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Singer Amy Winehouse not guilty on Tuesday of attacking a fan during a party last year.

Diva attended a court hearing at Westminster in London. Previously posed for photographers.


The singer of 25 years is accused of assaulting a fan who tried to take a photo at a charity ball in London on September 26.

Judge Timothy Workman scheduled for trial in July and ordered bail of Winehouse.

The screenwriter Millard Kaufman, one of the creators of the cartoon character Mr. Magoo and nominated for an Oscar for his script of "Take the High Ground!" and "Bad Day at Black Rock", died at 92 years, reported a spokesperson for the publisher.

Kaufman, who successfully debuted as a novelist for 90 years, died Saturday of heart failure, said Laura Howard, a spokesman for McSweeney's Publishing which published his novel Bowl of Cherries "in 2007.


Among the scripts are also Kaufman "Never So Few," "The Warlord," "The Klansman" and "Convicts 4" plus an episode that worked in the television series "Police Story" in the film and television "Enola Gay".

In 1949 he wrote the screenplay for the film "Ragtime Bear", which first appeared Mr. Magoo, an old man of small stature who is in trouble for his poor eyesight, which refuses to recognize. Later, he co-authored the libretto for the short film "Punchy de Leon" in 1950.

The psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich surrendered to authorities to face charges for allegedly over-prescribing drugs to Anna Nicole Smith before the overdose death of former model in 2007, told the Los Angeles police.

Rosario Herrera, police spokesman, said that Eroshevich was delivered at approximately 11 am on Monday at the Van Nuys district. She was released several hours later after filing a $ 20,000 bond, according to a communique from the office of his attorney, Adam Braun.


After a lengthy investigation by the Attorney General and other state agencies and federal prosecutors in Los Angeles last week was accused of conspiring to Eroshevich with another doctor, Sandeep Kapoor, and Smith's lawyer, Howard K . Stern _quien had become his novio_, to give the former model thousands of prescription pills that need to be able to buy.

Jerry Brown, California Attorney General, argued that doctors wrote prescriptions in false names and amounts prescribed to Smith unjustified highly addictive drugs, knowing that she was an addict.


Brown described Stern as the "main orchestrator" of the alleged conspiracy. Stern Kapoor and surrendered to authorities last week and both were released on bail of $ 20,000.

Braun has said that only Eroshevich was protecting the privacy of Smith to write prescriptions under false names and had no intent to commit a fraud.


The psychiatrist, who served Smith since 2006, he traveled several times during a period of six months to the Bahamas, where the former Playboy bunny's lived with Stern, and wrote the recipes.

Smith died on February 8, 2007 in Florida after suffering a collapse in a hotel. At that time he was engaged in a legal fight to inherit millions of dollars from his deceased billionaire husband.


Moreover, just five months before the son of the former model, Daniel, 20, died of an overdose of drugs in the hospital room that she occupied a few days after giving birth to a daughter, Dannielynn.

'Second Life', a computer program to create 3D virtual worlds and live a 'second life' online, is still popular, says the chairman of the firm to refuse to press reports that portend the destruction of this spoiled child of former internet.

Mark Kingdon, chairman of Linden Lab, the company launched in 1999 this game in which people were socialized as if leading a parallel life, shakes his head negatively when they heard rumors that claim that their site loses popularity. "The reality is that Second Life continues to grow, every second someone signs up," Kingdon says in an interview with AFP.


However, reporters who rushed to cover cyber-events taking place in Second Life ( 'Second Life', in English) that described the site as an online realm of science fiction come true, have been withdrawing their bets and before criticizing the community praised enthusiastically. A well-known website that publishes the latest news from Silicon Valley, Valleywag.com even placed in Second Life "list of dying," asserting that "there seems to be more academic than a failed experiment."

The number of "active users" of Second Life increased 25% since September 2008 while the money exchanged in the virtual world has grown in similar proportions, Kingdon said. "We are seen as the spoiled child of the Internet, as with (the site of socialization) or Facebook (the site of mini-blogs) Twitter, but continued to incredible levels," he insisted. "We'll see over time, but our society is growing and we're profitable," he said.


Second Life, where people are socialized in the form of animated characters called 'avatars', which are designed and dressed according to the taste of each, has been accused of inflating its success to report the total number of people registered without specifying how many their visitors.

According to Kingdon, 15 million people have used the virtual world of Second Life since its inception in 1999, and there are about 70,000 users connected at all times.


The 'ups' have increased from about 41.5 million hours in total on this website in January, higher than the 28.3 million hours of use during the same month of 2008, according to Linden Lab, headquartered in San Francisco.

According to the company, daily transactions in Second Life account for more than $ 1.3 million and more than 15,000 merchants selling clothes, artwork and other items for avatars, virtual-all.


During last year, according to Linden, users spent 360 million dollars in the virtual world.

Schools consider it a 'place' right to organize on-line courses and bands are using it to 'play' before an audience from all parts of the world, although somewhat scattered.


Moreover, companies whose employees are spread across the globe are increasingly turning to Second Life as a forum in which to organize their meetings. "There is something about that sense of presence," said AFP Karen Keeter, director of IBM commercial that uses Second Life for meetings. "Power to see yourself as an avatar sitting next to each other is a feeling of immersion that you get with no other alternatives."

IBM's campus in Second Life is a picnic area with hammocks, a garden with sculptures and a café where avatars can spend time chatting.

Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday that the distribution of condoms is not the answer in the fight against AIDS in Africa.

Benedict XVI never before spoken explicitly about condom use, although he emphasized that the Catholic Church is at the forefront in the battle against AIDS. The Vatican maintains that abstinence is the way to fight the disease.


"You can not solve the distribution of condoms," the Pope said to reporters aboard the Alitalia plane while en route to Yaounde, Cameroon. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."

Some priests and nuns who work with victims of the AIDS pandemic plaguing Africa which have questioned the church's opposition to condom use.


The Pope also said it intends to make an appeal for "international solidarity" for Africa in times of global economic recession.

He said that although the Catholic Church does not propose specific solutions, it can give "moral and spiritual suggestions.


Describing the current crisis as a result of "a lack of ethics in economic structures," the Pope said: "This is where the church can make a contribution."

The pilgrimage of Benedict XVI will take seven days to Cameroon and Angola.


Africa is the region where the Catholic Church is growing fastest in the world.

Benedict XVI departed Tuesday for his first pastoral visit in Africa. The flight took off from Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome shortly after 10.00 am (0900 GMT) and is scheduled to arrive six hours later the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde.


The 81-year-old Pope said on Sunday the pilgrims in St. Peter's Square that will carry a message of hope to the African continent suffered poverty, disease and conflict.

British actress Natasha Richardson was hospitalized Monday in Montreal for a serious head injury suffered in a skiing accident, reports People magazine. The actress, 45, is the wife of Irish actor Liam Neeson and also the daughter of British actress Vanessa Redgrave.

Richardson was taken to a hospital near the ski area of Mont Tremblant after the accident. He was then transferred to a hospital in Montreal, according to the magazine. The website IrisCentral.com, which was the first to give the information, citing an official from the hospital saying that Richardson suffered a traumatic brain injury.

Neeson, who was in Toronto filming a movie, he went immediately to Montreal to accompany his wife in the hospital, told the press one of the publicists for the film "Chloe," which plays the Irish actor. Richardson Neeson married in 1994 and the couple has two children.

Today, in a few hours .. nothing airs the first chapter of the last season of The L word, I could not stop writing a post before seeing anything.

I was reading some spoilers which I could not even believe it when thinking about the idea that Jenny was killed suddenly came out from somewhere.

After watching a video (video at the end of this post) it was confirmed that Jenny dies, is not a pleasant thing to me .. because I loved that character from the beginning.

All the 6th season will focus on "Who killed Jenny Schecter? ...
The truth is that for me, with the amount of things that went ... each season is none other but who can she be that kind of final.
It would be fair that did not even any of the other characters in the kill.

Jenny is totally the link between all these characters who lived in 6 seasons thousands of things ...

beyond what it was and hated it and this will be the 6th season I could never understand why this hate so much ... .. I understand God ... in order.

I'm not too much time to dwell much on the subject but wanted to post this today.

recently in two days I can see the 1st chapter.

America's Next Top Model Season 4 is a reality show in the U.S. that a group of young people compete to become professional models, contracts and advertising appearing in fashion magazines. The program is hosted by former supermodel Tyra Banks, who is also the creator, executive producer and president of the jury for the show.

The first season premiered in May 2003 and was one of the pilots with more rating TV channel UPN. Season casting Cycle 7 was the highest rating among regular programming on the network of successors of UPN, and so far is the most-watched series. The opening theme is sung by Tyra Banks and produced by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. In addition, Banks co-produces the show with Ken Mok and Anthony Dominici.

About the show

Tyra Banks puts the contestants to participate in a variety of challenges that will determine who will win a $ 100,000 contract with cosmetics company Cover Girl. The prizes for the majority of courses have included a picture on the cover of the magazine Seventeen and representation in any modeling agency.

During the first season, the judges were: Tyra Banks, Kimora Lee Simmons, Beau Quillian, and Janice Dickinson, who appointed himself "the first supermodel of the world." However, in the second season, only Tyra and Janice remained judges. In the following seasons to include as judges Nigel Barker, a former model and fashion photographer, and writer and stylist, Nole Marin. After the fourth season, Nole Marin was replaced by Jay Alexander and Janice by Twiggy, who had achieved fame as a model in the 60s. Dickinson continues to make intermittent appearances after leaving the panel decision, giving advice to the contestants. Also participating in the show, the director of photography Jay Manuel, who is known as Mr. J as opposed to Jay Alexander, who is known as Mrs A from cycle 10, Twiggy was replaced by the Czech-American supermodel Paulina Porizkova.

Rafael Nadal beat Novak Djokovic on Sunday with a partial 6-4, 6-4, 6-1 to give defending champion Spain to a 3-1 victory over Serbia in the series of first round the Davis Cup.

Djokovic was not fine with her serve and made many mistakes on the court not forced outdoor clay at the amusement park Terra Mitica.


Spain will receive the winner of the clash between Germany and Austria in the second round in July. Serbia lost the first round for the second consecutive year, so it should play a repechaje next September to follow in the World Group.

Nadal, four times French Open champion, won his party's number 121 of his last 124 clay surface in a return to the pristine courts after injuring his right leg in Rotterdam last month.


On Saturday, Nadal beat Janko Tipsarevic to put Spain ahead in the score 2-0.

Without Nadal, who was absent due to injury, Spain last November won his third crown of Davis as a visitor to beat Argentina.


The world number one highlighted the value of victory in the first round, after the Iberians suffered defeats to Holland and Slovakia twice before they started to defend the Silver Salad.

"We are totally different circumstances because we lost against Holland and Slovakia were in ultra-fast tracks and covers, but we've broken the curse," he said.


"I've been with more speed and security," he added on his game.

He also played a version of the Serbian press on the physical condition of Djokovic, the third in the world ranking.


"For two months in Dubai and has won competitions and has rooms in Australia, you do not see any problem," said Nadal. Is always at a high level, but there are more players than Novak and everyone wants to win. It is very difficult to be up and sometimes not valued. Has long been among the best in the world that appreciate and congratulate you. "

Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple" and Pulitzer Prize winner, will travel to the Gaza Strip along with other activists to highlight the damage caused by the Israeli invasion in the territory.

"I think what is happening in the Middle East is very important because the situation is so volatile," said Walker in a telephone interview from the border crossing at Rafah, while the group was waiting to enter Gaza. "I love people and love children and I think the Palestinian child is as valuable as the child of Afro-American and Jewish children."


Walker is part of a group of about 60 women coming to Gaza to distribute aid and meet with NGOs and residents of the coastal strip. His trip, organized by the American group Code Pink (Code Pink), is designed to force Israel and Egypt to open its borders with Gaza, said Medea Benjamin, a founder of the group.

The trip coincides with the stagnation of efforts to achieve a truce between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas. The Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip to prevent rocket and mortar attacks against the Jewish state's south, was completed on January 18 with separate statements of truce from Israel and Hamas.


Group members remain in Gaza until March 11, said Benjamin. During his trip to Gaza delivered baskets full of personal feminine products such as shampoo.

Walker, on his first visit to Gaza, said it is important for Americans, who give so much military aid to Israel, to understand how their money is used.