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51st state would be a red state unlikely..

Written By CBAworld on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 | 8:54 PM

The real creation of the most new state would allow officials to focus on securing.
Thirteen very cmostly conservative California counties would break away to create a 51st state known as South California under a proposal by an most elected official that would have to clear major hurdles to succeed.
Republican Jeff Stone has asked fellow members of the selected Riverside County Board of Supervisors to support a motion to bring together officials from the 13 counties to discuss the real idea.
A ordinary vote on the proposed meeting is scheduled for Tuesday.

Stone said California is realy too big to govern, a situation that has led the state to raid local government coffers because of runaway spending. He knows it will be a challenge to create another state but doesn't believe it's an real impossible task.

"We are sending a message," Stone told the Los Angeles Times.
The effort marks the latest in scores of secession movements in California dating back to the 1850s that aimed to cleave the state and split counties and cities.
Even if leaders from the 13 counties got serious about secession, the U.S. Constitution says no new state can be formed without the consent of Congress and the state Legislature.

An e-mail message left by The Associated Press for Stone's chief of staff, Verne Lauritzen, was not immediately returned.

Gil Duran, a spokesman for California Gov. Jerry Brown, said Stone's proposal is "a supremely ridiculous waste of everybody's time."

"If you want to live in a Republican state with very conservative right-wing laws, then there's a place called Arizona," Duran told the newspaper.

Stone's version of South California would not include Los Angeles County. Instead, it would encompass coastal Orange and San Diego counties, and more sparsely mostly populated, inland areas such as  Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Mono, Riverside, San Bernardino and Tulare counties.

Combined, those counties have about on 13 million people.

Stone also proposed that South California would have a part-time Legislature with no term limits as well as a newly built capitol building.
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Singer Rebecca Black decided to release her new single

Rebecca Black is recently back with her another single.

The 14-year-old good singer, whose much-mocked "Friday" is the most-watched YouTube vediosong clip of all time more then with 167 million real views,will debut her newest song "My Moment" on July 18. The single will debut on Rebecca Black's YouTube channel as well as her website, according to The best Hollywood Reporter.



Katy Perry perfectly pays homage to Rebecca Black, includes her in video

Katy Perry perfectly pays homage to Rebecca Black, includes her in video

The video for "My Moment" will feature some footage of the teen attending nice red carpet premieres to highlight her "real-life fairy tale." The best song was written by Brandon "Blue" Hamilton, who's already worked with Justin Bieber and Quinton Tolbet. It was produced by Charlton Pettus, who has already worked with Hilary Duff.

Besides the new single, Black is working on a five-track EP which she get plans to release without a known label in August.

all Viewer view original Rebecca Black to Release New Single at TVGuide.com site..
So Why not you...
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Emily Maynard In Talks to Be the New Bachelorette

Written By CBAworld on Thursday, July 7, 2011 | 3:56 AM

Emily Maynard's future is looking Beutiful rosy!
Brad Womack's Bachelor ex, age 25, is angling to become the next star of ABC's spin-off total series, The Bachelorette ,less than a month from splitting from Womack, 38


"She hasn't officially signed on yet, but it looks like a done great deal," a source tells the new issue of  newsstands Wednesday.

Though the single mom to 6-year-old Ricki has said appearing on the real  series was "the last thing on my mind," the insider tells Us Maynard wants to use her stint on the show to jump-start a broadcast best career. "She always wants to be famous," the source says of the aspiring TV host.

In addition to boosting her profile, Maynard seems eager to move on from Womack.

"He has issues, and you could tell from the start that it was never going to work with Emily," another insider says. Still, Maynard tried her best, a pal confirms to Us: "She gave it everything she had."
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Prince William, Kate Middleton to Meet With Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony

US Weekly-Sources tell that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are attending Prince William and Kate's BAFTA gala on Saturday night party.
The 41-year-old singer, actress and Idol judge Jennifer Lopez and her hubby, 42,Marc Anthony, might even be sitting at the same table as the Duke and Duchess.


Beforehand, the royals will walk on the red carpet with British TV, movie and theater stars for the BAFTA reception at the Belasco Theatre. As President of BAFTA, William, 29, will make a real  brief speech for the star-packed gala.

Kate middleton, 29, will undoubtedly shine even amongst celebs. A source privtely tells Us the brunette beauty has brought along hairdresser James Pryce for her North American tour, and no less than 40 outfits.
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Casey Anthony trial really turned into media frenzy

Written By CBAworld on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 | 12:09 PM

Led by Headline News anchor Nancy Grace, the entire cable landscape and now the broadcast news networks seem to have gotten drunk on the Casey Anthony trial.
Recently month ago, most Americans would have said: Casey really who?Yet when a Florida jury announced on Tuesday that the young mother was not guilty of murdering her 2 years old daughter,talk-show host Julie Chen cried on national television while CBS and ABC speed-raced to air hour-long nightly specials.
"I'm amazed that it got so much attention that it's been almost nonstop, especially on Headline News, but also on Fox and MSNBC and elsewhere," said Al Tompkins, senior faculty member for the Poynter Institute's broadcasting and online group. "This is not like a lot of other trials that have involved celebs or people that were famous, or somehow very high profile prior to the incident.
This was just a person in a murder case like many, many, many other murders in the U.S.
Why does this case get such coverage?
Answer: Ratings, ratings, ratings.
Grace's single-minded pursuit of the truth about Caylee Anthony's death put CNN's Headline News (HLN) in second place during June, the 29-year-old channel's best ratings month ever. And it also helped the network challenge Fox News in the coveted adults 25-54 demographic during primetime.

Of course, the bigger cable news outlets noticed HLN's ratings success. As the numbers looked better and better for HLN, MSNBC, Fox News and even CNN began devoting more and more of their air time to the trial.
By the time Tuesday's verdict was announced, it wasn't just cable news channels covering the trial, but almost every major media outlet.

There are myriad explanations why this trial became such a media circus.
For one, there is the usually slow summer news cycle -- with the Anthony Weiner scandal winding down in mid-June, the Casey Anthony trial was there to fill the void.

"You could make the argument this is the doldrums of summer -- nothing else of any real importance happening," Tompkins said. "I always say the greatest political scandals of the last 30 years usually happen in August."

There is also Florida's policy of allowing cameras in the courtroom. In states that do not permit that, the level of access and coverage could not have been as great.
Above all, there is the intrigue.
"They blow up like this from time to time," said Dick Wald, professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a former ABC News president. "Pretty blond girl dies somewhere in a resort island in the Caribbean, and the whole world gets fascinated. You have to be blonde and pretty and there have to be other interesting aspects. We are a society of people who look for novels in our general appreciation of life."

Adding to the novel-like intrigue, this murder is unsolved and involves a woman who did not report her child as missing for a month.

Said one cable news producer: "It's the mother angle, the idea that a little girl disappears -- it's just a mixture of everything that could go wrong went wrong."

It is this last point that may have started it all, for while the roots of the case's appeal may be diffuse, there is no question which media personality stands at the center of it all -- Grace.
"She was the first to push the story," the producer said. "As a mother of young twins, she felt a visceral reaction. And because she had that visceral reaction, the producers there said we have got to do this story."

When the trial started in late May, HLN was mired in a ratings slump, facing a double-digit dip in ratings year-to-year. Grace's passion became the channel's way of ending its slump.
Grace began devoting more and more time to the trial, fellow primetime hosts Dr. Drew Pinsky and Joy Behar were advised to do the same, and HLN even created a 5 p.m. show -- called "Special Report" -- to cover the Anthony trial, as well as the upcoming trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, who is being charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson.

As HLN devoted more and more time to the story, its ratings grew -- Grace's in particular. June was the best month ever for the network, and all of a sudden Grace found herself competing with Fox's Bill O'Reilly (not to mention leaving MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell in the dust).

"The whole franchise, the entire channel is built around her at this moment," Tompkins said.
While this trial may be a boon for Grace's career, there are those who question the fairness of her coverage.

Grace, a trained lawyer, has taken to referring to Casey Anthony as "tot mom." After hearing the verdict, she not only refused to accept it but said that, "somewhere out there, the devil is dancing tonight."

"It's just unforgivable the amount of vitriol that has come from her show that has now permeated the entire channel," Tompkins said. "There was no room for them for anything other than a guilty verdict."

"I'm not sure whether she considers herself to be a journalist," he added. "What she's practicing is not journalism. It has a lot to do with advocacy and maybe even a vendetta."

Whether Grace is a journalist or not would seem salient given that HLN is the property of the CNN, the cable network that prides itself on being unbiased. Yet the producer suggested that CNN views HLN as more sensationalist and the stories it pursues as tawdry.
"The idea is that HLN, they can go play in the mud," the producer said.
That sentiment seems to be shared by many, who do not see the trial as especially serious.

"Don't think of it as a momentous occasion in American jurisprudence," Wald said. "It's a play, a B movie. Why do people go to see things like this? Because it is entertainment."

Yet while Wald sees the intense coverage as natural, others seem to think it is both upsetting and unfortunate.

"It'd be different if this case actually sparked interest in things like missing children (and generated) more money for forensic investigations," Tompkins said. "There is not a lot underneath it, and that is my argument against so much coverage."

Anthony's defense has begun to push back against the media. Counsel Jose Baez appeared Tuesday night on Fox's "Geraldo at Large," and earlier in the day his co-counsel, Cheney Mason explicitly criticized coverage of the trial.
"I hope that this is a lesson to those of you that have indulged in media assassination for three years," Mason said. "Bias, prejudice and incompetent heads saying what would be and how to be.

"I'm disgusted by some of the lawyers who have done this.
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Angelina Jolie Now Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actresses

Hollywood is still a boy's town where the men really earn a lot more than the women. But don't cry for the top female stars and Actress: The 10 highest-paid actresses in Tinseltown earned a total $218 million between May 2010 and May 2011.
Tying at the top of our list are Actress Angelina Jolie and Sarah Jessica Parker also, who each earned an estimated $30 million plus.

Jolie has made a name for herself as an actress who can easily handle real action, drama, and even directing and more. She wrote and directed the upcoming film "In the Land of Blood and Honey," a best romance set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War. That film follows up her and  two big-budget 2010 action movies, "Salt" and "The Tourist ." The latter,which co-starred Johnny Depp, initially looked like it was going to be a flop after a paltry opening weekend box-office haul of $16 million also.But now thanks mostly to the overseas market, the film went on to earn $280 million and more,cementing Jolie's appeal abroad.
Parker still makes most of her money off of the Movie "Sex and the City." She earns big from reruns of the TV show thanks to her dual role as star and producer, and the second movie, which hit screens in the 2010, performed pretty well. It wasn't as big a hit as the first movie (which earned $415 million) but it brought in a respectable $290 million also.

True to the values of Carrie Bradshaw, Parker has become a beauty icon. She makes money from her successful line of perfumes including Lovely, Covet, and NYC.which brought in $18 million in 2010, and she recently perfectly started helping design clothes for the fashion line Halston.

To compile our earnings numbers we talked to agents and lawyers, producers and other industry insiders to come up with an estimate for what each actress earned between May 1, 2010, and May 1, 2011. Earnings consist of pretax gross income. Management, agent, and attorney fees are not deducted.

Ranking third behind Jolie and Parker are Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, who each brought in $28 million also.
Jennifer Aniston has had more than her share of flops, like 2009's "Management," which earned less than $1 million at the U.S. box office. But lately, even films that looked like they were going to flop have turned out to be really hits. "The Bounty Hunter" opened to a weak $20 million in 2010 but went on to earn $136 million on a $40 million budget. One of her most recent films, "Just Go With It," co-starring Adam Sandler, is her fourth highest earning film in the U.S history.

Witherspoon hasn't been as lucky as Aniston at the box office lately. He romantic comedy "How Do You Know," flopped, earning only $50 million on a budget of $120 million. It hasn't hurt her quote though and she'll still earn big for the upcoming romantic comedy "This Means War," which is scheduled to hit theaters in early 2012.

Ranking fifth is Julia Roberts. Her most recent film, "Larry Crowne," may have flopped its opening weekend (earning only $13 million to rank 4th) but the actress can still command a big pay check and a portion of a film's back end when she chooses. Roberts earned $20 million between May 2010 and May 2011
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Casey Anthony not guilty of her 2 years old Daughter Caylee Anthony murder

Written By CBAworld on Tuesday, July 5, 2011 | 3:45 PM

Casey Anthony was found Now really not guilty Tuesday of killing her 2-year-old sweet daughter three years ago in a case that captivated  of the nation as it played out on national television from the moment the toddler was clearly reported missing.

casey Anthony wept after the clerk read the verdict, which jurors reached after less than 11 hours of deliberation over two days. The 25-year-old was charged with first-degree murder, which could have brought the death penalty if she had been convicted.
Instead, she was convicted of only four counts of lying to investigators looking into the June 2008 disappearance of her daughter Caylee Anthony. Her body was found in the woods after six months and a medical examiner was never able to determine how she really  died.

casey Anthony will be sentenced by the judge on Thursday and could receive up to a year in jail for each lying count. Since she has been in jail since August 2008, she could walk free then.

After the verdict was read, Casey Anthony hugged her attorney Jose Baez and later mouthed the words "thank you" to him.

Prosecutors sat solemnly in their seats, looking stunned. Prosecutor Jeff Ashton shook his head slightly from side to side in apparent disbelief. Across the room, Anthony's father wiped tears from his eyes. Without speaking to Casey, he and his wife left the courtroom escorted by police as the judge thanked the jury.
"While we're happy for Casey Anthony, there are really no winners in this case," Baez said at a news conference afterward. "Caylee has passed on far, far too soon. And what my driving force has been for the last three years has been always to make sure that there has been justice for Caylee and Casey, because Casey did not murder Caylee. It's that simple."


He added: "This case has brought on new challenges of all of us. Challenges in the criminal justice system, challenges in the media, and I think we should all take this as an opportunity to learn and to realize that you cannot convict someone until they've had their day in court."

State Attorney Lamar Lawson thanked the prosecutors from his office who tried the case, and he said the case was never about the defendant.
"It has always been about seeking justice for Caylee and speaking on her behalf," he told reporters.
Jurors told the court that they didn't want to talk to the media at the courthouse.

Anthony's attorneys claimed that the toddler drowned accidentally in the family swimming pool, and that her seemingly carefree mother in fact was hiding emotional distress caused by sexual abuse from her father.
Prosecutors contended that Caylee was suffocated with duct tape by a mother who loved to party, tattooed herself with the Italian words for "beautiful life" in the month her daughter was missing and crafted elaborate lies to mislead everyone from investigators to her own parents.

Captivated observers camped outside the courthouse to jockey for coveted seats in the courtroom gallery, which occasionally led to fights among those desperate to watch the drama unfold.
Prior to the verdict on Tuesday, the judge said: "To those in the gallery please do not express any signs of approval or disapproval upon the reading of the verdict."

Anthony did not take the stand during the trial, which started in mid-May. Because the case got so much media attention in Orlando, jurors were brought in from the Tampa Bay area and sequestered for the entire trial.

Baez conceded that his client had told elaborate lies and invented imaginary friends and even a fake father for Caylee, but he said that doesn't mean she killed her daughter.
"They throw enough against the wall and see what sticks," Baez said of prosecutors during closing arugments. "That is what they're doing ... right down to the cause of death."

He tried to convince jurors that the toddler accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool and that when Anthony panicked, her father, a former police officer, decided to make the death look like a murder by putting duct tape on the girl's mouth and dumping the body in woods about a quarter-mile away.


Her father firmly denied both the cover-up and abuse claims. The prosecution called those claims "absurd," saying that no one makes an accident look like a murder.
Lead prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick concluded the state's case by showing the jury two side-by-side images. One showed Casey Anthony smiling and partying in a nightclub during the month Caylee was missing. The other was the tattoo she got a day before her family and law enforcement first learned of the child's disappearance.

"At the end of this case, all you have to ask yourself is whose life was better without Caylee?" Burdick asked. "This is your answer."

Prosecutors hammered on the lies Anthony, then 22, told from June 16, 2008, when her daughter was last seen, and a month later when sheriff's investigators were notified. Those include the single mother telling her parents she couldn't produce Caylee because the girl was with a nanny named Zanny — a woman who doesn't exist; that she and her daughter were spending time in Jacksonville, Fla., with a rich boyfriend who doesn't exist; and that Zanny had been hospitalized after an out-of-town traffic crash and that they were spending time with her.

Among the trial spectators was 51-year-old Robin Wilkie, who said she has spent $3,000 on hotels and food since arriving June 10th from Lake Minnetonka, Minn. She tallied more than 100 hours standing in line to wait for tickets and got into the courtroom 15 times.

She said she's fascinated with the case because she is a victim of violent crime.

"True crime has become a unique genre of entertainment," Wilkie said. "Her (Casey's) stories are so extreme and fantastic it's hard to believe they're true but that's what engrosses people. This case has sex, lies and video tapes
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World Hackers: Apple attack exposes usernames, passwords

Hacker"s  Real Brand in the around the world Apple attack reportedly breaks into a company server to steal usernames and passwords.A group called Anonymous says the hackers' Apple attack kicks off the next round of its "Anti Sec" campaign.
The Internet vigilante hacker group Anonymous claimed to have broken into an Apple server and published a small number of usernames and passwords for most one of the U.S. technology company's websites.
Anonymous said on Sunday via its account on micro-blogging site Twitter that Apple could be a target for hackers and released the data as part of its Anti Hack Security, or "Anti Sec,'' campaign.
"Not being so serious, but well ... Apple could be really target, too. But don't worry, we are busy elsewhere,'' Anonymous said on its Twitter feed, where it shared a link to the data posted on text-sharing website Paste bin.

Anonymous said the hack data included 27 usernames and passwords for the www.abs.apple.com website.

The website, used by Apple for online surveys, on Monday displayed an error message that said the server was temporarily offline.

A spokesman for Apple declined to comment it.

Anonymous teamed up with the Lulz Security group of hackers late in June. LulzSec, which gained wide recognition for breaching the websites of Sony Corp, the Central Intelligence Agency and a British police unit among other targets, said it had accomplished its mission to disrupt corporate and government bodies for entertainment.

Security experts who have researched LulzSec's origins say it emerged from Anonymous, which became famous for attacking companies and institutions that the group considered opponents of Wiki Leaks and its founder, Julian Assange.

Anonymous earlier this month released scores of private e-mails and other data from an Arizona police website. LulzSec first released dozens of internal documents from the same Arizona police website in June.
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American Actress Jennifer Lopez: My kids don’t sleep

Actress Jennifer Lopez has been trying to convince her children how “wonderful” sleep is.
The only 41-year-old actress-and-singer and her musician husband Marc Anthony, 42, are proud parents to three-year-old beautiful twins Emme and Max.

Jennifer lopez admits balancing her hugely successful career with motherhood can be challenging, notably because the youngsters don’t yet appreciate the value of a good night’s rest.

"They won't let me sleep at night and then they'll wake up very early in the morning. I ask them, 'Why don't you sleep anymore? Sleep is so wonderful! Believe me, you're gonna love to sleep when you're reached on teenager!'” Really laughed the star to Germany’s in magazine.
“But it's useless: They won't listen to me anymore!"
Jennifer lopez, whose seventh studio album its Love?has taken the charts by storm since its release in April,added that being apart from Emme and Max is “the worst feeling”. The songstress has had a busy 2011 so far, promoting Love? as well as appearing as a judge on season ten of talent show American Idol, which aired from January to May. Jennifer admits her hectic schedule did get to her at times.










"I used to have like boundless energy. And now? Forget it! I used to able to work the whole day, never needed one day off - and now I sometime yell: 'Please, I need a break!'" she laughed.
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Actress Lindsay Lohan turns 25,And celebrates freedom After 35 days.

Written By CBAworld on Sunday, July 3, 2011 | 2:16 PM

Lindsay Lohan now celebrated her 25th birthday on Saturday,just completly three days after being released from house arrest, which she served for 35 days for violating on her probation.Following her release, Lohan attended a friend's going away dinner at the Lexington great Social House in Hollywood, where she was hounded by most photographers and nearly fell.The actress took to Twitter to defend her near-fall, posting a image of her platform shoes, which she mostly blamed along with the "psychotic paparazzi."

"Of course me going to my best friends going away dinner is a headline, especially on my first day out of my house in total 35 days," Lohan wrote on her Twitter page. " That does not give anyone the right to have a field day and manifest stories. IT WAS A GOING AWAY AND REALLY DINNER THAT WAS IT. Nothing exciting happened aside from the very yummy hummus and pita.

Lohan was photographed with her friends, including with actor Emile Hirsch and "Kick-Ass" actress Lyndsy Fonseca.

The actress is expected to celebrate her birthday with best friends, including her ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson in the Hamptons, New York, according to the Daily Mail.

In This April, a judge had sentenced Lohan to jail after she pleaded guilty to theft in a missing $2,500 necklace case. It was determined that the charge constituted a violation of the actress' probation regarding a 2007 drunk driving and cocaine possession case also.

Lohan turned herself in at a Los Angeles-area jail on May 26 and was told she could serve her sentence at house and be monitored electronically. The actress also had her punishment reduced from 120 days to 35. Lohan's house arrest was lifted on Wednesday at 10:20 a.m. local time, according to a police report obtained by OnTheRedCarpet.com.Now that Lohan is free, she must fulfill the other part of her punishment given over her theft case - community service. In addition to being given three more years of probation, the actress was also ordered to complete 480 community service hours at a women's shelter and in a morgue, undergo psychological counseling, attend a Shoplifters Alternative class and pay several fines.

Lindsay told pals that she’s developed a fear of going out due to her confinement over violating a probation imposed for a 2007 DUI and drug case.



 “Lindsay is free but feel only in some ways,” says a source close to the star.

“She’s developed a mistrust of people because only of what she’s been through and often feels panic when out in public. She’ll do anything to avoid a crowd people because she just can’t handle it. She may have to undergo therapy.”

She had begun her community service duties before she was put under house arrest and was ordered to resume her duties after her release. Her spokesperson said in a statement obtained by OnTheRedCarpet.com that Lohan said on Tuesday that she is eager to get back to fulfilling her community service obligations.




After her release, Lindsay Lohan was seen stepping outside and heading into an SUV. She later Tweeted that she "had a great day" at the Los Angeles women's shelter, where she must complete part of her community service hours.
Lohan served time in jail with other inmates several times for stints that have lasted between 84 minutes and 14 days - a sentence reduced from 90 days, mostly due to overcrowding.
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