Thomas Hawk posted a photo:
Adrie Poldervaart verruilde deze zomer amateurkampioen Quick Boys voor Feyenoord Onder 21. Tijdens een rondleiding over Varkenoord vertelt hij over de balans tussen talenten opleiden of kampioen worden en de generatiekloof tussen een trainer van 55 en spelers van 17. “Vandaag wist er eentje niet wie André van Duin was.”
BONGURI has added a photo to the pool:
市原稲荷神社の境内にある山神社。
Photo taken at Ichibara Inari shrine, Kariya city, Aichi pref.
Portugal onderzoekt rechtsgeldigheid Amerikaanse vluchten vanaf basis op Azoren in oorlog tegen Iran
Hammersmith and Fulham says it faces ‘biggest financial challenge in living memory’ as government cuts bite
A flagship Labour authority has warned it may have to impose a 150% council tax rise on residents to maintain current services following central government cuts under a new funding settlement.
Hammersmith and Fulham council’s cabinet has concluded in a report due to be published on Monday that such a rise would cost Band D households an additional £29.11 a week in 2027/28.
Continue reading...Citizen environmentalists create online platform that flags spills in real time and highlights repeatedly polluted spots
The easy thing for the people who live on the banks of the River Dart in Devon might have been to grumble and groan about the sewage spills that blight their beloved waterway.
Instead, citizen environmentalists in the area have created a unique online platform that flags up spills in real time, highlights spots that are repeatedly polluted, and sets out where improvement work is planned – and where it isn’t.
Continue reading...A love of food and a taste for bloodthirsty action collide as a very angry chef gets caught up in a brutal turf war between warring restaurants in LA
Has foodie culture gone too far? It’s a truism that to get to a lasagne recipe now, you have to wade through an essay about someone’s childhood in Tuscany. We talk about food sentimentally, consume TV about it fetishistically, slavering over slow-motion shots of chopped pepper falling on to stainless steel. We enjoy judging the food of others. We talk about the provenance of our ingredients with a kind of purity fixation. It strikes me that there’s a totalitarianism to it.
So it was bracing to watch Get Jiro (from Sunday 4 October, HBO Max), an adult animation that pairs a love of food with a taste for ultraviolence. It’s the story of a sushi chef, caught up in a bloodthirsty turf war between warring restaurants. It is set in a dystopian near-future Los Angeles, in which all human desires “including companionship, travel and sex, can be experienced … virtually”. (The episodes I’ve seen don’t go into this, explaining for example how chiropody could be experienced virtually, but that’s beside the point.)
Continue reading...From the Geordie Springsteen to Bridalveil Fall and El Capitan, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 Whose funeral in 1989 attracted about 10 million mourners?
2 What is the only major river to cross the equator twice?
3 Which singer has been called the Geordie Springsteen?
4 What is the largest surviving carnivorous marsupial?
5 What was added to 30 June 2015?
6 Which sci-fi epic was inspired by the shifting sands of the Oregon coast?
7 Football and which other sport were banned in Scotland in 1457?
8 Which war memorial was designed by Yale student Maya Lin?
What links:
9 Buzzard; Clair; Cygnus; Jackdaw; Rosebank?
10 Dis; Duat; Helheim; Irkalla; Mictlan?
11 England: 188,900; Scotland: 37,200; Wales: 21,100?
12 Susan Janet Ballion; Marianne Elliott-Said; Arianna Forster and Paloma Romero?
13 Bridalveil Fall; El Capitan; Half Dome; Mount Lyell; Sentinel Dome?
14 Saving Private Ryan; Pressure; The Longest Day?
15 Everton (currently); Arsenal; Southampton; Norwich City?
Green party debate over the motion ‘Zionism is racism’ comes amid renewed arguments over the meaning and history of a contested term
Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green party, has said he is an anti-Zionist. As his party conference prepares to debate a motion that “Zionism is racism”, what precisely is Zionism and what is the history of the claim that it is racist?
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