Tuesday 9 September 2008

J.K. Rowling Wins Copyright Suit, Pocket Change

J.K. Rowling Wins Copyright Suit, Pocket Change
9/8/08 at 5:24 PM

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We've been so consumed with other trials lately, we almost forgot about the J.K. Rowling copyright suit of clothes. Today, however, it's back in the news: "Federal District Judge Robert P. Patterson aforementioned Ms. Rowling had proved that Steven Vander Ark's 'Harry Potter Lexicon' would cause her irreparable trauma as a writer. He permanently blocked publication of the address guide and awarded Ms. Rowling and her publisher $6,750 in statutory damages." And the New York media cheered! [NYT]







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Wednesday 20 August 2008

Making it legal

People





In the biggest renown union since California legalized same-sex spousal relationship in May, talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, 50, and actress Portia de Rossi, 35, get married Saturday night in an intimate ceremony at their Beverly Hills home, People and Us Magazine reported. The ceremony was accompanied by 19 guests, including DeGeneres' ma, Betty, and de Rossi's mother, Margaret Rogers, world Health Organization had flown in from Australia.



The tradition continues



Chevy Chase provided a crucial run, and Alec Baldwin helped ensure that everyone did the right thing. Chase blasted a line take that helped turn the tide in favor of the Artists team when it was down 20 in a star-studded Hamptons charity-softball game against the Writers. The Artists went on to win 42. Baldwin was an umpire for Saturday's contest at the far east end of Long Island. It was the 60th installment of the annual Artists and Writers Game, a tradition started by artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Saturday's game elevated more than $60,000 for hospice, day attention and drug-rehabilitation services.



Attitudes



Unions do count



A new study says "women start adult life-time happier than men only end up less happy" in by and by years � a change largely based on unfirm feelings roughly family life and money. Early on, says the study, "women are more likely than men to be in unions, and this makes for greater fulfillment of both menage life and material" goals. But it doesn't detain that way; as they age, "women are less likely to be in unions" and their sense of happiness declines. Women tend to experience this turnabout in their late 40s, when men are achieving more of their financial goals, says the study by University of Southern California economist Richard Easterlin and University of Cambridge sociologist Anke Plagnol.



Passages



Brazilian composer and singer Dorival Caymmi, 94, who catapulted to fame when Carmen Miranda performed one of his songs in 1938, died Saturday of kidney cancer and multiple organ failure in his Rio de Janeiro home.



Johnny Moore, 70, a trumpeter and founding member of the pioneering Jamaican ska and reggae stripe The Skatalites, died of cancer Saturday in Kingston, Jamaica.



Leroy Sievers, 53, a National Public Radio reviewer who turned his struggle with cancer into a popular and touching radio and online series, died from his disease Friday at his home in Maryland.



Today in History




1587: Virginia Dare became the low child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C.



1920: The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of all American women to vote, was ratified as Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to approve it.



1963: James Meredith became the number one black scholarly person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.



Today's Birthdays



Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, 81. Movie director Roman Polanski, 75. Actor Robert Redford, 71. Actor Denis Leary, 51. Actress Madeleine Stowe, 50. Newsman Bob Woodruff, 47. Actor Christian Slater, 39. Actor Edward Norton, 39.



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Sunday 10 August 2008

ViaViente Demonstrates Cardiovascular Benefits In New Human Trial

�Francis, 50, never imagined that
drink a high anti-oxidant fruit beverage every day could help protect
his wellness -- in just 1 week. That's what he found out after active
in a clinical tryout near his home in Los Angeles, Calif.



A new study conducted by Bell Ventures, shows that after only 7 days,
platelet assembling, a known indicator of cardiovascular disease (CVD),
was significantly reduced in many of the participants wHO took the
anti-oxidant ware, ViaViente, twice a day.



David Bell, President of Bell Ventures, said, "These results are
important because they read how a natural antioxidant and
anti-inflammatory product care ViaViente tin can help protect against one of
our most dangerous health concerns."



Health experts recommend a daily inlet of anti-oxidants, especially in
their natural form. Oxidative stress causes damage to cells and contributes
to aging and disease. Anti-oxidants combat personal effects of oxidative stress such
as inflammation.



A recent independent write up, A Consumer Conscious Look at Six Premium
Anti-Oxidant Products, by Frank Ervolino, ND, shows that ViaViente
outperformed other popular products using ORAC -- an industry standard for
antioxidant testing. This is an important indication of quality and
potency benefits.



Clinical research shows the connexion between what's in the product
and actual outcomes in human health.



The ViaViente study takes direct aim at the benefits to cardiovascular
health of consuming a non-drug, instinctive food product. It correlates the
ingestion of ViaViente to thrombocyte inhibition -- a mark of CVD.



Why is cardiovascular wellness so crucial? The American Heart
Association reports that approximately 80 million people in the United
States have CVD; nearly 2,400 people die of CVD every day; more than people die
from CVD than from cancer, machine accidents, and Type 2 diabetes combined; an
estimated 1.2 million Americans will sustain new or recurrent heart attacks in
2008.



Little wonder cardiovascular care is one of our to the highest degree serious wellness
concerns.



The study uses an established test to measure the reduction of
thromboxane in human metabolism. Thromboxane contributes to
vasoconstriction, which rear increase blood pressure, and platelet
stickiness which crapper lead to clot formation. Both ar associated with
higher relative incidence of serious cardiovascular events. Reducing the production
of thromboxane fanny help reduce vasoconstriction and platelet stickiness.



Experts agree that there is a well established relationship 'tween
thromboxane and cardiovascular office. In fact, clinical enquiry on it
was pioneered by dose companies looking for its relationship to aspirin
therapy.



Research indicates that natural anti-oxidants can be effective in
reduction thromboxane. The objective of this study was to measure the
effectiveness of a proven antioxidant intersection, ViaViente, at reducing
thromboxane in humankind, and having a demonstrable benefit to cardiovascular
wellness.



The sketch investigated the effects of the recommended daily sTD of
ViaViente for 1 week later a wash period. Sixteen subjects successfully
completed the protocol.



Results fell into two categories: significant betterment or no
significant change. After only one hebdomad, 38% of the subjects showed
substantial improvement: an average of 16%.



The research squad is planning a second phase that will measure results
in the same subjects o'er one month. Bell aforementioned that he expects to see an
even greater benefit among more participants.



In the mean time, Francis plans to extend taking ViaViente every day.


Bell Ventures LLC
http://www.bellventures.com



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Wednesday 2 July 2008

Eternal Flight

Eternal Flight   
Artist: Eternal Flight

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


Positive Rage   
 Positive Rage

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11




 






Monday 23 June 2008

Michael Garrison

Michael Garrison   
Artist: Michael Garrison

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   



Discography:


Brave New World   
 Brave New World

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 7


Live Vol. 2   
 Live Vol. 2

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 11


Live Vol. 1   
 Live Vol. 1

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12


Tranquility Cove (Compilation)   
 Tranquility Cove (Compilation)

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 8


A Positive Reflecting Glow   
 A Positive Reflecting Glow

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 11


The Rhythm Of Life   
 The Rhythm Of Life

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 9


Prisms   
 Prisms

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 10


In The Regions Of Sunreturn   
 In The Regions Of Sunreturn

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


Eclipse   
 Eclipse

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 9


Aurora Dawn   
 Aurora Dawn

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


An Earth-Star Trilogy   
 An Earth-Star Trilogy

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 11


Images   
 Images

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 10


Point Of Impact   
 Point Of Impact

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 11


The Distance From Here   
 The Distance From Here

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 7




A longstanding American exponent of sequencer-based medicine, Garrison has released over a vi albums of high-energy electronics. Strongly influenced by European innovators like Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, this Oregon-based artist enjoys propellent listeners into rhythmic travels along the space-time continuum continuum.






Tuesday 10 June 2008

Rupert apologizes


Outspoken actor Rupert Everett has apologized to British servicemen for branding them �whining wimps� � insisting his comments were �flippant and irresponsible,� imdb.com reports.

The Stardust actor, whose own father was a major in the British Army, made the controversial comments in a documentary filmed for the U.K.�s Channel 4 about 19th-century soldier Sir Richard Burton.

The star compared modern day soldiers to old-fashioned recruits, insisting British fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan constantly �whine� about facing the risk of death.










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