Jul. 24th, 2022

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Mostly I'm happy to hear that Leuven signed Nicky Evrard to a fully pro contract before the tournament because otherwise I'd have to complain about the player of the match for one quarterfinal (and let's be honest, someone in with a shout of being Belgian player of the tournament) was only semi-pro like most of the rest of her team. There is still a much larger divide between the "big" footballing nations and the "small" footballing nations in the women's game, but hopefully the success of Euro 2022 might help close the gap.

Following the quarterfinals, the network diagram looks like this:

Unlabelled and labelled diagrams below the cut )

Sweden are now the national team nearest the centre, while BK Häcken are the club team closest to the centre.

As so many Barcelona players play for Spain, Barcelona is no longer the club team represented by the most players. It is now VfL Wolfsburg, with 9, followed by Bayern Munich and Chelsea with 8 and Paris Saint Germain with 7.

The community view looks like this:

Two more network diagrams )

There are 5 communities, 1 for each country and 1 for Everton, possibly because they're the only club team evenly split between countries (neither of which is England, oddly).

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Jul. 24th, 2022 09:56 pm
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History:

A love story hidden in a hat - https://erikkwakkel.tumblr.com/post/55554381477/a-love-story-hidden-in-a-hat-you-are-looking-at-a

and two related posts

Hidden Treasure, or How Destruction Creates Beautiful Things - https://medievalfragments.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/hidden-treasure-or-how-destruction-creates-beautiful-things/

A Hidden Medieval Archive Surfaces - https://medievalfragments.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/a-hidden-medieval-archive-surfaces/

Miscellaneous:

It's four in the morning... Last thing at night, or early in the morning? We meet seven people for whom 04:00 is the best time of day. - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/its_four_in_the_morning

Why opioids are such an American problem - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41701718 In grand tradition, please ignore the BBC’s headline.

Resignation syndrome: Sweden's mystery illness - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-41748485

This Teen Nearly Died In A School Shooting. Now She's Just Trying To Live - https://www.npr.org/2019/05/17/712262943/this-teen-nearly-died-in-a-school-shooting-now-shes-just-trying-to-live

News:

PFI: five firms avoid tax despite £2bn profits, BBC learns - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41778609 From 2017 - as though PFI wasn't already enough of a rip-off

Food banks for pets: The people helping hard-up animal lovers - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41753856 From 2017

Science:

Why is it so difficult to discover new antibiotics? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41693229

Sport:

Parasport:

Hannah Cockroft: 'Para-classification tests are humiliating' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/41780947

Rugby League:

Clive Sullivan: The man who broke rugby's racial barrier - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41567041 It strikes me as interesting that BBC call Rugby League 'rugby' when it's anything good, and 'rugby league' when it's anything bad, because the racial barrier he broke was in Rugby League. In 1972. Wales Rugby Union had their first black captain in 2002 (the marvellous Colin Charvis), and England Rugby Union in 2004 (Jason Robinson who they stole from League - interesting article here - https://www.englandrugby.com/news/article/first-and-last-jason-robinson). Sullivan was one of several black Welsh players who moved from Union to League because they'd never get a Union game no matter how good they were - if I may recommend a documentary The Codebreakers, and associated statue - https://www.rugbycodebreakers.co.uk/ They're not all black but it's noticeable how many of them were. Rugby League owes a massive debt.
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Finished Chapter 3 on my Bounty Hunter, and it really is the weakest of the chapter 3s for any character, which makes me sad because the character stuff is still good, as are the individual missions (except Corellia) but it just doesn't hang together.

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