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Thursday 4 September 2008

Wall Street Journal Examines Drugmakers' Use Of 'Unbranded Product Advertising' To Promote Disease Awareness, Treatment Options

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The Wall Street Journal on Friday examined "unbranded product advert" for brand drugs, which allow drugmakers to drive television viewers to Web sites promoting drugs without the prerequisite of listing the products' side personal effects in the TV advert. FDA rules state that if an advertisement does not name a drug directly, it does not need to include a listing of possible side effects. According to the Journal, the strategy is "gaining popularity" among drugmakers because listing the side effects "cud[s] up expensive television system time." For example, a 60-second ad for Eli Lilly's osteoporosis drug Evista spends 25 seconds list side effects.

The Journal profiled two unbranded ads by Pfizer and Sanofi Aventis. The Pfizer ad is a 60-second spot in which a female character discusses her smoking habit and viewers are directed to the Web site www.mytimetoquit.com. Upon visiting the Web internet site, consumers feel a contact to another Web land site for the smoking surcease drug Chantix, which includes a good listing of side effects. Chantix had sales of $883 trillion in 2007 but had been "losing ground" because of late reports linking the medication to felo-de-se, suicidal behaviour and drowsiness. The ad first was run in 2006 -- a few months afterwards the release of Chantix -- just a young ad for the dose appeared later the drug gained in popularity. After a field of study linked the drugs to several accidents related to drowsiness and federal aviation regulations prohibited pilots from using it, the My Time to Quit ad reappeared, the Journal reports.

The Lilly ad is a 15-second spot in which viewers are directed to the Web site wWW.silenceyourrooster.com. The Web site, which promotes the sleeping aid Ambien, standard more than 400,000 hits in the ad's first seven days on the atmosphere this month.

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Bob Erlich of DTC Perspectives said, "There's a jeopardy [drugmakers] could rouse congressional ire over cute commercials that don't emphasize medicine." Duke University's Ruth Day, a frequent critic of direct-to-consumer ads for drugs, said the Pfizer ad and Web site provided useful selective information and made side effects clear.

Pfizer representative Sally Beatty said, "The goal of the My Time to Quit military campaign is to encourage people to stop smoking," not to publicize the company's product or get around FDA rules. She added, "My Time to Quit is designed to encourage people wHO are

Monday 25 August 2008

Outsourced

The offshoring of U.S. jobs remains a hot topic in the newsworthiness... and now it's a hot topic in the movies, too. (At least four projects called Outsourced have been produced in the lowest three old age alone!)

Everyman Josh Hamilton carries this premise handily: His game of computer Solitaire is interrupted by his boss, who's telling him the customer service call center he manages is being shipped overseas, to India. If Todd (Hamilton) wants to keep his job, he'll fly over there and train the new folks, getting their time-per-call numbers racket down to something more profitable.

What follows is muckle of the expected culture shock as Todd deals with stomach ailments, broken infrastructure, nomenclature barriers, and other

Friday 15 August 2008

Download Eamon

Artist: Eamon: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Rap: Hip-Hop
Other

Discography:

Love and Pain

Year: 2006

Tracks: 12

My Baby's Lost (Like That)

Year: 2004

Tracks: 4

I Love Them Ho's

Year: 2004

Tracks: 4

I Don't Want You Back

Year: 2004

Tracks: 15

Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)

Year: 2004

Tracks: 7

Staten Island singer Eamon appeared in late 2003, when his sheer single "F**k It (I Don't Want You Back)" took urban tuner by storm. With its supererogatory tonal pattern and stripped-down production -- not to quotation its profanity-laced release of a cheating lover -- the song dynasty stood tabu immediately and blew up bespeak lines nationwide. Jive jumped on the fervor, fast-tracking a video for "F**k It" and slating a uncut LP for January 2004. When the debut dropped, it further showcased Eamon's fricative consonant lyricism and streetwise, doo wop-inspired vocals. Vintage knocker Milk Dee guested on deuce tracks. The reexamination, Making beloved & Pain, was released near the end of 2006 and favourite well abroad despite flunk to make an impingement in the U.S.

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Thursday 7 August 2008

'The Mighty Boosh' and Neon Neon dance-off in London

'The Mighty Boosh''s Bob Fossil � aka player Rich Fulcher � had a dance-off with Neon Neon's Har Mar Superstar at the end of an instore gig the band were playing at the Rough Trade East shop in London yesterday evening (July 24).

The surprise dance-off came after a half-hour correct the from the ring � featuring Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys, Boom Bip and Cate Le Bon, featuring songs from their album, 'Stainless Style' - a concept record album about the life of playboy engineer John DeLorean.

The band had hired a DeLorean car � made famous in the 'Back To The Future' films � which they parked outside the shop. See video footage of the car by clicking on the video recording below.

Before his dance-off Har Mar Superstar paid tribute to Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip, the creators of the Neon Neon concept, which has just now been nominative for the 2008 Nationwide Mercury Music Prize.

"My friends Brian and Gruff just got nominative for the Mercury trophy," he aforementioned during the set, leading an applause for the duo. "I'm Burial," replied Rhys, referring to the anonymous trip-hop artist, wHO has also been nominative for the award.

Later in the show Rhys dedicated a song to "Ziggy Stardust", after he spotty a lester Willis Young fan sporting a disguise of David Bowie's

Friday 27 June 2008

Les Baxter

Artist: Les Baxter

   Genre(s):
Easy Listening
   Other
   Vocal
   Soundtrack
   Pop

Discography:

Brazil Now

Year: 2006
Tracks: 12

The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter CD2

Year: 1996
Tracks: 20

The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter CD1

Year: 1996
Tracks: 20

Que Mango!

Year: 1996
Tracks: 12

Bugaloo In Brazil

Year: 1970
Tracks: 12

Hell's Belles

Year: 1968
Tracks: 12

Alakazam The Great

Year: 1961
Tracks: 11

Space Escapade

Year: 1958
Tracks: 12

Moog Rock

Year:
Tracks: 10

Jewels of the Sea

Year:
Tracks: 12

Les Baxter is a pianist world Health Organization composed and arranged for the top swing bands of the '40s and '50s, only he is wagerer known as the founder of exotica, a variation of easy listening that canonised the sounds and styles of Polynesia, Africa, and South America, even as it retained the traditional string-and-horn arrangements of instrumental pop. Exotica became a massively democratic movement in the '50s, with thousands of record buyers hearing to Baxter, Martin Denny, and their imitators. Baxter as well pioneered the use of the electronic legal document the theremin, which has a haunting, howl levelheaded.

Baxter studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory and Pepperdine College in Los Angeles. After he completed school, he deserted the piano and became a vocaliser. When he was 23, he coupled Mel TormÃ©'s Mel-Tones. The group american ginseng on Artie Shaw records, including the hit "What Is This Thing Called Love."

In 1950, he became an arranger and conductor for Capitol Records, working on hits by Nat King Cole, including "Mona Lisa." Around the same time, Baxter began recording his own albums. In 1948, he released a triple-78 album called Music out of the Moon, which ushered in space age pop with its use of goods and services of the theremin. Four long time subsequently, he began recording exotica albums with Le Sacre du Sauvage.

On his early-'50s singles Baxter was relatively aboveboard, playacting versions of standards like the number one hits "Unshackled Melody" and "The Poor People of Paris," but on his albums he experimented with all sorts of world musics, adapting them for his orchestra. As he was recording his exotica albums, Baxter was as well the musical film director for the radiocommunication show Halls of Ivy, summation Abbott & Costello radio receiver shows; he also composed over one C pic lots, concentrating on horror movies and adolescent musicals and comedies, though he as well did dramas wish Heavyweight.

Baxter's flower was in the '50s and '60s. Although he continued to compose and record in the '70s, his output signal was sporadic. Nevertheless, a cult following formed about his exotica recordings that persisted into the '90s.

Sunday 22 June 2008

Bombsquad

Artist: Bombsquad

   Genre(s):
Metal

Discography:

Backyard Dept.

Year: 2004
Tracks: 18

Saturday 14 June 2008

Spice Girls - The Things They Say 8548

"My philosophy is simple: if you're fat and you don't like it - do something about it! If your bum looks big - work out, make a salad, don't waste your life feeling unattractive!" SPICE GIRLS star MELANIE BROWN is full of good advice.

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Sunday 1 June 2008

O'Death leads rebirth of raw, gritty Americana

In our oh-so-American rush to conquer new frontiers in popular music, let us not forget that the dance party, and its belligerent cousin, the mosh pit, are fundamentally identical to their historical equivalent, the hoedown.

Nowhere is this more evident than at an O’Death show, one of which will take place Saturday at the Middle East in Cambridge.

“There’s a dirty, stripped down rawness to old Americana,” drummer David Rogers-Berry explained over the phone during a break while working as an extra in amusic video. “People buy into the gimmick of chains and banjos, but we just want to make good songs. That’s all we care about. These just happen to be the tools we use. At the same time, we’re huge fans of the Misfits. And I love Bad Brains, because that stuff has the same energy: completely guttural, absolutely visceral music that makes you feel alive.”

A series of chance encounters led Rogers-Berry, banjo/ukulele player Gabe Darling and singer/guitarist Greg Jamie to inaugurate O’Death in 2003 while attending Purchase College. After filling out its lineup and graduating, O’Death relocated to New York City.

Lacking an easier way to publicize themselves, they played live shows on a shoestring budget, performing more than 100 shows in 2006. Recent appearances at SXSW indicate that the grind is paying off, as was inevitable. Nothing this cool stays unknown for long.

O’Death songs conjure phantasms of train-hopping desperation, Hooverville ennui and moonshine sing-alongs around the campfire, often while retaining danceability. Jamie’s vocals bounce from delicate, forlorn wails, snarling hollers and livid screeches while the band discharges bluegrass and punk ferocity, occasionally utilizing gas cans and chains.

“Lately I’ve been using more traditional cymbals, but I used to mostly use broken and stacked cymbals,” said Rogers-Berry. “I wanted my drum set to sound more like a tool shed falling down a mountain than a drum set. That’s just part of the style in this world of dark Americana. I buy my instruments at the hardware store. That’s what works for me.”

Although O’Death shares instrumental, sonic and, while performing, visual characteristics with a hell-spawned jug band, it is not one. That doesn’t mean there isn’t such a thing.

“Out west, we’ve come into contact with the gutter-punk scene,” said Rogers-Berry, “which has really embraced hobo culture. They’re playing in jug bands, and really living it.

“That’s awesome, but that’s not what we do. We live in New York City and have to hold down three jobs at a time to make records. But we don’t hop trains. I’m from South Carolina and they don’t do that (stuff) down there anymore either.”

O’Death, with Murder by Death and Kiss Kiss, Saturday at the Middle East, Cambridge. Tickets: $12; 617-864-EAST.

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Monday 26 May 2008

Producers of 24 working on prequel

The producers of '24' are developing a special two-hour prequel episode for the seventh season of the hit action-drama.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the prequel will bridge the two-year storyline gap between seasons six and seven.
The makers of '24' have begun making deals with the show's stars for the prequel.
The prequel would air on US television in the autumn, with '24' returning to American screens in January.
The seventh season of '24' is set in Washington, with actress Cherry Jones playing the first female US president.

Tuesday 6 May 2008

Spears' manager is ordered to stay away

Britney Spears' self-styled managing director SAM Lutfi has been served with a restraining order, which instructs him to stay at least 250 yards out from the star.
Courts documents allege that Lutfi is besides barred from communicating with Spears.
Reuters reports that lawyers for the singer's father, Jamie Spears, world Health Organization has been granted temp control of his daughter's line and personal affairs, filed court documents locution Lutfi was served with the rescript at his home on Th dawn.
In royal court written document requesting the restraining order trey weeks ago, Spears' female parent Lynne claimed that Lutfi had drugged her girl, cut her home telephone line and was attempting to control her life.
Lynne Spears said that Lutfi told her and a booster that he gave Britney Spears pills ground up in her food to keep her tranquillity and at single compass point he told Britney she had to take 10 pills a day if she wanted to see her 2 whitney Young children.
Spears recently had her visitation rights for her two edward Young sons stripped by a tribunal after refusing to return them to their father Kevin Federline, world Health Organization presently has hands of the children.

Saturday 3 May 2008

Above and Beyond

Artist: Above and Beyond

   Genre(s):
Trance
   Dance

Discography:

World On Fire (12 Inch Mix)

Year: 2007
Tracks: 1

Tri-State Remixes

Year: 2007
Tracks: 6

Tri-State (Incl Frase-Remix)

Year: 2007
Tracks: 1

Trance Around The World

Year: 2007
Tracks: 2

Stealing Time WEB

Year: 2007
Tracks: 2

Good For Me (Incl Remixes) CDM

Year: 2007
Tracks: 9

Anjunabeats Vol-5 Mixed by Above and Beyond

Year: 2007
Tracks: 2

Tri-State

Year: 2006
Tracks: 1

Maximal On SSL

Year: 2006
Tracks: 1

Maximal On

Year: 2006
Tracks: 1

Alone Tonight__ Inc Ronski Speed Remix CDS

Year: 2006
Tracks: 2

Live at Extravadance-CABLE-05-06

Year: 2005
Tracks: 1

Far From In Love

Year: 2005
Tracks: 2

No One On Earth

Year: 2004
Tracks: 4

Friday 2 May 2008

Minogue 'deeply touched' by her OBE

Kylie Minogue has been awarded an OBE in British Queen Elizabeth I II's Newly Year's Honours degree List.
Minogue, 39, said she was "deeply touched" to get the honor from the country she calls her adopted habitation.
The star thanked her British people fans for their love and accompaniment during her convalescence from breast cancer.
The OBE comes closely 20 long time since 'I Should Be So Lucky' became the singer's first-class honours degree UK Number One.
Speechmaking from Commonwealth of Australia, she said: "I am well-nigh as surprised as I am honoured to be awarded an OBE by Her Majesty The Queen.
"I feel deep touched to be acknowledged by the UK, my adopted base, in this way.
"This death class I own felt so much love and support from everyone as I took greater stairs support into the public arena, and it is with absolute gratitude and pleasure that I suppose farewell to 2007 and look forward to what the Newly Class will bring."
The 39-year-old singer spent the Christmastide holiday in Melbourne with her category.
Others to be honoured included veteran presenter Michael Parkinson, world Health Organization received a knighthood, and actor Ian McKellen, world Health Organization will conjoin the Purchase order of the Companions of Honour.

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