Fresh New Insight to the 1994 Suicide of Kurt Cobain

Seattle police have released two never-before-seen images taken at the scene of Kurt Cobain's death after they announced they were re-examining evidence in the two decade-old case. One of the tragic photographs, which comes from four rolls of undeveloped film stumbled upon last month, shows a small cigar box containing a spoon, possibly with heroin residue on it, needles and a lighter laying on the floor next to a cigarette butt and a pair of dark sunglasses. The second picture shows the box closed, next to cash, a woolly hat and an open wallet that appears to display Cobain's ID. Detective Renee Witt, a spokeswoman for the Seattle Police Department, revealed Thursday that detectives were taking a second look at the circumstances surrounding the Nirvana star's suicide after the new evidence was uncovered. The rolls of film were found in sealed bags by an officer who was going through Cobain's case file ahead of the approaching 20th anniversary of the singer's death. The images are said to detail the scene in sharper detail than the Polaroid pictures used in the original 1994 investigation causing police to review all evidence. However, authorities have stopped short of declaring a full re-opening of the case and police are reluctant to suggest much will come from the new photos. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2585567/Police-release-new-Kurt-Cobain-photo.html#ixzz2wccwfJiY

Banned from KBXX 97.9, Trae tha Truth takes his case courtside.

July 22, 2009 was the second annual Trae Day, a day devoted to honoring Trae tha Truth, one of Houston's own rappers, known as much for his philanthropic efforts as for the menace in his lyrics.

It was started the year before by then Mayor Bill White and the City of Houston — Trae became the first rapper in the city's history to earn his own day. A full-on family festival was organized by Trae's camp to crown the occasion, more than 10,000 people showed up to pat him on the back. It was a complete, unexpected success.

2009's Trae Day was to follow suit. And it mostly did. Mostly.

The second Trae Day was held in a TSU parking lot, this time with the attendance reaching up past 15,000. There were free pony rides, school supplies, moonwalks, HIV testing, immunizations and more. Trae financed a bulk of the event. Acclaimed rappers Rick Ross and Shawty Lo showed up to lend their support. So did Bun B, Slim Thug and a whole host of others.

The one flicker of disruption that occurred — a few kids tugging at a backpack that had been tossed into the crowd from the stage during one of the performances — was quickly snuffed out by Trae himself. For five and a half hours, there was no anarchy anywhere. And then it was everywhere.

At approximately 8 p.m., the fire marshal called a premature end to the celebration because of overcrowding. A snarl of traffic congested the surrounding streets. A sizable crowd, thick with children and teenagers, stood waiting in the parking lot for the traffic to die down. That's when Albert Walker Mondane and an unspecified number of others opened fire on them. Everyone scattered. Eight people were shot. The victims ranged in age from 14 to 21 years old.

Trae was both heartbroken and irate.

"I really hurt the most when I found out what happened," says Trae. "To see them kids' faces before, to know what it meant for them and to know what that meant for the city to have that day, for that to get overshadowed...I knew that's what was gonna be put out. I was pissed, but hurt more."

Trae spent the evening and following days conducting a hailstorm of interviews regarding the unfortunate ending to what was an otherwise fortunate day of communal merriment and pride.

He inevitably made his way in front of the DJs at the Madd Hatta Morning Show, the weekday morning team on KBXX (a.k.a. The Box), 97.9 FM, a Radio One-owned company operating as the only hip-hop and R&B station in Houston. The interview quickly grew cantankerous when on-air personality Nnete Inyangumia implied that Trae was at fault for the shootings, contending that acts of violence were inherent in his music.

Now, this isn't exactly an ­altogether off-the-mark observation.

Trae's music is significant for any number of reasons, but mainly this: It makes accessible not only the worst parts of the guts of a major American city, but also the psyche of a man intelligent enough to thrive there. To listen to it is to live on the 8900 block of Braeswood, except you don't have to worry about getting your shit took.

There is no better long-form example of this than Restless, his third official LP. There is an ambient feeling of depression throughout the album (though it's not driven by it). Even the songs that aren't explicitly about something awful happening to someone Trae loves — the Jim Jones-aided "Coming Around The Corner," "Pop Trunk Wave" and "Cadillac" — are tinged with just enough desolation that they seem to serve only as stopgaps between bouts of depression and suffering.

And if this were the only thing you knew about the album, or Trae for that matter, you'd be forgiven for assuming it would be good for nothing more than serving as the soundtrack to blowing your brains out. But Trae presents that despondency in an artful and willfully expressive manner.

Where many Houston MCs get lost in either the trappings of the city's caricatured regional culture or hard-life talk, Trae can talk about both worlds. He possesses the authority to talk about street life that Paul Wall doesn't have, as well as the unreserved cockiness to talk about fancy cars and jewelry, things street-talk legend Scarface has always avoided.

Trae is a hardened man, with the vast potential to be bulldozing when he chooses. That seems inarguable. He was caught in a minor controversy when he punched rapper Mike Jones in the nose at the Ozone Awards in 2007, a situation he later publicly apologized for. And violence, or any other aspect of inner-city life for that matter, is a natural subject of his music. But it's not a natural extension of it.

The remainder of that morning's interview played out in the same tense manner in which it began. Trae called back afterwards off the air to express his displeasure with the route the interview took. Still, three months afterwards, no one on either side appeared outwardly concerned with anything.

Enter The Incredible Truth.

The Incredible Truth is a mixtape Trae released in October of 2009. One minute and 24 seconds into the tape's sixth song, Trae lobbed a grenade at Nnete, rapping about her weight, "Look at you with your bad built ass, you're trash, so far gone you ain't even in the past. It's understood when I'm rolling on glass and the world hating on me like Nnete's fat ass."

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HOW TO STEAL 130 MILLION CREDIT CARD NUMBERS WITH EASE!

How did Albert Gonzalez and his alleged co-conspirators access all that credit and debit card data with so much ease?
Gonzalez and the two other men indicted Monday for their role in the thefts of more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers allegedly spun a web of cybercrime and deceit that affected, among other corporate entities, Heartland Payment Systems, Hannaford Bros. and 7-Eleven. And as further details emerge in what U.S. authorities are calling the largest known incident of hacking and malware to extract credit and debit card numbers. The group communicated through instant message and also used sniffers to absorb card data rapidly. The computers they used were based in California, Illinois, New Jersey, Latvia, Ukraine and the Netherlands.
They were also able to stay ahead of corporate cybersecurity, as the indictment description indicates: "They allegedly accessed the corporate websites only through intermediary, or "proxy," computers, thereby disguising their own whereabouts. They also tested their malware by using approximately twenty of the leading anti-virus products to determine if any of those products would detect their malware as potentially unwanted. Furthermore, they programmed their malware to actively delete traces of the malware's presence from the corporate victims' networks."
The methods used by Gonzalez and his team weren't all that sophisticated, either; the long and short of it is that they were able to exploit end users that didn't know how poor their security was, according to security experts .%20" a hacker and demonstrates that those corporate victims will actively defend their systems," said Ralph J. Marra Jr., acting U.S. attorney, in the statement released with the indictment.

(CHANNELWEB)

LOHANS MAKE DJ DEBUT IN NYC AND TO ANNOUNCE NATION'S FIRST BRICK BREAKER CONTEST

NEW YORK, NY – LINDSAY’S LOHANS MOST LOVED DJ’s, HER YOUNGEST SISTER AND BROTHER, ALI AND CODY, WILL BE MAKING THEIR DJ DEBUT IN MANHATTAN TOMORROW JULY 30TH-12NOON AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING THE NATION’S FIRST BLACKBERRY BRICK BREAKER CONTEST AND MANHATTAN’S NEWEST CLUB FOR YOUNG ADULTS . THE Z-COM WIRELESS STORE IN MIDTOWN WILL BE CONVERTED TO A NEW LOUNGE FOR TEENAGERS.

DJ AC AKA ALI AND CODY LOHAN WILL BE MAKING ABOUT A HUNDRED APPEARANCES AS WELL AS SPINNING AND MIXING FOR THOUSANDS OF TEENS AT Z-COM WIRELESS STORES ACROSS THE NATION. WORLD RENOWNED DJ VIC LATINO WILL BE SHOWING THE YOUNG LOHANS SOME MOVES AT THE TURNTABLE DURING THE PRESS CONFERENCE.

PARTY 105’s SUMMER JAM WILL ALSO BE ANNOUNCED IN WHICH THE LOHANS WILL BE SPINNING WITH OVER 25 OF THE NATIONS HOTTEST TOP MUSICAL ACTS, HOSTED BY HULK HOGAN ON LONG ISLAND NEXT MONTH. THE EVENT WILL BENEFIT FEEDING THE REGION’S HOMELESS.

Courtney Love Sued By American Express!!!

Rocker Courtney Love is being sue by American Express for refusal to pay credit card balance. American Express also know as AMEX is suing Courtney for the sum of $352,059.67 and legal fees. Courtney is the widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.

Sex And The City and Gossip Girl Creators Endorse The Ultimate Survival Guide For Women

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New York, NY – The forces behind two of the most influential books and television series of our time, Candace Bushnell (Sex and the City) and Cecily von Ziegesar (Gossip Girl), are among the skyrocketing number of fans of Paula Froelich’s sizzling debut novel, Mercury in Retrograde (Atria Books, June 2009). As gossip columnist for the New York Post’s extraordinarily-popular “Page Six,” Froelich is a real-life “gossip girl.” In Mercury in Retrograde, she uses her experiences as an insider in New York City’s social scene as the basis for her witty yet stunningly insightful tale of three women struggling to survive in the most exciting – and challenging – city in the world. Yet in addition to writing a delightfully engaging novel, Froelich has also created the quintessential survival guide for women in New York or any other big city who are determined to have it all. Like Sex and the City and Gossip Girl, Mercury in Retrograde is destined to become a powerful force in shaping the tastes, attitudes, and dreams of young women all over the country. The experts are already anticipating the tidal wave that will inevitably follow the novel’s publication in June. Candace Bushnell, creator of the Sex and the City phenomenon, says, “Paula Froelich writes with humor, charm, and heart. Readers will love the hilarious misadventures of (main character) Penelope Mercury.” Cecily von Ziegesar, creator of the #1 best-selling novels that gave rise to this season’s hottest television series, Gossip Girl, says, “A very funny New York story, Mercury in Retrograde reads like a late night cab ride with friends. The tales of Penelope, Lipstick and Dana are at once fabulous, tragic, and hysterically funny.” While Froelich currently lives in Manhattan, she is originally from Ohio. Like so many young women in New York, she came to the big city with a dream – and enough pluck, optimism, talent, and stamina to make it come true. Mercury in Retrograde combines her insider’s perspective with her unique sensibilities, resulting in the ultimate survival guide for a new generation.

Kurt Cobain Back From the Dead?

Thieves have stole the identity of late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain. It has been reported that a $3.2 million dollar home was purchased just last year in Brunswick, New Jersey and two cars. The thieves have also stole $69 million from a trust fund that was set up for their daughter Frances Bean now fourteen. Kurt's widow Courtney Love has also reported that 188 credit cards have been opened up in her name. Love stated that she new about the fraud that was going on back in 2003 but no one believed her. During that time Love it has been reported that Love was battling a drug addiction that could have contributed to the lack of support from others.

Congress to fight Mexico Drug Wars!

Congress has approved $700 million in assistance to help Mexico fight drug traffickers and build more effective security forces. However, lawmakers cut back the first installment of aid under the Merida Initiative from $450 million to $300 million. Some members of Congress and Mexican officials complain that promised equipment to fight the cartels is taking too long to arrive.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent Democrat from Connecticut who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Wednesday that the administration's new plan was "a significant first step forward. But I don't think it is enough."
(csmonitor)

Kelly Osbourne out of Rehab

Kelly Osbourne says her recent stint in rehab was for a decade-long addiction to painkillers she believes could have killed her.

"I knew if I didn't get help, I would die," Osbourne told People. "I'm getting a second chance [at my career] and I want to be present for it."

Osburne says she first took liquid Vicodin after having her tonsils removed when she was 13.

"I found, when I take this, people like me," she said. "I'm having fun, I'm not getting picked on. It became a confidence thing."

The rock offspring tried to kick the habit by checking into rehab in 2004 and again in 2005. After suffering an "intense relapse," Osbourne voluntarily returned to rehab in January.

(seattlepi)