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Despite opposition from the Roman Catholic Church, the Philippine Department of Health will support the use of condoms to forbid the spread of HIV/AIDS in addition to encouraging education on the issue and promoting measures to guard against sexually hereditary infections, the Philippine Star reports. Health Undersecretary Mario Villaverde at the second base Asia Pacific Regional Meeting on universal proposition access to HIV bar in Manila, Philippines, aforesaid, "The use of condoms to preclude the spread head of HIV/AIDS is different from their use for birth control," adding, "The church's position is damaging to public health" (Crisostomo, Philippine Star, 8/29).
According to Villaverde, "We cannot genuinely prevent masses, regardless of their spiritual belief, from engaging in high-risk behavior, and so we must educate them and we must provide some prophylactic device and control measures for them" (Alave/ Bordadora, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 8/28). Villaverde added, "Generally, the coming of the DOH in terms of HIV prevention is truly through department of Education and advocacy. Awareness and behavioral change are important." Villaverde did not say how condoms would be promoted in the nation, where all forms of contraception are opposed by the church building, according to the Star (Philippine Star, 8/29). The Catholic Church has been campaigning against the manipulation of government funds for and universal access to contraception, the Daily Inquirer reports.
Although the Philippines is considered a low-prevalence land, with less than 0.1% of the population testing positive for HIV, the number of HIV-positive people continues to originate. DOH data indicate that the identification number of recorded HIV/AIDS cases rose to an average of 29 per month in 2007, up from 20 cases monthly in past years. Estimates
Monday 8 September 2008
Friday 29 August 2008
Reading 2008 review: Emmy the Great
Name: Emmy the Great
Where and when: Festival Republic stage, Sunday, 4.35pm, Reading
Dress code: The violinist is wearing a knitted tank top, which genial of tells you all you motive to recognize about this show.
Who's observance: There's a day of skull-crunching metal on the main stage, and mind-mangling beats on the dance stage � for those of a
sensitive disposal, Emmy's show is the only retreat.
In a nutshell: As the other stages reverberate with the message Bass, How Low Can You Go?, Emmy is offering up the philosophical question Acoustic Guitars, How Twee Can You Be? The whole show is a battle
between embrace her neat ditties on messy making love and feeling a bit nauseous at the out-and-out limpness of it all.
Emmy is clearly talented. Her voice is beautiful, her melodies are sublime and at one point we start to mentally compare her to Joni Mitchell circa Blue. But then we listen someone state, "She sounds like Phoebe from Friends", and it takes a lot of effort to watch the rest of the show without cheering out for a rendering of Smelly Cat.
High degree: Emmy's tale of her low Reading fete, aged 17: "I woke up in a stranger's tent. The next day I found out that my friends had sold me for a g of Ketamine."
Low point: It's a fine line between departure the herd wanting more than or absent MOR.
How hard does she rock?: You are joking, right?
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Saturday 9 August 2008
David Hykes and The Harmonic Choir
Artist: David Hykes and The Harmonic Choir
Genre(s):
Ethnic
Discography:
Breath Of The Heart
Year: 1996
Tracks: 4
Hearing Solar Winds
Year: 1988
Tracks: 8
Harmonic Meetings
Year: 1986
Tracks: 5
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Acclaimed Hollywood film effects artist dead
Pioneering special effects and makeup artist Stan Winston - a four-time Oscar winner who transformed Arnold Schwarzenegger into The Terminator and brought dinosaurs to life in the Jurassic Park films - has died at age 62.
Winston, whose studio's work was on display in the high-tech armored suits worn by Robert Downey Jr in the current superhero blockbuster Iron Man, died at home in Malibu, California, on Sunday surrounded by family.
He had fought a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of blood plasma cells, a spokeswoman for the Stan Winston Studio said.
Winston, a collaborator with such filmmaking giants as Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Tim Burton, was best known for his landmark physical effects and animatronics, and later for blending them seamlessly with computer-graphics imagery.
Winston crafted some of modern cinema's most breathtaking creatures, including the terrifying monsters of "Aliens" and the killer cyborgs of The Terminator and its sequel for Cameron.
In the makeup department, Winston worked with Burton to create the bizarre, shear-fingered looks of Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands and Danny DeVito's grotesque Penguin guise in Batman Returns.
But Winston's most celebrated creations were the prehistoric reptiles he brought to life in Spielberg's Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
The design and construction of the life-size, robotic dinosaurs, including a two-story-tall tyrannosaurus rex in Jurassic Park, were heralded as a pioneering technical feat in movie magic.
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Winston, however, was said to be most proud of the artistic imagination and craft he brought to his work.
"He was a 'character creator,' as he liked to be called, and artistry was his only benchmark," said Don Shay, publisher of Cinefex magazine and a chronicler of Winston's career.
Winston once compared the talent in his studio to "the finest painters, sculptors and artists of the Renaissance."
His body of work spanned four decades in television and movies, including 75 feature films, and earned 10 Academy Award nominations in all.
He won four Oscars - one each for visual effects and makeup in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and two more for visual effects in Aliens and Jurassic Park.
His last Oscar nomination was for the eerily human-like walking, talking stuffed Teddy bear in the Spielberg-directed sci-fi drama A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.
Winston also was one of the first in his profession to build his own special effects house into a viable business, creating a model for others to follow, said Shane Mahan, one his effects supervisors and business partners.
It was with Cameron and fellow effects artist Scott Ross that Winston later co-founded Digital Domain, one of the Hollywood's leading CGI studios. Winston and Cameron resigned from that company in 1998.
At the time of his death, Winston was in the process of expanding his own studio into the new Winston Effects Group, with a team of senior effects supervisors heading the company.
A native of Arlington, Virginia, Winston originally aspired to become an actor, but launched his career behind the camera after completing a three-year makeup apprenticeship at Walt Disney Studios in 1972.
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Monday 16 June 2008
Sambora arrested over driving offence
Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora has been arrested in Laguna Beach, California on suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol.
According to celebrity website TMZ.com, Sambora was pulled over by police officers at about 11pm last night.
Police claimed that the star was driving erratically before they pulled him over.
Sambora then reportedly failed a number of field sobriety tests before being arrested on a DUI charge.
Sambora checked into a rehab clinic last year to receive treatment for alcohol-related problems.
According to celebrity website TMZ.com, Sambora was pulled over by police officers at about 11pm last night.
Police claimed that the star was driving erratically before they pulled him over.
Sambora then reportedly failed a number of field sobriety tests before being arrested on a DUI charge.
Sambora checked into a rehab clinic last year to receive treatment for alcohol-related problems.
Sunday 8 June 2008
Neil Diamond - Diamond Pulp Fiction Drug Song Sparked My Comeback
NEIL DIAMOND has publicly credited moviemaker QUENTIN TARANTINO for his career comeback - because the use of GIRL, YOU'LL BE A WOMAN SOON in PULP FICTION gave the crooner a big boost.
Oddly, Diamond initially turned down Tarantino's approach because he feared the scene featuring Urge Overkill's rendition of his moody classic glorified drugs and drug use.
He recalls, "When Quentin Tarantino first sent me his script, I'd turned down the use of that song (because) I thought the scene it was used in was heavily into the drug ambience.
"I promised myself that I wouldn't allow my music to sensationalise drug use."
But a persistent Tarantino insisted Diamond's song was the perfect tune for the scene, and the Sweet Carolina singer's publicist eventually won him over.
Diamond tells Spin magazine, "My publisher argued on Quentin's behalf, and I reconsidered, even though I was very, very wary about it.
"That was really the beginning of the turnaround for me."
It wasn't the only comeback Pulp Fiction sparked - John Travolta has often credited the 1994 film with boosting his career.
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