�The particular committee of the Board of Directors of Genentech, Inc. (NYSE:DNA) announced that, after careful consideration, it has nemine contradicente concluded that Roche's proposal to take the shares of Genentech not owned by Roche for $89.00 per share substantially undervalues the company. Therefore, the special committee does not documentation the proposal. However, the special committee would consider a proposition that recognizes the value of the company and reflects the significant benefits that would accrue to Roche as a result of full ownership.
Dr. Charles A. Sanders, chair of the special committee, said, "The special citizens committee is confident in the company's solid financial and clinical momentum and its uniquely productive R&D capabilities, which will continue to enhance stockholder value. In addition, we look forth to the company maintaining its successful relationship with Roche, regardless of ownership structure."
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Ill Bill
Artist: Ill Bill
Genre(s):
Other
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
What's Wrong With Bill?
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Howie Made Me Do It
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Driven by an chemical attraction for graphic violence, erotica, and government junto theories, Ill Bill (William Braunstein) is best known as the founder and frontman of four-man tube rap music chemical group Non Phixion. Because of the group's racy subject matter, Non Phixion invariably establish themselves bouncing from tag to label during the late '90s, despite acclaimed 12" singles like I Shot Reagan and Black Helicopter (both produced by Ill Bill's pal Necro). Ill Bill had to yield the independent Uncle Howie Records earlier the Brooklyn-based crew could last payoff its debut record record album, The Future Is Now, in 2002. Through his pronounce, the hard-core MC/producer initiated his solo vocation with his first album, What's Wrong with Bill? (2004), as well as with a series of Ill Bill Is the Future mixtapes. But afterward Non Phixion officially skint up in 2006, he also oversaw and pressed solo material by NP members DJ Eclipse and Sabac Red. Two old age earlier his s full-length, The Hour of Reprisal, arrived in 2008, Ill Bill co-founded La Coka Nostra, a collective that likewise includes DJ Muggs and members of House of Pain, among others.
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Angelina Jolie - Jolie Pitts Tattoo Means Nothing
ANGELINA JOLIE has shattered the myth surrounding partner BRAD PITT's new tattoo - it's a scribble she created.
Experts suggested the series of lines on the actor's back represented the levees in the couple's adopted New Orleans, Louisiana, but Jolie insists the skin art means nothing at all.
She tells Entertainment Weekly magazine, "We went to Davos... (and) one night we didn't have anything to do, so I was drawing on his back.
"He just liked it! The picture everybody saw was kind of awkward, but it just lines up beautifully on his back, just enhances the part of the body I like.
"I mean, it's meaningful in that it's us making angles and shapes out of each other's body, that kind of a thing."
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Lightspeed Champion Joins We Are Scientists Onstage
We Are Scientists were joined by Lightspeed Champion as they thrilled a packed Other Stage audience with their unique brand of humorous rock.
The London troubadour played guitar and sung backing vocals on ‘After Hours’, the first single from We Are Scientists’ last album, ‘Brain Thrust Mastery’.
The New York duo raised smiles between songs with their trademark wit, suggesting that Glastonbury was the perfect place “to hump on the grass,” adding that “if you can’t find anybody to hump, there’s plenty of mud around, hump that.”
They also explained that festival-goers “should be dry on the outside, but wet on the inside, like a puppy’s nose,” but did find time to play hits including ‘The Great Escape’ and ‘This Scene Is Dead.’
Earlier, Lightspeed Champion had hinted at the collaboration while performing in the Guardian Lounge, where he also collaborated with Emmy The Great.
Stay tuned to Gigwise for the latest from Glastonbury throughout the weekend.
CLICK HERE for pictures from the opening day of this years Glastonbury Festival.
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Cronenberg abuzz over "The Fly"
PARIS (Hollywood Reporter) - Canadian director David Cronenberg has caught the opera bug. Literally. Rehearsals are under way for the operatic adaptation of Cronenberg's 1987 horror flick "The Fly" for Paris' Chatelet Theater and the Los Angeles Opera.
Run-throughs are being held at the theater, which will set the stage for the five performances running Wednesday through July 13.
The melodious version of the film about a scientist transformed into a giant man/fly hybrid will be conducted by tenor Placido Domingo with music composed by Howard Shore, who also wrote the score for the original movie. The script is by David Henry Hwang, based on the eponymous novel by Frenchman George Langelaan.
"We're really branching out internationally. It's a story from France that went to Hollywood and is now coming back home," Chatelet Theater director Jean-Luc Choplin said.
"I think the production will please both true opera fans and also reach out to younger audiences," Choplin said. "We're really crossing borders between the cinema and the opera. It's more than just a simple costume change."
A melange of voices from across the globe will be complemented by the Radio France Philharmonic orchestra. "The Fly" will feature contemporary music made specifically for the opera.
"It's a new artistic adventure. We need to modernize. We have to push the opera toward new frontiers," Choplin said, adding that he sees more of these projects combining film with music, opera and theater on the horizon.
On Thursday, the sixth edition of the annual 12-day discount moviegoing Paris Cinema Festival will pay homage to Cronenberg. The director will present his big-screen version of "The Fly," followed by a screening of Kurt Neumann's 1958 original film of the same title. Restored versions of both films will be released in French theaters Friday through Splendor Films.
Run-throughs are being held at the theater, which will set the stage for the five performances running Wednesday through July 13.
The melodious version of the film about a scientist transformed into a giant man/fly hybrid will be conducted by tenor Placido Domingo with music composed by Howard Shore, who also wrote the score for the original movie. The script is by David Henry Hwang, based on the eponymous novel by Frenchman George Langelaan.
"We're really branching out internationally. It's a story from France that went to Hollywood and is now coming back home," Chatelet Theater director Jean-Luc Choplin said.
"I think the production will please both true opera fans and also reach out to younger audiences," Choplin said. "We're really crossing borders between the cinema and the opera. It's more than just a simple costume change."
A melange of voices from across the globe will be complemented by the Radio France Philharmonic orchestra. "The Fly" will feature contemporary music made specifically for the opera.
"It's a new artistic adventure. We need to modernize. We have to push the opera toward new frontiers," Choplin said, adding that he sees more of these projects combining film with music, opera and theater on the horizon.
On Thursday, the sixth edition of the annual 12-day discount moviegoing Paris Cinema Festival will pay homage to Cronenberg. The director will present his big-screen version of "The Fly," followed by a screening of Kurt Neumann's 1958 original film of the same title. Restored versions of both films will be released in French theaters Friday through Splendor Films.
Kings Of Leon's New Album Follows Summer Tour
Kings of Leon [ tickets ]'s fourth album, "Only By The Night," is scheduled to be released Sept. 23. The disc will be issued on the heels of the band's summer tour, which begins June 27 at the UK's Glastonbury Festival. The band also is scheduled to perform at several other European festivals including the Open Air St Gallen Festival in Switzerland, the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, T in the Park in Scotland, Summercase Festival in Spain and the V Festival in the UK. Kings of Leon also will appear Aug. 9 at the All Points West Music and Arts Festival at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, NJ.
Just Surrender
Artist: Just Surrender
Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Discography:
We're in Like Sin
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
If These Streets Could Talk
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Tell Me Everything
Year:
Tracks: 1
Emo-rocking pop-punk play Just Surrender formed in 2003, originally dubbed A Second Chance. The grouping sprang up some highschool buddies bassist/vocalist Jason Maffucci, guitar player Andrew Meunier, and drummer Steve Miller before the search for a suitable fourth member finally over with the accession of guitarist/vocalist Dan Simons. Based out of Dover Plains, NY, the crew recorded a four-song EP with producer John Naclerio (Brand New, Senses Fail), and inside months of posting some songs on-line, their music had logged intimately half a one thousand thousand listens and their trade-off vocals earned the band comparisons to Taking Back Sunday. As gigs at the Chance Theater in nearby Poughkeepsie were acquiring visibly larger, mate New Yorkers Autopilot Off took notice and brought the whitney Moore Young Jr. grouping out on tour. This quick lED to other higher-profile shows with bands like Bayside, Hawthorne Heights, Matchbook Romance, the Early November, and more. In March 2005, A Second Chance inked a consider with Broken English Records -- co-owned by Naclerio and Autopilot Off's Chris Hughes -- and changed their make to Just Surrender (ascribable to trademark concerns) before long afterwards. Their full-length and judge debut, If These Streets Could Talk, was released in July 2005 and the common rounds of touring commenced. Meunier parted slipway with Just Surrender in early 2007.
The Sopranos - Actor Vella Threatens Legal Action After Lotto Ticket Mix-up
Former THE SOPRANOS star VINNY VELLA is threatening legal action against New York state lottery officials after they rejected what he believes is his $5 million (GBP2.5 million) winning ticket.
The 61-year-old actor - who played Jimmy Petrille on the hit U.S. drama - purchased an Extravaganza lottery ticket last Thursday (12Jun08) at a New York store to be in with a chance of winning a share of the $500 million (GBP250 million) jackpot.
And he was shocked to discover what he believed to be two sevens on the scratch ticket - which would have made him $5 million richer.
But Vella's good fortune was shortlived after officials at a state lottery office refuted his claims, insisting one of the sevens was actually a number 17.
The official also pointed out an abbreviation underneath the numeral to dispel any further queries.
However, Vella remains unsatisfied with the verdict and took the matter to lottery headquarters in Schenectady on Monday (16Jun08).
Experts enlarged a picture of the ticket and found a 'one' next to the seven, checking the barcode on the ticket to determine it was not a winner.
But Vella is now threatening legal action, fuming, "I will do everything I can until these people are down on their knees... I'm going to put the lawyers on it. Without a doubt. Without a doubt."
Lottery spokesman John Charlson is blaming a "rare" printing issue for the mix-up, admitting an ink problem affected 4,500 tickets, which have had to be withdrawn.
But Vella remains unsatisfied, promising to make an issue of the incident the local TV show he hosts and to carry protest signs in front of state lottery offices.
He adds, "If it's a misprint, it's not my fault. You know what I look like after telling everybody I won? I look like some big ass."
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Zero Zero
Artist: Zero Zero
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
The World Famous Killer EP
Year: 1992
Tracks: 4
Ray Price
Artist: Ray Price
Genre(s):
Country
Discography:
Prisoner of Love
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Country Music Hall of Fame
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Ray Price Collection - All I Could Find - Time, CD9
Year:
Tracks: 35
Ray Price Collection - All I Could Find - Time, CD8
Year:
Tracks: 35
Ray Price Collection - All I Could Find - Time, CD7
Year:
Tracks: 30
Ray Price Collection - All I Could Find - Time, CD6
Year:
Tracks: 30
Ray Price Collection - All I Could Find - Time, CD5
Year:
Tracks: 30
Ray Price Collection - All I Could Find - Time, CD4
Year:
Tracks: 30
Ray Price Collection - All I Could Find - Time, CD3
Year:
Tracks: 30
Ray Price Collection - All I Could Find - Time, CD2
Year:
Tracks: 30
Ray Price Collection - All I Could Find - Time, CD1
Year:
Tracks: 30
Ray Price Collection - All I Could Find - Time
Year:
Tracks: 2
Ray Price has covered -- and kicked up -- as a great deal musical turf as whatever land vocaliser of the postwar eRA. He's been lionized as the man wHO saved hard rural area when Nashville went pop, and vilified as the piece wHO went pop when strong land was starting to call its possess distinguish with pride. Actually, he was -- and still is -- no more than a musically challenging vocaliser, ever looking for the side by side challenge for a voice that could bestow down roadhouse walls. Circa 1949, Price cut his first record for Bullet in Dallas. In 1951, he was picked up by Columbia, the label for which he would disc for more than than 20 years. After knock around in Lefty Frizzell's camp for six-spot months or so (his start Columbia single was a Frizzell composition) Price befriended Hank Williams. The connection brought him to the Opry and profoundly affected his vocalizing style. After Hank died, Price starting stretch out more as a isaac M. Singer and arranger. His experiment culminated in the 4/4 bass-driven "Crazy Arms," the state birdcall of the year for 1956. The intensely rhythmical sound he observed with "Wild Arms" would dominate his -- and much of state in general's -- music for the next sixer years. To this day, citizenry in Nashville refer to a 4/4 country ruffle as the "Ray Price beat." Heavy on fiddle, steel, and senior high school tenor harmony, his country work from the late '50s is as lively as the tilt & roll of the same era. Price tired of that sound, however, and started messing round with strings. His lush 1967 translation of "Danny Boy" and his 1970 remove on Kris Kristofferson's "For the Good Times" were, in their crossing over way, landmark records. But few of his old fans apprehended the fact. In the trinity decades following "For the Good Times," Price's calling was frequently an bunglesome reconciliation play in which twin Texas fiddles are weighed against orchestras.
Born in bantam Perryville, TX, Price exhausted most of his youth in Dallas. It was in that respect where he erudite how to bring guitar and blab out. Following his high school commencement ceremony, he studied vet medical specialty at North Texas Agricultural College in Abilene before he left school to join the Marines in 1942. Price stayed in the table service passim World War II, reversive to Texas in 1946. After going the Marines, he ab initio returned to college, even so he began to perform at local clubs and honkie tonks, as well as on the local radiocommunication station KRBC, where he was dubbed the Cherokee Cowboy. Three eld later, he was invited to link up the Dallas-based The Big D Jamboree, which confident him to spend a penny music his full-time calling. Shortly later on connexion The Big D Jamboree, the show began to be televised by CBS, which helped him release a exclusive, "Your Wedding Corsage"/"Jealous Lies," on the main Dallas label Bullet.
Toll moved to Nashville to pursue a major-label record concentrate in 1951. After auditioning and weakness several multiplication, Ray eventually gestural to Columbia Records, later on A&R representative Troy Martin confident the label's headman executive, Don Law, that Decca was prepared to dedicate the vocalizer a contract. Previously, Law was uninterested in Price -- he turned him depressed 20 multiplication and threatened Martin ne'er to mention his distinguish once again -- only he was unprepared to gift a rival party a chance at the vocalist. Just before "Lecture to Your Heart" became a number trey hit for Price in the springtime of 1952, Ray met his god, Hank Williams, wHO immediately became a close friend. Over the next year, Hank performed a number of favors for Price, including gift him "Pall Blues" to record and serving him link up the Grand Ole Opry. Ray likewise became the permanent substitute for Hank whenever he was missing or too drunk to perform. Following Williams' death in 1953, Price transmissible the Drifting Cowboys.
Following the success of "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" in the fall of 1952, Price was quiet for much of 1953. It wasn't until 1954 that he returned to the charts with "I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)," a number deuce hit that kicked cancelled a successful yr for Price that likewise included the Top Ten singles "Loss Me" and "If You Don't, Somebody Else Will." Instead of capitalizing on that success, he disappeared from the charts during 1955, as he worn out the class forming the Cherokee Cowboys. Over the course of the past deuce years, he had completed that playing with the Drifting Cowboys had made him effectual also similar to Hank Williams, so he distinct to mannikin his own group. Originally, most of the members were lifted from Lefty Frizzell's Western Cherokees, just over the geezerhood a issue of gifted musicians began their careers in this band, including Roger Miller, Johnny Paycheck, Buddy Emmons, Johnny Bush, and Willie Nelson.
Ray returned to the charts in 1956, first-class honours degree with "Draw Boy" and then with "Crazy Arms," a driving honkie tonk number that immediately became a country classical. The song was unitary of the first country records to be recorded with a drum kit, which gave it a grim, pulsating speech rhythm. Until Price, most rural area artists were loath to function drums and the pawn was even prohibited from the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. The blockbuster position of the individual helped change that office. Spending an astonishing 20 weeks at the top of the nation charts, "Crazy Arms" not solely crossed over into the lower reaches of the pop charts, only it as well established Price as a whizz. After the success of the single, he remained at or near the top of the charts for the next ten-spot years, racking up 23 Top Ten singles betwixt the 1956 and 1966. During this fourth dimension, he recorded a remarkable issue of country classics, including "I've Got a New Heartache" (phone number deuce, 1956), "My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You" (phone number unitary, 1957), "Reach the World Go Away" (phone number deuce, 1963), and "City Lights," which fatigued 13 weeks at the top of the charts in 1958.
The momentum of Price's career had slowed slightly by the mid-'60s; though he was silent having hits, they weren't as buy at nor as bighearted. His musical inclinations were also shifting, delivery him closer to the crooning styles of traditional pop singers. Ray abandoned the rodeo rider suits and brought in string section to accompany him, making him one of the outset to explore the tranquil, orchestrated sounds of late-'60s and early-'70s country-pop. While it alienated some hard-core whitey tonk fans, the change in approach resulted in some other one shot of Top Ten hits. However, it took a little patch for the nation audience to warm to this new legal -- it wasn't until 1970, when his cover of Kris Kristofferson's "For the Good Times" hit number i, that he returned to the top of the charts. Over the adjacent trine geezerhood, he scored an extra 3 telephone number one singles ("I Won't Mention It Again," "She's Got to Be a Saint," "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me").
By the mid-'70s, the attract of his string-laden country-pop hits had diminished, and he exhausted the stay of the decennary struggling to get into the charts. In 1974, he left his long time home of Columbia Records to signboard to Myrrh, where he had deuce Top Ten hits over the adjacent year. By the end of 1975, he had left field the pronounce, sign language to ABC/Dot. Though he hadn't changed his style, his records became less popular about the same meter he signed to ABC/Dot; only 1977's "Mansion on the Hill" gained a lot attention. In 1978, he switched labels again, signing with Monument, which proved to be some other unsuccessful speculation. In 1980, Price reunited with his old bassist Willie Nelson, recording the duet album San Antonio Rose, which was a major success, spawning the number trey hit "Attenuate Love." San Antonio Rose reignited Ray's calling, and in 1981 he had 2 Top Ten singles -- "It Don't Hurt Me Half as Bad" and "Diamonds in the Stars" -- for his new label, Dimension. Price left Dimension in 1983, signing with Warner Records. He remained at the label for one yr, and by that time, his new spell of popularity had cooled down considerably; now, he was having trouble reaching the Top 40. That billet didn't remediation itself for the residual of the tenner, fifty-fifty though he sign with two new labels: Viva (1983-1984) and Step One (1985-1989).
By the recent '80s, Price had stopped-up concentrating on recording and had turned his efforts toward a theater he owned in Branson, MO. For nigh of the '90s, he panax quinquefolius and performed at his dramatic art in Branson, occasionally stopping to book. Of all of his '90s records, the nigh noteworthy is the 1992 album Sometimes a Rose, which was produced by Norro Wilson.
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Energy 52
Artist: Energy 52
Genre(s):
Dance
Discography:
Cafe del Mar 2003
Year: 2003
Tracks: 7
Though ephemeral, Energy 52 made an tremendous contribution to the burgeoning early-'90s trance movement in Germany: "Café del Mar." The track inaugurated the influential Eye Q tag in 1993 and went on to become one of, if non the, decade's most popular trance anthems, undergoing innumerable re-releases and remixes in the late '90s when enchantment reached its peak popularity. The track was a coaction between Paul M (aka Kid Paul, born Paul Schmitz Moormann) and Cosmic Baby (born Harald Bluechel); the iI had worked together on deuce former EPs, Eternity and State of Mind (both 1991), just neither had come close to the success of the Café del Mar EP, which featured a blend of the track by both. No early Energy 52 releases followed besides the myriad remixes of "Café del Mar."
Sova
Artist: Sova
Genre(s):
Industrial
Discography:
Looking For September
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Oneal Forced To Turn In Sheriffs Badge Over Vulgar Rap
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