Sunday, July 23, 2006

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Vampire Web site used to lure girls


A man who prosecutors say lured underage girls he met on a vampire-related Internet site to cemeteries for sex pleaded not guilty to rape and sodomy charges.

Eric Fischer, 23, was ordered held on $350,000 bail after entering the plea Thursday on a 25-count indictment that included charges of rape, criminal sexual act and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Suffolk County district attorney's office.

Prosecutors said he contacted his victims using a Gothic culture Web site and arranged to meet them in cemeteries on Long Island, east of New York City, prosecutors said.

Fischer was first arrested in March and an incident involving a 16-year-old girl he met on the Web site, police said. A month later, he was accused of luring someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl -- but who turned out to be a detective in the Suffolk police computer crimes squad.

Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Julie Walsh said a further investigation uncovered five other potential victims, ranging in age from 14 to 16.

Fischer's attorney, John Ammerman, declined to comment.

Kevin Smith Vs. Joel Siegel


I can't believe I'm jumping into this pissing contest, but since I was at the Clerks II screening that started all the fuss I feel I need to, especially since some of what I've read really doesn't jibe with what I saw and heard.

I would imagine that anyone who clicked on this post has a general idea what's up, but for those who've managed to avoid hearing about the catfight, the short version is that on Monday, July 17, movie critic Joel Siegel of ABC's Good Morning America and Eyewitness News, walked out of a New York screening room in the middle of Kevin Smith's Clerks II, and Smith is spitting mad.

This is how the New York Post's Page Six described the incident:

"Time to go!" roared Siegel to his fellow critics. "First movie I've walked out of in 30 [bleeping] years!" His tirade came 40 minutes into the long-awaited Weinstein Company sequel to Smith's 1994 cult classic about two foulmouthed Long Island convenience-store clerks who razz customers and goof off.

OK, as it happens, I was sitting next to Siegel in the front row of the Broadway Screening Room, which seats about 40, and he did get up in the middle of a lengthy scene in which Randal (Jeff Anderson) is booking a Tijuana donkey show as a going-away present for Dante (Brian O'Halloran). The quote is right (except that I didn't hear him say [bleeping] anything), but neither "roar" nor "tirade" accurately describes what I heard and saw. He got up, said what he said — nothing more than what's quoted above — and left: no door slamming, no lingering in the half-open door letting light into the room, no haranguing from the side aisle.


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  • Sex education may get adolescents to delay sex


    After participating in a two-week sexual education program designed and implemented by an academic medical center, more middle-school students said they would hold off on having sex for the first time, Texas researchers report.

    "Involvement by the medical profession can assure medically correct content, appropriate research outcomes, and enhanced quality of medical information in this important area of adolescent health," Dr. Patricia J. Sulak of the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center College of Medicine in Temple and colleagues note in a report.

    School officials in Temple had approached health care professionals at the medical school for assistance in developing a sex education program for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders. Parents and school officials wanted to emphasize postponing sexual activity, so the program focused on consequences of teen sex, as well as "skill building, character building, and refusal skills," Sulak and her team point out in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Students who were considering having sex were "encouraged" to meet with a health care professional.


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    Grounded teen killed family before going to prom



    A jury convicted a man Friday of killing his father, stepmother and two stepsisters 17 years ago inside their church parsonage home so he could attend some high school prom events.

    The St. Joseph County jury found Jeffrey Pelley, now 34, guilty on four counts of murder after deliberating more than 25 hours since Wednesday. Pelley faces up to 260 years in prison when he is sentenced September 15.

    Prosecutors accused Pelley, a high school senior at the time, of using a shotgun to kill his father, the Rev. Robert Pelley; stepmother, Dawn; and stepsisters, Janel, 8, and Jolene, 6, in April 1989 at their home next to the Olive Branch Church of the United Brethren in Lakeville, about 10 miles south of South Bend.

    Investigators said Pelley was angry because his father had grounded him for stealing and would allow him to attend only the prom dance, causing him to miss a prom dinner, a bowling alley party and an outing the next day at an amusement park outside Chicago.
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  • N. Korean leader has secret 'wife'


    North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has been living with his former secretary, who is virtually acting as the communist nation's "first lady," South Korea's Yonhap news agency has reported.

    There is no official information available about the marital history of the 64-year-old leader of the highly secretive government, but Kim is widely believed to have been married three times. His last wife, Ko Yong Hi, reportedly died of cancer in 2004.

    Since then, Kim has been living with Kim Ok, who had served as his personal secretary since the 1980s, Yonhap reported, citing South Korean government officials it didn't further identify.

    Kim Ok, 42, "virtually acts as North Korea's first lady" and frequently accompanies the North Korean leader on his visits to military bases and in meetings with visiting foreign dignitaries, Yonhap said.
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  • Hunger-strike Hussein in hospital


    Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has been taken to the hospital after suffering from the effects of a hunger strike, launched in protest of his ongoing trial, the chief prosecutor in his trial said.

    U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Keir-Kevin Curry said the 69-year-old Hussein voluntarily received nutrition through a feeding tube, and continues to be monitored. He is continuing his hunger strike and his life is not in danger, Curry said.

    After hearing the report, Hussein's defense attorney Mohamed Moneib questioned whether the hunger strike was to blame, saying Hussein was in "very, very good health" on Saturday during a three-hour meeting in Baghdad.

    "He discussed a lot of issues with us, pitched ideas and even discussed the Israeli aggression on Lebanon," Moneib said. "There was no indication that he is ill or suffered of poor health."
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    Confessions of a rock 'n' roll vixen


    It's a sweltering summer day and Peaches has taken refuge in her air-conditioned tour bus, which is parked behind the stage at the Tweeter Center. In a few hours the 39-year-old musician will put on a corset and perform sexually explicit electro-rock songs from her new album, ``Impeach My Bush," in her opening set at the Nine Inch Nails show. This afternoon she is laying supine on a leather banquette, chatting about gender politics and tugging at the sides of her dress in an effort to cover her hot pink bra.

    Such a demure gesture from the fearless vixen who will shortly be gyrating through ``Two Guys (For Every Girl)" is confusing. But there's a book on the table -- ``The Ethical Slut" -- that seems to shed a little light. And there's a person called Merrill Nisker who attended an exclusive Hebrew academy and played folk music in Toronto coffeehouses before turning 30 and deciding there was more to life, and art, than fitting in. That's when Peaches was born.

    ``The world's problem," says Peaches, ``is following blindly and fearfully instead of questioning power and questioning yourself. Maybe people think I'm extreme, but what's extreme? I think [President] Bush is extreme. I think not handing out condoms and spreading AIDS because you don't want people to have sex is extreme."

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    Eating Fruit Is Not a Crime (But Selling It Might Be)


    Mangosteens make such a lightning-quick appearance on the New York produce scene that they’re very easy to miss– partly because they aren’t grown in the quantities that oranges, apples, or even lychees are, and partly because they’re illegal to import fresh into the US. When you do spot them, you’ll usually find them in Asian markets, often in an unlabeled container or cleverly disguised among the eggplants, which they resemble if you squint your eyes. This weekend, we found several produce vendors hawking fresh mangosteens in Chinatown. One kept them in a large white bucket next to his chair– a bucket he covered up in a flash when he saw me eyeing them, while the others were more brazen about their trade. And in fairness, some of them may actually be selling legal mangosteens: pre-frozen fruits or fresh ones from Hawaii or Puerto Rico.

    But really, we doubt it. Frozen mangosteens give themselves away immediately because their internal flesh turns mushy and translucent, almost clear, when it is thawed. None of the five fruits we purchased on Baxter Street appeared to have been frozen. Then there’s the domestic mangosteen that avoids the ban because it is treated for pest infestations more thoroughly than its Asian cousins– in theory, we’d find these in every local supermarket, but in practice, the mangosteens grown domestically get shipped off to a more lucrative market: Japan. So unless our Chinatown produce vendor managed to get his hands on a case or two of these prime fruits, we’ re guilty of buying contraband fruit.
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  • Sex museum plan sparks Rio row


    Telling your 71-year-old grandmother you plan to construct a gigantic replica of a uterus on her doorstep must be one of the least pleasant tasks for any grandson.
    That, however, is the bind of Igor de Vetyemy, a young Brazilian architect behind a controversial project to build a museum inspired entirely by sex on one of the world's most famous beaches.

    Plans to erect the "interactive" Cidade do Sexo (City of Sex) just off Copacabana beach have divided Rio de Janeiro - a city renowned for its sensuality, but also one keen to crack down on sex tourism and child prostitution.

    Hoping to sever her city's ties with sex tourism, Rio's evangelical governor, Rosinha Matheus, recently banned the sale of postcards featuring naked women. While she has yet to officially comment on the scheme, blueprints for the museum are unlikely to please her.

    Boasting strip joints, sex "capsules" and a swingers' club - all packed into a futuristic, phallus-like white labyrinth - the planned museum resembles an oversized set from Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.


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  • Man bets he can cut off his penis

    A man who cut off his penis in a drunken bet had his organ stitched back yesterday by Latvian doctors, the first such operation in the country's history.

    While strongly under the influence of alcohol, the 30-year-old man made a bet with his friend for 1 000 lats (about R15 800) that he would cut off his penis. He was rushed to hospital with his penis in a plastic bag.

    The operation lasted three- and-a-half hours. Doctors had to sew six nerves back together. It will take about half a year to be sure the man's penis is functioning properly. - Sapa-AFP