Springsteen to headline Hard Rock Calling

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN will get the chance to finish his set from last year’s Hard Rock Calling – because he’s headlining this year’s festival too.

A noise curfew meant he was cut short during his three-hour set in London’s Hyde Park last summer, after he had been joined on stage by SIR PAUL McCARTNEY.

This year the do is in east London’s Olympic Park and Bruce and THE E STREET BAND headline on Sunday June 30.

KASABIAN will top the bill the previous night.

Other acts confirmed for the festival – the same weekend as Glastonbury – include PAUL WELLER, THE CRIBS, KLAXONS and MILES KANE.

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LADY GAGA has found a way to kill time as she recovers from surgery on her hip

Hip op singer ... Lady Gaga is recovering at home

LADY GAGA has found a way to kill time as she recovers from surgery on her hip.

The singer has bought 27 koi carp for a tank she’s had installed in her house.

The singer was forced to cancel US tour dates last month so she could have an operation to fix a tear on her right hip.

The pain was so bad that the star was unable to walk before the surgery and doctors ordered her to have “strict downtime” while it all heals.

So she’s had the fish shipped especially from Japan and the tank set up close to her sickbed to entertain her as she recovers.

A source said: “Gaga said she’d had a dream about the fish so she had her team source some koi and set up a massive tank. The whole exercise cost over £40,000, which is a lot to most people but small change to her.”

If she’s still taking strong painkillers after her operation then she’ll find those fish looking pretty hypnotic.

It would have been cheaper to get a DVD of Extreme Fishing With ROBSON GREEN.

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Sour note: Harley factories ban music

              A leaked corporate memo has workers buzzing. No, not the Yahoo order for telecommuters to move into the office. It’s a new edict at Harley-Davidson:

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/03/01/4094465/music-banned-on-harley-factory.html#storylink=cpyNo more music on the factory floors.

Like many manufacturers around the country, the motorcycle maker has decided that headphones, boom boxes and piped-in music get in the way of plant safety and productivity.
Harley-Davidson officers said music had proved to be a distraction from the work at hand and a potential hazard.
The order includes the Kansas City plant.
Irv Robinson, owner of Robbie Fantastic Flexibles, a plant in Lenexa that makes printed plastic packaging, is in full accord with the new Harley rule.
“We don’t allow music,” Robinson said. “It’s a safety problem. And we make our guys wear earplugs anyway. We can’t add to the existing noise.”
Other major manufacturing operations allow music in some form. At the General Motors Fairfax plant in Kansas City, Kan., for example, workers can’t wear headphones, but they can play small radios at low volume — low enough that sounds won’t override plant-wide information. Ford declined to comment on the policies in its plants, one of which is in Claycomo.
The music issue crops up in offices and stores as well as factories. When music is allowed in the workplace, it sometimes causes co-worker clashes because tastes differ. So, too, do workers’ abilities to tune out distractions.
Bothering co-workers with your own musical tastes “could be considered like smoking — you’re affecting those around you,” said Connie Russell, an area leadership coach and consultant. “You want to be respectful to others.”
Music listeners point out that with headphones, music doesn’t have to be shared. But headphones are safety impediments if music drowns out the sounds of machinery or announcements that workers need to hear.
The Harley ban prompted a flurry of online postings from workers who argued that music helps break up the monotony of work and helped morale.
Researchers have reported that music both helps and hurts productivity. Generally, classical or other music without lyrics gets a green light. One study even concluded that cows give more milk when listening to classical music.
But louder music, especially with lyrics, has been found to impair concentration on the job. That was especially true in workplaces where different kinds of music vied for dominance or when co-workers disagreed about choices.

SOURCE : http://www.kansascity.com/2013/03/01/4094465/music-banned-on-harley-factory.html

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Florida man feared dead after sinkhole swallows him

Reuters March 1, 2013, 10:58 pm

Reuters © Police tape surrounds a home where a sinkhole opened up and swallowed a man in Seffner, Florida, March 1, 2013. REUTERS/Brian Blanco

By Saundra Amrhein
SEFFNER, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida man was missing and feared dead on Friday after a large sinkhole suddenly engulfed the bedroom of his suburban Tampa home, police and fire officials said.
Jeff Bush, 36, was in his room sleeping and the other five members of the household were getting ready for bed on Thursday night when they heard a loud crash and Jeff screaming.
Jeff's brother, 35-year-old Jeremy Bush, jumped into the hole and furiously kept digging to find his brother.
"I feel in my heart he didn't make it," Jeremy told Tampa TV station WFTS. "There were six of us in the house; five got out."
Jeremy himself had to be rescued from the sinkhole by the first responder to the emergency call, Douglas Duvall of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. When Duvall entered Jeff Bush's bedroom, all he saw was a widening chasm but no sign of Jeff.
"The hole took the entire bedroom," said Duvall. "You could see the bedframe, the dresser, everything was sinking," he said.
Norman Wicker, 48, the father of Jeremy's fiancée who also lived in the house, ran to get a flashlight and shovel.
"It sounded like a car ran into the back of the house," Wicker said.
Authorities had not detected any signs of life after lowering listening devices and cameras into the hole and rescue efforts were suspended after the site was deemed too unsafe for emergency personnel to enter.
"There is a very large, very fluid mass underneath this house rendering the entire house and the entire lot dangerous and unsafe," Bill Bracken, the head of an engineering company assisting fire and rescue officials, told the news conference late on Friday.
"We are still trying to determine the extent and nature of what's down there so we can best determine how to approach it and how to extricate," Bracken said.
Several nearby homes were evacuated in case the 30-foot (9-meter) wide sinkhole got larger but officials said it only appeared to be getting deeper.
The Bush brothers worked together as landscapers, according to Leland Wicker, 48, one of the other residents of the house.
The risk of sinkholes is common in Florida due to the state's porous geological bedrock, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. As rainwater filters down into the ground, it dissolves the rock causing erosion that can lead to underground caverns, which cause sinkholes when they collapse.
Florida suffered one of its worst sinkhole accidents in 1994 when a 15-story-deep chasm opened up east of Tampa at a phosphate mine. It created a hole 185 feet deep and as much as 160 feet wide. Locals dubbed it Disney World's newest attraction - 'Journey to the Center of the Earth.'
In 1981 in Winter Park near Orlando, a sinkhole was measured as 320 feet wide and 90 feet deep, swallowing a two-story house, part of a Porsche dealership, and an Olympic-size swimming pool. The site is now an artificial lake in the city.
"Mortgage companies are more and more requiring Florida home buyers to have sinkhole coverage on their homeowners insurance policy," said K.C. Williams, a Tampa sinkhole and property damage claims lawyer who lives 2 miles away from the damaged home.
(Additional reporting by David Adams and Tom Brown; Writing by Kevin Gray; Editing by Tom Brown and Lisa Shumaker)

SOURCE : http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/offbeat/16280393/florida-man-feared-dead-after-sinkhole-swallows-him/

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P Diddy X Factor plea

P DIDDY has issued a footballer-style “Come and get me” plea to SIMON COWELL, who is short of a few X Factor judges.

BRITNEY SPEARS has been given the boot from the US version and TULISA has been handed her marching orders by ITV.
So Diddy is chancing his arm by winding Simon up as a tactic to land a judging gig on the show.
When asked by a US TV show if he’d fancy a job on the panel the multi-millionaire rap mogul said: “Simon’s pockets are kind of tight and I have these six kids to feed so he needs to step up.”
If he gives Diddy the job Simon will have to up the hygiene levels on the judging desks.
When the rapper, real name Sean Combs, visited Bizarre for a webchat a while back he had an assistant douse antibacterial spray on a computer keyboard before he would touch it.
GARY BARLOW and Diddy together? That would make for entertaining awkward handshakes.

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Rihanna UNLOCKED Campaign

Our Work: Rihanna

Island Def Jam and Rihanna’s management company, Roc Nation, commissioned AgencyNet, an innovation-focused digital creative agency, to create the Rihanna: UNLOCKED campaign. The idea for UNLOCKED was born out of Rihanna’s desire to thank her massive global fan base (aka The Navy) and allow them to drive her TALK THAT TALK album roll out.Pushing musical and digital boundaries, the Rihanna: UNLOCKED campaign is designed as a thank you to her tens of millions of fans worldwide, aka the #RihannaNavy, who are in the driver’s seat with the power to unlock exclusives from Rihanna’s new album.

Rihanna: UNLOCKED lives an an interactive, gamified experience on her Facebook profile, and the Navy is tasked to work in combination with fans

around the world on multiple “missions” to unlock the exclusives. 

SOURCE : http://awards.agencynet.com/pdfs/Rihanna_Award_Entry_Submission.pdf

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