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Kanye West's repent on the day Barack Obama was nominated for president: that his mother, Donda, hadn't lived to experience it.

"It's an incredible time to be about. I wish my ma could get seen this day," the rapper told a crowd gathered for his performance early Thursday morning in Denver.

Jamie Foxx then coupled West onstage and delivered what was easily the strangest Obama song dedication at this week's Democratic National Convention.

"We make story, man," Foxx declared at the ONE campaign party. "With Obama, we make history. If you ready for Obama, make some noise. Yo man, let's do this for Obama."

Nobody said politics and amusement always commix smoothly. The pair then launched into their hit "Gold Digger," about money-grubbing women.

The party, sponsored by Bono's ONE anti-poverty hunting expedition and the Recording Industry Association of America, john Drew celebrities including Forest Whitaker and Ashley Judd, world Health Organization arrived with Foxx waving an American flag. Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle too walked the red carpet.

Some, including Daschle, left the club earlier West took the leg and roared through hits such as "Touch the Sky," "Home" and "Stronger."

Backed by a band clad in black outfits that seemed elysian both by Mad Max and the riot law ringing the convention sports stadium, the rap music star as well tried out two new songs he said he'd written in the past several years -- both more focused on relationships and grief than politics.

Singer to McCain: Don't Run On My Song

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Jackson Browne doesn't want John McCain running on anything fueled by his lyrics. The singer-songwriter sued McCain and the Ohio and national Republican committees in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday, accusing them of exploitation his song "Running on Empty" without his permission.

The lawsuit claims the song's use was an violation of his copyright and will lead people to conclude he endorses McCain. The suit says Browne is a lifelong giving who is as well-known for his music as for existence "an advocate for social and environmental justice."

The advertizement mocks Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's contention that if U.S. drivers got regular tuneups and drove on in good order inflated tires, they could save the same amount of vegetable oil that would be gained by seaward drilling. According to the suit, "Running on Empty" plays in the background of the ad criticizing the remarks.

Robert Bennett, chair of the Ohio party, said the ad was pulled when Browne objected. He called the case a "big to-do around nothing."

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers disavowed the ad, expression it wasn't a product of the Republican presidential candidate's campaign.

Browne's lawsuit contends the Ohio Republican party released the ad on behalf of McCain and the RNC. The RNC did not return a phone call seeking comment.

The suit notes that other musicians, including ABBA and John Cougar Mellencamp, have asked McCain to stop using their work.

Browne's attorney, Lawrence Iser, called the ad's usage of the song "reprehensible."

The 59-year-old isaac Merrit Singer claims his reputation has already been damaged and is quest more than $75,000 in damages.

Browne released "Running on Empty" � the song and an record album by the same name � in 1977. According to the lawsuit, the album has sold more than than 7 million copies.

Browne's financial success has aided Democratic candidates over the years. Campaign finance records show he contributed $2,300 to Obama's presidential campaign net year and $2,000 to the Illinois senator's campaign coffers in 2004.

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SCOLR Pharma, Inc. Submits Abbreviated New Drug Application For A 12-hour CDT-based Pseudoephedrine Formulation

�Decision Resources, one of the
world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and
healthcare issues, finds that 89 pct of surveyed rheumatologists
foresee prescribing Roche/Chugai's Actemra, following the expected
launch of the drug for rheumatoid arthritis in 2009. Surveyed
rheumatologists indicated they would prescribe Actemra, an interleukin-6
inhibitor, to an estimated 10 pct of their patients sise months after
the drug's launch. On July 29, 2008, the Food and Drug Administration's
Arthritis Advisory Committee recommended Actemra's approval for arthritic
arthritis. Although some control board members expressed concern around data that
suggested the potential for negative side effects, the committee indicated
that clinical trials supported Actemra's efficacy.



The new Physician & Payer Forum report, Biologics in Rheumatoid
Arthritis: Physician and Payer Perspective on Recently Launched and
Emerging Biologics in Rheumatoid Arthritis, finds that rheumatologists are
highly receptive to the many new agents expected to plunge by 2011, but
they may human face increasing barriers to reimbursement and modified access to
novel biological agents.



In addition to Actemra, the other rising biologic agents included in
the report survey are UCB's Cimzia, Centocor/Schering-Plough/Mitsubishi
Tanabe/Janssen's golimumab and Biogen Idec/Genentech/Roche's ocrelizumab.
The report finds that managed care organizations' (MCO) pharmacy directors
differ on the likelihood of formulary inclusion for paint emerging
biologics as their expectations varied widely in response to whether they
will include these agents on their formularies. Pharmacy directors may be
reserving judgment on key biologic agents until more clinical data becomes
available.



Nevertheless, surveyed rheumatologists remain unswerving in their
preference for TNF-alpha inhibitors over other biologic agents for the
treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Ninety-nine of 100 surveyed
rheumatologists reported prescribing TNF-alpha inhibitors as first-line
biologic therapy for the disease.



"Most rheumatologists expect the dominance of TNF-alpha inhibitors to
remain, and possibly expand, over the side by side two long time," said Cindy Mundy,
Ph.D., director at Decision Resources. "The forthcoming launches of Cimzia and
golimumab will increase the number of TNF-alpha inhibitors approved for
rheumatoid arthritis from three to five. Following the launches of Cimzia
and golimumab, well-nigh half of surveyed rheumatologists expect to prescribe
trey or more TNF-alpha inhibitors before moving to a different grade of
agents."



Biologics in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Physician and Payer Perspective on
Recently Launched and Emerging Biologics in Rheumatoid Arthritis is based
on a U.S. survey of 100 rheumatologists and 20 MCO drugstore directors.
Their responses were compared to assess similarities and differences of
opinion regarding clinical, economic and scientific factors.

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The Chipmunks

   
Artist: The Chipmunks

   Genre(s): 
Comedy
   

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Discography:


   
 Christmas With the Chipmunks, Vol. 2

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 12


   
 Christmas With the Chipmunks, Vol. 1

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 12

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Jack Teagarden Orchestra

   
Artist: Jack Teagarden Orchestra

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Collection (Boogie Woogie)

   Year: 1944   
Tracks: 1

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Kirsten Dunst 'finds love' in rehab

Actress Kirsten Dunst has apparently found love in rehab, according to reports.
InTouch magazine is reporting that the 25-year-old 'Spider-Man' star is seeing a mystery man at the Cirque Lodge rehabilitation centre in Sundance, Utah.
An insider told the magazine: "The staff have asked the two to separate more than enough. She sits on his lap while smoking cigarettes."
"He has even phoned his mother and asked her to send Kirsten flowers at the facility from him. He is trying to be as romantic as it is possible to be in rehab."
Dunst is not the only celebrity to have embarked on a relationship while at the Utah clinic. Last year, Lindsay Lohan began dating snowboarder Riley Giles when she was at the rehab centre.

Myriam Hernandez

   
Artist: Myriam Hernandez

   Genre(s): 
Latin
   

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Discography:


   
 Enamorandome

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10

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Chilean isaac Bashevis Singer known troughout Latinamerica for her wild-eyed ballads. Myriam Hernández released her starting time record album in 1988 acquiring the hit song dynasty "El guy que yo amo. 1990's Myriam Hernández 2 gave the creative person the chance to sign a carry on with Warner México to consolidate her presence in the music business organization, but the failure of her first base phonograph record under the new shrink all over in recriminations betwixt the isaac Bashevis Singer and the record pronounce, blaming each other for the want of gross revenue. In 1994 Myriam Hernandez' fourth production appeared in book stores all around America. Unfortunetly due to her pregnacy at that time Myriam Hernández decided to shorten her promotional tour, cancelling important dates in the U.S. Sony Music signed her up later on in a quartet records contract. By 1997 The isaac Bashevis Singer met a few well known songwriters such as Monica Naranjo, Armando Manzanero and Eros Ramazotti in preparations for the following record album. Todo El Amor was produced by Humberto Gatica and succesfully released in January 1998 getting the vocal "Huele a Peligro," on the Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks. The same year Myriam Hernández was designated as Best Latin Artist by the Entertainment Critics Association of New York (Champion). In the year 2000 Y Mas was released.

Daniel Day-Lewis to present DGA award

Wicklow resident Daniel Day-Lewis has been confirmed by the President of the Directors Guild of America, Michael Apted, as one of the presenters at the upcoming DGA awards.
Day-Lewis has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his Golden Globe winning role in 'There Will Be Blood'.
This is his fourth nomination for the accolade, which he previously won in 1990 for his performance as Christy Brown in 'My Left Foot'.
Other Oscar nominees who will join Day-Lewis in presenting the DGA awards include: Marion Cotillard, Amy Ryan, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Hal Holbrook and Ellen Page.
'Ocean's Eleven' star Carl Reiner will return as host for the 60th annual DGA awards. This year will mark the 21st time Reiner has hosted the ceremony, which will take place on Saturday 26 January in Los Angeles. 

Steve Backley out of Dancing on Ice

Steve Backley out of Dancing on Ice

Olympic javelin thrower Steve Backley has become the latest celebrity to be voted off 'Dancing on Ice'.
Backley, world Health Organization took part in the series despite having a prosthetic hip, lost out to former 'Coronation Street' lead Zaraah Abrahams in death night's skate-off between the bottom two contestants.
Backley said afterwards: "I'm disappointed to go and at that place is no getting away from that. I am gutted."
"Having the prosthetic hip is a big apportion, my stumbling stop is acquiring over that but I am delighted to induce got this far."




Radiohead forced to move surprise gig

Liv Tyler & Royston Langdon separate

Liv Tyler & Royston Langdon separate

Actress Liv Tyler and rocker Royston Langdon have announced that they ar separating.
According to People magazine, a congresswoman for the actress confirmed the newsworthiness, saying: "Liv John Tyler and Royston Langdon make confirmed their separation."
"They remain goodness friends and devoted parents to their boy Milo and are requesting that their family's privacy be respected at this time."
Tyler and Langdon, wHO married in 2003, experience a 3-year-old word together.

Michael Douglas to haunt his old Girlfriends

Michael Douglas to haunt his old Girlfriends

At the Freshly House of York pleasure trip for his fresh pic 'The Spiderwick Chronicles', theater director Saint Mark Amnionic fluid revealed the cast of his upcoming romantic clowning 'The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past'.
The redact includes Levi McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Breckin Meyer, and Waters revealed that Michael Stephen Arnold Douglas is sic to connect the queue.
Speaking around the 'Wall Street' actor's use in the movie to Comingsoon.net Ethel Waters said: "(He'll be performing) the Bob Marley character, the old ghostwriter who's dead, Uncle Duke Wayne. He's a '70s man-about-town...and he wears Bob Herbert McLean Evans sunglasses."
McConaughey replaced Ben Affleck, who was originally lined up to play the lead role. 
Waters told Comingsoon.meshwork what he mentation that McConaughey brought to the table: "There's something great about Gospel According to Matthew. He has an facial expression of him that he tin catch away with dispatch with women."
He continued: "He's the variety of guy where women ar apologising to him when he breaks up with them, because he's so charming. It's always been such a delicious concept of taking a Yuletide Carol and devising a romantic comedy come out of it."
In the photographic film, McConaughey plays a philanderer world Health Organization attends the marriage of his younger brother (Breckin Meyer) and st. Bride (Lacey Chabert).
There, he's haunted by several old flames, including the bride's topper friend (Jennifer Earn).

Jesse Elliott's way more perfect union

Jesse Elliott's way more perfect union

Live rock ’n’ roll is a glorious, unpredictable, feral beast. Or at least it used to be.

There was a time when the Stones didn’t always start it up with “Start Me Up,” Pete Townshend wasn’t so affected during those windmill guitar antics and Bruce Springsteen actually played the four-hour marathon shows you hear about but never see anymore.

Recapturing rock’s spontaneous past, Washington, D.C.-based These United States has invited local bands along every tour stop to turn their core trio into everything from a quartet to an octet. At These United States’ gig at P.A.’s Lounge on Tuesday, the band will be joined by Pretty & Nice singer/guitarist Jeremy Mendicino and, well, anyone.

“We never really plan this more than a day or two in advance,” said TUS architect Jesse Elliott. “We’ve had one person join us and five people join us. Our numbers usually increase exponentially the day of the show as more people find out what’s going on.”

TUS’ debut, “A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden,” is perfect fodder for nightly improvisations.

“It’s very collage in nature,” said Elliott. “We don’t try to make anyone conform to the album. Which works, because in some places the people we play with know the album, in others we all just all make it up as we go.” Or, as Elliott sings on “Jenni Anne,” “Here’s the rules/There is no rules.”

“Some bands we’ve played with have actually charted our album,” said Elliott. “They’ll tell me, ‘Oh, actually, that’s a B flat there.’ But I don’t think Boston will be like that. Knowing Pretty & Nice, I imagine the show will be on the freewheeling side of things.”

In other words, expect a glorious, unpredictable, feral show.

These United States, Tuesday at P.A.’s Lounge, Somerville. Tickets: $7-$10; 617-776-1557.




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Darkbuster

Severe Torture

   
Artist: Severe Torture

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Metal: Death,Black
   Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Fall of the Despised

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10


   
 Misanthropic Carnage

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


   
 Butchery of the soul

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 6


   
 Baptized...

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 5

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Appearing in 2001 with the brutally heavy Feasting on Blood, Severe Torture took the metal reality by storm with its thunderous approach and razor-sharp riffs. Although relatively young at the time, the band followed it up with some other awe-inspiring split disk with established headbangers Blood Red Throne that put their name on the extreme metal represent.





Ekstasis

Veronica Unlimited

   
Artist: Veronica Unlimited

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 The Best Of The Singles Collection 1977-1982

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14

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Simon Cowell pays off couple's mortgage

Simon Cowell pays off couple's mortgage

'American Idol' and 'X Factor' judge Simon Cowell has paid off the mortgage of a couple wHO ar struggling financially since their whitney Moore Young Jr. girl was diagnosed with cancer.
Cowell, wHO earned a 'Mr Nasty' report on the gift shows, was touched by the story of three-year-old horse Madelaine Stoen, when she featured on 'Oprah'.
Cowell declared that he would be the girl's "protector backer" after sing show host Oprah Winfrey showed him a time of Amy and Randy Stoen and their girl Madelaine, world Health Organization suffers from an aggressive form of cancer, alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.
The couple take it in turns to travel more than hundred miles from their home from each one day so that their girl, wHO has started losing her fuzz, can incur discussion.
Cowell greeted the Stoen family on 'Oprah' yesterday and told them he had written a check for $162,000 to pay forth their mortgage.
Cowell said: "It doesn't diaphragm in that location. If there's any problem, I'm her guardian angel Falls like a shot."
"I didn't know what to do in this situation other than to do something which I hope will help your situation," he said.
"I cognize you are having problems with your mortgage. As of this afternoon, your mortgage has been paid forth."
When Randy Stoen hugged Cowell, the talent picture judge said: "I never knew doing good could feel so good."
He then said to Winfrey: "It's taken me 48 years. I reference you with this."