Reports are swirling in the German media today alleging that Toto Wolff will soon relinquish his role at the helm of the Mercedes F1 team although he would retain his ownership in the outfit. Auto Bild and F1 Insider are claiming that the future of Mercedes in Formula 1 beyond the 2020 season is currently being debated behind closed doors at Daimler. The reports suggest that Wolff will resign as the Brackley squad’s team boss before the 2020 gets underway in Austria in July but the stories offer no insight into the identity of his potential successor. Wolff baffled by level of ‘manipulation and opportunism’ in F1 Wolff holds a…

The H&M Group has joined the UN Global Compact’s latest initiative: Uniting Business and Governments to Recover Better. The fashion company is one of about 150 signatories, standing behind a call to action aimed at world governments and policy-makers for climate change. “We have the chance to truly reconstruct a better future, and while doing it, we need to ensure that the recovery measures taken today are not at the cost of our planet,” Helena Helmersson, CEO of the H&M Group, said in a company statement. “It is now more important than ever that companies and governments show leadership standing by their commitments in climate action, and that we take…

Puma is kicking off Pride Month with a new collection. The global sports company has partnered with model and LGBTQ+ activist Cara Delevingne on a capsule collection to celebrate the June event. Called From Puma with Love the 13-piece collection features vibrant colors, rainbow designs and bold graphics across T-shirts, hoodies, slides, waistbags and more. Puma will donate 20 percent of the proceeds from the collection will be donated to The Cara Delevingne Foundation, a project of the Giving Back Fund that support of LGBTQ+ charities including GLAAD, The Trevor Project and Mind Out. “We are proud to team up with Cara to celebrate Pride Month through this meaningful collection…

A l’occasion de la journée mondiale de la sclérose en plaques (SEP), qui a lieu chaque année le 30 mai, nous avons rencontré le DrHeinzlef, neurologue, pour faire le point sur sclérose en plaques et maternité. Sommaire Quelles sont les difficultés rencontrées par les femmes atteintes de sclérose en plaques pour devenir mère ? La grossesse est-elle susceptible d’aggraver la maladie ? Quelles conséquences la maladie peut-elle avoir sur l’accouchement ? Sur l’allaitement ? A l’occasion de la journée mondiale de la sclérose en plaques (SEP), qui a lieu chaque année le 30 mai, associations  LFSEP – Ligue Française contre la Sclérose en Plaques, AFSEP – Association Française des Sclérosés en…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel | Sean Gallup/Getty Images Merkel: No budget deal in June, but must come by fall Chancellor cautions she expects ‘difficult’ negotiations ahead. By Hans von der Burchard and Rym Momtaz 5/27/20, 9:55 PM CET Updated 5/27/20, 9:58 PM CET EU leaders won’t reach a compromise on the next seven-year budget and the economic recovery fund at their next summit in June but should get a deal before the fall, Angela Merkel said Wednesday. The German chancellor told reporters that last week’s Franco-German proposal “provided a good building block” for the €750 billion recovery fund that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed Wednesday, alongside a…

Plus des trois quarts des Français (78%) prévoient de prendre des vacances cet été, révèle une étude de la plateforme de recrutement par intérim Qapa publiée ce lundi 25 mai. Et le confinement et ses conséquences financières n’ébranleront en rien les envies autant que les besoins de prendre du temps pour soi durant la période estivale. Si les projets de vacances en juillet et août prochains paraissent encore flous, malgré l’affirmation du Premier ministre qu’elles auront bien lieu, les Français comptent bel et bien profiter de cette période pour se remettre d’un printemps confiné. Et même si la crise sanitaire a engendré du chômage partiel et/ou des difficultés financières pour…

I had never been alone with a Russian-manufactured 6C33C tube. At least not at night, in the dark. The first night Balanced Audio Technology’s VK-56SE tubed amplifier was in my system, I sat on the floor studying the unusual shape and dark orange glow of its four 6C33C-B output tubes. I noticed their brightly lit, cathedral-like innards. My Russian neighbor told me they were used as regulator tubes in MiG jets during the Cold War. I could believe it—their exposed cathodes were the exact color of the Soviet flag. From more than a foot away, I could feel the heat from their high-amperage filaments. The next morning, I pulled a…

We have still not received a pair of these for formal testing, which may be a good thing in view of our feelings these days about “updatings.” (Our feelings about such are clarified in this issue’s “As We See It.”) We auditioned Ohm Fs in three audio stores, and came away with five reactions. In one store, the two speakers we heard sounded similar to one another, but not terribly impressive. Stereo imaging was extraordinarily good, which has been the case with every truly omnidirectional speaker system we have heard, but the middle range of the Ohm Fs was rather markedly colored, with a vowel-like “eh” quality, and the low…

Years before I moved to Santa Fe, where I eventually became Stereophile‘s copyeditor, assistant editor, and first music editor, I lived in Boston, Massachusetts. There, I’d spent a year as the in-house typesetter, copyeditor, and book-review editor of East West Journal, an eclectic monthly magazine devoted to nutrition, spirituality, cooking, gardening, conservation, and other subjects. Two years after I’d left EWJ, managing editor Meg Seaker called to ask if I wanted to interview Keith Jarrett for the magazine. On March 20, 1981, Meg and I and EWJ‘s art director, Merridee Shaw, met with Jarrett in his suite at the Ritz, on the eve of his Bach’s Birthday Concert at the…

During my first attempt at college, I lived in a dormitory where my next- door neighbors had an informal trade in pharmaceuticals; their most ardent customers were my neighbors across the hall. One of the latter was a fellow named Pete, a good-natured guy (if a bit sanctimonious in his disdain for music he considered insufficiently bluesy) whose heavy rotation list was, at the time, topped by John Fahey’s The Voice of the Turtle. I merely disliked the record the first time I heard it, but in the days ahead I came to loathe it. I found it repetitive, masturbatory, technically inept, and dead boring. Pete hated my music, too.…