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2016: views from an old, familiar place

Oikawa is coming back to Japan. Just for a week, while the Argentinian Serie A1 league is on a brief break between seasons. Iwaizumi has been looking forward to this trip for months. For years. For a lifetime. He’s always waiting for Oikawa’s homecoming. It never comes soon enough and it never lasts long enough.

Oikawa has posted a photo of him on his Instagram story, just of him in the Tokyo airport. In the photo, he’s waiting at baggage claim. There’s no caption, nothing to say where he is. But Iwaizumi knows; he recognizes the spot Oikawa is sitting in, the ads on the board by the baggage drop, the first of two bags that Oikawa has already collected.

Iwaizumi likes the post from where he waits in his car in the pick up/drop off area of the airport, and he waits. Oikawa will be there soon. Soon. Soon.

2017: views from the sky

In the post, the sky is a gorgeous light silver mist, and the sea below is a brilliant deep blue, and the wing of the plane is a dusted gray, and the window of the plane frames the photo in a neat oval. It’s a beautiful photo. Oikawa has always cared so much about his Instagram presence, about what he looks like in the photos he posts. He’s not in this one, but Iwaizumi can almost hear his voice complaining about the barest hint of his reflection in the glass of the window.

In the next photo on the post, Oikawa is off of the plane, taking a mirror selfie in a bathroom in an airport somewhere in Argentina. He holds up two fingers in a peace sign. The phone is covering his face, but Iwaizumi remembers his smile so well. Had it only been a day ago that they had been together for real? It feels like a lifetime past.

Iwaizumi stares at the photo for a long time. He’s not there. He’s not in Argentina. He’s not going to be in Argentina any time soon. It’s been a year since they’ve seen each other, and they don’t have another reunion planned for any time soon.

Somehow, he manages to swallow his longing, likes the post, and keeps scrolling.

(interlude: views from facetime)

Oikawa is staring at him carefully over the video call, studying him. Iwaizumi has always been an open book under his eyes.

“If I say I miss you,” Oikawa says tentatively, “would you say it back?”

Iwaizumi stares at him, disbelieving. How could he not? How could he have ever, in any world, not missed his best friend when he went halfway across the globe? How could he have not missed Tooru Oikawa?

You made me, he wants to say. I missed you as if you were a part of me. As if I had lost myself.

He wants to say, You unraveled me when you left and missing you is the worst understatement you could make.

He says, instead, “I missed you. I miss you. I’m always missing you.”

“Oh,” Oikawa breathes out. “You really loved me, didn’t you?”

Iwaizumi shrugs, stiff and uncomfortable. Oikawa is still staring at him, he can feel it, but he refuses to look back. “Yeah. I do.”

He doesn’t realize he’s used the present tense until Oikawa makes a hitched, breathless noise in the back of his throat, as if he’s about to let out a sob.

“Iwa,” Oikawa murmurs. “Look at me.”

Iwaizumi stubbornly keeps staring at the spot on the wall just above his webcam. He doesn’t need to see the pity in Oikawa’s eyes, much less the guilt. And he doesn’t want Oikawa to see the hurt in his own face.

“Hajime,” Oikawa says, and the name sounds like a prayer on his lips. “I love you too. You know that. You have to know that.”

“I guess,” Iwaizumi murmurs.

Oikawa is quiet for a long moment. Slowly, Iwaizumi drops his gaze to look at him. Then, Oikawa murmurs, “That’s not enough, is it? Not with the distance. It’s not enough.”

He sounds angry, frustrated, tired, hopeless. Iwaizumi wants to take all of that and unspool it, unravel it, pull it out of him and make it go away. But he can’t.

Oikawa takes a heavy breath. “Okay. I understand, Iwa. I understand.”

2019: views from the beach

Matsukawa and Hanamaki are in Argentina. Oikawa has posted a photo of the three of them at the beach, laughing under the light weight of the sunshine. Iwaizumi is not jealous. He’s not. He chose to stay at work for the week that the other two made the trek across the world. He chose this. He knows this. They asked him to join, and he said he couldn’t. He has no right to feel jealous.

But the sun is caught on Oikawa’s face, hesitating at his lips like even the gorgeous Argentina daylight can’t soak up enough of his smile. And Iwaizumi isn’t there. He remembers what it had felt like to kiss those lips, just once, in the airport before Oikawa’s first departure; the sun had been bright then, too, and Oikawa had been warm in his hands just before slipping away with the ease of the dusk—

2020: views from the podium

Oikawa’s club team wins the league in 2027, just a year before the next Olympics—their next planned reunion. Oikawa posts a picture of the team, crying and laughing, holding each other. He posts a picture of his latest boyfriend holding up the medal, Oikawa kissing his cheek. Iwaizumi likes the photo, then gets back to work. The Japanese team has to step up their game. That’s all there is to it. He has to work harder. There’s nothing else to do.

2021: views from the podium, part 2

Day 12 of the Olympics, Japan versus Argentina.

The night prior to the game, Oikawa posts an old photo on his Instagram story: Seijoh, circa 2013. Oikawa and Iwaizumi are front and center. Iwaizumi has his arm slung around Oikawa’s shoulder and Oikawa is leaning into his side, beaming. There’s no caption, no reminiscing to be had. Just the photo, speaking for an old memory.

On the next slide is a long block of text with a photo of the Argentinian national team laughing at practice. It’s probably a speech about this match bringing back memories, probably with something about giving it his all, probably with something about not holding back no matter what his past had been. Iwaizumi can guess all that easily; he still knows Oikawa so well.

But he doesn’t read it. Right now, he has things to focus on that aren’t the past. He can’t afford to be thinking about memories that can’t be undone. He can’t afford to linger on heartbreak. Not anymore. Today, he doesn’t need any of it.

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deadcactuswalking · 3 months ago

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REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 26/10/2024 (Bruno Mars & ROSÉ, Gracie Abrams, Morgan Wallen)

For a ninth week straight, Sabrina Carpenter holds onto the #1 on the UK Singles Chart with “Taste”. Welcome back to REVIEWING THE CHARTS!

content warning: language, references to sex, violence, mental health (paranoia, suicide, abusive relationships)

Rundown

As always, we start our episode with the notable dropouts, those being tracks exiting the UK Top 75 – which is what I cover – after five weeks in the region or a peak in the top 40. This week, we bid adieu to a fair few songs, it was a bit of a bloodbath even if I can see a lot of these making a return. We say our farewells to “KEEP UP” by Odetari, “Pretty Slowly” by Benson Boone, “You’re Gonna Go Far” by Noah Kahan, “Blame it on the Rain” by Milli Vanilli, “Free” by Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding, “Angel of My Dreams” by JADE (more on her later), “Carry You Home” by Alex Warren, “i like the way you kiss me” by Artemas, “Belong Together” by Mark Ambor, “Scared to Start” by Michael Marcagi and finally, “Viva la Vida” by Coldplay.

Much of the reason for our grand list of dropouts would not just be the amount of newer entries we have this week, which span from viral slow-burn deep cuts to sudden smash hits that missed even my periphery, but it should definitely be noted how many re-entries we have this week, though the circumstances for them are quite unfortunate. Former One Direction member and English singer and media personality in his own right, Liam Payne, has passed at 31, having jumped out of his hotel room in Argentina after what is likely a period of intense substance abuse. Payne had recently been in the news for allegations of his own, and his career had never reached the heights of his boy band fame or even his contemporaries, though this still struck a lot of people, especially on social media where TMZ posted images of his corpse. Classy. Payne’s death is the tragic by-product of an industry, a series of labels and plenty of executives disregarding the likely traumatic outcome of being thrown into pop stardom at a young age. There were so many moments in the careers of the 1D boys where it seemed evident that access points to support just weren’t there, or weren’t taken seriously because of the fact they were a famous boy band – you just cough it up, right? It’s the industry, it’s just “how it is”. Chappell Roan has recently highlighted how terrifying pop music can be as a performer, and with Payne passing, maybe there’ll be a second look towards those who could have gotten to him in the years before his death, and simply refused, restrained themselves on the grounds of their own financial bottom line. Preventive measures need to be in place, and whilst I doubt Liam Payne of all people should be the figurehead of mental health struggles in pop music because of his own problematic history and real lack of career growth, he should be a stark reminder that those you forget about in showbiz don’t just disappear… until they do.

Of course, this show is about the chart itself, and ultimately, another awful reminder of how pop music can put you through the wringer is present in our non-Payne re-entry at #69: “Careless Whisper” by the late George Michael. Recently reissued in celebration of its 40-year anniversary, the classic hit spent three weeks at #1 as Michael’s solo break from Wham! in 1984. Possibly the greatest treasure George Michael brought to the nation was preventing Black Lace’s novelty “Agadoo” from the top spot. Sarah Washington’s dance version reached #45 in 1993, and a UK garage rendition by 2 Play featuring Thomas Jules and Jucxi D took “Careless Whisper” to the top 40 once again in 2004 at #29. Just to date these songs, the #1s were the late Meat Loaf’s “I’ll Do Anything for Love” and Girls Aloud’s “I’ll Stand by You”, respectively. The original recording returned for a few weeks in 2017 following Michael’s passing, reaching #44, and it’s back for presumably one week, though a grimly potent one.

Otherwise, we have Liam Payne and One Direction making their returns: as for his solo hits, “For You”, a duet with Rita Ora from the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack is back at #43, near his most iconic track, “Strip that Down” featuring Quavo at #41, which I mostly remember for being co-written with Ed Sheeran and sounding like Shaggy’s “It Wasn’t Me”. It originally peaked at #3 for two weeks in 2017 whilst “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber was, unsurprisingly, #1. “For You”, on the other hand, which is – quite scarily – new enough for me to have reviewed on its debut week back in 2018, peaked at #8 for two weeks that year, whilst Drake’s “God’s Plan” held onto #1. Oh, and when I say I would have reviewed it on its debut week, I mean would have. I searched, and this is the second episode ever, that I mistakenly deleted in its entirety and replaced with a note essentially saying “whoops!” soon after. I can’t lie and say I wouldn’t do that today.

As for One Direction, “What Makes You Beautiful” – which has spent nearly 80 weeks on the chart and was their debut single after their X Factor appearance – is back at #23. The now-iconic, mostly shit debut made the band parade in on first try to #1 on the UK Singles Chart, even if just for one week, and had appeared on the chart much lower but still regularly until as late as 2014. Our other returns from the boys are more sentimental: “Story of My Life” is back at #9, after peaking at #2 in 2013, blocked by Lily Allen’s cover of “Somewhere Only We Know”. My fun fact about this one is that Alvin and the Chipmunks have a cover that adapts their lyrics to be about their relationship with their owner Dave. Perhaps more importantly, however, it was co-written by all of the band members, a distinction it shares with its fellow ballad “Night Changes”, which resonates with fans partly because it is about accepting change that can come so soon and suddenly over the course of your life. I’m no Directioner by any means, but this is a beautiful, dare I say perfect song that has become their most-streamed just through sheer longevity, despite being far from their biggest smash at the time. It’s a slow burn that has the biggest star Harry on lead in the chorus, and ZAYN and Liam trading the first verse (ZAYN leaving after this single’s release), which really helps propel it – alongside the sentiment – to the top of the charts after Payne’s passing. It had a comparatively brief chart run compared to their other big hits in late 2014 and early 2015, only reaching #7 whilst “Uptown Funk!” was #1. There’s something really special about how when one component of the quintet is lost, the devoted fans, now mostly adults, have taken it just one spot higher to peak at #6 this week. Again, I’m no One Direction fan, I never had a connection with the boys like many would have, but this is the best song in the top 40 right now – a selfish part of me aches for a second run, but it’s unlikely it takes off past this week. It would be a beautiful moment though, for a song that in its chorus, defies that fear of change: even when everything you’ve ever wanted disappears at your wake, there’s nothing to be afraid of. Just look forward.

Oh, yeah, we also have notable gains, and you know, 74 other songs in the region I cover, though I could spend a great deal of time on “Night Changes”. However, we do see healthy boosts for “I Only Smoke When I Drink” by nimino at #57, “Bad Dreams” by Teddy Swims at #25, and that’s… actually it. This week’s top five on the UK Singles Chart starts with “I Love You, I’m Sorry” by Gracie Abrams at #5, then we have a new entry from ROSÉ of BLACKPINK and Bruno Mars at #4 with their duet “APT.” which we will get to discussing later. Then it should be more familiar: “Die with a Smile” by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars (again) at #3, “Sailor Song” by Gigi Perez (who has her follow-up ready for next week) at #2 and of course, “Taste” at the top. So if we know how it tastes at the top, what about the bottom? I won’t say that again, new song review time.

New Entries

#75 – “Oscar Winning Tears.” – RAYE

Produced by Mike Sabath

This is the most recent viral sleeper hit from RAYE’s My 21st Century Blues, an album that had more longevity in moderate hits that backed up the smash of “Escapism.” long after that had left the charts. This serves as the first full song on the album after the introduction, or the overture on the live edition, setting out what seems to be the record’s primary narrative, at least in part, that of the constant manipulation of young women being taken advantage of by a manic and unjust music industry, that reflects upon the wider society enabling it. Whilst there aren’t many specifics – RAYE quickly dismisses his details as irrelevant since he’s just one of many men to have taken advantage of her – the track follows RAYE taking a seat and recognising his emotional outbursts in the ex-relationship as fake and full of lies, hence the name. There’s a cinematic showtune-esque approach to the rap-singing of the verses that ends up dipping in and out unevenly thanks to the mixing, but it still rests nicely into R&B, with a minimal shake-up of drums and piano that kicks its intensity up not through drastic changes but through stray details like a wanky guitar or a rattling hi-hat switch-up, eventually forming a mix that clouds up into nothingness. It doesn’t capture the swell it should, despite generally playing into its melodrama, and hence has the stop-start momentum that may fit its content but stilts its potential. There’s a confidence and empowerment to this track that decays on later, more jaded songs, and whilst it may be a good fit for RAYE, it doesn’t have the same touching vulnerability that bases some of her more powerful cuts in reality and adds a heartfelt backlining. It’s a good introduction, but as a single, it falters in really painting a complete picture.

#61 – “Piece of My Heart” – Wizkid and Brent Faiyaz

Produced by P2J, Dpat, Juice Cuice and Drew80HD

It feels like it’s been a while since we’ve seen either of these acts, but the Nigerian singer who helped propel modern Afrobeats into his current global success has teamed up with one of the most influential newer alt-R&B acts for a new duet fusing their styles. We probably wouldn’t have the hits we do without them, especially this year, so there’s a strangeness to seeing the two debut so low, though of course influence and inspiration don’t always translate chart-wise. What I also wouldn’t have expected was how ambitious this track ended up being, with Faiyaz being the main star in my opinion, as he effortlessly blends different vocal inflections and alterations into a slippery Afrobeats rhythm with uniquely hissy and busy drums, sounding really organic under and over the tropical guitars and sliding keys in that first beat. This is the cleanest Wizkid’s vocal mix has… ever sounded, really, and he frames himself as the sweatier, sexual intimacy to Faiyaz’s loving platitudes that importantly give this woman ownership of some of his heart, but restraining letting her have too much. It plays out in the song as a cheesy “I just won’t have enough for myself” one-liner but speaks to the empty, pitch-shifted promises of the intro and Wizkid sounding desperate in his quieter, stifled delivery once the hypothetical of him potentially hurting her come into play. Of course, you could, fantastically, ignore all of that and jam to how gorgeous this sounds as a piece of music, with an immaculate breeze of a mix forming from what should end up at least slightly too busy and chaotic.

With the beat switch into the chipmunk vocal on its second half, subtitled “Sometimes”, we get not just the other side of that loving character, but a grovelling acknowledgement of their flaws. That simple chorus really does get to the crux of it: “Sometimes, I might be a bad version of me”. Wizkid even attempts to link back and reminisce on the intimacy we heard over the first beat that has been subtly diluted with a shakier, frailer arrangement, to no avail before the tape stops. I’m not used to this level of narrative storytelling from Wizkid, especially not in the context of how seamlessly the production forms around it, and although Faiyaz may be the more significant performer here, it intrigues me more into how an upcoming album could shape up if this is the approach he’s going with. I’m kind of taken aback by this lead single, I am really fascinated to where he goes next, even if it may not chart anytime soon. He may have a new fan on his hands here.

#52 – “Fantasy” – JADE

Produced by Mike Sabath

Jade Thirlwall of Little Mix continues to work for solo success, with this being her third attempt after “Angel of My Dreams” was not overly impressive but a resounding success critically and commercially, though its follow-up failed to really climb up the ladder the same way, with “Fantasy” potentially suffering the same fate given its low debut. Is it worth the potential climb up though? Well, despite sharing the producer, it fails to echo either the immediacy or the core clash at the heart of that solo debut single, and whilst JADE is still bringing much more personality than any of the half-formed Little Mix solo singles recently, this borderline pride anthem feels a bit lost. The glittery disco synths meander until they combine into a flavourless dressing, interrupting with obnoxious woozy stabs any actual bassy impact and momentum those verses embracing kinks and freedom could be. Madonna’s Erotica – an unabashed EDM-pop embracing of queer sexuality – is one of my favourite albums of all time and whilst it can be abrupt, cheesy or indistinct, it always knows where it’s going and refuses to chug along into a full, greatly-produced but ultimately aimless mess of keys and stray ideas. I genuinely do not know why JADE or producer Mike Sabath would allow the lead to be so easily drowned out by the production, which then absorbs a wave of tropical-adjacent nu-disco elements that really overfill the mix, rendering it gross in the way that perhaps wasn’t intended. I’m all for over-the-top campness, but the message is quite literally lost in the breathy performance and playful structure, alongside the feathery soundscape. It feels like it’s taking too many detours – or, never really having the punch or strength to its hooks in the first place – before being able to deliver that confidence, rendering it much less impactful, more like a sugary syrup that resembled some form of liberation or resistance prior to manufacturing. On first listen, I just thought this was okay but it might actually be a more detrimental and unfortunate reading of its subject matter than it has any idea how to grapple with. This could be something, it clearly wants to be, but it fumbles far before the point of that potential being heard, let alone fulfilled.

#50 – “Noid” – Tyler, the Creator

Produced by Tyler, the Creator

It’s that season again – and by that, I could of course mean Halloween and the spooky season but I mostly mean the season in which California rapper Tyler, the Creator, after staying relatively quiet for a year or two, announces a project, a new identity or character to play within the persona of for that record’s promotion – if not the project itself – and within a few weeks, he’ll have dropped a few promotional videos and eventually, a full album, mostly self-produced and with exciting hidden features… that’s on Monday, however. Once again, Tyler has eschewed convention by refusing to release on the crowded Friday and instead delaying his album until the Monday, hence the debut for a mid-week single that feeds into the Halloweeny times by focusing on paranoia.

This album’s protagonist, Saint Chroma of CHROMAKOPIA, constantly feels like, for lack of a phrase that doesn’t paraphrase a seasonal one-hit wonder, somebody’s watching him. The music video depicts visions of violence and fear that may not be real but find themselves justified in the lyrics, stretching this fictional personality back to Tyler’s reality where he can draw parallels in between the home invasions still plaguing the friends he grew up with, to the paparazzi’s focus on his 2023 purchase of a million-dollar mansion, in terms of how that can both eat at you and isolate you. Los Angeles’ celebrity culture and his familiarity with the city leads Chroma, or Tyler, to not feel understood in his conflict, with the sarcastic hook expressing envy for those who can just enjoy the small pleasure of watching, feeling, enjoying the simplicities of life. Tyler, however, feels bombarded by the inhuman: cameras, satellites, screenshots – when screens are pushed in front of you and your extensive purchases are news, that same systemic oppression from living in an unsafe neighbourhood returns in a way that may not put you in immediate danger, but reassures how insignificant and statistical you are in the spotlight, with the beat switch segmenting the two sides of life as much as it branches the two together.

Sonically, I mean, it’s Tyler, it’s lengthy and detailed, finding even more ways to develop his typically fuzzy and complete sound into the specific energy he wishes to operate within for a particular album cycle. Zambian psychedelic rock samples texture the first half, with Tyler displaying his barer, flawed singing voice without the coating IGOR granted it, though the “runnin’” he’s been doing for years in his music and the immense vocal layers from his catalogue but particularly that album remain, with WILLOW and Tyler’s separate multi-tracked choirs constantly attacked by that sample of Paul Ngozi reflecting a similar mania in his own native language – crossing those barriers feels particularly potent for a song that’s really about homes. Hell, Tyler’s mother even appears on the interlude threatening to beat up anyone who messes with her son, whose frail, pitch-shifted vocals that follow her defiant words emphasise how much we owe to our households. I love how the second half extends its intensity on pure tedium with Tyler’s nasal drawling out of the “e” sound in “me” over real, but low-fidelity claps. As for the full release on Monday, I’ll be excited to see how powerfully this hits within that context as something so dense as this can be difficult to sift through as a single, and Tyler has definitely polarised audiences with his leads before a critically adored album to follow, so my ears are peeled. Tyler’s releases always feel like an incredibly well-planned and momentous event, where even if I don’t love the album as much as his last, I can respect the growth, and such a complicated song from such a complicated artist definitely deserves a look from the bigger picture. Hell, that may just be the point of his attitude towards fame since at least CHERRY BOMB in 2015. Nearly a decade later, I’m excited to see how his approach has changed.

#40 – “Love Somebody” – Morgan Wallen

Produced by Joey Moi and Charlie Handsome

US country star Morgan Wallen loves to drop these teaser singles so that those who don’t follow his every move never really know when a full new album is coming… until we see 30 tracks hog up the Hot 100 and we know just what has occurred. Regardless of the bloated albums and honestly being much less interesting each new song I hear, I have liked his songs before so there could be something here to enjoy. Shamefully, there isn’t, as this is about as country as a shirtless guy in a flag-branded cowboy hat going around a city as a novelty cowboy who can barely play “Wonderwall” and puts on a silly accent for foreign tourists. There’s almost a morbid appeal to how blankly Morgan Wallen’s singing and melodies “fit” over the chintzy guitars mixed into a synthy pop rock pastiche even AOR radio programmers in 1987 might see as outside of their remit. Morgan’s lyrics, however, are about finding that honest girl he can take back to the sticks, instead of some opportunist using him for the parties and fame, seeing if he can snatch some of his wealth. I’m not sure yet if when writing this kind of bitter, hapless lament about inauthentic women who leave him to dry once absorbing the parts of him that matter to her… he may just be writing about himself, if he’s even writing it at all. Next.

#19 – “That’s So True” – Gracie Abrams

Produced by Aaron Dessner, Gracie Abrams and Julian Bunetta

Gracie Abrams has recently popped up with the deluxe edition of her breakout record, The Secret of Us, which distantly eyed up a second week at #1, a spot currently taken by Kylie Minogue who unfortunately had no new entries this week. Instead, we have what singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams has left on the cutting room floor which, given my disdain for her overly-sanitised and overthought brand of folk-pop, could honestly be a good thing if I wanted something rawer or more compelling. Unfortunately, even the B-sides grow through the machine, and though Abrams embraces her obnoxious immaturity through the writing, much like the promising “Risk”, this doesn’t have the youthful panic, trading it for a stomp-rock chorus that, much like that Morgan Wallen song, borders on kind of embarrassing, especially when it leads into the most brow-raising description of sex I think I have heard outside of rap on the charts. The acoustic rumble is really not that bad, but it’s so stiff in its programming and even its structure, fixated on repeating that annoying “oo-oo-oo” sound with little variation, and all of the muddy swell it accumulates itself in the bridge with the distorted, irritating drums, ends up all for nought when the song refuses to free itself from the shackles of its claustrophobic percussion and inconclusive chorus. One could argue that this absolutely fits the awkward post-breakup teenage drama… but at least when O-Rod did it, it was fun, there were much more unique details than this sexless column of cliché, and most importantly, Olivia Rodrigo is an actor first, and those dramatics, those stakes are palpable in her performance. This song refuses to expand itself beyond petty bullshit even towards its abrupt end, wasting everyone’s time in the process.

#4 – “APT.” – ROSÉ and Bruno Mars

Produced by Bruno Mars, Cirkut, Omer Fedi and Rogét Chahayed

It seems like the BLACKPINK girls are here to stay as solo acts and whilst so far they have definitely gathered much traction in that first week then filtered off slightly, their quest for western pop success that could really last seems to have been solved… by Bruno Mars. I’m genuinely surprised he’s maintained his career well enough to sell these top 10 duets, and perhaps a relative newcomer like ROSÉ makes a bit less sense for him to play off on, but he’s surrounded by certified pop songwriters and producers here too, so a part of me definitely anticipated for a watered-down personality… which is not at all what we got here. In fact, it’s a bratty rush of teenage lovestruck energy that dismisses anything but the “now” in its buzzy, new-rave brashness, not too far from say, The Ting Tings, in its presentation that could be seen as obnoxious if not for its content, all about a drinking game and that immediate lust to be around someone you love. An incredibly percussive track, it balances Bruno’s breathy ad-libs, with a simple cheerleader chant of a beat ripped straight from Toni Basil’s “Mickey”, itself from “Kitty” but that’s another story, that gradually fuses with the guitar-based melodic elements of the track to form something really euphoric. That pre-chorus is such a sticky melody and the verses are so manically repetitive you almost don’t notice Bruno is singing or rapping some phrases in Korean. It almost functions as a bait-and-switch even, with the K-pop structure naturally having you expect incredibly distinct and disparate parts being separated via abrupt transitions and cloyed together as a “song” by an undeniable chorus. Instead, the third cheerleader chant chorus carries on the swell of the pre-chorus effortlessly into a confrontational bridge pairing a soaring guitar lick with stuttering Bruno blips panning across ROSÉ’s reverb-drenched promises that she’s on her way. It may not actually go anywhere, but it settles for the temporary euphoria, the togetherness, in such a cute and for me, unexpected way that I can’t help but find this frankly adorable. It may sour on me with time but for now, I recommend it and I’d love to see this borderline punk track be the BLACKPINK-derived track that ends up lasting.

Conclusion

Definitely a fascinating and diverse week that gave me way too much to discuss, overwhelmingly so, but not one that led me to a breadth of quality like last time, more just intriguing nuances that opened these songs up a lot. Except Morgan Wallen, of course. Gracie Abrams gets Worst of the Week for “That’s So True”, which shouldn’t be a surprise, maybe I really am getting too old for this, but Mr. Wallen swoops up the Dishonourable Mention just as easily for “Love Somebody”, JADE’s safe this week. As for the best, I am a bit of a fangirl, I apologise, there is going to be an inherent bias, but I do think “Noid” is a brilliant, multi-layered song so Tyler snatches Best of the Week, with a delightfully surprised Honourable Mention towards “Piece of My Heart” by Wizkid and Brent Faiyaz, which is honestly a very similar track in scope, form and even some smaller details like vocal effects; weird coincidence.

As for what’s on the horizon, we may see Halsey and Tyler battle it out on the albums chart alongside Megan, Tears for Fears and Bastille, but how much of that will actually translate to the hit parade is unclear. It may be more worth betting on Lady Gaga’s proper comeback single and whatever “Addison Rae” is up to, but time will tell. For now, thank you for reading, rest in peace to Ka, and I’ll see you next week!

#uk singles chart #pop music #song review #bruno mars #apt #blackpink rosé #gracie abrams #tyler the creator #jade thirlwall #morgan wallen #wizkid #brent faiyaz #love somebody #raye #liam payne

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argentinacrimeandchaos · 6 months ago

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From Sofía to "Alarma Sofía:" The case of the missing girl in Argentina.

"Alerta Sofía" was created 25th of November in 2019 to coordinate the immediate search for missing children and teenagers whose lives are considered "Imminent High Risk". The name of the alert was originally based on the case of Sofía Herrera, who disappeared when she was 3 years old on September 28th, 2008. She was last seen at a campsite located in Río Grande, Ushuaia, Argentina. The testimony given by a non-commissioned officer belonging to the provincial police, who participated in the search for Sofía, and the description given by one of the children who were at the campsite where Sofía disappeared led the police to believe that the suspect was José Dagoberto Díaz Aguilar. The police officer stated that he had spoken with the suspect, who assured him that he knew Sofía's whereabouts. Despite this, this was not taken seriously by the police until someone else took charge of the file in 2017. The kid who gave the description was cited again by the judge in 2020 who ratified his version. Police haven't found the suspect yet, who is now a fugitive of justice. I believe that the suspect has returned to his native country, Chile, and I feel that he is the killer because he has been accused of many different kinds of crimes, such as killing his neighbor. Also, how would he have any kind of knowledge of the kid unless he was involved in the process of kidnapping Sofia?

The person next to Sofía Herrara is José Dagoberto Díaz Aguilar, the suspect for the crime.

Images from infobae

#argentina #crime #missing

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ro-is-struggling · 1 year ago

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Yesterday I finally got the chance to see 5sos live

I finally got the chance to heal my teenage self that cried her eyes out when she missed the first concert they did in argentina back in 2017 and it's such a wonderful feeling

I have no words to describe how happy I am. The show was AMAZING, it was everything that I hoped and more! I love 5sos so much💕

#in case you wondered why I was gone these past few days #it was bc I was getting ready to go to the show #I was in the pit and I got DESTROYED #I'm still sore from all the pushing and pulling and I'm on the verge of losing my voice from the screaming lol #but it was sooo worth it #ro talks

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Holidays 7.9

Holidays

Arbor Day (Cambodia)

ASB Community Action Day

Call of the Horizon Day

Chicken Days begin (Nebraska)

Constitution Day (Australia, Palau)

Constitutionalist Revolution Day (São Paulo, Brazil)

Day of the Employees of the Diplomatic Service (Azerbaijan)

Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Utah)

Donkey Kong Day

Family Day (Ukraine)

Fashion Day

Festival of Grand Unified Theories

Flag Day (Chile)

Goat Mother’s Day

Intern Appreciation Day

International Small Arms Destruction Day

Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Festival begins (Turkey)

Mars

Mint Day (French Republic)

Muffler Appreciation Day

National Camel Toad Hunting Day (Secular Church of the SubGenius)

National Culture Day (Kiribati)

National Dimples Day

National Lavender Day

National No Bra Day

National Student’s Day (India)

Nunavut Day (Canada)

Paper Napkin Day

Rock Around the Clock Day

Shiman Rokusen-nichi (Day of 46,000; Tokyo, Japan)

Special Recreation Day

State Rebellion Day (São Paulo, Brazil)

Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Day (Ohio)

White Ensign Anniversary Day (UK)

Wimbledon Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Omelette Day

National Chicken Day

National Sugar Cookie Day

World Pakora Day

2nd Sunday in July

Barn Day [2nd Sunday]

Disability Awareness Day (UK) [2nd Sunday]

Father’s Day (Uruguay) [2nd Sunday]

Festival of the Giants begins (Fête des Géants; France) [Sunday after 7.5]

Lá Cuimhneacháin Náisiúnta (National Day of Commemoration; Ireland) [Sunday closet to 7.11]

Independence Days

Argentina (from Spain, 1816)

Kebec (f.k.a. Alaurentia; Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Luxe (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

South Sudan (from Sudan, 2011)

Feast Days

Agilulfus of Cologne (Christian; Saint)

Amandina of Schakkebroek (Christian; A Martyr of Southern Hunan)

Caprotinia (Old Roman Female Slave Festival)

Charlotte the Penguin (Muppetism)

St. Clotilde (Positivist; Saint)

Cyril and Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

David Hockney (Artology)

Day of Unn the Wise Person (a.k.a. Day of Remembrance for Ann the Deep Minded; Pagan)

Dharma Day (Buddhist) [Full Moon, 8th Lunar Month]

Ekādaśī Tithi (Self-Purification Festival; Hindism, Vaishnavism) [11th Lunar Day]

Ephrem of Edessa (Christian; Saint)

Everilda (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Chinese Martyrs (Christian; Martyrs)

Feast of the Martyrs of Gorkum (Christian; Martyrs)

Feast of Our Lady of Peace (Christian)

Feast of Translation of Nicolas (Christian; Confessor)

Gregorio Grassi (Christian; A Martyr of Shanxi)

Invent a Word Day (Pastafarian)

Marija Petković (Christian; Blessed)

Martyrdom of the Báb (Bahá'í)

Martyrs of Gorkum (Christian; Martyrs)

Mary Hermina Grivot (Christian; Saint)

Mojo Nixon Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Our Lady of Itatí (Christian)

Our Lady of Peace, Octave of the Visitation (Christian)

Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá (Christian; Saint)

Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (Christian; Saint)

Rusty (Muppetism)

Sabinus (Christian; Martyr)

Solstitium VI (Pagan)

Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican commemoration)

Veronica Giuliani (Christian; Saint)

Zeno (Christian; Martyr)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [26 of 53]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

American Pie (Film; 1999)

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Film; 2004)

The Bears and Bees (Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Black Widow (Film: 2021)

Blowin’ in the Wind, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1962)

Blue, by LeAnn Rimes (Album; 1996)

Despicable Me (Animated Film; 2010)

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Film; 2010)

The Golden Compass (a.k.a. Northern Lights), by Philip Pullman (Nove; 1995) [His Dark Materials #1]

Love and Curses (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Loving You (Elvis Presley Film; 1957)

The Office (UK TV Series; 2001)

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (Film; 1975)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Film; 2003)

Pluto’s Purchase (Disney Cartoon; 1948)

Predators (Film; 2010)

The Queen Was in the Parlor (WB MM Cartoon; 1932)

Riding Giants (Documentary Film; 2004)

Rookie of the Year (Film; 1993)

Tall Timber (Disney Cartoon; 1928)

This Is a Life? (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Tron (Film; 1982)

Winnebago Man (Documentary Film; 2010)

Today’s Name Days

Augustin, Gottfried, Veronika (Austria)

Leticija, Marija, Veronika (Croatia)

Drahoslava (Czech Republic)

Sostrata (Denmark)

Aive, Aivi (Estonia)

Ilta, Jade, Jasmiina, Jasmin, Nanna (Finland)

Amandine, Hermine, Iphigénie, Marianne (France)

Hannes, Hermine, Veronika (Germany)

Pagratios (Greece)

Lukrécia (Hungary)

Letizia (Italy)

Asne, Tusnelda, Zaiga (Latvia)

Algirdas, Algirdė, Leonardas, Veronika (Lithuania)

Gøran, Jøran, Ørjan (Norway)

Anatolia, Heloiza, Hieronim, Lucja, Łucja, Ludwika, Lukrecja, Mikołaj, Patrycjusz, Weronika, Wszebąd, Zenon, Zenona (Poland)

Lujza (Slovakia)

Verónica (Spain)

Götilda , Jörgen, Örjan (Sweden)

Averil, Avery, Junior, Misty (USA)

Amandine (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 190 of 2024; 175 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 27 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 22 (Wu-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 20 Tammuz 5783

Islamic: 20 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444

J Cal: 10 Lux; Threesday [10 of 30]

Julian: 26 June 2023

Moon: 55%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 22 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Clotilde]

Runic Half Month: Feoh (Wealth) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 19 of 94)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 19 of 31)

#Holidays

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thisinkedpaper · 4 months ago

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one movie from every country

the challenge is to watch at least one movie from all 195 countries in the world. not sure if that's possible cause getting a copy of movies from countries with very "visible" cinema is already hard enough. but we will try. (this is also just to keep myself from jumping off a cliff.)

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

American Samoa

Andorra

Angola

Anguilla

Antarctica

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Armenia — Amerikatsi (2022, Michael A. Goorjian)

Australia — Nitram (2021, Justin Kurzel)

Austria — Des Teufels Bad (2024, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz)

Azerbaijan

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium — Close (2022, Lukas Dhont)

Belize

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil — Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (2014, Daniel Ribeiro)

British Virgin Islands

Brunei Darussalam

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cabo Verde

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada — J'ai tué ma mère (2009, Xavier Dolan)

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile — Una mujer fantástica (2017, Sebastián Lelio)

China Mainland — 少年的�� (2019, Derek Tsing)

China — Limbo (2021, Soi Cheang)

Christmas Island

Cocos Islands

Colombia

Comoros

Congo-Brazzaville

Congo-Kinshasa

Cook Islands

Costa Rica

Cote d’Ivoire

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark — Jagten (2012, Thomas Vinterberg)

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

East Timor

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Eswatini

Ethiopia

Falkland Islands

Federated States of Micronesia

Fiji

Finland — A Moment in the Reeds (2017, Mikko Mäkelä)

France — Anatomie d'une chute (2023, Justine Triet)

French Guiana

French Polynesia

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany — Die Mitte der Welt (2016, Jakob M. Erwa)

Ghana

Greece — Miss Violence (2013, Alexandros Avranas)

Greenland

Grenada

Guadeloupe

Guam

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary — Hat hét (2022, Noémi Veronika Szakonyi)

Iceland — Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur (2019, Hlynur Pálmason)

India — Taare Zameen Par (2007, Aamir Khan)

Indonesia — Jagal (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer)

Iran — طعم گیلاس (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)

Iraq

Ireland — The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, Martin McDonagh)

Israel

Italy — La vita è bella (1997, Roberto Benigni)

Ivory Coast

Jamaica

Japan — 誰も知らない (2004, Kore-eda Hirokazu)

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya — Rafiki (2018, Wanuri Kahiu)

Kiribati

Kosovo

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Macedonia

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Martinique

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico — Roma (2018, Alfonso Cuarón)

Micronesia

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Mozambique

Myanmar

Namibia

Nauru

Nepal

Netherlands — Noordzee, Texas (2011, Bavo Defurne)

New Caledonia

New Zealand — Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016, Taika Waititi)

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria —

Niue —

Norfolk Island —

North Korea —

North Macedonia —

Norway — Verdens verste menneske (2021, Joachim Trier)

Oman —

Pakistan —

Palau —

Palestine —

Panama —

Papua New Guinea —

Paraguay —

Peru —

Philippines — Patay na si Hesus (2016, Victor Villanueva)

Poland — Sala Samobójców (2011, Jan Komasa)

Portugal

Qatar

Republic of the Sudan

Romania

Russia — Возвращение (2003, Andrey Zvyagintse)

Rwanda

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Samoa

San Marino

São Tomé and Príncipe

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa — Tsotsi (2005, Gavin Hood)

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

South Korea — 도가니 (2011, Hwang Donghyuk)

South Sudan

Spain — 20.000 especies de abejas (2023, Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren)

Sri Lanka

Sudan

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Suriname

Svalbard and Jan Mayen

Swaziland

Sweden — Höstsonaten (1978, Ingmar Bergman)

Switzerland

Syria

Taiwan — 誰先愛上他的 (2018, Mag Hsu, Hsu Chih-yen)

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Thailand — หลานม่า (2024, Pat Boonnitipat)

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey — Okul Tirasi (2021, Ferit Karahan)

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom — All of Us Strangers (2023, Andrew Haigh)

United States — Blue Jasmine (2013, Woody Allen)

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Vatican City

Venezuela

Vietnam

Wallis and Futuna Islands

Western Sahara

Yemen

Zambia

Zimbabwe

there are countries i've seen more than one movie from. as for my reasoning behind which film i choose to list, i don't have any. i just write down whatever comes to mind first.

i'm literally more than a hundred films away from completing this. i'll probably die without succeeding.

#films

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uniquetyphoonmiracle · 5 months ago

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También me parece CASUALIDAD que ESTO O EL ATAQUE CARDIACO me haya dado JUSTO tras VOLVER de mis VACACIONES que cerré 11 agosto [cumpleaños de BUNBURY=1er grupo APOCALIPSIS y de CERATI que se sacaban 8 años..o los líderes de los 2 grupos más exitosos en ESPAÑA Y ARGENTINA O IBEROAMERICANOS] colándome en una PRESA [con pintada YOU ARE UNFORGETABLE] al equivocarme camino de ORIHUELA o a La casa_museo de MIGUEL HERNANDEZ [al que Pablo Neruda llamaba ARCANGEL DE LUZ que quito la SOMBRA DE ESPAÑA] cuyos poemas musicalizo por primera vez Enrique MORENTE [1971, mi año] del que he hablado hoy por LA CLINICA "LA LUZ" donde le opero [con mala praxis según su familia y murio] la eminencia del DR ENRIQUE MORENO como a mí MADRE [la rehízo fantásticamente una mala operación previa ] y a RAPHAEL le puso un Hígado [para el que su paisana VIRGINIA MAESTRO compuso EN PIE del cd INFINITOS BAILES del que hizo la gira LOCO POR CANTAR cuyo cartel fotografie junto a la ESTATUA DE CRISTO en BILBAO al ir a ver a GUNS N ROSES en 2017

Además JOAN MANEL SERRAT [con cuyo YERNO el actor Daniel MURIEL se caso con su hija tras dejar a la chica del TIEMPO de TELECINCO FLORA GONZALEZ LOPEZ..me bañe en calzoncillos en la piscina del Hotel resort OASIS=grupo antes conocido como THE RAIN..en CANCUN tras la fiesta de la gala MISS ESPAÑA 2009 donde me cole viniendo de EL SALVADOR ..haciendo AHOGADILLAS a las MISSES y consolando a MISS MURCIA=T_AMARA VERA=CIERTO.. junto a la MISS ESPAÑA '08 Patricia YURENA]..fue el siguiente que lo musicalizo en 1972 y despues en 2010 con el titulo de cd HIJO DE LA LUZ y de LA SOMBRA

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agendaculturaldelima · 7 months ago

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#SinMusicaNoExisto

🎶 “POP / HIP HOP / ELECTRÓNICA” 💃🌹🥳

👸 Fran Straube (Rubio / Chile - 1987)

🗯Entre los 2009 y 2018 fue vocalista y baterista de la banda electro-punk Miss Garrison, y baterista de la banda electrónica Picnic Kibun y de Diego Ridolfi (Fármacos). A finales del año 2017 lanza su proyecto solista RUBIO, propuesta que mezcla pop, hip hop, electrónica, ambient y elementos de música étnica; además de su primer Ep “R” y al año siguiente su primer álbum, «Pez».

🏟 Se presenta en el Festival Lollapalooza Chile en las ediciones 2018, 2019 y 2022, Primavera Sound en Barcelona (España), The Great Escape 2019 en Brighton (Inglaterra) y el Festival Ceremonia 2023 en Ciudad de México. Se forma paralela, compone canciones y temas incidentales para series y películas chilenas e internacionales, incluyendo la película mexicana-argentina “La Caída”.

🎖En el año 2019 es nominada a los Premios Pulsar en las categorías de Artista del Año, Canción del Año por «Hacia el fondo» y Mejor Artista Pop por «Pez». Hacia el año es nominada en las categorías Artista del Año, Álbum del Año por «Mango Negro» y Mejor Artista Pop.🎙️🎸🎹🥁🤩

💿 Discografía:

💽 Pez (2018)

💽 Mango Negro (2021)

💽 Venus & Blue (2023).

📌 CONCIERTO:

📆 Viernes 21 de Junio

🕗 9:00pm.

🏪 Yield Bar (jr. Carabaya 815 - Centro de Lima)

🎫 Entrada: S/.99

🖱 Reservas: https://www.joinnus.com/events/concerts/lima-rubio-en-lima-61589

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Chile’s wildfires kill at least 112, as Boric warns death toll to rise

The death toll from raging wildfires in Chile has risen to at least 112 people, with hundreds more missing, authorities have said.

President Gabriel Boric on Sunday warned that casualties would rise “significantly” as forest fires continued to blaze in the central region of Valparaiso.

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Dabiri-Erewa warns Nigerians against irregular migration, Especially to Canada

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“It is Chile as a whole that suffers and mourns our dead,” Boric said in a televised speech. “We are facing a tragedy of very great magnitude.”

Authorities said 200 people were reported missing in and around the city of Viña del Mar, a popular beach resort where some of the most intense fires have raged.

Several neighbourhoods on the eastern edge of the city, which is known for its annual international music festival, were destroyed by flames, leaving residents to sift through the remains of their burnt-out homes.

Boric on Friday declared a state of emergency as he pledged support for people trying to recover from the disaster.

“We are together, all of us, fighting the emergency,” he said. “The priority is to save lives.”

Almost 26,000 hectares (64,000 acres) of land had been burned across the Latin American country’s central and southern regions as of Sunday, according to the national disaster service SENAPRED.

Some 1,400 firefighters and 1,300 military personnel, as well as 31 firefighting helicopters and aeroplanes, have been deployed to fight the fires, according to authorities.

Wildfires are not uncommon in Chile during the summer months and about 27 people died in a spate of blazes in the south-central region of the country last year.

This season’s fires, however, have been far deadlier than past blazes, including fires in 2017 that killed at least 11 people and were widely described as the worst in the country’s history.

During his Sunday address, Pope Francis, who hails from neighbouring Argentina, called for prayers for the “dead and wounded in the devastating fires in Chile”.

The fires followed record high temperatures, low humidity and high wind speeds in central Chile driven by the El Niño weather pattern.

Scientists have warned that natural disasters such as wildfires are likely to become more common due to warming temperatures caused by climate change.

Dabiri-Erewa warns Nigerians against irregular migration, Especially to Canada

The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has urged Nigerians travelling abroad to go legitimately and with proper documentation

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Random Real Thoroughbred: MR POLLOCK

MR POLLOCK is a colt born in Argentina in 2017. By E DUBAI out of MISS LUNA LUNA. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/mr+pollock

#/mr+pollock

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He won the Rugby World Cup with the All Blacks. Now, Malakai Fekitoa has found a ‘new purpose’ with Tonga

Malakai Fekitoa may have been born and raised on the small island nation of Tonga, but his goal as a promising young rugby player was always to represent a country thousands of miles across the ocean.

Long before he had the chance to travel to New Zealand, Fekitoa set his sights on competing for the All Blacks – undoubtedly the most famous rugby team on the planet.

“It was always a dream of mine to play for New Zealand, even though I was born and raised in Tonga,” Fekitoa tells CNN Sport.

“Every young kid there either wanted to play for Australia or New Zealand. We always wanted to be like those boys on TV and we all wanted to leave straight after school or during our school years to find an opportunity to play rugby.”

Despite being Tonga’s national sport, opportunities to pursue a career as a rugby player in the country are limited compared to those in Australia and New Zealand, where there are clear pathways for young players to reach the top of the sport.

It was after playing for Tonga at the Wellington Sevens as a 16-year-old that Fekitoa was offered a place at Wesley College in Auckland, a high school that counts Jonah Lomu and numerous other current and former international rugby players among its former pupils.

Fekitoa tries to force his way through a tackle during a Rugby Championship match between New Zealand and Argentina in 2014.Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

For Fekitoa, it would be a launchpad for his successful career. After becoming eligible to play for New Zealand under a three-year residency rule, the hard-running, big-tackling center went on to play 24 times for the All Blacks and was part of the team’s Rugby World Cup triumph in 2015.

“It was an experience of a lifetime, nothing like it will ever compare,” Fekitoa says about playing for the three-time world champions.

These days, however, he can be seen wearing the red jersey of Tonga, rather than New Zealand’s iconic black kit. His decision to play club rugby in Europe prevented Fekitoa from being selected for the All Blacks, but now the chance to compete internationally with the country of his birth has returned.

A rule permitting players to switch allegiances if they compete in an Olympic qualifying competition for rugby sevens – a shortened, seven-a-side format of the sport – enabled Fekitoa to represent Tonga in Monaco two years ago.

In some instances, rugby’s eligibility rules – as the 31-year-old’s international career testifies – allow a degree of flexibility over which country a player represents. In 2017, it was announced that players had to have residency in a country for five years, increased from three, in order to play for that nation.

Then from January 2022, a rule came into force enabling players to transfer to a country they – or a parent or grandparent – were born in, as long as they haven’t played an international game for three years.

Charles Piutau runs with the ball for Tonga against Fiji last year.Leon Lord/AFP/Getty Images

Adam Coleman, a former Australia international, is in line to make his debut for Tonga during the tournament, although another ex-Wallaby, controversial full-back Israel Folau, misses out due to injury.

Tonga begins its World Cup campaign against Ireland, the world’s top-ranked team, on Saturday, hoping to progress beyond the group stages for the first time.

“It’s different emotions and it’s a different feeling, playing for my own country where I was born and where most of my family are still,” says Fekitoa.

“It’s kind of a different drive as well. You always wanted to play at the time with New Zealand, the best team in the world … Once you achieve that, you want to be something different. And for me, this is a new purpose.”

Representing Tonga at the World Cup is the latest chapter in Fekitoa’s itinerant rugby career, which so far has taken him from New Zealand to club teams in France, England, Ireland, and soon, Italy.

“I’m still very, very young and I’ve got a lot to offer to the game, especially at the highest level,” he says. “With the rule change and everything that happened, I felt, why not give back, why not share my experience, and why not represent my family?”

With no chance of being selected for the All Blacks while playing in Europe, the decision to represent Tonga was perhaps an obvious one for Fekitoa. But the choice to move away from New Zealand in the first instance, he says, was “probably the hardest of my life” – particularly as he was only 25 at the time.

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Sunday, August 13, 2023

Lahaina’s Suffering (NYT) Along the empty streets of Lahaina, the warped shells of vehicles sit as if frozen in time, some of them still in the middle of the road, pointed toward escapes that were cut short. Others stand in driveways next to houses that are now piles of ash, many still smoldering with acrid smoke. A few agitated myna birds chirp from their perches on palm trees that have been singed into matchsticks, the carcasses of other birds and several cats scattered below them in the streets. Across the town that was once home to 13,000 people, residents are slowly returning and sifting through the debris of their homes, some of them in tears, finding little to salvage. In a neighborhood along the burned hillside, Shelly and Avi Ronen were searching the rubble of their home for a safe that held $50,000 of savings, left behind with the rest of their belongings when they fled the fire. They considered themselves lucky to have made it out at all: A man just up the hill did not survive, and neighbors told them that several children who had ventured outside to get a look when the fire was approaching were now missing. With at least 89 deaths, the fire is now among the nation’s deadliest wildfires of the past century.

Will Kenya Intervene in Haiti? (Foreign Policy) Kenya is preparing to send an assessment team to Haiti within the next two weeks to determine the operational requirements for leading a potential multinational police intervention to help the country address its gang problem. Previous foreign military interventions and peacekeeping missions have failed to establish long-term stability in Haiti. The most recent one, by the United Nations from 2004 to 2017, restored some order in the country but was tainted by accusations of soldiers’ sexual assaults against Haitians and the introduction of cholera to the country. Washington has said it wants to support Haiti in its time of need but has been reluctant to lead a military force. “For months and months the U.S. has tried to cajole Canada and Brazil into taking on a military intervention in Haiti, and both [have] been saying, ‘Thank you, no’ over and over,” Brookings Institution analyst Vanda Felbab-Brown tweeted last week. “Among other reasons, they appropriately assess what a military challenge an intervention will be.”

Argentine rock-singing libertarian shakes up presidential election race (Reuters) Argentina’s presidential election race has an unpredictable X factor: Javier Milei, a fiery and wild-haired libertarian who wears leather jackets, belts out rock songs to his supporters, and wants to purge politics of what he calls “thieves.” The 52-year-old economist, whose brash showmanship has shades of former U.S. president Donald Trump or Italy’s Beppe Grillo, has shot from relative obscurity a few years ago to now polling at one-fifth of the likely vote, with his combative, rock-style rallies appealing to voters angry at 116% inflation and rising poverty. He has pledged to “blow up” the political status quo, shutter the central bank, dollarize the economy, and massively shrink the state—ideas that have resonated with many voters, especially the young, after years of economic decline. Milei remains a long-shot to win the Oct. 22 general election, but has turned it into a three-way race, challenging the ruling Peronist coalition and the main conservative opposition grouping Together for Change.

Britain’s barge for asylum seekers faces new setback as legionella bacteria found in water system (AP) Britain’s plan to house asylum seekers on a barge moored off the south coast of England ran into another hurdle on Friday as authorities were forced to evacuate the first residents after legionella bacteria was found in the water system. The move came just days after the first men were moved onto the Bibby Stockholm, a floating hostel that can accommodate up to 500 people, as part of a government effort to cut the cost of sheltering the growing number of people applying for asylum in Britain.

More evacuations considered in Norway where the level in swollen rivers continues to rise (AP) Authorities were on standby to evacuate more people in southeastern Norway Friday, where huge amounts of water, littered with broken trees, debris and trash, were thundering down the usually serene rivers after days of torrential rain. The level of water in swollen rivers and lakes continued to grow despite two days of dry but overcast weather, with houses abandoned in flooded areas, floating hay bales wrapped in white plastic, cars coated in mud and camping sites swamped. “This has been like a disaster movie,” Solveig Vestenfor, the mayor of Aal municipality that has been affected by the floods, told NRK.

Russian Orthodox priests face persecution from state and church for supporting peace in Ukraine (AP) Standing in an old Orthodox church in Antalya with a Bible in one hand and a candle in the other, the Rev. Ioann Koval led one of his first services in Turkey after Russian Orthodox Church leadership decided to defrock him following his prayer for peace in Ukraine. Last September, when President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists, Moscow Patriarch Kirill required his clergymen to pray for victory. Standing in front of the altar and dozens of his parishioners in one of Moscow’s churches, Koval decided to put the peace above the patriarch’s orders. In the prayer he recited multiple times, the 45-year-old priest changed just one word, replacing “victory” with “peace”—but it was enough for the church court to remove his priestly rank. Publicly praying or calling for peace also poses risks of prosecution from the Russian state. Shortly after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, lawmakers passed legislation that allowed prosecuting thousands of people for “discrediting the Russian army,” a charge that in reality applies to anything that contradicts the official narrative, be it a commentary on social networks or a prayer in church. Since the beginning of the war, at least 30 Orthodox priests have faced pressure by religious or state authorities.

Ukraine Fires Top Military Enlistment Officers After Bribery Scandal (NYT) President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine announced on Friday that his government was dismissing all of the country’s regional military recruitment chiefs to crack down on corruption, after multiple revelations of officers taking bribes to let men evade being drafted into fighting the Russian invasion. The announcement this week that since the invasion prosecutors had opened 112 cases against 33 officials involved in recruitment offered the latest evidence that the war had provided new avenues for the entrenched governmental corruption that has long plagued Ukraine. Two recruitment officers have been accused in recent days of enriching themselves by falsifying documents that label men as unfit for service—in some cases collecting $10,000 per head. The allegations come as bombs are falling on civilians, soldiers are dying, Ukraine is trying to enlist more troops to replace those killed or wounded, and millions are sacrificing to ensure the nation’s survival.

Tensions between Ukraine and Poland over grain (Washington Post) Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Poland has been among Ukraine’s staunchest supporters, providing military and economic aid, taking in millions of Ukrainian refugees, championing Kyiv’s position in international forums and transforming its territory into the main conduit for Western arms shipments bound for the front lines. But even among the closest of friends, serious quarrels can arise. Last week, Polish and Ukrainian officials clashed openly, after Marcin Przydacz, a foreign policy adviser to Polish President Andrzej Duda, said that Ukraine should “start appreciating the role that Poland has played for Ukraine in recent months and years.” His remarks were in response to a growing dispute between Kyiv and Warsaw over Ukrainian grain exports into Poland, in which Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal had called Poland’s actions “unfriendly and populist.” “Ukraine really got a lot of support from Poland,” Przydacz said in an interview with Polish radio in late July. “What is most important today is defending the interest of the Polish farmer.”

China sends finance experts to tackle regions’ debts (Financial Times) Beijing is making one of its biggest top-down efforts in years to tackle the debts racked up by local governments in a sign of authorities’ mounting concern over the risk to financial stability as the economy falters. China’s state council, the country’s cabinet, is sending teams of officials to more than 10 of the country’s financially weakest provinces to scrutinize their books—including the liabilities of opaque off-balance sheet entities—and find ways to cut their debts. The enormous debts accumulated by China’s provinces have become an urgent problem for policymakers as they try to end the country’s long reliance on a debt-fueled infrastructure binge to drive economic growth. One Goldman Sachs estimate puts the total local government debt pile at Rmb94 trillion ($13 trillion), including liabilities of the off-balance sheet entities known as local government financing vehicles.

China’s Military Probes Taiwan’s Defenses (NYT) China has been steadily intensifying military pressure on Taiwan over the past year, sending jets, drones, bombers and other planes farther and in greater numbers to extend an intimidating presence all around the island. Chinese naval ships and air force planes have been edging closer to Taiwan’s territorial seas and skies, probing the island’s vigilance and trying to wear down its military planes and ships. Chinese forces have also been operating more frequently in skies and waters off the island’s eastern coast, facing the West Pacific. China’s increasing presence there signals its intent to dominate an expanse of sea that could be vital for the island’s defenses, including for securing potential aid from the United States in a conflict, experts say. Beijing claims Taiwan is its lost territory that must accept unification, preferably peacefully, but by force if Chinese leaders deem that necessary. It has seized on moments of high tension with Taiwan to intensify military activities around the island, and it may put on another show of force in the coming days, when Taiwan’s vice president, Lai Ching-te, passes through the United States.

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Holidays 7.9

Holidays

Arbor Day (Cambodia)

ASB Community Action Day

Call of the Horizon Day

Chicken Days begin (Nebraska)

Constitution Day (Australia, Palau)

Constitutionalist Revolution Day (São Paulo, Brazil)

Day of the Employees of the Diplomatic Service (Azerbaijan)

Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Utah)

Donkey Kong Day

Family Day (Ukraine)

Fashion Day

Festival of Grand Unified Theories

Flag Day (Chile)

Goat Mother’s Day

Intern Appreciation Day

International Small Arms Destruction Day

Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Festival begins (Turkey)

Mars

Mint Day (French Republic)

Muffler Appreciation Day

National Camel Toad Hunting Day (Secular Church of the SubGenius)

National Culture Day (Kiribati)

National Dimples Day

National Lavender Day

National No Bra Day

National Student’s Day (India)

Nunavut Day (Canada)

Paper Napkin Day

Rock Around the Clock Day

Shiman Rokusen-nichi (Day of 46,000; Tokyo, Japan)

Special Recreation Day

State Rebellion Day (São Paulo, Brazil)

Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Day (Ohio)

White Ensign Anniversary Day (UK)

Wimbledon Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Omelette Day

National Chicken Day

National Sugar Cookie Day

World Pakora Day

2nd Sunday in July

Barn Day [2nd Sunday]

Disability Awareness Day (UK) [2nd Sunday]

Father’s Day (Uruguay) [2nd Sunday]

Festival of the Giants begins (Fête des Géants; France) [Sunday after 7.5]

Lá Cuimhneacháin Náisiúnta (National Day of Commemoration; Ireland) [Sunday closet to 7.11]

Independence Days

Argentina (from Spain, 1816)

Kebec (f.k.a. Alaurentia; Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Luxe (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

South Sudan (from Sudan, 2011)

Feast Days

Agilulfus of Cologne (Christian; Saint)

Amandina of Schakkebroek (Christian; A Martyr of Southern Hunan)

Caprotinia (Old Roman Female Slave Festival)

Charlotte the Penguin (Muppetism)

St. Clotilde (Positivist; Saint)

Cyril and Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

David Hockney (Artology)

Day of Unn the Wise Person (a.k.a. Day of Remembrance for Ann the Deep Minded; Pagan)

Dharma Day (Buddhist) [Full Moon, 8th Lunar Month]

Ekādaśī Tithi (Self-Purification Festival; Hindism, Vaishnavism) [11th Lunar Day]

Ephrem of Edessa (Christian; Saint)

Everilda (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Chinese Martyrs (Christian; Martyrs)

Feast of the Martyrs of Gorkum (Christian; Martyrs)

Feast of Our Lady of Peace (Christian)

Feast of Translation of Nicolas (Christian; Confessor)

Gregorio Grassi (Christian; A Martyr of Shanxi)

Invent a Word Day (Pastafarian)

Marija Petković (Christian; Blessed)

Martyrdom of the Báb (Bahá'í)

Martyrs of Gorkum (Christian; Martyrs)

Mary Hermina Grivot (Christian; Saint)

Mojo Nixon Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Our Lady of Itatí (Christian)

Our Lady of Peace, Octave of the Visitation (Christian)

Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá (Christian; Saint)

Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (Christian; Saint)

Rusty (Muppetism)

Sabinus (Christian; Martyr)

Solstitium VI (Pagan)

Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican commemoration)

Veronica Giuliani (Christian; Saint)

Zeno (Christian; Martyr)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [26 of 53]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

American Pie (Film; 1999)

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Film; 2004)

The Bears and Bees (Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Black Widow (Film: 2021)

Blowin’ in the Wind, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1962)

Blue, by LeAnn Rimes (Album; 1996)

Despicable Me (Animated Film; 2010)

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Film; 2010)

The Golden Compass (a.k.a. Northern Lights), by Philip Pullman (Nove; 1995) [His Dark Materials #1]

Love and Curses (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Loving You (Elvis Presley Film; 1957)

The Office (UK TV Series; 2001)

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (Film; 1975)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Film; 2003)

Pluto’s Purchase (Disney Cartoon; 1948)

Predators (Film; 2010)

The Queen Was in the Parlor (WB MM Cartoon; 1932)

Riding Giants (Documentary Film; 2004)

Rookie of the Year (Film; 1993)

Tall Timber (Disney Cartoon; 1928)

This Is a Life? (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Tron (Film; 1982)

Winnebago Man (Documentary Film; 2010)

Today’s Name Days

Augustin, Gottfried, Veronika (Austria)

Leticija, Marija, Veronika (Croatia)

Drahoslava (Czech Republic)

Sostrata (Denmark)

Aive, Aivi (Estonia)

Ilta, Jade, Jasmiina, Jasmin, Nanna (Finland)

Amandine, Hermine, Iphigénie, Marianne (France)

Hannes, Hermine, Veronika (Germany)

Pagratios (Greece)

Lukrécia (Hungary)

Letizia (Italy)

Asne, Tusnelda, Zaiga (Latvia)

Algirdas, Algirdė, Leonardas, Veronika (Lithuania)

Gøran, Jøran, Ørjan (Norway)

Anatolia, Heloiza, Hieronim, Lucja, Łucja, Ludwika, Lukrecja, Mikołaj, Patrycjusz, Weronika, Wszebąd, Zenon, Zenona (Poland)

Lujza (Slovakia)

Verónica (Spain)

Götilda , Jörgen, Örjan (Sweden)

Averil, Avery, Junior, Misty (USA)

Amandine (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 190 of 2024; 175 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 27 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 22 (Wu-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 20 Tammuz 5783

Islamic: 20 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444

J Cal: 10 Lux; Threesday [10 of 30]

Julian: 26 June 2023

Moon: 55%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 22 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Clotilde]

Runic Half Month: Feoh (Wealth) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 19 of 94)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 19 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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