“Glee’s” Britney Spears episode takes over Twitter’s trending topics

All “Gleeks” out there have been waiting for the highly anticipated Britney Spears “Glee” episode and they sure made it clear that tonight is “Glee’s” night.

Within the first thirty minutes of the show airing, the show took over eight out of the ten spots on the Twitter trending topics, which included Britney Spears Glee, After Dentist Reference, Heather Morris, Sue Sylvester, Artie Singing, Jewish Cloud and Lea Michele, reports Small Screen Scoop.

UT gunman the only victim in morning of chaos

Investigators and the family of Colton Tooley were looking for clues to what led the 19-year-old student, armed with an AK-47, to open fire Tuesday at the University of Texas, spraying several rounds before police said he turned the gun on himself as officers closed in.
No one else was struck by Tooley's bullets, and he apparently did not take aim at anyone who was heading across campus shortly after 8 a.m.
The gunfire still sent students and employees at one of the nation's largest universities scrambling for cover as sirens blared and loudspeakers urged them to seek shelter Authorities spent half the day searching for a possible second gunman because of differing descriptions eyewitnesses provided, but officials later determined that Tooley acted alone.
Hours later, police were searching a home on Western Drive, off West William Cannon Drive near Brodie Lane in Southwest Austin, where neighbors said Tooley had lived with his parents since birth. A 2009 graduate of Crockett High School and a mathematics major at UT, Tooley was described by a family spokesman and neighbors as quiet and very intelligent.
"He wouldn't or couldn't hurt a fly," said a man who emerged from the Tooley house at the end of the day, describing himself as a family spokesman and Tooley's cousin and giving only his first name, Marcus.
"If he was depressed, you would never know it, because he would never express his emotions," Marcus said.
Marcus, who took no questions from reporters, said Tooley gave no indication that he would be involved in a violent incident.
"No signs at all, whatsoever," he said.
Police did not say whether they found anything at the house.
Neighbors said Tooley and his parents kept to themselves on the street, where many people know each other. One neighbor described them as "difficult people to get to know."
C.J. Drake, who lives across the street from the family, recalled Tooley as "shy but polite." Drake said she once found one of Tooley's English papers on her lawn, a piece that she said revealed his beautiful writing and "the heart of a poet."
George and Dannie Dankworth, who live nearby, said they would often see Tooley through the window on his computer into the night.
Hillary Hunter said her son was in Cub Scouts with Tooley, a boy she recalled as "super smart" who was always getting math awards at school.
Tooley graduated seventh in his class at Crockett, according to a statement from Principal Craig Shapiro.
"Colton … was an excellent student, who excelled in every subject," the statement said. "His teachers recall him with words such as brilliant, meticulous, and respectful."
`Could have beena whole lot worse'
About noon, almost four hours after the shooting began, those who barricaded themselves in UT classrooms and offices were given the all-clear by police, but the campus was closed to all but essential personnel for the day. Classes are set to resume today.
"It was a tragedy for this campus, but it could have been a whole lot worse," UT Police Chief Robert Dahlstrom said. "It is terrible one student died, but he didn't take anybody with him."
Witnesses reported being within feet of Tooley moments before his death.
Randall Wilhite, an adjunct law professor at UT, was driving north on University Drive toward class when he heard what sounded like five gunshots, he said. Then he saw students scattering and a man in a suit, carrying what appeared to be an assault rifle, sprinting east on 21st Street.
"He ran right in front of my car, fired two or three shots south, sort of generally in my direction, but not at me," Wilhite said. "He was about 10 feet in front of me. I was very vulnerable had he wanted to shoot at me."
The shooting prompted immediate fears of a campus massacre, such as the 2007 killings at Virginia Tech that left 32 dead, and, for another generation, the 1966 shooting deaths of more than a dozen people at UT by Charles Whitman, who fired from atop the UT Tower.
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said a preliminary investigation shows that Tooley fired multiple rounds outside. Officers pursued him, using eyewitness descriptions, to the Perry-Castañeda Library, where Tooley shot himself on the sixth — and top — floor.
Two construction workers at Dobie Mall were among those who got the earliest look at Tooley.
Brothers Ruben and Roberto Cordova were on Dobie's plaza level, perhaps 50 feet above Whitis Avenue, when Roberto Cordova said he saw a man walking along Whitis dressed in black.

Rachel Brown Hell,S Kitchen

The body of Joseph Cerniglia, the owner of 39 years of Campania Restaurant in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, was pulled from the river, a married father of three children who lived Friday.Cerniglia in Wayne, New Jersey, was deeply in debt Campania when the restaurant was made in the ninth inning of the first season of “Kitchen Nightmares.” In this show, the greedy Ramsay hit by thick-a-kind restaurants in shape. “Your business is about [expletive] to swim across the Hudson,” said Cerniglia Scottish Chief, which had tens of thousands of dollars to suppliers of Campania, in the top of his personal debts.
Rachel Brown, who competed in the Ramsay Hell’s Kitchen “, was shot dead at her family home in Dallas in 2007 – a year after its entry into the fifth position in the competition show that pits chefs against the other.Officials each received a 911 call on Cerniglia’s body Friday afternoon – shortly after receiving 911 calls about a man who jumped from the George Washington Bridge His death was ruled a suicide. oerniglia. face deep debt as they struggle to keep his restaurant in New Jersey, Campania, open when he appeared on “Kitchen Nightmares” in 2007 “I am in financial difficulty -. Restoring debt, personal debt is overwhelming me -. The women, children, mortgage – that’s a lot of debt, “Ramsay said in the program.” I owe my suppliers about $ 80,000 in cash right now … I do not see another year go by. ”
I missed it! Ugh! Seth Levine, one of the candidates of the program, invited 300 of his closest friends, watch the first episode together.Constantine Maroulis, The United States Olympic fencing team and Alexandra Richards (yes, Keith’s daughter) were among the guests. The body of Joseph Cerniglia, the owner of 39 years Campania Restaurant in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, was out of the river, a married father of three children who lived in Friday.Cerniglia Wayne, New Jersey, moved deeply in debt Campania when his restaurant in the ninth episode of the first season of “Ramsay Gourmet Kitchen Nightmares.

First Rachel Brown, Now Joseph Cernigia Found Dead, Kitchen Nightmares

Kitchen Nightmares’ Restaurateur Found In River If you tune in regularly to Kitchen Nightmares, one of Gordon Ramsay’s many reality TV shows, you may remember seeing Joseph Cerniglia featured in an episode.
The 39-year-old chef-owner of Campania came on the show to help keep his New Jersey restaurant from going under. Unfortunately, Cerniglia was found dead in New York last week.
Police pulled his body from the Hudson River near W. 145th St. around 3 p.m. on Friday, reports NYDailyNews.com. The cause of death is still under investigation, but “no criminality” is suspected.
Police responded to a 911 call of a body floating in the river, not long after another caller reported seeing a man jump from the George Washington Bridge.
Cerniglia leaves behind his wife and three sons.
Each episode of Kitchen Nightmares features Ramsay spending a week with a flailing restaurant where he revamps their dining space and menu to help improve their business. The American spinoff is based on the British series Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

Pakistan minister quits after accusing army of killings

Abdul Qayum Jatoi had told journalists on Saturday that the Pakistani army was provided with funds to defend the country, not to get involved in political assasination
His comments were played repeatedly on Pakistani television channels.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani summoned him to explain his remarks and a short time later, Mr Jatoi resigned.

"We provided the army with uniforms and boots not so that they kill their own fellow countrymen, kill Nawab Sahib [Bugti] and Benazir Bhutto," he told a news conference in the city of Quetta.

Military might Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007 as she was campaigning in Pakistan's presidential elections.
Nawab Akbar Bugti was a tribal leader in the province of Baluchistan who was killed in a battle between government forces and tribal militants in August 2006.
Pakistan's military has carried out coups against the civilian government on three occasions - in 1958, 1977 and 1999 - and has governed the country for much of its 63-year history.
There has been speculation in the media that the Pakistani military would move against the civilian government, which was widely criticised for its handling of the recent floods.
However, most analysts believe a coup is unlikely at the moment.
During the same news conference, Mr Jatoi suggested that the benefits of corruption should be equally available to all.
"All groups — Sindhi, Pakhtun, Baloch, Seraiki and Punjabi - should get an equal share in corruption," he said.

'Waiting for Superman' fuels parents' furor at broken schools,Unions

Waiting for SupermanIt's class warfare!
Fed-up parents and teachers who saw the explosive education documentary "Waiting for 'Superman' " yesterday were left either seething or in tears -- and calling for revolutionary change after the film's Big Apple debut.
"The passing along of children through the system is just disgusting," said Barbara Levinson, 63, who was crying by the film's end. "Every child should be treated as an individual."
Viewers were also rocked by the work's portrayal of the teachers unions' protection of subpar educators.
"The laws as they stand can protect ineffective teachers who are bad -- I'm disappointed in what the union's become," said Patricia Jordan, who won state teacher of the year in 1993.

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William Varoli, 36, Glendale, Queens; unsure whether to send daughter to public school

"Effective and wonderful teachers are stifled by the ones who are problematic and hard to get rid of," she fumed.
The movie, from directors of "An Inconvenient Truth," takes aim at teacher tenure and "rubber rooms" for teachers facing disciplinary action. It profiles five kids who enter charter-school lotteries.
One parent, from Harlem, is struggling to pay for Catholic school for her daughter Bianca, and another, from The Bronx, is fighting to keep her son Francisco on track in public school.
"I'm almost speechless with horror and disgust," said viewer Rita Callahan, who works for Con Ed. "I'm embarrassed to be an American. I can't believe what we let happen."
Hordes crammed into the two theaters showing the flick yesterday, its first day in release in New York. By noon, the 7:30 p.m. showing at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square, which holds 355 people, was sold out. Crowds also flocked to the Landmark Sunshine Cinema on Houston Street.
"I'm overwhelmed, disappointed," said Carlos Terrazas, who works for Northwestern University. "You knew that education was a problem, but you think if you threw money at the situation, it would be solved."
Another viewer called the film "eye-opening."
"There is definitely a call for action," said Alex Bergson, 23, of the West Village. "The union leadership seemed a little bit to blame with their stubbornness to change."
Tasha Woodson, 39, of Manhattan, whose daughter is a first-grader in a public school, said: "This movie shows that teachers do play an important role in students' lives."
Tucker Hyde, a veteran public school teacher, said he agreed "tenure needs to be looked at and re-evaluated."
Parent Renee Coper, whose son attends Hudson Cliff Elementary School 187 in Washington Heights, said the film was unsettling.
"I now understand why there are so many of my son's teachers who aren't productive and will never get fired," she said. "It's disturbing."
The mother of Bianca, one of the students in the film, beamed with pride at seeing the child on the big screen..
"yo twitter fam go check out my lil babygirl movie come out on friday waiting for super man," she tweeted.
Many educators and union representatives are panning the film, saying it misses the realities of the classroom.
"We don't like 'Waiting for Superman' because we feel it stereotypes union teachers, said Arthur Goldstein, 55, a teacher at Francis Lewis HS in Queens and a United Federation of Teachers chapter leader.
"Charter schools are not magic. There is no magic."
The city Department of Education touted the documentary in a weekly e-mail sent to parents and Schools Chancellor Joe Klein encouraged people to "go see" the "terrific film."

Japan rejects China's demand for apology

Japan strongly rejected a Chinese demand on Saturday that it apologize for detaining a Chinese BEIJING fishing boat captain whose arrest after a collision near disputed islands plunged relations between the two Asian powers to their lowest level in years.
Japanese authorities released the captain, Zhan Qixiong, early Saturday and he was flown home by chartered plane to Fuzhou in China's southeastern Fujian province.
State broadcaster China Central Television showed Zhan, 41, smiling and holding his fingers in a victory sign as he walked off the plane. He was greeted by family members bearing flowers and a small group of.
But hopes that his release would defuse mounting tensions were dashed when China promptly demanded an apology and compensation from Japan.
"It is unlawful and invalid for Japan to detain, investigate or take any form of judicial measures against the Chinese fishermen and trawler," China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "The Japanese side must make an apology and compensation for this incident."
Japan's Foreign Ministry said the demands were groundless and "absolutely cannot be accepted."
The captain's detention and investigation were "an appropriate and calm response according to our nation's laws," it said in a statement.
The diplomatic back-and-forth Saturday demonstrated that nationalistic sentiments stirred up by the incident show few signs of dissipating. Tensions have already affected business ties between the nations' intertwined economies — the world's second- and third-largest.
Zhan was arrested on Sept. 8 after his boat collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near a chain of islands called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan. The islands, about 120 miles (190 kilometers) east of Taiwan, are controlled by Japan but are also claimed by Taiwan and China.
Japanese prosecutors detained and questioned the captain while they decided whether to press charges, though his 14-member crew and boat were returned to China.
Zhan's release came after intense pressure from Beijing, which suspended ministerial-level contacts with Tokyo and postponed talks on developing disputed undersea gas fields. This past week, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao sternly threatened further action against Japan if it did not immediately release the captain.
"I firmly support the Chinese government's stance," Zhan said Saturday after returning to China. "Diaoyu islands belong to China. It's legal that I go there to fish but it's illegal that they detained me. I did not violate the law."
The decision by Japanese prosecutors to let him go has prompted criticism within Japan. An editorial Saturday in the nationally circulated Yomiuri newspaper blasted the captain's release as "a political decision that put the mending of relations as a priority."
"Needless to say, the Senkaku islands are part of Japan's territory. The government must continue to assert this view both domestically and abroad," it said.
The tensions have spilled over into other issues.
On Thursday, Beijing said it was investigating four Japanese suspected of entering a military zone without authorization and illegally filming military facilities. The four employees of Fujita Corp., a Japanese construction company, were working to prepare a bid for a project to dispose chemical weapons abandoned in China by the Japanese military during World War II, the company said.
Meanwhile, Japanese trading company officials said that starting Tuesday, China had halted exports to Japan of rare earth elements, which are essential for making superconductors, computers, hybrid electric cars and other high-tech products. Japan imports 50 percent of China's rare earth shipments.
China's Trade Ministry denied that Beijing had tightened curbs on exports of rare earths to Japan, but Japan's trade minister, Akihiro Ohata, said he had "information" that China's exports to some Japanese trading houses had been stopped.
The territorial dispute over the islands is one of many that has strained ties between Tokyo and Beijing. Japan annexed the island chain in 1895, saying no nation exercised a formal claim over them. The islands, lying roughly midway between Okinawa and Taiwan, were administered by the United States after World War II until they were returned to Tokyo in 1972.
Washington has signaled its intention to protect its interests in those waters and to keep them open for commerce, drawing China's irritation by urging it to resolve the disputes.
The U.S. praised Japan's decision to release the captain. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Friday that the U.S. hopes the decision will ease tensions between the two longtime Asian rivals.
However, Japanese authorities said they wouldn't officially close the case — leaving room for some ambiguity that would allow both countries to save face.