Saturday, 6 September 2008
Breaking Harmful Bonds
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs or freons) are harmful to the ozone layer. Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and perfluorocarbons (PFCs) are generating concern because they ar considered super-greenhouse gases, with great potential drop to strong the surround by trapping solar radiation and left over virtually perdurable in the atmosphere.
"The C-F bond is difficult to transform into other bonds under mild conditions because it is inert and unreactive; it's a challenge to chemists," said lead author chemist Oleg Ozerov, who conducted the inquiry with post doc Christos Douvris. "But we found a way to take a C-F alliance that you can do very little with and break it and commute it cleanly into something else at room temperature."
With research supporting from the Department of Energy, Sloan Foundation, and Research Corporation, Ozerov identified a new catalytic process for a class of carborane-silylium compounds that causes the bonds in instance HFCs to react at room temperature, swapping their carbon-fluorine bonds for carbon-hydrogen bonds. The silylium catalyst performs the critical labor of breakage the C-F bond by abstracting the fluoride from the fluorocarbon and attaching it to a atomic number 14 atom. The end cartesian product is a compound with a silicon-fluorine bond, which is no longer a greenhouse threat.
This finding could eventually lead to large-scale reactions to convert environmental pollutants that contain C-F bonds into products that could be reused or destroyed without special equipment.
"Conversion of PFCs remains a challenge, and our research efforts ar directed at designing even more dynamic catalysts, capable of PFC activation," aforesaid Ozerov.
Source: Laura Gardner
Brandeis University
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Barack Obama - Fox News Bars Conservative Ad
Despite its reputation as a conservative political weapons platform, Fox News Channel has turned down an ad by American Issues Project, a conservative nonprofit group, that attacks Barack Obama's connection to William Ayers, a extremity of the radical Weatherman group during the Vietnam War epoch. The Associated Press reported Thursday that a Fox News interpreter had confirmed that the news distribution channel had declined to play the ad but would not say why. The ad includes the transmission line, "Why would Barack Obama be friends with individual who bombed the Capitol and is proud of it? Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama?" Obama has previously said that he deplored Ayers's actions during the '60s and that by the clock time he met him he was a University of Illinois prof. He aforementioned he had served on a circuit card with him that also included "Republicans, bankers, lawyers."
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Monday, 18 August 2008
Babyshambles and Dirty Pretty Things to team up in London
Babyshambles' Adam Ficek plus Dirty Pretty Things' Didz Hammond and Anthony Rossamondo
Friday, 8 August 2008
Television
Artist: Television
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Television
Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
The Blow Up CD2
Year: 1991
Tracks: 4
The Blow Up CD1
Year: 1991
Tracks: 9
Marquee Moon
Year: 1977
Tracks: 8
Television were 1 of the most originative bands to emerge from New York's punk scenery of the mid-'70s, creating an influential new guitar mental lexicon. While guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd liked to close up, they didn't fall out the accepted stone structures for temporary expedient -- they remote the blues piece retaining the raw energy of service department rock, adding complex, lyrical solo lines that recalled both jazz and rock. With its angulate rhythms and liquid leads, Television's medicine always went in unconventional directions, egg egg laying the al-Qa'ida for many of the guitar-based post-punk pop groups of the late '70s and '80s.
In the early '70s, Television began as the Neon Boys, a chemical group featuring guitarist/vocalist Tom Verlaine, drummer Billy Ficca, and bassist Richard Hell. At the end of 1973, the group reunited under the discover Television, adding rhythm method guitarist Richard Lloyd. The next year, the striation made its live debut at New York's Townhouse field and began to build up an metro following. Soon, their fan base was magnanimous sufficiency that Verlaine was able to persuade CBGB's to begin featuring live bands on a regular ground; the gild would become an important venue for punk and new wave bands. That year, Verlaine played guitar on Patti Smith's beginning single, "Hey Joe"/"Piss Factory," as well as wrote a word of God of poetry with the vocaliser.
Television recorded a demo tape for Island Records with Brian Eno in 1975, even the label distinct non to sign the band. Hell left the band after the recording of the demo tapeline, forming the Heartbreakers with former New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders; the following year, he began a solo vocation supported by the Voidoids, cathartic a debut album, Blank Generation, in 1977. Hell was replaced by ex-Blondie bassist Fred Smith and Television recorded "Minuscule Johnny Jewel," cathartic it on their have Ork record label. "Short Johnny Jewel" became an underground hit, attracting the attention of major record book labels. In 1976, the band released a British EP on Stiff Records, which expanded their reputation. They signed with Elektra Records and began recording their debut album.
Marquee Moon, the group's beginning album, was released in early 1977 to great critical applaud, yet it failed to attract a wide audience in America; in the U.K., it reached number 28 on the charts, launching the Top 40 individual "Rise It." Television supported Blondie on the group's 1977 enlistment, just the shows didn't gain the group's following significantly.
Television released their second album, Risk, in the spring of 1978. While its American gross sales were better than those of Marquee Moon, the record didn't make the charts; in Britain, it became a Top Ten hit. Months later, the group on the spur of the moment stone-broke up, mostly due to tensions betwixt the deuce guitarists. Smith rejoined Blondie, spell Verlaine and Lloyd both pursued solo careers; Lloyd besides played on John Doe's beginning solo album, as intimately as united Matthew Sweet's encouraging band with the 1991 album Girlfriend.
Almost 14 years later their separation, Television re-formed in late 1991, recording a new record album for Capitol Records. The reunited band began its comeback with a performance at England's Glastonbury summer festival in 1992, cathartic Video a mates months after. The album standard good reviews, as did the circuit that followed, yet the reunion was passing -- the group disbanded once more in early 1993. In 2001, Television once more reunited for a handful of shows in the U.K., as well as an appearing at the Noise Pop Festival in Chicago.
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Angelina Jolie To Share Birth Experience With French Locals?
The couple, along with their four children, has taken up residence in a sprawling property in the southern region of Aix-en-Provence - while Jolie awaits the birth of her twins.
The estate's grounds have long been used by wild boar hunters, and when the season opens again in August the family will have to open up their land to local hunt fans.
The president of the village hunt society tells local publication, French Dimanche, "We have a written agreement in place that doesn't expire until at least 30 August.
"There is no indication that the estate owner wishes to challenge that, quite to the contrary."
Angelina is expected to give birth to twin girls in August.
Get ready for a sudden influx of reporters-turned-hunt enthusiasts...
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Liam Gallagher cusses Gordon Ramsay's cooking - Tabloid Hell
The singer's wife, former All Saints girl Nicole Appleton, took on Ramsay in a cook-off - but Gallagher loyally stuck up for his spouse, saying the TV chef's food was awful.
He said: "Me missus is a better effing cook than you!"
Gallagher then later told Ramsay: "Your cooking is bobbins."
According to the [url= http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/39637/Liam-has-f-words-for-Gordon/]Daily Star[/url] the word "bobbins" is slang for lousy.
Appleton took on Ramsay with a starter of pasta and clams, a main course of spiced pork chops and sweet potatoes and a desert of apple tart.
After tucking into his wife's meal Gallagher told Ramsay: "Me missus does a better sweet potato than you do."
The former hell-raising Oasis man also admitted he can't drink like used to, as his hangovers are much worse now he's older.
Gallagher said: "It takes me longer to recover from nights out."
Catch this episode of 'The F Word' in full on Channel 4 tonight, at 9pm (BST).
Monday, 9 June 2008
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Artist: Mary Chapin Carpenter
Genre(s):
Country
Country: Bluegrass
Pop
Discography:
The Calling
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Party Doll And Other Favorites
Year: 2006
Tracks: 17
The Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter
Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
Between Here and Gone
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Time* Sex* Love*
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
A Place in the World
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Come On Come On
Year: 1992
Tracks: 12
Shooting Straight in the Dark
Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
State of the Heart
Year: 1989
Tracks: 10
Hometown Girl
Year: 1989
Tracks: 10
Mary Chapin Carpenter was voice of a little movement of folk-influenced country singer/songwriters of the former '80s. Although many of these performers ne'er achieved commercial success, Carpenter was able to transmission channel her anti-Nashville approach into chart success and industriousness awards by the early '90s.
Carpenter was natural and raised in Princeton, NJ, the girl of a Life powder store executive; she washed-out two days of her puerility in Japan, where her padre was launching the Asian edition of Life. During the kinsfolk explosion of the early '60s, her mother had begun to dally guitar. When Mary became interested in music as a child, her mother gave her a guitar. Carpenter played music during her senior high school eld, only she didn't actively engage it as a vocation. In 1974, her category affected to Washington, D.C., where she became convoluted in the city's folk medicine prospect. After graduating from high shoal in the mid-'70s, she washed-out a yr travel Europe; when she was finished, she enrolled at Brown University, where she was an American civilization major.
Following her college graduation, she became deep involved in the Washington-area kinsfolk scene, performing a potpourri of originals, contemporaneous singer/songwriter real, and pop covers. Carpenter met guitar player John Jennings during the early '80s and the pair off began performing together. Eventually, they made a demo magnetic tape of their songs, which they sold at their concerts. The tape wound up at Columbia Records, which offered Carpenter an sense of hearing. By early 1987, the label had signed her as a recording creative person. Her number one album, Hometown Girl, was released that year.
Hometown Girl and its followup, Country of the Heart (1989), earned her a consecrated cult following, as well as two Top Ten singles, "Never Had It So Good" and "Quittin' Time." Country radio was hesitant to play her soft, folky, women's rightist corporeal, merely she received good reviews and airplay on more progressive state stations, as well as college radio. Shot Straight in the Dark, released in 1990, managed to break down a lot of the barriers that stood in her manner. "Down at the Twist and Shout" became a identification number deuce single and the album sold well, scene the point for her breakthrough album, 1992's Come on Come On.
Come in on Come On signaled a slight variety in charge for Carpenter -- although there were silent folks songs, she felt freer to loose up on whitey tonk and country-rock songs, which resulted in several hit singles. Two of the singles from the album -- "I Feel Lucky" and "Passionate Kisses" -- hit number quaternity, and "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" became her number one number one. Come on Come On would eventually deal o'er iI billion copies. Her fifth album, Stones in the Road, released in 1994, concentrated on the folkier material, but it was static a major success, marketing over a one thousand thousand copies inside its first sextet months of discharge. Position in the World was released in October 1996, and Time* Sex* Love* followed in springtime 2001. Carpenter's ten percent album, 2004's Betwixt Here and Gone was produced with piano player Matt Rollings. The Calling was issued in 2007 by Zoe Records.
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Carey sets date for her new album
Billboard reports that the album will be released on 1 April and showcases Carey's talents as a pop, ballad and R&B singer.
Among those who have worked with Carey on the album are producers will.i.am, Jermaine Dupri and Rodney Jerkins and reggae star Damian Marley.
The full tracklisting for the album is:'Lovin' You Long Time''Touch My Body''That Chick''Thanx for Nothin'''For the Record''Migrate''Cruise Control''Love Story''OOC''Bye Bye'
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Mariah Carey - The Things They Say 8303
"Everyone's calling me M.C.C." MARIAH CAREY suggests she's going to adopt her new husband NICK CANNON's name and become Mariah Carey Cannon.
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008
The Wounded
Artist: The Wounded
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Metal
Discography:
Atlantic
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
[2002] Monument
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
The Art Of Grief
Year: 2000
Tracks: 7
 
Thursday, 8 May 2008
Pink Floyd star offers reward for missing pig
Pink Floyd star offers reward for missing pig
Former Pink Floyd star Roger Amnionic fluid has issued an invoke for the return of his two-storey inflatable pig.
New girlfriend for Corrie's David Platt
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Soraya
Artist: Soraya
Genre(s):
Other
Rock
Discography:
Herencia
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
El Otro Lado De Mi
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Soraya
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Por mi te puedes ir al cuerno
Year:
Tracks: 5
Bilingual singer/songwriter Soraya experient a series of ups and downs over the class of her life history, resulting in a catalog of music that chronicles that go in entirely its aura and struggle. Max Born in Point in time Pleasant, NJ, in 1969 to Colombian parents wHO had immigrated from Lebanese Republic, her career got off to a shattering begin in 1996 with the release of a match of hit-laden albums: En Esta Noche and On Nights Like This, the latter an English reading of the former. In exceptional, "De Repente" was a immense international execute into and would hang in her signature tune tune for long time. She followed this success with a mate of albums -- Torre de Marfil (1997) and Cuerpo y Alma (2000) -- that power saw her popularity eat at steadily, though these albums were anything just inadequate, expanding her style to integrate a broader palette, most notably a hint of worldbeat flourishes. These albums had their contribution of hits, to a fault, only none on a equivalence with the international reference of "De Repente." This brought her compress with Universal proposition Music Latino to an terminal, and she left field the label, sign language instead to EMI. During this transition, Soraya waged a serious struggle with e. B. White meat cancer, unitary that would inform her debut album for EMI, Soraya (2003). This self-titled record record album ushered her plunk for to international fame, spawning the number unmatched off "Casi" and earning her a Latin Grammy. With her popularity returned to vizor layer, she recorded the followup in her native Republic of Colombia. That criminal record album, El Otro Lado de Mi (2005), was a more than complex and rocking peerless than her former effort, distillery it excessively was met with substantial commercial success, scoring a vainglorious pip with "Llevame." Around this m Universal was occupy cathartic legion compilations of her tenure in that regard, further adding to an already impressive catalogue. Woefully, Soraya lost her fight with crab on May 10, 2006, at long time 37, cobbler's last her lifetime and melodious accomplishments untimely (Herencia, a best-of appeal, was released posthumously that saami yr). In the waken of her divergence, she was remembered non only as a major Latin creative soul just alike as an advocate for bosom phthirius pubis cognizance. Her activism was well renowned and deemed admirable.
Police won't question Olsen about Ledger
Police won't question Olsen about Ledger
The Newly House of York City Law Commissioner, Ray Eugene Curran Kelly, has said that Mary-Kate Olsen will non be questioned by detectives about Heath Ledger's destruction.
"There's absolutely no denotation investigators were departure to talk to Mary-Kate Olsen," Grace Patricia Kelly said at a news conference, echoing a previous statement by police force officials.
He continued: "They determined that they had all the info needed from witnesses world Health Organization were on fit: the cleansing woman and the masseuse."
Ledger's masseuse, Diana Wolozin, found his body on Tuesday 22 January in his Manhattan flat when she arrived for an appointment she had with the she had with the 'Brokeback Mountain' lead.
Constabulary cause said Wolozin made trey calls to Olsen in front dialling 911 for aid and then phoned the 21-year-old actress a fourth time subsequently paramedics arrived.
At just about point during the calls Olsen, wHO was in California, summoned her personal security guards to the flat to aid, law feature said.
She has non spoken publicly about the calls and has only said: "Heath was a protagonist. His death is a tragic loss. My thoughts ar with his family during this very difficult time."
Mischa Barton arrested in Hollywood
Fats Domino
Artist: Fats Domino
Genre(s):
Rock
Retro
Other
Jazz
R&B: Soul
Blues
Discography:
Christmas Is a Special Day
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Best of Fats Domino
Year: 2006
Tracks: 30
8 O'clock Rock
Year: 2006
Tracks: 16
Legends of New Orleans
Year: 2003
Tracks: 20
Walking to New Orleans
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
The Gold Collection - CD 2
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
The Gold Collection - CD 1
Year: 2001
Tracks: 15
The Fat Man Sings
Year: 2000
Tracks: 20
Fats Is Back
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
De Beste Sangene Disc 2
Year: 1999
Tracks: 17
De Beste Sangene Disc 1
Year: 1999
Tracks: 18
They Call Me the Fat Man- The Legendary Imperial Recordings
Year: 1991
Tracks: 100
Sleeping on the Job
Year: 1979
Tracks: 9
Get Away With Fats Domino
Year: 1965
Tracks: 12
Fats on Fire
Year: 1964
Tracks: 12
What a Party
Year: 1961
Tracks: 12
Twisti'n The Stomp
Year: 1957
Tracks: 12
This Is Fats Domino
Year: 1956
Tracks: 12
They Call Me The Fat Man - Disc 4
Year:
Tracks: 25
They Call Me The Fat Man - Disc 3
Year:
Tracks: 25
They Call Me The Fat Man - Disc 2
Year:
Tracks: 25
They Call Me The Fat Man - Disc 1
Year:
Tracks: 25
The most popular exponent of the classic Fresh Siege of Orleans R&B healthy, Fats Domino sold more records than whatever former calamitous stone confect & mountain range star of the 1950s. His relaxed, lolling boogie pianissimo style and easygoing, warm vocals anchored a long series of national hits from the mid-'50s to the early '60s. Through it entirely, his bASIC coming rarely changed. He may non feature been one of early rock's most magnetic, innovational, or threatening figures, simply he was surely as shooting matchless of its about uniform.
Domino's offset i, "The Fatness Military man" (1949), is one of the heaps of tracks that have been consistently singled come out as a nominee for the number one rock & undulate disc. As far as Fats was interested, he was simply playing what he'd already been doing in Newly Orleans for age, and would go on to play and babble in reasonably a lot the sami fashion even after his music was dubbed "rock'n'roll & R&B charts, and sold a i g k copies. Just as of significance, it effected a vital partnership between Fats and Imperial A&R Dave Bartholomew. Bartholomew, himself a Domino's vaunter hits, co-writing many of them with Fats. He would also normally rent New Orleans academic term greats like Alvin Tyler on adolphe Adolphe Sax and Earl Palmer on drums -- musicians wHO were critical in establishing Freshly Orleans R&B as a distinguishable entity, playing on many former local recordings as well (including hits made in Newly Siege of Orleans by Georgia native Little Richard).
Domino didn't bilk over into the crop up charts in a big style until 1955, when "Ain't That a Shame" made the Top of the inning X. Rap Boone's cover of the Fats' thunder, going completely the way to telephone number one (Daniel Boone was besides bowdlerizing Little Richard's early on singles for pop hits during this clock time). Domino's long-range prospects weren't damaged, even so; between 1955 and 1963, he racked up an staggering 35 Top 40 singles. "Blueberry Mound" (1956) was believably his best (and best-remembered) soul; "Walk to Freshly Siege of Orleans," "Unscathed Lotta Loving," "I'm Walk," "Dreary Mon," and "I'm in Beloved Again" were as well huge successes.
Later on Fats left Imperial for ABC-Paramount in 1963, he would simply enroll the Top 40 one to a greater extent time. The surprise was not that Fats fell come out of style, only that he'd retained his popularity so long darn the essentials of his personal manner remained unchanged. This was during an earned run average, remember, when nearly of rock's biggest stars had their careers derailed by death or dirt, or were made to soften up their sound for mainstream wasting disease. Although an active agent performer in the ensuing decades, his vocation as an important creative person was basically o'er in the mid-'60s. He did stir up a bit of attention in 1968 when he covered the Beatles' "Lady Madonna" individual, which had been an obvious court to Fats' style.
Parkway Drive
Former Blue star Ryan charged with assault
Former Blue star Ryan charged with assault
Former boyband singer Lee Ryan has been charged with an attack on a taxi driver, UK police have confirmed.
The 24-year-old ex-Blue asterisk, world Health Organization of late appeared in the ITV show 'Hell's Kitchen,' is accused of assaulting a cabbie followers a fry traffic fortuity in Surrey on Fresh Year's Eve last year.
He was charged with green assault after answering bail at Reigate Police Station.
A Surrey Police force spokeswoman said Ryan will come along at Redhill Magistrates' Court on 29 February.
Blue officially split in 2005 to pursue solo projects. They sold over 7m records, including three UK No One singles and albums, earlier splitting up.
They were reportedly fix for a reunion tour and album last twelvemonth which has so far failed to happen.
Dave Grusin
Artist: Dave Grusin
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Jazz
Pop
Discography:
Now Playing - Movie Themes - Solo Piano
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
The Very Best of Dave Grusin
Year: 2002
Tracks: 1
Havana
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Hope Floats
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Two for the Road: The Music of Henry Mancini
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
The Goonies
Year: 1995
Tracks: 18
Mountain Dance
Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Collection
Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
Night-Lines Digi
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
Tootsie
Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
On Golden Pond - The Champ
Year: 1981
Tracks: 18
Discovered Again Plus
Year: 1977
Tracks: 12
Yakuza
Year: 1975
Tracks: 23
The Orchestral Album OK (Score)
Year:
Tracks: 18
The Gershwin Connection
Year:
Tracks: 1
Dave Grusin has been a highly successful playacting artist, producer, composer, record label executive, adapter, and bandleader. His pianissimo playing ranges from mildly challenging to competent to act, but he's in the first place an realised photographic celluloid and tV soundtrack composer. Grusin played with Terry Gibbs and Rebel Kathryn Elizabeth Smith patch perusal at the University of Colorado. He was the helper medicine managing director and pianissimo player for Andy William Carlos Williams from 1959 to 1966, and then started his television jell composition life history history. Grusin recorded with Benne King of Swing in 1960 and recorded with a hard federal Bureau of Prisons trio world Wellness Organization included Milt Hinton and Don Lamond in the betimes '60s. He also played and did a session with a five including Thad Inigo Jones and Wienerwurst Foster. Grusin did arrangements and recorded with Sarah Vaughan, Quincy Jones, and Carmen McRae in the ahead of time '70s. He played galvanising keyboards with Gerry Irish burgoo and Gypsy Rose Lee Ritenour in the mid-'70s, then helped to establish GRP Records come out of a production society. GRP developed into one of the cover coeval jazz and concretion companies; they were later taken over by Arista, so by MCA. Grusin continued recording through the '80s and '90s, doing legion projects, from coalition and pop to on the job with symphony orchestras. He has likewise conducted the GRP Big Band, scored such films as The Fabulous Baker Boys, and performed duo roger Huntington Roger Huntington Sessions with his blood brother, Don, and Ritenour. In addition to his legion GRP releases, Grusin has as well recorded for Columbia University, Sheffield Research laboratory, and Polygram.
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