Pentagon puts brakes on 3 border barrier projects because of cost
Politico
The Defense Department is no longer moving forward with three border barrier projects in California and Arizona, according to a court filing Monday.
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Alasdair Roberts on mining the Middle Ages for new album The Fiery Margin
Living by the Sword
He may not be a household name but 25 years and umpteen albums into his career Alasdair Roberts’ distinctive trebly tones have finally made it into the households of the nation by that most subversive of means – the trailer for the latest series of The Great British Bake Off.
Morag Fullerton’s Mack The Knife makes a welcome return to stages in Edinburgh and Glasgow
Living by the Sword
Three years ago, just before Britain’s momentous referendum on EU membership, I made my usual weekly journey to Glasgow to catch the latest Play, Pie and Pint lunchtime show, and found myself transported back to another great turning-point in European history.
Music review: Lammermuir Festival opening weekend, various venues, East Lothian
Living by the Sword
East Lothian’s Lammermuir Festival has reached the grand old age of ten and there’s a sense of celebrating with old friends across this year’s programme. The Dunedin Consort (*****), for example, who have...
Theatre review: Solaris, Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Living by the Sword
A dark screen, and the image of an ocean; sometimes limpid and still, sometimes heaving itself into waves and strands, as if shifting into some altered state. The shutter rises, revealing a wide, screen-shaped stage, and a white room on a spaceship, orbiting the mysterious oceanic planet Solaris.
CFFA update for September 15
Cape Fear Fencing Association
Things are almost back up and totally running. This week we have Monday: afterschool, evening beginner class, and UNCW practice at UNCW. Tuesday: afterschool, evening beginner class, club practice. Wednesday...
Next Saturday, info
Cape Fear Fencing Association
Just a reminder that you need to be signed up by midnight tonight to be able to get the original entry fee price. After that, it will be $10 more for each event. Sign up at askfred.net and the event is the CFFA Season Opener.
Book review: The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise Of The East India Company, by William Dalrymple
Living by the Sword
One of the great advantages non-fiction has over fiction is that you cannot make it up, and in the case of the East India Company, you cannot make it up to an extent that beggars belief. William Dalrymple has been for some years one of the most eloquent and assiduous chroniclers of Indian history.
Patagonia’s needlework ninjas to teach westuit repair 101 in Dunbar
Living by the Sword
Like most surfers, I’ve never given much thought to the environmental impact of my wetsuit, but it turns out that the thing that allows me to bob around in the North Sea for hours on end without getting all purple and hypothermic is in fact a climate calamity.
Book review: Surfacing, by Kathleen Jamie
Living by the Sword
Reviewing a collection of essays, the temptation is to review the writer and not the book. What, you wonder, is there to get hold of when you are taken from a “Reindeer Cave” in the West Highlands to Alaska and the edge of the Bering Sea...
Book review: The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
Living by the Sword
In the afterword to this new novel, Margaret Atwood explains its genesis. “One question about The Handmaid’s Tale that came up repeatedly is: How did Gilead fall? The Testaments was written in response to this question.” As one might expect this sequel is fluent...
CFFA update for September 8
Cape Fear Fencing Association
Hopefully everyone came through Dorian okay. It looks like we can get back on track and get the season started. We can begin the next evening class tomorrow, Monday the 9th at 6:30 pm. Afterschool fencing will start back up tomorrow at 3:30 pm.
Dunston 0 Sunderland RCA 0
Sunderland RCA FC
Saturday, 7 September 2019
The Emirates FA Cup
The FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round and it’s a trip to Dunston’s UTS Stadium for the loyal RCA supporters.
Another ground that has seen...
AAFA Fall Tournament Schedule
All-American Fencing Club
Here’s All-American Fencing Academy Fall Tournament Series! Mark your calendars! Register on Askfred.net! You can view the All-American Fencing Academy tournaments on askfred.net at https://bit.ly/347ClUJ Also...
Maradona appointed coach of Argentine Superliga side
Business Standard
Argentine legend Diego Maradona will take over as coach of Superliga side Gimnasia, the club announced on its Twitter account Thursday.
"Welcome Diego! Every corner of the most beautiful club in the world greets you," the La Plata-based club said.
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