Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The most memorable moment of the 52nd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday may be the onstage appearance of Michael Jackson's two eldest children to accept their father's lifetime achievement award."To all his songs, his message was simple, love," 12-year-old Prince Michael said. "We will continue to spread his message and help the world."With a voice that sounded more mature than his age, he then thanked "God for watching over us these last seven months and our grandma and grandpa for their love and support."Paris, 11, then spoke: "Daddy was supposed to be here. Daddy was going to perform last year. Thank you. We love you Daddy."Prince Michael and Paris, along with several cousins, wore black suits with red stripes on their pants, and red armbands.The children appeared after a rousing performance of Michael Jackson's "Earth Song," with a recording of Jackson accompanied by live performances from Celine Dion, Usher, Carrie Underwood, Smokey Robinson and Jennifer Hudson.Grammy producers used the head-to-head competition between Beyonce and Taylor Swift to lure viewers to stay tuned through the three-and-a-half hour telecast.List: Major Grammy winnersSwift got the biggest Grammy of the night, album of the year, for "Fearless.""I just hope that you know how much this means to me," she said in her acceptance speech. "Our families are freaking out in their living rooms."Swift also won best country album. She won four Grammys overall.Beyonce won a pair of Grammys over Swift, including for best female pop vocal performance.Beyonce carried home six Grammys, including one in the major category of song of the year. That honor, a songwriters' award, was given to Beyonce for co-writing "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)."For the best female pop honor, won for "Halo," the nervous singer thanked her family, "including my husband -- I love you." Beyonce is married to hip-hop star Jay-Z.Gallery: Red-carpet arrivalsAlternative rock band Kings of Leon upset favorites Beyonce and Swift to win the record of the year Grammy for "Use Somebody."The win gave the Kings of Leon three Grammys out of four nominations this year, all thanks to last year's "Only by the Night" album. The same album gave them three nominations last year, one of which they won."Use Somebody" lost out earlier in the show to Beyonce's "Single Ladies" for song of the year."The best thing about winning Grammys is really it's the first time our family gets to see the success we're having," Kings lead singer Caleb Followill said backstage. "We're getting my mom wasted."Other triple Grammy winners were The Black Eyed Peas and Jay-Z.Winners also included Stephen Colbert, the Zac Brown Band and Green Day.The Zac Brown Band won best new artist. Lady Gaga, considered by many to be this year's biggest breakout act, was ruled ineligible because she had a song released and nominated last year.Behind-the-scenes: Our Marquee blogStephen Colbert won best comedy album for "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!" Rap/sung collaboration went to Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West.Green Day won best rock album."Now I'm going to do shots with Kings of Leon," Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong said.Lady Gaga, whose performance opened the show, won two Grammys presented in the pre-telecast. Her single "Poker Face" beat out songs by the Black Eyed Peas, Madonna and Britney Spears in the best dance recording category. Her CD "The Fame" also won a Grammy for best electronic/dance.
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Much has been written about the promise of HTML 5, the next generation of the web’s lingua franca, but so far, despite the potential, there are very few real world websites using the proposed standard. Apple’s recently released Safari 4 beta, however, supports much of the HTML 5 spec, and the demo page for Safari 4 makes heavy use of HTML 5, offering a glimpse of what the web might soon look like.The Safari 4 intro page (link requires Safari 4 beta) uses both the new audio and video tags to embed media and also makes heavy use of CSS 3 for layout, styling and animation.The result is a considerably leaner page than you would see were it written in HTML 4 — gone are the lengthy embed and object tags for video content, and sophisticated animations happen without Flash, JavaScript or other auxiliary tools. And that means the page loads faster and gobbles up less memory in the browser.Unfortunately the Safari 4 intro page also highlights the biggest problem with HTML 5 — so far browser support for HTML 5 tools is limited, and the page only works properly in the Safari 4 beta.HTML 5 represents the biggest leap forward in web standards since the current (4.01) specification, which was completed in September 1999. That’s a good thing, but it also means browsers have quite a bit of work to do before HTML 5 starts appealing to web developers.Opera and Safari have been pioneering HTML 5 support for some time, but Firefox and Google Chrome aren’t quite as far along with their HTML 5 support (although the coming Firefox 3.5 will close the gap considerably). Internet Explorer 8 is somewhat further behind, though it too incorporates a few HTML 5 features.Still, given HTML 5’s lofty ambitions — to bring the web to maturity as a full-fledged application platform, a level playing field where video, sound, images and animations are all standardized — it might be quite a bit longer before we see sites start to adopt the new features.So while the future may not be here just yet, HTML 5 will go along way to simplifying to task of creating sophisticated web pages. In the mean time, novelty pages like Apple’s Safari 4 intro offer a tantalizing glimpse of what the future of the web will look like.Read More http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/03/apple-shows-off/#ixzz0eGq46tSvRead more…
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There was a tourist on a farm and he saw one of the cows tied somewhere , strangely the cow had one wooden leg .curios, he asked the farmer why that one cow had a wooden leg.
The farmer said, ''That cow is the bravest cow I ever saw.''
''So why does he have a wooden leg?'' the tourist asked.
''Well one day our son was drowning in thee river . And he dived into the river and pulled him out !
Well that is very brave but then why does that cow have a wooden leg !
O the farmer said "The Barn was burning and all the cows would have burnt down but that cow broke down the door and let out all the cows and even till today we dont know how he did it but he got the fire Men to come down and saved the farm from burning to ashes"
But that does not explain why the Cow has a wooden leg !
''Well the farmer paused for a bit , "well well you can't eat all at once a cow that brave !''
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Tension between the US and Iran heightened dramatically today with the disclosure that Barack Obama is deploying a missile shield to protect American allies in the Gulf from attack by Tehran.
The US is dispatching Patriot defensive missiles to four countries – Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait – and keeping two ships in the Gulf capable of shooting down Iranian missiles. Washington is also helping Saudi Arabia develop a force to protect its oil installations.
American officials said the move is aimed at deterring an attack by Iran and reassuring Gulf states fearful that Tehran might react to sanctions by striking at US allies in the region. Washington is also seeking to discourage Israel from a strike against Iran by demonstrating that the US is prepared to contain any threat.
The deployment comes after Obama's attempts to emphasise diplomacy over confrontation in dealing with Iran – a contrast to the Bush administration's approach – have failed to persuade Tehran to open its nuclear installations to international controls. The White House is now trying to engineer agreement for sanctions focused on Iran's Revolutionary Guard, believed to be in charge of the atomic programme.
Washington has not formally announced the deployment of the Patriots and other anti-missile systems, but by leaking it to American newspapers the administration is evidently seeking to alert Tehran to a hardening of its position.
The administration is deploying two Patriot batteries, capable of shooting down incoming missiles, in each of the four Gulf countries. Kuwait already has an older version of the missile, deployed after Iraq's invasion. Saudi Arabia has long had the missiles, as has Israel.
An unnamed senior administration official told the New York Times: "Our first goal is to deter the Iranians. A second is to reassure the Arab states, so they don't feel they have to go nuclear themselves. But there is certainly an element of calming the Israelis as well."
The chief of the US central command, General David Petraeus, said in a speech 10 days ago that countries in the region are concerned about Tehran's military ambitions and the prospect of it becoming a dominant power in the Gulf: "Iran is clearly seen as a very serious threat by those on the other side of the Gulf front."
Petraeus said the US is keeping cruisers equipped with advanced anti-missile systems in the Gulf at all times to act as a buffer between Iran and the Gulf states.
Washington is also concerned at the threat of action by Israel, which is predicting that Iran will be able to build a nuclear missile within a year, a much faster timetable than assessed by the US, and is warning that it will not let Tehran come close to completion if diplomacy fails.
The director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, met the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and other senior officials in Jerusalem last week to discuss Iran.
Pro-Israel lobby groups in the US have joined Republican party leaders in trying to build public pressure on the administration to take a tougher line with Iran. One group, the Israel Project, has been running a TV campaign warning that Iran might supply nuclear weapons to terrorists.
"Imagine Washington DC under missile attack from nearby Baltimore," it says. "A nuclear Iran is a threat to peace, emboldens extremists, and could give nuclear materials to terrorists with the ability to strike anywhere."
Washington is also concerned that if Iran is able to build nuclear weapons, other states in the region will feel the need to follow. Israel is the only country in the Middle East to already have atomic bombs, although it does not officially acknowledge it.
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said in London last week that the US will press for additional sanctions against Iran if it fails to curb its nuclear programme.
Europe's foreign affairs minister, Catherine Ashton, today said the UN security council should now take up the issue. "We are worried about what's happening in Iran. I'm disappointed at the failure of Iran to accept the dialogue and we now need to look again at what needs to happen there," she told Sky News.
"The next step for us is to take our discussions into the security council. When I was meeting with Hillary Clinton last week we talked about Iran and we were very clear this is a problem we will have to deal with."
However, China and Russia are still pressing for a diplomatic solution.
Tony Blair, Middle East envoy on behalf of the US, Russia, the UN and the EU, continually referred to what he described as the Iranian threat during his evidence at the Chilcot inquiry last Friday. Textual analysis now shows that he mentioned Iran 58 times.
Besides the new missile deployment, Washington is also helping Saudi Arabia to create a 30,000-strong force to protect oil installations and other infrastructure, as well as expanded joint exercises between the US and military forces in the region.
The move is a continuation of the military build-up begun under former president George W Bush. In the past two years, Abu Dhabi has bought $17bn (£11bn) worth of weapons from the US, including the Patriot anti-missile batteries and an advanced anti-missile system. UAE recently bought 80 US-made fighter jets. It is also buying fighters from France.
Petraeus said in a speech in Bahrain last year the UAE air force "could take out the entire Iranian air force, I believe".
Missile defence
Patriot missiles are designed to intercept enemy missiles before they reach their target. Since production began in 1980, 9,000 missiles have been delivered to countries including Germany, Greece, Taiwan and Japan.
During the first Gulf war Patriot success was 70% in Saudi Arabia and 40% in Israel. Since then the US has spent more than $10bn (£6.3bn) improving, among other aspects, the system's radar and computer compatibility for joint forces action. Once in position, the system requires a crew of only three people to operate. Each missile weighs 700kg and has a range of about 100 miles.
The US navy is in the process of upgrading all its Ticonderoga class cruisers and a number of destroyers to carry the Aegis ballistic missile defence system. It uses a surface-to-air missile that is capable of intercepting ballistic missiles above the atmosphere. It has also been tested on failing satellites as they fall to earth. Each missile is over 6m long and costs more than $9m.
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Album of the Year: Fearless, Taylor SwiftRecord of the Year: "Use Somebody," Kings of LeonSong of the Year: "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," BeyoncéNew Artist: Zac Brown BandPOPPop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: The Black Eyed Peas, "I Gotta Feeling"Pop Vocal Album: The E.N.D., The Black Eyed PeasFemale Pop Vocal Performance: Beyoncé, "Halo"Male Pop Vocal Performance: Jason Mraz, "Make It Mine"Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden, Michael BubléPop Collaboration With Vocals: Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat, "Lucky"Pop Instrumental Performance: Bela Fleck, "Throw Down Your Heart"Pop Instrumental Album: Potato Hole, Booker T. JonesRihanna, Mos Def, Jay-Z Jeff Kravitz/Getty ImagesR&BFemale R&B Vocal Performance: Beyoncé, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"Male R&B Vocal Performance: Maxwell, "Pretty Wings"R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Jamie Foxx and T-Pain, "Blame It"Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: Beyoncé, "At Last"R&B Song: "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," BeyoncéR&B Album: Blacksummers' Night, MaxwellContemporary R&B Album: I Am...Sasha Fierce, BeyoncéRAPRap/Sung Collaboration: "Run This Town," Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye WestRap Performance by a Duo or Group: "Crack a Bottle," Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 CentRap Song: "Run This Town," Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye WestRap Album: Relapse, EminemRap Solo Performance: Jay-Z, "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)"Urban/Alternative Performance: India.Arie and Dobet Gnahoré, "Pearls"Taylor Swift Michael Caulfield/Getty ImagesCOUNTRYCountry Album: Fearless, Taylor SwiftFemale Country Vocal Performance: Taylor Swift, "White Horse"Male Country Vocal Performance: Keith Urban, "Sweet Thing"Country Song: "White Horse," Taylor SwiftCountry Collaboration With Vocals: "I Told You So," Carrie Underwood and Randy TravisCountry Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Lady Antebellum, "I Run to You"Country Instrumental Performance: Steve Wariner, "Producer's Medley"Kings of Leon Steve Granitz/Getty ImagesROCKRock Album: 21st Century Breakdown, Green DaySolo Rock Vocal Performance: Bruce Springsteen, "Working on a Dream"Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Kings of Leon, "Use Somebody"Rock Song: "Use Somebody," Kings of LeonHard Rock Performance: AC/DC, "War Machine"Metal Performance: Judas Priest, "Dissident Aggressor"Rock Instrumental Performance: Jeff Beck, "A Day in the Life"Lady Gaga John Shearer/Getty ImagesDANCEDance Recording: "Poker Face," Lady GagaElectronic/Dance Album: The Fame, Lady GagaTRADITIONAL/ALTERNATIVE/WORLDAlternative Music Album: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, PhoenixAmericana Album: Electric Dirt, Levon HelmBluegrass Album: The Crow/New Songs for the Five-String Banjo, Steve MartinTraditional Blues Album: A Stranger Here, Ramblin' Jack ElliottContemporary Blues Album: Already Free, The Derek Trucks BandTraditional Folk Album: High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project, Loudon Wainwright IIIContemporary Folk Album: Townes, Steve EarleHawaiian Music Album: Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, Volume 2, Various ArtistsNative American Music Album: Spirit Wind North, Bill MillerZydeco or Cajun Music Album: Lay Your Burden Down, Buckwheat ZydecoReggae Album: Mind Control—Acoustic, Stephen MarleyTraditional World Music Album: Douga Mansa, Mamadou DiabateContemporary World Music Album: Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3—Africa Sessions, Béla FleckNew Age Album: Prayer for Compassion, David DarlingVISUAL MEDIAShort Form Music Video: "Boom Boom Pow," The Black Eyed PeasLong Form Music Video: "The Beatles Love—All Together Now," Various ArtistsSpoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books and Storytelling): Always Looking Up, Michael J. FoxMusical Show Album: West Side StoryCompilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Slumdog MillionaireScore Soundtrack Album tor Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Up, Michael GiacchinoSong Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: "Jai Ho" (from Slumdog Millionaire), A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaxmi Iyer and Vijay PrakashInstrumental Composition: Married Life (from Up), Michael GiacchinoInstrumental Arrangement: "West Side Story Medley," Bill CunliffeGOSPELGospel Performance: "Wait on the Lord," Donnie McClurkin featuring Karen Clark SheardGospel Song: "God in Me," Mary Mary featuring Kierra "KiKi" SheardRock or Rap Gospel Album: Live Revelations, Third DayPop/Contemporary Gospel Album: The Power of One, Israel HoughtonSouthern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Jason Crabb, Jason CrabbTraditional Gospel Album: Oh Happy Day, Various ArtistsContemporary R&B Gospel Album: Audience of One, Heather HeadleyLATINLatin Pop Album: Sin Frenos, La Quinta EstaciónLatin Rock, Alternative or Urban Album: Los De Atras Vienen Conmigo, Calle 13Tropical Latin Album: Ciclos, Luis EnriqueRegional Mexican Album: Necesito De Ti, Vicente FernándezTejano Album: Borders y Bailes, Los TexmaniacsNorteño Album: Tu Noche Con...Los Tigres Del Norte, Los Tigres Del NorteBanda Album: Tu Esclavo y Amo, Lupillo RiveraJAZZContemporary Jazz Album: 75, Joe Zawinul & the Zawinul SyndicateJazz Vocal Album: Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman, Kurt EllingImprovised Jazz Solo: "Dancin' 4 Chicken," Terence Blanchard, soloistJazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Five Piece Band—Live, Chick Corea and John McLaughlin Five Peace BandLarge Jazz Ensemble Album: Book One, New Orleans Jazz OrchestraLatin Jazz Album: Juntos Para Siempre, Bebo Valdés and Chucho ValdésCLASSICALEngineered Album, Classical: Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10, Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco SymphonyProducer of the Year, Classical: Steven EpsteinClassical Album: Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10Orchestral Performance: Boston Symphony Orchestra; Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Ravel: Daphnis et ChloéOpera Recording: Britten: Billy Budd, London Symphony Orchestra; Gentlemen of the London Symphony ChorusChoral Performance: Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10, Laura Claycomb, Anthony Dean Griffey, Elza van den Heever, Katarina Karnéus, Quinn Kelsey, James Morris, Yvonne Naef and Erin Wall; San Francisco Symphony; Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Symphony Chorus and San Francisco Girls ChorusInstrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra): Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3, Philharmonia OrchestraInstrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra): Journey to the New World, Sharon IsbinChamber Music Performance: Intimate Letters, Emerson String QuartetSmall Ensemble Performance: Lang, David: The Little Match Girl Passion, Ars Nova Copenhagen & Theatre of VoicesClassical Vocal Performance: Renée Fleming, Verismo AriasClassical Contemporary Composition: Higdon, Jennifer: Percussion Concerto, Jennifer HigdonClassical Crossover Album: Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace, Yo-Yo MaSurround Sound Album: Transmigration, Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & ChorusesCHILDRENMusical Album for Children: Family Time, Ziggy MarleySpoken Word Album for Children: Aaaaah! Spooky, Scary Stories & Songs, Buck HowdyOTHERComedy Album: A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!, Stephen ColbertInstrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): "Quiet Nights," Diana KrallRecording Package: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, David Byrne and Brian EnoBoxed or Special Limited-Edition Package: Neil Young Archives Vol. I (1963–1972), Neil YoungAlbum Notes: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946), Louis ArmstrongHistorical Album: The Complete Chess Masters (1950-1967), Little WalterEngineered Album, Nonclassical: Ellipse, Imogen HeapProducer of the Year, Nonclassical: Brendan O'BrienRemixed Recording, Nonclassical: "When Love Takes Over" (Electro Extended Remix), David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland
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Rise and let's rob our mind together to rescue our future from this charlatans who takes us for granted. Yes we're easy going who loves live to lay low hoping all would be alright , but for how long. We had the Khaki boys they pillage us to the bone and they're the people of hour being glorified and looming large in the Society. Now we've the so called Democracy that are being run by the Cabals and robbing more salt into our injury with our AWOL President Umaru Musa Yar'Ardua incapacitated in a foreign country Saudi Arabia. Such that wouldn't be allowed to happened in that country. Our Vice President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is not trusted enough to occupy or act on behalf of the sick President who has abdicate his guard post seventy days and counting. The law makers are evasive in their in duty. Everybody and nobody want to take the bull by the horn; the judiciary are not any different only to play the ostrich misinterpreting the law.Where do go from here.............? We're now the laughing stock of the world. Self centered nation of if not me nobody else and distrusting others. We need to rise up and take our destiny into our hand otherwise we're doomed with nothing for the up coming generation nor the present. Everything is staring us in the face........Arise O Compatriot Nigeria Call Obey alone voice from the wilderness is crying out for help. Let take our destiny into our hand if not now then when.
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