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You can tell the nights are getting darker. Dog poo is back on the pavements I found some on my trainer that I brought into my wee house, it was the last thing I needed. As soon as the weather gets better I will be out with the poo bags to clean up. Dog Poo Comments welcome.

A new location has just been announced for the Great British Beer Festival for 2025 which takes it away from London for the first time for many year, and whilst we are now in the midst of the festival season here's a look back at the history of large scale beer events....So the Great British Beer Festival is to leave its longstanding home at Olympia in London, and is moving …

“He was not of an age, but for all time.” Ben Jonson’s description of William Shakespeare certainly holds true, with a variety of productions of his plays showing in theatres of all kinds across the globe – as well as countless film, TV & audio versions, not to mention spin-off ideas inspired by certain characters or locations. But these original plays didn’t appear in a vacuum; the early modern theatre …

In this first of a three part series of blog posts, we explore the CDS Plugin mechanism in CAP to find out how it works, so we are well prepared to write our own plugin. Background This series of blog posts accompanies my session in the Developer Keynote at SAP TechEd Virtual this year. In particular, the content I presented in that session is reflected in this first blog post, …

I start every morning by opening up a GitHub search that shows me all the open pull requests across Laravel's open source ecosystem. It’s kind of like my personal to-do list for the day. Some mornings, there are just a handful, or...

It's like one of those ghosts that doesn't know it's dead. The Lauterbacher brewery claims a foundation date of 1889, with a history in Bavaria going further back to the mid-17th century. The website tells the story in the first person: "we at Lauterbach..." Except you don't have to dig too deep to discover it's a sub-brand of Riegele, centred around a pub in Augsburg but with no brewery of …

As a science fiction kid in the 1970s, one phenomenon I recalled well was the “ancient astronaut” works of Erich von Däniken. These took a look at various artistic and architectural creations of various ancient peoples and claimed they were the result of extra-terrestrial contact. As von Däniken didn’t have the scientific or academic background […]

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A few books stood out this month, including Radio Girls, about the early days at the BBC, and The Trap, the newest book about Emma Makepeace. I also enjoyed The Night in Question by Susan Fletcher, which follows what seems like a recent trend in senior citizen sleuths but features an appealing heroine who is both vulnerable and resilient. I couldn’t decide if I liked or disliked The Second Lady …

The article notes that the prize actually went to two humans, but this headline from MIT Tech Review may just be ahead of its time. Are we one generation of tech away from a Nobel Prize going to a machine itself — assuming the next gen is more autonomous in terms of what it applies […]

The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation has awarded a $12,000 grant to the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society to support a Fellow for their New Netherland Settlers project. I am honored to announce I have been named in that position. As a Fellow, I will research underrepresented and underexamined populations within New Netherland such as free and enslaved individuals, Indigenous people, and the many others who contributed to the diverse, …

It's October, and that means it's inversion season in Washington.Tuesday's 5 a.m. sounding, a vertical snapshot of the atmosphere measured by a weather balloon launched by the National Weather Service, shows a stout inversion above Spokane. The red temperature line increases sharply to the right in the lowest levels of the atmosphere. The surface temperature was a cool 46°F but warmed to a balmy 63°F approximately 1300 feet off the …

We had a longer run planned for the 3rd so I kept it local for Wednesday 2nd Oct. and had another Warriston wander. The sun shone and the place seemed alive with insects enjoying the balmy weather before Winter closes everything down. There was a brief appearance from a red admiral sunbathing on the walls of the crypts but nothing more spectacular: no birds of prey or woodpeckers. I also …

Duskmourn is already well underway, so this set recap for Bloomburrow is coming in super late! Carrot Cake: One of the best limited commons in the set. Arena Limited Stats Events Win Loss Total Winrate Archetype Total 12 42 35 77 0.5455 With splash 1 18 18 36 0.5 By Main Colors WU 1 0 3 3 0 Bird Fliers WB 1 4 3 7 0.5714 Bat Gain/Lose Life WR …

Simply one of the best fantasy epics you'll ever read The post A must-read epic: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind appeared first on Atomic Junk Shop.