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We don’t have all the details, but he was rushed to an L.A. hospital around noon today and was pronounced dead at the hospital at 1 PM.
He was 44 years old.
Heavy recently performed at the BET Awards in October
real name: Dwight Meyers
Former American Idol Winner Fantasia had to answer a lot of tough questions this week. Fantasia is scheduled to star as Gospel Great Mahalia Jackson in a big screen movie bio. Fantasia says no contracts have been signed. She was told the investors ran out of money, so she thinks the project is on hold. Reports came out last week producers of the Mahalia project and family members were upset with Fantasia because she is pregnant by a married man. They also claimed she lied about her pregnancy claiming she told them she was gaining weight for the role and not pregnant. Who is telling the truth here? Will this movie ever get made? Fantasia is due at the end of the year. She is not happy with the recent reports about the movie project and questions about her relationship with a married man (Antwaun Cook). This has been a difficult pregnancy for Fantasia.
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Who leaked Diddy’s personal info? The rapper and media mogul is working with authorities to find out who leaked his personal information from his Black American Express Card. His personal numbers and financial information were listed on a website. Whoever did it had to be close to him……. maybe a mad babymomma? Hmmmmmmmmmm!
The re-launch of the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) has been slow. Oprah has returned to TV along with a new addition: The Rosie O’Donnell Show. Both shows debuted to disappointing ratings.
Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton are teaming up for the movie Joyful Noise. The movie also stars KeKe Palmer and Courtney B. Vance and opens in theatres January 13th.
Alicia Keys will be doing the music for the new Broadway production Stick Fly, which debuts later this year.
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Ron Isley says he is looking forward to reteaming with R Kelly for Ron’s next project. Kelly is already working on his own project. Kelly’s CD Black Panties is coming out next year. Kelly says this CD will be very sexy and explicit.
Singer Roberta Flack is getting ready to release a new music project after eight years. The CD, featuring Beatles classics, comes out in February.
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Singer Kenny Lattimore recently opened up about his upcoming divorce from Singer Chante Moore. Lattimore says it is a private matter and that he is not gay, responding to rumors about his sexuality. He says he wishes it would have worked out, but they have a son and will always have a bond.
Mel B wants to lose the baby weight. The former Spice Girl and babymomma of Eddie Murphy recently had a baby girl with her husband Stephen Belafonte. Mel says she wants to lose some weight. She now weighs 165 and wants to get down to 132 with the help of Jenny Craig. Mel B is going to be the spokesperson for their overseas campaign.
Producer/Composer Nile Rodgers of Chic fame has finished his book, and the release date has been moved up. The book, Le Freak: An Upside Down Story Of Family, Disco And Destiny, is coming out October 18th. It will detail his music career and his battle with cancer. Rodgers has worked with Diana Ross, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Madonna and Sister Sledge.
John Legend is now a television producer. Legend is producing a family comedy for NBC called Mixed Blessings.
Serena Williams says her emotions got the best of her when she berated the chair umpire during her loss to Samantha Stosur in the U.S. Open final.
“My emotions did get the best of me this past weekend when I disagreed with the umpire,” Williams tweeted today. “It has been a long road to get back to the US Open this year, and I am thankful to have had such a great two weeks in New York.”
Williams’ tweet came two days after she was cited for a code violation and fined $2,000 for verbally abusing chair umpire Eva Asderaki.
Facing a break point while serving in the first game of the second set Sunday night, Williams hit a forehand that she celebrated with a yell of “Come on!”
Asderaki applied the hindrance rule, noting the scream came while Stosur reached out and got a racket on the ball. Asderaki awarded the point to Stosur.
And Serena went off.
She hurled a series of insults directed at the official, reminiscent of her tirade on the same court when she berated and brandished her racket at a line judge who called a foot fault in the 2009 semifinal against Kim Clijsters.
A sampling of what Williams said, prompting Asderaki to call the code violation:
• “You’re out of control.”
• “You’re a hater, and you’re just unattractive inside.”
• “Really, don’t even look at me.”
The United States Tennis Association said Grand Slam committee director Bill Babcock conducted his own review of the incident and determined “Williams’ conduct, while verbally abusive, does not rise to the level of a major offense under the Grand Slam Code of Conduct.”
Stosur stunned Williams 6-2, 6-3 Sunday, winning her first Grand Slam title. She became the first Australian woman to win a major championship since Evonne Goolagong Cawley at Wimbledon in 1980.
ARIES
A lot to look forward to this month, new beginnings, good for you! Sometimes in life we need to step back and see the whole picture, not just what we want to perceive. Finances will improve, just don’t overspend. Hold your mouth at work, not yet you will get your chance to have your say. Stop looking for love, love yourself, and the rest will come like a bonus!
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TAURUS
Hold on there Mr/Ms Taurus the best is yet to come. Sometimes your stubborn behavior can be hindrance to your persona. Try loosing some weight, at least start some type of health improvement this month. The time is right to make health changes. If not in the winter you will regret not taking care of some important health issues. Know who you are Taurus and stop playing games with yourself, you don’t even understand why you do the things you do sometime, so friggin stop the bullshyt please!
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GEMINI
Talk about a busy summer and early fall programs. You are up to initiated something new at work. Think about it a little bit more, and then present your ideas or platforms to your boss, you will not regret this one bit. Gemini start learning to love you, you have a generous heart of gold, that sometimes you were on your sleeve. Do something in September that truly makes you happy, smile because we love ya Gemini!
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CANCER
Cancer stop pussy footing around, and take care of busy. You have been blessed this summer to proceed in the direction of change. Believe in yourself, and it can be accomplished. Stop feeling depress all the time, look around you and see all the many blessings that have come your way. In other words either shyt or get off the pot!
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LEO
Take one step at a time. Patience is a virtue no doubt. But all will turn out as it i suppose to be. Put self on the back burner for a minute. Are you clear what it is you really want – make sure dear Leo, because your decisions this month will effect you for the rest of the year. It is better to give than receive and I don’t mean that in monetary way either Leo.
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VIRGO
Money, money, money will be your issues for September in a good way. Now Virgo make sure you put some money back for a rainy day fund. Nothing beats an understanding in anything in life. As we grow so does our understanding regarding life, spiritual, mental, and physical. Saying that, some folks will grow with us, and some folks will be left behind, – oh well……………..
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LIBRA
September is your birthday month Libra, so Happy Birthday Libra! Are you all geared up for future success? For the time being you will still have to put some more hard work in to accomplish your goals. By November things should begin to settle down for you. Stay in good health. Don’t let mental stress get you down, you are better than that. Celebrate your birthday with family and you just might get a few surprises, lol lol.
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SCORPIO
Well damn here we go again. Who did you have to cuss out one more time, they just don’t get it uh Scorpio. Folks should be forward about the Scorpio sting, oh well they will learn, lol. Finances should be good for the next few months until the end of the year. You may have to assist with the care of an elderly family member or close friend of the family. There will be a lot of paperwork coming your way, so sit down have a glass of wine and get it done! A child will excel in school this year and make you very proud. For those of you in relationships, communication and understanding is the norm……
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SAGITTARIUS
My oh my you can’t get a break if you tried. Sorry Sag it has been one of those years for you. So many changes going on internal and external. Job improvements in the future, promotion or lateral move is forthcoming. Seems your love life has been put on the back burning. Well………time to turn that sucker on to high, your fire is hot and burning – make it happen Sag do what you do best, lol!!!!! Possibility of family members moving, which is a good thing in your case. Just don’t get to happy you know, some folks return home(?). Take time this month Sag and enjoy “YOU”, been missing that person.
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CAPRICORN
Decisions have been make to benefit all concern. Thank you Cappy for sticking to your guns of choice. Sometimes folks will take your kindness for weakness, and forget the goat will bump your head (call bringing you to awareness). It’s your time now to enjoy your life and many blessings. Don’t be stubborn about what it is you want, announce your preferences and enjoy.
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AQUARIUS
Thank you for giving us the gift of humanity. You are a highly intelligent person, even if you don’t always show it, and that is fine. Because you also have the gift of being a azz hole, of course that has never stop you! Your family will be expanding so look to hear some good news! Don’t forget to organize all details for holiday traveling. Prices and time of departures could change abruptly, so be aware.
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PISCES
All your hard work has finally paid off Pisces, about damn time uh?! lol This month will be about to continue to line up all your ducks if you will, for future happiness. Take care of business and don’t delay a lot is coming your way. You are being notice, so put the medal to the pedal and go for it, you deserve it!
September 2011 Horoscopes – Straight Talk!
One of the most callous incidents, captured on video andposted on YouTube, involved an injured boy sitting next to a small pool of blood on the pavement.
Some young men approached him and initially appeared to be helping the victim to his feet, but then rummaged through his rucksack and took some of its contents before he staggered away in a daze. It was unclear where the incident took place.
Though some of the looters have tried to justify their actions by portraying their victims as rich, many of those hardest hit are family businesses that will struggle to rebuild after being devastated by the rioters.
The House of Reeves furniture store, which was founded in 1867 in Croydon, south London, withstood two world wars and even gave its name to the road it stood on. But on Monday night, it was razed to the ground.
The apparent lack of resistance faced by many looters has seen some claim that the police response should have been tougher. Giselle Asante, 57, who has owned her tailor-made clothing business in Peckham High Street, in south-east London, for 20 years, complained that as rioters entered her store the police “didn’t even stop people who were looting in front of them”.
“It is truly devastating,” she said. “We cannot replace any of these things because we have made them all.”
As Norway continues to grapple with the attacks by a home-grown extremist that killed 77 people last month, one couple, who moved to help young people fleeing from gunman Anders Breivik, is getting a bit of belated recognition.
Hege Dalen and her wife, Toril Hansen, were eating dinner on July 22nd on the other shore from Utoya island when they heard screaming, the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sannomat reported. After bombing government buildings in Oslo, Breivik had come to the island dressed as a policeman and went on to shoot more than 100 young people attending a Labour party camp there.
“We were eating,” Dalen told the newspaper. “Then shooting and then the awful screaming. We saw how the young people ran in panic into the lake.”
The couple took off in their boat for the island, picking up shocked victims from the water and transporting them to the mainland. They made four runs in all, helping rescue some 40 of Breivik’s victims, the paper reported.
“Between runs they saw that the bullets had hit the right side of the boat,” the paper wrote.
Some lesbian-gay news sites and blogs have picked up the account in recent days, noting the same-sex married heroes of the story haven’t gotten much attention in the Western press.
OSLO, Norway — A suspected right-wing Christian gunman in police uniform killed at least 85 people in a ferocious attack on a youth summer camp of Norway’s ruling Labour party, hours after a car bomb killed seven in Oslo.
Police said the suspect immediately surrendered when told to do so and has confessed, Reuters reported.
Witnesses said the gunman, identified by police as a 32-year-old Norwegian, moved across the small, wooded Utoya holiday island on Friday firing at random as young people scattered in fear.
Police detained the tall, blond suspect, named by local media as Anders Behring Breivik, and charged him for the island killing spree and the Oslo bomb blast.
Norwegian police would neither confirm nor deny if the killer acted alone, but were looking into reports of a second suspect.
Norway’s national news agency, NTB, reported Saturday that witnesses told police two people were involved in the shooting on the island, which lasted for about 90 minutes.
At the time of the massacre, hundreds of children were on the island, aged from 11 or 12 to 18 or 19
National police Chief Oystein Maeland said the attack had reached “catastrophic dimensions.
NEW YORK — The sexual-assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is set to take a dramatic U-turn on Friday as prosecutors have come to question the credibility of the accuser. As a result, the bail and house arrest restrictions imposed on the French politician may be eased following a court hearing scheduled for Friday.
The alleged victim, a 32-year-old hotel maid from Guinea, was said to have lied repeatedly, according to a report in the New York Times on Thursday.
Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said: “There will be serious issues raised by the district attorney’s office and us concerning the credibility of the complaining witness”.
Prosecutors are reportedly expected to bring a number of revelations about the accusing maid’s past into light on Friday, including an alleged gang rape in her home country which she later admitted she made up, and an association with a man convicted of drug charges which has been recorded in a taped telephone call.
Brafman is likely to ask the judge during Friday’s hearing to end Strauss-Kahn’s house arrest and electronic monitoring in the light of the diminished credibility of the accuser.
Prosecutors, however, are not expected to ask for a dismissal of the charges against Strauss-Kahn, who faces a seven-count indictment at this stage.
Strauss-Kahn has been under armed guard in a Manhattan townhouse after posting a total of $6 million in cash bail and bond.
Arrogant: Breivik pictured entering court today, later said he wanted to behead Norway’s former PM Gro Harlem Brundtland (below) and post footage of it online.
Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik wanted to capture and decapitate former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland during his shooting massacre on Utoya island, he said.
Breivik told his trial he planned to film the beheading and post the video on the internet – as well as kill all 600 people who were at the Labour Party’s youth camp on July 22.
But Brundtland had already left the area as the far-right fanatic began his shooting spree.
The revelation came as Breivik described how he became a deadly marksman by honing his gun skills by playing the violent Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare computer game.
The mass killer even bought a special gun sight used on the game – and attached it to the hunting rifle he used for his deadly rampage on a Norwegian island.
Details of Breivik’s fixation with computer gaming was revealed after he admitted taking a ‘sabbatical’ for a year during which he also played the fantasy game World of Warcraft.
In a further insight to Breivik’s warped mind he revealed how he gave his hunting rifle, pistol and ‘getaway’ vehicle names taken from Norse mythology.
During cross examination at Oslo District Court the 33-year-old continued to give evidence at a trial where he has admitted killing 77 people in Oslo on July 22, last year.
Breivik killed 8 people in the city’s Government district after leaving a 950kg van bomb before driving to Utoya island where he shot and killed 69 mainly young people attending a Labour party summer camp.
Breivik was asked about his interest in computer games and revealed that between the Summer of 2006 and December 2007 he took a ‘sabbatical’ from working and played computer games for around 16 hours a day.
Initially he concentrated on playing the ‘World of Warcraft’ fantasy game online before turning to more violent forms of computer ‘entertainment.’
‘Some people take a year off playing golf,’ he told the court. ‘I wanted to take a year off to play World of Warcraft.It is not violent at all. It’s just fantasy. It’s a strategy game.
‘During that year I played perhaps 16 hours a day and played an entire year. I was just playing and sleeping…it was a dream I had.
‘Some people like to play golf, some like to sail, I played WOW. It had nothing to do with 22/7.’