Interesting stuff in the news

Jackson Takes on Eminem in Video War
Slim Shady is back again and pulling no punches in his controversial new video "Just Lose It." This time, he's targeting the King of Pop and, apparently, the King is popping back.

From the video's opening routine reminiscent of Jackson's "Billie Jean," to the case of the nose with a mind of its own, Eminem pulls no punches as he takes on everything from the 1984 accident in which Jackson's hair caught fire to allegations Jackson plied his underage accuser with wine, calling it "Jesus juice." Though the images arguably indicate otherwise, in his lyrics, Eminem insists he's not attacking Jackson, as he rhymes, "I done touched on everything but little boys. That's not a stab at Michael --- that's just a metaphor --- I'm just psycho." more
(http://celebrityjustice.warnerbros.com/news/0410/11a.html)

Fetishist found with over 10,000 stolen uniforms



With it being de riguer in Japan for kindergarten kids to wear smocks, schoolboys to be decked out in Prussian military uniforms, schoolgirls to be clad in sailor suits, dowdy dresses for office ladies and drab suits for salarymen, there's no doubt this country has a thing for uniforms. Some Japanese, however, take this national obsession for homogenized outfits a little too far, as Shukan Jitsuwa (10/21) notes.

Kenji Hishida is now awaiting trial for burglary after he was allegedly caught trying to rob a West Japan Railway Co. dormitory in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sept. 6.

Hishida, however, ignored the wallets, cash and other valuables ripe for the taking at the employees' housing area, instead aiming for a couple of pairs of pants.

Cops suspecting the unemployed 39-year-old's actions were a one-off got a rude shock when they raided his home in the wake of his arrest. "Hishida's place was packed full of every type of uniform imagineable. When investigators asked where he got them from, the suspect freely admitted to stealing them all," a local reporter covering the case tells Shukan Jitsuwa. "Nearly everything he'd stolen was a uniform, but there was other stuff, too, like helmets adorned with company logos. Even then, the sheer amount of stuff he'd pinched was incredible. Altogether, there were about 10,000 stolen uniform-related items in his home." more (http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/0410/1011rancid.html)

October 11, 2004
The Sun-Herald

Introducing the man behind Delta Goodrem's new underwear range.
Sydney-based Bruno Schiavi might not be a household name in Australia, but he is a firm favourite among celebrities including Goodrem, Mark Philippoussis (who is planning to launch a new men's range later this year) and Jodhi Packer.

Schiavi has been working with Goodrem on an underwear range for Kmart, which will be launched this week. While many critics (including me) have wondered why Goodrem needs to be moving into the world of chain store apparel - it all seemed a bit tacky when the news was released - Schiavi is confident the range will be a success.

Working closely with the singer has "been good", says Schiavi, who made his fortune by inventing the Pocket Sock.

"I thought, oh my God, that sounds pretty silly," said Schiavi last week. "But for someone who always loses things, I realised it wasn't so silly after all."

The success of the Pocket Sock in America and Europe allowed Schiavi to expand into other ranges, including women's underwear and men's clothing. But his Goodrem range is expected to be his most high-profile collection so far.

Not only is he designing knickers for the pop princess, Schiavi is planning to release an adult shoe range for Packer (separate from her Tiger Lily brand) and is continuing to work with Philippoussis on fresh designs in men's wear.
He also landed the contract from Warner Bros to design pyjamas and other merchandise for the next Batman film, which will star Liam Neeson.

ROME (Reuters) - It might be fine for Christina Aguilera or plumbers, but not for school children -- jeans that reveal the buttocks have been banned by an Italian headmaster.

"Just as covering your face with a burka is excessive ... so is it beyond the bounds of decency to wear trousers that, when you sit down, reveal your bottom," read a circular by the head of Vitruvio Pollione high school in the central Italian city of Avezzano.

"Most kids take the fashion in their stride, but in some cases it had led to rather ribald comments," headmaster Angelo Bernardini told Corriere della Sera newspaper.

Fashionable teenagers in Italy are fond of rapper-style baggy, low-hanging jeans for boys and midriff-revealing trousers for girls. In both cases underwear is often on view. "A triangle of G-string popping out of the trousers -- that's vulgar, that's something I really would not like to see at school. But a glimpse of underwear elastic isn't such a bad thing, it's just a little innocent provocation," founder of Italy's Diesel clothing brand, Renzo Rosso, told the Corriere.

CRYSTAL, Minn. - Police responding to a call of a convulsing Elvis Presley impersonator soon found themselves in a high-speed chase of another faux celebrity — a man dressed as one of the Blues Brothers.

Crystal Police Capt. Dave Oyaas said the bizarre string of events began when officers were called to a veterans hall Monday morning to find a man dressed as Elvis Presley apparently in convulsions.

When the officers approached, Oyaas said the man suddenly jumped up and yelled, "Viva Las Vegas!" before singing show tunes.

At about the same time, two women said another man at the veterans hall dressed as John Belushi's character in "The Blues Brothers" had stolen their car and driven to a nearby airport.

The man led police on a high-speed chase around the airport before officers forced him to stop and arrested him.

"It's one of those things that you stop and scratch your head, and you think that 'Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?'" Oyaas said.

Oyaas said charges pending against the men could include disorderly conduct, fleeing police and drunken driving.

The men had been drinking together at the VFW before police arrived. Blood tests will show how much, but Oyaas said, "I would venture to say quite a bit."

"It wasn't me" - Dominic

Manila - A small Philippine company is combining commerce with conservation by offering one of the world's most prized coffees - made from the beans found in the droppings of the civet cat.

The product, known as "Coffee Alamid", after the local name of the wild animal, is being sold in a few local shops but may soon be exported, the owner of the Bote Central company said on Wednesday.

The blend uses coffee beans processed through the digestive system of the vulnerable Philippine civet, a small, cat-like nocturnal mammal closely related to the mongoose.

The beans, which are swallowed and passed out whole by the animal, are gathered from droppings found at the farm.

The product sells for 3 500 pesos (about R350) per kilogram.

Coffee from beans found in civet droppings in Vietnam has gained a reputation among connoisseurs as among the best in the world. A similar product is sold in Indonesia.

Vie Reyes, owner and sales manager of Bote Central, said the Trade Department and the International Coffee Board were certifying the company's bean-droppings as genuine and the Netherlands was interested in bringing the product to Europe.

Reyes, whose group is involved in preserving native sugar palm, was surprised to discover farmers in the Philippines have long been making coffee from the beans in local civet droppings.

Her company, with the help of non-government organisations, is working on a programme that would train certain farmers to gather the beans, Reyes said.

This will help in the conservation of the civet which has been made "vulnerable" but not yet endangered by destruction of its habitat and because it is being hunted for its meat.

:mad: SCREW DELTA GOODREM IF SHE HAD ANY DESIGN BACKGROUND BEHIND HER THAT WOULD BE OKAY...BUT SHE SHOULD STICK TO SINGING WHICH IS WHAT SHES GOOD AT. HER RANGE IS SO SH!TTY! I HATE IT AT LEAST KYLIE HAS BETTER UNDERWEAR THAN THAT BIATCH! ERR JUST COZ SHES FAMOUS THINKS SHE CAN CREATE UNDERWEAR PFFT! AND KMART OUT OF ALL PLACES IS SOOOO CRAP. TARGET UNDERWEAR IS HEAPS BETTER.

HOW DOES THAT MAKE THE DESIGNERS ALREADY DESIGNING FOR KMART FEEL WEN SHE JUST STEPS IN AND THINKS SHE CAN DO THAT STUFF. THEY WORKED HARD FOR THEIR STUFF AND ALL IT TAKES IS HER NAME. PFFT! LOSER

HA AND THE DESIGNER I HAVE NEVER EVER IN MY LIFE HEARD OF HIM. HOW SAID IS THAT....HE HAS TO USE SOMEONES FAMOUS NAME JUST SO HIS DESIGN ARE SEEN PFFT...!

THANKYOU :mad: I HOPE IT GOES DOWN THE DRAIN!

:)

Australia Vulnerable to Korean Hacking Army

An army of more than 500 hackers hired by the North Korean military could find Australian businesses a "softer target" than their U.S. or European-based counterparts, according to security experts.

http://asia.cnet.com/news/security/0,39037064,39197226,00.htm

ROLY-POLY Pop Idol star Rik Waller sold just TWO tickets for a live show.

The concert — and two other gigs — have had to be scrapped because of poor sales.

Rik, 23 — a big name in the first series of Pop Idol — was coming to terms last night with the flop of his Beyond Reality Tour 2004, which has been running for two months.

The crunch came when just one couple bought seats for his show at the Princess Theatre in Torquay, Devon.

Theatre boss Wendy Bennett said: “We were aware Rik wasn’t our fastest seller but it was his decision to pull this event.”

A source confirmed: “Sales were patchy for lots of the dates but Torquay was the worst. Rik has also axed the last two dates in Felixstowe and Birmingham.”

Rik had put together a band called Souled As Scene.

Acts like Ken Dodd, Joan Rivers and Jim Davidson had no problem filling the Torquay theatre.

Scientists use honey bees to explore effects of drink abuse

Experiments with drunken honey bees could unlock secrets to help scientists understand the effects of alcohol on the human brain and why people become alcoholics.

“On the molecular level, the brains of honey bees and humans work the same,” said Dr Julie Mustard, the study’s co-author and a postdoctoral researcher in entomology.

Mustard is one of a group of American scientists from Ohio State University who fed a sugar solution laced with alcohol to a group of bees in order to see how closely their actions resembled those of drunken humans.

The bees promptly became inebriated, paving the way for research into why we become addicted to alcohol and the way the drug affects our abilities to learn, remember things and socialise with each other.

Mustard explained that knowing how chronic alcohol use affects the genes and proteins in the honey-bee brain may help her to understand how alcoholism affects memory and behaviour in humans, as well as the molecular basis of addiction.

“I think we have to learn to help people who have a huge problem with alcoholism all over the world,” she said.

The behaviour of the drunken bees was familiar to anyone who has ever experienced that one drink too many. The larger the dose of ethanol – the intoxicating agent in alcoholic drinks – the less time the bees spent walking, flying or grooming themselves.

Instead, they fell over and lay motionless on their backs until they sobered up.

Mustard said the way the bees learned almost human behaviour entertained her team. The researchers trained the bees to associate a flower’s smell with a reward, in this case sugar water. The bee then learned to stick out its tongue because “when it smells that same smell it thinks that food is coming”.

Geraldine Wright, the study’s co-author, who is also a postdoctoral researcher in entomology, said she hopes to learn how drinking alcohol affects social behaviour as well as gaining a better understanding of the basic mechanisms that drive alcohol addiction and tolerance.

“Honey bees are very social animals, which makes them a great model for studying the effects of alcohol in a social context,” she said.

Wright added that they may be able to examine how ethanol affects the way a bee’s brain generates aggressive impulses and therefore learn how it affects humans.

“Many people get aggressive when they drink too much and we want to learn if ethanol consumption makes the normally calm, friendly honey bee more aggressive,” she said.

Mustard thinks that the bees’ nature made them “great test subjects” for several reasons.

As well as being sociable and quick learners, bees spend a lot of time out foraging, she said. “They learn where the good nectar is then communicate the information back to the swarm through the honey-bee dance. We’d like to look at how alcohol affects that.”

Mustard conducted her tests on the common European honey bee, Apis mellifera. Tests on honey bees are very cheap, she explained, compared with mice or primates.

The work was presented yesterday at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego.

To conduct the research, they fastened the honey bees into a small harness made from a piece of drinking straw. The researchers then fed the bees on solutions made from sucrose and ethanol.

There were several con centrations of ethanol, ranging from 10% to 100%, mirroring the different strengths of alcoholic drinks. The 10% solution was equivalent to table wine while the 100% solution, which contained no sucrose, was equivalent to drinking 200 proof grain alcohol, Wright explained. One group of control bees were fed only the sucrose solution.

The scientists fed the bees and then observed them for 40 minutes, monitoring how much time each bee spent walking, standing still, grooming, flying and upside down on its back. The amount of ethanol in each bee’s blood increased with time and with the volume of drug that each bee had consumed.

The way a bee acted depended on how “drunk” it had become. The bees that had consumed the highest concentrations of ethanol – 50%, 75% and 100% – spent a majority of the observation period on their backs, unable to stand. They keeled over after only 10 minutes of the observation period and spent almost no time grooming or flying.

Mustard said these bees had lost postural control. “They couldn’t co-ordinate their legs well enough to flip themselves back over again,” she said.

The bees that had consumed the least amount of ethanol, a 10% solution, took 20 minutes to fall over and spent the least amount of time upside down. Mustard said they would use this learning model to see how different doses of ethanol damage the bee’s brain, affecting memory and social skills.

haha i love this story!

08 July 2004

The city authorities in Canberra warned residents yesterday to beware of starving kangaroos bounding through the Australian capital in search of food, following reports that the animals were attacking people and pet dogs.

Wildlife authorities said the usually harmless, grass-eating eastern gray kangaroos were being driven by hunger from the drought-stricken countryside around Canberra, into the city of 320,000, where conditions are greener.

The Australian Capital Territory Environment Department warned residents to steer clear of the animals after a woman was attacked by a kangaroo while walking her poodle in a city park last week and another woman reported that a kangaroo drowned her golden retriever in a pond and seriously injured another two dogs.

The dogs had been swimming when a large kangaroo appeared on the bank and entered the water, according to the pets' owner Christine Canham. The kangaroo then "held her under the water with its back legs and drowned her as we watched helpless," Ms Canham wrote in a letter to The Canberra Times.

A government wildlife ecologist, Murray Evans, said he was concerned that city residents might forget that the beloved symbol of Australia was also a wild animal that can grow as tall and heavy as a man.

"Kangaroos don't come bounding out of the bush looking for people to attack, but they are less likely to back down when hungry," he said.

UF SCIENTIST: “BRAIN” IN A DISH ACTS AS AUTOPILOT, LIVING COMPUTER

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A University of Florida scientist has grown a living “brain” that can fly a simulated plane, giving scientists a novel way to observe how brain cells function as a network.

The “brain” -- a collection of 25,000 living neurons, or nerve cells, taken from a rat’s brain and cultured inside a glass dish -- gives scientists a unique real-time window into the brain at the cellular level. By watching the brain cells interact, scientists hope to understand what causes neural disorders such as epilepsy and to determine noninvasive ways to intervene.

As living computers, they may someday be used to fly small unmanned airplanes or handle tasks that are dangerous for humans, such as search-and-rescue missions or bomb damage assessments.

“We’re interested in studying how brains compute,” said Thomas DeMarse, the UF professor of biomedical engineering who designed the study. “If you think about your brain, and learning and the memory process, I can ask you questions about when you were 5 years old and you can retrieve information. That’s a tremendous capacity for memory. In fact, you perform fairly simple tasks that you would think a computer would easily be able to accomplish, but in fact it can’t.”

While computers are very fast at processing some kinds of information, they can’t approach the flexibility of the human brain, DeMarse said. In particular, brains can easily make certain kinds of computations – such as recognizing an unfamiliar piece of furniture as a table or a lamp – that are very difficult to program into today’s computers.

“If we can extract the rules of how these neural networks are doing computations like pattern recognition, we can apply that to create novel computing systems,” he said.

DeMarse experimental "brain" interacts with an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator through a specially designed plate called a multi-electrode array and a common desktop computer.

“It’s essentially a dish with 60 electrodes arranged in a grid at the bottom,” DeMarse said. “Over that we put the living cortical neurons from rats, which rapidly begin to reconnect themselves, forming a living neural network – a brain.”

The brain and the simulator establish a two-way connection, similar to how neurons receive and interpret signals from each other to control our bodies. By observing how the nerve cells interact with the simulator, scientists can decode how a neural network establishes connections and begins to compute, DeMarse said.

When DeMarse first puts the neurons in the dish, they look like little more than grains of sand sprinkled in water. However, individual neurons soon begin to extend microscopic lines toward each other, making connections that represent neural processes. “You see one extend a process, pull it back, extend it out – and it may do that a couple of times, just sampling who’s next to it, until over time the connectivity starts to establish itself,” he said. “(The brain is) getting its network to the point where it’s a live computation device.”

To control the simulated aircraft, the neurons first receive information from the computer about flight conditions: whether the plane is flying straight and level or is tilted to the left or to the right. The neurons then analyze the data and respond by sending signals to the plane’s controls. Those signals alter the flight path and new information is sent to the neurons, creating a feedback system.

“Initially when we hook up this brain to a flight simulator, it doesn’t know how to control the aircraft,” DeMarse said. “So you hook it up and the aircraft simply drifts randomly. And as the data comes in, it slowly modifies the (neural) network so over time, the network gradually learns to fly the aircraft.”

Although the brain currently is able to control the pitch and roll of the simulated aircraft in weather conditions ranging from blue skies to stormy, hurricane-force winds, the underlying goal is a more fundamental understanding of how neurons interact as a network, DeMarse said.

“There’s a lot of data out there that will tell you that the computation that’s going on here isn’t based on just one neuron. The computational property is actually an emergent property of hundreds or thousands of neurons cooperating to produce the amazing processing power of the brain.”

With Jose Principe, a UF distinguished professor of electrical engineering and director of UF's Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory, DeMarse has a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to create a mathematical model that reproduces how the neurons compute.

These living neural networks are being used to pursue a variety of engineering and neurobiology research goals, said Steven Potter, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech/Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering who uses cultured brain cells to study learning and memory. DeMarse was a postdoctoral researcher in Potter’s laboratory at Georgia Tech before he arrived at UF.

“A lot of people have been interested in what changes in the brains of animals and people when they are learning things,” Potter said. “We’re interested in getting down into the network and cellular mechanisms, which is hard to do in living animals. And the engineering goal would be to get ideas from this system about how brains compute and process information.”

Though the ”brain” can successfully control a flight simulation program, more elaborate applications are a long way off, DeMarse said.

“We’re just starting out. But using this model will help us understand the crucial bit of information between inputs and the stuff that comes out,” he said. “And you can imagine the more you learn about that, the more you can harness the computation of these neurons into a wide range of applications.”

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Brain in dish maybe?

Pop star hopes sex video will prove copyright
A top Croatian pop star asked a Zagreb court on Friday to watch a private movie in which she enjoys a lusty sex romp to see whether her copyright was violated by a website that showed it to the public.

Severina Vuckovic, 32, sued the www index.hr web portal for publishing shots of her having sex with a man later identified as a wealthy Bosnian Croat businessman who is married with children.

Her lawyers demanded the video be shown in court, state news agency Hina reported.

In a separate motion, the defendants also asked that a court-appointed sex expert see the video to determine if Vuckovic had "demonstrated anything not previously seen in the porn industry", which could qualify for copyright, Hina said.

"I do not think she has shown any new sexual art," the portal's owner, Matija Babic, told the agency.

The stills and whole 11-minute video clip quickly became the hottest Internet item in the former Yugoslav republic, where Vuckovic is a sex symbol but has often projected a modest and religious image.

Independent media estimated the video had been downloaded 10 million times and way beyond Croatia's borders.

Vuckovic said it was stolen from her private collection.

--Reuters

:D:D i have that video hahah

These are from a book called Disorder in the Court, and are things
people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now
published by court reporters-who had the torment of staying calm
while these exchanges were actually taking place. ________________________________________
Q: Are you sexually active?
A: No, I just lie there.
_____________________________________
Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July 15th.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.
________________________________________
Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
_____________________________________
Q: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
A: Yes.
Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
A: I forget.
Q: You forget. Can you give us an example of something that
you've forgotten?
_____________________________________
Q: How old is your son, the one living with you?
A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
Q: How long has he lived with you?
A: Forty-five years.
_____________________________________
Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up
that morning?
A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
Q: And why did that upset you?
A: My name is Susan.
_____________________________________
Q: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo
or the occult?
A: We both do.
Q: Voodoo?
A: We do.
Q: You do?
A: Yes, voodoo.
_____________________________________
Q: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he
doesn't know about it until the next morning?
_____________________________________
Q: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
_____________________________________
Q: Were you present when your picture was taken?
_____________________________________
Q: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
A: Yes.
Q: And what were you doing at that time?
____________________________________
Q: She had three children, right?
A: Yes.
Q: How many were boys?
A: None.
Q: Were there any girls?
____________________________________
Q: How was your first marriage terminated?
A: By death.
Q: And by whose death was it terminated?
____________________________________
Q: Can you describe the individual?
A: He was about medium height and had a beard.
Q: Was this a male, or a female?
_____________________________________
Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition
notice which I sent to your attorney?
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
_____________________________________
Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
_____________________________________
Q: All your responses must be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
A: Oral.
_____________________________________
Q: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
A: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
Q: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
A: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an
autopsy.
____________________________________
Q: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
____________________________________
Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a
pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began
the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing
law somewhere.
:)

LOL That was mega funny!

Q: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo
or the occult?
A: We both do.
Q: Voodoo?
A: We do.
Q: You do?
A: Yes, voodoo.
_____________________________________

Lmao I want more! :headbang:

November 17, 2004
DON'T panic, but there is a severe ugg boot shortage.

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,3600,396743,00.jpgCrisis ... not enough uggs to go around.
The footwear which has graced the feet of celebrities and wannabes is still in hot demand.



With the Northern Hemisphere heading into winter - peak ugg boot weather - suppliers are finding it almost impossible to keep up with international orders.

Ugg boot maker Westhaven of Dubbo has called for extra staff after a deluge of orders from as far afield as Norway, France, Germany and Canada.

The company employs 65 disabled adults and able-bodied supervisors and has been producing sheepskin footwear for 30 years.

Managing director Gordon Tindall said more staff were urgently needed but it was difficult finding people with the necessary sewing skills.

"Our products are all hand-crafted on special machines, they are high-quality products," he said.

"Usually we are at our busiest between March and July during the Australian winter but with the boom in the export market we expect to be flat out until the end of November.

"If we had the machinery and the people we could find the markets easily - there is a worldwide shortage because even larger companies are unable to keep up with demand."

The Australian ugg boot industry made worldwide news earlier this year US outdoor wear company Deckers registered the ugg trademark in the US and demanded Australian manufacturers no longer market their products as ugg boots.

Online campaigns to "save an Aussie icon" began and soon the whole world knew ugg boots were originally made Down Under.

"It benefited us in the long-run, consumers overseas became aware of the Australian industry and our sales picked up," Mr Tindall said. "We don't market them as ugg boots and we never have, we call them sheepskin footwear, but since the legal battle blew up people around the world have started to hear about Westhaven."

not interesting but to do with schoolies haha

FOUR teenagers have been charged on the Gold Coast over the production and use of fake drivers' licences ahead of Schoolies' Week.


The three 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old were charged with forgery, impersonation and attempted fraud, a police spokeswoman said.

Inspector Brian Hay, of the major fraud investigation unit, said the production and distribution of fake identification to gain entry into nightclubs escalated during Schoolies' Week.


He said police and Liquor Licensing Division members would conduct a joint operation during the traditional end-of-school celebrations to detect the use of fake licences.


Tens of thousands of Schoolies will begin arriving in Surfers Paradise tomorrow night

hey dom....
saw you in the paper (no pic though) talking about gang raping today in this mornings herald sun (melb paper)....saw the name and instantly though it was you, just confirming if it was or not?
very interesting story though....just about how victorian kids are having so much to drink that they will not be able to fend off sexual predators or toolies (i cant find the link for the story?!?)

i saw on the news that within the first night 200 people were arrested but only 3 were schoolies!! and they said we have been heaps good this yr..well so far!
there was a girl being carried off in a stretcher saying "i wish i wasn't a toolie" lol...