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24

Mysterious power failure takes down Wikipedia, Wikinews

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This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

On Monday, at 10.14 pm UTC, the Wikimedia server cluster experienced a total power failure, taking down Wikipedia, Wikinews, and all other Wikimedia websites.

The servers are housed in a colocation facility (colo) in Tampa, Florida, USA. They occupy two racks, with each rack receiving electricity from two independent supplies. However, both supplies have circuit-breakers in them, and both opened at the same time, leading to a total power failure. All computers immediately went down. It’s normal for fire safety regulations to prohibit uninterruptible power supplies in colos, with the colo providing its own UPS and generator instead. The circuit breakers were on the computer side of this emergency power system, so none of the computers continued to receive power to survive the breaker trip or shut down safely.

The actual reason why the circuit breakers tripped is currently unknown.

When power was restored, it was discovered that most of the MySQL databases that store the data which makes up Wikipedia et al had been corrupted. The main database and the four slaves had all damaged the data on their hard disk drives beyond the ability of the auto-correction to repair. Only one copy survived safely, on a machine that is used for report generation and maintenance tasks, which remained 31 hours backlogged while catching up after an unusually heavy update load during the previous week.

Volunteer Wikimedia engineers worked through the night rebuilding the databases from the sole good copy onto the other servers. The Wikipedia database is over 180Gb in size, making the copying process last 1.5 – 2 hours for every server it was performed upon.

Regular back-ups of the database of Wikipedia projects are maintained – the encyclopedia in its entirety was not at risk. The last database download was made on February 9; all edits since then could only have been laboriously rebuilt from logs and recovered from the damaged database requiring much more time and effort.

Limited read-only service was established late Tuesday afternoon, with editing becoming possible 24 hours after the power failure. Final repairs continue now, as well as upgrades to prevent similar issues in the future. Server-intensive features, such as categories and ‘watchlists’ that display recent changes to selected articles to registered users, remain disabled to ease the load on the recovering systems.

The process which led to the damage originated with the operating system, disk controllers, or hard drives failing to flush the data correctly.

If the power to a database server is cut mid-write, the database may be corrupted and unreadable, however the operating system, hardware, and software are designed to make this very unlikely. In a previous incident in 2004 power was also lost to a server but the database was undamaged.

To avoid such damage, each database server saves a copy of an edit to be applied to the database on a separate storage system before making the actual update to the database itself. This so-called ‘write-ahead logging’ should ensure that in the event of a system crash, the database can be rebuilt from a ‘last-good’ state by replaying the edits saved in the log.

Earlier this year popular blogging site LiveJournal suffered a similar power failure when another customer at their colocation facility pressed an Emergency Power Off button, intended for use only by firefighters. The company suffered database corruption similar to that seen at Wikimedia.

LiveJournal are now fitting UPS to their servers to ensure that they have time to shut down safely in the event of a power failure. Wikimedia was said to be investigating the possibility of fitting similar equipment at the time of this failure.

Several pundits have suggested that the use of another database, such as the proprietary database Oracle or the free PostgreSQL, would have avoided the database corruption seen at the server cluster. A post-mortem of the incident show the failure was in the operating system, or the hardware, or some combination of the two. LiveJournal, which also uses MySQL, reported similar database corruption after their power cut.

The Wikimedia foundation only allows the use of free software on its systems, and future versions of the Mediawiki software will support the PostgreSQL database.

Users are reminded that during times of system failure or excessive demand, they can still search Wikipedia using Google. The articles may be viewed using Google’s cache.

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24

Wholesale Silver Jewelry Popularity

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16

Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students/AL-KY

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Due to the damage by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding, a number of colleges and universities in the New Orleans metropolitan area will not be able to hold classes for the fall 2005 semester. It is estimated that 75,000 to 100,000 students have been displaced. [1]. In response, institutions across the United States and Canada are offering late registration for displaced students so that their academic progress is not unduly delayed. Some are offering free or reduced admission to displaced students. At some universities, especially state universities, this offer is limited to residents of the area.

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14

US Supreme Court rules video games are protected speech

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

In a 7-2 decision handed down on Monday, the US Supreme Court struck down California’s violent video game law and ruled that video games are protected speech covered by the First Amendment. The California law banned the sale and rental of violent video games to minors.

The underlying question was whether the violence in video games has the ability to affect children more than violence in other media, such as books, movies, plays and other forms of entertainment.

Video games qualify for First Amendment protection. Like protected books, plays, and movies, they communicate ideas through familiar literary devices and features distinctive to the medium.

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, said that depictions of violence have never been regulated by the US government. Thus violent videos are not to fall under government control as does pornography but is to be accorded the same First Amendment protections as other forms of entertainment. The sale of violent video games is not to be criminalized and California’s attempt to do so was “unprecedented and mistaken.” Scalia noted, referring to fairy tales, that “the books we give children to read—or read to them when they are younger—contain no shortage of gore.”

[T]he books we give children to read—or read to them when they are younger—contain no shortage of gore.

The beginning of the decision states, “Video games qualify for First Amendment protection. Like protected books, plays, and movies, they communicate ideas through familiar literary devices and features distinctive to the medium. And ‘the basic principles of freedom of speech…do not vary’ with a new and different communication medium.”

“The most basic principle—that government lacks the power to restrict expression because of its message, ideas, subject matter, or content, Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union, 535 U. S. 564, 573—is subject to a few limited exceptions for historically unprotected speech, such as obscenity, incitement, and fighting words. But a legislature cannot create new categories of unprotected speech simply by weighing the value of a particular category against its social costs and then punishing it if it fails the test.”

The justices were not convinced by the existing research that the interactive nature of video games pose a greater risk to society because of their interactive nature. None of the results of the existing research put before the court showed that violent games cause violent behavior. “Psychological studies purporting to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children do not prove that such exposure causes minors to act aggressively. Any demonstrated effects are both small and indistinguishable from effects produced by other media. Since California has declined to restrict those other media, e.g., Saturday morning cartoons, its video-game regulation is wildly under-inclusive, raising serious doubts about whether the State is pursuing the interest it invokes or is instead disfavoring a particular speaker or viewpoint.”

According to Nadine Kaslow, professor and chief psychologist at Emory University Department of Psychology and Grady Hospital, the evidence regarding the effects of violent video games is mixed. While there is evidence to suggest that exposure of children to violence results in more aggressive and less pro-social behavior, some studies show there is no negative effect, she said. She point out that toy guns were popular and parents monitored whether toy guns were allowed in the home.

This ruling does not prevent private retailers from placing restrictions on their sale of video games. The video game industry currently has its own rating system, much like that used for movies, and educates retailers in using the rating system to prevent minors from buying mature-rated games. According to PC World the industry’s compliance is better than that of other entertainment industries. Further, parental controls have been added to game consoles.

The view of the Entertainment Software Association that a better strategy is the education of parents rather than court battles.

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14

Fiddle Legend Vassar Clements dead at 77

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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Vassar Clements, age 77, a legendary fiddle player who took bluegrass music from an obscure cultural art form to a mainstream influence, and who played on over 2000 albums, passed away at his Goodlettsville, Tennessee home August 16th 2005 at 8:35 am Nashville time (CST) from lung cancer which had metastasized to his liver and brain.

Mr. Clements taught himself to play the fiddle at age 7, and though he had no formal training was recognized as one of the world’s most versatile fiddle players and was considered a virtuoso. The first song he learned was “There’s an Old Spinning Wheel in the Parlor”. He described his talent saying, “It was God’s gift, something born in me. I was too dumb to learn it any other way. I listened to the (Grand Ole) Opry some. I’d pick it up one note at a time. I was young, with plenty of time and I didn’t give up. You’d come home from school, do your lessons and that’s it. No other distractions. I don’t read music. I play what I hear.”

He didn’t always earn his living playing music, though. In the mid-1960s he was employed briefly at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where he worked on plumbing. He also performed several other blue-collar jobs including work in a Georgia paper mill, as switchman for Atlantic Coast Railroad; he even sold insurance and once owned a potato chip franchise.

In his 50 year career he played with artists ranging from Woody Herman, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to The Grateful Dead, Linda Ronstadt and Paul McCartney, and earned at least five Grammy nominations and numerous professional accolades. He once recorded with the pop group the Monkees by happenstance, when he stayed behind after an earlier recording session. He also appeared in Robert Altman‘s 1975 film “Nashville”.

His 2005 Grammy award for best country instrumental performance was for “Earl’s Breakdown,” by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and featured Mr. Clements, Earl Scruggs, Randy Scruggs and Jerry Douglas.

Mr. Clements, whose last performance was February 4 in Jamestown, N.Y., was hospitalized earlier this year for 18 days to receive chemotherapy and other treatment. He had been diagnosed in March 2005.

Born in Kinard, South Carolina, his musical career began at age 14 when he associated with Bill Monroe, and later officially joined the Blue Grass Boys band where he remained for seven years. In 1957 he joined bluegrass band Jim & Jesse McReynolds where he remained until 1962. In 1967 he returned to Nashville where he became a much sought after studio musician.

After a brief touring stint with Faron Young he joined John Hartford‘s Dobrolic Plectral Society in 1971 when he met guitarist Norman Blake and Dobro player Tut Taylor, and recorded Aereo Plain, a widely acclaimed newgrass album that helped broaden the bluegrass market and sound. After less than a year he joined Earl Scruggs, who first earned widespread renown for playing the theme to sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.

His 1972 work with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on their album Will the Circle Be Unbroken earned him even wider acclaim, and later worked with the Grateful Dead’s Wake of the Flood and Jimmy Buffett‘s A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean.

Though he played numerous instruments, Mr. Clements indicated that he chose the fiddle over guitar recalling that, “I picked up a guitar and fiddle and tried them both out. The guitar was pretty easy, but I couldn’t get nothing out of the fiddle. So every time I’d see those instruments sitting side by side, I’d grab that fiddle.”

Big band and swing music were considerable influences upon his style and musical development, and he said that, “Bands like Glenn Miller, Les Brown, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James and Artie Shaw were very popular when I was a kid. I always loved rhythm, so I guess in the back of my mind the swing and jazz subconsciously comes out when I play, because when I was learning I was always trying to emulate the big-band sounds I heard on my fiddle.”

His last album ‘Livin’ With the Blues’, released in 2004, featured guest appearances by Elvin Bishop, Norton Buffalo, Maria Muldaur and others.

Mr. Clements’ daughter Midge Cranor wrote on his website [1] that “As I was still holding his hand his breathing stopped. I looked at the clock and it was 7:20 am.”

Mr. Clements’ remains have been transported to Bond Memorial Chapel, 1098 Weston Drive, Mt. Juliet, TN 37122; (615) 773-2663.

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14

So You Are Actually Delivering A Newborn

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Submitted by: Ignacio Castelluccio

So you’re having an infant To begin with, congratulations! Having stated that, there are a few points you need to know and things that people are not likely to inform you approximately, yet which may stress you if you do not understand regarding them in advancement.

You need to know that when your baby is born, there is a higher chance that it will look quite weird. Babies can frequently be birthed gray or blue, and could have a deformed head from having to match via such a tiny gap.

You should not fret, however, as the child will go back to regular fairly swiftly and the skin will certainly go the appropriate shade after a couple of mins, when the infant starts to breathe, and any type of head injuries and odd hair must clear up after a couple of days. Merely recognize that it will certainly take a few weeks prior to your child starts to look like the charming little point you were anticipating.

Of course, the next point you need to know is just exactly what you need to do with the baby afterwards. The most essential point is to breastfeed the baby. Child formula resembles fast food for infants, and you ought to avoid it at all prices and it does not have the majority of the natural nutrients the baby needs, and will certainly rather load your baby with whatever chemicals you have in your water supply. Infants can see, smell and listen to, although not very well, and the most crucial point is for the child to be near its mommy, the sight of her, the sound of her voice and the scent and preference of her milk will certainly relieve it far better than any sort of toy or device ever before could.

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You are getting on your own prepared for your new child, emotionally, literally and you will certainly need to readjust your house and car for the brand-new infant too!

Remember this, ladies readjust to having a new infant much faster than guys; so, do not anticipate spouses to start being all fatherly after the maternity is revealed. Men begin really feeling the new infant when they see the bump or feel the flicker of child movement over mother’s belly.

Physically getting ready for the brand-new child.

There is nothing much a new daddy can do to prep to the new child. Exactly what should be done by a papa should be done PRIOR TO the new child is conceived. The brand-new father can try stopping smoking cigarettes, giving up consuming and various other vices once the brand-new baby is developed. The brand-new mother needs to do the very same as well.

With the brand-new baby, depending on whether you are planning to co-sleep with the child or whether you are planning to plonk the baby in a different area impacts the adjustments to your residence. Regardless, we recommend having a different area for your new baby, even if the new infant is visiting be copulating the new parents for the initial few months. A baby crib, some toys, a spot to put all the baby’s clothing, racks to practical grab creams, lotions, baby diaper wipes, baby diapers, etc. off near the altering table is a NECESSITY.

You will certainly likewise have to consider acquiring a baby chair too; baby chair for your home (at the ideal height for the dining table) and a child chair for the vehicle (for taking a trip). Some child chairs can be adapted to fit the adult eating chair AND fit into the automobile at the same time. They are a bit more costly than the standard infant chairs, yet the multi-function is exceptionally beneficial PLUS it is downright comfy for your brand-new baby.

You most likely do not require also lots of brand-new child clothes if you have actually had previous babies before. New infants outgrow their clothes terribly quickly and it would be a waste of money to splurge on brand-new clothing. You can acquire hand-me-downs from nephews and nieces also, if you wish. Just what you ought to possibly acquire are coverings, sweatshirts, layers, and garments for going out. At home, your new infant is not visiting mind aged clothing. It is a reality that your brand-new infant is probably going to like putting on the aged clothes better than the new clothing. Do not forget the feeding utensils like child bowls, bust pump (if you’re preparing to pump bust milk for your new infant at the workplace), child containers, diapers, baby wipes, lotions, hair shampoo, bath gels, towels, child blankets, infant bed linen, bibs, stroller, and so on

Infant formula is like scrap food for infants, and you ought to prevent it at all prices and it lacks many of the organic nutrients the infant requires, and will as an alternative pack your baby with whatever chemicals you have in your water supply. With the new child, depending on whether you are planning to co-sleep with the child or whether you are preparing to plonk the baby in a different room influences the modifications to your home. Either way, we advise having a different space for your new child, even if the brand-new child is going to be resting with the new parents for the very first couple of months. You will certainly likewise need to assume about acquiring a child chair too; child chair for the home (at the appropriate height for the eating table) and a child chair for the automobile (for traveling). Don’t neglect the feeding utensils like child bowls, bust pump (if you’re preparing to pump bust milk for your new child at job), infant containers, diapers, child wipes, lotions, shampoo, bath gels, towels, baby coverings, infant bedding, bibs, stroller, etc.

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12

10 billionth song downloaded from Apple’s iTunes Store

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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Ten billion songs have been downloaded from the iTunes Store, an online digital media store which is owned by Apple Incorporated. Louie Sulcer, of Woodstock in Georgia, downloaded “Guess Things Happen That Way” by American musician, Johnny Cash, which became the ten billionth song downloaded from iTunes. Sulcer won an iTunes gift card worth US$10,000 (approximately £6,550 or €7,380), after purchasing a song on the iTunes Store to win the prize.

Beforehand, Apple had launched a competition entitled “Countdown to 10 Billion Song Downloads”, where the person to make the ten billionth “entry” of a song from the iTunes Store would win the gift card. An “entry” could be created by either downloading a song from the iTunes store, or by filling in a form on the Apple website.

The rules of the competition stated that “the downloading of the 10 billionth song is considered to be either the downloading of the 10 billionth song from iTunes or the receipt of the non-purchase entry after the download of the 9,999,999,999th song, whichever comes first.” Below is a table of the twenty most downloaded songs of all time from Apple’s iTunes Store. The list was initially placed on the website.

Rank Song Artist
1 “I Gotta Feeling“ Black Eyed Peas
2 “Poker Face“ Lady Gaga
3 “Boom Boom Pow“ Black Eyed Peas
4 “I’m Yours“ Jason Mraz
5 “Viva la Vida“ Coldplay
6 “Just Dance” (feat. Colby O’Donis) Lady Gaga
7 “Low” (feat. T-Pain) Flo Rida
8 “Love Story“ Taylor Swift
9 “Bleeding Love“ Leona Lewis
10 “TiK ToK“ Ke$ha
11 “Disturbia“ Rihanna
12 “So What“ P!nk
13 “I Kissed a Girl“ Katy Perry
14 “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)“ Beyoncé
15 “Hot N Cold“ Katy Perry
16 “Stronger“ Kanye West
17 “Live Your Life” (feat. Rihanna) T.I.
18 “Hey There Delilah“ Plain White T’s
19 “Right Round” (feat. Ke$ha) Flo Rida
20 “Party in the U.S.A.“ Miley Cyrus

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Vestas protesters sacked with immediate effect

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Eleven of the 25 workers at the Vestas factory in Newport, Isle of Wight, England who have been carrying out a sit-in since Monday July 20 have been sacked with immediate effect.

According to one of the protesters known as “Mike”, the occupiers were given their dismissal notices concealed under slices of their evening meal of pizza. The company said that the protesters have had ample opportunity to air their point of view, and had no choice but to sack eleven of the twenty five workers that they had positively identified; and that given that the fact that the action constituted a “fundamental breach” of trust, that the eleven would not be entitled to redundancy packages. A press release from the company said that Vestas “saw no other choice than to dismiss the 11 employees, who the company has positively identified as the employees currently participating in the occupation of the factory.”

The protesters remained upbeat, vowing to continue their occupation and have called upon the UK government to save the 625 jobs and to nationalise the Danish owned factory. Occupier Ian Terry told the BBC that if the occupiers are forced out, they plan to leave the building “peacefully”.

Vestas management were dealt a setback today in ending the occupation as Newport County Court ruled that the papers accusing the occupiers of aggravate trespass and requiring they surrender the office they occupy by July 29 were improperly served. The case has been adjourned until Tuesday August 4. In court, Judge Graham White said he was “distinctly uncomfortable” with what he perceived as Vestas’ effort to “get around the rules” in retaking the factory from the occupiers.

Legal representation for the Vestas workers had been offered by Bob Crow, secretary of the RMT trade union. Crow has pledged the “full solidarity” of the RMT and seven other unions with the workers occupying the plant.

Vestas management has also been providing the occupiers with hot meals in an apparent response to Crow’s announcement, made on July 24, that the RMT was planning on airlifting food into the factory by helicopter. Crow is meeting today with Ed Miliband, the Environment Minister.

Earlier in the week, Miliband pledged £6 million in funding to an expansion of Vestas’ Isle of Wight research and development centre, which currently employs 110 workers and could, said the Minister, be expanded to employ 40 more.

Rallies continued throughout the week in support of the Vestas occupiers. Since the occupation began, the Vestas workers have received declarations of support and solidarity from a wide swathe of the British left, including but not limited to: political parties Green Party, Respect, the Socialist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Alliance for Workers Liberty, and the Communist Party of Britain; the TUCG group, which brings together the BFAWU, FBU, NAPO, NUJ, PCS, POA, RMT, and URTU; and environmental groups Greenpeace, the Campaign against Climate Change, Climate Camp, and Workers’ Climate Action, who claims credit for initiating the campaign to occupy the factory. Attendees of the Big Green Gathering, a large annual environmentalist rally which was due to take place starting today but was suddenly canceled on Sunday, are being encouraged to go to the Isle of Wight and take part in support rallies for Vestas instead.

Speaking to Wikinews about the “red–green” coalition supporting the occupation, a spokesman for the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty said: “We think this struggle is important on at least three grounds — it is central to the struggle for jobs, it is central to the struggle for the environment, and it is central to the struggle for rebuilding the labour movement.”

Photographs shared with Wikinews by the occupiers show the occupiers, mostly young men, talking, carrying out everyday tasks, and keeping in touch with the outside world via mobile phones. The use of mobile telephones in the Vestas occupation has given the press remarkable access to the occupiers and provided an effective platform for relaying their demands and feelings to the media. In contrast, Vestas’s designated media contact for the United Kingdom is on vacation. Attempts to reach Vestas Newport factory manager Patrick Weir, whom a Vestas representative at the company’s Danish headquarters stated was handling press inquiries regarding the occupation, received no reply.

Vestas plans to close the factory on July 31, citing the difficulties of obtaining planning permission for wind farms in the United Kingdom. All blades manufactured at Vestas’ Newport plant are sent to the United States. 1900 employees of the company in Northern Europe face job losses, 625 of them in Vestas’s plants in the south of England.

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10

Choosing The Right Home Insurance In Austin, Tx

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Home insurance in Austin, TX covers damage due to fire, lightning, hail, and natural disasters. You also receive coverage for damage due to frozen plumbing pipes and theft of property. A basic homeowner’s policy does not cover intentional property damage by the owner or intentional bodily harm sustained on or within the property. If you decide to operate a business within your home, your homeowner’s policy will not cover equipment or other business related property.

Choosing the Right Homeowner’s Insurance

Your preferred insurance agent will discuss possible homeowner’s insurance policies with you. This will assist you in determining which policies are right for your needs. Basic homeowner’s insurance is the least amount of insurance coverage required by mortgage lenders. However, these policies typically cover unexpected damage and liabilities.

This coverage will pay out when structural damage is sustained during a storm or natural disaster. It does not cover intentional damage by the property owner or their family. In terms of accidents that occur on the property, the policies only pay for medical costs associated with unintentional injuries. Altercations that result in injuries are not covered within the homeowner’s policy.

Local Insurance Provider

Patrick Court is your local State Farm agent. He offers a wealth of insurance products to meet your needs. He will discuss these options with you to ensure that you receive adequate coverage for your property. This insurance agent can perform a risk assessment for you to determine whether additional coverage is needed for your home or automobiles. To receive a free quote from this provider contact him locally or submit a request through the Statefarm.com website.

Summary

Home Insurance in Austin, TX is available in basic and extended coverage options. Basic homeowner’s insurance provides you with coverage for the unexpected. This includes storm damage, vandalism, and theft. Coverage for fire and natural disasters are covered within the basic policies. If your mortgage lender requires that you possess flood insurance, it is not included in your basic homeowner’s insurance policy. You are required to purchase flood insurance through an additional policy. Contact your local insurance provider to receive a free quote for homeowner’s insurance.

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8

Hillary Clinton’s song contest reaches final round

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Hillary Clinton’s song contest reaches final round
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Friday, June 1, 2007

U.S. Democratic Party presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton has been asking webizens to vote on her official campaign song. Campaign Manager Patti Solis Doyle sent an email today to previous voters, urging them to choose a song in the second and final round of voting.

Clinton, as many of the other candidates, have been using “Web 2.0” applications like YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, and blogs to try and engage young voters.

The top five songs in Round One were “Suddenly I See” by KT Tunstall, “Rock This Country!” by Shania Twain, “Beautiful Day” by U2, “Get Ready” by The Temptations, and “I’m a Believer” by Smash Mouth. Five top write-ins were also added to the list of round 2 nominees: “Are You Gonna Go My Way” by Lenny Kravitz, “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now” by McFadden & Whitehead, “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” by The Police, “You and I” by Celine Dion, and “The Best” by Tina Turner.

Many of the nominated songs are from international artists; Tunstall is Scottish, Twain is Canadian, and U2 are Irish.

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