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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Russian court denies punk band convict Tolokonnikova parole
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court refused to release from prison one of two jailed members of the Pussy Riot punk band so that she can look after her young daughter.
The court on Friday rejected Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's appeal for parole eight months after she was handed a two-year prison sentence for the band's performance of a "punk prayer" in Moscow's main Russian Orthodox cathedral.
Tolokonnikova, 23, has been serving her sentence for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" in a prison colony in central Russia, about 550 km (350 miles) southeast of Moscow.
"I've spent enough time in the prison colony. I've had enough of studying it. Half a year is long enough," Tolokonnikova, a philosophy student, told the judge at the parole hearing, the RAPSI legal news agency reported.
She complained of having frequent headaches in jail in Mordovia, a region that has a large number of prisons.
Her lawyer, Irina Khrunova, said Tolokonnikova's five-year-old daughter Gera needed her mother.
The judge said Tolokonnikova's parental status had been taken into account when she was sentenced - prosecutors had asked for three years - and pointed to two reprimands she has received as evidence her conduct has not been sufficiently "corrected", RAPSI reported.
Tolokonnikova and two other band members, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich, were sentenced last August after a trial that was widely condemned abroad as part of a clampdown on dissent by President Vladimir Putin.
Performers such as Madonna, Sting and former Beatle Paul McCartney offered their support for Pussy Riot last year.
SENTENCES DIVIDED OPINION
Although the two-year sentences outraged many liberals, many conservative Russians saw their profanity-laced protest against Putin's close ties with the Church, performed in short dresses and brightly colored tights and balaclavas, as sacrilege.
Samutsevich, 30, was freed in October when her sentence was suspended on appeal after she argued that she had been prevented from taking part in the protest because a guard seized her.
Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina, 24, lost their appeals and in January a judge rejected Alyokhina's request for her sentence to be deferred until her child is older. She has also requested parole and that appeal could be heard next month.
The three women said they had not meant to offend Orthodox Christians with their protest in February 2012, while anti-Putin protests were drawing tens of thousands of people to the streets of Moscow and other big cities.
The rallies have since dwindled and did not stop Putin winning a presidential election the next month.
In his annual nationwide question-and-answer session on Thursday, Putin denied using the courts for political ends.
But he made clear he did not regret Pussy Riot's sentences, mentioning them in the same breath as people who desecrate the graves of World War Two veterans.
But Samutsevich says Pussy Riot's protest at least succeeded in drawing attention to what the all-women protest band sees as Putin's unhealthy relationship with the church and a lack of political freedoms.
"We wanted to start a discussion in society, show our negative view of the merging of the church and state ... The problem was raised internationally, the problem of human rights was put sharply into focus," she said in a recent interview.
(Writing by Timothy Heritage; Editing by Steve Gutterman and Mike Collett-White)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russian-court-denies-punk-band-convict-tolokonnikova-parole-184156369.html
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Renault hopes to have approval for Chinese plant by summer: CEO
PARIS (Reuters) - Renault-Nissan
Ghosn had said last month he expected final government approval for the plant by the end of the year.
"Renault already has a plan for China, which is ready, and currently being negotiated with the Chinese government, and I hope we will have all agreements before the summer," Ghosn told French radio Europe 1.
He added that French President Francois Hollande's visit to China this week would help the carmaker over the administrative hurdles.
(Reporting by Gilles Guillaume; Writing Sybille de La Hamaide; Editing by Greg Mahlich)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/renault-hopes-approval-chinese-plant-summer-ceo-091801999.html
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Party In SF, For Charity
The TechCrunch SF staff normally goes to your parties, but tonight you can come to ours. And this one has a mission beyond drinking and tech talk -- we'll be donating the proceeds to a nonprofit, like we've done in the past, this time to Teach for America.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/FCoXdJPmJ68/
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Monday, April 15, 2013
Does the '0' have to go?
Can FC Dallas count on a Galaxy hangover when the teams meet tonight in North Texas, a little So-Cal sulking from the side that went out with some disappointment in this week?s CONCACAF Champions League?
In four words ? don?t bet on it.
Galaxy manager Bruce Arena has been around the MLS block more than a few times and knows how to keep a team balanced through a long season. Besides, the Galaxy went into Monterrey earlier this week understanding the task ahead ? so it?s not like the inability to get the job done in Wednesday?s second-leg semifinal was some giant soul crusher.
At best, the champs could be a little tired when they meet FCD in suburban Dallas; Saturday?s kickoff on NBC Sports Network is set for 7:30 p.m. ET.
An interesting contest features one side we all thought would be leading this Western Conference race (the two-time defending MLS Cup champion Galaxy) and the surprise team that actually finds itself lead dog on the conference sled (Schellas Hyndman?s FC Dallas).
Two of the league?s better strikers will lead their teams? attacks. In LA?s Robbie Keane, we may be speaking of ?the best.? Keane has a goal and assist in just two matches this year, but continues to find the? defensive gaps and look dangerous. Propping up the Galaxy scoring, meanwhile, is Mike Magee, the surprising league leader with five goals.
Similar to Keane, FC Dallas? Blas Perez has been limited this year due to injuries and international call-ups; he has two goals in three matches. They were, however, in Dallas? last two matches, a pair of important road strikes as Hyndman?s team collected four points away from home over the last two weekends.
Containing Perez will be Job 1 for Omar Gonzalez; the Galaxy?s prized center back is coming off a fantastic night down in Mexico.
With one travel day and just one other full day of rest since Wednesday?s contest, Arena is sure to make lineup changes. Sophomore center back Tommy Meyer could be one, and that would be his 2013 Galaxy debut. Or Colin Clark could get on the field since the midfield vet (who played for Hyndman in college at SMU) is cup-tied and was not eligible to play in the CONCACAF series.
Magee appears ready after missing Wednesday?s match due to injury. As for Landon Donovan, who has appeared in three matches since returning from sabbatical? He went the full 90 on Wednesday, so an appearance off the bench seems most likely.
On Dallas? side, watch for Jackson on the right and Andrew Jacobson in the holding midfield role; both are having outstanding seasons. A little more on Jackson?s 2013 campaign is here.
LA is undefeated in its last four against FC Dallas, including back-to-back shutout victories in the teams? last pair of 2012 meetings. FCD last defeated the Galaxy back in May of 2001.
Source: http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/13/mls-match-preview-fc-dallas-vs-la-galaxy/related/
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or shame? Do stop believing
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It ?made my mom very happy,? Geddy Lee said about Rush (who belongs) being named to the Hall of Fame.
Photograph by: Allen McInnis , Gazette file photo
Kid Rock for president!
Why not? The litany of Inexplicables in popular music is at least as long as the list of Brilliancies. How did Adam Ant get into the Motown 25 show? Did anyone in the Milli Vanilli clone factory truly believe they would get away with it? And what is a C.C. DeVille?
We might ask.
And the Kid Rock reference? Well, they?ll vote a lot of ersatz figures into office these days. Which brings us to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which holds its 28th annual induction ceremony in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 18. At the very least, the RnRHoF gave every rock critic born in a certain era a reason to work, to remain vigilant, to persist, to survive. And that was to ensure that Journey never got in.
This remains a great fear. Then again, the trend it would represent is already coming to pass. This year?s inductees are Albert King, Rush, Donna Summer, Public Enemy, Randy Newman and Heart. For one thing, that?s too many. For another, at the very least, there are bands that absolutely ought to have been inducted before a few of the aforementioned (see sidebar).
There will always be disgruntled parties when we draw up lists and codify greatness. Here, there are three sides to this ? three sides wrestling over the putative soul of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
On one side are the rock ayatollahs, flogging themselves with guitar strings that Donna Summer and anyone else who prayed to the Mirrorball of Evil would be admitted. Some go further in their guitars-only Republicanism, denouncing the inclusion of the likes of Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Etta James or Smokey Robinson, but championing ? among those unfairly excluded ? people like Journey, Bad Company, Styx, Bread and Yes.
Bread? OK. In a special shame-room for Worst Band Names.
The very notion of purism is antithetical to rock ?n? roll.
Only someone who thinks rock ?n? roll was invented by Ritche Blackmore could believe that nonsense. You want that? Kick out the Doors and their pseudo-Brechtian cabaret. Lose Talking Heads and their intello-art-funk polyrhythms. Boot out Bowie, for eight reasons. Man wore a dress, for heaven?s sake. And goodbye Jimi; he came from R&B and probably would have played some unimagined new hybrid of funk/jazz/psychedelia/X had he lived. It wasn?t all Purple Haze, Creationists.
On another side are the disco bunnies who would completely abandon the control tower to admit all manner of substandard acts who barely belong in a dance music Hall. At the very least, some of them understand the central notion that rock music is a fusion of many things ? at its core, yes, the hoary clich? of white man?s/black man?s blues, but always in a constant evolution of cultural and musical influences. But completely relaxing anything resembling a standard is at least as bad as having one so rigid that it smacks of the old man yelling about how Kids Today wouldn?t know real music if it bit them on the ear with a nine-minute laserbeam-cued drum solo.
Then there is a third opinion. Those who think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shouldn?t exist at all.
Some of them are ... bitter. Gene Simmons of Kiss doesn?t like it. Well, it doesn?t like Gene. But he?s not alone. Ozzy Osbourne and the Sex Pistols both denounced it. They had their reasons, most of which amounted to grenade-tossing ... not that there isn?t a seed of truth there, moot though it now be.
Incidentally, to his credit, 2013 inductee Geddy Lee of Rush (who belongs there) winningly said, when asked (by Rolling Stone) if the band might boycott, ?We?re nice Canadian boys. We wouldn?t do that. It also made my mom very happy, so that?s worth it.?
Let?s be happy for Geddy and mom. Let?s be sad for the Hall. While it does function as a Hall of Fame, with all that implies, it does not as a proper Hall of Greatness. Which entails a brief side trip into baseball, and the saga of Tim Raines.
Expos. 23 years, 2,605 hits, .294 career batting average with five .300+ seasons, 980 RBIs, won the 1986 NL batting title (. 334). Stole 70 bases every year from ?81-?86 and ended up 4th on the all-time list (808) behind Henderson, Brock and Cobb ? legends all ? and once held the highest career stolen base percentage (84.7 per cent) in baseball.
He?s not in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He may get in next year, but he?s out. For all its criminal tendencies, Major League Baseball understands the central principle of enshrinement: that it?s as much about exclusion as inclusion, if not more. It?s about the people left nosing the window, whose snubbing only further enhances the profiles and confirms the exceptional work of those honoured inside. That it should be cruel, not sentimental. At least twice, the Baseball Writers? Association of America has inducted ... nobody. Meanwhile, the RnRHoF now seems ready to usher in every .260 infielder with a few timely hits and the right iPhone contacts list.
In sports, there are pioneers, then players whose skills and stats eventually surpass them, due to ... everything. Equipment. Techniques. Training. Legal medicine. Science. The very fact that men are now larger. Drugs. Nostalgists may argue for the supposed purity of ye olden tymes, but for the most part, the contemporary athlete is bigger, stronger, faster and, outside of intangibles, better in statistical terms. Baseball is stats.
Rock ?n? roll is not. In an art form, not every cycle or era brings improvement. There are peaks and valleys. The quality is in and out. The very rawness of the pioneers is elemental to the history and present of the music, a source to which even its most progressive proponents may return. And when you have influences, you have brilliant inheritors, and you have copies. Pallid copies. Some years, the draft is thin. And you?re going to start inducting them, simply because you need to slam someone in there for the big tuxedo party. Even though it took you the better part of a decade to get the Stooges in.
In some cases, you are inducting virtual cover bands who will share shelf space, costume racks and wax dummy exhibits or whatnot with their antecedents. I have no personal animus against Heart ? I like some Heart ? but Heart had some good if de rigueur rawk years, and some truly bad MOR corporate arena years. As good as their best material may be, this is knock-off Led Zep with girls. The implication being that all inductees not otherwise differentiated from the truly great have the same relative value and importance. At which point ... no. They certainly do not.
Diminishing returns ... even those invited to induct or perform this year indicate the gene pool is draining out. John Mayer ?honours? Albert King? How, by tuning his axe? Jennifer Hudson is there for Donna Summer? These are mall people, pallid copies. At least Dave Grohl will speak for Rush, as it should be.
But for clarity of speech, go to the man named Elvis. As in Costello.
In 2003 in the Rocky Mountain News (which folded four years ago), Costello said the Hall was ?really about the people who run it ... It isn?t about the people who are in it. That was obvious in the speeches they made. We were just the hired help. We were just the cabaret. It?s about getting people through the turnstiles in Cleveland. Any pretence that it?s anything noble is laughable.?
And he?s in the Hall. But he got it: not a meritocracy, but a gala-bureaucracy that seemingly functions as much for the egos of its founding and ruling junta as for its inductees. It?s really the Hall of Jann, as in Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, who has been accused of playing favourites over and over again, and even of vote-rigging. And so it functions like the Senate. Our Senate. You get in because you?re old, and have pals in the government. Or you get in because they need to fill a red velvet seat.
To clarify: Tim Raines, yes. Journey, never.
But the truly glaring insult here, as I?m sure you?re all aware, is the unspeakable omission of an entire category. Where are the writers? Where are the ink-stained wretches who sacrifice eardrums, sanity, girl/boyfriend nervous systems, regular meals, TV and reasonably profitable careers to pummel their thesauri for the next great pun on the name Whitesnake. Where are the rock critics?
A trifle self-serving, it?s true. Incidentally, Jann had himself inducted. Ah well, in rock ?n? roll, as in life, you lose a few and you Wenn a few.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction gala will be held Thursday, April 18, and will be broadcast May 18 on HBO.
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
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