Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Kid Rock retains Aussie top spot

Kid Rock has spent a sec week at number one in the Australian singles chart with 'All Summer Long'.

Lady GaGa's 'Just Dance' climbs quatern spots to reach numeral two, while Pink's comeback single 'So What' moves up to third.

Elsewhere, Katy Perry slips to one-fifth, while Rihanna's latest release 'Disturbia' reaches number eight.

The top ten singles in full:

1. (1) Kid Rock: 'All Summer Long'
2. (6) Lady GaGa: 'Just Dance'
3. (4) Pink: 'So What'
4. (3) Metro Station: 'Shake It'
5. (2) Katy Perry: 'I Kissed A Girl'
6. (5) Pussycat Dolls: 'When I Grow Up'
7. (8) Jason Mraz: 'I'm Yours'
8. (9) Rihanna: 'Disturbia'
9. (7) The Veronicas: 'Take Me On The Floor'
10. (10) Chris Brown: 'Forever'



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Sunday, 31 August 2008

DMX Pleads Guilty Drugs Charges In America

US rapper DMX has pleaded guilty to drugs charges in a court in Florida.


The doorknocker, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was arrested in June trying to buy cocain and hemp from an undercover law officer masked as a drug dealer.


He was sentenced to time served by a judge yesterday (August 28th).


Simmons was originally released on bail over the incident merely was arrested two weeks ago after he failed to appear in royal court in Phoenix.


Bradford Cohen, Simmons' lawyer, aforementioned the knocker had got �shafted�, claiming that the evidence in the drugs operation was flawed.


Simmons currently faces a number of outstanding sound cases, which are the result of a concourse of arrests over the last eight months.




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Thursday, 21 August 2008

Duffy Doesn't "Hold A Grudge" Against John Lydon

Duffy says she doesn't "hold a grudge" towards Sex Pistols singer John Lydon, after their publicized rift.


It was reported that the punk icon made the Welsh singer cry at the Mojo Awards in June, after she attempted to hug him from behind, to which he reacted by shouting at her.


Speaking of the event, Duffy told the Mirror: "He'd been heckling me when I went to foot up an award, yelling 'Duffo' 'up the Duffy', things like that."


"When I picked up the awarding I had to walk past him so I went to say 'Hi' and on the spur of the moment he had me pinned against the wall. I just went white and had to get away. I just had to leave the building through and through the back door, it was horrible. I went home with a heavy heart and an award."


However, the 'Mercy' singer revealed she has moved on and doesn't have an ill-feelings towards Lydon: "I'm not a person to hold a grudge. The only intellect you become strong is because of the things you receive in life."




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Monday, 11 August 2008

Max Thieriot is the next 'Prodigy'

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Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Safety Of Imported Foods Addressed In New Publication

�As the proportion of imported foods in the food provide continues to increase, Americans are putt themselves at a potentially greater danger for foodborne disease as some countries may not have the same healthful standards as the U.S. Imported Foods: Microbiological Issues and Challenges, the latest book in the ASM Press series Emerging Issues in Food Safety, soundly explains one of the greatest weaknesses in the U.S. food safety system and outlines steps necessary to remedy it.





"Food safety concerns own become a crucial world health subject. Perhaps nearly alarming of these is the questionable safety of many imported foods. As the market for food becomes more and more global and our population clamors for more fresh produce and uncooked ready-to-eat foods, the microbiological risks of imported food have dramatically increased," says Michael Doyle of the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety who edited the book with fellow worker Marilyn Erickson.





Imported Foods: Microbiological Issues and Challenges brings together the most up-to-date and in-depth information on microbiological solid food safety. This volume non only describes the problems with imported foods merely also suggests specific programs and steps to better the monitoring and condom of imported foods. Authors explain the systematic risks inherent in food production in development countries, the current U.S. food safety system, fresh acquired foodborne pathogens, and recommendations for systematic changes to the monitoring of imported food. Throughout this volume, the authors underline proven concepts of microbial risk analysis and practical methods to address this growing world health concern.





"If the U.S. food safety system is allowed to continue unaltered, there are likely to be major increases in the occurrence and sizing of foodborne outbreaks as U.S. food imports increase from countries in which risky food for thought production, harvest home and processing practices subsist. This issue is among the most serious of food refuge concerns confronting Americans for the foreseeable future. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of the microbiological food safety issues cladding the United States from imported foods, and provides the justification for changes in the U.S. intellectual nourishment safety net," says Doyle.









Imported Foods: Microbiological Issues and Challenges is available through and through ASM Press online at http://estore.asm.org/ or through other online retailers.





ASM Press is the book publication arm of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the oldest and largest single life science membership organization in the world. The ASM's mission is to encourage research in the microbiological sciences and to wait on communication between scientists, policy makers, and the public to improve health and foster economic well-being.





Source: Jim Sliwa



American Society for Microbiology




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Thursday, 19 June 2008

Bob Dylan Brands Music Industry "Hypocritical Rubbish"

Bob Dylan Legendary rocker Bob Dylan has launched a scathing attack on the music industry, calling it "hypocritical rubbish."


The 'Like a Rolling Stone' hitmaker, 67, said he preferred the art and book industries, which he described as more "dignified."


He told Britain's The Times newspaper, "The music world's a made-up bunch of hypocritical rubbish. I know that the book people are a whole lot saner.


"And the art world? From the small steps I've taken in it, I'd say, yeah, the people are honest, upfront and deliver what they say.


"Basically, they are who they say they are. They don't pretend. And having been in the music world most of my life I can tell you it's not that way.


"Let's just say it's less dignified."




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Tuesday, 10 June 2008

BEA Dispatch: Art Spiegelman Calls Out Contemporary Comics

Spiegelman and City Lights Bookstore's Paul Yamazaki Friday nightPhoto: Boris Kachka
Sure, Barbara Walters and Arianna Huffington were in attendance at Knopf's big Book Expo dinner Friday night in L.A., but our big score was sitting next to Art Spiegelman, who'd requested a seat at the end of the table so he could easily run out for smoke breaks. "They told me I would live longer if I quit," he said, "and it's true, the year and a half I didn't smoke was the longest part of my life." What concerns him most these days is his son, a junior at St. Anns, who joined Spiegelman and his wife to visit colleges on the West Coast. With admission rates at a record low, "I feel for him," he said. "He's anxious, and I don't make him feel any better by saying, 'I was a college dropout, it all works out.'"

Soon enough, the conversation moved outside, where, as cars whizzed by on Melrose, Spiegelman expressed his puzzlement with L.A. and waxed nostalgic for the old Soho (where he still lives), but copped to abetting its gentrification with a secretly ad-driven map of the neighborhood he'd started with his wife, thereby financing Raw. So modern Soho dismays him. What about modern comics, a.k.a. graphic novels?



"I wanted this Faustian deal to get struck," he said. "I thought, 'This would be good if comics were in bookstores and you could find them without blushing,' but like with most publishing, it moves in waves and fads. Every publisher wants to have one, but they haven't a clue as to what a good one or a bad one might be." He's reading a lot of manga, he says, but FSG's new graphic versions of historical events — the 9/11 Report, the life of Muhammad Ali — "are not very good. They remind me of certain comics I had in a separate corner of my comic library, which were like My Friend Wheat. You're supposed to learn something. They have pictures, they have text, but they don't have that beat." —Boris Kachka