Kimora Lee Simmons is seen in this July 26, 2004, photo released by the Saddle River, N.J., police department Thursday, July 29, 2004. Simmons, the wife of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, faces drug and motor vehicle charges after police said she was driving erratically and ignored the flashing lights of a cruiser for nearly two miles. Simmons was arrested just after midnight Monday, July 26, 2004, outside the couple's estate in Saddle River, N.J., according to published reports.

In what is likely to be Silicon Valley's biggest IPO, Google said Monday that it will sell nearly 25 million shares to the public, priced between $108 to $135, to raise as much as $3.3 billion.

However, in an unusual twist, the Mountain View Internet search company disclosed that a large portion of that money would go not to Google but to insiders who will be selling their shares into the market. More than 40 percent of the shares sold in the IPO will come from insiders such as co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as early investors such as Yahoo and AOL.

The steep stock price, as well as the fact that the Internet search leader's growth slowed last quarter, will test the appetite of investors. Google has warned repeatedly that investors should not expect a big bounce, or quick paper profits, from its IPO, and the high price may ensure that.

Moreover, many financial analysts note that the company may be coming into the market at the top of its value. If the stock sells at the expected price, Google would have a market value of between $29 billion and $36 billion, just shy of rival Yahoo.

``The question is, if you had $30 to $35 billion to spend, is Google what you would buy?'' said Kevin Landis, chief investment officer of Firsthand Capital Management in San Jose.

Ticker symbol: GOOG

Google will sell its shares on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol GOOG. The IPO will likely take place in August, and perhaps as soon as Aug. 9. The price Google put on its stock Monday is not final, but an estimate. The actual price will be determined by bids in the unusual auction-style IPO that Google is planning.

Google executives, venture capitalists and other early investors are contributing 10.5 million shares to the IPO, an unusual move. Brin is offering 962,226 shares, or 2.5 percent of his 38.5 million stake, worth $129.9 million if the stock trades at the high end of the proposed price range. Page is selling 964,830 shares, also 2.5 percent of his 38.5 million holdings, worth as much $130.3 million. Venture capitalist John Doerr is selling 10 percent of his firm's stake, or 2.1 million shares.

The fact that insiders and early investors are selling such a high number of shares often raises red flags with investors, who wonder why people are bailing out on a company's stock.

Firsthand Capital stock analyst David DuChene said it's one negative too many.

``Seems to me there is no reason whatsoever to buy this stock until all those lockups come off,'' he said.

But Google's insider selling does not appear to be causing alarm among most professional investors. In some cases, such as with Yahoo, the sell-off makes sense, analysts said. Yahoo is offering 550,000 shares, or 10 percent of its holdings in Google.

The new details about the stock offering came in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In it, Google also updated its earnings statements for the quarter that ended June 30.

In the second quarter, Google earned $79.1 million, or 30 cents a share. That compares with $32.2 million, or 12 cents a share, in the same period last year. Sales more than doubled, to $700 million.

Google gets the vast majority of its money from selling ads alongside it own search results at www.google.com and those of its partners, including AOL and Ask Jeeves. It also places ads with Web site publishers, from small Weblogs to large newspapers such as USA Today. The company gets money each time a user clicks on an ad.

Google said fewer people visited its partners' Web sites and clicked on ads last quarter, slowing its revenue growth. Gross revenue grew 27 percent from the end of December to the end of March. But it increased just 7.5 percent between the end of March and June.

At the same time, the cost of its revenues grew, as Google paid more to have its ads placed on its partners Web sites.

Google characterized the slowdown as seasonal. Analysts interpreted that as meaning that more people are spending time away from their computers during summer holiday season.

``The growth rate came down, and we expected it to come down,'' said Mark Mahaney, Internet analyst with American Technology Research. ``I think, overall, the Google numbers were impressive.''

But others saw red flags in the latest earnings numbers. One IPO-watcher said Google's growth rate will need to improve if it's to justify the high stock price.

``It's strange, there is so much hype around this, but so many pundits are calling it a bad deal,'' said Francis Gaskins, editor of IPOdesktop.com. ``It's confusing. Where is the demand going to come from for this?''

Google also disclosed Monday that its general counsel, David Drummond, has been told by the SEC that Drummond could be subject to an enforcement action for possibly violating rules including the civil anti-fraud rules while he was chief financial officer at SmartForce before 2002. Drummond plans to dispute the action.

With Monday's filing, Google appears to have launched its road show, when it meets with major prospective investors -- including pension funds and other institutions -- and tries to sell them on the merits of its IPO. That means the actual IPO could come in the next two to four weeks. It was not yet clear when individual investors would get information about the sale from the various brokers handling the deal.

But Google did unveil a Web site, www.ipo.google.com, where investors will go to register to make bids in the auction. Google said the IPO Web site will become fully functional in the coming days.

Google's stock will apparently be coming to market at a premium, compared with its peers. One common benchmark of a stock's value, the ratio of earnings per share, suggests Google's 2004 price-to-earnings ratio would be 100, if the stock sells for $108 a share. By contrast, Yahoo's price-to-earnings ratio would be 94, and eBay's 64.

Some investment experts said that was too pricey for them.

``That's expensive,'' said Duane Roberts, head of equity strategy at Dana Investment Advisers in Brookfield, Wis. ``My thinking had certainly been lower than that.'' Some companies have been known to split their stock prices before their IPOs to hit a price point that is more appealing to investors. By not doing that,
Google may end up scaring off many individual investors who cannot stomach a three-digit share price when the broader stock market is treading water.

``For the investor who thinks about stocks in terms of share price, they may be trying to shake them out,''

with a high share price, said Douglas Whitman, president of Whitman Capital. ``You want to protect the little person. I'm happier they haven't done a split.''

Other analysts said Google's share price was less relevant than the company's revenue growth and cash flow. By those measures, Google's earnings statement suggested that it has the potential to match Yahoo's peformance.

crispy freestyle

nick and pat just got back from greece


playing poker at brandons on thursday night, i won.  they ended up playing til 10 am after i left and theresa won all ther money



yorktown party with 8 kegs. in country club hills



dave kiernan and nick pennel at makris' on sat

Sean 'P.Diddy' Combs greets Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., at the Democratic National Convention Thursday, July 29, 2004, 2004 at the FleetCenter in Boston.






An Iraqi policeman stands guard as workers clean up the debris and blood left after a car bomb blew up outside a police station, unseen, in Baqouba, 65 kms northeast of Baghdad, Wednesday July 28, 2004. A suicide attacker killed at least 51 people when a bomb-laden vehicle exploded outside a central Baqouba police station earlier Wednesday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)





Palestinian citizens and members of the International Solidarity Movement gather near a section of the controversial separation barrier that Israel is building, not seen, to protest the barrier's construction, at the Qalandiya checkpoint outside the West Bank town of Ramallah, Friday, July 23, 2004. An advertising billboard is seen in foreground.




New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, left, is pushed by Boston Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek, right, after Rodriguez was hit by a pitch from Red pitcher Bronson Arroyo in the third inning at Boston's Fenway Park, Saturday, July 24, 2004. Rodriguez and Varitek were ejected from the game. (AP Photo/Barry Chin, The Boston Globe)





A sunflower whose seeds have been picked out to resemble a scary face is seen on a cloudy day in Nyon, Switzerland, Friday, July 23, 2004. Heavy rains and thunderstorms crossed Switzerland the past few days. (AP Photo/Keystone, Fabrice Coffrini)

Who: Ziggy, Stephen, Julian, Damian and Ky-mani Marley

When: Doors, 12:30p

Where: The Filene Center

What: The Bob Marley Roots Rock Reggae Festival

With: Toots & the Maytals, Slightly Stoopid, Looner

Price: $75.00, $38.00, $25.00

saturday night.



matt conways cousin Paul was here from Ireland and he brought some buckfast which is TONIC WINE. it was soo good.. i want some more.



then we went to whitlows. to see Soldiers of Jah play.



then to John Krugs party.

  clockwise from the left.
marty, andy, Gus Cronley !, and me

 Biggie !


dan lookin at anders crucial tatoO

Martha Stewart will not be allowed to decorate her cell

The Danbury Federal Correctional Institution is only about 20 miles from Martha Stewart's home in Connecticut, but it will seem like a world away from her usual lifestyle.

If Stewart loses her appeals, she will in all likelihood end up at the low-security prison that is home to 1,300 female inmates.

The queen of high-thread-count sheets will get military-style linens for her bunk bed. She will have to trade in her wardrobe for prison khaki jumpsuits. She could get stuck on kitchen detail — backbreaking work that pays about 12 cents an hour and requires inmates to be up before the crack of dawn.

The women at Danbury have been closely following Stewart's legal saga and anticipating her arrival for months.

"I can guarantee you they're watching anything or everything concerning Martha," Joyce Ellwanger of Milwaukee, who served time last year there for trespassing during a military protest demonstration, said Friday. "I'm sure it will be the prime topic of conversation at the table at Danbury."

Stewart was sentenced Friday to five months in prison and five months of home confinement for lying about a stock sale that has tarnished her media empire.

A federal judge said he would recommend she serve her time in Danbury. The federal Bureau of Prisons has the final say, although officials try to place inmates within 500 miles of home.

For now, the sentence has been delayed pending an appeal.

Stewart's living situation will depend on whether she is assigned to Danbury's barracks-style prison camp or to its traditional cellblock housing. Either way, Stewart, 62, will have to spend her nights in a bunk bed.

"She's lived a millionaire life. I lived a poor life," said Dorothy Gaines, 45, who served time at Danbury before President Clinton commuted her drug sentence in 2000. "She's going to have to live like I lived."

Inmates can take classes, including crafts. The prison camp has a baseball field, volleyball net and walking track.

The woman who taught America how to decorate will not be able to decorate Danbury's concrete walls. Inmates may personalize their space only by hanging up to four photographs in their lockers.

Still, her homemaking talents could prove valuable: In some parts of the prison, inmates with the cleanest cells get to eat meals first.

Most people in low-security prisons are there for drug crimes. About 4 percent are white-collar criminals, according to the Bureau of Prisons. Danbury's famous inmates have included Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy and New York hotel queen Leona Helmsley.





A woman runs down the steps of Manhattan federal court in New York Friday July 16, 2004, waving a red scarf to signal colleagues about the sentence

PORT ORANGE, Fla. (AP) - A man hit his girlfriend with a 3-foot alligator and threw beer bottles at her during an argument in the couple's mobile home, authorities said.

David Havenner, 41, was ordered held without bond Saturday on misdemeanor charges of battery and possession of an alligator.

The alligator, which Havenner had been keeping in his bathtub, was turned over to Florida wildlife officials.

Nancy Monico, 39, told investigators that Havenner beat her with his fists, then grabbed the alligator and swung it at her as she tried to escape, sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said. She said the animal hit her at least once. She also told authorities that Havenner threw empty beer bottles at her, Davidson said.

Havenner's version of the story differed. He told investigators that Monico bit his hand because she was upset that they had run out of alcohol.

A spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Sunday that the governor would not apologize for calling lawmakers "girlie men," despite criticisms from Democrats that the remark was sexist and homophobic.

Schwarzenegger dished out the insult at a rally Saturday as he claimed Democrats were delaying the budget by catering to special interests.

"If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men," Schwarzenegger said to the cheering crowd at a mall food court in Ontario.


The governor lifted the term from a long-running "Saturday Night Live" skit in which two pompous, Schwarzenegger-worshipping weightlifters repeatedly use it to mock those who don't meet their standards of physical perfection.


Democrats said Schwarzenegger's remarks were insulting to women and gays and distracted from budget negotiations. State Sen. Sheila Kuehl said the governor had resorted to "blatant homophobia."


"It uses an image that is associated with gay men in an insulting way, and it was supposed to be an insult. That's very troubling that he would use such a homophobic way of trying to put down legislative leadership," said Kuehl, one of five members of the Legislature's five-member Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus.


"It's ironic that the governor would try to find a metaphor for weakness when his real problem is that we're being too strong," she added.


Schwarzenegger's criticism of Democrats stems in part from their support of one bill prohibiting schools from contracting services with private companies, and another giving workers authority to sue their employers to enforce labor laws. Each side accuses the other of caving in to special interests.


At a rally Sunday in Stockton, the governor gave a speech almost identical to the one he delivered in Ontario but without the "girlie men" remark. Spokesman Rob Stutzman said the line was dropped because Schwarzenegger had already sent the message he wanted to send, not because he regretted his remarks.


"It's a forceful way of making the point to regular Californians that legislators are wimps when they let special interests push them around," Stutzman said. "If they complain too much about this, I guess they're making the governor's point."


Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Democrat, said that while he wasn't upset by the remark, his 13-year-old daughter was.


"She's a young girl who knows the governor and really likes him a lot and didn't find the term to be a positive term, and finds it to be derogatory," Nunez said. "It was no question a very, very insensitive comment to make. I personally am not intimidated or threatened by it, but I think it really is beneath Gov. Schwarzenegger."





Arnold said Sunday that he would not apologize for calling lawmakers "girlie men,"

President Bush greets the crowd at a rally at the Raleigh County Armory Civic Center in Beckley, W.V., Friday, July 16, 2004. Bush held the campaign rally in Beckley one week after Kerry rallied an estimated 4,500 supporters at the county airport just outside town.

Troops walk down the Champs Elysees during the Bastille day parade in Paris.





British Grenadier guards march on the Champs Elysee as French jets trail red, white and blue smoke over the Arc de Triomphe, at the end of France's annual Bastille Day military parade.





Still too cold : The beach in Deauville remains desert on Bastille Day as cold temperatures continue to keep tourists away.

Microsoft Will License Business-Only System

America Online Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming up to link their separate instant messaging services for use in the workplace, the first major step by the industry leaders to enable computer users to communicate with one another no matter which of the three systems they use.

In an announcement planned for today, the triumvirate will outline a new partnership aimed at spurring greater use of instant messaging at work by tearing down the electronic walls that keep the respective networks separate. To use the new system, companies will have to license new Microsoft network software that will serve as the hub connecting messaging systems operated separately by AOL, Microsoft's MSN division and Yahoo.

"This is a very significant announcement," said Nate Root, a senior analyst with Forrester Research. "The value here is for corporations. Corporations will now have the ability to span the instant messaging landscape."

Instant messaging through computers, phones and other handheld devices is similar to the telephone, in that people communicate with each other directly and immediately. Most instant messages involve short text notes traded back and forth on computer screens, although some systems allow users to talk and see one another through the use of cameras, microphones and speakers or headphones.

The growth of instant messaging has been exponential. AOL officials reported yesterday that the use of instant messaging has doubled over the past year. More than 2 billion instant messages are sent and received on the America Online network daily, surpassing the 400 million e-mails sent daily by AOL users, they said.

For now, the three companies have no plans to permit users outside the workplace to communicate with one another over different instant message systems. America Online maintains a commanding lead among consumers with its AIM and ICQ messaging systems, giving the Dulles company little incentive to open up its network to Microsoft and Yahoo and risk losing market share.

"What this does not do," Root said, "is the holy grail of instant messaging, which is to allow anybody on any network to send a message to anybody on any other network."

Microsoft and Yahoo officials expressed optimism yesterday, saying this first step was likely to lead to new partnerships.

"This lays the groundwork for instant messaging to become as widespread and useful as e-mail is today," said Taylor Collyer, senior director of real-time collaboration marketing at Microsoft. "If you can connect to everybody, it becomes more valuable. I believe this announcement will lead to that happening with instant messaging."

"We have been active advocates and proponents of seeing interoperability enabled beyond the enterprise," said Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's vice president for communications products. "This jump-starts that and is indicative of the kind of success we can have working together."

AOL has been struggling to break into the corporate market for instant messaging, and the fresh pact with Microsoft, which will market and sell the new service, is likely to facilitate that process. While AOL is a consumer-based firm, Microsoft has a tremendous presence in the corporate market. Microsoft already has tens of millions of users who communicate over an earlier version of its network software, called Life Communications Server.

As part of the business partnership among the three, Microsoft will receive a license fee from companies for its network software and support, then pay unspecified fees to AOL and Yahoo, officials said.

While analysts said the new partnership is a setback for IBM -- which has its Sametime messaging system in the leading position in the workplace -- they predicted that IBM would seek to cut deals with AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN division in the coming months. IBM, they said, has time to play catch-up since the Microsoft-led effort with AOL and Yahoo will not be operational before early 2005, analysts said.

"IBM is free to go out and negotiate the exact same deals with Yahoo and AOL, but the MSN Messenger is a wild card," Root said. "Microsoft could delay or deny that link to MSN. Microsoft might have an inherent competitive advantage that IBM can't do anything about."

Thus far, most instant messaging in the workplace has occurred informally and from the bottom up, with individuals, rather than corporate computer systems mavens, driving the activity and traffic. While millions of individuals use AOL's AIM instant messaging service at work, AOL collects no fees for the free service, and corporations often do not control its use.

The new service being touted by Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo would have features, including the electronic recording and saving of instant messages, and the guarantee of secure communications, that the free instant messaging services do not include. The ability to store and retrieve instant messages is critical for businesses placing orders with suppliers, brokerage firms confirming stock purchases to investors and in numerous other commercial transactions and communications.

While consumers have been enthusiastic users of instant messaging, it remains to be seen whether corporations will be willing to spend more on the service. In a recent Forrester survey, about 45 percent of businesses had no plans for formalizing instant messaging in 2004.

check out this User Interface Diagram i did for MIMIs american bistro in dupont.. its just showing where the content will go..



click to view





this is a group photo we might use for the homepage

A German man reported a female chat-line worker to police after facing a phone bill for $7,244 following an all-night flirt session with her.


The woman calling herself Tina rang the 28-year-old man on his mobile phone.


"She said she had found his number on the Internet and would really like to chat to him," a police spokesman in the westerly town of Wesel said on Wednesday.


She gave the man a number and asked him to ring her back, saying it would be a cheap rate. The pair then became locked in a six-hour conversation.


"The man said they talked about far more than just sex," the spokesman said.


Police are investigating allegations of fraud.

(Reuters)

ericgunnerson.com


i went to elementary schhol with this fool.

A runner lies on the ground as the pack of fighting bulls pass over him in Estafeta Street




A Jandilla bull rams a runner at the main entrance of the bullring of Pamplona during the annual San Fermin fair.





A runner tries to protect himself from a fighting bull during a San Fermin bull run in Pamplona, Spain Friday July 9, 2004




A runner is attacked by a fighting bull in the entrance of the bullring during the sixth running of the bulls at San Fermin Festival in Pamplona July 12, 2004.




A man falls as he runs with the bulls during the second bull run at the Fiesta de San Fermín in Pamplona

this woman lives up the block from me. and the owner of the dog is my next door neighbor.
i see that dog off the leash all the time . goddamit
the mclean police have tooo much time on ther hands.. do you think they would put up a video surveilance unit for this same scenario in the ghetto ?





Police Searching for Labrador in Figurine Theft

Police were looking for a black Labrador retriever after it was captured on videotape taking four ceramic figurines from a woman's yard in McLean.

Fairfax County police said Friday that the dog is a suspect in four other heists.

In June, police said, Ruth Breiner, 75, asked for help in stopping a series of thefts from her yard. A ceramic raccoon vanished in April. A small deer figurine disappeared in early June. Another deer went June 14, and then a squirrel on June 16.

Fairfax police set up a video surveillance system, Officer Sophia Grinnan said. They caught the thief - on videotape - but the thefts haven't stopped. Grinnan said four more figurines were stolen late at night, and the culprit each time was a Labrador that scooped up the small items with his mouth and trotted off.

http://briancary.com/philippines



check these pics from Brian Carys trip to the Island of Cebu, Philippines

3 Generations of Presleys Appear in Vogue

Life after Elvis is far from heartbreak hotel for the Presley women. In the August issue of Vogue, three generations of Presleys — Priscilla, her daughter, Lisa Marie, and Lisa Marie's daughter, Danielle Riley — candidly discuss their lives.


Lisa Marie, Elvis' daughter turned pop star, expressed relief that her teenage daughter, who uses her middle name, Riley, hadn't turned out like Paris Hilton.


In April 2003, Lisa Marie said similar things about Paris and her sister, Nicky, to the Los Angeles Times: "Those two are the epitome of what my mother raised me not to be. I don't know what they've done. Maybe it's the bleach that fascinates people." (The Hiltons didn't return calls from The Associated Press seeking comment on Monday.)


Priscilla, the famed ex-wife of Elvis, isn't so quick to judge.


"Some celebrities' children have done very well, and some are still struggling," the 59-year-old tells the magazine. "It's a very difficult position to be in."


Riley, Lisa Marie's daughter from her marriage to Danny Keough, is just beginning a modeling career. The teen remains unfazed by the innate Presley fame. "My mom isn't famous to me. She's just my mom," she said.

NEW YORK - A dispute over a proposed anti-war billboard that would loom over Times Square during the Republican National Convention and up until Election Day landed in federal court Tuesday.

The billboard, 69 feet by 44 feet, was to show a stylized bomb and fuse, decorated in stars and stripes, above the message, "Democracy is best taught by example, not by war."


Project Billboard, a group that says it is devoted to "diversity, tolerance and free expression," says it signed a three-month contract for the space beginning Aug. 2.


But Clear Channel Spectacolor, which leased the space to the group, objected to the message, according to papers filed in Manhattan federal court by Project Billboard. The contract allows Clear Channel to revoke the billboard if it is obscene, "misleading or deceptive" or "offensive to the moral standards of the community," court papers say.


A lawyer for Clear Channel told a federal judge Tuesday that the media group "has concerns about the bomb image."


"Those of us who have been in New York for a while understand the sensitivities that many New Yorkers have to bombs," said the lawyer, Robert Pees.


The billboard space is on the side of the Marriott Marquis hotel. Clear Channel leases the space from the hotel.


Project Billboard initially offered to replace the bomb with a dove, keeping the text the same, but Deborah Rappaport, a board member for the group, said that offer no longer stands.


"What we want is our billboard up," she told reporters.


By ERIN McCLAM, Associated Press Writer

In addition, Pees said Marriott must approve the billboard, and that the hotel had an "explicit" opposition to political advertising.


Clear Channel was willing to offer another space in Times Square, Pees said. Rappaport said Project Billboard would be willing to accept another space.


The judge made no immediate ruling, and scheduled another hearing for Thursday.


The four-day Republican National Convention begins Aug. 30 at Madison Square Garden, about 10 blocks south of Times Square.


Clear Channel, the nation's largest radio chain, has been accused of promoting right-wing politics and banning artists — including the Dixie Chicks, whose lead singer disparaged President Bush — with whom it disagrees.


The company is a major donor to Republican political candidates.


But the company denies banning the Dixie Chicks from airplay and says pro-war rallies held by some stations during the Iraq war were the work of individual radio hosts and managers, rather than a corporate directive.

So the FCC wouldn't let him be, wouldn't let him be he...and now Eminem is making the move to satellite radio.


On Monday, the Grammy-winning rapper announced his plans to team up with Sirius Satellite Radio to "deliver an uncut hip-hop radio station like never before" beginning this fall.


"Once upon a time not too long ago, the feds wanted all my music off the air," Eminem said in a statement. "Now we'll be on Sirius 24 hours a day, playing the best hip-hop...not just from Shady Records, but from everywhere.


"I can't wait to start dropping new material, exclusive tracks and uncensored hip-hop featuring me and everyone else freely saying whatever the hell we want."

"an uncut hip-hop radio station like never before"

Though Eminem has never exercised much restraint when expressing himself in his lyrics, getting his point of view on the air has long presented a problem. Since Sirius is available only by subscription, the rapper will not be governed by the regulations that restrict public airwaves.


And the real Slim Shady wants to make sure his uncut voice is heard--he and other Shady Records artists such as 50 Cent and Obie Trice are set to host occasional specialty shows on the as-yet unnamed station, giving fans the opportunity to call in and chat with their favorite hip-hop talents.


The program selection will be designed by top artists and deejays. In addition, Eminem's DJ Green Lantern is slated to host a weekly slot showcasing the latest hip-hop mixes.


Interscope Records Chairman Jimmy Iovine and Shady Records Vice-President/Eminem manager Paul Rosenberg will co-executive produce the channel with the Real Slim Shady.


"Our partnership with Sirius gives us the unique opportunity for nationwide exposure of our new and existing artist roster," Rosenberg said in a statement. "While our channel will not be solely limited to Shady artists, we plan on delivering exclusive, obscure and/or hard to find music from our acts."


While Eminem will be free to say whatever he wants on the channel, moving to satellite won't resolve the latest incident of censorship faced by the rapper. After he pulled down his pants and mooned the audience at the MTV Movie Awards last month, Em's buns were edited out of the telecast.

i made this layout for practice.

click images see the full versions..

i have a new site to tell you about. SUPRNOVA.ORG this new peer2peer netowrk is basically your typical p2p, except its offline.. everyone has converted albums, movies, games, applications.. into what are called torrents or bittorrents.. so when you download "the new kanye west album" from the site your downloading a bit from me a bit from the guy in russia a bit from that girl in NYC.. just like kazaa or bearshare or whatnot.. the thing i love about BITTORRENTS is.. it can never be stopped.. cause unlike kazaa, ther is now program holding it all together.. its like kazaa without kazaa.. if that makes sense.. peer2peer without the 2 .. its just peer peer sharing.. does that stil not make sense ? dont worry how it works.. just click on the link and click on music .. then pick a genre. and you now have access to every live show.. every mixtape... every movie, every thing. muawahahawahawhawha

FIRST download the little program that lets you do this . BitTorrent EXPERIMENTAL download client

Suprnova gives you the filename. the file size . and then it can get tricky.. the blue number is how many ppl are SHARING that file.. the green number is how many ppl are DOWNLOADING that file. so..using some common sense.. one can deduce that a file that is 900mb with 29 ppl SHARING and 120 ppl DOWNLOADING is gonna take a while.. basically the rule of thumb is you want less ppl downloading than sharing..


bottom line.
suprnova is a software program for trading songs. ... suprnova is distributed, self-organizing
network and allows users to share digital media other than music. ...

props to my boy ted.. who showed me whats up with this internet computer thing




i downloaded all these mp3s in the last couple weeks.

Some Local Officials Worry About Costs and Crowding

Virginia's new, tougher drunken driving laws are likely to put thousands more drivers behind bars each year and require them to install expensive breathalyzer equipment in their cars, lawmakers said.

Drivers charged with having a blood alcohol content of 0.08 or higher will continue to be charged with drunken driving. But those who reach the threshold of 0.15 -- the new level at which tougher laws kick in -- will face at least five days of jail and be required to use a dashboard breathalyzer that prevents them from starting their cars if they are legally drunk.

Offenders pay more than $450 to rent the instrument, called an ignition interlock, for six months.

Before July 1, when 25 drunken driving laws took effect in Virginia, the only first-time offenders who faced mandatory jail time were those with a blood alcohol level of 0.2 or more, and only some repeat offenders were required to put ignition interlocks in their cars.

Virginia has some of the toughest drunken driving laws in the nation.

According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, about half the states require jail time for all DUI convictions involving high blood alcohol levels. Only four states, including Virginia, require ignition interlocks for such offenders. Neither Maryland nor the District have laws as tough.

Lawmakers estimate that as many as 8,000 additional offenders annually will face those penalties in Virginia, said Del. Robert B. Bell (R-Charlottesville), who sponsored the law lowering the threshold. That would be an increase of more than 300 percent statewide, according to estimates.

Figures from at least one local jurisdiction illustrate the potential increase. In one week in September, for example, 91 people were arrested in Fairfax County for drunken driving, according to county records. Twenty-six of those drivers had a blood alcohol level of 0.15 or more -- nearly three times the number above 0.2.

Proponents say the new laws provide a necessary crackdown on severely impaired drivers, who, statistics show, are involved in nearly 60 percent of alcohol-related traffic deaths.

"These are people that, whether they do it on purpose or not, are doing it at everyone else's risk," Bell said.

The new statutes also have some sheriffs wondering how they will house what could be an onslaught of inmates in already crowded facilities.

At the Fairfax County jail, a staff shortage has meant that an addition completed in 1999 has yet to open, and more than 1,200 inmates are crammed into space meant for fewer than 900, said Capt. Karen McClellan, spokeswoman for the county sheriff's department.

"You're not going to hear us complaining about locking up bad people," said John W. Jones, executive director of the Virginia Sheriffs' Association. "We just need the money to do it."

The new laws also could pose a challenge for the state's 24 Alcohol Safety Action Programs, or ASAPs, that convicted drunk drivers must attend, said Jody Douglas, executive director of the Fairfax County ASAP. Caseworkers at the programs arrange for the installation and removal of ignition interlocks.

Douglas said the process, which entails scouring Department of Motor Vehicles records for offenders' car titles, is so time-consuming that she plans to hire someone just to work on ignition interlock cases. Those could increase by 1,000 a year in the county, she said.

Several patrons at an Alexandria bar said recently that they were unaware of the stricter laws, but most said they know when to stop drinking before getting behind the wheel. Laws and possible social consequences keep them in line, they said.

Navy commander and flight instructor Dave Manero, 38, who is stationed in Pensacola, Fla., said the threat of losing his job over a drunken driving charge is all the deterrent he's needed to remain cautious.

Drinking beer with a friend at Portner's Restaurant in Old Town, Manero said, "It's not just the jail time; it's what a conviction does to the rest of your life. . . . I'm 205 pounds. You ask yourself, 'How much can I drink?' It's an unknown. So you just can't overdo, that's all. You can't be stupid."

Two bankers in crisp white shirts sipped St. Pauli Girl beers and considered that unknown: just how much can someone drink before hitting the 0.15 blood alcohol level.

"About six beers," guessed Don Sweeney, 36. Kirk Purdy, 44, nodded in agreement. "Six beers in two hours," he said.

The general rule is that each drink -- one 12-oz. beer, one glass of wine or 1 1/4 ounces of liquor -- raises a person's blood alcohol percentage by 0.02, said David Dutcher, executive director of the James River ASAP in Charlottesville.

But that can vary greatly, he warned. Men, who generally weigh more and have faster metabolisms than women, usually can drink more. People who've eaten or who drink slowly will not become intoxicated as quickly. And those who choose drinks like Long Island iced tea -- a potent cocktail made with five liquors -- will probably reach a high blood alcohol level faster than those who sip light beers.

Sweeney and Purdy, both Alexandria residents, said they felt confident they would never reach 0.15 before driving but wondered whether the laws would snare members of the cocktail party crowd along with hard-core, regular drinkers.

"You're punishing people who are no more dangerous than being sleepy," Sweeney said. "It's just a person who has an off night -- literally one too many."

Lawmakers and anti-drunken driving advocates reject that idea, noting that it usually takes knocking back at least a half-dozen drinks quickly to get to that level.

"Social drinking is two glasses of wine, possibly, over dinner," Dutcher said.

Del. David B. Albo (R-Fairfax) said legislators expected to hear complaints about costs associated with the new laws. Albo sponsored a bill, which passed the House but failed in the Senate, that would have required inmates to pay for their jail time.

The General Assembly will reconsider that idea and other sources of funding next year if jails, courts and ASAPs need more money, Albo said. But he and other anti-drunken driving proponents said the new laws will be well worth their cost if they deter people from drinking before driving.

"It's got to be done," Albo said. "There's always a price tag."

By Karin Brulliard
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 9, 2004; Page B01

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Bill Cosby went off on another tirade against the black community Thursday, telling a room full of activists that too many black men are beating their wives while their children run around not knowing how to read or write.

Cosby made headlines in May when he upbraided some poor blacks for their grammar and accused them of squandering opportunities the civil rights movement gave them. He shot back Thursday, saying his detractors were trying in vain to hide the black community's "dirty laundry."

"Let me tell you something, your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it's cursing and calling each other n------ as they're walking up and down the street," Cosby said during an appearance at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition & Citizenship Education Fund's annual conference.

"They think they're hip," the entertainer said.
"They can't read; they can't write. They're laughing and giggling, and they're going nowhere."

He also had harsh words for black men who don't have jobs and are angry about their lives.

"You've got to stop beating up your women because you can't find a job, because you didn't want to get an education and now you're (earning) minimum wage," Cosby said. "You should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity."

In his remarks in May at a commemoration of the anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision, Cosby denounced some blacks' grammar and said those who commit crimes and wind up behind bars "are not political prisoners."

"I can't even talk the way these people talk, 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ... and I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk," Cosby said then. "And then I heard the father talk ... Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth."

Cosby elaborated Thursday on his previous comments in a talk interrupted several times by applause. He castigated some blacks, saying that they cannot simply blame whites for problems such as teen pregnancy and high school dropout rates.

"For me there is a time ... when we have to turn the mirror around," he said. "Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you're sitting in."

Cosby lamented that the racial slurs once used by those who lynched blacks are now a favorite expression of black children. And he blamed parents.

"When you put on a record and that record is yelling n----- and you've got your little 6-year-old, 7-year-old sitting in the back seat of the car, those children hear that," he said.



Cosby appeared Thursday with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder and president of the education fund, who defended the entertainer's statements.

"Bill is saying let's fight the right fight, let's level the playing field," Jackson said. "Drunk people can't do that. Illiterate people can't do that."

Cosby also said many young people are failing to honor the sacrifices made by those who struggled and died during the civil rights movement.

"Dogs, water hoses that tear the bark off trees, Emmett Till," he said, naming the black youth who was tortured and murdered in Mississippi in 1955, allegedly for whistling at a white woman. "And you're going to tell me you're going to drop out of school? You're going to tell me you're going to steal from a store?"

Cosby also said he wasn't concerned that some whites took his comments and turned them "against our people."

"Let them talk," he said.

article from The Cincinnati Enquirer -
Arrow in FedEx logo actually makes a point

Question: “There has been a debate (over) the FedEx logo. There is an arrow ... between the (second) letter "e' and the letter "x.' The challenge has been finding if Federal Express intended to include this arrow in their logo or, as some people believe, the arrow is just a result of the font and spacing of the letters. Furthermore, some people say arrows aren't used to represent speed or promptness.”

Answer:

Little is left to chance in the world of marketing and advertising and, especially, corporate identity.

The arrow, in this case, didn't just happen to be flying through some highly paid art director's studio.

“The arrow was indeed intentional as a secondary design element,” says Federal Express Corp. spokesman Jess Bunn. “If the viewer sees it, it's a neat, interesting visual bonus. If the viewer doesn't see it, that's OK. It's still a powerful logo.

“The arrow is intended to communicate movement, speed and thedynamic nature of our company,” he said.

The blocky purple and orange, upper- and lower-case letters were created as the new company logo in 1994, “when we decided to modernize our entire look,” Mr. Bunn explained.

“It was what customers called us anyway,” and “we could enlarge the logo in the same amount of space and create a bigger impact.” (The old logo required nine additional letters to spell out Federal Express.)

“The vibrant colors — including plenty of white as a background color ... communicate our basic attributes . . . personal, certain, inventive, and ... we know how to connect our customers in the new global economy.”

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Either director Takashi Shimizu knows that he's hit a creative seam with his spooky movies about a haunted house and the murderous curse that lives there, or he's not ashamed of milking a good idea to death for the cash. Takashi has recently finished filming the fifth version of the Ju-on movies that started back in 2000 with the low-budget, made for TV movie, Ju-On: The Curse, which starred the then unknown Kill Bill and Battle Royale starlet Chiaki Kuriyama. This was swiftly followed by the less well received Ju-on: The Curse 2, which rehashed much of the first movie to no great effect.

In 2003, Shimizu remade Ju-On for the movie theatre market, expanding the plot of the first two-hour TV movie. It's called Ju-On: The Grudge in the West, to distinguish it from the original, and is also a more accurate translation of "Ju-On". This was a huge success in Japan and, inevitably, a revised Ju-On 2 was produced, which was also popular in the domestic market.

The fifth Ju-On is a Sam Raimi executive-produced remake of the first theatrical movie, aimed at the US market, and is simply called The Grudge. Although still set in Japan, it features a mostly American cast including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr and Bill Pullman, and is due for release in October.

To take advantage of the publicity surrounding the US remake, Ju-On: The Grudge has had a limited re-release in the UK.

The Grudge is a supernatural curse which occurs when someone dies in a murderous rage and spreads like a cancer, killing just about everyone who comes into contact with the location where the original deaths occurred. In this case, an unremarkable suburban house was the scene of carnage when an enraged husband killed his wife and child, believing the mother to have been unfaithful and the child was not his, before committing suicide.

Now, years later, the curse starts as the ghosts of the mother, Kayako (Takako Fuji, who, trivia fans, has played the same role in all five movies) and the creepy, impish son, Toshio (Yuya Ozeki) start killing everyone related to the house.

" you'd be hard pressed to find a movie that gives you as many chills "

The movie is broken into short chapters, as the deaths of different characters are explored. The first chapter follows Rika Nishina (Megumi Okina), a social worker who is sent to the house to help an old lady who lives with her son and his wife. When she gets there she finds the old woman in a state of catatonic shock and the house in disarray. As she cleans up, she starts hearing strange noises coming from upstairs and goes to investigate...

The ghosts have the staple look of modern Japanese Horror movies: black hair, pale faces, scary eyes. Toshio, the son, is particularly creepy with his expressionless face and black eyes. If you've seen Hideo Nakata's Ringu or Dark Water, you'll know exactly what I mean. In fact, Ju-On's own curse is to be unfavourably compared to Nakata's work. Where Nakata gradually builds tension and is sparing with his shocks, Takashi Shimizu dives straight in and machine guns the tension and shocks throughout the movie. As such, Ju-On doesn't have the steady narrative strengths of Ringu, Dark Water, or The Eye and Tale of Two Sisters for that matter (two excellent ghost movies from Hong Kong and South Korea respectively).

Ju-On also feels too long, and the interlocking chapters seem to keep coming relentlessly. Perhaps a bit of pruning at script time would have resulted in a more taut movie with fewer plot holes and inconsistencies.

Despite these criticisms, Ju-On is still a great movie, thanks to the tone that Takashi Shimizu brings to the screen. Dark and dreamlike, some of the scenes are almost Lynchian with their blurring of nightmarish surrealism and terror. Fans of Japanese horror movies will love the constant feeling of dread, and you'd be hard pressed to find a movie that gives you as many chills as Ju-On: The Grudge.

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Mooshu, an older neighborhood cat who has lived most of his sixteen years in the Lanikai section of Kailua, Hawaii, takes a cat nap on a skateboard belonging to his owner's children, July 5, 2004. Picture taken July 5, 2004.

Wearing a suit and driving a bike, Akihabara, Tokyo - 06.25.04

Animal rights activists protest in Pamplona on the eve of the start of the famous running of the bulls 'San Fermin' festival July 5, 2004. Hundreds of activits stripped to their underpants and marched through the city demanding the end of Spain's internationally famous fiesta, the running of the bulls.

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Roses are blue? : The world's first 'blue rose' developed by Japanese brewer Suntory is displayed during a press conference in Tokyo.

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In a thrilling UK Garage scene, blighted only by a reliance on drippy soul cliché and tiresome braggadocio, The Streets' eminently quotable Mike Skinner may just be the voice to take it to the next level with Original Pirate Material. This debut is a staggeringly eloquent and fearlessly honest snapshot of gritty street-level existence, as experienced by an ordinary bloke. At first listen, the Birmingham-born Skinner's cheeky cockney affectations grate slightly. But for every line that makes you squirm, there are 20 that drop your jaw. "Has It Come to This?" is "A day in the life of a geezer," a seductive encapsulation of London lifestyle, presented raw as a bootleg, but bulging with sharp wit and feverish detail. "Stay Positive" weaves a fearful tale of heroin addiction, while "The Irony of It All" makes a beguiling case for legalization, presenting a fictional exchange between a beered-up, self-righteous lager lout and a fey student weed enthusiast. Original Pirate Material is a milestone, the real voice of British youth set down on record. Don't miss it. --Louis Pattison

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