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TV review: We're back growing our own

2008-09-09T18:24:00.001-07:00

Suddenly, horticulture is everyplace. Newspapers and magazines ar featuring "grow your possess vege" pieces.

On telly, where there exploited to be only Mucking In, now there's Te Radar's Off the Radar, and Close Up, which had such a response to its recent feature on easy vege growing that it had to put up extra information online.

But doesn't something take you as odd? There is no actual dedicated gardening broadcast on free-to-air telly. Mucking In is a makeover programme, and Off the Radar is about self-sufficiency.

Since the dying of Maggie's Garden Show, there's been nothing truly useful for the pains green fingers to follow, short of turning to the Living Channel on Sky.

TV One made a cut-down variation of Maggie's for a brief stint�- so memorable I can't find its name�- but it was high-gloss and skimpy on information.

Then in that location was an enjoyable romp with a garden game show, in which foursome couples worked four identical plots of land inside a fixed budget, and strict time limits.

But none of that was proper gardening, in any educative sense.

Dumping a load of chocolatey compost here and there, sowing Potted Colour and scattering pebbles around a few flax bushes can give you a temporarily fashionable look.

But it's decorating, non gardening.

It's to be hoped that someone out thither in TV land can persuade one of the channels to give a decent slot for a new record with meaningful content, since there's today an nearly hysterical interest in ontogenesis your possess veges.

A combination of man recession, nursery emissions trading and occupy about vitamin content, genetic engineering and pesticides has found a therapeutic outlet here, and there mustiness be a growing new audience. No longer is gardening an old fogey's habit.

Children are being taught about it through school food gardens, and 20-somethings are making with the trowel because it's trendy.

Popularity is oft irrelevant when it comes to telecasting scheduling, however. The first base question to ask is: Would a gardening broadcast fit with the kind of image our advertisers want to align themselves with?

The second is: Can such a show happen a sponsor? Up against the plague of body makeover shows on Friday night�- for generations the gardening evince night on New Zealand TV�- wholesomely earthy bunches of newly yanked carrots simply wouldn't be a match for the wonders of Botox and what to do about a wobbly bottom.

Still, Off the Radar isn't a unfit start, in terms of inspiring the average couch-sitter to shackle a little with the backyard.

After episode two (TV One lowest Sunday), you wondered whether anything could be nicer than an outdoor-cooked, fresh, organic meal, after a day's energetic and pleasurable labour to produce the ingredients.

Well, yes, a cold beer, and some sort of�- believably inorganic - pudding would have rounded it off nicely, Te Radar admitted. But it's an gratifying call to arms for productive land-based pursuits, information-dense and good-humoured.

If you were worried that having a professional comedian would be an irritant, Te Radar blessedly keeps the showing-off to a minimum, as he seems genuinely overwhelmed with how wonderful a time he's having under canvas in a large paddock with chooks and cows for company (and a photographic camera crew, just it's surprisingly easy to forget that).

The other unmissable TV gardening experience�- which this commentator has managed to omit most of, but it's bound to be recurrent often�- is Around the World In Eighty Gardens, which Sky's Living Channel is playing on Sundays.

It features British TV gardener and writer Monty Don�- who is pretty much as lustworthy as the gardens he presents�- touring some of the most remarkable, distinctive and beautiful gardens on every continent, from raked, stilted Asian gardens to confections of prairie grass.

In a altogether different, inorganic and almost idiotic nervure, Sky's UKTV has been replaying 1960s episodes of The Saint on weekday afternoons, and I defy anyone of any historic period not to find them thoroughly entertaining.

The plots ar beyond lame by today's standards, and the characters less rounded than those you'd find oneself in Tintin.

But they give you a blast of fashion - the clothes and cars�- of the time. The dialogue is surprisingly bubbling. "Are you a role model?" says a lustful edward Young woman to Simon Templar. "Er, no, I opine you'll find I'm actual-sized," smirks the debonair and slightly creepy Saint.

Roger Moore - later a memorable James Bond�- in pallid, ungrubby-able suits, fist-fights the villains, but never to the point of disarranging his Brylcreemed hair. And every baddie is knocked unconscious with a single blow.

No Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis or Matt Damon character prat manage that.

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FDA Allows Phase 2 Study For Sound Pharmaceuticals' Novel Drug To Prevent Chemotherapy Induced Hearing Loss

2008-08-11T18:04:00.001-07:00

�Sound Pharmaceuticals (SPI) has
received FDA notification that it may proceed with its Phase II study to
forestall chemotherapy induced hearing red ink. The Ph-II study testament enroll 80
patients with advanced question and cervix, and non-small cell lung cancer at the
National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research at the Veterans
Administration Hospital and the Oregon Health and Science University in
Portland, Oregon.

Hearing personnel casualty due to ototoxic medications such as chemotherapy,
antibiotics or loop diuretics oftentimes results in permanent and progressive
impairment. Furthermore, the combined exercise of these ototoxic agents is
contraindicated, often constraining their clinical utility. Symptoms of
ototoxicity include audience loss, tinnitus, dizziness, lightheadedness and
difficulty understanding address. Historically, the incidence of cisplatin
or carboplatin-induced audience loss was widely under estimated or reported
imputable to unequal testing or a lack of reportage. Recently, a new
behavioral audiometric protocol has been developed and employed to test an
individual's tender range for ototoxicity (SRO). This involves pure-tone
audiometry at selfsame specific steps within a person's upper range of hearing.
With the SRO protocol, several studies nowadays report an incidence of
ototoxicity of 85-92% for cisplatin and carboplatin receiving cancer
patients, an incidence that is much greater than previously reported. One
of the goals of this Ph-II study is to reduce the incidence and rigourousness of
the ototoxicity in platinum receiving cancer patients as deliberate by
tone audiometry victimization the SRO protocol, distortion product otoacoustic
emissions (DPOAEs) and the tinnitus handicap inventory. DPOAEs are a
measure of outer hairsbreadth cell mathematical function in the inner ear and ar another
sensitive and specific measure of ototoxicity.

In several presymptomatic studies, SPI has showed that its novel
chemoprotectant drug mathematical product, a small molecule that mimics and induces
Glutathione Peroxidase activity was decisive in preventing ototoxicity
piece not busybodied with the chemotherapy intervention. In one rodent model
of cancer, the chemoprotectant enhanced the tumoricidal activity of
cisplatin.

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http://www.soundpharma.com

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All-American Rejects' Tyson Ritter Says 'Good Doesn't Make The Cut' For Third Album

2008-07-02T07:02:00.001-07:00

The stakes are decidedly high for the All-American Rejects this time around: Their last album, 2005's Move Along, sold more than 2 million copies in the U.S., spawned a trio of hit singles and established the band as one of the nation's foremost purveyors of radio-ready rock. Frontman Tyson Ritter is painfully aware of all these things, which is why he's adopted this ethos for the follow-up:

"I don't want to have any regrets, dude. I worry about stuff like, 'Is this song the best thing we've ever done?' " he laughed. "There have been points where we've had a bunch of good songs, but good doesn't make the cut for this record. I find myself going, 'Sh--, if this isn't a good song, I'm gonna kill myself.' "

Now that's commitment to one's craft. And though he was kidding (we think), there's no denying the fact that Ritter and the rest of AAR are currently standing on the precipice of something really huge with album number three, which they've been working on in earnest since June of last year.

"I think we all realized that we had a pretty huge opportunity here," Ritter said. "When we were making the last record, we were staying at a $30-a-night motel, and I would think, 'F---, if the label doesn't give us approval to go into the studio, am I gonna be working at Blockbuster?' This time, we don't have to worry about that, so we're really taking advantage, you know? We've put in the work on this one.

"We started out writing at this cabin in South Carolina, on the same mountain where they filmed 'Deliverance.' We did about five or six songs there. Then we went to Vancouver, did another five or six there. Then we ended up in San Francisco, staying in the Haight-Ashbury," he continued. "Then we went into the studio, didn't like what we had and put the record on hold for three months. Then [guitarist] Nick [Wheeler] and I got in a bus, drove from Portland, Maine, to Yellowstone National Park, and wrote more songs. We were like, 'We got a couple of good ones, where are we gonna find the next ones?' "

Luckily, they did, and they've settled down in Atlanta with producer Eric Valentine (Good Charlotte, Maroon 5), to put the finishing touches on the album, which Ritter says may be called either Hope This Gives You Hell or Mona Lisa, both of which also happen to be the titles of songs on the record.

"There's a lot on the record, man," Ritter said, before listing the highlights. "We got a song called 'The Real World,' and it's f---ing heavy and a little bit political. ... It's very obvious what we're getting at on it. 'Mona Lisa,' we're gonna track that one live, all acoustic. Um, what else? 'Another Heart Calls,' 'Hope It Gives You Hell,' 'Damn Girl' — that one I've talked about before, but it's still the jam, man! 'Believe,' which is this really heavy rock song, 'Breaking's What the Heart Is For.' There's a ton of stuff, man."

As such, the Rejects are still wrapping production on the album. Ritter finished vocals two days ago and said he hopes the entire thing will be done by August. They are currently working on a cover concept, which the frontman described as "crayons making the AAR logo, only it's melting. ... It's kind of like a metaphor for where we're going for with this record. ... We love the kids, but hopefully we're gonna melt the crayons."

And just when will fans be able to hear this crayon-melting album? Well, in theory, "around Thanksgiving," though to be honest, Ritter couldn't care less. He's just glad that the whole thing is about to be finished.

"I don't worry about that stuff. It'll be great, and people will get to hear it. And since labels are sucking right now, because we're one of the few bands that were actually doing real well before the sh-- hit the fan, hopefully they'll give the record the push it deserves," he said. "It's like everything is working out for this one. This record is like fate falling into my lap and giving me [sexual favors]."

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Count Basie and His Orchestra

2008-06-30T09:17:00.001-07:00

Artist: Count Basie and His Orchestra

   Genre(s):
Jazz

Discography:

Basic Basie

Year: 1969
Tracks: 12

Jesse Winchester

2008-06-30T05:01:00.001-07:00

Artist: Jesse Winchester

   Genre(s):
Folk

Discography:

Jesse Winchester

Year: 2006
Tracks: 11

Jesse Winchester was the music world's most spectacular Vietnam War draft dodger, though his fame came from a body of ironical, intimately discovered songs. After growing up in Memphis, Winchester received his drawing notice in 1967 and stirred to Montreal, Canada, kinda than wait on in the military. In 1969, he met Robbie Robertson of the Band, world Health Organization helped found his recording career. In the same way that James Taylor's chronicle of mental imbalance and drug step served as a subtext for his former music, Winchester's expatriation lent real world poignance to songs like "Yank Lady," which appeared on his debut album, Jesse Winchester (1970). He became a Canadian citizen in 1973. Despite critical herald, his inability to enlistment in the U.S. prevented him from pickings his home among the major singer/songwriters of the early '70s, only he made a series of impressive albums -- Third Down, 110 to Go (Revered 1972), Acquire to Love It (Revered 1974), Permit the Rough Side Drag (June 1976), and Zip only a Breeze (March 1977) -- earlier President Jimmy Carter instituted an pardon that finally allowed him to roleplay in his fatherland. By that time, the singer/songwriter boom had passed, though Winchester continued to record (A Touch on the Rainy Side [July 1978], Talk Memphis [Feb 1981], Humour Me [1988]) and even scored a Top 40 remove with "Say What" in 1981. His to the highest degree conspicuously covered songs include "Yank Lady" (Beer maker & Shipley), "The Brand New Tennessee Waltz" (Joan Baez, Ian Matthews), "Biloxi" (Gobbler Rush, Jimmy Buffett), "Mississippi River, You're on My Mind" (Krauthead Jeff Walker, Stoney Edwards [for a Top 40 rural area hit]), "Defying Gravity" (Jemmy Buffett, Emmylou Harris), "Rhumba Girl" (Nicolette Larson [for a pop chart submission]), "Well-A-Wiggy" (the Weather Girls [for an R&B chart ingress]), and "I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl" (Michael Martin Murphey [for a Top Ten rural area hit]). In 1999, Winchester returned from a long recording suspension with the new album Gentleman of Leisure. An active live performer, Winchester released his first live album in 24 years with 2001's Jesse Winchester Live at Mountain Stage. Another live album, plainly coroneted Live followed in 2005.

Mos Def and Doom

2008-06-30T03:55:00.001-07:00

Artist: Mos Def and Doom

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

Mos Def vs. Doom

Year: 2006
Tracks: 28

The Olsen Twins At War?

2008-06-30T01:48:00.001-07:00

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are currently doing their best to avoid each other after falling out, according to a new report.

Apparently the pint-sized twins have arranged separate meetings for their money-spinning clothing line so they don't have to come face-to-face.

“All meetings for their clothing line, they will not do together,” a source tells The New York Post.
“Something happened between them, and they haven't worked it out. It's been going on for a while.”
Split or no split, the pair managed to withstand each other's company at the Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5 (below.)

Vanessa Amorosi

2008-06-30T01:43:00.001-07:00

Artist: Vanessa Amorosi

   Genre(s):
Pop

Discography:

The Power

Year: 1999
Tracks: 13

With just one album, Vanessa Amorosi has become Australia's third base most successful female after Kylie Minogue and Tina Arena.

Amorosi was born in Melbourne to parents world Health Organization were both professional singer/dancers working in the Australasian theatre restaurant cabaret circle. She was surrounded by music and tattle and it had a unplumbed encroachment on her life. At the age of quartet, Amarosi and her younger sisters were pickings tap, jazz, and authoritative ballet classes at a dance school run by their uncle. The big turn distributor point came when, at 14 days of historic period, Vanessa Amorosi took a part-time job tattle in a Russian eating place. Her other performances had been character of regular dance class character activities in which all the all kids engaged in those activities touch in. The Russian eating place job was different. Amarosi was in the public eye on her have and it was thither the powerfully sonant teenager was patched by TV producer Jack Strom. Strom had latterly formed a management companionship with '70s recording genius Mark Holden.

Genus Vanessa Amorosi took some convincing to shake off her lot in with Strom and Holden. She'd already had numerous the great unwashed promise to make her a genius and seen zip happen. But eventually they did win over her, sign-language her to a management narrow, and set about working towards her first track record. After rejections from all the major record companies, a get by was establish with BMG distributed independent Transistor Records. Amorosi was their number one Australian signing. In May, 1999, she flew to London to record several tracks, including her debut single with producer Steve Mac, known for his work with pop acts Boyzone and Five and, later on, Westlife.

The number one unmarried "Have a Look" took Amorosi into Australia's national Top 20. The s unmarried, the dance-pop "Absolutely Everybody" reached number threesome and spent 27 weeks in the Top 40, one of the longest runs of all time for an Australian single. The record album The Power was the number one metre an Australian female reached issue one on the national album chart with her first album. In all, her album generated four major hits and interest in her recordings passim Europe,

In September, 2000, Vanessa Amorosi was the only artist to feature in both the opening and the closing ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics.

Amy Winehouse packs a punch at Glastonbury festival in scuffle with fan

2008-06-30T01:41:00.001-07:00

LONDON - Amy Winehouse has packed a punch at the Glastonbury music festival.

The troubled singer took the stage Saturday, climbing down into the pit and scuffling briefly with a reveler.

It was unclear what sparked the altercation at the large music and performing arts festival in southwest England, but some witnesses said a fan tried to grab Winehouse.

Performing in front of 80,000 fans, Winehouse sang for about an hour.

She shocked fans on Friday by performing at a special birthday concert for Nelson Mandela. The performance came just days after she had been admitted to hospital for tests.

Her father says Winehouse has developed emphysema from smoking cigarettes and crack cocaine, although her spokeswoman has said Winehouse only has pre-emphysema symptoms.

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Oscar nominee Julie Christie weds

2008-06-30T01:40:00.001-07:00

'Doctor Zhivago' star Julie Christie has wed her long-term partner in India.
CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reported that the 66-year-old secretly wed journalist Duncan Campbell in a small, private ceremony.
Christie's brother Clive Christie confirmed to the UK's Daily Mail newspaper that the wedding had taken place, but that he did not attend the event two months ago.
The actress once said: "I don't see any reason for getting married unless you're religious, which I'm not."
Commenting on the newly married couple, columnist Neal Sean said: "He's very studious, very educated and she's always been about broadening her mind, her appeal, that sort of stuff."
Christie is among the nominees for this month's Oscars for her return to cinema screens as an Alzheimer's sufferer in the film 'Away from Her'.
She has already won Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe and National Board of Review awards in the US for her performance.
The actress previously won an Oscar for the John Schlesinger film 'Darling', before turning her back on Hollywood in the 1970s.
"Julie Christie is something of a recluse, not just from life itself but basically from the whole sort of Hollywood shebang as it were," said columnist Sean.

Automat

2008-06-30T01:39:00.001-07:00

Artist: Automat

   Genre(s):
Electronic

Discography:

Automat

Year: 1978
Tracks: 6

Mayra Andrade

2008-06-30T01:37:00.001-07:00

Artist: Mayra Andrade

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Navega

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

Curve

2008-06-30T01:36:00.000-07:00

Artist: Curve

   Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative

Discography:


Come Clean

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 13


Cuckoo

   Year: 1993
Tracks: 10

Considering Curve's soaring monolith of guitar noise, dance tracks, obscure churl, and airy melodies, it's strange that their iI congress of Racial Equality members -- guitarist Dean Garcia and vocalizer Toni Halliday -- met through David Stewart of Eurythmics. Halliday met Stewart spell she was a teenager and they remained friends for years; Garcia played on Eurythmics' Rival and Be Yourself Tonight. The iI played together in State of Play, world Health Organization released one record album and two singles in the late '80s to little notice. After the failure of that band, Garcia and Halliday parted shipway simply to reunite in the beginning of the '90s. Renaming themselves Curve, Halliday and Garcia released trey EPs that became autonomous hits in 1991. Although they were critically acclaimed as well, some members of the U.K. press attacked Halliday for not beingness a echt member of the indie scenery. Despite the negative push, their next EP and number 1 record album, 1992's Doppelganger, hit figure matchless on the U.K. indie charts. By the time of the following year's Zany, Curve had added deuce guitarists and a drummer, with Garcia moving to bass. Zany was noisier and more than experimental than their former releases, although it did have a couple of pop songs that were tighter than their usual singles. However, the album didn't make as big of a splash in the U.K. as previous releases; Curve schism several months later on its release, only to reform in 1997 with the Chinese Burn EP. The full-length Come Clean followed a year later and "Coming Up Roses became a moderate hit among college radiocommunication. Three years later, Curve issued the Internet-only Open Day at the Hate Fest. This album gathered MP3's and B-sides and was a limited edition parcel for aegir fans awaiting a right studio apartment album. After battling contractual obligations with Estupendo/Universal, Curve returned to form for 2001's Gift, their twenty-five percent record album in 10 years. Another self-released saucer came in 2002, and a two-disc digest entitled The Way of Curve followed in 2004.

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Blutzukker

2008-06-30T01:35:00.001-07:00

Artist: Blutzukker

   Genre(s):
Electronic

Discography:

Sucking Blood Is True Addiction

Year: 2004
Tracks: 15