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Dobrego Dnia 🤝 Półwysep Helski.

42 years ago today, “Out Of Touch” by Daryl Hall & John Oates was released as a single.

Escuchen la reacción de la gente cuando Lewis Hamilton adelantó a Hadjar por el podio. El piloto del pueblo.

„Tak się cieszę, że żyję w świecie, gdzie zdarza się październik. Jakież to byłoby okropne, gdybyśmy z września przeszli od razu do listopada, prawda"? L. M. Montgomery „Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza”

October

Dzień dobry. 🌞 Mglisty wschód słońca, poranna cisza oraz pierwsze złote promienie przebijające się przez białe opary.🌞🌲🍂 📷 Andrzej Berłowski

The saddest day - my dad has died. Devastated. Hold your loved ones close. X

Happy anniversary, @MichelleObama! I’m still the luckiest guy in the world to be with you.

Fabulous final lap from Lewis, and a fantastic reaction 🥳 #F1 #BahrainGP @ScuderiaFerrari

🚨| Alex Brundle: "I think its a massive mic drop from Hamilton. To walk into the circuit, say I have absolute confidence in the bloke who is running the team, stick it on the front row, refuse to elaborate, and walk away." "Its a huge moment for Fred and Ferrari."

🚨| Lewis Hamilton after qualifying on the front row. Q: Lewis, really, really well done. Straight away you thanked the team for the run plan, how well they executed the day. What sort of pat do you give yourself on the back for the lap itself, keeping the tyre alive to the end and so on? "Thank you. Yeah, I don't understand how I'm still the only one here. I've been talking too much. Talk a lot when you're happier. We've really been working so hard to progress, to dial in this car. And it's been a massive challenge. I think people watching, maybe they do know, but it's such fine margins. And it's like balancing a knife on its head, which is pretty much impossible. So finding that balance with everything, with the power unit, with the aero platform we have, with the mechanical balance, the brake balance and all these different things, and then the team getting you out on track and getting you in the right position, all these different things, tyre temperatures. So many elements have to come together." "But that was one of my most enjoyable laps of the year, I have to say. I think it was probably my best lap of the year. So I wasn't expecting to be on the front row, but it's really just a great showing to the mechanics. Everyone's working so hard in these hot garages here this weekend, and the mechanics, the engineers did a really good job as well. So I'm massively thankful to them." Q: So it's Hamilton versus Verstappen with Antonelli. There's heavyweight stuff in everyone at Sepang. What's the key to hopefully you winning the fight? "I think I can be really happy with today. I think in the last race we were not fast in the race. So I don't know, pace-wise, how we will be tomorrow. What I do know is we do carry this deficit of straight-line speed." "What that ultimately means is I think we're slightly quicker through corners, particularly low-speed corners. I think we're a little bit quicker than, say, the Red Bulls, some of the others. But then on the straights, we lose a lot. What that means then for the race on a track like this, where degradation is very, very high, tyres are getting so hot all the time, we have to push more through corners to try and keep up and make up for the losses in the straights. So that's ultimately what we have to be careful of doing too much of tomorrow and degrading more and trying to hold on to them. So I think we just have to run our own race, whatever that be, pace-wise, and not be focusing on trying to over-push to hold on." "I think he's got the pace generally to pull away, but if that's different when we start the race and we're able to hold on or we're in the fight, that would be awesome as well. But all we can do is do our best, so I'll give it everything for tomorrow." F1 2026 | Sepang

If Ofsted is judging school standards, context is irrelevant. If it is judging school effectiveness, context is everything. The problem comes when they do the former but it is interpreted as the latter.

My phone went berserk last night with notifications. Turns out The Guardian had got hold of my paper on correlations between Ofsted grades and school context and quoted from it. People were letting me know Full paper is here for those interested: linkedin.com/pulse/correlati…

Sorry, I’m busy - I’m listening to a live stream..

We know from intelligence and some people around Putin that at the beginning of September Putin said, “No rules now.” The Russians couldn’t occupy us. So now they are doing massive attacks and massive killings. And of course they want to go after our bridges and, from what we understand, after our data centers, internet, cell network, hospitals, kindergartens, schools, universities – everything. They want people to run away from their cities, and we need to do everything to save our people and cities. F-16s destroy 50 to 60% of jet drones now. This is one way, and we work a lot on getting weapons for F-16s. The second way is fast interceptors. Now we have five interceptors being tested. One day they are 70% effective, the other day – 30%. So, answering the question “When can we scale up the production?” – we don’t have billions to produce a million interceptors which will not work. Engines are key. We import a lot and produce some, but these numbers are not enough. So out of these 5 samples, some were used five times, some ten, and some only once. But you had one, and destroyed one Russian drone. This is the problem. I don’t know the exact date, but in October, we will have 400 of these interceptors. And it is normal when you use 400 interceptors over several days of attacks, and you say, “Look, guys, sorry, but it destroys only 10%. It doesn’t work.” Or, for example, if it is 30% or more, “Great, guys, you have to work a little bit on it, and when the percentage is 60–70% – huge success.” From an interview with the Financial Times.

If schools with the highest levels of SEND and disadvantage are consistently more likely to receive lower Ofsted judgements, it’s sending a dangerous message: inclusion carries risk. Schools opening doors widest shouldn't be the ones paying the highest accountability price…

Beautiful font at St John the Baptist church, Snape, Suffolk #fontsonfriday