181st day of 2009 - 184 remaining
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
1974: Steven Spielberg filmed the famous July 4th scene for his movie, Jaws. A crowd of 400 screaming extras in bathing suits ran from the water — again and again and again.
The world's ugliest dog
A boxer with a prominent under-bite, scrunched face and floppy ears has been named the world's ugliest dog.
Pabst, a boxer-mix, won the annual World's Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Northern California.
The dog, who was rescued from a shelter by Miles Egstad of Citrus Heights, California, beat former champion Rascal, a pedigree Chinese Crested.
Mr Egstad said Pabst was rescued from an animal shelter as a puppy and named after an American beer for his "bitter beer face".
He has a 2in underbite, a large scar from a burn on his stomach and nails which grow in odd directions.
Pabst received £1,000 in cash, a year-long modelling contract, a prize package of collars, leads, bowls and toys, and a professional photoshoot.
Miss Ellie, a blind 15-year-old Chinese Crested Hairless from Tennessee, won the pedigree category.
She is reported to be around 15 years old, has only a couple of back teeth, cataracts in both her eyes, several moles and pimples and limited hair.
Her owner Dawn Goehring said: "Her dream is to travel around to prove that ugly is just a word, and says nothing about how wonderful she is."
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Rocker Kid Rock is secretly dating "American Idol" star Kellie Pickler, according to tabloid reports.
The hitmaker showed up at the recent CMT Video Awards in Nashville,
Tenn., with ex-girlfriend Sheryl Crow, but he was really at the award
show to be close to his new love, according to the Globe.
A source tells the publication, "The romance between Kellie and Kid has been the worst-kept secret in Nashville."
Insiders claim Pickler was talking about Kid Rock when she recently told a radio interviewer, "I'm seeing someone. I got a man. He's a great, great guy. We've been seeing each other for over a year."
Rock, real name Robert Ritchie, has been linked to a string of
lovely ladies and was briefly married to Pamela Anderson in 2006.
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Former lovers Rihanna and Chris Brown reportedly are looking to have a court-ordered protection order banning the pair from contacting one another lifted because they want to work on their friendship.
A Los Angeles Supreme Court judge sentenced Brown to community service and probation on Monday after he pleaded guilty to assaulting the Rihanna following an altercation in February that left Rihanna battered and bruised.
Brown was also told he must stay at least 50 yards away from Rihanna and keep a distance of 10 yards from her if they attend the same event.
But the stars are reportedly eager to have the ban removed because they consider it "unnecessary" and have already broken the order by patching things up over the phone.
A source close to the pair tells the New York Daily News, "They think it's unnecessary and ridiculous.
"After (the court proceeding) Ri and Chris talked on the phone for almost an hour and really worked at becoming friends. They're solid now."
However, the insider insists the stars are not interested in reviving their romance: "That's 100 percent done. They aren't looking to hook back up again. They're both moving on and going their separate ways."
The former couple reunited briefly following their pre-Grammy fight, but split soon afterwards. Rihanna has since been romantically linked to rising rapper Drake.
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A top Louisiana scholar has launched an Internet campaign to promote Brad Pitt as the Mayor of his adopted New Orleans.
Tulane University professor Dr. Thomas Bayer feels sure the movie star would make a great elected city leader, and he has listed his "13 Reasons Brad Pitt Should Be Mayor" online. He's dedicated to Pitt's public office potential.
His reasons include, "If we elect Brad Pitt mayor, Angelina Jolie would be the First Lady of New Orleans," and, "Publicity and photo opportunities will chase our Mayor, instead of the Mayor chasing publicity and photo opportunities."
Professor Bayer also points out, "We will not have to rename a street to honor his name, as Pitt Street already exists."He hopes his efforts will prompt Pitt, who moved his family to New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, to add his name to the mayoral ballot for the April, 2010 election.
And Bayer isn't alone -- top city businessman Josh Harvey has had "Brad Pitt for Mayor" T-shirts printed.
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Screen legend Dame Elizabeth Taylor sparked a medical emergency of her own on Thursday when she collapsed in her Hollywood home after hearing about the tragic death of her longtime friend Michael Jackson.
A representative for Taylor, who coined the phrase King of Pop as she presented him with an award in 1989, claimed the Oscar-winner was "too devastated" to comment on the superstar's death in the hours following the shocking news.
But it's now emerged the actress, 77, is recovering from her own health scare, which prompted her personal physician to make a late visit to her home on Thursday.
According to In Touch magazine, Taylor was preparing to dash to UCLA Medical Center in California to be by Jackson's bedside when she was told of his untimely demise.
A source says, "Liz was getting dressed when the second call came that Michael had died, and she collapsed. Liz is in a state of shock.
"She and Michael had their ups and downs, but she never stopped loving him. Now, she's grief-stricken beyond words."
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Rapper/actress Queen Latifah has finally accepted her body after years of struggling with her weight, because she is proud to be a role model to young girls who are worried about their size.
The voluptuous star has long been plagued by fears about her bodyshape and recently signed up as a spokeswoman for a diet program that has seen her shed a few pounds.
Although she has retained her curves, Queen Latifah admits she is now happy with her "plus-size" figure and credits a chance conversation with a chauffeur for giving her some confidence back.
She says, "I was in Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. I was at the airport and the limo driver told me about his 12-year-old daughter, who wanted to be a singer and had a beautiful voice. However, her classmates were teasing her about her body and telling her she was never going to make it.
"She saw me perform on TV and I inspired her to sing again. She saw me and my appearance and my success and the great job I did. This was a 12-year-old kid whose dream had been halted by negative comments, but she saw me deliver a knock-out performance and it made her believe she could become successful too."
Latifah now hopes she can now inspire youngsters to learn to love
their looks. She adds, "I have heard a lot of stories like that and
they inspire me to keep going and keep being myself."
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Katy Perry has a secret bathtime treat -- she munches pizza as she relaxes in the tub.
The "I Kissed a Girl" hitmaker has been battling a bout of influenza while on tour in Europe and has felt too ill to eat.
But as she recovers, the star's appetite has returned -- and she gave fans a glimpse into her dietary habits with a photograph of herself reclining in a bath with a margherita pizza on a tray.
The naked snap was taken in her hotel room in Milan, Italy, and posted by the star on her Twitter.com page. (Click here for the possibly NSFW pic.)
She writes, "Why is it that after not eating for three days all I can think of is food ... food is smiling at me ... luring me with sexual seduction ... I have no self control."
Perry then went on to list her favorite snacks -- including endive
salad, spicy chicken sandwiches, and shrimp and yellowtail sashimi.
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Cameron Diaz has corrupted teen star Abigail Breslin -- the Hollywood actress taught the youngster to swear.
The 36-year-old teams up with Breslin, 13, in the new movie "My Sister's Keeper" and needed to encourage the youngster to say a string of naughty words for a scene in the movie.
Diaz found it difficult to coax the expletives out of the teenager, because Breslin strongly disapproves of foul language, and even threatened the older actress with a "swear tin."
Diaz says, "I taught her how to say the F-word in every way possible. It was for a specific scene, so I told her mom, 'We just got Abby to curse.' She said, 'It's about time!' (I am) very well versed in the word and being able to utilize it. We had fun with Abby, but she threatened to fine us for cursing. I never paid her though."
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Farrah Fawcett's troubled son Redmond O'Neal has been granted permission by prison officials to attend his later mother's funeral, according to reports.
The former "Charlie's Angel" actress died on Thursday after losing her three-year battle with cancer at the age of 62.
O'Neal, whose father is Fawcett's longtime partner Ryan O'Neal, is currently undergoing intensive drug treatment in a remote California prison following his April arrest on drug charges.
The 24-year-old was only allowed out of prison to visit his cancer-stricken mother twice since he was locked up in April.
But Commissioner Jane Godfrey has signed a removal order which allows O'Neal to attend his late mother's funeral, according to RadarOnline.
The Web site reports O'Neal will be allowed to wear a suit rather than his jail clothing to pay his last respects.
In a progress report hearing last month Godfrey declared O'Neal was "responding well" to drug treatment and he is due back in court next month.
A date for Fawcett's funeral has yet to be announced.
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'King of Pop' Michael Jackson Dies at Age 50 - washingtonpost.com:
"Michael Jackson's career in music started early with the Jackson 5. He and Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon scored four No. 1 hits including 'ABC' and 'I'll Be There.'"
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Sparta, Michigan police report a man has been charged after a neighbor said she found him wearing a purple bra and boxer shorts while rummaging through her car. The suspect was arrested. The victim said the bra he was wearing was not hers.
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Bozo criminals for today come from Boca Raton, Florida, where police were called to an apartment complex after residents reported a possible break-in. One of our bozos had been seen entering an apartment through a window while his accomplice used a cell phone to shine light inside. The cops quickly nabbed our "inside" bozo and as they were questioning him, he received a text message from our "outside" bozo, advising him that he was hiding from the cops near the swimming pool. They've both been charged with burglary and possession of marijuana.
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Owners 'imagine dogs' guilty looks'
Dog owners who believe their pets have a "guilty look" are imagining things, according to a new study.
Researchers at a New York college tricked owners into thinking innocent pets had misbehaved - and the owners still claimed to see the guilty look.
Alexandra Horowitz, assistant professor at Barnard College in New York, said that owners were projecting human values onto their pets, reports the BBC.
The research, Canine Behaviour and Cognition, looked at how dog owners interpreted their pets' expressions, when they believed that the dog had stolen and eaten a forbidden treat.
In a series of tests, owners were sometimes given accurate and sometimes false information about whether their dog had stolen the treat.
But the research, published in Behavioural Processes, found that owners' interpretations of whether their dog looked guilty bore no reliable link with whether the dog had really stolen the treat.
When the owners had been told their dog had misbehaved, they saw this guilty expression, even when the dog had not really done anything wrong.
If an owner thought the dog had misbehaved and then told the dog off, some dogs showed an "admonished" look, which humans then misunderstood as an admission of guilt.
The dogs which were most likely to "look guilty", according to their owners, were those who were entirely innocent and had then been told off by owners who believed that they had stolen treats.
Researchers concluded that any such "guilty look" is a response to human behaviour and has no relation with the dog's actions or sense of having broken any rules.
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Carrot bomb art sparks panic
Swedish art project caused a bomb scare when people mistook carrot 'explosives' for the real thing.
Artist Conny Blom taped bunches of carrots together with black tape and attached blue and red wires and a clock to them, reports the BBC.
His art stunt, which he entitled The Bunny Project: Bombs, was staged at 15 locations around the southern city of Orebro.
Police received worried calls from members of the public who thought they were real bombs. Mr Blom was forced to remove his art - and may face charges.
The carrot bombs had been placed around the city at the request of a local art gallery, as part of an open-air arts festival.
They had only been in place for an hour before police received their first call.
"We received a call from a person who said they saw two real bombs placed outside the public library," said Ronny Hoerman from the Orebro police force.
"It was hard to tell if they were real or not. We find this inappropriate."
Mr Blom insisted the project was harmless: "After all, it is just carrots with an alarm clock and nothing else... this is just a caricature of a bomb," he said.
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'Dead' woman wakes up in morgue
An 84-year-old Polish woman woke up in a hospital morgue after being declared dead by her doctor.
The error was noticed only when someone saw her body bag in the morgue moving, police said.
The woman, from the village of Jablonowo, fell unconscious and her husband called an ambulance.
A doctor from the emergency medical services pronounced her dead, a police spokesman said.
"A funeral company took the body to the morgue. Several hours later, a worker there noticed the bag containing the body was moving," he said. "He called a doctor who noted the woman's vital functions had returned."
The woman was taken to hospital in the nearby town of Zwolen and placed in intensive care. Police have launched an investigation.
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'Definately' mispelt
The most commonly misspelt word in English is 'definitely' with many of us incorrectly writing it as 'definately', says a study.
Other problem words include sacrilegious, indict and bureaucracy, reports the Daily Mirror.
More than 30% of those polled blamed text messaging for the mistakes while 42% think poor spellers are "thick".
OnePoll.com, which polled 5,000 people, said: "Technology is contributing to our inability to spell."
The top 10 misspelt words: 1 Definitely; 2 Sacrilegious; 3 Indict; 4 Manoeuvre; 5 Bureaucracy; 6 Broccoli; 7 Phlegm; 8 Prejudice; 9 Consensus; 10 Unnecessary.
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1978: The electronic game "Space Invaders" was first demonstrated by Taito Corporation in Tokyo.
2007: A two-headed snake named "We," the main attraction at the World Aquarium in St. Louis, died from natural causes. Though most two-headed snakes live only a week or two, We was 8 years old, and was so popular, the snake's remains were preserved and remain on display. We was both male and female, but had not been able to reproduce when paired with another two-headed snake.
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Top 50 Quotations for Father's Day
Celebrate
Your Dad...with these meaningful quotes, sayings and short poems...
• 'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness." -- Aeschylus
• "Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men,
but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are."
-- Louisa May Alcott
• "I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher
for living well."
-- Alexander the Great
• "Every
mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband
than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never
get as great a wife as his father did."
-- Anonymous
• "A father is always making his baby into a little woman.
And when she is a woman he turns her back again."
-- Enid Bagnold
•
"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated,
let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any
fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right."
-- Bill Cosby
•
"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to
the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he
needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom
privacy is to shave at the gas station."
-- Bill Cosby
•
"Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee
so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy
tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee."
-- Margaret Courtney
• "I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in
50 years what my father taught by example in one week."
-- Mario Cuomo
• "I watched
a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen
and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the
bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable
to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about
faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example."
-- Mario Cuomo
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"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be." -- Unknown |
• "A
king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate
his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the
paradox, they would understand the dilemma."
-- Marlene Dietrich
•
"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and
not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. "
-- Euripedes
• "Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that
thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth
thee."
-- Exodus 20:12
• "My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll
never have to work a day in your life.' "
-- Jim Fox
•
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's
always a Democrat."
-- Robert Frost
• "You don't
have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
He's more particular."
-- Robert Frost
• "A father is a banker provided by nature."
-- French Proverb
• "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the
need for a father's protection."
-- Sigmund Freud
• "Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to
be a dad."
-- Anne Geddes
•
"Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and
fathering is a very important stage in their development."
-- David M. Gottesman
•
"If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul
and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom
only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of
ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil,
it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in
a perpetual movement."
-- Antonio Gramsci
• "When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper
things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing
and blurted, 'She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.'"
-- Helen Hayes
• "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
-- George Herbert
•
"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach
the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world
has wasted a great deal of time."
-- Russell Hoban
• "For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse,
and a few are better than their fathers."
-- Homer
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"A
father is a banker... -- French Proverb |
• "My father
always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends,
you've had a great life."
-- Elbert Hubbard
• "My father
died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me,
I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but
it makes me feel better to half believe it."
--Natasha Josefowitz
•
"The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A
father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his
antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush,
but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy,
I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying
pan."
-- Garrison Keillor
• "My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let
me watch him do it."
-- Clarence Budington Kelland
• "My father told me that all businessmen were sons-of-bitches,
but I never believed him until now."
-- John F. Kennedy
• "My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient?
Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'""
-- Dexter Scott King
•
"His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his
father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that
sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it
was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself
whenever a black cat crossed his path."
-- Stephen King
• "When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy,
will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you,
let them come and get you.'""
-- Jerry Lewis
• "I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned
to know what his grandson will be."
-- Abraham Lincoln
• "Honor thy father and thy mother."
-- Matthew 19:19
•
"The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has
to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable
rescues. Scratch any father, you find Someone chock full of qualms
and romantic terrors, Believing change is a threat Like your first
shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle It took such months
to get."
-- Phyllis McGinley
• "My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love
it."
-- Abraham Lincoln
• "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father
and need for their mother."
-- Friedrich Nietzche
• "Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and
mother rather than all major credit cards."
-- Robert Orben
• "People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls;
poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up
to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad."
-- Carroll O'Connor
•
"A wise son maketh a glad father."
-- Proverbs 10:1
• "None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal."
-- Queen Victoria of England
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"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it." -- Abraham Lincoln |
"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."
-- Ruth E. Renkel
• "Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go
hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic
human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in
him and what's been given him. "
-- Laurence Rockefeller
• "That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the
provider for all, and the enemy of all."
-- J. August Strindberg
• "An angry father is most cruel towards himself."
-- Publilius Syrus
• "I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's passionately
interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town,
in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won
the election."
-- Margaret Thatcher
• "A man leaves his father and mother and is united to his
wife, and the two become one flesh."
-- The Holy Bible
• "It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave
him for your own career and your own home—it's only then that you
can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces
love."
-- Margaret Truman
• "A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount
of weeding done during the growing season".
-- Unknown
• "A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms
when his hands are empty."
-- Unknown
• "Small boy's definition of Father's Day: It's just like Mother's
Day only you don't spend so much."
-- Unknown
• "A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where
his money used to be."
-- Unknown
• "For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful
hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to
his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his
contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always
fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference."
-- Alan Valentine
• "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right,
he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
-- Charles Wadsworth
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Looking
for the Perfect Gift for Dad?
Think Backwards...
For
most of us, shopping for the perfect Father’s Day Gift can be
a difficult, if not impossible task. Father’s Day initiates the
annual conundrum of what to buy the man who already has everything
he needs.
As a gift professional, I can assure you the last thing Dad wants or needs is another tie to hang in the closet; and while the matching “World’s Greatest Dad” t-shirt and coffee mug was a thoughtful gift, it doesn’t stick out in his mind for the right reasons. Finding the perfect Father’s Day gift requires a little bit of effort and maybe a little bit of homework, but the smile on Dad’s face when he opens the perfect gift is truly priceless.
Looking for the Perfect Gift for Dad? Think Backwards.
The perfect gift requires “reverse engineering.” In the gift business this means starting with the recipients’ tastes, preferences and hobbies and working backwards towards the perfect gift. Instead of finding the perfect gift and then trying to match it to the recipient, we start with the recipient and work in reverse. Understanding this simple principal will instantaneously make you a better gift buyer for any occasion.
When a regular client calls in frantically and says, “I need a gift for my Dad,” my first question is always, “What can you tell me about him?” What kind of food does your father like? Is he big on barbeque? Does he love chocolate? Does he drink coffee? Does he love Italian food?
Does he play golf or fish? Is he a ‘Snack-a-holic?’ All these defining characteristics of Dad are paramount when selecting the perfect gift. The more questions you can answer the better off you’ll be in making your selection. When you get a gift that matches his preferences, your chances of him burying your gift in the closet are significantly reduced.
A Good Father’s Day Gift versus the Perfect Father’s Day Gift
The difference between a “good gift” and the “perfect gift” is determined by how accurately you can pinpoint Dad’s tastes, preferences and hobbies and then work backwards towards a gift that best fits him. There really is no such thing as a bad gift. I believe all gifts are good at heart; but there is a severe epidemic of giving Dad the wrong gift. And giving the wrong gift is exactly how a gift goes bad!
A good gift is something that Dad sincerely appreciates. The perfect gift will stand out in his mind for years!
Finding the perfect Father’s Day Gift might require you to talk to people around your Dad. Inquire about any new hobbies or interests he has been pursuing and be sure to ask about things he’s thought about, but hasn’t yet pursued. Whatever you decide to get Dad this year just follow our simple rules and your gift will be a guaranteed success:
The Best Father’s Day Gifts are Properly Wrapped
Whether it is a power tool, a watch or a piece of fine jewelry, the perfect gift must be properly gift-wrapped. In fact, I’ve seen a “good gift” transformed into a “perfect gift” with the proper presentation. (The bag you get from the cashier does not count as gift-wrapping!) Personalized gift baskets for Father’s Day are often a great choice because they are based on the recipient’s preferences, and are impeccably packaged.
When it Comes to Gift Giving, Stick to Quality over Quantity
The perfect gift doesn’t have to be expensive, but it must fall within his realm of interests and it should be of good quality. Successful gift givers always stick to the principal of “less is more.” Get him what he would want even it means giving him less of it! For example, a chocolate lover might politely accept a large box of chocolates from a grocery store, but one perfectly crafted with gourmet chocolate would have a greater effect at a potentially equal cost.
It’s The Thought That Counts
When you take the extra time to “reverse engineer” the perfect gift, it clearly demonstrates to Dad that you put time, effort and energy into your selection. It shows him that you really thought about him, which is ultimately the true essence of gift giving.
Eminem stormed out of the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night after outrageous funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen literally landed in his lap.
The rapper had just performed a medley of new hits and was sitting in the audience when the daring Brit -- as his Austrian fashion expert character Bruno -- flew overhead in a dove outfit, chanting, "Ich bin Bruno. Ich bin dove of peace."
Cohen's outrageous alter-ego "suffered" an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction -- baring his naked backside, he landed upside down on rapper Eminem's lap.
Eminem, "Are you serious? Are you [bleep] serious?" as his entourage rushed to free the rapper.
What appeared to be a joke quickly turned awkward when it seemed apparent that Eminem wasn't in on the gag.
As a suspended Cohen cracked jokes about the incident, stating, "Is the real Slim Shady about to stand up?" Eminem and his entourage left their seats and walked out of the Universal Ampitheater.
Before the awards started, Cohen was stunning red carpet reporters -- he turned up as Bruno, wearing a leopard skin Speedo-style swimming trunks and T-shirt ensemble, topped off with a matching Bavarian hunter's hat.
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Rihanna is reportedly fuming after intimate photos of her with ex-lover Chris Brown were leaked on the Internet.
A set of snapshots showing the former couple kissing and cuddling surfaced online over the weekend.
One of the photographs pictures the pair lying in bed, with Brown kissing his lover tenderly on the neck.
The shots are believed to have been taken before their alleged fight in February, which left Rihanna battered and bruised, and Brown facing assault charges.
The latest images come just two weeks after naked pictures of Rihanna, real name Robyn Fenty, were leaked on to the Internet -- one of which showed Rihanna in front of a mirror with the message: "I love you Robyn. I miss you" scribbled on the glass.
Gossips speculated that Brown was responsible for the photos appearing, but his representatives were quick to blast the reports.
The star subsequently released a video attempting to salvage his reputation, insisting he's "not a monster."
Brown will appear in a Los Angeles court later this month on
charges of assault and making criminal threats, stemming from his
alleged clash with Rihanna after a pre-Grammy Awards party in February.
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Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson is pregnant with her first child, according to a longtime friend.
The singer/actress has been laughing off baby rumors for weeks after Essence magazine alleged the 27-year-old and her fiance David Otunga were expecting.
But Hudson has shared the happy news with close friends, and even threw a baby shower at a relative's Chicago, Ill., home on Saturday to celebrate, according to the star's pal Felicia Fields.
She tells the Chicago Tribune newspaper, "It was a baby shower, a quiet gathering of friends and mostly family. They’re really trying to keep it kind of quiet. It was a nice time that we had."
But Hudson is determined to keep the sex of the baby a secret, with guests at the party lavishing her with neutral colored gifts. Fields adds, "They don't know (the gender)."
Hudson, who is reportedly seven months pregnant, suffered a family tragedy last October when her mother, brother and young nephew were killed in a triple murder. The singer's mother, Darnell Donerson, and brother, Jason, were found shot dead at their home in Chicago, Ill., and the body of her 7-year-old nephew, Julian King, was found in an abandoned car three days later.
The estranged husband of Hudson's sister Julia, William Balfour, has pleaded not guilty to charges of first degree murder and home invasion.
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Nicole Kidman has taken aim at an Australian news magazine for suggesting she and husband Keith Urban are planning to adopt a Vietnamese baby.
New Idea editors ran with the story after reportedly talking to an official at the Department of International Adoption at the Ministry of Justice in Hanoi.
Dang Minh Dao was quoted as saying, "Nicole Kidman wants a baby from Vietnam. We've been approached by the American Embassy."
But a rep for Kidman, who shares custody of two adopted teenagers with ex-husband Tom Cruise, insists the reports are not true.
The spokesman tells HollyScoop.com that neither Kidman nor her husband spoke to the magazine, and they have never discussed any plans to adopt with the publication.
The couple has a baby, named Sunday Rose, who will turn 1 in July.
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Johnny Depp has paid a personal tribute to the late Heath Ledger by naming a section of his private paradise island in the Bahamas after the tragic actor.
The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star owns Little Hall's Pond Cay in the Caribbean and frequently travels there with his girlfriend Vanessa Paradis and their two children, Lily-Rose, 10, and Jack, 7.
Depp reveals he has renamed a prime snorkeling spot Heath's Place, in memory of his friend, and admits the sunshine getaway provides the perfect place to unwind and escape from the pressures of Hollywood.
He tells Vanity Fair magazine, "I don't think I'd ever seen any place so pure and beautiful.
"(Pond Cay life) is my decompression. It's my way of trying to return to normalcy. Escapism is survival to me. You can feel your pulse rate drop about 20 beats. It's instant freedom. ... And a little morsel of anonymity.
"Whenever I was getting frustrated about being 'novelty boy' and making movies, I told myself, Calm down. I can come down here and disappear. I spent the Christmas season here with Vanessa and the kids. You can feed hot dogs to the nurse sharks in the Exumas (the outer islands of the Bahamas) -- but it's best to not swim when doing it."
Ledger died from an accidental prescription drug overdose in January 2008.
Depp is one of three actors who have stepped in to take over
Ledger's role in "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," his last
unfinished project, alongside Colin Farrell and Jude Law.
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Pete Wentz's New York bar has been temporarily closed amid allegations staff served alcohol to minors.
The Fall Out Boy star part-owns the Angels and Kings venue in Manhattan, along with members of Gym Class Heroes and Cobra Starship.
But the bar, which opened in 2007, has been shut down for three days amid claims alcoholic drinks had been served to underage customers.
Celebrity Web site Gawker.com is reporting Angels and Kings was closed by the New York Police Department. The site has also posted photographs of the venue's front door, which has been plastered with a police notice which states the bar has been "closed by court order" over the "illegal sale of alcoholic beverages to minors."
But the bar's Web site reports the venue is currently shut for "maintenance work.
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Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle was rushed to the hospital on Sunday after the high drama of her finale on U.K. reality show "Britain's Got Talent."
Aides for the show's runner-up called for an ambulance after Boyle suffered a reported "emotional breakdown" following her appearance on the TV show on Saturday.
Boyle, who was the pre-show favorite, was behaving strangely at the London hotel, which had been her base leading up to the big showdown, and medics were called, according to British newspaper The Sun.
A source tells the publication, "She'd been at the hotel for a few days, but since Saturday's final had been acting strangely, causing a bit of a stir. The staff were concerned, something wasn't right.
"When the paramedics and police arrived, she agreed to go voluntarily. She didn't make a fuss. The paramedics calmly took her out through the main lobby and into the waiting ambulance. It was all done very calmly. They didn't want to stress or upset her. She didn't look well -- she looked lost, not all there."
Boyle was taken to the Priory clinic in north London, where she is now recovering.
A spokesperson for "Britain's Got Talent" says, "Following Saturday's show, Susan is exhausted and emotionally drained. She has been seen by her private GP, who supports her decision to take a few days out for rest and recovery. We offer her our ongoing support and wish her a speedy recovery."
The Scot soared to international stardom after wowing judges and viewers with her amazing singing talents in her first audition on the program. She went on to become an Internet sensation, as more than 100 million fans watched her performance on YouTube.com.
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Madonna, David and designer Marc Jacobs at the second annual Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic.
Madonna threw her adopted son David a racing-themed party on Friday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of him officially becoming her boy.
The pop superstar's adoption of the Malawian 3-year-old was finalized in May 2008, and Madonna was eager not to let the anniversary pass without a bash.
She turned her Sunset Boulevard home in Los Angeles into a race track for the day and outfitter the driveway out with checkered flags and balloons.
Madonna also hired Hot Wheels goodies, so David, his brother Rocco and friends could enjoy a race day.
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Astronauts need to add space headache to their list of occupational hazards, say researchers.
After quizzing 17 seasoned astronauts they found more than two-thirds suffered from headaches on missions yet were headache free back on earth.
The disabling headaches appeared unique - described by the crew as "exploding" - and were generally unrelated to common space motion sickness.
The Dutch investigators work is published in the journal Cephalalgia.
They propose space headache should be classified as a separate entity in its own right.
"Our
study demonstrated that disabling headaches frequently occur during
space missions in astronauts who do not normally suffer from headaches
on earth"
Lead researcher Dr Alla Vein
In the past, experts have thought all headaches in space are a symptom of motion sickness, which is caused by disorientation due to the absence of gravity and plagued the Apollo program.
More than three-quarters of the 21 headaches documented by 12 of the astronauts in the latest study had none of the associated main symptoms of space motion sickness, such as nausea, vomiting or vertigo.
Nine of the headaches were triggered during launch, nine during the stay at the space station, one during activities outside the space station and two during landing.
Weightlessness
The researchers believe there are a number of reasons why space travel could cause headaches, the root cause being microgravity.
Microgravity is known to cause lower oxygen levels in the blood and this may be the trigger for space headache.
"It's nearly impossible to know what the true effects of space flight are on the body. So few have gone there"
Space medicine expert Dr Kevin Fong
It can also cause a shift in the body's fluid towards the brain which would raise intracranial pressure - another possible trigger.
Most of the headaches were of moderate intensity, but were bothersome to the astronauts and many needed to take headache pills.
Lead researcher Dr Alla Vein from Professor Michel Ferrari's Headache Research team at the Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, said: "Although headaches in space are not generally considered to be a major issue, our study demonstrated that disabling headaches frequently occur during space missions in astronauts who do not normally suffer from headaches on earth.
"Previous research has shown that astronauts can be reluctant to reveal all the physical complaints they experience in space, so the actual incidence could be even higher than our study suggests."
Dr Kevin Fong, a leading expert on space medicine at University College London, said: "It's nearly impossible to know what the true effects of space flight are on the body. So few have gone there and it is difficult to simulate the same back on earth.
"Astronauts do encounter genuine problems caused by space and it is important to understand more about these."
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Two dinosaur skulls have fetched top prices at an auction in New Nork.
A giant 65-million-year-old Triceratops skull sold at Bonhams' Natural History auction for $242,000 (£148,000).
A skull from a cousin of the T. rex, the Alioramus remotus, went for $206,000 (£126,000). Both sold for almost double the original estimates.
The auction house would not reveal the buyers, but said the bones could end up as home ornaments.
'Like a sculpture'
The Triceratops skull, which was more than 80% intact, measured some 5.5ft (1.7m) long and had eye sockets the size of dinner plates.
Much smaller than a typical Triceratops head, it is thought to have belonged to a young dinosaur who died of an infection, the New York Times newspaper reported.
"It actually looks lovely... it looks like a sculpture," Bonhams' spokeswoman Staci Smith told AFP news agency.
She said private collectors often snap up "dinosauria" - the collective term for dinosaur eggs, teeth and bone fragments - to decorate their homes, but conceded: "You'd have to have an extremely large living room."
The skulls had been estimated to go for between $120,000 to $140,000 each.
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Conan O'Brien debuted as host of "The Tonight Show" with a jog across
the country to Los Angeles and other comedy bits on his entry into a
strange new West Coast culture. He joined a line of predecessors -
Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and Jay Leno - on television's
most historic late-night franchise. He said in his opening monologue
last night: "I think I've timed this move perfectly. I'm on a
last-place network, I moved to a state that's bankrupt and 'The Tonight
Show' is sponsored by General Motors."
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thought to ponder:
Some people drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
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Mayor calls for Freddie Mercury comeback gig
The Mayor of Zagreb has called for Freddie Mercury to make a comeback gig in the Croatian capital.
Speaking on national television about his musical preferences, Milan Bandic said he wanted to attract rock legends to the city.
"I would like to see David Bowie play in Zagreb. And Freddie Mercury could come, too," he said.
Mayor Bandic reportedly seemed shocked to be told that the Queen frontman had died 18 years ago.
The mistake caused shock among many Croatians but Bandic himself shrugged off the gaffe.
His prospects in the second round of local elections to be held this Sunday seem to have been unharmed with political pundits expecting him to get a new mandate.
Zagreb resident Mirjana Popovic said:
"It might seem he is a little bit out of touch when he says things like
this but he is the right man for mayor."
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Man's hand pulled off in tug-of-war
A Chinese man lost his hand when it was ripped off at the wrist during a tug-of-war contest.
Mr Shi, 30, of Shenzen, joined the beach tug of war competition with more than 100 of his colleagues.
"I had done tug-of-war before. It was all fun and safe," he told the Guangzhou Daily newspaper.
Entrants were divided into teams of five with Shi taking up the back position on his team. To stabilise himself, he wrapped the rope around his wrist and threw the loose end over his shoulder.
His match was heading for a draw when members of the audience started helping both teams to try to end the stalemate - without noticing Shi's hand trapped in the rope.
"I called on people to stop, but my voice was too quiet to be noticed," he said.
The competition was eventually halted when people noticed Shi holding up his damaged limb.
He was rushed to the Guangzhou Harmony Hand Hospital where his severed hand was reattached in a five hour operation.
Hospital president Liang Ming said it would be another 10 days before it was known whether the operation had been a success.
"His hand was pulled off by strong opposition forces. We can only
amputate if it fails. Even if the operation was successful, he may
never do delicate work with his hand again," he said.
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Cricketer hits birdie
A Yorkshire cricket star hurled a ball towards his wicketkeeper - and killed an unlucky pigeon.
The unfortunate bird was flying over Yorkshire's Headingley ground in Leeds at the time, reports The Sun.
South African Jacques Rudolph, 28, fielded the ball just inside the boundary while playing in a Twenty20 game against Lancashire.
He hurled it to his wicket keeper - just as the bird swooped 40ft over the pitch - and, to his surprise, the ball hit the pigeon and sent it crashing to the ground.
The former South African international retrieved the lifeless bird and dropped it over the boundary rope.
Then he returned to his fielding position, grinning sheepishly at the crowd.
A TV commentator said: "The pigeon is no more. Jacques Rudolph is the man with blood on his hands."
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Penguin poo visible from space
Scientists have located emperor penguin breeding colonies in Antarctica - after spotting giant poo stains from space.
Satellite images picked up huge red-brown stains on the pristine white sea ice, indicating the presence of thousands of penguins.
It meant that researchers for the British Antarctic Survey were able to locate every colony on the continent for the first time ever, reports the Daily Telegraph.
The in-depth satellite survey identified 38 breeding colonies - believed to amount to between 200,000 and 400,000 breeding pairs of emperor penguins.
Until now it has been difficult to accurately estimate the population of emperor penguins because scientists have not been able to track them during the winter breeding season.
Peter Fretwell, co-author of the study and geographic information officer at British Antarctic Survey, said his chance discovery would revolutionise the way scientists monitored penguins.
He said: "No other birds breed on the sea ice and each colony can have tens of thousands of birds in it. Emperor penguins are quite big birds and it gets quite messy and very smelly.
"Sometimes I think remote sensing is the best way to monitor them as you really don't want to get too close."
Mr Fretwell had been mapping a British Antarctic Survey base near the Halley station on the Brunt ice shelf in October 2008 when he noticed a brown stain on the satellite images.
He said: "It was a bit of a eureka moment. I realised if I could see this colony with satellites I should be able to see more."
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hey there and welcome to june...oh yes oh yes...half the year is gone already and what have we done for ourselves lately ??
aneeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwaaaaaayyyyyyyyy....: after that thought on how we should learn to love ourselves..lets tell you whats happening in june....
Today is Women and Children Day in Mongolia and Children's Day in China.
June is Adopt a Shelter Cat Month...so be nice to them lil critters....hmmmm...navvy looks like a cat at work today...but no ! ...no nicey nicey for him !
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152nd day of 2009 - 213 remaining
Monday, June 1, 2009
1967 - The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. One of the first critically-acclaimed rock albums, Sgt. Pepper’s became the number one album in the world and was at the top of the U.S. album list for 15 weeks
1991 - Former Temptations lead singer David Ruffin died in Philadelphia of a cocaine overdose at age 50. He was the lead singer on such Temptations hits as My Girl (1965) and Ain’t Too Proud to Beg (1966). Ruffin had hits on his own with My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) (1969) and Walk Away from Love (1976).
1985: Weird Al Yankovic released "Dare to Be Stupid," an album featuring the title song, plus "Like a Surgeon," "I Want a New Duck," "George of the Jungle," and "Yoda."
THIS WEEK ON THE WAKE UP ...WE'RE INVITING 5...THATS FIVE DADS...TO OUR FAV REST....FOR A DADDY BREAKS LOOSE PARTY !
5 DADS AND THE PERSONS OF THEIR CHOICE....GET TO ENJOY THE FINE DINING EXPERIENCE AT
THE SHIP...OH YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS...ALWAYS A BIG WELCOME THERE...SO TAKE PART ...AND WIN !
WAKE UP AIRS 6 TO 10 AM
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