Monday 8 September 2008

Madonna Sticky And Sweet Tour Staff Consider Quitting

Madonna is close to losing some of her entourage during the Sticky & Sweet tour, due to the second course of instruction treatment the staff find they are receiving.


While Madonna is staying in �11,000-per-night chateaus in France (around $21,000 a night), her on turn staff ar staying at a garish hotel priced at �50 for her Nice enlistment dates.


As well as Madonna's family, 12 personal staff members are as well staying at the expensive accomodation, including a personal chef and a team of six-spot beauticians.


An insider told the Daily Mirror: "Everyone is furious with her and some of them want to walk out of the hitch. They sense they are being treated like second class citizens, despite all their hard work over the last few months."


While the superstar travels in style by private jet and has a helicopter fly her from accomodation to venues, her staff ar flying with budget airline Easyjet.




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Friday 29 August 2008

Monash Researchers Uncover Cancer Survival Secrets

�A squad of Monash University researchers has exposed the role of a family of enzymes in the mutation of benign or less aggressive tumours into more aggressive, potentially fatal, cancers in the human body.


The breakthrough, published in the outside journal Cancer Cell, provides valuable insights into how cancer cells develop and mutate, and could at long last change treatment options for sufferers around the existence.


Team leader, Associate Professor Tony Tiganis, from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University aforementioned their play showed that the enzymes known as protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) had a greater use than previously thought in the rate of growth and tumour change over time.


"We already know that PTKs are associated with various types of aggressive cancers, including el Salvadoran colon, breast and lung cancers," Associate Prof Tiganis aforementioned.


"What we have discovered is that PTKs feature an important role to play as cancer cells grow and mutate to become potentially more fast-growing tumours.


"The more we can find out about how tumours develop, the more we ar able to prevent their growth in the future. There ar already drugs that inhibit particular PTKs in the late stages of intervention. Our discovery could change the timing of when and how those or similar drugs are administered."


Assoc Professor Tiganis aforesaid all cells routinely part and duplicate during growth. An entire genome is replicated and divides every bit into deuce daughter cells. Sometimes things go wrong. To try on to prevent this, nature has installed key cell surveillance checkpoints where molecular 'wardens' slow down DNA replication to try and correct mistakes to catch the cell duplication back on track.


Normally, PTKs are off off in the face of compromised DNA retort, but when PTK pathways remain on, unscheduled cell division buttocks take place where cells distribute their DNA unequally between the two resulting daughter cells. As a result, tumour cells can buoy accumulate or lose genes and chromosomes, and gain a growth and survival advantage.


"Our studies have shown that PTK pathways are intimately associated with the regulation of checkpoint responses during DNA replication," Assoc Prof Tiganis aforesaid.


"We have identified one mechanism by which PTKs may remain activated and allow cancer cells to bypass the molecular warden of DNA replication. They may lack a key enzyme called TCPTP." Experiments published in the prestigious journal Cancer Cell receive been conducted using cells grown in the science lab. "But the big question remains. What happens in the real world of human cancers?"


The Monash team will now hold their laboratory findings to human cancer samples to see if they contain low levels of TCPTP and hopefully cement the role of this protein in cancer formation and development.

Monash University


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Saturday 9 August 2008

Oophoi and Klaus Wiese and Tau Ceti

Oophoi and Klaus Wiese and Tau Ceti   
Artist: Oophoi and Klaus Wiese and Tau Ceti

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   



Discography:


Nebulah Genesis   
 Nebulah Genesis

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 7




 






Tuesday 1 July 2008

Donald Trump: 'Naomi Campbell Needs Anger Management Therapy'

Donald Trump has come to the defence of his good friend Naomi Campbell insisting she is a good woman despite her recent troubles, but admits the supermodel needs to seek anger management therapy to control her violent bursts.

The catwalk diva was fined and sentenced to 200 hours' community service after assaulting two police officers onboard a British Airways flight at London's Heathrow Airport in April.

It's the latest in a long line of violent incidents for the 38-year-old, who carried out community service in New York last year after she was found guilty of assaulting her maid.

And Trump insists she needs professional help: "She has a little anger management problem. You don't want to mess with Naomi. But she's a good woman. I know her well and she's a good woman."

Wednesday 25 June 2008

Amy Pearson Told Not to Have Sex With Troops!






Singer Amy Pearson has been told not to have sex with the troops when she goes over to East Timor to perform!

Following all the media hype over false accusations that actor Tania Zaetta slept with some of the Australian soldiers in Afghanistan earlier this year, it now looks like authorities are taking extra precautions!

"They've just told us all don't get drunk and don't have sex basically!" Pearson said.

"Weve all been strapped into our chastity belts before we go, that was first port of call!" she joked. "But you know, things like that blow up a lot and I don't think my boyfriend would be too impressed if I came back with any stories like that!"

"I'm going there to sing, and I'm doing this for the troops and I don't really concern myself with anything like that."

Amy joins a long list of acts going over to East Timor to entertain our troops.







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Monday 16 June 2008

Evidence One

Evidence One   
Artist: Evidence One

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Metal: Heavy
   Rock: Hard-Rock
   



Discography:


The Sky Is the Limit   
 The Sky Is the Limit

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10


Tattooed Heart   
 Tattooed Heart

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


Criticize The Truth   
 Criticize The Truth

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9




 






Tuesday 3 June 2008

AAA

AAA   
Artist: AAA

   Genre(s): 
Pop: Japan
   



Discography:


ALL   
 ALL

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


15th   
 15th

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 7


Remix Attack   
 Remix Attack

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13


ALL 2   
 ALL 2

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 6


A FOR YOU...   
 A FOR YOU...

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 15




Produced by one of Japanese pop's foremost impresarios, Masto "Max" Matsuura, dance-vocal behave AAA are a rare commodity in J-pop in that they are a mixed-sex grouping aimed at both female teenagers and male person music fans. With cofounder and president of the Avex Trax record label Matsuura calling the shots, AAA has been able to secure the songwriting services of big-name producers. AAA (read as "Three-base hit A" and sentiment to be an acronym for "Attack Al Around") began living in 2005 as a manufactured six-piece comprised of bandleader Naoya Urata, Takahiro Nishijima, Mitsuhiro Hidaka, Shinjiro Atae, Shuta Sueyoshi and sole female member Misako Uno. Two more girls, Yukari Goto and Chiaki Ito, would join shortly subsequently. Uno was plucked from an Avex audition. Urata and Goto "gradatory" from the Avex's Artist Academy (Urata has too toured as a backup dancer with J-pop queen regnant Ayumi Hamasaki and performed in the memorable picture to Halcali's debut single "Tandem"); Hidaka, Atae, Sueyoshi and Nishijima were championship dancers for pop idol Ami Suzuki; and versatile members have got acted, modeled (Ito) and presented on the wireless. At least triplet members of the ring ar more than than but pretty faces: Goto represented her rural area in gymnastics as a stripling, Uno is a bookman at Tokyo Women's University and Hidaka is a bookman at Tokyo's elite university Waseda.


Abdominal aortic aneurysm debuted in 2005 with the single "Blood line on Fire," the theme vocal to the live-action film Initial D: The Movie, an adaptation of the popular Japanese manga of the same call. The group clearly has friends in high places. Within 12 months of their debut, later cathartic four singles and the debut record album Attack, AAA north Korean won the Best New Artist of the Year Award at the forty-seventh Japan Record Awards, despite weakness to reach the pep pill echelon of the charts. The guitars english hawthorn have got been grungier and the raps rougher than their J-pop peers, simply AAA are motionless very much a somersaultin', colour coordinated "performance-dance" mathematical group well-chiseled enough (the guys, manifestly) and cute enough (wHO do you guess?) to appeal to the organisation. The album's budget was large enough to batten the services of writers and producers world Health Organization had antecedently worked with Smap and Da Pump. Also contributing lyrics was the rapper motsu, from AAA's labelmates m.o.v.e.


A remix album, Remix Attack, followed in summer 2006 before a busy period at the terminal of 2006; early 2007 sawing machine the passing of AAA's mo record album All (which includes DVD footage from a performance at the 14,000-person capability Budokan locus in Tokyo), and the discharge of the ten-track Three hundred: Challenge Cover Collection, which saw the likes of TRF and Godiego get the covers treatment. In June 2007 Goto left the band for health reasons.


The single "Get Chu/She No Jijitsu" preceded AAA's first-class honours degree overseas coming into court, which took piazza in July 2007 in Baltimore, MD at Otakon, North America's second largest anime conventionalism. Back in Japan, that month as well sawing machine AAA discharge terzetto different versions of the same single, one featuring the full band, unitary featuring only the male members, and the other featuring just the girls.





John Matthias, Stories From The Watercooler