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Rebate relief languishes in Legislature 2008-04-28 09:59:00 By Bob Johnson • The Associated Press • April 26, 2008Alabama residents will begin receiving federal economic stimulus tax rebate checks next week -- about $600 for most single taxpayers and $1,200 for most families -- but they may not be able to spend it all in one place.Barring quick action by the Alabama Legislature, some of the federal tax rebate will have to go to pay state income taxes. A bill that would exempt the federal rebate checks is stalled as the Legislature enters the final six days of the 2008 regular session.The bill to exempt the rebates from state income taxes is waiting to be considered in the House and still must go to the Senate. The bill is stalled behind the state's education budget and a controversial corporate income tax measure.Debates on the corporate income Read more:Rebate
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Miley Cyrus’ Vanity Fair Pictures Arrive 2008-04-28 09:59:00 Mon, 28 April 2008 at 12:33 amThe Vanity
Fair photo spread of Miley Cyrus has been released! As always, here are some of the interview highlights:On Sex and the City: “It’s my favorite show! I love it! Obviously not the scenarios. But if you watch Sex and the City, like the way the friends are, the way that it’s dry and they all have distinct characters—that’s a thing we try to do on our show.”On the infamous semi-topless shot: “No, I mean I had a big blanket on. And I thought, This looks pretty, and really natural. I think it’s really artsy. [And] it wasn’t in a skanky way.… And you can’t say no to [photographer Annie Leibovitz]. She’s so cute. She gets this puppy-dog look and you’re like, O.K.”On whose career trajectory she’d like to follow: “Before, I’d Read more:Pictures
2010: D-day for the Internet as it hits full capacity? 2008-04-25 22:45:00 Doom-filled warnings arrive from AT&T this week. The company says that without substantial investment in network infrastructure, the Internet
will essentially run out of bandwidth in just two short years.Blame broadband, says AT&T. Decades of dealing with the trickle of bandwidth consumed by voice and dialup modems left AT&T twiddling its thumbs. The massive rise of DSL and cable modem service in the 2000s has had AT&T facing a monstrous increase in the volume of data transmissions. And that's set to increase another 50 times between now and 2015. That's enough, says AT&T, to all but crash the system.In response, AT&T says it's investing $19 billion to upgrade the backbone of the Internet, the routers, servers, and connections where the bulk of traffic is processed.
'Baby Mama' is hoping to deliver this weekend 2008-04-25 22:45:00 It carries an edge as it competes with 'Sarah Marshall' and 'Harold & Kumar.'By Josh Friedman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer April 25, 2008 The folks behind Universal Pictures' new comedy "Baby Mama
" must feel a bit like the guy in that old pop song: "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right."The female buddy movie starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, opening today on the final weekend before the summer movie season, had been scheduled to come out a week ago. But when Universal shuffled its slate, shifting "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" out of the comedy-loaded summer line-up and into the April 18 slot, it also pushed "Baby Mama" back a week to today.So "Baby Mama" will vie for comedy fans not only against "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" -- the stoner romp from New Lin
Kenneth Keith Kallenbach is Dead 2008-04-24 12:02:00 It was just reported on the Kidd Chris Show moments ago, that KennethKeith
Kallenbach, Howard Stern Wackpacker and erstwhile comedian has died.The story is that Kenneth caught pneumonia while in jail and died of complications thereof.Details about the death of Kenneth Keith Kallenbach are sketchy as of right now. But the funny(?)man has left the building, reports HalfNinja blog."According to Steve Langford, Kenneth Keith Kallenbach’s mother told Howard 100 news that Kenneth had died at a hospital currently awaiting trial," writes savebabygorilla.comWikipedia on Kenneth Keith KallenbachKenneth Keith KallenbachKenneth Keith Kallenbach appeared several times on the Howard Stern Television Show in the early 1990s, and is famous for his ludicrously unsuccessful attempts to blow smoke out of
FHM Magazine Names Megan Fox The Sexiest Woman in the World 2008-04-24 12:02:00 Atlanta, GA 4/24/2008 04:26 PM GMT (FINDITT) Transformers co-star Megan
Fox was awarded the top spot on FHM Magazine
's annual 100 Sexiest Women in the World
list.Fox was followed by Jessica Biel and Jessica Alba, who was FHM Magazine's winner last year. Elisha Cuthbert, Scarlett Johansson, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Hilary Duff, Tricia Helfer, Blake Lively and Kate Beckinsale rounded out the top 10.Fox also beat out various celebrities, such as Angelina Jolie (No. 12), Rihanna (No. 14), Kim Kardashian (No. 17), Paris Hilton (No. 77) and Britney Spears (No. 100).Fox debuted on the list in 2006 at No. 68 and ranked at No. 65 in 2007. Fox, whose first big break was Transformers, has received a lot of attention for her looks, as well as her unique tattoos. Fox has a tattoo of a poem written on her ri Read more:Names
Global rice shortage hits wallets in Silicon Valley 2008-04-24 12:02:00 By Ken McLaughlinMercury NewsArticle Launched: 04/24/2008 02:19:23 AM PDTAt the Asian supermarket 99 Ranch, the price of jasmine rice has already doubled this year. Across the street, Costco is rationing its 50-pound bags of discounted rice - if you can get them at all. And some Asian restaurants are even reconsidering their longstanding policy of refilling rice bowls for free.The worldwide rice shortage has come to SiliconValley
."There is no rice," said Rita Patel of San Jose, a native of India who couldn't find any at Costco on Hostetter Road in northeast San Jose on Tuesday night. In a valley where nearly 30 percent of residents are of Asian descent, people are increasingly frustrated by the soaring cost of the staple of Asian cuisine. Economists blame the price increases on everything Read more:Global
, Silicon Valley
Jordin Sparks Cancels Shows Due To Vocal Cord Condition 2008-04-22 11:37:00 A doctor has ordered "American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks
to take a break from singing if she wants to protect her voice after she suffered an acute vocal cord hemorrhage.According to a statement issued by the Bryce Jordan Center in University Park where Sparks was scheduled to perform on Sunday, the 18-year-old singer, who was supposed to start touring with Alicia Keys as her opening act, is suffering from "an acute vocal cord hemorrhage."A vocal cord hemorrhage is when a blood vessel on the vocal cord ruptures. It can result in permanent vocal cord damage, so it is important that people suffering from this condition have absolute voice rest."All of her April activities have been postponed or canceled so she can take care of her voice properly," 19/Jive Records spokeswoman Wendy Washingto Read more:Vocal
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Red Lights Over Phoenix Cause "Phoenix Lights" Sighting Monday 2008-04-22 11:37:00 Atlanta, GA 4/22/2008 05:47 PM GMT (FINDITT)Red lights over Phoenix
, Arizona, officially known as "The Phoenix Lights
", were seen Monday
night, prompting speculation of a UFO over the city.The first sighting of the red lights over Phoenix was in 1997, prompting the sighting to be dubbed "The Phoenix Lights". The lights were originally spotted in March of 1997 by thousands of people in Arizona, Nevada and Mexico.The lights reportedly appeared in a triangle formation and moved slowly across the sky at a height of approximately 1,000 feet. Many witnesses claimed that the lights lined the edges of a V-shaped aircraft.Since then, the sighting has not been seen until Monday night.Deer Valley airport, Luke Air Force Base, Sky Harbor, DPS and Phoenix Police could not explain where the lights origi Read more:Cause
Tattle: License shows Beyonce, Jay-Z hitched 2008-04-22 11:37:00 By LAURIE T. CONRADPhiladelphia Daily Newsconradl@phillynews.com 215-854-2270IT'S OFFICIALLY official, even if neither she nor he is talking.A signed wedding license bearing the names of Beyonce
Knowles and Jay-Z (aka Shawn Carter) has made its way to the Scarsdale, N.Y., town clerk, confirming that the pair did indeed wed April 4.The license came in last Friday's mail, said Scarsdale Clerk Donna Conkling. It also was signed by the person who officiated at the ceremony - but nobody's saying who that was.There was a celebrity-studded party at Jay-Z's apartment in Manhattan April 4, with guests including Gwyneth Paltrow and Beyonce's former Destiny's Child bandmates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.The couple, notoriously hush-hush about their personal lives, have been dating about six ye Read more:License
Man Stuck In Elevator For 41 Hours 2008-04-22 11:37:00 New York, NY -- Video of a man stuck on an elevator for 41 hours has become an Internet phenomenon.This surveillance camera footage is from Nicholas White's ordeal in New York's McGraw-Hill building's elevator.The video quickly spans through the entire 41-hour incident.White got stuck in the elevator nearly 10 years ago. But the video just recently surfaced and was posted on YouTube by The New Yorker magazine.White won an undisclosed settlement after filing a lawsuit.Source: CNNCopyright: 2008 digtriad.com Read more:Stuck
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Tattoo - a love story through the ages 2008-04-22 11:37:00 2008/04/21RICARDO Malcolm smiles nervously as he waits for the needle to touch his shoulder as the smell of antiseptic fills Ink River Tattoo Parlour in Vincent.For a short while, Malcolm seems to be distracted by his unusual surroundings.Relaxing, he makes a joke and plays a soccer game on his cellphone. But, within minutes of Paul Botha’s inking needle drilling into his shoulder, Malcolm wants to throw in the towel.It’s his first tattoo and he had not anticipated the relentless pain as Botha begins the one-and-half-hour session to etch Italian master Leonardo da Vinci’s face on his body forever.Malcolm chucks his phone to one side, forgetting the game as he bites down hard on his lower lip, furiously twitching his knee.“Are we there yet,” Malcolm mumbles to Botha who responds w Read more:story
American Idol: Andrew Lloyd Weber Week 2008-04-22 11:37:00 Broadway. The lights, the sights, the sounds. Few masters of Broadway music will definitely be remembered: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil and of course, AndrewLloyd
Weber.Expect tunes from Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and The Phantom of the Opera, to be sung this Tuesday on American
Idol as the remaining six contestants battle it out for retention in the race. Will David Cook do another rock rendition? Will Jason Castro sing his way with another stringed instrument? Will David Archuleta once more charm audiences with his smile? There are questions, but Tuesday night has all the answers.Article Source: -idol-andrew-lloyd-weber-week.html American Idol
- April 22 Elimination Odds RecapKristy Lee Cook's departure has left 6 contende Read more:Andrew Lloyd
Olympic skater Grishuk victim of date-rape drug 2008-04-22 11:37:00 From wire reportsArticle Launched: 04/23/2008 06:54:01 AM PDTSANTA ANA - Residue found in a glass of wine consumed by two-time Olympic
gold medalist figure skater Oksana Grishuk tested positive for the date- rape drug GHB, authorities confirmed Tuesday. Grishuk, who skated under the name Pasha Grishuk, was at a business meeting at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point on April 12 when she had the tainted wine. "She was attending a business meeting with at least one other man," said Jim Amormino of the Orange County Sheriff's Department. The 36-year-old former professional skater who won gold medals for ice dancing in 1994 and 1998 had a drink in the lounge, then moved to the restaurant to have dinner and ordered wine, Amormino said. "She started feeling weird and sick and, when Read more:victim
Oprah called anti-Christian cult leader 2008-04-22 11:37:00 April 18, 2008Emergent Church Spreading Spiritual CancerMarsha WestIn the Sixties the counterculture rejected consumerism, individualism, traditional values and ideas, and protested against their parent’s middle class values. Thus began an all out assault on what had made America prosperous for two centuries.Now a similar assault on historic orthodox Christian
ity is underway that’s gaining momentum. Some Christians believe a paradigm shift is taking place in the Church and as a consequence “everything must change.” This is anything but good news for Christendom, my friends. In a radio interview with Worldview Network’s Brannon Howse, Professor Peter Jones of Westminster Seminary warned listeners that the Christian theistic West has been turning back to pagan, pantheistic monism. Read more:Oprah
Roger That: Roger Clemens and Mindy McCready? 2008-04-28 09:59:00 Posted by Heather Muse at 9:50 AM, April 28, 2008Wow, we did not see this coming on a rainy Monday morning. (Hey! It's a rainy day and Monday, something that always brings me down.) The Daily News drops a bombshell about RogerClemens
and his "SECRET AFFAIR." Their exclusive reports that for a decade, the Rocket had been carrying on with country singer Mindy
McCready. This is quite the big scoop, but what I'm really interested in is how the story is presented on the front page. The "SECRET AFFAIR" allegations are shocking enough, but it's curious why McCready's name isn't mentioned on page 1. The photo of her on the front has her eyes closed, and she almost looks like Paris Hilton. Could this be a clever ploy by the art department to sell more papers by making it look like Clemens spent a Read more:Roger Clemens
Ebizauctions - Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet 2008-04-30 10:40:00 By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO – 17 hours agoNEW YORK (AP) — The for-sale listings on the online hub Craigslist come with plaintive notices, like the one from the teenager in Georgia who said her mother lost her job and pleaded, "Please buy anything you can to help out."Or the seller in Milwaukee who wrote in one post of needing to pay bills — and put a diamond engagement ring up for bids to do it.Struggling with mounting debt and rising prices, faced with the toughest economic times since the early 1990s, Americans
are selling prized possessions online and at flea markets at alarming rates.To meet higher gas, food and prescription drug bills, they are selling off grandmother's dishes and their own belongings
. Some of the household purging has been extremely painful — families forced to part
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Shooting Leaves Campus on Lockdown 2008-04-30 10:40:00 Atlanta, GA 4/30/2008 03:10 PM GMT (FINDITT)Florida
Atlantic University
cancelled classes Wednesday after a shooting at a party Tuesday night.Police are looking for the gunman who fired two shots during a party on the FAU campus. One person, who is not a student at the school, was injured slight in the shooting at the University Village Apartments. It was not clear if the person was actually hit by a bullet.The FAU campus is on lockdown. Classes were canceled at the Boca Raton campus and students are being told to stay in their dorm rooms while police continue their search.A new alert system at Florida Atlantic was activated, which triggered sirens, mass e-mails and other announcements over a school communication system.The new system was praised with controlling the student body after the Read more:Campus
, Lockdown
'Dancing' star Cristian de la Fuente injuries arm, status uncertain 2008-04-29 13:02:00 By Christopher Rocchio, 04/29/2008Cristian de la Fuente suffered an arm injury during last night's live Dancing
with the Stars sixth-season performance episode -- and his professional partner Cheryl Burke apparently thinks it's worse than the original diagnosis. Following de la Fuente and Burke's first performance of the night -- a Viennese waltz that earned them a 25 from the judges -- the couple performed a samba, and his left forearm was visibly in pain towards the end of the routine."Let's find out what's going on," host Tom Bergeron said once the routine was over. "What happened buddy?" "I pulled a muscle," de la Fuente answered as the studio audience was silent. "I tried to keep going." "Do you want to get the judges' [comments]. We can go to commercial?" asked Bergeron. "I'm fine,"
Dorothy Dandridge Biography 2008-04-29 13:02:00 Singer, actress. Born November 9, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio. Dandridge’s mother, the actress Ruby Dandridge, urged her two young daughters into show business in the 1930s, when they performed as a song-and-dance team billed as “The Wonder Children.” Dandridge left high school in the late 1930s and formed the Dandridge Sisters trio with her sister Vivian and Etta James. They performed with the Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra and at the famous Cotton Club in Harlem, where Dandridge—who had a mixed racial heritage—early on confronted the segregation and racism of the entertainment industry. As a teenager, Dandridge began to appear in small roles in a number of films, including the Marx Brothers film A Day at the Races (1937) and Drums of the Congo (1942). In 1945, she married Harold Nichol Read more:Biography
Report: Alleged Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape Set for Release 2008-04-29 13:02:00 Tuesday, April 29, 2008A Los Angeles porn company is planning to release a film supposedly showing guitar legend Jimi Hendrix
having sex with two women, according to a report in the New York Times on Tuesday.According to Vivid Entertainment, the film, which has no audio, allegedly shows Hendrix having sex with two women in a dimly-lit bedroom, the Times reports.Vivid, which has also released sex tapes featuring Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee and Kim Kardashian, among others, says that the tape is authentic, and will be offered for sale in stores and for download Online, according to the Times report.Click here to watch the tape.“I believe that we did our due diligence, and as a result of that clearly believe that it’s him,” said Steven Hirsch, Vivid’s co-chairman told the Times. “If Read more:Alleged
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