By KEVIN HALL

Updated 9:00 AM PDT, Tue, Sep 15, 2009

Argentina’s Sinapsis design studio has come up with this “After Office Tie” that’ll seamlessly take you from your nine-to-five to your five-’til-last-call. Nothing too fancy here, nor is the bottle opener even hidden. It’s right at the tip of the tie — your coworkers will know you’re ready to party.

The “After Office Tie” is one of 100 shortlisted entries in a contest by Designboom and will be displayed in the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Designboom, via Crunch Gear

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Updated 7:26 AM PDT, Tue, Sep 15, 200

Tessa Medearis may have only been 18 at the time, but she knew Ian Kinney was the love of her life.  “He was the one for me. I know it. I never wanted to leave him.”

But in July 2008, Ian Kinney was taken from Tessa by a drunk driver.  It happened at about 6 p.m. on State Route 78 as the couple drove in a Lexus from Julian to Vista.

“Out of the corner of my eye I see this white flash,” said Medearis.  The white flash was a white Chevy pick up truck that CHP investigators say El Cajon resident Shannon Shimp was driving.  According to investigators, Shimp was driving erratically, weaving in and out of traffic, when he lost control and broadsided Kinney and Medearis.

“I looked over at Ian and I knew it was pretty much over,”said Medearis.  “The car was pushed inside of him, there was blood everywhere and it wasn’t mine.”

Kinney was pronounced dead at the scene.  A passenger in Shimp’s truck, Joseph Edwards, 52, was also killed.

Medearis was alive but seriously injured.  Both her hands were shattered, her spine fractured and both feet broken.  “And my thumb was really bad it was actually in the middle of my hand,” Medearis said.

None of the injuries compared to the pain in her heart, she said, after losing the love of her life.  She is hoping an East County jury will convict Shimp on two counts of second degree murder.

“If we let someone out there that’s killed two people, what’s to stop them from doing it again,” Medearis said.

Closing arguments begin on Tuesday and the jury could get the case later that morning.

The defense has argued that this is not a murder case.  Shimp’s attorney told jurors that the back tires on the truck had low tire pressure, which may have played a role in the crash.

If convicted on all counts, Shimp could get 30 years to life in prison.

First Published: Sep 14, 2009 10:08 PM PDT

Man jumps out of private ambulance onto Hollywood Freeway and is killed by another car – LA Daily News.

Gerarld McCullouch is in the news today because he successfully and bravely fended off an attack by a would-be mugger, as he was riding the subway in New York City. The actor was working on his laptop, uploading a video to YouTube when the mugger attempted to snatch it from him. McCullouch, a trained boxer who practices three or four times a week took on the assailant, delivering body shot to the chest. The mugger pulled a 10-inch knife in retaliation leading to a fierce confrontation.

I yelled at the top of my lungs, ‘Get the [bleep] away from me!’ That’s when the knife came down into my back. I don’t know whether he lost his grip or what, but the blade didn’t penetrate my leather jacket.

“We were in each other’s face. I think I punched him again as the doors closed and the train started leaving the station. I’m watching MTA workers on the platform looking in. I thought, ‘Great, now I’m alone in this car with him.’

Thanks to the intervention of the train conductor who pulled the actor into the next car and the several police officers who entered the car and handcuffed and arrested the would be assailant, the actor escaped unharmed. He said in an interview that he fought back because he had been in “the[boxing] ring about eight hours before. Also, I didn’t want to give up my computer after working on my video all that time.”

It was the actor’s second confrontation with a mugger; he was previously held up at gunpoint in 2001.

As a biography, Gerald McCullouch was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 30, 1967 so his age is 41. He attended Florida State University, studying in the BFA Musical Theatre Program. Prior to college, his first job as a performing artist was as a singer in the country western revue at Six Flags Over Georgia when he was 16 years old. The aspiring actor survived a near fatal car crash during his sophomore year of college, in which he suffered a severe head injury that left him in a short-term coma.

After months of rehabilitation, he began his professional career first in Atlanta, Georgia and then in New York City where he found success as an actor in commercials. He also did work in film and theater, in both singing and nonsinging roles, notably as the title character in the musical ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in a European tour.

For the past nine seasons, Gerald McCullouch has become widely known for his role as Bobby Dawson, a ballistics expert in the hit CBS TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, a drama series which chronicles the work of a team of Las Vegas forensic scientists as they investigate the circumstances in mysterious homicides and other crimes. As is the actor, the character is openly gay, as revealed during the show’s season in 2003.

He is also widely seen as a recurring guest host of FYE! on E!TV. He also pursues a career as a stand up comic and has performed in top clubs including Caroline’s and Gotham in New York City and Improv in LA. Additionally, he has numerous professional credits as a model, film and TV director, screenwriter, and photographer.

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