Civil Trial of The Matrix Hero Keanu Reeves Starts in LA

Just like in "The Matrix," jurors in a civil trial featuring Keanu Reeves may have to wade through several versions of reality.

A jury was selected Monday to hear the case, which stems from a March 2007 incident in which a paparazzo claims he was seriously injured while shooting photos of Reeves behind the wheel of his Porsche.

Reeves, the star of action flicks such as "Speed" and the upcoming remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still," sat quietly in the courtroom. He spoke to jurors only once Monday to wish them "good morning."

The actor could spend up to three hours on the witness stand Tuesday, when he is expected to testify about his recollection of the incident. In opening statements, Gerisch said Reeves saw Silva trip over his own feet, and that the actor stopped to help him after the fall.

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Work at Home Data Entry Jobs

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Work at home data entry personnel perform other tasks rather than just typing. They also may edit current or local information, proofread text for accuracy and targetted content, update various databases for clients. Some of the types of data entry jobs include medical records, business records, product information, court documents and attorney's legal briefs. Many work at home data entry operators charge their clients per hour, others choose to charge by the job. Either way, working at home brings benefits that working elsewhere does not.

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Sarah Palin’s Yahoo Mail was hacked

A person claiming to be the hacker who obtained access to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's private Yahoo e-mail on Tuesday has posted a supposed first-person account of the hack, revealing the relatively simple steps he says he took to crack the private e-mail of the Republican vice-presidential candidate.

The story was briefly posted Wednesday to the 4chan forum where the hack first surfaced. Bloggers have connected the handle of the poster, "Rubico," to an e-mail address, and tentatively identified the owner as a college student in Tennessee.

Threat Level was unable to reach the student by phone because his number is unlisted. A person who identified himself as the student's father, when reached at home, said he could not talk about the matter and would have no comment. The father is a Democratic state representative in Tennessee.

That flurry of activity triggered a security feature that froze Palin's account for 24 hours, which was long enough for the information to hit the media. Palin, or someone in her camp, closed the account early Wednesday morning.

Source: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/palin-e-mail-ha.html

India launched Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft to the Moon

India has successfully launched its first unmanned moon mission, Chandrayaan-1 on 22nd October, 2008 becoming the sixth nation to undertake an odyssey for exploration of lunar surface.

The home-grown PSLV-C11, ISRO’s workhorse launch vehicle, placed the spacecraft into a transfer orbit around the earth exactly 18.2 minutes after a textbook lift off at 6.22 am from the second launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre in this island in the Bay of Bengal, 100 km north of Chennai.

“The launch was perfect and precise. It was a remarkable performance by the PSLV. The satellite has been placed in the earth orbit and with this we have completed the first leg of the mission. It will take 15 days to reach the lunar orbit,” a beaming ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair announced.

When the spacecraft finally reaches its destination at 100 km above the moon surface after a series of manoeuvres over the next two weeks, it would signal India’s arrival in the league of nations — the US, Russia, European Space Agency, China and Japan which are already involved in lunar exploration.

Source: http://www.bharatchronicle.com/news/257

Arkansas Anchorwoman Anne Pressly Dies After Beating

Arkansas television anchorwoman Anne Pressly died Saturday, several days after being found beaten in her home when she didn't answer her wake-up call, hospital officials said.

Anne Pressly, 26, died at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Margaret Preston said.

In a statement released by the hospital, Pressly's parents Guy and Patti Cannady asked for privacy as they grieved their daughter's death.

Anne Pressly was beaten around the head, face and neck. She had been unable to communicate with her family or police while being kept sedated in the intensive care unit.

She was discovered Monday morning a half-hour before she was to appear on ABC affiliate KATV's "Daybreak" program. Her mother went to her home after she didn't answer her regular wake-up call.

Anne Pressly had a small role in the new Oliver Stone movie "W.," which was filmed in Shreveport, La. She appears briefly as a conservative commentator who speaks favorably of President Bush's "Mission Accomplished" event on an aircraft carrier shortly after the start of the Iraq war.

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/25/national/main4545765.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4545765

BlackBerry becoming Facebook friendly

Until today, using Facebook via your BlackBerry was only for the dedicated. The very dedicated. Let's face it, the BlackBerry's native microbrowser isn't exactly Safari Mobile, and Facebook's very Web 2.0 interface was never designed for screens smaller than a sub-notebook.

That all changed overnight, when BlackBerry parent company RIM unveilled a Facebook application for the BlackBerry. The native Facebook app swaps the conventional browser-based access for a clean custom-built interface. A row of shortcut icons atop the screen are used to set your status (and check the status of your friends), send a message, upload a photo snapped with your BlackBerry's camera, view your list of friends, write on their wall and poke someone you're too shy to chat up in real life.

For owners of a Curve or Pearl, the photo features make for streamlined photo-blogging: it's a cinch to upload snaps to your site, create a new album, set tags and write captions. Apart from that, the app is very message-centric - it's more for staying in touch with Facebook users rather than perusing profiles and other more random activities.

To download the Facebook app, use your BlackBerry browser to visit facebook.com. RIM has also prepared a handy online tutorial .

Source: http://apcmag.com/hi_facebook_blackberry_wants_to_be_your_friend.htm

"Apple Is Third Largest Handset Supplier" - Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs took the mic on Tuesday to announce that Apple is now the third-largest mobile phone supplier in the world. Jobs stated that the company's $4.6 billion in iPhone revenues this quarter place it right behind mobile phone giants Nokia ($12.7 billion for the quarter) and Samsung ($5.9 billion). This puts Apple ahead of Sony Ericsson ($4.2 billion), LG ($3.4 billion), Motorola ($3.2 billion) and RIM ($2.1 billion).

Calling the revolutionary handset "stunning," Jobs was also excited to share that Apple sold more handsets in the fourth quarter than Research In Motion. Apple has already surpassed its goal of selling 10 million iPhones within the 2008 calendar year. The iPhone saw tremendous growth during the fourth quarter of 2008 alone, selling about 7 million units of the new iPhone 3G compared to 1 million units of the first-generation iPhone sold in the same quarter of 2007. Complementing the handset's success, Apple's iPods also saw positive results, selling about 11 million units over the quarter.

Altogether, Apple posted $11.68 billion in revenue for the quarter; iPhone sales accounted for 39 percent of that total. Using GAAP figures, Apple posted $7.9 billion in revenue for the quarter. The company saw 17-percent revenue growth and 21-percent unit growth in its fourth-quarter earnings, for a net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.26 per diluted share. Overall, Apple performed above analysts' estimates of $1.11 per share and its own forecast of $1 per share.

Source: http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/10/with-iphone-app.html

Woman accused of sending male students obscene text messages

Jaime Katheryn Steen, A former Texas high school teacher faces a misdemeanor charge for allegedly sending pornographic images in text messages to male students.

Jaime Katheryn Steen, 26, was free on $4,000 bond Friday, two days after she turned herself in to authorities.

The first-year teacher worked at Fort Stockton High School in southwest Texas. She resigned Wednesday.

It was alleged that sometime in September that Steen, an agriculture teacher, had "taken five boys on an unauthorized school trip out in the country," Hernandez said. It was alleged that Jaime Katheryn Steen bought a six-pack of alcoholic beverages for the students, which they drank and went on their trip, he said. The boys were ages 15, 16 and 17, Hernandez said.

Source: http://gosanangelo.com/news/2008/oct/24/police-teacher-confesses-to-obscene-texting/

Catherine Zeta Jones staring in "Cleo" and her romantic comedy "The Rebound" coming out in January

Catherine Zeta-Jones, the Welsh actress, who won an Oscar for her supporting turn as the scheming Velma Kelly in "Chicago", is set to star in "Cleo", a period musical to be directed by Steven Soderbergh.

Hugh Jackman is in negotiations to take a lead role in a retelling of the story of Cleopatra, Antony and Caesar set in the 1920s (also the era of "Chicago's" shenanigans).

Joseph Mankiewicz co-wrote and directed the most famous "Cleopatra", the 1963 historical epic that starred Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton. It was hugely expensive and considered a flop but was ultimately nominated for best picture and won four Oscars.

Soderbergh is developing a Liberace biopic, with Zeta-Jones' husband Michael Douglas attached to star.

Zeta-Jones has the romantic comedy "The Rebound" coming out in January. She was in theaters last year with "No Reservations."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081024/film_nm/us_zetajones_2

Hypnosis Lets Regular People See Numbers as Colors

Psychologists have used hypnosis to give people the ability to see numbers as colors.

The researchers, led by Roi Kadosh of University College, London and Luis Fuentes of Spain's University of Murcia, put three women and one man under hypnosis, then instructed them to perceive digits in color: one as red, two as yellow, three as green, and so on.

Upon waking, the subjects found it difficult to find numbers printed in black ink against correspondingly colored backgrounds. The numbers seemed to blend in - a telltale sign of synesthesia. When the hypnosis was removed, the ability vanished.

That form of synesthesia is naturally possessed by roughly one in 1,000 people, among them such historical luminaries as physicist Richard Feynman and writer Vladimir Nabokov, who saw "q as browner than k, while s is not the light blue of c, but a curious mixture of azure and mother-of-pearl."

Observations like these, long dismissed as extravagant fantasy, are now considered a window into the mysteries of perception. But despite a surge of scientific interest, synesthesia's mechanisms remain unknown.

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Jennifer Hudson's mom, brother found dead

The mother and brother of Jennifer Hudson were found shot dead Friday at a South Side home, and police were seeking a missing child who is the nephew of the singer and Oscar-winning actress. "We can confirm that there is an ongoing investigation concerning the deaths of Jennifer Hudson's mother, Darnell Donerson, and her brother, Jason Hudson," Hudson's personal publicist, Lisa Kasteler, said in a statement. "No further comment will be made and the family has asked that their privacy be respected at this difficult time."

The incident occured in Chicago’s South Side which is about five miles from the home of the presidential candidate Barack Obama.

The victims as Darnell Donnerson, 57, was shot in the head and her son Jason Hudson, 29, was shot in the chest. They were found dead inside the family’s residence, 7019 South Yale Avenue, at 2:44 P.M.Hudson’s 7-year-old nephew, Julian King, was reported missing. An amber alert is issued for the missing boy.

Hudson recently announced her engagement to David Otunga, best known for his stint on VH1's reality show "I Love New York."

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http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/a-child-missing-two-killed-at-jennifer-hudsons-home_100111366.html

Hannah Overton Awaits Appeal in Case: Andrew Burd Died from Salt Poisoning

SaTo investigators, Andrew's sudden and bizarre death was no accident. Within days, the authorities had begun weaving a sinister tale of murder. They painted Hannah Overton as a pregnant mother of four young children who became overwhelmed with the arrival of a foster child.

The arrest warrants painted the Hannah Overton home as a house of horrors, where Andrew Burd was monitored by a camera and was punished with spicy seasoning. Detectives even used the Hannah Overtons' children to build a case against them, saying unusual forms of punishment had been previously used.

Source: http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6098673&page=1

Woman Arrested in Japan After Killing Virtual Ex-Husband

A 43-year-old Japanese woman, angry over a sudden divorce in the virtual online game Maple Story, has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the game where she killed her once-virtual husband, authorities said.

Authorities said the Miyazaki woman illegally accessed the game with a password she hijacked from a colleague. That made it appear as if her coworker committed the online murder.

According to The Associated Press, the woman told police: "I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry."

The hacking allegation carries a maximum five-year prison term.

Source: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/woman-arrested.html

Iraq Weapons Made in Iran?

U.S. military and intelligence officials tell ABC News that they have caught shipments of deadly new bombs at the Iran-Iraq border. They are a very nasty piece of business, capable of penetrating U.S. troops' strongest armor.

What the United States says links them to Iran are tell-tale manufacturing signatures -- certain types of machine-shop welds and material indicating they are built by the same bomb factory.

"The signature is the same because they are exactly the same in production," says explosives expert Kevin Barry. "So it's the same make and model."

U.S. intelligence officials say Iran is using the bombs as a way to drive up U.S. casualties in Iraq but without provoking a direct confrontation.

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