Octo-Mom Offered Porn Deal

Warning, you may be disgusted by this story.

Nadya "OctoMom" Suleman has been offered $1 million to make a pornographic movie by Vivid Entertainment.

The deal also includes health insurance for Suleman's swollen family.

"Nadya obviously needs income to assure that her children are secure so we are offering her up to $1 million to act in one movie," said Steven Hirsch, co-chairman of Vivid. "We've had many single mothers work with us over the years and their income from Vivid has been very helpful to them. We would schedule production so that the movie could be shot in less than a week."

A Vivid spokesman said they hope she receives the offer in the mail today.

The story was first reported on TMZ.com, where they had a copy of the letter Vivid sent to Suleman.

In the letter, Hirsch points out that OctoMom would join the Vivid-Celeb imprint line, which has featured stars such as Pam Anderson, Kim Kardashian and former Miss USA and NBC daytime star Kelly McCarty.

Suleman's octuplets, born on Jan 26. boosted her brood to 14, as she had six children already.

In case anyone was thinking that someone with that many children wouldn't make a good porn star, keep in mind her numerous kids were all fathered through artificial insemination and delivered through C-section. We're just saying.

Octo-Mom Fears Hospital Will Keep Kids

Nadya Suleman fears hospital officials may not release her octuplets to her until she proves she can care for them, the Octo-mom told talk show host "Dr. Phil" McGraw in an interview to be broadcast today.

Nadya Suleman, who is single, unemployed, and now the mother of 14 children, sits down for her first TV interview to finally answer the questions we've all dying to know.

McGraw told the Los Angeles Times that Suleman called him, distressed after talking with Kaiser Permanente's Bellflower Medical Center officials.

"What she is telling me is that unless and until she has a better living arrangement, that they are not likely to release the children to her," McGraw told The Times.

There was no immediate response to an NBC request for comment from Kaiser Permanente.

Jim Anderson, Kaiser Permanente Southern California's director of media relations, told The Times "any conversation that the mother may or may not have had on this topic are private and we cannot discuss them."

"In general, mothers with multiple births who have babies in the neonatal intensive care unit are given advice and counsel about what they need to have in place to care for the children when they are discharged. There is a multi-disciplinary team that works with them in advance to offer advice and support."

Kaiser typically does not discharge babies from the neonatal intensive care unit until they are at least 35 weeks old, Vicki Bermudez, a regulatory policy specialist with the California Nurses Association and a neonatal intensive care unit nurse with the Kaiser hospital in Roseville, told The Times.

Flu Mystery Solved?

I hate getting sick in the winter. Last year, I got sick three times even though I was careful to wash my hands all the time. But I always wonder, why the flu strikes hard during the winter but nearly vanishes in the summer has baffled epidemiologists for decades.

Now a new study may have the answer: Influenza germs last longer and pass from person to person more effectively in lower absolute humidity—i.e., when it's cold outside and the air is dryer.

Absolute humidity is a measurement of the total amount of water vapor in the air at a given temperature. Relative humidity, a percentage, is the ratio between the water vapor present and the air's saturation point, a figure that changes with the temperature.

Earlier studies of humidity and the flu had focused on relative humidity and found no link, said lead author Jeffrey Shaman at Oregon State University, whose findings appear tomorrow in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

After reanalyzing these past studies, which also contained data on absolute humidity, Shaman's team found a much more powerful connection.

"Absolute humidity conditions explain most of these changes," Shaman said.

The researchers do not know exactly what it is about low absolute humidity that the flu virus likes. But they suggest that absolute humidity levels be raised in buildings such as hospitals and medical clinics where the disease most often spreads.

"This gets us a big step closer to one type of mechanism" for how the flu spreads, said epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch of Harvard University.

"One really key question is how much influenza is transmitted in tropical locations"—places with high absolute humidity year-round—"and how this compares to temperate parts of the world," he said.

"A satisfactory explanation would not only explain the seasonal cycles in temperate areas, but also the much less seasonal, but still substantial, burden of influenza that seems to be present in the tropics."

Chris Brown Arrested For Assaulting Rihanna

What a shocker! Rihanna bloodied, beaten, bitten by Chris Brown?

Los Angeles police say Chris Brown has turned himself in to authorities investigating an alleged felony battery involving the R&B singer.

Los Angeles police officer Karen Smith says Brown walked into a station around 7 p.m. and was being interviewed by detectives. Smith said he was not in custody.

Police say the 19-year-old singer and a woman were in a vehicle in the Hancock Park neighborhood early Sunday when they began arguing, and the argument escalated when they got out of the car.

Police say the woman identified Brown as her attacker, but he was gone by the time officers arrived.

Both Brown and his girlfriend, fellow singer Rihanna, were no-shows for Sunday night's Grammy Awards. Both were nominated and scheduled to perform.

Don't waste your money on multivitamins

Do you take your multivitamin daily? Do you sometimes get the nagging feeling that you are just flushing money away. Now, you can know the truth.

The largest study ever of multivitamin use in older women found the pills did nothing to prevent common cancers or heart disease. The eight-year study in 161,808 postmenopausal women echoes recent disappointing vitamin studies in men.

Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars on vitamins to boost their health. Research has focused on cancer and heart disease in particular because of evidence that diets full of vitamin-rich foods may protect against those illnesses. But that evidence doesn't necessarily mean pills are a good substitute.

The study's lead author, researcher Marian Neuhouser of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, offered this advice: "Get nutrients from food. Whole foods are better than dietary supplements," Neuhouser said.

The study appears in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine.

Co-author Dr. JoAnn Manson said despite the disappointing results, the research doesn't mean multivitamins are useless.

For one thing, the data are observational, not the most rigorous kind of scientific research. And also, it's not clear if taking vitamins might help prevent cancers that take many years to develop, said Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham & Women's Hospital.

She said multivitamins may still be useful "as a form of insurance" for people with poor eating habits.

The study involved an analysis of data on women in their 50s and up who participated in long-running government studies on postmenopausal women. Almost 42 percent of the women said they used multivitamins regularly.

After about eight years, roughly equal numbers of vitamin users and nonusers developed common cancers, heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems. Overall, there were 9,619 cases of cancer, including cancers of the breast, lung, ovary, colon and stomach; and 8,751 cardiovascular ailments including heart attacks and strokes. In addition, 9,865 women died, also at similar rates in multivitamin users and nonusers.

Alice Lichtenstein, a Tufts University nutrition professor who was not involved in the research, said the study is important because it involved so many women.

"All the evidence keeps pointing in the same direction," Lichtenstein said.

Eric Jacobs, an American Cancer Society epidemiologist, said while his group doesn't advise vitamins to prevent cancer, it does recommend maintaining a healthy weight and eating at least five servings of fruits and vegetables daily while limiting red meat. Similar habits are also thought to help reduce heart disease risks.

A-ROD ADMITS IT

Alex Rodriguez today broke his silence on the steroids question, telling ESPN he used performance-enhancing drugs for three years when he was with the Texas Rangers.

In the interview, which ESPN aired this evening, Rodriguez apologized and said he didn't know which substances he used.

"I was young, I was stupid, I was naive and I wanted to prove to everyone that I was worthy of being one of the greatest players of all time," he said.

"When I arrived in Texas, I felt tremendous pressure to perform," said Rodriguez, who signed a 10-year, $252 million contract when he joined the Rangers in 2001.

"It's the biggest regret I have in my life because baseball has given me everything," Rodriguez told ESPN's Peter Gammons.

"It feels good coming out and being completely honest. ... The more honest we can all be, the quicker we can get baseball [back] to where it needs to be."

Rodriguez described the culture in the early 2000s as being "different" and "loose."

"There were a lot of players doing a lot of things and there was a lot of gray area, too," he said.

Rodriguez said he was "deeply regretful" and added, "I'm just sorry. I'm sorry to my fans, I'm sorry to my fans in Texas."

"I was stupid for three years. I was very, very stupid," Rodriguez said. "I started experimenting with things that, today, are not legal, that today are not accepted. ... Ever since that incident happened, I realized that I don't need any of it."

Rodriguez said he came to that conclusion during spring training of 2003, when he said he suffered a serious neck injury.

"That point in bed, I realized, 'What am I doing?'" Rodriguez said. "[I'm not only hurting] my baseball career, [but] after my career."

Rodriguez, who joined the Yankees for the 2004 season after a trade from Texas, said "all my years in New York have been clean."

Rodriguez said he has spoken to Yankees GM Brian Cashman and owner Hal Steinbrenner.

"I've talked to our front office and they're supporting me," Rodriguez said. "They just want me to be truthful and honest.

"They're ready for bigger and better things."

The superstar's admission came two days after SI.com broke the news that he tested positive for two anabolic steroids in 2003 while playing for the Rangers.

"I want to see [the tests]," Rodriguez said. "I haven't seen them, in fairness to me."

He accused Sports Illustrated reporter Selena Roberts of "stalking" him and said, "Really respectable journalists are following this lady off the cliff."

SI and Roberts issued a statement standing by the story and the manner in which it was reported.

Since the report, a chorus of commentators have called on A-Rod to come clean, and suggested he has imperiled his chances for entering baseball's Hall of Fame.

Rodriguez asked that he be judged for his pre- and post-Texas career, when he was starring for the Marniers and Yankees, and on the nine years he has remaining on his contract going forward.

A-Rod denied using steroids in a 2007 during a "60 Minutes" interview. But today, he changed his story.

"I am guilty of being very naive and I am deeply sorry for that," he said.

"The truth needed to come out a long time ago and I'm glad it's coming out today."

Miley Cyrus' slant-eye pose stirs up controversy

Miley Cyrus is in hot water again. Her slant-eye pose slammed by Asian group. I don't see what the big deal is. If anything, they should be please. Like they say, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.

Disney teen idol Miley Cyrus has been accused of taunting and mocking Asians by making slant-eye poses in a personal photograph with her friends.

A snapshot of Cyrus, 16, best known as the star of the Disney Channel show "Hannah Montana", and friends posing with an Asian friend and pulling their eyes sideways surfaced on the Internet this week.

The OCA, a national organization in the United States dedicated to advancing the social and political welfare of Asian Pacific Americans, called on the singer-actress to apologize.



The group said the image "falls within a long and unfortunate history of people mocking and denigrating individuals of Asian descent."
"Not only has Miley Cyrus and the other individuals in the photograph encouraged and legitimized the taunting and mocking of people of Asian descent, she has also insulted her many Asian Pacific American friends," OCA executive director George Wu in a statement issued on Monday.

Wu said the fact that an Asian friend was included in the photo "does not make it acceptable."

Representatives for Cyrus did not immediately return calls for comment on Tuesday.

Cyrus, one of the biggest teen stars in the world, apologized to fans last year for a Vanity Fair photo shoot which showed her apparently wearing little but a satin bedsheet. She also came under fire in 2008 for personal pictures showing her in her underwear.

Super Bowl Porn Clip

Found the actual video on Youtube. Enjoy.



If you live in Tucson, don't forget to claim your $10 compensation.

Porn Takes Over the Super Bowl - Yes!

Boy, I wish I lived in Tucson. Comcast is offering $10 credit to Tucson customers who saw Super Bowl porn. what more can a guy ask for? Sport, money and porn. What an awesome Sunday it was. The last couple minutes of the games was exciting. Almost missed all the action because I has to use the can.

Tucson residents got a little more action than they bargained for during yesterday's Super Bowl. In the final quarter of the game, the Comcast cable feed was interrupted by porn.

Larry Fitzgerald's touchdown, which put the Cardinals on top, was followed by 30 seconds of male full frontal nudity. The pornography clip was from a channel called Club Jenna and featured a woman unzipping a man’s pants, followed by a graphic act between the two.

Who said you can't get your mind racing on a Monday morning?

Comcast says it has no idea how the rogue porno snuck into the Super Bowl broadcast, but the company says it is investigating. “We are mortified by last evening’s Super Bowl interruption, and deeply apologize to our customers for the inappropriate programming,” said a Comcast spokesperson. “We are aggressively investigating the situation including the possibility of foul play.”

What A Dope! 14-times Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe

What a dope! I can't believe Phelps would do such a stupid thing. What would possess him to do a thing like? He was a hero to me and many other people. The 14 gold medals must have gone to his head. What a let down for millions of people, not to mention endangering his chance for the 2012 games in London. It might destroy the career of the greatest competitor in Olympic history.

Those dreams seemed the last thing on his mind when he puffed from the bong during two days of partying with students last November, a quiet time in the swimming calendar when athletes would not expect to get tested for drugs.

One party-goer who witnessed the star’s behaviour said “He was out of control from the moment he got there.

“If he continues to party like that I’d be amazed if he ever won any more medals again.”

Phelps’ aides went into a panic over our story and offered us a raft of extraordinary incentives not to run the bong picture.

It was on November 6, weeks after his Beijing triumph, that 23-year-old Phelps surprised students at the University Of South Carolina in Columbia by showing up unannounced at a house party.

He was visiting Jordan Matthews, a girl he was secretly seeing who was a student there.

Our source revealed: “Michael came to visit Jordan but ended up just getting wasted every night.

“He arrived with a group of girls hanging all over him. Jaws hit the floor when he walked in. You don’t get many celebrities in Columbia, so when Phelps comes to your party it’s a very big deal.

“He didn’t know many people so you’d think he’d be a little shy. But he was loud, obnoxious and slamming beers from the get-go.

“Every girl wanted a piece of him and every guy wanted to be his best buddy. He couldn’t get enough of all the attention.”

As he basked in his hero status, Phelps knocked back beers and shots of spirits. And when a student offered him the glass bong engraved with red writing, he did not hesitate, says our source.

The 6ft 4ins athlete, in a white T-shirt and navy cap worn back to front, clasped the device in his huge hands and inhaled deeply.

Our source said: “You could tell Michael had smoked before. He grabbed the bong and a lighter and knew exactly what to do.

“He looked just as natural with a bong in his hands as he does swimming in the pool. He was the gold medal winner of bong hits. Michael ended up getting a little paranoid, though, because before too long he looked like he was nervous and ran out of the place.”

But the next night, Phelps was out partying again. The source added: “He was right back at it at Pavlov’s bar.

“Like the night before he was holding court, throwing back shots two at a time and pouring drinks to every cute girl.”

Drink has got Phelps into trouble before. In 2004, aged 19, he got 18 months probation for driving while under the influence.

His wild behaviour is in stark contrast to the grim regime which took him to the top of his sport.

He once described his life, saying: “All you do is eat, sleep, swim; eat, sleep, swim; eat, sleep, swim.”

Last night Phelps’ management team and the sporting world closed ranks over the scandal.

The US Olympics Committee, who have pledged to clamp down on drug use, refused to comment, as did USA Swimming and Phelps’ coach Bob Bowman.

More surprising still was the World Anti-Doping Agency’s refusal to comment, given that they introduced the four-year ban on sport’s drug users.

Phelps, who earned £4million last year in endorsements, has resumed training for the 2012 games.

But there were fears about his commitment when, weeks after the bong incident, he began dating former stripper Caroline Pal.

Phelps is represented by marketing giant Octagon, which works with huge brands such as Mastercard and HSBC. They admitted proven cannabis use would be “a major taint” on Phelps’ character.

Spokesman Clifford Bloxham offered us an extraordinary deal not to publish our story, saying Phelps would become our columnist for three years, host events and get his sponsors to advertise with us.

In return, he asked that we kill Phelps’ bong picture. Bloxham said: “It’s seeing if something potentially very negative for Michael could turn into something very positive for the News of the World.”

He stressed that the swimmer had taken 1,500 drug tests and never failed one.

Until now?

Super Bowl Milestone - NBC sells out ads for record $206M

New record for NBC! With the economy downturn, there were rumours of Super Bowl ads not being sold. Now it's good to see that Super Bowl is recession-proof. This will make the executives very happy.

NBC said on the eve of Sunday's Super Bowl that it has sold the last two of the 67 advertising spots for the game, pushing total ad revenue for the event to a record $206 million.

The network said its total of $261 million in ad revenue for all of Super Bowl day also is a record, calling it an especially impressive feat in the middle of the economy's steep downturn.
The Super Bowl is the premier advertising event with an U.S. audience of 100 million viewers, many of whom watch closely during game breaks for the debut of entertaining, big-budget commercials. The ads have sold for between $2.4 million and $3 million per 30-second slot this year.

"These advertising milestones show the power of the NFL brand and the strength of the Super Bowl as a TV property in this economic climate," said Jeff Zucker, president and CEO of NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co. "The Super Bowl has become one of our country's biggest holidays, a uniquely American day, and advertisers recognized the value in being a part of it."

Thirty-two advertisers in all will showcase their products during Super Bowl coverage.
NBC said the ads featured during the game also will be available for viewing almost immediately after they air at Web sites including NBC.com, Hulu.com and Superbowl.com.

Obama Big Dilemma - Protectionism Bill

Is protectionism the way to go? Today, we live in a global society and should encourage free trade, not old outdated policies of the past. Protectionism is short term thinking. It will do much more harm in the future. Already, it has upset their closest trading partner - Canada. Canadians are not too please with the bill. Time will tell if this is a wise decision.

Less than two weeks into office, President Barack Obama faces a dilemma over protectionist provisions in a massive economic stimulus bill: Backing the measures could set off a trade war, while opposing them could trigger a backlash from his supporters.

The choice involves "buy American" provisions attached to White House-backed stimulus legislation moving through Congress. They would require major public works projects to favor U.S. steel, iron and manufacturing over imports.

Some Democratic lawmakers and interest groups allied to the president support the measures, but international allies and trading partners are warning that favoring U.S. companies would breach U.S. trade commitments and could set off tit-for-tat countermeasures around the world.
The two largest U.S. trading partners already have spoken out against the measures. On Thursday, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed concern and the European Union warned that it would not "stand idly by" if such measures were passed. On Friday, Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also criticized the measures.

In November, world leaders, who gathered in Washington for the G-20 summit to consider how to right the global economy, pledged to avoid protectionism. But since taking office Jan. 20, Obama has said little on trade and has yet to nominate a trade representative. While campaigning, he argued that the Bush administration's strong support of free trade agreements should be moderated by including environmental and labor protections.

"The jury is out on how this administration is going on trade policy," said Steven Schrage, an international business analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "This will be a key test."

Asked about the protective provisions Friday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs would say only that the administration was reviewing them.

The provisions are likely to find support among Americans outraged that money from a stimulus package likely to top $800 billion could go to foreign competitors of U.S. firms.

"I believe that when taxpayer dollars are used, they should support the things produced here at home," Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan, author of one of the provisions, said in a statement.
Many analysts say the measures reflect the interests of small sectors over the larger economy, which could suffer from reduced trade and higher steel prices.

"The result, according to my calculations, is that the U.S. will lose more jobs than it will gain," said Gary Hufbauer, an economist with the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a Washington think tank. "We are going to poison the wells of world commerce if we do this."
The provisions are in a bill already approved by the House and a different version under consideration in the Senate. The Senate version states that none of the funds from the stimulus may be used for a project "unless all of the iron, steel and manufactured goods used in the projects are produced in the United States." The House version leaves out manufactured goods.
Obama, who has argued that stimulus measures are urgent, is unlikely to block passage of any bill approved by the Congress. But he could press lawmakers to remove the protectionist measures before it is passed.

"The problem is that Obama has not said anything yet," said Dan Ikenson of the libertarian Cato Institute.

Both versions of the bill include language that would allow the president to waive the protectionist measures if he decides that would be in the economic interests of the United States. But passage of the measures could in itself unnerve trading partners and encourage other countries to take similar protective action.

January the Worst on Record for Stocks

This probably comes as no surprise to most investors. Those who dare to look at their brokerage statements have a sinking feeling that things are bad and they are not about to get better anytime soon. Now the stats confirm it.

Stocks wrapped up their worst January on record with a final plunge on Friday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished January down 8.84% on the month. Perviously, the worst January for the Dow had been that of 1916, when it fell 8.64%. Friday, the Dow dropped 148.15 points to 8000.86 after briefly dipping below the 8000 mark. The Dow has fallen five straight months and in 12 of the last 15.

The S&P 500-stock index lost 2.28% Friday to end at 825.88, for cumulative losses in January of 8.57%. Until Friday, its worst January from 1929 onward occurred in 1970, when it lost 7.65%.

Both stock-market indexes are off by more than 40% from their 2007 highs.
Stocks popped at the open Friday, but spent most of the day in the red. Traders cited fears that plans wouldn't go forward for a so-called bad bank to soak up toxic assets from financial institutions, and bleak economic news, in particular Friday's report of a 3.8% contraction in fourth quarter GDP. It was better than the 5.5% fall that economists had expected, but suggested the recession, now in its second year, is cutting deep.

A slew of layoff announcements, skepticism of the Obama stimulus plan, and a series of bleak earnings reports all crunched U.S. stock markets over the course of the week. Those developments left investors who exited stocks last year with little desire to put their money to work in the markets, limiting any stock rallies.

"I don't think anyone is willing to put money to work until we get clarity out of the new government," said Matthew Cheslock, managing director at Cohen Capital Group LLC.
Investors have grown wary of efforts to right the ship. The Obama stimulus plan has received a lukewarm reception among market participants and buzz about the possible creation of a "bad bank" to soak up toxic assets has waxed and waned, perplexing investors. After a three-day jump to start the week, the bottom dropped out for stocks on Thursday and Friday.
"There's been too much back-and-forth, it's a wishy-washy market," said Debra Brede, president of D.K. Brede Investment Management Company. "One day you think [the government] is going to do something serious to help the banks, and the next day it's not such a great idea. Markets hate uncertainty, and it's not clear it's a good plan. We need to get these banks cleaned up and move forward."

Historically, stocks' January performance has been thought of as an informal indicator for the market's direction the rest of the year. When the S&P declines in January, the index loses an average of 2.4% in the next 11 months, according to data going back to 1950 from Ned Davis Research. When the S&P climbs in January, the index posts an average gain of 12.3% in the next period.

"We're at month-end, the Dow is down, and there's no ray of sunshine," said Mr. Cheslock. "We need to get expectations down -- it's good for the market over the long term. Last quarter was horrible, this quarter will probably be horrible."
On Friday, Dow component Procter & Gamble lost 6.2% after cutting its sales forecast for the year after a 53% increase in earnings in its just-ended quarter. Oil giant Exxon Mobil's fourth quarter net fell 33% even as its annual results hit a new record. Rival Chevron posted a razor-thin profit increase for the fourth quarter. The two Dow components ended with modest losses.
Industrial stocks sold off, with Caterpillar warning it must drastically reduce production this year. Its shares fell 3.1%. Alcoa slid 7.7%. These stocks have plumbed new depths after repeated warnings from the International Monetary Fund and others that global growth is going to slow to a "virtual standstill" in 2009.

Gold and the U.S. dollar were among Friday's few silver linings. The dollar rose 1.23% against the euro. February gold gained 2.5%, ending at $927.30.
"The dollar seems to have some strength, but I think gold is telling the real story here," said Axel Merk, president and chief investment officer at Merk Investments. Investors no longer favor any particular currency, Mr. Merk said, because of "[worries] about what governments may do to their currencies. Everyone wants to weaken their currencies to finance growth. There are depression fears spreading around the world."