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"          Hoda Kotb Hoda Kotb is the co-host of the fourth hour of NBC&amp;#039;s Today. She began hosting the 10 a.m. hour when it debuted in September 2007, and she currently hosts alongside Kathie Lee Gifford. Kotb has also been a Dateline NBC correspondent since April 1998, and she is a New York Times Bestselling author for her book Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer and Kathie Lee. Since Gifford and Kotb teamed up, the fourth hour of Today has been hailed as &amp;quot;appointment television&amp;quot; by Entertainment Weekly, and &amp;quot;Today&amp;#039;s happy hour&amp;quot; by USA Today. In 2010, the Today show received the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Morning Progam. Kotb has covered a wide variety of domestic and international stories across all NBC News platforms as well as numerous human-interest stories and features. She covered in-depth, the aftermath and one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. She has reported on the war in Iraq, the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, the War on Terror in Afghanistan and traveled to Southeast Asia to cover the devastating effects of the 2004 Tsunami. Kotb conducted an exclusive interview with Aung San Suu Kyi, an internationally recognized leader of Burma, marking the first time in 11 years that Suu Kyi was interviewed by an American television network. Kotb also co-anchored an MSNBC special on race, &amp;quot;Shades of Hope\u2026Shadows of Hate,&amp;quot; which was reported from Birmingham, Ala. at the former site of a Klan bombing. From 2004 to 2008, she served as the host of the weekly syndicated series &amp;quot;Your Total Health.&amp;quot; Kotb is a three-year breast cancer survivor and has been a part of several initiatives to raise awareness about the disease. Diagnosed in March 2007, she shared her story on Today in October 2007. Kotb has received numerous awards including the 2008 Gracie Award for Individual Achievement, the 2008 Alfred I. duPont\u2013Columbia University award and the prestigious Peabody in 2006 for her Dateline NBC report &amp;quot;The Education of Ms. Groves.&amp;quot; The four-time Emmy nominee also won the 2004 Headliner Award, the 2003 Gracie Award and the 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award.  [More]    S. Epatha Merkerson An Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG and NAACP Award winner, S. Epatha Merkerson has won critical acclaim for her brilliant work in theatre, film and television. Merkerson can currently be seen hosting TV One&amp;#039;s FIND OUR MISSING, which draws attention to missing Black Americans whose stories are largely ignored in national media coverage. She makes her directing debut with her documentary, THE CONTRADICTIONS OF FAIR HOPE, and also serves as Executive Producer. The film explores the benevolent societies that formed in the South after the Civil War and helped emancipated slaves adapt to their newfound freedom. The film recently won four awards at the San Diego Black Film Festival, including the &amp;quot;Filmmakers Choice Award,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Best Documentary,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Best Film&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Best Director&amp;quot; for Epatha and her co-director, Rockell Metcalf. Merkerson will next appear on the big screen in Steven Spielberg&amp;#039;s LINCOLN, set for release in December 2012 and in WE THE PEEPLES, produced by Tyler Perry and set for release March 2013.  Merkerson&amp;#039;s first television work was on PEE WEE&amp;#039;S PLAYHOUSE, followed by guest appearances on THE COSBY SHOW and FRASIER, as well as numerous TV films, before landing the role of Lieutenant Anita Van Buren on NBC&amp;#039;s LAW &amp;amp;amp; ORDER. In sixteen years on the show, she earned 9 SAG Award nominations as a member of the ensemble cast and 10 NAACP Image Award nominations for &amp;quot;Outstanding Supporting Actress,&amp;quot; winning three. She appeared in more episodes than any other cast member during the series&amp;#039; run and holds the distinction of being the longest-running African-American character on a primetime television series. In 2006, for starring in George C. Wolfe&amp;#039;s LACKAWANNA BLUES for HBO Films, Epatha won the Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, NAACP Image Award, Gracie Allen Award and earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination.  Additional film credits include: RADIO, JERSEY GIRL, RANDOM HEARTS, TERMINATOR II: JUDGEMENT DAY, JACOB&amp;#039;S LADDER, NAVY SEALS, LOOSE CANNONS, BLACK SNAKE MOAN, SLIPSTREAM and MOTHER AND CHILD. On Broadway, Merkerson starred in COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA and earned nominations for the Tony, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Additional stage credits include Suzan Lori-Parks&amp;#039; F**KING A (Lucille Lortel nomination); August Wilson&amp;#039;s PIANO LESSON (Tony, Drama Desk and Helen Hayes nominations); the Young Playwrights Festival&amp;#039;s production of I&amp;#039;M NOT STUPID (Obie Award); THE OLD SETTLER (Helen Hayes Award), and Cheryl West&amp;#039;s BIRDIE BLUE (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel nomination and Drama League Distinguished Performance Award). Merkerson is a longtime supporter of the American Lung Association, whose mission is to save lives by preventing lung disease and promoting lung health. She is a graduate of Wayne State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in May 2009. S. Epatha Merkerson suffers from high blood pressure and since 2007 has been the face of Coricidin\u00AE HBP, cold medicine for people with high blood pressure.  [More]    Mehmet Oz, MD Dr. Oz, two-time Daytime Emmy Award-winning host of the Daytime Emmy Award-winning &amp;quot;The Dr. Oz Show,&amp;quot; is Vice-Chair and Professor of Surgery at Columbia University. He directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital. His research interests include heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, complementary medicine and health care policy. He has authored over 400 original publications, book chapters, and medical books, has received several patents, and performs more than 100 heart surgeries per year. Previously, Dr. Oz was a featured health expert on &amp;quot;The Oprah Winfrey Show&amp;quot; for over five seasons, spanning 55 episodes. He has also served as chief medical consultant to Discovery Communications, where his &amp;quot;Transplant!&amp;quot; series won both a Freddie and a Silver Telly award. In addition to numerous appearances on &amp;quot;Good Morning America,&amp;quot; he has also appeared on the &amp;quot;Today&amp;quot; show, &amp;quot;Larry King Live,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The View,&amp;quot; guest-hosted the &amp;quot;Charlie Rose&amp;quot; show and appeared on all the evening news broadcasts. Dr. Oz authored seven New York Times Best Sellers including &amp;quot;You: The Owner&amp;#039;s Manual&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;You: The Smart Patient&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;YOU: On a Diet&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;YOU: Staying Young&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;YOU: Being Beautiful,&amp;quot; YOU: Having a Baby, YOU: The Owner&amp;#039;s Manual for Teens (published by Free Press on June 7, 2011), as well as the award-winning &amp;quot;Healing from the Heart&amp;quot;. He has a regular column in Esquire magazine, and O, The Oprah Magazine and his article &amp;quot;Retool, Reboot, and Rebuild&amp;quot; was awarded the 2009 National Magazine Award for Personal Service. Dr. Oz is also the host of a daily talk show on Sirius XM Radio&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Oprah Radio&amp;quot; on XM Channel 156 and Sirius Channel 195 (as part of its &amp;quot;Best of XM&amp;quot; package). Dr. Oz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in Delaware and received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University (1982) and obtained a joint MD and MBA (1986) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School. He lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife Lisa of 26 years and their four children, Daphne, Arabella, Zoe and Oliver.  [More]    Regina M. Benjamin MD, MBA United States Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA is the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. As America&amp;#039;s Doctor, she provides the public with the best scientific information available on how to improve their health and the health of the nation. Dr. Benjamin also oversees the operational command of 6,500 uniformed public health officers who serve in locations around the world to promote, and protect the health of the American People. From her early days as the founder of a rural health clinic in Alabama - which she kept in operation despite damage and destruction inflicted by hurricanes Georges (1998) and Katrina (2005) and a devastating fire (2006) - to her leadership role in the worldwide advancement of preventive health care, Dr. Benjamin has forged a career that has been recognized by a broad spectrum of organizations and publications. Dr. Benjamin has a B.S. in chemistry from Xavier University, New Orleans, an M.D. degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an MBA from Tulane University. She attended Morehouse School of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency in Macon, Ga. Dr. Benjamin is the recipient of 15 honorary degrees. Dr. Benjamin is former associate dean for Rural Health at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile and past chair of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States. In 1995, she was the first physician under age 40 and the first African-American woman to be elected to the American Medical Association Board of Trustees. She served as president of the American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation and chair of the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. In 2002, she became the first African-American female president of a state medical society in the United States when she assumed leadership of the Medical Association State of Alabama. Dr. Benjamin is a member of the Institute of Medicine - the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, which was chartered under President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She was chosen as a Kellogg National Fellow and a Rockefeller Next Generation Leader. Past board memberships include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Catholic Health Association, and Morehouse School of Medicine. She was named by Time magazine as one of the &amp;quot;Nation&amp;#039;s 50 Future Leaders Age 40 and Under.&amp;quot; She was featured in the 1995 New York Times article, &amp;quot;Angel in a White Coat;&amp;quot; the December 1999 cover of Clarity magazine; in the 2002 People magazine&amp;#039;s article, &amp;quot;Always on Call;&amp;quot; and was featured on the January 2003 cover of Reader&amp;#039;s Digest as one of the national publication&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Everyday Heroes.&amp;quot; She was also named &amp;quot;Person of the Week&amp;quot; on ABC&amp;#039;s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and &amp;quot;Woman of the Year&amp;#039; by CBS This Morning.  In 1998, Dr. Benjamin was the United States recipient of the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights. She received the 2000 National Caring Award which was inspired by Mother Teresa and was recognized with the Papal honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice from Pope Benedict XVI. In 2008, she was honored with a MacArthur Genius Award Fellowship. In March, Dr. Benjamin became the recipient of the 2011 Chairman&amp;#039;s Award during the worldwide broadcast of the 42nd NAACP Image Awards.  [More]    Star Jones Attorney, author, and television personality, Star Jones can now add &amp;quot;heart disease survivor&amp;quot; to her impressive list of credentials. In March 2010, Star underwent successful open-heart surgery. After undertaking an intensive 3-month cardiac rehabilitation program, Star returned to her regular activities with a new lease on life and a dedication to making heart health her primary philanthropic focus. In 2011, Star was named The American Heart Association&amp;#039;s National Volunteer and has received numerous awards and recognition for her work as a heart-health advocate. Star was seen throughout the 2011 season  of NBC&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Celebrity Apprentice&amp;quot; on behalf of The American Heart Association where she broke previous fundraising records and used this national platform to raise public awareness of the number one killer of women: cardiovascular disease. Star, who&amp;#039;s been a licensed attorney in the state of New York for the last 25 years, and was a Senior Assistant Attorney in Brooklyn before the age of 29, is best known to television viewers as host of ABC&amp;#039;s The View for nine years, as an NBC News Legal Correspondent and now Senior Legal Analyst. Her knowledge of the law and talent for television has won her critical acclaim as a news and legal correspondent, television host and social commentator. Star has also written two best-selling non-fiction books: You Have to Stand for Something, or You&amp;#039;ll Fall for Anything (Bantam) and Shine...a Physical, Emotional &amp;amp;amp; Spiritual Journey to Finding Love (Harper Collins). Star&amp;#039;s third book, Satan&amp;#039;s Sisters, a fictional account of the behind-the-scenes workings of a daytime talk show, was published April 2011 (Gallery) and is being turned into a television series. Star is also the Editor-At-Large of UPTOWN Magazine, the luxury lifestyle publication for affluent African Americans and was recently named the National Spokesperson for the National Association of Professional Women. Star says, &amp;quot;I learned late in life that my health is my greatest asset. For she who has health, has hope. And, she who has hope, has everything.&amp;quot;  [More]    Martha Gulati MD, MS, FACC, FAHA Dr. Martha Gulati is passionate about the study of women and heart disease. She&amp;#039;s the principal investigator of the St. James Women Take Heart Project, a study examining cardiac risk factors in women, which set new standards for women&amp;#039;s fitness levels and heart rate response to exercise in women. She also is a co-investigator on the Women Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) and previously served as a co-investigator on the Women&amp;#039;s Health Initiative (WHI). She is a co-author of the 2007 guidelines published by the American Heart Association for heart disease prevention in women and the  2011 guidelines for exercise standards for testing and training. Dr. Gulati is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Public Health in the Division of Cardiology at The Ohio State University. She is also the Sarah Ross Soter Chair in Women&amp;#039;s Cardiovascular Health and the Section Director for Women&amp;#039;s Cardiovascular Health and Preventive Cardiology at The Ohio State University. She is the author of the recently-released book &amp;quot;Saving Women&amp;#039;s Hearts&amp;quot; (Wiley, 2011). She was previously the associate director of the Center for Women&amp;#039;s Cardiovascular Health at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern University until 2010, where she was the Lawrence E. and Nancy S. Glick Family Distinguished Physician in Women&amp;#039;s Cardiovascular Health. Her exceptional commitment to the study of women and cardiac diseases has won her numerous awards and distinctions, including being named by Crain&amp;#039;s Chicago Business as one of Chicago&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Top 40 under 40,&amp;quot; a list that honors 40 outstanding individuals who have made a major impact in their respective industries before the age of 40. In 2011, she received the first CREDO (Coalition to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cardiovascular Outcomes) Award from the American College of Cardiology that was given to honor her contributions to improve cardiovascular healthcare of women patients). Dr. Gulati completed medical school at the University of Toronto, Canada. She went on to complete her internship, residency, and cardiology fellowship at the University of Chicago. She received a Master in Science at the University of Chicago and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. She is board certified in cardiovascular disease.  [More]    Laura Haywood-Cory Laura Haywood-Cory is a graduate of the WomenHeart Science and Leadership Symposium (a WomenHeart Champion) at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In 2009, she helped enroll women in the largest single-center study of patients who&amp;#039;ve suffered from spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) and heart attack. A devoted advocate for women with heart disease, Laura volunteers at health fairs and other events across the state where she educates women about heart disease risks and prevention. She herself is a heart disease survivor, having suffered SCAD and a heart attack in 2009. She is active on the WomenHeart online support forum and has a blog, A Change of Heart, where she chronicles her post-heart attack life. Laura is a native of North Carolina and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a professional editor with more than a decade of experience and currently works at Baen Books.  [More]    Katherine K. Leon  Katherine K. Leon is a 2009 graduate of the WomenHeart Science and Leadership Symposium at Mayo Clinic. As a WomenHeart Champion, she promotes the improvement of women&amp;#039;s cardiovascular health at events throughout the Washington, D.C. region by encouraging women to take responsibility for their health and to demand the care they deserve from their providers. She is also a woman living with heart disease, having survived a spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) and heart attack. In 2009, she collaborated with Dr. Sharonne Hayes at Mayo Clinic to launch the largest single-center study of SCAD patients, by using social media as a means to recruit participants worldwide. The research will analyze data of more than 200 patients, and is supplemented by a DNA Biobank of up to 400 patients and their family members. Katherine earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Virginia in 1987, and a Master of Science from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, in 1990. After working in corporate public relations for many years, Katherine specialized in employee benefits communications as a consultant for an insurance brokerage firm. This foundation allowed her to eventually branch out on her own as a communication consultant to a variety of clients, including hospitals, health focused non-profits, and technology firms. Today, Katherine lives in Alexandria, Va., with her husband, Marc, and two sons, Ian and Evan. She is a writer, and enjoys supporting youth sports, the literacy program at her sons&amp;#039; elementary school, and tutoring. In addition, she continues to advance SCAD research and to provide support for women affected by the disease.  [More]    Elizabeth Somer, MA, RD Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D., is a registered dietitian who has carved a unique professional niche as one of the few dietitians who is well-versed in nutrition research. For 30 years, she has kept abreast of current studies, packaging that information into easy-to-read books, magazine articles, lectures, continuing education seminars and practical news for the media. She has written or contributed to more than 400 articles for numerous national publications, including Better Homes and Gardens, Cooking Light, Cosmopolitan, First for Women, Woman&amp;#039;s World, Woman&amp;#039;s Day, Fitness, Food &amp;amp;amp; Wine, Men&amp;#039;s Fitness, Prevention,  Real Simple, Redbook, Self, among others. Somer is also a frequent guest on NBC&amp;#039;s Today Show and numerous other local and national broadcast shows. Somer has authored numerous bestselling books, including her new book, Eat Your Way to Sexy; Eat Your Way to Happiness; The 10 Habits That Mess Up a Woman&amp;#039;s Diet; Age-Proof Your Body; Food &amp;amp;amp; Mood; The Food &amp;amp;amp; Mood Cookbook; The Origin Diet; Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy; Nutrition for Women; The Essential Guide to Vitamins and Minerals; and co-authored The Nutrition Desk Reference, which is in its third edition. She lives in Salem, Oregon. For more information about the book and author, please visit her at ElizabethSomer.com.  [More]    Sugarland To hear Jennifer Nettles tell it, it&amp;#039;s a brand new day in Sugarland. Despite winning multiple Grammy, CMA and ACM awards\u2014and selling more than 8 million records\u2014the country-music duo of Nettles and Kristian Bush is embracing a creative rebirth, a musical awakening that permeates their adventurous fourth album, The Incredible Machine. &amp;quot;We are in a place of discovery,&amp;quot; Jennifer says. &amp;quot;It is the essence of who we are as people in this band. There is never a moment where we think, &amp;#039;This is good enough.&amp;#039; There&amp;#039;s always a place for growth.&amp;quot;  A growth that Kristian says has been encouraged by their fans, their record label, and, most importantly, by the genre-bending, all-are-welcome country-music industry. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s as if the industry and the culture have singled out the biggest risks we&amp;#039;ve taken on a record, a song like &amp;#039;Stay&amp;#039; for example, and celebrated those,&amp;quot; he says gratefully. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;ve embraced us at those times. We&amp;#039;ve tried to learn from that and this is what we&amp;#039;ve made.&amp;quot; And what they&amp;#039;ve created is a dynamic masterwork. Co-written and co-produced in full by Jennifer and Kristian, The Incredible Machine is a soaring album elevated by sky-high choruses, ringing guitars, and pulsing drums that recall the beating of the album&amp;#039;s titular engine, the human heart. Kristian describes it as a collection of anthems\u2014and there may be no greater understatement. If the duo was searching for the grander side of country on their last record, the double platinum Love on the Inside, they&amp;#039;ve obviously found it on The Incredible Machine. From the fanfare of the album&amp;#039;s opener &amp;quot;All We Are&amp;quot; to Jennifer&amp;#039;s sublime piano-ballad closer &amp;quot;Shine the Light,&amp;quot; this is an album built for stadiums. &amp;quot;This record is designed to play in very large places and to communicate with a large group of people,&amp;quot; Kristian confirms. &amp;quot;When you have an instrument as powerful and as graceful as Jennifer&amp;#039;s voice, you don&amp;#039;t want to tip-toe in. You really go for it! And those types of songs are often where Jennifer and I intersect musically.&amp;quot; In fact, the pair found shared inspiration in the iconic music and films of the 1980s, their growing-up years. &amp;quot;We allowed ourselves to play with our influences,&amp;quot; Jennifer admits. As such, the coming-of-age movies by director John Hughes and songs by Blondie, Peter Gabriel, The Pretenders and even The Clash all helped fire up the Machine. &amp;quot;When we were writing, we asked what if John Hughes were making movies now.... Who would be on the soundtrack?&amp;quot; Kristian says, going on to connect the dots between rebellious country and rebellious rock. &amp;quot;If you dig far enough you&amp;#039;re going to see that The Clash and Johnny Cash had a lot in common. I like to live right where those guys meet.&amp;quot; In a song like the joyous &amp;quot;Find the Beat Again,&amp;quot; for instance, Jennifer reminds the heavy-hearted among us that nothing lasts forever, while Kristian&amp;#039;s siren-like guitar sound\u2014a technique he adapted from The Clash, he says\u2014pushes the song toward its climax. Or the call-to-arms &amp;quot;Stand Up,&amp;quot; in which the band exhorts listeners to &amp;quot;use your voice.&amp;quot; A tale of personal empowerment, the track is almost heroic in its message. It&amp;#039;s also one of two songs on the album to showcase Kristian&amp;#039;s voice. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know how many people have really ever heard me sing before,&amp;quot; he says of his lead verse. &amp;quot;For fans of the band, it&amp;#039;s like a whole new layer is peeled back.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;All We Are&amp;quot; is equally triumphant. A rallying cry of sorts, it culminates in a mass of melodies folding upon one another. The result is breathtaking, a musical equation so intricate that it solidifies the duo&amp;#039;s ability to write complex fare as well as breezy, winking tunes like first single &amp;quot;Stuck like Glue.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;We write songs for different reasons. There are some songs that we want to change your life and there are some that we just want to change your day. That&amp;#039;s what &amp;#039;Stuck like Glue&amp;#039; is,&amp;quot; Jennifer laughs. &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t take ourselves too seriously, and that&amp;#039;s what fans love.&amp;quot; They also flock to Jennifer&amp;#039;s knack for finding the voice of everywoman\u2014or even everyman. One of Sugarland&amp;#039;s many gifts is their ability to write lyrics that transcend gender, like in their 2004 breakout hit &amp;quot;Baby Girl.&amp;quot; On The Incredible Machine, the proof is in the acoustic &amp;quot;Little Miss,&amp;quot; a profile of a woman who tries to handle everything, all by herself. &amp;quot;I saw my mom as that person. I see pieces of it in my own daughter. Jennifer is certainly one of those women,&amp;quot; Kristian says. Aside from the powerhouse rocker &amp;quot;Wide Open,&amp;quot; written specifically for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, &amp;quot;Little Miss&amp;quot; is one of the record&amp;#039;s earliest penned tracks. &amp;quot;We were at a festival over a year ago and I was on the bus doing my makeup while Kristian was warming up,&amp;quot; recalls Jennifer. &amp;quot;I was wearing a checkered dress and he started playing this lick and singing, &amp;#039;Little Miss checkered dress.&amp;#039; I popped my head out and sang, &amp;#039;Little Miss one big mess!&amp;#039; The way that song was discovered was fun and really beautiful.&amp;quot; And the band is confident that fans, old and new alike, will have a similar experience as they discover the gears and cogs of The Incredible Machine\u2014a country record, a pop record, an anthem record, a ballad record, but above all, an authentic record. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s just the two of us,&amp;quot; says Kristian. &amp;quot;In the story of who we are, this album is more us than we&amp;#039;ve ever been.&amp;quot; Jennifer agrees and says the band&amp;#039;s rebirth is best summed up in the gentle, searching words of the album&amp;#039;s title track: Feels like I&amp;#039;m flying, wings made of light/brand new and shinin&amp;#039;, like a shot rung out through the night.  &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s a wonderful metaphor and image for this newly emerging creature that Sugarland is right now, with these vulnerable but beautiful wings. The Incredible Machine is definitely us, but at the same time, there is something very precious and new,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;And we want to show it to the world!&amp;quot;  [More]    Javier Colon Javier Colon captivated America as the winner of the inaugural season of NBC&amp;#039;s hit television program, The Voice. His original song &amp;quot;Stitch By Stitch&amp;quot; not only clenched the top prize on The Voice for Colon, but also became something of a phenomenon. During its first week, the song exceeded sales of 145,000 and reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Colon has performed on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno, The TODAY Show and Christmas at Rockefeller Center. His new album, Come Through For You, features guest appearances from Natasha Bedingfield and Adam Levine.    Naturally 7 Naturally 7 have a distinct a cappella style they call &amp;quot;vocal play&amp;quot;. With the unique ability to blend their rich harmonies and replicate the sound of instruments, Naturally 7 have gone from quiet success in Europe to the world stage! Their music incorporates a range of styles from R&amp;amp;amp;B to pop, gospel to jazz. The groundbreaking &amp;quot;Ready II Fly&amp;quot; CD featuring the now famous Paris subway YouTube hit, &amp;quot;Feel It (In the Air Tonight)&amp;quot; led to the much-coveted opening slot for Michael Bubl\u00E9 for the past 3 years. They have been invited to perform at the prestigious Royal Variety Performance, the TED conference, BET Honours and at  the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Week celebrations. The group has released 6 CDs and appeared on Ellen, the Today Show and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.  [More]      Dj Mia Moretti and violinist Caitlin Moe DJ Mia Moretti and violinist Caitlin Moe met while both performing at the same club in the Lower East Side two years ago. Their act, honed from Moretti&amp;#039;s roots DJing in LA and then New York clubs and Moe&amp;#039;s classical violin training, has taken them from the runways of New York Fashion Week to opening for Janet Jackson at the Louvre. Together, Moretti and Moe were named Paper Magazine&amp;#039;s DJ of the Year and have played at Chelsea Clinton&amp;#039;s Wedding, Chopard&amp;#039;s 150th Anniversary Party and Perez Hilton&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;One Night in Austin.&amp;quot; The two have just completed their debut track &amp;quot;So Beautiful,&amp;quot; (production by Moretti; vocals by Moe) on iTunes now.                                               6 Heart-Healthy Pasta Dishes    10 Tasty Heart-Healthy Recipes    6 Heart-Healthy Seafood Recipes    30 Heart-Healthy Comfort Foods    4 Heart-Healthy Salmon Recipes "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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