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RALEIGH - Count Clay Aiken among supporters of turning the Dorothea Dix Hospital campus into a park.
Friends of Dorothea Dix Park, a group pushing for the creation of an urban park on the 306-acre Dix grounds near downtown, touted the singer’s support. Aiken has signed a petition for the group.
“I am so excited about the opportunity that we have to protect such an amazing amount of open space right here in the Triangle,” a news release quoted Aiken as saying. “It’s an opportunity that won’t likely ever come again. It is an opportunity that the overdeveloped cities and towns around the country can only wish they still had, and that we are blessed with.”

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RALEIGH - Count Clay Aiken among supporters of turning the Dorothea Dix Hospital campus into a park.
Friends of Dorothea Dix Park, a group pushing for the creation of an urban park on the 306-acre Dix grounds near downtown, touted the singer’s support. Aiken has signed a petition for the group.
“I am so excited about the opportunity that we have to protect such an amazing amount of open space right here in the Triangle,” a news release quoted Aiken as saying. “It’s an opportunity that won’t likely ever come again. It is an opportunity that the overdeveloped cities and towns around the country can only wish they still had, and that we are blessed with.”

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 The phrase sprung from the early days of movie trailers, LaFontaine says. “(W)e are taking people … and we are literally about to transport them into a different dimension, a different world entirely. So we have to very rapidly establish the world we are transporting them to, and that’s very easily done by saying, ‘In a world where … violence rules.’ ‘In a world where … men are slaves and women are the conquerors.’ You very rapidly set the scene.”

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 The phrase sprung from the early days of movie trailers, LaFontaine says. “(W)e are taking people … and we are literally about to transport them into a different dimension, a different world entirely. So we have to very rapidly establish the world we are transporting them to, and that’s very easily done by saying, ‘In a world where … violence rules.’ ‘In a world where … men are slaves and women are the conquerors.’ You very rapidly set the scene.”

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RALEIGH -
Count American Idol’s Clay Aiken among supporters of turning the Dorothea Dix Hospital campus into a park.
Friends of Dorothea Dix Park — a group pushing for the creation of an urban park on the 306-acre Dix grounds near downtown — touted Aiken’s support in a news release today. Aiken has signed a petition for the group.
“I am so excited about the opportunity that we have to protect such an amazing amount of open space right here in the Triangle,” the news release quoted Aiken as saying. “It’s an opportunity that won’t likely ever come again. It is an opportunity that the overdeveloped cities and towns around the country can only wish they still had, and that we are blessed with.”

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RALEIGH -
Count American Idol’s Clay Aiken among supporters of turning the Dorothea Dix Hospital campus into a park.
Friends of Dorothea Dix Park — a group pushing for the creation of an urban park on the 306-acre Dix grounds near downtown — touted Aiken’s support in a news release today. Aiken has signed a petition for the group.
“I am so excited about the opportunity that we have to protect such an amazing amount of open space right here in the Triangle,” the news release quoted Aiken as saying. “It’s an opportunity that won’t likely ever come again. It is an opportunity that the overdeveloped cities and towns around the country can only wish they still had, and that we are blessed with.”

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Silly as a drag queen convention and subtle as an un-flushed toilet, ”Blades of Glory” is everything you’d hope for in a Will Ferrell comedy.

And more. This farce, set up to mock its way through the figure skating universe, is Ferrell excess at its finest. Paired up with Jon Heder, who adds some snarky, effeminate edge to his wholesome Napoleon Dynamite guise, Ferrell cuts loose as a blast of flab, flatulence and unadulterated testosterone in a sport not known for any of those.

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For all the talk about satellite radio, the most vibrant frontier in radio may be the Web. Many traditional AM and FM stations have begun streaming on the Internet, along with hundreds of smaller online-only operators. Even subscription download services like Napster, Rhapsody and MTV's Urge have pre-programmed radio for users who are not in the mood to hunt for tracks.
Currently, the most compelling online radio is interactive. Services like Pandora, Last.fm and Slacker evaluate your musical tastes, then serve up a continuous stream of programming to match. They mix familiar songs with new material you might like. They all do it by harnessing the technological forces of social networking, data mining and music analysis, though each uses a slightly different technique.

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), while it is true that RCA has not promoted all the Idols equally, there is a very good reason for that.

In the case of Taylor Hicks, who seemed to be the main focus of this letter, RCA realized that Idol viewers screwed up by voting Taylor Hicks as the winner. He was completely wrong for the competition, and I think the main reason he was voted through week after week is that Simon Cowell didn’t like him. Quite frankly, Taylor Hicks is a lounge act at best and that is not going to make record companies any money.

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FOR all the talk about satellite radio, the most vibrant frontier in radio may be the Web. Many traditional AM and FM stations have begun streaming on the Internet, along with hundreds of smaller online-only operators. Even subscription download services like
Napster
, Rhapsody and Urge from MTV have preprogrammed radio for users who are not in the mood to hunt for tracks.
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