Zimmerman Fund

Zimmerman Fund, Now you know just where to spend your money this holiday season. Representatives for George Zimmerman announced on Thursday that anyone who donates to the newly established George Zimmerman Defense Fund will receive a personally signed thank-you note.

In the announcement, Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, said that the old fund had raised $140,000 since it was created in May, but that “currently, the balance of the George Zimmerman Defense Fund is at its lowest, and new funds must be raised to support George’s living expenses and legal costs.”

Zimmerman is currently free on a $1 million bond while he awaits trial for the shooting and killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, which Zimmerman claims was in self-defense.

Ice On Mercury

Ice On Mercury, (Nanowerk News) Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system, revolves around the sun in a mere 88 days, making a tight orbit that keeps the planet incredibly toasty. Surface temperatures on Mercury can reach a blistering 800 degrees Fahrenheit — hot enough to liquefy lead.

Now researchers from NASA, MIT, the University of California at Los Angeles and elsewhere have discovered evidence that the scorching planet may harbor pockets of water ice, along with organic material, in several permanently shadowed craters near Mercury’s north pole.

The surprising discovery suggests to scientists that both ice and organic material, such as carbon, may have been deposited on Mercury’s surface by impacts from comets or asteroids. Over time, this volatile material could then have migrated to the planet’s poles.

Camacho Brawl

Camacho Brawl, A fight broke out Tuesday at the two-day viewing ceremony in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, for former world champion Hector “Macho” Camacho, who died Saturday from gunshot wounds suffered four days earlier. Relatives became incensed when a woman leaned down and kissed the fallen boxer in his casket, according to multiple reports.

USA Today reports that 28-year-old Cynthia Castillo, sporting a pink T-shirt with Camacho’s face on the front, enraged Camacho’s sisters and former girlfriend Gloria Fernandez, 50, by then entering the family’s private section.

After Camacho’s sisters apparently told Castillo to leave, grieving guests watched in confusion as the women began slapping and swinging at each other. After taking the argument outside the viewing room, police were called to calm the scene.

Castillo told USA Today she was Camacho’s girlfriend at the time of his death.

“I am the actual girlfriend of Macho, and those who don’t like it better not bring it,” Castillo said. “They shouldn’t be going after me. They should be thanking me for being with him at all times.”

Castillo told ESPN Deportes that Fernandez and Camacho’s sisters, Esther and Estrella, demanded that she leave the ceremony.

Ballon D’Or

Ballon D’Or, All awards ceremonies prompt revulsion but Fifa knows it is pretty much impossible to be interested in football and not also be drawn towards the epic two-hander that is Messi-Ronaldo, There are, of course, many reasons to hate the Ballon d’Or award, many of them robust and persuasive. Most obviously there is the basic problem with all awards ceremonies, the paralysis of inauthenticity that inevitably overwhelms all human beings present, driven at the top end by the necessity to appear both humble and magnanimous in victory, and below this by the spectacle of your peers being publicly celebrated, an experience that must out of necessity induce very human feelings of shock, hurt, revulsion, impotence and creeping death.

Many such terrible moments are standard issue across any awards ceremony: from people at adjacent tables who leap up and do look-at-my-extrovert-humility applause when someone else wins something, to any kind of soulful filmic montage along the those-not-as-fortunate-as-us lines, to the moment just before a really big award envelope is opened where the host must lower his voice and adopt an expression of transcendental yearning reminiscent of the Nazis at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark just before their faces melt.

The Ballon d’Or’s three-man main award shortlist was announced this week, with the ceremony due to take place on 7 January, an occasion that carries its own more specific horrors. Following 2010’s aggressive takeover, during which the venerable old European Footballer of the Year was merged with Fifa’s own golden whatnot, this is now an entirely Fifa-dominated occasion, and hence must be characterised not just by tearful corporate insincerity but by a grasping sense of ownership: in part the award is now essentially an advert for Fifa, an organisation that must strive constantly to overcome the fact it only exists in any meaningful form every four years.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is a public hospital located on Fulham Road, in the Chelsea area of London, England. It is managed by the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and opened in May 1993. The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital was opened on the site once occupied by St Stephen’s Hospital, and brought together staff, services and equipment from five London hospitals:

The new hospital was designed by the architects Sheppard Robson. It displays many treasures from the old hospitals. Some of these are in the first floor Hospital Chapel, including a 16th-century painting by Veronese from the Westminster Hospital and stained glass windows from Westminster, St Mary Abbots and the Westminster Children’s Hospitals.

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