London Lite says its considering closing. Popular British paper the London Lite said it may close in a statement today; the Lite’s losses were heavy for August at $13 million.

The London Lite deals with London news, sport and celeb reports and is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGOa.L).

If the London Lite fails, this would be the second London freesheet to close in 60 days following News Corp’s closure of The London Paper.

Other analysts tell the FT today they believe there are chances the London Lite could merge with the Standard. Steve Auckland, manager director of Associated Newspapers (under DMGT) says “Despite reaching a large audience with an excellenet editorial format, we are concerned about the commercial viability in this highly competitive market.”

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PICTURE. News of the death of Mermaid Girl (picture above) is captivating a nation which has followed the Mermaid Syndrome (sirenomelia) fight of Shiloh Pepin for over a year.

Sirenomelia is when your lower body doesn’t develop correctly as a fetus resulting in the two limbs attached. Most fail to survive hours after birth. But Shiloh was doing great following a kidney transplant in 2007.

The syndrome is a congenital deformity where your legs grow together appearing like the tail of a mermaid. The condition only occurs in one of every 100,000 births with persons passing within 48 hours of birth.

Only three people have ever survived to live with the syndrome.

In 2007 TLC recorded Pepin for their documentary “Mermaid Girl”. The show would air in December 2008 and then June of 2009. Doctors say Pepin was in critical condition since last week.

Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

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PICTURE. Here again is a photo of Shiloh Pepin aka Mermaid Girl featured on LALATE in December. Shiloh Pepin whose Mermaid Syndrome brought national headlines in 2008 has died.

Pepin was 10.

Shiloh was born with sirenomelia which involves both legs attached from the waist down. Initial doctors reports had said Shiloh would only have a day to live. Instead, she lived 10 years full of joy.

In December 2008, LALATE profiled Pepin, the subject of a TLC special at the time. Pepin was believed to be one of only three people who ever survived sirenomelia.

The TLC documentary entitled “Mermaid Girl” followed Shiloh in her Kennebunkport home during 2007. Her mom had said to local press in December that coverage from TLC got the girl her own wetsuit to learn swimming.

Pepin had a kidney transplant in 2007. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

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When is Daylight Savings Time? Your Daylight Savings Time Schedule for 2009 is about to end.

Daylight Savings Time will end November 1, 2009! So before you go to bed the night before, remember to set your clocks backwards. You will get an extra hour of sleep. Daylight Savings Time will next start the second Sunday in March 2010.

The concept of Daylight Savings Time came from George Vernon Hudson in 1895. But historians note that Romans used different clock scales in ancient times at different parts of the years.

Daylight Savings Time has always caused controversy. Churchill said once in support of Daylight Savings Time that it affords “the opportunities for the pursuit of health and happiness among the millions of people who live in this country”.

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VIDEO! Here is Australian youtube video of that baby stroller and an arriving train. The baby stroller train story ends fine with officials saying the baby only “needed a feed and a nap” after the ordeal.

“Luckily he was strapped into his [stroller] … at that time which probably save his life” said officials. But it was but for the stroller on a decline and his mom walking away that the child actually took the fall in the first place. “Fortunately the train was slowing as it pulled into the station.”

The baby boy, six months old, is fine and unharmed. The mother? Well her choice to take her hands of a stroller was not so fine. Police tell Australian press that parents should “be cautious in train stations”.

Yes, and parents thinking would help too. Watch the video below.

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VIDEO! Watch video of Yoavanna Guzman on former boyfriend Wilber Varela. Yoavanna Guzman met Varela who sponsored her in Chica Med, a beauty pageant.

But Chica Med wasn’t any beauty pageant. Varela told her tha he was a ranchero, a cattle rancher. And that wasn’t true either.

Investigators say Chica Med was a cattle show for fake cattle ranchers / gangsters shopping to get a new girlfriend. And that’s who Varela really was. Many believe pageant titles were bought by these gangsters. But one thing Varela bought for certain for Guzman were gifts.

She tells CNN:

“There were the vacations, the cars and the luxury SUVs and, of course, jewelry. There was always jewelry. But there were small details too like flowers”.

“Of course, the luxuries don’t make you fall in love, but they do dazzle you. When you get dazzled, you get carried away, but then you ask yourself where is the love and my principles?”

Varela started with a Rolex for Guzman, then gave her a Cartier, then more jewelry, then cars, the real estate. She said mob bosses would send their girls to plastic surgeons.

“If they want you, the first thing they do is send you to their plastic surgeons to have silicone implants. But it’s them who decide how big you should be, not you”.

Watch video of her story below.

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PHOTO. Dalia Mogahed, part of Obama’s advisory council, recently spoke about the death of Marwa Ali El Sherbini.

Dalia Mogahed addresses Marwa Ali El Sherbini’s death in new comments; Mogahed is as a member of President Obama’s advisory council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Marwa El-Sherbini died reportedly from a Russian- German extremist in a German court. Mogahe said of El-Sherbini’s death:

“[It was] a horrific crime …. [that] should be seen as a symptom of a deeper problem of prejudice in Germany.

“[C]rimes against Muslims may just be getting greater attention than before, due to the new focus on better relations brought about by Obama’s Cairo speech.

“…All societies, and in fact all individuals, are capable of justice and compassion and also of oppression and cruelty.

“This is a contradiction of being human, of having free will and of being capable of both good and evil. Just as there are extremists in the West, there are also principles of equality. Just as there is racism among some in the West, there is also reason and systems based on merit. The West is not monolithic, just as Muslim societies are not monolithic. It is as difficult to stereotype America as it is to stereotype Egypt or Muslims around the world. Every community, and indeed every individual, has both good and evil within them.”

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