Snoop Dogg Tribute for Nate Dogg who Died at 41

Rap artist Snoop Dogg has already posted an online tribute to his longtime friend Nate Dogg -- saying, "all doggs go to heaven."

Snoop went to Twitter hours after Nate was pronounced dead last night ... and dropped the following messages:

"We lost a true legend n hip hop n rnb. One of my best friends n a brother to me since 1986 when I was a sophomore at poly high where we met."

"I miss u cuzz I am so sad but so happy I got to grow up wit u and I will c u again n heaven cuz u know d slogan."

Snoop added, "I love u buddy luv. U will always b wit me 4ever n a day u put the g n g funk u put the 1 n 213 n u put yo stamp on evrybdy u ever didit wit."

The Truth on Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Radiation Exposure Risk

After the tragic earthquake and tsunami the shake Japan, The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster now catches the eye of the world. Is there really a risk of Nuclear Radiation the would directly affect not only Japanese citizens but the rest of its neighboring countries? Here a a video from CNN explaining the facts of this case.

LimeWire ordered to shut down

In a major victory for the music industry, a New York federal judge has ordered embattled P2P software maker LimeWire to immediately and permanently stop distributing and supporting its filesharing software. In a 17-page injunction (PDF document) issued on Tuesday, Judge Kimba Wood of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered LimeWire to cease the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and file distribution functionality of LimeWire's P2P filesharing software.

The injunction instructed LimeWire to immediately communicate the court's decision to all users of the software and to all of the company's employees, principals and other stakeholders. It gave the company 14 days to report back to the court on the steps LimeWire has taken to comply with the order.

A spokeswoman for the company today stressed that the court's order does not mean that LimeWire is shutting down and said that it only prevents LimeWire from distributing or supporting its P2P software. It does not prohibit the company from going ahead with its previously announced plans to launch a subscription based music service and neither does it prohibit the company from operating its online store, the LimeWire spokeswoman said.

"While this is not our ideal path, we hope to work with the music industry in moving forward," the spokeswoman said. "We look forward to embracing necessary changes and collaborating with the entire music industry in the future."

The court injunction is a huge victory for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has been trying to get the court to shut down LimeWire for quite some time. The RIAA and the music labels it represents have accused LimeWire and its chief executive, Mark Gorton, of willfully enabling widespread copyright infringement. In numerous court documents the music industry has claimed that the use of LimeWire's P2P software by users to illegally download and distribute copyrighted music has caused the industry tens of millions of dollars in losses.

In a ruling in May, Wood found LimeWire and Gorton liable for inducing and enabling copyright infringement. Wood agreed with the recording companies and found that LimeWire and Gorton had engaged in conduct that knowingly fostered and enabled copyright infringement. The judge upheld virtually all of the arguments raised by the recording companies and ruled that LimeWire had failed to implement any meaningful barriers that would have made it harder for users of its software to illegally share and download music files.

Following that ruling, the RIAA ratcheted up its pressure against LimeWire by asking the court to shutter the company and freeze all its assets. Then in June eight music publishers also filed a related copyright infringement lawsuit against LimeWire in the same federal court in New York.

A predictably jubilant RIAA today welcomed the court's response to the lawsuits. "For the better part of the last decade, Limewire and Gorton have violated the law," the RIAA said. "The court has now signed an injunction that will start to unwind the massive piracy machine that Limewire and Gorton used to enrich themselves immensely."

The statement noted that the court is scheduled to conduct a trial in January to determine the extent of the damages that LimeWire should be held liable for to compensate for the "billions and billions" of illegal music downloads through LimeWire. The court injunction ominously noted that LimeWire almost certainly will be held liable for the piracy and potentially be assessed statutory damages that are well beyond its capacity to pay.

Tuesday's ruling comes just weeks after the Federal Trade Commission announced that it was dropping an investigation of the company's P2P software. The FTC said its decision was prompted by the new safeguards that LimeWire has built into newer versions of its software.

What are Brain Eating Vaccines

A recent article in Prison Planet has again reached the top searches on the Web. This time it’s not about the Obama deception or Youtube censorship, but about brain eating vaccines!

According to the article we are being talked into (by the mainstream media and “scientific dictatorship”) using some types of vaccines that just like a lobotomy, serve to reprogram your brain, so that you no longer have the drive to be rebellious against tyranny.

The so-called brain eating vaccine, developed by scientists, would serve to help us against stress, something that will relax us without feeling slow.

According to Prison Planet: “Scientists are now telling us that getting angry, upset and passionate is abnormal and needs to be “treated” through a fresh dose of pharmaceutical drugs and injections that will virtually lobotomize us into submissive compliance. This is blatantly a part of the full spectrum assault on our minds, our bodies and our nervous system through the contamination of our food and water supply.”

You can check out Prison Planet video below if you are interested to find out more about the subject:

Jordan Grown V2 Dark Garnet Bone Black

Another hot release on Men's shoes. It's great how the Jordan brand has as of late been putting out a lot of new shoes that are aimed towards the more mature and aging sneakerheads. All of their Air Jordan sneakers are certainly nice, but they are not always appropriate for every occasion. That is why it is always nice to have other options for the times when you need your need your choice of footwear to be a little more grown up. For times like that there is the Jordan Grown V2 and this one will come in a dark garnet, black and light bone colorway.

The upper here will be made out of canvas and will be made out of deep garnet, which is a dark maroon sort of colorway. This will sit on top of a white sole and will be accented by black in certain places throughout the shoe as well.

Back to the Future Mania July 5, 2010

People around the world are looking for back to the future in July 5, 2010. I wonder why a lot of people are seeking for it. It recently topped the trends of main search engines just a few minutes ago. My friends thought that maybe there’s a remake from the famous movie series Back to the Future, or there’s a sequel of the 1990 film, Back to the Future III.

We’ve done our investigation and found out that there is no sequel and there’s no Back to the Future IV. The 4th component is just a long-rumored sequel from the Back to the Future trilogy.

We found out that individuals who are looking for Back to the Future July 5, 2010 are browsing for US Postal Office Service Holidays. Netizens are browsing Google, Yahoo and Bing if USPS is open today, or if USPS is open in July 5, 2010.

Should you know the USPS site, it is possible to check their list of Federal Holidays. After you discovered the checklist, you’ll know that USPS is close.

If you do not know how to locate the list, we took the liberty to find it for you and link it here.

Happy Independence Day everyone!

Maytag Dishwasher Recall Huge Recall Of 1.7 Million Dishwashers

Whirlpool Corp.'s Maytag Dishwasher Recalled a huge1.7 Million Dishwashers because of a fire hazard.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, which announced the recall Thursday, says the company, part of Whirlpool Corp., has received 12 reports of electrical failures in the dishwasher heating element that led to fires and damage.

One kitchen fire caused extensive damage, the agency said. No injuries have been reported.

The recall includes Maytag, Amana, Jenn-Air, Admiral, Magic Chef, Performa by Maytag and Crosley brand dishwashers with plastic tubs. The recalled dishwashers were made with black, bisque, white, silver and stainless steel front panels and sold at department and appliance stores nationwide from February 2006 through April 2010. They cost between $250 and $900.

CPSC advises consumers to immediately stop using the recalled dishwashers and disconnect the electric supply by shutting off the fuse or circuit breaker controlling it.

Consumers can schedule a free in-home repair or receive a rebate of $150 or $250 toward the purchase of select new Maytag dishwashers. The amount of the rebate depends on the type of model to be purchased.

A company spokeswoman says Whirlpool set aside $75 million to cover the costs of the recall.

More information on the numerous serial numbers involved in the recall can be found at the company's website or the website for the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The recall is Maytag's second of more than a million major appliances in a little more than a year. It recalled 1.6 million refrigerators because of fire risks in March 2009.

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50 Most Popular Women on the Web List

Here is the list of the 50 Most Popular Women on the Web today according to the erooups.com. Well, Lady Gaga is the most searched woman on Google, the web as a whole, and maybe elsewhere in alternate universes as well. Gaga isn’t just hot this year, she’s gone nuclear. Searches for everything from her videos and music to shoes, nails, wigs, clothes, genitals, pictures, youth, tour dates, and anything else you can think of continue to blow and show no signs of slowing down.

Here is the list:

50. Eva Longoria Parker is the bottom of the top. She’s sexy and all that but losing ground from previous lists. If you want to see her stay you better start Goggling her!

47. Tina Fey drops in based on the strength of searches associated to 30 Rock and her movies.

45. Lily Allen who is the Queen of the Myspace music download locks up a spot - even though she isn’t really doing the Myspace thing much anymore.

40. Vanessa Hudgens will hang around so long as she keeps posting pictures of herself in her underwear. It may not be the Disney image, but it sure does get a lot of hits.

37. Hilary Duff never goes away. Just when you think she’s gone, she does something to pop back up again. It’s a lot like herpes only cuter.

36. Marilyn Monroe is dead and she is still the bomb! The fact that she is still more popular

Check here for more

Shahzad Faisal Arrested For Car Bombing In New York

Police have arrested a Connecticut man in connection with the attempted car bombing of a busy Times Square street Saturday night, NBC reported.

Shahzad Faisal, of Connecticut, was arrested within on Long Island within the last hour.

Earlier today, federal authorities said they identified a naturalized American citizen who recently returned from Pakistan as a “person of interest” in the attempted car bombing on Broadway Saturday night.

The propane-and-gasoline bomb was found Saturday in an SUV parked near a Broadway theater showing “The Lion King.”

A bomb squad dismantled it.

The area was evacuated for 10 hours. No one was hurt.

Noah's Ark Re-Rediscovered in Turkey

A Chinese Christian filmmaker claims to have found the final resting place of Noah's Ark on Turkey's Mount Ararat.

Yeung Wing-Cheung says he and a team from Noah's Ark Ministries found the remains of the Ark at an elevation of about 12,000 feet (3,658 meters). They filmed inside the structure and took wood samples that were later analyzed in Iran. He claims the wood was carbon-dated to around the reputed time of Noah's flood, which would be remarkable since organic material should have long since disintegrated in the last 5,000 years.

Yeung said that he is "99 percent certain that it is Noah's Ark based on historical accounts, including the Bible and local beliefs of the people in the area, as well as carbon dating." Read more BELOW>>>

Boxer Edwin Valero Found Dead in Jail, Commits Suicide

Boxer Edwin Valero Found Dead in Jail, Commits Suicide

As reported in Yahoo! Sports, Former boxing champ Edwin Valero committed suicide in his jail cell on Monday just hours after he was arrested in his wife’s killing, police said.

The former lightweight champion used his own clothes to hang himself from a bar in his cell early Monday, Venezuelan Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores told reporters.

He said Valero was found by another inmate, who alerted authorities in the police lockup in north-central Carabobo state. Valero still showed signs of life when they took him down, but they were unable to save him and he died about 1:30 a.m., Flores said.

The 28-year-old was detained Sunday on suspicion of killing his wife. Prosecutors said Sunday night that they had planned to charge Valero in the killing.

Valero was detained after police found the body of his 24-year-old wife in a hotel in Valencia. The boxer left the hotel room around dawn Sunday and allegedly told security he had killed Jennifer Viera, Flores said.

Valero’s last fight was against De Marco where he won via TKO in Round 9.

May You Rest in Peace.

Here is a glance at some events in Edwin Valero’s life and boxing career:

July 13, 2000—Valero defeats Francisco Bojada to become Central and South American amateur champion. He also was the Venezuelan amateur champion three years running.

July 9, 2002—Valero makes his professional debut by knocking out Eduardo Hernandez at 2:02 of the first round in Caracas, Venezuela. He would knock out his first 18 opponents in the first round to set a record that has since been eclipsed.

Aug. 8, 2006—Valero rallies from a third-round knockdown to stop Vicente Mosquera in the 10th round in Panama City, Panama, winning the WBA super featherweight title.

April 4, 2009—Valero moves up in weight to stop Antonio Pitalua in the second round in Austin, Texas, and win the WBC lightweight title. Valero received a license to fight in Texas even though he sustained a cerebral hemorrhage in a motorcycle accident years earlier, preventing him from fighting in most U.S. jurisdictions.

Sept. 29, 2009—Valero denies that he was detained on domestic violence charges after Venezuelan news reports that a neighbor called emergency services and told authorities the boxer had struck his mother and a sister.

Dec. 19, 2009—Valero defends his lightweight title against Hector Velazquez in La Guaira, Venezuela.

Feb. 2, 2010—Valero fights through a bloody gash to stop Antonio DeMarco in the ninth round in Monterrey, Mexico. It would be his final fight. Valero was replaced as WBC lightweight champion in February after he expressed a desire to campaign in a higher weight division.

March 25, 2010—Valero is arrested on charges of harassing his wife and threatening medical personnel at a hospital where she was being treated for injuries. His wife, Jennifer Carolina Viera, told police her injuries were due to a fall.

April 18, 2010—Valero’s wife is found stabbed to death in a hotel room and the boxer is arrested in the murder.

April 19, 2010—Valero is found dead in his jail cell, and police say he hanged himself.

China Earthquake Today more than 400 Dead

China was hit by a eartquake today. It was felt in Tibet and Beijing. Here the latest news. 5.0 earthquake was beaten today southern Qinghai. The epicenter about 9 miles below the earth’s surface. The reply came two hours later. Eartquake It was 8.9 struck the same region with the depth is about 5 miles below the earth’s surface. Not just a replica, 3 sets of amazing replica China. First, a 5.3 earthquake in China, then an earthquake of 5.2, then moments ago, an earthquake of 5.8.

The 2010 Pulitzer Prize List of Winners

Here are the 2010 Pulitzer Prize List of Winners

PUBLIC SERVICE: Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier

Herald Courier reporter Daniel Gilbert was honored for illuminating the mismanagement of natural-gas royalties owed to thousands of land owners in southwestern Virginia. His eight-part series and subsequent stories traced why $24 million in royalties were parked in escrow.

Gilbert spent part of 13 months reporting the complex story while handling daily assignments as one of seven staff writers at a 30,000-circulation daily. His findings have so far prompted two major energy conglomerates to pay more than $700,000 in outstanding royalties.

"It's why newspapers will continue to survive in some form," said Herald Courier Editor J. Todd Foster. "Nobody else is going to do this sort of reporting."

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BREAKING NEWS REPORTING: The Seattle Times staff

The Times staff won for reporting on the shooting deaths of four police officers in a coffee house and the 40-hour manhunt for the suspect. The newspaper combined traditional reporting with new media to provide comprehensive coverage.

When the Times received final confirmation of the suspect's name from a source, it updated the story online, posted a message on Twitter and e-mailed an alert to readers. The Times also used the social media experiment Google Wave to allow readers to participate in the coverage.

"It was a team effort. We're all really honored by
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it," said reporter Steve Miletich. "We set out to inform the community about a really tragic event at a time they really needed it."

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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: Sheri Fink of ProPublica, in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine; and Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman of the Philadelphia Daily News

Fink was honored for her work chronicling the "urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital's exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina," the prize board said. In the piece, employees at the hospital acknowledged administering lethal drug doses to severely ill patients.

Fink worked on the story for more than two years, interviewing 140 people and poring over documents to reconstruct the events at the hospital, which lost water and power in the disaster, ProPublica Editor-in-Chief Paul Steiger wrote in his nominating letter.

Laker and Ruderman uncovered the misdeeds of a rogue police narcotics squad that used drug searches as a cover to terrorize bodega owners, steal their goods and sexually attack women. Their reporting led to an FBI investigation and the re-examination of hundreds of criminal cases.

The work "was built on the kind of grit and shoe-leather reporting that journalists often neglect in the Internet age," editor Michael Days wrote in his nominating letter, adding that the pair "proved that pure investigative, watchdog journalism is not only irreplaceable, but is often the only avenue to right the wrongs suffered by the powerless."

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EXPLANATORY REPORTING: Michael Moss and members of The New York Times staff

Moss and the Times staff were commended for reporting on contaminated hamburger and other food-safety issues that spotlighted defects in federal regulation and led to improved practices.

Moss used confidential corporate and government records to tell the story of a single hamburger patty that infected 22-year-old Stephanie Smith with E. coli in 2007 and left her paralyzed. He showed how the patty was constructed from low-grade beef trimmings supplied by three separate slaughterhouses in the United States and Uruguay, as well as from a processed meat product treated with ammonia.

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LOCAL REPORTING: Raquel Rutledge of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Pulitzer board honored Rutledge for what it said were "her penetrating reports on the fraud and abuse in a child-care program for low-wage working parents that fleeced taxpayers and imperiled children, resulting in a state and federal crackdown on providers."

The "Cashing in on Kids" series showed that child-care providers paid by the Wisconsin Shares program were conspiring with parents to collect government cash using faked attendance records. The state continued to pay one provider even after she was convicted of fraud, while another received checks after a live grenade was found in her kitchen within reach of her children.

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NATIONAL REPORTING: Matt Richtel and members of The New York Times staff

Richtel's articles and the work of the newspaper's online staff detailing the dangers of distracted driving "generated the biggest impact of anything The Times published all year," the newspaper's nominating letter said.

The series detailed the dangers of texting and using cell phones while driving, and helped lead businesses and the federal government to ban employees from texting behind the wheel. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said his agency would try to stop truckers from using phones while driving.

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INTERNATIONAL REPORTING: Anthony Shadid of The Washington Post

Shadid was honored for a series on Iraq's struggle to deal with the legacy of war and to shape its own future. He described Iraq in January 2009 as "a weary landscape dominated in hues of brown, the color of poverty."

"This war's end feels more truce than treaty, more respite than reconciliation," Shadid wrote. "There is no revival or renaissance, no celebration. It manifests itself most in the simple lifting of a siege."

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FEATURE WRITING: Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post

Weingarten won for a haunting story about parents who accidentally kill their children by forgetting them in cars. Thirteen fathers and mothers who had accidentally killed their children spoke to Weingarten, and several took him deep into their irreparably damaged lives.

Weingarten wrote that the facts are often the same. "An otherwise loving and attentive parent one day gets busy, or distracted, or upset, or confused by a change in his or her daily routine and just ... forgets a child in a car."

What kind of person forgets a baby? "The wealthy do, it turns out," Weingarten wrote. "And the poor, and the middle class. Parents of all ages and ethnicities do. Mothers are just as likely to do it as fathers."

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COMMENTARY: Kathleen Parker of The Washington Post

Parker was honored for her columns on an array of political and moral topics. In nominating her, Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt called Parker "a conservative, but one who sets her own course and refuses to buy into conservative talking points; a woman who is willing to infuriate feminists and antifeminists alike."

In a Nov. 29 column, Parker chided the Republican Party for "considering a 'purity' pledge to weed out undesirables from their ever-shrinking party."

"Most of us know that decisiveness isn't always a virtue," she wrote, "yet those pursuing the purity test seem to view nuance as an enemy of conservatism. The old elite corps of the conservative movement, men such as William F. Buckley and Russell Kirk, undoubtedly would find this attitude both dangerous and bizarre."

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CRITICISM: Sarah Kaufman of The Washington Post

The Pulitzer board honored Kaufman "for her refreshingly imaginative approach to dance criticism, illuminating a range of issues and topics with provocative comments and original insights."

Kaufman's work last year included one piece on the grace of Cary Grant and another proclaiming that the American ballet world had been suffocated by the legacy of George Balanchine.

"With fearlessness, intelligence and original spark, Kaufman helps to shape her readers' perceptions of (dance) as an art and as a fundamental human behavior," Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli said in his nominating letter.

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EDITORIAL WRITING: Tod Robberson, Colleen McCain Nelson and William McKenzie of The Dallas Morning News

The Pulitzer board praised the trio for "their relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city's better-off northern half and distressed southern half."

Their articles, part of an effort to repair the area's long-standing neglect and inequalities, "are written with the passion and authority on southern Dallas that can only come from dogged, street-level research," Editor Robert Mong Jr. wrote in his nominating letter.

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EDITORIAL CARTOONING: Mark Fiore, self-syndicated, appearing on SFGate.com

Fiore's animated cartoons, appearing on the Web site of the San Francisco Chronicle, have criticized figures from President Barack Obama to global warming deniers.

"His biting wit, extensive research and ability to distill complex issues set a high standard for an emerging form of commentary," the board said.

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BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY: Mary Chind of The Des Moines (Iowa) Register

Chind was honored for a dramatic picture showing a construction worker dangling from a crane and reaching out to rescue a woman stranded in the churning water of the Des Moines River. The woman survived, but her husband died.

In its citation, the Pulitzer board said Chind had captured a "heart-stopping moment."

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FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post

Walker was recognized for the series "Ian Fisher: American Soldier," for which he spent 27 months following Fisher from recruitment, training, deployment to Iraq and return from combat. The Denver Post published the series in September.

Walker and reporters from the newspaper gained permission from Fisher, his family, and the Army to document Fisher joining the Army during the height of the Iraqi insurgency. Walker's pictures showed Fisher at his high school graduation, during training and during his time in Iraq.

The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music:

FICTION: "Tinkers" by Paul Harding

Harding, who teaches at the University of Iowa, started writing in the 1990s while his band was on hiatus. He took a course at Skidmore College where teachers included Marilynne Robinson, a Pulitzer winner for the novel "Gilead" and now a colleague of Harding's at Iowa.

The Pulitzer board said Harding's book, about a New England father and son who transcend their imprisoned life, offers "new ways of perceiving the world and mortality."

Harding has written two more books, which he said will be released by the Dial Press imprint of Random House.

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DRAMA: "Next to Normal," music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey

The musical explores mental illness and its effect on the dynamics of one family. It won three Tony awards this year, including two—score and orchestrations—for Kitt.

The Pulitzer judges said "Next to Normal" expanded the scope of subject matter for musicals.

Kitt's first Broadway show, "High Fidelity," closed after 13 performances in 2006. Yorkey was artistic director of the Columbia University Varsity Show. His other credits include Off-Broadway's "Making Tracks."

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HISTORY: "Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World" by Liaquat Ahamed

A Harvard graduate was born in Kenya, Ahamed dreamed of being a writer while he worked as an investment manager.

"Lords of Finance" is a compelling account of how the actions of four bankers triggered the Depression and ultimately turned the United States into the world's financial leader, the Pulitzer board said.

"Mr. Ahamed does a superlative job of explaining the ever-germane way the problems of one shyster, one bank, one treasury or one economy can set off repercussions all around the globe," a New York Times reviewer wrote.

The book was a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Britain's leading nonfiction book award. Ahamed said he was working on another book about economic history.

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BIOGRAPHY: "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt" by T.J. Stiles

"The Fist Tycoon" explores the life of the steamship and railroad tycoon, whom Stiles describes as "a paradox—both a creator and a destroyer."

Stiles created "a penetrating portrait of a complex, self-made titan," the Pulitzer board said.

Stiles also wrote "Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War," and has written for the New York Times Book Review and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in San Francisco.

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POETRY: "Versed" by Rae Armantrout

"Versed" is "striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness" and the poems were "often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading," the Pulitzer board said.

"I love that," Armantrout said. "That's very flattering and exactly what I wanted it to be—a little thought bomb.

"It sounds dangerous," she added, laughing.

"Versed" was cited this year by the National Book Critics Circle Prize. Armantrout has written 10 books of poetry, including "Next Life," which was selected by The New York Times as a notable book of 2007.

Armantrout has taught at the University of California at San Diego for almost 20 years.

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GENERAL NONFICTION: "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy" by David E. Hoffman

Hoffman, a contributing editor at The Washington Post, began thinking about the events detailed in the book while serving as the Post's Moscow bureau chief from 1995 to 2001.

His book is a critically acclaimed, researched examination of the final years of the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

The Pulitzer board called it "a well-documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind."

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MUSIC:

Violin Concerto by Jennifer Higdon, premiered Feb. 6, 2009, in Indianapolis

Higdon wrote the 30-minute Violin Concerto for violinist Hilary Hahn. It was commissioned by the Indianapolis Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. The Pulitzer board said Higdon's concerto "combines flowing lyricism with dazzling virtuosity."

Higdon also won a 2010 Grammy for best contemporary classical composition for her Percussion Concerto. Her music has been commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony, The National Symphony and others. She teaches at the Curtis Institute.

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SPECIAL CITATION: Country music pioneer Hank Williams

Williams "expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity" and transformed country music into a major musical and cultural force in America, The Pulitzer board said.

The board said it awarded the late singer for his lifetime achievement after a confidential survey of experts in popular music.

Williams died Jan. 1, 1953, at the age of 29, cutting short a career that changed country music. Hits such as "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Cold, Cold Heart" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" have been covered by hundreds of musicians, and more than 55 years after his death, he remains a central figure in country music.

Dixie Carter Dies of Endometrial Cancer

Dixie Carter dies of Endometrial Cancer Saturday, April 10, 2010. Former Designing Women star and Emmy Award-winning actress suffers a type of cancer that begins as a result of abnormal cell growth that later spreads to the uterus and uterine lining.

Carter’s husband, actor Hal Holbrook, released a statement through the couple’s shared publicist, Steve Rohr. Holbrook said, “This has been a terrible blow to our family,” and asked the public to give the family privacy in their time of grieving.

While many of us remember Carter in her role as Julia Sugarbaker on the 1980s sitcom, Designing Women, Carter actually trained in her youth to become an opera singer. Complications that resulted from a tonsillectomy stood in the way of her dream, but didn’t stop her from learning a variety of musical instruments.

She debuted on the stage in the 1960s, appearing in a number of onstage productions before she met her first husband, Arthur Carter. After the couple was married, Dixie Carter took an eight year break from the entertainment industry to devote time to raising her two daughters.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, she hit primetime, appearing in a number of popular television series, like On Our Own and The Greatest American Hero. Most recently, she appeared on Desperate Housewives.

Carter is survived by her husband, Hal Holbrook, and her two daughters from her first marriage, Ginna Carter and Mary Dixie Carter. Elegant and beautiful, talented and poised, the entertainment world will definitely be a grayer place without Miss Dixie Carter.

Anne Curtis Wardrobe Malfunction Video - Anne's Reaction

Anne Curtis discusses her "wardrobe malfunction" in Boracay, photos of which have gone viral on different social networks.

VP Joe Biden's F-word Caught live on TV (Video)

US VP Joe Biden's was again caught with his F-word live on TV. A microphone picked up Joe Biden telling US president Barack Obama that his signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Bill was "a big f_____g deal" during a live national news broadcast.

Biden made the remark moments after introducing Obama at the signing of the controversial bill on Tuesday and may not have realised that his voice was being picked up by the podium microphone.

In response Robert Gibbs, the Whitehouse Press Secretary later Tweeted: "And yes Mr Vice President, you're right."

Senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett said that Biden's loose talk was "part of what makes the vice president so endearing...We wouldn't change him one bit."

Former Senate colleague Lindsey Graham said, "If there were no gaffes, there'd be no Joe. He's someone you can't help but like."

This is not the first time Biden has been caught using the F-word. He used it when speaking to another senator last year, also into an open microphone.

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Alexis Pilkington and Her Death

Whats the big deal about the Alexis Pilkington genocide investigation? Alexis Pilkington is a part of of the All Country West Islip Girls Soccer Team. She is a player which stands out between the alternative players. Alexis Pilkington Death, investigations pronounced which the means is unknown. A lady with such bent is a good loss, Tim Horan the West Islip Athletic Director pronounced the it was a harmful headlines and her genocide is mourned by most people.

At the age of seventeen Alexis Pilkington genocide has ravaged her family and her friends. Know as “Lexi” by her friends and teamates. Alexis Pilkington would make use of her skills in soccer to consequence a grant for college but sadly which mental condition has been broken. Alexis Pilkington is energetic, jaunty and learned in the diversion of soccer she lead her group to win the Long Island tall propagandize soccer championship only recently.Alexis Pilkington Death Investigation is still ongoing. Stay tuned for some-more headlines and updates upon Alexis Pilkington Death Investigation.

Nancy Benoit Controversial Hustler Photos

Nancy Benoit Controversial Hustler Photos has been a hot topic in the US today. Her Hustler pics have appeared on the popular men’s magazine, if you haven’t heard about her, know that Nancy was murdered in the hands of his husband, wrestler ChrisBenoit. Lawyers have already filed a lawsuit against the magazine for publishing such pictures without rights.



Chris Benoit murdered Nancy Benoit and their son two years ago, causing a great shock in the wrestling community. Pictures of Nancy Benoit were published last year. Her family filed a lawsuit saying that she requested the destruction of these photos after they were shot. In October 2008 a judge ruled in favor of the magazine. Click Here to see Pics.....

Google Launches 'Person Finder' for Chile Quake Victims

Google on Saturday activated an online "person finder" tool to help relatives and friends to find loved ones following the huge earthquake in Chile.Google on Saturday activated an online "person finder" tool to help relatives and friends to find loved ones following the huge earthquake in Chile.

The "Person Finder: Chile Earthquake" from the California-based Internet giant is located at Chilepersonfinder.appspot.com and offers users the choice of using it in English and Spanish.

It asks users "What is your situation?" and gives them the choice between "I'm looking for someone" and "I have information about someone."

Users can then search records by name or input information about someone.

As of 1:15 p.m. ET Saturday, Google's "person finder" was tracking around 1,400 records.

Google also deployed a "person finder" following last month's earthquake in Haiti. It currently contains some 58,700 records.

Saturday's 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile killed at least 147 people and sent tsunami waves roaring across the Pacific Ocean.

Banned! These Super Bowl ads are too racy to air during the game

These ads are too racy, too controversial or just too darn offensive - well, at least for CBS - to air during the Super Bowl. But don't worry, you can watch them on our site by clicking on the video player above.

Mancrunch.com, a gay dating site, submitted an ad that shows a male make-out session. The two men in the ad are watching the game together, and when their hands touch as they reach for the pototo chips at the same time, they suddenly leap towards each other in an excited embrace.

It was rejected by CBS, whose Standards and Practices Department wrote that it "is not within the Network's Broadcast Standards for Super Bowl Sunday."

ManCrunch belives discrimination is the reason the ad was rejected.

"If the ad showed a man and woman kissing it would have been accepted," ManCrunch spokesperson Elissa Buchter said, according to the Huffington Post.

"It's discriminatory that they won't show it," she added.

Once again, Internet company GoDaddy.com got its ad banned from the Super Bowl. The ad features "Lola's Lingerie" - and includes some provacative images of scantily clad woman.

“Of the five commercial concepts we submitted for approval this year, this NEVER would’ve been my pick for the one that would not be approved,” GoDaddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons said in a release. “This is about a guy who starts an online business and hits the jackpot. I just don’t think ‘Lola’ is offensive, in fact we didn’t see this one coming — we were absolutely blindsided!”

The version of a Dante's Inferno ad that had "Go to Hell" in the closing shots also got banished from airing during the Super Bowl. The company removed the tagline from the ad so that it could air during the game.

And back by popular demand - PETA's Veggie Sex ad, which was banned from last year's Super Bowl. What can we say? Readers loved it last year, so we're bringin' it back. -----BY Catey Hill DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Happy viewing (but don't let your boss catch you!). Watch VIDEO HERE...