After a long hiatus from his fans, R&B soulman Maxwell will head out on the road this
Tuesday 2 September 2008
Saturday 23 August 2008
'Better' end of life care pledge
A national plan to improve palliative care provision has been promised by the Scottish Government after concerns over treatment for the terminally ill.
The pledge came after a report from Audit Scotland highlighted "inconsistencies" in care for different illnesses and access to services.
The report said remote communities were not served as well as the central belt.
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said health boards were already making changes but more needed to be done.
Audit Scotland found that 90% of specialist care was delivered to cancer patients, although the disease accounted for fewer than 30% of deaths.
And it concluded that people with other conditions, such as organ or respiratory failure or dementia, may have complex palliative care needs but were less likely to get specialist palliative care.
Pointing out that more than 55,000 masses died in Scotland each year, lieutenant auditor general Caroline Gardner said: "Palliative care should be an integral part of the support apt to patients and their families and carers during the utmost months, days and hours of their lives.
"In many areas of Scotland, the voluntary sector and the health service provide fantabulous and a great deal appreciated care. But access to dependable quality alleviator care varies across the country."
The report went on to warn that generalists involved in palliative maintenance needed the support and guidance of specialists, and that good practice guidelines for alleviator care were not organism applied across the board.
The Scottish Government is due to publish its action plan in October.
Uniform approach
Speaking to BBC Scotland, Ms Sturgeon aforesaid the plan would provide better care outside the central whack of Scotland.
She said: "There are many examples crossways the country of NHS boards and the voluntary sector working together to improve services.
"This is a process that is already under way, but there's no doubtfulness we have to speed up that progress."
The report was welcomed by the cancer charities Marie Curie and Macmillan, which said the findings showed a national strategy was vital.
Labour said it would "seriously challenge" the SNP to build on advancement already made, while Conservative public health spokesman, Jackson Carlaw, aforementioned the government and health boards had to act to insure a uniform approach.
Although the full toll of providing palliative care is unsung, Audit Scotland said about �59m was spent on specialist maintenance in 2006-07 - with almost half the money coming from the voluntary sector.
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Sunday 10 August 2008
Electronic review: Marconi Union, A Lost Connection
Fresh from soundtracking an installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA, Marconi Union's third gear album is centred around themes of isolation and disconnection, so it makes sense that they've self-released it through their have website (marconiunion.com). Minimal, introspective, ethereal electronica, it's arguably their strongest set to date. Gorgeous.
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
Queen, Paul Rodgers
Artist: Queen, Paul Rodgers
Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Discography:
Return Of The Champions (CD 2)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Return Of The Champions (CD 1)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 16
Live In Lisboa (Bootleg) (Cd2)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
Live In Lisboa (Bootleg) (Cd1)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
Thursday 19 June 2008
Maria Rita
Artist: Maria Rita
Genre(s):
Latin
Pop
Vocal
Other
Discography:
Samba Meu
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Segundo
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Maria Rita
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Maria Rita ( Bonus Track )
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
Segundo Ao Vivo - Show Claro Hall
Year:
Tracks: 19
Maria Rita took the MPB globe by storm in 2003 with her debut album, fetching all kinds of awards and crossing o'er overseas in light of her mammoth success. The beautiful and beautiful-sounding whitney Moore Young Jr. peeress is the daughter of one of Brazil's nearly (if non the nearly) fabled vocalists, the late Elis Regina, and if that unequaled weren't sufficiency to create her a star topology in wait, her father is César Camargo Mariano, one of the country's top arrangers, producers, and pianists, and her namesake is Rita Lee, notwithstanding some other MPB legend. Add to that a close musical partnership with Milton Nascimento, wHO penned "A Festa," the opening data track of her debut album, and you can escort why the MPB globe was thirstily awaiting her recording debut.
Natural September 19, 1977, in São Paulo, Rita began telling professionally at years 24. Her debut album, Calophyllum longifolium Rita, released domestically in previous 2003 and internationally in 2004, spawned deuce big hits, the aforesaid "A Festa" and "Cara Valente." On the heels of the album's smash hit winner -- both critical and commercial -- Rita released a likewise self-titled DVD that captures her 2004 lively execution at Bourbon Street in São Paulo. Among the awards won by Rita in 2004 were Latin Grammys for Best New Artist and Best MPB Album. Rita's indorsement album, Segundo (2005), was level more popular than her first (selling o'er 700,000 copies in Brazil unequaled), if non as critically acclaimed. A lively DVD, Segundo ao Vivo, followed in 2006. Rita's third album, Samba Meu (2007), was a change of style: a compendium of acoustic sambas.
Wednesday 11 June 2008
Thursday 29 May 2008
Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal to be “engaged any day now”
Hollywood couple Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are reportedly set to be “engaged any day now”.
A source close to Brokeback Mountain star Gyllenhaal claims the actor is on the brink of proposing to the Legally Blonde actress.
The source told America’s OK! magazine: “They’ve been talking marriage for a while.
“They’ll be formally engaged any day now. They want to spend the rest of their lives together.”
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Tuesday 20 May 2008
Tuesday 6 May 2008
Stars to boycott Golden Globes
Stars to boycott Golden Globes
Hollywood actors ar to boycott this month's Golden Earth Awards to show support for striking writers.
Concealment Actors Club President Alan Rosenberg said in a argument there was "unanimous arrangement" among actors not to cross picket lines place up by the Writers Guild of America wHO are locked in a bitter contravention with flick and television system producers.
Rosenberg said the boycott would cover all nominees up for playing awards in the case on 13 Jan.
The Golden Globes is regarded as the second most important awards read in Hollywood after the Oscars.
The proscription would also cover stars playing as presenters.
The decision means that nominated A-listers such as Julia Bartholomew Roberts, Tom Thomas J. Hanks and George Clooney are whole likely to channelize clear of the Globes, greatly diminishing one of the highlights of Hollywood's awards season.
Hollywood screenwriters have been on strike since 5 Nov subsequently the WGA and the Alliance of Movement Picture and Television Producers failed to agree footing for a new contract.
Negotiations failed over the writers' demands for an increased share of win from Cyberspace and new media gross revenue.
The two-month strike has forced the temporary removal of numerous television series as well as the deferment of wreak on several Hollywood films.
The WGA confirmed this week that it would mount pickets just about the Golden Globes venue at the Beverly Hilton hotel.
It had already announced final stage month that it would non allow gild members to demand share at both the Golden Globes and the Oscars.
Friday 2 May 2008
Matt Damon Stays Out Of 'Bourne' Video Game, Reportedly Lobbied Against Developer's Direction
Matt Damon Stays Out Of 'Bourne' Video Game, Reportedly Lobbied Against Developer's Direction
It's become common for celebrities to collaborate on television games based on their Hollywood work. Henry Martyn Robert Downey Jr. spent hours transcription dialog for Sega's "Iron Man" game, and many members of the contrive of "Lost" were involved with Ubisoft's recent "Lost: Via Domus."
But Flatness Damon is nowhere to be base in next month's "The Bourn Conspiracy," based on his trilogy of high-octane spy thrillers, contempt the fact that he was once in dialogue to appear.
The development squad at High Moon Studios approached Damon early on in the fashioning of the game. High Moon's Meelad Sadat told MTV News that his studio apartment never met with the worker person-to-person only that Damon was made aware of the jut and was offered a hazard to be involved.
Damon turned knock down the chance, simply as of press time, his publicizer had not returned MTV News' quest for comment as to why.
Just the respond english hawthorn lie in a Hub of the Universe Earth article in which Damon's mother, education prof Nancy Carlsson-Paige, discussed media force. Damon was interviewed, and he rung virtually his deficiency of involvement with "The Bourne Confederacy."
"I lobbied hard to non create a first-person-shooter game simply to work it to a greater extent like 'Myst,' which was a great, interesting teaser you tried to solve — you know, to play with his memory loss or his memory," he told the publishing. "They weren't interested. They made the [game] anyway, without my alikeness."
Anwar Sadat said he was never aware of these suggestions. In that location was conjecture that Damon walked away from the table because he wasn't a fan of the game's wildness, merely Sadat said Damon ne'er explicitly voiced such reservations.
In the same clause, Damon's female parent expressed a headache over violent games, without citing specific examples.
"I am real wary of violent television games," she said. "Enquiry shows they desensitise kids to force, even to a greater extent because they prosecute kids in committing fierceness."
When asked if she approved of her son's violent films, she admitted that the iI don't invariably agree on media issues. "Flatness and I don't share the saami views around violence in adult films, just we do see eye-to-eye on the importance of protecting children," she said. "We both livelihood regulations to catch the marketing of fury in films to children through violent toys, products and video games."
After Damon made his decision, Sadat's team at High Moonshine decided to affect on. "We got the sensation that his stake in games boilersuit was marginal, and we decided to move away from fame involvement and look at our Bourn into an original charge," he said.
Blindlight — a company that connects game publishers with key Hollywood talent and is responsible for Downey's participation in the "Smoothing iron Mankind" game — said it has chased Damon several times without luck.
"We've been doing this for over ashcan School years — we take in more experience in this study than any other company — and by now we've made offers to exactly around every Hollywood name you can buoy call up of," Blindlight General Manager Lev Chapelsky said. "When it comes to Damon, we've [made] several game offers to him over the years and have systematically base that he's not interested in workings in the field."
Fortuitously, from what MTV News has seen, "The Bourn Confederacy" is shaping up to be an excellent "Bourn" venture in its own right — even without Damon.
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Tuesday 29 April 2008
Pens and Needles
Artist: Pens and Needles
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Aggravated Reality Check Overtures
Year: 2004
Tracks: 6
Regan and Thrills on Shortlist longlist
Regan and Thrills on Shortlist longlist
Irish people artists Fionn Regan and The Thrills are among the 54 acts of the Apostles on the longlist for the prestigious Shortlist Music Prize in the US.
Regan is longlisted for his debut album 'The Goal of History' patch The Thrills ar longlisted for their latest record album 'Teenager'.
Among the book of Judges of the 2008 dirty money are Snowfall Patrol's Gary Lightbody and the Killers' Ronnie Vannucci.
Ten acts of the Apostles will be shortlisted for the award early in 2008.
Caterpillar Great power won the Shortlist Music Booty last twelvemonth for her album 'The Greatest'; previous winners include Damien Sir Tim Rice, TV on the Radio set, Sigur Ros and Nerd.
Among the other acts on the 2008 longlist are: Arcade Fire ('Neon Bible'), Bjork ('Volta'), Eddie Vedder ('Into the Wild' soundtrack), Feist ('The Reminder'), Josh Ritter ('The Historical Conquests of Jolly Ritter'), Kings of Leon ('Because of the Times'), MIA ('Kala'), PJ William Harvey ('White Chalk') and Wilco ('Sky Blueness Sky').
Blade Runner star enters rehab
Blade Runner star enters rehab
Actress Sean Young has entered rehab for intoxicant abuse following an burst in which she was heckling from the audience at the Directors Society of America awards.
The 48-year-old actress was escorted from the dance hall at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Los Angeles after heckling director Julian the Apostate Schnabel, wHO was nominated for his film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'.
A statement from Insignia PR said that the actress "voluntarily admitted herself...for treatment related to inebriation".
The statement added: "It is understood that Brigham Young has struggled against the disease for many years."
Young rose to celebrity following her performance in Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner' and a duo of old age later she played Michael Douglas' married woman in 'Wall Street'.
She'll bring back to the big screen opponent Billystick Zane in the drama 'The Serviceman WHO Came Back' and aboard Juliet Landau in the thriller 'Darkness Visible'.
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