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Fan-filmed video of original AC/DC frontman Dave Evans performing on March 22 at Horizon-Pyrénées in Muret
In a recent interview with Podpokas
and a guy that wanted to manage us called Alan Kissack
I've got a show for you coming up in a few weeks
And we had to get a name because it was only in a few weeks
So we started tossing names around between us
and we were gonna put them in a hat and we'd pick one out
I came with three names in my pocket… But anyway
Because what happened was when we all arrived together
[AC/DC's founding rhythm guitarist] Malcolm Young said to us
my sister-in-law' — [his] older brother George's wife — 'has suggested a name.' And we said
and I thought it's an easy name to remember
And it was on the side of a lot of electrical appliances
AC/DC means alternate current and direct current
So I could go to the park and just do it by batteries
free advertising — free advertising everywhere
free advertising on the side of all these appliances
and it means power.' And so it all went through my head very quickly
I love it.' And then [then-AC/DC drummer] Colin Burgess
I like it too.' And then [then-AC/DC bassist] Larry [Van Kriedt] said
I like it.' And so Malcolm looked at us and said
shall we call ourselves AC/DC?' And we all put our hands up
And those three names [that I came up with]
it had been reported that AC/DC got its moniker when Malcolm and his brother
and their sister Margaret saw the letters AC/DC on either her sewing machine's power adapter or on the back of a vacuum cleaner
The Young brothers reportedly thought it was a good name for their band
because "it had something to do with electricity
who sang on AC/DC's first six studio albums and became a legend himself after his death in 1980
Evans discussed his time with AC/DC in an interview with Brazil's Guarda Volume podcast
Speaking about the way his time with the band ended
Dave said: "We were very young — we were all very
It ain't gonna stop because of a band I was with
VELVET UNDERGROUND [not to be confused with Lou Reed's group] I was with
I never thought about splitting or stopping to sing
'Can I Sit Next To You Girl' was named as the best Australian group record of the year
[named] the best Australian group record of the year
But there were different reasons why I split from the band
mostly because I wasn't getting paid any money."
He continued: "The manager was the third manager at that time
and we were doing the biggest shows in Australia
So we had a bit of a meeting one night and had a few drinks and stuff
And he was making money because he was getting money off the top
And the other boys got me and pulled me off the manager
So it was decided that when that tour we were on finished that this had to be resolved
I am not gonna go on tour again.' So I said
Elaborating on his reasons for walking away from AC/DC
If you're a carpenter or you're a teacher or something
[AC/DC founders] Malcolm and Angus Young lived at home with their parents
Regarding the iconic singer who replaced him
Bon Scott joined the band and he went through a lot of crap too
he's always got a bottle or a drink all the time
"I spoke to Bon Scott after he joined [AC/DC]," Evans revealed
"We had a private conversation about things
And so when I found out what happened to Bon Scott
and I spoke to his wife about it too — I saw his wife who told me what happened and stuff — I wasn't surprised
Evans previously talked about his exit from AC/DC in a 2021 interview with DJ Grant from New Zealand's Galaxy 107 FM
he said: "You've gotta remember that Bon Scott did a lot of the songs that I already did
That's the song that I got Angus up on my shoulders
I understand that he copied what I was doing
and re-recorded them and re-wrote the lyrics to some of the songs that I had already put down
I know that he was under instructions to do this
so I don't really hold it against Bon Scott for that
Evans also talked about the enduring popularity of "Can I Sit Next To You Girl"
which was originally released as a single in July 1974 and featured drums by Colin Burgess and bass by George Young (older brother of AC/DC co-founders Malcolm and Angus Young)
every show I do — and people love the song," he said
"And it's amazing how many people say to me that's their favorite AC/DC song
[AC/DC has] 'T.N.T.' and all those great songs
'Highway To Hell' and all these other great songs
and fans come up to me and say that that's their favorite song."
Dave was asked in an interview with The Rocker Diaries if he thought "that would be it" for AC/DC after Bon's death in 1980
And AC/DC has had that many players through [the history of] the band
"We were always ambitious when we first started," he continued
"We always wanted to be the best in the world — all of us
'Who are they gonna get?' I never thought [I would be approached about it] myself
And I was busy with bands as well at the time
I had heard of [Brian Johnson's pre-AC/DC band] GEORDIE — just the name GEORDIE
which was a massive album around the world
[They've gone through] different bass players [and] different drummers
"The drive was always Malcolm Young," Dave added
Just a tiny little guy — just a little touch over five foot tall — but
Evans released a new compilation album called "BADASS Greatest Hits"
The effort contained "20 massive hits on one album," including Dave's version of "Rockin' In The Parlour"
the song that originally appeared as the B-side of the "Can I Sit Next to You Girl" single
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“I originally wanted to keep my work away from the world of fashion,” Muret wrote Vogue.com over email
“I was hesitant about translating a painting to clothes
Hedi was understanding and respected me when I told him what I wouldn’t like.”
Soon, though, Muret had the chance to see his work transformed during Saint Laurent’s poignant and ’80s-themed runway show held in the brand’s Paris studio. It was thrilling, he said, to see his name credited in the show notes beside Look 23, a gold pouf minidress with a bold red belt worn by Slimane favorite Sarah Engelland. “It felt like my first birthday, except nobody knew who I was,” he says. “How would these people know? I’m in Paris. I’m just some New York kid there.”
After getting a taste of the industry, Muret admits he’s got the bug. “I love the word fashion,” he says, noting he has two more related projects in the works. “Collaborating again is something I can see myself doing.” In other words, stay tuned.
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analysts are starting to become wary of an "AI bubble" that could leave investors out to dry
tech stock analyst Richard Windsor used a colorful metaphor to describe what would happen if such a bubble were to burst
"Capital continues to pour into the AI sector with very little attention being paid to company fundamentals," he wrote
"in a sure sign that when the music stops there will not be many chairs available."
It's been a turbulent week for AI companies
highlighting what sometimes seems like unending investor appetite for new AI ventures
Case in point is Cohere, one of the many startups focusing on generative AI, which is reportedly in late-stage discussions that would value the venture at a whopping $5 billion
leading to questions as to why Microsoft didn't simply buy the company
companies "are rushing into anything that can be remotely associated with AI." Ominously
the analyst wasn't afraid to draw direct lines between the ongoing AI hype and previous failed hype cycles
"This is precisely what happened with the Internet in 1999
autonomous driving in 2017 and now generative AI in 2024," he wrote
Windsor is far from the first to draw such a comparison
Despite the lack of a clear way to turn a profit
investors are still pouring massive amounts of cash into AI firms
"There's a huge boom in AI — some people are scrambling to get exposure at any cost, while others are sounding the alarm that this will end in tears," Kai Wu, founder and chief investment officer of Sparkline Capital, told the Wall Street Journal last year
There are even doubters inside the industry. In July, recently ousted CEO of AI company Stability AI Emad Mostaque told banking analysts that "I think this will be the biggest bubble of all time."
and it hasn’t even started yet," he added at the time
also compared the AI craze to the dot com bubble
"This feels a lot like 1999," he said during an X Spaces broadcast last week, as quoted by Business Insider
"My impression is that investors are presently enjoying the double-top of the most extreme speculative bubble in US financial history," Hussman Investment Trust president John Hussman wrote in a research note
with so many people ringing the alarm bells
And the consequences of an AI bubble bursting could be devastating
In his research note, Windsor warned that chipmaker Nvidia was "the only company that is making tangible profits from the current boom in interest in investment in generative AI" — something we've noted as well — which could have disastrous consequences during a correction
the "ones that are likely to bear the brunt of the correction are the providers of generative AI services who are raising money on the promise of selling their services for $20/user/month," he argued
Windsor predicts that startups will eventually be "acquired by the large companies who do not have an in-house foundation model off which to base their offerings."
the frenzy continues but it is one I am perfectly comfortable staying well away from," he added
Are this month's "unusual" Microsoft deal and major startup valuations really the canary in the coal mine? For months now
big tech has been struggling to turn the hype surrounding the tech into actual profits
And that's especially true for AI chatbots
assistants that still haven't figured out how to reliably distinguish between the truth and their own "hallucinations."
"No one wants to build a product on a model that makes things up," AI ethics expert Rumman Chowdhury cautioned Axios this week
are drawing direct comparisons to the events that led to one of the biggest stock market bubbles in recent history bursting in early 2000
with the US and Europe being plunged into a recession
But whether the current AI hype will suffer the same fate
More on the AI bubble: AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble
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“I suspect neither side wants a direct confrontation
there are always surprises and unintended consequences.”
by Alex Ward
LinkRussian President Vladimir Putin toasts troops that took part in Moscow’s campaign in Syria. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump decided to strike Syria on Friday night
and he might incur some unintended consequences — like increasing the risk of getting into a shooting war with Russia
On Tuesday night, Russia’s ambassador to Lebanon said the Russian military could shoot down any missiles launched at Syria
and even retaliate against the planes or ships that fire the weapons
there is no indication that any Americans were hurt in the strike.) But Trump responded to the threat the following morning
egging Russia on with his characteristic bravado
“Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart!’” Trump tweeted on Wednesday
“You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!” he added
in reference to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
That exchange came as Trump weighed how to punish Damascus after Assad’s forces carried out a suspected chemical attack on civilians on April 7, killing at least 40 people. Trump promised a big response and has consulted with his national security team and foreign leaders for days about whether
Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to improve relations with Russia
But experts tell me there is a chance of a broader US-Russia fight if the strikes go awry
but I think it’s small,” Bilal Saab
a defense expert at the Middle East Institute
told me before the Friday night attack by the US
there’s a real chance Russia could launch
attacks against our troops in Syria.”
Russia might look away if American strikes only punish the Syrian government in a relatively limited way
But if the US strikes Russian assets — especially its military personnel — then things could move in a different direction
“We could stumble into direct conflict very quickly,” says Heather Conley
a European security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank
“The nation is not prepared for this eventuality.”
Washington and Moscow have had some close calls in Syria
but so far they have avoided a serious altercation
The strikes provoked no significant Russian reaction
since Washington and Moscow were in close contact to ensure they wouldn’t get into a military confrontation
America and Russia didn’t come to blows
But those flare-ups paled in comparison to a very scary — and deadly — firefight this year
On February 7, Russian mercenaries fired at American troops in eastern Syria. It was the first time in 50 years that US and Russian troops directly fought one another
(America’s 2,000 troops are in the country to fight ISIS; Russian troops are there to help Assad.)
“Russia and the US were able to iron out the dispute,” says Shanna Kirschner
“which strongly suggests neither side wanted to escalate at that time.”
“But it’s not a given that continued casualties wouldn’t be a provocation,” she added
That’s perhaps why Trump may use “smart bombs” to attack Syria, which he alluded to in his Wednesday morning tweet. Smart bombs
can evade missile-defense systems and then precisely hit the target
They can help minimize any unintended casualties
if they are near the target the US wants to strike
Experts believed the US will work with Russia to avoid that outcome
“I suspect that we’ll be communicating with them,” Faysal Itani
a Syria expert at the Atlantic Council think tank
There’s also a political element to this. Trump wants closer ties with Moscow, and even tweeted on Wednesday — right after his missile attack threat — about why the US and Russia should work more in tandem
It’s therefore hard to believe he would imperil the US-Russia relationship by targeting Russian troops during Syria strikes
Russian President Vladimir Putin may not be as concerned with improving Moscow’s relations with Washington, but he also doesn’t want a war, says Kirschner. Plus, starting that fight would suck time and attention away from Putin’s effort to help Assad, and his ongoing war in Ukraine
can the US and Russia avoid getting into a broader fight after the US launches missiles at Syria
President Obama’s special adviser for transition in Syria
told me that “nothing is risk-free.”
“I suspect neither side wants a direct confrontation,” he continued
there are always surprises and unintended consequences.”
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On March 7th, at the newly restored La Maison Yves Saint Laurent, Hedi Slimane showed what would be his last collection as creative director for Saint Laurent.
Titled ‘La Collection de Paris’, theatrics were stripped bare. As Benedicte de Ginestous read the look numbers – a role she fulfilled for the house’s every couture presentation from 1977-2002 – Slimane sent out a collection that paid tribute to the house’s iconic heritage via forward-thinking modernism – it’s the Yves Saint Laurent way.
“Numero vingt trois” read de Ginestous, as a model appeared wearing a monochrome motorcycle jacket, clad in black scribbled lines crossing each other forming a marble-esque print. Titled Lessons in Dance School 2, this piece adorning the jacket is the work of 23-year-old artist, Alexander Muret.
Working across paintings made from melted crayons (wax encaustic) and self-published books, the New York-based artist paints with subverted expression. Free to communicate without rules or algorithms, Muret’s ambiguous and improvised approach enables him to create immediate art with intimate values. A world within itself, the artist welcomes you to explore.
Here we speak to Muret about Saint Laurent, his artistic background and finding freedom in today’s world.
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Godiva Chocolates, founded in Brussels in 1926, is known for its upmarket milk chocolate. Since 1988, Thierry Muret, a trained chemist as well as chocolatier, has been its development chef. The latest Godiva boutique opens today in Harrods in London.
What are your most and least used pieces of kitchen kit?
If you had only £10 to spend on food, where would you spend it and on what?
I would go to the farmers' market in Brussels. I probably wouldn't pick up any meat, just vegetables and fruit, the more exotic the better. Prickly pears, maybe, they have a wonderful taste profile. Guavas, too, or acai – I like to try them and think about what flavours I could marry them with.
This may sound strange as I work with it every day but chocolate remains my comfort food. Sometimes at the weekend, when the day is over, I like to sit down in the garden and have a glass of port or red wine with 67 or 72 percent cocoa chocolate. That to me is comfort. You drift into the complexity of the food, the flavours. It is nice to view the product you work with every day in another light.
If you could eat only bread or potatoes for the rest of your life, which would you choose?
Definitely bread. There is more complexity in bread, more variety. Potato is just starch. You can process potatoes and make different textures that way, but bread gives so much more intrinsically: softness to the crunchiness. And the making of it is a pleasure, as well. My family always know I'm stressed when I bake bread, It is a great calmer. You get a sense of peace when you bake.
Chocolate ganache is my desert island recipe. It's a combination of heavy cream and chocolate. First you bring the heavy cream nearly to the boil, taking it from the heat just before it bubbles too much. And then you pour it onto the small blocks of chocolate solid and mix. Depending on the ratio of cocoa solid to cream, you can have a white, dark or milk ganache. Without chocolate ganache I couldn't work or indeed relax.
I have just found a place in Brussels called the Rouge Tomate. It is very modern, fresh and perfectly prepared food. They are very big on local ingredients, too, and have the odd bit of molecular gastronomy insight – but not too much. The ambience is also very pleasant, its almost cafe-like with big wooden tables.
It is called Livre du Chocolat. It is concerned with chocolate, from its very beginnings in the fields to the processing and the finished product. It is not the most technical of books but somehow it gets to the heart of chocolate.
My chocolate master, who taught me for three years in Antwerp, Rene Goossens. He brought me into food, he opened up the full scope of taste and flavour to me. He used to say, "taste this strawberry – now explain what those flavours are." I learnt a lot.
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2016Save this storySaveSave this storySaveFlowers and sweet nothings are logical gifts for Valentine's Day
But have you ever wondered how chocolate came to be the most popular gift on Valentine's day
but we wanted to know a little bit more about how we got here
Muret has been working at Godiva for 28 years
making him the company's flavor braintrust and our man on the inside
Muret's career in chocolate started at University in Belgium
specializing in molecular-level crystal formation
asked him to help her start a chocolate business
hardest Belgian Chocolate master in Antwerp and studied under him for two-and-a-half years
It was just a few years into the business with his sister that Muret was personally courted by Godiva's CEO
Now he splits his time between two kitchens in Philadelphia and Antwerp
We caught up with him in New York to ask him about love
and to witness his newest recipe in action
What are you making for us today?I wanted to create something pretty bold for GQ
so I'm making a ganache and passion fruit bouché
It's a little bit larger than a truffle and it's meant for sharing
The ganache is made by mixing chocolate carrés (chips) with whole cream and white pepper
which because of its aromatics and heat pairs perfectly with the floral passion fruit
The jelly is made with passion fruit juice
and pectin that sets at a cold temperature
That way you don't lose a lot of the flavor
Add pectin and mix for about three minutes
The ganache goes into chocolate shells that are less than 1 millimeter thin
Because I don't want my final product to be too thick
And the shell allows me to do very soft ganaches
Before pouring the ganache into the chocolate let it cool to no higher than 80 degrees
Pour in and let cool for 20 minutes so that the jelly will sit nicely on top without mixing into the ganache
Now dip the entire thing in melted dark chocolate and fish it out with a little fork
The finishing touch is added to the top of the chocolates using a cocoa butter decal
When applied to the still warm chocolates the cocoa butter will melt and leave behind the design
Once cooled you can remove the vinyl backing
What goes into making excellent chocolate?It's actually what I call the sequential experience
When you eat Godiva it starts with chocolate
then you have your basic flavors in between
Then you finish clean with chocolate again
different flavors and the chef will sequence that in a way so you will be able to recognize those flavors
Why is chocolate considered an aphrodisiac
What makes it sexy?The myth of chocolate being an aphrodisiac comes from the history
So remember when Cortez brought the beans back to the Spanish court
it doesn't have any aphrodisiac qualities
It's also a food that melts exactly at the same temperature as your body temperature
You don't have a waxy or cool feeling
it's actually discovering the sensuality together
How can a man totally win Valentine’s Day with chocolates?Put your phone downGive the box of chocolateSit downOpen the box togetherAnd finally eat, I mean savor, the chocolates together
Should you not eat the whole box in one sitting?Oh, I would advise, eat the entire box in one sitting. [laughs]
You're 48 hours away from homemade truffles
That's how long it takes to replicate Godiva's holiday-themed gingerbread truffle
Don't worry if you don't have ginger on hand
Replicating the spiciness of the quintessential holiday cookie in chocolate form doesn't require ginger
and relies on the combination of milk and dark chocolate chips to invoke the warmth of gingerbread
The holiday season is a banner sales period for candy companies
The week of Christmas last year was one of the busiest weeks of the year for candy sales
according to consumer analytics firm Nielsen
Godiva has been cranking out gourmet chocolate for nearly 90 years
since the company started in Brussels in 1926
The candy company started planning the chocolates and truffles for this holiday season several years ago
in order to allow enough time for testing and production
The most recent iteration of the gingerbread truffle recipe began testing in 2013 and took Muret six months to develop
But you can make the truffles at home in just two days
you'll need heavy cream and high-quality chocolate chips
as well as the spices you want to infuse your cream with
More important than a recipe is your ratio of cream to chocolate
Ganache recipes typically call for one part cream to two parts chocolate (the gingerbread truffle uses a combination of milk and dark chocolate)
The cream is heated along with whole spices
which are then strained out before the chocolate is added in and the mixture stirred into a smooth consistency
salt and glucose to the gingerbread truffle
Pour the mixture into a square baking pan and then it's into the refrigerator so the ganache can set
Here's how to achieve chocolate perfection this holiday season:
Opt for a spatula over a whisk when stirring your ingredients together
A whisk will cause your ganache — the base of a truffle — to separate
It's actually better than using a double boiler on the stove to warm the cream or melt chocolate for the coating
A stove could scald the cream or burn the chocolate
whereas a microwave distributes heat more evenly
Just make sure to microwave in short bursts — one-minute increments work — to avoid overheating
Truffles take two days to come together because of how long the ganache needs to set in the refrigerator
If the ganache starts getting too soft while you're cutting it or rolling it into individual balls
put it back in the fridge until it's easier to handle
The Norwegian Consumer Council is of the opinion that MyHeritage is taking unlawfully excessive liberties with people’s sensitive data
It is therefore reporting MyHeritage to the Norwegian Consumer Authority and the Norwegian Data Protection Authority
More than 25 million people have taken genetic tests worldwide
and MyHeritage is among the largest actors
The Norwegian Consumer Council is of the opinion that MyHeritage is in violation of both the Norwegian Marketing Control Act and Norwegian privacy legislation
This is based on a legal assessment by the law firm Bing Hodneland
the Director General for the Norwegian Consumer Council
emphasises that the case is especially serious
since it concerns the genetic material of human beings
– You can obtain a new code for your bank card
There is no data more sensitive than your own DNA
contravening the law both in terms of privacy and marketing is of the utmost seriousness
the Director General for the Consumer Council concludes
asks its customers to sign an incomprehensible contract:
it is packed with terms that require both medical and legal expertise to interpret
Should you manage to read the Norwegian version
MyHeritage states that it is not applicable
and some passages contain entirely different information
they grant themselves unlimited opportunities to change the terms and conditions after you have accepted them
They are also secretive regarding what they will do with this extremely intimate information about you
They also do not guarantee the quality of test results
MyHeritage is also attempting to deprive you of your rights
they want you to waive the option of bringing legal proceedings against them in Norway
They have no legal right to deprive you of this right
A lot is required in order for a person to institute legal proceedings abroad
The Norwegian Consumer Council is reporting MyHeritage to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority and the Norwegian Consumer Authority
following an overall assessment of its terms and conditions of use and its privacy policy
– These regulatory authorities have the power to issue fines corresponding with what we believe represent violations of the law
Abusing consumers’ trust must have consequences
also The Swedish Consumers’ Association has made complaints on MyHeritage to domestic authorities
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