Junction of Hoar Stones Road and Mill Lee Road above Low Bradfield in the
#PeakDistrict.
#FingerpostFriday with a bonus
#GodCake W3W: ///power.liability.music
'Climbing, after all, remains one of those activities in which technical proficiency is in more than one sense its own reward.'
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From M John Harrison's review of Crux, by Gabriel Tallent, TLS 6399
#climbing'a fiction about people understanding themselves via the practice of an obsessional pastime; and all the while their author, coolly observant but – we hope – warm of heart, analyses them.
Tamarisk, Dan’s mother maintains, is a dirty little girl who will never get anywhere: but when Dan watches her climb, he feels himself to be in “the company of grace and courage such as most people went their entire lives without ever seeing”... 1/2
Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure.
E.g.
"To compare and rank universities, an audit must generate objective, transparent and unambiguous metrics for each institution. But as soon as the measure is publicly known, those who are measured by it start to focus on the measure itself, rather than on what it is supposed to measure."
From NJ Enfield's review of The Score, by C Thy Nguyen, TLS 6398
South Africa spent billions on infrastructure that was ill suited to its long-term needs, while the mismatch between the tournament’s demands and local football culture created “a sterile, globalised vehicle that happened to park itself in Africa”...As the World Cup’s requirements diverged from living conditions in these countries, matches were held in what Kuper calls “‘non-places’, like an airport or hotel lobby'
From Mike Jakeman's review of 2 books on the history of the World Cup, TLS 6398
'The World Cup’s third phase began in South Africa in 2010. This was the tournament where Fifa’s desire to take football around the world collided with the inability of the representatives of that country’s football culture to host such an event. In South Africa, football has always been a Black sport, but these communities did not have the resources to host a tournament on the scale of the World Cup...
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#Football #Globalization
The Public Domain Review
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