How-To: Migrate notes from Evernote to Apple Notes | 9to5Mac
How-To: Migrate notes from Evernote to Apple Notes | 9to5Mac
— Read on 9to5mac.com/2016/02/09/how-to-export-notes-evernote-apple-notes/
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Is it indeed time for a timeout? “A timeout is Britain’s best Brexit option” | Financial Times
It should be clear by now that the UK is nowhere near ready to leave the EU
Source: A timeout is Britain’s best Brexit option | Financial Times
When lies come dressed as numbers
Ronald Reagan at his best.
They don’t make them like this anymore.LJ
OECD — OECD Watch
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) was established in 1961. Today, the OECD is a forum of 34 industrialised countries that develops and promotes economic and social policies. Its mission is to ‘build strong economies in its member countries, improve efficiency, home market systems, expand free trade, and contribute to development in industrialised as well as developing countries’. Simply stated, the OECD acts on behalf of and in collaboration with its member governments to promote free market policies and trade.
— Read on www.oecdwatch.org/oecd-guidelines/oecd
Lux laundry soap ad 1936 girdle-washing
Most amusing. I wonder what the response would be nowadays! LJ
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Source: Lux laundry soap ad 1936 girdle washing | witness2fashion
Those were the days!
Justin Welby is an irrelevance leading his flock into the wilderness | Peter Stanford | Opinion | The Guardian
Good sense, an increasingly infrequent phenomenon in the Guardian.LJ
In taking on Amazon, the Church of England’s management guru showed yet again he hadn’t done his homework, says journalist Peter Stanford
It is later than you think
It Is Later Than You Think
BY ROBERT W. SERVICE
Lone amid the café’s cheer,
Sad of heart am I to-night;
Dolefully I drink my beer,
But no single line I write.
There’s the wretched rent to pay,
Yet I glower at pen and ink:
Oh, inspire me, Muse, I pray,
It is later than you think!
Hello! there’s a pregnant phrase.
Bravo! let me write it down;
Hold it with a hopeful gaze,
Gauge it with a fretful frown;
Tune it to my lyric lyre …
Ah! upon starvation’s brink,
How the words are dark and dire:
It is later than you think.
Weigh them well …. Behold yon band,
Students drinking by the door,
Madly merry, bock in hand,
Saucers stacked to mark their score.
Get you gone, you jolly scamps;
Let your parting glasses clink;
Seek your long neglected lamps:
It is later than you think.
Look again: yon dainty blonde,
All allure and golden grace,
Oh so willing to respond
Should you turn a smiling face.
Play your part, poor pretty doll;
Feast and frolic, pose and prink;
There’s the Morgue to end it all,
And it’s later than you think.
Yon’s a playwright — mark his face,
Puffed and purple, tense and tired;
Pasha-like he holds his place,
Hated, envied and admired.
How you gobble life, my friend;
Wine, and woman soft and pink!
Well, each tether has its end:
Sir, it’s later than you think.
See yon living scarecrow pass
With a wild and wolfish stare
At each empty absinthe glass,
As if he saw Heaven there.
Poor damned wretch, to end your pain
There is still the Greater Drink.
Yonder waits the sanguine Seine …
It is later than you think.
Lastly, you who read; aye, you
Who this very line may scan:
Think of all you planned to do …
Have you done the best you can?
See! the tavern lights are low;
Black’s the night, and how you shrink!
God! and is it time to go?
Ah! the clock is always slow;
It is later than you think;
Sadly later than you think;
Far, far later than you think.
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Spanish Armada ship found off Donegal Coast – BBC News
A Captain of the Armada
Said “I admit the English are harder
Than we, though we gave it our all.”
So he dropped anchor and settled in Donegal.”LJ (Clerihews, 2018)
A wreck believed to be a ship from the Spanish Armada, discovered by archaeologists off the coast of County Donegal, is to be excavated by the Irish government.
— Read on www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14418698
A word cloud of recent clerihew targets…
Jolly good! Tally ho!
Six signs you have become an embarrassing mid-life drinker
— Read on www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/6-signs-have-become-embarrassing-midlife-drinker/
An unfortunate title for a film…

Dreams of public resting places… (a cloud-spotter’s predicament)
A podcast from the BBC “Fourthought” series
“Could we collectively reimagine public space in such a way that it serves more people?”
Avoiding the step-parent trap – Telegraph
Food for thought…LJ
Flora McEvedy explains how she overcame feelings of anger and resentment towards her stepchildren.
Apple will bring iOS apps to the Mac
This answers one of my questions, sadly not as I should have wished it to be answered. I should have liked to be able to update Daily Notes on my Mac. This will not be possible. LJ
Fact Affliction: John Train’s True Remarkable Obsession – The Washington Post
I purchased a copy of “Remarkable Names of Real People” from Blackwell’s, whilst in my first year at Christ Church, a little over forty years ago now. I was therefore delighted to chance upon this article in the Washington Post, which explains its genesis. Who could not take pleasure in the giddying abundance of improbable names? Life is a constant source of paronomasia and nomenclatural delight.
Melissy Dalciny Caldony Yankee Pankee Devil-Take-The-Irishman Garrison. QED. Amen LJ
Fact Affliction: John Train’s True Remarkable Obsession – The Washington Post
Hurricane Florence
I’ve subscribed to the Atlantic again. The reportage purports to be balanced and objective, in contradistinction to that of other American periodicals, and I think this claim is broadly an honest one. LJ
www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/hurricane-florence-the-deluge-begins/570370/
Couch to 5K: week by week – NHS
I’ve completed this once and thoroughly recommend it. We’re now doing the whole thing again, from scratch, as before. It’s good for the soul!
A week-by-week description of the nine-week set of Couch to 5K podcasts.
— Read on www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/couch-to-5k-week-by-week/
Lo scherzo di Ronaldo: spunta alle spalle del giornalista e gli fa il verso Lo scherzo di Ronaldo: spunta alle spalle del giornalista e gli fa il verso – La Stampa
Ma chi se ne frega? LJ
Enrico Zambruno è “vittima” di Cristiano Ronaldo, che spunta alle sue spalle e gli fa il verso. «Non mi ero accorto di nulla !» ha scritto il giornalista su Instagram, dove ha pubblicato il video dello scherzo dell’attaccante juventino, che nel giro di pochi minuti è diventato virale. (Instagram @enricozambruno )
— Read on www.lastampa.it/2018/09/14/sport/lo-scherzo-di-ronaldo-spunta-alle-spalle-del-giornalista-e-gli-fa-il-verso-oY5nkOudwyipQN6AukVbSK/pagina.html
A Giant in the Century
Macron…
“Luc Ferry : «Macron plus impopulaire que Hollande»” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/politique/2018/09/12/31001-20180912ARTFIG00285-luc-ferry-macron-plus-impopulaire-que-hollande.php
Lyme disease – NHS
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks.
I am surprised more teachers don’t therefore suffer from it, given their exposure levels… LJ
— Read on www.nhs.uk/conditions/lyme-disease/
Georges Brassens
My cat, aka “The Cat”
Cats waking their companions
An interesting proposal
Give all prisoners phones, says Justice Secretary
— Read on www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/09/08/give-prisoners-phones-says-justice-secretary/
La Ndrangheta calabraise et la Camorra napolitaine en France
“«La France est une terre d’élection pour la mafia calabraise»” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2018/09/07/01003-20180907ARTFIG00303-giuseppe-governale-la-france-est-une-terre-d-election-pour-la-mafia-calabraise.php
An interesting phenomenon
“Stop à l’autosabotage: comment reprogrammer notre cerveau pour qu’il cesse de nous freiner” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2018/09/07/01008-20180907ARTFIG00341-stop-a-l-autosabotage-comment-reprogrammer-notre-cerveau-pour-qu-il-cesse-de-nous-freiner.php
Así se regula en el mundo el uso de móviles en el aula
Intervention in this area seems wise, for the deleterious impact of social media on the development of young people is troubling, not least because of the speed at which opinion becomes mob opinion. Adults behave no better than teenagers in respect of this. Smartphones have already been banned from schools in France; I’d like to see the same thing happen in the UK. LJ
Source: 20 Minutos Así se regula en el mundo el uso de móviles en el aula
Tolpuddle for lunch
No problem!
“Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.” Tacitus
“When the state is at its most corrupt, its laws are at its most numerous.” Tacitus
How true those words are, even to-day! LJ
Paul McCartney zag God toen hij high was | Show | AD.nl
Paul McCartney believes in a higher being. Fine.
Paul McCartney believes he has met this higher being. Not fine.
Paul McCartney, who now claims to have met God whilst under the influence of a narcotic drug, is an ocean-going turnip.
One of my tutors, Christopher Robinson, in his work on French Literature of the 19th Century, refers in his consideration of Flaubert’s Félicité, protagonist of “Un coeur simple”, the first of the “Trois Contes”, to her state of “transcendent self-deception” at the moment of incommunicable “revelation” when the Logos becomes fused and confused, deep within the self, with her recollected image of her beloved parrot. Look no further. Paul McCartney has demonstrated the enduring veracity of the notion. If this isn’t “transcendent self-deception”, then I don’t know what is. To communicate this during a period of our history when narcotics constitute such a grave problem, for more than one generation, is an act of egregious irresponsibility. Perhaps he isn’t feeling the eyes of the world upon him. Perhaps he is looking for love, which is apparently “all you need”. Perhaps it is indeed time, after all, for him to sink into oblivion. LJ
Voormalige Beatle Paul McCartney gelooft in een hoger wezen. Hij heeft naar eigen zeggen God ontmoet na drugsgebruik. Dat zei de 76-jarige componist en zanger tegen de Engelse krant The Times.
Source: Paul McCartney zag God toen hij high was | Show | AD.nl
Children will be banned from buying energy drinks under plans announced by Theresa May to tackle disruptive behaviour in classrooms.
This gesture of commitment to the welfare of young people might look a little more convincing if it were set within the context of a broader coherent policy of protective intervention, extending to such areas as the restriction of sales of smartphones for use by minors. The implementation of a policy excluding them from schools (the smartphones, not the minors, at least not yet…), such as that already courageously set in place in France, might entail tangible benefits. Certain schools (I am sure this is not true for all) also appear to have thrown in the towel with regard to responsible regulation of the sale of junk food and drinks, the battle against the dominion of social media and instruction in what constitutes basic good sense. Young people deserve more confident guidance than this and adults should have the courage to provide it. LJ
The Daily Telegraph: Energy drinks ban for children to tackle disruptive behaviour in class
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