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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham launches a campaign against noise pollution on public transport, with the slogan 'Share the carriage, not the noise', and wants to take stricter action against antisocial behavior such as playing music loudly and vaping. #Geluidsoverlast #OpenbaarVervoer #AsociaalGedrag (translated)

"Usually, there is a certain pattern in this regard. At first, the atmosphere is quite festive. People protest, have fun, music is often heard, and then things take a different turn," says journalist Francis Collings, based in Paris, for the BBC Breakfast show. #Franța #proteste #Macron (translated)

De Deense pianist en componist Søren Bebe staat aan de voorhoede van de Europese jazz en wordt vaak vergeleken met Scandinavische grootheden zoals Tord Gustavsen en Esbjörn Svensson. Sinds de oprichting van zijn trio in 2007 heeft Bebe een sound ontwikkeld die lyrische schoonheid, Scandinavische stemmingen en muzikale verhalen aaneenweeft. https://hvdommelen.nl/jazz/BebeS.html

Sonic Youth is een experimentele noiserockband uit New York, opgericht in 1981 door Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore en Kim Gordon. In hun vroege carrière werd de band voornamelijk gerekend tot een band uit de no wave-scene. Hun muziek houdt geen rekening met muzikale conventies. Op dat vlak kregen ze vroeger het label punk opgespeld, enkel en alleen al voor hun kijk op muziek. Het negeren van die muzikale conventies uit zich onder andere in de manier waarop ze hun instrumenten bespelen. Het gebruik van schroevendraaiers, drumstokken, compleet verbouwde gitaren en alternatieve stemmingen vormt de basis van hun muzikale proces. https://hvdommelen.nl/s/SonicY.html

Senator Adéla Sucharda Šípová, who was unable to defend her mandate in the Senate elections, warns against the unbalanced representation of women in politics, pointing out that only one woman was elected in the elections to the Senate, where men make up eighty percent. #Senát #ŽenyVePolitice #Piráti (translated)

Sergei believed in the Russia we were trying to build, and he believed that people there can do business, pay taxes properly, and still make money, says Sergei Magnitsky's and Bill Browder's associate Jamison Firestone about the victim of Putin's regime and the man after whom the law against human rights violators is named today in the EU, USA, and other countries. #Rusko #Ukrajina #LidskáPráva (translated)

Eriks Stendzenieks urged not to forget the person he referred to as the author of the rule that allows anyone to declare their residence on the property without the owner's permission. He sarcastically described this person as a genius and a benefactor of the people, and also used a derogatory term that associated them with the mafia and sexual perversion. #latvija #māksla #ģēnijs (translated)

Zdeněk Šarapatka criticized the plan to convene a meeting in the Chamber of Deputies regarding the privacy of President Petr Pavel. He compared it to political processes from the communist era and claimed that its initiators were diverting attention from the problems facing Andrej Babiš's team, including the budget deficit and what he described as a fraud against pensioners. He also mentioned statements from representatives of the European Union regarding Babiš's conflict of interest. Šarapatka stated that Pavel publicly acknowledged a mistake concerning the elections and made his travel expenses public, although he emphasized that this is a private matter. He labeled the meeting in the Chamber as an unsuccessful political action and criticized Rajchl and Vondráček; he added a personal remark towards Rajchl. He described the President as a symbol of the Czech Republic in the West, in NATO, and the European Union, and called for support in the Senate. As a defender of democracy, he named Karel Řehka, Tomáš Třetina, Adéla Sucharda Šípová, Martin Dvořák, Jiří Padevět, and Tomáš Goláň and urged readers to go to the polls. #demokracie #politika #volby (translated)

Eppo Tjuchem wrote that Ofir and Joram had told their story after their musical protest. According to him, the two football fans had been barred from a match because of their identity and background. He reported that they believed that sports should not be mixed with politics. Tjuchem called this a painful confrontation with Dutch tolerance, which according to him came under pressure when the situation became tense, and especially in one direction. #Alkmaar #AZHAP #tolerantie #voetbal #solidariteit (translated)

Eppo Tjuchem wrote that a stadium ban from Mayor Schouten, according to him with Mayor Halsema in the background, did not prevent Ofir and Joram from traveling to Alkmaar. He stated that they played music at the deportation monument there, without riots or misbehavior, thus making a dignified and powerful statement. Tjuchem argued that mayors yielded to pro-Palestinian demonstrators and Israelis refused to maintain peace. According to him, Ofir and Joram had shown what having backbone really meant. #stadionverbod #demonstratie #kunst (translated)

DinGo stated that General Hlaváč resisted Zůna and kept the commander of the cyber forces in his position. He praised Hlaváč and expressed gratitude that, in his view, there are people at the helm of the army who want to protect citizens, not expose them to the Russians without a chance to defend themselves. He labeled SPD as a collaborating group. #armáda #bezpečnost #kybernetika (translated)

David Gilmour, CBE (Cambridge, 6 maart 1946) is een Engels zanger/gitarist/songwriter. Gilmour begon zijn muzikale carrière bij de groep Jokers Wild, een band die vooral covers bracht van Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys, Manfred Mann, Wilson Pickett en The Kinks. In 1967 sloot hij zich aan bij Pink Floyd en werd in 1968 leadgitarist en mede-vocalist nadat de band besloot Syd Barrett, die met drugsproblemen kampte, eens niet op te halen voor een concert. Toen Roger Waters na ruzie in 1985 de groep verliet, werd Gilmour de nieuwe leider van Pink Floyd. https://hvdommelen.nl/g/GilmourD.html

Women historically hold the most mandates in Czech politics, yet they still struggle with low representation in large cities, where men occupy 70 percent of the seats and women 30 percent after the recent municipal elections, while in smaller municipalities this ratio is more favorable for women. #volby2023 #zastupitelstva #ženyvpolitice (translated)

Janis Ian, geboren als Janis Eddy Fink (Farmingdale, 7 april 1951), is een Amerikaans singer-songwriter en auteur. Ian leerde al op 3-jarige leeftijd pianospelen van haar vader, een muziekleraar. Op 14-jarige leeftijd debuteerde zij met een zelfgeschreven liedje, Society's Child, dat haar in de Verenigde Staten van 1966 meteen nationaal bekend maakte (top 15-notering in de Billboard Hot 100). De tekst ging over een relatie tussen een blank meisje en een zwarte jongen. De discussie of zoiets wel kon, brandde los en Ian stond in het middelpunt van de belangstelling. Haar carrière kreeg verder vorm toen zij het album Between the Lines uitbracht. Het nummer At Seventeen, over de gevoelens van iemand van die leeftijd die zich eenzaam voelt, werd een van haar bekendste liedjes. https://hvdommelen.nl/i/IanJ.html

The police in Prague dealt with a wild car chase involving an Audi, whose driver, under the influence of drugs, was fleeing at speeds of up to 210 km/h until a crash occurred, during which two men were detained, and the driver's identity remains unclear. #útěk #autohonička #Praha (translated)