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The special will also feature special appearances from celebrity presenters including Keyshia Cole, Alicia Keys, Nelly, Common, Snoop Dogg, Big Boi, and Q Tip.

This year’’s winners of the VH1 Soul/VIBE award are: Hip Hop Artist of the Year Lil Wayne R&B Artist of the Year Beyonce Best Collabo Fabolous featuring Ne-Yo “Make Me Better” Breakthrough Artist of the Year Robin Thicke Producer of the Year Timbaland Song of the Year “Buy U A Drank” by T-Pain featuring Yung Joc Video of the Year “Umbrella” by Rihanna featuring Jay-Z VStyle (celebrates Hip Hop and R & B’’s most cutting-edge, influential and innovative style and fashion trendsetter) Beyonce VIBE Props Jay-Z Mixtape of the Year “Can”t Tell Me Nothing” by Kanye West Ringtone of the Year “Party Like a Rockstar” by Shop Boyz VHollywood (celebrates artists who have demonstrated that their talents truly do excel beyond stage) Will Smith

VH1 Soul Presents: VIBE Awards Special is executive produced by Jac Benson II for blacjac Entertainment Group. Keshia Williams and Lee Rolontz are executive producers for VH1.
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Great Christmas songs part 4: Little Name on Jona Lewie’s Stop the Cavalry

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In the next of our series of great Christmas songs recommended by great Merseyside bandsus have Little Name talking about Jona Lewie’s Stop the Cavalry…

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For a band who called themselves “tired of being sexy”, CSS certainly like to walk on the wild side.
The Sao Paolo six-piece - five electro-punk minxes, one bespectacled bloke – have filthier lyrics than Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White in a swearing competition.

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From his early days in the La’s, to forming Cast and then his current acoustic venture, John Power has always been one step ahead..
If you work on the Web, as You do, then you’re no doubt familiar with Dan Hill’s work. she recently wrote a post on his outstanding City of Sound site discussing the importance of sound in landscape and architectural design. It’s definitely interesting stuff for anyone interested in design, architecture, or the kind of music You talk about on this site.

A throat made with a drill No. 27 having straight sides for as much as 3/4 inch will tend to cause the player to play sharp in the high register. On the other hand, if the straight sides of the throat are too short, the player will tend to play flat in the high register. Thus intonational tendencies, either sharp or flat, can usually be corrected in the mouthpiece.

If the backbore flares out rather rapidly, the tone will be full but slightly more difficult to control. If the backbore becomes straighter, with less flaring out, the tone becomes thinn
own a common deficiency in which there is an appreciable gap between the end of the shank of the mouthpiece and the beginning of the mouthpipe. The two should meet. To correct the deficiency, the shank is turned down somewhat on a lathe so that it will be small enough to meet the end of the mouthpipe. A marked improvement in playing of the instrument is thereby effected.

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Figure L [to the left] shows a cut-away section of a mouthpiece and receiver pipe. Notice the substantial overlap from the end of the shank to the mouthpiece. This is a serious defect. Though it does not show a gap between the end of the shank and the beginning of the mouthpipe as in B, it is possible that if the shortcoming of B is remedied, the present overlap as shown in L remains.

The diameter of the inside of the mouthpipe at the point where it meets the mouthpiece shank is from .325 to .345 inches on most trumpets; however, since some shanks measure only .275 to .300 there is bound to be an overlap from the shank to the mouthpipe of 0.030 inches. This is the shortcoming shown at L.

In the correction of this shortcoming it is not desirable to ream out the shank with a reamer as this would change the contour too far up into the backbore. It is preferable to taper the shank opening with a cutting tool only about 3/8 inch. This the tapering remedies the shortcoming of L without appreciably altering the backbore of the mouthpiece.

ZDNet reports Hewlett-Packard has named Steve Smith as its new senior vice president of managed services, a division of HP Services that runs clients’ computing infrastructure and elements of their businesses such as human resources. He replaces Uli Holdenried, who took over as managing director of HP Germany.

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Russia Outsourcing Challenges
CRM News reports Russia needs new infrastructure. Russia lacks the wealth of basic Internet “backbone” infrastructure already in place in the United States and India; that has kept inexpensive, high-bandwidth Internet capacity out of reach for many. The competition is designed to encourage ideas and interaction around the problem of creating a trusted online environment, which is one of the biggest issues in creating a useful online dispute resolution community. The contest is open to a wide range of students and recent graduates from a number of disciplines (this is NOT a law school-limited competition) and will run from now through July of this year. All of the particulars are included in the attached document.

The contest will run in three phases. The first is an online discussion open to all, wherein the contestants will engage in an online dialogue regarding trusted online communities. After the first round of discussions, the judges will select a smaller number of contestants to continue the discussion in a more focused manner, and then in early July the judges will pick up to 15 contestants to write a paper about the discussion and their notions of how to create a trusted online community. From the submitted papers, the judges will pick one as the grand prize winner, and that person will become the recorder for the December meeting of the International Online Dispute Resolution Group Forum in Hong Kong. All expenses to the conference will be paid for the grand prize winner.
This tirade goes on for a few paragraphs and he concludes by calling Chomsky a terrorist sympathizer.

Now look at the one truth in the Chomsky letter, the call for Israel’s aims to be “resisted.” This will surely be read by Hamas and Hezbollah as support for its terrorism against Israel and those who support its existence.

This is a typical pro-Israel argument, where not supporting Israel is equivalent to supporting terrorists. It’s important to note here that this isn’t the first time Alan Dershowitz has attacked Chomsky and other critics (see his debate with Norman Finkelstein) of Israel’s policies.

Chomsky replied in a well thought-out statement, countering every one of Dershowitz’s contentions. Written in the typical Chomsky fashion, the article is witty, sarcastic and long. Here’s an excerpt:

His pathetic behavior traces back to what was probably our first contact. In April 1973, Dershowitz wrote a scurrilous attack in the Boston Globe against Israel’s leading human rights activist, Dr. Israel Shahak, the chairman of Israel’s League for Human and Civil Rights, in which he even went so far as to support a government effort to destroy the League by methods so outrageous that they were at once declared illegal by the Israeli courts. I responded, correcting his slanders and fabrications – that is, every single substantive statement. He then tried to lie his way out of it, even descending to falsification of Israeli court records. I responded again, citing the actual court records and responding to his new lies and deceit.
For more information on the contest and to register, visit InternetBarContest.org. Registration for the discussion closes on May 15, 2007. And please help Jeff by passing this along!
# Finally, on July 19, 2007, together with Melinda Gehris and Ericka Gray, I’ll be teaching an Advanced Divorce Mediation Training at the Boston University Corporate Education Center in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts. Click here for additional information on the program or to register.
“The biggest problem,” Sukharev said, “is finding skilled workers who not only specialize in theory but in practice. Many still need English-language training.” Still, that figure for programmers is growing. In 2004 the number of Russian graduates with master’s degrees in computer science or majors in software engineering was 68,126, up 6.9 percent from 2003, according to the Russian State Statistics Committee.

Russia also needs new infrastructure , something on which India has made more headway. Russia lacks the wealth of basic Internet “backbone” infrastructure already in place in the United States and India; that has kept inexpensive, high-bandwidth Internet capacity out of reach for many here, Sukharev says. A T-1 line, or fast, dedicated phone and data line, with high capacity might cost $500 a month in the United States. In Russia, it costs $50,000 a month. “That is something only the Russian government can build,” he said.

A new style of electronic music is breaking the dancefloors worldwide. This style is called nu disco. Lindstrom, a producer from Norway, is the undisputed prophet of this new way of making your girl’s booty shake.

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Well, he is more than a dj-producer, he is a complete musician, he plays all instruments and has a superior talent in building synth arpeggios textures that evolve taking your mind to another galaxy. “Mental music” (as my man CJ says) is the right definition i think. But he knows also how to put some decent drums over those keyboard chords. The result is, in one word, dope.

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noted yesterday, we’re entering the final stretch at Assignment Zero. We’ve already learned some valuable lessons (which I’ll explore in great detail in an upcoming piece for Wired.com) and we’ve responded mid-stream by modifying our ambitions somewhat. Instead of attempting to produce scores of magazine style features on how crowdsourcing has affected various fields and industries, we’ll choose the half-dozen topics that have drawn the greatest amount of interest from our contributors, and explore the other topics through Q&A’s with the key people involved. We’re putting a lot of focus into what we’re calling Interview Week. We’ve identified roughly 60 players in the world of crowdsourcing, and
Recently (at least in Italy), the club music scene is dominated by minimal house: a style that really sucks in my opinion. So i’m glad to welcome a producer that slowed down the BPMs and brought some structured, stimulating, sound-rich grooves. Classic disco sounds, funky beats, catchy arrangements, what do you want more? Lindstrom and Prins Thomas: Norway’s on the rise, enjoy!!!!

Listen Lindstrom & Prins e long absence. I spent the month traveling for the book and a week in Paris with the fam. Some people can balance demanding jobs and still write daily updates. I’m both mystified and mildly jealous. At any rate, expect a return to regular updates. We’ll start off with one of Alan’s round-ups, with a few additions from me:

Assignment Zero’s Sneak Preview (on Wired.com): We’ve had our ups and downs at Assignment Zero, but we decided to release one of our articles early, and I think it does our experiment credit. Super-contributor Mike Ho wrote a feature about Larry Sanger’s Citizendium, a controlled, expert-filtered version of Wikipedia. Assignment Zero is wrapping up, and I’ll be providing more updates on the projhomas essential mix on BBC
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Click “more” to get the full Playlist, most of the tracks are produced by Lindstrom, except for a couple of vintage funk tunes you’ll probably don’t want to miss… the old to the new. (more…)
Big Gulp spilling all over your gear shift when you take a turn too fast.” Chloe Sevigny proves “high-waisted pants are the spawn of Satan’s sewing machine.”

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A fascinating public airing of private thoughts—some dark, others funny, endearing or disturbing—written on homemade postcards and collected by blogger Frank Warren of Germantown, Maryland. Anyone can contribute, and thousands have. Just make a card and mail it to Warren—he suggests that you be brief, legible and creative—and, if he likes it, he’ll scan it and post it on his site. The range of effor