LOTRO Announces Free Trial Program! PLAY THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINETM FOR FREE!Turbine launches 7-day Free Trial Program for the Hottest MMO of the YearWESTWOOD, MA --August 29, 2007-- Turbine, Inc. has launched the official 7-day free trial of The Lord of the Rings OnlineTM: Shadows of AngmarTM (LOTRO). Beginning today, fans in North America, Australia and New Zealand can play the best online lotro game for free by visiting http://trial.lotro.com/. LOTRO has received critical acclaim from around the globe. Since its launch in April, LOTRO has quickly become the second largest MMORPG with an estimated 4 million characters calling Middle-earth their home. The lotro game continues to grow with two massive updates that have increased the world by over 20%: 10,000,000 square meters of new landscape to explore Over 200 new quests that extend the epic story Introduction of Legendary Play where players can experience PvP as a powerful Ranger or a

BARFLY PROMOTIONS PRESENTS‘REV IT UP!’A High Octane Night of Rockabilly, Rock ‘n Roll, Country, Country Punk, Swamp Blues and more at THE EMPIRE HOTEL, Corner Parramatta Rd and Johnston Sts, AnnandaleSaturday February 17, 20078.00 p.m till late - $12 admissionFeaturing:-The Nervous Wreckers Far from making you a nervous wreck The Nervous Wreckers will move you to action. Bred into a heritage that includes The Louisville Sluggers and The Psyclones, The Nervous Wreckers pay as much due to Hank the originator as they do to Reverend Horton Heat the accelerator.MotorhankJumped up turned up punk-rock-country-roll. Hank Williams and Johnny Cash meet The Ramones and Social Distortion. If you like truckin songs about the road and nasty strip joints – think Motorhank.Coupe de VilleA rare appearance by Sydney’s longest serving 50’

This week Time Out Chicago takes a look at the citys club culture,

including the venues, the movers and shakers and the unique

personalities

that mold Chicagos nightlife!

NEW CLUBS OPENING AROUND THE CITY...

Ohm. 1954-1958 W. North ave. expected to open 11/15

Reserve Spinoff. 222 W. Ontario St.

Butterfly Social Club. 722 W. Grand Ave. (From teh folks at Funky

Buddha)

Debonair Social Club. 1575 N. Milwaukee Ave.

Kr_M. 720 N. Clark St.

Lava. 1270 N. Milwaukee

Underground. 56 E. Illinois St.

...All this and a weekly rundown of music, art, film,

comedy, dining and more in the latest issue of Time Out Chicago, the

where-to-go, what-to-do weekly magazine

You will soon have some new methods for adding your events to listings sites like spraci.com thanks to the use of

microformats /

I've had a look at the wordpress plugin.

I think I could set it up so that when an event is posted to a blog via this plugin it is recognised as an event and posted to the event listings under the correct date, categories, city, etc.

In simple terms:

The use of microformats like hcalendar could provide lots of interesting ways for people to syndicate data such as event details, locations, contact details, etc to to other sites using standard blogging software while still keeping the data in seperate machine-useable fields.

Harbourside, Darling Harbour

DJs: Sefu, Troy T, Def Rok, Air Rik, Lilo & MC Jayson

Infoline: 0410495633

Tickets/Entry: $89.90 + BF

Platinum One Entertainment delivers the party of the year as the Southern Hemisphere's leading urban club experience once again presents the hottest New Years Eve Party in town.

By massive and overwhelming public demand, the New Years Eve Party of 04 returns to THE WATERSHED. SOLD OUT 3 WEEKS IN ADVANCE last year, the hottest ticket in town once again presents Australia's No.1 DJs & MCs mixing the sexiest R&B grooves non-stop to the early hours over 3 pumping levels including the ultimate outdoor courtyard.

Sunnyvale, 2004-01-03, 8:30am or so

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Agreements (or impositions) include international law, national law, notion of government, administrative regulations, business agreements, ..., relations between students and teachers... all the way to personal relations.

One of the desired features of a good agreement is its minimality. In particular this is true of the law. For instance, national law should not know the word "marriage". Marriage should be of no concern to law, and it is none of the government business. Law should care about children but should leave the issue of marriage alone.

My name is Wlodzimierz Holsztynski. I'd like to present some of my old views and ideas.

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The world is nothing but chaos, pure nonsense. Subjectively, the world is nothing but waste--a waste of promises. It follows that there is no god/God, no harmony, ...

This view is actually reasonably optimistic. Chaos means flukes too, including happy flukes, lucky flukes. It is worthwhile to live for happy flukes. Life itself is a fluke, and it knows a lot of happy flukes (as well as horrible flukes--so what)?

My goal in this blog is to present certain practical (I mean socially oriented) consequences of the general view.

NazB, International Rap Star, Hits Out Against Gun and Knife Crime.

NazB calls for all rap artists to get together to speak out against knives and guns

The internationally renowned Rapper, NazB is coming to the UK this July to campaign for an end to knife and gun crime on the street. He believes that rappers have a unique role to play in stopping youngsters carrying knives and guns. He is appealing to fellow rap stars to support the cause.

NazB is spreading the message through his gigs at the clubs in London and through the TalentGold website.

NazB says "Rappers have had a bad press like they are supposed to think it's cool to carry weapons. Not true. We love the kids and don't want to see them getting into real trouble. We think that the kids will listen to what we say because they respect us. So I say to all you kids out there - don't carry knives or guns. If you get into trouble you will hurt others and will suffer for the rest of your life. Don't do it".

Susan Carter, Creative Di

California rapper and all around entertainer Lyrics Born has always been known for his uplifting party flavoured music, peppered with social commentary. The Japanese-born MC takes his music to funkadelic new levels on Everywhere At Once.Fo more of this review please check out: http://www.planeturban.com.au/album_reviews/album_lyrics_born_everywhere_at_once

On December 11, 2006, Wildflowers Records singer-songwriter Amy Speace was in NY for a live interview on WFUV 90.7 FM's "Folk Sunday Breakfast with John Platt." Now her live performances on the show, including songs 'The Real Thing,' 'Dreamin' and 'Step Out of the Shade, are exclusively available through social network site ReverbNation at www.reverbnation.com/amyspeace

This coincides with the release by MusicDish of Amy's most memorable radio performances through a new downloadable MP3 album "Amy Speace - Live On Radio." Gathering nine tracks from performances on Ft. Collins' KRFC 88.9 FM, NY's WFUV 90.7 FM and Boston's WMBR 88.1 FM, as well as syndicated show The Art of Song, the album is available for download at www.musicdish.net/amyspeace/mp3/

John Platt's three-hour tour of tunes strikes a balance between the "Joni Mitchells/Harry Chapins/Jackson Brownes" and "lesser-known but equally talented" singer/songwriters. Guests have ranged from icons like Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Loudon Wainwright, an

So what is it with these SNOG guys? Just when we have them all figured out as agit-prop electro propagandists they go and drop a brand new CD-EP the title track of which (City) is an electro-power ballad. And a strangely affecting and even touching electro-power ballad at that. Don't they know that electronic bands are meant to just make the same record and over and over again? Sheeesh. This could really upset the apple cart.

And what's with those new collaborations with those denizens of the dubstep deep Monster Zoku Onsomb? Are they weird but kinda catchy or what? And Thrussell (if it really is Thrussell?) now he sounds a bit like a mutant Berlin cabaret singer from the 1920s over an elastic mashed-up beat. This really is too much.

And then they bring out the remixes, The Calculator's svelte dancefloor killer, Curse Ov Dialect's straight-up insanity and to top it off right near the end of the record there is some guy sounds like he is singing songs around a camp fire to a bunch of Girl Guides.

What t

Melbourne Breaks, the latest initiative between Phunktional and Australia's leading breakdance crew Wicked Force is a performance-based project which uses breakdancing to raise issues faced by young people including depression, social isolation, substance use and risk-taking behaviour.

beyondblue: the national depression initiative is supporting the project.

beyondblue CEO Leonie Young said: "We are pleased to be involved in this exciting project. It's a great way to get Youthbeyondblue messages to young people. We want them to Look, Listen and Talk - Look for the signs of depression, Listen to what their friends are saying, Talk about what's going on and Seek Help together."

Melbourne Breaks was established to provoke discussion and awareness and tackle issues head on with disadvantaged young Melburnians and their communities. Set up by Australia's leading provider of arts and community-based projects Phunktional; the project aims to inspire Melbourne's young people to develop their own methods fo

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by Mark Kirby,

The picture on the front of her CD Cover to Cover shows singer songwriter Julie Moffitt covered with a bed sheet and smiling unselfconsciously at the viewer. This image, in its simple honesty, is appropriate for her CD. In addition to recording original material, Moffitt decided to include songs by other artists that she loves and have inspired her. Indeed, all people learn by imitating others and for artists it is even more important. As the great Salvador Dali once said, "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."

The songs she chose to cover, and the way she plays them, with nuance and deep emotion that doesn't come in a can, shows that she has been around for a while. With an interest in classical music (Chopin) and art rock (Kansas, Emerson Lake and Palmer) going back to her childhood days in the '70s, her music is another example of how there is nothing magical about youth culture in music. No disrespect to Alicia Keys and Corinne Bailey Rae, but you can't

"A world class Latin band" - Rhythms Magazine

Captivating, lively and utterly addictive - 10-piece Latin outfit San Lazaro are set to embark on their long awaited nationwide tour and you better believe you're going to dance!

The band, consisting of members from Chilean, Spanish, Indian, Mauritian, Persian, Irish, Greek and Australian backgrounds, dish up the kind of cross cultural funk that's seen their fanbase swell since their inception four years ago. Indeed, for San Lazaro, music is driven by passion, not genre bias, with the collective embracing everything from hip hop, rock and reggae, all infused with the band's trademark Latin flava.

Led by celebrated young female percussionist and timbale player Nasrine Rahmani (Tumbarumba, The Oxo Cubans), San Lazaro's music comes alive through outstanding Spanish language rapper and conga player Sebastian Orellana and seasoned Chilean vocalist Franshesco Viran who shines up front. Oscar Poncell is the man who commands the driving 'Montunto' played on the C

After a critically acclaimed tour in 2007, which saw the eclectic Rhombus crew jam-pack venues in Melbourne, Sydney and Byron Bay, the Kiwi outfit return for another soul-satisfying series of performances. Bound by neither creativity nor genre, the group dish up their own exciting blend of soul, funk, dub, hip hop and breaks, woven into colourful sonic tapestries, brought alive by Rhombus' effervescent vocalists and their uniquely conscious lyrics. Their live shows are as energetic as they are captivating, with regular tours of Australian and Japan building the band a legion of loyal followers. At home in New Zealand their popularity is surging, having twice played the Big Day Out twice and scooped many awards, including New Zealand's Most Promising New Act in 2002; Best Video, Best Electronic Album and Best Album at 2003's New Zealand b-Net Music Awards and recently "Best Aotearoa Roots Album finalist" at the NZ 2006 Music Awards.

For this upcoming tour, Rhombus will be hitting Australia at full force wit

PAY PER MATCH PRESS RELEASE & TESTIMONIALS

http://www.millionairesandmodels.com.au Pay Per Match Will Obsolete All Current Matchmaking Software as of 18 January 2008

Pay Per Match is now bringing out a niche-dating directory, adding momentum to the move from "broad" to "specific" by Internet-savvy single men and single women.

(PRWEB) January 3, 2008 -- When it comes to matchmaking, innovation Pay Per Match will change the matchmaking approach online -- an innovative approach is usually necessary to get to the top of a saturated market. Pay Per Match is about making members' profiles the main focus of matchmaking.

Matchmaking Bioaffiliates is a carefully targeted matchmaking marketing approach with profile match accuracy that is the best way to find a partner who thinks just like you. That's where "Pay Per Match" online dating comes in. The matchmaking industry has finally figured it out. Singles need to make money to afford dating. Not every matchmaking online datin

DANNY SILLADA: A FILIPINO RENAISSANCE MAN

"Danny Sillada is the embodiment of a Filipino who defies the existing trend. His multi-faceted attribute in the humanities, as a Renaissance man, is identical with those of well-rounded historical figures during the Renaissance period in Europe. Sillada is a visual artist recognized in the Philippine art scene for his paintings and installation artworks, a literary writer who is into prose and poetry, a philosopher, whose writings are akin with existentialism, a first-rate performance artist, and also an art-critic."

The critical approaches to art or theories in studying art works are surely a rational activity. But more than that, it develops a completely new dimension and a broader yet at the same time more concrete perspective on the artistic phenomenon under question. Theories explain the unity of the work of art among its diverse manifestations. They explain why works of art are admired by people who know little about the history of art, why they survive th

Relationship…for some that word stirs up fears of commitment and for others it conjures up the idea of ever lasting love. For many on the dating scene ‘ever lasting love’ is their ultimate goal but how do you find someone to go on a date with and once you do how do you go from date to relationship?

While the person you’re dating may be looking for Mr. or Mrs. Right, they may not be looking for Mr. or Mrs. Right now, meaning pull in the reins and go a little slower. But let’s start at the beginning instead of jumping straight to the finish line. Let’s get back to the basics.

To get back to basics, let’s start with a history lesson. Dating can be a scene right out of your High School memory banks. Many are haunted by memories of their first date and the nervous tension that resulted from the anticipation of it: “Did I pick the correct outfit?” “Will I smell good to them?” “Is my breath okay?” “What will