LONDON, September 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ticketmaster
(NASDAQ:TKTM), the world's leading live entertainment ticketing and
marketing company, will be using its in vogue ticketing invention, Paperless
Ticket(TM) for the low time in Europe when Metallica launch their new
album Death Magnetic live at The O2 in London on September 15.
Ticketmaster is constantly looking at the use of new engineering in
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clients and artists. Paperless Ticket allows straightaway and guarantee access to
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they testament be tending a receipt, and they will then be granted entry to the
event. The entire process is quick, fix and simple.
The Death Magnetic release party will go on sale to Fan Club and
Mission Metallica members only from September 1st. The event is promoted by
Stuart Galbraith for Kilimanjaro Live /AEG.
Chris Edmonds, Managing Director, aforesaid "The drive behind this
innovative ticketing technology is our continued desire to provide our
clients with new shipway to allow quick and secure ticketing systems for
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events."
Stuart Galbraith, Kilimanjaro CEO, aforementioned, "Metallica want to secure that
all the issue from this launch party to go directly to charity. They
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very used to arriving at check-in with just a credit card as validation and
I believe that the Ticketmaster Paperless Ticket system heralds the launch
of a new phase in concert ticketing that will quickly be adopted by gig
goers in exactly the same way."
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at:
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Saturday, 6 September 2008
Thursday, 28 August 2008
NEJM Perspectives Examine Shattuck Lecture, McCain, Obama Health Care Reform Plans
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"Health of the Nation -- Coverage for All Americans," New England Journal of Medicine: The view reviews the 2008 Shattuck Lecture, sponsored by NEJM and the Massachusetts Medical Society, in which 13 health care industry representatives discussed current challenges veneer the U.S. health tending system and possible solutions. The venire discussed physicians' objections to a reimbursement program that pays more than for technology-enhanced procedures instead of time spent with patients, reviewed the pauperism for developing health attention information technology and explicit concern around the high costs associated with new drugs and end-of-life upkeep (NEJM [1], 8/21). A related NEJM editorial discusses the health care proposals of presumptive presidential nominees Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) and questions whether whatsoever "meaningful health care reform" will study shape in the next administration. The editorial likewise calls for a "concentrated effort by all the major stakeholders in our health upkeep system, as represented by the panelists," to bring about reform (NEJM [2], 8/21).
"The Partisan Divide -- The McCain and Obama Plans for U.S. Health Care Reform," NEJM: In an NEJM perspective, Jonathan Oberlander, an associate professor of social medicine and health insurance and administration at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, examines the health plans of presidential candidates McCain and Obama. According to Oberlander, the candidates' "ambitious regenerate agendas ... would take the U.S. health care system in selfsame different directions." He adds that the plans "ar best viewed as sketches rather than finished portraits, with many important details yet to be revealed." He concludes, "The candidates' opposing visions of wellness care reform reflect basically different assumptions about the virtues and vices of markets and government. With the debate over how to reform U.S. health care far from colonised, whoever wins the presidential term can anticipate fierce opposition to whatsoever attempt at comprehensive reform" (Oberlander, NEJM, 8/22).
Reprinted with kind permission from hTTP://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the total Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email saving at hTTP://www.kaisernetwork.
"Health of the Nation -- Coverage for All Americans," New England Journal of Medicine: The view reviews the 2008 Shattuck Lecture, sponsored by NEJM and the Massachusetts Medical Society, in which 13 health care industry representatives discussed current challenges veneer the U.S. health tending system and possible solutions. The venire discussed physicians' objections to a reimbursement program that pays more than for technology-enhanced procedures instead of time spent with patients, reviewed the pauperism for developing health attention information technology and explicit concern around the high costs associated with new drugs and end-of-life upkeep (NEJM [1], 8/21). A related NEJM editorial discusses the health care proposals of presumptive presidential nominees Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) and questions whether whatsoever "meaningful health care reform" will study shape in the next administration. The editorial likewise calls for a "concentrated effort by all the major stakeholders in our health upkeep system, as represented by the panelists," to bring about reform (NEJM [2], 8/21).
"The Partisan Divide -- The McCain and Obama Plans for U.S. Health Care Reform," NEJM: In an NEJM perspective, Jonathan Oberlander, an associate professor of social medicine and health insurance and administration at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, examines the health plans of presidential candidates McCain and Obama. According to Oberlander, the candidates' "ambitious regenerate agendas ... would take the U.S. health care system in selfsame different directions." He adds that the plans "ar best viewed as sketches rather than finished portraits, with many important details yet to be revealed." He concludes, "The candidates' opposing visions of wellness care reform reflect basically different assumptions about the virtues and vices of markets and government. With the debate over how to reform U.S. health care far from colonised, whoever wins the presidential term can anticipate fierce opposition to whatsoever attempt at comprehensive reform" (Oberlander, NEJM, 8/22).
Reprinted with kind permission from hTTP://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the total Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email saving at hTTP://www.kaisernetwork.
Monday, 18 August 2008
Download Yung Joc mp3
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Friday, 8 August 2008
Bow Wow canceled
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Tuesday, 1 July 2008
The Billboard Q&A: Neil Young
It's pretty shocking midway through the movie when an irate Atlanta fan tells you to stick it up your ass, and another remarks that he wants to "knock your teeth out" for singing anti-war, anti-Bush songs. How did you react the first time you saw this footage?
Well, we knew that it was happening. That wasn't the first time it happened. Before we even got to Atlanta, we'd experienced that. There were other places. The bull-ometer was pretty high in a couple of places, and I think Orange County was pretty good, Irvine. It was pretty strong there. We had some fights; everything was crazy there. They just went nuts. But they weren't real close to us. We could see them, and they were just going berserk. But Atlanta was very forceful. I mean, they are so passionate about what they felt, and how they feel about, you know, how we crossed over the line and intruded on something that they believed in so strongly. So you gotta respect people, even if they're losing their minds at that very moment, and not talking really eloquently. They have their deep beliefs. So we had to use it, because we're telling the story, and we're trying to tell the whole story. There was a journalistic responsibility involved.
It definitely adds weight to the film.
It does.
Were there times while you were editing the film when you were worried that you weren't portraying things in a balanced fashion? Did you second-guess yourself at times?
When you watch this film and when you think back on the negative reactions in the audience, is there a face or a middle finger that vividly sticks out to you?
I remember some faces. There's one guy I remember for sure, and he's not in the movie. But there are things that I remember from all tours. [This tour] was a harrowing experience at times, and it's not an experience that I would like to repeat. I think it was a one-off.
Why's that?
I think if I did this kind of thing for the rest of my life, I'd become like CNN and I don't really respect that very much. It's like the same thing on a loop. I don't see the need for that. I like to be a full-length program, not a repeating segment.
Were there times on tour where you would confide in your wife, and say, "I can't believe what happened tonight?"
There was never any sense of giving up or anything. We went from July 4th to September 10th in the tour, and I kind of remember feeling that I was really glad that we weren't playing on September 11th. I do remember that. I said, "Let's not do that." There were moments throughout it where you just shook your head and said, "God, what are we doing?" But the songs were there, the feeling was there, the audience was there, and we were doing it. We planned it. We executed it. I mean, we planned it -- the whole thing aimed at one thing. It was all focused on war and politics and that type of thing.
Speaking of 9/11, you've said that Bush mishandled the empathy that many countries felt for America after the terrorist attacks. In your mind, how could have Bush capitalized on that empathy? What could he have done that would have taken things in a much more positive direction?
Well, I think misleading the country into a war with Iraq by misrepresenting the facts, as the Senate committee has verified that he did, that was the wrong way to go about it. I think that he took a tremendous amount of good faith and good will from around the world and used it very poorly. It's not, "What could he have done," so much as it is, "Why did he do what he did?" I mean, it's just unfortunate that his feelings and convictions took him there, and we're the ones who suffer for it -- to a lesser degree us, and to a greater degree the Iraqis. And we're all suffering for it. And it's just very unfortunate. I just feel badly about it because [pauses] it's not because I hate Bush. I just think he's a strong leader that was going in the wrong direction. It's a bad combination.
A liberal friend of mine in New York saw the Twin Towers fall while stuck in traffic on the Verrazano Bridge. She was so shook up, and remained so scared that in 2004 she voted for Bush, simply out of fright.
Well, he used that. He played on people's fear, instead of people's faith and their real faith, real belief, their real human feelings. They used fear to get where they wanted to go, which is too bad. It's just unfortunate. You know, I empathize with her for voting for Bush and being so terrified that she had to do that. I feel sorry for her. But I think a lot of people probably did that, and it's too bad.
And he needs to be impeached for what he did. I mean, the Senate has verified it. It needs to happen for history. It's like a dirty business. It needs to be taken care of. Nobody wants to be bothered, but it should happen, because do we want to let this go down in history? It's a cancer. It's a blight. It has to be eradicated. You have to look at this and go, "The president mislead the people into going to war, lost 5,000 troops, there's hundreds of thousands of people killed in Iraq, billions and billions of dollars were taken out of the economy for the war, and now we've discovered for sure -- the Senate committee has said, 'Yeah, he did. He lied.'" So what do you have to do to get impeached? What do you need to do? And who are we if we don't do it ... if we don't actually say, "Hey -- the law! You can't do that!"
We place our trust in this guy, and this is what happens. I don't see how it plays out. We've been vindicated by the Senate, who spent a long time investigating it. Yet it's on the second page of the paper. Brian Williams talks about it and goes right on to the next story, and it's like it's 25 seconds. Give me a break! Why fall asleep? America's fallen asleep. America's sleeping through a moment in history that's going to affect us forever. It's gonna be, we're the country who had our Senate investigate and found out we went to war under false pretenses and we didn't do anything. We said, "That's okay. We'll just let that go because we're distracted by oil prices and a new presidential election." So we don't have time to take care of our dirty business. But, man, you got to take care of your house. You can't let that go. What if we have another guy like that, who turns out to be an idiot in 15 years, and he goes, "Well, George Bush did it." What's the precedent?
Dennis Kucinich introduced impeachment articles today, and people think, "Ah, he's a kook," you know. It's like, when are people going to wake up? We shouldn't have big vehicles that use so much gas, but we keep making 'em. It's not, "Big is bad," it's "Gas is bad." Why don't we change that? There are a lot of things to do that we're not doing that kind of bothers me.
There's a scene in the movie where Graham Nash talks about going to hear "Living With War" for the first time and deciding whether he wanted to suit up for this tour. I wonder if there were times when you felt like you were bringing David, Stephen and Graham into something that was ultimately harmful to their bottom line as Crosby, Stills and Nash? Obviously, you play to two different audiences, and touring with them is a lot less of a preaching-to-the-choir scenario.
I guess so, 'cause they've been pretty mellow for a long time, and they haven't done anything. But if you look at the roots, if you look at the original music -- "For What It's Worth," "Ohio," "Military Madness," "Long Time Gone," "Deja Vu" and all these songs that were written back then -- "Immigration Man," "Teach Your Children" -- all that stuff is all rooted in the same message. This is just a different time. So they had a history of doing that, and I thought that was a good thing, because it reached way back for the roots.
Of course, between then and now, they've been singing about things they've believed in, and also just singing a lot of love songs, and a lot of songs that people enjoy, so it could become kind of like date night going to see them. But I put out my record, I was in the band, my last record was called "Living With War," [and] it had "Let's Impeach the President" [on it]. It was on all the networks. [The audience members] had to know something about it. We called the tour the Freedom of Speech Tour. And we went out and did these songs. They had to know something was happening. But there was still an element of surprise, and you saw that in Atlanta, but a lot of people knew what was going on, too. You could see it -- they're talking about it before the show [in the movie]. It was just very complex.
But those guys were into it 100 percent. I mean, Stephen does not like people to not like him, and I respect him for that. And he's a very sensitive guy, so I could understand that, but even with that he wanted to do it. He said, "Yeah, I'll do it," and he sang "For What It's Worth" every day and every night. He played his heart out. But he kept saying, "Well, it's like a political cartoon, you have to see it as that," and he was always trying to soften the blow a little, and that's the way he is, and that's cool. But I think he was with us, and he believed in what we were doing, or he wouldn't have been there. And Crosby and Nash were right there from the beginning, because they don't care so much how the reaction's gonna be. They're not as concerned with that as they are just with singing about stuff that matters to them. And they agreed with the songs, and they wanted to sing 'em.
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Well, we knew that it was happening. That wasn't the first time it happened. Before we even got to Atlanta, we'd experienced that. There were other places. The bull-ometer was pretty high in a couple of places, and I think Orange County was pretty good, Irvine. It was pretty strong there. We had some fights; everything was crazy there. They just went nuts. But they weren't real close to us. We could see them, and they were just going berserk. But Atlanta was very forceful. I mean, they are so passionate about what they felt, and how they feel about, you know, how we crossed over the line and intruded on something that they believed in so strongly. So you gotta respect people, even if they're losing their minds at that very moment, and not talking really eloquently. They have their deep beliefs. So we had to use it, because we're telling the story, and we're trying to tell the whole story. There was a journalistic responsibility involved.
It definitely adds weight to the film.
It does.
Were there times while you were editing the film when you were worried that you weren't portraying things in a balanced fashion? Did you second-guess yourself at times?
When you watch this film and when you think back on the negative reactions in the audience, is there a face or a middle finger that vividly sticks out to you?
I remember some faces. There's one guy I remember for sure, and he's not in the movie. But there are things that I remember from all tours. [This tour] was a harrowing experience at times, and it's not an experience that I would like to repeat. I think it was a one-off.
Why's that?
I think if I did this kind of thing for the rest of my life, I'd become like CNN and I don't really respect that very much. It's like the same thing on a loop. I don't see the need for that. I like to be a full-length program, not a repeating segment.
Were there times on tour where you would confide in your wife, and say, "I can't believe what happened tonight?"
There was never any sense of giving up or anything. We went from July 4th to September 10th in the tour, and I kind of remember feeling that I was really glad that we weren't playing on September 11th. I do remember that. I said, "Let's not do that." There were moments throughout it where you just shook your head and said, "God, what are we doing?" But the songs were there, the feeling was there, the audience was there, and we were doing it. We planned it. We executed it. I mean, we planned it -- the whole thing aimed at one thing. It was all focused on war and politics and that type of thing.
Speaking of 9/11, you've said that Bush mishandled the empathy that many countries felt for America after the terrorist attacks. In your mind, how could have Bush capitalized on that empathy? What could he have done that would have taken things in a much more positive direction?
Well, I think misleading the country into a war with Iraq by misrepresenting the facts, as the Senate committee has verified that he did, that was the wrong way to go about it. I think that he took a tremendous amount of good faith and good will from around the world and used it very poorly. It's not, "What could he have done," so much as it is, "Why did he do what he did?" I mean, it's just unfortunate that his feelings and convictions took him there, and we're the ones who suffer for it -- to a lesser degree us, and to a greater degree the Iraqis. And we're all suffering for it. And it's just very unfortunate. I just feel badly about it because [pauses] it's not because I hate Bush. I just think he's a strong leader that was going in the wrong direction. It's a bad combination.
A liberal friend of mine in New York saw the Twin Towers fall while stuck in traffic on the Verrazano Bridge. She was so shook up, and remained so scared that in 2004 she voted for Bush, simply out of fright.
Well, he used that. He played on people's fear, instead of people's faith and their real faith, real belief, their real human feelings. They used fear to get where they wanted to go, which is too bad. It's just unfortunate. You know, I empathize with her for voting for Bush and being so terrified that she had to do that. I feel sorry for her. But I think a lot of people probably did that, and it's too bad.
And he needs to be impeached for what he did. I mean, the Senate has verified it. It needs to happen for history. It's like a dirty business. It needs to be taken care of. Nobody wants to be bothered, but it should happen, because do we want to let this go down in history? It's a cancer. It's a blight. It has to be eradicated. You have to look at this and go, "The president mislead the people into going to war, lost 5,000 troops, there's hundreds of thousands of people killed in Iraq, billions and billions of dollars were taken out of the economy for the war, and now we've discovered for sure -- the Senate committee has said, 'Yeah, he did. He lied.'" So what do you have to do to get impeached? What do you need to do? And who are we if we don't do it ... if we don't actually say, "Hey -- the law! You can't do that!"
We place our trust in this guy, and this is what happens. I don't see how it plays out. We've been vindicated by the Senate, who spent a long time investigating it. Yet it's on the second page of the paper. Brian Williams talks about it and goes right on to the next story, and it's like it's 25 seconds. Give me a break! Why fall asleep? America's fallen asleep. America's sleeping through a moment in history that's going to affect us forever. It's gonna be, we're the country who had our Senate investigate and found out we went to war under false pretenses and we didn't do anything. We said, "That's okay. We'll just let that go because we're distracted by oil prices and a new presidential election." So we don't have time to take care of our dirty business. But, man, you got to take care of your house. You can't let that go. What if we have another guy like that, who turns out to be an idiot in 15 years, and he goes, "Well, George Bush did it." What's the precedent?
Dennis Kucinich introduced impeachment articles today, and people think, "Ah, he's a kook," you know. It's like, when are people going to wake up? We shouldn't have big vehicles that use so much gas, but we keep making 'em. It's not, "Big is bad," it's "Gas is bad." Why don't we change that? There are a lot of things to do that we're not doing that kind of bothers me.
There's a scene in the movie where Graham Nash talks about going to hear "Living With War" for the first time and deciding whether he wanted to suit up for this tour. I wonder if there were times when you felt like you were bringing David, Stephen and Graham into something that was ultimately harmful to their bottom line as Crosby, Stills and Nash? Obviously, you play to two different audiences, and touring with them is a lot less of a preaching-to-the-choir scenario.
I guess so, 'cause they've been pretty mellow for a long time, and they haven't done anything. But if you look at the roots, if you look at the original music -- "For What It's Worth," "Ohio," "Military Madness," "Long Time Gone," "Deja Vu" and all these songs that were written back then -- "Immigration Man," "Teach Your Children" -- all that stuff is all rooted in the same message. This is just a different time. So they had a history of doing that, and I thought that was a good thing, because it reached way back for the roots.
Of course, between then and now, they've been singing about things they've believed in, and also just singing a lot of love songs, and a lot of songs that people enjoy, so it could become kind of like date night going to see them. But I put out my record, I was in the band, my last record was called "Living With War," [and] it had "Let's Impeach the President" [on it]. It was on all the networks. [The audience members] had to know something about it. We called the tour the Freedom of Speech Tour. And we went out and did these songs. They had to know something was happening. But there was still an element of surprise, and you saw that in Atlanta, but a lot of people knew what was going on, too. You could see it -- they're talking about it before the show [in the movie]. It was just very complex.
But those guys were into it 100 percent. I mean, Stephen does not like people to not like him, and I respect him for that. And he's a very sensitive guy, so I could understand that, but even with that he wanted to do it. He said, "Yeah, I'll do it," and he sang "For What It's Worth" every day and every night. He played his heart out. But he kept saying, "Well, it's like a political cartoon, you have to see it as that," and he was always trying to soften the blow a little, and that's the way he is, and that's cool. But I think he was with us, and he believed in what we were doing, or he wouldn't have been there. And Crosby and Nash were right there from the beginning, because they don't care so much how the reaction's gonna be. They're not as concerned with that as they are just with singing about stuff that matters to them. And they agreed with the songs, and they wanted to sing 'em.
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Mac Mall
Artist: Mac Mall
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Da U.S. Open
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Mackin Speaks Louder Than Words
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Along with better-known rappers like E-40 and 2Pac, Mac Mall was one of several wHO helped put the Cali Bay Area on the map in the mid to late '90s as a hotspot in the rap game. He collaborated with many of the Bay Area's best producers -- Ant Banks, Khayree, Michael Mosley, and Rick Rock -- and helped define the scene's personal identity, in particular with his almost successful record album, Untouchable (1996), which featured perchance his best-known strain, "Become Right." His career simmered out promptly, nonetheless. He returned in 1999 subsequently a three-year absence and few listeners seemed to notice. Mall was no longer on a major label and the Bay Area fit was no thirster the hotspot it had been a few long time originally. Given his brief moment in the public eye and his sudden decline, it was peradventure no surprise when Mall changed his style in 2001, incorporating a surprising sum of money of spiritualism on his Immaculate album.
Monday, 9 June 2008
Jake Gyllenhaal - Gyllenhaal Is Prince Of Persia
LATEST: JAKE GYLLENHAAL has been signed to star in Disney's PRINCE OF PERSIA: SANDS OF TIME - after months of speculation surrounding the movie's male lead.
The Brokeback Mountain star has been confirmed to play the title's Prince Daston in moviemaker Jerry Bruckheimer's film adaptation of the hit computer game, according to industry publication Hollywood reporter.
Initially, reports suggested British actor Orlando Bloom was to play the lead, with speculation suggesting he was set to received a huge $40 million (GBP20 million) fee for the role.
But the reports were denied by Disney last month (Apr08).
The film will also star Bond Girl Gemma Arterton, and is slated to be directed by Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire filmmaker Mike Newell.
Work on the epic movie will start on 19 June (08) at U.K. based Pinewood Studios, with location work in Morocco.
The Sands Of Time will be the first in a trilogy of films based on the games.
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