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MP3: Cassettes Won't Listen - Change

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RIP Estelle Getty

TMZ shares the saddening news.

Our thoughts go out to her friends & family.

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MP3: Je Suis France - Thank You For Being A Friend

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R.I.P. Yves Saint Laurent

Vogue reports: *After a long period of ill health, legendary couturier Yves Saint Laurent died at his Paris home last night, aged 71. The cause of his death has not been revealed. The designer retired from fashion officially in 2002, but his stellar career - which saw him take over haute couture at Christian Dior aged only 21, and give the world some its most iconic looks, such as feted Sixties tuxedo Le Smoking - was shadowed with long term depression & alcohol problems. He had become increasingly reclusive in his later years.*

MP3: Pele - Black Socks

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OTYI #51: Hate Crimes Bill Dropped By Congress

Here's more on the upsetting piece of news: *Congress has dropped legislation that would have expanded hate crime laws to include attacks on gays after it became clear the measure wouldn't pass the House, aides said Thursday. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy, was widely supported by Democrats and even some moderate Senate Republicans. But because it was attached to a major defense policy bill that would have authorized more money for the Iraq war, many anti-war Democrats said they would oppose it. "We don't have the votes," said one House Democratic aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because conference negotiations on the defense bill were ongoing. "We're about 40 votes short, not four or six." The development is a blow to civil rights groups which say that broadening federal laws are necessary to address a rise in crimes motivated by hate based upon a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.

The military bill is "the last clear chance this year for Congress to make a meaningful effort to stop hate crime violence," said Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Under current federal law, hate crimes include acts of violence against individuals on the basis of race, religion, color or national origin. Federal prosecutors have jurisdiction only if the victim is engaged in a specific federally protected activity such as voting. Kennedy's bill would have extended the category to include sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or disability. It also would give federal authorities greater leeway to participate in hate crime investigations, and allow them to step in if local authorities were unwilling or unable to act. The measure also would have provided $10 million over the next two years to help local law enforcement officials cover the cost of hate crime prosecutions. The bill is named for Matthew Shepard, a gay college freshman who died after he was beaten into a coma in 1998 in Laramie, Wyo. The Senate voted 60-39 in September to attach the bill as amendment to the 2008 defense authorization bill. Nine Republicans broke ranks and sided with Democrats in support of the measure...*

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MP3: Cat Power - Hate [alt link]

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OTYI #50: Python In The Potty

This all occurred in Matt MusicSlut's apartment complex! The NY Daily News reports: *Forget the monsters under the bed. There really are slithery creatures lurking in the pipes. Nature's call forced Nadege Brunacci, 38, to the dark bathroom in her Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, apartment in the wee hours of Monday morning. While washing her hands, she glanced back at the toilet to find a 7-foot-long python staring back at her. "I turned on the light and screamed, 'Oh, my God!'" said the hiss-sterical restaurateur. "It still makes my heart race." She slammed down the lid, put a heavy box on top of it and began calling city agencies. Most didn't believe her, and the ones that did told her, "We don't do snakes," she said. Finally, the FDNY and her landlord came to the rescue. Plumbers had to tear apart the downstairs neighbor's pipes to capture the serpent, which had retreated so that only its head poked through Brunacci's toilet.

"I was anxious about it getting flushed and never coming out," said Valerie Ross, 41, from whose apartment the snake was extricated. "I'm happy it's out. Now I'm just unhappy about the holes in my pipes." Nobody knows where the snake came from, or how it made its way up three stories of piping, but a first-floor tenant in the four-story Tiffany Place walkup reported seeing the creature slithering down the basement steps eight days earlier. Brunacci gave the snake to a friend who offered it a loving home and named it Nadege. City Health Department regulations prohibit keeping a python as a pet. The creature may be gone from her flat, but the shattering of an urban legend has forced Brunacci to keep her eyes peeled every time she uses the bathroom. "When I brush my teeth, I'm looking over my shoulder," she said. And when she goes to the bathroom at night, she uses her daughter's training toilet.*

MP3: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Underwater (You & Me)

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OTYI #49: Senate Passes Matthew Shepard Act

Great news today from HRC: *In an historic step toward equality for GLBT Americans, the U.S. Senate voted to pass the Matthew Shepard Act, which updates and expands the federal hate crimes laws to include bias motivated violence based on a victim’s sexual orientation, gender identity, gender, and disability, and provides new resources and tools to assist local law enforcement in prosecuting vicious crimes.

"For over a decade our community has worked tirelessly to ensure protections to combat violence motivated by hate and today we are the closest we have ever been to seeing that become a reality," said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. "Congress has taken an historic step forward and moved our country closer to the realization that all Americans, including the GLBT community, are part of the fabric of our nation. The new leadership in Congress fully understands that for too long our community has been terrorized by hate violence. And today, the US Senate has sent a clear message to every corner of our country that we will no longer turn a blind eye to anti-gay violence in America." The Senate in a bipartisan vote of 60 to 39 accepted cloture which ended debate on the bill and then moved to approve the Matthew Shepard Act by a voice vote -- attaching it as an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2008 Department of Defense Authorization bill.*

Read more about the act here.

MP3: The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed

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OTYI #48: Mime Master Passes Away

AP reports: *Marcel Marceau, the master of mime who transformed silence into poetry with lithe gestures and pliant facial expressions that spoke to generations of young and old, has died. He was 84. Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and a battered hat topped with a red flower, Marceau breathed new life into an art that dates to ancient Greece. He played out the human comedy through his alter-ego Bip without ever uttering a word. Offstage, he was famously chatty. "Never get a mime talking. He won't stop," he once said. A French Jew, Marceau escaped deportation to a Nazi death camp during World War II, unlike his father who died in Auschwitz. Marceau worked with the French Resistance to protect Jewish children, and later used the memories of his own life to feed his art. He gave life to a wide spectrum of characters, from a peevish waiter to a lion tamer to an old woman knitting, and to the best-known Bip. His biggest inspiration was Charlie Chaplin. In turn, Marceau inspired countless young performers—Michael Jackson borrowed his famous "moonwalk" from a Marceau sketch, "Walking Against the Wind."

Marceau's former assistant E. Vacca said on French radio that the peformer died Saturday in Paris, but gave no details. In one of Marceau's most poignant and philosophical acts, "Youth, Maturity, Old Age, Death," Marceau wordlessly showed the passing of an entire life in just minutes. He took his art to stages across the world, performing in Asia, Europe and the United States, his "second country," where he first performed in 1955 and returned every two years. He performed for Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Tireless, Marceau took his art to Cuba for the first time in September 2005.

"France loses one of its most eminent ambassadors," President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a statement. Prime Minister Francois Fillon praised Marceau as "the master" with the rare gift of "being able to communicate with each and everyone beyond the barriers of language." The son of a butcher, the mime was born Marcel Mangel on March 22, in Strasbourg, France. His father Charles, a baritone with a love of song, introduced his son to the world of music and theater at an early age. The boy was captivated by the silent film stars of the era: Chaplin, Buster Keaton and the Marx brothers.*

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MP3: Sondre Lerche - Human Hands

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OTYI #47: Nebraska Senator Sues God

Via KETV: *State Senator Ernie Chambers is suing God. He says it to prove a point about frivolous lawsuits. Chambers says senators periodically have offered bills prohibiting the filing of certain types of suits. He says his main objection is the constitution requires that the doors to the courthouse be open to all. Chambers said, "Thus anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody - even God." Chambers said he decided to file this lawsuit after a suit was filed in early September in federal court against Lancaster County Judge Jeffre Cheuvront. He's the judge who was hearing a sexual assault case, where the woman wants to use the words "rape and victim" during her testimony. Chambers lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in Douglas County Court, seeks a permanent injunction ordering God to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.

The lawsuit admits God goes by all sorts of alias, names, titles and designations and it also recognizes the fact that the defendant is “Omnipresent”. In the lawsuit Chambers says he’s tried to contact God numerous times, “Plaintiff, despite reasonable efforts to effectuate personal service upon Defendant (“Come out, come out, wherever you are”) has been unable to do so.” The suit also requests that the court given the “peculiar circumstances” of this case waive personal service. It says being Omniscient, the plaintiff assumes God will have actual knowledge of the action. The lawsuit accuses God “of making and continuing to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons, including constituents of Plaintiff who Plaintiff has the duty to represent.”

It says God has caused, “fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects, and the like.” The suit also says God has caused, “calamitous catastrophes resulting in the wide-spread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and infirm without mercy or distinction.” Chambers also says God “has manifested neither compassion nor remorse, proclaiming that Defendant “will laugh” when calamity comes. Chambers asks for the court to grant him a summary judgment. He says as an alternative, he wants the judge to set a date for a hearing as “expeditiously” as possible and enter a permanent injunction enjoining God from engaging in the types of deleterious actions and the making of terroristic threats described in the lawsuit.*

MP3: Cold War Kids - God, Make Up Your Mind

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OTYI #46: Foot Fetishing Mugger

Via The Beaufort Gazette (based out of South Carolina): *A man who robbed a woman of her keys and cell phone took off her shoes and licked her toes, police said. Commander Kevin Casper called the attack "weird sexual behavior." The 24-year-old woman was leaving work around 1 a.m. Saturday when the 27-year-old suspect approached her and demanded her keys and phone, authorities said. After that, he removed her shoes. The woman was not hurt, police said. Police arrested the man a few minutes later about four blocks away. The woman identified the suspect, and police were able to recover her keys and phone. The man was in custody, but it was not clear whether he had been formally charged.*

MP3: Chris Garneau - Blue Suede Shoes

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OTYI #45: Meet Mara

Story via Gainesville Times: *Not every animal that assists a disabled person is a Seeing Eye dog. These days, there are dogs trained to help people with all kinds of disabilities. Sometimes the people are in wheelchairs and their condition is obvious. But some have hidden disabilities, and you would never guess that they need assistance. That's the case with Gainesville resident John Ward. A former funeral home director, he has suffered from epilepsy since 1973, when he fell from a two-story building and fractured his skull. For the past eight years, Ward has been accompanied everywhere he goes by Mara, a certified service dog trained by Michigan-based Paws With A Cause.

"She can detect when I'm about to have a seizure, by sensing changes in my body chemistry," Ward said. "She pokes me in the leg to let me know." There is no way to prevent a seizure. But at least Ward can make sure he's in a safe place when it happens. Then Mara does something that is quite extraordinary. She goes to the nearest person, attracts their attention and tries to persuade them to follow her back to Ward. If the first person does not respond, Mara is trained to go to the next person, and to keep trying until she finds someone who is willing to help. But it's hard for many people to understand why someone with epilepsy would need a canine helper. Unlike the guide dog who wears a harness and pulls a blind person along, Mara's role is not immediately apparent. This puts Ward in the position of constantly having to justify the dog's presence. "I've sort of jokingly thought of putting on dark glasses (to pretend to be blind)," he says.*

MP3: Mogwai - Helps Both Ways

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OTYI #44: 100th B-Day Celebrated With 170,000th Cig

Via Daily Mail: *An iron-lunged pensioner has celebrated her 100th birthday by lighting up her 170,000th cigarette from a candle on her birthday cake. Winnie Langley started smoking only days after the First World War broke out in June 1914 when she was just seven-years-old - and has got through five a day ever since. She has no intention of quitting, even after the nationwide ban forced tobacco-lovers outside. Speaking at her 100th birthday party Winnie said: "I have smoked ever since infant school and I have never thought about quitting. There were not all the the health warnings like there are today when I started. It was the done thing."

Winnie, from Croydon, South London, claims tobacco has never made her ill. She has outlived a husband, Robert, and son, Donald, who died two years ago aged 72. The former launderette worker said she started the habit in 1914 - just weeks after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28 - which sparked the First World War. The 100-year-old, who is awaiting her telegram from the Queen today, said smoking helped calm her nerves during the two World Wars. She said: "A lot of people smoked during the war. It helped steady the nerves." Despite the numerous health warnings, Mrs Langley insists she's never suffered because of the habit as she "has never inhaled".*

MP3: Bright Eyes (feat M. Ward) - Smoke Without Fire

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OTYI #43: 90-Year Old Man Has 21st Child

Via The Daily Mail: *The world's oldest father has done it again, fathering a child for at least the 21st time, at the age of 90. Indian farmer Nanu Ram Jogi, who is married to his fourth wife, boasts he does not want to stop, and plans to continue producing children until he is 100. Mr Jogi admits he is not certain how many children his series of four wives have borne him - but counts at least 12 sons and nine daughters and 20 grandchildren. Proud father: Nanu Ram Jogi with his youngest child, two-week-old Girija Rajkumari Two-week-old daughter Girija Rajkumari is the latest addition to the proud father's family.

"Women love me," Mr Jogi said. "I want to have more children. I can survive another few decades and want to have children till I am 100 - then maybe I will stop." Mr Jogi, who attributes his remarkable virility to daily walks and plenty of meat, said: "I eat all kinds of meat - rabbits, lamb, chicken and wild animals." Mr Jogi fathered his eldest daughter, Sita Devi, in 1943. His latest wife, Saburi, who has given him seven children, was first married to his eldest son Shiv Lal, who died 10 years ago.

Speaking from the family home in a remote village in Rajasthan, she said: "At first I didn't want to stay here after my husband died. But Nanu promised to look after me and now we have seven children." Mr Jogi's children and grandchildren live in six houses attached to his two-storey family home. He said: "I have a perfect life - with so many children and grandchildren all around me, it keeps me young."

MP3: Sufjan Stevens - What Child Is This Anyway?

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OTYI #42: Heart Failure Kills Leona Helmsley

Via NY Times: *Leona Helmsley, the hotel operator and real estate developer whose conviction on federal tax evasion charges in 1989 became an emblem of the greedy excesses of the 1980s, died today at her summer house in Greenwich, Conn. She was 87. The cause of death was heart failure, her longtime spokesman, Howard J. Rubenstein, said in a statement. An obituary will be published on NYTimes.com shortly. Mrs. Helmsley, who became known as the “Queen of Mean” in a twist on the hotel ad slogan that had made her famous, served a prison sentence for tax fraud from '92 - '93 and was released from home confinement in '94. In the most celebrated moment of her 2-month trial in '89, a former housekeeper testified that Mrs. Helmsley had once told her, “Only the little people pay taxes.”

Mrs. Helmsley, already a millionaire and a successful condo broker and twice divorced, met the real estate magnate Harry B. Helmsley in 1968. He divorced his wife of 33 years to marry her, in 1972. Together, they built a real estate empire that included landmark buildings like 230 Park Ave & the Empire State Building, the Tudor City apartment complex on the East Side of Manhattan, and Helmsley-Spear, their management and leasing business. The couple developed properties that included the Park Lane Hotel, the New York Helmsley Hotel and the Helmsley Palace Hotel, and hotels in Florida & other states. Hotel employees throughout the Helmsley empire were aware of Mrs. Helmsley’s trigger temper and had arranged a warning system when she left her apartment en route to one of the hotels. But it was not until she starred in glossy advertisements for the hotels that she became a household name. The first ads, for the Harley, showed a smiling Mrs. Helmsley proclaiming that she wouldn’t settle for skimpy towels and couldn’t get along without a phone in the bath. She asked, “Why should you?” Occupancy rates skyrocketed.

In '86, court documents and law enforcement officials stated she had failed to pay sales taxes in New York on hundreds of thousands of dollars of jewelry she purchased at Van Cleef & Arpels, the exclusive NYC store. Two senior store officers were indicted on charges that they operated a scheme by which customers with addresses outside New York could have their purchases recorded as being mailed to them, thus avoiding city and state taxes. Records showed that Mrs. Helmsley made 10 such jewelry purchases, totaling $485,000, which would have required taxes of $40,000. Mrs. Helmsley’s lawyers said she had believed that the price she was paying included the sales tax, but in '90, a judge revealed that she had admitted before grand juries in '85 that she had “actively participated from a fraudulent sales-tax scheme.” The two Van Cleef officials later pleaded guilty in the case, but Mrs. Helmsley had received a grant of immunity and could not be charged.*

Read more about loathsome Leona here.

MP3: Bloc Party - Hunting For Witches

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OTYI #41: World's Oldest Person Dies At 114

Via Breitbart: *The world's oldest person, Yone Minagawa, who has died at age 114, was as sprightly as ever until the moment she got into bed for her eternal rest, her caretaker said Tuesday. Minagawa, who enjoyed good food and a bit of alcohol, died Monday at a nursing home in Japan's southwestern Fukuoka prefecture.

"She was sprightly until a day before," the caretaker told AFP. "When I found her, she looked as if she was sleeping peacefully." Born on January 4, 1893, Minagawa was widowed at an early age. She raised her five children by selling flowers and vegetables in a coal mining town. Stout-hearted even after age 100, Minagawa would drink some Japanese sake or other alcoholic beverage every day. But in recent years, her favourite treat became manju, a Japanese confection made of red bean paste.

"She would tell me, 'arigato, thank you,'" saying the phrase both in Japanese and English, the caretaker said. "That was her habit. She was very charming," said the caretaker, who declined to give her name. Despite her advanced age, Minagawa was said to enjoy eating sweets and counted eating well and getting a good night's sleep as the secrets of her longevity. Her reign as the world's oldest person lasted just over six months. The Guinness Book of World Records certified her as the world's oldest person after Emma Faust Tillman, the daughter of freed American slaves, died in January. The next to become the world's oldest person is set to be another American woman, according to the International Committee on Supercentenarians, a US-based group which documents longevity records. Edna Parker, who lives in the midwestern state of Indiana, is also 114, having been born on April 20, 1893, according to the group.*

MP3: CocoRosie - Japan

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OTYI #40: RIP Merv Griffin

Via Breitbart: *Merv Griffin, the entertainer turned impresario who parlayed his "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune" game shows into a multimillion-dollar empire, has died. He was 82. Griffin died of prostate cancer, according to a statement from his the family that was released by Marcia Newberger, spokeswoman for The Griffin Group/Merv Griffin Entertainment. Griffin, who began his career as a $100-a-week radio singer in San Francisco, created the "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!" game shows, soon moved on to become the featured vocalist in Freddy Martin's band.

That led to a brief film career, in which he appeared opposite Doris Day and Kathryn Grayson, and later to a successful TV career as host of "The Merv Griffin Show," which aired for more than 20 years. His biggest financial break, however, came from inventing and producing "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune." After they became the hottest game shows in television, Griffin sold the rights to them to the Columbia Pictures Television Unit for $250 million, retaining a share of the profits.*

Rest in peace, Merv.

MP3: Bright Eyes - Reinvent The Wheel

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OTYI #39: Bitch!

Via The New York Times: *The New York City Council, which drew national headlines when it passed a symbolic citywide ban earlier this year on the use of the so-called n-word, has turned its linguistic (and legislative) lance toward a different slur: bitch. The term is hateful and deeply sexist, said Councilwoman Darlene Mealy of Brooklyn, who has introduced a measure against the word, saying it creates “a paradigm of shame and indignity” for all women. But conversations over the last week indicate that the “b-word” (as it is referred to in the legislation) enjoys a surprisingly strong currency — and even some defenders — among many New Yorkers.

And Ms. Mealy admitted that the city’s political ruling class can be guilty of its use. As she circulated her proposal, she said, “even council members are saying that they use it to their wives.” The measure, which 19 of the 51 council members have signed onto, was prompted in part by the frequent use of the word in hip-hop music. Ten rappers were cited in the legislation, along with an excerpt from an 1811 dictionary that defined the word as “A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman.”

While the bill also bans the slang word “ho,” the b-word appears to have acquired more shades of meaning among various groups, ranging from a term of camaraderie to, in a gerund form, an expression of emphatic approval. Ms. Mealy acknowledged that the measure was unenforceable, but she argued that it would carry symbolic power against the pejorative uses of the word. Even so, a number of New Yorkers said they were taken aback by the idea of prohibiting a term that they not only use, but do so with relish and affection.

“Half my conversation would be gone,” said Michael Musto, the Village Voice columnist, whom a reporter encountered on his bicycle on Sunday night on the corner of Seventh Avenue South and Christopher Street. Mr. Musto, widely known for his coverage of celebrity gossip, dismissed the idea as absurd. “On the downtown club scene,” he said, munching on an apple, the two terms are often used as terms of endearment. “We divest any negative implication from the word and toss it around with love.”

Darris James, 31, an architect from Brooklyn who was outside the Duplex, a piano bar in the West Village, on Sunday night was similarly opposed. “Hell, if I can’t say bitch, I wouldn’t be able to call half my friends.” They may not have been the kinds of reaction that Ms. Mealy, a Detroit-born former transit worker serving her first term, was expecting. “They buried the n-word, but what about the other words that really affect women, such as ‘b,’ and ‘ho’? That’s a vile attack on our womanhood,” Ms. Mealy said in a telephone interview. “In listening to my other colleagues, that they say that to their wives or their friends, we have gotten really complacent with it.” The resolution, introduced on July 25, was first reported by The Daily News. It is being considered by the Council’s Civil Rights Committee and is expected to be discussed next month.*

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MP3: The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up

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OTYI #38: 94-Year-Old Earns Masters Degree

Via Yahoo: *A 94-year-old Australian great-great-grandmother has become the oldest person in the world to earn a masters degree, local media reported Thursday. Phyliss Turner, described by one of her sons as having "an amazing brain," took her masters in medical science at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.

Turner had been forced to leave school at the age of 12 to help her mother care for the family after her father abandoned them, the Daily Telegraph reported. Nearly 60 years later she enrolled for a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology at Adelaide and won a 12-month scholarship to study at the University of California.

"I entered university when I was 70 and I came top in the essay section when I did my entry exam," said the mother of seven, who has 23 great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren. She graduated in 1986, did her honours in 2002 and then entered the university's medical school to do her masters. Professor Maciej Henneberg, her supervisor, said Turner had "a lively and fresh intellect." The boast about her "amazing brain" came from her son Tom. "We are very proud of her," daughter Anne O'Herran said. "She is the oldest higher degree research graduate in the world and we're putting her in the Guinness Book of Records."* (read the rest of this story here)

MP3: Matt & Kim - Grand

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OTYI #37: The 18 Karat Gold iShuffle

Via Web Squirrel: *Are you not satisfied with the color options for the iPod Shuffle? If you don't like blue, green, pink or brushed metal - perhaps you can try the new golden one. Ok, it is a bit more expensive than the normal Shuffle because it is made out of "real" Gold. German Company Xexoo offering the iPod Shuffle made out of 18 carat gold for about 14,000 EUR ($19,343). If you like it a bit more blinky - there is also an upgrade with diamonds available soon. Every customer get 24/7/365 support and the golden iPod Shuffle will be delivered in a nice wooden box in Piano style. For the support it doesn't matter where you are on the planet, they will try to exchange the Shuffle as soon as possible when there are any problems. So if your Shuffle drops into your pool beside your luxury house - no problem.*

Thanks for the heads up on this one, SDSU!

MP3: Clinic - Golden Rectangle

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OTYI #36: UFOs In Stratford?

Via Daily Mail: *The strange episode started just after 10.30pm, when the lights were seen hovering slowly over the town before three of them formed a triangular shape with one positioned just to the right. A few minutes later a fifth came into view travelling towards the others at breakneck speed before slowing down and stopping a short distance away.

Sceptics dismissed the UFOs as nothing more than hot air balloons, fireworks or even lanterns which had broken loose from a local rugby club. Others, however, claimed the speed and agility of the objects was unlike any known aircraft and said the odd movement, lack of noise and the length of time in the air discounted any man-made explanation. Tom Hawkes, who captured these amazing images, spotted the lights during his girlfriend Kate Lyall's birthday at the One Elm pub. He and the 15 other revellers were in the bar when they spotted some commotion outside. Tom, 30, said: "We walked outside and there was at that time a growing crowd of about 60 people looking up at something in the sky.

"I saw this light appear, then three others. They came over our heads in formation but then manouvered into different positions. Three had formed a triangular shape and one was to the right. Then another one came hurtling towards the rest at what looked like a very fast speed. But as it neared them it suddenly slowed and stopped altogether. By this time more people had poured out onto the street. Two pubs had emptied, some people had come out of their houses and drivers slowed their cars. The objects were there for about half an hour. It was very eerie because they didn't make any sound and they stayed still before moving slowly beyond the horizon. There were no stars in the sky, just them. It was the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen and the way in which everyone gathered in the street to watch them reminded me of a scene from Independence Day."*

MP3: Matt & Kim - Lightspeed

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OTYI #35: India Elects First Female President

Via AP News: *India chose its first female president Saturday in an election hailed as a victory for women in a country where gender discrimination is deep-rooted and widespread. Still, it's not clear how much 72-year-old Pratibha Patil - a lawyer, congresswoman and former governor of the northern state of Rajasthan - can or will do in the mostly ceremonial post to improve the lives of her countrywomen.

Patil won 65.82 percent of the votes cast by national lawmakers and state legislators, said P.D.T. Achary, the secretary general of Parliament. She had the support of the governing Congress party and its political allies, and had been expected to win. "It is a special moment for us women, and men of course, in our country because for the first time we have a woman being elected president of India," said Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, who hand-picked Patil and was one of the first to congratulate her.*

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MP3: Sufjan Stevens - In The Words Of The Governor

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