Pop open the bubbly, Aunt Viv’s getting hitched! Actress Vivica Fox, 46, has snatched Demi Moore’s tiara as Hollywood’s Most Celebrated Cougar after accepting a holiday marriage proposal from the strapping fetus she’s been dating. The Kill Bill actress is set wed much-younger fiance Omar “Slimm” White — an Atlanta club promoter — after just [...]
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How to convert PDF to DXF fast? Posted By : Jeremy Carlton
October 7th, 2010 |
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DXF (Drawing Exchange Format) is very popular among people working with AutoCAD program as it is compatible with all popular CAD systems. To edit PDF files in CAD programs people have to convert PDF to DXF. The article describes possible solutions.
Carrie Underwood Married Mike Fisher In Weekend Wedding Ceremony
July 11th, 2010 |
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Country music sweetheart Carrie Underwood married her hockey player beau Mike Fisher, 30, of the Ottawa Senators on Saturday Jul. 10, PEOPLE Magazine has learned. The pair, who got engaged in December, tied the knot in front of 250 guests in a private weekend ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton Lodge at Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Georgia, [...]
Lady Gaga Bodyguard Clashes With Teen Photographer
July 5th, 2010 |
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A Big Apple photog found himself on the receiving end of a blow to the head after he got a little too close for comfort to pop phenomenon Lady Gaga.One of the singer’s bodyguards has been accused of clashing with a teenage snapper while the “LoveGame” hitmaker was in Beantown (That’s local speak for Boston, [...]
Lady Gaga Bodyguard Clashes With Teen Photographer
July 5th, 2010 |
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A Big Apple photog found himself on the receiving end of a blow to the head after he got a little too close for comfort to pop phenomenon Lady Gaga.One of the singer’s bodyguards has been accused of clashing with a teenage snapper while the “LoveGame” hitmaker was in Beantown (That’s local speak for Boston, [...]
Lady Gaga’s minder ‘clashes with photog’
July 3rd, 2010 |
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Lady Gaga’s bodyguard has been accused of clashing with a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts. The Poker Face hitmaker has been in the city with her Monster Ball tour and 16-year-old cameraman Carl Wu was trying to take pictures of the singer outside a hotel when he was allegedly assaulted by a member of Gaga”s security [...]
Vanessa Carlton admits she is â€a proud bisexual womanâ€
June 21st, 2010 |
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Singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton has confessed that she was a ”bisexual”. The ‘Thousand Miles’ hitmaker announced her secret at the Nashville Pride Festival this weekend to a crowd of 18,000, reports the Huffington Post. “I”ve never said this before, but I am a proud bisexual woman,” the New York Daily News quoted her as saying. The [...]
Vanessa Carlton Bisexual
June 21st, 2010 |
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Bisexual is the new black, and singer Vanessa Carlton wears it well.The pianist and noted lyricist made a major announcement while headlining Nashville’s annual Gay Pride festivities on Saturday; she’s bisexual. “I’ve never said this before, but I am a proud bisexual woman,” Carlton courageously bellowed to the crowd of 18,000. Vanessa — previously romantically-linked to John [...]
Lara Bingle to continue legal action against Brendan Fevola
April 10th, 2010 |
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Australian model Lara Bingle is continuing her legal action against AFL player Brendan Fevola.
Bingle, 22, is proceeding despite football bosses deciding on April 9 to drop their inquiry into the matter.
“The matter remains in the hands of our lawyers,†the Daily Telegraph quoted Bingle’s agent Max Markson as saying.
“Our legal action has always been against [...]
Krishna reiterates issue of Indian nationals’ safety in Australia
January 27th, 2010 |
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External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has deplored the attacks on two Indian nationals in Australia yesterday and said that the issue of racism will top his agenda during his meet with Australia’’s Foreign Minister Stephen Smith in London on Wednesday.
In an exclusive interview to Times Now, Krishna emphasised that the safety of [...]
Indonesia confirms militant alive
August 12th, 2009 |
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DNA tests show that a man killed in a weekend raid was not Noordin Mohammed Top, one of the region’s most wanted men, Indonesian police say.
The dead man – killed at the end of a siege at a remote farmhouse in Central Java on Saturday – was named instead as a suspect in two 17 July bomb attacks.
Police sources had earlier said they had killed Malaysian-born Noordin.
He has been blamed for a number of attacks, including the July hotel bombs in Jakarta and the 2002 Bali blasts.
"The dead body is Ibrohim… We tried to match the DNA with the sample from Johor [Noordin's son] and it didn’t match," police spokesman Nanan Soekarna told a news conference.
Florist fixer
He said Ibrohim was a florist who had worked at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in the Indonesian capital.
He is suspected of having helped prepare last month’s twin attacks, which killed nine people, including six foreigners.
Police released new security camera footage showing a man identified as Ibrohim escorting the alleged Marriott bomber around the hotel on 8 July, and later bringing bomb-making material into the hotel’s staff-only loading bay.
"Ibrohim was a planner who was always present in the meetings with Noordin Top," Mr Soekarna said.
Police said they believed Ibrohim was to have been a suicide bomber himself in a planned attack on the home of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
That plot was foiled in the security forces’ attack last weekend on the Central Javanese farmhouse where explosives were found, police said.
Acting on a tip-off, Indonesian police mounted the 16-hour siege of the farmhouse in which Noordin was initially claimed to have been killed.
Analysts had doubted the claims and media later reported police sources saying Noordin had probably fled the farmhouse about two hours before the raid began.
His reputation as the most wanted – yet most elusive – militant in South East Asia will only be burnished by the latest failure to catch him, analysts said.
He is believed to have formed a violent offshoot of the Jemmah Islamiah militant network, after the network split over the uses of violence.
As well as the 2002 Bali bombings, Noordin is thought to have been behind attacks on the Jakarta Marriott in 2003, the Australian embassy in 2004, and also on a series of restaurants in Bali in 2005 in which more than 20 died.
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Bombed Jakarta hotels to re-open today
July 29th, 2009 |
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Two luxury Jakarta hotels attacked by suicide bombers earlier this month will re-open on Wednesday, staff said. The July 17 attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton left nine dead and 53 injured, including Indonesians and foreigners. Police have yet to identify the perpetrators but
Jakarta police find unexploded bomb
July 24th, 2009 |
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Timed device could have sent panicked crowds fleeing into path of suicide attacker at Marriott hotel
A third bomb on a timer was set to go off before suicide bombers blew themselves up at two hotels in Jakarta last week but malfunctioned, police said today.
The device, a laptop filled with explosives and bolts, was found on the 18th floor of the JW Marriott and was supposed to go off first, according to Ketut Untung Yoga of the national police.
The explosion would probably have sent panicked crowds fleeing to the ground floors, where a suicide attacker detonated his explosives pack.
“It is clear that the bomb found inside the hotel was equipped with a timer that shows the time of the [failed] explosion,” Untung Yoga said. “It was supposed to explode before the other two.”
Last Friday’s near-simultaneous explosions at the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton killed seven people and wounded more than 50, breaking a nearly four-year lull in terrorist activity in the country. The two bombers, believed to have been associated to the regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), also died.
An unknown number of suspects have been picked up in a manhunt that has also targeted Noordin Top, a Malaysian fugitive and alleged mastermind of four bombings in Indonesia.
JI used a combination of stationary, timed explosives and suicide bombers in the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings that killed more than 220 people. The group was also blamed for the first bombing of the Marriott in 2003 and an attack on the Australian embassy in 2004.
JI was thought to have been wiped out after a crackdown that has led to the jailing of hundreds of militants in recent years.
But last Friday’s attack showed that militants are still able to strike high-security targets in the heart of the capital, reviving fears that more bombings may follow.
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Jakarta mastermind’s ‘wife’ held
July 23rd, 2009 |
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Indonesian police have arrested a woman believed to be the wife of the man who allegedly masterminded last week’s attacks on two hotels in Jakarta.
The woman, identified as Ariana Rahma, was detained during a raid on an Islamic school in central Java.
Ms Ariana is reported to be married to Noordin Mohammed Top, a wanted militant.
Police earlier released facial images of the two men suspected of carrying out the bomb attacks.
The police sketches of the alleged bombers were based on two heads found in the wreckage at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels.
The attacks killed nine people and injured scores of others.
It is unclear what charges Ms Ariana might be facing, but in recent raids in Cilacap police say they found bomb-making material at an Islamic boarding school and explosives buried in the garden of a house of Mr Noordin’s father-in-law.
Mr Noordin is wanted for plotting the bombings in Bali in 2002 and 2005, which killed 202 people, and other attacks in Indonesia.
The police say they are looking into similarities between the Bali attacks and the recent bombing in Jakarta.
Mr Noordin was said to be a key financier for the militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah, but is now thought to have set up his own splinter group.
Foreign dead
The man whose remains were found in the Ritz-Carlton is dark-skinned with short dark hair. The police said he was aged between 20 and 40.
The second man, found at the Marriott, was lighter skinned and aged just 16 or 17.
NOORDIN MOHAMED TOP- Born in Malaysia, fled to Indonesia after 9/11
- Wanted for planning bombings on Bali in 2002 and 2005 and other attacks
- Said to have split from Jemaah Islamiah over strategy disagreements and set up new group
- Main accomplice Azahari Husin killed by police in 2005
- Escaped police raid in 2006 and continues to evade capture
Several foreigners were among those who died in Friday’s attack, including New Zealander Timothy Mackay, 62, president director of Holcim Indonesia cement company, and Australians Nathan Verity and Garth McEvoy.
Another of the victims was Craig Senger, the first Australian government official to be killed in a terrorist attack – he worked as a trade commission officer at the embassy in Jakarta.
Officials said 17 foreigners were among the wounded, including eight Americans and citizens of Australia, Britain, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and South Korea.
Police say they are investigating similarities to the twin bomb attacks on Bali in 2002, which killed 202 people.</p
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Jakarta bomber images released
July 22nd, 2009 |
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Indonesian police have released sketches of the two men believed to be the suicide bombers who attacked luxury hotels in Jakarta on Friday.
The sketches of the reconstructed faces were based on two heads found in the wreckage at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels.
The attacks killed nine people and injured scores of others.
Analysts believe they were carried out by an offshoot of the militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah.
The man whose remains were found in the Ritz-Carlton is dark-skinned with short dark hair. Police said he was aged between 20 and 40.
The second man, found at the Marriott, was lighter skinned. The police said he was aged between 20 and 25.
Government official
Several foreigners were among those who died in Friday’s attack, including New Zealander Timothy Mackay, 62, president director of Holcim Indonesia cement company and Australians Nathan Verity and Garth McEvoy.
Another of the victims was Craig Senger, the first Australian government official to be killed in a terrorist attack; he worked as a trade commission officer at the embassy in Jakarta.
Officials said 17 foreigners were among the wounded, including eight Americans and citizens of Australia, Britain, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and South Korea.
Police say they are investigating similarities to the twin bomb attacks on Bali in 2002, which killed 202 people.</p
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Jakarta Bombing Suspect Images Released By Indonesia (PHOTOS)
July 22nd, 2009 |
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Indonesian police have released reconstructed images of the two suspects believed to be responsible for the July 17 bombings in Jakarta, AFP reports. The attacks were the first major terror attack in Indonesia since 2005.
Police said the susp…
Mourning as Jakarta probes bombs
July 20th, 2009 |
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Wreaths have been laid and prayers said near the site in Jakarta, Indonesia, where two bombs exploded on Friday.
A multi-faith ceremony near the Ritz-Carlton and Marriott Hotels was being organised to show community solidarity.
Police and security analysts have said the attacks were most likely carried out by an offshoot of the militant Islamist group Jemaah Islamiah.
The bombs, which struck the two US-owned luxury hotels, killed nine people including two suicide bombers.
Scores of people are still in hospital being treated for wounds received in the blasts.
Crowds have also been milling around the bomb sites, reading messages left by others – most of them condemning terrorism.
Sadness and shock
Relatives of some of the victims in the bombing have come to Jakarta for memorials and to collect the bodies.
New Zealander Timothy Mackay, 62, president director of Holcim Indonesia cement company, was among the dead, as were Australians Nathan Verity and Garth McEvoy.
Craig Senger has become the first Australian government official to be killed in a terrorist attack; he worked as a trade commission officer at the embassy in Jakarta.
Officials said 17 foreigners were among the wounded, including eight Americans and citizens of Australia, Britain, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and South Korea.
Several reports suggest the regular Friday morning business breakfast at the JW Marriott Hotel, hosted by well-known business consultant James Castle, was one target of the attack.
Indonesian television has broadcast security camera footage showing what appears to have been the suicide bomber coming out of the lift and walking directly to the lounge where the business breakfast was always held.
Reports also say a hotel security guard stopped the alleged bomber and asked what he was doing, before letting him make what he called "a delivery" to the room – which then exploded.
Reactions have been muted on Monday’s public holiday in Indonesia but people interviewed on the streets said they were shocked at the bomb attacks after several years of stability and economic growth.
Probing
Police say they are investigating similarities to the twin bomb attacks on Bali in 2002, which killed 202 people.
NOORDIN MOHAMED TOP- Born in Malaysia, fled to Indonesia after 9/11
- Wanted for planning bombings on Bali in 2002 and 2005 and other attacks
- Said to have split from Jemaah Islamiah over strategy disagreements and set up new group
- Main accomplice Azahari Husin killed by police in 2005
- Escaped police raid in 2006 and continues to evade capture
Friday’s bombs also resemble bomb-making material found during recent police raids on an Islamic boarding school in Cilacap, Central Java.
Police said they are trying to reconstruct the face of one of the dead suicide bombers before they can be absolutely certain of the identities of those involved.
Speculation has focused on two graduates of the Ngruki boarding school, which is led by controversial cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir.
Police are hunting for Noordin Mohammad Top, a fugitive Malaysian who heads a particularly violent offshoot of the Jemaah Islamiah network and has been linked to four major attacks in Indonesia since 2002.
Police are also looking for connections between Friday’s bombing and explosives discovered last week in the Cilacap region of Central Java. The explosives were buried in a garden at the house of Noordin’s father-in-law, who is also at large.
Noordin was said to be a key financier for Jemaah Islamiah but is now thought to have set up his own splinter group.
Jemaah Islamiah has links to al-Qaeda and has a long track record of bomb attacks in Indonesia, including the Bali bombings.</p
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Susanna Speier: Apollo 11 Politiku
July 18th, 2009 |
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In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11′s moon landing, individuals with NASA affiliations that range from astronaut to intern condensed the seminal event into 17 syllable historiographies.
Fugitive linked to Jakarta blasts
July 18th, 2009 |
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Police in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, are studying DNA and other evidence to try to identify those behind the deadly attacks on two hotels on Friday.
At least nine people, including two suicide bombers, died in the attacks on the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott.
At least half of the victims are said to be foreigners but they are still to be formally identified.
A top anti-terror official was quoted as saying Malaysian militant Noordin Mohammed Top was linked to the attacks.
The BBC’s Karishma Vaswani in Jakarta says the Indonesian people have been truly shocked by these attacks as they thought they had put events like this behind them.
‘Shoulder to shoulder’
Investigators on Friday recovered an unexploded bomb and other explosives material from what they said was the "control centre" for the attacks – room 1808 in the Marriott.
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The attackers paid to stay at the hotel and smuggled in the explosives before detonating them in two restaurants on Friday.
CCTV footage showed one attacker wearing a cap pulling a bag on wheels into the Marriott restaurant, followed by a flash and smoke.
"I strongly condemn the attacks that occurred… in Jakarta and extend my deepest condolences to all of the victims and their loved ones"
Barack Obama
Eyewitnesses: Jakarta attacks Attack waiting to happen Indonesia braces for tourism blow Profile: Jemaah IslamiahA senior counter-terrorism official, Ansyaad Mbai, was quoted by the state-run Antara news agency on Saturday as saying the attacks were "clearly linked" to Noordin Mohammed Top.
He is believed to lead a splinter group of Jemaah Islamiah, which was blamed for the deadly 2002 Bali bomb attacks and a number of others in Indonesia.
Friday’s bombs contained nails, ball bearings and bolts, identical to ones used by Jemaah Islamiah, police said.
Security has been tightened across Indonesia in the wake of the attacks, with 500 troops put on standby to support police in the capital.
A new Zealander, businessman Tim Mackay, has been confirmed killed.
Australia fears for three missing nationals, including diplomat Craig Senger and Perth businessman Nathan Verity.
But details of the victims are still not confirmed. One health ministry report said the identified dead included two Australians, a New Zealander, a Singaporean and an Indonesian.
At least 17 foreigners were among the wounded, including eight Americans.
Other foreign nationals wounded included visitors from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea and the UK.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono condemned the attacks as "cruel and inhuman".
US President Barack Obama said: "I strongly condemn the attacks that occurred… in Jakarta and extend my deepest condolences to all of the victims and their loved ones."
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith is due to arrive in Jakarta on Saturday.
He said he wanted to stand "shoulder to shoulder with Indonesia at this terrible time".
The Manchester United football team had been booked to stay in the Ritz-Carlton next week ahead of a game in Jakarta.
The team has cancelled the Indonesian leg of their tour.
The attacks come just weeks after the peaceful presidential elections.
The country of 240 million people has been praised in recent years for maintaining a pluralist democracy while finding and punishing radical Islamists responsible for the series of bombings more than five years ago.
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