Saturday, 6 September 2008
Fingerprint Breakthrough Hope In US Double Murder Probe
A leading detective from America is visiting forensic scientists at the University of Leicester and Northamptonshire Police in a bid to shed new light on the investigation.
He will meet with Dr John Bond a forensic research scientist at the University of Leicester and scientific bread and butter manager at Northamptonshire Police. Dr Bond and colleagues from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leicester are investigating a new technique to identify fingerprints on metallic element casing- including bullets and bombs.
The discovery in crime detection could lead to hundreds of cold cases being reopened. The method enables scientists to 'visualise fingerprints' even after the print itself has been removed. They conducted a study into the way fingerprints can buoy corrode metallic element surfaces. The technique canful enhance - after firing - a fingerprint that has been deposited on a small calibre metal cartridge case before it is fired.
Detective Christopher King, of Kingsland Police Department, Georgia, is the lead investigator working on a 'cold case' - a double homicide - which has departed unsolved for a number of geezerhood. Detective King is a veteran officeholder with all over 20 years' experience as a sworn law enforcement officer in both California and Georgia.
Detective King was given the task of reviewing the previous investigators file to bring a " fresh " prospective and new ideas to the case.
Detective King aforementioned: "In December 2007 I was offered the military position of Investigator to focal point on an unsolved two-fold homicide from 1999. The suspect(s) in this case entered a business district business in the early afternoon on 12/01/1999, nip and killed the two employees and stole a small amount of cash. Four discharged shell casings ejected from the suspect's pistol were recovered at the picture and make been processed for latent fingerprints exploitation traditional methods of dusting and fuming with negative results.
"Our Chief of Police, Darryl Griffis, read an internet article about Dr Bond's work out at the University of Leicester and Northamptonshire Police in development latent prints on dismissed casings and it was decided that we should attempt to have our casings tested. We checked with various of the larger offence labs and learned that everyone was interested in the treat, but none were quick to hear it out.
"We contacted Dr Bond and were invited to play the evidence to Northampton for processing in the hope that that, with the Leicester process, a latent fingerprint might be located on the actual casing(s) itself which would help to play more evidence against a possible mistrust. While we understand that there is no warrant of positive results, every possibility must be explored to bring the suspects to judge and closure to the victims' families.
"This will be my first-class honours degree visit to the U.K. and I look ahead to group meeting with Dr Bond, his staff and the members of the Northamptonshire Police."
Spokesperson for the Kingsland Police Department, Lieutenant Todd C. Tetterton, aforementioned: "Your process was one of many avenues set on the internet which showed promise towards assisting us on this case."
Dr Bond aforesaid: "We are hopeful that we crataegus oxycantha be able to assist colleagues in the Kingsland Police Department, Georgia with the techniques we have developed latterly. We have already had some success at enhancing partial fingerprints on plate casings for other law forces where the cases were some years honest-to-god and conventional fingerprinting techniques had been tried and failed".
Detective King is at the University of Leicester/Northamptonshire Police between 28 August and 31 August.
Dr John W Bond
Scientific Support Manager, Protective Services Command, Northamptonshire Police, Wootton Hall, Northampton, NN4 0JQ
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Leicester, Forensic Research Centre, 106 New Walk, Leicester LE1 7EA
Lieutenant Todd C. Tetterton
Kingsland Police Department, Office of Professional Standards, 111 South Seaboard Street, Kingsland, Georgia 31548.
Source: Dr. John W. Bond
University of Leicester
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Sunday, 17 August 2008
Download Jon Spencer Blues Explosion mp3
Artist: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Discography: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Year: 1992 Tracks: 20 After a long and semi-successful tenure as drawing card of scuzz-rock heroes Pussy Galore, Jon Spencer took his anti-rock vision and drug-addicted up with guitar musician Judah Bauer and drummer Russell Simins to create the scuzz-blues trio the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Postmodern to the |
Thursday, 7 August 2008
The Visionary and Sol Azul
Artist: The Visionary and Sol Azul
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
The Visionary Remixes
Year: 2005
Tracks: 4
 
Crystal Clear and Code Breaker
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
TV review: Happy days of vintage TV chefs
After a decade of increasingly intensive TV food - Jamie, Nigella, Gordon, Rick, Peta et al - there's a lovely antidote on Monday night, on Sky's Food channel.
Long before sex was routinely linked with cookery, before anyone even thought of revolutionising school dinners, and at a time when using foul language on the telly or, heaven forfend, in the kitchen would have been unthinkable, there were the original celebrity chefs: Julia Child and Graham Kerr.
In their heyday, people were still getting used to the idea of television, and had never even thought of olive oil, clarified butter or wine with dinner.
These two cooks brought a sort of can-do glamour to ordinary households - and most decadently, you didn't have to have any intention of cooking their food to enjoy the shows.
Watching Nigella's sultry efficiency in her gleaming kitchen, or Jamie's athletic chopping up and slinging about of food can be distinctly unrestful.
You always feel challenged or reproached in some way. Whereas with gushing Graham, and matronly Julia, the experience was undemanding and reassuring, but often inspiring as well.
Food TV reticulates vintage programmes from the pair, either well worth a half hour's pause before the late news.
Julia, you can watch purely for the emphatic way she says butter - "b-wu-ttah!" - which now seems grandly subversive, since in this country it's becoming the saturated fat that dare not speak its name.
She bustles about her kitchen like a bossy chook, her voice a deep, rich cluck, her figure nourished by a lifetime of very good food indeed.
She has what would nowadays be regarded as a terrible television manner and low performance skills. But she is the real deal, and that's what shines through. She is one of the great pioneers of adventurous modern cooking, and to watch Julia is to watch history.
Graham is more akin to the modern showbiz chef. He seemed a bit much in his day, twinkling and gushing, his mouth constantly a moue of rapture, whatever morsel he inserted in it, his cheekbones reaching for the sky. He said you could feel his food in your metatarsals.
I didn't know what metatarsals were, but I was always happy to take his word for it.
You also get a nice frisson of national pride watching him, for Kerr's Galloping Gourmet franchise of TV and cookbooks went global - but only after he had been discovered here, by the infant local telly folk.
And sometimes, as with this Monday, Food TV splices in an episode of our other old cooking heroes, Hudson and Halls.
The impact of these sparkling, bickering chefs on still-conservative late-70s-to-mid-80s New Zealand was immense. It wasn't just the food, though that was daringly exotic.
It was that they were both openly gay. We simply weren't used to seeing openly gay people on the telly. Certainly not to taking them seriously. The nearest we'd got was the obligatory camp character in the odd British comedy.
But these two, though they sent themselves up at times in a gently camp fashion, weren't on for comic relief. They were on because they could cook, and had the personality to demonstrate their techniques with elan. The humour was almost incidental.
David Halls would play up the camp thing a little, shrieking and venturing the odd double-entendre – he was virtuoso on "my nuts" this week - while an unseen studio audience rippled with laughter. But the food was such fun.
This week they tackled offal - "ooh, my kidneys!" - and a revolutionary experience it must have been for audiences of the day, after the traditional New Zealand way with offal: lamb's fry fried to desiccation, and armpit-smelling steak and kidney pie, with kidneys like rubber bullets.
Sliced thinly and fried in butter and oil, the three offal dishes were daringly pink in the middle, served with - a gorgeous retro touch - fried toast triangles and a wedding-cake piping of mashed potatoes around the edge of the plate.
And with it, "a light red" - the ubiquitous old Queen Adelaide shiraz, label artfully turned toward the camera.
Housewives of the day didn't know whether to be more shocked and delighted with the campness, or with the fact that Halls would flick spare rice on to the floor and cheat by whacking things naughtily into the microwave while the fastidious Hudson wasn't looking.
It's possible that the most enjoyable thing about watching these old shows is that they were made before we all became so food- conscious.
The presumption was that we wouldn't be cooking and eating these special, rich dishes every day, but just occasionally - the sane and rational defence Wellington chef Martin Bosley always puts up against the Food Police.
In those days, the Food Police didn't exist. The cooking was social, celebratory and wholesome. And no one wrote spiteful women's magazine articles about Julia's weight or Graham's cholesterol. Those really were innocent, happy days.
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Thursday, 26 June 2008
Spectrum Vs Dimitri
Artist: Spectrum Vs Dimitri
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
N.N
Year: 2003
Tracks: 1
 
Magic Sound Fabric
Artist: Magic Sound Fabric
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Freedom Star
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
Uplift Drift
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
 
Elodie Frege
Fats Waller
Artist: Fats Waller
Genre(s):
Jazz
Other
Discography:
I Got Rhythm
Year: 1996
Tracks: 23
Greatest Hits
Year: 1996
Tracks: 14
Aint Misbehavin
Year: 1990
Tracks: 20
Fats Waller - The Early Years Part II (cd2)
Year: 1935
Tracks: 1
Fats Waller - The Early Years Part II (cd1)
Year: 1935
Tracks: 1
Breakin' the Ice, Early Years I (cd2)
Year: 1935
Tracks: 1
Breakin' the Ice, Early Years I (cd1)
Year: 1935
Tracks: 1
Your Feet's Too Big
Year:
Tracks: 14
The Joint is Jumpin' (1929-43 RCA)
Year:
Tracks: 1
Classic Jazz Archive (CD1)
Year:
Tracks: 24
Not only was Fats Waller one of the greatest pianists jazz has of all time known, he was as well one of its most expansively funny entertainers -- and as so often happens, matchless facet tends to apart the other. His inordinately light-colored and whippy touch belied his ample physical cinch; he could swing as hard as any piano player alive or stagnant in his classic James P. Johnson-derived tread fashion, with a powerful left hand hand delivering the octaves and tenths in a hardworking, rapid, seamless stream. Waller also pioneered the use of the pipe organ and Hammond organ in idle words -- he called the pipe organ the "Deity box" -- adapting his irresistible gumption of swing to the pedals and a disconnected right hand patch making imaginative changes of the registration. As a composer and improviser, his melodic invention seldom flagged, and he contributed fistfuls of joyous yet paradoxically winsome songs like "Honeysuckle Rose," "Ain't Misbehavin,'" "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now," "Risque Turning Grey Over You" and the extraordinary "Jitterbug Waltz" to the malarky repertory.
During his lifetime and later on, though, Fats Waller was best known to the macrocosm for his oversized comic personality and guileful vocals, where he would send off up trashy tunes that Victor Records made him track record with his neat combo, Fats Waller & His Rhythm. Yet on virtually any of his records, whether the strain is an evergreen plant criterion or the most shopworn bit of jingle that a Tin Pan Alley taxi could serve up, you testament try a fetching combination of good knockabout sense of humour, foot-tapping cycle and fantastical piano playing. Today, virtually all of Fats Waller's studio recordings stern be base on RCA's on-again-off-again series The Complete Fats Waller, which commenced on LPs in 1975 and was static in progress during the 1990s.
Lowell Jackson Thomas "Fats" Waller came from a Harlem house where his church Father was a Baptist place preacher man and his mother played piano and organ. Waller took up the forte-piano at age 6, playing in a school orchestra light-emitting diode by Edgar Sampson (of Chick Webb renown). After his mother died when he was 14, Waller stirred into the home of piano player Russell Brooks, where he met and studied with James P. Johnson. Later, Waller also received classical lessons from Carl Bohm and the noted piano player Leopold Godowsky. After making his first record at eld 18 for Okeh in 1922, "Brummagem Blues"/"'Muscle Shoals Blues,"" he backed several blues singers and worked as house pianist and organist at split parties and in flick theaters and clubs. He began to appeal care as a composer during the early and mid-'20s, forming a most fruitful alliance with lyrist Andy Razaf that resulted in three Broadway shows in the late '20s, Keep Shufflin', Load of Coal, and Hot Chocolates.
Waller started qualification records for Victor in 1926; his most significant early records for that label were a series of vivid 1929 solo pianoforte sides of his own compositions like "Handful of Keys" and "Shattering Thirds." After finally sign language an sole Victor contract in 1934, he began the long-running, prolific series of records with His Rhythm, which won him great celebrity and produced several hits, including "Your Feet's Too Big," "The Joint Is Jumpin'" and "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter." He began to come along in films like Hooray for Love and King of Burlesque in 1935 patch chronic regular appearances on radiocommunication that dated back to 1923. He toured Europe in 1938, made organ recordings in London for HMV, and appeared on one of the number one telecasting broadcasts. He returned to London the following spring to record his to the highest degree extensive composition, "London Suite" for pianissimo and percussion, and ship on an extended continental tour (which, unfortunately, was canceled by fears of impending war with Germany). Well aware of the popularity of big bands in the '30s, Waller tried and true to form his have, simply they were ephemeral.
Into the forties, Waller's touring schedule of the U.S. escalated, he contributed music to another musical, Early to Bed, the photographic film appearances unbroken approaching (including a memorable stretch out of Stormy Weather where he lED an all-star band that included Benny Carter, Slam Stewart and Zutty Singleton), the recordings continued to period, and he continued to eat and boozing in super clayey quantities. Years of exhausting alimony squabbles, plus excess and, no doubtfulness, frustration over non organism taken more seriously as an artist, began to wear the piano player down. Finally, after becoming ill during a gig at the Zanzibar Room in Hollywood in December, 1943, Waller boarded the Santa Fe Chief prepare for the long trip back to New York. He never made it, dying of pneumonia aboard the coach during a catch at Union Station in Kansas City.
Patch every buffoon longs to play Hamlet as per the cliche -- and Waller did ingest so-called serious musical pretensions, longing to follow in George Gershwin's footsteps and write concert music -- it likely was not in the card game anyhow due to the racial barriers of the number one half of the 20th c. Besides, granted the fact that Waller influenced a long agate line of pianists of and after his time, including Count Basie (wHO studied with Fats), Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck and countless others, his shock has been rightfully profound.
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'The City of David Gospel Fest & Car Show' Features Top Gospel Artists, Classic Cars, and Great Food in a 'Free' Outdoor Summer Festival
crowds to a favorite Motor City summertime tradition
DETROIT, June 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It's a full day of non-stop
gospel music, food, and fun! The CITY OF DAVID GOSPEL FEST & CAR SHOW is
the biggest outdoor gospel concert event of the summer in Detroit. It
happens Saturday, June 28th at God's Graceland Park, just in front of
Greater Grace Temple and admission is FREE! Start time is 9:00 a.m. A big
crowd is expected to bring their lawn chairs and blankets to the park to
hear "Gospel Legend" Rance Allen. Plus, Ernest Lee & Spirit of David,
Detroit Saxman Montee Jefferson, and many more. All together more than a
dozen of the city's top gospel artists will join them for this mega-gospel
blowout!
In addition to the music, there will be fabulous food, a train ride &
inflatables for the kids, plus THE GGT CLASSIC & NEW CAR SHOW. It features
dozens of antique cars, hotrods, and even new cars straight from the
dealers' showroom floors. Nearly 60-70 classics and hotrods are expected
along with many new cars both domestic and foreign models.
The gospel fest is sponsored by The Master's Commission of Greater
Grace Temple, Comerica Bank, and Happy's Pizza. For more information, call
313-543-6000 or visit http://www.greatergrace.org God's Graceland Park is located
in front of Greater Grace Temple at 23500 W. Seven Mile Road in Detroit,
MI.
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ThanksUSA Announces Washington Concert to Benefit Military Families
spouses and dependents
WASHINGTON, June 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ThanksUSA, a charitable
effort to mobilize Americans to "thank" the nation's active-duty troops,
will present a benefit concert on Saturday, July 26, 2008, at the Warner
Theatre in Washington, D.C., at 7:00 PM EDT.
Headlining the event will be Stephen Cochran, a former U.S. Marine and
country newcomer, and international recording artist Mylin, whose father
served in the U.S. Navy. The concert is part of a broad fundraising drive
to provide college scholarships to the spouses and dependents of
active-duty troops.
The show is produced by National Events Inc. Media, and partners
include WMZQ radio, WRC4 television, Capitol File magazine, and Military
Times Media Group. American Airlines is the official airline for the
concert.
Over the past two years, ThanksUSA has awarded nearly $4 million in
need-based, post-secondary scholarships to more than 1,350 spouses and
children of military members serving on active-duty status; scholarships
have been presented to recipients in all 50 states and the District of
Columbia.
Tickets for the concert are on sale today for $25 each and can be
purchased through Ticketmaster or by visiting http://www.ThanksUSA.org and
clicking on ThanksUSA Benefit Concert.
"Mylin and Stephen Cochran have been active supporters of ThanksUSA.
This benefit concert allows us to show appreciation for the sacrifices our
troops make in serving our country while raising money to fund scholarships
for their families," said Michele Stork, executive director of ThanksUSA.
Mylin, daughter of a U.S. Navy sailor, has released four albums on an
international major label, topped international charts, and played recent
shows on Nick Lachey's tour, with Five for Fighting and Patti LaBelle. She
has played 11 shows at U.S. military bases over the past 18 months in
support of the troops, and has recently been invited on a USO Tour to
Romania and an AFE Tour to Asia.
Stephen Cochran joined the Marines after the events of 9/11 and
completed two tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, returning home injured
from his second tour. Cochran used his recovery time to reignite his
passion for songwriting and released his debut country album in the fall of
2007.
Both artists are currently featured in a ThanksUSA "PSA" for the troops
airing on radio and television across the country through availability by
the National Association of Broadcasters
"A lot of well-intentioned organizations are working to help the
troops," said Mylin. "What ThanksUSA has done is so practical, impactful,
and lasting in the lives of the troops and their families, and is the most
effective I've seen. I'm honored to be a part of what they're doing."
"I love the Marine Corps -- everything they did for me gave me the
drive to know that I can do anything I want to do," added Cochran. "I'm
proud to be able to give back with this benefit concert and with this
organization that is doing so much for all the men and woman serving in the
military."
ThanksUSA's need-based scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis
to the spouses and children of active-duty military personnel who plan to
pursue a post-secondary education, including vocational and technical
training. Recipients are selected based on financial need, academic record,
demonstrated leadership and participation in school and community
activities.
ThanksUSA is in the midst of a fundraising drive to raise $1 million by
July 4, 2008. Interested individuals, organizations and corporations are
encouraged to make a direct donation to the ThanksUSA scholarship fund at
http://www.ThanksUSA.org.
About ThanksUSA
Founded in the fall of 2005, ThanksUSA, a non-partisan 501(c)(3)
organization, is an effort to thank the men and women of our armed forces
and their families for their service to the country with the gift of
education. The organization provides need-based, posts-secondary education
opportunities to the children and spouses of active-duty status military
personnel through competitive scholarships. For more information, visit
http://www.ThanksUSA.org.
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Jeff Rona
Artist: Jeff Rona
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Discography:
A Thousand Roads
Year: 2005
Tracks: 20
 
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Mallorca Lee and James Allan
Artist: Mallorca Lee and James Allan
Genre(s):
Trance
Discography:
Twisted Pineapple EP
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2