Monday, 8 September 2008

BRIAN WILSON

�That Lucky Old Sun� (Capitol): B

When will daemon Wilson be demoted from genius to hack? Maybe four songs and 16 seconds into his new album. Soaring sunny harmonies are nice, but after 45 geezerhood they can�t turn �Good Kind of Love� into gold (though they could make it an likeable radio jangle or a decent �80s sitcom topic). And earnestly, Brian, it�s getting creepy that you�re still vocalizing about slight surfer girls. That said, Wilson canful occasionally nail the California sound he invented. �Morning Beat� is the prototype of that �60s symphony-in-a-song thing. The surprisingly autobiographic �Going Home� (lots of �Sun� songs dip into Wilson�s back story) mashes hot gat rock and polished �Pet Sounds� choruses. Yes, frequent collaborator Van Dyke Parks� poetic interludes stall the momentum with tired pop philosophy, just even they contain a few brilliant couplets (�There�s an old smudge of a beatnik by the bay/Lookin� like a hot dog whose had his day�). Download: �Morning Beat.�







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Friday, 29 August 2008

Dispelling Diabetes Myths For Baby Boomers

�According to Dr. Gerald Bernstein, patient perception well-nigh diabetes has not changed much in the over forty years he has been practicing medicine at two major NYC hospitals. In fact, he still sees the same viewpoints today as when he was a former director of the Beth Israel Health Care Systems Diabetes Management Program years ago.


"In this day and geezerhood, I still get patients who believe that they developed diabetes from eating too much sugar," says Dr. Bernstein. Although doctors and researchers are noneffervescent unsure what causes the disease, Dr. Bernstein insists, "bad feeding habits such as besides much elegant sugars, empty carbohydrates, and fructose does not lawsuit diabetes."


Below ar some of the most prevalent myths surrounding diabetes. "Baby boomers who were raised with misconceptions more or less the disease may be at risk," advises Dr. Bernstein, world Health Organization is too the director of aesculapian affairs at Generex Biotechnology Corporation, a biotechnology party engaged in the research, development, and commercialization of drug deliverance systems and technologies for patients with diabetes. "There is no substitute for knowledge."


Diabetes Will Make You Go Blind: According to Dr. Bernstein, while it is true that all people with diabetes ar at peril of sightlessness, heart problems, and nephritic disease, it is evenly true that in this day and age a smaller pct actually experience the total brunt of such complications than 30 years ago. "The better the patient controls his or her blood sugar, the less likely the more serious complications associated with diabetes will progression. Anyone already experiencing the side personal effects of diabetes needs to achieve and maintain the most rigorous possible control condition in order to understate their further progression."


Since I Don't Have To Inject Insulin, My Diabetes Isn't A Serious Condition: A surprising number of people still believe this falsehood. Non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (type 2 diabetes) can produce destructively high rip glucose levels if not kept under control. Type 2 diabetes often grows more hard with meter, so a patient wHO starts with low numbers game will probably need to progress to from diet-and-exercise-based blood refined sugar control, then to oral diabetes medications. It is often better to take up with insulin early rather than wait to function it as a last resort.


Many older patients ar finding their "oral meds" have become ineffective with time, and may want to switch to insulin injections to maintain effective diabetes control. "Type 2 diabetes, even pre-diabetes is serious even if your blood refined sugar isn't that high," warns Dr. Bernstein. New methods such as an oral insulin such as Generex Oral-lyn�, an insulin spraying for the treatment of type I and type II diabetes that works by delivering insulin via the membranes of the oral pit via a simple inhaler-like device.


I Can't Eat What I Like Anymore: That's a misconception considering that what is now coined the "diabetic diet" is actually a well-balanced, sensible food project that would be sizable for anyone to adopt, with or without the disease. "Keep in judgment, you lavatory 'have your cake and eat it too' just if you want to eat something rich in carbs, you will need to equipoise it verboten by cutting an equivalent amount of carbs or sugar from somewhere else in your diet," suggests Dr. Bernstein. "Patients ingest a serious deal more flexibility in their diets than they might suspect; the pillow is only a issue of care and relief." Very often you lavatory eat what you want BUT just now not as much as you want.


I Can Tell If My Blood Sugar Levels Are Too High Or Too Low: "This myth is dangerous because you toilet wind up in the hospital if you ignore symptoms of hyperglycemia, which is hard to find by the way you feel," says Dr. Bernstein. "Making do without a regular bloodline glucose tests is like flying without a chute or carrefour the street with your eyes closed. You're shot. Learn your body's signals when you get into trouble, only be sure to use your glucose monitor to be sure." Dr. Bernstein also advises people with diabetes to carry a Glucose RapidSpray�, that ass quickly, conveniently and efficiently deliver glucose to the mouth via an leisurely to use spray bottle at the first signboard of glucose deficiency.


Diabetes Is The Beginning Of The End: "I still make patients world Health Organization believe their lives ar over one time complications set it," says Dr. Bernstein. "The reality is that with the development of proper skills and mentality and the possession of monitoring equipment, patients with diabetes lavatory continue to live total lives, even with serious complications. Many diabetics, even insulin-dependent, live well into old age.


"Pay attention to your dead body. Keep ahead of what your diabetes is doing for baby boomers, this is no time for surprises! Consult with your doctor, or your diabetes educator. Discuss exercise plans, and whatever adjustment in medications, with your doctor of the Church, first."


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Saturday, 9 August 2008

Jon Lord and The Hoochie Coochie Men

Jon Lord and The Hoochie Coochie Men   
Artist: Jon Lord and The Hoochie Coochie Men

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


Live at the Basement (cd2)   
 Live at the Basement (cd2)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


Live at the Basement (cd1)   
 Live at the Basement (cd1)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13




 






Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Beyond Hatred - 5/20/2008

An elliptical, moving film about a cruel murder and the agonizing road a family takes to get past its effects, Beyond Hatred is a fine kind of documentary that doesn't feel for a second like it has to follow the rules and is all the stronger for it. Director Olivier Meyrou begins by telling the story of Fran�ois Chenu, a 29-year-old gay man who in 2002 happened across a trio of skinheads in a park in Reims, France, looking for an Arab to bash. Spotting Fran�ois, they demand to know if he's gay, he responds proudly in the affirmative and bravely tells them what cowards they are. For not denying his nature and illustrating theirs, Fran�ois was killed. Two years later, the skinheads are about to go on trial and Fran�ois's family is a miserable wreck, still trying to wrap their heads around the death.



Meyrou doesn't come at his story head-on, preferring instead to loop around it and circle in, denying us the easy escape of the crime-trial-resolution paradigm. It's a film of cycles and repetitions, where the Chenu family -- pensive, tear-prone, and chain-smoking -- seems forever trapped in the crime. As the trial looms, they appear stuck and unsure how to proceed, unable to forgive but equally unwilling to go on hating. One of them refers to their post-murder life as "the hatred on which you rebuild yourself." The trial itself is never shown, though Meyrou includes copious footage of the lawyers involved as they discuss the case (one of the skinheads' defense lawyers is particularly fascinating, being an Arab himself). The facts come out piecemeal, parceled out like bits of bread sprinkled on a darkening trail and leaving viewers to pick their way along.



Needless to say, this isn't an easy film: Meyrou's preferred approach is the long take, for instance parking a camera at the spot of Fran�ois's death (now peaceful, with joggers) while an off-screen voice tells details of the case. It all has a cumulatively lulling effect, if a nightmare could ever be described so.



Throughout all this we never get to know Fran�ois. The unwitting victim whose death started all this, he remains a mystery, no warm recollections by family, no poring over old family albums, no bringing the beloved son back to life in a mother's loving words. It's a divisive tactic, given the particularly senseless manner of his death, and the bravery he showed amidst it -- Fran�ois seems like the kind of man you would want to get to know, even in retrospect, via a movie screen. By withholding the memories, keeping us from getting to know Fran�ois, or even his killers (never shown), Meyrou is making a conscious choice, and a smart one. Just as Fran�ois's family is fumbling in the dark, wanting to get past it all and even feeling some sympathy for the killers (much is made of their miserable childhoods and despicable parents) but not knowing how ("You can understand but not always excuse"), so too viewers are stranded, just like any person who has lost a loved one. Beyond Hatred provides most of the facts but no answers, showing instead the dead, thousand-yard stare of a long-grieving mother, which is closer to the heart of the matter than any artificial sense of "closure" could ever be.



Aka Au-del� de la haine.







Considering the past.

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Led Zeppelin - Mccallums Father Gave Page Bowguitar Idea

LED ZEPPELIN star JIMMY PAGE owes his legendary bow and guitar sound to actor DAVID MCCALLUM's father.

The rocker admits the idea of play guitar with a violin bow was proposed to him in the studio by MCCallum Sr, a classically trained violinist.

Page tells Rolling Stone magazine, "String players would keep to themselves, but this guy was quite friendly.

"He said to me one day... 'Have you ever tried bowing the guitar?' I said it wouldn't work - the strings aren't arched over the guitar, the way they are on a violin.

"He said, 'Have a go.' He gave me a bow. I tried it and realised there was something in it."




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Spielberg leaves his Olympics post

Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg has said he is withdrawing as an artistic advisor to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing because of the Chinese government's policy towards its ally Sudan and the conflict in Darfur.
In a statement, Spielberg said the Sudanese government shouldered the bulk of responsibility for the crimes in Darfur, but said China should be doing more to end the human suffering there.
Actress Mia Farrow, who had been pressing the director to end his involvement with this year's games, said his decision sent the right sort of message to Beijing.
A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington is quoted in the New York Times as saying that the Darfur issue was neither an internal issue for China nor was it caused by China.
The spokesman is also quoted as saying that it was completely unreasonable, irresponsible and unfair to link the two as one.

Lamat

Lamat   
Artist: Lamat

   Genre(s): 
Trance: Psychedelic
   



Discography:


Fearless   
 Fearless

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 9


Master Control   
 Master Control

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 6