2011 BET Awards Nominees & * Winners

Best Female R&B Artist
* Rihanna Jennifer Hudson
Beyoncé
Marsha Ambrosius
Keri Hilson

Best Male R&B Artist
* Chris Brown
Cee-Lo Green
Bruno Mars
Trey Songz
Usher

Best Group
* Diddy Dirty Money
Cali Swag District
N.E.R.D.
New Boyz
Travis Porter

Best Female Hip Hop Artist
* Nicki Minaj
Diamond
Cymphonique
Lola Monroe

Best Male Hip Hop Artist
* Kanye West
B.o.B
Drake
Lil Wayne
Rick Ross

Best Collaboration
* Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne & Busta
Rhymes, "Look At Me Now"
B.o.B ft. Haley Williams of Paramore,
"Airplanes"
Kanye West ft. Rihanna, "All of the
Lights"
Chris Brown ft. Tyga & Kevin McCall,
"Deuces"
Waka Flocka Flame ft. Roscoe Dash &
Wale, "No Hands"
Rihanna ft. Drake, "What's My Name"

Best New Artist
* Wiz Khalifa
J. Cole
Bruno Mars
Miguel
Willow Smith

YoungStars Award - TIE
* Jaden Smith
* Willow Smith
Shenell Edmonds
Keke Palmer
Diggy Simmons

Best Gospel
* Mary Mary
Byron Cage
Deitrick Haddon
Karen Clark Sheard
BeBe & CeCe Winans

Centric Award
* Marsha Ambrosius
Eric Benét
Cee-Lo Green
R. Kelly
Kem

Best International Act (Africa) - TIE * 2Face Idibia (Nigeria)
* D' Banj (Nigeria)
D-Black (Ghana)
Fally Ipupa (DR Congo)
Angelique Kidjo (Benin)
Teargas (South Africa)

Best International Act (UK)
* Tinie Tempah VV Brown
Chipmunk
Laura Izibor
Skepta
Tinchy Stryder

Best Actress
* Taraji P. Henson
Halle Berry
Regina King
Zoë Saldana
Kerry Washington

Best Actor
* Idris Elba Laz Alonso
Chris Brown
Don Cheadle
Jamie Foxx

Best Movie
* For Colored Girls
Death at a Funeral
Takers
The Book of Eli
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married,
Too?

Sportswoman of the Year
* Serena Williams
Tamika Catchings
Candice Dupree
Maya Moore
Venus Williams

Sportsman of the Year
* Michael Vick Carmelo Anthony
Kobe Bryant
LeBron James
Derrick Rose

Viewers Choice Award
Chris Brown - Look at Me

Now Lifetime Achievement Award Patti LaBelle

Humanitarian Awards
Steve Harvey

Manually Hide any file in JPEG

Hello Friends, today i will explain you how to hide any file behind the JPEG image manually that is without any software. Its a very easy trick and also very useful if you want to send information secretly to your friend. Also its different from stenography as it does hides text behind images or text behind mp3 files. Its universal, you can hide any file, virus or Trojan or anything behind image using this trick.
Things that you will need for this trick:
1. Winrar installed on your system.
2. Little knowledge of command prompt.
Steps to Hide any File behind JPEG image Manually
1. Create an folder into C drive (recommendation is that use this C: \Hidden).
2. Now gather all files that you want to hide in this folder.
3. Now add these all files to compressed .rar file using winrar (example myhiddenfiles.rar ). Note: This rar file should be in the same directory (i.e. C:\Hidden)
4. Now Select the JPEG file that you want to use to hide the above content (say myimage.jpg). Put this image file also in the same folder that is in C:\Hidden
5. Now, open Command Prompt (Go to Run and type ‘cmd‘). Make your working directory C:\hidden. (When you open CMD you will get like C:\Documents and settings \username (something like this) Now type cd.. and press enter and then again type cd.. and press enter. Now you have something like this in cmd C:\ . Now in front of that type cd "Hidden" and press enter. )
6. Now type: “COPY /b myimage.jpg + myhiddenfiles.rar outputimage.jpg” (without quotes) - Now, myimage.jpg is the picture you want to show, myhiddenfiles.rar is the file to be hidden, and outputimage.jpg is the file which contains both....
7. Now, after you have done this, you will see a file output.jpg in C: \hidden. Open it (double-click) and it will show the picture you wanted to show. Now try opening the same file with WinRAR, it will show the hidden archive

- Eto'o Hits Lagos in Private Jet

Reigning African Footballer of the
Year, Samuel Eto'o Fils will be storming
Lagos in a private jet. Also on board
the jet flying directly from Yaoundé,
the capital of Cameroon is his
international team mate, Jean Makoun. Both Indomitable Lions stars are
coming to the commercial capital of
Nigeria at the behest of their friend,
Nwankwo Kanu, who is formally
hanging up his international boots this
Saturday. The Inter Milan star, who broke this news to the organisers of the Kanu
Testimonial match, hinted that the
same private jet will be taking both
Cameroon internationals to Nice in
southern France, where Cote d'Ivoire
skipper, Didier Drogba will be holding his wedding 24 hours after the game
in Lagos. And so the Indomitable Lions skipper,
just like Ghana's Michael Essien, has
decided to shelve hitting France early
to take part in Drogba's pre-wedding
festivities, in order to honour the two
time African footballer of the year. Earlier, Essein had explained that but
for the high esteem he holds Kanu he
would have been in France on
Saturday. Instead the Chelsea star will
be arriving Lagos on Saturday
morning courtesy of Arik Airways and will be leaving immediately after
the game for France. Incidentally it is the wedding that has
prevented Drogba himself from flying
in for the testimonial. Etoe, Makoun
and Essien are only some of the array
of African football legends fans will be
able to see live on Saturday at the Teslim Balogun Stadium. Some others
also coming include Senegalese
footballer, El Hadji Diouf, Ghanaian
stars Asamoah Gyan and Sulley
Muntari and Emmanuel Adebayor,
skipper of the Togo respectively. Apart from the footballers, some big
name personalities will also be in town
this weekend. Top on the list are
Bonfrere Jo, the man Nigerians will
always remember for guiding the
nation to Atlanta'96 glory, and Sir Dave Richards, chairman of the FA
Premier League. Meanwhile, the accreditation for the
match will take place at the Teslim
Balogun Stadium, Lagos from 1pm on
Thursday. The Kanu Testimonial Organising
Committee is appealing to the media to
remember that the media tribune at
the stadium is not the large so the
passes for the match will be severely
restricted.

East Africa's al Qaeda mastermindkilled

AP – The al-Qaida mastermind behind the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies
in Kenya and Tanzania was killed this
week at a security checkpoint in
Mogadishu by Somali forces who
didn’t immediately realize he was the most wanted man in East Africa,
officials said Saturday. The death of Fazul Abdullah
Mohammed - a man who topped the
FBI’s most wanted list for nearly 13 years - is the third major strike in six
weeks against the worldwide terror
group that was headed by Osama bin
Laden until his death last month.
Mohammed had a $5 million bounty
on his head for planning the Aug. 7, 1998, embassy bombings. The blasts
killed 224 people in Nairobi, Kenya
and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Most of
the dead were Kenyans. Twelve
Americans also died.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton - who was on a visit to
Tanzania on Saturday as Somali
officials confirmed Mohammed’s death - called the killing a “significant blow to al-Qaida, its extremist allies, and its
operations in East Africa.
“It is a just end for a terrorist who brought so much death and pain to so
many innocents in Nairobi and Dar es
Salaam and elsewhere - Tanzanians,
Kenyans, Somalis, and our own
embassy personnel,” Clinton said. White House counterterrorism adviser
John Brennan called Mohammed’s death “another huge setback to al- Qaida and its extremist allies, and
provides a measure of justice to so
many who lost loved ones. ” Mohammed was killed Tuesday but
was carrying a South African passport,
so Somali officials didn’t immediately realize who he was. The body was
even buried. Officials later exhumed it.
“We’ve compared the pictures of the body to his old pictures,” said a spokesman for Somalia’s minister of information, Abdifatah Abdinur. “They are the same. It is confirmed. He is the
man and he is dead. The man who
died is Fazul Abdullah.” Mohammed, a native of the Comoros
Islands, was carrying sophisticated
weapons, maps, other operational
materials and tens of thousands of
dollars when he was killed,
Information Minister Abdulkareem Jama said. Family pictures and
correspondence with other militants
were also found, he said. The money,
equipment and personal effects made
officials take a second look at the
death, he said. “We congratulate our army for killing the head of al-Qaida operations in East
Africa. They have shown their
effectiveness,” he said. Earlier in the week, a Somali security
officer had described to The
Associated Press the deaths of two
men in Mogadishu, one of whom is
now believed to have been
Mohammed. The security official, Osman Nur Diriye,
said that two men riding in a luxury
car pulled up to a government-run
checkpoint Tuesday night. After
security forces found a pistol on one
of the men, gunfire was exchanged. Diriye said a Somali and a man
believed to be South African died. The
man identified as a South African is
now believed to have been
Mohammed, Abdinur said.
Gen. Abdikarim Yusuf Dhagabadan, Somalia’s deputy army chief, said officials at first did not know who the
dead man was.
“We buried him,” he said. “But soon after checking his documents, (we)
exhumed his body and took his
pictures and DNA. Then we had
learned that he was the man wanted
by the U.S. authorities.” Mohammed’s death is the third major blow against al-Qaida in the last six
weeks. Navy SEALs killed bin Laden
on May 2 at his home in Pakistan. Just
a month later, Ilyas Kashmiri, an al-
Qaida leader sought in the 2008
Mumbai siege and rumored to be a longshot choice to succeed bin Laden,
was reportedly killed in a U.S. drone
attack in Pakistan.
The strike against Kashmiri was not
the direct result of intelligence material
seized from the bin Laden compound, U.S. and Pakistan officials say. If the
account of the killing at the security
checkpoint killing is confirmed, it
would appear Mohammed’s death is also not the result of new intelligence.
Dhagabadan described the death as
“similar to Osama bin Laden’s.” “He was worse to us than bin Laden,” he said. “It is a victory for the world. It is a victory for Somali army. ” Bill Roggio, the managing editor of
The Long War Journal, said
Mohammed’s death is a big triumph for both the U.S. and Somalia.
“Fazul is considered by U.S. intelligence officials to be al-Qaida’s most dangerous operative in Africa, ” he said. “He had an extensive network in the Horn of Africa and
beyond that allowed him to move in
and out of Somalia with ease. This
made him a difficult target for security
forces in the region.” According to the South African
passport he was carrying with him
when he was killed, Mohammed left
South Africa on March 19 and arrived
in Tanzania the next day, Diriye, the
security officer, said. The passport had no other stamps, indicating
Mohammed smuggled his way into
Somalia, he said. Tanzania is two
countries south of Somalia. Kenya lies
in between the two.
A senior Obama administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity
to discuss intelligence matters, called
Mohammed’s killing “a big win for global counterterrorism efforts.” “We commend the good work by the (Somali government forces),” the official added. “This is a very big deal. Fazul’s death removes one of the terrorist group’s most experienced operational planners in East Africa and
has almost certainly set back
operations.” Thousands of people were wounded
when a pickup truck rigged as a bomb
exploded outside the four-story U.S.
Embassy building in downtown
Nairobi. Within minutes, another
bomb shattered the U.S. mission in Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. The State Department has
vastly increased security at U.S.
embassies around the world since
those bombings, and has often been
criticized for sacrificing style for safety
with bland, fortress-like buildings. Another man suspected of
involvement in the embassy
bombings - Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan -
was killed in Somalia in a 2009 U.S.
raid.
Edith Bartley, whose father and brother were killed in the Kenya
embassy bombing, said the family
was “extremely, extremely pleased ” to hear the news. “We’re coming up on the 13th anniversary of the embassy bombing
and this individual was part of the
original indictment in the first al-Qaida
trial in 2001, so it’s long overdue,” said Bartley, who lives in Bowie,
Maryland.
Members of Somalia’s most dangerous militant group, al-Shabab, have
pledged allegiance to al-Qaida. Al-
Shabab’s members include veterans of the Iraq and Pakistan conflicts.
Hundreds of foreign fighters are
swelling the ranks of al-Shabab
militants who are trying in vain to
topple the country’s weak U.N.- backed government.
Somalia has been mired in violence
since 1991, when the last central
government collapsed.

UK e-waste illegally dumped in Ghana

One of the UK's leading waste and recycling companies has been linked to the growing underground trade in e-waste after campaigners uncovered evidence that broken television sets deposited at the firm's facilities were exported to Africa in contravention of regulations designed to stem the flow of electronic waste to developing countries, the Ecologist can reveal.

Merseyside-based Environment Waste Controls (EWC), whose clients are reported to include ASDA, Tesco, Barclays, the NHS and Network Rail, has admitted that electronic equipment from its amenity sites in South London ended up in West Africa after being exported by a third party company and says it has taken steps to prevent this happening in the future.

Campaigners from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) pinpoint the company in a report outlining Britain's role in the global e-waste trade, due to be published next week. The report details the findings of an 18 month investigation into how UK e-waste, much of it toxic, is ending up abroad where it is frequently processed in primitive conditions, posing a threat to the environment and human health.

A BBC Panorama programme to be broadcast on Monday night also investigates the trade and uncovers further evidence of UK electronics waste making its way to West Africa.

As part of the probe, EIA staff visited civic amenity sites in Merton and Croydon where e-waste collection is run by EWC and were told that some of the electrical waste arriving at the facilities was routinely collected by a separate company who exported it to Nigeria and Ghana.

Investigators were told at the Merton amenity site that at least seven tonnes of TVs were being sold to the third party company each week, at a cost of between £1.50 and £2.00 per set.

Under the Waste Electrical and Electronic (WEEE) Resources Regulations 2006, as long as the e-waste arriving at the sites was tested and found to be properly working its export would be permissible.

However, the EIA hid tracking devices inside television sets which had been disabled beyond repair and left them at the Merton and Croydon sites. Several weeks later, according to the group, GPS signals indicated that one TV had been shipped to Nigeria, ending up near a well known e-waste recycling centre, and one was found to have arrived in Ghana.

The EIA says this evidence demonstrates that proper checks were not always being carried out and that the broken TV sets should, under WEEE regulations, have been be sent for recycling in the UK or another developed country, not shipped to West Africa. The campaigners believe this is not an isolated example and say that intelligence suggests that British e-waste is regularly diverted from local authority sites into the black market.

'When disposing of used electrical goods at civic amenity sites, the public has a right to expect that the equipment will be disposed of in accordance with the law,' the group states.

In a statement to the Ecologist, EWC said that it welcomed the EIA report and acknowledged that e-waste from its facilities had ended up in Africa in contravention of WEEE regulations: 'This is unacceptable and EWC has put in place measures to prevent a reoccurrence of this practice and to undertake a full investigation in cooperation with the regulator and relevant authorities. We have instructed all our sub contractors that no electronic equipment deposited at designated collection facilities operated by EWC should leave the UK until further notice.'

EWC, which runs 49 local authority waste sites as well as handling waste and recycling on behalf of the public and private sector, also told the Ecologist that it has not worked with the third party company involved in exporting the faulty TVs to Africa since October 2010.

E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the UK, with more than one-million tonnes being generated annually according to some estimates. The UN has stated that global production of e-waste now totals at 50 million tonnes, of which only ten per cent is recycled.

E-waste can be hazardous to the environment and people - computer processors contain a mixture of chemicals and cathode ray tubes fitted in many older style TVs can contain lead. These substances are released when e-waste is stripped down in destination countries, often on vast unofficial waste dumps where workers lack protective clothing and health and safety regulations are poor or non-existant.

In recent years the UK authorities have stepped up efforts to combat the illegal trade in e-waste following growing concern about the scale of the activity.

The Environment Agency has a National Intelligence Team and an Environmental Crime Unit working to tackle the issue and has recently brought prosecutions against a number of individuals involved in e-waste trafficking. There are concerns however that funding for the Agency's e-waste work will be slashed as part of current cost-cutting measures.

Earlier this year the Environment Agency's head Paul Leinster said the body had found evidence of e-waste from government departments forming part of illegal exports.

As the Ecologist revealed in December 2010, the e-waste trade has attracted the interest of highly organised criminal gangs who see it as a lucrative and relatively risk-free activity. The EIA says its investigations have established how a complex network of brokers and middlemen are increasingly facilitating the movement of e-waste, making detection even harder for legitimate companies and the authorities.

'E-waste isn't a new problem and it isn't going away. It's time for the government and enforcement agencies to give this issue the resources and attention it warrants,' EIA's Fin Walravens said.

• Track My Trash - Panorama - is broadcast Monday May 16th 8.30pm BBC One

NATO airstrikes pound Tripoli targets

A security services building and the headquarters of Libya's anti-corruption agency in Tripoli have been set ablaze after being hit by apparent NATO air strikes.

The two buildings on Al-Jumhuriya Avenue are close to the residence of leader Muammar Gaddafi, in an area where two explosions were heard at around 1.30am on Tuesday (1130 GMT).

By 3am firefighters were battling to control flames that were tearing through the two facing buildings, according to an AFP correspondent brought to the area by Libyan authorities.

The head of Libya's Ministry for Inspection and Popular Control, the anti-corruption agency, was at the scene and said that some ministry employees had been injured, but provided no further details.

Government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim later said that the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC), based in eastern city of Benghazi, had directed NATO to attack the agency in a bid to destroy files related to former regime officials who have joined the rebellion.

"We believe that NATO has been misled to destroy files on their corruption cases," he told reporters.

Three explosions had also been heard earlier in the same area.

Parts of Tripoli have been targeted almost daily by NATO-led strikes carried out since a March 19 UN resolution called for the protection of civilians from Gaddafi's regime.



"NATO seems to be going with the rebel lead, in that no ceasefire agreement will made with Gaddafi, which therefore means continued military action," he said.

The assertion that Gaddafi is authorising the killing of civilians in a crackdown on anti-government rebels has prompted the International Criminal Court (ICC) to seek arrest warrants on Monday for the Libyan leader, his son and the country's intelligence chief.

Congo 0-3 Ghana

0-1 Prince Tagoe
0-2 Dominic Adiyiah
0-3 Sulley Ali Muntari

Starting XI : Richard Kingson, John Paintsil, David Addy/Lee Addy/J. Mensah, Isaac Vorsah, John Mensah, Anthony Annan, Andre Ayew/Muntari, Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu, Prince Tagoe/Inkoom, Dominic Adiyiah, Kwadwo Asamoah,

Reserves not used:

Ernest Sowah, Lee Addy, Bernard Kumordzi, Derek Boateng

Banana Peel fixture......

Group I is proving to be a three-horse race involving Sudan, Ghana and Congo with the Ghana Black Stars set for a banana peel fixture in Congo this weekend.

Ghana, 2010 World Cup quarterfinalists, lead the group on four points, same as Sudan with Congo a point behind.

Second-placed Sudan are expected to beat visiting Swaziland in Omdurman and could shoot to the top of the table should Congo and Ghana cancel themselves out in the other game in this group.

Congo fought back from a 2-0 reverse in Sudan to beat Swaziland 3-1, while Ghana were held to a scoreless draw in Kumasi by plucky Sudan after they demolished Swaziland 3-0 away from home.

Germany-based striker Francky Sembolo grabbed a brace for Congo in their home win over the Swazis.

Former Ghana skipper Stephen Appiah has warned that the relatively unknown Congolese will not be pushovers especially at their backyard.

“They should play team work and not individual play. They should not be selfish because they need to get the three points which is the most important thing. The result will be positive if they do all these,” cautioned Appiah.

Ghana trained in Nairobi, Kenya, for this match, but their build-up has been anything but plain sailing.

Chelsea star Michael Essien still won’t pitch with the Black Stars after asking for a break away from international football.

Sunderland midfielder Sulley Muntari is a major doubt for Sunday’s game as a result of injury, while the Ghana Football Association (GFA) have opened an investigation over claims by AC Milan ace Kevin Prince-Boateng that he is injured.

Star striker Asamoah Gyan has been suspended for this encounter and so a lot of responsibility in front of goal will now fall on on-form striker Prince Tagoe.

Tagoe has netted six goals in as many matches for Serbian giants Partizan Belgrade on loan from German club Hoffenheim.

“We know how crucial this game is for all of us. What is important is we beat Congo to enhance our chances and it doesn’t matter who scores the goals for that to happen,” said Tagoe.

New Ghana coach Goran Stevanovic, who will be making his competitive debut in Brazzaville, has been most impressed with Tagoe, who was played as a midfielder at last year’s World Cup in South Africa.

Goal scoring has remained the bane of the “African Brazilians”.