Fake John le Carré Twitter Account Fakes J.K. Rowling's Fake Twitter Death

We've seen "Cormac McCarthy" Tweet apocalyptic non sequiturs. "Philip Roth" promised us a bite-sized short story. Now a fake Twitter account for British spy novelist John le Carré is spreading bizarre death rumors about J.K. Rowling. After a few days of Tweeting harmless missives, the week-old handle @JLecarre dropped this would-be bombshell on its nearly 2,500 followers Wednesday morning:
A terrible news. My publisher phones me announcing that J.K. Rowling dies by accident. Few minutes ago. No words!
— John le Carré (@JLecarre) January 2, 2013
OK, there are at least three dead-giveaways that this is a fake account. One: If J.K. Rowling had died, does anyone credibly think John le Carré would be the one breaking the news? Rowling and le Carré don't even share a publisher—he's with Penguin and she's printed by Little, Brown and Company—making this story even more implausible. Two: As noted by le Carré's literary agent Jonny Geller, the "L" in the author's name shouldn't be capitalized, as it is in the handle of this hoax account. Three: Phrases like "a terrible news" and "my publisher phones me" sound more like snippets from an ESL workbook than lines from an author praised for his chilly, controlled prose style. This could again be the work of Italian media troll Tommaso De Benedetti, who copped to creating a fake Philip Roth account recently. "Twitter works well for deaths," he told The Guardian's Tom Kington, describing his M.O. for spreading misinformation about the deaths of public figures like Fidel Castro and Pedro Almodóvar.

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Kicked Off Facebook, Kid Creates Own Social Network

If you can't join it, create your own.
That's the attitude one Florida preteen ran with after his parents banned him from using Facebook. Instead of begging or slamming doors when his account was deactivated, the 11-year-old launched his own social network tailored specifically to children.
Grom Social founder Zachary Marks had a Facebook account for roughly a week despite being two years too young to join the site, having lied about his age to create an account. And when his parents discovered that he may have been engaging in risky online activities, they pulled the plug.
"I spent all my time on the computer chatting with friends. Then, I made mistakes," Marks explained on the Grom Social About page. "One of my adult friends cursed and posted something inappropriate, and I cursed back. Also, I friend-requested grownups who I did not know. About a day later, my dad found out. He was really mad. I had to deactivate my account."
Marks said he wasn't interested in any existing, kid-friendly, social networks — "They were all childish," he said — so he set out to create one for "Groms," a slang term for young surfers that he repurposed to mean something close to "precocious kid."
In order to keep kid members safe, only parents and parent-approved adults can join Grom Social. Parents of kid members are kept up to date on their youngster's online activities via email. The site also has a built-in language filter to keep the expletives from flying straight into kids' virgin eyes.
Grom Social is also compliant with COPPA, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, a controversial law aimed at keeping kids safe online that some argue is ineffective and unconstitutionally limits children's First Amendment rights.
Under COPPA, websites, apps and plug-ins are not allowed to collect information from children less than 13 years old without their parent's express consent. The burden of verification, however, simply isn't worth it to most mainstream social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare, so they ban members under 13.
To date, Grom Social has almost 7,000 members and is open to users under 15 in the United States and Canada.
This story was provided by TechNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience.
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Reverse Phone Number Lookup Plans Now Discounted at CellPhoneRegistry.com

Reverse phone number lookup plans are now discounted online at the CellPhoneRegistry.com website. The single search and annual plan now provide discounted pricing to help those performing in-depth phone lookups to save money during the research process.

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Reverse phone number lookups are one popular way that phone caller information can be verified or located quickly and easily. The CellPhoneRegistry.com company now holds the largest database online for cell and landline phone numbers and is offering discounted pricing. The pricing for single number and unlimited search records has been reduced to help those searching for U.S. based numbers to save money.
Unlisted phone numbers pose a problem for searchers depending on Caller ID services. The unpublished and unlisted numbers now total into the millions in the United States according to telecom data. The lack of information that is provided for these numbers is one reason that a brand new unlisted search tool is now offered online. Over 218 million unlisted numbers are now searchable to help someone locate more information about a caller.
Prank phone calls can be considered criminal activity in some U.S. states although without verification of a name and identify of a caller it can be difficult to seek prosecution. The process of the reverse phone search tools that are now offered online are helping to provide one extra level of security for users. Nearly any U.S. number can be searched entirely online and records can be pulled from the database.
The new pricing that is applied to the search plans includes the unlimited search plan that was added this year. This new plan provides 365 days of unlimited usage for any adult accessing the search system through the secure online interface. Since multiple databases are used to acquire data, searchers of the system can lookup unlimited numbers to provide the accuracy of information already known or to locate new information.
The CellPhoneRegistry.com company updates its database information on a regular basis. Over a half a billion records now exist and this information is obtained from private and public information sources. The records that can be accessed apply to all states in the U.S. Since the service is guaranteed, a person that does not find a match is eligible for a second search at no charge if he or she uses the single number search plans online.
About Cell Phone Registry
The Cell Phone Registry company is one of the first of its kind operating online that provides immediate access to a half a billion phone records. These records are checked for accuracy and are added or subtracted when necessary to keep all information updated. This company provides dual levels of search plans to make it simple for men and women to find the information that is requested. The Cell Phone Registry company offers guarantees of all of its searched data and provides one of the only unlimited phone number search systems currently found online.

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Mother Publishes Story of Her Daughter’s Battle Against Cancer in New Book

Author Rebecca Rozelle Burt returns with a nonfiction work which traces a journey that transformed her life and may also transform the lives of others.

Anniston, AL (PRWEB) January 10, 2013
From Rebecca Rozelle Burt, author of Facing Bulls—a powerful fiction about death, grief and coping—comes I Had a Daughter, a newly-published, evocative work of non-fiction, that tackles the same life-changing themes as her novel.
Burt recounts in raw detail the story of her 13-month journey with her daughter, Rozelle Burt Lentjes, as she battled a lethal form of cancer. It is a remarkable story that deals with relationships and suffering, courage and perseverance, humility and grace, faith and love.
I Had A Daughter is a memoir as well as a spiritual diary. Written by a mother who becomes a primary caregiver for her beloved 46-year-old daughter, the book is composed of a chronological narrative interspersed with pertinent e-mails, inner monologues, and medical data. No component of the author’s experience is omitted. The author does, however, recognize her limitations. “I tell Rozelle’s story only as I could perceive it within the space allowed to those we love, the borders of our private inner worlds. I admit to the subjectivity of my perceptions and memories,” Burt writes.
The book allows readers to experience from the inside what the author calls “cancer world.” Including details of their medical journey, Burt reveals the complications and frustrations involved in finding the right doctors and the best treatment. She describes how the best doctors relate to the patient and not just the disease. She also emphasizes the necessity of informed patient participation in the process of treatment.
Ultimately the story becomes a spiritual diary. During bad times and good, the author is surprised by changes and discoveries in her understanding of what life brings.
This book will provide insights for any reader who has faced adversity and survived. It will also be of interest to anyone who has wondered about the mysterious ways in which we incorporate suffering and loss into our lives without falling into despair.
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Rebecca Rozelle Burt was born and grew up in Talladega, Alabama. She attended Auburn University, married, and later graduated from the University of Alabama at Huntsville. When her two children were young, she earned an MA degree from Jacksonville State University. After teaching English in junior high and high schools in various northeastern Alabama locations, she spent the last several years of her career in the English Department of Jacksonville State University. She is the author of a novel, Facing Bulls, published in 2010 and is currently working on another novel, Because I Live Here, and editing Recollections: My Folks and Fields, her late father’s cultural history of life in rural Clay County, Alabama. She lives in Anniston, Alabama, with her husband, Mack. They share their home with Woodrow the Wonder Dog, a border collie mix rescued from a local shelter.uas
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New Book Reveals a Family’s Life Amidst Religious Fundamentalism and Zealotry

Author Duane Keown revisits his past as a non-believer in Mormon-dominated Utah

Wyoming (PRWEB) January 10, 2013
In “Thirteenth Year in Zion,” author Duane Keown gives an exposition of Mormon culture during his time in Utah from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s. He recalls his experiences as an educator in an environment steeped in religious fundamentalism, and the difficulties of raising a family with views different from that of the Mormon majority. He also details the anachronistic beliefs of the Mormon religion, and how they contradict the scientific and cultural developments of the modern world.
Keown points out the absurdity of the controversial Mormon belief that God cursed the Africans and Native Americans with their skin color because of the sins of their ancestors. The prejudicial treatment against Africans and Native Americans included African Americans prohibition from holding leadership positions in the Mormon Church. This discriminatory policy lasted until the late 1970s, when criticism from civil rights movement forced the Church to revise its holy teachings. According to their Holy Book of Mormon, Native Americans descended from a lost tribe of Israelites, when genetic research shows that they are more related to people from northern Asia. Keown also criticizes how the religious fundamentalists force their faith on those with different beliefs, mistakenly thinking that their religion is the only true path and that all other beliefs are wrong.
“Thirteenth Year in Zion” is an earnest warning against the folly of fundamentalism, and how science, modernism and multiculturalism can challenge these intolerant beliefs. Keown’s work is an informative portrayal of the interplay of culture, society and faith in America in these changing times.
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Duane Keown began his education career at the Hideout Mine School in the San Juan County of Utah in 1960. Later, he taught biology and other sciences at the Monticello High School in Monticello. For three years, he was the principal of the San Juan Junior High School in Blanding. In 1975, he became a professor of science education at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Keown is best known in Wyoming for his work with teachers in conservation/environmental education workshops. In UW’s Science and Math Teaching Center, he worked with teachers from more than 30 school districts during the summers of 1995–98 to write environmental education activity manuals. The manual, “Wild Wonderful Wyoming: Choices for the Future”, went to one-third of the state’s K-12 teachers. He has authored numerous professional articles in journals on science education, environmental education, and religion. Professor Keown was honored at the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education in Portland, Oregon when he received the distinguished Outstanding Service to Environmental Education by an Individual Award for 2009.
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Publication Date: 10/30/2012

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Soccer-Russia's Kuban Krasnodar installs Kuchuk as coach

MOSCOW, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Russian Premier League club Kuban Krasnodar moved quickly to replace sacked coach Yuri Krasnozhan, naming Belarussian Leonid Kuchuk as their new boss on Wednesday.
Krasnozhan was fired on Tuesday following what Kuban said were "strategic" disagreements with club officials, despite leading the modest side to fourth place midway through the season - their best position in Russia's top flight.
Kuban becomes the fourth top flight club to change coaches since the start of a long winter break last month, joining Premier League strugglers Mordovia Saransk, Volga Nizhny Novgorod and Krylya Sovietov Samara.

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Soccer-France Hoarau signs for China's Dalian Aerbin from PSG

PARIS, Jan 9 (Reuters) - France striker Guillaume Hoarau has joined Chinese Super League soccer club Dalian Aerbin from Paris St Germain, the player said on Wednesday.
The 28-year-old Hoarau, who has five caps for France, signed a three-year deal with the club, according to media reports.
"Here we go," Hoarau wrote on his official Twitter account underneath a picture of him displaying a Dalian Aerbin scarf.
Hoarau played only 118 minutes in six league games, scoring one goal, as coach Carlo Ancelotti preferred Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Kevin Gameiro and even winger Jeremy Menez at the front.
The towering striker joined PSG in 2008 from second division Le Havre, and scored 38 goals in 114 appearances for the capital club. He last featured with the national side in a friendly in Poland in June 2011.

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Manziel first freshman to win Heisman Trophy

(Reuters) - Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel was awarded the Heisman Trophy on Saturday, making him the first 'freshman' to win college football's top honor.
Manziel, nicknamed "Johnny Football", beat out Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o and Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein at the swanky ceremony in New York.
"This is a moment I've dreamed about since I was a kid running around the backyard pretending I was Doug Flute throwing 'hail marys' to my dad," the first-year player Manziel said.
"To be invited into this fraternity, what a pleasure it really is.
"I wish my whole team could be up here with me tonight especially my whole offensive line."
The Texan Manziel finished the regular season with 3,419 passing yards and 1,181 rushing yards to set a new total offense record for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in 12 games.
Manziel, who is not eligible for the NFL draft for at least another year, also broke the 1969 record held by Archie Manning, father of Peyton and Eli Manning, for total offense in a game with 557 yards against Arkansas.
He later bettered that with 567 yards against Louisiana Tech.
Marqise Lee from USC was fourth and Braxton Miller from Ohio State was fifth.

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Super Bowl Party at Via Brasil Steakhouse this 2013

Via Brasil Steakhouse is the place to be on February 3rd 2013. This Las Vegas Brazilian Steakhouse is showing the game in a main dining room on 150" Screen with their Rodizio dinner and happy hour specials

Las Vegas ,Nevada (PRWEB) January 08, 2013
Super Bowl Package Options
Option 1 $36.99 Rodizio Dinner with 18 Meats,16 Side Dishes and Gourmet Salad Bar with 35 Hot and Cold Dishes AYCE” in a Dining room
Option 2 $18,99 Salad Bar AYCE with 35 Super Bowl style appetizers
Option 3 $3-$8 Happy Hour Cocktail and Appetizers Specials-at the Bar and Dining room
Option 4 $35 Open Bar /person
Children 5 years old and under Rodizio Dinner is Free and Children 6-12 years old Rodizio Dinner is $14,99
About Via Brasil Steakhouse:

Via Brasil Steakhouse is located at 1225 S. Fort Apache Road, on the southwest corner of Charleston Boulevard and Fort Apache Road. Open seven days a week, Via Brasil Steakhouse is open for Dinner service from 5pm Monday through Friday, 3pm Saturday and 4pm Sunday. Brunch is Served Sundays Only from 10:00am - 2pm. Reservations are encouraged. For reservations or more information, please call 702-804-1400 or visit http://www.viabrasilsteakhouse.com. Also follow us on Facebook and Twitter @viabrasilsteakh

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Start Up Company, Kinks the Ad Minx, Compares itself to Santa Clause

New business start up is comparing itself to Santa in a bid to attract trust in its venture.

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 8 January 2013
A new ‘gimmicky’ style start up is comparing itself with Santa Claus in the hope to attract the attention and trust of potential investors. Kinks the Ad Minx is the concept of a 27 year old from the UK who is planning on travelling across the USA for 8 weeks this summer. The idea is that the car, Kinks, will sell small sections of space on the car and place logo’s and adverts across the car in a montage style. This enables the car to display multiple adverts, whilst offering a low cost option to advertisers. The adverts will also be displayed on the website. The owner, Kerry, is currently a field based Sales Consultant and came up with the idea whilst driving up and down the UK constantly for work. ‘I was travelling around extensively in the run up to Christmas’ states Kerry ‘and I couldn’t help but think what a shame it was that my company had never utilized the space on my car for their logo, or an advert, as it had the potential to reach a wide audience. That is where the idea for Kinks came in. If I am driving across the USA anyway, I may as well try to make a little extra cash by using my car as an advertising board’. Although Kinks is intended to be a different concept to the norm in car advertising, Kerry hopes that the low cost outlay will attract marketing executives to try her idea out. ‘I think that the look of the car will be so unique it will attract interest and people will take the time to look at it, and even Google it. Especially when the car is stationary, parked or in traffic, it will be attention catching’ claims Kerry. The website states that ‘it may be the next Santa Claus’ and the question they are asking is ‘Would you invest in Santa Claus?’ Kerry, and Kinks the Ad Minx, are certainly hoping you would.

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