Jenna ( or is it Jack) Talackova, 23, competed with 61 contestants Saturday night. She was among the final 12 contestants.

Talackova, who was born a male, underwent a sex change four years ago. The Vancouver, British Columbia, native was initially denied entry to Canada's pageant because she was not a natural-born female. Donald Trump, who runs the Miss Universe Organization, subsequently overruled that decision.

The 6-foot-1 (1.8-meter-1 centimeter) blond beauty strutted the runway and competed in the bikini and formal wear contests.

The winner advances to the international Miss Universe competition in December.

The first trailer for The Possession has debuted over at Yahoo Movies, giving us our first look at the film, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen) and Kyra Sedgwick (Gamer) as increasingly concerned parents of the young Natasha Callis (The Firm).

    “Clyde and Stephanie Brenek see little cause for alarm when their youngest daughter Em becomes oddly obsessed with an antique wooden box she purchased at a yard sale. But as Em’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic, the couple fears the presence of a malevolent force in their midst, only to discover that the box was built to contain a dibbuk, a dislocated spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host.”

Directed by Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch), returning with his first English-language film in a decade, directing from a script co-written by frequent collaborators Juliet Snowden and Stiles White (Knowing).

The Possession will be released in the UK and US on 31st August, which (as noted) puts it head-to-head with Paco Plaza’s return to the REC franchise here in the UK, but puts it a week earlier than [REC] 3’s release in the US, where the latter will be released on 7th September. Here’s the first trailer to see what Bornedal has in store for us.

Loch Ness in Chippewa River

The Loch Ness monster is on vacation, and what a better place than Wisconsin – and state officials wish to have the very legendary monster to be removed.

Department of Natural Resources spokesman Dan Baumann says a sculpture of Nessie is illegally obstructing and protruding out of the Chippewa River in Eau Claire and needs to be taken out by the very person who placed it there.

The sculpture's father remains a mystery, although a person who anonymously emailed the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram on Thursday said it would be taken out within 10 days.

Retailer Menards says it would like to acquire the guerrilla art and that the monster could make her home in retention ponds at the home improvement chain's Eau Claire property.

The Loch Ness monster was initially "spotted" at Loch Ness, a waterway some 15 kilometres south of Inverness, Scotland, back 1933.
 

Larry Hall, who is a Condo developer is already 1/4 sold out of upscale doomsday units he is building in an abandoned underground Cold War-era Atlas-F missile silo near Salina, Kan. He told an Agence France-Presse reporter in April that his 14-story structure would house seven floors of apartments ($1 million to $2 million each, cash up front), with the rest devoted to dry food storage, filtered-water tanks and an indoor farm, which would raise fish and vegetables to sustain residents for five years.

The 9-foot-thick concrete walls (built to protect rockets from a Soviet nuclear attack) would be buttressed by entrance security to ward off the savages who were not wise enough to prepare against famine, meteors, nuclear war and the like. Hall said he expects to be sold out this year and begin work on another of the three silos he has options to buy.
 

Valeria Lukyanova has turned out to be a web celebrity in her home country of Russia, claiming on her blog that she has become the most famed woman on the Russian-language internet.

Her doll-like features, long golden-haired resulted in her look like a real life Barbie.

Horrified viewers have slammed the girl on her looks. One commented: She looks not just ugly, yet ridiculous although one more wrote: "A woman with completely ideal features is reall a bit boring woman."

Others had been kinder towards the golden-haired beauty. One asked: "Isn't it an unhealthy obsession seeking to look like a Barbie doll"

But the big issue remains unanswered: Is Valeria real or is a little of an elaborate Photoshop hoax?

More "normal" images of her are on her Facebook page and are of the 21-year-old putting on much a smaller amount of make-up suggesting she does exists.
 

The number of "Ways of ruining your kids lives" is about a million miles long, and mixed in the middle of "reading bedtime stories too scary" and "comparing kids" there is this cracker: have your kids pick winning lottery numbers

It is not unusual for a school yard fight to be started because of Facebook – except, perhaps, when the organizers are two adults and mothers at that.

The mothers of the children from a British school, were tiffing on facebook about a upcoming party, and could not settle the argument so they agreed to meet outside their children's school after dropping their children off. The mothers fought at 9 am but was quickly broken up by local police. Shame they did not decide to fight in lingerie.

Like a scene right from "Arachnophobia", local spiders have covered in silk an Australian town to reach higher ground.