Producer Timbaland announces NZ show & other: August 2008

Friday 22 August 2008

New Initiative Gives Cancer Physics A Boost - Queensland University Of Technology, Australia

�A wellness initiative spearheaded by QUT has received $800,000 from Queensland Health, allowing the university to attack to raise the profile and increment the recognition of the field of cancer physics in the state.

The initiative will also direct to increase the levels of job satisfaction and level of external living for hospital-based physicists.

Professor Christian Langton, who came to Queensland University of Technology in February from the University of Hull in the UK, has been asked to lead this project.

"I was asked to look at how to improve the issues of recruitment and retention of physicists in the hospital sector, as well as how to raise the profile of cancer natural philosophy both nationally and internationally," he said.

"With the planned expansion of radiation oncology treatment provision throughout Queensland, it is essential that we have a sufficient identification number of hospital-based physicists.

"I thought to bring everyone together in a quislingism of physicists, therapists and oncologists, with the shoot for for Queensland to become an internationally acclaimed, academically minded Cancer Physics centre of excellence, breaking downward professional and institutional barriers."

The Queensland Cancer Physics Collaborative operates under 4 domains: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Service Provision, Education and Training, Research and Innovation, and e-Networking and Awareness.

Professor Langton said the $800,000 would in the first place go towards the appointment of deuce post-Doctoral researcher/trainee physicist posts, along with establishing Australasia's first Radiation Oncology Simulation Environment (3D-ROSE).

The simulator would provide a virtual reality experience of radiotherapy discussion rooms and procedures, which in accession to education and research roles, may also own a valuable awareness part for cancer patients and their families.

Other initiatives planned include clinical exchange placements for trainees with international centres, and university-hospital partnership PhD studentships.

"For Queensland Health, the bottom line is making Queensland more attractive for physicists to work here, so we needed to discover out why there ar disappointing levels of enlisting and retentiveness, to examine what could be done," said Professor Langton.

"The feedback was that these physicists often feel that they ar not accepted and valued, and that they ar not minded enough enquiry time in hospitals.

"As a result, all the things we are doing will look at increasing the job satisfaction and recognition of hospital-based physicists, through the creation of a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional collaborative environment."

Health Minister Stephen Robertson said the collaboration would attract and retain much-needed genus Cancer physicists in the united States Department of State.

"This is the first initiative of its genial in Australia, and aims to increment the Queensland workforce by making careers in cancer physics more than attractive, luring back physicists who make gone elsewhere and retaining our electric current staff," he said.

"The initiative will heavily focus on professional development and providing physicists with a training footpath, research, e-learning and more than public recognition of the important part cancer physicists play in the handling of patients with crab."

Queensland University of Technology

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Tuesday 12 August 2008

Noah & The Whale, Peaceful The World Lays Me Down

In case you were wondering, this London-based indie-folk foursome's name is an obscure cinematic reference besides convoluted and pretentious to go into here. Apparently, Noah And The Whale don't like being labelled as 'twee', but that really is the number 1 word that will come into your head when you hear the ukulele, recorder and whistling desist of their catchy hit ditty, 5 Years Time. Even so, the superficial chirpiness of some of their medicine is leavened by some ambitious brass and train arrangements and enough lyrical depth and ambiguity to make Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down more than than the collection of simple honey songs it initially seems to be.

The band were originally most noteworthy for having launched alt. folks singer Laura Marling on her solo career. By the time they released this debut album, she was no longer a group member, although her backing vocals haunt much of it � a definite fillip � making you admiration whether she'll continue to moonlight with them.

There�s only room for one star in nearly bands, and that would be lead singer and songwriter Charlie Fink. With a articulation best described as an acquired gustatory modality, hovering somewhere out over the mid-Atlantic, he's both the almost distinctive thing about Noah And The Whale and the most difficult thing to fuck off used to. But he does have a certain way with a tune. Early single Shape Of My Heart has a nagging melody, while both Give A little Love, the near-epic title track and the reflective closer Hold My Hand As I'm Lowered are similarly sturdy constructions which well-nigh seem at odds with the band�s

sort of lightweight image. Fans of Belle & Sebastian, Arcade Fire and Bill Callahan may easily enjoy this disc.

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Wednesday 6 August 2008

Omni

Artist: Omni

   Genre(s):
Trance
   Other

Discography:

Rewire - Aria

Year: 2007
Tracks: 2

Omni

Year: 1985
Tracks: 5

El Vals De Los Duendes

Year:
Tracks: 8

One of the lesser-known songwriting/producing teams of their sentence, Rodney G. Massey (b. Jan. 5, 1953) and Lawrence Hanks (b. 1955) met up as teenagers; they bit by bit formed a friendly relationship that finally resulted in a creative union. In the belated '60s, the dyad was tutored by the likes of Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Jerry "Hatchet man" Butler. To install their possess niche in the industry, the pair off set out to write songs for respective artists. By the early seventies, the Chicago natives had produced and scripted songs for well-known R&B acts of the Apostles of the Apostles.

Upon recording a plurality of demos, Massey and Hanks distinct to vent an album as a duette bearing the list Omni. With the blessings of the Butler, the deuce started up the Iceman's Fountain Records and independently released their assemblage of songs. With disco ruling and without the much needed promotion, the soulful songs ne'er took flight in nastiness of their character and radio appeal.