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Carney gave a eulogy for Canada’s old relationship with the US. Now he must redefine it
(theguardian.com)
Barack Obama and Stephen Harper
,
First Presidential Press Conference
(2009)
“
I came to
Canada
on my first trip as President to underscore the closeness and importance of the relationship between our two nations, and to reaffirm the commitment of the
United
States
to work with friends and partners to meet the common challenges of our time. As neighbors, we are so closely linked that sometimes we may have a tendency to take our relationship for granted, but the very success of our friendship throughout history demands that we renew and deepen our cooperation here in the 21st century.
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M&S cyber-attack linked to hacking group Scattered Spider
(theguardian.com)
Bruce Sterling
,
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
“
It should be repeated that telecommunications fraud, the theft of phone service, causes vastly greater monetary losses than the practice of entering into computers by stealth.
Hackers
are mostly young suburban American white males, and exist in their hundreds—but "phreaks" come from both sexes and from many nationalities, ages and ethnic backgrounds, and are flourishing in the thousands. # The term
"hacker"
has had an unfortunate history.
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When is the 2025 Australia election date? Everything you need to know about early voting, how to apply for a postal vote, what to do if you are overseas and more
(theguardian.com)
Henry de Rosenbach Walker
,
Australasian Democracy
“
The only other electoral peculiarity that I have noted in Australia is to be found in Queensland. Under an Act of 1892 which deals with the
election
of members of the Assembly, an elector may "indicate on his {176} ballot-paper the name or names of any candidate or candidates for whom he does not vote in the first instance, but for whom he desires his vote or votes to be counted in the event of any candidate or candidates for whom he votes in the first instance not receiving an absolute majority of votes."
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Taiwan cracks down on holders of Chinese ID amid fears over propaganda and espionage
(theguardian.com)
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of ChinaState Council Taiwan Affairs Office
,
The One-China Principle and the Taiwan Issue
(2000)
“
The
Chinese
government safeguards all the justified and lawful rights and interests of
Taiwan
compatriots abroad. The people of
Taiwan
are of the same flesh and blood with us. The
Chinese
government has always worked for safeguarding their justified and lawful rights and interests abroad.
Chinese
embassies and consulates stationed abroad have always considered it their duties to strengthen their ties with
Taiwan
compatriots, listen to their suggestions and requests and safeguard their interests, and done everything they can to help them overcome their difficulties.
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Russia continues to strike Ukraine after Trump questions Putin’s commitment to peace
(theguardian.com)
Antony J Blinken
,
The Stakes of Russian Aggression for Ukraine and Beyond
(2022)
“
Russia
maintains troops and munitions there against the will of its people. If
Russia
invades and occupies
Ukraine,
what’s next? Certainly,
Russia’s
efforts to turn its neighbors into puppet states, to control their activities, to crack down on any spark of democratic expression will intensify. Once the principles of sovereignty and self-determination are thrown out, you revert to a world in which the rules we shaped together over decades erode and then vanish.
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Something to look up to: how Michelangelo’s love and humility could influence the Sistine Chapel conclave
(theguardian.com)
John Addington Symonds
,
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
“
An awful sense of coming doom and merited damnation hangs in the thunderous canopy of the
Sistine
vault, tempered by a solemn and sober expectation of the Saviour. It is much to be regretted that Christ, the Desired of all Nations, the Redeemer and Atoner, appears nowhere adequately represented in the Chapel. When
Michelangelo
resumed his work there, it was to portray him as an angered Hercules, hurling curses upon helpless victims. The August rhetoric of the ceiling loses its effective value when we can nowhere point to Christ's life and work on earth
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India and Pakistan trade gunfire across Kashmir border after deadly attack
(theguardian.com)
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
,
CIA World Fact Book, 2004 — Pakistan
(2004)
“
The separation in 1947 of British
India
into the Muslim state of
Pakistan
(with two sections West and East) and largely Hindu
India
was never satisfactorily resolved, and
India
and
Pakistan
have fought two wars - in 1947-48 and 1965 - over the disputed
Kashmir
territory. A third war between these countries in 1971 - in which
India
capitalized on Islamabad's marginalization of Bengalis in Pakistani politics - resulted in East
Pakistan
becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. In response to Indian nuclear weapons testing,
Pakistan
conducted its own tests in 1998.
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The international criminal court should prosecute Syria’s Assad | Kenneth Roth
(theguardian.com)
House of Commons
,
Hanasard (Commons) UK - Vol.566 40
“
Syria
did not start having an evil regime last week or two years ago; it has had an evil regime for a generation. The murder of 10,000 people in Hama is evidence of that. The world did not criticise in any way whatever. We are told that the use of chemical weapons by the
Assad
regime, if proved, transforms the situation. It would certainly make the situation ghastly, disgusting and abominable. However,
Syria
is not the only country in the middle east to have used chemical weapons in warfare.
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The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain
(newyorker.com)
Van Wyck Brooks
,
The Ordeal of Mark Twain
“
No plea more grotesque or more pathetic was ever written by a man with a great reputation to support. It shows that Mark
Twain
was completely ignorant of literary values: had he not wished upon literature, as it were, a separation between the "Head" and the "Belly" which, as we shall see, had simply taken place in himself? Out of his own darkness he begs for the word of salvation from one who he thinks can bestow it.Mark
Twain,
in short, knew very well—for I think these illustrations prove it—that there was something decidedly different between himself and a great
writer.
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How space exploration can improve life on Earth | Leigh Phillips
(theguardian.com)
Benjamin Harrow
,
From Newton to Einstein: Changing Conceptions of the Universe
“
The distances between bodies in the solar system is so immense that, like the number of dollars spent in the Great War, the number of miles conveys little, or no impression. But picture yourself in an express train going at the average rate of 30 miles an hour. If you start from New York and travel continuously you would reach San Francisco in 4 days. If you could continue your journey around the
earth
at the same rate you would complete it in 35 days. If now you could travel into
space
and to the moon, still with the same velocity, you would reach it in 350 days.
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No more ‘subway spaghetti’! New Yorkers adjust to first new transit map in 50 years
(theguardian.com)
William James
,
The Letters of William James, Vol. 2
“
I'm surprised at you, Henry, not having been more enthusiastic, but perhaps that superbly powerful and beautiful
subway
was not opened when you were there. It is an entirely
new
New
York,
in soul as well as in body, from the old one, which looks like a village in retrospect. The courage, the heaven-scaling audacity of it all, and the lightness withal, as if there was nothing that was not easy, and the great pulses and bounds of progress, so many in directions all simultaneous that the coördination is indefinitely future, give a kind of drumming background of life that I never felt before.
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‘Everyone’s scared’: little appetite for mirth before White House correspondents’ dinner
(theguardian.com)
Emily Edson Briggs
,
The Olivia Letters
“
It is true the bones are not thrown under the
White
House
table, for the world grows neater in its old age; but should a President entertain Victoria at
dinner
“etiquette” or the spirit of the old barbarians declares the President must be helped first.
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‘Standing up for Christian values’: US evangelicals keep the faith with Trump
(theguardian.com)
Remarks by Vice President Pence at the World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians
(2017)
“
The suffering of
Christians
in the Middle East has stirred America to act, and it brings me here today. President Trump rightly said not long ago that -- of the
Christian
church, “nobody has been treated worse in the Middle East.” He’s made it clear that America will stand by followers of Christ in this hour of need. Our administration is fully committed in bringing relief and comfort to believers not only across the Middle East but across the world. This President knows the terrorists will not stop until we stop them. And under President Donald Trump, we will stop them.
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‘It’s all about tone of voice’: three dog trainers on how to beat behavioural problems
(theguardian.com)
Dinks
,
The Dog
“
When you have made your
dog
perfectly steady from chasing you may—supposing you have no retriever at hand,—naturally enough, inquire how you are to teach him to follow any hare you may be so unlucky as merely to wound.
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Francis, the TV Pope, Takes His Final Journey
(newyorker.com)
Eileen Douglas
,
Brother Francis; Or, Less than the Least
“
To the very last hour of his life,
Francis
was true to his [Pg 45] first principles. Never for one moment did he wander out of the narrow path in which God had set his feet at the beginning of his career as a leader and teacher of men. As literally as it was possible he modelled his life on that of our Lord Jesus Christ. One of the most noted Atheist writers of the present century says that in no age has there been so close a copy of the life of Christ as that portrayed by
Francis
and his followers.Alms.The most well-known of all the Franciscan characteristics is their poverty.
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Share a tip on a great boat trip in the UK or Europe
(theguardian.com)
A. Hyatt Verrill
,
The Book of the Sailboat: How to rig, sail and handle small boats
“
Don’t be afraid of the opinions of others, if you think you should shorten sail reef at once, even if everyone else is carrying full sail and people laugh at your caution.Don’t be afraid to fear squalls, fogs, gales or heavy seas for they are all treacherous and the more you fear them the more likely you’ll be to safeguard yourself, your passengers and your
boat.Don’t
be afraid to refuse to go sailing if you think a squall, storm, or fog is coming up, or if you think the weather too bad. It’s better to be scoffed at and called a coward than to be shipwrecked or drowned.
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Morocco’s happy valley – the wilderness that lies just beyond the souks of Marrakech
(theguardian.com)
Edith Wharton
,
In Morocco
“
One feels at once that something more than the thought of bargaining—dear as this is to the African heart—animates these incessantly moving throngs. The Souks of
Marrakech
seem, more than any others, the central organ of a native life that extends far beyond the city walls into secret clefts of the mountains and far-off oases where plots are hatched and holy wars fomented—farther still, to yellow deserts whence negroes are secretly brought across the Atlas to that inmost recess of the bazaar where the ancient traffic in flesh and blood still surreptitiously goes on.
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Can you crack it? Science reveals the best way to peel a boiled egg | Polly Burey
(theguardian.com)
Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
,
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery. Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
“
This fact is clearly demonstrated in the cooking of an
egg,
the white of which is the type of protein called albumin. In a raw
egg,
the albumin is nearly liquid, but as heat is applied, it gradually coagulates until it becomes solid. If the
egg
is cooked too fast or too long, it toughens and shrinks and becomes less palatable, less attractive, and less digestible. However, if the
egg
is properly cooked after the heat has coagulated the albumin, the white will remain tender and the yolk will be fine and mealy in texture, thus rendering it digestible.
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Sky-high US-China tariffs are a mutual trade embargo that will hurt both sides
(theguardian.com)
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
,
The Facts and China’s Position on China–US Trade Friction
“
The US boasts huge competitive strength in high-tech
trade.
Yet, haunted by the cold-war mentality, it imposes strict
export
controls on
China,
thereby limiting the potential of advantageous US
exports,
causing significant lost
export
opportunities, and widening its
trade
deficit with
China.
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‘We got stuck in puddles’: skiers upset by lack of snow on Swedish slopes
(theguardian.com)
Sir William Martin Conway
,
With ski & sledge over Arctic glaciers
“
Hunger came to weaken us and double the apparent length of the way. At last we were on the col, but the downward
slope
was very gentle and the
snow
now became sticky, so that the
ski
would not slide. We bore away to the right in search of a steeper incline and struck blue ice covered with mere slush that even the
ski
sank into. There were dry patches of it, too slippery to stand on; it was a mere alternation of evils. Sometimes we stuck fast and sometimes fell heavily.
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Authors call for UK government to hold Meta accountable for copyright infringement
(theguardian.com)
the Government of Japan
,
Copyright Act (Japanese: 著作権法 Chosakukenhō)
(2006)
“
The
author,
the
copyright
holder, the holder of the right of publication, the performer, or the holder of neighboring rights may demand that persons infringing, or presenting a risk of infringing, on his moral rights of
author,
copyright,
right of publication, or moral rights of performer or neighboring rights, as applicable, cease the
infringement
or not infringe, as the case may be.
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Reeling From Trump’s Tariffs, South Korea Tries Striking a Delicate Balance
(nytimes.com)
Donald Trump, Moon Jae-in
,
Remarks by President Trump and President Moon of the Republic of Korea Before Bilateral Meeting
(2018)
“
It’s a great honor to have President Moon of
South
Korea
with us. We’ve become great friends over the years. And it’s now — we’ve now known each other for quite some time.We’re working on many things. Obviously, North
Korea
is the big one. No matter how big trade is, North
Korea,
in this case, is the big one. And we’ll be discussing that. We’ll also be discussing trade. We have a very big trade arrangement that we’re renegotiating right now with
South
Korea.
They’ve been excellent people to work with for the Trump administration. And we will have some pretty good news, I think, on trade.
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With the Worst U.S. Stock Market In Years, Try Some Old-Fashioned Investments
(nytimes.com)
Henry Howard Harper
,
After the stock market crash of November, 1929
(1930)
“
Even the gray-haired wizards of Wall Street who had preached caution for two or three years, finally fell into line with the new order of things, and not only did they plunge into the
market
long after it had passed the point of safety, but they organized more
investment
trusts running into billions of dollars, and advertised far and wide for the public to buy their
stock
and join them in amassing fortunes. They would manage everything, and all the people had to do was to furnish the money.
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Fed Under Pressure as Inflation Expectations Rise
(nytimes.com)
Jared Bernstein and Ernie Tedeschi
,
Pandemic Prices: Assessing Inflation in the Months and Years Ahead
(2021)
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LONGER-TERM
INFLATION
AND EXPECTATIONS Over the longer-term, a key determinant of lasting price pressures is
inflation
expectations. When businesses, for example, expect long-run prices to stay around the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent
inflation
target, they may be less likely to adjust prices and wages due to the types of temporary factors discussed earlier. If, however, inflationary expectations become untethered from that target, prices may rise in a more lasting manner.
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Pollen peril: how heat, thunder and smog are creating deadly hay fever seasons
(theguardian.com)
George Frederick Laidlaw
,
The Treatment of Hay Fever by rosin-weed, ichthyol and faradic electricity
“
Even Nature's immunity is not perfect in all diseases, as many a patient with his sixth attack of grippe or third pneumonia or fortieth year of
hay
fever
has learned most feelingly; and this irregularity of natural immunity bears directly on the proposal to immunize patients against
hay
fever
by small and increasing doses of the offending
pollen.
If the natural disease does not confer lasting immunity, you will have some difficulty in conferring lasting immunity artificially, as the immunologist is just now discovering.
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The Architecture You Need to See in Milan
(nytimes.com)
Ella Noyes
,
The Story of Milan
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In
Milan,
as we see the city to-day, modernised, commonplace, characterlessly handsome, there is one great redeeming thing—the
Cathedral.
Other churches there are, greater and more beautiful in every sense except size, but they are smothered in the dull drift of everyday buildings. The
Duomo,
as is befitting, has a supreme position. It is the heart of the city, the converging point of all the far-coming ways, the irresistible magnet for the eyes of the myriads thronging those ways.
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Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
(theguardian.com)
Charles G. Harper
,
Summer Days in Shakespeare Land
“
That
Shakespeare
left his wife and family at home at
Stratford-on-Avon
every one takes for granted. He “deserted his family,” says a rabid Baconian, who elsewhere complains of the lack of evidence to support believers in the dramatist; forgetting that there is no evidence for this “desertion” story; only one of those many blanks in the life of this elusive man, by which it would appear that while he was reaching fame and making money in London as a playwright and an actor, he held no communication with his kith and kin.
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U.S. Sanctions Chinese and Hong Kong Officials for Pursuing Activists Abroad
(nytimes.com)
John Edward Porter
,
Free Press in Hong Kong Under Attack
“
Tyranny thrives on the weakness of others, and the United States has been weak in its response to Chinese behavior. Mr. Speaker, we must do everything possible to ensure that democratic advances in
Hong
Kong
are not reversed by oppressive Chinese policies. As 1997 approaches, the United States must stand with those in
Hong
Kong,
such as journalists opposing illegal restrictions on their free speech, who are rightly unwilling to capitulate to Beijing's efforts to strip the citizens of
Hong
Kong
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Maine Sues U.S.D.A. Over Public School Lunch Funding Amid Title IX Fight
(nytimes.com)
Ralph Nader
,
Join the Fight for Title IX
(2003)
“
The real expenses starving minor men's sports of funding are the disproportionate share of university athletic dollars spent on one or two teams—football and men's basketball—and not spent to add new teams for women or to support other men's sports.
Title
IX
should not be the scapegoat for irresponsible, nonprofit institutions of higher education that operate their football and men's basketball programs like professional franchises.
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Scientists target queen bees in search of secret to longer life
(theguardian.com)
Mrs. Lizzie E. Cotton
,
Bee Keeping for Profit. A New System of Bee Management (1891)
(1891)
“
They appear to fully realize the vast importance of a mother, and that with no means to supply her place they must soon perish; and to avoid their impending fate they return to the old hive. With old stocks deprived of their
queen
the result is different, as will be shown further on. Every one who keeps
bees
should strive to become familiar with the appearance of the
queen,
that they may be able to recognize her at a glance among thousands of workers, as it will often be necessary to look her up in my new system of
bee
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Idaho Court Expands Abortion Ban Medical Exceptions
(nytimes.com)
Stephen Breyer
,
Stenberg v. Carhart — Opinion of the Court
“
The D&X is an infrequently used
abortion
procedure; but the health
exception
question is whether protecting women's health requires an
exception
for those infrequent occasions. A rarely used treatment might be necessary to treat a rarely occurring disease that could strike anyone--the State cannot prohibit a person from obtaining treatment simply by pointing out that most people do not need it.
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