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Just like Waiting for Godot's existential double act Vladimir and Estragon, Samuel Beckett has waited a long time to be fully embraced by into the metaphorical kirk of Edinburgh International Festival. For an artist whose sense of exile and outsiderdom has his detractors as much as his champions, perhaps it should come as no surprise that Beckett's theatre work has largely been seen on the Fringe, where even then it has felt hidden away in back-street venues.
The appearance of Druid Theatre's internationally acclaimed production of Waiting for Godot at this year's EIF, then, suggests that Beckett's work has at last come out of the wilderness. This has been brewing for a few years now by way of a series of productions under former EIF director Jonathan Mills' tenure. Since the baton was passed to Fergus Linehan, however, the links feel umbilical. Growing up in Dublin with an actress mother and an arts journalist father, Beckett's shadow loomed large. While Linehan's mother Rosaleen Linehan appeared buried up to her neck in sand as Winnie in Happy Days both on stage and screen, his father's encounters with Beckett were more random affairs.
"My dad was arts editor of the Irish Times," Linehan says of his father, also called Fergus, "but Beckett wouldn't do any interviews. He would meet various journalists, but on the proviso that the conversations weren't recorded or written down. My dad would go over to Paris to meet him, and he'd have all these questions with him, but all Beckett wanted to talk about was the Irish rugby team, cricket and football."
The earliest sightings of Beckett's work at EIF was in 1984, when a ten-day mini Beckett festival featured New York's Harold Clurman Theatre in residence at the Churchill Theatre with a triple bill of Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe and What Where. Another double bill by the Harold Clurman Theatre featured performances of A Piece of Monologue and That Time. Also at the Churchill, and in portents of things to come, seminal comic actor Max Wall, who had appeared in Waiting for Godot in 1979 and Krapp's Last Tape in 1984, performed Malone Dies.
The second part of Beckett's trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable, all three would later be adapted and performed on the Fringe two years later by Barry McGovern under the title, I'll Go On. Twenty-seven years later, McGovern would revive this solo tour de force for EIF as part of the most extensive Beckett season since 1984.
The groundwork had been done in 2012, when McGovern performed the Gate Theatre, Dublin's staging of Beckett's 1953 novel, Watt, at EIF. With the interior monologues of Beckett's prose inviting themselves to be spoken out loud, the 2013 season focused, not on Beckett's stage plays, but on renderings of prose by way of I'll Go On and Peter Egan's performance of a short story, First Love, plus rarely seen and heard TV and radio works.
A wordless Michael Gambon appeared in Eh Joe, haunted by Penelope Wilton's disembodied voice in a piece first broadcast on German TV and o the BBC in 1966, and here brought to semi-cinematic life by Canadian film director Atom Egoyan. Like I'll Go On and First Love, Eh Joe was produced by the Gate.
Another Dublin company, Pan Pan, gave audacious stagings of Embers and All That Fall, radio plays both dating from 1957 which can now be recognised as early examples of sound art which, in Pan Pan's renderings, more resembled immersive installations than theatre. It should be noted that the original broadcast of All That Fall led directly to the setting up of BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
As well as the five productions, EIF also hosted screenings of Beckett on Film, an epic exercise that saw all nineteen of Beckett's dramatic works filmed utilising an array of maverick directors and performers. This included a production of Waiting for Godot featuring McGovern, David Mamet directing Harold Pinter, Rebecca Pidgeon and John Gielgud in Catastrophe, and Breath directed by visual art provocateur Damien Hirst.
Beckett on Film was initiated and co-produced by Michael Colgan, the former artistic director of the Gate who had previously produced Becket's entire dramatic canon onstage in Dublin in 1991. This was restaged in New York in 1996, and then in London three years later. The Edinburgh screenings of Beckett on Film was a neat sleight of hand that gave audiences a chance to see a wider spectrum of work than might normally be possible.
In the flesh, last year, McGovern returned to Edinburgh again to perform Krapp's Last Tape, Beckett's tragi-comic rummage through an old man's audio diary. Druid's presentation this year of Waiting for Godot has been a long time coming.
"I didn't think the world needed another production of Waiting for Godot," says Druid's Garry Hynes, who previously directed the play in 1982, "but the company wanted to do it., and when I looked at it again, something had shifted."
Hynes' work with Druid has included DruidSynge and DruidMurphy, marathon renderings of work by J.M. Synge and Tom Murphy. Might a DruidBeckett be in the offing?
"I don't think so," says Hynes. "I'm not sure I'd want to go into that world, or put the audience into that world, for so long."
One of the earliest sightings of Godot in Edinburgh was in 1967 at the Traverse, then in its Grassmarket home, when Gordon McDougall directed John Sheddon and a young Richard Wilson as Didi and Gogo. Half a century later, it seems, the waiting has finally stopped.
Waiting for Godot, Royal Lyceum Theatre, August 3-12.
The List Edinburgh Festivals Guide - July 2018


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One of America's most influential labor organizations is trying to ensure that the political candidates it would support will oppose free-trade deals. But if Hillary Clinton comes out in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, labor doesn't have many other options.
In a speech Tuesday morning, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka criticized the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed 12-nation free-trade deal supported by the Obama administration, as well as Trade Promotion Authority, also known as "fast-track authority," which would make trade deals like the TPP subject to an up-or-down vote in Congress without the ability to amend the deal.
"We expect those who seek to lead our nation forward to oppose fast-track," Trumka said. "There is no middle ground, and the time for deliberations is drawing to a close."
(RELATED: Here Are All Seven Media Questions Hillary Clinton Has Answered During Her Campaign)
The AFL-CIO is already putting its money where its mouth is. The organization had previously frozen donations to federal candidates to focus on stopping TPA and TPP, and last week, after the Senate Finance Committee voted to approve TPA, the AFL-CIO began running online ads against Finance Committee ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden and Sen. Michael Bennet, both Democrats, for voting in favor of the legislation.
"Now, we are using those resources to hold politicians accountable and remind them that voters are paying attention to this debate because it's enormously important to working families," Eric Hauser, communications director for the AFL-CIO told National Journal in a statement in reference to the ads being run against Wyden and Bennet.
But Clinton's presidential candidacy puts labor in a particularly difficult position. Clinton has dithered on TPP since she became a candidate, despite having previously calling it "the gold standard" for promoting free, fair, open, and transparent trade.
(RELATED: The Proof of Clinton's Wrongdoing)
Clinton's potential Democratic challengers—including ardent TPP opponents Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley—hardly pose a significant threat right now. And, with no viable Clinton alternative, it is unclear what steps the AFL-CIO—or organized labor as a whole—would take if Clinton gives her backing to TPP.
The predicament is part of a larger problem that organized labor, typically a Democratic constituency, is facing in the United States. Americans have generally mixed feelings about the decline in union participation over the last two decades. A Pew Research Center study released this week showed 45 percent of Americans saw the decline of union membership as a bad thing, while 43 percent saw it as a good thing.
And it's not like if unions ultimately voted down on Clinton that they would be welcomed by Republicans. The same Pew study showed 62 percent of Republicans viewed the reduction in union membership as mostly good for the country, with 51 percent saying it has been mostly good for workers specifically. And it is not likely that unions would find a home with Republicans anyway, given candidates like Jeb Bush who ardently support the TPP.
(RELATED: Hillary Clinton May Have Lost a Campaign Weapon)
Organized labor has a clear line on trade. They just don't have a clear alternative if that line is crossed.
Correction: This story has been updated to clarify the structure of the AFL-CIO. It is a federation of unions.
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Reed Farrel Coleman's novel Where It Hurts, which introduced former Suffolk County cop Gus Murphy, was named winner of the 2017 Shamus Award for Best Private Eye Novel. This marks the fourth time Coleman has scored a Shamus; the first was in 2006, when his Moe Prager novel The James Deans received Best Private Eye Paperback Original honors. For all the category nominees and winners, head on over to the Private Eye Writers of America official home. (HT Gumshoe site)
The Bouchercon National Board of Directors has selected George Easter as the recipient of its 2017 David Thompson Special Service Award for "extraordinary efforts to develop and promote the crime fiction field." The David Thompson Special Service Award was created by the Bouchercon Board to honor the memory and contributions to the crime fiction community of David Thompson, a much beloved Houston bookseller who passed away in 2010. Past recipients of the award include Ali Karim, Marv Lachman, Len & June Moffatt, Judy Bobalik, Otto Penzler, and Bill and Toby Gottfried. (HT to Bill Crider.)
A new literary prize named Svartfuglinn (The Auk) was launched in Iceland. The prize is for crime fiction by previously unpublished Icelandic authors, and is named after a 1929 novel by Gunnar Gunnarsson about a notorious 19th century double murder, making the novel one of the earliest examples of Icelandic crime fiction. The prize is founded and moderated by crime writers Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, author of the Thora Gudmundsdottir books, and Ragnar Jónasson, author of the Dark Iceland Series, who are both supplying the prize money. But the reward also includes a contract with Veröld, their Icelandic publisher, and with David H. Hedley, Ragnar's UK agent, who was named as one of the 100 most influential people in British publishing in 2015 by trade magazine Bookseller.
Mystery Writers of America NorCal's Mystery Week returns October 14-20. The six days of events start off with a Noir at the Bar at the Latin American Club in San Francisco and also includes several panels, with participating authors including Laurie R. King, Catriona McPhersonm Sheldon Siegel, and Kelli Stanley. (HT to Mystery Fanfare.)
The International Crime Fiction Association in the UK has posted a call for papers dealing with "Crime Fiction: Insiders and Outsiders" and how they affect each other to change the genre. Proposals of 200 words are due by February 3, 2018, and accepted projects will take part in the Captivating Criminality 5 Crime Fiction conference June 28-30, 2018, Corsham Court, Bath Spa University, UK. You can find all the details here. (HT to Sandra Seamans)
Dr. Brian Cliff, Assistant Prof of Irish Studies in the School of English at TCD, profiled the book Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State by Andrew Pepper, asserting that the author convincingly makes the case for seeing "new ways of understanding the crime novel's capacities for imaginatively intervening in the world" and, crucially, "the limits of those interventions."
Sarah Hilary took a closer look at the enduring legacy of iconic crime fiction author Patricia Highsmith.
The Los Angeles Times profiled a growing trend for a sub-genre of sci-fi, namely sci-fi with crime stories and mysteries that blur the two genres.
The Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. (in my own "back yard") is getting a trove of cool artifacts from the world's largest private collection of spycraft - more than 5,000 of them, to be specific: everything from a portion of the spy plane flown by pilot Gary Powers that was shot down over Russia, to the axe used to hack exiled Soviet communist Leon Trotsky to death, to a 13-foot-long spy submarine from World War II.
There's a new Agatha Christie in town after the Duke Lemur Center recently welcomed the first aye-aye to be born at the center in six years. Named after the best-selling mystery writer Agatha Christie, the infant is one of only 24 aye-ayes in the United States.
Vincent Van Gogh: crime drama? Filmmakers Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman are behind the new animated film Loving Vincent, in which they've not only created thousands of new oil paintings in his style, but also made him the subject of a murder-mystery.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "Boom" by Susan Montag.
In the Q&A roundup, Vicki Delaney was interviewed by the Huffington Post about her new mystery Body on Baker Street, the second in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series; the Mystery People welcomed Glen Erik Hamilton to chat about his latest novel to feature Afghan vet and "retired" heistman Van Shaw; Nigel Bird takes Paul D. Brazill's latest "Short Sharp Interview" challenge about his latest Southsiders novel, By The Time I Get To Phoenix; Attica Locke chatted with the Mystery People about her latest crime novel, the topical Bluebird, Bluebird that centers on white supremacy in a small town; and Harlan Coben sat down with the Huffington Post's Mark Rubenstein to talk about his latest novel, Don't Let Go, which is told through the eyes of New Jersey Detective, Napoleon (Nap) Dumas.


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Cayuse is an archaic term used in the American west, usually referring to a feral or low-quality horse or pony.
In British Columbia, the variant word cayoosh refers to a particular breed of mountain pony with shorter legs and large hindquarters, typically also of Indian husbandry.
The origin of the word is a Native American adaptation of the Spanish caballo, with the -s ending a noun form in Salishan languages. A variant adaptation, kiuatan, with a Sahaptian -tan ending, is the main word for "horse" or "pony" in the Chinook Jargon, although cayuse or cayoosh was also used in some areas. For this reason, some horses owned by Native American people were dubbed "cayuse," often with derogatory intent.
Although the settlers called most horses raised by the American Indians "cayuse ponies", the Cayuse Indian Pony of the Northwest is a distinct breed which originated in the 1800's. Its conformation and its background set it apart from the mustang, Spanish Barb or other wild horses.
Small and stocky, the Cayuse Indian Pony has high withers and an unusually long canon bone. In addition, its distinctly sloped pastern gives it a broken walking gait. Any rider, especially younger children, will find this an extremely pleasant and easy seat.
Frederic Remington, who is famous for his artistic representations of the Old West, sketched many of the wild horses he found in the late 1800s. He described the Cayuse Indian Pony as "generally roan in color, with always a tendency this way, no matter how slight." Remington wrote that his subject was heavily muscled, and while only about fourteen hands high, was still very powerful.
The Cayuse breed's history is obscure and difficult to trace.
It has been generally accepted that the Cayuse Indian Pony descended from the French-Norman horses imported into Canada in the 1600s. Most of these French horses were Percherons, which the Canadians used to improve their domestic breeds. The Percheron was a good choice — it continues to be one of the only work horses which can easily trot for extended periods of time.
Years later, the French Canadians brought their horses into what is now American territory. It was recorded that they bartered their horses in St. Louis with the Pawnee Indians, who then took them further west. Eventually, the Indians crossed their sturdy French horses with the lighter Spanish Barbs to produce a horse which had not only speed, but endurance.
By the 1800s, the Cayuse Indian Pony had become a separate breed. The Cayuse Indians, known throughout the Northwest for their expert horsemanship, continued to develop this French-Spanish Barb strain through selective breeding.
Because the French horse had the ability to pass on its tendency for spots or a profusion of white markings, the Cayuse Indians were able to produce some very colorful horses. In fact, the Appaloosa, Paint and Pinto breeds have all been influenced by the blood of the Cayuse Indian Pony.
Today, the Cayuse Indian Pony breed is seldom seen outside California.
Only a handful are even still in existence. Jeff Edwards, co-founder of the Wild Horse Research Center in Porterville, California has gradually been trying to rebuild a herd and protect it from extinction. Over 100 head of Cayuse Indian Ponies were lost several years ago when their pasture land was sprayed with a toxic herbicide.
But the Wild Horse Research Center is optimistic about the breed's recovery. Recently, they donated a Cayuse Indian Pony to the Kentucky Horse Park near Lexington with the hope that more people could discover the saga if this unique horse. They are also working with one small stud bunch at the farm and anxiously await the spring foals each year.
The Center has also established a registry for wild horses and ponies possessing barb blood. The Cayuse Indian Pony can now be officially registered as one of the "Horse of the Americas" breeds. Edwards determined the purity of each horse based on its physical characteristics and charts researched by the Wild Horse Research Center.
For additional information contact Jeff Edwards, Wild Horse Research Center, 248 N. Main Street, Porterville, California 93257


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Where I live, we have two recently redesigned intersections, in which left hand turns have been eliminated. Called double crossover diamond interchange, it basically eliminates the need for left hand turns in front of oncoming traffic. At the North Carolina State University they have a similar proposal to reroute traffic by eliminating left turns at intersections. The new design is not meant for freeways, but instead is meant for thoroughfares where side streets intersect.
What is impressive about the super street design is that it is estimated that the design will reduce travel time by about 20%. In addition this type of traffic design will also reduce fuel usage by making traffic move more efficiently. Below is a picture of the proposed super street design:
In a recent article it also states that:
The researchers assessed travel time at superstreet intersections as the amount of time it takes a vehicle to pass through an intersection from the moment it reaches the intersection – whether traveling left, right or straight ahead. The travel-time data were collected from three superstreets located in eastern and central North Carolina, all of which have traffic signals. The superstreet collision data were collected from 13 superstreets located across North Carolina, none of which have traffic signals.
The superstreet concept has been around for over 20 years, but little research had been done to assess its effectiveness under real-world conditions. The NC State study is the largest analysis ever performed of the impact of superstreets in real traffic conditions.
The complete paper will be presented on January 24, 2011 to the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. , and hopefully the design will be under consideration in future designs.
In addition to smoother traffic flow, the new design will also reduce traffic collisions by an estimated 63%.
What do you think of the idea?
Comments welcome.
Source – North Carolina State University


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Delphe organised its first workshop from the 4th – 9th of January 2010. The workshop was attended by staff Makerere University, University of Addis Ababa, and SIL International. The workshop was facilitated by professors Brian Street and Alan Rogers, who are leading researchers in the area of Social Literacy practices and ethnographic approaches to literacy. The workshop introduced the participants to concepts of ethnographic approaches to literacy. The participants were asked to think about how ethnographic approaches to literacy could be incorporated in the current courses taught at the different universities. A follow up meeting will be held in April 2010.


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Nimeeta does not use black henna and will never entertain the idea as the effects of such products are dangerous. Nimeeta uses 100% natural herbal henna products which are suitable for all skin types. She makes her own cones to ensure that she is providing the best for all her customers.
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Too many arts and cultural workers are wasting time wading through Google Analytics data. Sara Lock shares some tips on how to be more focused.
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Work in the arts and cultural sector is busy. One of the things I hear repeatedly is the need for more time and resources. Google Analytics plays on the minds of many a marketer and I often hear people sheepishly confess to not using it as much as they should. So when I heard Devon Smith say that we should stop visiting Google Analytics so much, that captured my attention.
Strip away any visitors that aren't relevant to your question, then dive into the details on the small number of visitors that remain
Devon is the co-founder of Measure Creative, a two-person digital studio in Oregon in the US. She was previously Director of Analytics at Threespot, with a portfolio of clients including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Smithsonian. In short, she knows her stuff, so I wanted to find out more about her approach to Google Analytics.
List specific questions
A lack of time for Google Analytics is often compounded by the volume of information you're confronted with when you log in. The richness of numbers, graphs, segments, filters and reports can feel overwhelming and you could easily lose a day in there, excited by all the things you could potentially find out.
Devon's first piece of advice was to generate a list of questions you want to answer or hypotheses you want to test before you even log in. It keeps you focused as you navigate through the mass of data. Your questions should be relevant to your organisation and current priorities or problems. They might be around your objectives, a problem you're trying to solve, or a commonly held belief in your organisation that you want to confirm or refute.
Here are some questions you might ask relating to your data:
- What percentage of my website visitors are coming from within or around my city? For everyone else, do the pages they're looking at tell me anything about why they're on my site?
- Do most people enter my website via the homepage or are there other key landing pages that introduce users to my organisation?
- How could I make the content people are searching for on my website more prominent or create new content to fulfil those search requests?
Focus on certain visitors
Strip away any visitors that aren't relevant to your question, then dive into the details on the small number of visitors that remain. You can do this by creating Advanced Segments. Think about who you want to learn more about. These could be visitors from social media who also bought a ticket, those who look at a performance page but don't purchase a ticket, and those who read a certain category of blog posts.
Reports and custom alerts
Reports and custom alerts are useful for sharing information across the wider team and limiting the number of times you have to log in.
Schedule a report to be emailed to yourself or other team members. You could send your fundraising manager the geographic breakdown of everyone who visits your donation page on a monthly basis. Or perhaps your education manager would like to see the top ten education resources downloaded from your site each week. Invest time in setting up reports and save yourself time in the long term.
Schedule a custom alert to be emailed to you if an event happens. You might want a heads-up if your local newspaper starts sending traffic to your website or if your traffic increases by 20% relative to yesterday. Custom alerts enable you to track specific events without logging in every day.
Add insights
Devon likens Google Analytics to a refrigerator. It stores all the data for you but you still need a human to pick a recipe, select the right ingredients, put them together and deliver the final dish.
A rough rule of thumb is to divide your time up as follows:
- 10% on planning – thinking about your questions and any data you might need to add to Google Analytics to answer those questions.
- 40% diving into the data, configuring reports, creating advanced segments, applying filters and such.
- 40% analysing the data to identify trends, picking out the bits that are useful, determining what to do next and packaging the findings in a way that's meaningful to other people.
- 10% discussing the findings and recommendations with other people.
It's easy to get consumed with all of the interesting things that you're finding. Stay focused, think about what you can do with the data and share the most relevant information with your colleagues. It will reduce the amount of time you need to spend on Google Analytics and help you achieve better results from your website and for your organisation.
If you're not yet using Google Analytics, this is more a point of reassurance than literal advice. Google Analytics doesn't have to be an onerous task and findings needn't sit solely within the marketing team. There's valuable data that could be applied to fundraising, programming and other aspects of your organisation's work.
Sara Lock is Associate Editor at the AMA.
This article is inspired by Devon Smith's AMA conference session and her guide that is available to read on CultureHive.


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- Click on the gear icon on the top bar as shown below.
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https://teakdoor.com/health-fitness-...ml#post4111030 (Log in your workouts today!)
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
https://teakdoor.com/health-fitness-...ml#post4111030 (Log in your workouts today!)
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I remember SEA Traveler was a bit chubby. And I must admit (as I have already) that Cujo, despite being a curmudgeon, achieved a very impressive...in fact rather astonishing.... body transformation. I myself started cycling again about 3 months ago, after 5 years off. There are hills where I live which are a great challenge, and my bike has front and rear suspension.
Great pictures, Chitty! Impressive hills. I'm going out of town soon on a very long bike ride, ill try grab some snaps. Ciao
Sweated out the weekends debauchery today ...
Country life, off for a milking..
Cow pat guy for dinner..
Bumped into TD Legend Luigi today, he says hi.
^Who's bike? So cute!
I love the cow's crossing the road pic..
Nothing like country life.
Weathers been crap for a while now so gave the bike a service .
Added mudguards for the wet weather and some new 700x28mm Schwalbe tyres for better grip.
My last set of tyres only lasted 4 months or approximately 1500 miles.
All oiled and ready to go...
A few urban pics to mix it up today..
L.S.Lowry painted the above street many moons ago..
Some fading old street art
Not a bad pint made at this brewery, when they are brewing the whole town centre smells of hops.
5 hours in the saddle yesterday on a three city tour!
Thought i'd explore the semi-lockdown urban areas to liven up this picture thread.
The Trans Penine trail, easy flat unhindered cycling.
Time for a spot of social distancing lunch, a drive/ride through Subway
Tuna salad on hearty Italian with a Cappuccino to refuel.
First stop the city of Trafford.
Home of Lancashire County cricket..
Typical, had to get a flaming puncture outside this place..
That's about it for Trafford,lets hit the city of Salford now..
Media city at Salford Quays has had billions of investment in recent years and is now home to the headquarters of the BBC..
Gnome Island..
The Imperial War Museum..
A few more Media City pics..
A greenhouse beer garden for bubbles of socialisers being constructed..
I shall not be contributing to their jollies with a licence fee.
Interesting bridge, anyone know what type it is?
Riding the Manchester ship canal towpath to my third and final city, manchester.
Plenty of graffiti en route, just out of shot on the right some funny red bastard had painted" Black lives matter, blue ones don't "
A giant cycling monument outside Deansgate station..
Time to head home, the sun is going down..
An enjoyable ride out.
Nice one mate - just how locked down is Manchester? Looks empty.
Nice pics!
What I'd give for a Wetherspoons pie and chips with a pint right now!
Great pics, Chit. A damn fine day for it.
Grey tires eh ? I always thought grey tires looked kinda off
The new bike has white walls
An amazing white knuckle ride of a video.
Almost makes me want to start mountain biking again, not for the faint hearted...
A few more pics..
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Why the blindfolds on the horses... is that a northern thing?
Does it not take some of the fun out of it?
Yesterday's 4 hour sweat in the saddle took me to somewhere new, a bit of history for you...
Quarry Bank is one of Britain's greatest industrial heritage sites, showing how a complete industrial community lived. Here you can discover the story of mill workers, mill owners and how the Industrial Revolution changed our world forever.
On your visit, you can explore the domestic life of the mill-owning Greg family in their home, Quarry Bank House. Or wander through the stunning picturesque gardens that rise up the banks of the river valley for stunning views and spectacular changes through the seasons. In the restored glasshouse and kitchen garden, you can see the array of exotic fruits and vegetables that were grown for the wealthy Gregs' table.
For an alternative view of life in the Industrial Revolution, take a guided tour of the Apprentice House to step into the lives of the pauper children who worked 10 hours a day in the mill. Or stroll to Styal village to see how many of the other workers lived. In the village hub, a permanent exhibition explores the living conditions of the workers compared to life in the centre of Manchester. A tour of a two-up-two-down worker's cottage offers an insight into more than 150 years of history and invites you to compare your life to those of the workers.
My pics from yesterday..
When i first started cycling, one hour was enough.
Now after one hour i feel as though i'm just getting warmed up. About 3/4 hours is the norm now although i will push it with an occasional 5/6 hour ride.
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What sort of average speed do you, umm, average?
Just out of sheer curiosity.
I use a mountain bike and on flat roads seem to average between 25-30 kph nowadays, was in Decathlon today and looked at a damn nice road bike, must have weighed about 1500 grams. Which was probably the cost of each wheel in USD.
The lowest weight i've seen is just under 5kg, i know a few cyclists who have 7kg bikes.
Mine is 11.6kg
After a week of raining, its was great to get back in the saddle for a few hours.
Coolest August on record..
Extra terrestrial life in these parts, crop circle city..
New tyres stood up to the rugged canal tow path..
Check out the beacon top right..
This next pic is going to be the inspiration for my next set of pictures on this thread.
England is not all green and pleasant, I shall venture into some of the worst, depraved shit holes on this Island for the craic and give an alternative view.
When I return from my biking holiday around the Snowdonia hills with my new holiday home, all mod cons.
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Some pictures with a difference today.
To spice things up, i present ...
Englands not so green and pleasant land...
Urban decay
How many tower blocks? Yes people live in these..
How many vehicles in this Pikeys garden?
Utd Junk skips, sounds appropriate..
Fly tippers paradise..
^ Did you walk Hal home from the pub?
Coolest Autumn on record? It's been roasting down here. Nearly bought a fan
He's currently sleeping it off in that United junk skip pic, the penthouse one.
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Washington starting pitcher Anibal Sanchez flirted with the third no-hitter in Major League Baseball playoff history Friday, his dominant effort fueling the Nationals' 2-0 triumph over the Cardinals in St. Louis in game one of the National League Championship Series.
The Venezuelan-born Sanchez, a 14-year MLB veteran, took his no-hit bid into the eighth inning before Cardinals pinch-hitter Jose Martinez lined a two-out single to center field to break it up.
Two batters earlier, Nats first baseman Ryan Zimmerman preserved Sanchez's effort with an outstanding leaping catch of a line drive by Tommy Edman.
Sanchez departed with a wave to fans who stood at St. Louis's Busch Stadium, having struck out five, hit two batters and walked one on 103 pitches.
Reliever Sean Doolittle recorded the final four outs to seal the victory.
"It was huge," said Nationals manager Dave Martinez, who was without regular closing pitcher Daniel Hudson.
Hudson missed the game to be with his wife as their third child was born on Friday, but was due to be back for game two in St. Louis on Saturday.
"I don't claim to be superstitious, but when you got a no-hitter, I was freezing my butt off and didn't want to put a jacket on and I stayed with this, just this sweat shirt the whole game," Martinez said.
The Nationals seized a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven NLCS, with the winners of the series to take on either the New York Yankees or Houston Astros in the World Series.
The Astros host the Yankees in game one of the American League Championship Series heavyweight showdown on Saturday.
Nationals catcher Yan Gomes, playing behind the plate after regular starter Kurt Suzuki took a deflected fastball to the head during the team's series-winning victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers, said he didn't abide by the baseball tradition of not talking to a pitcher working on a no-hitter.
"We had at least a conversation every inning," Gomes said. "It was important for us to stay on the same page.
Gomes' double in the second inning scored Howie Kendrick to put the Nats up 1-0.
- 'A win for the team' -
Kendrick, who belted a 10th-inning grand slam in Washington's decisive win over the Dodgers, smacked a two-out single in the seventh to score Adam Eaton.
But Sanchez, who threw a regular-season no-hitter as a rookie with the Florida Marlins in 2006, was the star.
He retired the first 10 batters he faced and in taking his no-hit bid into the late innings, Sanchez became the first pitcher in MLB history with multiple post-season no-hit bids of at least six innings.
He threw six no-hit innings in game one of the 2013 AL Championship Series for Detroit against Boston -- but said he wasn't thinking about that on Friday.
"Every year is different, everything is different," Sanchez said. "Today I just wanted to get a win for the team and get us ahead in the series."
There have been only two post-season no-hitters in history, the first when Don Larsen of the New York Yankees threw a perfect game in game five of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Roy Halladay threw a no-hitter for the Philadelphia Phillies when he struck out eight batters and surrendered one walk in a 4-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in game one of the 2010 National League Division Series.


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Oldrecorded table
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The oldrecorded table lists all of the recordings that have been made. It is used by the scheduler to determine whether new shows are duplicates of previously recorded shows. mythfrontend provides a mechanism to delete shows from this table in order to make the scheduler forget that they were ever recorded.


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Spotify do not find my powernode 2
Hi, my powernode 2 Works fine for radio stations etc. but Spotify do not see the powernode in the Device list, this suddenly happened. I have the same problem on my Android phone, my wifes iPhone and on my Windows 10 laptop. Have tried to re install both Spotify and BlueOS Controller on all Devices, tried to reboot my powernode 2 but i still have the same problem. I am running out of ideas, anyone seen this before?
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The same at me! Doesn't work even after rebooting the WLAN, the Powernodes, also reinstalling didn't get an solution.
When I start the Bluesound App, it tries to find the players, but it doesn't, no other option can be seen so I also can't check if an update is available. Also the apps of two iphones don't work. What now?
Is it possible that the Bluesound App started an update which is -maybe- defect? The problem started suddenly, just in the middle of a song. The two Powernodes have the normal blue light, also rebooting didn't help. The Bluesound App is still searching the players.... with the never ending circle. No further information or error sign is seen....
The issue you are seeing is not firmware related - it has to do with the network device table of your router.
- Please power down your players and any other network-attached devices. (Laptops, tablets and smartphones you can simply put in Airplane Mode).
- Unplug your router for 30 seconds then plug it back in
- Wait 5 minutes
- Start powering up all your Players and network devices.
- Reconnect your tablets and laptops
- Relaunch the app
This will reset your network router's cached addresses. Consider setting a DHCP reservation for devices will help.
Hi, I tried the procedure from Tony and started up my Android phone and Spotify now worked on that phone. Tried the iPhone and the Windows 10 laptop, it did not work. Tried my Android again, and it did not work anymore. Tried the procedure again from the beginning, but none of my Devices can see the powernode in the Device list. I am still stuck
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-Hawkeye Pierce
I have no military experience, and have never served in any military branch. My father did, but he got out just after the Korean war, so things were a bit different back then. What I know about the military I know from speaking to others and reading.
Which isn't to say you can't know anything without going through it, but its not the same to read about something and personally experience it.
So while I have a concern, its mostly theoretical. I know how this works out in other areas, and I have a bad feeling about it, but I can't really say for certain and I hope that the more military-experienced of my readers can pitch in and help out.
My concern is expressed well in this article on Cracked by a drone pilot:
Wait, did you think the pilot was the only one involved in flying the thing? Not at all. The optics guy (me!), called a sensor operator, has to make sure the pilot's ADHD doesn't detract from the mission via visuals that look closer to GoldenEye 007 than an engine of war. But if that still kind of sounds like a video game to you, there is a key part missing: the bit where you actually play, i.e., find your target and blow it up.Its not a video game, its not like the movies, its a top down control deal. Like jets who have to get permission to fire on a target and bomb a location, the entire operation of war these days is becoming less about the point of the spear and more about the guys back in town reading about someone holding the spear.
We don't get to pick our targets. Instead, someone else watches the footage while we fly along and, every now and then, decides some building or person we've spotted needs to have projectiles thrown at it. They call several more important people until eventually someone whole countries away from my chair makes the decision to fire. And even that doesn't happen often.
And its not just in the air. Men on the ground have to get permission and okay to take action more than ever now. The reason is that with all of the surveillance and battlefield intelligence, the brass know more of what's going on than ever before. They have cameras in space and on the wing looking down at the field, they have IR information on what's going on, they have continuous radio contact with squads, they have cameras on soldiers showing them what is taking place.
I don't know but this seems like a real problem to me. Part of what makes a soldier in the American military action is their training to show initiative, react to a changing environment, rely on experience and "instinct," and adapt to overcome. That's a stark difference between militaries such as Iraq which had to get every order confirmed and okayed by the central command.
But the more high tech the army becomes, the more this changes. If you have a lieutenant in your ear watching through cameras on the squad sitting back in a command bunker telling you what you can and cannot do, you lose that initiative and adaptability.
And further, it seems to me that this makes the modern military all too similar to the Vietnam-era military. A major complaint, and a valid one, during Vietnam was that certain areas were declared off limits due to political and economic reasons. No, you cannot pursue them into that rubber plantation, you can't shell that banana field, you can't go into that area, that country is off limits, etc. This was because the folks back in Washington DC nine thousand miles away were making decisions on how things could be done. Not soldiers, even, legislators and bureaucrats.
Afghanistan has already seen this, with certain spots being declared untouchable. You can't mess with those poppy crops. You can't go into that town. You can't use that weapon there. You can't shoot into that cave.
And the more the Eye in the Sky is watching, the less flexibility soldiers have, because someone sitting in an air conditioned base doesn't have the same feel or knowledge of the battlefield as the soldier, and they have concerns other than "stay alive" and "get the bad guy." Political, diplomatic, and media optics all begin to play a part.
To make matters worse, officers who are more interested in advancing their career and a political goal in the future become more intimately involved in operations. In the past you could claim the radio was busted, that you couldn't hear them. Or just get far enough away that these guys weren't a direct influence or problem on your squad. Yes, you had to deal with them back at the base, but out in the field they were out of your hair. No longer.
Those of you old enough to have watched M*A*S*H, do you remember those officers that Hawkeye Pierce kept getting into conflicts with? The Major Flaggs and the ones who didn't care about their men, only their career? Remember the guys that always were the villain? They had agendas, they had ideologies that conflicted with the survival of their men and even accomplishing their military objectives and were always portrayed as the bad guy. And rightly so. Well those guys are unfortunately in every organization, even the police and military, and they have even more control than ever before.
As an aside it just fascinated me that the same people who would have damned and screamed at the screen when John Kerry types showed up were cheering him and voting for him in 2004. He was all about his career and the long-term goal, not the men with him and the job at hand, just like those bad guys on M*A*S*H.
In any case, this seems to be damaging to the US military. One of the absolute truths of military that everyone in all times all agrees on is that its the "noncom" level soldiers that make a military work. Non-Commissioned officers are basically sergeant level soldiers. These are the rough, experienced leaders who keep morale up, organize the men, and execute orders on the battlefield. They are the officer right by the grunts doing what they do and keeping things working. Good noncoms = good army. Bad ones = trash army.
But who's doing the leading and commanding on the field when you're being told by radio in your ear what to do from back at the base? Not the non-coms. And without those guys making it happen what happens to an army?
And what happens to morale when you have to wait for permission to take action on what you know needs doing right away? What happens to effectiveness when you can't adapt and take action because you have to do what the guys back in the command center say?
I can see why the brass would love this. Instead of pushing models on a big map, they can push people on a real-time updated battlefield. They can directly influence the flow and action of battle, and control what gets hit, where, and how.
Which brings us to the unmanned military. The more robotic it becomes, the more top down it does. Instead of having soldiers on the field making any decisions, its all by guys back at the base. You do away with those confusing and sometimes irrational soldiers at the front. Nobody will go crazy, nobody will freeze up in combat, nobody will get too tired or make mistakes because they've been out there for 13 hours without a meal.
The more automated and remote combat becomes, the less lethal it becomes for that army as well. Now there aren't images of bodybags going home, no more "Grim statistics" being chanted by a hostile press. Nobody can complain about meat grinders and soldiers dying on the field. And the control, no robot will ever turn a blind eye toward your signals.
Granted, good officers will not use this unless they need to and see a real problem. And there are clearly advantages to having more eyes on the combat. You'll have fewer friendly fire casualties if someone knows where everyone is, for example. You'll do better in the battlefield if your intelligence is faster and more accurate. That bunker hidden by the rubble will slaughter your squad, warn them. The objective is best reached by going down this street. Rifle fire will never reach that target, use indirect fire. Mixed assault with air and artillery and infantry work better when more clearly coordinated. There are definitely benefits to all this information and control.
Yet in the end I wonder if the drawbacks don't outweigh the benefits. And I wonder what its doing to our soldiers. In the past, the greatest leaders, innovators, and public servants America has enjoyed have come from the military. The "greatest generation" gave us some amazing soldier-presidents over the years. That crucible of combat and the lessons learned on the field about discipline, what really matters and what does not, and leadership all were well taught in the military. But what will this do to such lessons? If you cannot rely on your leadership, initiative, and adaptability to overcome problems but have to wait for approval and control from on high, what does that do to our soldiers coming home?
And when you have a president tearing through the command structure of the military to replace them with more amenable, agreeable choices that affects the quality and sort of command that our soldiers are dealing with. If the tough, capable soldiers are being replaced with PC diversity drones, that is going to change what and how the soldiers are commanded. It will change what they're allowed to do and why.
Already we're getting reports from chaplains about being mocked and limited for doing their job and expressing their faith. How much is the morale and effectiveness of the military being affected?
Like I said, I'm no expert. I can only analyze and consider based on what I've learned, not what I've experienced in the field of combat. These are just some concerns I have from examining the information we have, and I fear for the military as a result.


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Alarm settings
I have BT Broadband Option 1 with 10GB quota per calendar month and I wish to set an alarm when I have reached 5GB and to reset to 0GB on the 1st of the month. How do I do this? (I have read the FAQ!)
Is "Duration" the duration of the alarm or the current quota period?
When is the alarm "Repeated"?
What setting should be made in the "Retain Totals" dropdown? Aren't totals reset by the "Define Monthly Quota" settings?
Turning Monitoring off when "Roaming"
On a separate point, I use my laptop at home on Wi-Fi, at my office via Ethernet, and at public Wi-Fi hotspots.
I only wish to monitor home usage. How do I switch off monitoring when in my office and back on when I am at home.
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Artist/poet Diane Walker invites you to return to your compassionate and peaceful center
Friday, September 15, 2017
Prayers for an end to violence
A dear friend's son, Marty, teaches at a small high school in a little town of 500 in Eastern Washington.
Two days ago a troubled student came to that school carrying a rifle and a pistol, and began shooting in the hallway outside Marty's classroom. Marty shepherded as many kids as he could into his classroom, tended to a wounded girl, and called 911, but out in the hallway one boy was killed and others were wounded before a janitor wrestled the shooter to the ground.
The shooter claimed he was tired of being bullied.
The guns came from his father's gun safe; his father had given him the combination.
All facts.
Facts that seem to repeat themselves over and over; facts that shock, wound, and kill; facts that traumatize a whole community and carry echoes out into the world.
Why does it happen? How can we stop it? What can we do to limit the probability of recurrence?
And how -- tempted as we are to place blame on the shooter, the bully, the father -- can we move beyond blame to institutional reform?
And how on earth do people cope who can no longer pray?
I ask your prayers -- for the gunman, the victims, the students, the teachers, their families, their community, and our society; for all the broken hearts and pain; for the bullies and the bullied -- for an end to the violence that arises when we fail to be kind to one another.
Posted by Diane Walker at 8:17 AM
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- Fred Jessett said...
Thank you, Diane, for your prayers and those of others who read your blog.
I appreciate your work so much. Too many days I do not take time to contemplate and then later I find I don't have the resources I need when things are not going well. So thank you for your pictures and thoughts.
- September 16, 2017 at 9:31 PM
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It's the 25th of october! We are beginning our project today with Anna, Jude and Fenella (and of course me, Sjoerd and Sue are also there). On monday Nathan and Tullia will join us, and maybe some more the upcoming week. We invite everyone, so feel free to join in!
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Up to the 1990s, and maybe later too, when you bought a floorstanding speaker cabinet there most likely be a tweeter, a midrange, and a bass driver. Now you will typically get a tweeter and two identical lower frequency drivers. Why did that happen and over what period did the switch occur? I suppose there was technological improvement that meant a 160mm driver could now handle midrange and bass sounds with good balance, and that was not possible earlier.
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Simi's sophomore album 'Simisola' debuted at number 5 spot on the World music chart, while bagging the number 1 spot on popular music store, iTunes.
The singer shared the good news via her twitter page. The album which only dropped two weeks back is already gaining global recognition despite having no international influence.
Simisola was majorly produced by Oscar with efforts from Vtek and Seyikeyz.
Simi only featured former YBNL soldier, Adekunle Gold on the album.
Congratulations Simi.
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Almost all the dog meat restaurants in South Korea's Pyeongchang county, where the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony will be held on Friday, have defied a government request to stop serving the food, an official admitted on Thursday.
South Koreans are believed to consume about one million dogs a year as a summertime delicacy, with the greasy red meat – which is invariably boiled for tenderness – believed to increase energy.
Activists have stepped up campaigns to ban dog consumption, with online petitions urging boycotts of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics over the issue, and protests in Seoul.
Local authorities asked the 12 dog meat restaurants in Pyeongchang county to stop serving the food during the Games, in exchange for subsidies.
But only two have complied, Pyeongchang County government official Lee Yong-bae told AFP.
"We've faced a lot of complaints from restaurant operators that we are threatening their livelihood," he said.
"Some of them initially shifted to selling pork or things instead of dog meat only to find their sales plunging sharply. They then switched back to dog meat."
Signs advertising dog meat dishes such as boshintang (health-boosting soup), yeongyangtang (nutrient soup) or sacheoltang (year-round soup) have been replaced with more neutral ones such as yeomsotang (goat soup) to avoid giving "a bad impression to foreigners" during the Games, he added.
Dog meat is officially classed as "detestable" by Seoul, as is snake, but the designation has no legal ramifications.
South Korean authorities periodically try to persuade restaurants to change their menus or drop signs suggestive of dog meat during major international events hosted by the country.
The tradition has declined as the nation increasingly embraces the idea of dogs as pets instead of livestock, with eating them now something of a taboo among young South Koreans.
Meanwhile, North Korea staged a military parade in Pyongyang on Thursday to mark the 70th anniversary of its armed forces, putting its intercontinental ballistic missiles on show just a day before the Winter Olympics open in the South.
The nuclear-armed North is on an Olympics-linked charm offensive – sending a troupe of performers, hundreds of female cheerleaders, and the sister of leader Kim Jong Un to South Korea.
But regiments of soldiers goose-stepped in formation through Kim Il Sung Square on Thursday, followed by trucks, artillery, tanks and finally four giant Hwasong-15 ICBMs – as well as a band forming the Korean word for "Victory".
Unlike the North's last parade in April 2017 state television did not show the event live, instead airing it hours later.
Fireworks went off as leader Kim Jong Un took his place on the rostrum to watch the display, along with his wife Ri Sol Ju and ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam — who will head Pyongyang's delegation to the Olympics on Friday.


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For the sixth year in a row, 27 patients from the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, and 15 care team members traveled to Scottsdale, AZ to attend Rockies spring training camp. For many of the patients, it was their first time away from parents, and the all-access trip helped to grow friendships and foster independence.
Thank you to The Jason Motte Foundation for funding this once-in-a-lifetime getaway.
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Prep Impressions: Oct. 13, 2015
I covered the Riverside La Sierra-Jurupa Valley Patriot varsity volleyball match on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, for The Press-Enterprise, HSGametime.pe.com & @PEcom_preps and I came away thinking La Sierra's volleyball supporters travel very well.
The Eagles Nest filled its half of the open stands in Patriot's gym while the Warriors had little more than half as many there to cheer on their previously unbeaten team.
It was an interesting mix, and speaks volumes about La Sierra's success in girls volleyball. The Eagles have won 88 of their previous 90 league matches, claiming seven consecutive league titles along the way.
This season the roster is full of club-level talent, anchored by junior libero Savahna Costello, an all-league outside hitter last season who switched positions with the addition of Lauren Reid.
Reid, a 5-foot-10 senior, gives the Eagles a bolder attack at the net and the power to dominate opponents of similar size. Costello had a match-high 33 digs and has an 90-percent dig rate on the season.
La Sierra also features senior setter Maddie Lozano, senior hitter Malaya Dean and senior hitter Ashley Weaver. They're a team of marked spirit and consistency.
La Sierra coach Bruce Bartholomew:
"We served pretty well, except in that third game that we lost. We moved in a little to the middle, release our middle blocker a little early to make sure were not leaving a gap. We're getting kills. We were leaving gaps because we were coming over late even though we knew that's where they were going to set. Once we release our middle, close it up and we can play pretty good defense behind it. (Patriot) the second-time around will be tough. I think Hillcrest will give us a challenge, too, but people know what we look like and how to focus on us. I think if we don't give away too many points on missed serves and hitting errors I think we'll run (the River Valley League). But both Hillcrest and Patriot can give us trouble if we don't play our 'A' game."
Patriot coach Victor Centeno:
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Only a bad law hides corrupt acts
The Baillieu government is at last delivering on its promise to create an anti-corruption commission.
The Baillieu government is at last delivering on its promise to create an anti-corruption commission. The Baillieu government is at last delivering on its promise to create an anti-corruption commission. The Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission will have sweeping powers to investigate more than 250,000 people in public service, including politicians, their staff, judges, police, local government, consultants, the auditor-general and the governor. That is the good news. The bad news is that even as it is scraps constraints on investigating the tentacles of corruption wherever they lead, the government is seeking a way to keep some inquiries from the public.As the government rushed through 100 pages of IBAC legislation on Parliament's last sitting day, Anti-Corruption Minister Andrew McIntosh told reporters: ''We were elected on a promise to shine a light on public corruption. I have a message for Victoria's public servants: if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.'' The government is not applying that message to itself. One clause creates an exemption from any obligation to disclose investigations. Rather than ''shine a light'' on corrupt conduct, the commission can make a ''private recommendation'' to the premier or a minister. If the IBAC commissioner is satisfied the government heeded the advice, no one else need ever know about the matter.Publicity can derail some covert investigations. However, this clause could also be applicable to politically embarrassing or damaging findings. On the face of it, opposition spokeswoman Jill Hennessy is right in saying: ''Under this legislation, reports will be hidden and only the government will have access to investigations about itself. This piece of legislation has been written by the government for the government.''If the commission finds the government's response unsatisfactory, it can release a public report. In this regard, another concern raised by Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews is relevant. The government broke an undertaking to give a bipartisan parliamentary committee the right of veto over the selection of the inaugural IBAC commissioner. ''We cannot have a situation in this state where the IBAC commissioner is the government's person,'' he said. This is especially so when the IBAC chief decides what complaints to pursue, what inquiries to initiate and whether the government can keep an investigation under wraps.This newspaper regularly reports on matters that government would rather not be the subject of open inquiries. If, for instance, the special treatment accorded Premier Ted Baillieu's brother-in-law, Graeme Stoney, brought the secret return of cattle to the Alpine National Park before the IBAC, the public might never know. The same is true were the IBAC to follow up unresolved questions about the role of ministers and staff in the intrigues that forced police chief Simon Overland and his deputy, Ken Jones, to resign. There are questions about Business First's direct funding of Liberal candidates and what developers expected in return. Only after this newspaper's inquiries were disclosures made. If belated compliance with electoral law were to satisfy the IBAC, voters might remain ignorant of any inquiry into ''buying'' political influence.The Coalition has taken a historic step in setting up this anti-corruption commission. We won't see how the IBAC performs until next July. But when Mr Baillieu castigated his predecessors for their lack of transparency and accountability, and for looking after Labor ''mates'', his promises of open administration were based on a premise of disclosure. Impropriety and wrongdoing flourish in secrecy transparency itself counters corruption. If any public official engages in corrupt conduct, the public has a right to see that justice is done. Unless the IBAC promotes that principle, efforts to clean up public administration in Victoria could fall well short of what is needed and was promised. A man of many virtues'He was a master lawyer and ? he brought to his work and to the whole of his public life an unflagging and almost inexhaustible energy and a mind of great strength, power and range.'' This description could well have applied to Sir Zelman Cowen, Australia's 19th governor-general, who died this week at the age of 92. In fact, this adroit summary comes from The Australian Dictionary of Biography's entry on Sir Isaac Isaacs, Australia's 9th viceroy. Its author: Sir Zelman Cowen.Much has rightly been made of Sir Zelman's five-year term as governor-general, from 1977 to 1982, and of the key conciliatory role he played in restoring dignity to that office after the rancorous and messy aftermath following the dismissal. But there was much more to him than that, as his many colleagues and friends would attest. As former High Court judge Michael Kirby said, toasting Sir Zelman's 90th birthday, he was a man of many virtues: seven public ones and seven private ones, that resembled the twin arms of the menorah - or candlabrum sacred to the Jews. These included Sir Zelman's roles in academia, law reform, and media and communication (it should not be forgotten that, while chairman of Fairfax in the early 1990s and in the face of a proposed takeover by Kerry Packer, Sir Zelman helped draft, and was a signatory to, this newspaper's charter of independence). Less publicly, his other virtues included a loving nature, conversational expertise, courage, intellectualism and luck.Sir Zelman remained active in public life long after his retirement and, indeed, while dealing with the onset of Parkinson's disease.Next week, he will, entirely appropriately, be given a state funeral in Melbourne. Such a great and influential Australian deserves nothing less.


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Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005 (Physicist, Nobel Laureate)
- Existence: 1906 - 2005
Background: Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1967.
Biographical/Historical Description: The recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1967 for his work on nuclear reactions in stars, Bethe was born in Strasbourg and educated at the University of Frankfurt and at the University of Munich, where he earned a PhD in 1928 under A. Sommerfeld at the Institute for Theoretical Physics. From 1928 to 1933, Bethe held a variety of teaching positions in Germany, also visiting the Physics Institute of the University of Rome in Via Panisperna 89A in 1931 and 1932. Hitler's rise to power forced Bethe from the University of Tübingen in 1933. Two years later he became an assistant professor at Cornell University, garnering a full professorship there in 1937. Bethe first visited Caltech in 1940 and continued to spend time regularly there throughout his long career.
Biographical/Historical Collection Notes: Oral History in two sessions, 1982 and 1993. This 47-page interview by Judith R. Goodstein begins with Bethe's impressions and reminiscences of Caltech, including L. Pauling, R. Millikan, T. von Kármán, F. Zwicky, C. C. Lauritsen, W. A. Fowler, R. Feynman and R. F. Bacher. He discusses his relations with other prominent physicists, including E. Teller, N. Bohr and J. R. Oppenheimer. He also describes his first impressions of nuclear physics, the political climate in Italy in the 1930s, and the Rome school of physics, including E. Fermi, F. Rasetti, and E. Segrè. The 1993 interview concerns R. Bacher at Cornell and at work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World War II under Oppenheimer.
Photo of Hans A. Bethe (PhotoNet).
Photo of Hans A. Bethe (PhotoNet).
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A seated student is using the pay phone in Linnell Hall. It is coin operated, with a rotary dial. The student is unidentified.
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"Student Using Pay Phone, Linnell Hall, Westbrook Junior College, 1966" (1966). University of New England, Westbrook College History Collection. https://dune.une.edu/wchc_photos_students1960s/105
Pay phone, Linnell Hall
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Sophie Kitching
Born in 1990, Isle of Wight
A gentle falling in love. A floating down a stream. An embrace. A calm. A sway.
Sophie Kitching's work to me is about sensations. She sees and feels them, takes them and then transmits the feeling through objects, a painting, a cluster of things, a neon, confetti falling. It's nothing I can firmly nail down, it's just present. It's based on illusion.
There was smoke and there are mirrors...
She works with common materials trading up what you are accustomed to for something beyond. For her show at us called Window Series she has produced a number of new works, both paintings and sculptures. Tell me what you see when you look at them and you'll look at me with a dumb stare. They are ether, they are air, when you enter them you go to the other side. You know you are looking at beauty but you are not certain if you have been here before. Time and place shifts.
Sophie has already had a number of solo and group shows. She studied in Paris and currently lives in New York. She is on the up and up. We are very fortunate to have a body of her work with us as our first gallery show and opening in Marseille.


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The Grand Prix de Cornulier (monte, Gr.I International, 2700 meters, purse 650,000€) is set for Sunday and initially 29 horses were engaged in what is likely to be an 18 horse field.
The well-regarded Bilibili, Fado du Chene and Traders are among the top prospects. Bilibili, trained by Laurent Claude Abrivard for breeder/owner Jean Pierre Barjon, is a nine year old son of Niky and has proven to be an accomplished monte performer as he won the 2019 version of the Cornulier, the richest monte event, and has lifetime earnings of 1,510,600€.
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Audubon Adventures Kit #8: Cool Critters
Audubon Adventures Kit #8: Cool Critters
Ranked as one of the most effective and scientifically accurate environment-based education curricula in the country, Audubon Adventures is perfect for students in grades 3 through 6. Each classroom kit contains 32 copies of Audubon Adventures Student Nature News Magazine; an Educator's Guide featuring teaching plans, engaging activities, and reproducible pages; student assessment questions with answer keys; participation certificates; and access to a companion website with free downloadable resources. The content is aligned with the National Standards for the Language Arts and Science and has been successfully used by classroom teachers, after-school program coordinators, nature centers, and scout programs. Kit #8, Cool Critters, explores intriguing animals such as turtles, waterbirds, dragonflies, and spiders.
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Blissful Dark Chooclet Tablet With Piedmont Hazelnuts
Earliest Delivery : Monday, September 21, 2020
Let your loved ones dive into the pool of flavors with this Blissful Dark Chocolate Tablet With Piedmont Hazelnuts you send them to make their occasions special. This Gluten-Free Dark Chocolate Tablet is a delightful combination of an intense flavor of the finest Cocoa Criollo and Forastero from the best plantations along with mellow flavor of Hazelnuts IGP Piedmont. Net Weight-1000 gr.
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You'll be sure to find a locally handmade gift.
Or shop online (there is much more than e-bay out there).
This is where I am going to be as a stall holder this weekend.
Come and visit if you are around in my part of the world, I would love see you.
If you live in Hobart, be sure to support this wonderful source of locally homegrown fruit and veg too.


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