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Tiger sets news conference for Friday, will discuss future plans

February 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Tiger Woods will end nearly three months of silence Friday when he speaks to the media for the first time about his middle-of-the-night accident that sparked shocking revelations about his infidelity. Woods will speak to a small group of reporters at 11 a.m. Friday from the clubhouse of the TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., home of the PGA Tour. "This is all about the next step," Mark Steinberg, his agent, told The Associated Press. "He's looking forward to it." Steinberg said he would speak to a "small group of friends, colleagues and close associates" about his past and what he plans next, along with apologizing for his behavior. Woods will not answer any questions from the media. "Tiger is reading a statement, a public apology," Mark Steinberg told FOXSports.com's Robert Lusetich. "No questions. It is not a news conference." Sources close to Woods say he is keen to return to playing golf. He is expected to make his debut either at the made-for-television Tavistock Cup, featuring teams of professional golfers from two gated communities in Orlando, or at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, also held in Orlando. The Tavistock Cup is being held March 22nd and 23rd, while the Arnold Palmer Invitational, which Woods has won six times, begins on the final Thursday in March. He is expected to play in the Masters in April. Steinberg said three wire services would be in invited to Friday's press conference, and he was asking the Golf Writers Association of America to pick a small group of reporters to serve as a pool. Steinberg said there would be one pool camera, but it would be available live via satellite. Tiger's troubles Tiger's saga * The 911 call * Photos of the crash * Report: Tiger impregnated porn star * Report: Tiger paid to cover up threesome * Nicklaus: Tiger has to play to pass my record The news conference will be held during the Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona, which is sure to steal attention away from the first big event of the year. Accenture was the first sponsor to drop Woods when he became embroiled in a sex scandal. "It was a matter of timing," Steinberg said. When asked if the news conference could have waited until after Accenture's tournament, he replied, "No." The news comes within days of the scandal escalating amid claims that Woods twice impregnated an alleged mistress, adult film star Joslyn James. James, 32, who claimed she carried on an affair with Woods from 2006 to 2009, said she miscarried in her first pregnancy at about the same time his wife, Elin Nordegren, gave birth to daughter Sam Alexis on June 18, 2007. James said she aborted her next pregnancy close to the Feb. 8, 2009, birth of Woods' son Charlie Axel. Woods was never told about either pregnancy, she said, claiming she "just didn't want to ruin anything." Woods took an indefinite leave from golf shortly after the scandal first erupted. He admitted to "infidelity" in a statement on his Web site in mid-December. "I … [Read more...]

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Report: Tiger impregnated porn star James

February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Tiger Woods allegedly impregnated his porn star mistress twice, both times when his wife was also pregnant, according to an interview with the woman set to air Monday. NewsCORE is a 21st-century multimedia information service that draws on the worldwide news and sports resources within News Corporation, including FOX Sports. Other members of NewsCORE include: * Herald Sun * New York Post * Sky Sports * The Wall Street Journal * The Times of London Joslyn James said her lengthy and steamy affair with Woods always involved unprotected sex. Using protection "was never talked about," the actress told U.S. television show "Inside Edition." "It was never protected." James, 32, who claimed she carried on an affair with Woods from 2006 to 2009, said she miscarried in her first pregnancy at about the same time his wife, Elin Nordegren, gave birth to daughter Sam Alexis on June 18, 2007. James said she aborted her next pregnancy close to the Feb. 8, 2009, birth of Woods' son Charlie Axel. Woods was never told about either pregnancy, she said, claiming she "just didn't want to ruin anything." Porn star Joslyn James claims Tiger Woods impregnated her twice. The amply endowed auteur, who redefined the adult genre with memorable turns in films such as "Big Breasted Nurses" and "My Sex Teacher #12," said she was close to breaking the news to Woods, 34, but said she chickened out just before suffering the miscarriage. "Actually, the day I was going to tell him, I had a miscarriage," she said. "After I lost the baby I didn't want to talk about it." But the miscarriage fueled her desire to be with Woods. "I got more emotionally attached," she said. Despite her more-than-passing role in Woods' marital debacle, James said she regretted the scandal's impact on Nordegren. "I feel bad for (Elin)," she said. "She didn't deserve this, and she didn't deserve being humiliated." Get the latest on Tiger * Porn star: Tiger impregnated me twice * Report: Tiger paid hush money after 3some * Report: New details from Tiger's crash * Did Tiger have British mistress too? * Pic reportedly shows Tiger at sex rehab * Aussie Open fans make fun of golfer * A look at Tiger sex clinic 'reports' * Lawmaker wants Tiger claims investigation * Report: Tiger had fat lip after crash James said she believed Woods' scorned wife never had a clue that her husband was playing around with a porn actress. "Not to my knowledge," James said. "But she had two kids at home, and she was stressed out." Woods and his wife were said to be living apart in the same Orlando-area neighborhood so he can visit with their children. Nordegren was not wearing her wedding ring during recent weeks. Woods is on an indefinite leave from golf. … [Read more...]

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The Porn Myth

February 17, 2010 By 2 Comments

In the end, porn doesn't whet men's appetites—it turns them off the real thing. * By Naomi Wolf * At a benefit the other night, I saw Andrea Dworkin, the anti-porn activist most famous in the eighties for her conviction that opening the floodgates of pornography would lead men to see real women in sexually debased ways. If we did not limit pornography, she argued—before Internet technology made that prospect a technical impossibility—most men would come to objectify women as they objectified porn stars, and treat them accordingly. In a kind of domino theory, she predicted, rape and other kinds of sexual mayhem would surely follow. The feminist warrior looked gentle and almost frail. The world she had, Cassandra-like, warned us about so passionately was truly here: Porn is, as David Amsden says, the “wallpaper” of our lives now. So was she right or wrong? Not Tonight, Honey. I'm Logging On.: Internet porn is everywhere; even "nice" guys are hooked. So where does that leave their girlfriends? By David Amsden (October 20, 2003) The New Position on Casual Sex: The rise of Internet dating has brought a sexual openness (not to mention one-night stands) to the younger generation not seen since the seventies heyday of Maxwell's Plum. But can there be too much of a good thing? By Vanessa Grigoriadis (January 13, 2003) She was right about the warning, wrong about the outcome. As she foretold, pornography did breach the dike that separated a marginal, adult, private pursuit from the mainstream public arena. The whole world, post-Internet, did become pornographized. Young men and women are indeed being taught what sex is, how it looks, what its etiquette and expectations are, by pornographic training—and this is having a huge effect on how they interact. But the effect is not making men into raving beasts. On the contrary: The onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening male libido in relation to real women, and leading men to see fewer and fewer women as “porn-worthy.” Far from having to fend off porn-crazed young men, young women are worrying that as mere flesh and blood, they can scarcely get, let alone hold, their attention. Here is what young women tell me on college campuses when the subject comes up: They can’t compete, and they know it. For how can a real woman—with pores and her own breasts and even sexual needs of her own (let alone with speech that goes beyond “More, more, you big stud!”)—possibly compete with a cybervision of perfection, downloadable and extinguishable at will, who comes, so to speak, utterly submissive and tailored to the consumer’s least specification? For most of human history, erotic images have been reflections of, or celebrations of, or substitutes for, real naked women. For the first time in human history, the images’ power and allure have supplanted that of real naked women. Today, real naked women are just bad porn. For two decades, I have watched young women experience the … [Read more...]

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Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers

February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Americans may paint themselves in increasingly bright shades of red and blue, but new research finds one thing that varies little across the nation: the liking for online pornography. A new nationwide study (pdf) of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in consumption between states. "When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different," says Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School. However, there are some trends to be seen in the data. Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds. "Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman says. Political divide Edelman spends part of his time helping companies such as Microsoft and AOL detect advertising fraud. Another consulting client runs dozens of adult websites, though he says he is not at liberty to identify the firm. That company did, however, provide Edelman with roughly two years of credit card data from 2006 to 2008 that included a purchase date and each customer's postal code. After controlling for differences in broadband internet access between states – online porn tends to be a bandwidth hog – and adjusting for population, he found a relatively small difference between states with the most adult purchases and those with the fewest. The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users; Montana bought the least with 1.92 per 1000. "The differences here are not so stark," Edelman says. Number 10 on the list was West Virginia at 2.94 subscriptions per 1000, while number 41, Michigan, averaged 2.32. Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year's presidential election – Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions. While six out of the lowest 10 favoured Barack Obama. Old-fashioned values Church-goers bought less online porn on Sundays – a 1% increase in a postal code's religious attendance was associated with a 0.1% drop in subscriptions that day. However, expenditures on other days of the week brought them in line with the rest of the country, Edelman finds. Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted 11% more porn subscribers than states that don't explicitly restrict gay marriage. To get a better handle on other associations between social attitudes and pornography consumption, Edelman melded his data with a previous study on public attitudes toward religion. States where a majority of residents agreed with the statement "I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage," bought 3.6 more subscriptions per thousand people than states where a majority disagreed. A similar difference emerged for the statement "AIDS might be God's punishment for immoral sexual behaviour." "One … [Read more...]

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Porn Star Ex of Sandra Bullock's Husband Denied Visitation Rights

February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Sandra Bullock just may be celebrating an Oscar nod when nominees are announced on Tuesday -- but on Monday, her husband Jesse James continued to battle in an Orange County, Calif. court with his ex-wife, porn star Janine Lindemulder. E! News reports that a judge denied Lindemulder visitation rights to see Sunny, her six year old daughter, who has lived with her father James and Bullock since January 2009. Look back on these ugly celeb family feuds But Lindemulder -- currently in a halfway house following a parole violation -- did win the right to make daily phone calls to Sunny. Bullock, 45, has been helping James, 40, raise Sunny for the past year while the adult film actress was in prison for tax evasion. She served six months in jail and was released in July. Hollywood justice: see snapshots of stars in court On Monday, James complained in court about the latest ruling. He told the judge that his ex-wife texts "up to 20 times a day, demanding to talk to Sunny...But sometimes she'll go a week at a time where she doesn't make a call." Remember these breakups? He also charges that Lindemulder "has no filter" when it comes to discussing her recent time in prison. "There's a lot of conversation about prison or jail and things that I don't think a 6-year-old can comprehend or process." He also told the judge that his ex was a no-show on Christmas. See Sandra shine on the red carpet at a recent awards fest The next hearing is scheduled for June 14; the judge praised the pair's progress despite the media scrutiny, but ordered them to undergo joint counseling. … [Read more...]

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Senator Is the Centerfold

February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Long before he was a politician, the Republican candidate vying for Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat posed nude for the centerfold of Cosmo. Scott Brown won our “America’s Sexiest Man” contest and appeared in the June 1982 issue. In those days he was a 22-year-old law student at Boston College who was cramming for finals just days before stripping down for our photographer. “Here at Cosmo we’ve had bachelors go on to be actors, models, and reality show stars, so we’re thrilled that one has gone on to become a politician,” says Kate White, Cosmo’s editor in chief. Obviously we know how to pick ’em. This particular bachelor has always had political ambitions and even admitted to being “a bit of a patriot” when we interviewed him. Compared to some men in the GOP, this politician looks pretty damn good for his age. We bet he still has an amazing body underneath his suit and tie. There have been plenty of pics of our president running around without his shirt, so now that a precedent has been set, we’re hoping to see Scott shirtless again. Since we know the candidate so, ahem, well, we thought we’d help him out with a few campaign slogans: Who Needs Joe Plumber When You Can Have Scott Six-Pack? Scott Brown: A Name You Can Trust, Abs You Can Believe In Vote for Brown. He Has One Hell of a Stimulus Package. Leave your own slogans for Scott Brown below! … [Read more...]

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US envoy William Burns in Syria visit

February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Syria's President Bashar Assad and US Under-Secretary of State William Burns in Damascus, 17 Feb Syria's President Bashar Assad (l) and William Burns held talks in Damascus A top US diplomat has met Syria's President Bashar Assad, as part of a US move to improve ties with Damascus. The visit of Under-Secretary of State William Burns comes after President Barack Obama nominated the first US ambassador to Syria in five years. Mr Burns is also due to meet Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem in Damascus, as part of a regional tour. Analysts say the visit is aimed at loosening Syria's ties with Iran while pushing for a Middle East peace accord. Syrian-American relations have been troubled during the past five years, but bridges are slowly being built, the BBC's Lina Sinjab reports from Damascus. In 2005, the US withdrew its ambassador following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Damascus was blamed for the killing, an accusation Syria has always denied. ANALYSIS Jonathan Marcus Jonathan Marcus, BBC News Syria remains a key player in the region and cannot be ignored. US efforts to isolate Damascus have largely fallen on deaf ears. Washington's European allies have pushed ahead in terms of bolstering diplomatic ties and trading links, with France very much in the lead. Continuing this policy of semi-isolation now seems counter-productive for the Americans. The US initially set quite a high price for engagement with Damascus, wanting to extract Syria from its Iranian embrace. That goal has proved illusory. Washington has had to recalibrate its expectations. Restoring full diplomatic relations is something of a gamble. What will Syria give in return? Our correspondent says relations were strained even before Mr Hariri's assassination. Syria has been on Washington's list of state sponsors of terrorism since 1979. In 2004, the US Congress passed the Syria Accountability Act - which prohibits most American goods from being sold to Syria - and imposed financial sanctions. The US remains concerned about Syria's support for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and wants Damascus to help in stabilising Iraq and influence Iran over its nuclear programme, our correspondent says. In return, the US could end its sanctions against Syria and put pressure on Israel to return the Golan Heights - seized in the 1967 war. Resolving the Israeli-Syrian standoff could give a major push to a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians, analysts say. With this nomination, our foreign policy again risks sending the message that it is better to be an intractable enemy than a co-operative, loyal US ally Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Senior Republican, House foreign affairs committee Send us your comments The appointment of a new American ambassador, Robert Ford, to Washington has been in the works since the middle of last year, says the BBC's Washington correspondent Steve Kingstone. "His appointment represents President Obama's … [Read more...]

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Pakistan confirms Taliban 'number two' arrested

February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Taliban fighters in Ghazni province, Afghanistan - 23 January 2010 Mullah Baradar is believed to have run the Taliban's forces in Afghanistan Pakistan has confirmed that a Taliban suspect captured earlier this month is one of the organisation's top leaders, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. A military spokesman said the delay in confirmation had been due to "detailed identification procedures". US and Pakistani agents had seized Mullah Baradar in Karachi on 8 February, US officials said on Tuesday. But a Taliban spokesman has said Mullah Baradar, thought to be their second-in-command, is free and in Afghanistan. Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, told the BBC that Mullah Baradar was being questioned. He called it an "important arrest", but gave no other details. A military statement said several people had been arrested in the same raid but revealed little else "due to security reasons". There was no confirmation from Pakistani officials that it had been a joint US-Pakistani operation that netted the man thought to have been running the Taliban's military operations in Afghanistan. Getting tough Mullah Baradar is also believed to have run Taleban's leadership council and control their finances. The news of his arrest came as Nato forces and Afghan troops are conducting a major offensive against the Taliban in southern Helmand province, an area Mullah Baradar is believed to have been responsible for. MULLAH BARADAR Second-in-charge behind Taliban founder Mullah Omar In charge of Taliban's military operations and financial affairs Born in Dehrawood district, Uruzgan province, in 1968 Former deputy defence minister for the Taliban regime Source: Interpol, news agencies Profile: Mullah Baradar Is the arrest a breakthrough? NY Times explains news delay His influence is said to be second only to that of the Taliban's spiritual leader, Mullar Muhammad Omar, who has been hiding from Western agencies since the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001. The arrest suggests Pakistan is getting tough with Afghan Taliban leaders sheltering there, says the BBC's Orla Guerin in Islamabad, something that has long been a demand of the White House. It could also put pressure on other Taliban leaders to enter into talks with the Afghan government and coalition forces, something Mullah Baradar is believed to favour, our correspondent says. Afghan and Nato leaders have said reconciliation talks with more moderate Taliban members could be pursued to end the insurgency. Drone attacks Meanwhile, missiles fired by a suspected US drone aircraft have killed at least three militants in north-west Pakistan, security officials say. The attack targeted a compound in Tapi Tolkhel village, 15km (9.3 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, by the Afghan border. The regions of North and South Waziristan are known sanctuaries for al-Qaeda and Taliban militants who move easily across the mountainous border into Afghanistan. They are frequently targeted … [Read more...]

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Black History Month – Lena Horne

February 17, 2010 By 3 Comments
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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917) is an American singer and actress. She has recorded and performed extensively, independently and with other jazz notables, including Artie Shaw, Teddy Wilson, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnet, Benny Carter and Billy Eckstine. She currently lives in New York City and no longer makes public appearances. Horne was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. Both sides of her family are a mixture of European, African, and Native American descent. Both were part of what W. E. B. Du Bois called "The Talented Tenth," the upper stratum of middle-class, well-educated African Americans.[1][2][3] She grew up in an upper-middle-class black community. She was raised in Brooklyn, New York.[4] Her father, Edwin "Teddy" Horne, who worked in the gambling trade as a numbers kingpin, left the family when she was three. Her mother, Edna Scottron, was the granddaughter of inventor Samuel R. Scottron; she was an actress with an African-American theater troupe and traveled extensively. Horne was mainly raised by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne. Her uncle, Frank S. Horne, was an adviser to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the dean of students at Fort Valley Junior Industrial Institute in Fort Valley GA. She attended Washington High School in Atlanta, where her Grandmother convinced her to join the NAACP.[5] She is a reported descendant of the John C. Calhoun family. Horne attended Girls High School, an all-girls public high school in Brooklyn which has since become Boys & Girls High School, on Fulton Street; she dropped out without earning a diploma. [edit] Career In the fall of 1933, Horne joined the chorus line of the Cotton Club in New York City. In the spring of 1934, she had a featured role in the Cotton Club Parade. A few years later she joined Noble Sissle's Orchestra and toured with this orchestra. After she separated from her first husband, Horne toured with bandleader Charlie Barnet in 1940-41, but disliked the travel and left the band to work at the Cafe Society in New York. She replaced Dinah Shore as the featured vocalist on NBC's popular jazz series The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. The show's resident maestros, Henry Levine and Paul Laval, recorded with Horne in June 1941 for RCA Victor. Horne left the show after only six months to headline a nightclub revue on the west coast; she was replaced by Linda Keene. Lena Horne photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 Horne already had two low-budget movies to her credit: a 1938 musical feature called The Duke is Tops (later reissued with Horne's name above the title as The Bronze Venus); and a 1941 two-reel short subject, Boogie Woogie Dream, featuring pianists Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons. Horne's songs from Boogie Woogie Dream were later released individually as Soundies. Horne was primarily a nightclub performer during this period, and it was during a 1943 club engagement in Hollywood that talent scouts approached Horne … [Read more...]

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The History of Mardi Gras

February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Considering that one of the most well known Mardi Gras traditions is women flashing their boobs for a strand of beads, it is hard to believe that the holiday celebration sprung from the Catholic church. Mardi Gras, also known as “Fat Tuesday” or “Shrove Tuesday,” is a pre-Lenten festival that was originally celebrated by the Roman Catholic church. However, today Christians and other people who love to eat, drink and party also celebrate. Lent is a forty day (amount of days vary depending on type of Christian faith) fasting period where Catholics and other Christians fast and practice penance. They do this in preparation for the celebration of Jesus’ victory over sin and death. Mardi Gras is the last day and last opportunity to feast, drink and celebrate before the forty days of fasting. Today, Mardi Gras has become more than just one day of feasting, drinking and celebrating. It has become a season of celebration that some practice from Epiphany (January 6) to Ash Wednesday. Most commonly today though, people make it a four day celebration starting the Saturday before Ash Wednesday. The most famous cities for their elaborate Mardi Gras celebrations include Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, New Orleans in the United States, Quebec City in Canada and Mazatlan in Mexico. Jambalaya, Muffuletta, Gumbo, Feijoada, Churrasco de Fraldinha, King Cake, Paczki and Papaya are just a tiny handful of foods traditionally served to celebrate Mardi Gras. Foods served are usually based on a person’s heritage or where the person is celebrating. Cajun foods are common at celebrations in the southern part of the United States, Churrasco is big in Brazil, Paczkis are well known in Polish communities and potato pancakes with the Irish. Wherever the celebrations occur, you are sure to see a lot of meats and sweets at the feasts. Some say the colors of Mardi Gras are gold, green and purple, but Mardi Gras is actually the most colorful holiday of the year. The parades and carnivals that take place are known for their elaborate floats, outfits and headdresses. Everyone who celebrates is encouraged to dress in their finest and most colorful apparel. Masks are also common at Mardi Gras celebrations. People started wearing masks at Mardi Gras celebrations to disguise themselves from other people as they played out their final days of fun before the penitence of Lent. … [Read more...]

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