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NASHVILLE, Tenn. ? Taylor Swift turned a negative into a positive, and it has netted her a special nomination at this year's Country Music Association Awards.
Swift received her first CMA song of the year nomination for "Mean," her spunky rebuttal to cynical criticism. That trophy goes to the writer, not the artist, and is among Wednesday night's most coveted awards in a town where the songwriter is celebrated and revered.
"Respectfully, it's about time," said Scott Borchetta, head of Swift's label, Big Machine Records. "I don't think she gets near the props she deserves for her songwriting. I've been in the business with Taylor for almost seven years now and her songs were great when I met her at 14."
Swift has gotten her share of love for her songwriting. She won a Grammy for best country song in 2010. Nashville Songwriters Association International has named her songwriter/artist of the year four of the last five years ? and at 21 she remains the youngest winner of that award. And BMI, the performing rights organization, has awarded her all-genre song of the year once and country song of the year three times.
She's won a trunk full of CMA trophies, including top award entertainer of the year in 2009. But she's never broken through in that songwriting category.
"Mean," a retort to nit-pickers, bullies and perhaps curmudgeonly commentator Bob Lefsetz, was hard to resist. It shows Swift at her best. It's both vulnerable and confident, with an infectious chorus, an upbeat, empowering message and among her most countrified instrumentation built around Swift's six-string banjo line.
The song went to No. 1 on the country and adult contemporary charts.
"Getting a CMA nomination for `Mean' was definitely a jumping-up-and-down moment for me because this song is really close to my heart," Swift said in a statement to The Associated Press. "I'm so thrilled it was nominated for song of the year because it's a song that I wrote on a really, really bad day, but it has produced so many happy days for me since."
With more to come perhaps. Brad Paisley, a six-time nominee in the category, believes Swift has been unfairly overlooked as a songwriter among the industry voters who make up the CMA. He points out that most of the voters are in their 30s and 40s, and older. This year's nomination could be a breakthrough.
"There's no 18-year-old in the world that you talk to who doesn't relate to some of her lyrics," Paisley said. "And in that sense, though, she's laughing all the way to the bank as the voters might be saying, `Well, you know, that's not for me.' That's not fair. In some ways it's even more groundbreaking what she's done. I'm proud of what she's done."
Other nominees in the category are Zac Brown, Coy Boyles, Wyatt Durette and Levi Lowry for Zac Brown Band's "Colder Weather," Kimberly Perry for The Band Perry's "If I Die Young," Brantley Gilbert and Colt Ford for Jason Aldean's "Dirt Road Anthem" and Deana Carter and Matraca Berg for Kenny Chesney's "You and Tequila." The field can be considered wide open with Berg the only previous winner, in 1997, as co-writer of "Strawberry Wine."
Swift might not win, of course. But like the song points out, she's already a winner.
"She's just been on an amazing streak," Borchetta said. "Whatever her surroundings, wherever she happened to be, this is what she saw. And (the songs) are very sophisticated. They're very catchy. She's a brilliant songwriter and if you ask any of the other artists who are hip to her, they know. So I'm thrilled the CMA has acknowledged her."
The CMA Awards air Wednesday on ABC (8 p.m. EST).
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According to?Sony?s PlayStation director of hardware marketing in a recent interview, approximately 63 percent of PlayStation 3 owners said they would purchase the Vita once released next year. In addition, 60 percent of?PlayStation Portable owners plan on purchasing the Vita before August 2013. However, no clarification was offered on how these figures were obtained. It?s possible that respondents were derived from registered users on an internal PlayStation service rather than polling a more diverse set of consumers. With the PS3 install base approximately 52 million as of September 2011, this data would indicate that Sony stands to sell?approximately?33 million Vitas in the first year.?
Sony is also launching a first edition bundle for $350 that includes a 4GB memory card, a travel case, a game called Little Deviants and the 3G model of the device. Beyond the extras, customers that preorder the bundle will be able to pick up the Vita a week before any consumer that only preorders the standalone Vita. Sony expects Vita owners will use the handheld device for reasons beyond gaming which includes updates to social networks such as Facebook or Twitter and consuming media such as movies or music. However, Sony currently estimates that there are over 100 Vita titles currently under development between both first and third party sources.?
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Travelers wait to board Amtrak's Northeast Regional train to Boston at Union Station in Washington earlier this year. On November 1, Amtrak is initiating new rules for unaccompanied minors.
By Harriet Baskas, msnbc.com contributor
If your child will be traveling alone via Amtrak, check the rules. Starting Nov. 1, Amtrak rolls out new rules that, among other things, increase the minimum age of unaccompanied minors to 13, up from 8.
Previously, children age 8 through 14 could travel alone on Amtrak trains. Now, children 12 and under may only travel with another person who is at least 18 years old.
Children between the ages of 13 and 15 may travel unaccompanied under a revised and streamlined set of rules.
?This is not in response to any incidents,? Jeff Snowden, Amtrak senior director of service delivery, said in a statement, but ?... out of an abundance of concern for the comfort and safety of all our travelers.?
Under the old rules, children traveling as unaccompanied minors were issued wristbands that had to be worn for the duration of their trip. The new rules lift that requirement, in part because those wristbands too easily identified a traveler?s age. ?Also, if a specific train station ran out of wristbands we?d have to deny travel to that child because of no fault of their own,? said Amtrak spokesperson Marc Magliari. He?called the new set of rules ?more customer friendly.?
Previously, an adult bringing a child to the station had to sign a release form and remain at the station until the train departed. Those requirements are no longer part of the official policy. However, as before, a child traveling as an unaccompanied minor will be interviewed by station personnel, who will determine if the child is capable of traveling alone.
According to Magliari, about 35,000 trips are made on Amtrak each year using the unaccompanied minor ticket code. Total ridership for all children on Amtrak in FY11 (Oct. 2010-Sept. 2011) was more than 1.1 million.
Click here to read Amtrak?s policy for unaccompanied minors.
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It was rare, rare for the last week or so anyway, good news out of Europe that sent stocks rallying Thursday, including a final push in the last hour of trading that had stocks ending near their highs for the days.
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