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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.