Monday, 8 September 2008

Conventional Wisdom Suggests That Stress Accelerates Aging -- But Is It Really True?

�Evolutionary studies of ripening typically apply small, transitory animals (insects, worms, mice) under benign conditions - constant temperature and humidity, no parasites, superabundant intellectual nourishment - in the laboratory. Oddly enough, very little is known about ageing in such animals in their abrasive, stressful natural environments. Could it be that these laboratory "guinea pigs" actually age often more slowly in captive luxury than do their wild cousins?



Nori Kawasaki, Rob Brooks, and Russell Bonduriansky of the University of New South Wales, and Chad Brassil of the University of Nebraska, place out to find out, using the giant Australian stilt-legged fly Telostylinus angusticollis, a beautiful, sexually dimorphous animal that breeds on rotten mrs. Henry Wood. To identify individual flies in the wild, they wrote codes (combinations of Arabic numerals and Latin and Japanese letters) on the flies' backs victimization enamel paint, and recorded the comings and goings of marked individuals on Acacia trunks while at the same time monitoring their captive cousins in the lab.



Analysis, promulgated in the September issue of the American Naturalist, revealed hitting contrasts betwixt wild and captivity: in males, the rate of aging (deliberate as the rate of increase of mortality rate with historic period) was as least doubled greater in the wild than in the science laboratory. Curiously, raving mad females did not look to age at all. For both sexes, life expectancies in the wild were dramatically shorter than in the lab.



Evolutionary biologists have long sought to understand how environmental factors generate natural selection on the rate of aging, and in the end influence the frequencies of genes that underpin genetic variation in this trait. Much less is known about how environment affects the

Friday, 29 August 2008

Carmen Electra - Electra Finds Wrestling Partner Kardashian Hot

Model/actress CARMEN ELECTRA bottom understand why socialite KIM KARDASHIAN turns men on after wrestle with her for a scene in new comedy film DISASTER MOVIE.

The two aphrodisiacal stars get into some "down and dirty positions" for the new motion-picture show, which spoofs Hollywood's action blockbusters, and Electra admits she left field the fix with a little same-sex crush on her co-star.

She says, "I really got to know her in our grappling scene... We get into some depressed and dirty positions, so it's a good thing we became friends. Kim is so cool, not to reference being hot."

But the wrestling scene wasn't all fun to dash - Electra was left wing with some nasty injuries.

She tells Parade.com, "There's pilus pulling and I hurt my back up and got some cauterise marks. But it's as well sexy. We're sort of playing with the theme that guys get turned on by girls rassling."





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Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Download Jack Penate mp3






Jack Penate
   

Artist: Jack Penate: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Rock

   







Discography:


Matinee
   

 Matinee

   Year: 2007   

Tracks: 11






In many slipway, Jack Penate is Lily Allen minus the satire and the party frocks. The South Londoner's music is glossy, radio-ready pop, just its center is frozen in the Two-Tone ska revival and the more soulful ending of '80s pop, along the lines of the Style Council and the Housemartins. Add in Penate's impinging vocal resemblance to the loretta Young Billy Bragg and he's like the postmillennial equivalent weight to the U.K. pupil discos of deuce decades antecedently. Jack Fabian Penate (beingness of Spanish descent, his soubriquet is marked "Pen -- yah -- TAY," not "Pen -- ate") was innate in Blackheath, a fair swish London suburban area, on September 9, 1984. While bland in his teens, Penate formed a band called Jack's Basement, which besides featured his classmate Felix White, by and by lead guitar player for neo-Brit-pop play the Maccabees. When that group broke up as its members went off to different universities, Penate began a solo life history, backed by bassist Joel Porter and drummer Alex Robins. While development a substantial live next due in large section to his frenetic onstage dance, Penate signed with the Young Turks label and released his debut undivided "Second, Minute or Hour" (each of the chiliad limited variant vinyl copies containing a Polaroid self-portrait of the artist) in the fall of 2006. The single's favorable buzz allowed Penate to derail to the bigger indie XL Recordings for his beginning EP, Spit at Stars, released in the spring of 2007.






Saturday, 9 August 2008

Carcass

Carcass   
Artist: Carcass

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Heavy
   Rock
   Metal: Death,Black
   Rock: Thrash
   Rock: Grindcore
   



Discography:


Swansong (Remastered)   
 Swansong (Remastered)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment   
 Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 28


Wake Up and Smell The Carcass   
 Wake Up and Smell The Carcass

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 17


Swansong   
 Swansong

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 12


Death 'n' Roll   
 Death 'n' Roll

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 13


Heartwork   
 Heartwork

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


Tools Of The Trade   
 Tools Of The Trade

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 4


Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious   
 Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


Symphonies Of Sickness   
 Symphonies Of Sickness

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 10


Reek Of Putrefaction   
 Reek Of Putrefaction

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 22




Often considered one of grindcore's innovation fathers, Carcass were among the turn one bands of the utmost alloy musical style to stress a different lyrical attack -- one that reflected a fascination with surgical gadgets and peculiar words straight out of a mEd student's school text. Hailing from the same locale that spawned the Fab Four -- in case you lived under a stone for the past tense few decades, Liverpool -- Carcass were originally formed in 1985 by singer/guitarist Bill Steer (wHO would later play with Napalm Death) and drummer Ken Owen. By 1987, singer/bassist Jeff Walker had signing on with the banding, resulting in a deal with Earache Records concisely later. The triple then issued a pair of full-lengths that ar often considered classics of the grindcore writing style, 1988's Reek of Putrefaction and 1989's Symphonies of Sickness.


Concisely later the dawn of the '90s, Carcass expanded to a quartette, as Michael Amott sign-language on as second guitarist, resulting in deuce more favorites of the metal subway system, 1991's Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious and 1992's four-song EP Tools of the Trade. Whereas he once sang in a growl voice à la a dragon desperately in want of some Pepto-Bismol, Walker adoptive a somewhat more traditional metallic element tattle style, piece the lot was no longer afraid to allow Iron Maiden-esque guitar form accede the mix. The result was the group's major-label debut for Sony, 1994's Heartwork. Although Heartwork is probably Carcass' best-known album, fan response is often split evenly 'tween those world Health Organization sense the group had sold stunned with a more easily digestible well-grounded (quite comparable to thresh metal) and those wHO feel that it's one of the '90s great alloy releases.


Either way, Amott left the group around this time, and was replaced by Carlo Regadas for Carcass' last studio album, 1996's appropriately titled Swansong. The same year, a compilation of rarities was issued, Arouse Up and Smell the Carcass. Subsequently, Owen, Walker, and Regadas continued working together for a write under the Blackstar nominate; Amott formed both Spiritual Beggars and Arch Enemy; and Steer surprisingly formed a blues-rock power threesome, Firebird.





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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Pavarotti widow, daughters agree on inheritance

MILAN, Italy —

A lawyer for Luciano Pavarotti's widow says his family has come to a friendly agreement on how to divide up his estate.


Pavarotti had drafted two wills near the end of his yearlong battle with cancer. One divided his assets by Italian law, giving half to his second wife, Nicoletta Mantovani, and half to his four daughters. The second left the tenor's U.S. holdings to Mantovani.


Pavarotti died last September. He had three adult daughters from his 35-year marriage to first wife Adua Veroni. He married Mantovani in 2003, and the couple had a young daughter.


Mantovani's lawyer Giorgio Bernini declined Monday to provide details about her agreement with Pavarotti's three eldest daughters. He says a judge is expected to confirm the deal by the end of July.








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Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Black Attack

Black Attack   
Artist: Black Attack

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


On the Edge   
 On the Edge

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12




Born and embossed in Manhattan, Black Attack (real diagnose Sean Boston) knew at 13 age of age that he was going to be an MC. He started kayoed in a local crew named Smoked Out Productions, simply ventured out on his have in the mid-'90s, crossing paths with former Beatnuts phallus Al Tariq, world Health Organization was running on his solo debut, Supreme Being Connections (1996), for Correct Records. In 1997, Black Attack released the tube stumble 12" "Holdin' It Down" b/w "Verbal Attack," featuring mate MC Problemz, on the Correct label. The up-and-comer quickly established a diagnose for himself with that record, only the business closing of things ne'er could match up to the assure of his skills. Black Attack was always spirited from label to label on the independent circuit, with only a few recordings (like the My Crown 12") to demonstrate for it. However, advent into contact with Japanese turntablist DJ Honda, world Health Organization was based in Manhattan at the sentence, aegir some positive results. Black Attack recorded many songs with Honda for his self-titled debut, DJ Honda (1996), as well as HII (1998) and HIII (2001). Work on Honda's irregular album had reunited Black Attack with Al Tariq and Problemz. The trey toured Europe with Honda as well as doing their have gigs. Since the chemistry was there and they were well-received, the trey of them founded Missin' Linx, unfortunately a transitory endeavour. Black Attack was on the verge of calling it quits, simply he resurfaced in 2007 with some other independent individual, "Black Man."






Monday, 16 June 2008

James Dean Gallery moves back to original home in Fairmount, Indiana








FAIRMOUNT, Ind. - The James Dean Gallery is back where the 1950s Hollywood icon grew up.

Owner David Loehr has moved the gallery back to its original spot in Fairmount, Indiana, about 80 kilometres northeast of Indianapolis. He had moved everything out in 2002, after a small electrical fire in the original house. The risk of another fire prompted Loehr to think about getting some of his rare Dean collectibles out of the structure.

The gallery moved to a custom-built, state-of-the-art museum at Gas City's Interstate 69 interchange for two years.

But Loehr says that place was too big and became "unsustainable."

"It got so big, so grand, that it didn't work," Loehr said.

He said he sold some of his memorabilia just to get out of the hole he was in because of the building. Needing a place to house his wares and regroup, Loehr moved the display to the Kruse Automobile Museum in Auburn.

But he decided to move back to the building where he started the gallery in 1988. It features a collection of Dean portraits and rare memorabilia, including hometown artifacts, collectibles, magazines and more.

Dean hit it big with starring roles in "East of Eden," "Rebel" and "Giant," which had just wrapped filming when a station wagon collided with Dean's new silver Porsche Spyder near rural Cholame, Calif., on Sept. 30, 1955. He died instantly.

Loehr is planning new brochures and hopes to market the gallery, which has no admission charge, to Midwestern families looking for a short, affordable day trip.

"James Dean will never die culturally," Loehr said. "There will always be fans."










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Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Garden Tribute For Late Beatle Harrison

Late BEATLE GEORGE HARRISON's widow OLIVIA has created a floral tribute for the legendary musician - by designing a garden in his honour for an English flower show.

The garden will feature as part of England's Chelsea Flower Show, and is entitled Life To Life after a line in the Beatle's hit It's All Too Much.

The tribute will depict Harrison's humble beginnings growing up in Liverpool, England to his post-Beatle life of luxury - all through the medium of plants and flowers.

The garden - which is sponsored by Harrison's own Material World Charitable Foundation - is a fitting tribute for the musician who often frequented the Chelsea Flower Show before he died from lung cancer in 2001.

Olivia tells Britain's Radio Times magazine, "Each year we used to go to Chelsea and George would take copious notes and come home with a list of plants he wanted to buy.

"My hope is that this project will be a tribute to the horticultural side of his personality that relatively few people knew about."




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Spears Loses Place In Hollywood's Top Female Earners

Britney Spears is determined to get her career back on track - after losing her place in a select group of Hollywood's richest women. The pop superstar has been nudged from the top 10 celebrity female earners in a new rich list compiled by Forbes magazine. Spears made the top 10 last year in a similar study by the publication, but just missed out in the 2008 poll ? she was placed 11th on the list with an estimated fortune of $102 million (?51 million). The biggest earner on the Forbes list was chatshow queen Oprah Winfrey, who tops the poll with a massive $1.5 billion (?750 million) fortune. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is second after amassing a $1.1 billion (?550 million) fortune thanks to phenomenal global sales of her beloved books and its movie adaptations. Other top earners include Madonna with $325 million (?162 million), Celine Dion with $250 million (?125 million) and singer Mariah Carey, who has earned $226 million (?113 million).


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Seattle Shakes' "All's Well That Ends Well" has a few bright moments

Theater Review |



Even playwrights of genius have their off days. And on one such a day, William Shakespeare completed his stage comedy "All's Well That Ends Well," which Seattle Shakespeare Company is now bravely undertaking at Center House Theatre.



Wedged between the far superior "Twelfth Night" and "Measure for Measure" on the Shakespeare timeline, "All's Well That Ends Well" is verbose, heavily contrived and introduces us to a couple of fairly unsympathetic romancers.



Helena (portrayed by Sarah Harlett) is a "poor physician's daughter" intent on marrying the higher-born Bertram (Connor Toms) — despite the class gap, and Bertram's total resistance.



One of the more conniving yet emotionally tone-deaf leading ladies in the Bard's canon, Helena sweetly but shamelessly ropes in her mark with various subterfuges over the course of the play. Bertram, meanwhile, abandons his bride on their wedding night to soldier and seduce in sunny Italy.



"A man noble without generosity, and young without truth," is how 18th-century Shakespeare critic Samuel Johnson described Bertrand. But Helena is no prize either.



Director Stephanie Shine has her work cut out for her, given the queasy morality on display here. And then there's the plot (inspired by a story from Giovanni Boccaccio's compendium of bawdy tales, "The Decameron"), which plods along, then gets hyperactive.



As the would-be lovers, the fresh-faced Toms and game Harlett (a top-notch comic actor, strapped into a drab ingénue role here) connive and lie — albeit with incongruous sincerity.



Two pleasant musical interludes frame the play's early scenes in France, and its latter segments in Tuscany.



And Seattle Shakes regular Paul Morgan Stetler scampers about adorned with bright silk scarves (as the text suggests), and scares up a few laughs as the foppish fool and cowardly braggart Parolles.



Not all the actors in the ensemble deliver the dialogue's couplets crisply, but Marianne Owen's wise, maternal countess is a model of lucidity — as are Stetler, Toms and Harlett.



And Stetler is adept at the verbal jousting required of Parolles ("words," in French) — as when he expounds on virginity, as "peevish, proud, idle, made of self-love, which is the most inhibited sin."



But "All's Well That Ends Well" needs a bolder, more illuminating approach than the straightforward style Seattle Shakes adopts.



Sludgy with repetition, light on character development, the play relies on sudden turnabouts of fate and affection to further its ends. And it leans on creaky devices like the "bed trick" — a fanciful act of sexual entrapment in Boccaccio's repertoire and Shakespeare's. (The latter also used it in "Measure for Measure.")



"All's Well" does get an attractive physical setting from designer Kurt D. Walls, with green faux marble floors and sienna-toned architecture. Tiana Covolos is responsible for the pleasing, Regency Era-style costumes.



Misha Berson: mberson@seattletimes.com








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Echoes of Nature

Echoes of Nature   
Artist: Echoes of Nature

   Genre(s): 
kategorien
   Jazz
   Miscellaneous
   



Discography:


Wilderness River   
 Wilderness River

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 4


Sampler   
 Sampler

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 9


Morning Songbirds   
 Morning Songbirds

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 7


Jungle Talk   
 Jungle Talk

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 4


Thunderstorm   
 Thunderstorm

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 3


Ocean Waves   
 Ocean Waves

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 4


Frog Chorus   
 Frog Chorus

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 3


American Wilds   
 American Wilds

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 7


Rainforest   
 Rainforest

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 3


Bayou   
 Bayou

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 3




 





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James Yorkston

James Yorkston   
Artist: James Yorkston

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


The Year of the Leopard   
 The Year of the Leopard

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10


Roaring the Gospel   
 Roaring the Gospel

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12




James Yorkston was natural in Kingsbarns, a small small town in Fife, Scotland. At the long time of octonary, Yorkston started playing music and fell in love with the craft. At the long time of 17, he affected from Fife to the larger metropolis of Edinburgh with his girlfriend. It was at the same time that he became involved with a garage rock 'n' roll and kindling band called Huckleberry, with Yorkston being the group's bass player. In 1996, he performed his first acoustic establish afterwards a ally working in a record shop picked Yorkston as an gap act for Bert Jansch in Edinburgh. The acoustic and hoodlum rock candy genres were something the player loved evenly, simply he chose the acoustic phratry route. In 2000, under the name "J. Wright Presents," Yorkston recorded a demo tape at base, sending it to John Peel, wHO played the song dynasty on his program immediately. Yorkston as well sent a tape to John Martyn, requesting an chess opening slot on his Edinburgh depict. Martyn invited Yorkston to be his chess opening dissemble on his intact 30-date tour. "Moving Up Country" was released as a single in October 2000 on Bad Jazz Records. In January 2001, the song was released as a 7" single. Exactly a year later, Yorkston released a split single with the Lone Pigeon. In May 2002 Yorkston and his supporting stray the Athletes released an EP called St. Patrick. In June Yorkston released his debut record album, Moving Up Country. Citing Anna Briggs, Lal Waterson, Nick Drake, and Malagasy guitar player D'Gary as musical influences, Yorkston as well has opened for Lambchop, Turin Brakes, the Divine Comedy, and Gemma Hayes. The Someplace Simple EP appeared in December 2003. In February 2004 Yorkston and his group hit the studio with producer Kieran Hebden of Four Tet. The results of the session were released in late 2004 as Just Beyond the River on Domino. The undermentioned year the Spanish label Houston Records issued the EP Hoopoo, which included five new songs, among other things, and in 2007 Yorkston's third full-length, The Year of the Leopard, came out in the U.S. (it had already hit British shelves that former fall).






Vaya Con Dios

Vaya Con Dios   
Artist: Vaya Con Dios

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Pop: Latin
   Easy Listening
   



Discography:


The Promise   
 The Promise

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


Yeware   
 Yeware

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


Golden Collection   
 Golden Collection

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 22


The Best Of   
 The Best Of

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 16


Songs By Purple Prose   
 Songs By Purple Prose

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 13


What's a Woman CDS   
 What's a Woman CDS

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 2


What's a Woman   
 What's a Woman

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 17


Roots and Wings   
 Roots and Wings

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12


Time Flies   
 Time Flies

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 13


Night Owls   
 Night Owls

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 12


Con Dios (Limited Edition)   
 Con Dios (Limited Edition)

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 12




Latin ring Vaya sting Dios released several albums for Ariola Records during the eighties and '90s. Some of the material is poised on Charles Herbert Best Of, released in late 1996.





Rosie says she's waiting to remarry Kelli

Madden's ex wishes him well with Hilton

Actress Sophie Monk has dismissed rumours that rocker Benji Madden dumped her to start a relationship with socialite Paris Hilton.
Monk told Australian newspaper Herald Sun that her break-up with Madden was amicable and that she wished him well for the future.
Monk reportedly said: "Let me make this as plain as possible - Benji did not leave me for Paris Hilton."
"Benji and I did not break up badly or anything like that. We both decided, as adults, our relationship had run its course and decided to move on."
She also said: "I feel no animosity towards Benji and Paris at all and am very happy with life at the moment."