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Kid Dynamite died in a car accident in Germany in 1963, leaving behind two children, including a son, Herman. Most of the more notable heirlooms, such as the mouthpiece to Kid Dynamite’s saxophone, Herman said, were donated by the family to the Amsterdam Museum. But what persists most potently of Kid Dynamite is his music. “It starts with a very long tone on the sax.”Kid Dynamite at the Sheherazade jazz club in Amsterdam in 1957. But now I recognize that intro, that long tone, as the departure of that boat.”— Sejla Rizvic

☆ Germany’s Rheinmetall Buys Spanish Ammo Maker for $1.24 Billion
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Benjamin Katz | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

One of Europe’s biggest arms makers said it would buy a Spanish competitor in a bid to quickly expand production of artillery and mortar ammunition to meet what it said was “massive demand” amid the war in Ukraine. Germany’s Rheinmetall AG said Monday it agreed to buy Spain’s Expal Systems SA for 1.2 billion euros, equivalent to about $1.24 billion. The company is aiming to close the deal by next summer, pending competition and regulatory approval. Madrid-based Expal is the defense unit of MaxamCorp Holding SL, which traces its origins back to dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel. It has operations across Spain and in Texarkana, Texas.

☆ Analysis: Iran's unrest sounds death knell for once vibrant reformists
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Parisa Hafezi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

It highlighted the main problem facing reformists in a system where Khamenei, 83 and in power since 1989, wields ultimate power. "People feel reformists helped hardliners by promising reforms that were impossible with hardliners in power," a former official who served in the Khatami administration told Reuters. The reform movement is dead." That view has been echoed in the streets where protesters have grouped reformists with hardliners as part of the problem. The fact is that the reform movement is dead, its has been dead for some time," he said.

☆ Two dead in gang violence at Ecuador prison after inmate transfers
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Alexandra Valencia | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Soldiers guard a gate after several inmates were killed in fights between gangs, in Guayaquil, Ecuador November 2, 2022. REUTERS/Santiago ArcosQUITO, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Fighting between gangs at Ecuador's most violent prison has killed at least two people, prisons agency SNAI said on Wednesday, on the heels of attacks against police over prisoner transfers. The transfers are an attempt to reduce overcrowding and improve conditions for inmates, SNAI has said. Lasso has repeatedly accused drug gangs of using violence - including inside prisons - to retaliate against his government's efforts to combat them. Ecuador's prison system has faced structural problems for decades, but jail violence has soared since late 2020, killing at least 400 people and terrorizing inmates' families.

☆ Zelenskyy says Russia plans to blow up a Ukrainian dam. The Soviets used the same tactic in WWII to slow a Nazi invasion, killing thousands of civilians.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Zelenskyy accused Russian forces of planning to blow up a major dam in southern Ukraine. It's a tactic that would mirror the Soviet's actions during WWII, in which thousands of civilians died. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of planning to blow up a major hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine as its forces struggle to hold off advancing Ukrainian forces. Zelenskyy said Russia had kicked out Ukrainian workers from the dam, but Insider could not verify the claims of a pending Russia plot. The dam-busting tactic was also used by Ukrainian forces earlier in the war with Russia this year as Putin's troops marched on the capital Kyiv.

☆ Shares in BTS' management rise after band clears uncertainty over military service
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Joyce Lee | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Heo Ran/File PhotoSEOUL, Oct 18 (Reuters) - The announcement by K-pop mega band BTS that members would serve mandatory military service in South Korea has removed a cloud of uncertainty that has hung over their plans. Investors in HYBE Co (352820.KS), BTS' management group, responded to the news by driving its shares up as much as 7.8% on Tuesday. In 2020, BTS accounted for 730 billion won in sales out of the company's 796 billion won revenue, she noted. The Korea Culture and Tourism Institute estimated that BTS' 2020 No. Hyundai Research Institute estimated that BTS' average annual production impact is about 4.1 trillion won, and the value-added economic effect is about 1.4 trillion won, in a 2018 report.

☆ K-pop pioneers BTS back South Korea's 2023 Asian Cup bid
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Oct 13 (Reuters) - K-pop group BTS have added a bit of 'Dynamite' to South Korea's bid to host the 2023 Asian Cup with a new video backing the country's campaign to stage a first major soccer tournament since they shared the 2002 World Cup with Japan. "Millions of people cheering in the streets astounded the world during the 2002 World Cup in South Korea," band member Jimin said in the video, recalling the response to South Korea reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup on home soil. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Registerloading"Those special moments will be witnessed again in June and July of next year if South Korea is chosen as the host of the 2023 Asian Cup," his BTS band mate J-Hope added. South Korea won the inaugural Asian Cup in 1956 and retained the trophy as hosts four years later. China was set to stage the 24-team Asian Cup in June and July next year but relinquished its hosting rights in May as it pursued a zero-COVID policy.

Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Tore Ellingsen, Hans Ellegren and John Hassler announce the 2022 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden October 10, 2022. The winners are Ben S. Bernanke (USA), Douglas W. Diamond (USA) and Philip H. Dybvig (USA). "Some households and some firms are already weakened," Gernot Doppelhofer, professor at the economics department of the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) said. The economics prize is not one of the original five awards created in the 1895 will of industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel. It was established by Sweden's central bank and first awarded in 1969, its full and formal name being the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Ernaux, the first French woman to win the literature prize, said winning the award was "immense". "It's a long path that she makes in her life," Swedish Academy member Anders Olsson told Reuters. "I did not imagine at the time that 22 years later, the right to abortion would be challenged," Ernaux told reporters in Paris. 1/7 French novelist Annie Ernaux talks to the media after being announced as the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, in Cergy-Pontoise, France October 6, 2022. "I always said that I did not want to get the Nobel prize," she told reporters at her French publisher Gallimard's office.

A senior Ukrainian official called the incident a Russian attack to destabilise Europe, without giving proof. Neither pipeline was pumping gas to Europe at the time the leaks were found, but the incidents will scupper any remaining expectations that Europe could receive fuel via Nord Stream 1 before winter. Operator Nord Stream said the damage was "unprecedented". CUTTING SUPPLIESRussia reduced gas supplies to Europe via Nord Stream 1 before suspending flows altogether in August, blaming Western sanctions for causing technical difficulties. The new Nord Stream 2 pipeline had yet to enter commercial operations.

☆ Клип BTS «Butter» набрал 200 млн просмотров, установив новый рекорд
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-25 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: 1 min

Музыкальное видео «Butter», которое было выпущено 21 мая 2021 года в 13:00 по корейскому времени, набрало 200 млн просмотров на YouTube с поразительной скоростью. 25 мая в 14:26 по корейскому времени музыкальное видео достигло отметки в 200 миллионов просмотров. Ему потребовалось для этого всего четыре дня и один час. Это означает, что «Butter» установил новый рекорд, набрав 200 млн просмотров быстрее всех музыкальных видео. Он побил рекорд BTS, установленный с «Dynamite» (4 дня и 12 часов).

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☆ (video) 100 de scene de dans din filme, compilate sub hitul „Uptown Funk”
▼ + stars: | 2015-09-20 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: 1 min

Una dintre cele mai dansante și populare piese ale verii lui 2015, piesă care se bucură de un succes enorm și până acum, având peste un miliard de vizualizări pe YouTube, „Uptown Funk”, a adunat 100 de scene de dans într-o compilație excepțională. Piesa aparține lui Mark Ronson, în colaborare cu artistul Bruno Mars. Canalul de YouTube What’s the Mashup? a creat un video, în care a adunat 100 de scene de dans din filme ca „Napoleon Dynamite”, „Dirty Dancing”, „Breakfast Club”, „Sister Act”, „Austin Powers”, „Magic Mike” și chiar din desene animate, precum „Alladin” și „Lion King”.

Persons: Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars ., Napoleon, Austin Organizations: Bruno Mars . Canalul

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