A Googler walks into a bar could be a great opening line for a joke, unless of course you are the Google employee who left a prototype for the Nexus 5 behind long enough for spy videos to be released online.

In late August a video of the new Google device surfaced on YouTube and it showcased the device and what is believed to be the Google KitKat operating system. We have now learned that the device was left alone for a short period of time in a bar.

According to 9to5Google the Google employee left the smartphone unattended for a short period of time while going to the bathroom. A bar employee grabbed the device and snagged a few quick videos.

The device was locked so only the externals were clearly shown but that was enough for Google to demand that the Nexus 5 video be pulled from YouTube and other video sites.

We can combine the phones look with a recent FCC filing to learn most of the hardware details about the device. The Google Nexus 5 features an LG-made design alongside a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU, 5.2-inch display and 4G LTE support.

At this time we pretty much know everything about the Google Nexus 5 other than the release date and pricing. Although we assume it will start at a standard $199 price point.

I thought the entire iPhone 4 bar fiasco taught employees to watch their prototype smartphones like a hawk. Apparently I was wrong.

Are you going to be in line waiting for the Google Nexus 5 or has the new iPhone 5S or iPhone 5C already made up your mind?

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The porn industry is back in business this week after a devastating HIV scare reportedly took down as many as four performers (and yes, last we heard, Sydney Leathers is just fine).

The porn industry slammed the breaks on their entire seedy operation after the industry trade group the Free Speech Coalition placed a moratorium on filming after three actors tested positive for HIV. According to the Los Angeles Times, the group now feels confident that the danger has passed.

Still, the FSC has ordered extra tests for actors 14 days after performing instead of the usual 28, even though they insist that the infected performers didn’t become HIV positive by working on porn sets.

The incident has become a whipping boy for longtime critics of the porn industry’s practices, which some say neglect safety and discourage safe sex. There have been attempts to require condom use on all porn sets, with measures seeing success in some Los Angeles counties.

Porn legend Ron Jeremy has been highly critical of required condom use, saying it “ruins the fantasy.”

But critics point to the recent HIV-related shut down as evidence that the porn industry is not as safe as it claims to be.

“Whether or not [Bay] was infected on set, she performed with HIV between her tests,” AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein said last week, referencing adult actress Cameron Bay, who was the first to reveal as HIV positive.

“If you think that Russian roulette is a great way to protect workers, then the present system is perfect,” he mocked.

Do you think that the porn industry should take the safety of its performers more seriously? Should condoms be required in porn?

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Janelle Monae has done a good job keeping her personal life private, but there is one subject the R&B singer has chosen to discuss: her sexuality. Well, almost.

Monae stopped by Sway in the Morning to talk about her new album, The Electric Lady. Tracy G changed the subject and told Monae, “I want to talk to you about boys.” She explained that men have said they felt like they wouldn’t have a chance with her.

“They feel like you’re into girls, I don’t know where that rumor comes from,” she said.

Monae smiled and said, “That’s great. That’s awesome. Women are amazing, and so are guys.”

The 27-year-old added:

“There’s nothing wrong with being bisexual, there’s nothing wrong with being lesbian or gay. I am an advocate. I have friends who are in same sex relationships and I feel love has no sexual orientation. Love has no religious belief. Love is the purest and most important thing we can possess for ourselves and for others.”

Sway then asked if Monae dates men or women, but she declined to comment.

“I keep my personal life very much to myself. I want everybody to focus on my music. I also don’t want to let anybody down,” she said. “I want women to still be attracted to me. Go get my album! I want men to still be attracted to me so I have to be political in this. I can’t really tell y’all!”

Monae added, “I will say that I’m such an advocate for love. I think you should be able to love freely whoever you want.”

Janelle Monae released her second album, The Electric Lady, on September 10. The album serves as the fourth and fifth installments in her seven-part Metropolis concept series. She released the first installment and her debut EP Metropolis: Suite 1(The Chase) in 2007. The story continued in her debut studio album, The ArchAndroid, in 2010.

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Grumpy Cat has landed an endorsement deal with Friskies.

The cat whose real name is Tardar Sauce is probably more famous at this point than Britney Spears, thanks to endless memes about a grumpy cat who only gives “no” for an answer. Yes, the Grumpy Cat is actually gaining more fame as she has just landed an endorsement deal with the cat food company Friskies.

Apparently Friskies is looking to add some humor to their commercials.

Only one year old, and this cat is already an award winner on the internet, having snagged a 2013 Webby Award for Meme of the Year. Perhaps the only celebrities to even compare with this are Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, who had starring roles in one of the most watched sitcoms of their time, Full House. Tardar Sauce even has a movie deal in the works, as previously reported by The Inquisitr, meaning that Garfield won’t be the only cat with his own film.

The Grumpy Cat endorsement deal has already landed a pair of web videos coming in March where the cat food brand asks, “Will Kitty Play With It?” It might even end up a series if it proves a success. Tardar Sauce has already become the new official Friskies spokes-cat.

Tardar Sauce, the Grumpy Cat, is also set to win another award coming mid-October, hosted by Friskies, where she will receive the Friskies lifetime achievement award. We imagine that if the internet sees her even the least bit excited, it might ruin the moment.

What kind of commercials might be in the future for Miss Friskies? Perhaps a few comparison videos will show her reaction to competing brands and then her going to town on a bowl of Friskies. It would certainly put a new spin on cat food commercials, starring the world’s least interested cat.

Tardar Sauce certainly has her work cut out for her with the new Grumpy Cat endorsement deal. It’s doubtful she’ll be impressed with even this much fame, though.

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Ariana Grande is being called “the new Mariah Carey,” and the “Baby I” singer couldn’t be more flattered.

“It’s a blessing to get the comparison. When you look at ‘The Way‘ it’s obvious, but I’m not worried about it,” the 20-year-old told Rolling Stone. “It’s a massive compliment; she’s the greatest singer in the world, like literally, the Guinness Book of World Records.”

The Victorious star added, “It’s an incredible compliment but it doesn’t worry me, because when you listen to my album as a whole, you get to know me.”

The man behind the sound, Harmony Samuels, told You Know I Got Soul that Grande played her songs for him, and that they “weren’t bad.” However, he felt her voice was bigger than her records. Samuels said she needed a “big song” to highlight her voice. “The Way,” which was originally meant for Jordin Sparks, was that song.

“And ‘The Way’ was perfect and I was like ‘Let me play you this.’ Sometimes we just pay attention to a person’s behavior or the way they speak. For some reason, it just works for Ariana because she’s not really from an urban scene at all, but her voice worked perfectly with that type of R&B,” Samuels said.

“I say that type of R&B because it’s not like urban R&B which is what you would hear Sevyn, Eric Bellinger or Ciara do. It’s more of a Pop R&B like Justin Timberlake. There’s still a difference in sound,” he added.

Samuels also said that “The Way” and “Right There” matched the throwback R&B sound he wanted for Grande.

“What we realized was that she had an amazing voice and yeah, ‘The Way’ and ‘Right There’ are throwback records. But the other songs we’ve done are not as throwback. In fact, one is quite new,” he said. “I just felt her voice made sense with that type of sound. Remember when I said I wanted to bring R&B back? She was the perfect element to bringing R&B back because of her voice. It just worked.”

As for what’s next for Ariana Grande, she is already working on her sophomore album, which is set to be released in February. Her debut album, Yours Truly, was just released on August 30.

“I’ve started working on it. I’ve come up with a few, two songs already that I want on it. It’s an album that I want to do a little bit different. I don’t want it to sound like an extension of Yours Truly,” she said. “I want it to sound like an evolution. I want to explore more sounds and experiment a little bit. I have a bunch of ideas I’m very excited about and a lot of stuff cooking.”

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EJ Manual won his first game as an NFL quarterback Sunday. He revealed Tuesday that before the game winning drive he gathered his offense and told them to be “legendary.”

It looks like EJ Manuel may just be getting a grip on this leadership thing. As the quarterback Manuel is the de-facto leader of the Buffalo Bills. Pulling his team together the way he did shows why the Bills selected Manuel with the 16th overall pick in the draft.

The Bills were down 23-17 to the Carolina Panthers with 80 yards to go. According to Manuel he fist-bumped his teammates before the drive and said, “hey, let’s go be legendary.” Buffalo drove down the field, and with two seconds left Manuel lobbed a pass in the endzone to a wide open Stevie Johnson.

Then, in one of the week’s most meaningful moments, EJ Manual broke down on the field and cried. He had arrived.

Manual gave full credit for the win to his “legendary” teammates and the Bills offensive coordinator. Speaking with Pro Football Talk Live, he said, “The whole situation played out great for us. We handled the situation very well and Coach [Nathaniel] Hackett gave us some great calls and allowed us to make some great plays and great decisions.”

The win is sure to go down in Buffalo history. Of course, Manuel should consider himself as grateful as he is lucky. At one point in the drive he threw a game ending interception. Well, the play would have ended the game if not for a pass interference penalty on Panthers linebacker Luke Keuchly.

Manuel didn’t let the play fluster him. He came back, and you know the rest:

After two weeks EJ Manual looks like a franchise quarterback. He’s poised in the pocket, makes smart decisions, and gets the ball out quickly. Bills fans should be very excited for the team’s future.

[image via Wikimedia Commons]

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Jen Bielema is apparently still hurt from her husband’s departure from the University of Wisconsin, and took to Twitter to voice her displeasure.

The wife of former Badgers head coach Bret Bielema took to Twitter on Saturday night after Wisconsin suffered a bizarre loss at the hands of Arizona State.

Her post was short and simple, and to Wisconsin fans added some salt to the wounds suffered during the hearbreaking loss.

“#karma” she wrote.

The official story on Bret Bielema’s departure from Wisconsin was that it was a mutual, amicable decision. But Jen Bielema has made it seem otherwise, getting into spats with Badgers fans on Twitter since Bret’s departure.

She apparently thought that Saturday’s loss was retribution for her husband’s treatment by the university. In the game, Wisconsin trailed by 2 with only 18 seconds left in the fourth quarter but was in position to kick the game-winning field goal. Quarterback Joel Stave took a snap at the 13-yard-line and knelt down to give his kicker a better angle, but his kneel-down was so hard to see that Arizona players jumped on the loose ball.

The referees took so long to pry the defensive players off the ball that by the time everything was cleared, the clock struck zeroes and Wisconsin had lost.

Bret Bielema, who led the Badgers on a six-year run of success that included three consecutive Big Ten Conference Titles, defended his wife, saying she was responding to a small group of “sick and ruthless” people who harass and hound her on social media.

“Some of the comments are so sick it’s hard to imagine someone can say it,” he said.

Jen Bielema isn’t all sour grapes when it comes to her husband’s coaching career. She’s been one of the biggest cheerleaders of the Arkansas Razorbacks, his new team, and even wore a pig snout earlier this year to support the team.

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January Jones stepped out with her son Xander on Monday, as apparently the 35-year-old mom isn’t going to let relationship rumors keep her from her motherly duties.

Jones has been linked to actor Liam Hemsworth and reportedly was one of the factors in his split from fiance Miley Cyrus. Though reps for Hemsworth have denied a link to the actress, sources say he has a growing infatuation with January and was allegedly getting “hot and heavy” with her in the months leading up to his split.

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth ended their own relationship rumors and made their split official, with fingers pointing at Mad Men star January Jones as a big factor. There were reports that the Australian actor was caught sending salacious text messages to her, and a photograph shows the two getting leaving an Oscars party together in February.

But others say there is nothing going on between the two.

“January and Liam have not seen each other at all since the photos that were taken in February and they have not kept in touch,” a source said.

Liam’s brother, actor Chris Hemsworth, hinted that his brother had a hard time dealing with the pressure of such a high-profile relationship.

“I’m lucky. I’ve spoken to a few people about it. I don’t know that you can ever… It’s sort of is what it is,” Chris said in an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “At times you’re a target and at times you’re not. If you have a film coming out or who you are dating and what have you… but um, we’ve been lucky, my wife and I.

“We kind of live a pretty simple boring kind of life. We’re not rolling out of clubs at 4 in the morning. Not to say that Liam is by the way… I mean he has once or twice.”

Liam Hemsworth does appear to be moving on after his split with Miley Cyrus, but it’s not with January Jones. On Monday afternoon eh was seen in Los Angeles with Mexican singer-actress Eiza Gonzalez. They were also spotted together in Las Vegas at the Encore hotel nightclub XS on Saturday night.

January Jones has also refrained from commenting on any link to Liam Hemsworth.

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You might get over your fear of monsters under your bed when you’re about 12, but when you grow up, you might have to worry about crocodiles under your bed. Seriously.

Guy Whittall slept soundly, woke up and planned his day sitting on the edge of his bed. He then moved into the kitchen to enjoy some breakfast before heading out of his lodge in beautiful Zimbabwe when he heard his maid let out a bloodcurdling shriek.

Horrified, he ran back to his room to see an 8-foot crocodile weighing at least 150 kg, laying under his bed. He had slept over it all night, dangled his feet over its face as he organized his day, and walked casually away from it for a spot of breakfast.

“The really disconcerting thing about the whole episode is the fact that I was sitting on the edge of the bed that morning, bare foot and just centimeters away from the croc,” Whittall told the Daily Star.

“Crocodiles are experts at hiding, that’s why they have survived on Earth for so long and why they are the ultimate killers in water. They know how to keep quiet and go unnoticed, it’s in their nature,” he continued.

Whittall explained that the croc came from the Turgwe River a few kilometers from the house.

“They often wander about the bush especially when it’s cold and raining. I think he liked it under the bed because it was warm.”

He enlisted a few co-workers to help him wrangle the crocodile. Whittall was very detailed in his account of the croc’s capture.

“Catching and securing a croc of any size on land though is a fairly straight forward affair and we are experienced in that. The only real danger is getting bitten because it can’t drown you. The most important thing is to get its snout roped and secured and then it’s just a matter of restraining it and covering its eyes, to calm it down. Bigger crocs require more manpower obviously though. When roped they thrash around frantically and are extremely powerful.”

Dude, enough. I’m already impressed that you didn’t fill both sides of your pants when you saw the thing.

“I just remember thinking goodness gracious, that’s one for the books,” he concluded.

Whittall and team were able to safely release his 8-foot crocodile intruder back into the wild. But now that it’s an “inside” croc, do they really think it won’t come back?

[Image: Shutterstock]

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Fast food restaurant owners, reportedly including McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts, are lobbying Congress for Obamacare changes apparently because when it comes to the Affordable Care Act, they’re not lovin’ it.

The industry wants the Obamacare-installed definition of full-time work to be increased from 30 hours to 40. A website called 40hoursisfulltime.com has been launched to support to effort. The Affordable Care Act requires large employers to provide health insurance coverage to every full-time worker, although the employer mandate has been postponed for one year.

Employers around the country — particularly but not limited to the restaurant industry — are retrenching when it comes to health benefits as a result of the controversial federal law. For example, citing Obamacare, UPS, the country’s fourth-largest employer, last month decided to cut health insurance benefits for thousands of spouses of its white collar employees. The Trader Joe’s grocery chain recently announced it was ending coverage for part-timers.

Many covered employers around the country have put their hiring plans on the back burner, or have decided to downgrade workers into part-time status, to avoid the Obamacare mandate entirely. Insurers have already warned of steep insurance premium increases flowing from the Obamacare implementation. Some covered businesses reached the conclusion that it might be more cost effective to drop employee health coverage completely even for full-time workers and pay the Obamacare employer penalty instead.

Members of the International Franchise Association and other business groups are asking Congress to redefine full-time status to 40 hours, and apparently there is bipartisan support by lawmakers on Capitol Hill for doing just that. One IFA official, according to The Hill, noted that if the law remains unchanged, “Employees won’t have the hours they need, and they won’t get employer-sponsored healthcare, either.” Several business groups have stated that they want to fix Obamacare rather than defund or repeal it.

As far as the 30-hour threshold is concerned, an executive with the National Restaurant Association similarly explained that “This is about taking part-time workers who were at 32 hours, 34 hours per week and limiting their work.”

In a related development, labor unions were some of the most vocal supporters of Obamacare. However, the AFL-CIO put out a statement at their annual meeting last week indicating that Obamacare would be “highly disruptive” to union-provided health benefits. To the dismay of Big Labor, whose senior officials met with the Obama administration on Friday, the White House announced that same day that union health insurance plans “would not be eligible for tax subsidies under Obamacare next year.”

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A biblical-era town was discovered next to the Sea of Galilee in Israel’s Ginosar valley. The town dates back 2,000 years and could be Dalmanutha (also spelled Dalmanoutha).

Dalmanutha is described in the Bible’s Gospel of Mark as the town Jesus sailed to after he fed 4,000 people with a few fish and loaves of bread.

NBC News reports that archaeologists already discovered a boat dating to biblical times in the same area. The discovery, made on the shoreline near the town, happened in 1986.

The archaeologists, led by Ken Dark from the University of Reading in the UK, determined that the boat was found on the shoreline of the biblical-era town.

Dark isn’t positive that the newly-found town is Dalmanutha. However, there is evidence at the site to suggest it is. Researchers found based on its remains that the town was thriving in the first century A.D., and the name Dalmanutha hasn’t been linked definitively to any other known archaeological sites.

Yahoo! News notes that pottery and other architectural remains suggest the Biblical-era town was home to Jews and those following a polytheistic religion. They also found that the southern side of the ancient town is only 500 feet away from the ancient town of Magdala.

Artifacts taken from the fields between the modern-day town of Migdal and the sea coast suggest the possible town of Dalmanutha survived for several hundred years. While several impressive finds happened in the fields between Migdal and the sea, the most impressive pieces of the past came from the modern-day city.

Archaeologists found several examples of ancient architectural remains. Many of the remains were turned into seats or garden ornaments by Midgal’s residents. Others were left lying on the ground. From the amount of remains found, archaeologists believe the ancient town was sizable and thriving while Jesus was alive.

Dark explained that the biblical-era town could be Dalmanutha, or it could be among other place-names already identified by other researchers.

[Image by horstege via Wikimedia Commons]

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Stevie Nicks sent a heartfelt note to the cast of Glee after star Cory Monteith’s death in July.

The show did a Fleetwood Mac episode in 2011, and Nicks visited the Los Angeles set during filming, growing close to the cast.

Nicks told The Telegraph, “I said, ‘Forgive me if I’m stepping into your personal space. I lost my godson to an overdose last year — he died at a fraternity party — so I understand how shocking that it.’”

She added, “When what happened to Cory happened, I just was sick for days. Honestly, just sick. It’s just so prevalent. It’s everywhere. It’s worse than when we were young.”

The 65-year-old said that she wished someone had warned Fleetwood Mac about the dangers of addiction in the 1970s and ’80s. The group was warned about heroin, but not cocaine.

“But I wish people had told us the same thing about cocaine. But in our day everybody was going, ‘It’s not addictive, it’s just recreational fun, blah blah blah,’” she said. Nicks became addicted to cocaine for a decade. In 1986, she was prescribed clonazepam to wean her off the drug and became addicted to the sedative for eight years. She has since bounced back from her addiction.

“I think that I’m stronger than a lot of people,” she said. “And I knew then, as I know now, that I still have so much to do.”

The Emmy Awards will honor Cory Monteith in its “In Memoriam” telecast and a second tribute Sunday night. The second spot will also focus on James Gandolfini, Gary David Goldberg, Jean Stapleton, and Jonathan Winters. Jane Lynch will share memories of her Glee co-star.

Emmy telecast executive producer Ken Ehrlich said that the second spot was a way to give something more personal than the “In Memoriam” mentions.

“These five individuals brought us such great entertainment and joy, so having their close friends share personal remembrances is something that will be very meaningful for television audiences across the country and across the generations,” he said.

Glee will air a Cory Monteith tribute episode on October 10.

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Jessa Duggar is 20-years-old and she has a “sorta” boyfriend and her parents let him “side-hug” her.

Ben Seewald, 18, is a church pal to Jessa and he hails from Hot Springs, Arkansas. He is the closest thing that Jessa, daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, has ever had to a boyfriend.

According to PEOPLE Jessa and Ben met at church. In an interview ahead of the season premiere of 19 Kids and Counting the Duggar say the young pair asked their parents for permission to communicate via text. Jim Bob and Michelle were “kept int he conversation as the couple texted each other.”

So what do two kids in love talk about? God and that’s pretty much it.

Michelle Duggar tells PEOPLE:

“It has been fun to watch them and both of our phones are going off, back and forth, ping, ping, ping. Courtship is not just about having fun. You are really considering if this person could be your life partner – you pray about it and see what happens.”

Jim Bob says his 20-year-old daughter has talked to guys in the past but this is the first person he has approved of.

Michelle says of the couples physical relationship:

“Dad allowed them to do a side hug when they were officially courting. Jessa and Ben have said that was the only contact they would have: When they initially greet each other… they have a quick 30 second or less side hug and a goodbye side hug and they agreed that would be the only contact they should have. … They want to wait on the physical relationship until later. If there is an engagement that comes about, they will work together on their goals and standards for that.”

Did we mention that Jenna Duggar is 20-years-old? I’m all for old-fashioned family values but at some point an adult needs to grow up and make their own choices independently of their parents.

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Former NBA star Dennis Rodman’s well-publicized friendship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has resulted in an satirical commercial for Wonderful Pistachios.

Rodman, appearing in the ad with a Kim Jong-un lookalike actor and sporting green hair, says “the secret to world peace is pistachios.” The dictator doppelganger than pushes a red button and Rodman explodes. The voiceover announcer than intones, “Dennis Rodman does it because he’s nuts… Wonderful Pistachios, get crackin’.”

Wonderful Pistachios has something of a history of filming quirky spots for its Get Crackin’ campaign (now in its fifth year), but this is apparently the first time anyone has been nuked.

The NBA Hall of Famer recently returned from his second visit to North Korea to visit with his friend Kim and the leader’s family. Reporters previously asked him if he was going to the isolated communist nation to secure the release of American missionary Kenneth Bae, who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. Rodman denied the claim.

As we reported previously, Rodman also revealed what he claimed was the name of the dictator’s baby daughter and said he spoke with his wife during the visit and even held the baby. Of Kim, Rodman added, “He’s a good dad and has a beautiful family.”

Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol-ju reportedly welcomed the baby girl in late 2012 but the secretive regime has not made any formal announcement of the birth.

Rodman became an international diplomat of sorts when he visited with Kim Jong-un in February and came back convinced that the country’s dictator is a great guy and an awesome guy who loves basketball. He also brushed aside the regime’s well-documented human rights violations by claiming that both North Korea and the US are running “death camps.” Rodman — who has criticized President Obama for failing to open a dialogue with Kim — has also suggested in effect that his bromance with the North Korean leader qualified him for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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There is a clown terrorizing a town in Britain…

OK, well maybe “terrorizing” is too strong of a strong word. There is a clown “standing” on street corners in Britain is probably a better description.

A bunch of Coulrophobes (people who are afraid of clowns) have been causing a panic in Northampton, UK, this week.

The Inquisitr reported earlier that a person in clown makeup has been spotted around the British town this week. Sometimes he’s holding balloons. Sometimes he’s just standing there. Sometimes he’s carrying around a little clown teddy bear.

This, of course, is enough to terrorize the town coulrophobes.

One clown who was accused of terrorizing the town, told the Huffington Post: “Too much hate not enough love… No, I don’t have a knife on me!, That’s just stupid rumors spread by stupid people.”

The clown has been causing such a panic in Northampton that a man who calls himself “The Clown Catcher” has stepped forward to do battle with the Northampton clown.

Boris The Clown Catcher writes on Facebook: “My name is Boris. I am the official clown catcher. I am not here to scare anyone. I am not here to hurt anyone. I come in peace!”

Will Boris be able to stop the clown from terrorizing the British town? Tune in next week to “Things That Are Completely Ridiculous.”

Do you think Northampton clown is really terrorizing the town? Or are people just overreacting to some harmless mischief?

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Farts might be the best way to find alien life on other planets according to a new theory by a group of scientists.

The team tells the European Planetary Science Congress that “gas byproducts” are likely the first clues to existence around distance stars.

The group wants to sniff out methane gases and nitrous oxide to find life on other planets. If the group can find a sufficient quantity of chemicals in planetary atmospheres they believe alien life may exist on those planets.

Lee Grenfell of the DLR In­sti­tute of Plan­e­tary Re­search in Ber­lin proclaims:

“For the first time we are reaching a point where serious scientific debate can be applied to address the age-old question: are we alone?” Lee Grenfell of the DLR In­sti­tute of Plan­e­tary Re­search in Ber­lin said.

Chemicals in an atmosphere distort light passing through it in predictable patterns. The group argues that these “fingerprints” can then be extracted from the spectrum of light reflected by the planet towards Earth.

Right now our current generation of telescopes is not capable of finding those chemicals and sending back the distinct “biomarkers” of a planet’s atmosphere. However, new next-generation telescopes are already being developed and they will likely provide the new technology needed to make the groups fart-filled dreams a reality.

According to the report the European Extremely Large Telescope is likely to be the first telescope that can aid in planetary flatulence research.

Researchers will focus on red-dwarf stars which are smaller and fainter than our Sun. The group believes biomarkers will be easier to detect from planets that orbit stars.

Do you think fart detection is the best way to discover alien life?

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Syria received chemicals from Germany that could have been used to make chemical weapons, according to an a German government document released on Wednesday.

According to the document, the European country exported 111 tonnes of chemicals to Syria from 2002 until 2006. Those chemicals could be used to produce sarin gas.

However, Yahoo! News reports that the government rejected the notion that Germany could have contributed to a horrific sarin gas attack in Syria on August 21. The attack killed hundreds of people.

The West blames the attack on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, though Assad denies the claims. Germany’s economy ministry explained in a letter on Wednesday that the chemicals it sold to Syria were worth $232,300 and were sold for civilian use.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel added to ARD television, “We are of course looking into all allegation on this but from what we can see so far the export license was for civilian use.”

However, the chemicals may not have been used how they were intended. The Huffington Post notes that British media also reported last week that the country approved the export of chemicals to Syria that could be used for making sarin.

The news from both countries comes as the United Nations released a report confirming sarin gas was used on civilians in a suburb of Damascus in August. The United States has said that more than 1,400 people died in the attack, which happened in a rebel-held area of Damascus.

Germany’s economy ministry added of the chemical sale, “Permits were granted after careful consideration of all possible risks, including the goods’ misuse or transfer into chemical weapons use. In all cases their planned civil use was considered to be plausible.”

It is unclear at this point what happened to the chemicals Syria received from Germany. In the meantime, Russia, Syria, and the United States have laid the framework for a plan to remove all chemical weapons from Syria.

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Gwyneth Paltrow has dated a long list of hot A list stars, from the likes of Ben Affleck, Brad Pitt, and of course her husband and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. Throughout her time in the industry Paltrow has been in and out of very public relationships. This time around Paltrow has opened up a bit about her sex life; sort of.

According to late night host Chelsea Handler, Paltrow is a sex addict. While Handler was using her signature dry humor to dive into juicy details about Paltrow’s sex life, that didn’t stop the actress from joking around with the host.

The conversation on Paltrow’s sex addict ways started as Handler probed Gwyneth for information. “Let’s talk about sex addiction. I know that you are addicted to sex. Do you want to elaborate on that?”

Paltrow didn’t waste the opportunity and actually fired back at the host, going toe to toe with her. “Well, basically I was a really normal person, and then I started hanging out with you all the time.”

Gwyneth Paltrow is currently promoting her new film Thanks For Sharing. The film, which stars her opposite actor Mark Ruffalo, deals with sex addiction. To promote this very theme, Handler whipped out pictures of Gwyneth Paltrow from the film. The photos left very little to the imagination, with Paltrow posing in some scantily clad bra and panties.

Last year Gwyneth Paltrow got a bit sexy with Amanda de Cadenet for her TV series The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet. The series focuses on issues that plague women. Things turned steamy when De Cadenet asked about Paltrow’s favorite sex position. At first coy, Paltrow then demurely answered, “I’m down with all of them.”

When Paltrow isn’t talking about sex, you can see her on the big screen in the upcoming Thanks For Sharing, and she will star opposite Johnny Depp in the crime drama Mortdecai.

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Baltimore, MD — The owner of the “Second Obama Express” grocery store is accused of allegedly pocketing about $2 million in fake food stamp transactions over a three-year period.

In the food stamp fraud investigation, eight other Baltimore convenience store owners or operators have also been charged in a federal indictment that alleges they stole a total of about $7 million without selling food to the beneficiaries.

Federal agents raided the stores in question on Tuesday morning, and the grand jury indictments were handed down that afternoon.

The Baltimore Sun reports that “FBI agents observed the Obama store and watched dozens of customers leave after conducting [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] transactions with either no items or a small item such as a soda, even as records showed that about half the transactions had been for more than $40.” To gather evidence of food stamp fraud, agents later sent informants wearing wires into the stores to “sell stamps.”

The owners of the stores “debited the funds from the cards in multiple transactions over a period of hours or days,” in an attempt to avoid getting caught by authorities.

According to the US Attorney’s Office in Baltimore, “The indictments allege the retailers received almost $7 million in federal payments for transactions in which they did not provide any food, a fraud scheme commonly known as ‘food stamp trafficking.’ Stores allegedly split the proceeds with food stamp recipients.”

Added US Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein about the food stamp fraud charges against the store owners, “Taxpayers fund the food stamp program to put food on the tables of needy recipients, not to put money in the pockets of greedy criminals. Food producers and distributors benefit when food stamp funds are used to buy food, and honest storeowners work hard to earn a profit by actually selling food. People who play by the rules deserve to know that criminals who defraud them will be held accountable.”

Separately, the US Department of Agriculture reports that as of June, about 23 million American households are enrolled in the food stamp (i.e., SNAP) program, representing about 48 million individuals.

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Do you know what we want after a mexican restaurant gives us bloody diarrhea? We want that same restaurant to offer us free burritos!

Okay maybe that isn’t what we want but that is exactly what Federico’s Mexican Food offered to customers in Maricopa County, Arizona.

74 customers were hit with a bad case of E. coli after the restaurant served them bad food.

Federico’s had just opened but apparently the sparkling decor and seemingly clean kitchen inside the restaurant were not as sanitized as customers would have liked.

One customer said the mexican restaurants food led to a “bloody diarrhea outbreak.”

The restaurant voluntarily closed after news of the food poisoning was reported.

Customers who wanted to chance another possible bloody diarrhea outbreak were given free burritos on Mexican Independence Day on September 16.

After closing the mexican restaurant the owners brought in the “Queen of Clean,” a TV cleaning personality that has been previously featured on Oprah.

The Queen of Clean showed up for her own free burrito, thereby acting as an ambassador for the restaurant. She even recorded a video that showcased how she cleaned up the restaurant.

I’m not personally sure that I could stomach eating from a restaurant that made me violently ill and could have killed me. The image of bloody diarrhea just doesn’t sit well with fried beans and salsa.

A food-safety law firm has already filed a lawsuit against the company on behalf of sick E. coli suffering customers. One of the plaintiffs says the mexican restaurant gave them “grossly bloody bouts of diarrhea.”

Would you go back fro another meal at a restaurant that nearly killed you?

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