Coalition helps musicians CASH in

Musicians looking for to cut out the middlemen should try working for CASH.

CASH - the Coalition of Artists and Stake Holders - is an interactional online storefront (cashmusic.org) designed to link artists directly with fans. The key players involved so far are one-time Boston singer/songwriter and Throwing Muses founder Kristin Hersh, L7 co-founder Donita Sparks and the experimental Los Angeles band Xiu Xiu (marked shoe-shoe), which performs at the Paradise on Wednesday.

�CASH is a music patronage operating system,� explained Billy O�Connell, Hersh�s married man and handler and peerless of CASH�s four principal partners, �providing tools to help artists take their work to an audience and grow direct support.�

The core melodic theme is simple: consumers can digitally memory access music online and pay as often or as little as they want; the tax income goes directly into the artist�s pocket.

If the construct sounds familiar, that�s because Radiohead popularized the theme with its pay-what-you-want �In Rainbows� download. But Hersh�s band 50 Foot Wave first pioneered the strategy with its �Free Music� EP more than a year before the British alt-rockers.

Now CASH is helping Hersh finance her recording-in-progress, �Speedbath.� Each month since January she�s released a track and used whatsoever money she makes to record the next unitary. Each song comes with lyrics, graphics and is available in lossless FLAC format as well as mp3.

�(CASH) is a dream come true,� Hersh said. �Taking charge of my vocation this way ends a long, ugly struggle. Everything about the previous scenario felt unnatural - the photo shoots, stylists, the makeup and the pilus - thousands of dollars spent to make me look like a way model. The truth is I never belonged anyplace near that life.�

Xiu Xiu�s latest handout, �Women As Lovers,� came out via traditional means in January, but CASH helped out with promotional assistance.

�At this point, I�ve come to the actualization that the size of our audience probably won�t change much,� Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stewart said. �The question then becomes how to best serve the audience we�ve got. CASH has been a capital tool in that respect. Those convoluted are extremely passionate people with systematically good ideas about how to affect a project forward and the technical know-how to make it possible.

�It seems like the perfect direction of escaping from the dumb industry standards,� he continued. �Super-expensive promo videos and other trite techniques feature been ruinous failures for us.�

CASH devised a promotional mini-site for Xiu Xiu�s CD, featuring an ongoing video magazine podcast. Additionally, the site is now providing Xiu Xiu with tour support through a forum that encourages fans to part photos, videos, concert reviews and related stories.

Hersh is utilizing CASH�s interactive features in tied more hardihood ways, giving customers access to her Pro-Tools stems - basically the digital rudiments of each

NASA Selects LIFEPAK(R) 1000 Defibrillator From Physio-Control As First Automated External Defibrillator In Space

� Physio-Control of Redmond, Wash., proclaimed the LIFEPAK 1000 defibrillator has been deployed on the International Space Station (ISS) as the low automated external defibrillator (AED) in space. AEDs are easy to use devices that automatically interpret a patient's centre rhythm and, if necessary, deliver a potentially lifesaving defibrillation shock. They deliver become vernacular in places such as airplanes, health clubs, and schools and now the LIFEPAK one thousand AED volition be useable for NASA crew members should soul experience sudden cardiac contain in quad.


The ISS has utilized manual defibrillators in the past, but NASA decided to now deploy an AED because it requires less training and maintenance, better enabling astronauts to respond to a medical emergency. The small size and light weight of the chiliad also helped minimize hardware mass and volume onboard the Space Station.


NASA conducted encompassing evaluations of 18 AEDs available general before selecting the LIFEPAK 1000 defibrillator to protect the crew members of the ISS. The AED evaluations focussed on user interface, ease of enjoyment, durability and detailed technological specifications related to the unique conditions encountered in space, including electromagnetic hindrance, pressure susceptibleness, temperature, quiver, acceleration and other environmental factors. Additionally, Medical Operations personnel evaluated the economic consumption of LIFEPAK 1000 in zero solemnity conditions aboard a NASA DC-9 quiz aircraft as part of developing their advanced life history support exercise protocols.


With the elision of a customized battery developed and provided by Micro Power Electronics, a leading maker of tradition batteries and power systems, and a NASA-created cover for the device that is specifically designed for space habit to help protect it from electromagnetic interference, the LIFEPAK thou was deployed on panel the Space Station in the like device constellation used by professional emergency responders.


"We are prestigious NASA selected the LIFEPAK 1000 defibrillator to protect the lives of crew members onboard the International Space Station," said Brian Webster, president of Physio-Control. "The K is used by thousands of emergency responders worldwide and was designed for use in the harshest environments and situations; it's proven to be unitary of the most dependable products Physio-Control has e'er developed. This 'space first' is specially exciting for us, as it underscores the many reasons customers choose LIFEPAK defibrillators for emergency medical use."

About Sudden Cardiac Arrest and the LIFEPAK 1000 Defibrillator


Sudden cardiac arrest happens suddenly and without warning, and is commonly caused by an electrical perturbation in the heart that causes an individual to go into an abnormal heart calendar method of birth control known as ventricular fibrillation, losing a pulse and consciousness. Immediate CPR and defibrillation ar critical to survival, as survival rates drop around 10 percent every minute without defibrillation.


Available from Physio-Control since 2006, the LIFEPAK thou defibrillator is an AED created for use by basic life support responders to treat cardiac nail patients. The 1000can likewise be programmed so those with more advanced breeding can horizon the three-lead ECG onscreen to provide continuous cardiac monitoring. The 1000 provides escalating biphasic energy up to 360 joules.

About the International Space Station


The International Space Station is a state of the art, orbiting laboratory complex that travels 240 miles supra the Earth. Assembly began in 1998 and bring on the complex continues today. The first occupant crew established the beginning of a continual human presence in space and arrived in a Russian capsule as part of Expedition 1 in November 2000. Since then, astronauts from more than than 10 countries hold carried out 17 missions. Crew members currently consume interior living and functional space for conducting on-going medical and space research with the goal of improving the lives of people all over the world.

About NASA


Congress created NASA in 1958. Its mission is to pioneer the next in place exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research. Led by Michael Griffin, the delegacy is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with 10 field of honor centers and other facilities around the nation.

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About Physio-Control


Physio-Control, Inc., a entirely owned subsidiary company of Medtronic, Inc., is located in Redmond, Wash. Physio-Control pioneered defibrillation engineering over 50 years ago. With more than 650,000 LIFEPAK defibrillators distributed worldwide, the company is the world's leading provider of extraneous defibrillators for the treatment of sudden cardiac hold.

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Paula Wagner�s Departure Endangers United Artists� Status As World�s Best Movie Studio

Variety reports that United Artists co-chairman Paula Wagner (the Chad Hugo to Tom Cruise's Pharrell) is in talks with parent studio MGM to vacate her post, making her the second executive to leave the company this week following the departure of EVP Jeff Kleeman on Monday. According to Vulture buddy Nikki Finke, Wagner's exit comes after her failure to meet production deadlines imperiled part of the studio's $500 million financing deal with Merrill Lynch. Under her leadership, UA has made only two films � last fall's Lions for Lambs (currently on track to recoup its budget in DVD sales by 2064) and the upcoming Valkyrie, in which Cruise plays a one-eyed Nazi who botches an assassination on Hitler � and her exit leaves behind just Cruise, production president Don Granger, and "a few junior execs." As part of her punishment, Wagner will retain an ownership interest in the company.

Paula Wagner leaves UA [Variety]
Tom Cruise's Movie Studio Imploding: Paula Wagner Is DOA At United Artists; But Was It Suicide or Murder By MGM? [Deadline Hollywood Daily]

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Eminem Working On New Songs

Eminem is working on new material says the rapper, which means fans are now hoping for the possibility of a new album.

After a spoof radio phonecall conversation with LL Cool J live on air, Eminem later said "Everything is good. I'm just in the studio right now working on songs and stuff like that."

The news comes after February's announcement from producer Focus that he was working on the record and that a new album would be out soon.

Then in March, a source told how Eminem and Dr Dre had been recording tracks together in the studio.

The rapper hasn't released a studio album since 2004's 'Encore'

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Ottawa-born 'Gossip Girl' creator says she refused to be thwarted from her dreams

BANFF, Alta. - Stephanie Savage is 38 but could pass for 20, pursued a PhD in film history but found herself writing for frothy nighttime teen soaps, and is one of the most successful women in the cut-throat Hollywood TV business after growing up in Ottawa and Calgary.

She might seem like a study in contradictions, but Savage is in fact anything but. Her singular refusal to turn her back on her dreams has led to almost unimaginable Hollywood success as the executive producer and writer of the steamy and addictive "Gossip Girl," about a group of young Manhattan socialites.

The petite, blond and impossibly youthful Savage is humble when discussing how her show was recently described by New York Magazine as the best series ever made.

"They may have been exaggerating slightly," a beaming Savage says in an interview at the Banff World Television Festival, where she's travelled to share tips and advice with other aspiring television producers.

Is this typical Canadian modesty? It seems so, as Savage discusses what Canadian sensibilities she brings to her work.

"I grew up in a family where the thing that was valued most was being a hard worker, and if you commit to something, you follow through," she says.

"And that may be considered a Canadian value, but it's definitely something that's served me well in my writing and my working in television. It's a hard, hard industry - there's so much work, so many details, and you just really have to commit to it."

Savage's Hollywood career began when she travelled to L.A. to research her PhD while attending the University of Iowa. But a job opening came up in Drew Barrymore's production company in 1995 and Savage, a University of Toronto grad, decided to go for it and eventually gave up the notion of completing her dissertation.

As an intern at the company she soon began dabbling in scriptwriting for the film "Charlie's Angels." It was the lure of "Charlie's Angels," in fact, that was impossible to resist.

"I was a huge 'Charlie's Angels' fan when I was a little girl, and I can go back to sitting on my couch in Ottawa, Ontario, watching TV and thinking: 'How do I get to there from here, because that looks way better,"' she said to laughs from the crowd at a question-and-answer session at Banff.

It was the beginning of an impressive ascent that prompted Glamour magazine to add Savage to its annual list of powerful women in 2005, two years after the Hollywood Reporter named her one of the top "35 under 35."

After starting as an intern doing just about everything, including fetching coffee, at Barrymore's Flower Films, Savage became friends with the "Charlie's Angels" director - known as McG - and by 2001, had started up Wonderland Vision and Sound with him.

Wonderland created and produced "The O.C.," but Savage left the company to write exclusively for the show, penning the famous "Chrismukkah" episode. As "The O.C." was nearing its conclusion, Josh Schwarz, co-creator of the show, was approached by the CW network to adapt the popular "Gossip Girl" books into a television series, and called upon Savage to join him.

"Gossip Girl" is now one of the most buzzed-about shows on television, with a huge online presence.

The show has attracted such avid interest, Savage says, that the presence of the paparazzi during shoots is an ongoing concern.

"There's paparazzi who know before I do where we're going to be shooting - I feel I should call them instead of the other way around," she says, adding it's forced producers to shoot scenes indoors for fear photos will show up on celebrity gossip blogs that will ruin any surprises for fans.

In addition to working on "Gossip Girl," the hard-working Savage just finished her first feature film script, an adaptation of the young adult novel "The Au Pairs."

Savage says the secret to her success is simply an utter refusal to be thwarted from pursuing her dreams.

"The thing that has led me to the place that I am is that every moment in my life, I've been following my dream," Savage says. "Following my dream to go to the University of Toronto, following my dream to get my PhD, following my dream to work in Hollywood."

Her success often involved ignoring the naysayers, she adds.

"Every time I've made a big decision in my life, it's been about letting in the possibility that maybe I could do something that I actually wanted to do and not letting people tell me that I should compromise, or that it's too big of a dream. Which is also a Canadian quality sometimes - to say you're dreaming too big ... I just refused to accept that."

News from �The Canadian Press, 2008

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