If you know me, you know I've been a Smoothie for breakfast devotee for decades. My husband Chris on the other hand loves a varied menu of eggs, toast, cereal, fruit, juice, yogurt and…granola. We go through a lot of it. And since I don't eat it, I often forget to stock up on it. That's just what happened the other week. That misstep inspired me to take matters into my own hands. Literally. It helped that Cookie and Kate, one of my favorite online cooking sites, was featuring this Orange & Almond Granola recipe. It sounded delicious to me, but I knew Chris would not like the orange flavoring. And so my first batch of homemade granola was born! It was easy and fun to mix up. Best of all, it was a hit with the Hubs.
Measure out ingredients and add everything to a medium-sized bowl, going from dry (oats, nuts, etc…) to liquid (honey, oils).
Spread out and pat down on prepared baking sheet.
Once golden brown, let cool. This is when it will crisp up.
Once cooled, crumble into air-tight container.
I think this would be an awesome cooking project with grandkids…if I had them. And how cute would this be as your next hostess gift? Seriously, this granola is so easy to make (who knew) that I could see trying a different combination every 2 weeks or so. I'll keep you posted on that. And…if you invite us for a weekend, there could be some granola in your future.
Looks amazing, gonna try it!
Thanks, Bonnie. And what's so fun is that you can make up your own combination on the spot. Let me know what you come up with!
Awww…c'mon. You can do it!
Looks great. The 3/4 cup oil seems a bit much. I will make this gluten free and half the oil and see how it goes. I love the idea of citrus zest. Thanks!
I hear you on the oil, Catt! In fact I did cut it down from my inspiration recipe. Let me know how it works out for you!
Will do MP and will share what I do come up with!
Let me know what you think of avocado oil. We use occasionally already but didn't think to try it with this recipe. And I do think you could easily go with less oil all around.
Just re-checked recipe. Should be 1/4 each of coconut oil and olive oil or 1/2 cup of one! Have updated!! Thanks for keeping me honest!!!


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Another Indian language, Bengali, besides foreign languages such as Arabic, Spanish, French and Mandarin, will also be made available for students who are interested.
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DU's 5-Year Journalism Course To Have Tamil As Optional Language
New Delhi: The five-year integrated journalism course in Delhi University will now include Tamil as an optional language. Tamil is spoken in various South East Asian countries, including Singapore and Malaysia. Learning the language will help the students if they visit these countries, said Prof. Maharaj K Pandit, Chairperson, Admission Committee, Delhi University.
According to the university officials, there will be no entrance examination for the course and the admissions will be on the basis of merit.
"The admission process for the programme will be deferred a bit. It will not take place simultaneously with the other programmes," said Prof. Pandit.
The faculty of social sciences will be hosting the programme and a student can quit it after three years with a BA degree.
"The course has been prepared in such a way that it produces experts in particular areas of journalism," said Prof. Pandit, adding that if a student is interested in business journalism, he will be taught accordingly.
The course fee would be Rs 30,000 per semester and 60 students will be admitted in the current academic year.
DU's Standing Committee on Academic Affairs, at a meeting last week, gave its approval to the integrated course.
The proposal, however, needs to be approved by the Academic Council and the Executive Council of the university.
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Joshua vs. Ruiz 'Clash on the Dunes' kickoff press conference on Monday
August 9th, 2019 - Comments Closed
By Charles Brun: Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn will be making an announcement about the information on the December 7th Anthony Joshua vs. Andy Ruiz 2 rematch this Monday in a news conference in London, England. The fight will be shown on Sky Box Office in the UK, as well on DAZN in the United States. There have been recent fights in Saudi Arabia involving George Groves vs. Callum Smith and Amir Khan vs. Billy Dib. But those fights were nowhere near the size and magnitude that the Joshua vs. Ruiz 2 rematch is expected to be.
The Joshua-Ruiz 2 rematch is being called, "Clash on the Dunes", and it'll be taking place in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. The rematch will take place in an outdoor stadium on the 7th of December, according to Dan Rafael.
It's the best they could come up with for the Joshua vs. Ruiz rematch, and hopefully the fight isn't ruined by poor officiating. We saw that in Joshua's matches against Carlos Takam and Joseph Parker. The judges didn't mar the fights. It was the referees that worked those fights that tainted Joshua's wins.
Ruiz refused to fight in the UK
Andy wasn't going to let Joshua have the home country advantage, and that was clear from day one. Hearn has been keeping the information secret about the Joshua-Ruiz Jr. 2 rematch until today. The group that's funding the rematch, Skill Challenge Entertainment, is paying massive money to bring the Joshua vs. Ruiz rematch to Saudi Arabia. Omar Khalil, who works for Skill Management Entertainment, will be on hand for Monday's press conference in London.
Hearn wanted Joshua-Ruiz rematch in Cardiff, Wales
If not for a big offer coming from Skill Challenge Entertainment to stage the fight in Saudi Arabia, Hearn was poised to have the Joshua vs. Ruiz Jr. 2 rematch take place in Cardiff, Wales. Hearn had tunnel vision, as far as wanting the second fight to take place in Cardiff. Joshua had a perfect 2-0 record in fights in Cardiff against tough opposition. Hearn wanted to keep that streak going.
It was Joshua's decision to take the rematch with Ruiz Jr. after losing to him by a surprising seventh round knockout loss two months. AJ ignored the recommendations from boxing fans, and exercised his rematch clause to force a second fight with the 29-year-old Ruiz Jr. (33-1, 22 KOs).
Only time will tell whether Joshua made the correct decision in taking the rematch option. Hearn would have given Joshua a soft path in rebuilding him if he decided against the rematch. Hearn would have put Joshua in against a beatable contender, and rebuilt his confidence slowly. If things go wrong for Joshua, his career is going to be in horrible shape. Hearn would have to go back to the beginning to try and rebuild Joshua if he loses to Ruiz a second time.
Andy Ruiz Jr. to fight in May or June; Fury offers to help him
AJ wanted rematch in New York
Joshua was conflicted in which direction to go in for the rematch. He wanted to have an advantage over Ruiz, but he understood the importance of going back to New York. That was where everything 'went wrong' as Joshua and his boxing fans like to describe the June 1st massacre. Joshua understood that he needed to go back to New York to 'get it right.' His management didn't want that. It was too risky.
Rather than go back to the U.S to try and win over the fans by redeeming himself, Joshua took the safer match in electing to face Ruiz in Saudi Arabia.
It's technically a neutral venue, but not in reality. Joshua will be the A-side in this fight. The only thing Ruiz can hope for is a good set of judges and a competent referee will be selected. It'll be a pointless if the judges and the referee aren't impartial.
Tyson Fury: 'Wilder would knock Joshua out in 2 rounds'
This is supposed to be neutral territory in Saudi Arabia. That's impossible when you're talking about the world's most famous heavyweight in Joshua. Like with Muhammad Ali, he was always going to be the more popular fighter no matter who he fought and where he fought them around the globe. The good news is Ruiz Jr. will be looking to make sure the referee and judges don't have a say so in keeping him from winning the fight against Joshua, because he plans on knocking him out – again.
Joshua vs. Ruiz Jr. negotiations took longer than expected
Matchroom boss Hearn wanted the location and the date for the Joshua-Ruiz Jr. rematch to have been decided in the beginning of July, but the two sides were unable to agree. What further complicated things is the offers that started to pour in from outside locations wanting to stage the lucrative Joshua vs. Ruiz rematch. Given the huge amount of interest from the boxing world in seeing Joshua (22-1, 21 KOs) and Ruiz Jr. fight each other again, Hearn found himself having to sift through the outside offers.
The organization from Saudi Arabia came up with a better offer than what Joshua and Ruiz would have received had they staged the fight in New York back at Madison Square Garden or in Cardiff. Ruiz Jr. wanted to make sure the rematch with Joshua took place in a neutral venue, because he didn't fight the judges and the referee as well. Before the final decision was made to stage the rematch in Saudi Arabia, Hearn repeatedly reminded Ruiz and the public that he contractually could have staged the fight in the UK.
Ruiz was uncomfortable with fighting Joshua in his home country of the UK, and Hearn was respectful of that. It would have been a bad look on Hearn and Joshua's part that they forced the three-belt world champion Ruiz Jr. to come to the UK to fight instead of least staging the rematch in a neutral country. It's safe to say that if the offer from an organization to stage the Joshua-Ruiz rematch in Saudi Arabia, it likely would have taken place in Cardiff.
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Jeff Evans – Q&A
Jeff Evans
Journalist, author, beer expert, pop culture historian.
Jeff Evans is a freelance journalist and author with more than 30 years' experience in writing – and talking – about beer and pop culture.
Jeff can be found at:
Website: https://jeffevans.co.uk/
Twitter: @PoliticalCompdm
Twitter: @insidebeer
Twitter: @RockandPopTV
Twitter:@TheTVCompanion
I don't write novels: I write non-fiction, mostly reference titles. The inspiration, right from the start, has been the many wonderful reference books I devoured as a child and teenager. I'm thinking here of things such as Halliwell's Film Guide and The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, plus loads of lesser-known books. From them, I have a developed a passion for digging out facts and figures and presenting them in an attractive, orderly fashion. Most of my own works are in the field of popular culture, including The Penguin TV Companion (four editions) and Rock & Pop on British TV (a narrative history, published by Omnibus Press).
Compared to many other aspiring authors, not too hard. It obviously helps to have a track record. Before I submitted the proposal for my first television reference book, I was working for CAMRA, as editor of the national Good Beer Guide, so I suppose there was an element of trust on the publisher's part that I would be up to the job and deliver the goods. That didn't mean there were not rejections, but one publisher – Guinness – decided to give me a chance and I've always been grateful for that. Once you've had a book publisher, it becomes easier to interest publishers, but it still has to be the right idea at the right time.
The Political Compendium
My latest work is The Political Compendium. It's a new direction for me but still completely within the parameters of the work I love and have had success with. It's basically a wide-ranging collection of lists, facts and figures from politics from all around the world, but with an emphasis on politics in the UK and the USA. Collating the information took a number of months but there was another dimension to this book, too, in that I also typeset the book. Anyone who knows the amazing work done by Ben Schott with his Miscellanies will know that the best factual books have a crisp, clean, engaging layout. I felt this book needed just that and that handing over control to a third-party designer or typesetter would have undermined what I was looking to do here and also would only complicate matters when it came to making subtle edits and other adjustments to ensure the correct layout and fit.
I'm one of these people who simply cannot work with any kind of music in the background. I get drawn too much into the music and start thinking about it too much (probably figuring out how I can work it in to some future reference book). Silence is golden, for me.
For The Political Compendium, I knew which publishers would be most likely and so the number of proposals I sent out was relatively small. The reactions were mixed – most liked the idea but figured it wasn't for them. In the end, I weighed up two good offers and went for Zymurgy Publishing because there was more freedom on offer to do the typesetting and be more hands-on with the book.
Everyone who has seen the book has appreciated the layout and the concept. Getting space in the print media and airtime on radio and television to discuss it has been tricky, though. There has been so much dynamic breaking political news in recent weeks that more light-hearted offerings such as The Political Compendium have struggled to get a look in but Times Radio gave me some time to chat about it and the presenter Matt Chorley was very complimentary.
Of course. Any review is worth a look. Obviously, you like to read something favourable but, even when it's not, there can be something in there that you recognise as being valid and worth bearing in mind for future works.
Yes, but I appreciate that I would be starting almost from the beginning again. Fiction is a different beast to non-fiction and demands different skills. That said, the dedication and commitment that are needed when writing a book are the same so, if I came up with the right idea, I would certainly give it a go.
I was working in publishing as an editor and a writer before turning freelance more than 30 years ago. Before that I worked for a while in radio and as a coach tour travel guide. All of these things proved invaluable in learning how to collate, package and present information, whether it be on paper or through the spoken word. A great grounding for what I do know.
I love well-written biographies, ones where the author has really put in the research and fills the book with intriguing facts rather than just recycled partly-true stories. I'm always hugely impressed by Mark Lewisohn. The work that he puts into his books on the Beatles is phenomenal and he presents it so well, too.
Which genres do you read yourself?
At home, I'm constantly dipping into reference books and can lose myself for hours at a time. I find biographies inspirational, in terms of both exciting me to write something similar and also learning how really interesting people have changed their lives or risen to some immense challenge. If I ever need something to kick-start me when I'm feeling a bit uninspired, I'll pick up Michael Palin's Around the World in 80 Days again. That book (and the TV series) always makes me want to get out and achieve something. On holiday, I need a complete change of scene, so that's when I will pick up an easy-to-read page turner, something enjoyable but undemanding like a Lee Child or a Michael Crichton.
Being interested in the subject I'm writing about. I'll be honest, I would struggle to write a book about car engines or stamp collecting but every book I write is about a subject I genuinely take a great interest in. Classic television was the driver for The Penguin TV Companion, for instance, while I had the best time ever researching and writing Rock & Pop on British TV, digging around in archives, watching videos and speaking to many of the people who have made the great programmes over the decades. It's been the same for The Political Compendium. There are so many intriguing angles to politics, so many arcane traditions and so many points of etiquette to learn about, that it was fascinating to bring all these together.
Not much when I'm immersed in a particular book I'm writing but, being self-employed, I do have the luxury of scheduling when I work so, if I want to watch Wales play football in the World Cup, for instance, I make sure my work fits in around this. That comes first.
I've always been allowed to have my input into cover designs and sometimes my comments have been acted upon but it's usually the case that publisher and the designer have a fixed plan and whatever I add to that is mostly marginal. It can pay to get in first with your own rough concept of the cover, but you then have to trust the designer to deliver the goods, which may be completely different to how you see things. For The Political Compendium, the cover decisions were shared between myself and Zymurgy. We both wanted something very simple that said very clearly politics. We saw no need to over-complicate things.
Yes, of reference books; not so much of novels. I've got into that more as I've got older.
The Narnia novels of CS Lewis stand out, as they do for many people. I also loved going to the library and taking out the next in the series of Will Scott's novels about 'The Cherrys' – a family of kids whose father used to devise adventures for them to pursue.
I live in a town that does not have an independent bookshop. We once had three but now we only have a small branch of Waterstones.
A really well-presented reference book – visually attractive and clearly researched in depth. I'm a sucker for a series, too. I like to complete sets.
Just focus and dedication. I tend not to break for drinks and I hate interruptions when things are flowing well. I also reread the whole text time and again, allowing a good period of time between each reading so that I'm coming to the book almost fresh each time.
I have loads of reference books that I've only partially read, but that's the joy of reference books. You pick them up when you need to or when you feel like, read as much as is relevant or as you want, and then return to them another time.
I'm currently working my way through Dominic Sandbrook's excellent modern histories. I'm currently on 'Who Dares Wins', covering the period 1979–82.
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Hanging with Vampires
13th September 2022 24th January 2023 by Stephen | 1 Comment
Insha Fitzpatrick, Lilla Bölecz. Quirk Books. (128p) ISBN 9781683693413
As part of my raid on anything spooky and creepy to read in September and October from NetGalley I was given this to read.
A non-fiction book exploring all aspects of the vampire, from its folklore history to its representation in modern media, and looking at different kinds of vampires from around the world.
A fun read written in an accessible and relaxed tone full of fangtastic illustrations from Lilla Bölecz to complement to words.
Aimed firmly at a younger audience, 9-12, this has great snippets about how to make garlic bread, a brilliant interview with Vlad the Impaler, and a really interesting look at how disease and death were thought of in the Middle Ages.
All without getting too gross or gory, but having just the right amount to keep a person interested, impaling heads, nice aside about vampire bats.
The section about vampires in modern media is also quite good and does look at diversity and representation and doesn't hold back from criticising Twilight for its lack of either and problematic representation of Bella.
Overall a fun read and as the first in a new series of books called the Totally Factual Field Guide to the Supernatural it comes out running and sets a nice high bar for the rest of them.
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Stu Hennigan – Author Q&A
2nd September 2022 24th January 2023 by Stephen | Leave a comment
Stu Hennigan
Ghost Signs – Poverty and the pandemic – An eyewitness account of the impact of the early days of the pandemic on those living in poverty in Leeds, as Stu Hennigan delivered emergency food and medicine to communities that had already suffered 10 years of austerity. It is a blistering exposition of what happened to a community in one of the richest countries in the world.
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Twitter: @StuHennigan
A tricky one to answer. I was lucky with Ghost Signs because I was already in regular contact with Kevin Duffy at Bluemoose, and he was very keen on the idea of the book as soon as he heard I was writing it, so this wasn't one of those where I was having to hawk it around agents/publishers in the usual way. I think one thing that helped was that I'd submitted a novel to Bluemoose about four years previously; Kev thought the writing was great but didn't want the story, which was fine, but it meant that when he found out about the work I was doing on the book that would become Ghost Signs, he knew I'd be able to do a good job of writing it. Before that, though, I'd got so sick of rejection letters that I actually gave up writing when I was about 24 (in the mid-00s) and didn't go back to it until about 2018, so it's been a long journey.
The whole process from beginning to publication took exactly two years, but not all that time was spent writing. Once Kev and I had started talking about the book as a serious thing, we needed a timescale for what period the book would cover, and we decided on around 8 or 9 weeks. During that time, I made a lot of notes when I was out delivering food parcels, as well as keeping a daily diary of personal events during that time, and also trying to record as much as I could about what was happening nationally with the pandemic. I wrote the first draft in 9 days, getting up at 4.30 every day, writing for three hours, spending a couple of hours with the kids, then doing a full day on the van and another three or four hours in the evening when the kids had gone to bed. Because Bluemoose are more or less a one-man operation, it would take Kev a while to send it back with comments and suggestions, then I'd do another couple of weeks of really intense work and send it straight back. There was a lot of research to be done during this stage too – reading IFS reports, collecting poverty stats, trawling through press releases/newspaper articles for quotes from politicians etc. In January 2021 it went to Annie Warren, my editor at Bluemoose, and we spent nine months working on it but it was a leisurely pace; because the pandemic was still ongoing and we weren't even sure when the book was going to publish, we had a lot of time to play with, and submitted the final draft in the September, although it still didn't come out for another 9 months after that, during which time there was proofing, final copy-editing etc.
None for this one! After I graduated from uni in 2002 I wrote an incredibly bleak realist novel called A Night In the Cells and had at least 20 rejections for that, so many that as I said, I gave up writing for publication for about 15 years.
Not these days. I like to write in absolute silence where possible, although with two primary age children it's rare to get this, unless I work at night.
The book seems to have been well-received so far. Pre-publication, ex-Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger commissioned a piece about the book in Prospect magazine, including 3000 words of printed extracts, and that opened it up to a much wider audience. After that, there was a brilliant review of it in Tribune, and a great one in the Yorkshire Post too. The public response has been extremely flattering and pretty humbling too – it seems to have really struck a chord with a lot of people who are pissed off with the state of the country. It's interesting to note that a lot of people have said they were surprised and shocked at the level of deprivation and extent of the poverty that the book depicts; one of the main aims of the book is to raise awareness of how severe the problem is, and also how widespread, so I suppose based on those kind of reactions it's doing its job in that sense, although it's sad that it had to be written.
The most pleasing response, I think, has been from other people who have done similar work, or have worked with similar communities. I've had a lot of people say that the book captures the communities and people really well, so that's always good to hear. It's kinda difficult to celebrate in a sense though, given the content. It's also difficult to know what to say to readers when they say they've bought it – I can't say I hope they "like" it, or "enjoy" it, because that would be crazy. On a slightly lighter note, I had a message from one person that signed off with "You are a gem in fucking great boots." I treated myself to a pair of nice boots for doing literary events and they've become a sort of running joke on Twitter, so that really made me smile.
I'm currently well into the second draft of a novel with the working title of False Friend. I don't want to go into too many details but it's about relationships and how they can fall apart, addiction, loss, death, family secrets/lies, trauma, and how lives can be shaped by events that are almost completely beyond our control. Definitely not a feelgood read, but it's taking shape quite nicely at the moment and I'm very, very excited about it.
Not really. I try to reply to everyone who's kind enough to share their thoughts on the book via Twitter and obviously I really appreciate them all, but I hate A*azon with a passion so never go on there, and I've never really been on the GoodReads website either. As a general point, if you look at reviews for anything online you always get complete extremes, so even a book that's had rave reviews across the board will still get slated by some people, and a book that gets panned will still have readers who think it's the greatest thing ever. Once you've finished creating something, whether it's art, music, literature, whatever, once it's in the public domain it's out of your hands and you can't control the response, so there's no point losing any sleep over it.
Ghost Signs
I'm constantly inspired by other writers. I read an article a couple of years back that compared a writer to a sampler, and I really like that analogy. You're always looking at other people's work to see what works, what doesn't, how you can apply their techniques to your own writing. Ben Myers is a writer who I think a lot of people can learn from – no one ever talks about this, possibly because his stories are so well-told that they don't notice, but he creates a completely different narrative voice for every book, and you need real chops to do that. He's definitely someone I look at as an example of a complete writer – he's technically brilliant, and that feeds into everything else, so his dialogue is great, as is his characterisation, plotting, pacing and everything else. Heidi James is another writer from the current crop who I take a great deal of inspiration from as her work is all about the same themes that pre-occupy much of my fiction/poetry – time and memory, the distortive symbiosis between the two, the mutability of personality, humans as method-actors, the masks we wear. She's so precise, doesn't waste a single word and her work is deceptively complex when you start digging. I love the way she weaves ideas from different thinkers into her work but buries them so you've got to get right down into it to find them. The great Denis Johnson is someone else I've always had a lot of admiration for, and in the last couple of years I've been introduced to Percival Everett by the lads at Influx and he's blown me away completely. Need to get hold of everything he's ever written, sharpish. The Trees is the best novel I've read this year so far by a country mile.
Now, my biggest motivator is lost time. I wasted 15 years when I more or less completely stopped writing and I'm determined to make up for it now. There's a lot of anger in my work too, and that's another motivating factor, especially with the current shitshow of a government and the untold damage they've done to this country. It's going to take decades for the mess started by that pair of cunts Cameron and Osborne to be cleared up, and by then it'll probably be way too late. People can't be allowed to forget that, as odious as Boris Johnson is, those two were the diabolic progenitors of the current clusterfuck and they shouldn't be allowed to escape responsibility.
I have ADHD so am very easily distracted, especially if I forget to take my medication!
I had much more input into the book cover/design than I was expecting, although I have Fiachra McCarthy to thank for bringing it all to life. If you'd asked me at the beginning, before the book was even finished, how I'd like it to look, it would have been pretty much what you see in the bookshops now. Fiachra was brilliant to work with and it was a surprisingly easy process – I gave him the gist of what I thought would work, he sent some samples and we went from there. Didn't take long, and I think it nails the vibe perfectly.
Yes – voracious doesn't even cover it. I taught myself to read before I started school and was never without a book from then on.
The first series I remember reading that really blew me away was The Worst Witch books, which I read when I was about 7. I've read them as an adult with my children, and last week we were listening to the audiobooks in the car when we were on holiday. They still stand up – a masterclass in storytelling and characterisation without any gimmicks, frills or fancy stuff. Miss Hardbroom is one of the best antagonists is children's literature for me, and Jill Murphy achieves it pretty much singly through the way she speaks to the girls, especially Mildred. Great, great writing, and the illustrations are wonderful too. Children of Winter by Berlie Doherty was another one I loved when it was read to me when I was about eight. Read that with my eldest last year and that was still brilliant too.
Do you have a favourite bookshop?
If so, which? The Old Pier Bookshop in Morecambe is a treasure trove if you like digging for hours through crates of second-hand stuff. I've literally spent whole days in there.
No. Just shut the study door, fire up the Mac and crack the fuck on!
About 15 at the moment. I've never understood when people say they have hundreds of unread books and still keep buying more – it seems pointless to me. I've always been a very quick reader and have generally been able to keep on top of mine, but it's so hard to find time to read these days. I work full-time, have two kids, I've a novel to write, plus a lot of other shorter pieces, not to mention events and all the promo/publicity stuff for Ghost Signs. Before I had kids I used to get through about five books a week; after kids it went down a bit, but these days I'm lucky if I can read one, and that's a source of real chagrin. It's rare for me to have 15 unread books, and it's stressing me out tbh, especially as ARCs keep landing on the doormat, plus books from the indies that I subscribe to…….
I took four books on holiday but I couldn't get into any of them, and ended up buying a copy of A Brief History of Seven Killings from a charity shop for a couple of quid. Read it before, but loved it all over again. Marlon James is a genius writer, and this book is every bit the same big, bad, beautiful motherfucker it was when it first came out. Essential reading, kinda like a Don Winslow pulp thriller but written like a Faulkner/Tarantino mash-up, in Jamaican patois. Next up is one by Dennis Cooper, a writer who's been on The List for years but I've never had time to check out.
I'm going to be super-annoying and say that there are lots of things afoot, but I'm not allowed to talk about any of them. I've a couple of short pieces (mixture of fiction and non-fiction) coming out before the end of the year, all being well, and you may get a sneak preview of some of False Friend in the autumn, but that's all you're getting!
Any events in the near future?
Loads. Won't list them all here, but anyone in London who's interested in hearing me speak about the book can see me on Friday 16th September at 6 p.m. at The Social, in conversation with the great Heidi James. It's going to be a brilliant night, and it's FREE, so come along and join us if you can.
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Four Thousand Weeks
17th July 2022 24th January 2023 by Stephen | Leave a comment
Oliver Burkeman. Vintage. (288p) ISBN 9781784704001
Not really the kind of book I normally read, not into self-help or time management books but I'd heard that this book was different from the run of the mill books in those genres.
Right from the start Oliver sets out his stall that this isn't a time management book in the conventional sense of the theme, but goes on to state that we have to approach time with the view that it is finite, as we are finite and we are time.
In his progress through the book to his conclusion he throws out many of the old time management and self help theories about making your life better through better approaches to productivity and those 'do this one thing before breakfast and your life will be much easier' mantras, and focuses on us realising our finite time on this earth as a way of realising what is important to us.
This was refreshing and was confirming a lot of things I was thinking about the way I approach my own projects.
Though the book talks a lot about our finality and how we only have four thousand weeks to live (on average) it is a very positive and life affirming approach to living, it is actually about living not being productive and how to approach this on your own terms.
Lots to digest and the ten tips at the end are excellent, really enjoyed this read and will think about it when being me.
Posted in: Book Review | Tagged: Four Thousand Weeks, Non-Fiction, Oliver Burkeman, Philosophy, Self Help, Vintage Publishing
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USQ inspires students to soar
High school students attend aviation event at USQ Springfield.
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Young aviation enthusiasts weren't afraid to dream sky high during their visit to USQ Springfield on Wednesday.
The Inspiring Students to Fly event attracted about 100 Year 9 and 10 students from across the state.
The purpose of the event was to introduce young people to the field of aviation, where there is a growing demand for pilots, engineers and management personnel.
Students participated in team-building exercises, competed in a paper plane challenge, learnt about drone technology and talked with USQ's aviation academic staff and current students about different career opportunities and study pathways.
Among those who participated were Will Shepherdson and Kynan Shields who flew from Emerald to Brisbane to attend.
For Kynan, the highlight of the day was getting behind the controls of USQ's world-class flight simulator and experiencing what it was like to fly a Boeing 737.
"The simulator was great fun," the 15-year-old said.
"I don't know what it's like to fly a real plane, but it seemed pretty realistic.
"We're doing a Certificate III in Aviation, but to visit a university campus that offers an aviation degree and have the chance to explore my passion was very exciting."
Like Kynan, Will has his heart set on attending university to study aviation.
"I have been interested in flying my whole life, so to come here and get an idea of what my future career path might look like was very beneficial," he said.
"It was definitely worth the trip."
Head of USQ Aviation Professor Paul Bates said the University was committed to inspiring and educating the next generation of pilots and other aviation professionals.
"The industry is growing at a rapid pace especially in our region, Asia-Pacific, where there is a high demand for pilots," Professor Bates said.
"It is predicted that the sector needs 617,000 new pilots by 2035 to meet global demand, with almost half of that demand coming from Asia-Pacific.
"There has never been a better time to pursue a career in aviation."
To learn more about studying aviation at USQ, visit Aviation.
Will Shepherdson and Kynan Shields.


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Psst! New Buzzword Is Intranet
Connecting far-flung enterprises over the Internet is the latest high-tech hit
By Laurent Belsie Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
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Forget the Internet. Don't worry about on-line banking or new-media publishing. Disregard the supposedly huge market of 20 million to 40 million Internet consumers.
The big action in cyberspace is the intranet.
Intranets are miniature Internet-based systems that corporations build to link together their employees and, sometimes, their customers. By the turn of the century, analysts say, the intranet software business will dwarf Internet software. Whoever captures the former will likely dominate the latter and become the next-generation software powerhouse, analysts agree.
"The intranet is outselling the Internet 10-to-1 on the server side," says Waverly Deutsch, a senior analyst with Forrester Research Inc., a market-research firm in Cambridge, Mass. For every server computer, that companies hook up to the Internet, they're setting up 10 servers to run their intranets, she estimates.
Scott Reamer, an analyst with Bear, Stearns & Co., sees intranet software as an $8 billion market by 2000 four times the size of the Internet software business.
Companies are keen on intranets because they're an inexpensive way to hook up workers. Using Internet standards, an intranet allows employees to message each other and collaborate on documents. If it's correctly set up, such a system can boost productivity.
Until now, companies trying to hook up workers had to use proprietary software, called groupware. But as these companies began to link up to the Internet, they found that they could do many of the same things groupware does, but for less money, by creating private intranets. The key difference between an intranet and the Internet: The former is for an in-house audience only.
For example, Eastman Kodak uses an intranet to hook up 200 upper managers. Unisys has an intranet for employee communication, order tracking, and product configurations. Weyerhaeuser is building an intranet that will allow interaction with suppliers as well as employees.
A year ago, 11 percent of US corporations had installed an intranet; today, 55 percent have, estimates Business Research Group, a Newton, Mass., high-tech consultancy. By the end of the year, the figure will climb to 70 percent, the company forecasts. Companies' biggest reason for using the technology: efficiency.
The battle to capture the intranet is the key to dominating the Internet software business. That's because intranet servers require expensive software tools. So while companies are discounting or even giving away their consumer-oriented software for browsing the Internet, they're making their money by selling intranet software to corporations. Already, Netscape Communications, an Internet leader, figures that most of its revenue comes from selling intranet software to businesses.
While IBM's Lotus Notes software is the leading groupware product, true intranet competitors are coming on fast. Netscape, which already sells the leading Internet browsing software for corporate customers, hopes to persuade corporations to use Netscape software on its servers too. Its intranet offering, called SuiteSpot, is more Internet savvy and less expensive than Lotus Notes.
"Notes has a head-start advantage over the Web as a groupware platform," concludes the July cover story of influential Byte magazine. But "the smartest choice may be a strategy that combines the best of the Notes and Web worlds."
IBM may help that process along considerably. It is already working to make Notes more Internet-savvy. According to published reports, it is also considering selling its Notes technology in pieces, perhaps even licensing those pieces to other software companies, rather than continuing to sell Notes as a complete system.
Oracle, the database-software company, is also moving to remake its software into an intranet platform. Looming on the horizon is Microsoft. The software giant has the patience and the deep pockets to overcome its late start, analysts say, in much the same way it dislodged competitors in operating systems and business software. "Based on history, of course, I would never bet against them," says Mr. Reamer of Bear, Stearns.
But Microsoft's battle will be tougher this time, analysts agree. Microsoft faces an entire industry of Internet-oriented companies this time, not just a single competitor. It is bigger now and less agile. And it is trying to make intranet tools, but these are tied to its operating-system software that, typically, is upgraded only every 18 months to two years.
In the near term, Lotus can hold onto many of its customers because of its superior product, and Netscape can stay ahead of Microsoft by being more nimble. But "to dominate the intranet in the long term, they're going to need each other," Ms. Deutsch says. The two companies have no more than two years to make a deal before Microsoft becomes an intranet force to be reckoned with. Oracle could also be a good Netscape partner, she adds.
Netscape doesn't sound in a merging mood. "To think that Microsoft has this whole intranet market locked up is not true," says David Pann, Netscape's head of server marketing. "They did a great job against a lot of their competitors.... And we respect them. We just basically think we can do it better and faster, and we understand the market better than they do."
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Sen. Murkowski Once Again Blocking Passage of Wolf Delisting Bill
An email from Tom Petri, State Legislative Director for U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (WI):
This is the fourth year in a row we've tried to get the wolf delist bill attached to the annual Interior & Environment (I&E) appropriations bill as a non-fiscal / policy rider. Each of the past three years, we've gotten it into the final House spending bill, but not into the Senate's.
Senator Murkowski (R-AK) has been the chairwoman of the Senate's I&E appropriations subcommittee since 2014, and she has final say over the issue when the House-passed and Senate-passed bills are conferenced in an attempt to reconcile the differences between the two and find a final compromise.
The problem, to me, is that she always lets her staff cave in to democrats' demands, and the wolf delist language, and most every other ESA-related policy rider always get pulled out of the final report at the very end of the process.
As you know, the vast majority of the Senate Dems view it as a poison pill policy rider, and the vast majority of Senate Republicans come from unaffected states, so most don't care. Murkowski's staff always indicate they had to let it go in order to secure enough democrat support, and therefore allow the larger spending bill to have enough support for passage in the Senate (always need 60 votes).
To recap, while we're hopeful, and Sen. Johnson is certainly engaged on a personal level again, I'm skeptical that Sen. Murkowski (or Leader McConnell for that matter) will suddenly prioritize the issue on our behalf this year. If you think about it, they didn't prioritize it and help us in 2016 when he was up for re-election, why would they now?
The Senator and staff are trying to work behind the scenes to make sure the House language survives the conference process, once we get there next month.
Hope that helps. Feel free to share my update.
Tom-
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U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI)
Filed Under: Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, National/World, Predators Tagged With: delisting, great lakes wolves, sen Ron Johnson, sen. murkowski
Bishop Statement on Gray Wolf Court Ruling
August 3, 2017 by Tom 1 Comment
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 2, 2017 –
Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement on the Federal appeals court ruling concerning protections for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
"When science-based recovery criteria are met and environmental litigants can still drag the federal government through a decade of costly litigation before the delisting is final, we have a problem. Republicans and Democrats from impacted states have worked hard to resolve this conflict and ensure wolf populations are healthy and thriving but all they've received in return is prolonged economic harm and regulatory uncertainty. When ESA decisions are taken out of the hands of expert biologists and given to judges and radical ideologues, this is what happens.
"Congress must take action to protect communities from this broken law. Until we do, Americans' tax dollars will continue padding the pockets of wealthy environmental trial lawyers, rather than investing in actual species recovery."
Filed Under: Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, National/World Tagged With: delisting, endangered species act, great lakes wolves
You Cannot Use a Rigged System to Defeat a Rigged System
October 19, 2016 by Tom Leave a Comment
*Editor's Note* – One of the things that has not been learned by those posing as desirable for wolves to be "managed appropriately" is that, even though some may at times mouth the words that wolf protection isn't about wolves, it's about control of man (and any other claim you would like to add to this), the approach toward litigating the problem never changes. The system is rigged and you CANNOT work within a rigged system, including working with the riggers themselves and expect a different outcome. That is technically the definition of insanity.
The Federal Government, i.e. the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service/USFWS) repeatedly uses environmental groups, such as Defenders of Wildlife, Humane Society of the United States, etc., to accomplish the goals the Service intends. Study the history! The theater we are subjected to is the farce within the Court System, where the Service pretends to be interested, in this case, delisting wolves in the Great Lakes Distinct Population Segment, and then forces the states, at the states' expense, to take care of the Government Issue wolves, once the damage has been done and immediate goals reached.
The truth is, the Government and all her players, will do just as they damned well please, when they damned well please, how they damned well please. That lesson is just not being learned. Somehow Americans, I suppose through systematic mind manipulation, continue to think anybody follows the rule of law, especially so the Constitution. We fail to see that the Constitution and rule of law is but for the convenience of the Rigged System.
The representative of the Sportsman's Alliance is quoted below as saying that when the Courts make rulings, that to some appear absurd or "legally and factually incorrect" it "spells disaster for the future of the Endangered Species Act." I suppose that such a statement regards the Endangered Species Act as something worth saving. That may be the first lesson to learn. A document, designed purposefully in a fascist fashion, i.e. forcing control over man, will only achieve fascist goals and man's destruction. We persist in our own destruction due to ignorance and blindness. Failure to understand that the ESA is only another tool of the rigged system, insane activists insist, unwittingly, to carry out the wishes of the fascists by remaining in and playing the games within the rigged system. It's insanity!
If and when one cannot come to this realization, is there really any hope of making meaningful change?
If there is a change in the ruling, it will not be because some player (lawyer) outwitted the other, bringing the course of litigation back on some fanciful track of rule of law and a proper interpretation of the Endangered Species Act. It will be because the Rigged System calls for that action and only because the Rigged System remains in control. Blind ignorance does not and will not effect any change.
You might ask then (but I doubt it) what can we do to change the Rigged System? Using the System to beat the System will prove fruitless. While nearly impossible, one must first recognize then move outside the Rigged System to achieve a revolution of minds that, in unity, will work to destroy, if it's even possible, the foundation of the government man-beast. More than likely, we are at a point where only the Creator can make such a change.
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"Under the lower court's ruling, it doesn't matter that wolf numbers in the Great Lakes states are two or three times higher than the recovery goals adopted by the federal government in the 1990s. The ruling by the lower court means that until wolves are found in Chicago, Seattle and New York, wolves cannot be managed appropriately by state wildlife experts in the Great Lakes states," said Evan Heusinkveld, president and CEO of Sportsmen's Alliance. "The ruling makes absolutely no sense, is legally and factually incorrect, and spells disaster for the future of the Endangered Species Act, wildlife and our entire ecosystem, which is why we're appealing it."<<<Read More>>>
Filed Under: Endangered Species Act, National/World, Predators Tagged With: Endangered Species, endangered species act, environmentalism, fascism, government, great lakes wolves, rigged system, u.s. fish and wildlife service
Johnson, Barrasso Introduce Gray Wolf Delisting Bill
December 8, 2015 by Tom Leave a Comment
Press Release from Senator Ron Johnson:
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) introduced legislation this week that directs the secretary of the Interior to reissue final rules related to the listing of the gray wolf in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The bill serves as the Senate companion to the bipartisan House bill introduced by Reps. Reid Ribble (R-Wis.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) earlier this year.
"After over 30 years of needed protection and professional pack population management, the wolf has made its comeback," Johnson said. "In 2011, the administration's Department of the Interior determined the number of wolves in the western Great Lakes states to be sufficient and growing and made the correct decision to delist them as an endangered species. President Obama's own Interior secretary applauded the decision, saying, 'Thanks to the work of our scientists, wildlife managers, and our state, tribal, and stakeholder partners, gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region are now fully recovered and healthy.'
"Unfortunately, in late 2014, a liberal judge in Washington, D.C. overruled the administration's wildlife experts in the field and returned the gray wolves to the Endangered Species List. It's obvious the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service judges its past delisting decision to have been correct, and the ongoing efforts in Wisconsin and elsewhere to properly manage the wolf levels are working well. Simply put, wolves in these four states are no longer endangered and do not need the protections the ESA afforded them in the past.
"Our bill's language does not modify the Endangered Species Act, nor does it prevent the Fish and Wildlife Service from ever returning the wolf to the endangered list if it determines the population is again threatened and in need of federal protection. I strongly agree with Wisconsin's farmers, ranchers, loggers and sportsmen that future gray wolf listing decisions should come from the experts, and not from judges.
"Several important strides have been taken this year to once and for all give the final say on the gray wolf's status to our expert researchers inside the state Department of Natural Resources and the Department of the Interior. I'm glad to be a part of this important effort, and it is my hope that all senators from these four affected states will join Sen. Barrasso and me in this effort. "
"Wyoming has honored its commitment and put together a solid and working plan to protect the state's wolf population. Even the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agrees that wolves should be delisted in Wyoming," said Barrasso. "This is just one of many legislative opportunities we'll continue to pursue until Wyoming's wolf management plan is protected and fully implemented."
A full text of the bill can be found here.
"To direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue final rules relating to listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes."
Filed Under: Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, Legislative News, National/World, Predators Tagged With: delisting, endangered species act, great lakes wolves, sen. john barrasso, sen. johnson, wolves


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Staten Island native Chris Terrio wins the Oscar for "Argo" screenplay
Updated: Mar. 04, 2019, 9:35 a.m. | Published: Feb. 25, 2013, 3:25 a.m.
Staten Island native Chris Terrio won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for "Argo."
By John M. Annese | annese@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. --
Staten Island native son Chris Terrio has won Hollywood's highest honors -- not only did he win the Oscar for his "Argo" script, but the movie went on to earn the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Terrio, 36, who grew up in Midland Beach, graduated from the St. Joseph by-the-Sea High School, and worked as a teen correspondent for the Advance, has won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The movie dramatizes a CIA mission to rescue a half dozen diplomats who escaped the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
Ben Affleck, who directed the film, plays Tony Mendez, a CIA "exfiltration" specialist who worked with filmmakers in Hollywood to create an elaborate ruse, tricking Iranian officials into thinking the diplomats were Canadian filmmakers scouting locations for a fake science fiction movie.
In his acceptance speech, Terrio dedicated his award to Mendez: "Thirty-three years ago, Tony, using nothing but his creativity and his intelligence, got six people out of a very bad situation, and I want to dedicate this to him."
The supporting cast includes Alan Arkin, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad") and John Goodman ("Roseanne").
Argo was up for seven Oscars. It won three. William Goldenberg, who won the Best Editing Oscar, gave Terrio a shout-out "for writing an editor's dream for a screenplay."
Terrio likened the win to Affleck's Best Original Screenplay award for the 1997 film, "Good Will Hunting," which he shared with Matt Damon.
"Ben, 15 years ago, you were up here with the first screenplay you got made, and now you made this film that brought me up here. It's a gift and I can never repay it," he said.
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Before taking on "Argo," Terrio was previously known for directing 2005's "Heights," a production by the team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory (Merchant/Ivory) and starring Glenn Close.
Terrio spoke about the project in a 2005 interview with the Advance -- after earning a degree in English literature at Harvard, he said he heard Ivory speak while attending graduate school at Britain's Cambridge University.
Terrio wrote Ivory a letter asking for advice, and the two stated corresponding. Years later when the Merchant/Ivory team was looking for an assistant for their film "The Golden Bowl," they hired Terrio.
Three years later, Terrio was brought in to film the behind-the-scenes footage for Merchant/Ivory's "Le Divorce," where he met Glenn Close. Merchant would later send Terrio the script for "Heights," along with a sum of cash and his blessing to make the film.
Merchant died on May 25, 2005.
"I don't know what persuaded him to trust somebody in his mid-20s who never made a film before. I'm just awfully glad he did... In the end he really liked it. I think he was really happy with it. That's when peace descended on me," Terrio told the Advance.
He also spoke about his background as a Staten Islander, and about his experience in the Advance newsroom, which he remembered positively, though he chose not to pursue a career in journalism:"I wasn't good enough, I was too lazy... I'm a little bit too manic to let things happen for me, and when you're a journalist and trying to prod people in the wrong way then it's disastrous."
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Green Day plays politics at Everett concert
By TRAVIS HAY, SPECIAL TO THE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Published 10:00 pm PST, Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Bay Area punks Green Day mixed political and social commentary with their rock repertoire in a two-hour set Tuesday at Everett Events Center.
The band -- singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool -- is on the road supporting its latest album "American Idiot," a self-described "punk-rock opera" with plenty of political and social content. The album shows Green Day has grown up a little, going from writing songs about masturbation to writing songs about megalomaniacal politicians.
The first few numbers in the set were from the new record, including "Jesus of Suburbia," "Holiday" and "St. Jimmy." In order to perform the new songs live, some of which surpass the nine-minute mark and include more lavish production than previous Green Day material, a keyboardist and additional guitarist played with the band.
"This song means a whole lot more to me now than it did 10 days ago," Armstrong said during the middle of the set's opener "American Idiot," which was punctuated by a large pyrotechnic bang. While at least half of the young crowd was more than a few years away from voting age, the comment received loud cheers, as if Armstrong were a politician slamming his opponent.
Judging from his harsh words for President Bush, if Armstrong and his band were to run for office, representing the Green Day Party of course, it would be on a smear campaign.
However, the night was not all politics and no rock. Green Day played through almost all of its singles, including "Jaded," "Brain Stew," "Minority," "Longview," "Basket Case" and many others. During "Knowledge," an Operation Ivy cover, three lucky fans were brought onstage to play the song.
Before launching into the show's closing number, "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)," red and white confetti showered the crowd as the band played a cover of "We Are the Champions" that would have made Freddie Mercury proud.
A pair of pop-punk bands, Sugarcult and New Found Glory, opened and played brief, less-than-memorable sets. Both were appropriate choices to start the show, but like a shrimp cocktail before a lobster feast, the sets were satisfying at the time but the main course made them highly forgettable.
Sugarcult performed songs from its albums "Start Static" and "Palm Trees and Power Lines." New Found Glory got a bigger response from the audience, likely because of its success on MTV. Missing from NFG's set were two of its live show staples, comical covers of Peter Cetra's "The Glory of Love" and "Never Ending Story Theme Song." Maybe the band is beginning to take itself seriously, or like its peers in Green Day, the band members have grown up a little.
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954)
RETORT WORKERS THREATEN STRIKE
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Further industrial trouble at Glen Davis, among workers on retorts, is threatened, according to the
Mon 23 Mar 1942 - The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954)
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RETORT WORKERS
THREATEN STRIKE
SYDNEY, Sunday.— Further in
dustrial trouble at Glen Davis,
among workers on retorts, 5s
threatened. according to the
general secretary of the Miners'
Federation (Mr. G. W. Grant).
The men have given notice to the
management that unless, before
next Wednesday, they are granted
a living allowance similar to that
granted last week to shale miners
they will cease work.
Mr. Grant said that retort
workers were members of the Aus
tralian Workers' Union, Federated
Ironworkers' Association, and
Amalgamated Engineering Union,
but the miners would be affected
by another stoppage. Therefore,
he had asked the Labour Minister
(Mr. Ward) to call a conference
on the matter.
The State secretary of the
A.W.U. (Mr. J. McNeill) said that
his members had received an as
surance from Judge O'Mara that
the provisions of any award made
for the metal trades industry
would be applied to A.W.U. men
working with them. The metal
trades unions, however, had
lodged their application to- the
Court only on Friday, and Judge
O'Mara had said that he was go
ing to Melbourne early this week.
In view of the irritation caused
to retort workers, he thought that
Judge O'Mara would probably deal
with the matter to-morrow or on
RETORT WORKERS THREATEN STRIKE (1942, March 23). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), p. 3. Retrieved January 20, 2021, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50116430
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Q: Proving a simple inequality. I am trying to prove that
$\frac{n}{4n^2+1} > \frac{n+1}{4(n+1)^2+1}, \forall n\in\mathbb{N}$.
What I did so far was
$n < n+1\\
\Rightarrow \frac{n^2}{n} < \frac{(n+1)^2}{n+1}\\
\Rightarrow \frac{n}{n^2} > \frac{n+1}{(n+1)^2}\\
\Rightarrow \frac{n}{4n^2} > \frac{n+1}{4(n+1)^2}\\
\Rightarrow \frac{n}{4n^2+1} > \frac{n+1}{4(n+1)^2+1}\\
$
I'm not so sure about the last step though... basically, is
$\frac{a}{b} < \frac{c}{d} \Rightarrow \frac{a}{b+1} < \frac{c}{d+1} (b\neq -1 \wedge d \neq -1)$ a correct assumption? It was just a gut feeling for me, and I can't really justify it.
And yes, this is a homework question. I just didn't know what exactly I would have to look for, so I had to ask.

A: No, the assumption you suggest is not always correct.  For instance, let $a=2$, $b=7$, $c=1$, and $d=3$.  Then
$\frac{a}{b} < \frac{c}{d}$ is true, but
$\frac{a}{b+1} < \frac{c}{d+1}$ is not.
If the argument for such an inequality doesn't immediately jump to mind, do some scratch work and work backwards from the inequality you're trying to prove to something you know to be true.  Then reverse your argument and make sure each step was reversible.  Here, you should be able to work backwards to obtain
$4n^2+4n > 1$
which is (probably) acceptable as a clearly true starting point for your argument since the left side is 4 times a natural number.

A: Inequality is equivalent to the :
$4n^2+4n-1>0$
which is equivalent to the :
$(2n+1)^2>2$
You can use induction to prove this inequality :

*

*for $n=1$ it follows $9>2$

*suppose $(2n+1)^2>2$

*we want to to prove that $(2n+3)^2>2$
Since $(2n+1)^2>2$ it follows :
$4n^2+4n+1 > 2$
$4n^2+4n+1+8n+8>2+8n+8>2$
Hence :
$(2n+3)^2>2$
Q.E.D.

A: Since it is a homework in analysis, you might wish to study monotonicity of the function
$$f(x)=\frac{x}{4x^2 +1}$$
In other words, can you find $x_0$ so that $f'(x)$ is negative for $x>x_0$?
What is the smallest $x_0>0$?


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December 22, 2020 • 71 minutes
500 Years Ago, Adventure was the Manifestation of Privilege. Living Adventurously 65
Jack Thurston is a cyclist, a food lover, a photographer, a guide-book writer and an early podcast pioneer. We talked about adventures close to home and what the world of 'Adventure' looks like in the 21st Century.
Jack Thurston is a cyclist, a food lover, a photographer, a guide-book writer and an early podcast pioneer. He is the host of The Bike Show podcast and author of the Lost Lanes cycling guidebooks. We talked about adventures close to home and what the world of 'Adventure' looks like in the 21st Century.
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Lost Lanes - lostlanes.co.uk
The Bike Show podcast has been running since 2005
Alastair Humphreys on the Bike Show - http://thebikeshow.net/alastair_humphreys_part1/
Podcasts don't usually make money. But you have to do something that you love - that is the price of entry.
Bike Show tries to pick up sounds and experiences - the sonic colour - from outside the studio
There are different kinds of audio perfection
Asking open questions is important. Ask them how they feel. Get beyond the facts into the emotion.
Conversation ought to be structured but also feel natural
If you let silence happen, people will fill it with something interesting
You need to give the audience what they are interested in
Louis Theroux podcast - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p089sfrz/episodes/downloads
Cheryl Strayed podcast - Sugar Calling - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sugar-calling/id1505881384
There are so many different methods of cycling.
Cycling is a great way to interact with the environment
raphael kraft caribbean cycling podcast - https://thebikeshow.net/raphael-krafft-reportage-on-two-wheels/
Cycling breaks down barriers, gets you unexpected places, and you are not cut off from the world. Therefore it is a good way to have experiences.
The bicycle is a tool to take in the world at the right pace (and at the right price)
Jack is a touring cyclist and a utility cyclist
Takes kids to school on the bike. Does the shopping on the bike.
You can travel further, for less effort, than walking. It's the perfect vehicle for travelling at the speed of the land and of my mind.
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Jack takes tins of sardines, marzipan, parmesan, harissa on a bike tour
I like a bike ride that starts and finishes at my front door
Jack has done a lot of flying in his life, but now is repulsed by the connotations. It makes him feel queasy.
Has committed to not flying for work
Things (like not flying) which seem difficult to consider are actually not that hard once you do them
There are a lot of issues related to 'adventure' that are problematic
Adventure is a useful word for the sort of things we do - embracing the unexpected as a leisure activity
To me 'adventure' has a lot of baggage from history
500 years ago adventure was the manifestation of privilege - colonial expansion right up to Edwardian's doing it for 'queen and country'
Money, power, privilege, whiteness were the preconditions for adventure
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Jack enjoys wild camping, but acknowledges that if he didn't look the way he does [white] then it would be a much more intimidating experience
Cycling guidebooks over 100 years ago
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Living in London in the 90s Jack had to come up with stories / temptations to lure his flatmates to come out of the city and ride with him
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Yorkshire Wolds
Beverley Minster
Samuel Palmer, artist
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On a longer journey it is good to have some sort of quest involved.
TE Lawrence cycling round castles.
One more croissant for the road
Nice to follow a river, or a pilgrimage route, or a droving road
Beating the bounds
Being a freelance writer makes financial security a worry
I've never earned less than in my 40s
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I don't feel that my life is any less rich because I drive a crappy car
I like old, traditional, simple stuff
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I think it's really important to have something that you do is a lifelong journey. It is quite humbling
It still feels a joy being out on the road researching his books. It's pure pleasure. The writing-up part fills him with dread and makes him feel sick.
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