If you are a business person, do you use what you read in the regular (including entertainment and sports) News to make decisions or do you pay attention only to the business news? If you are an employee, does what you read and hear affect how you work? What actions if any do you take in relation to the news considering just yourself, not to your employment? Does the news affect your mood? Your relationships? What you buy?

I like to keep aware of what is happening. I like to multiple-source everything, and I also try to keep aware of bloggers left, right, and center. As part of a troop/veteran support group, I stay in contact with serving military and recent returnees and those who (like me) have been out for a while.

The effect is a general belief that most things make sense, if you take the context into account, while some of those around me are freaking out

Also, I am making low-level preparations for various threats (meteorological, economic, political etc.) as I become aware of them, in order to be a little ahead of the game if certain trends continue or threats materialize. If I don’t keep up, how will I know what to be ready for?

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here is a song by News
it is in the NewS single WEEEK
enjoy! =]
Lyrics:

Why Sonna fuu ni waraeru no?
Ikutsu Uso Kokoro ni kakushiteru no?

Donna fuu ni Iiwake shitekuren dai?
Sayonara wo surun dai?

Hurting my heart

Why don’t you tell me the truth? Waratte gomakasu kedo
Why don’t you tell me good bye? Isso raku ni shite yo
Bottom of my heart
I am still stuck on you, so loving you.
Why don’t you say good bye?

Why Sonna hitomi de miru no?
Marude Hora Boku ga warumono sa

Donna fuu ni Moteasonde kuren dai?
Kuchizuke wo surun dai?

Breaking my heart

Why don’t you love me only? Kimatte gomakasu kedo
Why dont you tell me good bye? Mou taerarenai yo
Bottom of my heart
Still I can’t give you up, so loving you.
Why don’t you say good bye?

Why don’t you tell me the truth? Waratte gomakasu kedo
Why don’t you tell me good bye? Isso raku ni shite yo
Bottom of my heart
I am still stuck on you, so loving you.
Why don’t you say good bye?

Why don’t you love me only? Kimatte gomakasu kedo
Why dont you tell me good bye? Mou taerarenai yo
Bottom of my heart
Still I can’t give you up, so loving you.
Why don’t you say good bye?

Duration : 0:3:21

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Picture This found Huey Lewis the News developing a signature sound, but they truly came into their own on their third album, Sports. It’s true that the record holds together better than its predecessors because it has a clear, professional production, but the real key is the songs. Where their previous albums were cluttered with generic filler, nearly every song on Sports has a huge hook. And even if the News aren’t bothered by breaking new ground, there’s no denying that the craftmanship on Sports is pretty infectious. There’s a reason why well over half of the album (”Heart of Rock Roll,” “Heart and Soul,” “I Want a New Drug,” “Walking on a Thin Line,” “If This Is It”) were huge American hit singles — they have instantly memorable hooks, driven home with economical precision by a tight bar band, who are given just enough polish to make them sound like superstars. And that’s just what Sports made them.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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The Gregory Brothers bring the world another installment of the news with a beat. Among the topics this week: Jackson, Palin, and Bachman, oh my!
See Michael Gregory’s other videos at: http://www.youtube.com/schmoyoho

Duration : 0:3:7

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My friend and I want to start a weekly News show , and i want ot know the best places for Information. We want more odd ,artsy, and liberal news though not relay the depressing stuff you see on T.V. If you have any ideas it would be really helpful!

msnbc and cnn.com

Most artists who show up on Behind the Music have a tragic tale to tell, whether it’s drug addiction, the death of a loved one, or a bitter falling out between longtime bandmates. Not Huey Lewis the News — the one time they faced tragedy is when they thought Ray Parker Jr. ripped off “I Want a New Drug” for his theme to Ghostbusters. Apart from that, everything’s been pretty great, because they’re a bar band (if they’d been from England, you’d call ‘em pub rock) that made good and they’ve always been grateful for their success. When the hits stopped coming sometime during the first Bush administration, they graciously stepped back from the spotlight; during the ’90s, they only released one new album, and that was just a covers record. Ten years later, they finally reemerged with Plan B, a record of original material (barring a cover of one of Nick Lowe’s best songs, “When I Write the Book”) that helped showcase their new, expanded lineup with a full horn section. Some bands might verge on bloat with a new horn section, but not the News — it just emphasizes that Plan B is a return to their roots, a lean, soul-inflected, driving rock roll record. And that “Plan B” in the title certainly alludes to the bandmembers’ decision to give up any hopes of chart success in favor of just making a record of music they like, and the gambit pays back better than anyone could have hoped. This is an unpretentious, utterly likeable record, filled with clever, catchy songs that would sound great in a packed club on a Friday night. And these are good songs, songs that could hold their own with “Workin’ for a Livin’,” “Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do,” and “Some of My Lies Are True” — they’re nearly as memorable and melodic, and easily as fun. It’s true that part of the pleasure of Huey Lewis the News’ first three albums was how the records straddled the line between pub rock classicism and post-new wave modernity, and that sound is nowhere to be found here. But the music itself is first-rate, whether it’s on the opening track, “We’re Not Here for a Long Time (We’re Here for a Good Time)” — which trumps “Couple Days Off” with its casual honesty — or on the middle-age love duet “I’m Not in Love Yet,” which finds Huey and Wynonna trading lines in an absolutely alluring fashion. There’s nothing fancy here; as a matter of fact, it’s disarming, refreshingly unpretentious, and all the better for it. Even better, this is the first Huey Lewis the News record that sounds like a Huey Lewis the News record in ten years, and it’s their best since at least Fore, probably Sports. There’s not a chance in hell that it’ll burn up the charts like those records, but it’s certainly one of their best albums.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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Ayyo, Insane Clown Posse be droppin’ the mad cable News flava, bitch.

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Duration : 0:2:58

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I want to create my own news site where I can get updated News every morning without pulling the news to my site every morning. Any ideas how to do that? Thanks.

These are free online RSS Feed makers:

http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/index.php?s=build
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home
http://www.rssfeedsgenerator.com/
http://www.site-reference.com/rss-parser.php
http://www.make-rss-feeds.com/rss-tags.htm
http://www.site-reference.com/syndicate.php
http://www.wotzwot.com/rssxl.php

FeedBurner seems to be very popular.

Ron

Sports was one of the rare mainstream pop/rock albums where everything worked the songs were catchy, the sound was inviting, and it all sounded perfect on the radio. Fore is a reasonably enjoyable facsimile of the pleasures of Sports, yet it lacks the gleeful sense of fun that made that record, as well as portions of Picture This, so enjoyable.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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