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Sleeping Beauty (Pantomime) New Victoria Theatre The New Victoria Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty was a beautifully crafted production with amazing scenery, atmospheric lighting and flamboyant costumes; it was everything you want a panto to be. From the playful delightful Royal magician (Richard Cadell), Spirit of Dreams Dame played by the national treasure himself Christopher Biggins, to the wicked Evil Sorceress Carabosse delivered by the talented Faye Tozer, everything was wonderful.To hear …

This session, hosted by Aaron Gustafson and Ioana Tanase explores the transformative role of AI in enhancing accessibility. Together, you will uncover the pivotal role AI plays in crafting cutting-edge accessible technologies, learn about innovative AI tools that empower individuals with disabilities, and dive into best practices for creating inclusive AI solutions. Together, we will also explore the exciting future of AI in pushing the boundaries of accessibility.Learning objectives:Understand the …

Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview: Why Care About Church History? I was recently interviewed on Lisa Anderson’s Boundless podcast. She asked me several questions about the value of studying the history of Christianity over just reading the Bible. My answers surprised her, and at the end of the show, she surprised me with a question I wasn’t expecting. … Bill Petro, your friendly neighborhood historian billpetro.com Subscribe to have future …

IN THE BEGINNING there was the LETTER, and it was Slow; and there was also the PHONE CALL, which back then got Expensive if it wasn’t local. Then came the E-MAIL (it had a hyphen back in those days), and it was Instantaneous, except that the Computer Lab wasn’t always free, and Dialup was slow, and checking it when en route or abroad was nigh on impossible, but on the …

This blog explores the partnership between Bayes Business School and the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD), showing how academic expertise helps solve government challenges in managing financial risks. The collaboration helps train future experts who combine traditional skills with modern data analysis to serve the public sector. Introduction I am Ioannis Kyriacou, Professor of Actuarial Finance at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London. It is my privilege to …

The Future Foodscapes Research Unit is an interdisciplinary collective after our own hearts. Their focus is on rethinking the future of the planetary food system through a series of research and speculative projects, one of which sees the kitchen as an externalised stomach. Functioning as an Open Research Platform, the FFRU was founded to rethink the future of the food system in a planetary context by exploring its relationship with …

Being a freelancer often means not getting paid on time (still waiting, Dotdash Meredith). But there are good things about it, too. Sometimes, you end up discovering a place much sooner than you would normally. This is what happened to … Continue reading →

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Thomas Anour has posted a number of Bible extracts: Mark 10:13-18, John 1:1-13, and James 4:1-3. Comparing these to a published translation from 2002 (from which he sometimes diverges slightly) and to the anonymous dictionary linked in the previous post makes it possible for a beginner to parse much of the text. No more examples of /ħ/ were heard; but another pharyngeal, /ʕ/, was. This phoneme is absent from the …

Let's look at two Hebrew words for clown - לֵיצָן leitzan and מוּקְיוֹן mukion. Leitzan is the more common of the two, so we'll start by examining it. It first appears in Rabbinic Hebrew, meaning "scorner, scoffer, mocker, jester." It is parallel to the biblical לֵץ letz, which is both a verb "to scorn, scoff" and also a substantive noun meaning "scorner, scoffer." The word letz appears in the opening …

The Book The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine I saw a reference somewhere online to Yuiri Slezkine’s The House of Government and thinking it was a book about a single building a giant 1931 block of flats in central Moscow opposite the Kremlin I ordered my kindle copy and started reading. I had no idea it was an 1100 page work covering the birth of Bolshevism and its first …

The cycle of downplaying or mischaracterizing digital effects is becoming distressingly predictable. I wrote about it at length, using the marketing of "Gran Turismo" — a film I didn't work on — as my example. When the misinformation comes for a project that I worked on (which has happened many times in the past), it becomes particularly infuriating.In the lead-up to the release of "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew", Slashfilm wrote …

I was an academic expert invited to submit expert opinion & evidence to the Autumn 2024 closed consultation on the legal and criminal ban on puberty blockers. I’m one of the experts that Wes has claimed to have listened to in agreeing to make this ban permanent. Here is my submission: Proposed changes to the availability of puberty blockers Question 1: Do you agree with making it permanent? Strongly disagree. …

It is stating the blindingly obvious that recruitment is a people business and unlike other parts of the retail industry it is not a place that is renowned for embracing technology. Maybe it should be more welcoming of the capabilities of tech especially as the power of AI could help HR and recruitment teams deal with the increasingly high volumes of applications they are receiving. Even when there is a …