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The Devil Is in the Detail

The Devil Is in the Detail

“The devil is in the detail” is an idiom that is believed to be derived from “God is in the details”, attributed to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The original connotation was that whatever one does should be done thoroughly, and truth (if any) is in the details. So turn

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A Liberal Pop Star Just Condemned Socialist Tyranny in Cuba

Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. When celebrities weigh in on politics, the result is usually vapid virtue-signaling and surface-level liberal talking points. But pop star Camila Cabello just offered an exception to this rule with her

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Euthanasia Fundamentalists Sell Death in the Netherlands

Euthanasia Fundamentalists Sell Death in the Netherlands

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Foreign observers might have the impression that it is always open season for euthanasia in the Netherlands. Not so. While the guidelines are elastic and subject to interpretation, they do exist and people violating them risk prosecution. A recent

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was a view from my car taken just before Kaka Point coming from the north. Editor Note: The BFD needs more views

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was a view from my car of part of the Trout Pools carpark at Okere Falls. (By Lake Rotoiti near Rotorua). Lovely

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was a view from St. Heliers Beach across Auckland Harbour (Waitemata Harbour), towards Devonport and North Head, on July 16, 2021. Editor

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was of the Cardrona ski fields, looking towards Queenstown. 28th July 2021. Editor Note: The BFD needs more views from your window.

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was taken in Little Malvern, Worcestershire, UK. The Church is the Little Malvern Priory.  Note the gas street light. The lights were

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Mr Slugsworth and the Everlasting Lockdown

Mr Slugsworth and the Everlasting Lockdown

Tiger Tiger, a tenacious, surprisingly well-educated animal, living and working in the real world.  Having to come up with staff wages every week sharpens the senses. A favourite childhood book of mine is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was made into a couple of movies, one with Gene Wilder,

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Fight for Control Threatens to Destabilize and Fragment the Internet

Fight for Control Threatens to Destabilize and Fragment the Internet

Nick Merrill University of California, Berkeley Nick Merril is a researcher at the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, where he directs the Daylight Lab (daylight.berkeley.edu). He received my Ph.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Information. His adviser was John Chuang. You try to use your

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was taken on the 25th of July 2021 in Canterbury in the Far North of Doubtless Bay. Editor Note: The BFD needs

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was taken while heading out of Queen Charlotte Sound. Cape Komaru to the left, white Rocks in the intermediate foreground on the

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