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Three principles unite the five male voices of Musique à bouches: friendship, fraternity, and complicity.
Musique à bouches is a vocal ensemble composed of David Bélanger, Olivier Brousseau, Jérôme Fortin, Sylvain Trudel and Michel Grandmaison who also brings his personal twist on foot-tapping (podorythmie).
Humming with a cappella rhythms of traditional musical arrangements, this vocal quintet is the fruit of years of careful improvements, evolution, and brotherhood. Inspired by the great pioneers of folk, the members of MAB take it upon themselves to dust-off and update the musical repertoire to breathe new life into the places, people, and stories that have so shaped our imaginations.
Always with the intent to preserve traditional folk songs in the collective memory, Musique à bouches has recorded three albums: En spectacle (2009), Jusqu’aux oreilles (2014) and L’habit de plumes (2019).
In 2016, they were named «Vocal Group of the Year» at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, and their second album was nominated for «Folk Album of the Year» by the ADISQ.
Musique à bouches has performed hundreds of shows across many different venues including in Quebec, the United States, and France. No matter where they go, no one is immune to their charm. This a cappella quintet sets itself apart not only with melodious voices and the raw power of their harmonies, but also the camaraderie and humour they share on stage.
Sylvain is a multidisciplinary artist; over the years, he has been fortunate and crafty enough to transform many of his interests into professional opportunities. A true adept of the written word and world languages, Sylvain is a writer, translator, and teacher. During his many years as a radio host, amateur actor, and master of ceremonies, he discovered his own vibrant vocal characteristics and became a professional narrator. Since 2003, he has juggled his many careers, but maintains a special love for another of his great passions: professional musical fireworks.
Sylvain is a founding member of Musique à bouches. Since the group’s inception in 2005, he and his four vocal accomplices share in the pleasure of vocal harmonies and the preservation of the oral tradition.
Olivier Brousseau is a singer-songwriter from Estrie who has been walking the path of the professional musician since 1999. He is credited with five albums: Goûter au ciel (1999), Chemin Sansoucis (2002), J’ai mon voyage! (2005), Les bottines ben attachées (2009) et La ligne du temps (2015). His latest was nominated for “Roots Album” of the year at GAMIQ in 2015, and his song “La ligne du temps” was nominated for Song of the Year by SOCAN at the 2016 Gala Country. Outside his work with Musique à bouches, Olivier is a member of the flok duo Pièce sur Pièce,the groups Marchands de Mémoire, Le Trio des Cantons and Le Bal à l’huile. Throughout his career, this artist of the Townships has put on more than 400 shows across Quebec, in addition to touring in Peru as well as several tours in France.
An audiophile from a very young age, Michel has always afforded music a special place in his life. The piano was his first instrument, followed by bass alongside a quick mastery of singing. With his keen ear for music, Michel has sung in Bal à l’huile, the Cousins germains, and is a member of the Du rhum et une femme quintet.
Nowadays he is part of Musique à bouches, with whom he has already sung at the Festival Mémoire et Racines twice. Beyond harmonizing with his 4 companions, this talented singer is the a capella group’s podorhythmic heart. A versatile musician whose optimism is often contagious, Michel has also worked as a high school teacher for 20 years.
Jérôme Fortin, a singer-songwriter from the Sherbrooke region, is a self-taught musician credited with three albums: Les Berceuses Enchantées (a 2012 solo album), Vers l’horizon (2007), and Tout baigne… (2011) with Galarno. He also works part-time as a psychoeducator in mental health. His experience as a guitarist and singer comes from, among other things, his numerous shows as part of the groups Trio des Cantons and Marchands de Mémoire. Over the years he has wandered many of Quebec’s roads with his various musical compatriots, as well as performed on a few tours in France.
Twenty years ago, David founded Productions Sacapus with the goal of supporting various musical projects in Estrie (production, launches, shows, and tours). Today, his energy is mainly focused on Musique à bouches.
Performing solo from time to time, he is not shy to trade his guitar for his caméra. Alongside his many artistic commitments, David continues to be employed as a social worker in a community setting.


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Artist Paul Evans limited prints and pictures are well sought after. He is one of the leading landscape Painters working today. He is widely known for his highly individual watercolours, acrylics and etchings inspired by East Anglia’s landscape and coast, Sussex Downland, The Kent Weald and Cornwall’s rugged coast and moorland. Paul studied illustration and printmaking for four years at Eastbourne College of Art and Design and has been fortunate to make his living soley from his painting since graduating. Since 1976, Paul has had over 50 solo exhibitions, with numberous group shows, usually attended by large numbers of art collectors, often selling out within hours of the show opening. His artwork has been bought by art collectors and buyers from his home country, but he has also seen his work sell worldwide in America, Australia, Japan and Europe.
A wonderful Art and Craft Gallery situated in the heart of Witney, just off the market square. From big names like Leigh Lambert, Leanne Christie, Quentin Blake, Dan Crisp, Allan Morgan and many others, to Emerging and local artists. The gallery showcases over 50 wall Artists, 30 Potters as well as Sculpture, Glass, Wood and Jewellery. The ever changing gallery is set over two floors, so there is always something interesting to discover.

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GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) will visit Graaff-Reinet on Monday, 13 July.
Should community members wish to support the blood drive, they can visit Te Watersaal between 11am and 4pm. The drive hopes to welcome at least 50 donors.
According to a statement by SANBS, infection control measures are in place to prohibit the transmission of Covid-19. SANBS staff are screened daily, and blood donors are screened before entering blood donation areas.
“Entry is only allowed if answers are satisfactory,” the statement read. “This is in addition to the telephonic screening being done at the recruitment stage.”
Other safety measures include:
- All donors are sprayed with hand sanitizer before entering the donation area. All SANBS hand sanitizers and disinfectant products are independently laboratory tested to ensure efficacy.
- Social distancing is encouraged by means of floor signs and staff who will intervene if sufficient space is not adhered to.
- SANBS staff are wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as surgical gloves, plastic face shields as well as face masks, also independently laboratory tested.
- All staff are trained on the correct use and maintenance of the various PPE items.
- Donor beds are disinfected after each donation.
- Donor beds are placed at least 2 meters apart and SANBS Bus blood drives are limited to one donor per bus at a time, regardless of 2 beds being available.
'We bring you the latest Graaff-Reinet, Karoo news'

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A 24-year-old woman was arrested in Framingham, Massachusetts Friday morning after smearing raw pork onto the window of a police station.
Lindsey McNamara is receiving a misdemeanor charge and the judge has ordered her to complete a mental health evaluation. McNamara reportedly walked into the local police station around 11 a.m. carrying a Dunkin Donuts box. The officer that greeted her said she had a “great smile on her face” as she smeared raw pork over the desk and window and said she was feeding “the pigs.’
She was charged with malicious destruction of property.
Below, a picture of the scene right after the incident took place. Courtesy of boston.cbslocal.com

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JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Wind farm builders should space their turbines much further apart to generate power more efficiently, wind tunnel tests and computer simulations show.
Large wind farms are being built around the world as a cleaner way to generate electricity, but operators are still searching for the most efficient way to arrange the massive turbines that turn moving air into power.
To help steer wind farm owners in the right direction, Charles Meneveau, a Johns Hopkins University fluid mechanics and turbulence expert, working with a colleague in Belgium, devised a new spacing formula for large arrays of turbines.
“I believe our results are quite robust,” says Meneveau, a professor of mechanical engineering.
The newest wind farms, located on land or offshore, typically use turbines with rotor diameters of about 300 feet. Currently, turbines on these large wind farms are spaced about seven rotor diameters apart.
The new spacing model developed by Meneveau and Johan Meyers, an assistant professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, suggests that placing the wind turbines 15 rotor diameters apart—more than twice as far apart as in the current layouts—results in more cost-efficient power generation.
Meneveau presented the study results recently at a meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. The research is important because large wind farms—consisting of hundreds or even thousands of turbines—are planned or already operating in the western United States, Europe and China.
“The early experience is that they are producing less power than expected,” Meneveau said. “Some of these projects are underperforming.”
Earlier computational models for large wind farm layouts were based on simply adding up what happens in the wakes of single wind turbines, Meneveau says. The new spacing model, he adds, takes into account interaction of arrays of turbines with the entire atmospheric wind flow.
Meneveau and Meyers argue that the energy generated by a large wind farm has less to do with horizontal winds near ground level and is more dependent on the strong winds that the tall turbines pull down from higher up in the atmosphere. Using insights gleaned from high-performance computer simulations as well as from wind tunnel experiments, they determined that in the correct spacing, the turbines create turbulence, which stirs the air and helps draw more powerful kinetic energy from higher altitudes.
The experiments were conducted in a Johns Hopkins wind tunnel, which uses a large fan to generate a stream of air. Before it enters the testing area, the air passes through an “active grid,” a curtain of perforated plates that rotate randomly and create turbulence so that the air moving through the tunnel more closely resembles real-life wind conditions.
Air currents in the tunnel pass through a series of small model wind turbines mounted atop posts, mimicking an array of full-size wind turbines. Data concerning the interaction of the air currents and the model turbines is collected by using a measurement procedure called stereo particle-image-velocimetry, which requires a pair of high-resolution digital cameras, smoke and laser pulses.
Further research is needed, Meneveau says, to learn how varying temperatures can affect the generation of power on large wind farms.
More news from Johns Hopkins: http://releases.jhu.edu


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Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire is well established around the world now, with millions of 3DS and 2DS gamers on a quest to catch 'em all and win a whole load of online battles.
There was understandable concern, recently, due to a game-freezing bug late in the adventure, though Game Freak promised an early December fix. It's delivered on that promise — thanks Serebii — with the release of version 1.2; it's available now, and you won't be able to play online until that's fixed.
With that out of the way, we're now going to look at the latest details around a mysterious 'mon that hackers have found in ORAS, which has an expanded role following its initial discovery in the Pokémon X & Y code. If you don't want to know about this, simply back out of this article now — that's your spoiler warning!
Last year a hacker found three Legendary Pokémon in X & Y; one of these, Diancie, was officially released in the game (through distributions) and is the star of a movie. The other two — Volcanian and Hoopa — never formally escaped the confines of the game's hidden code. While Volcanian is still somewhat dormant, Hoopa's tale has expanded greatly in ORAS.
Along with the discovery of a standard Hoopa, pictured below, another sprite in X & Y seemed to suggest a Mega Evolution, though in ORAS this has actually emerged as another form. In fact, those carrying Hoopa — naturally having hacked it — are triggering intriguing events in a Pokémon Mart, establishing a back-story of a Prison Bottle; it unleashes a powerful form of Hoopa called Hoopa Unbound; you can see this all unfold in the video below.
The Hyperspace Fury move in that video's battle (near the end) is drawing comparisons with the portals in the game that lead to capturing Legendary 'mon. Compiling the lore found in ORAS with that in X & Y, there's speculation that this mythical 'mon could be fundamental in the story of the portals and the tale told in the Delta episode.
We recommend this article on Kotaku for an exhaustive summary; it's an intriguing development. What do you think of these discoveries?
Thanks to Sherman A. Bojórquez for the heads up.

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[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Romance, M/M, HEA]
The Adonis Dating Service matches police officer Derek with Tony, a member of the Citizens Observer Patrol. Although they have a lot in common and soon bond, when Derek’s life is endangered not once but twice, including an incident while the couple is on vacation, Tony asks Derek to give up police work, because Tony doesn’t want to risk losing Derek in such a dangerous occupation. Derek loves being a cop, though, and doesn’t want to give it up. Is this a deal breaker? Will Tony issue an ultimatum?
Then it’s Tony’s life that is endangered, while Derek isn’t there to help. Tony takes a risk to stop a crime, but he pays dearly for his bravery. Will Derek return in time to help? How will it all end?
A Siren Erotic Romance
Suddenly, as they slowly drove through a residential neighborhood, they came upon an unexpected occurrence—a crime scene. A woman was fleeing from a man who was screaming and shouting obscenities at her. “Stop! Stop the car!” Derek shouted at Tony. Ever the policeman, he was alert to situations around him even when he wasn’t on duty. And of course, he had his police weapon with him, as always.
Before Derek could decide whether this was a situation that required police intervention, the man shot at the woman. At that, Derek drew his service revolver, yelling, “Police! Freeze!” as he leaped from the just-stopped car. The man turned and immediately shot at Derek.
Tony instinctively reached for his cell phone, dialed 911, and said, “We have an off-duty officer down. He was responding to a domestic disturbance at a residence on Shady Lane between Oak and Franklin. We also have an injured civilian. Can you respond with backup police and an ambulance?”
Derek, clutching his side, gave Tony the thumbs-up as he heard him call in the report. The perpetrator fled. The woman lay in a puddle of blood.
Tony ran to Derek. “How badly does it hurt?” he asked.
“Well, it’s not just a bee sting,” Derek answered, attempting to smile. “Good for you on your quick call. How’s the woman doing?”
The injured woman was moaning, gushing blood, and thrashing around. “She doesn’t look too good,” Tony reported ruefully. His voice quavered. Then he spat out the words, “Why did we have to drive down just this street at just this minute—and why do you have to be a cop?” His thoughts were interrupted by the wailing of sirens in the distance. They quickly grew nearer.
The ambulance and police car both arrived. Derek’s wound was judged to be non-life-threatening, even though more than a simple flesh wound. The woman was not so lucky. Although she was able to identify her assailant, she was DOA—dead on arrival at the hospital. Tony, however, was utterly shaken. Two days later, when Derek was released from the hospital, Tony told him, “I want you to get out of police work. I don’t know if I can stand to love someone whose life is in danger every day—even when he’s not working.”
“I’m a cop,” Derek replied as he walked unsteadily to Tony’s car. “It’s what I am. It’s who I am. I’m sworn to uphold the law and protect the citizens. I take it very seriously. I can’t change.”
“I can’t keep going through this,” Tony answered. “I want you to quit.”
“And do what? I’m not an artist like you. I’m not a businessman. I’m not a used car salesman. I’m not a teacher. I’m a policeman. Get used to it, babe. You’re in love with a policeman.”
“Yes, but I can’t stand it.”
“You’ll have to. It’s who and what I am.”
They went home to Tony’s house as they’d planned but didn’t make love that night, although they held each other tight all through the night.
Derek wondered if this was their breaking point. What if Tony became insistent? What if Tony demanded that he give up police work or…?
He couldn’t give up police work, even though he didn’t want to give up Tony.
It took a long time before Derek fell asleep that night, and when he did, his sleep was restless and uneasy. From the way that Tony was tossing and turning and intermittently clawing at the sheets, Derek surmised that Tony wasn’t sleeping well either. But Derek didn’t say anything to him. After all, what was there to say? Derek was, no matter what, a cop. And if Tony couldn’t live with that…?
What would happen, he wondered, if Tony couldn’t live with that?
Both their dicks were already up hard and ready, and capping Derek’s in rubber was easy for him, despite the fumbling of his eager fingers. Before he was even fully covered, Tony was down at Derek’s crotch, his hungry tongue lapping at Derek’s sac. His eager tongue laved Derek’s balls, probing into the squishy sac and teasing the already-roiling contents.
Derek returned the favor, arranging his body so he could lap at Tony simultaneously. His tongue quickly segued from swirling across the surface of Tony’s balls into swiping its hasty way up his tall-standing dick. And that erection seemed to stretch taller and taller as he licked his way up it.
Finally he reached the summit. His tongue dipped into the welling slit, protected by latex but still vulnerable to the feel of a marauding tongue. Derek lapped down into the tender opening, while his hand began gently jacking Tony’s stiff, swollen dick at its thick base. His massive balls lay below, their sparse pubes tickling the side of Derek’s hand each time it dipped down to the bottom of Tony’s spongy cock.
Soon they were gobbling each other’s cock with abandon. Derek’s mouth had engulfed almost the whole of Tony’s throbbing shaft. It lay within the loving warmth of Derek’s mouth, bathed in the same kind of humid, tender environment that Tony’s mouth was providing for Derek’s exquisitely responsive dick. And then Tony’s tongue started twining around Derek’s cock, tickling and darting and teasing and taunting, touching here and tormenting there.
Derek was totally captivated by his new lover’s brand of lovin’. He looked up, raising his eyes as far as he could without lifting his mouth from Tony’s dick, and saw his strong musculature, his adorable face, his twinkling brown eyes, his curly hair, and was even more captivated than he had been before. Then he inhaled the musky, sweaty, pheromone-laden scent that rose from his groin, and he was totally swept away with lust and longing.
Tony, meanwhile, seemed determined to swallow as much of Derek’s dick as he could, and he did just as he wanted, taking Derek’s appreciable length and considerable thickness all the way down deep in his throat, titillating the bottom of Derek’s shaft with his tongue as he went. When he reached the base, he did a neat thing with his throat muscles, constricting and relaxing them so they massaged Derek’s palpitating glans. Derek’s knob quivered at the feel of those massaging muscles surrounding it and squeezing.
As Tony sucked and swallowed and treated Derek’s dick to royal sensations, his hand worked its way under Derek’s butt and squirmed its way into the clench of his anal sphincter. His puckered asshole felt Tony’s skillful fingers jabbing into him. How many fingers was he trying to stuff up there? It was obviously more than one—and it felt like there might even be three of them pushing their way up Derek’s quivering ass and invading his depths.
Then those fingers started chugging in and out of him, and he squirmed at the feel of them rubbing his sensitized rim and stuffing him delightfully full. Coupled with the feel of Tony’s tight lips locked around his blood-engorged dick, the sensations made Derek moan as he wriggled with need on the bed and began pumping his hips up and down in a quest for the orgasm he now needed urgently.
He wasn’t ignoring Tony, either. Derek’s own lips encircled Tony’s hard-on, his tongue licking tauntingly at Tony’s crown as Derek’s mouth sucked voraciously on Tony’s erection. Tony’s pube patch inflamed him with his man scent—sweat and musk and pheromones and all the sexy smells that turned him on. The tendrils reached up Derek’s nostrils and into his brain, setting his body on fire, a fire that only Tony could extinguish.
Derek was sucking demandingly on Tony’s rigid cock, and it seemed to swell even further in Derek’s mouth as he sucked at it. Each man gobbled the other in an oral orgy of steamy sex. But soon Tony wanted more. Removing his mouth from Derek’s dick, he asked, “Do you get fucked? Or are you a top?”
“I’m versatile…but you’re awfully large.” It was true—the length of Tony’s cock was notable, although well within the range of dicks that Derek had taken before, but the circumference was truly awesome. Tony’s dick had to be the thickest, fattest piece Derek had ever wrapped his lips around, and he shuddered with pleased yet concerned anticipation at the prospect of having that fat hunk of cock thrust up his ass.
“Let me try?” Tony wheedled.
Derek had to admit that the thought of being filled with so much hot dick was tantalizing. Ahh…the way it would stretch the rim, the way it would rub every nerve that lived around his opening…Yes, as much as Tony’s size concerned him, he just had to try. So he squirmed around until he was on his back with his knees up near his shoulders, presenting his winking hole for Tony’s pleasure.
Tony lowered his mouth to within an inch of Derek’s asshole and spit a deposit of saliva toward his rim, then worked it in with his fingers, lubing him the old-fashioned way. When Derek was suitably slicked up for Tony’s entry, Tony reared back, thumped his hefty dick against Derek’s asshole, and took it in hand to guide it into his entrance.

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- Mining in Haridwar leaves groundwater unfit for drinking: Study
Excessive riverbed mining in Haridwar has rendered the quality of groundwater “very poor” and unsuitable for drinking, according to researchers from Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya. They have also warned that adverse health effects of drinking such water range from developing kidney stones to irregular heartbeat.


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PHOENIX (CNS) — The Catholic bishops of Arizona have expressed concern that new legislative proposals requiring greater enforcement of immigration laws by local police could harm public safety and separate families. “Arizona would become the first state in the nation to codify its own ‘illegal immigration’ law by requiring persons who are here unlawfully in terms of federal law to be charged with trespassing under Arizona law,” said the three bishops who make up the Arizona Catholic Conference in a March 8 statement. The three are Bishops Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix, Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson and James S. Wall of Gallup, N.M., whose diocese includes parts of Arizona.
The bishops said S.B. 1070 and H.B. 2632 — identical bills currently before the Arizona Legislature — do not “clearly state that undocumented people who become victims of crimes can come forward without fear of deportation.” But they said it is “in all of our best interests” that no one be afraid to report a crime. “Anything that may deter crimes from being reported or prosecuted will only keep dangerous criminals on the streets, making our communities less safe,” the conference statement said.
The bishops said that although supporters of the bills say they are designed to allow local police to hold undocumented immigrants who are suspected of crimes, the proposals do not “limit enforcement to persons suspected of criminal activity, thus leaving the possibility of criminalizing the presence of even children and young persons brought into our country by their parents.” “If enacted, these bills could lead to separation of family members that would not take place under current federal law,” they added. “We believe it would be far better to withdraw these bills than to risk costly and unfairly punitive enforcement.”

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Panaji: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday questioned Goa-based miner Radha Timblo's son Chetan in connection with a money laundering probe against him and his mining firm.
Radha Timblo's name had figured in the blackmoney list submitted by the government in the Supreme Court recently.
"Chetan Timblo was grilled by the investigating officer of the case for over seven hours at the ED office here. His statement has been recorded," agency sources said.
They said the investigating officer of the case has asked Chetan to submit additional documents related to his personal and professional financial dealings and has been summoned again in the case on December 17.
The central probe agency had earlier questioned Radha Timblo in the same case and sought details about her and her mining company-- Timblo Private Limited.
The firm and its directors are being probed by ED, along with other mining firms based in Goa, after it registered a criminal case in the Rs 35,000-crore Goa illegal mining scam which was earlier investigated by the Justice M B Shah Commission for alleged large-scale irregularities.
Radha Timblo's name came to the fore after the central government submitted a list in the Supreme Court last month mentioning the name of the firm and its directors including Radha Satish Timblo, Chetan S Timblo, Rohan S Timblo, Anna C Timblo and Mallika R Timblo.
Timblo had maintained she had "no undisclosed bank account abroad" and that she has not done anything illegal.
The agency had, in June this year, registered a complaint under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after taking cognisance of the reports of the Commission, the inquiry boards constituted in this regard and also an FIR filed by Goa police's Crime Branch last year in August.
Close to 80 firms allegedly involved in mining in the state have been named in ED's FIR.
The Shah Commission has estimated that the scam was worth Rs 35,000 crore. It had submitted its report in 2012, two years after it was constituted.


In this work at first, I recognize the object in the scene and estimate the 6 DOF pose of that. Then I track the object by using particle filter. RGB data acquired from Kinect 2 and turned into PCL pointcloud.
I demonstrate a task several times to the robot. In this case, I move an object (a detergent) over an “S” shape path to get an “S” shape trajectory.
In the following, you can see the result of 6 times repeating the job. Trajectories are very noisy and each repeat gives you a new “S” shape.
Then I compute the GMM (Gaussian mixture model) of trajectory in each dimension. Numbers of kernels can be set by the user or can be determined automatically based on BIC (Bayesian information criterion).
After that, I computed the Gaussian mixture regression to generalize the task and get the learned trajectory.
DTW (Dynamic time warping) can be used to align the trajectories to a reference trajectory to get rid of time difference problem between several trajectories.
Finally, you can see the learned trajectory in black.
All codes have been done with C++ in ROS (indigo-level).


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Everyone hates Aviva...again.
Singer/producer Pharrell Williams released his new album G I R L as a "gesture" to his female fans to clear up any confusion following the controversy over last year's (13) huge hit Blurred Lines.
Veteran British actor Timothy West has been confined to a wheelchair after breaking his ankle.
The 'Nebraska' star also discusses working with Bruce Dern and blending comedy with drama.
Actress Lena Dunham was left hysterical after rushing to catch a recent flight when she was detained by airport security officials over a cat-shaped keychain they deemed potentially-dangerous.
Acclaimed lyricist Sir Tim Rice fears he will never write another stage musical as the public seems to prefer shows featuring well-known pop songs to original material.
Or do we need them?
The sympathetic everyman protagonist has more potential than other Koontz heroes.
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are set to write and direct an adaptation of 'Console Wars'.
Actor Alec Baldwin set up a meeting with a gay rights group in Hawaii recently in a bid to calm tensions following his 2013 slur row.
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Ben Affleck's early Oscar contender 'Argo' is a political thriller you have to see to believe. Based on the astonishing true story of the unconventional rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, it's something only Hollywood could dare to dream up. In honor of Argo we look back other movies whose stories are so outrageous and unbelievable they had to be true because, well, they were.
From classic movie palaces to the state-of-the-art IMAX screens.


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Previously, this website was about a electro-folk music band based in Czech called the Orff brothers. They abandoned the site years ago and the migrated to http://www.bratriorffove.cz/. I have decided to bring this website to life once more.
The Culture of Music
Music has a way into the heart of many people. In one time or another, you will find yourself listening to a particular song or working while you are still listening to music. There is a kind of therapy or encouragement that we get from music and this induces us to attend music festivals and show or just relax at home and listen to some cool music.
I have grown up listening to particular genres of music such as classical souls, hip hop and rock. However, my favorite music has always been country music. This could have been influence by my dad whose had several LP of the classical bands such as Alabama and particularly loved one of their singles – ‘Dixieland Delight’. He also loved John Conlee, Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire and many other artistes. In the evening and in the weekends when he was not going out, he would spend the entire day listening to these classics in his old wooden stereo. Time may have gone too first, but the memories of these artistes never fade in my heart.
I fell in love with electric folk music in 2007 when I visited Czech Republic on a vacation. Being summer, it was the best period to stay outdoors and to partake in various outdoor activities. One such visit was to a night out that I went with some other tourist that I had met to Cloud 9 Sky Bar and Lounge in Prague for an evening dinner and probably a round of the finest cocktails of Europe. It was really an awesome experience as we tuned ourselves to adapt to the culture of Prague.
Emerging trend of Music Genres
Among the music playing that day was some electro-folk songs from the Orff Brothers and other renowned artistes like Gruff Rhys and Sorten Muld. Like I said, prior to that evening, I had never loved this genre of music, but by being in the company of friends and other revelers who were thrilled with the music my interest sprouted. We enjoyed the company and ended spending more time at the lounge than I had anticipated.
Electric folk is a kind of music that developed from the folk rock music that pioneered in Europe a few decades ago, although it has lately undergone a series of revolutionary changes adopting the culture of European music genres. This has greatly improved its taste and appreciation among its diverse fan base across the globe with its popularity growing by the day. The aforementioned artistes have also claimed several musical awards and earned great recognition in the music industry.
Take the Orff brothers for instance. The group was founded in 2002 with Lukas Novotny, Matthew Godik and Ivan Gajdos who were all lovers of folk music as well as rock music decided to team up and do music together. Although today the band members have increased, the trio shot into limelight soon after the first release of their album. In their second album, Sero won the Apollo Award by Czech music critics for the best recording in 2013. They have also been receiving massive airplay for their songs as well as visiting most of the European countries to stage concerts.
The music scene may have changed greatly in recent times, but what happens today is that different genres of music intermarry to produce a new music culture. I expect that maybe one day electric music might join hand with polka or maybe hip hop and would love to hear the electrifying effects that may be produced by such collaborations.
As I remake this website, I will be seeking to detail more about the influence of various music genres in our lives and our culture. Already there are several posts that I’ve already published and can be assessed by clicking through the various topics below.
I decided to follow my grandfather’s footsteps, as he was the drummer in his band, called ‘The Knarks’. He used to be quite a big guy actually, until he followed this awesome diet called The Dukan Diet.And let me tell you, this diet WORKS! I have lost 15 pounds over the past five and a half months, and I feel great.
Anyways, back to topic. I miss hanging out with my grandfather, he was such an inspiration to me. He made me realize how important life really is, from when I was a little boy playing in my sand box, until now. He may not be around anymore, as he passed a few short months after he got diagnosed with Gynecomastia, but he is still, and always will be, my role model.
He used to do everything with me… bike riding, play at the playground, swimming, he taught me how to kick a ball, and shoot a puck. Every time I was at home with my parents, I wanted to just be with my grandfather. He was my best friend. Oh how I wish he was still around, he would have loved my music. It was a lot like his.


Johannes Schönherr dropped me a line the other day to highlight an interview he conducted with Masao Kobayashi, the producer of Somi – the Taekwon-do Woman.
Always good to hear from the man as he highlights another little insight into making movies in the DPRK. You might remember us speaking previously about a potential screening of the DPRK-Japan co-production in London in an earlier post. If you are interested in seeing the film, please contribute!
A little down the line I hope to have a review of Johannes Schönherr’s book on North Korea cinema which has now officially been released. Grab your copy here.
Even a cursory google around the internet on the subject of North Korean cinema will lead you, quite rightly, in the direction of Johannes Schönherr.
My first introduction to Schönherr came when I discovered that his memoir “Trashfilm Roadshow” contained within it a chapter on his experiences travelling to North Korea in search in search of weird and wacky movies to fit in with the obscure titles he’d been touring around the world.
His delightfully boozy adventures take him from his native Germany to the US, North Korea and, finally, to Japan where he now resides and the whole book is definitely worth a read to discover how those films “from the outside” can be cherished in some many different situations and settings.
Having written a number of articles on North Korean cinema, I was pleased to see Johannes pop up on the comments section of this site. After exchanging a few emails (and a few rare North Korean DVDs) I decided it would be the perfect time to interview him for the site. This year will see the release of his opus “North Korean Cinema” which will finally provide the world with an English-language history of the cinema of the DPRK. I, for one, cannot wait for the book to be released. Below is the interview I conducted recently via email.
DPRK Films: Can you explain briefly how you became interested in North Korean cinema?
JS: Will try to do it as briefly as possible but still, it’s a longer story. I’ve always been interested in strange, far-out films. In films, that don’t usually run in the neighborhood theater. Back in the 1980s, I joined an anarchist cinema collective in Nuremberg, where I was living at the time. There, I learned everything about running a theater… and I could book all the weird movies into the program that I had read about but hadn’t been able to see.
That was the video age but I always wanted to see films on the big screen, projected from celluloid in front of an audience.
I was very much into American underground movies at the time, the films by Richard Kern or the Kuchar brothers. I got into contact with some of those underground film directors and arranged European tours for them.
But after a while, arranging tours for other people wasn’t that satisfying anymore. I wanted to go on the road with movies myself… and explore new territories. Like Japan for example. My then Japanese girlfriend arranged a tour of me doing shows with a program of American underground shorts in 1997… and I loved it.
At the same time, the Film House in Copenhagen asked me to program a sort of travelling festival of Japanese cyberpunk and to tour it through Europe. I did that and it went well.
So, after American punk porn and Japanese cyberpunk, where do you go next? It was 1998 and North Korea was all over the news for shooting a rocket over Japan. I had read somewhere that they make movies in North Korea and I thought, ‘Now, checking those ones out would be a trip’.
By coincidence, a friend running a small independent theater in Berlin told me that North Korean diplomats came to his office every week, always with a movie title list in hand and asking him to get them 35mm prints of those titles as quickly as possible. Probably, they were getting movies straight for Kim Jong Il’s viewing pleasure.
Anyway, my friend introduced me to those diplomats and things went on from there. I got invited to Pyongyang in 1999, watched movies there for a week, then selected about 10 of them and took them on a tour through Europe.
I got invited back to Pyongyang for the film festival in 2000 but basically, after the tour, my direct involvement with the North Koreans ended.
At that Pyongyang visit in 2000, though, I bought a book called Korean Film Art which more or less catalogued the major North Korean films up to 1985.
With that book and the North Korean films I had seen so far as a base, I started to research the history of North Korean cinema.
Why? Because it seemed nobody else had done that before. Well, people have done it but they didn’t publish much about it in English. So, I just went deeper and deeper into it, found more and more material over the years… and I’m still love exploring North Korean cinema. North Korea is such a secretive place… but you can learn a lot about it from watching their movies. I don’t believe in any of the messages they try to get out with their movies… but I can see what kind of messages they try to get out and how they do it. Their films reveal a lot about North Korea’s genuine outlook on the world. Because those movies are basically made for a domestic audience, they don’t hold back in what they tell… they deliver the direct messages the leadership wants to convey to their people. Fascinating stuff.


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Police arrested Timothy five days after they arrested his older brother, Jason, in the home they share with their parents. Jason was charged with solicitation of a minor after he tried to use the Internet to entice a 13-year-old boy to have sex. During that investigation some computers were seized, including one used by Timothy, and his perverted scam was uncovered.At that point, the two boys were removed from Josh’s custody and placed with Susan’s parents – Chuck and Judy Cox. Josh was allowed visitation.
Both Eley and Bynum have remained in jail since their arrest and two weeks ago, White testified against them at their initial hearing. But yesterday, hours after a judge ordered the pair held in jail on lowered bail, White was shot in the chest just blocks from his home and would die at the hospital.I don’t know if any of you have seen what a shotgun blast does to the human head, but I can only imagine what that room looked like after that gun went off. If there’s a silver lining to this kid getting shot, it’s that he didn’t feel a thing.
Family members told authorities Hardt had undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries to her face and neck. Reports are that even though her face was infected, scarred and grotesque looking, it was almost devoid of wrinkles. Sort of like Joan Van Ark.Cleveland, Ohio — More information released on the woman we covered back in August who was accused of beating her son with an iron.
Gossett was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, child abuse resulting in death, second-degree kidnapping and false imprisonment. She is being held in the Mesa County Jail without bail.An easy five stars [rating:5/5] […]
Joshua says it was an accident…he was on drugs and didn’t know what he was doing. He was certainly coherent enough to rip off his mother’s TVs and credit card after he killed her. He was found about 4 hours after the discovery of the body…driving her car, with the TVs in the back seat. Family members believe he was on his way to sell/pawn the TVs for drugs.Munich, Germany – A woman with past charges of forced sex has been taken into custody again after her latest ‘victim’ was found cowering in the street in tears. A police affidavit confirmed the man’s description of ’36 hours of hell.’
Phoenix, Arizona—Cynthia Roberson was devastated when she lost her job back in April. How was she going to put food on the table? Pay the rent? Make the payments on her Chevrolet HHR? Since prostitution is out of the question, for obvious reasons, she came up with another brilliant idea…she’d turn her two young sons and their friends into thugs and learn ’em in the fine art of armed robbery. Fan-fuckin-tastic, Cynthia! […]
Laird and Sklar are both being charged with first degree murder. Both are an obvious waste… throw away the key, would ya? They’re wasting perfectly good oxygen.GERMANY – A 29-year-old man was killed by shrapnel after he and his friends blew up a condom machine on Christmas Eve.


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History of video game consoles (sixth generation)
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According to a new study, small increases in thyroid stimulating hormone can lead to weight gain. The news comes as the result of a large, community-based study, reported in the March 24 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Thyroid function is measureable by testing TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) levels in the bloodstream. When thyroid hormone levels are out of balance, high or low, we know it can lead to weight gain or weight loss respectively.
"Our findings raise the possibility that modest increases in serum TSH concentrations within the reference range may be associated with weight gain", according to Caroline S. Fox, MD, MPH, from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study in Framingham, Massachusetts, and colleagues.
Further studies are needed to define how much these modest increases are a contribution to weight gain and obesity. In this particular study, very modest increases in TSH concentrations resulted in weight gain in both women and men.
Arch Intern Med. 2008;168:568-569, 587-592.

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MRT-2359 is a small molecule commercialized by Monte Rosa Therapeutics, with a leading Phase II program in Small-Cell Lung Cancer. According to Globaldata, it is involved in 1 clinical trial, which is ongoing. GlobalData uses proprietary data and analytics to provide a complete picture of MRT-2359’s valuation in its risk-adjusted NPV model (rNPV). Buy the model here.
The revenue for MRT-2359 is expected to reach an annual total of $120 mn by 2035 in the US based off GlobalData’s Expiry Model. The drug’s revenue forecasts along with estimated costs are used to measure the value of an investment opportunity in that drug, otherwise known as net present value (NPV). Applying the drug’s phase transition success rate to remaining R&D costs and likelihood of approval (LoA) to sales related costs provides a risk-adjusted NPV model (rNPV). The rNPV model is a more conservative valuation measure that accounts for the risk of a drug in clinical development failing to progress.
MRT-2359 is under development for the treatment of solid tumors including small-cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, multiple myeloma (Kahler disease), neuroendocrine cancer including prostate cancer. The drug candidate is a molecular glue degrader selectively targeting GSPT1. It is administered orally and is being developed based on Quantitative and Engineered Elimination of Neosubstrates (QuEEN) platform.
Monte Rosa Therapeutics Overview
Monte Rosa Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing small molecules to degrade disease-related proteins. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the US.
The operating loss of the company was US$112.4 million in FY2022, compared to an operating loss of US$72.9 million in FY2021. The net loss of the company was US$108.5 million in FY2022, compared to a net loss of US$74 million in FY2021.
For a complete picture of MRT-2359’s valuation, buy the drug’s risk-adjusted NPV model (rNPV) here.

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text: Silver Beach County Park features a clean, wide beach on Lake Michigan and public access to the South Pier on the St. Joseph River. Of the Park’s 2,450 feet of Lake Michigan frontage, about 1,600 feet are dedicated for a public swimming area in the summer months. Inflatable water rafts are allowed, but they are not suggested. Due to the unpredictable nature of Lake Michigan, rafts and floating devices can be dangerous. Paddles of any kind are NOT allowed. Lifeguards are on duty from early-June through mid-August. Guests are strongly encouraged to take extreme precaution when swimming in Lake Michigan, never swim alone, watch children closely, and follow the park rules.

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Acer palmatum Mayday
$60.00 – $175.00
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Acer palmatum Mayday has an unusual name for an unusual maple. Mayday was a chance seedling from Mikawa yatsubusa – but unlike Mikawa this maple is smaller and a very slow grower similar to Japanese Princess – also related. Acer palmatum Mayday a dwarf shrub-like maple with an irregular form and short internodes the distince between two leaves. As the leaves emerge they overlap each other and form tight bunches while the structure of the trunk is unique – the branches seem to layer and twist to form a natural looking bonsai. Spring foliage is pinkish white, turning blonde-green by early summer. Fall color transitions from yellow to orange and sometimes crimson. Morning sun in well-drained soil is preferred with some shade during the late afternoon. This is a very, very slow growing maple. Estimated size is 3′ tall by 3′ wide in 10 years. Once established this cultivar is hardy to -20 degrees. USDA zone 5.
Japanese Maples like good drainage, in fact they require good drainage or root rot may develop and weaken the maple. When a maple or any other tree is weakened it is more susceptible to disease such as Verticillium Wilt or Pseudomonas. For this reason I recommend you read Planting Japanese Maples and Care and Maintenance of Japanese Maples.
Acer palmatum Mayday – like any Japanese Maple may require some pruning to form the structure of the tree and to remove dead branches. Discovered and introduced by Talon Buchholz for his Flora Wonder ™ Collection at Buchholz Nursery. For more information on pruning your maples please see Pruning Japanese Maples.
Note: Additional 1 gallon Acer palmatum Mayday maples will be available April/May 2020.
The first photo of Mayday is one in my inventory. The next three are courtesy of Buchholz Nursery. The last photo is a Mayday maple next to a Japanese Princess, both 1 gallon size.
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Denticulate Leatherbug - Coriomeris denticulatus
Length 7 to 9 mm. A reddish-brown squashbug which is distinctly bristly, particularly on the pronotum, legs and antennae. The lateral margins of the pronotum are covered in white spines, each ending in a dark tip.
Associated with dry, open habitats on chalky or sandy soils and feeds on Black Medick and other clovers.
All year round.
Mainly distributed in southern Britain as far north as Yorkshire.
Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland.
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Coming this October from famous rock photographer Elliott Landy is a book of unseen photographs of THE BAND. Elliott has published several books and sits on top of a large archive of never released photos of the group in their most prolific period in Woodstock NY. This is a must have book for any BAND fans out there or a great gift for a BAND fan. See Elliotts comments on the books evolution.
As most people familiar with the Band’s music know, I took the photos for their first two albums, Music From Big Pink and The Band. During that period I was the only photographer they let take pictures of them. They treated me like a friend and allowed me the freedom to hang out and take whatever pictures I wanted. Looking back, I wish I had shot more, but my laid-back style was what allowed me to be close with them. I never interfered with what was going on, never asked them to do anything just for the camera.
I shot over 8000 frames of film. Of these, only about 30 have been widely published. The photos have been in my studio for over forty years, taking up prime space on the shelves and in my fireproof file cabinet. I am still in love with them. I feel it’s my best body of work from the Sixties and each time I peruse the unseen contact sheets, proof prints and slides, I find at least one new gem and think, “I am going to make a book of all this some day.” Well, now is the moment. I am seventy-one, still feeling twenty, but recognizing that time will catch my body and spirit soon enough and that with crowd sourcing support I will be able, finally, to make the book I want to make. I am gathering the best of it to make into a finely printed book so that the experiences I had while hanging out with them will be passed on. The photographs of Garth, Levon, Richard, Rick and Robbie show their camaraderie, their love of life and music. It will visually define who they were for the generations to come—brothers creating two of the greatest albums in the history of music.
My photographic journey with THE BAND began on Rick’s uncle’s farm outside of Toronto where we went to shoot the next of kin photo. The next time I photographed them was at Big Pink on Easter Sunday, 1968. The sessions with them continued for the next two years in Woodstock and on the road, taking me to Los Angeles to hang out at Sammy Davis Jr.’s pool-house while they recorded their self-titled album, backstage for their debut show in San Francisco, and to The Woodstock Festival.
Because of unfettered access, the photographs bring us into their lives, from the mundane chores of grocery shopping to the fun of playing football in the backyard to the sublime moments of creation in the studio and onstage. You will be transported back to their house above the Ashokan Reservoir and invited to gather on Levon’s bed as they discuss lyrics for who knows, Rag Mama Rag or maybe King Harvest….


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Arsene Wenger has said Easter and the team’s poor league campaign was to blame for the many empty seats at the Emirates on Sunday, but insists the stay-away fans will be back for Thursday’s Europa League quarterfinal against CSKA Moscow.
At least one third of the seats were empty during the 3-0 win over Stoke, even though Arsenal still claimed that more than 59,000 tickets were sold for the game.
However, Wenger insisted he is not worried, and believes fans will turn out for the first leg against CSKA Moscow, with the Europa League now the only competition that can salvage the team’s season.
“They will be back on Thursday, don’t worry,” Wenger said. “It’s explainable by the fact that it’s Easter, it’s a family happening when people go away. It’s the fact that we don’t go for a lot in people’s mind in the Premier League.
“Overall in the Premier League in the last two, three weeks we faced that problem. It’s just down to the fact that we don’t fight for the championship and people know that now that will not change.”
“At home we had quite a strong season, maybe one of the strongest for a long time. I think [because of] the combination of quality and number of goals scored, and the quality of our games we produced here.
“We lost two games at home, one against Man City that was just after the League Cup final, and one against Man United where we had 33 shots on goal. We played an outstanding performance. But it’s away from home that we have lost our opportunities and the fans are disappointed by that.”
The win over Stoke, though, came despite a lacklustre performance for the opening 70 minutes, before three late goals handed the Gunners a flattering scoreline.
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Lyric Pieces for flute ensemble
Little Bird, Solitary Traveler, and March of the Dwarfs are three of the most popular movements from Grieg’s charming piano compositions. (They encompass ten volumes which he wrote over a span of 34 years.)
These character pieces move from the trills and frills of bird flight, through the melancholy lonely traveler, and culminate with the silly energetic marching of dwarfs. There are two piccolos in the first movement, an optional E-flat flute in the 2nd, and all of them have alto and bass flute parts.


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Here are some small works I’ve drawn for friends or clients in the past days, weeks and months:
Those two were for Suzi, who drew my Charackter Raa’Deviah as Jedi (Star Wars).
This was my part of this years “Naturama”-project. Charackter belongs to Rrysva.
(A bunch of artists take commissions and donate the earned money to nature conservation organisations)
And now some ACEOs (artworks with the size of 6,4 cm × 8,9 cm)
This one is for the kind Rahjital who bought me a Premium Membership for deviantArt, two times!
This is for Servia – it’s part of a Trade.
From left to right: Thalathis and Leundra. Both were Trades.


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Leaders from around the world condemned Moscow and considered ratcheting up sanctions over multiple reports that Russian troops executed unarmed civilians in Ukrainian towns, while Kyiv asked the International Criminal Court to gather evidence of alleged war crimes.
Broadcasters showed images of people they said were killed execution style and an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, posted several photos on Twitter of dead people, some with their hands tied behind their backs. In response Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said many of the images were faked.
Moscow’s chief negotiator said Russia and Ukraine will resume talks by video on Monday; Kyiv hasn’t confirmed the discussions. Russia said it targeted an oil refinery and fuel depots in the strategic Black Sea city of Odesa, which was rocked by explosions early Sunday.
(See RSAN on the Bloomberg Terminal for the Russian Sanctions Dashboard.)
Zelenskiy Makes Surprise Grammys Appearance (4:08 a.m.)
Zelenskiy made a surprise taped appearance at the Grammy Awards to rally support for his country in the war against Russia.
He implored people to speak out about the war on social media and TV, as graphic images of civilians allegedly killed by Russian troops in towns near Kyiv spark outrage.
Japan PM Condemns Civilian Deaths (2:40 a.m.)
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he “strongly condemns the harm caused to civilians, which is a violation of international law.”
When it comes to further sanctions being advocated by some leaders in Europe, the Japanese premier told reporters he would look at the overall situation and work with the international community to do what needs to be done.
Treasury Curve Inversions Deepen (2:34 a.m.)
U.S. equity futures and Treasuries declined, while Asian shares were mixed Monday, as traders weighed the prospect of aggressive Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes and stiffer sanctions on Russia.
The Treasury yield curve is flashing more warnings that economic growth will slow as the Fed hikes interest rates to tame inflation stoked in part by commodities. Oil fell, extending a drop sparked by a U.S. announcement of an unprecedented release of strategic reserves to fight elevated energy costs.
Putin Allies Dominate Hungarian and Serbian Elections (1:31 a.m.)
The two European leaders most closely allied to Russian President Vladimir Putin before his invasion of Ukraine won decisive election victories on pledges to stay out of the war.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has spent 12 years consolidating his grip on power and clashing with the European Union over democratic values, clinched a fourth consecutive term after leading his Fidesz party to a crushing victory over a broad opposition alliance.
More Heavy Fighting Reported in Mariupol (10:55 p.m.)
Heavy fighting continued in Mariupol, the southern Ukrainian port that’s a key target for Russia, with Ukrainian forces retaining control of central parts of the city, according to the U.K.’s daily intelligence assessment.
It said intense, indiscriminate strikes continued to batter the besieged city, where Ukraine blamed Russian forces for killing 300 people in a strike on a theater in March. An International Committee of the Red Cross team seeking to help the safe passage of civilians out of Mariupol failed to reach the city last week.
Russia Seeks Security Council Meeting on Bucha (9:00 p.m.)
Russia has requested a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday to discuss Ukraine’s “heinous provocation” in Bucha, Russian First Deputy Head of Mission Dmitry Polyanskiy said on Twitter, without elaborating.
Latvian Gas Supplier Weighs Payment in Rubles (8:30 p.m.)
A Latvian gas supplier partly owned by Gazprom PJSC and Germany’s Uniper SE is considering whether it can pay for Russian supplies in rubles as requested by President Vladimir Putin.
Latvijas Gaze, which buys natural gas from Russia under a long-term contract, said the payment procedure doesn’t appear to violate sanctions, according to a statement on Sunday. In contrast, neighboring Lithuania said Saturday it ended gas imports from Russia in response to the ruble payment demand.
Polish Leader Calls for EU to Cut Off Russia Trade (7:20 p.m.)
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called on EU leaders to hold an emergency summit to discuss the events in Bucha, saying the bloc “must sever all trade relations with Russia without delay” and seize Russian assets in western banks as well as those of Russian oligarchs.
Ukraine must receive more arms to defend itself, he said in a Facebook post. “Enough of the false gestures and avoidance tactics,” Mazowiecki said. “Enough!”
Ruble Rebound Won’t Last, Blinken Says (7 p.m.)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the ruble’s rebound, fueled by “a lot of manipulation” by Russian authorities, is unsustainable.
Backed by severe capital controls imposed by Russia’s central bank, the ruble has rebounded from a March 7 low to 85.42 rubles per dollar Friday, almost matching the exchange rate on Feb. 24 when Russia began the war.
“That’s not sustainable,” Biden said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “So I think you’re going to see that change.”
EU Should Discuss Russia Oil Ban: German Official (6:00 p.m.)
German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said the European Union should discuss a ban on Russian natural gas imports. Asked twice in an ARD television interview whether the response to reported Russian atrocities should include an end to gas shipments, Lambrecht said EU ministers “have to discuss precisely that.”
She cautioned that the EU’s response is strongest when all member countries take a coordinated approach to punitive measures. The EU has been divided over cutting off Russian energy imports.
Italian Party Chief Calls for Energy Embargo (5:00 p.m.)
Democratic Party leader Enrico Letta, whose party is part of Italy’s governing coalition and leads in voter preference polls, called for a “full oil and gas” embargo against Russia.
Imports from Russia accounted for 38% of Italy’s gas consumption last year.
Russia Dismisses ‘Staged’ War Crimes Accusations (4:16 p.m.)
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed Ukrainian claims of war crimes having been committed by Russian troops in towns near Kyiv.
“It’s clear to the naked eye that there are a lot of fakes and staged shots,” Peskov said by text message when asked to comment on images released by Ukrainian officials of dead civilians in towns recently vacated by Russian soldiers.
Russia’s defense ministry denied involvement in any murders of civilians in Bucha, calling the accusations “provocations.” It said Russian troops left the town on March 30 and “not a single local resident suffered from any violent action” during their presence there, an accused Ukrainian officials of “staging” photos and videos of dead bodies.
European Leaders Respond to Graphic Imagery From Ukraine (4:07 p.m.)
Officials across Europe condemned Russia as graphic images emerged of dead civilians in Ukrainian towns recently under Moscow’s control.
French President Emmanuel Macron called the images “unbearable,” and said the Russian authorities “will have to answer for these crimes.” Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Italy “condemns these horrors with absolute firmness,” and his foreign minister Luigi Di Maio decried “cruelty, death, horror.”
Earlier, European Council president Charles Michel tweeted that “further EU sanctions & support are on the way,” and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the U.K. would “fully support any investigations by the International Criminal Court” on possible crimes in Ukraine.
U.S. Stops Short of Genocide Label (3:45 p.m.)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called images of alleged Russian atrocities against civilians in the Kyiv region a “punch to the gut,” but stopped short of labeling them genocide.
The U.S. already has been helping document war crimes since the Russian invasion, he said on CNN. “The most important thing is we can’t become numb to this,” he said. “This is the reality of what’s going on every single day, as long as Russia’s brutality against Ukraine continues.”
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said the U.S. will continue to send weapons and support to Ukraine. While it appears Ukrainian forces are winning the war around Kyiv, the conflict “sadly is far from over” as Russian forces redeploy, Klain said on ABC.
Germany’s Scholz Demands Investigation Into Bucha (3:14 p.m.)
Chancellor Olaf Scholz demanded access for organizations like the International Red Cross to document what happened in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, and said the perpetrators and their superiors must be brought to justice.
Scholz reiterated a call for Russia to agree to a cease-fire and end its military action. “This is a terrible, a senseless and an unjustifiable war that is causing a great deal of suffering and is of no use to anyone,” Scholz said in a statement. “It has to stop.”
Separately, Annalena Baerbock, German foreign minister, said the actions revealed at Bucha “must have an impact on the fifth package of sanctions. And we will support Ukraine even more in its defense.”
U.N. Estimates 1,417 Civilian Deaths in Ukraine (2:53 p.m.)
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights estimated civilian deaths in Ukraine at 1,417 through April 2, with another 2,038 injured. Among those killed were a total of 121 children. The actual figures are likely to be considerably higher, the UNHCR said.
Most of the casualties were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes, the agency said.
Ukraine Calls for ICC to Send ‘War Crimes’ Mission (2:09 p.m.)
Ukraine wants the International Criminal Court to send a mission to investigate “war crimes” committed by Russian troops against civilians uncovered in Bucha and other formerly occupied towns near Kyiv, said Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
“We are still collecting bodies, uncovering graves, but the count is already in hundreds,” he told the U.K’s Times Radio on Sunday. “Dead bodies are just all across the streets.”
Separately, Kuleba again called for a full oil and gas embargo of Russia by Group of Seven nations, and for ports to be closed to all Russian vessels and goods.
Europe Warns of New Sanctions Over Russian ‘War Crimes’ (1:03 p.m.)
Some European Union governments are pushing for the EU to quickly impose new sanctions in response to reports that Russian troops executed unarmed civilians in Ukrainian towns, diplomats familiar with the discussions said.
The European Commission was already honing measures that would mostly focus on closing loopholes, strengthening existing actions and expanding the list of sanctioned individuals. There’s no agreement on details of a new package or when to implement it.
Azerbaijan to Boost Gas Exports to Italy (10:56 a.m.)
Azerbaijan will increase gas exports to Italy to 9.5 billion cubic meters this year from 7 billion cubic meters following a weekend visit by Italian Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio to Baku, Corriere della Sera reported.
Humanitarian Corridors Open in Donbas, Deputy Premier Says (10:17 a.m.)
Fighting and shelling continues in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, yet humanitarian corridors are open on Sunday to try to bring civilians to safety, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. Buses will attempt to move closer from Berdyansk to the besieged city of Mariupol, she said.
More than 10 million Ukrainians have fled their homes, either moving internally or leaving the country. Some 2.46 million people have crossed into Poland since Feb. 24, Polish border authorities said. Another 23,800 travelers were admitted on Saturday, and 4,300 early Sunday.
Ukrainian Officials Held Hostage, Deputy Premier Says (9:37 a.m.)
Russian troops are holding 11 Ukrainian local government leaders hostage in occupied territories, Vereshchuk said in a video statement from the presidential office in Kyiv. Olha Sukhenko, a representative of Motyzhyn village west of Kyiv, was killed, she said.
Ukraine is continuing negotiations with Russia to release civilians as a part of a prisoner exchange, Vereshchuk said.
Russian Army Accused of War Crimes in Occupied Areas (9:17 a.m.)
Bodies of civilians who’d been shot by Russian forces and had their hands tied were found in the streets of Bucha, a town in the Kyiv region, after Ukraine recaptured it, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on Twitter.
Human Rights Watch said in a statement that it has documented cases of apparent Russian military war crimes against civilians in occupied areas of Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Kyiv, including a case of repeated rape and summary executions between Feb. 27 and March 14.
The Biden administration on March 23 made a formal determination that Russian troops had committed war crimes. President Joe Biden has said he considers Vladimir Putin a war criminal.


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Email Newsletters and Social Media for Lawyers
The Objective: Let America Know™ was created to accomplish two objectives: 1) Mount an effective grassroots campaign that would improve the public perception of trial lawyers, and 2) provide trial lawyers with an affordable, effective, easy-to-use online tool to market their practice.
The Strategy: Steve Miller, Welland Laike principal, co-founded Let America Know with a prominent Minneapolis trial lawyer. Hence, Welland Laike provides marketing and public relations support at every level of the organization. We are also deeply involved in the monthly publication and delivery of You Should Know, the customizable e-newsletter that is at the heart of the program.
The Results: Since Let America Know was launched in September 2009, the program has been endorsed and actively promoted by the leadership of several state trial lawyer associations and the American Association for Justice. More than 250 lawyers have joined the program and have reported receiving highly positive comments from clients and referral sources, as well as case referrals. Plans are in the works to expand and extend the program to other states throughout the country.


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Moving from 1972 right up to the present day, British artist, designer and sometime punk historian Toby Mott chronologically surveys the relationship between punk and sex through original posters, flyers, record covers, photographs and ephemera drawn from the editor’s punk archive, The Mott Collection.
The publication includes anecdotes, lyrics, manifestos, personal essays and overviews as told by a wide array of contributors – including Sex Pistols’ Paul Cook, VF contributor Vivien Goldman, Eve Libertine of Crass, and writer Will Self.
“The status of punk as a radical subculture meant that it could freely explore sex without mainstream censorship; and this ability to openly express sex and sexuality provided punk with so much of its essential rawness and immediacy."
Published by Dashwood Books
Text by Toby Mott

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We have spent one week in Mexico and are enjoying every minute. Our entrance was a bit bumpy though. We crossed the border east of Tijuana, at Tecate. Parking on the U.S. side, we walked in to Mexico to get our tourist permits. The Mexican official was quite jovial, helping us with the paperwork, and even lending Bob his red rimmed reading glasses. On the side he sold bottles of salsa (his grandmothers favorite) and honey (from his home town). We bought both. That completed, we tried to return to the van in the same way we entered but were quickly ordered back by a guard. We had to return through U.S. customs, for which we took a wrong turn and then had to ask for help. It is really a very simple border crossing and we know this because we went around twice. When we finally drove through we were pulled over for an inspection but it was quick, and we were on our way. Except that we immediately took a wrong turn and found ourselves headed for Mexicali instead of Ensenada. Oh dear.
The olive grove campsite was very manicured, set along a dirt road among farmyards, although there was a fancy restaurant near by. Beside the van, there was a sandy spot and I thought it would be a nice breezy night if we put up the tent. Well it was breezy. But mixed with strong wafts of barnyard which was quite unpleasant. Then the neighborhood mutts started a howling chorus. Once that died down, a large dog got in through the fence, approached our tent, took a stance about 10 feet from us and barked for twenty minutes. We yelled at him in English and Spanish but he kept it up. He finally wandered off. Next someone decided to set off firecrackers, which sparked another howling frenzy from the dogs. This was topped off by a rooster, loudly crowing for morning, well before daylight. No more tent.
Baja California is a Mexican state, divided into north and south. To get to the south part you travel a long stretch of highway, about 5 hours, with no services. We had the road pretty much to ourselves through dry reddish hills covered with shrubs and many species of cactus. On route, the Catavina Boulder field has massive sand colored boulders creating a striking contrast with the lime green cactus and the purple blue mountains in the distance. But for the most part it is five hours of cactus.
The pavement on the highway is good. Travel is slow though because the speed signs change often, the road is full of curves, and there are no shoulders. Bob has to keep his eye out for semis who tend to ride over the center line. One crowded us over on a curve and there is nowhere to get over. Cows also graze without fencing. One decided to walk right on to the highway just as we were coming along at 50 miles an hour. Bob laid on the horn. The cow stopped and slowly turned its head to look as we sped by.
San Ignacio is a sleepy little town set in a date palm oasis.
We camped by a lagoon among the palms and rode our bikes around town. We had refreshments at the center plaza, a lovely shaded area with benches and tables. We explored the mission church across the road, which was built by a Jesuit priest in the 1700’s. Built out of lava rock with four foot thick walls, it has long stone stairs leading up the outside in order to reach the bell rope.
Also nearby was a self guiding museum displaying information about the pinturas rupestres, ancient Indian art found in rock caves in this area. The style is full bodied which is very different from the Canadian indigenous art that we have encountered on canoe trips in Canada.
We stayed two nights. The water was warm and clear which made for good snorkeling. Many people stay here for months. Jose came by in the morning selling firewood? Yes. A barrel of water for showering? Yes. And steaming tamales for breakfast? Yes.

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The WDC published its report on ‘Trends in Agency Assisted Employment in the Western Region’ last week. This included an analysis of data for each of the seven western counties. The main findings for the western counties are:
- Galway: In 2013, there were 23,650 people working in agency assisted jobs. Galway has the third highest share in Ireland of agency assisted jobs as a share of total jobs at 23.5%. Over 60% of agency assisted jobs in Galway are in foreign owned companies (2013), this is the highest level for the past ten years. Since 2010 employment in assisted foreign owned companies grew by 19% while in Irish owned it only grew 3%. Modern Manufacturing, which includes medical devices and ICT, is Galway’s largest sector and in 2013 reached its highest level with 8,750 permanent full-time jobs.
- Clare: In 2013, there were 9,250 people working in agency assisted jobs. Clare has the fifth highest share in Ireland of agency assisted jobs as a share of total jobs at 20.3%. Just over 40% of agency assisted jobs in Clare are in foreign owned companies (2013); this is considerably lower than ten years ago. Since 2010 jobs in assisted Irish owned companies in Clare have remained relatively stable, while foreign owned have continued to decline, with some slight recovery in 2013. Traditional Manufacturing is Clare’s largest sector and has grown since 2011, as has Modern Manufacturing. Assisted jobs in the international services sectors are declining however, which has meant that total assisted jobs have not grown.
- Mayo: In 2013, there were 8,310 people working in agency assisted jobs. The total number in Mayo is close to the 2006/2007 peak and a higher share are now in permanent full-time jobs. Mayo had the second highest growth in agency assisted jobs in the Western Region in 2013 at 4.9%. There was stronger growth in foreign owned companies (6.1%) than Irish owned (2.7%) in that year. Assisted jobs in Mayo are almost evenly divided between foreign and Irish companies. Mayo’s largest assisted employment sector is Modern Manufacturing, which includes medical devices and chemicals, with almost 3,000 permanent full-time jobs. This is its highest level in the past ten years.
- Donegal: In 2013, there were 7,850 people working in agency assisted jobs. The biggest change in the county over the past ten years is the rise in the share that are permanent full-time from 78% to 86.3% (2004-2013). The total number of agency assisted jobs in Donegal was up 4.4% in 2013. Donegal has the lowest share of its assisted jobs in foreign owned companies in the Western Region at 38.1%, although this is the county’s highest share of the past ten years. While assisted jobs in foreign owned companies have been growing since 2010, those in Irish owned companies showed their first increase since 2007 in 2013. Information and Communications is the assisted sector with the strongest recent jobs growth, up 30.9% between 2010 and 2013.
- Sligo: In 2013, there were 3,880 people working in agency assisted jobs. 15.3% of total jobs in the county were agency assisted, which is below the state average (19.3%). Of total agency assisted jobs, 12.5% are temporary/part-time. This is below the Western Region average but the highest level in Sligo between 2004 and 2013. Some 55.6% of assisted jobs in Sligo are in foreign owned companies; lower than a decade earlier. Irish owned assisted employment has grown steadily since 2011 and was up 4.8% in 2013. Sligo’s second largest assisted sector – Traditional Manufacturing – has had the strongest recent growth, up a fifth (21.5%) between 2010 and 2013.
- Roscommon: In 2013, there were 2,360 people working in agency assisted jobs. Roscommon had the highest growth in such jobs in the Western Region in 2013 at 6%. This growth was driven by Irish owned companies. 2013 was the first year that agency assisted jobs grew in Roscommon since 2007; later than in most other counties. In a national context, the county has a low share of agency assisted jobs. Agency assisted jobs in Roscommon are very concentrated in manufacturing. At 51.2%, the share of Roscommon’s agency assisted jobs that are in the Modern Manufacturing sector, which includes medical devices and pharma, is the second highest in Ireland. The sector showed strong growth in 2013 (6.6%), with Traditional Manufacturing also increasing (10.1%).
- Leitrim: In 2013, there were 1,310 people working in agency assisted jobs. Leitrim has the highest share of its agency assisted jobs in foreign owned companies (62.9%) in the region and is third highest nationally. Despite this, agency assisted jobs in Leitrim declined in each year between 2004 and 2013. All other western counties, except Clare, have seen some recovery since 2010. While total numbers are declining, Irish owned assisted jobs in Leitrim have begun to recover, up 8.4% in 2013. International Services was Leitrim’s largest agency assisted sector for most of the ten years. In 2012 it was surpassed by Traditional Manufacturing which is now the largest. However, the Modern Manufacturing sector has performed best in recent years with permanent full-time jobs up 8.3% in 2013.
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Do you ever feel like making a big stir fry but don’t know how to flavor it? This is an easy way to get excellent flavor using basic ingredients. It’s quite a versatile dish, and you can add and omit the veggies you wish to use, whatever you have in the house. It’s my everyday stir-fry, simple enough to make all the time, but nice enough for guests, and it’s always appreciated. Use various colored vegetables and cook them lightly to retain a rainbow palette.
Yield: 4 servings
10 ounces dry rice noodles
2 teaspoons toasted sesame or olive oil
1 tablespoon olive or toasted sesame oil
1/2 cup carrots, sliced in thin strips
1/3 cup soaked dried or fresh mushrooms
2/3 cup shredded cabbage
3/4 cup baby corn
2/3 cup red peppers, sliced in thin long strips
1/2 cup cooked edamame (removed from pods)
1/3 cup water chestnuts
1/4 cup green onion/scallions, sliced thinly, diagonally
2 tablespoons of the soaking water from dried mushrooms, vegetable broth, or water
1/4 cup olive or toasted sesame oil
2 tablespoons tamari
1 tablespoon agave nectar
1 tablespoon shredded, minced or very thinly sliced ginger
3 cloves minced garlic
1 teaspoon orange zest
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
1 tablespoon lime juice
1/4 teaspoon Chinese 5-spice powder
Prepare the sauce. Combine all the ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
Prepare the noodles according to the package directions. Drain and rinse with cold water. Drain again and toss with the 2 teaspoons sesame or olive oil. Set aside.
Heat the oil in a wok or large sauté pan on medium heat. Add the carrots and mushrooms and cook for about 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the cabbage, baby corn, red peppers and edamame and continue to cook for another 3 minutes. Add the water chestnuts, green onion and soaking water and stir. Add in the sauce to the vegetable mixture and cook another 3 minutes. Serve immediately over the rice noodles. Garnish with sesame seeds and white pepper.
Note: You can also add tofu or another vegan meat to the dish. Use more oil and saute it prior to adding the vegetables. If you decide to add more ingredients, you’ll have to make more sauce.

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I've been saving the link to this article since December, because I wanted to be sure to share it with you (in case you missed it). I've been eager to get back to the blog, and what better way to do it than with a bang.
Joe Fassler of The Atlantic has provided a wonderful service to writers by gaining access to a magnificent gaggle of fine authors. Through his interviews with these generous folks, he collected their invaluable advice in the following article. Like I said, it's worth saving.
Of his collection of interviews, Joe Fassler says:
Taken together, these conversations were like attending an MFA program—I learned that much. Here are the best short pieces of writing advice I heard from writers in 2013, a whole year’s worth of wisdom."