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Lonesome Heroes bring ‘cosmic American’ sound to Top Hat
The Lonesome Heroes, a band from Austin, Texas, describe their music as “cosmic American,” and fans of Gram Parsons should know what that means: Some light psychedelic pop and folk brightening the country grit.
Their latest album, “Daydream Western,” has strong country-folk leanings with some poppier touches inspired by more recent dream-pop obsessives like Yo La Tengo and the Magnetic Fields. However, there’s a heavier emphasis on the twang thanks to Landry McMeans’ slide work on the Dobro.
McMeans, who also contributes some of the finest vocal performances on the album, forms the core of the band with her partner Rich Russell on guitar. They sometimes duet, as on the chugging rocker “Seeing is Believing,” and other times step up for a solo turn on vocals, such as McMeans’ nicely restrained singing on “AM Radio.”
Supporting all those mournful songs about hitting the road, moving on, or finding escape is a gorgeous production job by Austin steel guitarist Gary Newcomb. The album is filled with tasteful details that never overwhelm the songs, such as a short kick from a horn section on the end of “Highway 287.”
The Lonesome Heroes hit the highway for a performance at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St., on Saturday, Sept. 1. The cover is $5.
Tunes: The Lonesome Heroes, Alister M to play show Thursday at High Desert
Tracy R. Patrick/For Pulse
The Lonesome Heroes describe their own music as "Cosmic American music." The band's twangy, folk sound was described in one review as "a cross-pollination of rock, folk and country with psych and indie pop." "We actually have a lot of trouble figuring out what to call our music. We used to call it psychedelic country music. But it wasn't quite right," said Rich Russell, one half of the duo that makes up the band. "The instrumention is more like indie rock. We're not trying to be a Texas country band. We have a more modern sound. It's always kind of a battle. If people think we're a country band, they expect us to play Garth Brooks songs, which we don't."
The core of The Lonesome Heroes consists of the shared songwriting and vision of couple Landry McMeans (vocals/dobro) and Russell (vocals/guitar). The band is on a three-week tour of the Southwest dubbed "The Lonesome Heroes Nouveau Western Art & Music Tour" that began in Santa Fe, followed by stops in Arizona and California.
"We love the Southwest, in general. We always talk about the green chile. Through New Mexico, up through Colorado, and into Wyoming, that's where people get our music the most," Russell said.
During this current tour, the band showcased both its music and McMeans' art, which consists of cardboard reliefs, that culminated in a week-long art show for McMeans in Los Angeles at the Echo Country Outpost from May 21 to 27 and a live performance by The Lonesome Heroes on May 26. To see some of her work, visit landry.mosaicglobe.com. Landry works with reclaimed cardboard and acrylic paint to create abstract reliefs and landscapes of the American West. Her work utilizes a Southwestern-inspired color palette and natural contours to create works reminiscent of minimalist '50s art, while also maintaining a modern aesthetic.
"This is the first time we've brought the art with us on tour. She sold three pieces (at the show)," Russell said. "(Her art) fits our music really well. It's got a dreamy western feel to it, which is what we try to sound like."
McMeans' latest piece has been commissioned by Texas Music Monthly and the Viva Big Bend Festival in Marfa, Texas, to be used as the commemorative poster for the 2012 festival.
The Lonesome Heroes' debut, full-length album "Daydream Western" has been nominated by The Independent Music Awards for album of the year for 2011. The group, which has been together for more than seven years, also has two previously released EPs. The band initially released the album during the summer of 2011, but wasn't quite happy with it (despite selling the first thousand copies out of their car), so they remastered it and rereleased it in January.
The band is working on a new album, which they will be recording throughout the summer. Of course, they will continue to tour in the meantime.
"Every summer in July, we do the same tour. Up Highway 287 through Colorado, Wyoming, Montana. It's kind of like an epic camping trip," Russell said.
They'll make another stop in Las Cruces in late July.
Sharing the stage with The Lonesome Heroes tonight will be Alister M, a Las Cruces music scene mainstay from 2006 to 2011. Alister M is headed by MacIntyre, who is now based in Austin, Texas. The group played Vans Warped Tour in 2009 and South By Southwest in 2010 and 2011. Alister M has been compared to the sounds of Bright Eyes, Red House Painters, Ben Kweller, Silverchair and Elliott Smith. The band has released three independently-released albums to date.
MacIntyre said half of tonight's show will be a solo performance and the other half will be a full band show, with Las Cruces artists Stephanie St. Amand on backup vocals, Chris Yarrison on bass and Mike McDowell on drums.
Alister M and The Lonesome Heroes met a couple of years ago, oddly enough during a mutual showcase at a metal bar called Headhunters. Since then, Russell said, the two groups have played many shows together. MacIntyre will be flying in to reunite with The Lonesome Heroes for the Las Cruces show, and then ride back home to Austin with the band, playing shows in Marfa and Fredericksburg, Texas, along the way.
If you've never heard of The Lonesome Heroes, McMeans says you can expect a sound that's not too country, not too folky and not too poppy, but just the right combination of all of those sounds.
"We're just a duo, but I feel that we have a really full set. We can play a lot of listening songs, but we can also make people dance," she said. "We start slow and then start rocking. There's really good chemistry between me and Rich. Even people who don't like country music will like us. We definitely have a little more going on than just the twang."
For those of us who frequent Red River and the Eastside, there is just not a lot of country music in our lives. And yet, the Austin music scene was built on people like Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, Robert Earl Keen, Joe Ely, Lucinda Williams, and so many other strong country artists. Hell, there’s a whole subgenre of country called Texas Country and Austin is a mecca for it. I’m not saying you have to like that music, but it’s part of the rich mosaic that makes up this wonderful place we call home, and we should respect and appreciate that.
All of that long-windedness is meant to introduce The Lonesome Heroes – one of the only pure country bands that has managed to infiltrate the Red River scene. At its core, the Lonesome Heroes consists of Landry McMeans (who is also an accomplished visual artist in her own right) and Rich Russell. Though the duo cite the Flaming Lips, Lou Barlow and Galaxie 500 among their influences, they have found a voice on their recently re-mastered 2012 release Daydream Western that is much more in line aesthetically with Neko Case, Gillian Welch, or a countrified Wooden Birds. As the album title indicates, they evoke the dusty expanses of West Texas in their music through soaring lap steel guitar lines and lyrics the “road.”
From the opening track, “Something Reckless,” they offer up memorable song after memorable song, often led by either Russell or McMeans. The Russell-led tracks (“Something Reckless,” “Seeing is Believing,” “Ocean”) feel a bit darker both lyrically and musically than the McMeans-led ones (“Highway 287,” “Am Radio”), but at all times, the two offer up catchy melodies that help make the record accessible even to those who may not be country connoisseurs. I think their frequent use of onomatopoeic or nonsense syllables (like on “Something Reckless” or “Aspens”) helps to that end. I mean, who hears a good “bah-bah-bah” chorus and doesn’t sing along?
While much of it is comprised of an indie-rock interpretation of country music, Daydream Western ends on one of the most straightforward country songs you’ll hear – “Don’t Play to Lose.” Over the course of their album, The Lonesome Heroes show that they’re following their own advice. And in the process, they remind us that there is a whole lot of Texas out there for us to love.
Return of the Authentic Heroes
Don't be afraid to like good music
Lonesome Heroes give us the confidence, again, to value authenticity in music. Yes, confidence, because their desire to create equals their ability to do so.
Hold on, stay with me. For those of us who live in the West, alt.country/Americana music is not a phenomenon; it’s not a trend coinciding with a Cohen brother film or hipster notions in Brooklyn. Good Americana is difficult to achieve, and it’s not about lo-fi effects, buckets for percussion or recordings made like warehouses. It’s about living in this country, on this land, detaching from the machinations of official culture (aka consumerism) and actually interacting with people we know and love.
I’m not going to pretend that Americana is my favorite genre of music—I tend toward sometimes strange and often outwardly emotional recording artists, plus hip-hop—but I love that Russell and McMeans first set on tour a number of years back with a desire to discover this country for themselves. They decided to tour, first, and then became a band, with McMeans learning how to play the dobro on the road.
At this point, you might be thinking that every college kid from Colorado to Tennessee thinks he’s a country-folk musician, busking on spring break or those first 90 days out of school. But I’m telling you that they can play; they can write a tune; and McMeans, she can sing. When she does, I think of home; not my hometown in the post-industrial Midwest, but the American West—the New West, where young people have returned, turning off their televisions, turning off the interstate, and turning off the cynic.
Country heroes of psychedelic
Pondering the term “psychedelic country,” I think of The Grateful Dead’s American Beauty era, and Austin’s The Lonesome Heroes. Not that they eat acid every night and play shows (or maybe they do), but the combo of Landry McMeans’s reverb-drenched electric dobro against Rich Russell’s Beck-esque draw paints a desert-Texas scene not unlike McMeans’s recent art pieces shaped from cardboard. The dynamic duo brings a slightly different lineup each time they roll through Teton County. This round will feature none other than the two of them (as if you need more), digging into tunes from Daydream Western.
WHEN BROOKLYN MET AUSTIN
When it comes to summing up the Lonesome Heroes, their young aesthetic and vocals agree with indie music, but their artillery of instruments including a fiddle, lap-steel guitar and Dobro harmonize with their love of classic country music and roaming the West via its open roads. The duo’s latest album, Daydream Western, came out in November 2011. They toured with their band exclusively on Hwy. 287 from the Gulf Coast to Montana following the album’s release, paying homage to a song on the album named after the roadway. Back on the road, the Lonesome Heroes are returning to an old haunt, Mia’s Lounge, 26 S. San Francisco, for a free show with special guest, Kalihoochie Slim.
Landry McMeans and Rich Russell formed The Lonesome Heroes in 2005. As they progressed in their songwriting, it became apparent that they weren’t confined to an alt.-country comfort zone. And with the release of their new album last summer, it seemed as though the duo had written the perfect soundtrack to a faraway dream on a long stretch of highway.
Daydream Western feels as though it’s tailor-made for that kind of journey, sweeping across the desert, haunted by past loves, making its way toward an unknown destination. It’s Western Americana, a cross-pollination of rock, folk and country with psych and indie pop – influences from their Texas and Brooklyn backgrounds. It’s the soundscape that occurs when indie rock and country artfully cross paths, rich with acoustic guitar, steel, and vocals from McMeans and Russell.
An institution of Austin's psych-country scene since forming in 2006, the Lonesome Heroes are only now releasing their debut LP, but then primary duo Rich Russell and Landry McMeans have always been more experiential than archival. The three years since sophomore EP Crooked Highway have been spent in characteristic road-work fashion, and Daydream Western reflects that wanderlust at every turn.
The album serves as soundtrack to rolling westward: barren highways and open horizons, leading with restless purpose on "Something Reckless" and carrying through both lighter revelries ("Wrinkles") and thoughtful reflections ("Visions of Yesterday" and "Sparrow Horse"). Russell and McMeans operate as opposite yet complementary poles, the former more grounded in voice and vision, the latter providing an airier twang trained on finely woven narratives. They're at their best when combined in harmony, as with Gary Newcomb's "One of the Wild Ones" or closing favorite "Don't Play To Lose." ***
The Lonesome Heroes: “Don’t Play To Lose”
The Lonesome Heroes might call Austin home, but their eyes and ears are always firmly trained towards the Western horizon. Since 2005, the duo of Landry McMeans and Rich Russell have cultivated a sound that’s rooted in country music but dream-like in its execution.
Earlier this month, the group released their sophomore album, Daydream Western. Recorded in Austin by steel guitar musician Gary Newcomb, the album gets its laconic feel from the many miles of touring the Lonesome Heroes have logged. Some songs draw inspiration from specific subjects, like “Highway 287,” a road that stretches 2,000 miles between Glacier National Park in Montana and the Gulf of Mexico. Other songs are hazier in their subject matter, but the group’s dual harmonies serve as effective signposts along the way.
The Lonesome Heroes are wrapping up a month-long residency at the 29th Street Ballroom tonight at 11 PM. And for today’s song of the day, we’re going back into the vaults for a song the group recorded at KUT’s Studio 1A back in 2008. Here’s “Don’t Play To Lose,” by the Lonesome Heroes.
The Lonesome Heroes’ Tuesday Night Shows at 29th St. Ballroom November 22 - December 27th.
Landry McMeans and Rich Russell formed The Lonesome Heroes in 2005. As they progressed in their songwriting, it became apparent that they weren’t confined to an alt.-country comfort zone. And with the release of their new album last summer, it seemed as though the duo had written the perfect soundtrack to a faraway dream on a long stretch of highway. Daydream Western feels as though it’s tailor-made for that kind of journey, sweeping across the desert, haunted by past loves.
It’s Western Americana, a cross-pollination of rock, folk and country with psych and indie pop – influences from their Texas and Brooklyn backgrounds. It’s the soundscape that occurs when indie rock and country artfully cross paths, rich with acoustic guitar, steel, and vocals from McMeans and Russell.
The Lonesome Heroes have a couple of shows remaining in their Tuesday night residency at the 29th St. Ballroom, 2906 Fruth. That’s where you can see them tonight at 11 p.m., and on November 29th. It’s a late show but well worth staying up for. Recommended.
The Lonesome Heroes make two Colorado stops
as an add-on to the Daydream Western tour
Austin’s (by way of Brooklyn) Lonesome Heroes made a 1,974-mile-long art project out of their latest record, Daydream Western (due for worldwide release on November 8th, 2011), by commemorating its centerpiece song “Highway 287″ with a tour along the largely two-lane road that shares the singles’ name. they drove a 1967 Shasta camper from where 287 begins at the Gulf of Mexico all the way up to Glacier National Park in Montana, and showcased their own sweet alt-country-meets-indie pop all the way. Their sound invokes a Malkmus/Reed feel that runs sweetly through a Jesus & Mary Chain influence – if the Reid brothers had grown up somewhere along the Utah/Idaho border rather than in the UK.
This Friday, September 30th, they’re adding another stop at Avogadro’s Number up in Fort Collins ($10 cover), with opening performances by Rosewood Divine & Alycia Kraft, Jen Korte (apparently sans The Loss) and Bevin Luna. Then, on Sunday, October 2nd, they’ll take up residency for a night at the venerable Lion’s Lair ($5 cover), along with The Magic of Colfax, The Symbols and Good Neighbor. Take a look (below) at a clip from last summer’s stop in Avogadro’s Number to get a sample of what you’re in for.
Daydream Western: 3 Jalapeños
This is easy. Archers of Loaf as a country band. Throw in a little Oh, Inverted World or .The Biz again as heard through slow country twang. Landry McMeans sounds a bit like The Cowboy Junkies Margot Timmons, or maybe Crystal Gayle.
Songwriting and vocals are split pretty much right down the middle between Landry & Rich, with a song by producer Gary Newcomb.
Daydream Western is perfect for cruising down the I-17. Smooth sailing the whole way. When saguaros start creeping up over the hills there, and you start to get excited, the album starts wrapping up, and there's a pretty good chance you'll just let it play right back through.
If i were to guess, I'd think Waylon might think they're pussies, but Willie might toss it a sincere thumbs up.
Rewriting the rules of alt-country, Lonesome Heroes are so awesome, we could cry.
When Brooklyn native Rich Russell decided he wanted to be a country singer after years of drinking up indie bands in hip, New York City neighborhoods, he knew the perfect place to go: Texas.
“Austin is a really hip, indie-oriented city, but everybody still likes Hank Williams,” he said. “It made perfect sense for me to move out there.”
Russell soon found more than a receptive town, with a writing — and romantic — partner in Landry McMeans. Both independent songwriters, they played a few shows together, but their styles didn’t work well together.
“Then we started going out, and six months later, Landry learned steel guitar,” he said. “Our housing situations got a little perilous, so we decided to go on tour, and it was awesome.”
Russell’s affection for vintage Western music found a perfect counterpart in McMeans’ folksy background and authentic Texas upbringing, and The Lonesome Heroes were born. He was forced somewhat to compromise his vision of totally pure, old country music for something that accommodated the indie-rock influences of Yo La Tengo and Sonic Youth that kept creeping through.
“The core of what we do still sounds like what country music used to do,” he said. “We just added a little indie sound sphere over that, and it felt right.”
It’s opened up doors they might not have expected, as the band’s appeal goes across the board.
“Our key demographic is 15 to 75,” Russell said. “That’s really cool to me. We can play anywhere.”
And they do. The Lonesome Heroes make their way back and forth across the country almost constantly. Playing in the underpopulated state of Wyoming has become a favorite.
“We just played a show in Wyoming where there were maybe three hipsters in the entire town, and it was a mostly over-60 crowd, and they really seemed to love it,” Russell said. “It helps that everyone there seems to be half-cowboy and half-hippie.”
Their penchant for touring up that way became a theme for its latest jaunt behind their forthcoming, full-length debut album. Stretching from Port Arthur, Texas, to Glacier National Park in Montana, the “Highway 287 Tour” gives them the opportunity to relive how they got started.
“We kind of feel like this is our life and lifestyle, so we try not to do the traditional route of driving nine hours to hit the most popular market every day. We take our time and see a little bit of the country, stay around the town and make friends,” Russell said. “We started out wanting to get out of Texas because it was hot, figured we’d play some shows and camp in between. The more we did that, we were touring to go camping, as opposed to the other way around.”
On a lonely highway of broken-down, genre-bending country acts, it's more difficult than ever to trust bands to deliver the authentic country experience-which is sorely lacking. Whether it's big-name superstars continually watering-down their music or upcoming acts that are afraid to take chances, much of country music doesn't connect with fans the way it did just a few decades ago.
Luckily, the Lonesome Heroes are reinventing the heart of country music, and it resonates so deeply. With their unique approach and airy vocals, the Lonesome Heroes blend inviting, indie music with a tingle of recognizable bluegrass elements that older fans can still appreciate. Like Iron and Wine and Wilco before them, the Heroes challenge themselves, and their audiences, by experimenting with a wide range of instruments and arrangements that unite alternative country and Indie rock into one cohesive, unique sound.
"We both love to play steel guitar and create an atmospheric bed... and reverb for the songs to sit atop," the band stated.
Hailing from Austin, Texas, the Lonesome Heroes (Rich Russell and Landy McMeans) have been together for five years, but didn't come into their own until refining their skills as a guitar and dobro duo. While Russell's guitar was well developed from the beginning, the band blossomed after a friend introduced McMeans to the basics of playing dobro.
"Within the first strum we knew that was what we needed to create our band," added Russell.
They soon embarked on their first tour, and carved out an impressive niche of fans in a very short period. With a busy schedule of live shows over the following years, heartfelt lyrics of love, and loss - the group is now poised to make a huge splash with their first full-length recording, titled Daydream Western.
Russell explains, "It has been the best musical experience we have ever had, and we have grown more from this record then anything we have ever done. We took the better part of the fall off to write new songs after two years of constant touring and playing..."
With help from some of the most prolific artists in Austin, the Lonesome Heroes understandably have high expectations for their album. From the production skills of Gary Newcomb to the instrumental support of the band's touring accompaniment, their effort is sure to results in a musical tour of America's heartland, all through impressive vocal harmonies that play off of each other magnificently.
While constant touring doesn't offer them the simple pleasures of ample time with friends and family back in Austin, the Lonesome Heroes are appreciative of their careers to this point. They believe their hardworking, diverse lifestyle is an extension of their music, fueling their artistic expression further.
"We have a very strange sort of migrational lifestyle that pulls us to different places at different times of the year. We are very lucky," said Russell.
You can hear the Lonesome Heroes at Prescott's Raven Café on May 12-consider yourself lucky to catch them in an intimate setting before they move onto grander pastures in the country music scene.
"Not the square kind of country, nor outlaw country, or even contemporary country would fit what The Lonesome Heroes from Austin bring to the stage. Reverb-heavy electric dobro underneath a playful boy-girl vocal blend from Landry McMeans and Rich Russell often pushes the indie rock quintet into psychedelia—but not without the songwriting sensibilities of classic country and folk."
With Great Music Comes Great Responsibility.
"Experimenting with their big-city-meets-country-roots style, Austin, Texas, duo the Lonesome Heroes add a psychedelic twist to the standard alt-county genre but with the heartfelt poignancy and lyrical sensibility of a road-weary crooner. Their rhythmic vocals layered over acoustic guitar and reverb-heavy steel is a chance meeting between Yo la Tengo and Patsy Cline.”
NX35 SHOW REVIEW.
While this past March’s edition of NX35 in Denton featured far more acts that weren’t from Denton than last year’s inaugural edition did, the majority of the conferette’s line-up was made up of artists from Denton, and the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, understandably. With that said, it was one of the bands from outside of the Mean Green surroundings of Courthouse Square that provided me with my most pleasing unexpected surprise of the musically packed weekend.
The Lonesome Heroes out of Austin, turned their set in the comfortably crowded, stale but cozy basement of J & J’s Pizza in Denton into their own little living room concert.
They refer to themselves as “psychedelic country”, and they really aren’t joking. The groovy elements that helped make up a good chunk of the great 1970’s country rock that came from the Golden State are put to use here, as well. In a live setting, the not-so-lonely band mates, Rich Russell and Landry McMeans, come off as quaint and folksy. As they chatted ever so neighborly with the enamored group of spectators, I almost expected one of the performers to offer to serve up the pizza that was coming out of the kitchen.
It was when McMeans told the crowd that, for their last song, they wanted to bust out a “spacey, hippy song”, that I finally heard the substance to back up their lofty claims of being more than just your average country rock band from Austin. “Constant Vacation” was in fact, a dreamy, trippy ode to their life on the road. McMeans even dropped down practically to her knees in order to finagle a little distortion from her Dobro. Now, that’s, trippy, bro.
The Superman Blues.
Like a hooker at the church bake sale, Austin, Texas, duo The Lonesome Heroes don’t quite belong solely in the country scene with a sound that walks the line between psychedelic rock and alt-country. Songwriters Rich Russell and Landry McMeans merged their New York and Texas roots to form a style they equate to Pasty Cline meets the Velvet Underground. See the pair in Flag as they tour to promote their upcoming debut album at Mia’s Lounge, 26 S. San Francisco, at 9 p.m.
CONTINENTAL CLUB. AUSTIN, TX.
"The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Magnetic Fields, and The Flaming Lips. The group clearly has a wide range of musical interests, perhaps only surpassed by the number of instruments you could hear on any given track. The 7-plus band members bring everything from pedal steel to saxophone to fiddle to melodica into their twangy indie Americana."
SILVER DOLLAR BAR, JACKSON, WY.
Just when you thought country-rock’s boundaries were maxed-out, Austin’s Lonesome Heroes added a psychedelic-indie edge defined by reverb-soaked electric dobro and the songwriting duo of Rich Russell and Landry McMeans. Evidence of restless honesty and a road trip never quite ends, the free-spirited Heroes are a diamond in the saturated buffet of what people are calling country these days.
"Few young artists have done as much to promote the local music scene as the Lonesome Hereos. There are touches of cosmic country and Sweetheart of the Rodeo in their psychedelic tinged, restless country tunes, but the real draw of the Heroes is excellent melding of Russell and McMeans in spirit and sound. McMeans dulcet twang and expansive dobro, and Russells’ more grounded drawl and guitar combine for a mesmerizing and beautiful exchange, while their songs evoke the open west Texas expanse of road and possibilities. With their latest album, Crooked Highway, they have assembled a stellar band of local luminaries."
Crooked Highway, EP. Self Released.
“The group flourishes in its ability to be a guiltless revelry that extends beyond alt country. Evoking sounds from the Cowboy Junkies to a twangier version of Alison Krauss the album draws the listener in with ease. An excellent offering from a talented duo that intertwine their talents to perfection.
Feature Article on Lonesome Heroes Wednesday Night Hole in the Wall Showcase.
Don't Look Back The Lonesome Heroes Rewrite the Rules of Alt. Country.
Since taking up residency at the Hole in the Wall last September, the Lonesome Heroes' alt.country nights have become one of the most popular weekly events in Austin. As a genre, alt.country hardly begins to characterize the eclectic lineups that Russell and McMeans put together, where the experimental textures of Friends of Dean Martinez fit in as easily as the insurgent attitude of American Graveyard, hellbent bluegrass of the Electric Mountain Rotten Apple Gang, or the honky-tonk swing of Doug Warriner. All musical directions ultimately converge in the Lonesome Heroes' easy psychedelic twang.
The Wednesday bills draw crowds mixing Mohawk punks and country kickers, as well as some of the town's top musicians and producers. Behind Russell and McMeans' infectious energy and their intent on building a collaborative environment, it's a scene that recalls the days of Doug Sahm holding court at the Soap Creek Saloon......
"Crooked Highway moves in more focused, if experimentally flourished, directions. Russell's playful drawl shading Lyle Lovett. McMeans' soft trill on "Canary" and "Stardust" lifts the album into airier climes that balance Russell's earthier tones, like Alison Krauss with a Texas twang, the best songs marrying the two vocal impulses in duet."
Don't Play to Lose, EP. FLOODWATER RECORDS.
"The Heroes sad and forlorn country cry walks the dirt road from West Texas desert to a poor man's urban dwelling. Singer Rich Russell's Brooklyn upbringing marries Willie Nelson to Will Oldham on the Heroes' debut EP, and when McMeans' delicately airy voice opens up "Oyster," tears roll."
Don't Play to Lose, EP, Floodwater Records.
“The Lonesome Heroes are on a mission to make a different kind of country music. With its Grapes of Wrath era feel soaked in reverb, you get the feeling you are listening to a long distant echo of something that once was. The drifting melancholy and bittersweet style is beyond the range of their youth, and yet it seems totally natural to them."
"A sixteen minute psychedelic steel trip. The eerie, liquid noise that Landry McMeans pulls from her lap steel and dobro is the defining sound on this five track EP. It’s a desert sound, reminiscent of what the late great Rainer Ptacek might have produced if he’d taken a little more peyote."

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US Army soldiers conducted a live-fire exercise at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, in 2022. The “Sky Soldiers” of the 173rd Airborne Brigade fired their Mk 19 grenade launchers and M240 medium machine guns to hone their skills for battle.
Mk 19s are American belt-fed automatic grenade launchers developed during the Vietnam War. Their 40mm rounds are fired at sustained rates of 40 rpm or at a cyclic rate of 325 to 375 rpm. Its primary ammunition of an M430 grenade can kill anyone within a 5m radius and wound anyone within 15m.
M240s have been in service since 1997 and were first used in the Gulf War. The FN MAG chambers the 7.62x51mm NATO rounds and can be fired at 650 to 950 rpm. The Army uses the M192 lightweight ground mount as tripods to stabilize the gun and make adjustments.

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A large number of stories this week remind us that India urgently needs national urban water policy.
The water footprint of urban areas is gradually on the rise. The cities have several problems with management including destruction of water sources, groundwater exploitation, poor performance in treating and recycling the polluted water, pollution and encroachment on water bodies etc. To fulfil their growing demands new dams, barrages and check dams are being planned, proposed and built on the rivers in faraway places, which is in turn displacing and depriving the local people of equitable water share.
Even before onset of summer, the Army in Sagar district have started patrolling Chitora dam to prevent water thefts (denying farmers to take dam water for irrigation).
Continue reading “DRP News Bulletin 20 Jan 2020: India urgently needs national urban water policy”
Cloud burst incidents are on the increase across Himalayan states. The states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh have faced 23 and 16 cloud burst incidents in the south west monsoon 2019. This account compiles such reports from Jammu Kashmir (J&K) and north eastern Himalayan states.
Continue reading “Cloud Bursts 2019: Jammu Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim”
The Prime Minister finally found time to have the first ever meeting on National Ganga Council, over three years after the Ganga Notification of Oct 7, 2016. The meeting happened at Kanpur, where the NGT recently fined the state government for continuing to release untreated effluents into the Ganga. In fact NGT in recent weeks have taken several decisions that also shows how abysmally the govt has failed on Ganga front. And now after the first NGC meeting, the Prime Minister, in an effort to divert attention from Namami Gange failure, is proposing the new slogan of Arth Ganga, which basically seems to suggest focus on Money, which is Exactly what is not going to help the cause of Ganga. The Ganga is still on the lookout for the Ganga putra that promised a clean Ganga in May 2014.
Continue reading “DRP NB 16 Dec. 2019: Why the first NGC meeting signifies Govt’s Failure on Ganga”
Cloud burst incidents are emerging as a major threat for the Himalayan states. Of late, the extreme weather event have been causing large scale destruction in ecologically sensitive and remotely located vulnerable hilly areas. In 2018 between May 2 and July 20, the Uttarakhand state saw around 13 cloud bursts event which have increased to 23 in 2019 monsoon season resulting in wide scale damages.
This compilation for Himachal Pradesh state shows that the state is suffering even bigger destruction of infrastructure including roads, buildings, bridges and hydro projects due to increasing cloud burst events. At the same time the monitoring and mitigation efforts are totally insufficient and inadequate.
Continue reading “Cloud Bursts in Himachal Pradesh in Monsoon 2019”
There is a lot that Bihar and Union Govt that need to answer why did Patna go under water in spite of fully knowing its vulnerabilities. Why was the city not prepared to face this kind of situation? Some of the major man made reasons include: Sewage Pumps not working, drainage map not available, no emergency plan in place. Not too many people know that there is GANGA FLOOD CONTROL COMMISSION, sitting right in Patna, an organisation under Union Ministry of Water Resources, existing since 47 years now. WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING is a mystery.
Its high time questions are asked if GFCC is doing any useful work. The government may like to brush aside the issues, saying its too high rainfall due to climate change, but that wont help. Patna is bang in the way of Ganga and it doing all kind of mindless activities including river front development, destruction of local water bodies and wetlands, and of course not knowing its drainage map. It shows abysmal failure of the World Bank funded flood management project that existed not so long ago, housed in Patna. And Patna was being funded under Smart city program to do all kinds of water unsmart activities. Over a week since the flooding started, parts of the city is still under water and now the city is facing fresh crisis in the shape of Dengue. The trouble is, there is no sign that the city, state or the country is doing anything to learn from this man made disaster.
Continue reading “DRP NB 7 Oct 2019: Patna – another of India’s water unsmart city – goes under due to man made disaster”
It’s great to see the top edit in THE TIMES OF INDIA today (Aug 12, 2019) calling for urgent review of flood management in India. Indeed the current floods can be a big wake up call.
TOI Edit rightly says: “Similarly, there’s also an urgent need to upgrade dam management in the region. Despite heavy rain warnings, why couldn’t Maharashtra and Karnataka coordinate to release dam waters downstream as a pre-emptive measure? We need much more proactive and punctilious supervision of dam waters.” Indeed there is need to fix the responsibilities of failures in Dam Management, including forecasting failures, Violations of rule curves, mismanagement of reservoirs and lack of information sharing and coordination. Continue reading “DRP News Bulletin 12 August 2019: URGENT REVIEW OF FLOOD MANAGEMENT REQUIRED”
India urgently needs a lot of effective work on Dam Safety, but the bill before the Parliament makes CWC (Central Water Commission) as focal point of Dam Safety, but CWC has conflict of interest and poor track record. The Bill does not provide any real independent oversight, nor clearly defined norms of complete transparency in the dam safety matters, and there is no role of the vulnerable communities, the most important stake holders. The Bill also tends to centralise the power with the Union govt, and states legitimately suspects this. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/dam-safety-bill-2019-why-evokes-opposition-stakeholders-1576391-2019-08-02 (Aug 2, 2019)
The Interstate Amendment Water Disputes Amendment Bill before the Parliament is basically tinkering with the existing system, which will not change anything fundamentally. It needs to be understood that disputes arise when an upper riparian state (or a country) build a large dam or diverts the massive amount of water, leading to lower availability of water for the lower riparian state (or country). When it comes to resolution, the tribunals look at a river as a channel of water and its distribution, ignoring that it is a complete ecosystem and that water in a river depends on the state of its basin and catchment area. It also depends on the extraction of groundwater. These aspects are ignored by the tribunals. Moreover, a state does not represent a river basin or all its stakeholders (the people using river water), which is why the Narmada tribunal’ award created a conflict between the states and their people. The central government’s impartiality is suspect and would have a great bearing on the resolution process. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/interstate-river-water-disputes-bill-2019-1575531-2019-07-31 (1 Aug. 2019)
Continue reading “DRP NB 5 August 2019: Why Dam Safety Bill and ISWD Amendment won’t help”
The following is an excellent example of how early flood warnings from Bhutan, shared with downstream Assam communities using WhatsApp messages, saves lives. This needs to be highlighted and word spread to implement it in all flood prone areas on Urgent basis, including in trans-boundary areas, as this is an example of the same.
In the last few weeks of June 2019, a series of WhatsApp messages (sent via unofficial channels) were sent from Bhutan to India to warn “cross-border friends” downstream of the Aai, Saralbhanga and Manas rivers about cloud-bursts, swollen rivers and possible flash floods affecting people in the Indian state of Assam.
Continue reading “DRP NB 15 July 2019: How Early Flood warnings using WhatsAPP saves lives”
Irked over “judicial impropriety” by some senior advocates in taking relief from its vacation benches by suppressing facts, the Supreme Court July 5 blasted them for “playing fraud” upon it. Terming this practice as “the height of judicial misconduct”, a bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra and Navin Sinha said senior advocates were “not above the law” and such conduct reflected that “no morality” is left in some of them.
It also took exception to the passing of order by the vacation bench, which had stayed the demolition of some buildings in Kerala for six weeks. Hearing the matter earlier, a bench headed by Justice Mishra had directed on May 8 that these buildings be removed within a month as they were constructed in the notified Coastal Regulations Zones (CRZ), which is part of the tidally influenced water body in Kerala.
When the matter came up for hearing on July 5, the bench said it has “serious objection” to what has happened in the case as “height of judicial impropriety has been done”. “During the vacation, the matter was mentioned before me but I refused to hear it. Then it came before another vacation bench. That bench should not have passed the order. You (lawyers) are permitting the court to commit judicial impropriety,” the bench told senior advocate Kalyan Banerjee, who is also a Lok Sabha MP from All India Trinamool Congress.
Continue reading “DRP NB 8 July 2019: Kerala CRZ Norms Violation; Senior Lawyers ‘Play Fraud’ On Court, Invite SC Wrath”
At least 40% of India is facing worst drought of 30-40 years as per various researchers. A very large part of that happening in areas that are focus of India’s dam building. These areas are facing drought in spite of so much dam building. But the official agencies never saw the link. Its heartening to see some media reports and edits have started recognising the elephant in the room. Hope this is change for the better and if the media continues to highlight the situation and linkages, may be, may be we will also see impact on the governments. A silver-lining as they say in otherwise dark situation.
Continue reading “DRP News Bulletin 20 May 2019: This drought, Big Dams Elephants recognised by media”

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So many good things have been happening since the launch of THE RIVER WITCH! The book has garnered 21Five Star Reviews on Amazon! And been mentioned TWICE in Huffington Post, making their Summer’s Sizzling Southern Fiction list!
So… in that spirit, I wanted to give a shout out to all book clubs and invite you to consider reading THE RIVER WITCH with your group! I’d love to hear from you, visit your meetings or Skype with you. Talking to readers is one of my favorite parts of this journey!
I had to share this picture of my visit with the first book club to invite me to a meeting after reading the novel. We ate and talked and stayed way too late, enjoying the company and the lively discussion. I don’t know when I’ve enjoyed myself more!
- Lucky me with the lovely ladies of this book club from Gainesville & Dahlonega, Georgia!
It was such a great experience that it made me want to share a recipe from the book and ask if you’d like to do the same! Post your recipe as a comment and… YOUR BOOK CLUB WILL WIN THREE COPIES of the book!
I’ll share the winner in my next post!
** ALL recipes will be added to the DAMASCUS FEAST on the Book Club page on my site!
- Damascus Feast!
Is your club planning a Damascus feast, attending a Sacred Harp singing with dinner on the grounds, or discovering the secrets inside your own harvest? Please share!
All photos of book clubs reading The River Witch are welcome. Please give permission to use on this site when you send.

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Redesign Before Concrete Tees?
As club president, I am polling the disc golf community about how to proceed. In light of the recent tree loss, should the course be redesigned before installing the concrete tees?
A year ago it was decided at an HFDS meeting to keep Moffit the way it is, install concrete tees and then afterwards plant trees to replace the trees lost over the years. Recently many trees were lost greatly impacting the course. Also, considering the drought conditions which may go on for another year or two, Houston Parks & Rec. and Trees for Houston would not plant new trees until the drought has lifted. Also, such new trees would be seedlings and take a few years to grow-up.
At the last HFDS meeting, the issue was discussed and the decision was made to get input from club members and the disc golf community and discuss the issue again at the January 2012 HFDS meeting. It was suggested at the last meeting that the time to get a redesign approved by Houston Parks and Rec would significantly delay the installation of concrete tees. It was also suggested that a complete redesign would require a lot of effort in relocating baskets and tee-markers.


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CT gov. tells hospital executives, 'It could be worse'
Hospital executives have been bemoaning the millions of dollars in cuts they face under Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed budget, and this week, they got a chance to tell him in person. But before anyone could describe their organization's dire finances, Malloy pointed to his own. "I want to say at the outset that I would trade my deficit for any one of yours today," Malloy told hospital executives and trustees at the Connecticut Hospital Association headquarters in Wallingford. If the hospital officials were expecting the governor to commiserate about the pain they'll face if his budget becomes law, they didn't get it. Nor did they get an offer to reconsider any of the proposed cuts, although Malloy noted that his budget director remains open to hearing from them.
- Interventional Radiology No Longer a Sub-Specialty
- CEO Exchange: Preparing for Population Health
- Advocate, NorthShore Deal Would Create 16-Hospital System
- Top Reason for Nurse Turnover: Managers
- CEO Exchange: Pressure is On to Partner, Drive Quality
- House OKs Cassidy's 'keep your plan' bill
- How MA plans to re-enroll 450,000 residents in health insurance
- Medicare is pricier in unhealthy states, study says
- Behind the CVS Health Rebranding Strategy
- CMS Pitches Medicare Appeals Deal to Hospitals

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The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the EgyptAir Holding Company, Yehia Zakariya, confirmed the operation of new direct flights from Cairo to Misrata in Libya, starting January 25.
Zakariya said on the company’d Facebook page that the new route is scheduled with one flight per week every Thursday, thus becoming EgyptAir’s third city destination in Libya after Benghazi and Tripoli.
He added that as encouragement from EgyptAir for the new route the company offered a discount on the first four flights of this route, with the first flight at a 50% discount and the other three flights at a 25% discount if tickets are purchased until January 20.
EgyptAir indicated that after adding Misrata to the EgyptAir routes, the company will operate 15 flights a week to Libya, with 7 flights to Benghazi, 7 flights to Mitigia, and one to Misrata.
Zakariya explained that the addition of the new flights came due to the increase in traffic between Libya and Egypt, especially with the presence of Egyptians residing and working in Libyan territories, and with the aim of enhancing trade and economic exchange between Egypt and Libya.


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The Resource Database is Growing
We added another 123 resources to the database today so it is up to 359 total now. And that’s barely scratching the surface; most of these are in King, Snohomish, Kitsap, and Pierce counties…pretty sure there’s a few more counties than that…don’t worry, we’ll get to everybody!
Our goal today was to round out the entries for the East King County Resource list so we can provide it to some volunteers in that area. Here’s our current version. No doubt many revisions are looming but this is a great start!
Check out the entire resource database here and don’t hesitate to share feedback with us in the comments, we love it! If you find something missing from the database, use this form to report it and we’ll get it added pronto.

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The most flattering areas of the Traveller long dress by Temperley London have been highlighted by vibrant embroidery inspired by Tibetan tiger rugs - a key influence in the brand's design inspiration this season. The sheeny silk fabric provides the perfect drape to the somewhat structured silhouette, while the maxi length elongates the form and creates a style suitable for seasonal soirees.
Why we love Temperley London:
Confident, feminine, and effortless women are the ideal client for Temperley London. She must have a bohemian spirit in order to appreciate the beautifully fluid romantic aesthetic that is created each season. You might see yourself coming and going on the red carpet....not a bad problem, my friend.

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I was tagged by Landa for this, and I thought it was kind of neat. I like seeing other people's handwriting, probably because I hate my own!
1. What is you name? And your blog.
2. Blog url
3. Write: the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
4. Favorite quote
5. Favorite song
6. Favorite band/singers
7. Say anything you want
8. Pass it along to a few bloggers
Mr. Ski went to Ulta for me, trying to find some China Glaze Crackles and the ever so elusive Revlon Perplex. He didn't find either, but he picked up the Ulta dupe for DL Happy Birthday- Pinata-yada-yada. I tried it over a very sheer pink Sally Hansen whose name escapes me at the moment. It was very bright, so I decided to put a coat of the pink over the glitter as well. It still looks like a circus threw up on my nails, LOL!!
It made me want a cupcake...


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An Illinois State Board of Elections representative was at the election office in Belleville on Tuesday to investigate whether any problems existed with the machines and determined there were none, Holbrook said.
He also said it "gets a little frustrating" hearing allegations of fraud, attributing any perceived malfunctioning to operator error. Voters do get to review their ballots before casting them, he said.
"I've been here three years... I've done everything I can to operate a transparent and open office," he said.
"There is nothing wrong" with all 3,000 votes that have so far been cast in early voting, Holbrook said.
Aunye Mabry of Belleville voted on Oct. 21 at the county building and is one who claims that when she selected Republican Rodger Cook for County Board Chairman, her selection instead went immediately to Democrat Mark Kern, incumbent Chairman.
She said she signaled for help, was assisted and ultimately was able to vote as she intended. But, another woman voting nearby "was making a scene" because she too was having problems with getting her selections to stick.
Dallas Cook, Republican candidate for St. Clair County Circuit Clerk and the sitting City Clerk for Belleville, was with Mabry at the time.
Cook said he did not have any trouble casting his ballot, but that the other voter "was losing her mind," stating that her votes were changing from Republican to Democrat.
Holbrook said there are election judges on site to help voters in such instances, but that this particular voter did not seek help.
Cook maintains that even if such an instance happens "even one time," that it is a "violation of the most fundamental right to choose who you want to govern you."
"There are potentially thousands of votes that have gone to the candidate the voter opposes," he said.
Holbrook said that anyone who suspects violations of the voting process can report it to the county's hotline at 618-825-2366 or email firstname.lastname@example.org.
He also encouraged voters to vote early if they want to avoid long lines at polling places on election day, Nov. 8, as turnout is expected to be higher than usual.


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I have to admit, I don’t know how to mind my own business.
But in my neighborhood, and in the world, so much that goes on seems to become my business when it has an impact on my life and my family.
While living in a rural Pennsylvania in the early ‘80s, I was drawn into supporting the Nuclear Weapons Freeze. We were a small group but we made an impact on our community. From our efforts, the county commission declared a Nuclear Free Zone to keep out low-level waste that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission wanted to bury in that area.
Since then there has been a substantial reduction in nuclear weapons in the United States and Russia, the two main countries with nuclear weapons. President Obama has regularly spoke about how he wants a nuclear free world for his children, and that was the same reason I became involved with the Nuclear Weapons Freeze 30 years ago.
Needing to know more about current nuclear weapons production I did some research and came up with some disturbing information.
According to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons:
Despite a shrinking arsenal the United States plans to increase its investment in nuclear weapons infrastructure by 21 percent, at a cost of $85 billion over the next decade and to spend an additional $100 billion on upgrading strategic nuclear forces during this period. A new factory to build plutonium pits and another to produce uranium for bombs will cost upwards of $13 billion or more. $10 billion will be spent on overhauling thousands of older nuclear bombs –the so-called life extension program. While continuing to re-build its long-range land-based missiles, the United States will spend nearly $1 billion this year and $10 billion during the rest of the decade in long-lead investment for a new strategic submarine fleet whose ship-building cost for the 12 boats will exceed $100 billion. The United States will then spend untold billions to operate the armada during its 50-year planned lifespan (2030 until 2080).
After reading those pages, I needed to sit in my back yard and look at the vegetable garden, the flowers, the trees and grass. I felt like a cow in a pasture, unable to totally comprehend what was going on.
Who are we? What is going on here?
Is all this for protection of the United States or so that government contractors continue to steal food from the mouths of hungry children? Do all presidents speak with a forked tongue?
I want to speak out about this, but I’m never sure whom to speak out to. Sometimes it feels like the United States is this great monster, deceitfully sneaking around. It seems the U.S doesn’t care about anyone or anything, since it will all be destroyed by the accidental or intentional launch of one of these hundreds of missiles.
This is frightening. How are other countries supposed to respect and honor the United States when we are creating these massive arsenals of weapons of mass destruction?
I wasn’t out there with the Occupy folks much, but they made great strides in opening the minds of many people to the deceit of corporations and governments. I anticipate that more folks will be out on the streets again, and in many countries. They need to stop the rule by money and reinstate the rule by the needs of humanity and peace.
Bob Sh’mal Ellenberg. 72 years old. Born in Irvington, N.J. A thumb nail sketch of a life well guided by spirit and forces beyond my reckoning. In 1968, I began work as teacher and community organizer for Head Start. It became my groove in life. Once I began helping others, my soul was touched. In 1974 I started Mother Earth Foods in Parkersburgh, W.Va, which is still there. For 10 years in the ’70s and ’80s, my ex-wife and I cared for elderly and partially disabled adults in our homes in W.Va, Pa. and Florida. I was a well published freelancer to the Gainesville Sun, Gainesville, Fl., where I lived for 23 years and was involved in many social and peace issues. You can go to the Gainesville Sun’s opinion section, put my name in the search box and see some of those pieces. In Peace, Sh’mal.
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In the Chronicles of Almythea, Australian author A.J. Cootes builds on the timeless formula of blockbusting storytelling in the ilk of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Avatar and The Stormlight Archive. He builds a world at once mystical and elemental, but with a modern-day relevance. Ultimately, the Chronicles of Almythea challenge our origin myths and tests us to take a “leap of faith” to fulfil our destiny in the world.
Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:
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A.J. Cootes began writing after his best friend, Greg Wilson, was involved in a near-fatal motorcycle accident. Greg’s ensuing battle with depression inspired the pair to co-author the artist’s biography, “My
Brush with Depression,” in the hope it would help others facing similar problems.
Growing up, A.J. loved movies and stories that encouraged both his imagination and altruism. The Star Wars films are his favorites. Dune by Frank Herbert, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, and other books by Charles Dickens and Ernest Hemingway all left an indelible impression on the young man.
Hemingway’s intrepid spirit inspired A.J. to seek out adventures of his own. Some of Cootes’ life highlights include: running with the bulls in Pamplona, camping at Everest base camp, surfing overhead waves at Cloudbreak reef in Fiji and standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. He is a qualified abseiling, caving, and skiing instructor and has also worked as a cruise director and whale-watching guide.
Today, he lives a quieter life on a farm in the Hunter Valley and is a director of the Greg Wilson Studio. He resides with his wife, Joyce, and inseparable friend and business partner Josie Wilson (collectively known as the Hippies on the Hill). He is happiest when he is writing, playing with his dog, Hemingway, and tending to his hens, led by Princess Layer, in the Cluckleberry Inn coop.

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That message says NO ticked formats were available.
The order of the DEVICE plugin list sets the preference ORDER
it says, if all or any of the ticked formats exist, send the First with a tick.
I understand that the order of the formats sets a preference hierarchy. This makes sense if there are multiple formats for a given book as it specifies the preferred format to send.
I see no problem with how this works if I am sending only one book or several books of the same format. There is also no problem if I am trying to send a book that is in a format that is not ticked; conversion to the top ticked format is appropriate.
The problem arises if I want to send several books that do not have the same format. My tick list is, in order, epub, pdf, cbz, cbr. If I select a book that has only epub format and another that has only pdf format, I cannot send them both at once in their native format, even though both formats are ticked. If I try to send both, I have to select one of the two formats from the "Choose format" popup. If I select epub, then I get the "No suitable formats" popup for the pdf. Then the choice I have is to convert the pdf to epub (clicking "Yes") or not sending the pdf (clicking "No").
I feel that this is cumbersome because it forces me to perform multiple send operations based on format, e.g. send all books already in epub format (choosing the format epub, or simply clicking "OK" as epub is the preferred format), then send all books that are in pdf format (choosing the format pdf to avoid conversion to epub).
All this arises because the "Choose Format" popup only allows one choice and forces conversion to that choice. If it allowed multiple selections, it would be possible to send books of differing formats natively in the same send operation. The ordered list of formats would be used to select which format to send if a book existed in multiple (ticked) formats. Another option would be to keep the single format choice, ask for permission to convert books of other formats, but send them natively if conversion is declined and the current format of the book is a ticked format. If conversion is declined and the current format is not a ticked format, the book would not be sent.
I can live with this as it stands, but it just seems awkward.

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Tablet Cases / E-book Cover DIY Tutorial
Today I would like to share with you how to make DIY tablet cases or E-book covers.
If you were to ask me what I think the best invention of the last 20 years was, I would, without hesitation, answer it must be the e-book. I’m not old (at least I don’t think I am, but who does;)), but the fact that I can easily carry around a whole library still seems like science fiction to me.
Naturally, I cherish my Kindle above all else, and want to keep it as safe as possible. But I also like my accessories to reflect my tastes and style, so I had to make my own Kindle e-book cover. This is the perfect sewing project- uses little fabric, comes together in around an hour (if you don’t go overboard with the decorations) and also makes a wonderful homemade gift for boyfriends or fathers, who are sometimes harder to craft for.
This tutorial shows you how to make a cover or case for Kindle Ebook, but you can easily tailor it to your other type of e-book, tablets, or iPad.
DIY Tablet Cases / E-book Cover DIY Supplies
- approximately half of a fat quarter (approximately 30 cm x 25 cm, but the size depends on the appliance you’re making the cover for) of sturdy fabric (or quilting cotton+interfacing)
- the same amount of fabric for the lining
- a small (approximately 20 cm x 30 cm) piece of felt
- 2 pieces of sturdy cardboard (like from an old box) approximately 12cm x 20cm, just around 2 cm bigger than the appliance you’re making the cover for
- a metal snap
DIY Tablet Cases / E-book Cover DIY Instructions
1. Measure whatever you’re making the cover for (or get the information about the size from the internet). Then cut out a fabric piece from the outside fabric that’s twice as wide + 4 cm and as tall + 3 cm. Cut the same amount from the lining. (this measurements are for a 1.5 cm sewing allowance)
2. Cut a rectangular piece of the felt that’s 1 cm larger in both width and height then your appliance. Also cut 2 rectangles with a 5 cm side. Then cut them in half diagonally so you get 4 triangles for the corners.
3. For the closure of the tablet cases, cut out a rectangle 8 cm x 5cm from both fabrics and round one of the short sides on both fabric pieces. You should have fabric pieces similar to the ones illustrated in the picture (device size for reference).
4. If you’re decorating the front of the cover, decorate the right half of the outside fabric with whatever you want. Then insert the magnetic snap in the middle (height wise) 4 cm away from the right side (see picture).
On the inside, attach the triangles to the edges of the felt rectangle, then attach the whole thing to the right side of the lining fabric- 2.5 cm away from the edges. I also added a “This kindle belongs to” felt piece on the left, but that’s completely optional.
5. Press 1.5 cm of fabric on the top edges of both the lining and the outside fabric to the wrong side of fabric (for hemming later). Attach the other half of the magnetic snap to the lining fabric of the closure piece. Sew both pieces of fabric for the closure right sides together, leaving one edge open. Turn, press and top stitch.
6. Pin both fabrics right sides together with the closure pieces sandwiched in between, positioned in the middle of the left side of the outside fabric. Sew around the sides and the bottom.
7. Then turn left side out and press and top stitch all around. Insert both cardboard pieces and sew the top. And your tablet case / e-book cover is done!

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Is it proper to approach a lawyer during a automobile accident? It’s a common query asked by individuals who experienced site visitors accidents. In case you are a type of who maintain injuries during automobile accidents caused by the recklessness and carelessness by one other individual, then you’re eligible to receive monetary compensation from the one who injured you. If his/her insurance firm agrees to pay you for you for the price of the injury and the damages to your automotive, then it’s now not essential to have a personal damage lawyer. Nevertheless, if that particular person is uncooperative or the insurance coverage firm refuses to pay the damages, then it’s obligatory to rent an adept and experienced private harm lawyer to defend you and get the truthful settlement you deserve.
Alimony is just not handled the same tax smart as little one support payments are in the United States. Beneath the principles of the Internal Revenue Service, in Mississippi, alimony is considered deductible for the paying spouse and taxable income for the recipient partner, whereas child assist shouldn’t be. A abstract of divorce and alimony legislation in Mississippi could be discovered at
Multiple type of custody could also be granted.
In the case of the process of applying for bankruptcy, many people are unfamiliar with the steps required of them and what they should have ready if they’re dealing with serious financial crisis. As a normal rule, the extra ready a person is previous to the chapter filing, the easier the entire process can be.
Nonetheless, their want for care can often come as a shock. Perhaps a foul case of pneumonia has them bed-ridden for a while, or they’ve slipped and fallen and are now not as cell as they once have been. When this happens, the remaining family members are confronted with making some important decisions in regards to the care of their Loved One.
Keep in mind, you are likely to get what you pay for.
1. Your lender can start the foreclosure course of for those who default on your mortgage. Most times, your lender will not begin the foreclosures process till you’re several months behind on your mortgage. It is because foreclosures value them money they usually actually don’t wish to lose that.
Defamation – slander and libel – is the topic shoppers most often seek the advice of a solicitor for, after they feel that unfaithful criticism of themselves, or their work, which has been voiced, or revealed, will scale back their standing among their friends or with the general public. Very often, a suitably-worded letter from a senior companion in a law firm will probably be sufficient to ensure an acceptable apology is issued and the offence is not repeated. If, nonetheless, the perpetrator doesn’t again down, for whatever motive, and needs to have their day in court, the abilities of a media lawyer will likely be invaluable.
The first rate homes invoice requires that each one non-first rate houses be as much as commonplace by 2010, a deadline that’s quick approaching. Most accidents do not have witnesses. Whereas all of these items will shield your head and physique during an accident, they will not stop an accident from happening within the first place.

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Faster buses, fiscal accountability and using transit workers to perform jobs now contracted outside could save the MTA more than $600 million and avert a fare hike, the Transport Workers Union said yesterday.
“We need to challenge the MTA’s assumption that there is a need for a fare increase,” said TWU president Roger Toussaint. “There is a great need for an explanation and alternatives to a fare hike.”
The union said the MTA could save $300 million alone by implementing a rapid transit bus service that would shuttle passengers around the city faster.
The service involves creating bus lanes separated from other traffic by barricades and a system that would allow riders to pay their fare before the bus arrives, eliminating the time it takes for passengers to pay as they board.
Such a program could increase the average speed of a bus in Manhattan from 6.6 mph to 9.3 mph, union officials said.
TWU policy adviser Joe Rappaport said the improved service would boost revenue.
The MTA said last month it will raise bus and subway fares to $1.75 or $2 because its budget gap for next year has ballooned to $1.1 billion.
The union said its plan could save the MTA an estimated $675 million.
The MTA said it has implemented some rapid bus routes and has always done everything possible to make the system better for riders.
“We have proven over the years that we will do everything possible to make the system customer-friendly and we will continue to do so,” said MTA spokesman Tom Kelly.
The proposal comes as the union is in the middle of contract negotiations with the MTA.
The TWU, whose contract expires Dec. 15, is asking for a 24 percent raise over three years and improved health-care benefits.
Contract talks are scheduled to resume tomorrow.
The TWU’s plan to freeze the fare at $1.50 could also be achieved through tighter oversight of the MTA’s operations – particularly the awarding of contracts – and the use of its employees rather than outside contractors on various projects, union officials said.
But the MTA’s Kelly said the agency contracts out work its employees aren’t qualified to do.
Toussaint said the union came up with the plan because it wants to make the MTA accountable to the riding public.
“Our purpose is to challenge the MTA and to force a discussion before they embark on this dangerous course,” Toussaint said.
But the MTA said it has always been open with riders.
“This is one of the most open agencies in the country,” Kelly said.
Highlights if TWU proposal to increase revenues and cut costs at the MTA:
Raise $300 million
* Implement rapid-transit system that allows buses to get commuters around the city faster
Save $375 million
* Use transit employees instead of outside contractors
* Create a state oversight office to audit MTA books
* Reform MTA board to include one member for straphangers and another for union


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Hopkins medical providers, students and community advocates talk frankly about health disparities and how to combat them.
This feels very familiar, Charlotte Humphrey remembers thinking as the white doctor in the film spoke dismissively to the parent of a sick black child. This is why I’ve always felt I’ve had to protect and speak out for black folks who come to the hospital for care.
The Hopkins research nurse was among 300 health care workers, faculty, students and community advocates who gathered in January at the school of medicine to learn more about, and discuss, inequalities in medical treatment. The Deadliest Disease in America, the film that supplied the fuel for a series of workshops, highlighted differences in white providers’ attitudes towards black, white and Hispanic patients.
These portrayals triggered Humphrey’s memories of an episode that occurred in Baltimore when she was a child. After undergoing a tonsillectomy at the old Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital in 1962, she awoke to find herself in a dingy basement, unattended, with several other neglected black patients. What had happened to the bright, toy-filled pediatric ward she toured before her surgery?
“My first thought was that I had died and gone to hell, and I didn’t know why,” she says. Even more haunting was her realization that her mother and uncle were powerless to do anything about her situation.
After the film, Humphrey and others discussed similar episodes from the past, as well as forms of discrimination that persist—such as white providers who seem reluctant to touch people of color or who talk to them as if they were less intelligent than white patients.
Initiating such frank discussions was a goal of the program, says Brian Gibbs, associate dean for diversity and cultural competence. Like other events organized by his office, this presentation brought members of the East Baltimore neighborhood together with various groups on campus to ponder ways to improve health equity and access to care.
The Deadliest Disease in America was produced and directed by artist and filmmaker Crystal Emery. A documentary that explores the history of racism in health care, it illustrates today’s more subtle biases and classism through dramatizations of encounters between providers and patients. Developed by the nonprofit organization URU, The Right to Be Inc., the film has already aired at Yale University School of Medicine and will travel to other medical schools and community forums.
Cathy Handy, a third-year Hopkins medical student, praised a workshop that illustrated how difficult it can be for health care providers and patients to communicate effectively. She joined in an exercise in which participants closed their eyes and followed a facilitator’s instructions on folding and tearing a small sheet of paper.
“When we opened our eyes, we saw that everyone had different pieces of paper based on the same exact instructions,” Handy says. Moreover, when participants paired off to give and receive instructions one on one, the outcome was similar.
“It demonstrated how you’re not always as effective a communicator as you think — and that you don’t always understand someone when you assume that you do,” she says. “People in medical school often say they don’t know what they can do on a personal level to help change health disparities. One thing is to learn how effectively you communicate and how that impacts your patients.”
Other workshop topics included how to identify and report racism, and how community advocates can persuade legislators to address their concerns in health care reform. Participating groups from East Baltimore were the Esperanza Center, The Men’s Center, and The Transformation Team, a neighborhood-improvement group.
“Bringing in the community and responding to their concerns is one of several essential activities for this office,” Gibbs says. “We’re leveraging, leveraging, leveraging. Hopkins has tremendous resources that we haven’t figured out how to make as available to the community, and the community has tremendous resources that we often overlook.”
Another participating organization was the Black Mental Health Alliance for Education and Consultation Inc., a nonprofit in Baltimore that holds school-based programs on such topics as learning disorders and domestic violence, and also offers referrals to mental health providers.
Tracee Bryant, executive director of the Alliance, says the film increased awareness and sensitivity in providers of all backgrounds, expertise and cultures. “It’s a wonderful foundation for a rich, meaningful discourse.”
Humphrey also applauds such public conversations. She says that racial disparities in health care were seldom acknowledged, much less discussed, when she began work at Hopkins in 1992.
“These conversations are hard for everyone, but the dialogue has to happen,” she says. “As small as something like this event may seem, it is actually very big.”
Gibbs is working with colleagues at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center to hold a similar program in the spring.
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Nyandarua’s riddle of high malnutrition in land of plenty
Nyandarua county is a major producer of cabbage, carrots and potatoes. It sells its surplus to both Nairobi and parts of Nakuru counties.
Local farmers often make a kill during burial, wedding or dowry ceremonies when Nairobi residents flock the region to buy the produce in bulk.
The compulsive buying of the foodstuff by Nairobi residents is attributed to the fact that they find it pocket-friendly compared to prices of the same in the city.
Despite being referred to as a food basket, the county has registered the highest level of children under five with stunted growth in the country.
Executive for Health Services Dr John Mungai, has sounded the alarm that the county’s stunted growth rate is higher than the national average.
“We have enough food but our children are not growing to the right height, because the food is not of the right quality.
Our county is the largest producer of potatoes and second in milk production as well as vegetables, yet our children are not getting quality food,” said Mungai.
According to Mungai, the national prevalence of under-five stunting rate nationally is at 26 per cent against Nyandarua’s 30 per cent.
His Agriculture counterpart, Dr James Karitu, adds that the county has stunted growth amongst its population as a result of protein deficiency and over reliance on carbohydrates.
Karitu notes that rabbit meat, coupled with pork was a solution to provide children and the general population the much needed balanced diet.
Stunted growth is an issue Governor Francis Kimemiam (pictured) who chairs the Agriculture Committee in the Council of Governors (CoG) set-up, promised to address in his 2017 campaign.
On assuming office, Kimemia entered into an agreement with New KCC to provide free milk to nursery school children.
“We are still providing milk to our nursery school children to cushion them from under development. Malnutrition may end up affecting their academic performance,” says Mungai.
Executive has since appealed to parents not to sell all their milk, but “to first give your child a glass before selling.”
Through the Agriculture department, the county has kicked odd campaign to motivate farmers to venture into poultry farming to boost family nutrition.
Kimemia’s predecessor, Daniel Waithaka, was offering free fruit seedlings in a bid to improve nutrition intake among the people and stem the problem of stunted growth.
Fish eating had picked up very well between 2013 and 2017 as the county government promoted fish farming and consumption through a sustained campaign.
This has slackened, as the current administration seems not keen on that venture.
Families with educated people are not sitting pretty; they are seeking alternative sources of protein in their meals and rabbit rearing for meat seems to be favored by many.
Chuka University Final Year catering student, Stephen Ngunju, is already promoting rabbit eating in his family in Leshau village, Ndaragwa sub-county.
“The rabbit’s white meat is rich in proteins and can be a solution for families that have a problem of stunted growth,” Ngunju says adding that some of the nutritional problems could be traced to overreliance on Irish potatoes and cabbages.
A majority of youth have now engage in rabbit rearing. Kareithi Mungania, another residents says he had engaged in poultry, livestock farming earlier but has since opted for rabbit farming saying it was less demanding and diseases were nothing to worry about.
Another resident, Joseph Mwangi,17, took advantage of the long school closure period due to Covid-19 to start rabbit rearing.
He now has more than 20 rabbits from the two he bought in March. He sells them at between Sh300 and Sh700 depending on the size and breed.
To give rabbit rearing a boost, Karitu says the county government is planning to start breeding stocks at its OlJororok Agricultural Training College.
Currently, Nyandarua is the leader in potato production in the country, commanding 33 per cent of the commodity produced nationally per year.
Karitu says the county produces 550,000 metric tonnes of potatoes worth about Sh10 billion.
Milk, on the hand, contributes a whooping Sh12 billion into the county’s Gross domestic product. Such appetizing figures show why Nyandarua people do farming with money in mind and not nutritional value of foods for their families.

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This neutral Isabel Marant Étoile Anawa shearling coat has been crafted from leather. Cut for a loose fit, it features a shawl collar, a button front, brown leather piping trims, two side slit pockets and a shearling lining. Isabel once said, ‘You want to look good but you don’t want to spend too much time on it.’ Which is probably why she’s given us this Isabel Marant Étoile coat. It takes two seconds to throw on, but the impression it leaves is eternal.


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In what is becoming a quarterly tradition, Bruin Ambassadors had their final meet of the quarter in De Neve Dining Hall. (Side note: Bruin Ambassadors is the undergraduate admissions program I work for). For those of us who no longer live on the hill, the younger ambassadors pull together enough swipes to feed all of us.
I inwardly chuckle at myself about how excited I am to eat in the dining hall. By my second year living in the dorms, I was over it. Yes, UCLA food is amazing, but it does get monotonous. I have definitely enjoyed being able to control exactly what I eat and what goes in my food since moving into an apartment.
Anyway, that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy a dining hall meal once in a while. I was definitely excited for the variety in the salad bar since they have tons of options- bell peppers, tofu, cauliflower, hardboiled egg and much more. It was a nice way to end the quarter as we buckle down for finals.
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Malic acid as a chelating agent
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My logic may be faulty here, which, if it is I apologise, but at least you can see the basis on which I have made the link.
Scientists have found that the plants containing malic acid can be used to remove heavy metals and other metals from contaminated soils. The malic acid appears to be key to the process.
There appear to be other papers on pubmed that then make the link that says that perhaps fruit can remove the heavy metals in us too. In effect, malic acid containing fruit can 'chelate' us.
This may be a double edged sword in that if the plants are in contaminated soils the fruit will be affected and we may get heavy metal poisoning from the fruit, but the paper below seems to suggest that all the toxins accumulate in the leaves not the fruit.
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Planta. 2012 Aug;236(2):477-89. doi: 10.1007/s00425-012-1621-2. Epub 2012 Mar 13. Natural variation among Arabidopsis accessions reveals malic acid as a key mediator of Nickel (Ni) tolerance. Agrawal B, Lakshmanan V, Kaushik S, Bais HP. Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA.
Plants have evolved various mechanisms for detoxification that are specific to the plant species as well as the metal ion chemical properties.
Malic acid, which is commonly found in plants, participates in a number of physiological processes including metal chelation. Using natural variation among Arabidopsis accessions, we investigated the function of malic acid in Nickel (Ni) tolerance and detoxification.
The Ni-induced production of reactive oxygen species was found to be modulated by intracellular malic acid, indicating its crucial role in Ni detoxification. Ni tolerance in Arabidopsis may actively involve malic acid and/or complexes of Ni and malic acid.
Investigation of malic acid content in roots among tolerant ecotypes suggested that a complex of Ni and malic acid may be involved in translocation of Ni from roots to leaves. The exudation of malic acid from roots in response to Ni treatment in either susceptible or tolerant plant species was found to be partially dependent on AtALMT1 expression. A lower concentration of Ni (10 µM) treatment induced AtALMT1 expression in the Ni-tolerant Arabidopsis ecotypes. We found that the ecotype Santa Clara (S.C.) not only tolerated Ni but also accumulated more Ni in leaves compared to other ecotypes.
Thus, the ecotype S.C. can be used as a model system to delineate the biochemical and genetic basis of Ni tolerance, accumulation, and detoxification in plants. The evolution of Ni hyperaccumulators, which are found in serpentine soils, is an interesting corollary to the fact that S.C. is also native to serpentine soils.
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The fashion-cinema combination returns to furrow the red carpet of the Croisette in all its glory. After the pandemic stop and the subdued event of last year, the Cannes Film Festival he makes his comeback at full capacity and, above all, in grand style together with local and international stars, VIP guests and the crème of new and old Hollywood stars. On the other hand, that the 75th edition of the kermesse was synonymous with restart was already evident from his poster, a poster to say the least Magrittiano where a Jim Carrey climbs the ladder of The Truman show. For cinephile purists, a quotation work just right for the occasion and for the fashion system, perhaps, also a bittersweet memory of the fall-winter 2020/21 of that disappeared genius of Virgil Abloh. And without too much forcing, it is certain that the French appointment, staged from yesterday until the 28th of the month, will be full of glamor, as demonstrated by its opening ceremony with the first film in the running. Coupez!
To plow the red carpet of the Palais des festivals et des congrès there were many guests and stars, among all to conquer the sparkle of the flashes it was obviously the whole jury of the festival, from the elegant president Vincent Lindon and candida Raptor Noomi in Diorchic Deepika Padukane in black and gold dress by Sabyasachito the vibrant Rebecca Hall in Guccito the modern Jasmine Trinca in white dress with precious details of Prada and elegant Jeff Nichols in Giorgio Armani. But the timeless of King George was also brought into the spotlight by Joanna Kulig, Margherita Buy, Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni, Daniela Marra And Marco Bellocchio.
Two world-famous international stars winked at the media under the banner of Italian fashion, Julianne Moore and Eva Longoria. The first captivated those present by sporting a sophisticated black dress by Bottega Venetachosen for her by the stylist Kate Youngand combined with important jewels Bulgarianswhile the second chose the veiled transparencies of Alberta Ferretti. And if we talk about local fashion, it could not be missing on the home treadmill Valentino with her Pink pp collection, worn by the influencer Caroline Daurfrom Rahi Chadda and from one of the protagonists of the opening film, Bérénice Bejo.
Fendi instead it was chosen by the actress Lashana Lynch, Roberto Cavalli from Didi Stonewhile Maria Grazia Chiuri And Miuccia Prada they then replicated their inspiration on stage with one another Valeria Golino And Bebe Viothe other with the shining young woman Katherine Langfordknown to the public for playing Hannah Baker in the series Netflix 13 Reasons why. And while the French Agathe Roussell enchanted fans with a signature Greek goddess silhouette Louis Vuitton, Chanel he climbed the stairs of the cinema together with Matilda Lutzalso in the cast of the director’s film Michel Hazanaviciuswith a tulle dress from couture spring-summer 2022 and with Ariane Labed, who instead wore a jersey jacket paired with navy trousers from the Métiers d’art collection. Finally, drum roll and ovation for style to the president of the Camera d’Or jury, Rossy De Palma. The actress born in 1964 has in fact stunned the media with her nonchalance and super sophisticated outfit accompanied by red gloves of Saint Laurent by Antony Vaccarelloa brand also chosen by the maîtresse de cérémonie Virginie Efira.
After the surprise connection of the Ukrainian president Zelensky and his off-the-cuff speech, what emerged yesterday is a good start for the event organized to the hundredth of a second and under the critical eye of his general delegate Thiery Frémaux. But if the films in competition are not many, so are the stars who will parade on the red carpet in the next few days, kicking off a real fashion week with designer clothes. Beyond Tom Cruisewhich at the premiere of Top Gun: Maverick he had turned up in full suit Brioni and a parked helicopter, eagerly awaited on the red carpet are the two faces of the film David Cronenberg, Crimes of the future, Kristen Stewart and connects it Léa Seydoux. If a Chanel outfit is desirable for the first, a Louis Vuitton look is likely for the second, considering also that last weekend he was in the parterre as a special guest of the label’s cruise 2023 within Lvmh.
Still, the flashes are also trampling for the cast of Elvis from Baz Luhrmannall designer labels at the Met Gala Pradaor Marion Cotillard And Margaret Qualleyboth linked to the double C maison, and also to the stellar squad of Armageddon Time which includes big hits like Oscar Isac, Robert De Niro, Anthony Hopkins (recently immortalized in the latest campaign by Loeweed), Cate Blanchett and Anne Hathaway. For the latter, consecrated as a fashion icon later The devil wears Pradathe whole brand is more difficult because the profile Instagram is a showcase of brands: from Giorgio Armani, Valentino and Versaceto David Koma, Paco Rabanne And Christopher John Rogers.
And the frenzy is also there for Tilda Swintonat the festival with Three thousand year of longing and certainly with her haughty and refined attitude that she usually shows off, or for the star of the series Squid game, Jung-Jae Leepresent at the Croisette in his directorial debut for Hunt and most likely with a Gucci suit. In fact, its proximity to the brand led by the style is no mystery Alessandro Michele and that is why it is desirable that the brand focuses on him on the red carpet and on the Korean pop star Iu (preudonym of Lee Ji-Eun) in the cast of Broker. In short, bookmakers and designer forecasts aside, what is certain is that the Cannes festival has returned to its former glory and that fashion, especially Italian, can’t wait to shine. (All rights reserved)


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By Kat Giantis
Often after a terrible accident, people will shake their head and say, "We never saw it coming." Unfortunately, that probably won't be the case if and when Justin Bieber eventually wraps his Ferrari around a telephone pole or another car. For the second time in as many months, he's been accused of driving recklessly through his gated Los Angeles community.
L.A. County Sheriff spokesman Steve Whitmore tells TMZ that this latest incident happened around 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, with police receiving several calls claiming the popster, 19, was zooming around at a "startling rate of speed" while at least one child played nearby.
One of the callers was believed to be former NFL player Keyshawn Johnson (and given what kind of behavior he probably witnessed during his successful football career, that's not a good sign).
Police reportedly responded to the scene, but Justin "refused to speak with them," which we didn't realize was an option.
The case is being sent to the district attorney for review. Prosecutors are already investigating a similar incident from March, when Bieber was accused of hitting speeds topping 100 mph while tearing around the same exclusive Calabasas enclave around 9:00 a.m. on a weekday.
When confronted by a neighbor after his supposed Speed Racer imitation, Justin purportedly responded by spitting in the man's face and threatening to kill him. The neighbor ended up filing a battery report.
Bieber's need for speed was also apparently evident during his recent world tour. Earlier this month in Dubai, he allegedly set off six speed cameras while burning rubber behind the wheel of a Lamborghini.
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