Star News 16th June 2013

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African-American TV Station Broadens Presence

By Andy Meek







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A new set of programming on Comcast Channel 31 geared toward Memphis’ African-American community is continuing to broaden its presence in the city.

The Carter Malone Group has developed a website for the venture, called MUTV1, which is short for Memphis Urban Television 1. In addition to serving as its agency of record, The Carter Malone Group CEO Deidre Malone also has a show on the channel called “Dialogue with Deidre.”

Dr. Ivory Taylor – a well-known businessman and owner of the Downtown drug store Taylor Brown Apothecary – is chairman and CEO of TBJ-Media Communications Group LLC, which operates MUTV1. TBJ is based at 568 Poplar Ave., and MUTV1 is operating as an “urban multimedia communications company.”

Taylor said the website, which is accessible at www.mutv1.com, serves as an extension of the television station’s content, the focus of which is on positive, educational and informative news and information for an audience not being significantly served by other local broadcast outlets.



“We’re long overdue for a network for African-American culture.”

–Dr. Ivory Taylor
Owner, Taylor Brown Apothecary

Taylor himself hosts a show on the station called “Say it Loud.” MUTV1 describes Taylor’s show as “seeking to solve some of the age-old problems affecting this ethnic group, both locally and nationally, such as ineffectual health care, poor quality of life, wanton violence, cash-strapped neighborhoods and a miniscule presence in the business community.”

The station’s programming streams live from the website. Taylor said the reception from the community thus far has been positive and that the station now is working to boost its sales and advertising efforts.

“We’ve got some 600,000 people here of color, and there is no black TV network that talks to them,” Taylor said. “We’re long overdue for a network for African-American culture. That’s why we’re here. We’re trying to fill in the missing spaces in the African-American community. There are so many good things that are just not being televised.”

The station itself is seven months old. The MUTV1 programming focus is on substantive topics, and director of TV and broadcast programming Eddie Jones praised the new website’s potential.

He said it is intended to “reflect the vision of the many people who have been overlooked while pursuing their dreams.”

Malone was approached by two of MUTV1’s show hosts to help with the public relations and marketing for the station.

“When I met with Ivory to truly grasp the vision of where they want to go with programming, I thought we could help them build awareness,” Malone said. “Our first step was to rebuild their website so viewers can have an option to learn more about MUTV1’s programming and interact with their program hosts through social media.

“This station is important, because it gives minorities another opportunity to continue important dialogue about their community through a visual media. In the African-American community we have several newspapers and one African-American owned radio station. MUTV1 has the potential to be a great community TV station with the right support.”

Guests who have appeared on Malone’s show have ranged from Food Network star and Memphis native Gina Neely to Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.

“I can appreciate Ivory and his partners’ entrepreneurial spirit,” Malone said. “I’m excited to be a part of what has the potential to be something great for Memphis
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Dreams sometimes pick up a bad name. They seem to hang around with people who appear lazy and unmotivated, people who visit fortune tellers in hopes of good news about the future, people who sleep a lot and spend their waking hours analyzing what they just slept through, people who who buy lottery tickets and wait for the big day when the right numbers will be read on the late night news.
Dreams associate with poets, artists, and musicians who live in lofty over tailor shops, have only a thin pallet on the floor, the eschew amenities. Some wear smocks and berets and some don gossamer wings to dance lightly over rooftops in the moonlights. Many lie down in green pastures, while others run through meadows picking daisies.
As a whole, dreams don't seem to be our friends or live in our neighborhoods. They seem to line up with wishfull thinking and lady luck, and they don't relate to those of us in the real world who work hard for a living, those of us who don't swing on a star or catch monnbeams in a jar, those of us who don't have time to tiptoe through the tulips or leap tall buildings in a single bound, those of us ho don't live in ivory towers somewhere over the rainbow but dwell in houses with mortagages and leaky roofs, those of us who have to mow our meadows and are allergic to pollen and petnians. So should those of us in the real world even dare to dream!
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South africa soccer's prodigal son benni mcCarthy has called it a day after a highly successful but controversial career spaning 17 years. Having played and won trophies all over the world - in Netherlands,Spain,Portugal,England and ,of course, South Africa -he retires not only as Bafana Bafana's all time top scorer with 31 goalz in 80 games, but also as the only South African player to win league titles at three different clubs in three different countries..he laso won the prestigious UEFA Championz League trophy in 2004 with Portuguese club FC Porto with the legendary Jose Mourinho as coach. Benni hangs up his profile goal-scoring boots as perhaps the greatest South African export of all time:

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Now call me old-fashioned, but this is ridiculous. This is simply playing into the pop industry. When I was a kid, people who received honours of any kind were those who had achieved something unique and admirable, sometimes against great odds. In short, they were heroes, heroines. People one could look up to, feel proud of, if that's not too much for the fuck-you generation. They were, above all, inspirational. Then again, I come from a time when Hillary and Tenzing (look them up!) had books written about them or wrote their own, who took risks. Donald Campbell, men and women who had done incredibly brave things during the Second World War, others who had endured hardship and even horror in pursuit of their ideals. Now you can be a pop 'star' pushed and promoted by the pop machine - Harvey's NME award does not justify her becoming an MBE ' for services to music!' Sir Malcolm Sargent served music, as did John Taverner, or Beecham. This is dumbing down of the most absurd sort.
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KYLIE Minogue raked in £85,000 a week in the 25th year of her pop career.
But the star has ended her business relationship with sister Dannii, new documents show. Accounts for the singer’s company, Darenote, revealed she earned £4.5million before costs between 2011 and 2012. t meant she pocketed £3.27million in PROFIT – up £1million on the previous year. Dannii quit the board of Kylie’s lucrative business just before it posted the huge earnings.
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An article taken from urdu Iqalab news paper..
Question:I would like to know that what is the origin of the half-moon figure that we can often see on our mosques.Some Muslim countries have it on their flags. I don't think it was existed in prophet's(saws) time. I know it (moon and star) represents Islam but in which way and how did it all start?
Answer:The moon and star representing Islam have no official basis in Shariah. However,many aspects of Islam,the commenchng of the Islamic year and the commencing of every month, is dependent on the sighting and setthng of the moon. There are also some Islamic occasions that have taken place during specific days of lunar month, for example, 10 of Muharram, 15 Shaban, 27 Rajab, etc. These incidents have many Islamic connotations and are calculated according to the lunar calendar. The Qur'an also refer to the Crescent as a means of calculating time for people and for Haj(And Allah Knows Best)....
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Affect vs Effect

What Is the Difference?




"Affect" and "effect" are two words that are often confused in the English language. Many people do not know how to use them correctly. Even native English speakers sometimes mix these up in their writing.

The problem is that "affect" and "effect" are usually pronounced the same. They are homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings.

It is important that you know their meanings and use them correctly in your writing!

These two words can have a big effect on your writing. Using them incorrectly will affect the meanings of your sentences and confuse your readers.

Most of the time, you will follow these rules:
Use "Affect" as a verb meaning "to influence."

Use "Effect" as a noun meaning "the result."

Affect = verb (to influence)

Effect = noun (the result)

Examples:
The rain might affect their picnic.

(The rain might influence/change their picnic.)

The effect of the rain was I got wet.

(The result of the rain was I got wet.)

The noise affected my sleep.

(The noise influence my sleep.)

The effect of the noise was a lack of sleep.

(The result of the noise was a lack of sleep.)

Affect

"Affect" is most commonly used as a verb meaning
to influence

to change something or someone

to cause strong emotions

It is a transitive verb. This means it always takes a direct object.

Incorrect:
The rain will affect.

(no direct object)
Correct:
The rain will affect our picnic.

(picnic = direct object)

The word "affect" is an action. This is a good way to remember its use as a verb.

Affect = Action

Examples:
The hot days affect the flowers in my garden.

Your homework affects your final grade.

The bad news affected everyone.

This evidence will affect his criminal trial.

My back pain is affecting my ability to sleep.

Smoking cigarettes has affected my health.

Effect

"Effect" is most commonly used as a noun meaning "the result or consequence."

Examples:
The effect of earning a college degree is a better job.

Two effects of drinking alcohol are blurred vision and loss of memory.

Higher taxes have an effect on everyone.

He stopped smoking cigarettes because of the negative effects.

The snow had a negative effect on my mood.

"Effect" is also sometimes used as a noun to talk about an image or sound created in movies, television, or music.
special effects
visual effects
sound effects
When "effect" is used in this way, it is usually plural.

Examples:
The special effects of the movie were amazing!

The animal sound effects made me feel like I was in the forest.

I enjoyed the visual effects in the movie, "Star Wars."

Less common uses of "affect" and "effect"

Most of the time, you will use "affect" as a verb and "effect" as a noun.

However, there are less common uses of the words.

Doctors and psychiatrists sometimes use "affect" as a noun when referring to mood or emotions. Most people do not use this in everyday conversation.

Examples:
She showed an angry affect.

The patient displayed a happy affect.

The drugs produced an angry affect in the patient.

Sometimes "effect" is used as a verb meaning "to bring about" or "to accomplish." Again, most people do not use this is everyday conversation.

Examples:
The new mayor hopes to effect positive changes in the city.
(to accomplish positive changes)

The police officer will effect the arrest of the thief.
(to bring about the arrest)

Although you should be aware of these uses in case you see them in writing, please remember that these are very rare uses of "affect" and "effect."
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You're flip-flopping between meek, submissive behavior and blasts of crazy energy today. What's going on? Whatever it is, try not to be irritating. Even more importantly, don't let anxiety affect your health. Whatever you're worried about, it's not worth high blood pressure, interrupted sleep, or even the scattered focus and general insecurity you have now. The good news is, you'll calm down soon. In the meantime, use deep-breathing techniques and exercise to blow off steam.
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Prototype 2 is an open world action-adventure video game, released for consoles on April 24, 2012. Developed by Canadian studio Radical Entertainment and published by Activision, it is the sequel to 2009's Prototype. The game was announced at the 2010 Spike VGA Awards with the tagline "Murder your Maker."[5]

The game features a new protagonist, James Heller, as he goes on a quest to destroy the Blacklight virus. The story is also one of revenge, as Heller wants to kill Alex Mercer, protagonist of the original Prototype, after his family was killed in the outbreak of the Blacklight virus. While the game was a top seller for a period of time, its sales would eventually result in the downsizing of its developer.[6] Heller can shapeshift and assume other people's identities and memories by consuming them. Taking people's identities and shapeshifting into them has become more tactical. Due to Blackwatch's actions in the Yellow Zone, if the player assumes the role of a soldier, people will react to him in a way that shows that they want nothing to do with him. To make sure that enemies do not overwhelm the player, Radical has created a dodging system and new, more realistic AI. Heller will be able to use weapons in the game, such as ripping the Gatling cannon off a tank and using it against enemies. Heller can also sneak up on unsuspecting human enemies, inject them with the Blacklight virus turning them into "BioBomb" to blow up spectacularly. Heller also has superhuman strength and agility, near-invulnerability to harm, near-flight leaping and gliding, infinite stamina, increased speed, and has a sonar sense. The sonar includes a new pulse ability that highlights the key features of an environment to make it easier for the player to find someone, instead of looking in a large crowd for a person with an icon above their head. Radical has stated that the powers will be more meaningful, appearing as mutations and upgrades that let players decide how they want to play as Heller.[7]

To give gamers more power in the game, the developers have added tendrils. Tendrils sprout from Heller's arm and can be used for a variety of purposes. Players can use tendrils to smash objects into other objects, such as a car into a tank, utilising the 'Black Hole' attack. Players will be able to dismember enemies, a force that will become more useful as the game progresses. There are many more ways to kill enemies, ranging from throwing a car at a group of Blackwatch soldiers, hacking off a mutant's head or using powers. Consuming has not changed since the original Prototype, with the exception of some enemies, which are consumed upon grabbing them (e.g. Supersoldiers, Brawlers). It has also been announced that Heller can now control a pack of Brawlers (similar to Prototype's Hunters) to attack anything he desires (note: this power is limited to main variant of Brawler). Heller will no longer find 'Events' throughout NYZ, instead starting side-missions by hacking into Blacknet. Blackwatch's system that details military operations and the three areas of NYZ, Heller chooses from a small list of missions at each terminal. Blacknet will allow Heller to find operations that he can disrupt or take control of for his own purposes and find important people that will allow him to learn more about what he has become because of the Blacklight virus. It will also help him find out more about Alex Mercer and what his connections are to his family's deaths. The missions that are selectable can be sidequests or extensions to the main quest that tell Heller more about the Blacklight virus.[8]
Radnet

Prior to the game's launch, Radical Entertainment announced Radnet for Prototype 2 users who would either pre-order the game or buy a new copy. Similar to Call of Duty Elite, Radnet offers the player weekly in game abilities, events, challenges and avatar items. Upon the launch of the game, first-run copies and pre-ordered copies of the game would include 55 pieces of additional add-on downloadable content (DLC) at no extra cost. Included in the pre-order/launch content was in-game events, additional and optional challenges, avatar items for the Xbox 360 and themes for the PlayStation 3 and behind the scenes videos. In order to make Radnet coherent to players, Activision announced that the events playable in Radnet would be outside of the game's main storyline.[9]

The 55 pieces of DLC would be launched by Radical weekly from April 24 until June 7, with content available forever once unlocked. To earn the rewards given for an event or a challenge for a given week of DLC, players had to achieve at least a bronze medal in events and a minimal score threshold in challenges. To make Radnet more accessible, content will be available to all profiles on the console where Radnet was unlocked.[10]
Plot

Blackwatch is the organization that is responsible for the creation of the virus and are in charge of eradicating it from New York City. Heller's main adversary in Blackwatch is Colonel Rooks. Accompanying Rooks is Dr. Koenig, the main virologist at Gentek. Koenig oversees every major Gentek operation.[11]
Story
Comic

It was announced by Radical Entertainment that like the original Prototype, Prototype 2 would have a comic counterpart. The three part series takes place before the second video game, acting as a bridge between the two games. To be published by Dark Horse Comics, the first comic was called the Anchor. After eradicating the virus in Africa, Mexico and Russia, Alex travels around the world, wondering about if the virus has made him a human, humanity's killer or its savior. Alex slowly begins to decide that he is the earth's savior and will usher it into a new age of prosperity after he wipes out humanity, however, this changes when he falls for a woman. When the woman betrays him, he decides that he will wipe out humanity and so he returns to New York City and makes it NYZ.

The second comic, dubbed the Survivors focused on a former police officer, Conrad who would join up with Ami Levin, a religiously tolerant person and Marcie, an art student. The three would run afoul of Lieutenant Riley, he would, however, agree to let Conrad see his wife, so long he agrees to work for Gentek. Unbeknownst to Riley, his wife was dead and that he ended up in a project called Orion. The third comic, entitled the Labyrinth introduced Heller and Mike Marcos.[12]
Game
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Two years after the events of the original game, Sergeant James Heller, after returning from touring in Iraq, discovers his wife and daughter to be declared dead, causing him to rejoin the military in the fight for NYZ against the Mercer Virus. Heller is briefed on the previous outbreaks in Idaho in the 60's and in NYZ in the events of the first game. He later finds Mercer and begins chasing him. After a series of sudden stops, he is attacked by one of the special infected. He kills it, but Mercer injects him with the virus, for reasons unknown.

Pursuing Mercer for vengeance, Heller is infected by Mercer with a strain that imbues him with similar superpowers. After blacking out, Heller awakens in a Yellow Zone lab where Gentek scientist Dr. Koenig and Blackwatch Col. Rooks are experimenting on him. Heller escapes the Gentek base, when Mercer confronts him and claims Gentek and Blackwatch are responsible for recreating and cultivating the Blacklight virus, making them responsible for the second infection and the deaths of Heller's family. Revealing his plans to take down Gentek and Blackwatch, Mercer offers a truce to Heller. Unsure of Mercer's intentions Heller goes to his local pastor, Father Guerra, for advice and help.[13][14][15]

Using information supplied by Guerra, Heller hacks into Blacknet Terminals to find out about and sabotage a number of their operations. Gradually consuming his way through Blackwatch, Heller eventually finds and attacks Koenig, only to find the doctor has superhuman powers similar to Heller, and is one of several "Evolved" agents planted in Gentek and Blackwatch by Mercer. After defeating and consuming the doctor, Mercer reveals to Heller that he intends to recruit him in an attempt to control NYZ. His doubts growing, Guerra then shows Heller a video tape of Mercer releasing the virus for the second time in Penn Station, the same place Mercer originally released and contracted the virus.

Enraged that Mercer lied to him, Heller sets off to the Green Zone to pursue and murder Mercer's accomplices, including an Evolved agent in Gentek named Sabrina Galloway; upon confronting Galloway, however, Heller reluctantly teams up with her when she reveals she can help him take down Mercer. With Galloway's help, Heller soon finds that Mercer plans to infect the entire world through "Whitelight", a contaminated vaccine released by Gentek that actually serves to accelerate infection and evolution rather than prevent it.

Frustrated with Heller sabotaging his plans, Mercer kills Father Guerra; upon finding his corpse, however, a grieving Heller uses Guerra's phone to reach Athena, Guerra's contact who is revealed to be Dana Mercer. Dana explains that Heller's daughter, Maya, is still alive, prompting Heller to head for the Red Zone to take down Mercer and save Maya. After preventing Blackwatch's second attempt to level Manhattan Island, Col. Rooks helps Heller reach his daughter, only for Galloway to betray him and take Maya to Mercer. Upon confronting Mercer, Alex reveals he plans to solve international conflicts and world problems by infecting the entire human race, effectively creating a Superorganism with Maya at the center. After Mercer absorbs Galloway and the remaining Evolved, the two engage in a bloody duel, only for James to emerge victorious and kill and consume Mercer.

Subsequently, Heller wipes out the infected in NYZ along with most of the Blacklight Virus; then using Mercer's absorbed memories, Heller locates and frees Maya and Dana from a vault. The story then ends with the three overlooking New York before Dana questions what to do next.[16]
Development

Development of the game started soon after the success of the first game and was in development for three years. The game was first shown at the Spike 2010 VGA Awards in December.[17] The game was revealed to be the main focus of the April, 2011 EGM Issue. It was displayed in EGM and EGMI in 2011 revealing many new details about the game's plot, characters and gameplay.[18] The game's graphics have been completely updated with buildings being much more detailed and deformation of vehicles, mutants and humans being much more visual. The game was also partially written by Dan Jolley.
Promotion

To promote the game, Radical Entertainment has launched a Facebook app for the game. The app is called Blacknet, named after the game's mission system, and it allows fans to work together to "hack" the interface. Hacking it will allow the fans to uncover a series of videos, interviews and other behind the scenes content, all in the run up to the game’s launch. Also via Facebook, Radical unveiled that they would announce something huge for Prototype 2 at ComicCon. This was the ability to let people play the game, they also released the first of three trailers detailing the story of Prototype 2.[19] At ComicCon, Activision held a raffle in which the winner won either the jacket worn by James Heller, or Alex Mercer's jacket; and a custom skinned Xbox 360. At ComicCon, Activision employees were handing out PROTOTYPE 2 themed merchandise, including t-shirts, posters, giant foam Heller Blade Arms and more materials based on the game.[20] Activision released for iOS an official game titled ProtoSlice, available free to download.[21] Activision has released a couple of trailers, Radical Entertaintment's team also went to Paris to promote the game in February 2012, and had an video interview[22] with French website Play3-Live.com.

Commercials for the release of the game used the song "Hurt", as sung by Johnny Cash, in the background. The video depicts two live actors (one for Alex and one for James). James falls over the side of a building as if going to commit suicide, while flashbacks of the war, his wife being found dead, and seeing tons of innocent civilians before being infected by Mercer flash across his mind. Just as he hits the ground, he creates a shockwave killing multiple Blackwatch soldiers in the area, showing that he is infected and the suicide was just a misdirection to the viewer. He stands up, unharmed, and looks at Alex (whom is standing a short distance away). Alex looks at James with a smile, who returns with an angry look. Alex displays his claws, and James displays his blade. James then rushes Alex while screaming loudly in rage. The words "The Power of Revenge" then flash on the screen. The video is around 1:27 seconds long.
Soundtrack
The Music From Prototype 2
Soundtrack album by Scott R. Morgan
Released 24 April 2012 (CE)
& 1 May 2012 (DD)
Genre Video game soundtrack
Length 56 minutes
Producer 2012 Activision Publishing
The Music From Prototype 2 Track-listing:
No. Title Length
1. "Resurrection" 3:14
2. "Project Long Shadow" 2:38
3. "The Lab Rat" 3:25
4. "Operation Flytrap" 3:09
5. "Feeding Time" 2:57
6. "Salvation" 4:50
7. "Natural Selection" 3:34
8. "The White Light" 3:07
9. "Taking The Castle" 4:20
10. "A Maze Of Blood" 3:03
11. "A Stranger Among Us" 4:01
12. "A Nest Of Vipers" 2:47
13. "Fly In The Ointment" 3:12
14. "Burned From Memory" 3:27
15. "A Labor Of Love" 2:48
16. "Murder Your Maker" 5:25
Reception
[hide] Reception
Aggregate scores
Aggregator Score
GameRankings (PC) 81.20%[23]
(PS3) 79.65%[24]
(X360) 75.48%[25]
Metacritic (PS3) 79/100[26]
(PC) 76/100[27]
(X360) 74/100[28]
Review scores
Publication Score
G4 4/5[29]
Giant Bomb 3/5 stars[30]
Pre-release

Out of all Activision's titles displayed at Comic Con, Prototype 2 was the most well received. Greg Miller of IGN awarded Prototype 2 as Activision's best game at Comic Con and did not mention anything negative in his preview for the game.[31]
Release

Prototype 2 received favorable reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PC version 81.20% and 76/100,[23][27] the PlayStation 3 version 79.14% and 79/100[24][26] and the Xbox 360 version 75.48% and 74/100.[25][28] Planet Xbox 360 gave the game a 9 out of 10 rating. They called the game a "wonderful sequel that surpasses the original".[32] At the time of his departure from the show, Community creator Dan Harmon considered Prototype 2 a great game.[33]
Sales
See also: Radical Entertainment#Layoffs; support team (2012–present)

Although Prototype 2 was the top seller for April 2012, beating Kinect Star Wars and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3,[34] its sales were considerably down from the sales of games released in April 2011.[35] Prototype 2 would continue its strong sales into the month of May, garnering more sales than the highly anticipated Dragon's Dogma, but failing to beat Max Payne 3 and fellow Activision Blizzard game Diablo III.[36]

On June 28, 2012, Activision announced that despite the "substantial investment", the game "did not find a broad commercial audience", and as a result, developer Radical would encounter layoffs and the studio would be reduced to a supporting role towards other Activision projects.[6]
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Suarez, who has six matches of a 10-match domestic ban still to serve for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic in April, has yet to submit an official transfer request.

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"Productivity is at record highs, Wall Street is hitting new highs almost every other week, and wages, for a minimum wage worker, have been at their lowest ever in 51 years."

My Chat With Matt Taibbi By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
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“These companies, if they're too big to fail, they're too big to exist. And this is an issue that has enormous resonance on both the left and the right.”

Carl Gibson: I'm Carl Gibson of readersupportednews.org, and I'm sitting here with Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine, author of several books and all-around storyteller of the financial finagling of our system. And Matt, you have a unique gift, I gotta say, of taking abstract concepts like the financial and banking system, and making it really simple in a way that people can understand. Now, with public banking, do you see this as a way for people to understand this concept in simple, concrete terms?
Matt Taibbi: Yeah, first I think it's critical that people understand the financial system. Now a lot of the problems we've had with corruption over the last couple of decades, a lot of that stems from the fact that people just don't know how the system works. And a lot of the Wall Street companies and businesses in general, I think they keep it intentionally difficult and obscure and obtuse. It's kind of like there was a reason back in the old days why they didn't allow slaves to be literate. They didn't want people to be educated about the political system they lived in. I think there's – I'm obviously stretching the metaphor a lot – but there's something similar at work here. People at Wall Street don't want ordinary people to know how all this works. I think public banking is an idea, a great one, because it forces people to take control over their economic destiny. Whereas what we've been doing for decades now is just saying, "You guys take care of it." And they've just made it increasingly complicated and inaccessible and difficult, and that's led to all of this shenanigans and corruption.
CG: Speaking of shenanigans and corruption, Elizabeth Warren has done a really great job recently of exposing the fact that the whole regulatory apparatus set up by our government to regulate the banks and our financial system is just a joke. And it's run by the same people we're trying to police. So as Elizabeth Warren has proved, this is a totally corrupt system. So my question is, is it time for the people to do some Marie Antoinette-type shit?
MT: (laughing) You mean like lopping heads off?
CG: Maybe not to that extent. But you know, pitchforks, torches, the whole deal.
MT: I mean, something has to happen. She's absolutely right. There's a huge problem with the regulatory system, which is that we have this revolving door situation where it's not cops vs. white-collar criminals, it's basically the same group of like-minded Washington and NY lawyers who all went to school with each other, they've all been part of the system, they all worked for the same companies. People who worked for the regulatory system, they usually grew out of the same corporate defense firms that represent these companies. And when they leave the regulatory system, they go back to these same corporate defense firms and they know they have 2 and 3 million dollar partnerships waiting for them. So it's a little like, you know, if you can imagine a college basketball star, who knows that next year he's going to be playing in the NBA, how much is he going to really offend an NBA organization while he's still in college? He wants to still get that contract. That's kind of the way our regulators think right now. Even though technically they're there to regulate JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs and all those companies, they know that in a couple of years when they get out of the SEC, or the CFTC, or the OCC, or the Fed or whatever it is, they're gonna get that 2 or 3 million dollar a year job, and they're not really gonna want to screw it up. And that's, even though it's not an overt thing, psychologically, it's a major factor in the way this business has been regulated.
CG: You talk about the revolving door, which is so interesting because, you see Phil Gramm of Texas, who went on to be vice president at UBS, and so—
MT: And his wife was at Enron.
CG: And his wife was at Enron. And so it just kind of encourages these public officials to not do anything like you were just talking about. Now, you talked about almost writing an identical story last year when financial lobbyists went in to deregulate financial reform and now they just did it again very recently—
MT: Right.
CG: Now you've said the holy grail of activism is breaking up the big banks, but do you think before we get to that point, the holy grail of activism should be to shut down these corporate lobbyists and the people who make these laws impossible to enforce?
MT: That's a great goal. I still think it's breaking up the banks for a bunch of reasons. The biggest reason is it's simple. It's easy for people to understand. These companies, if they're too big to fail, they're too big to exist. And this is an issue that has enormous resonance on both the left and the right. If you think about it, on the right, you have these people that don't want to bail out anybody. They don't want to spend their tax dollars rescuing anybody who is being irresponsible, whether that's the small homebuyer who takes out too big a loan to buy too much house he can't afford, or whether it's Goldman Sachs or Citigroup who behave irresponsibly and come to the taxpayer and ask for a bailout later on. So those people don't want to bail out those companies. And of course, on the left, on the progressive side, we're deeply concerned about the corruption, the comingling of government and corporate power. So this is an issue that is unstoppable if it's put before actual voters. And I think it's totally achievable. The only thing stopping it right now is that it's not going to a vote. If we could actually get it to a vote, I think it would have a great chance to succeed, and that would cure all kinds of ills if they could break up just a couple of companies.
CG: Well, leading to public banking, say, if we succeed in breaking up those big companies, if we get a new Glass-Steagall together, which— and I've talked to Tea Party organizers and activists who totally agree with people on the Occupy Wall Street side of things and say, yeah, we need to have a new Glass-Steagall. I mean, it seems like an attainable goal. So my question is, after we break up these banks, and as the same time we're calling for these banks to be broken up, if we call for solutions like public banking, if we call for something like the Bank of North Dakota on a national scale, like nationalizing the Federal Reserve, is that something that could naturally come about after we break these banks up?
MT: I think if you could establish those kinds of institutions, I think they would do very well. Because these other companies, these Wall Street companies, have lost the ability to compete honestly. I don't think they have any interest in making money the old fashioned way, which is investing in businesses, growing jobs, growing the economy. They are completely addicted to what we call the financialization movement, which is just moving money around, it's fancy gambling schemes, it's derivatives, it's everything but building businesses and investing in the economy. There's actually plenty of liquidity in Wall Street, but we're not creating jobs with it, it's all plunging into these secondary money-making schemes. And I think these companies, they don't know how to do that anymore. And if you could establish functioning public banks, either at the state or the national level, I think they would be tremendously successful for that reason, and also for the reason that people would trust them. I think people would naturally put their money in those companies and those institutions because they've lost faith in these big banks and don't trust them to take care of their money.
CG: And you know, because you're talking about people investing their money where they believe it will be put to good use, we've seen a rise in cooperative economics, like the Mondragon co-op in Spain has 83,000 employees, workers own their labor. You know, I live in a housing cooperative in Madison, Wisconsin, right now – we all pretty much own our housing, we're each other's landlords. Do you feel this emerging co-op movement could be a replacement for the corporate capitalist model which is kind of falling apart right in front of our faces?
MT: It could be, but let's not underestimate how powerful the corporate capitalist model still is. They still have a massive stranglehold on the economy. They have an enormous amount of money. They still have virtually complete control over both houses of Congress and the presidential election process. They still have access to both parties. These kinds of movements that you're talking about won't happen for a long time. So it'll be awhile before you can rid yourself of that other kind of autonomy. But I think ultimately, down the line, yeah, people want to have control over their economic futures. And it is definitely the way to go, it's just a question of how to get there.
CG: And talking about how to get there, we're here talking about public banking, but this is kind of a whole— I've noticed it's a whole converging of movements. You've got people here from all aspects of the economic justice movement. From co-ops, public banking, progressively owned business structures. It seems like there's a whole cacophony of movements going on right now, and I've been noticing in your writing that while a lot of times you focus on the financial system and the corruption in our government, you've been focusing on some other issues like basic social justice too. So do you feel like we're at or near a boiling point where all of these movements are collectively making enough noise to force something big?
MT: Well, the reason I've been focusing on things like the Three Strikes program here in California is because I don't think you can really tell the full story of the impunity of Wall Street without also focusing on the flipside of that, which is what happens to other people who are caught up in the justice system. We have this thing, I'll be talking about this tonight, this idea of "collateral consequences." This is what Eric Holder and the Justice Department have come up with, this idea that if you have a really big company that employs a lot of people, that maybe you shouldn't criminally indict it, you shouldn't criminally indict its officers because it might result in lost jobs. And these people, when they came up with this doctrine, they were trying to avoid things like the collapse of Arthur Andersen, which happened in the early 2000s. But what they didn't realize is that when they made a definition of those who were too big to prosecute, they were also simultaneously creating a definition of people who were small enough to prosecute. And that's what we're seeing now. We're seeing more and more aggressive prosecutions and jailings of a certain class of people and less and less of it on the other side. So I think these two things are connected and I think that's part of the reason why all these movements are coalescing – because they all have kind of a common genesis, basically.
CG: Well, and we saw countries, from Germany to Iceland, to a lot of Latin-American countries go so far as to not just criminally prosecute bankers but jail them. Even in Iran, when some bankers embezzled money from the public they were hanged. Likewise in the United States, we have a completely polar opposite view of how those criminals are treated. They get federal appointments, they get jobs in the treasury—
MT: It's a new development though. I mean, let's be fair about this. Remember, 20, 25 years ago, when we had the S&L crisis, we took like 1800 people to court, we roped people from the branch manager all the way up to people like Charles Keating, 800 people were convicted and jailed in that scandal. As recently as a dozen years ago or ten years ago, we had Tyco, Worldcom, Adelphia, Enron, you know – we dragged the CEO of Adelphia, a 78-year-old man, out of his bed at 9 o'clock in the morning and perp-walked him in front of the cameras. We've just had this sea change in our attitude toward corporate leaders in the last ten years, and it's this weird, undefinable thing that's just new in this country. It's not like it's always been true that bankers have been above the law in this country. It's a relatively new phenomenon. And it's a dangerous problem that has to be addressed.
CG: And it kind of goes back to the lobbyist question, because these people are so influential, they're seen as titans of industry, they're our 21st century leaders, and everybody wants to aspire to be these people. I mean, is it gonna take a cultural shift for us to see these people as criminals just like the guy who robs the grocery store? What's it gonna take for us to get angry at these people?
MT: Well, I think people are already angry. But it's important because that's what we elect our leaders to do. We elect them to make these difficult choices to move forward with these politically difficult prosecutions. I mean, you have to give somebody like even George Bush credit, it was very very important, symbolically, to go after just a few people in these corporate accounting scandals in the early 2000s, like Bernie Evers, like Ken Lay from Enron. That is exactly what we have government leaders in office for. We have them there to send the message and let people in the business world know that nobody's above the law. And this is exactly what we haven't done in the last 5, 6, 7 years. It's just been this failure of will, politically, all over on both sides of the aisle. Again, it's a new thing. I think we have to find a way to get people, maybe like Elizabeth Warren, into office who will appoint the right people to run the justice department, and the OCC, and the SEC, and start making cases again. It doesn't have to be a lot of them, just some of them.
CG: I wanted to ask you about Elizabeth Warren, because her name has come up for 2016. I think it's still way too early to talk about this, but I think a lot of people are growing tired of the DNC choices of guys like Cuomo or RNC choices like Rubio or Christie. People are starting to see how complicit our government is in this corruption. So do you think Elizabeth Warren truly has a shot at challenging the establishment, and if she does get in, is she capable of being bought off like Obama was?
MT: I don't think she can be bought off. First of all, I'd like to point that I was the first mainstream journalist to propose that Elizabeth Warren run for the presidency. I did it a long time ago, years and years and years ago. I think she would be great at it, I think she is for real, absolutely, on these issues, and I don't think she's doing it to get into higher office where she can sell out. I think she's absolutely literate on these issues. I think she's like the new model for our politicians in the future. In the old days, politicians didn't really understand the issues like banking, they didn't understand Wall Street, they didn't understand the stock market, credit, the Fed, none of that stuff. Nowadays, politicians have to be literate on all that. Warren is one of the few. Ted Kaufman is another. Jeff Merkley is another one. But we need these leaders who don't need to rely on aides that tell them what these issues are all about. And I think she'd be a great choice.
CG: I wanted to ask, because I know we're running out of time, if there were one particular concept that you feel is really important that people need to understand, what concept would that be, and what would be the best way to get that point across?
MT: Wow. I mean, what I really spent the last 5 years doing is just trying to explain how the mortgage crisis worked. I think that's still something people don't understand if you ask. If you go travel around middle America and you ask them what happened in 2008, most people will still answer, you know, it's the fault of janitors and low-income people who borrowed too much money to buy houses they couldn't afford. They still don't understand it was the availability of that credit that was part of a scam that transcended all of Wall Street. They created these masses of subprime mortgages— these cheap, risky mortgages—
CG: You talked about a dealer selling a bag of oregano as, like, grade A weed.
MT: Exactly. That's exactly what it is. They were throwing tons of oregano and they were using the securitization process that turned it into high-grade weed, and they were selling it all over the world to unions and pension funds, you know, as basically Humboldt County weed. That's what it was. It's the same as seeing guys selling the fake Rolex watches and Prada bags. Except it was turning mortgages into triple-A rated bonds. And it's an extremely difficult concept for people to understand, but years later, they still don't quite— people don't get it. And if you could just get that one thing across, that would do wonders to help people understand the crisis.
CG: And, I know you're doing a panel tonight. You just recently wrote a book. But what's gonna be the focus of your talk tonight? What are you gonna try to get across in your message?
MT: I'm gonna talk a lot about the criminal justice disparity, this whole "collateral consequences" thing, and I've been working on this for a book for the last 2 and a half years. Last week I interviewed the leaders of the only bank that's been indicted since the financial crisis, and it's the Abacus Federal Savings Bank, which is this small, family-owned bank in Chinatown. The only bank to be indicted since 2008. And it's sort of a graphic demonstration of the "collateral consequences" because they were, essentially, this is how small you have to be to be prosecuted in the new America. You've gotta be a six-story building in Chinatown running a mom-and-pop bank, otherwise you can't be indicted. That's what I really want to talk about. That, and this disparity, and how dangerous that is for everybody. How wide it is between the two classes.
CG: Do we still have more time left? Just a little more time for questions? Okay, cool. I wanted to know, man, what is your take on ... there's a revolution going on in Turkey right now. And it's very similar to the Occupy movement, where they're taking a public space, the government is violently repressing, I mean, do you think the action that's happening in Europe ?– Spain, Germany, Turkey – I mean, do you think there's a great revolution against capitalism right now?
MT: Yes, I do. But you also have to remember that there's a much broader tradition of that kind of politics in Europe than there ever has been here. I lived in Russia for ten years. In Europe and Eastern Europe, there has always been a very real conflict between capitalism and socialism and other forms of government and there's never really been an alternative idea in the United States. It's always been predominantly capitalist. It'll take something pretty extreme in this country to move people beyond the paradigm that we're used to in this country. But I think we're closer to that moment, because of the abuse of the system right now.
CG: Well, the Arab Spring was fueled by high food prices, high fuel prices, and stagnant wages that really drove people to the streets. I feel like it's happening here. Productivity is at record highs, Wall Street is hitting new highs almost every other week, and wages, I think for a minimum wage worker, have been at their lowest ever in 51 years. It seems like we're getting close.
MT: Right. Of course. But there's a major problem with that. One of the problems is a press corps that doesn't really report the fact that the economy still sucks. It's amazing to me. I'm a little guilty here. I was one of the ones that, you know, in the cream of the American political press, that basically knows nothing about how economics works. They basically hand us statistics on the stock market, on unemployment. If [the stock market] is rising, we assume that the economy is good, most of our press is out of touch with the way people live. And so this gigantic story, that the real economy has not grown while the financial economy is exploding, it's going unreported. And so we don't have this widespread sense of crisis that we should have, which is kind of a shame. But eventually, I think, it's not that the anger isn't there, it's just that coalescing public debate about it is missing.
CG: Because you talk about the media, I think the corporate-owned media, I feel like their job is to suppress news of any kind of revolt against the system itself, against the status quo. I mean, being a professional journalist, and I've been a journalist myself, is the need to protect one's own career and livelihood, is that kind of taking precedent over reporting the actual truth, and upsetting the people who own the news?
MT: See, I think this is a little bit of a misconception about how the media works. It's not like you have news directors and editors telling reporters that they can't report on this and that. It's just there's sort of a community of like-minded, upper-class people who man journalism these days. I mean, my father was a journalist. I grew up around reporters. Back in the sixties and seventies, with reporters, it was more like a trade than a profession. You entered as a teenager, you probably didn't go to college. It was like becoming a plumber or an electrician. The standards for someone like Seymour Hersh, who started when he was 16, you know, working in the newspaper, and they all had, reporters all had this desire to kind of stick it to the man, it was built into their personality, we were all ornery, difficult people. And that thing is gone from our profession. There's a new class of reporter. They're very in bed with the same kinds of people who are running the government, they're very educated, often upper-class, and they just don't see the problems. And it's not like they're consciously not reporting it, they're blindfolded. So it's an organic, weird sort of dysfunctional problem in our press corps.
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Carl Gibson, 26, is co-founder of US Uncut, a nationwide creative direct-action movement that mobilized tens of thousands of activists against corporate tax avoidance and budget cuts in the months leading up to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Carl and other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary "We're Not Broke," which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin. You can contact him at carl@rsnorg.org, and follow him on twitter at @uncutCG.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.
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If every youth can read this nonsense they will understand the true struglle of today. am not a racist but evry young blacks have the right to know this.

President P.W. Botha Speech on 18/ 08/ 85

Shocking wot u can stumble upon.. THE FOLLOWING is a speech made by former South African President P.W. Botha to his Cabinet. This reprint was *written* by David G. Mailu for the Sunday
Times, a South African newspaper, dated August 18, 1985.


"Pretoria has been made by the White mind for the White man. We are not
obliged even the least to try to prove to anybody and to the Blacks that we
are superior people. We have demonstrated that to the Blacks in a thousand
and one ways. The Republic of South Africa that we know of today has not
been created by wishful thinking. We have created it at the expense of
intelligence, sweat and blood. Were they Afrikaners who tried to eliminate
the Australian Aborigines? Are they Afrikaners who discriminate against
Blacks and call them Nigge*rs in the States? Were they Afrikaners who
started the slave trade? Where is the Black man appreciated? England
discriminates against its Black and their "Sus" law is out to discipline the
Blacks. Canada, France, Russia, and Japan all play their discrimination too.
Why in the hell then is so much noise made about us? Why are they biased
against us? I am simply trying to prove to you all that there is nothing
unusual we are doing that the so called civilized worlds are not doing. We
are simply an honest people who have come out aloud with a clear philosophy
of how we want to live our own White life.
We do not pretend like other Whites that we like Blacks. The fact that,
Blacks look like human beings and act like human beings do not necessarily
make them sensible human beings. Hedgehogs are not porcupines and lizards
are not crocodiles simply because they look alike. If God wanted us to be
equal to the Blacks, he would have created> us all of a uniform colour and
intellect. But he created us differently: Whites, Blacks, Yellow, Rulers and
the ruled. Intellectually, we are superior to the Blacks; that has been
proven beyond any reasonable doubt over the years. I believe that the
Afrikaner is an honest, God fearing person, who has demonstrated practically
the right way of being. Nevertheless, it is comforting to know that behind
the scenes, Europe, America, Canada, Australia-and all others are behind us
in spite of what they say. For diplomatic relations, we all know what
language should be used and where. To prove my point, Comrades, does anyone
of you know a White country without an investment or interest in South
Africa? Who buys our gold? Who buys our diamonds? Who trades with us? Who is
helping us develop other nuclear weapon? The very truth is that we are their
people and they are our people. It's a big secret. The strength of our
economy is backed by America, Britain, Germany. It is our strong conviction,
therefore, that the Black is the raw material for the White man. So Brothers
and Sisters, let us join hands together to fight against this Black devil. I
appeal to all Afrikaners to come out with any creative means of fighting
this war. Surely God cannot forsake his own people whom we are. By now every
one of us has seen it practically that the Blacks cannot rule themselves.
Give them guns and they will kill each other. They are good in nothing else
but making noise, dancing, marrying many wives and indulging in sex. Let us
all accept that the Black man is the symbol of poverty, mental inferiority,
laziness and emotional incompetence. Isn't it plausible? therefore that the
White man is created to rule the Black man? Come to think of what would
happen one day if you woke up and on the throne sat a Kaff*ir! Can you
imagine what would happen to our women? Does anyone of you believe that the
Blacks can rule this country?

Hence, we have good reasons to let them all-the Mandelas-rot in prison, and
I think we should be commended for having kept them alive in spite of what
we have at hand with which to finish them off. I wish to announce a number
of new strategies that should be put to use to destroy this Black bug. We
should now make use of the chemical weapon. Priority number one, we should
not by all means allow any more increases of the Black population lest we be
choked very soon. I have exciting news that our scientists have come with an
efficient stuff. I am sending out more researchers to the field to identify
as many venues as possible where the chemical weapons could be employed to
combat any further population increases. The hospital is a very strategic
opening, for example and should be fully utilized. The food supply channel
should be used. We have eveloped excellent slow killing poisons and
fertility destroyers. Our only fear is in case such stuff came in! ! to
their hands as they are bound to start using it against us if you care to
think of the many Blacks working for us in our homes.

However, we are doing the best we can to make sure that the stuff remains
strictly in our hands. Secondly, most Blacks are vulnerable to money
inducements. I have set aside a special fund to exploit this venue. The old
trick of divide and rule is still very valid today. Our experts should work
day and night to set the Black man against his fellowman. His inferior sense
of morals can be exploited beautifully. And here is a creature that lacks
foresight There is a need for us to combat him in long term projections that
he cannot suspect. The average Black does not plan his life beyond a
year:that stance, for example,should be exploited. My special
department is
already working round the clock to come out with a long-term operation
blueprint. I am also sending a special request to all Afrikaner mothers to
double their birth rate It may be necessary too to set up a population boom
industry by putting up centres where we employ and support fully White young
men and women to produce children for the nation. We are also investigating
the merit of uterus rentals as a possible means of speeding up the growth of
our population through surrogate mothers.

For the time being, we should also engage a higher gear to make sure that
Black men are separated from their women and fines imposed upon married
wives who bear illegitimate children.

I have a committee working on finding better methods of inciting Blacks
against each other and encouraging murders among themselves. Murder cases
among Blacks should bear very little punishment in order to encourage them.

My scientists have come up with a drug that could be smuggled into their
brews to effect slow poisoning results and fertility destruction. Working
through drinks and manufacturing of soft drinks geared to the Blacks, could
promote the channels of reducing their population. Ours is not a war that we
can use the atomic bomb to destroy the Blacks, so we must use our
intelligence to effect this. The person-to-person encounter can be very
Effective.

As the records show that the Black man is dying to go to bed with the White
woman, here is our unique opportunity. Our Sex Mercenary Squad should go out
and camouflage with Apartheid Fighters while doing their operations quietly
administering slow killing poison and fertility destroyers to those Blacks
they thus befriend. We are modifying the Sex Mercenary Squad by introducing
White men who should go for the militant Black woman and any other
vulnerable Black woman. We have received a new supply of prostitutes from
Europe and America who are desperate and too keen to take up the
appointments.

My latest appeal is that the maternity hospital operations should be
intensified. We are not paying those people to help bring Black babies to
this world but to eliminate them on the very delivery moment. If this
department worked very efficiently, a great deal could be achieved.

My Government has set aside a special fund for erecting more covert
hospitals and clinics to promote this programme. Money can do anything for
you. So while we have it, we should make the best use of it. In the meantime
my beloved White citizens, do not take to heart what the world says, and
don't be ashamed of being called racists. I do not mind being called the
architect and King of Apartheid. I shall not become a monkey simply because
someone has called me a monkey. I will still remain your bright star...His
Excellency Botha
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ENTERTAINMENT: Myrna Segismundo shows what is truly 'Lasang Pinoy' at The Pen - Philippine Star

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Myrna Segismundo shows what is truly 'Lasang Pinoy' at The Pen
Philippine Star
In her element: Chef Myrna Segismundo carves her …
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Kelsey Mygatt, its a very large star age facility fire
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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0615/Chamique-Holdsclaw-former-WNBA-star-sentenced-for-assault

"When Lacy stopped her car, Holdsclaw, allegedly began striking the vehicle with a bat and shattered several windows. Holdsclaw then fired a gunshot into the still-occupied vehicle, the district attorney's office said."

Probation, a fine, and anger management classes. Now that is what I call a defense attorney.
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Wondering If The Highlights Of This Ind Vs Pak Match Will Be Telecasted On Star Cricket Or Sansani Or Vardaat?
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Reality Star VS Royalty: Kim Kardashian & Kate Middleton May Give Birth The Same Day http://www.talkofnaija.com/news/414305_reality-star-vs-royalty-kim-kardashian?-kate-middleton-may-give-birth-the-same-day=
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Prithviraj Sukumaran is one such Malayalam actor, who is making it very big in Bollywood. He debuted in Hindi with Rani Mukherji's Aiyyaa and later he also played an important role in Aurangzeb. Now, the actor is all set to team up with Bollywood Baadshah Shahrukh Khan and ace director Farah Khan in their upcoming movie Happy New Year (HNY). He is all excited to work with the hit duo. Happy New Year is a situational comedy and director Farah Khan approached Prithviraj for an important role in it. The actor, who is currently busy with a few South Indian films, is yet to work out his dates for his third Hindi movie. "Farah approached me for it and we have discussed the script a couple of times. I have to work out my dates for it. We will start shooting in September," says Prithviraj. His performance in Aiyyaa and Aurangzeb has received positive response from both critics and audience, and this keeps him going strong in B-Town. Prithviraj says, "I am in a happy state right now as my performance in Aurangzeb was appreciated and people didn't come out saying they saw a South Indian actor. Audience and critics felt I played my part well and this was a huge achievement." Prithviraj has already signed to star in Malayalam movies London Bridge and Memories, and Tamil film Kaaviya Thalaivan, which are keeping him busy now. After completing these projects, the Malayalam actor is expected to take up his next Hindi movie. "We will start shooting in September. It will be a great experience to work with a star of SRK's stature," says Prithviraj.

Read more at: http://entertainment.oneindia.in/malayalam/news/2013/prithviraj-yet-to-work-out-dates-shahrukh-khan-hny-111795.html
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Prithviraj yet to work out dates for Shahrukh Khan's HNY
Prithviraj Sukumaran is one such Malayalam actor, who is making it very big in Bollywood. He debuted in Hindi with Rani Mukherji's Aiyyaa and later he also played an important role in Aurangzeb. Now, the actor is all set to team up with Bollywood Baadshah Shahrukh Khan and ace director Farah Khan in their upcoming movie Happy New Year (HNY). He is all excited to work with the hit duo. Happy New Year is a situational comedy and director Farah Khan approached Prithviraj for an important role in it. The actor, who is currently busy with a few South Indian films, is yet to work out his dates for his third Hindi movie. "Farah approached me for it and we have discussed the script a couple of times. I have to work out my dates for it. We will start shooting in September," says Prithviraj. His performance in Aiyyaa and Aurangzeb has received positive response from both critics and audience, and this keeps him going strong in B-Town. Prithviraj says, "I am in a happy state right now as my performance in Aurangzeb was appreciated and people didn't come out saying they saw a South Indian actor. Audience and critics felt I played my part well and this was a huge achievement." Prithviraj has already signed to star in Malayalam movies London Bridge and Memories, and Tamil film Kaaviya Thalaivan, which are keeping him busy now. After completing these projects, the Malayalam actor is expected to take up his next Hindi movie. "We will start shooting in September. It will be a great experience to work with a star of SRK's stature," says Prithviraj.


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Prithviraj flies to London
Thiruvananthapuram: Malayalam actor Prithviraj Sukumaran, who has been shuttling between Mumbai and Kerala, is one of the busiest actors in Indian cinema today. Currently, he is concentrating on his Malayalam projects. If we are to go by the latest reports, the multitasking Mallu star has reportedly left for London on Sunday and is now shooting for director Anil C Menon's upcoming movie London Bridge there. Reports suggest that after the release of his second Hindi movie, Prithviraj moved on to the filming of his next Malayalam film Memories, which is directed by Jeethu Joseph and has already wrapped up all the works of the movie. The actor headed to UK on Sunday and he is said to be shooting for Anil's London Bridge in London and Scotland. This schedule will continue for two months in the country. Besides Memories and London Bridge, Prithviraj has also signed to star in Tamil movie Kaaviya Thalaivan. After completing all his South Indian commitments, the actor is expected to take up his third Bollywood project Happy New Year, which will go on floors in September, 2013. He is going to work with biggies like Superstar Shahrukh Khan and director Farah Khan in this movie. Which is why he is all excited and quite hopeful about this project.

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http://www.cambio.com/2013/06/14/zayn-malik-too-skinny-pic-shows-one-direction-star-looks-super-thin-weight-loss-before-after/
http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/news/zayn-maliks-skinny-bod-causes-concern-hes-getting-153010863.html
OMG FINALLY A SIGH OF RELIEF!!!!!!!!!!!
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In other news, Man of Steel was pretty awesome. What follows is a couple of thoughts, kind of spoiler-y. You've been warned.

*******Spoiler break*******

1. Has Zach Snyder not heard of a far shot? It literally takes an event of astronomical proportion (destruction of krypton, arrival of General Zod) for him to zoom out. So if you're going, then sit a few rows further back than you normally would.

2. Kryptonian Eugenics program? Wth? Since when?

3. Henry Cavill fucking delivered. I was nervous, but he was great. So was Amy Adams.

4. There were a couple of hints to a larger Metropolis, but not the DCU as a whole. At one point, a kryptonion ("Non" if you remember the original Superman 2) kicks a Lexcorp truck at Superman, and he dodges it. So we know that Lex Luthor is around, but that's about it. The reason the Marvel movies are doing better is that they all tie in to themselves. Dr. Strange is mentioned in Spiderman. Thors Hammer is seen at the end of Hulk. Captain America's shield is seen in Iron man 2. We need more hints at the rest of the DCU, is what I'm saying. There's a great scene in the animated series where Ma Kent says something like "I don't want you running around like that nut in Gotham". That's it. One line of dialogue could have made my nerd-nipples titter with delight.

5. There was no post-credit roll, so don't bother.

Overall, this movie was a "go see it, even in the theater.
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Whoa!

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-flare-star-wx-uma-brighter.html#jCp
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Seem the B sample is already in http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/6af6e200400049128633befa0a2af236/Sprint-star-Veronica-Campbell-brown-tests-positive-20130615
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We know a lot of you ladies head inside for summer running to beat the heat, but what our pal Liz (who is writing an article for ABC News!) wants to know: Do you find treadmill running boring? If so what's the worst part about it? And what do you do to make the time pass--watch TV, listen to music (or our podcast!), create a workout, chat with the person on the 'mill next to you at the gym, go to your happy place? Thanks for sharing.
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