| Not losing her cool | | Posted Sunday, February 04, 2007 2:52:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | If KT Tunstall wins a Grammy this month, she might consider thanking two of the most unlikely people in her acceptance speech. One would be "American Idol" runner-up Katharine McPhee. The other: jazz trumpeter Olu Dara, father of the rapper Nas. Without them, Tunstall might still be strumming a guitar in London coffee shops. "Me, McPhee and Nas' father need to go to a wicked bar in Times Square and suck one down and talk about how great my career is," says the Scottish singer-songwriter with a laugh. Nas inadvertently handed Tunstall her first big break when he pulled out of an appearance on an influential BBC show in 2004 after his father fell ill, allowing Tunstall to fill in. And it was McPhee who raised Tunstall's American profile by belting out her infectious hit "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" – twice – during the last "Idol" run.... | |
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| | | FRANKENSTEIN - Chapter 4 - 12/07/2006 | | Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 12:55:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation. I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects. I attended the lectures, and cultivated the acquaintance, of the men of science of the university; and I found even in M. Krempe a great deal of sound sense and real information, combined, it is true, with a repulsive physiognomy and manners, but not on that account the less valuable. In M. Waldman I found a true friend. His gentleness was never tinged by dogmatism; and his instructions were given with an air of frankness and good nature that banished every idea of pedantry. In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge, and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.... | |
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| | | Earth Science Museum Has Top Exhibits | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:07:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | There's more to BYU's Earth Science Museum than meets the eye. Many people may not know that the metal-sided building across from LaVell Edwards Stadium is a museum, and that BYU is storing one of the largest dinosaur collections in the United States with more than 100 tons of plaster-covered bones. A visitor to the museum can unearth these treasures: Allosaurus Every state has a state bird, tree and flower. But what many people do not know is that Utah has its own state dinosaur, the Allosaurus. "I didn't know that Utah had a state dinosaur or that BYU had an Earth Science Museum," said Klysta Brooks, a junior from Granby, Mass., in the nursing program. "But I would be interested in seeing it. I am in a geology class right now learning about these things." This large dinosaur dates back to the late Jurassic Period and was the most common predator in the western part of North America.... | |
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| | | Administration, candidates don't see eye-to-eye on gas line economics | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 11:02:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ideas being floated by gubernatorial candidates Tony Knowles and Sarah Palin on how to advance the natural gas pipeline project are drawing some criticism from people who have been in the trenches in negotiations over the last two years. A criticism of both candidates' statements that is widely shared among those who have been involved in negotiations is that they reflect the influence of former state Department of Natural Resources officials who resigned a year ago after disagreeing with the approach by Gov. Frank Murkowski's administration. Tom Irwin, the former DNR commissioner who resigned, is supporting Republican candidate Palin and has given her advice. Marty Rutherford, the former deputy commissioner, is advising Knowles, the Democratic contender. Irwin and Rutherford have a fundamental disagreement with the Murkowski administration's approach, arguing essentially that the gas is no longer "stranded" because a pipeline project is economic today.... | |
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| | | Postal Service Previews 2007 Commemorative Stamp Program | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 7:00:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | Marvel Comics, the art of Disney, Ella Fitzgerald, the settlement of Jamestown, Jimmy Stewart, Mendez v. Westminster, vintage mahogany speedboats, lighthouses and those stunning polar lights are just a sampling of diverse icons in the U.S. Postal Service's 2007 commemorative stamp program lineup. "Once again, the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee has delivered a powerful stamp program that reflects the American experience and highlights our values, heroes, history, achievements and natural wonders in an artistic collection of colorful postage stamps," said Postmaster General John E. Potter. With Love and Kisses To give card and letter writers a jump start on their Valentine's Day correspondence, the 2007 Love stamp, With Love and Kisses, will be issued in mid-January. The stamp, which evokes images of sweet and ardent affection, features a Hershey's Kisses chocolate and a red heart that form mirror images of each other (See below for extensive information on each stamp.... | |
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| | | Karamu alum thrives in roles on network TV | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 10:53:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | He looked golf-course casual in a black cap and white T-shirt, but the doctor definitely was in. Standing next to a defibrillator in a hallway of Seattle Grace Hospital this summer, James Pickens Jr. was drawing on 20 years of experience to diagnose the third season of "Grey's Anatomy." OK, Pickens isn't really a doctor, but he plays one on television's highest-rated show. And this hospital hallway really isn't in Seattle, but the intricacy of the set certainly makes for a convincing illusion on the Hollywood soundstage that's home for ABC's hit medical drama. Still, the diagnosis of the moment didn't require the expertise of his "Grey's Anatomy" character, Seattle Grace chief of surgery Richard Webber. It needed the expert eye of an actor who has been operating in network television since becoming a regular on the soap opera "Another World" in 1986.... | |
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| | | Mouse Tests Predict Drug Response In Relapsing Pancreatic Cancer Patients | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 6:54:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | By slicing up bits of patient tumors and grafting them into mice, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center specialists have figured out how to accurately "test drive" chemotherapy drugs to learn in advance which drug treatments offer each individual pancreatic cancer patient the best therapeutic journey. .... | |
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| | | McDreamy Choked By Castmate -- McJealous? | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 12:54:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | Patrick "Dr. McDreamy" Dempsey's pretty mug might've needed a little emergency care after a dust-up with his "Grey's Anatomy" co-star Isaiah Washington. According to Rush & Molloy, the simmering feud between Washington and Dempsey came to a head this week on set, when Washington said "some disgusting things" and got in Dempsey's face during shooting. In fact, the National Enquirer had reported that Washington had choked Dempsey and shoved him, though other sources denied this. In the Enquirer's account, what started as an argument over lateness on set turned into a full blow-up. Dempsey's rep tried to downplay the incident, saying, "In any close-knit family, sometimes people argue. But everybody made up and went back to work." Neither Washington's nor an ABC rep had a comment. Why all the commotion? It might stem, say sources, from Washington's frustration that Dempsey has become the poster boy for the show.... | |
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| | | Staying well --for life--in Indianapolis | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 2:55:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | Everyone kept asking me if I was hurting yet. My first appointment after checking in for a two-night stay at The Villa Inn, Restaurant and Spa was a private Pilates session with a personal trainer, and everyone from the desk clerks to the room-service attendant was sure I'd be too sore to move the remainder of my visit. But that's what I came here for. Personal training is something small hotel spas seldom offer. I also was intrigued by the possibility of a private life-coaching appointment, another rarity on the small-spa circuit. I certainly hadn't expected to find this combination in Indianapolis, or in an inn with only six rooms. It seems The Villa was always a different sort of place, even before its current incarnation. They say that its Italianate architecture, equal parts fortress and chapel, was inspired by a Florentine villa the builder saw on a trip abroad--an ambition plausible only in the late-19th Century.... | |
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| | | Baby on board | | Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:53:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | Baby on board Stylish slings let on-the-go parents keep their kids close Want to know more about babywearing? Check out these sites: Rachel Sutherland When rocker and fashionista Gwen Stefani set out to run errands with wee son Kingston strapped to her chest in a piece of orange and yellow fabric, as captured on the pages of countless celebrity magazines, she was not the trendsetter we've come to know and love. She had become part of a club with members in the thousands worldwide: babywearers. They're in-the-know, stylish parents, including a growing number in the Charlotte area, who are tickled about their ability to connect with their child while multitasking. "Some people are drawn to (babywearing) because they believe in attachment parenting, or instinctive parenting, so they do it because it is good for their baby," says Jeni Norton, 44, who with her husband, Denby Angus, 44, started www.thebabywearer.com, an online community with more than 40,000 members around the world.... | |
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