Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
MUSIC NEWS: NE-YO HITS THE STUDIO WITH BEYONCE
Beyonce appears to be picking up the pace with her latest project. Currently on hiatus from performing, According to Ne-Yo 's Twitter page. The 28 year old superstar is scheduled to hit the studio with him tonight.
The pair’s last collaboration, 2006’s ‘Irreplaceable’ which became a massive hit that peaked atop the Hot 100 for 10 weeks. Thus far details surrounding the superstar’s new album have remained closely guarded. Although, Beyonce, herself, announced that the follow-up to her ‘I Am…Sasha Fierce’ LP is due to hit stores before the year’s end…
Saturday, August 28, 2010
NEWS: Paris Hilton ARRESTED On Cocaine Charge
LAS VEGAS — Police arrested Paris Hilton on cocaine possession charges late Friday night after stopping the car she was in on a Las Vegas street, authorities said.
The socialite was booked into the Clark County Detention Center early Saturday on the cocaine charge, Las Vegas police spokesman Marcus Martin said. She was released before dawn on her own recognizance.
The 29-year-old Hilton was in a car driven by a friend when it was stopped about 11:30 p.m. MDT Friday after officers detected what they suspected to be marijuana smoke wafting from it, he told The Associated Press.
"Officers noticed a vehicle leaving smoke trail of a controlled substance (and) made a stop based on that," Martin said.
During the stop, officers found what appeared to be a drug on Hilton and later tests showed that it was cocaine, Martin said. He didn't know how much was found.
He said Hilton was apparently recognized by passers-by and a crowd quickly gathered in the area where the vehicle had been pulled over.
Police watch commander Lt. Wayne Holman said Hilton released early Saturday morning. He didn't know how long she had been held nor any details about a possible court date.
He said the man who was driving the car was arrested on charges of driving under the influence of drugs. But he didn't have any other details, including his name.
Hilton's manager didn't immediately return AP calls for comment early Saturday. Her publicist, Dawn Miller, did not immediately return an e-mail message.
The arrest came during a week in which a buglary attempt was made on Hilton's Los Angeles home.
Officials said 31-year-old Nathan Lee Parada faces a felony burlgary charge in the Tuesday incident.
Authorities have said that someone carrying two big knives banged on Hilton's window. She posted a photo of the arrest on Twitter and described it as "scary."
Hilton was arrested this summer after the Brazil-Netherlands World Cup match in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on suspicion of possession of marijuana. The case was then dropped at a midnight court hearing.
Hilton pleaded no contest in 2007 to alcohol-related reckless driving and was sentenced to 45 days in jail. After spending about 23 days in jail, Hilton told U.S. television host Larry King that the experience caused her to re-evaluate the role partying played in her life. She said she wanted "to help raise money for kids and for breast cancer and multiple sclerosis."
While most famous for her tabloid exploits and reality TV series "The Simple Life," Hilton has appeared in the films "Bottoms Up," "The Hottie & the Nottie" and "House of Wax."
Friday, August 27, 2010
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NEWS: U.S. Birth Rate Sets Record, Hits Lowest Level In A Century
By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer:
The U.S. birth rate has dropped for the second year in a row, and experts think the wrenching recession led many people to put off having children. The 2009 birth rate also set a record: lowest in a century.
Births fell 2.7 percent last year even as the population grew, numbers released Friday by the National Center for Health Statistics show.
The U.S. birth rate has dropped for the second year in a row, and experts think the wrenching recession led many people to put off having children. The 2009 birth rate also set a record: lowest in a century.
"It's a good-sized decline for one year. Every month is showing a decline from the year before," said Stephanie Ventura, the demographer who oversaw the report.
The birth rate, which takes into account changes in the population, fell to 13.5 births for every 1,000 people last year. That's down from 14.3 in 2007 and way down from 30 in 1909, when it was common for people to have big families.
"It doesn't matter how you look at it -- fertility has declined," Ventura said.
The situation is a striking turnabout from 2007, when more babies were born in the United States than any other year in the nation's history. The recession began that fall, dragging stocks, jobs and births down.
"When the economy is bad and people are uncomfortable about their financial future, they tend to postpone having children. We saw that in the Great Depression the 1930s and we're seeing that in the Great Recession today," said Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University.
"It could take a few years to turn this around," he added, noting that the birth rate stayed low throughout the 1930s.
Another possible factor in the drop: a decline in immigration to the United States.
The downward trend invites worrisome comparisons to Japan and its lost decade of choked growth in the 1990s and very low birth rates. Births in Japan fell 2 percent in 2009 after a slight rise in 2008, its government has said.
Not so in Britain, where the population took its biggest jump in almost half a century last year and the fertility rate is at its highest level since 1973. France's birth rate also has been rising; Germany's birth rate is lower but rising as well.
"Our birth rate is still higher than the birth rate in many wealthy countries and we also have many immigrants entering the country. So we do not need to be worried yet about a birth dearth" that would crimp the nation's ability to take care of its growing elderly population, Cherlin said.
The new U.S. report is a rough count of births from states. It estimates there were 4,136,000 births in 2009, down from 4,251,095 in 2008 and more than 4.3 million in 2007.
The report does not give details on trends in different age groups. That will come next spring and will give a clearer picture who is and is not having children, Ventura said.
Last spring's report, on births in 2008, showed an overall drop but a surprising rise in births to women over 40, who may have felt they were running out of time to have children and didn't want to delay despite the bad economy.
Women postponing having children because of careers also may find they have trouble conceiving, said Mark Mather of the Population Reference Bureau, a Washington-based demographic research group.
"For some of those women, they're going to find themselves in their mid-40s where it's going to be hard to have the number of children they want," he said.
Heather Atherton is nearing that mark. The Sacramento, Calif., mom, who turns 36 next month, started a home-based public relations business after having a baby girl in 2003. She and her husband upgraded to a larger home in 2005 and planned on having a second child not long afterward. Then the recession hit, drying up her husband's sales commissions and leaving them owing more on their home than it is worth. A second child seemed too risky financially.
"However, we just recently decided that it's time to stop waiting and just go for it early next year and let the chips fall where they may," she said. "We can't allow the recession to dictate the size of our family. We just need to move forward with our lives."
The U.S. birth rate has dropped for the second year in a row, and experts think the wrenching recession led many people to put off having children. The 2009 birth rate also set a record: lowest in a century.
Births fell 2.7 percent last year even as the population grew, numbers released Friday by the National Center for Health Statistics show.
The U.S. birth rate has dropped for the second year in a row, and experts think the wrenching recession led many people to put off having children. The 2009 birth rate also set a record: lowest in a century.
"It's a good-sized decline for one year. Every month is showing a decline from the year before," said Stephanie Ventura, the demographer who oversaw the report.
The birth rate, which takes into account changes in the population, fell to 13.5 births for every 1,000 people last year. That's down from 14.3 in 2007 and way down from 30 in 1909, when it was common for people to have big families.
"It doesn't matter how you look at it -- fertility has declined," Ventura said.
The situation is a striking turnabout from 2007, when more babies were born in the United States than any other year in the nation's history. The recession began that fall, dragging stocks, jobs and births down.
"When the economy is bad and people are uncomfortable about their financial future, they tend to postpone having children. We saw that in the Great Depression the 1930s and we're seeing that in the Great Recession today," said Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University.
"It could take a few years to turn this around," he added, noting that the birth rate stayed low throughout the 1930s.
Another possible factor in the drop: a decline in immigration to the United States.
The downward trend invites worrisome comparisons to Japan and its lost decade of choked growth in the 1990s and very low birth rates. Births in Japan fell 2 percent in 2009 after a slight rise in 2008, its government has said.
Not so in Britain, where the population took its biggest jump in almost half a century last year and the fertility rate is at its highest level since 1973. France's birth rate also has been rising; Germany's birth rate is lower but rising as well.
"Our birth rate is still higher than the birth rate in many wealthy countries and we also have many immigrants entering the country. So we do not need to be worried yet about a birth dearth" that would crimp the nation's ability to take care of its growing elderly population, Cherlin said.
The new U.S. report is a rough count of births from states. It estimates there were 4,136,000 births in 2009, down from 4,251,095 in 2008 and more than 4.3 million in 2007.
The report does not give details on trends in different age groups. That will come next spring and will give a clearer picture who is and is not having children, Ventura said.
Last spring's report, on births in 2008, showed an overall drop but a surprising rise in births to women over 40, who may have felt they were running out of time to have children and didn't want to delay despite the bad economy.
Women postponing having children because of careers also may find they have trouble conceiving, said Mark Mather of the Population Reference Bureau, a Washington-based demographic research group.
"For some of those women, they're going to find themselves in their mid-40s where it's going to be hard to have the number of children they want," he said.
Heather Atherton is nearing that mark. The Sacramento, Calif., mom, who turns 36 next month, started a home-based public relations business after having a baby girl in 2003. She and her husband upgraded to a larger home in 2005 and planned on having a second child not long afterward. Then the recession hit, drying up her husband's sales commissions and leaving them owing more on their home than it is worth. A second child seemed too risky financially.
"However, we just recently decided that it's time to stop waiting and just go for it early next year and let the chips fall where they may," she said. "We can't allow the recession to dictate the size of our family. We just need to move forward with our lives."
MUSIC NEWS: CHRIS BROWN DEUCES HITS # 1
Chris Breezy is back on top like he never left. The 21-year-old’s latest single “Deuces” has hit the top of the Billboard Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop chart, soaring from No. 7 to 1 in a single week. The last time that a single has made such a large jump to the top spot on this chart since Destiny’s Child accomplished the same feat back in 1999 with their smash “Bills, Bills, Bills.”
Chris Brown also becomes the first artist to have a single reach No. 1 and also be the greatest gainer in the same week.
Brown, who stars in the newly-released action movie Takers, is prepping the release of his cinematic “Matrix” video. The clip is expected to debut in September
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BLACK BOY ADDICTIONZ: Blaze Brings Over His Boyfriend
AN UPDATE FROM BLACKBOYADDICTIONZ
BLACKBOYADDICTIONZ WRITES:
After witnessing Blaze's freaky solo "audition," I couldn't wait to see the hung black teenager in action! Blaze didn't feel comfortable doing his first action shoot with a total stranger, so he asked if he could bring over his boyfriend and let me film them messing around. Even though I usually prefer watching complete strangers go at it just minutes after meeting for the very first time, I figured it might be an interesting change of pace to film two real-life lovers instead!
Blaze's boyfriend ("R-Blood") is a quiet, masculine 19-year-old who enjoys playing basketball, going to movies, and smoking with his homeboys. It took some persuading from Blaze before R-Blood finally agreed to this shoot, but in the end he figured why not GET PAID to let me film him doing something he'd be doing for free anyway?
Sit back, relax, and enjoy the voyeuristic thrill of "spying" on this intimate session between two real-life boyfriends in their very first time together in front of a camera! I chose to categorize this scene as "bonus footage" because R-Blood isn't somebody I would have recruited to film on my own, and the video-shoot ended up falling short of the high standard I like to set for BBA's scenes.
Still, there's plenty of hot footage here for those of you who've been wanting to see Blaze in action - including lots of kissing, dick-sucking, ass-eating, AND cum-swallowing!
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