Monthly Archives: January 2008
Jan 31 2008
Forbes: Madonna richest woman in music

Forbes released there list of richest women in the music biz. And we think the music biz in trouble. We should look at the men or groups.

Forbes: Madonna richest woman in music Wed Jan 30, 7:47 PM ET

Madonna is the richest woman in music. The 49-year-old entertainer leads Forbes.com’s list of the top 20 “Cash Queens of Music, ” earning $72 million between June 2006 and June 2007.

The pop star’s “Confessions” world tour pulled in $260 million, Forbes said. She also made money from album sales, her fashion line with H&M and a deal with NBC to broadcast her concert performance at London’s Wembley Stadium.

Forbes.com said it compiled the list by examining concert grosses, merchandising revenue, album sales and other revenue from clothing lines, fragrance deals and endorsements.

Barbra Streisand is No. 2 with $60 million, thanks to her comeback tour of North America and Europe.

Celine Dion ranks third with $45 million, largely from her successful “A New Day” show in Las Vegas, which she wrapped up in December after a five-year engagement at Caesars Palace.

Shakira is fourth with $38 million, followed by Beyonce ($27 million), Gwen Stefani ($26 million), Christina Aguilera ($20 million), Faith Hill ($19 million), the Dixie Chicks ($18 million) and Mariah Carey ($13 million).

Hilary Duff, Avril Lavigne and Martina McBride each banked $12 million.

Britney Spears ranked 14th on the list, earning $8 million from music royalties and sales of her fragrances with Elizabeth Arden.

Spears is followed by Carrie Underwood and Nelly Furtado ($7 million each); Fergie, Jennifer Lopez and Sheryl Crow ($6 million each); and Norah Jones ($5.5 million).

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Jan 31 2008
Internet Outage: Ship Anchor Cuts Undersea Internet Cable

From Internet Patrol
Ship Anchor Cuts Undersea Internet Cable, – India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Middle East Countries Lose Internet Access 1/30/2008 – 5 Comments
Summary: If you are having trouble getting email to or from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or the Middle East, it’s probably because a badly dropped ship anchor has damaged an undersea Internet provisioning telecom cable in the Mediterranean, disrupting Internet service throughout India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and the Middle East. The cable, belonging to Flag Telecom, was badly cut when a ship anchored off the cost of Alexandria was told to anchor in a place that was not their usual anchor location – resulting in the anchor dropping on the cable.

Jan 31 2008
Looking for a recording or rehearsal Studio?

Are you looking for a studio?

This new site is listing recording and rehearsal studios in the US. Look for many more studios to be added on a daily basis.

For example this link has all the studios in California. I understand there will be a new site built from this database of studios.

When looking for a rehearsal or recording studio you want to check out at least 2-3 studios before selecting one.

If your studio is not listed, you can add it by clicking here.

Jan 31 2008
Thousands of babysitters, nannies and pet sitters nationwide

Planning a night out for Valentine’s Day, but can’t find a sitter? Sittercity.com has hundreds of thousands of babysitters, nannies and pet sitters nationwide.

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Now, in addition to babysitters, users can find nannies, petsitters, housesitters, elder care providers, and tutors.


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Jan 31 2008
Celebrate Valentine’s Day: eHarlequin

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Jan 31 2008
Valentine’s Day is just two weeks away

Las Vegas Air + Hotel vacation packages from $353 pp!

Valentine’s Day is just two weeks away and we’ve got some great ideas for your Valentine shoppers. Diamonds, romance novels, winter getaways, and babysitters for the big night out: we’ve got it all. Take a look at the offers below and find something sure to please sweethearts of all ages.

Winter Getaway Sale

We’re brightening up the season with deals on trips for every taste—and budget. Head someplace sunny, schuss down the slopes, or really get away from it all on a cruise. The choice is yours and deals start from as low as $169 USD. Now is the time to save on your winter getaway—save even more when you book your flight + hotel together!


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Jan 31 2008
Brushstrokes Fine Art


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Introducing Brushstrokes®…The New Original.
In the last hundred years, there has been a great divide in the art world. On the one hand we have master artists painting incredible originals; on the other hand, we have art publishers trying to find ways to reproduce these originals. Throughout, art publishers have been trying to reduce this gap. Although some advancement has been made, the quality of reproductions has greatly lagged with respect to capturing the intrinsic nuances of color, light and texture inherent in the originals…until now…

Welcome to Brushstrokes®…The New Original

Brushstrokes® is a revolutionary new art form that fully captures the exquisite color, shadows and every stroke of the artist’s brush in three dimensional detail. In a side-by-side comparison, even the most discerning eye will find little difference between a Brushstrokes® image and the original oil-on-canvas. Faithful to the artist’s vision, the result is amazing — an authentic painting that is closer to the original than any other reproduction. So much so, that we call it…The New Original.

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Brushstrokes® offers the unique combination of modern day technology and Old World craftsmanship. We start with a proprietary process that captures with incredible accuracy, all the vibrant and subtle colors of the original painting as well as the depth, sweep and force of each of the artist’s brush strokes. This information is then used with our patented process to create a painting on canvas with three-dimensional texture, rich in authentic colors that are indistinguishable from the original.

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Jan 31 2008
CommunityNext presents Next Generation: Media and the Web

CommunityNext presents Next Generation: Media and the Web
March 29.2008
West Hollywood, CA

Next Generation-Media and the Web

Jan 30 2008
Caltech/MIT Forum 2/9/08: The Entrepreneurial Landscape for Developers of Robotics

The Entrepreneurial Landscape for
Developers of Robotics

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Several years ago, Sony demonstrated a corps of bipedal robots that perform a fully-coordinated elegant modern dance. They could do everything but jump, but they needed to be programmed in detail. Last year, a Carnegie-Mellon researcher joined with a Japanese counterpart to produce a toy-sized robot that would move rhythmically on its own to music. Service robots are no longer a fantasy. The Roomba will vacuum your house when you are away and it won’t knock anything over in the process. New high-end cars parallel park themselves. Visions of C3PO may still be a gleam in the eye, but autonomous and semi-autonomous special-purpose devices are no longer limited to laboratory experiments, and no longer limited to government customers and military applications.

Manufacture and sale of heavy duty manufacturing robots is still pretty much limited to industrial giants. What has changed is that there are now opportunities for emerging businesses in the marketplace for smaller scale and more autonomous devices. Much of the market is still wide-open. New companies can develop components, or they can even develop and sell whole assemblies — provided that they understand their customers and markets, and do not bite off more than they can chew.

The February 2008 session of the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum will look at the entrepreneurial opportunities in the robotics industry, illuminate the market segments and their entrepreneurial profiles, and highlight the kinds of strategic relationships would-be purveyors will need to take their robotics products to market.

Keynote Speaker

The Growing Commercial Markets for Semi-Autonomous Devices
Thomas Paige
Project Engineer
Robotics Special Project
Aerospace Corporation

Panelists

Moji Ghodoussi, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
Interface Surgical Technologies, L.L.C.

Wei-Min Shen, Ph.D
Director
Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory
Information Sciences Institute

Rogelio F. Nochebuena
President
Nochebuena R&D

Moderator/Producer

Ira D. Moscatel
Attorney
Arnold & Porter LLP

Co-Producer

Rogelio Nochebuena
President
Nochebuena R&D

Sponsor for this Program

Date
Saturday morning, February 9, 2008

Location
Registration and Continental Breakfast: 8:00 a.m. at Baxter Hall, Caltech
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Networking: 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon at Baxter Hall, Caltech
Directions/Maps: Directions to the Forum; Caltech’s Interactive Map

Cost
$40 on-line registration fee. $50 at-the-door. $10 for students with full-time student ID (must show at door); free to Caltech students. Registrations will be accepted on-line up to 5 p.m., Thursday, February 7th. There are no refunds for no-shows.

FOUNDING SPONSORS Caltech Industrial Relations Center
Caltech Alumni Association
MIT Alumni Association

The Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum is administered in
conjunction with Entretech

Jan 30 2008
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