Lohan's dad wants Ronson gone for good

Michael Lohan would "sacrifice" his life to get rid of his girl Lindsay's rumoured girlfriend Samantha Ronson.

Michael - who has never made a privy of his dislike of Lindsay�s DJ lover - insists Samantha is "a drug" for Lindsay, wHO sought intervention in a rehabilitation clinic last class, and he would do anything to separate the couple.

He aforesaid: �A someone can be a drug and Sam is a drug. She's very controlling and manipulative and it's not a healthy relationship for Lindsay. It's not about Sam giving Lindsay drugs or alcohol or anything - there are prescription drugs from doctors - that have a serious core on a person.

"And I would like to set that out there. These things lavatory mess with a person's mind. I would forfeiture my possess life to get Sam out of Lindsay's.�

Michael likewise revealed he has no doubt the relationship will end before long, because it is too "intense".

He added: �I told Lindsay after she left the Cirque Lodge clinic that she needed to surround herself with sound people when she got out and Sam is definitely non that sound person. Lindsay is fragile and Sam takes reward of her and the relationship is too intense and to a fault dramatic.�

Michael says he canful see similarities between Lindsay and troubled singer Britney Spears, wHO suffered a public meltdown earlier this year.

He explained to chin-wagging website x17online.com: �I see some parallels 'tween Britney and Lindsay - the instability, the domineering companion. Lindsay's not in the state of matter that Britney was or is, merely there ar minor similarities.

"Just because a person's non abusing drugs or alcoholic beverage doesn't base they're healthy. And Lindsay being with Sam is making matters worse.�

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Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation Bolsters Indiana CTSI With $2.4 Million Grant

�The Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation of Indianapolis has awarded the Indiana University School of Medicine $2.4 gazillion dollars over three years to documentation the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.


The grant supplements the five-year, $25 billion grant awarded to the Indiana CTSI in May by the National Institutes of Health.


The Indiana CTSI is a collaborative effort of Indiana and Purdue universities, Clarian Health, private industry, state and local politics, BioCrossroads and others to implement a new platform of translational research - the march of turning basic skill discoveries into new medical treatments and business opportunities.


"This grant will importantly strengthen the ability of the Indiana CTSI to implement its programs to swiftly make for the benefits of research to patients in Indiana and beyond," said Anantha Shekhar, M.D., Ph.D., manager of the Indiana CTSI, IU helper vice president for life sciences and professor of psychiatry at the IU School of Medicine.


"Creating the statewide institute generated energy, enthusiasm and committedness to reform from the state biomedical research community. This extra grant will help us maintain that momentum as we avail organize our partners play together, determine from each other and produce results that will help us all," Dr. Shekhar aforesaid.


The grant is one of respective the Fairbanks Foundation has made in recent geezerhood to support Indianapolis-area wellness and life sciences initiatives and base.

Indiana University School of Medicine


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Hakim

   
Artist: Hakim

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Pop
   

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 Viento De Mar

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 10


   
 Lela

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 15


   
 Alahabibi

   Year: 2004   
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 Entre Dos Orillas

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 Comosuena

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Prizes awarded in international music contest held in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES - More than $250,000 in prizes were announced Sunday after a weeklong competition that mingled features from "American Idol" with the world of classical music.

Top prizes of $50,000 in the Jose Iturbi International Music Competition were awarded to soprano Angela Meade, 30, a resident artist at Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, and pianist Mariya Kim, 26, of the Ukraine and Germany. Kim also shared the $3,000 Spanish Prize.

The second annual contest, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, featured musicians from around the globe.

The competition's sponsoring Jose Iturbi Foundation is named for the renowned concert pianist who appeared in several MGM musicals in the 1940s. It is dedicated to preserving Iturbi's legacy and to fulfilling his desire to bring emerging classical pianists and vocalists to the public's attention.

"The talent of this year's competitors was staggering," said Donelle Dadigan, the foundation's president. "Interest in the final rounds was so intense that hundreds of people lined up in hope there would be last minute cancellations."

The $3,000 People's Choice award for piano was given to Chetan Tierra, 24, a student at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The People's Choice award in the vocal competition was given to Rodell Rosel, 32, a native of the Philippines who has studied at Santa Monica College and UCLA.

In addition to their $50,000 in first-place prize money, vocalist Meade and pianist Kim will perform during a cruise aboard the Queen Mary 2 next April.

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Gypsy Rose

   
Artist: Gypsy Rose

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 Gypsy Rose

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11

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Scots family embroiled in Narnia dispute

A Scottish family has become embroiled in an intellectual property dispute with the estate of the author CS Lewis after it bought a Narnia internet domain name for their 10-year-old son as a birthday present.

Richard and Gillian Saville-Smith, who live in Edinburgh in Scotland, paid $NZ190 to purchase the domain name Narnia.mobi from the internet registration company Fasthosts in 2006 so their son could
have it as an email address.

They were asked to return the domain name to the CS Lewis company, the owners of the author's estate, but refused.

The family then received a 128-page legal complaint filed with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) in Switzerland.

"We'd been saving it as a surprise for our little boy's birthday to coincide with the release of the Narnia film," said Mrs Saville-Smith, referring to the British release of Walt Disney Co's The Chronicles
of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Following the 2005 release of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian is the second in a series of films based on the Narnia books by Lewis, with its British premiere scheduled for June 19.

"Our whole family are great admirers of CS Lewis and he must be turning in his grave about all this," added Mrs Saville-Smith, who is an award-winning Scottish poet.

"To try to ruthlessly snatch away a gift intended for a young boy who loves his Narnia books is unbelievable."

The family must reply to the Wipo by June 23 with the organisation expected to makes its decision within a month.

"We've never made any money out of this domain and have no interest in doing so," Mr Saville-Smith, who is an accountant, said.

"We don't have the money to hire intellectual property lawyers, so we're saying 'help!' One thing for sure is that our response won't be 128 pages long, it will be more like 10 pages - we're looking at quality rather than quantity.

"Even after Wipo makes its decision that's not the end of it because either party can appeal that verdict.

"If the Wipo decides in favour of the CS Lewis estate, that would be the end of it for us. However, I don't expect they will, because their case is flimsy and we've done nothing wrong."

No-one was available for comment from Baker & McKenzie, the law firm that represents the CS Lewis estate.





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Luixmi and Julio Posadas

   
Artist: Luixmi and Julio Posadas

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Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Razas

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 3

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