Cam Newton home on the Plains

Cam Newton is back at Auburn, taking spring classes and working toward his degree. Cam Newton will not be doing any press on this matter, according to Auburn. This leaves us with a lot of time on our hands to imagine what we would get up to if thrust back into a college environment with all of Newton’s accolades.
Are there any among you who would not abuse this situation just a tiny little bit? Here follows our abbreviated list of things we would try at Auburn if we happened to be a famous pro football player:
• Bring different combination of Auburn/Carolina apparel to campus every day. Festoon statue accordingly. Frequent refreshes for holidays/notable school events.
• Purchase baby elephant. Name it after Pat Dye. Outfit with tiny houndstooth hat. Drape with decorative blanket reading “28-27.” Take everywhere.
• Persuade Auburn biology department to breed tigers with panthers to produce the ultimate mascot/guardian-pet.
• At irregular intervals, pay for lunches of students in cafeteria line. When approached for autographs, claim to be Kenny Chesney in elaborate disguise and on stilts.
• Join intramural bowling, badminton or ping-pong team. Take everything involved WAY too seriously.
• Stage Cam Newton Look-Alike Contest.

• Enter Cam Newton Look-Alike Contest.
• Flaunt Cam Newton Look-Alike Contest grand prize: Denim jacket emblazoned with IT’S AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION in gold sequins down both sleeves.
• Hire Jackie Chan to show up on campus in rubber Mission: Impossible mask of own face. At pre-appointed time, have Jackie Chan shed track suit and discard Cam Newton mask, revealing Jackie Chan. Hide. Film incident. Upload. Skip morning classes for a week to watch First Take debate Jackie Chan’s surprising measurables as a member of the Carolina Panthers.

Skrillex Hair On Fire

 

Skrillex Hair On Fire 

 Dubstep DJ Skrillex--real name Sonny Moore--narrowly avoided disaster at his 25th birthday when his shoulder-length hair caught on fire while he blew out his birthday candles.

 

Dubstep DJ Skrillex almost had a more interesting birthday than he bargained for when his hair caught on fire while he was blowing out his birthday candles.

 

The crowd at a private Hollywood event was singing the 25-year-old DJ a boisterous round of "Happy Birthday," and Skrillex--real name Sonny Moore--bent over to make his birthday wish.
"Your hair man!" the event emcee shouted out, and Skrillex jumped back, swatting at his shoulder-length locks and extinguishing the flames.

 

Victoria's Secret Model Sued for $3M by Modeling Agency

Victoria's Secret Model Sued for $3M by Modeling  

 

A Victoria's Secret model has been hit with a $3.3 million lawsuit from her former modeling agency in New York City, reports The Huffington Post.
Marilyn Model Management is claiming that Victoria's Secret model Constance Jablonski violated a contract she had with the agency.
Jablonski, who is the face of Calvin Klein and Christian Dior, changed modeling agencies before her three-year contract with Marilyn was over, the lawsuit claims.

According to the purported contract terms, Constance Jablonski was obligated to stay with Marilyn until September 2014. Instead, she left and went with DNA Model Management.
The lawsuit alleges that "DNA's wrongful conduct is for the purpose of destabalizing Marilyn's business..."
From what's been reported, the suit appears to be alleging tortious interference with business. That seems to be the claim against DNA which, as Marilyn asserts, stole Jablonski under false pretenses. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to bar DNA from representing Jablonski.
But the lawsuit isn't only against DNA. It's against Jablonski, too.
Contracts are easy to make and can sometimes be easy to break. For example, let's assume that Jablonski had landed her Estee Lauder and Victoria's Secret gigs by herself, without Marilyn Modeling Management's help. If that were the case, Jablonski may have a defense against the lawsuit: She could potentially claim breach of certain provisions in the contract (and it's hard to guess what those provisions could be, as the contract remains under wraps for now).
She could even say that the company failed to perform under the contract.
But from the looks of it, that argument is unlikely. According to Marilyn, the young model was a no-name when she showed up at the agency. Two years later, she was landing high-profile modeling gigs.
Of course, the agency changed during the time she was there. That may also be a card that Constance Jablonski could try to play. According to her Twitter post, it appears part of the reason that Jablonski left MMA is because Marilyn Gaultier herself exited the agency.
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pawn stars wedding deanna burditt

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2013 is looking to be a banner year for Pawn Stars' Rick Harrison, who set a wedding date with his fiancée Deanna Burditt.
The couple will tie the knot on July 21 at the Ritz Carlton in Laguna Beach, Calif., People reports. "It will be a lot of friends and family," Harrison told the magazine. "It started off with about 40 people and it's well over 100 people now. You know how those things go."
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The guest list will also include several familiar faces including Counting Cars' Danny Koker, who will become an ordained minister to marry the couple, and Pawn Stars co-star Austin "Chumlee" Russell, who will serve as the ring bearer. "I just had no idea there was so much involved," said Harrison, who says he will be doing a lot of the planning for the big day. "I just thought you got a cake, had a party, buy a keg. But we're getting it done."
This will be the third marriage for Harrison, who has two sons with his first wife, Kim, and one son with his second wife, Tracy.

Son steals dad's corpse

Son steals dad's corpse

When a son steals his dad’s corpse, it is no surprise that police officers are baffled. Two days after the funeral of a 93-year-old man, Detroit police found the corpse of the dad in the basement of the 48-year-old son’s home, reports UPI on Jan. 15, 2013.
It is difficult to determine whether the story of the son who stole his dad’s corpse is more heart-warming or more bizarre.
The motive for stealing his dead father’s body was to bring him back to life.
The son of 93-year-old Clarence Bright told family members that he was planning to resurrect his father through prayer.
In his attempt to resurrect his father through prayer, the 48-year-old son allegedly stole his dad’s corpse from Gethsemane Cemetery on Monday morning, two days after the father’s funeral.
According to investigators, the son, whose name has not been released, stole his dad’s corpse and the casket from the cemetery’s mausoleum in which it was temporarily stored. The cemetery’s ground was yet too wet for a burial.
After having stolen his dad’s corpse and the casket, the old man’s son drove his father home and stored him in a new freezer in the basement of his house.
The stolen empty casket of Clarence Bright was discovered on Tuesday in Clarence Bright’s son’s van shortly before police officers found the dad’s corpse in the freezer.
According to a 9News World report, “Clarence Bright’s 48-year-old son – who has not been named – was arrested with another man, 38, after police found an empty casket in their van.”
Policeman Lieutenant Harold Rochon said that Clarence Bright’s son was “a deeply religious man who had hoped his 93-year-old father would be resurrected. He was hoping for a miracle.”
Unfortunately, when a son steals his dad's corpse, even if it is with the good intent to bring him back to life, it ends in an arrest.

Rock Star With 'Curable' Dementia Nearly Loses Career

 

Rock Star With 'Curable' Dementia Nearly Loses Career

Dick Wagner had enjoyed a successful life on stage, playing lead guitar for bands like Alice Cooper, Aerosmith and Kiss, when he had a stroke and a heart attack in 2007.

"I woke up from a coma after two weeks with a paralyzed left arm," said Wagner, now 70 and living in Arizona. "My profession as a guitarist, I thought was over."

He and Cooper co-wrote the majority of the band's top-selling songs, including the 1975 hit, 

"Welcome to My Nightmare."

 

But Wagner's own personal horror show had just begun. He worked hard at rehabilitation, but new symptoms began to appear: mental fuzziness and an odd gait.

"I couldn't turn to the left as I walked, only to the right, and I would do a spiral and fall," he said. "I fell completely flat on my face in the driveway on the concrete. I didn't know what had happened to me."

Another fall by his swimming pool precipitated a blood clot and surgery. Wagner was convinced his career was over.

But in 2011, Wagner was diagnosed with NPH, or normal pressure hydrocephalus, a condition caused by a build-up of spinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain, which puts pressure on nerves that control the legs, bladder and cognitive function. 

Doctors at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix surgically placed a shunt in his head to redirect the fluid through a tube under the skin to his abdominal cavity. A small amount is drained every day for the rest of his life.

Now, Wagner is back on tour with a band in Denmark.

"I am like a new man almost overnight," he said. "For five years, I couldn't even pick up a guitar -- I didn't have the strength or the coordination."

NPH is a condition that typically strikes after the age of 55 and often mimics the dementia of Alzheimer's and the impaired motor skills of Parkinson's disease.

An estimated 5 percent of all dementia patients actually have NPH, which is correctable, according to Dr. Joseph M. Zabramski, the neurosurgeon who placed Wagner's shunt at Barrow.

In Wagner's case, it wasn't the initial stroke that deprived him of his musical ability, but NPH, which took away his coordination and timing.

"The stroke he suffered usually produces relatively mild deficits, and over time patients are able to resume most normal activities," Zabramski said. "Dick cannot raise his left arm as well as he used to, but his fine motor function in his left hand is excellent.

"Music is Dick's life and so he tried to resume playing but couldn't," Zabramski said. "Once we had the shunt in place I saw the improvements. ... Gradually, much to my pleasure, the old Dick Wagner returned."

Russian mafia boss killed: Violence escalates over Olympic contracts

 

Russian mafia boss killed: Violence escalates over Olympic contracts

MOSCOW — One of Russia's top crime lords was gunned down Wednesday in Moscow in what police described as a war between two powerful mobs over lucrative construction projects, allegedly including ones for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Police said an unidentified gunman fired seven shots from a sniper gun at Aslan Usoyan near a restaurant in central Moscow — the third assassination attempt on him since the late 1990s.
Usoyan, also known as Grandpa Khasan, was a 75-year-old ethnic Kurd born in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Police say for the past two decades he headed one of the region's most powerful criminal groups, which trafficked in drugs and weapons and controlled underground casinos as well as many legal businesses, including those in the construction industry.
Police said Usoyan was hit in the jaw, hospitalized in a coma and then died. Police said the gunman, who used a state-of-the-art automatic rifle issued to Russian special forces, also injured a passerby, who was hospitalized.
Usoyan came from a caste of professional criminals who sport elaborate tattoos, follow unwritten prison laws codified in Stalinist-era Gulags and have been romanticized in countless popular songs.
He was first convicted in 1956 in Georgia and soon became a professional criminal. Like other members of his caste, he was strictly forbidden from befriending men in uniform, avoided luxurious lifestyles, never got married and considered prison his only true home.
Having survived the totalitarian system that spawned them, Russian criminals enjoyed a heyday in the decade after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. Usoyan opened a chain of casinos in Moscow and became the keeper of an emergency fund for jailed Russian criminals — a position that gave him immense authority in the criminal underworld of the vast former Soviet Union.
By the early 2000s, he had consolidated control over criminal groups in southern Russia that united natives of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as ethnic Russians. He feuded with mobsters who became more like Italian mafia and often disregarded Soviet-era prison norms.
Since 2006, Usoyan had been at war with a criminal group headed by another Georgian, Tariel Oniani, according to organized crime experts.
Russian media said the battle between the two clans had intensified in recent years as they vied for control over construction projects in southern Russia, including the huge sports facilities being built for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Woman who couldn't stop growing dies

Woman who couldn't stop growing dies

Back then, she was 5 feet 8 inches tall (172.5cm). But at the time of her death Monday, the 34-year-old Angus stood 7 feet 2 inches (218cm) and weighed about 400 pounds (181 kilograms).
Angus was a victim of a rare disorder called acromegaly that wouldn't let her stop growing. In children the condition is known as gigantism.
"'Mom, I don't know why I got it,'" Karen Strutynski recalled her daughter saying. "'But I guess God decided that I could handle it.'"
Handle it she did - by appearing on television specials and in the news, and talking about the condition that left her face misshapen and gave her chronic growing pains.
Her condition was the result of the release of too much growth hormone caused by a non-cancerous tumour on her pituitary gland.

The disorder affected just about everything for Angus. She couldn't pull even the largest of shirts over her head, because she couldn't fit through the collar. She needed specially made shoes, and jewelers stretched her rings to size 20.
"There's nothing made for giants," her mother explained.
Some people judged her daughter, Ms Strutynski said, believing she used a wheelchair because she lacked the discipline to keep her weight down. What they didn't know is that she ate one meal a day, and her medications caused her face to swell, her mother said.
"People were very cruel until she went into the media," Ms Strutynski said.
After television appearances, Angus became an advocate for those with the disease, corresponding with people from some 60 countries to help them.
She saw her mission as helping others get diagnosed before it was too late and the disease got out of control, her mother said.
An autopsy is pending, but Mr Strutynski said it appears Angus died after catching a cold and developing a tear in her heart.
Her mother plans to keep up Angus' website and continue corresponding with patients struggling to deal with the disease.
"We can't let it end. It's just too important," Mr Strutynski said, her voice cracking.
"We can't just let it die with Tanya."

Google Glasses Designer Gives Us An Up-Close Look

Let's start with the good news: 

 Google's about to start to talking a bit more about its Project Glass this month - you know, those futuristic, Internet-connected glasses that show digital information right in front of your eyes, projected over the physical world.

The bad news? For the moment, they're just for software developers.

The company is holding two events - one in New York City and another in San Fransisco - where it will give software developers an early look at the spectacles. "Join us for an early look at Glass and two full days of hacking on the upcoming Google Mirror API in San Francisco or New York," Google said in an email invite it sent out to those who signed up to be on its developers list. These software and app creators will get a device to use on site and will come up with different software ideas and tie-ins.

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"These hackathons are just for developers in the Explorer program and we're calling them the Glass Foundry," the invite goes on to say. Nope, the average Joe can't show up to see the glasses or take them home. Over the last few weeks, some have been spotted wearing the glasses around New York City. One tester was wearing a pair with prescription lenses.

"We're looking forward to what developers will do with Glass, but we don't have more details to share at this time," said a Google spokesperson when ABC News asked about the upcoming events.

At Google's I/O conference in June, Google co-founder Sergey Brin announced that prototypes or "Explorer Editions" of the glasses would be sold to developers for $1,500 in early 2013. Click for the video Google released last year to show the possibilities of Glass.

President Obama unveiled proposals today aimed at curbing gun violence

President Obama unveiled proposals today aimed at curbing gun violence:

President Obama unveiled proposals today aimed at curbing gun violence, including background checks for every gun buyer in America, a ban on assault weapons and ammunition clips that hold more than 10 bullets and a federal firearm trafficking law.

Invoking the painful memory of the schoolchildren killed in Newtown, Conn., a month ago, President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced the most ambitious gun-control drive in generations. Proposals include universal background checks as well as bans on assault weapons and ammunition clips that hold more than 10 bullets. Some of his proposals are sure to run headlong into fierce opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in Congress, as well as the powerful National Rifle Association lobby.

"I will put everything I’ve got into this,” Obama, standing alongside Vice President Joe Biden, promised an audience that included relatives of the first-graders slaughtered at Sandy Hook Elementary School, survivors of other mass shootings and elected officials.

"While there is no law, or set of laws, that can prevent every senseless act of violence completely, no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy, every act of evil, if there’s even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there’s even one life that can be saved, then we’ve got an obligation to try," Obama said in his speech. "And I’m going to do my part."

The president declared himself a firm believer in the Second Amendment and denounced those who will cast his "common-sense" approach as "a tyrannical, all-out assault on liberty." He also warned those inclined to support his strategy that passage "will be difficult."

“This will not happen unless the American people demand it. If parents and teachers, police officers and pastors, if hunters and sportsmen, if responsible gun owners, if Americans of every background stand up and say, ‘Enough, we’ve suffered too much pain and care too much about our children to allow this to continue,' then change will come," he said. "That’s what it’s going to take."

Bynes cheek piercing

Bynes cheek piercing:

Amanda Bynes is in the spotlight again. This time she's showing off a new look.
Bynes shared photos on her Tumblr Jan. 14 of a new piercing in her left cheek. The 26-year-old sported bleach blonde hair, oversized sunglasses and a bright blue shirt. Bynes captioned the photo with a simple smiley face.
The "Easy A" star has stayed relatively quiet since her reckless behavior last year. The former child star was charged with a DUI last June, two counts of hit-and-run in September and two separate charges of driving with a suspended license. She was also photographed in her car smoking what looked like a pipe.

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Last fall, Bynes moved to New York to start a fashion line, she told People magazine. She also insisted that she doesn't drink.
"I am doing amazing," Bynes said. "I am retired as an actor. I am moving to New York to launch my career."

Amanda Bynes is showing off her new cheek piercing. On Jan. 15, E! Online posted a picture of her with her new piercing in her cheek. Amanda has been keeping her act together lately and hasn't even had a DUI.
She showed off a new picture of herself on Twitter which shows her cheek piercing. Amanda showed two different pictures with the new piercing. She has a diamond in her cheek. She isn't saying much with it though and is not back to acting again yet either.
Amanda hadn't been on her social media for awhile. Back in Nov., she said on Twitter that she was trying to get it verified again because someone took her phone from her, but that hasn't happened yet for her. Hopefully she can get it taken care of soon so fans don't doubt it is her. With a picture being sent though, it is easy to tell.
What do you think of Amanda Bynes with a new cheek piercing? Is it attractive? Hopefully 2013 is a better year for the actress and she can find a way to stay out of trouble.