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#1511 Re: The Garden » The NFL Yahoo Pick Em League Thread » 918 weeks ago
FUCK !!!!
I completely forgot I had to make my pics by thursday.
#1512 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Hogans are splitting up » 918 weeks ago
Hulk Hogan Contests Wife's Alimony, Custody Requests
By CARLOS MONCADA, The Tampa Tribune
Published: November 29, 2007
Special Report And Previous Coverage
CLEARWATER - Hulk Hogan says in a court filing that his wife, seeking half of the famed wrestler's estate and alimony in a divorce action, can support herself and can help support their minor son.
Hogan's petition, filed Wednesday under his real name of Terry Bollea, also says their son Nick, who is 17 and no longer a student, is old enough to decide which parent he wants to live with.
Nick Bollea is facing charges of reckless driving involving serious bodily injury in connection with an Aug. 26 crash in downtown Clearwater that left his friend, Iraq War veteran John Graziano, grievously injured.
Graziano, 22, is incapacitated and is expected to spend the rest of his life in a nursing home. His parents, who are estranged and represented by separate lawyers, have indicated they intend to sue the Bollea family.
As part of the criminal case, Graziano's mother said in a deposition filed Wednesday that Nick Bollea told her he crashed his 1998 Toyota Supra after hitting a puddle he couldn't avoid.
"He said they were driving, and he saw a puddle, and he tried to avoid it, but there was a car next to him that he couldn't get around," Deborah Graziano told prosecutors. "So, they hit the puddle and hydroplaned."
She also said Hogan told her he was "very upset" that Nick Bollea took the yellow Supra and that if he had not been in the shower he would not have let his son take the car.
"He said '¦ he always takes too long in the shower, and the kids were tired of waiting for him," she said. "And if he didn't take so long maybe they would have waited for him and then they wouldn't have taken that car and gone."
Hogan's petition asks that parental responsibility be shared but that Nick Bollea "is fully capable of deciding with whom he will reside."
Linda Bollea wants wherever she decides to live to be Nick Bollea's primary residence, with Hogan allowed liberal visitation, her petition states.
Hogan wants the couple's assets and liabilities equitably distributed. He intends to continue covering the family with health insurance, the petition states. The couple also has a 19-year-old daughter, Brooke.
Linda Bollea's attorney, Elliot Jay Goldstein, said Thursday he already filed a response to Hogan's petition by mail. He would not discuss what it said.
Hogan's attorney, Ann Loughridge Kerr, could not be reached.
Reporter Carlos Moncada can be reached at (727) 451-2333 or cmoncada@ tampatrib.com.
#1513 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 918 weeks ago
Grand Theft Auto Box Art:
Another trailer will be released December 6th.
#1514 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2007-08 Season thread » 918 weeks ago
Celizic: Restricting big game shows NFL's greed
Showdown is must-see, if you're among fortunate few to have NFL Network
OPINION
By Mike Celizic
updated 9:01 p.m. ET, Tues., Nov. 27, 2007
Packers-Cowboys isn't as big as Patriots-Colts, but only in the sense that the PGA Championship isn't the Masters. In other words, it's still a highlight of the season, one of the few games that you'd do just about anything to see.
If your spouse wants to go shopping, you hand her your Visa Plutonium card and tell her to have fun without you. If your kid has a recital at school, you ask if somebody can possibly videotape it so you can watch it later. If you work that night, you call in sick.
It's the kind of game that will be sure to drive office conversation for weeks after, a game that will determine which of two old and honored franchises has the edge on getting to the Super Bowl, a game that pits the hottest young quarterback in the game against a grizzled legend.
It's a game that would set a record for Thursday night football viewership '” if only we were allowed to watch it.
And there's the catch '” a fly the size of Moby Dick in an eight-ounce jar of ointment. The NFL in its infinite greed decided that the game is too big for anything as common as network television '” or even any of the 37 ESPN channels. Instead, it's reserved this game for the sole enjoyment of those lucky enough to have a television service provider that offers the NFL Network.
This is about money and nothing else. The NFL brags that it's the only professional sports league that has always given away all of its games '” there are no regional sports networks owned by teams that you have to be to see every game. And now it just wants to have a few games to sell on its own network, because, as we all know, the game doesn't get enough money out of us as it is.
Paying for tickets and parking and game jerseys and throwback jerseys and all the licensed products we simply must have isn't enough. Digging into our pockets to pay for their new stadiums isn't enough. Paying $20 for two drinks and a hot dog isn't enough, either. Now we've got to pay to watch the games on television.
Of course, the NFL doesn't want us to pay to see Packers-Cowboys and, on the last Saturday of the season, Giants-Patriots. It wants the cable companies to pay for the service and then pass the costs on to us whichever way they wish. That way it's not our fault if we don't get the games. It's the cable companies.
Football fans have their jocks in a knot over this. It's not as if those of us without the necessary cable hook-up have a choice in this. Where I live, I have two choices, keeping the all-in-one telephone/TV/high-speed Internet service I have or ditching it all and paying for a satellite service that offers NFLN and then phone service from someone else and Internet service from yet another provider.
And that's what the NFL wants them to do. The league has even set up a Web site, iwantnflnetwork.com, where it urges outraged NFL fans to blame their cable companies for not allowing them to see the game.
It's a shameless ploy meant to deflect your wrath from its rightful target '” the NFL itself. The league wants you to believe that cable companies are somehow cosmically obliged to carry their channel as part of its basic service, because if they don't, every atom in the universe will explode at three times the speed of light, and we'll never find out who won Dancing with the Stars.
Believe me, I'm willing to blame the cable companies for every evil on the planet, including golfers who take 15 minutes to line up their fourth putt. For most of my adult life, they've had me by my delicate bits and the more cash I throw at them, the tighter their grip gets.
But this one isn't their fault. The NFL wants them to pay for NFLN and give it away free. And they're under no obligation to do that.
So we have the cable industry with their great gobs of money lined up against the NFL with its great gobs, and they're staring each other down to see who blinks first. Neither one of them gives a flying fiddlehead about the fans who just want to see the game. They both know we'll still be there when they get done staring each other down and come to an agreement about how best to shake more money out of the public.
And nothing achieves that mutual goal better than having a game like Packers-Cowboys on a network that millions of fans can't get. The resulting uproar '” I'm still waiting for the Congressional hearings on this one '” forces the issue and makes the paying public all that much more eager to get the channel '” regardless of the cost. It's the fox and the grapes all over again '” we want all the more that which we can't have.
It's shameless, bordering on extortion. And it's all the NFL's fault.
And we'd forgive the greedy so-and-so's tomorrow if only they'd give us the darned game.
© 2007 MSNBC Interactive
#1515 Re: The Garden » Part man, Part Tree? » 918 weeks ago
ree man 'who grew roots' may be cured
By Matthew Moore
Last Updated: 2:55am GMT 27/11/2007
An Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body has been given hope of recovery by an American doctor - and Vitamin A.
Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty "roots" began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident.
he welts spread across his body unchecked and soon he was left unable to carry out everyday household tasks.
Sacked from his job and deserted by his wife, Dede has been raising his two children - now in their late teens - in poverty, resigned to the fact that local doctors had no cure for his condition.
To make ends meet he even joined a local "freak show", parading in front of a paying audience alongside victims of other peculiar diseases.
Although supported by his extended family, he was often a target of abuse and ridicule in his rural fishing village.
But now an American dermatology expert who flew out to Dede's home village south of the capital Jakarta claims to have identified his condition, and proposed a treatment that could transform his life.
After testing samples of the lesions and Dede's blood, Dr Anthony Gaspari of the University of Maryland concluded that his affliction is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a fairly common infection that usually causes small warts to develop on sufferers.
Dede's problem is that he has a rare genetic fault that impedes his immune system, meaning his body is unable to contain the warts.
The virus was therefore able to "hijack the cellular machinery of his skin cells", ordering them to produce massive amounts of the substance that caused the tree-like growths known as "cutaneous horns" on his hands and feet.
Dede's counts of a key type of white blood cell are so low that Dr Gaspari initially suspected he may have the Aids virus.
But tests showed he did not, and it became clear that Dede's immune condition was something far rarer and more mysterious.
Warts aside, he had enjoyed remarkable good health throughout his life - which would not be expected of someone with a suppressed immune system - and neither his parents nor his siblings have shown signs of developing lesions.
"The likelihood of having his deficiency is less than one in a million," Dr Gaspari told the Telegraph.
Dr Gaspari, who became involved in the case through a Discovery Channel documentary, believes that Dede's condition can be largely cleared up by a daily doses of a synthetic form of Vitamin A, which has been shown to arrest the growth of warts in severe cases of HPV.
"He won't have a perfectly normal body but the warts should reduce in size to the point where he could use his hands," Dr Gaspari said.
"Over the course of three to six months the warts should be come smaller and fewer in number. He will be living a more normal life."
The most resilient warts could then be frozen off and the growths on his hands and feet surgically removed.
Dr Gaspari hopes to get the necessary drugs free of charge from pharmaceutical firms. They would then be administered by Indonesian doctors under his supervision.
Still intrigued by the origins of Dede's peculiar immune condition, the doctor would like to fly him to the United States for further examination, but fears the financial and bureaucratic barriers would prove too difficult to overcome.
"I would like to bring him to the US to run tests on where his immune condition has come from, but I would need funding and to get him a visa as well as someone to cover the costs of the tests," he said.
"I've never seen anything like this in my entire career."
# "Half Man Half Tree", part of the "My Shocking Story" series, will be shown on the Discovery Channel at 9pm on Nov 15. For more details visit the programme's website.
Information appearing on telegraph.co.uk is the copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited and must not be reproduced in any medium without licence. For the full copyright statement see Copyright
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh … ree112.xml
Row over 'tree man' virus samples
By Felix Lowe and agencies
Last Updated: 2:10am GMT 28/11/2007
An Indonesian fisherman who developed tree-like growths on his hands and feet is at the centre of an international medical spat after his country's health minister criticised doctors trying to treat him.
Indonesia's health minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, lambasted the US doctor currently treating the 35-year-old man, who has the rare affliction caused by the Human Papilloma Virus.
Mrs Supari is angry that Dr Anthony Gaspari has taken blood and tissue samples out of the country to the United States in a bid to diagnose the illness. She claims such samples could be used in the future to make vaccines that the poor could not afford.
Developing nations such as Indonesia risk exploitation unless they maintain control over their virus strains, Mrs Supari said.
But her comments have now offended Dr Gaspari, an American dermatologist at the University of Maryland, who maintains that, while he took the samples without permission, his sole motivation was getting treatment for the man.
Known simply as Dede, the man, who lives in a village south of the capital Jakarta, has massive root-like warts growing from his arms and legs which have gone untreated for years.
"We did take samples, and the reason we did was to render a diagnosis. We did it for humanitarian reasons, to help the patient," Dr Gaspari said, stressing his willingness to put in writing that the samples were not for commercial use.
Mrs Supari, who has famously refused to share bird flu samples with international scientists, made her comments on Sunday after returning from a World Health Organisation (WHO) conference in Geneva.
"We are offended because the samples were taken from Dede without our permission," she told reporters at the hospital where the man was being treated. "If they are taken abroad, they could become lucrative commodities."
The intergovernmental conference was aimed at rebuilding a global system for sharing viruses. Indonesia is the nation the worst hit by bird flu, with a total of 91 human deaths recorded.
Mrs Supari has, however, steadfastly refused to share samples of the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease until she receives assurances they will not be used to make expensive pandemic vaccines.
For its part, WHO wants to make sure the virus has not mutated to a form that spreads more easily between people.
#1516 The Garden » Part man, Part Tree? » 918 weeks ago
- Tommie
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The man who looks like a tree
He is known simply as Tree Man.
Since he cut his knee as a teenager, strange roots have been growing out of Dede, a 35-year-old Indonesian fisherman.
Now he is hoping his life can be saved from his bizarre affliction.
Now, to be honest, we at Metro Online are not sure if we believe this, but you decide for yourselves.
The strange growths mean he cannot use his hands. He was sacked from his job and his wife left him.
To help raise his two children, at one point he joined a freak show with other victims of peculiar diseases.
An American dermatology expert believes he may be able to cure the warts on Dede's body.
Dr Anthony Gaspari of the University of Maryland says that a rare genetic fault will not allow Dede's immune system to stop the spread of the growths.
However, he believes a synthetic form of Vitamin A could stop the development of the warts.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.ht … e_id=76668
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I'd bet my paycheck this is fake... but its still creepy.
EDIT: Okay I'm not sure what to make of this story... after doing a little digging, it looks like this may actually be legit.
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#1517 Re: Guns N' Roses » Check out this new rumor » 918 weeks ago
As much as I would like to see the troops rallied and us calling / harrassing the record company. I think the story is bs. But who's to say we shouldnt start harassing the record company anyway? 
#1518 Re: The Garden » jarmos myspace page » 918 weeks ago
I'll be the first to admit I dont like the direction Jarmo's site has taken recently. BUT as has already been said, its just the internet. I noticed how the site was changing and I left. Its as simple as that. Theres no need to worry or bitch and moan about hell like some people do. Its like the old analogy people used for Howard Stern. If you dont like what your hearing, change the fucking channel (sorry been on a Stern hitch lately). Its the same basic principle, if you dont like what your reading, dont go to the site.
As much as I dislike the way that site is run, I give jarmo his due. B/c he's been around for HOW long now? And for most of that time, he had the premier GnR site on the internet.
#1519 The Garden » Howard Stern's "The Backside Boys" » 918 weeks ago
- Tommie
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If anyone listened to Stern back in the mid to late 90's you'll remember him doing parodies of the BackStreet Boys. Well I just recently found the videos for the songs. I thought you guys might enjoy them. The lyrics still crack me up to this day.
The Gay Way:
#1520 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2007-08 Season thread » 918 weeks ago
I'll take my Eagles loss over that Steelers win any day of the week.
(unless playoffs are involved)
