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Chic: It's About Time review – first album in 26 years lunges for relevance

(Virgin)Nile Rodgers’ disco troupe may have become critically lauded since their last record, and his guitar playing remains a joy – but the special guests weigh it downIt’s About Time isn’t the only Chic album about to be released. It will shortly be sharing space on record shop shelves with The Chic Organisation 1977-79, a lavish box set containing the band’s first three albums alongside a collection of rarities, a facsimile of a promotional 12-inch and We Are Family, the 1979 Sister Sledge album that may well be the greatest Chic production of all. It comes complete with not one, not two, but three essays by prominent cultural critics on Chic’s significance.It was all noticeably different last time Chic released an album. In 1992, no one was in a rush to lavishly repackage their records or write scholarly essays on their importance. A critic who suggested they were one of the greatest bands of their era would have been going out on a limb. Their back catalogue was treated in the way you might expect a record label to treat the oeuvre of a band who hadn’t had a hit for 10 years: the nearest they came to an archival release was Megachic, a tacky medley of their hits apparently aimed squarely at the kind of person who enjoyed nothing more than donning an afro wig and demanding the DJ at the local 70s night play Rasputin by Boney M. Continue reading...

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#Nile_Rodgers #Music #Disco #Dance_music #Culture


'There was a lot of fear': how Heidelberg changed when the US army left town

As the US army reduces its Nato presence in Europe, one German city turned all those now-empty buildings into an opportunity – but can it work elsewhere?The lights no longer work in the sports hall of Patton Barracks, so building manager Heiko Mueller uses bricks to prop open the doors and let in the sun. It reveals basketball nets with fraying fibres hanging precariously from the walls, blue gym lockers scarred with rust, and mould growing on the shower room floor. The whistle blew on the hall’s last basketball game five years ago.For nearly 70 years after the second world war, Heidelberg was the US army’s headquarters in Europe, and a Nato command centre. But in 2009 the Pentagon decided to reduce the number of American troops in Europe, including pulling out of the German city entirely. By September 2013, they were all gone. Continue reading...

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#Cities #Germany #Europe #World_news #Migration


Japan on a budget: readers’ travel tips

The perception that Japan is an expensive destination is challenged by our tipsters, who find 70p sushi delivered by robot, cheap internal flights, all-you-can-drink-deals and friendly hostels Naoshima, the jewel of Japan’s art islands and an easy one-hour train journey from Kyoto or Osaka, has museums ranging from a gallery hotel to art installations. Free buses take you around the art locations and to an amazing art-filled sento bathhouse (£4.40), complete with full-size elephant sculptures overlooking the baths. Staying in the Benesse Foundation’s hotels is very pricey (from £250) but there is a fantastic alternative a very short walk from the key art sites and beautiful: Tsutsuji-so’s yurts (£25-£30 per person per night). They are private, traditional Mongolian tents with proper beds.Pat Kirby Continue reading...

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#Japan_holidays #Asia #Travel #Tokyo_holidays #Top_10s


World Rugby’s Sydney committee meetings will struggle to resolve anything | Paul Rees

Beaumont and Pichot, chairman and vice-chairman respectively, are leading the push for reform with the latter declaring that international rugby is heading for the scrapheapMore than 75% of the income generated globally by rugby union comes from the international game. It is the reason why those who run the sport, World Rugby, are this week gathered in Sydney pondering how to reinvigorate all the Test rugby that takes place between World Cups.Friendly matches, which make up 56% of Test fixtures, are losing their allure. Teams arrive on tour at the end of long, arduous seasons, often below strength and not at their most motivated. New Zealand remain a draw but Australia and South Africa, who have lost dozens of players to clubs in Europe and Japan, have mutated from vaunted to vulnerable. Continue reading...

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#Rugby_union #Sport


Ryder Cup 2018 countdown: Bjorn rings changes on final practice day – live!

All the latest news and reaction on the eve of the Ryder CupWater, water everywhere – a hacker’s guide to Le Golf NationalLe Golf National: hole-by-hole guide to 2018’s courseAnd feel free to email Tom here 10.36am BST Some slightly concerning fitness news from the American camp. Bubba Watson is struggling with illness, and said a number of his team-mates were feeling off-colour and fatigued. Still a day to go though.How much does it all mean to Americans though? Here’s Bryan Armen Graham on why there might be a spike in interest this time, much of it down to you know who:The splashy resurgence of Tiger Woods – the headline attraction of Jim Furyk’s USA team after a litany of back operations relegated him to a vice-captain’s role at Hazeltine two years ago – is exactly what’s needed to broaden the reach of an event that stirs highly concentrated enthusiasm among golf’s niche audience Stateside, but seldom crosses over to the sports-shouting shows on cable TV and the column-inches above the fold Related: Does the Ryder Cup mean more to Europeans than Americans? 10.27am BST Morning everyone. The Ryder Cup is nearly upon us, bringing with it as many subplots and points of intrigue as this tournament has bestowed. The hype and hoopla seems to get ratcheted up that bit more with each edition, but there’s no doubt that there’s plenty to get our teeth into.We may be talking about a team game but there’s no escaping the stardust sprinkled on this year’s buildup by Tiger Woods, fresh from his stunning Tour Championship triumph last week, which seemingly completed his career journey from cold-eyed ruthless major-gatherer through disgraced fallen genius to affectionately regarded Great Old Champion. But he’s lost more Ryder Cups than he’s won so can he make a dent in that record here? On the European side, Will Thomas Bjørn’s contentious faith in another seasoned campaigner, Sergio García, be vindicated in a team featuring five rookies? Continue reading...

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#Ryder_Cup_2018 #Ryder_Cup #Golf #Sport #US_sports


Migrant deemed national security threat due to tax error denied NHS care

Family of Pakistan engineer is being made homeless despite profession being on ‘shortage occupation’ listThe family of an engineer who trained Ministry of Defence engineers is being made homeless because the Home Office has still not completed a review of a controversial immigration policy they promised to report on by July.Owais Raja’s son cannot receive potentially life-saving NHS treatment for the hole in his heart, his wife cannot be treated for her severe health problems, and Raja himself cannot afford to use the prescription given to him by his GP for antidepressants. Continue reading...

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#Immigration_and_asylum #Pakistan #UK_news #ConservativeHome #Politics


Gritty: why the Philadelphia Flyers' new acid trip of a mascot must be stopped

The Flyers’ new googly-eyed mascot embodies everything that’s good and bad about the author’s hometown. But mostly the badPhiladelphia is home to the undisputed king of professional sports mascots: the Phillie Phanatic. No less esteemed a source than Wikipedia reveals he is “widely acknowledged as one of the best ballpark mascots” and “arguably the most recognizable mascot in all of North American sports”.You can imagine the horror, then, when he got a new sibling this week: Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers’ new mascot, is a horrifying bearded man-Muppet hybrid whose eyes are permanently rolling in their sockets, presumably from years of hard drinking and drug use. He is a nightmarish frat boy who communicates only in bro-friendly gestures – the guy who was loudly present at every college party but had never experienced true friendship. He fills the hole in his heart with a violent Flyers obsession. He is toxic masculinity incarnate. Continue reading...

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#Philadelphia_Flyers #Philadelphia #NHL #Sport #Philadelphia_Phillies


A lighter Reuben sandwich and Korean carrot crepe rolls: 20 best packed lunch recipes – part 4

Ottolenghi’s orzo, a vegetable banh mi and a fudgy espresso brownie – the last in the Observer Food Monthly’s collection of the best lunchbox recipes20 best packed lunch recipes – part 120 best packed lunch recipes – part 220 best packed lunch recipes – part 3Makes 1 sandwichrye bread 2 slices Colman’s mustard a generous amount pre-sliced emmenthal 2 slices pastrami 4 slices dill pickle 1 large, sliced thinly lengthways Continue reading...

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#Food #Sandwiches #Korean_food_and_drink #Vietnamese_food_and_drink #Salad


Old-school Ryder Cup, eSports protests and a scorpion kick stunner

This week’s roundup also features George Groves, Gervinho and arguably the worst tackle of all time1) Yes, Ryder Cup memories time. Some more recent ones at the Belfry in 1989 and then 1993, sandwiching Kiawah. Plus Sky’s closing montage from Valderrama in 1997 (featuring a splendid Spanish version of Frank Sinatra’s My Way) and the story of 2006’s match at the K Club. But let’s go further back: how about some action from the 1920s? Or Europe’s 1929 team announcement, Southport in 1937, the 1947 dinner, the good-losing hosts at Ganton in 1949 and the 1979 Sunday singles? Related: Which football clubs have manufactured their own kits? | The Knowledge Continue reading...

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#Sport #Football #Ryder_Cup


Ryder Cup: Water, water everywhere – a hacker’s guide to Le Golf National | Gerard Meagher

To the unseasoned and forgetful grubber water hazards are everywhere at the course known as L’Albatros, and even a decent drive can end up in no man’s landTo begin with, a disclaimer: I’m awful at remembering golf courses. It has become an annual tradition for my dad and I to pick one, often wherever the Open will be held that July, hack our way around and then watch the professionals expose our limitations a few months later. I need to watch with him because, if not, they may as well be playing on the moon.I won’t have a clue what happened on the 8th green, I won’t remember killing snakes in the rough on the 15th and to my mind there was no shot “sure to bring you out again”. I had, erm, forgotten that when pitching this and some holes at Le Golf National – this year’s course of Ryder Cup choice – blend into one demoralising double bogey. That said, here’s a hazy guide to what you probably won’t see this weekend. Continue reading...

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#Ryder_Cup_2018 #Ryder_Cup #Golf #US_sports #Sport


Let’s reinvent Europe to reclaim its promise and heal its divisions | Christophe Castaner and others

Today we proclaim the founding values of peace, freedom, prosperity and solidarityIn 1918, Europe emerged devastated from a bloody war that left its divisions unhealed. In 1939, conflict broke out afresh, its roots in fascism and an economic crisis. It took decades of sustained effort and compromise for a new generation to finally offer Europeans what the leaders who had sleepwalked into two wars had denied them: a Europe of peace, prosperity and solidarity.A century on, as our continent once again faces division and stagnation, we refuse to be a new generation of sleepwalkers. We must act now, or the European project will stall. Worse, it could be suffocated by nationalist and populist forces for whom the EU represents a historical anomaly that must be undone. Continue reading...

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#European_Union #Europe #The_far_right #World_news


Salisbury poisoning: Russia calls story identifying suspect a fabrication

Pushback begins after Skripal poisoning suspect identified as decorated Russian military intelligence officerRussian officials and pro-Kremlin media have pushed back against the results of an online investigation identifying a suspect in the Salisbury novichok poisoning as a Russian military intelligence (GRU) officer.Investigative journalists from Bellingcat and the Insider had on Wednesday identified one of the suspects as Col Anatoliy Chepiga, a special forces veteran who travelled to Salisbury under the cover name Ruslan Boshirov. British investigators also believe one of the two men accused of poisoning ex-spy Sergei Skripal is Chepiga, the Guardian understands. Continue reading...

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#Russia #Novichok_poisonings #Europe #UK_news #World_news


Emmanuel Macron: 'More choice would mean less children in Africa'

French president calls for ‘chosen fertility’ and greater access to education and family planning for African womenEmmanuel Macron has said many African women would choose to have smaller families if they had greater access to education and family planning.The French president, who has come under fire over his views on Africa in the past, added that the future for the continent’s young people must be to stay in a revitalised Africa, and insisted it was “pure bullshit” to suggest he was telling African people from New York what to do with their lives. Continue reading...

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#Global_development #Population #Emmanuel_Macron #United_Nations #World_news


Education in Iraq is in crisis. UK universities can help | Fran Sutherland

Iraqi academics are desperate for access to modern approaches to learning and teaching. Here’s where the UK can step in Four decades of wars, sanctions, dictatorship, invasion and instability have seen Iraq slide into a 21st-century dystopia. Once the “cradle of civilisation”, it now lurches between chaos and catastrophe. Most recently, citizens in the south have been railing against state failures in sometimes violent protests. If provision of basic services such as portable water and electricity is unreliable, what hope is there for higher education?A number of Iraqi academics, students and professionals say they urgently need modernised materials and methods for learning and teaching. Equally, many Iraqi academics worry about political interference in the sector, regarding it as a further barrier to development. This is because services such as public higher education are administered by government and subject to the unpopular muhasasa, or patronage system, which is susceptible to corruption and thus limits capacity for reform. Continue reading...

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#Universities #Higher_education #Education #Iraq #Global_development


My career as an international blood smuggler

For years, Kathleen McLaughlin smuggled American plasma every time she entered China, home to the world’s largest and deadliest blood debacle. She had no other choice I started my decade-long turn as an international blood smuggler in 2004 with a mundane task: packing. I gently stacked a dozen half-liter glass vials into two soft-sided picnic coolers. The bottles held the components of a syrupy mix, a powerful medicine made from the immune system particles collected from thousands of people. A nurse would infuse the syrup into my veins, a treatment to keep my immune system under control, to halt its potentially paralyzing attacks on my nerves.First, I had to get all of this, plus my own needles, to China. Continue reading...

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#Health #China #Society


Pussy Riot's Peter Verzilov leaves hospital following poisoning

Member of Russian punk activist group fell ill on 11 September and was admitted to hospital after losing the ability to speak and walk Peter Verzilov, the member of Russian punk activist group Pussy Riot who was poisoned and left needing intensive care, has been released from hospital. “Peter feels great and they’re kicking him out of the hospital,” the group tweeted.Verzilov had suddenly felt unwell after a court hearing on 11 September, following the brief arrest of him and other Pussy Riot members in the wake of their pitch invasion protest at this year’s World Cup final. His condition deteriorated to the point where he could not walk, talk or see, though he has since recovered. Continue reading...

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#Music #Pussy_Riot #Culture #World_news #Russia


Adultery is not a crime, India's top court rules

Supreme court says offence of having sexual relationship with woman without husband’s consent is archaicIndia’s top court has ruled that adultery is no longer a crime, declaring that the colonial-era law is unconstitutional and discriminatory against women.A five-judge bench of the supreme court unanimously ruled that the criminal offence of having a sexual relationship with a woman without her husband’s consent was archaic and deprived women of agency. Continue reading...

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#India #Law #Gender #World_news #South_and_Central_Asia


The Oslo Diaries review – hope and anguish in the Middle East

Directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan go behind the scenes of the secret Israeli-Palestinian talks that tried to bring about peace in the 1990sLike a sombre archaeological dig, this documentary disinters the 1990s Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. It began in 1993 with imaginative, off-the-record discussions between unofficial representatives in a conference venue outside Oslo – no more neutral and non-Middle Eastern location could possibly be conceived, short of hosting the talks on Pluto. And it ended catastrophically, with the assassination of the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.Unlike in South Africa and Northern Ireland in that same era, the chance for peace was missed. Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan’s film reconstructs the lost atmosphere of hope, with interesting interviews, including one with the then Israeli foreign minister, Shimon Peres – the last one he gave before he died. Continue reading...

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#Documentary_films #Film #Culture #Palestinian_territories #Middle_East_and_North_Africa


Are we finally waking up to the threat from the world’s deadliest infectious disease? | Nick Herbert

The UN’s first High-Level Meeting on tuberculosis is a positive step – the way TB has been neglected is a scandalImagine if the World Health Organization announced that a new, highly infectious airborne disease would claim 1.6 million lives over the next year. With no vaccine and a lengthy treatment regimen, the development of lethal, drug-resistant strains of the bug would be a serious risk. Of course, the world’s leaders would be galvanised into action immediately.This is not really fiction, however. It describes a disease that is as old as humankind: tuberculosis. Continue reading...

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#Tuberculosis #Health #Society #World_news #Aids_and_HIV


Thanks to Brexit, the British voice counts for less at the UN

PM’s foreign policies have been submerged by Brexit, giving the impression the UK has checked out of world debatesA mixture of personal praise of Donald Trump, sympathy for the UK after the chemical attack in Salisbury and safety in sheer numbers protected Theresa May from being on the front rank of international leaders who lined up at the UN general assembly to criticize Donald Trump’s Iran policy.Other European leaders – including Margot Wallstrom the Swedish foreign minister and Emmanuel Macron, the global torch bearer of multilateralism – openly rebuked Trump at the Security Council meeting on Wedbesday. Continue reading...

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#Theresa_May #Donald_Trump #United_Nations #Iran #Middle_East_and_North_Africa

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