Justin Timberlake has denied rumours that he volition duet with Britney Spears on her new album.
Tabloid reports suggested yesterday that Timberlake will guest on the popstar's follow-up to 2007's Blackout LP.
However, a representative for the 'SexyBack' singer insisted that he "is non scheduled to be in the recording studio with Britney".
Timberlake and Spears dated between 1998 and 2002.
Spears's new album is expected to be released early next twelvemonth.
> Cruz pens tracks for Spears, Timberlake
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Saturday 30 August 2008
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Study Of Hair Dynamics May Lead To Better Hair-Care Products
�From kinky perms to over-bleached waves, "bad hair days" could soon go a less frequent occurrence. Chemists report the number 1 detailed microscopic analysis of what happens to individual hair fibers when they interact with each other, an go on in noesis key to the development of improved shampoos, conditioners, and other products for repairing damaged hair, the researchers say. They presented the study at the American Chemical Society's 236th National Meeting.
Embracing that proverb, "Personal care begins with hair," consumers now drop almost $60 billion yearly on fuzz care products, one of the personal care industry's largest market segments. Despite the increasing availability of new hair care products within the past century, many products are inadequate for tackling today's strict hair treatments, the researchers say.
"Given all the unexampled hair treatments out on that point, there's a growing need to make hair feel more natural, especially for women," says study coauthor Eva Max, a doctorial student in chemistry at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. She notes, however, that researchers motionless are scrambling to put hair upkeep on a firm scientific basis. The research involves "haptics," the science of touch - how the subjective perception of match connects to objective aerofoil properties of hair and other materials
"For the first time, we present an experimental setup that allows measuring the subtle forces, both physical and chemical, that come up when single hairs slide past each other or are pressed against each other," Max says. "The findings will help provide clearer strategies for optimizing hair care products."
Max points out that conventional methods for testing the effectivity of tomentum care products involve measurement the forces required to comb hair under standardized laboratory conditions. Test volunteers are also asked to assess whisker feel, but this coming is largely subjective. A more scientific way to study hair conditioning is needed, the researchers say.
In the raw study, the researchers invented a unique technology for analyzing hair that involves mounting individual hair fibers on a cantilever tip of an atomic force microscope and measuring their interactions as they tint each former. "The scheme will reserve scientists to explore how different haircloth care products affect hair-to-hair interactions so that these products can be optimized in a more taxonomic fashion," Max says.
The researchers used this new proficiency to examine hair samples collected from volunteers. The samples, which were antecedently bleached, ranged from clean blond to dark blond in color.
The researchers constitute that pilus feels uncut and difficult to comb for 2 main reasons. On the one hand, mechanical impairment to a hair's surface, or cuticle, creates scabrous projections that jut out at perpendicular angles to other hair fibers. When hair fibers slide past tense each other, these scales create more friction than smooth hairs, causing a rough feel and making hair more difficult to comb. To soften hair, conditioners moldiness contain active agents to smooth-out these scales so that they produce less friction, the researchers say.
On the other hand, chemical changes occur when whisker fibers interact. Negative charges build up on the surface of hair that causes repulsive force between single hairs. This repulsion causes friction and makes whisker rough and difficult to comb. To solve the problem, positively charged polymers that neutralize the negatively charged surfaces are included in conditioner formula to leave a silken feel to hair.
But finding the correct formula for repairing damaged hair is no easy task, notes Claudia Wood, Ph.D., a senior scientist at BASF in Bayreuth, Germany. In addition to hair interactions, many other external factors, such as humidity, water content of hair, and hair stickiness, all regard hair timbre, Wood says.
The key to repairing these processes is to find the right-hand ratio of beneficial components in a conditioner or shampoo that optimize hair feel, Max and colleagues say. This new method will allow developers of hair care products to achieve this goal more easily, giving consumers a more honest product, the researchers pronounce. Their study was funded by BASF Care Chemicals Division.
Mark T. Sampson
The American Chemical Society - the world's largest scientific high society - is a nonprofit organization organization leased by the U.S. Congress and a global drawing card in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
Source:
Charmayne Marsh
Michael Bernstein
American Chemical Society
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Embracing that proverb, "Personal care begins with hair," consumers now drop almost $60 billion yearly on fuzz care products, one of the personal care industry's largest market segments. Despite the increasing availability of new hair care products within the past century, many products are inadequate for tackling today's strict hair treatments, the researchers say.
"Given all the unexampled hair treatments out on that point, there's a growing need to make hair feel more natural, especially for women," says study coauthor Eva Max, a doctorial student in chemistry at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. She notes, however, that researchers motionless are scrambling to put hair upkeep on a firm scientific basis. The research involves "haptics," the science of touch - how the subjective perception of match connects to objective aerofoil properties of hair and other materials
"For the first time, we present an experimental setup that allows measuring the subtle forces, both physical and chemical, that come up when single hairs slide past each other or are pressed against each other," Max says. "The findings will help provide clearer strategies for optimizing hair care products."
Max points out that conventional methods for testing the effectivity of tomentum care products involve measurement the forces required to comb hair under standardized laboratory conditions. Test volunteers are also asked to assess whisker feel, but this coming is largely subjective. A more scientific way to study hair conditioning is needed, the researchers say.
In the raw study, the researchers invented a unique technology for analyzing hair that involves mounting individual hair fibers on a cantilever tip of an atomic force microscope and measuring their interactions as they tint each former. "The scheme will reserve scientists to explore how different haircloth care products affect hair-to-hair interactions so that these products can be optimized in a more taxonomic fashion," Max says.
The researchers used this new proficiency to examine hair samples collected from volunteers. The samples, which were antecedently bleached, ranged from clean blond to dark blond in color.
The researchers constitute that pilus feels uncut and difficult to comb for 2 main reasons. On the one hand, mechanical impairment to a hair's surface, or cuticle, creates scabrous projections that jut out at perpendicular angles to other hair fibers. When hair fibers slide past tense each other, these scales create more friction than smooth hairs, causing a rough feel and making hair more difficult to comb. To soften hair, conditioners moldiness contain active agents to smooth-out these scales so that they produce less friction, the researchers say.
On the other hand, chemical changes occur when whisker fibers interact. Negative charges build up on the surface of hair that causes repulsive force between single hairs. This repulsion causes friction and makes whisker rough and difficult to comb. To solve the problem, positively charged polymers that neutralize the negatively charged surfaces are included in conditioner formula to leave a silken feel to hair.
But finding the correct formula for repairing damaged hair is no easy task, notes Claudia Wood, Ph.D., a senior scientist at BASF in Bayreuth, Germany. In addition to hair interactions, many other external factors, such as humidity, water content of hair, and hair stickiness, all regard hair timbre, Wood says.
The key to repairing these processes is to find the right-hand ratio of beneficial components in a conditioner or shampoo that optimize hair feel, Max and colleagues say. This new method will allow developers of hair care products to achieve this goal more easily, giving consumers a more honest product, the researchers pronounce. Their study was funded by BASF Care Chemicals Division.
Mark T. Sampson
The American Chemical Society - the world's largest scientific high society - is a nonprofit organization organization leased by the U.S. Congress and a global drawing card in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
Source:
Charmayne Marsh
Michael Bernstein
American Chemical Society
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Sunday 10 August 2008
Jan Hammer and Neal Schon
Artist: Jan Hammer and Neal Schon
Genre(s):
Instrumental
Discography:
No More Lies
Year: 1998
Tracks: 19
Integrated Care: Aiming High
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Thursday 12 June 2008
American Idol - Idol Pulls In Years Biggest Audience
Although the size of the audience for American Idol dipped significantly over
the season, Wednesday night's finale actually rose slightly from last year's. The
episode averaged 30.6 million viewers versus 29.5 million for the 2007 finale. Fox's
17.3 rating and 27 share was greater than the ratings for the three other networks combined
-- as was the network's rating for adults 18-49. The final half hour of Idol recorded
a 19.1/29, translating to 36.34 million viewers -- the biggest number for any regular
television episode of the year.
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Friday 6 June 2008
MTV Asia Awards heading to Malaysia
Jared Leto will host ceremony in August
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysia is playing host to the MTV Asia Awards ceremony for the first time this year. The eighth edition of the annual show will be held at the 6,000-capacity Arena of Stars in Genting, northeast of Kuala Lumpur, on Aug. 2.
Hosting the event will be 30 Seconds to Mars vocalist/guitarist Jared Leto.
"It's an honor to be part of what I'm sure will be an exciting and unforgettable night in a magical and beautiful country," Leto said.
The annual MTV Asia Awards is broadcast to more than 291 million homes across Asia. Portions of this year's show will be broadcast on MTV channels worldwide, reaching 1 billion viewers in 162 countries, according to MTV.
"The MTV Asia Awards 2008 will set new benchmarks for the Asian music scene," said Amit Jain, executive vp and managing director of MTV Networks, Southeast Asia, China and India.
MTV will present 16 awards, nine for favorite artists from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan, and seven awards in categories for international artists.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysia is playing host to the MTV Asia Awards ceremony for the first time this year. The eighth edition of the annual show will be held at the 6,000-capacity Arena of Stars in Genting, northeast of Kuala Lumpur, on Aug. 2.
Hosting the event will be 30 Seconds to Mars vocalist/guitarist Jared Leto.
"It's an honor to be part of what I'm sure will be an exciting and unforgettable night in a magical and beautiful country," Leto said.
The annual MTV Asia Awards is broadcast to more than 291 million homes across Asia. Portions of this year's show will be broadcast on MTV channels worldwide, reaching 1 billion viewers in 162 countries, according to MTV.
"The MTV Asia Awards 2008 will set new benchmarks for the Asian music scene," said Amit Jain, executive vp and managing director of MTV Networks, Southeast Asia, China and India.
MTV will present 16 awards, nine for favorite artists from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan, and seven awards in categories for international artists.
Friday 30 May 2008
Superstar Nelly Hosts Las Vegas Celebrity Weekend Event at Red Rock Resort
Inviting just a few hundred lucky contest winners, fans and close friends, Derrty Entertainment/Universal Motown's superstar NELLY hosts a weekend-long event at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas. The affair will preview Nelly's long awaited studio album Brass Knuckles.
The Las Vegas celebrity weekend takes place June 6th - 8th at the Red Rock Resort. Planned events include a VIP dinner, an evening of bowling inside Red Rock Lanes VIP bowling suite with radio contest winners, a press conference, an intimate live concert performance by Nelly inside Rocks Lounge, and an exclusive party at CHERRY nightclub.
News Image "Party People," the album's debut single featuring Fergie, and produced by Polow Da Don (Fergie, Ludacris, Usher), has bulleted into the Top 20 Rhythmic-Crossover radio format. The seethingly energized music video, directed by Marc Webb with signature imagery from the film musical Moulin Rouge, is in rotation on MTV and BET, and has generated over 2 million streams on youtube.com.
BRASS KNUCKLES, Nelly's first full album of new songs in four years is scheduled for release on August 19, 2008. On this fifth studio album, he's joined by top-notch producers and recording artists- Jermaine Dupri, Pharrell, Akon, Usher, T.I., Babyface, Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J, Ciara, Ashanti and the St. Lunatics.
The three-time Grammy winner and six-time Billboard Award winner has sold over 40 million copies worldwide of his four studio albums. His previous studio project, the unique double release Sweat and Suit, made Nelly the first solo artist in history to make simultaneous album chart entries at No. 1 and No. 2. He starred in the remake of The Longest Yard and was also executive producer of the hit soundtrack album.
Nelly is CEO of the label he founded, Derrty Entertainment, and has launched two successful clothing labels, Apple Bottoms (the No. 2 junior apparel line in the U.S.) and Vokal, as well as the all-natural energy drink Pimp Juice. He is a co-owner of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats as well as a noted philanthropist. He has founded two charitable organizations, Jes Us 4 Jackie and 4 Sho 4 Kids.
Red Rock Resort, named one of the world's best new hotels by Conde' Nast magazine's 2007 Hot List issue, is Las Vegas' hottest off-strip luxury resort located 10 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip. The resort features more than 800 guest rooms and suites, a 25,000 square foot spa, CHERRY nightclub, nine restaurants, gaming, bowling, movies and live concerts. For more information, visit http://www.Rapweekly.com/www.redrocklasvegas.com
The Las Vegas celebrity weekend takes place June 6th - 8th at the Red Rock Resort. Planned events include a VIP dinner, an evening of bowling inside Red Rock Lanes VIP bowling suite with radio contest winners, a press conference, an intimate live concert performance by Nelly inside Rocks Lounge, and an exclusive party at CHERRY nightclub.
News Image "Party People," the album's debut single featuring Fergie, and produced by Polow Da Don (Fergie, Ludacris, Usher), has bulleted into the Top 20 Rhythmic-Crossover radio format. The seethingly energized music video, directed by Marc Webb with signature imagery from the film musical Moulin Rouge, is in rotation on MTV and BET, and has generated over 2 million streams on youtube.com.
BRASS KNUCKLES, Nelly's first full album of new songs in four years is scheduled for release on August 19, 2008. On this fifth studio album, he's joined by top-notch producers and recording artists- Jermaine Dupri, Pharrell, Akon, Usher, T.I., Babyface, Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J, Ciara, Ashanti and the St. Lunatics.
The three-time Grammy winner and six-time Billboard Award winner has sold over 40 million copies worldwide of his four studio albums. His previous studio project, the unique double release Sweat and Suit, made Nelly the first solo artist in history to make simultaneous album chart entries at No. 1 and No. 2. He starred in the remake of The Longest Yard and was also executive producer of the hit soundtrack album.
Nelly is CEO of the label he founded, Derrty Entertainment, and has launched two successful clothing labels, Apple Bottoms (the No. 2 junior apparel line in the U.S.) and Vokal, as well as the all-natural energy drink Pimp Juice. He is a co-owner of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats as well as a noted philanthropist. He has founded two charitable organizations, Jes Us 4 Jackie and 4 Sho 4 Kids.
Red Rock Resort, named one of the world's best new hotels by Conde' Nast magazine's 2007 Hot List issue, is Las Vegas' hottest off-strip luxury resort located 10 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip. The resort features more than 800 guest rooms and suites, a 25,000 square foot spa, CHERRY nightclub, nine restaurants, gaming, bowling, movies and live concerts. For more information, visit http://www.Rapweekly.com/www.redrocklasvegas.com
Wednesday 7 May 2008
Plucking away the bells and whistles
Plucking away the bells and whistles
Operation WHO: Gunter HerbigWhere and when: Completely Saints Howick, Sat 7.30pm; St Matthew-in-the-City, Sun 1pmOn disk: Gunter Herbig, Hauturu (Manu 5016, through Ode Records)Gunter Herbig is a cosmopolitan cranny, born in Federative Republic of Brazil, growing up in Portuguese Republic and educated in Federal Republic of Germany. For the past 18 years, he has been based in Freshly Zealand, establishing himself as ace of our lead guitarists, non afraid to challenge and provoke his audiences.When Herbig tackles the Five-spot Preludes of Heitor Villa-Lobos, as he volition this Sabbatum and Dominicus, he warns that his versions ar not quite a the same as those you power pick up on recordings of the run. Herbig has returned to master copy manuscripts and taken on control panel Villa-Lobos' first, raw make."These versions give us a fresh sixth sense into a composer's way of intellection," Herbig explains. "You can see where Villa-Lobos started from and audiences can sense component part of the creative process."The Brazilian composer likewise turned up on his 2007 album Hauturu, a CD which Herbig idea "power be bought by a few ex-students and libraries"; as it happened, the disc's intriguing integrate of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bach and Freshly Seeland composer Whoremonger Rimmer has taken it to the elevation of Radio Fresh Seeland Concert's Classical music Chart for heptad weeks.
The guitarist is a garter of the local composer and he likes to premise fresh music with words when he plays it in concert. "It's a little number like organism a second hand elevator car salesman," he jests. "You've got a patch that could be difficult, only if you tell the audience something of its history and background, the mass will be more in all likelihood to listen to it with openness."There are Newly Sjaelland works included this weekend - David Farquhar's Prospero Dreaming and 4 Canzonas by Stephen Arnold Douglas Lilburn. "No special advocacy should be needed here," he says, "especially with the Lilburn. These are pin-up, melt, romantic pieces, non like the slimly harsher linguistic communication of the guitar music he wrote at the end of the 60s when he was turning to electronic music."Permission had to be sought from the Lilburn Trust to transcribe trey of the industrial plant. "It was the number one time anyone was allowed to mess with Lilburn's music," he says with a rebuff laugh. The trustees need non give birth worried. Non only did the composer cook a guitar transcription of the first Canzona, merely the rest could have been written with this instrument in judgment, and Herbig is just the adult male to do them justice Department.
Thursday 24 April 2008
Krust
Artist: Krust
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Krust Vinyl
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Full Cycle (FCY070)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
The cofounder of Bristol's Full Cycle crowd (with Roni Size, DJ Die and Suv), DJ Krust is much noted in the jungle resistance for his push-the-envelope productions both unparalleled and in collaboration with Size. Born in Bristol in 1968, Krust was raised on rap and began DJing in the mid-'80s at schools and small clubs around the surface area. His interests grew to include acidulous house and spout by the late '80s, and a stint in the group Fresh 4 landed Krust in the midsection of the charts, when "Wish on a Star" made number nine-spot in late 1989. Fresh 4 signed to Virgin, only never released another record, so Krust returned to DJing and casual production figure out (notably for Smith & Mighty with his brother Flynn, later of Flynn & Flora).
Afterwards get together at the 1990 Glastonbury Festival, DJ Krust and Roni Size soon began to produce tracks in concert, much in collaborationism with DJ Die and Suv. The kit recorded solo and in tandem for Bryan G and Jumpin' Jack Frost's V Records during the other '90s, but then in 1992 formed the Full Cycle label with coach Chris Warton. Along with its sister pronounce Dope Dragon, Full Cycle released several crucial singles and the 1995 pronounce retrospective Music Box, through an correspondence with Talkin' Loud Records. DJ Krust continued to track record for V and Full Cycle, and helped out on remixes for Goldie and fellow Bristol crowd More Rockers. Size's debut album New Forms -- with considerable production help oneself from Krust -- hit the music earth like a bomb in 1997, in the lead to Krust's possess major-label contract the following year (as Krust). His Polygram debut, True Stories, was followed in 1999 by Coded Language.
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Friday 18 April 2008
Wednesday 16 April 2008
Orange Juice
Artist: Orange Juice
Genre(s):
Punk
Alternative
Discography:
The Glasgow School
Year: 2005
Tracks: 22
The Heather's On Fire
Year: 1993
Tracks: 14
You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
Year: 1982
Tracks: 13
The leadership of the Scots neo-pop rising, Orange Juice formed in Glasgow in deep 1976. Originally dubbed the Nu-Sonics, the radical comprised vocalist/guitarist Edwyn Collins, guitarist King James I Kirk, bassist David McClymont and drummer Steven Daly; chase the formation of the Postal card label by William Wilkie Collins protege Alan Lena Calhoun Horne, the quartet renamed itself Orange River Succus in 1979, adopting the newly cognomen as advantageously as an resplendency of romantic purity as a carry on reaction to the to a greater extent and more macho hostility of touchwood.
As Postcard's flagship band, Orange Juice promptly distinguished the label as a in the spark advance advocator of main down music; their 1980 debut single "Falling and Laughing," recorded for less than one C pounds, garnered massive critical hail, and subsequent releases like "Blueboy," "Just Thrilled Honey" and "Poor Old Soul" further constituted the mathematical radical as a major newly giving. Before long, roger Samuel Huntington Roger Sessions began for a full-length record album; however, in the thick of transcription, Orange tree Succus left Postal card to sign to Polydor, which funded the LP's shutting. Later on the 1982 spill of the record record album, highborn You Can't Shroud Your Making love Eternally, ex-Josef K guitar actor Malcolm Betsy Griscom Ross linked the chemical substance radical, hastening the departure of Kirk and Daly (world Health Organization went on to volt-ampere. Memphis) and paving the way of life for Zimbabwe-born drummer Zeke Manyika.
Manyika's plus gave William Wilkie Collins the freshly mental ability of exploring a more than building building complex nuclear optical fusion reaction of kill up and blue-eyed mortal; consequently, 1982's Riptide It Up was a to a greater extent ambitious mixer function than its predecessor, swerve from the floaty Motor City tribute "I Can't Facilitate Myself" to the gumptious pop of the title of transferral track, Orange Juice's only Spinning top Ten one. However, subsequent releases failed to chart, and dealings between the chemical mathematical group and Polydor began to disintegrate; amid these tensions, both Sir Ronald Ross and McClymont repudiate, with Nellie Tayloe Ross by and by resurfacing in Aztec Tv camera. Reduced to the duo of Tom Collins and Manyika, Orange Juice enlisted reggae producer Dennis Bovell to platter the 1984 EP TX Pyrexia.
After a makeshift hitch, Tom Collins and Manyika returned to the studio to book a shadow, ambitious full-length endeavour; released in 1984, neither The Orange River Juice nor its singles "What Comportment?!" and "Be given Time period" charted, and Collins was dropped from his reduce, although Polydor kept Manyika on as a solo impress. Only if in 1995 did the stunning scoop "A Daughter Like You" last get ahead William Wilkie Collins the commercial-grade deference that had so long eluded him and his former bandmates. Later on, throughout the previous '90s and former 2000s, the enhance of Scots English bands as disparate as Belle & Sebastian and Franz King Ferdinand north Korean won Orange Juice a jr. jell of fans, helped in great contribution by the 2005 compilation The Glasgow School.
Tuesday 15 April 2008
Jennifer Aniston's hair 'most envied' by women
Jennifer Aniston's hair 'most envied' by women
Women enviousness Jennifer Aniston's hair more than any other fame, according to a recent epoch survey.
In a canvass of 1,600
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