Tiger Woods divorce final by Suzannah B. Troy

NBC reports the divorce between Tiger Woods and  Elin Nordegren is now officially complete as in  marriage over and out.   Fox Sports reports more details as well as dismisses rumors about the financial wind fall Nordegren is too receiving saying it will be much lower some where between 100 to 150 million dollars but maybe in time more info will come out.  For now hush, hush accept they will share custody.

He may now be officially one of the most eligible bachelors around with longs lines of women eager to date him because apparently if you are saavy and hire Gloria Allred it may pay off for you big time but plenty of women are hugely turned off by him.

Woods and Nordegren released this statement:

“We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future,” Woods and Nordegren said in a joint statement released by their respective lawyers.

“While we are no longer married, we are the parents of two wonderful children and their happiness has been, and will always be, of paramount importance to both of us.

My final thoughts are Tiger Woods might think about a new career in the porn industry perhaps becoming a media mogul...  He has plenty of fans that will tune in no matter what.  I am not one of them.  Here is an early post of mine on Jesse James and Tiger Woods and sex addiction.

Vanity Fair HBO's Emmy Success and Suzannah b. Troy's thoughts

Hey everybody, it is me Suzannah B. Troy, a NYC artist with a unique perspective on just about everything... Here is an article from Vanity Fair on The Secret of  HBO's Emmy Success.  When you get to the bottom of this piece, they talk about great scripts so that means great writers but my take not mentioned in the article is this....sex, sex, sex, violence and no tv commercials.   Yes, the scripts are good but what local television stations can compete with graphic sex scenes so sizzling hot they are mere inches away from being porno and the violence it just way too graphic for me but people love it.  They love violence.  As seen in my new YouTube asking an adorable young man about The Expendables his only suggestion to make it better is too add more  explosions and make it longer!

A humorous note is just look at True Blood.  I call it "True Bloodiness"  and would prefer to use my imagination but I am not imagining that all the actors in this season have spent even more time hitting the gym except for Tara who was in superb shape all seasons.  Sex sells and people want to go to there TV's to watch it.  True Blood also has some of  the finest actors on TV but so do other local TV show like House which win Emmys as well.  HBO rakes it in because they use have more good writers, good actors and a  lot more  sex, sex, sex and violence.  Yes, it is a no-brainer Martin Scorsese will win lots of gold as in Emmys for his HBO series Boardwalk Empire.  Here is a photo I took posted on my blog of the set from the Scorsese series coming to HBO.


True Blood is bloody good....
Thanks for tuning in....

ESPN's Tim Cowlishaw Blasted For Scooping NY Jets Beat Reporters

Tim Colishaw on "Around the Horn"

From the, "This is really silly to be angry about" file, we have news that New York Jets beat reporters are pissed off with ESPN Personality and Dallas Morning News Columnist Tim Cowlishaw for breaking the story that Jets' Cornerback Darrelle Revis was set to sign a new contract with the organization on Wednesday.

Cowlishaw, a regular on ESPN's Around The Horn with Jay Mariotti and other media-types, tweeted that

Revis and Jets announce new deal, probably Wednesday. You heard it here first. "Inside information!"
about 22 hours ago via web

Then, about five Tweets later, Cowlishaw forecasted that New York Jets beat reporters would attack him:

I expect Jets writers to shoot down what I wrote about Revis. That's their job. It's not Wednesday is it? I fully expect it then.
about 21 hours ago via web

And he was right. As NewsDay's Bob Glauber pointed out "there have been a few follow-up tweets by Jets beat reporters, including @TheJetsStream (Manish Mehta of the Daily News) and @JennyVrentas (of the Star-Ledger), as well as ESPN's @Adam_Schefter suggesting that the report is not accurate."

And NBC Sports on MSNBC wrote a totally terrible take on Cowlishaw's find:

Keep in mind that Cowlishaw is a columnist -- not a reporter -- but an end to the stalemate obviously makes the most sense for both sides.

Time out. Only a terrible, box-oriented, really small-minded person would think of writing such a statement, let alone thinking it. There's no law by God that says a person's title prevents them from doing anything, or more specifically, knowing something that a person who's title indicates a specialty in that subject is supposed to know.

It also indicates that a narrow mind is closed to information from non-conventional sources. It's no wonder Old Media-types fail.

To counter that, alone, the hope here is Tim Cowlishaw's correct on Wednesday. I've been in that position regarding Major League Baseball and the Oakland Athletics; in that case, MLB delayed the release of the Oakland A's report, and they're still sitting on it.

Harold Dow by Suzannah B. Troy

Harold Dow, an African American correspondent,  award winning shining star at CBS died leaving many people admiring his contributions mourning.  Now the breaking news is he may have died because of a severe asthma attack while driving near his home in Saddlebrook, New Jersey.

Harold Dow won 5 Emmys as well as the admiration of his peers including from other networks.  I believe I saw his memory honored by Channel 11 WPIX local news last night which I thought was quite touching.

Below is a quote and click on it to read an article on him from The New York Daily News with a wonderful photo too.

Susan Zirinsky, executive producer of "48 Hours Mystery" said,
"I deeply miss him already," said "48 Hours Mystery. "He was the most selfless man I have known. It was his humanity, which was felt by everyone he encountered, even in his toughest interviews, that truly defined the greatness of his work."

He had been diagnosed with adult  onset asthma which I wonder if  I may now have the beginning stages of post-Sept. 11 because if I have to run a few short blocks I get burning pains in my throat and upper chest and it feels hard to breath sometimes.

Also note asthma is a huge problem here in NYC and that standing with protestors fighting to keep a firehouse in Harlem open that mayor Bloomberg did close one reason activists said we need the fire house open is to answer medical calls for asthma which are so high in Harlem.

He worked for 40 years for CBS and covered many powerful pieces such as "48 Hours Crack on the Street", won an Emmy for covering the 1988  bombing of  Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland and he was almost killed at the WTC bombing as he reported so he was truly front line.

He will be missed and his contributions honored as well as remembered....

Peyton Manning Doesn't Like Lane Kiffin, Who Has Jay Mariotti Cloud

Image by Getty Images via

USC Head Coach Lane Kiffin is so disliked by so many people, like Indy Colts Quarterback Peyton Manning, he has a "Jay Mariotti Cloud" over him.

That is, Kiffin runs the risk of being compared to Jay Mariotti, who's being trashed in the same way he trashed other athletes and for doing what they did, which was get into criminal trouble. Not that this space is calling Lane Kiffin a criminal at all or implying that he committed a crime.

Kiffin's has not been charged with a crime like domestic abuse or any crime at all, just excoriated for his consistently in-your-face disloyal and disrespectful behavior toward hallowed institutions, specifically The Oakland Raiders, The Tennessee Volunteers, and The Tennessee Titans.

Such an attitude, especially toward storied college football programs, can earn the ire of influential alumni. Like Peyton Manning, who's one of Tennessee's most famous graduates.

On The Dan Patrick Show this Monday morning, Manning said that if he ran into Kiffin on the street, the conversation would not be a long one. Manning said to Dan Patrick, "Our pride was hurt. We didn't think Tennessee was a transition job. The Big Orange nation thought Tennessee was a destination job." Manning, ever the Southern gentleman, finished by wishing Kiffin well at USC.

To give a brief recap, Kiffin, one year into his Tennessee contract, jump ship to become head coach at Souther Cal. The result was that Vols fans wanted to hang Kiffin in effigy, if not for real...



A "what-goes-around-comes-around scenario would be for USC to fire Kiffin because Seattle Seahawks Head Coach Pete Carroll decided he wanted his old job back.

Chatroulette gets a much needed revision By Nikky Raney

Chatroulette will be rereleased today, August 23, 2010.

Chatroulette was created by Russian teenager Andrey Ternovskiy in 2009 when he was 17.  He is now working to make the site more "user-friendly."

It's no secret that anyone who has ever used Chatroulette has been bombarded with men's genitalia. Personally using the site there were six men popping up showing themselves off to thousands on the site, and after clicking "next" and "report as offensive" for six times, the seventh to show up was a couple of guys dancing, fully clothed thankfully.

Ternovskiy has previously stated that in the new version of Chatroulette users would when clicking "next" would be directed to those who are "nexted" the least - meaning that the users who are frequently "nexted" would be skipped.

PC World writes of the relaunch by asking, "Is Chatroulette cleaning up its X-Rated act?" The post reiterates the fact that Chatroulette is known most for all the male vulgarity that appears.

With all the pop ups across the web with "Sexy Singles" always featuring girls half naked asking "Want to watch me on web cam?" it is surprising that on Chatroulette the majority of those using their webcam are men ranging from young to old.

There are some people that go on Chatroulette just to meet others and have a good laugh, but most of those who occupy the web site use it as an opportunity to have others watch them doing vulgar acts.

A charted web analysis of Chatroulette was done by RJ Metrics as reported by Tech Crunch. The information obtained details from 2,883 Chatroulette sessions that covered geographical location, gender, appearance, etc.

Some of their findings include:

• When one spins on Chatroulette (clicking "next) a person is most likely to be connected to someone from the USA. The second most likely country to be connected to is France. 
• Of the spins which show a single person in front of the webcam 89 percent were male and 11 percent were female, and there is a better chance of having a webcam encounter with an advertisement or no person at all than with a female.
• 8 percent of spins show multiple groups of people behind the web cam. The ratio is one in three females appears in a group, while one in 12 males appear in a group.
• 1 in eight spins yields something that is R-rated or worse.
• One is twice as likely to encounter a sign (usually written on a white piece of printer paper with a sharpie) requesting female nudity, than to actually encounter female nudities.
• About 70 percent of the users are young adults, 20 percent are under 20 and 10 percent are 40 or older.
• Female users are mostly younger than the male users. In the group sessions 65 percent of the time the females were teens or younger; while 36 percent of the time males were teens or younger.
• There were no recorded group webcam time with people 40 or older, so the older ones are the ones who like to go solo while the younger ones like to enjoy Chatroulette as a group experience.
• 47 percent of the users are from the United States.
• Italy has the highest concentration of solo males at 98 percent.
• The overall pervert rate on Chatroulette is 13 percent which includes nudity, explicit nudity and committing a lewd act.
• Less than 1 percent of chats well feature a female pervert.
• The United Kingdom features the highest percentage of perverts on Chatroulette at 22 percent. 
• The United States has the lowest pervert rate at 10 percent.

All photos are from an actual Chatroulette session Nikky Raney had. (There will also be a video on Youtube published later. The Chatroulette session took place in order to obtain first hand information.)

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Philippines tourist bus hijacking crisis - By Nikky Raney

UPDATE: Philstar.com, Filipino news source, tells authorities that at 9:05 pm on August 23, 2010 (9:05 am EST time) the hostage has been ended with several hostages still alive.  Ronaldo Mendoza was killed after local police made their way onto the bus to save hostages. At least four hostages remain alive, two are confirmed dead.

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In the capital city of the Philippines, Manila, former policeman Rolando Mendoza, 33 took a tourist bus hostage on August 23, 2010. (The Philippines is 12 hours ahead of U.S. EST time)

Photo taken from Philippines News

The policeman had been fired a year ago following accusations that he extorted money. He was armed with an M-16 rifle as he hijacked the bus occupied mostly by Chinese nationals. Some of the hostages have been shown crawling from out of the bus.

Rolando released at least nine hostages - three of the freed hostages were Filipinos.

The former officer had placed handcuffs on the actual bus driver, but he managed to escape and jumped through the window saying that everyone inside the bus had died.

Journalists, police and others surrounded the scene, but police prevented the media from getting too near to the bus. The hijacker put two signs on the windows. One said "MEDIA NOW" and the other said "3:00 PM TODAY DEAD LOCK."

He later put up a cardboard sign saying, "BIG MISTAKE TO CORRECT A BIG WRONG DECISION."

The chief of Manila Police District, Rodolfa Magtibay, told media that was at the scene that Mendoza hijacked the bus in order to demand his job back as a police officer. He also warned authorities not to harm his family.

Mendoza's brother, Gregorio Mendoza (also a police officer) arrived at the scene - he informed the media that police were accusing him of being apart of his brother's hijacking. He was taken into custody and shoved into a police car.

Hong Kong officers fled to Manila to help the hostages.

Written by Nikky Raney
Side note: Nikky Raney was born in the Philippines and is half-Filipino.