Roots Manuva has aforementioned he wants to collaborate with James Blunt.
Speaking to The Guardian, the knocker - world Health Organization has antecedently remixed Athlete - aforesaid he thinks unlikely collaborations work well.
"I wouldn�t brain doing something with...what's his name again? James Blunt," he said.
When asked if he was joking, he replied: "No! Because he's so straight and straightforward. Imagine him on one of these weird beatniks doing a chorus or something, and being so earnest and sincere. That's beyond abstract. That's beyond avant-garde."
'Slime And Reason', Roots Manuva's new album, is released on August 25.
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Wednesday 3 September 2008
Sunday 24 August 2008
Swedish Diabetics Experience Decline In Stroke Incidence
�The incidence of strokes among diabetics in Northern Sweden declined between 1985 and 2003, according to a population-based study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers also institute that endurance rates improved leading to a rapid decline in the number of disastrous events among diabetic people.
"Prior research has suggested that the vogue in strokes was increasing, but our study shows declining incidence in stroke for non-diabetic men, both for low and recurrent stroke, and in perennial strokes in non-diabetic women," said Mats Eliasson, M.D., Ph.D., joint author of the study and a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine at Ume� University and the Department of Medicine at Sunderby Hospital in Lule� Sweden.
The reasons for the overall decline of strokes among diabetics are uncertain. The decline may be the result of more intensive treatment of hypertension in diabetics and smoking cessation and cholesterol-lowering efforts, Eliasson said.
"The telling decline in smoking and large decreases in cholesterol levels, and to a lesser degree blood pressure levels, in the population of northern Sweden may have contributed to the declining incidence in both diabetic and non-diabetic subjects over the study period," he aforesaid. "On the other hand, we found more recurrent events among diabetic subjects than non-diabetic subjects, indicating a want for regular more intensive secondary bar among diabetic patients."
Researchers examined data on 15,382 stroke patients, 35- to 74-years-old, wHO were piece of the Northern Sweden MONICA (Multinational Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease) Project Stroke Registry, an international collaboration sponsored by the World Health Organization.
Over the 19 years, 11,605 subjects suffered a first stroke and 3,777 had a perennial stroke. Twenty-two percent of the workforce and women had antecedently been diagnosed with diabetes. Although the total identification number of strokes per one C,000 in diabetics was significantly greater than in non-diabetics, researchers found no significant difference in the rate of decline over time and death rates between the two groups.
Among the major findings:
Diabetic women had a annual decrease in incidence of first-ever stroke of 1.5 percentage, while relative incidence remained unchanged over the observation period for non-diabetic women.
Non-diabetic men had a significant declining trend in relative incidence rates of first-ever cVA of .8 percent per year, piece there was an insignificant decline in diabetic work force.
All groups, except diabetic women with first-ever slash, had a significant decline in deaths over time.
Incidence rates per century,000 of all strokes among male diabetics fell from 1,961 to 1,815.
The incidence rates per 100,000 of all stroke in women fell from 1,921 to 1,176.
In non-diabetics, the incidence rates per 100,000 fell from 358 for men and 204 for women to 284 and 183, severally.
For perennial strokes, the decline was significant for all simply diabetic work force, with the greatest decline (5.4 percent a year) in diabetic women. Non-diabetic women showed a 2.7 percent yearbook drop. Researchers found no apparent account for the gender differences. An sooner study in the United States didn't find sexuality differences in care or treatment bond between male and female diabetics.
"The fact that patients with diabetes, to a with child extent, had favorable time trends similar to those of non-diabetics is specially interesting considering that diabetic patients with heart attempt, from the same population, did not show whatsoever positive trends over the 19-year study," Eliasson said.
Control of high blood pressure may have a greater impact in stroke than in coronary thrombosis heart disease, he said.
Co-authors are Aslak Rautio, M.D., and Birgitta Stegmayr, Ph.D. Individual source disclosures commode be establish on the manuscript.
For more information on stroke, visit the American Stroke Association Web land site: http://www.strokeassociation.org/.
Statements and conclusions of study authors published in American Heart Association scientific journals ar solely those of the study authors and do not needs reflect the association's policy or position. The association makes no representation or guarantee as to their accuracy or reliability. The association receives funding primarily from individuals; foundations and corporations (including pharmaceutical, device manufacturers and other companies) also make donations and fund specific association programs and events. The association has strict policies to prevent these relationships from influencing the science subject. Revenues from pharmaceutical and device corporations are available at http://www.americanheart.org/corporatefunding.
Source: Bridgette McNeill
American Heart Association
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Researchers also institute that endurance rates improved leading to a rapid decline in the number of disastrous events among diabetic people.
"Prior research has suggested that the vogue in strokes was increasing, but our study shows declining incidence in stroke for non-diabetic men, both for low and recurrent stroke, and in perennial strokes in non-diabetic women," said Mats Eliasson, M.D., Ph.D., joint author of the study and a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine at Ume� University and the Department of Medicine at Sunderby Hospital in Lule� Sweden.
The reasons for the overall decline of strokes among diabetics are uncertain. The decline may be the result of more intensive treatment of hypertension in diabetics and smoking cessation and cholesterol-lowering efforts, Eliasson said.
"The telling decline in smoking and large decreases in cholesterol levels, and to a lesser degree blood pressure levels, in the population of northern Sweden may have contributed to the declining incidence in both diabetic and non-diabetic subjects over the study period," he aforesaid. "On the other hand, we found more recurrent events among diabetic subjects than non-diabetic subjects, indicating a want for regular more intensive secondary bar among diabetic patients."
Researchers examined data on 15,382 stroke patients, 35- to 74-years-old, wHO were piece of the Northern Sweden MONICA (Multinational Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease) Project Stroke Registry, an international collaboration sponsored by the World Health Organization.
Over the 19 years, 11,605 subjects suffered a first stroke and 3,777 had a perennial stroke. Twenty-two percent of the workforce and women had antecedently been diagnosed with diabetes. Although the total identification number of strokes per one C,000 in diabetics was significantly greater than in non-diabetics, researchers found no significant difference in the rate of decline over time and death rates between the two groups.
Among the major findings:
Diabetic women had a annual decrease in incidence of first-ever stroke of 1.5 percentage, while relative incidence remained unchanged over the observation period for non-diabetic women.
Non-diabetic men had a significant declining trend in relative incidence rates of first-ever cVA of .8 percent per year, piece there was an insignificant decline in diabetic work force.
All groups, except diabetic women with first-ever slash, had a significant decline in deaths over time.
Incidence rates per century,000 of all strokes among male diabetics fell from 1,961 to 1,815.
The incidence rates per 100,000 of all stroke in women fell from 1,921 to 1,176.
In non-diabetics, the incidence rates per 100,000 fell from 358 for men and 204 for women to 284 and 183, severally.
For perennial strokes, the decline was significant for all simply diabetic work force, with the greatest decline (5.4 percent a year) in diabetic women. Non-diabetic women showed a 2.7 percent yearbook drop. Researchers found no apparent account for the gender differences. An sooner study in the United States didn't find sexuality differences in care or treatment bond between male and female diabetics.
"The fact that patients with diabetes, to a with child extent, had favorable time trends similar to those of non-diabetics is specially interesting considering that diabetic patients with heart attempt, from the same population, did not show whatsoever positive trends over the 19-year study," Eliasson said.
Control of high blood pressure may have a greater impact in stroke than in coronary thrombosis heart disease, he said.
Co-authors are Aslak Rautio, M.D., and Birgitta Stegmayr, Ph.D. Individual source disclosures commode be establish on the manuscript.
For more information on stroke, visit the American Stroke Association Web land site: http://www.strokeassociation.org/.
Statements and conclusions of study authors published in American Heart Association scientific journals ar solely those of the study authors and do not needs reflect the association's policy or position. The association makes no representation or guarantee as to their accuracy or reliability. The association receives funding primarily from individuals; foundations and corporations (including pharmaceutical, device manufacturers and other companies) also make donations and fund specific association programs and events. The association has strict policies to prevent these relationships from influencing the science subject. Revenues from pharmaceutical and device corporations are available at http://www.americanheart.org/corporatefunding.
Source: Bridgette McNeill
American Heart Association
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Kenny Drew Trio
Artist: Kenny Drew Trio
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Kenny Drew Trio: Complete Recordings 1953-1954
Year: 2006
Tracks: 19
Vanity Kills
Friday 27 June 2008
Carl Barat In Hospital With Acute Pancreatitis
Dirty Pretty Things frontman Carl Barat has been diagnosed with acute pancreatitis by doctors at a hospital in London.
The singer was admitted to the unnamed hospital yesterday (June 17th) suffering with stomach pains.
According to a statement from the band, Barat is being kept under observation over the weekend and faces the possibility of an operation.
Gigwise was meant to met Barat yesterday (June 18th) for a scheduled interview shortly before we were informed of his illness.
Dirty Pretty Things scheduled appearance at Hackney Round Chapel on Friday (June 20th) has now been cancelled.
A statement on their immediate future is expected shortly.
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Thursday 19 June 2008
Jean-Michel
Artist: Jean-Michel
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Back To The Basics
Year: 2003
Tracks: 1
Ravi Shankar - Ali Akbar Khan
Thursday 12 June 2008
Miley Cyrus Takes The AC/DC Vs. M&M Dance Battle To The Next Level, In The Newsroom Blog
Miley Cyrus has served up a new, 10-minute answer to the AC/DC dance crew in the ongoing AC/DC vs. M&M dance battle.
Friday 6 June 2008
Alton Kelley, creator of psychedelic rock posters, dies
PETALUMA, Calif. —
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Artist Alton Kelley, who created the psychedelic style of posters and other art associated with the 1960s San Francisco rock scene, has died. He was 67.
Kelley died Sunday of complications from osteoporosis in his Petaluma home, according to his publicist, Jennifer Gross.
The artwork that Kelley and his lifelong collaborator, Stanley Mouse, churned out from their studio, a converted firehouse where Janis Joplin first rehearsed with Big Brother and the Holding Company, was iconic. It include dozens of classic rock posters, including the famous Grateful Dead "skull and roses" poster designed for a show at the Avalon Ballroom, as well as posters and album covers for Journey, Steve Miller, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles.
For inspiration, the pair scrutinized old etchings and photos, took in the youth culture of the time and dug through public libraries, often breaking out into laughter until they were asked to leave by the librarian, Mouse recalled.
"We were just having fun making posters," Mouse told the San Francisco Chronicle. "There was no time to think about what we were doing. It was a furious time, but I think most great art is created in a furious moment."
Born on June 17, 1940, Kelley met Mouse in 1965, at the epicenter of the hippie movement - San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district - and soon recognized their ability to work together, in their words "riffing off each other's giggle."
In recent years, Kelley's artwork focused on paintings of hot rods and custom cars, which were sold as fine art and printed on T-shirts.
He is survived by his wife Marguerite Trousdale Kelley; their children Patty, Yosarian and China; his mother, his sister and two grandchildren.
Memorial plans are pending.
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Monday 2 June 2008
New Neil Diamond Album Due, Tour Planned
Neil Diamond 's second consecutive Rick Rubin-produced album is due in stores on May 6.
Dubbed "Home Before Dark," the set is the follow-up to 2005's "12 Songs." The new album's first single, "Pretty Amazing Grace," is streaming at Diamond's official website.
Diamond plans to tour North America this summer, according to a press release.
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Dubbed "Home Before Dark," the set is the follow-up to 2005's "12 Songs." The new album's first single, "Pretty Amazing Grace," is streaming at Diamond's official website.
Diamond plans to tour North America this summer, according to a press release.
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Hair Rave-Up
Artist: Hair Rave-Up
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Live at the Shaftesbury Theatre
Year: 1969
Tracks: 11
Paul McCartney urged to save kangaroos
Tivo Adds Chicago Tribune Critic
In its latest effort to demonstrate its superiority over digital video recorders provided by cable and satellite companies, TiVo plans to deliver reviews of television shows to its users. It already exclusively provides YouTube video clips and other online video fare. The DVR pioneer said today (Wednesday) that it has reached an agreement with the Tribune company to provide the reviews of Maureen Ryan, the TV critic for the Chicago Tribune, to about 100,000 TiVo users living in the Chicago area. As part of the deal the Tribune will run adds for the TiVo service in its television section and will receive a share of revenue from new subscriptions generated by the ads. TiVo CEO Thomas Rogers told today's New York Times that his company is also in talks with other print media outlets to provide a similar service in other cities.
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Mariah Carey Talks Marriage On Ellen
Following her suprise wedding to Nick Cannon on April 30, Mariah Carey made her first post-marriage appearance on Ellen DeGeneres' show on Tuesday (May 13) to discuss how it all went down.Watch Carey as she chat's about her wedding day, the designing of the ring and how Cannon proposed (via Perez Hilton). Photo courtesy of Def Jam.
Gwen Stefani
Artist: Gwen Stefani
Genre(s):
Dance
Rock
ROck: Alternative
Rock: Pop-Rock
Other
House
Discography:
Now That You Got It
Year: 2007
Tracks: 4
4 In The Morning (Thin White Duke Mixes)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 4
The Sweet Escape
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Maximum Gwen Stefani
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Hollaback Girl Single
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
Hollaback Girl
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
What You Waiting for?(Remixes)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
What You Waiting For? Single
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Before she observed she could drop a line songs, Gwen Stefani was looking at forrader to a life of marriage, children, and white picket fences. When her chum introduced her to ska and new wave euphony, it set turned a chain of events that would finally lead to millions of albums sold and a Madonna-sized world look-alike that protracted past tense music and into the worlds of film, mode, and technology.
Born and raised in Fullerton, CA, Stefani had a musical three Kings' Day at the age of 17. She had fallen in love with the Madness and Selecter records her chum, Eric Stefani, was playing perpetually. Seeing Fishbone, the Untouchables, and other bands tortuous in Los Angeles' ska revitalization shot but strengthened her interest in music, so she was more than than ready when her blood brother asked her to join a ska band he was forming with a ally named John Spence. Gwen in the beginning shared out jumper cable vocals with Spence simply in December of 1987 he committed suicide, departure the band -- nowadays called No Doubt -- with an changeable future. According to legion interviews with the bandmembers after their breakthrough, Gwen was the glue that held No Doubt together during these hard multiplication, pushing the group to stay fresh nerve-wracking. She was too romantically byzantine with the band's bass player, Tony Kanal, by this prison term.
After acting legion gigs and parties, No Doubt were sign to Interscope in 1991. The label considered their 1992 debut record album a flop and refused to financially support a go or further recordings, just the band refused to give up. The self-financed Lighthouse Street Collection appeared in 1994 and did intimately enough to make things nice with Interscope, simply the band was formerly over again expiration through a traumatic period behind the scenes. Eric Stefani left to become an animator for The Simpsons and Gwen and Tony's relationship had complete. Gwen wrote a compendium of songs focused on grief and rebirth that would become No Doubt's third album, Tragic Kingdom, and the rest, as they say, is history.
With the blast singles "Exactly a Girl," "Spiderwebs," and "Don't Speak," the album reached the number one spot in Billboard and garnered two Grammy nominations. The iron began to focus on Stefani's role in the band. Voted one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People," video and pic shoots focused on her and rumors spreading that the early three members of the band were infelicitous with the want of attention they received. This subject of discussion continued as the band released Return of Saturn in 2000 and Rock Steady a year subsequently, simply it was overshadowed during this clip by new comment -- Stefani's quixotic relationship with Bush's frontman, Gavin Rossdale. She too started doing some influence outside the band, loaning her vocals to the remix of electronica creative person Moby's "Southside" and knocker Eve's "Lease Me Blow Your Mind." In 2002, she arrived 45 minutes late for her wedding with Rossdale in London.
After Rock Steady, No Doubt took a break. Stefani approached Kanal around producing an offhanded solo envision that would be influenced by her non-ska favorites. Prince, the Time, Club Nouveau, and Madonna were the names thrown around and the thought was to lay down the propose "fast and easy." Over prison term, the "fast and easy" book morphed into something practically larger. Old quaker, one-time labelmate, and reach ballad maker Linda Perry became involved and the contrive became much more than polished, slick, and dance-oriented. A stack of high profile collaborators -- Dr. Dre, the Neptunes, Dallas Austin, Andre 3000, Nellee Hooper, Jimmy Jam, and Terry Lewis -- became involved. In September of 2004, the infectious and hyper dance single "What You Waiting For?" appeared with its ensuant video recording autocratic MTV.
The album, Love.Saint.Music.Baby., strike the shelves in November with surreal graphics that introduced Stefani's four-woman "posse comitatus," the Harajuku Girls. The all-Asian Harajuku Girls were divine by Stefani's fascination with the Harajuku girls of Japan, young club kids world Health Organization make a light-minded and fun posture toward fashion. Appearing with Stefani alive, in videos, and in photos, the Girls quickly drew criticism from the Asian community, raging about the rumor that they had to sign a contract to ne'er verbalise English even though they could, and that Stefani's Girls looked null like the "real" Harajuku girls. Based on a dancehall cover of Fiddler on the Roof's "If I Were a Rich Man," "Rich Girl" became the following smash individual with the anthem "Hollaback Girl" decorous achiever number three. While the singles were overlooking pop and dance radio, Stefani appeared as Jean Harlow in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. With music and movies chequered turned, Stefani stirred into the world of fashion and introduced her clothing line of merchandise L.A.M.B. Taking her influence to the world of technical school, she designed the Harajuku Lovers' 4.1 MP Digital Camera for Hewlett-Packard. The camera was released in a limited version with a Stefani-designed casing and biographic DVD.
Late in 2005, Stefani discovered she was significant, only her agenda remained fussy in 2006: along with working on L.A.M.B., she released a line of limited edition Gwen Stefani manner dolls complete with outfits from her videos and tours, and worked on her second solo record album with producers including Akon, Swizz Beatz, and Nellee Hooper, as well as the Neptunes and Tony Kanal. That spring, Stefani gave nascency to a boy, Kingston James McGregor Rossdale. The Neptunes-produced "Air current It Up" arrived that fall and heralded the full-length The Sweet Escape, which was released on the same day as the live DVD Harajuku Lovers Live.
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Martina Sorbara
Artist: Martina Sorbara
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Cure For Bad Deeds
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Canada has long been known for nurture awesome female singer-songwriters. All the way from Joni Mitchell, k.d. lang, and Sarah McLachlan, to Alanis Morissette and Jann Arden, and now comes Martina Sorbara. Hailing from Toronto, Sorbara emphatically tips her chapeau of influences toward some of these pioneers, along with John Prine, Sarah Vaughn, Cyndi Lauper, and her musical heron Tom Waits. Though in a certain way, she is more than remindful of Ben Harper. You date, care Harper, Sorbara makes her possess guitars, her have clothes, also. And, too care Harper, her music spans a spacious range of genres, yet settles neatly back into a pop vein in the ending. A plash of jazz, a dah of ethnic music, a pinch of rock - these ar the ingredients she uses to blend her artistic potions. First picking up the guitar at age 11, Sorbara erudite the basics and took her possess trajectory from there, creating a unequalled playing style that suits her needs. By 15, she was writing her have songs and performing for audiences, playing both pianoforte and guitar. Over the years, Sorbara has been spotted at high profile events such as Austin's South by Southwest and The Edmonton Folk Festival, and opening move tours for Billy Bragg and Bryan Ferry. When she's not focused on her euphony, Sorbara spends fourth dimension with her former passion of Christ, sketching and creating other ocular humanistic discipline. Her debut album, The Cure for Bad Deeds hit the streets in early 2002 via Canada's possess Nettwerk Records. Like a pocketbook of gelatin beans, each birdsong is a melodic treat on its have, with a different savor than the old.
High School Musical Star To Wed
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL actress KAYCEE STROH is set to wed boyfriend BEN HIGGINSON, after accepting his proposal this weekend (24May08).
The 23-year-old - who plays student 'pop-and-lock' dancer Martha Cox on the hit show - had just finished a day's shooting on High School Musical 3: Senior Year when Higginson whisked her away on a romantic date and asked for her hand in marriage.
She tells People.com, "We shot from 6pm until 6am, and Ben was waiting for me in my trailer. He was waiting for me with a single red rose. Then he took me up to the H Rock, a place at the top of a little mountain that overlooks Salt Lake City (in Utah), and we watched the sunrise. Then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him."
She adds: "They (co-stars Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens) are going to be so surprised. They all love Ben. He's like one of the gang."
The newly-engaged couple, who met at a concert in 2007, is planning to wed at the end of the year (08).
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