Clear data from devices before travelling, academics told (THS)

From THS:- Rising instances of warrantless searches at borders have ‘serious implications for academic freedom and research confidentiality’, says union head

OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE navigator for investigative journalists

From BIRN, a guide for investigative journalists (pdf)


‘Navigator’ Offers Investigative Journalists Invaluable Tool


This looks interesting (not yet read), not only for journalists and researchers in the Balkans..

The Middle East: the Groundwork for a Vast New Conflict?

From Spiegel Online, Tension in the Middle East -  "Regional stability hangs by a thread".


From Foreign Affairs: Why the Middle East Is More Combustible Than Ever

Weymouth: Quayside Floods

From Dorset Echo

Meanwhile, Corfu is still basking in sunshine.

China at 70, Military Parade

From BBC News (video)

Inspecting the troops

Book Launches at Plous, Corfu; Colenso Books, New Titles; Theodore Stephanides; Vera Konidari; Jim Potts

Launching This Spinning World

Two Photos, Tatiana Zervopoulou 

Photos below, JP

Anthony Hirst, speaking 

Vasilis Letsios reads a poem by Theodore Stephanides

Demetris Dallas takes notes

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Vera Konidari quoted a poem about Tycho Brahe,
inspired by his last words, of 24 October 1601,
as recorded by Kepler:

Ne frustra vixisse videar

Let me not seen to have lived in vain

Άσε με να πιστεύω πως δεν έχω ζήσει μάταια

Lass mein Leben nicht vergeblich gewesen sein.