Artist: Funky Technicians
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Liqweed Ganja (LIQWEED001)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Bandits Vinyl
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Advanced (ADVR018)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Banghra
Monday 23 June 2008
Funky Technicians
Artist: Funky Technicians
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Liqweed Ganja (LIQWEED001)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Bandits Vinyl
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Advanced (ADVR018)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Banghra
Monday 16 June 2008
Estelle - Things They Say
"I like ESTELLE - and my album is hip-hop with a sort of U.K. hip hop sound." MISSY ELLIOTT eyes British singer/rapper ESTELLE for a track on her next album.
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Sunday 15 June 2008
"The End of Food": Setting fewer plates at the world's table
"The End of Food"
by Paul Roberts
Houghton Mifflin, 390 pp., $26
In the U.S., the dire news coming out of the recent U.N.-sponsored summit on the global food crisis took a back seat to coverage of America's presidential campaign.
But when the next administration is confronted with tough decision-making on the crucial issue of how to feed the planet's 6.5 billion people, it will come as no surprise to anyone who has picked up this summer's nonfiction must-read, "The End of Food."
With his prescient 2004 book, "The End of Oil," Paul Roberts proved his ability to sift through the complexities of an overwhelming issue and present prognostications that are both comprehensive and comprehensible.
Call him a professional Cassandra if you will, but this time out the Leavenworth author, who also is a regular contributor to Harper's, tackles the troubling future of human food consumption. He starts by touring us through the history of mankind's quest for food, from hunting and gathering, to the advent of agriculture, to the mechanized production lines of today. Roberts pinpoints the flaws of the current situation as "so focused on cost reduction and rising volume that it makes a billion of us fat, [and] lets another billion go hungry."
The situation is especially surreal in this country. Despite our wealth, we have lengthening food-bank lines and children who are chronically hungry. Yet at the same time, for another segment of the American population, eating has devolved into a practice fraught with psychological implications and physical afflictions. On the whole, we're an increasingly fat-marbled society, with all of the attendant health risks and diet fads.
And the phenomenon is spreading. As developing countries play catch-up and consumer expectations rise worldwide, local food cultures from China to India — even proud France is succumbing — are being usurped by global food-production models that emphasize mass production at low cost, but that also glorify meat consumption.
Do the math and consider the consequences: It takes 4.5 pounds of grain to make a pound of chicken meat, 7.3 pounds of grain to produce a pound of pork, and a whopping 20 pounds of grain to produce a single pound of beef.
Beyond the inefficiencies, there are other considerations. The next time you have bacon for breakfast, chew on this: A typical pig produces three gallons of excrement a day. Modern hog CAFOS (concentrated animal feeding operations) require huge sewage lagoons that contain carcinogenic concentrations of nitrogen.
Other meat industries face similar problems — and air, water and soil quality isn't even the worst of it. The practice of recycling leftover animal parts into feed for other animals, many of whom have no evolutionary history as carnivores, is resulting in the unprecedented spread of dangerous pathogens that are quickly developing resistance to any antidote scientists can throw at them. "The chicken vector" may sound like the title of a cartoon, but it is no laughing matter.
Side effects like these, called "externalities," were once the hidden costs of our food-production efficiencies. Now they are manifesting in wide-ranging ways and can no longer be ignored. Throw in factors like the uncertainties of global warming, skyrocketing energy prices and increasing population pressure (the human population is forecast to balloon to over 10 billion before the middle of this century) and the question becomes:
What are we going to do with a globe full of hungry people?
Just as the problems are complex, so are the possible answers. They will require commitment, savvy and sacrifice from many sectors — politicians, food producers, scientists and especially consumers. No matter how heaping a platterful of solutions Roberts offers, the question is: Will we help ourselves?
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Paul Stanley; San Francisco Ca; Usa; Fillmore Stru
Artist: Paul Stanley; San Francisco Ca; Usa; Fillmore Stru
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Nov-13
Year: 2006
Tracks: 23
Chris Martin Wants Coldplay To Be Karoake Kings
Chris Martin says that Coldplay won’t be classed as a success until their songs become popular amongst karaoke fans.
He said: “I’ve been into them and you open the lyrics book and there are a million Beatles songs.
“There’s dozens of ABBA, Culture Club or even Bucks Fizz, but Coldplay? There will be two or at best three. If we could just get eight in every bar worldwide I’d be happy. I would know we’ve made it.”
And Martin believes the bands new album could help them break the karaoke scene.
He told the Sun: “I think there are three karaoke possibilities on Viva La Vida. It surely has to be the ultimate measure of success.”
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Posh's son dates Kate Beckinsale's daughter
Victoria Beckham's son Brooklyn is set to start dating Kate Beckinsale's daughter.
Actress Kate has given Brooklyn - Victoria's eldest son with her soccer star husband David - her blessing to romance Lily, even though both children are only nine.
She is quoted by Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper as saying: "I am dreading the day Lily brings home a boy. But she and the Beckham boys get on really well. So if she did have to have a boyfriend, then I suppose Brooklyn would get my seal of approval!"
Kate, 34, has become close friends with Victoria since the former Spice Girl moved to Los Angeles with David and their three sons - Brooklyn, five-year-old Romeo and Cruz, three - last summer.
Speaking at Tuesday's Glamour Women of the Year Awards - where she was named Actress of the Year - Kate revealed Victoria, 34, had passed on a crucial style tip.
She said: "Victoria gave me nipple covers. You don't want your little peas sticking out, do you?"
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Lousie Attaque
Artist: Lousie Attaque
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
A Plus Tard Crocodile
Year:
Tracks: 18
Mother's Finest
'Hollyoaks' star guests in music video
Hollyoaks actress Leah Hackett has guested in a music video for punk band Reemer.
The soap star, who plays Tina McQueen, appears alongside her boyfriend Dave, who is the singer in the band.
Faithless's Jamie Catto directed the video for the Manchester group, who recently appeared on a Mighty Boosh podcast.
The single, 'Maniac', is the group's debut release.
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The soap star, who plays Tina McQueen, appears alongside her boyfriend Dave, who is the singer in the band.
Faithless's Jamie Catto directed the video for the Manchester group, who recently appeared on a Mighty Boosh podcast.
The single, 'Maniac', is the group's debut release.
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Dita Von Teese Requests Lawsuit Dismissal
Burlesque star Dita Von Teese has asked a Los Angeles court to dismiss her lawsuit against a giant swan manufacturer over a malfunctioning stage prop after the item was returned to her fully repaired.
The former wife of Marilyn Manson, real name Heather Sweet, employed the services of Fred Knaff last year to build her a 10 foot high swan with a fountainhead in the beak, in which she could perform the act she calls Swan Lake.
But the fountain malfunctioned at her show's debut in Toronto, Canada on 12 November - and she was forced to return the damaged goods for repair.
Knaff reportedly refused to fix it - and Von Teese subsequently filed suit against Knaff's firm in April.
But now Von Teese has filed a motion at Los Angeles Superior Court in a bid to have her legal action dismissed, claiming she has settled the dispute out of court, according to website TMZ.com.
The former wife of Marilyn Manson, real name Heather Sweet, employed the services of Fred Knaff last year to build her a 10 foot high swan with a fountainhead in the beak, in which she could perform the act she calls Swan Lake.
But the fountain malfunctioned at her show's debut in Toronto, Canada on 12 November - and she was forced to return the damaged goods for repair.
Knaff reportedly refused to fix it - and Von Teese subsequently filed suit against Knaff's firm in April.
But now Von Teese has filed a motion at Los Angeles Superior Court in a bid to have her legal action dismissed, claiming she has settled the dispute out of court, according to website TMZ.com.
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