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Importance of Social Networking
Everybody knows about the importance of social networking. However, only a few of us actually realizes its potential. And there are many who knows and realizes the worth of social networking, yet they seldom use it for their personal favor.Internet DatingThe very first profit of social networking is its efficiency to provide a visual manner for seeking friendship and love. Internet dating is
Courtney Love's 'heroin drama' started at Sheen's house
Cover of Courtney LoveDrugs are Evil HamstersBirds of a feather, flock together.....
U.S. musician Courtney Love performs during a party at the Printemps general store in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
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Date: Friday May. 27, 2011 7:47 AM ET
Courtney Love says her "heroin drama" began after "shooting up" during a party at Charlie Sheen's house.
The Hole rocker -- who's had a high-profile addiction to drugs in the past -- claims she went to party at the former 'Two and a Half Men' star's home several years ago and started taking the class-A substance, resulting in her addiction to the illegal drug.
Courtney == widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain == told thefix.com: "One night, my boyfriend at the time, who was working for Ben Stiller, took me to this star-studded party at Charlie Sheen's house in Malibu. Tom Cruise was there, and Madonna, and my friend Jennifer Finch, who used to be the lead singer of L7.
At some point Jennifer -- who has been very clean for 16 years now -- convinced me to shoot up. 'Come on, everyone's doing it.' So that's when my whole heroin drama began."
However the mother-of-one insists she's been clean since 1996, although she briefly relapsed in 2005 by taking heroin as she wanted to die.
Courtney, 46, said: "I promised I would never shoot heroin again, and I haven't, except for one incident in July 2005, where I shot myself up on purpose to kill myself."
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Naked cop to collect $3G a month = Evil Hamster of the Day
Naked cop to collect $3G a month
A Milton-based state trooper charged with dancing naked before a webcam for what he thought was a 13-year-old girl has retired and will receive nearly $3,000 an month in pension benefits.
Douglas N. Sversko, 44, of Lewisburg, retired from his $81,620-a-year job shortly after he appeared in a Dauphin County district court to waive his right to a preliminary hearing on felony charges of unlawful contact with a child and criminal use of a communication facility for exposing himself online last spring.
He was suspended without pay the day of his arrest on Feb. 16, paid $100,000 bail for his release from jail and retired in early March after waiving the charges to Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas.
Employed by the state police for 18 years, Sversko has been approved to receive a $2,901 monthly pension.
The latest development in the case has outraged active and retired state troopers.
“Furious” is how one trooper described the response.
None would speak on the record, but one trooper said part of the anger is with the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System, which allows employees facing certain criminal charges to collect benefits until there’s a conviction.
It’s not certain whether Sversko will be allowed to continue collecting a pension if he’s convicted.
A PSERS spokesman was not available Friday and state police spokesman Jack Lewis did not return calls.
— Email comments to mmoore@dailyitem.com
Douglas N. Sversko, 44, of Lewisburg, retired from his $81,620-a-year job shortly after he appeared in a Dauphin County district court to waive his right to a preliminary hearing on felony charges of unlawful contact with a child and criminal use of a communication facility for exposing himself online last spring.
He was suspended without pay the day of his arrest on Feb. 16, paid $100,000 bail for his release from jail and retired in early March after waiving the charges to Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas.
Employed by the state police for 18 years, Sversko has been approved to receive a $2,901 monthly pension.
The latest development in the case has outraged active and retired state troopers.
“Furious” is how one trooper described the response.
None would speak on the record, but one trooper said part of the anger is with the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System, which allows employees facing certain criminal charges to collect benefits until there’s a conviction.
It’s not certain whether Sversko will be allowed to continue collecting a pension if he’s convicted.
A PSERS spokesman was not available Friday and state police spokesman Jack Lewis did not return calls.
— Email comments to mmoore@dailyitem.com
Maria Shriver 'humbled by the love'....Divorce is an Evil Hamster
Image via CrunchBaseSometimes it is necessary, and for the good of all involved, but it still hurts people no matter what, so today, I declare DIVORCE and Relationships dying as Evil Hamsters.
Maria Shriver has spoken out publicly on her own for the first time since her separation from Arnold Schwarzenegger went public earlier this week."Thank you for all the kindness, support and compassion," Shriver said Friday on Twitter. "I am humbled by the love. Thank you."
Photos: 25 years of Shriver, Schwarzenegger
Since word of the couple's split after 25 years of marriage went public Monday, many supportive remarks have been posted to Shriver's YouTube channel, in light of a video she'd posted March 28 in which she discussed being "in transition."
"It is so stressful to not know what you're doing next," Shriver said in the video, above. "I'd like to hear from other people in transition.... How did you get through it? What were three things that enabled you to get through your transition?"
Her husband acknowledged the split publicly Tuesday at a Skirball Cultural Center event celebrating Israeli Independence Day.
"I just talked to Maria an hour ago before I came here," Schwarzenegger said Tuesday, "and we both were saying the same thing, we are amazed and extremely blessed to be surrounded by so many wonderful people. We both love each other very much. We are very fortunate that we have four extraordinary children and we're taking one day at a time."
Photos: High-profile political breakups
He's been relatively quiet since Wednesday, when the San Diego County district attorney's office announced it had filed a civil suit against the former governor, seeking to overturn his last-minute reduction of the voluntary-manslaughter prison sentence of the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez.
What the future holds for the couple, who've made it clear this is a separation and not yet a divorce, is uncertain.
"Everyone who's shocked by this is reacting to the fairy-tale picture that was promoted," a friend who has been a frequent visitor to the couple's Brentwood mansion told Los Angeles Times reporters early this week.
"I would have had to have been deaf, blind and incredibly stupid not to see that he was more than a handful," Shriver wrote in the introduction to her 2000 book, "10 Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out Into the Real World."
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Beware of Facebook Evil Hamsters
Image via CrunchBase Be Careful out there....even Facebook has Evil Hamsters :-)This video news is from AOL.
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Virgin America, canceled flights and Twitter
On Friday, as I was waiting for a cab that never arrived, I got a call from someone at Virgin America saying my flight the next day from SFO to LAX was canceled, and that I was immediately rebooked on the next available flight. That gave me a little more time to get ready in the morning and I didn't mind the delay. It also made me think that Virgin America was very on top of their customer service and I'd be notified of any flight delays or cancellations. I booked my 3 flights (JFK to SFO, SFO to LAX and LAX to JFK) via Orbitz, all on Virgin.
However, on Tuesday, I didn't get any notification of the cancellation of my flight due to the weather. I called Virgin, was on hold for about half an hour, and was told that I could input my phone number and they'd call me back if I didn't want to wait. I did that, and two hours later, there was no call. I Tweeted and very soon after got a DM (direct message) apologizing and asking for my reservation number. In short order, Virgin had rebooked me on my flight today, scheduled to leave LAX at 1:45 and arrived at JFK at 10 pm. This meant two extra days I had to take off work, effectively meaning 7 total days off instead of 4, which means fewer trips in 2011, but I understand about the weather delay. I don't understand why Virgin never notified me of the cancellation and wonder, had I not been on Twitter, when I would have gotten notice of being rebooked.
So I think Twitter is definitely a game changer when it comes to travel. I could then log into my Virgin America Elevate account and see the new reservation. That original Tweet was at, I believe, around 4:30 in the afternoon on Tuesday, and I responded at 9:12 pm saying to book me on the flight I'm on, since that was the earliest I could get.
I usually fly JetBlue, but Virgin had the cheapest prices this time around, and since I'd heard so many bad stories about stranded JetBlue passengers during the last storm, I'm grateful. I definitely will not plan to travel in winter months, because I just can't afford so many days off without screwing with other plans. I want to get back to Minneapolis this year, and maybe Milwaukee (and have a free trip on American Trans Air), and will be in Seattle in June and Eugene in August. That's about all I know of for now, but we'll see what comes along. I'd been toying with going to the UK but I think that may have to wait until next year. I need to leave days open for whatever random trips might come up, but I can also schedule trips around holiday weekends. My main focus the next few months is going to be maximizing my writing time so I can justify, if only to myself, the purchase of this laptop, which I am loving, but definitely cost a pretty penny. So that is my little travel story. Typing it from a warm, cozy sunny bedroom in Silverlake after pushing my friend's baby up and down the hills, feeling like I could stay here, if I didn't have obligations to get to, for a good long time.
However, on Tuesday, I didn't get any notification of the cancellation of my flight due to the weather. I called Virgin, was on hold for about half an hour, and was told that I could input my phone number and they'd call me back if I didn't want to wait. I did that, and two hours later, there was no call. I Tweeted and very soon after got a DM (direct message) apologizing and asking for my reservation number. In short order, Virgin had rebooked me on my flight today, scheduled to leave LAX at 1:45 and arrived at JFK at 10 pm. This meant two extra days I had to take off work, effectively meaning 7 total days off instead of 4, which means fewer trips in 2011, but I understand about the weather delay. I don't understand why Virgin never notified me of the cancellation and wonder, had I not been on Twitter, when I would have gotten notice of being rebooked.
So I think Twitter is definitely a game changer when it comes to travel. I could then log into my Virgin America Elevate account and see the new reservation. That original Tweet was at, I believe, around 4:30 in the afternoon on Tuesday, and I responded at 9:12 pm saying to book me on the flight I'm on, since that was the earliest I could get.
I usually fly JetBlue, but Virgin had the cheapest prices this time around, and since I'd heard so many bad stories about stranded JetBlue passengers during the last storm, I'm grateful. I definitely will not plan to travel in winter months, because I just can't afford so many days off without screwing with other plans. I want to get back to Minneapolis this year, and maybe Milwaukee (and have a free trip on American Trans Air), and will be in Seattle in June and Eugene in August. That's about all I know of for now, but we'll see what comes along. I'd been toying with going to the UK but I think that may have to wait until next year. I need to leave days open for whatever random trips might come up, but I can also schedule trips around holiday weekends. My main focus the next few months is going to be maximizing my writing time so I can justify, if only to myself, the purchase of this laptop, which I am loving, but definitely cost a pretty penny. So that is my little travel story. Typing it from a warm, cozy sunny bedroom in Silverlake after pushing my friend's baby up and down the hills, feeling like I could stay here, if I didn't have obligations to get to, for a good long time.
These Brooks sneakers were made for walking...39 miles in 2 days!
This weekend I'm doing the New York City Avon Walk for Breast Cancer (want to donate? click here - you can still donate after this weekend, as there's a grace period). 39 miles in 2 days. And yes, of course I'll be Tweeting along the way.
I got these wonderful Brooks sneakers (now I just keep buying the same ones) at Jackrabbit Sports, where they have you run on a treadmill to test your feet (turns out mine pronate a little). The first pair were around $110, now I get a 10% discount on anything in the store for spending over $100 that first time. Excellent customer service, even if you don't run. Hat tip to my aunt Carole for recommending it to me.
Previous sneaker incarnations:
I got these wonderful Brooks sneakers (now I just keep buying the same ones) at Jackrabbit Sports, where they have you run on a treadmill to test your feet (turns out mine pronate a little). The first pair were around $110, now I get a 10% discount on anything in the store for spending over $100 that first time. Excellent customer service, even if you don't run. Hat tip to my aunt Carole for recommending it to me.
Previous sneaker incarnations:
Joan Price on Twitter
I finally joined Twitter. I'll use it mainly to let you know when a new blog post is up or when I've learned something of use to you. I won't be boring you with where I'm eating dinner or why I took my cat to the vet, I promise. Just relevant tidbits!
Join me: http://twitter.com/JoanPrice
