‘Jersey Shore’s’ Snooki, JWOWW have found a city to film in

TrendPK.com: ‘Jersey Shore’ stars Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Jenni “JWOWW” Farley are apparently all set to go with their spin-off as they have finally found a city to film in.

The two will reportedly be filming their spin-off in Jersey City after being turned away from Hoboken, states E! News. And the girls will apparently receive a warm welcome there.

“My view is the more people that see anything about Jersey City and see what we have in Jersey, the better it is for Jersey City,” Mayor Jerramiah Healy commented about the show filming there.

Production will allegedly begin this month.

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Lights turned on at London’s Olympic Stadium

The lights have been officially switched on at London 2012′s Olympic Stadium. Prime Minister David Cameron pressed the switch on the 14 light towers, which rise more than 70 metres above the stadium and include a total of 532 individual lights.

Snow blanketed the infield of the stadium – which is due for completion next year – as dozens of local schoolchildren and stadium construction workers watched the switch on, along with London 2012 chairman Seb Coe and Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London.

Cameron praise everyone involved in the design and construction of the 537m stadium in Stratford. He told the specially-invited crowd of 400: It is being delivered on time and on budget thanks to British genius and many of the people here. He added: In 2012 a light will shine on all of our country as billions look on.

Vargas Llosa to oppose Fujimori for Peru president

LIMA: Peruvian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa said on Monday he would work to stop the daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori from winning next year’s presidential race.

Vargas Llosa said it would be a catastrophe for Peru if Keiko Fujimori, a popular conservative lawmaker, wins the April 10 vote, and said he would rally against her campaign.

“If the daughter of the dictator who was condemned to prison for being a criminal and a thief has the chance of becoming president of Peru, I am going to be one of the Peruvians that will go out and try to stop it with all legal means possible,” he told reporters.

Keiko Fujimori, 34, is one of three front-runners in the race, along with former President Alejandro Toledo and former Lima Mayor Luis Castaneda.

The elder Fujimori was sentenced last year to 25 years in prison for

Sarkozy rival Villepin launches political party

PARIS: Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin on Saturday launched a new political party, setting his sights on challenging long-time rival Nicolas Sarkozy for the presidency in 2012.

Supporters cried “Villepin, president” as the new centre right Republique Solidaire was launched in Paris in front of 3,000 supporters.

The ex-prime minister, who is one of Sarkozy”s fiercest critics, told the crowd “something new was rising again in France, something that would not cease to grow with the passing of the months,” adding that France”s social and economic system had run out of steam.

Villepin, 56, a member of Sarkozy”s UMP party, served alongside him under former president Jacques Chirac, but the pair fell out spectacularly over who should succeed him.

A patrician former career diplomat who speaks flawless English, he won global fame for leading the charge against the US invasion of Iraq at the United Nations in 2003.

Brigitte Girardin, president of de Villepin”s 15,000 strong support club, said Villepin stood for “defence of republican values, an institutional equilibrium, social justice and the independence of France in the world.”

“We are launching this great association because there is an expectation in our country of an alternative to the current politics which has not given the expected results,” she said.

Villepin, who also served as foreign and interior minister under Chirac, on Friday took aim at Sarkozy in an interview published in Le Monde.

Sarkozy”s government”s dominant trait, he said, “was that it was developing policies with pollsters who every day look at the surveys and ask what publicity stunt they can score.”

Polls show Villepin would pick up no more than 7 or 8 percent of the vote in 2012, but his approval ratings stand at 49 percent — higher than those registered by Sarkozy, which have hit rock-bottom over the past months.

Up to 60 human heads discovered at US airport

WASHINGTON: A US airline worker has discovered between 40 and 60 human heads during a routine security check, prompting fears of a black market trade in body parts.

The Southwest Airlines employee made the gruesome dicovery when he realised the container, bound for a medical research company in Fort Worth, Texas, had not been labelled properly.

Now officials in Little Rock, Arkansas, where the heads were found, are investigating whether they are part of an illegal trade in human body parts.

“We”ve come to the conclusion that there is a black market out there for human body parts for research or for whatever reason,” said county coroner Garland Camper.

“We just want to make sure these specimens here aren”t a part of that black market and underground trade.”

The package was being sent to a company called Medtronic which maintains that it is common to ship body parts for medical education and research.

However, spokesman Brian Henry admitted it was very rare for a shipment to be seized.

“We expect our suppliers to follow procedures,” he said.

Mr Henry identified the supplier as JLS Consulting, a company which, according to an Arkansas online database, had its business licence revoked last year.

But company founder Janice Hepler has spoken out to a local newspaper to blame a private courrier she hired to transport the heads.

“Nothing is wrong,” she was quoted as saying. “We”re providing the documentation.”

Although US federal law prohibits the sale of human body parts, suppliers can be reimbursed for expenses in the case of legitimate research.

Kyrgyzstan extends emergency in south

OSH: Kyrgyzstan”s interim government has extended a state of emergency in the southern city of Osh and nearby towns and villages following more than a week of deadly clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz.

The emergency, imposed on June 11 amid deadly fighting, was due to expire on Sunday, but will last until June 25, the government announced.

The announcement came as residents of Osh said they were bracing for fresh violence after security forces moved to pull down Uzbek barricades set up during riots last week.

Melisbek Myrzakmatov, the mayor of Osh, said authorities had set a deadline of 6:00pm local time [1200 GMT] on Sunday for the barricades to be removed.

“We gave them two days to remove the barricades. If they do not remove them, we will resort to force,” he said.

“We don”t want to touch [the Uzbeks] but you know they have a lot of weapons and Kyrgyz hostages.”

While the official death toll from the clashes is around 200 people, Roza Otunbayeva, the Kyrgyz interim leader, said on Friday that it could be 10-times more than that.

Victims of the unrest say the violence was a brutal and orchestrated campaign by armed groups of ethnic Kyrgyz targeting Uzbeks, who make up 14 per cent of Kyrgyzstan”s population of 5.3 million.

The UN has said the unrest appeared to have been orchestrated, but has stopped short of assigning blame.

Storm Agatha kills 82 in Central America: officials

GUATEMALA CITY: The first tropical storm of the season in the Americas has left at least 82 people dead in Guatemala and El Salvador, amid flash floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains, officials said Sunday.

Tropical Storm Agatha also forced more than 74,000 people to flee their homes as it whipped heavy rains across four countries, including Mexico and Honduras.

“As of the moment, we have reports of 73 people killed throughout the country, the majority from landslides,” Guatemala”s emergency management agency (Conred) chief David de Leon told AFP.

The Prensa Libre newspaper on its website gave an unofficial death toll of 80.
Among the dead were four children in a house that was swept away in a landslide, officials said.

In neighboring El Salvador, floods and landslides accounted for nine deaths, authorities there said.

Agatha slammed into Guatemala overnight with 65-kilometer (40-mile) per hour winds and was soon downgraded to a tropical depression as it dissipated over higher ground, but the damage caused by heavy rains and high winds prompted the government in El Salvador to declare a state of emergency.

Guatemala had been under a state of emergency since Saturday, while Honduras declared a nationwide state of emergency Sunday and established a crisis management committee to address heavy flooding and other effects from the storm.

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom said flash floods and mudslides forced 74,500 people to flee their homes.

He said schools would remain closed until next week.

The worst storm-related disaster in Guatemala occurred in a village in Solola department where a landslide swept away 25 homes killing 15 people, with another 10 missing, according to San Antonio Palopo Mayor Andres Cumes.

To prevent an outbreak of disease, the bodies will be buried at once, he told reporters.

Colombia and the United States offered to send aircraft to ferry aid or help with evacuations of storm-hit areas, and Colom said six US military aircraft were en route from a base in Honduras.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon, at Colom”s behest, has offered the airport in the border city of Tapachula for emergency flights in and out of Guatemala, Calderon”s office said.

Guatemala City”s La Aurora International Airport has been closed since Friday after being showered by volcanic ash from the eruption of the Pacaya volcano two days earlier. Two people were killed and three missing after the eruption on Wednesday.

Vulcanologists at Guatemala”s national seismological institute said activity in the volcano was within a normal range, but its director Freddy Sanchez said “it”s very possible there could be more violent explosions in the coming days.”

Colom said that even though the storm had eased, authorities remained on an emergency footing, adding that there were dozens of towns and villages that were still inaccessible because of roads severed by landslides.

El Salvador”s President Mauricio Funes put his country under a state of emergency, saying that even though the storm was weakening, the risk of mudslides and flash floods “remains very high.”

Four die, many evacuated as floods sweep central Europe

LONDON: Flash floods triggered by days of heavy rain have killed at least four people, forced mass evacuations and cut off power to thousands in central Europe and weather forecasts offered no hope of respite in coming days.

In southern Poland, one woman in her 60s and a 45-year-old man perished on Monday in separate incidents after being washed away by flood waters, officials and local media reported.

The Polish interior ministry said it expected to evacuate up to 2,000 people from their homes as floods submerged fields, roads and some railway lines.

A 69-year-old woman also died on Monday in the neighboring Czech Republic where hundreds had to be evacuated, including 90 from a hospital in the town of Bohumin, Czech media reported.

More than 10,000 customers of Czech CEZ were left without power after trees fell on power lines in strong winds, and five railway lines and about 50 roads were shut. Parts of southern Poland also suffered power cuts.

Unseasonably cold weather also drove up spot power prices.

More than 2,000 people were forced from their homes in northern Hungary as heavy weekend rains blocked off villages and cut power supplies. One man was killed there on Sunday after an earth wall collapsed onto a house.

In Hungary”s third-biggest city of Miskolc, the mayor imposed emergency tap water restrictions and residents were building makeshift dams using logs, rocks and debris.

“It”s hard to predict when the situation will normalize because of the weather. We have not seen such floods in the valleys of the (rivers) Sajo and Hernad since 1974,” said Csaba Csont, a spokesman for the water management authority in northern Hungary.

In Slovakia, the government deployed troops alongside emergency services in the worst affected areas in the east and northwest of the country.

Times Square cleared as suspected car bomb found

NEW YORK: Police found a suspected car bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle Saturday evening in Times Square, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists milling through the landmark district so they could dismantle the device.

A white robotic police arm broke windows of the black Nissan Pathfinder to remove any explosive materials while heavily armed police and emergency vehicles shut down the city”s busiest streets, teeming with taxis and theatergoers on one of the first summer-like days of the year.

Investigators removed bomb-making materials, including propane tanks, explosive powders and a crude timing device, top police spokesman Paul Browne said.

“There were explosive elements, including powder, gasoline, propane and some kind of electrical wires attached to a clock,” Browne said early Sunday. “No motive has been identified.”

An officer noticed smoke coming from the SUV around 6:30 p.m. and cleared the streets. The area remained closed more than seven hours later.

Police are investigating a report that someone was seen running from the vehicle at some point and are reviewing security videotapes, Browne said. The Nissan Pathfinder”s license plates do not match the car”s registration, he said.

Police evacuated several residential and commercial buildings and cleared the streets of people. Police were deployed around the area with heavy weapons on empty streets in the heart of busy midtown Manhattan.

Some tourists reported hearing a small explosion hours after the car was first located.

Shelly Carlisle, of Portland, Ore., said police crowded into her Broadway theater after the curtain closed on “Next to Normal,” a show on the same block where the SUV was found.

“At the end of the show, the police came in. We were told we had to leave,” Carlisle said. “They said there was a bomb scare.”

The car was parked on 45th Street, and the block was closed between Seventh and Eighth avenues as a precaution, police said. Times Square lies about four traffic-choked miles north of where terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, then laid waste to it on Sept. 11, 2001.

FBI agents are on the scene with the New York Police Department, and the matter is being taken seriously, said Paul Bresson, head of the FBI”s public affairs office at bureau headquarters in Washington.

The Homeland Security Department is aware of the situation, but the NYPD has it under control and is investigating, said a Homeland Security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is in progress.

The block that was closed is one of the prime blocks for Broadway shows, with seven theaters housing such big shows as “Billy Elliot” and “Lend Me a Tenor.”

The curtain at “God of Carnage” and “Red” opened a half-hour later than usual, but the shows were not canceled, said spokesman Adrian Bryan-Brown.

Katy Neubauer, 46, and Becca Saunders, 39, of Milwaukee, were shopping for souvenirs two blocks south of the SUV when they saw panicked crowds.

“It was a mass of people running away from the scene,” Neubauer said.

Said Saunders: “There were too many people, too many cops. I”ve never seen anything like it.”

Mayor Michael Bloomberg left early from the White House correspondent”s dinner Saturday night. A news conference was planned in New York for early Sunday.

President Barack Obama, who attended the annual gala, praised the quick response by the New York Police Department, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said. He has also directed his homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to advise New York officials that the federal government is prepared to provide support.

Brennan and others will keep Obama up to date on the investigation, Shapiro said.

In December, a van without license plates parked in Times Square led police to block off part of the area for about two hours. A police robot examined the vehicle, and clothes, racks and scarves were found inside.

kentucky derby odds

2010 Kentucky Derby Odds Ice Box 30 to 1 Derby Picks: Icebox has continued to shock since arriving at Churchill Downs. Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito has Icebox primed for the 2010 Kentucky Derby. Icebox impressed onlookers by running over 4 furlongs in only :46.2 during his workout. Online racebook BODOG.com has posted horse racing betting odds to win the Kentucky Derby 2010.

Not only does trainer Nick Zito love Icebox, he’s just as impressed with his jockey for the 2010 Kentucky Derby. Zito remarked, “Jose is a young kid (Panamanian is 25) but he reminds me so much of Braulio Baeza and he’s got a little bit of Laffit Pincay Jr. in him. I’m really high on this kid. I think he’s got a great career ahead of him, to be one of the best jockeys around in the next couple of years.” Icebox has a very impressive team all the way around. Zito himself is attempting to win his third Kentucky Derby. The local Mayor even presented Nick Zito with keys to the city this week.

The biggest concern about Icebox success is that he hasn’t raced since the Florida Derby six weeks ago. Nick Zito doesn’t think this will be an issue and feels it will not affect Icebox’s performance. He said, “Ah, we’re over that. If he doesn’t win, we won’t blame the six weeks.” Icebox is posted at the 2nd gate, which may benefit him greatly and help him pass some of the tired speed horses towards the end of the race.

Online racebook BODOG.com has posted horse racing betting odds to win the Kentucky Derby 2010:

1st – Lookin At Lucky 9-1
2nd – Ice Box 30-1
3rd – Noble’s Promise 35-1
4th – Super Saver 35-1
5th – Line of David 90-1
6th – Stately Victor 90-1
7th – American Lion 90-1
8th – Dean’s Kitten 150-1
9th – Make Music For Me 50-1
10th – Paddy O’Prado 60-1
11th – Devil May Care 10-1
12th – Conveyance 35-1
13th – Jackson Bend 45-1
14th – Mission Impazible 60-1
15th – Discreetly Mine 90-1
16th – Awesome Act 30-1
17th – Dublin 35-1
18th – Backtalk 150-1
19th – Homeboykris 150-1
20th – Sidney’s Candy 14-1
source point-spreads.com

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