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Name: Adam
Country: United States
State: Iowa
Birthday: 5/22/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: I really like sports, especially football. I also play the bass, both electric and upright. I'm a big fan of Jazz. I also like to lift, and I've been playing raquetball lately. That's tons of fun!
Occupation: Student
Industry: Entertainment
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| O.J. SIMPSON TO DISCUSS KILLINGS LOS ANGELES - Fox plans to broadcast an interview with O. J Simpson in which the former football star discusses "how he would have committed" the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, for which he was acquitted, the network said. The two-part interview, titled "O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened," will air Nov. 27 and Nov. 29, the TV network said. Simpson has agreed to an "unrestricted" interview with book publisher Judith Regan, Fox said. "O.J. Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes," the network said in a statement. "In the two-part event, Simpson describes how he would have carried out the murders he has vehemently denied committing for over a decade." The interview will air days before Simpson's new book, "If I Did It," goes on sale Nov. 30. The book, published by Regan, "hypothetically describes how the murders would have been committed." In a video clip on the network's Web site, an off-screen interviewer says to Simpson, "You wrote 'I have never seen so much blood in my life.'" "I don't think any two people could be murdered without everybody being covered in blood," Simpson responds. Simpson, who now lives in Florida, was acquitted in a criminal trial of the 1994 killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson was later found liable in 1997 in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the Goldman family. Messages left with Simpson and his attorney Yale Galanter were not immediately returned. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061115/ap_on_en_tv/simpson_interview | | |
| Dear Friends, Many of you are well aware that I am a huge fan of Iowa Hawkeye football and the past two years I've been very lucky to be in attendance at some huge games. This weekend, Iowa hosts #1 Ohio State. If Iowa pulls off the win, this game would rank up there with the 1985 contest of #1 Iowa beat #2 Michigan as one of the greatest games at Kinnick. I had a chance to go to this weekend's contest verse the Buckeyes. Unfortunately, I have a concert which I have to perform in and will not be in attendance. Why am I writing this to you? Well, first of all, this absolutely sucks that I won't be able to take part in the atmosphere. Some of you who have known this have been supportive however others have been jerks about it saying sarcastic comments which are meant to be funny, but by my perspective it's not so funny. Friends, if I could be in attendance, I would. I just can't get out of this commitment. So please, stop the teasing, it just makes me feel bad. Second, I am taping the game in order to watch it in its entirety after it's finished. Please, do not call me telling me the score, please do not send me a text message, please do not even mention anything about the game to me while it is going on, or in the hours after the game when I am watching my tape delayed broadcast. I want to see things happen as if it were live. Please respect my wishes. Not all is lost though. I'm going to take part in the College Gameday festivities and I'm going to let my brother Ben wave my big foam finger during the game. At least a part of me will be in Kinnick. Your gloomy friend (on this issue), Adam | | |
| Iowa woman finds drowned bat in tea mug CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A western Iowa woman is recovering from the shock of finding a drowned bat in her tea mug — after she sipped from the cup all day. The brown bat, about the size of two tea bags, was found a few weeks ago by a 60-year-old Woodbury County woman, said Chuck Cipperley, an environmental director for the Siouxland health office in Sioux City. "I knew the person, so I knew it was no joke," said Cipperley, who took the call from the woman. The woman, who declined to identify herself, told Cipperley she found the bat when she was cleaning out the mug at night. She said she put the bat in a plastic bag before alerting the Siouxland health office the next morning. Cipperley said the bat was sent that day — Sept. 1 — to the University Hygienic Laboratory in Coralville. Results showed the bat did not have rabies. State Epidemiologist Patricia Quinlisk said had the bat been rabid, the woman probably would have underwent a series of rabies shots, even though the probability of contracting rabies would be low. The virus needs a break in the skin to enter the body, said Susan Brockus, state public health veterinarian. Mike Pentella, program manager at University Hygienic Laboratory, said the bat was a first for the lab. "We test many, many bats," he said, "but none that have drowned in a cup of tea before." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060926/ap_on_fe_st/bat_tea;_ylt=AkTKBg5I1E9oDysg.tTcyAgZ.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc- | | |
| Inside the Backlash Against FacebookUsers of the popular site are angry about a new feature and are organizing their protest—on Facebook By TRACY SAMANTHA SCHMIDT Posted Wednesday, Sep. 06, 2006
Generation Facebook is taking action — against Facebook. On Tuesday morning the popular social networking site unrolled a new feature dubbed the "News Feed" that allows users to track their friends' Facebook movements by the minute. For many of Facebook's 8-million plus student users, it was too much. Within 24 hours, hundreds of thousands of students nationwide organized themselves to protest the new feature. Ironically, they're using Facebook to do it. The feature in question appears on the user's home page and looks like a glitzy laundry list. It chronicles every action a user's friends have recently taken on Facebook. These include the mundane: Sally befriended Joan, the boring: Tim now likes The Daily Show, and the juicy: John and Beth broke up. And in case it matters, each action is time-stamped to the minute. By its nature, News Feed is intrusive and that's what upsets students. It's one thing to casually check out a friend's updated profile between classes. It's another to be unwillingly inundated with each friend's latest Facebook antics. The News Feed does not have an off switch, although users can block or limit non-friends from seeing their profiles, which feed directly into the News Feed. At the very least, the aggrieved students want the option of a News Feed off-switch. Some want Facebook to do away with it completely. Since Tuesday, a handful of anti-News Feed groups have sprung up on Facebook. The largest has 284,000 members and is called "Students Against Facebook News Feed (Official Petition to Facebook)." The group was created yesterday morning by Ben Parr, a junior at Northwestern University, who was disgusted to find the News Feed when he logged into Facebook. With a meeting to get to, Parr quickly created a group, told a few friends about it and left his computer. When he came back a few hours later, the membership was at 13,000 and the numbers climbed steadily throughout the day, reaching 100,000 at 2:00 a.m — at which point Parr called it a night. He isn't certain why his is the most successful anti-News Feed groups. "It's might be that mine was one of the first groups," said Parr, 21. "That, and my group acts as a petition directly to Facebook." Included on Parr's group is a link to Facebook's customer support page where users can email Facebook administrators directly. Parr also linked to a formal online petition which asks Facebook to either remove or modify the News Feed. It currently has more than 28,000 signatures. Several college newspapers also picked up the story this morning. Headlines include "Facebook is watching you," "Furious with Facebook" and "Facebook fumbles with changes." Despite what may be Gen Y's first official revolution, Facebook is holding firm. Yesterday afternoon, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted an entry to Facebook's blog titled "Calm Down. Breathe. We Hear You." Zuckerberg acknowledged that many users are not "immediate fans and have found them overwhelming and cluttered. Other people are concerned that non-friends can see too much about them." He did not announce any changes to the News Feed, but rather reiterated Facebook's privacy features and promoted the News Feed as a cool way to "know what's going on in your friends' lives." Like it or not, Facebook's face may be changing for good. The social networking site, which was originally an exclusive web site for college students, has expanded to include high school students and corporations. Sponsors now spend thousands to advertise on the site and politicians are also tapping into Facebook. For Zuckerberg, the News Feed allows Facebook users to better keep up with each other. "All the most interesting stuff that's going on is presented to you," Zuckerberg told TIME recently. "The analogy would be instead of an encyclopedia, it's now news. We're emphasizing what's going on now." That level of intimacy may be too intense for even today's college students, many of whom have infamously posted pictures on Facebook of underage drinking and drug use. Or it could be something much simpler than an alleged invasion of privacy. "Every action I take on Facebook is now time stamped," says Erik Ornitz, 18, a Brown student who formed his own anti-News Feed group. "It's a little strange because everyone will now know that at 10 o'clock I updated my Facebook profile and that I wasn't in class." Regardless of its intentions, one thing is for sure. Gen Y has unexpectedly found a way to organize. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1532225,00.html?cnn=yes | | |
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