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The following summarizes efforts and a grant that seek reduce racial health care disparities.
Albany, N.Y.: The Albany Times Union on Aug. 23 profiled the Rev. Oscar McLaughlin, a local pastor and a chaplain at Hudson Correctional Facility and a local arranger for the national HIV/AIDS advocacy group The Balm in Gilead. McLaughlin, motivated by the high HIV/AIDS rates in the black community, organized a committee at his church that seeks to educate its members on HIV/AIDS and held its first wellness fair this summer, where 14 mass were tried (Albany Times Union, 8/23).
North Carolina: The North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund over the adjacent three long time will prize $7.5 million in grants to agencies and initiatives that seek to reduce health disparities between black and white residents, the Winston-Salem Chronicle reports. The trust fund last week began to live with applications from eligible organizations that have documented have and success in developing and implementing services to reduce health disparities. Funds also are available for programs that aim to increase cultural competency among local health care providers and ameliorate quality of services provided to minorities. Proposals and other application materials ar available on the group's Web website and all applications must be received by Oct. 1 (Winston-Salem Chronicle, 8/27).
Pittsburgh: Five women in the U.S. each have received a $5,000 Cheerios Sisters Saving Hearts grant from the Congressional Black Caucus and Cheerios for raising heart disease knowingness among blacks, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8/28). The initiative recognizes individuals for their sentience efforts in the pitch-black community. Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the U.S., and black women ar disproportionately affected by the disease (Cheerios Sisters Saving Hearts Web site).
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Tuesday 9 September 2008
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Damon Albarn: 'Children Should Be Forced To Read Music'
Former Blur frontman Damon Albarn says children interested in medicine should be �forced� to learn how to take it.
"If you don't study to say music, and so there's a whole custom that becomes very exclusive and shouldn't be," Albarn told a BBC magazine.
His comments fall in reception to a report that suggested children could obtain an A-grade in GCSE music without knowing staff notation.
"The estimate of it being completely absent from the to the highest degree important exams of your childhood is disgraceful," Albarn, who of late staged his Opera, Monkey, at the Royal Opera House in London, said.
"I used to write for small orchestras when I was 15. I sold my soulfulness to the devil and became a pop star and forgot about it, but in the past few years I give got support into orchestration after an almost 20-year hiatus.
�I'm so slow now, and if I'd just kept it [up]. I think anyone interested in music should be forced to watch that discipline.�
Teachers have argued that staff notation is less crucial for the increasing number of children who ar keen to learn less traditional instruments.
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Sunday 10 August 2008
AICR Reminds Mothers Of Additional Breastfeeding Benefit: Cancer Protection
� As World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7) draws to a close, the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) urges new mothers to consider one more benefit to breastfeeding their babies: added cancer protection for mother and child.
"AICR is the first cancer organization to issue an official recommendation advocating breastfeeding in order to lessening risk of developing cancer," said AICR Nutritionist Sarah Wally, MS RD.
Based on evidence collected in AICR's landmark expert report, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective, women ar advised to breastfeed exclusively for up to 6 months and then add other liquids and foods as capture.
Research Reveals Protective Benefits
The evidence examined by AICR's international panel of experts showed, convincingly, that breastfeeding protects women against both pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer. The enquiry also finds that breastfeeding probably decreases the likelihood that a child will be corpulence (at least during the early long time of childhood).
Protection from weight gain is of particular importance, as childhood overweight tends to uphold into adulthood, where overabundance body fat is tight linked to cancer development.
According to experts, hormonal changes in a woman's body and physical changes in breast tissue cells are likely responsible for the added protection seen in mothers. Infants' benefits are gained from the chemical paper of breast milk as well as the advancement of self-regulated feeding that is a natural part of the breastfeeding process.
AICR is proud to stand with other national and international health organizations this hebdomad, including UNICEF, WHO and the American Academy of Pediatrics, in celebrating the benefits - both physical and emotional - that are gained through breastfeeding.
AICR as well acknowledges that some women are not able or may prefer not to breastfeed. These women can benefit from other lifestyle changes that the comprehensive AICR report found to be protective, among them: increased physical activity, minimum consumption of alcohol (if any at all), and maintaining a healthy weightiness.
Free Brochure Offers Research-Based Advice to New Mothers
In observation of World Breastfeeding Week, AICR is offer it's modish free leaflet, What You Should Know About Breastfeeding . The 12-page brochure summarizes AICR's recommendation regarding undivided breastfeeding and cancer prevention, explains the science behindhand the passport in clear up, concise language and provides frequently asked questions on common breastfeeding concerns.
The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) is the cancer charity that fosters research on the relationship of nutrition, physical activeness and weighting management to cancer risk, interprets the scientific literature and educates the world about the results. It has contributed more than $86 gazillion for advanced research conducted at universities, hospitals and research centers across the country. AICR has published two landmark reports that interpret the accumulated research in the field, and is attached to a process of continuous reexamination. AICR besides provides a wide range of educational programs to help millions of Americans learn to make dietary changes for lower cancer risk. Its award-winning New American Plate program is presented in brochures, seminars and on its site, http://www.aicr.org. AICR is a member of the World Cancer Research Fund International.
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"AICR is the first cancer organization to issue an official recommendation advocating breastfeeding in order to lessening risk of developing cancer," said AICR Nutritionist Sarah Wally, MS RD.
Based on evidence collected in AICR's landmark expert report, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective, women ar advised to breastfeed exclusively for up to 6 months and then add other liquids and foods as capture.
Research Reveals Protective Benefits
The evidence examined by AICR's international panel of experts showed, convincingly, that breastfeeding protects women against both pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer. The enquiry also finds that breastfeeding probably decreases the likelihood that a child will be corpulence (at least during the early long time of childhood).
Protection from weight gain is of particular importance, as childhood overweight tends to uphold into adulthood, where overabundance body fat is tight linked to cancer development.
According to experts, hormonal changes in a woman's body and physical changes in breast tissue cells are likely responsible for the added protection seen in mothers. Infants' benefits are gained from the chemical paper of breast milk as well as the advancement of self-regulated feeding that is a natural part of the breastfeeding process.
AICR is proud to stand with other national and international health organizations this hebdomad, including UNICEF, WHO and the American Academy of Pediatrics, in celebrating the benefits - both physical and emotional - that are gained through breastfeeding.
AICR as well acknowledges that some women are not able or may prefer not to breastfeed. These women can benefit from other lifestyle changes that the comprehensive AICR report found to be protective, among them: increased physical activity, minimum consumption of alcohol (if any at all), and maintaining a healthy weightiness.
Free Brochure Offers Research-Based Advice to New Mothers
In observation of World Breastfeeding Week, AICR is offer it's modish free leaflet, What You Should Know About Breastfeeding . The 12-page brochure summarizes AICR's recommendation regarding undivided breastfeeding and cancer prevention, explains the science behindhand the passport in clear up, concise language and provides frequently asked questions on common breastfeeding concerns.
The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) is the cancer charity that fosters research on the relationship of nutrition, physical activeness and weighting management to cancer risk, interprets the scientific literature and educates the world about the results. It has contributed more than $86 gazillion for advanced research conducted at universities, hospitals and research centers across the country. AICR has published two landmark reports that interpret the accumulated research in the field, and is attached to a process of continuous reexamination. AICR besides provides a wide range of educational programs to help millions of Americans learn to make dietary changes for lower cancer risk. Its award-winning New American Plate program is presented in brochures, seminars and on its site, http://www.aicr.org. AICR is a member of the World Cancer Research Fund International.
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
Stephanie Tanner Signs Forearm -- How Not Rude!
Of all the cast members of "Full House," why would the crazy autograph tattoo lady chose Jodie Sweetin's John Hancock to get permanently inked into her forearm?
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Thursday 26 June 2008
Good Vibrations: Brian Wilson joins Newport lineup
NEWPORT, R.I. —
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The Newport Folk Festival is picking up good vibrations.
The festival producers plan to announce Monday that Brian Wilson, a founding member of the Beach Boys, is joining the festival's lineup. He'll headline an evening performance on Aug. 1 at the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
The festival continues Aug. 2-3 at Fort Adams State Park.
Wilson is the latest big-name act added to the festival, which already includes Jimmy Buffett, Trey Anastasio, the Black Crowes and reggae artists Stephen and Damian Marley.
The festival is under new management and has branched out beyond more traditional folk this year. Organizers are hoping their roster of popular performers can produce a sellout.
The festival marks its 50th anniversary next summer.
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Sebastien Tellier - Mr Oizo - Sebastian
Artist: Sebastien Tellier - Mr Oizo - Sebastian
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Discography:
Music From The Motion Picture Steak
Year: 2007
Tracks: 21
Paulie Walnuts
Wednesday 25 June 2008
IC REX
Artist: IC REX
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Sielun Kadotuksen Sinfonia
Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
Elakelaiset
Bill Conti
Artist: Bill Conti
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
New Age
Instrumental
Discography:
The Thomas Crown Affair
Year: 1999
Tracks: 32
Blood In Blood Out
Year: 1993
Tracks: 22
The Big Blue (aka Le Grand Bleu)
Year: 1988
Tracks: 22
Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets
Year: 1984
Tracks: 5
Escape To Victory
Year: 1981
Tracks: 11
Rocky 1
Year: 1976
Tracks: 13
A fecund composer of film and idiot box music, Bill Conti remains nigh intimately associated with his work on the successful Jolting films. Born April 13, 1942 in Providence, Rhode Island, he conditioned piano from his father of the Church, and later took up the bassoon. While perusal composition at Louisiana State University, Conti also performed with the school's symphonic music orchestra, disbursal his evenings acting jazz in area clubs; he afterwards earned his Master's academic degree from Julliard earlier relocating to Italy in 1967. There he first stony-broke into films, composing and transcription music for productions including Juliette de Sade and Candidate Per un Assassino. In 1971 Conti scored Vittorio de Sica's Oscar-winning Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, delivery his euphony to the attention of international audiences; he subsequently returned to the U.S., where he composed the soundtracks for features including 1973's Blume in Love and 1974's Harry and Tonto.
Conti shot to fame in 1976 with his score for Rocky; the soundtrack album went platinum, and the main theme, "Gonna Fly Now," topped the U.S. pop charts. Conti and asterisk Sylvester Stallone subsequently reunited for chapters 2, trey and five-spot in the Rough series, as intimately as 1978's F.I.S.T. and Eden Alley; in 1981 he scored the James Bond feature For Your Eyes Only, marking a Top Five reach with the claim rails, song by Sheena Easton. After two premature nominations, Conti south Korean won an Oscar in 1983 for his exercise on The Right Stuff; at around the same fourth dimension he became a fecund composer of televison themes, writing music for serial including Dallas, Falcon Crest, Cagney and Lacey and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. He too served as musical director for a number of Academy Awards telecasts, taking an Emmy for his work on the 1992 ceremony.
Amorphis
Artist: Amorphis
Genre(s):
Rock
Metal: Death,Black
Rock: Hard-Rock
Rock: Folk-Rock
Metal: Doom
Metal: Progressive
Metal: Gothic
Discography:
Silent Waters
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Eclipse
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Elegy (Reissue)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Far From The Sun
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Chapters
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Am Universum
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Alone
Year: 2001
Tracks: 3
Story - 10th Anniversary
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
Tuonela
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Isle Of Joy (bootleg)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
The Karelian Istmus
Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
My Kantele
Year: 1997
Tracks: 5
Black Winter Day (EP)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 5
Tales From The Thousand Lakes
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
The Karelian Isthmus
Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Privilege of Evil
Year: 1991
Tracks: 6
Lead guitar player Esa Holopainen and drummer Jan Rechberger formed the band Amorphis in Finland in 1990. To complete their lineup they recruited vocalist/guitarist Tomi Koivusaari and bassist Olli-Pekka Laine. They released a demo in 1991 called Disment of Soul. The demo was so successful in acquiring attention for the mathematical group that they had acquired a record take and released an EP the same yr. They next released their first full-length album, The Karelian Isthmus, in 1992. The next yr, their early demonstration recording sitting was released as Privilege of Evil. 1994 byword the chemical group sending out their next CD, Tales From the Thousand Lakes. In 1994, Kim Rantala linked the band on keyboards, beingness integrated as a member of a lot rather than the side instrumentalist he was replacing. An EP entitled Black Winter Day was released the next yr. Their next album was Elegy. This saucer showcased a newfangled six-member card, completed by Pasi Koskinen as their indorsement singer. The lineup at this point also included unexampled drummer Pekka Kasari. In 1997 they released My Kantele. In 1998, Rantala left hand the chemical group, beingness replaced by Santeri Kallio. The grouping released Tuonela with that lineup in 1999.
John Wetton
Artist: John Wetton
Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Discography:
Amata
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Agenda
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Rock Of Faith
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
More Than Conquerors
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Sub Rosa: Live in Milan 1998
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Arkangel
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Live: Chasing the Dragon
Year: 1995
Tracks: 15
Battle Lines
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
King's Road, 1972-1980
Year: 1992
Tracks: 1
Caught in the Crossfire
Year: 1980
Tracks: 12
John Wetton has had one of the most wide-ranging careers in progressive rock. He has played in the absolute majority of the swelled name calling in prog, in many cases in their classic lineups. His low gear major band experience came when he united Family in 1971. He was featured on two of their albums: 1971's Fearless and Outdoor stage (released the following year). He performed respective functions in the chemical group, merely his master purpose was as bassist. Previous to this group he had recorded with Edward's Hand and Mogul Thrash. He left Family to join Robert Fripp and company in King Crimson, pickings a place that had been antecedently filled by Greg Lake. This would not be the last metre the deuce of them would put back one some other. His tenure with that chemical group was non exceptionally recollective, however, as Fripp disbanded Crimson in 1975. Wetton did, however, contribute to several authoritative Crimson discs (Larks' Tongues in Aspic [1973], Red [1974], Starless and Bible Black, and US Army [1975]). Many Crimson fans consider this to be the ultimate geological era of the group.
Wetton's next move was to Roxy Music, a venture that he actually began patch still with King Crimson. In fact, during his KC fourth dimension he managed to process on several side projects. These projects included two albums with late Yes guitarist Peter Banks; an album with Gordon Haskell; and one each with Eno, Phil Manzanera, Peter Sinfield, and Bryan Ferry. It was Ferry, the founder of Roxy Music, world Health Organization invited him to link up that radical. Wetton toured with them in 1975 and that enlistment resulted in a live record album that was released the following year.
On the face of it non unrivaled to remain in ane home for very long, Wetton hooklike up with Uriah Heep in 1975, recording Return to Fantasy with them that year and High and Mighty the following year. When he left that chemical group, he dependent up with Bill Bruford and Rick Wakeman to form a new radical. That one never got sour the ground, merely Bruford and Wetton unbroken working unitedly, creating UK. During this formative period, though, he worked on trey Bryan Ferry albums and one by Duncan Mackay. The low gear UK phonograph recording was released in 1978. In total he was featured on three albums with the group: that self-titled release, Danger Money, and the live album Night After Night. Both of the latter albums were released in 1979. Even patch working with that lot, he managed to witness the meter to record with Jack Knife and Phil Manzanera on the side.
1980 power saw, among other things, the root of Wetton's solo career. His number one solo disk, Caught in the Crossfire, was released that twelvemonth. During the geological period of 1980 to 1981 he played on two albums by Roger Chapman, one by Philip Rambow, and a Wishbone Ash phonograph recording. In 1982 he hooked up with Carl Palmer, Geoff Downes, and Steve Howe to var. Asia. Their self-titled debut was released that year. He besides arrange in a performance on another Phil Manzanera record album that year. The undermentioned year saw the spill of the second Asia phonograph recording, Alpha. After that record album, Wetton left the group for a short time, replaced by Greg Lake. Lake did a circuit with the group, just and so Wetton came back into the flock. He stayed with the grouping through their adjacent spill, 1985's Astra.
In 1987 he drug-addicted up with Phil Manzanera over again to phonograph record Wetton/Manzanera. The next few long time were subdued for Wetton, with his next projects not coming until 1990. That twelvemonth he was featured on some other Manzanera phonograph recording and deuce releases by Asia. The undermentioned year he released his adjacent solo record album, Jacknife. The next few long time saw little natural process by the bassist/vocalist, until 1994. That twelvemonth power saw his adjacent solo release, Voice Mail, and Aria by Asia. 1995, yet, gave birth to no less than trey new Wetton albums: deuce live ones (Chasing: Live in Japan and Live: Chasing the Dragon) and one studio (Battle Lines). The undermentioned year Wetton assign out some other live record album, Akustika: Live in Amerika. 1997 came some and power saw Wetton working with David Cross and Steve Hackett on deuce albums. He besides arrange out deuce albums with Phil Manzanera. Two more than live discs came out in 1999 (Live in New York and Live at the Sun Plaza Tokyo). He besides worked with Steve Hackett on Darktown and Ian McDonald on Driver's Eyes. Even with all of those projects he still plant time to record another studio release of his have, Arkangel.
The year 2000 sawing machine Wetton over again working with Carl Palmer, forming a young group called Qango. They released their number one album, Live in the Hood, that same year, and Wetton still establish time to play on the record album Martin Darvill and Friends Greatest Show on Earth.
Herbie Mann and Joao Gilberto
Artist: Herbie Mann and Joao Gilberto
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Atlantic CD3
Year: 1962
Tracks: 12
Paul McCartney Kiev Setlist Revealed
LIL WAYNE
“Tha Carter III” (Cash Money): C+
If hype translated into reality, this would be the album of the year. But magazine covers and guest spots don’t equate to good songs. Ultimately the most anticipated rap album of 2008 is a disappointment. Perhaps because so many tracks that might have been hot were leaked prematurely, perhaps because Mannie Fresh’s signature go-hard gutter production is noticeably absent, perhaps because the syrup is starting to go to Wayne’s head, “Tha Carter III” feels like a subpar effort from a rapper capable of more. On a single verse, Wayne’s spastic rhymes are a welcome break. Over an entire album, they grow tiresome. Underwhelming beats, random guest spots (Babyface, Busta Rhymes, Bobby Valentino, Robin Thicke) and a sense that Wayne is rambling give the album an unfocused, hollow feel. Download: “Dr. Carter.”
If hype translated into reality, this would be the album of the year. But magazine covers and guest spots don’t equate to good songs. Ultimately the most anticipated rap album of 2008 is a disappointment. Perhaps because so many tracks that might have been hot were leaked prematurely, perhaps because Mannie Fresh’s signature go-hard gutter production is noticeably absent, perhaps because the syrup is starting to go to Wayne’s head, “Tha Carter III” feels like a subpar effort from a rapper capable of more. On a single verse, Wayne’s spastic rhymes are a welcome break. Over an entire album, they grow tiresome. Underwhelming beats, random guest spots (Babyface, Busta Rhymes, Bobby Valentino, Robin Thicke) and a sense that Wayne is rambling give the album an unfocused, hollow feel. Download: “Dr. Carter.”
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