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Kathleen Parker writing in the Washington Post about the man who killed seven and wounded more than two dozen in Highland Park, Illinois: "Crimo attempted suicide in April 2019. Then, in September of the same year, he announced to his family that he wanted “to kill everyone.” Police visited the Highland Park home where Crimo lived with his father and uncle, and confiscated 16 knives, a dagger and a sword. Because no complaints were filed, there was no further investigation. Still, if these incidents didn’t raise red flags, then the world must be color blind. Three months later, Robert Crimo began buying guns with his father’s signed approval. The real quiet kid passed four federal background checks, purchasing five guns — including the one used at the parade."

Fathers and Sons is a novel by Ivan Turgenev.

Standing areas are to be allowed for next season in the EPL and Championship. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/62029516

You're forgetting Canada. He plays here during every tour. He has eight concerts booked here in the autumn.

Prefer to buy French's ketchup. It's made from 100% Canadian tomatoes! Harvested from 575 acres of Canadian farmland by 21 Canadian growers.

The other half of the sky.

It doesn't mean a lot to me, but I've always supported UK teams in the Champions League ('European Cup', as it was) when they are up against competition from the Continent--going all the way back to Celtic in 1967 and Manchester United in 1968, when I was a teenager. Liverpool play attractive, positive football. I hope they win.

Redmond has no goals and five assists this season; Elyounoussi has seven goals and four assists.

Okay, I choose Sinatra.

Thanks for posting this.

I am suggesting that you are suggesting that he is suggesting that you are suggesting that we should continue to shoot more often from 35 yards. But it's only a suggestion.

Lambert, Ings, Pelle, Broja

Does anybody have Radio Solent commentary yet?

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But it's never that easy, is it? 😀

I've just read The Restless Generation (2007) by Pete Frame. It's a chronological survey of the UK music scene in the 1950s. It starts with the trad jazz movement centred on brothers Bill and Ken Colyer. Then it focuses on Lonnie Donegan and the skiffle movement. Donegan was the banjo player in Chris Barber's jazz band. He began playing brief interludes of skiffle music in the middle of Barber's trad jazz concerts. The skiffle movement emerged in the coffee bars of London's Soho region and lasted for a couple of years before burning out. And then came the birth of English rock 'n' roll, also centred on Soho--especially at the 2Is Coffee Bar on Old Compton Street. Some key figures there were Tommy Steele, Marty Wilde, and Cliff Richard. This is a fascinating and informative read if you are at all interested in the music of that period. I always wanted to know more about the history of skiffle and its influence on English rock 'n' roll. This is the book that tells the full story. [Also of interest on the same topic is Billy Bragg's book Roots, Radicals and Rockers:How Skiffle Changed The World (2017).]

Posted by a U.S. Congressman. This is him and his family.

5 degrees C in Liverpool; -10 C here in eastern Ontario.

It's a traditional sports set-up: one provides the play-by-play description; the other does "colour" commentary, with summarizing comments and a focus on strategy and opinion. It works well,

Here is one of Theodorakis' most beloved popular songs. It is called Perigiali--the lyrics written by Greek poet Giorgos Seferis. This version is sung by long-time Theodorakis collaborator Maria Fantouri. Some beautiful images accompany the song, which is about the seashore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoGdeg2K81c

R.I.P. Mikis Theodorakis, the great Greek musician and composer, known best outside his homeland as the composer of music for the film Zorba the Greek. He also did the film score for Z, directed by Costa-Gavras. Theodorakis was a life-long opponent of the fascists in Greece. His music was banned during the dictatorship of the Greek colonels (1967-74) and he was arrested and spent some months in jail. Mikis Theodorakis wrote mostly serious music, but he was also known for writing lots of popular songs. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58419832

I've recently re-read Tolstoy's epic novel "War and Peace". This is the third time I've read it--after picking up the recent translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. It's a fantastic read--combining the lives of four intertwined families with the events of Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812-1814). There is an amazing twenty-chapter account of the Battle of Borodino. The book is considered a difficult read. Granted there are some dry chapters where Tolstoy philosophizes about his theory of history (driven by social forces, her argues, not great historical figures), but the bulk of the book is focused on a fascinating group of principal characters, who are fleshed out with great insight and human sympathy. It's a gripping read that I highly recommend.

A sample of his work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dZky936vtU

During the radio commentary Adam Blackmore was talking about Ralph sending a message onto the pitch at about 75 minutes, via a small piece of paper. It got sent in turn to Walker-Peters, Salisu, and Romeu. I am curious; did anybody find out what that was all about?!