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Monday, October 24, 2011
Amy Winehouse Death Report Sent to Some Dude
Amy Winehouse's official death report, containing both highly personal and confidential information, was mailed to a random stranger instead of her family.
Must have been quite a surprise for the London resident who, as far as anybody can tell, has no connection to the late singer, who died this summer.
At least this stranger seems to have been an honest one: The material was turned in to a London police station. Still ... how the heck did that happen?
A spokesman for the Metropolitan police explained the mix-up, saying that the paperwork was simply delivered to the wrong address, per The Guardian.
"Police were informed on Friday that material relating to a forthcoming inquest may have been delivered to an incorrect address," the spokesman said.
"On Friday evening, material was handed in at a north London police station. Inquiries are underway to establish the full circumstances of this matter."
The singer was found dead July 23 and toxicology tests had confirmed no drugs were found in her system at the time of her death, but alcohol was.
"Results indicate that alcohol was present, but it cannot be determined as yet if it played a role in her death," the Winehouse family said in a statement.
An inquest into Amy Winehouse's cause of death death is due to reopen this Wednesday after the initial postmortem exam proved inconclusive.
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/10/amy-winehouse-death-report-sent-to-random-dude/
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Gretchen Rossi to Strip Down for Halloween: You're Invited!
Gretchen Rossi rarely celebrates a holiday while fully dressed.
In July, this Real Housewife of Orange County posed in a patriotic bikini, forcing THG to ask whether or not you would tap that red, white and blue booty.
Now, Rossi is at it again for Halloween. The 33-year old will appear at the Pussycat Dolls Burlesque Saloon in Las Vegas on Saturday night, wearing very little, according to this promotional poster for the event:
Feel free to call and make a reservation if you truly have nothing better to do with your time and money.
Considering Gretchen typically wears revealing outfits - seriously, what the Hell is this?!? - it's unclear just what Rossi is aiming for here. It's akin to Lindsay Lohan going as a law-breaking drunk for Halloween.
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/10/gretchen-rossi-to-strip-down-for-halloween-youre-invited/
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Libyans urged to unite after death of Gaddafi (Reuters)
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) ? Libya is to declare its bitter eight-month civil war against Muammar Gaddafi's 42 years of eccentric one-man rule over Sunday and embark on building a democracy with the country's first free elections next year.
Tens of thousands are expected to pack into the central square in the second city Benghazi, the cradle of the uprising against Gaddafi, to witness interim government leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil announce the "liberation" of Libya.
With huge oil and gas resources and a relatively small population of some six million, Libya has the potential to become a prosperous country, but regional and tribal rivalries fostered by Gaddafi could erupt into yet more violence.
Libya's new leaders have a "very limited opportunity" to put aside their differences, said interim prime minister Mahmoud Jibril as he announced he was stepping down Saturday.
Jibril said progress for Libya would need great resolution, both by interim leaders on the National Transitional Council and by six million war-weary people: "First," he said, "What kind of resolve the NTC will show in the next few days?
"And the other thing depends mainly on the Libyan people - whether they differentiate between the past and the future."
He added: "I am counting on them to look ahead and remember the kind of agony they went through in the last 42 years.
REGIONAL INFIGHTING
The loosely disciplined militias that sprang up in each town to topple the dictator with the help of NATO airpower are still armed and the places they represent will want a greater say in the country's future, particularly the second and third cities Benghazi and Misrata who were starved of investment by Gaddafi.
It was fighters from Misrata who emerged from a lengthy and bloody siege to play the biggest part in taking Tripoli and they who caught Gaddafi cowering in a drainage pipe outside Sirte.
And it was back to Misrata those fighters brought Gaddafi's body to put it on display for two days in a cold storage container for Libyans to see with their own eyes that the hated leader truly was dead.
"There are other brigades from all over the country who fought to defeat Gaddafi. But it's true the Misrata freedom fighters were mostly responsible for taking Tripoli and for capturing Gaddafi," a Tripoli-based interim government official, who did not want to be named for fear of prejudicing delicate negotiations about posts in the new government, told Reuters.
"The city will have to be rewarded for that and I think that it will be," he said.
But a field commander in Misrata worried that trouble was brewing:
"The fear now is what is going to happen next," he said, speaking to Reuters privately, as ordinary Libyans, some taking pictures for family albums, filed in under armed guard to see for themselves that the man they feared was truly dead.
"There is going to be regional in-fighting. You have Zintan and Misrata on one side and then Benghazi and the east," the guerrilla said. "There is in-fighting even inside the army."
NEW DEMOCRACY
There is some unease abroad over what many believe was a summary execution and UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has called for an investigation into the killing, but very few Libyans share any of those concerns.
Arguments have arisen though between Libya's factions about what to do with the corpse which has not been accorded the swift burial required by Islamic law and is already beginning to decompose. Those viewing the body Saturday were obliged to cover their faces with surgical masks.
Gaddafi's surviving family, in exile, want his body and that of his son Mo'tassim to be handed over to tribal kinsmen from Sirte. NTC officials said they were trying to arrange a secret resting place to avoid loyalist supporters making it a shrine. Misrata does not want it under its soil.
The disputes within the NTC have delayed the announcement of an end to the war several times.
But such worries are unlikely to be paramount in the minds of many Libyans Sunday as they celebrate the beginning of a new era in their country's history.
It will set a clock ticking on a plan for a new government and constitutional assembly leading to full democracy in 2013.
"We hope we will have an elected democratic government with broad participation," said student Ali Abu Shufa. Gaddafi promoted tribalism to keep the country divided, he said. "But now Gaddafi is dead, all the tribes will be united."
(Additional reporting by Taha Zargoun in Sirte, Barry Malone and Jessica Donati in Tripoli, Rania El Gamal and Tim Gaynor in Misrata, Christian Lowe and Andrew Hammond in Tunis, Samia Nakhoul in Amman, Tom Pfeiffer at Dead Sea, Jordan; Writing by Jon Hemming; Editing by Andrew Roche)
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If German Satellite Falls on Your House, Who Pays for Repairs? (SPACE.com)
The defunct 2.7-ton German ROSAT satellite is slated to make a fiery, uncontrolled re-entry to our atmosphere sometime Saturday or Sunday (Oct. 22 or 23). Experts say the broken-up bits of ROSAT have a roughly 1-in-2,000 chance of hitting someone somewhere on Earth, though they won't know where until a few hours before it enters the atmosphere.
Let us be clear: There's an extremely remote chance that ROSAT will fall on you. But, for good measure, if ROSAT, or some other spacecraft, did fall on your property, could you keep it? And, if the bus-size satellite flattened your house, who would be on the hook for the repair bill?
ROSAT is an X-ray space observatory that launched in 1990 and was shut down in February 1999 after a star tracker failed. The spacecraft weighs about 5,348 pounds (2,426 kilograms).
First off, ROSAT was a joint venture between Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, and remains the property of those countries even after it comes back to Earth. To keep a piece, or to try to sell it, would be illegal ? unless the angencies relinquish ownership of the debris.
There isn't a ton of precedent here, but when people tried to sell pieces of the Space Shuttle Columbia, for example, the government shut them down, pulled their auctions from eBay and reclaimed the debris. But that was a special case because the Columbia accident was under investigation at the time. When parts of the space station Skylab landed in Australia in 1979, NASA did not reclaim them. In the present case, the trio of countries may or may not ask for ROSAT debris back. [Photos: Germany's ROSAT Satellite Falling to Earth]
The good news is that if the satellite, or even just sizable chunks of it, did in fact slam into your house, you wouldn't need to sell your new space souvenir to pay for repairs. By international law, the three countries would have to foot the bill.
Liability for damage caused by objects falling from space is regulated by the 1972 Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects. All three countries involved with ROSAT have signed the pact, and in doing so agreed to be "absolutely liable to pay compensation for damage caused by its space object on the surface of the Earth or to aircraft in flight." That goes if ROSAT crashes down in Kansas, France or Zimbabwe.
The terms cover just about everything. In this case, "damage" is defined as loss of life, personal injury or other impairment of health; or loss of or damage to property of states or of persons, natural or juridical, or property of international intergovernmental organizations.
And the payout is fairly good. Again, quoting the treaty: "The compensation which the launching State shall be liable to pay for damage under this Convention shall be determined in accordance with international law and the principles of justice and equity, in order to provide such reparation in respect of the damage as will restore the person, natural or juridical, State or international organization on whose behalf the claim is presented to the condition which would have existed if the damage had not occurred."
One slight hitch in the treaty is that you have to present your claim no later than one year following the incident (or discovery of the damage). If you've got a truck-size satellite sitting in your living room, however, we suspect that satisfying this condition would not be an issue.
This story was provided by Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to SPACE.com. Follow Bjorn Carey on Twitter @thebjorncarey. Follow Life's Little Mysteries on Twitter @llmysteries, then join us on Facebook.
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
AP source: Man City drops accusation against Tevez
By ROB HARRIS
updated 12:12 p.m. ET Oct. 21, 2011
LONDON - A person familiar with the situation says Manchester City has accepted Carlos Tevez's insistence that he did not refuse to enter as a substitute during a Champions League game.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because the team investigation is continuing. Tevez is attending a disciplinary hearing Friday, cited for a lesser infraction of refusing to resume warming up.
City manager Roberto Mancini said Tevez refused to come off the bench during last month's 2-0 loss at Bayern Munich.
The striker was suspended for two weeks during a City investigation. He blamed a misunderstanding, deeming it unnecessary to warm up after saying he had already done so.
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