A sex tape of Teen Mom Farrah Abraham is reportedly being shopped around to various adult entertainment companies.

The tape is reportedly 30 minutes long and features Abraham and a male partner. According to TMZ, the amateur video was shot recently and shows “full on sex … in various positions.”

It’s unclear if any adult companies have expressed interest in buying the tape.

Farrah told TMZ that she didn’t know anything about the sex tape. Well, she did at first. And the she said that if she had a personal sex tape that it was her own personal business.

Farrah said: “There’s no truth to that … If there shopping it around my lawyers will be dealing with that … I think it’s made up. People make stuff up all the time.”

The Huffington Post speculates Farrah could be trying to pull a Kim Kardashian with her new sex tape.

A source told Hollywood Life that Farrah has an unhealthy obsession with the reality star and even had surgery to look a little more like Kim Kardashian.

The source said: “Farrah thinks that Kim is gorgeous and she feels like she and Kim look a lot alike, especially now that Farrah’s had her nose and chin done. But as far as Farrah is concerned, Kim is still prettier. Farrah’s decided she needs to get cheek implants because she doesn’t have enough definition on her face. And she wants to be a D cup just like Kim.”

Do you think Farrah Abraham is trying to pull a Kim Kardashian? Farrah, who was recently arrested for a DUI, denied that she was using a sex tape to advance her career saying that she “works hard on her own and doesn’t need a sex tape.”

Here’s a video from TMZ of Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham talking about her potential sex tape.

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If you were shocked to learn that Halle Berry is expecting her second child at 46 years old, you’re in good company. The Oscar-winning actress called the pregnancy the “biggest surprise” of her life.

“I feel fantastic. This has been the biggest surprise of my life to tell you the truth,” Berry told CNN’s Alina Cho. “I thought I was kind of past the point where this could be a reality for me. So it’s been a big surprise and the most wonderful.”

Contrary to initial reports, Berry said she doesn’t know the baby’s sex yet.

This is Berry’s first child with fiancé Olivier Martinez, whom she has been engaged to since March 2012. She also has a 5-year-old daughter, Nahla, with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry.

Berry also talked about her partnership with clothing designer Michael Kors and his work with the United Nations World Food Programme to fight hunger, and how being a mother inspired her to help hungry children. The World Food Programme brings food to more than 90 million people in over 75 countries.

“Especially now, being a pregnant woman and already having a child … it’s so important what happens to the baby while they’re in utero,” Berry said. “And the first 1,000 days is fundamental.”

Berry has previously worked with the Jenesse Center, which is the largest domestic violence intervention program in South Los Angeles. She said the segue from the center to the World Food Programme “has been a natural segue for me, because I care so much about women and children.”

“I’m a mom, and that’s first and foremost, but it gives me another reason to exist, another purpose,” she added. “And if I know that I’m helping one person every day in some way, that really makes me feel good, and that’s a legacy that I can leave to my children.”

Were you surprised to learn that Halle Berry is expecting a second child at 46?

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Leeland Eisenberg, a man who took hostages at a Hillary Clinton campaign office in 2007, was arrested in New Hampshire less than a day after escaping from authorities.

Eisenberg, 52, was arrested at 8:30 am Monday. Authorities found him in the lobby of a community center in Manchester, New Hampshire. They arrested him on an escape charge without incident, a felony charge punishable by up to 7 years in prison.

Eisenberg was supposed to be arraigned in court later Monday. He was found missing from a Manchester halfway house where he was being held Sunday afternoon. Eisenberg did not inform anyone he was leaving, as he was required to do. CNN reports that this was at least the second time that Eisenberg has slipped out from under the authorities.

Authorities did not consider Eisenberg to be armed or dangerous, despite his actions six years ago. He does, however, have a history of mental illness and substance abuse.

“I wanted to sacrifice myself for mental illness and bring about the discussion about mental illness,” Eisenberg told CNN following the hostage situation in 2007.

Leeland Eisenberg entered a Hillary Clinton for president campaign office in in Rochester, New Hampsire. He had road flares strapped to his chest and claimed to have a bomb. Five hours passed before the hostages were freed. Hillary Clinton was running for president in Washington at the time, safe from harm. Eisenberg was convicted of kidnapping, criminal threatening, and false reports of explosives.

Eisenberg’s escape was not an isolated occurrence. He last sought to escape back in February of 2010. He cut his electronic monitoring bracelet and fled, but was found in his apartment in Dover the next day.

Escaping from a halfway house, also, apparently isn’t all that difficult.

“We get about six or seven minimum security walkaways a year from our halfway houses,” Department of Corrections spokesman Jeff Lyons told the Associated Press.

Eisenberg is accustomed to breaking the law, even though hostage-taking has never been his forte. Eisenberg was sentenced for rape in 1985 but escaped the following year and committed another rape. He was sentenced for 11 to 20 years and held until 2005.

Leeland Eisenberg would have been eligible for parole in August, since he ultimately did not harm anyone in 2007 when he walked into Hillary Clinton’s Rochester campaign office, took hostages, and declared himself a threat.

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A teen was crushed to death in a garbage truck in Luxembourg as helpless sanitation workers looked on.

The French teenager was hidden inside a garbage container that was emptied into a garbage truck on Saturday, police said. The 17-year-old boy wasn’t noticed initially by workers, but started to cry out as the container was dumped into the truck.

But by then there was nothing they could do. The truck was already in the midst of its crushing mechanism, and despite the boys cries there was nothing the workers could do.

“He cried out, but it was already too late,” a spokeswoman for Luxembourg police said.

The young boy’s death is similar to an incident that took place in Long Island last month. Police said 18-year-old Louis Camarillo was working at a recycling plant putting paper into a truck when the compactor somehow came down on his chest and crushed him. The trash worker was rushed to Long Island College Hospital where he died.

A young trash worker was crushed to death when the truck he was loading it with recycling material had its hydraulic compactor activated, trapping him inside.

Witnesses say that Camarillo got caught in the truck’s hydraulics system and was unable to escape.

Police and OSHA workers investigated the scene, but said they believed it was just an accident and no charges were filed.

Another garbage truck incident last summer had a happier ending. A drunk man who passed out inside a dumpster was collected into a garbage truck and crushed, but his screams alerted the driver in time to stop it from crushing him to death.

The teen crushed to death in the garbage truck over the weekend died on the scene. Police said they are conducting an investigation into the incident.

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A super honest Walmart worker engaged in a stunning act of awesomeness when he returned an envelope with $20,000 cash inside it found in a cart in a Washington store, which forces us to ask … who brings twenty large into Walmart, and why?

The Walmart worker who returned the $20,000 he found is Bismark Mensah, 32. Mensah moved to the U.S. last year from Ghana, and now works at the Walmart in Federal Way, Washington.

Leona Wisdom and Gary Elton, the owners of the misplaced $20,000, were driving away when the honest Walmart worker flagged them down. (And the why: the pair had just taken out a bit of money to put down on a short-sale home.)

Mensah, who says his “conscience wouldn’t allow” keeping the dough, explains what happened after he discovered the cash-filled envelope in a Walmart cart:

“I run after them. I think somebody heard me and signaled for them to stop … [Wisdom] was like, ‘Wow!’ Tears are coming out. She took some money and tried to reward me. I said, ‘No, no. I’m all right.’ ”

Not only did the honest Walmart worker decline a reward for his good deed, the recent immigrant also turned down a date with Wisdom’s daughter — the mom explains it’s “hard to find honest people.”

The Walmart worker did receive an “Integrity in Action Award” but with pay “every couple of weeks” of around “$620 to $640,” $20,000 is a lot of cash. Still, Mensah said of keeping the money:

“I couldn’t even drive home if I did that.”

The honest Walmart worker said of his humble American dream beginnings:

“You have to start someplace … In the parking lot, people chat, tell you their problems, you see that a person is not happy. I tell them, ‘God is in control. Everything is OK.’ ”

Mensah has since been promoted to a more permanent position with benefits at Walmart.

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Halo 4 might soon be adding microtransactions. 343 Industries, the group behind the development of the game feels that there might be room to add micro-payment options to the game in the near future.

Already one of the most popular games of the last few years, this would be just the latest title that has taken on a feature that hadn’t been seen inside console video games until very recently.

Since the first few Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 games started adding microtransactions, it seems like there has been a snowball affect and almost every game that gets produced has to come with the option.

Halo 4 seems to prove that even if you’ve been on the market for a while, you are going to get these kinds of microtransactions. This addition is despite the fact that not everyone is in love with these kinds of features.

343 Industries Executive producer Dan Ayoub recently talked to Digital Spy about what his company is thinking when it comes to microtransactions.

It seems clear that the company isn’t going to go whole hog into the situation without taking a good long look. Ayoub said that he is looking at Gears of War‘s model as one way to go.

That game offers small cosmetic upgrades that don’t affect the actual gameplay all that much. These cosmetic changes are offered up for a small fee.

“I think Halo certainly has the potential for those kinds of things,” Ayoub told the website. He also added that doesn’t mean that the game is going to get those kinds of microtransactions for certain.

Halo 4 just got its latest Castle map pack and that is basically the last bit of add-ons that come in the year pass. There could be more content on the way, but it hasn’t been decided just yet.

Ayoub said that whether or not to bring microtransactions to the title would hinge greatly on fan feedback.

What do you think of Halo 4 getting microtransactions?

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Philadelphia, PA – Philadelphia police have arrested a 24-year-old suspect after she allegedly posed as a nurse and inappropriately touched a child at Saint Christopher’s Hospital for Children.

Ashley Delvalle has been charged with simple assault, indecent assault, and other related offenses. Authorities were told that while Delvalle was at Saint Christopher’s with her own child, she went into several hospital rooms, impersonating a nurse, and told parents she needed to perform physical examinations on the young patients.

Currently, Delvalle is not a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or a Registered Nurse (RN), which both require having a license from the Pennsylvania Board in order to perform the aforementioned physicals in the state’s hospitals.

She proceeded to physically touch one child in an inappropriate manner and weighed another.

The hospital administrators were alerted by the mother of the violated patient. Consequently the Philadelphia Police Department and Philadelphia Department of Human Services were contacted and an investigation was launched into the incident.

According to CBS Philly, an official statement was issued on behalf of Saint Christopher’s Hospital for Children Thursday assuring, “The safety of our patients at St. Christopher’s is our top priority and we are firmly committed to providing a secure environment for both patients and staff.”

Simple assault, under the Pennsylvania state penal code statute 2701, is levied on those who attempt to intentionally or knowingly cause bodily injury to another, negligently cause harm to another with a deadly weapon, physically menace with fear or imminent bodily injury, or attempt to conceal a hypodermic needle with the intent to use on law enforcement during the course of an arrest.

Simple assault is a graded offense – considered a second-degree misdemeanor unless a fight ensues or the assault is committed against a child under the age of 12 by an offender over the age of 21, which is then a misdemeanor of the first-degree.

If convicted on a first-degree misdemeanor charge, the court can impose a maximum sentence of five years I jail and a fine of $10,000. Second-degree would garner a two year sentence and a fine of $5,000.

[Image via Shutterstock]

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Justin Bieber was given just four weeks by Munich customs officials to claim the capuchin monkey that was quarantined last month when the teen flew from LA to Munich for a concert without proper paperwork for his pet.

The Canadian teen’s management have since contacted German authorities and  the animal shelter looking after Mally the monkey, so named after the producer who gave the baby primate to the pop star for his 19th birthday last month.

Bieber, who plays Strasbourg, France tonight, is still locked into a grueling tour and has four months to go until the last date.

Online schedules indicate the final concert is August 10 in Atlanta.

Karl Heinz Joachim, 64, director of the animal shelter where Mally is currently being quarantined and cared for, told Mail Online:

“Justin Bieber has won an extension because the four week limit on confiscated animals only applies if the owner does not get in touch.”

“His management team had been in touch and indicated that they want the monkey back which means they now have as much time as they need to get the paperwork ready.”

He added:

“We’ll appeal to the star to do the decent thing and let the monkey be free for adoption.There are a great many suitable places that have offered to take Mally and integrate him with their own capuchin monkeys where he would be much more happy with his own kind. A baby monkey is not something suitable to be on a world tour even if he is travelling by private jet.”

Shelter officials previously confirmed that Mally, who is now 15-weeks-old, was taken away from his mother at just nine weeks. Animal welfare experts agree this is far too young, and, that in addition to the quarantining, this “traumatized” the monkey in his first few days at the shelter.

The shelter said the monkey initially refused to eat unless it was given a cuddly  toy to play with and has been repeatedly calling out for other members of his family group although he is now eating normally.

Backing up Joachim’s view that the monkey should not be returned to Bieber, a  number of animal welfare groups also spoke out last week. Debbie Leahy, of the Humane Society of the United States, said:

“When somebody like Justin Bieber is irresponsible and goes out and gets a pet monkey he sets a very bad example …  He seems to be a little bit out of control.”

Leahy also said no primate species should ever be kept as a pet and that it was critical that they stayed with their own kind for their psychological well-being especially as they got older and become more aggressive.

More anger came from the German Animal Protection Society, who said Bieber shouldn’t be allowed to take his monkey back for the sake of the pet’s welfare.

The group’s president, Thomas Schroeder, said in a statement that the teen idol should publicly apologize on Twitter for bringing Mally into Germany without the proper paperwork.

Despite the shelter and animal welfare groups’ fury, Bieber and his management team will be given the time they need to organize the collection of the monkey. However, for shelter boss Joachim, this is still not good enough.

The director believes that if it takes months to sort out the paperwork it will be Mally who suffers mentally as it will spend all its time in a cage. As a last resort, he said that if Bieber refused to allow the monkey to be adopted by appropriate organizations, the Bavarian environment ministry would have the final word.

As yet, the Ministry has so made no comment on the Bieber or his monkey troubles.

The embattled singer has rarely been out of recent headlines in the past month after a series of dramatic incidents on his Believe world tour and recent battery allegations.

[Image via Featureflash / Shutterstock.com ]

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A boa constrictor strangling Steve Backshall is the theme of the perhaps ill-advised publicity stunt video posted yesterday by BBC Earth. People, don’t try this one at home. As Backshall cheerfully warns us, the sinister snake slowly and sneakily begins to squeeze him around the neck, cutting off the supply of blood to the brain. Of course, you can’t really blame the snake too much, since Backshall placed it there himself in front of the rolling cameras.

One of the You Tube subscribers who watched the video, Kenneth Newbery, expressed what a lot of us were probably thinking: “I kinda feel sorry for the snake. That guy’s like ‘come on, snake. choke me’ but then he’s like nah get off now.”

You’ll notice that we never actually see the boa constrictor being successfully removed from around Backstall’s neck. Uh oh.

But it’s all part of the promotion for the BBC series Deadly 60, in which Backshall tracks down what he considers to be 60 of the world’s deadliest species of animals. If this video clip is any indication, he then dares the animals to come and get him.

Despite the alleged dangers, to many people large snakes like boa constrictors are highly desired pets that can rank as some of the most attractive of the popular reptiles. With a projected full-size length of ten feet and a lifespan that could reach over 20 years, they’re not for everybody. Be certain that you know what you’re getting into before you purchase a boa or any of its relatives like the pythons.

Petfinder said that there have been less than 10 deaths from pythons and constricting snakes reported in a decade, but they still strongly advise against taking a chance. The snake should never be worn around the neck. Peter Taylor, a reptile expert at the St. Louis Zoo, told Petfinder, “the specimens who have killed adult men have not been really large. But once a snake gets around the upper body, a person can become unconscious in minutes, if their carotid artery gets cut off.”

Well, when you see the video, you will see that the boa constrictor draped around Steve Backshall’s neck was really large. Not cool, Steve.

[boa constrictor photo courtesy Pavel Ševela / Wikimedia Commons

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Adele is reportedly back in the studio working on the follow-up to her monstrous hit, 21.

The Sun has stated that the singer is currently hard at work on new songs and that she is collaborating with producers James Ford and Kid Harpoon. This will be the first occasion that she has recorded new music since October.

Ford and Harpoon have worked alongside some of the most recognised artists in British music, helping to orchestrate the sounds of Arctic Monkey’s Humbug, and Florence and the Machine’s, Lungs, and, Ceremonials.

A source told the British tabloid, “Adele wants to move with the times and is trying to make her new record sound as edgy as possible. The team she’s assembled is first rate and she’s confident they can help match the success of her first two albums. It’s no easy taks as the world will be desperate to hear it.”

Recently the London born songstress has been linked with a collaboration with Take That star Robbie Williams. Previously Adele had noted her admiration for Williams, stating in 2009, “I’m not into doing collaborations. I love to sing with people live rather than on record. If I could do one with anyone – Robbie? Any day.”

It had been thought that Adele wouldn’t release any new music for quite some time. Last month she stated that she would only make a new record when she had “something to sing about.”

She was asked about eager fans anticipation over her new music to which she responded, “Tell me about it, so am I. They’ll come when they’re ready, and when I’ve got something to sing about.”

Meanwhile, her record label, XL Recordings, also stated last year that they didn’t expect her to release another album “for some years.”

Are you excited to hear about Adele’s return to the studio? What is your favorite song of hers?

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Much has been said about Margaret Thatcher today as news broke that one of recent history’s most iconic and controversial political figures had died, and Thatcher was mostly remembered for her effects on modern politics in the UK — but did you know that Thatcher sort of invented soft serve ice cream?

Margaret Thatcher’s contribution to soft serve ice cream and science is a bit of buried lore, resurrected upon her death. And while the effects of conservative politics on the direction of the modern era are continually debated, what is not nearly as controversial is the supreme brilliance of a vanilla ice cream cone — for which we may have Margaret Thatcher to thank.

Thatcher was not always a politician, and in her earlier career, the future PM was a chemist at Oxford. In the 50s, Thatcher was tasked with a challenge that led to a revolution in frozen dairy desserts … and we all know how that turned out.

Thatcher graduated Oxford in 1947, and soon began work on revolutionizing soft serve. (Brits call it “soft scoop,” which is typical of their linguistic weirdness considering there is no scoop involved, that is the whole freaking point here.)

According to The Atlantic, Thatcher soon managed to work up a solution to enable the development of soft serve, or soft scoop:

“Thatcher’s task in that [chemist] role? To figure out a way to whip extra air into ice cream using emulsifiers — so that the ice cream could be manufactured with fewer ingredients, thereby reducing production costs. (And so that, additionally, the dairy-y result could flow from a machine rather than being scooped by hand.) She being Margaret Thatcher, she found that way. And her work resulted, ultimately, in the swirly stuff we know today as soft serve.”

Reaction to Thatcher’s legacy in soft serve has been remarkably more across the board positive than for her political career:

It has come to my attention that Margaret Thatcher helped invent soft-serve ice cream. All is forgiven, Iron Dairy Queen.

— Chris Jones (@MySecondEmpire) April 8, 2013

Does the invention of soft serve soften your view of the recently deceased Margaret Thatcher?

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A topless protest by Femen in Russia was supposed to call attention to sex trafficking and corrupt religious institutions, but it only made Russian president Vladamir Putin giggle.

The Russian president was standing beside German Chancellor Angela Merkel when he was confronted by a topless protestor. The woman called Putin a dictator and criticized him for jailing the band Pussy Riot for their religious protest.

But despite the seriousness of the woman’s message, Putin just giggled, stared at the woman’s chest, and mumbled to himself something about “boobies.”

After the incident, Putin told reporters: “As for the protest, I liked it.”

Putin went on and made a few jokes about the protestors, saying that he was too distracted by their breasts to hear their message.

Putin said: “To be honest, I didn’t really hear what they were shouting because the security [guards] were very tough. These huge guys fell on the lasses. That seemed not right to me, they could have been handled more gently. I didn’t make out whether they were blondes, chestnut-haired or brunettes.”

Putin added that it was hard to take the protestors seriously since they were naked. Putin said that, if they wanted to get their message across, they’d have a better chance if they were dressed.

Putin said: “If someone wants to debate political questions, then it’s better to do it clothed rather than getting undressed. You should undress in other places, such as on nudist beaches.”

Here are some photos of Putin grinning during the topless protest.

Lol. Putin’s face.twitpic.com/chy7wo

— Andrew (@notmoochie) April 8, 2013

If Putin’s face in reaction to this #FEMEN protester doesn’t end the movement–nothing will.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…twitter.com/BklynMiddleton…

— Brooklyn Middleton (@BklynMiddleton) April 8, 2013

What do you think of the topless Femen protestors? Being naked definitely brings attention, but does it bring attention to the cause?

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The 2014 NHL Winter Classic will feature a match-up between the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs and will take place on New Year’s Day, but the NHL isn’t stopping there. After the press conference to unveil the 2014 Winter Classic, NHL chief operating officer John Collins made it known that there is much more to come.

According to Nick Cotsonika of Yahoo Sports, Collins and the NHL could hold multiple outdoor games as early as next season. Collins acknowledged that the league wants more outdoor games after the 2014 Winter Classic press conference at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan on Sunday.

“It’s not necessarily a new conversation,” Collins said at the press conference. “We’ve been looking at this and talking about this for a while. But I think now we’re looking at it real hard.”

According to The Fourth Period, the league is already set to announce another outdoor game at Dodger Stadium with the Los Angeles Kings and an unidentified opponent for next season. With the Red Wings and Maple Leafs match-up set in stone, the NHL can now focus on other outdoor opportunities to give more fans the ultimate experience while bringing in more revenue.

The Red Wings and Maple Leafs were scheduled to play their Winter Classic at the University of Michigan’s “Big House” on January 1, 2013, but the event was cancelled due to the lockout. Now the game is back on, set exactly a year later, and is expected to bring in a crowd of over 110,000 to watch the game and break a Michigan Stadium record.

The event is also expected to bring in over 250,000 people to its Sirius XM Winter Classic Festival that coincides with the game in Ann Arbor, Mich. The league will surely generate a lot of money from the classic, as the five previous have each been considered a one-of-a-kind experience for hockey fans.

The Red Wings-Maple Leafs rivalry dates back to the 1920s and is one of the most famous in all of the NHL.  The two teams will battle through the cold on New Years Day in 2014, and there’s a good chance it will be snowing in Ann Arbor. Either way, this game isn’t getting cancelled again, and it looks like more outdoor games are on the way.

Will the NHL have multiple Winter Classics next season and continue to grow with its newest tradition looking forward?

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Facebook is being sued for using the term “Timeline.” Timelines, Inc. has accused Facebook of violating United States Trademark regulations. Timelines, Inc. claims that the federally registered term “TIMELINES” is for their exclusive use.

The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court of Illinois, claims that the company Timelines, Inc. has been negatively impacted by Facebook’s use of their trademarked name. The Chicago company has been in operation for five years and claims that their business has virtually stopped since Facebook began using the term.

Timelines.com offers a website where users can “discover, read, and share history.” Some of the popular topics on their site include wars, famous people, American history, music, and entertainment.

Facebook’s Timeline is a feature that organizes users’ Facebook events, pictures, and “shares,” into a chronological format. The Facebook Timeline is automatically generated by Facebook, utilizing information posted by individual users.

The complaint alleges that users have been confused by the term and have assumed that Facebook’s Timeline, and Timelines.com, are somehow connected. The contend that Facebook has taken steps to further confuse the issue. Users searching for Timeline, Inc.’s Facebook page are redirected to Facebook’s informational page about their Timeline feature.

As stated in the complaint, by using the trademarked term, and redirecting traffic, Facebook is accused of willfully violating the Illinois Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Essentially, Facebook is being sued for using the term “Timeline”

CourthouseNews.com reports that attorneys for Facebook argue that the term “Timeline” is “too generic to enforce as a trademark.” U.S. District Judge John Darrahs states that as Facebook had prior knowledge of the trademark, they were not using the term in a “generic manner.”

A statement by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly cited in Judge Darrahs’ decision. Upon introducing Facebook’s timeline, Zuckerberg reportedly stated that in addition to introducing new products, Facebook also intended to “punch anyone who tried to compete with us in the face really hard. You have to teach people who compete with you don’t even … bother.”

Judge Darrahs’ ruling provides that the case will be decided in a trial. A Illinois jury will make the final decision if Facebook violated United States Trademark regulations when using the term “Timeline.”

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There are two things you should never do to Cookie Monster: Take away his cookies and refuse to give him a tip.

According to the NY Post, a man dressed in a Cookie Monster outfit was arrested in Times Square this weekend for pushing a2-year-old to the ground.

The physical altercation allegedly involved a little kid, a mom from Connecticut, and one angry Cookie Monster. (It does not appear that any cookies were involved.)

Gothamist reports that Osvaldo Quiroz-Lopez, 33, was walking around Times Square on Sunday in a Cookie Monster costume. The man was taking pictures with tourists and then demanding a tip for the photo. When the Connecticut woman refused to pay $2 for the photo, Cookie Monster got angry and started cursing.

He allegedly pushed the child to the ground and started yelling at the woman.

He was eventually arrested and charged with reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.

This isn’t the first time one of the Muppets has gotten into trouble off of Sesame Street. Cookie Monster is wanted for the theft of a giant cookie statue, and Elmo was arrested at Times Square last year. But the Muppets aren’t the only trouble makers. Super Mario was also put behind bars after a trip to Times Square.

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A father of two from England decided not to kill himself after accidentally turning on Ricky Gervais’ seminal classic comedy TV series, The Office, and falling into hysterics for five hours.

Jody Parrish had already sent a farewell text message to his ex-girlfriend, left a note, and then went off to kill himself before he stood on his remote control.

This then started his sister’s DVD of The Office, which ran for two seasons and two Christmas specials between 2001 – 2003, and the 32 year-old set about watching the comedy.

Parrish consumed over five hours of the show, and, after laughing for five hours, he found that he was now in a good mood and decided to change his mind about killing himself.

The father of two had previously become devastated over the demise of his six-year relationship. He told The Sun, “David Brent saved my life. I’d not seen it in years but I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so much. I realised I had lots to live for.”

Parrish, who was an ex-plasterer, was living at his mother’s house in Liversedge, West Yorkshire at the time of his epiphany. He is now taking several medications to help battle his depression, and he has vowed, “I am determined to get help.”

Gervais himself even remarked upon this heart-warming tale, stating, “I’m so pleased for him.”

Just last month Gervais reprised his infamous comedic creation for BBC’s Comic Relief, releasing a promotional video for Brent’s song, “Equality Street.”

The comedian stated, “I thought it was time to revisit my most famous comedy creation to find out what he’s been up to for the last decade.”

Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s series has since gone on to be adapted by dozens and dozens of countries. The American version of the show is set to come to an end over the next few weeks after a highly successful nine season run.

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has withdrawn its main objection to Apple’s trademark filing for the Apple iPad mini.

A USPTO examiner recently denied Apple’s filing because the name was viewed as descriptive. Apple instead of submitting proper paperwork also simply printed out a sales page for the iPad mini. Apple printed out the paperwork to prove that the device was already on sale.

The USPTO pulled its objection last Wednesday but waited until Monday to announce its decision.

Following the agency’s original objection to the filing, Apple said it would submit new evidence. However, the USPTO did not require a new filing before it took action.

While the USPTO withdrew its main iPad mini objection, it did note that several other concerns are still on the table. The biggest objection is that other companies already own trademarks and sell products with the “mini” name included in their product titles.

The USPTO is not requiring that Apple file any more trademark requests. The agency does suggest that Apple amend its paperwork to note specifically that it only wants to protect the exact name “iPad mini” and not other “mini” based names.

While the USPTO has not explained why it withdrew its main complaint, there is a good chance it was caused by the media attention the rejection brought.

Apple over the last several months has had a hard time protecting its patents and naming rights. The company is currently fighting a losing battle in Germany.

With courts and federal agencies tightening their controls over trademarks, copyrights, and patent filings, there appears to be a shifting tide in the tech industries fight against overly used legal filings.

Do you think Apple should be allowed to own the iPad mini trademark if it promises to only trademark that term and not the “mini” wording?

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Simon & Schuster announced last week that it will publish Hillary Clinton’s memoir about her time as Secretary of State, due for publication in June of next year. The book deal could result in a book tour positioning Clinton on firm ground to run for president in 2016.

“Hillary Clinton has redefined the meaning of ‘trailblazer’ in every phase of her career on the world stage, as First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State, and notably, as an author,” Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy said in a press release. “She is widely admired by her peers in the highest levels of government in both the United States and internationally, and has become a role model for millions.”

The book deal will give Hillary Clinton the chance to cover many foreign policy developments, thrusting her extensive experience into the public’s eye. As secretary of state, Clinton had to respond to the end of the Iraq war, a draw down in Afghanistan, a string of Arab Spring uprisings, the overthrows of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Muammar Qaddafi in Libya, and the assassination of Obama Bin Laden.

“Hillary Clinton’s extraordinary public service has given her a unique perspective on recent history and the challenges we face,” Simon & Schuster Publishing Group President Jonathan Karp said. “This will be the ultimate book for people who are interested in world affairs and America’s place in the world today.”

Financial details surrounding the book deal have not been unveiled, but Simon & Schuster paid Hillary Clinton $8 million for her 2003 memoir Living History. The company has published all of Clinton’s previous books, including It Takes a Village in 1996, Dear Socks, Dear Buddy in 1998, and An Invitation to the White House in 2000.

During President Barack Obama’s first term in office, Hillary Clinton broke the record for number of countries visited as secretary of state. She visited 112 countries in total. The previous record was 96 countries, set by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright under President Bill Clinton.

If Hillary Clinton does decide to run for president again, her book will come out at just the right time to kick off her campaign. Clinton announced her candidacy for the 2008 presidential race in January of 2007. Hillary Clinton’s book deal could provide her with plenty of good press going into 2015, just in time to announce her intentions to run for president in 2016.

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Hellboy 3 won’t be happening, says writer Mike Mignola.

Hellboy gave us something we never thought possible; super heroes in a film that wasn’t from Marvel or DC Comics, and a good film at that. Hellboy was a character created for Dark Horse, and featured an infant demon raised by the CIA in secret as a backup plan in case a major threat was supernatural.

Directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Ron Perlman (the guy Guillermo can’t seem to stop casting in everything), Hellboy was the “other” superhero franchise that surprised us all. Hellboy gave us a set of characters that were just as strange as those in the Marvel universe, but more mysterious and less war-prone. And who can forget the moment when the big red hero went out of his way to save a box of kittens?

Hellboy II was weaker in general, as it introduced symbiotic siblings. One, the brother, was hell-bent on taking over the world with the “golden army” while the sister had fallen in love with Hellboy. Problem was, they couldn’t kill one without killing the other.

Sadly, that’s where the series is ending, according to Hellboy writer Mike Mignola. The funds to make the film happen just aren’t there. Hellboy 3 was considered the biggest story in the series, and without the big budget, it’s not going to happen.

Director Guillermo del Toro went on the record as saying, “It’s hard to [finance] it. It’s the biggest chapter of the three movies. Hellboy becomes the beast of the apocalypse. We’ve inquired, but so far, if you know a rich uncle with $130 million…”

So basically, unless Microsoft, Google, or some major corporation wants to fund Hellboy 3, we’ll never see it.

That didn’t stop Ron Perlman from donning the makeup a third time though. The Hellboy actor went in full costume to visit a boy for the Make A Wish Foundation. There’s some sweet irony, a demon with the heart of an angel.

How do you feel about Hellboy 3 not being made?

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— MTV Splash Page (@mtvsplashpage) April 8, 2013

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