Thursday 4 September 2008

Barack Obama Chooses Joseph Biden As Vice Presidential Running Mate, Sources Say





Presumptive Democratic presidential campaigner Barack Obama has chosen Delaware Senator Joseph Biden as his running mate, according to CNN. Citing "multiple Democratic sources" the network reported the word at around 1 a.m. on Saturday (August 23), though the Obama campaign had planned to reveal the vice presidential pick via a textual matter message sent to supporters. Most expected to receive the newsworthiness sometime on Saturday aurora, before the two running mates ar scheduled to attend a rally in Springfield, Illinois.


Biden will be taking the stage at the Democratic National Convention next week as part of a history-making ticket looking to take on Republican Senator John McCain and his soon-to-be-announced running mate in November.


The 65-year-old senator has long been considered a top rival for a job. As chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, with close to sixer terms in the Senate under his belt, Biden has the experience many think Obama lacks in foreign insurance policy and defence mechanism issues. He's also a Catholic with a blue-collar background, which could help oneself Obama with that demographic.


On the former hand, the Washington old-timer (who ran for president himself in 1988 and 2008) represents a country that is already in Obama's column, and he has a history of putting his foot in his mouthpiece. On the campaign train earlier this year, Biden received fire for vocation Obama "the first mainstream African-American world Health Organization is enounce and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy cable." He quickly apologized for the statement.


In the days leading up to the announcement the speculation ramped up, with every media outlet digging for every kernel of information that might advise who Obama was passing to choose, staking out those on the short list and practically beggary them for any hints. As of earlier this week, the New York Times reported that the short list had gotten down to a trio of voltage VPs that included Biden, Indiana's Senator Evan Bayh and Virginia Governor Tim Kaine.


As the time ticked down on Obama's announcement, supporters of the senator's one-time rival for the Democratic nomination, Senator Hillary Clinton, began to lose hope that Obama would choose the former first lady, fifty-fifty as the buzz about her connexion the ticket picked up again. Fox News level reported on Friday that there was a displace afoot by some delegates to force Clinton onto the slate. Another long shot prospect, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, was likewise said to be in the running. On Friday, a on-key dark sawbuck candidate emerged in Texas Representative Chet Edwards, a big patron of veterans' issues world Health Organization confirmed to CNN that he had been vetted by the campaign.


The Times had predicted that Obama would likely choose a "relatively safe" running mate to avoid taking whatsoever chances with a survival that might change voters' minds on the prospect or estrange a significant portion of his base. Then once again, with his lead over McCain slithering away over the past few weeks, Obama was in need of a buzz-worthy find fault that could re-energize the campaign.


Obama reached his concluding decision while on his recent vacation in Hawaii in what was an "unexpectedly intense process" that the paper said was squeezed into a shorter period to avoid actively vetting potential running mates' backgrounds ahead Clinton quit the race in June. The campaigner confirmed on Thursday that he had made his decision but wasn't ready to break it yet.


Obama was faced with the decision of filling knocked out the ticket with person who could plug that perceived hole, someone world Health Organization would reward his message of change, a running mate world Health Organization could help him deliver the goods an important toss-up doS, or person who could boost his appeal to white, working class voters, whom he had difficulty reaching in some states during the primaries.


For a time, old Senator John Edwards was also rumored to be on a long short list, merely the 2004 Democratic VP nominee's second chance at the #2 slot, or a potency spot in an Obama cabinet, imploded when he recently admitted to an extramarital affair.


Despite all the attention, there's one thing political pundits typically agree on: While the hype surrounding the VP pick always provide a momentaneous bump in the polls, it seldom has much of an impact on winning states or regions of the country come November.









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Friday 15 August 2008

Download Trace Adkins






Trace Adkins
   

Artist: Trace Adkins: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Country
Country: Bluegrass
Folk
Pop

   







Discography:


American Man: Greatest Hits Volume II
   

 American Man: Greatest Hits Volume II

   Year: 2007   

Tracks: 13
Honky Tonk Badonkadonk
   

 Honky Tonk Badonkadonk

   Year: 2006   

Tracks: 14
Dangerous Man
   

 Dangerous Man

   Year: 2006   

Tracks: 13
Songs About Me
   

 Songs About Me

   Year: 2005   

Tracks: 11
Greatest Hits Collection, Vol. 1
   

 Greatest Hits Collection, Vol. 1

   Year: 2003   

Tracks: 14
Comin' On Strong
   

 Comin' On Strong

   Year: 2003   

Tracks: 11
Chrome
   

 Chrome

   Year: 2001   

Tracks: 12
More
   

 More

   Year: 1999   

Tracks: 12
Dreamin' Out Loud
   

 Dreamin' Out Loud

   Year: 1996   

Tracks: 10






Trace Adkins helped keep country's traditionalist flame burning during the crossover-happy tardy '90s, commixture classical honky tonk with elements of gospel, megrims, and rock & roll out. Adkins was born in the pocket-size Louisiana town of Sarepta in 1962 and took up the guitar at an early age; he went on to sketch music at Louisiana Tech, where he also played football and worked on an offshore oil colour rig after graduating. His finger was severed in an stroke spell on the job, and once several days had passed, he returned to music with the gospel quadruple the New Commitments. In the early '90s he began to follow up on a solo career, performing honkey tonk parallel bars and clubs as often as he could, and honing a powerful, wide-ranging baritone horn voice in the work on. He exhausted several eld on the circuit and finally stirred to Nashville to attempt his chance in the industry; he was quickly sign-language to Capitol by Scott Hendricks, who'd produced the likes of Brooks & Dunn, Faith Hill, and Alan Jackson.


Adkins issued his debut album, Dreamin' Out Loud, in 1996, and it established him as a rising wizard. The lead individual, "Every Light in the House," went to issue trey; "I Left Something Turned on at Home" hit issue two; and "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing" went all the way to number i. His 1997 follow-up album, Big Time, spawned another Top Five hit in "The Rest of Mine," and "Alone Won't Leave Me Alone" just lost the Top Ten. However, it wasn't quite the commercial human dynamo of Dreamin' Out Loud; neither was its follow-up, 1999's More, which featured just one Top Ten unmarried in the title track. Nonetheless, all trey albums made the country Top Ten.


2001's Chrome brought Adkins into the Top Five of the country album charts for the first clock time, as the Top Ten lead individual, "I'm Tryin'," proved to be his biggest hit since "The Rest of Mine." In July of that class, Adkins was arrested for drunk driving and later pled guilty. The form of address track of Chrome belatedly climbed into the Top Ten in early 2003. Capitol released Superlative Hits Collection, Vol. 1 in July of 2003 and its fellow traveller DVD, Video Hits, in February 2004 with Adkins's fifth studio album, the December 2003 release Comin' on Strong, sandwiched in between. In 2005, Adkins had a major strike with "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" from his album Songs About Me. The album Life-threatening Man was released a class later.





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Thursday 7 August 2008

Frederic Delarue

Frederic Delarue   
Artist: Frederic Delarue

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   



Discography:


Dolphins... A Message Of Love   
 Dolphins... A Message Of Love

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


Soaring With The Angels   
 Soaring With The Angels

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


Voyage Of The Soul   
 Voyage Of The Soul

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12




 





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Friday 27 June 2008

Wim Wenders will head Venice jury

Filmmaker won Golden Lion for 'The State of Things'





ROME -- Filmmaker Wim Wenders will head the jury at the 65th Venice Film Festival, organizers said Friday, extending a 35-year relationship between the German Oscar nominee and the Venice event.


Wenders first appeared on the Venice Lido in 1972 with "Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter" (The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty Kick), his first feature film. Wenders won the Golden Lion in Venice a decade later for "Der Stand der Dinge" (The State of Things), and he has taken home two sidebar prizes from Venice since then.


Wenders received an Oscar nomination for his 1999 documentary "Buena Vista Social Club."


His nomination silences weeks of rumors that Meryl Streep -- another Venice regular -- was in line for the job as jury president.


He will preside over a jury that will pick a winner from a 22-film competition lineup that for each of the past two years was made up entirely of world premieres. He also is the first jury president of Marco Mueller's second mandate as the Venice artistic director.


The Venice Film Festival is set for Aug. 27-Sept. 6.



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Sunday 22 June 2008

Mike Myers - Hindu Leader Takes Aim At Myers Over Frivolous Guru Comments


The war of words between MIKE MYERS and a U.S. Hindu leader, who is urging the public to boycott his latest comedy, just got personal after the actor told RAJAN ZED to watch the film before damning his portrayal of an oddball spiritual guru.

Hindu leader Zed has been leading a protest against The Love Guru for months after learning Myers mocks his religion in the film.

He tells WENN, "It appears the film lampoons Hinduism and Hindus and uses Hindu terms frivolously."

But Myers counters, "This guy has not seen the film. What he will find is that this is a mythical and completely made up system of teachings in the tradition of The Force in Star Wars and Fredonia in the Marx Brothers movies.

"The system of teachings in the film are completely made up, and therefore it's a non-controversial movie."

But Zed disagrees, and insists he has yet to see a preview of the film because promises made by studio bosses at Paramount Pictures to pre-screen the movie for him have failed to materialise.

He claims everything from the title of the film to tagline about karma and jokes about yoga in the film are "repugnant' To Hindus.

Zed says, "A guru is a highly revered spiritual teacher/master in Hinduism who helps remove the ignorance of the seeker and who leads one from darkness to light. The antics of Mike Myers' Guru Pitka in The Love Guru are a mockery of the esteemed institution of guru.

Indeed the occupation of Guru Pitka on MySpace.com, linked to the official site of the movie, is listed as `Guru/life guide/bikini inspector."

Zed also takes issue with the film's tagline, `His Karma is huge,' adding "Karma is again a very serious term at the core of Hinduism not to be taken frivolously in double meaning taglines."

The Hindu leader continues, "Hinduism is the oldest and third largest religion of the world... and it should not be taken lightly.

"Cinema is a powerful medium and it can create stereotypes in the minds of some audiences."

Zed is determined to fight for Hindu rights prior to the film's release on 20 June (08), and asks Paramount Pictures executives to "immediately make arrangements to organize an advance screening of The Love Guru movie" for himself and other Hindu leaders and be "positively responsive to the concerns of Hindu brothers regarding the content of the movie."





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Sunday 15 June 2008

'Little Mosque' stars stretch wings for TV adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Othello'

TORONTO - Zaib Shaikh, who plays the affable and occasionally rattled imam on "Little Mosque on the Prairie," was itching to do something darker during a break from shooting the popular CBC comedy late last year.

He found himself pondering a television adaptation of "Othello: The Tragedy of the Moor" with his "Little Mosque" co-star, Carlo Rota, in the title role. Rota, too, was keen to "stretch his wings."

"As a male actor you want to play the edgier side of life and do all that deep stuff," said the Toronto-born Shaikh, who has a lifelong passion for the Bard and started his acting career at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

"And so this was exactly what Carlo and I were talking about when we said: 'Let's do something that's totally unlike 'Little Mosque."'

Shaikh, 34, adapted the play for television and directed the action.

"Othello" airs Sunday night on CBC following the premiere of the reality show "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" Shaikh giggles at the juxtaposition of a show featuring singing, dancing young women hoping to star in the stage production of "The Sound of Music" and the murderous tale of betrayal, jealousy and racism that plays out in "Othello."

"It's a complementary audience in a way because it's theatrical, but I think it's going to be a little bit of a downer after 'Maria.' It's Father's Day, the dude kills his wife - fun! But the first half is the terribly passionate and romantic and loving Othello, so that's good."

Indeed, both Shaikh and Rota said what they most wanted to do with the character of Othello was to show him to be profoundly in love with his wife, Desdemona, before going off the deep end in a fit of jealousy. And Rota's Othello is indeed enthralled by his wife.

"Iago has always been a pretty fully developed character, but I have never been as satisfied with the character of Othello himself," Shaikh said.

"The traditional way that we've seen Othello played is sort of this stoic, unreachable nobleman. Part of the charm of this production for me is to see this guy who's such a lover and a fighter go mental and go mad with jealousy."

Rota agrees.

"I find it really fascinating how men respond to betrayal," said the actor, who'd never done Shakespeare until "Othello." (Says Shaikh: "I knew he could play Othello before he did.")

"Betrayal is a real kick in the private parts to men, it's totally emasculating, and we just do not know how to deal with it. Othello, obviously, is a perfect example, but we wanted to show how deeply in love he was with Desdemona to have his response make some small amount of sense."

Neither were concerned that Rota wasn't black like other Othellos - as a Moor, Othello is an outsider, and the 47-year-old Rota said that's something he knows all about as an Italian who was raised in England before moving to Canada.

"I can certainly relate to him feeling like he didn't belong, and people treating him like he didn't belong," Rota said, adding he remembers teachers in school speaking slowly and loudly to him in class, as though he was stupid.

"There was certainly an attitude in England in the 1970s that, you know, we love the food, great pasta, but don't you dare try to marry our daughters. So there was a lot about Othello's struggle to be accepted that I completely understood."

For Shaikh, "Othello" was a real labour of love, involving not just his friend, Rota, but Matthew Deslippe, a close pal for years since they acted together at Stratford. Deslippe plays the conniving Iago in the film.

Shaikh marvels at how a production with three male co-executive producers - himself, Rota and Deslippe - was so peaceful.

"That's fodder for things going horribly wrong. You know, everybody's throwing it on the table and seeing who's bigger - but really what ended up happening is that we all had very specific and complementary passions for what we took on," he said.

Still, he can't resist a bit of macho pretence, claiming that there's actually no love lost between him and Rota.

"We hate each other," he says. "He hates me and I hate him, everyone knows that in town, I'm surprised you don't ... I am sure we've been featured fist-fighting in OK (magazine)."





News from �The Canadian Press, 2008




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Wednesday 4 June 2008

Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction   
Artist: Jane's Addiction

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Rock
   Alternative
   Dance
   



Discography:


Up from the Catacombs: The Best of Jane's Addiction   
 Up from the Catacombs: The Best of Jane's Addiction

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 16


Strays   
 Strays

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


Classic Girl   
 Classic Girl

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 5


Ritual de lo Habitual   
 Ritual de lo Habitual

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 9


Jane's Addiction   
 Jane's Addiction

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10


Nothing's Shocking   
 Nothing's Shocking

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 11


Kettle Whistle   
 Kettle Whistle

   Year:    
Tracks: 15