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Ellen DeGeneres Joins Call to End Cancer

2008-09-03T18:11:00.001-07:00

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

2008-08-24T18:14:00.001-07:00

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.

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Recombinant Drugs And The Economics Of Prefilled Syringes

2008-08-14T18:07:00.001-07:00

�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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Greystone Associates is a medical and healthcare technology consulting firm providing services in strategic planning, venture development, product commercialization, and applied science and market place assessment.

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Complexystems

2008-08-06T19:28:00.001-07:00

Artist: Complexystems

   Genre(s):
Electronic: Progressive

Discography:


First Machine On

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 16


Emergent Systems

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 10


Sy-Xstems

   Year: 2000
Tracks: 11


Technocide

   Year:
Tracks: 8

Natalie Portman: Hollywood Royalty

Kondo, Bernocchi and Laswell

2008-06-27T16:27:00.001-07:00

Artist: Kondo, Bernocchi and Laswell

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Re-Charged Remixes

Year: 2000
Tracks: 2

The Zutons, Bedgebury Pinetum, Kent

2008-06-19T18:53:00.001-07:00

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

2008-06-12T00:30:00.000-07:00

Artist: Shemekia Copeland

   Genre(s):
Blues

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

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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No Mercy

2008-06-06T03:03:00.001-07:00

Artist: No Mercy

   Genre(s):
Dance: Pop
   Dance
   Pop

Discography:


Greatest Hits

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 16


No mercy

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 1


More

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 14


My Promise

   Year: 1996
Tracks: 15


Widespread Bloodshed - Love Runs Red

   Year:
Tracks: 9

My Chemical Romance - My Chemical Romance Fans To March On London

Chuck D 'forgets' Public Enemy Lyrics

2008-05-25T22:23:00.001-07:00

PUBLIC ENEMY star CHUCK D is nervous about reuniting with his bandmates - because he fears he has forgotten the lyrics to their hit tracks.
The hip-hop band has agreed to reform to mark the 20th anniversary of their 1988 album It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us.
But the rap pioneer is nervous about the band's forthcoming U.K. tour - because he can't remember all the words to their songs.
He says, "Just trying to remember all the lyrics is going to be hard. Some people have a gift for that, but I never had. Always found it difficult. We ain't all been together in a room for an age and we got some figuring out to do when we meet up next week. But, hey, what's the worst thing that can happen? You're going to write a bad review? Ain't no big deal. We're beyond all that now."

Granite and Phunk

2008-05-22T21:41:00.001-07:00

Artist: Granite and Phunk

   Genre(s):
House
   Dance

Discography:


Give You Everything

   Year: 2006
Tracks: 2


The Dancefloors Knew E.P Vinyl

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 3

Def Leppard - Def Leppard Irritated With Hit Album Success

2008-05-10T22:21:00.001-07:00

Def Leppard - Def Leppard Irritated With Hit Album Success

Old stager bikers DEF LEPPARD ar baffled by their current graph success with newly album SONGS FROM THE Sparkle Waiting area - because their previous 2 LPs failed to print fans.

The disk, the Brits heavy metallic element band's tenth studio apartment album, has entered the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at number basketball team this calendar week (07May08).

Just guitarist Phil Collen is upset fans ar overlooking the group's 10th record album, entitled X, which was released in July 2002 and became the band's least successful

Bannerman arrested after Cerys date

2008-04-30T20:03:00.001-07:00

Bannerman arrested after Cerys date

Jungle mavin Marc Bannerman has been quizzed by police force in Cymru followers an incident with a paparazzo, it is reported.
Bannerman became embroiled in a row with photographers after they followed him and Cerys Matthews to a pothouse on Fri afternoon.
According to news bureau PA, the former 'EastEnders' star travelled to Cerys Matthews' menage in Cymru last hebdomad later forming a close relationship with her in the Australian hobo camp.
Bannerman and another man were released on police force bail pending farther inquiries into the incident exterior the Ship Lodge in Pembrokeshire, west Cambria.
Meriel Spud, world Health Organization owns the Ship Hostelry business, said Matthews was in a "distressed state" chase the face-off.
"It was horrible because they had such a nice clip in the pothouse," she said.
She added: "One hour everything was finely and they were having a meal and when they tried to go away they couldn't produce out.
"In that respect were about 15 photographers around the machine block them in the railcar park and they refused to have them out.
"Cerys was really distressed and I had to fetch a car to necessitate her home. I think Marc Bannerman kept his cool down very well. He got out and remained polite and said, 'For God's saki, let us go' but they were only laughing and making fun."
A Dyfed-Powys Police force spokeswoman confirmed they were continuing to inquire an incident outside the Ship Hostel on Fri good afternoon.
She said: "Two persons make been arrested in connexion with the incident. They have been released on police bail pending farther inquiries."

Raveonettes

2008-04-30T19:41:00.001-07:00

Artist: Raveonettes

   Genre(s):
Indie

Discography:

Lust Lust Lust

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

Self-confident and challenging, the Raveonettes entered the service department harlan Stone race of the newfangled millenary with a stylish, brassy sound non heard since Sonic Youth's Lunation Country. Sune Blush wine Richard Wagner (guitar, vocals) and Sharin Foo (bass, vocals) come from Danish capital and formed the Raveonettes come out of dismay for their homeland's state of music.

Wagner had tried and true acquiring a band together during the tardy '90s, backpacking his bags for Newly House of York City's Hell's Kitchen and afterward experiencing the low gear crannies of Las Vegas, cicily Isabel Fairfield Hollywood, and an island outside of Seattle. His number one exposure to pop music was his mother's written matter of Bob Dylan's In front the Deluge. Bob Dylan became Wagner's melodic muse. Bits of Brother Holly and the Everly Brothers and the guitar act of Sign Knopfler ruined in later on, merely the adorable dissonance of Sonic Early days and the Good Shepherd and Blessed Virgin Chain motivated Wagner to do music on a master horizontal surface. Unfortunately, his remain in America didn't precisely preparation cooking pan out, so Otto Wagner returned to Danmark and connected with Foo, world Health Organisation had been spill the beans in and around hometown clubs. Foo was born and bred on the Beatles and the Velvet Subway, merely likewise establish human race euphony to be every bit enticing. During a six-month detain in Bharat, Foo studied qawwali music and dhrupad, the virtually antediluvian style of Hindostani classical music music. Formerly Foo and Otto Wagner dependant up, the adventures of the Raveonettes began.

The Raveonettes had a set of rules when it came to creating material. These rules consisted of reservation an record album alone in Bb youngster, surrounded by only three chords, and for each one song had to be less than triple minutes long. Ride cymbals were not allowed, either. What came close to was a fuzzy, darkness, cinematic ready of songs gathered for the Raveonettes' debut album. Blister It On, which was written on a four-track and drum automobile, fused classic garage rumblings with frenzied electronic bits. Strap It On appeared on Crunchy Frog in Europe in summer 2002. In July, the Raveonettes waltzed into N.Y.C.'s CBGB for an American number 1 appearance. Producer Richard Gottehrer (Blondie, Joan Armatrading, the Go-Go's) caught the doorkeeper and signed on to put to work on the band's number one base uncut record album. A portion with Columbia followed in the beginning the year's goal, posing the Raveonettes for or so timbre bombinate in the class to add up.

The Chain Crew of Making love appeared in Sep 2003. The showtime unmarried from the album, "That Great Love Sound," became a minor reach, referable in part to a creepy-crawly video featuring Foo and Wilhelm Richard Wagner dreaming up ways to pour down apiece other. The roger Samuel Huntington Roger Sessions for their adjacent album began in latterly 2004, and Wagner range aside their songwriting and transcription rules and most entirely traces of guitar straining, alternate them with classical music songcraft and slews of rich reverb on everything. The resulting album, 2005's Pretty in Shirley Temple, featured guest spots from Suicide's St. Martin Revolutions per minute, Ronnie Spector, and the Velvet Underground's Moe Tucker.

Former Lost star back on big screen

2008-04-30T18:34:00.001-07:00

Former Lost star back on big screen

Former 'Lost' star Dominic Monaghan has agreed a deal to play the wind use in a new psychological thriller called 'Pet'.
The Hollywood Newsman says the film tells the story of a man world Health Organization becomes obsessed with his former school crush and takes her prisoner.
Just he then discovers that the womanhood is non whom she seems to be.
Shooting on the plastic film is due to commence in the approaching months.
For more on 'Lost', read our TV web log here.

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Wisin

2008-04-30T17:48:00.001-07:00

Artist: Wisin

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

El Sobreviviente

Year: 2007
Tracks: 14

Wisin is one-half of the aCE reggaeton brace Wisin & Yandel, wHO enjoyed mainstream discovery success with Pa'l Mundo (2005). Max Born Juan Luis Morera Luna on Dec 19, 1978, in Cayey, Puerto Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, he and Yandel began playing as a twosome in the former '90s and made their record album debut in 2000 with Los Neftali Ricardo Reyes del Nuevo Milenio. They by and by made the boundary to a major label in 2003 with Mi Vida... My Life, their first for Universal subsidiary Machete Euphony. Pa'l Mundo so catapulted them to mainstream achiever in 2005. Later, Wisin & Yandel naturalized their own tag, WY Records, and presented an affiliate mathematical group, Los Vaqueros.