A model is threatening to sue Tila Tequila after the reality TV star posted a profane online rant about her.
Lawyers for Jasmine Lennard have slammed the unstable Tequila with a cease and desist letter demanding she remove a blog post, in which she brands the British model “an ugly devil” and a “bitch.”
In Nov., late Johnson & Johnson heriess Casey Johnson was arrested on felony grand larceny charges after she allegedly robbed Lennard’s Los Angeles home of clothes — leaving the model’s used vibrator behind as evidence.
Johnson was found dead in her West Hollywood mansion last week.
In a scathing blog uploaded last week, however, Tila alleges Jasmine was attempting to frame Johnson, writing: “Jazmine (sic) was supposedly the one who gave her (Johnson) the key to her place and told her to borrow whatever she wanted. Jazmine set her up on purpose, probably hoping that she would get millions off of Casey, but once she realized that Casey didn’t have that money, Jazmine, this devil – an Ugly devil at that – got p**sed (angry). And as soon as my fiancee and I announced that we got engaged, this bi**h would not stop harassing us!”
Lennard, the daughter of former Bond girl Marilyn Galsworthy, wants the post removed and her legal team is threatening legal action against Tequila if she refuses to take it down.
“Should you fail to comply with our client’s stipulations, you will be exposed to extensive liability in damages and legal costs in this jurisdiction,” the notice reads.
Sony’s presence at CES 2010 was quite memorable and they demonstrated a wide variety of new strategies for their product lines. Stan and I had a really good time covering some of the products, meeting with old Sony friends and meeting new ones. I cannot express to you enough how well we were treated by Sony, and I hope that through this pictorial and video you will feel like you were right there with us. I do want to express that these pictures and the video do not do the entire booth justice, as it was simply massive and had many more products than what you see here. Nonetheless, I still think you’ll enjoy some of the extra pictures that we couldn’t really fit in with any other entries.
And don’t worry, we still have a lot more to post. Here’s a video showing off Sony’s booth a little more:
I thought it was really neat how Sony had these looming displays of their latest 2010 Television line overlooking the entire booth.
Sony also had an interactive EyePet display, where one could sit down with a Playstation rep and learn about the augmented reality experience. The game should be coming to the USA very soon, which is long overdue as it has been available elsewhere (such as the UK, Asia Pacific) for a little while now.
Here’s the Alpha area, where two specialists helped visitors with their queries. They didn’t have the A450 on display and said that it would most likely never come to the USA.
A general area nearby –
I couldn’t resist..
Sony also had some props from District 9 in a glass case, such as this enormous gun and one of the alien hands and canister that started the whole mess in the colony.
Here is the NX series BRAVIA that sat in front of a couch – they had three separate couches with configurations like this in front of them. Sometimes you could catch people sleeping on the couch at various times, or simply taking a break from the stresses of a convention.
Here is the inside of a Ford Taurus SHO that had special Sony custom lettering and one of their latest head units.
This is the exploded view of a DSC-HX5V – I love it when Sony Japan puts something like this together for conventions. I’d love watch the whole process sometime.
This is the exploded view of the latest Wide Angle G Lens found in many 2010 Sony Camcorders.
This is a luggage tag being made for myself by a machine they had near some VAIO’s. It was pretty random, but attracted attention and was thoughtful. On the other side it mentioned VAIO, CES 2010 and Sony.
I just love everything about Hot Shots and had to take this picture, plus, the PSP Go won an Innovations award (amongst many other Sony products as well).
Stan had no problem working the desk. One of the most amusing pictures I’ve ever taken.
An outtake from the video above – there were many outtakes.
Sony’s Social Media Evangelist Sukhjit Ghag and I right before I left the show floor for good.
Here are some of the stories from CrunchGear’s CES coverage this week:
Best of CES 2010
An open letter to the creator of the pretzel dog
Review: WristOffice mobile device holder
And now you can fabricate objects in full color
The toys of CES Unveiled
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Michael Schumacher did not get any help from his long-time manager Willi Weber in Formula One-return negotiations with Ross Brawn. Although insisting that Weber continues to be his manager, Schumacher admitted that his contractual negotiations with Mercedes GP were handled only by him, this move saving him some 700,000 euro in the end.
I am now old enough to take care of a few things for myself, Schumacher was quoted as saying by Germany’s Bild newspaper.
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Last month, Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering, demonstrated at the Computer History Museum the ability to search by using your location as the query. Starting today, you can try this yourself by going to Google.com in your iPhone or Android browser and clicking on “Near me now” once your location has been provided by your phone.
“Near me now” was designed to address two user problems. First, we wanted to make it fast and easy to find out more about a place in your immediate vicinity, whether you’re standing right in front of a business or if it’s just a short walk away. For example, you may want to know what other customers think about a restaurant before you go inside (see quick video below) or what they have been raving about on the menu before you order. By selecting the “Explore right here” option, you can find out more about a place “right here” with just a few clicks.
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The "loves me, loves me not" story between the Cadillac Converj and American manufacturer GM seems to have ended with a marriage proposal, as the carmaker’s vice chairman Bob Lutz announced at a conference of the Society of Automotive Analysts in Detroit the car will become the second extended-range electric vehicle to join GM’s lineup.
According to Lutz, cited by DetNews, the car has received the board’s approval and is now entering research and development. The closes… (read more)
Robert Pattinson will share an on-screen sex scene with acting vet Uma Thurman in his next film! The Twilight heartthrob has signed up to star in a big screen adaptation of French author Guy de Maupassant’s 19th century novel Bel Ami, in which Pattinson will play ambitious young journalist Georges Duroy who sleeps his way to the top.
According to several new reports, the script calls for Rob to bed Uma’s character Madeleine — but fans could also possibly see the hunk get X-rated with Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott Thomas, who are set to appear as Clotilde and Virginie, respectively.
Gregory T. Huang wrote:
What’s more annoying than a 24-year-old who sells his company to Microsoft for $265 million and never has to work another day in his life? Easy. When that same guy sells his next company to Amazon.com for more than $1 billion.
OK, so it took 10 more years of hard work, but Tony Hsieh, now in his mid-30s, seems to be in pretty good shape. The CEO of Zappos, the Las Vegas-based online shoe retailer bought by Amazon last summer, was the subject of a Q&A in the New York Times yesterday in which he talked about startup culture and hiring practices. In particular, Hsieh (pronounced “shay”) touched on things like why he sold LinkExchange to Microsoft back in 1996 (“the culture just went completely downhill”), and the one question he would ask a prospective hire today.
I came away with two things from the interview. First, Hsieh has a very interesting hiring style. Assuming a candidate has the right skills and experience, then the most important thing, Hsieh says in the piece, is “are they going to be good for the culture?” CEOs always say that, but Hsieh seems to mean it in a more personal way. “We’ll invite them to barbecues on weekends and they bring their families,” he says—it’s a way to tell “whether you feel like you can actually get to know them on a personal level or if they’re very professional and standoffish.”
What’s interesting is that he’s trying to gauge “how self-aware people are and how honest they are,” he says. “I think if someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they’re not self-aware, I think it’s harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.” To this end, the one question Hsieh says he’d ask in the interview is, “What would you say is the biggest misperception that people have of you?”
My second takeaway, related to the first, is that culture is everything to Zappos. The company values “a little weirdness” in its employees—something that works for some startups better than others. So Hsieh says he also asks candidates how weird they are on a scale of 1 to 10. The number isn’t as important as “how candidates react,” he says.
Just for the record, here are Zappos’s 10 cultural tenets, according to Hsieh (and there are typically interview questions for each one):
1) Deliver WOW Through Service
2) Embrace and Drive Change
3) Create Fun and A Little Weirdness
4) Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded
5) Pursue Growth and Learning
6) Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication
7) Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit
8) Do More With Less
9) Be Passionate and Determined
10) Be Humble
What Hsieh didn’t talk about in the NYT interview was Amazon and the cultural fit there—probably because nobody seems to talk about Amazon after being acquired by the Seattle giant. We’ll be watching to see how the integration goes…
A couple of months ago, Google announced several promotions offering free Wi-Fi in airports and in some flights in the US. This was seen as a nice gesture from Google and a lot of people most likely appreciated the move when they were stuck in airports during the busy holiday season. Now though, it has become apparent that the whole free Wi-Fi thin… (read more)
As expected, McLaren Mercedes will also unveil their 2010 challenger ahead of the Valencia testing next month, as revealed by The Mirror newspaper on Monday. According to the British reporters, the Woking organization will unveil their new car in a little over a fortnight.
Until now, Mercedes GP, BMW Sauber and Lotus F1 Team have all announced official dates for their 2010 car unveilings (in Mercedes’ case, it was actually a leaked date to the German media). Most of the championsh… (read more)
MUNCIE — Can wind energy advocates count on Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels to support a renewable electricity standard (RES), which would require Indiana’s electric utilities to increase the amount of wind energy in their electricity portfolio until …
Elijah McCoy
The inventor was born in 1843, in Colchester, Ontario, Canada. His parents were former slaves, George and Mildred McCoy. At the age of fifteen, Elijah McCoy served a mechanical engineering apprenticeship in Edinburgh, Scotland. Afterwards, he returned to Michigan to pursue a position in his field. However, the only job he found was that of a locomotive fireman and oiler for the Michigan Central Railroad. The fireman on a train was responsible for fueling the steam engine and the oiler lubricated the engine’s moving parts as well as the train’s axles and bearings. Because of his training, he was able to identify and solve the problems of engine lubrication and overheating. At that time, trains needed to periodically stop and be lubricated, to prevent overheating. Elijah McCoy developed a lubricator for steam engines that did not require the train to stop. His lubricator used steam pressure to pump oil wherever it was needed and his lubricate was used all the way into the 20th century. The saying the real McCoy, meaning the real thing, has in some cases been erroneously accredited to Elijah’s invention. The theory is that railroad engineers looking to avoid inferior copies would inquire if a locomotive was fitted with "the real McCoy".[4] The original publication of this claim can be traced to a 1985 pamphlet printed by the Empak Publishing Company, who could not explain how they developed the theory.[5] Other earlier origins to the phrase are unanimously accepted by the writing community and The noted African American inventor, Elijah McCoy was issued more than 57 patents for his inventions during his lifetime.
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver was born in 1864 near Diamond Grove, Missouri on the farm of Moses Carver. The infant George and his mother kidnapped by Confederate night-raiders and possibly sent away to Arkansas. Moses Carver found and reclaimed George after the war but his mother had disappeared forever. The identity of Carver’s father remains unknown, although he believed his father was a slave from a neighboring farm. America’s economy was heavily dependent upon agriculture during this era making Carver’s achievements very significant. Decades of growing only cotton and tobacco had depleted the soils of the southern area of the United States of America. The economy of the farming south had been devastated by years of civil war and the fact that the cotton and tobacco plantations could no longer (ab)use slave labor. Carver saves the south the very people who enslaved his people and kidnapped him and his mother. Carver convinced the southern farmers to follow his suggestions and helped the region to recover.
Carver also worked at developing industrial applications from agricultural crops. During World War I, he found a way to replace the textile dyes formerly imported from Europe. He produced dyes of 500 different shades of dye and he was responsible for the invention in 1927 of a process for producing paints and stains from soybeans. For that he received three separate patents.
Nigerian born Dr. Philip Emeagwali first entered the limelight in 1989 when he won the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for his work with massively parallel computers. He programmed the Connection Machine to compute a world record 3.1 billion calculations per second using 65,536 processors to simulate oil reservoirs. With over 41 inventions submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Philip Emeagwali is making big waves in the supercomputer industry, amazing achievements only surpassed by an even more amazing life.
NASA engineer, Jerry Shelby invented an engine protection system for recoverable rocket booster and received U.S. patent # 5,328,132 on July 12, 1994. Jerry Shelby rocket booster’s purpose is to propel an associated space vehicle to at least a desired first stage of travel. Shelby designed a rocket booster with improved protection for the purpose of making it reusable. Boosters fall back to earth after giving a space vehicle its boost into space.
Aprille Ericsson Jackson
Born in Brooklyn, NY.
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. in Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering; Howard University, Master of Engineering, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace option.
Career
Goddard Space Flight Center, engineer; Howard University, instructor; Bowie State University, instructor; lecturer.
While attending M.I.T., she was involved in several prestigious and important research projects. One of these projects, at the Applied Psychics Laboratory, allowed Ericsson-Jackson to assist in developing a fiber optic laser gyroscope, while a project at the Space Systems Laboratory involved creating a database for EVA neutral buoyancy data that was calculated at the NASA Johnson Space Center. For her Senior Project, Ericsson-Jackson researched Manned Mars Mission crew systems for interplanetary vehicles.
After graduating from M.I.T., Ericsson-Jackson decided to continue her education at Howard University in Washington, D.C. There she was awarded a Master of Engineering degree and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace option. Ericsson-Jackson’s research objective while attending Howard University was to develop practical design procedures for future orbiting space structures, such as the Space Station, that could be used along with optimal digital controllers. To fund this research Ericsson-Jackson received several fellowships and grants from many prestigious sponsors, including the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Coop, the NASA Center for Studies of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres, the Wright Patterson Air Force Laboratories, the Dorothy Danford Compton Dissertation, the NASA DC Space Grant Consortium, Patricia Roberts Harris, and the Pacific Telesis Foundation.
This guy didn’t invent anything great I just like the story anything to do with a creative person and entrepreneurship I really love this kind of stuff.
Renault has once again launched the "XV de France" limited edition of the new Megane hatchback, the new Megane Coupe, Clio hatchback and Clio Estate. Just like one year ago, the new range is a result of Renault association with France’s national rugby board (FFR) and with the French national site, so it is only available in France.
Pricing for the five-door Clio "XV de France" begins at 18,000 Euros, while the Clio Estate comes with a price tag of 18,650 Euros…. (read more)
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The porn industry peddles a product as old as Adam and Eve, and it’s always found the most cutting edge ways to do it.
It’s no accident that each year as the Consumer Electronics Show winds down in Las Vegas, the Adult Entertainment Expo heats up. Bespectacled techies cross paths with corseted porn stars selling high-tech sex toys and tools of all shapes and sizes.
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From Britney Spears’s musings to the Tiger Woods scandal, information can take a life of its own once it hits the world wide web.
B-list celebs and brand-names bustling for public attention can be particularly vulnerable to people with a gripe against them.
Alberic Guigou from online reputation management firm Reputation Squad said many people were becoming public figures on the internet.
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It was a pleasure speaking with you just now on the phone. I’m following up with a written request for a press pass as you’d suggested.
I’m requesting this press pass to cover your event for Twitter.com, a popular Internet website with a monthly readership of over 60 million.
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Jeremy Green came into Saturday’s contest against UCLA with a sore ankle, a bruised finger bone and a pulled back muscle. The sophomore guard then proceeded to play one of the best games of his career.
Green scored 30 points in 37 minutes for the Cardinal (8-7, 2-1 Pacific-10 Conference), who earned a solid 70-59 win over the Bruins (7-9, 2-2 Pac-10) at Maples Pavilion Saturday afternoon.
Sophomore guard Jeremy Green went 11-18 from the field, including 5-8 from long range to earn his career-high 30 points. But the Card’s bench didn’t score a single point to help in the win. (JIN ZHU/The Stanford Daily)
“It’s all good,” Green said in regard to his injuries. “I’m all good.”
Green was definitely “good” — the sophomore guard went 11-of-18 from the floor and seemed to make big shot after big shot when the Bruins were trying to get back into the game. He banked in a running three-pointer as time expired at the end of the first half to give the Cardinal a 34-33 lead going into the locker room.
“That was just a huge performance by a great player,” said sophomore center Jack Trotter. “He’s really come into his own.”
Senior forward Landry Fields overcame a slow start to finish with 16 points and seven rebounds. He didn’t have the best shooting night of his career, but he found a way to get his points, both inside and out.
“I was as proud of any kid as I’ve ever been,” said Coach Johnny Dawkins of Fields. “He takes everyone’s best shot every night. He’s never once backed off a challenge. He got off to a slow start tonight, and the toughest thing for any good player to do is to be able to turn it around in that same game. For him to turn it around in the second half says a lot about who he is.”
Overall, it was a solid performance by the Cardinal, who led nearly the whole game and pulled away from the Bruins in the final minutes.
“I thought we played well,” Dawkins said after the game. “I thought our guys worked hard, followed the game plan and were prepared.”
Dawkins also had plenty of praise for Green.
“I give the young man a lot of credit,” he said. “He’s played through a lot of injuries. He contributes, he’s competitive and I’m starting to think he [plays well] so he doesn’t have to practice for me,” Dawkins joked.
“He’s got a big heart — he’s a big competitor,” he added.
The unheralded Cardinal big men — Trotter and fellow sophomore Andrew Zimmerman — also played well, finishing around the basket and making a number of hustle plays. Trotter, a walk-on, finished with 10 points on 4-of-7 shooting.
“I thought our big men were terrific,” Dawkins said. “They grew even more tonight.”
Trotter emphasized the businesslike role he and Zimmerman have assumed for the Cardinal this season. “We’re going to defend, rebound and set screens,” he said. “We’re just setting screens and making good, strong fundamental plays.”
Sophomore point guard Jarrett Mann did what he needed to do as point guard, only scoring six points but dishing out an impressive eight assists. Though the Cardinal did not receive a single point from its bench, the contributions from the starters were more than enough to top the Bruins on Saturday.
UCLA shot 54.6 percent from the field while Stanford only shot 47.2 percent, but the game was won on turnovers and free throws — the Cardinal shot 13 more free throws and turned the ball over 10 fewer times. The Bruins may have shot the ball better, but the Cardinal’s execution on offense — namely, its ability to take care of the ball — was the difference in the game, whether UCLA threw a zone or man-to-man defense at it.
“This just happened to be a good game against a good team, and [we got] a great win,” Green said.
Stanford earned a much-welcome sweep of the Southern California schools with the victory, and it stands, for the moment, in the upper half of the conference before traveling to face the Washington schools this week.
With the Pacific-10 Conference season just one game old, the Cardinal hit the road last weekend to battle USC and UCLA in Southern California.
Returning with two wins, an 82-62 defeat of USC (9-6, 3-1 Pac-10) and a narrow 65-61 victory over UCLA (10-5, 3-1 Pac-10), No. 2/2 Stanford (13-1, 3-0 Pac-10) marked a successful trip early in the year. The wins also move the team to the top of the Pac-10 table, and will give Stanford good memories of Trojan hardwood when it returns to the Galen Center for the Pac-10 Tournament in March.
Friday’s game against USC started perfectly for Stanford, which raced ahead to a 22-4 lead in the first 6 minutes, 42 seconds, and extended this to 30-7 as the competition only made three of its first 17 shots.
With the situation looking perhaps a little desperate, the Trojans rallied together and brought the deficit down to just nine points with 15 minutes left in the game. But that was the closest they got, as the Cardinal responded with four three-pointers and a 14-2 run that effectively sealed the contest.
Having beaten three top-25 teams this year under new head coach Michael Cooper, given the Cardinal a close run for the Pac-10 title last season, and taken their first two matches in the conference, the Trojans looked like tricky opponents for the Friday game. The final result, though, was perhaps a bit of a reality check for Cooper’s young program.
“For us to come back against the No. 2 team in the country and get within nine points was admirable on our part, but it doesn’t do anything for us,” Cooper said. “We’ve still got a lot of work ahead of us.”
After expressing disappointment in the performance that recently defeated California, albeit by 21 points, Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer was happier with this victory. Both forwards junior Kayla Pedersen and sophomore Nnemkadi Ogwumike made double-doubles in points and rebounds, with senior center Jayne Appel just one rebound shy of joining them. Meanwhile, credit goes to guards senior Rosalyn Gold-Onwude and junior Jeanette Pohlen for keeping the USC backcourt at bay.
Redshirt junior guard Melanie Murphy and the Stanford backcourt combined for 26 points in the Cardinal’s 65-61 win over UCLA to keep the Bruins at a distance until time expired on Sunday in Pauley Pavilion. (WENDY KALKUS/The Stanford Daily)
“We played much improved since our last game,” VanDerveer said. “We rebounded well, ran well, and I’m really happy with our improvement.”
At the end of the first half of the game on Sunday, many expected another strong victory by the Card against the Bruins. With only 24 seconds until the half-time buzzer, it had opened a 20-point lead, and it looked like the hard work might be done.
But UCLA had other ideas, and started an 11-point unanswered run that continued into the second half. When the clock had ticked down to 1:40, the commanding margin was gone, barely two points separated the two sides and it seemed as if the Bruins just might hand Stanford its second loss of the year.
While the Cardinal had posted almost the same number of points in the first and second halves (31 compared to 34), UCLA had more than doubled its haul (43 to 18). Though it was not enough for a Bruin victory, it is still hard to tell which team will be feeling better after this.
UCLA showed that it can push and perhaps beat one of the highest-ranked programs in the country, but Stanford ultimately took the statistic that mattered: the win.
There were no double-doubles on the Cardinal bench, and the numbers don’t look great in general. The team made 16 turnovers to UCLA’s nine, and the Bruins managed seven steals. Appel fouled out and Ogwumike came close to following her, and though she played for the entire game, Pedersen could only register six points.
Stanford revealed its skill on Friday, but Sunday’s game illustrated that depth remains in this conference — the title is not guaranteed to return to the Farm.
“All I can say is they are not a team to be taken lightly,” Pohlen said. “They are a great physical team and have great individual players.
“We learned today that we have a lot of competition in the Pac-10.”
Two players stand out, though: Ogwumike again notched up over 20 points — 10 of her 21 were scored once she was already resting on four fouls — and Gold-Onwude broke her career record with an 18-point total, including the two free throws that finally put the game out of reach in the last few seconds.
The Cardinal returns to campus this week to face Washington State at Maples on Thursday and Washington on Saturday.
