As it's the first of Monday of June, it's time to honour the best and brightest in American design at the CFDA Fashion Awards. Hours before the first celebrity has been asked "who are you wearing?" on the red carpet and host Issa Rae provides the first laugh, we round-up a few of the night's biggest winners and make a few predictions.
His British Vogue revolution might just be 13-months-young but Edward Enninful's prolific career began 30 years ago with i-D. After modelling in our pages as a 16-year-old, the Ghana-born, London-based talent began assisting on shoots at 17, before becoming the youngest ever editor at a major fashion magazine when he was named i-D's Fashion Editor at 18 and Fashion Director at 19 years old, a role he held for 20 years. Edward went on to be the Fashion and Style Director of W Magazine, and a contributing editor to the Italian and American editions of Vogue. The diversity champion and forever i-D family member was awarded an OBE in June 2016 and replaced Alexandra Shulman as editor last year. "He's stylish, he's beautiful and he's full of ideas, i-D founders Terry Jones and Tricia Jones explained at the time, "in his new role we know he will continue to inspire the next generation of sensitive, creative individuals." With his first cover seeing i-D favourite Adwoa Aboah usher in the new dawn for December 2017, the world hasn't looked back.
"Fashion Insiders" might be mocking this award but who else other than the 112m-and-rising Instagram followed Keeping Up With the Kardashians star could walk away with the inaugural Influencer Award. From unveiling Yeezy product to pushing diet shakes or teaching us to take the ultimate selfie, she's the product-pushing pop culture phenomenon of modern times.
As chair of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the CFDA Awards tend to be a big night for the wrap dress pioneer. Revolutionising what working women wore, by 1976, she had sold over one million dresses and even graced the cover of Newsweek. Not only do her elegant style and classic designs continue to inspire and empower women around the world, Diane has become a keen activist within the industry itself, championing everything from diversity to models' health. After walking away with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2005 CFDA Awards, this year sees her recognised for her fashion philanthropy.
Versace, Versace, Versace. After the British Fashion Council honoured Donatella Versace with The Fashion Icon Award at last year's Fashion Awards, it's the turn of the CFDA to recognise her greatness.
Who will win the battle between Raf Simons and Virgil Abloh?
This year, Raf Simons for Calvin Klein and Virgil Abloh for Off-White are both up for the Menswear and Womenswear Designer of the Year Awards. Raf Simons walked away with both last year, could he do the double-double or will fashion's most hyped pip him to the prize? Of course, each category is filled with award-worthy alternatives -- Marc Jacobs, Supreme and the Olsens to name just three -- but these two names highlight the seismic shift that luxury fashion has experienced in recent seasons. While the quiet Belgian might be done talking about the hotly followed Louis Vuitton men's artistic director, there's still plenty to discuss. We predict both will leave the night with something shiny.
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Integrated services is about joining up and automating services around key events in people's lives (life events) to make it easier for citizens to access government services. The advancements in digital technology are a key enabler for integrating services that was not previously possible.
The approach brings together the information and services of different agencies which relate to the same life event into one place, such as an app or mobile site, so they are easily accessible. It also eliminates the requirement to repeatedly submit the same information; encourages collaboration between agencies; and gives us a good understanding of the touchpoints that citizens have with government at the different stages of their life.
Significant collaboration and customer input and research is needed for this approach to be successful. We are in the early stages of the programme. However we are already seeing improvements for users as well as greater collaboration across agencies.
The Service Innovation Group is a cross-agency group, centrally coordinated by the Department of Internal Affairs.
How does the approach work?
A key part of the integrated services design process is about exploring people's needs outside of the limitations of any single product, service, agency or sector. We talked to citizens and got input on their experiences at the various touchpoints they have with government around particular services or life events.
The approach has already delivered some successful services. An early example is SmartStart, a mobile site which provides expectant parents with valuable information and key services, plus connects them with relevant agencies, all in one place. Further initiatives are in the design phase.
improve a person's experience of specific life events such as those who have been a victim of crime, where collaboration between agencies and NGOs is aiming to improve the support services to these people to reduce stress and improve their wellbeing.
Every day in every project, discovery or prototype, we are testing assumptions and sharing insights widely to help the public sector build more empathetic and effective services for New Zealand.
Going through an independent and broad process to talk to customers about their experiences with services sometimes identifies new problems or highlights what we thought was the solution won't work. For example, we found retirees' first service provider they interacted with when approaching retirement was generally their banks, a surprising insight for our government agencies. Another example is proactive entitlements or rebates (eg rates rebates) where some citizens would like to get a rebate automatically based on the information government already holds rather than having to apply. However, user research showed people want to have high control of the process and would prefer to be invited to be assessed, which was a good test of a number of concepts around user consent versus user control.
involve the services of a relatively limited range of government agencies and NGOs.
Integrated services will see a citizen-focused digital future where government, the private sector, NGOs, citizens and even machines will together produce faster, more efficient and joined-up services for people over their life-times. There will be a move towards more dynamic services built around user needs and on reusable components from government.
Wrapped around integrated services are key enablers such as building capacity, common components and digital identity. For example, to deliver government services digitally, we need to know who the person is. Digital identity allows people to undertake online what they have traditionally completed manually. An effective digital identity ecosystem will securely and easily allow citizens to demonstrate their entitlements to services while consolidating investment in the most efficient way.
We expect integrated services in the future to become simply how we design government services from the outset, shifting the approach from experimental to the norm.
Integrated Services featured in the Digital Government Showcase, which was part of Digital 5 2018, the 4th annual gathering of the world's most advanced digital nations that NZ hosted in February 2018.
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Emenike builds an ultramodern hospital in his hometown
I couldn't pass when I heard this story.
You should know Emmanuel Emenike the former Super Eagles striker.
He has built an ultramodern hospital in his hometown Otuocha Aguleri in Anambra state.
The first of its kind. A type of hospital which can never be found in any part of Nigeria.
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The hospital built by this former Eagles player is incomparable.
This story first appeared on Cubana Chief priest twitter wall.
Cubana so much appreciated Emenike for not acting like other celebrities who will make wealth and run after women.
From the way Cubana spoke, the former Super Eagles striker has proven to be a true son of the soil.
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From Cubana's tweet;
"So Proud Of You @emenike_9
"So Many Footballers Use Their Money F**k Supermodels, But You Made Sure You Brought Your Wealth Back Home To support Our People, Congrats Nwokeoma On Your Luxury Hospital 🏥 2021 We Move, All My Guys Re Real Big Ballers💰 #CelebrityBarMan💫"
This is indeed what we want in Igbo land.
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A situation where our children will make wealth and return to develop their motherland.
God bless you Emenike, God bless Igbo land.
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How to use multiple whatsapp accounts in one phone
Many has wondered if it was possible to use more than one SIM card or multiple whatsapp accounts on one phone or more than one phone. Before we continue, let's look at the official whatsapp response to the Frequently asked question. Using one WhatsApp account on multiple phones, or with multiple phone numbers "Your WhatsApp account can only be verified with one number on one device. If you have a dual SIM phone, please note that you still must choose one number to verify with WhatsApp. There is no option to have a WhatsApp account with two phone numbers". "If you attempt to frequently switch your WhatsApp account between different devices, at a certain point, you may be blocked from re-verifying your account. Please don't repeatedly switch between different devices and numbers". The above is the official response to the question by WhatsApp. MORE READS: How to download YouTube videos Using two whatsapp accounts in one phone Instead of frequently changin
Sextuplets ends six years of barrenness
My heart was filled with joy when I came across this story. A marriage that suffered six years of barrenness is now blessed with sextuplets (6 children). It happened in the family of Mr. Ahkimien. Mr Ahkimien is a police officer currently serving in Eleme, Rivers state. He has been married for six years to his wife without anything to show for it. According to him, many have made mockery of him and his wife telling them that they are just stones that cannot reproduce. Unfortunately for those who thought they were their god. No one knows what God has in-stock for him or her. Mr Ahkimien's marriage was blessed with 6 babies after six years of barrenness. The marriage was blessed with four boys and two girls but though one of the girls died. The family is now left with just four boys and a girl (quintuplets). RELATED: Meet the woman who gave birth to quintuplets after many years of barrenness According to their District Overseer, Rev. G. O. Ebojie, District Overseer, Foursquare
Wedding disappointment the sad story
So I was invited to a wedding ceremony by one of my female friends. As usual, there is no food and this looked like an ample opportunity to find food. I got up from my bed, dressed up and off I went to the church where the wedding will take place. The funny aspect of the whole thing is that I arrived at the church 3 hours before the official time for the wedding. "Am I being foolish?" I thought to myself, I concluded that I didn't do bad. After all, the bride is my very good friend. ALSO READ ABOUT: The sudden death of Mrs Emelda (true life story) The Wedding is about to kick off Few hours later, people started coming for the wedding mass. The sight of people coming in their numbers gave me the confidence that this wedding is going to be a thing of success. Well to me, what was more important is the reception aspect. Not quite long, the bride arrived and as a friend, I went close to ensure she noticed I came. I don't want to take chances of her claiming she did n
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Review of the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2
The Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 is a basic, low-cost wireless gaming headset with decent battery life and acoustics, as well as a fantastic microphone. It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, but it performs just as well as much more costly gaming headphones.
The Turtle Beach Stealth 600 was a hugely popular gaming headset when it was first debuted, offering exceptional sound and battery life at an inexpensive price. The firm is surely aiming to recreate its prior success with the introduction of a second generation of headgear.
This gaming headset was designed with the next generation of consoles in mind, and it will be able to take use of the Sony PlayStation 5's spatial sound capabilities in the future.
How does the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 feel to play with?
Despite the fact that this headset is brand new, if you've used a Turtle Beach headset in the past, you'll know what to expect. With a few small adjustments, this headset resembles the company's Recon series of headsets, which isn't necessarily a negative thing.
The Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 is made completely of plastic and has a sturdy hinge system that allows for some tilting and movement. Because it has a leatherette-covered cushion and a lot of tension, I initially thought the headband was a touch too tight.
It makes no difference because the headset is rather secure, which is especially crucial with wireless gaming headsets because you'll be moving around a lot more than with a cabled gaming headset.
The ear cushions are composed of mesh fabric with grooves on the bottom, which allows wearing glasses while using the headphones more comfortable. Getting a good seal is not difficult because the ear pads themselves are rather squishy. Although the mesh fabric does not give as much isolation as leatherette, it performs a good job of lowering heat, which is ideal for long rides.
Superior microphone quality.
A reasonable and cost-effective pricing.
Future platform compatibility is a need.
Because of the anticipated PS5 compatibility, the PS4 will have less capabilities.
How is the battery faring?
Turtle Beach claims that a single charge would offer 15 hours of playback time, however we noticed that it provides significantly more in our tests. With the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2, which featured a constant output of 75dB, it was able to play for more than 21 hours on a single charge.
In fact, listening to music at a lesser volume may have even better results. There's no way to see how much battery life the gadget has left, but after a few hours connected up with the provided USB-C connector, you'll be ready to game again when the battery dies.
With a few exceptions, running the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 is a simple process. This wireless gaming headset connects to your PC or game console of choice through a 2.4GHz wireless USB dongle.
Fortunately, other than hooking the headset into a computer, there isn't much else you need to do to get it working. The Turtle Beach Hub app serves solely to update the headset's firmware, so it's easy to overlook.
The pairing procedure with the dongle is a little slower than you might expect—it took up to 30 seconds at times throughout the review process—but I had no problems with the device.
The Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 is as simple to use as it gets when it comes to gaming. It works with PCs, PlayStation 4 (and PlayStation 5!) game consoles, the Nintendo Switch, and other gaming devices.
There's also an Xbox version that works with both the Xbox One and the future Xbox Series X. Simply connect the headset's dongle to the platform of your choosing, and you'll be listening to stereo music in no time!
When the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 is introduced, it will support the PlayStation 5's built-in spatial audio standard, however the PlayStation 4 will only support stereo.
If you're not into games like Fortnite and Valorant, which require more on directional audio cues than most others, the lack of simulated surround sound isn't a big deal. Both Risk of Rain 2 and League of Legends sounded amazing.
Persona 4 Royal for the PlayStation 4 relied heavily on the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 to improve the balance of game sounds and music.
The Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 has a significant lack of focus in the low-bass band, with a frequency response of roughly 150Hz. Despite the fact that our target curve did not aim for slightly increased bass range output and instead chose a completely neutral goal, the end product would be exceedingly quiet.
Music of almost any genre will sound relatively authentic with this frequency response, however bass-heavy songs may lack the power you're used to hearing.
The bass guitar in I DONT KNOW HOW THEY FOUND ME is noticeably less reverberant than the rest of the song—the sub-bass range, which is where the emphasis is most lacking, is typically responsible for those extremely low reverberant sounds that frequently accompany bassier notes and instruments—but this is not a bad thing.
Despite the fact that the software complement is fairly limited, the headpiece is packed with features. It has four distinct EQ settings that you may choose between by pushing the mode button.
In addition to the standard signature sound profile, additional options include a bass boost, a bass and treble boost, and a voice boost. The fact that they do make a discernible difference in the way things sound was not something I found particularly beneficial.
Although many Turtle Beach gaming headsets have excellent microphones, they all have major loudness issues. The Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2's microphone is as precise as you could wish it to be, and there are no loudness concerns to speak of.
This microphone is ideal for use with a gaming headset. It will almost probably be insufficient for podcast recording owing to its worse sound quality when compared to professional mics, but it should suffice for Discord or Zoom conversations. You may listen to it for yourself here:
The Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 falls short of expectations when it comes to isolation. Even when a good seal is maintained, this headset provides insufficient attenuation due to the mesh covering the ear pads, the hardness of the foam, or the grooves for the glasses.
Whether you're at home or not, don't expect any noise reduction from this. Another benefit is that you won't have to worry about missing the doorbell while you're out and about.
Excellent alternatives to the popular $99 gaming headsets may be found in abundance in the gaming headset market. While this isn't always the case with wireless gaming headphones, the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 unquestionably deserves to be included among the finest on thmarket right now.
This is an excellent pick for a comfy and well-sounding gaming headset with an excellent microphone and an amazingly long battery life.
This is one of the better wireless alternatives if you want something basic that also sounds good—especially if you want something that will work with a new generation of consoles that will be launched soon.
However, as fantastic as this is, if it isn't precisely what you're looking for, there are other solutions to consider. If you don't need a wireless gaming headset, the Razer BlackShark V2 sounds just as good, costs the same, and provides excellent isolation for a gaming headset in its price range.
Furthermore, the SteelSeries Arctis 1 Wireless has somewhat greater Switch compatibility and slightly longer battery life than the prior model.
If you want the highest sound quality possible, the Beyerdynamic MMX 150 is an amazing microphone.
Not only does the boom mic generate fantastic sound, but the entire headset does as well, whether you're gaming or listening to music. This corded USB headset is stylish enough to wear outside your apartment without being seen, comes with a 3.5mm converter, and is compatible with most USB devices.
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Wind turbine planning out of control, warns council leader
Credit: Banffshire Journal | 11 June 2013 | www.banffshire-journal.co.uk ~~
Aberdeenshire Council is set to consider the imposition of an official moratorium on wind turbine applications and backing for a call on the Scottish Government to cut wind farm subsidies drastically or scrap them altogether.
The North-east local authority's planning department dealt with more wind turbine applications than the rest of Scotland put together last year, according to council leader Jim Gifford.
The Conservative councillor has branded the wind turbine issue as "divisive", arguing that the highly emotive wind turbine debate is splitting North-east communities "down the middle".
Speaking at the Scottish Conservative Conference, Councillor Gifford said the region is "full".
"It's a huge planning issue, we are full and our planning service just died," he said. "We had to get extra resources, which has cost the council a lot of money. It is the most divisive thing we have ever had.
"There has been no planning policy, no plan and everybody with a field with a decent connection to the national grid can fire in an application."
Research compiled by the James Hutton Institute shows that Aberdeenshire farmers applied for permission to erect 777 turbines of various sizes between 2004 and 2011 with 284 applications approved by the end of 2011.
Aberdeenshire, however, has just three wind farms which all feature small clusters of turbines, according to Councillor Gifford, who insisted: "It is dividing all our communities right down the middle between those that have them and are making a fortune and those who don't and are missing out.
"We need help right now because councils are absolutely dying with this."
Aberdeenshire Council's infrastructure services committee chairman Peter Argyle recently insisted there is an urgent need for a local moratorium on applications to give planners time to take stock.
And Murdo Fraser, convenor of the Scottish Government's energy committee, believes moratoria and scraping subsidies may be the only way to stop what he called a Scottish rural "gold rush".
"The reason we are seeing this gold rush across swathes of rural Scotland is because people are making vast sums of money out of building windfarms," he said.
"Until we start to reduce or take away altogether the amount of public subsidy, that is going to continue.
"We have to tackle high energy costs but building more expensive wind factories with intermittent reliable power is not the way to do it."
Meanwhile, the Scottish Government has made it clear that it is up to local authorities to interpret planning legislation and policy as appropriate.
The spokesman said: "We want to see an approach to onshore wind development which balances our huge green energy potential with the need to protect areas designated for landscape or natural heritage value.
"Responsibility for dealing with local planning matters rests, in the first instance, with the planning authority so it is, therefore, for councils to interpret and implement legislation and policy as it deems appropriate in each case.
"Ultimately, it is for local councils to set development plan policies to support the development of wind turbines at locations where impact on the environment and communities can be satisfactorily addressed."
Source: Banffshire Journal | 11 June 2013 | www.banffshire-journal.co.uk


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ABC Orders Pilot For Kevin Costner's "National Parks" Series
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Disney's ABC has ordered a new pilot for a new drama series called "National Parks", which follows around a small group of elite NPS agents as they solve these crimes while protecting these national treasures.
This new drama has been c0-written by Kevin Costner, along with Aaron Helbing and Jon Baird. These three will also be executive producing the project, along with A+E Studios president Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson. With Anthony Hemingway also executive producing and he will be directing the pilot. Sources close to "THR" have stated that Kevin Costner won't be starring in the series.
A+E Studios and 20th Television will make the show. With Rod Lake, Ivan Cohen and Ken Halsband overseeing the project for Costner's Territory Pictures Entertainment.
"National Parks" was given a pilot order two years ago. However, the pilot was delayed in filming due to the pandemic and other timing issues from showrunner Aaron Helbing, who is working on CW's "The Flash".
Kevin Costner said the following about the show:
"Our partners at ABC, 20th Television and A+E Studios have given me a great environment to step out of my comfort zone and deliver something special,"
"National Parks" is the second ABC collaboration with A+E Studios, which is a co-owned by Hearst Communications and Disney. They previously worked together on "Big Sky", which has recently returned to ABC and will be coming to Disney+ internationally later this month. Expect this show to follow other ABC shows onto Hulu in the United States after airing on ABC and to head to Disney+ internationally as a "Star Original".
Are you excited about "National Parks"?
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The last few days here in Sint Maarten, we didn't move around too much, so not many photos per day, and since I travel out later today, this is my last blog from here. Recently, we mostly stayed near the house, chilling out and relaxing,or as folks say these days, chillaxing!
It's been a wonderful holiday, and I am glad I didn't drive, since I got to enjoy the beers 🙂 Also, this island has more roundabouts than any I know of, and half the time I don't know what direction I am headed in.
I don't know if I will take many photos today (if any) so I say goodbye to Sint Maarten, with SD Cards full of images, and a heart full of happiness and memories, of course I am sad that I am leaving my family behind, but they follow in few days.
As usual, not all the images are in the blog, check the Sint Maarten 2010 album for all the new images.
This one was a long time coming. I am sure it will produce memories that will last a long time. And it might be heresy to say this, but making those memories was more important that all the photos (great as they are) you took.
You take amazing photos! I love the color and the perspectives. Great job!
superbes atmosphères dans cette série de photos.
These are really beautiful Michael.


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Rachel Cusk on Motherhood, Marriage and the Lived Truths Behind Kudos
With Kudos, Cusk ends a multiyear literary experiment
Laura Pannack
By Eliana Dockterman
Rachel Cusk is not a radical–at least not anymore. Critics lambasted her as a "bad mom" when she asserted that marriage and motherhood deprive women of any sense of self in her memoirs A Life's Work (2002) and Aftermath (2012). Years later, she's still writing about the anguish of divorce and parenting, but those ideas have been better received as a trilogy of acclaimed novels: Outline (2015), Transit (2017) and, now, Kudos (June).
"It took me a while to figure out why the memoir was malfunctioning," Cusk says. "I realized if you use yourself as an example, people turn you into the exception." She believes women will go to great lengths to disguise their own ambivalence about motherhood, and that by exposing their suffering with her own story she gave readers someone to admonish. "That made me angry. Their response sent the message to any woman struggling with motherhood that she would be attacked."
So she turned to writing fiction that draws directly from her own life. The series centers on Faye, a divorced author living with two children in Britain–just like Cusk. The novels don't really have a plot. Faye travels to Greece in Outline, gut-renovates her home in Transit and attends a German literary festival in Kudos. Cusk has made Faye a silent cipher. She says little as friends and strangers monologize about their failed marriages.
Delving into one of Cusk's novels has the voyeuristic appeal of eavesdropping on a stranger's therapy session. The literary world has embraced the style, a mashup of fiction and autobiography, as a brilliant innovation. "I was eager to find a new form that was less confrontational," says Cusk. "There's not that much difference for me as a writer. It's just adjusting the frame."
In Kudos, the trilogy's final installment, Faye (like Cusk) has remarried, although she shares no details about her new partner. When a friend asks Faye why she chose to resubmit herself to the repressive laws of marriage, Faye replies, "I hoped to get the better of those laws by living within them."
Cusk has never been one to work within the system. But in Kudos, she asserts that freedom–from marriage, from obligation, from the patriarchy–has its drawbacks. A man tells Faye that for decades he tallied his income on a spreadsheet labeled freedom in anticipation of early retirement. But when he finally quit his job, he found domestic life unsatisfying. Another character remarks that people who leave their toxic families become lonely. "You pursue 'freedom' or 'love' or some principle, but they're like mountains in the distance that never seem to get any closer," says Cusk. "You realize at a certain age that refrigerator magnet idea: 'It's the journey, not the destination.'"
The costs of freedom also take on a political import: the U.K.'s divorce from the European Union haunts the novel, set shortly before the Brexit vote. Faye's seatmate on a plane interprets signs lobbying voters to "leave" or "remain" as a personal comment on his own marriage. "The private consciousness was enacted on the public stage," says Cusk of Brexit, "including the trauma." Cusk hints that society should rebuild its structures rather than seek liberation from them. That process may begin with righteous anger, as when Faye's friends share stories about abusive exes and question gender roles. "With #MeToo, we're witnessing an unraveling of an old morality," Cusk says. "Now what replaces it?"
Faye and her friends are still trapped in archetypes: the angry feminist who fights against marriage, or the martyr who sacrifices herself to the institution. But Cusk wonders in Kudos whether they–like Medea, Antigone and other women of Greek tragedy–can achieve honor through that suffering. Cusk remains hopeful that being honest about pain can lead to salvation. "I have found freedom is in fact truth," she says–although she is still determining how to communicate that truth. She's done with the style of Kudos. "I'm always on the move artistically," she says, "to find what the language of our world will be."
Write to Eliana Dockterman at eliana.dockterman@time.com.
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Q: Semi-complete partites Is there a name for regular bipartite graphs where each partite has the semi-completeness property (that is, for each two vertices $i$,$v$ in the partite $V$, there is a path $\{i,w,v\}$, where $w$ belongs to the other partite), but not necessarily the whole graph?
Edit: I am not looking for graphs that satisfy this property, I am wondering whether this property has a name.


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What is tibial incompetence syndrome?
Again, if you haven't read the section above on shin splints, please do so now. Over a long period of time, indeed several decades, if you have very rolled in feet, your tibial muscles on the inside of your shin will be put to a lot of extra work. If you ignore the pain and struggle through, eventually they will be worn out. Tibial incompetence is the term given to the outcome of this. You can test yourself this way. Hold on to something so you don't fall over but don't use it to help with the next step. Stand on one foot first.
Then come up on to your tip toes on that side. Watch yourself carefully – if you have tibial incompetence, your brain will know you do even if you don't and it will make you cheat! If you instinctively put your lifted foot back down to help, that voids the test. Keep the lifted foot up from before you try to lift the other heel from the ground. If you think about it, the inability to lift your heel off the ground has big implications for walking because this is a necessary phase of the gait cycle. Seek treatment from a podiatrist as soon as possible. In most cases, tibial incompetence can be managed quite successfully.
To view this information on tibial incompetence syndrome in a downloadable, printable form, please see our Shin Splints Info Sheet. Alternately, use this link to return to the Podiatry FAQs Blog.


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In 2013 Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia celebrated 200 years from its naming as a town in 1813. Over the 200 years significant milestones have occurred in the town and regions infrastructure development to support growth of the region.
The development of Australia progressed with a few frontier towns built in extreme isolation like Bathurst. Sydney was founded in 1788 and 25 years later in 1813 only a few other coastal towns had been established. The desire to explore the unknown areas led the Colonial Government to sponsor expeditions to the interior of the vast country. A large mountain range running parallel to the Sydney coast blocked access to the west and rugged mountains and a river blocked access to the north. Before the exploration of the inland started they had no idea what they would find but what they did discover was fertile and well watered land ideal for grazing of animals and producing agricultural products.

To grow from a village to a town to a city requires major infrastructure construction. This normally occurs in phases, as the technology develops, as the funds allow, and the needs become pressing.

The key infrastructure developments that allowed Bathurst to grow were the road system, gas supply, telegraph network, railways, telephone, electricity, and water systems. Each one of these created an improvement in living conditions and productivity for the residents and the economy as a whole.

First a road was required and once built settlers moved west, over time the other infrastructure requirements followed as the town grew in importance to the Colony.

Summary timeline of major infrastructure improvements

1814 – Roads
Immediately a need arose for a road to gain access to the vast lands of the interior, but it was no ordinary track that needed to be constructed, this road had to cross a formidable mountain range and abruptly descend into a valley criss-crossed by rivers and streams.

To develop, a town needs access from the adjacent populated centres. In 1813, the Bathurst district was discovered by an exploration party from Sydney that crossed the wild mountain range known as 'The Blue Mountains'. From that point the region was identified as ideal farming land and the Governor ordered a road to be built across the mountain range to the new settlement of Bathurst. This set the scene for population growth and development of the entire western region of the colony of New South Wales.

Three significant changes to the Sydney to Bathurst road route occurred throughout the nearly 200 years of history of the road.

Cox's Road (Eastern Road)

In 1814 the Governor Lachlan Macquarie of the colony of NSW approved the construction of a 163 kilometre long road from the existing limit of habitation of Sydney (near Penrith) to the newly discovered locality of Bathurst. The road was built by William Cox and completed on 14 January 1815. The instructions to William Cox on building the road were as follows...

William was instructed to make use of depots and ask for any provisions that were required for the workers' comfort. So as not to disrupt the working party, orders were given to the public and posted in conspicuous places, against visiting or crossing the Nepean without a pass signed by the Governor.

The road commenced at Emu Ford and proceeded to Wentworth Falls, here he had built a hut to house supplies, the road proceeded generally along the existing highway route following the top of the mountain ridges, a second provision hut was built at a site later known as Weatherboard Inn, now Wentworth Falls. The road continued through present-day towns such as Leura, Katoomba, and Blackheath. At the present town of Mount Victoria the original road proceeded north west diverging from the existing westerly route. Cox's original route winds its way down an extremely difficult descent known as Mount York, Governor Macquarie later named the passage down Mount York as Cox's Pass in honour of William Cox the builder. For 15 years Mount York was a serious impediment to traffic on the western road. It was so steep that passengers often had to disembark from their carriages, walk down the descent and wait for their horse-drawn carriage at the bottom. Bullock teams hauling goods had to tie large logs to the back of their wagons to retard the speed of descent. The Government regularly sent work crews to burn the large accumulation of logs at the bottom of Mount York.

From the bottom of Mount York the original road continues its entirely different course from that of the later routes. The old road travels roughly due west passing through the village of Hartley, O'Connell, and then turning north crossing the Macquarie River then through the locality of The Lagoon and north into Bathurst. This route is so different from the subsequent routes that it is difficult to plot on a map. The old road ran parallel and approximately 30 kilometres south of the present road. In various sections the road no longer exists and other sections are now only sections of minor gravel roads. For approximately half of the entire western road the route now is entirely different from the first road to Bathurst.

The party consisted of 28 convict men and 6 soldiers and this team built the road and bridges in a six-month period.

This new road immediately became known as the Western Road.

O'Connell deviation

In 1823 Cox's original road was diverted just south of the present village of O'Connell through the future village of O'Connell and parallel to the east bank of the Fish and Macquarie Rivers, arriving at the village of Kelso on the eastern side of the Macquarie River, Bathurst town being immediately opposite on the western bank of the River.
The original 1815 route passed parallel to the west bank of the Macquarie River through the Lagoon locality.

Victoria Pass and Rydal deviation

As westward traffic increased, Cox's remarkable but hastily built road was improved in the 1820-30s by major deviations and improvements, particularly the western half from Mount Victoria. After this improvement, in May 1831, the Government announced the new name of the road as the Great Western Road. It too was constructed by convict labour but under the supervision of the newly appointed Surveyor General, Major Sir Thomas Mitchell. Surveyor Mitchell descended the 'Mountain' via an alternative route, the demanding Victoria Pass, whose 8:1 gradient has challenged drivers for almost 180 years! Victoria Pass opened on 23 October 1832, by Governor Sir Richard Bourke. It was traversed on 18 January 1836 by the young naturalist Charles Darwin, who wrote of it in The Voyage of the Beagle: "To effect this pass, an enormous quantity of stone has been cut through; the design, and its manner of execution, would have been worthy of any line of road in England – even that of Holyhead."

Along with the Victoria Pass deviation, Mitchell surveyed a new route through the villages of Rydal (then known as solitary Creek) and Yetholme. This took the road much further north than the original alignment through an area still known as 40 bends, the work started in 1832 and was completed late 1836. The section west of Yetholme is generally the same alignment as that used to this day. Much of today's modern Highway to Bathurst follows Mitchell's line apart from the later deviation through Bowenfels (Lithgow) and Wallerawang.

Wallerawang deviation
As the towns of Lithgow and Wallerawang grew in importance with coal mining and as the railways were now located there, traffic increased to these towns, the route via Rydal was also quite steep in parts. As early as 1848 a group of prominent members of the Bathurst community surveyed and proposed a new route. The new route deviated from the former at a point south of Lithgow (old Bowenfels) and proceeded past the outskirts of Lithgow and alongside the mining and railway town of Wallerawang, joining the previous Mitchell's route near Mount Lambie. It was not until 1929 that is new route was completed. This new route now bypassed the village of Rydal and avoided several long steep hills, especially the seven-mile hill at Mount Lambie.

Bathurst bridges

In September 1867 a major flood washed away the first Denison Bridge that had spanned the Macquarie River.  Unfortunately, as that bridge was washed down the flooded river, it collided with the only other bridge spanning the river, Rankins' Bridge four miles down river, and destroyed that bridge also. The destroyed timber bridge at Bathurst was replaced with a new bridge made of wrought and cast iron, also named the Denison Bridge, a short distance to the south of the old bridge location.

Modern improvements
See the Wikipedia article Great Western Highway for detail on more recent Highway improvements.

Travel time Sydney to Bathurst
Following the completion of the new road in 1815 the Governor undertook the journey to the new town of Bathurst. The journey from near Penrith to Bathurst on horseback took 8 days., and bullock drays took up to 18 days on the journey. Six years later, in 1821, Governor Macquarie proceeded to Bathurst from near Penrith, the journey taking 4 days in his horse-drawn coach.

A contemporary report in 1848 states that the mail contractor proposed to commence a non-stop service from Sydney to Bathurst taking approximately 24 hours to complete the one way journey. However, in 1858 the weekly passenger coach took 5 days to complete the journey. Combined with modern motor vehicles and a much improved road design the present day journey time is approximately 3 hours.

Development along the routes
Settlement sprung up along the road to support travellers and farmers taking advantage of the access to both Sydney and Bathurst. At the outset small camps were established during the construction of the road. They were known as Convict Stockades and they were located at Glenroy (1815–), Mount Walker (1832 – c. 1839), Mount Victoria (c. 1830 – 1836), Hassan's Walls (1835 – c. 1839), Stoney Range (1832 – c. 1839), Honeysuckle Hill (1832 – c. 1839), Diamond Swamp (1833 – c. 1839), Bull's Camp Woodford (1833–1848), Bowen's Hollow (1835 – c. 1838), Mount Clarence, and Blackheath (1844–1849). Small villages then developed along the route particularly associated with an Inn, where travellers could have overnight accommodation, a meal, and feed their horses. Along the original route the small villages including Weatherboard (now Wentworth Falls), Hartley Vale, O'Connell, served the travellers and supported small local communities. The first inn in the area was Collit's Inn at Hartley Vale which was constructed in 1823. Subsequent development was to occur at Bowenfels, with the construction of a number of inns along the main road from 1832.

1859 – the electric telegraph
The electric telegraph was developed into a practical system for transmitting morse code messages during the early 1800s. It was in 1837 that the first commercial electric telegraph was used in England, and 17 years later in 1854 Australia had its first commercial telegraph in operation. It was only 5 years later, in 1859, that the electric telegraph reached Bathurst from Sydney. This link was a major leap in improving efficiency of trade and developing the state's economy. It specifically changed the way business was done in Bathurst, money transfers, police messages, government instructions, share trading, time signals, news, all sorts of business and to a lesser degree, private messages. Before the telegraph link communications between the capital city Sydney and Bathurst would involve a using the postal service which at best would involve a 24-hour transit over the mountains by horse-drawn carriage. After the arrival of the telegraph the message could pass between the towns in minutes.

Arrival of electric telegraph
On 29 December 1859 the newly constructed telegraph line was brought into use, the line was built generally alongside the Great Western Road from Sydney to Bathurst and was constructed of timber poles with one galvanised wire tied to insulators on each pole. At several intermediate points along the route a telegraph repeater station was located, including Parramatta, Penrith, Katoomba and Hartley. At the intermediate repeater stations an operator manually retyped the message, passing it through that location. The system operated on the earth return principle whereby the circuit started at a large battery at one end (end A), via a morse key used by the telegraph operator, passed along the galvanised iron wire attached to the poles, then through the morse instrument at the far end (end B) and returned to the battery (at end A) through the ground (earth). This was a cheap method of construction requiring only one wire and no pole crossarms.

Expansion of telegraph from Bathurst
Once the telegraph reached Bathurst from Sydney in 1859 the need to expand the lines from Bathurst to other western towns was obvious to civic leaders. The telegraph network rapidly expanded from Bathurst to the following towns.

 1860 – on 25 December the telegraph line between Bathurst and Orange was opened to business
 1861 – 17 June Sofala was connected to Bathurst and Mudgee extension was opened in May 1861
 1876 – on 18 August the telegraph line from Bathurst to Blayney opened
 1879 – on 19 March the telegraph line extension from Blayney to Carcoar was opened
 1879 – 20 September, a new telegraph line was opened from Bathurst to Rockley
 1915 – 31 November, the Bathurst Telegraph office became the main repeating center for western towns, all messages were transmitted to and from outlying towns and relayed to Sydney from Bathurst

The teletype
In February 1929 the telegraph system was upgraded with the installation of teleprinter equipment between Sydney and Bathurst. This automated the transfer of messages. A message was typed on a machine similar to a typewriter and at the other end a machine printed the message.

1872 – town gas arrives
Up to the 1870s the only forms of lighting for homes and businesses at nights was the candle and oil lamps. A report of the time mentions a popular candle was the 'penny tallow candle'.

Private gasworks
During 1871/72 a private Gasworks was built adjacent to the Macquarie River south of the old Denison Bridge on Durham Street, built by John Newlands Wark and known as the Bathurst Gas Company. On 4 May 1872 Bathurst was lit by gas when the new coal fired plant was brought into use.

Council gasworks
Due to complaints regarding quality of gas and cost of supply from the private 'Bathurst Gas Company', in 1888 the Bathurst Council built a competing gasworks and piped town gas to businesses, street lights, and homes. To illustrate the advantage of gas over candles it was stated by The Bathurst Council that a gas lamp had the equivalent light output of 16 candles. For many years Wark Brothers and the Bathurst Council competed to supply businesses and residences of Bathurst with town produced gas.

One gas network for Bathurst
In April 1914 after 26 years of competition between the public and privately owned gas networks and strong debate about the viability of two networks the Bathurst Council voted to purchase the Bathurst Gas Company for £12,000, finally creating one gas network for the city.

Natural gas connection
In 1987 the gasworks producing town gas was decommissioned and Bathurst's gas system was converted to natural gas from the State gas grid.

1876 – The coming of the railways

The railway approaches Bathurst
After the road the next big boost to development of Bathurst and the western region of NSW was the Railway. The railway reached Rydal, 39 kilometres east of Bathurst on 1 July 1870. On 22 April 1872 the railway was opened to Locke's Platform (now Locksley), and a few months later on 1 July 1872 the railway reached Macquarie Plains, now known as Brewongle. The train journey from Sydney to Macquarie Plains took 9 hours.

Then another three years later the railway reached Kelso (on the eastern bank of the Macquarie River near Bathurst) in 1875.

Bathurst Railway Station opens
As soon as the railway bridge over the Macquarie River was completed the railway entered the town proper on 4 April 1876. Travel times for goods and passengers were 24 hours travelling by horse and buggy on the Western Road, the time dropped to 6 hours by train, a 75% reduction. This created a great boost to growth particularly with the boom in population and trade due to the Gold Rush.

A large station building was constructed based on a unique Victorian Tudor style, the building is of a unique style and design on the NSW Rail system.

A quote from a newspaper article in 1875...

Railway infrastructure expansion
In line with Bathurst's status as the main regional station the railway environs were lit by gas lamps in 1878, the gas lighting of the railway facilities continued until 1934. In 1890 a major expansion of the railway facilities were approved, these included a second passenger platform with underground pedestrian subway, two mainlines, extra shunting tracks, and a new Signal Box.

By 1896, Bathurst had become a major rail facility with a locomotive depot housing 100 locomotives and a staff of 400. Many of the railway staff lived in an area known as Milltown which was close to the depot on the northern side of the railway line By 1916 the locomotive depot had become a major steam engine overhaul workshop and catered for all locomotives assigned to the west of the mountains.

In 1910 the Railway was operating a Gas Works for railway purposes in the Bathurst railway yards.

To cater for ever increasing rail traffic volumes a second mainline track was constructed to provide two tracks from Sydney to Bathurst. The final duplication works joined at Wallerawang, the current end of double track, and was extended first to Sodwalls completed in 1915, then Locksley, next to Raglan and finally, Raglan to Kelso in 1922.

In 1929 the locomotive depot alone had 509 employees. There were also 300 employed on the Permanent Way Branch, and a further 89 in the Traffic Branch. In the 1920s there were approximately 850 Bathurst Railway staff.

After many years of lobbying the Railway Commissioners to improve the lighting of the railway yard and station environs, electric lighting was finally switched on in 1934, replacing the old gas lighting in use from the early days.

On 4 September 1946 the old level crossing gates at the rail crossing on Russell Street were replaced by a new road underpass. This reduced delays to pedestrians and road users when trains were crossing the road.

Bathurst a major rail centre

1885 – Water supply

Early water supply
Bathurst in the years 1813 to the middle of the 18th century relied on water taken by hand from the nearby Macquarie River and from water wells sunk in the yards of businesses and residences. As the population continued to grow particularly during the Gold Rush the need for a piped water system to deliver clean water to houses and businesses became increasingly important.

In 1885 work commenced on a pumping station and water collecting tunnels to obtain water from the Macquarrie River and to pump the water at pressure through a mains pipe system into the town.

In 1916 the pumping plant at the Water Works was upgraded, the 30-year-old equipment was replaced with new gas powered suction pumps. This doubled the capacity of the water supply.

Sewerage system
There were many complaints of the stench of waste water flowing from residential and commercial premises into the street gutters. Toilet waste from outside toilet pans were separately collected by Council waste collectors. In 1908 proposals were put forward for the commencement of a sewerage system to pipe effluent to a treatment plant on the low land near the River. After delays in obtaining Government approval for funding, new surveys required of the pipe system, labour disputes, and delays in finding a tenderer to build the treatment works, eventually the system was finished and commissioned in September 1916. By early November, 18 premises were connected and 11 connections were being installed, there were 90 applications having been received.
The initial system was of a gravity design and could only serve a portion of the town. It was not until 1934 that an extension of the system using gas powered pumping equipment and rising mains was built to serve the low levels of the town along Havannah and Charlotte Streets.

Winburndale Dam
In 1930 a scheme, known as the Charlton Water Supply Scheme, was approved by the Bathurst City Council to commence construction of a dam and supply pipeline. During the design phase the project became known as the Winburndale Dam. A wood stave pipeline connects the dam to the town of Bathurst approximately 15 kilometres to the west of the dam. The dam and pipeline were completed in 1933.

Chifley Dam
After much discussion and investigation a decision was made to construct a new dam on the Campbell River approximately 15 kilometres to the south of Bathurst. The new dam became known as 'Chifley Dam' (after the wartime Prime Minister, Ben Chifley).  there is no pipeline.

1894 – Electricity

Until the advent of electricity and its introduction into towns across the world the primary form of lighting was by candle, oil and gas lamps. This was generally poor quality light and often not safe due to the presence of a flame.
In the early years of electrical generation and distribution the main use for electricity in homes, businesses, and public areas was for electric lighting. It was only later that household appliances such as refrigerators, were introduced.

Isolated generators

Bathurst featured very early in the development of electricity generation and usage of electricity. The nearby town of Young had installed a new electric power system for street lighting in 1889 but by 1891 had decided to remove the equipment and revert to Gas due to the high cost of running the plant.

In 1893 the Showground had been illuminated with electric lights and during 1894 an Exhibition was held at Bathurst where the electric light was demonstrated.

The following article details the installation of a generating plant and electric lighting system within the St Stanislaus College at Bathurst.

Several isolated electric lighting systems were installed around Bathurst but in the early years there was no interconnection and no street lighting. One of these was a small generating unit installed and brought into use on 14 November 1896 at a Tailors Shop on William Street. Around 1900 an electrical system was installed at the Bathurst Gaol, and in 1901 advertisements show that musical performances in the town square were illuminated by electric light.

Plans for a town supply

In 1921 the New South Wales Government Railways announced that they would construct a new power station at Lithgow to supply the railway facilities in that town. The new power station would have sufficient capacity to supply power for nearby towns.

Bathurst Council were exploring options to secure a power source for the town. Early in 1922 they communicated with the Kandos Cement Works to investigate the possibility of obtaining a power supply via a transmission line from that town, 50 miles away. The company while not dismissing the proposal left it to the council to further explore the idea.

The local generator
The Railway power scheme mentioned earlier was intended to generate at one central location (Lithgow) and distribute at high voltage to towns including Bathurst, 60 kilometres to the west and much further took some to materialise. The Railway Commissioners promoted the plan since 1915 and Bathurst held off developing its own power generation scheme in the hope that the Railway scheme would proceed. By 1923 they could wait no longer, in 1923/24 Bathurst constructed a local power house and an electricity distribution network using poles and overhead wiring. The generator was powered by a gas turbine located in the Water & Power Plant alongside the Macquarie River.

The following newspaper quote details the proposed switch on of the new power scheme.

On 22 December 1924 the Bathurst town electricity supply scheme was switched on. This scheme included 370 electric street lights to replace street gas lamps at a cost of 40,000 pounds. Included in this conversion to electricity were 105 street lamps dating from 1872 and they are still a feature of Bathurst main streets and are Heritage listed. Over the next few years other important civic buildings were fitted with electric lighting. In 1926 tenders are called for electric lighting in the Bathurst Post Office and in 1937 electric lighting and power was installed in the Bathurst Technical College

Supply from Lithgow
In mid-1930 a major step forward occurred when the Railway power supply scheme, long promised, was brought into use, bringing lower costs and higher reliability. A new 66,000 volt transmission line was completed connecting the new railway owned and operated power station at Lithgow with the town of Bathurst, a distance of approximately 60 kilometres.

In the twenty years since the Bathurst electric lighting network was built it had been upgraded three times to cater for demand. In 1945 the system was upgraded to cater for the growth in demand for power, the upgrade involved the increase in distribution voltage from 2,200 volts to 11,000 volt network. Initially the electricity to homes largely supplied lights but increasingly appliances such as washing machines, refrigerators, and electric heaters were being added.

NSW Grid connection
As early as 1935 there were plans in place to interconnect the independent power systems that existed in the Sydney area, the south, west and north of the state.

As a result of the defense needs during World War II in 1942 a new 66,000 volt interconnection between the southern power system at Cowra and the western system at Orange was built. This created a grid that gave much greater reliability of power supply to towns on the grid including Bathurst.

In 1950 the NSW Government decided to merge all electricity generating companies and departments into one government owned business and the process of amalgamation was completed in 1956. In January 1953 the railway power station at Lithgow, that supplied power to Bathurst was taken over by the Electricity Commission of New South Wales and interconnection of power systems to increase reliability occurred.

1882 telephone experiments
Morse Code telegraph had been operating since 1859 but over the next 19 years a workable voice telephone had been introduced overseas and in main cities of Australia and was slowly supplementing and replacing the telegraph. In 1878 trials of voice communication using a telephone were conducted by the Bathurst Telegraph station master. The existing telegraph wires were used for the trials between the towns and temporary telephone instruments connected at each end. The following quote from a contemporary newspaper details the events...

First telephone service in Bathurst
The earliest telephone services were installed as point to point systems. That is from a telephone in one premise of a company to a second telephone in a separate property. The idea of linking multiple telephones via switchboards to become a network was to come later. One such isolated private system was the first use of telephones in Bathurst. The following article in the local newspaper reports of the first telephone.

During the next 14 years, when the central telephone switchboard was installed, several local point to point telephone connections were built.
 1882 the first telephone connection between two premises of a Timber merchant

 1887 the pumping station, gas works, fire station and reservoir were connected by a common telephone line.
 1888 the Goal was connected to the Police Barracks, two miles distant
 1890 the residents of O'Connell to the south of Bathurst succeeded in constructing a telephone service to Bathurst.
 1891 On 17 January a party line was opened between the hospital and several doctors premises.
 1895 a line was built between the Railway Station and the Post Office to enable the Post Office to be advised of late running mail trains.

Obviously these isolated connections were beneficial to the owners but a much greater advantage could be realized by connecting all the isolated lines and telephones to a central switchboard so that one business could talk to any one of the other businesses.

Local telephone exchange
Telephone lines were now being built all across the town of Bathurst to link one branch of a business with another or a government office with another related office. The problem was that none of the telephones could interconnect with another business. In the early 1890s the local business chamber of commerce commenced lobbying the Post & Telegraph Department to establish a telephone switchboard in Bathurst. The Government required a minimum of 15 subscribers to sign up before the switchboard would be installed. The cost to have a switchboard connection was £5 per annum. In 1896 the Government agreed and installed a telephone switchboard.

Finally instead of being able to call only one telephone on the other end of your private line, the businesses and government offices could connect via the switchboard to any of the 25 telephones linked at the start of the switchboard service.

By June 1899 three switchboards had been installed to cater for the growth but they were replaced by two new 100 line switchboards for a total of 200 lines.

In 1909 the Bathurst telephone system was upgraded with a new 'metallic line' switchboard and many new metallic lines to subscribers, there now being 210 subscribers. The metallic lines offer much improved quality of line eliminating the buzz and noise associated with the old earth return lines. This same upgrade included new cables installed through the town to eliminate up to 208 overhead aerial wires on certain poles.

By 1924 the telephone switchboard had been expanded many times and had become a collection of add-on components, not able to provide a satisfactory service. In 1924 a major upgrade occurred where a new switchboard was installed. Said to be the best equipment outside of Sydney.

In 1952 a new 2000 line automatic telephone exchange was installed in a new building at the rear of the existing Post Office on Howick Street.

In 1960 the number of telephones connected in Bathurst was 2143

Long-distance telephone to Sydney
In contrast to the unlimited telephones connections available today there was only one trunk line to connect private, commercial and government telephone users in Bathurst and all towns west to Sydney when the new line was opened in 1899. This telephone service was possible following the installation of a new pole and aerial two wire line over the mountains via Tarana and Raglan to Bathurst allowing a metallic telephone line to be introduced. In 1912 a second trunk line was added, then in 1923 a third trunk line was provided. The original single wire telegraph earth return line was retained as a separate pole and wire installation.

It was reported in 1905 that the telephone service between Sydney and Bathurst was the longest operating in Australia. This line generally followed the railway and passed through towns such as Wallerawang, Rydal, Tarana and Brewongle.

Communications hub of the west
Bathurst's central location and the first to receive the telegraph and telephone service from Sydney meant that it had become the hub for services to other developing towns in the west of the state. Like today where communities continually lobby governments for better mobile phone coverage, the same occurred 150 years ago. Newspaper editorials and letters to the Editor lobbied for telegraph and telephone service.

 1905 Hill End and Hargraves connected by telephone to Bathurst
 1905 Orange the existing two telegraph lines to Bathurst were converted to also operate as 'condenser type telephone' circuits in May 1905
 1910 Orange to be connected by trunk extension from Bathurst in October 1910.
 1911 Oberon is connected by metallic circuit telephone line to the Bathurst to Sydney line at Tarana
 1913 Rockley was connected by a new trunk metallic circuit to Bathurst via Georges Plains on 14 October 1913.
 1914 Mudgee was connected by trunk telephone via Hill End to Bathurst on 7 September 1914.
 1914 Orange has second metallic telephone line added to Bathurst, mid 1914
 1923 Evans Plains, Duramana, Glanmire and White Rock, were connected by telephone to Bathurst

In 1924 the existing trunk lines connecting Sydney to Bathurst and from Bathurst to other western centres had become congested and of poor quality. The Post Master Generals office carried out major upgrades.
Sydney to Bathurst direct – previously two trunk lines, upgraded to three (one to be made automatic);
Sydney to Orange direct – previously none to two trunk lines;
Sydney to Dubbo direct – previously none to two trunk lines;
Bathurst to Oberon – previously none to one;
Bathurst to Cowra – new trunk line;
Bathurst to Blayney – three new trunk lines;
Bathurst to Orange – additional trunk line;
Bathurst to Dubbo – additional trunk line;
Bathurst to Lithgow – new trunk line;
Bathurst to Wambool – new trunk line.

In 1929 a new carrier wave system was installed between Sydney and Bathurst to provide an additional six trunk lines

New communication technology
The overhead telephone lines that had served as telephone circuits to Sydney had become congested and were subject to outages caused by bush fires and storms. In 1951 a new underground cable was completed from Sydney to Bathurst, providing 408 trunk lines. This new cable allowed the removal of the old overhead pole lines across the Blue Mountains. This new cable formed a part of a new inland route from Sydney to Bathurst, Deniliquin, Bendigo to Melbourne brought into service in 1953.

In 1950 Bathurst had 1200 subscribers connected to the Bathurst Telephone Switchboard.

Early in 1955 a new 'automatic' telephone exchange was installed in the newly completed exchange building on Howick Street. This equipment allowed subscribers to dial another Bathurst subscriber without the assistance of the switchboard operator. Each subscriber had a new four digit telephone number.

References

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History of telecommunications in Australia
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2018 Indian Scout Bobber Jack Daniel's Edition
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Rarely, if ever, is it a good idea to combine Jack Daniel's and motorcycle. Before now that is. Jack Daniel's has partnered with Indian Motorcycle to create a beautiful collaboration vehicle.
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I'm sitting here in the midnight darkness of my lounge room weeping for my mother who died in a bed not unlike the one you are in now. Surrounded by people who were angry at the world for letting cancer take her and scrambling like mad to make her end of days as peaceful and as graceful as she deserved.
My mother fought the fight like the warrior woman she was having touched the lives of so many in her 59 years.
And now, 14 years on, I still weep frequently for the place in my life where she should be. Next to me and the life I created that she never knew but hoped for, next to her grandchildren who she never met but loved and next to her legacy that she unwittingly created and had to leave. I weep at the sight of people, like you, in palliative care. At their end of days. It brings me closer to my mother and the bed I sat over for three days and nights as we waited.
I applaud you Connie Johnson and your beloved family who are sharing with us, so publicly, your end of days. As sad and terrible as it is you bring death to the front page and make us talk about it. As we should. You make us remember. As we should. And you make us take action. As we should.
Death reaches for us all, it's just the dying bit that sets some apart. I believe everyone has the right to a graceful and peaceful end. In a bed of their choice. Embraced by the warmth of the life they've lived and the love they've created.
You are surrounded by all good things darling Connie as we, your villagers and strangers, now go on to walk in your footsteps.
Thank you for giving us so much, for fighting the good fight and sharing your story…right to the end. You deserve the most graceful exit, befitting of the legacy that you leave.
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