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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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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Oophoi and Klaus Wiese and Tau Ceti

   
Artist: Oophoi and Klaus Wiese and Tau Ceti

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   

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Discography:


   
 Nebulah Genesis

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 7

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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."

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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Evidence One

   
Artist: Evidence One

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

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Discography:


   
 The Sky Is the Limit

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10


   
 Tattooed Heart

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Criticize The Truth

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9

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AAA

   
Artist: AAA

   Genre(s): 
Pop: Japan
   

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Discography:


   
 ALL

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


   
 15th

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 7


   
 Remix Attack

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13


   
 ALL 2

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 6


   
 A FOR YOU...

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 15

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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.





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American Idol - Nielsen Writes Season Finale

Nielsen closed the books on the 2007-08 broadcast season Wednesday by releasing
a list showing how each of the major networks' regular programs fared. Not
surprisingly, the top of the list was dominated by the two weekly American
Idol telecasts on Fox and the weekly Dancing With the Stars
telecasts on ABC that aired on four different nights during the season.
Four scripted shows also made it into the top ten: ABC's Desperate
Housewives at No. 6; Fox's House at No. 8; CBS's CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation at No. 9; and Grey's Anatomy at Number 10. Overall,
Fox wound up as the top-rated network for the season, thanks mostly to its
American Idol numbers, which averaged 28.75 million on Tuesday nights
(No. 1) and 27.78 million on Wednesdays (No. 2). CBS slipped to second place
after holding the top spot for the previous five years. Fox was also the only
network to improve its ratings this year compared with last year. "What
catapulted them is probably that they were the least harmed from the writers
strike,'' Brad Adgate, research director at Horizon Media told Bloomberg News.
"They had a lot of unscripted shows that were not as impacted, like American
Idol.

23/05/2008

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Cadacross

   
Artist: Cadacross

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Corona Borealis

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 So Pale Is The Dark

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10

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When they formed in 1997, Finland's Cadacross had it in their minds to play strong-growing destruction metal, simply after a set up of sickly standard demos (1997's Power of the Night and 1998's The Bloody Way) they began swerve toward accessibility, adopting to a greater extent and more melodic ability metal and





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Bleep

   
Artist: Bleep

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Datenbergbau

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 5

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Arctic Monkeys dominate NME shortlist

Arctic Monkeys dominate NME shortlist

Arctic Monkeys lead this year's NME Music Awards shortlist with nominations in seven categories.
The group has been nominated in the Best British Band, Best Live Band, Best Album, Best Track, Best Video and Best Video Album Artwork categories.
Lead singer Alex Turner has also been shortlisted for the Best Dressed award.
NME music magazine said the nominations, which are selected by public vote, made the group the most voted-for band of the decade.
Arctic Monkeys guitarist Jamie Cook said: "It's sound the readers keep voting for us."
"Live would be good - it's good to have been picked up in that because we put a lot of effort into our live work last year, I thought we got a lot better."
Klaxons have been nominated in four NME categories, contesting Best British Band, Best Album, Best Video and Best Dance Floor Filler.
Contesting the Best British Band category alongside the Arctic Monkeys and Klaxons are Babyshambles, The Cribs and Muse.
Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has also been nominated for four awards - Villain of the Year, Worst Dressed, Best Music DVD and Best Solo Artist.
Winehouse faces competition from Kate Nash, Jamie T, Jack Penate and Patrick Wolf in the Best Solo Artist category.
Nominated in the Best International Band category are Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, the Killers, Kings of Leon and My Chemical Romance.
The nominations for Best Album are 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' by Arctic Monkeys, 'Shotters Nation' by Babyshambles, 'We'll Live and Die in These Towns' by The Enemy, 'Myths of the Near Future' by Klaxons and 'In Rainbows' by Radiohead.
The Best Track shortlist includes 'Fluorescent Adolescent' by Arctic Monkeys, 'Flux' by Bloc Party, 'Men's Needs' by The Cribs, 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' by Oasis and 'Let's Dance to Joy Division' by The Wombats.




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Spice Girls pull out of Come Dancing

Spice Girls pull out of Come Dancing

The Spice Girls have been forced to pull out of their scheduled appearance on 'Strictly Come Dancing' after Emma Bunton sprained her ankle.
The 31-year-old singer picked up the injury when she took a tumble on stage at the Las Vegas leg of the group's tour.
Bunton initially thought that she would be well enough to perform during the dance show but her injury has not healed yet.
A BBC spokesperson said: "The Spice Girls performance on BBC One's 'Strictly Come Dancing' - due for transmission on Sunday December 16 - has been postponed as Emma Bunton has sprained her ankle badly and will not be able to perform."
A spokesperson for the Spice Girls said that the singer's injury would not affect any of the group's upcoming concerts.  
The Spice Girls will now reportedly perform on the final show of the 'Strictly Come Dancing' series on Saturday week.




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Coens triumph at Critics' Choice Awards

Coens triumph at Critics' Choice Awards

The Coen Brothers latest flick 'No State For Old Men' was the big winner at the 2008 Critics' Choice Awards in Los Angeles last night.
The film landed trey awards including the coveted Best Picture awarding.
Joel and Ethan Coen shared the Topper Film director trophy while the Best Support Worker category went to Javier Bardem.
The awards are precondition come out by the Transmit Film Critics Association and have ofttimes served as a goodness indicator as to world Health Organization crataegus oxycantha pick up Academy Award nominations later this month.
Unlike the Golden Globes the awards are not covered by Writer's Club contracts so they were not affected by the ongoing strike which has forced the cancellation of the prestigious Golden Globe Awards.
Other winners at the event included Daniel Day John Llewelly Lewis, wHO picked up Best Worker for his use in 'There Will Be Blood', and Julie Agatha Christie, wHO won C. H. Best Actress for 'Away From Her'.




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Sugababes star Berrabah is arrested

Sugababes star Berrabah is arrested

Sugababes isaac M. Singer Amelle Berrabah has been arrested over allegedly attacking a motorcar and causing felon damage to it.
According to the BBC, law confirmed that a 23-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of causing felon wrong and a public monastic order offence.
The catch stems from an incident which allegedly took place on 9 January.
The singer has nowadays reportedly been bailed to appear at Aldershot Constabulary Station on 21 February. Berrabah's swain Freddie Fuller late sustained serious subdivision and leg injuries in machete attack.