'The Future Delivery Of Medicine: 2020' To Be Forecast At London Conference

�New technologies will force fundamental alteration in the way health care systems operate. Low-cost cistron sequencing and biopharmaceuticals will make personalized medicine a reality - tailoring the treatment to the patient role. The counterpane of broadband networks makes telemedicine practicable for many, and computerized patient records will transform medical research. New tomography and nosology technologies open the door to more preventative music.


So what will it be wish to be sick in 2020? Who will treat you? How will they get paid? How will health regime decide which new technologies are worth the money?


These are among the pressing questions to be examined at an external gathering of research, industry and policy experts Nov. 6, organized by UCL Advances, UCL's centre for entrepreneurship and business interaction, and the Science|Business intelligence service. The conference will draw on expertise from all the new technology strands - bioinformatics, imagination, diagnostics, devices, biopharmaceuticals and more - to make a composite plant picture of the patient role experience in 2020, and to talk about what healthcare authorities should be doing now to prepare for that day. The outcomes will include a survey and extra report summarizing the unexampled scenarios - plus expert recommendations for action.


The conference is a joint venture between UCL Advances and Science Business Publishing Ltd., a UK-based media company focused on R&D investment and policy across Europe. Learn more around the league by visiting the site here.

About Science Business


Science Business Publishing Ltd. is a London-based media company focused on R&D investment in Europe. It reports news daily online and in a weekly newsletter, and organizes events to convey together public-sector researchers, bodied partners and policy makers. It was founded in 2005 by the former managing editors of the Wall Street Journal Europe and preeminent science journal Nature, and works with a network of 10 leading European research universities, including UCL.

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Step Brothers - movie review

You know you're in trouble when the George W. Bush quote you open your movie with
("Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream") gets the evening's
biggest laugh.



It's no stretch along to call Adam McKay's Step Brothers the year's stupidest film. Part of me
feels bad labeling it as such, only then I remember that no movie boasting scenes
of a grown adult male licking cad feces real wants to be interpreted seriously on any level.



And yet, I'd be lying if I told you Brothers didn't make me laugh. Freed from the
shackles of having to follow an actual script -- McKay receives a "story" credit
alongside co-stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, which is kind of a gag in and
of itself -- the cast bathroom improvise with reckless abandon. But you have to tolerate
a fair ploughshare of idiotic drivel before uncovering a few choice lines, as when Reilly
tells Ferrell his tattle voice is "like a combination of Fergie and Jesus."



Brothers marks McKay's third feature-length coaction with Ferrell, and the two
experience found a formula they're comfortable with. They instal the comedian as a thin-skinned,
overgrown adolescent -- an narcissistic anchorman, or a delusional NASCAR driver -- then rattle his
cage by introducing rigid competition.



Step Brothers establishes the rules of its game before you're even settled in your seat.
Robert (Richard Jenkins) and Nancy (Mary Steenburgen) meet patch attending a medical
convention and bond over the fact that they both have 40-year-old boys world Health Organization haven't
left the nest. Deeply in love following a whirlwind weekend, the two get under one's skin married --
forcing disgruntled Brennan (Ferrell) and Dale (Reilly) to live under the same roof.



So, wHO are these guys? Well, Brennan's a sensitive songster whose dream of playing
was crushed at an early long time by younger brother Derek (Adam Scott, hilarious in the
function that commonly goes to Will Arnett). And Dale's a yobbo, the cranky aggressor
whose tipping detail appears whenever anyone touches his drum set. The fact that Brennan
finally touches Dale's kit in a fit of rage comes as no surprisal. What he uses
to handle the drums I'll leave for you to discover.



An ancient advertising military campaign for the New York lottery put-upon to

Oprah Stops London Traffic For Barack

So our papper sees this black car with tinted windows in London yesterday and figures, it's the queen. He was right!

He baited Oprah into rolling down the nice piece of glass, by questioning her support of Obama. Fact is, her big endorsement did little for him and actually hurt her ratings. But she said she'd go door-to-door for Barack. Oprah calling!

BTW -- Yes, that's Gayle King in the car with her. She's like Sam Ronson, without those adorable flannel shirts.






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James Last And Berdien Stenber

   
Artist: James Last And Berdien Stenber

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Flute Fiesta

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 11

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National Black Arts Festival 20th Anniversary - Our Gift of Creativity to You

Gladys Knight, Wynton Marsalis, Alice Walker, Judith Jamison, Hugh
Masekela, Charles S. Dutton, Carrie Mae Weems, Los Hombres Calientes, Dr.
Cornell West, and much much more

ATLANTA, June 12 -- The 20th Anniversary of the National
Black Arts Festival will be a birthday celebration where the audience
receives the gifts. Taking place in metro Atlanta over a ten day period
beginning July 18, 2008, the highly acclaimed festival will take fans on an
awe inspiring journey through visual arts, music, film, dance, theatre,
literary, spoken word and the humanities.

Festival attendees will travel from throughout the nation and around
the world to witness an astounding array of events brought together with
one common goal: to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of an artistic
institution -- The National Black Arts Festival.

Highlights of the Festival include appearances and performances by
Gladys Knight, Wynton Marsalis and his trio, Alice Walker, Carrie Mae
Weems, Dr. Cornell West, Charles S. Dutton, Judith Jamison, Urban Bush
Women, Ron K. Brown/EVIDENCE, and more. The Official NBAF Artist Market
will be moving to its new home at the Georgia World Congress Center. The
International Vendor Marketplace and World Music Festival featuring Hugh
Masekela, Roy Ayers, Toots and the Maytals, Los Hombres Calientes, Julie
Dexter, and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, among many others will take place
during the final weekend of the festival at Centennial Olympic Park.

"This is an exciting moment in history for us," said Executive Producer
Stephanie Hughley, speaking of the NBAF's 20th Anniversary. "It speaks to
the importance of the institution. The fact that we're still here is quite
significant, and it's something we're extremely proud of."



HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2008 NATIONAL BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL

Visual Arts

-- Constructing History: A Requiem To Mark the Moment, an exhibition by
Carrie Mae Weems, Woodruff Arts Center, July 15-August 1
(Co-commissioned with Savannah College of Art and Design)
-- Art, Beats and Lyrics, The Foundry at Puritan Mill, July 26
-- High Museum: Road to Freedom, Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement,
June 7-Oct. 5
-- Too Black, Too Fast, painting and sculptures of African American
jockeys by Michael McBride and George Nock (formerly with the NY Jets)


Music

-- Legends Celebration: An Evening with Gladys Knight, Civic Center,
July 19
-- Hot Ice International Groove Lounge, Center State, July 19
-- Robert Spano conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, featuring Wynton
Marsalis and his trio, Woodruff Arts Center, July 19
-- Millie Jackson, Rialto Center for the Arts, July 25
-- World Music Festival at Centennial Olympic Park, featuring: Hugh
Masekela, Vinx, Orquestra MaCuba, Julie Dexter, Habib Koite, Rio Negro,
Roy Ayers, Los Hombres Calientes, Toots and the Maytals, July 26 & 27


Theatre

-- Oprah Winfrey Presents the Color Purple, The Fox Theatre Atlanta,
July 15-August 3
-- True Colors Theatre Company presents James Baldwin's The Amen Corner,
July 16-August 3
-- Horizon Theatre Company presents Hallelujah Street Blues, July 11
August 24
-- Theatrical Outfit presents Gee's Bend, July 16-27
-- Discover: A New Play Development Project of the National Black Arts
Festival w/ Andrea Frye, Alliance Theatre, July 26


Dance

-- Dance! A Tribute to Judith Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin
Ailey American Dance Theatre, featuring performances by Urban Bush
Women, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE and dancers from the Alvin Ailey
American Dance Theater, Rialto Center for the Arts, July 19 & 20


Film

-- Pan African Film Festival In Retrospect featuring Charles S. Dutton,
Rich Theater, July 21


Humanities

-- Creatively Speaking: Alice Walker and Pearl Cleage, Woodruff Arts
Center/Rich Theater, July 20
-- Creatively Speaking: Dr. Cornell West and Wynton Marsalis, moderated
by Carrie Mae Weems, Woodruff Arts Center/Rich Theater, July 20


The following perennial favorites will be returning to the NBAF in 2008:

-- Embrace: the fine arts fair of the NBAF, July 17-20
-- NBAF Children's Educational Village at Woodruff Arts Center, July 17-19
-- NBAF Summer Institute, Hammonds House Galleries, July 21-25
-- Pan African Film Festival, Woodruff Arts Center, Rich Auditorium and
Hill Auditorium, July 18-27
-- Friday Night Jazz at the High NBAF Edition and Late Night Latin Dance
Party, High Museum of Art, July 18
-- Funk Jazz Kafe, Tabernacle, July 26
-- Atlanta Symphony Orchestra free concert, Ebenezer Baptist Church,
July 27
-- Official NBAF Artists' Market, (new location) Georgia World Congress
Center, July 24-27
-- Jazz Around Town, (various locations), July 18-26
-- Ebb and Flow: Spoken Word Institute, Auburn Ave. Research Library,
July 26

About NBAF

The National Black Arts Festival (http://www.nbaf.org) is one of the
premier national and international celebrations of the art, music and
culture of people of African descent. The mission of the NBAF is to engage,
cultivate and educate diverse audiences about the arts and culture of the
African Diaspora and provide opportunities for artistic and creative
expression. Major funding for this organization is provided by the Fulton
County Commission under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council,
Georgia Black United Fund, Georgia Council for the Arts, The Kendeda Fund,
The Nonprofit Finance Fund/Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the
Woodruff Arts Center: Alliance Theatre, Young Audiences, Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra, High Museum of Art, 14th Street Playhouse.

Major sponsors: The Coca-Cola Company, UPS, Turner Broadcasting, Inc.,
AT&T, Wachovia, Delta Airlines, Fulton County Arts Council, Georgia
Pacific, City of Atlanta, ING and Allstate.




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Mariah Carey Wedding Ring Jeweller's Criminal Past Revealed

The jeweller who designed Mariah Carey’s $2.5 million wedding ring has been banned from hosting a charity event after his “shady” past was uncovered.

Diamond tycoon Jacob the Jeweller - real name Jacob Arabo -was due to host a cocktail party on Wednesday night at his New York boutique for children's charity Hale House.

But committee members pulled the plug at the last-minute after discovering Arabo - who has also designed jewels for Bono and Sir Elton John - was arrested in 2006 on money laundering charges, and pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of giving false statements to police.

He is currently awaiting sentencing.

A spokesperson for the charity tells the New York Daily News, "Hale House completely disassociated itself from (Arabo). They're doing their best to repair their reputation."

Arabo's lawyer Benjamin Brafman says his client has donated "to every major charity in the country, and he will continue to do so".

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Tapper Zukie

   
Artist: Tapper Zukie

   Genre(s): 
Reggae
   

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Discography:


   
 Man Ah Warrior

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 18


   
 Peace in the Ghetto

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


   
 Tapper Roots

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 MPLA

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Man From Bozrah

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 10

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One of Jamaica's near gifted artists, Tapper Zukie has had an equate impact on both sides of the recording pack of cards, as both a hitmaking toaster and as a manufacturer wHO has worked with the cream of Jamaica's vocalists. In addition, his early ties to the punk community in both London and New York was implemental in the crossover of roots reggae into the mainstream. Born David Sinclair, Tapper (likewise spelled Tappa) was a diminutive of a moniker his grandmother gave him, while Zukie was derived from the mob he ran with as a baby, the Zukies. In his teens, he began on the job for the level-headed systems, get-go with I-Oses Discotech, so for the Maccabees. It was through the latter that he came to the attention of producer Bunny Lee; unluckily, his off-hours delinquency ensured that he was likewise approach to the attention of the police force.


Finally, Zukie's mother sagely decided it was time for the youth to for good get out the Kingston streets behind, and in 1973 jam-packed him sour to relatives in England. Lee, likewise, wanted him out of trouble, simply preferred to take him put in the studio. Not content to see the teen's natural endowment atrophied, the producer pulled some string section, and the day subsequently arriving in London Zukie was onstage, opening for U-Roy. His one-song toast so impressed producer and Ethnic Records' label caput Larry Lawrence that Zukie was straight off swept into the studio to record his debut single, "Skip & Twist."


Reversive to Kingston at the end of the twelvemonth, the loretta Young DJ at present began recording singles for a host of producers, about notably 1975's "Spruce Dread on the Mountain Top," a horrendous version of "Jah Vengeance" for producer Yabby You. Zukie likewise entered the studio with Bunny Lee and recorded a clutch of songs, including the seminal "Spiffy Dread Don't Cry." Although the DJ refused to sign an sole treat with Lee, the producer merrily sent him on his direction with a batch of backup tracks to work with. Producers JoJo Hookim and Ossie Hibbert added more to the heap, and it was from all these donated tapes that Zukie reinforced his debut record album, MPLA. Defiantly independent, the DJ recorded and financed the recording of the record himself, and place up his own mark, Stars. But lack of money forced Zukie to put the record album on iCE and initially release some of the tracks as singles. It was at this pointedness that he began producing other artists, ab initio working with the likes of Errol Dunkley and former Itals vocalist Ronnie Davis.


Zukie headed endorse to London in mid-1975 in search of a statistical distribution treat for Stars. There he ascertained that a recording session he'd done during his previous appease, with manufacturer Clem Bushay, had since been released as the Man a Warrior album, and was merchandising like hotcakes through the Klik label. Immediately inking a licensing deal with Klik, Zukie's profile soared even higher upon the release of a individual off MPLA. The entire record album followed, and Zukie at present launch himself with the best-selling reggae record in the U.K. that Christmas. Soon after, the DJ sign a handle with Virgin Records. A visiting Patti Smith was equally impressed, and when the DJ coupled her onstage during the group's London show in October 1976, the pairing brought the house downward. It's no surprise and then that Zukie in agreement to open for the band's next enlistment. Smith was so taken by the thomas Young DJ that she likewise released Man a Warrior on her own Mer label.


Zukie at present touched into a time period of amazing productivity, cathartic the Man From Bosrah, Earth Running, Escape From Hell, In Dub, Peace in the Ghetto, and Black-market Man albums between 1977 and 1979. Although his profile was initially higher in Britain than Jamaica, that changed in 1977 afterwards Zukie scored with iI massive hit singles, "Oh Lord" and "She Wants a Phensic."


As the new decennium dawned, Zukie was an international presence to be reckoned with, jet-setting betwixt London and Kingston, gigging invariably, recording, and producing. He sabbatum behind the controls for acclaimed puzzle out by Horace Andy, mixed the highly lauded Green Valley for Militant Barry, and released his have Raggy Joey Boy and People Are You Ready? albums. Between 1983 and 1986, Zukie concentrated on product puzzle out, recording with only well-nigh every creative person charles Frederick Worth his strategic Arms Limitation Talks on the island -- the Mighty Diamonds, Max Romeo, Ken Boothe, Sugar Minott, and U-Roy are scarce a few amongst this vast legion. An as sympathetic producer of both toasters and vocalists, Zukie plant himself highly sought afterwards by veteran artists as well as approaching cy Young stars to-be.


Just even at the altitude of superstardom, Zukie's self-deprecation remained legendary, as the title of his series of toasting compilations proved. Jokingly highborn Old Time DJ Come Back, the albums featured a host of toasters old and new, and the series clay a originative compendium of the musical style. It wasn't until 1986 that Zukie released a new album of his own material, Ragamuffin, and some other tenner passed in front its review Mysterious Roots appeared. However, he did proceed recording, with his music gracing the B-sides of singles he'd produced for other artists. And production is where Zukie has unbroken his list aflare, as he's continued to work with the island's greatest name calling, releasing the subsequent singles through his possess Tappa label. Sly Dunbar, JC Lodge, Beres Hammond, and Simpleton are scarce a few of the multitudes world Health Organization get been on the other english of his recording deck of cards in more late days.





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