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Jimmy Kimmel Live - The first part of Jimmy's interview with Funny People actor Seth Rogen, who talks about being rejected by Megan FoxJimmy Kimmel Live - The first part of Jimmy's interview with Funny People actor... more
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If you're an independent musician looking for as many ways to sell and promote your music as possible, and you or a friend has some experience with software development, you'll want to check out the upcoming Rock Band Network, for which Harmonix and MTV Games plan to begin beta testing in late August.
It's more complicated than posting a song to iTunes. To program songs for the game, you or your developer friend first needs a membership to Microsoft's XNA Creators' Club, which was launched a couple years ago to let independent developers create casual games to sell through the Xbox Live Marketplace; a membership costs $49.99 for four months or $99.99 for a year.
You'll then be able to get free tools and instructions from the Rock Band Creators Web site to convert your master recordings to the MIDI charts used by the game. Next, you'll have to submit your song for other creators to critique and finally to MTV Games for approval.
Once approved, the song will enter the Rock Band Network. All songs will debut exclusively for 30 days on the Xbox 360, and the Rock Band team will pick stand-out songs to make available to the Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii consoles.
Under the network terms, musicians can charge between 50 cents and $3 per song, and they will keep a 30 percent cut of all sales. That may seem small, compared with the 70 percent cut musicians get for selling their songs on iTunes, which requires much less work, but Rock Band is a much more exclusive platform--you're much more likely to stand out here than among the bazillion songs available through Apple's music store.If you're an independent musician looking for as many ways to sell and promote... more
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TORONTO — The tiny baby clothes and other items Vicki McKenzie bought to prepare for her little girl's birth are still in shopping bags, untouched since they were purchased in March.
Until a few days ago, she thought she would have to return them.
Oceané McKenzie, with fingers the length of a paper clip and a tiny mop of brown hair, has become the first baby in Canada to successfully undergo a life-saving heart intervention while still in her mother's womb.
The experimental and risky procedure, performed by a team of doctors from the Hospital for Sick Children and Mount Sinai Hospital, involved putting a needle through Ms. McKenzie's abdomen into the left ventricle of the baby's heart. From there, doctors manoeuvred a wire the diameter of a strand of hair so a tiny balloon catheter could open the narrowed valve leading to Oceané's aorta.
The procedure has been attempted twice before in Canada, but both of the babies died, according to Edgar Jaeggi, head of the fetal cardiac program at Sick Kids. Only about half a dozen medical centres around the world have successfully performed the complicated operation, known as balloon dilation of critical aortic stenosis in the fetus.TORONTO — The tiny baby clothes and other items Vicki McKenzie bought to prepare... more
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