Jackson fans await ticket results

Jackson fans await ticket results

Fans who took part in an online draw to attend Michael Jackson's memorial service on Tuesday are set to find out if they have won one of 17,500 tickets.

More than 1.6m people signed up for the chance to be at the ceremony being held at the Staples¹ Center in Los Angeles.

A total of 11,000 tickets are being issued for the service with another 6,500 issued for a simulcast （同时播放）of the ceremony at the nearby Nokia Theatre.

Fans selected will get two tickets and will be notified by e-mail on Sunday.

Jackson family spokesman Ken² Sunshine said officials at AEG, the owner and operator of the Staples Center, would "scrub" the entries to eliminate（剔除） duplicates and any suspected of being made by automated³ systems.

British fans 'left out'

Ticket holders⁴ will receive a unique code and instructions on how to pick up their tickets on Monday, where they will also receive a wristband （袖口）that will be placed on their wrist at the time.

Sunshine said measures were being taken to prevent ticket-touting, adding that fans must have both the ticket and the wristband to enter the Staples Center on Tuesday and wristbands that have been ripped, taped or tampered⁵ with will be void.

City officials are preparing for massive crowds and have urged people to stay at home and watch the memorial on TV amid estimates up to 700,000 people may flood the area in trying to reach the arena⁶.

Meanwhile British fans are angry about being left out of the memorial plans due to the short notice arrangements for the ceremony.

Matt Blank from the Michael Jackson World Network fan club told the BBC: "It could be as late as four o'clock Monday morning that fans in the UK find out if they are successful or not with the tickets.

"If they are, they've then got 24 hours to get to America - and flights will be through the roof once they realise how popular flights to Los Angeles are - that's if they can get flights at all."

On Sunday, new footage（片段） released by the News Of The World showed Michael Jackson being quizzed by lawyers in 1996 in a wrongful dismissal civil case.

The video shows the singer being interviewed by lawyer Michael Ring who represented a group of Neverland workers in the case which Jackson later won.

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1 staples   

n.（某国的）主要产品( staple的名词复数 )；钉书钉；U 形钉；主要部份v.用钉书钉钉住( staple的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The anvil onto which the staples are pressed was not assemble correctly. 订书机上的铁砧安装错位。 来自辞典例句
• I'm trying to make an analysis of the staples of his talk. 我在试行分析他的谈话的要旨。 来自辞典例句

2 ken   

n.视野，知识领域

参考例句：

• Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
• Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.

3 automated   

a.自动化的

参考例句：

• The entire manufacturing process has been automated. 整个生产过程已自动化。
• Automated Highway System (AHS) is recently regarded as one subsystem of Intelligent Transport System (ITS). 近年来自动公路系统(Automated Highway System,AHS)，作为智能运输系统的子系统之一越来越受到重视。

4 holders   

支持物( holder的名词复数 )； 持有者； （支票等）持有人； 支托（或握持）…之物

参考例句：

• Slaves were mercilessly ground down by slave holders. 奴隶受奴隶主的残酷压迫。
• It is recognition of compassion's part that leads the up-holders of capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim. 正是对怜悯的作用有了认识，才使得死刑的提倡者指控主张废除死刑的人感情用事，同情谋杀犯胜过同情受害者。

5 tampered   

v.窜改( tamper的过去式 )；篡改；（用不正当手段）影响；瞎摆弄

参考例句：

• The records of the meeting had been tampered with. 会议记录已被人擅自改动。 来自辞典例句
• The old man's will has been tampered with. 老人的遗嘱已被窜改。 来自辞典例句

6 arena   

n.竞技场，运动场所；竞争场所，舞台

参考例句：

• She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
• He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。