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| Hide or Remove Navbar in Blogger |
| 2008-07-17 09:24:07 |
The Blogger or Blogspot Navbar is a default feature that appears at the top of every Blogger powered blog. It is a useful navigation tool which allows readers to search the blog for targeted content, mark the blog as objectionable, and randomly view other member blogs.
The Navbar can be disabled for users who publish contents via FTP, but it will appear on all freely hosted BlogSpot blogs....
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| Madonna will "do her best" for marriage: brother |
| 2008-07-17 08:52:21 |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone says the singer would "do her best to maintain" her marriage to British director Guy Ritchie and that he doubts she had an affair with Yankee baseball player Alex Rodriguez.
Madonna and Ritchie have been plagued by persistent tabloid rumors that their marriage is to end, prompting the singer to release a statement saying she is not...
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| French daily scoops Hollywood reporters |
| 2008-07-17 08:49:57 |
NICE, France - The world's entertainment press tripped over themselves, making embarrassing errors along the way, as they fought to be first to report the biggest celebrity story of the year: the birth of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's twins.
In the end, the scoop went to a provincial French newspaper.
"It was Brad Pitt who chose to give the scoop to Nice-Matin," said assistant editor-in-chief...
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| Brother backs Madonna's marriage |
| 2008-07-17 08:47:51 |
Madonna's brother has said his sister would work hard to maintain her marriage to film director Guy Ritchie.
Christopher Ciccone, who has written a book about the pop star, made the comments on US TV network ABC. "She's not the type of person just to walk away," he said, referring to reports that the couple's eight-year relationship was on the rocks.
Mr Ciccone also said he "doubted" reports...
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| Changes in China: Koppel investigates |
| 2008-07-09 11:09:23 |
NEW YORK (AP) -- The image of Ted Koppel interviewing world leaders is so ingrained that it feels odd to see him wearing a hardhat for a nervous trip into a Chinese coal mine, or sitting in a Chongqing karaoke bar where teenage girls are hired to "entertain" male customers.
Good thing he did, since the field work is what makes his four-part Discovery Channel series, "The People's Republic of...
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| Celebrities, companies bank on her intuition |
| 2008-07-09 11:02:19 |
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The difference between a psychotic and a psychic, says Laura Day, is that a psychic's information is right. And companies pay Day $10,000 a month to be correct.
But please don't call her "psychic." She prefers "intuitionist."
"The word psychic can mean so many strange things in our lexicon, and I like 'intuition' because it is a sense. It's an ability to gather information...
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| Pamela enters Australian BB house |
| 2008-07-09 10:49:02 |
Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has entered Australia's Big Brother house, surprising its six housemates.
The 41-year-old blonde bombshell made her surprise entrance from the diary room in a plunging red mini dress.
Minutes before, she had dazzled the housemates from behind a glass screen but they thought the actress was a celebrity impersonator.
The housemates will have the pleasure of...
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| `Hellboy' star Perlman buries himself in roles |
| 2008-07-09 10:42:17 |
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood's modern man of a thousand faces, Ron Perlman, never minded hiding behind rubber masks and mounds of makeup early in his career.
Perlman, who reprises his title role as a wisecracking demon turned superhero in "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," says he was able to put more into his acting when he was disguised as a caveman, a hunchbacked monk or the homely half of TV's "...
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| Hospital: `Impossible' to see inside Jolie's room |
| 2008-07-09 10:31:02 |
PARIS - The hospital where Angelina Jolie will give birth says it has covered the windows of her room with a special material to prevent paparazzi from taking pictures of the actress and her partner, Brad Pitt.
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The Lenval hospital in Nice in southern France said Wednesday that photos that claim to show Jolie and Pitt in her room are fakes that have been manipulated or show other...
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| doubles |
| 2008-07-09 10:17:04 |
I need a body double. A body, brain and heart double, actually. Or three of them. One to sit in for me and go clickety-clack on the keyboard and produce useful workish material, another to go clickety-clack and produce useful bloggish material, and one (preferably with a valid driver's license) to run all nine thousand party errands left on my list, so that when Friday evening rolls around there...
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| Sub Pop turns 20: A brief history |
| 2008-07-09 10:13:47 |
This weekend, the little label that turned "grunge" into an international hit celebrates its 20th anniverary in Seattle. Here's a History">brief history of Sub Pop:
1. The Seattle independent record label begins life in 1979 as a fanzine written by former Illinois resident Bruce Pavitt, in which he extols his favorite underground bands while attending Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. Pavitt...
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| Zoo Thousand bosses issue apology |
| 2008-07-09 10:09:31 |
Organisers of the Zoo Thousand Music Festival have issued an apology to punters.
The bash, which took place at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent, was heavily criticised by attendees last weekend.
Acts including Dizzee Rascal and Athlete pulled out of the festival, claiming that organisers did not pay them an agreed fee before they performed.
Responding to media reports, event co-director...
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| Does good design mean design for good? |
| 2008-07-08 11:11:38 |
HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Living in Hong Kong I'm confronted each day by the delights and the diversity that architecture can inspire. The spectacular skyline of central Hong Kong encapsulates all the power, wealth and initiative that the city is built upon; I can take a walk through the concrete canyons of Kowloon and the high-density towers drip with life, stories and intrigue.
When it comes...
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| My word! Online Scrabble goes legit |
| 2008-07-08 11:08:36 |
NEW YORK (AP) -- As Facebook has blossomed into a hot Internet hangout, its users have passed countless hours playing Scrabble with friends -- or at least, an unauthorized version of the word game that Scrabble's owners have tried to shut down. Now a video game maker will try to legitimize the activity.
Electronic Arts Inc. said Monday that this month it will release a Scrabble application, a...
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| Was male stripping, kissing stunt from 'Borat'? |
| 2008-07-08 11:04:46 |
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others' clothes off and kissing -- a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of "Borat" fame.
"We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived," said Dwight Duncan, president and CEO of Four States Fair Grounds in...
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| Sci-fi author's estate embroiled in will dispute |
| 2008-07-08 11:01:43 |
MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (AP) -- Andre Norton, one of science fiction's most prolific female writers until she died three years ago, intrigued her readers by creating hundreds of fantasy worlds during her 70 years of writing.
And in a decision that may have been accidental or calculated, the Ohio native left her friends and fans a final puzzle: Who should control the rights to her more than 130...
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| When Billy Joel met 'The Stranger' |
| 2008-07-08 10:59:08 |
(CNN) -- You might not have wanted to bet on Billy Joel in the summer of 1977.
For a guy whose career had started out promisingly, he'd undergone more setbacks than a wild-armed pitcher. In his teen years he was a session pianist on Shadow Morton-produced records (including, allegedly, the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack"), but failed with his groups, including a heavy-metal duo.
He followed...
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| Nickelback joins Live Nation in global deal |
| 2008-07-08 10:52:13 |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Canadian rock band Nickelback has signed a global recording, touring and merchandising deal with concert promoter Live Nation Inc that an industry source said was worth between $50 million and $70 million.
Live Nation announced the contract on Tuesday but did not give financial details
The Nickelback deal is the latest in a string of high profile, multifaceted deals that...
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| Prince Harry: Diana would be proud of charity |
| 2008-07-08 10:48:47 |
BUTHA-BUTHE, Lesotho - Prince Harry says his mother would be proud of the work he and his regiment are doing to revamp a school for disabled children in the impoverished African kingdom of Lesotho.
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Prince Harry was speaking Tuesday at the Thuso Center in a village outside the Lesotho capital, Maseru.
Prince Harry says he pushed wheelbarrows, filled trenches and worked up a sweat...
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| McConaughey, girlfriend welcome baby boy |
| 2008-07-08 10:45:38 |
LOS ANGELES - Matthew McConaughey's longtime model girlfriend, Camila Alves, has given birth to the couple's first child, a 7-pound, 4-ounce boy, according to OK! magazine.
Alves, 24, gave birth Monday night in California, according to the report.
Calls and e-mails to McConaughey's publicists weren't immediately returned early Tuesday.
The 38-year-old actor announced that Alves was pregnant...
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| Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban welcome daughter |
| 2008-07-08 10:38:39 |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman gave birth on Monday to her first biological child, a daughter named Sunday fathered by her husband and country music star Urban">Keith Urban.
"Earlier this morning, Nic gave birth to our beautiful baby girl, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban," the New Zealand-born, Australian-bred Grammy winner announced on his Web site.
"We want to thank everybody that has...
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| HBO Miniseries 'Generation Kill' Premieres July 13 |
| 2008-07-08 10:34:11 |
"Generation Kill," a seven-part miniseries from HBO Films, is the first-hand narrative account of the young Marines of the First Reconnaissance Battalion - the "tip of the spear" for the American military's march into Iraq.
Based on the award-winning nonfiction account of the same name by Evan Wright, the journalist embedded in the lead Humvee of First Recon's Bravo Company's Second Platoon, the...
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| Meet The 'Big Brother 10' Cast |
| 2008-07-08 10:30:59 |
STUDIO CITY, Calif. (AP) - "Big Brother 10" is returning to its roots. The claustrophobic CBS reality show is sealing 13 actual strangers — no ex lovers, secret twin partners or long-lost siblings this time — inside a makeshift house on a Studio City soundstage for the chance to be the last houseguest standing and take home the $500,000 grand prize.
"There's somebody for everyone in this cast,"...
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| Del Toro's Devilish Humor Stokes 'Hellboy II' |
| 2008-07-08 10:27:49 |
Words don't really do justice in attempting to describe the wondrous array of misfits and monsters Guillermo del Toro has concocted in "Hellboy II: The Golden Army." Truly, his is a world you have to experience for yourself to appreciate it fully — if you dare, that is.
In following up the original "Hellboy" from 2004 and his Academy Award-winning 2006 masterpiece, "Pan's Labyrinth," the...
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| BBC Britain's Closest UFO Encounters ,2008 |
| 2008-07-08 10:17:44 |
Finally Britain's Closest UFO Encounters ,2008 is out on internet.So here we have latest 2008 documentary series examining the most astonishing and baffling UFO stories from around the UK. In 1974, locals near the Berwyn mountain range in Wales experienced an earthquake and reported seeing green lights in the sky.
In an incident that would become known as the 'Welsh Roswell', some claimed that a...
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| UFO´S AND WOMEN - A Few Thoughts on the Multiple Sighting Witness |
| 2008-07-08 10:13:25 |
Ufologists have been curious about the nature of multiple sighting witnesses (MSW), those people who have had the opportunity, however unfortunate, of observing some anomalous phenom or Unidentified Flying Object in the sky, and then repeat with another sighting. One of the most popular MSW´s in recent history was none other than Kenneth A. Arnold. Arnold spotted nine unidentified crafts flying (...
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| Uncovering stone circle's secrets |
| 2008-07-08 10:07:21 |
A major archaeological investigation is getting under way at one of Western Europe's most impressive prehistoric sites.
The Ring of Brodgar in Orkney is the third largest stone circle in the British Isles, but little is known about it.
A month-long programme of investigations will be undertaken by a 15-strong team.
The last important archaeological studies took place there in the 1970s....
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| UFOs: more madness and apocalyptic fears |
| 2008-07-08 10:01:42 |
The space cadets (or scaremongers) are out in force
Where is Doctor Who when you need him? Just as another series ends with the Doctor saving Earth from the Daleks (again), we are warned that Britain faces a “real life” alien invasion this summer. How mad is that?
Well, maybe not much madder than the allegedly sane fear-mongering we face the rest of the year. Some newspapers have declared “the...
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| Uncovering an ancient city |
| 2008-07-08 09:55:56 |
The white-colored outlines of rectangular shapes could very well be the markings of a construction site, albeit one that was undertaken more than 700 years ago.
“You see the artifacts on the surface, that lets us know we have a site,” said Debbie Swartz, an archaeologist with Desert Archaeology.
Those outlines mark the walls of a Hohokam pit house, part of an ancient city that was uncovered by...
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| NBC: Olympics a new-media 'research lab' |
| 2008-07-07 10:58:03 |
NEW YORK (AP) -- NBC is using the Olympics as a "billion-dollar research lab" to get a sense of how people are using different media platforms to experience the Beijing Games that begin August 8.
Besides giving advertisers a clearer picture of how much consumers are paying attention to the games, NBC hopes its research provides a comprehensive picture of how people are supplementing TV...
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| Icahn: Microsoft Deal Possible If Yahoo Board Goes |
| 2008-07-07 10:53:57 |
Carl C. Icahn is claiming a new backer in his proxy fight at Yahoo: Microsoft.
In a new letter to shareholders on Monday, the activist investor once again dangled the prospects of Microsoft returning to the negotiating table for at least a piece of Yahoo. After admitting before that Steve Ballmer didn’t even take his phone calls, Mr. Icahn now writes that he has had several conversations with...
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| Google, Zen Master of the Market |
| 2008-07-07 10:49:49 |
Bill Gates, who walked away from full-time work at Microsoft last month, was perhaps the foremost applied economist of the second half of the 20th century.
Mr. Gates and Microsoft fundamentally shaped how people think about the behavior of modern markets in which technology plays a central role. Under Mr. Gates, Microsoft also challenged the conventional wisdom about competition, business...
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| What kind of 'friends' are A-Rod and Madonna? |
| 2008-07-03 20:53:21 |
Reports that Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and Madonna have become close just as their marriages are disintegrating have both the celebrity gossip industry and the sporting world -- each a chatty bunch -- buzzing with questions about the two "friends."
A third boldface name was added to the saga when Rodriguez' wife fled from New York to the Paris home of rocker Lenny Kravitz, who denied...
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| Angelina Jolie's Twins Due In Next Two Weeks |
| 2008-07-03 20:49:57 |
A professional at the hospital where Angelina Jolie is currently residing has addressed rumours about her impending birth.
Dr. Michael Sussman, the actress’s obstetrician, appeared at a press conference at the French Riveria hospital, asking media to stop hounding the Wanted star.
He said: "She will give birth in the next two weeks. I can't really say more than that.
"It really isn't an...
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| Taking the freedom out of 'Freedom Writers' |
| 2008-07-03 09:16:10 |
Anyone who says that Hollywood filmmakers are dilettantes who talk the talk but don't walk the walk haven't met Richard LaGravenese. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter ("The Horse Whisperer" and "Bridges of Madison County") and director ("Living Out Loud") made a riveting film last year, "Freedom Writers," that starred Hilary Swank as a maverick high school teacher who gave inner-city kids a chance...
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| "Batman" and "Flintstones" coming out as pricey DVDs |
| 2008-07-03 09:16:10 |
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Elaborate DVD and Blu-ray Disc editions of "Batman Begins," "Casablanca" and "The Flintstones" top this year's slate of pricey gift sets from Warner Home Video, a category that experienced 26% growth in the past year, according to the studio.
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A total of 25 gift sets, priced from $40-$200, will be released in the final four months of this year,...
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