Nakahara Mai and Shimizu Ai & other: 2008

Wednesday 10 September 2008

Spencer Forrest Begins Clinical Trials On The X5 Hair Laser, Sets Sights On Beating Genetic Hair Loss

�In even so another milepost for its line of products aimed at countering hair loss, Spencer Forrest Inc. has officially entered clinical trials with its X5 Hair Laser.

Featuring 15 individual lasers that interact straight with the scalp, the X5 is the almost powerful Laser Therapy twist on the market. It is besides the first device to enter clinical trials utilizing individual lasers to ascertain maximum substance abuser benefits.

The trials testament determine the efficacy of the X5 in stimulating the re-growth of hair in men who ar balding. If proven effective, the X5 will get only the fourth product ever to gain recognition by the FDA for treating male pattern phalacrosis.

The multi-centered, randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials are taking place at three sites throughout the United States, including one major University. The trials will last for 6 months and will include a significant number of male subjects. A female study is also in the full treatment and volition begin pending the termination of the male trials.

In the weeks and months ahead up to the milestone clinical trials, Laser Therapy quickly became one of the most talked about new treatments for thinning hair gaining the second of medical professionals cosmopolitan. It is the solely doctor recommended treatment for thinning hair that is drug dislodge, causes no negative side effects and doesn't require daily use. It besides requires no prescription and, with the lowest pricing of any laser therapy device, is affordable on nearly whatsoever budget.

Improving upon other laser devices on the market, the X5 is completely cordless, features a backlit LCD treatment timer and is built for user comfort, fitting in the palm of even the smallest hand. Most importantly, the X5 utilizes a floating head design which allows the optical maser light to contour to the scalp and ensures all moved areas ar treated without hindrance from existing haircloth. It too comes with an industriousness leading six-month money back guarantee and a full two-year manufacturer's warranty.

For more information on the X5 Hair Laser or any of Spencer Forrest's world-renowned ornamental hair fear products, please visit hypertext transfer protocol://www.spencerforrest.com.

About Spencer Forrest Inc.

Spencer Forrest Inc. was founded in 1981 and has singularly revolutionized the cosmetic hair loss treatment industry. It has given climb to doctor recommended cosmetic products such as Toppik and Couvre, which together have been sold to over a million people worldwide and continue to be the industry banner in portion to cosmetically enhance the appearance of fine or thinning hair. The first appearance of the X5 simon Marks the company's wish to treat thinning hair both medically and cosmetically. Spencer Forrest has been privately owned and operated since its origination and is headquartered in Westport, CT.

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Sunday 31 August 2008

Fall Out Boy learn of Obama's running mate when bowling with P Diddy

Fall Out Boy were reportedly bowling with P. Diddy when they heard the news that Barack Obama's running mate in the US presidential election would be Joe Biden.

The band receive been in Denver for the Democratic National Convention, where they performed net night (August 25) at the Rock The Vote concert with and N.E.R.D.

In addition, Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz revealed that his parents met while working for Biden. He told the Associated Press that his fatherhood said to him before he left for Denver, "`When you bump into Biden, make sure you tell him that. He'll remember.' I'm like, 'Uh, that's not really how this works.'"

Obama announced on Saturday (August 23) that Delaware Senator Biden would be the Democratic candidate for vice chief Executive.

Meanwhile, Fall Out Boy have scarce revealed inside information of their forthcoming album, 'Folie A Deux', which they plan to release on November 4, US election twenty-four hour period, as previously reported.

--By our Los Angeles stave.
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Thursday 21 August 2008

Prostate Health Research And Awareness Initiative Launches During Hall Of Fame Weekend

�Fourteen retired National Football League (NFL) players took charge of their prostate health by getting screened for prostate gland cancer during the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival and game, which took place August 2-3 in Canton, Ohio. The screening represented the kickoff of a prostate gland cancer research and awareness initiative launched by the AUA Foundation and funded by the NFL Player Care Foundation.

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, August 2, 14 retired NFL players were screened by urologists, phlebotomists and an oncologist at Aultman Hospital in Canton.

This prostate wellness research and awareness program is unitary in a series of recent programs that the NFL and the NFL Players Association have initiated to come up to the medical needs of retired players. Funding for some of these inquiry and education programs comes from the NFL Player Care Foundation, which was created in 2007 in part to address health and quality of life issues encountered by retired players.

The AUA Foundation was also represent at the Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival to provide prostate cancer information to thousands of fans outside Fawcett Stadium over the line of the weekend.

"Prostate malignant neoplastic disease is the most unwashed cancer poignant men in the United States," said AUA Foundation Executive Director Sandra Vassos, MPA. "We are so pleased that the NFL Player Care Foundation has made consciousness for this disease a priority and that we can help facilitate this initiative."

"Retired NFL players should be proud that they are pickings charge of their health and helping as leadership in the community. We hope that this research will encourage other workforce to get screened for prostate cancer," Vassos added.

More than 27,000 work force will die from prostate gland cancer in 2008, according to the AUA Foundation. Screening and early sensing is the best vindication against the disease. Prostate cancer is most treatable when institute early. The American Urological Association (AUA) recommends yearly screening starting at historic period 50. African-American men and those with a family history of the disease are at a greater risk and should begin screening earlier.

About the AUA Foundation

Originally established in 1987, the Foundation is the chancellor provider and resource for the most current, comprehensive and true urologic wellness information. We advocate and educate to empower physicians and the public to progress toward the highest quality bar, detection and treatment of urologic diseases. With the support and the intensity level of more than 16,000 mD members of the American Urological Association, the AUA Foundation strives to make certain that those wHO suffer from urologic atmospheric condition can relish the benefit of the highest level of care possible.

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Monday 11 August 2008

Tony Martin

Artist: Tony Martin

   Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
   Rock

Discography:

Back Where I Belong

Year: 1992
Tracks: 13

Scream

Year:
Tracks: 9

A popular crooner of the 1940s and '50s, Martin's deliberate pitch and amorous ballads were more than in safekeeping with vintage flick musicals than the currents that would sHAPE the down music of the last half of the twentieth unrivalled C. Taking his inspiration from singers like Russ Columbo, he had already been in some Hollywood musicals by the time he made his number one strike record in 1938, "Now It Can Be Told" (with the Ray Noble Orchestra). Drafted into the Navy during World War II, rumors that he'd bribed his way into an officer's committal made work tougher to find after his muster out from the forces. A brief simply fair successful erolia minutilla on Mercury in 1946-47 helped have things loss once once more, later on which he stirred to RCA and enjoyed many pop hits over the next decennary. He to a fault got a draw of work in radiocommunication and television system, and performed with considerable winner on the cabaret circuit with his married woman, dancer-actress Cyd Charisse.

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Wednesday 6 August 2008

Paul Halley and Eugene Friesen

Artist: Paul Halley and Eugene Friesen

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

New Friend

Year: 1986
Tracks: 9

Thursday 19 June 2008

Warner Music Remove Songs From Last.FM

The Warner Music Group have removed all songs by their artists from the music community website Last.fm, according to reports.

The record labels back-catalogue disappeared from the website last Friday (June 6th).

Although, an official explanation has yet to be given, blog reports have suggested that the two companies operated on a monthly contract that hasn't been renewed.

Last.fm allows its users to stream songs 'on-demand' up to three times – a limit that has been criticised by many users.

Many rival sites offer subscribers the chance to stream songs as many times as the wish.

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Thursday 12 June 2008

D.A. Passes On Grass Charges

That was quick! The L.A. County District Attorney has rolled up and thrown out drug charges against Warren G and buddy Ryan Butler.

The D.A. tells us there's "insufficient evidence" to link the two men to the cheeba cops found in the trunk as the car was not registered to either one of them.

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Friday 6 June 2008

'Star Trek' composer Alexander 'Sandy' Courage, 88, dies

Alexander "Sandy" Courage, who composed the soaring theme for the “Star Trek” TV series in the 1960s and was an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated arranger, has died. He was 88.

Courage, who had been in declining health since 2005, died May 15 at an assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, said his step-daughter, Renata Pompelli.

After launching his 54-yearcareer as a composer for CBS Radio in 1946, Courage became an orchestrator and arranger at MGM in 1948.

Over the next dozen years, he worked on a string of classic musicals, including "Annie Get Your Gun," "Show Boat," "The Band Wagon," "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and "Gigi." He later was an orchestrator for musicals such as "My Fair Lady," "Hello, Dolly!," "Doctor Dolittle" and "Fiddler on the Roof" -- as well as for films such as "The Poseidon Adventure," "Jurassic Park," "Basic Instinct," "Hook" and "The Mummy."

"He made a very big contribution to the musical life of Hollywood from the end of the second World War to recent years," Oscar-winning composer John Williams told The Times on Thursday.

"He was known to most musicians in the community as having been one of the architects of what we used to refer to as the MGM sound, which meant that most of the musical films from MGM had a particular style of orchestration, which was an extension and development of what was done in the theater in the 1920s," Williams said. "They actually took that to a very high art form, particularly in the musicals produced by Arthur Freed."

Composer Ian Fraser, who met Courage after he had moved to 20th Century Fox in the '60s, said Thursday that Courage's "knowledge of all the genres of music was really monumental.

"He was part of the wonderful music department at 20th Century Fox," Fraser said. "With the passing of [composer] Earle Hagen this week, the last of that group are gone, never to be replaced."

In the late '50s, Courage scored nearly a dozen films, including director Arthur Penn's western "The Left Handed Gun" and Andre de Toth's western "Day of the Outlaw" -- as well as "Shake, Rattle and Rock!" and "Hot Rod Rumble."

He began composing for television in 1959 and wrote music for more than 350 episodes of such series as "The Untouchables," "Laramie," "Daniel Boone," "Judd for the Defense," "Lost in Space," "Land of the Giants," "The Waltons," "Eight Is Enough," "Falcon Crest," "Flamingo Road" and many others.

Then there was the legendary science-fiction series that ran on NBC from 1966 to 1969.

Courage was no science-fiction fan when "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry asked him to score the pilot episode in 1965.

"I never have been" a sci-fi fan, Courage later told film music historian Jon Burlingame. "But I thought, 'Well, what the heck. It's another show.' "

Roddenberry, Courage recalled, said he didn't want the show's score to sound like "space music," nothing "far out."

"He wanted something that had some . . . drive to it," Courage recalled. "In fact, he told me to always write that way through the show, all of it."

The eight-note brass fanfare that Courage wrote to herald the starship Enterprise became one of the most familiar musical signatures in TV history.

"I'd argue that it's the most famous fanfare in the world," Burlingame, who teaches film music history at USC, said Thursday. "It's been around 42 years -- and it's all around the world -- and when you hear those eight notes you immediately think of the Enterprise."

Courage shared an Emmy Award in 1988 as a principal arranger for the ABC special " Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas."

He also shared Oscar nominations with Lionel Newman for their adaptation scores for "The Pleasure Seekers" in 1966 and "Doctor Dolittle" in 1968.

Courage was born Dec. 10, 1919, in Philadelphia and moved to New Jersey as a boy. He began playing the piano when he was 5 and later played the cornet and horn.

A 1941 graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., he enlisted in the Army Air Forces in January 1942 and served as a band leader on bases in California and Arizona.

Courage, who was one of the founders of the Composers and Lyricists Guild of America, also was an award-winning photographer whose pictures appeared in Life, Collier's and other magazines.

His third wife, the former Shirley Pumpelly, died in 2005.

In addition to Renata Pompelli, he is survived by his other stepchildren, Raphael Pumpelly, Andrea Steyn, Lisa Pompelli; and six grandchildren.

A memorial service is pending.

dennis.mclellan@latimes.com

Tuesday 3 June 2008

Sinatra still the chairman with hit album

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Frank Sinatra is having a very good week. Buoyed by a cavalcade of marketing and advertising surrounding multiple products tied to the 10th anniversary of his death, "Nothing but the Best" (Reprise), a collection of remastered classics, has debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 99,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The last time Sinatra debuted so high was in 1993 with the No. 2 hit "Duets," which went on to sell 3.2 million copies.

Sinatra's name and works are all over the media landscape of late. Warner Home Video is releasing 22 of his films, including "Ocean's Eleven," "The Man With the Golden Arm" and "Anchors Aweigh." Turner Classic Movies, backed by a ubiquitous advertising campaign, is showing Sinatra movies and musical specials throughout the month of May hosted by his children, Nancy, Tina and Frank Jr. And Life Books put out an updated version of "Remembering Sinatra" titled "Life: Remembering Sinatra: 10 Years Later."

Sirius Satellite Radio, which has a channel dedicated to Sinatra, broadcast a 90-minute program about the new album with interviews and commentary. In addition, the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative stamp bearing the same Sinatra image used on the compilation album's cover.

"They're contemporizing a classic star and associating him in a modern context. That revives interest and drives people to find out more about that artist," says Dean Crutchfield, a branding expert formerly with Wolff Olins, a branding company in New York.

The avalanche of material stems from a partnership between Warner Music and the Sinatra family under the banner Frank Sinatra Enterprises. Announced in late 2007, the agreement gives FSE the sole right to license Sinatra's likeness and image.

"FSE wanted to commemorate Sinatra's life and his great body of work," FSE co-president Jimmy Edwards says. "All these partnerships helped increase his profile, but Frank sells Frank."

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Harrison Ford - Movie Reviews Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull

Harrison Ford told a news conference at the Cannes Film Festival that he expected
critics to turn Indiana Jones's whip on him following this week's release of Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. "It's not unusual for something that
is popular to be disdained by some people, and I fully expect it." He called the
film a "celebration of the movies" -- and there are elements of almost every genre
represented in it -- from old-time afternoon serials, to Tarzan flicks, to sci-fi
to Elvis musicals (it's set in 1957, and we hear Elvis singing over an opening scene)
-- even, as Spielberg himself later conceded at a news conference, his as-yet-unproduced
Tintin films. "Somehow I just feel inured from professional criticism." Ford
added. A good thing, too, since some of the initial criticism does indeed crackle like
Indiana's whip. Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune, calling the movie
"disappointingly humorless," says that it "is so nervous about falling into
the quicksands of camp that it forgets to deliver a good time." Rick Honeycutt in the
Hollywood Reporter/Reuters says that the plot "gets swamped in a sea
of stunts and special effects that are relentless as the scenes and character relationships
are charmless." Peter Bradshaw in Britain's Guardian concludes: "This is a moment
for Harrison Ford to hang up the hat." On the other hand, James Christopher in the
London Times concludes his review by proclaiming that the film "is, quite
simply, exquisite nonsense. Welcome back Indy. Lord knows we've missed you." And, indeed,
most critics echo those cheers. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times sums
up: "If you like the other Indiana Jones movies, you will like this one."
(Clearly Ebert loves this one.) Lou Lumenick in the New York Post has the
identical reaction, writing, "Fans of the series -- you can include me -- will lap
it up, flaws and all, and likely make it the summer's biggest blockbuster." And Joe
Neumaier in the New York Daily News describes the movie as "entertaining, inventive
and old-fashioned in the best way."

19/05/2008

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Officials confident of Oscars deal

Organisers of the Oscars remain confident that this awards ceremony will go ahead as planned, despite the cancellation of the Golden Globes.
The executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has said Oscars officials are hopeful of a deal with striking writers that will allow the show to go ahead.
"At this stage we are still making our plans as normal," Bruce Davis told AFP.
The feud between writers and producers claimed its highest profile casualty on Monday when it was confirmed that this weekend's Golden Globes ceremony, a key highlight of the Hollywood movie awards season, had been scrapped.
The decision to replace the event with a press conference came after Hollywood's actors union, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), announced that stars would not cross picket lines surrounding the show erected by the Writers Guild of America (WGA).
The WGA has already said its members will not be allowed to write the script for the Oscars - the film industry's biggest annual awards.
However, it has not yet confirmed if it will picket the show, which is being broadcast by the ABC network - one of the companies that is the subject of strike action.

Justin Timberlake Thinks Miley Cyrus Is A Victim Of 'The Age We Live In'

Long before he brought sexy back, starred in movies, became best pals with Timbaland or played the role of "the cute one" in 'N Sync, Justin Timberlake was just another cog in the Mickey Mouse money machine, logging two seasons on Disney's "Mickey Mouse Club."
He's also spent pretty much every waking minute of his teens and 20s living directly in the spotlight. And in that time he's managed to find himself at the center of at least one significant public controversy ("wardrobe malfunction" anyone?).
So, obviously, he can sympathize with the ongoing plight of current Disney star — and public pariah — Miley Cyrus. So when we caught up with JT backstage at New York's Roseland Ballroom (where he'd just shared the stage with Madonna), we figured we'd ask him all about Cyrus' revealing Vanity Fair and Internet photos. It turns out, much like the Material Girl herself, Timberlake thinks the entire issue has been blown out of proportion.
But unlike Maddy, he sees the Cyrus controversy as part of a much larger problem: the public's rather insatiable desire to tear down anyone and everyone.
"Of course they're going to pick [on] a wholesome, American, young female [for] the first sign of anything," Timberlake said. "Unfortunately, there's a picture of her that's published with her in just a blanket. ... And that's the photo, that's the catalyst. But that's also the age we live in. People want to take a photo, and that's who you are for a year's time. We've all become victims of that."
And to that point, he thinks that Cyrus' young fans aren't the ones keeping Mileygate going. In fact, they've probably already forgotten about the issue entirely. The real problem lies with what those fan's parents think (as one MTV News intern already pointed out here).
"I don't think people her age look at [the photo] the same way their parents do," Timberlake said.
And though he wishes the whole situation would just go away, he joked that he's cooking up plans for making a quick buck off it. After all, in addition to being a singer, an entertainer and an actor, he's also a business man.
"I'm gonna make 'Leave Miley Alone' T-shirts," he laughed.

Anger follows Lennox label reports

Music industry giant Song BMG has described as "ludicrous" media reports that it had dropped singer Annie Lennox after working with the artist for 25 years.
Billboard reports that the Daily Mirror had quoted the singer as saying that the company had ignored her calls and emails and that she was out of contract following the October release of her album 'Songs of Mass Destruction'.
Sony BMG confirmed it no longer had a contract with Lennox but the company said it hoped to work with the singer in the future, and on her current album.
In a statement, Sony BMG said: "The quotes attributed to Annie's dissatisfaction with her label arose out of a trip in December to South Africa and have no relevance to the expiry of her contract."
Sony BMG Music Entertainment UK Chairman Ged Doherty said: "We are immensely proud to have worked with Annie over more than two decades. She now has a choice as to whether she wants to continue to work with us in the future. We very much hope that she will."
Lennox's management company, 19 Entertainment, suggested the singer's quotes had been taken out of context.

Hero's welcome for Cannes winners (+video)

Flush with glory but shrugging off stardom for now, the teenage actors who triumphed at the Cannes film festival came back to school on Monday to a hero's welcome.