At the Spice Girls concert in Boston, the audio completely dropped out after an explosion of confetti yet the girls kept “singing” like anyone could hear them….

Free kick specialist cristiano ronaldo goes his best goal ever adding his tally to 27 goals and set to break the record of G.BEST _30jan 08_…

“A NEW video about to go to air in the US claims to show Heath Ledger alledgedly discussing drugs…” Sky News 31/1/08 The footage shown on US show “Insider” shows Ledger alledegly discussing drugs….

Amazing Strike…

Britney Spears Goes to the Hospital in Los Angeles.01-31-08….

nuvifone, nuviphone, garmin nuvifone, garmin phone, nuvi phone, nüvifone

YAY!!!!!!!!!! More useless electronics!

” NEW YORK | Garmin International is trying to do for navigation what Apple did for music.

The Olathe company on Wednesday introduced a touchscreen wireless phone that combines features of Garmin’s Nuvi portable navigators with those found in cutting-edge smartphones.

How do Garmin executives describe the new device, named the Nuvifone?

They say it’s “our future.”

“This is the breakthrough product that cell phone and GPS users around the world have been longing for — a single device that does it all,” said Cliff Pemble, Garmin’s president and chief operating officer, who unveiled the phone at a posh, invitation-only event at Gotham Hall in Manhattan.

“We believe the Nuvifone will change the way people view converged devices in the future,” Pemble said.

The Nuvifone signals a sea change for Garmin, the leading U.S. manufacturer of portable navigation devices. The company is entering the crowded mobile phone market, an industry dominated by such corporate giants as Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and, most recently, Apple.

Garmin, in fact, will be competing with the company that supplies its digital maps. Finland’s Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, is acquiring Chicago mapmaker Navteq in a move to add more navigation features to mobile phones.

But the move into wireless phones could be critical for Garmin.

While navigation on mobile phones isn’t new — several companies including Garmin sell navigation services that can be accessed on mobile phones — new research projects that phones with built-in navigation will soon overshadow the traditional portable GPS market.

Telematics Research Group issued a study this month projecting that navigation-enabled phones will outsell portable navigation devices in 2009.

Garmin and its chief competitor, Netherlands-based TomTom, have been rumored for months to be working on mobile phones.

Another Garmin competitor, Mio Technology, said Wednesday it was working to develop a navigation phone with mobile chip manufacturer Qualcomm.

“This represents a great opportunity to serve a new expanded group of customers,” said Min Kao, Garmin’s chief executive officer.

The Garmin device, which will begin shipping later this year, is a sleek silver phone, camera, wireless Web surfer and MP3 music player dominated by a 3½-inch touchscreen display.

The Nuvifone includes navigation features that are standard in Garmin’s best-seller, the Nuvi. The phone offers voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions, street maps of the U.S. and Europe, and a database of millions of businesses, entertainment venues, parks and landmarks.

It also includes Google’s local search, which expands the potential points of interest, allows users to see ratings of businesses near them, and offers directions to a selected business or destination.

The Nuvifone includes two features relatively new to Garmin navigation — a “where am I” button that tells the user the nearest address, intersection and nearby emergency facilities, and another that can be used to find a lost car in large parking lots.

Beyond navigation, the Nuvifone offers features that have become common in smartphones, such as text messaging and e-mail, as well as some others that aren’t as common.

The phone’s three-megapixel camera, besides shooting video, goes beyond the ordinary. Photos shot with a Nuvifone are embedded with the location where the photo was taken, a process called “geotagging.” Users also can take a photo of a bar or restaurant as they enter, send it by phone to another Nuvifone user, and the recipient’s phone will guide him to the location.”

lisa rinna, lisa renna, lisa rena, harry hamlin, nicky barnes, awful plastic surgery

“Fatone and Rinna were predictably silly. Fatone made a joke about Vera Wang’s last name. Rinna talked about bringing the girls out for the night, and she wasn’t talking about her friends.”

UGLY!

nicky barnes, mr. untouchable, lisa rinna, robyn oneil, lisa renna, robyn o neil

”

A drug lord’s rise and fall is gripping

by Steve Hedgpeth/Star-Ledger Staff

Tuesday January 29, 2008, 5:27 PM

Notorious ’70s drug lord Nicky Barnes is the title subject of the film “Mr. Untouchable.”

DOCUMENTARY: “Mr. Untouchable” Magnolia Home Entertainment. Single disc. $26.98. Rated R. Back in the Superfly ’70s, Nicky Barnes and Frank Lucas were rival drug lords up in the Harlem.Some three decades later, after Lucas has been to prison and Barnes is in hiding, the two are still competing, only this time it’s via a pair of films released in 2007.

Filmmaker Marc Levin, who knows both men, calls it “a battle of the legacies.”

Lucas’ story is told in “American Gangster,” a big-budget crime drama directed by Ridley Scott and starring Denzel Washington as Lucas and Russell Crowe as Richie Roberts, a New Jersey cop-turned-prosecutor who helped bring Lucas down.

Meanwhile, Barnes, played by Cuba Gooding Jr. as a minor character in “American Gangster,” is the title subject of Levin’s “Mr. Untouchable,” a documentary coming to DVD Tuesday.

The doc makes ample use of vintage news footage and photographs, period music, including Curtis Mayfield’s “Pusher Man” from “Superfly,” and interviews with Barnes’ old criminal associates and various law enforcement operatives.

But the main draw is Leroy Antonio “Nicky” Barnes himself, even if the 73-year-old original gangster turned Witness Protection Program “retiree” is wreathed in shadow to protect him.

Despite the shadow, he still radiates arrogance and charisma, his bejeweled hands playing with a bullet as he speaks, his account of himself sprinkled with allusions to Machiavelli, whose ruthless how-to, “The Prince,” he’d read in prison as a younger man and adopted as his credo.

And other, latterday Italians, as in New York Mafiosi, figured greatly in Barnes’ life and criminal career. Barnes, who came from the proverbial humble beginnings and first got involved with drugs as a young man, made important mob connections during a stint in prison in the ’60s.

When he got out, he set about becoming a heroin merchant in the wake of a power vacuum created by the 1968 death of the legendary Harlem crime boss Bumpy Johnson (played in “American Gangster” by Clarence Williams III).

In imitation of the Mafia, Barnes created the Council, an inner circle of hoods with names like Scrap and Jazz. Soon, his was a multimillion-dollar drug empire and Barnes styled around Harlem flaunting his wealth, power and loud ’70s wardrobe.

He wound up on the cover of the New York Times Magazine and was dubbed “Mr. Untouchable” for his ability to beat any charges brought against him. But ultimately he was brought down by the DEA and entered the Witness Protection Program after giving up names. A man who was viewed by many as a hero, however misguided the adulation, became reviled as a “snitch,” in street parlance.

Years later, Barnes was pursued again, this time by Levin and a woman who had never heard of Barnes until she moved to New York City from London in 2003. Mary-Jane Robinson became fascinated with Barnes’ story and set out to produce “Mr. Untouchable,” seeing in Barnes’ rise and fall the tragedy of gripping drama.

Through contacts in law enforcement and other sources, Levin and Robinson eventually got in touch with Barnes, who initially wasn’t interested.

“I knew he was working on his own book,” says Levin. “Over a good year’s period, we were rebuffed. He saw no reason to do the film.”

However, two other films help changed his mind. One was “Slam,” a Levin feature on the world of poetry slams that Barnes, a would-be poet himself, enjoyed. The other was “American Gangster.”

“He’d gotten ahold of a script,” says Levin, and Barnes hadn’t liked what he’d read. Not only was the film too fanciful, it made him look like a chump. So he agreed to meet with Levin and Robinson “in Middle America in a hotel,” according to Levin.

“Mr. Untouchable,” one of whose producers is hip-hop mogul Damon Dash, and “American Gangster” were released around the same time. Levin, who grew up in Elizabeth and Maplewood, actually wound up attended a screening in New Jersey of “American Gangster” with Frank Lucas and Richie Roberts.

“¤’American Gangster’ is presented (inaccurately),” says Levin. “You expect Hollywood to fictionalize; the way Nicky is portrayed is the Hollywood version. We try to present it as Nicky telling his own story.”

At one point, the two films intersected when a scene for “American Gangster” was being filmed on the same New York street where Robinson has her office.

Recalls Robinson, “We’d been wanting to reach out to Frank Lucas. So I just walked down on to the set and said, ‘He’s expecting me.’ They took me at my word. He was in a wheelchair surrounded by his heavies. When I told him about Nicky, he was incredibly excited. He was calling Denzel (Washington) over.”

Eventually, Robinson and Levin arranged for a reunion of Barnes and Lucas, in a phone call that’s included as an extra on the “Mr. Untouchable” DVD. If producer and director were expecting fireworks from the two old rivals, that’s not what happened.

“They were two old Army buddies or something,” says Robinson.

Adds Levin, “These guys are both free somehow. They’re overwhelmed that they survived. Here’s two (drug) kingpins talking about two movies coming out. The mood was like, ‘Who can believe this?’”

See more in New on DVD“

temple of humankind, damanhur, vidracco italy, vidracco

”

An entrance that looks like a mineshaft opens up to a maze carved inside the mountain holding the Damanhur Temples of Humankind in the Valchiusella Valley, about 30 miles north of Turin. Click here to learn more about the Damanhur Temples of Humankind.

Damanhur narrates the history of human potential through art. With at least nine rooms — some with 25-foot high ceilings — it looks as if the secret doors and passageways were built centuries ago.

In truth, the unlikely temple is no ancient wonder and was built piecemeal by 150 people over a 15-year period beginning in 1978. The work was so secret, the Italian government never knew it was going on and never gave permission for it.

“We were very good at keeping the secret,” Damanhur spokeswoman Esperide Ananas said. “When there was maybe loud work going on we would play records.

“If somebody happened to hear they would think we were just having a party,” she said.

The handcrafted structure is full of dramatic beauty, and each apparent dead end really leads into another mysterious hall.

“You have to think that we did that without any engineer or architect,” Ananas said. “Everything has been excavated by hand.”"

yael naim, new soul yael naim, new soul lyrics, new soul, macbook air commercial song