Suge Shot At the Shore

And the drinks keep flowing in true Miami style..
New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Rush & Molloy: VMA parties were loaded with action: "Agun may have put a hole in Suge Knight's leg, but it sure didn't perforate the partying at last weekend's MTV Video Music Awards.
Bravery band member John Conway, who was staying at the Shore Club, where the hip-hop mogul was shot early Sunday, recalled: 'The deejay just kept playing. A half an hour later, it was like 'Hey - mai tais for everyone!' '"

Independent Online Edition > Profiles : app6

Independent Online Edition > Profiles : app6: "Have you and The Licks acquired any groupies yet?
ALI BASHEER, VIA E-MAIL
I think we have! They're the people who wear home-made shirts that say 'Lick me' on them. I like to call them 'Licks lovers'. I have seen them at loads of the gigs we've been doing in Europe: they're as cute as can be and they give me presents. People get creative with these presents. I've been given a rubber duck, a pair of boxer shorts, a painting and a bullet - people are really imaginative with the gifts they give us and I'm hugely grateful both for the presents and for the surprises. I never know what we will be given next."

Scientist: Brazil Nearly Built Atom Bomb

BREITBART.COM - Just The News: "Brazil's military continued work on an atomic bomb after it was ordered to scrap the program in 1985 and by 1990 had nearly finished building one, a leading nuclear scientist said.
Jose Luiz Santana, the former president of Brazil's nuclear energy commission, known by its Portuguese acronym CNEN, said the military was preparing a test explosion when the program was ultimately dismantled in August 1990. "

Vogue Answers: What Do Men Want? - New York Times

Vogue Answers: What Do Men Want? - New York Times: "The target reader is a man over 35 who earns more than $100,000 a year, is already living the life he wants rather than merely chasing it, and presumably isn't too embarrassed to be seen reading a magazine that for more than a century has been associated with women."

These Days Surf's Up on Cornwall's Northern Coast - New York Times

These Days Surf's Up on Cornwall's Northern Coast - New York Times: "WALK through Paddington Station in London on a Friday afternoon in July or August, and you might think you're in Laguna Beach. Students dressed in Rip Curl tank tops, Quicksilver shorts, Ray-Bans and flip-flops amble through the crowds of commuters rushing for their trains. While the suits are off to the suburbs, the kids are all headed for the coast. Specifically to north Cornwall on the 4:05 train, which will deposit them some six hours later in a region that's become known for offering some of the best surfing - and socializing - in all of Europe."

**Jetrosexual Emergency Averted: Virgin Atlantic website back up [16:58 GMT]**

BA on Stirke - Virgin Web Down

BA Heathrow staff on stike - Virgin Website down.
Great day for travel to/from the UK!

+Virgin Atlantic
+Sky News: BA Suspends Check-Ins.
+BBC: BA Flights hit as staff walk out.
+BAA: Disruption to BA flights from Heathrow Airport - 11 August 2005.

Sky News: BA Suspends All Heathrow Check-Ins

Ah Another summer in Europe.

Sky News : BA Suspends All Heathrow Check-Ins: "BA SUSPENDS CHECK-INS

British Airways has suspended all its check-ins at Heathrow Airport.
More follows..."

Stewart�s home confinement extended - The New Martha - MSNBC.com

One again this woman thinks she is above the law.

Stewart�s home confinement extended - The New Martha - MSNBC.com: "WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Martha Stewart will have to remain a domestic diva a little while longer.
The home-and-hearth marketing queen, who was due to complete five months of house arrest Aug. 10, has agreed to extend the sentence by three extra weeks, her lawyer, Walter E. Dellinger, said in a brief statement Wednesday.
It wasn�t revealed what Stewart did to earn the extra three weeks of confinement. Dellinger�s assistant, Ann Kienlen, said he would not elaborate beyond his brief announcement."

NYO - In With the Old: Rupert Installs Self at New York Post

The Media Mob - NYO: "In With the Old: Rupert Installs Self at New York Post
From tomorrow's Observer cover story on Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch:

Dynasties have their own logic, but generally they�re supposed to go to youth. The Murdoch family succession is going in the opposite direction. Now that Lachlan Murdoch has resigned as deputy chief operating officer of News Corp., a Post spokesperson has told The Observer that he will be replaced as publisher of the New York Post by its former publisher, Rupert Murdoch.

The restoration of the 74-year-old Mr. Murdoch to the vehicle into which he has thrown so much capital and passion comes after a week of the kind that the Post itself would revel in, of public family turmoil and power Parcheesi that exacted an emotional cost from his son.

Last Friday, July 29, shortly after his sudden abdication as the designated crown prince of News Corp., Lachlan Murdoch went to lunch at Da Silvano. The 33-year-old bluff and hardy publisher and News Corp. executive came in at around 1 p.m. with a group of about eight people, according to one eyewitness.

He stayed for five and a half hours.

�They started with�they all ordered Italian beers, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, the best line of Peroni,� the eyewitness said. Then came multiple bottles of Lupicaia wine, and cold cuts, truffled burrata cheese, stuffed zucchini blossoms, branzino, homemade pasta with more truffles. Lachlan Murdoch�s wife, bra and swimsuit model Sarah O�Hare, stopped by, bringing their infant son, Kalan.

By the last half hour of the meal, the bare-knuckled young publisher of the New York Post was in tears. �He was like, sort of crying on an elder gentleman at the table,� the eyewitness said. �It seemed to me like a very tender moment.�"

CNN.com - No-frills hotel for central London - Aug 2, 2005

CNN.com - No-frills hotel for central London - Aug 2, 2005: "EasyJet, easyCruise, and now easyHotel. The entrepreneur known for his no-frills ethos, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, is opening his latest venture.
In keeping with the 'easy' philosophy, frills are again being ditched in favor of value for money. EasyHotel is charging $35 (�20) a night for double rooms at its first hotel in central London.
Following in the footsteps of Japan's capsule hotel concept, these rooms are being heralded as Europe's smallest.
Rooms come in three sizes -- small, really small and tiny. At 80, 70 and 60 square feet (7.2, 6.3 or 5.4 square meters), there is little room to swing anything more than a carry-on bag."

Where's the real Surf City, USA? - Yahoo! News

Where's the real Surf City, USA? - Yahoo! News: "City officials here in Huntington Beach last week announced a new worldwide advertising offensive marketing the town as 'Surf City, USA.' It comes complete with government-registered trademarks and signed deals with merchandisers of everything from snorkels-and-fins to furniture. The move could bring hundreds of thousands of dollars into town coffers.
The only trouble is, officials in coastal Santa Cruz, several hundred miles north, say their town is the true 'Surf City, USA.' They have filed a formal complaint with the US Commerce Department, challenged Huntington Beach city council members to a surf-off, and opened a propaganda campaign - albeit a friendly one - of their own. At stake, they say, beyond the royalties paid by such agreements, is their very tangible identity as a worldwide tourist destination."

Music scandals | Sing a song of Spitzer | Economist.com

Music scandals | Sing a song of Spitzer | Economist.com: "IN 1980, according to a book about the music industry by Fredric Dannen called �Hit Men�, CBS Records decided to run an experiment with a band, Pink Floyd. Their concert dates were sold out in Los Angeles, and radio stations everywhere were playing �Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two)�. Dick Asher, the deputy president of CBS Records, wanted to find out whether the band's popularity meant he could refuse to pay the usual bribes, or illegal �payola�, to the four big Top-40 radio stations in Los Angeles. Like stations across the country, they claimed to make independent choices based on taste. But Mr Asher lost; only after Pink Floyd's manager insisted that CBS Records hand over the money did the stations spin the record. "