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The sudden death of Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan at the age of 46 has shocked fans, who remember the band best for rock pop 90s hits such as the yearning love song Linger and the politically-charged Zombie.
O'Riordan, the youngest of seven children, was born in Limerick, Ireland, and began writing songs when she was 12-years-old.
She joined the band - then called The Cranberry Saw Us - when she was a teenager, after answering an advert for a female singer to join brothers Mike and Noel Hogan and Fergal Lawler.
In a Rolling Stone interview, O'Riordan said of her audition with the band: "It was easy for me because I knew, no matter what their first impressions were, that the minute I opened my mouth that they were going to be impressed."
Soon after, the name was shortened to simply The Cranberries.
AFP
While their subsequent demo started a bidding war between UK record companies, their first EP was not a success and they soon changed managers.
Notoriously hard to crack for British and Irish artists, it was actually the US which gave the band their first taste of big success.
The group spent six months touring the States in 1993 - their first album, Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, originally peaked at number 78 on the UK chart but after US fans packed stadiums to see them support Suede and they came to the attention of MTV, the album went platinum on both sides of the Atlantic.
Some fans were a bit bemused by her earlier performances - according to a 1995 piece in the Orlando Sentinel, "even staunch followers were less than dazzled by the band's early live shows. O'Riordan refused to face the audience, standing sideways while she sang".
The reason was shyness but she would soon come out of her shell.
And it wasn't just the US, Ireland and the UK who were enthralled by O'Riordan and her cohorts - they were a hit across the globe, including Asia.
AFP
O'Riordan's distinctive voice soon led to comparisons with her compatriot Sinead O'Connor, though the singer said in a 1995 interview: "What I do is so different. I might have been singing before she ever sang - who knows? It's not like I'm not going to sing because somebody from up the road got there first because she was a few years older than me."
She often recalled being a bit of a rebel in her youth: " The boys (her brothers) were always allowed to come home late, do all the things I wasn't allowed to do because I was a girl," she told Melody Maker in 1994 when she was 23.
"Any time I went to a disco - until I was 19 years old! - one of my brothers would have to go with me. That seemed so old - like, nearly dead! And still not free, either!
"I was a good little Catholic girl, mind - but I was always rebellious underneath."
Her free spirit led her to hurtling down a mountain at top speed while skiing in 1993 - even though it was her first time on the slopes. She underwent major surgery and was left unable to run again.
GETTY IMAGES
O'Riordan married Don Burton, Duran Duran's former tour manager in Tipperary a year later, wearing cream knee-high boots, lace tights, and a see-through wedding dress.
The couple, who had three children along with Burton's son from a previous marriage, split in 2014 and later divorced.
While O'Riordan and her bandmates went on to enjoy huge success with their first two albums - the second, No Need to Argue, was released in late 1994 - their peak commercial success was relatively short-lived.
The third album, 1996's To the Faithful Departed, could not live up to its predecessors in terms of sales and the band cancelled an Australian and European tour later that year.
Bury the Hatchet, was released in 1999 but only made it to number 7 and 13 in the UK and US charts respectively, although their world tour, which they embarked on the same year, was a big success.
Their next album, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, came out in 2001 and peaked at number 61 on the UK chart.
The Cranberries split in 2003, and O'Riordan briefly pursued a solo career before the band reunited in 2009.
They made the album Roses, which was released in 2012 and an acoustic Cranberries album titled Something Else came out in spring last year, featuring three new songs as well as re-workings of older tracks.
The Cranberries then announced a tour including dates in Europe, the UK, and the US.
GETTY IMAGES
But in May - shortly into the European tour - the group had to cancel the remainder of the European dates as a result of O'Riordan's health issues.
The official Cranberries website said the singer had "an ongoing back problem" which prevented her from performing.
Then just before Christmas, O'Riordan posted a message on Facebook saying she was "feeling good" and had done her "first bit of gigging in months", leading fans to believe she would soon be performing again.
'Sick of being famous'
As the frontwoman and only female in the band, O'Riordan was always the focus and she admitted she found fame difficult, taking time out away from the spotlight as she hit her 30s.
"I just wanted to stay at home, do the laundry, take my children to school. Just switch off and be a mother... I became a volunteer at my children's school, I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous," she told The Independent in 1999.
Three years ago she became a judge on The Voice of Ireland, saying she was hoping to find someone who was "unique" and described appearing on the show as "a new adventure in my life."
The singer has also been open about her mental health.
O'Riordan was arrested over an alleged air rage incident in 2014 but was released without charge, after a stewardess was reportedly attacked on a flight from New York to Shannon, County Clare.
Two years later, the singer was ordered to pay 6,000 Euros (£5,300) to charity for headbutting a police officer after a separate alleged air rage incident.
'Salvation'
She was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2015, which she said explained why she was in a "manic" state on the plane.
In an interview in 2013 she said that she had been abused as a child, which led her to develop an eating disorder, and she subsequently suffered a breakdown.
O'Riordan described her family, especially her children, as her "salvation".
EPA
The singer also acknowledged her songs were often borne of melancholy.
"I write at my best when feeling negative," she told a Sydney press conference ahead of their Australian tour in 1996.
"When I'm happy, I prefer to go to the pub and have a Guinness or two - I guess I'm a bit of a melancholy type of person.
"There's plenty of happy music out there. If people want to buy happy music, there's always Kylie Minogue."
BBC News
Dolores O'Riordan: Voice of a rebel
SHUTTERSTOCK
The sudden death of Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan at the age of 46 has shocked fans, who remember the band best for rock pop 90s hits such as the yearning love song Linger and the politically-charged Zombie.
O'Riordan, the youngest of seven children, was born in Limerick, Ireland, and began writing songs when she was 12-years-old.
She joined the band - then called The Cranberry Saw Us - when she was a teenager, after answering an advert for a female singer to join brothers Mike and Noel Hogan and Fergal Lawler.
In a Rolling Stone interview, O'Riordan said of her audition with the band: "It was easy for me because I knew, no matter what their first impressions were, that the minute I opened my mouth that they were going to be impressed."
Soon after, the name was shortened to simply The Cranberries.
AFP
While their subsequent demo started a bidding war between UK record companies, their first EP was not a success and they soon changed managers.
Notoriously hard to crack for British and Irish artists, it was actually the US which gave the band their first taste of big success.
The group spent six months touring the States in 1993 - their first album, Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, originally peaked at number 78 on the UK chart but after US fans packed stadiums to see them support Suede and they came to the attention of MTV, the album went platinum on both sides of the Atlantic.
Some fans were a bit bemused by her earlier performances - according to a 1995 piece in the Orlando Sentinel, "even staunch followers were less than dazzled by the band's early live shows. O'Riordan refused to face the audience, standing sideways while she sang".
The reason was shyness but she would soon come out of her shell.
And it wasn't just the US, Ireland and the UK who were enthralled by O'Riordan and her cohorts - they were a hit across the globe, including Asia.
AFP
O'Riordan's distinctive voice soon led to comparisons with her compatriot Sinead O'Connor, though the singer said in a 1995 interview: "What I do is so different. I might have been singing before she ever sang - who knows? It's not like I'm not going to sing because somebody from up the road got there first because she was a few years older than me."
She often recalled being a bit of a rebel in her youth: " The boys (her brothers) were always allowed to come home late, do all the things I wasn't allowed to do because I was a girl," she told Melody Maker in 1994 when she was 23.
"Any time I went to a disco - until I was 19 years old! - one of my brothers would have to go with me. That seemed so old - like, nearly dead! And still not free, either!
"I was a good little Catholic girl, mind - but I was always rebellious underneath."
Her free spirit led her to hurtling down a mountain at top speed while skiing in 1993 - even though it was her first time on the slopes. She underwent major surgery and was left unable to run again.
GETTY IMAGES
O'Riordan married Don Burton, Duran Duran's former tour manager in Tipperary a year later, wearing cream knee-high boots, lace tights, and a see-through wedding dress.
The couple, who had three children along with Burton's son from a previous marriage, split in 2014 and later divorced.
While O'Riordan and her bandmates went on to enjoy huge success with their first two albums - the second, No Need to Argue, was released in late 1994 - their peak commercial success was relatively short-lived.
The third album, 1996's To the Faithful Departed, could not live up to its predecessors in terms of sales and the band cancelled an Australian and European tour later that year.
Bury the Hatchet, was released in 1999 but only made it to number 7 and 13 in the UK and US charts respectively, although their world tour, which they embarked on the same year, was a big success.
Their next album, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, came out in 2001 and peaked at number 61 on the UK chart.
The Cranberries split in 2003, and O'Riordan briefly pursued a solo career before the band reunited in 2009.
They made the album Roses, which was released in 2012 and an acoustic Cranberries album titled Something Else came out in spring last year, featuring three new songs as well as re-workings of older tracks.
The Cranberries then announced a tour including dates in Europe, the UK, and the US.
GETTY IMAGES
But in May - shortly into the European tour - the group had to cancel the remainder of the European dates as a result of O'Riordan's health issues.
The official Cranberries website said the singer had "an ongoing back problem" which prevented her from performing.
Then just before Christmas, O'Riordan posted a message on Facebook saying she was "feeling good" and had done her "first bit of gigging in months", leading fans to believe she would soon be performing again.
'Sick of being famous'
As the frontwoman and only female in the band, O'Riordan was always the focus and she admitted she found fame difficult, taking time out away from the spotlight as she hit her 30s.
"I just wanted to stay at home, do the laundry, take my children to school. Just switch off and be a mother... I became a volunteer at my children's school, I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous," she told The Independent in 1999.
Three years ago she became a judge on The Voice of Ireland, saying she was hoping to find someone who was "unique" and described appearing on the show as "a new adventure in my life."
The singer has also been open about her mental health.
O'Riordan was arrested over an alleged air rage incident in 2014 but was released without charge, after a stewardess was reportedly attacked on a flight from New York to Shannon, County Clare.
Two years later, the singer was ordered to pay 6,000 Euros (£5,300) to charity for headbutting a police officer after a separate alleged air rage incident.
'Salvation'
She was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2015, which she said explained why she was in a "manic" state on the plane.
In an interview in 2013 she said that she had been abused as a child, which led her to develop an eating disorder, and she subsequently suffered a breakdown.
O'Riordan described her family, especially her children, as her "salvation".
EPA
The singer also acknowledged her songs were often borne of melancholy.
"I write at my best when feeling negative," she told a Sydney press conference ahead of their Australian tour in 1996.
"When I'm happy, I prefer to go to the pub and have a Guinness or two - I guess I'm a bit of a melancholy type of person.
"There's plenty of happy music out there. If people want to buy happy music, there's always Kylie Minogue."
BBC News
Posted at January 17, 2018 | by
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តាំងពីចាប់ផ្តើមតមអាហារនិងហាត់ប្រាណមក សាន់ ឆាយ ស្រកទម្ងន់ខ្លាំងមិនគួរឲ្យជឿ ដោយស្រកបាន១០គីឡូក្នុងមួយខែ។
នាងបានចែករំលែកតិចនិកដូចជា ញ៉ាំអាហារតែ២ពេលក្នុងមួយថ្ងៃ គឺពេលព្រឹកនិងថ្ងៃត្រង់តែប៉ុណ្ណោះ ចំណែកពេលយប់គឺមិនញ៉ាំអីតែម្ដង។ អាហារពេលព្រឹកមានដូចជា ផ្លែស្រកានាគ ១ភាគ៤ នៃផ្លែ និងពេលថ្ងៃត្រង់ញ៉ាំ សាច់២ដុំនិងបន្លែស្រុះ២ចាន។
ម្យ៉ាងវិញទៀត នាងបានជួលគ្រូបង្វឹកហាត់ប្រាណ និង Yoga ២ដងក្នុងមួយអាទិត្យ ដោយក្នុងមួយដងត្រូវចំណាយពេល១ម៉ោង។ តួស្រីក្នុងរឿង ស្នេហា៤ដួងដដែលនេះ បានអះអាងថា ក្រោយពីអនុវត្តវិធីថែរក្សារាងបែបនេះកន្លងមក ពេលនេះនាងអាចស្លៀកខោអាវទំហំ S និង XS បានហើយ ហើយត្រូវការសម្រក៤គីឡូបន្ថែមទៀត ដើម្បីអាចវិលទៅរកទំហំខ្លួនមុនពេលមានផ្ទៃពោះរបស់នាង៕
Posted at January 17, 2018 | by
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018
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French actress Catherine Deneuve has said that men should be "free to hit on" women.
She is one of 100 well-known French women who wrote an open letter, warning about a new "puritanism" sparked by recent sexual harassment scandals.
The letter deplores a wave of "denunciations" after claims that US movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has raped or sexually assaulted dozens of women.
Mr Weinstein has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex.
However, he has admitted that his behaviour has "caused a lot of pain".
What does the open letter say?
The letter by French women writers, performers and academics was published in France's Le Monde newspaper on Tuesday.
"Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone's knee or try to steal a kiss," it said.
"Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or clumsily, is not - and nor is men being gentlemanly a chauvinist attack."
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The authors argued that there was a new "puritanism" afoot in the world.
They said that while it was legitimate and necessary to speak out against the abuse of power by some men, the constant denunciations have spiralled out of control.
According to the writers, this is creating a public mood in which women are seen as powerless, as perpetual victims.
"As women we do not recognise ourselves in this feminism, which beyond denouncing the abuse of power, takes on a hatred of men and of sexuality."
Ms Deneuve, 74, has recently spoken openly against social media campaigns, which, she says, shame men accused of harassing women.
Women and men from all over the globe who have been sexually harassed have been sharing their stories across social media using the hashtag #MeToo.
In France, Twitter users are using #Balancetonporc ("rat on your dirty old man") to encourage women to name and shame their attackers.
Ms Deneuve, an Oscar-nominated actress, has been in more than 100 films, making her debut in 1957.
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Catherine Deneuve defends men's 'right' to hit on women
GETTY IMAGES
French actress Catherine Deneuve has said that men should be "free to hit on" women.
She is one of 100 well-known French women who wrote an open letter, warning about a new "puritanism" sparked by recent sexual harassment scandals.
The letter deplores a wave of "denunciations" after claims that US movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has raped or sexually assaulted dozens of women.
Mr Weinstein has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex.
However, he has admitted that his behaviour has "caused a lot of pain".
What does the open letter say?
The letter by French women writers, performers and academics was published in France's Le Monde newspaper on Tuesday.
"Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone's knee or try to steal a kiss," it said.
"Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or clumsily, is not - and nor is men being gentlemanly a chauvinist attack."
GETTY IMAGES
The authors argued that there was a new "puritanism" afoot in the world.
They said that while it was legitimate and necessary to speak out against the abuse of power by some men, the constant denunciations have spiralled out of control.
According to the writers, this is creating a public mood in which women are seen as powerless, as perpetual victims.
"As women we do not recognise ourselves in this feminism, which beyond denouncing the abuse of power, takes on a hatred of men and of sexuality."
Ms Deneuve, 74, has recently spoken openly against social media campaigns, which, she says, shame men accused of harassing women.
Women and men from all over the globe who have been sexually harassed have been sharing their stories across social media using the hashtag #MeToo.
In France, Twitter users are using #Balancetonporc ("rat on your dirty old man") to encourage women to name and shame their attackers.
Ms Deneuve, an Oscar-nominated actress, has been in more than 100 films, making her debut in 1957.
BBC News
Posted at January 10, 2018 | by
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REUTERS
At least 13 people are dead amid "waist-deep" mudslides in Southern California, where heavy rains triggered flooding, say officials.
Some 163 people have been taken to hospital. Twenty had "storm-related injuries" and four were critically hurt.
A group of up to 300 people are reportedly trapped in Romero Canyon, east of Santa Barbara.
Police said the scene "looked like a World War One battlefield".
TWITTER/ @ELIASONMIKE
The flooding and mudslides, affecting areas scorched by wildfires last month, have shut down more than 30 miles (48km) of the main coastal highway.
Emergency services said a number of people are unaccounted for and they expect the death toll to rise.
Thousands fled the deluge and more than 50 rescues have been performed.
The hardest hit homes were those that were not in the evacuation zone, officials say.
#CAstorm- Firefighters successfully rescued a 14 yr old girl (right) after she was trapped for hours inside a destroyed home in Montecito.
End of Twitter post by @EliasonMike
Heavy rain run-off caused mudflow in the community of Montecito, where some homes were knocked from their foundations, said Santa Barbara County Fire Department spokesman Mike Eliason.
Boulders the size of small cars were rolling down hillsides and blocking roads, reports BBC News Los Angeles correspondent James Cook.
Among those taken to safety was a 14-year-old girl who had been trapped for hours in the ruins of her home.
The fire department published a picture of the girl encased in mud as she was led to safety.
County Fire Captain Dave Zaniboni said that five people were found dead on Tuesday in Montecito and may have been killed as result of the storm.
The upmarket neighbourhood includes homes owned by celebrities such as actor Rob Lowe and chat show host Ellen DeGeneres.
Oprah Winfrey also has a property in Montecito that is reportedly worth nearly $90m (£66m).
The US Coast Guard has sent "multiple airships to support rescue operations" and warn the public not to fly drones, otherwise the flights will force to be grounded.
Wildfires in December, including the Thomas Fire, swept through the area burning vegetation that helps prevent flooding and landslides.
Thousands of California residents were asked to evacuate on Monday for the second time in two months.
In Burbank, where waves of mud swept away vehicles, officials issued a mandatory evacuation order.
Homeowners in the area shared photos of mud in their homes.
Several roads are closed due to mudslides and debris, including the major thoroughfare Highway 101.
After a wildfire, burned vegetation and charred soil create a water repellent layer which blocks water absorption and leads to an increased risk of mudslides and floods.
"Recent burn areas will be especially vulnerable where dangerous mud and debris flows are possible," said the National Weather Service in a statement.
REUTERS
The Federal Emergency Management Agency shared a warning for California homeowners explaining that homes that had never flooded before were now at risk.
About 30,000 residents were under evacuation orders on Monday.
This comes after a record-setting year of $306bn (£226bn) of weather and climate-related disaster costs in the United States, the third warmest year on record, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The storm over California is expected to produce 4 inches to 7 inches (10 to 18 cm) in the foothills and 9in (23cm) in select areas.
Snow is falling at higher elevations, according to the National Weather Service.
Flash flood / massive amounts of mud swept thru #montecito oaks neighborhood. Mud buckling doors trying to get in house. People on roofs. Power out. Power lines down all over #mudslide
End of Twitter post by @caffeineben
Thirteen dead amid California heavy rains and mudslides
REUTERS
At least 13 people are dead amid "waist-deep" mudslides in Southern California, where heavy rains triggered flooding, say officials.
Some 163 people have been taken to hospital. Twenty had "storm-related injuries" and four were critically hurt.
A group of up to 300 people are reportedly trapped in Romero Canyon, east of Santa Barbara.
Police said the scene "looked like a World War One battlefield".
TWITTER/ @ELIASONMIKE
The flooding and mudslides, affecting areas scorched by wildfires last month, have shut down more than 30 miles (48km) of the main coastal highway.
Emergency services said a number of people are unaccounted for and they expect the death toll to rise.
Thousands fled the deluge and more than 50 rescues have been performed.
The hardest hit homes were those that were not in the evacuation zone, officials say.
#CAstorm- Firefighters successfully rescued a 14 yr old girl (right) after she was trapped for hours inside a destroyed home in Montecito.
End of Twitter post by @EliasonMike
Heavy rain run-off caused mudflow in the community of Montecito, where some homes were knocked from their foundations, said Santa Barbara County Fire Department spokesman Mike Eliason.
Boulders the size of small cars were rolling down hillsides and blocking roads, reports BBC News Los Angeles correspondent James Cook.
Among those taken to safety was a 14-year-old girl who had been trapped for hours in the ruins of her home.
The fire department published a picture of the girl encased in mud as she was led to safety.
County Fire Captain Dave Zaniboni said that five people were found dead on Tuesday in Montecito and may have been killed as result of the storm.
The upmarket neighbourhood includes homes owned by celebrities such as actor Rob Lowe and chat show host Ellen DeGeneres.
Oprah Winfrey also has a property in Montecito that is reportedly worth nearly $90m (£66m).
The US Coast Guard has sent "multiple airships to support rescue operations" and warn the public not to fly drones, otherwise the flights will force to be grounded.
Wildfires in December, including the Thomas Fire, swept through the area burning vegetation that helps prevent flooding and landslides.
Thousands of California residents were asked to evacuate on Monday for the second time in two months.
In Burbank, where waves of mud swept away vehicles, officials issued a mandatory evacuation order.
Homeowners in the area shared photos of mud in their homes.
Several roads are closed due to mudslides and debris, including the major thoroughfare Highway 101.
After a wildfire, burned vegetation and charred soil create a water repellent layer which blocks water absorption and leads to an increased risk of mudslides and floods.
"Recent burn areas will be especially vulnerable where dangerous mud and debris flows are possible," said the National Weather Service in a statement.
REUTERS
The Federal Emergency Management Agency shared a warning for California homeowners explaining that homes that had never flooded before were now at risk.
About 30,000 residents were under evacuation orders on Monday.
This comes after a record-setting year of $306bn (£226bn) of weather and climate-related disaster costs in the United States, the third warmest year on record, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The storm over California is expected to produce 4 inches to 7 inches (10 to 18 cm) in the foothills and 9in (23cm) in select areas.
Snow is falling at higher elevations, according to the National Weather Service.
Flash flood / massive amounts of mud swept thru #montecito oaks neighborhood. Mud buckling doors trying to get in house. People on roofs. Power out. Power lines down all over #mudslide
End of Twitter post by @caffeineben
Posted at January 10, 2018 | by
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