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Dov Charney, American PERVERT
Dov Charney is most likely one of the WORST businessmen in the world. In my opinion, he has little/no morals and even less class. "American Apparel" must be a huge misnomer as neither his clothing nor his behavior reflect American (or even any) social standards.
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"American Apparel operates nearly 200 stores around the world, and Montreal-born founder and CEO Dov Charney is enjoying his company's success. "It's sickening money, man," he told YoungEntrepreneur.com (he's 39). "We're minting money."
On a May 13th conference call, Charney said first-quarter sales were at $111.6 million, up 52% from the previous year. Interesting, considering that American Apparel manufactures their goods exclusively in the United States - unlike most U.S. companies.
But Charney was happy to discuss American Apparel's business forecast for the coming year during a face-to-face interview with Claudine Ko from the now-defunct Jane magazine - but only while masturbating. The writer also reported that Charney demanded, and received, oral sex from an employee while she looked on.
Not altogether surprisingly, Charney is now facing his fifth lawsuit in three years: Jeneleen Floyd, who worked in the product-placement department at the firm's Los Angeles headquarters, alleges that Charney stormed into her office and demanded that she pretend to masturbate for him. When she refused, a (male) colleague happily complied; not to be outdone, Charney joined him."
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The end of the world?!?!?!?
Okay, this has me worried- critics of this experiment say that this machine has the potential to DESTROY THE PLANET.
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"MEYRIN, Switzerland (June 29) - The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.
But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead clump?
Ridiculous, say scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by its French initials CERN - some of whom have been working for a generation on the $5.8 billion collider, or LHC.
'Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on,' said project leader Lyn Evans.
David Francis, a physicist on the collider's huge ATLAS particle detector, smiled when asked whether he worried about black holes and hypothetical killer particles known as strangelets.
'If I thought that this was going to happen, I would be well away from here,' he said.
The collider basically consists of a ring of supercooled magnets 17 miles in circumference attached to huge barrel-shaped detectors. The ring, which straddles the French and Swiss border, is buried 330 feet underground.
The machine, which has been called the largest scientific experiment in history, isn't expected to begin test runs until August, and ramping up to full power could take months. But once it is working, it is expected to produce some startling findings.
Scientists plan to hunt for signs of the invisible 'dark matter' and 'dark energy' that make up more than 96 percent of the universe, and hope to glimpse the elusive Higgs boson, a so-far undiscovered particle thought to give matter its mass.
The collider could find evidence of extra dimensions, a boon for superstring theory, which holds that quarks, the particles that make up atoms, are infinitesimal vibrating strings.
The theory could resolve many of physics' unanswered questions, but requires about 10 dimensions - far more than the three spatial dimensions our senses experience."
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Is anyone else not comfortable with being sucked into a black hole? Okay, this has me worried- critics of this experiment say that this machine has the potential to DESTROY THE PLANET. ... ... more -
Wars kill 5.4m in last 50 years
About 5.4 million deaths caused by armed conflicts occurred between 1955 and 2003 in 13 nations surveyed, ranging from a low of 7000 in the Democratic Republic of Congo to 3.8million killed in Vietnam.Previous research, based on media reports or before-and-after census figures, have tended to severely underestimate war-related fatalities among combatants and civilians, argues the study released yesterday.These so-called "passive" reports "are typically the only ones available during ongoing conflicts, and represent the most commonly cited sources for government and other estimates of war casualties", says the study, published in the British Medical Journal.Scientists from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle, led by Ziad Obermeyer, used a new approach based on health survey data collected in 2002 and 2003. The World Health Organisation surveys queried one respondent for each household about sibling deaths.Even the new figures might underestimate the number of conflict fatalities, said Richard Garfield, of Columbia University."The study only includes violent deaths," he wrote in a commentary in the same journal. "In the poorest countries, where most conflicts now occur, a rise in deaths from infectious disease often dwarfs the number of violent deaths during a conflict."Professor Garfield added: "Most excess deaths in areas of conflict in developing countries occur in non-combatants, and these deaths are often not counted."
Some countries included in the study showed many times the number of violent war deaths counted in another widely cited report of armed-conflict fatalities compiled by Uppsala University in Sweden and the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo.During the 50 years covered by the new study, Bangladesh had 269,000 such deaths, with 141,000 in Zimbabwe, nearly five times more than in the Uppsala/IPRIO report.The figure for Sri Lanka jumped from 61,000 to 215,000.The violent death toll in Vietnam nearly doubled, to 3.8 million.But in the other countries examined - Burma, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Namibia and The Philippines - deaths dropped compared to earlier assessments. About 5.4 million deaths caused by armed conflicts occurred between 1955 and 2003 in 13 nations surveyed, ranging from a low of 7000 i... more -
Cool kids can help not-so cool kids to avoid smoking
According to a new study published today, having the cool kids talk to their peers about the dangers of smoking reduced the amount of youngsters starting to smoke by almost 25%, reports Reuters.
The results were published in the Lancet journal and highlight the use of 'a different approach' to their research, asking students to nominate fellow pupils who they deemed as 'influential or leaders' who were then asked to 'spread the anti-smoking message.'
A health researcher involved in the University of Bristol study commented: "The important thing this shows is that young people can help each other from taking up the addictive habit of smoking...If the programme was taken up widely it could cut the recruitment of new smokers significantly."
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