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Last.fm Shoots Down Rumors Over U2 Album Leak
nandemoari writes "Internet radio site Last.fm has denied reports that it told the record industry which of its members had listened to a leaked U2 album. The site claims the entire story, published by Techcrunch, was made up.
Last week the record industry became extremely concerned after U2's forthcoming album appeared on several torrent file sharing sites. While there is no way any users could have acquired the album through Last.fm, the site's statistics suggest that more than 8,000 users have played the unreleased album on their machines."
God has called me to tell the story you are about to read. It was
excruciating for me to relive it as I wrote the words. But, I knew
that it was God's Will for me to follow through. I believe, at some
point, it will be my son's story to tell, but until he's ready to do
so, I'll tell it. It is my prayer that this story will plant a
spiritual seed in the hearts of many and set them on the path to
discovering just how magnificent God's power and glory really is. My
story spans many pages, but please read every word of it, even if you
feel that some of the content is irrelevant to your life. Since it
was God's Will for me to write this, I have to believe that His Holy
Spirit is within these pages. And, where His Holy Spirit is,
blessings, too, will be.
In my mind, I had always pictured that if anything ever happened to
one of my children, I would just start screaming and never stop. On
April 17th, 2005, at about 9:30 a.m., in a hotel room in Dallas,
Texas, I was awakened from a dead sleep by my husband's frantic words
that I will never forget as long as I live: "TAMMY, SOMETHING'S
HAPPENED TO BRANDIN!" Brandin, my son who was 16 years old at that
time, had been critically injured.
In the midst of my hysteria, I gathered what little information there
was at the moment from Brandin's very distraught Grandmother. He had
been involved in a rollover accident and had been ejected from the
vehicle. She only knew that he was critically injured and that he was
being airlifted at that moment to Everett Tower, a Severe Trauma
hospital in Oklahoma City.
There is no description for the torment I felt on that 3-hour trip
from Dallas to Oklahoma City. My prayer is that no mother ever has to
be in a position to ask God to please forgive any sins her son may
have committed if he should die without getting the chance to ask
himself. I went back and forth between that and begging God to save
his life, and the hysteria continued. My worst fear was that he would
die with no one there who loves him. Thank God my sister and
stepmother lived in Norman, OK, so they were able to get to Everett
Tower shortly after he arrived and give me updates until I could get
there.
I knew before I walked in the hospital that Brandin had suffered a
severe blow to the head and that he had considerable damage to his
face and brain. But, nothing on earth could have prepared me for
walking in that ER and seeing my baby.... broken... lying there
lifeless. He appeared to have gauze packed in the right side of his
head where the impact occurred. I add such a gruesome detail not to
exploit Brandin's injuries but to help you, the audience, to
understand the severity of his condition. Words cannot describe the
sheer terror I felt. I just knew I'd lost him.
His list of injuries was extensive. He had crushed almost every bone
in the right side of his face except his lower jaw. They were
concerned that he could lose the use of his right eye. He had
bleeding at the base of his brain. The impact had shifted his brain
to the left side of his skull. But, of the most concern was the fact
that his right carotid artery, where it branches and goes inside the
skull to feed the right side of the brain, was completely occluded
(blocked). That, combined with all the other trauma, put him at a
very high risk for stroke. Brandin was in a drug-induced coma in an
effort to allow his brain every opportunity to heal. He would need
reconstruction on the right side of his face, but that was secondary
to the brain injury and would have to wait until his brain had healed
enough to withstand a surgery.
The paramedics had placed a device known as a "bolt" in his head,
which measured the pressure in the brain. It was measured by a
number, and if that number climbed too high,... Well, I don't know what
would have happened because I never had to find out, thank God.
Once the medical team felt that Bra
Is it just my observation, or is eldavojohn an idiot?
Who cares about U2 anyway!?!? Seriously, I hope they only have 8,000 listeners in the whole world but even then that's too many.
Why?
You see U2 sued the living bejesus out of the band Negativland over some utterly silly shit and U2 denied it for the longest time but then a few years ago U2 got caught in a lie. The link is to a conference in which one of Negativland's members happens to find the very person who gave a copy of their album to U2, a manager for REM. Yeah, lie to us some more Bono.