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Carrie Fisher Open Letter To Young Hollywood: “Wake Up!â€
December 30th, 2010 |
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Bill Cosby’s already legendary career got a new lease on life several years ago when one of TV’s Favorite Fathers set subscribers of the prison-inspired Sagging Phenomenon on their ears with a series of spirited rants about turning off the “hippity-hop” and pulling their pants up. Now actress, novelist, professional spitfire Carrie Fisher is using [...]
John legend & The Roots: New Track & Video
July 19th, 2010 |
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WAKE UP! OUT SEPTEMBER 21
okayplayer.com have released the first single from the upcoming
collaborative album featuring John
Legend and The
Roots, Wake Up!, out September 21.
“Wake Up Everybody,” the only track from the album to include guests, features both Common and Melanie Fiona.
The album will feature soulful music from the 60s and 70s with an underlying theme of awareness, engagement and
consciousness. It features eleven evocative songs, including Marvin Gaye’s “Wholly Holy” and Donny Hathaway’s
“Little Ghetto Boy” mixed with more obscure selections like Baby Huey and the Babysitters’ “Hard Times,” and Mike
James Kirkland’s “Hang on in There.” In addition to the new track, check out a live, in-studio performance of “Hard
Times” below.
Wake Up! Tracklist:
01. Compared to What
02. Hard Times
03. Little Ghetto Boy
04. Wake Up Everybody (feat. Common and Melanie Fiona)
05. Our Generation
06. Love the Way It Should Be
07. Hang On in There
08. I Can’t Write Left Handed
09. Wholy Holy
10. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
11. Shine
“Wake Up Everybody”
“Hard Times”
Parties want minister sacked in wake of scandal
July 1st, 2010 |
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Opposition New Serbia (NS) MPs have requested the resignation of Health Minister Tomica Milosavljević, of the ruling G17 Plus party.
The request came this Thursday in Belgrade, after yesterday’s arrest of Director of the Oncology and Radiology Institute of Serbia Nenad Borojević.
Yahoo Tools Fate Undecided in Wake of Search Deal with Microsoft
February 19th, 2010 |
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If you are wondering what will happen to the Yahoo Search developer tools now that the Microsoft and Yahoo search agreement has been approved, Yahoo has a message for you: Stay tuned.
– If you are wondering what will happen to the Yahoo Search developer
tools now that the Microsoft and Yahoo search agreement has been
approved, Yahoo has a message for you: Stay tuned.
As it did when the Microsoft/Yahoo search alliance was initially
announced last July, Yahoo’s Search team is say…
SAP CEO Apotheker Resigns in Wake of Poor 2009 Earnings Report
February 7th, 2010 |
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SAP CEO Leo Apotheker resigned on Feb. 7 after he and the SAP supervisory board reached a mutual agreement not to extend Apothekers contract as a member of the SAP executive board. SAP named Bill McDermott, head of SAPs field organization, and Jim Hagermann Snabe, head of product development, as co-CEOs replacing Apotheker as sole CEO.
– SAP CEO
Leo Apotheker has resigned after he and the SAP
supervisory board “reached a mutual agreement” not to extend Apothekers
contract as a member of the SAP executive
board, the Germany-based software and services company announced on Feb. 7.
With his resignation, the SAP executive board
a…
IBM Ramps Up Sun Migration Program in Wake of Oracle Deal
January 26th, 2010 |
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A week after the European Commission gave its blessing to Oracles $7.4 billion bid to buy Sun, IBM is adding new software to its program designed to lure Sun customers to IBM hardware. The new software is designed to make it easier for Sun users to make the migration to IBM. IBM says that in 2009, almost 550 Sun customers and more than 230 HP us-ers made the switch to IBM.
– IBM is stepping up its push to lure Sun Microsystems customers in the wake of Oracle getting the go-ahead to buy the troubled technology vendor.
IBM officials announced Jan. 26 that they are adding new software to their Migration Factory portfolio that will make it easy for businesses to move their…
IBM Ramps Up Sun Migration Program in Wake of Oracle Deal
January 26th, 2010 |
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A week after the European Commission gave its blessing to Oracles $7.4 billion bid to buy Sun, IBM is adding new software to its program designed to lure Sun customers to IBM hardware. The new software is designed to make it easier for Sun users to make the migration to IBM. IBM says that in 2009, almost 550 Sun customers and more than 230 HP users made the switch to IBM.
– IBM is stepping up its push to lure Sun Microsystems customers in the wake of Oracle getting the go-ahead to buy the troubled technology vendor.
IBM officials announced Jan. 26 that they are adding new software to
their Migration Factory portfolio that will make it easy for businesses
to move the…
Clinton Pushes Cyber-security in Wake of Google Attacks
January 21st, 2010 |
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls for countries to cooperate in defending against cyber-attacks, but remains cautious in her comments regarding the recent attacks reported by Google.
– U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a speech Jan. 21 took a strong
stance in favor of promoting cyber-security partnerships and ending
Internet censorship, but stopped short of using harsh language against China
in connection with the recent cyber-attacks reported by Google.
China has
b…
Google Defends Cloud Computing in the Wake of China Hack Attacks
January 13th, 2010 |
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Google’s threat to exit China in the wake of security attacks on Gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents and human rights activists has roiled the high-tech sector, also has the company defending the cloud computing model it lovingly nurtures. David Girouard, president of Google’s Enterprise group, defended the cloud in a blog post. Meanwhile, while financial analysts say Google banks about $300 million to its top-line from business in China, or roughly 1 percent of its revenues, exiting China could have severe consequences for Google’s future business plans.
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Google’s threat to exit China in the wake of security attacks on Gmail accounts
of Chinese dissidents and human rights activists has roiled the high-tech
sector, recalling arguments against the cloud computing model Google famously
employs to provide Web services.
Google Chief L…
Tiger linked to 10 birdies as questions mount over crash
December 8th, 2009 |
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Tiger Woods is now on the inward nine when it comes to women claiming to have had affairs with the golf superstar in the wake of his apology for “personal sins” and “transgressions” that hurt his family. News reports pushed the total to 10 women linking themselves toWoods in the wake of his
Af nudged by US to resolve political cris The political crisis in Afghanistan that has been marred by possible rigging, come to a point of being pressured by the International community with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed for a word from the Afghan President Hamid Karzai on further situation on Tuesday. As a UN-backed panel threw out nearly a third of Hamid Karzai’s votes from the August Presidential polls, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Afghan President will “set the stage†for resolving the political crisis by announcing his intentions on Tuesday. Clinton also hoped that the crisis in the war-torn country would be resolved soon. “He is going to announce his intentions. I am going to let him do that, but I am encouraged at the direction the situation is moving,†Clinton told reporters at the State Department after meeting with Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki. She was responding to questions about the political crisis in Afghanistan in the wake of a UN-backed panel deciding to cut Karzai’s share of the vote to 48 per cent, below the threshold for an outright win. “I am very hopeful that we will see a resolution in line with the constitutional order in the next several days,†Clinton said. “But I don’t want to pre-empt in any way President Karzai’s statement, which will set the stage for how we go forward in the next stage of this,†she said, when asked whether Karzai has decided to accept the findings of a UN- backed fraud.is
October 20th, 2009 |
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The political crisis in Afghanistan that has been marred by possible rigging, come to a point of being pressured by the International community with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed for a word from the Afghan President Hamid Karzai on further situation on Tuesday.
As a UN-backed panel threw out nearly a third of [...]
Washington wary of opposing Wall Street bonuses: experts
October 18th, 2009 |
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In the wake of landmark profits posted by the US banking industry this week, Washington will seek to strike a delicate balance toward massive bonuses expected to be paid out by Wall Street, experts said. If President Barack Obama’s administration helps “to make this a bigger issue
Wake held for Medak Pocket victims
September 9th, 2009 |
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St. Marco’s Church in Belgrade held a wake today for Serbs who died during the Croatian Army’s attack on the Medak Pocket and Gospić 16 years ago. The wake was organized by the Association of the Families of Dead and Missing Persons in Croatia.
Musharraf may avoid returning to Pak due to ongoing court cases
July 27th, 2009 |
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Former president Pervez Musharraf has been advised not to return to Pakistan as his adversaries have chalked out a plan to drag him to courts on various counts while some extremist groups are also active in the wake of speculation regarding Musharraf’s return.
The retired general has been in constant contact with his old aides, [...]
Uighurs under blanket security in Urumqi
July 18th, 2009 |
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Quinn Forms Cemetery Task Force In Wake Of Burr Oak (VIDEO)
July 17th, 2009 |
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CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has formed an oversight task force for the state’s cemeteries as authorities continue to investigate a historic black graveyard in suburban Chicago where bodies were allegedly dug up and the plots resold…
Paul Abrams: Geithner, Congress, Wake Up!: Before Bonuses, Goldman Should Pay Me Back the $30B Laundered Through AIG
July 16th, 2009 |
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Wall Street mythologists are now spinning the yarn that Goldman Sachs paid back the money it took from taxpayers and thus ought to be free to award enormous bonuses to their senior executives.
Sarah Palin’s Pipeline: What Will Happen To It?
July 13th, 2009 |
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In the wake of Sarah Palin’s surprise announcement to step down as Alaska governor, questions linger over her signature energy initiative: the construction of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope to markets in Canada and the Lower …
President, ministers visit south in wake of attack
July 10th, 2009 |
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President Boris Tadić says that yesterday’s attack on Gendarmerie members was an act of terrorism, but that the state will not respond with excessive force. On a visit to a Serbian police (MUP) Gendarmerie base in the Ground Safety Zone (GSZ), Tadić said that those responsible for yesterday’s attack, where two Gendarmerie members were wounded, would be treated as an act of terrorism.