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Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque latterly signed an administrative order aimed at increasing efforts to fight HIV/tuberculosis coinfection, Asia Pulse/Individual.com reports.
The order focuses on policies and guidelines for a collaborative approach aimed at decreasing the TB burden among HIV-positive people and decreasing HIV prevalence among people with TB. According to the Philippine Department of Health, HIV/TB coinfection has hindered efforts to control the two diseases because TB is common among people living with HIV and one of the primary causes of AIDS-related deaths. In addition, TB significantly affects the calibre of life of HIV-positive people, the department said.
According to Asia Pulse/Individual.com, the Philippines has a high burden of TB just a low HIV preponderance. The wellness department in 2007 estimated that HIV prevalence was 0.168%, with 7,490 Filipino adults living with the virus. However, a survey found that 6.25% of one hundred sixty TB patients at San Lazaro Hospital tested confirming for HIV (Asia Pulse/Individual.com, 9/1).
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Wednesday 10 September 2008
Friday 22 August 2008
Lupe Fades To Black With New Clothing Line
Colourful knocker LUPE FIASCO is arrange to go all-black to launch a new fashion line.
All items in the rapper's upcoming Fall of Rome catalogue volition be black - and that's all the hitmaker will wear once the line hits the securities industry later this year (08).
He says, "When your game is to trade clothes and for people to believe in you your brand and to push your brand, you keep your game fare on."
And Fiasco, actual name Wasalu Jaco, tells Complex cartridge his new fashion line even has an historical origin: "The logo for it is this broken statue that was pushed down when Rome was invaded; it represents the decay of beauty. I give my clothing a story. I create a purpose for it."
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Tuesday 12 August 2008
Copy of Beatles contract for sale in London
Brian Epstein's transcript of his management contract with The Beatles, a pact that
proved to be worth millions, is being offered for sale in London next month.
The four-page document, signed on 1 October 1962 by John Lennon, George
Harrison, Paul McCartney and Richard Starkey � Ringo Starr's veridical name �
carries an estimated damage of �250,000. The Fame Bureau auction family said
Tuesday it had scheduled the sale for 4 September at the Idea Generation
Gallery.
The contract, likewise signed by Harold Hargreaves Harrison and James McCartney on
behalf of their underage sons, gave Epstein a 25 per centime cut of the group's
earnings, provided that they made more than �200 each per week.
"The word is that he made more money than the Beatles did during his
menses of time," said Ted Owen, managing director of The Fame Bureau.
He said the contract was offered for sale by a northern England businessman
and Beatles collector wHO has asked to remain anonymous.
The contract marked the here and now when all the pieces were in place for a orbicular
outbreak of Beatlemania.
Epstein first heard of The Beatles when a customer went to his record store in
Liverpool request for "My Bonnie," in which the group backed singer
Tony Sheridan.
After arranging to hear the group perform at the Cavern Club in Liverpool,
Epstein was impressed.
"They were fresh, honest and had, what I thought, a sort of front and
lead quality, whatsoever that is," Epstein later recalled.
Epstein had been guiding the group since December 1961, and had secured a
recording contract with EMI. With a nudge from producer George Martin,
Epstein fired drummer Pete Best in August 1962 and brought Starr into the
group, and their low big strike, "Love Me Do," was ready for
release.
"Brian put us in suits and all that and we made it selfsame, very big,"
Lennon once said. "But we sold out, you know.
"We were in a daydream till he came along. We had no idea what we were
doing."
Epstein died from a drug o.d. in 1967, aged 32.
According to the Brian Epstein Web site, brianepstein.com,
a first, five-year contract was signed by the group on 24 January 1962, but
Epstein didn't sign it.
Epstein managed several other successful acts from Liverpool, including Gerry &
The Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, and Cilla Black.
Also up for auction is a Bechstein grand pianissimo which can be heard on The
Beatles' "White Album" and "Hey Jude," and as well on David
Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust," "Space Oddity" and "Hunky
Dory," and Elton John's "Yellow Brick Road."
Owen estimated that the piano testament sell for �300,000 or more.
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
New Book For Parents Of Children With Juvenile Arthritis
�The Arthritis Foundation announces the issue of a new account book for
parents of children with adolescent arthritis (JA). Released in conjunction with Juvenile Arthritis
Awareness Month in July, the all-new Raising a Child with Arthritis addresses many of the concerns
parents bear about JA - from diagnosis and treatments to family and financial issues.
From the editors of the Arthritis Foundation's Kids Get Arthritis Too award-winning national
newssheet, the book is scripted in easy to understand terms and offers solutions for the challenges
parents face when their tike has arthritis. Raising a Child with Arthritis provides facts about various
types of JA and information about new treatments such as biologic drugs, piece also providing
practical info on
parents of children with adolescent arthritis (JA). Released in conjunction with Juvenile Arthritis
Awareness Month in July, the all-new Raising a Child with Arthritis addresses many of the concerns
parents bear about JA - from diagnosis and treatments to family and financial issues.
From the editors of the Arthritis Foundation's Kids Get Arthritis Too award-winning national
newssheet, the book is scripted in easy to understand terms and offers solutions for the challenges
parents face when their tike has arthritis. Raising a Child with Arthritis provides facts about various
types of JA and information about new treatments such as biologic drugs, piece also providing
practical info on
Monday 30 June 2008
Chris Conway
Artist: Chris Conway
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Ayurveda
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Elle Macpherson - Macphersons Bedroom Behaviour Revealed In New Tell-all Book
Jamie Lynn Sigler: "It's Never Bad To Be Single In The Summer!"
It sounds like Jamie Lynn Sigler doesn't have too many regrets about splitting from her boyfriend!
The Sopranos star ended her two-year relationship with New York club owner Scott Sartiano back in April to move out to LA for her career.
Last night she told OK! that she's been getting over the break-up with a little help from her friends.
And the 27-year-old even said that she's enjoying being single for the summer.
At the premiere of Glamour magazine's Reel Docs movie in New York, we asked the actress, who's shooting a new movie Son of Mourning, how she liked single life.
"Well, I've been single before," she said, "and I have supportive friends and I'm enjoying my life.
"And, you know, it's never bad being single for the summer!"
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Sunday 29 June 2008
French Band - Tribute To ACDC
Artist: French Band - Tribute To ACDC
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
If You Want Blood (Demo)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 6
Glen Hall, Lee Ranaldo, William Hooker
Artist: Glen Hall, Lee Ranaldo, William Hooker
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Oasis Of Whispers
Year: 2005
Tracks: 9
Tequila 100 Anos(TM) Celebrates Mexico in '100 Years of Mexican Music'
Kurt Cobain's ashes stolen from widow's home
London (ANI): Ashes of rock legend Kurt Cobain have been stolen from the Hollywood home of his widow Courtney Love, it has emerged. Sources say that Love is "suicidal" after finding Kurt's remains missing from her house. She had kept the singer's ashes in a pink teddy-bear-shaped bag along with a lock of his hair. But she was appalled to discover them gone, along with thousands of pounds worth of clothes and jewellery. "I can't believe anyone would take Kurt's ashes from me," News of the World quoted Love, as saying. "I find it disgusting and right now I'm suicidal. If I don't get them back I don't know what I'll do," she added. In 1994, tragedy struck when Kurt killed himself with a shotgun while high on heroin.
Kasabian Talk "Techno" Inspired Third Album
Kasabian have talked of their next album, describing how their forthcoming third long-player is sounding so far.
Guitarist Serge Pizzorno tells the Metro: "The music we're making is rooted in techno and dance music but it's also influenced by the '60s."
"The new stuff is sounding really hypnotic. The tunes we've done so far remind me of a really good road movie." said Pizzorno, while frontman Tom Meighan added: "This is the best record we've made so far - of course, I'm always gonna say that."
"We've got to compete with a title like Empire so we're not making it easy for ourselves." Ended the singer.
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At All Cost
Artist: At All Cost
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
It's Time to Decide
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Beginning in 2002, Austin-based metalcore 5 At All Cost started working hard to record, word shows, and encourage its political and societal docket to anyone wHO would mind. Texas audiences responded both to the music and the band's concentrated make for, and by 2003 the quintette had affiliated itself with Fiddler/Imprint to waiver the Shattered Dreams and Bourgeois Schemes EP. In 2005 At All Cost became the first-class honours degree dance band with a release under the revitalised Combat impression, the old metal label that had been place to bands like Venom and Megadeth. For their full-length It's Time to Decide, issued in September 2005, At All Cost's card included bassist Bobby Andrews, guitarists Mike Theobald and Trey Ramirez, drummer Grant Anderson, and vocalist/keyboardist Andrew Collins. Tours with acts like Norma Jean and Darkest Hour came next ahead the crew sign-language to Century Media in early 2007.
Saturday 28 June 2008
R. Kelly Trial Scandalized by Sex-Tape Mix-up
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R. Kelly's child-pornography trial was rocked yesterday when it was revealed that a DVD of the infamous sex tape given to Kelly's lawyers by the prosecution two weeks ago was not an exact copy, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. Though the defense did have access to the original tape, they were assured by the state attorney's office that the lower-quality DVD was identical and thus fit to use in their questioning of forensic-video analyst Charles Palm last week (Palm testified that a mole on Kelly's back was not visible in still frames of the video shown to the jury, though he says he based his original opinions on the original, higher-quality version).
Prosecution lawyer Robert Heilingoetter acknowledged the mistake and also that the DVD was made by "a junior member of the state's attorney's staff" and not video analyst Grant Fredericks as they'd originally claimed. The defense is now worried the jury will think they acted in "bad faith" by using the degraded video, and Judge Vincent Gaughan says that this is a "rotten tomato in the barrel," though it's currently unclear what the hell that means, exactly. Is any of this grounds for a mistrial? We've never seen anything like this on Law & Order, so we have no idea. But, as far as sex-tape mix-ups go, this sounds like a pretty big one.
Rotten tomato hits R. Kelly trial [Kelly Chronicles/ Chicago Sun-Times]
R. Kelly's child-pornography trial was rocked yesterday when it was revealed that a DVD of the infamous sex tape given to Kelly's lawyers by the prosecution two weeks ago was not an exact copy, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. Though the defense did have access to the original tape, they were assured by the state attorney's office that the lower-quality DVD was identical and thus fit to use in their questioning of forensic-video analyst Charles Palm last week (Palm testified that a mole on Kelly's back was not visible in still frames of the video shown to the jury, though he says he based his original opinions on the original, higher-quality version).
Prosecution lawyer Robert Heilingoetter acknowledged the mistake and also that the DVD was made by "a junior member of the state's attorney's staff" and not video analyst Grant Fredericks as they'd originally claimed. The defense is now worried the jury will think they acted in "bad faith" by using the degraded video, and Judge Vincent Gaughan says that this is a "rotten tomato in the barrel," though it's currently unclear what the hell that means, exactly. Is any of this grounds for a mistrial? We've never seen anything like this on Law & Order, so we have no idea. But, as far as sex-tape mix-ups go, this sounds like a pretty big one.
Rotten tomato hits R. Kelly trial [Kelly Chronicles/ Chicago Sun-Times]
The Alternative
Artist: The Alternative
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Baron Inc (BARONINC008)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 2
The Alternative (ALIAS001)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Baron Inc (BARONINC007)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
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