Michael Jackson Memorial Tribute (1958-2009).
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group. Referred to as the "King of Pop" in subsequent years, five of his solo studio albums are among the world's best-selling records: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory (1995).
In the early 1980s, he became a dominant figure in popular music and the first African-American entertainer to amass a strong crossover following on MTV. The popularity of his music videos airing on MTV, such as "Beat It", "Billie Jean" and Thriller�credited for transforming the music video into an art form and a promotional tool�helped bring the relatively new channel to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made Jackson an enduring staple on MTV in the 1990s. With stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of physically complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced many hip hop, pop and contemporary R&B artists.
One of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, his other achievements include multiple Guinness World Records�including one for "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time"�13 Grammy Awards, 13 number one singles in his solo career�more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era�and the sales of over 750 million albums worldwide. Cited as one of the world's most famous men, Jackson's highly publicized personal life, coupled with his successful career, made him a part of popular culture for almost four decades.
On the morning of June 25, 2009, Jackson reportedly collapsed at a home he was renting in west Los Angeles. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a 911 call at 12:21 pm local (Pacific) time and arrived at 12:30 pm. Jackson was reportedly not breathing and CPR was quickly performed. He fell into a coma and died shortly after being rushed to UCLA Medical Center. The cause of death is reported to be cardiac arrest. Jackson was pronounced dead at about 2:26 pm local time.
For the more than 23 million people living with diabetes, blood glucose level testing is critical to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Singer/songwriter Nick Jonas has type 1 diabetes and personally checks his blood glucose levels up to 12 times a day with the CONTOUR USB® meter. He is working with Bayer Diabetes Care to remind people with diabetes to learn about the importance of blood glucose testing and what has an impact on blood sugar levels, including certain foods, types of exercise, emotions and stress levels. Testing frequently, in accordance with a doctor’s guidance, helps a person with diabetes make important choices throughout the day to stay within a target blood glucose range.
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Black & Decker’s® new 20 Volt Max* Cordless Lithium Ion String Trimmer and Edger (LST220) gives consumers what they want: more power, long battery life and great results without the mess and hassles of gas. The exclusive PowerDrive Transmission enables users to cut more in less time** and the Lithium Ion battery holds its charge five times longer than Black & Decker HPB18 batteries, providing long battery life year after year.
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The Rock & Roll Acid Test is more than just a show. It\'s an adrenaline injected, rock fueled perversion of the scientific method. Your hosts will risk bodily harm to prove or disprove some of rocks most enduring myths. Dont miss all the educational fun! And explosions. Did I mention there are explosions? TUESDAYS at 10pm ET on FUSE.
Kohl’s Corporation (NYSE:KSS) today gathered more than 1,100 associates, families and friends together at the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk held in downtown Milwaukee. Associates from both the Menomonee Falls corporate headquarters and local Wisconsin and Illinois department stores laced up as part of Kohl’s three-year philanthropic partnership with the American Cancer Society. In addition to walking, Kohl’s associates and other participants formed a human pink ribbon to show their support for the fight against breast cancer.
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Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Comics, and action sports event producer, ASA Entertainment, announced the dates for the 2010 Supergirl Jam event series today. For the fourth consecutive year, these unique events will feature more than 100 of the world’s top female action sports athletes competing in surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding and inline skating. The Supergirl Jam is the industry’s only large-scale, all-girls action sports competition and is designed to celebrate female strength, independence and empowerment. In 2010, the Supergirl Jam series will kick-off with three events, each highlighting the sport’s most talented female pros as well as up-and-coming amateurs.
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National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) today announced LabVIEW 2010, the latest version of the graphical programming environment for design, test, measurement and control applications. LabVIEW 2010 delivers time savings with new features such as off-the-shelf compiler technologies that execute code an average of 20 percent faster and a comprehensive marketplace for evaluating and purchasing add-on toolkits for easily integrating custom functionality into the platform. For field-programmable gate array (FPGA) users, LabVIEW 2010 delivers a new IP Integration Node that makes it possible to integrate any third-party FPGA IP into LabVIEW applications and is compatible with the Xilinx CORE Generator. National Instruments also implemented more than a dozen new features suggested by lead users through the LabVIEW Idea Exchange, an online feedback forum that marks a significant new level of collaboration between NI R&D and customers.
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The Columbine Cause by Evan Long raises questions about the April 20 1999 attack on Columbine High School which have gone unaddressed or unanswered by corporate and state media including Why do counts of the ballistics evidence charts yield totals far greater than the three hundred odd shots officially stated by law enforcement officials to have been fired Why did students and teachers inside the school during the attack describe up to a dozen distinct shooters some of whom some of them were able to identify by name as neither Eric Harris nor Dylan Klebold Why were the people of the world told that the attack was a wake up call when some Columbine students knew it to have been the big rumor for up to two years in advance There is much more to the story of the attack on Columbine than has been widely made known
The Columbine Cause by Evan Long raises questions about the April 20 1999 attack on Columbine High School which have gone unaddressed or unanswered by corporate and state media including Why do counts of the ballistics evidence charts yield totals far greater than the three hundred odd shots officially stated by law enforcement officials to have been fired Why did students and teachers inside the school during the attack describe up to a dozen distinct shooters some of whom some of them were able to identify by name as neither Eric Harris nor Dylan Klebold Why were the people of the world told that the attack was a wake up call when some Columbine students knew it to have been the big rumor for up to two years in advance There is much more to the story of the attack on Columbine than has been widely made known
