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c_adam- 11-13-2007

A RUSSIAN man convicted of killing an air traffic controller linked to a 2002 mid-air collision was given a hero's welcome as "a real human" by a pro-Kremlin group when he returned to Russia from a Swiss jail today. Vitaly Kaloyev, whose wife and children died in the crash, was set free yesterday evening and immediately flew to Moscow, following last week's ruling by a Swiss court to cut his sentence to five years and three months, of which he had already served two-thirds. Kaloyev stabbed to death Swiss air traffic controller Peter Nielsen, who was on duty the night of the collision between a cargo plane and a Russian charter transporting mostly Russian children on holiday that killed 71 people. "I want to express my great thanks to all the citizens of Russia, to the Russian president for the strong support they extended to me," Kaloyev told dozens of journalists on his arrival at Domodedovo Airport outside Moscow. "While in prison, I did not feel I was away from my motherland." He was met by relatives who had come from his native South Ossetia in the northern Caucasus but outside hundreds of youths from the pro-Kremlin Nashi movement formed a chain along a motorway leading to Moscow. "Kaloyev is our man," they chanted in chorus, braving frosty wind and snow. "You are a real human being!" read the posters they held. Kaloyev had initially been sentenced to eight years in jail for the killing, but the split verdict said last week he could not be held accountable for his action. One of the judges told the media that Kaloyev did not come to Switzerland intending to kill Nielsen but had lost control of himself when the man refused to offer apologies after Kaloyev had shown him pictures of his children. A Swiss court this year found four air traffic control managers guilty of manslaughter over the accident, giving three of them 12-month suspended sentences each and fining the fourth. Four other employees were acquitted. Defendants in the trial mainly blamed Mr Nielsen - who was alone on duty on the night of the accident - for poorly handling the events leading up to the crash in Swiss-controlled air space over the German town of Ueberlingen. When the two planes collided, both the main and the back-up telephone were out of order, radar software displaying flight co-ordinates was in a restricted mode and Mr Nielsen's only colleague was on a coffee break. The quote I think of... "Everybody gets one..."

PowertripDeluxe- 11-14-2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7091596.stm The launch of Britain's Skynet 5B spacecraft from Kourou in French Guiana has been postponed again. The flight of the sophisticated new military communications satellite was called off when a fault was detected in pipework feeding the launch pad. It was an electronic glitch in the Ariane 5 ECA rocket itself that led to the cancellation of Friday's attempt at a launch. The £3.6bn Skynet project represents the UK's single biggest space venture. It will see three next-generation satellites launched into space by the middle of next year. They will allow the Army, Royal Navy and RAF to pass much more data, faster between command centres. The bandwidth capacity of Skynet 5 is two-and-a-half times that of the existing constellation, Skynet 4. The first new satellite, Skynet 5A, launched in March, is already making important contributions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) says. Looks like a real life Sarah Conner is behind this. Good on her!

disgruntled_ctr- 11-14-2007

Speaking of Sarah Connor, has anyone seen the pilot episode for the upcoming Sarah Connor Chronicles series? It's out on the net. It's pretty good. I look forward to seeing the rest of it.

Kandicesmom- 11-14-2007

Speaking of Sarah Connor, has anyone seen the pilot episode for the upcoming Sarah Connor Chronicles series? It's out on the net. It's pretty good. I look forward to seeing the rest of it. We saw that a few months ago....I just didn't care for it. The story was not even close to the movies. I do have to say though that the female terminator was an interesting twist.

c_adam- 11-14-2007

Doesn't matter anyways... most everything is on hold, or will be soon enough with the Writer's Strike going on.

PowertripDeluxe- 11-16-2007

That and it's on FOX. Therefore doomed.

PowertripDeluxe- 11-26-2007

A GREAT VICTORY FOR ROCK N ROLL - HAWTHORNE HIGHTS EMO BITCH KICKS TEH BUKKET Casey Calvert, a guitarist for the band Hawthorne Heights, passed away during his sleep over the weekend. He was found dead early Saturday morning. Calvert was 26 years old. According to several accounts, Calvert appeared to be healthy on Friday night. He spent some time with friends before heading off to sleep for the night. These same reports indicate that Calvert passed away at some point while he was sleeping. The exact cause of his death is not yet known. You know he swallowed some pills to chase the load he swallowed. DIE EMO FAGGOT. http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/3812

disgruntled_ctr- 11-26-2007

You know he swallowed some pills to chase the load he swallowed. DIE EMO FAGGOT.

Kandicesmom- 11-27-2007

ONLY in Japan will you find this in the newspaper... http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/waiwai/archive/news/2007/11/20071116p2g00m0dm009000c.html From soup to stardom: A professional pornster's life in the jizz biz Friday (11/23) Adult movie actor Kei Ikeda makes a reasonable living doing a job that's the dream of many young men, but he's got to be careful he doesn't blow it all at once, according to Friday (11/23). Ikeda has been working as a porno star for the past three years and has appeared in over 1,000 adult movies. "I get paid 30,000 yen a movie. A veteran actor might get paid 50,000 yen for each film, while the biggest names in the business will get 70,000 yen per flick," Ikeda tells Friday, noting that male actors are paid on a scale well under what goes to their female colleagues and the only way to make a decent living is through quantity. "At busy times, I'll do three movies a day -- one in the morning, another in the afternoon and then the last one at night. Normally, though, I average about 30 movies a month." Ikeda got his start in the industry as a "soup actor," the Japanese term for men who provide adult movies' money shots. It's the job of soup men to stand around an actress and wait for the climactic scene when they are expected to add some juice to the action, so to speak, Soup men never appear on camera. Ikeda became involved after seeing a movie maker's Internet ad seeking soup actors. He became what is known as Net soup, as opposed to Actual Soup. Net soup actors get their name because they have responded to an online ad seeking their services and are paid just 1,000 yen per shoot. Actual Soup actors come into the job for a living and get 5,000 yen a movie. "After I was only paid 1,000 yen for my first movie, I was going to go home and never do it again, but one of the producers grabbed me and said, 'Hey buddy, you shot some pretty good stuff today. How about coming to another shoot?' He offered me an Actual Soup job paying 5,000 yen, so I figured, 'Why not?'" he tells Friday. "After I'd been working as an Actual Soup for a while, one of the directors said he needed some young actors to get in on the action and asked if I was interested, so that's how I became an actor on-screen." Ikeda tells the weekly that being a male porno star is harder than it seems. "When you're working on a film that has no script, you've really got to take notice of the actress's body. If you notice she's the buxom type, you have to know the director is going to want to emphasize the size of her tits, so the way you make love has got to take this into account," he says. "Acting for men is all about making a bit of a fool of yourself, but that doesn't mean any old fool can do it." And being in demand means the 23-year-old actor must always be ready to perform, with the industry unforgiving when it comes to those who misfire. "I eat loads of veal because it contains plenty of zinc," he says, noting the mineral he needs to continuing rising to the occasion. "I'm always taking zinc supplements. Basically, I take one every time I finish a shoot." The job has its perils, though. Aware that he will be needed to perform on location has tended to eat into Ikeda's private love life. And, despite what goes on in front of the cameras, a workplace relationship is strictly prohibited. "I have never," Ikeda tells Friday, "asked an actress for her phone number or e-mail address." (By Ryann Connell)

mr_cackums- 11-27-2007

BUKKKKKKKKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKEEEEEEE PARTY!

PowertripDeluxe- 11-28-2007

You know YOU wanna be a soup actor!

disgruntled_ctr- 11-28-2007

You know YOU wanna be a soup actor! I'd do it.

PowertripDeluxe- 11-30-2007

Maybe Shaneequa decided that them chillens was crampin her style tryna get her hair did? AUGUSTA, Ga. - A 22-year-old woman fatally stabbed her two young children in a convenience store bathroom Thursday, police said. A worker at Food Mart told police she saw Jeanette Michelle Hawes enter the restroom Thursday afternoon with the two children, a boy and girl, and then heard a scream, Richmond County Sheriff Ronnie Strength said. The worker called 911, and when deputies arrived they forced the door open and found Hawes on the floor, holding a steak knife and covered in the children's blood, Strength said. Jordon Hawes, 1, and Shakayla Hawes, 3, were pronounced dead upon arrival at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital. Both died of stab wounds to the chest, Chief Deputy Coroner Mark Bowen said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071130/ap_on_re_us/children_stabbed;_ylt=ApAMYRwofx6cq4RBU_0go7BH2ocA

c_adam- 11-30-2007

Maybe Shaneequa decided that them chillens was crampin her style tryna get her hair did? AUGUSTA, Ga. - A 22-year-old woman fatally stabbed her two young children in a convenience store bathroom Thursday, police said. A worker at Food Mart told police she saw Jeanette Michelle Hawes enter the restroom Thursday afternoon with the two children, a boy and girl, and then heard a scream, Richmond County Sheriff Ronnie Strength said. The worker called 911, and when deputies arrived they forced the door open and found Hawes on the floor, holding a steak knife and covered in the children's blood, Strength said. Jordon Hawes, 1, and Shakayla Hawes, 3, were pronounced dead upon arrival at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital. Both died of stab wounds to the chest, Chief Deputy Coroner Mark Bowen said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071130/ap_on_re_us/children_stabbed;_ylt=ApAMYRwofx6cq4RBU_0go7BH2ocA Remember, she's suffering from Post Partum Depression

mr_cackums- 11-30-2007

ha reminds me of the family guy joke about post partum. you would think she could of at least done it at her house. think of the poor bastard making 7.50 an hour will have to clean that shit up now!

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