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DMB releases 5 Song EP for Haiti Relief

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Dave Matthews Band, in an initiative to assist in providing long-term support to the people of the earthquake-ravaged nation of Haiti, has established the Bama Works Haiti Relief Fund. A 5-song EP entitled The Haiti Relief Project as well as a new, limited edition T-shirt featuring album cover art will be available tomorrow with proceeds benefiting the relief fund. THE HAITI RELIEF PROJECT EP Track Listing BUTTERFLY 08.28.2007 / Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Kansas City / Bonner Springs, KS (Dave solo)…

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Video: Kendrick Meek totally butchers Wyclef Jean’s name

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He’s doing such an amazing job with the situation in Haiti, it’s hard to make fun of him, but can someone tell my boy Kendrick Meek that it’s Wyclef Jean not Jean Claude Van Damme!

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Worried about unemployment, Haiti, Afghanistan? Put your worries aside – LegoLand is coming to Florida

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Governor Charlie Crist today joined Merlin Entertainments chief executive Nick Varney for the company’s announcement that they will open a LEGOLAND® family theme park at the 145-acre Cypress Gardens site in Winter Haven. Merlin recently purchased Cypress Gardens and expects LEGOLAND® Florida to open by late 2011. “Today’s announcement is exciting news for Florida and the millions of people who visit our state each year,” said Governor Crist. “LEGOLAND® Florida will be an ideal combination of family fun and economic…

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Is Kendrick Meek’s sisyphean signature-gathering effort further behind than campaign wants to admit?

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Kendrick Meek’s effort to qualify for the ballot by petition is dangerously behind where his campaign says it is, according to a real-time sampling of the ten Supervisor of Elections’ offices which have, to date, processed more than 85% of Meek’s verified signatures. In a conference call two weeks ago with a pool of new media writers and bloggers, Meek’s campaign manager, Abe Dyk, responded to a series of questions about the campaign’s signature-gathering efforts. Dyk would not (and has…

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Is Kendrick Meek’s sisyphean signature-gathering effort further behind than campaign wants to admit?

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Kendrick Meek’s effort to qualify for the ballot by petition is dangerously behind where his campaign says it is, according to a real-time sampling of the ten Supervisor of Elections’ offices which have, to date, processed more than 85% of Meek’s verified signatures. In a conference call two weeks ago with a pool of new media writers and bloggers, Meek’s campaign manager, Abe Dyk, responded to a series of questions about the campaign’s signature-gathering efforts. Dyk would not (and has…

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In the wake of the tragedy in Haiti, has Kendrick Meek finally found his senatorial voice?

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U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, whose Miami district includes the nation’s largest Haitian community, left on a sudden and dramatic trip to Haiti Sunday to participate in aid efforts and gather information. Accompanying Miami aid workers in Port-au-Prince, Meek ended up capturing the rescue of a 2-year-old girl from the rubble of her home on cell phone video. The video has had broad airplay on national news shows. The trip, Meek’s staff said, was a purely humanitarian effort, motivated by fact-finding…

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Before today, Alex Sink’s campaign website had not been updated since November

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On her website today, gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink is asking for your support of the disaster relief efforts in Haiti. But before this, Sink had not updated her website since November 4. As Mike Thomas writes in damning piece of Sink’s campaign so far: Consider the Alex Sink campaign Web site, alexsink2010.com. It proclaims that “the St. Petersburg Times released a poll yesterday that showed Alex ahead by one point.” The poll is 2½ months old. That coincides with when…

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