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Woman admits role in song royalty scheme
The second of two cousins charged with receiving more than $1 million in unauthorized royalty checks from a group representing songwriters as diverse as Chuck Berry and Barry Manilow pleaded guilty in Newark yesterday to conspiring to steal money. Nicole Williams, 28, of Brooklyn faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for depositing in excess of $400,000 in royalty checks into her bank account and then sharing the money with the former royalty manager of the Songwriters Guild of America. Her admission followed by a day a plea to the same charge entered by her cousin, Anthony Ray, 33, of Providence, R.I. He acknowledged getting more than $800,000 in royalty checks from the same person over the same period -- August 2001 until June 2005.
Corinne in MOBO hunt
Corinne Bailey Rae walked away as the front runner at this year's Mobo Awards after she scooped three nominations that were announced last night in Camden, North London. Bailey Rae is up for Best UK Female, Best UK Newcomer and Best Song for her smash hit, 'Put Your Record On'. The Mobo recognition comes just six months after the release of her debut album. Corrine will face stiff competition from other emerging black UK artists including the likes of Jamelia, Alesha Dixon and Beverly Knight in a showdown for the Best UK Female Award. Invading the nominations from the other side of the Atlantic is US superstar Beyonce who leads the field with four nominations. In the past, the event has been criticised for favouring US talent but it seems this year the focus is back on home-grown artists.
What Are The Hottest Places And Jobs In Our Area?
Ask and you shall receive! We asked our CBS 2 Newshounds to tell us which places and what jobs are the absolute hottest during this heat wave, and they sent us what they thought, including some places that we haven't considered. For instance, can you imagine working in a dry cleaners in this heat?But we also want photos! Put those shutterbug skills to the test, and send us images that will make us see and feel the heat. Don't forget to include your name, so we can give credit where credit is due. E-mail us your suggestions and photos at wcbstvwebteam@cbs.com.Now here's what a few CBS 2 Newshounds had to say:"Today all day I have a indoor outdoor thermometer and it has been at 112 most of the day even on line at Aol it has said it was 110 at 3:00pm. Right now it is 106 in front of my home in Staten Island."-Randi from Willowbrook "Near Grand Ave.
Squirrel causes outage
Janice Lantz, a spokeswoman for Allegheny Power, said a squirrel came in contact and knocked out a switch at the York Run Substation south of Uniontown and west of Route 119 at 11 a.m. on Tuesday. The result was almost 5,000 Allegheny Power customers at the south end of Uniontown toward Fairchance losing electricity. Lantz said almost 3,300 of those customers had their power restored at 12:30 p.m.; the remaining customers on the York Run circuit had their power back at 2:15 p.m. Lantz did not know the amount of damage caused in the incident, but the squirrel didn't survive; 12,000 volts of electricity usually come from the substation. .
RSS Aggregator
Two months ago I put together an article about building an RSS aggregator (CFDJ, Vol. 8, issue 5). Before reading this you might want to refresh your mind on the original article. Go over here - http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/235976.htm - to read it. I discussed what an aggregator is and why we care to write one. RSS is a version of XML that is used to make syndicating data easy. Most blogs have an RSS feed attached to them. An aggregator takes a bunch of blog feeds and combines them. Weblogs.macromedia.com and FullAsaGoog.com are two great examples of aggregators in the ColdFusion community. The last article stepped you through the thought process of designing the database and object model. We built two of the components: an RSSCategory component that is used to categorize the RSS feeds and an RSSFeed component that is used to enter an RSS feed into the database.
CREDIT REPLACING CASH: One word for investors: Plastic
Cash may still be king, but it's making fewer and fewer public appearances as consumers increasingly reach for credit and debit cards when making purchases. Once reserved for large-ticket items, those magical little pieces of plastic are now routinely used to buy cups of coffee at Starbucks. According to The Nilson Report, which tracks these things, consumers used cash and checks in 60 percent of all transactions in 2004, down from 74 percent in 1999. If the trend away from cash and checks continues, electronic payments' market share will top 50 percent by 2009. A host of companies provide the infrastructure and transaction processing that make the e-payments world go round. We've sifted through a lot of them and have found several solid companies trading at attractive valuations.
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