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Court accepts priest's touching of girl's breasts as 'religious activity' SATSUMASENDAI, Kagoshima -- A Shinto priest accused of indecent assault for massaging the breasts of a 15-year-old girl was found not guilty after a court here ruled that his act was a "religious activity." "There is room to accept that his act was a religious activity, and reasonable doubt in saying he possessed sexual intent," Judge Atsushi Tomita said in handing down the ruling at the Sendai branch of the Kagoshima District Court on Wednesday. http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20050217p2a00m0dm005001c.html

Teacher pinched for distributing nude doctored photo of student ISE, Mie -- A former elementary school teacher under indictment for trespassing and theft has been hit with defamation charges for creating a composite photo of a girl he had taught, prosecutors said Wednesday. Shigefumi Murai, 49, created a composite photo combining the 13-year-old victim's image and a nude photo of another woman in November last year, according to the indictment. He then put copies of the photo into the baskets of bicycles parked at a junior high school and a high school later in the month, thereby defaming her, prosecutors said. http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20050216p2a...11000c.html#121

Suge Knight Being Hooked Up With Bracelets, Will Serve Time At Home Tha Row CEO must also submit to random drug testing. Marion "Suge" Knight's stay in state prison was a short one. Exactly one week after Tha Row CEO entered the California Institution for Men in the city of Chino, he was picked up by his family and returned to his Beverly Hills, California, home, where he will serve out the remainder of his parole under 24/7 monitoring by the California Department of Corrections. "His family picked him up and he was told to go home and stay there until parole officers arrive and hook him up with electronic monitoring bracelets," Department of Corrections spokesperson Margot Bach said. "He is to stay on electronic monitoring at all times, under home detention, until he discharges from parole, which is in about two and a half months." http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1496972/2...?headlines=true

Rock 'n' Roll Singer Rises From The Dead – Twice! On Monday, January 3rd, Aaron Lazar, lead singer of New York hard rock band The Giraffes was considered technically dead twice after suffering temporary heart trouble. Apparently an undiagnosed heart murmur sent the singer to the Coronary Care Unit at the Beth Israel Medical Center. Lazar was laid up for a week and endured a battery of tests by doctors trying to find out what went wrong with the otherwise healthy 28-yr-old. "His heart was evaluated and was determined to be of normal function," commented Dr. Maurice Rachko, Director of the Coronary Care Unit Beth Israel Medical Center. http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=76834

Intel advances silicon laser research - - - - - - - - - - - - Matthew Fordahl Feb. 16, 2005 | Santa Clara, Calif. -- Developing a new use for the material that's already the foundation of the computer chip industry, Intel Corp. researchers have built a continuously shining silicon laser that could drive down the cost of optical networking. Such a laser could make high-bandwidth, light-based communication feasible for not only the connections between computers but also the links between components inside PCs. Read more here: http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2005/02/16/intel/index.html

The God-Awful Grammys Once again, the awards show is campy, patronizing, and charmingly gauche. By Jody Rosen Posted Monday, Feb. 14, 2005, at 4:36 PM PT Last night's 47th Grammy Awards ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles began promisingly, with a god-awful racket. In a charmingly gauche attempt to be hip, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences opened its annual party with a live version of DJ mash-up, spreading five acts—Gwen Stefani and Eve, Maroon 5, Franz Ferdinand, Los Lonely Boys, and the execrable Black Eyed Peas—across four stages to bash out their songs, first separately, then simultaneously. The result was an atonal maelstrom, and I for one couldn't help but love it. Would this be the year the Grammys went completely off the deep end? Well, no. Read more here: http://www.slate.com/id/2113470/

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Musicians, artists and writers worked hard and partied hard; Picasso, Cocteau and Stravinsky to name but a few ... These were crazy times fuelled by crazy people. Artists were mad for Paris in the twenties. Flocking there to explore the meaning of the 'modern' world. The list of people who lived and worked there included Pablo Picasso, Apollinaire, Igor Stravinsky and a young Ernest Hemingway. The scene wasn't just run by blokes, the American collector Gertrude Stein played a crucial role in championing the art of the day. Read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/features/paris/people.shtml

Springsteen records 'quieter' album By LARRY MCSHANE NEW YORK (AP) - The seeds for Bruce Springsteen's new album Devils & Dust were sown nearly a decade ago, when the singer-songwriter began his first-ever solo acoustic tour. The visit is now complete, with a 12-song album due in stores April 26 - Springsteen's first release of all-new material since his Sept. 11-themed The Rising in July 2002. A tour was planned to follow the release, although Springsteen said it was unclear if he would perform alone or with a small band. http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2005/02/16/932979-ap.html

About time :good job:

Janis certainly knew how to do that! Peace and Love??--You had to be there...

I usually whistle while I work...it

Bush May Raise Taxes for Social Security Feb 16, 5:51 PM (ET) By LAURA MECKLER PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - President Bush is not ruling out raising taxes on people who earn more than $90,000 as a way to help fix Social Security's finances. At the same time, he renewed his pitch Wednesday for Congress to approve an overhaul that would include Social Security private accounts for many workers. He told 2,000 people in an airport terminal that rich and poor alike should have a chance to invest in the stock market. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050216/D889SSR80.html

The singing protective By JACQUI THORNTON Health Editor A SCIENTIST has come up with a musical condom that gets louder as the sex gets more vigorous. The singing protective is designed to be a laugh for couples who want to make their own sweet music, says Ukrainian inventor Dr Grigoriy Chausovskiy. Different lovemaking positions determine what tune is played by the condom, which also works like a normal contraceptive. The rubber has tiny sensors connected to a mini electronic device that produces the sounds. http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005072264,00.html

And so it ends By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports February 16, 2005 The NHL season is done, officially called off by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on Wednesday, because neither he nor union leader Bob Goodenow could get their priorities in order. Read more here: http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;_ylc=X3oD...=yhoo&type=lgns

Yeppers Nuns suspended for going on wild Club 18-30 holiday Twelve American nuns have been suspended from their convent after going on an alcohol and sex fuelled holiday. The women, all aged between 22 and 31, went on the Club 18-30 holiday without telling anyone where they were going. http://femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/3052004.htm

George Michael Bids Farewell to Pop World Feb 16, 2005 — By Mike Collett-White BERLIN (Reuters) - Singer George Michael said farewell to the world of pop music on Wednesday, using a candid documentary about his life to put the record straight before he "disappeared." He also declared the genre that brought him fame and riches, as well as unwanted media attention, was dead. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=505502

Bent - The Water Is Deep Bloc Party - Tulips Tribulations - LCD SoundSystem The Dark & the Long Train - Underworld Be My Friend - Nilo

Michael Jackson Leaves Hospital Jackson Leaves Shortly After Doctor Says He Is Under Observation SANTA MARIA, Calif., Feb. 16, 2005 — Shortly after a hospital announcement saying he remained under observation for "persistent viral symptoms," Michael Jackson left Marian Medical Center, two sources inside the facility told ABC News. One of the sources, a hospital visitor, saw Jackson being escorted out of the building by a hospital administrator. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Michae...story?id=506739

Can you believe someone posted this piece of shit on Sunset Boulevard!!! I predict our liberal supported welfare graffiti kids will fix it real soon If not I might borrow an Uzi prop from one of the studios and fix it for good ;)

Sounds like an energizer. I currently like Tequiza = a beer with blue aguave, nectar and lime :)

You dont have to be from that era to listen to the music

Still works for me

Home-ward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel