again.
By 2009, the asking price had dropped to $800,000. Eventually in spring 2010, they sold it for $540,000.
“It’s been frustrating,” Nichol Okvath had told the Arizona Republic in 2009.
“When the cameras go off, it’s just a different. Everybody thinks everything’s happily ever after.”
“A lot of people think we’re rich, but we have nothing,” she added.
“We live paycheck to paycheck. We have no cushion anymore.”
It has since been reported that Kassandra Okvath had made a good recovery, however her parents have separated.
Efforts to reach the family have been unsuccessful.
Laura Kaeppeler, the beauty queen from Kenosha, Wisconsin, won the Miss America pageant on Saturday in Las Vegas after singing opera and strutting in a white bikini and black beaded evening gown.
Laura Kaeppeler, 23, had to answer a question about whether beauty queens should declare their politics.
“Miss America represents everyone, so I think the message to political candidates is that they represent everyone as well,” Laura Kaeppeler said.
“And so in these economic times, we need to be looking forward to what America needs, and I think Miss America needs to represent all.”
Miss Oklahoma Betty Thompson came in second, while Miss New York Kaitlyn Monte placed third, the Associated Press reports.
Laura Kaeppeler wins a $50,000 scholarship and gets the title for one year.
Her platform during the competition was supporting and mentoring children of incarcerated parents.
Laura Kaeppeler, the beauty queen from Kenosha, Wisconsin, won the Miss America pageant on Saturday in Las Vegas
Laura Kaeppeler was crowned the winner by a panel of seven judges during a live telecast on ABC.
The event was the culmination of a week of preliminary competitions and months of preparations for the titleholders from all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
As the new Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler will spend the next year touring the country to speak to different groups and raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network, the Miss America Organization’s official charity.
Teresa Scanlan of Nebraska won Miss America last year at age 17 to become the pageant’s youngest winner ever.
She said contestants’ nerves likely were at their highest point just before the pageant.
“You can always breathe a sigh of relief once the live pageant begins,” Teresa Scanlan said.
Pageant officials earlier announced the winners of preliminary competitions, including Laura Kaeppeler, Betty Thompson and Miss Hawaii Lauren Cheape for talent; and Miss New York Kaitlin Monte, Miss Texas Kendall Morris and Miss Utah Danica Olsen for swimsuit.
Laura Kaeppeler took home a $2,000 scholarship for her opera performance of “Il Bacio” in the talent competition.
Officials also said Miss Idaho Genevieve Nutting won the $2,000 Fourpoints Award, while Miss Kentucky Ann-Blair Thornton won the $6,000 Quality of Life scholarship.
The Miss America Organization touts itself as the world’s largest giver of scholarships to women, with about $350,000 to be given this year at the national level.
Teresa Scanlan said she planned to use her scholarship to help pay for law school en route to a life in politics.
High school student Angela Zhang from Cupertino, California, has found a possible cure for cancer and she has been rewarded with a scholarship for $100,000.
Angela Zhang, 17, a first generation Chinese schoolgirl, who is learning to drive, seems in many ways an average Californian teenager, CBS News reported.
When Angela Zhang shared a project she had created in her spare time with her Monta Vista High School, chemistry teacher, Kavita Gupta it was the beginning of an extraordinary sequence of events.
The project, an advanced research paper detailing a method for curing cancer, was beyond her teacher.
“Cure for cancer – a high school student,” Kavita Gupta told CBS.
“It’s just so mind-boggling. I just cannot even begin to comprehend how she even thought about it or did this.”
Angela Zhang had always been precocious. As a freshman, she read doctorate level papers on bio-engineering.
In sophomore year she’d talked her way into the lab at Stanford, and by junior year she was doing her own research on the project.
“I just thought, <<Why not? What is there to lose?>>” said Angela Zhang.
“At first it was a little bit overwhelming,” she said, “but I found that it almost became like a puzzle, being able to decode something.”
High school student Angela Zhang from Cupertino has found a possible cure for cancer and she has been rewarded with a scholarship for $100,000
Angela Zhang’s idea was to mix cancer medicine in a polymer that would attach to nanoparticles. These nanoparticles would then fasten themselves to cancer cells and show up on an MRI allowing doctors to exactly where tumors are.
An infrared light aimed at the tumours would melt the polymer and release the medicine, killing the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed.
When tested on mice the tumours almost completely disappeared. Although it will be years before scientist will be able to run tests on humans, the results do seem promising.
Meanwhile Angela Zhang’s paper won her the national Siemens science contest, netting the teen $100,000.
“This is a Cinderella moment for a science nerd like me,” Angela Zhang told the Mercury News.
“I’m excited to learn just everything possible,” she said.
“Everything in the sciences – biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, even computer science – to make new innovations possible.”
More than 24 hours after Costa Concordia ran aground off the Italian coast, three survivors have been found on the stricken cruise ship.
Rescuers are trying to reach a third survivor, hours after a honeymooning South Korean couple were rescued.
Three people are so far confirmed dead and about 40 are unaccounted for.
Francesco Schettino, the Italian captain of the Costa Concordia has been arrested on suspicion of multiple homicide. Prosecutors say he left the ship before evacuation was complete.
First officer Ciro Ambrosio has also been detained.
The ship’s operator, Costa Crociere, said the vessel had been following its regular course when it hit a submerged rock.
In a TV interview, ship’s captain Francesco Schettino said the rock was not marked on any maritime charts.
Police are investigating why the accident happened in calm conditions.
More than 24 hours after Costa Concordia ran aground off the Italian coast, three survivors have been found on the stricken cruise ship
The South Korean couple was located after rescuers heard voices from a cabin two decks down on the half-submerged ship late on Saturday. They were reached a few hours later.
The newlyweds, both 29 years old, were both in good health when they were brought ashore.
Later on Sunday morning, rescuers located and spoke to the third person found inside the ship. Officials say he is a senior Italian member of the crew, and they believe he has a serious injury to his leg.
Two scuba divers were smashing a window on the ship trying to get to someone inside.
Two French passengers and a Peruvian crew member died, and another 30 people were injured, two seriously.
Divers are continuing to search the ship, which is lying on its side near the Tuscan island of Giglio.
President of Costa Cruises, Gianni Onorato, said the main task for the company was now to assist survivors and help repatriate them.
He said it was difficult to determine what had happened, but that the ship had experienced a blackout after hitting “a big rock”.
Gianni Onorato added: “We will be working in full transparency with Italian authorities to understand the causes of the disaster.”
He said normal lifeboat evacuation had become “almost impossible” because the ship had listed so quickly.
Francesco Schettino, the 52-year-old captain, had worked for Costa Cruises for 11 years.
The chief prosecutor in the city of Grosseto told reporters that Captain Francesco Schettino “very ineptly got close to Giglio”, according to Italy’s Ansa news agency.
Italian, German, French and British nationals were among the 3,200 passengers on board. There were also 1,000 crew members.
Coast guard captain Cosimo Nicastro told Italian TV that divers had carried out an extensive search of the waters near the vessel and found no further bodies.
On Saturday, survivors were taken to Porta San Stefano, about 25km (15 miles) away on the mainland.
Many arrived there still wrapped in blankets, and some were clearly very shaken by what they had endured.
Passenger Luciano Castro told Ansa news agency: “We heard a loud noise while we were at dinner as if the keel of the ship hit something.”
“The ship started taking in water through the hole and began tilting.”
Some passengers told the Associated Press news agency that the crew had failed to give instructions on how to evacuate the ship.
Several passengers compared the accident to the film Titanic, about the sinking of the giant ocean liner in April 1912 which claimed more than 1,500 lives.
Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has announced her marriage to Barry Herridge is over again and she has confirmed that the relationship could not be fixed.
Sinead O’Connor, 45, had tried to give things another go with Barry Herridge after the pair split in December following just two weeks of marriage.
In a statement on her website, Sinead O’Connor wrote: “His association with me became something very bad for his life.
“And slowly since we were married I became very ill as result of what was done to my husband and i was unable to cope. And became depressed..”
Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has announced her marriage to Barry Herridge is over again and she has confirmed that the relationship could not be fixed
Sinead O’Connor, who has been married twice before, also insisted that she will not be getting romantically involved with anyone again, and appealed to fans to send her adult toys to help ease any frustrations.
The singer wrote: “I will never again associate myself romantically with anyone as I could not bear to see these things done again to someone I love.
“I’m gonna be me. And if anyone doesn’t like that they can seek therapy. Because I am wonderful. Exactly as I am. As Bridget Jones would say.
“And I shall continue being me. If being me means certain Irish media will try to destroy my romantic life … So be it … I have ten fingers and a number of toys (not really the toys. But need them now so maybe u cud all post me some!) (sic).”
Sinead O’Connor continued to blame the Irish media for their alleged harsh treatment of drugs counselor Barry Herridge.
Her statement came just a day after she appealed to fans to her find a psychiatrist with desperate pleas for help on Twitter.
Sinead O’Connor began her series of odd Tweets by claiming that Ireland is a “VERY hard place to find help in”, before adding: “Does any1 know a psychiatrist in dublin or wicklow who could urgently see me today please? im really un-well… and in danger.”
The singer then went on to say that she was in “serious danger” and revealed she was going to casualty after breaking her ankle.
Sinead O’Connor is now on her way to London, and has been keeping her followers updated on her Twitter page this morning.
She wrote: “OMG! There’s an actual beautiful bar where u can smoke in terminal one!!!! I never knew! Happy girl.
“Coffee, fags and tonnes of men removing their belts at security! Sexiest place on earth. What is sexier than a man taking off his belt?”
Walter, the fattest cat at the shelter, was adopted by a Portland, Oregon couple who were moved by his story of.
Walter is a seven-year-old grey and white cat, who tips the scales at a whopping 28 pounds.
Upon taking their new pet home, Colleen Sanders, 25, and Aaron Betancourth, 33, were given seemingly bizarre orders from the humane society – make sure Walter gains more weight.
Walter, who was brought to the shelter after his previous owner found out his new landlord at an assisted living home didn’t allow cats, stayed at the shelter for only a week.
His extreme weight makes it difficult for him to stand. However, the stress of a new environment caused the cat to lose several pounds during his stay.
Walter, the fattest cat at the shelter, was adopted by a Portland, Oregon couple who were moved by his story of
The Oregon Humane Society says that before Walter starts his journey to become a leaner feline, he must first gain weight to avoid a potentially fatal disease.
Veterinarian Dr. Kristi Ellis says that with his new surroundings and a change in diet, Walter dropped three pounds in seven days at the shelter, a dangerous amount to lose so quickly.
Extreme, unhealthy weight loss puts the cat at risk of fatty liver disease.
Dr. Kristi Ellis told Walter’s new owners that he should be allowed to eat whatever he wants for the next two weeks, but come February should start a low-calorie diet, eating about 600 calories a day.
That amount should allow for a healthy weight loss. They hope to bring Walter down to a still respectable 18 pounds.
The diet – high in lean protein – was dubbed the “Catkins Diet”.
The average weight for a male house cat is between six and seven pounds.
Aaron Betancourth and Colleen Sanders became aware of the Walter’s story and instantly fell in love.
“He’s very cute, very sweet,” Colleen Saunders told KPTV.
“Obviously, his previous owner loved him, although they loved him in maybe the wrong way.”
Colleen Saunders said they’re looking forward to helping Walter manage his weight. They’ll also use a laser pointer to keep Walter up and moving.
An adventurous crow clutches in its beak a mini-board – thought to be a paint-lid or frisby – while perching on the apex of the roof.
After plucking up the courage for the black run, the crow jumps on the board and slides effortlessly some 25ft down the steep icy roof.
Incredibly, the crow enjoys it so much it picks up its makeshift-board and flaps its way back to the top of the roof before dropping back into the slop for another five runs
Footage of the thrill-seeking crow has become the latest YouTube hit clip.
The 1min 20sec clip, posted by “Alex” from Yekaterinburg, Russia, has no snappy music or witty voice-over – yet the simple pleasure the bird is deriving from its repeated rides has struck a chord with YouTube viewers.
Various versions of the clip have attracted as many as 250,000 views since it was posted few days ago.
The crow can be seen skiing down the roof on a disc-shaped object – described by some viewers as a bottle top.
An adventurous crow clutches in its beak a mini-board - thought to be a paint-lid or frisby - while perching on the apex of the roof
After the ride is over, the bird simply clutches the disc in its talons and flies back to the top of the roof – saving itself a fortune in chairlift costs.
After unsuccessfully attempting to slide down a more barren stretch of rooftop, the crow flies back to its original set-off point and enjoys another adrenaline-pumping ski down the slopes.
All the while, Alex and his family can be heard laughing at their feathered neighbour’s antics (all except Alex’s infant child, who finds the whole experience a little overwhelming).
Finally, the crow picks up its disc an flies off – presumably planning to get a murder of mates together for a ski trip elsewhere.
Crows have been shown to be remarkably intelligent, with some species topping the avian IQ scale.
Researchers have observed crows using a variety of “tools” to attract and process their food, such as hooded crows in Israel using bread crumbs for bait-fishing, or New Caledonian crows dropping nuts into a busy street and waiting for a car to crush them open.
Recent research also suggests crows have the ability to recognize one individual human from another by studying facial features.
Named only as “Ryan” in the recently released memoir “Kris Jenner and All Things Kardashian,” Star magazine exclusively revealed the true identity of the momager’s boy toy, who was just a tender 24 at the time their 1989 tryst began.
He is renowned Hollywood animator Todd Waterman, who told Star in an exclusive interview that he and Kris Jenner shared an “intense affair.”
“It was scandalous,” confessed Todd Waterman.
“We dated for a year and a half. I was playing pro soccer and I was training with a team, L.A. Heat, for a now defunct league. That’s how we met.”
Todd Waterman, who now directs animated films for Disney and Columbia Pictures, said while Kris Jenner called it a “mid-life” crisis moment, their relationship was far from a passing fling
The outing of Todd Waterman is yet another twist in the paternity scandal engulfing Kris Jenner’s daughter Khloe, who is facing claims from Robert Kardashian’s ex-wives that she isn’t a biological Kardashian.
In light of the women’s sordid allegations, the showbiz world has been left to ponder who could be 27-year-old Khloe’s potential real dad if Robert Kardashian were not.
While the naming of Kris Jenner’ secret lover could provoke some to question whether Todd Waterman fathered Khloe, it’s not possible, as Khloe was aged five at the time her mother, then 34, began seducing him behind her father’s back.
Robert Kardashian, the Hollywood lawyer who worked on O.J. Simpson’s notorious dream team during the murder trial of the football star’s wife, even named Todd Waterman in his and Kris’ 1991 divorce documents, filed in the Los Angles Superior Court.
Robert Kardashian slammed Kris, writing in a declaration obtained by Star: “Your honor will recall at the time of the hearing I claimed that the respondent was involved with another man named Todd Waterman.
“I ask the court … to restrain (Kris) from living with any member of the opposite sex in or about the presence of our children.”
Todd Waterman, who now directs animated films for Disney and Columbia Pictures, said while Kris Jenner called it a “mid-life” crisis moment, their relationship was far from a passing fling.
In her tell-all book, Kris Jenner revealed that she became obsessed with a man she dubbed “Ryan” and admitted having “wild sex everywhere, all the time” in cars, pool houses and even on tennis courts.
“One minute I was making brownies for my friends and having a family barbecue, the next I was in the middle of an insanely intense affair,” Kris Jenner wrote.
“I would tell Robert I was going out to lunch and I would end up at Ryan’s apartment having crazy, fabulous sex for hours in the middle of the day. I would drop Kourtney, Kimberly, and Khloe off at school and rush straight to Ryan.
“Breakfast, lunch, and dinner with Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan.”
While Todd Waterman said he had heard rumors that Kris Jenner had exposed her philandering in her memoir, it wasn’t until he was contacted by Star this week that he realized the extent of her confession.
“My friend has sent me an excerpt from her book,” Todd Waterman told Star.
“I think I would be Ryan.”
While Todd Waterman once shared a passion for one particular Kardashian, Kris Jenner’s former lover revealed that he is far from a “fan” of the reality television family and the multi-million dollar empire they’ve built.
“I am not a fan of the whole Kardashian machine,” Todd Waterman said.
“To me, it (my partial inclusion in the book) ties into what they have already done in terms of picking and choosing what they release and how they are portrayed.”
While not happy about his inclusion in Kris Jenner’s tell-all, Todd Waterman told Star it was to be expected from a family who has used infamy to their advantage.
Todd Waterman said: “The sex tape and the murder of their friend. It (the book) didn’t surprise me.”
While Kris and Todd Waterman’s torrid affair finally ended in 1990 – just before Kris met Olympian Bruce Jenner – the affair cost the Kardashian matriarch her marriage, after Robert followed the pair and found them together.
According to her 1991 divorce documents from O.J. Simpson attorney, Robert Kardashian, Kris Jenner was obsessed with the good life and with other men.
They fought over what Robert Kardashian perceived as Kris’ lavish spending and he even accused his then-wife of flaunting her new relationship with now-husband, Bruce Jenner in front of the children.
The Kardashian household was first thrown into turmoil after Robert Kardashian reportedly found Kris in the arms of her boy toy Todd Waterman, according to the documents obtained by Star Magazine.
While Kris Jenner, 56, mentioned a younger man who broke apart her marriage in her memoirs, she named him only as Ryan.
However the man in question has since stepped forward to reveal his true identity to Star.
According to her 1991 divorce documents from O.J. Simpson attorney, Robert Kardashian, Kris Jenner was obsessed with the good life and with other men
Hollywood animator Todd Waterman, who is pictured in a photograph obtained by Radar Online, claims he had a long-running relationship with Kris Jenner while she was married to Robert Kardashian.
Todd Waterman was only 24-years-old when the alleged affair began in 1989.
The animator confessed: “It was scandalous. We dated for a year and a half.”
According to the divorce papers, an angry Robert Kardashian cancelled Kris’ credit cards, store cards and he stopped paying for her extravagant lifestyle, after discovering her alleged affair with the younger man.
But Kris fought to maintain her financial support, claiming in court papers that she deserved the lavish life she had become accustomed to leading.
“The petitioner and I shared a luxury lifestyle,” Kris said in her petition for spousal and child support.
“Nothing was too good for our family. Even our children’s clothing was purchased at exclusive boutiques,” the divorce papers revealed.
The Kardashian family matriarch’s alleged affair apparently ended in 1990, just before Kris, then 34, met her now-husband Bruce Jenner, who was also mentioned in the divorce filing.
Robert Kardashian accused Kris of flaunting her new relationship with Bruce Jenner in front of their children.
He even claimed she had let the children see her in bed with her new man.
Kris went on to accuse Robert Kardashian of emotionally abusing her with a then 9-year-old Kim forced to witness the drama.
“As a result of (Robert) and my irreconcilable differences, there is a tremendous amount of discord at the family residence,” Kris claimed in her divorce petition.
“On May 3, 1990 Kimberly found me crying after a brutal conversation with (Robert) and she became so upset I had a difficult time getting her to her carpool on time.
“Kimberly called my office twice that afternoon crying hysterically, begging me to come home,” the legal papers state.
Because of the alleged abuse, Kris demanded Robert Kardashian be banned from the family home.
However, Robert Kardashian countered with an argument that be allowed to move back into the home to protect the children from Kris’ now husband Bruce Jenner, claiming Bruce and Kris’ relationship was detrimental to the children and Robert Jr. even witnessed his still-married mother in bed with Bruce.
Thousands of Romanians in Bucharest and other cities staged a third straight day of protests on Saturday, as anger over a healthcare reform bill widened into protest against government austerity measures.
More than 1,000 protesters rallied in Bucharest’s main University Square, blocking traffic. After seven hours, they refused to leave, and scuffled several times with riot police who then used tear gas.
Five police officers sustained injuries after they were hit by stones, local media reports said. The ambulance service said more than 20 people had been treated for injuries. Protesters yelled anti-government slogans and called for early elections. 29 protesters have been arrested, according to riot police.
More than 1,000 protesters rallied in Bucharest's main University Square, blocking traffic
The government pulled its draft healthcare reform bill on Friday after street protests and criticism, but that has failed to assuage the anger of crowds, who called on Saturday for early elections and the resignation of President Traian Basescu.
Protesters chanted and carried banners that said “Stop thievery”, “You lied to us and robbed us” and “Leave and let us be”. Some scuffled with riot police in the capital.
“It is important for protesters to understand that we are not against them, we are here to protect them and … make sure the law is respected,” said Georgian Enache, spokesman for Bucharest riot police, who added he didn’t have estimates as to how many protesters had gathered in downtown Bucharest.
Protests started on Thursday in support of Deputy Health Minister Raed Arafat, who resigned this week after criticizing the draft healthcare reform bill and being confronted by President Traian Basescu, a supporter of the project.
Traian Basescu told Romania’s centrist coalition government to pull the bill late on Friday. Opponents said the bill lacked detail on private sector involvement and risked further damaging the outdated medical system.
Saturday’s protests expanded from support for Raed Arafat to general discontent with the government’s unpopular austerity measures, taken under an aid deal led by the International Monetary Fund to shore up public finances and prop up the leu currency. In 2010, the government cut salaries in the public sector by 25 percent and raised other taxes.
Exes Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony arrived holding hands at an event promoting their joint new reality television programme, Q’Viva: The Chosen, at a TCA breakfast in Pasadena, California.
Jennifer Lopez told reporters at the television conference that she and Marc ‘have a great time working together”.
Although they seemed to have bad blood after announcing their split last summer, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have been looking mighty cosy lately while promoting their show.
Even today they couldn’t resist mugging for the cameras with their arms around one another.
Marc Anthony also reached down to chivalrously to offer Jennifer Lopez his hand to climb three stairs onto the stage, where they sat side by side in director’s chairs.
He later admired the many glittering rings on her fingers.
Exes Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony arrived holding hands at an event promoting their joint new reality television programme
Jennifer Lopez, 42, and Marc Anthony, 43, looked more than friendly in the trailer for their new Univision series, which explores discovering the world’s most talented Latin American performers.
Their behaviour today took the cake in terms of playing nicely, as most exes don’t hold hands unless they’re trying to send a message of togetherness.
Jennifer Lopez looked lovely in a blue leather dress that made the most of her fabulous curves.
She appeared to be glowing in bronze-toned makeup and bright, cherry coloured gloss on her lips.
Marc Anthony looked cool in a military-style jacket over a crisp white shirt and blue jeans as they made their way into the Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa.
Although they may have looked nice, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony were not beloved by reporters after showing up fifteen minutes before the panel was set to end.
They caused an outrage amongst critics after refusing to answer questions.
When the audience members started to attack, Marc Anthony said: “This is a tough crowd. It’s too early for this.”
At least he and Jennifer Lopez seemed to be making a united front, especially given the recent claims that Marc wanted his make J.Lo “suffer” because of her relationship with toyboy lover Casper Smart.
According to a report that surfaced last year from Us Weekly, their relationship was getting “seriously ugly”.
Meanwhile another recent report has emerged claiming that Jennifer Lopez has been paying 24-year-old backup dancer Casper Smart a whopping $10,000 a week.
“Jen is taking extra special care of Casper,” a source told Star magazine.
“She hated having to whip out her credit card every time they go to dinner. And it bummed her out that Casper had to borrow money from her to buy Christmas presents, including hers.”
The insider explained: “So Jen figured it’s easier to give Casper a weekly stipend, and she thought $10K was a nice round number.”
The payouts will have a big impact on Casper Smart, who go-go dances at L.A. club Boulevard3 for a mere $250 a night.
The magazine also claims that Marc Anthony is not happy with this financial decision.
“Marc is livid that Jennifer is throwing money away on this punk!” the source revealed.
“He feels she shouldn’t be spending it on Casper. The kids are one thing – but her boy toy is a whole other ball of wax!”
If Marc Antony is upset about J Lo’s younger lover, he shouldn’t be: he is also dating a 24-year-old, model Shannon De Lima.
It’s not enough to know the best foods you should eat to promote prostate health, you should also know which foods are the worst so you can avoid them.
Some of the foods on this list may surprise you, but all of them are best to cross off your menu if you want to support prostate health.
1. Red and Processed Meat
Eating a lot of red and processed meats is unhealthy for several reasons, one of which is it may increase your risk of prostate cancer. Studies show that men who ate the most red meat were 12% more likely to develop prostate cancer and 33% more likely to have advanced cancer than those who ate the least amount of red meat.
2. Nonorganic Meat
Nonorganic meat encompasses the majority of the meat available on the market, including beef, pork, lamb, veal, and poultry raised using conventional methods that involve the use of hormones, antibiotics, and steroids, as well as animals being fed food they were not meant to eat. Cattle, for example, evolved to eat grass, but they are fed corn, soybeans, and other grains because it fattens them up faster for slaughter. When you do include meat in your diet, make it organic so you can avoid the additives that can have a negative impact on both prostate and overall health.
3. Calcium and Dairy Foods
Dairy foods are the most common source of calcium in the United States, and this is a source of concern for two reasons. One, the American Cancer Society notes there is evidence that high intake of calcium, mostly through supplements and dairy foods, has been linked with a greater risk of prostate cancer, especially aggressive cancer. Two, many dairy foods are high in fat and cholesterol, and may also contain hormones, all of which can have a negative impact on prostate health.
4. Canned Tomatoes and Tomato Products
Although it is true tomatoes and tomato products support and promote prostate health, especially because of their high lycopene content, you should avoid tomato foods packaged in cans. The resin linings of tin cans contain bisphenol-A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen that can leach into the tomatoes because they are acidic. BPA is associated with an increased risk of cancer and other health problems.
5. Microwave Popcorn
Popcorn is a good source of fiber, but avoid microwave popcorn. The lining of the bags in which microwave popcorn is popped contains chemicals, including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) that may be associated with infertility in humans. The chemicals have also been linked to cancer in lab animals. Because PFOA accumulates in the body, scientists worry that the chemical may reach a cancer-causing level in people who are exposed to it for too long. The makers of PFOA have promised to stop producing the chemical by 2015.
6. Nonorganic Potatoes
Potatoes can be a very good nonfat, high-fiber food choice, but beware: they are exposed to several doses of poisons. Potatoes absorb herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides from the soil, they are treated with fungicides while they are growing, the vines are sprayed with herbicides before harvest, and then once the potatoes are dug up, they are treated again to prevent them from sprouting. You cannot wash away the chemicals that have been absorbed into the flesh of the potato. The only safe solution is to buy organic potatoes.
7. French Fries and Potato Chips
French fries and potato chips are two popular foods in the United States, and also among the unhealthiest. One reason is that deep fried potatoes and potato chips are laden with saturated fat and salt. Two, potatoes contain an amino acid called asparagine, which when heated to more than 248 degrees Fahrenheit (as in frying and baking) can form acrylamide, a substance determined to be a “probable human carcinogen” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, based on studies in lab animals. (Fuhr 2006) French fries and potato chips are not the only foods that contain acrylamide, but they are the most common and have high levels. Baked goods, especially doughnuts, also have relatively high levels of acrylamide.
8. Artificial Sweeteners
Artificial sweeteners – aspartame, cyclamate, neotame, saccharin, or sucralose – can be found in a wide variety of processed foods, many of which are promoted as diet and/or diabetic foods. These artificial sweeteners have been associated with cancer in animals and can cause allergic reactions in some people.
9. Farmed Salmon
Farmed salmon are crammed into pens, fed soy and fishmeal (which is high in contaminants), dosed with antibiotics, and colored with artificial dyes to make them pink. The result is fish that are lower in vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids, and higher in contaminants (e.g., PCBs, brominated flame retardants, dioxin, DDT) than wild salmon. Farmed salmon is not the only farmed fish that should be avoided, because the way they are raised is similar for other types of fish as well.
10. Sugar
Sugar may taste good, but that’s where the “good” part ends. Along with the empty calories sugar contributes to the diet, it is also believed by many experts to fuel cancer cell growth, among them Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD, former vice president of Nutrition for Cancer Treatment Centers of America. In 2009, scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah discovered part of the process by which cancer cells utilize more sugar (glucose) than normal cells. (Kaadige 2009) If you want something sweet, choose fruit, nature’s natural sugar.
Francesco Schettino, the Italian captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground killing three person and injuring more than 20 more was arrested late Saturday and is being investigated for manslaughter and abandoning ship, said a local prosecutor in Grosetto, Italy.
Francesco Schettino, had been earlier interviewed by investigators in Porto Santo Stefano about what happened when the 4,200-passenger Costa Concordia struck rocks in shallow water off Italy’s western coast, said officer Emilio Del Santo of the Coastal Authorities of Livorno.
Authorities were looking at why the ship didn’t hail a mayday during the accident near the Italian island of Giglio on Friday night, officials said.
Costa Concordia is owned by Genoa-based Costa Cruises.
“At the moment we can’t exclude that the ship had some kind of technical problem, and for this reason moved towards the coast in order to save the passengers, the crew and the ship. But they didn’t send a mayday. The ship got in contact with us once the evacuation procedures were already ongoing,” Emilio Del Santo said prior to the announcement of the arrest.
“Fear and panic are comprehensible in a ship long over 300 meters with over 4000 passengers,” he said.
“We can confirm that the ship has a breach on the hull of about 90 meters, and that the right side of it is completely under water.”
Francesco Schettino, the Italian captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground killing three person and injuring more than 20 more was arrested late Saturday
The three persons dead were two French tourists and a crew member from Peru, Port authorities in Livorno said.
Giuseppe Orsina, a spokesman with the local civil protection agency, said 43 to 51 persons were missing, though authorities are reviewing passenger lists to confirm the exact figure.
“These people could be still on the island of Giglio, in private houses or in hospitals,” Giuseppe Orsina said.
The coast guard said 50 to 70 people could be missing.
One surviving crew member, Rosalyn Rincon, 30, of Blackpool, England, said she wanted to know why the cruise ship was sailing so close to shore. She described a harrowing grounding of the vessel, whose tilting and rising water evoked the film “Titanic”.
“I’m pretty much angry, and I want to know why we were so close to the coast,” said Rosalyn Rincon, who works as a dancer on the ship and was entertaining passengers by performing a trick inside a box with a magician when the accident occurred.
Rosalyn Rincon has sailed the itinerary the last three months.
“I’ve never thought something like this could happen,” she added.
Costa Concordia was 2.5 miles off route when it struck a rocky sandbar, according to the Italian Coast Guard. Local fishermen say the island coast of Giglio is known for its rocky sea floor.
Gianni Onorato, president of Costa Cruises, expressed “deep sorrow for this terrible tragedy,” but said the cruise line was unable to answer all the questions that authorities are now investigating.
“On the basis of the initial evidence – still preliminary – Costa Concordia, under the command of Master Francesco Schettino, was sailing its regularly scheduled itinerary from Civitavecchia to Savona, Italy, when the ship struck a submerged rock,” Gianni Onorato said in a statement before the announcement of the captain’s announcement.
“Captain Schettino, who was on the bridge at the time, immediately understood the severity of the situation and performed a maneuver intended to protect both guests and crew, and initiated security procedures to prepare for an eventual ship evacuation,” he continued.
“Unfortunately, that operation was complicated by a sudden tilting of the ship that made disembarkation difficult,” Gianni Onorato said.
Rescue teams worked through the night to evacuate more than 4,000 people from the Costa Concordia, owned by Genoa-based Costa Cruises, after it ran aground off of Italy’s western coast.
Authorities said earlier Saturday they believed everyone was accounted for, but that they did not have a definitive list of names.
The huge ship, which was lying on its side in shallow water Saturday evening, was carrying about 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members when it ran aground at about dinner time.
Costa Concordia, built in 2006, was on a Mediterranean cruise from Rome with stops in Savona, Marseille, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Cagliari and Palermo, according to the cruise line. It was unclear how far into the cruise the grounding occurred.
Most of the passengers on board were Italian, as well as some French and German citizens. CNN affiliate America Noticias, in Peru, said a group of 32 Peruvians were also onboard.
The United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office was working with Italian authorities to identify British nationals on the cruise, a spokesman said.
Another Costa ship was involved in a deadly 2010 accident when the Costa Europa crashed into a pier in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh during stormy weather, killing three crew members.
After an accident that left him needing the aid of a walking cane Brad Pitt shows now his fans that he is still good looking on the cover of the latest issue of W magazine.
With his shirt unbuttoned just enough to reveal a flash of his chest, and sporting his trademark designer stubble, Brad Pitt looks every inch the Hollywood heartthrob.
Brad Pitt can be seen on the cover of W magazine lounging on a chair by a swimming pool, smouldering at the camera.
He appears to be winding down after a difficult day, with a drink in his hand and an undone bow tie slung casually around his neck.
And the cover shot was not the only treat brad Pitt had in store for his female admirers.
Inside W magazine Brad Pitt can be seen lying in bed under plush blue sheets, eating biscuits
Inside W magazine Brad Pitt can be seen lying in bed under plush blue sheets, eating biscuits.
Brad Pitt is still wearing a suit for the photograph, but his floppy brown hair is messy and his sleeves are loosely rolled up.
He features on the front of the magazine for W’s Movie Issue, and is also interviewed by the publication about his latest movies The Tree of Life and Moneyball.
Despite the film star’s confidence, when asked by the magazine if he had any characters he would like to do over, Brad Pitt answered: “Um… the first 12 years of my career, I would think.”
Brad Pitt features on one of two covers the magazine has released for its February 2012 issue.
Newly released FBI files have revealed that hip hop super-group The Wu Tang Clan was involved in carjackings, murders, drug dealing and money laundering.
The FBI’s dossier on the group’s founding member, Ol’ Dirty Bastard (ODB) has been released in response to a Freedom of information request.
ODB, aka Russell Jones, died of an accidental drug overdose in 2004, after consuming a mixture of cocaine and opiates.
But the rap group continues and is releasing its 6th album this year.
“The WTC is heavily involved in the sale of drugs, illegal guns, weapons possession, murder, carjacking and other types of violent crime,” an early paragraph of the 94 page haul states, according to the Gun.io blog.
Newly released FBI files have revealed that hip hop super-group The Wu Tang Clan was involved in carjackings, murders, drug dealing and money laundering
Russell Jones was arrested nine times between April 1, 1987, and January 15, 1999, for a range of crimes that included petty larceny, contempt and nonsupport of a child.
In January 1999, Russell Jones was charged with attempted murder in the first/second degree, criminal use of a firearm, and unlawful wearing of a body vest, Gun.io reported.
Riddled with violent crime, the late rapper’s file refers to the murder of Jerome Estrella aka Boo Boo, by an unnamed member of a gang called the Bloods, who allegedly sometimes acted as enforcers for the WTC.
The confessed killer allegedly offered to do a deal with detectives to provide information about the WTC.
Intriguingly one cutting in the file, documenting the late hip hop star’s forays with the law, details the arrest of P Diddy, though no actual connection between the two hip hop stars is made.
The file also describes a drug-deal gone bad that resulted in a shooting and carjacking on Staten Island.
One of those involved was allegedly a suspect in an unsolved murder supposedly ordered by the WTC in retaliation for a robbery.
Some ten pages of the folder are dedicated to a chain of events leading to the murder of a Robert Pooh Johnson in 1997.
After being shot and robbed by men wearing ski masks in his home ODB was interviewed by police. They allegedly made off with $10,000 worth of jewellery. ODB said he knew the gunman who lived down the street from him but did not want to continue with the investigation because of the possible repercussions for his family in the projects.
The document is heavily redacted and the sequence of events is not clear, but the file claims members of the collective bought a gun used to murder former associate Johnson in 1997.
“Johnson was an associate of the WTC who had a falling out with the group and it is believed that his murder was ordered by someone within the WTC,” the file states.
The files also claim that the Wu-Tang Clan used their record label to launder money.
Once a member had shown their commitment to the WTC, they were “offered record contracts to record rap type music”, with numerous recording companies set up for this purpose.
“This allows legitimate monies to flow into these accounts along with the proceeds from [redacted],” the files allege.
Doctors have renewed their warnings over bath salts after a 34-year-old woman caught a flesh-eating infection following the substance’s injection into her arm at a party.
Injecting bath salts caused the life-threatening condition necrotizing fasciitis to spread through her upper body within days and led to surgeons having to cut away her arm, shoulder and breasts.
Banned in other countries, bath salts are still legal in the U.S.
The woman was examined by a team led by Dr. Russell Russo at Lousiana State University, after complaining of a painful and red forearm.
At first, the doctors thought the woman had a common skin infection and she was treated with antibiotics, which reduced her symptoms. However, she still had lingering pain at the site of a small red puncture wound.
The woman then admitted she had injected “bath salts” two days before and when she was re-examined doctors realized she had developed a flesh-eating infection.
The patient underwent emergency surgery as doctors battled to stop it spreading across her whole body.
“The infection moved so fast that pink, healthy tissue was literally dying before the surgeons’ eyes,” a university spokesman said.
“They had to keep removing tissue until they reached clear margins of healthy tissue to stop the progression of disease.
“By the time they were finished, the patient’s arm, shoulder, and collarbone had to be amputated, and a radical mastectomy performed.”
The woman survived and subsequently underwent skin grafting and rehabilitation.
“Bath salts” are man-made stimulant drugs that resemble scented bath powders and are still legal for use in water in the US
The doctors, writing in the latest edition of Orthopedics, are now warning other surgeons that they may see a rise in such cases.
“As <<bath salts>> gain popularity, medical centers of all disciplines must be prepared to identify not only the signs of intoxication, but the potential side effects including deadly necrotizing fasciitis,” Dr. Russell Russo said.
“Surgeons must be ready to diagnose and perform extensive debridements in association with general surgeons in some instances to save limbs, preserve function, and prevent death.”
“Bath salts” are man-made stimulant drugs that resemble scented bath powders and were banned in UK in 2010. However, they are still legal for use in water in the U.S.
The drugs, which go under names including Aura, Ivory Wave and Vanilla Sky – have dangerous side effects and users have needed several people to retrain them after arriving in emergency rooms.
“Despite the drug’s legal status, it must be treated as illicit, and one must be suspicious when examining a patient with this clinical history because the diagnosis of flesh-eating bacteria can masquerade as abscesses and cellulitis,” Dr. Russell Russo said.
Phobos-Grunt, the Russian’s failed Mars probe, is about to fall back to Earth – quite probably on Sunday.
Phobos-Grunt spacecraft has been losing altitude rapidly in recent days and will soon be pulled into the top of the atmosphere where it will be destroyed.
The probe weighed some 13 tons at launch, but very little of this mass should make it through to the surface.
Russian space agency (Roscosmos) estimates suggest only 200kg will survive the fiery plunge.
Orbital debris experts say there are large uncertainties in predicting re-entry events and it is currently not possible to forecast precisely when or where on Earth the final descent will occur.
“The major uncertainty for prediction is the atmospheric density the spacecraft encounters in orbit, but it’s also due to the orientation of the vehicle as it comes in,” explained Prof. Richard Crowther, the UK Space Agency’s chief engineer.
“It can very quickly tumble and if pieces break off – that all changes the trajectory and where debris might impact.”
This is the third high-profile spacecraft re-entry in four months, following the return in September of the American UARS satellite and the German Rosat telescope in October. Both fell over the ocean.
With so much of the Earth’s surface covered by water, there is every chance Phobos-Grunt will do the same.
The mission was supposed to be the most exciting Russian space science venture in decades – an audacious bid to scoop up rocky fragments from the Martian moon Phobos and bring them back for study in Earth laboratories.
Phobos-Grunt was successfully launched on 8 November, entering a “parking orbit” some 345km above the Earth. But the spacecraft then failed to push on to the Red Planet as planned.
For some reason, its big boost engine did not fire. Attempts to contact the spacecraft and diagnose the fault have proved fruitless.
Both professional and amateur tracking groups have been trying to work out when it will fall out of the sky, and many of their estimates are clustering around late Sunday (GMT).
Phobos-Grunt's rate of descent is being monitored by radar and the tracking groups will be using this information to try to narrow the uncertainties as the weekend progresses
The spacecraft’s rate of descent is being monitored by radar and the tracking groups will be using this information to try to narrow the uncertainties as the weekend progresses.
A lot of attention has focused on the amount of fuel that Phobos-Grunt is carrying.
Out of the total launch mass of more than 13 tons, in excess of 10 tons was the fuel needed to complete the mission.
Phobos-Grunt’s tanks were filled with the propellants Unsymmetrical DiMethylHydrazine (UDMH) and Dinitrogen TetrOxide (DTO), both of which are toxic.
But, crucially, the tanks are made of aluminium, which has a relatively low melting temperature.
Analysts are confident the tanks will rupture and their contents will be destroyed or dispersed long before any debris can reach the surface.
“Depending on when something breaks up and what it’s made of and how it comes away from the main vehicle, it can either burn up or survive re-entry,” said Prof. Richard Crowther.
“In the case of Phobos-Grunt, it’s a flying fuel tank in many respects, and so most of the mass is fuel which should explode.”
The Russians have had a torrid run of space failures recently, leading the head of the country’s space agency to wonder even if saboteurs were at work.
Western countries, which use Russian rockets to launch their satellites, are just worried though that some systematic failures have started to appear in what has traditionally been a highly regarded space industry.
With their own opportunity to go to Mars now lost, the Russians may decide to put their future interplanetary efforts into joint ventures with the Americans and the Europeans. The Russians have an offer from the US and Europe to join the ExoMars missions to the Red Planet in 2016 and 2018.
McKinney North High School from Texas has decided to remove the doors to the bathroom entrances, invoking an outcry from both parents and students, as a preventative measure to “keep kids safe.”
Rumors have been circulating among students that the doors were removed because of illicit sexual behavior in the loos.
One high school student said she’s seen some questionable activities in the women’s restroom. “I’ve walked into the bathroom and seen girls in the bathroom with guys,” Sarah O’Kerke told KDAF-TV.
Another student agreed. “I heard the reason they took (the doors) off was because they caught a freshman couple having sex in the bathroom,” Avniel Guerra said.
However, the high school disagrees. McKinney High School spokesperson Cody Cunningham said in this instance, the measure was carried for student’s safety and is because of reports of students fighting.
“The students felt like the reason we were removing them was because of some inappropriate sexual behavior in the restrooms, but that couldn’t be further from the truth,” Cody Cunningham told nbcdfw.com.
Cody Cunningham told CBS Local in Dallas-Fort Worth that it’s a common practice in newer schools. “Often times…they do take off or omit the exterior doors to the restroom and really it’s just a supervision issue.”
Parents are upset that it’s an invasion of their children’s privacy, but Cody Cunningham argues that many changes have been made in the last 50 years to protect their student’s safety.
The restrooms, the schools say, still allow privacy, as there is no line of sight from the hallway into the restrooms, thanks to a half-wall.
However, Texas has consistently been a state with alarmingly high teen pregnancy rates.
According to a report by the Guttmacher Institute, Texas ranks fourth in the nation for the number of teen pregnancies, with 88 pregnancies per 1,000 women, aged 15-19. The report ranked pregnancy trends from 1986 to 2006.
It is first in the country for teen birth rates, according to study. While the state – along with Florida and New York – has received considerable abstinence-education funding in recent years, the numbers are alarming.
This isn’t the first disruption to mar the high school.
In 2006, the McKinney high school made national news for a band of cheerleaders, dubbed “the Fab Five”, who acted out by skipping class, terrorizing their cheer-leading coach, and posting sexually suggestive pictures of themselves on MySpace.
The then-principal ended up resigning as part of a settlement.
Gene Hackman suffered injuries to his body and leg after being hit by a car Friday afternoon.
The legendary actor was struck while riding his bicycle in Florida Keys at around 3:00 p.m. local time.
Gene Hackman, 81, was airlifted to hospital and was later released after suffering “bumps and bruises”.
The Florida Highway Patrol is conducting an investigation into the cause of the crash.
Gene Hackman, 81, was airlifted to hospital and was later released after suffering “bumps and bruises”
Sergeant Tom Pikul said: “Today at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time there was an accident involving the actor Gene Hackman.
“He was riding his bicycle in Florida Keys on what is known as the Old Highway.
“He suffered body and leg injuries and he was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Centre at Jackson Memorial Hospital.”
Early reports Gene Hackman had suffered serious head injuries were dismissed by his spokeswoman.
His spokeswoman said: “Gene Hackman was taken to a hospital for routine tests after being bumped from behind while riding his bike today in the Keys.
“He’s suffered minor bumps and bruises and is already on his way home.”
No doubt the stars legion of fans will be relieved he did not suffer a more serious accident.
Gene Hackman is one of Hollywood’s most celebrated actors, and has won two Oscars and received a further three nominations.
He first rose to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde.
However perhaps his most celebrated performances were as the tough detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in the French Connection films in 1971, for which he won a best actor Oscar, and 1975.
Gene Hackman made many more hard hitting dramatic appearances, such as best actor nominated turn in 1988’s Mississippi Burning.
He was also famous for his ability to play lighter roles, such as his performance as camp evil genius Lex Luthor in the blockbuster Superman movies.
Gene Hackman began his acting career n 1956 when he joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California.
There he met another aspiring actor, Dustin Hoffman, and the pair forged a lifelong friendship as they both became major stars of the silver screen.
Gene Hackman has been married twice, first to Faye Maltese in 1956.
They had three children, Christopher, Elizabeth and Leslie Anne, before divorcing in 1986 after 30 years of marriage.
In 1991, Gene Hackman married Betsy Arakawa and they live in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In 2004 he gave a rare interview to Larry King and announced he had no future film projects lined up and believed his acting career is over.
In 2008 he confirmed that Gene Hackman had retired from acting while promoting his third novel.
In her memoirs, the Kardashians mother Kris Jenner mentioned a toyboy named only as Ryan, who broke apart her marriage to Robert Kardashian.
Now, the man in question has stepped forward to reveal his identity to Star magazine.
Hollywood animator Todd Waterman, who is pictured in a photograph obtained by Radar Online, claims he had a long-running relationship with Kris Jenner while she was married to Robert Kardashian.
Todd Waterman was only 24-years-old when the alleged affair began in 1989.
The animator confessed: “It was scandalous. We dated for a year and a half.”
Hollywood animator Todd Waterman claims he had a long-running relationship with Kris Jenner while she was married to Robert Kardashian
Todd Waterman apparently came forward after reading the revealing things Kris Jenner, 56, wrote about the man she dubbed Ryan.
He told the magazine: “My friend has sent me an excerpt from her book. I think I would be Ryan.”
Todd Waterman told of how he and Kris Kardashian got together in Los Angeles.
“I was playing pro soccer and I was training with a team, L.A. Heat, for a now defunct league. That’s how we met.”
The affair apparently ended in 1990, just before Kris, then 34, met her now-husband Bruce Jenner.
In her memoirs, Kris Jenner mentioned a toyboy named only as Ryan, who broke apart her marriage to Robert Kardashian
Kris Jenner, who is judging this year’s Miss America pageant, allegedly split from Robert Kardashian after he followed his philandering wife and found her in the arms of animator Todd Waterman.
Robert Kardashian, who was O.J. Simpson lawyer, was reportedly so distraught at his wife’s infidelity that the court awarded Kris with temporary custody of their children, because they believed him to be a potential threat.
Robert Kardashian has said: “It was true that I was very upset when I found out the respondent was having an affair and I wanted a divorce.”
Robert Kardashian apparently punished Kris by cancelling all her credit cards and luxuries, according to court documents published by Radar Online.
The lawyer then believed her to be flaunting her new relationship with Bruce Jenner inappropriately, saying: “I ask the court to enjoin and restrain (Kris) from living with any member of the opposite sex in or about the presence of our children.”
Kris counteracted by stating that her husband “emotionally abuses” her, claiming that the effect on their children was profound: “As a result of (Robert) and my irreconcilable differences, there is a tremendous amount of discord at the family residence.”
Meanwhile, Todd Waterman appears to still hold some bitterness towards the family and their fame.
He said: “I am not a fan of the whole Kardashian machine.”
While Todd Waterman was unhappy to feature in Kris Jenner’s memoirs, the animator was unsurprised at the inclusion of the affair.
He added: “To me, it ties into what they have already done in terms of picking and choosing what they release and how they are portrayed.”
Kris Jenner told of her trysts with the flame she named as Ryan in her book Kris Jenner and All Things Kardashian.
Kris Jenner wrote: “One minute I was making brownies for my friends and having a family barbecue, the next I was in the middle of an insanely intense affair.
“I would drop Kourtney, Kimberly, and Khloe off at school and rush straight to Ryan.”
