Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend, doctors charged

LOS ANGELES – Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend and a doctor surrendered to face charges that they conspired to provide the Playboy Playmate with thousands of prescription pills before her 2007 fatal overdose. A second doctor also is accused.

Howard K. Stern and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor were released late Thursday after posting $20,000 bond. Charges include conspiracy, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict, authorities said.

Dr. Khristine Eroshevich was expected to surrender Monday. Her attorney, Adam Braun, acknowledged she wrote some of the prescriptions using fictitious names for Smith, but it wasn't intended to commit fraud.

"It was done for privacy reasons," Braun told The Associated Press. "She did the best she could under difficult circumstances in the best interest of the patient."

Prosecutors see it differently.

"These individuals repeatedly and excessively furnished thousands of prescription pills to Anna Nicole Smith, often for no legitimate medical purpose," California Attorney General Jerry Brown said in a statement Thursday. His office was expected to release more details about the case at a news conference Friday.

Prosecutors said the doctors gave thousands of prescription drugs — including opiates and sedatives — to Stern, who then gave them to Smith.

Messages left with attorneys for Stern and Kapoor were not returned.

The prescriptions were issued between June 2004 and January 2007, just weeks before her death on Feb. 8, 2007.

Medical examiners have said Eroshevich, a Los Angeles psychiatrist and friend of Smith's, authorized all 11 of the prescription medications found in the Hollywood, Fla., hotel room where the 39-year-old model was found unresponsive shortly before her death.

An arraignment date was not immediately set and prosecutors were unsure how much prison time the three would face if convicted. Stern faces six felony counts and the doctors face seven each.

Braun said Eroshevich began treating Smith in September 2006 when she suffered a nervous breakdown stemming from the death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith, who died of an accidental drug overdose three days after his mother gave birth to a girl.

Eroshevich traveled on several occasions over a six-month period to the Bahamas, where Smith was living with Stern and wrote the prescriptions.

The criminal complaint also alleges Kapoor gave her excessive amounts of sleep aids, opiates, muscle relaxants and methadone-like drugs used to treat addiction, knowing she was an addict. Kapoor saw Smith in the spring of 2006 when she was treated at a Los Angeles County hospital for opiate withdrawal and prenatal care for the pregnancy of her daughter Dannielynn, according to the complaint.

Rumors swirled for weeks after Smith's death, but police cleared those around her of any wrongdoing and medical examiners ruled she died of an accidental overdose.

Documents obtained by the AP after her death showed most of the drugs found in her hotel room were prescribed in Stern's name and none were prescribed in Smith's own name.

The quantity was staggering. More than 600 pills — including about 450 muscle relaxants — were missing from prescriptions that were no more than 5 weeks old. Ultimately, it was a syrup — the powerful sleeping aid chloral hydrate — blamed with tipping the balance in the toxic mix of drugs and causing her death.

Stern, who initially claimed he was the father of Dannielynn, appeared distraught as he spoke last year at a memorial marking the one-year anniversary of Smith's death.

"Few people who knew Anna might not realize how smart she actually was because unless she wanted you to know you didn't know," Stern said.

Stern later gave up custody of Dannielynn after DNA tests proved Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead was the father.

The little girl has been named the sole heir of her late mother's estate, with Birkhead and Stern as co-trustees. Dannielynn could inherit millions of dollars if the estate wins an ongoing court fight over the oil fortune of Smith's late second husband, J. Howard Marshall.

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Associated Press writers Greg Risling in Los Angeles and Matt Sedensky in Miami contributed to this report.

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Is Kelly Clarkson pregnant, or just gaining weight?

Kelly Clarkson’s appearance on American Idol this evening has set tongues wagging after Clarkson showed what on the surface at least appeared to be a baby bump.

So is Kelly Clarkson pregnant? The answer is we can’t be sure, but it’s more likely just weight gain. Only recently, Clarkson told Us Weekly that she wasn’t interested at the moment in spawning children. She also told Ryan Seacrest that there is no special person in her life at the moment.

Clarkson, rumored by some to be a lesbian, has had a long battle with weight, often putting on the pounds only to lose them again in a semi-regular fashion.

One thing we can say for Clarkson: if she was pregnant, she’d probably share the news; only earlier today, details of an interview she did with Blender Magazine included gems from Clarkson such as she pisses on her self in the shower, and that she analyzes her snot for illness.

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GUNMAN SHOOTS 9 PEOPLE DEAD IN ALABAMA US | Ten die in Alabama shooting spree

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A gunman has killed at least nine people in a series of shootings across two towns in the southern US state of Alabama before killing himself.Officials say there were at least four separate shooting incidents.The gunman fired on homes, a petrol station, shops and vehicles in Samson and Geneva near the Florida border.

Five people - including a child - were killed in one home. Several of the victims are believed to have been members of the gunman's family.The gunman has not been formally identified, but was named in the local press as Michael McLendon .The bloodshed began when the suspect is thought to have burned down a house where he lived with his mother in Kinston, near Samson, local coroner Robert Preachers told the Associated Press news agency.
Officials said they had not been able to get inside the house to determine a cause of death and determine whether the woman was the 10th victim of the killing spree.

Shockhe coroner said it was believed the suspect then headed to Samson where he shot and killed five people - four adults and a child - in one home."He started in his mother's house. Then he went to Samson and he killed his granny and granddaddy and aunt and uncle. He cleaned his family out," Mr Preachers said.

The gunman then killed one person each in two other homes, before killing someone at a Samson supply store, and another person at a service station.A police officer told Reuters news agency that two of the dead were the wife and child of a deputy sheriff."He just cruised his automobile through Samson and was spraying the people with semi-automatic weapons [fire] at random," the Reverend Mike Shirah, of Geneva's Maple Baptist Church, told the BBC.
Samson Mayor Clay King said the town had opened a crisis centre at a local church.
"I've lived here 44 years and never, never dreamed of this happening," Mr King told AP.
From Samson, the gunman drove 19km (12 miles) east to Geneva. At one point, officers rammed his car and gunfire was exchanged.

Geneva police chief Frankie Lindsay says he was saved by his bullet-proof vest when the man shot at his patrol with an automatic weapon."About 11 rounds hit my vehicle," he told the BBC. "Some of the shrapnel from the bullets did enter my shoulder."The suspect fired a total of 30 rounds during the exchange with police, officials say.The gunman then went inside a metal products plant where he is believed to have once worked, and shot himself.

There is no indication yet of a motive for the killings. The FBI has sent an agent to assist the local sheriff's office.Samson has a population of about 2,000 people. Geneva's population is about about 4,400.The towns are in a quiet rural area, our correspondent adds, and the local community are shocked that this incident has happened in such a place.

How to Watch High Quality Videos on YouTube

Don’t you just hate how low the quality of the videos are on YouTube? I certainly do, but thankfully there is a way to get around the default quality and watch videos in a much higher quality. However, there are catches to this… like everything really. :|

First, I am going to explain how to do this and then I will explain the flaws/catches to it. You start off with a basic YouTube URL, then you add the High Quality code at the end of it: &fmt=18. An example might look like:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcpK5mdTIE8&fmt=18

As you can see, you will get a much higher quality video through the wonders of YouTube.

So far, I have only found 2 flaws / limitations, but the most important limitation is this will NOT work on videos that are encoded from .FLV files before they are uploaded to YouTube. The other flaw is that on some occasions the audio and video will desync when using this feature. It doesn’t happen very often but it does happen.

If you’re logged in to YouTube anyway, just head over to your Account settings page. Near the bottom, you’ll find a “Video Quality” option. Click that link and you’ll land on a page where you can choose to always see the higher quality videos. Obviously, this requires you to login to YouTube, so if you don’t want to do that, just stick with one of the methods above.

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Lolo Jones uses stumble at Olympics as motivation

No counseling is necessary to clear Lolo Jones’ mind of clipping that next-to-last hurdle in the 100-meter finals at the Beijing Olympics last summer.

Jones doesn’t want to forget that feeling when she had gold all but locked up, only to stumble and stagger across in seventh place.

The memory remains a mighty motivator.

"A lot of what happened at the Olympics just put fuel in the fire," Jones said in a teleconference Wednesday as she prepares to defend her crown this weekend at the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships in Boston. "Instead of paying for a psychiatrist, I just go to practice. It’s like having a session for free."

Still, the 26-year-old can’t watch the footage from the Olympic finals.

Not yet at least.

Once, a talk show played a clip of the race in the background while interviewing her, and she could hear the audio.

That was painful enough.

"I know exactly what happened. I’ve relived that race so many times," Jones said. "I pretty much had the driver’s side seat on watching it in the actual race."

Jones was the fastest hurdler in the world entering the finals, and blazed out to a big lead. She simply caught the ninth of 10 hurdles and couldn’t recover as American Dawn Harper went on to capture gold.

Did Jones go out too fast in hoping to break the Olympic record? Could she have backed off a bit?

Not an option.

Sure, her semifinal performance — a personal-best 12.43 seconds — would’ve easily won the gold medal, but she was looking for more. Jones didn’t want to win gold so much as win gold in spectacular fashion.

"I was trying to give my all and my best," Jones said. "I wasn’t just trying to get an ’A’ on a paper, I was trying to have the best paper ever written in history."

Her anguish, though, captured hearts. She didn’t run away from the cameras. Instead, the ever-graceful Jones openly and painfully talked about her slip up.

"I don’t think people would’ve remembered my name as much if I would’ve won," Jones said. "Everybody can relate to not getting something they want or something they’ve worked so hard for. That speaks on all levels. It speaks to everybody."

Soon after the Olympics, Jones received a small measure of redemption, winning a race in Zurich, Switzerland, that was stacked with Olympians.

"That was the race I felt I needed to win," Jones said.

It was healing therapy for her confidence.

Now she’s off to another torrid start, breezing to a win in the 60-meter hurdles last week at a meet in Birmingham, England.

However, while at the competition, Jones made a comment concerning the World Anti-Doping Agency’s new drug testing rules that she said was misinterpreted.

Jones isn’t against testing, just how it’s administered.

With the new rule, athletes need to give three months’ notice of their availability for one hour each day during out-of-competion drug testing.

That, Jones admitted, is difficult to do.

"I’ve always been 100 percent supportive of all drug testing and anything that will keep drugs out of track and field," Jones said. "What I was trying to say is I don’t care if they have to put GPS (navigation) on me 24/7. If that’s what it takes to keep the sport clean, by all means I’m for it. ... I think this new system just needs to get its kinks ironed out."

Jones certainly appears to be in top form on the track.

"I can’t believe I’m running as consistently fast as I am," said Jones, who lives in Baton Rouge, La., and still trains with Dennis Shaver, her coach from Louisiana State. "Normally, I’ll have some ups and downs. I’ve been pretty consistent, so I’m excited."

She’s the favorite to win the 60-meter hurdles this weekend at the indoor championships.

Even more, Jones has a shot at capturing her second straight Visa championship, which is awarded to the top performer throughout the four-meet series. All Jones has to do is finish in a time of 7.86 seconds or better. That would give her enough points to surge ahead of Jenn Stuczynski, provided the pole vaulter doesn’t break her American record at the meet.

Jones won the hurdles in Boston in a time of 7.88 seconds last year, allowing her to take the series title, along with a $25,000 bonus check from Visa.

No matter where she goes, her stumble at the Olympics is brought up. She doesn’t duck the questions, tries to answer them as honestly as she can.

"I’m definitely still getting over it," Jones said. "Every race is helping me."

Article from :http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/other_sports/general/view.bg?articleid=1154811&srvc=rss

Catalase Enzyme - A Cure for Grey Hair?

s your hair going grey? Well, science may have found the culprit - Catalase! A digestive enzyme, catalase is essentially omnipresent in all eukaryotic life. Its job is to act as a catalyst (catalase - catalyst!) for the process of separating water into component parts - oxygen, and hydrogen peroxide - surprising. Catalase performs this process in excess of a million times in just one second. But it also seems that it is responsible for causing greying of hair in older people. Remember - catalase also breaks down hydrogen peroxide, which is toxic.

Basically, if there isnt enough catalase (which there commonly isn’t in hair of older people), hydrogen peroxide builds up and damages the hair so that its original colour is lost. If we can find a way to interfere with this process, perhaps re-supplying the hair with catalase, greying may become a thing of the past. Check this video below to see catalase in action.



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