Pta Wants To Know Whats In 90210

The Parents Television Council, which single-handedly launched the letter-writing safari that induced the Federal Communications Commission to deepen its regulation of television set indecency, has suggested that the CW has non screened the pilot episode of the new 90210 series because it contains scenes that the net doesn't require sponsors to know about. The PTC is currently campaigning against the CW's Gossip Girl. (The CW is actually using quotes from the PTC's attacks in its ads to promote the show.) In a statement, the CW said, "Withholding the advance screener for 90210 has nothing to do with content concerns and everything to do with strategical marketing for the most anticipated new show of the pass season."

26/08/2008

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Terry Pratchett Attacks Alzheimers Drug Ruling

Best-selling writer Terry Pratchett has criticised a conclusion to limit the availability of the drug Aricept to people in the later stages of Alzheimer's disease.

Pratchett, an Alzheimer's martyr, will tell the BBC's Panorama tonight that the decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (NICE) opinion felt "care an insult".

"Alzheimer's is a particularly unpleasant disease. I don't know anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's. It strips our humanness a mo at a time until you end up a vegetable," the 60-year-old writer will say tonight.

"Aricept bathroom slow the disease's advancement and costs just �2.50 a day. But there ar 400,000 Alzheimer's sufferers in the UK so Aricept has been ruled out for NHS utilization in the mild stages except in Scotland.

"I induce no trouble paying, but some people can't. My wife and PA noticed changes in me after two months on it. I ill-used to bollocks with buttons and posterior belts. Now I aim dressed normally and seat belts microscope slide in first time. Mentally, it's the difference between a sunny day and an overcast day," the Discworld serial publication writer declared.

"Alzheimer's scares people and at 04:00 in the morning it scares me, and Aricept is well worth having for the relief that it brings."

Pratchett said NICE's ruling was stripping patients of the benefits of the drug.

"I feel in particular angry on behalf of early onset patients because it feels like an insult and the younger you are the more than insulting it is," he said.

"It's probably easier to get drugs off Fat Charlie rung the back of the bus station than it is to get medicines - but there we are."

Pratchett was diagnosed with the disease back in December, since when he has been a tearing campaigner for sufferers of Alzheimer's.

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Mastifal

   
Artist: Mastifal

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Carnivora

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


   
 Desde Las Tinieblas

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


   
 Holocausto Mental

   Year:    
Tracks: 11

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Glastonbury Festival Tickets Still On Sale Today

Tickets for this years Glastonbury Festival  are still on sale even though the event has officially got under way in Somerset.



Just under 800 tickets still remain for the festival, which has failed to sell out in advance for the first time in ten years.



To purchase your last minute ticket, click here, or call our ticket hotline on 0871 230 1098 for more information.



As previously reported on Gigwise, heavy showers socked many festvialgoers who had arrived early for the event last night (June 26th).



Although this year's festival was predicted to be the driest in years, heavy rain has been forecast for today with sunny spells set to arrive in time for the weekend.

This year's festival will be headlined by Kings of Leon, Jay-Z and The Verve. For more information, check out our Festival Guide.

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Britney Spears - Spears And Federline Heading To Custody Trial

Custody of BRITNEY SPEARS and KEVIN FEDERLINE's two young sons will be settled in a trial in August (08), after an attempt to settle out of court failed on Thursday (26Jun08).

The pair spent the day in talks with a mediator, but Federline's attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan has confirmed no agreement could be reached.

He tells E! News, "The mediation didn't result in an agreement that would avoid the trial set in August."

But he insists there was no breakdown in communication between the former couple, adding, "The mood was comfortable, positive and it was a mood that was consistent with opening at least a great dialogue, which is necessary.

"If the existing arrangement was acceptable to both parties... we wouldn't have to go to trial. But that didn't happen."

The trial is due to begin on 25 August (08), and would result in a final custody ruling.

Kaplan added that Federline is seeking sole physical and legal custody of Sean Preston and Jayden James. Federline was handed full custody of the boys after Spears was committed to a psychiatric facility to treat an alleged bipolar disorder following a stand-off with police and childcare officials in January (08).

Spears locked herself and her youngest son in the bedroom of her Hollywood home and initially refused to come out when a visitation period had ended.

Earlier this week (beg23Jun08), Spears was granted an extension to her custory rights when a judge agreed she could spend one night a week with her sons.

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Victor Smolski

   
Artist: Victor Smolski

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Heavy
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 The Heretic

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 7


   
 Majesty and Passion (J.S.Bach)

   Year:    
Tracks: 16

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Tom Hanks - Hanks Urges Unions To Avoid Strike

Hollywood actor TOM HANKS has joined the calls for America's acting unions to approve a deal with studios to end the threat of an actors' strike this summer (08).

Actors are threatening walkouts at the end of June (08) if talks between the unions and major film studios fail to resolve a dispute over pay and conditions.

And now Hanks has added his name to an email petition urging members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) to accept a deal offered by Hollywood chiefs.

If the union accepts the new agreement, it would be a major step forward in avoiding a strike which will cripple the U.S. film and TV industry - and put many thespians out of work.

Another actors union, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), is also negotiating a deal with the major studios - and SAG bosses are urging members of AFTRA to turn down the proposals.

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Micon

   
Artist: Micon

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Song For Healing

   Year:    
Tracks: 2


   
 Healing Waters

   Year:    
Tracks: 2


   
 Flying

   Year:    
Tracks: 6

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Dp 6

   
Artist: Dp 6

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Neo

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 1

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While Heaven Wept

   
Artist: While Heaven Wept

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Sympho
   

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Discography:


   
 Of Empires Forlorn

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 7

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The construct for Virginia's While Heaven Wept started brewing in late 1989, but it wasn't until cinque age later that Tom Phillips (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Gabe Funston (bass), and Jon Paquin (drums) recorded Lovesongs of the Forsaken -- the group's number 1 EP of mournful, classic doom. Unable to complete a followup album to his satisfaction, Phillips concisely worked with British doomsters Solstice before restorative While Heaven Wept, and finalizing 1998's Sorrow of the Angels LP with the help of new bassist Danny Ingerson. Following the band's number 1 ever concert appearances afterward that year, some other drawn-out visit ensued as Phillips performed with Arise From Thorns, merely number 2001, While Heaven Wept were once once again reconvened, welcoming new members Scott Loose (guitar), Jim Hunter (bass), and Jason Gray (drums). Chapter One: 1989-1999 -- a life history retrospective on bivalent vinyl -- was issued in 2002, scene the leg for 2003's Of Empires Forlorn CD, which achieved a new low in sour melancholy with its orchestrated hold on doom metal.





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Chimaira

   
Artist: Chimaira

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Industrial
   Alternative
   Metal: Alternative
   Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Resurrection

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


   
 Chimaira

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Impossibility of Reason

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Reasoning The Impossible

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Impossiblity Of Reason

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Pass Out Of Existence

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14


   
 This Present Darkness

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 7

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Formed in 1998, the Cleveland, OH-based hard-core sextet Chimaira consists of singer/screamer Mark Hunter, guitarists Matt DeVries (world Health Organization replaced Jason Hager in mid-2001) and Rob Arnold, bassist Jim LaMarca, drummer Andols Herrick, and electronic specialist Chris Spicuzza. The band's miscellanea of hard-core, alloy, and electronics proven to be a big hit back home, as they sold 10,000 copies of their severally issued debut EP, This Present Darkness, leading to an appearance on the now-defunct USA Network TV evince Farmclub. The dance orchestra opened for the likes of Soulfly, Hatebreed, Spineshank, and Snapcase and was finally signed to Roadrunner Records, issuance their 14-track debut full-length, Pass Out of Existence, in August 2001. The Impossibility of Reason followed on Roadrunner in May 2003, and Chimaira supported the feat with encompassing touring, including dates with In Flames and appearances at Ozzfest 2003. After the release of the DVD collection The Dehumanization Process and plus of new drummer Kevin Talley (ex-Misery Index) in 2004, the dance orchestra unleashed their third gear album, Chimaira, in 2005. Though a hard record, inner problems and ones with their label threatened to charge the band apart in the months next its release. They soldiered through it all, however, and by fall 2006 Chimaira had moved on from Roadrunner, inked a new deal all over at Ferret, and began work on new material. Earlier that year, the stria too welcomed back original drummer Andols Herrick. More of a team composition campaign than their final album, the resulting Resurrection of Christ appeared in early March 2007 courtesy of a rejuvenated stria, and Chimaira supported its release on the road with Killswitch Engage and Dragonforce.





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Duffy - Duffy Says No To Love

Welsh singer DUFFY refuses to commit to longterm relationships - because she is terrified of having her heart broken.

The 23-year-old - real name Aimee Ann Duffy - admits she is currently dating someone, and claims the romance is beginning to transition into "something more".

But the Mercy hitmaker insists she has no plans to become exclusive with her boyfriend any time soon.

She says, "I'm a commitment-phobe. Why? I don't know - it's the one thing I'm afraid of. It's tough, it just scares me... all of that stuff.

"I'm really happy on my own. Because that way, no one can hurt you... The reason I don't have it in my life is because they're only going to hurt me."

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Artist Amer Kobaslija’s Cleaning Service Couldn’t Make It

Amer Kobaslija’s Florida Studio 3 (2008)Courtesy of the artist and George Adams Gallery.
We’re not sure whether to be tickled or terrified by Amer Kobaslija’s impish rendering of his Florida studio. First off: messy! Second, someone call the Health Department: There’s a carcass hanging where the chandelier should be. And it’s dripping. Is this what the bedroom of Stewie, that evil genius baby from Family Guy, will look like when he’s all grown up? See more Lilliputian disorder at George Adams Gallery through Friday. —Emma Pearse

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"I look like a doll that has too much makeup on, and I love it!" Actress SELMA BLAIR.

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Sergent Garcia

   
Artist: Sergent Garcia

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   Rock
   Latin
   

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Discography:


   
 Sin Fronteras

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13


   
 La Semilla Escondida

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Viva el Sargento!

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Un Poquito Quema'o

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 17

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Paris-based Sergent Garcia blends salsa, reggae, rap music, and jazz into a style he calls "salsamuffin." He and his septet, Locos del Barrio, formed in 1997 and released their debut album, Un Poquito Quema'o, deuce days by and by in Europe and in the U.S. in early 2000.





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