mtv movie awards 2009

mtv movie awards 2009


As the cool and trendy The MTV Movie Awards rolled in to town this weekend, so did the gifting suites leading up to the event. The weather may not have been as summery as one would hope, yet despite overcast skies and cooler-than-normal temperatures, celebs still showed up to get pampered, collect goodies and socialize. That said, here come the best of the 2009 MTV Swag Awards.

The 2009 MTV Movie Swag Award for Best Overall Variety goes to:

The 2009 MTV Movie Award Red Carpet Style Lounge: Held by the Secret Room Events and the SLS Hotel, this is Secret Room's third win in the category. Judging by all the goodies from the gazillion (okay, not quite) vendors - and an additional bonus gift bag upon check-in - we're sure you'll agree :

pentecost sunday

pentecost sunday


I wrote the following "Opening the Word" column for Pentecost Sunday, May 27, 2007, for Our Sunday Visitor:
In the Old Testament the feast of Pentecost (from the Greek word for “fiftieth”) was one of the three great pilgrimage festivals of Israel, a celebration of the spring harvest that took place fifty days after the offering of first fruits at Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For Christians, Pentecost marks the fruits and harvest of another sort. It is a celebration of a formative event in the history of the early Church—the pouring out of the Holy Spirit upon the newly birthed Church and the first bold proclamation of the Gospel by Peter, the head apostle, among the Jews.
“The Church was made manifest to the world on the day of Pentecost,” states the Catechism, “by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

katrina halili hayden kho

katrina halili hayden kho

MANILA, Philippines - Dangerous Drugs Board chairman Vicente Sotto III today dared Dr. Hayden Kho Jr. to identify the alleged drug syndicate that supplied his former girlfriend Katrina Halili with the designer drug Ecstasy.Sotto, in a radio interview, challenged Kho, who figured in a sex video scandal with Halili, to name the bigtime drug group."We can't just take his word for it. We want for him to name such a group so we could verify and look into it," Sotto said.

At Thursday's Senate inquiry, Kho claimed that the illegal drugs Halili gave him before they had sex came from a very influential syndicate which has government connections.

Sotto, however, stressed that Kho might just have been misleading the Senate hearing to divert the focus from the sex video issue to illegal drugs.

"It might just be a diversionary tactic," the DDB head said.

hibachi

hibachi

It is a "Behind The Kitchen Door" repeat - The Tokyo Hibachi and Sushi in Sherman. Last summer the restaurant scored a "C" on health inspections. Last week inspectors returned and the restaurant received a similar review. KTEN's Katy Blakey has the latest.

The Tokyo Hibachi and Sushi boosts a family-friendly dining experience, but health inspectors had a much different experience just one week ago. Three pages of violations fill these inspections sheets - 24 demerits in all, resulting in a "C" grade

The most critical violation pertained to employee hygiene and hand washing. According to the report, the employee restroom is "soiled" and should be cleaned. There were no disposable paper towels at the wait staff hand sink or the employees restroom hand sink, or the employees restroom hand sink.

french open tennis 2009 schedule

french open tennis 2009 schedule


In a day of upsets at the French Open, the biggest by far was Venus Williams’s loss to Agnes Szavay in an unbelievable scoreline: 0-6, 4-6.
Venus couldn’t believe it, either: “You know, I’m used to beating people 6‑0. I’m not used to my shot not going in and losing a set 6‑0. So it completely was foreign ground for me.”At least she got some revenge later in the day, when she and Serena took out Szavay and Gisela Dulko in the doubles.
What’s bigger news? That Maria Sharapova is into the fourth round of Roland Garros after yet another tough three setter or that the French crowd actually cheered for her? Maria’s take: “You’re ranked outside the top 100, so people like you.” Enjoy it while you can, Maria.

robert ferguson

robert ferguson


A Lufkin man suffered severe injuries when he blacked out while driving Wednesday morning near Center, according to ShelbyCountyToday.com.
About 8:15 a.m. Robert Ferguson, 29, was traveling east on state Highway 7 west one mile from Center in a 2008 Honda Civic, according to Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Ryan McCasland.
Ferguson's car moved into the westbound lane, striking the back of a 2002 Chevrolet pickup towing a trailer. Ferguson had incapacitating injuries and emergency responders took him to Shelby Regional Medical Center. A medical center spokeswoman said Thursday she had no information on Ferguson.

faithful fish

faithful fish

Faithful Fish is a designer Christian lifestyle clothing company that inspires Christians everywhere to "proudly wear their faith".

The company was started by a 20 year old named Chelsea Eubank. She had been a good Christian and once wanted to express her faith at school. However she couldn’t find anything perfect and ended up creating "Faithful Fish". From Faithful Fish, emerged the idea of Wear It Wednesday.

The “Wear It Wednesday” campaign encourages students to wear their favorite Christian shirt (Christian band, FCA, youth group, etc.) to school on the first Wednesday of each month. The initial goal of the “Wear It Wednesday” campaign is to have 500,000 students log on to www.wearitwednesday.com and register their intention to “wear their faith” on the first Wednesday of each month.

Venus Williams

Hungary’s Agnes Szavay scored the biggest upset of the 2009 French Open so far early on Friday by ousting third seed Venus Williams.

Szavay handed Williams a blistering 6-0, 6-4 defeat to advance into the fourth round of Roland Garros. It was a disappointing performance for the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour’s world number three. She struggled to win her opening matches in three sets against Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova, but today against Szavay she could not force a deciding set.

Although Szavay played more tentatively in the second set, she converted her first match point when a tight backhand by Williams ended in the net.

After starting the 2009 season winless in the first two months, Szavay finished in the fourth round at Miami and Indian Wells and reached the quarterfinals at Acapulco and Madrid.

swine flu may 28

swine flu may 28

Northridge staff member, student bring swine flu cases to three

HARMONY TWP — Two suspected swine flu cases at Northridge Middle School have tested positive, bringing the total number of confirmed cases at the school and Clark County to three, health and school officials announced Thursday, May 28. The cases consist of a staff member, a 15-year-old and a 13-year-old student.
Seven more suspected cases have been sent to the Ohio Department of Health for testing, said Charles Patterson, Clark County health commissioner. Six of those cases have some kind of link to the school either as students, family members or close contacts. The results of those tests are expected by Saturday.Northeastern Local School District will update parents on the latest news concerning the swine flu during the district’s regular board meeting at 6:30 p.m. today, May 28, at Northeastern High School.

stbank

stbank

Citizens 1st Bank gets 5 star rating Bank is listed in the top 7 percent of nation's banks .
Citizens 1st Bank has been declared one of the strongest banks in the United States. The bank is among the top seven percent of the nation's banks. "Our bank received a five-star rating by Bauerfinancial Inc. of Coral Gables, Fla.," said Jim Perkins, president and chairman of the board of Citizens 1st Bank. "This is the nation's bank rating firm. It has analyzed banks for more than 25 years."Citizens 1st Bank has earned this honor for 69 consecutive quarters.
"Citizens 1st Bank has served our area since 1920," said Charles Hassell, executive vice-president. "We have been serving neighbors and friends for almost 90 year and we are locally owned and operated," he said.The bank is located in Rusk, Jacksonville, Nacogdoches and Tyler. Also, it can be found on the internet at www.citizens1- stbank.com.

the new goodnight kiss

the new goodnight kiss


Right under our noses, girls are trading oral sex for pretty shirts and sex for money.
For her new book and film Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss, Canadian journalist Sharlene Azam interviewed teenage and pre-teen girls about sexual attitudes and found many who use sex as currency.
Even in middle-class Canada, girls are being recruited — often by other teens — to provide sexual services to groups of men and boys.
Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss by Sharlene Azam documents the stories of Canadian girls being recruited for prostitution.
It is chilling to sit across from a teenage girl who talks about targeting a pretty, popular girl at her school because she thinks she has everything and is jealous of her

sara jane moore

sara jane moore


NEW YORK (AP) — The woman who fired a gun at President Gerald Ford in 1975 says in an interview that she believed the country would change only through a violent revolution.
Sara Jane Moore tells NBC's "Today" show that she now realizes the world did not share the radical views that many people held in California in those turbulent times.
The interview broadcast Thursday was her first TV interview since she was released on parole in late 2007, NBC said.
In September 1975, Moore, then 45, fired on Ford as he waved to a crowd in San Francisco. A man near her knocked the pistol out of her hand and the shot went astray.On politics, she said she now knows she was hearing only one side of the story. The radicals were calling for change and she genuinely thought that shooting Ford "might trigger that new revolution."

pa lottery

pa lottery


A winning Powerball lottery ticket sold in Cumberland County last year was set to expire Thursday.
But just hours before the deadline, Lottery officials announced that a winner came forward.
Two weeks ago, News 8 first reported that Pennsylvania Lottery officials were asking players to check their old tickets.
Pennsylvania Lottery officials announced Wednesday that the winner is Brenda Stover, of New Cumberland. Her ticket was validated Wednesday morning.
Stover took the ticket to a lottery retailer on May 22, where they confirmed it was the $400,000 winning ticket. The ticket was mailed to lottery headquarters in Middletown where officials confirmed Stover as the winner.

honduras earthquake

honduras earthquake

A tsunami watch is in place in the Pacific after a powerful earthquake of 7.1 magnitude struck northeast of Roatan in Honduras early today, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The quake that hit 39 miles (64 km) northeast of Roatan, Islas de la Bahia, had a shallow depth of 6.2 miles (10 km).It is not yet known if there are any casualties.
The tsunami watch was in effect for Honduras and Belize, Guatemala, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
Roatan is a popular tourist destination, surrounded by the world's second-largest coral reef - a stunning natural masterpieces that, if a tsunami strikes, could be put under threat.
The quake was originally reported to have a 7.4 magnitude.

champions league final time

champions league final time

The two best teams on the planet battling it out to become undisputed inter-galactic champions of the universe. Barcelona v Manchester United. Messi v Ronaldo. The match of the century. Winner takes all. Loser left to sob into their Nike shirt. The two best attacks in world football. Goals galore. Free-flowing attacking football…

Anyone else think this has got goalless 120 minutes written all over it?! These big build-ups usually result in a bit of an anti-climax. But OTP is glutton for punishment and we are still as exciting and raring to go as a muzzled Wayne Rooney.

PS We should thank Tom Henning Ovrebo for making all this possible!

overrated

overrated


Brooke Shields is everywhere these days, with people head-butting in her honor and paparazzi stealing her mom. She's also interviewed in Health magazine, where she discusses not losing her virginity until she was 22.(The American average is around seventeen) Instead of being proud of her hold out, she admits regretting it, because her lack of sex had less to do with morals and more to do with insecurities about her body. She attributes a protective weight gain preventing her from feeling attractive and secure enough with her body. That's actually pretty interesting, considering most people think Shields is and always was gorgeous,
and most women probably have equal fears about being seen in the nude at one point or another. When I was growing up, the grossest looking people were always the most casual about sex, which helped me develop a 'sh*t, look at that person,

mike tyson s baby

mike tyson s baby


Mike Tyson's four-year-old daughter died May 26 of injuries sustained in a freak home accident. The champion boxer immediately flew to Arizona.
Exodus Tyson was found Monday morning hanged from a cord that was connected to a treadmill in the family’s activity room in their Phoenix, Arizona home. She was discovered when her mother, who was cleaning in another room, sent the girl’s seven-year-old brother in to check on her.
Police are treating the case as an accident, saying it appears the child was playing on or near the treadmill and became tangled in the cord. The girl’s mother was administering CPR when paramedics arrived on the scene. Exodus died a day later of her injuries.

red bull cocaine

red bull cocaine


Red Bull Cola has been banned in six German states for containing traces of cocaine.
The consumer ministries in the two states confirmed they had ordered retailers to pull the drink off their shelves after a food safety institute in North-Rhine Westphalia found the drug in samples. The investigation found the drink to contain a de-cocainized extract of coca leaf in the drink.
Giant German retail group Rewe had already issued orders to remove the fizzy drink from its shops. Wilhelm Deitermann, spokesman for the North-Rhine Westphalia consumer ministry said he expected most – if not all - other German states to follow suit and ban the drink.
Red Bull Cola has protested the action. ‘De-cocainized extract of coca leaf is used worldwide in foods as a natural flavouring,’ said a spokesman.

sotomayor

sotomayor


Sonia Sotomayor, the White House confirms, will be announced as the nominee for the Supreme Court at 10;15 this morning.
POLITICO will be all over all aspects of the choice today, but the key political implication is the obvious one: This is a dramatic symbolic bolstering of Obama's relationship with Hispanics, whose support could ensure his reelection. (Can he be the first Hispanic president too? He's been quietly, respectfully working the community as hard as Bill Clinton did African-Americans.)
The appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to a Supreme Court seat seems to have hit some speed bumps in recent days. Although President Obama has a historic opportunity to appoint the first Hispanic judge in the court's history,

sly stone

sly stone


Stories about Sly Stone usually start with the word "reclusive.
Don't call him that anymore, because the superstar who blended funk, rock, soul and psychedelic sounds in the 1960s and '70s before disappearing from the scene in the '80s is not in hiding, his youngest daughter said.
Stone's media shyness in recent decades earned him a comparison to the late billionaire recluse Howard Hughes, but he's just been living his life and making his music out of the glare of great expectations that superstars suffer.
"It's not like he wasn't making music," said Novena Carmel, his 27-year-old daughter. "He was enjoying his life and riding motorcycles, one of his passions."

kim jong il

kim jong il

International community condemns North Korea nuclear test

Reporting from Seoul -- As the international community condemned North Korea's nuclear test and missile launch today, analysts said the tests signaled Pyongyang's growing disillusionment over the U.S. refusal to conduct bilateral talks.
North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong Il, determined to seek more drastic measures to bring the Obama Administration to the bargaining table, could even carry out more nuclear tests as a way to bully the U.S. and its allies, experts said today.
A Russian news agency reported that an official in North Korea's embassy in Moscow has claimed that new tests would take place "if the United States and its allies continue the policy of intimidation against North Korea," Tass reported.

my bebo

my bebo


"I'm performing at the awards this year and I am taking belly dancing classes for my act. This will be the first awards event I perform at this year," Kareena said.
I've become very choosy about where I perform. I am performing at the award show as it gives me an international standing. This is the third consecutive year I will be performing for them," added the actress.
Her outfit will be specially designed by ace designer Manish Malhotra. Bebo will be dressed like an Arabian princess.
If Bebo is performing, how can Chotte Nawab not be watching her show. "Well he's attending the awards as he's having a press show for his home production 'Love Aaj Kal', signs off Kareena.

Anime Wallpaper

We present for your pleasure, some of the best anime and manga themed wallpapers and desktop backgrounds online. Please browse the site, enjoy the anime artworks, use them for your desktop wallpaper. If you have some suggestions, they are welcome, and if you have some graphics talent, your submissions are more than welcome as well.

Fun stuff: inside a series, you can now pick to play a Memory game with the wallpapers in that section, or when viewing a wallpaper, you can make a Jigsaw puzzle out of it. Both good ways to waste some time.

french open

french open


The women’s game for the French Open 2009 is more open than it has been for a number of years, and the lack of a dominant player means that there are several big contenders for what promises to be a great Roland Garros.
Since gaining the World No.1 ranking in 2008, Roland Garros finalist Dinara Safina has been in great form on the claycourt, picking up two the titles in Rome and Madrid compiling a 14-1 record. Safina's booming groundstrokes and much improved movement have been too much for most players and she goes into the French Open full of confidence. Safina is the favourite with the bookies although she's still value at odds of 4/1 with Blue Square.
Ana Ivanovic has struggled somewhat since lifting the Roland Garros crown twelve months ago, allowing too many errors to creep into her rock solid ground game.

cpx sports

cpx sports

Smart Parts and Draxxus are coming together again to bring you the Encore performance of one of the most talked about games of 2008, Living Legends. Craig Miller will once again be leading the forces of the good and righteous and of course Sean Scott will leading... well, those other guys...The game was the brainstorm of Sean Scott, Paul Dagnino from CPX, and Craig Miller that was pulled together last year with only 3 months of planning. This year will be even bigger and better. How often can you play along the industry giants and just about every scenario team on the planet?
As you can see, the 29th is listed as the date.... The Friday before the event will be a special day as Sean Scott is putting together some games and contests along with a huge prize cache that's sponsored by different manufacturers across the entire industry.

jeremy jarmon

jeremy jarmon


A star defensive end for Kentucky, and one of the key players in Kentucky's Liberty Bowl victory over East Carolina, Jarmon has lost eligibility to play college athletics as a result of testing positive for a banned substance by the NCAA.
Ironically, Jarmon earned praise for his performance in a student production of the play “Weak/Side/Help” on Kentucky’s campus last April. Jarmon excelled in his role as a backup quarterback who experimented with steroid use in an attempt to climb the depth chart.
Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart first spoke at the approximately 25 minute press conference and announced the news. He acknowledged the unusual nature of the press conference, but said that Jarmon requested an opportunity to speak, and the University granted that opportunity due to all that Jarmon had contributed to UK.

aisha tyler

aisha tyler

Aisha Tyler gets a talk show pilot.

Aisha Tyler has been tapped to host a talk show pilot for ABC. “The Aisha Tyler Show” is described as a hybrid that will incorporate aspects of a traditional talk show with comedic political commentary, produced comedy segments and other elements usually associated with late-night shows. Aimed at a younger audience, “Tyler” is being developed as a fully “wired” concept, with fans being able to communicate with Tyler via Facebook, Twitter and other platforms.
The pilot is being produced by ABC Media Prods. (formerly Buena Vista TV), which develops and produces nonscripted original programming for syndication and cable.

chrome 2

chrome 2

While mercilessly devouring cake yesterday here at the office, Google was heard dropping the C bomb. Chrome, that is -- a whole new version of Chrome. Version 2 of Google's lightening-fast Web browser promises new features and even greater speed.But are those promises being upheld, we ask? Well, yes and no, but mostly yes. Features like full-screen browsing and form auto-complete are new to Chrome, though a useful feature of many competing browsers already. But holy fudge: Google has really delivered on the speed front!

Chrome is, by our own benchmarking results, now the fastest browser on the planet at handling Javascript. It has knocked Safari 4 beta and the latest nightly alpha build of Firefox 3.6 (V3.6a1pre), and although not noticeably faster at rendering non-Javascript heavy Web pages, that still means it's the snappiest choice between Opera, IE 8 and Firefox on PC.

mary cassatt

mary cassatt


As the Wikipedia article states, while a prominent Impressionist, "Cassatt's popular reputation is based on an extensive series of rigorously drawn, tenderly observed, yet largely unsentimental paintings and prints on the theme of the mother and child."
Born to a well to do family, she traveled to France to learn from the acknowledged masters of the day. However she had to learn in the face of rampant and institutionalised sexism. Fortunately she had the resources to hire as tutors teachers from the schools she was forbidden to attend. With minimal support from her father who would pay her bills but not for art supplies she went on to become one of the great Impressionists.

toyota financial

toyota financial


Like me, many of you have probably noticed that gas prices have been leaping up in spits and starts in and around the Twin Cities of late. As we get closer to the $2.50 mark, I’m beginning to wonder if it will continue to simply rise like it did in 2008 and bite a big chunk out of our drought stricken budgets.
n retaliation I’ve been making use of the Cub Foods gas coupons for several years now, and recently they’ve been giving additional savings if you spend over $150 on groceries. The other day, with over 60c off per gallon in coupons, I saved myself more than 7 bucks on a complete fill up at a Holiday gas station. It all adds up, doesn’t it?

powerball numbers

powerball numbers

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) – Not a single ticket matched all six Powerball numbers drawn for Wednesday night’s $170 million dollar grand prize. That pushed Saturday’s jackpot to $192 million.

In spite of there being no grand prize winner, more than 965,000 players did win more than $6.6 million in prizes for matching at least one of the numbers. They were 23-30-31-35-42-6.

No one has won the grand prize jackpot since April 8th, 2009.

The largest Powerball jackpot of all time was $365 million.

The game is played in 30 states, plus the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands

Who Will Win American Idol

Adam Lambert won the evening, but I think Kris Allen will win this year’s “American Idol.”
I’ll leave the debate about whether Lambert lost because he is gay – not confirmed by him, but seemingly confirmed by a campaign to show photos released on the Internet of him kissing men as often as possible – to someone else. Let’s just say Lambert was seen as someone outside of the mainstream and, like any outsider to land mainstream acceptance, he needed to be overwhelmingly better than Allen. Lambert was definitely better, just not overwhelmingly better.
TIE Lambert should have sang something new as his first song.
ADAM Simon Fuller’s choices for them actually did try to play to their strengths.

dinosaurs

dinosaurs


Latest games of dinosaurs here.
Cleveland, OH - The roar returns to Cleveland Metroparks Zoo this Memorial Day weekend with the opening of DINOSAURS! on Thursday, May 21. The hugely popular exhibit stars a collection of robotic monsters ranging from chicken-sized critters to the 7-ton T. rex.
Back for its fourth summer since 2003, DINOSAURS! is bigger and better than ever – featuring 18 prehistoric beasts, including some never before seen at the Zoo.
DINOSAURS! is open daily through September 13, and is just $1 per person in addition to regular Zoo admission. It’s free for Zoo members and children under 2.
Returning favorites this summer include the 20-foot-tall Tyrannosaurus rex, the water-spitting Dilophosaurus and the fish-hunting Baryonyx.

navy helicopter crash

navy helicopter crash


This is really an amazing hot news 5 Missing After Navy Helicopter Crashes In Calif.
Coast Guard boats and aircraft scanned Pacific Ocean waters today for a Navy helicopter with five people aboard that crashed into the ocean about 13 miles south of San Diego, authorities said.
Crews of boats and helicopters are searching for a Navy helicopter with five people aboard that crashed into the ocean some 13 miles south of San Diego.
There was no word early Wednesday on whether any wreckage or survivors had been found.
Operating off the coast of California, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz got word that the SH60 Seahawk helicopter went down during a training exercise at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to Lt. Candice Tresch, a Navy spokeswoman in Washington.

10 year old with breast cancer

10 year old with breast cancer


Washington (dbTechno) - Breast cancer has been diagnosed in a 10-year-old California girl.
The 10-year-old is the youngest girl ever to suffer from breast cancer in the U.S.
The girl, Hannah Powell-Auslam, is now receiving treatment to try and beat the disease.
Needless to say, the diagnosis of breast cancer shocked everyone, including doctors as they have never seen anybody diagnosed at such a young age.
The young 5th grade student told her parents she felt something on her rib cage area.
When doctors checked it out, they found it to be a malignant tumor
The cancer was later found in a lymph node during the mastectomy procedure.
The 10-year-old is going to fully recover, but this is still a shocking case nonetheless.

designer home tending

designer home tending



What was behind this new fad? Are pink flamingos the new must-have for lawn decoration.
I thought this would be unlikely in the neighborhood, an upper-middle class area populated by Los Angeles professionals. Lawn ornaments have symbolic meaning, and pink flamingos—fairly or unfairly—have been linked with a lack of taste and tackiness. Urban professionals, especially in image-conscious Los Angeles, are more likely to try to project an air of sophistication.
Homeowners around here spend a great deal of time and money on their gardens, and very few if any have plastic lawn ornaments. As you can see from the pictures below, many homes have lush landscaping and residents are very devoted to tending them (or paying others to do so). Landscape architects’ signs frequently grace front yards,

klippel trenaunay syndrome

klippel trenaunay syndrome

Carla Sosenko suffers from Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome,

Carla Sosenko, a well known writer and Associate Copy Chief at Bauer Publishing, has revealed that she is suffering from Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome.

Carla has written abour her condition in an essay in Marie Claire and also on her blog. She says “my right leg is larger than my left and trails slightly when I walk; my back is an uneven, fatty slab with a dense lump above the waist; and a gigantic port-wine stain reaches around my broad torso and down toward my right thigh.”

The even worse part is “There is no cure for KTS. Treatment is symptomatic. KTS is a progressive disorder, and complications may be life-threatening.

josh duhamel

josh duhamel

Pop Superstar Fergie Says She 'Experimented' With Women.

The Black Eye Peas singer follows Lindsay Lohan, Lady Gaga, and Megan Fox in revealing that she is bisexual.
Fergie, who married Josh Duhamel in January, told The Sun: “Put it this way, I’ve experimented definitely, but I have never had a steady girlfriend.”
The Black Eyed Peas shot to No. 1 in the UK charts yesterday with "Boom Boom Pow" — but it is their next single that is closest to the star’s heart.
The 34-year-old star explained: “You’ll like our next video, for "I Got a Feeling," because I have a little girl-on-girl tease section of the video.

mandtbank

mandtbank

Police say a man entered the M and T Bank on Main Street shortly after noon on Friday.
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) - A recent string of bank robberies has the Niagara Falls police department asking for the public to help.
Police say a man entered the M and T Bank on Main Street shortly after noon on Friday, and handed the teller a note demanding money.
This latest incident marks the third bank robbery in the Falls over the past 10 days.
There's no word if these robberies are related.
Anyone with information is asked to call Niagara Falls police at 286-4553.

danny ash

danny ash


John Achterberg has been offered a contract as goalkeeping coach while Ian Goodison, Terry Gornell, Aaron Cresswell, Ash Taylor, Josh Macauley
Tranmere manager Ronnie Moore is hoping to bolster his squad in the coming weeks after releasing four players from Prenton Park.Edrissa Sonko, Adnan Ahmed, Luke Waterfall and Danny Holmes have not been offered new contracts and are available to sign for other clubs.
Moore said: "I'd like to thank the four players for their time at Prenton Park and wish them all the best for the future."We came so close to the play-offs last season and know the areas we need to improve upon, so we'll be working hard over the summer to bring the right players to the club.
Rovers have offered new contracts to Antony Kay, Steve Jennings, Ben Chorley, Danny Coyne, Charlie Barnett and Ian Moore.

notre dame university

notre dame university

Notre Dame awaits Obama's graduation speech.

President Barack Obama and a bitter debate over morality will collide under the University of Notre Dame's iconic Golden Dome when he arrives here this afternoon for a highly anticipated commencement address.
The national furor over whether such a prominent supporter of abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research should be honored at one of America's premier Catholic universities will come to a head with protests, prayer and boycotts.
Obama, meanwhile, will bring his well-established rhetorical ability and a history of reaching out to people of faith. Those techniques have in the past helped him confront equally contentious situations, such as when a controversial former pastor threatened his candidacy in 2008.

cleveland marathon

cleveland marathon

This is the latest and hot news.

Jennifer Sirken is following in her dad’s big footsteps in the marathon and she couldn’t have a better role model.
Bruce Schmidt has 58 marathons under his belt, but Jennifer’s five marathons aren’t exactly chopped liver. All five of Sirken’s marathons have been in Chicago, which is has had hot, uncomfortable conditions the last few years.
Today’s 32nd annual Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon will be her first at the marquee event.
Sirkens lives just a mile-and-a-half from Lake Front Park. She typically trains with co-worker Joanna Garfield, a New Jersey native who also runs marathons.To qualify for Boston, Sirken must crack the 3:40 qualifying standard for women 25-29 years old. To date, her fastest effort is 3:58:43, which came at last year in Chicago.

worlds tallest dog

worlds tallest dog



the world’s tallest dog, has been diagnosed with bone cancer resulting in the amputation of his right front leg. Gibson stands 3-1/2 feet tall at his shoulder and more than 7 feet when standing on his back legs. That’s a big dog!
The world’s tallest dog is battling bone cancer that forced the amputation of one of his front legs.
Gibson stands 3 1/2-feet tall at the shoulder and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. The black and white great Dane from Grass Valley, Calif., stretches more than 7 feet tall when he stands on his hind legs.Veterinarians found a tumor on Gibson’s right front leg and had to amputate. The dog will also undergo chemotherapy. He was recuperating this week at his home in Grass Valley, a Gold Rush-era town 60 miles east of Sacramento.

Nascar All Star Race 2009

Is it two segments, three segments, or four segments? Is the finale 10, 20, or 25 laps? Is a green-flag pit stop still mandatory? Is the inversion still around? Does the fan vote still count? Are there one or 2 preliminary events? Are the slowest cars eliminated? And how do drivers qualify for this thing again, anyway?

When it comes to the exhibition now known as the Sprint All-Star Race, who knows. The event has been through more mutations than Oprah's waistline, and requires an examination of manuals and flowcharts just to figure out.

google squared

google squared


Even in the face of Wolfram Alpha, no one will deny that Google is a powerful research tool for our students.
However, teasing out truly useful results can be challenging at best from the millions of pages returned by the average search. In response to this, Google revealed a new feature at their Searchology summit yesterday called Google Squared. To be released (not surprisingly) via Google Labs sometime close to the launch of Wolfram Alpha, squared adds an extra layer of semantic search to your Google research efforts.
Even Google acknowledged that this was still very much a “labs” feature that was imperfect at best.

hepatitis c

hepatitis c


A survey of drug-using sex workers in Dublin has found that almost 80 per cent have Hepatitis C and a fifth are HIV positive.
Government agencies are investigating why over 1,000 veterans who may have been exposed to disease during colonoscopy exams at Miami's VA hospital have not had tests performed.Seven weeks after the U.S. Veterans' Administration notified more than 3,000 veterans they might have been exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV by improperly cleaned colonoscopy equipment at the VA hospital in Miami, more than a quarter of them -- nearly 1,100 in all -- have not responded for testing, according to numbers provided by the VA.

who won the biggest loser 2009

who won the biggest loser 2009

This year, it was all about couples, and as the season finale opened tonight, there were two couples.

Jerry, 64, and his wife Estella were eliminated from this season's competition early on. But last night he won the $100,000 prize for being the eliminated contestant with the highest percentage of weight loss.

Jerry weighed 369 pounds when he started the show. Last night, he weighed in at 192 pounds, losing 177 pounds and nearly 48 percent of his body weight.

sobibor

sobibor


the United States to face allegations of being an accessory to the murder of 29000 Jews.
MUNICH (AP) — After three decades of fighting in court, John Demjanjuk arrived at a German prison on Tuesday, deported from the United States to face allegations of being an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews and others as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp. A judge is expected to read him the 21-page arrest warrant later Tuesday. If the retired Ohio autoworker is found fit to stand trial, it would be the culmination of a legal saga that began in 1977 and has involved courts and government officials from at least five countries on three continents.

alpha natural resources

alpha natural resources

Alpha Natural snaps up Foundation Coal for $1.4B
Alpha Natural Resources will buy Foundation Coal for about $1.4 billion, the companies announced Tuesday, creating one of the nation's largest coal producers.
Foundation shares jumped 27 percent in premarket trading, or $6.26, to $29.50. Alpha shares fell 34 cents to $28.52.
A number of large coal companies have said that they are scouting for acquisitions, including Alpha, as the industry wrestles with weak demand.
The all-stock buyout of Foundation, assuming $530 million in debt, is valued at about $2 billion by the companies. The combined company would have had pro forma revenue of $4.2 billion last year.

katy tur

katy tur



Katy Tur, who at 25 is half the age of the MSNBC uber-dork, has landed an on-air reporting job at the Weather Channel. Conveniently, both cable networks are owned by NBC Universal. Do we sense a little preferential treatment? Olbermann huffed to TV Newser: "Anybody who suggests so is misinformed, and/or sadly unaware that in this time when the industry is collapsing around us, nobody gets a job based on 'influence,' only talent."

michael landon

michael landon


Actor Mark Landon, eldest son of Little House on the Prairie star Michael Landon, was found dead Monday at his home. He was 60.
The cause of death was not immediately known, but there was no evidence of foul play, Sgt. David Infante of the Los Angeles County sheriff's office tells the Associated Press.
Mark starred in three movies, including 1991's Us, a CBS TV movie written and directed by his father, who died of cancer at age 54 the same year.

Mark was among Michael's nine children. Michael adopted him after marrying his mother, Dodie Levy-Fraser, in 1956.Join Us on Facebook and Twitter for even more up to the minute celebrity news and photos!

hubble images

hubble images

NASA To Give Hubble New Life With Atlantis Mission Launching Today.

On Monday, May 11, at 2:01 PM EDT, the space shuttle Atlantis will lift off for the final service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. For close to twenty years, Hubble has dazzled the world with its wonderful images and led to new scientific understandings about our universe. With this service mission, NASA will install updated equipment, including a the new Wide Field Camera 3. The camera promises to return images of the cosmos at an unprecedented level of detail. The STS-125 mission will spend 11 days in orbit as they perform the upgrade and maintenance.

You can watch the launch Monday afternoon live on NASA TV.

The Story Of Stuff

Roxana Saberi freed from iranian prison' lawyers.

Roxana Saberi, a 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen, met her parents outside Evin prison Monday evening after the court cut her jail term to a two-year suspended sentence, her lawyers said. While they awaited her release, her mother, in a headscarf, smiled while her father looked overcome with emotion.

"She was reunited with her father and mother. They left for their house," her lawyer Saleh Nikbakht told The Associated Press. He said Saberi was free to leave Iran immediately.

Her Iranian-born father, Reza Saberi, said he planned to return home with his daughter in the next few days.

rihanna pictures

rihanna pictures

Rihanna Pictures: Nude Hotel Photos Leaked for Everyone to See!

The 21-year-old singer, who was attacked by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown back in February, has been trying to recover from the horrific incident that left her badly bruised. It appeared that things had calmed down but yet another storm has hit the R&B singer, leaving her with no choice but to flee the country.
Despite rumors claiming that Rihanna’s ex Chris Brown sparked media attention this weekend by releasing nude photos of RiRi, the “Kiss Kiss” singer is denying any involvement in the incident.Rihanna is said to be so embarrassed that she has fled the Hollywood scene, escaping to Hawaii for some much needed time away from the spotlight.

ola raye

ola raye


Ola was a 22-year-old glamour model trying to break into acting in 1982 when she beat hundreds of other hopefuls to the part of Michael Jackson's crush in the mini-horror movie.
Yesterday, May 6, 2009, it was reported that Ray sued Jackson in a dispute over royalties for the Thriller video.
Yeah well that's not the reason for this post. Someone told me today that Ola Ray is Nigerian. I've checked a lot of articles written on her and there's no mention of her being Nigerian...
But this friends swears he knows what he's talking about.
ngbo my people, is Ola Ray Nigerian?

Colorqube

The new multifunction device, called the ColorQube, uses solid ink originally invented at Tektronix to generate prints.

Der US-Druckerspezialist Xerox hat eine neues Farbdrucksystem vorgestellt, dass 50 Seiten in der Minute drucken, die Umwelt schonen und auch noch günstig sein soll. Die ColorQube-Geräte nutzen eine Weiterentwicklung des Festtintendrucksystems, bei dem feste Blöcke aus Wachs statt Tinte oder Toner die Farbe liefern. Die Drucker können auch Kopieren, Scannen und Faxen und sind von ihrem Hersteller für den Einsatz in Büros vorgesehen.

Xerox bietet drei verschiedene ColorQube-Modelle an, die über ein LAN-Netzwerk vom gesamten Büro aus genutzt werden können.

3d Realms

Duke Nukem developer 3D Realms is to close its doors, according to multiple reports.

The studio was founded in 1987 by Scott Miller and George Broussard and is best known for its series of Duke Nukem shooters. It had been developing the highly anticipated Duke Nukem Forever, announced in 1997, for over a decade.

 According to Shacknews, the studio’s closure came about as a result of funding issues. 3D Realms’ Joe Siegler seemingly confirmed the studio’s demise in a forum post. "It's not a marketing thing. It's true. I have nothing further to say at this time,"Duke Nukem Forever publisher Take-Two said that it had not been funding ongoing development of the game and that it retained the rights to the title.