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Sony Unveils Mobile Rent Wallpaper and Charity Donation Program: “Fans of the long-running Broadway show can download their favorite RENT characters to their mobile phone while, at the same time, be donating money to worthy charities. For each of the eight main characters, Roger, Mimi, Mark, Collins, Angel, Benny, Joanne and Maureen, a mobile wallpaper has been created and is available to Cingular and Sprint subscribers by sending a text message of ‘RENT’ to 4SONY (4-7669) from a mobile phone. Each wallpaper will cost $2.50. A portion of all proceeds collected from the sale of these wallpapers will be donated to the following three charities:

The National Marfan Foundation, The Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids Foundation.”

Lacombe Globe, Lacombe, AB: “Lacombe Globe — One of Lacombe’s largest golf tournaments isn’t just about competition, it’s about improving people�s lives.”

“For Tavener, the obsession grew out of his own medical history. He has Marfan syndrome, a complicated heart condition, and it was while undergoing investigative surgery that he encountered the work of heart-imaging specialist Philip Kilner. Tavener was entranced by the scans Kilner showed him: “The pumping of the heart’s chambers and the movement of the blood around the arteries - it looked beautiful to me, like a dance.”

The images made him think about an old score, Laila, that he had begun writing a few years ago, but abandoned as unworkable. It was a dramatic choral work, based on a Sufi love poem.”