Friday, June 29, 2012

Lourdes Leon Wears Cone Bra Just Like Madonna


Playing dress-up takes on new meaning when your mom is Madonna.

Her eldest child Lourdes Leon, 15, had some fun backstage at mom's MDNA tour wearing the Material Girl's cone bra! Lourdes and Madonna's Material Girl clothing line tweeted a photo of "Lola backstage at MDNA!" Wednesday.

Check out mother and daughter in the infamous garb:

Madonna and Lourdes

While Lourdes is well on her way toward adulthood, and the above photo is harmless, the singer has expressed concerned that she's growing up too fast.

Lola was recently seen in some revealing bikini photos, and more scandalously, was also caught puffing on a cigarette in the streets of New York City.

"Cigarette smoking I'm not very fond of, for anyone. I don't approve of anyone smoking cigarettes, most of all my daughter," Madonna told NBC.

What do you think of the cone bra pic? Too much?

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/06/lourdes-leon-wears-cone-bra-just-like-madonna/

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Man passes out, dies, after working in garden, family says - WBTV 3 ...

  • Reward offered after second woman attacked in hospital parking lot

    Reward offered after second woman attacked in hospital parking lot

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    A Charlotte nurse is recovering after hospital officials say she was stabbed in the parking lot after work during an apparent robbery. According to hospital officials, a female nurse was leaving workMore >>A Charlotte hospital is?offering a $10,000 reward for information after two employees were attacked inside the hospital parking lot on the same day.More >>
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    Police in Charlotte say they had to go out to the home of professional wrestler Ric Flair after they received a call for an assault, the second in two years. Flair, whose legal name is Richard MorganMore >>Police in Charlotte say they had to go out to the home of professional wrestler Ric Flair after they received a call for an assault, the second in two years. Flair, whose legal name is Richard MorganMore >>
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    (WMC-TV) ? The Cordova teen accused of raping his baby sister was found guilty of the crime. James Prindle, who was 15 years old arrested, was convicted Friday. Prindle raped his 23-month-old sisterMore >>The Cordova teen accused of raping his baby sister was found guilty of the crime.

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  • Man shot by officer, 4 others arrested after home invasion

    Man shot by officer, 4 others arrested after home invasion

    Wednesday, June 27 2012 3:51 PM EDT2012-06-27 19:51:07 GMT

    CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Officer returns fire after home-invasion suspect pulls a gun and shoots at police early Wednesday morning. The calls rang out over police frequencies around 12:30am, the voice ofMore >>Police in Charlotte say five people have been charged, including a man who was shot by police, after they are accused of breaking into a home in northwest Charlotte.More >>
  • Man passes out, dies, after working in garden, family says

    Man passes out, dies, after working in garden, family says

    Thursday, June 28 2012 9:01 AM EDT2012-06-28 13:01:05 GMT

    A Catawba man is dead after his family says he spent the entire day working in his garden. According to a York County Sheriff's Office report, deputies were called to a home along Mackey Lane in CatawbaMore >>A Catawba man is dead after his family says he spent the entire day working in his garden.More >>
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A Catawba man is dead after his family says he spent the entire day working in his garden.

According to a York County Sheriff's Office report, deputies were called to a home along Mackey Lane in Catawba on Wednesday afternoon.

When deputies arrived, 76-year-old Vernice McClanahan told deputies that her son, 59-year-old Lorenzo McClanahan, had passed out in the bathroom and died.

According to his mom, Lorenzo McClanahan had been working in the garden all day.? He told her that he needed to use the bathroom and went inside the house.

Once he was in the bathroom, she told deputies, McClanahan complained that he felt sick and thought he was going to throw up.? He then passed out and fell to the floor.

Vernice McClanahan told deputies that he died after hitting the floor.

The York County Coroner's Office was called to the scene.? As of Thursday morning, Coroner Sabrina Gast told WBTV that no cause of death had been officially confirmed.

Source: http://www.wbtv.com/story/18902914/man-passes-out-dies-after-working-in-garden

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Health Food for Pets and People: Get the Scoop at Turnip Truck East ...

Health Food for Pets and People: Get the Scoop at Turnip Truck East

Posted by Lesley Lassiter on Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:31 AM

Years ago, when I first got my (now dearly departed) cat, Eddie, I let him accompany me at dinner time by setting his food on the table with me as I ate. I was young and single and didn?t think much of it. I also offered him a bite of everything I ate in a fun game I called ?Will Eddie Eat It?? Things Eddie did not eat: most things. Things Eddie did eat: sourdough bread, cantaloupe, spaghetti and all poultry and fish. Fifteen years later, my husband was not so amused by Eddie?s desire to sit on the table during meals or that he required first refusal on everything we ate. Bygones.

Many of us include our pets at meals, though I acknowledge that it?s mostly dogparents who do this, as cats are rather finicky (and not prone to eat people food that's harmful to them). Furbabies are important members of the family. Which is why The Turnip Truck is hosting an event this Saturday, June 30, at its East Nashville location, ?Celebrate Healthy Pets.? It?s a ?wellness event? for pets and owners that will feature a number of pet-centric vendors but also promote healthy meals appropriate for both pets and people prepared by Vickie Harris of Paws 4 Health.

Riffs Fine Street Food and Pied Piper Creamery will also be on hand to make sure that humans are well-fed and will have food you can share with your pet.

The event and activities are free, but participating vendors will be selling their wares, and there will be a silent auction on site as well. Proceeds will benefit East C.A.N., an East Nashville-based organization committed to finding homes for stray dogs and cats, and Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rescuing abused, abandoned and neglected animals in Middle Tennessee.

Visitors are encouraged to bring their pets with them to the event to take advantage of all the human- and pet-friendly treats and activities as well as have their portraits made at the complimentary photo booth.

The event takes place rain (ha!) or shine at Turnip Truck East, 970 Woodland St., on Saturday, June 30, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For more information, visit the event page The Turnip Truck?s website.

Tags: The Turnip Truck, healthy pet food, Vickie Harris, Paws 4 Health

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Three Steps to Save Your Marriage (Or Any Relationship, for That ...

by guest blogger Harville Hendrix, PhD, clinical pastoral counselor, educator, public lecturer, author, and couples' therapist

It's hard to sustain love through the day-to-day grind of full-time jobs and the needs of children, pets, or aging parents. At times, tending to your closest relationship can seem like just another duty in a long list of weekly chores. Without trust that your partner will reciprocate your efforts, it can also seem like a risk to be the one to make the first attempt. From years of leading workshops with thousands of couples with my wife of more than 25 years, Helen, with whom I created the Imago therapy movement, I can say with certainty that a little investment (from your heart, not your wallet)--small changes in the way you treat your spouse--will not only lead to his or her happiness, but also to warmly returned, mutual support that will cushion you from your own life's daily blows and demands. Here's my three-step plan for saving relationships:


  1. Be curious! Instead of lavishing money and attention on your spouse a few times a year, lavish curiosity on them. Adopt an approach of open, engaged interest. When you're curious, you learn new things about your mate--his or her desires, fears, and struggles. You'll hear secrets, wishes, regrets. You'll learn practical things, such as what they really would like to do for their birthday. Even if you've known each other for years, you'd be surprised how much there still is to know about each other. In the hundreds of workshops Helen and I have presented over the years, we continue to be amazed at how frequently we hear, "I never knew that about him!" or "I just heard this amazing story!" from spouses who have been married for 1, 10, or 50 years.

  2. Listen. I mean really listen. One of the best strategies I know to achieve a 'state of curiosity' is to spend a small amount of time each day simply listening to your mate. That is, really listening. What do I mean by this? Think truthfully about what "listening" typically looks like for you. Are you watching TV on the couch half attentive while your wife unloads about her pressures at work? Are you busy making dinner while your husband tells you excitedly about an interesting conversation he had that day? We all do this. But this kind of passive, distracted listening offers little benefit, and can damage your relationship in the long run.

  3. Respect each other's need for attention. Sometimes, with our partners, we behave towards each other the way young children do with their parents. Just as a child tugs on her mother's skirt to get her attention and tell her about the fascinating things she saw in school that day, we are constantly seeking affirmation from our significant others. We want to know that they notice us. We want to see that they are interested in us. At the core, we want to feel that we exist by having the person we care about witness our own lives. Many of us can remember viscerally moments when we felt tuned out, shut down, or criticized by our parents. Subtle things that we do in relationships can mimic these moments and inadvertently dredge up childhood pain. When a spouse appears repeatedly distracted, harried, or dismissive as you attempt to tell them things that feel important to you, memories of childhood pain, administered again and again by the person you love, add up to a level of fear, resentment, and anxiety around him or her.


Change can only come through replacing frequent inattentive communication with less frequent, but more thoughtful, conscious, curious communication. When you do connect, really take the time to listen before responding. Reflect on what your partner says and relay your understanding back to him or her. Don't jump immediately to dispensing advice or bringing up your own related ideas. Demonstrate with your body language, your attentive gaze, and the questions you ask that you have really heard what's been said.

Ultimately, I've found that this whole process is kind of, well, sexy for couples. Something about reexperiencing that your partner is really present and there with you reignites the feelings you had when you were new to each other. So don't be surprised when this technique leads to new techniques between the sheets.

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Harville Hendrix, Ph. D. co-created with his wife Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. Imago Relationship Therapy, a therapy for couples now practiced by over 2000 certified therapists in over 30 countries. He and Helen have authored nine books on intimate relationships and parenting, including Harville's New York Times bestseller, Getting the Love You Want, which has sold over two million copies. Referred to by Oprah Winfrey as the "Marriage Whisperer," Harville has more than 40 years of experience as a therapist, educator, clinical trainer, and public speaker and is known internationally for his work with couples. Learn more at harvillehendrix.com


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Spalding Parks and Recreation Announces Football Signups for ...

Football Signups ages 7-12

The Spalding Parks and Recreation Department reminds you it?s time to start thinking about registering your child for Recreation Football! Due to the cost of providing this very popular program the fees will be a bit higher. This program has not seen an increase in fees for several years; however, due to the increased costs of field maintenance, utilities and the mandated replacement of helmets, an increase in registration fees could not be avoided. This registration fee also includes a $10.00 per player ?user fee? which is being charged to all youth sports participants to help cover the increasing costs of utilities and maintenance for each program. A limited amount of partial scholarships will be available on a first come basis.

Football registrations will be accepted on Saturdays only beginning July 14 through August 4 at City Park Community Center from 10:00am to 2:00pm. Please note that lines are shorter during the first few weeks of registration!

A birth certificate must be presented at sign ups. The age control date is the player?s age as of September 1, 2012.

Any youth registering must be accompanied by their parent or guardian.

All registrants must be weighed at registration.

Tackle leagues for ages 7-12 is $90.00.

Flag Football league for ages 5-6 is $60.00.

Football equipment will be issued during registration hours.

For program or coaching information, please contact Angie Stokes or Robby Milner at

770-467-4750.

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Mike Ragogna: Suzie Cracks The Whip: A Conversation With Blues ...

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A Conversation With Blues Traveler's Chan Kinchla

Mike Ragogna: Let's just dive into this interview, shall we?

Chan Kinchla: We certainly shall!

MR: Indeed, we shall! Let's chat about your new album, Suzie Cracks The Whip. Now, I've kind of read what this is about, but could you tell our listeners the story behind the title of the album?

CK: Well, like all great titles we like, it has to be kind of evocative of what could be a bunch of things. It's nice if it's evocative of different things to different people, but our inspiration actually was something kind of funny. When we were in the studio, we were recording here in Los Angeles at Killingsworth Studios, and there was this twenty-year-old girl, this cute little blonde from Wichita, Kansas. She had just moved out to L.A. She wanted to be in the music business. Great singer, great player, but she was also working in the studio, and she was really good at running the computer, running the boards. She was just a little badass! So we just got such a kick out of her, but she was really sweet. So then we did a photo shoot, and for some reason, John had a whip because John has all kinds of weird things. During the photo shoot, John was cracking the whip, and we recorded it for the record. And then we had her whipping it, and, of course, once you have a pretty twenty-year-old blonde girl with a whip and you have a photographer, you're going to have her whipping you! So she started kind of just fake whipping us, so then the catch phrase of the whole album, when she would ask us quite nicely to do something, we would be like, "Whoa, Suzie cracks the whip!" So it's just kind of one of those things that became kind of one of the inside little jokes through the whole session. You live on top of each other for a couple months, and those things come up. But we kind of liked it because it's evocative of a lot of things. It seems like there's a story behind it. You know, cracking the whip is an age-old phrase. We liked a lot of those aspects of it, and it had something to do with the record, so it seemed to just make itself the title.

MR: Now, speaking of cracking the whip, you had the production team of Sam Hollander and Dave "Sluggo" Katz, so did Sam and Sluggo crack the whip at all?

CK: They were incredible, Sam and Dave, as well, but Sam is kind of the vibe master. He's not so much of a whip cracker as kind of setting the table, getting everyone really comfortable, having a really relaxed atmosphere, and knowing what's important to focus on. So he was actually more of like a Zen master than a whip cracker. What I loved about him is that he got John very comfortable, and John sang so relaxed. You can really hear it. During the whole record, making the record, we were having a lot of fun in really a very creative, very fun space. The music came out sounding really relaxed like the musicians were having fun.

MR: Yeah, it's probably my personal favorite since Four, but that's just me.

CK: Oh, well that's terrific! I agree with you. It's my personal favorite since Four as well because one of the nice things is that we had so much good material to work with. I guess I'll just jump ahead question-wise, but the year previous, we went down to Austin, which is kind of our second home in Texas, and we stayed down at this ranch outside of Austin and just woodshedded a whole bunch of songs. But what's different is that it seems like with every record, we're good for like five or six good songs, and then there's like four or five filler songs, so we were working on our songs, but we brought in a bunch of different great songwriters from the Austin area and from all over, really, and worked up a couple songs with each of them. Or we'd handle the music, and they'd put lyrics to it or vice versa. But we came out of there with about thirty songs, and so we had a lot of really good melodies and great lyrics and great ideas coming out of that. So when we were in the studio, we were able to just have fun and pick the best stuff. We weren't under the stress of coming up with something. Sometimes the studio can be a slog, and sometimes you can't just turn on great creativity. So having had that great session in Austin and having all that material to start with really opened up our ability to be able to just have fun sonically and just picking the best parts.

MR: Yeah, and you said you had some people that joined you in the songwriting process. I'm seeing Ron Sexsmith on the credits.

CK: He was one of them as well.

MR: That's pretty impressive.

CK: He's terrific. What a prodigious songwriter. There were a few songs of his that we worked on, and then what really seemed to work best is music we had already kind of come up with and he would write lyrics and help us kind of build those up. He's got a great sense of melody, but the nice thing is that it's a simple sense of melody, kind of like Steve Miller or something like that. Steve Miller is very melodic, but anyone feels like they can sing it, so he was really helpful, I think, in fleshing out a bunch of songs that were terrific.

MR: Yeah. you have a guest vocalist on "I Don't Wanna Go," a certain American Idol, Season 9 finalist, Crystal Bowersox, right?

CK: Crystal Bowersox is my favorite American Idol contestant ever! She's been coming to Blues Traveler shows for years, so we've been friends with her. That song was actually written in its entirety by this woman, Carrie...I'm blanking on the name.

MR: Carrie Rodriguez, maybe just a little?

CK: Yes, Carrie Rodriguez, exactly, who's terrific. We wrote a bunch of songs with her. And there are a lot of songs we wrote, actually, to digress for a minute, that didn't make the album, and we have really good demos of. So pretty much, all of these, we'll be releasing either as bonus tracks, or we'll put up some of the rougher ones on our website. Luckily, it's so easy to record some decent quality today that we got some really good demos. In any case, her having written it, once we picked the song, we always heard a woman's voice on there because that's how we originally heard it, so our good friend Jono Manson happened to be recording on Bowersox's new record right at the time, so it all kind of fell together, but that song came out great. Her and John's voices blended really nicely.

MR: Plus you had your old pal, Spin Doctors' Chris Barron is on there.

CK: Yeah, well Chris is our dear friend. We went to high school with Chris in Princeton before there was ever really a Blues Traveler. Chris was actually in Blues Traveler for like a month before we realized that we could only have one lead singer ego in the band, and we lived together. Chris is a dear friend, and the Spin Doctors, with us, kind of conquered New York together playing all these little bars, and then we got lucky, and good stuff happened. So it was great to have him come down, and we also got a good couple rounds of golf in too.

MR: (laughs) So Chan, how do you feel about twenty-five years with Blues Traveler? It's your anniversary this year.

CK: It's amazing! Well, it's a good thing we started when we were ten years old, but it's really cool, and at the same time, scary because any time you can put century after the length of time, as in quarter century, it can give one pause. To be honest, the time has flown by for the most part, and I'm looking forward to another quarter century. Let's make it to the half-century mark!

MR: And there's "Recognize My Friend"?

CK: We all had a hand in writing it. That was Brendan Hill, our drummer's song, and he came in, and you know certain songs are more thought out when they come in, and certain songs are more just like a cool little idea, and we work it up. That song is very simple even now, as far as chords and everything, so that was a very basic idea that Brendan brought in, and then so musically we kind of got that groove. Then John and Sexsmith worked up the melody and lyrics. But what were you going to ask specifically about that song?

MR: Well, I just love the sentiment of that song.

CK: It's beautiful. Once we got into it, we kind of thought of it... You know that song "Closing Time"? It kind of is one of those anthems to a friend, very much like that. It's a very cool sentiment.

MR: Yeah. Now the Kinchlas have a heavy hand in "All Things Are Possible."

CK: Yes, "All Things Are Possible." That song originally was kind of like a New Orleans funk thing, and it's kind of got a poignant sensibility to it, and it was kind of fun in the verse to have that more dreamy, poignant side, and then BOOM, jump into something that feels good. So that was the cool rub with that song, having that reggae to jump into really worked for me.

MR: Yeah, and then also "Things Are Looking Up," where a certain Tad Kinchla appears as a writer.

CK: That's a great album kind of rock track, but I think I could put that as one of my favorites on the record. I just think it's got a really cool kind of modern vibe but still very Blues Traveler. It's going to be great live.

MR: What are you predicting for this album?

CK: You know, in this record market, it's just so hard to try and do predictions or anything. I'm just very excited to play the stuff live. I think it's a record our fans are really going to like, and that's important to us. We just wanted to make something that was fun and fans could get into. We wanted to have a record where we played a lot of the songs live. This one, we've already started trying them out live, and they feel great, so that's I think why I'm excited. I'm really looking forward to just getting them in the mix and having fun this summer.

MR: So there will be some touring, of course, to support the album.

CK: Yeah, we have a whole bunch of stuff coming up. We're doing tours with the Barenaked Ladies and all summer, all over the country, with Cracker, Big Head Todd, us and Barenaked Ladies. It's kind of like your "Favorite Bands From the '90s That Still Rock" Tour. All really good, musical bands, and actually, bands that we've all played with and are friends with, so that's all over the country in July and August. Then this Fall it's just Blues Traveler really hardcore doing big theater stuff in all the major markets, and then we'll take it from there, starting on the 4th of July for our twentieth annual 4th of July Red Rocks.

MR: Nice. I asked John (Popper) this, now it's your turn. What is your advice for new artists?

CK: Well, I think the most important thing to do is to get good and to get something going. You've got to find yourself a place you can play out on a regular basis that kind of becomes your home, your woodshedding home, so you can go out a couple times a month. With us, we played several places in New York City. We'd play Mondays at Nightingale, Tuesdays at another place, Wednesdays another venue, Thursdays at Wetlands, almost every week. It started out in one place. We played Nightingale every Monday night. What happens is, you sit in a studio forever practicing, but once you get it out onstage and you make it a regular thing, you get better, and then you start building a crowd. It becomes a social thing. People want to come down, and your friends come down, and it becomes your fun, cool thing to do. Then once you get that built in and going, all of a sudden, you've got something. Then you can get other gigs. But at the same time, you're really making yourself better because until you play stuff out live and you start getting a crowd, you're hamstrung.

MR: One last thing. What's you're favorite tune from the album?

CK: Well, we've already been playing "You Don't Have To Love Me," which actually goes over great. Any time you can clap along, that rocks. But I really think the song "Things Are Looking Up" is the one that I think is going to be a real live Blues Traveler class. It's got a lot of different parts, and it's got that openness that's going to turn into a good live behemoth.

MR: Things certainly are looking up for Blues Traveler and your new album, Suzie Cracks The Whip. Oooh.

CK: That excites you.

MR: It excites you guys too.

CK: It does.

MR: I think it's a guy thing.

CK: Exactly.

MR: Any parting words of wisdom, sir?

CK: I would just say let's go out and have some good fun this summer! I think things are looking up all over.

MR: Nice. Thank you so much.

CK: No problem, brother! It's a pleasure talking to you, and I hope I see you soon this summer!

Tracks:
1. You Don't Have To Love Me
2. Recognize My Friend
3. Devil In The Details
4. All Things Are Possible
5. Things Are Looking Up
6. Love Is Everything (That I Describe)
7. I Don't Wanna Go
8. Nobody Fall In Love With Me
9. Cover Me
10. Saving Grace
11. Big City Girls
12. Cara Let The Moon

Transcribed by Kyle Pongan


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A Conversation With Hard Rock Records' John Galloway

Mike Ragogna: Hi there, John Galloway of Hard Rock Records.

John Galloway: Hey, how are you doing?

MR: I'm doing OK, how are you?

JG: I'm doing fantastic tonight.

MR: The last time I checked in with Hard Rock was with the hotel chain with Brian Klein who was putting out the word about the integration of music with people staying at Hard Rock hotels. But you rep Hard Rock Records. Can you go into how this venture started and what the future holds?

JG: I'd say music has been core our brand, Hard Rock, since it really came to life in 1971 in London. Our founders, Isaac Tigret and Peter Morton, made music essential to what the brand stands for and forty-one years later, it remains the case whether you're at a hotel, casino, or caf?. I think after long discussions, Hard Rock Records emerged from wanting to give back to an industry, the music industry, that has been so good to us and really bringing to life our properties and allowing us to deliver authentic experiences that rock. Ultimately, it's for us a way to show the industry that we care about music, that we're involved in music and that we want to see music succeed on a global scale.

MR: You have A&R people that work under you?

JG: I sure do.

MR: What is the process? How do you filter through what's being submitted?

JG: I have two co-heads of A&R, a gentleman named James Buell and a gentleman named Blake Smith who both have significant music backgrounds and passions. James and Blake are the judge and the jury of who gets to be a Hard Rock Records band. We have a thing called Hard Rock Rising: The Battle of the Bands. We had 12,000 bands participate in Hard Rock Rising so we got a sneak peak at 12,000 bands across the globe. So certainly, by looking at potential talent, it gave us a huge pool to pick from. In fact, Rosco Bandana, the first band to sign to the label, came out of our global battle of the bands from 2011. That's certainly one way we can do it. Ultimately beyond that, we are keeping an ear glued to the street from our contact in the music industry. We're doing a showcase in Chicago, we did a showcase the other night in Orlando to see the up and coming bands are out there. We invite bands that seem to have good buzz and credibility that are unsigned and see how they perform on stage and also what they think of Hard Rock and if they meet certain criteria, being a band that enjoys the brand, seeing a band that has potential, a band that has a little different look or feel to them, they may just fit our relationship.

MR: As you may not know, at the end of the show, I'm going to pitch you two bands that I think are amazing.

JG: If they're amazing, I want to hear them for sure.

MR: (laughs) Okay, let's get into Rosco Bandana, a Gulfport, Mississippi, group. How did they win?

JG: I would say this. Rosco had a very different sound to them. They had a different look, they had a different sound, and ultimately what mattered for them and got them into the contest was support of fans beyond Gulfport and in the entire Southeast. So to at least get noticed in our battle of the bands, you have to have fan support and you have to have fans voting for you. You had to be somewhat credible enough to get that. When they ultimately did win in their section from Hard Rock Rising: The Battle of the Bands, I had an opportunity to see them in Orlando--they played a showcase for us. I was really struck by the sound, it was a sound which, quite frankly, I hadn't heard. It was a combination of a little rock, a little blues, a little country, and a little jazz, brought all together in a unique sound. I heard them on the stage for the first time in Orlando live and thought that those guys really have what it takes. We weren't just looking to introduce the same sound that's out there today. We wanted to bring something new to the music world and I think Rosco does just that.

MR: Now you're a Hard Rock VP and Chief Marketing Officer, right?

JG: That is correct.

MR: So that means you truly aren't John Galloway of Pennsylvania's House of Representatives.

JG: I do not know John Galloway the house representative. I only know a goalie from Syracuse, New York, named John Galloway, but now I guess I know two John Galloways.

MR: (laughs) How are you going to promote and distributing your acts on this label?

JG: I'd start with probably the most unique thing. Hard Rock right now is in fifty-three countries worldwide. If you put that in perspective, Starbucks--which is pretty ubiquitous--is in fifty-two countries worldwide. So we're in fifty-three countries with a major reach across the globe as a brand.

MR: You guys win.

JG: But in every single one of those countries and every single one of our venues, we have video music systems. From day one, when we launch Rosco Bandana, we will be able to transmit Rosco's music video into fifty-three countries around the world. We'll be able to get them in front of consumers in Bangkok, in Mumbai, in Singapore, in Destin, Florida, and in Seattle, which is rather unique. We're going to finish shooting their video on the 19th of June where we'll debut it in Nashville, Tennessee. At that point, we will broadcast that video worldwide, so a pretty good distribution hit for a newly signed band. We also have 4.5 million Facebook fans where we'll also be able to interview those folks for Rosco Bandana as well. We have a program, Sound of Your Stay, that goes out to all of our hotels around the world. We'll be able to introduce, via free downloads of our tracks, programs to our hotel guests and visitors to the Rosco Bandana band as well. We'll be responsible for their PR, so we're working with Tell All Your Friends PR, as well as using our resources to bring to life the band. We're hooking -up with a digital distribution agreement as well, so we'll get distributed on iTunes as well as Amazon. In a sense, we're using all the creative resources we have as a worldwide global band to bring Rosco to the same place as Hard Rock travels today.

MR: Nice. May I throw something out you?

JG: Throw it.

MR: Wouldn't it be fun for guests at hotels, since they're renting guitars as part of their stay, to encourage them to record their own video of the Rosco Bandana song.

JG: I think it would be great, we will add that one to the list!

MR: (laughs) John, what does the future bring? As Tom Petty might say, is it wide open?

JG: The future is very wide open. Right now, we're in our infancy of Hard Rock ideas. The idea today is not a revenue idea generating from us. From a dollars perspective, it is a revenue generator in good will. We're trying to generate good will in the music industry with artists as well as the tastemakers in the industry. For the future, we're looking to sign 2-3 new bands in 2012 and beyond that, the future looks bright to 2013 and beyond. To be honest, we're ironing out the kinks, we're new to this game and we're finding out, certainly initially, some of the challenges in getting these bands through the recording process, through the video process, through the distribution process and getting them out on tour. We want to kill it with Rosco, we want to give them everything they need to succeed and eventually go on to sign with a big label. That's the win for us. Right now, we're very close to signing two additional bands for 2012.

MR: John, what advice do you have for new artists?

JG: I guess the advice I have for new artists is be as creative as possible in terms of how you're reaching out to people in the industry. We go through a lot with artists in terms of asks for play, asks for monies, contingencies they put on deals. Right now, the music industry is suffering a little bit and artists need to be willing to go out there and put together unique ideas that they can play from a marketing perspective and with marketing partners that are win-win, but maybe necessarily, huge financial trains that may limit their opportunity for exposure.

MR: What do you think about the goal of being on a label versus not being on a label? There seem to be two levels of the business right now--the DIY approach, and trying to pitch yourself to indie or major labels to get "that deal."

JG: Ultimately, I still believe in the major labels. I still ultimately believe in the support. There is a school of thought of DIY, but the reality of it is that it's hard. As a small, new label, I can tell you it's hard. We talk to folks in the industry and it seems to be better to be a big boy these days than a small boy. We are a small boy, a little infant, in the industry. All I wish for our bands is that we're able to give somebody a chance to make it on the big stage and I think the big stage often comes with a larger label than actually we are today. Otherwise, we'd go into that business further.

MR: Although you have distribution that is definitely envied by the music business in general because you have those alternate means of getting music to people that record companies still have problems with because they have their traditional lanes of getting music out there.

JG: Absolutely, I think that's why we wanted to start this business because we thought we have the assets. We do control that every day. I can decide what goes on at 10 o'clock, what goes on a video screen in Bangkok, or what goes across our entire system. So we're bringing that music to consumers already, we just needed to take more of an active role and actually how that music gets out there and what the future of music is. Again, for us, it's a big, big learning curve, but it's also something where we can help the industry introduce new acts. We also have venues. This year, we did over 17,000 live music acts across our Hard Rock hotels, casinos, and cafes, so an enormous number of acts goes through our venues. Again, it's important to us and we wanted to show that we care and we appreciate it.

MR: What do you think looking back at the forty-one years that you guys have been doing this?

JG: Wow. I've only been with Hard Rock for 2.5 years. There are so many people, certainly our founders Issac and Peter, who invented this concept of this theory of hard rock and the relationship with Eric Clapton giving us our first piece of memorabilia forty years ago. So I'm happy and proud to be a caretaker of the brand while I have the pleasure of serving it and see if I can add a piece or two to the legacy of the brand. I certainly think Hard Rock Records is a way to give back to the industry. Ultimately, I think that's how I want us to be viewed. We care, we get it, we understand it, and we want to be credible in the music space because it's given a lot back to our different venues.

MR: John, thank you for spending some time with us and giving us a glimpse into the new label, Hard Rock Records. All the best of luck with it in the future.

JG: Thanks a ton as well and you just let me know what those two bands are sometime.

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Lawmakers reach tentative deal on highway bill

(AP) ? Congressional leaders have tentatively agreed on a two-year bill to overhaul federal highway programs that drops a requirement that the government approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Senate aides said they were working Wednesday to put the agreement into legislative language, which must happen before House and Senate leaders formally sign off on the deal. The leaders will also want time to sound out their members' support for the measure. The aides described the deal on condition of anonymity because the deal wasn't final.

House Republicans had pushed for inclusion of a provision that would go around President Barack Obama by requiring a federal energy agency approve the oil pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada's tar sands to Port Arthur, Texas. The White House threatened to veto the bill if Keystone were included.

Also eliminated from the bill was another provision sought by House Republicans that would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating the toxic ash generated by coal-fired power plants. The ash is used as an ingredient in some types of cement. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a key negotiator on the bill, told reporters that both the Keystone and coal ash provisions had been dropped.

House Republicans won concessions from the Senate on environmental reviews of highway projects and on a program that funds bike paths, pedestrian safety projects, beautification and other "transportation enhancements," Senate aides and environmentalists said.

The law requires that the government study potential environmental impacts before starting highway construction projects, but that can cause delays and drive up costs. The deal struck Wednesday would reduce the average time it takes to complete a highway project from 15 years to about eight years.

The agreement also makes other kinds of transportation programs eligible for the same pool of money that funds transportation enhancements, which means there will probably be less money to go around for biking and pedestrian projects.

Republicans have criticized the enhancements program as wasteful, saying it pays cities to plant flowers. Highway landscaping has been an eligible category for funds under the program, but supporters say far more money has gone to biking and walking projects.

Under the agreement, the highway bill would be combined with another bill to prevent a doubling of student loan interest rates. That's because lawmakers plan to use pension law changes to help pay for both measures. Congress is also facing weekend deadlines for both bills: Highway programs and the government's power to levy federal gasoline and diesel taxes are due to expire on Saturday. Interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans would double from their current 3.4 percent for 7.4 million students expected to receive such loans in the year beginning July 1 unless Congress acts.

Both parties see the transportation bill as a jobs creator, and Congress' best bet to do something about the nation's stubbornly high unemployment rate before the November election.

It remained unclear exactly how much the bill would spend. A transportation bill passed by the Senate earlier this year would have spent $109 billion through the end of fiscal 2013. The Republican-controlled House was unable to pass its own comprehensive bill because of divisions within GOP ranks. Instead, it passed a three-month extension of current programs that also included the Keystone and coal ash provisions.

The number of jobs created by the highway bill depends on its spending level. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the Senate bill's sponsor, has estimated that the Senate's original bill would have saved or created 2.8 million jobs.

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11 guidelines for preventing and addressing workplace violence ...

Nearly 2 million U.S. workers are victims of workplace violence each year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last year, 506 employees were slain at work. Homicide is the leading cause of death for women in the workplace. Don?t let your organization add to those sobering statistics. ?

To reduce the chance of workplace violence?or your liability if it does happen?follow these 11 guidelines:

1. Ban weapons, and have a zero-tolerance policy regarding threats in the workplace.

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4. Defuse disputes. Establish a mediation program to resolve employee disputes rather than letting them simmer.

5. Regularly evaluate security systems. Do you need silent alarms, ID keys, cameras or even an armed guard?

6. Require employees to report restraining orders that apply to them to management. Make it a policy in your employee handbook.

7. Train front-line employees such as receptionists to be on the lookout for unusual or unsettling encounters. Provide clear instructions on how to handle them. Train all? employees on when and how to contact police.

8. Establish procedures for employees to report threats or other violent behavior. Offer several avenues for reporting: supervisors, security personnel, HR or, if there?s imminent danger, everyone nearby.

9. Have a plan for handling contacts between em???ployees and law enforcement. If a police officer or process server needs to see an employee, instruct your receptionist to direct the official to a private part of the office near an outside door. Then quietly ask the employee involved to report to that area.

10. Document any threats and your response to them. Your zero-tolerance policy should dictate terminating any employee who makes a threat. If it?s a worker?s relative or friend who?s being disruptive and dangerous, you are within your legal rights to terminate the employee, provided you give adequate warning.

11. Terminate with care. Have someone present as a witness if you have to terminate a violent employee; consider engaging backup security.

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Parkinson?s disease gene identified with help of Saskatchewan Mennonite families

ScienceDaily (June 27, 2012) ? An international team including scientists from the University of Saskatchewan-Saskatoon Health Region and University of British Columbia, with the help of Saskatchewan Mennonite families, has identified an abnormal gene which leads to Parkinson's disease.

"This discovery paves the way for further research to determine the nature of brain abnormalities which this gene defect produces," says Dr. Ali Rajput, a world expert in Parkinson's disease who has been studying the disease for 45 years and working with the main family in the study since 1983.

"It also promises to help us find ways to detect Parkinson's disease early, and to develop drugs which will one day halt the progression of the disease."

The abnormal gene is a mutated version of a gene called DNAJC13, identified by UBC medical genetics professor Matthew Farrer, who led the study.

Thirteen of 57 members of one extended Saskatchewan family in the study had been previously diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Three other single cases from Saskatchewan and one family from British Columbia were also found to have the same mutation. All were of Mennonite background, a Christian group who share Dutch-German-Russian ancestry.

The findings were presented last week to the more than 5,000 delegates at the 16th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders in Dublin, Ireland.

Rajput and his son, fellow neurologist and researcher Alex Rajput, are long-time collaborators of Farrer. The research drew on the Rajputs' work over the past four decades. The research team also includes scientists from McGill University, the Mayo Clinic in Florida, and St. Olav's Hospital in Norway.

A key contribution is the Rajputs' collection of more than 500 brains and nearly 2,200 blood samples from Parkinson's patients. Farrer explains that confirmation of the gene's linkage with Parkinson's disease required DNA samples from thousands of patients with the disease and healthy individuals. He adds that the contributions of the Saskatchewan Mennonite family, who have asked to remain anonymous, were critical.

"A breakthrough like this would not be possible without their involvement and support. They gave up considerable time, contributed clinical information, donated blood samples, participated in PET imaging studies and -- on more than one occasion following the death of a family member -- donated brain samples," says Farrer, who holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neurogenetics and Translational Neuroscience.

"The whole-hearted and unselfish commitment of this family is remarkable," Rajput says. "They went out of their way in every conceivable manner to help solve this mystery. We, on behalf of all the Parkinson's disease patients in this province, Canada, and around the world, are grateful to them for making this discovery possible."

In a Parkinson's patient, cells in an area of the brain called the substantia nigra (black substance) die and there are abnormal, round clumps of protein known as Lewy bodies inside the brain cells. Examination of the brains from the Mennonite family revealed the same Lewy body Parkinson's disease as seen in other patients.

Parkinson's disease is a progressive condition that causes symptoms such as tremors, slowness of movement, stiffness, and mental impairment. In most cases, symptoms appear after age 40. It is estimated that about one million people in North America and more than four million people worldwide are affected by the disease.

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Judge Koh stops US sales of Galaxy Tab 10.1, puts a smack down on Samsung (updated)

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Thought Samsung was out of the woods when it defeated Apple's attempt to prevent it from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 stateside? Well, Apple appealed that decision and was given a second crack at banning Sammy's slate last month -- and it looks like Cupertino made the most of the opportunity, as Reuters reports that Judge Koh has granted Cupertino's request to enjoin the sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Details are scarce at the moment, but we do know it's only a preliminary injunction, meaning if Samsung's ultimately victorious in the case, the injunction will lift and it'll be free to peddle its wares once again. Still, it's certainly bad news for the Korean company, but given its expansive stable of other slates still on sale combined with its recent economic performance, we're sure Samsung can weather the storm while the courtroom fireworks continue.

Update: All Things D got a copy of Koh's order, and we just gave it a quick read. Turns out that she granted the injunction due to the strength of the merits of Apple's case and the unlikelihood that Samsung would invalidate Apple's design patent -- the court already held that the 10.1 is "virtually indistinguishable" from the iPad's design and likely infringes Apple's design patent. Furthermore, Judge Koh held that, because Apple and Samsung are direct competitors in the tablet space and "design mattered more to customers in making tablet purchases," Apple would be irreparably harmed by further 10.1 sales. Those two factors outweighed any hardship suffered by Samsung, and thus she struck the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from US shelves.

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Human insulin suppresses mosquito immune system: increasing cases of type II diabetes could abet malaria?s spread

ScienceDaily (June 26, 2012) ? Human insulin suppresses the mosquito immune system, according to a paper in the June Infection and Immunity. And while mosquitoes and malaria might seem to go together like baseball and hotdogs, mosquitoes' immunological resistance to the malaria parasite actually slows its spread among H. sapiens.

"A fair portion actually fight off the infection," says first author Nazzy Pakpour of the University of California, Davis.

But now the rate of type 2 diabetes is climbing in Africa as in most of the rest of the world, to the point where by 2030, one in five adults there are predicted to be so-afflicted. More diabetes means more hyperinsulinemia -- more human insulin to inhibit mosquitoes' immune response to Plasmodium falciparum, thus aiding and abetting transmission of this dread disease.

As horrific as the medical consequences of all this might be, the science is intriguing. "It's crazy to think something in our blood could change how mosquitoes respond to parasites," says Pakpour.

In earlier work, Pakpour and collaborators showed that ingested human insulin activates the insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes, making them more vulnerable to invasion by P. falciparum. The new study showed that insulin signaling reduced expression of certain mosquito immunity genes that are under the same regulatory control, and that human insulin suppressed mosquito immunity by activating the so-called PI3K signaling pathway, and that artificially inhibiting that pathway could reverse the immunosuppressive effects of human insulin.

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Celanese Unveils Sunsation Sweetener ? Analyst Blog ...

Celanese Corporation?s (CE) sweetener and preservative business Nutrinova unveiled a new Sunsation platform that will help food and beverage manufacturers to develop products that have zero calories.

Sunsation Sunett SL, the first product in the Sunsation basket, is a sweetener system for zero or low calorie food and beverage products. This product can be used in a broad range of foods and beverages including carbonated and energy drinks, cocktail mixers and powdered drink mixes, yogurt and other dairy products. It can also be used in juices, lemonade and punches.

Nutrinova introduced the Sunsation platform to develop the drop-in sweetener solutions that address consumer trends and needs. The products used by the company in the platform have been approved for use in food and beverage applications in most places.? International sensory analysis company ISI also confirmed that Sunsation Sunett SL considerably adds sweetness to sugar-reduced and sugar-free products.

Nutrinova is a division of Celanese and is part of its Consumer Specialties division. In April 2012, Celanese released its first-quarter 2012 financial results. The Consumer Specialties division posted sales of $264 million in the quarter.

During the quarter, Celanese reported adjusted earnings (excluding one-time charges and gains) of 72 cents per share, down from 96 cents a year ago. The profit was below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 77 cents per share. However, profit, as reported, jumped 28.9% year over year to $183 million (or $1.15 per share).

Sales for the quarter went up 3% to $1,633 million, exceeding the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1,616 million. The growth was driven by higher volumes and pricing in the company?s acetyl intermediates and industrial specialties divisions. However, higher costs and weak demand in Europe led to a decline in operating profit by 91.8% to $98 million during the quarter.

Celanese, which competes with BASF SE (BASFY) and Methanex Corporation (MEOH), currently retains a Zacks #4 Rank, reflecting a short-term (1 to 3 months) Sell rating.


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