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August 25th, 2010 Whats on at Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre

The Mayflower reveals an incomparable late summer and early autumn collection that involves large performances of Oklahoma, Les Misérables, and the Magic of Motown, along with two runs of Faulty Towers the dining experience, and a whole host of other performances and specially themed evenings. The Mayflower is unique in being the first successful theatre organization in Southampton. The factors for this no doubt have to do with its incredible and innovative variety of shows that are continuously on. This year is no exception, since the Mayflower boasts a great number and range of thrilling productions, varying from large musicals and plays, to intimate comedic one man or woman acts to specifically themed events. In the exciting category of major name, large budget musicals and plays, the Mayflower provides a selection of classics and newly well-known offerings. Included in these are Oklahoma, Les Misérables, and the Magic of Motown. Oklahoma, that stars Marti Webb and Mark Evans, is playing Tuesday the seventeenth via to Saturday the twenty-first of August. This specific touring version from the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical is produced through the creators of the huge hits Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, South Pacific, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Everybody in the family is sure to love the story famously set in the Western Frontier of America taking location in the time of conflict between the cattlemen and farmers. The Mayflower is also very pleased to welcome the twenty-fifth anniversary production of Les Misérables, which may be the world’s longest running musical of them all. It will be at the Mayflower for just three weeks, from Tuesday, August 24th through Saturday, September 11th. The brilliant all new cast is led by London’s West End and Broadway star John Owen Jones, who has been recommended through the New York Post since the very finest Jean Valjean since the days of Colm Wilkinson, and also graced by the West End stars for example Gareth Gates who plays Marius and Earl Carpenter who plays Javert. Lastly within the category of big spending budget stage musicals is the Magic of Motown, presenting the greatest Motown live tribute concert ever. In this beautiful production, music of Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, The Four Tops, Lionel Richie, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves and scores of others is featured. This show features literally dozens of stunning costumes, a gorgeously choreographed cast, and fully thirty-six memorable hits from the sixties, seventies, and eighties. It will play 1 night only, on Tuesday, September 14th. For one man comedians and acts, the Mayflower outperforms again. Jethro will perform his Too Late To Grow Up show on Thursday, September 16th. Sean Lock will perform his signature Lockipedia on Saturday, September 18th. Lisa Williams, the worldwide known psychic and clairvoyant, will be seen on Sunday, September 19th. A special treat within the coming months is Faulty Towers, the Dining Experience. This popular and long running television display turned touring musical makes two stops since the first appearance rapidly sold out. It runs in the Mayflower from Tuesday October 12th through Thursday October14, as well as from Thursday October 21st through Tuesday October 26th. Lastly, two seasonal themed events will be presented within the coming months. The Ghost Hunt and Buffet Evening will take place on Friday, September 24th, while the murder mystery Much better by Nun happens on Saturday, October 30th. Once once again, the Mayflower demonstrates its uncanny ability to keep the crowds in Southampton coming back for more. Discover much more info about what’s going on at the Mayflower Theatre

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August 18th, 2010 Why to Go and See Stomp the Music

The phrase stomp originally began with two buskers entertaining the streets of Brighton, UK with audio, their catchy overall performance hooking in bystaders to stop, watch, and listen. Created by Steven McNichols and Luke Cresswell in Brighton, UK, the music STOMP debuted within the Orpheum Theatre in February 1994. The musical STOMP can also trace several of its roots to Booth Theatres erected at the Village Fairs within the Middle Ages and Renaissance period- an old custom in that age. As opposed to any other music, STOMP pushes the idea of what constitutes music. Eight nightly performers play simple and complex rhythms from every day things, for example six foot poles, sand, brooms, lids, litres of water, and aluminum bins. Through dance and music, the group collaborates with each other to play music, as well as giving individual self-expression. STOMP is a sensual mix of comedy, percussion, and lively movements. The music STOMP is the unique creation of Steven McNichols and Luke Cresswell that captalizes on a ‘less is more’ idea. It is a passionate production, not easily classified into a specific music or theatrical style. Via the absence of melodies, the audience listens to music getting broken down into basics as eight chiseled and dynamic performers pound out rhythms with ordinary objects: poles, drumsticks, match boxes, water, brooms, bins, and lids. Ironically, the common quality of these items catapults STOMP to an artistic level not matched by other modern theatrical acts. The ease in which the cast manipulates their ‘instruments’ and body stretches the imagination into an exciting reality. Their set design is flashy and colorful at times; a more elaborate metal construction highlights instruments that are struck by performers harnessed from the ceiling. This restriction frees the cast to use their feet, legs, and arms to produce loud group rhythms which shake the rafters and audience with it’s intense, tribal rhythms. These in-your-face cadences are a powerful avenue for individual and collective expression, leaving numerous on the edge of their seats. STOMP’s absence of fancy performer clothes keeps the focus on what really counts: dance moves and music rhythms, which turn out to be much more complex with each subsequent scene. Subtlety is also utilized to stabilize these raw rhythms.One scene is focused around performers tapping six foot poles, as they stealthily circuit the stage, nearly preying on one another with their sly moves and rhythms. Their sense of interconnection is palpable and sensual, cast eye contact stimulating the anticipation, as you nearly find yourself asking yourself who is going to ‘win’ at this music game. Yet, everyone wins, the audience even asked into the performance via a cast member who initiates a clap-and-response session. Approximately two hours in duration, STOMP keeps one’s attention, making you wonder how items usually reserved for math problems, cleaning, and construction projects can entertain and produce a powerful music group dynamic. In this age of modern technology, STOMP is really a refreshing blend of primal instincts meeting music genious, reminding us of the music and rhythmic potential correct under our noses. Find much more info about the musical and buyStomp Tickets online

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August 11th, 2010 Alicia Keys Engagement Band
With marriage season coming to a close it’s only right that pictures of the big rocks start appearing. Newlyweds Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz are still on their never-ending honeymoon in Italy. While putting up with the beautiful weather by lounging on yachts and catching up with their many celebrity chums the couple was eventually spotted donning their rings. Alicia’s bling is huge and lovely! She’s one fortunate girl. While the details on the ring haven’t been confirmed yet my prediction is it is at least ten carats and I am sure Swizzy made sure he picked the ideal ring for Alicia.
In other story, Honeymoon on the high seas: Newlywed Alicia Keys displays baby bump on board her luxury yacht in France.
At half a year pregnant, a bit of rest and recuperation is always welcome. So for recently married Alicia Keys, sun-filled days lounging on board a luxury yacht in France is precisely what the doctor ordered. Glowing in a white bikini that displayed her expanding bump, the mother-to-be dipped her toes in the sea and sunbathed on deck alongside her new man. The vocalist married rap producer Swizz Beatz this week in France, before their baby’s upcoming birth in Nov . The wedding were held in Corsica in front of good friends including Queen Latifah and U2 rocker Bono, and presided over by Deepak Chopra. The cheerful couple invited Queen Latifah and a chosen few to join them on board for their honeymoon, and the group look to be absorbing the rays in style.
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June 30th, 2010 Kylie Minogue Performed With The Scissor Sisters
It is a hot end to a sunny day at Glastonbury yesterday evening as pop princess Kylie Minogue raised the largest roar of the weekend from the thousands of revellers. Glowing Glastonbury fans who had been roasting in the heat all day had massed in the nightfall after rumors swirled round the festival the previous soap mega star, Kylie Minogue, was set to take to the stage in an unplanned performance with US pop group Scissor Sisters. But nobody anticipated the sassy and energetic performance she gave, leaving the crowds hollering for more.
The australian vocalist stepped out wearing a black lacy leotard grouped with thigh-high boots and a flowing cape.
She and the Scissor Sisters performed the group’s hit any which way before Kylie planted a kiss on the lips of singer Ana Matronic. She didn’t talk straight to the group but waved and blew kisses. For Kylie her debut appearance at Glastonbury could have been sour sweet as it marked her recovery from breast cancer, but was also evidence of 2005 when she had to drag out of the holiday after being diagnosed as having the illness. Fans Jim and Lynne Dobson, from Coventry, missed Kylie in 2005 so were happy to have finally seen her on Glastonbury’s famous Pyramid stage.
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June 7th, 2010 A Short Look at Pipe Organs

The pipe organ is a special & challenging instrument. Organs may have 1 or several keyboards worked by the hands, and a pedal board controlled by the feet, each of which has its own group of stops. The organ’s continuous supply of wind provides it to prolong notes for as long as the connected keys are pressed, different the harpsichord and piano, the notes of which begin to decline the longer the notes are applied. While you don’t meet many bands that contain “pipe organists” in pop culture, this instrument was used years ago to produce large musical masterpieces. The physical sounds the pipe organ creates allows it to be used for many other things. Organ pipes are made from either metal or wood.

The organ is a quite technical musical instrument but it is also gorgeous & spectacular. Pipe organ music is really contingent on the organ it is played on; if you use the wrong pipe organ the music will be unique as every last pipe organ is unique. The pipe organ will always be around to motivate the multitude anywhere with its undeniable sound. Pan pipes are thought to be the root of the pipe organ. Some organs require two people to function it so that it can make . Pipe organs are oftentimes found in churches, the sounds of the organ add to the wonderful feeling of a church.

The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ was made to get the loudest notes achievable. This organ has 28,482 pipes placed in 461 rows. It is played twice a day all day of the month.
As the demand for pipe organs have changed through time, so has the way pipe organ building continues to change to serve our demands.

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May 19th, 2010 Taylor Swift - No Longer The Lovelorn Girl In The Bleachers
With a pair of 18,000-seat Air Canada Centre concerts this Saturday that sold out within mins of being related, the 20-year-old local of Wyomissing, PA arrives in Toronto as one of the 21st century’s largest and real stars.
With only 2 albums behind her 2006’s Taylor Swift and 2008’s Brave Swift has been one of the few who has been able to expand her dedicated country music following into that of a world pop phenomenon.
Northern US sales, the figures provided Monday by Nielsen SoundScan, the computerized music retail tracking systems 11.6 million albums in the U.S. And more than twenty-seven million song downloads ( with 639,000 of those CD sales and 937,000 of those downloads originating from Canada ) Swift has developed into one of the most consistent retail anchors of a music business attempting to remain important.
Though the Taylor Swift’s supernova looks to be rising by the minute on Apr thirty she was named Proctor & Gamble’s most recent CoverGirl and last week, the distinguished Composers Hall-Of-Fame asserted she’ll receive the Hal David Starlight Award the month after next for being a young composer who is making an impact Swift has earned her laurels truthfully.
With a ability for writing romantic confessionals that reverberate with her following and a new album expected in October, Taylor Swift’s fairy tale existence shows no signs of abating.
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November 10th, 2009 Cheryl Cole Denies Split Rumours

There have been plenty of rumours surrounding the Cheryl Cole and Ashley Cole relationship of late.

Ashley has reportedly refused to attend parties and celebrations after Cheryl’s debut solo single went straight to number one. In return Mrs Cole has been notably absent from some important Chelsea games.

But the speculation was fuelled even further when Cheryl Cole’s wedding ring was missing from her finger on Saturday AND Sunday night’s X Factor shows.

Insiders revealed to the Daily Mail that Cheryl Cole had been washing her hands and simply forgot to replace the £160,000 sparkler, which seemed an unlikely explanation considering the rock was missing two nights in a row.

Thanks to a friend of hers, though, the whole matter has been cleared up.

It turns out that Cheryl Cole wasn’t wearing the ring because it clashed with her outfit… twice.

The pal told the Sun: “She put it on afterwards.”

Presumably after the show, she had an outfit ready that didn’t clash.

Cheryl is now something of a national treasure. We take a look back at the Cheryl Cole story…CHERYL Cole has fuelled new rumours that her marriage is in trouble again by taking off her wedding ring. #bodycopy a { font-size: 12px; } Sharp-eyed X Factor fans noticed the telly judge’s left hand had been bare for two weeks running. Girls Aloud diva Cheryl famously removed her wedding ring last year after claims footballer Ashley, 28, had cheated on her with a blonde hairdresser.

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November 6th, 2009 New Michael Jackson Movie Honours His Death

The lights dim, the Columbia Pictures logo lady flickers on the huge screen, followed by a sight and sound buildup that could just as easily come from the p.r. department of NASA heralding the next space shuttle. NASA publicists share with the late Michael Jackson the belief that all launches should be loud and proud, that the paying public should feel that they’re definitely in a celestial presence.

Michael Jackson’s This Is It opens in another darkened theatre as an off-screen voice (director Kenny Ortega, guiding genius behind Disney’s High School Musical films) prepares us for Michael’s entrance, which involves a high-tech suit contraption which could probably operate on the lunar surface, all-too-fitting for a celestial creature best known for his “Moon Walk.” His music videos are so famous that it is pleasure to see him peform live

There are times when a new film has been so overhyped, and one’s own internal sh*t-detector so primed, that if it merely rises above crass mediocrity one feels waves of relief, and is inclined to oversing its distinctly limited merits. This Is It deserves a better fate. Bearing in mind that the material was designed for a very different context - as the backdrop and fireworks for Jackson’s scheduled 50-concert gig in London (including, possibly, a Royal audience) - what Jackson and his principal collaborator Ortega (whose artistic birthright includes working with Gene Kelly) have pulled off in this two-hour concert film (culled from hours of rehearsal footage in LA’s spaceship-like Staples Center) is rather special, and contains hints that its creator’s grandiose vision of his own artistic resurrection might not have been so wrong after all.

The movie unfolds in a series of acts or set-pieces, each of which invoke Jackson’s dazzling resume of chartbusting singles and music videos. Rolling Stone ranks Jackson second only to the Beatles and Mariah Carey for chart-topping hits (59): “Beat It,” “Thriller,” “Billie Jean,” “Bad,” “Smooth Criminal.” Jackson and Ortega re-imagine the Jackson videos that the MTV generation teethed on with a loose-limbed and talented cast of dancers and musicians, who are informed early on that they’re “an extension of Michael Jackson.” In This Is It ’s intimate prologue, “Michael’s kids” cite him as the animating inspiration for their fledgling careers, not unlike the way the teenage Jackson had once envisioned his future in the incendiary moves of funk daddy James Brown.

This Is It sparkles when the ferocious energy channeled by the kids seems to re-animate their god, and once again we witness the power of a man-child who practically invented the music video. A highlight comes when Jackson green-screens himself into the eye-line of 40s fatale Rita Hayworth in Gilda, and has his “Smooth Criminal” pursued by Humphrey Bogart. Michael Jackson often seemed caught between his slickly conceived mini-movies for the small screen and his dream to re-conceive Hollywood classics the way The Wiz had re-imagined The Wizard of Oz for an all-black cast, with Michael, barely out of his teens, as the Scarecrow.

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September 11th, 2009 How to Convert MPEG Videos to MOV

Discover How to Convert MPEG videos to MOV

Use Need4 Video Converter to convert your favourite videos in the MPEG format and save them in one of the leading video formats: MOV - Then you can play them on your computer, along with various mobile devices and cell phones. They can also be placed on video sharing files.

Ensure you have the latest copy of the software, and check your computer has the minimum hardware and software requirements:

Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Intel or AMD or compatible processors at 1.5 GHz or higher, Internet connection for program activation, RAM: 256 Mb or higher and 1 GB of free hard disk space.

This program converts MPEG videos to MOV super quick and easy - just follow this 2 minute guide.

Step 1. Launch

First of all you will need a video converter program, such as Need4 Video Converter.

Download it and follow the steps below.

Step 2. Add MPEG Video To Converter

- To add video you want to convert, click the +Video button.

- In the Files of type field, select MPEG 1,2 (DVD,SVCD, VCD).

- Select a necessary video file and click Open.

- The selected file will be added to the list of opened files below.

Step 3. Select Output Format (MOV)

- Open the Profile list, choose General Video or a necessary mobile device.

- Then, in the Presets list on the right, select an output format :MOV

- Select the level of video quality.

Step 4. Specify File Name and Folder to Save Video

- In the Save as field, enter the name for the converted video.

- In the Save to field, specify the folder where to store converted videos:

- Overwrite existing files ” check it to replace existing video files with the same name with newly created ones;

- Open output folder when done ” check it to open the folder with a ready file when conversion is finished. (Recommended).

Step 5. Select a Video Segment to Convert

- To convert any segment of your video

- Click the Edit button next to your video in the list.

- In the opened window, drag the left marker to the beginning of a desired video episode and the right marker ” to the end of it.

Step 6. Hit Convert to Save MPEG video to MOV

Make sure the added video file is checked in the List of opened files and hit Convert to convert it to MOV

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May 13th, 2008 The Game

The Game was born and grew up in the notorious Compton, California. Known to be an actual gang member, he was raised in a Crips gang area known to be Santana Blocc. The Games street name is said to have been given to him by his granny, who said that he was all the time game for anything. After being in a foster home for many years in his late childhood and early adolescence, unfortunatly in the following years, two of his brothers were shot and killed. At around that time, his half brother Big Fase brought him deep into the lifestyle of californian gang scene.

Durin a drug deal gone bad The Game was shot five times in 2001. While slowly recoperating in hospital he decided to try a career in rapping instead of drug dealing. The Game said that he listed to many rap albums in order to from a successful strategy, He was soon discovered and then signed by rap and producing legend Dr. Dre. Even though Game was first signed as an Aftermath artist, Interscope’s Jimmy Iovine and Dre came to the conclusion to have The Game work with G-Unit. The deal was to crerate a buzz around The Game which would also gain interest in G-Unit. Dr. Dre and 50 Cent were executive producers on The Game’s debut album, The Documentary. The album debuted at number no1 on the music charts and produced hit singles such as “How We Do,” “Hate It or Love It,” and “Dreams.”.

The Game

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