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Holy Moses! Now there’s 10 Commandments of Driving

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Next time you blow your top while driving, or overtake another car, or beat the red light – get down on your knees and beg forgiveness. Otherwise …no, not the slammer; worse than that – hell!

Those acts may now be considered sins in the Catholic Church based from the new 10 Commandments for Motorists issued by the Vatican on Tuesday.

The Vatican said it issued the commandments, titled “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road,” to keep motorists on the road to salvation.

Angry drivers with Pope

“Calm down,” Pope Benedict XVI(left) seems to be telling these two angry motorists in this montage.

The unusual document warns drivers against the sins of road rage, abuse of alcohol and even simple rudeness.

Here are the Ten Commandments of Driving:

  1. You shall not kill.
  2. The road shall be for you a means of communion between people and not of mortal harm.
  3. Courtesy, uprightness and prudence will help you deal with unforeseen events.
  4. Be charitable and help your neighbor in need, especially victims of accidents.
  5. Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin.
  6. Charitably convince the young and not so young not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so.
  7. Support the families of accident victims.
  8. Bring guilty motorists and their victims together, at the appropriate time, so that they can undergo the liberating experience of forgiveness.
  9. On the road, protect the more vulnerable party.
  10. Feel responsible toward others.

The document suggested prayer might come in handy while driving — performing the sign of the cross before starting off and saying the rosary along the way. The rosary was particularly well-suited to recitation by all in the car, it said, since its “rhythm and gentle repetition does not distract the driver’s attention.”

Cardinal Renato Martino told a news conference the Vatican felt it necessary to address the pastoral needs of motorists because driving has become such a big part of contemporary life.

World Health Organization statistics showed that 1.2 million people are killed in road crashes each year and as many as 50 million are injured.

“That’s a sad reality, and at the same time, a great challenge for society and the church,” he said.

The document extols the benefits of driving — family outings, getting the sick to the hospital, allowing people to get to work and seeing other cultures.

But it laments a host of ills associated with automobiles: Drivers use their cars to show off; driving “provides an easy opportunity to dominate others” by speeding; and drivers can kill themselves and others if they drink, use drugs or fall asleep at the wheel.

It warned about the effects of road rage, saying driving can bring out “primitive” behavior in motorists, including “impoliteness, rude gestures, cursing, blasphemy, loss of sense of responsibility or deliberate infringement of the highway code.”

It called for drivers to obey speed limits and to exercise a host of Christian virtues: charity to fellow drivers, prudence on the roads, hope of arriving safely and justice in the event of crashes.

No, it’s not true that Paris Hilton’s driving escapades influenced the Vatican in coming out with the document.

And no, it’s also not true that the Vatican is also coming with the 10 Commandments of Walking on the Streets, or the 10 Commandments of Going to the Office or to School or to the Mall or to Whatever Place!

Too much of this can kill

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This muscle pain reliever is truly “effective.” It not only removed the pain, it also ended the life of one of its users! Great.

The bizarre death of a New York City high school track star from a muscle pain cream overdose is raising a red flag once again on the hazards of overusing common over-the-counter medications, experts say.

Bengay

Bengay as sexual lubricant? Gosh! Don’t ever make the mistake or it would feel like making love in hell! 

The New York City medical examiner’s office ruled last week that 17-year-old cross-country runner Arielle Newman died from an accidental overdose of methyl salicylate, the wintergreen-scented ingredient found in popular sports balms.

To help ease exercise-related discomfort, the Staten Island teenager reportedly had been putting Bengay on her legs between running meets, while also using adhesive pads with methyl salicylate, an aspirin-like anti-inflammatory, and a third product.

“There were multiple products, used to great excess,” Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the NYC medical examiner’s office, said. All of the products can be found as nonprescription items on drug store shelves.

But over-the-counter almost never means “harmless,” experts warned.

Methyl salicylate, or salicylic acid, is the active ingredient in creams such as Bengay, Icy Hot and Tiger Balm, as well as aspirin, and “is potentially harmful if it is overused,” said Dr. Gerard Varlotta, the director of sport rehabilitation at Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York City.

An anti-clotting agent, salicyclic acid at very high doses “can cause internal bleeding, it can cause arrhythmias of the heart, it can cause problems in the liver — there are any number of ways it can get to you,” Varlotta added.

However, long-familiar brands like Bengay (which first debuted in US drug stores more than 100 years ago) don’t set off alarm bells in most Americans’ minds, so the temptation to overuse them is there, Varlotta said.

And while most people would definitely think twice about swallowing a fistful of aspirin or other OTC pills, people forget that creams carry dangers, too.

“Remember, there are a whole variety of [medicinal] products that are specifically formulated to be absorbed through the skin,” Varlotta said.

As with any drug, moderation is key, another expert added.

“You have to follow the directions, because the poison is in the dose,” advised Elena Juris, an education outreach specialist at the American Association of Poison Control Centers in Washington, D.C. And that maxim applies to creams just as much as it does to pills, she said.

The safest way to ease body pain is actually free. Just dip a towel in hot water and press it on the affected body part. Or you may want to buy a hot or cold compress from the drugstore which you can use over and over again.

Hot therapy helps soothe sore muscle tissues that have been tightened. You may use hot therapy on your bruises provided the swelling is not too considerable.

Cold therapy is needed to help reduce post-operative swelling and bruising. It also helps reduce swelling and bruising resulting from any type of injury.

How the Harry Potter Saga Will End

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Oh no! Hermione and Hagrid, they’re the ones who won’t be shedding tears anymore in the last chapter of the Harry Potter series. Because they’re the ones who will …

That could be it if the leaked ending of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” proved to be true.

The apparent leakage is quickly spreading in the Internet right now.

Deathly Hallows book cover

It could be a bittersweet ending for the millions of Harry Potter fans worldwide. At least, the “Chosen One” would survive – again if the leak information proved to be accurate.

The mystery surrounding the end of the Harry Potter’s saga deepened on Wednesday with a computer hacker posting what he said were key plot details.

The hacker, who goes by the name “Gabriel,” claims to have taken a digital copy of author J.K. Rowling’s seventh and final book by breaking into a computer at London-based Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

For months now, leading up to the book’s July 21 release, legions of “Harry Potter” fans have debated whether Rowling killed Harry or one of his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, in the final book.

Gabriel has posted information at Web site InSecure.org that, if true, would answer that question.

Here is the posted information:

Harry Potter 0day

Dear my brothers,
Voldemort killed Hermione. Yes, that’s true. And we knew that 2 days ago.

This is the end of the not yet published (someone could call that 0day) book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .

At the end of the story Hagrid was killed by Snape in the attempt of ambush Hermione and Ron. Ron and Hermione flees in privet drive but Voldermort, surprising them, engaged a magical duel with Ron and Hermione.

Voldemort attacked trough the imperius curse and Hermione, to protect the life of Ron fight hardly for more than 6 pages and then finally die.

(boring, very boring… it’s always the same story!)

Then, to make a long story short, Harry came up, killed all the bad guys and Hogwarts against became a good place to stay and have fun.

Ah, i missed one important information about Draco Malfoy, he started to create Horcrux (for fun and profit!).

The end.

If I were JK Rowling, I would end the saga on a triumphant note – with all the bad guys pulverized and exterminated, leaving no trace of their evil deeds. It’s a toss-up for the biggest villain – Voldemort or Snape. Both deserve all of the three unforgivable curses – crucio, imperio and avada kedavra.

For being a traitor and for killing my favorite character Dumbledore, Snape also deserves to get a dose of his own medicine – the sectumsempra curse which slices the victim’s body.

Well, that’s just how I intend to finish the book if I were Rowling. How about you?

Paris Hilton finds God

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Has she really? No kidding? Was it just a typo error – “d” first “g” last? That what Paris Hilton actually found was not “God” but her “dog”?

Well, to the cynical, that could be the line of thinking.

(By the way, for the curious, Paris’ dog is a tiny Chiahuahua whose name is “Tinkerbell.” That’s also the name used by Paris as her password in her mobile phone and email accounts. That’s why intruders have managed to break into her e-mail accounts. But the reports said that despite this, Paris has retained “Tinkerbell” as her password.)

Paris Hilton with Tinkerbell
Paris Hilton with her “god”, er.. her dog Tinkerbell.

Going back to the story, Paris I think deserves the benefit of the doubt.

Interviewed Sunday by television journalist Barbara Walters from the medical wing of a Los Angeles jail, Paris said she has finally gotten over the party lifestyle that has made her famous.

After just a few days behind bars, she said she has found God and claims that she’s “not the same person I was.”

“I used to act dumb. It was an act. I’m 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me,” she said.

She said she has decided to take the new chance that God has given her to make a difference in this world. One of the ways she plans to do this is by building a “Paris Hilton Playhouse” for sick children. “I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that,” she continues. “I have been thinking that I want to do different things when I am out of here. I have become much more spiritual.”

Walters said Paris told her she had not been wailing, sobbing or screaming during her first three days in prison, as had been reported.

She asked Paris what had led to her being “reassigned” to house arrest.

“I was not eating or sleeping. I was severely depressed and felt as if I was in a cage. I was not myself. It was a horrible experience,” Paris said.

She was sentenced last month to 45 days in jail, but with good behavior, Walters said, Paris was due to be released on June 25 after serving a total 23 days.

“I feel that the purpose of my life is to be where I am,” Paris told Walters. “My spirit or soul did not like the way I was being seen and that is why I was sent to jail. God has released me.”

When she is released, Paris said, she might like to help in the fields of breast cancer or multiple sclerosis, diseases that her grandmothers suffered, or build a “Paris Hilton playhouse” for sick children.

Paris, who said other inmates had been friendly, added that her skin was very dry because she was not allowed any moisturizer.

“It doesn’t matter,” she said, “I’m not that superficial girl. I haven’t looked in the mirror since I got here.”

And just when she may be getting her head together, her father, Rick Hilton, is in the midst of planning a huge “get out of jail” party for her release. The party will take place in Las Vegas, the Sin City itself. Kinda’ risky when your daughter is talking about how she found God and wants to change here life, eh?

Father Hilton has asked the big honchos of Las Vegas to drop their fees and host an all-out bash for his daughter’s homecoming. Oh, by the way, he also expects them to provide accommodations and airfare for the event. It is yet to be seen who will comply.

They’re ‘killing’ Princess Di again

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Rejecting the pleas for decency by Diana’s sons and hundreds of other well-meaning people, a British broadcaster aired images of the Princess of Wales’ dying moments.

Channel 4, which has courted controversy in the past with its programming, stuck to its guns despite an unusual appeal from Princes William and Harry not to air photos taken after their mother’s fatal car crash.

Princess Diana remembered

A viewer watches a portrait of the Princess of Diana in London.

The program “Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel” was broadcast without changes, with a Channel 4 spokesman telling media it was “because we feel it’s (a) respectful, responsible, sensible history documentary.”

Royal aides said in a statement that they had written to Channel 4 asking them on behalf of the princes not to broadcast pictures taken after the crash in a Paris underpass on the night of August 31, 1997.

The princes, the statement said, believe airing the photographs “to be wholly inappropriate, deeply distressing to them and to the relatives of the others who died that night, and a gross disrespect to their mother’s memory.”

A royal aide has asked for a shot of an ambulance inside which a paramedic was “clearly” administering emergency treatment to an unseen Diana to be pulled from the program, saying it would cause the princes “acute distress.”

In response, Channel 4 said it had “weighed the princes’ concerns against the legitimate public interest” in discovering what happened in the immediate aftermath of the crash.

“Channel 4 acknowledges the concerns expressed by the Princes William and Harry about the documentary,” said Channel 4 boss Julian Bellamy.

“We would like to make clear that it was not our intention in commissioning this program to cause them distress and we do not believe it is in any way disrespectful to the memory of Princess Diana.”

Oh yeah? You’re not “disrespecting the memory of Princess Diana”? You’re just respecting your self-given right to do whatever you like to do to promote your own self-interest? That’s sleek.

Ok, if ever one of the bosses of Channel 4 get into a vehicular accident, God forbid, let there be a full-blown media coverage as well, showing where his brains got spilled, where his intestines lay on the ground, and where all the blood spills were scattered. Deal?