DWNLAD: More Bands + a Stage Name Change…

The News Review:

- DWNLAD: More Bands + a Stage Name Change…
- Boris Yeltsin laid to rest in Moscow
- John McCain to Formally Announce Presidential Bid; Deadly Tornado…
- General Petraeus Seeks Iraq Funding Bill Without Withdrawal Deadline;…
- Scoopy’s notebook

DWNLAD: More Bands + a Stage Name Change…
skiddle.com – Apr 25, 2007
The idea of naming a stage after him came to mind immediately. Anyone who met Dimebag saw him play or listened to his music knows that they were in the presence of someone very unique and very special. Dimebag Darrell was one of us and if he wasn’t in a band he’d be at Download in the crowd moshing and drinking and air guitaring with the rest of us… uk Celebrating its fifth anniversary Download Festival has so far announced an incredible line-up that includes My Chemical Romance Linkin Park and Iron Maiden as the headliners. Paramore Cancer Bats Satellite Party Head Automatica Napalm Death Suicidal Tendencies Saosin Zico Chain My Vitriol Yourcodenameis:Milo The Answer range Goblin Porcupine Tree and Anathema are the latest acts confirmed to play at the festival that guarantees the best rock music on the planet. Napalm Death have been one of the most influential metal bands of all time. They are generally acknowledged as the group that invented gridcore and are one of the top 20 best selling death metal bands of all time. This is their second appearance at Download. Napalm Deaths Mark Barney Greenway – "It was a great surprise to be asked to play Download again although the rabid response we got last time hopefully set us in good stead. I can’t wait! It’s always pleasurable to show such a large gathering of people how music can really be taken to the ninth degree.

Boris Yeltsin laid to rest in Moscow
USA Today – Apr 25, 2007
Following an 85-minute ceremony that echoed with priests’ chanting and a choir singing funeral liturgy the coffin — draped in the Russian tricolor — was driven in a black Mercedes hearse on a winding 7 kilometer (4-mile) procession through the city center and along the Moscow River. An armored military truck then drew the army-green caisson the final steps to Novodevichy along a carnation-strewn lane escorted by an goose-stepping honor guard and a crowd of foreign dignitaries and church leaders. With the coffin resting on a metal cart that resembled a hospital gurney and suggested perhaps some of the ceremony’s improvisation Yeltsin’s tearful widow Naina — dressed in a black dress and scarf — stroked his shock of white hair and tenderly kissed his forehead and cheeks. White-robed rthodox priests chanted prayers and swung censers before pallbearers closed the coffin and lower it into the ground. All major Russian television channels broadcast live from the cathedral the funeral procession and the cemetery burial which culminated in an artillery fusillade and the playing of the Russian national anthem. Yeltsin who died of heart failure Monday at age 76 pulled the country out from the Soviet Union and pushed it into a fitful democracy seeking to inject pluralism and vigor to Russia after decades of Communist repression and stagnation. The first freely elected president of Russia Yeltsin was admired for opposing the 1990 hard-line coup attempt but derided for his heavy drinking and despised for allowing insiders to snap up Russia’s industrial gems while millions of his countrymen plunged into poverty… “Fate has decreed that Russian liberators often are not understood — and are cursed by their people. But I think that history and mainly time will put everything in its place” Boris Nemtsov a former deputy prime minister said in comments to NTV. The last state funeral held in Moscow was for the death of Communist Party chief Konstantin Chernenko in 1985. Yeltsin’s funeral was improvised and in many ways unprecedented for Russia where in the past century the country’s leaders have been buried or interred in either aboveground church crypts in St. Petersburg or alongside the Kremlin walls or in a mausoleum on Red Square. Nikita Krushchev is the only Soviet leader to be buried at Novodevichy alongside writers Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Bulgakov and composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitry Shostakovich. The day’s events were also mixed with political symbolism — the burial at Novodevichy religious services for a nominally pious man in a cathedral restored during his presidency; the playing of the national anthem whose music is the same as the Soviet anthem.

John McCain to Formally Announce Presidential Bid; Deadly Tornado…
CNN International – Apr 25, 2007
What was he thinking as if he weren’t to get caught? All right. That’s straight ahead in the NEWSRM. HARRIS: At the top this morning people in southwest Texas waking up and getting a good look at what used to be — after a deadly storm — what used to be an elementary school what used to be more than 20 homes now piles of mangled wires metal and debris. possibly a tornado killed at least stix six people in and around the town of Eagle Pass. Four people including a small child died in a single home. And there was also devastation across the border in Mexico… Today police reveal what they’ve learned so far about the Virginia Tech massacre. The investigation coming up in the NEWSRM. WHITFIELD: Also a legendary music producer on trial today accused of killing an actress. Inside the Phil Specter case. That’s in the NEWSRM. (CMMERCIAL BREAK) HARRIS: And welcome back everyone to the CNN NEWSRM.

General Petraeus Seeks Iraq Funding Bill Without Withdrawal Deadline;…
CNN International – Apr 25, 2007
We are live in the center of the search-and-rescue efforts in Eagle Pass Texas. You are in the CNN NEWSRM. And severe weather tops our news this hour twisted metal collapsed buildings shattered dreams. A tornado ripped through the border city of Eagle Pass Texas overnight. It killed at least seven people. Five were from one family whose mobile home was pick up and slammed into a nearby school. And just across the Mexican border in Piedras Negras more deaths more destruction… He’s also suspected of wounding a third trooper yesterday. Sinister and deadly that is how a Los Angeles prosecutor describes Phil Spector. pening statements are under way in the legendary music producer’s murder trial in Los Angeles. Spector is accused of shooting an actress at his mansion four years ago. LEMN: The awesome destructive power of Hurricane Katrina well it reminded us just how crucial it is to know as much as possible before a hurricane hits. Now forecasters are in the process of beefing up their early warning system with a series of buoys off the coast of Puerto Rico. CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras following other weather news for us and this new news as well.

Scoopy’s notebook
The Villager – Apr 25, 2007
“It’s kind of like a faux New York to me” Bergman said “like they were trying to create a kitschy little New York street down the middle of the pier. ” But the plan still includes all the same uses such as a Cirque du Soleil theater four restaurants a music club and more. “For me it’s about content not architecture” said Bergman who backs the competing People’s Pier youth sports mecca proposal. Hundreds are expected at a public hearing on the two proposals on Thurs… The work is by Queens artist Jack Dowd who feels more should have been done to commemorate the recent 20th anniversary of Warhol’s death. “I equate him to Elvis” Dowd told the Post. Going to pot: Details about Saturday’s Global Marijuana March had been a bit hazy but it’s getting clearer. The event will start off in Washington Square Park from 11 a.