Coachella Dates For 2010: April 16-18
According to Paul Resnikoff at Digital Music News, Coachella has set dates for the 2010 event. Once again returning to Indio, CA in mid-April, the massive music festival appears to be slated for April 16-18. We have no confirmation at this time but will be sure to update as info becomes available.
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The French and German economies both grew by 0.3% between April and June, bringing to an end year-long recessions in two of Europe’s largest economies. “The data is very surprising. After four negative quarters France is coming out of the red,” said French Finance and Economy Minister Christine Lagarde.
Guiding Peugeot-Citroen through the recession will be hard. Philippe Varin must get along with the owners
IN APRIL the Peugeot family, which controls 45% of the voting stock of PSA Peugeot-Citroen, finally got its man. Nearly three years ago, after Jean-Martin Folz decided to retire early from running Europe’s second-biggest carmaker, Thierry Peugeot, the chairman of the group’s supervisory board, made a concerted attempt to woo Philippe Varin as Mr Folz’s successor.
Mr Peugeot knew what he was looking for: an experienced industrialist with an international outlook and a record of undertaking difficult turnarounds. Mr Varin seemed ideal. After a 25-year career at Pechiney, a big French aluminium manufacturer, Mr Varin had been hired in 2003 to sort out Corus, a troubled Anglo-Dutch steelmaker. In three years he had recapitalised a business that was almost worthless on his arrival, restructured the British half of the firm, returning it to profit, and apparently healed the divisions between British and Dutch managers. …
I wanted to get a jump on April Fools Day, partially because of the long, cold winter blues, and partly because of a remark an associate made about me while in a group meeting. I wont go into the details, but the outcome was that, as I walked away from a gathering, I was determined to find a way to get my message across to that certain
Moldovans are due to vote in a parliamentary election shortly, three months after a disputed ballot led to violence and two deaths.
The opposition has been demanding a re-run of April’s election, claiming it was rigged.
The latest vote is being held because the Communist Party failed to gain the majority needed to elect a president.
Opposition parties boycotted the votes to elect a replacement for outgoing President Vladimir Voronin.
Polling stations will be opened from 0700 to 2100 local time (0400-1800 GMT) on Wednesday.
After the April result, thousands of citizens took to the streets, clashing with police, and storming parliament and the presidential offices.
The opposition and some international observers said the vote had been rigged, although others said it was generally fair.
The Communist Party gained 60 of the 101 seats – one short of the 61 seats needed to meet the three-fifths majority required to elect its presidential candidate, current Prime Minister Zinaida Greceanii.
Polls this month suggested a drop in support for the Communists, giving them about 30% compared with just under 50% in April, Reuters news agency reports
Coalition pledge
In Wednesday’s vote, three opposition parties hope to join the Communist Party in parliament – the Liberal Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Our Moldova Alliance.
Polls suggested that the Liberals and Liberal Democrats would win a combined total of some 20%.
Other smaller parties are unlikely to gain enough votes for a seat.
The opposition parties have pledged to create a ruling coalition if they collectively gain enough votes.
They have also said that they will co-operate with the Communist Party in the new parliament if the "early election is fair, democratic and transparent".
Mr Voronin’s successor will lead the poorest country in Europe – where the average wage is just under $250 (£151) a month – and will inherit an unresolved conflict over the breakaway region of Trans-Dniester.
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The world’s most high-profile file-sharing website the Pirate Bay faces a new volley of legal action.
Thirteen Hollywood production companies have filed a new lawsuit to try to get the website shut down.
In April the site’s founders were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay $4.5m (£3m) in damages.
However, the site has continued to operate, allowing users to share copyrighted films, TV and music.
"We have filed a complaint against The Pirate Bay because they have not stopped their activities after they were sentenced to prison," the studios’ lawyer Monique Wadsted told AFP.
The lawsuit has been brought by Columbia Pictures, Disney Enterprises, Universal Studios and 10 other firms, many of which were due to receive damages form the April settlement.
The Pirate Bay was set up in 2003 by anti-copyright organisation Piratbyran, but for the last five years it has been run by individuals.
Millions of files are exchanged using the service every day.
No copyright content was hosted on The Pirate Bay’s web servers; instead it hosted links to TV, film and music files held on its users’ computers.
Following the most recent lawsuit, the site was bought by Global Gaming Factory (GGF) for 60m kronor (£4.7m) who intend to turn the site into a legal, pay service.
The new owners have outlined a "give and take" model which pays users for sharing their resources.
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Newly appointed Uttar Pradesh Governor B L Joshi will take oath of the office today.
Joshi was previously Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi from 2004 to 2007, Governor of Meghalaya in 2007, and Governor of Uttarakhand from October 2007 to July 2009.
Joshi served as the Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi from June 9, 2004 to April 9, 2007. He [...]
The judicial custody of Sriram Sene Chief Pramod Mutalik, who was arrested for allegedly making inflammatory speech at Kyathamaranahalli, a Mysore suburb, in April this year, ends today.
On July 25, the Sessions Court sent him to judicial custody till today.
Mutalik, who had visited Kyathamaranahalli after the communal clashes in April, had allegedly addressed a [...]
Tata Motors has announced a 58% rise in net profits as lower steel costs helped outweigh a fall in vehicle sales.
Tata made a net profit of 5.14bn rupees ($107m; £65m) in the April to June quarter, compared with 3.26bn rupees in the same period a year ago.
India’s largest carmaker sold 127,340 vehicles in the period, down from the 133,079 it sold a year earlier.
Tata Motors, which owns the Jaguar and Land Rover brands, launched the world’s cheapest car, the Nano, in April.
"The company’s continued focus on cost efficiencies, coupled with reduction of raw material prices, inventory reduction and improvement in sales realisation, yielded considerable benefits," Tata said in a statement.
But it added that exports "continued to be severely impacted… in the wake of [the] continuing tumultuous global environment".
Exports fell 43% to 5,220 vehicles.</p
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CHICAGO (AP) — Green Party candidate Matt Reichel has announced plans to once again run for the congressional seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel.
Former Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley, a Democrat like Emanuel, went on to win the seat in an …
Seth Rogen visited Conan Friday night and talked about his appearance in the April 2009 issue of Playboy. He was the ninth man to grace the cover of the magazine.
“It’s been Burt Reynolds eight times and then me,” he joked. “So it’s quite a …
Newly appointed Uttar Pradesh Governor B L Joshi will take oath of the office on July 28.
Joshi was previously Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi from 2004 to 2007, Governor of Meghalaya in 2007, and Governor of Uttarakhand from October 2007 to July 2009.
Joshi served as the Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi from June 9, 2004 to April 9, [...]
Five Iranian pilgrims have been shot dead as they travelled by bus near the Iraqi city of Baquba, police said.
Five armed men attacked three buses, also injuring 32 pilgrims, 65km (40 miles) east of Baquba, Diyala province.
They were on their way to Shia holy sites in Iraq and were travelling along a road which links the Iranian border to Baghdad.
In April dozens of Iranian pilgrims were killed in a series of blasts in Baghdad and Baquba.
Interior Ministry forces have been protecting pilgrim convoys on the route following the deaths in April, when 61 Iranian pilgrims died in a suicide bomber at a roadside restaurant.
After Wednesday’s attack the wounded were taken to the local hospital, given initial treatment and all sent back to Iran.</p
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Eurozone industrial output rose in May compared with April, the first month-on-month increase since August last year, official figures have shown.
Factory production across the 16 nations that share the single currency rose 0.5% last month from April, but was still down 17% from May last year.
The data comes two weeks after official figures showed eurozone retail sales fell in May, while unemployment rose.
Despite this picture, Brussels says the recession is now easing.
The European Commission has predicted that the official figures will show the eurozone economy contracted 0.6% between April and June, a slowdown on the 2.5% rate of decline seen between January and March.
Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office, also revised up its industrial production data for April, saying it contracted by a rate of 1.4%, not the previously reported 1.9% fall.
‘Put in perspective’
"May’s first rise in industrial production is obviously very welcome news, and reinforces belief that the eurozone economy contracted at a substantially reduced rate," said Howard Archer, chief economist at IHS Global Insight.
"Nevertheless, it needs to be put into perspective – production was still down by 17% year-on-year."
As a result, Mr Archer said it was "premature at this stage" to say that industrial output would make a sustained recovery.
Industrial production accounts for about 17% of economic activity across the eurozone. </p
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The former president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, found guilty of human rights abuses in April, is on trial again to face charges of corruption.
Mr Fujimori, who was president from 1990 to 2000, is accused of using state funds to pay his intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos $15m (£9.3m).
Mr Fujimori’s lawyer said his client was innocent of the charges.
In April, Mr Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in jail for ordering killings and kidnappings by the security forces.
The prosecution alleges that the former president illegally channelled huge sums to his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos.
The multi-million dollar payment was allegedly made just two months before corruption accusations in late 2000 abruptly ended Fujimori’s 10 years in power.
‘Not guilty’
Montesinos, who is currently in prison convicted of several charges including corruption and embezzlement, was at the centre of the scandal which erupted after videos emerged showing him bribing opposition politicians and media magnates.
Mr Fujimori’s lawyer said his client would plead not guilty to corruption.
"Fujimori is innocent. We are going to fight for his acquittal," Cesar Nakazaki said.
Several former ministers in Mr Fujimori’s administration are expected to testify.
The prosecution is seeking an eight-year sentence and a fine of some $660,000.
Mr Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in April after being found guilty of authorising an army death squad that killed 25 people in the early 1990s. He was already serving a six-year term after being found guilty in 2007 on separate charges of abuse of power.
The former president, who his supporters credit with crushing left-wing guerrillas during his time in office, still has residual support in Peru, says the BBC’s Dan Collyns in Lima.
Some opinion polls suggest his daughter, Keiko, is a frontrunner for the presidential elections due in 2011.</p
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