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HA!: The Blizzard Man meets Luda and T-Pain on SNL



Jaime Foxx & T.I. In The Studio



Jermaine Dupri - Showing us how he balls in Dubai




Soulja Boy Performs At YouTube Awards while MC Hammer show him how he still can move





Juelz Santana Gets Romantic with Necole Bitche





DJ Toomp - Talks Luda X TI Collabo




Atlanta Artist Yung Ralph - A Milli (Remix) in the Street Video







Lieberman lies: ‘I never felt that Barack Obama was unready.’»

In an interview with Hartford, CT, local Fox affiliate Fox 61, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) denied that he had ever suggested that Barack Obama was “not ready to lead.” “I never felt that Barack Obama was ‘unready,’” he told the host. Watch it:



As MyLeftNutmeg’s video makes clear, Lieberman was lying. The host pushed back, warning him that bloggers who watched this interview “are going to have a field day with it.”

Karrine 'Superhead' Steffans Addresses The Bow Wow Issue


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Sheek Louch Extinction: Last Of A Dying Breed


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Dr. Dre's long overdue album Detox may had actually had a chance to drop this year if it wasn't for Eminem, says Interscope Records CEO Jimmy Iovine. Earlier this year, Dre divulged that he was releasing Detox by the end of 2008 but Iovine recently revealed to Billboard that the legendary producer had to stop work on his own project to help Emimem on his upcoming album Relapse.

"Eminem was always coming next year. But what happened was, I lost Dr. Dre to Eminem. Dre had to stop making his album to finish Eminem's album," explained Iovine. "Eminem hit a streak, and when a guy like Eminem gets on fire, you stop everything. That's how we lost Dre."

According to Iovine, Dre will go back to wrapping up Detox in January.

"He'll be finished with Eminem by then, and he'll finish his album,” said Iovine.

2009 will see Interscope's three rap giants (50 Cent, Eminem & Dre) dropping new projects.

Eminem's Relapse will be the Detroit rapper's first solo project in four years while 50 Cent's Before I Self Destruct will the G-Unit honcho's last album on his current contract with Interscope.

Detox, which will be Dre's first solo project in ten years, will feature appearances from Lil Wayne and Jay-Z, among others.




Wyclef Jean Mansion Foreclosed and Up for Sale
Sunday, 23 November 2008 16:12
 Former Fugees member Wyclef Jean is at the center of a new situation concerning his recently foreclosed Miami Beach mansion.
The Palm Beach Post reports that Jean took out a $2 million mortgage from Home Equity Mortgage Corp. in 2004 to purchase the estate through a corporation he owns with several friends.

Although the rapper/producer set out to renovate the canal-front property, the foreclosed home, which was appraised at $1.4 million, was left unfinished for more than two years as a series of construction liens were filed.

In addition, the property garnered $6,200 in fines from the city of Miami Beach once the $900,000 construction project halted after Jean and his partners couldn’t come up with the $177,913 in construction costs needed to finish the effort.

Court documents note that a lien was put on the property this year by the project’s architects, who have tried to collect $75,000 owed to them since 2004.

In all, Jean’s corporation now owes the bank $2.4 million.

As a result of the foreclosure, Miami-Dade county will sell the mansion in downtown Miami on December 12.

Court records also show that Jean has not paid employees who worked on the home. The entertainer has yet to comment on the situation.
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MC Breed Passes AwayE-mail
Saturday, 22 November 2008 20:24
 Flint, Michigan rapper MC Breed has died at the age of 36. An anonymous source, reportedly a friend of the late rapper confirmed the passing of the industry veteran. “He’s no longer with us,” the source said. “We are in the process of putting together a benefit concert, hopefully at Saint Andrews to raise money for a funeral.”

He was hospitalized September 6 after suffering from a sudden kidney failure [click to read].

Born Eric Breed, he had been in the music industry for 15 years. Notable collaborations include the late 2Pac (“Gotta Get Mine), and Too Short. Breed’s biggest single was “Ain’t No Future in Yo Frontin',” which reached number 66 on the Billboard Hot 100.

One of the people working with MC Breed near the end of his life, publicist and writer Jonathan Hay and partner Chad Kiser informed that the Flint, Michigan legend was reportedly on the verge of resigning with Ichiban Records.

It was with Ichiban that Breed released his 1991 self-titled debut with DFC, including the hit "Ain't No Future In Yo' Frontin'". After releasing a stream of other albums on Wrap Records, Breed returned for 1996's Da Hood Tapes, 1997's Saucy and two compilations in the last six years.
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Update: R. Kelly's Nephew Slapped With Multiple Charges For Robbery, Remains Hospitalized
Posted: 11/21/2008 3:42:58 PM by Jaymo

The nephew of R&B singer R. Kellyhas reportedly been slapped with multiple charges for the attempted armed robbery of a Chicago barber shop earlier this month.

As reported earlier, 15-year-oldBrayel Kelly was shot twice in the chest by the owner of a barbershop on November 7th while attempting to rob the shop.

According to The Northwest Indiana and Illinois Times, Brayel Kelly was charged as an adult today (November 21) with attempted murder, attempted armed robbery and aggravated discharge of a firearm.

Brayel remains hospitalized at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

Brayel's father is R. Kelly's younger brother, Carey KellyCarey accused the singer of being in sex tapes that surfaced six years ago.

R.Kelly would face 14 counts of child pornography as a result of the sex tapes but was acquitted on all charges.




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The American Music Awards went down tonight.  I don’t have much to say about it so I’ll let the videos and photos do the talking..

Alicia Keys… Always classy…Always Beautiful

Queen Latifah joined her on stage for the “Superwoman” performance

Rihanna always looks fierce…

…even when she’s wearing her bedroom curtains…

Kanye showed up rockin’ a foxtail.  Peta is about to be on that ass…

An award show isn’t an award show if Sasha Fierce doesn’t show up

….and show out…


Just a few more pics..


The 2008 American Music Awards aired live last night and if you missed it…you really didn’t miss much. Most of the noteworthy performances, (i.e. Beyonce) were full copies of their video routines and others were simply so-so.

Click Here to view the full list of winners and check out a few of the live performances below:

Performance at the American Music Awards



Ne-Yo’s 2008 American Music Awards Performance



Beyonce’s 2008 American Music Awards Performance




Mariah Carey’s 2008 American Music Awards Performance



Rihanna 2008 American Music Awards Performance



Kanye West 2008 American Music Awards Performa.ce



Alicia Keys feat. Queen Latifah & Opera singer 2008 American Music Awards Performance






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1st Single Off Nu Jerzey Devil's Album "Devils Playground" Comin' 2009 !! Shout out to DJ Young Legend & The Whole Black Wallstreet!

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US Citizen Diplomats Arrive in Iran, Invited by Ahmadinejad

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In an effort to establish peaceful diplomacy with the government and people of Iran, and to model for the new Obama administration the power of cooperative good will, three highly regarded American peace makers have ventured to Iran. CODEPINK cofounders, Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, along with former Army Colonel and decorated Foreign Service Diplomat Ann Wright, are visiting Iran on visas personally granted them by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad provided the visas after receiving a personal request from CODEPINK: Women For Peace at a September 24th meeting in New York City where Ahmadinejad had gone to speak to the United Nations. While in New York, Ahmadinejad met with approximately 60 representatives from American peace and social justice organizations, where, over the course of two hours, he took unfiltered questions from the groups. The question from CODEPINK, which travels extensively on missions of peace, addressed why the organization's founders were repeatedly denied visas to Iran. Ahmadinejad offered to remedy the situation. He followed through on Monday when visas to Iran were issued to Benjamin, Evans and Wright. Within 48 hours, these intrepid citizen diplomats were packed and on their way.


Hearings on Cheney, others halted

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Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra brought a hearing to a halt on Friday when he asked that Judge J. Manuel Bañales recuse himself from presiding over the arraignments of several high-profile public officials. Guerra filed a motion that Bañales recuse himself from the hearings, because he questioned how the judge handled the indictments and whether the state would receive a fair trial. The motion remained pending.



Automakers detail electric car plans at L.A. show

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Many of the world's biggest automakers on Wednesday detailed ambitious electric-car plans that promise zero emissions but will demand patience from consumers and subsidies from governments to succeed. Nissan Motor Co, BMW's BMWG.DE> MINI, General Motors Corp and Volkswagen's Audi were among the automakers who promised, at the Los Angeles auto show, to bring electric cars to market in the next few years. Consumers have been clamoring for greener vehicles amid soaring gasoline prices and increased concerns about global warming. The costly batteries required to power gas-free electric cars, however, are not powerful enough to deliver the long driving range car buyers are accustomed to. In order to jump-start demand for the zero-emission vehicles, governments at the national, state and city levels need to help provide incentives and establish infrastructure for electric recharging. [ MUCH MORE AT STORY SITE ]


Where Did The Money Go? Billions Transferred From Coffers Of Lehman Prior To Bankruptcy

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Massive amounts of money were transferred from the coffers of Lehman prior to filing for bankruptcy. Where did the money go? A similar procedure was used in the The Bear Stearns bankruptcy.



Young People Strike Back at Westboro Baptist

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The Right Wing religious whack jobs of Westboro Baptist Church struck again this weekend with a protest in front of the Omaha Central High School. Students had heard about it, though, and were prepared with sounds and shouting and video cameras. They did not stand for Westboro’s hate, and their parents should be proud.


Passing Universal Healthcare Could Kill The GOP

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Britain serves as an important political lesson for strategists. After the Labor Party established the National Health Service after World War II, supposedly conservative workers and low-income people under religious and other influences who tended to support the Conservatives were much more likely to vote for the Labor Party...



Business group blames unions for carmakers’ woes

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"Unions are to blame for the Big Three automakers’ problems, according to a television ad meant to stoke public opposition to organized labor’s number one legislative priority. ... The advertisement urges people to fight the Employee Free Choice Act, which unions hope will be taken up quickly by the Democratic Congress and President-elect Barack Obama."

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U.S. to Back $306 Billion in Citigroup Assets, Regulators Say 

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Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government agreed to protect $306 billion of loans and securities on Citigroup Inc.‘s books against losses, as it seeks to shore up investor confidence in the bank.

Citigroup will, as a fee for the guarantee, provide preferred shares to the Treasury and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the regulators said in a statement. The government will also inject $20 billion into the bank from the Treasury’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.

“We will continue to use all of our resources to preserve the strength of our banking institutions and promote the process of repair and recovery and to manage risks,” the regulators said in the statement.

The Federal Reserve, the Treasury and other regulators have been negotiating with Citigroup throughout the weekend. Citigroup lost 60 percent of its market value last week as the company’s prospects faltered, rattling customers, counterparties and employees.

To contact the reporter on this story: Robert Schmidt in Washington atrschmidt5@bloomberg.net.

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Report: NSA Kept File On Tony Blair’s ‘Private Life’ And Intercepted Iraqi President’s ‘Pillow Talk’»

bushblair.jpgIn October, ABC News reported that despitePresident Bush’s promises that the National Security Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program was aimed only at terrorists, the NSA frequently listened to and transcribed the private phone calls of Americansabroad. The network’s report was based on whistleblower interviews with two former military intercept operators.

One of the whistleblowers, former Navy Arab linguist David Murfee Faulk, told ABC News that he and his co-workers listened in on “hundreds of Americans” over the years:

Another intercept operator, former Navy Arab linguist, David Murfee Faulk, 39, said he and his fellow intercept operators listened into hundreds of Americans picked up using phones in Baghdad’s Green Zone from late 2003 to November 2007.

“Calling home to the United States, talking to their spouses, sometimes their girlfriends, sometimes one phone call following another,” said Faulk.

But it wasn’t just ordinary Americans. In a new report today, Faulk tells ABC that during his time working for the government, “U.S. intelligence snooped on the private lives of two of America’s most important allies in fighting al Qaeda: British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Iraq’s first interim president, Ghazi al-Yawer”:

David Murfee Faulk told ABCNews.com he saw and read a file on Blair’s “private life” and heard “pillow talk” phone calls of al-Yawer when he worked as an Army Arab linguist assigned to a secret NSA facility at Fort Gordon, Georgia between 2003 and 2007.

Though “collecting information on foreign leaders is a legal and common practice of intelligence agencies around the world,” former intelligence officials tell ABC News that the U.S. and Britain have a long-standing agreement “not to collect on each other“:

The NSA works extremely closely and shares data with its British counterpart, the GCHQ, Government Communications Headquarters.

“If it is true that we maintained a file on Blair, it would represent a huge breach of the agreement we have with the Brits,” said one former CIA official.

After ABC’s initial report in October, Senate Democrats promised to investigate the whistleblowers’ allegations. The Inspector General for the NSA is also reported to be investigating the allegations by Faulk and another former military intercept operator, Adrienne Kinne.

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Alan Colmes leaving ‘Hannity and Colmes.’»

Today, Fox News announced that Alan Colmes will be leaving his 12-year gig as co-host of “Hannity and Colmes.” From the release:

x4858.jpg FOX News Channel’s (FNC) Alan Colmes will relinquish his role as co-host of Hannity & Colmes at the end of the year.

In announcing his decision, Colmes said, “I approached Bill Shine (FNC’s Senior Vice President of Programming) earlier this year about wanting to move on after 12 years to develop new and challenging ways to contribute to the growth of the network. Although it’s bittersweet to leave one of the longest marriages on cable news, I’m proud that both Sean (Hannity) and I remained unharmed after sitting side by side, night after night for so many years.”

Colmes will continue to have a presence on FNC as he will serve as a liberal commentator on a variety of FOX News programming, including Foxnews.com’s The Strategy Room and continue hosting his radio program, The Alan Colmes Show on FOX Talk, a division of FOX News Radio. He will also begin developing a weekend program.

No word on whether Fox will hire a new liberal to counter Hannity.



Pamela Anderson Nude Uncensored Video from Girls Next Door"

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Bacc in April, Pamela Anderson got naked, and presented Hugh Hefnerwith a cake on his 82nd birthday. Naturally, the scene was filmed, and later aired on an episode of The Girls Next Door. Of course, the video was censored when it aired on TV, but now we've got t(e uncensored video for you. And while Pamela Anderson is completely nude, and shaved, It's really not what you would have hoped. Unless you get off on women with their nipples on the top of their breasts kissing 82-year-olds.



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Head of MSNBC on Maddow’s success: ‘She comes in every day and studies for eight hours.’»

Newsweek reports that, since Rachel Maddow’s show debuted on Sept. 8, “she has more than doubled the ratings of her predecessor, Dan Abrams, with 1.9 million average total viewers, and she’s beaten CNN’s Larry King 27 out of 44 nights among viewers 25 to 54.” MSNBC executives say the key to her success is her hard work:

maddow.gifFor Maddow, the job never really stops. She regularly works 16-hour days, only eating once she has finished. She often has just one large meal at 2 a.m., purchased from street vendors. [Executive producer Bill] Wolff says she “simply wants to be excellent.” Phil Griffin, the head of MSNBC, attributes her success to a certain “magic,” and to her application: “She comes in every day and studies for eight hours. I think one of the biggest mistakes that people make when they come in to television and cable news, which is a really intense, competitive area, is to not work



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Chambliss’s Profligate Spending On Golf Outings With Lobbyists»

nantucket_fundraiser_golf_n.jpg Since 2005, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), who is currently locked in a tough run-off election battle against Democrat Jim Martin, has been in charge of the Republican Majority Fund. The PAC, established in the 1970s, was set up to help fund GOP candidates. However, as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports today, Chambliss has instead used it as a personal fund to ingratiate himself to lobbyists, reward his political contributors, and fund his golfing habit:

Under Chambliss, however, 68 percent of the Majority Fund’s spending – about $1 million – has gone for travel, golf events, meals and administrative costs, reports to the Federal Election Commission show. Political contributions comprised just 32 percent of the committee’s spending, or $472,500.

In 2007 and 2008, the Majority Fund’s political donations accounted for 26 percent of its spending, the second-lowest among the 25 largest leadership groups. […]

[O]f the top 10 recipients of the Majority Fund’s money since 2007, only one was a political organization.

Five were golf resorts.

Chambliss is an avid golfer. Despite having a “bum knee” that kept him out of military service in Vietnam, Chambliss ranked as the #2 golfer in the Senateand the 33rd best golfer in Washington, DC, according to a 2005 feature by Golf Digest. That same year, while his colleagues were in a closed-door session discussing pre-Iraq war intelligence, Chambliss took the day off to golf with Tiger Woods.

Therefore, it’s perhaps not surprising that two months after taking over the Republican Majority Fund, “Chambliss put on a golf outing at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Fla. — the first of 20 at top courses and resorts: Pebble Beach in California; The Breakers in Palm Beach, Fla.; The Greenbrier in West Virginia, among others. Chambliss’ companions on these trips were, with few exceptions, registered lobbyists and their clients.” In the past two years, Chambliss has also used these official funds to golf with lobbyists for defense contractors, AIG, and Fannie Mae.

In 2007, Chambliss even spent more than $7,000 of the Republican Majority Fund’s money on “golf supplies.” He must feel right at home with his colleagues in Congress and the Bush administration.



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California unemployment rate jumps to 8.2 percent, third highest in U.S.»

The LA Times reports that California’s unemployment rate soared to a 14-year high in October, hitting 8.2%. The most populous state “shed 26,400 people from its payroll last month, raising the total number of lost jobs to 101,300 since October 2007.” Analysts predict “the situation is about to get worse.” The state’s rate ranks third in the U.S., exceeded only by those of Michigan and Rhode Island, at 9.3% each.

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Heckuva Bailout: Citi and AIG Still Pay Hundreds Of Millions In Sports Sponsorship

By: Jane Hamsher Monday November 24, 2008 10:08 am
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2514055103_1c49192050_m.thumbnail.jpgIn his press conference today, Obama says he wants Detroit automakers to come up with a "plan" before they can receive a bridge loan that will keep three million jobs from being lost as we teeter on the edge of a global depression.

I guess this is the plan for Citi and AIG:

AIG, Citibank and a number of other federally bailed-out financial institutions have no plans to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in sports team sponsorships, even as they take billions in taxpayer support, ABC News has found.

In boom times, the sponsorships were seen as a way to advertise the firms' "brands" and appeal to potential customers. Even today, at least one bank told ABC News that a naming deal was increasing its revenue. But critics, including a member of Congress, say the decision to continue them now is hard to defend.

Struggling Citibank just sealed a multi-billion-dollar emergency "backstop" deal with the U.S. government. The financial behemoth, suffering with billions in bad mortgage-related assets on its books, recently shed 53,000 workers and saw its stock price lose over half its value. Yet it's in a 20-year contract to pay the New York Mets $400 million to name the team's new stadium "Citi Field."

"This type of spending is indefensible and unacceptable to Citigroup's new partner and largest investor: the American taxpayer," said Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., in a statement Monday.

There are a million UAW pensioners living in fear right now because pontificating, sanctimonious, disingenuous creeps like Richard Shelby are on TV preaching that they must give up the retirement funds they spent a lifetime contributing to because they make Detroit "uncompetitive" with Japanese automakers in his state. No mention is made that right-to-work states like Alabama give foreign auto makers a protective advantage by making it illegal to unionize.

Pelosi and Reid want to be reassured that no bonuses will be given out to anyone in the auto industry making more than $200,000 a year, while Wall Street bonuses will actually be more generous as a result of their bailout. They want Detroit to promise that bridge financing money won't be paid in dividends to stockholders, yet the Treasury said it was okay for banks to pay out half of the funds they received to shareholders because "suspending quarterly dividend payments would have deterred banks from participating in the voluntary program."

Obama now says that the automakers must prove they can be profitable andcreate more fuel efficient cars before they will get federal assistance for a problem caused by mismanagement of the same financial institutions who had no strings whatsoever put on their loans, despite the fact that there is no proof that people will buy more fuel efficient cars when gas prices are low -- something the government can affect, but which the automakers have no control of whatsoever.

But thank gawd A-Rod can still pick up the tabs for those spending sprees if he wants to get busy with Madonna. I was getting worried there for a minute.

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KIM FROM REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA AGREES TO POSE FOR PLAYBOY ... THE OTHER WOMEN ARE CONSIDERING IT!!!



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ON BLAST!!! NORTH CAROLINA SKRIPPER CLAIMS THAT NBA ALL STAR CHRIS PAUL USED HER SERVICES ... AND DIDN'T PAY!!!



November 24, 2008. Here's what one of MediaTakeOut.com's faithful reported about NBA baller Chris Paul:
I'm an area stripper (yes, I don't sugar coat it), internet pornstar and live video actress. [Chris Paul] had a party recently I've done bookings that they and other athletes have attended in the past and made pretty decent.

I was called to do the booking by one of my homegirls. I've done parties for them in the winston-salem area. They requested 3 chicks. One of the girls didn't show up to the party. She didn't answer the phone calls, txts or anything. So it was just 2 of us.

For starters, they were late. They've done parties with us before, and know what we expect. Come with tips. I didn't plan on bringing change. Once we get there, they said they had no money to tip. NO MONEY?!

This was at a lovely country club type hotel, and he's a nba ball player, now. C'mon. I've known this fool since he was a kid. The fee is 150 an hour per girl to dance. Instead of tipping us, they said they'd give us 200 a piece. They didn't feel as if they should give us anything because the 3rd girl didn't show up.

They also didn't want the guys who we use for security(it's some crazies in the world. We don't go without them) anywhere in the conference room. They had to stand outside. It started late due to them not only being late but killing time, and the guys complained until we started dancing. They didn't tip hardly.

The money mysteriously disappeared. We asked his brother CJ about the tips. The other dancer thought I had them, vice versa. We usually have a person who picks the money up, but they requested that they sit outside.

So he went to "look for the money" and came back with 40 dollars a piece. Then they got mad cause we wouldn't stay any longer. Hell, it cost me 70 to fill my car up with gas.

Now that wasn't nice Chris!!!



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November 24, 2008. If you're a Tyra talk show fan ... watch it while you can - cause it might be off the air pretty soon. Word is that FOX and the My networks have decided to stop airing The Tyra Banks' Show. But don't fret to hard. Tyra will still be airing on the CW network ... for now that is...

Here's how Reuters is reporting her new "change" in scheduling:
Economics played a role in its move out of syndication as stations are forced to make budget cuts amid the economic downturn. To cut costs, "Tyra's" production schedule will be cut to 26 weeks from 34, with an episode from the first four seasons airing at 3 p.m. and a new installment airing at 4 p.m. "Tyra" repeats also will continue to air in late-night on women's cable channel Oxygen....

"Tyra Banks" this season is averaging a 1.0 household rating, off 9% from the same period a year ago, which puts it in a different league from higher-rated talkers including "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Dr. Phil" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show"




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Steven Seagal to Star on A and E New Series

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Famous martial actor, Steven Seagal, will return to acting. It has been reported that the action hero actor has signed a deal with A & E network to star in a new reality series revolving his life in law enforcement.

The new series where the 56-year-old actor will star in is entitled "Steven Seagal: Lawman". Featuring Seagal and a team of deputies investigating crimes, it also focuses on Seagal's off-duty ventures, including musical performances and philanthropic efforts in Jefferson Parish and New Orleans. The airdate of Seagal's new series is still to be determined.


Chris Brown Eyes Duets With Madonna and Coldplay for Upcoming LP 'Grafitti'

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Grammy-nominated R 'n' B singer Chris Brown is eying a collaboration withMadonna, whom he claims as his dream duet, for his upcoming album "Grafitti". Besides, he also reveals his desire to work together with Coldplayfor the effort, which is planned for 2009 release.

On the red carpet at the 36th annual American Music Awards (AMAs), held Sunday, November 23 at Los Angeles' Nokia Theatre, Chris told the press, "It's going to be my stepping stone from Chris Brown to superstar." He didn't give further details on his upcoming album though.


Sneak Preview of 'Lipstick Jungle' 2.10: Chapter Seventeen




Sneak peek to "Lipstick Jungle" episode 2.10 has been revealed in a preview below. The preview hints that the episode will be the most emotional chapter of the season.

"Chapter Seventeen" revolves around Nico Reilly and Kirby Atwood who adjust to life with baby Charlie and find themselves at a crossroads in their relationship. Meanwhile, Wendy Healy faces some difficulties to get her latest project off the ground when an arrogant movie producer tries to take her dream project from her. Also, Victory Ford tries to land a new multi-million dollar client.



Christopher Wallace and Faith Evans Get to Know Each Other in New 'Notorious' Clip




USA Today has got an exclusive clip of the forthcoming Notorious B.I.G. biopic movie, "Notorious", and now the clip has come out. Focusing on the relationship between B.I.G. and his future wife, R 'n' B singer Faith Evans, the snippet gives out the time B.I.G. asks Evans could he be the man who makes her laughs.

Apart from exposing the clip, USA Today also included an interview with Jamal Woolard, the actor who gets the chance to portray the legendary hip hop artist whose real name is Christopher Wallace. Of the essence of the film, he stated that it "is about manhood", explaining further, "It's about a boy turning into a man, and that is Christopher becoming The Notorious B.I.G."


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Hilary Duff Smitten With Robert Pattinson

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Everyone is catching the fever of box office hit "Twilight" and Hilary Duff isn't an exception as she has admitted to have a crush on its main star Robert Pattinson. Revealing her love for the British actor, she tells the press that she even jokingly warns her boyfriend Mike Comrie she's on the hunt for her own bloodsucking beau.

"I told my boyfriend, I was like, 'Edward Cullen ... I mean, find me a vampire, you might be done ...!' He's handsome," so Hilary says. It is not known how Mike responses to her joke.



Parents and Friends Help Celebrating Miley Cyrus' 16th Birthday at AMAs


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Miley Cyrus' parents and some celebrity friends lend a helping hand to celebrate the Disney star's 16th birthday Sunday, November 23 during the 36th annual American Music Awards (AMAs). The celebration is just the other one that the actress-singer has following an early celebration on October 5 at California's Disneyland.

Singer father Billy Ray Cyrus and mother Leticia "Tish" Cyrus are seen posing with birthday girl Miley. The likes of Jordin SparksJulianne HoughTaylor Swift, and Ashley Tisdale are all seen surrounding and cheering the birthday girl as she blows the candles placed on her birthday cake.


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A month after being granted U.S. patent No. 7,441,196, a company in Los Angeles called EMG Technology is suing Apple for “the way the iPhone navigates the Internet,” according to a press release. The suit did not specify the damages EMG is seeking, but the company has hired a serious gun: Stanley Gibson, one of the lead trial attorneys who won the $1.35 billion patent infringement lawsuit against Medtronic.

One of the patent’s inventors is Elliot Gottfurcht, who is best known as a Los Angeles real estate developer. The patent covers methods for reformatting Web pages onto mobile (and other) devices, as well as for manipulating those Web pages using zooming and scrolling techniques. The suit is specifically targeting the touch-screen browser on the iPhone, but it could just as easily apply to any mobile browser, including the one on the Android phone. The name of the patent is “Apparatus and method of manipulating a region on a wireless device screen for viewing, zooming and scrolling internet content.” It was filed on March 13, 2006.



Palm is laying off an undetermined number of its 1,050 workers this week in an effort to stem the effects of the economy and Palm’s decreasing smartphone market share. While it’s not a shock - everyone is doing it! - Palm now has to deal with RIM and Android eating their lunch and iPhone essentially stealing the entire casual smartphone market out from under it.



On Facebook, the spam you get from friends is bad enough, but tolerable. The really bad stuff is actual spam, which more and more people are being subject to. On Friday, judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose, California, awarded Facebook $873 million in damages against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital under the CAN-SPAM act. (Ruling embedded below). It is the largest award under the act ever granted, topping the $234 million award MySpace won against spammers last May.

The chances of Facebook ever collecting that amount from the defendants are minimal (spam pays, but not that much). Still, sit sends the right message to other Facebook spammers out there.



Jumping from one crowded space to another, Evite competitor MyPunchbowlhas just launched a new eCard service, allowing users to send customized greeting cards using its impressive card editor. Users will be able to choose from an array of holiday, birthday, and thank you cards, which they can embellish with family photos and a number of text effects.

CEO Matt Douglas says that while there are many other sites on the web that offer free Ecards, the vast majority of them are unprofessional and aren’t very visually appealing. With MyPunchbowl’s Ecard Studio, Douglas says that the company is striving for an electronic equivalent to the classier (but more expensive) sort of card you might find in a stationary store.



Zuberance has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Emergence Capital Partners, with general partner Gordon Ritter joining its board of directors in the process.

Zuberance offers a suite of SaaS applications that enable companies to identify and track customer advocates, and mobilize them to automatically publish authentic content like reviews and testimonials to specific locations within shopping and review sites like Amazon.com, YouTube, TripAdvisor and Facebook. This effectively turns customers into a volunteer promotion workforce that shares offers with their friends and colleagues.



I bumped into Artiklz at the Blog08 conference in Amsterdam last month, and got a rundown of what the LA-based startup was working on while the service was still in alpha mode. Today, Artiklz is releasing its finetuned and upgraded application in private beta with a slew of new features.

We have 500 invites for TechCrunch readers; all you need to do is sign up here and tell them we sent you.

Artiklz aggregates comments around content from a variety of services (including Digg, Reddit, Yahoo! Buzz, FriendFeed, Mixx, Delicious, Diigo etc.). In addition, they offer plug-ins to track conversations on major blogging services like Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, and self-hosted WordPress blogs and centralize what’s being said and referenced regarding your own content as well as discussions about it across the web.



It’s not the first time we’ve heard rumors about Facebook looking to acquireTwitter or about an impending deal breaking down. But this time, Kara Swisher over at BoomTown offers a bit of insight about the deal size. According to Kara (and her sources), Facebook was offering $500 million of its stock at the infamous (and ridiculous) $15 billion valuation to acquire Twitter up until 3 weeks ago.

Apparently talks, which were reportedly initiated by privately-held Facebook, broke down because of doubts on behalf of Twitter investors and executives about the stock’s actual worth, the usual concerns that arise when acquisitions are made, and a strong belief that Twitter will ultimately be able to weather the storm on its own. Also noted is Facebook’s concern over Twitter’s current burn rate and future revenue potential.

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FoxGLove Standalone Google Apps Portal


Crafty Firefox user Alex customized his own Firefox Portable installation to tightly integrate with Google Apps. He calls his creation "FoxGLove," and uses it as his own Google-powered productivity portal instead of Microsoft Outlook. Along with his pick of add-ons that enhance and integrate Google Apps in Firefox, Alex tricked out this portable Firefox version with a Chrome-like theme, custom homepages (that auto-load in tabs), web site favicons, and even slapped the FoxGLove name and icon onto the whole shebang. Best part? You can download and try it out right now without disturbing your current Firefox setup. Download FoxGLove below to give it a spin on your own desktop, and get the rundown of what comes with it.



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Auto Delete Keeps Your Hard Drive Clean


Windows only: Free application Auto Delete monitors any user-specified folder and deletes files older than a set amount of time, from 1 day to 1 year. When deleted, files can either be sent to the Recycle Bin or permanently deleted. There isn't much else Auto Delete can do beyond that, but it's one of those dead simple tools that does exactly what it says without much fuss, which we always like. On the other hand, if you're looking for a more robust version of Auto Delete—including options to move, rename, copy, or delete files based on multiple conditions—you might consider giving our very own automated file management tool Belvedere a try. Auto Delete is a free download, Windows only. UPDATE: Our apologies for the dupe.



  • iPhone/iPod touch only: If you've been waiting to upgrade your iPhone or touch to the recently released iPhone 2.2 software until you could jailbreak the update and run your must-have jailbreak apps (like, I don't know, the one that let's you use your iPhone's internet connection on your laptop), you're in luck: The iPhone Dev team has already released QuickPwn for both Windows and Mac and the PwnageTool for Mac. Not only will jailbreaking your phone with one of these simple-to-use apps add both Cydia and Installer to your home screen, but it'll also give you access to a few other very cool iPhone 2.2-only hacks. More »

  • Napsounds is a repository of relaxing audio files designed for power napping. Every day a unique 20-minute track is generated in the electronic, classic, and nature sounds category. You can listen directly from the web site, download the track as an MP3, subscribe via RSS, or set iTunes to grab the track as a podcast. The tracks use a combination of neural linguistic programming, binaural beats, and white noise generation layered into the ambient sounds.More »

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    Most discussed ruined: The link to reboot your brain points back to the previous link. The real article is here: Reboot your Brain more »



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    Cellphone Gun Delivers Hot, Sneaky Death, Can't Send Text Messages

     Italian police officers recently seized a tiny gun that's disguised as a cellphone. It can hold four bullets and is powerful enough to kill somebody. It looks pretty good, phone-wise, if pretty outdated. It's stuff like this that makes me having to pour my water out at airport security seem even more idiotic. If I had one of these things, I could put it in the basket as I went through the metal detector, but you're not letting me bring in a bottle of water? Screw you, TSA. Hit the jump for another shot of this thifg. More »

    T-Mobile Samsung Behold Lightning Review

     The GadgetSamsung's Behold, T-Mobile's slice of touchscreen feature phone pie with a Korea-style five-megapixel camera and Sammy's "innovative" TouchWiz UI.

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    First pics of Motorola's MOTO QA30 QWERTY slider

    by Tim Stevens

    First pics of Motorola's MOTO QA30 QWERTY slider
    Sliders are typically known for offering the best of both worlds: thesophisticatedclean looks you want hiding the ugly, QWERTY keypad you need. Motorola's bucking that trend with the chunky MOTO QA30, looking rather utilitarian open or closed and featuring the sort of squat form-factor that didn't exactly woo us on the UTStarcom TXT8010. The 2.5-inch 320 x 240 screen is a bit on the small side, but an integrated 3.5mm headphone jack and stereo Bluetooth 2.0, plus support for up to 32GB microSD cards, should make this a reasonably good choice for anyone needing a texting-friendly handset that can serve up some tunes. No word on price or availability, but we'd guess "affordable" and "soon."

    Update: Jed commented to let us know U.S. Cellular recently featured this phone in an ad, dubbed the HINT and listed as being available as December. So, now you know what "soon" equates to, at least.
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    Motorola Krave ZN4 hands-on



    It's pretty fricking hard to believe that Motorola didn't have any touchscreen phones in the North American market before the Krave, isn't it? It's true, though -- so when it came time to draw inspiration for that all-important first device, designers looked to none other than Moto's own MING series, a popular (and fairly attractive, if we do say so ourselves) line of Linux-based smartphones sold in China for inspiration. In the course of its metamorphosis into a thoroughly Americanized phone, the Krave (Kring? MAVE?) lost GSM, gained CDMA and 3G, and found itself locked in to Verizon. All things considered, that's a pretty traumatic conversion there -- so how'd it end up faring? We took a quick look at the ZN4 to find out.

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    The unthinkable will be thought, the unimaginable will be imagined, the undoable will be done! Microsoft will finally enter the phone business sometime next year. Ballmer should be happy right? Microsoft’s smartphone will probably try to compete against the iPhone, but will that be possible at all? They have a head start and some experience in the mobile business. Windows Mobile will go to version 6.5 and then 7.0 but what about the rest?

    The smartphone will be built on NVIDIA’s SoC or system-on-a-chip platform. So it’s not a Zune phone is it? Will that work? Here’s what the Inquirer has to say about it:

    What do you get if you take an iPhone, remove the clean UI, user friendliness, nice industrial design, battery life, cachet, functional OS, and in general everything else that makes it worthwhile? The new Microsoft phone, powered by NVIDIA.

    The SoC will be NVIDIA’s Tegra chip, according to the Inquirer. Tegra is available for GPS, handhelds and notebooks and smartphones. The Tegra APX 2500 is the chip for the phone and it has a 600 MHz MPCore Processor, up to a 12-megapixel camera support, GeForce ULV support for OpenGL ES 2.0 and up to 720p H.264 decoding. The NVIDIA nPower technology will get you over 10 hours of HD video playback and about 100 hours of audio.

    We might see the device next February at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona and shipping will start soon after. My mid 2009 we should have the first Microsoft smartphone ready to compete against Apple’s third generation iPhone?

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    T-Mobile Increases Data Prices


    This isn’t something we weren’t expectingT-Mobile has increased their wireless data prices for smartphones users. Unlimited data that used to cost $19.99 per month will cost $24.99 in the future. And there’s one more thing. It’s not unlimited anymore, it’s capped at 400 SMS or MMS messages. Unlimited data costs now $34.99 a month. That’s besides what you already pay for your Voice plan.

    Getting a G1 will get you a default $24.99 data plan.

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    New Hello Kitty Gadget: the C1 Netbook



    We have a new Hello Kitty for you gals and girls. It’s the C1 Netbook which has the whole Hello Kitty mark on it. Like any other netbook it weighs under 3 pounts and it packs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive and a 10.1 inch display. Two USB ports, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, 802.11b/g WiFi and the usual Windows XP Home complete the specs’ list.

    But unlike any other netbook, the C1 has Hello Kitty written all over it. That’s why it would cost you no less than $890 to get it. Too much you say? I agree!

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    Brothers Chance (left) and Real were spotted leaving a L.A. nightclub with two chicks that they were trying hard to convince they were reality tv stars. It doesn’t look like the ladies believe them.