Xclusive Tickets � a ticket reselling company wHO had sold some tickets to this year's V Festival and Reading And Leeds Festivals � has gone break, leaving thousands of fans out of pocket.
It has been claimed that 4,329 masses have been affected by the company's collapse - they besides sold tickets to the Beijing Olympics as well as the aforementioned festivals, reports BBC News.
The company took payment for 18,000 tickets for the events, merely failed to deliver them to customers.
Lane Bednash of insolvency experts Valentine and Co aforementioned that fans who had bought their tickets with a credit card should be issued a refund by their credit card company if they played out over �100.
He warned that fans world Health Organization paid for tickets by other means may shin to get their money back as there were no pecuniary resource to pay up them.
The news comes a week later on up to 800 fans were left out of pocket by agency SOS Master Tickets, who failed to redeem tickets to the V Festival that fans had already paid for.
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Mp3 music: Solefald
 Artist: Solefald: mp3 download Genre(s): Metal: Death,Black Solefald's discography:  In Harmonia Universali Year: 2003 Tracks: 10  Pills Against The Ageless Ills Year: 2001 Tracks: 9  Neonism Year: 1999 Tracks: 10  The Linear Scaffold Year: 1997 Tracks: 8  Jernlov (Demo) Year: 1995 Tracks: 5 The Norwegian duo Solefald plays what its members consume described as "radical designer gemstone & roll" and, more abstractly, "bolshy medicine with black edges." A more than precise, expert term for their music might be post-black alloy, as they deliver secondhand their initial innovation in that genre as a jumping-off breaker point toward development their cause, harder-to-categorize sound. In this sense, they ar more or less comparable to comrade Norwegian acts of the Apostles such as Arcturus, Dodheimsgard, and Fleurety, world Health Organization perk up followed roughly similar paths over their careers. For their air division, Solefald has peppered their metal-based music with reggae and electronic/dance rhythms, punk rocker rock-style guitars, a heavy manipulation of keyboards (beyond what is distinctive for dim metallic chemical element), and fifty-fifty periodic rap-like vocals (to the highest degree notably on 1999's Neonism). Their lyrics besides go beyond the genre's norms, affect on themes involving consumerism, mode, and mod urban life in general -- as opposed to Satanism, Norwegian folklore, forests, and wolves, etc. -- often expressing a sarcastic aesthesis of body fluid in the work. The duette consists of Cornelius Jakhelln and Lazarre Nedland (besides a member of Borknagar since 1999). They formed in 1995, releasing the demonstration Jernlov earlier signing to the Italian Avantgarde label, with whom they released their first two albums, The Linear Scaffold (1997) and the more experimental Neonism (1999). Their third full-length, Pills Against the Ageless Ills, was a concept album more or less a twin of long-lost brothers -- unitary a porn merchant, the other a monk -- that came out on Century Media in the light of 2001. That same yr, Jakhelln published a book of metaphysical poetry through H. Aschehoug & Company, Norway's largest book publication mansion, entitled Gebura Muse. |
Thursday, 14 August 2008
California, Health Insurers Reach Agreement To Reinstate Coverage For Some Former Members
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About 3,400 California residents whose health insurance was canceled by Kaiser Permanente, Health Net and PacifiCare soon will be notified that they mightiness be eligible for raw coverage and compensation for medical bills incurred while they were uninsured, the Los Angeles Times reports. The state has been investigating the insurers over claims that the companies scrutinized members' insurance applications for reasons to offset coverage after they had become ill and filed claims.
Under an agreement with the California Department of Managed Health Care, the insurers will reinstate policies of members whose coverage was inappropriately canceled, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions, and reimburse them for medical expenses. In exchange, the state will close its investigation into the companies' rescission practices. The price of the settlement are "unprecedented in their ambitiousness to restore coverage," the Times reports.
At a hearing in a lawsuit brought against Health Net on Friday, lawyers representing policyholders expressed concern about a plan for the insurance company to apprize former members about the agreement, saying that department of State law requires such notices to go through lawyers. They added that members eventually would receive court-approved notices near developments in the font, which would include a settlement. "Our concern was that it creates frightful confusion for people to get one notice and then some other," Mike Bidart, a lawyer representing policyholders, said. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Victoria Chaney scheduled a hearing for Sept. 2 to address the issue. Then late Bidart said he learned that DMHC planned to send the notices. He added, "I'm sure they are doing this because the courts don't currently have jurisdiction over the DMHC."
DMHC Executive Director Cindy Ehnes defended the department's actions and said former policyholders could address their cancellations through the department's process, which would send each case to a third party arbitrator, or wait for the effect of a class-action case. "What we have tried to do is to offer enrollees options," she said. Regulators began posting notices of potential reinstatement on Tuesday (Girion, Los Angeles Times, 8/13).
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Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for e-mail delivery at http://www.kaisernetwork.
About 3,400 California residents whose health insurance was canceled by Kaiser Permanente, Health Net and PacifiCare soon will be notified that they mightiness be eligible for raw coverage and compensation for medical bills incurred while they were uninsured, the Los Angeles Times reports. The state has been investigating the insurers over claims that the companies scrutinized members' insurance applications for reasons to offset coverage after they had become ill and filed claims.
Under an agreement with the California Department of Managed Health Care, the insurers will reinstate policies of members whose coverage was inappropriately canceled, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions, and reimburse them for medical expenses. In exchange, the state will close its investigation into the companies' rescission practices. The price of the settlement are "unprecedented in their ambitiousness to restore coverage," the Times reports.
At a hearing in a lawsuit brought against Health Net on Friday, lawyers representing policyholders expressed concern about a plan for the insurance company to apprize former members about the agreement, saying that department of State law requires such notices to go through lawyers. They added that members eventually would receive court-approved notices near developments in the font, which would include a settlement. "Our concern was that it creates frightful confusion for people to get one notice and then some other," Mike Bidart, a lawyer representing policyholders, said. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Victoria Chaney scheduled a hearing for Sept. 2 to address the issue. Then late Bidart said he learned that DMHC planned to send the notices. He added, "I'm sure they are doing this because the courts don't currently have jurisdiction over the DMHC."
DMHC Executive Director Cindy Ehnes defended the department's actions and said former policyholders could address their cancellations through the department's process, which would send each case to a third party arbitrator, or wait for the effect of a class-action case. "What we have tried to do is to offer enrollees options," she said. Regulators began posting notices of potential reinstatement on Tuesday (Girion, Los Angeles Times, 8/13).
Please greenback: The Kaiser Family Foundation is non associated with the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries.
Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for e-mail delivery at http://www.kaisernetwork.
Friday, 27 June 2008
ADC and Somatic
Artist: ADC and Somatic
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Praxis 41 Vinyl
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
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Thursday, 19 June 2008
`Made of Honor' star Monaghan announces pregnancy
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Michelle Monaghan and her husband, Peter White, are expecting their first baby together this fall, her publicist said Tuesday.
Monaghan, 32, co-stars in the romantic comedy "Made of Honor," portraying the object of Patrick Dempsey's affection. Her screen credits also include "Gone Baby Gone," Mission: Impossible III," "North Country," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" and "Constantine."
White is a graphic designer.
The couple married in August 2005. They began dating after meeting in a New York City bar, said Jennifer Allen, Monaghan's publicist.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Prolific folk-rock artist just doing his own thing
In the past two years Samuel Flynn Scott has been involved in the release of three albums - one with The Phoenix Foundation and two solo efforts.The Phoenix Foundation (TPF) has toured America and New Zealand, and Scott has also done a 21-gig tour of New Zealand with the Cook Strait Social Club - a partnership between him, Fur Patrol's Julia Deans and the Warratahs' Barry Saunders.Oh, and he managed to get married in December as well.Scott, 29, could be pushing for the title of New Zealand's most prolific psychedelic-influenced folk-rock artist but in person he could not seem more laid back.Quietly spoken, affable and charming with a big bushy beard masking most of his face and startlingly bright green eyes, Scott is promoting his second solo album, Straight Answer Machine, completed in just 12 days.Backed by his band Bunnies on Ponies, comprising Wellington musicians Craig Terris, Tom Callwood and Matt Armitage, Scott says the album fell together in an organic sort of way.
He went into the studio in December with Wellington studio engineer Lee Prebble with very little written, he says."It was interesting to work with Lee. We were working very quickly and it felt really natural, really logical."We generally know what the other person is about to suggest when we're making a record."After just three or four hours in the studio, they had recorded the track Moist People - a song which became one of Scott's favourites."It exemplifies the kind of simple spirit that I then wanted to carry on with for the rest of the album."He says the new album is more of a continuation of TPF's Happy Endings - released last year - than his first solo outing, The Hunt Brings Us Life, released in 2006. There he says he can be a bit "more himself" in his own work.Your Own Head is completely biographical, he says, although not particularly revealing. "It's just a snippet of a time I took a tape deck from my sister and was playing Eurythmics until it broke the tape deck."Union Man discusses his feelings about the leader of the National Party."It's about my mistrust of John Key and that I think he is a pretty big faker who's just sucking everyone in with his big smile. The only policy they've got is cutting corporate tax. I don't think he's got a plan."As well as his two solo outings, TPF released its third long-play last year, and the band's music featured prominently in the film Eagle vs Shark, also released last year.Scott has also recorded with the Wellington collective Fly My Pretties.He says it is interesting to now have a "little bit of a back catalogue".Looking back at his earlier recordings, he sees a "bit of uncertainty" about what type of musical direction he felt he should be headed in."In some regards that came off really well, like Horsepower, which was a good mishmash of things," he says."The songs I've written on Happy Endings and Straight Answer Machine - they have a much more straight-ahead purposeful feeling to them."I don't feel as though I'm trying as hard to make a particular type of music, I'm just doing what I want to."When asked how he manages his prolific output, Scott says the pacing - about an album a year - "feels about right"."I know people who spend years and years on a project, and they tend to get more and more uptight the longer they've been working on it."I'm all about finishing things and getting it out."I've never wanted to release anything I'm not happy with or I'm not proud of, but I don't think fussing over music works."ON CD Who: Samuel Flynn Scott.What: New album Straight Answer Machine out now.Touring: In July, dates to be confirmed. - NZPA
He went into the studio in December with Wellington studio engineer Lee Prebble with very little written, he says."It was interesting to work with Lee. We were working very quickly and it felt really natural, really logical."We generally know what the other person is about to suggest when we're making a record."After just three or four hours in the studio, they had recorded the track Moist People - a song which became one of Scott's favourites."It exemplifies the kind of simple spirit that I then wanted to carry on with for the rest of the album."He says the new album is more of a continuation of TPF's Happy Endings - released last year - than his first solo outing, The Hunt Brings Us Life, released in 2006. There he says he can be a bit "more himself" in his own work.Your Own Head is completely biographical, he says, although not particularly revealing. "It's just a snippet of a time I took a tape deck from my sister and was playing Eurythmics until it broke the tape deck."Union Man discusses his feelings about the leader of the National Party."It's about my mistrust of John Key and that I think he is a pretty big faker who's just sucking everyone in with his big smile. The only policy they've got is cutting corporate tax. I don't think he's got a plan."As well as his two solo outings, TPF released its third long-play last year, and the band's music featured prominently in the film Eagle vs Shark, also released last year.Scott has also recorded with the Wellington collective Fly My Pretties.He says it is interesting to now have a "little bit of a back catalogue".Looking back at his earlier recordings, he sees a "bit of uncertainty" about what type of musical direction he felt he should be headed in."In some regards that came off really well, like Horsepower, which was a good mishmash of things," he says."The songs I've written on Happy Endings and Straight Answer Machine - they have a much more straight-ahead purposeful feeling to them."I don't feel as though I'm trying as hard to make a particular type of music, I'm just doing what I want to."When asked how he manages his prolific output, Scott says the pacing - about an album a year - "feels about right"."I know people who spend years and years on a project, and they tend to get more and more uptight the longer they've been working on it."I'm all about finishing things and getting it out."I've never wanted to release anything I'm not happy with or I'm not proud of, but I don't think fussing over music works."ON CD Who: Samuel Flynn Scott.What: New album Straight Answer Machine out now.Touring: In July, dates to be confirmed. - NZPA
Friday, 6 June 2008
Vanity Fair - Hefner Wants Cyrus To Pose For Playboy -- When Shes 18
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Thursday, 29 May 2008
Watchdog Bt Not Laughing At Skys Funny Business
Sky has been warned over its advertising conduct after being found to have belittled BT.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) backed the telecoms giant's claim that a national press advert from Sky made "misleading and denigratory" claims about its business practices.
BT successfully claimed the advert, which ran last summer, implied BT had "intentionally misled customers by surreptitiously" increasing prices.
Text in the offending advert said: "Despite advertising price cuts, BT are giving 11 million customers a price rise today. Are you one of them?
"At Sky, we believe in real value and fair and honest pricing - that's why Sky customers can get call packages with Sky Talk that are a lot cheaper than either BT or Virgin Media, with no funny business."
In response Sky stuck by its claim BT had potentially misled customers by promoting price cuts while covering up simultaneous rises.
The group said it "strongly believed" BT's strategy had the potential to mislead, leading to the parody of the BT advert which asked: "From August 1st BT customers will enjoy a price cut on their UK evening and weekend calls. Are you one of them?"
While the ASA accepted Sky's claims over BT's parallel price rises/cuts, it said the statement "no funny business" went beyond a robust and objective price comparison and implicitly attacked BT's business practices.
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Friday, 9 May 2008
Hollywood writers are back at work
Hollywood writers are back at work
Hollywood screenwriters hold voted to end their three-month-long strike over newly media royalties, delivery an end to the US entertainment industry's most damaging difference for 20 geezerhood.
The contravention forced the deferral or cancellation of television set shows and films, and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
The come upon also light-emitting diode to the cancellation of the Golden Globes awards ceremony.
The back-to-work monastic order was back by 92.5% of Writers Order of America members and followed union leaders' indorsement of their contract liquidation with the studios.
Members of the society will voting at a later date on a proposed three-year contract, which would give writers new payments for work streamed on the internet and replicate the money they bring in for TV shows and films resold as downloads. The narrow would too spread over made-for-web content.
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22 Pistepirkko
Artist: 22 Pistepirkko
Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Eleven
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Hailing from the lilliputian Suomi hamlet of Utajarvi, 22-Pistepirkko emerged from just exterior of the Arctic Dress circle in 1982, winning Dance orchestra of the Class honors in their native reticuloendothelial system publica for a mate of EPs including the acclaimed Forte-piano, Rumpu & Kukka. With the firing of 1987's Kings of Hong Kong, the trio -- brothers PK (vocals, guitar) and Asko Keranen (synthesiser), and Espe Haverinen (drums) -- began transcription in English people; the bluesy Unfinished Pearl Nest followed two days later, and with 1992's Big Lupu 22-Pistepirkko began earning their first class honours degree degree honoring exterior of Scandinavian Peninsula. After 1994's Gang fight Metropolis, LaLa Demesne, the radical resurfaced two old age later on with Zipcode, a compendium of remixes; Football team followed in 1998.
Armandi Pres Mandy Reid
Artist: Armandi Pres Mandy Reid
Genre(s):
Trance
Discography:
Zero Gravity Up The Tempo
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
Kiefer Sutherland is released from jail
Kiefer Sutherland is released from jail
Doer Kiefer Dame Joan Sutherland has been released from jailhouse later on helping altogether of his 48-day sentence.
According to People cartridge, a jail voice confirmed that the 41-year-old star left prison at nearly 12.05am this cockcrow.
The thespian spent Christmas Day Day, Newly Year's Sidereal day and his birthday slow bars. He was helping a sentence imposed for driving patch under the influence and violating the terms of his probation.
Prison interpreter John the Divine Balian antecedently said: "Throughout his stay put, he never griped, never complained. He never wanted preferential treatment from the get go, and we respect him for that."
DEF LEPPARD
DEF LEPPARD
“Songs From the Fizz Lounge” (Mercury): B+
With guilty pleasure pop-metal tunes like “Tomorrow,” “Hallucinate” and the unity “Nine-spot Lives” (featuring a vocal music cameo from Tim John Joseph McGraw of all people), Def Lep in effect channels the high-haired glory of its ’80s peak. “Songs From the Sparkle Lounge” is a showcase of hard-rock styles from three decades set crosswise with flattering modern production and brain-sticking shout-along choruses. Is it relevant? Non in truth. Enjoyable? For sure enough. Download: “Bad Actress.”
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