Axl Rose says that "no to Rock Hall"

Axl Rose

This weekend, Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will throw its annual induction ceremony and concert to celebrate its newest members, which include the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donovan and Guns N' Roses. Make that four-fifths of Guns N' Roses. Singer and co-founder Axl Rose released an open letter to the Rock Hall on Wednesday morning on The Times' Pop & Hiss blog declaring he'd skip the ceremony. He also requested that he not be inducted into the hall. "I won't be attending The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction 2012 Ceremony and I respectfully decline my induction as a member of Guns N' Roses to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame," Rose, 50, wrote in the letter. "I strongly request that I not be inducted in absentia and please know that no one is authorized nor may anyone be permitted to accept any induction for me or speak on my behalf. Neither former members, label representatives nor the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame should imply whether directly, indirectly or by omission that I am included in any purported induction of 'Guns N' Roses'."

Lollapalooza has revealed its official 2012 list of performers

Lollapalooza has revealed its official 2012 list of performers

The electronic dance groups follow headliners the Black Keys, Jack White, Black Sabbath and the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the diverse lineup. Lollapalooza begins Aug. 3 in Chicago.

FBI’s Most Wanted List included

fbi list of wanted

Officials believe he is working in some teaching capacity–perhaps tutoring, or advertising for those services–and has used the alias David Bussone. They are offering up to $100,000 as a reward for information leading to his capture.

“There is no comparison to be made between Toth and bin Laden… Although Eric Toth has not murdered anyone and he is not an international terrorist, that does not mean he isn’t dangerous. We are very concerned that he may be in contact with other children, so we are asking for the public’s assistance to help us capture him.” Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/218093/fbis-most-wanted-list-former-teacher-eric-toth-replaces-bin-laden/#D7FOQwv7S4kDbt2G.99

The FBI says that Toth has visited Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota since he disappeared form the Washington area in 2008. He was last seen in Phoenix in 2009. The FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for any information that leads to Toth’s arrest. Toth, 30, is 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs approximately 155 pounds. Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/218093/fbis-most-wanted-list-former-teacher-eric-toth-replaces-bin-laden/#D7FOQwv7S4kDbt2G.99

Pollard Powers Mumbai Indians up to sesosn 5

polard done job,

pollard

         Mumbai Indians (MI) won their second match in a row when they beat Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 27 runs at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Helped by Pollard’s all-round performance, Rayudu’s batting and Malinga’s and Munaf Patel’s heroics with the ball, MI with this went top of the table. Set a target of 198, RR’s final score doesn’t adequately reflect that till the 14th over of their run chase, RR were still very much on course.

          At 134 for 3 after 14 overs and Owais Shah playing a brilliant innings, it was the 15th of the RR innings bowled by Malinga in which he took two wickets including that of Owais Shah for 76 that changed the course of the match and permanently sealed the fate of RR. Pollard and Munaf then got into the act to clean up the rest of the batting and finish with 4 wickets each.

        For MI it was Kieron Pollard’s brutal knock of 64 off 33 balls which included 4 sixes that propelled their score to 197, the highest score in this season of IPL, so far. Coming in at the fall of the third wicket, Pollard in partnership with Rayudu added 96 runs in only 8.4 overs. Pollard’s blitz kreig overshowed a fine innings of 47 by Ambati Rayudu. Harbhajan Singh’s late hitting got MI to the total that RR found to be beyond them.

Maruti Suzuki , Ertiga lonch in market

"This car is meant for a compact-car customer wishing to upgrade to a bigger car," Managing Director Shinzo Nakanishi said at a press conference. "This [utility vehicles] is a promising segment and we have been largely missing from this segment."

Maruti, along with its component suppliers, spent 4.1 billion rupees to develop the Ertiga.

Customers have started preferring utility vehicles in India where family sizes tend to be large. Local sales of such vehicles rose 16.5% in the fiscal year ended March 31 to 367,012 autos. In comparison, total car sales grew just 2.2% to 2.02 million.

The company has priced the gasoline-powered variants of the model between 589,000 rupees ($11,460) and 730,000 rupees while it will sell the diesel engine ones for 730,000 rupees to 845,000 rupees.

Indonesia Earthquake 2012

Five people died from heart attacks, and a few others were injured as mobs used cars and motorcycles to flee to high ground in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh – closest to the epicenters. But aside from cracks in the walls of houses and structural damage to one bridge, you would hardly know anything happened, said Usman Basyah, smiling as he handed change to customers at his small street stall.

The first quake, measuring 8.6, triggered a tsunami watch in more than two dozen nations and island territories, from Australia and India to as far off as Africa. Hours later, a powerful 8.2-magnitude aftershock hit. Indian Ocean nations acted quickly. In southern India, police, including some on horseback, spread out across Chennai's popular Marina Beach to enforce an evacuation. Sri Lankan tsunami alert teams on motorcycles drove along the coast near the capital, urging people to move to higher ground.

"It wouldn't have been as bad," said Iskandar, a local disaster management official. "But I dare to say, if there had a been a repeat, there would have been deaths." The real luck came with the type of quake that hit. Indonesia, a sprawling archipelagic nation of 240 million people, straddles a series of fault lines that makes it one of the most seismically active places on the planet. Aceh, which sits off a subduction zone fault, were one tectonic plate of the Earth's crust dives under another, has experienced numerous mega-thrust quakes over time. It's these temblors that cause the seabed to rise or drop vertically, displacing massive amounts of water that race across the ocean at jetliner speeds. But experts say Wednesday's twin tremors occurred on what is known as a strike-slip fault. The sea floor shifted horizontally, creating more of a vibration in the water.