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Juventus sack Del Neri Posted: 21 May 2011 06:56 AM PDT TURIN, May 21 — Juventus coach Luigi Del Neri has been sacked and will leave after tomorrow's final game of the season against Napoli as the once mighty club again try desperately to rediscover former glories. "The club told me of their decision during the week," Del Neri (picture), whose side lie seventh in Serie A after a second season of woe, told a news conference today. "It is not my defeat. I hope it is the right choice. Good luck to whoever replaces me." The twice European Cup winners, Italy's best supported and most decorated club domestically, also finished seventh last term and have only an outside chance of overhauling sixth-placed AS Roma and sealing a Europa League spot tomorrow. Former Juve midfielder Antonio Conte, who led Siena to promotion to Serie A this term, is the bookmakers' favourite to take over. Conte was at the centre of one of the best midfields in Europe in the 1990s and early 2000s as Juve routinely dominated Serie A and consistently reached the latter stages of the Champions League. Since then Juve have endured a dreadful spell on and off the field. Their 2006 demotion for match-fixing was followed by an immediate return to the top flight and a third-place finish but last term both Ciro Ferrara and Alberto Zaccheroni failed to stop the rot and they ended up a lowly seventh. Del Neri was brought in having guided Sampdoria to fourth last term but Juve again struggled in the transfer market, failing to recruit the very top talent with the stigma of match-fixing still haunting the club. Juve will move to a new stadium for next season on the site of their old Stadio Delle Alpi having shared with Torino at the cramped Stadio Olimpico since 2006. They will become the first Italian club to own their own ground but difficulties finiding a sponsor for the new stadium have again undermined their attempt at renaissance. Conte brought Bari up to Serie A two years ago but then left after a disagreement before a short unhappy spell at Atalanta, who have been linked in the media with a move for former boss Del Neri now they are back in the top flight. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Beaten Westwood in danger of losing No. 1 spot Posted: 21 May 2011 05:34 AM PDT Beaten Westwood in danger of losing No. 1 spot Westwood hits out of a bunker on the 15th hole during the World Matchplay Championship in Casares, near Malaga, Spain on May 21, 2011. — Reuters pic ESTEPONA (Spain), May 21 — Luke Donald and Germany's Martin Kaymer are in a battle to dethrone Lee Westwood as world number one after the Briton suffered a shock defeat in the last 16 of the World Match Play Championship today. Westwood was beaten by Ryder Cup team mate Ian Poulter, who birdied the short 17th and held on to win by one hole. Donald also struggled when taken to the 19th by Swedish outsider Johan Edfors but prevailed to give himself hope of being world number one for the first time on Sunday. Kaymer, looking to regain the global top spot, eased through to the quarterfinals with a 3 and 2 success over Dane Soren Kjeldsen. US Open champion Graeme McDowell won the battle of Ryder Cup partners by defeating fellow Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy 3 and 2. South African Charl Schwartzel, the US Masters champion, matched Englishman Ross Fisher's eagle at the last to close out the defending champion by one hole. Spain's Alvaro Quiros, Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium and Italian Francesco Molinari also went through. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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Rival airlines battle over Japan’s skies Posted: 21 May 2011 02:46 AM PDT All Nippon Airways carried more passengers than JAL in 2010 and opened new facilities at Haneda airport. — AFP pic TOKYO, May 21 — Innovation and upgrades have helped propel All Nippon Airways past Japan Airlines and made it the most popular Japanese carrier in terms of passenger traffic. The rival airlines have announced their figures for domestic and international travellers for fiscal 2010, which ended on March 31, with 43,059,622 passengers opting to fly with ANA, an increase of 1.6 per cent on the previous year. JAL, in comparison, transported 41,923,452 passengers during the year, a decline of 12.6 per cent. Of that figure, international passengers were down an alarming 19.9 per cent and those flying on domestic routes fell by 10.5 per cent. JAL's financial worries meant that it was obliged in April 2010 to announce that it was suspending operations on 45 domestic and international routes that were not profitable. ANA has overtaken JAL in terms of passenger numbers for the first time since 2002, when JAL linked up with Japan Air System. Both companies would have reported better figures if dozens of flights to and from airports in northeast Japan had not been cancelled after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Services on those routes, such as to the city of Sendai, are being restored but remain significantly below their previous levels. Nevertheless, ANA's policy of investing in technology and improved facilities for its customers appears to be paying off. In October, the company's hub of Haneda International Airport opened a new international terminal equipped to deal with a surge in new travellers wanting to use a facility that is much closer to and more convenient for central Tokyo than the city's other airport, at Narita. The state-of-the-art facility is able to handle Airbus 380 aircraft and ANA immediately launched new routes linking Haneda with London, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Singapore, Bangkok and Taipei. To meet the needs of all those additional travellers, ANA has opened a series of new lounges and restaurants, as well as introducing its "Click" self-service check-in booths. The airport has also won acclaim for the universal design principles that have been incorporated into passenger areas, meaning that facilities take into consideration the needs of people with a wide range of disabilities. ANA also beat its great domestic rival to the punch when it released an iPad app in March. The ANA Virtual Airport provides access to articles from the airline's in-flight magazine, "Wingspan," videos and other information for anyone using its flights. The airline announced in mid-May a co-operation agreement with Mongolian airline Eznis Airways, while it is also putting the finishing touches to a joint venture with a Hong Kong investment group to create Japan's first low-cost carrier. That is designed to make it competitive against the growing number of similar airlines appearing across the Asia-Pacific region, from Malaysia's AirAsia X to Jetstar of Australia and Philippines-based Cebu Pacific Air. JAL, on the other hand, is still struggling to rebuild its finances and reputation after filing for bankruptcy in January 2010. The company also announced on Tuesday that it was having to further reduce its capacity on both international and domestic routes due to the decline in demand. — AFP-Relaxnews Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Normandy beach town prepares for G8 invasion Posted: 21 May 2011 02:27 AM PDT General view of Deauville's main street on the eve of the opening of the American Film Festival in Deauville on September 2, 2010. — Reuters pic DEAUVILLE (France), May 21 — The gently sloping beaches of Normandy lend themselves well to invasions. From here, William the Conqueror set out to invade England in 1066 and in World War II they were the landing site for the allied assault on Nazi-occupied France. Next week, Normandy's seaside resort town of Deauville will see an invasion of a gentler kind: the annual Group of Eight summit, which will gather 18 heads of state and 2,500 delegation members to discuss North African unrest and other global issues. The G8 dignitaries should feel right at home in Deauville, which has been the playground of the Parisian elite for decades. In 1858, the Duke of Morny, a half-brother of Napoleon III, decided to create "a kingdom of elegance" and built the first half-timbered villas that give Deauville its unique look. A railway to Paris brought an aristocratic public, and the addition of a casino and luxury hotels set up Deauville to become one of Europe's party towns in the Roaring Twenties. Just two hours from Paris, Deauville is still a haunt for the wealthy, although the crowd is less exclusive now. "Deauville is the logical place for an event like the G8. It has long been used to hosting important people from the world of politics and business," said Sebastien Bouchereau, who has written about Normandy for many years for a local newspaper. After the war, dozens of villas were destroyed and replaced by apartment buildings. The more egalitarian post-war zeitgeist took the edge off Deauville's elitism and by the time it served as a backdrop for Claude Lelouch's "Un homme et une femme" film in 1966, the city looked more dreamy than worldly. In recent years, the town of 4,000 people has been trying to extend its short summer tourist season, launching an American film festival and building a conference centre. The cavernous hall that will host the G8 on May 26-27 was built 14 metres below sea level so as not to block the ocean view. It has hosted a series of meetings, most recently the leaders of France, Germany and Russia, but the gathering of the Group of Eight major economies is its biggest yet. "I hope that an important decision will be taken here and that it will be known as the Deauville decision. Like Bretton Woods," town mayor Philippe Augier told Reuters. He may be disappointed on that front. No big agreements are expected on burning issues like the conflict in Libya, and the agenda could be hijacked by a debate over who should head the International Monetary Fund following Dominique Strauss-Kahn's resignation over sex assault charges. Augier's bigger worry is whether, despite deploying some 12,000 police, the event could be marred by riots or attacks. G8 summits have become lightning rods for anti-globalisation protest and since the disastrous 2001 meeting in Genoa, Italy, where a protester was shot and killed by police, all G8s have been in held in remote areas that are easily sealed off. Recent venues have included a lakeside resort in Canada, a hilltop hotel in Japan and a Baltic seaside resort in Germany. Activists are usually banned to a different town. This year, NGOs are allowed to meet in Le Havre, 40km away. Oxfam France director Luc Lampriere said he regretted that activists had no access to the summit. Asked if beaches could be used for an NGO invasion of sorts, he said: "We don't have a navy and if we did I would not give away our plans." But if the remote locations have kept protesters at bay, it has not stopped attacks elsewhere. During the 2005 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, Islamist suicide bombers killed 52 people in an attack on the London transport system. Authorities have reason to be worried: the Deauville G8 is the first summit since US forces killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, France has led the West's intervention in Libya and its ban on full-face Muslim veils has triggered calls for armed retaliation. Eight of the 16 people killed in a bomb attack on a cafe in Marrakesh, Morocco, last month were French. "Vigilance was high already, but it has gone up a notch due to the death of bin Laden and the Marrakesh attack," interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told Reuters. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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Film-noir ‘Drive’ shifts Cannes into high gear Posted: 21 May 2011 02:46 AM PDT Canadian actor Ryan Gosling and Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn pose during the photocall of 'Drive' presented in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2011 in Cannes. – AFP pic CANNES, May 21 – The Cannes film festival got a shot of high-octane drama yesterday with "Drive," a violent film-noir thriller set in Los Angeles, rich in Detroit iron and inspired in part by the Brothers Grimm. Canadian actor Ryan Gosling stars in Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn's tale of a solitary Hollywood stunt-car driver and part-time wheelman for armed robbers who morphs into a cold-blooder killer after a pawn-shop heist gone bad. Based on a James Sallis novella, it's one of the few films up for the Palme d'Or – the coveted top prize to be awarded tomorrow when the festival wraps – that doesn't dwell on dysfunctional families or sexual deviants. Refn, 40, who calls "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" his all-time favourite movie, has a strong track record for crime flicks, including the ultra-violent 2006 Sundance festival opener "Bronson". "Drive," however, owes something to the Grimms' fairy tales which Refn said he has been telling his own young daughter. "While I was reading them, I thought it would be interesting to make a movie just like a fairy tale," he said, albeit one about a "psychotic" man of few words who drives the streets like a knight "looking for someone to save". Refn is one of two Danes in the running for the Palme d'Or. The other is veteran Lars van Trier, who was barred Thursday from the festival over remarks he made about Hitler, although his "Melancholia" remains in competition. "Drive" makes the most of its bleak La La Land setting and an all-American cast of wheels including a plain-vanilla Chevrolet Impala, a pimped-up Monte Carlo and an elephantine Chrysler 300 that Gosling totals with a Ford Mustang. "The film had to be shot in Los Angeles because the book is very much about movie mythology," said the director, who ironically has no driver's licence. "And my wife wasn't going to live in Detroit." Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan co-stars as the innocent next-door neighbour befriended by Gosling's character, known simply as Driver, and Oscar Isaac is her husband whose early release from prison turns the plot. Christina Hendricks of television's "Mad Men" appears briefly as a robber's accomplice who is among the first of many to be blown away in graphic Quentin Tarantino-style fashion. Cannes jury president Robert De Niro will no doubt see something of Travis, his legendary "are you lookin' at me" character in Martin Scorcese's Palme d'Or winner "Taxi Driver", in Gosling's crisp portrayal of Driver. Fellow juror Uma Thurman should likewise feel at home with the shotgun blasts and gushing blood that recall her work with Tarantino in another Cannes winner, "Pulp Fiction". Refn, whose director-editor father Anders Refn is a major figure in Denmark's close-knit film industry, shoots his scenes in chronological order and thus found that "Drive" "dictated the way it wants to be made". "When you make a film like this, it's like working in freefall – like, 'let's see what happens'," he said of his "hyper-realistic fairy tale". – AFP Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Lady Gaga finally hatches ‘Born This Way’ Posted: 20 May 2011 10:08 PM PDT The cover art from the "Born This Way" album. — Reuters pic NEW YORK, May 21 — She once performed in New York's small bars searching for followers, but pop's reigning queen Lady Gaga will likely score a huge audience when her second full-length studio album is officially released next week. Early reviews for "Born This Way," which has already leaked onto the Internet ahead of the official May 23 release, have been modest. But a publicity blitz and Gaga's social media power should produce strong sales regardless of whether it is any better than her first studio album "The Fame", say music experts. "The first-week sales figures are going to be pretty massive; after that, it will be up to the people to decide whether it really has legs," Leah Greenblatt, music critic for Entertainment Weekly told Reuters. "But doesn't she win either way? Clearly, we can't stop talking about her, and we won't any time soon." Ensuring the 25-year-old New York singer's chances, Greenblatt noted that Interscope Records, part of Universal Music Group, was "blanketing the album at every retail outlet short of Baskin Robbins." Billboard said Gaga would likely oust British singer Adele's "21" — the biggest selling album of the year with 1.7 million copies and counting — from her eight week reign at the top of the Hot 200 album charts. "Born This Way," could be set for first week US sales in the range of 450,000 to 750,000 copies, according to Billboard. One fan website is devoted to getting the album to sell one million copies in its first week. This proposed cover design was lampooned by fans and critics. Country singer Taylor Swift sold 1.047 million first week copies of "Speak Now" in the United States last November, in what was the fastest selling new album in five years. Although the first four singles from "Born This Way" were already released, all fourteen tracks were streamed in Europe this week. Early reviews have been positive, if not glowing. Rolling Stone magazine said she still threw in some surprises. The single, "Born This Way," which moved one million iTunes downloads in just five days in February, "sounds different in the context of the album that shares its name: like an experiment in the audacious plus-sizing of Eighties dance-pop," Rolling Stone said. The Los Angeles Times review was less enthusiastic, noting with every style on the album from flamenco to blues, the "overriding influences are 70s disco and glam-rock". But although there were interesting moments, the album wasn't groundbreaking. "If Gaga had only spent as much time on pushing musical boundaries as she has social ones, 'Born This Way' would have been a lot more successful." Such is Gaga's influence that she ousted Oprah Winfrey to claim No. 1 in Forbes' annual "The Celebrity 100" list that measures power by entertainment-related earnings, media visibility and social media popularity. "To make this record successful, all she needed to do was produce something — almost anything — bold enough for people to react to. And 'Born This Way' is, from the cover on in, a fire hose of such things," New York Magazine said Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, is a master of managing her quirky image with flamboyant fashion choices and uniting a range of fans with messages of self-expression, feminism, sexual freedom and inclusiveness. Greenblatt said Gaga, who has 32 million Facebook fans and 10 million Twitter followers, had "relentlessly hyped" the album for months. "She first came at us three years ago in this very sneaky way; her debut album sort of crept in the side-door of pop culture and just built this incredible, organic momentum. So in a lot of ways 'Born This Way' is the opposite of that." And she hasn't shied away from again encouraging the eccentric image she promotes. Asked what she does with all her costumes, she told entertainment news show EXTRA: "They go to that planet G.O.A.T. The place I was in the 'Born this Way' video — the Government Owned Alien Territory in space. I just send it all there. It's in a giant archive just in sort of a centrifugal gravity situation." Then again, she sometimes sounds more homely. She has received "a bunch of emails about how much the fans loved," her album, she told EXTRA. "I was so happy. You know what I did? I went into the kitchen and I made spaghetti with mussels and shrimp and a white wine sauce." — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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Blackpool and Birmingham? Posted: 20 May 2011 05:27 PM PDT MAY 21 — Throughout the season it's seemed likely that the race for English Premier League survival would be closely contested, and so it has proven with five teams entering the final weekend of the campaign anxious to avoid the remaining two places alongside already relegated West Ham. Out of that quintet — Wolves and Blackburn level on 40 points, Birmingham, Blackpool and Wigan just below them on 39 — the prospects appear to be bleakest for Blackpool, who must obtain at least a point from their game against newly-crowned champions Manchester United at Old Trafford. The only silver lining for Ian Holloway's team is the fact that United have already sewn up the title and can therefore rest a number of key players in preparation for next weekend's Champions League Final against Barcelona. But that still probably won't be enough — the players picked by Sir Alex Ferguson should be desperate to improve their chances of appearing at Wembley by producing a strong performance tomorrow, and it would be a major surprise if Blackpool are able to pick up the point they need to give themselves a chance of avoiding the drop. None of the other relegation candidates face particularly easy games, either: Wigan are away at Stoke, Birmingham travel to Tottenham, and Wolves and Blackburn face each other at Molineux. It's always notoriously difficult to predict how end-of-season fixtures will turn out — mid-table teams have nothing to play for and are therefore likely to be somewhat less committed than normal. However, that more relaxed approach can also allow players to express themselves and play without fear, so you can never be quite sure what kind of opponent you might face. Having said that, this would appear to be a good time for Wigan to take on Stoke. The Potters invested a great deal of emotional energy into their FA Cup Final appearance against Manchester City last weekend, which was effectively the climax of their successful season. Whether they'll have the stomach for another intense encounter against desperate opposition has to be questionable, and Wigan should be able to pick up at least a point if they can banish their own nerves. And a point could be all that Wigan need, because it's difficult to see how Birmingham can escape from their trip to White Hart Lane with anything to their name — if Tottenham are properly motivated. Spurs cast aside their poor recent form and returned to fifth place — the Europa League qualification benchmark — with an unexpected 2-0 win at Liverpool last weekend. Harry Redknapp's team would feel that fifth is the least they deserve for their efforts on two fronts this season, and the Londoners will therefore be keen to ensure that they finish above Liverpool — even if it means the mixed blessing of a place in next season's Europa League, a competition that Redknapp has publicly derided in recent weeks. Birmingham are in the worst form out of all teams in the relegation battle, having picked up just one point from their last five games, and the Blues succumbed with surprising ease to Fulham in their final home fixture last weekend. I feel they will be counting on other results to go in their favour this weekend. Wolves and Blackburn will go head to head at Molineux in the knowledge that a point would probably be enough to keep them afloat, so that could well be the outcome of their meeting. But Wolves have found winning ways at just the right time and possess the momentum to pick up another three points if required. So my prediction, for what it's worth, is as follows: Wolves and Blackburn draw; Wigan pick up a point at Stoke; Birmingham lose at Tottenham; Blackpool lose at Manchester United; Birmingham and Blackpool relegated. The other outstanding issue to be finalised is the identity of the team finishing third, with Manchester City currently in pole position, one point ahead of Arsenal following a disastrous slump in form for the Gunners. It's significant because the fourth-placed side will have to go through a preliminary round in next season's Champions League, rather than entering immediately into the lucrative group stage. And plenty of formidable opponents lie in wait for that qualifying round, including Bayern Munich, Udinese or Lazio, Lyon or Paris St Germain, Villareal and FC Twente. For Arsenal, in particular, a tough draw could easily end up with them being dumped out of the Champions' League before the competition has properly got underway — especially if they lose Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona, as expected, during the summer. The Gunners' final game of an increasingly frustrating campaign sees them face a tough London derby away at in-form Fulham, while City make the equally short journey travel to Bolton. Arsene Wenger's side simply must win (and those are the games that they usually manage to lose), but if City can pick up three points at Bolton — who have nothing to play for in that unpredictable mid-table safety zone — it will all be irrelevant and Arsenal will be subjected to the luck of the draw. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Once a fan… Posted: 20 May 2011 05:22 PM PDT MAY 21 — Even though I'm fast approaching the status of an old geezer (turning 34 this July), I still find it a lot of fun going to gigs and checking out the bands and music there. In addition to the gigs that my band and I play at almost every week or so, I also make it a point to try and catch as many other interesting-sounding gigs as possible. Sometimes people are surprised when they see me turning up at gigs where the music played is miles away from my own band's happy clappy simple pop songs. But even as a teenager in high school, I would make the pilgrimage from the sleepy town of Ipoh to Kuala Lumpur and bunk at friends' houses just to catch a particular gig. I've always loved just sitting back and enjoying whatever aural pleasures (or torture) are on offer by the bands onstage, quietly trying to decipher and decide whether I like the bands or not and why. Even during my teenage years I've always been the wallflower type, so you won't really see me kicking around in the moshpit. But some of the scene's old timers will still remember me as that quiet geeky kid at the back of the room who wore all sorts of black t-shirts. Featuring mostly local underground bands. Sometimes the old timers would even say hi to me, precisely because of the t-shirts I wore (which are usually not so easy to find), and I'd be one very happy kid for having the chance to talk to one of my heroes. One of the reasons why I still remain optimistic about the health of the local independent music scene is that I always manage to find something to be excited about at one of these gigs. I find it quite remarkable that I'll almost always run into some new band I've barely heard of before, who will excite the hell out of me with their songs. Very often, they will be surprised when I come up to them like a giddy little fan after the show telling them how much I loved their stuff and how I think they definitely deserve to be a respected band. If not now, then at the very least in the very near future. Being the geek that I am, I guess I've always remained a fan at heart. Even if I play in a band myself. I've never had a problem with a band that I love "outshining" my band (as some people have kindly put it, hehe). In fact, being in an "older" band, I've always felt it a responsibility to help out or highlight whatever new bands I really like and that I feel deserve more exposure, usually by having them open for us at our album launch gigs, talking about them during interviews or maybe even organising a show just so that more people can have the chance to discover them. In fact, I feel kind of proud that huge mainstream stars like Bunkface and Yuna or a cult act like Tenderfist have opened for us in the past while we still remain the happy-go-lucky underdogs that we've always been after all these years. Like any true fan, I feel truly proud seeing them spread their wings like that. Just like how I got excited when I first met the nice kids of Bunkface or the currently inactive and criminally underrated emo geniuses The Dearly Missed at the proms we've played at in the last few years. The past few months have also seen me get all fanboy-ish at the prospect of some new (or new-ish) bands still either hovering under the radar or just in the infant stages of their band lives. How they'll all turn out later on this year or next year is anybody's guess, but just to experience that rush of magic seeing and hearing them for the first time, when I basically have almost zero knowledge about them or their music, is something that I'll always cherish. Once a fan, always a fan, as they say. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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