Paul McCartney's unseen photographs revealed

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Paul McCartney's unseen photographs revealed     In the 60s, youth culture exploded, spawning pop music, short hemlines and screaming fans. One witness saw this exciting time closer up than almost anyone else. "Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life," he recalls. Sir Paul McCartney was centre stage in some of the most iconic images of the era, as Beatlemania gripped Britain and beyond. Until now, the period described by McCartney as "bedlam", "pandemonium" and "mass hysteria" has largely been recorded from the outside looking in. But what did McCartney see as he looked out?  More like this: - James Bond and The Beatles - The Beatles' greatest album - A wild tale of rock ‘n’ roll excess Continued here

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Refugees are living longer in exile than ever before, with complex consequences for them and their host communities     The number of people forced from their homes, primarily because of conflict or climate change, is on the rise, topping 100 million people in 2022 – more than double the number of displaced people in 2012. About a third of those 100 million people are refugees. Refugees live in a legal limbo that can increasingly stretch for decades. And the number of people remaining refugees for five years or longer more than doubled over the past decade, topping 16 million in 2022. These are people who do not have a clear path to residency in any country but are unable to return to their homes because they are unsafe. Continued here

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Are You Failing to Prepare the Next Generation of C-Suite Leaders? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DAGGERWING     For many people leaders, that’s been the mantra for the past three years. “Let’s just get through this moment in time, focus on the short-term solutions for our immediate needs, and when things go back to normal, we’ll deal with all the issues we’ve been putting on the backburner.” Continued here

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Thit Kho: Vietnamese Braised Pork with Eggs     Ask Vietnamese-Australian chef Jerry Mai to describe Vietnamese food, and she is momentarily lost for words. It's hard to describe the complex flavours and aromas behind the cuisine, but one of her favourite dishes is, she said, pretty simple. It is thit kho, or braised pork with eggs. The dish, in which pork meat — usually pork belly — is stewed with boiled eggs in a coconut caramel sauce, has been a mainstay since her childhood.  Continued here

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Letter: Dominion Energy Defends Its Record     A senior executive at Dominion Energy responds to a critique of the company’s influence over Virginia politics.Dominion Energy provides power to two-thirds of Virginians but has been criticized for charging excessive rates and lobbying the government to free those rates from regulation, George Packer wrote this week. “This arrangement was entirely legal and scarcely noticed for years,” Packer explained. “It’s a glaring version of the corruption that underlies so much of American politics.” Continued here

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The Korean Wave: 25 stories that define Korea's dramatic history     This year, as Netflix pledged a $2.5bn investment in Korean visual media in the same month that Blackpink's headline performance at Coachella marked a milestone in the festival's representation of Asian music, it would appear that South Korea's pop culture revolution is in full force. But just as the V&A's Hallyu! The Korean Wave exhibition – which has dazzled UK visitors with ephemera from Parasite and Squid Game and rooms blasting BTS since September 2022 – comes to a close, another branch of K-culture, less concerned with audio-visual spectacle, is bringing the country's fascinating history into greater focus.This spring, Penguin Classics published their first collection of modern Korean literature in the UK – a short story anthology that brings the country’s dramatic 20th Century to life. The history witnessed via The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories, edited and curated by Bruce Fulton, parallels that observed in one of the great works of contemporary Korean long-form fiction: Min Jin Lee's Pachinko (season two of Apple TV+'s acclaimed adaptation wraps filming this month). With the Booker International Prize continuing to spotlight Korean storytelling in 2023, an exciting new chapter of the K-culture revolution is unfolding. And as Fulton and Lee tell BBC Culture, it's one that fosters a greater understanding of the country's development over the past century. Continued here

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Events in Bolivia and Brazil may signal a turning point for the Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis in Latin America     Matthew Casey-Pariseault serves on the board of directors at the Women's Ordination Conference, a non-profit organization working to ordain women as deacons, priests & bishops into an inclusive and accountable Roman Catholic Church.Demonstrations in Bolivia in recent weeks have been directed at a seemingly unusual target: the Catholic Church. Continued here

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Fraughan fool: Ireland's whipped cream and local berry treat     Along hedgerows and up Ireland's boggy hillsides grow small, wild berries, sweetened by summer sun and heralding the beginning of harvest. These purple berries are known as fraughans, from the Irish fraochán. Other names include herts (hurts or hursts), bilberry, whortleberry, whimberry or cowberry. They are the wild cousin to the cultivated blueberry, with an intense sweetness and juiciness that belies their diminutive size.Their peak ripeness coincides with harvest-time celebrations, such as hay making, an important time of feasting and festivals throughout Ireland. On the first Sunday in August, it's customary for local people to descend upon places where fraughans flourish to pick and gorge on as many as they can. This day is known as Fraughan Sunday, also Garland Sunday, and coincides with the old Celtic festival of Lughnasa, one of four important "cross-quarter days" that occur at the midpoint between each solstice and equinox. Continued here

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How the exposure of highly classified documents could harm US security - and why there are laws against storing them insecurely     When Donald Trump pled not guilty on June 13, 2023, to federal criminal charges related to his alleged illegal retention of classified documents, it was his first opportunity to formally answer charges that he violated the Espionage Act.The Justice Department alleges that, after his presidency, Trump held, in an unsecure location, documents about some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets, including information about U.S. nuclear programs as well as U.S. and allies’ defense and weapons capabilities and potential vulnerabilities to military attack and that he repeatedly thwarted efforts by the National Archives to retrieve them. Continued here

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Wildfire smoke and dirty air are also climate change problems: Solutions for a world on fire     As the eastern U.S. and Canada reeled from days of thick wildfire smoke in early June 2023, millions of people faced the reality of climate change for the first time. Shocking images of New York under apocalyptic orange skies left many people glued to air quality indices and wondering whether it was safe to go outside.What they might not realize is that the air many of them breathe isn’t healthy even when wildfire smoke isn’t filling the sky. Continued here

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Recapping Work/23: The Big Shift     Our summer special report helps leaders gain a comprehensive view of risks, learn how to overcome market disrupters, and manage the analytical tools that provide predictive insight for decision-making.Our summer special report helps leaders gain a comprehensive view of risks, learn how to overcome market disrupters, and manage the analytical tools that provide predictive insight for decision-making.The pandemic irrevocably changed the how, why, and where of work. At Work/23: The Big Shift, a half-day summit held May 4, 2023, MIT Sloan Management Review brought together company executives and academic experts in talent management, hybrid work, employee well-being, and workplace culture. Together, they explained how organizations are pivoting to innovate, improve productivity, and achieve balance in this changed world. Continued here

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Why have golf's warring tours merged? The possible explanations     They say a few months in sports can feel like a lifetime. In March 2023, just before golf’s first men’s major of the year, the Masters tournament, we explained in The Conversation how men’s professional golf had been shaken up by Saudi Arabia’s billion-dollar drive for legitimacy. This was via the introduction of LIV Golf in 2022, created by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF).Presented as an individual and team event, that is “golf but louder”, LIV tempted several of the PGA tour’s top players away. It’s easy to see why they were attracted: LIV offered astronomical signing fees and the chance to win up to US$4 million (£3 million) per event, the largest prize in golf. Continued here

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Heavy drinking linked to lower muscle mass - here's what you need to know     Heavy drinking has long been associated with various health problems, including cirrhosis of the liver, cancer and heart disease. But our latest study has found that these aren’t the only issues that excess drinking can cause. We found that heavy drinkers had lower levels of muscle mass than those who didn’t drink, or drank moderately.To conduct our study, we used data from the UK Biobank, a large database of lifestyle and health information from half a million people in the UK. We included data from nearly 200,000 people aged between 37 and 73, looking at their average alcohol consumption and their muscle mass. Continued here

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Nigeria's response to the Sudan crisis is lacking - it could play a leading role in bringing peace     Hostilities between rival military parties in Sudan had claimed more than 600 lives by May 2023. The infighting has mostly been between the Sudanese Armed Forces loyal to Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s current military ruler, and the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary force led by his deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, “Hemedti”. Continued here

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Aviation turbulence soared by up to 55% as the world warmed -- new research     Turbulence on flights isn’t most people’s idea of fun. Drinks start wobbling, hearts start racing and even rational minds start to wonder whether the aircraft can cope. But for the many people who have a diagnosable fear of flying, turbulence can be terrifying.That’s why it has given us no great pleasure to have published many studies over the past decade predicting that climate change will worsen turbulence in the future. But these studies have left one gaping question unanswered: given that humans started changing the climate over a century ago, has atmospheric turbulence already started to increase? Continued here

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Forensic evidence suggests Paleo-Americans hunted mastodons, mammoths and other megafauna in eastern North America 13,000 years ago     The earliest people who lived in North America shared the landscape with huge animals. On any day these hunter-gatherers might encounter a giant, snarling saber-toothed cat ready to pounce, or a group of elephantlike mammoths stripping tree branches. Maybe a herd of giant bison would stampede past.Obviously, you can’t see any of these ice age megafauna now. They’ve all been extinct for about 12,800 years. Mammoths, mastodons, huge bison, horses, camels, very large ground sloths and giant short-faced bears all died out as the huge continental ice sheets disappeared at the end of the ice age. What happened to them? Continued here

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How Black Americans combated racism from beyond the grave     The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently published a story about a Black cemetery in Buckhead, a prosperous Atlanta community.The cemetery broke ground almost two centuries ago, in 1826, as the graveyard of Piney Grove Baptist Church. The church has been gone for decades; the cemetery now sits on the property of a townhouse development. It is overgrown, with most of its 300-plus graves unmarked. Continued here

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Why this year's summer solstice matters so much for a new religious movement mired in controversy     Throngs of people, most wearing white clothing and many adorned in traditional Sikh attire, gathered in the Jemez mountains of New Mexico in June 2019. The occasion was the summer solstice. Those who came to celebrate were part of a community started in the U.S. in 1969 by an Indian Sikh man named Harbhajan Singh Puri, who later became known as Yogi Bhajan or Siri Singh Sahib. Puri was a Punjabi Sikh who had worked as a customs agent in India before moving to Canada and then to the U.S. He gained a following while teaching yoga in the U.S. Puri’s followers formed a community that has spawned a number of organizations since its founding, and although it doesn’t have a single comprehensive moniker, the community is often referred to by two key organizations connected to it: 3HO, which gets its name from the “three H’s” that stand for happy, healthy and holy, and Sikh Dharma International, or SDI. Although the community has acquired members across the world, it remains largely U.S.-based. Continued here

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How traditional Indigenous education helped four lost children survive 40 days in the Amazon jungle     The discovery and rescue of four young Indigenous children, 40 days after the aircraft they were travelling in crashed in the remote Colombian rainforest, was hailed in the international press as a “miracle in the jungle”. But as an anthropologist who has spent more than a year living among the Andoque people in the region, conducting ethnographic fieldwork, I cannot simply label this as a miraculous event. At least, not a miracle in the conventional sense of the word. Rather, the survival and discovery of these children can be attributed to the profound knowledge of the intricate forest and the adaptive skills passed down through generations by Indigenous people. Continued here

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What if China really did develop COVID as a bioweapon? Here are the issues involved     It is a question asked pretty much since the pandemic was identified: was COVID-19 a natural outbreak or a disease that escaped from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan? What caused COVID-19 has been investigated before, but these studies are not conclusive. The World Health Organisation (WHO) carried out an inspection in January 2021. Continued here

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Who needs PwC when consultancy work could be done more efficiently in-house?     The Senate inquiry into the PwC scandal has prompted the New South Wales Legislative Council to launch an inquiry into the NSW government’s use of management consulting services.While the PwC case highlights confidentiality risks and conflicts of interests, the Legislative Council inquiry targets a potential lack of value for money and the negative impact on the capability development of the public service. Continued here

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How cricket helped Windrush arrivals build a sense of 'home' in Britain     Michael Collins is affiliated with The Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC). Cricket was played extensively in Britain in the 1950s, in towns, villages and cities, both in workplaces and as a social activity. And the sport had also become a ubiquitous cultural pastime in the English-speaking Caribbean. Continued here

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Immigration detention continues in Canada despite the end of provincial agreements     Despite its reputation as a refugee-welcoming and multicultural country, Canada imprisons thousands of people on immigration-related grounds every year. Many of these people are held in provincial jails under agreements between the provinces and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Several Canadian provinces are terminating their immigration detention agreements with the CBSA. Continued here

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Water quality in South Africa: reports show what needs to be fixed, and at what cost     The citizens of Hammanskraal, a small town north of South Africa’s capital, Tshwane, have been dealing with the deaths of 23 residents from cholera since 23 May 2023. Tests to find the source are continuing. The initial assumption by residents and authorities was that poor quality water led to the outbreak. In one week in May, 163 patients were admitted to the Jubilee Hospital with diarrhoea and vomiting.In 2019 the South African Human Rights Commission confirmed what residents already knew. The samples the commission drew from Temba Water Treatment Works, Kekana Primary School, Refentse Clinic and Hammanskraal Secondary School revealed that the water was unfit for human consumption. Continued here

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I suffer from the world's most beautiful disease - and also the most expensive to treat     Profesor Titular de Universidad e Investigador en Bioinformática, Universidad Pablo de Olavide The author is an SMA patient and co-leader of a project to search for genes modifying the SMN2 gene expression. Continued here

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Why does so much of the world's manufacturing still take place in China?     With the current geopolitical challenges between China and the United States, as well as the ongoing supply chain issues affecting manufacturers and consumers, there’s been much talk about moving global manufacturing out of China.But despite the talk, U.S.-China trade reached a record level in 2022, with no signs of any slowing in the near future. Continued here

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Big hair? Bald? How much difference your hair really makes to keep you cool or warm     This might sound like a lot of hair, yet humans are described as “hairless”. We have evolved to be the only mammals with a relatively hairless body, but still with scalp hair.Compared with other animals, our hair does not have as much influence on keeping us warm or cool as you might think. Continued here

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Twitter is refusing to pay Google for cloud services. Here's why it matters, and what the fallout could be for users     Amid an ongoing cost-cutting effort, Twitter has now refused to pay the bills to renew its multi-year contract with Google Cloud, Platformer has reported. We’ve all heard of “the cloud” – but what does it have to do with Twitter? And more to the point, what will the consequences be for Twitter users if Google Cloud pulls the plug on the platform? Continued here

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Why positive education doesn't have to exclude punishment     Professeur de Philosophie de l’éducation, membre de l’Institut universitaire de France (IUF), Université de Lorraine Your toddler has just thrown a tantrum and you are grappling with how to respond: Is it okay to set boundaries by sending them off to their bedroom? As the summer approaches, psychologists and families are still divided over these questions, reviving the debate around constraint or sanction-free education, otherwise known as ‘positive education’. Continued here

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Stripping medals from soldiers is murky territory, and must not distract from investigating alleged war crimes     It could be years before Ben Roberts-Smith and others are stripped of military awards for their service in Afghanistan and face Australian criminal court on war crimes charges, if in fact that ever happens. Investigations of war crimes are difficult and time-consuming. In the meantime, calls for the Defence Department to continue to address the allegations against Australian Defence Force personnel have grown louder. Continued here