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DMV Relocates Driver to Unfortunate Locale on License
NBCMIAMI.com
updated 6:19 p.m. ET, Fri., May 21, 2010
Renewing your driver's license can be a pain in the butt these days, but the task has caused quite a stir for one Florida woman.
Ashlee Lineberger of Englewood recently mailed in her $48 renewal fee for a new license and when she got her new state-issued ID back in the mail, she noticed that she was no longer from Englewood.
The license said she lived in "Eat Ass," Florida. We're still looking for it on the map.
"I only looked at it because I wondered what picture they would use," 31-year-old Lineberger said. "I thought I was a dreaming and I literally pinched myself. I was completely shocked."
The line that was supposed to display Lineberger's street address was replaced by the vulgar message and the state Department of Motor Vehicles has no clue how the mishap occurred.
Lineberger's husband, Charles, said after getting the run around on the phone with the state DMV, the couple went to the local DMV to get some answers. What they got was laughter and a quote for another fee if they wanted the license fixed.
"They thought it was hilarious like it was some kind of joke," he said. "Then they wanted us to pay for another license."
On Wednesday, state officials contacted Lineberger to apologize for the error and told her a new license - free of charge - would be in the mail. But she still doesn't have an answer to how she got the new address.
"It makes you wonder what these people are doing with all of this vital information if they can play around with a license like that," said Lineberger, who will be doing all her transactions in person from now on. "My view has changed that's for sure. You trust these people because they work for the government but somebody is obviously not doing their job."
But the Linebergers are not without a sense of humor. Ashlee said she plans on keeping the "Eat Ass" license even after she gets the real one.
"Imagine if I got pulled over by a cop and had to show this ID? I probably wouldn't be getting out of that ticket," she said. "That's priceless."
Hawaii volcano eruption reaches 10,000 days
Kilauea is now world's longest continuously erupting volcano
updated 5:30 p.m. ET, Fri., May 21, 2010
VOLCANO, Hawaii - The world's longest continuously erupting volcano, which has become a major attraction for scientists and tourists since it became active in 1983, has marked a milestone.
It was 10,000 days ago Friday that Kilauea Volcano began erupting on Hawaii's Big Island.
The superintendent of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Cindy Orlando, calls it "a biological and geological wonder." The scientist-in-charge of the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Jim Kauahikaua, says it's one of the few eruptions that can be studied up close every day.
The east rift zone vent began erupting Jan. 3, 1983, and a summit vent has been erupting since March 19, 2008.
Updated: May 21, 2010, 8:55 AM ET
Sharapova, Serena stand in Henin's path
Associated Press
PARIS -- Welcome back, Justine. Your first French Open since 2007 could be quite a challenge.
Thanks to Friday's draw, four-time champion Justine Henin's return to Roland Garros might include a third-round match against Maria Sharapova and a rivalry-renewing quarterfinal against Serena Williams.
The bracket also sets up the No. 1-seeded Williams, who won the 2002 French Open, to face No. 4 Jelena Jankovic in the semifinals.
Williams' older sister, No. 2 Venus, could meet No. 5 Elena Dementieva in the quarterfinals and defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the semifinals.
The tournament begins Sunday, and both Williams sisters will start off against Swiss opponents in the first round: Venus takes on Patty Schnyder, a former top-10 player and two-time French Open quarterfinalist now ranked 61st; Serena plays Stefanie Voegele, who is ranked 76th and has a career record of 2-4 at Grand Slam tournaments. Voegele never has faced the younger Williams; Schnyder is 0-10 against the older one.
The most intriguing first-round matchup is in the men's field, where No. 4 Andy Murray will take on Richard Gasquet, a Frenchman who once reached the Wimbledon semifinals and used to be ranked in the top 10 but was suspended for part of last season after testing positive for cocaine.
Defending champion and top-seeded Roger Federer plays 71st-ranked Peter Luczak of Australia in the first round, while four-time champion Rafael Nadal was drawn to begin against 18-year-old Gianni Mina of France, who made his tour-level debut this week and so is only ranked 653rd. Mina got into the field thanks to a wild card from the French tennis federation.
Nadal will be a heavy favorite in that match, of course, and also is considered the man to beat for the championship. His 31-match winning streak at Roland Garros ended with a fourth-round loss to Robin Soderling last year. Soderling could be Federer's quarterfinal foe this year, in what would be a rematch of the 2009 final. The other possible men's quarterfinals are Nadal vs. No. 7 Fernando Verdasco; No. 3 Novak Djokovic vs. No. 6 Andy Roddick; and Murray vs. No. 8 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
The 22nd-seeded Henin won the French Open in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007, but she abruptly retired while ranked No. 1 shortly before the 2008 tournament. She returned to the tour this season and quickly made an impact, reaching the final of the Australian Open.
Henin lost at that stage to Serena Williams, who leads their head-to-head series 8-6. But during Henin's last full season, 2007, they met at three consecutive Grand Slam tournaments -- the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open -- each time in the quarterfinals, and the Belgian won each of those matches.
Famously, after a straight-set loss to Henin at Roland Garros that year, Williams sniffed: "All she had to do was show up."
That's nothing compared to what happened when they played each other in the 2003 French Open semifinals, though, with Henin snapping Williams' 33-match Grand Slam winning streak. There was a flap over whether Henin tried to call time, then lied about it to the chair umpire; Williams fired up the crowd by arguing line calls, was jeered off the court, then teared up at her postmatch news conference.
Updated: May 21, 2010, 10:53 AM ET
Ref DeRosa suspended without pay
ESPN.com news services
NEW YORK -- NBA referee Joe DeRosa was suspended without pay Thursday for throwing a ball at a fan who appeared to be heckling him during halftime of Tuesday's playoff game in Orlando.
DeRosa, 53, will miss the next game he would have been scheduled to work.
At halftime of Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals between the Magic and Boston Celtics, DeRosa was walking to the scorer's table to collect the warm-up jackets for his crew.
A fan behind the table approached DeRosa, gesturing with his arms and appearing to be shouting at the veteran official. DeRosa flipped the game ball to the fan -- identified by the Orlando Sentinel as Franz Hanning -- who tossed it back.
DeRosa motioned for Hanning to be ejected by Amway Arena security. Hanning was not ejected, the NBA said in a statement. According to the Sentinel, Hanning was relocated to another seat in the capacity crowd of 17,461.
The Sentinel said Hanning did not return calls for comment. According to the newspaper, he released a statement Wednesday that read, "As many people in Orlando know, I am a huge fan of NBA basketball and especially my home team the Orlando Magic. I think the NBA officials do a great job. I'm looking forward to the Magic going to Boston and evening up the series."
Hanning is the president and CEO of Wyndham Vacation Ownership, the newspaper said.
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Jupiter cloud belt missing again, scientists say
By the CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) -- Scientists don't know why, but one of Jupiter's two main cloud belts has disappeared -- again.
Like a wayward pet, the belt has gone missing before and has always returned.
"This is a big event," said planetary scientist Glenn Orton of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. "We're monitoring the situation closely and do not yet fully understand what's going on."
The brown cloudy band, known as the South Equatorial Belt, or SEB, started fading late last year, NASA said in a story on its website.
"But I certainly didn't expect to see it completely disappear," said amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley of Australia. "Jupiter continues to surprise."
Orton says the belt may not be gone, just hidden under higher clouds.
"It's possible," he said on the NASA website, "that some 'ammonia cirrus' has formed on top of the SEB, hiding the SEB from view."
On Earth, NASA says, white wispy cirrus clouds are made of ice crystals. On Jupiter, the same sort of clouds can form, but the crystals are made of ammonia instead of water.
The belt's disappearances can be erratic.
"The SEB fades at irregular intervals, most recently in 1973-75, 1989-90, 1993, 2007, 2010," said John Rogers, director of the British Astronomical Association's Jupiter Section. "The 2007 fading was terminated rather early, but in the other years, the SEB was almost absent, as at present."
The return of the SEB can be dramatic, NASA said.
"We can look forward to a spectacular outburst of storms and vortices when the 'SEB revival' begins," Rogers told NASA. "It always begins at a single point, and a disturbance spreads out rapidly around the planet from there, often becoming spectacular even for amateurs eyeballing the planet through medium-sized telescopes.
"However," he said, "we can't predict when or where it will start. On historical precedent, it could be any time in the next two years."
"I'll be watching every chance I get," Wesley said. "The revival will likely be sudden and dramatic, with planet-circling groups of storms appearing over the space of just a week or so."
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is visible in the eastern sky before dawn, NASA said.
Jennifer Hudson's weight loss: How she did it
By Michelle Tan, PEOPLE.com
(PEOPLE.com) -- Once a size 16, Jennifer Hudson is now reveling in her new size 6 body, telling PEOPLE, "I'm in the best shape of my life!"
After giving birth to her son last August, Hudson, 28, had to drop her post-pregnancy pounds for her next movie role as Winnie Mandela. "Whatever it takes to morph into a character I'll do it," said Hudson.
But the star went about her weight loss in a healthy way by working out with trainer Harley Pasternak and learning about portion control through Weight Watchers' point system (Hudson became the official spokesperson for the weight loss plan earlier this year).
Now as the actress gets ready to fly to the South African set of her new movie, Hudson will face the challenges of figuring out how many points are in vetkoek -- a South African fried treat. Just don't think she's going to fall off the weight-loss wagon anytime soon.
"She will need to investigate every new product on this new continent," said Liz Josefsberg, Hudson's Weight Watchers counselor. "I am not the least bit worried about Jennifer... She is an amazing and resilient personality who will be just fine in her surroundings."
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
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These billionaires went from rags to richest
Five of these 10 inspirational dropped out of college, three never attended
Forbes
updated 7:26 a.m. ET, Thurs., May 20, 2010
Cirque du Soleil first took on rock legends The Beatles and Elvis. Now the circus-inspired spectacle is turning to the late King of Pop. In April Cirque, founded by billionaire Guy Laliberte, announced plans to produce a Michael Jackson-themed show to start touring in 2011.
Before captivating Las Vegas crowds with famed music-inspired acrobatic shows, Laliberte was playing the harmonica and eating fire on the streets of Europe and Canada.
The accordion-playing stilt-walker bet big on his gang of acrobats when he brought them from Quebec to the Los Angeles Arts Festival in 1987 in hopes of wooing the crowd. If the mission failed, his team wouldn’t have had enough gas money to make it home.
But the gamble paid off for Laliberte, and in 1991 casino mogul Steve Wynn brought Cirque du Soleil to Las Vegas, paving the way for Laliberte to eventually become a billionaire.
“There’s a huge component of betting big and having luck that pays off,” said Jim Ellis, who teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University, of self-starters who make it into the ranks of the ultra-rich. “But most entrepreneurs I know are better than just gamblers.”
Laliberte, who also happens to be a professional poker player, is one of 680 self-made billionaires in the world, most of whom likely took risks on their way to riches. But a much smaller group overcame extreme adversity and hardship to make their fortunes. We are highlighting 10 of the most inspirational rags-to-riches stories, including that of John Paul DeJoria, cofounder of John Paul Mitchell Systems and Patron tequila, who was once homeless and lived in his car. Another tearjerker: Luxottica's Leonardo del Vecchio, who was sent to an orphanage at age 7 because his mother couldn’t afford to raise him.
When asked how certain people can overcome such odds and become so successful, Ellis said, “You’re going to see some people who ... really don’t have anything to lose. Your tolerance for risk when you’re in that environment is much higher.”
Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing, who quit school at age 15 to take care of his family after his father died, explained it this way: “The most terrible experience during my childhood was witnessing my father’s suffering and ultimately dying of TB. I too was infected.”
Added Li: “The burden of poverty and this bitter taste of helplessness and isolation sort of branded on my heart forever the questions that still drive me. Is it possible to reshape one's destiny? Is it possible to minimize challenges through lessening complexities? And is it possible to enhance chances for success through meticulous planning?”
Perhaps that is a way to overcome early adversities.
Five of these 10 inspirational billionaires dropped out of college, and three others never attended. Six were orphaned or given up and raised by foster homes, adoptive parents or relatives. Oracle's Larry Ellison, Apple's Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey were all born to teenage mothers. Winfrey moved to live with relatives in Wisconsin where she says she was sexually abused as an adolescent, though her rags-to-riches story is under scrutiny following the April release of an unauthorized biography by Kitty Kelley. Winfrey’s office would not comment, but the billionaire dismissed the book at a recent awards ceremony, calling it a “so-called biography” and adding that “this too shall pass.”
Ellison was adopted and raised by his aunt and uncle and later dropped out of college, reportedly after his adoptive mother died. Jobs, who was adopted by a working class couple in California, quit Reed College when he was unable to afford the tuition.
Not finishing school may have positioned these entrepreneurs for later success. Dr. William Baumol, Academic Director for New York University’s Stern School’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, believes that’s no accident. “The standard educational approaches tend to destroy creativity and imagination,” he said.
One of the greatest creative minds in entertainment, Laliberte, too, dropped out of college to take on street performing. But don’t quit school just yet. These extreme success stories represent a small percentage of aspiring entrepreneurs.
“Most of the billionaires are from among that group,” Baumol said. “They’ve taken big risks, but happen to be the ones that through intelligence, foresight and luck have been that small subset of the group that breaks through.”
Adds JetBlue Chairman Joel Peterson, who also teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford, successful entrepreneurs "make lots of sacrifices to make it to the end zone.”
Sweeping Wall Street reform bill advances
Final passage of sweeping bill could come this week
The Associated Press
updated 5:38 p.m. ET, Thurs., May 20, 2010
WASHINGTON - Barely breaking a logjam, the Senate voted Thursday to end debate on a massive financial regulation bill, clearing the way for final passage of the most ambitious effort to write rules for Wall Street since the Great Depression.
The vote was 60-40 to advance the legislation, which has become a top priority for President Barack Obama in the aftermath of his successful health care overhaul in March.
The president heralded Thursday's vote, saying Wall Street efforts to undermine the legislation had failed.
"Our goal is not to punish the banks," he said, "but to protect the larger economy and the American people from the kind of upheavals that we've seen in the past few years. Today's action was a major step forward in achieving that goal."
The bill calls for new ways to watch for risks in the financial system and makes it easier to liquidate large failing financial firms. It also writes new rules for complex securities blamed for helping precipitate the 2008 economic crisis, and it creates a new consumer protection agency.
Three Republicans — Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins — voted for the bill. Two Democrats — Sens. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Maria Cantwell of Washington — voted with Republicans against the measure.
At least two contentious amendments remained before the Senate could vote to approve the sweeping bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., expressed hope of completing the legislation later Thursday.
Democrats succeeded by winning Brown's backing. The Massachusetts Republican voted against ending debate on Wednesday after indicating he planned to vote in its favor. Without his vote, and with Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter absent, the bill temporarily stalled.
Brown met with Reid Thursday morning, however, to voice his concerns regarding the bill's effect on Massachusetts banks such as State Street and insurance firms like MassMutual. House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank, also of Massachusetts, weighed in Thursday with letters to Reid offering his own guarantees that the final bill would resolve Brown's concerns.
In a statement, Brown said: "I supported moving the financial bill forward today because I received assurances from Senator Reid and his leadership team that the issues related to Massachusetts in the financial reform bill will be fixed before it is signed into law."
Cantwell and Feingold continued to object to the bill. Cantwell protested her inability to get a vote on an amendment that she said would toughen regulation of complex securities known as derivatives. Feingold has said the bill does not go far enough to rein in Wall Street.
Two amendments stood between the bill and final passage. One would ban commercial banks from carrying speculative trades with their own money. The other would exempt auto dealers from oversight of a new consumer protection bureau.
Senators faced a complicated calculation on the bank trading and the auto dealer amendments. The trading proposal, if passed, would be added to the auto dealer measure.
Support for each measure, however, comes from different factions in the Senate, with some overlap. That meant that senators who want to exclude car dealers from the rules of a consumer protection bureau, mostly Republicans, would have to accept the bank trading limits, a mostly Democratic proposal.
The Obama administration on Thursday expressed support for the trading restriction, but said it would accept its demise if it meant killing an auto dealer measure it opposes.
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