Jamie Lynn Spears slipped quietly out of hospital on Saturday, having outsmarted the hoards of waiting shutterbugs with the help of a decoy.
Brit's 17-year-old gave birth to her first child, Maddie Briann, on Thursday at Mississippi Southwest Regional Medical Center in McComb, Mississippi.
And in a cunning move, the new mom reportedly hired a look-a-like to be driven back to her parents' home in Kentwood, Louisiana, shortly before she was due to be discharged.
The decoy joined new dad Casey Aldridge, and Spears' parents Lynn and Jamie, while the actress slipped out the back entrance, with her daughter, to a car and a police escort waiting to take her to Serenity, Mississippi, where she shares a home with her fiance Aldridge.
The teen star stunned the Spears family when she announced her pregnancy news last year, at the age of 16.
The couple had reportedly been delaying their wedding until after the birth of their first child.
Friday, 27 June 2008
Sunday, 22 June 2008
DJ Krush
Artist: DJ Krush
Genre(s):
Acid Jazz
Trip-Hop
Rap: Hip-Hop
Electronic
Drum & Bass
Acid Jazz
Trip-Hop
Rap: Hip-Hop
Electronic
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Jaku
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Live In Moscow
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Untitled 7th Cd
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
The Message At The Depth
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Connecting. Spetial Relis
Year: 2002
Tracks: 19
Zen
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Spetial Relis (Coma)
Year: 2000
Tracks: 19
Holonic The Self Megamix
Year: 1998
Tracks: 18
Milight
Year: 1997
Tracks: 28
Yeah / Dig This Vibe (Remixes)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 2
DJ Krush
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Code4109
Year:
Tracks: 19
Japanese turntablist and producer DJ Krush is one of the few island-nation throw-ups to be embraced by the global rap music world. Releasing material through Sony in Japan, Mo'Wax and Virgin in the U.K., and Axiom, Shadow, and A&M in America, Krush's wise firebrand of experimental, (largely) instrumental hip-hop has been praised by everyone from hard-core underground hip-hop 'zines like The Bomb to the spick-and-span offices of Rolling Stone and Spin. Beginning as a sleeping accommodation DJ in the mid-'80s following the Japanese leg of the Wildstyle circuit, Krush touched into mobile DJing, patronage up rappers, and eventually solo production. Although his Japan-only debut freely mixed elements of R&B and sulphurous nothingness with the beefy breakbeat spine of mid-tempo hip-hop, Krush's work has since tended more toward the filch, applying heavy personal effects and sampling handling to thick, smart breaks, layered, near ambient textures, and subtle, imaginative scratching. Krush came to larger clap in the mid-'90s through his association with the London-based Mo'Wax label, which released his Purely Turntablized in 1994 and Meiso in 1996, both reissued stateside by A&M. While Turntablized is closer to a compendium of DJ tools, Meiso is a retrovert of sorts to his before work, including rappers such as Guru and CL Smooth on a few tracks and incorporating a wider variety of implemental sounds and atmospheres. In add-on to 1997's Milight, Krush too featured on a identification number of various-artists collections, including Mo'Wax's storied Headz, as well as Altered Beats and Axiom Dub (both out on Bill Laswell's Axiom mark). Kakusei appeared on Mo'Wax/Columbia in 1999, followed by the mix albums Code 4109 and Tragicomical the following year. Zen Buddhism from 2001 was filled with client MCs while The Message at the Depth from 2003 featured far fewer and focused on instrumentals. Jaku landed in 2004, and two eld later the Stepping Stones collection featured Krush remixing highlight from his back catalogue.
Defense rests case in R. Kelly trial
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Yamaha Announces a Favorable Ruling and Settlement in Its Lawsuit in China
TOKYO, May 8 -- Yamaha Corporation (TSE 1st Section: 7951,
Head Office at Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka; President: Mitsuru Umemura,
hereinafter: Yamaha) has announced that the Company secured a favorable
ruling and settlement in its copyright infringement lawsuit in China.
Yamaha brought a lawsuit against Deli Electronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
(Head Office: Shenzhen, Guangdong), a Chinese manufacturer of electronic
musical instruments, and three other companies in the Beijing Second
Intermediate People's Court in November 2006, regarding infringement of
copyrights on accompaniment style data (hereinafter, Style Data), created
originally by Yamaha and incorporated in its electronic musical
instruments. In December 2007, the Court, after proceeding with a portion
of its deliberations on evidence, issued a judgment recognizing Yamaha's
claims as justifiable as regards the portion covered by its deliberations.
The Court judgment contained the following major points: (1) Style Data is
intellectual property to be protected under copyright laws, (2) Yamaha
holds the copyright to the 26 Style Data that were examined and
deliberated, and (3) The actions of the defendants were violations of
copyrights. Therefore the Court ordered them to stop using the Style Data,
suspend sale of products incorporating the data, pay compensation for
damages to Yamaha, and apologize.
Thereafter, the defendants did not appeal and the Court's judgment was
finalized. Following further deliberations, the Court issued a settlement
proposal to Yamaha and the defendants. A settlement favorable to Yamaha was
reached on April 29.
The Style Data copied by the defendants without authorization was
contained in Yamaha's PSR-640 portable keyboard, originally introduced in
1999 and sold worldwide. The defendants used this Style Data in their
MEDELI-brand electronic musical instruments manufactured and sold in China.
Yamaha, therefore, sued the defendants on the grounds that use of Style
Data was an infringement of its copyrights.
Regarding the Court judgment, Atsushi Muramatsu, General Manager of
Yamaha's Legal & Intellectual Property Division, made the following
comment: "The judgment was the world's first affirming that Style Data is
intellectual property to be protected under copyright laws and that
unauthorized copying is a copyright infringement. Yamaha regards this
judgment as epoch-making and will take a resolute stand against such
infringements going forward, while continuing to respect and protect
intellectual property."
Contact:
Mr. Misao Tanaka
Public Relations Division
YAMAHA CORPORATION
Tel: +81-3-5488-6601
Fax: +81-3-5488-5060
E-mail address: misao_tanaka@gmx.yamaha.com
17-11, Takanawa 2-chome, Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-8568
http://www.global.yamaha.com
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Head Office at Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka; President: Mitsuru Umemura,
hereinafter: Yamaha) has announced that the Company secured a favorable
ruling and settlement in its copyright infringement lawsuit in China.
Yamaha brought a lawsuit against Deli Electronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
(Head Office: Shenzhen, Guangdong), a Chinese manufacturer of electronic
musical instruments, and three other companies in the Beijing Second
Intermediate People's Court in November 2006, regarding infringement of
copyrights on accompaniment style data (hereinafter, Style Data), created
originally by Yamaha and incorporated in its electronic musical
instruments. In December 2007, the Court, after proceeding with a portion
of its deliberations on evidence, issued a judgment recognizing Yamaha's
claims as justifiable as regards the portion covered by its deliberations.
The Court judgment contained the following major points: (1) Style Data is
intellectual property to be protected under copyright laws, (2) Yamaha
holds the copyright to the 26 Style Data that were examined and
deliberated, and (3) The actions of the defendants were violations of
copyrights. Therefore the Court ordered them to stop using the Style Data,
suspend sale of products incorporating the data, pay compensation for
damages to Yamaha, and apologize.
Thereafter, the defendants did not appeal and the Court's judgment was
finalized. Following further deliberations, the Court issued a settlement
proposal to Yamaha and the defendants. A settlement favorable to Yamaha was
reached on April 29.
The Style Data copied by the defendants without authorization was
contained in Yamaha's PSR-640 portable keyboard, originally introduced in
1999 and sold worldwide. The defendants used this Style Data in their
MEDELI-brand electronic musical instruments manufactured and sold in China.
Yamaha, therefore, sued the defendants on the grounds that use of Style
Data was an infringement of its copyrights.
Regarding the Court judgment, Atsushi Muramatsu, General Manager of
Yamaha's Legal & Intellectual Property Division, made the following
comment: "The judgment was the world's first affirming that Style Data is
intellectual property to be protected under copyright laws and that
unauthorized copying is a copyright infringement. Yamaha regards this
judgment as epoch-making and will take a resolute stand against such
infringements going forward, while continuing to respect and protect
intellectual property."
Contact:
Mr. Misao Tanaka
Public Relations Division
YAMAHA CORPORATION
Tel: +81-3-5488-6601
Fax: +81-3-5488-5060
E-mail address: misao_tanaka@gmx.yamaha.com
17-11, Takanawa 2-chome, Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-8568
http://www.global.yamaha.com
See Also
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Steven Tyler Speaks About Daughter Liv's Split
Steve Tyler has revealed his daughter Liv is 'doing well' following her break-up from rocker husband Royston Langdon.
On Friday, the Armageddon actress and her British partner, 36, shocked fans by announcing their separation after five years of marriage.
But according to her dad, Aerosmith frontman Tyler, the 30-year-old is quickly bouncing back.
He tells Us Magazine: "Liv is doing great."
Tyler married Langdon in the Caribbean in 2003. Together they have a four-year-old son, Milo.
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