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E-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December, between Gov. Mark Sanford and Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

At the time, efforts to authenticate the e-mails were unsuccessful. However, Sanford’s office Wednesday did not dispute their authenticity.

The State has removed the woman’s full name and other personal details, including her street address, e-mail address and children’s names.

McClatchy special correspondent Angeles Mase on Wednesday visited the 14-story apartment building in Buenos Aires where the woman lives, according to the e-mails, which included her address. A woman at the address answered to the name in the e-mails and, at first, agreed to speak to a visitor, but she declined after the visitor identified herself as a reporter.

Shown a photograph of Sanford, the doorman at the building said he did not recognize him. According to the doorman, the woman has two sons, one a teenager of driving age and the other younger. The e-mails refer to the woman’s two sons.

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From: Mark Sanford

To: Maria

Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 03:09:44 +0000

Dearest,

You are glorious and I hope you really understand that. You do not need a therapist to help you figure your place in the world. You are special and unique and fabulous in a whole host of ways that are worth a much longer conversation. To be continued ...

Have been having a few email problems as I am getting email through an aircard at the farm, where access to computer world is more than tough. Please let me know if you have gotten my last two eamils (sic) so I know it is working in getting to your part of the world ...

Another glorious day outside. Hope you are doing well, and am anxious to hear about your week. Know that I miss you. Unbeleivably (sic) hard to imagine it has been a week. Please also send your mailing address as I want to send you an insignificant something next week when I am back in civilization that I think you might find interesting given our conversation.

Want to write an indepth note with some thoughts on our visit when I know you are getting these emails. Hugs and much love. M

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From: Maria

Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 4:26 PM

To: Mark Sanford

Subject: RE:

My beloved, (hope you also change the dearest ...)

I’am (sic) reading your last two mails sitting outside with a great seaview here in Ilhabela, a beautiful island near Sao Paulo. Have been thinking of you while watching the beautiful blue sea (a) great part of my day and remembering with a great smile on my face, the time we had spent together. As I told you before, you brought happiness and love to my life and (I) will take you forever in my heart. I wasn’t aware till we met last week, the strong feelings I had for you, and believe me, I haven’t felt this since I was in my teen ages, when afterwards I got married. I do love you, I can feel it in my heart, and although I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to meet again this has been the best that has happened to me in a long time You made me realized (sic) how you feel when you realy (sic) love somebody and how much you want to be beside the beloved. Last Friday I would had stayed embrassing (sic) and kissing you forever.

Don’t know why you think you bore me with the description of your farm. I am an urban girl but that doesn’t inhibit me from loving other things, specially if they are the ones you love. I was able to imagine the place with every single detail you wrote and had trassmitted (sic) me the love you have for your farm. It sounds to be a great and peaceful place and loved you had shared it with me.

Thanks for your beautiful words, I don’t know if I do need or not therapy but I have to find my new place in this new stage of my life. Life has been very generous with me and I want to return at least a little bit of what I have been given. I have time and think helping others who haven’t been as lucky as me will do me fine.

My address is (deleted by The State). It will be great finding at home once I am back, whatever you send me, I’ll keep it near my bed so as to feel you nearer.

Miss you so much... love you from the deepest of my heart. Sweet kisses.

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From:

To:

Subject: RE:

Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:42:46 -0400

Beloved back to you...

Got back an hour ago to civilization and am now in Columbia after what was for me a glorious break from reality down at the farm. No phones ringing and tangible evidence of a day’s labors. Though I have started every day by 6 this morning woke at 4:30, I guess since my body knew it was the last day, and I went out and ran the excavator with lights until the sun came up. To me, and I suspect no one else on earth, there is something wonderful about listening to country music playing in the cab, air conditioner running, the hum of a huge diesel engine in the background, the tranquility that comes with being in a virtual wilderness of trees and marsh, the day breaking and vibrant pink coming alive in the morning clouds — and getting to build something with each scoop of dirt. It is admittedly weird but one of my more favorite ways of escaping the norms, constant phone calls and formalities that go with the office — and it probably fits with my weakness in doing rather than being — though you opened up a new chapter last week wherein I was happy and content just being. Last point worth further discussion. Afternoon projects had me outside and by days (sic) end I pretty much looked like a homeless person ... but in this case a very content one. Enough about my love of heavy equipment and woods at sunrise ...

While I was getting exhausted with one project after another at Coosaw work week, you were basking (I’m certain gloriously) on the beach..

Sounds great, hope to hear more about what sounds a great spot.

Will now finally get some sleep and write you a longer note with a few more profound thoughts tomorrow or Wednesday. In the meantime I send my love and hope you know I am thinking of you.. M

P.S. I do not want to raise expectations, when I say I will send something insignificant I promise I will do as I say! It wont (sic) be worthy of bedside placement ... was just going to find the movie the Holiday as we had spoken of it last Thursday. Its music was pleasant and made me think of you — its mood and the notion of a holiday (wrapped up in our case over two days) certainly fit as well ... (though our visit in some ways for me was as well less of a holiday than it was uncovering and realization of some things and feelings that again are worth longer conversation)

Had also hoped to find the cd of a song that played as I was flying home and also20made (sic) me think of you. Who knows if I can find the music ... so all you may be stuck with is a long released movie — and if you put it by your bed I really be worried! Love you, good night and kisses back to you ...

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From: Maria

Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:14 PM

To: Mark Sanford

Subject: RE:

My love,

I decided to rent a car and went by myself to the other side of the Island where it is located one of the best hotels. It’s name is DPNY Hotel and I find it quite interesting. I had lunch there in a restaurant on the beach with great seaview. I sat under a palm and ate a mixed green salad with grilled abacaxi (pineapple) and honey. in the afternoon I sunbathe and read on the beach. I ve started here “The age of turbulence” from Alan Greenspan which I highly recomend (sic) you. At five I left back to the small town had a coffee with pao de queijo (cheese bread which is something tipycal (sic) from Brazl (sic) and it’s delicious) read some magazines, walked around and finally back to meu Pousada that is hotel.

In the Island is taking place the sailing week and Rolex competition and this was the reason for choosing the place and also why luckily I am most of the time by my own. It may sound bad but it’s how I feel it. As I told you I shouldn’t have done this trip but I would have felt worst if I wouldn’t have come because it was too over the date, he is a very nice guy, great heart ... but unfortunately I am not in love with him ... You are my love ... something hard to believe even for myself as it’s also a kind of impossible love, not only because of distance but situation.

Sometimes you don’t choose things, they just happen ... I can’t redirect my feelings and I am very happy with mine towards you. Hope you have had a good day, guess with much work.

Send you all my love and goodnight kisses. Sweet dreams from down south. I’ll dream with you.

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From: Mark Sanford

To: Maria

Subject: RE:

Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:24:54 -0400

Sweetest,

It was indeed a long day. I am most jealous of your salad under the palm tree.

Three thoughts in one note now that I have a moment. One the travel schedule is about to get real busy (and this distresses me for the way it may well make it more difficult to get your notes over the next few weeks), two unfortunately all the feelings you describe are mutual, and three where do we go from here?

One, tomorrow leave at 5 am for New York and meetings. Will think about you on its streets and wish I was going to be there later in the month when you are there. Tomorrow night back to Philadelphia for the start of the National Governor’s Conference through the weekend. Back to Columbia for Tuesday and then on Wednesday, as I think I had told you, taking the family to China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Thailand and then back through Hong Kong on world wind tour. Few days home then to Bahamas for 5 days on a friends boat for the last break of the summer. The following weekend have been asked to spend it out in Aspen, Colorado with McCain — which has kicked up the whole VP talk all over again in the press back home.

Two, mutual feelings. I have been specializing in staying focused on decisions and actions of the head for a long time now — and you have my heart. You have oh so many attributes that pulls it in this direction. Do you really comprehend how beautiful your smile is? Have you been told lately how warm your eyes are and how they softly glow with the special nature of your soul. I remember Jenny, or someone close to me, once commenting that while my mom was pleasant and warm it was sad she had never accomplished anything of significance. I replied that they were wrong because she had the ultimate of all gifts — and that was the ability to love unconditionally. The rarest of all commodities in this world is love. It is that thing that we all yearn for at some level — to be simply loved unconditionally for nothing more than who we are — not what we can get, give or become. There are but 50 governors in my country and outside of the top spot, this is as high as you can go in the area I have invested the last 15 years of my life — my getting here came as no small measure because I had that foundation of love and support so critical to getting up in the morning and feeling you could give and risk because you already had a full tank of love in the emotional bank account. Since our first meeting there in a wind swept somewhat open air dance spot in Punta del Este, I felt that you had that same rare attribute. Above all else I love that inner beauty about you. That gift of yours is going to make a tremendous difference in (The State deleted sons’ names) life — and in anyone’s life who is blest to be touched by yours — you need to rest very comfortably in that fact. As I mentioned in our last visit, while I did not need love fifteen years ago — as the battle scars of life and aging and politics have worn on this has become a real need of mine. You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that is so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificently gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curves of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of night’s light — but hey, that would be going into the sexual details we spoke of at the steakhouse at dinner — and unlike you I would never do that!

Three and finally, while all the things above are all too true — at the same time we are in a hopelessly — or as you put it impossible — or how about combine and simply say hopelessly impossible situation of love. How in the world this lightening [sic] strike snuck up on us I am still not quite sure. As I have said to you before I certainly had a special feeling about you from the first time we met, but these feelings were contained and I genuinely enjoyed our special friendship and the comparing of all too many personal notes (and yes this is true even if you did occasionally tantalize me with sexual details over the years!) — but it was all safe. Where we are is not. I have thought about it and in some ways feel I let you down in letting these complications come into a friendship that I hope will last till death. In all my life I have lived by a code of honor and at a variety of levels know I have crossed lines I would have never imagined. I wish I could wish it away, but this soul-mate feel I alluded too is real and in that regard I sure don’t want to be the person complicating your life. I looked to where I often look for advice and counsel, and in I Corinthians 13 it simply says that, “ Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude, Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice in the wrong, but rejoices in the right, Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things and endures all things”. In this regard it is action that goes well beyond the emotion of today or tomorrow and in this light I want to look for ways to show love in helping you to live a better — not more complicated life. I want to help (one of Maria’s sons) with film guys that might help his career, etc. I also don’t want you walking20away (sic) from some guy (I take it the younger guy you mentioned a t dinner) because of me — and what we both have to see as an impossible situation. I better stop now least this really sound like the Thornbirds — wherein I was always upset with Richard Chamberlain for not dropping his ambitions and running into Maggie’s arms. The bottom line is two fold, my heart wants me to get on a plane tonight and to be in your loving arms — my head is saying how do we put the Genie back in the bottle because I sure don’t want to be encumbering you, or your options or your life. Put differently, given I love you, I don’t want to be part of the reason you are having less than an ideal week in what sounds like a cool spot.

Lastly I also suspect I feel a little vulnerable because this is ground I have never certainly never covered before — so if you have pearls of wisdom on how we figure all this out please let me know ... In the meantime please sleep soundly knowing that despite the best efforts of my head my heart cries out for you, your voice, your body, the touch of your lips, the touch of your finger tips and an even deeper connection to your soul. I love you ... sleep tight. M

PS. I will make it a point in NY tomorrow to drop by a store and get that movie I promised to send your way ... I am encouraged to know you will not keep it beside the bed least we have tangible evidence of two pathetic figures missing each other far too much to live a few thousand miles apart!

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From: Maria

To: Mark Sanford

Subject: RE:

Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:22:29 +0000

You have not brought complication or are not bringing complication to my life, on the contrary you’ve fullfiled (sic) me with happiness and made me aware how you can feel when you love somebody. I can think with my head but only feel with my heart so I can’t avoid it even knowing is hopelessly impossible. The guy is the one I told you ,just three years younger than me, but I am not in love and won’t fall in love with time so I have to continue my way ... be alone for some time and if I am lucky enough will someday feel towards somebody, what I today feel for you. At least you made me realized it can happen.

I don’t know if I did understood (sic) well about what was unsafe or not safe. Before our mails use to have other contents ... if you want to go back to that and don’t write love things and so on because is not safe for you it’s ok with me, i (sic) love you and by no way would do something that can harm you, so please let me know.

I don’t know how we figure all this out and I am not interested in knowing. I prefer to think we’ll see each other again somewhere sometime in this life and in next. Will be missing you till then... . .

Have a great trip with the ones you love ... they are the kind of trips you will never forget and for your boys will be unworthable (sic) not only because of the places they will visit but for sharing all that time with you.

Send you millions of kisses that will last till we get in touch again. best wishes from the deepest of my heart.

P.S.: I don’t want to put the genius (sic) back in the bottle because I truly believe in freedom. I never gave you sexual details but now you don’t need to imagine you can close your eyes and just remember. I’ll do the same.

Supposedly, the The Pirate Bay guys were found guilty in their recent trial in Sweden, and, supposedly, they got sentenced to a year in prison and had to pay $4.5 million in damages. But back in the parallel universe which happens to be the real world, they’ve appealed the verdict and could probably do so for the next few years. Which means that in the meantime they need to keep busy, and what better way to do this than start a new user driven video portal to take on YouTube. Seems reasonable. It’s not like they need to attract any more legal interest or anything.

OK, the VideoBay site currently doesn’t have much - a big logo, a search box which doesn’t yield much and some explanation:

To stay in the spirit on which TPB was founded and using the Latest Technology™, TVB aims to use the new HTML5 features, more specificly the and tags with the ogg/theora video and audio formats. This site will be an experimental playground and as such subjected to both live and drunk (en)coding, so please don’t bug us too much if the site ain’t working properly.

However, they’ve “decided to give everyone a sneak peak” but it didn’t work for this particular browser. A supposed sneak peak at thevideobay.org/20/ didn’t work either. In fact it appears the site is riddled with 401 errors, so it’s not an auspicious start. Update: Those who want to try out need a web browser that supports the HTML 5 tags such as the latest Firefox Beta or Safari 4.

According to TorrentFreak. The Pirate guys say there is still a lot of work to do behind the scenes - the encoder is not finished yet and the design is also a work in progress. And they’re not in a hurry, their window is “in, like, a year or five.”

So what’s the big idea? Well in common with their stated views the idea is to host and allow users to share video clips without having to worry about getting them taken offline due to copyright violations, in true Pirate Bay-style. Hello, YouTube, hear that?

They actually announced this idea two years ago, but I daresay most thought they’d never pull the trigger on this particular cannon.

WHEN it comes to the question of who's hot or not, research has found that beauty is skin deep for men and in the eye of the beholder for women.

The study by psychologists from a North Carolina university has found that men are much more likely to come to a consensus when defining what they find attractive in the opposite sex.

The study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, could mean it's not just money and security that lures many attractive young women to far less attractive older men, The Courier-Mail reports.

Wake Forest University researcher Dustin Wood polled 4000 men and women, aged 18 to more than 70, on how attractive they found the subjects of a range of photographs of people of the opposite sex aged 18 to 25.

The study, perhaps not surprisingly, found men's view on the attractiveness of different women was defined by physical features, with women who looked thin and seductive getting the highest ratings.

Men also were particularly attracted to women who appeared confident.

Women showed a more diverse range of responses, with some rating particular men very attractive while other women found the same men not attractive at all.

The researchers said the findings had implications for further understanding eating disorders and why women feel greater pressures to conform to a perception of physical attractiveness.

Although men don't have the same pressure to conform to a certain look, they do face greater competition given more men will be attracted to the same women.

The study found our attitude to what we are looking for in a potential mate changed with age, as older people were more likely to find people attractive if they were smiling.

Dude...Billy Maze that guy with the great beard and the sales person for OxyClean is dead...and he was 50 too...wtf is with this week?

Dude...Billy Maze that guy with the great beard and the sales person for OxyClean is dead...and he was 50 too...wtf is with this week?

A PUBLIC catfight has broken out online in the aftermath of Michael Jackson's death.

Perez Hilton has been blasted by Pete Wentz, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, and angry Twitter users following his treatment of the news, and subsequent about-face.

Perez's initial blog post allegedly pictured Michael Jackson with the caption – "heart attack or just cold feet?" - claiming the news could be a Jackson ploy to get out of performance commitments.

But as soon as Jackson's death was confirmed, Perez's bitchy stance wasn't anywhere to be found. The blog changed, and so did Perez – as he made it known on Twitter.

When comedienne Sarah Silverman tweeted an ill-timed joke, Perez immediately chastised her.

@SarahKSilverman: "Did you hear Michael Jackson's kids are free? That's not nice. I'm sorry. Ugh, I feel bad for saying that. LOOK A BLUE CAR!"

@PerezHilton replied: "@SarahKSilverman I love you, but that's low!"

And then Silverman called him on it:

@SarahKSilverman: "@PerezHilton You're right (...) Not in my human being head. Uch. so sad. -- wait - you're brutal to people!"

It wasn't long before other stars – particularly Pete Wentz, bassist for Fall Out Boy - noticed the hypocrisy and ran to the virtual fight.

@petewentz: "@PerezHilton u can't make ur life tearing someone apart, who is a human being, and then flip on a dime and say respect and mourn him."

Wentz's wife, singer Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, also went on the offensive:

@ashsimpsonwentz: "@perezhilton - wouldn't it be nice to live in a judgment free world. Life is short. I know u got a heart there somewhere. Decide what side ur on."

The public conversation exploded into a high-school-style catfight, with Pete and Perez hurling insults as Ashlee and John Mayer cheered from the sidelines:

@petewentz: "@PerezHilton I don't think ur a monster. Just own up to tearing ppl like mj down- and let him rest in peace."

@PerezHilton: "@petewentz You're right! I agree with you! I should say spit on his/her grave and laugh! Ha ha. Ding dong. The witch is dead!"

The micro-blogging service was crashing as thousands of tweets about Jackson poured in each second - but the high-profile fight continued.

@PerezHilton: "@johncmayer The people that read my site every day know what Im about & who I am. THEY are the ones that matter to me. Not U or anyone else."

@ashsimpsonwentz: "@perezhilton would u imagine if someone said the things u say about my sister, about ur sister? Come back to the human race man."

Ashlee and Pete kept Tweeting as Perez went quiet – but within a few hours, everyone seemed to have made up.

@petewentz: "Wanna say sorry for lashing out.It was a toddlerlike emotional reaction. its just cos mj feels like he's part of our collective cultural fam"

@PerezHilton: "@petewentz I'm sorry too. And I am truly sad for his passing and the loss his kids are experiencing, something I know first-hand."

There is now a Twitter movement to unfollow, or unsubscribe, from Perez Hilton based on his blog coverage.

A tragedy for his family and a heartbreak to his fans, Michael Jackson's death also represents a blow to the L.A. concert promoter that staked its reputation on and sunk tens of millions of dollars into a lavish comeback that will never happen.

AEG Live billed "This Is It," the sold-out concert series that was to have opened July 13 in London, as the most expensive and technologically advanced arena show ever. It had invested more than $20 million to mount a production that was to have included up to 22 sets, elaborate light shows and high-wire acts. The company, which owns the Staples Center among many other venues, had also set aside 50 nights at its coveted European showplace, the O2 Arena.

With Jackson's death, AEG will have to refund the $85 million worth of tickets that were sold. Gone are the company's expected profits -- an estimated $115 million, according to Billboard -- as well as plans for a global three-year tour that the company had predicted would gross $450 million.

"They are taking a big hit," said Gary Bongiovanni, editor of concert-tracking publication Pollstar.

Among the company's immediate priorities, he said, will be trying to find other acts to fill the O2, a 20,000-seat arena that does not rely on resident sports teams to occupy its seats. Jackson concerts were scheduled to run through March.

"They will be able to re-book some of those shows. But those in July, the building will probably be dark. You have an empty building, and that's going to have an impact on their London operations, certainly," he said.

AEG struggled to get affordable insurance for the shows, given Jackson's history of canceling tours and his 12-year hiatus from performing. Chief executive Randy Phillips vowed to self-insure the shows if carriers wouldn't, and ultimately the company secured coverage for what Phillips called "the first $23 million."

Mary Craig Calkins, a Los Angeles lawyer who specializes in insurance issues, said many entertainment companies get several kinds of policies before a big tour, including one that specifically covers the health of the star or "key man."

"Usually, they would put in place a package that would have multiple aspects to it. If you are headlining Michael Jackson, you have to have Michael Jackson at the show, so we would expect they would have a policy that would cover if he got laryngitis or had a minor traffic accident or died," she said.

AEG officials declined to comment on their insurance or the financial consequences.

"We're dealing with a tragedy. We have no comment on that," a spokesman said.

In an interview last month, Phillips said that when the company announced the Jackson comeback, he was derided by colleagues in the industry.

"Everyone was very unsupportive. . . . You know, 'He'll never do it. You're fooling yourself.' All of that," he said.

Phillip said he persevered, convinced by a physical that showed Jackson was in good health, a contract that bound the singer to show up and a conviction that "in this business, if you don't take risks you don't achieve greatness."

AEG had produced other "concert residencies" for singers, including Celine Dion and Prince, but Phillips had hoped Jackson's performances would cement the company's reputation among artists.

"When you do the greatest artist ever in the history of contemporary music, I think there is a halo effect for us in terms of booking other artists," Phillips said then.

AEG Live is a unit of Anschutz Entertainment Group, which is owned by Colorado billionaire Philip Anschutz.

"The one thing about Anschutz is at least he's a billionaire. It's not going to put him out of business," Bongiovanni said.

Relatives of Michael Jackson will seek a second autopsy on the star because they still have unanswered questions about his death, family friends say.

Veteran politician Rev Jesse Jackson, who has been counselling the family, said they were upset the official cause of death might not be known for weeks.

He said the family wanted answers from the star's personal doctor, Conrad Murray, who was with him when he died.

Coroners ruled out foul play after an initial autopsy on the 50-year-old.

But they gave no cause of death, saying the results of toxicology tests could take weeks to come back.

Jackson's family have also spoken of their grief at his death.

In a statement issued by his father Joseph Jackson, the star's relatives called it "one of the darkest moments of our lives".

"It leaves us, his family, speechless and devastated to a point where communication with the outside world seems almost impossible at times," the statement said.

The family also thanked fans for their messages of support.

The Reverend Al Sharpton, a family friend, said that Jackson's relatives were considering the idea of simultaneous global celebrations to commemorate his life.

This was because they wanted people to focus on the entertainer's music rather than his problems, Rev Sharpton said.

'Questions of substance'

A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said investigators had briefly spoken to Jackson's personal doctor, but they wanted to speak to him again.

Relatives of Michael Jackson will seek a second autopsy on the star because they still have unanswered questions about his death, family friends say.

Veteran politician Rev Jesse Jackson, who has been counselling the family, said they were upset the official cause of death might not be known for weeks.

He said the family wanted answers from the star's personal doctor, Conrad Murray, who was with him when he died.

Coroners ruled out foul play after an initial autopsy on the 50-year-old.

But they gave no cause of death, saying the results of toxicology tests could take weeks to come back.

Jackson's family have also spoken of their grief at his death.

In a statement issued by his father Joseph Jackson, the star's relatives called it "one of the darkest moments of our lives".

"It leaves us, his family, speechless and devastated to a point where communication with the outside world seems almost impossible at times," the statement said.

The family also thanked fans for their messages of support.

The Reverend Al Sharpton, a family friend, said that Jackson's relatives were considering the idea of simultaneous global celebrations to commemorate his life.

This was because they wanted people to focus on the entertainer's music rather than his problems, Rev Sharpton said.

'Questions of substance'

A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said investigators had briefly spoken to Jackson's personal doctor, but they wanted to speak to him again.

A lawyer for Dr Murray said the physician had agreed to answer questions from detectives.

"Contrary to what has been out there, Dr Murray has been co-operating with authorities from the outset and will continue to do so," Bill Stradley told Reuters news agency.

Jesse Jackson said the family had a flurry of questions of their own for the doctor.

"When did the doctor come? What did he do? Did they inject him, if so with what," he said.

The rights leader claimed Dr Murray had gone missing in the hours immediately following the singer's death, which raised "questions of substance that will not go away until they are answered".

"He owes it to the family and to the public to say: 'These were the last hours of Michael's life and here's what happened.'"

Jackson, who had a history of health problems, collapsed at his Los Angeles home at about midday on Thursday.

A recording of the telephone call made to emergency services from his home was released on Friday.

The caller is heard to say Jackson is unconscious and has stopped breathing, and that a doctor is trying to revive him.

The singer was pronounced dead at the UCLA medical centre two hours after the call was made.

Sigh…
This week 3 of the world’s most renowned celebrities passed away and left us with nothing but memories. First there was the American comedian, game show host, announcer, and television personality Ed McMahon, Then today Farrah Fawcett the American actress and multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, along with the Ultimate King of Pop, the Great Micheal Jackson.

It seems like these days …well death is pretty apparent and unpredictable. Though because of these deaths, especially of Micheal Jackson’s, social networks such as Twitter and Facebook has been over loaded with what I think is complete junk and crapped out sh!t about Micheal Jackson. Things like jokes and nasty horrible comments about this great man. I know he might have done some bad things in life. But this man, Micheal Jackson, a great American symbol of music, and now a deceased soul…that does absolutely NO justice to him or our world.

But that’s just me…

Comments and thoughts are appreciated.

Sigh...
This week 3 of the world's most renowned celebrities passed away and left us with nothing but memories. First there was the American comedian, game show host, announcer, and television personality Ed McMahon, Then today Farrah Fawcett the American actress and multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, along with the Ultimate King of Pop, the Great Micheal Jackson.

It seems like these days ...well death is pretty apparent and unpredictable. Though because of these deaths, especially of Micheal Jackson's, social networks such as Twitter and Facebook has been over loaded with what I think is complete junk and crapped out sh!t about Micheal Jackson. Things like jokes and nasty horrible comments about this great man. I know he might have done some bad things in life. But this man, Micheal Jackson, a great American symbol of music, and now a deceased soul...that does absolutely NO justice to him or our world.

But that's just me...

Comments and thoughts are appreciated.

My name is Samuel J.H. Wu and this is a message to the graduating class of 2009:

Buy a piñata...hit it to its death!
Pres-school...elementary school...middle school...
I haven't graduated yet from Junior high yet...So I'm not that much of an expert on this subject...
So what ever you just graduated on you are :
1) About to change this world
2) You have a lot more learning to do
3) We welcome you into the arms of the Real world?

Graduation Speeches! They all sound like this!

I think what I mostly want to say is, DO NO TRUST ANYONE THAT IS TELLING YOU WHAT THE WAY THE WORLD IS GOING TO BE FOR YOU.

I've only graduated from elementary school with a "major" in...Nerdiness...But now I’m nor or less of a professional internet moron.

Lets be honest with ourselves here things are changing rather quickly and the advantage you have is NOT all the stuff you just learned.

You need that... (Don’t get me wrong) but everyone else has it too. But instead the advantage that you have is that a whole new world just got discovered and YOU grew up there. People in their 30s and 40 don't understand the world the way you do.

It's like there's the first generation of people that were born in Canada...You’re like that but your more like the first generation of people to be born on the Internet.

Don't ask me how your mom did that...But she did. And it's not just that you know how to utilize this stuff,

"Oh Timmy knows what Facebook is...And he hangs out on 4Chan and discusses memes... "

That is how you should convey is to your elders but that is not your actual advantage. More then a conception of how it works, you have a totally different perception of how the world works.

The days when people were satisfied being an expert in a mere one field is over my friends. You all and I think you know this, YOU are going to have to be the new men and women of the new Renaissance.

Be ready to do everything. And when no one asks you to do it for them, be ready to do it for yourself.
So that's where you’re at now friends...So I suggest you should start to enjoy it.

James Heckley
What The Heck

A 13-year-old Norwegian girl is in hospital with serious injuries after a bizarre road accident in which she was dragged 4km under a car before being discovered, still conscious, and rescued, police said.

The girl was probably first hit by a truck, then run over by passenger car which followed it, getting stuck underneath.

"She has serious injuries but is stable," an official from the Oslo hospital to which she was taken said.

The driver only discovered the girl when she parked the car, the police said. The girl was conscious but had injuries to her head, chest and abdomen and several broken bones.

Witnesses to the accident, including the victim's friends, were being questioned by the police. Local media said her friends looked for her after she was hit by the truck but could only find her bicycle and one shoe on the side of the road.

The police said they had not yet questioned the car driver. "She has been in a serious situation and we have waited to question her for that reason," spokesman Erling Arne Eek said.

As reports roll in about Facebook looking to back away from their recent redesign, I find myself wondering why? Perhaps part of it is not seeing much appeal with Facebook in the first place. And even now, with the different UI, I still end up setting my Twitter account up to make those updates to Facebook as I really don’t spent much time there trying to make heads or tails out of the UI.

Don’t get me wrong, it is vastly better than anything provided by MySpace. And there are some pretty decent apps out for Facebook. But I guess my problem is just having most of my contacts on Twitter instead.

At this time, I am still on the fence with regard to Facebook. I want to get more on board with it, yet find myself still trying to figure out stuff like what a “box” is and how I add stuff to it. Once I have more time to spend in that social space, I believe I will be more in tune with what Facebook has to provided…regardless of UI changes.

Made my facebook vanity url! http://ping.fm/nZ0hm and http://ping.fm/RfqnD !!! Friend MEEE!!!

Some sexual experimentation landed a southern Maryland woman in a hospital with injuries tough to imagine and even more difficult to forget.

Maryland State Police airlifted the 27-year-old woman to Prince George's County Hospital Center early Sunday morning after she was injured in an incident involving a sex toy attached to a saber saw blade, TheBayNet.com first reported.

The man who called 911 about the incident admitted attaching the sex toy to the saw and then using the high-powered, homemade device on his partner, according to the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office.

The saw cut through the plastic toy and wounded the woman, according to TheBayNet.com. The injuries were severe enough for medevac, but the woman was released from the hospital Monday and is recovering from her unusual injuries.

Investigators talked to the woman, who told them she suffered the injuries during a consensual act and that she and her partner were trying something new and no crime was committed, the sheriff's office said.

Canada.com reports actor David Carradine was found dead in Thailand. Unidentified police sources told Thai newspaper The Nation stated that the actor is believed to have hanged himself in his hotel room. Carradine was 72.

What was your favourite David Carradine movie?

ALERT ALERT!THE ONE WHO STARTED THE THE WHOLE UNSUBBING FRED COMMENTS WAS FOUND!HIS CHANNEL IS http://u.nu/8u39 PLEASE HELP SPAM HIM BACK!

She won't be taking her golden chastity belt off anytime soon.

The 22-year-old California virgin who auctioned off her virtue online for $3.8 million has yet to meet her winning bidder in the flesh - because his wife won't let him.

Natalie Dylan (not her real name) admitted the deal had fallen through.

Last week, she got a phone call from the rogue Romeo, a 38-year-old Australian real-estate businessman, who said he had to back out.

"I told him to go back into marriage therapy," sniped Dylan.

The Aussie cad then sheepishly asked for his $250,000 deposit back. Dylan said no hard feelings; it would be returned.

Now Dylan, who launched the online campaign last fall through the Moonlite Bunny Ranch - a legal brothel in Carson City, Nev., owned by Dennis Hof - is back on the auction block.