Chinese Hollywood actress Zhang Ziyi

Picture The Chinese Hollywood actress Zhang Ziyi (章子怡) and her financee Vivi Nevo were photographed lying on the beach of Saint Barthelemy with Ziyi topless and Vivi performing various 'passionate' act towards her.
Zhang Ziyi (Chinese: 章子怡, pinyin: Zhāng Zǐyí, born February 9, 1979, in Beijing) is one of the best-known Chinese film actresses, with a string of Chinese and international hits to her name. At the age of 19, Zhang was offered her first role in Zhang Yimou's The Road Home, which won the Silver Bear award in the 2000 Berlin Film Festival.


Zhang further rose to fame due to her role as the headstrong Jen (Chinese version: Xia Long) in the phenomenally successful Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which she won the Independent Spirit's Best Supporting Actress Award and the Toronto Film Critics' Best Supporting Actress Award. Zhang's first appearance in an American movie was in Rush Hour 2, but because she didn't speak English at the time, Jackie Chan had to interpret everything the director said to her. In the movie, her character's name, "Hu Li," is translated from Mandarin Chinese to "Fox".
Picture The Chinese Hollywood actress Zhang Ziyi (章子怡)
Zhang then appeared in Hero, with her early mentor Yimou, which was a huge success in the English-speaking world and an Oscar and a Golden Globe contender. Her next film was the avant-garde drama Purple Butterfly by Lou Ye, which competed at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. Zhang went back to the martial arts genre with House of Flying Daggers (十面埋伏), which earned her a Best Actress nomination from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

ZhangZiYi kissed ex-boyfriend in HongKong video
Rumors arose regarding a possible affair between the actress and the older director, Zhang Yimou soon after Zhang's debut in Zhang Yimou's The Road Home. Zhang Yimou was previously involved in an extramarital affair with actress Gong Li,
Picture right Gong Li
whom he similarly debuted and with whom Zhang Ziyi was quickly compared. However, a relationship between the two remains unconfirmed. Zhang for a while was publicly linked with Fok Kai-shan, grandson of Hong Kong business tycoon Henry Fok.

n January 2007, Zhang was spotted holding hands and kissing her new partner at a New York basketball game. The man was identified as Israeli multi-millionaire and venture capitalist, Vivi Nevo. His venture capital firm, NV Investments, is believed to invest in technology companies worldwide, and is said to have been an early backer of The Weinstein Company, and the largest individual shareholder in Time Warner. Nevo was born in Romania and then moved to Tel Aviv, Israel as a baby, with his father a chemical engineer and his mother an anesthesiologist. It is believed he built his fortune up from his initial $10 million inheritance. The two were again seen together at an Oscar party in Los Angeles. Nevo, who has previously been tied to model Kate Moss, is a major shareholder in Time Warner and an early backer of The Weinstein Company with whom Zhang is purported to have a multi-film deal. Zhang Ziyi and Nevo are currently engaged, and are planning on getting married in March, 2009, according to Nevo.

Yumiko Cheng live on stage accident

On 23 June 2007, she flashed her nipples without knowing, despite the reported use of two-sided tape to affix the tube-top, during the New Talent Singing Awards Toronto Audition show at Canada's Wonderland. Yumiko is a popular Hong Kong Cantopop singer born in Shanghai. Her full name is Yumiko Cheng Hei Yee. She was born on 6 September, 1981. Her birth name was Zheng Lie Qiong 鄭烈瓊 . She was given the Japanese name "Yumiko" by her record company EFG. Just like Skater Ekaterina Rubleva , Yumiko accidentally exposed herself on the stage while performing in Canada.

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Father at the age of 111

A captive reptile , named Henry, in New Zealand has unexpectedly become a father at the ripe old age of 111 on Monday 26 Jan 2009. He was caught canoodling with a female named Mildred last March after a cancerous tumor was removed from his genitals in 2002 that made him hostile toward prospective mates. This consummation resulted in 11 babies being hatched on Monday at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery .

The tuatara is a reptile endemic to New Zealand which, though it resembles most lizards, is actually part of a distinct lineage, order Sphenodontia. Tuatara are greenish brown, and measure up to 80 cm (32 in) from head to tail-tip with a spiny crest along the back, especially pronounced in males. The tuatara has been classified as an endangered species since 1895 (the second species, S. guntheri, was not recognised until 1989). Tuatara, like many of New Zealand's native animals, are threatened by habitat loss and the introduced Polynesian Rat (Rattus exulans). They were extinct on the mainland, with the remaining populations confined to 32 offshore islands, until the first mainland release into the heavily fenced and monitored Karori Wildlife Sanctuary in 2005. The name "tuatara" derives from the Māori language, and means "peaks on the back". A male Tuatara takes 70 years to fully mature but reaches sexual maturity about age 20. Adult tuatara are terrestrial and nocturnal reptiles, though they will often bask in the sun to warm their bodies. Hatchlings hide under logs and stones, and are diurnal, likely because adults are cannibalistic. Tuatara thrive in temperatures much lower than those tolerated by most reptiles, and hibernate during winter. They are further unusual in having a pronounced parietal eye, dubbed the "third eye", whose current function is a subject of ongoing research. VIA

Second Mexican city invites all to come kiss

Guanajuato Mayor Eduardo Romero declared his colonial city in central Mexico the "kissing capital" of the world on Thursday 22nd Jan 2009 in his effort to disprove claims that he had banned kissing through an anti-obscenity law. Two days later the Mexico City government is urging people to converge on the huge Zocalo city center and simultaneously kiss on Valentine's Day the goal is to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people kissing at one time currently held by Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina where the biggest mass kiss to date came on Sept. 1, 2007, when 6,980 couples smooched.

In the United States, Valentines day, the holiday
of arrows, hearts and roses is celebrated on the following dates among friends and romantic partners: 2007-Wednesday, February 14th
2008-Thursday, February 14th
2009-Saturday, February 14th
2010-Sunday, February 14th

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Chinese woman rediscovered her optimism online.

Beijing.
Her business failed.
Her friends divorced.
Her country suffered repeated misfortune.
Chen Xiao, 26, found she no longer knew what to do with herself.

Miss Chen, a fashion college graduate, was forced to close down her clothes shop as customers dried up before the Olympics and during the subsequent downturn. Late one night in early December 2008, she went to mop.com, a popular discussion forum, posted her identity card number online as proof of her sincerity, and asked for suggestions.

She then took up their suggestions for free, but then - at their suggestion - she began charging small sums to perform any tasks they might ask of her, so long as they were decent and uplifting.

In a month and a half she has accompanied a stranger to the birth of his baby, collected smiley faces on the Great Wall of China, had lunch with a beggar, and put scores of photographs of herself online holding up greetings directed at the lovers, parents and friends of her clients.

She has also earned £300(416.28 U.S. dollars) - a respectable income in today's China. She said people use her as a medium to spread their joy.

Her fees are low so that everybody can take part, charging the equivalent of 80 pence for eight minutes, £2(2.7752 U.S. dollars) an hour or £10(13.87600 U.S. dollars) a day. But she charges more for special dates, and her most lucrative assignment came on New Year's Day. VIA

Skater Ekaterina Rubleva flashes on the ice

Ekaterina Rubleva, a Russian figure skater who had a far more revealing performance than was expected of her at the European championships on Monday 19 Jan 2009.
As Shefer twirled her and lifted her hand, Ekaterina's backless pink dress slipped down - revealing more than it should.But the smiling duo continued their dance at the European championships in Helsinki, Finland and eventually took out 12th place.

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Frog legs delicacy leading to extinction

Adelaide University associate professor Corey Bradshaw says the harvesting of frogs for human consumption has drove some species to extinction.There between 200 million and 1 billion frogs are traded globally every year. The domestic markets within places like Indonesia are probably two to seven times the recorded commercial trade. Though USA is not really known for their appreciation of frog meat they are probably the next biggest importer. In France a few specialty restaurants may serve frog legs to a select clientele. Frogs' legs are one of the better-known delicacies of French and Chinese cuisine. They are also eaten in other regions, such as the Caribbean, the region of Alentejo, in Portugal, northwest Greece, Spain and the Midwest southern regions of the United States. A type of frog called the edible frog is most often used for this dish. They are often said to taste like chicken because of their mild flavor, with a texture most similar to chicken wings. In East Asia, with Hong Kong the major importer of chinese delicacy, shark's fin, sea cucumber and abalone, Asian freshwater turtles, seahorses, saiga antelope, pangolins, geckos, tigers, amongst others, are often consumed for Chinese New Year. All of these species are subject to overexploitation and uncontrolled trade.They are deemed as health tonics containing endangered species. An estimated 24 million seahorses are taken from the wild every year, for use in traditional Chinese medicine, or sold live for the aquarium trade.
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Rihanna faces concert ban in Malaysia

Rihanna (real name Robyn Rihanna Fenty), 20-year-old American, deemed too sexy was called by Malaysia conservative Islamic party to ban her February 13 performance for her provocative stagewear.The Pan-Malaysian Islamic party (PAS) has also led protests against the US over its support for Israel. One of the party's youth leaders warned potential concertgoers that buying tickets would help boost America's war chest. Last year, US singer Beyonce scrapped a planned concert in Malaysia due to protest fears. In 2006 the Pussycat Dolls were slapped with a £2,000 fine for falling foul of the country's decency laws.

Stabbed man continued drinking...

United States
Stabbed man at the York Hotel, a downtown hotel located at 10401 96 St. just after 9 p.m. Saturday, 17 Jan 2009, return to the bar to finish his beer rather than seeking medical attention. He has a minor poke to his chest, but was unco-operative with the police.
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Firm hires a witch to hunt debt dodgers

The Vilnius-based firm has hired Vilija Lobaciuviene, 53, the Baltic nation’s most famous self-styled witch, to hunt down companies and individuals who are failing to pay their debts amid the credit crunch. Lobaciuviene, who describes herself as “Lithuania’s leading witch,” is renowned in the former Soviet republic of 3.4 million people for providing such “magical” services as predicting the future and casting spells. She claims to use hypnosis, herbal medicines and “the bio-energy field” when helping her “patients.” VIA

Good lazy job vacancy

Hamilton Island. Queensland, Australia

Position: Island caretaker. Duties: Lazing around Australia's Great Barrier Reef for six months. Salary: 150,000 Australian dollars($123,000).

It sounds too good to be true, but it's for real.

Billing it the "Best Job in the World," Australian tourism officials say they are seeking one lucky person to spend six months relaxing on Hamilton Island, part of a $1.1-million campaign to publicize the charms of northeastern Queensland state, to boost the country's Whitsunday Islands, while promoting the destination on a blog.

The job is still genuine at the time of posting this article here. Applications are open until Feb. 22 2009. The job begins July 1. Applicants must submit a 60-second video application, and 11 finalists will be flown from their home countries to Hamilton Island in May for the final selection process.

More than a million unique visitors logging onto the website that advertises the gig since it was posted Monday 12 January 2009. One Queensland woman's video shows her walking into a tattoo parlour and walking out with an apparent tattoo on her arm that reads, "I (heart) islands of the Great Barrier Reef." A woman in Greece promises - via a scroll of words across the screen - to wash all of Australia's laundry and even clean up up after the kangaroos. Another video shows a woman standing on a street belting out an original song. Some applicants simply stare at the camera and beg.

In exchange for the plush salary, free accommodation in an oceanfront villa and airfare from the winner's home country, the employee will be required to stroll the island's white sand beaches, snorkel, maybe take a dip in the pool - and post photos and videos of his or her experiences on a weekly blog. VIA

Daughter for beer in US

Marcelino de Jesus Martinez sold his 14-year-old daughter in California to marry a neighbour in exchange for beer, meat and $16,000. Police arrested the intended groom, 18-year-old Margarito de Jesus Galindo, for alleged statutory rape. Marcelino de Jesus Martinez faces charges of human trafficking, statutory rape and child cruelty. This all came into light when Marcelino de Jesus Martinez a member of the indigenous Mexican Trique community went to the police asking for help after his neighbour failed to pay up. Police believe the girl went willingly with Mr Galindo, but under California law she is under the legal age of consent and cannot marry. Greenfield police chief Joe Grebmeier said state law trumps cultural sensitivity.

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America raising A Trillion Dollars for Recovery Operations Without Raising Taxes

Joe Rothstein (joe@ipdgroup.com.) said it is possible for the new president to raise for the needs of at least a trillion dollars to clean up the wreckage left by the old president. And Obama needs to get that money without raising taxes which is not a problem.

1)Getting back money the wealthy have been hiding from the tax collectors.
In the January 9 New York Times the Swiss bank UBS is closing the hidden offshore accounts of its well-heeled American clients, potentially allowing their secrets to spill into the open, under pressure from federal authorities. UBS will shut about 19,000 accounts that prosecutors suspect have gone undeclared to the Internal Revenue Service. It all stems from a Florida judge's order dating back to the summer of 2008 and the confession of a former UBS banker that he helped clients defraud the government of tax money. He did this on behalf of Igor Olenicoff, who Forbes magazine once ranked as the 286th richest person in the U.S. Olenicoff has since paid over $50 million in back taxes. A Senate committee reported last year that the U.S. treasury loses $100 billion a year to secretive offshore tax havens. And that's just one slice of the money stashed away around the world from tax evasion and illegal activities. Conservative estimates put the number of shell companies who bank in these no-tax places at over 300,000. Given the general world economic meltdown, governments are much more willing to cooperate on ways to dislodge sheltered money. A few years ago the Organization for Economic Cooperation estimated that $3 trillion was hidden from the group's 21 member countries. At the time of the report that amounted to nearly 10% of the world's GDP.

2) Amend legal tax preferences the U.S. generously provides to companies that move their operations and jobs overseas.
A blatant loophole that lets U.S. companies defer taxes on their profits until they transfer them back to the U.S. The U.S. lose the jobs and economic activity that go with those companies and also lose the taxes on the outsized profits those companies make by moving into cheaper labor markets. Most estimates peg this lost revenue at about $100 billion.

3) The health sector is another big target for money.
Obama estimates that there's a $200 billion savings to get back subsidies that the U.S. gives to health insurance companies to help them compete with Medicare. Another $25 billion or so can be saved by letting Medicare negotiate with the drug companies for lower prescription drug prices. In one of the more bizarre things the Republicans did while they held the majority in Congress, they banned Medicare from negotiating for lower prices. Making medical records computer based will bring savings that are estimated to be enormous, $200 to $300 billion a year which Obama pledged to make it happens within five years.

4) Big oil and the combination of tax breaks and other unneeded incentives taxpayers give to an industry that consistently makes enormous profits need to be looked into.


5)Tax breaks for everyone making more than $250,000 a year.
Obama has promised to repeal this.
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Asimo Humaniod Robot

ASIMO (アシモ, ashimo?) is a humanoid robot created by Honda Motor Company. Standing at 120 centimeters (3 feet 11 inches) and weighing 52 kilograms (114 pounds), the robot resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack and can walk or run on two feet at speeds up to 6 km/h (4.3 mph). ASIMO was created at Honda's Research & Development Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center in Japan. It is the current model in a line of eleven that began in 1986 with E0.

Officially, the name is an acronym for "Advanced Step in Innovative MObility". Honda's official statements claim that the robot's name is not a reference to science fiction writer and inventor of the Three Laws of Robotics, Isaac Asimov.

As of 2007, there are 46 ASIMO units in existence. Each one costs less than $1 million (¥106,710,325 or €638,186 or £504,720) to manufacture, and some units are available to be hired out for $166,000 (¥17,714,316 or €105,920 or £83,789) per year.

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Time in Prison & Office

Genuine photographs of a new Prison in the UK

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