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The Jackson Clarion-Ledger on Wednesday examined how some U.S. residents who cannot afford health insurance are reducing the amount of medications they take or cutting doses, as well as visual perception the doctor less frequently, to save money. A survey conducted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners showed that 11% have skipped doses or stopped taking medications altogether because of financial reasons and that 22% have reduced doctor visits.
According to Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, "Mississippi is probably worsened off than you date on the national stratum," adding, "We have more than people on the poorness level or on fixed incomes than most states," which "forces them to make decisions about purchasing life-sustaining drugs or quality of life drugs versus paying the light bill and buying groceries." Many people are uninsured because employers such as humble businesses and not-for-profit agencies have difficulty providing workers with passable insurance, the Clarion-Ledger reports (Pettus, Jackson Clarion-Ledger, 8/27).
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Friday 29 August 2008
Weather And Climate Leaders Urge Washington To Better Protect US
�Eight stellar professional organizations in the field of weather and climate have called on the future administration and Congress to better protect the United States from severe brave out and clime change. They issued cinque recommendations to reverse declining budgets and provide requisite tools, information, and leadership to decision makers. The recommendations and supporting information have been provided to the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama.
The United States sustains billions of dollars in losses every year from disasters related to weather and climate, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires, floods, droughts, and coke storms, the transition papers states. This year lone, the country has been battered by a phonograph record number of tornadoes, knockout floods, and wildfires.
"With more than a quarter of the U.S. gross national product (over $2 one million million million) sensitive to weather and climate events, these events substantially wallop our national health, refuge, economy, environment, transportation systems, and military readiness," the document states. "All 50 states ar impacted by these events, and many of these events will be exacerbated by climate change."
The ashcan School organizations that wrote the document ar the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, the Weather Coalition, the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, and the Alliance for Earth Observations. Collectively they represent thousands of scientists, engineering science specialists, public policy analysts, and other experts.
"Our worry is that our nation is non prepared for severe weather or mood change because of declining budgets and lack of attention to these threats over the past few years," says UCAR vice president Jack Fellows. "We should ameliorate our power to reply to severe weather events and prepare for the impacts of climate change that will undoubtedly occur over the next several decades. Decision makers need information on how climate change will affect their local areas, but we are hampered by a lack of funding, observations, and calculation power to provide data at this local level."
The document's five-spot recommendations ar:
Observations. Fully fund the nation's Earth observing arrangement from planet and ground-based instruments as recommended by the National Research Council.
Computing. Greatly increase computing power available for weather and clime research, predictions, and related applications.
Research and Modeling. Support a broad central and applied research broadcast in Earth sciences and related fields to go on present discernment of weather and mood and their impacts on society.
Societal Relevance. Support education, grooming, and communicating efforts to use the observations, models, and application tools for the upper limit benefit to society.
Leadership and Management. Implement in force leadership, management, and evaluation approaches to ensure these investments are done in the c. H. Best interest of the state.
The plan is estimated to price roughly $9 billion above the stream federal investments being planned for 2010-2014. The entire transition document, "Making Our Nation Resilient to Severe Weather and Climate Change," can be found at www.ucar.edu/td offset tomorrow. It provides detailed implementation direction, including specific management actions, budget estimates, and recommendations for nominations of leaders to dish out in the next administration.
"Given the costs of endure and climate disasters, we believe these are impudent and critical investments," says John Snow, co-chair of the Weather Coalition and dean of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is a pool of more than than 70 universities offer Ph.D.s in the atmospheric and related sciences. UCAR manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the UCAR Office of Programs to provide member institutions and other affiliates with state of the art instrumentation, aircraft, and calculator technology to advance the study of Earth's atmosphere.
Source: David Hosansky
National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
More info
The United States sustains billions of dollars in losses every year from disasters related to weather and climate, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires, floods, droughts, and coke storms, the transition papers states. This year lone, the country has been battered by a phonograph record number of tornadoes, knockout floods, and wildfires.
"With more than a quarter of the U.S. gross national product (over $2 one million million million) sensitive to weather and climate events, these events substantially wallop our national health, refuge, economy, environment, transportation systems, and military readiness," the document states. "All 50 states ar impacted by these events, and many of these events will be exacerbated by climate change."
The ashcan School organizations that wrote the document ar the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, the Weather Coalition, the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, and the Alliance for Earth Observations. Collectively they represent thousands of scientists, engineering science specialists, public policy analysts, and other experts.
"Our worry is that our nation is non prepared for severe weather or mood change because of declining budgets and lack of attention to these threats over the past few years," says UCAR vice president Jack Fellows. "We should ameliorate our power to reply to severe weather events and prepare for the impacts of climate change that will undoubtedly occur over the next several decades. Decision makers need information on how climate change will affect their local areas, but we are hampered by a lack of funding, observations, and calculation power to provide data at this local level."
The document's five-spot recommendations ar:
Observations. Fully fund the nation's Earth observing arrangement from planet and ground-based instruments as recommended by the National Research Council.
Computing. Greatly increase computing power available for weather and clime research, predictions, and related applications.
Research and Modeling. Support a broad central and applied research broadcast in Earth sciences and related fields to go on present discernment of weather and mood and their impacts on society.
Societal Relevance. Support education, grooming, and communicating efforts to use the observations, models, and application tools for the upper limit benefit to society.
Leadership and Management. Implement in force leadership, management, and evaluation approaches to ensure these investments are done in the c. H. Best interest of the state.
The plan is estimated to price roughly $9 billion above the stream federal investments being planned for 2010-2014. The entire transition document, "Making Our Nation Resilient to Severe Weather and Climate Change," can be found at www.ucar.edu/td offset tomorrow. It provides detailed implementation direction, including specific management actions, budget estimates, and recommendations for nominations of leaders to dish out in the next administration.
"Given the costs of endure and climate disasters, we believe these are impudent and critical investments," says John Snow, co-chair of the Weather Coalition and dean of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is a pool of more than than 70 universities offer Ph.D.s in the atmospheric and related sciences. UCAR manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the UCAR Office of Programs to provide member institutions and other affiliates with state of the art instrumentation, aircraft, and calculator technology to advance the study of Earth's atmosphere.
Source: David Hosansky
National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
More info
Saturday 9 August 2008
Donny Hathaway
Artist: Donny Hathaway
Genre(s):
Other
R&B: Soul
Discography:
These Songs For You, Live!
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Free Soul
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
Everything Is Everything
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Live
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
A Donny Hathaway Collection
Year: 1990
Tracks: 15
Donny Hathaway was i of the brightest new voices in soul music at the cockcrow of the '70s, berserk of a smooth, gospel-inflected amatory croon that was likewise at rest home on impassioned dissent corporeal. Hathaway achieved his greatest commercial success as Roberta Flack's pas de deux spouse of choice, but unhappily he's evenly remembered for the tragic circumstances of his death -- an plain suicide at historic catamenia 33. Hathaway was innate October 1, 1945, in Chicago, just touched to St. Louis when he was very young, and began singing in christian church with his grandmother at the skimp age of 3. He began playing piano at a danton True Young long time, and by high school, he was recounting sufficiency to gain a full-ride fine humanities scholarship to Howard University to study music in 1964. While in college, he performed with a cocktail malarky outfit called the Ric Powell Trio, and lesion up going away school day afterward terzetto years to follow job opportunities he was already organism offered in the record industry.
Anne Hathaway first worked behindhand the scenes as a manufacturer, transcriber, songster, and seance pianist/keyboardist. He supported the likes of Aretha Franklin, Jerry Butler, and the Staple Singers, among many others, and linked the Mayfield Singers, a studio financial support group that supported Curtis Mayfield's Impressions. Hathaway before long became a house manufacturer at Mayfield's Curtom label, and in 1969 cut his first single, a duo with June Conquest called "I Thank You Baby." From in that respect he signed with Atco as a solo artist, and released his debut single, the inner city plaint "The Ghetto, Pt. 1," toward the terminal of the class. While it failed to hand the Top 20 on the R&B charts, "The Ghetto" noneffervescent ranks as a classic someone message track, and has been sampled by numerous rap music artists. "The Ghetto" countersink the stage for Hathaway's acclaimed debut LP, Everything Is Everything, which was released in early 1970. In 1971, he released his eponymous second album and recorded a duet with previous Howard schoolmate Roberta Flack, covering James Taylor's "You've Got a Friend." It was a significant strike, reaching the Top Ten on the R&B charts, and sparked a full album of duets, Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway, which was released in 1972. The subdued, amatory ballad "Where Is the Love?" topped the R&B charts, went Top Five on the pop side, and north Korean won a Grammy, and the consequent album went gold.
As well in 1972, Hathaway biramous out into soundtrack ferment, transcription the paper song for the TV series Maude and marking the film Come Back Charleston Blue. However, in the thick of his blossoming success, he was as well battling life-threatening bouts of depression, which occasionally needed him to be hospitalized. His mood swings also affected his partnership with Flack, which began to break down in 1973. Hathaway released 1 more album that year, the ambitious Reference of a Man, and so retreated from the spotlight; over the side by side few years, he performed only if in small clubs. In 1977, Hathaway patched things up with Flack and temporarily left field the hospital to record some other duet, "The Closer I Get to You," for her Blue Lights in the Basement record album. The vocal was a smash, becoming the pair's second R&B number one in 1978, and too climb to identification number 2 on the pop charts. Sessions for a second album of duets were afoot when, on January 13, 1979, Hathaway was set up dead on the sidewalk below the 15th-floor window of his room in New York's Essex House. The glass had been neatly distant from the window, and on that point were no signs of shin, leading investigators to dominion Hathaway's end a suicide; his friends were metagrobolised, considering that his career had barely started to pick up once again, and Flack was devastated. Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway was released in 1980, and both of the completed duets -- "Back Together Again" and "You Are My Heaven" -- became posthumous hits. In 1990, Hathaway's girl Lalah launched a solo career.
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Srebrna Krila
Artist: Srebrna Krila
Genre(s):
disco
Discography:
Sanjari I Lutalice
Year: 1998
Tracks: 24
30 U Hladu
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Djevuska
Year: 1983
Tracks: 10
Ja Sam Samo Jedan Od Mnogih S Gitarom
Year: 1980
Tracks: 10
Gilberto Santa Rosa and Su Orchestra
Tuesday 24 June 2008
Bodhisattva 13:20
Artist: Bodhisattva 13:20
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Secrets Of The Mojave
Year: 2006
Tracks: 7
Tuesday 10 June 2008
JC Mazter
Artist: JC Mazter
Genre(s):
House
Discography:
Delicious / Sensation
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
Was The Race(r) Fixed?
Wednesday 4 June 2008
Kathy Hilton - The Things They Say 8280
"I'm too young to be a grandmother!" KATHY HILTON insists she isn't ready for her daughter PARIS to become a mum.
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Thursday 29 May 2008
Steve Earle
Artist: Steve Earle
Genre(s):
Rock
Country
Discography:
Washington Square Serenade (DIG)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Jerusalem
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
The Essential Steve Earle
Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
In the strictest mother wit, Steve Earle isn't a rural area creative person, he's a roots rocker. Earle emerged in the mid-'80s, after Bruce Springsteen had popularized populist stone & roll and Dwight Yoakam had kick-started the neo-traditionalist motility in body politic music. At first, Earle appeared to be more toward the stone incline than nation. He played stripped-down neo-rockabilly that now and then verged on outlaw land. His involuntariness to adjust to the rules of Nashville or to rock & roll meant that he never bust through into the mainstream. Instead, he cultivated a consecrated cult following, draftsmanship from both the country and rock audiences. Toward the early '90s, his life history was thrown cancelled track by personal problems and substance misuse, but in the mid-'90s he re-emerged stronger and healthier, producing 2 of his most critically acclaimed albums ever.
Natural in Fort Monroe, VA, only raised nigh San Antonio, TX, Earle is the son of an air traffic controller. At the age of 11, he received his number 1 guitar and, by the metre he was 13, had become expert sufficiency to win a gift contest at his school day. Though he showed a endowment for music, he was a wild child, oft acquiring in trouble with local authorities. Furthermore, his disaffected, long-haired appearance and anti-Vietnam War stance was despised by local state fans. After complemental the one-eighth gradation, Earle dropped out school and, at the age of 16, left home base with his uncle Nick Fain, and began travel crosswise the state. Eventually, he colonized in Houston at the age of 18, where he matrimonial his number 1 wife, Sandie, and began working remaining jobs. While he was in Houston, he met singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt, world Health Organization would become Earle's foremost theatrical role example and inspiration. A year later, Earle moved to Nashville.
While he was in Nashville, Earle worked blue-collar jobs during the day; during the night, he wrote songs and played basso in Guy Clark's backing band, coming into court on a cut on Clark's 1975 album Old No. 1. Steve stayed in Nashville for respective days, making connections inside the industry and finally landing a job as a staff author for the publisher Sunbury Dunbar. After staying in Nashville for a few days, he grew banal of the city and returned back up to Texas. There he assembled a backing band called the Dukes and began playing local clubs. A year later, he returned to Nashville, where he married his minute married woman, Cynthia. The marriage was transitory and he quick matrimonial Carol, world Health Organization gave birth to Earle's first child, a logos named Justin Townes Earle. Carol helped roll out Earle out, at least temporarily; for a spell, he cut gage on substances and hard on music.
Publishers Roy Dea and Pat Clark signed Earle as a songwriter in the early '80s. Dea and Clark brought "When You Fall in Love" to Johnny Lee, world Health Organization took the sung to number 14 on the state charts in 1982; in brief earlier the success of "When You Fall in Love," Carl Perkins cut Steve's "Mustang Wine," and Zella Lehr recorded deuce of his songs. With his reputation as a songster growing, Earle wanted to become a transcription artist in his have right. Dea and Clark had of late formed an independent record label called LSI and the pair gestural Earle.
Earle's first expiration was an EP called Pink & Black in 1982. The record featured a plastic variation of the Dukes and earned good reviews. One writer, John Lomax, sent the EP to Epic Records, which was impressed enough by the platter to sign Earle in 1983. Shortly, earlier the sign language of the contract, Lomax became Earle's director. Although the prospect of organism sign to a major label seemed promising, relationships between Epic and Earle promptly soured. After cathartic the Pinko & Black track "Nothin' But You" as a individual, Epic saturday on the sung, refusing to elevate the record; instead, they concentrated on their raw signing. Earle entered the studio apartment and cut an album of neo-rockabilly songs that the label was loth to send to wireless and, thence, they refused to release the record. Epic suggested Earle re-enter the studio with a unexampled, more commercially oriented producer, Emory Gordy, Jr. The geminate cut four more songs which were released as deuce singles, simply the records failed.
With his transcription life history loss nowhere, Earle missed his publication abridge with Dea and Carter. He affected over to Silverline Goldline, where he met Tony Brown, a producer at MCA Records. At the close of 1984, Epic dropped Earle from their roster. In early 1985, Brown persuaded MCA to sign Earle, and Lomax was fired as his coach. In 1986, Earle's debut album, Guitar Town, was released. Upon its show, Earle was sorted into the raw diehard bowel movement begun by Dwight Yoakam and Randy Travis, just he besides gained the attention of rock candy critics and fans wHO power saw similarities between Earle's populist sentiments and the heartland rock of Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp. Guitar Town became a strike, with its title racecourse becoming a Top Ten single in the summer of 1986 and "Goodbye's All We've Got Left" reaching the Top Ten in early 1987. Following the album's success, Epic quickly assembled a compilation of antecedently unreleased Earle tracks, entitling it Early Tracks and releasing it in early 1987. Later that year, he released his endorsement album, Loss 0, which calibre a shared credit rating for his mount band the Dukes, which signalled the more rock-oriented steering on the album. Like the debut, Outlet 0 was critically acclaimed and sold intimately, even if it didn't rival the levels of the debut.
Though his life history was pickings off, Earle's personal living was becoming a wreck. He had divorced his third married woman, marital a one-quarter named Lou, whom he quickly divorced, and then he marital a sixth wife named Teresa Ensenat, wHO worked for MCA. He was also delving deeper and deeper into drug and alcohol abuse. With his third album, 1988's Denisonia superba Road, Earle's rock & seethe flirtations came to the forefront and nation receiving set responded in kind; none of the songs from the album charted or received practically airplay. However, album rock wireless embraced him, sending the album's deed of conveyance path into the album stone Top Ten, which helped score the album his highest charting cause, peaking at number 56. Not only had Copperhead Road been recognized by AOR, just it conventional him as a principal in Europe; the twosome with the Irish punk-folk mathematical group the Pogues on Denisonia superba Road signalled he had an warmness for the sphere. In the late '80s, Earle oftentimes toured England and Europe and even produced the alternate rock band the Bible.
Earle's banker's acceptance by the rock biotic community didn't please the country establishment in Nashville. Although it seemed for a time that Earle wouldn't want Nashville any longer, his newfound winner promptly began to cave in. Uni, a division of MCA Records, had released Denisonia superba Road instead of MCA proper, and just in front the album went gold, Uni went insolvent, pickings Denisonia superba Road along with it. Meanwhile, Earle's addictions and fondness for breakage rules began spinning out of ascendance. On New Years' Eve, he was arrested in Dallas for assaulting a security department sentry duty at his have concert; he was charged with aggravated assault, fined 500 dollars, and given a year's unsupervised probation. Sandie, his first wife, sued for more alimony and he was served with a paternity suit by a woman in Tennessee. The title of his 1990 record album, The Hard Way, reflected his problems, as did the record's toughened, dark sound. Though the record was critically acclaimed and spawned a minor AOR pip with "The Other Kind," it standard no support from the country market and speedily fell off the charts.
The commercial nonstarter of The Hard Way was simply the beginning of a round of drinks of serious setbacks for Earle. Later in 1990, he recorded an record album of material that MCA refused to release. Instead, the label decided to release the live album Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator in 1991. At the end of the twelvemonth, MCA distinct non to renew Earle's record constrict. For the following several years, Earle was gravely addicted to cocain and diacetylmorphine and had several run-ins with the law. In 1994, he was arrested in Nashville for possession of diacetylmorphine and was sentenced to a year in jailhouse. He served in a rehab centre instead of pokey. This time, the intervention worked.
Belated in 1994, he was released from the rehab centre and he began working over again. In 1995, he signed to Winter Harvest and released the acoustic Train a Comin', his first studio record album in five age. Train a Comin' standard terrifying reviews and strong gross revenue, despite Earle's claim that the label botched the album's song episode. The attention lED to a new track record undertake with Warner Bros., world Health Organization released I Feel Alright in early 1996, once again to strong reviews and respectable gross revenue. Earle had returned from the verge and re-established himself as a vital creative person. In the march, he won back the country audience he had deserted in the late '80s. The Mountain, a bluegrass record book cut with the Del McCoury Band, followed in 1999, and a yr later Earle returned with Preternatural Blues.
Spell Earle had long displayed a strong political streak (peculiarly in his opposition to the death penalty), his collectivist views took center stage on his 2002 album Jerusalem. Written and recorded in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Jerusalem dealt openly with Earle's divided feelings around America's "war on terror" and the West's ignorance of the Islamic religious belief, and included a strain well-nigh John Walker Lindh, a young American world Health Organization was discovered to be fighting with Taliban forces, called "John Walker's Blues." Earle's refusal to condemn Lindh in his lyrics rapidly made the strain (and the album) a political hot potato, simply Earle embraced the argument and became a patronise guest on news and editorial broadcasts, defending his influence and clarifying his views on terrorism, nationalism, and the role of popular artists in a time of crisis. Earle's tour in support of Capital of Israel was authenticated in the 2003 concert celluloid and alive album Precisely an American Boy, and in the summer of 2004, as the American occupation of Iraq dragged on and an forthcoming presidential election loomed in the minds of many, Earle released The Revolution Starts...Now, an album of songs informed by the warfare in Iraq and the abuses of the George W. Bush administration. Live at Montreux, recorded at a 2005 register, was released in 2006, followed by Washington Square Serenade in 2007.
Saturday 24 May 2008
Dustin Hoffman - Hoffman Struggles With Unnatural Monogamy
Actor DUSTIN HOFFMAN struggles with the concept of monogamy - because he believes long-term commitment is "unnatural".
The Rain Man star has been married to his second wife, lawyer Lisa Gottsegen, for 27 years - and he admits he has occasionally felt temptation to stray.
He says, "There's so much about marriage that's unnatural. I don't think it's natural to be monogamous, to be as in love as you were the day before."
But despite the father-of-six's innate opposition to commitment, he insists he cherishes the partnership he shares with his wife.
He adds, "Does fidelity make sense? Yes. I don't think that you can substitute honesty in a relationship."
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Haylie Duff eyes 'Tug'
Sam Huntington also in talks to to star in the indie
Sam Huntington and Haylie Duff are in negotiations to star in "Tug," an indie film from writer-director Abram Makowka that will be one of the first features to film in Michigan since the announcement in April of the state's 40% film tax incentive program.
Set in small-town Michigan, "Tug" centers on a guy (Huntington) whose life begins to unravel when he is torn between staying with his current girlfriend or going back to his psycho ex (Duff).
TicTock Studios' Hopwood DePree and Rebecca Green are producing and financing. Production will begin in June.
Huntington is repped by UTA, Duff is repped by WMA and Curtis Talent Management.
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Smith wins damages over Hitler allegation
Actor Will Smith has won an apology and undisclosed damages in a London court over a false allegation that he described World War Two Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as a "good person".
The High Court heard that the Oscar-nominated actor was left deeply distressed and acutely embarrassed over the wrong story published by an entertainment newswire service.
Judge David Eady was told that Smith's comments, originally published in the Scottish Daily Record newspaper, were then "wholly misrepresented" by the London-based World Entertainment News Network (WENN).
The agency, which says on its website that it provides information to more than 1,000 media outlets in 25 countries, picked up the interview and then wrongly published worldwide a story headlined "Smith: Hitler was a good person".
Reuters reports that Smith's lawyer Rachel Atkins said in court: "The article alleged (Smith) had declared in an interview that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was a good person. It wholly misrepresents (his) actual words."
The lawyer said that Smith, who was not in court, actually thought Hitler was "vile and heinous".
"The allegations that he could think otherwise is deeply distressing... and has caused him acute embarrassment," she said.
WENN retracted the story and issued a correction and an apology, but no media published it, leaving the libel "at large", according to Atkins.
She said the undisclosed compensation WENN had agreed to pay would be donated to an unnamed charity. It also will meet Smith's legal costs.
John Melville Smith, defending WENN, said his client apologised for the story, which they now admitted was wrong.
He said: "(WENN) offers its apologies to (Smith) for any distress and embarrassment caused by this article."
"(It) accepts that the allegations concerning (him) were misleading and published in error."
The High Court heard that the Oscar-nominated actor was left deeply distressed and acutely embarrassed over the wrong story published by an entertainment newswire service.
Judge David Eady was told that Smith's comments, originally published in the Scottish Daily Record newspaper, were then "wholly misrepresented" by the London-based World Entertainment News Network (WENN).
The agency, which says on its website that it provides information to more than 1,000 media outlets in 25 countries, picked up the interview and then wrongly published worldwide a story headlined "Smith: Hitler was a good person".
Reuters reports that Smith's lawyer Rachel Atkins said in court: "The article alleged (Smith) had declared in an interview that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was a good person. It wholly misrepresents (his) actual words."
The lawyer said that Smith, who was not in court, actually thought Hitler was "vile and heinous".
"The allegations that he could think otherwise is deeply distressing... and has caused him acute embarrassment," she said.
WENN retracted the story and issued a correction and an apology, but no media published it, leaving the libel "at large", according to Atkins.
She said the undisclosed compensation WENN had agreed to pay would be donated to an unnamed charity. It also will meet Smith's legal costs.
John Melville Smith, defending WENN, said his client apologised for the story, which they now admitted was wrong.
He said: "(WENN) offers its apologies to (Smith) for any distress and embarrassment caused by this article."
"(It) accepts that the allegations concerning (him) were misleading and published in error."
The Chronicles Of Narnia - The Things They Say 8330
"I get paid to kiss people... Not a bad gig." THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN star BEN BARNES on his role as a young romantic.
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Eyes on Venice as Cannes winds down
With the Cannes Film Festival drawing to a close on Sunday, attention is turning toward Venice, where Ridley Scott's Body of Lies is expected to be among the big-name US films screening out of competition on the Lido.
Gein
Artist: Gein
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
We Don't Know / Simon
Year: 2006
Tracks: 2
Hate and Father Of Lies
Year: 2006
Tracks: 2
Britney Spears now dating paparazzo?
Pop singer Britney Spears has been spotted socialising with paparazzo Adnan Ghalib, who regularly photographs the star.
According to People magazine, 26-year-old Spears and 35-year-old Ghalib were spotted at two hotels together recently.
The report claims that the pair checked into the Le Parker Meridien Hotel at 2:30am on one occasion, with two security guards accompanying them.
A source said: "There was nothing romantic going on with Adnan. She was distracted, clicking away on her PDA."
Spears and Ghalib were spotted checking out of the hotel five hours later.
The pair have also been spotted driving together and socialising at a Beverly Hills hotel.
In an interview with '20/20', the photographer previously said of Spears: "I think she's a great person. It's unfortunate that she's the way she is, because of the people she surrounds herself with."
According to People magazine, 26-year-old Spears and 35-year-old Ghalib were spotted at two hotels together recently.
The report claims that the pair checked into the Le Parker Meridien Hotel at 2:30am on one occasion, with two security guards accompanying them.
A source said: "There was nothing romantic going on with Adnan. She was distracted, clicking away on her PDA."
Spears and Ghalib were spotted checking out of the hotel five hours later.
The pair have also been spotted driving together and socialising at a Beverly Hills hotel.
In an interview with '20/20', the photographer previously said of Spears: "I think she's a great person. It's unfortunate that she's the way she is, because of the people she surrounds herself with."
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