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Hip hop star Lauryn Hill gets three months for tax evasion

Last Monday, U.S. magistrate judge sentenced Grammy-winning hip hop artist Lauryn Hill to three months in prison, three months in home confinement and a $60,000 fine for federal tax evasion.

Last year Lauryn Hill pleaded guilty to three counts of failing to file tax returns on more than $1.8 million of income between 2005 and 2007 and faced up to three years in prison.

Hill has credited her failure to pay taxes to years of pressure she practiced as a recording star all at the same time with raising six children, causing her to go underground and shut away from the public eye.

On the eve of her scheduled sentencing, Hill paid $504,000 in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service and another $420,000 to the state of New Jersey, her attorney told the court. She still owes another $285,000 in interest and penalties.

“When the government is asking for 36 months and the judge gives three months, I think the judge gave a fair and reasonable sentence,” Hill’s attorney Nathan Hochman told reporters.

Thirty months to the maximum of 36 months was asked by the prosecutors for a sentence.

Hill’s lack of a criminal record, her six children and her repayment of the back taxes as mitigating factors in the sentence, cited U.S. Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo.

Hill, native of South Orange, New Jersey, must report on or before July 8. Her attorney asked the court to assign her a facility close to home. Part of one year of supervised probation is the three months of home confinement following the prison stay.

Hill told the court she pulled away from society because her life was in crisis, received veiled threats and was blacklisted because she did not conform to the norms of the music industry.

“I was being perceived as a cash cow, not a person,” Hill said.

Just this Friday, a new single by Hill, her first in several years, called “Neurotic Society,” was posted on iTunes.

“Here is a link to a piece that I was ‘required’ to release immediately, by virtue of the impending legal deadline,” her Tumblr social media page said on Saturday.

She signed a new contract with Sony Worldwide Entertainment and was working on her first album of new material in more than a decade, her lawyers attest.

Hill’s seminal 1998 solo album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” won the singer five Grammy awards. She was a former member of the Fugees rap trio.

Music Effects to Prenatal Babies

Babies can hear sounds from the outside world as early as when they are still in the womb. Music is one type of noise that gets a lot of attention. According to preliminary researches it appears to indicate that your unborn child might enjoy and benefit slightly from a daily dose of music although the jury is still out on the true impact of prenatal exposure to Mozart and Bach.

More or less at 17 weeks gestation a baby can start to hear sounds, normally just about the condition when the mother starts on feeling the first tiny flutters of movement and prior to the baby’s sex is clearly identifiable. At the time when the baby is on his 26 weeks, his heartbeat will rate rapidly in response to sounds, including music that comes from outside the womb. Babies have been observed breathing simultaneously with the music, signifying consciousness of the beat happening during 33 weeks gestation and by 38 weeks, a baby in the womb responds in a different way to different types of music, showing different rates of fetal movement

According to Baby Center, the true effect of music on prenatal development remains unknown. A loosely-controlled preliminary study in the “Music Educators Journal” in 1985 found that babies exposed to music before birth had longer attention spans than expected for their age and imitated adult sounds better. One more small study in 1997 in “Pre- & Peri-Natal Psychology Journal” looked at babies enrolled in a program called FirstStart, which exposed unborn babies to musical stimulation. These babies demonstrated better motor skills, language development and cognitive skills from birth to six months comparing to the control group of babies. On the other hand, since these studies were minute and have not been recurring, the query of whether and how much music influences unborn babies stays under investigation.

Back in 1991, a study concerning six pregnant women and a broader follow-up study in 1993 both examined at whether babies could be familiar with music they had heard in the womb after birth. Music includes: Classical piano music, vocal music and rock music were all played through headphones on the mother’s belly. Babies who heard music in the womb reacted with more awareness and physical actions during six weeks after birth, demonstrating that they have known the music they had heard in the womb. According to the BBC, this recognition of prenatal music experiences might actually last 12 months or more after birth. Letting babies listen to familiar music after birth might aid to calm a restless child who identifies the tune.

Mothers should remember that if they want to expose their unborn baby to music should not turn the volume up too loud. The too loud music could over stimulate the fetus or even damage the developing ear.

She Can't Pay says the Woman Who Lost Downloading Case

Pirates are not just hunting oceans’ floor but also the music industry. There’s still no way she can pay record companies the $222,000 judgment she owes said the Minnesota woman at the center of a long-running court fight over the unauthorized downloading of copyrighted music after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal Monday.

The justices did not give remark on their decision. The amount was excessive argued by the attorneys of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, of Brainerd.

In the early to mid-2000s, the music industry filed thousands of lawsuits in opposition to people it charged of downloading music without authorization and without paying for it. Most of these cases were settled for about $3,500 apiece. Only two defendants refused to pay and went to trial one of them is Thomas-Rasset while the other was former Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum. The later also lost and was ordered to pay $675,000.

Back in 2006, the initial case was file against Thomas-Rasset. Ever since the case was filed has gone through three trials and several appeals. According to the evidences presented by the industry, Thomas-Rasset made available over 1,700 songs to other computer uses via the file-sharing service Kazaa, though the lawsuit targeted only 24 songs.

“I’m assuming that since they declined to hear the case it’s probably done at this point,” she said. But she also said she needed to consult with her attorneys to determine what happens next.

Thomas-Rasset at the age of 35 and who works for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe tribal government, maintained her claim that as she has all along can’t afford to pay.

“There’s no way that they can collect,” she said. “Right now, I get energy assistance because I have four kids. It’s just the one income. My husband isn’t working. It’s not possible for them to collect even if they wanted to. I have no assets.”

She became a grandmother in June, Thomas-Rasset added.

She refused both times when the Recording Industry Association of America offered to settle for $5,000 when it first sued, and offered to settle for a $25,000 donation to a charity for music industry people in need after her second trial.

“We appreciate the Court’s decision and are pleased that the legal case is finally over,” the trade group said in a statement. “We’ve been willing to settle this case from day one and remain willing to do so.”

Kiwi Camara, of Houston, Thomas-Rasset’s attorney, uttered displeasure in the result but oblique in an email that the legal options may still carry out. He noted that Tenenbaum’s case will still live before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Tenenbaum is still demanding the size of the judgment against him. His attorneys, including Camara, dispute that it’s “grossly disproportionate” to his offense.

Kanye West: Excited Father-to-be | My BlackHawk Mines Music

Kanye West’s series of concerts in Atlantic City last December 30, 2012 came to be a surprise for everyone. Every night he managed to surprise everyone, on the first night he played dress-up, second night he ranted. But the third and final night was the night he shocked everyone, he declared that he is a father-to-be. This was the first time we ever saw him with a genuine happiness on his face, he couldn’t take that smile off.

At 35, Kanye is as excited as a kid on his Christmas presents. During a freestyle of “Lost in the World” he revealed that Kim kardashan, 32, will going to be his “baby’s mama.”

Kanye was really happy when he heard about the news. “He’s known this for some time now,” according to reliable source. “You don’t even know how f**king excited this [guy] is about being a father.” So blackmail is not a question here because he is genuinely happy.

Kanye was overcome with emotion when Kim told him the good news, the source added.

The sorce also revealed, “He’s like really on one right now and I don’t know if I should say this, but [Kanye] was crying when Kim told him she was knocked up.”

The source also adds, “I heard he got on his knees in front of Kim, she rubbed his head while he was crying and he was kissing her stomach. Guess he was overwhelmed at that point and couldn’t believe he’s about to be a father.”

This is all maybe because Kanye in fact grew up without his father by his side. His parents got divorced and Kanye and his mother moved to Chicago when he was 3. He will only go and see his father on Christmas, spring break and summer. He considers his father as his everything although most of the time his mother was his everything. He once said to an interview, “It gets to the point that when you go to high school and you wasn’t out in the streets like that, and you ain’t have no father figure, or you wasn’t around your father all the time, who you gonna act like? You gonna act like your mother. … And then everybody in high school be like, “Yo, you actin’ like a f–. Dog, you gay?” And I used to deal with that when I was in high school.” Maybe this is exactly his reason why he is excited to become a dad.

Although Kardashian’s family was as excited as Kanye, latter’s family reacted negatively. Kim’s family even tweeted about her pregnancy with Kanye.

Kanye’s family was the first ones to learn about Kim’s pregnancy and let us just say that they did not react like Kim’s family. Tony Williams, Kanye’s cousin, said that Kanye’s baby announcement wasn’t met with champagne showers by his family.

He said that when Kanye spilled the news when he flew in the day after Christmas without Kim, they were quite and shocked.

The family did not respond so Kanye had to ask Tony for his reaction and he said, “You are 35 years old. You have to have a kid eventually.”

But eventually the family came around and said that they are all really excited for him and Kim. Yes, excited but shocked.

As we all know Kim is still technically married to Kris Humphries, so marriage was still not in the way for the two. And blackmail is out of the question because the couple looks happy in their situation.

They have been quite about it. And the family did not ask about it too according to Tony that is because Kanye did not say anything about it.

Black Hawk Mines Music - MTV boss Bono calls 'Digital Dermot' in New York

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0928/1224324532192.html

BUSINESS INTERVIEW: As executive vice president of digital media for MTV’s music brands, Dubliner Dermot McCormack is confronting head-on the challenges all media companies face in an ever-changing digital landscape

IT’S HARD TO know what to envy Dermot McCormack for most – his 17th-floor, corner office (the sign, in America, at least, that you have truly arrived) overlooking Times Square, or the fact that Bono has a nickname for him: Digital Dermot from Dublin.

To be fair, he has earned it. McCormack is now executive vice president of digital media for MTV’s music brands – including MTV itself, VH1, Country Music Television (CMT) and Logo TV.

“My job is to move these cable TV brands into new platforms, expand the brands, expand the audience and make money while I’m doing it,“ says McCormack – who is originally from Ballyfermot – as though this were easy peasy.

Few know quite as well as him, however, just how tricky the internet can be. An early pioneer of new media in the 1990s, McCormack was around for the dot com bubble (the first one, as some would argue). In fact, he was right at the heart of it.

Having moved to New York in the early 1990s (the day after he graduated from DIT Kevin Street with a degree in electronic engineering – “My poor Mom,” he says. “I never came back!”), McCormack was among those who built some of the earliest websites.

Eventually, he went to work in advertising for the hottest new things around at the time – a website callediVillage.com. (So early on in the web age was this that McCormack talks about having approached Toyota about web advertising before the company had any sort of presence on the internet.)

The iVillage group of websites still exists today, but you would be hard pushed to find any sign of the fact that, when the company went public in 1999, it was the biggest IPO in history.

Shares in the company peaked at just over $100 shortly after the initial public offering, before plummeting to almost zero two years later. In 2006, NBC Universal bought the company for roughly $8 a share.

McCormack – who had owned a percentage – made off like a bandit as soon as the IPO lockout period ended, however. Then, with a few quid in his back pocket, he co-founded one of the first online payments companies, called Flooz.com.

“At the time e-commerce was really taking off in a big way, and Flooz was kind of like a PayPal. In fact, we used to laugh at PayPal … Not so much later,“ he recalls. “You could send people money through email, basically. That was the idea. And you could buy things at places like Barnes and Noble and Restoration Hardware and Tower Records with your Flooz number.”

Flooz was an instant hit. Whoopi Goldberg starred in the TV commercials, and venture capitalists were falling over themselves to invest in what would surely be a huge hit when it would eventually go public.

“We raised tons and tons of money. I think at one point we were worth $200 million,” says McCormack.

It was around this time that he and his identical twin brother, Stephen, appeared on the front of Business Finance magazine, photographed as two powerful, serious-looking businessmen. (McCormack’s twin is the founder and CEO of Straywave media in Dublin, responsible for bringing you shows such as Fade Street and Dublin Housewives).

Framed, and hanging on the wall above his desk at MTV, the article was headlined “Two Brothers, Two Cities, Two Fortunes”.

“At least I still have two of the three,” he laughs, because Flooz.com’s success was not to last.

“We took her all the way down the other side to going bankrupt,” admits McCormack, candidly. “It had a silly name, but it was the right idea. It was probably just a bit early.

“And, actually, the business model was good. We just got taken out by fraud. I guess it’s a positive sign when you create a currency and someone wants to steal it,” he smiles.

Describing it as “a very painful moment”, McCormack then had to set about firing the 200 employees he had hired.

“And then you have to sell your conference-room table for about 10 cents on the dollar,” he says, recalling one of the lowest points.

Not so much burned by the dot com bubble as trapped in the house as it went up in flames, you might think McCormack would not have had the stomach to continue his love affair with the internet. But you would be wrong.

“All these people were leaving and going back to consulting – we used to call it B-to-C – because it was like, ‘This was over, it was a bubble’. But I disagreed. I still felt like this was gonna change the world. And I was the only person thinking that in 2000,” he says.

Rather than throw his own hat in the ring again, however, McCormack decided he wanted to learn about the business side from the pros, and spent the next several years working with the US cable television company Cablevision on its broadband projects.

“I liked the idea of going the cable industry, because the one thing they do know very well is business. They knew how to get $200 dollars out of your wallet every month, and they still do,” he says.

“I just felt there were a lot of business lessons to be learned. The new-media guys at the time, they didn’t seem to want to go somewhere as unsexy as a local cable company. But I did, and I wanted to learn.”

And that’s just what he did. Six years later, a former Cablevision colleague brought McCormack into MTV. And three years ago he moved into his current role.

For MTV, McCormack could not have come along at a better time. With the emergence of social media which, as McCormack says, had promised billions of dollars in revenue “and all sorts of things that never materialised”, the company was struggling to make its mark on the web.

“When I got here we’d seen a bunch of things that hadn’t worked, and everybody was at the end of their rope with their patience for these platforms. We had to start from the very beginning,” he explains.

“We really doubled down on social media. We hired a whole group, and put someone in charge of it. The PR people were in charge of social media when I got here! And now MTV has over 100 million likes on Facebook. We’re also the top media brand on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr,” he adds.

In August of last year, McCormack chalked up another major “win”, when, after teaming up with Warner Music, MTV became the most visited online music website – prising that title away from the Google-backed Vevo.

“So we beat Vevo and Yahoo and AOL. That was one of the first things we accomplished in the new regime and that gave the team confidence, and it gave management a little bit of confidence,” he says, proudly.

And the secret of McCormack’s success?

Content.

“We have little sayings like, ‘No amount of technology can make a bad story good’ … Ultimately, we’re storytellers. And no matter what device you have, no matter what screen you have or however many social media accounts, at the end of the day, what you want is a good character, and a good story. The Irish know this better than any nation in the world, I would say,” he explains.

So McCormack and his team have set about trying to tell those same stories in different ways with the “new crayons” the internet has created.

One of his latest – and favourite – creations is the O Music Awards (O for Online). Self-described as “celebrating the best in digital music”, these awards are doled out for things such as “Must Follow Artist on Twitter”, “Best Music Hack” and “Digital Genius”.

Now in their third year, the awards took the form of a 24-hour show this year, live-streamed on the internet, folloing The Flaming Lips on an eight-city, eight-gig bus tour through the southern states, from Memphis to New Orleans.

“So that’s the latest creative achievement from my team, and the great news working for a company like this is that there’s really no end to where you can go. That’s just an example of it,“ says McCormack.

“Remember, we’re the same company that brought you ‘Unplugged’. Before ‘Unplugged’ you never saw a rock band playing acoustic, or a pop-up video. What about Beavis and Butt-head and Jackass? So that’s the kind of company I work for, and that’s the legacy that we have.

“And I like to think that, somewhere in the mix, there’s an Irishman that’s taking up that legacy and pushing it forward into these crazy, fun places that won’t all work but hopefully – who knows? Maybe we’ll make history,” he adds.

Of his adopted home, New York, McCormack says it is still a place that welcomes Irish people with open arms. He also believes it is still a place where Irish people can succeed as he did, having arrived here on J1 visa just over 20 years ago, with “some romantic notion that I wanted to be a writer”.

Of his success, however, he says he can really only pinpoint one thing that helped him get where he is today.

“It sounds obvious, but I really always have to get back to the working hard thing. That’s just a requirement. It’s not a guarantee, but it’s a guarantee if you don’t do it …

“And I think it’s also helpful to somehow find yourself in a place where you really know what it is you wanna do,” he says. “Eventually you have to have a vision of what you wanna do and then you have to be unstoppable.”

For McCormack, that place was New York. And his vision took shape with the advent of the internet.

“It was almost like I didn’t have a home until came along. But now I could use my technical expertise and my creative leanings. This was the early 1990s, and I basically just fell in love with the medium,” he explains.

“But, I will say this: you learn more from failure than you do from success. So I learned a lot . It wasn’t a pretty thing, but I do think you learn a lot and it builds character.“

Focus on Florida as campaign rolls on

(CNN) — Florida takes center stage in the presidential campaign on Thursday, with President Barack Obama heading to Miami for Spanish-language network Univision’s “Meet the Candidates” town hall meeting. Republican challenger Mitt Romney campaigns in Sarasota.

With 29 electoral votes, Florida is always a key state in presidential elections. Obama carried the state in 2008 after President George W. Bush narrowly won Florida twice.

Both candidates are also battling for the Latino vote, a particularly strong bloc in Florida. In the latest Gallup poll, registered Hispanic voters favor Obama over Romney 66% to 26%.

Romney, who will attend private fund-raisers in Palm GOP challenger Mitt Romney appears to be slipping behind in some key battleground states, according to a series of new polls. Beach after his Sarasota rally, took his turn at the Univision forum on Wednesday.

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September is an amazing month for the Tumblr book community. We invite you to join us at these four New York City celebrations for readings, comedy, music, cocktails, and more. All are free and open to the public.

9/4 How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life with Dan Wilbur, Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Join stand-up comedian and indie bookseller Dan Wilbur as he hosts a night of live comedy and storytelling in celebration of his first book. With Chris Gethard, Elna Baker, and Adam Newman.

9/13 Hacking the Future: A Launch Event and Panel to Discuss the Web’s Anonymity “Problem,” Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Author Cole Stryker will be joined by Clay Shirky, Whitney Phillips, John Young, and Deborah Natsios for a conversation examining why the identity issue may be the most crucial decision we face in the coming decade.

9/17 Tumblr, Electric Literature, The New Inquiry, and the Los Angeles Review of Books invite you to celebrate the Opening Night of Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends, Public Assembly

Three top web-based literary publications (and Tumblr super-users) invite you meet your internet friends in person for chatting, drinking, and dancing to kick off the most bookish week in Brooklyn. Music from DJs Abby Klein and Doc Delay and free drink specials enhance the East Coast vs. West Coast faceoff — and everybody wins!

9/25 Launch Party for Suri’s Burn Book & F*ck! I’m in My 20s, Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Meet Allie Hagan, Emma Koenig, and all your Tumblr friends for free drinks, comedy, readings, music and more.

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World News in brief for September 12, 2012

MIDDLE EAST: PRESIDENT Barack Obama has condemned a rocket attack on an American Consulate which left the US Ambassador to Libya dead.

Ambassador Chris Stevens, 52, died alongside three guards, as he went to the Benghazi consulate to try to evacuate staff as the building came under attack by a mob firing machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

MIDDLE EAST: Muslim anger over perceived Western insults to Islam has exploded several times.

The violence, fuelled mostly by religious zealots, reflects the tension between Muslims and the secular West that followed the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

MIDDLE EAST: A film-maker whose movie attacking Islam’s prophet Mohammed sparked assaults on US missions in Egypt and Libya, where an American diplomat was killed, said today he had gone into hiding.

California-based writer and director Sam Bacile remained defiant, saying Islam was a cancer and he intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion.

EUROPE: Eurozone countries have been asked to hand control of their banks to the EU in an attempt to solve its crippling financial crisis.

In a proposal that represents one the most significant surrenders of national sovereignty since the creation of the euro in 1999, the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, wants to make the European Central Bank the single supervisor for all 6,000 banks in the 17 countries that use the currency.

GREECE: A fresh wave of anti-austerity strikes has hit Greece as its leaders struggled to agree further spending cuts for the coming two years – without which the country will lose its vital rescue loans.

State hospital doctors, teachers and local authority employees walked off the job to protest over planned salary and funding cuts.

AMERICA: Americans marked the anniversary of the September 11 2001 attacks with tearful messages to loved ones and moments of silence, but the smaller ceremonies gave a sense of moving on 11 years after nearly 3,000 people died in the worst terror attack in US history.

Hundreds gathered at the World Trade Centre site in New York, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to read the names of the dead.

AMERICA: The White House has denied reports of a rift with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that he and President Barack Obama reaffirmed the two countries’ commitment to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Mr Obama and Mr Netanyahu spoke for an hour and the White House said later that the two men agreed to continue “close consultations going forward” regarding Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

PAKISTAN: More than 300 people have died in two factory fires that broke out in Pakistan’s two biggest cities.

Many perished because they were unable to escape buildings that lacked emergency exits and basic safety equipment such as alarms and sprinklers.

NETHERLANDS: Dutch voters are going to the polls to elect a new parliament in a test of whether they have the stomach to continue with stringent austerity measures.

Many Dutch voters have begun questioning their role in the EU since the debt crisis erupted, feeling that their wealthy nation is paying too high a price to help bail out countries like Greece and Portugal.

RUSSIA: Ten people were killed and four injured today in a plane crash in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, officials said.

The Antonov-28 plane crash-landed near the town of Palana in western Kamchatka, 4,200 miles east of Moscow, according to the emergencies ministry.

INDIA: A political cartoonist jailed on sedition charges for drawings that mocked corruption in the Indian government has been released on bail.

Aseem Trivedi walked out of Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail after the local high court said there was no need for him to be held in prison.

AMERICA: Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg said he had not enjoyed seeing his company’s stock pummelled on Wall Street this summer, but was relishing the opportunity to prove his critics wrong.

“I would rather be in a cycle where people underestimate us because I’d rather be underestimated,” chief executive Mr Zuckerberg said. “I think it gives us the latitude to go out and make some big bets.”

AMERICA: The US tax agency has awarded a former Swiss banker $104 million (£65m) for providing information about overseas tax cheats – the largest amount awarded by the Internal Revenue Service, lawyers for the whistleblower say.

Bradley Birkenfeld is credited with exposing widespread tax evasion at Swiss bank UBS AG.

Blackhawk Mines Corp. announces Big Bear Joint Venture Funding and Initiation of Field Program

OCALA, FLORIDA – AUGUST 4, 2011 (IMMEDIATE RELEASE) – Blackhawk Mines Corp., B06N.F, WKN

Number - A1H52M, ISIN Number - CA08265A1003, website - www.blackhawkmines.com is pleased to

announce that the company has advanced the initial payment for the initiation of a work program on

the Big Bear Mining Claims.

This is the initial payment of a $10,000,000 Joint Venture entered by the two companies with the goal of

proving the indicated gold resources on the Big Bear claims and if warranted, developing the Big Bear

property to possible production. Siga’s work program and the beginning of evaluation of the project are

underway as of Aug 3, 2011.

The work program will consist of extensive mapping of existing trenches, outcrop, oxidized zones and

other previous workings including drill sites. Geochem sampling of large areas of the claim group along

with sampling of all pits and trenches will be conforming with previous mapped and sampled areas

which returned assays of greater than .01 oz/ton gold in the soil geochem. These areas of greater than

.01 oz/ton gold covered a large area of the claim group and give rise to the anticipated total indicated

contained ounces of gold which could range from 1 to 2 million ounces.

The Big Bear project is currently controlled under an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the property.

It is situated near Lucerne Valley, CA and currently consists of approx 1440 acres (approx 2.25 square

miles) of mining claims. The Big Bear Claims are on the North eastern edge of the San Bernardino

Mountains. The project area is known historically as the Blackhawk mining District has been a previous

producer of gold and silver. The area is believed to contain economically viable gold mineralization,

particularly at the current metals prices. Anticipated total contained gold based on existing reports and

studies could be in the range of 2 to 3 million ounces.

About Blackhawk Mines Corp

Blackhawk Mines Corp. is a junior resource company that is active in the exploration and development

of mineral resources. The Company is currently developing the Big Bear Claims located in San

Bernardino County, California. The Company is currently reviewing additional acquisitions in North

America, as well as potential joint venture opportunities in South America.

Blackhawk Mines Corp currently has a joint venture agreement with Siga Resources Inc., a Nevada

company to earn a 50% joint venture interest in the Big Bear gold mining property near Lucerne Valley,

San Bernardino County, California.

About Siga Resources Inc

Siga Resources Inc, founded in 2007, is based in South Lake Tahoe, California. Siga is a mineral resource

exploration and development company. Siga’s strategy targets properties that have the potential for near term production and early positive cash flow. Siga’s general geographical interest is North and

South America.

Disclaimer & Safe Harbor Statement:

This release may contain certain “forward-looking statements” with respect to certain of Blackhawk

Mines Corp. ‘s plans, goals and expectations regarding its future financial condition, performance,

results, strategy and objectives. Words such as “anticipates”, “expects”, “intends”, “plans”, “believes”,

“seeks”, “estimates”, “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” and variations of these words or similar

expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. In addition, any statements that refer

to expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objections, performance or other characterizations of future

events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements in this press release are not promises or guarantees of future performance

and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause Blackhawk Mines Corp. ‘s actual results to

differ materially from those anticipated. Blackhawk Mines Corp. cautions the reader not to place undue

reliance upon any such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known

and unknown risks as well as uncertainties, including those discussed herein as well as the following: (i)

domestic and global economic and business conditions; (ii) market related risks and the performance of

financial markets generally; (iii) the policies and actions of regulatory authorities; (iv) the impact of

competitive factors; (v) risks and uncertainties associated with future acquisitions or combinations

within relevant industries; and (vi) changes in capital, solvency or accounting standards as well as tax

and other relevant legislation or regulations in the jurisdictions in which Blackhawk Mines Corp.

operates. The actual results that Blackhawk Mines Corp. achieves may differ materially from any

forward-looking statements which are based on management’s beliefs and opinions at the time the

statements are made. Blackhawk Mines Corp. does not undertake any obligation to update forwardlooking statements should circumstances or management’s beliefs or opinions change.

For further information please contact:

Blackhawk Mines Corp.

4577 S.W. 103 Street Road,

Ocala, Fl. 34476

info@blackhawkmines.com

John Mayer sued for 'receiving money from fraudulent investment scheme' ran by notorious criminal Darren Berg

He is the middle class singer who likes to sing the blues.

So perhaps John Mayer’s music may sound a little more authentic now he is being sued over allegedly receiving money from a fraudulent investment operation.

As much as $465,000 was handed over to the star’s representatives by a Ponzi scheme ran by notorious criminal Frederick Darren Berg.

He was given an 18-year-sentance in February for duping investors out of more than $100m through his investment company.

According to TMZ, Mayer was drawn into the frame when the trustees charged with recovering as much of the stolen money as possible decided to sue those who had benefited.

New legal documents show he is one of the people who received dirty money after a booking agency was allegedly paid by his company.

It is claimed Grabow & Associates, and their client and Mayer by extension, are in possession of as much as $465,000.

The agency specialises in booking entertainment for corporate and private events, and set up the Your Body is Wonderland singer with a money-spinning appearance in 2008.

Mayer’s lawyer said: ‘John Mayer performed at a corporate event in 2008 and was paid for his services.

‘The opportunity was brought to John through his talent agency, CAA.’

A ruling has yet to be delivered on the case.

Nice work if you can get it: The middle class blues singer played a show in 2008

Frederick Darren Berg was sentenced to 18 years in prison for defrauding hundreds of investors of more than $100 million through the Meridian Mortgage investment funds he ran for nearly a decade.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard A. Jones imposed the prison term recommended by Berg’s plea agreement.

He told him: ‘I’m not sure how you live with yourself, with the damage that you caused.’

Judge Jones noted that the lead defendant in a $90 million Ponzi scheme previously considered Washington state’s largest fraud received a 20-year sentence.

But he said the slightly shorter term for Berg was appropriate since he’d mostly cooperated with prosecutors and bankruptcy trustees unravelling the labyrinthine workings of his firm.

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