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Chipping away at my River Wye pike target or just enjoying chasing pike! Less than ideal conditions, red and rising, but one fish lost to a hook-pull & one landed, 10lb 5oz - bleak livebait doing the trick.

Thursday 10th October 2024 Readers will know I like to get out and about and see what’s actually happening on the road as well as on the tracks when commenting. Something I wish more managers and especially senior directors of transport companies would do more often so they can take informed decisions based on real world experience. When I first wrote about what is now a widespread adoption by First …

For as long as I toil in the trenches of design, I'll never tire of the design brief that goes: "Everyone please take this same basic thing and mold it in your image." The results of such an assignment are nearly always uniformly delightful, so I was happy to see the debut of this latest project, commissioned by the bicoastal studio Office of Tangible Space, run by Michael Yarinsky and …

JFI’s Financing the Energy Transition researcher Sina Sinai has released the fourth memo in a series about the financing and bankability of green technologies in the United States. This paper examines how tariff policy has affected US manufacture of solar panels. Protective tariffs enacted to insulate domestic manufacturers from market forces will inevitably come at greater cost than explicit investment and subsidy policies in the shorter term as capacity continues …

Saturday 21st September 2024 You join me in the canalside Cheshire town of Audlem, lacking a bus service and now my Uber has driven off leaving me stranded, despite giving me the impression he'd stick around whilst I spent my 25 minutes in the Shroppie Fly. Thankfully, the barmaid had recommend an App called 'Go-Too'. What is wrong with 'Go To?' I wondered. After a pre-emptive half of Banksies in …

During the 1980s, a distinct pop culture aesthetic shaped the way teenagers decorated their bedrooms, regardless of gender. These spaces were a vibrant mix of cartoons, movies, and toys, capturing the essence of the era. The decor often mirrored the excitement of a Saturday morning cartoon lineup, bursting with color and personality. For teenagers in […]

I was introduced to Gurjot Singh in the summer of 2017. He is a Medical Doctor turned research scientist from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His work involved researching and studying the carbon metabolism of cities in developing countries. He developed empirical models to describe the flow of carbon inside cities, including the sources of influx and efflux and carbon sequestration1 in urban areas. In 2015, he participated …

Check out As in guillotine... for more. UPDATE, 7PM: This was sent to subscribers via email as a test, but nothing seems to have changed with the “newsletter” setup so that means Jetpack is hiding that setting somewhere else, because of course they are! It might have to do with me having two Gravatar accounts I’m trying to merge but have to wait 30 days for one of them to …

Yesterday I wrote about a trend towards plainness and dullness as exemplary of the foibles of Modernism. Yes, the diversity of colour in art is decreasing. Yes, Mark Rothko's colour fields are getting more and more expensive. Yes, the places that we live and work are increasingly converging on dull beige boxes.But:Changsha Meixihu International Culture and Arts Centre by Zaha HadidHabitat 67 by Moshe SafdieThese are both a ton of …

Since the “social media is bad for teens” myth will not die, I keep having intense conversations with colleagues, journalists, and friends over what the research says and what it doesn’t. (Alice Marwick et. al put together a great little primer in light of the legislative moves.) Along the way, I’ve also started to recognize how slipperiness between two terms creates confusion — and political openings — and so I …

Today was their third attempt, I believe, to set a pre-enquête date.I didn't provide much detail about the previous pre-pre-enquête because I didn't want to tip my hand to Bill that I had been an Observer last week, too (at least for part of his appearance; I was stuck in a meeting for the first half). The previous Justice of the Peace - Her Worship Racine - had calmly explained …

Penguin Random House, 2024 Although women never really ran Fifth Avenue, three remarkable women did manage landmark department stores from the 1920s to the 1980s. Satow’s book is a collective biography of each–Dorothy Shaver of Lord and Taylor, Hortense Odlum of Bonwit Teller, and Geraldine Stutz of Henri Bendel. All of them were brought in to manage stores in crisis, and each figured out their own ways to make them …

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Erin Kissane, Writer/Researcher - XOXO Festival (2024) Writer/researcher Erin Kissane is working to build better and safer networks for collective survival, with efforts including the COVID Tracking Project, a powerful 40,000 word analysis of Meta’s role in the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, and current research into the culture and governance of the next wave of social networks. When necessary government infrastructure to fight the covid pandemic was missing, internet randos …

A reader writes: Have you got any tips for maintaining motivation on a longer tour? I’m just past halfway through a Spain to Ireland tour, and I’ve just been feeling a bit burnt out. Been on the road since April with a bit of time off in July. Thanks so much for the question! This is a really interesting one. Because you’ve touched on something not often mentioned about long-term …