Broadway, Catford
Justice Ezi tackles racism, belonging and the sometimes-shadowy business of sport in this well-paced and plotted drama with a genuinely nail-biting final shootout
Entering the small studio tasked with containing this ambitious livewire of a football drama, the action is already in full swing. Charlton Athletic’s Victory and Youssef, in Nigeria to try out for the last two spots on the country’s World Cup squad, are doing drills, while their coach (a buoyant Jerome Ngonadi) collars audience members to take penalties. I miss spectacularly; the production does quite the opposite.
Part of the Ryan Calais Cameron season – the Olivier-nominated playwright chose three early-career Black and Global Majority writers to receive financial backing and mentorship – its writer, Justice Ezi, is a clear talent, asking expansive questions about racism, belonging and the sometimes-shadowy business of sport through the experiences of three men and, in particular, their relationships to their Nigerian heritage.
Continue reading...This was the least convincing performance by the World Cup favourites and their quarter-final opponents will also make it uncomfortable for them
There were furious celebrations when France secured their place in the quarter-finals. The entire squad charged from the centre spot to the end of the Philadelphia stadium where the core of French support was gathered. There was a pile-on, there was roaring and chests were actively thumped. Leading the proceedings, as ever, was Kylian Mbappé.
As soon as the revelry had subsided, the French captain immediately turned to the TV cameras and framed the narrative of the game. This had been less of a match and more of a battle, he said, against a Paraguay side who had nagged, nibbled and, occasionally, smashed their way through proceedings. “We knew what kind of match we were going to have,” Mbappé said. “But we know how to get our hands dirty.”
Continue reading...Magazine invites readers to judge Vance’s ‘assessment’ of Trump, whom he called ‘cultural heroin’ during first term
The Atlantic on Saturday republished a JD Vance essay that dismissed Donald Trump as “cultural heroin” exactly 10 years earlier, bringing back to the fore his evolving from a critic of the president to his vice-president.
In an editor’s note, the magazine said it was republishing the essay on the occasion of its 10th anniversary – and the US’s semiquincentennial – “so that our readers can judge for themselves how well his assessment [of Trump] … has stood the test of time”.
Continue reading...Als toegift op de twee Closing Times waarin “heftige” klassieke muziek werd aangestipt (hier en daar), vandaag nog een pianostuk van Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 – 2007).
Het gaat om Klavierstück IX, een redelijk toegankelijk stukje muziek, want het is vrij goed te volgen wat er gebeurt.
Een viertonig akkoord dat een verschillend aantal keren wordt aangeslagen en ondertussen steeds zachter wordt (van heel hard naar heel zacht. In muziektermen: van ff (fortissimo) naar pppp (pianississimo). Dat wordt afgewisseld met een langzaam stijgende reeks van twaalf tonen, waarbij elk afzonderlijke noot een andere lengte (duur) heeft.
Die twee elementen worden worden in tempo, dynamiek en toonhoogte in telkens andere variaties gespeeld. Het stuk eindigt tenslotte in de hoge registers van de piano.
Klavierstück IX is een van de negentien pianostukken die Stockhausen tussen 1962 en 1961 componeerde.
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"The internet is filled with fakes," writes Gizmodo. "A court in India is setting out to address the problem by requiring more transparency from domain registrars to make it easier to crack down on fraud. And while the intentions might be good, Reuters is reporting that major American domain registrar GoDaddy is sounding the warning bells that the court's decision could fundamentally reshape the internet well beyond India's borders."
GoDaddy argues the move would even make the internet less safe, reports Reuters :
[Online fraud] is a key challenge for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, which last year received 2.4 million complaints of alleged cyber fraud amounting to $2.4 billion. Starting in 2019, lawsuits were brought by dozens of Indian and global firms — Amazon against fake shopping sites trading on its name and McDonald's complaining against bogus sites offering franchises. [More than 20 companies filed a complaint, the article notes, including Microsoft.] In December, an Indian court blocked more than 1,100 such websites. The New Delhi judge however went further, ordering sweeping new measures that tech experts say have rewritten rules of internet governance: Domain sellers should not offer buyers free privacy protection by default, the buyer's details should be released to anyone with a "legitimate interest" within 72 hours, and website addresses that are variations of protected brand names must be prohibited.
U.S.-based GoDaddy has challenged the directives before a larger bench of judges at the Delhi High Court, according to a Reuters review of non-public filings. It says the ruling will affect legitimate businesses that have names similar to big brands. Stopping privacy-by-default features, GoDaddy said, will result in public disclosure of name, address, telephone and email of legitimate website owners, exposing them to "foreseeable privacy and security risks" such as stalking and harassment.
As domain names operate globally, not locally, the order could force GoDaddy to regulate website addresses across the world, it said. On the court's order imposing a 72-hour deadline on companies to provide registration details to anyone with "legitimate interest", GoDaddy argues it has no wherewithal to assess who has legitimate interest or not. The "commercially destabilising" directives may force domain name companies to "exit India", said one of GoDaddy's appeal documents that ran into 5,121 pages... GoDaddy rivals, Arizona-based Namecheap and Netherlands-based Hosting Concepts, have also challenged the New Delhi ruling, court records show, although Reuters could not ascertain details of their appeals...
GoDaddy argues that diluting the privacy feature will run contrary to India's data protection law and the European Union GDPR law which mandates a "privacy by default" approach. Farzaneh Badii, a New York-based researcher on internet governance, criticised the New Delhi ruling, noting that Europe redacted such details because publishing them had been abused by harassment and targeted phishing. "The people exposed will be journalists, activists, small business owners, and private individuals. The brand impersonators will not," she said...
While the sweeping December directives were issued by a court, they followed government's submissions, documents showed... The judges will hear the appeals on July 16.
GoDaddy manages 80 million domains and serves over 20 million users, the article points out, with
annual revenue over $5 billion.
GoDaddy argues the move would even make the internet less safe, reports Reuters :
[Online fraud] is a key challenge for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, which last year received 2.4 million complaints of alleged cyber fraud amounting to $2.4 billion. Starting in 2019, lawsuits were brought by dozens of Indian and global firms — Amazon against fake shopping sites trading on its name and McDonald's complaining against bogus sites offering franchises. [More than 20 companies filed a complaint, the article notes, including Microsoft.] In December, an Indian court blocked more than 1,100 such websites. The New Delhi judge however went further, ordering sweeping new measures that tech experts say have rewritten rules of internet governance: Domain sellers should not offer buyers free privacy protection by default, the buyer's details should be released to anyone with a "legitimate interest" within 72 hours, and website addresses that are variations of protected brand names must be prohibited.
U.S.-based GoDaddy has challenged the directives before a larger bench of judges at the Delhi High Court, according to a Reuters review of non-public filings. It says the ruling will affect legitimate businesses that have names similar to big brands. Stopping privacy-by-default features, GoDaddy said, will result in public disclosure of name, address, telephone and email of legitimate website owners, exposing them to "foreseeable privacy and security risks" such as stalking and harassment.
As domain names operate globally, not locally, the order could force GoDaddy to regulate website addresses across the world, it said. On the court's order imposing a 72-hour deadline on companies to provide registration details to anyone with "legitimate interest", GoDaddy argues it has no wherewithal to assess who has legitimate interest or not. The "commercially destabilising" directives may force domain name companies to "exit India", said one of GoDaddy's appeal documents that ran into 5,121 pages... GoDaddy rivals, Arizona-based Namecheap and Netherlands-based Hosting Concepts, have also challenged the New Delhi ruling, court records show, although Reuters could not ascertain details of their appeals...
GoDaddy argues that diluting the privacy feature will run contrary to India's data protection law and the European Union GDPR law which mandates a "privacy by default" approach. Farzaneh Badii, a New York-based researcher on internet governance, criticised the New Delhi ruling, noting that Europe redacted such details because publishing them had been abused by harassment and targeted phishing. "The people exposed will be journalists, activists, small business owners, and private individuals. The brand impersonators will not," she said...
While the sweeping December directives were issued by a court, they followed government's submissions, documents showed... The judges will hear the appeals on July 16.
GoDaddy manages 80 million domains and serves over 20 million users, the article points out, with
annual revenue over $5 billion.
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In de parlementaire enquête Corona staat deze week het coronatoegangsbewijs centraal. De in 2021 ingevoerde maatregel was vanaf het begin controversieel. „Mensen voelden zich echt uit de maatschappij gedrukt.”
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Van een pasgetrouwd stel deed de vrouw aangifte van huiselijk geweld. Volgens de verdachte is ze mentaal niet gezond. „In huiselijk geweldzaken is het vaak het ene woord tegen het andere en dat is hier niet anders”, zegt de officier.
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De intensivering van de landbouw na de Tweede Wereldoorlog is veel minder vanzelfsprekend dan mensen denken, zegt landbouw- en voedingshistorica Amber Striekwold. Ook boeren hebben veel kritiek gehad op de schaalvergroting, die het kabinet met de nieuwe stikstofplannen deels wil terugdraaien.
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David Marriott - Sydney has added a photo to the pool:
Sunrise at Uluru from the sunset viewing area. Maybe not ideal if the sun was rising behind the rock but perfectly lighting up the northern edge of the rock from this location.
Loved the minimal comp with the single tree balancing the colourful sun on the left.
The darker cloud on top is created by Urulu's own microclimate. It may have even had a little drizzle of rain at the top.
It is always hard to judge the exposure for very long exposures as the light is changing fast. Moving clouds also affect the potential hotspots which blows out the highlights.... but the cloud movement is special and no wind mean that the grass stayed still over the 5 minutes :-)
Nisi 10 stop ND filter.
The local Pitjantjatjara calls the rock Uluru but was called Ayers Rock in 1873. In 1993, a dual naming policy was adopted that allowed official names that consist of both the traditional Aboriginal name (in the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and other local languages) and the English name. On 15 December 1993, it was renamed "Ayers Rock / Uluru" and became the first official dual-named feature in the Northern Territory. The order of the dual names was officially reversed to "Uluru / Ayers Rock" on 6 November 2002 following a request from the Regional Tourism Association in Alice Springs
Some highlights from special collections libraries' blogs this week.
An Anti-Nazi Woman in the Propaganda Ministry: The Katrin Janecke Diaries (1941-1945) Newly digitized and in English.
Architectural Watercolor Works of the 19th Century
From Atlanta Bar Rags to Victorian Erotica: Newly Available LGBTQ+ Rare Books & Print at the Rose Library (Behind an anti-scraper captcha, but worth the effort.)
Superboy Saves 1776 Actual dialogue "According to history, Paul Revere got the right signal, so I'm not really changing history if I relight the lantern wick with my heat vision."
An Anti-Nazi Woman in the Propaganda Ministry: The Katrin Janecke Diaries (1941-1945) Newly digitized and in English.
Architectural Watercolor Works of the 19th Century
From Atlanta Bar Rags to Victorian Erotica: Newly Available LGBTQ+ Rare Books & Print at the Rose Library (Behind an anti-scraper captcha, but worth the effort.)
Superboy Saves 1776 Actual dialogue "According to history, Paul Revere got the right signal, so I'm not really changing history if I relight the lantern wick with my heat vision."