�Home Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ:HDIX), a preeminent manufacturer and marketer of diabetes testing supplies, announced today that it received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the world's smallest blood glucose meter, TRUE2go�, and for TRUEresult�, the company's up-to-the-minute advanced performance, no-coding metre for at home testing.
Small enough to twist and attach to the top of a vial of test strips, TRUE2go offers patients the convenience of anywhere, on the go testing to help them better deal their diabetes. TRUEresult, the latest state of the art, high performance meter, offers patients advanced monitoring capabilities at an affordable monetary value. In clinical testing, both systems achieved a high gear degree of accuracy and repeatability, and were considered to be easy to use by people with diabetes.
Both new meters are compatible with the company's new TRUEtest platform of blood glucose test strips featuring the company's patent-pending, state of the art GoldSensor� laser accuracy and TRUEfill� beveled tip. These advanced features ensure highly accurate test results and first test success by allowing for greater sampling precision and consistency.
The new TRUE systems feature article no-coding technology that simplifies blood glucose testing by eliminating the need for users to code the meter with each new box of test strips. Both TRUE2go and TRUEresult deliver precise results in as fast as four-spot seconds victimization only 0.5 microliters of blood. This ripe no-coding engineering combined with a small sample size also makes it more than convenient and cost - effective for diabetics to test their blood glucose levels more often, allowing for greater control of their glucose levels.
"Over the past three years we made capital investments in surfeit of $15 million in order to bring the TRUE2go and TRUEresult to market and are pleased to accept FDA clearance for the new products," said J. Richard Damron, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of Home Diagnostics. "Our new product platform is designed to fit people's needs whether they ar testing at home or on-the-go, fashioning it easier for them to prove accurately and quickly."
TRUE2go and TRUEresult will be available in the fourth quarter of this year.
About Home Diagnostics, Inc.
Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Home Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ:HDIX) is a leading developer, manufacturer and seller of diabetes management solutions. Home Diagnostics, Inc. offers a portfolio of superiority blood glucose monitoring systems that spans the spectrum of features and benefits to help every person with diabetes better reminder and manage their disease. The Home Diagnostics, Inc. product line includes TRUE2go�, TRUEresult�, TRUEtrack�, Sidekick�, TRUEread� and Prestige Smart System� blood glucose monitoring systems. The products are available in more than than 45,000 pharmacies throughout the U.S. Home Diagnostics is the exclusive co-brand provider of origin glucose monitoring supplies for leading pharmacies including CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens as intimately as national distributors such as AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. For more information delight visit hTTP://www.homediagnostics.com.
TRUE2go, TRUEresult, TRUEtest, TRUEtrack, Sidekick, TRUEread and Prestige Smart System ar trademarks of Home Diagnostics, Inc. All other trademarks are place of their respective owners.
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Tuesday 9 September 2008
Thursday 21 August 2008
The National, Menomena headline 'Co-ops Rock'
The National [ ] and Menomena [ ] are scheduled to perform at "Co-ops Rock," a Sept. 19 benefit concert at The Moore Theatre in Seattle, WA.
The show, which is being presented by the National Cooperative Grocers Association (a business services conjunctive for more than C consumer-owned intellectual nourishment co-ops placed throughout the US), also will feature videos and presentations from organic farmers impacted by floods all over the past year.
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Proceeds from this first annual event will go to the Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund, which provides aid to Midwest farmers effected by this year's flooding, according to a press release.
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Monday 11 August 2008
Wednesday 6 August 2008
Monday 30 June 2008
U Totem
Artist: U Totem
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
U Totem
Year: 1992
Tracks: 7
U Totem was formed by members of 2 bands: drummer/composer David Kerman's 5UU's and bassist/composer James Grigsby's Motor Totemist Guild. These two groups were active in the Los Angeles area start in the early 1980s. The groups recorded their have albums before collaborating on the LPs Elements and Shapuno Zoo. In 1989 Kerman and Grigsby were invited to perform at the 2nd International Art Rock Festival in Frankfurt, Germany. They enlisted Motor Totemist Guild vocalist/flautist Emily Hay and 5UU's keyboardist Sanjay Kumar for the performance, and U Totem was officially born. Eric Johnson (bassoon/soprano sax) united for the recording on the band's self-titled debut saucer, and guitar player Steve Cade joined for the transcription of Strange Attractors.
U Totem's rock candy medicine has many influences, including Renaissance concerted music, twelve-tone serial music and Indonesian gamelan. The stripe has performed with Laotian and Cambodian musicians and appeared with such diverse artists as The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Bill Frisell and Wayne Horvitz, and Michael Nyman.
The 2 Live Crew
Artist: The 2 Live Crew
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Other
Discography:
Shake a Lil' Somethin'... CDS
Year: 1996
Tracks: 4
As Nasty As They Wanna Be
Year: 1989
Tracks: 16
Move Somthin
Year: 1988
Tracks: 13
The Essential DJ 12 Inch and Mega Mixes
Year:
Tracks: 15
Hjarnidaudi
Elizeth Cardoso
Artist: Elizeth Cardoso
Genre(s):
Latin
Discography:
Elizeth Canta Ary Barroso
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
Uma Rosa para Pixinguinha
Year:
Tracks: 13
Herb Alpert
Artist: Herb Alpert
Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Other
Jazz
Instrumental
Discography:
Definitive Hits
Year: 2001
Tracks: 20
Colors
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Passion Dance
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
My Abstract Heart
Year: 1989
Tracks: 10
Classics Volume 20
Year: 1987
Tracks: 14
Classics Volume 01
Year: 1987
Tracks: 25
Rise
Year: 1979
Tracks: 8
You Smile The Song Begins
Year: 1974
Tracks: 12
Summertime
Year: 1971
Tracks: 11
Greatest Hits
Year: 1970
Tracks: 12
Going places
Year: 1970
Tracks: 12
Warm
Year: 1969
Tracks: 11
The Brass Are Comin'
Year: 1969
Tracks: 12
Under A Spanish Moon
Year: 1968
Tracks: 9
Christmas
Year: 1968
Tracks: 10
Beat Of The Brass
Year: 1968
Tracks: 10
Tv Special
Year: 1967
Tracks: 1
Sounds Like Herb Alpert
Year: 1967
Tracks: 12
Herb Alpert's Ninth
Year: 1967
Tracks: 11
What Now My Love
Year: 1966
Tracks: 12
S.R.O
Year: 1966
Tracks: 12
Whipped Cream and Other Delights
Year: 1965
Tracks: 12
A&M Classics Volume 1
Year: 1965
Tracks: 25
South Of The Border
Year: 1964
Tracks: 12
Volume 2
Year: 1963
Tracks: 13
The Lonely Bull
Year: 1962
Tracks: 12
Second Wind
Year:
Tracks: 12
One of the most successful instrumental performers in pop story, herald Herb Alpert was too ane of the entertainment industry's shrewdest businessmen: A&M, the label he co-founded with partner Jerry Moss, ranks among the most well-fixed artist-owned companies ever established. Born March 31, 1935, in Los Angeles, Alpert began playacting the trumpet at the historic period of ashcan School. After service of process in the Army, he attempted to hammer an playacting calling, only soon returned to music, recording under the name Dore Alpert for RCA.
With Lou Adler, Alpert co-wrote a number of Sam Cooke's most imperishable hits, including "Fantastic World" and "Only Sixteen." Under the bring up Dante & the Evergreens, he and Adler too recorded a continue of the Hollywood Argyles' "Skittle alley Oop"; additionally, Alpert produced tracks for the surf yoke Jan & Dean. In 1962 he teamed with Moss to ground A&M Records, scoring a Top Ten pip with the single "The Lonely Bull."
From its humble origins as a society run out of Alpert's garage, A&M grew to become the world's biggest independent label; among its sterling successes were the Carpenters, Cat Stevens, Joe Cocker, and Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66. Nevertheless, Alpert and his financial support social unit, the Tijuana Brass, remained the label's flagship act: on the effectiveness of the arrive at "A Taste of Honey," his 1965 LP Whipped Cream and Other Delights topped the charts, popularizing his Latin-influenced style (dubbed "Ameriachi"). The reexamination, 1965's Sledding Places, too come to number i, launching the strike "Spanish Flea."
After 1966's What Now My Love -- his most popular attempt, remaining at number one for iX weeks -- Alpert continued to dominate the charts with records including 1966's S.R.O. and the following year's Sounds Like and Herb Alpert's Ninth. In 1968, he scored his low gear identification number one individual by taking a rarefied vocal turn on a interpretation of Burt Bacharach's "This Guy's in Love With You"; the album Flap of the Brass followed the pip to the spinning top of the charts, decorous Alpert's fifth and last number i LP.
Released in 1969, Quick was the commencement of Alpert's 11 albums not to crack the Top 20; by 1971's Summer, his commercial-grade fates had fallen to the point where he no yearner reached the Top 100. As A&M continued to expand, he stirred his primary focus from music to industry, although he on a regular basis recorded end-to-end the early '70s; 1974's You Smile -- The Song Begins was his most successful pleasure trip in several eld, only subsequent releases like 1975's Das Island and 1976's Just You and Me met with greater chart resistance.
In 1979, Alpert staged a major riposte with Rise; non only did the album get hold of the Top Ten, merely the title track topped the singles charts and became the biggest hit of his calling. The followup, 1980's Beyond, was a Top 40 success, just subsequent efforts like 1982's Fandango and 1985's Tempestuous Romance fared poorly. In 1987 Alpert enjoyed some other renaissance with the album Keep Your Eye On Me; the lead single "Diamonds" strike the Top Five and featured a guest outspoken from Janet Jackson, one of A&M's towering successes of the belated '80s.
Alpert continued recording end-to-end the 1990s, producing work like 1991's North on South Street, 1992's Midnight Sun, and 1997's Passion Dance. After selling A&M to PolyGram in 1990 for a amount of money in surfeit of $500 one thousand thousand, he and Moss founded a new pronounce, Almo Sounds, in 1994; among the imprint's hit artists was the group Garbage. His own albums, including 1997's Heat Dance and 1999's Colours, were also released on the tag. Alpert besides tackled early forms of media, exhibiting his abstract expressionist paintings and co-producing a figure of Broadway successes, including Angels in America and Jelly's Last Jam. He besides conventional the Herb Alpert Foundation, a philanthropic organisation dedicated to establishing educational, humanities, and environmental programs for children.
Janet Jackson to star in TV show
Janet Jackson is set to star in a new MTV reality show.
The ‘Together Again' singer will mentor a group of aspiring singers and dancers in the as-yet-untitled project, which will be filmed before Janet starts her world tour later this year.
A producer for the show said: "It's really about finding who's the next Janet Jackson or Justin Timberlake or Usher. And we'll find it from a pool of people who you wouldn't typically find it from. We'll go to YMCAs, church groups, local community centres and try to cast the show."
It has also been reported the winner of the show may be given the chance to appear in Janet's world tour, which starts in Vancouver, Canada, on September 10.
Janet recently revealed she would love her brothers to reform the Jackson 5, but is unsure whether she would join them on their rumoured Las Vegas residency.
She said: "This is the first I've heard that. I would love for my brothers to get together."
Janet's brother Jermaine has previously spoken of his wish to reform the band, saying: "It could be sometime in 2008. Michael will be involved. We feel we have to do it one more time. We owe that to the fans and to the public."
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David Gest Disses Liza Minnelli In Song!
You could see this one coming from a mile off!
David Gest has dissed ex-wife Liza Minnelli while making his debut as a singer -- with a Scottish rock band.
Gest recorded a verse for the new single from Attic Lights -- set to be the next big thing to come out of Scotland -- after meeting their manager on a flight from London to Glasgow.
The TV exec, who split from the Cabaret star in 2003 after a stormy 18 month marriage, then joined his new friend to party with the indie five piece.
And when he heard their new single, Bring Me Down, Gest penned a verse, apparently about Minnelli, then raced to a recording studio at 3am to record it!
"They broke the rules when they made you," he spits on the song, "who would ever think a love so bold would find a woman so cold!
"When I looked into your past, I knew it would never last."
Sounds like someone's still a little bitter after all these years!
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Live: Death Cab for Cutie at Nokia Theatre
Death Cab for Cutie singer-guitarist Ben Gibbard looked happy as he announced, "We got tunes!" from the huge stage at the Nokia Theatre Monday night. As the band headlined its biggest show ever in Los Angeles, the performance served as a case study of indie rock growing extra-large gracefully.
More than ever, the songs came from a quiet place before carefully exploding, as Gibbard's voice rolled uneasily from vulnerable to searing during a 100-minute concert that was dependably brooding and hopeful. The set list spanned Death Cab's 11-year career, beginning with the new "Bixby Canyon Bridge," Gibbard standing at stage right, swaying nervously behind the microphone, as if barely containing the smoldering energy of his tuneage.
Songs from the band's new album, "Narrow Stairs," mingled easily with early work, but there was also a new willingness to erupt with noise and emotion amid Chris Walla's swirling guitar melodies. There was the full, eight-minute version of "I Will Possess Your Heart," the Seattle act's latest radio track, with gloomy ripples of bass and psychedelic guitars, piano and a torrid, creepy vocal from Gibbard: "You reject my advances and desperate pleas / I won't let you let me down so easily."
The band's current tour has included stops at many of the nation's finest rock festivals, and its latest album reached the top of Billboard's album chart -- its previous full-length effort, 2005's "Plans" went platinum. But as the band unspooled its songs of fire and sadness at Nokia, you could easily imagine these four humble rockers doing the very same set on the smallest stages in town.
"The New Year" was epic rock on a human scale, and "Soul Meets Body" was catchy, soft and punchy as Gibbard wailed: "Melody softly soaring through my atmosphere" while slashing at his acoustic, looking these days more like a '70s rocker, with longish hair, mutton chops and no glasses.
During "Why You'd Want to Live Here," Gibbard sang in the voice of someone trying to convince a lover not to move to Los Angeles ("You can't swim in a town this shallow -- you will most assuredly drown tomorrow"). It's not exactly a love letter to the city and elicited no special response from the crowd. When Gibbard tried to lead a singalong, the reaction was half-hearted and brief. "That was pretty weak, you guys," he said.
He had better luck alone with his guitar, picking and singing the desperate love ballad "I Will Follow You Into the Dark," as many in the crowd sang along: "If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks / Then I'll follow you into the dark."
With the right tunes, anything could happen.
More than ever, the songs came from a quiet place before carefully exploding, as Gibbard's voice rolled uneasily from vulnerable to searing during a 100-minute concert that was dependably brooding and hopeful. The set list spanned Death Cab's 11-year career, beginning with the new "Bixby Canyon Bridge," Gibbard standing at stage right, swaying nervously behind the microphone, as if barely containing the smoldering energy of his tuneage.
Songs from the band's new album, "Narrow Stairs," mingled easily with early work, but there was also a new willingness to erupt with noise and emotion amid Chris Walla's swirling guitar melodies. There was the full, eight-minute version of "I Will Possess Your Heart," the Seattle act's latest radio track, with gloomy ripples of bass and psychedelic guitars, piano and a torrid, creepy vocal from Gibbard: "You reject my advances and desperate pleas / I won't let you let me down so easily."
The band's current tour has included stops at many of the nation's finest rock festivals, and its latest album reached the top of Billboard's album chart -- its previous full-length effort, 2005's "Plans" went platinum. But as the band unspooled its songs of fire and sadness at Nokia, you could easily imagine these four humble rockers doing the very same set on the smallest stages in town.
"The New Year" was epic rock on a human scale, and "Soul Meets Body" was catchy, soft and punchy as Gibbard wailed: "Melody softly soaring through my atmosphere" while slashing at his acoustic, looking these days more like a '70s rocker, with longish hair, mutton chops and no glasses.
During "Why You'd Want to Live Here," Gibbard sang in the voice of someone trying to convince a lover not to move to Los Angeles ("You can't swim in a town this shallow -- you will most assuredly drown tomorrow"). It's not exactly a love letter to the city and elicited no special response from the crowd. When Gibbard tried to lead a singalong, the reaction was half-hearted and brief. "That was pretty weak, you guys," he said.
He had better luck alone with his guitar, picking and singing the desperate love ballad "I Will Follow You Into the Dark," as many in the crowd sang along: "If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks / Then I'll follow you into the dark."
With the right tunes, anything could happen.
Luke Perry - Perry Rejects 90210 Reunion
Former BEVERLY HILLS, 90210 heart-throb LUKE PERRY has dismissed reports he is to reprise his role in the new version of the hit show.
Perry's former castmates Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth have both signed up to appear in the new spin off series - simply titled 90210.
But the 41-year-old actor, who has enjoyed limited success since leaving the show in 1995, insists that he currently has no plans to join them.
He says, "I can't re-imagine it currently. It's just not something that I've thought about to be quite honest, I don't see it happening.
"I wish them a lot of luck. I hope they have a lot of success with it."
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Drew Barrymore tells Oprah about new romance
Actors Drew Barrymore and Justin Long joined Oprah Winfrey yesterday to talk about their new romance.
'Die Hard 4' star Long sat in the audience as Barrymore was interviewed by Winfrey.
When asked about her relationship with Long, Barrymore said: "It's the best. This relationship is great; it's healthy and it's productive and it's supportive and it's full of humour."
Barrymore's production company, Flower Films, is producing Long's new film, 'He's Just Not That Into You', which also stars Jennifer Connelly and Scarlett Johansson.
When asked what he loved about the actress, Long said: "She smells great... (and) she's the most compassionate person I've ever met."
Twice-divorced Barrymore then added: "All our friends get along great, which is awesome because we travel together in packs. We're having an excellent time."
Thirty-three-year-old Barrymore was previously married to Jeremy Thomas, whom she divorced in 1995, and later married comedian Tom Green before the couple divorced in 2002.
'Die Hard 4' star Long sat in the audience as Barrymore was interviewed by Winfrey.
When asked about her relationship with Long, Barrymore said: "It's the best. This relationship is great; it's healthy and it's productive and it's supportive and it's full of humour."
Barrymore's production company, Flower Films, is producing Long's new film, 'He's Just Not That Into You', which also stars Jennifer Connelly and Scarlett Johansson.
When asked what he loved about the actress, Long said: "She smells great... (and) she's the most compassionate person I've ever met."
Twice-divorced Barrymore then added: "All our friends get along great, which is awesome because we travel together in packs. We're having an excellent time."
Thirty-three-year-old Barrymore was previously married to Jeremy Thomas, whom she divorced in 1995, and later married comedian Tom Green before the couple divorced in 2002.
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