Observer in a Black Sea Port
This You Tube item serves up an excellent discussion and critical analysis of some of the key clauses of the recent NATO communique. It is entertaining too. There is a vast gap between the intellectual rigour applied in this discussion, compared to NATO’s communique which is a distortion of reality and historical truth, and is sheer propaganda.
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Theodore K
In this duo performance, Donald Trump and Joe Biden come together to sing the Chinese song 一剪梅 (in pinyin it reads, “Yī jiǎn méi”). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtKSHJKzia4
一(Yī) = One
剪(jiǎn) = to cut
梅(méi) = plum
The title of the song may be rendered as A Spray of Plum Blossoms.
The song was made famous by the popular Taiwanese singer Fei Yu-ching and his rendition can be found at https;//www.youtube.co/watch/v=AjitR7RZEQU
iNFO in ESPNcricinfo – https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/lanka-premier-league-2024-1421415/fan-ratings/6
The JAFFNA KINGS and GALLE STALLIONS head the table with 4 wins and eight points from 06 matches each; while KANDY FALCONS languish at the bottom with only two wins [thus 4 points from 06 matches. COLOMBO STRIKERS and DAMBULLA SIXERS have played one less match than the other teams and have 4 points.
Avishka Fernando — batting stats at present
Item sent by Dulip Karunaratne of Brisbane, 12 July 2024
Joel Garner*, Cricket legendary fast bowler from West Indies, is 6 feet 8 inches tall. In his playing years, his height was a big attraction.
Once at a dinner in Australia, he was approached by two ladies, who asked, “You are so tall, with long arms and limbs. We are dying to know whether everything else is in proportion to your height.”
Sportingly, Garner replied, “Ladies, if I were built in proportion, I would be 9 feet tall.”
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ECB Reporters Network in ESPNcricinfo, 11 July 2024 .… with this headline “Dinura Kalupahana leads from the front as Sri Lanka U19s rally at Wormsley”
Ken Moriyasu, Nikkei Asia diplomatic correspondent, in NIKKEI Web … Alternative Title = “NATO’s New Swordsmiths”
NATO and its Indo-Pacific partners — Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand — will discuss defense industrial cooperation when they meet on Thursday, according to a senior U.S. official.
A U.S. soldier inspects a Patriot missile defense battery near Warsaw in 2015. Precision munitions and air defense are seen as key areas of need as NATO looks to expand defense industrial cooperation …. Agencja Gazeta via Reuters
Michael Carpenter, senior director for Europe at the U.S. National Security Council, said on Monday that the security of Europe is intertwined with that of the Indo-Pacific — a concept often mentioned by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
The next Public Lecture of ICOMOS Sri Lanka will be by Ms. Anu Weerasuriya and Mr. Christopher Silva, Independence Researchers in Photography, titled “Nihal Fernando’s Photographic Odyssey into our Ancient Heritage“ on 11th July (Thursday) starting at 6.00 pm at the Auditorium of PGIAR, Colombo 07.
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Mark Nicholas, in ESPNcricinfo, July 2024, where the title runs thus: “Sobie, ’73,”
Fifty-one years ago, one of the very greatest set Lord’s alight
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Michael Roberts
I am aging …. Quite clearly! I have not been aware that there has been a 20-over series in cricket ongoing in Sri Lanka for some four years now; and that the present series with five teams involved seems to be located at the grounds in Dambulla in the Central Province …. the teams being the Dambulla Sixers, the B-Love Kandy, the Colombo Strikers, the Galle Marvels and the Jaffna Kings.
The series may conceivably be a poor, degenerate cousin alongside the IPL series in India and some of the other livewire series around the world. …. And, YES, there were hardly any spectators in the stands or grounds in the matches I have just seen on television in Australia.
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thuppahi
