alejandra jackson

Jermaine filed for divorce from Alejandra Jackson in 2004. They fought hard over child support. According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, Jermaine pressured Alejandra to live with the couple's two children -- Jaafar and Jermajesty -- in the Jackson family home in Encino. Alejandra claimed in the docs Jermaine wanted her to live in his mom's home so he didn't have to pay her supportIn legal docs filed last year, Alejandra complained most of the support money she received was from Katherine, frequently in the form of gift cards from Ralphs supermarket -- the very same place Jaafar bought a credit card

so he could purchase the stun gun online.

Alejandra has been living in Katherine's home, along with Jaafar and Jermajesty, Genevieve and Randall -- the latter two kids were born during Alejandra's marriage to Randy Jackson, Jermaine's brother. Another minor, Dante, is living in the home -- a child the Jackson's essentially adopted. Add to that Michael Jackson's three kids, Prince, Paris and Blanket and 79-year-old Katherine is juggling responsibilities for 8 children.

Turns out 26 bathrooms and 12 bedrooms came in handy. Who knew?

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dj tracy young

Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak is either a lesbian dating a female DJ named Tracy, or she is still with her (married) boyfriend Big Papa. Us Weekly reports the divorced mom-of-two is gay and that she and Tracy Young stepped out together Saturday night in Miami and reportedly told some other party-goer “We’re really happy!”
The two met when Tracy did a remix of Kim’s song “Tardy for the Party.” A source tells Us, “Tracy broke up with her longtime girlfriend to be with Kim. Since they’ve been together, Tracy lost a lot of weight and got really skinny for Kim. They seem to be beyond happy with each other.”
Real Housewives of New York husband Simon van Kempen basically dropped the news last week to Us, telling the mag, “The rumor is that Kim Zolciak will come out this season.”Meanwhile, Kim tweeted two things. According to one tweet, her date Saturday night was her daughter Brielle, 13.In another tweet today she wrote:
“WOW…who the hell is Simon van Kempen? Talking abt me in US weekly. Give me a break…Get ur facts straights, Never met that man in my life”Plus, just last week Zolciak just told a radio station that she and on-off boyfriend, ex-fiance and the still-married Big Papa are still going strong. “I’m with Big Papa,” Zolciak told Atlanta radio station Q100’s The Bert Show — albeit timidly. She also said he could still make an appearance on the show.

hawk panther

Hawk Panther: latest news about updates in Hawk Panther ,hawkpanther, les singer, bloom box wikipedia, bloom energywikipedia, marianne baronin brandstetter, I see that a couple of posts have no comments on them and I kind of wondered why? I reasoned that I said nothing that anyone felt was worth commenting on, which is fair enough. Comments really inspire me to write more, so I thought about what to do? What I thought is that rather than just post pictures of my mechs, sans pretty much anything, I would add some comments and fluff, which will hopefully generate more comments.

My favourite Battletech mechs come mostly from the anime show Fang of the Sun Dougram, known in Japan as Taiyō no Kiba Daguramu. This is one of three shows that FASA used the mechs from for their Battledroids game, which due to Lucas Films owning the word “droid” was renamed Battletech. The other two shows were Crusher Joe, known as Kurasshā Jō where the Locust battlemech and Galleon light tank designs came from, and the series Super Dimensional Fortress Macross known in Japan as Chō Jikū Yōsai Makurosu, which actually translates as Super Spacetime Fortress Macross, which is of course the show that was the basis for the TV series Robotech by Harmony Gold.

My other favourite mechs being the Destroids that became know as the Rifleman, Archer, Warhammer and Longbow, plus the Valkyrie’s that became the basis for the Wasp, Stinger, Phoenix Hawk and Crusader. Other designs were used, or based upon Macross designs, including the Marauder, along with the Ostall series, name from Crusher Joe; the image being an interpretation of the Zentradi battle pods. All of this being old news to OSR fans like myself.

Here is the first Company of the Pink Panther Battalion. Looks like a standard 12 mech lance, but in fact is organised into two 5 mech lances and a command element of 2 mechs. The mech front and centre left in this photo is a custom modified Griffin that was turned into a representation of Fang of the Sun Dougram Bushman mech. Though it is a little too large in actual fact. However, I do have a couple of Gashapon Bushmen that I intend to use in my recon lances at some point. So this mech will be re-imagined as a Griffin command variant.

Here is my Alpha lance. It has all my favourites mechs in it from the show Fang of the Sun Dougram. The Battlemaster at the back of the pictures, which was known in the show as the Soltic HT-128 “Bigfoot”. This is an original “unseen” model with no particular modifications made to it, and was originally painted up in the late 80s, so it is 20 years old. I intend to refurbish the aerials at some point on all my old models, as at the time I used piano wire, but want to use finer guitar string, as it will look better.

I also have a whole bunch of custom Pink Panther unit decals from Fighting Pirranha Graphics to add as well. In the centre of the picture is my first Thunderbolt, which was known as the Hasty F4X “Ironfoot”. This has been modified with a PPC on its right arm, and I’ve replaced the rather wimpy rocket launcher that came with the model with something more substantial, to make it look closer to the original design. The Griffin, known as Soltic H8 “Roundfacer”, is a newly modified model that has been turned into the 24th Battalion Custom”Korchima Special” from the show. The Shadow Hawk, known as the “Dougram” that the show is named after, has only had a minor alteration to it, which was to make the over the shoulder cannon rotate on a bearing.

Originally I just used a pin through the casting, but after 20 years this was showing signs of failure, so I rebuilt the joint using brass bearings. Finally, the Wolverine, known as Abitate T-10C “Blockhead”, is another newly made model that has been reposed, and it has had the main weapon replaced with a spare casting given to me by Glenn Wallbridge, a friend of mine who use to make model masters for casting for firms like Akhenaton Models.

plane crash austin

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A small airplane crashed into an office building in Austin, Texas which reportedly housed an Internal Revenue Service office, according to media reports Thursday. However, Austin officials said the crash is not terror related.

So far, two people have been sent to the hospital and one person is unaccounted for, the authorities said. They declined to comment on the pilot. But the Wall Street Journal reported that a Texan named Joseph Stack made an Internet posting that indicated that he was responsible for the crash

Federal law enforcement officials have said they were investigating whether the pilot crashed on purpose in an effort to blow up IRS offices. The Web site featured a long note dated Thursday denouncing the government and the IRS in particular and cited the Austin man's problems with the agency.

All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing.

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An alleged suicide note left by the pilot Joe Stack has surfaced online.

palo alto plane crash

Businesses in Palo Alto were brought almost to a standstill today in the wake of the East Palo Alto plane crash that knocked out power to the city.

The Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford Hospital were operating on emergency power. Schools were operating in the dark, traffic lights were out and many retail businesses were closed.

At the Stanford hospitals, operations that were in progress will continue, but nonemergency cases are on hold until further notice, according to an e-mail from Stanford spokesman Gary Migdol.

The emergency departments are open only for the most urgent cases. Clinic appointments at the main Stanford camps are canceled.

PG&E spokesman Joe Molica said the plane crash affected three transmission lines that serve Palo Alto. Power is expected to be restored between 4:30 and 5 p.m.

Meanwhile, downtown Palo Alto is pretty much closed down.

"The town is shuttered up," said Sherry Bijan, president of the Palo Alto Downtown Business and Professional Association. "This is very crippling. My district is shut down completely."

Some downtown area restaurants — Pluto's, Hahn's Hibachi and Gyro Gyros — are open even without power, she said. But they aren't taking credit cards.

"Actually it's pretty calm, given all of that," Bijan said. "There's kind of this little lull around, which is very kind of spooky."

marcus camby

Who can make the Nuggets better, and possibly the best? With apologies to Willy Wonka, the Camby Man can.


Tick . . . tick . . . tick. The NBA trading deadline is Thursday afternoon.

According to relentless rumor mongers, the Nuggets have made overtures to the Bulls about acquiring Tyrus Thomas and to the Pistons about a deal for Ben Wallace. Either would be a decent addition for a team in need of one more quality frontcourt player.

But the Camby Gambit is the most logical stratagem.

In mid-July 2008, the Nuggets sent Marcus Camby to the Clippers for next to nothing. Almost to the day 20 months later, the Nuggets should reclaim him for something — a run at the NBA championship.

At the time of the Camby x-change, Mark Warkentien, Nuggets vice president of basketball operations, gave his Checkers Speech: "The deal was made for one compelling reason, the trade exception. This provides us with greater flexibility, more options for potential deals with other teams . . . This is chess, not checkers."

And Camby was the pawn sacrificed.

The Nuggets dumped nearly $10 million to get under the league's salary cap, to avoid paying the luxury tax and putting that $10 million trade exception, valid until last November, in their pocket.

Warkentien, vilified for the move, was vindicated soon after as the Camby-less Nuggets — who brought in, on the cheap, Chris Ander- sen — won 55 games, two playoff series and reached the Western Conference finals. Warkentien was chosen the NBA executive of the year, primarily because he pulled off the Chauncey Billups deal that turned the franchise around.

Problem was, the Nuggets did miss Camby, and, more important, let the trade exception expire this past November without action.

The Nuggets still are short one big.

Andersen, a surprisingly significant role player in the Nuggets' success last season, was signed to a big contract (and got his likeness on Arby's glasses). Frankly, though, his play this season has been spotty and less than spectacular until last week. The other large men, Malik Allen and Johan Petro, are strictly bench squatters.

Through the all-star break, the Nuggets have been relishing another brilliant season with a 35-18 record and a two-game lead in the Northwest Division. They are 3-0 against the teams heavily favored to meet in the NBA Finals — the Lakers and the Cavaliers.

The Nuggets, who play at Cleveland on Thursday, can attach themselves to the Cavaliers' minds, just as they did to the Lakers in their recent victory in Los Angeles. The Lakers realize that the Nuggets won't be playoff pushovers.

Intact, the Nuggets can push up to the conference finals again, but there are issues.

The Nuggets' three starters up front — Melo, K-Mart and Nene — have been injury prone, in years past and this one.

And the Mavericks just traded for Caron Butler and Brendan Haywood to become legitimate contenders to overtake the Nuggets as the West's No. 2 seed. Certainly the slipping Trail Blazers and probably the Thunder and the Rockets will be trying to trade up before Thursday. The Suns are expected to trade down. (Amar'e Stoudemire, see ya.)

This is a chess match.

Your move, Warkentien.

Let's see if you can be a grandmaster once more, with assistance from Rex Chapman, the smart vice president of player personnel, and Bret Bearup, the powerful consultant. And looming in the background, of course, is owner E. Stanley Kroenke, who controls the Nugs and the Avs when he's not trying to take control of the Arsenal.

The Nuggets do have yet another $3.6 million exception, from the Stephen Hunter deal last summer to the Grizzlies. So they definitely can afford to obtain Wallace ($1.3 million) from the Pistons or Thomas ($4.7 million) from the Bulls without affecting the Kroenke Cap.

But would the Pistons or Bulls accept anything the Nuggets give in return, which won't be much? How about Anthony Carter ($1.3 million) and Joey Graham ($884,000), or a future No. 1 and Allen ($1.3 million)?

Or the Nuggets can get something of real value — Camby.

The Nuggets' triumvirate must figure, finesse and finagle to pull that off and make the numbers work. The Clippers want to unload Camby and his expiring $9.2 million contract. Camby understands George Karl's system, has played with Car- melo, Nene and Kenyon, and would love to come back to Denver — where he has close friends and connections to several local charities — and have a chance at being a contributor and a champion.

Everybody here knows what Marcus would provide — rebounds, blocked shots, the last line of defense, a few jumpers and veteran leadership.

A pawn leaves; a knight returns.

The Camby Man can, but can the Nuggets put him in The Can again? Can do and it could be checkmate.

Woody Paige: 303-954-1095 or wpaige@denverpost.com







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floyd landis

]PARIS - A French judge has issued an international arrest warrant for U.S. cyclist Floyd Landis in connection with a case of data hacking at a doping laboratory, France's anti-doping chief said Monday.

Pierre Bordry told The Associated Press that French judge Thomas Cassuto is seeking to question Landis, a native of Farmersville, Lancaster County, about computer hacking dating back to September 2006 at the Chatenay-Malabry lab. Months earlier, the laboratory near Paris had uncovered abnormally elevated testosterone levels in Landis' samples collected in the run-up to his 2006 Tour de France victory.

Landis was stripped of his title and banned for two years.

The American cyclist unsuccessfully challenged the drug test results before an arbitration hearing in California -- claiming that computer files were mishandled and erased.

"Landis used the hacked files for his defense, that's how we discovered the whole scheme," Bordry said. "He wanted to show that the lab made mistakes in the handling of the tests."

The French judge, who is based in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, issued the warrant Jan. 28 because Landis did not respond to a summons in November, Bordry said.

Bordry added that Cassuto also issued an international warrant for Arnie Baker, a retired doctor and longtime Landis coach and adviser.
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