According to a criminal complaint filed on Tuesday in Las Vegas' Justice Court, hip hop moghul - Marion 'Suge' Knight, who was allegedly found beating his girlfriend off a busy thoroughfare, has been charged with two counts of felony drug possession and one count of misdemeanor battery.
Washington, November 19 : Jessica Simpson says it’s her beau Tony Romo who taught her how to ‘calm down’.
The singer, who has been dating the Dallas quarterback for a year, said she was pleased with her man who has helped her all the way to deal with things.
“He is a good guy. And he''s really just helped me along in life and taught me a lot about being comfortable being myself,” People magazine quoted her as telling Ellen DeGeneres.
Washington, Nov. 19 : Before tackling any of their party’s broad, long-term legislative priorities, President-elect Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress should focus on rebuilding Americans’ basic trust in government, according to a new report by the centrist Democratic group Third Way.
“In recent years anti-government ire has cooled, but that does not mean that there has been a huge surge in support for its opposite,” said William Galston, a former Clinton administration official and University of Maryland professor who co-authored the report.
New York, Nov 19 : Pop star Justin Timberlake has released a new single ‘Follow My Lead’ as a fundraiser for Shriners Hospitals for Children, an organization dedicated to improving specialized paediatric care.
The track is available for streaming and download exclusively through MySpace – and all proceeds will go to help sick kids, reports the New York Daily News.
The song features vocals by Esmee Denters, the first artist signed on Timberlake’s label Tennman Records.
The tune, which sells for 99 cents, was recorded at the recent “Justin Timberlake and Friends” concert in Las Vegas.
Washington, Nov 19 : A team of Canadian researchers has for the first time identified a neurotransmitter that is crucial to the brain’s ability to differentiate between the features of two or more articles—such as identifying a green apple amongst pears.
Leigh C. P. Botly and Eve De Rosa, psychologists at the University of Toronto, say that the neurotransmitter acetylcholine is key to the process of feature binding, by which our brain combines all of the specific features of an object and gives us a complete and unified picture of it.
As part of the study, a group of volunteers participated in a feature binding task (choosing among various shapes and colors), with some of them being distracted throughout the duration of the task.