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Purple Calf Born In Serbia/New Milka land

In a household in Serbia was born male calf in pale purple color. Calf, as if the cow is a descendant of the famous commercial for chocolate "Milka" has become the attraction in this village.

Look at his pictures and video:

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Photo: V. Ilić

Man pays off mother's 1954 parking ticket in Neb.

A parking ticket issued 57 years ago in southeast Nebraska has finally been paid off. The fine: a dime.

York Police Chief Don Klug says a man walked into the station Tuesday with the ticket and payment - mounted and framed. Klug tells the York News-Times ( http://bit.ly/uPLvCV) that the man said he found the ticket among his mother's things and wanted to settle the debt.

The ticket was issued on July 13, 1954, to a vehicle licensed in Oklahoma. The man told Klug that he believed his mother had been visiting York at the time and probably lost track of the citation.

Klug says he plans to hang the framed ticket on the wall of his office in York, about 50 miles west of Lincoln.

Brazilian who dumped his fiancee must pay $6,500

A court has ordered a Brazilian man to pay $6,500 for saying "I don't" to his former fiancee.

Rio de Janeiro state Judge Benedicto Abicair said that Marcelo de Azevedo Fernandes must pay for "moral and material" damages to Cristiane Costa de Andrade. The ruling was posted Friday on the court's website.

The couple was to have been married in September of 2007, but Fernandes called it off.

The judge said in his ruling that Andrade's "suffering, anguish and humiliation cannot be ignored."

The fine is supposed to pay for the jilted woman's wedding costs and visits to a psychologist.

Andrade's lawyer, Viviane Sines del Giudice, said neither she nor her client would make any immediate comment regarding the case. Calls to Fernandes' attorney, Fabiano Ayupp Magalhaes, went unanswered.

The O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper reported there have been at least two similar cases since 2004. In that year, a judge in the state of Sao Paulo ordered a man to pay his fiancee $4,500 for getting cold feet days before the weddings. A year later, a woman in Rio de Janeiro state received $2,000 after her fiance decided not to get married 75 days before the wedding.

Alisa Wheeler Missing: California Girl Sends Mother Facebook Message From Mexico

Sheri Simonek has spent the past four months aching for contact with her daughter. But when the mother opened her Facebook account last Friday and discovered a private note from her missing 15-year-old, she could not have felt too comforted.

The message: I'm married, I'm pregnant, I'm living in Mexico.

"I believe she wants to come home, but she is scared for the man she is with now, thinking that he is going to go to jail," Simonek told ABC affiliate KERO-TV.

Alisa Wheeler vanished around midnight on June 21. At the time, investigators, as well as Wheeler's family, believed that she had fled to Mexico with an older boyfriend. That man later turned out to be married, so Wheeler split-up with him and has since begun a new relationship with a 23-year-old named Chino, according to Simonek.

One of Wheeler's close friends started a Facebook page for anyone concerned to leave prayers.

Simonek says she's willing to do almost anything to have her daughter back, even pay for her new boyfriend to enter the United States.

"If that's what makes her happy and for her to come home, I will help him," she said.

Unsuspecting Woman Blindsided By Dirt Bike

Ryan Bacheldor of Battleford, Saskatchewan, spends a lot of time on his dirt bike, as his many YouTube videos, Facebook page and nickname "Kx125dude" attest.

He rides on a private track that's only shared with friends, so it's not uncommon to see a few people scattered around the course. But a few days ago, Bacheldor was out on his track honing his craft when he whipped over a hill and got the shock of his life:

Picture of where the NTC have said they found Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte

Picture of where the NTC have said they found Muammar #Gaddafi in Sirte. (AFP Photo)

Muammar Gaddafi was shot in the head !!!

Al Jazeera Arabic reported that Muammar Gaddafi was shot in the head after fighters surrounded the hole he was found hiding in. They then took him to Misrata.

Somebody shot him with a 9mm

An NTC soldier is telling Sky News: "Somebody shot him with a 9mm."
Another soldier says he was shot in the belly.
This happened at 12.30, the soldiers say - but it is unclear if they mean am or pm.
Former defence minister Abu Bakr Yunis was the only one with him, the soldier says.
The other soldier says he saw it with his own eyes and that he hit Gaddafi with a shoe - a sign of severe disrespect in the Middle East.
None of this can be confirmed yet, and I have to say they were not the most convincing witnesses.

The body of Muammar Gaddafi is being taken to a top secret location in Libya for security reasons, NTC official Mohamed Abdel Kafi told Reuters.

NATO aircraft struck two pro-Gaddafi military vehicles in the vicinity of Sirte, a spokesman for the alliance said.

"At approximately 0830 local time (GMT+2) today, NATO aircraft struck two pro-Gaddafi forces military vehicles which were part of a larger group manoeuvring in the vicinity of Sirte," NATO spokesman Colonel Roland Lavoie said in a statement.

Muammar Gaddafi's capture PHOTO

The picture purportedly showing Muammar Gaddafi's capture we posted earlier seems to come from a video on a mobile phone. AFP has sent through another frame from the same video.

Photograph: Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images Apologies - it is a graphic image. We cannot confirm that it shows his capture.

Gaddafi killed, died of wounds - NTC

Muammar Gaddafi (AFP Photo / Joseph Eid)

A senior NTC military official now claims Colonel Gaddafi has died of wounds sustained in his capture near Sirte. Earlier Gaddafi was captured and wounded in both legs.
The NTC says it will provide confirmation of Gaddafi's capture within hours.
But according to Reuters, Gaddafi was wounded and captured near Sirte upon trying to flee in a convoy which was attacked by NATO. NATO official says the Alliance is  checking reports of Gadhafi's capture.
Holland’s prime minister however confirms Gaddafi’s detain.
A Libyan government fighter says Gaddafi was hiding in a hole in Sirte, shouting"don't shoot, don't shoot"
An NTC official says the head of Gaddafi's armed forces, Abu Bakr Younus Jabr, was killed during the capture of the Libyan ex-leader
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev has commented on the alleged capture of the former Libyan leader, saying that “Libyan people are to decide his fate.”
“We expect that there will be peace in Libya, and those who govern the state, will agree on the system of government,” Medvedev added.
The news come shortly after tne NTC forces took control over Gaddafi's home town of Sirte.

SELENA GOMEZ Target of Serious Death Threat

Justin Bieber's girlfriend Selena Gomez has received a death threat that is so serious ... the LAPD's Threat Management Unit is on the case, and Selena has obtained a restraining order ... this according to court documents.

46-year-old Thomas Brodnicki -- a man with a criminal history of stalking -- allegedly told his shrink he was going to kill Selena.

According to the declarations of Selena and her lawyer, Blair Berk ... Brodnicki told the shrink he traveled from Chicago to L.A. to meet her, visited her workplace at least 3 times and has told people he had conversations with God about killing her.  Selena says she is in "extreme fear," believing he will carry out his death threat against her if he isn't stopped.

Selena and her lawyer claim Brodnicki was picked up for mental evaluation last month after he allegedly threatened to "scratch people's eyes out on the street."  Brodnicki allegedly made the threats against Gomez during his mental evaluation. 

According to court docs, LAPD detectives are taking the threats "extremely seriously" because of Brodnicki's history of mental illness and making criminal threats.






BY TMZ STAFF

A Campaign Windfall for 4 Republicans Who Voted for Same-Sex Marriage

ALBANY — As the State Legislature this year debated the legalization of same-sex marriage, a group of wealthy financiers who support both gay rights and Republican causes offered a reassurance to Republican lawmakers: Stand with us now, and we will stand with you later.

This week, the four Republican state senators who provided the decisive votes to pass the marriage bill are to get a big financial boost from those donors, including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. A fund-raiser planned for Thursday night in Manhattan is expected to raise about $1.25 million to help finance their re-election bids next year.

The senators have come under heavy criticism from conservatives since they cast their votes in June. A national group that opposes same-sex marriage has purchased billboards in each of their districts, vowing to unseat the lawmakers, and the senators have been eagerly raising money in an effort to defend themselves against possible challengers.

The emergence of the wealthy donors proved critical to same-sex marriage advocates as they tried to persuade sympathetic Republicans that they would not be left in the political wilderness if they diverged from party leaders and voted to legalize same-sex marriage.

Same-sex marriage supporters pointed to Thursday’s event as evidence that they would stand by the four Republicans. The fund-raiser’s hosts include Mr. Bloomberg; the philanthropist and gay rights activist Tim Gill; and several top-tier Republican donors, including the hedge fund managers Paul E. Singer and Daniel S. Loeb.

“Our support not only assists each of these leaders but will send a signal to other legislators across the nation that if they stand with freedom and civil liberties, they will not be abandoned by those who care deeply about gay rights and marriage equality,” Mr. Singer wrote to possible donors last month.

Invitations asked potential donors to contribute up to $16,800, the maximum total allowed, for each senator’s re-election effort. The fund-raiser, featuring wine and hors d’oeuvres, will be held at the Union League Club in Midtown. About 200 people are expected to attend, and Mr. Bloomberg is among those scheduled to speak.

“The mayor made it very clear early on that he would be a vocal supporter of those senators who stood up and did the right thing in light of a tough political climate,” a Bloomberg spokesman, Mark Botnick, said.

About $900,000 is expected to be spread among the four senators — Mark J. Grisanti of Buffalo, James S. Alesi of Rochester, Stephen M. Saland of Poughkeepsie and Roy J. McDonald of Saratoga County — which would amount to a windfall by Albany standards. In the first six months of this year, state senators raised an average of $103,000 apiece, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group.

The balance of the contributions raised Thursday will go toward the campaign committee for the Senate Republicans, to help defend the four lawmakers and also to recognize the party, which controls the Senate, for allowing a vote on the marriage bill.

Mr. Alesi said he appreciated the support.

“The message has to go to Republicans that Republicans can vote for the right thing and live to tell about it,” he said.

Even as supporters of same-sex marriage raise money to defend their legislative allies, opponents are gearing up to try to defeat them. The National Organization for Marriage has paid for billboards in the districts of each of the lawmakers. The most recent ones went up after Bob Turner, a Republican, defeated David I. Weprin, a Democrat, in a New York City Congressional race, and the signs warn the senators, “You’re Next.”

“We’re not the least bit surprised about the money trail,” Christopher Plante, the northeast regional coordinator for the National Organization for Marriage, said of this week’s fund-raiser. “But what we have are the people and voters of New York, who expect more out of their politicians, and we expect that they will stand up. The people of New York will not forget what these senators did.”

Michael R. Long, the chairman of the state Conservative Party, which said it would not back any Republican who supported the marriage bill, said it was too early to know how many primary opponents would come forward.

“The four candidates are evidently trying to raise as much money to protect themselves from primaries, which is clear evidence that shows they know what they did was not a popular thing,” Mr. Long said.

Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder, dies

SAN FRANCISCO – Steve Jobs, the innovative co-founder of Apple who transformed personal use of technology as well as entire industries with products such as the iPod, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh computer and the iTunes music store, died Wednesday.

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CEO Steve Jobs holds up the new MacBook Air after giving the keynote address at the Apple MacWorld Conference in San Francisco. Apple on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 said Jobs has died.

The Apple chairman was 56.

The iconic American CEO, whose impact many have compared to auto magnate Henry Ford and Walt Disney— whom Jobs openly admired — abruptly stepped down from his position as CEO of Apple in August because of health concerns. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer.

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"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being," read a statement on Apple's website. "Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor."

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, a former Apple board member, called Jobs the best CEO of the past 50 years — perhaps 100 years.

A seminal business and technology leader, Jobs' success flowed from a relentless focus on making products that were easy and intuitive for the average consumer to use. His products were characterized by groundbreaking design and style that, along with their technological usefulness, made them objects of intense desire by consumers around the world.

He was known as a demanding, mercurial boss and an almost mystical figure in technology circles as well as popular culture. Author and business consultant Jim Collins once called Jobs the "Beethoven of business."

He was one of the people who made Silicon Valley the capital of technological innovation and venture capital fortunes.

His creation of iTunes as an online way to purchase music digitally helped transform the music industry and delivered a blow to the standard industry practice of packaging music in albums or CDs. With iTunes, consumers initially could buy individual songs for 99 cents. The music industry didn't welcome the change at first, but after waging an intense battle against illegal downloads, it came to rely on the business model iTunes created.

Jobs' work at Apple and other projects made him a fortune estimated by Forbesmagazine in 2011 at $8.3 billion. He was No.110 on Forbes' list of billionaires worldwide and No.34 in the United States, as of the magazine's March 2011 estimates.

His death raises questions about whether Apple, one of America's most successful businesses, can maintain the momentum it has built as the source of must-have technology products that have helped to define a generation.

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Unlike tech rival Bill Gates of Microsoft or business leader Warren Buffett, Jobs did not make a practice of public philanthropy. While he may have made anonymous gifts to charity, he did not publicly embrace Gates' and Buffett's call for the wealthiest Americans to pledge to donate half their fortunes.

Jobs was married to Laurene Powell Jobs, 47. He had four children, three with Powell Jobs. A fourth child, Lisa, had an early Apple computer — a predecessor to the Macintosh — named after her. The family succeeded in keeping the children out of the spotlight and largely unknown to the public. Jobs was a Buddhist.

Apple, and a re-boot

Jobs dropped out of Reed College to build computers with high school friend Steve Wozniak, creating what became the Apple I computer in 1976.

As sales lagged by the 1980s, Jobs was ousted from the company's leadership in a 1985 boardroom coup led by then-Apple CEO John Sculley. He returned in 1996 after Apple bought his technology start-up, NeXT, for $400 million. Within months, Jobs took over as Apple CEO for the ousted Gil Amelio and led a major corporate turnaround.

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• PHOTOS: Reactions to Jobs' death

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Five years later, with the release of the iPod personal digital music player, Apple had leaped from computer maker to become the leading consumer electronics giant worldwide.

Millions of its computers and gadgets were produced in Asia and sold to U.S. and worldwide markets, making the company one of the most recognizable and beloved brand names ever.

Once on the brink of a financial abyss, Apple had a market value of $350 billion — not far behind No.2 Exxon Mobil — by the time Jobs resigned as CEO.

After his forced departure from Apple, Jobs bought what became Pixar from filmmakerGeorge Lucas. The digital animation movie company has produced box-office hits including Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Disney bought the company for $7.4 billion in 2006. Jobs held a 7.3% ownership stake in Disney.

Health concerns

He was known for creating a culture of secrecy at Apple that fueled intense media speculation about the company's next product. Jobs himself introduced major products with flair at highly anticipated events that proved to be one of the company's best marketing tools.

Jobs didn't hesitate to level caustic comments at competitors, particularly Microsoft in earlier years and later Google, which he ridiculed as evil, mediocre and lacking in taste. His skewering of Microsoft was parodied in a series of TV ads featuring the characters "Mac" and "PC."

Jobs was known for firing employees in profanity-laced tantrums and reducing some subordinates to tears. Yet many of his top deputies at Apple and Pixar worked with him for years.

Jobs is listed as an inventor or co-inventor on 313 Apple patents, including the iPod's user interface.

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Although he brought simple, elegant technology to the masses, the reclusive Jobs was often uncomfortable around people and rarely spoke publicly. On rare occasions when he spoke with reporters, he offered few or no personal insights.

His reluctance to appear in public led to questions about his health, as did a dramatic loss in weight and gaunt appearance.

Jobs was diagnosed with a form of pancreatic cancer in 2003. He informed Apple employees in 2004.

"No one wants to die," he said in a commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005. "And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it."

Jobs' status as a corporate star put him on the covers of Time, Fortune and Forbes.

"Jobs led an enormous cultural shift of the businessman as a creative, even artistic, force," says Alan Deutschman, author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs.

"When Jobs first came on the scene, it wasn't cool to be in business," Deutschman says. "Through the 1970s, the Dow hardly moved. Being in business was seen as being a total sellout. But Jobs was young and glamorous, and gave business that image. Now, young people aspire to be in business."

The early years

Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco on Feb. 24, 1955, to unwed parents. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Calif.

The young Jobs contacted William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, to ask for parts for a class project. Impressed, Hewlett offered Jobs a summer internship.

Upon graduating from Homestead High School in Cupertino, Calif., in 1972, Jobs briefly went to Reed College in Portland, Ore. After a stint as a video-game designer at Atari, Jobs trekked to India in 1974, where he embraced Eastern culture and religion. Shortly after that, he lived in a commune in California.

In 1975, Jobs began hanging out with the Homebrew Computer Club and a friend from high school, Steve Wozniak. Jobs, then 21, and Wozniak — the "two Steves," as they became known — co-founded Apple Computer in Jobs' parents' garage in 1976.

By 25, Jobs was a millionaire. His first go-round at Apple was highlighted by the creation and introduction, in 1984, of the Macintosh, a revolutionary personal computer with an inviting graphical user-interface and mouse that popularized PCs for the masses.

The influence of the Beatles ran deep to Apple's core, too. Jobs presented a Mac toYoko Ono, wife of the late John Lennon, and was ensnared in a long-running trademark lawsuit with the music group's Apple Corps label. It was settled in 2007.

In a 1996 interview in San Francisco, Jobs offered a glimpse of his hopes to mirror the success of Walt Disney and George Lucas. "Computers are commodities with a six-month shelf life," he said. "Classics like Snow White and Fantasia are passed from generation to generation."

Wozniak said Apple is a reflection of Jobs' creative daring.

"He helped it achieve incredible things in music, smartphones, tablets and retail, while still making great computers," said Wozniak, who said he and Jobs occasionally talk.

Leander Kahney, author of Inside Steve's Brain, said Jobs reconciled conflicting personality traits into an eclectic business philosophy.

"Jobs embraced the personality traits that some considered flaws — narcissism, perfectionism, total faith in his intuition — to lead Apple and Pixar to triumph against steep odds," Kahney says. "In the process, he became a self-made billionaire."

TUPAC SEX TAPE THE PHOTOS

For all the non-believers ... Here is photographic evidence there IS a Tupac sex tape.

TMZ broke the story ... Tupac received oral sex from a mystery woman back in 1991 ... and it was all caught on tape.  The 5-minute video shows Tupac in a living room, holding a cocktail in one hand and a blunt in another.  

An unreleased Tupac song is playing in the background, as the rapper sings along, wiggling his hips -- all the while getting serviced by the woman.


At one point, Money B from Digital Underground walks into frame, and Tupac puts his cocktail arm around him as the two gab away.

by TMZ