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Janet’s new album out in February
Remember that new album Atlantan Janet Jackson is working on here? According to Billboard.com, the follow up to the singer's 2006 "20 Y.O." will be out in February via Island Def Jam. The trade publication reports that the singer and actress also is prepping for a worldwide tour to coincide with the new disc. While the "Why Did I Get Married?" star recently hinted on Q100 that her boyfriend Jermaine Dupri will be helping out on the new studio project, the as-yet-unnamed album is being executive produced by Def Jam CEO and former Atlantan Antonio "L.A." Reid. Billboard reports that Dupri currently is busy working on fellow 1980s hitmaker Mariah Carey's new album, also due early next year. Explained Dupri in an interview with Billboard earlier this year: "We're going to make it seem like we're in competition to see who's going to have the biggest album of the year." At presstime Thursday, Buzz was managing to somehow suppress the urge to place a glass and our ear against a wall outside the couple's Atlanta residence so we could accurately report Miss Jackson's response to that.
Piecing together 2008
As 2008 dawns, Ideas ponders the signals that ideas send. Ideas foretell the future. With ideas, we can choose the future. Such a simple, underrated idea. How it works: The Frank Gehry masterpiece rising now on Dundas St. in Toronto is an idea; conceived, selected, being created. Electric cars and wind turbines are ideas, with implications for tomorrow; so are the minutiae of special bins for garbage pick-up and the immensity of the Large Hadron Collider (a.k.a. ``The Answer Machine,'' to be discussed), which promises to reveal secrets about how the universe works at the sub-atomic level. The notion that the future can be determined is reassuring. Aren't scientists saying much can be done about global warming, in fact telling us what? And it is thought-provoking: The big idea renders something we think of as indeterminate something we choose instead.
Sketchy evidence raises doubt
The police requested that he come to the police station the next day, Feb. 12, for further questioning. Sure, he told them. But he didn't know Hettrick, and he didn't see or hear anything before her death, he said. Just procedure, they said. Without consulting an attorney, he and his dad did exactly what police asked. They allowed detectives to search their home and Tim's school locker, where they scooped up his horror writings and sketches, his survival-knife collection and Army flashlight with a red-tinted lens. His dad would stay outside the interrogation room, not understanding that juveniles are psychologically vulnerable to suggestive cues and coercion. After reading him his rights, officers prodded Masters to talk about killing, to think like a killer, to talk about what weapons he might use and where he might put a body.
Tottenham end nine-year jinx in style to book a place at Wembley
There will be those who read the scoreline above and believe it is a misprint. After all, Tottenham Hotspur do not defeat Arsenal at all these days, let alone by a four-goal margin. This is no error at the printers, however. Nothing has been lost in translation, there will be no corrections, amplifications, clarifications or hasty adjustments in the stop press. Tottenham scored five goals and Arsenal one: fact. Tottenham were in a different class: irrefutably. The best team won, without a doubt. Go on, pinch yourself. This is no dream, we promise. True, it may only have been half an Arsenal team who lost at White Hart Lane, but it was also half an Arsenal team who contested the final of this tournament last season and came damn close to beating Chelsea at full strength.
Yahoo in early talks with major labels over possible MP3-based music ...
Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group Corp., and EMI Group PLC have in recent months begun licensing their music for sale as MP3 files online through retailers like Amazon.com. Unlike music files that come with copy protections embedded, MP3 files are compatible with most portable music devices, including Apple Inc.'s market-leading iPod media players, Microsoft Corp.'s Zune and mobile phones that play music. Carrie Davis, a spokeswoman for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo, said the company has often said it wants to offer music without copy protections and the subject has been part of its ongoing talks with record labels. But Davis denied that discussions with record labels on the matter have stepped up in recent weeks or that anything is imminent. Representatives for the labels declined to comment.
IGT Booth Represents 'The Right Vision - Right Now and for the Future ...
RENO, Nev., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- "The Right Vision -- Right Now and For The Future" is a theme that tells the story for IGT's booth at the 2007 Global Gaming Expo (G2E), scheduled for Nov. 13-15 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. As the gaming industry evolves toward an "open" network environment based on Gaming Standards Association (GSA) protocols for product interoperability and flexibility, IGT (NYSE: IGT) will demonstrate The Right Vision in games, systems and products available now, as well as those in development. "Tests are already under way at casinos to pave the way for the open network. However, our emphasis at G2E 2007, as always, will be on products available right now for our casino customers," said Steve Morro, IGT's Chief Operating Officer.
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