... . Despite the wide range of guesses from a massively multi-player online role-playing game to a treasure hunt to a sequel, the Pottermore website will allow Potter-crazed fans to journey through the story lines of the books, starting with "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," according to a statement from Rowling's media team (Clark). "It's the same story with a few crucial additions, the most important of which ... Potter books. Pottermore will be the place where fans of any age can share, participate in, and rediscover the stories" (Clark). Rowling even announced that the seven orig...

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... . That is not the case anymore. Probably as a way to shake things up and get themselves noticed with fresh eyes and ears, some dancehall artists chose to start using dirty lyrics in their songs. The songs started to glorify the underworld, where crime is pastime and women are something to be objectified. Before long, dancehall music was the kind of thing you didn't want your ... children to listen to, and it was the kind of thing you hid from your ... a life of crime is what the cool crowd does. The music is no longer about the music, the story, and the enjoyment of a good beat. Being a...

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... collecting one's royalties. Everyday, songwriters are coming up with new ideas and new twists and sometimes those ideas may not be heard. Those vary ideas may be the music we"re looking for to complete our iPod collections. As the studio formats change, the vary programs producers use such as Cubase and Pro Tools are publicly available at stores like Guitar Center ... into a video file. Again, the search engine is a wonderful thing. In the search tag field, musician's list their titles as well as who they sound like in various music genres. Independent music has proven to be successful ...

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... the chain reaction of deviant behaviors is what creates the most long-lasting negative effects on those that listen to rap music for hours at a time or have engrained its lyrics into their lives. The correlation between continued listening to rap music and the propensity to engage in theft, join and participate in street gangs in the form of violence, and sexual activity that often ... demographic segment, those 14 - 18 year old boys and girls across all ethnic backgrounds, there is little if any regret or recognition from rap artists of their responsibility to these consumers of their ...

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Back in the days of vinyl, that's the only way you had to listen to music. It evolved to 8-tracks, to cassettes, to CDs and now digital files to be placed on MP3 players such as the popular iPod. Over the years, the music industry has seen a dramatic shift in how we buy music and a shift in sales. Earlier this decade, the RIAA shut down Napster in a lawsuit for piracy ... collection of songs, knowing that this was one album out of a career and she needed it for her. This proves music is a venting practice and she refused to be a formula all the time to be No. 1. This album showed off her rock...

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... presence in the state. Although California enacted this law, most consumers did not pay the sales tax, prompting many supporters of the legislation to argue that Amazon and other online retailers have the upper hand because their prices will always be lower (Hull). "In California, out-of ... the governor signed the bill into law, very little taxes are collected. Amazon.com and Overstock.com severed their relationship with California affiliates to avoid having to collect the tax. Amazon used the same tactic after facing similar laws in Illinois, Arkansas, and Connecticut. Amazon is curren...

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... HIV-1 prevalence Prompted by the newfound study, the World Health Organization called an emergency meeting scheduled for January to advise women about the serious side effects. "We are going to be re-evaluating W.H.O.'s clinical recommendations on contraceptive use," said Mary Lyn Gaffeld, an epidemiologist at the organization's department of reproductive health and research. She described the contraceptive as ... "something that a woman can do privately herself and it doesn't need to be remembered to be taken every day. It's also a relatively ... not a factor. Instead, they found more...

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... as the judge berated him for his behavior (Ryan). "Yipes! Talk about blaming the victim," Judge Pastor said, referring to Murray's comment on television that Jackson had "entrapped" him. "Not only isn't there any remorse, there is umbrage ... no sense of remorse, absolutely no sense of fault and is and remains dangerous" (Ryan). Judge Pastor went on to criticize Murray's tactics of administering surgical anesthetic for insomnia as "horrible medicine" practice, citing that Murray was more interested ... Jackson, read from a letter on the family's behalf. "As Michael's parents, we never h...

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To add to the growing tension between Iran and the United States, members of the Iranian Parliament's human rights committee have taken a strong, public stand against the planned execution of a woman in Virginia. According to a British newspaper, "the parliamentary human rights committee said her case reflected ...

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Believing himself to be a victim of a smear campaign, presidential candidate Herman Cain suddenly recalled the financial settlement he was a part of years before. In the late 1990's, as the head of the National ... (Grinberg). Cain told Politico that he did not recall such an instance, but when pressed later by radio host, Laura Ingraham, Cain suddenly remembered the instance. "The word settlement suggested to me some sort of legal settlement," he explained about the mix-up, "and later as I thought about it and thought about it and I did recall an agreement with the lady ... that's when I s...

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The Notre Dame campus is still in shock over the sudden death of Declan Sullivan, a junior studying film marketing and television and theater (Gay). Sullivan was filming a football practice atop a scissor lift, a portable hydraulic lift that allows people to videotape team drills from as high as 40 feet above practice field, when the lift collapsed from high winds (Auman). The afternoon that Sullivan died winds reached up to 51 mph in South Bend, according to the National Weather Service. Students even struggled to walk to class (Hall). Hours before his death, Sullivan tweeted about his predic...

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... dying were everywhere, crowded into any building that would hold them. The fallen were buried in makeshift graves, with no headstones to even identify them. It would take over a year to finally enterr all the bodies that fell there that day. Gettysburg stands as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Only ... two minute speech. Those two minutes transformed Gettysburg from a battlefield into a symbol, and gave an historical meaning to the sacrifice of those who had lost their lives, while serving as an inspiration to the living. By invoking the guarantees of human equality in the Declar...

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... the city of Tripoli, Libya, as rebel fighters raided the compound for weapons and mementos of Qaddafi's dictatorship, seizing machine guns, a gold-plated rifle, and a golf cart. Crowds immediately gathered to celebrate the monumental victory for the rebel cause. The city's Green Square immediately took on the new name of Martyrs' Square, as rebel supporters celebrated late into the night (Kirkpatrick ... hopefully that is the best outcome we want - or if he resists, he will be killed," said Guma el-Gamaty, a spokesman for the rebel party (Kirkpatrick). While rebel victory seems to be dr...

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... 's unemployment rate remains painstakingly high. He announced that companies, such as General Electric, United Airlines, and Walgreens, among others, agreed to hire more than 3,000 people since his administration began. He also said the city will focus on filling existing positions to really bring down the unemployment rate (Schneiderman). "There are 120,000 job openings in Chicago," said Emanuel, who served as ... House senior staffer. "Yet we have 9 percent unemployment. Those two facts should not go together" (Schneiderman). Emanuel also targeted the city's community college and job t...

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The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women recently awarded $10 million in grants to 13 initiatives in 18 countries. The UN Trust Fund, which is managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, or UNIFEM, was established in 1996 by the United Nations, and still remains the only multilateral grant-making mechanism solely devoted to supporting local and national efforts to end violence against women and girls. Its recent grant completed the UN Trust Fund's 14th grant-making cycle of 2009, which awarded a total of $20.5 million to 26 projects ...

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... an emailed statement he reportedly wrote that the university "strongly condemns the anti-Semitic remarks made by Helen Thomas" (Collins). As a daughter of Lebanese immigrants in Detroit, Thomas is believed to have had problems with Jews. She was the first female officer of the National Press Club and the first female member of the White House Correspondents Association. After reporting on ... the Society of Professional Journalists, as well as receiving over thirty honorary degrees. The Helen Thomas award was given out each year by Wayne State's Journalism Institute for Media Diversity t...

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... for basic functions like feeding, mating and giving birth. American and Canadian scientists reviewed three examples of polar bears preying on each other from January to April 2004, in northern Alaska and western Canada. In one incident, a bear killed a female of the species in her den shortly after ... she had given birth. In the wild, polar bears do kill each other for population regulation, to exert their dominance, and to gain reproductive advantage. But killing one another for food is much less common. Steven Amstrup, of the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center, ... incidents...

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... beyond oil. This is what we will discuss, the behind factors and what is going on today to turn things around. For centuries now our world has been growing astronomically in technology. Here we are able to work from home over the internet, so it is clear that technology has indeed bettered our lives. ... Before 1885 people were getting from place to place mainly by horse or by boat to cross waters. Although the invention of the car cannot be denied its brilliance one can only ask if a massive amount was necessary. ... taken more seriously by the people. This is a luxury that we have ta...

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... released after serving only eight years of a life sentence because of his ill health. He was diagnosed with prostrate cancer and given three months to live. However, the US and other Western governments have grown increasingly aggravated that he has outlived his sentence and demanded his return following the ... al Sagheer, a member of the National Transitional Council and a legal expert, agree, "Libya has never extradited or handed over its citizens to a foreign country. We shall continue with this principle" (Fox News). A senior judge who originally joined in the uprising against Qadda...

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... colleague and friend, Agustin Carstens," she said (Rooney). The global financial institution desperately needed a new leader because of their involvement with the European Union and the European Central Bank to provide financial support to Greece and other troubled European economies who need immediate help (Rooney). Lagarde is already involved in these affairs. While in Paris, she advised the Greek government ... to come to terms with the political differences that exist and approve the austerity measures that are currently preventing the country from receiving their next installment l...

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Google, the world's powerhouse search engine, is launching its newest initiative to attempt to break into the social media industry once again. Although the company has already failed several times with Google Buzz, Orkut, and Google Wave ... tweeks that will hopefully prove this new initiative to be successful (Miller). The Google+ project that launched on June 28th is only available to a select group of Google users who will test the product and then invite others to join. Like Facebook, the social networking site allows people to share and discuss status updates, photos and ... sharing with...

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... company has also attacked Nintendo Co., PBS, a Federal Bureau of Investigation affiliate, the Senate, and the CIA. They took a political stance after releasing documents from the Arizona Department Public Safety to protest against a controversial state immigration law (Sherr). After they announced their farewell, LulzSec released files from AOL Corp., AT&T Inc., and the FBI (Sherr). On Twitter, they also encouraged ... stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve" (Bilton). A recent interview with the member whose online alias is "Topiary" ...

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... now fighting against them. Gorbachev questions, "But what's the alternative - another Vietnam? Sending in half a million troops? That wouldn't work" (AOL News). Gorbachev said that the best NATO could hope to achieve was to help the country get back on its feet and rebuild itself after the war (BBC). NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, announced that he is talking ... Afghan security forces in Russia, we can co-operate on counter-narcotics," he said (Burns). Despite Gorbachev's warning, Obama is considering a military request to send in as many as 400,000 more US soldiers to ...

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... and carbon monoxide. This can be converted into fuel. The other byproduct is something that looks like molten black glass, which can be ground up and used to make asphalt. Sounds, wonderful, doesn't it? All our garbage, going into a space age converter, that is energy negative, and produces usable byproducts. You ... converter can handle 2000 tons of trash per day. A plant has been in development in St. Lucie, FL for two years, with no product to date. The Europeans have been studying this technology for years, and no plants have been built. Three ex-trash executives have started a compa...

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... feeds, oils and other food products. Ethanol reduces the efficiency of gasoline, and causes problems in some vehicles. It is not the long term solution to our dependence on foreign oil. Algae farming might well be. While the most productive biofuel crop, oil palm, only produces 6,000 litres per hectare ... of land, estimates are that algae could produce almost 100,000 litres of biodiesel a year per hectare. A hectare is equal to 2.47105 acres, so that would be the equivalent of almost 11,000 gallons per acre of land. "Green crude" makes sense ecologically as well. While ... conventional...

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