Sexy breast cancer campaigns, Strange and funny Shonky Awards and topless teacher on school iPad

Sexy breast cancer campaigns, Strange and funny Shonky Awards and topless teacher on school iPad

Video-Gangnam Style duo interrupts live Super storm Sandy news report

Video-Hurricane Sandy brings out the best, including shirtless man in horse mask

Wow-Students who see topless teacher on school iPad get suspended

How-Sexy breast cancer campaigns anger many patients

Strange and funny 7th annual CHOICE Shonky Awards

Wow-Students who see topless teacher on school iPad get suspended

ANDERSON, Ind. (WISH) - An Indiana middle school student says he was suspended after viewing a questionable picture of his teacher on a school-issued iPad. This happened at Highland Junior High in Anderson.13-year-old Josh Troutt says he and his friends were playing with a school-issued iPad in class on Monday."My friend let it go to sleep because we were talking," said Josh Troutt, a seventh grader. "Then he went to unlock it again and the cover photo was a picture of the teacher topless."

Josh says he and his friends saw his teacher from the neck to the waist, in a bra, on the classroom's iPad. He says his friends told the principal, and the next day, he and two others were called to the office. Josh says they were all suspended. "She told me not to come to school the next day," said Josh. "It was just unbelievable. I don't understand how he can be suspended for a picture he had no control over; it was a school-issued iPad," said Nicole Troutt, Josh's mom.

Video-Gangnam Style duo interrupts live Super storm Sandy news report

A freezing weather girl had braved the cold on a beach in Norfolk, Virginia, as the hurricane-turned-superstorm made its way across the US east coast to New Jersey. However the special news report took an unexpected twist when two hooded pranksters turned up in the background of the shot showing off dance moves made popular by South Korean rapper Psy.Despite a quick-fingered producer hastily cutting away from the light-hearted duo, it was spotted by enough people for the video to become an overnight internet hit.

Video-Hurricane Sandy brings out the best, including shirtless man in horse mask

FORGET the four horsemen of the apocalypse. You only need one man in a horse mask to herald impending doom. As people batten down the hatches for the Frankenstorm on the US east coast, some have taken a novel approach to readying themselves for mayhem. One shirtless man jogged, casually, in horse mask, as you do, past a film crew in Washington DC, giving the Hurricane Sandy narrative a whole new talking point.

Toblerone, Samsung, Ticketek and Ticketmaster win Choice Shonky Awards for dodgy goods and services

TOBLERONE chocolate has been named and shamed with an award for dodgy goods and services for claiming its 400-gram bar has 16 serves when there are only 15 segments.

Ticket retailers Ticketek and Ticketmaster, cleaning product Exit Mould and a four-star water-efficient washing machine were also handed an award today at the 7th annual Shonky awards organised by the consumer group Choice. "We measured the actual number of mountains in the bars versus the recommended or serving size written on the packet,'' Choice spokesperson Ingrid Just said of Toblerone."What's 15 divided by 16? You do the maths.''

Comedian and MC Julian Morrow, from the Chaser, labelled this a disgrace.

"We call on the government to take immediate action,'' he said. ''(NSW Premier) Barry O'Farrell, sitting on his hands as usual when there are Toblerones going out with inappropriate serving sizes.''

Ticketek and Ticketmaster were also awarded a Shonky for the fees they charge when selling tickets to an event or concert. It charges more than $5 to print tickets at home at the buyer's expense.

Cabcharge also got an award for its 10 per cent credit-card surcharge on fares - despite the Reserve bank of Australia ruling that surcharges must reflect the true cost of providing the service.

"You're paying to pay, which is outrageous,'' Ms Just said.

The Samsung SW70SP 7kg front loader washing machine was awarded the first Shonky of 2012 for using 224 litres of water for a 3.5kg load of washing, when the washer deemed the most efficient by Choice used only 37 litres.

Other goods and services deemed sneaky and unscrupulous by Choice include so-called nano technology aimed at protecting iPhones, homeopathy treatments for restless and irritable kids, and travel services.

How-Sexy breast cancer campaigns anger many patients

(USA TODAY) -- Many breast cancer survivors say a crop of pink-ribbon campaigns have hit a new low -- by sexualizing breast cancer. An online porn site this month has been using breast cancer to increase its Web traffic by offering to donate 1 cent for every 30 views of its videos. The intended recipient for the donation, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, rejected the offer and instructed the site to stop using its name. Yet pornographers are only the most extreme example of a disturbing trend: using sex to sell breast cancer -- or simply get attention, say Gayle Sulik, author of Pink Ribbon Blues. Sulik, who recently lost a friend to the disease, notes that magazines and advertising campains now routinely use topless young women to illustrate a disease whose average victims are in their 60s.

"I don't see the porn site to be much different from the 'Feel your boobies' T-shirts," says Sulik, referring to the Pennsylvania-based Feel Your Boobies Foundation. "It sexually objectifies women, trivializes breast cancer . . . and uses the objectified woman as window dressing for the profit-making machine. “Newer cancer groups are embracing slogans such as "Save the Ta-Tas" and "I Love Boobies" in the name of humor and reaching out to a younger, less conservative audience. Other groups say they're trying to stand out from the crowd of public service announcements that arrive every October, during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

A poster for the "Save 2nd Base" fundraiser at Tao restaurant in Las Vegas last month, for example, depicted a curvy model in a string bikini, noting "everyone in pink bathing suits receives open bar." An online version of the ad went viral, spread by outraged cancer survivors. The Las Vegas restaurant did not return phone calls for this story.