NEW YORK (AP) ? Several popular media websites in the New York area are inaccessible after a massive storm knocked out power to much of the city.
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Major news sites including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal appear to be operating.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Guided by executive producer John Lasseter, Walt Disney Animation Studios has clearly devoted significant resources and talent to "Wreck-It Ralph," recruiting a top-notch cast and a diverse array of animation, visual effects and lighting artists to contribute to the distinct and varied vid-game styles. With a mix of retro eye-candy for grown-ups and a thrilling, approachable storyline for the tykes, the film casts a wide and beguiling net.
Emulating a lo-res '80s video game, "Wreck-It Ralph" envisions the titular character as the short-tempered, sledgehammer-fisted, 600-pound bad guy competing against goody-good nemesis Felix in a game located in Mr. Litwak's (Ed O'Neill) video arcade that's known as "Fix-It Felix Jr." As Ralph (John C. Reilly) tells some fellow evildoers at his first "Bad-Anon" meeting, he's a reluctant villain, tired of always being the culprit who tears down the apartment building inhabited by the Nicelanders who worship Felix (Jack McBrayer) for his superior repair skills.
After 30 years of taking the blame, Ralph's ready for a change - he thinks maybe if he can earn a medal, the Nicelanders might give him some respect and invite them to one of their frequent cocktail parties. Traveling through the arcade's power cords and surge protectors, Ralph journeys to Game Central Station, the gateway to every game in the store. Hearing that first-person shooter challenge "Hero's Duty" awards a medal for bravery, Ralph suits up to join no-nonsense Sergeant Calhoun's (Jane Lynch) platoon to battle the Cy-Bugs, a nasty computer virus in the form of cyber spiders.
Escaping hi-def "Hero's Duty" with the coveted service medal, Ralph crash-lands one of Calhoun's spaceships into "Sugar Rush," a Candy Land-styled race-car game, after he's attacked onboard by a massive Cy-Bug. He quickly loses his citation to pint-sized Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman), a little girl determined to compete in one of "Sugar Rush's" prestigious races. Her bratty attitude and refusal to return the medal, which she can use to stake her spot in an upcoming competition, enrage Ralph, but he's powerless to force the girl to do his bidding.
Following an unpleasant encounter with "Sugar Rush" dictator King Candy (Alan Tudyk), Ralph allies himself with Vanellope in a plan to recover his medal and help the kid win a spot in the race. But first they'll have to in break into the King's specialized factory and build a competitive race car - and it might be a good idea for Vanellope to actually learn to drive it. Meanwhile, Felix has abandoned the "Wreck-It Ralph" game and the Nicelanders, joining up with Calhoun on a quest to retrieve his friend and protect "Sugar Rush" from the Cy-Bugs before the game gets flatlined.
Although the script is an original by Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee, with its tortured toy characters facing obsolescence and searching for freedom and meaning, it bears a distinct Pixar DNA signature. Johnston and Lee don't stray too far from the Disney template, however, and although the characters are digital, their emotions are very recognizably human. Since Ralph and Vanellope are both outcasts, their struggles for acceptance are comfortably similar and familiar.
Making his feature film debut, Emmy-award winning director Rich Moore ("The Simpsons") ably manipulates the action by tantalizingly shifting the characters between game worlds. Effortlessly orchestrating a dizzying variety of visual elements, Moore consistently manages to keep the focus on Ralph and his comrade's multiplying perils. Visually, Pixar's influence is also evident in the level of detail lavished on the wide range of quirky characters and nearly every setting and background scene. Fortunately the more sugar-coated sentiments are mostly dialed back in favor of genuine character development and rousing, digitally realistic 3D action.
The audience's POV is occasionally represented by a girl who frequents the "real world" of Mr. Litwak's video arcade, where she interacts with all of the games depicted in the film. Game-play visual elements are used to enhance the impression of actually playing the arcade consoles, which can sometimes get distractingly disorienting as the narrative slips in and out of the video arcade setting.
An enthusiastic cast lends voice to the characters, led by Reilly, capably evincing the role of Wreck-It Ralph. His sad-sack sentiments, however, are frequently overshadowed by the hyperactive and super-snarky Vanellope. Silverman fully inhabits the character, marvelously calibrating her voice's volume, insinuating tone and emotional impact to match the character's antic facial expressions and unpredictable behavior. Tudyk is ridiculously over the top as the punning Mad-Hatter meets Wizard of Oz-like King Candy, while McBrayer and Lynch add surprising dimensionality to the increasingly smitten pair of Felix and Calhoun.
Editor Tim Mertens modulates the sometimes frenetic pace with brief interludes of introspection and camaraderie that help fill in the characters. Henry Jackman's lively score is supplemented by musical selections from R&B star Rihanna, electronica artist Skrillex and classic Kool & the Gang, among others.
"Wreck-It Ralph," a Disney release, is rated PG for some rude humor and mild action/violence. Running time: 93 minutes.
Motion Picture Association of America rating definition for PG: Parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Monday adjourned until October 10 an appeal hearing for the three members of the Pussy Riot punk band jailed over a profanity-laced anti-Kremlin protest in a church after one of the trio dismissed her lawyers.
Supporters of the group in colourful T-shirts let off red, white and blue balloons saying "Pussy Riot" outside the court as Russian Orthodox Christians sang hymns and accused the women of blasphemy.
Inside the crowded Moscow courtroom, Yekaterina Samutsevich, sitting in a glass cage with her band mates, told the judges she disagreed with her lawyers' handling of the case and fired them.
"My position on the criminal case does not match their position," Samutsevich said of her lawyers.
The hearing was delayed for 10 days to give Samutsevich time to hire new lawyers as she seeks a reduction of the two-year sentence, which drew criticism of President Vladimir Putin from abroad after it was handed down on August 17.
Western governments see the sentences as excessive, and opposition groups see it as part of a crackdown on dissent by Putin, but many Russians regard the protest band as irreverent self-publicists.
Samutsevich, 30, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Maria Alyokhina, 24, were convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after storming into the Christ the Saviour Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Moscow in February and belting out a "punk prayer" asking the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Putin.
Relatives and defense lawyers of the three women suggested Samutsevich's decision was a result of pressure by the state authorities intended to persuade them to plead guilty.
They have until now remained united, saying they were not guilty of any crime and that they did not mean to offend Orthodox Russian Christians.
Samutsevich's father, Stanislav, said he hoped to convince his daughter to reverse her decision: "I think it's a very deep mistake, some mistaken assessment of what is happening."
"I think there is some delusion and also one feels some pressure from the outside on Katya. Apparently they promised her something. I have this strange feeling that somebody is trying to break the whole defense apart," he added.
Mark Feigin, one of three defense lawyers, said the decision could weaken the women's defense in a case they say is politically motivated.
"The pressure is not subsiding. It continues and it would be naive to think that the authorities will just let it go," said another defense lawyer, Nikolai Polozov.
"From various sides they are trying to weaken their position. They have the line of not admitting guilt, and consider that they have committed only an administrative offence ... The authorities don't like that."
CASE DIVIDES RUSSIANS
Global celebrities, including Paul McCartney and Madonna, called for leniency for the women before their verdict last month.
But their two-year sentences were seen by the opposition, and by some Western governments, as part of increasingly aggressive tactics against the opposition following the biggest protests of Putin's 12 years in power.
Since Putin's return to the Kremlin in May for a six-year term, parliament has expelled an opposition leader and approved laws raising fines for protesters, stiffening punishment for defamation and tightening checks on foreign-funded lobby groups.
Another bill under consideration would institute jail terms of up to three years for offending religious feelings.
A group of Orthodox believers quoted the law in their request to prosecutors in the southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don to ban the staging of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar in a local theatre, local officials said.
They said believers had asked for the musical to be cancelled but ticket sales had been resumed after half a day's suspension as the theatre considered what to do.
A church spokesman on Sunday urged the trio to repent. A pardon or a reduced sentence would require them to admit guilt.
The band say the protest, in bright ski masks, tights and short skirts, was motivated by anger over Putin's closeness to Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church who has called Putin's rule a "miracle of God".
A recent official opinion poll showed that more than half of Russians disapprove of what Pussy Riot did and consider their two-year sentence to be just. Less than a third said the opposite.
Many Russian Orthodox believers consider Christ the Saviour one of the most revered holy sites in the country, where religion has flourished since the Soviet Union's collapse.
(Additional reporting by Nastassia Astrasheuskaya, Editing by Timothy Heritage and Giles Elgood)
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TEHRAN ? ?An Iranian official says Tehran plans to create its own search engine and e-mail service to replace Google and its Gmail e-mail service, even as it weights lifting a ban on Gmail enacted in response to an anti-Islam film.
Sunday reports by Iranian newspapers including the independent Aftab daily quote Deputy Telecommunications Minister Ali Hakim Javadi as saying he hoped to launch the Fakhr search engine and Fajr e-mail in the near future.
Hakim Javadi said authorities are discussing lifting the ban on Gmail imposed by an Iranian court in response to the posting of the film on YouTube, which is owned by Google.
Google's search engine service is still available.
Tehran has long promised to launch its own "clean" and "national" version of the Internet to curb Western influence.
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Yandex today is doubling down in its ongoing battle to make sure that Google doesn?t eat away its market share in Russia, with the launch of two products that aim directly at some of Google?s strongest touchpoints with consumers (and the wider ecosystem of developers). Yandex today is launching its own Internet browser, and it is also launching its first app store ? with the former targeting desktop users and the latter a move to extend its position in the mobile market.
The company says that both are being rolled out first in Russia, with the intention to then take them to other markets where Yandex operates, such as Turkey and other CIS republics ? and then take them worldwide. ?We see Google pushing into the Russian market and we have to answer symmetrically,? a Yandex insider told me. ?We launched our own browser that is available in Russia now, but it will also be a product for the rest of CIS, Turkey and the World soon.?
The move to offer more products beyond search is an essential move for Yandex, not only to remain competitive against companies in its home market like Google and Mail.ru ? which last week launched its Amigo ?social browser? ? but to also continue building out its business. Although Yandex currently has just over 60% of all searches in Russia, that share has declined over the years and so it will need to look at other avenues, and other geographies, to bolster its business.
The product announcements follow news from two weeks ago, in which Yandex was revealed to be the mapping partner for Apple in Russia ? providing listings info and other data at a time when Apple has been scrambling in other markets to provide a comprehensive and reliable Maps app to rival the experience that users had when Apple had been partnered with Google for its native mapping app.
Yandex for now is still dominant enough in search that even on Google?s Chrome in Russia, it dominates searches, according to statistics from Live Internet. That?s saying quite a bit, considering that Google is the default search in Chrome and changing that requires more than just a click. It is also the top search engine for those using the Firefox browser in Russia.
The internet browser being launched today is only for desktop users, although it seems like it will only be a matter of time before Yandex brings it to mobile devices as well. Yandex is already offering users a suite of products online beyond search ? not just maps, but also a cloud storage solution (Yandex.Drive), music streaming services (Yandex.Music), and email, and much of this has also been built for multiscreen (desktop/mobile/tablet) use.
As it is with Google, Yandex?s intention is to sell search and display advertising against all of this.
Just as you get in Chrome, the search and browsing window is merged ? but where it differs from Chrome is that users can easily change their search providers (going even to Google if they want). The reason, perhaps, that Yandex is less tied to people sticking with its search engine is because it has integrated so many other Yandex services in with the browser: they include current traffic or weather conditions, in real time, directly in the browser interface. (See screenshot below.)
And in a concession to its core audience of users who speak primarily Russian and other languages that are not English, the browser uses machine-learning technology to help intuit results for users that are relevant even if the user cannot search in the languages needed to find those results in the first place. Yandex is also using Kaspersky technology to screen and warn users of malicious websites.
?Cloud-based browsing is a next-generation answer to the challenges of the modern internet,? said Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex, in a statement. ?To make the Internet experience faster, easier and safer for everyone, we have built a cloud-based browser that integrates the best of our products and services and is open to other web developers.?
The web browser is built on WebKit, and the user interface is based on Chromium ? meaning that developers can easily build apps and extensions to work with the browser as well.
The developer push is also being highlighted through Yandex?s mobile app store announcement too.
This Android-focused store, which is launching in the next couple of weeks, is another move by Yandex to further its reach on mobile devices. TechCrunch understands that it will be launching with a number of applications out of the box from Yandex itself (Search, Mail, Disk, and some different geolocation apps), as well as those developed by third parties ? 40,000 at all from launch. Yandex is able to do this because it?s developing it with Opera Mobile, which has its own app storefront and is also working with third-parties on white-label services.
As with Amazon?s app store, Yandex?s effort appears to be aimed squarely at those handset makers that are working with forked versions of Android, and therefore cannot offer Google?s Play storefront. As with China, Russia is shaping up to be a strong market for these companies, and Yandex tells me that there are at least three handset makers ? Pocketbook, texet and 3Q ? that will be shipping devices preloaded with Yandex?s app store.
Similar to other app storefronts, Yandex is splitting revenues 70/30.
And interestingly, Yandex says that it is also taking its app store white-label to carriers, with MegaFon preparing now to launch its own Yandex-powered app store.
Although Yandex has stopped short of looking at a mobile operating system of its own, these moves to put it ever closer to that happening, too. A Yandex spokesperson declined to comment on that question.
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Yandex is an internet technologies company that operates in Russia, CIS and Turkey. It is the largest Russian and fifth-largest world internet search engine. Yandex is an acronym for the phrase Yet Another Indexer. As of December 2011, Yandex had 60.9% of the Russian search market (source: LiveInternet.ru). Yandex?s mission is to give the answer to the user anytime and anywhere. Company provides its services for desktop and mobile users and develops embedded solutions as well. The company specializes on highly-targeted sophisticated...
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