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Just when we think that she's getting her shit together, we remember that it's Tara Reid!

And when you're Tara Reid, lucidity never lasts for long!

The actress reportedly married Zack Kehoyov after a nonexistent engagement and surprise wedding in the Greek Isles back in August, but according to her when she landed at LAX this morning all sorts of wasted tired and out of it, the marriage was a SHAM - and the pair never made the union legal in the states!

Yeesh! So we guess the honeymoon period - and possibly the entire union - is over then?

Sad.

Well - at least she was with it long enough to film American Reunion!

We hope, anyway!

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Libya "liberated," but Gaddafi still unburied (Reuters)

MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) ? A day after Libyans declared a "liberation" that consigned Muammar Gaddafi to the "garbage bin of history," hundreds again filed past his rotting corpse in a grim display that has raised questions about the nation's new direction.

With their Western allies expressing quiet unease that Gaddafi was battered and shot after his capture on Thursday, then put on show for days in a market cold store, the rebel factions which ended his 42-year rule were still wrangling over the body, amid wider negotiations on dividing up power.

The killing of the 69-year-old in his hometown of Sirte ended a nervous, two-month hiatus since the motley rebel forces of the National Transitional Council overran the capital Tripoli and ended eight months of war -- though Gaddafi's son and heir-apparent Saif al-Islam is still at large.

Yet while the death of the fallen strongman allowed the NTC to trigger mass rejoicing by declaring Libya's long-awaited "liberation" on Sunday in Benghazi, the seat of the revolt, it has also turned a harsh spotlight on jockeying for power among heavily armed local commanders as negotiations begin in earnest to form an interim government that can run free elections.

In Misrata, Libya's long-besieged third city whose war leaders are pushing for a big role in the peace, fighters handing out surgical masks against the stench were still ushering hundreds of sightseers into the chill room where the bodies of Gaddafi, his son Mo'tassim and his former army chief lay on the floor, their flesh darkening and leaking fluids.

Officials at one point declared the show was over, closed the gates and started turning people away. "That's enough," said one of the guards. "He's been causing us as much trouble dead as he did alive." But within an hour, there seemed to be a change of plan as dozens more sightseers arrived by bus.

The Islamic law that NTC chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil said during Sunday's liberation announcement should be upheld in the new Libya would dictate a swift burial within the day.

But NTC officials said negotiations were going on with Gaddafi's tribal kinsmen from Sirte and within the interim leadership over where and how to dispose of the bodies - and on what the Misratans might receive in return for cooperation.

CONTROVERSIAL KILLING

The killings in Sirte, after cellphone video footage was taken showing the captive Gaddafi being beaten and mocked by fighters apparently from Misrata, are also a matter of controversy - at least outside Libya. The United Nations human rights arm has joined the Gaddafi family in seeking an inquiry.

Abdel Jalil told a news conference on Monday that the NTC had formed a committee to investigate. He also indicated that the interim authorities still held to an official line that Gaddafi may have been killed in "crossfire" with his own men - a view many NTC officials themselves seem ready to discount.

"We have formed a committee to investigate how Gaddafi was killed during the clashes with his supporters while arresting him," Abdel Jalil said, adding that whoever killed him may have had something to hide.

"All Libyans wanted to prosecute him over what he did to them, from executions to imprisonments, corruption, wasting their money. Those who have an interest in killing him before prosecuting him are those who had an active role with him," said Abdel Jalil, who like many of the new leadership formerly held positions of authority under Gaddafi.

Adding to concerns about Libya turning over a new leaf on respect for individuals, New York-based Human Rights Watch called on the NTC to probe an "apparent mass execution" of 53 people, apparently Gaddafi supporters, whom it found dead, some with their hands bound, at a hotel in Sirte.

FEW QUALMS

Yet few Libyans seem troubled about either how Gaddafi and his entourage were killed or why they are being kept exposed for so long in what seemed a grim parody of the lying in state often reserved for deceased national leaders.

"God made the pharaoh as an example to the others," said Salem Shaka, who was viewing the bodies in Misrata on Monday. "If he had been a good man, we would have buried him.

"But he chose this destiny for himself."

The killing of fallen autocrats is far from a novelty - in Europe in living memory, similar fates befell Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania in 1989 and Benito Mussolini, who had created modern Libya as an Italian colony a decade before he died in 1945.

However, some of the anti-Gaddafi rebels' Western allies have expressed disquiet about the treatment of Gaddafi both after his capture and after his death and worry Libya's new leaders will not uphold their promise to respect human rights.

Asked whether France, a driving force in NATO backing for the rebels, was concerned about the state of democracy in the emerging new Libya, the French foreign ministry noted that Abdel Jalil had said he would defend a "moderate" Islam:

"We are confident in the Libyan people, who have courageously set themselves free of 42 years of dictatorship, to construct a state of law, conforming to the principles and universal values shared by the international community," it said in a statement. "We will be vigilant about human rights."

"ROTTEN SYMBOL"

As their Tunisian and Egyptian neighbors whose uprisings inspired Libyans to rebel contemplated free elections, some fellow Arabs voiced distaste at Gaddafi's treatment, even though sympathy for the fallen strongman was in short supply.

"Forty-two dark years under a merciless dictator has naturally left the Libyan people very damage," said Mahmoud Nofal, a 36-year-old bank employee in Cairo. "It has driven them mad for revenge. The rotting body is just emblematic of the rotten political and social environment under Gaddafi."

In Britain, the best-selling Sun tabloid splashed a picture of one of its journalists posing by Gaddafi's body under the headline "Dead Dog" - a reminder of Ronald Reagan's description of Gaddafi as the "mad dog of the Middle East" in the 1980s.

The NTC wants the bodies buried in a secret location to prevent the grave becoming a shrine for Gaddafi loyalists. But authorities in Misrata do not want them under their soil.

Gaddafi's tribe centered around Sirte has asked for the body so they can bury it there. Gaddafi requested to be buried in Sirte in his will. One NTC official said authorities were negotiating with Gaddafi's tribe for them to accept the bodies and then taken them to buried elsewhere in secret.

An NTC official in Misrata said one option was to inter them alongside hundreds of pro-Gaddafi troops and fighters who besieged the city earlier in the year have been buried. Some in Misrata, he said, wanted the people of Sirte, some 250 km to the east, to produce the remains of relatives believed to have been killed by Gaddafi supporters over the past 30 years.

With big oil and gas reserves, Libya has the potential to become very prosperous, but regional rivalries fostered by Gaddafi could erupt into yet more violence.

The loosely disciplined militias that sprang up in each town with the help of NATO air power are still armed.

The places they represent will want a greater say in the future, particularly the second and third cities Benghazi and Misrata, which were starved of investment by Gaddafi.

(Reporting by Taha Zargoun in Sirte, Barry Malone and Jessica Donati in Tripoli, Rania El Gamal and Tim Gaynor in Misrata, Christian Lowe, Jon Hemming and Andrew Hammond in Tunis, Hamid Ould Ahmed in Algiers, Samia Nakhoul in Dubai and William Maclean, Andrew Roche and Matthew Jones in London; Writing by Alastair Macdonald)

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Spoiler Alert: Steve Jobs Enjoyed Many Types Of Tea, Book Says

steve jobs1Like many of you I've been watching the steady stream of incremental Steve Jobs-related news stories for the past couple days, resulting from the imminent launch of Walter Issacson's Jobs' biography; Jobs came up with the name Apple while on a fruitarian diet, he gave up Christianity at age 13, he loved King Lear, he was disappointed in President Obama, his first job was at Atari, he valued simplicity, utility and beauty, he hated Fox News, he was obsessed with Bob Dylan, he dated Joan Baez, he resisted early surgery for pancreatic cancer, he was inspired by a Cusinart food processer, he was inspired by a trip to a jelly bean factory, he advised Bill Clinton to tell the country about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, he thought John Mayer was "out of control,' he even consulted a psychic.

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What You Need to Know About Nokia's Windows Phones [Windows Phone]

We're all pulling for Windows Phone. Have been for a while. Thing is, it's just not there yet. There's no single drop-dead-amazing god-phone on the platform. Yet. Hopefully, Nokia's going to be pulling back the curtain on just that next week at Nokia World. Here's what we (think we) know so far. More »


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Ohio union fight could boost Dems' 2012 chances

(AP) ? A ballot battle over whether to keep Ohio's tough new restrictions on public employee unions could give labor supporters and Democrats a lift going into the presidential election year. But some Democrats fear losing the Nov. 8 referendum could be another dispiriting setback that saps enthusiasm from the party's progressive base.

?????Unions have hoped that a backlash against Republican-led efforts to curb the rights of organized labor in state legislatures around the country could translate into victories for pro-labor Democrats in 2012.

?????Labor leaders expect to get a better sense of voters' mindsets when Ohioans decide whether to toss out a law that bans public employee strikes and limits the collective bargaining rights of more than 350,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers, state employees and others.

?????The law signed in late March by Republican Gov. John Kasich allows unions to negotiate on wages, but not on pension or health care benefits.

?????In response to a similar crackdown on public employees' collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin ? done as a budget-cutting measure ? Wisconsin Democrats and labor leaders launched a recall campaign to win control of the state Senate from Republicans. They fell short in Republican-majority state Senate district races, but are more confident of the statewide referendum in Ohio.

?????"We will, I believe, win that citizens veto," AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said of the Ohio vote in a recent speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

?????The AFL-CIO alone poured more than $5.5 million into the Wisconsin effort and similar expenditures are planned for Ohio. Insiders are predicting the ballot battle could cost more than the $33 million spent in last year's race for Ohio governor.

?????Unlike the law in Wisconsin, Ohio's measure curbing union rights includes police and firefighters, who tend to be more popular with independent and conservative voters. Ohio's firefighters have been featured prominently in television ads supporting the referendum. The nation's largest firefighters union, the International Association of Fire Fighters, has spent about $1 million so far in Ohio.

?????"If we were to win, I think it would be a major encouragement that will be hugely beneficial, not only to Democrats running for the state House and state Senate, but I think it would be a huge benefit to Senator (Sherrod) Brown and to President Obama," former Gov. Ted Strickland told The Associated Press.

?????But Strickland also warned that a loss on the referendum "would be a major blow to the Democratic Party going forward."

?????The repeal effort is popular now in Ohio. A Quinnipiac University poll last month showed 51 percent of Ohio voters would repeal the law, and another 38 percent support the overhaul. But most observers expect those numbers to tighten as the conservative group Building a Better Ohio, which backs the law, ramps up spending on television ads. The bill's supporters received a boost this weekend when the editorial board of The Plain Dealer, a Cleveland newspaper based in the traditionally Democratic stronghold of Cuyahoga County, endorsed a "yes" vote to keep the law.

?????Democrats and unions hope to tap into the 1.3 million Ohioans who signed petitions to get the referendum on November ballots. And they see Ohio as a chance to rehearse their get-out-the-vote efforts for next year's presidential campaign.

?????"The referendum vote in Ohio is huge," former AFL-CIO political director Steve Rosenthal said. "A victory on the initiative will provide a huge boost to labor and progressives on the whole. A loss would hurt, but the organizational infrastructure that has been built for this campaign will carry over into a major effort to win in 2012."

?????Republicans contend this year's election issue will be a distant memory by the time Ohioans cast their ballots for president.

?????"I don't think there's a carry-over effect," said Kevin DeWine, the state's Republican Party chairman. "You can't look at an election in one year and think that it's going to have an impact on the election in the next year, in part because I think the issues are different."

?????Jim Ruvolo, former Ohio Democratic Party chairman now working as a political consultant, agreed that the referendum would not be a very good predictor of the 2012 races, but said it might ignite Democratic enthusiasm.

?????"People will be saying 'See we can win, we can beat them,'" Ruvolo said.

?????With Obama's state approval ratings lackluster, there's no doubt losing on a statewide level would be a significant setback for unions and Democrats.

?????As a practical measure, Ohio's public employee unions are expected to lose members once the law goes into effect, sapping both organizational clout and monetary resources. And it could send another message to other GOP lawmakers ? that passage of time and continued economic problems has made voters less sympathetic to unions' desires.

?????Obama's re-election campaign has largely stayed out of Ohio's union law repeal push, though his supporters have joined labor groups and others in an effort to ask voters in 2012 to overturn the state's new election law, which shortens the early voting timeframe.

?????Any momentum the November referendum creates for Obama hinges on whether labor, Democrats and community groups can keep working together, said John Russo, a labor studies professor at Youngstown State University.

?????Competing interests within such organizations can make rallying around a single candidate more difficult, he said.

?????"He (Obama) can use it, but can he hold it together is a different story," Russo said. "He has to be able to take that enthusiasm, that set of ideas, those narratives and incorporate them into his own campaign."

?????___

?????Hananel reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Ken Thomas also contributed to this report.

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Sport divers go deep for trinkets and treasure

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A diver with Mel Fisher's Treasures holds up pieces of gold.

By Rob Lovitt, msnbc.com contributor

Forget the gold in them thar hills; these days, big treasure troves are being found at the bottom of the ocean.

Consider, for example, the Mantola, a sunken British steam ship found off the coast of Ireland in early October. Torpedoed in 1917, the vessel is believed to hold 20 tons of silver with a current worth of around $18 million.

It?s enough to make a recreational diver grab his or her scuba tanks and dive overboard ? even if the potential haul is a bit less precious.

?What we?d consider treasure, those guys would just laugh at,? said Dave Sommers, owner of DiveHatteras in Cape Hatteras, N.C. ?A lot of us are just artifact hounds, looking for fittings, portholes, china ? That?s what we call treasure.?

For recreational divers, there?s still plenty to be found, especially in the wreck-rich waters along the Eastern Seaboard. ?Once you start wreck diving,? said Sommers, ?a lot of other types of diving pale in comparison.?

To get in on the action, would-be treasure hunters should have the appropriate certification, be aware of laws regarding artifact removal and consider going with operators who are familiar with area wrecks and local water conditions.

Patience is also important, said Cameron Sebastian, operations manager for Coastal Scuba in North Myrtle Beach, S.C.: ?If you?re going to try to look for trinkets and treasures, you?re going to spend a lot of time in one spot just digging through the sand.?

Such ?trinkets,? of course, won?t make you rich, but longtime wreck divers suggest there?s also value in simply experiencing the history of various vessels. ?These ships are like time capsules,? said Ted Green, owner of O.C. Diver in West Ocean City, Md. ?Yes, you?re hunting for stuff, but most people have a good time whether they?re successful or not.?

The following offer good places to start:

Maryland: According to Green, local wrecks range from 250-year-old wooden ships to steel tankers less than five years old. Many have been picked over, he said, but that doesn?t mean there?s nothing to be found.

?Some of the older wrecks have large amounts of silt on them so they get passed over,? said Green. On the so-called Bottle wreck?25 miles south of Ocean City, divers "fanning the bottom" to remove accumulated silt recently found coins, clay pipes and pottery, Green told msnbc.com.

Storms can also change the treasure-hunting playing field. ?After Hurricane Irene came through, it exposed stuff I?d never seen in 30 years of diving here,? said Green. Among the recent finds: a pair of brass portholes on the so-called Screw wreck.

North Carolina: Perhaps the most popular wreck in North Carolina is the Tarpon, a World War II submarine that sunk just south of Cape Hatteras. Alas, it?s still considered government property and taking artifacts is prohibited.

Less than a mile away, though, divers can explore the Proteus, an ocean liner that sank in 1918. ?People originally dove it for the leaded-glass windows, although they?re rare now,? said Sommers. ?But people do still come up with dishes and silverware from it.?

South Carolina: With warmer temperatures than its northern neighbors and several wrecks in shallow water, South Carolina attracts treasure hunters of all skill levels and interests.

For beginners, Sebastian recommends the Sherman, a 200-foot-long Civil War blockade runner that?s been known to cough up buttons, bottles and belt buckles. Those interested in maritime mysteries should visit the ?Governor,? a Civil War-era paddlewheeler where divers have found rifles and bullets, but the ship?s true identity remains elusive.

Florida: Finally, if you?re in search of genuine treasure, your best bet is to sign on with a company that knows where the goods are and has the right to collect them. In Florida, that means heading to Key West, where Mel Fisher's Treasures?offers regular dives to the Nuestra Se?ora de Atocha, which sank in 1622 with a cargo of silver, gold and jewels.

For committed treasure hunters, the company offers annual memberships starting at $10,000, which entitles them to dive the site, keep the first artifact they find (limits apply) and receive a share of everything else found in that year.

Not feeling quite so flush or adventurous? Six times a year, the company offers the Atocha Dive Adventure, a weeklong package in which guests learn about the ship?s history and rediscovery and participate in two dives to the site. At $2,500 per person, it?s a good way to get your feet wet, as it were.

The only caveat: you don?t get to keep what you find. Instead, the Fisher family will exchange it for something of like value, up to $2,500, from the company?s collection.

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Rob Lovitt is a longtime travel writer who still believes the journey is as important as the destination. Follow him at Twitter.

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