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Early morning view along the main street of the Higashi Chaya district in Kanazawa, Japan.
The city of Kanazawa has three well-preserved historic chaya ("teahouse") districts, and Higashi Chayagai, or the Eastern Chaya district, is the largest. The chaya offered food, drink, and entertainment by geisha. The buildings here date from around 1820, when the chaya were relocated from the central part of the city to their current locations. Traditionally, the houses featured lattices on the exterior of the ground floor, and guestrooms above. Some of the chaya are today preserved as semi-museums, still offering tea and sweets and geisha performances, while many others are now cafes, restaurants, and shops.
The Higashi Chaya district has been designated as a Japanese cultural asset.
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Sundance film festival: a new documentary explores the author’s physical and spiritual healing from the 2022 knife attack that almost killed him
On 12 August 2022, as Salman Rushdie was about to launch into a lecture on the importance of protecting writers from harm at New York’s Chautauqua Institution, a man in a black mask rushed the stage with a knife. To the horror of the packed amphitheater, the man stabbed the Indian-born British-American author – once the subject of an infamous fatwa from the leader of Iran in the 1980s – 15 times in the face, neck and torso, before members of the audience rushed the stage and disarmed him. Rushdie survived, narrowly; the stabbing left him on a ventilator, severed tendons in his left hand, and cost him his right eye.
A full recreation of that attack from Rushdie’s perspective — 27 seconds of struggle, the mysterious man’s face, several sickening punches of blade — opens a new documentary on Rushdie’s recovery and resilience, which drew a standing ovation at the Sundance film festival. Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, directed by Alex Gibney and based on Rushdie’s memoir of the same name, is unsparing on the devastating results of the stabbing: in never-before-seen footage recorded by the author’s wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Rushdie appears gruesomely disfigured — his skin discolored, his entire abdomen bisected by stitches, his swollen neck held together by stitches, his eye indescribably mangled. His first coherent thought after regaining consciousness, he recalls in the film, was simply: “We need to document this.”
Continue reading...Sixth seed marches into quarter-finals with 6-3, 6-4 victory while the defending champion must pay forfeit agreed on with her podcast co-host
While speaking on a podcast before her big match against Madison Keys, Jessica Pegula was discussing their battle last January in the Adelaide final. Keys’s performance, Pegula recalled, had prompted Pegula to accurately predict to their mutual friends that Keys would win the Australian Open two weeks later. It is normal for players to discuss future opponents, but they do not usually do so in conversation with each other. With a chuckle, Keys interjected: “Jess is like, ‘I hope I don’t see that level [tomorrow].’”
She did not. Keys’s reign at the Australian Open came to a difficult end in the fourth round as the defending champion and ninth seed was crushed under the weight of her hefty unforced error count and a spotless performance from Pegula, the sixth seed, who marched into the quarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-4 win. This was, in some ways, a historic match on Rod Laver Arena: the first grand slam singles match between two podcast co-hosts.
Continue reading...Darnold and Stafford shine in high-class QB duel
Sam Darnold threw for three touchdowns, the Seahawks’ “Dark Side” defense came up with a critical fourth-down stop, and Seattle advanced to the Super Bowl, beating the Los Angeles Rams 31-27 in an electrifying NFC championship game on Sunday.
“It’s amazing,” Darnold said. “To be able to do it with these guys in this locker room, though, with this coaching staff, that’s why it means the world to me.”
Continue reading...Are the German people on board with the government’s massive militarisation programme? Kate Connolly reports
“Not so long ago, to be a German soldier dressed in German uniform was quite a difficult role to embody. I mean, you could be going down the street and you could be spat on, or you could have names called at you.
“I’ve recently seen people get into conversation with soldiers, which I hadn’t seen in the past, [and] more recently, somebody going up to a soldier and actually getting him into conversation about his role, and at the end of the conversation, thanking him.”
Continue reading...CARACAS (ANP) - Waarnemend president van Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez heeft zondag aangegeven dat ze genoeg heeft van bevelen uit de Verenigde Staten. Daarmee verwees ze naar de druk die Washington op Venezuela uitoefent sinds de gevangenneming van Nicolás Maduro.
"Het is genoeg geweest met de orders uit Washington aan het adres van de Venezolaanse politiek. Laat ons Venezolaanse politici onze meningsverschillen en interne conflicten oplossen. Het is genoeg geweest met buitenlandse grootmachten", zei Rodríguez tijdens een speech voor oliearbeiders in de staat Anzoátegui.
Rodríguez werd op 5 januari benoemd tot interim-president, nadat de socialistische president Maduro tijdens een militaire operatie door de VS was opgepakt en meegenomen naar New York. Daarop kondigde Trump aan dat Washington tot nader order Venezuela zou "runnen".
Waarnemend president van Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez heeft zondag aangegeven dat ze genoeg heeft van bevelen uit de Verenigde Staten. Daarmee verwees ze naar de druk die Washington op Venezuela uitoefent sinds de gevangenneming van Nicolás Maduro.
"Het is genoeg geweest met de orders uit Washington aan het adres van de Venezolaanse politiek. Laat ons Venezolaanse politici onze meningsverschillen en interne conflicten oplossen. Het is genoeg geweest met buitenlandse grootmachten", zei Rodríguez tijdens een speech voor oliearbeiders in de staat Anzoátegui.
Rodríguez werd op 5 januari benoemd tot interim-president, nadat de socialistische president Maduro tijdens een militaire operatie door de VS was opgepakt en meegenomen naar New York. Daarop kondigde Trump aan dat Washington tot nader order Venezuela zou "runnen".
systemd and logind look like hard dependencies of the login manager, which means the software is built to work exclusively with these components and cannot function without them... logind is a component of systemd that is responsible for user session management...
This doesn't mean that KDE has abandoned the operating system altogether. FreeBSD users can still run the KDE Plasma desktop environment and continue using SDDM, the current login manager that works just fine on such systems.
The article argues FreeBSD users "won't really care much for missing out on this as they have plenty of login manager options available."
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