One of the projects I'm working on ... https://charlatan.ca/2023/01/17/canadian-researchers-dig-for-the-deeper-meaning-of-a-traditional-metis-dance/
Dr. OSuxanna Steele
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Part III The book's authors write that the US and UK ruled the Afghan skies. Wrong in that one too - I hopped onto more than one Chinook outside the wire, and flew into KAF in a Canadian-flown Herc. from 'Camp Mirage', the staging base that all who entered the war zone had to be funnelled through. My fellow passengers were American, British, you name it.
Part IV I was there in 2009 (around the time Capt. Wales was) when Canada was running the base at Kandahar Airfield, and the Role 3 hospital, not to mention the Cnds. fighting in Kandahar Province, one of the hottest theatres in A'stan.
I noted this same bias in my war studies and find it inexcusable in 2023. Lousy editing.
I noted this same bias in my war studies and find it inexcusable in 2023. Lousy editing.
Part II And speaking of Capt. Wales, his ghostwriter, and especially his editor, they have a lot of apologizing to do to the 158 Canadians (and families of the other 3,000+) who died in Afghanistan, & the multiples of those who were injured physically, morally, psychologically. It appears, as usual in war accounts by Brits or Americans, they were the only ones on the ground. The book briefly mentions the French & the Dutch, but nothing of the other ISAF coalition nations (over 50 of them).
Part I. Right then, so I'm reading this new memoir by Capt. (ret'd) Harry Wales & I'm definitely annoyed by the ghostwriter and the editor, both of whom do not get out of the way of said Captain's voice. Capt. Wales's voice, when it does poke through, is maybe not as interesting and fact-filled as the ghostwriter's infilling (clearly squeezing in their research), but it does - and isn't that what this chap is attempting to do - speak somewhat to his 'truth'? At least it reads that way.
today I cut a real life friend loose on a social media platform, and subsequently in real life too, I think. I don't know if it's that I was brought up to be polite, but I put up with this guy's really nasty comments for years. Since the Pandemicamonium he's got nastier and nastier. They say hurt people hurt ... ya well there are lots of hurt people in this world and they have dignity and a sense of decorum. This guy lost his somewhere along the line.
Pete WalkdenSnow Squirrel
Watching red squirrels scurrying and springing around a woodland in the Highlands is wonderful, but add a blizzard into the mix, and magic happens.
With big, fat flakes of snow falling through the canopy, I managed to get a shot of one of the resident squirrels as it leapt from a branch.
#RedSquirrel #ScottishWildlife #ScottishHighlands #WildlifePhotography #Winter
Do yourself a favour and register (free) and watch this magnificent version of Pagliacci. If Baritone Russell Thomas's singing doesn't make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, you just may need to get your ears checked!! Bravo Lyric Opera of Chicago!!
https://www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcoming/2020-21/pagliacci/?fbclid=IwAR2YM1l_dPx90LaTW7Nu1UayFv3CSprr0uCjEFC8PSFgoc9p1gwzS4hL2nk
https://www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcoming/2020-21/pagliacci/?fbclid=IwAR2YM1l_dPx90LaTW7Nu1UayFv3CSprr0uCjEFC8PSFgoc9p1gwzS4hL2nk
Luc Rocher 🍃Hello Mastodon.
I am looking for new PhD students to come work with me at the Oxford Internet Institute in 22/23 (@oiioxford) to study the future of data privacy and digital rights, the impact of AI and algorithms on digital platforms, and help co-create better digital futures.
Boosts very much appreciated! 🐘