Michael Jackson Memorial News Conference

Michael Jackson Memorial News Conference Breaking News AEG: Family has made arrangements for public memorial to be broadcast around world Fans will have to enter into draw for memorial tickets and will be randomly selected

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Angry Fans - OK Magazine Michael Jackson Cover Cost $500,000

Reports are coming out that OK Magazine paid $500,000 for the photos of Michael Jackson that will appear in the magazines upcoming issue. Thats some pretty serious instant cash for the photographer who took them.

The OK Magazine Michael Jackson cover also bears the bold caption Michaels Tragic Death: Why He Didnt Have to Die. The OK Magazine cover also promises a complete tribute inside, including Michael Jackson World Exclusive: The Last Photos.

The upcoming OK Magazine Michael Jackson cover has caught peoples attention for a couple of reasons. The cover photo itself is drawing outrage from fans who say its upsetting and offensive. The OK Magazine cover shows a photo of Michael Jackson hooked up to a breathing tube.

Because of conflicting reports surrounding Jacksons actual time of death, some are speculating that Michael Jackson might, in fact, be already deceased in the photo. The Examiner reports the photo depicts Michael either in his last moments or after he had died. The magazine says it is the last photo of him before he died.

Danielle Dealeasa & Kevin Jonas engaged !

Jonas mom and pop Kevin Sr and Denise posted the news on the boys MySpace, saying, Our hearts are filled with joy today and we are happy to share with you that our son Kevin has asked Danielle Deleasa for her hand in marriage. Her answer was yes and it is such a blessing that she will be joining our family. Kevin and Danielle have not yet set a date. Family is very dear to us and we hope we have raised Kevin to be a wonderful man and husband. Please join us in our families celebration and in congratulating Kevin and Danielle. Thank you for all of your support.

Williams Sisters Into Wimbledon Quarterfinals

Defending champion Venus Williams and her sister Serena are two wins away from a rematch of last year's Wimbledon finale after fourth-round victories Monday. (June 29)

Andy Murray through to the Wimbledon quarter-finals

The British number one beat Stanislas Wawrinka in a five-set thriller on Centre Court under the roof..

Jesse Jackson: 'Family Wants 2nd Autopsy'

The Rev. Jesse Jackson met with the parents of Michael Jackson following the pop superstar's death. He says the family is overwhelmed with grief and wants a second, independent autopsy. (June 27)

Michael Jackson's lawyer warned family over drug use

Michael Jackson's lawyer says he warned the family about the King of Pop's use of drugs and claimed he wouldn't stay silent if he died..

Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend, doctors charged

LOS ANGELES – Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend and a doctor surrendered to face charges that they conspired to provide the Playboy Playmate with thousands of prescription pills before her 2007 fatal overdose. A second doctor also is accused.

Howard K. Stern and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor were released late Thursday after posting $20,000 bond. Charges include conspiracy, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict, authorities said.

Dr. Khristine Eroshevich was expected to surrender Monday. Her attorney, Adam Braun, acknowledged she wrote some of the prescriptions using fictitious names for Smith, but it wasn't intended to commit fraud.

"It was done for privacy reasons," Braun told The Associated Press. "She did the best she could under difficult circumstances in the best interest of the patient."

Prosecutors see it differently.

"These individuals repeatedly and excessively furnished thousands of prescription pills to Anna Nicole Smith, often for no legitimate medical purpose," California Attorney General Jerry Brown said in a statement Thursday. His office was expected to release more details about the case at a news conference Friday.

Prosecutors said the doctors gave thousands of prescription drugs — including opiates and sedatives — to Stern, who then gave them to Smith.

Messages left with attorneys for Stern and Kapoor were not returned.

The prescriptions were issued between June 2004 and January 2007, just weeks before her death on Feb. 8, 2007.

Medical examiners have said Eroshevich, a Los Angeles psychiatrist and friend of Smith's, authorized all 11 of the prescription medications found in the Hollywood, Fla., hotel room where the 39-year-old model was found unresponsive shortly before her death.

An arraignment date was not immediately set and prosecutors were unsure how much prison time the three would face if convicted. Stern faces six felony counts and the doctors face seven each.

Braun said Eroshevich began treating Smith in September 2006 when she suffered a nervous breakdown stemming from the death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith, who died of an accidental drug overdose three days after his mother gave birth to a girl.

Eroshevich traveled on several occasions over a six-month period to the Bahamas, where Smith was living with Stern and wrote the prescriptions.

The criminal complaint also alleges Kapoor gave her excessive amounts of sleep aids, opiates, muscle relaxants and methadone-like drugs used to treat addiction, knowing she was an addict. Kapoor saw Smith in the spring of 2006 when she was treated at a Los Angeles County hospital for opiate withdrawal and prenatal care for the pregnancy of her daughter Dannielynn, according to the complaint.

Rumors swirled for weeks after Smith's death, but police cleared those around her of any wrongdoing and medical examiners ruled she died of an accidental overdose.

Documents obtained by the AP after her death showed most of the drugs found in her hotel room were prescribed in Stern's name and none were prescribed in Smith's own name.

The quantity was staggering. More than 600 pills — including about 450 muscle relaxants — were missing from prescriptions that were no more than 5 weeks old. Ultimately, it was a syrup — the powerful sleeping aid chloral hydrate — blamed with tipping the balance in the toxic mix of drugs and causing her death.

Stern, who initially claimed he was the father of Dannielynn, appeared distraught as he spoke last year at a memorial marking the one-year anniversary of Smith's death.

"Few people who knew Anna might not realize how smart she actually was because unless she wanted you to know you didn't know," Stern said.

Stern later gave up custody of Dannielynn after DNA tests proved Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead was the father.

The little girl has been named the sole heir of her late mother's estate, with Birkhead and Stern as co-trustees. Dannielynn could inherit millions of dollars if the estate wins an ongoing court fight over the oil fortune of Smith's late second husband, J. Howard Marshall.

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Associated Press writers Greg Risling in Los Angeles and Matt Sedensky in Miami contributed to this report.

Article from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_re_us/anna_nicole_smith_drug_charges

Is Kelly Clarkson pregnant, or just gaining weight?

Kelly Clarkson’s appearance on American Idol this evening has set tongues wagging after Clarkson showed what on the surface at least appeared to be a baby bump.

So is Kelly Clarkson pregnant? The answer is we can’t be sure, but it’s more likely just weight gain. Only recently, Clarkson told Us Weekly that she wasn’t interested at the moment in spawning children. She also told Ryan Seacrest that there is no special person in her life at the moment.

Clarkson, rumored by some to be a lesbian, has had a long battle with weight, often putting on the pounds only to lose them again in a semi-regular fashion.

One thing we can say for Clarkson: if she was pregnant, she’d probably share the news; only earlier today, details of an interview she did with Blender Magazine included gems from Clarkson such as she pisses on her self in the shower, and that she analyzes her snot for illness.

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GUNMAN SHOOTS 9 PEOPLE DEAD IN ALABAMA US | Ten die in Alabama shooting spree

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A gunman has killed at least nine people in a series of shootings across two towns in the southern US state of Alabama before killing himself.Officials say there were at least four separate shooting incidents.The gunman fired on homes, a petrol station, shops and vehicles in Samson and Geneva near the Florida border.

Five people - including a child - were killed in one home. Several of the victims are believed to have been members of the gunman's family.The gunman has not been formally identified, but was named in the local press as Michael McLendon .The bloodshed began when the suspect is thought to have burned down a house where he lived with his mother in Kinston, near Samson, local coroner Robert Preachers told the Associated Press news agency.
Officials said they had not been able to get inside the house to determine a cause of death and determine whether the woman was the 10th victim of the killing spree.

Shockhe coroner said it was believed the suspect then headed to Samson where he shot and killed five people - four adults and a child - in one home."He started in his mother's house. Then he went to Samson and he killed his granny and granddaddy and aunt and uncle. He cleaned his family out," Mr Preachers said.

The gunman then killed one person each in two other homes, before killing someone at a Samson supply store, and another person at a service station.A police officer told Reuters news agency that two of the dead were the wife and child of a deputy sheriff."He just cruised his automobile through Samson and was spraying the people with semi-automatic weapons [fire] at random," the Reverend Mike Shirah, of Geneva's Maple Baptist Church, told the BBC.
Samson Mayor Clay King said the town had opened a crisis centre at a local church.
"I've lived here 44 years and never, never dreamed of this happening," Mr King told AP.
From Samson, the gunman drove 19km (12 miles) east to Geneva. At one point, officers rammed his car and gunfire was exchanged.

Geneva police chief Frankie Lindsay says he was saved by his bullet-proof vest when the man shot at his patrol with an automatic weapon."About 11 rounds hit my vehicle," he told the BBC. "Some of the shrapnel from the bullets did enter my shoulder."The suspect fired a total of 30 rounds during the exchange with police, officials say.The gunman then went inside a metal products plant where he is believed to have once worked, and shot himself.

There is no indication yet of a motive for the killings. The FBI has sent an agent to assist the local sheriff's office.Samson has a population of about 2,000 people. Geneva's population is about about 4,400.The towns are in a quiet rural area, our correspondent adds, and the local community are shocked that this incident has happened in such a place.

How to Watch High Quality Videos on YouTube

Don’t you just hate how low the quality of the videos are on YouTube? I certainly do, but thankfully there is a way to get around the default quality and watch videos in a much higher quality. However, there are catches to this… like everything really. :|

First, I am going to explain how to do this and then I will explain the flaws/catches to it. You start off with a basic YouTube URL, then you add the High Quality code at the end of it: &fmt=18. An example might look like:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcpK5mdTIE8&fmt=18

As you can see, you will get a much higher quality video through the wonders of YouTube.

So far, I have only found 2 flaws / limitations, but the most important limitation is this will NOT work on videos that are encoded from .FLV files before they are uploaded to YouTube. The other flaw is that on some occasions the audio and video will desync when using this feature. It doesn’t happen very often but it does happen.

If you’re logged in to YouTube anyway, just head over to your Account settings page. Near the bottom, you’ll find a “Video Quality” option. Click that link and you’ll land on a page where you can choose to always see the higher quality videos. Obviously, this requires you to login to YouTube, so if you don’t want to do that, just stick with one of the methods above.

Article from : http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-watch-high-quality-videos-on-youtube/

Lolo Jones uses stumble at Olympics as motivation

No counseling is necessary to clear Lolo Jones’ mind of clipping that next-to-last hurdle in the 100-meter finals at the Beijing Olympics last summer.

Jones doesn’t want to forget that feeling when she had gold all but locked up, only to stumble and stagger across in seventh place.

The memory remains a mighty motivator.

"A lot of what happened at the Olympics just put fuel in the fire," Jones said in a teleconference Wednesday as she prepares to defend her crown this weekend at the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships in Boston. "Instead of paying for a psychiatrist, I just go to practice. It’s like having a session for free."

Still, the 26-year-old can’t watch the footage from the Olympic finals.

Not yet at least.

Once, a talk show played a clip of the race in the background while interviewing her, and she could hear the audio.

That was painful enough.

"I know exactly what happened. I’ve relived that race so many times," Jones said. "I pretty much had the driver’s side seat on watching it in the actual race."

Jones was the fastest hurdler in the world entering the finals, and blazed out to a big lead. She simply caught the ninth of 10 hurdles and couldn’t recover as American Dawn Harper went on to capture gold.

Did Jones go out too fast in hoping to break the Olympic record? Could she have backed off a bit?

Not an option.

Sure, her semifinal performance — a personal-best 12.43 seconds — would’ve easily won the gold medal, but she was looking for more. Jones didn’t want to win gold so much as win gold in spectacular fashion.

"I was trying to give my all and my best," Jones said. "I wasn’t just trying to get an ’A’ on a paper, I was trying to have the best paper ever written in history."

Her anguish, though, captured hearts. She didn’t run away from the cameras. Instead, the ever-graceful Jones openly and painfully talked about her slip up.

"I don’t think people would’ve remembered my name as much if I would’ve won," Jones said. "Everybody can relate to not getting something they want or something they’ve worked so hard for. That speaks on all levels. It speaks to everybody."

Soon after the Olympics, Jones received a small measure of redemption, winning a race in Zurich, Switzerland, that was stacked with Olympians.

"That was the race I felt I needed to win," Jones said.

It was healing therapy for her confidence.

Now she’s off to another torrid start, breezing to a win in the 60-meter hurdles last week at a meet in Birmingham, England.

However, while at the competition, Jones made a comment concerning the World Anti-Doping Agency’s new drug testing rules that she said was misinterpreted.

Jones isn’t against testing, just how it’s administered.

With the new rule, athletes need to give three months’ notice of their availability for one hour each day during out-of-competion drug testing.

That, Jones admitted, is difficult to do.

"I’ve always been 100 percent supportive of all drug testing and anything that will keep drugs out of track and field," Jones said. "What I was trying to say is I don’t care if they have to put GPS (navigation) on me 24/7. If that’s what it takes to keep the sport clean, by all means I’m for it. ... I think this new system just needs to get its kinks ironed out."

Jones certainly appears to be in top form on the track.

"I can’t believe I’m running as consistently fast as I am," said Jones, who lives in Baton Rouge, La., and still trains with Dennis Shaver, her coach from Louisiana State. "Normally, I’ll have some ups and downs. I’ve been pretty consistent, so I’m excited."

She’s the favorite to win the 60-meter hurdles this weekend at the indoor championships.

Even more, Jones has a shot at capturing her second straight Visa championship, which is awarded to the top performer throughout the four-meet series. All Jones has to do is finish in a time of 7.86 seconds or better. That would give her enough points to surge ahead of Jenn Stuczynski, provided the pole vaulter doesn’t break her American record at the meet.

Jones won the hurdles in Boston in a time of 7.88 seconds last year, allowing her to take the series title, along with a $25,000 bonus check from Visa.

No matter where she goes, her stumble at the Olympics is brought up. She doesn’t duck the questions, tries to answer them as honestly as she can.

"I’m definitely still getting over it," Jones said. "Every race is helping me."

Article from :http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/other_sports/general/view.bg?articleid=1154811&srvc=rss

Catalase Enzyme - A Cure for Grey Hair?

s your hair going grey? Well, science may have found the culprit - Catalase! A digestive enzyme, catalase is essentially omnipresent in all eukaryotic life. Its job is to act as a catalyst (catalase - catalyst!) for the process of separating water into component parts - oxygen, and hydrogen peroxide - surprising. Catalase performs this process in excess of a million times in just one second. But it also seems that it is responsible for causing greying of hair in older people. Remember - catalase also breaks down hydrogen peroxide, which is toxic.

Basically, if there isnt enough catalase (which there commonly isn’t in hair of older people), hydrogen peroxide builds up and damages the hair so that its original colour is lost. If we can find a way to interfere with this process, perhaps re-supplying the hair with catalase, greying may become a thing of the past. Check this video below to see catalase in action.



Article from : http://www.unregisterednews.com/2009/03/01/catalase-enzyme-a-cure-for-grey-hair/

Paul Harvey, Talk-Radio Pioneer, Is Dead at 90

CHICAGO (AP) — Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation’s most familiar voices, died Saturday in Arizona, according to ABC Radio Networks. He was 90.
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Paul Harvey in 1992.

Mr. Harvey died surrounded by family at a hospital in Phoenix, where he had a winter home, said Louis Adams, a spokesman for ABC Radio Networks, where Mr. Harvey worked for more than 50 years. No cause of death was immediately available.

Mr. Harvey had been forced off the air for several months in 2001 because of a virus that weakened a vocal cord. But he returned to work in Chicago and was still active as he passed his 90th birthday. His death comes less than a year after that of his wife and longtime producer, Lynne.

“My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio and television news,” their only child, Paul Harvey Jr., said in a statement. “So in the past year, an industry has lost its godparents, and today millions have lost a friend.”

Known for his resonant voice and his trademark radio feature called “The Rest of the Story,” Mr. Harvey had been heard nationally since 1951, when he began his “News and Comment” feature for ABC Radio Networks.

He became a heartland icon, delivering news and commentary with a distinctive Midwestern flavor. “Stand by for news!” he would tell listeners.

“Paul Harvey was one of the most gifted and beloved broadcasters in our nation’s history,” James M. Robinson, president of ABC Radio Networks, said in a statement. “We will miss our dear friend tremendously and are grateful for the many years we were so fortunate to have known him.”

In 2005, Mr. Harvey was one of 14 people chosen to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He also was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, as was his wife.

He composed his twice-daily news commentaries from an office in downtown Chicago.

At the peak of his career, Mr. Harvey reached more than 24 million listeners on more than 1,200 radio stations and charged $30,000 to give a speech. His syndicated column was carried by 300 newspapers.

His fans identified with his plain-spoken political commentary, but critics called him out of touch. He was an early supporter of the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and was a longtime backer of the Vietnam War.

Perhaps Mr. Harvey’s most famous broadcast was in 1970, when he abandoned that support, announcing his opposition to President Richard M. Nixon’s expansion of the war and urging him to withdraw American forces.

“Mr. President, I love you, but you’re wrong,” Mr. Harvey said, shocking his listeners and drawing a barrage of letters and phone calls, including one from the White House.

In 1976, Mr. Harvey began broadcasting “The Rest of the Story,” his anecdotal descriptions of the lives of famous people. The segments started chronologically, with the person’s identity revealed at the end. The stories were an attempt to capture “the heartbeats behind the headlines.”

Mr. Harvey also blended news with advertising, a line he said he crossed only for products he trusted.

In 2000, at age 82, he signed a 10-year contract with ABC Radio Networks.

Paul Harvey Aurandt was born in Tulsa, Okla. His father, a police officer, was killed when he was a toddler. A high school teacher took note of his distinctive voice and started him on a broadcast career.

While working at KXOK radio in St. Louis, he met Lynne Cooper, a graduate student at Washington University. He proposed on their first date (she said no) and always called her “Angel.” They were married in 1940.

Article Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/nyregion/01harvey.html

Why Obama should skip Tavis Smiley's State of the Black Union

Sen. Barack Obama took a lot of heat last year from participants in Tavis Smiley's State of the Black Union annual confab, which was held in Virginia. To be fair, he was a little busy that day...announcing HE WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT!

Some of the folks there were besides themselves, and frankly, were childish about it, even saying that he should have put off his presidential announcement to be there.

Now, almost a year later, he is faced with a similar dilemma.

Tavis has announced that he will hold his State of the Black Union annual talkfest on Feb. 23 in New Orleans, La. This is a huge event attended by thousands each year; broadcast on C-SPAN; and attracts some of the nation's top black activists, politicians and intellectuals.

During his commentary Thursday on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, the most listened to black radio show, Tavis said he's invited the three top candidates, Republican frontrunner, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. He said only one has accepted, and he will wait until tomorrow for the other two to decide.

He didn't say which one decided to attend, but on Friday, Clinton announced that she was attending.

In his commentary, Smiley said he was going to snap on those who don't attend on Tuesday's show, demanding that they own up to black issues and zero in on social justice issues as outlined in the book he edited, "The Covenant with Black America."

Here is my analysis of the situation, and hopefully it will put this presidential campaign and the delicate task of navigating the waters of black politics in perspective.

1. Clinton MUST attend. She led Obama in all of 2007 among black voters by huge margins. But that trend has shifted -dramatically. At best, she's polling at 25% among African Americans. Her acceptance is critical because she needs to capture 30% to 40% of the black to really stop Obama.

The perceived racial slights toward Obama by Clinton campaign surrogates, as well as her husband, former President Bill Clinton, has done significant damage in the black community. His attempts to explain the comments haven't mollified African Americans. Her appearance at the event can help her restore her standing among a vital Democratic constituency, which she will need to turn out en masse if she wins the nomination.

Also, her campaign doesn't have the cash Obama has. She needs any free media. And if Obama shows up, that means all the national media will be there, and the stage is set for her. Tavis said on the air that he would push for the candidates to debate the issues. She's called for more; Obama has only accepted two.

Smart politics on her part, and if I were advising her, no doubt I would tell her to attend.

2. Obama must look forward, not in the past. The Louisiana primary, which he won handily, was on Saturday. Why go back to Louisiana for an event on Feb. 23? That is not to dismiss the needs of people along the Gulf Coast. But the only way he can truly help them is if he wins the nomination and the White House.

Obama needs to be solely focused on Texas and Ohio. Those two mega-states offer a huge bounty of delegates, and he needs to win a large state to move ahead of Clinton. She polls strongly in both states, and they are a huge part of her winning strategy; so much of her time will be spent there in the coming weeks.

All his time must be on the ground. In Texas, he must blanket South Texas because of the Hispanic influence. He didn't do well among Hispanics in California, and he must change that.

There is some hope (no pun intended). When former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk ran in 2002 for the U.S. Senate, he took 74 percent of South Texas. Yes, an Hispanic was running for governor, but that bodes well for Obama. In Ohio, he must do well among blue collar Democrats. Clinton has owned these low- to middle-income voters, and Obama must score well among them.

If Tavis wanted to have an impact, he should have held his event before Louisiana or before the Mississippi primary. As the saying goes, bad planning on your part doesn't constitute a sense of urgency on mine.

3. He can't be defined again as the black candidate. Some will say he must avoid black folks to be more palatable to whites and Hispanics. I disagree. But you can't deny the reality that he's running for president of the United States and not president of Black America. The week of the South Carolina was all about race, and he knows that is not a winning discussion because of this nation's history. His campaign successfully beat back that issue since South Carolina, winning nearly all-white states like Utah, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, Delaware, Connecticut, and Nebraska.

Obama is looking to have mass appeal, and showing up in New Orleans at a State of the Black Union event doesn't help him at all in a close race.

4. Send Michelle Obama. What is the purpose of surrogates if you can't make it somewhere? His wife is perfectly suited for this event, and that frees him up to go elsewhere. Plus, he's his top surrogate, and having a female counter your female opponent isn't a bad matchup.

Ask any campaign manager and they will tell you that when it comes to politics, especially in a close race, every minute matters. Candidates are on the phone lines campaigning, trying to raise money, and secure endorsements.

Spending the day with Tavis and his panelists is vital for Clinton. For Obama, time spent courting Latinos in Texas is more important.

African Americans are asking a lot of Obama, the best chance blacks have ever had of one of their own capturing the White House. I often hear folks say they want to know if he is going to back "their" issues. It is no different than how white women are feeling about Clinton. These are indeed historic firsts.

By the way, when people say that black issues are being ignored in the campaign, they are wrong.

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the nation's most prestigious think tank devoted to African American issues, released a survey showing that the top issues to blacks are the war in Iraq; healthcare; jobs and the economy; and education.

Sounds to me like the candidates have spent a lot of time on those issues, although they could always do more.

As an aside, when I asked my radio listeners on WVON in Chicago if Obama should skip the event, we got 29 calls in two hours, and only two said he should go. And this is a crowd that is normally in agreement with Smiley.

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Filmfare 2009 Nominations | Filmfare Awards 2009 Nominations | 54th Idea Filmfare Nominations

Filmfare has announced its nominees for the best talent in Bollywood for 54th Idea Filmfare Awards.

The 54th Idea Filmfare Awards will be held on 28 February in Mumbai.

For the first time, the 54th Idea Filmfare Awards will be taken on the mobile platform through a series of special initiatives by Idea Cellular.

The 54th Idea Filmfare Awards contest will be available on SMS, Voice and WAP (wap.Ideafresh.com) portals. Mobile users in India will be able to access clippings of Idea Filmfare award winners, wallpapers, trivia etc. on their phones, on the Idea network.

The Nominees are as follows:

BEST FILM

1. Dostana
2. Ghajini
3. Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na
4. Jodhaa Akbar
5. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
6. Rock On!!

BEST DIRECTOR

1. A.R. Murugadoss
2. Abhishek Kapoor
3. Aditya Chopra
4. Ashutosh Gowariker
5. Madhur Bhandarkar
6. Neeraj Pandey

BEST ACTOR (MALE)

1. Aamir Khan
2. Abhishek Bachchan
3. Akshay Kumar
4. Hrithik Roshan
5. Naseeruddin Shah
6. Shah Rukh Khan

BEST ACTOR (FEMALE)

1. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
2. Anushka Sharma
3. Asin Thottumkal
4. Kajol
5. Priyanka Chopra

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (MALE)

1. Abhishek Bachchan
2. Arjun Rampal
3. Prateik Babbar
4. Sonu Sood
5. Tusshar Kapoor
6. Vinay Pathak

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (FEMALE)

1. Bipasha Basu
2. Kangna Ranaut
3. Kirron Kher
4. Ratna Pathak Shah
5. Shahana Goswami

BEST MUSIC

1. A R Rahman
2. A R Rahman
3. A R Rahman
4. Pritam Chakraborty
5. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
6. Vishal-Shekhar

BEST LYRICS

1. Abbas Tyrewala
2. Gulzar
3. Jaideep Sahni
4. Javed Akhtar
5. Javed Akhtar
6. Prasoon Joshi

BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (MALE)

1. Farhan Akhtar
2. KK
3. KK
4. Rashid Ali
5. Sonu Niigaam
6. Sukhwinder Singh

BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (FEMALE)

1. Alka Yagnik
2. Neha Bhasin
3. Shilpa Rao
4. Shreya Ghoshal
5. Shruti Pathak
6. Sunidhi Chauhan

Article Source: http://www.bollyadda.com/2009/02/filmfare-2009-nominations-filmfare.html

How to Improve Your Mega Millions Odds by Millions

Odd or Evens in the Mega Millions lottery or One factor to consider in picking your Mega Millions
lottery numbers is the ratio between the odd / even lotto numbers.

Looking at the past history of all lottery games there appears a pattern that shows you would be better off by not playing all odd or all even numbers.

Example of playing all even numbers 2.4.6.20.40

Example of playing all odd balls 3.11.21.35.47

for the last 254 games reviewed as of 6/9/08

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Mega Millions Lotto Odd/even combo analysis

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5 odd 0 even 2 as a percentage 0.79 %

4 odd 1 even 31 as a percentage 12.20 %

3 odd 2 even 84 as a percentage 33.07 %

2 odd 3 even 95 as a percentage 37.40 %

1 odd 4 even 36 as a percentage 14.17 %

0 odd 5 even 6 as a percentage 2.36 %

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Looking at the table above, you may improve your odds by playing either 3 odd /2 even or 2 odd / 3 even. These rations accounted for almost 2/3 of all past
winners.

33.07 + 37.40 = 70.47%

Or more than 2/3 of past winning number sets follow this rule.

These Mega Millions lotto ratios are always changing, but this pattern does occur across all Mega Millions lotto / lottery games.

Where can I participate in the Mega Millions lottery?

You can buy Mega Millions tickets from lottery retailers/agents in California, CA, Georgia, GA, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, NY, Ohio, Texas, TX, Virginia, or Washington.

You can buy Mega Millions tickets from lottery retailers/agents in California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, or Washington.

Best of luck, gotta swing the bat to hit the ball.

To see the current Mega Millions lottery ratios see http://www.needto.net

Ed Flowers is a serious lotto player. See current lotto stats at http://www.needto.net

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Rihanna & Chris Brown Back Together? (Photos)

WTF? This is crazy but Rihanna has reportedly reunited with Chris Brown. People magazine has said the couple is currently “spending time” together at one of Diddy’s homes.

“They’re together again. They care for each other,” a source tells the magazine, before unsettlingly adding, “While Chris is reflective and saddened about what happened, he is really happy to be with the woman he loves.”

Chris Brown, 19, reached out to Rihanna last Friday on her 21st birthday, when she celebrated with friends during a beach getaway to Punta Mita, Mexico, over the weekend.

“He called to wish her happy birthday,” an insider relays to the mag. “They’ve reached out to each other. It’s been mutual.”

Since the incident, Chris Brown remains under investigation by the Los Angeles police department.

Singer Chris BRown recently attended his first anger-management session, so that at least seems a move forward.

“Words cannot begin to express how sorry and saddened I am over what transpired,” Brown said a week after the purported altercation. “I am seeking the counseling of my pastor, my mother and other loved ones and I am committed, with God’s help, to emerging a better person.”

In a statement, her rep assured fans that “she remains strong, is doing well, and deeply appreciates the outpouring of support she has received during this difficult time.”

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