LONDON:
An advert of children�s drink Orangina, which features animals
wearing tiny bikinis and gyrating around poles, has attracted criticism from
viewers.
The Naturally Juicy
advertisement, created by a French ad bureau, has generated a wave of criticism
since it hit British TV screens earlier this month, with viewers, children's
charities and equal rights groups up in weapons system over its sexual - and, some
believe, sexist - content.
The
60-second advertisement that centres on a love floor between a doe and a have
with a finale of shots of Orangina bottles exploding between the thighs of
zebras and jetting on to the breasts of other animals were said to have proven
particularly unsavoury.
"Orangina is a drink which is
mainly aimed at children and young people, only this unexampled advert places the
intersection in a very sexualised and provocative context," the
Telegraph
quoted Claude Knights, director of children's polemonium caeruleum Kidscape, as
saying.
"The almost sinister
portrayal of animals in an vitality style filled with sexual innuendo leads to
identical mixed and confused messages," Knights added.
She said that the charity were
worried that it was another lesson of victimisation sexual images to sell products to
children.
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Thursday, 21 August 2008
Mp3 music: Vince Neil
 Artist: Vince Neil: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Rock: Hard-Rock Vince Neil's discography:  Live One Night Only Year: 2003 Tracks: 12  Carved In Stone Year: 1995 Tracks: 10  Exposed Year: 1993 Tracks: 11 "I told them about you bro. They major power saw you and they're stoked," admitted Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee to future lead-in singer Vince Neil the nox the ring came out to consider the washed-out blond vocalizer perform with his band Rock Candy at the notable Hollywood cabaret, Starwood. Neil, however, was apprehensive at first as he was very happy with his current band merely in agreement to an audition the side by side weekend as to non anguish Lee's feelings. The singer was quick ushered into the band, and for the future decennary they embarked on a punishing alloy odyssey full of music, mayhem, and iV sequential multi-platinum albums. Born Vince Neil Wharton on February 8, 1961, in Hollywood, CA, Neil was the focal point of the banding with his longsighted blond hair and scream vocal way. While non a schooled singer, Neil unquestionably looked the part. Born and raised in the Los Angeles country, he epitomized the freewheeling California "surfboarder clotheshorse" image, which was, at the time, the ideal part for a big metal front man (à la David Lee Roth). Later Neil united Mötley Crüe in 1981, the band recorded the self-produced record album Too Fast for Love, which attracted the attending of Elektra Records' Tom Zutaut. They were later gestural and in 1983 released their major-label debut, Shout at the Devil, that went on to become a multi-platinum smash and launched the banding into superstardom. Unfortunately, later the ensuing tour of duty to support the album with Ozzy Osbourne, Neil was mired in a good alcohol-related automobile accident in Redondo Beach, CA. The vocaliser, world Health Organization was driving sot, skidded into an onset machine, killing his rider, Hanoi Rocks' drummer Nicolas "Razmataz" Dingley, and earnestly injuring the deuce passengers in the other vehicle. Neil avoided prison house and was sent to a do drugs and inebriant rehabilitation clinic and coherent to pay indemnification to the victims. Contempt the accident, Mötley Crüe pressed on and released 1985's Theatre Of Pain which apace went multi-platinum as did 1987's Girls, Girls, Girls and 1989's Dr. Feelgood, an record album that became the band's biggest success. Following the massive tour to support Dr. Feelgood, Neil was pink-slipped from the band. As to wherefore he was pink-slipped is up to different interpretation from different bandmembers. As a termination, the singer embarked on a semi-successful solo career, teaming up with late Billy Idol guitar player Steve Stevens on 1993's Exposed, which sold respectably. In 1995, Neil released the Dust Brothers' produced Carved in Stone which failed to live up to expectations. Mötley Crüe as well failed to recapture their '80s success with their 1994 self-titled record album and asked Neil to rejoin the band in 1997. 1997's Generation Swine proverb the band reunited with their original star isaac M. Singer, Neil, and the original lineup of guitar player Mick Mars, bassist Nikki Sixx, and drummer Tommy Lee. This card would not last longsighted, however, as Tommy Lee would leave the band in 1999. Following yet some other going, the striation released New Tattoo in 2000. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008
Tufts Researchers Design Bio-Friendly Optical Platform For Sensing Applications In Medicine, Health, Environment, Communications
�Imagine an edible ocular sensor that could be placed in produce bags to find harmful levels of bacterium and consumed right on with the veggies. Or an implantable device that would varan glucose in your blood for a year, and then dissolve.
Scientists at Tufts University's School of Engineering have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to design such "living" optical elements that could enable an entirely new class of sensors. These sensors would combine advanced nanoscale optics with biological readout functions, be biocompatible and biodegradable, and be manufactured and stored at room temperatures without habit of toxic chemicals. The Tufts squad used fibers from silkworms to develop the platform devices.
Tufts University has filed a number of patent applications on silk-based optics and is actively exploring commercialisation opportunities.
"Sophisticated optical devices that ar mechanically rich yet fully biodegradable, biocompatible and implantable don't live today," aforementioned principal investigator Fiorenzo Omenetto, associate professor of biomedical engineering and associate professor of physics. "Such systems would greatly expand the use of current optical technologies in areas like human and livestock health, environmental monitoring and solid food quality."
"For example, at a low-pitched cost, we could potentially put a bioactive silk film in every bag of spinach, and it could hold the consumer a read-out of whether or non E. coli bacteria were in the bag-before the food was consumed," explained David Kaplan, professor and chair of the biomedical engineering department.
The Tufts research was published in a recent paper in "Biomacromolecules" by Brian D. Lawrence, graduate student in biomedical engineering; Mark Cronin-Golomb, associate professor, biomedical technology; Irene Georgakoudi, assistant prof, biomedical engineering; Kaplan, and Omenetto. (hTTP://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/article.
Scientists at Tufts University's School of Engineering have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to design such "living" optical elements that could enable an entirely new class of sensors. These sensors would combine advanced nanoscale optics with biological readout functions, be biocompatible and biodegradable, and be manufactured and stored at room temperatures without habit of toxic chemicals. The Tufts squad used fibers from silkworms to develop the platform devices.
Tufts University has filed a number of patent applications on silk-based optics and is actively exploring commercialisation opportunities.
"Sophisticated optical devices that ar mechanically rich yet fully biodegradable, biocompatible and implantable don't live today," aforementioned principal investigator Fiorenzo Omenetto, associate professor of biomedical engineering and associate professor of physics. "Such systems would greatly expand the use of current optical technologies in areas like human and livestock health, environmental monitoring and solid food quality."
"For example, at a low-pitched cost, we could potentially put a bioactive silk film in every bag of spinach, and it could hold the consumer a read-out of whether or non E. coli bacteria were in the bag-before the food was consumed," explained David Kaplan, professor and chair of the biomedical engineering department.
The Tufts research was published in a recent paper in "Biomacromolecules" by Brian D. Lawrence, graduate student in biomedical engineering; Mark Cronin-Golomb, associate professor, biomedical technology; Irene Georgakoudi, assistant prof, biomedical engineering; Kaplan, and Omenetto. (hTTP://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/article.
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Frankie Valli and Four Seasons
Artist: Frankie Valli and Four Seasons
Genre(s):
Rock & Roll
Discography:
25Th Anniversary Collection
Year: 1987
Tracks: 54
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Rhythm Corps
Artist: Rhythm Corps
Genre(s):
Pop: Pop-Rock
Discography:
The Future's Not What It Used To Be
Year: 1991
Tracks: 11
Formed in 1981, this Detroit band consisted of vocaliser Michael Persh, with Davey Holmbo, Greg Apro, and Richie Lovsin. Their best-known song was the underage hit "Uncouth Ground."
Thursday, 29 May 2008
How do you get music out of the theremin and the ondes Martenot, asksPascal Wyse
In Pamelia Kurstin's Vienna apartment, I have my back up against the wall and am attempting not to breathe. My hands are stuck in mid-air like a neglected shop dummy, and I am told to imagine I'm in a tub of "very thick fluid". Before me is what could be a little robot with two antennae. I carefully reach out towards it and it makes a seasick whooping sound.
Kurstin lets out the first of many enormous giggles. She is giving me a lesson on the theremin: an early electronic instrument that became the universal sound of aliens, ghosts and other voices from the B-movie ether.
"Just think of it like a horse," says Kurstin. "Whenever you walk around it, keep touching it so it doesn't freak out and kick you and go 'Yyyeeeoooww!'"
She is referring to the instrument's volume antenna, and how, if you keep your hand against it, the theremin will remain silent. Move it away and it starts to sing. Meanwhile, the proximity of your hand to the other antenna governs the pitch of the sound, which is made electronically by a simple synthesiser. The "thick fluid" is the electromagnetic field you become part of. Whatever you do in that field with your body affects the sound, so in order to be precise you must try to move just, say, your hand, nothing else. Even the swelling of your chest as you breathe can make the notes glide up and down. It's fitting that Léon Theremin's invention was used in the score for the film The Day the Earth Stood Still. In my hands, it's The Day the Earth Wobbled About Quite a Bit.
You can hear this instrument played virtuosically by Kurstin next Thursday and Friday in the Bath International music festival, in what is being billed as "a mind-blowing night of jazz, skronk and electronic music". But what you might not spot is that gig's connection to next Wednesday's offering in Bath's eclectic programme: the Messiaen Centenary Celebration. Among the instruments required for the composer's Trois Petit Liturgies de la Présence Divine is the ondes Martenot (or "Martenot waves", after inventor Maurice Martenot) - another early electronic instrument, cherished by Messiaen, which will be played by Cynthia Millar.
Both these instruments make a sound that is at once futuristic and vintage - just like the old science-fiction movies they were often used in - and both came about as a by-product of their inventors' work in radio technology around the 1920s. But it is their survival, against waves of advances in music technology, that is interesting. "The sounds themselves are not wildly sophisticated," says Millar, whom I meet in Birmingham as she prepares to play Messiaen's mighty Turangalîla Symphony with the CBSO. "What's special is the way it is played." From a distance the ondes Martenot looks like a traditional keyboard instrument - except the player's right hands seems to float over the keys rather than touch them. Up close you see that Millar's finger sits inside a ring attached to a wire. The movement of this wire, which in turn is attached to a drum inside the instrument, takes the pitch up and down - the sound, as with the theremin, being produced electronically by a rudimentary synthesiser. The notes are articulated by the left hand, via a wooden button called the "touche". The further you press down the touche, the louder the note.
"The touche is in effect my breath. That is what makes it so musical, in a way un-electric," says Millar. "The electricity is powering the sound out, but the technique is much more like singing a vocal technique, or trombone technique." There are also unusual speakers that add an eerie resonance, one by having the driver mounted against a small orchestral gong. Millar, who divides her time between Los Angeles and the UK, and between playing and film composing, has just been helping Matt Groening out with some sounds on a new Simpsons Halloween Special. She took up the ondes Martenot as a joint project with the late film composer Elmer Bernstein.
"Elmer had heard of the instrument through the composer Richard Rodney Bennett, who had used it in film scores. Elmer used it in a score he was then writing for a film called Heavy Metal. For that recording, Messiaen's sister-in-law, Jeanne Loriod, came over from France to play. Elmer said it made the hairs stand up on the back of his neck. She played so beautifully on that movie." Among contemporary composers who have felt that same rush is Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood, who used six ondes in How to Disappear Completely.
Pamelia Kurstin decided to buy a theremin having read an interview with the synthesiser godfather Bob Moog. "Later, of course, people said, 'We want that sound but it's too difficult to control,' so that's why Moog started figuring out making it controllable by keyboard. A lot of the innards of the theremin are the foundations of monophonic synthesisers." But Moog, who cared so passionately about keeping machinery expressive, continued manufacturing - and being in love with - the theremin, and the humanising quality of its playing style. That makes theremin players (and ondes Martenot players) as variable in style as singers, choosing from infinite shades of portamento, articulation and vibrato. The instruments survive partly because this interface is one area of technology that has yet to be bettered.
The techniques, of course, can have disadvantages. If Kurstin is playing with her band, Barbez, she has to be careful that external movements don't stray into her "field". "It's a nightmare when someone is doing some licks and they walk up to you as they are playing, like a guitar or sax player. It can be a total miscommunication nightmare!" Audiences can get a bit confused, too: "Someone once thought I was an interpretive dancer. I was doing the bass lines in a duo with a keyboard player, and a woman just assumed the bass was coming from him. She went up to him afterwards and said, 'You're such a great player, and so expressive, but that dancer is horrible.'"
In film scores, the sounds of both the ondes and the theremin are distinctive: "The ondes works very well in film, though you can't hide it," says Millar. "You are always aware of it. It's difficult to use under dialogue, because it's like another little voice saying, 'And what about me? Do you want to hear what I've got to say?!'"
"Definitely, people associate the theremin with the world of B-movies and science fiction," says Kurstin. "That's the first exposure people have. Even kids nowadays go 'woowooowoowoowooo' when something is scary, and they don't even know they are making reference to a theremin. It's so part of pop culture, part of our vocabulary."
On the face of it, Kurstin and Millar are poles apart. Kurstin will play an improvised solo set in Bath, though perhaps influenced by her new-found love of Schoenberg and Webern. Millar, who travels the world and guests with its best orchestras, will perform Messiaen. But they are connected by a shared musical heritage, an invisible electromagnetic field - and the sound of little green men. Cynthia Millar performs in Messiaen's Centenary Celebration at Bath Abbey on May 28. Pamelia Kurstin performs at Bath's Invention Studios on May 29 and at The Pavilion on May 30.
Details: bathmusicfest.org.uk
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