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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Donald Trump Announces New Celebrity Apprentice Candidates
Mob boss widow Victoria Gotti, singer Clay Aiken and IndyCar champ Michael Andretti are on tap for the next edition of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice.” Host Donald Trump announced the new batch of contenders on Wednesday’s “Today” show. They also include “Real Housewives of New Jersey” cast member Teresa Guidice, comedian Lisa Lampanelli, former Miss Universe [...]
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Dennis Rodman to Coach Topless Women's Basketball Team
We're not sure if this is awesome, gross or just plain weird, but Dennis Rodman is going to be holding tryouts for a topless women's basketball team in New York City.
The Basketball Hall of Famer will be trying out and coaching a team fielding exotic dancers from Headquarters Gentleman Club, in hopes of playing a HOT charity game against what appears to be another topless women's basketball club.
This is very random and actually happening.
The NBA bad boy dreamed up the team after hearing that rival strip joint Rick's Cabaret launched a league with former Atlanta Hawks standout Spud Webb, who runs the Texas Legends, an NBA Development League team.
Rodman is challenging Rick's Cabaret's topless team to a charity game.
"I don't know too many men that don't like a good-looking woman running up and down around the basketball court," Rodman said.
Really? Are men SO desperate to see boobs that they'll pay to watch (presumably bad) basketball game to do so? Just peep these Lindsay Lohan pictures instead. Geez.
And what is Rodman doing? Didn't he talk about being a better husband and father in his Hall of Fame speech? So many questions, so few answers regarding the Worm.
[Photo: WENN.com]
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/01/dennis-rodman-to-coach-topless-womens-basketball-team/
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NFL Notebook: Last-place St. Louis fires GM and coach
NFL Notebook: Last-place St. Louis fires GM and coach
The St. Louis Rams fired coach Steve Spagnuolo and general manager Billy Devaney Monday, one day after they wrapped up a 2-14 season tied for the NFL's worst record.
Kevin Demoff, vice president and chief operating officer, said owner Stan Kroenke made the decision Sunday night.
Demoff expects the search for both positions to be concluded in the next few weeks and said it didn't necessarily matter which position was filled first.
Former coach Dick Vermeil and Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk will be consultants, and Demoff said Kroenke "will be heavily involved."
The Rams made a six-win improvement last season and played for the NFC West title in the finale, but were just 10-38 overall in three seasons with Spagnuolo and Devaney calling the shots.
Devaney joined the front office in 2008, but the Rams were 12-52 in his four years as GM.
Kroenke fired his coach and GM with one year remaining on their contracts, and with fan interest dwindling.
The Edward Jones Dome was little more than half-full later in the year and the team had to purchase tickets to meet requirements for a sellout in the finale.
"No one individual is to blame for this disappointing season and we all must hold ourselves accountable," Kroenke said. Colts
Indianapolis owner Jim Irsay said he hasn't decided whether to retain Jim Caldwell as head coach after Indianapolis finished 2-14 without Peyton Manning in the lineup. Irsay, however, fired vice chairman Bill Polian and general manager Chris Polian. "Shock, man, just shock," safety Antoine Bethea said after finding out the Polians were gone. "I knew there were going to be some things happening, but I didn't expect them to come so soon."
Buccaneers
Tampa Bay fired Raheem Morris after three seasons as head coach. The team announced the change one day after a 45-24 loss to the Atlanta Falcons extended the franchise's longest losing streak within the same season since 1977 to 10 games. Morris went 17-31, including a 10-6 mark in 2010, when the Buccaneers (4-12) narrowly missed the playoffs. His entire staff of assistants was also dismissed.
Jets
If Santonio Holmes is back for another season, even though several teammates think he quit on them in Sunday's season-ending loss at Miami, don't expect to see a captain's "C" on his jersey. Holmes created a major stir Sunday after having a shouting match with offensive lineman Wayne Hunter in the huddle late in the fourth quarter. Some thought he quit on the team. "To be honest with you, this is something I think I made a huge mistake in," Coach Rex Ryan said as the Jets looked to explain a season gone so wrong. "Not just by naming Santonio a captain, but all of the captain things," Ryan explained.
Jaguars
Jacksonville, with new owner Shahid Khan taking charge Wednesday, has received permission from the Jets to interview offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer and from the Falcons to interview offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey for their coaching vacancy.
Bears
Chicago said an MRI taken showed Pro Bowl linebacker Brian Urlacher suffered no major structural damage to his left knee in a season-ending win at Minnesota.
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First published on January 3, 2012 at 12:00 am
Source: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12003/1200977-66-0.stm?cmpid=steelers.xml
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New Mexico man, 85, facing bigamy charge
Posted at: 12/31/2011 8:50 PM
By: The Associated Press
85-year-old Joe Olivas was arrested Tuesday.
He was booked on a single count of fourth-degree felony bigamy.
According to a statement of probable cause, Olivas admitted to being aware that he was married to two women because he "was lonely" after more than two years apart from his wife.
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
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Monday, January 2, 2012
Vestas, green energy sold short
Colorado has become a leader in government subsidizing green jobs. A major beneficiary of those state and local subsidies has been a Danish company, Vestas Wind Systems A/S. Vestas operates four manufacturing facilities in Colorado in Windsor, Brighton and Pueblo.
Democrats accuse Republicans of selling green energy short. Turns out they might be right. As of Dec. 26, short sales of Vestas stock reached 17.6 percent of outstanding shares. In a short sale, an investor borrows stock, sells it, and then hopes to buy the stock later at a lower price. Short-sellers have no theoretical limit on their losses. That unlimited risk means that short sellers must be highly certain in their pessimism.
On Thursday, Vestas announced a major sale to Brazil, but the order still left Vestas short of earlier 2011 sales estimates. Vestas still has until Saturday to reach its annual estimate, but the shorts appear skeptical. Earlier this month, Vestas testified in the U.S. Senate in favor of extending a U.S. Production Tax Credit beyond the end of 2012. Wind energy benefits from a 2.1 cent per kilowatt-hour tax credit. Vestas claims that if the tax credit expires, 80,000 U.S. jobs are at risk, including thousands in Colorado.
Some investors doubt the value of other green energy stocks as well. The solar panel company Solyndra has received lots of press attention. The Department of Energy provided the company massive loans despite the likelihood of a business failure. Political considerations apparently trumped common sense. Solyndra is just the tip of the melting iceberg.
Vestas doesn't even make the top fifty stocks in terms of short interest as a percentage of the total stock float. Consider some of the other stocks subjected to short interest. Number two on the list is Tesla Motors, Inc. As of Tuesday, short interest in the stock was 52.1 percent. Tesla plans to release its Tesla Model S Sedan in the summer of 2012 at a net base price of $49,900 --after deducting a $7,500 federal tax credit.
A stock analyst recently reduced estimates of the global market for electric cars. By 2025, the analyst expects electric cars to be just 4.5 percent of the global car market, instead of 8.6 percent. That has huge implications for Tesla, as well as the whole notion of government subsidies re-inventing the auto market. The Department of Energy extended $465 million in loans to Tesla as part of the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program. Every car sold will also benefit from that federal tax credit.
Lithium battery maker Ener1 was one of 30 electric car battery makers to receive a DOE grant. In 2009, Ener1 was scheduled to receive $118.5 million in stimulus money, but only received about half. In January, Vice-President Biden visited an Ener1 plant in Indiana to highlight the administration's commitment to electric cars. Indiana Republicans shared the Obama administration's commitment, and the company had received over $10 million in DOE and Defense Department research grants during the Bush administration. In October, NASDAQ de-listed the stock. A Bloomberg stock analyst believes Japan and South Korea will dominate the electric car battery market. That's bad news for taxpayers.
Number 18 on the list of short interests on Tuesday was First Solar, Inc., with 35 percent of its outstanding shares shorted. First Solar is approaching its all-time low and still hasn't cleared out the short sellers. GreenStocksCentral.com reported in mid-December that the company is in "serious disarray" after being a "darling" among green energy stocks.
First Solar now plans to flee the U.S. market for other countries that do not depend on subsidies. Selling stocks short is risky business. First Solar concluded that depending upon government subsidies for success is a far greater risk.
(None of the above should be construed as investment advice.)
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Minn. officer dies 11 days after shooting
ROCHESTER, Minn.?? A Lake City, Minn., police officer died Friday night, 11 days after he was critically wounded by a gunshot while answering a domestic disturbance call, the Mayo Clinic said.
The family of Officer Shawn Schneider, 32, thanked "everyone for their overwhelming support and well wishes during this difficult time," the hospital said.
Schneider was shot in the head on Dec. 19, NBC station KARE reported.
After a daylong standoff with the suspected shooter, Alan John Sylte Jr., officers found the 25-year-old dead inside the home. He had taken his own life, police said.
A 17-year-old girl who escaped from the house told police she had broken up with Sylte the previous week. Court documents say Sylte sent the girl 282 messages over the weekend before fighting with her at her family's house in Lake City the day of the shooting.
A Wisconsin National Guard spokeswoman said Sylte, from Hager City, Wis., was an Iraq war veteran who was in the process of being discharged from the guard for failing to report to duty.
Schneider had been transported to the Mayo Clinic's St. Marys Hospital in Rochester where he remained in critical condition until Friday night, KARE said.
Schneider, a nine-year veteran of the Lake City police department, leaves behind a wife and three young children.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45830725/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
Egyptian forces raid activists' offices
Filippo Monteforte / AFP - Getty Images
Egyptian soldiers stand guard outside the U.S.-based National Democratic Institute during a raid Thursday in Cairo.
By Ayman Mohyeldin , NBC News
UPDATED: 3 p.m. ET
CAIRO -- Egyptian security forces raided?17 offices of human rights and and non-governmental groups on Thursday in a move that has triggered widespread fear and condemnation among pro-democracy groups and activists.?
Three?American groups, Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute, were among the organizations whose offices were raided.?
The United States said the harassment should stop immediately and hinted it could review its $1.3 billion in military aid if the raids continue. "This action is inconsistent with the bilateral cooperation we have had over many years," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told a news briefing.
Police and military forces stormed the offices, confiscating computers, seizing papers and files, and taking down the names of Egyptians working for the organizations.?
According to judicial sources, the raids were ordered by Egypt's general prosecutor's office and were carried out by inspectors from his office with the assistance of military forces and the police.
Judicial sources tell NBC News the raid was part of an ongoing investigation based on complaints that human rights organizations and prominent activists were receiving foreign funding without the appropriate permits and approval from the government, a crime under Egyptian law.
Mohammed Asad / AP
Egyptian military stand guard as officials raid a non-governmental group's office in Cairo on Thursday.
The Arab Network for Human Rights Information quickly denounced the raids, saying they were aimed at "terrorizing activists and organizations to stop their work in fighting against abuse and torture". The network added they and other non-governmental groups feared such a crackdown was imminent and had prepared for it.?
"Even Mubarak's regime did not dare carry out such practices before the revolution,"?it added.?
The Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession said its office was one of the 17 raided, and that military forces confiscated documents and computers while preventing its staff from leaving during the raid.
Some rights groups have supported recent protests demanding that the army, in power since February when President Hosni Mubarak was ousted, hand power swiftly to elected civilians. The army has pledged to step aside by mid-2012.
Clashes between protesters and soldiers in Cairo earlier?this month killed 17 people.?
Two of the U.S. groups raided are loosely associated with the U.S. Democratic and Republican political parties. They?say they take a neutral political stance, fostering democracy in Egypt by training members of nascent parties in democratic processes.
"The National Democratic Institute has been training new parties ... in how to participate in elections," a leading member of a liberal party told Reuters on condition of anonymity. "This has been with the full knowledge of authorities and was not clandestine."
The NDI issued a statement noting that some of the groups "are working on observation efforts for the country?s ongoing parliamentary elections. The third and final round for those polls is scheduled to begin on Tuesday."
?Cracking down on organizations whose sole purpose is to support the democratic process during Egypt?s historic transition sends a disturbing signal,? said NDI President Kenneth Wollack.
The International Republican Institute, in its own statement, noted that "it is ironic that even during the Mubarak era IRI was not subjected to such aggressive action."
Freedom House President David Kramer called the raids a sign the military "has no intention of permitting the establishment of?genuine democracy and is attempting to scapegoat civil society for its own abysmal failure to manage Egypt?s transition effectively."
Reuters contributed to this report.
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