Ellen DeGeneres Joins Call to End Cancer

The coming Stand Up to Cancer benefit is beginning to look like the Oscars, the Emmys and the Grammys rolled into one.

I just got word that newlywed Ellen DeGeneres has signed on to make the phonebank during the live telecast of the fundraiser on Sept. 5.

The talk-show pooh-bah isn't the only new name added to the roster...

Halle Berry, Jessica Alba, Kate Bosworth and Rob Lowe testament also be answering phones.

And that's just a smidgeon of the previously proclaimed participants, wHO include Christina Applegate, Jennifer Aniston, Charlize Theron, America Ferrera, Meryl Streep, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Scarlett Johansson and even Marge Simpson.

The megawatt benefit volition be simulcast live and commercial-free from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre on CBS, ABC and NBC (and our very possess E!) and cohosted by Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams.

"Just Stand Up," a new single featuring Mariah Carey, Beyonc�, Miley Cyrus, Rihanna and Leona Lewis, among others, also benefits Stand Up and volition be available on iTunes starting Sept. 2. Melissa Etheridge is set to perform the song during the telecast.

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Da Brat sentenced to jail for assaulting waitress

Da Brat has been sentenced for up to the tierce years in prison for assaulting a woman with a rum bottle at a Halloween party last year.


The platinum-selling rapper, whose real name is Shawntae Harris, was also sentenced to seven years' probation and 200 hours of community service by DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gail Flake.

Da Brat pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in an attempt to win a light prison term, but the judge noted that the waitress Da Brat attacked suffered permanent facial scars and issued the severe sentence.


The rapper and her family members broke down after hearing the judgment of conviction, reports E! Online. She has a previous felonious history that includes a pistol-whipping incident.

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Recombinant Drugs And The Economics Of Prefilled Syringes

�The administration of therapeutic drugs via injection is an indispensable delivery method for legion drugs critical to patient health and well-being. Now this segment is evolving in reception to ever-changing patient populations, new classes of powerful therapeutic drugs, and healthcare administration initiatives. Population demographics and efforts by managed care providers to control healthcare costs are driving the growth in drug self-administration, peculiarly for chronic conditions, introducing a modern class of na�ve users to parenteral drug delivery. User-friendly syringe and shot device designs and the availability of an increasing number of drugs in pre-filled insertable and disposable cartridges are propelling the growth of prefilled syringes for self-administration.


Improved patient compliance, efficient delivery of high-priced biologicals, and patient & caregiver safety are key market drivers in this sector. The cost of biologicals such as recombinant proteins has created interest in prefilled syringes to reduce cost and waste associated with the handling and overfilling of vial-packaged drugs. Partnerships between device designers and do drugs developers are an essential element in the winner of prefilled devices, in particular for patient self-administration.


Leading prefilled syringe applications include chronic diseases such as diabetes, autoimmune disorders, and endocrine replacement. Other growth segments include reproductive health and the administration of antivirals, as well as health programs and vaccine administration.


These findings ar contained in a new and comprehensive report: Prefilled Syringes: Drugs, Devices and Disease Therapeutics.

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Complexystems

   
Artist: Complexystems

   Genre(s): 
Electronic: Progressive
   

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Discography:


   
 First Machine On

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 16


   
 Emergent Systems

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 Sy-Xstems

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


   
 Technocide

   Year:    
Tracks: 8

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Kondo, Bernocchi and Laswell

   
Artist: Kondo, Bernocchi and Laswell

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Re-Charged Remixes

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 2

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The Zutons, Bedgebury Pinetum, Kent

Liverpudlian rock'n'soul troupe the Zutons are better suited to a clammy city nightclub than the leafy environs of deepest Kent, but here they are, at the top of a bill with Noah and the Whale and Mystery Jets as part of a tour of seven forest locations. They open with their theme song, Zuton Fever, but they do not have a coherent identity: the bassist is a moptop, the new guitarist resembles Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, frontman Dave McCabe could be an extra from Almost Famous, while saxophonist Abi Harding is like a dishevelled version of her Dutch counterpart Candy Dulfer.

As brassy as Madness and Dexys, there are fewer awkward angles than you would expect from a group who took their name from a member of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. In fact, McCabe's refusal to dilute his accent when he sings makes you think of the Zutons as something like the Cavern-era Beatles. More than anything, they recall fictional band the Commitments: they have the same gritty intensity and sweaty power. It gets wearing.

Live, they are tight and punchy, with strong drumming, if a bit heavy on the bass, which reverberates across the field and up to our chests. The crowd goes routinely wild, with syncopated claps. One man even mock-blows a plastic sax. The barnstorming boogie of Always Right Behind You is a respite from the rocked-up R&B. But Valerie is most rapturously received, and deservedly so - it is by far their best song, the one that achieves everything they set out to do. It also makes you wonder where the Zutons can go next.

· At Delamere Forest on June 13 (0845 3673787), and the National Arboretum on June 20 (01666 880220).


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Shemekia Copeland

   
Artist: Shemekia Copeland

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Talking To Strangers

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 15


   
 Wicked

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13


   
 Turn the Heat Up

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 14


   
 Live Paris

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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The daughter of noted Texas vapors guitarist Johnny Copeland, Shemekia Copeland began qualification a spatter in her possess proper earlier she was even out of her teens. Projecting a maturity beyond her years, Copeland fashioned herself a potent, soul-inflected screamer in the custom of Koko Taylor and Etta James, hitherto besides proved capable of a subtler range of emotions. Copeland was natural in Harlem in 1979 and her father bucked up her to babble out proper from the beginning, even delivery her up onstage at the Cotton Club when she was just now eighter from Decatur age old. She began to engage a singing career in earnest at historic period 16, when her father's health began to decline ascribable to heart disease; he took Shemekia on hitch with him as his opening act, which helped institute her name on the blue devils circuit. She landed a phonograph recording deal with Alligator, which issued her debut album Turn the Heat Up! in 1998, when she was just now 19 years old (woefully, her father didn't live to go steady the occasion). While the influences on Copeland's style were quartz sack up, the platter was met with enthusiastic reviews praising its vitality and rage. Marked as a hot offspring newcomer to watch, Copeland toured the blues fete tour in America and Europe, and landed a fair amount of publicity. Her second album, Terrible, was released in 2000 and featured a duet with one of her heroes, early R&B diva Ruth Brown. Terrible earned Copeland a slue of W.C. Handy Blues Award nominations and she walked cancelled with three: Song of the Year, Blues Album of the Year, and Contemporary Female Artist of the Year. The followup phonograph recording, Talking to Strangers, was produced by legendary piano player Dr. John and featured songs that she proudly claimed were her best all the same. 2005 proverb the going of The Soul Truth, produced by Steve Cropper, on Alligator Records.





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