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Miss USA 2008
Crystle Stewart of Texas has been crowned Miss USA 2008.
The 26-year-old entrepreneur beat out 50 other aspiring beauty queens in a pageant televised live from Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Ms. Stewart completed her degree in Consumer Science and Merchandising at the University of Houston. She founded and runs her business "Inside/Out" which aids young women in building self-esteem and volunteers with many organizations in the community. She won a silver medal in the relay at Jr. Olympics and is a fourth generation educator
Miss USA beauty pageant, was held in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 11, 2008.[2] At the conclusion of the final night of competition, Crystle Stewart, Miss Texas USA, was crowned the winner by outgoing titleholder, Rachel Smith of Tennessee. Crystle will represent the United States at the Miss Universe 2008 pageant held in Vietnam. This is the first time in Miss USA history that two consecutive women of African-American decent have been crowned.
AOL dumps support for Netscape Navigator
The legend is going down. A historic name in software will effectively pass into history in February as AOL discontinues development and active support for the Netscape browser, according to an official blog. AOL will keep delivering security patches for the current version of Netscape until Feb. 1, 2008, after which it will no longer provide active support for any version of the software, according to a Friday entry on The Netscape Blog by Tom Drapeau, lead developer for Netscape.com. The Netscape.com Web site will remain as a general-purpose portal. Netscape was the original mass-market Web browser and helped to popularize the Internet in the mid-1990s, but it has long taken a back seat to Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
Firefox itself traces its roots back to Netscape software that was made into open source. The Mozilla Foundation was founded in 2003, with support from AOL, and has released successive versions of Firefox while AOL continued to develop Netscape on top of the same platform, Drapeau wrote. Groups within AOL have tried and failed to revive Netscape Navigator and gain market share against Internet Explorer, according to the blog entry. As of this month, Netscape had only 0.6 percent of the browser market, which was still dominated by Internet Explorer with more than 77 percent, according to Web application and analytics firm Net Applications. Firefox was gaining, however, with market share just over 16 percent. Rest in piece.
Source: Rlslog
Rally Racer Colin McRae Killed In Helicopter Crash
LONDON (AP) -- Colin McRae, whose fascination with cars grew into an obsession that led him to 25 wins in a World Rally Championship career, was killed in a helicopter crash along with his 5-year-old son and two others, police said Sunday. He was 39.
McRae was piloting the helicopter, which he owned and was licensed to fly, when it crashed Saturday in a wooded area near his home.
McRae raced in the World Rally Championship from 1987 until 2004, becoming champion in 1995. He also took part in the Paris to Dakar rally, the Le Mans 24 hour race, the Race of Champions and the X Games.
McRae also lent his name to a best-selling computer game, but it was his flamboyant racing style that earned fans in all types of motorsport and lifted the profile of rallying in Britain.
"He was really daring, always pushing it further," Formula One driver Heikki Kovalainen said. "I always liked his attitude. It was maximum attack always and he had some big rolls sometimes. Every time he had one, though it was like: 'Oh well, it's just a roll,' and he just carried on."
Two other people also died in the crash -- 6-year-old Ben Porcelli and 37-year-old Graeme Duncan. The aircraft was badly burned, making it impossible for police to immediately
We send our condolences to the families of Colin McRae, Graeme Duncan and Ben Porcelli.
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Source: Yahoo Sports
Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
The entire span of the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed Wednesday evening in Minneapolis. The bridge was loaded with rush-hour traffic and dropped more than 60 feet into the Mississippi River. At least 9 people were killed and more than 60 were injured.One section of the bridge lay flat in the river, with cars parked on the rolling pavement.
A 2001 evaluation of the bridge, prepared for the state transportation department by the University of Minnesota Civil Engineering Department, reported that there were preliminary signs of fatigue on the steel truss section under the roadway, but no cracking.
A school bus packed with 60 children on their way back from a day camp teetered on a length of the bridge after bouncing off the carriageway.
All the students escaped through a rear door, but two of the children and two teachers were injured.
"Some kids (from the school bus) had blood on their faces, but thank God everybody could move," said witness Jay Danz, whose own car passed beneath the bridge just seconds before it fell.
My heart goes out to all the victims of this terrible accident in Minneapolis
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American Idol winner announced
A 17-year-old from Arizona yesterday became the youngest ever winner of American Idol, after viewers cast a record 74 million votes.
Jordin Sparks beat Blake Lewis, 25, to the top spot on the US’s most watched television show after the singer captured the hearts of viewers with her bubbly personality and big voice.
The two finalists embraced after host Ryan Seacrest announced the winner of the sixth season of the contest, with Sparks, dressed in a long, flowing gold gown, having difficulty catching her breath.
"Thank you so much for everything -- Mom and Dad, I love you!" said the emotional teenager, who along with the American Idol title will receive a recording contract.
Backstage, Sparks could barely contain her excitement at joining the ranks of previous"Idol" winners.
"It just turned out pretty cool, I guess" she said, giggling.
Ms Sparks, who is from Glendale, Arizona, and is the daughter of a former National Football League player, Phillippi Sparks, started singing as a toddler and auditioned for American Idol as soon as she could after becoming eligible at the age of 16.
After the show singer Smokey Robinson said: "She sings so good it’s hard to believe that she’s 17. To sing like that you would have to have lived for a long time."
View: American Idol Website
Source: TimesOnline
Pirates crack Vista
A genuine crack for Windows Vista has just been released by pirate group Pantheon, which allows a pirated, non-activated installation of Vista (Home Basic/Premium and Ultimate) to be properly activated and made fully-operational.
Unlike cracks which have been floating around since Vista RTM was released in late November, this crack doesn’t simply get around product activation with beta activation files or timestop cracks - it actually makes use of the activation process. It seems that Microsoft has allowed large OEMs like ASUS to ship their products with a pre-installed version of Vista that doesn’t require product activation – apparently because end users would find it too inconvenient.
Source: APCMag.com
Britney Goes Bald
In the most recent bizarre twist in a never-ending spiral toward ultimate disaster, former pop music princess, Britney Spears has shaved her head!
According to various news reports, Britney reportedly entered rehab somewhere out of the country, but released herself from treatment, and flew back home to Los Angeles — all within the space of the last 72 hours.
Once back in Los Angeles, Britney visited a tattoo shop located in Sherman Oaks, and reportedly requested to be inked with a design of a woman’s pink and red lips on her wrist.
A witness to the entire event, Emily Wynn-Hughes, gave an interview to a local correspondent from ABC News. She gave details regarding Britney’s emotional state, and a host of other information (the entire video can be seen on YouTube).
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Source: X17 Online
Anna Nicole Smith dies after collapse
Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marrying an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son, died Thursday after collapsing at a South Florida hotel, one of her lawyers said.
Smith, 39, collapsed and was unresponsive while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino, said the attorney, Ron Rale. She was rushed to a hospital.
"I can confirm that she is deceased. It’s as shocking to me as to you guys," Rale told Reuters. "I don’t know anything further. (Her lawyer and husband) Howard (K. Stern) obviously is speechless and grieving."
Source: msnbc