Madden 2012 on Android is FREE this Weekend from Verizon

Madden 2012 on Android will normally run you about $7.50, but from October 1-3 (this weekend), Verizon customers can download it for free by simply calling **MADDEN (**623336). Don’t believe me? Click below and read the announcement from EA’s website.

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Chris Lighty Launches Website For Up & Coming Artists To Submit & Get Feedback On Their Music

Chris Lighty has managed some of the biggest artists in the business. 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Diddy, Mariah Carey and Swizz Beatz are all clients of Lighty's Violator Management.

Now up and coming artists will get the chance to get first hand feedback from the man himself, through his new website pleaselistentomydemo.com. For a fee of $10.00 artists can submit their music in to be critiqued by Lighty, co-founder Michael Dizon and other staff.

"We won't Simon Cowell you out. We will give you feedback. If we like it or dislike it," Lighty told the New York Daily News.

Lighty doesn't think enough artists are getting the chance to be heard.

"We are in the Internet age," Lighty said. "There are so many creative people out there. We are not reaching everybody. Just listen to the radio. It's the same 15 artists all day everyday."

The new service launches Monday May 16.

Notice to All Amtraxsvblog Readers: All New Dynamic Reading Views

So apparently Blogger recently released five dynamic views for its public blogs such as "AmtraxsVBlog Sessions" so now all of the following views are accessible here for display:

Flipcard: available at http://amtraxsvblog.blogspot.com/view/flipcard
Mosaic: available at http://amtraxsvblog.blogspot.com/view/mosaic
Sidebar: available at http://amtraxsvblog.blogspot.com/view/sidebar
Snapshot: available at http://amtraxsvblog.blogspot.com/view/snapshot
Timeslide: available at http://amtraxsvblog.blogspot.com/view/timeslide

Not this really applies to me as the author at all, but I'm assuming based on your organizational preferences I'd imagine maybe one maybe better for you than the other so here's kinda a listing of the advantages as told by Blogger of each:

Attention: Be Someone Else, Be Kayne West

LMAO! I can't front sometimes I tend to feel bad for the big homie but then again WTF do I care. Either way, thats the spectacle of mass media i guess...they hate you, then they love you, and then they hate you again!

But then again if you are up on game and understand the 48 Laws of Power and the 6th law of power which is Court Attention at All Cost then maybe he's one of the few that truly have the game mastered.

"Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious, than the bland and timid masses."

-easy

Welcome Home @PRODIGYMOBBDEEP

Salute!

Event Notice: MTV’s The Real World Auditions

If you’re looking to be a celebrity overnight, or just really want to whore yourself out on TV then here's your chance to attend the casting call for Season 26 of The Real World this Saturday at Fado Irish Pub (900 S. Miami Ave, Suite 200, Miami) for all my FL residents, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. So for all casting cast dates in Miami or anywhere else Sign up online and bring a recent picture of yourself. Good luck. (via the305)

NBA announces 2011 East, West All-Star starters

The NBA officially announced the Eastern Conference and Western Conference starters for the 2011 NBA All-Star Game on Thursday.

For the Eastern Conference:

Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade

Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose

Miami Heat forward LeBron James

New York Knicks forward Amar'e Stoudemire

and Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard

For the Western Conference:

New Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant

Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony

Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant

Houston Rockets Yao Ming

Happy Birthday Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. goes down in history as one of the principal leaders of the civil rights movement in the United States and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King’s challenges to segregation and racial discrimination helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States.

King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and was ordained as a Baptist minister at age 18. He graduated from Morehouse College in 1948 and from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951. In 1955 he earned a doctoral degree in systematic theology from Boston University. While in Boston, King met Coretta Scott, whom he married in 1953.

In 1954 King accepted his first pastorate at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Montgomery’s black community had long-standing grievances about the mistreatment of blacks on city buses. Heading the year-long bus-boycott against segregation in buses, King soon became a national figure.

In 1957 King helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an organization of black churches and ministers that aimed to challenge racial segregation. King and other SCLC leaders encouraged the use of nonviolent marches, demonstrations, and boycotts to protest discrimination.

King and other black leaders organized the 1963 March on Washington, a massive protest in Washington, D.C., for jobs and civil rights. King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech to an audience of more than 200,000 civil rights supporters. The speech and the march created the political momentum that resulted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited segregation in public accommodations and discrimination in education and employment. As a result of King’s effective leadership, he was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for peace.

Throughout 1966 and 1967 King increasingly turned the focus of his activism to the redistribution of the nation’s economic wealth to overcome entrenched black poverty. In the spring of 1968 he went to Memphis, Tennessee, to support striking black garbage workers. King was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.

#salute

Damn Homie: MAN ARRESTED FOR MAKING VIBRATOR BOMB TO SEND TO EX-GIRLFRIEND FOR CHRISTMAS

A Waseca, Minn. man is facing up to 13 years in prison for modifying a sex toy into an explosive device in order to “blow up” former female roommates after being kicked out of the residence .

Terry Allen Lester, 37, had recently been staying with two women in Waseca who had asked him to move out after the property owner had learned of the living situation and ordered him out. On Dec. 29 Lester left the residence, but left several bags of property behind.

The two remaining women looked through his belongings and found a vibrator that had been loaded with gunpowder, BB shot and buckshot and appeared to be wired to a battery port in order for it to explode. It was found inside of a coffee can labeled “Christmas Gifts.”

Lester said he was going to give it to one of the women because his relationship with them had ended badly. He intended to trigger the device while inserted into one of the females and “blow them up.” A total of three vibrators were found — the altered one, as well as various tools and explosives, one pink with “Merry X-mas Bitch” written on it with black ink.

The former roommates called police and the Bloomington bomb squad was brought to the scene to dismantle and dispose of the devices. The investigation found Lester had notified one of the women he put a bomb in the house, but nothing of the sort was located other than the rigged sex toy.

Lester faces felony charges of Possession/Making/Storing an Explosive/Incendiary Device and Terroristic Threats with such a device. If convicted, Lester faces jail time as well as up to $33,000 in fines.


LMAO - Damn son tell her why you are mad!

More Than 1,000 Birds Fall Dead From the Sky!!!

Everybody running talking that get money ish, but get right w/ God 1st homey...and that goes for me too!

BEEBE, Ark. (AP) -- Environmental service workers finished picking up the carcasses on Sunday of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town.

Mike Robertson, the mayor in Beebe, told The Associated Press the last dead bird was removed about 11 a.m. Sunday in the town about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock. He said 12 to 15 workers, hired by the city to do the cleanup, wore environmental-protection suits for the task.

The birds had fallen Friday night over a 1-mile area of Beebe, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area. The workers from U.S. Environmental Services started the cleanup Saturday.

Robertson said the workers wore the suits as a matter of routine and not out of fear that the birds might be contaminated. He said speculation on the cause is not focusing on disease or poisoning.

2000 Vs. 2010: How the world has changed!

Courtesy of I09:

It's hard to believe how much the world has transformed in the past decade — but our handy infographic tells the whole story. Click to enlarge!

So what's changed? Technology has gotten unimaginably smaller and better — just look at the differences between an iMac in 2000 and an iPad in 2010. (See here for a similar comparison.) The world's population has grown, and for the first time more people live in cities than in rural areas. China's electricity consumption has quadrupled. And the costs of technology are becoming more apparent than before. But really, the data speaks for itself.

Sources include World Bank via Gizmag, U.S. Census, Internet World Stats, Department of Energy, NASA via AOL News, IUCN Redlist, Swiss Reinsurance via Globe and Mail and USA Today, USGS, Box Office Mojo.

PSA: Gas Is Going To Be $5 Bucks A Gallon In 2012??

In a new interview former president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister says Americans should expect gas prices to hit the five dollar mark this year. #FML

UPDATE: 5 Teens Found Dead in Florida Hotel; Carbon Monoxide the Culprit

5 teens that checked into a Florida hotel room to celebrate a 19th birthday were found dead at 2pm today by a hotel maid.

The five were found in their street clothes on or around a bed. They were all apparently longtime friends from their Little Haiti neighborhood.

Police are still investigating the deaths, but authorities believe carbon monoxide caused the deaths. There were no signs of illegal drugs or alcohol in the room.

A 2007 Florida law requires that gas detectors be installed in hotel and motel boiler rooms. It also requires all homes and apartment buildings built after July 1, 2008, with a heater, fireplace or attached garage be equipped with an alarm within 10 feet of bedrooms.

Hialeah police are investigating the inspection and fire records of the Hotel Presidente to see if the building had been ordered to install carbon monoxide detectors.

Such a sad, tragic story!! Prayers to the family and friends of the victims!!

Merry XMas....

"Stop Fronting For Twitter & Facebook" LOL

Agreed! But everything I say on twitter though is 100 so I ain't gotta front! I get corporate money so I do need to reach out for twitter bucks! And I'll admit I kinda caught on for a minute bcuz I kinda wanted to see what all the hype was about but then noticed somewhat quickly w/ the exception of the ones who have their movements moving promoting themselves everyone else just seems like a bunch of $10 a hr call center working m#thaf&ckers coming up with their best $hit talk, some bogus alter ego, or the most infinite quotables that they can....So tell me this, how is it that if I ever even met you in real life I probably wouldn't even listen to $hit you had to say but you've got over 10,000 tweets and expect me to follow you? Nothing personal...

PSA: Possible Carcinogen Found in Drinking Water in 31 Cities!!!

The study, which will be released Monday by the Environmental Working Group, is the first nationwide analysis of hexavalent chromium in drinking water to be made public. It comes as the Environmental Protection Agency is considering whether to set a limit for hexavalent chromium in tap water. The agency is reviewing the chemical after the National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, deemed it a “probable carcinogen” in 2008.

Courtesy of the Washington Post:

The federal government restricts the amount of “total chromium” in drinking water and requires water utilities to test for it, but that includes both trivalent chromium, a mineral that humans need to metabolize glucose, and hexavalent chromium, the metal that has caused cancer in laboratory animals.

Last year, California took the first step in limiting the amount of hexavalent chromium in drinking water by proposing a “public health goal” for safe levels of 0.06 parts per billion. If California does set a limit, it would be the first in the nation.

PSA: Dear Kids Here's a Friendly Reminder...

Then what are you going to do once chicken noodle soup goes up to $1 per pack? So you just better take take 2 spoon fulls and pass, 2 spoon fulls and pass LMAO!

Stem Cell Transplant Cures HIV In 'Berlin Patient'

Courtesy of the Huffington Post:

On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a stunning medical breakthrough: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure.

Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the "Berlin Patient," received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy treatment course for leukemia. His doctors recently published a report in the journal Blood affirming that the results of extensive testing "strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has been achieved."

Brown's case paves a path for constructing a permanent cure for HIV through genetically-engineered stem cells.

Last week, Time named another AIDS-related discovery to its list of the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2010. Recent studies show that healthy individuals who take antiretrovirals, medicine commonly prescribed for treating HIV, can reduce their risk of contracting the disease by up to 73 percent.

While these developments by no means prove a cure for the virus has been found, they can certainly provide hope for the more than 33 million people living with HIV worldwide. Alongside such findings, global efforts to combat the epidemic have accelerated as of late, with new initiatives emerging in the Philippines and South Africa this week.

Oh Word: Website Releases Pimp’s Business Plan #Pimpin

The game is to be sold not told....#lamesdonechangedthegame

While not as big as WikiLeaks recent disclosure of cables from foreign diplomats, YouthRadio has released a business plan from a pimp in Alameda County, California. The business plan includes several bullet points, including:

-Take care of my b@#$%s better
-Find other ways to work my hoes (internet, dancing)
-Attend the player’s ball in Las Vegas
-Pimp or die, mack or cry

PSA: You are a Fake, Phony, and a #Stan

Random Thought: A yo I think it's mad funny how people can ride you like something that you did or are doing is the worst but then you look up after a matter of time and then you see them trying to do the same ish....and got the nerve to try and glamorize to everyone else the same thing that they hated on you for! LOL!. You fake, phony, and a Stan! So anyway, listen up I've gotta story to tell...

So get this, I used to go hard w/ this philly chick who a had ass and a pair of hips that were outta this world right...and I ain't even gonna front initially the kid was kinda gassed because I knew it was only a matter of time before I was going to be pulling donuts in that ish. But nonetheless, so one day I guess she decided or she felt like playing some horndog games and kinda got a kid open but at the time our thing was kinda new so I tried to play it cool but right before I was about to leave I put my hands on her hips and told her that those shits were crazy (caught in a daze) but then ole girl starting spazzing and OD'ing talking about how inappropriate it was to make compliments about a womens body and all this goofy shit (and here I am thinking, but damn can I live?) but then fast forward 5 or 6 months later after I dodged the situation I get a call from my mans telling me to go online and look on match.com and what do you know? Here's this boushey broad on match.com stunting talking about:...or what I mean to say is, there was a question on the profile that said whats the favorite part of your body - and here she was saying my butt! LMAO GTFOH! #Stan