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Wednesday 27 August 2008

Public Involvement In Environmental Decisions

�Legislation and public pressure have lED federal agencies such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Agriculture to involve the public in a broad range of environmental decisions, from how to unclouded up Superfund sites to how to manage federal forest earth. Does this involvement tend to meliorate or -- as some critics have argued -- impair the quality of agencies' decisions?

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND DECISIONMAKING, new from the National Research Council, examines this question and outlines stairs agencies can take to increase the likelihood that participation will have positive effects. The report will be released at 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 22.

Source: Sara Frueh

National Academy of Sciences

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Thursday 7 August 2008

Silvard

Artist: Silvard

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Touched By The Sea

Year: 2003
Tracks: 14

Chthonic Force

Tuesday 1 July 2008

Gary Jess

Artist: Gary Jess

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Returning Home

Year: 2004
Tracks: 10

Columbia River Gorge

Year: 2001
Tracks: 11

Mount St. Helens

Year: 1997
Tracks: 12

Northwest Trilogy

Year: 1996
Tracks: 10

Shadow Dancing

Year:
Tracks: 10

Reflections Of A New Spirit

Year:
Tracks: 10

Love Note

Year:
Tracks: 10

Lady Of The Lake

Year:
Tracks: 11

Castles

Year:
Tracks: 11

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Thursday 26 June 2008

Thinking Plague

Artist: Thinking Plague

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Early Plague Years

Year: 2000
Tracks: 12

In Extremis

Year: 1998
Tracks: 7

The group of Colorado experimentalists known as Thinking Plague research jazz, rock, and folk music with progressively symphonic contexts, around the aegis of guitarist and composer Mike Johnson. The lot was initially formed in the early '80s by Johnson and bassist/drummer Bob Drake; afterward cathartic an album coroneted A Thinking Plague on their own Endemic Records, the duo added singer Suzanne Lewis and released Moonsongs in 1987 for the British label Dead Man's Curve. Critical extolment for their avant-fusion was glow, only Thinking Plague continually added members -- reed player Mark Harris, keyboardist Shane Hotle -- and recorded Another Life for ReR in 1989. Though Lewis and Drake later left the area for other projects, drummer Dave Kerman (of 5uu's), vocaliser Deborah Perry, and Dave Willey (Hamster Theatre) united for 1998's In Extremis. The Early Plague Years followed deuce long time by and by.

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Monday 16 June 2008

Andy Bey

Artist: Andy Bey

   Genre(s):
Vocal
   Jazz
   Pop

Discography:

American Song

Year: 2005
Tracks: 10

Thuesdays In Chinatown

Year: 2002
Tracks: 11

Shades of Bey

Year: 1998
Tracks: 10

Ballads, Blues and Bey

Year: 1996
Tracks: 10

One of the great unsung heroes of jazz singing, Andy Bey is a commanding interpreter of lyrics wHO has a broad vocal image and a large, rich, full voice. Bey enjoys a belittled following that swears by him; still, he isn't near as well known as he should be. Born and raised in Newark, NJ, non far from New York, Bey was open to wind as a baby and started vocalizing in front of local audiences as early as ashcan School. At some gigs, an eight-year-old Bey was accompanied by tenor adolphe Sax great Hank Mobley. Bey was 13 when, in 1952, he recorded his first base solo record album, Mama's Little Boy's Got the Blues; and he was 17 when he formed Andy & the Bey Sisters with his siblings Salome and Geraldine in 1956. The grouping did a 16-month tour of Europe and recorded trey albums (unitary for RCA Victor in 1961, 2 for Prestige in 1964 and 1965) before breakage up in 1967. In the 1960s and seventies, Bey's vocals were featured by Max Roach, Duke Pearson, and Gary Bartz (for whom he delivered very socio-political lyrics, including some searing condemnations of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War). The 1970s as well launch Bey recording Have and Judgment for Atlantic and start a long association with piano player Horace Silver, wHO featured him conspicuously on many of the religious-themed albums he put out have his own Silveto label in the seventies and 1980s. The LPs contained what Silver termed "metaphysical self-help music" and preached a sort of religious self-help doctrine that wasn't unlike Reverend Ike's message -- regrettably for Silver and Bey, this approaching meant limited distribution and minuscule commercial appeal. Bey continued to run with Silver into the 1990s, when he was featured on Silver's 1993 Columbia appointment It's Got to Be Funky (which pronounced a return to concentrated bop's mainstream and did much better commercially than his "self-help medicine"). Labels Bey recorded for as a drawing card in the 1980s and 1990s included Jazzette, Zagreb, and Evidence, which, in 1996, released the superb Ballads, Blues and Bey. The success of Blues, Ballads and Bey entrap a place for the piano player to stretch out a minuscule and explore his more intimate side. Bey followed with Shades of Bey in 1998 and Tuesdays in Chinatown in 2001, choosing to explore outside the earth of jazz with covers of Nick Drake and Milton Nascimento and others. American Song followed in early 2004.

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Friday 6 June 2008

Inmates Get Baked For Paris

It's been one year since Paris Hilton turned Lynwood Jail on it's ass -- and since her former roommates don't have anything better to do -- they're celebrating!

Through a state funded cooking class, the inmates baked a cake to commemorate "Operation Secure Paris." Notice the Eiffel Tower symbolizing the heiress ... those lawbreakers are so clever!

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Friday 30 May 2008

Babyshambles - Dohertys Late Gig Arrival After Cat Death

Troubled BABYSHAMBLES rocker PETE DOHERTY fought back tears at a London gig on Tuesday (27May08), after burying his beloved pet cat just hours before he was due to go on stage.

The star apologised for arriving late to the show at the capital's Brixton Mass venue, telling fans he had been forced to lay the animal to rest at the roadside before heading to the performance.

Before his arrival at the gig, the eager rock crowd were told the star was "en route" due to his kittens acting "crazy".

And, once he arrived, the star told fans told fans the tragic reason for his tardiness: "Sorry I'm late. But considering I've had to bury one of my cats at the roadside I've done pretty well to be here."

Doherty was spotted taking his beloved pet cat to a vet near his home in Wiltshire, England last week (begs19May08).

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Sunday 11 May 2008

Spice Girls 'sorry' over cutting tour short

The Spicery Girls have apologised for cutting their world circuit dead after receiving literary criticism from their fans.
The grouping previously blamed "family commitments" for the tour termination originally than scheduled only media reports suggested that the members were combat with apiece other.
The Spice Girls late cancelled dates in Australia, South Africa, China and Genus Argentina.
Mel C said: "There has been a circumstances of scrap in the media o'er the end few days so we wanted you to get a line it from the horse's mouth."
"We're really sorry non to be able to get to totally the places we wanted to," she said.
Victoria Beckham added: "Our kids indigence to go back to school and we always said our families ar our priorities. Sorry we haven't got to encounter everybody."
Geri Halliwell said: "The tour's gone actually yearner than we anticipated. We opinion we were release to go with i gig, that's how it started - and then we planned until the end of Jan, and so we in reality extended it."
Mel B addressed rumours of a rift in the camp by saying: "We hate from each one other? Are you kidding? We love for each one other."

Delirious - movie review

I have seen Steve Buscemi in person, and he is non peculiarly ratlike -- he's actually
a snatch dapper, well-nigh handsome. Merely on screen, Buscemi persists in embodying the most
rodentlike of characters -- twitchy, scraggly, often lurking in the shadows. His voi
cing of Templeton the (actual) rat in the live-action Charlotte's Web seemed to a lesser extent perfective tense
casting than foregone conclusion.

Buscemi's quality in Tom DiCillo's Delirious is Les Galantine, a "licensed professional"
lensman wHO is undistinguished even by paparazzi standards and ratlike still
by Buscemi standards. An irritable lone hand, Les roams alleys and back entrances with
a take of similar-minded (just slightly to a lesser extent desperate) shutterbugs, grasping for shots
of stars like pop sensation D'Harma (Alison Lohman). It's at one of these melees
that he bumps into the affably homeless Toby fillpot jug (Michael George Dibdin Pitt); shortly Toby fillpot jug has a reluctant,
unstable ally and a place to rest. Les, in turn, has mortal to heed to his rants
and delusions, and to follow him on sad visits to his aged parents -- unimpressed,
of course of action, with his published pictures.

Though we signified that most of Les's friendships volition strain earlier rather than later
without outside factors, a rift develops 'tween Les and Toby jug when the youth prot�g�
makes actual human being contact lens with D'Harma. The beatific Toby jug, against any phone number of
odds, begins to fulfil what could be a paparazzo's twisted fantasy: He actually makes
it to the other side of the crystalline lens, capturing D'Harma's fancy and becoming, if not
a genuine hotshot, at least the sort of guy world Health Organization might eventually seem on MTV
or VH1 during weekend marathons. Les lavatory only simmer with resentment, at times exploding
into self-sabotaging fits of badly behaviour.

End-to-end entirely of this, and despite the repetition inevitable in dealings with a type
as obsessionally stuck as Les, Delirious finds tiny moments of insight and, in its
pointy way, entertainment. The performances are key here, non only Buscemi's typically
fearless cultivate merely likewise Pitt's covering of his slightly dreamy, now and then creepy
angel-faced shtik. Alison Lohman has fun with what has become a modern comedy standby:
the

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Gervais planning Extras spin-off?

Ricky Gervais crataegus oxycantha be preparation an Extras spin-off starring Stephen Merchant's dopey agent and Barry from 'EastEnders' as a geminate of bumbling crimefighters.
The BBC comedy ended afterward deuce series and a Christmastide special.
Just doer Shaun Williamson, wHO played Barry, revealed that Gervais had come up with another mind for his theatrical role and useless agent Darren Dear (Merchant).
He told radiocommunication station Heart: "I would bear loved another 10 series of 'Extras' but I throne altogether understand them wanting to call it a day.
"The one thing we did bandy around, half in gag and half severely, was the theme of a spin-off for my character Barry and the factor. Ricky thinking they could go round in a camper caravan solving crimes or something."
He added: "That's strictly on the backburner for now as Ricky is busy in Hollywood at the moment. I'd jump at the chance to ferment with him once more."
Williamson said he closely turned kill the 'Extras' theatrical role. "I thinking for most 10 proceedings near non taking it and then I realised I power ne'er get the chance to work with Ricky and Sir Leslie Stephen once again.
"I am so proud to hold been involved with 'Extras' and I john realise them wanting to finish it.
"They've got so much to a greater extent departure for them and I think they have got a great photographic film in them to get to, whether it's an 'Extras' flick or scarce a great British people film, and I'm for sure they'll make it."

Daniel Day-Lewis to present DGA award

Wicklow resident Daniel Day-Lewis has been confirmed by the President of the Directors Lodge of America, Michael Apted, as one of the presenters at the upcoming DGA awards.
Day-Lewis has been nominated for an Academy Laurels for Charles Herbert Best Doer for his Golden Globe winning function in 'There Will Be Blood'.
This is his fourth nomination for the honour, which he previously won in 1990 for his performance as Christy Brownness in 'My Left wing Foot'.
Other Academy Award nominees wHO will conjoin Day-Lewis in presenting the DGA awards include: Marion Cotillard, Amy Ryan, Tilda Swinton, Tom Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, Hal Holbrook and Ellen Page.
'Ocean's Eleven' star Carl Reiner testament fall as host for the 60th yearbook DGA awards. This yr will mark the 21st time Reiner has hosted the ceremony, which testament take home on Saturday 26 Jan in Los Angeles.