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If you look at the Banks's Brewery website, it describes, in a timeline, the various breweries taken over by the company. For most of the time the owning company was Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries and then Marstons, and now Carlsberg Marstons Brewing (CMBC).Back in the day, brewing companies, on the whole, took over other brewers to acquire outlets, or sometimes, to buy out an owner who wanted to cash in. …

Moondial by Helen Cresswell, 1987. Araminta Kane, called Minty, has always had the ability to sense things that others can’t. For as long as she can remember, she has had the ability to sense and even see spirits. She doesn’t talk about it much because this happens to her routinely. When she does mention it, her mother assumes that it’s imagination or a trick of the light. Minty becomes more …

Today we’re pleased to present a guest interview with Milk Without Honey creator Hanna Harms, conducted by her publisher, Street Noise Books publisher Liz Frances. If you’re not familiar with the graphic novel, it offers an up-close-and-personal look at the life of bees — their hives, their colonies and their interactions with the ecosystem. It explores the impact that our actions as humans are having on them and, as a …

We're headed to the annual Lone Pine Film Festival today!We're taking an extra day this year to head as far north as Bishop on Highway 395 and enjoy some of the fall colors before turning around and heading back south for Bishop Wednesday afternoon.Last month I shared details on the festival's films and guests. Please click here to check out the info.After I return from the festival posting may continue …

Salem's Lot (2024) • View trailer3.5 stars (out of five). Rated R, for bloody violence Available via: MAXBy Derrick BangFilm adaptations of Stephen King’s novels have run the gamut, from the excellent — Misery, Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption and Carrie — to the deplorable: Thinner, Cell, Lawnmower Man and many, many others. With sundown rapidly approaching, the wary vampire hunters — from left, Susan(Makenzie Leigh), Ben (Lewis Pullman), …

From https://www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2024/10/he-internet-archive-takes-over-foreign-dissertations-from-ubl Last month, the UBL announced that it will deselect an extensive collection of foreign dissertations. We are happy to report now that The Internet Archive will be taking over this collection. The dissertations were originally part of an exchange programme between (mostly European) universities until the year 2004 but were never catalogued on arrival. As Leiden University Libraries has limited space for growth in its stacks, it decided …

Just in time for my next event at Bart’s Books, I’ve finally finished cutting together the audio of my previous conversation there with creative powerhouse Tessa Hulls! This talk was recorded on her whirlwind book tour for Feeding Ghosts, a stunning matrilineal graphic memoir that rocked me to my core and has remained on my mind all year. Tune in to hear us talk about sustaining ourselves during interminable creative …

Sacked off work early doors, done my bit and more last week so they owed me one. Top of the tidal, no one there so I had the whole back eddy to myself. Not sure why but the flow over the sluices kept changing which moved the fish round a bit and it wasn't that easy to get a feed, trot, bite rhythm going but when I caught they were …

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This October we’re exploring the historical superstitions and traditions from across the British Isles and Ireland. Here, we’ve compiled 30 of the most intriguing historical superstitions, sourced from our newspaper collection. From the more well-known superstitions, for example, not passing underneath a ladder, or throwing spilled salt over your shoulder, to those you may not have heard of, like giving a knife along with a penny, anyone?), without any further …

Read part one: Building Bonfire Native Apps with LiveView Native Read part two: Prototyping Our First Native Components with LiveView Native Note: This entry may evolve over time as the LiveView Native team pushes improvements and releases major versions of the libraries. Please bear with us as we test and implement the main navigation patterns in our upcoming Bonfire native app! Also, this article reflects our current understanding of SwiftUI …

Intel has a long history of making integrated GPUs, and they’ve recognized how important iGPUs are to thin and light laptops. Today Intel is locked in fierce competition with AMD, and the company’s fight to hold on to the laptop market is no less intense on the graphics front. Lunar Lake is Intel’s latest mobile offering, and brings with it a new Xe2 graphics architecture. Xe2 is an evolution of …

The proof is in the pudding Developer: Nippon Ichi Software Publisher: Nippon Ichi Software / NIS America Release Dates: November 1st, 2009 (Japan, Digital), April 22nd, 2010 (Japan, Physical), Jun 8th, 2010 (North America), August 20th, 2010 (Asia), November 17th, 2010 (Europe) Available On: Playstation Portable / PSP Genre: Visual Novel Yup, I’m back on my bullshit again with yet another spin-off of a bigger series that you probably don’t …

At 92 years old, Henry Ameen, affectionately referred to as Hank, strolls the sidewalks of Main Street, U.S.A., with the same enthusiasm he had back when he started as a Jungle Cruise skipper in 1958. His love for Disney traces back to 1955, when Hank and his wife visited Disneyland on their honeymoon—just one month after it opened. Hank took eight-millimeter film of the park on his new Kodak Brownie …

A holding of individual inflation-tracking UK government bonds is the way forward if you want an asset class to hedge UK inflation. But how do you actually buy index-linked gilts? Thankfully, your neighbourhood investment blogger is here to clear that up. I’ve personally been pushing this task around my own plate like a seven-year-old told to eat his greens, due to… Telephone dealing: “I hate you!” Dirty pricing versus clean …