Malaysian Model To Be Canned After Fasting

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarnor, a Malaysian Muslim model faces an unusual punishment, caning. She is set to become the first woman in the Southeast Asian country to be caned for drinking alcohol in public. A mother of two, Kartika was arrested from a hotel lounge in 2008. Now she will be lashed six times. Kartika insisted that her sentence be carried out in public.

Model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, who was scheduled to be caned this week for drinking beer, has been released temporarily as it is not advisable for the sentence to be meted out during the fasting month.

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Jaycee Lee Dugard Found - After 18 Years

Here are Jaycee Lee Dugard photos as well as the press conference video that was held after the kidnapped girl was found years later by showing up unannounced at a police station in northern California. Read her biography, see the pictures and Jaycee Lee Dugard press conference video, and hear the moving story of how she was eventually found in that Antioch backyard.

The name of her (alleged) kidnappers are Phillip Craig Garrido and Nancy Garrido, age 58 and 54 respectively. He is a registered sex offender who served prison time during her captivity for an unrelated sex offense. He also had a prior sex offense in the 1970s which reportedly caused his ex-wife to divorce him. Read more on RightJuris

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Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne

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Every person’s life is like a kaleidoscope. Some pick up another’s life, hold it to the light and all the glass chips fall this way or that. And the person sighting through the cylinder puts it down and turns away, saying they’ve seen it all, when in fact, they’ve only seen one facet, one pattern in another’s life. Thus some remember only one thing or two about the life of another long lived.

But there are other ways to see most of a life in depth, that is, to keep turning the kaleidoscope, letting the glass shards open and reveal, shade and hide, depending on the turn of the scope. Adding up all the patterns, keeping the sum of the brilliant and the dark turns: that’s a view in depth of the life of another.

I’d just lay out a few turns of the kaleidoscope of Ted Kennedy’s life here, a lost story:

Some of the glass shards part, and we see in paradoxically jeweled light that Ted Kennedy was born to a brutally ambitious father, Joe Kennedy, and his mother Rose, was a good Catholic girl, demure and subservient to her wealthy, bellowing husband.

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Ted Kennedy - Dead At 77

TED KENNEDY once said that his own legislative record was one he'd love to run against. A number of people tried, of course, and lost. But then, they weren't Ted Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy spent 46 years in the Senate hewing pretty steadily to his course while others trimmed or just plain bailed out.

He remained committed to a brand of New Deal and postwar liberalism that, even when it had lost some of its luster and had run up against a conservative tide in politics, still had much to offer the country. Mr. Kennedy knew that he was one legislator who could take the stands he did and not worry about reelection. More important, he advanced his causes with passion and energy, and, because he was able not only to work with colleagues all across the political spectrum but also endear himself to many of them, he became a major force in the Senate and the country. Such was his authority that many people this spring and summer believed health care reform would have advanced much further through Congress had Mr. Kennedy been healthy enough to assume his customary shepherding role. More on The Washington Post

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Kerri Walsh

There will be plenty of time for laughter today when Misty May-Treanor is featured in a TV show with Shaquille O’Neal. But as for what the future has in store for May-Treanor, well that’s not so comical.

There’s nothing for certain, the former Newport Harbor High standout is well aware of that. What’s ahead? Who knows. She’s just enjoying the present. So that means tonight she plans to sit on the couch and watch herself team up with Kerri Walsh, playing in the “Shaq Vs.” show (9 p.m., ABC), that has O’Neal competing against star athletes in other sports than basketball. More on Daily Pilot

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Casey Jennings

'I'm ready,' says Walsh as she bounces her son on a knee. With Walsh's Olympics partner, Misty May-Treanor, sidelined by an injury, she'll partner with a former teammate who gave birth in April.

Just as she predicted, beach volleyball star Kerri Walsh got the itch to play by December. Never mind she was four months pregnant. The sand beckoned.

"I really thought I'd give it a full year off, but it's been such a long time off, and it's been good for my head and good for my soul, and I'm ready," she said, her son bouncing on her knee and husband Casey Jennings competing on a court nearby.

Less than three months after Walsh, 30, gave birth to Joseph Michael Jennings on May 22, she will return to competition at the Hermosa Beach Open, which begins today. Walsh last competed in Dubai in November 2008 with Nicole Branagh. Her longtime partner, Misty May-Treanor, tore her Achilles' tendon in October while training for the hit television show, "Dancing With the Stars." More on Los Angeles Times

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Michael Beasley

I come not to criticize or praise Michael Beasley, but to empathize with him.
Yahoo Sports is reporting the former Kansas State basketball star, now a member of the NBA Miami Heat, is being treated for depression-related issues at a Houston rehabilitation facility. The Associated Press is reporting the same contention.

When I read those accounts today, I wanted to throw up.

Why?

Because I’ve been there. Three years ago, I spent a night in a psychiatric care facility under observation for depression.

It may have been the worst night of my life. They took my shoestrings, my belt. Informed doctors and nurses take depression seriously. I felt exactly how Beasley apparently felt when he left a cry for help on an Internet account:

"Feelin like it's not worth livin!!!!!!! I'm done" and "I feel like the whole world is against me. I can't win for losin’.”

It doesn’t matter why you feel that low. It matters only that you do. And trust me, you do.

I spent only the one night under lock and key, of my own volition. I spent several weeks in day-long group therapy sessions and it is those sessions that I honestly will tell you saved my life.

My last day of group therapy, I told my fellow sufferers that I would carry a part of each of them around with me for the rest of my life. The part that helped me gain perspective again.

It is why I’m sharing my experience. I was helped off a ledge by others sharing their experiences with me.

I don’t begin to know a thing about what demons are chasing Michael Beasley, if indeed there are any. Depression’s causes and symptoms are as varied as the different people you’ll meet walking down the street.

Some depressives are alcoholics or drug addicts. Many, like me, are not.
For me, depression was - and on some days still can be - measured by the certainty that beneath my feet, just under the ground upon which I stand, lurks a deep, dark lake knowing no horizon.

Its surface is not ruffled by waves, or even a ripple. But to descend into the dark’s caress is to give up all hope. Loss of hope, I contend, beggars the loss of life.
If Michael Beasley is teetering over that abyss, then I pray he receives the help I received. I pray we let him seek that with the understanding I was granted by people at The Kansas City Star, by family, by friends.

It is the least we all could do.

By Mike DeArmond

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Kourtney Kardashian Pregnant

It's a big day in the baby department for women whose names start with K and have shows on E!.

Wednesday afternoon, Kendra Wilkinson, the former "Girl Next Door" and current star of her own show on the cable channel, took to her blog to inform the world that she and husband Hank Baskett are having a boy. Or, as she put it, "Hank and I are having a baby boy!!!!!!!!!!!!"

A few minutes after that, an e-mail blast from E! arrived announcing that Kourtney Kardashian, of the soon-to-premiere "Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami," is pregnant.
Wilkinson revealed to the world in June that she and Baskett, who were married on June 27, were expecting their first child. She took to the Internet just moments after finding out the baby's gender to tell everyone else.

As for Kardashian, she's keeping quiet about the details of her pregnancy, even to the online arm of the network where her show airs. She's not revealing who the father is or when she's due. News from zap2it

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Karen Sypher Photos

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Karen Sypher photos and Rick Pitino. Rick Pitino is facing heat for a chance sex he had with a woman six years ago. He may be ruing the unfortunate time when he was tempted to have sex with a woman named Karen Cunagin Syphera.

The ignominy continues even six years after that sexual dalliance of Rick Pitino. First the woman accused him of forcibly raping her and then he said the woman was trying to extort one million dollar.

Rick Pitino a leading basketball coach. Since 2001 he has been the head coach at the University of Louisville. He has also served as head coach at Boston University, Providence College and the University of Kentucky, leading that program to the NCAA championship in 1996. He has coached on the professional level for the NBA's New York Knicks and Boston Celtics with mixed results. Read more on Khabrein

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Kelly Sott

Cameron Douglas' girlfriend, Kelly Sott, was busted yesterday for trying to smuggle the accused meth dealer some heroin while he was in a courtroom.

We can't decide if this is disturbing, pathetic, hilarious or all three.

Cops say Kelly Sott was caught trying to pass an electric toothbrush to Cameron Douglas. One that happened to be stuffed with dime bags of heroin, of course.

This took place in a conference room in a federal courthouse in New York City, according to NBC New York, and Sott was taken into custody by police.

Cameron was in court facing charges from his crystal meth bust.

The DEA believes he's been slingin' meth over the last few years. Officials say they busted the 30-year-old after a prolonged sting and that he is not small time.

He is accused of being a well-oiled drug machine, selling methamphetamine between New York and L.A., delivering the addictive substance in person, or via Fed Ex from a California hotel, according to the criminal complaint. - News from Hollywood Gossip

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Andaman Islands - Earthquake

A huge 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, triggering panic as people fled their homes amid initial warnings of a possible tsunami.

A tsunami alert issued for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh was later cancelled by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of the US National Weather Service.

"Sea level readings indicate that a significant tsunami was not generated," the centre said.

The police control centre in Port Blair, the main town of India's Andaman Islands, said there were no immediate reports of any major damage or casualties.

The quake hit at 1:55 am (1955 GMT Monday) around 263 kilometres (163 miles) north of Port Blair, and was around 33 kilometres (20.2 miles) deep.

The Andamans were badly hit by the 2004 Asian tsunami which was triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra and sent giant waves crashing into countries around the Indian Ocean.

"It was very frightening. Everything started shaking and people were running out of their homes," said Mrinal Sarkar, a villager in Diglipur in the northern Andamans.

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Ashley Greene Scandal - Naked Photos

It looks like "Twilight" star Ashley Greene is the latest starlet caught up in a nude-photo scandal. After Perez Hilton posted naked pictures that appeared to be of Greene, her rep stepped in and released a statement.

"The photos in question, which appear to be of our client, are illegal and are being unlawfully displayed," her rep told MTV News in a statement Monday (August 10). "Our client intends to take legal action."

Although the statement doesn't confirm whether the photos are of Greene, they have since been taken off Perez Hilton's Web site and replaced with the following statement: "The nude images have been removed from PerezHilton.com at the request of Greene's attorneys."

Greene made a splash at the Teen Choice Awards, where the "Twilight" crew won 11 awards. Greene was singled out as Choice Fresh Face Female and called her win "incredible."

Before the photos hit the Web, everyone was talking about another picture of Greene apparently kissing "Gossip Girl" star Chace Crawford. TMZ reported that the pair had been hanging out for a while, but up until the picture, taken early Monday, had kept the relationship on the down low.

At the Teen Choice Awards, it was another starlet who was making all the headlines for her photo scandal, after comedian Dane Cook poked fun at Vanessa Hudgens for her photos leaked last week, as well as in 2007. "Girl, you gots to keep your clothes on!" he said during the show. "Phones are for phone calls, girl." - By Jocelyn Vena

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