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Chelsea vs Barnsley: Thiago Silva reveals why he never wanted to play in England
Chelsea defender, Thiago Silva, has admitted that the long-ball football style in the Premier League discouraged him from moving to England earlier.
The Brazilian centre-back, who turned 36 on Tuesday, joined the Blues on a free transfer this summer after eight years at Paris Saint-Germain.
Silva is in line to make his debut against Barnsley in a Carabao Cup third round clash on Wednesday.
He has enjoyed a glittering career which includes seven consecutive Ligue 1 titles following a three-year spell with AC Milan, where he also won Serie A.
Silva has also amassed 88 international caps for Brazil.
When asked whether he had ever come close to playing in the Premier League before this season, Silva replied: "I've never really seen myself in the Premier League previously.
"That was because I saw it as a difficult style of football, personally. I didn't have any desire to play in the Premier League.
"My impression of the football playing was that one with long ball, high balls and long shots. At the time, I couldn't really see myself playing in that championship. But over time, the championship has developed tremendously. There is a lot more technical quality."


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Ray Dalio loves personality tests. The billionaire founder of Bridgewater, the world's largest hedge fund, which doubles as a kind of workplace social experiment, is famously interested in questions of character and self-improvement. His employees use iPads to rate each other on various attributes in real time and are encouraged to confront one another publicly in the name of radical transparency. So it makes sense that he's long sought insights into staffers' psyches with a panoply of tests, including Myers-Briggs, Workplace Personality Inventory, Team Dimensions Profile, and Golden Personality Profiler.
Now he's created what he hopes will be the one personality test to rule them all: PrinciplesYou, a free assessment that Dalio developed in collaboration with psychologists Adam Grant, Brian Little, and John Golden.
The online test is meant to be part of Dalio's legacy—a continuation of his recent efforts, including his 2017 book Principles: Life and Work, to make the ideas he views as responsible for his success more widely available to the public.
"What I want to do is pass along things of value to me," Dalio says. Whereas some view personality tests as a light-hearted distraction in the BuzzFeed "Which Disney Princess Are You" vein, Dalio sees them as tools to achieve greater self-knowledge and build better relationships.
"If you can know yourself, you can achieve not just in the work environment but in the personal environment," he says. "You can know where you fit, the pieces you have, and the pieces you need help with."
How Dalio designed the PrinciplesYou personality test
The PrinciplesYou personality assessment takes about 40 minutes to complete, which struck a sample group of test-takers (myself and a handful of colleagues) as quite long. That said, we had gone in cold—someone who knows it takes 40 minutes ahead of time might find it less tedious.
What distinguishes it from other personality tests, Dalio says, is its comprehensiveness. The qualities it measures are based in part on the Big Five test (the gold standard among scientists who study personality), which assesses people on five traits: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, open-mindedness, and neuroticism. It also draws from psychological research including Grant's work on "givers" and "takers," and measures qualities that Dalio discusses in Principles, like humility and toughness.
All this is evaluated via statements like "I would probably make a good actor" or "I'm basically a rebel," which users respond to on a scale of "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree." In the end, an algorithm tallies up your results and tells you which three archetypes among twenty-eight possibilities correspond best with your personality. The site offers up detailed descriptions of each archetype, like "Problem Solver" and "Artisan," along with their associated strengths and weaknesses (or, more diplomatically, "growth opportunities"), as well as analyses of how specific traits like your level of flexibility or extroversion can impact the way you think and relate to others.
There's also a tool that allows you to compare your results to those of your friends or co-workers—a function that Dalio says a lot of personality tests lack. "If you're one way and someone else is another way, what does that tell you about your relationship? We built it out so it actually can help diagnose how teams operate," he says.
The paid version of PrinciplesYou, called PrinciplesUs, includes coaching and workshops, along with tools that show the personality compositions of teams. It's meant to help managers identify a team's complementary strengths and potential gaps. Employees also can rate each other on different qualities, so the assessment reflects how others see you as well as how you see yourself.
Dalio says he can see companies using the test in hiring; he himself finds it "much more reliable than interviews."
"Too often people in interviews just judge personalities," he says. "They don't really know the person."
So what kind of a person is Dalio? He says his three archetypes are the Shaper, Inventor, and Adventurer. The "Shaper" is a conceit he writes about in Principles, which he says describes "people who can go from visualizing something big to actualization, to actually building it out and making it successful." He says that personality tests show that big-name business leaders like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Reed Hastings are all Shapers too. But lest you find that you don't share a personality type with a world-famous founder, fret not. Dalio notes that "no personality is superior or inferior to the other."
The questions our personality tests raised
Seven of my Quartz colleagues agreed to take the PrinciplesYou assessment for a test drive; later, we gathered to discuss. It turned out that taking the test had raised a lot of existential questions for us about the nature of the self, which is a fun and unexpected way to spend part of your Wednesday afternoon.
Our group talked about the various compunctions we'd felt as we worked our way through the assessment. I might choose "strongly agree" for a question asking whether I'm witty and light-hearted, but we all know people who overestimate how funny they are, much to the frustration of those who get stuck next to them at company dinners.
Another colleague said she kept thinking about her personality as relative: She might feel daring compared to people she'd grown up with, but less daring than foreign correspondents she's met since moving to New York. Our group also agreed that context can impact how we'd answer a given question. If we're going through an emotional rough patch (and who isn't these days?) we might rate ourselves as less energetic and more easily stressed than we normally would.
Yet another co-worker wondered whether his assessment would be more accurate if his wife took it for him, prompting our group to ponder what constitutes our "real" personality: Is it how we think of ourselves, or how others experience us?
It turned out that, perhaps reflecting our own neurotic tendencies, we all felt a little bit judged as we navigated the test, as if we were imagining that Dalio himself was using it to decide whether to hire us. What if I'm not a striver? I fretted to myself as I hovered over a question about seizing new opportunities. Dalio won't think I'm a winner!
At the same time, most of us ultimately agreed with our top archetypes, relating particularly to the list of suggestions about things we might need to work on. My top result was "Inventor," describing someone who's curious, creative, and cool with chaos—all true, I think—and who can have trouble following through on their big ideas (I hang my head in shame). We had several "Individualists," who somewhat agreed with their descriptions but, true to type, didn't want to be put in a box.
Our resident "Orchestrator," an archetype that's supposed to enjoy bringing people together to complete ambitious projects, excels at a job that involves doing just that. Another of my colleagues, a true maverick, managed to come up with what the test told him was a quite-rare result of having no strong archetype matches at all. (The test gave him his best matches nonetheless.)
Ray Dalio reassured me
When I talked with Dalio about how the experience of taking a personality test sent our group spiraling, he sought to assuage our concerns. On the question of whether people are well-suited to assess their own personalities, he suggested that what we think we are like determines many of the choices we make in life. "Generally speaking, what people are drawn to is also what they're better at," he says.
But he also said the test wasn't intended to be prescriptive. "There's nothing that means those results are definitely true; you have to agree that's you," he says. In his own experience with discussing personality tests at Bridgewater, he says, "I never hold [the result] to be true unless the person believes it's true." If an employee felt misjudged by an assessment, he says, he might do "an exercise exploring, if it is true, what would we look at for evidence?"
The other good thing about personality tests
Even results that people feel are inaccurate can still be good conversational jumping-off points. Personality tests provide us with an opportunity to talk to our friends and colleagues about who we think we are, and how our personalities mesh (or don't). The qualifiers and exceptions we come up with in discussing our results may be just as valuable as the results themselves in helping us to connect with and understand one another.
Upon reflection, I think it was fun to find out that I was an Inventor—but even more fun to talk through how hard it is to take a personality test with my colleagues. There's nothing like a shared identity crisis to bring co-workers together.

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Kevin Daley, DCNF
Interest group efforts to pressure two Republican lawmakers to oppose Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court do not appear to be resonating in their home states.
Progressive advocacy groups hope to convince GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — two moderate, pro-choice Republicans — to break with their caucus and oppose Kavanaugh, who may cast the decisive fifth vote for a range of social victories that have eluded conservatives for decades.
But Collins and Murkowski say the confirmation fracas doesn't resonate with their constituents to the same degree as other issues, particularly the GOP's failed attempts at repealing the Affordable Care Act early in the Trump administration.
"The protests are similar, the media campaign is more aggressive this time, but the constituent involvement is less," Collins told the Washington Post.
Murkowski struck a similar cord, saying constituent engagement related to Kavanaugh is less ardent as compared to Obamacare.
"The level of just emotional outpouring that made it just — intense is the best word — is different than it is now," Murkowski told the Post.
Progressives hoped to close the GOP's competitive advantage on judicial nominations this summer. In recent years conservatives have erected a standing confirmation infrastructure to support Republican judicial nominees and mobilize grassroots support in their favor. Groups like the Judicial Crisis Network and Americans for Prosperity have spent millions on multi-platform ad buys targeting key lawmakers, while social conservative associations like the Susan B. Anthony List and the Family Research Council use volunteers and email lists for direct peer-to-peer engagement.
A new advocacy outfit at the center of the left's efforts, Demand Justice, promised to spend $5 million opposing the Kavanaugh nomination. Demand Justice is staffed by alums of the Obama administration and the Clinton presidential campaign.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported on July 18 that Demand Justice, like its conservative counterparts, hides the sources of its funding through an opaque organizational structure.
Collins and Murkowski's early appraisal of liberal organizing around the confirmation suggests progressives are falling short of their goals, at least at this early stage.
The Daily Beast reported in mid-July that Democratic anti-Kavanaugh efforts have been slow to materialize.
Neither Collins nor Murkowski has publicly committed to supporting Kavanaugh, and they have yet to meet with him privately. Supreme Court nominees meet privately with most lawmakers in advance of their confirmation hearings.
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99636 Set of Cars GILBOW RAILWAY SERIES
Following many requests for our model cars, we have produced this set and we have taken this opportunity to improve the level of decoration. Each of these models now have registration plates, the MGB features the distinctive chrome body lining, and the Triumph Roadster and Vitesse have two tone bodywork. Yet another great addition to the Gilbow Railway Series.
20428 Bristol VRTSL3 SOUTHEND TRANSPORT
The varied and interesting Municipal fleet of Southend, has been rather overlooked apart from our RM Routemaster in 1993. In its distinctive blue, white and red livery fleet number 302, registered YUM 515S is on route 5 to Eastwood Rise and has Travel Card adverts on the upper decks. Watch out for more models in this fleet.
16522 Leyland Atlantean STANDERWICK GAY HOSTESS
One of the most constantly requested variants for this model has been the Hostess liveries. This model features the Standerwick Gay Hostess as it was used on the M1 Motorway Service to London Victoria. Our model fleet number 25 registered SFV 421 displays a destination of London via Motorway. An early order is recommended for this model.
22713 Alexander Y Type WESTERN BUSES
An attractive modern livery used by Western Buses in the 1980's was this white, black, red and grey design, which looked good on all the vehicle types that it was applied to. Registered TSJ 67S, fleet number AL 667 is operating on route 60 to Ayr via Maidens.
27807 AEC STL Bus LONDON TRANSPORT
Decorated in a slightly different variation of the early livery STL 1734, registered DGX 279 is working the well known route 8 to Old Ford. With AG 10 garage plates, the model has adverts for Trumans Beer, Genasprin and To Ireland by Rail and Sea.
28101 Alexander Atlantean B NATIONAL WELSH RHONDDA
Our first release of the latter style Alexander front design used on an Atlantean chassis is in the New Rhondda branded livery of National Welsh. Registered BTG 520J, fleet number HR 64.71 is operating the 520 schools route and displaying adverts for Littlewoods Pools. This model complements our recent New Rhondda MCW Fleetline model.


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This 2015 video is about giraffe evolution.
From the Southeast European Times:
Evidence of prehistoric animals unearthed in Macedonia
Fossil remains of an ancient giraffe, antelopes, rhinoceroses, a saber-toothed tiger, mastodons and other large animals have been located near a village in eastern Macedonia.
By Zoran Nikolovski for Southeast European Times in Skopje — 13/09/07
A prehistoric giraffe discovered in eastern Macedonia earlier this summer is the first to be found in Europe, according to paleontologists. The ancient animal was among several sets of fossil remains dating five to ten million years ago.
Located outside the village of Stamer, near Delcovo, the fossils bear witness that antelopes, prehistoric rhinoceroses, saber-toothed tigers, and mastodons once lived on Europe's soil, as well as the giraffe. Such evidence could also be helpful in tracing the evolution of homo sapien, which is believed to have originated in Africa around 200,000 years ago and migrated later to Europe and Asia. …
"In the first location, we found remains of a prehistoric giraffe, the first such finding in Europe. This is an important finding and we hope to find many more specimens in this location," said Geraads.
According to Nikolaj Spasov of the National Natural History Museum in Sofia, the Stamer site contains remains from the Late Miocene period. The unearthed giraffe, he says, represents the ancestor of present-day African giraffes. Today's animal weighs up to one tonne on average, while the Macedonian specimen weighed around two tonnes, was shorter and had horns.
Miocene Chalicotherium in the Netherlands: here.


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The decision as to whether to have half of our son's brain disabled was now in our lap. Many tests had been performed. 40 specialists at CHOP had reviewed the case and all had given the green light (not a single hesitation). Matthew was an ideal candidate for a Hemispherotomy. "If he were my son, I would be scared," his neurologist told Joan, "But I would definitely have him go through it."
And so, we were meeting with Dr. Kennedy, the surgeon who would perform the several-hour long operation. It was February. We had lots of questions for him, including this one: "Is Matthew getting too old for this surgery? Wouldn't it have been better if we had it done a few years ago?"
"Right now, there is a 19-year-old young lady who is here in rehab. I performed this same surgery on her last month. She wanted rid of her seizures. And she is now seizure free!"
At that moment Joan and I were thinking the same thing. It is so hard to decide something like this for your child. What would he want? And how could he possibly know what he wants? We decided that this young lady, through her experience, would speak for Matthew. It helped us make a hard decision and to be at peace with it, thinking that this is what Matthew would choose if he had sufficient understanding.
Fast forward several months… I was having breakfast with a group of guys. It had been a little while since we had met together. I was sharing with them what Matthew had just gone through and the progress he was making and how he is now seizure free.
"What was the name of the surgery? And who did you say the doctor was?" asked my friend, Ross, sitting to my right. I answered.
"I think that's the same surgery my granddaughter had. And that doctor's name sounds familiar. I have to call my daughter and find out for sure."
It was my turn to ask the questions. "How old is your granddaughter? When was her surgery?"
"19" and "The beginning of this year."
Yes, this was the girl who had helped to pave the path – a young lady, Abby, also from Lancaster County. A few minutes later Ross was on the phone with his daughter, telling the story to her, and then passing the phone to me. "Please tell your daughter thank you. Her decision not only benefited her, but her story helped us feel comfortable with an exceedingly difficult decision." In turn she thanked me for saying so. The recovery has not been easy, she told me, but Abby (at the time) had just achieved the ability to walk as much as two miles! So, with hearing the continuing story of her progress, she encouraged us again.
"Joan, you aren't going to believe my story from breakfast this morning…"
One of these days we're going to meet Abby. For one, her grandfather is determined to bring him to our church (Calvary) so his Adult Bible Fellowship can meet the one they've been praying for. Perhaps we'll meet her at that time, if not before.
Abby is a paver in our lives. Though at the time she didn't know it, she was helping to lay a path that would make our journey easier.
Matt is another paver. He is our Matthew's cousin. He was at Lancaster Rehab recovering from Guillain- Barre Syndrome (GBS) and learning to walk again when Matthew and I visited him. It was in the Spring of 2020 and because of Covid our visit was by seeing one another through an exterior window and simultaneously talking with one another by phone. At the time, I had no idea that Matthew would face a somewhat similar ordeal.
Few, if any, have had a bigger heart for our Matthew than this cousin. This past weekend was Matt's daughter's birthday. Throughout the evening Matthew had watched the other children jumping on the trampoline. Joan proudly, but with sadness, watched Matthew encourage the other children. Jumping has been one of his favorite things in the world (whether a bounce house or trampoline). Just before we left the party, Matt said to our Matt. "I've got a surprise for you." Realizing what he had in mind, Joan protested, "But he can't climb in." Undaunted, Matt replied, "We'll get him in." And that is the context of a clip from a video that we treasure!
The trouble with honoring individual pavers is that others on an exceedingly long list go unmentioned. There is friend, Russ, for example, who also had to learn to walk again because of GBS. (Russ' story is entitled: A mile in my Shoes – Joan wrote the forward to his book). How supportive he and his family have been! He is one of those who, for months, never took off that purple wristband. And it isn't just those who've experienced rehab – everyone on Team Matthew has made the path easier through prayer, encouragement, gifts, and acts of service (read back through our posts and you'll see many examples).
Thanks to each of you for the paving stones you lay!


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This project was funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, from 2013 to 2016.
In 19th- and early 20th-century Australia, newspapers were the main source of fiction. But the size of that archive meant that little was known about where this fiction came from, how it was sourced, where it was published, and the authors, titles, and genres in circulation. The possibilities for research changed profoundly with the National Library of Australia's Trove database and its mass-digitisation of historical Australian newspapers. As the largest open-access collection of its type in the world, Trove made it possible to discover the fiction that early Australians read and wrote for the first time in a reliable and systematic way. By employing traditional bibliographical and book historical methods, alongside new forms of digital analysis (such as data- and text-mining, topic modelling and network analysis) the To be continued project identified over 21,000 publications of novels, novellas and short stories in 19th- and early 20th-century Australian newspapers.
The project's main outcomes include:
To be continued . . . The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database
This database represents extensive bibliographical details and text files for the fiction discovered in digitised historical Australian newspapers. It is fully open and editable, and since it was launched in March 2018 members of the public have added almost 2,000 titles and corrected the text of many thousands more. You can use the database to:
- Explore: search for fiction by author, title, newspaper, keyword, nationality or more to discover fiction
- Correct: access Trove to read and correct story text or edit the database
- Add: identify and add new instalments and stories you find in the digitised newspapers
- Export: download a story you have corrected or generate textual and bibliographical data for research
A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History
This monograph is the main scholarly output of the project and was published by the University of Michigan Press in July 2018. The book is in two main parts. The first offers a new framework for data-rich literary history based on the theory and technology of the scholarly edition. The second applies this framework to analysing almost 10,000 works of fiction published in Australian newspapers in the 19th century in ways that re-conceptualise how fiction traveled globally, and was received and understood locally, in this period. You can access more information about this book, including an open access version, here.
"To be continued . . ." series, with Orbiter Press
I am currently working with Orbiter Press to publish some of the newly discovered Australian fiction in digitised newspapers. The first edited collection, "How I Pawned My Opals" and Other Lost Stories publishes five previously lost stories by important Australian author, feminist, socialist and world-traveller, Catherine Martin. The second edited collection, Christmas Eve in a Gum Tree offers a collection of original Australian Christmas stories. A third collection, on Australian gold-mining fiction, is forthcoming.
For other publications and presentations from this project see:
- 'Uncovering the True History of Australian Literature,' Public lecture at the Australian National University 1 March 2018. [listen here]
- 'Fictional Systems: Mass-Digitisation, Network Analysis, and Nineteenth-Century Australian Newspapers,' Victorian Periodicals Review 50.1: 100-38. [website; preprint; data/figures; appendix 1; appendix 2; appendix 3 – draft]
- 'The Equivalence of "Close" and "Distant" Reading; Or, Toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History.' Modern Language Quarterly 78.1 (2017) [draft; preprint]
- 'Thousands of Titles Without Authors: Digitized Newspapers, Serial Fiction, and the Challenges of Anonymity,' Book History 18 (2016): 284-316. [preprint; datasets all data, known authors, inscribed authors]
- with Carol Hetherington. 'Retrieving a World of Fiction: Building an Index, and Full-text Archive, of Serialised Novels in Australian Newspapers', Script & Print 38.4 (2014): 197-211. [here]
- * 'Digital Humanities and Digitised Newspapers: The Australian Story'. Digital Scholarship Group seminar. Northeastern University, Boston. 30 September, 2014. (Transcript and Slides)
- * 'New Literary Histories: The Digitisation of Print Culture and Transformation of the Archive'. English Department Seminar Series. King's College London. 16 June, 2014. (Transcript and Slides)
- * 'Mining a "Trove": Modeling a Transnational Literary Culture.' Digital Humanities 2014. University of Laussane, Laussane. 7-12 July 2014. (Transcript and Slides)
- * with Carol Hetherington. 'A World of Stories in Colonial Periodicals.' Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Annual Conference. Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. 3–5 July 2013. (Transcript and Slides)*
* I don't read papers aloud when I give a presentation, but I do write a full script to organise my thoughts. What I've included here are those full scripts (which would usually take twice the time to read aloud as I'm allocated to speak!). The actual presentations missed some of what is included in these transcripts, while including other things that occurred to me at the time.


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A British doctor has used her summer holiday to travel to war-torn Syria and provide medical help to victims trapped in the conflict.
By Ruth Sherlock, Paris
8:26PM BST 28 Aug 2012
Rachael Craven, 42, usually works as anesthetist for the National Health Service in Bristol. But she has spent the past two weeks in a war zone, treating casualties in a secret hospital that is being run by humanitarian aid agency Medicine San Frontier inside northern Syria.
Operating without the permission of the Syrian government and fearing it could come under attack by regime artillery the hospital is in the guise of a civilian home.
"Luckily it is not like a house in the UK that is furnished with carpets. This had marble floors; the kitchen is a sterilisation room and the living and reception rooms have been turned into the operating theatres and recovery rooms," said Dr Craven. "The courtyard is the emergency room".
She was part of a team of local doctors and foreign staff that worked around the clock to treat the constant stream of patients. Snatched moments of rest were taken on the exposed hospital rooftop.
"We slept on the roof. Accommodation is a premium in northern Syria because of the influx from Aleppo. Any house has three or four families staying with them already," said Dr Craven. "We were at risk of shelling but so far it is a relatively safe area. I think a bigger is when the rain starts!"
The hospital was nearly always full, with patients sometimes spilling out on mats laid on the balconies. "Every few days we would have a mass casualty event. Either when a battle had taken place near us and we saw a lot of rebel casualties, or after shelling attacks where the victims were civilians," said Dr. Craven.
Close to the end of her stay an artillery barrage hit a village bazaar where locals had been gathering supplies: "The local field clinic took care of most of the casualties in the market, but it was an hour before anybody checked the nearby basement where fifteen children had been playing. Shrapnel had come in through the ground level windows.
"The children were all from one extended family and were from two to 18 years old. Five were killed outright; a few were taken to a local clinic and the rest were brought to us. One was dead on arrival, another died with us, we were able to do surgery on two, and two were sent to Turkey," said Dr. Craven.
For the past seven years Dr Craven has been using her annual leave to volunteer with MSF in some of the world's most galling humanitarian tragedies and dangerous conflict zones. She has worked in Congo, Indonesia, Haiti after the earthquake and in Libya in the city of Misurata when it was besieged.
Syria was one of the most difficult operations yet. The whole medical team and hospital equipment had first to be smuggled across an international border and there no escape route should the hospital come under attack.
"There was one occasion when there was a push by government forces and we were aware that a set of tanks were heading very close to us. We were on standby to evacuate, but we had a patient who was critical and could not be transferred. It is not something they really cover in medical training in the UK, the decision of where take a patient into theatre and so commit the rest of your team to stay [in a dangerous situation].
"Every day you had a mental tally in your head of which patients would have to come with you is you had to evacuate. We had one ambulance and one car that we could use," said Dr. Craven.
Working conditions were extremely difficult, with the medical staff having to adapt to a back-to-basics approach. "You can't have ventilators and other similar equipment because of things like electricity. It was not uncommon for the operating theatre to be plunged into darkness and then you lose your oxygen and that is dangerous. You need solid simple tools," said Dr. Craven.
Dr Craven said the hospital also depended on the "exceptional" local staff, who have been working for several months without a break, often treating victims that are their friends or relatives, and on the "amazing spirit" of villagers near the hospital: "If we were ever shot of blood the imam would put out a message at evening prayer and there would be a queue of volunteers".
Now back at work at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, Dr Craven said that she was likely to use her remaining two weeks of holiday to return to Syria: "It brings a whole new perspective on life and work at home".
By Franklin Lamb
August 28, 2012 "Information Clearing House" —- Congresswoman Illena Ros-Lehtinen will have her hands full as she makes the political and social rounds at this month's Republican National Convention. Illena, is the only female committee chair in the House of Representatives and arguably Israel's most ardent agent. She is a constant thorn in the Obama administration's side, regularly castigating the president for playing "political games with U.S. foreign policy" and being "soft on Iran" and undermining the legitimacy of Israel. Ros-Lehtinen is a congressional cheer leader also for her Jewish voters in Florida — a key battleground in the rapidly approaching US presidential election. Most recently, Ros-Lehtinen helped shepherd through Congress yet another bill tightening sanctions against Iran while calling for US military action against the Assad regime in Syria.
The Congresswomen's focus will likely not be on pushing the republican's talking points regarding her party's nominee, Mitt Romney the former "moderate Massachusetts governor" who she is aware is unlikely to win the White House. Nor, according to a source at the Democratic National Committee, frantically putting together final touches on their own Convention, to be held the week of September 3 in Charlotte, North Carolina, will Ileana spend much time with or promoting Mitt' running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan. Ryan, an Ayn Rand (author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as well as founder of the Objectivism movement) follower, regularly tells audiences that "Ayn Rand's teachings have been one of the most profound philosophical influences of my life." Well, except for religion and abortion and a few other matters, as Ayn, who passed away in 1982 was an avowed atheist and strongly pro-abortion, the opposite of what Ryan tells audiences he is.
Rather, Ros-Lehtinen will be meeting with local, national, and international Jewish leaders in this must win state where she has been assigned the task of reassuring them that the Republican Party is Israel's best friend and that a recent US government draft report urging a US re-think of its relationship to Israel is the responsibility of none other than Barack Obama, and it reveals his true disdain for Israel.
Helping her smear the White House with the findings in the draft analysis will be William Kristol, publisher of the neoconservative Weekly Standard and Director of the New American Century, an "Israel first" Washington-based lobby "promoting joint Israeli and American political and military leadership across the globe, while bringing democracy to the Middle East".
So what is all the fuss about?
It's a paper entitled: Preparing For A Post Israel Middle East, an 82 page analysis that concludes that the American national interest in fundamentally at odds with that of Zionist Israel. The authors concludes that Israel is currently the greatest threat to US national interests because its nature and actions prevent normal US relations with Arab and Muslim countries and, to a growing degree, the wider international community.
The study was commissioned by the US Intelligence Community comprising 16 American intelligence agencies with an annual budget in excess of $ 70 billion. The IC includes the Departments of the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Defense Intelligence Agency, Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, State, Treasury, Drug Enforcement Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency commissioned the study.
Among the many findings that Ros-Lehtenin and Kristol and other unregistered agents of Israel will likely try to exploit politically between now and November 6, by using them to attack the Obama Administration. A sampling of the findings includes the following:
• Israel, given its current brutal occupation and belligerence cannot be salvaged any more than apartheid south Africa could be when as late as 1987 Israel was the only "Western" nation that upheld diplomatic ties with South Africa and was the last country to join the international boycott campaign before the regime collapsed;
• The Israel leadership, with its increasing support of the 700,000 illegal settlers on the occupied West Bank is increasing out of touch with the political, military and economic realities of the Middle East;
• The post Labor government Likud coalition is deeply complicit with and influenced by the settlers' political and financial power and will increasingly face domestic civil strife which the US government should not associate itself with or become involved with;
• The Arab Spring and Islamic Awakening has, to a major degree, freed a large majority of the 1.2 billion Arab and Muslims to pursue what an overwhelming majority believe is the illegitimate, immoral and unsustainable European occupation of Palestine of the indigenous population;
• Simultaneous with, but predating, rapidly expanding Arab and Muslim power in the region as evidenced by the Arab spring, Islamic Awakening and the ascendancy of Iran, as American power and influence recedes, the US commitment to belligerent oppressive Israel is becoming impossible to defend or execute consistent given paramount US national interests which include normalizing relations with the 57 Islamic countries;
• Gross Israeli interference in the internal affairs of the United States through spying and illegal US arms transfers. This includes supporting more than 60 'front organizations' and approximately 7,500 US officials who do Israel's bidding and seek to dominate and intimidate the media and agencies of the US government which should no longer be condoned;
• That the United States government no longer has the financial resources, or public support to continue funding Israel. The more than three trillion dollars in direct and indirect aid from US taxpayers to Israel since 1967 is not affordable and is increasingly being objected to by US taxpayers who oppose continuing American military involvement in the Middle East. US public opinion no longer supports funding and executing widely perceived illegal US wars on Israel's behalf. This view is increasingly being shared by Europe, Asia and the International public;
• Israel's segregationist occupation infrastructure evidenced by legalized discrimination and increasingly separate and unequal justice systems must no longer be directly or indirectly funded by the US taxpayers or ignored by the US government;
• Israel has failed as a claimed democratic state and continued American financial and political cover will not change its continuing devolution as international pariah state;
• Increasingly, rampant and violent racism exhibited among Jewish settlers in the West Bank is being condoned by the Israeli government to a degree that the Israel government has become its protector and partner;
• The expanding chasm among American Jews objecting to Zionism and Israeli practices, including the killing and brutalizing of Palestinians under Israeli occupation, are gross violations of American and International law and raise questions within the US Jewish community regarding the American responsibility to protect (R2P) innocent civilians under occupation;
• The international opposition to the increasingly apartheid regime can no longer be synchronized with American claimed humanitarian values or US expectations in its bi-lateral relations with the 193 member United Nations;
The Draft ends with language about the need to avoid entangling alliances that alienate much of the World and condemn American citizens to endure the consequences.
Interestingly, it notes Iran as an example of a country and people that have much in common and whose citizens have a real interest in bilateral associations (here an apparent reference to Israel and its US lobby) not determined by the wishes of other countries and their agents. It also highlights the need for the US to undertake "the repairing relations with Arab and Muslim countries including the drastically curtained use of drone aircraft.
The coming days will clarity the success of Israel's in making an issue of the finding in the soon to be published daft report and the degree to which the Republican Party will gain for its findings in the race for the White House.
Franklin Lamb, former Assistant Counsel, US House Judiciary Committee and Professor of International Law at Northwestern College of Law in Oregon, earned his Law Degree at Boston University and his LLM, M.Phil., and PhD degrees at the London School of Economics. Following three years at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Lamb was visiting fellow at the Harvard Law School's East Asian Legal Studies Center.
He is currently doing research in Lebanon and volunteers with the Palestine Civil Rights Campaign and the Sabra-Shatila Foundation. Lamb is the author of: Israel's 1982 War in Lebanon: Eyewitness Chronicles of the Invasion and Occupation, South End Press, First Printing, 1983, International Legal Responsibility for the Sabra-Shatila Massacre, Imp. TIPE: 42, Rue Lebour 93100 Montreuil, Paris, France 1984, The Price We Pay: A Quarter Century of Israel's Use of American Weapons in Lebanon (Lamont Press) 2007, His latest book, The Case for Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon, is due out shortly.


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Our Durham community continues to inspire and motivate us with their response to food insecurity as we move forward through COVID19 and into the recovery period. To check out some of the unique and engaging initiatives and the impact our community has had on food insecurity in Durham Region, keep scrolling!
1. Selling T-Shirts
Some incredible business owners sold t-shirts to raise money for FTND. How cool are these designs!?
2. Hosting Virtual Events
Durham businesses and organizations got creative and hosted virtual events to raise funds for FTND. There were virtual concerts, dance performances, auctions and more!
3. Contactless Food Drives
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4. Donating proceeds from sales
Businesses donated proceeds from sales of certain products and individuals used their talents to create goodies to raise money for us! We have some pretty talented people in Durham Region!
Marion crocheted these "covid critters"
5. Gardening and donating the fresh produce
Gardening is such a great activity to get outside and our supporters also showed us how it can also help nourish our community! How incredible is that!?
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Thanks to our wonderful supporters we were able to purchase a new truck which translates to more food in and more food out. Our new truck allows us to drop off multiple skids of food at a time to emergency food providers.
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Brave Space
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in a soul motion® class, the dancer moves through four relational landscapes, using three core movement principles.
the four relational landscapes:
- dance intimate…. we move alone
- dance communion… we move with one other
- dance community… we move with everyone
- dance infinity… we move our practice to the everyday life
dance intimate, dancing alone we renew our relationship with the body as a shifting shape in space.
dance communion, inspired by interior impulses, sensations, and images the dancer begins to relate and communicate outwardly.
dance community , as dancers begin to move in ever widening circles, they receive and transmit information and inspiration to the larger dance happening all around them.
dance infinite, what happens in the dance room is a template for the everyday dance in the living world. we move out from the dance room sensing our environment more clearly, communicating with others with enhanced perception, and relaxing more readily with the challenges and obstacles that may dance before us.
the three core principles
pause presence, a meditative relaxation practice that allows the dancer to slow down, align, and recharge.
orbit orientation, the dancer is encouraged to consciously move in all directions with equal attention and without preference.
echo inspiration, dancers are guided to use each other's movements to inform and inspire them.
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open floor
open floor is a conscious movement practice to find our way back to ourselves physically and emotionally. on this journey we will discover a way to express our vulnerability, as well as our hard edges, our passion and our anxieties. we can unearth our unique expression in movement rooted deep inside of ourselves. we are guided back into the wisdom of our bodies and its unlimited healing powers.
open floor movement practice uses universal principles of movement that are inherent in any moving body, such as breath, gravity, centering, expansion and contraction, to anchor us in ourselves and our lives. it is a mindful inquiry; a place for creative focus and loving attention through movement.
we explore how we can move and include it all; feelings, other people, thoughts, wild passions as well as our limitations.
we are encouraged to use movement to soften the tight spots in our tender hearts and stretch our capacity for relationship with ourselves, others and the world around us. we dance in solitude, in connection, in belonging and with spirit.
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Walt Disney Animation Studios' latest animated fantasy epic Raya and the Last Dragon recently hit big Disney+ and theaters, adding to the studio's unforgettable lineup. With Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Lion King, Aladdin, and more in their library, Raya and the Last Dragon has a lot to live up to. Does this computer-animated adventure stack up to some of the most iconic animations in movie history, or should it be banished forever like the Druun? Let's adventure on to find out.
The Good
The animation in Raya and the Last Dragon is absolutely spectacular. The artwork is some of the most beautiful seen in any of Disney's 3D animated movies. The colors and style work together to produce something truly whimsical that at times comes close to that of a Studio Ghibli film. This movie is nothing short of a visual masterpiece.
The unique world-building is nothing to be scoffed at either. The audience quickly learns a lot about the land of Kumandra. This includes what people eat, how they live their lives, the geography, and even how the rules of magic and dragons that exist in this world work. Disney successfully immerses viewers into this fantastical world as if it actually exists. Each village, named after a different dragon body part, feels like their own character in a sense. They each serve different roles in this land. It's rare to see world-building this great outside of the likes of Avatar, The Lord of the Rings, or The Wizard of Oz.
Raya and the Last Dragon's story feels like a true epic, similar to that of The Odyssey. It's an exciting adventure that takes the protagonist, Raya, on a journey of six years to find Sisu and the gem pieces. This is a nice change of pace from Disney's stories that take place over the course of a couple of days. It causes the story to have more weight to it. Plus, it's a fun quest to go on with these characters. Traveling to different points in the world to find pieces of a gem to restore it and the world feels like the plot of old video games and Saturday morning cartoons many of us may have grown up with.
Every good children's or family film usually has some sort of message or theme, and Raya and the Last Dragon is no different. This film offers a familiar-yet-important message about the impact of living in a divided world and how it's worth it to try having more trust in each other. This message adds to the emotional weight of the movie and hopefully gets viewers to think about it in the context of their own lives.
There's a wide variety of likeable and relatable characters throughout the film. They all either add to the humor or to the heart of the story. Plus, seeing such different characters interact with each other, like a fearsome warrior and a con-baby, makes for an extremely fun time. The voice talent behind these characters, including Kelly Marie Tran and Awkwafina, show off their incredible talent as they bring their roles to life. I've said it before and I'll say it again, there really needs to be an Oscar for voice acting. This film is definitely evidence of that.
With the movie focusing on Southeast Asian characters and on a fully fleshed out, badass female protagonist, the movie is full of positive representation for viewers young and old which is obviously always needed.
With most of their recent movies, Disney has had an annoyingly repetitive habit of revealing a surprise villain during the final act. However, Raya and the Last Dragon finally breaks that predictable trend. There's no "classic-style" villain present, like Maleficent or Jafar, but the conflict revolves around the rivalry between each of the villages (with the help of the dreaded Druun). It's nice to see Disney have a different kind of conflict than their last several movies.
The Bad
Most of the conflict of the film stems from the terrifying Druun that turn people and dragons into stone just by touching them. This is a neat concept and all, but we know little about them. We never know why they're evil or where they come from. They're just these shapeless spirits who hang out near a land surrounded by water (even though they hate water) so they can turn things to stone for no apparent reason. For an important part of the movie, they just sort of exist when the plot needs them. Where so much of this world feels real, it's disappointing that the Druun feel somewhat forced.
On one hand, it's entertaining to see such a wide variety of characters in the movie. On the other hand, because there are so many, some important characters don't quite get the screen time they may need. Tong, the last surviving member of Spine who lost his family and everyone he knew to the Druun, has the appearance of a hardened warrior but has a lot of heart. He doesn't join the heroes' quest until later in the film and doesn't get the time needed to show his grief or how he dealt with it. Baby Noi became orphaned when the Druun took out her family, but she's just used as comic relief, albeit great comic relief. The only real fix for this, though, would be for there to be more time in the movie or less characters, and it would be really upsetting to lose any of these delightful characters.
Some of the plot points become somewhat predictable, especially toward the end. It doesn't necessarily make the story bad; it just makes it feel familiar. As unique as the world and the characters are, some of the story doesn't quite feel as fresh and new as it could. Like I stated earlier, it's fun that the story feels like that of a Saturday morning cartoon, but that means it feels a bit too much like stories we've experienced before.
Raya and the Last Dragon is a visual masterpiece with some of the most beautiful artwork and style Disney has put out with their 3D animated films. The characters are all a joy to experience this journey with and all feel unique and fully fleshed-out. The talented voice cast truly helps to bring these characters to life. The story may feel a little too familiar at times, but it is such a fun, epic adventure that it barely matters. The world-building for the land of Kumandra is so incredible that a viewer could probably memorize its geography and history.
We may not know quite enough about one of the main threats or get to spend enough time with certain major characters, but everything else works together so well that they make up for it. If you're looking for a new fantasy adventure movie that takes place in a new setting with entertaining characters, or are craving the stories you've seen in cartoons and video games where the heroes quest to find magical objects to save the world, then Raya and the Last Dragon definitely needs to be on your watch list.
Rating: 9/10


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Bucks acquire Nikola Mirotic from Pelicans in 3-way trade
The Milwaukee Bucks have acquired New Orleans Pelicans forward Nikola Mirotic as part of a three-team trade involving the Detroit Pistons, reports ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski and Zach Lowe.
In exchange for Mirotic, the Bucks will send Jason Smith and Stanley Johnson to Pelicans, while four second-round picks will also go to the Pelicans in total.
To complete the trade, the Bucks will send power forward/center Thon Maker to the Pistons.
While the wide-held expectation was that Mirotic would be traded by the deadline, Milwaukee was a bit of a surprise destination. However, the Bucks may be a strong fit for Mirotic, who can settle into the role of sixth-man and feast on strong matchups given that Milwaukee takes 41.6% of their shot attempts from beyond the three-point line, which is second in the NBA.
The 27-year-old Mirotic, who has appeared in 32 games this season, averaging 16.7 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.1 assists, will likely remained sidelined until after the break as he continues to nurse a calf injury.


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New Broncos tight end Nick Vannett will wear jersey No. 88 this season, a number previously worn by wide receiver Demaryius Thomas from 2010-2018.
This will mark the first time since the Broncos traded Thomas mid-way through the 2018 season that a Denver player has worn jersey No. 88 in the regular season.
Before Thomas, tight ends Tony Scheffler (2006-2009) and Jeb Putzier (2002-2005) were No. 88. Thomas and former tight end Riley Odoms (1972-1983) are arguably the most notable payers to have worn No. 88 with the Broncos.
A five-time Pro Bowler and a Super Bowl champion, Thomas ranks second on the team's all-time receiving list in yards (9,055) and touchdowns (60). Rod Smith is the only player in franchise history with better numbers (11,389 yards; 68 touchdowns).
Vannett wore No. 81 at Ohio State and with the Seahawks. He switched to No. 88 with the Steelers last season. Tim Patrick, a wide receiver entering his fourth year in Denver, currently wears jersey No. 81.


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The Mid-Atlantic Back Country Discovery Route (MABDR) is a 1,080 mile route, that starts in Damascus Virginia, and ends in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. The Back Country Discovery Routes organization had taken the route and divided it into 9 sections. My compadres and I decided to trek sections 6, 7, and 8 – a two day expedition beginning at the Pennsylvania Turnpike just east of the Kittatinny and Blue Mountain Tunnels, exiting at Blue Mountain interchange, Exit 201. From there we started the route north toward Interstate I-80, traveling a south-north route through the Alleghany Mountains of Pennsylvania.
I was joined by Dee, TJ, TJ's two sons. It's a good idea to divide responsibilities so everyone has a job and, therefore, we all know what to expect from each other. Dee, camp fire. TJ, photography. TJ's youngest so and I, cooking.
The MABDR travels though a number of Pennsylvania State Forests. Within these State Forests are many camp locations. You have to call each individual State Forest Office to reserve a spot. Reservations and permits are required, but they are free. I worked with the Ruthrock and Bald Eagle State Forest District Offices to find campsites; they were very helpful and patient as many sites were already reserved, and finding ones along our route was a process. I was using my Gaia GPS on my desktop and the State Forest maps to find the best campsites that were near our route and we found what would be two great ones!
Day One was going to be a short day as we had an early start and long highway drive from Northeast Ohio (5 1/2 hours of driving covering over 100 miles). Along the route we passed a lot of timber clearing and we were able to stop and pick up some fire wood from these sites. One thing we did notice was the lack of availability of fire wood (we noticed only 1 or 2 locations along the entire route to buy wood).
All day we passed through many small towns and countless ridge line roads with outstanding views of the valleys and Pennsylvania county side. The first night was at a late campsite, many vehicles and tents would easily fit. Dinner was steak fajitas. It was an easy night for all, as we had an early morning and long drive.
Day 2 started off with not a hitch. We got to the Penn View Overlook, it was a great spot to stop and take in the great views. We also had cell coverage there so we can make some phone calls and post to social media. Just past Penn View, coming down Slide Mountain was a not a challenging section, but we had to take at a much slower pace. The trail was rutted out from winter washout and heavy spring rain. We passed a pair of motorcycles and chatted about trail conditions.
After coming down the knob, we entered into Poe Paddy State Park. This was a beautiful campground that had showers and clean bathrooms. We were able to dispose of our trash in the bear-proof dumpsters and stretch our legs.
On the BDR website you can download GPS files, these files have the tracks and waypoints for gas and food. In sections 7 and 8 there are two areas that were marked "expert", however for Jeeps these were not difficult. The difficult part in section 7 was some overgrowth that we had to trim to get our Jeeps through.
The difficult part of section 8 was not difficult for Jeeps either. It was a wide trail that had tracks that were wide enough for a Jeep to fit down. In the beginning there was a few off-camber sections, but nothing very technical.
The difficult section ends at a junction of 5 fire roads, our camp for the night was just off the junction. This campsite was just south of Interstate I-80 and an exit for it where we would get on the road next the morning for the drive home. The campsite was on a busy road, and during the evening it was quite busy with Jeep traffic, pickup trucks, 4-wheelers and side-by-sides. The campsite, again, was very large and able to fit many vehicles and tents. It has a fire ring and table that we were able to back the Jeeps up to to make dinner.
All the campsite that we reserved with the Pennsylvania Forest Service were clean, had picnic tables and fire rings. We were very happy that these were available, as it was a busy weekend and I spent some time working with each Forest Service Office to find campsites along our route. Making reservations are required and you need to have a free permit to camp.
Dinner that night tonight was chicken, potatoes, and cheese cooked in tin foil over the camp fire. It was a beautiful clear night with little to no light pollution, so I attempted but failed at getting the famous star camp photos. There's always next time!
Make sure to check Youtube for 3 videos on this trip, they will be online in November 2020


text: Messi joins Ronaldo and Neuer on Ballon D'or shortlist December 1, 2014 · by pedrocoates · in argentina, messi. · Lionel Messi has been named on FIFA's three-man shortlist for the 2014 Ballon D'or, as the Argentina captain hopes to claim his fifth award since claiming his first in 2009. In order to win this year he will need to see off competition from Cristiano Ronaldo and Germany goalkeeper, Manuel Neuer. While some have tried to argue that Messi should not be considered for the award following Barcelona's relative failure in 2014, his individual stats are still formidable. Perhaps comparing Messi by his own ludicrously high standards it was a less than stellar year but there are stil few players in world football who can compare. In the last month, Messi has become the leading scorer in La Liga history and broken Raul's Champions League record, in addition to leading Argentina to a World Cup Final. Barcelona failing to win La Liga or the Champions League and Messi's failure to impact on the World Cup Final appear to be the factors against the 27-year-old. However, this overlooks the fact that Argentina would most likely not have reached the Final had it not been for their captain earlier in the tournament. This is all the more important when comparing with Ronaldo, whose Portugal side crashed out early with the striker struggling for fitness. As an individual award it is a point of discussion whether or not the team's collective achievements should come into consideration. Barcelona's barren 2014 was certainly not the fault of Messi and scoring 52 goals for club and country is the stuff of dreams for most footballers. As it is, Messi is probably an outsider to win his fifth Ballon D'or, particularly as the voting took place prior to his record breaking achievements recently. 2014 may not be Messi's year but there will be other opportunities to add to his record breaking collection. Advertisement Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLinkedInRedditLike this:Like Loading... Related


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Saturday, August 29, 2015
Chalybeate Mineral Springs
The strange-looking stream of water coming from the spring in this old wall is chalybeate water, colored orange by the iron in it. These mineral springs were thought to be healthy. The stated cures were for everything from colic to brain moisture, strangely enough. People traveled from miles away to drink it and bathe in it. The old wall is on private property in the woods of the old Cohutta Springs community, off of Cohutta Springs Road in Crandall, Georgia. The springs are near the ruins of the old hotel and mill, of which there is little left but the chimneys.
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The second of five shows reviewing the songs competing in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we have Ann Squires of ESC Armchair joining us as our second special guest judge as we look at the songs in the second half of Semi-final 1.
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The songs reviewed in this episode:
- Cyprus: Elena Tsagrinou – "El diablo"
- Norway: TIX – "Fallen Angel"
- Croatia: Albina – "Tick-Tock"
- Belgium: Hooverphonic – "The Wrong Place"
- Israel: Eden Alene – "Set Me Free"
- Romania: Roxen – "Amnesia"
- Azerbaijan: Efendi – "Mata Hari"
- Ukraine: Go_A – "Shum"
- Malta: Destiny – "Je me casse"
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Using American Innovation to Improve Our Defense
We must ensure that our service members get the full benefits of technological advancements pioneered by the very people they are tasked with defending.
The U.S. Department of Defense was responsible for nearly 33% of global R&D in the 1960s. Over 33% of global R&D. These investments paved the way for the internet, semiconductors, and a slew of other technological breakthroughs that have altered our lives forever.
Only around 3% of worldwide R&D goes to the Defense Department today. At the same time, business R&D in the United States has reached a new high, accounting for 70% of total R&D.
Given that the vast bulk of technology innovation occurs outside the federal government, how does the Pentagon keep up? And how can we ensure that our service members reap the full benefits of technologies developed by the people they're tasked with protecting?
We all want to ensure they have the best tools possible, especially as the world becomes increasingly chaotic and interconnected. We are responsible for guaranteeing that the Pentagon has access to the most cutting-edge advances in data, information sharing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and a variety of other critical areas for national security.
Because members of the military risk their lives for us, America may continue to be the most accessible and prosperous country on the planet. There is no more deserving use of the private sector's assets than assisting service members in their duties.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently asked me to chair the Defense Innovation Board and assist him in recruiting new members from across the United States corporate and academic communities to assist the military in using private-sector views on technology and organizational innovation to build coordinated deterrence across the agency.
The board was established to assist the United States military in maintaining its technological edge in the tools that our service members use daily, such as data and intelligence gathering systems that can make the difference between a successful flight and a failure as well as life and death.
Two months after the September 11 attacks, I was elected mayor of New York. In my first year in office, I traveled to Afghanistan to meet U.S. troops, delivering FDNY and NYPD gear as well as the thanks of our community. I had the opportunity to tell the troops how much their service was valued and admired by all of us back home during lunch in an outdoor mess hall.
My principal obligation at City Hall was to protect residents' lives and health from another terrorist attack. It wasn't unusual for me to see how difficult it was to overcome resistance to new technology and ways of working throughout government.
Years had passed since I had attempted to persuade my Wall Street business, Salomon Brothers, to No one was interested in a computer system to digitize data because pen and paper and ticker tape had served us well for over a century. Isn't it true that if it isn't broken, don't fix it? Wrong. When a company or government stops looking ahead, it begins to slip behind.
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A series of interviews have just been released via the British Trombone Society. It features a triple bill of great guests, all in conversation with the brilliant Carol Jarvis. There are public versions available for each of these conversations (all featured below) and BTS members can access the full version here, just do make sure you're logged on before trying to access this link.
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NH September bankruptcy filings edge up from August
But year over year, trend is still going down
New Hampshire bankruptcy filings in September were up compared to August, but still down compared year-over -year.
Some 158 individuals and businesses filed for bankruptcy in September, 22 more than he month before but seven fewer than September 2015, which saw the lowest number of filings for any September since 1989.
The numbers show a slackening of the monthly downward trend in bankruptcies, which were interrupted by a spike in March and April. New Hampshire bankruptcy filings are now down 9.5 percent year-to-date, following five straight years of annual double-digit declines.
As in August, there were nine bankruptcies due to business-related debt, but that's better than an average of 20 during the prior three months. Only two of those filings were by the businesses themselves, and their principals share the same last name and address. They are:
• Charlie's Kids Trucking LLC, Milford, filed Sept. 28, Chapter 7. Assets: Less than $50,000. Liabilities: $100,000 to $500,000.
• Granite Waste Systems Inc., Milford, filed Sept. 28, Chapter 7. Assets: Less than $50,000. Liabilities: $50,000 to $100,000.


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Since her dimwitted turn on her "reality" show Newlyweds, Jessica Simpson has been lampooned in the media for her questionable choices.
Most recently, her choice in name for her daughter (Maxwell Drew) has turned heads. Maxwell is fiance Eric Johnson's middle name, which makes one wonder if she was secretly hoping for a boy. Everyone from random bloggers to author Tucker Max have weighed in on the name, which is only slightly better than cousin Bronx Mowgli Wentz.
While it's really none of our business what a person names their child, we all do it. Whether it's a co-worker who gives their child an unusual name or a best friend, we all question what someone names their child. I know my middle daughter's middle name was a point of contention with my former in laws (I'm not a fan of it either, but her father liked it, so that's what it is) to the point where my former mother in law refused to stitch it on a sampler for her because she hated it just that much. Another friend of my former husband commented that my youngest child's name sounded like a porn star (I disagreed).
Why do we think this is any of our business? Do we really think our opinions are that important that we should help people name their child? After all, we're also going to nitpick at how we raise said child, what they wear, what they feed them, etc. Maybe we should all just back off a little bit and let people raise their kids in peace. Naturally, when they're in the public eye, we're going to ask "WTF?" especially when they name their children after fruit, colours, et al, but perhaps we should raise the eyebrows and if we have nothing nice to say, say nothing. I know I wouldn't want the general population mocking my child's name.
Of course, I'll be guilty of this in a few months, when another celebrity has a child and names it something I personally find completely ridiculous and I'll have to go back to my blog and remind myself that I posted this, because I'll want to ask if they named the tot while Mom was still on the drugs.


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Julie Breathnach-Banwait: Dánta Póca, Coiscéim, Dublin, 2020. 58pp.
September's event (https://www.facebook.com/obheal.poetry) was a bilingual gathering of international poets, in association with Foras na Gaeilge and chaired by Julie Walsh-Banwait from Perth, an Irish-born award-winning poet whose first collection, Dánta Póca, is now available from the Dublin publisher Coiscéim under the name Julie Breathnach-Banwait. She is the third Irish-published poet based in Australia and writing in the Irish language. Louis de Paor returned to Ireland in the 90s after ten years in Australia. Melbourne-born Colin Ryan continues to write poems and prose in Irish that are published by Irish publishers.
Dánta Póca's 58 poem collection spans themes of loss and betrayal, exile and loneliness, bitterness and resentment, and on to an appreciation of the complexity of life and its beauty and an ultimate acceptance of the human condition and experience. The ordinary, everyday world serves as the wheel from which Breathnach-Banwait weaves her poems of many colours. The 2018 award-winning 'Cóta Gorm' is a prime example of this. A small blue coat is examined keenly twenty years after the wearer has left. The still silky buttons recall the ease with which the wearer managed them. The distinctive stitching, and the colourful thread are other reminders.
Cóta Gorm
Glacann mo shiúil scíth
Ar chóta bheag gorm
Cnapaí míne síodúla
A bheadh compórdach
Ag do mhéara laga
Snáth ró-dhathannach
Greamanna leathan
Fiarsing dhá bhriseadh
Ró-ghréagach ar d'amharc
Ach go gcuimhním
Go bhfuil tú scór
Bliain imithe.
The poet was born and raised in Connemara in Ceantar na n-Oileán. She describes her native place as 'an archipelago of stunning natural beauty'. She uses imagery that evokes this background close to nature to illuminate her poems of anguish and despair. The poem 'An tAnachain' the tragedy describes a loved one changed as a result of it, and who then becomes deaf to the entreaties of family and friends to live on and find meaning in life. The poet provides a haunting image of a creature that has settled in the loved one's ear and built a packing of sticks and spall (splinters of granite) and cow dung so tight she cannot see the way out and so remains deaf to the truth.
Threoirigh muid an cosán amach
Ach níorbh fhéidir linn a cluasa a
Shroicint leis an bpacáil
A bhí tógtha aige le spallaigh
Bheaga géara is carn aoiligh
A d'fhág í bodhar don fhírinne
In the poem 'Púca' the poet describes a sudden ejection as being like a heavy woolen gansy being discarded on a hot day Mar mheáchan geansaí/Olann lá gréine. The first poem, 'Agallamh Dom Fhéin', uses images of a bubbling volcano spewing out her insides to capture the speaker's anguished state finally released.
Other poems delight and surprise with evocative imagery. 'At Boilg', swelling of the stomach, is an address to a child growing inside the speaker, safely swaddled, looking out for stones that are being thrown at the speaker along the way. It is a puzzling end, but the Christ passion comes to mind. In 'Máireáine' the mother is imagining the time when her daughter will be having her own children and how she, the mother, will be able to help her. We discover to our surprise at the end of the poem that this daughter has not yet been born.
There are painfully sweet poems such as the chance encounter with an old lover in 'Brionglóidí na Seachtaine', weekly dreams. The touch of a beloved brings back life and hope in 'Cumhacht na Colainne' the power of the flesh. By contrast, 'Oíche Chiúin' silent night's scene of the beloved's arm across her chest, his soft breath, the sleeping dog at their feet, ends with the revelation that this is just another night of sleep deprivation for the speaker.
Dánta Póca may need to be read with Ó Donaill's dictionary beside you or open on the teanglann.ie web page, but it is worth the work in order to appreciate the artistry and craft involved in bringing Julie Breathnach-Banwait's world and mind to life.
Dymphna Lonergan is a member of the Tinteán Editorial Team.


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Grooveyard host Alan Seltzer celebrates his own Hall of Fame induction by sharing artists and music from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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"The Grooveyard" celebrates Saturday's WCWP Hall of Fame Induction ceremony with an hour of songs by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees. The annual WCWP ceremony honors individuals who were influential in the station's 51-year history serving LIU Post. This year's inductees are Joe Honerkamp, who had a long career as an engineer on... Continue Reading →
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When I was out for a walk earlier this afternoon, I heard a vaguely familiar sound. I looked across the river and saw an eagle flying towards a tree. To my utter amazement it joined three other eagles, all of whom were squawking up a storm. Amazing! I love eagles and find them to be a sacred bird. I was so grateful to encounter them. I stood and watched them perched there and then made my way to the edge of the embankment and took a photograph of them. I was across the river and it seemed like a huge abyss. I wanted to get closer but had no way. I thought of the poor rich man looking over at Lazarus, enjoying paradise while he suffered. So close and yet so far.
I have had close and mystical experiences with eagles and I remain awe-struck with them. They have such majesty in flight and appearance. I met a man along the trail when I returned to it and he seemed so disinterested because one eagle is always in that tree. I told him there were four there now and he seemed a bit more interested but still not fascinated.
God overgives and we underwhelm. Why is that? Why are we not taken aback hundreds of times during the day with all the miracles that we encounter? We can be ungrateful or feel entitled when really we could spend every moment dropping to our news in wonder. Help me to have eyes wide open with wonder and a heart that sings Your praises with joy and gratitude.