Tuesday 9 September 2008

Bloomingdale's Composes Magical & Musical Fall Season

Partnerships with The Sony Music Label Group and Infiniti will Drive
Animation and Generate Excitement end-to-end Bloomingdale's catalogs,
stores and website

NEW YORK, Sept. 5 -- Bloomingdale's rocks this fall down with a
comprehensive safari that brings fashion and music together and to life
in stores and online. The campaign, which began in August and lasts through
the Holiday season, will be the longest linear and nearly cohesive
multimedia system campaign in Bloomingdale's chronicle. More than 840 catalog
pages, 800 newspaper and magazine impressions, 650 in store events,
signage, and electronic mail blasts, volition reflect the fashion-music connection from
Bloomingdale's singular point of view. A partnership with The Sony Music
Label Group anchors the campaign, giving unprecedented access to their
recording artists with exposure in legion catalogs and more than 70 live
performances in Bloomingdale's stores nationwide.

With high vim, optimism and a rough rock 'n' roll influence
resonating passim the ready-to-wear category this fall, Bloomingdale's
is poised to beat at the center of the fashion earth. Rocker tees, trophy
jackets, skinny pants, leather and siren dresses are precisely a smattering of the
music-inspired trends for women in stores from designers like Marc Jacobs,
Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren. For men, key looks include the three-piece
suit, plaid shirts and vintage-wash denim, with designs from Ralph Lauren,
Z Zegna, Lacoste and Vince, among others.

To complement these rock-inspired looks, Bloomingdale's features Sony
artists throughout its light catalogs, media and in store signage-beginning
with Y.E.S and continuing through Back-to-School, Best of Ready-to-Wear,
HOT, and Best of Men's. All of the photos were guessing on emplacement at some of
the most prestigious music venues across the country exploitation authentic props
from Steinway Pianos and Gibson Guitars. The Apollo Theater, Radio City
Music Hall, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, onstage and backstage at The Beatles
'LOVE' by Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, 30th Street Guitars and the
McCarren Park and Pool are just a few of the legendary locations.

Each individual fall campaign is intemperately influenced by music:

-- August's Y.E.S. contemporary book picked up the music trend by
creating unique musical playlists for four different fashion
identities-Absolute Diva, Pop Princess, Indie Darling and Pretty
Punk-coordinating dearie artists with must-have fashion. Patti Smith,
Sonic Youth and The Sounds are some of the artists recommended for today's
punk female child, while the pop girl favors The Ting Tings, Lily Allen and Cyndi
Lauper. Sade, Kelly Rowland and Mariah Carey please the ear of the diva.
And, among the suggestions for the indie-minded girl ar Adele, Beach House
and The Jealous Girlfriends.

-- "ROCK THE SCHOOL HOUSE" is the theme of back-to-school, with a page
showcasing signing roger Sessions with adolescent sensations Naked Brothers Band in New
York and Miranda Cosgrove of iCarly fame in South Coast Plaza. Gibson besides
offers a series of guitar clinics in blue-ribbon Bloomingdale's stores this
fall. Kids 12 and under will have the chance to learn how to play like
a professional from a Gibson local artist. And, for those in New York City and San
Francisco, a traveling exhibition of photographs featuring Gibson guitars
-- Gibson Through the Lens -- will make stops at Bloomingdale's stores in
those cities.

-- The fall "BEAT OF CHIC" ready-to-wear book features one music story
after another. Alison Suto of A Fine Frenzy models the latest looks from
Bloomingdale's signature department, Quotations. Dresses are shown on a
backdrop of Cindi Lauper's iconic strain, "True Colors." Magalog contents are
introduced for the first time with "Hot Picks" from Tristan Prettyman,
Kelly Rowland and Nicole Atkins, offering insights into their own medicine and
personal style piece sharing their favorite Bloomies picks.

-- Nine of Sony's hottest artists appear on the cover of "HOT ROCKS"-a
collection of the season's must-have trends-photographed by world-renowned
famous person and fashion photographer Marc Abrahams. Boys Like Girls, Lenka,
Joshua Bell, Teddy Geiger, Nicole Atkins, Michelle Williams, Wyclef Jean,
Raphael Saadiq and Cindy Lauper are featured on a Bloomingdale's limited
edition HOT shopping cup of tea, beginning September 5. In addition, the original,
sign portraits will be displayed in Bloomingdale's Flagship 59th Street
windows. In January 2009, Sotheby's will auction the portraits off to
benefit Musicians on Call - a nonprofit organization organization that brings live and
recorded music to the bedsides of patients in health care facilities.

In keeping with the musical theme, the HOT sweepstakes offers six days
at Rock & Roll Fantasy Camp in London with six nights at the Leading Hotels
of the World's Baglioni Hotel for the winner and a invitee.

-- The "MAKING MUSIC" best of men's catalogue features Oscar and Golden
Globe-nominated actor Terrence Howard on the cover. His debut album, "Shine
Through It," debuted on September 2. Howard, whose true passion is music,
sings and plays lead guitar on a self-penned adjust of songs that defies
description, every bit as unexpected and mercurial as the performing artist
himself. All other models in the catalog ar either wishful musicians or
members of a band.

Howard enthralled partygoers September 3 with a alive performance during
the Vanity Fair sponsored "Beat of Chic" event, kicking off fall mode at
the Bloomingdale's 59th Street computer storage. He is also conspicuously featured in
media and in-store signage for Bloomingdale's men's department.

In addition, Bloomingdale's has dedicated areas in all stores in which
new releases from select Sony artists are available for purchase. The
albums, which ar also available on Bloomingdales.com, include those by
artists Michelle Williams, Wyclef Jean, Joshua Bell, Teddy Geiger, Cyndi
Lauper, and many others.

Infiniti is another exciting partner for Bloomingdale's this fall. As
featured in the HOT and Best of Men's catalogs, the deuce companies are
offering a sweepstakes to win the refined and redesigned, all-new 2009
Infiniti FX50. The car's MP3 role player is preloaded with 1,000 tracks from the
Sony Music Library. Entries for the sweepstakes can be submitted at any
Bloomingdale's locating or online at hTTP://www.bloomingdales.com/hot between
Friday, September fifth and Sunday, September 14th.

Infiniti was also a sponsor of the September 3 jubilation with
Terrence Howard and Vanity Fair, having brought an augmented reality
technology into the mix in. The party featured imagination of the all-new 2009
Infiniti FX50 and allowed guests to interact with the vehicle in an
exciting virtual environment.

Bloomingdale's has previously announced its unique and first-ever
designer mixture of men's room apparel and accessories, elysian by the hit
usher The Beatles 'LOVE' by Cirque du Soleil, that will be among the
season's most sought-after gifts. These products have been developed in
partnership with Signature Networks, Apple Corps' North American agent, in
partnership with The Beatles 'LOVE' by Cirque du Soleil, the current
production at The Mirage in Las Vegas, which celebrates the musical legacy
of The Beatles. Among the designers and manufacturers to be featured are
tees by Trunk, Marc by Marc Jacobs and Katharine Hamnett, sack squares,
and manacle links by Psycho Bunny, hoodies and jackets by John
Varvatos for Converse, a suit and overcoat by Hickey, and a velvet blazer
by Theory. The collection hits all Bloomingdale's stores on October 15.

To keep the safari creatively, Bloomingdale's has unveiled a
propriety font, including five new logos -- The Beat of Chic, Live, New
Release, What Rocks Now and No.1 Singles. The original font and special
son will be used crossways all creative layers of the campaign, including
signage, advertising, catalogs and the windows.

Bloomingdale's comprehensive euphony campaign continues throughout the
holiday season, including in the fabled window displays, beginning
November 20.

Bloomingdale's is America's entirely nationwide, full-line, upscale
department store; and a division of Macy's, Inc. It was founded in 1872 and
currently operates 40 stores in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Georgia, Florida,
Nevada and California. For more information, or to shop any time, inspect
http://www.bloomingdales.com.

About Infiniti:

Infiniti offers a full-line of sumptuousness performance automobiles,
including the G sports coupe and sedan, the M sumptuousness performance sedan, FX
luxury performance crossover, QX full-size sumptuousness SUV, and the EX personal
luxury crossover. More information around Infiniti and its Total Ownership
Experience canful be plant at Infiniti.com.



Contacts: Elizabeth Quarta / Liz McGovern
Bloomingdale's National Media Relations
212-705-2439 / 212-705-2443
elizabeth II.quarta@bloomingdales.com
liz.mcgovern@bloomingdales.com



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Saturday 30 August 2008

2008 Breast Cancer Symposium Awards $14,000 To Oncology Fellows

�Organizers of the 2008 Breast Cancer Symposium announced the winners of the Symposium Merit Awards. Fourteen physicians-in-training will receive financing to assist with their travel to attend the Symposium, to be held September fifty-seven in Washington, DC.


"We are proud to accolade this year's Merit Award winners for their outstanding contribution to the onward motion of breast cancer research," said Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD, chair of the Symposium Steering Committee and Associate Professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. "These bright young fellows represent the promising future of clinical oncology and our increased commitment towards improving patient care."


The ASCO Cancer Foundation Merit Awards are designed to promote clinical research by young scientists and provide fellows with an chance to present their research and interact with other clinical malignant neoplastic disease investigators at ASCO scientific meetings. This year's awardees are the second radical of physicians to receive ASCO's Merit Awards in breast cancer and present institutions from across the globe. Awardees were selected based on the scientific merit of their abstracts and volition present their research during the Symposium.


The 2008 Breast Cancer Symposium has expanded this year to a two-and-a-half-day multidisciplinary symposium in order of magnitude to offer more feature presentations on the modish multidisciplinary research from selected theme-based translational, and clinical abstracts, as well as related educational sessions. This symposium offers an opportunity for clinically relevant, in-depth discussions of how and when to translate raw findings into patient care and how to be more selective about white meat cancer therapy.


Co-sponsors include the American Society the American Society of Breast Disease, The American Society of Breast Surgeons, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, the National Consortium of Breast Centers, Inc. and the Society of Surgical Oncology.

2008 Breast Cancer Symposium Merit Award Recipients

Nabil Wasif, MD

John Wayne Cancer Institute

Survey of ASCO members on management of picket node micrometastases in knocker cancer: want of adhesiveness to established guidelines

Grace L Smith, MD, PhD

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Racial disparities in treatment for early invasive breast cancer: a national Medicare study of radiation therapy after conservative surgery

Marieke E Straver, MD

EORTC

Patterns of care in the EORTC AMAROS sentinel node trial

Sonal Gandhi, MD, BSC

University of Toronto

Continuing aromatase inhibitors (AIs) beyond the 5-year mark: how much benefit is enough? A survey of patients and physicians

Mangesh A Thorat, MD

Indiana University School of Medicine

Metaplastic chest cancers show a gene expression profile distinct from basal-like breast cancers

Philip Wong, MD

McGill University Health Center

The use of 3D-ultrasound in tracking surgical cavity displacement during breast radiotherapy

Shaheenah S Dawood, MD

Department of Health and Medical Services

Triple receptor negative boob cancer: The effect of race on response to primary systemic treatment and survival outcomes

Heather B Neuman, MD, MS

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Do patients with stagecoach IV breast cancer and intact primary benefit from local control of the breast as a component of multimodality therapy?

Mahsa Mohebtash, MD

NCI/NIH

Vaccine alone or with chemotherapy in patients with metastatic breast cancer (mBC)

Ricardo H Alvarez, MD

University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Discordance rates of HER-2 expression between white meat primary tumors and mated metastases victimisation archived neoplasm specimens

Christine Simmons, MD

Princess Margaret Hospital

Phase II study of Vitamin D (10, 000 IU daily) supplementation in Bisphosphonate Treated breast cancer patients with bone metastases

Tienhan S Dabakuyo, PharmD

Centre Georges Fran�ois Leclerc

A multicenter cohort study to compare tone of life in breast cancer patients according to sentinel lymph node
biopsy (SNLB) or full axillary clearance (AC)

Sumanta K Pal, MD

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

Lack of survival benefit in metastatic breast cancer with newer chemotherapy agents: The City of Hope cancer experience


The 2008 Merit Awards are funded through The ASCO Cancer Foundation and ar supported by restricted educational grants from the American Cancer Society, Amgen Oncology, Aptium Oncology, Bristol-Myers Squibb and ImClone Systems Incorporated, Celgene Corporation, Lilly Oncology, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Novartis Oncology, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., OSI Oncology, sanofi-aventis U.S. and Wyeth.

ASCO Cancer Foundation


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Sunday 10 August 2008

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Feature Highlights Recent Blog Entries


While mainstream news insurance coverage is still a primary source of information for the modish in policy debates and the wellness care mart, online blogs have become a significant part of the media landscape, often presenting modern perspectives on policy issues and drawing attention to under-reported topics. To provide complete coverage of health policy issues, the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report offers readers a window into the world of blogs in a roundup of health policy-related blog posts. "Blog Watch," published on Tuesdays and Fridays, tracks a wide range of blogs, providing a brief description and relevant links for highlighted posts.

The American Prospect's Ezra Klein discusses the lack of awareness about health precaution costs in the U.S., saying that "if Americans were as viscerally aware of the punishing rate and wallop of health spending as they ar over hikes at the pump, anger over wellness care pomposity would make the discontentment over vigor costs look mild."

Insure Blog's Bob Vineyard discusses problems with the administration of the Social Security Disability Income program and envisions the federal government administering health insurance for the uninsured in a similar way.

Maggie Mahar on the Health Care Blog responds to a post by Brian Klepper, in which he argued that lobbyists and business interests forestall health reform. Mahar says voters static have influence and "legislators are going to induce to weigh the power of the vote against the ability of the lobbyists' dollar."

Amber Sparks on the Health Care for America Now Blog writes that U.S. workers are "doing the heavy lifting on health care" and that "taking health caution off the bargaining table" would pay workers "more than leverage to bargain for higher payoff, a procure retirement, and other increased benefits."

Michael Miller of Health Care Policy and Communications Blog discusses misconceptions about the composition of health spending, noting some physicians believe pharmaceuticals make up the largest share when actually outpatient prescription drugs account about 10% to 11% of health care spending and hospital services account for the superlative proportion at 31%.

Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review's Bob Laszewski questions whether either presidential candidate canful finance the short-term costs of health reform considering federal expenditure and the size of the federal deficit.

Joanne Kenen from the New America Foundation's New Health Dialogue blogs around her interview with AARP's policy director John Rother. Rother said that compared with the early 1990s, "cost, obstetrical delivery and insurance coverage debates are more closely entwined," and that health reform efforts "can't afford to let the perfect be the enemy of the good."

John Geyman on Physicians for a National Health Program's blog discusses Starbucks' financial troubles, some of which can be attributed to its "generous" health insurance benefits, and recommends a single-payer national health insurance policy system, expression that it "will not solve all of the problems directly being confronted by Starbucks and other U. S. employers, simply will go a long way to level the playing field in a global economy."

Joe Mantone from the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog discusses how Revolution Health "is still struggling to find its niche" and is exploring a sale or unification.


Reprinted with kind permission from hypertext transfer protocol://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email speech at hypertext transfer protocol://www.kaisernetwork.

Wednesday 2 July 2008

Bros Plan To Reunite For New Tour

Eighties boy band Bros could be on the verge of reuniting for a special tour, it's been revealed.



Singer Matt Goss said that the group's other members – his brother, Luke, and Craig Logan – were “all up for it”.



During their career Bros had eleven hit singles and three top-20 albums in the United Kingdom but began to disband when Logan left the group in 1989. The Goss brothers then went their separate ways three years later.



Goss fuelled fresh speculation about the band's future, however, at the premiere of his brother's latest movie.



"If we can make the numbers work and the venues work, then we're all up for it,” Goss said.



The singer added that he was confident that the group would still have the support of their fanbase – the Brosettes.



"They're still pretty insane. They weren't too cool for the room - they knew how to have a good time. That's the way I feel," he said.



What do you think about the news? Are there too many boy band reunions now? Post a comment below and let Gigwise readers know your thoughts.




See Also

Sunday 22 June 2008

Shy Rose

Shy Rose   
Artist: Shy Rose

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   



Discography:


You Are My Desire   
 You Are My Desire

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10




 






Sunday 15 June 2008

Led Zeppelin's Page, Jones join Foos in London

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones turned a high-profile Foo Fighters show into a once-in-a-lifetime event Saturday night (June 7) at London's Wembley Stadium, joining the Foos for covers of Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll" and "Ramble On."


Drummer Taylor Hawkins took the microphone for the former, and frontman Dave Grohl sang the latter. Grohl, a lifelong Zeppelin fanatic who was on hand for the group's December 2007 one-off reunion in London, told the crowd that Saturday's experience constituted "the greatest day of my entire life."


The Foos' summer European tour continues Wednesday in Bergen, Norway, and wraps June 22 at Germany's Southside Festival. A North American run begins July 9 at Seattle's Key Arena.


Reuters/Billboard



Wednesday 4 June 2008

Belinda Carlisle

Belinda Carlisle   
Artist: Belinda Carlisle

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Other
   Rock
   



Discography:


Singles Collection   
 Singles Collection

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 17


A Place on Earth: The Greatest Hits   
 A Place on Earth: The Greatest Hits

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 28


A Place On Earth: Greatest Hits [CD 2]   
 A Place On Earth: Greatest Hits [CD 2]

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


A Place On Earth: Greatest Hits [CD 1]   
 A Place On Earth: Greatest Hits [CD 1]

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 18


A Woman and A Man   
 A Woman and A Man

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 11


Real   
 Real

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


The Best Of Belinda, Volume 1   
 The Best Of Belinda, Volume 1

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 15


Live Your Life Be Free   
 Live Your Life Be Free

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


Runaway Horses   
 Runaway Horses

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 10


Heaven On Earth   
 Heaven On Earth

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 10


Belinda   
 Belinda

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 10




Belinda Carlisle chased a solo career afterward going away the Go-Go's in 1984. As her solo life history progressed, Carlisle removed whatever of the rough edges odd in her stylus, transforming from a new wave rocker to a polished grownup contemporaneous pour down singer. The change was evident on her first record album, 1986's Belinda. Featuring the phone number three hit single "Mad About You," the record went au and established her as a feasible hitmaker. The following year, Carlisle released Heaven on Earth, her greatest solo success. Continuing the immaculately produced mainstream pour down of Belinda, the record featured the number one title cartroad, the number deuce single "I Get Weak," and the Top Ten lay "Round in the Sand." Laugher Horses, released in 1989, was some other successful album, spawning the strike singles "Leave behind a Light On" and "Summertime Rain," yet it showed signs that her audience was shrinking. That suspicion was confirmed by the disconsolate operation of 1991's Hot Your Life Be Free, which failed to seduce the charts. Real, released in 1993, didn't come to Carlisle's career and she later joined the re-formed Go-Go's in 1994. The Go-Go's reunion was passing, even though it was wide praised. Carlisle returned to solo transcription in 1996 with A Woman and a Man, which failed to gain lots attention. A myriad of collections and compilations followed, as well as another Go-Go's reunion. Carlisle released a unexampled solo album, Voila, in 2007.