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(1888PressRelease) ANNUAL OUTMUSIC AWARDS TAKES TO THE STAGE IN THE HEART OF TIMES SQUARE ON WORLD AIDS DAY, DECEMBER 1 Foundation shines a spotlight on the HIV/AIDS pandemic affecting our nation's youth

New York,New York - The LGBT Academy of Recording Arts (LARA) Chairwoman Diedra Meredith announces today that the biggest night in LGBT entertainment will take place on December 1, 2010 on World AIDS Day. The annual OUTmusic Awards will celebrate 20 years of music history in the heart of Times Square at Town Hall NYC (123 West 43rd Street). The OUTmusic Awards celebrates honors and documents the contributions of openly LGBT recording artists and performers in the music industry.

The OUTmusic Awards ceremony is the biggest night in LGBT entertainment and only organization of its kind in the world. The highest and most prestigious honor in the LGBT music industry, the 2010 OMAs will be hosted by comedians Julie Goldman and Jonny McGovern with co-host comedian Tammy Peay with special appearance by the legendary Dr. Carol Channing. A complete list of performers and nominees will be announced in November at the foundation's national press conference, November 1, 2010.

This year, the OMA will honor several exceptional individuals for their excellence in the art of recording, performing and championing for equality. This year's honorees include Melissa Etheridge - Lifetime Achievement Award, Sheryl Lee Ralph - Pillar Award, Wayne Besen - Visionary Award, Chely Wright - Vanguard Award, international disco icon SYLVESTER - OUTmusic Icon Award, Cyndi Lauper - Person of the Year Award, Randy Jones of the Village People Cowboy - Heritage Award and 2005 Kennedy Center 'Women In Music' Honoree Paula 'Sticks' Hampton - The OUTMusic Living Legend Award.

This year, the awards are being held on World AIDS Day to bring attention the increasing number of homeless youth being affected with HIV/AIDS daily. Currently, there is close to 2.5 million homeless people (40 percent LGBT identified) between the ages of 13-25 in America. In advocating for equality in the music industry, the organization is "creating the CHANGE we want to see" with the launch of its Sponsor A Young Person's Initiative. The Sponsor A Young Person Initiative is a series of PSA that include both mainstream and LGBT celebrities, entertainers, musicians and "real" people who work tirelessly daily to help and support homeless youth abandon by their family and love ones. The foundation will put a spotlight on the Next 20 years to celebrate and uplift the NEXT generation. Additional details and participates of the Sponsor A Young Person Initiatives will be announced later this month.

OUTmusic is the premier 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization created to empower, honor, and celebrate the achievements of openly LGBT recording artists and performers. OUTmusic is an advocate on behalf of these artists to raise awareness of their contributions to music and entertainment history.

The Academy encourages and supports openly LGBT artists and our friends and allies to work together for LGBT equal rights and to help erase the stigma that perpetuates homophobia throughout the world. LARA currently boasts a membership base of over 1,000 recording artists and performers worldwide and is continuously growing.

Founders and life partners Daniel Martin and Michael Biello started OUTmusic 20 years ago in their east village living room to give LGBT singers, musicians and performers a safe space to authentically express themselves. That one night has evolved into an international organization and is the only organization of its kind in the world.

For updates and information on the 2010 OUTmusic Awards, please visit the newly launched OUTmusic Awards web site www.outmusicawards.com and its social networks on Twitter (www.twitter.com/OUTmusicawards), Facebook (www.facebook.com/OUTmusic).

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Accused Cole bomber seeks to halt Guantanamo trial

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) ? A U.S. military war tribunal is weighing a question that might seem better suited for a history class than a courtroom: How long has the United States been at war?

The question is more than academic for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, whose lawyers are appearing before the tribunal this week at the U.S. base in Guantanamo, Cuba, to seek the dismissal of war crimes charges that were approved by a Pentagon-appointed legal official.

Al-Nashiri faces trial in a special tribunal for war-time offenses known as a military commission for allegedly orchestrating the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 as well as attacks on two other ships. But his lawyers say that since the U.S. wasn't at war at that time, the 47-year-old shouldn't be tried at Guantanamo.

"The fact of going to war is a decision by the political branches, either Congress or the president or both," attorney Richard Kammen said Monday. "It's not something to be arrived at retroactively by a bureaucrat who is not appointed by Congress because it has huge consequences."

Al-Nashiri's lawyers say that the U.S. wasn't at war until after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and then-President George W. Bush did not certify the existence of hostilities of any kind in Yemen until September 2003.

The motion for dismissal is one of 21 matters set for consideration at a hearing scheduled to start Tuesday at the base, where the U.S. holds 166 prisoners, most of whom have not been charged with any crime. The hearing is scheduled to run through Thursday but officials were trying to condense the agenda because of the approach of Tropical Storm Sandy, which was heading north in the Caribbean Sea on a track to reach southeastern Cuba on Thursday.

Other items on this week's agenda include whether al-Nashiri should be forced to attend the hearings and whether the U.S. government should turn over information about a man killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2002 who was identified in some media reports as the mastermind of the Cole attack.

"If he was killed based on the fact that he was the mastermind behind the USS Cole that's relevant," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Reyes, his military lawyer.

Al-Nashiri, who was born in Saudi Arabia to a Yemeni father and a Saudi mother, has been held at Guantanamo since September 2006. An allegedly senior member of al-Qaida, he was held for four years in the CIA's secret network of overseas prisons, where he was subjected to the "enhanced" interrogation program that included at least two instances of the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding. The government has said he was also threatened with a gun and a power drill because interrogators believed he was withholding information about possible attacks against the U.S.

In November, he was arraigned on charges that include terrorism and murder for the attack on the Cole, which killed 17 sailors and wounded 37, as well as for orchestrating the October 2002 bombing of the French tanker MV Limburg, which killed one crewman, and a failed January 2000 plot on the USS The Sullivans. He could get the death penalty at a trial that his lawyers say is at least a year away.

In making the case for the military tribunal, prosecutors lay out the history of what they see as al-Qaida's escalating war against the U.S., starting with an August 1996 declaration by Osama bin Laden calling for the murder of U.S. personnel serving on the Arabian peninsula, though it wasn't until a week after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that Congress and Bush approved an authorization for military force.

Al-Nashiri's lawyers say that former President Bill Clinton repeatedly noted that the country was at peace in the aftermath of the Cole attack.

A group of retired admirals and generals who served as senior military legal officials called for the military charges to be dismissed and for the case to be shifted to a civilian criminal court. In a brief in October as part of a civil challenge to the case, they also argued that the definition of war was being improperly expanded to include non-war offenses in the al-Nashiri case, and that such a use of the military courts could put U.S. soldiers and citizens in jeopardy in the future if other countries did the same thing to them.

"If countries can retroactively decide we were at war and chuck people from the civilian court systems into prisoner of war systems with the attendant lack of protections, that road runs both ways," Kammen said. "Once you get to go back in time and rewrite history that's a very, very dangerous precedent."

Prosecutors say in court papers that it will be up to the jury to decide whether the war crimes were properly filed in this case, and that it's too early for the judge to rule on the question. The judge, Army Col. James Pohl, is not expected to issue an immediate ruling on the motion.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/accused-cole-bomber-seeks-halt-guantanamo-trial-061025593.html

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Guest Posting on the Tenant Advisor

The frequency that I get pitched for guest posting opportunities on The Tenant Advisor is rapidly increasing. I do encourage and accept guest posts from related industry professionals to this site and my primary requirement is relevancy. The tagline on this site is Corporate Real Estate | Tenant Representation | Workspace Strategy, this should serve as a guideline.

Below are a few examples of guest posts here on The Tenant Advsior:

Design Strategies to Jump Start your Real Estate Asset
As a result of the recession and its fiscal impact, distressed assets have become an undeniable part of today?s Commercial Real Estate Market. So where do we go from here?? What are the long term, strategic benefits to improving and/or repositioning an asset? ? read the full article

Project Management for an Office Buildout
The role of Project Management is to improve this process and insure the right product is delivered on schedule and under budget? read the full article

Top Ten Protections a Landlord Should Have in a Commercial Lease
Yes, you read the headline correct, this post is about issues the building owner should consider when leasing commercial space to a prospective tenant. Isn?t this blog titled ?The Tenant Advisor? you ask? Yes, this site is tenant oriented, but when approached about a guest post that looks at commercial leases from the other side ? the landlord?s perspective, I was quick to agree it was a great idea? read the full article

Building a Startup Environment into Your Office Space
No longer do the standard white walls and tall cubicles work for the modern office. Gen Y employees and the ever-growing startup industry have forced businesses to reconsider the way they build and put together an office? read the full article

Topics of Interest

• Office Design and Construction
• Legal Topics related to Office Leasing
• Alternative Work ?Strategies
• Technology and its impact on Commercial Real Estate
• Data Centers
• Coworking
• Commercial Real Estate and Digital Marketing
• Sustainability and LEED Office Space
• Human Resources issues at it relates to Office Space
• Healthcare and Commercial Real Estate
• Industrial Real Estate
• The Economy and Commercial Real Estate

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China leftists urge parliament not to expel Bo Xilai

BEIJING (Reuters) - A group of Chinese leftists has issued a public letter calling on the country's largely rubber stamp parliament not to expel disgraced former top leader Bo Xilai from its ranks, saying the move is legally questionable and politically motivated.

Stripping membership from Bo - the one-time Communist Party chief of Chongqing who is accused of abusing power, taking huge bribes and other crimes - also removes his immunity from prosecution, and paves the way for formal charges against him.

Bo's ouster has exposed deep rifts in the party between his leftist backers, who are nostalgic for the revolutionary era of Mao Zedong, and reformers, who advocate for faster political and economic reforms.

The letter, carried on the far-left Chinese-language website "Red China" and addressed to the parliament's standing committee, says the party is fuelling doubts about the accusations against Bo by refusing to discuss them publicly.

"What is the reason provided for expelling Bo Xilai? Please investigate the facts and the evidence," says the letter. "Please announce to the people evidence that Bo Xilai will be able to defend himself in accordance with the law."

Parliament and its members are there to provide oversight and make laws, not to "act as a rubber stamp" for attacks on people for personal reasons by political factions, it added.

Since Bo was ousted in March, he has not been seen in public and has not been allowed to answer the accusations against him. At a news conference days before his removal, Bo rejected as "filth" and "nonsense" the then unspecified allegations against him and his family.

The once high-flying Bo now faces a criminal investigation that stems from the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood in Chongqing last year. Bo will almost certainly be jailed, following the imprisonment of Bo's wife Gu Kailai and his former police chief Wang Lijun.

The letter said there were still many doubts over the Heywood case, including how the defendants were allowed to defend themselves and the shortness of the two court cases.

"Is this not a big joke we are playing on the world when we have been telling people left, right and center that we are a country with rule of law?"

"Red China", which has issued a torrent of commentary defending Bo, is blocked to the many Chinese users who do not know how to evade censorship barriers, and the letter is likely to fall on deaf ears in any case.

Parliament's standing committee, its top decision making body, meets for three days from Wednesday and is expected to throw Bo out of parliament, removing another hurdle for the smooth handling of a generational leadership transfer kicking off at a key party congress next month.

Bo, 63, was widely seen as pursuing a powerful spot in the new political line-up before his career unraveled after his former police chief fled to a U.S. consulate for more than 24 hours in February and alleged that Bo's wife Gu had poisoned Heywood to death.

After his appointment as party chief of Chongqing in 2007, Bo, a former commerce minister, turned it into a showcase of revolution-inspired "red" culture and his policies for egalitarian, state-led growth. He also won national attention with a crackdown on organized crime.

His brash self-promotion irked some leaders. But his populist ways and crime clean-up were welcomed by many of Chongqing's 30 million residents, as well as others who hoped that Bo could take his leftist-shaded policies nationwide.

His likely trial could still stir that ideological contention. China's party-run courts rarely find in favor of defendants, especially in politically-sensitive cases.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard, Editing by Jonathan Thatcher)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-leftists-urge-parliament-not-expel-bo-xilai-034227574.html

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'Rust and Bone' named best picture at London fest

From left, Actor Aneurin Barnard, writer and director Ciaran Foy, actress Wunmi Mosaku and producer Katie Holly arrive during the BFI London Film Festival at the premiere of "Citadel" on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, in London. (Photo by Ki Price/Invision/AP)

From left, Actor Aneurin Barnard, writer and director Ciaran Foy, actress Wunmi Mosaku and producer Katie Holly arrive during the BFI London Film Festival at the premiere of "Citadel" on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, in London. (Photo by Ki Price/Invision/AP)

Actor Aneurin Barnard arrives during the BFI London Film Festival at the premiere of "Citadel" on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, in London. (Photo by Ki Price/Invision/AP)

Actress Wunmi Mosaku arrives during the BFI London Film Festival at the premiere of "Citadel" on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, in London. (Photo by Ki Price/Invision/AP)

Actors Aneurin Barnard and Wunmi Mosaku arrives during the BFI London Film Festival at the premiere of "Citadel" on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, in London. (Photo by Ki Price/Invision/AP)

Actors Aneurin Barnard and Wunmi Mosaku arrive during the BFI London Film Festival at the premiere of "Citadel" on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, in London. (Photo by Ki Price/Invision/AP)

LONDON (AP) ? "Rust and Bone," Jacques Audiard's soaring story of love, loss and killer whales, was named best picture at the London Film Festival on Saturday.

The movie is a thriller-cum-melodrama about the unlikely relationship between a bare-knuckle boxer (Matthias Schoenaerts) and a whale trainer, played by Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard, who suffers a tragic workplace accident.

The president of the award jury, British playwright David Hare, praised it as "a film full of heart, violence and love."

French filmmaker Audiard won the same award at the London festival in 2009 for his prison drama "A Prophet."

American director Benh Zeitlin took the best debut feature prize with his atmospheric bayou saga "Beasts of the Southern Wild." Juror Hannah McGill praised the "daringly vast, richly detailed" film, which has won wide praise since its Sundance Film Festival debut earlier this year.

The trophy for best British newcomer went to Sally El Hosaini for "My Brother the Devil," the story of British-Egyptian brothers struggling with conflicting loyalties and identities in modern-day London. The best documentary prize went to Alex Gibney's "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God," an investigation of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic church.

Director Tim Burton and actress Helena Bonham Carter ? real-life partners as well as creative collaborators ? received career honors known as British Film Institute Fellowships during an awards ceremony at London's Banqueting House.

Founded in 1957 to show the best of the world's cinema to a British audience, the London festival has in recent years tried to carve out a place on the international movie calendar with bigger pictures, more glittering stars and more high-profile awards.

Highlights 12-day festival included Ben Affleck's Iran hostage drama "Argo," Michael Haneke's Cannes Palme d'Or winner "Amour," Rolling Stones documentary "Crossfire Hurricane" and Roger Michell's "Hyde Park on Hudson," a comedy-drama with Bill Murray as U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The festival wraps up Sunday with a gala screening of Mike Newell's adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," starring Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes.

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Online: http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff

Associated Press

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Sridevis' English Vinglish Hindi Movie Music Review

Evergreen beauty Sridevi is returning to the silver screen after a hiatus of 15 years with 'English Vinglish'. Its soundtrack covers six tracks, created by new-age master composer Amit Trivedi, with lyrics penned by Swanand Kirkire. The singers are Shilpa Rao, Amit Trivedi, Clinton Cerejo, Swanand Kirkire, Bianca Gomes, Sunidhi Chauhan, Natalia Di, Luccio and Neelambari Kirkire.

The album kicks off with the title track 'English vinglish', a peppy and energetic track to start off the day and fight challenges in life. Sunita Rao's vocals blend quite well with Trivedi's, and the number definitely elevates the spirit. The lyrics, in true Hinglish style, don't seem vague and have been penned with an aesthetic approach by Kirkire. There's good use of instruments like violin fused with contemporary sounds.

The track also has a male version where Trivedi takes centrestage. Musically it isn't too different, but the magic of the singer's voice strikes the right chords and charms the listener all the way.

It is followed by 'Dhak dhuk', a folksy and soft number which deals with the anxieties of a young bride leaving for another country. Trivedi is brilliant behind the mike in this one, with his soulful rendition. This gloomy composition grows on the listener. The use of flute in the song to good effect is especially plausible, and Kirkire has penned lyrics, which tug right at the heartstrings.

Next up on the playlist is 'Manhattan'. Dialogues by Sridevi, envisioning the hustle bustle of a US city, welcome the listener in this track. It starts on a high note full of energy but fails to create an impact. Clinton Cerejo is average in the vocal department, but the surprise package is Bianca Gomes who impresses with her voice. Some good techno sounds here and there with the flute are nice on the ear, but the track still falls short of expectations.

'Gustakh dil' brings back the duo of Trivedi and Rao together and their voices really do wonders. Such perfect sync is a rarity and this might well be one of the best duets this year in Bollywood. The track uses minimal sounds and focusses on the singers' talent, bringing the best out of them. It has bit of a rock touch to it. Kudos also to Kirkire for doing justice to the song with his beautiful words.

Rounding up the album is 'Navraj majhi', crooned by an ensemble of singers including Sunidhi Chauhan, Swanand Kirkire, Natalie Di Luccio and Neelambari Kirkire. The song captures the essence of a traditional Marathi wedding. Sunidhi is good on the vocals while Natalie D'Luccio and Trivedi enjoin a modern flavour to this folk track. The lyricist and his mother, Neelambari Kirkire, also join the celebration. It's fun all the way.

Although the English Vinglish album lacks the lustre of new age Bollywood movies albums, it manages to leave the listener smiling with its simple approach. There are no remixes and nothing out-of-the-box here, but it delights.

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Meningitis victims face long, uncertain recovery

OCALA, Fla. (AP) ? Vilinda York lies in her Florida hospital bed, facing a dry-erase board that lists in green marker her name, her four doctors and a smiley face.

Also on the board is this: "Anticipated date of discharge: NOT YET DETERMINED."

The 64-year-old contracted fungal meningitis after receiving three tainted steroid shots in her back. She's one of 284 people nationwide who are victims of an outbreak that began when a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy shipped contaminated medication. Twenty-three people have died.

Like many trying to recover, York, who has been hospitalized since Sept. 27, faces a long and uncertain road. Many people have died days or even weeks after being hospitalized. Fungal meningitis ? which is not contagious ? is a tenacious disease that can be treated only with powerful drugs.

"I'm determined I'm going to fight this thing," she said. "The devil is not going to win."

Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist who chairs Vanderbilt University's Department of Preventive Medicine, said the treatment includes intravenous anti-fungal medicines that are tricky to use.

"These are powerful drugs. They're toxic," he said. "You're walking a tightrope because you want to get enough into a patient to have the therapeutic effect while at the same time you're trying not to affect, or to minimize the effect on the liver and kidneys."

Even after leaving the hospital, he said, patients will continue antifungal drugs for weeks or months.

The infectious disease doctor handling York's case did not immediately respond to a phone message.

When York talks about the last six weeks, tears run down her cheeks. She knows the disease is deadly. And if she needed a reminder, it's right there in the headline from a local newspaper on her hospital bed: "Third death reported in Marion County from fungal meningitis."

For York, 2012 started well. The retired clothing shop clerk and widow from Illinois was doing water aerobics three times a week, tending to her flower garden and spending time with church friends. They'd get together at Olive Garden and Red Lobster a couple of times a week and go to church every Sunday.

On Jan. 21, she was on her way to a wedding when she got into a car crash. It wasn't enough to put her in the hospital, but she did suffer back problems.

The pain was strong enough for her to visit a doctor at Marion Pain Clinic, where she received two steroid shots on Aug. 16. A week later, the pain was still there and she began feeling headachy, nauseous and dizzy. She chalked it up to her back and got a third shot Aug. 28.

In the weeks that followed, her health deteriorated. She couldn't lie down without extreme back pain. A friend gave her a recliner to sleep in. The headaches grew severe, sharp pains shooting from all directions into her skull.

"I couldn't walk well, I couldn't see good and I could wipe the sweat off my arms," she said.

On Sept. 27, her legs and arms grew numb. The numbness flowed upwards to her waist. That's when she called 911.

"I didn't know whether I was getting ready for a stroke," she said.

When she arrived at the hospital, doctors took a spinal tap and discovered she had meningitis.

Health officials have noticed that the sickest patients with meningitis are those who either did not catch the symptoms early or who didn't receive appropriate treatment early because doctors didn't know what they were dealing with. The fungi become harder to kill once they have established themselves in a person's body.

"If treatment is given early, it is very effective," said Dr. David Reagan, medical officer for Tennessee, where the outbreak was first detected. "If it is given late, it is not very effective."

Most of the positively identified cases are caused by Exserohilum rostratum (ex-sir-oh-HY-lum ross-TRAH-tum). The fungus is commonly found in the environment, but it has never before been observed as a cause of meningitis.

Because of that, Reagan said, officials have been unable to firmly establish the incubation period and give those who received the tainted injections a date for when they will no longer need to worry about developing meningitis.

"We're saying at least six weeks, or 42 days, but we probably will extend that," he said. "This is new territory. There's no literature to tell us how long."

In York's case, doctors initially thought she had bacterial meningitis, but when she told them about the steroid shots, doctors began to assemble a theory. On Sept. 25, the New England Compounding Center had voluntarily recalled three lots of the steroid methylprednisolone acetate.

York's three shots were that steroid ? and the Marion Pain Clinic had gotten some of the tainted medicine, health officials said.

York said a doctor from Marion Pain Clinic visited her in the hospital and told her about the contaminated shots. The doctor was crying as she spoke, York added.

York passes her days by talking on the phone to two children and three grandchildren who live out of state, receiving visitors from her church and reading the Bible.

She's lost more than 10 pounds in the past month. She realizes she's not the woman she once was; now she's pale and weak whereas before, she liked to put on a little makeup, fix up her short brown hair and go for a walk. The only time she has walked since Sept. 27 was to shuffle to the shower on Oct. 17.

"I got to shampoo my hair and the whole nine yards," she smiled. "I enjoyed it tremendously."

York is worried about whether the meningitis will have lasting effects on her body, and she's concerned about the powerful anti-fungal medication she's taking. Doctors have had to pause the treatment because they were concerned about her liver and kidney.

York has filed a lawsuit against NECC claiming negligence, and her lawyer is getting calls from others who were sickened.

She says she's "blessed, not lucky," to be alive at this point.

"I want to get out of here," she said. "I want to go home, I want to live a normal life again. God still has a plan for me, and I'm looking forward to it."

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Travis Loller contributed to this report from Nashville.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/meningitis-victims-face-long-uncertain-recovery-141341513.html

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