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James Rodriguez, the most consistent player at Real Madrid

The Colombian wheel has played every game so far this season.

Real Madrid have reached the break of selections with a player who has played every game.
Is James Rodriguez, who has participated in 19 official games he has played the white team in the five competitions they have participated to date. No other member of staff Madrid presents this record.
The Colombian has played 11 league matches (four goals), four in the Champions League (a goal), one Copa del Rey, Supercopa of Spain two (one goal) and one in the European Super Cup. In addition, he has started 16 of the 19 games in which he has participated.
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Behind James come Kroos and Isco. The German accumulates only 18 games and missed the Copa del Rey in Cornella. The Malaga, meanwhile, adds 17 games: 11 in the league, three in the Champions League, one European Super Cup, one Cup and one Super Cup Spain.

America Honors Its Veterans With Words and Action

Today in the United States, it is not unusual for passersby to take the time to stop someone wearing a military uniform and thank them for their service.

As America commemorates Veterans Day on Nov. 11, the men and women who have fought her wars are generally embraced by a grateful nation.

And while that sentiment has usually been the case throughout America’s history, there was one glaring exception during the Vietnam era in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

“They were not treated right,” said Joe Lewis, communications director for the group, Veterans of Foreign Wars. “They were spit on. They were called baby killers. They were blamed for starting a war and then blamed for losing the war.”

Many returning Vietnam veterans were casualties of growing unrest and opposition to the war in American society. By contrast, their fathers who fought in World War II were hailed as heroes and are now called “the greatest generation”.

“America forgot how to separate the politics of war from the warrior fighting the war,” Lewis said. “People have to remember politicians start wars, politicians end wars. The military does their job.”

Military service veterans march in the Pittsburgh Veterans Day parade on Nov. 8, 2014, in Pittsburgh War II was also different in that almost every American was impacted by the conflict in some way: either a loved one or someone they knew had gone off to join the fight.

By contrast, today many Americans are largely insulated from the country’s wars and the people who fight them.

America has had an all-volunteer army for 41 years, since 1973. Those service members currently make up less than 1 percent of the U.S. population. If you include the country’s 23 million vets, they still account for less than 10 percent of the overall population.

That difference is also apparent in the U.S. Congress, where about 20 percent of the nation’s lawmakers are veterans. That’s a marked change from the days when up to 75 percent of Congress, many of them having fought in World War II, were veterans.

Despite this increased isolation between service members and the general population, Lewis credits the lessons learned during Vietnam with the American public’s current predisposition to treat veterans with respect, even when opposing the conflicts in which they serve.

Today’s Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are coming home to a war-weary public that, while appreciative, worries about the returning warriors’ well being.

“There is great respect for all of America’s veterans but there is also an underlying concern that some of them might be broken because of years of war,” Lewis said

They say the best gifts are “the ones that are made”.

Brock McGuire Band - Top Quality Irish Music

November 15, 2014

The Band are Paul Brock, Manus McGuire, Garry O'Meara & Denis Carey. Paul - multiple All-Ireland champion. His solo album, “Mo Chairdin”, was described as “a modern masterpiece of accordion music”. Manus - an Irish fiddler who blends dazzling technique with faultlessly far-ranging taste. Garry - banjoist, mandolin player & vocalist has toured with among others, The Fureys & Stocktons Wing. Denis is a musician/composer/arranger whose compositions have been performed by orchestras worldwide.

Bi-Lingual Table Quiz WINTER Nov 18th 2014

November 18, 2014

Join us for our highly popular and 3rd bi-lingual Table quiz November 18th!

Irish Movie Night - The Yellow Bittern (2009)

November 15, 2014

The Yellow Bittern, a 2009 feature documentary from Alan Gilsenan, is a revealing and surprising portrait of the last surviving member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, and the man that Bob Dylan called “just the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my whole life”.

Por qué el capitalismo no ha triunfado como sistema

John Gray, filósofoEspecial para la BBC

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China se ha convertido en la segunda economía del mundo.

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ism seems the "fittest", but can stop or reverse the policy or human events, it claims the political philosopher John Gray in this article for the BBC.
In boardrooms, banks and governments is rooted belief that the advance of capitalism is irreversible. The system, developed in the West, has spread to almost everyone.
The central economic planning in the former Soviet Union and Mao's China no longer exists as a separate system. It may persist in North Korea, but really is only one kind of economy.
Faced with the almost universal triumph of market forces, many have concluded that capitalism won in an evolutionary process similar to the species.
Intensely innovative and highly productive, capitalism seems to be pushed to extinction all other types of economies.

Currently evolutionary ideas are everywhere, and it seems natural to extend beyond the domain in which they were first applied. But it is not clear that any evolutionary process works in society.

DEFINITIONS READING

Reading es una ciudad y autoridad unitaria en el condado de Berkshire, en Inglaterra, Reino Unido.^1 2 Situada en la confluencia de los ríos Támesis y Kennet, la ciudad está a medio camino entre Londres y Oxford, al borde de la autopista M4. La pronunciación inglesa de este nombre es /ˈrɛdɪŋ/ (en la notación del Alfabeto Fonético Internacional). Obsérvese la diferencia con la forma verbal homógrafa reading ("leyendo"), cuya pronunciación es /ˈri:dɪŋ/.

El distrito tiene una población de 142.800 (2006, est.) habitantes. Reading es probablemente el centro de negocios más importante del sudeste de Inglaterra, aparte del Gran Londres. La mayoría de las compañías importantes de Gran Bretaña tienen su sede en la ciudad, que también alberga numerosas multinacionales. El Centro Europeo de Meteorología tiene su sede aquí. Es además una ciudad universitaria con una importante comunidad estudiantil.

El centro de la ciudad está situado cerca de las confluencias del Támesis y el río Kennet, lo que refleja la historia de la ciudad como puerto fluvial. Antes de la confluencia, el Kennet se extiende por una estrecha abertura para formar la planicie fluvial del Támesis. Reading está a 64 kilómetros al oeste del centro de Londres y a 40 kilómetros al sudeste de Oxford.

READING QUOTES

Quotes About Reading

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“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

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ELN insists ongoing peace talks with Colombia govt should be public

Nov 4, 2014 posted by Adriaan Alsema

(Photo: Parker Crooks)

Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, on Monday expressed its discomfort over the confidentiality of ongoing peace talks with the government. According to the guerrillas, these should be held publicly.

PROFILE: ELN

In a statement published on the guerrillas’ website, the ELN’s Central Command said that “for us it would’ve been better if we could permanently inform about the way these talks are going and the country objectively could know the steps of the talks.”

According to the rebels, the government insisted on secrecy, making this elementary for the talks to take place.

However, “we have never shared this criteria because a real peace process should be carried out facing the nation”

“It would have been in the interest of all sectors of society to know the issues related to the setting of an agenda and the framework  to guide the process towards peace,” said the ELN.

The ELN on several occasions has expressed frustration about the talks, their progress and the agreed confidentiality.

However, President Juan Manuel Santos said last month that the peace process with the ELN will remain confidential until there is something concrete to announce.

MORE: Absolute secrecy on negotiations with ELN rebels for now: Santos

Santos announced the existence of the talks in June, only five days before elections in which he secured a second term in office in spite of low approval ratings.

MORE: Colombia govt, ELN rebels announce formal peace talks

However, according to the ELN, these talks have “hardly” made progress since then.

MORE: ELN boss says ongoing peace talks are ‘important’, but ‘difficult’

The group, exceeded in size only by the FARC, has been fighting the Colombian state since 1964. The guerrillas made several unsuccessful attempts to negotiate peace with the state over the past decades. The rebel organization is thought to have some 3,000 armed fighters and another few thousand unarmed supporting activists mainly in their strongholds and in public universities.

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